Weekend Open Thread
The Daily Telegraph announces that Germany capitulates. (dirkdeklein.net)
Victory in Europe Day (1945). Seventy-five years ago today, the Nazis unconditionally surrendered. A few months later, Japan would surrender and World War II would come to an end. Enjoy your weekend.
Category: Open thread
1st
Shit
BHWHAHAHAHA !!!!!
Congratulations ^^^^^^
You Da Man.
And the King of Battle wins again! Another step along the path of coveted, honored, earned (never given) Double Ace!
I bow in honor of the WOT master.
Does anyone have a real job? Sheesh.
I was reassembling the interior in a ’78 F100. New carpet is great, but to install it RIGHT is time-consuming.
That sounds like a productive use of time.
You are really becoming a habit? I had to be in a meeting and couldn’t fap my F5 key all day, but congrats 5th/77th FA you’ve earned it! All you Dickweeds and Weedettes have a great weekend and be sure and keep your social distance…………
Willy
Out
*grin*
Field Artillery, you Are…the MAN!
FIRST
Next week
First
Crap
TOP 10!
Actually, top 5!
I have totally given up hopes of another WOT “First” and am rooting for the King of Battle to get his Double Ace. In the meantime, here’s your trivia fix for the week, and I do hope you enjoy it! DID YOU KNOW…? When did the first intercollegiate baseball game take place, and who won? By Commissioner Wretched I tell you, the older I get, the faster time flies. Just a couple of months ago, my younger brother celebrated his 60th birthday. This week, our baby sister celebrates number 58. The funny thing is, I keep thinking of all of us as kids! Does that happen to you, too? You and your siblings are forever children in your mind? Or am I, as is usually the case, all alone in this? Here we are into the fifth month of 2020, and I still remember how boring my New Year’s Eve was back in January. Seems like you blink a couple of times, and months fly past. The solution, of course, is not to stop blinking, but to enjoy things while they are happening and plan on having time to continue doing so. Just like trivia … you have to savor it, enjoy it, and know that it’s here every week, just for you. In fact, here’s this week’s dollop of trivia! Did you know … … Snow White was not the first Disney Princess? Yes, she was the first in a feature-length motion picture, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” released in 1937. But earlier that year, Disney released a short feature called “The Goddess of Spring.” That film centered around Persephone, a character from Greek mythology. Persephone, as depicted in the film, shows many of the same characteristics that later Disney Princesses would display: strength, beauty, and a notable taste for animal friends. (And an overwhelming ability to get into trouble!) … a cat’s vision is better – and worse – than a human’s? Cats can see in much dimmer light and have a wider peripheral view, but they don’t see color as well as humans do. Some scientists… Read more »
Hey Wretch, you forgot to include your email link? And Coke really had Coke in it, no wonder it was so popular???
Take care all,
Willy
Sorry, Willy! The e-mail link is:
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
And it is great to see you back here, my friend!
To my Main Man CW and ALL of the most loyal miscreanted d’weeded/weedetted, REMFs, POGs,Ne’er do wells, Feather Merchants and basketable deplorables. Many Thanks! The struggle was real today, no doubt. My inherwebs have been running slowly of late and there was real concern that it would be a swing and a miss. In addition to God’s Grace an advantage I have had is so many working from home don’t have the really high speed low drag fiber optic connections at home that they have at work. The pinnacle of ACE of FIRST was considered nearly unobtainable has now been surpassed. No matter which way life, in its brevity, takes me, it will always be recorded in the Book of First, that the King of Battle endeavored and persevered to become the very FIRST ACE of FIRST! Let it be said as it will be written. Should we continue the assault for a never even contemplated double ACE? Not even the Shadow knows.
I notice that CW has held out on us and now finally mentions that he has a Sister. Hmmmm? Not that I blame him for hiding her from this crowd. I also understand what you mean about “us” being the old folks now-a-days. When we have the Family Re-union (scheduled for 6 Jun) the pictures come out and the “Old Folks” have passed on and WE are the “Old Folks.”
Enjoy life and your Families, Brothers and Sisters. As we all know, it can change in the blink of an eye. And no, it doesn’t just happens to others, it happens to us. For those that can, hug your Mom and Dad for those that have lost them. Tell that Sister and Brother how much they mean to you, before it’s too late.
Enough maudlin, where the Friday Recipe?
So what is it now, seven-in-a-row?
I hate you.
FIRE MISSION FIRE MISSION FIRE MISSION! All batt-rees turn to unmask, Threat Axis PREPARE!!!!! TIME ON TARGET!!!! COUNTER BATTERY FIRE!!!!! ON TARGET!!!! FIRE FOR EFFECT!!!!!
