They’re certainly not as entertaining as Twitter…
“And that’s enough to cause cognitive dissonance in most normal investing minds.”
Microsoft, don’t you toy with my emotions like this.
“It’s clear to me what’s going on here: Your neighbor is running a meth lab out of her house.”
Replayed this game again last weekend, and I’ve had this stuck in my head since.
That Jeff Jarvis tweet is the least self-aware statement in recent memory.
It’s always Hitler. Always.
Yes it is. It’s also a tipoff the speaker does not have an argument.
Subjecting people to free speech is literally fascism.
Only Nazis would do it.
Posting early. Neph is Viva-ing Las Vegas, so I’m hosting zoom tonight. Starting at 8pm Eastern
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85236082553?pwd=M2p3UlhyNTVMRWNsMTM0Y1l2a3hXQT09
Did you get my what are we reading submission?
Attach a file, but maybe it should be a separate post?
I debated that…
But it’s only 1850 words.
Finally, a not dead thread!
I can’t wait for the concern trolling from neverTrumper “conservatives about how we shouldn’t fall into the trap of being exactly what the progressives accuse us of being; namely, free speech Nazi troll farm bots.
“Jarvis is but one voice in a rising chorus of lamentation and outrage over the prospect of Twitter getting a makeover by Musk.”
When so many of these ‘journalists’ went to universities to learn about ‘journalism’, how is it that they instead only learned about Marxist propaganda?
Everyone and I mean every fucking one, should read this book: Radical Son
You should have figured it out already after that.
Public health measures adopted by schools during the pandemic
Argument by assertion.
DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
(better late than never edition)
#82
Champ(s)
Scruffy Nerfherder 19
The Hyperbole 19
l0b0t 20
MikeS 20
Not Adahn 21
one true athena 21
trshmnstr the terrible 21
whiz 22
grrizzly 22
Sean 23
Ted S.23
Translucent Chum 23
Grumbletarian 25
JG43 25
kinnath 25
rhywun 25
Dr, Fronkensteen 26
Ozymandias 26
db 28
Chump(s)
SDF-7 114
Raven Nation 115
Grummun 116
Ghostpatzer 117
Name’s BEAM, James BEAM 123
TARDis 124
Double Chump(s)
Tundra 212
Scruffy and yours truly top the list today, which makes missing that coin flip between two possible words on my last guess hurt even more. Tundra got his 22 but decided to but a 1 in there for good measure. In the spirit of equality and fairness I have eliminated the women’s and men’s divisions, hence forth we shall all be judged by the quality of out quordling alone.
Also, I noticed that I didn’t post my results in the morning thread so at the cost of exposing my secret starting words here is my *SPOILER WARNING actual game *SPOILER WARNING*
PATRIARCHY WINS AGAIN!
You got that right, Minerva.
sigh
At least you beat the girl.
Yes, there is that.
“Help! My Neighbor Friend of a Decade Won’t Let Me Inside Her House.”
I’m a take a wild guesss. You’re a cunte, Karen?
“The battle for Missoula’s school board”
I told y’all to build a fucking wall around Cali and you didn’t listen…
Despite the nonpartisan nature of school board races, various candidates interviewed by Montana Free Press in Missoula County agree that in 2022, two distinct camps have emerged along partisan lines: One inspired by the same concerns driving Montana’s nascent parental rights movement, and the other voicing a desire to depoliticize education and resist what it perceives as a regressive social agenda.
The process can only be depoliticized by driving anybody who doesn’t agree with us out of the school system.
And you can fuck right off.
Despite the nonpartisan nature of school board races
BSOD
Reboot/Infinite Repeat
does.not.compute
Try dividing by zero, assholes.
Yeeaaaahhhh, no. School board races are about the most political thing going. Especially these days.
Depoliticize = doing what the current board says.
This probably should have been posted in the comments to one of Mexican Sharpshooter’s posts.
LOL
Maybe so.
At least Deutsch allows the its.
Das Kleid steht meinem Mann gut.
Das Weib steht auch seinem Mann gut.
Just like:
Das Auto steht auch seinem Mann gut.
I’ll take the Mercedes.
Yes, but that’s not good enough. The woke crowd has come up with several abominations to express how woke they are.
