Crowded House: “Teenage Summer” (live at La Fabrique in France)

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Is it real
Or a fiction of your mind
Am I gone
In a fraction of your time
You mistake my real intentions once again
Want to be near you, wanted to hear you

My words alight
Like paper drifting in the sky
Not enough to be a witness of your life
All along
I was hoping we would come of age
Walking around you
Want to surround you
But I can’t get close enough
Can’t get close enough
Wanted to find you
Wanted to break through
Life’s imitation
I’ve been away too much
I’ve been locking it away too much

I’m here tonight
And I’m gone again
You pick up your bags
and you ready to fly
Pick up your bags

Baby come on
Wanted to hear you
Want to be near you
But I can’t get close enough
I can’t get close enough
Want to surround you
Want to be near you
But I can’t get close enough
Wanted to be near you
Wanted to care for you
But I can’t get close enough
Wanted to break through
Life’s imitation
I’ve been away too much
I’ve been locking it away too much
I’m gonna call you
Life’s imitation
I’ve been away too much
I’ve been locking it away too much
I ‘m gonna call you
Life’s imitation, blue heaven

Are we gonna have some teenage summer
Are we gonna have some mad new year
Are we gonna have some teenage summer
Am I gonna have some mad idea

Are we gonna have some teenage summer
Am I gonna have some mad idea
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1
Charles Johnson  May 26, 2024 • 11:28:39am

It’s always great to hear that Trump got booed by an audience, but remember, these are libertarians. So like everything else they do, it doesn’t matter at all.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-26T17:09:42.126Z

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 26, 2024 • 11:34:21am

Afternoon Lizards.

3
Eclectic Cyborg  May 26, 2024 • 11:42:27am

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goddamnedfrank  May 26, 2024 • 11:44:48am

Radical Israeli settlers have expanded their attacks on aid trucks passing through the West Bank this month, blocking food from reaching Gaza as humanitarian groups warn that the enclave is sinking deeper into famine.

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2024-05-26T18:20:42.335Z

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 26, 2024 • 11:45:31am

I am so proud of my nephew. For a recent assignment in his English class, students had to give examples of various types of expressions.

My nephew got assigned to write something that would be considered an understatement.

What did he choose?

“ ‘Tis but a scratch. “

His teacher loved it too.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 26, 2024 • 11:46:19am

re: #4 goddamnedfrank

Can’t this shit be air dropped or something?

What is the point of sending all this aid if it’s just gonna be stolen before it gets to where it needs to go?

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Nerdy Fish  May 26, 2024 • 11:54:18am

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

Can’t this shit be air dropped or something?

What is the point of sending all this aid if it’s just gonna be stolen before it gets to where it needs to go?

Precision air drops are tough, and you can’t move as much cargo as you can through a ship. Even landing planes at an airport, which is safer and easier, doesn’t have that kind of throughput. The Berlin Air Lift was a legendary event because of the difficulty involved in getting enough planes in and out in a timely fashion.

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Charles Johnson  May 26, 2024 • 12:02:53pm

It turns out this whole time that the Turing Test was the wrong way to think of it. Thinking a chatbot is alive is not a test of how good the chatbot is, but of your own ability to think of other human beings as real and complete people

— Joseph Fink (@planetoffinks.bsky.social) 2024-05-14T16:46:57.095Z

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Unabogie  May 26, 2024 • 12:03:14pm

If the Israeli government had any sense, of decency or otherwise, they’d be making a big show out of delivering this aid. But they don’t want to do it, because they are currently controlled by fascists who are just as bloodthirsty as Hamas.

Personally, I find it impossible to defend any of this to people I know. The Israelis have completely squandered the good will they had last year. They are the villain in the eyes of the world, and if you don’t believe me, try explaining all of these supposed mitigating factors about the lack of food reaching children to anyone not already fervently pro-Israel and see how they respond.

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DodgerFan1988  May 26, 2024 • 12:05:32pm


MAGA: “But Putin is the real victim!”

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goddamnedfrank  May 26, 2024 • 12:06:39pm

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

Can’t this shit be air dropped or something?

What is the point of sending all this aid if it’s just gonna be stolen before it gets to where it needs to go?

On the best day air freight is about 5 times more expensive than shipping via truck and that’s if you pick it up at the airport, before factoring in the costs of trying to parachute it into a deconflicted war zone. The settlers are doing this and the Israeli government is tacitly allowing them to do it because they know consistent truck access is the only truly effective way of preventing famine. The pier and airdrops are just a desperate performative kludge by Biden’s team to avoid dealing head on with the fact that we’ve become accessories to the ongoing war crime of intentional starvation of a civilian population.

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Captain Ron  May 26, 2024 • 12:09:36pm

Indy race should start in 90 minutes.

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Charles Johnson  May 26, 2024 • 12:12:24pm

A lot of MAGA types are simply not very bright, but the dangerous ones are the ones who know it’s all a lie but are into it for exactly that reason.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-26T19:11:16.000Z

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 26, 2024 • 12:13:04pm

re: #7 Nerdy Fish

Precision air drops are tough, and you can’t move as much cargo as you can through a ship. Even landing planes at an airport, which is safer and easier, doesn’t have that kind of throughput. The Berlin Air Lift was a legendary event because of the difficulty involved in getting enough planes in and out in a timely fashion.