ACES & EIGHTS FIRST for the King of Battle THE King of FIRSTS on the Coveted EARNED never given TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread. The 1st ACE of FIRSTS. The FIRST ACES and 8s of FIRST. You must SUFFER!!!!!!!!!!!
Set up the Buffet Mi’Lady and Open Up the Bar Pappy…The Celebration is on the Gun Bunny!
You know how it is.
It’s nice for the elderly to have a hobby.
😄🖕
Have a great weekend.
Yuengling and CC12 on the King of Battle…for our nautical brethren, “Splice the mainbrace!”
Hack Stone would like to take this opportunity to remind all of the members of the vast right-wing conspiracy/basket of deplorables known as This Ain’t Hell regulars that although practicing social distancing, wearing masks and working out of your home seems to be a recent fad, there is a proud but humble woman owned business formerly located in Bethesda Maryland that has been practicing these activities before doing so was cool. Always a trendsetter, the Vice President enacted these rules as a health/safety measure, and despite popular misconception, not to hide his lack of personal hygiene.
And just a gentle reminder that this Sunday is Mother’s Day, so pay honor to the woman who brought you into this world by borrowing $50,000, then declaring bankruptcy so she has to live her last few miserable days on Earth subsisting on generic cat food as she curses the day that you were born.
And let’s not forget those essential employees providing an invaluable service to America during these trying times, like Phil Monkress of All Points Logistics, willing to defend America at a moment’s notice, just like he did while being a US Navy SEAL all those years ago. A man so humble, that he decided to stop stealing all of the glory from those SEALs serving in combat by removing all traces of his serving as SEAL from the All Points Logistics website. Thank you for serving, Phil, you truly are a silent and noble warrior. And thanks, once again for practicing social distance and streaming your weekend performances of juggling balls on line.
Finally, Hack Stone would like to claim First Post for the This Ain’t Hell Weekend Open Thread, but in the interest of party unity, and the fact that he doesn’t want to end up in rolled up rug dumped in Fort Marcy Park at midnight will just be satisfied claiming Honorary First Post.
“Always a trendsetter,”
Read that line Claw and misread it as:
“Always a TRANSGENDER” LMAO
Either not enough caffeine, too much caffeine or maybe sucked up too much lead fumes at the range this morning.
I plead the 5th your Honor or I’ll have a 5th. (smile)
Oh yeah, nicely done…..AGAIN, KoB.
Opps! Meant Hack Stone not Claw! (groan)
Hey Hack Stone, does Phil Monkress of All Points Logistics still claim Native American Lineage, or did Phil Monkress of All Points Logistics give that up along with his past claims of having been a USN SEAL?
Phil Monkress of All Points Logistics had a DNA test performed, and it turns out that he is 1/1024th US Navy SEAL.
Coincidentally, 1/1024 is how much fuel that Daniel Bernath had in his aircraft when he left the flight line Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in September 2013.
We will never know.
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) still avoids calls seeking clarification of his fake Native American, Navy SEAL and Law Enforcement claims.
He is to busy lining up contracts to obtain taxpayer dollars to fund his government issues and substandard non-deliverable products based on fraudulent claims.
He is also sounding off his support for issues concerning COVID-19. Odd how virus chooses to criticize another.
Hack Stone,
I still believe this site could (should) be running a
BEST OF… series.
Kick up old dust on a Stolen Valor phony once a week (or twice),
until the US Government agencies get back to work
sending out the incriminating truth on the upcoming wave
of NEW 2020 phonies.
I expect summer will be very busy here.
After all, the phonies are STILL online, Facebook, and more,
doing what they do, and getting noticed (but not outed).
Looking forward to the busy season.
+ 10000000…..
Maybe revisit a few of the tournaments…
No sports anyway.
The United States Navy has released an official render for a new class of frigates to be named the Agility-class, built by the Italian firm Fincantieri Marinette Marine (based in Marinette, Wisconsin, originally called Marinette Marine until it was sold to the Italian company Fincantieri Marine Group becoming Fincantieri Marinette Marine).
Fincantieri is the same company that constructed the first two cruise ships for the Disney Cruise Line in the late 90s when the service first started.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFG(X)
Kinda boxy looking. Big radar target but I’ll bet it
doesn’t matter with all those “emitters” spoofing the
shit out of anything within range.
