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If you like old diving tech, I think you’ll want to check out my header explainer today: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/down-down-down

Video was sourced from an archival flic “Going Down.” More info at the link.

Menotsure's avatar

Needs a giant Pacific octopus.ttps://www.behance.net/gallery/48787257/Octopus-and-diver

Daniel's avatar

It reminded me of the drawings from Noggin the Nog.

OG Blockhead's avatar

The Titanic sub guy probably saw that as a kid and said, "One day..:"

Shocktreatment's avatar

Perhaps they will look to old dive tech for ideas for suits made to dive into the heat...

Less pressure, more airflow and dehumidification...

Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

No way would anyone get me to go deep under water! Especially not with cement chuck taylors.

Revenant's avatar

remember W.C. Fields' warning about water; "Fish fuck in it"

RocktonSam's avatar

High tops of course...

The Wanderer's avatar

Heh heh heh, she said "Going down."

Daniel's avatar

Hehehehe diving bell.

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Stroke1's avatar

heh heh heh she said (muff) diving

DDB9000's avatar

She was clearly talking about Muff Winwood (brother of Steve) from

the Spencer Davis Group!

Keep On Running!

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Atrele Kasha's avatar

<i>Even some right-wing antifeminist influencers are shocked to discover all this misogyny on the premises.</i>

Why are the leopards eating OUR faces?!?!

ziggywiggy's avatar

Today's dental torture session was the worst so far, 2 hours filled with great big trigger induced flashbacks. They still didn't get this mold right. I have to go back in 2 weeks for a 3 hour appointment. Today fucked me up, Dr. Evil tried to do the 5th try . I started to gag immediately. He kept the mold in. It got worse. I was choking he kept the mold in. Finally I grab his arm and pulled it out myself. Fuck that psycho. I need all my witches, warlocks and spiritualists to put a little whammy on him, just want him to experience some humility. Force him to see patients as humans. A little karmic retribution.

BlueSpot's avatar

Actually, on second thought, what you are describing here is a physical assault. You were gagging and he refused to remove the mold. You grabbed his arm and he still resisted. That's an assault! File a police complaint on his sorry ass and have him arrested for assault with intent to harm and assault in a medical setting.

Once you were showing signs of distress he should have immediately removed the mold. This isn't some B&D play time with a safe word, and you were certainly not having any fun. Arrest his ass and see how the place treats you the on the next appointment; I'm sure that the people there will be very polite to you.

BlueSpot's avatar

Did you get any of his hair or skin when you grabbed his arm? Can't do anything without either hair or skin. :(

Wookiee Monster's avatar

Of course the republican goal is for there to only be republicans in the White House, so they’re not worried about democrats ever abusing these new presidential powers.

Mark's avatar

I'm such an ass.

Slate has an article about karaoke which includes the line:

"[Snip]if you and six friends want to get ignorant on “Best I Ever Had” behind a soundproof door, more power to you, brother. But get that shit out of here in humane, dignified public settings. College was a long time ago, okay?"

And that's where I just fucking lost it. "Humane." "Dignified." You're talking about effing KARAOKE. The DESTROYER of Dignified. Any bar or other venue hosting a karaoke night starts with the bouncers taking Dignified out the back door and shot-putting it into the dumpster.

Even the guy who invented karaoke disses it.

RogationDays's avatar

I refuse to try to unlock The Daily Beast story on pickle ball and its apparent horrors. Can someone enlighten me?

Alikhat's avatar

A city council in Miami decided to bulldoze over a community garden and replace it with pickleball courts; which, apparently, was wanted by exactly no one.

The more you know...

DDB9000's avatar

In regards to America Ferrara's assault, when she ''... became one of many women who came forward about being sexually assaulted in light of the allegations made against Harvey Weinstein at the time [2017].''

It is and was disgusting and no-one should have to go through that.

But I want to address the 600-pound Weinstein in the room.

