i remember some wag here - maybe as much as 10 years ago - writing the funniest damn dialogue of a duck landing. i wish i remembered who it was. the memory makes me laugh to this day.
Landing gear down. Flaps full. LEFT RUDDER LEFT RUDDER LEFT RUDDER. TERRAIN TERRAIN TERRAIN. Touch down. Nice job there ace. NGL Some of my landings looked just like this one.
I love ducks! They crack me up and have a lot of personality. Or, you know, you can impose stuff on them because of their faces and their way of moving and their goofy quacks.
That is one helluva ungainly landing. Ours our *much* more elegant. Hoping that external observers can find a landing path. Slamming into the runway. Bouncing. Roaring brakes and engines. Yup. That slick flutter of wings? Uh huh. We'll do that also too ... soon. We are the masters of the Earth!
The second Rumeysa Ozturk lands in a public court she will be freed. 24 hours later ICE will deport her. 72 hours later Trump, Immigration, DOJ and ICE will be slapped with billion dollar lawsuits.
Pope Leo avoided the rush and dissed Trump and JD before he was picked. That made a lot of people happy today.
The Israeli plan is to depopulate Gaza. A very Christian "Kill them all. God will know his own" strategy.
South Dakota Rebs, "Circle the wagons! It's the cavalry!"
re: Flipped Texas School Boards; thank you GOP morans everywhere. You just keep on being you.
Even American dogs need a little something to cope with the humans around them.
Read the thing about food. I never knew I was so gay (Seriously, I've never heard of that nonsense before.) I eat soup, ice cream, pickles, bananas, and tofu and have never had any qualms about eating those in public. My drinking behavior is even worse, because I love margaritas and tropical rum drinks. Even the beers I drink are craft beers drunk in quiet, polite bars where fights never occur. On top of that, I just bought a new car, and it's not just an EV (incapable of manly vroom vroom noises), but a Volvo. It doesn't get any gayer than that.
“ doctrinaire, far-right, almost Christian nationalist conservatives didn't fare well.”
People are growing weary of the Christofascists shoving their dogma down everyone’s throats. Didn’t this also happen in PA too with the Moms of Liberty candidates doing poorly. In fact if I recall correctly there were only about 4 school boards that held fast.
Too many non-parents or parents whose kids don’t even go to public schools interfering with the schools.
Hey Wonkette- the real war crime is Hamas stealing aid from its citizens that Israel gave them. That’s why there is a “shortage” of supplies. It’s in the tunnels where the remaining hostages are being held. But I see no mention of them. Or the fact that Hamas can end ALL OF THIS if they release the hostages. Good job. 🙄
From the FAFO department: I was visiting a friend yesterday who is doing some home repairs and he had a guy coming out to give an estimate on some new gutters. Guy shows up in a work truck with “Trump” and “MAGA” bumper stickers. Sorry, mister, we won’t be giving you any business.
2 years ago the contractors building our deck extension turned up one day with Lets Go Brandon stickers on their trucks. Not much we could do as the deck was halfway finished.
We had to have the deck totally redone 6 months later as they did such a pisspoor job. I made sure to let the community know that they were unskilled cowboys. Turns out they had screwed up a number of jobs in the area
The petty part of me wants some part of mens’s healthcare to be politicized so they can also feel the pain of unqualified assholes intervening in matters that are none of their business.
The Not Petty part of me just wants politicians out of healthcare.
I will go do yardwork and contemplate my character flaws.
If they got their greatest wish, if they catch this car, they'll have a small entry area to public restrooms where you will enter individually and have your genitals inspected by a government official with a holding cell standing ready to take all lawbreakers.
Republican men get to show their penises to total strangers, and Republican women get to wash their hands next to a lumberjack.
I don't see anyone talk about the side effects - heart palpitations, inability to sleep, pounding headaches, wonky vision. No thanks. But you know what? They would think some guy getting a heart attack from it was funny, "well at least he died happy."
Damn, those library fines should be LARGE and DEMANDING and SHAMING! The article is blurred out after the first few paragraphs (paywalled) so I don't know the end of the story, but I can imagine some fine endings on my own.
One really has to wonder if there were "gratuities" involved with the decision to grant OAN access to VOA. Someone must have put the bug is FFOTUSs ear.
