Weekend Open Thread
It’s no mystery to the commenters on this site that the Democrats like to accuse others of being exactly who the Democrats are. For example, the folks accusing President Donald Trump of being a dictator themselves desire more government control. The folks accusing MAGA of being a cult demonstrate actions normally carried out by members of a cult. Listen to what these folks say about their opposition to learn about who these folks really are. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
FIRST
Holy shit and without a magic-8 Ball
EARLY POOP DROP!!
Apparently in good ole Bal’more today’s it’s not a magic 8-ball …the new stuff is called “New Jack City”….
25 hospitalized after suspected mass overdose in West Baltimore; drug not yet known
(Don’t do drugs kids…)
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/overdose-incident-pennsylvania-ave-north-ave/
And congrats Jeff on the WoT Throne.
Thanks chipNASA, just walked into it at the right moment.
“…laced with…anti-freeze…”
What’s wrong with those people in Ballemer? It’s not even winter!
It was a clean kill. Congrats Jeff.
Thanks Beans.
Well, well, well, A Great Big Rats of The Cong to you Jeff on your FIRST (?) FIRST. ‘Bout time, huh. The Gun Bunny will proudly be the FIRST to congratulate you on your FIRST and pass over the Trappings of Power.
There’s a reason (s) I’ve been laying low of late.
Thanks Gun Bunny, I just opened up the site and there it was.
Forgot to mention that when I first came on to TAH when Jonn was with us, I saw the WOP without a comment and just added my own comment not knowing that I should have typed in FIRST. Was advised of what to do in the future…
KoB – I am heartsick over your reason(s) for laying low. If it were within my power, it would be done. Please know that whatever is within my power will be done.
His Blessings continue to be upon you, Mi’Lady. Thank you.
Way to go Jeff!
Rat o’the Cong @U jeff LPH
And here we are, some 6 hrs into your reign, and no offers of food, beverages or other hospitality.
Are we to forage and fend for ourselves without supervision or instructions? Nothing good can come from this and may just result in subject matter for next week’s safety briefing.
Sorry Odie, I forgot, I’m only a first time cherry.
Not to worry. I’ve been too busy with other long put off projects to attend the festivities. However, I’m not opposed to putting them off longer if a good reason were to present itself.
2nd.
But only because the dogs business comes first.
Me…
Also me…
Stealing.
We, amigo. A resounding amount of ‘we’.
Jeff LPH distracted Hack Stone by having Neddie (Nellie?) with the Indian accent calling Hack about some type of insurance. Going forward, Hack Stone will block all calls on Friday afternoons.
Right away I thought Neddie was Nettie, My friend and dance pard with perfect vocal pitch and a big case of mike fright for singing. Later Alligator. Am wearing my Gator Navy Tee shirt with a pic of a Gator on it. I wonder if it was the long lost small Gator ADM Mc Cain Sr. Comphibron 3or 4 used to carry onboard Amphibs when he went aboard them.
Sheesh! A mid-hour drop? Nobody expects that! Rats of the Cong to Jeff for his FIRST! Me? I’m just gonna drop some trivia right here. Enjoy, friends …
DID YOU KNOW…?
Was one of the biggest blockbuster movies of all time expected to be a flop?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright © 2025
We’re over the hump for 2025.
You know the hump, of course. The point where you stop climbing up and start moving downward toward the valley. That’s where we have come with 2025.
In other words, it all goes downhill from here.
But never fear, there will be the weekly assortment of weird stuff to make the downhill run a bit more enjoyable. In fact, I have some freshly polished nuggets ready to share with you right now. Enjoy!
Did you know …
… insects bite humans on the foot more than they do anywhere else? (Well, of course they do! That’s where most of them are!)
… the belief that people poison or otherwise tamper with Halloween candy is not true? Since the 1960s, children on their annual journey to extort candy from their neighbors by dressing up in weird costumes have been warned to “inspect their take” and not to eat anything until they get home. Supposedly, there are people out there who poison the candy or put razor blades in apples or some such nefarious stuff. But it has never been verified – not even once – as having actually happened. It’s still a good idea to inspect the candy, though, as … well, you never know. (There’s caution, and then there’s this.)
… the largest lake on Earth is really a sea? The Caspian Sea is considered a lake by geographers because it is fully enclosed by land. In all other respects – its size, the fact that it has salt water, and its depth, among others – it meets the geographical definition of a sea. (Whatever you call it, it’s big.)
