If you get a statue, you know you did good.
Rowdy Roddy Piper and Sandahl Bergman made a great team in this movie. Roddy plays a man who has the last working pair of testicles in the world. So let’s enslave him and start a new race of supermen! Yes, really, let’s do that. Times never change. Even better, tie a bomb to his penis so he blows up if he gets too far away from Bergman. Hilarity ensues! Even the trailer for the movie was awesome. Are there frog people, you ask? Yes! There are frog people. Does Roddy do his own stunts? Yes, he does. Is this another post-apocalyptic film? Yes. It is a very entertaining hour and 26 minutes!
Rowdy Roddy Piper and Sandahl Bergman had their own breakout films in two movies that I would absolutely love to post: They Live and She. Unfortunately both are behind paywalls right now. Someday!
- They Live is ingrained in modern pop culture mostly because of the famous line “I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I am all out of bubble gum.” It was in many ways, a prescient movie that saw a future of lizard people elites ruling over mankind. About the only thing it got wrong was that the lizard people would be conservatives. Escape from LA got that part wrong too.
- She: Look, it’s Bergman running around in skimpy outfits being worshipped. What is not to like? And all the women have perfect 80s hair even though the apocalypse happened. I especially love that there are still post-apocalypse nazis. Do those guys ever go away?
Sandahl Bergman was in Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, She, and then Hell Comes to Frogtown. She was very busy in the 1980s. A bit of trivia, she was also the first muse in Xanadu.
Does anyone need to know some more about Rowdy Roddy Piper? I can tell you we lost him at the age of 61, in 2015. He died before his time, and it was a big loss. He was one of the most entertaining men of wrestling during his career, and his TV and movie appearances were top notch. I linked out to his website for anyone who is unfamiliar.
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*hits play*
“Convoy” and not “Cannonball Run”? KK and Alli is my vote.
I will be on the road again, so I thought Convoy. Cannonball Run is still behind a paywall, or I would do it!
There’s always Smokey and the Bandit.
Also great, also paywalled. ‘Smokey Bites the Dust’ is out there, but it is unrelated to the original wonderful film.
As a general head’s up, I will post the next two Thursdays from the road as I once again take to the road. My actual presence at 7:00 may not happen, depending on the drive.
I think every movie gets that wrong.
“Either Ninja Terminator or Convoy! Let me know in the comments.”
I vote for Ninja Terminator because I haven’t seen it.
Cool. It is totally ridiculous kung fu action.
Rats. I’m not familiar with She but They Live might be the best non-musical B-movie out there.
Rick Wakeman and Motorhead did original music for ‘She,’ speaking of music. ‘She’ wins the low-budget 80s film award. The trailer is posted above.
What!?! I might have to check it out.
because of the famous line “I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I am all out of bubble gum.”
Wrong.
“either put on these glasses or start eating that trashcan”
There was a version of ‘They Live’ on YouTube. It looked like it was shot through a screen door. I just couldn’t link to that.
My eye doctor tells me that every year.
This is basically me every time I change the 16 month old’s diaper. “We have to change your diaper”
[epic 9 minute struggle]
“See, I told you”
I just watched it. And I’m going to watch it again.
Same here, I watched soon after your post.
Did just call the actress by her name?
And- speaking of post-apocalyptic Nazis, I watched the Iron Sky sequel last night. Much better than I expected. Lots of political/cultural references which will not age well, I suspect.
It was good! I was surprised by that.
It wasn’t too bad, but it was extremely disappointing for other reasons – specifically, the director completely shafted all of his crowdfunding backers (including me) by never releasing the blu-ray editions we paid for and sticking it straight up on netflix without even an exclusive digital download.
Some kind of legal issues tied up some of his funding or something – but it was absolute BS. Won’t be funding anything by him in the future.
I liked the original. Never finished the sequel.
How about ‘Frankenstein’s Army?’ Have you seen that one? Russian soldiers take on a hidden underground bunker full of Franken-Nazis.
That’s a fun one – not too much plot, but some great monsters – very inventive and having the found footage from the Russki perspective was cool.
I have seen the original “She”. I did not know Sandahl was in the remake.
The 1930s She, and not the Hammer version with Ursula Andress?
I want that pink panel truck.
You just need to sell enough Mary K
“Relax. I’m trained in seduction techniques” is the best bar pick up line ever.
I thought it was “do you want to see my scar” while whipping your junk out.
