A Cowboy (the band) groupie stayed in a frat house on UNC-CH campus in the 70s and left a bunch of the guys living there with scabies. Kinda like crabs but smaller. True story.
"Pratt... back to Pratt... Pratt again... a long ball out to Pratt... and now Pratt is on the ball, a neat little flick back inside to Pratt, who takes it nicely and sends it through on the far side to Pratt, Pratt with it but passes instead to Pratt, Pratt again, oh and well intercepted by the swarthy little number nine, Concito ' Maracon. This twenty-one-year-old half back, remarkably stocky for 6' 3", square shouldered, balding giant, hair flowing in the wind, bright eyed, pert, young for his age but oh so old in so many ways. For a thirty-nine year-old you wouldn't expect such speed. Normally considered slow, he's incredibly fast as he wanders aimlessly around, sweeping up and taking the defense to the cleaners. Who would have thought, though many expected it, that this remarkable forty-five-year-old, 9' 4" dwarf of a man, who is still only seventeen in some parts of the world, would ever really be ... Oh and there was a goal there apparently ... and now it's Pratt ... back to Pratt... Pratt again... a long ball to Pratt... "
The funniest thing about that Paxton bribe is that it actually set the rest of the conference up to sue to get the conference to be able to punish Tech.
I went out yesterday to put out the garbage and recycling bins and I won't bring them back in until tomorrow. I got up an hour ago and it looked like dawn, so the day is strangely dark. Esto no es bueno, mi gente!
Weird, Trump going on about election interference by foreign states, when Russia is known to have manifestly interfered in the 2016 election, on behalf of Trump.
I love how the guy saying that it’s offensive to describe America as a nation of immigrants chooses to support his argument by saying his white ancestors arrived in the late 17th century. If they arrived, they had to have departed from another country, meaning they emigrated from their homeland, therefore immigrated to North America.
Also, very much doubting his Comanche heritage because why not lead with that if he wanted to prove he wasn’t an immigrant? What, no Cherokee princess?
I can trace one side of my family back to pre-Revolutionary times, and then back to Britain and Wales, from whence they came. AS IMMIGRANTS.
Republicans of course are deliberately using trans rights as a wedge issue. It is intended to divide the Left. First they spray out a bunch of disinformation, scaremongering and hatemongering about trans people. Then, they attack Democrats who dare to push back. They're in favor of "child mutilation!" Etc. Well, falling for that trap and accepting their framing is a losing proposition, not to mention morally repugnant. They are pedding crap. Buying it makes you a sucker.
The fact that I have no idea if this is real or not is frightening to me. It seems really fake, but also it is completely in line with the other nonsense he spews.
I guess I am glad that he's not threatening total annihilation of another culture?
My son and I experienced a low flyover from a pair of F-111s in east-central New Mexico in 1994. We were motoring back up to Albuquerque from El Paso, taking "the back way" (east of the Interstate, on two-lane highways) when we stopped so he could take a pee-break at a convenient small stand of pinon.
Those jets were based in those days at Cannon Air Force Base, in Clovis, New Mexico. I knew that, and would not have been surprised to see them, but I was sure surprised by what they did that day. It happened so quickly, it takes longer to tell it than it actually took to occur. I was standing by the car, by the side of the road, waiting for my son to finish his business on the other side of the pinons.
The jets were not flying faster than sound, but they were flying close to it, the whooshing roar of their approach coming a fraction of a second before they passed over us, at what I would guess was a couple hundred feet. They are big airplanes -- not as big as a bomber, but bigger than the dentist's Cessna. I heard the sound, looked in the direction it was coming from, said "What the --?" and it was over, as they roared over us and on their way.
Did I wonder if they did it intentionally, if they saw us from higher up and dropped down to buzz us? Indeed I did. But I know that fighter jets from bases in New Mexico, of which there were several at that time, routinely practiced in the skies over eastern New Mexico. It's possible they were flying a routine practice maneuver and we just happened to be there. Traffic in that part of the state is very light, and you can drive for many miles and many minutes and not see another car. It is not impossible that the flyover was a coincidence and the pilots never even saw us (and no, I don't believe that).
My son returned from behind the pinons a moment later -- "Dad! What was that?" I told him, we marveled at it, and we got back in the car and finished our long drive home.
I also lived on the flight path to Kirkland AFB in the mountains east of Albuquerque NM. One fine day I was riding my horses along a dirt road when a mighty roar commenced overhead, and behold a C-130 flew close enough overhead that I could read the stenciled letters and numbers identifying various hatches and warnings. That seemed a bit low to me. Thankfully my horses were older and steady and had seen some shit, otherwise I could have had real trouble.
[Fetterman said] "... it would be a problem for him “if the Democratic Party officially says, ‘Israel is the problem, Israel doesn’t deserve to exist..."
