Let's just say, when you're in Alien chestburster mode due to crohn's & bleeding out of bum & other orifice, teletubbies was a confort I didn't know I needed. When in that much pain, it was something to hold on to when the pain overwhelmed even my strong AF painkillers.
Though I am a biologist, so it was already a start point. Human behaviour has made it to where I ONLY feel safe around non-humans sort of thing (unless you're in my 'safe, not an asshole' no red alert alarms going off)
Only a puppy, but still recognizing the divine mandate that it is somehow responsible for protecting that bucket of squee- but hoping it doesn’t come to that because it doesn’t have a clue as to what to do.
Brainworm Kennedy claims to have made it onto the ballot in Texas, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma and Utah.
Weird. For an alleged presidential ratfucking campaign, only three of those states are even remotely swingy. Maybe his backers have a different ulterior motive in mind?
I've personally long felt that Brainworm McLegacy's presidential campaign was all about giving disaffected Never Trumpers a solid protest vote so that they wouldn't just stay home next November. Republicans need their downticket votes. California and Texas, for example, might be solidly blue and red, but both have numerous Congressional seats that are gettable or losable with a significant change in R turnout.
DId you know that if you start painting smiling/Joker faces on your KN-95 masks while wearing them, because you have to get the look right- things gets fun/fuzzy?
I actually made the NYT chicken katsu recipe, after reading the comments from others who have made it already. One of the recommendations was to fry the chicken 1 minute on each side, take out, rest for 4 minutes and then fry for an additional minute on each side. Made the chicken shockingly crispy.
Not crazy about the tonkatsu sauce bit. Way too ketchup forward. Will try something different next time.
From NYT own article about the Hispanic vote in Nevada
“The poll indicated that Hispanic voters in particular were still making up their minds: Fewer than half said they were “definitely” going to vote for the candidate they had chosen in the poll. And they were less likely to say that they were paying close attention to the news and politics”
I think the worst place for a time zone is to be right on the edge of the next one. All the stuff you want to watch at night still ends too late even though one state over you would have an extra hour left. Chicago has the best spot because it’s right at the start of a time zone.
My google fu is failing me. We suddenly heard a very strange noise coming from all the drains and pipes, and then out of the blue both toilets flushed themselves at once. We had gotten a new hot water tank a month ago so natch we ran to the garage to check that it hadn't blown up.... it was fine. After the flush, all the water was completely drained from both the toilet bowls. The noise was gone after 30 seconds and has not returned since. After 5 minutes we cautiously flushed the toilets and they both flushed normal. Does anyone have any idea what the fuck just happened? I'm guessing a backflow prevention pump at the county sewage line kicked in, but I don't know enough about plumbing to have more than that as an educated guess.
More googling suggests that it may also have been a total obstruction in the sewer line that got violently unclogged, either from our house to the main line, or the main line between our houses.
If it was an influx of water, there would have been water in the toilet bowls afterward. They were completely drained dry. This was a sewer line vacuum.
If it happens again, we will be contacting our plumber for advice, I guess.
You also might query the utility company/agency that handles the sewer system - they might know exactly what happened, particularly because you have a time of day to work with.
The movie "Bottoms" looks awesome. It will be a Movie Night if it becomes available to rent at a lower price! (It's only on Prime.) Currently only rentable for $5.99. That is why we don't watch some movies, no place to watch them cheaply. Message to Fartknocker, "Hellfighters" has zero places to watch it, not even rentable at this time, it will have to wait.
O/T except that I think it may qualify as a Tab: ComstockCon at Harvard is getting going right now and will run until 6 pm EDT, with breaks for leg stretching and lunch. The livestream is available at https://www.comstockcon.com/livestream, and there is a zoom option with captions linked there (https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92458744606?pwd=dmpSVGVFZ2I5WkQyNEFLN2t1dVhEQT09). What that means for convenience is that you can call up a zoom number, use meeting ID 924 5874 4606, and hear what's going on, even if you can't see it.
They'd rather throw the baby out with the bathwater, penalizing every non-profit that receives federal funds through earmarks, just because they want to punish LGBTQ support
Can a brainworm be given a Medal Of Freedom or some other token of a grateful nation's gratitude for giving it's worm life in defense of our country?
I have recently been informed that one such valiant defender of freedom gave it's life long ago defending ALL OF US from AN IDIOT.
YET that courageous parasitic nematode remains buried in an unmarked grave, unmourned and dishonored, to this day while the IDIOT continues to shamble about, in a zombie fugue state, making life on earth worse for everyone on earth.
I say ENOUGH! It is time that that unmarked grave be found and our heroic brain worm have it's remains exhumed and returned to DC. There it will lie in state, in the Capitol Rotunda, prior to an honorable burial and a heart wrenching memorial salute where Bootsy Collins will perform the National Anthem!