So, the its didn’t get the tits?
Dammit. Met a gorgeous girl last night. Got her to get my contact and wanted her to message me but she didn’t. Meh. Take the losses as well as the wins. I got a great pick-up conversation from it. I’ll take that.
It’s almost 8am Sunday here and I woke up like an hour ago after a long day of partying last night.
Anyone around?
Wash your hands.
I just woke up, darling. I have *cough* many things to do before I get in the shower.
*Vulcan salute*
We are.
Well, that happens, but no reason to assume this yet: Shot Down in Flames
Aren’t you supposed to be out of the country soon anyway?
I can leave May 10th. Until then, um. Side projects. Some of them productive!
Went to a show at maybe the best ex-pat bar last night. I opened for the band like 8 years ago. They let me play drums live as a sound-check open, and the guitarist riffed with me along with it. Kinda felt bad that I was drumming before the actual, Korean, drummer (who was quiet because of English), but it was my first time playing live for 3 or so years. Still got it. Was great to get back on the stage, even if only for 3-5 minutes.
What can I say. Through music and ESL teaching, I am a professional performer. Just a personality type. Takes all kinds. I love reading the audience.
Where are you at in SK? I just have one South Korean at this time that I’m closely working with on a project, we worked together this entire week, he’s from Seoul and the craziest motherfucker I know, lol. I was going to SK with him and then the pandmnic shit happened.
Daejeon for ~7 years. Lived here off-on (Singapore and Thailand as well over the past 12 years.)
I see. I’m really used to the Koreans since my very first best friend in elementary school and all the way through high school was Korean. But I stil cannot understand why they are so confused about American humor/sarcasm. Even my wife who is also a foreign national doesn’t get it after us living togehter more than 10 years. Do people you talk to there get confused when you use sarcasm as a joke?
The girl I flirted with last night besides (*swoon*), I generally don’t speak to Koreans outside of work. (Her English was fantastic and she was gorgeous.) I can read, no problem. Directions, food, niceties, NUMBERS, fine. But I cannot have an actual conversation in Korean. In English, most Koreans (pretty much all of them that haven’t lived abroad) don’t know enough for me to even try to tell linguistic jokes to. Simple reactions and miming is the easiest way to get laughs. The fact that I can say my basic Korean (I don’t speak it) is enough for, especially older folk, to get a huge satisfactory laugh.
The idea of telling a sarcastic joke is no-go. Way too much complexity for ~99% of Koreans to understand. The 3 ex-pat bars in Daejeon are an example of living here. We’re all exhausted by changing our speech through ESL teaching. Changing our speed, vocabulary, and our pronunciation are our daily lives. A place to get some drinks, watch a game, and just speak ‘normally’ is something we all seek out. I can’t fathom telling a sarcastic joke to a Korean.
Just tell them all BTS sucks.
BTS is terrible. Red Velvet and Twice, however…(I actually really do like a couple of each’s songs)…I have made intimate love with several of them. Mina….*cough* I might need to get lotion and a tissue….
To me, so much of K-Pop (or K-Crap, as I like to call it) is interchangeable cookie cutter girl groups, or young men with so much stage makeup they look almost androgynous, putting on phony tough-guy hip-hop attitudes.
BTS = Bind Torture Sing
My Korean co-worker has lived here since he was in high school and he’s in his 40s. He still does not get jokes that are using sarcasm. My wife still does not get it. I don’t understand why it is so hard, but it apparently is.
I’ll correct what I said here a bit, my wife does really underand it, but she does not like it or think it is funny.
I assume it comes from the indirectness of the use of language. Cultural or linguistic, I don’t know. Probably both. The trick with telling jokes here, as a non-Korean speaker to people with an -ish understanding of English, is how you act it out. Charlie Chaplin your way through humor. Facial expressions, gestures, non-verbal sounds and the like. It works because of the performance rather than an understanding of the actual verbal joke. Sad/shocked eyes and face lets them know where the joke is supposed to go. It’s about making fun of yourself, self-depreciation.
That’s where the joke comes from for them, not the witty use of language. I love language and I’ve actively thought about trying to be a stand-up comedian. It’s something I’ll probably pursue in the States soon. I can ad-lib a Tight Five, but I’ve got plenty of experience to write it out and perform it.
