Weekend Open Thread
Want to understand what the Democrats really want for this country? Read quotes associated with Vladimir Lenin and other communists who brought a totalitarian communist government into being. Too many leftists in the United States believe that what the Democrats and the leaders of protest movements, such as ANTIFA and BLM, want is true equity, social justice, etc. The reality is that the movers and shakers, of the Democratic party and their allies, want to consolidate wealth and power. History provides examples of how things like this usually end. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
1st!!!!!!!
Still reigning 😁
Alright AH!!
In memory of our beloved WoT King KOB, you’re an official 3-peat ? and a WoT Whore. 😀
Cheers
Well, I’m former Navy, so it makes sense.
Cong of the Rats to ya, AH, ya beats me by 5 seconds.
May your reign be honorable, with many treats, imbibables, and a clean washroom.
Thank you, Tox. How was your week?
Q: Does “1st” count the same as “first” in the WoT?
I think we need a ruling from the ‘Ed Admin.
Precedent:
Precedence accepted…..for now.
Still thinking we need a ruling from TAH VG Admin.
6th
We’re going to need more food and beverages while we wait for the official ruling on the field. That said, it is cheaper not to be first.
But I’m curious too.
You’re not dragging me into this. That’s what Claw is for.
*grin*
Lol
Coward! /s
The ruling is:
Under the military nomenclature/numeric system, “1st” is an acceptable substitute for “First”.
“So let it be written, so shall it be done.”
Cong-Rats again AH
Thanks, Jeff. How was your week?
Finished the 13 radiation treatment earlier today.
2022 was 15 treatments on the front of my nose.
new one was on my upper lip so I have to be careful about giving anyone any lip…
How many do you have left to go?
Cong Rats again AmHi.
Thanks Gray. How are you?
Passible fair.
I think the ragweed is getting to me, but AFAIK no real issues.
Ah. My mom has pretty bad asthma. Ragweed is the worst for her. Had to give a lift to Urgent Care a week ago. I hope you feel better!
FIRST
Sorry, not sorry…
Ok, ok, second (grumble grumble grumble)
Who’s sorry now:
https://youtu.be/hF4lC1n1J54
Hack Stone will just have to be satisfied with making the Top Ten. Hack Stone will be in Japan when the Weekend Open Thread drops next week, and the last time he was overseas he scored the first comment for the WOT. You have been warned.
Only 3 minutes late for the show. Can Hack Stone at least get the title for Miss Congeniality?
Since you’re being congenial that you missed the WoT first….ok.
Hack would have the swimsuit competition, but he didn’t “tuck it in”.
Ooooh, I’m shaking in my boots 😉
Hack Stone will be 13 hours into the future, so while you guys are busy hitting the refresh button, Hack Stone will already have the winning numbers for the lottery.
I wonder if using my VPN and setting it to Japan will help me with that 🤔
Time Zones. Gotta watch them Time Zones….
I shall be confused on Monday. Whilst liberals will be reminding of us of how Columbus should not be celebrated; I will be thinking of how Winston Churchill declared Columbus to be the first socialist. “He didn’t know where he was going when he left, he didn’t know where he was when he got there, and he got someone else to pay for the trip” said Churchill.
The Woke Left: America is stolen land taken by imperialist Europeans who committed genocide against the peaceful indigenous people of this land.
Also the Woke Left: Anyone who wants to come here should be allowed in with no vetting.
What, you expect consistency from that bunch?
“Aren’t ye a wee bit auld t’be a believin’ in Leprechauns, laddie?”
Been far too long since we’ve seen that line. Thanks Hondo!
I thought I saw leprechauns once in Washington. Turned out to be Artesians.
Well………
I’m curious about something: who has the longest “First” streak?
I don’t think anyone is even close to KoB’s streak, pretty sure it’s double digits.
That would be 5/77th FA (AKA KoB) with a streak of 11 in a row (from 20 Mar 2020 to 29 May 2020.
(Info garnered from the Coveted Book of OT “Firsts/1sts” that I’ve maintained for going on 11 years.
And God love ya for maintaining it- i love seeing these questions get answers!
Present and furloughed!
Wait, furloughed????
Yup, been off the clock since last Wednesday.
Time to catch up on all those honeydoos, and be a constant pain in her,,, ah, yeah whatever, I ain’t going any farther. 😉
Welllll I ain’t the constant pain… yet. Depends on what Chuckie and the Dems do. I’m keeping plenty busy. So far!
Ok, well, sorry you’re affected by it. Hopefully the shutdown ends soon.
Came across this little ditty:
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – COMMIE TOWN – THE MUSICAL – by GREG ABBOTT
OMG!!!!
I gagged and vomited at the same time….I ga-vomited!!!