“Baby, you’re like the White House on January 19th 1969. You’re about to have a Dick in you.”
Paraphrased from My Blue Heaven:
“You shouldn’t be with all of this frozen stuff. You could cause it to melt”
My Blue Heaven was filmed in my hometown, and one night when I was going to the restaurant to see my girlfriend, Steve Martin and Rick Moranis walked out just as I got there.
This should be the plot of the next Fallout game.
When I open up “They Live”, it lists it as a Keith David movie. Well, nothing is complete without his greatest cinematic achievement!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6shktwDwzM&t=198s
That was such a good movie.
This is his second-best work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcdMiqLPDBg
IMO the best horror movie ever made.
I’m not aware of any bad Keith David movies. There must be some I guess but I’m unaware what they are.
Classic. That movie’s release on HBO or whatever was timed perfectly to freak me out.
The meek will inherit the earth when the rest of us are done fucking it up.
Heinlein: “The meek shall inherit the earth: A plot one meter by two.”
Oh great, a Ukrainian nuclear plant is on fire.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/europe/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-fire-ukraine-intl-hnk/index.html
I heard the Russians were shelling it?!
This is good. ?
Yes, and?
/Texan
My mom’s cousin works at this plant.
Wow, hope the cousin is ok.
Apparently the fire is actually in a training building that’s outside the perimeter of the plant itself:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/futures-tumble-report-ukraine-nuclear-power-plant-europes-largest-fire-after-shelling
Pretty sure I saw Exploding Codpiece open for 10,000 Maniacs at Lollapalooza one year.
I’ve got their CDs
D2’s ex-FIL was leader of a band that played the “throw the cat into the woodchipper” “screeching fingernails on the blackboard” type of metal. Obviously, I’m not a fan.
I’ve got three or four of their CDs laying around. Any Glibs into that can give me a buzz and they’re yours.
Hmph they didn’t open up when I saw 10,000 Maniacs. ?
That was good to watch again. Thanks, RJ.
Yay! See you next week. Well, I will post next week. Comments will be a free for all.
A&E recently aired a documentary about Rowdy Roddy. He was my favorite back in the day. Piper’s Pit FTW
That documentary and the Rick Flair documentary are both excellent. Piper had a really rough early life… You would never know it from his later life persona. He was the early try at “the Rock” in Hollywood.
I loved that they delved into his quick wit, and how that served him in his acting career.
I remember some of Piper’s early life from an interview he did with Carolla. Tough, tough life. He greatly exceeded his expectations.
The Hair over at TOS got banned from YouTube for a week. Well, his “Rising” channel did. For publishing “misinformation” about the 2020 election.
He played a clip of trump talking about the election (in order to denounce him).
Lots of pitard-hoiting going on.
Robby squeals and squeals at the injustice of it all.
I’m sure it was just an honest mistake.
Good grief.
Robby Soave at Reason got banned from YouTube for a week. And here is the link to his story about it.
“YouTube is a private company, of course, and it’s free to design whatever policies it wants. No one is owed a video channel. But I don’t think most people are aware of just how vast the misinformation policy has become. I understood that the platform would punish content creators who made false statements about the election. I had no idea that YouTube would punish news channels for reporting the news.”
Paying attention, you have not been.
Is anyone buying the idea that the government isn’t telling Youtube and friends what to censor? Besides Robby?
“Private company” my ass.
Those were some well articulated masks for the main frogs. and +1 Vasquez Rocks for that final fight scene.
Bergman was also in Stewardess School. Another fine cinematic piece.
Ok, as we are going OT now:
https://postliberalorder.substack.com/p/russia-america-and-the-danger-of?r=j0s6f&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
I know, TL/DR, but a good piece on the politics of the last couple of years. I am firmly of the belief that a huge chunk of the reason things have gotten so shitty is that any opposition, Libertarians or Republicans, have no real idea of what they are dealing with, and thus cannot counter it. So, it is nice to see someone actually looking at things from the correct angle.
Oh, and it is in the context of the whole Russian discombobulation that is going on right now.
Sound reasoning.
Interesting. I just wrote three paragraphs in reply and then realized I was signed out and lost it. It needs a longer reply, so maybe I’ll try to write it up for a post.
But thanks for linking, it definitely activated the old almonds.
Thanks. A good article.
So the live streaming thing. I fidget a lot. I cuss a lot. I need to temper down both. I don’t have a separate office/room and using a decent camera but Bose Sports earbuds. Audio quality is okay I suppose.