Plus several countries have been doing air drops, including Jordan and the United Kingdom. There are several videos available of air dropped goods where parachutes don’t open and people are crushed beneath tonnes of supplies.

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Nerdy Fish  May 26, 2024 • 12:15:03pm

re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Plus several countries have been doing air drops, including Jordan and the United Kingdom. There are several videos available of air dropped goods where parachutes don’t open and people are crushed beneath tonnes of supplies.

Exactly my point with my first statement about “precision air drops are tough.” There’s so much more that can go wrong when air-dropping cargo, compared to more standard modes of transport. Even just flying the cargo in, without dropping it, is fraught with danger.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 26, 2024 • 12:22:19pm

re: #15 Nerdy Fish

Exactly my point with my first statement about “precision air drops are tough.” There’s so much more that can go wrong when air-dropping cargo, compared to more standard modes of transport. Even just flying the cargo in, without dropping it, is fraught with danger.

Twilight Zone author Rod Serling was an Army veteran and served in Burma during World War II. He suffered from PTSD the rest of his life. The worst, according to him, was when he saw a friend decapitated by a falling supply crate during an airdrop.

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goddamnedfrank  May 26, 2024 • 12:42:19pm

Reminder that the Gaza Strip is in total about the size of Baltimore City and getting food aid into there shouldn't require this sort of global military logistics, absent the country that surrounds most of the strip preventing aid from arriving.

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw.bsky.social) 2024-05-26T19:27:59.623Z

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Belafon  May 26, 2024 • 12:59:53pm

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

Can’t this shit be air dropped or something?

What is the point of sending all this aid if it’s just gonna be stolen before it gets to where it needs to go?

Wasn’t there a recent drop somewhere that killed the recipients?

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mmmirele  May 26, 2024 • 1:11:41pm

re: #16 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Twilight Zone author Rod Serling was an Army veteran and served in Burma during World War II. He suffered from PTSD the rest of his life. The worst, according to him, was when he saw a friend decapitated by a falling supply crate during an airdrop.

I remember being in a class in my first semester at UT Austin and nearby a building (the old ROTC building in fact) was being demolished, with the usual booms and shakes and window rattles. One of my classmates, an older guy, was turning white as a sheet as this went on before the prof said, “it’s too noisy for class, y’all can go.” I talked to this guy after we got out and he’d been in Vietnam and the booms and shakes and rattles were aggravating his PTSD. I think that was the first time I’d heard of PTSD.

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jaunte  May 26, 2024 • 1:15:15pm

@elizabethviolet.bsky.social

Section of US $320 million pier in Gaza broke off and floated onto Israel’s Ashdod beach

— US army landing craft along with piece of the pier are now both stuck on beach
— Another US ship was sent to the rescue and also got beached
— US troops seen in footage standing helplessly on the beach

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Belafon  May 26, 2024 • 1:18:02pm

Hypothesis: the reason that humans anthropomorphize things is that newborns aren’t actually developed enough to be recognized as sentient, and, instinctually, we would be prone to ignoring them if we didn’t make it up ourselves.

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Nerdy Fish  May 26, 2024 • 1:22:48pm

re: #20 jaunte

@elizabethviolet.bsky.social

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Somewhere in Israel, a US staff sergeant is having a really bad day.

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Decatur Deb  May 26, 2024 • 1:27:00pm

re: #23 Nerdy Fish

Somewhere in Israel, a US staff sergeant is having a really bad day.

They know how to share.

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Charles Johnson  May 26, 2024 • 1:28:42pm

Having a bowl of tomato bisque with a grilled cheese sandwich and DIPPING THE SANDWICH IN THE SOUP OMFG

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-26T20:27:31.000Z

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nines09  May 26, 2024 • 1:33:03pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Tomato soup with a few drops of tabasco and a sleeve of good saltines….
Crumble.
Swirl slightly keeping most crunchy..
AND you can dip the sammy too!
I always had to ask for the BASKET of saltines when I was on the road.
They would toss a few packs…
no….
the basket….
please.

Just had this yesterday.

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Belafon  May 26, 2024 • 1:35:26pm

Honestly, America at its best tells everyone in the world, "Are you fleeing tyranny? Or maybe have drive and hustle? In that case, answer some test questions about George Washington, and congratulations, you're an American!"

If we keep this spirit, we'll own the 21st century as hard as the 20th.

— Andrew Reeves (@andrewsshi.bsky.social) 2024-05-24T00:39:14.498Z

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Charles Johnson  May 26, 2024 • 1:40:54pm

re: #27 Belafon

If only Beavis and Butthead could be alive to see it.