Dry wit and wordplay are the core of my comedic repertoire. I’m not very expresssive.
I’m doomed.
@Uncivil: “I’m not very expressive.”
Understood. I’m an odd person. Were I a “Paladin, Mage, Warrior,etc,” in the actual world, I’m an odd mix. I’m an Explorer for sure. If I were a warrior, which I’m not, you’d want me behind enemy lines as a Spy. I am also fundamentally a Performer. Being a drummer in about 7 bands and an ESL teacher for (sometimes VERY) young kids in multiple continents, performance is just a part of who I am. If the kids don’t understand the language, you still need them to pay attention. Charlie Chaplin-ing your way through it ensures that their eyes are on you. They are at least paying attention and can hear a native English speaker, who is purposefully changing vocabulary to make it make sense, depending on the age/ability of the class.
With kids this year, I’d play blackjack (for the elementary ones) and poker for the middle school ones. They got candy for “money,” and they’d lose it if they spoke Korean. They, and I, got to have fun, and it ensured that they would be actively interested in hearing my voice and paying attention to it. I learned a lot from the kids by how they reacted to the games. They all loved it. It was the most fun they had during their shitty school lives, and they were learning despite not knowing that they were. I think that was a brilliant idea. I’m proud of that.
Facial expressions and gesticulations were a core of my jokes in class. In English with my peers, it’s added with wordplay and philosophical/political/historical/personal matters. But don’t at all feel bad! It takes all sorts. Steven Wright is hilarious and has a completely different, dry style, than Robin Williams, who was over-the-top ALL THE TIME. Both were brilliant. Individuality. That’s a theme that all of us here can agree upon.
It seemed to me that sarcasm is much more uncommon in Brazil than the US. If you really want sarcasm outside the US the U.K. and Ireland are the places that heavily use it. The Aussies and the Kiwis appreciate it as well.
I’m sure it comes from the UK, it is almost non-existant in Brazil. I know some Brazilians that use it, but they all have lived in the US or Canada when they were younger and are multi-lingual.
I’ve mentioned before, I can’t explain sarcasm to my Japanese friends, but my Chinese friends immediately picked it up.
My impression is that the Japanese use sarcasm but don’t consider call it that, because it implies mocking and that’s impolite. They still use “Wow, that’s interesting.” when they’re bored with the discussion, because straight up telling you that they’re bored is also impolite.
It’s a confusing distinction.
Chinese definitely get the mocking aspect.
Scruffy, I think that’s on point.
Japanese get the exaggeration, but not the degree of humor or disrespect or both.
That would imply that sarcasm is directly linked to the English language. I have ZERO idea if that is true. It may be, but I doubt it. That would imply that it’s a cultural form of humor. I’m sure Vietnamese/Thai/etc can use language in such a manner. I have no idea, as I can’t speak those, nor did I grow up there. It must be a cultural difference, as every human, at core, is a human. Same-same. We all make fun of things, as they need to be made fun of.
My hypothesis: Every culture, though not ever person, uses sarcasm, but it is near-impossible to pick out the “joke” for people between languages. There’s too much literalism to deal with, filtered through the wordplay and irony.
Vietnamese uses the same alphabet as English, unlike Korean, but I don’t really think that is the issue. I don’t really get it, but to me, sarcasm in American form seems to be an exclusive of speakers of English.
I don’t think sarcasm is directly linked to the Anglophone cultures, as it probably exists to some degree in all human cultures, but is used for different means and not necessarily humorous ones. I know the Dutch use it a lot for humor and think the French definitely have a fair bit of funny sarcasm as well.
The ribs were delicious. I’m stuffed.
You know what would go good after some ribs? Some peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips in them. If only you had baked some like that.
Well, better get off your ass and start baking them yourself.
Tonight I’ll be making a French recipe for tenderloin. Simple, but always a winner. Bordeaux for the wine and then planning on ganache and port for dessert. But since it is only 3pm I have some time to wait.
How did they come out?
Very good. You can easily substitute elk/venison/moose backstrap and have a feast. I was inspired by your dinner report.
Testing my new avatar. It’s a photo of the message I wrote on the lid for SP.
Looks good! Nice handwriting.
I like it.
