Weekend Open Thread

| February 26, 2021

Ilhabela Island by Mark Merideth and Gettt Images.

This is a picture of a sunset at Ilhabela Island, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The name of the island is Portuguese for beautiful island. Enjoy your weekend.

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Sea Dragon

First.

Sea Dragon

Yeah baby!

KoB

Rats of The Cong to your catch Sea Dragon! The Crown and Scepter as King of FIRST on the TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread is passed on. Be careful of EARNING this Coveted Award too many times. There are those out there who will bitch…AND moan.

With this Great Power comes Great Responsibility. To your health Good Sir!

SFC D

Present! And just what is the point of having great responsibility if you can’t abuse it for personal gain?

ChipNASA

Nice First.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say this is your first “First”?
Only the Claw knows for sure.
ANYWAY, nice First Sea Dragon.
May you lord over us gently and with honor.

I couldn’t “First today, I was at the range checking out new attachments as well as releasing into that which is the atmosphere and the Universe, freedom seeds that went to their greatness, faithfully and with much haste, although, I had a few that just weren’t behaving properly and I blame that entirely on mechanical issues or maintenance, which will be addressed shortly.
Either way, after an appointment at the range, coming home safe and sound and a little lighter is always a good thing.
(SO politically not correct these days…I’d probably get a 30 day ban on Book of Face for sharing this…)

Sea Dragon

First First. Thanks.

Claw

Sea Dragon has received pseudo credit in the Coveted Book of WOT Firsts for being “First” on the Open Threads (based on DEFECTed/DELETEd Firsts from another commenter)on the following dates:

02 July 20, 10 July 20, 07 Aug 20, and 04 Sep 20.

But today’s FIRST is the initial clearly defined, stand alone entry, therefore So let it be written, so let it be done./smile

Graybeard

Rats of the Cong to ya’

Lord it well – you can always look to KoB for examples of how to reign as the WOT FIRST…

Eggs

1st maybe

Txnorsky

Wow, the WoT was dropped a bit early this week.

Congrats SeaDog. Welcome to the club!

Txnorsky

Make that Sea Dragon, CRS has me today.

Mick

3rd

Mick

OK; 4th.

Txnorsky

Make that Sea Dragon, CRS has me today.

Only Army Mom

Top ten? That may be a first for me

Green Thumb

The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) continues to work balls as he steals from the American taxpayer as he and his less-than-honest and Poser -supporting company, All-Points Logistics, attempt to procure government contracts based upon his highly dubious and potentially felonious Native America, Law Enforcement and Navy SEAL claims.

MarineDad61

Green Thumb,
Poor Stolen Valor phony Navy SEAL beer thief Kasey Giorgio,
stuck at the top of the heap at Military Phonies
for over 6 weeks.
Sucks to be a lying thieving asshole.
Someone should send Kasey Giorgio a job application to All-Points.
Let that Monkress turd deal with it.
https://militaryphony.com/2021/01/14/kasey-giorgio-u-s-navy-seal-blog-of-shame/

Green Thumb

I doubt Phildo could legally hire him.

Nepotism and all….

MarineDad61

Green Thumb,
Sure he can.
You know, false claims and fake documents and all….
(LOL)

Hack Stone

Once again, Hack Stone is late to the party. Hate those Friday afternoon meetings. When is the Vice President of the proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the federal government going to realize that we haven’t had a sale since Elaine Ricci was tossed to the side?

RGR 4-78

Only Elaine could read the writing on the mail box door.

SFC D

Door? We don’t need no stinking’ door!

26Limabeans

It’s Friday?
Congrats to Sea Dragon. Bout time we had some fresh fish.
Wear that crown and wield your scepter.
Just don’t fuck it up.

Sea Dragon

I will execute these responsibilities to the best of my abilities. Go Navy!

Haywire Angel

Top 10?

Herbert J Messkit

Did you all here about the Chicoms giving some of our diplomats the COVID anal swabs tests. I’ll bet they put both hands on their shoulders when they did it.

Green Thumb

I wonder if All-Points Logistics has the contract on that?

I could see Phildo not wanting to be outbid….

Mustang Major

Who thinks this stuff up? I thought it was satire at first.

Only Army Mom

I am still having a hard time believing it’s not satire. That there is some bat-crap crazy.

David

Hell, they are selling those shoes as a rape deterrent! Imagine an attacked lady trying to run away in them.

Mason

Any woman wearing them will sound like a horse. Which will be very confusing, because most of the women wearing them will also look like a horse.

Mason

although there are no physical or biological differences between men and women, because sex and gender are just social constructs pushed by the patriarchy, men are generally taller than women

LOL. There’s nothing different, except for this one major difference!

I can’t tell if this is real, in which case it’s a painfully sad depiction of where we are as a society, or if it’s brilliant satire. If it is indeed satire, that it’s so spot on with what the SJWs do and talk like, it too is a painfully sad depiction of where we are as a society that it’s not obvious satire.

Animal

I looked through it’s blog page. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Poetrooper

Mason, social warriors don’t do satire.

Satire requires a sense of humor…

Berliner

Recently in another online forum the question for men was “do you sit when you pee?”.
The top upvoted reply was “yes, but I get weird looks from the guys at the other urinals.”