“The U.S. Navy would like for the ship to be able to:
Destroy surface ships over the horizon,
Detect enemy submarines,
Defend convoy ships,
Employ active and passive electronic warfare systems,
Defend against swarming small boat attacks”
In my former life as a military industrial complex employee
I got to work on some pretty cool programs but today’s
electronic battlefield hardware is beyond anything I
thought possible. Hope Bath Iron Works gets some orders.
Clearly shows its Ticonderoga CG / Burke DDG bloodlines.
20th
It’s going to be nice this weekend so I’ll be working on my mini barn. I’ve decided to put in an insulated floor. My chickens will be very appreciative. The new chicks should be ready to be moved outside in a couple of weeks. We are also looking into getting a couple of goats. Sadly the birch syrup making season is over for me, but it looks like the last frost may have already passed so I’ll be able to transplant my vegetable starts from my laundry room to the garden soon.
Evidence suggests, as many of us have suspected, that the WuFlu was present in the US far earlier than was previously thought. if true, that would mean the entire panic driven lockdown that ruined the economy was completely unnecessary. But it did give our resident leftist butt boi something to be thankful for.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/evidence-suggests-coronavirus-likely-spreading-154500955.html
I myself had all of the symptoms of that shit back in January.
As did me and the wife. We didn’t lose the sense of taste like they say with the COVID and it lasted much longer than a few days. I was hacking, wheezing, and struggling for at least two weeks before I went in. Got some anti-biotics and in inhaler and immediately started improving. Wife the same, hers lasted for weeks.
Who knows if it was the Kung Flu or just a cold that turned into a respiratory infection.
I temporarily lost most of my senses of taste and smell as well as felt like I had run three PT Tests in a row without stretching out afterwards.
The Mrs. and I both became very ill just before the new year, with almost all the symptoms of the ChiCom virus. it took us till damn near the end of January to get over it.
I had very bad flu-like symptoms in early January too; 104* temp (rare for me), breathing issues (which is abnormal for me) without a productive cough, heart arrhythmia, low blood oxygen levels, partial anosmia, muscle weakness like I’ve haven’t experienced in decades.
Luckily I always stay stocked with all the usual meds or I probably would have taken a turn and had to go get care.
The worst of it lasted a week easy, but took almost a month for breathing difficulties to clear up.
When that antibody test gets offered at VA I’m doing it.
Twentysomething and Honorary First once again.
((((OVER))))
In one of the feel good articles, there was a link showing a video of a jogger getting shot. The jogger rounds a pickup truck, then gets into an altercation with the guy with a weapon.
The men that were with the pickup truck have been detained and charged with murder:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8301035/Ex-cop-son-charged-MURDER-black-jogger-Ahmaud-Arbery-25-connection-him.html
Very messed up situation and those involved need to be held accountable!
Yepper, I did some digging yesterday (it was on Thursday FGS) afternoon and found a linky to the AJC that ties a lot of it together, with other background articles. Today’s news, locally, is all about charging the guy that was recording it all. There is still some missing pieces that are being kept quiet, such as the past record of the jogger and some family members. This could get real teh stoopid before it is over.
Regardless, I predict that the liberal mainstream news media will propagandize it into another bogus race crisis.
The Americans that were detained in Venezuela? They have been charged with terrorism, conspiracy, and weapons trafficking. They face up to 30 years in prison.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1671731/world
They drop the “Excessive Stupidity” charges?
That was the game. They are experiencing the “prize”.
“30 years in prison”
I’ll take the noose thank you.
If one or a combination has the coronavirus, and caused a virus outbreak in their prison…
Don’t worry, they won’t last 30 years in a prison controlled by the likes of Maduro.
Neither will many Venezuelans outside those walls.
Tara Reade wishes that Joe Biden would step out of the race. But, she knows that this would not happen. The leftist media does not appear to want to be enthusiastic about this allegation:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-ignores-tara-reade-joe-biden-drop-out-of-race
Very telling.
Vitamin D levels may influence coronavirus effects… Those with low levels of Vitamin D showed higher risk of mortality. More studies needed to verify this.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/vitamin-d-levels-covid-19-mortality-rates
So hiding in our houses might not be the best plan of action then? 🙂
I take 2000mg a day as a supplement.
Not a lot of sun above the DMZ (45th parallel)
in the winter.
Good news for those unfortunate enough to live in the People Republic of Marxichusetts. A federal judge has ruled that Marxichusetts Gov Charlie Baker’s diktat to ban gun sales during chicom flu emergency is unconstitutional. Gun stores in MA may open up for business as early as tomorrow. Not sure what kind of firearms are even available for sale to the people of Marxichusetts, but go get ‘me if you need them before Marxichusetts judge shop and find a leftist judicial hack to shut them down all over again..