“It’s clear to me what’s going on here: Your neighbor is running a meth lab out of her house.”
Heh.
Come on, loper, you know your neighbors are bad and you have to report them to the autorities, who of course are all good and saintly.
I’m a drink all this hipster juice, and that will be a good nite warriors.
Massholes who file with TurboTax and trade securities are fucked. Too bad I’m one of them.
Plebs shouldn’t be able to sell short..
They still have two days and change to fix it!
I am most entertained. Twatter’s poison pill tactic is gong to fail. You think Musk did not see that coming? LOL. They have met their match. Musk will either engage in a bidding war that they they wil lose, or he wil short sell his 9% stock. Either way, the current board is fucked, anyone see this another way? Or he starts his own social media company and I don’t see any way he loses in that battle.
Starting his own social media company would be “losing”. Just ask Donald.
Well, Elon is not Trump. Unlike Trump, Elon is very intelligent and knows now to pick the correct people for the job. They are very, very, very underestimating this guy because they think they wll take him down like they did Trump.
Pride precedes the fall, they are going down, hard.
“A mysterious leaden sarcophagus discovered in the bowels of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral after it was devastated by a fire will soon be opened and its secrets revealed, French archaeologists said Thursday….
“Scientists have already peeked into the sarcophagus using an endoscopic camera, revealing the upper part of a skeleton, a pillow of leaves, fabric and as-yet unidentified objects….
“Forensic experts and scientists will then open the sarcophagus and study its contents, to identify the skeleton’s gender and former state of health, lead archaeologist Christophe Besnier said, adding that carbon dating technology could be used.”
https://news.yahoo.com/mystery-sarcophagus-found-notre-dame-155526472.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Much good its “former state of health” did it! Now it’s coffin is being desecrated.
I find it hard to believe the there aren’t records of who is buried in a sarcophagus under a cathedral.
This is how we get the zombie apocalypse .
Are they going to assume the skeleton’s gender?
All they have to do is look at its feet.
“The One Way History Shows Trump’s Personality Cult Will End
“An expert on autocracy assesses how far America has slipped away from democracy, and what it will take to get it back….
‘“He’s changed the [Republican] party to an authoritarian party culture,” she told me. “So not only do you go after external enemies, but you go after internal enemies. You’re not allowed to have any dissent.”…
‘…[Q] What would you say to those in this country who say, “No, the Republicans aren’t the autocrats. It’s the Democrats who are the autocrats. It’s Joe Biden. It’s other Democrats with power who are making us wear masks or take vaccines we don’t want to take. They’re the ones who are behaving more in autocratic ways, not the Republicans.”
‘…[A] One of the big talking points and strategy of right-wing authoritarianism, is to label democratic systems as tyrannical. Mussolini was the first to say that democracies are tyrannical…’
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/16/history-shows-trump-personality-cult-end-00024941
The projection is strong here….
I don’t remember voting for masks or jabs.
It’s amazing these people can even feed themselves.
If 51% vote to put a bullet in your head it’s all good.
Natural rights be damned.
Voting and counting are different
Democracy is tyrannical by definition. It’s the tyranny of the mob.
No, asshole. The tyranny of the majority was being talked about long before Mussolini’s pompous ass strutted around Rome.
You mean like when our founders decided we need a Republic and not a Democracy?
In order to save the country, we must destroy the country.
oh that “expert”. I can’t recall any specifics, but I know I’ve read scorching bad takes from her on twitter. I think Malice took her to the cleaners once.
I’m not surprised, of course, but it’s a shame Kruse doesn’t manage to pin her down on the autocracy of the mandates. He just lets her avoid the question with “well it’s just their strategy to say that”.
Canadian wokeness set back by reactionary union clinging to outdated labor contract – “when I forwarded [the vice-dean’s] e-mail to a union representative and explicitly asserted my right to academic freedom under the collective agreement, he backed off immediately.”
https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/how-ideological-coups-happen?s=w
All windows and doors opened all day, 73 F, I feel like like it is a little chilly in here, but wifey says she’s not cold, so I’m not doing anything except continue swilling hipster juice…
Man, it was 80 degrees and I was sitting outside with the Tall Thin Spaniard what Lurks, then in one hour it dropped to 58 degrees with high wind. Dammit! Cigars and drinks blowing everywhere.
