Weekend open thread
May 11, 2018
Treasure Trove
A barber cuts a young man’s hair in his shop in Mexico. He has worked out of the same shop for more than 40 years, collecting interesting and unique items for his collection along the way.
Category: Open thread
First!
Well played!
Domo!
Nice wok!
*Elvis voice* Thank you very much.
The “Pickers” will be calling him shortly! lol
Can I pull off second too?
That’s First Loser, Chief.
*grin*
I was going to try and pull off the WOT trifecta in one post. I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling TAH kids.
LOOK, you already “pulled one off” and if you go for a second time, I’M NOT MOPPING UP THE FLOOR AROUND HERE!!!!
(What do I look like? The deputy executive assistant jizz mopper in training??)
That *IS* scary.
Wow.
Dammit!
Third?
Dang
Damn, man. You could had the triple! As it is, you got the exacta (or perfecta) which is cool.
9st!
Good grief, you guys are fast!!!
Okay, I concede … I’m 10th.
Sheesh.
That’s what she said.
Dang! Have a GREAT weekend y’all!!!
Whatever. Not first, not last.
Starting new job Monday. All is well at Casa de Sparky.
HAHAHAHA,
I read that and my brain translated it as
“Casa de SPANKY”
(Even though you’ve probably typed that and I’ve read it 50 times without incident!)
Congrats on the new gig, NHS.
Higher salary, more vacation time, WAY better benefits.
As the saying goes, “Getting fired from this place was the best thing that happened to me!”
When a door is closed, a window opens up.
When All Points Logistics parted ways with a former senior executive in their Reston VA office, a door fell off of a mailbox
That never gets old!
Speaking of All Points… how has Phil Monkeygrass managed survive all of his shenanigans?
I guess some people are just Teflon, stepping in sh*t and sliding through life without stinking!
Scumbags like Phil Monkress go from scam to scam thinking they’re skating along and one day, *WHAM!* they skate right into a concrete wall with mucho pain, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time and he WILL be remembered as a monumentally huge scumbag!
As long as you have a fall guy on staff will to fall on his corporate sword for you, you never ave to face the consequences of your lies.
Great to hear!
All the best in your new job, NHSparky
15’Th, my second highest ever !!!
Top 20!
Damn. I gotta shorten my screen name.
Well, you’ve waited patiently an entire week … so here’s the next of my weekly trivia/humor columns. I gather that you’re enjoying these; I hope you like this one as well. DID YOU KNOW…? Did a flight attendant survive a free-fall of more than 33,000 feet – with no parachute? By Commissioner Wretched You know what really “grinds my gears”? Having come up with a really great introduction for this column while doing something which prevents me from writing it down. I can be driving; I can be taking a shower; I can be doing just about anything that doesn’t involve pen and paper, and I will have a brainstorm of an idea that would make old Willie Shakespeare himself proud. But … when it comes time to sit down and write the week’s trivia column, I have … bupkis. Nothing. No memory of the wonderful introduction I dreamed up at the earlier time. Does this ever happen to you? If so, how do you get around it? Or is it just that I’m getting older, and my memory isn’t what it used to be? (I can already answer that last question … I don’t remember today’s breakfast.) Sadly, this will have to serve as my introduction to the column this week, since I forgot the great, funny thing I came up with. If you want to share a memory tip or just say something nice (or not so nice) about all this that I do, drop an e-mail to didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com and I guarantee a reply. Assuming I remember to do so, that is. Did you know … … President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) was buried without his brain? It had been lost during the autopsy. To this date, no one knows what happened to Mr. Kennedy’s gray matter. (It’s not something that would be easily misplaced, you know.) … the Internal Revenue Service has said that ransom payments are tax deductible? (You’ll have to get a receipt from the kidnappers, of course, and maybe they’ll even validate your parking.) … a very enterprising young man was able to finance his college… Read more »
“ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830s?”
Reagan called it a vegetable for school lunch purposes.
Forgot what your brain cooked up? Happens all the time. Get a great idea, just about to make use of it, and the phone rings. You hang up and – wait, what was it I was thinking about before the phone rang?
See, that’s something a fellow writer would recognize happens a lot. Thank you for the validation!
I once told my wife about the phenomenon of the doorway, where if you pass thru a doorway you will forget what you were thinking on the way to the door. Now every time she comes thru the door she forgets what she wanted to say to me. The power of suggestion at its best.
Maryland’s flush tax not being enough, Martin O’Malley also instituted a “rain tax” on the amount of impervious surfaces such as roofs, driveways, sidewalks, garages, on ones property.
No, really.
Forbes
NO liberal has ever seen a new tax, fee or regulation they didn’t like.
So what happens to the miners February, April, June etc?
Just spent the day at a commencement ceremony for a Womens, Gender, and Sexuality department at a liberal university. I heard praise for BLM, Angela Davis, transexuals, confused, and for all I know otter-f*ckers. Sweet Jesus, I have two more sessions to endure. Maybe I should kill myself tomorrow. Or today. Better, both.
