100 thoughts on “Cephalopod Crowds Cause Cornish Crabbers Consternation”
“You’ve only got one or two arms pulling them up,” he says, “and they’ve got eight pulling you down.”
Unprecedented numbers of octopuses have been reported in the waters off Cornwall in recent weeks, prompting celebration and concerns of a “population explosion”.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say Ice. All things considered, I'd get prepared for tentacles.
I guess the questionable part of the comment involves the guy who fronted the MG's, and the instrument he played. That's who I thought it was, and not Sly
The ways of Intense Debate are a mystery, but damn it's doing better than disqus lately.
The Captain would steam to the nearest port and offload all the recalcitrants to the local cops. I know of a few times American boats beat it from the Grand Banks to send some asshole crew off to a nice Canadian gray bar vacation.
On the other hand, if we're all part of a simulation created by an advanced species, then maybe the "universe" was destroyed, and the simulation just reset a few hours ago.
"According to police, a witness and Ruiz were shooting fireworks and had been drinking when he decided to light a mortar-style firework from on top of his head."
People don't realize the explosive force in a mortar round. they just hear the boom and a few seconds later go "ooh! ahh!" Light one unconfined by the tube, and there's yer earth-shattering kaboom.
Clearly, the company needs to include a Claymore-style disclaimer: THIS SIDE AWAY FROM HEAD
I used to have a free and nearly inexhaustible source of mortar rounds confiscated by law enforcement. We had so much fun with them, stuffing them down rat burrows and blowing them up real good. Good times.
Were they mil-spec? Sounds fun.
Never let cops get hold of your explosives, it doesn't end well.
My jerb at the time was guy in charge of a highway maintenance crew near the California/Nevada border. Every day we'd see trucks hauling containers of fireworks from the docks in San Pedro to the mega fireworks emporiums in Nevada. Starting a few weeks before the 4th, we see a bunch of rented vans and box trucks following the same route, but empty going to Nevada, and full of illegal fireworks headed back to southern California. The highway patrol would pick them off like fish in the proverbial barrel. I'd let them store them in a 40 foot shipping container I had on site. After the court cases were adjudicated, the evidence had to be destroyed. And that's when the fun began.
Aha. "We need to destroy these illegal bombs and I know just the man for the job!"
It was a multi-agency free-for-all, I tells ya! Highway patrol, county sheriff's office, state transportation department, county road department, and a guy who was either a BLM or NPS law enforcement ranger, depending on where he wanted to patrol at any given moment in time. Death Valley Adjacent was an excellent place to work, but quite harsh as a place to live.
A gentleman we will call "a person of my acquaintance" is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve. His descriptions of…oh…. unofficial ordinance disposal…. make one grateful there are places like Death Valley and China Lake.
Another jerb I held for many years was operating equipment at several county landfills. I hauled a bulldozer around to each one and took care of business for a few days before loading up and moving on to the next. One of them was Near Pickel Meadows Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in the High Sierra. Their method of disposal was load everything into that deuce and a half and haul it to the dump. Then, likely as not, some member of the Walker River Paiute Reservation would light the place on fire, and it looked pretty much like the apocalypse. Of course my jerb was to put out the fire while under fire. Good times.
Hugh Grant tweeted a request at activists protesting outside Westminster to play the Benny Hill theme on their loudspeakers; when they did it became the soundtrack for street interviews
How'd I know? I thought maybe it's a new honorific they had. Like now being addressed as 'Sir' or 'Dame'.
Fields was another one that was in a lotta crappy movies, but damn he was the best when he was on screen. You could make a book just of stills of him like that one and it would be hilarious.
I followed him by mistake, forgot and every now and then an R.Crumb panel or something like this hits my feed and I laugh.
I don't remember when they started showing me tweets by people who people I'm following are following, but I've since then learned about ' see less often' or 'mute'.
Oddly I have 31 followers, most of whom I have no idea. The ones I do are, ZD, his dad, a friend of ZD, and Lot49
If this isn't a breach of Twitter etiquette (or Wonkville etiquette for that matter), what is Lot49s @handle?
Etiqwhat?
Uh, I'll check.
[ I went 'real name' more or less if it matters. Most of my original tweets are usually telling some pols and pundits to fuckoff, eat shit etc. ]
The Jan 6 hearings were once again amazing, stunning and magnificent. In a related story, because it is my responsibility and my job, I have recorded the valiant attempts made by the closed-captioning software to spell Pat Cippolone. |
Yeah. A great moment. Alas, though I usually watch debates and stuff with CC, I had that on live sound and missed it. But the blogs and tweets were right on it.
“You’ve only got one or two arms pulling them up,” he says, “and they’ve got eight pulling you down.”
Unprecedented numbers of octopuses have been reported in the waters off Cornwall in recent weeks, prompting celebration and concerns of a “population explosion”.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say Ice. All things considered, I'd get prepared for tentacles.
|“Erin Biba
@erinbiba
I think we need to talk about this puzzle that I have just seen." |
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FV4WITUXwAArLNk?format=jpg&name=small">
Whoa!