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retired cynic  May 26, 2024 • 1:41:31pm

Democracy In The (Dis)Information Age
Why Turning Right Turned Out So Wrong
Two roads diverged in a wood, and the Republican Party took the one less traveled by…and that made all the difference.
asharangappa.substack.com

Either read or listen to Asha do voiceover. This is something we have discussed on here a lot: when did the Republicans lose their way? Nixon / Reagan / Gingrich / Trump? This is a very clear presentation of that discussion, something Asha is very good at. This session is free. Also free are her “It’s Complicated” series of podcasts with Renato Mariotti. I’m a fan.

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Charles Johnson  May 26, 2024 • 1:44:05pm

TIL there is actually a game called cornhole, and there are cornhole clubs, and I have to wonder if they know about the lineage of that word?

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Nerdy Fish  May 26, 2024 • 1:44:55pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

TIL there is actually a game called cornhole, and there are cornhole clubs, and I have to wonder if they know about the lineage of that word?

Yes, they know. And yes, at any family gathering, holiday picnic, or other Midwest get-together where cornhole is played, some jackwagon will make an off-color joke.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 26, 2024 • 1:44:59pm

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

Can’t this shit be air dropped or something?

What is the point of sending all this aid if it’s just gonna be stolen before it gets to where it needs to go?

theatrics

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Charles Johnson  May 26, 2024 • 1:46:09pm

re: #31 Nerdy Fish

Yes, they know. And yes, at any family gathering, holiday picnic, or other Midwest get-together where cornhole is played, some jackwagon will make an off-color joke.

How could any self-respecting jackwagon not?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 26, 2024 • 1:46:13pm

re: #10 DodgerFan1988

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MAGA: “But Putin is the real victim!”

“This is all in self-defense against the Zionist-Fascist threat!”

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Nerdy Fish  May 26, 2024 • 1:47:50pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

How could any self-respecting jackwagon not?

Oh, I know. Everybody just rolls their eyes and keeps playing.

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Charles Johnson  May 26, 2024 • 1:48:08pm

I had to physically restrain myself from being that jackwagon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 26, 2024 • 1:48:48pm

re: #21 Belafon

Hypothesis: the reason that humans anthropomorphize things is that newborns aren’t actually developed enough to be recognized as sentient, and, instinctually, we would be prone to ignoring them if we didn’t make it up ourselves.

The same way that we see faces in things that look familiar, we see sentience in things that look and act as if they coule be sentient

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 26, 2024 • 1:49:19pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

TIL there is actually a game called cornhole, and there are cornhole clubs, and I have to wonder if they know about the lineage of that word?

I wondered about that when it was introduced to a work picnic about five years ago, and I live in the Midwest, where I assume it came from.

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Targetpractice  May 26, 2024 • 1:58:24pm

LMAO

Despite their personal appeals for support, RFK Jr. and Donald Trump respectively received only 19 (2%) and 6 (<1%) votes in the Libertarian Party’s first round balloting for presidential nominee. They’re both eliminated from further contention.

— Steve Herman (@w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy) 2024-05-26T20:42:08.000Z

There is no method here. There is not even 1-dimensional chess. This is just the same old same old slipshod dumbass incompetent shit we have seen for 8 years now (really for 40 years, but whatever).

In my darkest and most honest moments, I do believe my country is all over except for the shouting.

— OG_McDuck (@ogmcduck.bsky.social) 2024-05-26T19:44:59.475Z

Yes, this is the guy whose mushroom the Beltway media keeps slobbering on about how he’s now got a “professional” campaign compared to 2016.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 26, 2024 • 2:07:58pm

Dang. It looks like it is going to be a very wet and windy Memorial Day in Philly tomorrow.
weather.gov

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 26, 2024 • 2:10:01pm

re: #38 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I wondered about that when it was introduced to a work picnic about five years ago, and I live in the Midwest, where I assume it came from.

Glory to the champion!!!

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nines09  May 26, 2024 • 2:16:05pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

TIL there is actually a game called cornhole, and there are cornhole clubs, and I have to wonder if they know about the lineage of that word?

Back when I worked, I would happen upon lunches in Indiana.
Some places played Euchre at light speed.
That’s lightning Pinochle.
Slam 5-10 hands in 10 minutes.
Games went on for the week.
Winner on Friday.
Winner was able to be bid on by travelers like me.
Throw 5-10 to Jimmy…
Won a few times.
Go back out Monday and get handed beer money..
Made the top 10 or so one year in March Madness pool in Indiana at our sister plant.
I was announced over the PA system as “The Pennsylvania Driver.”
Everyone knew who that was.
“HTF did you pull that out?!??
Luck, Grasshopper. Luck.