Nah, don’t give them the satisfaction of seeing your corpse. Stick it out, remember that you know WHO/WHAT/WHY you are, and go find a pot to piss in and a window to throw it out of, remember this)
because: —
YOU have A REAL JOB in the REAL world, and they live in Fantasyland with numchuks for eating tools.
I concur. Most liberals have never worked hard to legitimately earn anything in this life while they run around hating others’ success and happiness and doing all they can to ruin it. Look at say, some snowflake graduating with say, a Degree in Gender Studies with a barge load of student debt expecting to have the world handed to him/her/it and working as say, a Barista while hating the person who spent less time in a Vo-Tech School to learn a skill that’s in demand and is making honest money hand over fist, that snowflake will never do much other than hate, cuss and fuss while working in menial jobs and living off of their parents.
Wow, you just described my middle sister, almost to a “T”… i think her masters degree is in medieval history or somesuch, but otherwise, spot on!
Take a tablet or smartphone under the pretext of taking notes. Then use it to surf the net while in the class. (smile)
Okay, here are my contributions. First, you will pleased to know that the Mayor of Baltimore has expressed her full confidence in the chief of police and dismissed his issue as a mistake. The “mistake” was failing to file with the IRS for several tears and he has now been indicted.
My second contribution comes from Chicago where a former congresscritter, a Harvard grad, has been sentenced to incarceration for his latest crime. He says that he cannot get justice here so, when he’s released, he’s going “home” to Africa, where he wasn’t born and has never resided.
Just heard that Commssioner Tax Fraud has been put on Suspension with pay
https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2018/05/11/baltimore-police-commissioner-suspended-with-pay.html
HERE!!
I was busy formulating the
Bunker of Insults®™ for Ron “Worthless Shitpile” Worthey .
It was suggested that were we to drop the entire Mountain of Insults®™ on him, Ex-PH2 said “And the Mountain of Insults might be enough to tip him over, but he’d roll right back up and start over.
I suggest a modified, slightly shorter and squatter version of the Mountain of Insults, so as to make sure he stays nicely flattened for the duration.”
SO I did a one time, Best Of.
Cheers
Hey, credit where credit is due! The name was my idea!
^^^THIS^^^^^^^
I remember the Weebles commercials.
Thank you, ChipNASA! I viewed Mr. Worthfarless as that sort of heavy-bottom clown toy that kids like to use as a punching bag: whack it and it comes back for more.
He is so round, so blobby, so fully packed with defecatory byproducts, that there is no way he would not just roll right back up.
Present, and am so glad this damn week is almost done!
And Daniel Alan Bernath is still in a holding pattern at -6FT AGL, SPD = O KTS.
And still no longer playing records.
At ambient temperature.
Present and so glad to be here! Hoping all my TAH family have a great weekend!
It’s the wife’s birthday so today and this coming week will be “All wife, all day, back to back hits from the dusty stacks of old wax way back in the back”.
THIS JUST IN: per the State Bar of California, Daniel A. Bernath is still deceased!
And Dennis Howard Chevalier a.k.a. Denny H Chevalier, phony Gulf War veteran, phony retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, phony SWAT veteran, phony C-130 pilot veteran, still was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon back in February 27, 2018.
I wonder how soon Bubba & Thor busted his cherry? The only cheese served in a jailhouse is either Government Issue or the absolute cheapest stuff they can find!
I heard that it was Mr. “Tiny”…
Important safety tip for all hands on Team TAH:
Mother’s Day is this coming Sunday (13 May).
Today is also Military Spouse Appreciation Day. Armed Forces Day will be on May 19, 2018.
Endangered Species Day is Friday 18 May 2018.
Time for some Barbecued Manatee and Deep Roasted Blue Whale!
Cooked over Mangrove Charcoal….
Using the claws of a Spotted Owl as a toothpick.
Top50, but Honorary First.
Got today off from work so I am being industrious and making my wife some dining room chairs.
$450 worth of Hard Maple on hand so I have enough to make six chairs. Heck of a lot cheaper than buying them too. From what I’ve seen online, quality Hard Maple chairs cost around $250 to $400 each.
I’m intrigued. I assume that you have the know-how and the right tools for the job. Are you using bought plans or what? Do you have your own getaway shop?
I was hoping this wan’t about to be one of those moments:
“Hey! Hold my beer an all y’all watch this!”
But if you -can-, it is kinda cool.
Yeah, I have some decent know how. Have the standard tablesaw, bandsaw, planer, jointer, miter saw and drill press.
Got the plans from Woodstore.net and the shop is in the garage. Everything is on wheels so the car can be parked but when it’s woodworking time I can roll it all out and do what I need to do.
No 11B, I intend to keep all my fingers and toes. I’m wearing an eyepatch as it is, don’t need to add to the look.
Eyepatch is because of Bells Palsey. I can’t blink with my right eye for now until it all goes away. Doc says it can take a few months (what a pain in the ass). Good thing I can shoot left or right handed.