I think I got the audio of the web browser now piped in directly to the feed, rather than it picking off the audio from the web camera.
Learning to talk over that audio and not get lost in it… is a skill I need to develop.
I’m still trying to get lighting correct.
OBS plus the portable green screen I have is really great.
I’ll work on my physical tics after I get the lighting down – I still look too flushed.
With the advent of LED lights, you can now buy some really cheap 3 point light kits.
So that’s how you do your OnlyFans?
No, that’s shot exclusively in Night Vision.
Not sure I have room for that but any pointers to a basic lighting primer?
basics of stage lighting
Mille grazie
3 point lighting is the standard. Key (the main light used to light the subject), Fill (secondary light to soften shadows, but not eliminate them) and Backlight (used to separate the subject from the background and add depth in case of a green screen it eliminates the shadows cast on the greenscreen). There is also soft (dispersed) light vs hard (intense directional) light. The biggest thing to remember is that film/video is a medium of light. The film/camera sensor reacts to the light over everything else. Too much light and the image gets blown out, too little light and it becomes grainy.
Thank you. From your description alone I think I have too much light – there is a window on either side of my desk.
I’ll read up and experiment.
If your light is too hard and you want to soften if, the cheap way is just to put some wax paper in front of it.
My desk is in a bay between two windows, which sounds like that’s the problem.
I may have to replace the shades with blackout shades
I sound like a helium sucking freak when I speak. Also I have almost nothing to say, so I stick to writing.
You have to develop the WesterSlooper view of having shit to say. It is weird…I am a man of few words but here I am trying to step out and do this.
Stepping Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkulcvRkd4I
Stepping Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt2dxx9yg
That’s the one.
Lord forgive me, I’ve always loved that tune.
Nothing to forgive, friend. That’s a great song.
Stepping Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2h-2HQdTn8
Bustin’ Out with Rick James (Bitch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMm0iAc-CFg
Steppin’ Out – Old Crow Medicine Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TCarYf20hM
If you’re going to use headphones, best to get a mixing board (cheap ones can be bought on ebay, just make sure it has the headphone port) and listen to that audio. You need real-time feed-back or you will stumble over any delay in audio feedback. Windows itself has a lag from the mic input. I sounded like a drunk the
fewtimes I messed up and didn’t switch the radio board to live mode vs listening to the on the air delay.Now I’m watching an old Dracula movie.
According to numerous talking heads, the Ukrainians are fighting for “freedom and liberty.” What do those words mean these days? They just get tossed out there because we Americans are conditioned to approve of them. The Ukrainians may be fighting to remain “independent” but I wonder if they are fighting for “freedom and liberty” given no history of
knowing and appreciating it.
They do realize Ukrainians are fighting on both sides, right?
Freedom isn’t a code word for white supremacy anymore?
*half remembers an earlier comment*
Let’s stir some shit, shall we?
*kinda, sorta defending Lackadaisical*
I find the idea of abusing an animal for self gratification absolutely abhorrent. That being said, the emotional disconnect between the wholesale slaughter of an unruly pet versus livestock is inherently silly. Just because one animal was bred for comfort an another for slaughter doesn’t mean one life is more valuable than the other.
“Fuck with my dog and I’ll kill you with no remorse.”
Okay. How about your cow, pig, sheep, goat, chicken, deer, elk, ect, ect?
The dog’s life is somehow more valuable because it provides you with a sense of emotional stability and companionship? Tough titty. You kill to live. We all do. Even the most militant vegan’s life is dependent upon the death of insects.
I’ll go one step farther. The only animal with rights is the human animal.
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not but I’m going to go ahead and dive in:
I’m an unapologetic speciesist. How you perceive the value of the life other species is mostly dependant upon your circumstances.
Because you have an irrational, religious, superstitious belief that there is something “special” about human life.
Here here.
There is also a world of difference between torturing an animal for sport versus killing it as cleanly as possible. This distinction being deliberately blurred above.
The point being: I have a hard time rationalizing the legal and moral difference between slaughtering a domesticated animal that you don’t own and livestock you don’t own. Fuck your feelings, what’s the actual difference?
I missed the earlier discussion
I have to think cattle ranchers would be pretty murderous about you killing any of their animals.
Probably true. And most likely due the monetary losses, not an emotional attachment.
My point being: I see a few people here talking about guiltlessly saying they’d end a human life because they hurt or killed a pet. As much as I hate people who hurt animals for pleasure I just can’t wrap my head around that.
