Death to the sidebar!
Ah, joy. Monday again. Lots of minor tasks have piled up. The Links is certainly not a minor one, however! So here are some very important links. For you. Now.
- Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
- Um…wut?
- OK, I got nothing on this one.
- Wait…I thought everyone hated us and wasn’t coming here?
Music. 1st or second best of their songs.
Comment section belongs to you.
They’re only coming here so they can leave in protest.
Volcano Day?
Not up on the sides of Skullcrusher Mountain?
About 50-55 years ago I was doing some stuff at Sigonella for the navy. My assistant and I took a 1/2 day off to visit Etna, we climbed up the side of it, not very far, stole a bag of rocks. When we left at night by plane we flew right over Etna with the pilot reminding us to look out the window. Etna was very quiet at that time.
I’m guessing my ex threw the rocks away.
I mixed up Etna and Visuvius for a moment and worried about Lt Cmdr Fish.
Wrong volcano.
🙇♂️
It is looking to sneak onto a FedEx plane in Memphis to make it to a Zebra Crossing in England?
Meh… I know you planned it, Swiss.
I think Swiss might be Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun after making a statement like that.
Obviously Trump’s fault for pulling out of the Paris Accords.
Ya don’t wanna pull out of Paris. Otherwise, ya lose the chance to seed her cloud.
Paris was a dude, dude.
“Paris was a dude, dude.”
…then way pull out at all?
*Why.
Dammit. I weigh my whys with whey I’ve stolen from wary and whingy WINOs.
Pretty easy to deadname pretty much all of Eastern Europe. I wonder how they feel ’bout that.
Can you use Hilton points for free nights?
Light at the end of the tunnel
Some military commentators and pro-Russian bloggers have called it the country’s “Pearl Harbor” — a reference to Japanese attack in 1941 that saw the United States enter World War II.
It came Sunday, a day before the latest round of direct peace talks between Ukraine and Russia on Monday.
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A far more likely outcome of Sunday’s strike is Russia continuing to bomb Ukrainian civilians — this time under the pretext of retaliation, “even though in reality these strikes are planned long in advance,” said Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow with the London-based think-tank Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia program.
Less hard to quantify will be the huge blow to Vladimir Putin’s pride, with Western analysts in agreement that this was a humiliation for the Russian president.
“At a time when Putin seems to think that he is winning on the battlefield, this demonstrates that his forces are in fact very vulnerable,” said Sven Biscop, a director at the Egmont Institute, a think tank in Brussels. “This may not change the course of the war, but it does mean that every gain Russia makes will be at high cost.”
He added it was “quite amazing” that “a significant part of their bomber force” could “be destroyed like that.”
They’ve got him now. Putin will surrender before the end of the week.
Say goodbye to the START Treaty where strategic bombers have to be stored outside in view of satellites.
It’s amazing what a few tens of billions of American tax dollars can accomplish.
To be honest, if I close my eyes, it almost feels like nothing changed at all.
Nice to see the authorities not treat this as a black-and-white issue.
People of all stripes would agree.
Well, that a horse of a different color.
Meh. It’s all a red hair-ing anyway.
The Zebra was just hoofing it, that’s the mane thing.
I agree on the song. The official video was great too.
The video is probably their best.
Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.
This seems obligatory…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SckD99B51IA
There it is.
Phew, I was getting antsy
A mountain erupts in Eyetaly?
I blame the Pope. And the French.
That’s just a real go-getter with upper management written all over him
TAMPA — As drug cases go, this one was horrendous. It involved one dealer accusing another of stealing his business, a kidnapping plot and torture by hot sauce.
It ended Wednesday when a federal judge sentenced Mario Espino, a young man a prosecutor called “a victim of his own ambition,” who aspired to be the “No. 1 drug dealer in Pasco County,” to 22 years in prison.
Click through for a pic of the perp and his, er… unusual tattoo — and a description of what he did with the hot sauce.
Some of us have to pay good money for that kind of scene…
I can send you some Dragon’s Breath peppers.
I do like hot peppers, but the really extreme ones are too beaucoup for me.