I was hoping that was the case.
In high school wood shop, I made a number of simple furniture items that Mom could not afford. Rather liked it.
Shop was my favorite class as well.
Same here. Loved shop.
Went to college and got a degree in computer animation. The industry collapsed when Obamacare was passed so I now use that skill to do my designs on the computer first and then do them in wood.
something, something, lemonade…
I’ll add this too. If you know what you are doing (if you don’t, you can learn) it is very satisfying to be able to answer “yes” when you significant other says “Can you make me….”
Of course, in my case I have to make her chairs because I also made her pregnant and we now need more seating area since #4 child is now at the stage of being in a high chair.
You play, you pay.
This is the plan that I am using. First time doing chairs like this so I am making a test run version out of pine.
Today I just got the maple jointed and planed out.
https://www.woodstore.net/Step-by-Step-Elegant-Chair-p/gr-00884a.htm
Nice. Best of luck. Keep us updated. You’ll need a notepad w/ a pencil on a string and a camera. Why? Don’t and you’ll say “!@!%%%! I did that AGAIN!” How do I know this? I can’t tell you how many times I said, “!@!%%%! I did that AGAIN!”
Good idea! Also good for just pure documentation of how it all goes.
I have a project or two in mind, but no idea where to get good hardwood lumber other than the big box chain stores that have highway robbery prices, anyone know where else I can shop for something like Rock Maple or Walnut?
Try this one, API.
https://nwtimber.com/links.asp
Hardwoods are going to be more expensive that softwoods. I used to know this guy at the RenFaire who would go to construction sites and scavenge every pallet he could find, and make toys and puzzles out of them. Some of it, he told me, was maple, and all the crews did with it was burn it.
Use your imagination a little and you can find anything.
Big box stores aren’t normally that good except for certain common types of lumber. A lumber yard run by locals might not have something but can usually point you in the right direction. Where you look for some woods might also depend on what it’s normally used for. If you need teak, for example, your best bet might be to ask a boatyard or a wharf rat down at the marina.
Cabinet makers also either use or have access to rare woods. A look in the phone-book under “exotic woods” is probably also worth the effort.
One of the weirdest types of lumber I ever went looking for was cedar, not that uncommon, but it needed to be milled as 1″ X 6″ “Dolly Varden” siding. Similar to ship-lap but with a taper. A common response I tended to get when asking about it was sort of that they stopped making the stuff around the time Custer was a cadet. I finally found a source, one of only about three on the West Coast, who would mill it but you needed to wait six weeks for the completed order.
I do my ordering from here
http://www.bellforestproducts.com
Great customer service and decent pricing too.
Okay, now you’ve gone and done it. I want that hall entry seat/storage bench.
I can price it out and build it for you
I have four kids. The extra income is always welcome!
The price of wood seems to vary in strange ways. One of the things that might be affecting maple is that butcher-block kitchen counters seem to be making of a comeback.
Something else I’ve noticed lately is that for uses such as finish carpentry trim, the cost of “select” grades of Douglas Fir is getting very close to that of Oak. I’m not sure what’s up with that. Export demand?
With that I think it is the demand. There’s also been a problem with some wood harvests over the last few years.
You can’t find Holly anywhere these days because the last two years harvest was ruined. Once the wood was kiln dried it was gray instead of white.
I spent this afternoon finishing up a bois d’arc (aka Osage Orange) handle for my tomahawk. Have a re-enactment coming up and I’ve been without my tomahawk for 2 years.
It is currently hanging to dry with a fresh coat of linseed oil. Another coat tomorrow and let it dry for 2 days, and it should be fine.
Future wood projects around the GB Compound involve some cypress that died in a drought a few years back and has been seasoning ever since I slabbed it, and a piece of oak I’ve had drying for more than 10 years. May pick up some black walnut next week from a brother-in-law – who cut it some 35ish years ago.
Awesome.
Yeah, I think your Cypress and that Oak have acclimated long enough to even out their moisture content
What are you going to make with them?
That’s the problem with living in NM. Don’t have any hardwoods growing in my area to become future projects.
If I can cut them thin enough (i.e. borrow a buddy’s bandsaw) I want to try a full-sized Mountain Dulcimer. I have some more bois d’arc to server for the spine/fret, and use the cypress for the top and sides, the oak for the back.
My buddy makes guitars (good ones!) and has restored a violin, so I’m hoping for some pointers- although the Mountain Dulcimer is a very simple instrument.
I have some cured ash juniper as well – want to try my hand at some flutes.
We have enough furniture around (the house is full enough) that I doubt I’ll do more than make a ladderback chair and cane it. Took two old hand-made ladderbacks I got from a neighbor, sanded them down and added about 4 coats of linseed oil and re-wove the seats in a herringbone pattern. They make nice porch-sitting chairs.
I guess the mountains in NM mostly produce pines, don’t they? I cannot remember seeing much in the way of hardwoods there. Hope you can find some at a decent price.