So……..
I purchased this game:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON_(video_game)
Graphics are mostly perfect.
I’ve been trying to figure out how badly this Ukrainian-Russian war could go, and who has what forces available. For $10, i am happy with this game, and will explore more.
But does anybody have any more recommendations/simulations/games?
I used https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/#
Please don’t say fallout 4.
🙂
Hmm, interesting if you are a strategy fan…
And in todays snark…
Prince Harry volunteers for Ukraine.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10724937/Prince-Harry-calls-world-Ukraine-Meghan-exclaims-Slava-Ukraini.html
What? He is not going?
Never mind.
Really? Can we get some video of him on the front lines?
I thought those cunts lost their titles? I’m really disappointed in The Daily Mail here.
Apparently the Brits and the Canucks, and retarded American luddites (a majority) love them some royalty.
I’ve never understood Americans who go ballistic over Brit royalty. Not my monkeys, not my circus.
I have a bit of begrudging respect for Harry (or did before he married that idiot). He was saw combat in Afghanistan.
It’s sort of like McCartney and Lennon. If you really want to be pussy whipped by a woman, can you at least choose a woman who is hot enough to be a dominatrix, you fucking losers.
And outside of the bedroom that is still a no go. WTF is wrong with hese clowns?
I respect their going off the UK taxpayer teats. Still, the phonies, however. “Paying Tribute to the Ukrainian Team.” Other than some words, what “tribute” was “paid?”
I wonder how many of attendants are even the slightest bit aware of Ukrainian history between say 2014 and 2022.
I know enough that I am not willing to go to war with Rusia.
Not only no, but hell fucking no.
I’m not a big fan of pork chops, but aside from a small kitchen fire, tonight’s chops were spot on. Sous vide FTW.
I like the butterfly pork loins those are good.
The fire proves you were trying really hard.
The secret spice mix for pork chops is celery salt, black pepper, paprika and thyme. Makes a damn good chop.
I’m not a big fan of pork chops
these words make no sense.
I’m with trashy.
Though to be fair, I haven’t eaten one since I was little and nobody knew how to cook in the 70s.
?
I remember my mom making them in an electric frying pan smothered in cream of mushroom soup. Not fancy, but delicious.
My mom used to make various meals in an electric frying pan using cream of mushroom soup. Now I’m hungry and sad.
Me too, buddy. Me too.
Pork tenderloin medallions, flash-grilled then simmered in thickened mushroom soup until tender, then served in a brioche bun with extra fried mushrooms and Swiss cheese.
I’m getting a food chubby.
Ah! That brings up more memories. I think that’s what Mom did; fry them quick, and then dump in the soup and turn down the heat.
Another dish she made in that thing involved fried chicken with canned peaches. That was really good, too.
Dude, reacquaint yourself with the other white meat. Get a good quality chop, pat dry with paper towel on a plate and generously coat with that spice mixture while you heat a high smoke point oil on the stovetop with close to high heat. Just when the oil sizzles well when a drop of water is added, lay down the chop and cook it on one side without moving the chop. 3 minutes and then flip and 2.5-3 minutes. One final sprinkle of finishing salt and voila. Serve with rosemary roasted potatoes and lightly steamed greens and garlic. Fucking delicious.
My mom over cooked pork chops. Every. Single. Time.
As an adult, I’ve figured out pork chops can be juicy and delicious.
I’m a fan.
Oh, here’s a cute story:
“Edmonton [Canada] police Const[able] Ryan Katchur didn’t want vision loss to hold children back from a good old-fashioned Easter egg hunt, so he called in the bomb unit to add a twist to a time-honoured tradition.
“Two worlds collided, and the children — well, they had a blast.
“The sound of about 100 beeping eggs rang out of Emily Murphy Park Saturday afternoon where more than a dozen youths combed the grounds — marked off with police tape — for audible eggs designed just for them….
“While the collaboration is a novel one for Edmonton, Katchur said the idea came from a similar effort in the U.S. called The Rachel Project.
“According to the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI), a member named David Hyche created a similarly accessible Easter egg hunt in Birmingham, Ala., in 2005 for his daughter Rachel, a two-year-old living with blindness.