He struck out on his own, can be found on SubStack as The Play Typer Guy. And of course, I don't have the link., as I already deleted my morning emails.
This one has snoring. It's your header gif source info: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/pig-and-dog-and-ducks
Sqeeee - piggy!
I love that bonus clip with the pigs being intelligent and escaping pens while the dog DOES NOTHING.
I can tell it's a pig by the color and cloven hooves, but those are the only reasons.
Reminds me of this!
https://substack.com/@tehbaddr/note/c-51338386
Michele Bachmann should not see this. She would be screaming about the end times.
Michele Bachmann should probably stick to television made for toddlers only. Anything else would just confuse her.
Teletubbies is probably her speed.
Teletubbies is The Prisoner for toddlers. I actually enjoyed watching it from time to time.
My crohn's first came up during Teletubbies.
Let's just say, when you're in Alien chestburster mode due to crohn's & bleeding out of bum & other orifice, teletubbies was a confort I didn't know I needed. When in that much pain, it was something to hold on to when the pain overwhelmed even my strong AF painkillers.
I hope you're much better now. That's just awful. I'm glad Teletubbies helped.
But gay!!
So's Marcus, I hear.
That's my awww for the day. I like animals better than I do humans and that becomes more true with each passing year.
same.
Though I am a biologist, so it was already a start point. Human behaviour has made it to where I ONLY feel safe around non-humans sort of thing (unless you're in my 'safe, not an asshole' no red alert alarms going off)
Especially in today's US politics environment. I haven't felt safe since the fucking moron got loose.
so same.
Like ❤️ this post to have a good day!
🔮 You will now have a good day!
LOLOL
Why have you stollen my three bad days?
I am completely and thoroughly SMITTEN with that too entirely charming image of those precious wee creatures snuggled up inside of that bin!
Hey!
Quit hoggin all the snuggles!
I love the way Dog glances over at the camera. I can't tell if it's saying "WHAT?" or "My Pig."
Only a puppy, but still recognizing the divine mandate that it is somehow responsible for protecting that bucket of squee- but hoping it doesn’t come to that because it doesn’t have a clue as to what to do.
How have things turned out?
Which?
Election
It’s three weeks from today! Early voting started.
How do you feel about it? Are you listening to any polls? Is your opponent still lying?
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Liked by Babe. How perfect!
And then Cochran went on to develop the Warp Drive.
Doggeh was saying: "Some pig."
One of those dogs has hooves.
djt Jr visited wesselberg this weekend at rikers island... making sure the dear old fella is still well and healthy, so far...
Brainworm Kennedy claims to have made it onto the ballot in Texas, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma and Utah.
Weird. For an alleged presidential ratfucking campaign, only three of those states are even remotely swingy. Maybe his backers have a different ulterior motive in mind?
I've personally long felt that Brainworm McLegacy's presidential campaign was all about giving disaffected Never Trumpers a solid protest vote so that they wouldn't just stay home next November. Republicans need their downticket votes. California and Texas, for example, might be solidly blue and red, but both have numerous Congressional seats that are gettable or losable with a significant change in R turnout.
He made Michigan, I know that, because the State House was a 50/50 split after two Dems left office. (That has been corrected)
They really do think he's going to pull uninformed voters from Biden, somehow.
Michigan, based on the total landslide of all major offices and swing of both houses, is solidly blue now.
Eve's Plumb: "Blue"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9JmK3Y03flE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.strummerroom.com%2F&feature=emb_imp_woyt
Why is every song I like actually about abuse?!
Wow! Lying to Americans as an "opinion journalist" is a good racket for a former roofer and bartender who didn't finish college.
DId you know that if you start painting smiling/Joker faces on your KN-95 masks while wearing them, because you have to get the look right- things gets fun/fuzzy?
I saw someone make chicken katsu on a cooking show last night and the judges luurrrved it.
I actually made the NYT chicken katsu recipe, after reading the comments from others who have made it already. One of the recommendations was to fry the chicken 1 minute on each side, take out, rest for 4 minutes and then fry for an additional minute on each side. Made the chicken shockingly crispy.
Not crazy about the tonkatsu sauce bit. Way too ketchup forward. Will try something different next time.
There is, basically, no bad katsu.
From NYT own article about the Hispanic vote in Nevada
“The poll indicated that Hispanic voters in particular were still making up their minds: Fewer than half said they were “definitely” going to vote for the candidate they had chosen in the poll. And they were less likely to say that they were paying close attention to the news and politics”
Polls this far out are fairly meaningless
I think the worst place for a time zone is to be right on the edge of the next one. All the stuff you want to watch at night still ends too late even though one state over you would have an extra hour left. Chicago has the best spot because it’s right at the start of a time zone.