I had game…

Others had what was like cornhole, but it was played with carpeted goals and heavy steel washers slightly bigger than silver dollars.
So just the same as you see, but no real sliding…
Bags don’t bounce, they slide.
Steel bounces.
The goals were connected by rope, so the length was always the same.
It was tossed underhand, the goal was very similar, and the carpeting slowed the birds or coins or whatever they called them.
It got serious.
Guys would go back to the grind with revenge in their eyes.
Grab another sandbag Bobby…

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Eventual Carrion  May 26, 2024 • 2:17:21pm

Perfect! Connections

Click to Reveal

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BigPapa  May 26, 2024 • 2:22:54pm

‘Boo ya orange ass!’ Glibertarians
‘MAGA = Socialists!’ Also Glibertarians

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 26, 2024 • 2:24:26pm

re: #44 BigPapa

They are at the center of media attention right now and having one of the greatest times of their little lives

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BigPapa  May 26, 2024 • 2:24:37pm

Martyry Traitor Gangrene shall be known as B6. Types faster than CU Next Tuesday.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 26, 2024 • 2:26:52pm

re: #46 BigPapa

Martyry Traitor Gangrene shall be known as B6. Types faster than CU Next Tuesday.

She is going to publish her tract on her plans for a modern Theocracy

Christian
Unified
New
Testament

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 26, 2024 • 2:36:28pm

Bystander

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retired cynic  May 26, 2024 • 2:39:34pm

Debunking misinformation failed. Welcome to ‘pre-bunking’
Election officials around the world are adopting “prebunking” campaigns, as AI and other threats jeopardize voting.

wapo.st (gift link)

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 26, 2024 • 2:44:59pm
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jaunte  May 26, 2024 • 2:48:06pm

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

In 1999 Walter Huss, the Holocaust-denying former chair of the Oregon Republican Party who had ties to a variety of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and far right domestic terrorists, printed out the full run of the Modern Militiaman’s Internet Gazette. Page 1 featured Sam Alito’s favorite flag.

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

I’ve seen many people claim that no one knew about this “Appeal to Heaven” flag until some hysterical liberals started calling it an insurrectionist flag. Well, in 1999, actual Tim McVeigh-esque militia insurrectionists had embraced that flag as their own.

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Unabogie  May 26, 2024 • 2:49:39pm

re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg

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Trump deserves the ridicule. He will never deserve a place among American leadership and was unfit from the beginning. Shame on this woman for acting more shocked at this mockery than the guy who actually said this after raping women.

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Decatur Deb  May 26, 2024 • 2:52:18pm

re: #51 jaunte

It was a favorite of the Tea Party era nutcases, III Percenters and such. A lot of wannabe revolutionaries seem to reach for it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 26, 2024 • 2:55:59pm

re: #53 Decatur Deb

It was a favorite of the Tea Party era nutcases, III Percenters and such. A lot of wannabe revolutionaries seem to reach for it.

I’ve seen that posted by relatives in the militia & 3%er movements. I’m well aware of the connection they’ve had to it ever since Bill Clinton got elected.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 26, 2024 • 2:58:18pm

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BigPapa  May 26, 2024 • 2:58:58pm

re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg

So so goood!

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Decatur Deb  May 26, 2024 • 3:00:48pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

I’ve seen that posted by relatives in the militia & 3%er movements. I’m well aware of the connection they’ve had to it ever since Bill Clinton got elected.

Pretty much the same way they’ve co-opted the “Don’t Tread On Me” snake.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 26, 2024 • 3:00:49pm

“The reason I didn’t file paperwork for the Libertarian Nomination, which I would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it (as everyone could tell by the enthusiasm of the Crowd last night!), was the fact that, as the Republican Nominee, I am not allowed to have the Nomination of another Party,” Trump wrote. “Regardless, I believe I will get a Majority of the Libertarian Votes.”

You got six votes asshole. SIX!

rawstory.com

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nines09  May 26, 2024 • 3:04:59pm

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Charles Johnson  May 26, 2024 • 3:06:14pm

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 26, 2024 • 3:12:36pm

::: watching The Ghost Army :::
whyy.org

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 26, 2024 • 3:13:01pm

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darthstar  May 26, 2024 • 3:19:41pm

re: #60 Charles Johnson

Oh give me a home
Where the buffalo roam
And the gapers get trampled all day.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 26, 2024 • 3:21:17pm

Throwback to ten years ago.

A Libertarian calls in to Sam Seder’s show, saying Little Green Footballs is a mindless cult supporting President Obama (7:29)

[Thirty-ninth of a series of Libertarians calling in to his show to challenge Seder’s positions]

Libertarian Caller Shocked to Learn He’s Part of a Cult

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BigPapa  May 26, 2024 • 3:25:18pm

re: #63 darthstar

Bison = No Boop Cows

Just saw some dudebro musings about cunnilingus make men ‘spiritual lesbians’ because it transfers estrogen, and even too much normal sex can make men fam. So gay sex is the most masculine No True Alpha Male can have.

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darthstar  May 26, 2024 • 3:25:32pm

re: #2 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Afternoon Lizards.

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I was thinking about putting up a lost pet sign by the river where the floaters drift by. Saw a bunch of them today when are we gave the boys a dip.

Pic of an alligator with text reading “Responds to ‘Fluffy’…do not attempt to pet.”. Give the floaters something to think about.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 26, 2024 • 3:27:18pm

re: #40 PhillyPretzel ✅

Dang. It looks like it is going to be a very wet and windy Memorial Day in Philly tomorrow.
weather.gov

Here in DC, too. We need the rain, I have my 95 yo mother, and the rest of my family is in Knoxville. Inside works for me.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 26, 2024 • 3:35:10pm

re: #67 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Here in DC, too. We need the rain, I have my 95 yo mother, and the rest of my family is in Knoxville. Inside works for me.