WHO is saying that Israel doesn't deserve to exist???
I watched that live. At least it was only one night. Trump has been spewing his nonsense for YEARS. I'd be willing to give Trump the ratings he desperately wants if he live-streamed his grievances for one evening and then SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT FOREVER.
A crab with pom-poms?! She’s cheering that she’s nearly made it to the weekend, probably. Or there might be a different reason, which you can discover here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/shes-got-crabamatazz-pep-punch-and
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/ea7c0c09-315c-473e-8778-9c598961c0ba?utm_source=share
A crab that prowls the shallow seas
Grasping two anemones
Isn't there to cheer a team
But has a smart protection scheme
He waves the poisonous fluff around
And takes his predators to the ground.
Bob Fosse choreographs the sea floor.
jazz hands!
That crab is happy as can be. He's saying "NYAH NYAH Mrs. Pauls! Just try and catch me!"
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶ an anemone bearing crab..."
Catch these nematocysts fists!
So cute, and so fascinating!
Live action Sebastian!!! Everybody, conga!!
"Under the sea, under the sea
Darling its better down where its wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we're devoting full time to floating
Under the sea"
👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
"Gimme a 'C', gimme an 'R', gimme an 'A', gimme a 'B', gimme an 'S' - what have you got? CRABS! Go Crabs!"
(ESPN): "The Crabs were all over the Cowboys last night . . . "
A Cowboy (the band) groupie stayed in a frat house on UNC-CH campus in the 70s and left a bunch of the guys living there with scabies. Kinda like crabs but smaller. True story.
Scabies mites are the nasty little tunneling moles of the human integument.
"And it's a lateral... and another lateral... and another lateral. That's a gain of zero yards."
"Pratt... back to Pratt... Pratt again... a long ball out to Pratt... and now Pratt is on the ball, a neat little flick back inside to Pratt, who takes it nicely and sends it through on the far side to Pratt, Pratt with it but passes instead to Pratt, Pratt again, oh and well intercepted by the swarthy little number nine, Concito ' Maracon. This twenty-one-year-old half back, remarkably stocky for 6' 3", square shouldered, balding giant, hair flowing in the wind, bright eyed, pert, young for his age but oh so old in so many ways. For a thirty-nine year-old you wouldn't expect such speed. Normally considered slow, he's incredibly fast as he wanders aimlessly around, sweeping up and taking the defense to the cleaners. Who would have thought, though many expected it, that this remarkable forty-five-year-old, 9' 4" dwarf of a man, who is still only seventeen in some parts of the world, would ever really be ... Oh and there was a goal there apparently ... and now it's Pratt ... back to Pratt... Pratt again... a long ball to Pratt... "
-- Monty Python, 'Most Awful Family in Britain'
“More beans!”
They got em high and tight in the end zone
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Obligatory sports ref for the day completed
*checks off box*
Anemone!
doo doo do do doo
Anemone!
doo doo doo do
Pom Pom Crabbies!
The funniest thing about that Paxton bribe is that it actually set the rest of the conference up to sue to get the conference to be able to punish Tech.
This is OT, but: according to AirNow.gov my air quality at this moment is 147 (wunderground says it's 162).
Here's what AirNow has to say about that:
People with heart or lung disease, older adults, children and teens – take any of these steps to reduce your exposure:
Choose less strenuous activities (like walking instead of running) so you don’t breathe as hard.
Shorten the amount of time you are active outdoors.
Be active outdoors when air quality is better.
***Everyone else: Enjoy your outdoor activities.***
Will yer TerseNurse be going for a run outside in this? No he will not!
(emphasis mine)
I went out yesterday to put out the garbage and recycling bins and I won't bring them back in until tomorrow. I got up an hour ago and it looked like dawn, so the day is strangely dark. Esto no es bueno, mi gente!
Weird, Trump going on about election interference by foreign states, when Russia is known to have manifestly interfered in the 2016 election, on behalf of Trump.
I love how the guy saying that it’s offensive to describe America as a nation of immigrants chooses to support his argument by saying his white ancestors arrived in the late 17th century. If they arrived, they had to have departed from another country, meaning they emigrated from their homeland, therefore immigrated to North America.
Also, very much doubting his Comanche heritage because why not lead with that if he wanted to prove he wasn’t an immigrant? What, no Cherokee princess?
I can trace one side of my family back to pre-Revolutionary times, and then back to Britain and Wales, from whence they came. AS IMMIGRANTS.
Last night's speech landed like a lead balloon.
He should have talked about the Epstein Files.
Dazed and confused communication breakdown.
How many more times?
Republicans of course are deliberately using trans rights as a wedge issue. It is intended to divide the Left. First they spray out a bunch of disinformation, scaremongering and hatemongering about trans people. Then, they attack Democrats who dare to push back. They're in favor of "child mutilation!" Etc. Well, falling for that trap and accepting their framing is a losing proposition, not to mention morally repugnant. They are pedding crap. Buying it makes you a sucker.