I was like that growing up. We just had to drive 20 miles and switch time zones. Lousy for making appointments.
Agree 100%.
My google fu is failing me. We suddenly heard a very strange noise coming from all the drains and pipes, and then out of the blue both toilets flushed themselves at once. We had gotten a new hot water tank a month ago so natch we ran to the garage to check that it hadn't blown up.... it was fine. After the flush, all the water was completely drained from both the toilet bowls. The noise was gone after 30 seconds and has not returned since. After 5 minutes we cautiously flushed the toilets and they both flushed normal. Does anyone have any idea what the fuck just happened? I'm guessing a backflow prevention pump at the county sewage line kicked in, but I don't know enough about plumbing to have more than that as an educated guess.
That happens to me every month or so. When it happens, there's a pumping truck at the end of the street.
You clearly have ghosts, or possibly a poltergeist.
THe toilets flushing themselves suggests a sudden influx of water pushed into the bowl, which then was sucked down again.
I always blame these things on air in the pipes. And I think that at least 50% of the time I'm correct.
More googling suggests that it may also have been a total obstruction in the sewer line that got violently unclogged, either from our house to the main line, or the main line between our houses.
If it was an influx of water, there would have been water in the toilet bowls afterward. They were completely drained dry. This was a sewer line vacuum.
If it happens again, we will be contacting our plumber for advice, I guess.
You also might query the utility company/agency that handles the sewer system - they might know exactly what happened, particularly because you have a time of day to work with.
The movie "Bottoms" looks awesome. It will be a Movie Night if it becomes available to rent at a lower price! (It's only on Prime.) Currently only rentable for $5.99. That is why we don't watch some movies, no place to watch them cheaply. Message to Fartknocker, "Hellfighters" has zero places to watch it, not even rentable at this time, it will have to wait.
We saw it a few weeks ago--very entertaining!
"Sean Hannity has almost certainly had sexual intercourse inside it."
That will be in the real estate disclosure, right?
I think, as long as no one else was involved in the transaction, it’s nothing a little sage, and Lysol wouldn’t take care of.
I think it's probably going to take a bit more than that. I'll need an old priest and a young priest.
O/T except that I think it may qualify as a Tab: ComstockCon at Harvard is getting going right now and will run until 6 pm EDT, with breaks for leg stretching and lunch. The livestream is available at https://www.comstockcon.com/livestream, and there is a zoom option with captions linked there (https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92458744606?pwd=dmpSVGVFZ2I5WkQyNEFLN2t1dVhEQT09). What that means for convenience is that you can call up a zoom number, use meeting ID 924 5874 4606, and hear what's going on, even if you can't see it.
More evidence that House Republicans are assholes:
𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐆.𝐎.𝐏. 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐋.𝐆.𝐁.𝐓.𝐐. 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐧𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬
[ gift link ]: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/us/politics/gop-earmarks-lgbtq-centers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r00.GBx2.MigM0j8sulnC&smid=url-share
They'd rather throw the baby out with the bathwater, penalizing every non-profit that receives federal funds through earmarks, just because they want to punish LGBTQ support
As one Democrat says:
"...“𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑠, 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠,” 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑃𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑛, 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑎𝑦. “𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑠, 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 — 𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑖𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑠.”
Thanks for the free link. Damn but those bigots are so determined. WTF is wrong with those people?
I'm afraid, marydn, that some people are simply scum.
Can a brainworm be given a Medal Of Freedom or some other token of a grateful nation's gratitude for giving it's worm life in defense of our country?
I have recently been informed that one such valiant defender of freedom gave it's life long ago defending ALL OF US from AN IDIOT.
YET that courageous parasitic nematode remains buried in an unmarked grave, unmourned and dishonored, to this day while the IDIOT continues to shamble about, in a zombie fugue state, making life on earth worse for everyone on earth.
I say ENOUGH! It is time that that unmarked grave be found and our heroic brain worm have it's remains exhumed and returned to DC. There it will lie in state, in the Capitol Rotunda, prior to an honorable burial and a heart wrenching memorial salute where Bootsy Collins will perform the National Anthem!
Hey what happened to Stephen Robinson? Is he no longer a contributor here? I haven't seen his stuff in ages.
He struck out on his own, can be found on SubStack as The Play Typer Guy. And of course, I don't have the link., as I already deleted my morning emails.
playtyperguy.com
Found him there thanks.
We made a promise, we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
--30--
Well maybe we'll cut someplace of our own
With these drums and these guitars
<3
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down . . .
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=3AlNKZYiFzfT99BF