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/05/07/gun-sales-could-start-up-as-soon-as-saturday/
Thanks for reporting from the communistwealth of Marxichusetts. Greetings from the communistwealth of Virginia.
And the PDRofMD.
Another comrade. Greetings.
CommunistWoe
No “wealth” in anything from the Marx-Spawn, just massive Woe.
That works to. Also, “socialist state”.
They say, “highest unemployment since the Great Depression”, but the rate that they reported is within range of the annual unemployment numbers during the Great Depression:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/us-stocks-may-8-2020
This date also commemorates the end of the battle of the Coral Sea. Not a grand victory but a victory nonetheless. We lost our first true fleet carrier the USS Lexington CV-2. My father was a gunners mate on it, and got hit. He was carried off shortly before they scuttled her. Over half the Marine detachment went down with her too.
Lady Lex gave as good as she got, and the next ship to bear the name did her proud.
USS Lexington CV-2 had quite an interesting history in the development of naval aviation as well as peacetime service, disaster relief, and spending a month as a floating powerplant for the city of Tacoma.
Just one new addition this week: a PB4Y-1 for my wife’s godfather. His dad spent the war in the Pacific as a radioman on such an aircraft.
https://www.deviantart.com/yt45
Say TOW, have a watch from me on DeviantArt, CountVonStafford. My specialty is mainly photography (I am currently looking into 3D modeling but I want to sit down with someone who knows the ropes).
I don’t know about 3D modeling, I just kinda fumble my way through the plastic kind.
What city is that Pratt St Powerplant in? You just don’t see a lot of that cool-looking red brick on the west coast.
Baltimore. Probably my favorite structure there because it still has that 1900s look to it. You’ll notice quite a few tall ship pictures on my page.
Cool start TOW. Now this would be a Naval Aircraft that had the wings and engines properly attached on the top of the airframe unlike that modified C130, correct? (Snatches a beignet off mid rats table and dives thru the hatch)
*facepalm*
Ventura County: Coronavirus infected people, living in a home with a single bathroom, and sharing that home with noninfected people, would need to be removed from that home and into a facility where they would have their own bathroom:
Off to the Gulag, Enemy of the State.
Get into the cattle car, citizen. It’s for your own safety.
“Move quietly into the boxcar, Citizen…”
Is that Woman doing Sign Language Interpretation also a compulsive Break Dancer?
I’m seeing that a lot lately. My disabled
sibling learned to sign at an early age
and she doesn’t even change her facial
expression when doing so.
You should be able to put a hood over your
head and still sign without being misunderstood.
California commits to sending every registered voter a mail in ballot for the November election:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-first-state-to-commit-to-sending-every-voter-a-mail-in-ballot-for-november-election-due-to-coronavirus
Should read more like send every illegal alien
A ballot to vote
Spot on. They know how many states they need to carry in order to steal the Presidential Election. GA is sending out a form from SecState where you can request a ballot. There are other forms showing up in the mail telling the Resident to send this form in for your ballot
Anyone who doesn’t vote the D-rat way may not have their mail-in ballots counted. D-rats will likely find trunk loads of those mail-in ballots in any close races they are worried about losing.
“D-rats will likely find trunk loads of those…”
*cough Al Franken*
Do you suppose the Democrats will go full dictatorial regime and report 96% voter turnout with 98% voting across the board for the ruling party (Democratic but of course)? Or will they save that for a cycle or two down the road?
By the way. Back in 2001, there was an interview of the guy running the company that made voting machines for Florida. They used a spring loaded punch to mechanically punch holes in the ballot cards.
The only way they could figure out how to get “hanging chads” or “dimpled chads” was to put multiple ballots in the machines.
This was of course dismissed.
That’s probably the only reason they haven’t been able to steal more elections; they’re lazy.
Well, for good news, my MRI on the prostate cancer came back “low risk for clinically significant cancer being present.
But going to 3-month instead of 6-month follow-ups for the nonce.
Hope you all have a great weekend.
Graybeard, great news…
As for me, my latest bloodwork result came in today, and my A1C has dropped back into regular territory after being highly elevated for many months. Took a lot of food choice changes to achieve it, but I’m glad it happened…
Excellent news, CH! Keep it up.
That’s good news! Keep up with the food choice change. Perhaps one day, you could provide recipes from your new eating habit.
Good news for both of you gentlemen!
Glad to hear it from both of you. Good work as well as good news.
That’s good news! Good luck with your follow-up!