“The IABTI said Hyche sought help from the local bomb squad and other police organizations to construct the audible eggs used in the hunt.
““Bomb technicians are always working with wires, simple circuits and the like, so it was kind of a natural thing for them to put together a simple circuit for the beeping eggs,” Katchur said.”
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/edmonton-police-bomb-unit-crafts-beeping-eggs-for-accessible-easter-hunt/ar-AAWiaxS
Like Beep Baseball!
https://www.abilitymagazine.com/manheim_baseball.html
That’s great.
Though to be fair, I haven’t eaten one since I was little and nobody knew how to cook in the 70s.
People thought you had to cook every bit of moisture out of pork, or you’d die. That’s what the applesauce was for.
Pretty much. You should have seen my first few attempts at bacon when I started adulting. Hell, hamburgers and steaks too. And chicken.
I still overcook fish. Every. Damn. Time.
Stop eating fish.
Don’t be dumb.
You can chose to not eat fish, I can’t chose not to be dumb. These things are not the same.
Fish is good. You are not.
#metoo
It’s a Cracker night
Shut your mouth. Shut your mouth.
Groovy tune and fun video
In that first video, it’s as if even their drugs were taking drugs.
Sold my plasma in Amsterdam
Baby, it ain’t gonna suck itself
Cracker is no Cake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMvOkSwiFCA
Correct. Because Cracker is better.
Not to say that Cake isn’t good:
Shut the Fuck. Up.
To resist it is useless; It is useless to resist it.
I put Cracker in the same file as Camper Van Beethoven.
The circular file. Can’t stand either of them.
Sounds like you can’t stand David Lowery.
De gustibus non est disputandum
I prefer CvB
Screw you guys, I’m going home.
Whatever, fatass.
He’s just big-boned.
In this classic Easter hymn, Jesus gets some advice from his Mother, and conveys this advice to the devil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgLEj0LBRZo
And in this hymn, Jesus says he’s going to deal with high-ranking corrupt clerics.
(They misspelled “bishop”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl7VfKYbRjg
It’s been years, but every so often I get the urge to suck on a fag.
Come on baby won’t you feel alright?
inorite
Townes
His name is Codeine, and he’s the nicest thing I’ve seen
I’m going out on the highway
Holy crap! 40th anniversary of GI Joe Real American Hero.
Huh. The more you know.
Prime Prine
I could use some help here, with a can of Pork n’ Beans.
The windows feel no pane.
How I miss you in the morning light,Like roses miss the dew
Email sig seen on a open source project list
I want off this world.
iel/ielle??
Cool. Can you do a 50/50 driving split, or do we need to add a third?
Cuz I am with you in principle.
Ii want out but I don’t want my loved ones to suffer from any sudden departure:
Use #PronounsAreRacist
Then refer to yourself in the third person just like Jimmy from Seinfeld.
Got to bamboozle then.
What about this Jimmy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqy86Pmk6DM
Happy Easter!
???⛪
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL RESURRECTION CANS !
One year, I themed my GF’s Easter basket on zombies, as is appropriate. Yes, we exchange baskets. Still.
Y’all MFR’s need Jesus. Good thing he is risen.
Happy Easter.
Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. You know who you are.
Let’s kick this shit off.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fyz-bOqmwIo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Yrhv33Zb8
Why not? ?
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/15-year-old-killed-trying-to-buy-cell-phone-in-long-beach/
That’s just sad.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/210000-illegal-aliens-arrested-at-border-in-march-more-than-80000-released-into-country
I don’t have sufficient words to express my feelings about this.
Que se la pique un pollo
My street Spanish is a little rough but it roughly translates to:
“I hope a chicken pecks at their dick.”
So the double-pecker ?
*paging Winston’s mom*
Run with the scare headlines, MSNBC.
Portable nuclear device missing from stolen vehicle in Pennsylvania
This happens all the damn time. When I was the RSO for the steel mill I worked for, we had radiographers on-site to check welds on a pipeline that was being installed. They left for the day with their camera in a locked box, chained and locked to a tree behind the plant. They went home and got good and drunk then the next morning couldnt find it. I fired them on the spot.
They stole a smoke detector?
Its a soil density gauge based on the photo. They use an americium/beryllium source.