It was windy here in Los Angeles. Right now finally got up to 73. More of the same tomorrow. Guess I’ll have to bundle up when I go to Venice Beach tomorrow!

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Rightwingconspirator  May 26, 2024 • 3:36:13pm

What are you guys eating tonight?
Here at RWC headquarters, there’s an international BBQ kebab planned for dinner. Korean style in both beef and chicken. Chicken marinated in lime and cilantro. “American” classic beef with onion and green peppers. Pita and hummus, roasted tomato. Drinks will include some laughably complicated Tiki-inspired rum cocktails.

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nines09  May 26, 2024 • 3:36:42pm

re: #66 darthstar

Crocadogs…
Under the kelp.
Dock.
Foot.

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Nerdy Fish  May 26, 2024 • 3:37:19pm

re: #69 Rightwingconspirator

We ordered Mexican from a new place nearby. It was pretty tasty.

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nines09  May 26, 2024 • 3:37:40pm

re: #69 Rightwingconspirator

Burgers.
Potato salad.
Lettuce tomato onion and

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 26, 2024 • 3:38:34pm

re: #69 Rightwingconspirator

Hot Dogs. They were on sale.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 26, 2024 • 3:40:06pm

Beavis under fire for ‘particularly disgusting’ statement on Memorial Day weekend.

Eric Trump is catching some heat this Memorial Day weekend after a “particularly disgusting” statement he posted on social media.

Eric Trump, who made headlines due to his defendant status in a civil fraud lawsuit in New York as well as his appearances at his father’s criminal trial, caused the firestorm when he responded to a photo posted of his family on X, formerly called Twitter. In addition to Eric, Donald Trump Jr. and Melania are in the picture.

“The family that gave up everything to Save America,” the caption reads. “Thank You!”

Eric shared that image on Saturday, writing, “And we will do it again!”

@IvanasStairCam chimed in:

“You’ll do what again? Steal from children with cancer? Sell top secret classified documents? Incite an insurrection? Get your followers to smear shit on the walls? Bury your mom on a golf course? Ignore your father’s list for your sister? Commit fraud? Run a scam university? Bankrupt casinos?”

rawstory.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 26, 2024 • 3:43:33pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

TIL there is actually a game called cornhole, and there are cornhole clubs, and I have to wonder if they know about the lineage of that word?

The lineage of the word is sacks of corn thrown through a hole in an angled board.

It’s not cornhole players’ faults that other people sexualised the name. /s

76
nines09  May 26, 2024 • 3:44:01pm

re: #73 PhillyPretzel ✅

Hot Dogs. They were on sale.

How did hot dogs come to be?
Once upon a time in the back of a butcher shop somebody held up scraps and casings and asked
“Sal? What do I do with this?”
And the old dream was born as the new dream and charcoal smoke filled the air…

77
Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 26, 2024 • 3:45:35pm

re: #66 darthstar

I was thinking about putting up a lost pet sign by the river where the floaters drift by. Saw a bunch of them today when are we gave the boys a dip.

Pic of an alligator with text reading “Responds to ‘Fluffy’…do not attempt to pet.”. Give the floaters something to think about.

[Embedded content]

LoL.Yeah that may give some people a pause.

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darthstar  May 26, 2024 • 3:46:55pm

So the contractor lifted the front half of the house 3” so it’s level with the center. What a difference that makes. No more slopey floor and the doors all stay open if you want them to.
Still have some concrete to pour and the frame of the garage door buckled so we have to replace that…but it feels good.

79
BigPapa  May 26, 2024 • 3:52:39pm

The Harrison Butker spam on Faceboook is relentless but I just saw the stupidest one yet: he’s getting the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘telling it like it is.’

Still blocked, but LOL.

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darthstar  May 26, 2024 • 3:53:24pm

re: #39 Targetpractice

Trump got eliminated…and did worse than brain worms Bobby

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darthstar  May 26, 2024 • 3:59:24pm

re: #38 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I wondered about that when it was introduced to a work picnic about five years ago, and I live in the Midwest, where I assume it came from.

Two first cousins were having a private moment at a family picnic in Iowa and when they got back from the bushes their mothers asked where they were. “Probably playing corn hole,” one of their sisters sneered. So they came up with the game on the spot.

It’s on the Internet…now…so it could be true.

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darthstar  May 26, 2024 • 4:00:35pm

Bean bag toss is another name for it but that has connotations as well.

83
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 26, 2024 • 4:01:58pm

re: #82 darthstar

Bean bag toss is another name for it but that has connotations as well.

Sack toss is also another name, which also is problematic.

84
teleskiguy  May 26, 2024 • 4:02:46pm

Several tornadoes on the ground in Missouri, including St. Louis metro. Oy.

85
PhillyPretzel ✅  May 26, 2024 • 4:03:23pm

re: #84 teleskiguy

Oy indeed.