Snake Pliskin was unavailable for comment
Happy Friday, you Gents. Hope you had a great week. News with me is I had my midterms yesterday and I got an 83%. I’m happy with that grade. In the coming weeks, I’ll be studying for my second to last set of ASEs, which will include the automatic transmission portion, which I’m the weakest at.
Now for my royal decree portion: no special decree this time. Just eat heartily, drink heartily, and laugh heartily.
Now for the history portion: I’ve recently become interested in the transition period in Europe between the 1500s and early 1700s. What with the cannibalistic Dutch, constant warfare, plunging temperatures, and the Reformation. Not a pleasant time to be alive….But, hey, Knights with guns:
Massive explosion at an explosive munitions plant in Tennessee. I don’t think anyone survived:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/explosion-tennessee-accurate-energetic-systems/&ved=2ahUKEwi_5oCcspqQAxVvCjQIHUobB0sQr_oDKAB6BAggEAE&usg=AOvVaw2B5m_6D19tjw6P0O2mrnQc
Here’s Fox News:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-manufacturing-plant-explosion-leaves-multiple-people-dead
It looks like, from the news chopper that the only thing left is the vehicles in the employ parking lot, and they are not in very good shape.
I believe they made cast explosives for 155mm artillery rounds. Also other interesting “ordinance” bits.
So I am immediately suspicious.
Also kinda surprised. I thought such places were bunkered and compartmentalized to prevent such complete disintegrations.
If you haven’t seen the pictures, it’s as if the USS Enterprise fired main phaser banks and vaporized it. Just some junkyard debris at the edges and maybe the outline of the concrete slab.
RIP. A whole bunch of folks just clocked out for the last time. Prayers for the families, please.
It was one of several buildings at the site. I work with the employees there who x-ray the charges (in a different building) and have communicated with one of them so far. She suffered minor injuries and transported some of the injured to the hospital. From the news reports and aerial views, I don’t see how anyone in the affected building could have survived.
It’s the weekend? When you are furloughed, these things all sort of blend together….
You too? Jeez, I’m sorry man.
Just wait til you’re retired. Everyday is a Saturday.
Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiight.
I been retired since 2012 and working several days a week.
Truism: you are your own hardest taskmaster – unless you are married.
Sorry, folks, but trivia will be late. I’m back in the hospital, this time for congestive heart failure and pneumonia.
This year has been a real bitch.
Dayummm, dude! Never-damn-mind the trivia; take care of your internal works and get back to us later when you’re in good working order.
If you want me to take over for a bit, let me know. I’m just a civilian, though I hang around here for the perspective and the humor. Not sure I can live up to your humor standards, but I’ll give it my best shot.
Crap, man. I hope you feel better and get out of the hospital. I’ll say a prayer for you tonight 🙏
Hope the Docs take good care of so you can get back into action on the site and and my thoughts are for a quick recovery..
You take care of you first. Everything else can wait. Prayers sent!
Prayers for you brother!
A Double Whack? Man, take care or yourself and listen to the medics. Had a friend who spent weeks in the hospital with CHF.
Just get yourself healthy.
Damn, CW. Hopefully the docs will get you sorted out. Hang tough, man.
Hang in there CWA, prayers up from this AO
God bless CW!! Prayers out to you and yours!
My best memes of the week…
Calling Jay Jones a fucking retard is an afront to all other fucking retards.
Jones and sombreros are big this week.
HT3, AH wanted me to ask you for an HT ounch for him. He said you have his contacts.
🤣
One down vote? Yeah, I suppose I deserve that.
This is the 110% accurate
It’s meme time already?
Pain is proof of life; one cannot be in pain if one is not alive. Or, as I told my Post Commander, when my sainted body is displayed at my wake, those who show up will say, “Yep, he done used it up!”
The dumbassery starts in our yute, continues through most of our adulthood, and every bump, bruise, and fracture accumulates until one day, everything hurts. My dad warned me about this. The older I get, the smarter he was.
I was talking to my daughter’s pediatrician about the number of bruises she had. A big part of me was proud of her adventurous spirit, a small part of me was concerned about some underlying blood disease or some such problem, a tiny part of me was concerned some know it all would say she was being abused.
The doctor replied with words that live with me to this day, “Couch potatoes don’t get bruises”.
There ya go! I blame a lot of stuff on being in grade school during the Evel Kneivel years. We went through a hell of a lot of bicycle rims. Pads, helmets? Never heard of ‘em!
I call to mind Patrick F McManus who taught us to never ask another man about his scars. Mr McManus warned us if the story is told too often the wound may become fatal.
I miss Patrick McManus.
And a few others.
I envied his childhood. Anyone who had to repeat the first grade because of being absent too many times is my kind of person.
Especially since his mother was the teacher.
How often, as I sit behind my desk doing my job, would I rather be fishing. He was heroic enough at such a young age to actually do it.
Heck yeah!
