@jon-nyc said in What's wrong with this picture?:

Wearing shorts in the winter in Chicago?

Actually, the photo was from August 2019.

Interesting that on Monday the Russians wheeled out their Ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, for an interview with the BBC’s Stephen Sackur 48
hours before FuCa talks to Putin. In a real world it should be Sackur interviewing Putin. But then he would ask the contentious and hard questions. Besides, most Americans don’t follow foreign English language news sources anyways unless they’re connected to the Murdoch family.

Still the interview with Nebenzia is telling. He plays the victim just as well as Putin will play it with FuCa.

Worth the 23 minutes, it will set the stage for the main event coming your way in the next day or two:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4p8r

@Copper said in Hay Mark! Social Security Payouts:
, for no good reason, just as a bit of a hedge against the early demise of either her or Social Security.

Yeah, I'm betting on the survival of SS - but then again, I bet on Beta as opposed to VHS. Probably should figure that SS will disappear by the end of the year.

@Jolly said in Meanwhile, in Canada...:

Is Ontario still in Canada?

As Mik wrote, depends who you ask. Others might say Canada is Ontario. But they too would be very wrong.

@Mik said in The Israel Veto:

Doesn’t make any sense, does it?

Oh, it does, if you read the article.

@Jolly said in The Reign of the Murder Turtle:

an even better replacement for Sotomayor.

Ah! A wise Latino!

Mine wasn’t nearly that expensive.

Just looked it up - zero. Now I decided not to take it because I had three or four days left and it never got severe enough to risk the side effects, plus the prevalence of rebound risk

You know what might be fun?

Let Trump drop something alleging that in those conversations was something implicating Pelosi or Federal involvement in instigating the riot, and see if the boys at the Secret Service can come up with the records...

@George-K said in Symptoms:

Remember when they told us "If you're vaccinated, you won't get COVID?"

Remember when they told us "Natural immunity will protect you?"

I always felt/thought that vaccine and any natural immunity would help decrease the disease but not eliminate it.

I had COVID right at the beginning of the new year and I had somewhat recently had the booster. It was very mild - and the only reason I tested myself was because I had some meetings, etc. with lots of people. Tired for a couple of days, very low fever, but other than that, no problems.

Would have have been worse if I did not have the booster? Obviously impossible to say, but I am glad that I got the booster.

That's another amendment that someone should add to the list previously posted. Perhaps TuCa will support an amendment that would allow Putin to run for President.

One of my favorite Toby Keith stories...

When Toby was starting out, he played the TLO Circuit. In the music biz, that's Texas-Louisiana-Oklahoma, mostly Oklahoma, NE Texas and NW Louisiana. There are some absolute dives in that part of the world.

Remember that scene in The Blues Brothers where they played a bar with chicken wire in front of the stage? Well, there are bars like that on the TLO circuit.

Bar fights are not uncommon. Whole bar fights do rarely happen, but they do.

Toby had just started to gain a little traction, enough to hire a manager, but he still was playing the circuit. One night, the bar they were playing erupted into a full bar fight. The manager is trying to get the band out of there, so they all head for the door. Toby, being a big guy, led the pack and the manager figured the safest place was behind Toby.

Some idiot was dumb enough or drunk enough to sucker punch Toby Keith.

The manager said Toby grabbed the guy with one hand and beat him with the other. The guy was screaming he'd had enough, when Toby stopped just long enough to look at the guy and tell him, "I'll let you know when you've had enough".

Then he hit him again, put the guy's lights out and dropped him like a sack of potatoes...

@89th said in Projectfarm does non-stick pans:

Might have to buy some Granitestone.

Does anyone put their pots/pans in the dishwasher? I always hand wash, but I know they’re dishwasher safe.

Also I noticed he added a coating of veggie oil to each pan. I know that was in the instructions but I would like to see how the pans perform without any nonstick prep.

Everything but the cast iron.

Probably.

But the bar has been set.

Speaking of snipers...

One if my friends was a Marine sniper in Vietnam. If it was standing still, it was dead. If it was running, he was no better than me.

He always shot a .308. When we were checking scopes and knew they were right, he'd shoot cereal boxes for us. Two hundred yards, he'd call his shots...Upper left, lower right, center...And hit them.

That's hitting a palm-sized target every time, 200 yards.

We pulled ours off the buses after a couple of years and drove them in, or they walked/cycled to middle school which was right around the corner. The bussing experience was like a daily visit to the lord of the flies, which was rather at odds with the school experience.

@taiwan_girl said in The Saddle:

Are the stirrups different for "Western" riders and "English" riders?

YEs, they are. The Western stirrup is usually made of leather with a wide footpiece. Some, however, do have metal parts and some with wood.

English stirrups are all metal, with a rubber insert which helps keep your boot in place.

In practice, I never noticed a real difference for the type of riding I did.

However, the Western stirrup can have a closed portion to it, to prevent shrubbery, etc from getting tangled within it.

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Cool name. Reminds me of another collaboration tech tool I used to use called Bluescape.

And maybe the family tree?

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/bill-maher-axed-kanye-west-podcast-interview-antisemitism-1235900170/

Bill Maher revealed that he sat down with Kanye West for a two-hour interview on his “Club Random” podcast, but he will not release the episode due to the disgraced rapper’s bigoted views against Jews.

“I thought it was going to be a learning moment.” Maher said on a Feb. 5 episode of “TMZ Investigates” centered on West, titled “Unhinged but Unstoppable.”

“We were here for two hours. By the way, we had an amazing, fun time,” Maher added. “He’s a very charming antisemite. And by the way, he’s not the only one in America who feels that way. It’s not like the Jews are universally loved except for Kanye West.”

Earlier in the interview, Maher said of West: “The problem, I think, is that he appeals mostly — of course he’s a rock star — to young people. They don’t know much and they surely don’t know much about the Middle East or Jews. So the combination of Kanye out there — I feel like he was helpful for spreading the fertilizer, and I do mean fertilizer, for this idea that Israel and the Jews are the worst people in the world.”

TMZ founder Harvey Levin suggested to Maher that “you could say the same thing about Hitler,” in regards to West emboldening other people to voice their antisemitic views. “A lot of people were thinking what he was thinking, but in Kanye’s case, the fact that he’s saying it out loud gives other people permission to say it too, right?” Levin asked.

“Yes, exactly,” Maher said. “That’s why I wouldn’t air that episode, because I’m not going to contribute to this.”