Weekend Open Thread
Want to get a good laugh? Search for “diabolical AI videos” or something similar on video websites. The above image is a gem that I found on one of these videos, the “McCardiac Arrest.” There is one style of AI videos involving door camera videos “recording” porch pirates getting their comeuppance. Another theme involves two television characters interacting with each other, like Bob Ross and Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood) trolling each other. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
First
And the Stoned Hacker strikes again.
Oh wise and all knowing Magic 8- Ball, will Hack Stone be able to make This Ain’t Hell deplorable again by scoring the highly coveted and rarely awarded First Comment in the Weekend Open Thread, or will Hack Stone have to be satisfied with spending his Black Friday standing on the shoulder of the National Capital Beltway River Road exit selling outdated and overpriced Red Hat Software? Magic 8-Ball says…
The old Cut & Paste wasn’t cutting and pasting. Had to go to Plan B. Next week Hack will make sure that his Red Hat Software is updated.
Do you still have the Y3K Software available?
Rats of the Cong, Hack! I acquiesce my throne. You doin’ alright?
Yeah, doing okay, all things considered. Drove from the DC area last Friday, didn’t get on the road until 06:00, so we got caught up in the Friday morning beltway crush trying to reach I-270. Almost drifted off the road a few times coming down the mountain pass on the west side of Denver, but Hack finally had a shot of common sense and pulled over for about an hour of sleep. Got there 05:30 local time Sunday, and flew back here on Monday. Rosetta will be staying out there until after the funeral. Thanks to all for your kind words and prayers.
Watch those mountain passes, especially this time of the year Hack, one side can be 100% different than the other..
Definitely do not want a double funeral.
Glad you’re safe.
Second!
See, I can spell it out!
Damn, forgot again…
Cong Rats, Hack!
Present!
Some great Black Friday deals are still available for your Y3K software needs. Be sure to use the promo code “SPANDEX KING” for a 13% discount.
Damn!! Present
Damn. I forgot today was Friday.
Not even close to the top.
Done at BK for real with seven Whoopers (but cheese needed):
https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyfoodporn/comments/1czt9s3/my_friend_ordered_a_cardiac_arrest_burger/
You want burgers? I got your burgers right here!
https://lo4th.com/
WHAT, no bacon?
When I worked at McDonald’s 30+ years ago, I’d occasionally make a fresh off the grill quadruple quarter pounder or triple Big Mac. We were supposed to go out front and order like any other customer (I think we got a 10% discount) but the break room was in the basement and it was easy to make our own food and stage it.
I took a second job at McDonald’s a few years later, when I worked for the Cadillac dealership. My best friend was already making poor choices and worked there while living in his car. It was a good place to hang out, so I started stopping in and working for food, doing a few hours and walking out with a big bag. After a few weeks, the manager made me fill out an application and become an official employee. I stuck to the regular menu by then, though, already being a father and wanting to treat my wife and young daughter, rather than feeding my teenaged appetite.
Should try the Heart Attack Grill (HeartAttackGrill.com). There’s one in Las Vegas. It’s definitely worth a look at the website and a visit if you’re passing through Vegas.
They used to have Single, Double, Triple, and Quadruple Bypass Burgers.
I’ll let you do the rest of the research on your own.
Their spokesman died of a heart attack as I recall.
Now if you want a lotta burger, there’s Mel’s north of Houston. https://youtu.be/H-lSibakXjM?si=trfC-J1QmAHJEoM0
Man, is my brain damaged (other than normal) with a telework day a day off another half telework day and then weekend and everything in between. I didn’t even realize it was 2 pm much less Friday.
I’m all fucked up…besides the usual.
Oh well, press on ….
Here fuckbuckets.
I hope the stretch pants held yesterday and today.
i have cranberries and collards to cook for the coming weekend for delayed Thanksgiving….but who’s counting.
Much love to all your shitheads.
Smoochy Smoochy.
Oh and congrats to Hack-Oh-Doodles.
May your mailbox door never fall off.
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Happy Friday, you gents. Hope all of you had a good week and Thanksgiving! So I lost my throne and it was because I was eating at the time (oh, well!). Rule justly, Hack! So, this week was one that I was done with for awhile and that is to do with school. Our instructor had us doing online, in-class study of CAN-BUS systems (that is the wiring configuration that allows the car’s computers and components to talk to each other), and he had us try to fix faults with that system on a vehicle in lab. Only problem was that the vehicle he had us working on doesn’t have a CAN-BUS, it has a PCI-BUS (which is a completely different, older system) and we students were working on it under the assumption it is a CAN-BUS 🤦♂️. I think our instructor is a little too old school. Anyway, it’s not even important for us entry techs to know how to diagnose and fix faults in the CAN-BUS system, as that is only something an advanced tech can do. We only need to know how it functions and how to recognize faults. *Sigh* This week has been a pain in the butt.
Anyway, looking forward to this weekend and my usual content to follow. Have a great weekend!