… it’s best sometimes not to get directions from magazines? In 2004, the British hiking magazine Trail gave readers directions on getting down from the summit of Scotland’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis. The directions, if followed, would have led hikers off the edge of a cliff. In an apology to readers, Trail editors said they inadvertently left out the first of two crucial bearings needed to get down from the peak. (Nowadays your GPS will do that for you.)
… spiked dog collars were invented by the ancient Greeks? They were not intended to make a dog look tough; rather, the spikes were to protect the throats of the dogs from attacking wolves. (Looking tough was important, though, especially with the wolves.)
… the red supergiant star Antares is 60,000 times bigger than the Sun? To put this into perspective, imagine the Sun as being the size of a softball. That would make Antares the size of a house. And it’s not the largest star out there, either. The largest star known is Stephenson 2-18, and to use the same scale as before, that star – a red ultragiant – would be the size of a six-story building. Placed in the center of our Solar System, Stephenson 2-18 would fill everything up to just outside the orbit of the planet Saturn. (A truly heavenly body, if you get my meaning.)
… the entire film industry was convinced that a blockbuster motion picture would be a flop? In 1977, the first Star Wars movie was released by 20th Century-Fox. The industry was convinced that producer George Lucas (born 1944) had wasted so much of the studio’s money on a flop that the studio itself had to use a bizarre marketing scheme to get the movie into theatres. Fox executives essentially threatened any cinema that refused to show Star Wars with not being given the rights to show another film, The Other Side of Midnight, which Fox expected to be a hit. As it turned out, Star Wars made over ten times the money that The Other Side of Midnight did. Additional trivia note: Lucas himself felt the film might flop. After showing a rough cut of the movie to other director friends (and getting some bad reactions), Lucas went on vacation in Hawaii instead of attending the premiere. (The Force was with him.)
… the Titanic almost had a collision with another ship just days before ramming the iceberg that sank it? While the ship was departing from its home port of Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, a nearby ship – the SS City of New York – slipped free of its moorings and almost drifted right into the side of the massive Titanic. Just four days later, however, the Titanic met its fate and 1,500 people died when it sank. Additional trivia note: There is no existing motion picture footage of the actual Titanic during the time it was leaving port on its first – and last – voyage. Scenes shown in newsreels purporting to be the Titanic leaving its dock were actually of the RMS Olympic, Titanic’s sister ship. The names of the tugboats and tenders around the Olympic were painted out on the film to fool people into thinking they were seeing the actual doomed ship.
… the United States has a lot of Chinese restaurants? There are so many, in fact, that they add up to more than all of the McDonald’s™, KFC™, Burger King™ and Wendy’s™ restaurants put together. (There’s room for a line about MSG here, but I won’t do it.)
… the first African-American to play a leading role in a feature film did so in 1914? The silent production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin starred Sam Lucas (1850-1916) in the title role.
… at one time, the mayor of Philadelphia usually didn’t want the job? In the earliest years of the city’s existence, the office didn’t pay a dime, and many who served in the post most strenuously protested doing so – sometimes opting to pay a large fine rather than serve unpaid. From the city’s founding in 1701 until 1747, men actively fought being named mayor because the job had no compensation. It was not until 1747 that the salary of the mayor was established at £100 per year. (Well, if you’ve ever been to Philadelphia …)
Now … you know!
Thanks CW
The city of Springfield MO is known for having more Chinese restaurants per capita than any other municipality in the USA, it’s where Cashew Chicken was invented!
Not sure about your claim. Based on Hack Stone’s non-scientific observation, Prince George’s County Maryland can claim more Chinese Take-Out restaurants than any other location in North America. They also hold that title for most beauty supply shops, nail salons, check cashing businesses and liquor stores.
That is what drew Paul (of the ballsack) Wickre to the area.
Was just in Springfield, last week – definitely a shit ton of Chinese places.
Also, a very depressing city.
The two are not related, but those were my two biggest observations at the time. The castle didn’t even register.
Surprisingly, the best Chinese Buffet I’ve eaten at is in New Berlin WI at the corner of National Avenue and Hwy 100. Really good.
BUT, since I am now in Texas I am surrounded by Mexican restaurants and several million Taco Trucks.
Nothing wrong with that, and it is an unprovable hypothesis, however I would posit the theme that there is one Mexican Restaurant in Austin Texas for every three Mexicans.
And they are always full.
Most are delicious from my sampling of the fare here in Austin.
And congrats to Jeff for his onepeat WOT smashing of the competition !!!
You and I are tied !!!
May you lord over us dickweeds with all the care and grace of a drunken Drill Sergeant stuck with the BCT pivots on Saturday night !!!