We have one place I can go to locally for hardwoods, Stock Building Supply.
There was another store, but they were broken into last year so their insurance went from $5,000 a year to $25,000 and they are closing down because Albuquerque is becoming more and more of a shithole.
The Mayor doesn’t give a damn and the people he put in charge of the police department are more concerned with TPS reports and ass kissing than they are with actual law enforcement.
So, what I can’t find here I have to order.
Man, that stinks. I hate it when a self-serving power-hungry jerk ruins (and not single-handedly) a good town.
I think we have a few more places around here if I want to buy hardwoods, but I get a kick out of taking what I can get in tree form and turning it into something. My brother-in-law had his own portable sawmill 30-40 years ago, and still has more wood than he can use. But the inside of the house he built in East Texas is fantastic.
Yes, the mountains here are full of pine, but that’s about it. Cottonwood and Poplar grow down in the valley area near the river so there is lots of wood to do practice with, which is good in a way.
I’m thinking of doing the chairs with Danish oil once they are ready. Next project after that is either a new bed frame for our bed (Cherry) or a larger dining room table (Maple again).
Then there is going to be bed frames for the kids, at least one bunk bed. Then steamer trunks for all of them but I need to figure out what to make those out of. I’m thinking Maple and Walnut but I have a year or so before that project is ready to go.
Awesome!!
I built a Queen size loft-bed for one of my step-daughters (for college). I used Baltic Birch plywood and Select (clear) Pine. Complete with desk, bookcase, and various useful thingies, it completely disassembles. Because she’s not too strong (Art major), everything had to be as light as possible, while still being strong and rigid. It was an interesting challenge.
The Official, (or, is it Oh FISTal), spokesboi for lubricants, the “I can’t believe it’s not KY” guy, the serial poser, Kyle Christoper Barwan, is still enjoying the North Florida Heat at the Century Correctional Institution:
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&DCNumber=H50625&TypeSearch=AI
For anyone who has not been paying much attention, Kilauea’s efforts to engulf an entire subdivision are currently successful, and continuing.
Volcano National Park is closed to visitors until further notice.
Without something to give you a scale the flow of lava spewed by the volcano does not appear to be very deep, but if there is something like a car to use as a scale of depth, it appears to be about 7 feet deep. That’s a lot of melted rock. The subdivision built nearby is gone for good.
In the words of the late George Carlin, ‘People build homes next to an active volcano and wonder why there’s lava in the living room.’
Meanwhile, in the South Pacific, Merapi is showing signs of activity and burped a big explosive cloud this morning, their time.
A wide crack on the East African Rift Zone appeared on Wednesday in Kenya, right across a major highway. It is 50++ feet deep. The Kenya road people are trying to fill the chasm with rocks. I think they should just build a bridge with extendable pavement plates instead.
Kilimanjaro is also on the East Africa Rift Zone, has three volcanic cones, Mawenzi, Shira and Kibo. Mawenzi and Shira are extinct but Kibo, the highest peak, is dormant and could erupt again. The most recent activity was about 200 years ago; the last major eruption was 360,000 years ago.
The Stratovolcano or Niragongo Nyiragongo is one of the most active and dangerous volcanoes in Africa. The Nyiragongo is located in the great Rift Valley, east of the Democratic Republic of Congo near the Rwandan border.
And last but certainly not least, a North Island, New Zealand farmer found that a crack had appeared in one of his fields earlier this week. It is 66 feet deep and 330 feet long. Apparently, heavy rain sank into the soil and eroded it underneath enough to make the surface soil collapse into the crater of a dormant volcano that last erupted 60,000 years ago.
Things are heating up the world over, aren’t they?
Cold and windy here. Pair of Otters playing in the lake. Plethora of birds at the feeders, young cow Moose roaming the neighborhood. The earth could rotate backwards and I would not notice.
We’ve been in mini-ice age conditions since 2013. Volcanic activity has been picking up since the last decade, and will continue to increase as we head deeper into this mini-ice age.
Mini-ice age may have started back in Solar Cycle 24, or even earlier in 23. Cycle 25 appears to continue with the spotless sun, with the occasional manifestations of magnetic lines (white faculae) but NO SPOTS.
And no amount of idiot politics will change that. It is 43F in my kingdom, raining, and still I have the furnace running – latest EVER since I moved out here in 2005. There was snow in northern Nevada and in Montana earlier today – not unusual but, still –.
There was a change in activity in the sun in 2005/2006, and that started the trend towards longer and colder winters.
In my tracking of global weather patterns, I’ve noticed a pattern in atmospheric patterns that held consistent from 2007 to 2012. They went haywire starting the winter of 2012/2013… Giving way to large extremes and the polar vortexes that have been hitting us in the last few winters.
This noticeable change in atmospheric circulation pattern is the more likely demarcation point of when the current mini ice age began.
There are papers arguing that this mini ice age won’t start until at least 2 years from now. Back in 2008/2009, I read papers that predicted that this mini ice age would begin in 2014/2015. Watching global weather events, as well as the atmospheric patterns, we more than likely entered the current mini ice age earlier this decade.
