No funny stories happening today, alas, though I’m loaded up with them (starting with my war with a bat, who eventually suffered a Shop Vac execution). But I have deadlines for an article looming and have been heads-down writing and (when realizing that I have some vital data that I need to have things make sense) stopping to run measurements. Since it involves acoustic measurement gear, I also have a large dog in a foul mood from being annoyed by swoops and whoops at high volumes emanating from my media room. Ah well, this is what’s keeping you in kibble.
What IS happening, though, is birthdays, including the guy who couldn’t wait to wipe his ass on the freshly-written Bill of Rights; a guy who cursed- a LOT; a guy who inspired a shitty pop tune; the prime example of disgusting shitheads whose art is undeniable; a guy who figured that “Angelo Siciliano” was not a memorable name; star of the shittiest cult movie ever made; a guy who wasn’t bright but was one helluva badass; a pioneer of TV news people’s incorrect belief that they’re doing something important; the truer version of The Day The Music Died; a brother-in-law of several dummies; one of my teenage fantasy women who was stone cray-cray; the nemesis of Peggy Hill; and a hatchet face who managed to marry a money dude.
I have more of a hatchet mind, so here’s Links.
A successor to TACO. BURRITO: Blowhards’ Unilateral Restrictions Raise Ingredient Tax Overhead This shit has been killing our business.
Related. I have an idea: Fuck you, cut spending.
I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning, it’s the smell of victory!
Just fucking deport her. Jesus, the world needs more nutty self-centered AWFLs.
Those wacky illegal alien scammers!
“Your Honor, my client pleads retarded.”
Heidi is proof that physiognomy is destiny.
Sue them because the software is shitty.
The Left wants too destroy science and the trade pubs applaud.
Know what the world needs? More Laurie Lewis. Here.
Will they be merged?
Into They/Thems?
One post, there are two FML
Not anymore!
OMWC nuked the other post so I couldn’t get my hat-tip. 🙁
🎩
I nuked it.
Who the hell let the Upside Downers get nukes?
My apologies for the confusion. When we were debating who sits in for Sloopy/Banjos, I put in a chit for today since I won’t be around for my usual Sunday (up at Prime’s). Somebody mentioned you in passing but was unclear that you were all-in on it. My bad completely.
No sweat.
At least I got to open the fun music link.
OK, other post removed.
https://hoover.com/products/powerdash-pet-compact-carpet-cleaner-1
Seems good for only $120.
Where do you put the pet?
You suck it up into the dirty water receptacle.
🙀
I got some “pet edition” Shark vacuum. It works remarkably well.
Having said that: I am doing vastly more maintenance on it that I have done on all previously owned vacuums combined. However, it could very well be that I was doing insufficient maintenance on those and also I’ve never allowed a pet indoors especially a Great Pyrenees mix.
Have you tried just vacuuming the dog?
My biggest disappointment in a vacuum cleaner was my Dyson, whose standard floor attachment constantly got clogged. I replaced it with a Ryobi, of all things. (I prefer cordless models.) It vacuums the floor without constantly clogging, but I keep the Dyson around because it’s better ergonomically as a hand vac.
Giant pets with hair can take down any vacuum. At least the Shark is cheap and parts are readily available.
I have the Dyson Pet vacuum, it’s great and lower maintenance than the Shark I had previously. But it was also really expensive and parts are expensive. Still needs maintenance.
One of the really nice things about living here (as opposed to OK and TX) is leaving the doors and windows open. Weather here supports that practice and the almost total absence of insects here means I’m not constantly under invasion if I do.
The upside is that Lily loves being able to go explore/patrol the back yard, sleep in the sun, and come back for pets as she wishes. The downside is every week I can fill the vacuum with the dust she’s brought into the living room.
SP bought us a Samsung robot vac some years ago. I took it out of storage, cleaned it up, and let it go. The standoffs between the vac and Kaiser are hilarious.
Unfortunately, I have to empty it out every 15-20 minutes since Kaiser sheds profusely. I guess this is labor saving?
Regarding Raven’s cricket post:
https://www.dailymail.com/sport/cricket/article-16244299/Australia-South-Africa-cricket-viral-video.html
Is that mayo in a breakfast burrito?
Why is this mayo so salty?
Probably crema, unless its in the Midwest.
What the article on the Armenian parliament brawl didn’t mention is the reasoning behind the ministry of women’s satisfaction:
It claimed the policy was needed because sexual dissatisfaction had caused a rise in political activism by middle-aged white women.
Simpson, the daughter of a former US diplomat who has lived on the street for more than three decades, is in receipt of disability benefits after being diagnosed with clinical anxiety, long Covid and a functional neurological disorder.
Bitch bought the Collector’s Edition of Hypochondria.
You don’t expect former diplomats to be homeless.
We sure that affluent white liberal is female?