*blink*
You know what, I’m good being ignorant.
My peppers are hotter.
😛
Put it this way – you can emulate his experience just by eating a bunch of hot peppers and waiting for a while. Really, all Espino did was speed up the process a bit…
Do they bring all the boys to the yard?
I have never ever once experienced the dreaded Sidebar. Anywhere, at any time.
Apparently, it rankles y’all something fierce, but I’ve never had the pleasure.
*whispers tootle-e-hoo*
It is gone for good from the new layout (trust me, I spent some time seeing if I could bring it back for at least one post). It ate up a lot of horizontal space with no real gain, causing nested comments to get increasingly narrow (worst I saw was 1 character lines).
With the 3 depth nesting limit, it wouldn’t be a problem.
So Brooks was right the whole time?
Yes, yes he was.
Shut your whore mouth.
Pat:
Honestly, I preferred TOS before threading, it was much easier to drop in and out of a conversation; meanwhile, the same thing meant I didn’t really click in the Discord room (if that’s still going) since I felt obligated to get caught up.
How does that song go?
♯♩♬ P Brooks is a prophet, and I think you oughta listen to
What he can say to you, what you oughta do is… ♫
Did you just compare Brooks to Louis Farrakhan?
Mr. Brew:
No. That would be discourteous.
I bet that all the Green
peacecommie wimminz are going to take turns slapping his face and calling him a loser.To be fair, most motorists will slow down and pull over when they see a black and white.
Some fine policework!
https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/long-island-home-where-a-body-believed-to-be-a-fugitive-murder-suspect-was-found-in-backyard-pool-belongs-to-detective-who-searched-for-him-records/
“Police are also baffled at how the fugitive managed to spend eight and a half weeks in the detective’s basement without being noticed.”
We can fix that. Have the progressive AG’s stop prosecuting muggers and release them from custody next to airports. Greet the debarkees with the announcement, “Welcome to the US. Please have your wallet in hand as you move through your designated mugging zone for the convenience of your own personal systemically oppressed mugger.”
Don’t give them ideas.
“Hi, my name is Bob, and I’ll be your robber.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVMTfGQe51g
Exactly what I thought of.
That’s his story and he’s sticking to it!
https://nypost.com/2025/05/31/world-news/man-sues-girlfriend-for-ghosting-him-after-winning-5-million-lottery/
It’s exactly the story you expect with your typical lottery player.
Lottery tickets are bearer instruments.
Just ask Whitey Bulger
Uh…I am calling bullshit.
Why is Greenpeace interested in Ukraine, pray tell?
Everybody is gettin’ graft there!
Ang Greenpeace has a big legal judgement to pay off, so they need some quick cash.
Women. 80% female, Green Peace.
Any Italian vulcanologists going to jail for Mt Etna?
This is the fourth or fifth time this year it’s erupted. Even the Italians are expecting it to go off again.
Besides, they ran out of vulcanologists after an unexpected mass emigration.
Elevation: 11,165′ — meh
Prominence: 10,922′ — actually, pretty wow
For comparison, Long’s Peak, the highest mountain I can see from my house, is 14,256 ft. Its prominence is only 2940 ft.
Interesting, I had never noticed “prominence” before.
It’s like how my wiener is 8 inches long, but a third of it is on the inside.
And immediately after I submitted that, I heard my neighbour exclaim, “It’s so big! Oh my God!”
Which one of you is her?
I think you’re mixing up inches and centimeters again.
Italy’s Mount Etna erupts in smoky display
0/10, the island didn’t sink into the sea
Does that show you torture yourself with have exploding mountains?
No, but it did have a good line about Sicilians.
Aspen is up in arms over a local gadfly posting signs in his yard…
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/aspen-iconic-home-signs/73-1ce3dfba-6b2f-4cce-81d0-06439c4eba68
“The dispute began with an email. Dr. Phyllis Bronson, a neighbor, sent messages to the Aspen Police Department, Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office, and the City of Aspen expressing concerns about a specific sign in Tye’s yard. This one in particular, opposing local developer Mark Hunt, she said, “vilified a friend of mine.”