I’m keeping track of things that are strange. The trees in my area did not open their leaf buds until the beginning of May. Now the leaves are beginning to grow, but they are a size and shape that I would see in mid-April, not mid-May.
Also, I’m quite glad I do not live in Chicago any more. May 1st is when all landlords turn off the heat. My furnace is still running. None of this makes any sense, except that things are definitely changing.
A short growing season will affect local food prices because some things in winter come from South America and Mexico. And I’m just keeping track.
Three summers in a row just a degree or two below average may be a trend. Four years of snow in April may be a trend.
Six explosive volcanoes throwing SO2 into the atmosphere also make a difference.
Sorry, I know I’m rambling.
We still have bluebonnets blooming here in May. They are usually gone in late March/early April.
We are getting up to the 90s finally, though.
I’m also keeping track of the other stuff as well, to include vegetation reaction… and even coloring. The extra CO2 in the atmosphere is contributing to robust plant growth. On a global scale, it’s contributing to forestation of areas that couldn’t support vegetation.
I’ve also noticed more reds/maroons in vegetation coloring than normal. Normally, they do this during the cooler part of the year, but they’ve remained in the vegetation into the summer, even as the vegetation adopted their summer green colors.
Our growing seasons are getting shorter on the account of winter sticking around longer, followed by spring remaining longer, followed by early falls and early winters. It get much worse the further north one goes. We’re in the process of losing Canada as part of the agricultural bread basket that feeds not just North America but also the world. This shortening of the seasons is also affecting the southern hemisphere.
This may have contributed to the Dork of Nork’s extending the olive branch, and China’s deploying troops to the North Korean Border. They’re feeling the effects of shrinking growing seasons… on top of poor economic policies.
A reading of what happened going into the last mini ice age is a foreshadow of what we’re looking at.
On a side note, ever since I’ve been able to spot the sun’s green light, and started to “see” the sun as white with olive green hues, I’ve been able to see more shades of green in the forest and vegetation… gives these areas a more “3-D” effect and my line of sight has penetrated deeper into the woods. Seeing the sun’s green light get bounced around by all this gives this the spring, and summer, version of red setting sunlight bouncing around the fall foliage.
One thing about Volcanic Activity is that it puts sunlight-blocking particulates in the Atmosphere resulting in colder winters like after Mount Pinatubo blew its stack in the early nineties. Some estimated that said eruption blew more pollutants into the Atmosphere than the entire Industrial Age combined!
Yup. The Mount Tambora eruption in 1815 lead to the “Year without summer” in many of the northern U.S. states in 1816… With snow falling during the summer in some areas.
More volcanoes are active, and starting to become active, now than when Pinatubo erupted. They’re even discovering that more underwater volcanoes have become more active.
Sea Story Alert.
There we were, NAS Sigonella Sicily in 19XX, sitting on a picnic table at dusk, drinking rum and smoking cigars. Jimmy Buffet was on the boom box. We were watching the lava flow down the south side of Mt. Etna, about 10 miles away.
Not satisfied with that, several of our ground crew drove up the peak for a close-up, but of course were halted by the local constabulary. Thinking quickly (no Ordies present) they pulled out their military IDs and claimed to be with the United States Naval Geological Survey, which of course doesn’t exist. Worked, so they got their up close and personal pics of the eruption.
Sailors. You just can’t think of enough things to tell them not to do.
Etna’s spouting more than ever. You should gather them up and go take more pictures.
Oddly, a photog pal of mine said pretty much the same thing.
Go figure…
Here’s the latest update on Kilauea from Fox News.
The concern now is that the eruption may become explosive if the lava in the magma chamber sinks below the water table – BOOM!!!!! And rocks the size of refrigerators may be launched up to 5 miles into the air. Last happened in 1924, per the report.
I can see from some still shots that the caldera has enlarged considerably since last month. I don’t think it will be just one explosive eruption. Something else is going on here. So how quickly can the Navy get ships out to sea, if necessary?
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5783681382001/?#sp=show-clips
It’s hard to tell Ex-PH2, one thing is for sure and it’s that if I lived in Hawaii right now, I’d be working on a quick didi-mau with my family back to the Mainland!
Just read that GEN Crosbie Saint died a few days ago.
https://www.army.mil/article/205023/death_of_retired_gen_crosbie_butch_saint
Good to see you’re still around. Hadn’t seen a comment from you in a while.
RIP to the General.
US Army Europe was the job Stormin Norman wanted, but CSA Vuono picked Saint. LTG Schwarzkopf instead was appointed commander-in-chief of what was then considered a sleepy back water post – Central Command.
RIP General.
My sources tell me DAB is still dead and has not sent any child porn since his death.
Well shit, what is DuLlAs doing for entertainment now? He so loved those daily photo shares.
Still waiting with baited breath for your AAR, MCPO.
Poor Sealy McChippendale.
The DRG, rudderless.
61rd and Honorary First yet again.