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The swim!
Hmmmmm weird 'comment approval' thing. Anyway, Sly Stone co-wrote and played organ on this.
I was thinking of this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-HpjnnXAJw
And now another 'comment must be approved.."
So this version is slightly different .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAb6pYFDqoU
I guess the questionable part of the comment involves the guy who fronted the MG's, and the instrument he played. That's who I thought it was, and not Sly
The ways of Intense Debate are a mystery, but damn it's doing better than disqus lately.
| EV Nautilus ROV dive Live" |
Deep Seamount Biodiversity of Johnston Atoll
| 'Merica. |
Wait until those cosplaying Poles see this.
EDIT: They won't do this. They're Polish, not Stupid.
"I dug out the pond m'self. It ain't too deep."
"Hey Jim Bob! Twitter sez yere thet yew got sumthin' called a "Darwin Award!" WEEUOOO!"
"JIm Bob?"
| 'Merica 2: The Asskickening" |
That's just good clean fun, right there.
Heh, so if the fight broke out in International waters , who's jurisdiction is it. Get these people in front of the ICC?
The Captain would steam to the nearest port and offload all the recalcitrants to the local cops. I know of a few times American boats beat it from the Grand Banks to send some asshole crew off to a nice Canadian gray bar vacation.
H/T: Charlie Pierce
|43rd State Blues
@43SBdotcom
Welcome to my holiday weekend, Helen… |
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Those Poles have got a lot of catching up to do.
Ceramic Squirrel will be the name ……………….ahhhhhhhhhhh fuck it.
Squirrel Knife Slashers
FUCK!
"This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let's not bicker an argue about Who killed Who!" | “Now let’s move on and celebrate the independence of this nation .. |
Fuck all of these sociopaths starting with that fat orange bastard at the top.
"Marked safe from Independence Day"
<img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjwaRLpg0X-PHxUOA7oJ-qWXFai9OIGpviAA&usqp=CAU" width="300" height="300">
Pentaquarks!
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-6202…
It's got "Q" in the name, so I dunno, man.
AHA!!!!!!!!!! You get it man!!!
I only get it because they got to me!
Oh wait. Are you JFK Junior?
<img src="https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9472755712/h1D231E9F/person-lets-see-who-two-really-are-knew"</img>
Damn it, I keep forgetting I can't post images here.
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9472755712/h1D231E9F/pe…
<img src="http://www.treknews.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/armin-shimmerman-quark-destination-star-trek-750×480.jpg">
Oh. Recently there were a couple "CERN Discovery Will Destroy the Universe " videos highlighted on YT. Which, at the time, sounded pretty good to me.
On the other hand, if we're all part of a simulation created by an advanced species, then maybe the "universe" was destroyed, and the simulation just reset a few hours ago.
Nature abhors that device and has been | trying its best to destroy it | for years now.
Too late now.
"There have been previous incidents, including one in 2009, when a bird is believed to have dropped a baguette onto critical electrical systems."
Pfft.
Birds aren't real.
Here's another thing: Time Loops . Can't read the article, wouldn't understand anyway.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327458-time…
That's what you said last time.
Oh shit…
Also what they said next time!
Whoa
When they talked about the "four flavors of Quark" they weren't kidding.
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|Nick Gillespie
@nickgillespie
America is in a constant state of becoming. |
I guess the Austin Lounge Lizards have to write another verse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9zWh9gR45U
Love those Lizards.
Related: |Highway Cafe of the Damned |
But wait………..
……….. he decided to light a mortar-style firework from on top of his head…………
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/07/05/san-an…
Oh please tell me there was alcohol involved!
"According to police, a witness and Ruiz were shooting fireworks and had been drinking when he decided to light a mortar-style firework from on top of his head."
Thank you Jebus!
Sounds reasonable.
<img src="https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20200705/1593953251_kwxck3ffps.gif">
People don't realize the explosive force in a mortar round. they just hear the boom and a few seconds later go "ooh! ahh!" Light one unconfined by the tube, and there's yer earth-shattering kaboom.
Clearly, the company needs to include a Claymore-style disclaimer: THIS SIDE AWAY FROM HEAD
I used to have a free and nearly inexhaustible source of mortar rounds confiscated by law enforcement. We had so much fun with them, stuffing them down rat burrows and blowing them up real good. Good times.
Were they mil-spec? Sounds fun.
Never let cops get hold of your explosives, it doesn't end well.
<img src="https://adnamerica.com/sites/default/files/styles/hero/public/2022-07/ig%20alyssacastillas%20explosion.png">
My jerb at the time was guy in charge of a highway maintenance crew near the California/Nevada border. Every day we'd see trucks hauling containers of fireworks from the docks in San Pedro to the mega fireworks emporiums in Nevada. Starting a few weeks before the 4th, we see a bunch of rented vans and box trucks following the same route, but empty going to Nevada, and full of illegal fireworks headed back to southern California. The highway patrol would pick them off like fish in the proverbial barrel. I'd let them store them in a 40 foot shipping container I had on site. After the court cases were adjudicated, the evidence had to be destroyed. And that's when the fun began.