Have you ever had a pet?
Let me refine my question: Have you ever had a pet you grew attached to?
You know those “who rescued who” stickers you sometimes see on cars? I used to scoff at those.
I don’t any more.
I have helped raise dozens of Manx cats and had an Australian Shepherd named Chester that I absolutely adored.
At the time being with him I probably would have killed a person attempting to hurt or kill how him. That doesn’t mean my response would be rational, much less justified.
“Chester is a sweet, innocent, good natured pup who greets me every day after school with a mouth full of whatever he could find available. A stick, pop can, half eaten shoe, anything. He was family.”
His reward was a good deal of ear scratches, treats, and belly rubs. Dogs are largely innocent, pure, unconditionally loving and loyal. They’re designed to be so. I get that.
I still think the life of a hardened criminal human is more important.
You seem to be able to wrap your head around it just fine. It’s not logical, it’s emotional.
‘You seem to be able to wrap your head around it just fine. It’s not logical, it’s emotional.’
There in lies the problem.
I guess two decades after his death I’ve grown detached from the sentiment.
I get it. Before I had dogs I felt as you do now.
I think libertarians ought to let a tish of emotion in from time to time. And yes, I know it’s a slippery slope, but it seems to me that dogs should rate closer to human than meat.
‘…it seems to me that dogs should rate closer to human than meat.’
That’s fair to say. My counter argument is, again, they were purposefully bred(for either practical use or companionship) to be perceived as such.
In the end, the domestic dog is property. No different than a herd animal meant to be killed for the use of food consumption. The intent of it’s existence is a distinction without a difference. Just my honest, cold-hearted opinion.
Nyooope.
Category Error.
“Value” by necessity, requires an evaluator. Pretending that an aspie set of criteria is superior to an emotive one is just applying personal irrational premises in a different way.
I think its PETA that said something like “A cow is a pig is a dog is a child”.
Given PETA’s actual shenanigans with animals, it’s fair to read that they want children taken away and slaughtered.
On one hand you are right; They are property and you should be able to deal with your property as you wish.
On the other hand: On the other hand there is an emotional bond. However, a painting that my grandmother created is a one-of-a-kind item that has value to me, alone.
On the lifting hand: Should “we” tell “you” how to behave?
Your miscalculation is that you can’t omit “feelings” from the equation.
Praise Folly!
Ahhahah! The trailer for the film referenced “The Last Emperor”! I took a date to see that flick and a chamber music concert the next day. She never called me back. What gives?
You were too high-falutin’ for her
I’d like to think so but seriously, maybe she didn’t like me much. It happens. She did meet my roommates. Curs and scoundrels, the lot of them.
She didn’t think you would be easy.
I fell into the “try hard” trap. She didn’t interest me, the idea of what I thought she was interested me. As if that makes any sense… She was attractive, red-headed and seemingly cultured. She probably just yearned for a rough ride. Live and learn.
You took her to a seventeen hour long movie and never tried to put a move on her, so she thought you were gay.
I took the night off because FYTW. Maybe the X-Rays have given me super powers. Pray that the CT scan won’t multiply my might! Super Saiyen! Yell LOUDER!
Did you have to identify as a cat to get all the procedures in a timely fashion?
No, just moped about like a proper grey colored NPC. More testing to come, this time with the machine that goes “Bing”!
The real fun test is the one where they electrocute you to measure nerve response.
You know how I can tell you are a man of character and refinement?
Also, I’m pretty sure your superpowers are stored in that cookie duster resting on your upper lip. Best not to shave it off.
Gonna grow back the Sam Elliot after 03/31!
This film is off to a promising start with some early nudity. I’m half expecting a pale imitation of Ripley or Vasquez to show up.
Here’s a joke. What do you call a masturbating bull?
Beef stroking off.
I had to get that out of my system now that we’re cancelling all things Russian.
I have a Russian sur name and am unvaxxed, I am the villain this world
needsdeserves.?
Da Comrade. Fear me. Or I’ll invade my neighbors land!
Looks like I’m not alone.
OH No now there are two of them!
Report to the camp.
Freedom Beef.
Beef Eagleoff
Raises a
Moscow Mulevodka and ginger ale.That’s not a Moscow Mule, however it was an important part of a wonderful song.
IYKWIMAIKYD
You know I’m a sucker for John Prine.