Adding to the cast iron cookery conversation:
Been having great results using grape seed oil to season a couple of pans. Works as well as both Crisco and lard, but without the added chemicals. No really long term results yet, but so far, looking good. Been about two months since the first applicaation and use.
Make a batch of pan fried chicken- that’ll season ’em up really well.
An example only. I use canola oil to fry, and a pre-made poultry spice mix from McCormacks. YMMV.
I forgot to get the seasoning oil last trip, but next one, I will get it. Grapeseed oil, huh? I might try that.
Pancakes and bacon only require love and butter and syrup.
Wife says flaxseed oil is thicker and tougher. She cooks, I wash… has worked for 40 years.
Aldi’s house brand is doing the trick nicely, and much cheaper than the health food store. I tried it because of the higher flashpoint of grapeseed oil.
I’ve been using a new Lodge stove-top grill/griddle for the past couple of weeks. It came seasoned, but I still coat it with spray-on Canola for each use. I’ve also used butter for grilled ham-and-cheese sandwiches that turned out well. Grapeseed oil sounds like it might be worth a try.
One of the nicer things about the griddle is that by letting you work with an expanded and variable heat surface, you have a lot more control over temperature used. Let’s say you’re cooking a breakfast of bacon, eggs, and hash browns. If one of those items starts to cook too fast, you can move it further away from the heat source or switch the positions of things.
The only downside to the griddle I’ve noticed is that although it does excellent grilled onions, cooking a cheeseburger can be problematic except when using very lean ground beef. Anything too fatty, and it’s a chore to clean.
Folks who know about such things tell me that “preseasoned” still needs to be seasoned at home, it just doesn’t need as much of it.
I need to go through and re-season all my pans. They have been somewhat neglected for a while and I am betting they could use it.
I’m not playing this game anymore.
I got a kick out of watching you misfire on the wrong threads.
Good.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
Well, *WAAAAAAAAAHHH!* yourself, and don’t forget to be on time for Weekend Police Call!
You’re on CQ Saturday too. Report to the 1SG at 0600 to receive your brief. If I catch you nodding off at the desk, you better give your soul to Jesus, because your ass will be on permanent latrine orderly duty!
OH, and Weekend Police Call includes Motor Pool cleanup as well, grab a good push broom!
PEE ELL OHH!
Will Stockdale?
https://youtu.be/qqg4rJPUxGs?t=26
Nailed it.
Quitters never win, Yef. On Friday around 1300 start hitting your F5 key to refresh the home page. If you see the WOT with 0 comments, you’re close but you gotta be quick- type “First!” name and email and hit Enter. That’s all there is to it (pro tip- when I was in competition for First I’d have a word doc up with all that typed in already- block and copy is much quicker than typing, at least for me).
This kid ain’t too bright, is he!
I try to make a point of not disparaging fellow TAH members.
Try to…
Time to cue Foghorn Leghorn:
Boy, I say boy pay close attention to me cause you’re a burrito short of a combination plate.
Maybe he’s all pissy because he had to make coffee for his 1SG and then stand in formation for the Weekend Safety Brief and that made him miss going for first?
Maybe he’s the reason for the extra long weekend safety brief.
This just in…
And from last week, back by popular demand:
Oh just as I’m getting ready to leave I see this.
I had to read it twice.
BBBWWHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
Fuck you AW1Ed.
*chokes*
Oh and FUCK YOU Maxine with Cankles McPantssuit diseased Clinis
Fuck me? I like you ChipN. Just not that much.
*grin*
Who’s stupider, her or the people that keep sending her back to DC?
The people
I’m sure she has cemeteries full of dead people voting for her every time!
getting ready to head up to Quebec to see if i can find some family records from the mid 1600’s at the local church. here is some Quebecois music with a pretty good translation if you don’t speak french. enjoy
https://youtu.be/JvcEP0EjqIc
Mes Aïeux – Dégénération
Your great-great-grandfather, he cleared the land
Your great-grandfather, he plowed the land
And your grandfather made the land profitable
And your father sold it to become a state employee
As for you, my boy, you don’t know what you’re gonna do
In your small one bedroom way too expensive, cold in the winter
Some wants to become an owner come over you
And you dream at night to own a small plot of land
Your great-great-grandmother, she had fourteen children
Your great-grandmother had almost as many
And your grandmother had three it was enough
And your mother didn’t want any ; you were an accident
As for you, my girl, you change partner all the time
When you do something stupid, you get out of it with an abortion
But there are mornings, you wake up crying
When you dream at night of a big table surrounded by kids
Your great-great-grandfather, lived in misery
Your great-grandfather, collected pennies
And your grandfather – miracle! – became a millionaire
And your father inherited it and put it all in his RRSPs
As for you, young one, you owe your ass to the government
No way to get a loan in a banking institution
To calm your urges to hold-up the cashier
You read books about voluntary simplicity
Your great-great-grandparents, the knew how to celebrate
Your great-grandparents were swingning hard at parties
And your grandparents saw the ye-ye period
Your parents were discos, that’s where they met
As for you my friend, what do you do with your evening ?