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darthstar  May 26, 2024 • 4:03:58pm

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sack toss is also another name, which also is problematic.

Slinging scrotums never caught on for some reason.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 26, 2024 • 4:09:32pm

re: #86 darthstar

Slinging scrotums never caught on for some reason.

Teabagging did amongst a certain segment of the populace.

88
Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 26, 2024 • 4:12:55pm

re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Teabagging did amongst a certain segment of the populace.

There’s a joke in there about the tea bag cult.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 26, 2024 • 4:13:34pm

re: #69 Rightwingconspirator

Mushroom 🌮.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 26, 2024 • 4:14:57pm

What is Menemen?

It’s Turkish Style Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes, Onions and Chiles! Oh and LOTS of Olive Oil, too!

Recipe at:

seriouseats.com

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 26, 2024 • 4:16:24pm

re: #76 nines09

How did hot dogs come to be?
Once upon a time in the back of a butcher shop somebody held up scraps and casings and asked
“Sal? What do I do with this?”
And the old dream was born as the new dream and charcoal smoke filled the air…

I saw a recipe long ago. Get casings. Fill with seafood. Verrrry interesting.

92
Romantic Heretic  May 26, 2024 • 4:21:32pm

re: #9 Unabogie

At another place online I hang occasionally one person claimed pictures of Palestinian children suffering were AI generated. When closely questioned it became obvious he was simply glad the Palestinians were suffering because they were all monsters who deserved to die.

I rarely hang there but it’s ‘interesting’ when I do.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 26, 2024 • 4:30:16pm

re: #90 Joe Bacon ✅

What is Menemen?

[Embedded content]

It’s Turkish Style Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes, Onions and Chiles! Oh and LOTS of Olive Oil, too!

Recipe at:

seriouseats.com

That sounds similar to Shakshouka.

en.wikipedia.org

A cafe I eat breakfast in on occasion does a variation of Shakshouka with the eggs over easy and calls it “Eggs in Purgatory”.

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teleskiguy  May 26, 2024 • 4:34:35pm

Tornado warning in effect in Lake County, IL. Eek!

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 26, 2024 • 4:35:53pm

The lap quilt for my mom has arrived at the nursing home!

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nines09  May 26, 2024 • 4:36:04pm

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 26, 2024 • 4:36:08pm

re: #76 nines09

How did hot dogs come to be?
Once upon a time in the back of a butcher shop somebody held up scraps and casings and asked
“Sal? What do I do with this?”
And the old dream was born as the new dream and charcoal smoke filled the air…

LGF, October 2015
Clear Food: The Hot Dog Report
Among other things, the researchers found that 2% of the samples contained HUMAN DNA, and that 2/3 of these were alleged to be vegetarian hot dogs.

This led me to muse that maybe the products were made FROM vegetarians rather than FOR vegetarians.

“We use only the finest free-range fruit and nut fed hippies and moonbats in our new line of Alferd Packer’s Finest hot dogs. Cheese chunk, barbecue, and plain Democrat flavors. Pick up a pack for your next cook-out or shooting party.”
“And for your long term preparation needs try our new Cthulhu’s Choice combat sausage and tactical jerky products, vaccuum packed in surplus Russian ammo cans, with a guaranteed shelf life of 500 years. Delicious and peculiarly satisfying!”

98
nines09  May 26, 2024 • 4:39:00pm

re: #97 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Wait until kids can work full time in meat packing.
More DNA.
With cheese.
Is that a fingernail?

99
nines09  May 26, 2024 • 4:39:45pm

re: #91 HRH Stanley Sea

Shhh…
Trade secrets….

100
JC1  May 26, 2024 • 4:40:49pm

re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

MSN Moneywise:

Americans are finally catching on to Costco’s tricks — here are 15 to watch out for so you don’t get fleeced on your next trip

Costco is awesome. I’ve been a happy member for 25+ years. They also treat their employees really well.

101
Eventual Carrion  May 26, 2024 • 4:41:41pm

re: #82 darthstar

Bean bag toss is another name for it but that has connotations as well.

Toss Across, but with just one target opening.

102
Eclectic Cyborg  May 26, 2024 • 4:42:04pm

re: #98 nines09

Is that a fingernail?

No. Special seasoning.

/

103
nines09  May 26, 2024 • 4:42:32pm

re: #102 Eclectic Cyborg

No. Special seasoning.

/

Fiber

104
dat_said  May 26, 2024 • 4:42:56pm

re: #78 darthstar

So the contractor lifted the front half of the house 3” so it’s level with the center. What a difference that makes. No more slopey floor and the doors all stay open if you want them to.
Still have some concrete to pour and the frame of the garage door buckled so we have to replace that…but it feels good.

[Embedded content]

It’s amazing what you can do if you have the right set of tools (and what everything looks like if all you have is a hammer).

105
JC1  May 26, 2024 • 4:43:32pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

TIL there is actually a game called cornhole, and there are cornhole clubs, and I have to wonder if they know about the lineage of that word?

Some things are better left unknown, like how the band Korn got their name.