Aha. "We need to destroy these illegal bombs and I know just the man for the job!"
It was a multi-agency free-for-all, I tells ya! Highway patrol, county sheriff's office, state transportation department, county road department, and a guy who was either a BLM or NPS law enforcement ranger, depending on where he wanted to patrol at any given moment in time. Death Valley Adjacent was an excellent place to work, but quite harsh as a place to live.
A gentleman we will call "a person of my acquaintance" is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve. His descriptions of…oh…. unofficial ordinance disposal…. make one grateful there are places like Death Valley and China Lake.
Another jerb I held for many years was operating equipment at several county landfills. I hauled a bulldozer around to each one and took care of business for a few days before loading up and moving on to the next. One of them was Near Pickel Meadows Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in the High Sierra. Their method of disposal was load everything into that deuce and a half and haul it to the dump. Then, likely as not, some member of the Walker River Paiute Reservation would light the place on fire, and it looked pretty much like the apocalypse. Of course my jerb was to put out the fire while under fire. Good times.
here's on fer ya via emptywheel
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Yeah, I left that part out to tease.
What I'd like to know is: who's getting to hold all of those beers?
[ I was sure there'd be a fresh one ]
https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-man-loses-ha…
Well, his beer-holding capacity has just been halved.
| "I said Hands Off!" |
Hugh Grant to play Benny Hill in a new bio-pic?
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXE_aQGUEAEoFS3?format=png&name=360×360" width="300" height="300">
Alas
Hugh Grant tweeted a request at activists protesting outside Westminster to play the Benny Hill theme on their loudspeakers; when they did it became the soundtrack for street interviews
Funny, tho
| Yakety Sax |
Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska was named Tuesday as one of four recipients of the prestigious Fields Medal
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Ukrainian-math…
[ weird wording, was she then named 'Tuesday'? ]
No, you're thinking of Tuesday Weld.
Cool that she won the very prestigious Fields Award.
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How'd I know? I thought maybe it's a new honorific they had. Like now being addressed as 'Sir' or 'Dame'.
Fields was another one that was in a lotta crappy movies, but damn he was the best when he was on screen. You could make a book just of stills of him like that one and it would be hilarious.
unrelated clean water
https://twitter.com/mims/status/15447820253826293…
Goddamn, Japan!
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Hilarious!
Yours?
I wish. |tkohl ("Death Cabbage") on Twitter | is a veritable cornucopia of outré imagry and well worth a follow.
Cool stuff, but I dunno, can hardly keep up with the follows I have.
I followed him by mistake, forgot and every now and then an R.Crumb panel or something like this hits my feed and I laugh.
I don't remember when they started showing me tweets by people who people I'm following are following, but I've since then learned about ' see less often' or 'mute'.
Oddly I have 31 followers, most of whom I have no idea. The ones I do are, ZD, his dad, a friend of ZD, and Lot49
If this isn't a breach of Twitter etiquette (or Wonkville etiquette for that matter), what is Lot49s @handle?
Etiqwhat?
Uh, I'll check.
[ I went 'real name' more or less if it matters. Most of my original tweets are usually telling some pols and pundits to fuckoff, eat shit etc. ]
Thanks.
<img src="https://i.gifer.com/GxA2.gif" width="300" height="300">
[ OK, not really that big of a reveal.]
Got it?
👍
This will be eaten first
https://twitter.com/swordsjew/status/154547179820…
It's R'yleh good!
|Merrill Markoe
@Merrillmarkoe
The Jan 6 hearings were once again amazing, stunning and magnificent. In a related story, because it is my responsibility and my job, I have recorded the valiant attempts made by the closed-captioning software to spell Pat Cippolone. |
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"Patsy Baloney". I'm in tears
Yeah. A great moment. Alas, though I usually watch debates and stuff with CC, I had that on live sound and missed it. But the blogs and tweets were right on it.
I always use captions, and mine wasn't cool like that at all!
Giant snails again.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/invasion-giant-a…
*oukes*
Hold my s'mores
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Her reign of terror must end.
Tired of videos of people fucking with bison? Something different.
https://twitter.com/MalikEarnest/status/154620179…
This used to be a thriving and expensive yacht harbor, before the [pinnipeds] reclaimed it as their own ancestral territory. FAFO, rich people!
Dr. Nicole Prause
@NicoleRPrause
New study: NoFap "by far the most popular men’s health topic
Bro Mike Speaks
@bromike_speaks
· Jul 8
This generation has normalized sex. This is scary, no fear of God, no remorse!
Patsy Baloney excerpts on Tuesday.
Tapper: I don’t know if I agree with you with all due respect. One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup
Bolton: I disagree with that as somebody who has helped plan coups, not here but other places…
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/15469547184586629…