I’m gonna kiss that pretty girl
On the tilt-a-whirl
I’m not going to lie; when he succumbed to John Prine disease, I listened that song many, many times while drinking vodka and ginger ale, and shed a tear. I’m not saying I bawled my eyes out or anything, but one or five single manly tears may have rolled down my cheek.
And then I read the tweets by his wife and moved on with my life.
I was introduced to John Prine by Renae F., the kitchen wench, when I was a 15 year old dish dog at a YMCA summer camp in middle northern Minnesoda (not so far from Fourscore’s kingdom). I sported a god-damned glorious blond mullet, a few pairs of short, short, satin running shorts (I was a runner back then) and a few t-shirts (Nuke a godless, communist, gay, baby seal for Christ!) (Nixon…tan, ready, and rested!) I wore Minnetonka moccasins everywhere (including on the soccer field, the portage trail, in the kitchen). Hell, I even ran the horse trails in moccasins.
Those were the days, my friend…
She also introduced me to Jerry Jeff Walker and Jimmy Buffet.
Renae is still alive and still making her famous strawberry shortcake ( I topped ALL those fucking strawberries for her!)
Are you sure her name wasn’t Gertrude?
I wish I had a pencil thin Mustache
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAtLdphNx3E
10 speed
No need
My pickup gets me
where I need to be
I janked on Prine for a year or two. His songwriting skills are non-parreille.
Yup. An amazing talent. Par excellence.
One guy I have only scratched the surface on, and whom I wonder if he couldn’t be the next John Prine, is Hayes Carll.
Lower taxes
Reduce Government Spending
Privatize Social Security
*swoons*
Here’s a handy flowchart which indicates we should watch Ninja Terminator.
Battlebots tonight: Skorpios vs. Yeti, all-time classic fight. It was great
NERD!
*searches for torrent*
Is it really a ROBOT if you still have to control it? That seems like too much work. Weaponized RC Racers is what they are.
Well, since robot derives from robota, the Slavic word for slave, it seems like autonomy might not be a requisite feature.
The son has his VEX high school state competition on Saturday for a berth to Worlds (which is in Dallas so not quite as exciting as it could be) .
Please cross your fingers for his team, other robotics fans!
Good luck!!!
The woke managed to decimate our elementary season. Most of our competitions ended up being virtual, and with advisors being COVID averse, getting enough club time to build a competent team and robot has been challenging.
Basically we are starting from scratch after COVID scared everybody off for 2 years. Finding faculty advisors has been tough, and parents have not been allowed to help for 2 years, so the volunteer spirit momentum has been broken.
RJ – not sure if you’ve seen Roddy’s last film appearance: “Portal to Hell”. Crowdfunded this very fun one about 10 years ago and got a cool crew t-shirt out of it. Lovecraft vs handyman action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE3HUCId4ZI – not sure about video quality on this upload, but I’ve got an HQ version sitting around somewhere.
Another side article – a perspective I hadn’t considered in much detail other than offhand:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/the-scandalous-silence-of-moscows-patriarch/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=hero&utm_content=related&utm_term=fourth
Nobody knows what the fuck is going on anymore. Deep-fakes, hoaxes, calumnies abound. Everybody seems like an asshole acting in bad faith. Half of the populace up here believe that the truckers were nazis. It’s that ingrained. I don’t believe a single word coming from that Ukraine situation. My trust has been lost forever.
Re – the dude in the body bag getting up to go pee. Somber talking heads will be the end of us.
That pretty much sums up my thinking.
Read the article I linked to above. One of the things it talks about is the link between the Russian church and government. And that this is something that was separated at the end of the Holy Roman Empire.
Churches and states have always meddled with each other.
Another another perspective, there was recently a modern day schism of the orthodox church in Ukraine over politics and not ecclesiastic thought.
And pretty much anything commie pope is for I’m agin.
Yeah, sort of mentioned above
As if something granted in the 1500s was the same state of affairs today. Note also that the writer is in the Constantinople affiliated orthodox church.
Then there’s always the UGCC (hi eddy!).
The writer says he’s in the Ukrainian orthodox church – think that and the Russian one are still discrete from original Eastern Orthodox.
Alright. Off to the land of Nod. Gotta get many Zees before the next scan. Festus loves you all and wishes that you will find happiness. Even you, The Hyperbole.