Ohhh shiiiiit!
Yeah, baby!
You too? Same with my dad, bless his soul.
10 ft tall and bullet proof runs out long before we get old. My 5yo grandson likes me to get on the floor to play (always have a plan to get back up) or play some game he made up that usually involves running, jumping or attempting to climb trees. He doesn’t understand pop pop is 65, he just wants me to play with him when we get together. So I do to the best of my ability and hope we don’t get together for a few days after.
We had metal seats that would come back and whack
you in the head.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYAibLpCA9NmdLlIqIOx8UK1T-qZ7G_IctmDcM43C4XoWpyGcF8AABc5T3ZHoT5H7RlJhJUVVqmdu8lYtxRLINkFE230PBmGddyjXK0LBgbXWeRZ1a59U_Ma45U_A4bLteu3q1qCOGtt0gKJWNio5p5NRynb9wboCyF492vF9E5Fi2Dw825MQOlkp92tVN/w833-h398/15229145616865991510.jfif
Aww, it’s only a Hoverboard if it’s what Micheal J. Fox rode in Back to the Future II… otherwise it’s really just a Segway, which is lame.
NO NAME GIVEN 😡😡🤬
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blue-state-hot-seat-after-ice-busts-illegal-immigrant-with-no-name-given-license
And to think of the hoops I had to jump through to get a NYS license. Boggles the mind.
Given the “wonderful” degree of scrutiny with which the Motor Voter Act is applied in many places, I wonder if he’s registered to vote as well.
You can bet on it!
Yep!
It’s okay when left/libtard ideology excuses it! /sarc
Well late as usual. The other day I started writing Christmas cards then noticed that I had to go over my cursive writing and grabbed my newer 2020 edition of Cursive Logic workbook and went to work on certain small case letters until I get it right. some of Those capital letters have more loops than Carter has Liver pills, and those will wait. I send out 25 cards to LPH 3 crew members but used to be more since we lost a few. 10 go out to friends and neighbors and 11 go out for Chanukah . Back in 2007 When I moved to Florida, I was pushing almost 60.
Present & unaccountable as ever.
Y’all have a blessed weekend.
Present and accounted for, SIRs!!!
(Fucking fucktards) 😛 😀
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Dogs that can do parkour:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sqZqok6j5aY?si=htALPib0MIU0QK7i
Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gIZ-6vBvMTQ
Part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q4XcqHRri4U?si=S1Zgtc9SDgzDPukC
Love these dogs:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T5EYdSZ4Mwk
God makes Belgian Malinois:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LBI6QYsASgo
John Wick:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fUJ28GwnXjs
My wife and I have two Belgian Malinois pups that are about 2.5 months old. Supper smart. We have always raised German Shepherds and Blue Heelers. These two are picking up on training faster than any puppy that we have ever had. My wife is a certified dog trainer and says that they are picking up on commands faster than any dog that she has ever worked.
Nice!!! Does she speak Dutch?
#Thosewhoknow
Also, one of my favorite series:
Hasan Piker is scum:
More info on that:
The U.S. Naval Academy opened this date in 1845.
MRS D caught me watching this, now she’s a wee bit nervous, what with all this time on my hands…
https://youtu.be/DnrBd7bCLoU?si=KgoCMCNCIvKc_Jv5
Florida man brought to you by Sheriff Grady. YIKES 😧
https://twitter.com/i/status/1975995391922540998
At first I wondered how the hell he got it up there.
Upon further reflection though, I really DON’T want to know how he got it up there. My therapy sessions have been giving me vast improvement…I don’t want to have to start over,
He was running, and tripped. Good thing it wasn’t scissors 😏
.
Jammed up there… eww.
Interesting commentary from Bill Maher.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1UV6JMw9ue/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Some of you may have had concerns over the last year as to the housing situation of the Vice President of the proud but humble woman owned business formerly located on Lonesome Pine Lane and previously Wilson Lane in Bethesda, but your concerns are assuaged not that Psul has found suitable shelter.
With the government shutdown and resulting furloughs, some government employees may have their health care coverage lapse, but rest easy, Phil Monkress is providing free hernia checks and prostate exams for those who identify as male for the duration of the shutdown.
🤦
Yeah, kinda late, still present and unaccountable as I once again award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER)))
Glad you’re here, regardless.
Too close of an encounter with a Black Bear:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a9nE6_qvyf4
Pro tip: Don’t sleep outside in bear country.
Nevermind. AI Generated. Look at the flip-flops.
AI generated images and videos are getting too realistic.
More… real though:
Sorta like if in the field always try to sleep by the biggest tree so vehicles won’t run over you in the dark.
When I was a mech platoon leader, I caught one of my men sleeping in his fart sack directly in front of one of the tracks of his squad’s M-113 APC. If the brake locks on the laterals would have released he would have been a flat cat.