Just turn off your TV ; you shoudn’t stay inside
Luckily in life some things refuse to change
Put on your nicest clothes because tonight we’re going dancing…
oh i forgot to add, even though it is sung in french, the band is canadian. they don’t have sales on rifles only dropped once like their European cousins
Sometimes what the words say in French music is not the main point:
Oh, Hell yes!!!
OOOOOHHHH LLLLLLAAAAA LLLLLLLAAAAAAAA!
I give you the Polish Mariah Carey…
Worth the price of admission, Michelle Jenneke’s Pre-race Warm-up.
Something suddenly came up while Hack was watching that video. He just may have to expand the pool of potential mid-life crisis girlfriends to Non-Asians. Too bad for Hack that he is way past the mid-life stage.
In other news, Angelo Santopolo from earlier this week continues to delete comments on his page. If you have time, please leave him some love.
Thanks
Signed all of the honest bubbleheads.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=79327
TAH 2018 Phony Race
Report for 11MAY2018
Navy SEALs 45 –——–Scumbag Score 775
Green Beret/SF 16 –—–Scumbag Score 492
Marines 11 –————–Scumbag Score 294
Rangers 8 –—————Scumbag Sore 120
Unearned Awards 10 –—Scumbag Score 312
Vietnam Vets 6 –——–Scumbag Score 182
Combat/Deploy 5 –—–Scumbag Score 80
Navy –2 –————— Scumbag Score 12
Air Force –2 –———- Scumbag Score 45
Army –6 –————- Scumbag Score 46
Beirut Bombing –——2 Scumbag Score 54
AF ParaRescue –——-1 Scumbag Score 54
Military School –——-1 Scumbag Score 6
TAH 2018 Cranksteppers
Officers – 11
VA – 5
NCOs – 4
LEOs – 2
NY Firefighter – 1
TAH 2018 Heroes Scoreboard
Heroes – 48
Saving the World – 35
Gone Home – 55
Respectfully Submitted
Graybeard
Late to the party – but today I did pour some concrete anchors for one set of grandkids’ swingset – as well as the tomahawk handle mentioned above.
Spent most of this week working with Medicaid – they denied my brother’s benefits for this year, mistaking an annuity for stocks. Fortunately have an inside contact person who is helping me try to get that sorted out (without jeopardizing their job in the process). That I have called and/or faxed them every day this week is bound to get someone’s attention…
Cool beans on the Osage Orange Tomahawk handle, I’ve heard that also makes an awesome firewood that burns VERY hot. Not only that, but rumor is that an Osage Orange split in half and left alone in a house will repel cockroaches.
I have a friend that has it growing wild on his place – with the thorns and the horseapples it is a nuisance. So I can cut all I want.
Fun fact: In front of the Walls unit in Huntsville, TX, is a set of Osage Orange trees better than 2′ diameter – right where the inmate families wait for them to be released. During horseapple season, it is very dangerous to sit under those trees. A 8″ diameter ball falling is not to be taken lightly.
The other name for that is hedge apples. It was planted on farms in the Midwest as a windbreak a LOOONG time ago, so it’s enormous stuff now.
There was a row of it on one side of the pasture and the horses would go over there and eat the fruit when it fell.
Now, it provides cover and brush for small wildlife
It also makes a great bow — ergo its name, bois d’arc (“bow wood”).
I have a nice short bow made for me by a Chickasaw bowyer and it shoots ever so well.
Pulls 40# at 20″ and the iron-tipped trade points stick hard in plywood at 60 ft. or so (that was a couple years back, I don’t recall the distance on the hunting point lane).
One of these days I hope to make my own bow out of bois d’arc.
I hope.
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
This nugget popped on Drudge. Kansas cops can no longer have sex w/ people they stop – it’s now against the law. Serial.
http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article210902319.html
If the local TV news report on this issue is accurate there are THIRTY-TWO STATES THAT have NO LAW on the books to prevent it.
We used to do this, in-flight when Naval Academy Cadets were on their summer cruise with us. Long flight, low and rough, shooting sonobuoys for that eye-burning cordite smoke, oh yeah. The Ordie and Flight Tech would pull this stunt on the galley table where the puppies had gathered, looking miserable.
Worked every time- yak!
Learned a similar trick from a buddy who cannot be named. Step 1: pour 1 can cream of mushroom soup into an airsickness bag. Step2: midflight(preferably on a C-130 in turbulence on a scorching hot day), retrieve said bag, open, and simulate a long, loud cookie toss. Step 3: hand the bag to your accomplice. The accomplice then looks in the bag, sniffs it, and consumes the contents. Step 4: unass that bird before the crew chief gets his hands on you.
CLASSIC!!!
One of my new favorite websites is Quora. For those that don’t know, this is a site where you ask a question about anything, and experts (or supposed experts) answer it. The answers are graded by other members and the top few are shown as a reply. Discussions spread across the entire spectrum of knowledge, and a lot of it is fascinating.