That Eater article was fascinating! Going to suggest that for women, the 'forbidden' food isn't food that will turn us gay or make us manly, it's food that will make us fat. Because from a heteronormative perspective, being fat must mean we're thinking more about what we want (delicious food) then what men want ('pick me'!). It must mean that we have the animal instincts of men (I want it and I'm going to have it) vs the taming instincts of women (I want it but I'm going to deny myself). Consuming 'fattening' foods must mean we're putting ourselves and our needs first - a very masculine thing for ladies to do!
Duck, duck, tabs! Your hed gif info: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/mallard-touches-down
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/09769a10-4d7e-4b56-ba2d-c60bfacedde5?utm_source=share
Now that's how you nail a crosswind landing. On ice yet!
i remember some wag here - maybe as much as 10 years ago - writing the funniest damn dialogue of a duck landing. i wish i remembered who it was. the memory makes me laugh to this day.
Landing gear down. Flaps full. LEFT RUDDER LEFT RUDDER LEFT RUDDER. TERRAIN TERRAIN TERRAIN. Touch down. Nice job there ace. NGL Some of my landings looked just like this one.
As long as you can walk away ...
https://youtu.be/RISsiVIWV-M?si=563mpxOXtZ8M9hxe
I love ducks! They crack me up and have a lot of personality. Or, you know, you can impose stuff on them because of their faces and their way of moving and their goofy quacks.
This view of the landing was absolutely wonderful to watch. Nice piece of film!
That was a quackerjack post Martini.
I'm gonna send you a bill for that one.
"Duck" Yeager:
"Of COURSE I stuck the landing..."
I love mallards because they think they are serious animals.
Yeah, well, trying doing that at Newark airport.
Stuck the motherfuckin' landing!
"Any landing you can walk away from..."
Ducks that are self-conscious about their skills should watch some of those crash landing geese...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0zj3Ap74Vw
"Fucking QUAAAAACK!"
That is one helluva ungainly landing. Ours our *much* more elegant. Hoping that external observers can find a landing path. Slamming into the runway. Bouncing. Roaring brakes and engines. Yup. That slick flutter of wings? Uh huh. We'll do that also too ... soon. We are the masters of the Earth!
Pheeeeew! I was expecting a crash landing.
Reminds me of flying into DCA all wobbly like.
Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plitxZmd4zg
Bugs did that on porpoise!
Of course!
I love the classics.
Hell to the yesth.
Incoming!
DUCK!!!!
Landing gear extended, adjusting flaps ...
The second Rumeysa Ozturk lands in a public court she will be freed. 24 hours later ICE will deport her. 72 hours later Trump, Immigration, DOJ and ICE will be slapped with billion dollar lawsuits.
Pope Leo avoided the rush and dissed Trump and JD before he was picked. That made a lot of people happy today.
The Israeli plan is to depopulate Gaza. A very Christian "Kill them all. God will know his own" strategy.
South Dakota Rebs, "Circle the wagons! It's the cavalry!"
re: Flipped Texas School Boards; thank you GOP morans everywhere. You just keep on being you.
Even American dogs need a little something to cope with the humans around them.
Read the thing about food. I never knew I was so gay (Seriously, I've never heard of that nonsense before.) I eat soup, ice cream, pickles, bananas, and tofu and have never had any qualms about eating those in public. My drinking behavior is even worse, because I love margaritas and tropical rum drinks. Even the beers I drink are craft beers drunk in quiet, polite bars where fights never occur. On top of that, I just bought a new car, and it's not just an EV (incapable of manly vroom vroom noises), but a Volvo. It doesn't get any gayer than that.
So basically, we taxpayers are now subsidizing OAN while cutting off NPR and PBS.
The mask is coming off. Brain Worm Bobby is promoting eugenics.
https://apple.news/ACPVqp-KyTOOuV6avTYYaLw
“ doctrinaire, far-right, almost Christian nationalist conservatives didn't fare well.”
People are growing weary of the Christofascists shoving their dogma down everyone’s throats. Didn’t this also happen in PA too with the Moms of Liberty candidates doing poorly. In fact if I recall correctly there were only about 4 school boards that held fast.
Too many non-parents or parents whose kids don’t even go to public schools interfering with the schools.