“As well as raising the profile of less-well known chemists, David Smith, also at the University of York, UK says that it’s also important to note that many of the chemists that students learn about are ‘all dead, white German [chemists], sometimes American, sometimes British’.”
Then he wouldn’t shut up about a genocide in Gaza?
During my lecturing days, I got into some major trouble by pointing out the shifts in ethnic composition among top researchers in physics and chemistry. “After the Greeks, physics was absolutely dominated by western Europeans. The world’s thinnest book is ‘Great Jewish Physicists before Einstein.’ Then suddenly Jews absolutely dominated the field. These days, the top people tend to be Indian or Chinese. Who knows who it will be in 50 years?”
Apparently, physics journals should look like the photos of groups of people in real estate ads.
Re Dune 3 from the dedthred:
Well, she’s played by Zendaya, who as far as I know has never displayed any kind of positive emotion onscreen.
I think it was Dorothy Parker who said of Katharine Hepburn, “She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
Bringing it over:
Re: Dune 3 final trailer.
It very much implies that instead of Paul wandering off into the desert, Stronk Chani is going to Liberate the Fremen from the Colonialist Oppressor Atreides herself.
There’s a youtuber I enjoy called “Quinn’s Ideas” who is typically good, if a bit basic, but he’s completely huffing the copium with this one. He’s accepting the implication but says it’s fine, this is a new interpretation of Messiah. And worse, he claims it’s going to be a big dramatic moment because “Chani still loves Paul.”
Except… at what point do we have ANY evidence that Chani loves Paul in the first place? Yeah, maybe she’s into twinks, and he’s undoubtedly the only dude in the sietch that she hasn’t already banged if we assume the Tau lore still applies. But beyond a quick roll in the sand? When is that ever on screen? Dennis decided to cut the entire “Paul and Chani fall in love, have a kid, said kid gets murdered by the Harkonnen” plotline so at this point in the moves, Chani hasn’t shown any kind of positive emotion towards Paul, but exactly the opposite. How is this version of Chani going to be so desperate to give Paul kids she goes off into the desert ODs on spice, and conceives pre-born twins?
Which… if Dennis was going to sack up and just end things on a trilogy, he could make a consistent ending with Chani shanking Pretty-boy and have a separate-from-the-books canon. But he puts a (vision?) of the twins in the trainer, which raises the question who is going to bear these twins? An axlotl tank? It sure as fuck ain’t going to be Stronk Chani.
Jeebus. She thinks the Montenegrin embassy in London is “tacky”? The US embassy there is a fucking crime against nature.
I suspect she’d be an exception to the rule about crazy girl sex.
“Keep her away from your kids”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vapghyGuyo
How to accidentally Ms. Rachel?
— stoning
— ass chamber
— RPG firing squad
— RCDean Slice-O-Matic
https://nypost.com/2026/10/29/opinion/america-falls-for-another-fake-race-baiting-story-with-the-help-of-ms-rachel/
I thought I had looked into the gamut of execution methods before recommending the guillotine, but somehow I missed (and now I’m intrigued by) the ass chamber.
STEVE SMITH SUPPORTS DEATH BY ASS CHAMBER
I can’t figure out why being crazy or retarded gets you leniency after you kill someone.
Maybe a factor if someone is too mentally defective for regular prison?
I had to violently hate-tap out of that shit.
“feel like I belong”
Go fuck yourself. You know how to “feel like you belong”? Do the work well. That is literally all it takes.
“Palestine Action” – dayum… when even current-year UK won’t let you in, they must be the real deal.
“A vile creep tried to rape an 83-year-old woman in her Manhattan apartment, according to cops who released a video of the suspect looking over his shoulder while walking nearby.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/30/us-news/creep-wanted-for-attempting-to-rape-83-year-old-woman-in-her-manhattan-apartment/
“An Arizona man allegedly orchestrated a plan to have a creep sexually assault his fiancée at their home — before the fearless mother of two fought off her attacker in the driveway.
Zarian Dyer, 23, was arrested Thursday after investigators alleged he recruited 20-year-old Adrian Ayala to assault his fiancée, Bella Torres, according to the Buckeye Police Department and Arizona’s Family.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/30/us-news/arizona-man-zarian-dyer-recruited-creep-to-sexually-assault-his-fiancee-before-she-fought-off-attacker-police/
STEVE SMITH BUSY UNTIL MIDTERMS
Meanwhile….
“Even more bizarre is Vera Valentine’s “Unhinged,” the tale of a woman who falls for her … front door. Trigger warnings listed on the author’s website include: door knob insertion, covert breaking and entering, secret underwear theft, allusions to an orgy with unprotected sex, gun violence, and wood putty use.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/29/lifestyle/booktok-is-driving-book-sales-but-its-selling-a-whole-lot-of-smut/
Getting coffee in the cafeteria, I noticed the grill guy is wearing an afro wig with inserted pick. I then noticed that today’s special is a “Jive Turkey Melt.”