So, last night, I get an email from them with the latest mil related question: “In June of 1998, I joined the USMC. 8 weeks into boot, I was taken out and put into a Special Forces unit and my records were erased. Can I find my record?”
“Hmmm” says I, “This should be interesting”. I grabbed some popcorn and prepared myself for reading the inevitable reply with an epic takedown of this clown. I was not disappointed.
The top answer that followed was from an attorney who explained how he dismembered an idiot on the stand who tried to sue a store because styrofoam coolers fell on him and aggravated his “agent orange” wounds. It also used the most elegant wording to tell the poster that they were full of shit.
I submit, for your review, the posting. Enjoy!
https://www.quora.com/In-June-of-1998-I-joined-the-USMC-8-weeks-into-boot-I-was-taken-out-and-put-into-a-Special-Forces-unit-and-I-was-erased-from-records-Can-I-find-my-record
I love Quora. Hack wants to post a question to that forum, such as “How can a company with one white male employee set up a company as proud woman owned business that somehow manages to secure federal government contracts set aside for minority and woman owned businesses?
Bim: I would have answered the questioner by pointing out that he should count himself a very lucky man at having only his records erased, that I was a member of the ultra secret Eraser Group whose task it was to make disappear those who, like him, were plucked from boot camp for covert ops, once their missions were completed. I would then ask if he would like to meet somewhere, say in the desert or a federal game reserve to chat about old times.
Absolutely crazy I saw that one too last night but was sidetracked
By another question concerning it combat veterans dislike
People who have never deployed. One answer had me falling off the couch
Hack went over to Youtube looking for a Seinfeld clip, and this was linked in the results. A real pisser. I dare you not to laugh.
And this one is pretty good, too.
As is my habit, I read a number of news stories this morning. One involved a woman sentenced for murdering her husband. The headline began, “Woman…” The report gave nothing of her background, such as what jobs she held, if any, where she last worked, if at all, and what training she might have had, say, as a butcher. I then read another story about another person sentenced for murdering his wife. The headline began, “Army Veteran Sentenced…” Dahell.
I once asked a news editor why does an accused person’s veteran status lead the news story. I pointed out to the editor they tap dance around race, religion, gender, citizenship, and the like; but, attack veteran status as a stray dog attacks a bone.
I asked does it make the crime more serious? The editor replied no it doesn’t; however, the accused veterans have betrayed their oaths.
I read this as no it doesn’t but yes it does.
I’ll admit I felt better when I discussed this exchange with other news department employees, especially the part when I called them assholes.
Yeah, been following that story in Maine for
years. The real pulitzer prize stuff is when you can nail a Vietnam Vet. Been going on foe decades.
Today is the anniversary of the loss of Cpl Scott F. Andresen. Childhood friend KIA 13MAY69
at Tay Ninh. He was in country only two weeks.
I just lowered my flag to half staff at dawn, rendered a long slow salute and went back inside to shed some tears. A yearly ritual.
I have been blessed with along life and he was not. Like so many others, I owe him.
RIP to your friend.
I had one of those days this past March and will have others this coming July and August.
Forever 20.
I came upon an unbelievable piece of combat info today. I was scanning after-action reports from the WW II 803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, reading up on the job that SGT Melvin C. Anderson was doing when he was killed. The battalion was frequently in combat and regularly supported infantry. In one fight, infantrymen executed a “Death March”–a term I never heard of as an assault maneuver. The report explained that small arms fire was being rec’d across a road and US infantry (one gueses being tired of that shit) advanced in a line, rifles blazing to silence the opposition, which mainly took off running. Those who didn’t wished they had. Amazing. Made me think of the British stand-and-fire formations of old.
The movie “Zulu” was a classic example of the stand and fire formation.
A bit late in the day, but Happy Mothers Day to all you Mothers!
I like CBS Seal Team. From what I know from the white name tape Army days it seems reasonably accurate EXCEPT, now they’re using Hueys in Afghan. Not true, right?
I’m thinking that until CBS can afford to buy and crash a few UH-60s, you just have to substitute a 50/55 year old Huey for a new fangled 21st Century Blackhawk in your mind when you watch the show./smile
That’s what I do, sort of, but my bride smiles when I pause and rant.
Tell your bride Happy Mother’s Day from us out here and I’ll do the same to my bride from you out there.
At least she smiles at you instead of giving you “The Look.”(like mine does)/smile
Rgr all!
When life gives you lemons make lemonade
What a last few days talk about everything
Turning upside down and south
So, I’m looking for a particular bicycle and I go online and check the prices. Among the places I visit for price comparisons is Target. I go to bikes and there it is. What is? My choice of men’s bikes, women’s bikes and gender neutral bikes. Dahell is a gender neutral bike? Either there’s a bar to crack your nuts on or there isn’t. I never made it to the specific bike I was looking for. Gender neutral did me in.
remodeling project
Weekend open thread : This ain