Prediction: Russia will get a written promise that Ukraine won’t be part of NATO, they’ll pull out of Ukraine and TPTB will hammer out an agreement over what type of weapons are allowed and how many troops are allowed on the border. The Donbass will retain some degree of autonomy from Kiev. IOW, Putin will basically get everything he wanted and the West will spin this as a great win for ?? waving Twitter users and, more importantly, Joe Biden. Just my guess and not exactly what I’d like, but calling it as I see it going.
Probably his original plan. I do wonder if Zs stiff resistance is show or real though. Everyone saves face and they only needed to sacrifice a handful of soldiers and civilians.
On the other hand, it really seems like the US or CIA really wanted this to happen and gives us a proxy war against someone with 21st century equipment and to see what the capabilities were. Though from all looks, Putin has just thrown cold war relics into the fight.
I think Russia will absorb the two republics but other than that you’re dead on for the most part.
There’s an excellent book called “Rise and Kill First” about how the modern nation of Israel undertook missions, some public but mostly covert, to found and defend their nation.
It is a great read from just about any perspective, but I was really intrigued by the now retired guys who freely admit that they got cocky and overreached at times, especially in the 1960s. A heck of a lot like our CIA at that time. Arrogance, power tripping.
I think Putin is mentally in that place now. He’s had a few “successes” assassinating reporters, rivals, etc. He took Crimea and bits of Georgia with no effort. He got cocky, just like the Mossad and the CIA, which led those orgs to get arrogant and then screw up.
Now that Putin’s realizing he bit off more than he can chew in Ukraine, things will get ugly. He knows that if he is deposed within Russia, he’s as good as dead. He’s backed into a corner.
What form his desperation will take is anyone’s guess.
That has been my problem with all of this.
No one has offered a roadmap for him to “stop gracefully”. All of a sudden all of this “every Russian thing is evil”.
The Russian people may flock to him. OR
He may feel that he has nothing left to loose and drop a big bomb or two in his de-nazification.
The world continues to go mad.
We all desperately need an off-ramp for Russia. If you ascribe to the madman theory, that’s even more true.
*grumble*
I really don’t want to be out of bed yet, but I have to get ready and drive to work.
The most exciting part of it all is that I have brand new shirts (It’s been about four years since I bought any and wear is starting to show on some)
So I’m not all that thrilled, if it wasn’t obvious. How’s everyone else this morning?
Get outta that fuckin bed!!
*bangs metal spoon on pot*
New socks are more personally rewarding than new shirts.
Morning UCS.
I have plenty of perfectly good socks. My biggest problem is that I all too often get a mismatched pair where there’s one good and one worn sock. Every time it’s “I gotta sort these out some time.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/american-truckers-update-merging-six-groups-peoples-convoy-10000-vehicles-strong-70-miles-long-videos/
*yawn*
Really? Not a peep on the news…
Covid is over people. Too little, too late.
They just want a good road trip.
Oh, that reminds me. I’m still trying to decide on how to use my vacation time for the coming year.
Yeah, would have made more sense a year ago.
Maybe it’s just like the Sturgis rally but for for trucks now?
Honk for
freedomtits.https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/russian-forces-seize-key-ukrainian-seaport-pressure-others/
Nuclear plant fires. ?
Yay.
Not ideal at all but those look more like flares falling than shells.
https://news.yahoo.com/suv-crashes-northern-california-preschool-042143312.html
“The driver of the vehicle is an Anderson resident who was evaluated by police drug experts shortly after the crash. She was found not to be impaired.”
Umm…test again. She ran into a building.
I know nothing about the story but just wanted to point out that driving tired can be worse than driving drunk, and you test clean. Just sayin’.
Good morning!
Great, remind me of that just as I have to get on the road. Thanks, man.
Anyway, I’m headed into the office. I’ll check back in once I’m there.
Godspeed, UCS.
So true, I got off the night shift years ago and woke up skidding sideways through a field. Only luck kept me from killing someone else or myself. But for the grace of God there go I and whatnot.
Not only that but people panic and swear they pushed the brake when in reality they were pushing the accelerator.
What do you think the likelihood of that happening is? He seems like he’s really isolating himself.
You don’t succeed at tyranting for decades without a solid exit plan.
Well, if the past hundred years are anything to go by, that exist plan often seems to be either dying in office or getting cornered in a bunker (or other generic hole in the ground).
Oh, you mean from this war in particular, not from tyranting.
Do we really have any clue what’s going on in the Kremlin?
I doubt it.
No, don’t believe anything coming from any side either good news or bad or neutral news. It’s propaganda all the way down.