Thanks Thunderstixx, and speaking of Austin Texas, I was there back in 2010 for the National Hurricane conference and All I saw were college kids and I never saw a person with a cowboy hat and boots. The Brisket and toasted bread if I remember were great also.
IIRC: this started in Houston TX when a guy tried to harm his own child/children with poisoned candy, earning the epithet “The Candy Man”
He 1st said that the candy came from their trick-or-treat candy. Later proved false.
We are on the same wavelength. Hack posted a link about the Candy Man, but those rumors of poisoned Halloween have been around ages, at least early 1970’s, and probably a lot longer than that.
You may want to put an asterisk on that Halloween tampered candy trivia. Way back in the late 1970’s, a kid down in Texas died after ingesting a Pixie Stick laced with rat poison. Seemed to be one of those urban legends about random candy poisoning finally came true. Until… no other cases of children being poisoned in the area, and the father recently took out a huge life insurance policy on the child. He was convicted, sentenced death, not sure if he met his fate at the hands of the Texas Correctional Services, but while on Death Row he had the nickname of The Candy Man.
Hack Stone stands corrected, it was cyanide, not rat poison.
https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/candyman-poisoned-halloween-candy-pixie-stix
The best part of that story is that it only took ten years in the slammer before the Great State of Texas put down that murdering bastard. I like the fact that there were people outside the prison in Halloween costumes chanting “trick or treat” when the evil SOB took his last breath.
So… he shouldn’t have waited to get home?
True story – my eldest cousin, somewhen about 1975, got a candied apple with a razor blade in it. Made the news and everything. They found who “did” it but that person claimed they purchased the apple(s) and didn’t make them. The suspect was a known to us kids in the neighborhood as a creepy, curmudgeonly old man.
In truth, he was probably just old and alone and didn’t/couldn’t take care of his house and yard very well. From what I remember he really didn’t make them but purchased them from a local store. All in all this person gave out like 50 candied apples and it seems the one my cousin got was the only one with a razor blade.
In the movie”Halloween” , when they are in the hospital there is a kid there with a razor blade stuck in his gums.
Great news! I’m still alive and kicking. Even greater news: I’ve reached the portion of my schooling where we have to put what we’re learning into practice. After a rough first week, I was put in charge of running the computer simulator yesterday. I did pretty well and replaced a faulty wire on the fake car. Wires now seem less of a daunting challenge and more of an annoyance(basically, my attitude changed from “Oh crap!! What do I do!!! What do I do!!!!!!” to “Damn it! Now I have to spend time looking for something I know how to find.”). I’m glad that things are starting to click for me in Driveability.
Anyway, I got a question for you guys. It centers around that traitorous scrunt, Hanoi Jane. What are your guy’s opinion of her father, Henry? He served as an officer in World War Two and was awarded the Bronze Star and Navy Presidential Unit Citation for his service. I did try looking up his reactions to his daughter’s treason, but depending on where you look/ask the Google AI, the results are a mixture of pride or outrage. For my part, I’ll be along with other veterans in marking down the day she kicks the bucket as a holiday. Anyway. Here’s a collection of results I got from briefly searching the topic and open the floor to see what you guys think.
Continued:
Here’s the more mixed response I got:
The way I see it, Fonda and men of that era did not air their dirty laundry and kept it private. You don’t piss of your fan base, and look like the gentleman you purport to be. Nowadays we have Springsteen running his mouth, Cusack supporting sworn enemies etc etc etc. Some public figures do not let their politics and family business out on the evening news, that is the way it should be.
The way I see it is that you love your children, even if you are ideologically/morally opposed to what they do or what they believe. That isn’t the same as condoning it, though it can result in not speaking to your child for long time. To use a historical example, Benjamin Franklin never really spoke to his son (he was a Tory) again after he decided to throw his lot behind his country. Given that, at the time, we weren’t going through a Civil War, I don’t blame or harbor ill feelings towards Mr. Fonda for what he opted to do in regards to his kid. Though my personal feelings towards Hanoi Jane will probably never change.
Yes. We always love our children. Even if we aren’t happy with their choices. I don’t blame Henry.
As far as Jane? F that POS! Along with Springsteen, Cusak and most other celebrities!!!!
I’m having a “Get off of my lawn” moment. This morning someone moved the levers and knobs on my desk chair without telling me. Milliseconds after I sat down the back of my own personal head bone made contact with the floor and my cell phone flew across the room. Since my phone and I survived, is it too much too seek the death penalty for the ne’er-do-well that touched my chair?
Damn! Glad you’re okay.
The more I think about it, the angrier I get. I mean some things simply aren’t done. One just doesn’t touch an Air Force veteran’s chair.
Was this at home or at work?