I much prefer working on my ‘55 CJ-3B. No electronics, simple carb, points ignition. It tops out at 55 mpg, gets 14 mpg, and rides like a skateboard. It’ll get you anywhere, you won’t get you there quick or in comfort, but it just won’t quit.
I have a ’47 CJ2a with a Hurricane engine in it, tops out at 45, but nearly indestructible off-road!
Hurricane is a little taller than the Go-Devil, both are strong little motors. Bonus is you can damn near do a total overhaul with a screwdriver and a couple crescent wrenches.
Yep, I’ve thought about retro-fitting mine with front disc brakes and a more modern day master cylinder to give me better braking as well.
Previous owner of my Jeep put 10 inch drums from a 70’s Cherokee. Big difference but still takes a lot of leg to stop. How’d you fit a Hurricane in there? 3B has a tall hood to accommodate it.
I wish I still had my Dispatcher Jeep. I bought a ’60 DJ3A in Kentucky before I left in ’04. Took it to Virginia then down here to Louisiana, but ended up selling it in 2011 or so. It had the original Go Devil engine, along with a Hurricane and some other spare parts. I last contacted the buyer when I was at Manas AFB in 2013; he told me he had it on the road and invited me to stop by for a drive.
Earlier this week Hack Stone received a call from a William at US Auto Care about some exciting news regarding Hack Stone’s auto insurance. He oversold it, nothing exciting about it, not evenly mildly stimulating.
Speaking of insurance, if you end up living in your 1980’s vintage Jaguar because of a series of bad decisions on your part, should you be purchasing auto insurance or auto insurance for said vehicle. Full disclosure, the Jaguar is inert. Asking for a Vice President of a proud but humble woman owned business.
“should you be purchasing auto insurance or home insurance for said vehicle”.
Hack Stone Publishing regrets the error, and not correcting for over a day.
Star Wars:
Palpatine: Execute Order 66.
Commander Baccara: Um, right now?
You are SO fired!
*whispers* Nobody will ever know.
Yeah, there’s no way you can survive that.
Jeez, you get a holiday weekend and can’t even depend on when the WOT drops. Rats of the Cong to Hack Stone, back on the throne … and I just ran out of words that rhyme with stone. So, as dessert for the turkey, et al, we had yesterday. here’s the trivia. I swear, I will get that coveted FIRST again!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Did one actor play two different roles in every episode of a 1960s situation comedy?
By Commissioner Wretched
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Copyright © 2025
Most readers of this column will be receiving it on the day after Thanksgiving. You know, the day when you realize that all of your clothing somehow mysteriously shrank overnight and it’ll be a few more days before you feel comfortable thinking about food again.
You will soon grow weary of turkey leftovers – sandwiches, casserole, hash, however you prepare the leftover bird. Don’t worry, though, because soon you’ll be hit with another heavy feast day - Christmas.
Go do your shopping, but before you go, read some trivia for the week. Here it is!
Did you know …
… the first weather report broadcast on a publicly-accessible radio station was in 1921? On April 27 of that year, listeners to radio station 9YK, owned and operated by St. Louis University, heard an announcer read the next day’s weather forecast on the air. Later that year, the station was re-christened WEW. (What do you want to bet that first forecast was wrong?)
… who won the first Emmy™ award ever presented? On January 25, 1949, the first Emmy award ceremony was held, and the first-ever award was presented to Shirley Dinsdale (1926-1999), a Los Angeles television ventriloquist. She won the award for Most Outstanding Personality. Additional trivia note: Though the Emmys are presented as television awards, that first Emmy ceremony was not televised. (Ironic, no?)
… where the southernmost forest on Earth is located? It’s the Magellanic subantarctic forest, located in the southern parts of Argentina and Chile. The forests go as far south as the southern tip of South America and are made up primarily of beech trees. (Cold beech trees, at that.)
… until 1978, taking maternity leave from a job could mean losing the job? According to Mental Floss, maternity leave was permanent in about 40% of businesses well into the 1960s. There were no laws in place to protect women in the workplace from not being rehired once the maternity leave was over. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 finally guaranteed protection and benefits in the workplace to expectant mothers.
… music television channel MTV wasn’t always going to be called MTV? In fact, not long before it went on the air in 1981, it was going to be called TV-1. Robert Pittman (born 1953), one of the co-creators, said the TV-1 name was a way to establish a leadership position, by implying that everything else was secondary. That plan went awry when they learned that another business had already claimed the TV-1 moniker for itself, and Pittman and his team went back to the drawing board. They found that TV-M was available, but at the last minute changed it to MTV … and the rest is music television history. (See what a little research can do for you?)