The propaganda efforts in this war have succeeded – There’s so many lies flying around that I have no clue what is going on. Usually I can sniff out the base facts, but not this time.
How long should it take a regional power to seize control of a dozen major cities? We’re at Day 4 of the actual invasion. The infrastructure in these cities is being methodically destroyed. Ukraine won’t release their military causalities.
Has Putin bitten off more than he can chew or is this just the pace of war for nations other than the US? I’m more inclined towards the latter, but we’ll see.
Didn’t it take us three weeks to take Baghdad? The idea that a military operation can be declared a failure in progress after a week of what appears to be slow (maybe by design though, then again maybe not) progress is just incorrect.
I mean if you can’t take the whole of the Ukraine in the time it took the US to take Grenada, it’s clearly a military fiasco.
And there were lots of media reports about how awfully slow the attack was for Baghdad.
So what you’re saying is that the media doesn’t have a clue when it comes to military operations?
I’m not sure media has a clue about anything.
One dynamic in play is the third-party intervention factor. Right now, the west is only intervening through words and economic sanctions. If Russia moves too fast, NATO will likely deploy troops.
I’m getting concerned that the usual suspects are going to continue to put votes up in the UN in order to force continual Russia vetoes in an effort to build a case for intervention.
On the positive side, the White House declined to block Russian oil imports yesterday. Maybe they’ve reached what they think is the limit.
But what I definitely did not miss from the Cold War years was the constant threat of miscalculation and error leading to a global disaster.
Good morning, limey, Stinky, U (en route), and Sean!
I have to go get my mammogram on my way to work this morning. ? If it’s like past ones, it won’t be too painful or traumatic. I just have to leave a little early to remind myself how to find that area of the hospital where they’re done.
Good Luck GT.
Thanks, ‘bodru!
Do they intentionally make hospitals maze-like, or is it because every one has slowly grown expansion by expansion until they make no sense whatsoever.
I suspect expansion. I had a friend in college who was an architecture major. I ran into him not too long after graduation, and he said he’d gotten a job with a firm that spent so much time working on Dayton’s big downtown hospital’s constant expansion, they had a permanent office onsite.
I remember remarking to my sister, who largely eschews wearing a bra, “if they do find a lump, double check since it just may be your knee”.
So after you said that, did you almost immediately find a “lump” in your testicles?
Im not that stupid. It was during a phone call.
Finally finished the “eCheck-In,” which I didn’t know was going to be so…involved. Had to take pics of my insurance card, email them from phone to laptop, then upload to online check-in site. Then answer all the questions.
They better not ask me all those questions again when I arrive. ?
Don’t worry, they will.
Can confirm. Nothing beats spending 15 minutes filling out forms online only to provide the identical information on paper when you arrive at the office.
My experience has been other wise, once pre-checked-in I only had to show them ID but no filling out forms.
I offered to perform a “pre-exam” for free ya know…
Good luck with that, GT!
Thanks, ‘patzie!
Off I go!
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
TALL CANS!
I was out of my preferred caffiene at home, and the store was out of my preferred caffiene, so I had to go with my backup caffiene, and I’m displeased.
At least the forecast says it’s supposed to be above freezing for the next couple of days.
What ilk of caffeine is your primary/reserve ?
My primary is Diet Mountain Dew. I was forced instead to be less white and buy Diet Coke.
Any port in a storm.
More Sandahl Bergman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH4VjhMJQys
Just wait till they turn it loose on Twitter or Facebook. The 1st AI to commit suicide.
AI model detects mental disorders based on web posts
In other news, every single Reddit user has now been registered for mandatory psychiatric treatment.
That would be the best possible outcome.
Dont you ruin my /r/gonewild and the free titty pics
The best thing that Warty has ever done was expose me to u/gingerpuss
Noted.
Well, once Jugsy leaves for work.
They test it against sugarfree?
Excellent, now they can diagnose you and dispatch a team of mental health professionals to your home based on what IP address you’re posting from. Looks like a fun future.
CNN and MSNBC have no comment.
“Minority Report” was not fiction.
To be fair, I think the handful of times Ive spent in Buffalo I was plastered, too.
‘Drunk’ pilot removed from airplane in Buffalo with BAC twice the legal limit
That pilot was flying high!
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I actually like the video a lot.
Nice!
I hate Hurry Up and Wait. But it is the only project management methodology that the State does reliably.