The salient fact about the Trump speech last night is that I have not seen a single word about it on any social media or msm top stories feeds.
I'm seeing debunking of his claims on the Faceborg, but that's probably because I follow some progressive groups and authors.
Did someone hide Grampy's pudding-cup?
https://bsky.app/profile/quantumofsilliness.bsky.social/post/3mqtjhsfgmk2y
The fact that I have no idea if this is real or not is frightening to me. It seems really fake, but also it is completely in line with the other nonsense he spews.
I guess I am glad that he's not threatening total annihilation of another culture?
Are you sure that's real? The only toots I'm seeing from him are about how great and wonderful his speech was.
6:17 am? What the hell got his brain addled about McCartney and the Beatles??
Woke up fell out of bed.
Guess he got the ratings on last night's speech.
Can someone put on some Perry Como or something, Paw-Paw is getting agitated.
@tonymangino.bsky.social
· 2h
Please tell me this is fake...
@phinp.bsky.social
· 1h
The frightening thing is that we have to question whether it is real?
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.
True or false, it's still a joke.
My son and I experienced a low flyover from a pair of F-111s in east-central New Mexico in 1994. We were motoring back up to Albuquerque from El Paso, taking "the back way" (east of the Interstate, on two-lane highways) when we stopped so he could take a pee-break at a convenient small stand of pinon.
Those jets were based in those days at Cannon Air Force Base, in Clovis, New Mexico. I knew that, and would not have been surprised to see them, but I was sure surprised by what they did that day. It happened so quickly, it takes longer to tell it than it actually took to occur. I was standing by the car, by the side of the road, waiting for my son to finish his business on the other side of the pinons.
The jets were not flying faster than sound, but they were flying close to it, the whooshing roar of their approach coming a fraction of a second before they passed over us, at what I would guess was a couple hundred feet. They are big airplanes -- not as big as a bomber, but bigger than the dentist's Cessna. I heard the sound, looked in the direction it was coming from, said "What the --?" and it was over, as they roared over us and on their way.
Did I wonder if they did it intentionally, if they saw us from higher up and dropped down to buzz us? Indeed I did. But I know that fighter jets from bases in New Mexico, of which there were several at that time, routinely practiced in the skies over eastern New Mexico. It's possible they were flying a routine practice maneuver and we just happened to be there. Traffic in that part of the state is very light, and you can drive for many miles and many minutes and not see another car. It is not impossible that the flyover was a coincidence and the pilots never even saw us (and no, I don't believe that).
My son returned from behind the pinons a moment later -- "Dad! What was that?" I told him, we marveled at it, and we got back in the car and finished our long drive home.
I also lived on the flight path to Kirkland AFB in the mountains east of Albuquerque NM. One fine day I was riding my horses along a dirt road when a mighty roar commenced overhead, and behold a C-130 flew close enough overhead that I could read the stenciled letters and numbers identifying various hatches and warnings. That seemed a bit low to me. Thankfully my horses were older and steady and had seen some shit, otherwise I could have had real trouble.
Oh, for the love of Pete...
[Fetterman said] "... it would be a problem for him “if the Democratic Party officially says, ‘Israel is the problem, Israel doesn’t deserve to exist..."
WHO is saying that Israel doesn't deserve to exist???
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-fetterman-says-ll-leave-democratic-party-officially-becomes-anti-i-rcna587859
Well, then, it was, is, and evermore shall be, Not A Problem.
Sort of like me saying that it would be a problem for me "if pigs officially flew out of my ass."
Absolutely NO ONE is saying that. He's becoming (has always been?) a repuke at this point.
Not much makes me say "HOLY SHIT!" anymore. This did.
Russian Troops Live an Average of 30 Minutes on Battlefield: CIA Chief - Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-troops-life-expectancy-battle-minutes-john-ratcliffe-ukraine-2026-7
And who is doing the dying?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/africa/russia-african-recruits-military-ukraine-intl-cmd
Broken clock...
Trump: "They fought like hell not to have Donald Trump win, and for good reason!"
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3mqslsq7rgn23
Just a gentle reminder Trump is a pedophile who assaulted young girls and even possibly disposed of them afterwards.
But Bill Maher says we shouldn't dwell on such things.
Al Capone's vault, take two.
I watched that live. At least it was only one night. Trump has been spewing his nonsense for YEARS. I'd be willing to give Trump the ratings he desperately wants if he live-streamed his grievances for one evening and then SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT FOREVER.
Me too. I’ve worked for Years to get me eyeballs unstuck from rolling them so hard.
The Chinese could learn a thing or two from American interference in Hungarian elections.