… one actor played two different roles in every episode of a classic 1960s television show? From 1964 to 1966, The Addams Family was a popular situation comedy on ABC. Among the cast was Ted Cassidy (1932-1979), who played the butler Lurch. But that wasn’t Cassidy’s only role on the show – he was also Thing, the right hand which appeared out of boxes at various places in the house. Cassidy even had separate contracts with the producers of the show for the two characters. Additional trivia note: Lurch was originally supposed to be a mute character in the show. During the filming of the pilot episode, however, Cassidy ad-libbed his famous “You rang?” line. The producers thought it was hilarious, Lurch was given more lines, and a catch phrase was born. (They’re creepy and they’re spooky …)
… the actor who said one of the most iconic lines in movie history did not want to say the line? In the 1984 classic science fiction movie The Terminator, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger (born 1947) says the classic line, “I’ll be back.” But Schwarzenegger did not want to say that line as written, feeling that with his Austrian accent, he would not be able to clearly enunciate the first word. He preferred saying, “I will be back,” arguing that it fit his character of a machine. Writer and director James Cameron (born 1954) advised the actor to just say the line as written, reminding Schwarzenegger to leave the writing to him. (And we know how it turned out.)
… only two capital cities in Europe do not have a McDonald’s™ restaurant? They are Vatican City and Tirana, the capital of Albania. (I’m sure that says something. I’m not sure what.)
… the largest fish in the ocean is a shark? Specifically, the whale shark. This harmless but enormous denizen of the deep holds the record for largest fish caught – one captured in Thailand in 1919 was 59 feet long. Whale sharks, though members of the shark family, feed only on plankton (tiny sea creatures and plants), krill, and fish eggs. (Thankfully, swimmers are off the menu.)
… the longest-ever wedding veil was very, very long? In 2018, Maria Paraskeva (born 1985), a woman in Cyprus, was getting married and she wanted to set some kind of world’s record. So she had the wedding veil for her dress made – get this – 22,843 feet long. That’s the length of 63½ football fields. Paraskeva said it had always been her dream to have the world’s record wedding veil; the problem she encountered was finding a factory that could produce enough of the lace material to make it. It took a Greek firm more than three months to make the veil material. (And a platoon of soldiers to carry it, I would wager.)
Now … you know!
Bridezilla
Did the marriage last? Hack and Rosetta Stone attended a few weddings of nieces and nephews on the Stone side of the family where the marriage was over before the wedding gift check cleared. Big shindig weddings, too.
Fire Department Chronicles
One word: priorities
Karma
If anyone reading this never truly appreciated how much EMTs, Paramedics, and other first responders have to deal with in their jobs, this short will change your mind and make you realize these men and women deserve a whole lot of respect for dealing with the stupid decisions our fellow humans make.
I also feel like that, if you find your patient in the bathroom, it’s never for anything good to your own mental well-being (USE OBJECTS THAT FLARE OUT AT ONE END!!!)
REALLY, REALLY NSFW.
Where are they now?
NSFW at the end.
Made it, what did I miss….?
Mike
USAF Retired
Well, top forty, present and unaccountable as I award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
I hear that Phildo still works balls behind the Flying J dumpster.
Trump you magnificent bastard!
Trump terminates Biden documents allegedly signed with autopen signing device | Fox News
Now class, who can see what The Donald just did here? Hint- he well knows it’ll be jumped on by a picked Federal District Judge, and will eventually go to SCOTUS.
Our duty legal counselor rgr769 will see it.
I see popcorn futures headed higher higher…
Yes, the Proggy Lawfare gang will jump on this with one of their ilk on the federal bench. There will be another TRO issued against Orange Man Bad, the lawless dictator, by next Friday.
You give it that long? I figured by end of business Monday as I’m sure they’re working on it now.
The judge shopping will take a couple of days. Plus, they will likely be missing their flunkies that do the grunt work of preparing docs because of the holiday weekend. You don’t think assholes like Weismann draft his own docs, do you?
Yep. The judge and district will be well chosen. The charges may even be legitimate, but that’s not the point. Trump’s focus will be the autopen Joe allegedly used, to include some 1500 individual pardons.
What happens in discovery, counselor?
Finally got to put the ATV/plow to use today. Made short work of the snow piling up in the driveway.
No way in hell would a regular snowblower be practical.
Brrrrr……
Like the dudes from Alabama, after IET at Ff Jackson and AIT at Ft Bliss, when it starts getting into mid-50s after they got to Germany: “Man, it’s cold” (while wearing the Gortex jacket and pants over their BDUs and polypros).
I’m [technically) further south than previous Casa de Sparky, but Casa de Sparky Nuevo is about 2000′ in elevation higher. I read somewhere that a 1000′ elevation change is equivalent to moving 170 miles north.
I don’t deal with Noreasters much now but I do get the effects of lake effect snows to a point.
Having to use 4wd to get out of the nice steep driveway is fun!
Present & unaccountable as ever.
We had a great Thanksgiving || Birthday celebration in the GB Compound yesterday. 11 Grandkids, 3 generations, lotsa food, fun, laughter, and love. Hope y’alls was/is/will be at least half as good.
Much to be thankful for here in the USA.
When you remember that God is still on His Throne, regardless of who’s on the WOT Throne, in political office, etc. we can all be very, very grateful.
I’ll Amen that.
If you get mad, you lose:
Happy weekend
I’m accounted for today