UpNorth

Wow, Animal, there was a whole lot of bat-shit, out of their tiny minds, crazy on that page.

Animal

They’ve become their own cult.

A Proud Infidel®™️

Present and Honorary First once again.

((((OVER))))

Commissioner Wretched

Congrats to Sea Dragon – is this your first FIRST? Regardless, the throne is yours for the week. Rule despotically and you, too, can be elected President! Hondo – your correction to last week’s column will appear in next week’s introduction. In the meantime, how about some trivia? DID YOU KNOW…? Did President Taft really get stuck in his bathtub? By Commissioner Wretched Two months in! We have made it two whole months into 2021, and the world hasn’t fallen apart yet. Well, not any more than it already has, anyway. Who knows what the future holds? Fans of old-time radio shows already know what the answer is … “The Shadow knows!” Sadly, the Shadow doesn’t seem to want to share any information with me. So I guess I’m going to have to move along into this week’s trivia, then. After all, it’s what you stop in here each week for anyway, right? Not my allegedly witty introductions to the column. So on to the trivia! Did you know … … the first novel ever written on a typewriter was “Tom Sawyer”? It was written entirely on an early-model typewriter by Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens, 1835-1910). (Since the typewriter was so new, I wonder what Twain used instead of White-Out when he made a typing error?) … only 3% of Americans prefer their hot dogs plain? (I don’t necessarily prefer them plain, but I do know that where I come from – Chicago – it’s almost illegal to put ketchup on one.) … a Florida man was charged with assault after throwing an alligator at someone? In 2016, Joshua James (born 1992) was being handed a beverage at a drive-through window at a Wendy’s in Palm Beach County, Florida. For some unknown reason, James reportedly threw a live 3.5-foot-long alligator back through the window and drove off. James was promptly charged with assault with a deadly weapon, possession of an alligator, and petty theft. Not to mention, James was banned from all Wendy’s fast-food restaurants nationwide. (I don’t think there’s anything I can add to this story that makes… Read more »

26Limabeans

“… in the average lifetime, a person will breathe in about 44 pounds of dust? (And they’ll breathe it right back out, too, I hope.)”

Chuck a lunga, Huck a louie…..

Graybeard

In Hebrew that is יְהוֹשׁוּעַ yᵊhôšûaʿ and in Greek Ἰησοῦς iēsous – so to get really, really pedantic, Jesus’s actual name is one of those two pronunciations.

But yeah, that guy in Florida wasn’t living up to his name.

David

As long as we’re linguistically nitpicking, my weak Portugese says Ilhabela alone means Beatiful Island, so Ilhabela Island means Beautiful Island Island.

Poetrooper

Speaking of Wikipedia, the other day I left a comment that Wikipedia was a useful reference source except in political matters, due to its liberal bias.

Apparently, one of its cofounders agrees and is in the process of creating an apolitical, free speech competitor called Encyclosphere:

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/wikipedias-founder-is-creating-new-free-speech-competitor-to-website-citing-leftist-domination/

Graybeard

Late to WOT, again.

Like ChipNASA, I was at the range today. FIRST time in months – and it shows. Could not pass the 5-5-5 drill with my EDC, kept going over 7 seconds.

Then 2 grandsons wanted to try their Grandpa in a mash-up game of Pokemon/Magic – mixing the rules to make it semi-work. (I won both games.)

Time to start putting in the garden now, I suppose.

Unfortunately, plumbing supplies are still low in our AO, so granddaughter’s house is still without water. Our church’s sanctuary will be out of operation for the next few weeks, so we’re having to broadcast the service to different parts of our building from the student center room.

Hope y’all have a great weekend. Stay safe, and hug your loved ones.

Slow Joe

I missed the party. Like always.

On another note, here in Fort Carson we have to do PT with the mask on. This sux ballz.

Claw

Hey, Joe, what outfit did you get assigned to there on Carson?

Here’s hoping it is 1/12 Infantry, of which both myself and Doc Savage were proud to be called Red Warriors some 35 or so years ago.

rgr769

In case you all missed this bit of news, the Fan Belt Inspectors (FBI) is investigating the shooting of Lady Gaga’s dog walker and the theft of her French Bulldogs. They suspect this was a retaliation against her by Trump supporters/insurrectionists/white-supremacists because Gaga sang at JoeBama’s investiture ceremony. So, I imagine about 20 plus agents have been dispatched to LA to find the racist perpetrators. But they will be looking for two twenty something Black white-supremacists, as the attackers were two black males.

Update: The dogs have been returned to Gaga. I am guessing the woman who dropped them off will be seeking Gaga’s reward. She will likely be splitting the $500K with the dog robbers/attempted murderers.

rgr769

Further update: The FBI is now denying they are investigating this Gaga hate crime.

OWB

So, does her having French Bulldogs, as opposed to, say, Ethiopian bulldogs, make Gaga a racist?

OWB

Oh, never mind. She’s white, so she must already be a racist. Just because. And a white supremacist.

And refusing to believe that the black dudes AREN’T white supremacists just because they aren’t white would also be racist, right?