SugarFree is spent after that Hat’n’Hair episode. So you guys get me. The stand-in, the understudy. And I’m good with that. I’ve noticed something in the last couple of days. My older kids don’t know how to be bored. Lemme set the scene. There is a “fight” Sunday between the 12 and 10 year old boys that looks and sounds like the third hour of a Real Housewives bottomless mimosas brunch, but with more crying. Not really unusual, but they started yelling at their mother when she wouldn’t take either side and got banned from all forms of screens for a week. It is day 3 and these kids would have died if they were the same age in 1990. Especially in my house where there were no video game consoles allowed. They shuffle around listlessly, occasionally sniping at one of their brothers. If you tell them to go outside, they might find some friends but if they don’t, they have no ability to entertain themselves either alone or just the two of them. I am going to help them, though. I am going to find reasons to extend the ban until they figure out how to be bored. Although, I have to be careful, in another 2 weeks, they’ll just ask me to watch them swim, and that’s punishing me. This parenting shit is hard, man.
We’re getting an expanded lithium mine in NV, so I guess bipolar disorder is on the rise? Kidding. Mostly featuring this for the immensely sensible quote from a local environmentalist.
A man can’t put on a mask, remove his license plate and ask to use the bathroom at a poltical event? I mean, in Dallas, several magazines of pistol ammunition may just mean you’re going to the bad parts.
I’m not saying that NY Post is front for Israeli intelligence, but daaaaamn. That’s a kick in the nuts. Good thing the subjects nuts don’t work anyways. Headline: Ayatollah Khamenei’s son, who is front-runner for supreme leader, was treated for impotency, couldn’t find a wife
My wife got a picture of this “jellyfish” cloud on her way to the gym this morning. I still think its a portal.
Florida threatening to allow dissolution of HOAs. Interesting.
Repeatedly.
I heard he’s always seen in a 3-piece suit. If he’s going to be impotent, he ought to look impotent.
I laughed.
Hah! I used that one to “roast” a Libertarian candidate back in the 80s.
I heard a rumor that there are several adolescent boys who say his impotence is a Zionist lie!
He’s also idempotent.
He about to be splatted.
He keeps trying the same thing again and again with the same result each time?
The nice thing about staying in Britain for impotency treatments?
Decreased likelihood of smart-bomb poisoning.
Don’t boys that age have secret Playboy stashes and hands to keep themselves entertained?
Even in Iran a collection of hands is probably a pretty strange thing to have.
Nobody that age knows what a Playboy even is.
That’s the whole reason for having s screen in the first place.
HOAs being hotel California is insane.
Jellyfish cloud.
Definitely a portal, here comes space Smith.
I think Jellyfish Cloud opened for The Dead in ’86.
Spouses need to stay in their fucking lane. If they want more money or “satisfaction”, they’re welcome to turbo charge their own career or at least pick up the home stuff. Especially if the job doer isn’t complaining.
Uh… do your kids know how to read? (Yes. They’re children. They don’t read.)
Calvin & Hobbes would be perfect.
How does one”not find” a wife in Iran? Don’t you just pick one, go to her dad and give him the requisite livestock?
The 1990 House!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375237
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250838
No screens at all? Doesn’t that leave just books, periodicals, cards, and board games? Charades? Twister? Bowling?
1990s houses had screens. Not nearly as many, but some.
Ah, I see. It was a typo!
I assumed he means phones and computer screens which was easy to live without in the 90’s but if he also means TV screens well that’s just cruel and unusual.
Boooring!
Army men, blocks, Tops, jacks…
Don’t forget BB guns and good books.
Climbing trees, fishing, riding BMX bikes over jumps, Frisbee, hackysack, soccer, swimming in the river, spying on girls who are swimming in the river, spray painting cats, building forts, building igloos, snow sledding, building bikes from dump finds…
I don’t remember being bored.
Two boys, two baseball gloves, one tattered ball covered with black tape. That was hours of fun. By Aug-Sept those summer toys yielded to a scuffed old football and there were two, maybe three instant q’backs, tight ends making impossible throws/catches .
In between were trips to the crick to catch a few daytime bullheads and a pocketful of slingshot rocks, for later.
Me, it was mostly reading, studying maps or the dictionary, playing with legos, or riding my bike. And avoiding the neighborhood monster kids.
Also never bored.
Er, audio I guess would be OK.
How about comedy albums?
Fox is reporting the Kurds are attacking Iran. Is this the whey forward? Guess we’ll find out.
Fairly certain we have been clandestinelyequipping them for the past month. They are loaded for bear.
That’s why I don’t agree with “they don’t know what to do next”. You know damn well they’ve been working with the Kurds, and probably a half dozen other groups. Again, not sure if it will work, but it’s way more than dropping bombs and hoping. And for obvious reasons all of that had to be kept secret.
I don’t know if we know what we’re doing, I have no expertise or inside information, but I’m pretty sure that 99% of the ‘experts’ pontificating doom and despair are in exactly the same boat I am and are demonstrating Dunning and Kruger’s point, sometimes a la mode with a scoop of hatred for Israel.
I pray to any God that may exist and may value such a plea that the Iranian people are liberated from the hell Islam has subjected them to since 1979.
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I see what you did there, Kevin. Gouda job!
Thanks! But I’m not sure Swiss would approve.
I’m sure he appreciates when the cream rises to the top. He might even churn the other cheek.
He can be a Muenster sometimes.
I don’t give Edam.
He’s not fondue the pungent flavor of word play, and I am sure he’ll make a raclette about this thread.
I love this place 🙂
I love cheeeeese Gromit!
https://media1.tenor.com/m/hN89U2X0PC4AAAAC/cheese-wallace-and-gromit.gif
Shpip must be at the Cottage
He’s feeling blue.
Unless it turns into a Turkey shoot.
Wouldn’t that just be self defense?
Guzzoline is back to $3.20/gal. I didn’t buy any but I looked when I went past. I guess the joke will be on me if it’s $6.50 next time.
I need to buy about 300 gallons of diesel this week.
I bought 150 gallons of #2 fuel oil yesterday. $3.69/gallon. Pump price for off-road was $3.62/gallon, but I’m not schlepping that many cans through the snow to save $10.
So, I’m traveling for work today.
I was put on standby for an earlier flight.. Now I got to my connecting airport and they won’t put me on an earlier flight because “there’s not enough time to transfer my checked luggage.” Even though I was waiting an hour to talk to someone about moving to the earlier flight.
At the same time they are soliciting me to switch flights on their useless app for at least a $200 credit. Could have been an easy win-win.
Looks like I’m stuck in Charlotte an extra 5 hours now. /Venting off
Of all the things I don’t miss, flying is right up there.
“Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves Bill Gates-backed nuclear reactor in Wyoming
The Terrapower reactor uses a non-light water reactor design, and the approval is the first of that kind in 40 years.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to grant Bill Gates-backed Terrapower a construction permit for a nuclear reactor in Wyoming.”
Good news, oddly thru Gates. Greenies being anti-nuclear is the most revealing tell of their bit. I’ve found they have no response when poked with it.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/nuclear-regulatory-commission-approves-bill-gates-backed-nuclear-reactor
May the atoms break and the electrons flow!