HOLLYWOOD WAS, AND STILL IS, A VILE MISOGYNIST PLACE.

Even though neither I nor my (now ex-) wife have ever had any real links to the flim-flam business at all, we both knew (independently of each other) well before 2017 about Weinstein's vileness and sexual assault. And as we met in 1985, I am talking at least a few years before that with me living in Central NY and her living in Philadelphia. And this is 100% true

Now if WE knew this it is clear that the Hollyrape communtiy has been leaking like a broken condom forever in regards to Weinstein.

Anyone else here know that as early as we did?

RogationDays's avatar

It was like all of us in the classical music world knew about famous conductors and others who really did horrible stuff. Power corrupts.

DDB9000's avatar

Yep! Very similar...

Pillbox Hat's avatar

How can I hate pickleball so much when I barely know what it is?

ziggywiggy's avatar

My anxiety is super high now, in 30 minutes I go back to the dentist and they traumatized me last week. I usually take a very tiny amount of Xanax to get me through situations like this because I'm sensitive to meds, but I'm doubling it today. I can do this, it's not going to be like last week, I just gotta keep telling myself that, now if my body would just listen. Anxiety can be very physically demanding.

DDB9000's avatar

I know you will get through this. With all the surgery done on me for years I eventually got used to it. Now that I'm down to only 9 teeth, it's a lost cause for me.

But I know from past readings you WILL get through it!

Shocktreatment's avatar

Tweelon M̶u̶s̶k̶ X shared a photo of the kind of short-attentioned person who really drives the cinema industry effort, scrolling through some social media in an unsocial manner 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 .

The caption on the image reads, “This Oppenheimer movie is way too long.”

So every one of us who enjoyed the movie is wrong! The glowing reviews wrong!

I've been recommending the movie without even knowing X's thoughts!

I better go turn myself in

RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

talk like that will get you sent to re-education camp.

TalentNotAutotune's avatar

It's time for a QAnon Cretin update! And man, is there updating to do!

Mostly it's updating over Elon Musk and X. Did you know that:

* XMAS means X MArks the Spot? It does!

* Q mentioned the term "XMAS" many times? He/she/it did!

* If you read "she/it" really fast, your brain says "shiiiiiiiiit"? It does!

* Q first mentioned "XMAS" in post 55 and everyone knows that really means 5 x 5, which is read "5 by 5" and as everyone knows, that is comms for "Good Signal Strength"? He/she/it did! Comms, people - know your comms!

* And not only that but also, that Q posted "XMAS in July"? He/she/it did! And what month is it now?!? July! The strom is coming! (Yes, I spelled "strom" on purpose, it's an old Kelly Bundy joke)

* Plus, the CIA's project to infiltrate the media was called Project Mockingbird, and there are blue mockingbirds, and Twitter's bird was blue, and X can mean "eliminated", and Q said "Multiple meanings exist" and also said "Learn our comms", so clearly this means...something? Well, kek!

* In addition, that X's new logo is really just a unicode symbol that represents "mathematical double-struck X"? It is!

Checkmate, libs!

DDB9000's avatar

You forgot that one of the members of the band X is called JOHN DOE!

A name that is given to an UNKNOWN PERSON.

I have actually met John Doe, so I am clearly a part of XAnon!

TalentNotAutotune's avatar

I too have met John Doe - seemed like a nice guy - but that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Exene Cervenka is, in actual fact, a QAnon psycho. X was just in my town and the supporting act was the awesome James Ingveldt but there is no possible way I'm paying one cent that might go to Cervenka, no matter who else is on the bill.

DDB9000's avatar

For the purpose of brevity, I neglected to say that I have met Exene, once at the same event where I met John.

I had actually seen Exene many few years earlier doing a poetry thing with Lydia Lunch. They did poems together and apart and it was great. Afterwards I taked to them and while Lydia was surely more lucid, I don't think that Exene had gone full-on wacko yet.