For those interested in strange and unusual tanks and AFVs, I present to you the Taiwan ROC Army Type-64 tank, a frankenstein mating of the WWII vintage M-18 Hellcat tank destroyer turret with the chassis of the 1950s M-42 Duster SP ADA vehicle.
The Free Chinese on Taiwan let nothing go to waste; if it can still shoot a round out of the tube, the ROCs will use it until it literally falls apart. The US sent a couple of hundred WWII m-18 Hellcat TDs to Taiwan as MAP equipment in the early 1950s, and also some M-42 Duster 40mm ADA platforms in the early 1960s.
As the M-18 Hellcats wore out in the early 1970s, the Free Chinese were forced to improvise, and developed the Type 64 tank in the mid 1970s, with the M-18 TD turret and its 76mm High velocity gun mated to the still functioning M-42 Duster chassis.
The Free Chinese were forced to do this because the world had turned against Taiwan in favor of the chicoms, and jimmy carter was stingy with US arms for Taiwan due to his coziness with his new chicom pals. The Free Chinese literally had to make do with cannibalized equipment to keep up its defenses. The Free Chinese built a couple hundred of these ersatz Type 64s for point defense and for reserve units, and finally retired them in the late 1980s when Uncle Sam sold a couple hundred obsolescent M60A1s to Taiwan to shore up its armored forces, then composed of a hodgepodge of Type 64s, M-41 Bulldogs, and M-48 Pattons, along with M-113s.
The ROCs have now upgraded to M-60A3s as their MBT, but in light of the mounting chicom threat, it is well past time for the US to sell a few hundred M1 Abrams to the Free Chinese…
I had two Chinese roommates when I was in college. The first one was Taiwanese and COULD NOT wait to graduate and make his first million dollars, the second was Chicom who refused to believe anything that wasn’t in the propaganda he was spoon fed by his Government and fellow commie handlers, couldn’t stand the second one!
It must have been like living with Donnie and Marie Osmond.
I’m a little bit capitalism.
I’m a little bit socialism.
The Taiwanese roommate was a hardcore Capitalist who loved living in the Free World while the commie was a a PITA.
An acquaintance in college was an escapee from the PRC who was commissioned via ROTC. When asked “why join the US Army?” the reply was “kill Communists!!”.
” which ones?”
“All of them!”
The original plan was Air Force RORTC and Missile Officer. For some reason, after “all of them” came out in an interview, the answer was “Thank you. No”. So Army ROTC was plan B.
Look who’s running his pie hole
After yesterday’s DOJ document dump
I think he’s getting nervous probably not
This is the headline on yahoo news
“Obama says in private call that ‘rule of law is at risk’ in Michael Flynn case“
Holy shit is he not reading the transcripts from his own people
0bammy believes whatever ValJar tells him to believe. I doubt he reads anything other than his golf scorecard.
This is probably the wrong thread for cooking stuff, but here goes…
Did anyone ever imagine there were so many recipes for Nothingburger? The Donks have written an entire encyclopedia of Nothingburger recipes!
And with all that, they subsist on cold Crow.
Just posted up the article, Skippy.
👍👍
Posted a link to another article with the words “no empirical evidence”…
That’s gonna sting…
zer0 has a point. The rule of law was at risk in the Flynn case.
That is now being corrected.
Which is why zer0 is sweating coconuts. He and his minions have much misconduct for which to answer.
Air Force weather forecaster assaults military police. His defense will claim that he was under a lot of pressure.
https://www.stripes.com/airman-captured-in-texas-after-16-day-manhunt-1.629094
He looked like that when we found him, I swear. He was already Injerd.
Talk about Kung Fu fighting 4 on 1 WTF AF SP on a nuclear base can’t handle a nut job
I wonder what would happen if a group of highly motivated people wanted to steal a bomb
Drunken Monkey style?
Keystone Kops Krushing Kombatives! K4!
Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
Life in a Thai prison, you don’t want to end up here… Easy to do if you don’t pay the bribe:
Russian commandos are helping the Venezuelans search for the others who escaped being captured in the aftermath of the botched “invasion”:
https://www.trtworld.com/americas/russia-to-help-venezuela-search-for-members-of-failed-incursion-report-36167
New coronavirus cases show up after lockdowns eased:
https://apnews.com/fce9ea63c7c4199e4ff39ddd54d3944e
Expect it.
Severity unknown.
Anything from an uptick…
… to a full blown 2nd wave (that could be worse).
Who knows?
In reality, nobody really knows.
My dog just dropped a huge steaming pile of Phil Monkress in the yard.
The neighbor lady is staring at it…
Unsure how she can handle the smell.
She should step back.