We live near a wild cat sanctuary called Cat Tails and several years ago when we took our two daughters out for a family day and went to see the big cats we had the INCREDIBLE squeeEEeee of seeing the four wee tiger cubs one of the female tigers had recently given birth to. Those wee, wide-eyed bebe tigers make THE most precious "grrrrrrrrrr-oow" purr-growls ever!
My like button doesn't work. LIKE. I found it by Googling my favorite line: When from on high while sitting pretty, you blow four games to Kansas City.
I still remember things like Father's Day cards and college fight songs that I memorized 60 years ago. God what I'd give to have that kind of memory now!
Baby tigers are particularly dangerous, because they act just like any other kittens, and so are irresistibly cute. But if you follow that urge to take it home, you wind up with a full size tiger.
We read a book entitled "No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Tiger of Champawat"
If you want to learn how smart these cats are it is an amazing story from a former tiger hunter who eventually became a cat conservationist. Great read.
There was a long-time commenter who drifted away a few years ago now, went by the nym of Gayer Than Thou. He used to joke about the fictional baby tigers he adopted (I think from Siegfried and Roy) that had since grown and were generally eating all visitors. He also had bears and lions too, oh my!
Correct me if i'm wrong but I don't think I am...don't all womens' restrooms have privacy doors? Then what's the BFD--except they can be a$$holes yet again.
As I’m sure I’ve said before in this forum (because there is always a new anti-trans outrage), I wish the trans man I know had time to visit the Capitol and wait in the ladies’ room for Nancy Mace. She would scream for the woke National Guard to get him out. Because he is a man.
They're all strangely unconcerned with trans men. It's like that (apocryphal?) story that Britain banned male homosexual activity but not lesbian, because Queen Elizabeth or whoever didn't think it possible.
The guy I know has always been a dick and I hoped once he’d transitioned he’d be less of a dick because happier, but now he’s just a happier asshole. In all seriousness, though, there is no question he’s a man. It’s done wonders to educate his family and their socially conservative circle, including my in-laws.
VERY cool, about the change of comprehension, at least!
My pals are fabulous guys, but of course, I've known a few people who are trans who are jerky, like ***anyone else***. People are....... PEOPLE! Who'd have thought, right???
I read the Erin in the Morning tabs and Charlotte Clymer's piece. I'm hoping our Crip Dyke will weigh in as well. The comment section on Erin in the Morning was tough to read. So much disappointment and some anger about a choice none of them had to make and I understand the frustration and hope it works out to everyone's satisfaction. I'm going to be happy Representative-elect McBride was chosen, sad she has to make choices like this, and hopeful she is returned in 2026.
Gotta point out that the New York Times and Recipe Newsletter was "complying in advance" before complying in advance was cool. They slanted their coverage and editorial choices in MAGA's favor long before Trump even declared himself to be a candidate in 2022.
I can't say that I'm eager to defend abject cowards. They're gonna have to nut up some before I start caring.
The Recipe Newsletter??? Please explain. I never subscribed, but did they carry articles like, "Use Chicken Stock. Fuck Your Crunchy Vegetarian Friends"?
Like Evan, I like to highlight that the New York Times is basically a top-notch cooking publication that occasionally also prints something newsworthy.
I prefer that a better platform (maybe Propublica) throw golden parachutes at the few writers at NYT that are still on the right side of history, and the rest have earned everything coming to them.
(edit: I wrote Politico, but meant Propublica. This is why doing things before you've had coffee is never a good idea)
Well well well, the mostly-white Oregon coast population offers some history up that actually not all about white people, for once. Usually it's the local tribes who work their way through this (not always) invisible wall, but this time around something else broke through:
The permitting and codes here are onerous and expensive. Seems like those cost more than the materials and real estate. It's pretty bad. Why, just in my little peninsula town, if you do so much space in an internal remodel you must then re-landscape your yard using only city approved plants. Why? Who cares what your yard looks like if you've created an open living area inside your home?
Meanwhile the city is not beholden to such things as landscaping telling from the trees that they razed on our side of this busy throughway and planted to let die on the other side.
Ex-East Bay Area person here. I agree, the NIMBY mindset amongst these entitled pricks is too much. Even though the state of California and before that, certain counties, allowed ADUs to be built on properties, a friend in the East Bay got harassed by someone who lived on the other side of town when she pulled a permit to build an ADU on behalf of her elderly parents. Some of the neighbors objected to the design (pffft!). She built it with city approval, but then the same person from the other side of town went after her for the way she built a deck. It was in compliance, but that didn't stop the prick from bringing it up repeatedly during town council open mic. Jeezus.
Your little town sounds even worse! No wonder California is so expensive. Too many rich pricks with too much time on their hands.