That’s an important question and leads to what my outcome would have been
Fair enough.
It was at work. Had I been at home, I wouldn’t have been sitting. Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lay, never lay awake when you can lay asleep.
Then I prescribe to SFC D’s opinion below. Again, glad your okay.
I asked one of the locals to demonstrate
Hopefully it wasn’t messed with by an ejection seat tech, the whole time saying “That looks right”.
I’d say the death penalty is definitely in order, slow and painful.
I also wanted to share my favorite story from the Gospel with you guys as well: Jesus and the Pool of Bethesda (if you have not seen the Chosen and wish to see it, do NOT watch this video to avoid spoilers. Though, it’s not really a spoiler if you’ve read the Bible, so yeah)(The original maker of this video has cut various scenes out that I feel provide needed context, so I’ll describe them here: Jesse’s younger brother Simon provided for much of Jesse’s care while they were growing up. But, as his anger grew against the Roman occupation of Judea, Simon abandoned his brother to join the 4th Philosophy, otherwise known as the Zealots. The next time Simon and Jesse speak are at the Pools of Bethesda, with Jesse being there in the hopes of being healed and Simon being sent to assassinate some Roman Magistrate.). Enjoy
😆 🤣
BAHAHAHAHA !!!!
Guatemala, sending us their best and brightest.
Illegal immigrant convicted of shooting at small-town officer in high-speed chase
Had somebody only tried to warn us these other countries weren’t sending their best and brightest 🤔
And Democrat politicians are booking flights to Tennessee for their photo ops drinking Pine Coladas with this hardworking immigrant.
Telling us the whole time “I’ve upped my standards, now up yours”.
That pendulum can’t swing back the other way fast enough to catch these pricks (and prickets) out over their skis. What a point at and hearty laugh day that will be.
Comm check from the field.
All alive so far. Good mission trip, but did have another tachycardia event. Really ready to meet with the cardiologist.
God bless you all.
“Phony” Phil Monkress – The False Commander and CEO of All-Points Logistic – works balls.
How much does it cost All Points Logistics to keep any mention of Phil Monkress being a phony SEAL showing up on the top of interest searches? Plug in Psul of The Ballsack’s name, and his frequent appearances on TAH are light a Greatest Hits album, and all of the lawsuits against him are like bonus tracks.
And Phil Monkress knows where the meat pole goes…
Balls deep in the American taxpayer’s collective asshole!
Happy weekend all.
Took a few days off to volunteer at a rodeo out of town.. Department runs a.large field fire, and breaks two rigs, kids car breaks down, and my trip is only half.over.. WTF..
Hope you all have a less exciting weekend.
Sounds like you were pretty busy. Hope you were able to enjoy the rodeo, friend.
Bet the kid whose car broke down was wishing they had gone to the rodeo with ya. The car may have still broke down, but you would have been closer to home to help get it taken care of.
Here’s an interesting topic from a short on YouTube (sorry, I can’t ever seem to make them expand here, even though some of you nice gents probably showed me how. Curse my bad memory). Charities and NGOs throughout most of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have been trying to help Africa for awhile. One example of this is building water wells next to villages so that villagers wouldn’t have to travel 5+ miles to get water and bring them back. A very large portion of those wells are no longer functioning, in disrepair, and abandoned. Even providing training on well maintenance doesn’t seem to fix the issue and the locals blame the charities and NGOs (and a fellow named Mr. Beast, in this case) for the state of the wells. The comments for this short are also worth a gander. I guess that what is the best we Americans can do for the world ends at trying to help people who are unwilling to help themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6ryK49Gm6vk
I asked a gentleman from far away shores why he and his neighbors hated Americans. He explained it thusly, “You came to my country and built many great things and then you left.” I tried to explain guarantees and warranties to him. It was like talking to a rock. His mind was made up: if we built it, we were obligated to maintain it. My well of sympathy has run dry and I couldn’t care less if his country ends up as a pile of rubble.
So we’re supposed to be both the world’s piggy bank and maintain the things we built in their lands for their own benefit for free?
Screw that!
It’s like the time my goodwife and I were at a restaurant. Just as our meals were served, the manager yelled, “Who owns such and such car, it’s on fire!” Three or more of us customers grabbed fire extinguishers and raced to the car. My goodwife went to the car owner’s family to sit with them and provide comfort.
What did the car owner do? He sat, watched, and continue to eat his meal. People like that just piss me off.
I don’t much care for the “it’s someone else’s problem” attitude either.
Had to get vampired at the VAahhh to-day. Newington Veterans Affairs medical center ain’t too bad, normally.