106
BeachDem  May 26, 2024 • 4:43:50pm

re: #100 JC1

Costco is awesome. I’ve been a happy member for 25+ years. They also treat their employees really well.

Yeah, all that article showed was that Costco knows how to market, and the writer had to go back to 2002 for the “research.” None of the examples were “tricks” nor did they indicate anyone getting fleeced.

107
Eventual Carrion  May 26, 2024 • 4:45:52pm

re: #98 nines09

Wait until kids can work full time in meat packing.
More DNA.
With cheese.
Is that a fingernail?

Awwww, and look some baby teeth

108
Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 26, 2024 • 4:49:37pm

re: #98 nines09

Wait until kids can work full time in meat packing.
More DNA.
With cheese.
Is that a fingernail?

I see that you were there:

109
dat_said  May 26, 2024 • 4:50:47pm

re: #69 Rightwingconspirator

What are you guys eating tonight?…,

We did a typical easy Sunday meal - goat cheese pasta made with pasta and goat cheese We do allow individualization with sliced tomatoes, olives, and basil. Basil came from the basement garden as did the spinach in the side dish. Really looking forward to later this summer when the tomatoes come straight from the outdoor garden.

110
Decatur Deb  May 26, 2024 • 4:53:15pm

re: #100 JC1

Costco is awesome. I’ve been a happy member for 25+ years. They also treat their employees really well.

We would be thrilled if they opened here, so we could drop Sam’s. Our town is too small and remote, though we are the biggest for 100 miles.

111
CleverToad  May 26, 2024 • 4:54:13pm

re: #100 JC1

Costco is awesome. I’ve been a happy member for 25+ years. They also treat their employees really well.

re: #106 BeachDem

Yeah, all that article showed was that Costco knows how to market, and the writer had to go back to 2002 for the “research.” None of the examples were “tricks” nor did they indicate anyone getting fleeced.

I read an article 20+ years ago where Wall Street was downrating Costco because they — gasp — paid and treated their employees well. Not a proper business model! No way they can survive and turn a profit! I dropped my Sams Club and joined Costco for just that reason, and haven’t regretted it at all.

Number Twelve on this list of so-called “tricks.” We have a friend who works there and says yes, they still treat their employees well with way less turnover than their rivals. Funniest thing.

112
Lancelot Link Returns!  May 26, 2024 • 4:55:28pm

re: #98 nines09

It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters

113
BigPapa  May 26, 2024 • 4:55:36pm

re: #69 Rightwingconspirator

What are you guys eating tonight?

Made simple egg scramble Mrs BigPapa loves; onion and tomato in a little butter just soft, scrambled egg, little salt and white pepper. Just till eggs are dry.

Then I made a bean salad: Chickpea, black, pinto, onion, tomato, sweet pepper, EVOO, balsamic, tablespoon of Mexican spices, lemon juice.

Might supplement with some wild rice mix later or make some curried lentils, leftovers for tomorrow.

114
Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 26, 2024 • 4:59:55pm

Stuart Humphryes’ island of beauty abides yet in a rancid ocean of sewage.


Henri Lumiere (1897-1971) was an aviator who served in both World Wars and was a founding director of Air France. He received his pilot certificate in January 1916 so he was likely already in training when the featured autochrome was taken. He logged 6000 flying hours and his awards include the Medal of the Resistance and the Legion of Honor.

115
jeffreyw  May 26, 2024 • 5:00:53pm

batter fried tilapia

116
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 26, 2024 • 5:01:22pm

Time magazine put together a quiz to try to tease out how tribalism divides democracies.

Generally in the United States, you can divide people who consider race, religion, political affiliation, and education as the groups most likely people who will sort themselves by.

Each of twenty questions throw up two people with four of the traits above, asking which you would find more in common with (for example person A is college educated, Republican, atheist, Black; versus high school, Democratic, Jewish, white).

In the real world, these qualities overlap.

In the original poll, political affiliation was the single greatest indicator of connectedness than any other factor, or political affiliation is the greatest single indicator of division in the USA.

You can take the quiz to see how you score in the four categories.

time.com

This phenomenon was most pronounced among Democrats, who were 41% more likely to choose a fellow Democrat over a non-Democrat. For Republicans, religion and race were stronger predictors of perceived commonality: Republicans were 57% more likely to choose Christians over non-Christians and 43% more likely to choose Whites over non-Whites. Political alignment was the third most potent degree of connection for Republicans, who were 21% more likely to choose a Republican over a Democrat.

I fall outside the expected results shown above.

“Based on your responses, here’s what makes up your sense of commonality with another person:”

Religion: 49%
Political Party: 37%
Education: 8%
Race: 6%

Politics, Race, Religion: What Really Divides Americans? Take Our Exclusive Quiz (May 20, 2021, interactive quiz)

117
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 26, 2024 • 5:02:40pm

PBS live concert:

Youtube Video


..

118
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 26, 2024 • 5:05:26pm

re: #117 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I have conflicted feelings about such overt militarism on PBS, but oh well.