The only reason I know this is because my husband does remodels so I hear it all. And they do allow ADU's in San Mateo county so that's good but still.
Fierce baby tiger learning to roar in your hed gif: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/the-mighty-roar-of-a-small-tiger
And a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/2e2680be-3fd9-4519-9145-a33595c2c4f6?utm_source=share
I think I'll just keep tabs on this while I drink coffee.
Long, tubby and with short legs. Babby is half tiger and half dachshund.
That is an overload of cuteness. I'm happy.
I does teh maths bettur than da woids, so off to my bunny walk.
So cute would bring home in a heartbeat.....until I remember the sad truth about cute baby tigers and how they grow up big and strong and bitey😥😫😥!
So I will stick to my baby tigers in Tabs form, thank you very much!
Baby tigers scream a bit
They haven't mastered roars
For goodness sake, it's hard enough
Just walking on all fours
🏆
🥰
We live near a wild cat sanctuary called Cat Tails and several years ago when we took our two daughters out for a family day and went to see the big cats we had the INCREDIBLE squeeEEeee of seeing the four wee tiger cubs one of the female tigers had recently given birth to. Those wee, wide-eyed bebe tigers make THE most precious "grrrrrrrrrr-oow" purr-growls ever!
Oh GAHHHHD, Skepti!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *falls down*
"You're 𝘢𝘭𝘭 gonna get it! Right after a nap..."
ROOOOWWWWRR!!!!
Wee tiger tiger
Mewling might
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Dare ignore thy hungry, fearful cry
From Mad Magazine many years ago
Tiger, Tiger burning bright
In the ballparks of the night.
Your pitching’s fair, your field adroit
So why no pennants for Detroit?
You start out brave with each new year
With stalwart hearts that know no fear.
Then from on high, while sitting pretty
You blow four games to Kansas City.
The Cleveland Indians go to work
They beat you good; so does New York
When Boston adds a mortal blow
All you can shout is “Look out below.”
Amid the heated pennant race
You fight to cling to seventh place.
Tiger, Tiger burning bright
In the ballparks of the night
Someday the fans will get their fill
And ship the team to Louisville.
Mr. P can recite this from memory
My like button doesn't work. LIKE. I found it by Googling my favorite line: When from on high while sitting pretty, you blow four games to Kansas City.
Mr P and I bond over reciting old Mad lines together
I still remember things like Father's Day cards and college fight songs that I memorized 60 years ago. God what I'd give to have that kind of memory now!
Nice kitty!
Another beautiful baby.
Thanks, Martini
Are they supposed to have stubby little legs like that?
People often ask the same question about me.
Aren't they cute! One of my new kitties has slightly stubby legs and is very large and has a Big Cat face. He reminds me of the TABS guy.
Baby tigers are particularly dangerous, because they act just like any other kittens, and so are irresistibly cute. But if you follow that urge to take it home, you wind up with a full size tiger.
“ The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.”
We read a book entitled "No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Tiger of Champawat"
If you want to learn how smart these cats are it is an amazing story from a former tiger hunter who eventually became a cat conservationist. Great read.
/pets rather large hyena
I hate when that happens.
There was a long-time commenter who drifted away a few years ago now, went by the nym of Gayer Than Thou. He used to joke about the fictional baby tigers he adopted (I think from Siegfried and Roy) that had since grown and were generally eating all visitors. He also had bears and lions too, oh my!
I remember Gayer Than Thou!
Now you tell me!
"Spot, leave the postman alone. He'll need that leg."
A tiger named Spot <3 <3
I had a pet spot named Tiger.
I was a weird and lonely child.
All goats re William until you get to know them. Then they are Billy.
I would've guessed you had a pet spot named Stripe.
Steven Wright named his dog Stay, so he could watch the confusion when he'd say, ''Come here, Stay. Come here ... Stay.''
I was a weird child who wished I was lonely.
A lot of members of congress don’t have their office inside the Capitol. There are a few office buildings.
Correct me if i'm wrong but I don't think I am...don't all womens' restrooms have privacy doors? Then what's the BFD--except they can be a$$holes yet again.
As I minnesotan, I cannot possibly roll my eyes harder at the thought of Ken Martin as national party chair.
I STILL think Rep. McBride should do something like pee in a bottle then leave it in Rep. Mace's office.
Or just pee in her office. Preferably on the desk. I mean, that's the kind of thing those "true patriots" did on J6.
Leave a giant curler in the middle of her desk.
As I’m sure I’ve said before in this forum (because there is always a new anti-trans outrage), I wish the trans man I know had time to visit the Capitol and wait in the ladies’ room for Nancy Mace. She would scream for the woke National Guard to get him out. Because he is a man.