Had to wait 40 minutes for a blood draw, a fasting blood draw.
And like clockwork, a couple of ‘more experienced Vets’ (read: retired as F and all about that life) started bitching about how long it was taking and “…it’s (he’s your) [President] Trump’s fault for cutting staff”…
Of course I audibly laughed and put my chin down, shaking my head. Honestly, half-wishing a mf would.
I guess I’m getting older because it’s dawned on me to only engage in pursuits with people I respect.
Oh, and arguing with retards before breakfast might land me in handcuffs.
On to a [moderately] deserved weekend. May yours be great!
Ah yes, it’s the prediabetic hey dumbazz you better change your diet test.
At least my new MD is a young lady that is easy on the eyes.
My new Chancre Mechanic…
Sweet.
Looking forward to the “…turn your head and cough..” test. And that pic doesn’t do her justice. No pants suit or scrubs there. A little short, pink, skirt and a frilly top under the white smock. She’s my baby sister’s doc and is the one that told sis to get my ass down to the ER like in RIGHT NOW, Friday was a week ago, which in turn lead to the discoveries that were made.
Full disclosure…she did get my pulse rate elevated…
Smart AND hot. I need younger Dr’s.
Present and unaccountable as I once again award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
Poll question here.
Manbun ?
Yes or no ???
And why ???
No. Only samurai should wear manbuns.
That’s a top knot and ain’t the same, even if it’s at the rear of the brain housing group.
Back in the long ago, during the Chicom Flu that killed 20-and-a’half people I went 2.5 years without a hairs cut.
First, fuck long hair. Second, I did it mostly to reflect this broken society back at itself…. and part of me hoped someone would mock my “man bun”, full of saw dust from dropping trees all day.
Manliness ain’t a destination, or a card, or some exclusive club; It’s not giving a fuck. But also when properly movitaved, giving a fuck so hard mother fuckers write poems about how hard you fuck.
Yeah, my steel might not be as metal as it’nce were, but if it’s a problem I’m sure the court stenographer will develop a drinking problem with the description of what could happen next.
But seriously, dont.
😂 love it!!!
Yes, but only if worn with a cumberbun.
Why?…why knot,,,,,.
Boooooo
Speaking for myself only, I don’t have enough left to tie up. If I let what I do have grow long enough to put in a bun, I’d look like a mushroom!
No. Let your mane fly free.
Lions in winter don’t primp, they don’t have to try. The glory is natural.
Question; are you Toshiro Mifune?
If the answer is “no”, then NO, you don’t need a manbun.
Found this kinda late. Wish I found it during last week’s WOT/HOT. Enjoy:
Nice find.
This is for Lars
😛🤪😀😂
😄🤪🤣😂
Ohhhh yeah.
Wow, I did not need my decoder ring to figure that one out.
Hey, all! Just got this news from that ICE raid on a pot farm in Cali. Turns out the owners of the farm, who also donated heavily to Gov. Newscum’s campaign, had illegal, unaccompanied minors employed there. What’s worse is that the owners have been violating labor laws in their worker’s employment, with little to no breaks and not paying them. So, to summarize, Newscum is engaging in child slave labor. Demonrat pre-1865 redux.
Saw the same.
It really tickles me in all the right places Newscum –as an alleged grown-ass man– is bothered by bullying.
Him, Bass, Adam Shitft, Swallowswell, Piglosi, Waters, the guy playing senator who likes to run up on women speaking, etcetcetc are all wonderful little gems of perpetual humor and I want absolutely nothing to interfere with them creating the high-quality content I’ve enjoyed.
I’ve heard that Gavin Newsom is Nanny Piglosi’s Nephew.
And Don Jr puts his mouth where Gavin udda put his member.(linked)
Are you not thoroughly entertained?
Oh yeah, who remembers ‘ol “Blobfish”, the cheese-inhaler? Here’s the outfit that gave him his “Ordination” and yes, they’ll “ordain” literally anyone!
Classic Wedding Package
I remember the Blobfish, I think. Wasn’t he the one who got married in dress blues that looked like they were tailored by a tent and awning factory?
Nope, that was the round ranger.
Heavy chevy was the fake USAF C-130 compass call pilot.
Oh yeah, he was the guy that was a Civil Air Patrol pretend officer that falsely claimed he was a retired USAF LTC.
The Golden Age of Stolen Valor. When was the last time we had some current girlfriend defending her man is the “real deal”?
Those were the days. We even had sock puppets back then. But most don’t miss the bogus lawsuits.
I have been watching some of the Hair’s videos on Youtube. He certainly has no shortage of fake SEALs.