“I made one complaint concerning two aspects,” Bronson later clarified in a statement to 9NEWS. “The tree having a sign bolted into it — which hurts the tree — and the sign that I found mean and unfair. But I never suggested the whole yard should be altered. If one claims free speech, then others are free to speak back.””
Trees in pain. People being mean and unfair. Where’s the justice?
Amazing how quickly one can come to hate everyone in a particular spat. I need a ‘Nuke Aspen’ t-shirt to keep the ‘Nuke Berkeley’ one company…
Meh. I’m no fan of Aspen but a lot of this is a culture war between “old” Aspenites who bought in there decades ago before it was trend and the new Aspenites who want a sanitized retreat in the mountains that matches their humdrum worlds. It’s like everyone who lives in the Woody Creek area because Hunter Thompson made it chic but have turned it into a place Thompson would hate.
Ugh a mask Nazi.
Imagine living next to that?
No.
His brother, Mike Hunt, is unavailable for comment
Phyllis should have cat turds dropped in the dash vents in her car, turnip seed cast across her lawn, crickets released into her house…etc…tormented until the horrible bitch moves back to California.
Gadfly looks like a gadfly but I dont see anything there actionable. The city needs to fuck off.
“What have we become?”
/one sign in article.
Everyone Sucks Here?
Why fly when you can fly?
Pigeon pandemonium erupted on a Delta flight from Minnesota to Wisconsin when two birds took flight in the passenger cabin.
Tom Caw, a passenger aboard Delta Flight 2348 from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wis., said the first pigeon flew through the passenger cabin during preparations for take-off on Saturday.
The bird was removed by baggage handlers, but a second pigeon came out of hiding once the plane left the terminal.
Typically birds can be located inside an aircraft by their calls, which echo up and down the aluminum tube of the airframe. But a pigeon’s vocalizations are much more tricky as far as determining their origin goes.
That’s because a coo sticks.
If you don’t know who the pigeon is…
It probably depends on which carrier you fly with.
Pigeons? I thought they were Tyson chickens.
As God as my witness, I thought they could fly!
So, how many geologists will the Gods demand be sacrificed this time? Prison or toss them into the volcano?
I dont know what to say about watermelons. The catastrophic results of them getting what they want….surely these morons know that what they want is completely absurd. It is as absurd as the tranny thing but the practical outcome of doing it would mean the end of everything. It is clearly a canard.
Got fired from the boat factory today. Meh. They said they have better luck with younger workers who are easier to train. At least it frees up my schedule for round 2 of welding school in August.
It’s a bad sign when you get repeatedly asked “are you ok?” and “do you want to be here?”
That A in multivariable calculus 20 years ago did not help me much with caulking boats.
Sorry Derpy.
Sorry to hear it, Derpy.
I failed differential equations. Do you think I would make a good boat caulker?
They said that aloud? 🤨
Hadn’t heard about this gig, but my condolences anyway.
They probably just asked their computer “Is this guy going to work out? True or False.” Then followed what it told them.
So at least you get a good Caulk-and-Boole story to tell your friends.
a lot of this is a culture war between “old” Aspenites who bought in there decades ago before it was trend and the new Aspenites who want a sanitized retreat in the mountains that matches their humdrum worlds.
People have been saying this for fifty years. Now it’s the people who ruined aspen fifty years ago are saying it about the people ruining Aspen today.
Same with any “cool” place.
Last guy in always wants to raise the drawbridge.
It’s not even Friday the 13th and everywhere I went this afternoon something weird happened.
Perhaps that says something about you? :-p
“Everywhere I go, I keep running into assholes!” 😉
Did you forget to put pants on again?
21 jobs since 2001. The available evidence suggests employment is not for me. Time to write more. Tonight, whiskey and fried chicken. Tomorrow, I swim.
Ah, da curse o’ da drinkin’ classes.
Sláinte. 🥃 🍷
Narrowed gheyz Mammary Monday!
https://archive.is/cdykO
Derpy’s song
I was like where the fuck is the 8 o’clock post. I need to talk to the supervisor here.
Then I saw it was 7:50.
I have a Firstover.