They're all strangely unconcerned with trans men. It's like that (apocryphal?) story that Britain banned male homosexual activity but not lesbian, because Queen Elizabeth or whoever didn't think it possible.
Surprisingly, lesbianism is possible even though scissoring is not a thing.
Well, YEAH, I've done my research on the subject
Right?? Some of those dudes whom I can call real friends are butcher than macho, I mean. 500% Man.
So true. I’ve only known a few trans people but they ran the gamut of personality traits.
The guy I know has always been a dick and I hoped once he’d transitioned he’d be less of a dick because happier, but now he’s just a happier asshole. In all seriousness, though, there is no question he’s a man. It’s done wonders to educate his family and their socially conservative circle, including my in-laws.
VERY cool, about the change of comprehension, at least!
My pals are fabulous guys, but of course, I've known a few people who are trans who are jerky, like ***anyone else***. People are....... PEOPLE! Who'd have thought, right???
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was woke.
Put that on a bumper sticker and watch heads assplode.
Gotta have my Tab's and Coffee in the morning ☕ Thank You, and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
I read the Erin in the Morning tabs and Charlotte Clymer's piece. I'm hoping our Crip Dyke will weigh in as well. The comment section on Erin in the Morning was tough to read. So much disappointment and some anger about a choice none of them had to make and I understand the frustration and hope it works out to everyone's satisfaction. I'm going to be happy Representative-elect McBride was chosen, sad she has to make choices like this, and hopeful she is returned in 2026.
Gotta point out that the New York Times and Recipe Newsletter was "complying in advance" before complying in advance was cool. They slanted their coverage and editorial choices in MAGA's favor long before Trump even declared himself to be a candidate in 2022.
I can't say that I'm eager to defend abject cowards. They're gonna have to nut up some before I start caring.
The Recipe Newsletter??? Please explain. I never subscribed, but did they carry articles like, "Use Chicken Stock. Fuck Your Crunchy Vegetarian Friends"?
Like Evan, I like to highlight that the New York Times is basically a top-notch cooking publication that occasionally also prints something newsworthy.
I prefer that a better platform (maybe Propublica) throw golden parachutes at the few writers at NYT that are still on the right side of history, and the rest have earned everything coming to them.
(edit: I wrote Politico, but meant Propublica. This is why doing things before you've had coffee is never a good idea)
Extend the offer to those who want to be on the right side again, and then we're talking.
In my own tabs:
Well well well, the mostly-white Oregon coast population offers some history up that actually not all about white people, for once. Usually it's the local tribes who work their way through this (not always) invisible wall, but this time around something else broke through:
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰’𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱
https://yachatsnews.com/new-maritime-heritage-center-exhibit-explores-history-of-blacks-in-the-pacifics-seafaring-world/
Cool cool, fucking cool, My Sistah.
Enuf MSNBC. Well, it was enuf an hour ago.
'Democrats must connect better with what the center-right of middle America cares about.'
Counterpoint? Democratic candidates simply must look more like middle America. Cause, white (racists?) don't vote based on anything resembling policy.
Dear San Francisco,
Not building houses is why Trump won. Now shut up and build some houses.
The permitting and codes here are onerous and expensive. Seems like those cost more than the materials and real estate. It's pretty bad. Why, just in my little peninsula town, if you do so much space in an internal remodel you must then re-landscape your yard using only city approved plants. Why? Who cares what your yard looks like if you've created an open living area inside your home?
Meanwhile the city is not beholden to such things as landscaping telling from the trees that they razed on our side of this busy throughway and planted to let die on the other side.
Ex-East Bay Area person here. I agree, the NIMBY mindset amongst these entitled pricks is too much. Even though the state of California and before that, certain counties, allowed ADUs to be built on properties, a friend in the East Bay got harassed by someone who lived on the other side of town when she pulled a permit to build an ADU on behalf of her elderly parents. Some of the neighbors objected to the design (pffft!). She built it with city approval, but then the same person from the other side of town went after her for the way she built a deck. It was in compliance, but that didn't stop the prick from bringing it up repeatedly during town council open mic. Jeezus.
Your little town sounds even worse! No wonder California is so expensive. Too many rich pricks with too much time on their hands.
The only reason I know this is because my husband does remodels so I hear it all. And they do allow ADU's in San Mateo county so that's good but still.
“It’s tragic that Jeffrey Epstein died without knowing he could have been Attorney General.” Andy Borowitz.
If Gisele had just waited a couple of years, she could’ve been elected to Congress.
Narrator:
She had bad timing.
I get the point about the NYT, but I'm still not going to subscribe again.
Have a bonus Tab timeline cleanse (lost Medieval town version)
https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/uncovering-rungholt-secrets-of-a-lost-medieval-town-in-the-north-sea/