119
nines09  May 26, 2024 • 5:05:55pm

re: #108 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I see that you were there:

[Embedded content]

The internet IS forever.

120
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 26, 2024 • 5:05:57pm

re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Funded by …. Lockheed Martin….

Sigh…

121
dat_said  May 26, 2024 • 5:07:06pm

re: #111 CleverToad

I had read an article about 20 years ago (could have been this Harvard Business Review article: hbr.org) that demonstrated that Wal-Mart approach to low wages results in higher overall labor costs compared to the Costco approach of higher wages/happier employees. High turnover adds costs for recruitment and training Walmart has a turnover rate of 40% while Costco is low single digit for those employed a year or more.

And that doesn’t add in the indirect benefits on sales and return business that having knowledgeable and happy staff creates.

122
Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 26, 2024 • 5:07:40pm

Speaking of courageous Frenchmen, Admiral Phillippe de Gaulle, whom I have mentioned before on this page, died on March 24 of this year. He was 102 years old. He was the eldest child and only son of former president Charles de Gaulle.
He had quite an amazing war record with the Fusiliers Marin, commanding a tank destroyer unit on the western front when he could easily have been kicking back at a desk job in Washington or London.

De Gaulle, age 23, in 1944
123
PhillyPretzel ✅  May 26, 2024 • 5:08:27pm

re: #117 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

PBS has had The Nat’l Memorial Day Concert for quite a few years.

124
Nerdy Fish  May 26, 2024 • 5:08:46pm

re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Education: 47%
Party: 24%
Religion: 18%
Race/Ethnicity: 11%

And that tracks with my personal experience, as well. People who are significantly less educated than I am are significantly more difficult for me to connect with.

125
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 26, 2024 • 5:11:35pm

re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Me:

Time profile of me
126
Jay C  May 26, 2024 • 5:12:43pm

re: #122 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

RIP Philippe: I knew he had still been alive til recently (definitely the “old soldier” - not too many WWII officers still left); but I hadn’t seen any notices of his decease.
I guess better 2 months late than never…
Vive La France Libre…!

127
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 26, 2024 • 5:14:33pm

re: #125 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

As you can see, I am not very partisan. Which makes me quite the opposite of what the article claims is true of most Americans.

128
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 26, 2024 • 5:16:11pm

re: #124 Nerdy Fish

Education: 47%
Party: 24%
Religion: 18%
Race/Ethnicity: 11%

And that tracks with my personal experience, as well. People who are significantly less educated than I am are significantly more difficult for me to connect with.

I am significantly less educated than you, so there goes our connexion. /s

129
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 26, 2024 • 5:17:41pm

Nap time. Catch y’all later.

130
Nerdy Fish  May 26, 2024 • 5:18:13pm

re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I am significantly less educated than you, so there goes our connexion. /s

You’re intelligent enough to make up the difference. It appears I have read that particular difference in the survey as comparing myself to someone who lives a less thought-provoking life than someone of your proclivities.

131
Hecuba's daughter  May 26, 2024 • 5:32:13pm

re: #94 teleskiguy

Tornado warning in effect in Lake County, IL. Eek!

Live half mile south of western end of Lake County!

132
Sherlock Hound  May 26, 2024 • 5:37:30pm

re: #88 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

There’s a joke in there about the tea bag cult.

The Tea Party cult was fully inspired by tea bags and wore them on their heads.

Then someone pointed out the other meaning of “teabag”.

Thereafter, they claimed that “tea” stood for “Taxed Enough Already”.

I enjoyed the irony at the time.

133
Hecuba's daughter  May 26, 2024 • 5:37:58pm

re: #113 BigPapa

Made simple egg scramble Mrs BigPapa loves; onion and tomato in a little butter just soft, scrambled egg, little salt and white pepper. Just till eggs are dry.

Then I made a bean salad: Chickpea, black, pinto, onion, tomato, sweet pepper, EVOO, balsamic, tablespoon of Mexican spices, lemon juice.

Might supplement with some wild rice mix later or make some curried lentils, leftovers for tomorrow.

Dined at my sister’s.

Chicken with corn flake coating, baby potatoes, corn on the cob.
With cherry tomatoes, black olives, and sesame bread sticks on the side.

134
HRH Stanley Sea  May 26, 2024 • 5:44:55pm

re: #121 dat_said

I had read an article about 20 years ago (could have been this Harvard Business Review article: hbr.org) that demonstrated that Wal-Mart approach to low wages results in higher overall labor costs compared to the Costco approach of higher wages/happier employees. High turnover adds costs for recruitment and training Walmart has a turnover rate of 40% while Costco is low single digit for those employed a year or more.

And that doesn’t add in the indirect benefits on sales and return business that having knowledgeable and happy staff creates.

Jesus Christ my best jobs include a bonus based on volume/profit. It’s so simple to reward the employees. Then……….they are invested & work better.

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Charmingly Persistent  May 26, 2024 • 6:27:07pm

re: #100 JC1

Costco is awesome. I’ve been a happy member for 25+ years. They also treat their employees really well.

Most of the profit comes from membership fees as I recall. The products really are a good deal in general


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