"Man the ‘70s was some woke-ass shit :)"
YES IT WAS. And then Reagan got elected and put a stop to all that. (The AIDS crisis didn't help, either)
Hey Wonkette- the real war crime is Hamas stealing aid from its citizens that Israel gave them. That’s why there is a “shortage” of supplies. It’s in the tunnels where the remaining hostages are being held. But I see no mention of them. Or the fact that Hamas can end ALL OF THIS if they release the hostages. Good job. 🙄
From the FAFO department: I was visiting a friend yesterday who is doing some home repairs and he had a guy coming out to give an estimate on some new gutters. Guy shows up in a work truck with “Trump” and “MAGA” bumper stickers. Sorry, mister, we won’t be giving you any business.
2 years ago the contractors building our deck extension turned up one day with Lets Go Brandon stickers on their trucks. Not much we could do as the deck was halfway finished.
We had to have the deck totally redone 6 months later as they did such a pisspoor job. I made sure to let the community know that they were unskilled cowboys. Turns out they had screwed up a number of jobs in the area
That's usually the way it goes
Lurie Daniel Favors talks in her 'cast today about MTV Duffy and how stupid he is and how he doesn't know anything about the multiple planes crashing
And IINM Pete Hic!seth let a THIRD multi-million dollar fighter plane fall off an aircraft carrier ....
The petty part of me wants some part of mens’s healthcare to be politicized so they can also feel the pain of unqualified assholes intervening in matters that are none of their business.
The Not Petty part of me just wants politicians out of healthcare.
I will go do yardwork and contemplate my character flaws.
If they got their greatest wish, if they catch this car, they'll have a small entry area to public restrooms where you will enter individually and have your genitals inspected by a government official with a holding cell standing ready to take all lawbreakers.
Republican men get to show their penises to total strangers, and Republican women get to wash their hands next to a lumberjack.
You mean they don’t already? I hear hookup apps during Republican conventions are lit.
We need a case about how potentially dangerous Viagra is
I don't see anyone talk about the side effects - heart palpitations, inability to sleep, pounding headaches, wonky vision. No thanks. But you know what? They would think some guy getting a heart attack from it was funny, "well at least he died happy."
It’s a systemic vasodilator. You know what’s all over the body? Vasos!
Maybe it should only be administered in hospitals or in facilities with licensed personnel with admitting privileges standing by.
Agreed.
I see that South Carolina somehow managed to botch their exciting Trump firing squad option
IMPEACH red hat, but for my dad as an early Father's Day item...
Get a load of this asshole!
https://www.cleveland.com/community/2025/05/man-checks-out-100-books-from-beachwood-library-then-posts-on-social-media-video-of-those-books-burning.html&outputtype=amp
(edited to ungated version)
I hope the library gives him a REALLY big bill
What a trite gesture.
When you’re lighting a pile of books on fire, how does it fail to dawn on you that you are the bad guy? (Answer: didn’t read enough of said books)
Damn, those library fines should be LARGE and DEMANDING and SHAMING! The article is blurred out after the first few paragraphs (paywalled) so I don't know the end of the story, but I can imagine some fine endings on my own.
Also too, this:
https://www.papmambook.ru/images/upl/pagephotos/pagephotos_3178_5af2d5caeb089fbf1c15337ea22bb2e81e51ecac6d6c5.jpg
link fixed. as soon as the books are overdue, he's paying for all of them, Katie.
People who burn books will eventually move to burning people.
One really has to wonder if there were "gratuities" involved with the decision to grant OAN access to VOA. Someone must have put the bug is FFOTUSs ear.
Weren't they (OANN) about to shut down completely just a few months ago?
That Eater article was fascinating! Going to suggest that for women, the 'forbidden' food isn't food that will turn us gay or make us manly, it's food that will make us fat. Because from a heteronormative perspective, being fat must mean we're thinking more about what we want (delicious food) then what men want ('pick me'!). It must mean that we have the animal instincts of men (I want it and I'm going to have it) vs the taming instincts of women (I want it but I'm going to deny myself). Consuming 'fattening' foods must mean we're putting ourselves and our needs first - a very masculine thing for ladies to do!
The Venus of Willendorf has entered the chat:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
thank you.n I did not know about this
Queen!
“An incident occurred” is special. Also see “mistakes were made.” It’s like that smoke bomb Batman throws at his feet to make himself vanish.