The thing wih John Doe and Exene was as sort of confernce with people in the punk ''genre''. One of the others I met was one of the women in Pussy Riot who had escapeed from Russia. I had a very intersting talk with her and got an autograph, but I don't remember which one it was at this point.

But getting back to John and Exene, John was very lucid and we talked mostly about his solo career. I had brought with me this book about the LA punk scene from those early days, and while John signed it like a normal person, Exene didn't tell me any of her conspiracy therories, but it was still strange.

As they were for the purposes of the event ''together'' (there were others waiting to talk with them) I got the impression that John would've preferred to leave with me to get tacos!

Shocktreatment's avatar

How will we ever prevail against such strategery?

TalentNotAutotune's avatar

You can't, they've already declared checkmate!

Shocktreatment's avatar

Time for lunch, anyway...

ziggywiggy's avatar

I'm asking with a great big PLEASE(also share this info) stop using the "Also share to Notes" unless you really want your comment duplicated. One if the biggest problems is it also duplicates the story. So if you go look at notes you will see the Tabs story posted several times, followed by last night's OT story many more times. It makes Notes harder to use for anything but as a duplicate comment section. This is not about posting your own Notes(go for it, but they won't be seen if it's filled with repeated comments from here), it's about that button that says "also share to Notes" thank you so much!

RogationDays's avatar

Thanks…I’ve been very confused about this.

DDB9000's avatar

Yes, indeed! I accidentally did that when I could not find where my posts were. I only did two. As a result I now have people following me cause they think I will be dsipensing pearls of wisdom down at Firehouse 151.. Anyone seeing this should reallty unsuscribe from me cause I am only going to be communicating of these threads - nothing personal.

SunMoonStars's avatar

Man I love Fetterman. I wish him the best and hope great things for him.

Satanic Pancake's avatar

Well, it's a big decision day for me. Do I eat oatmeal for breakfast, or do I drink the warm, slightly flat beer that I opened last night, but never drank because I was too distracted by "getting busy"*? Oatmeal is, well, oatmeal, but it does have fresh strawberries and blueberries, and is filling. The beer is warm and flat and just thinking about it fills me with sadness. OTOH, if I do not drink the beer, it will never fulfill its purpose**. Or maybe I could make a beer batter and torture some pieces of fish later tonight. Okay, oatmeal it is.

*Playing cribbage, and losing badly. Almost triple skunked, with four points being my best hand until the very end.

**Becoming urine

Biff52 vrag naroda's avatar

Too late now, but you could substitute the water with beer when cooking the oatmeal.

PAUL's avatar

Wanna' have some fun? Play "Calvin Cribbage".

Deal nine cards and throw three into the kitty.

Hands with seven cards lead to some amazing scores.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

(from the tab about feuding women feuding over who is most traditionally wife-like and submissive enough for Jesus and his dad who runs the whole show...that would be Crom)

"Clark’s guest... Merkle also stated, “It’s quite clear in scripture that men and women are equal.”

LOL! It's a little late to put THAT bunch of worms back into the can! Once you state that the only source of infallible moral direction is found in the bible you literally cut your own throat when it comes to the "divide" between the sexes found there.

The bible only has ONE lesson for women who read it: IT'S A MAN'S WORLD! AND WHAT IS ALL THIS NONSENSE OF A WOMAN BEING ABLE TO READ?"

From front to back and everywhere in between the bible is the roadmap of misogyny.

It's been used, relentlessly, through the centuries to justify genocides, enslavement of "the other" (Jesus himself said that slaves "need to accept their lot in life" cuz that's the way Crom wants it) and especially the dominion of men over their women.

Period. No equality. No level playing field. No restrictions on what men do to women whatsover. WOMEN. BELONG. TO . MEN.

The only lesson these "trad wife influencers" really need is found in Greek mythology where a curious woman named Pandora opened a certain box and unleashed a FUCKTON of trouble.

In this instance the trad wife influencers have opened a bible full of trouble for themselves and there is no putting the trouble back in that box.