Worse than museum gift shop. Museum book store! I had been informed that instead of a Euro budget in the [redacted] and [redacted] book stores, I have a kilogram limit. Little did they know that I had already hit the Tirolia Books shop across from the cathedral, and arranged shipping!
And the caffeine one is a leeeeetle too true these past two weeks.
Yeah. I have to take thyroid meds at five am. I finally broke down and put the pills in one of those “daily” pill things, because otherwise, I remember waking up and drinking water, but did I have the pill? No one knows. And if I forget, I REALLY feel it.
Aye. I have a set for the morning pills, plus another for the bedtime pills. Plus a vial next to the coffee maker for the pill that’s indicated “Take with plenty of water, and food. Or Else!”
I not only have AM and PM cases (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9LD5KMJ?th=1), I have the AM meds set as a reminder on the phone. Only have one that uses bold letters for “Do not ship dosage, except under medical supervision. If you do, don’t double up.” The expensive one, naturally. The one that has to be stopped before any surgery involving bleeding (yea, that one).
My sister and BIL went on a cruise that covered Japan. BIL said that Japan requires all medication to be in the original containers, prescription or not. He said it was a PIA. Remember joking about old people having to have a special travel carry-on for just their medications? Not so funny now. We’re those people. I would be if we were going anywhere that is required.
I have two from the link. Both are AM/PM for one week. Anything over 2 weeks and I need the pharmacy (bottles).
We don’t typically fly. But I did this last October. Had a carry on, and personal item. The medical needs were in the personal tote just in case forced carry on gate checked. I don’t just have medication I take, but something that lets me sleep without keeping an entire building awake, and me alive. Minimum two week replacement required. Custom build. Note, hubby has said my snoring isn’t anywhere near as bad as dad and grandpa’s were.
Seriously. BIL and sister had a room down the hall from mom and dad at the hotel when youngest sister got married. Hubby and I booked a room (accidentally, I promise) a few floors away and down the hall, we didn’t hear a thing. BIL’s response was, “OMG! Why didn’t you warn me?” Not like sister didn’t know. We grew up with it. They weren’t even in the same suite, or even next door to mom and dad’s room.
Wife used to snore. I snore – a bit of sleep apnea, but I refuse the cpap/bipap/grandpappy whatsis recommended after my sleep study. But wife would lie down and be just out in a minute or two. I can’t do that, so I wear earplugs to sleep, even now when no one else is here.
I have often wondered what the ‘you gotta check that carry-on’ does when that bag has all my rechargeable batteries, including laptop, camera things, power brick – a that stuff one is not supposed to check. Just a backpack, and it fits under the seat in front of me, so I don’t compete for overhead bin space.
My medical adventures are back to the more-or-less standard; drive over the Cascades the day before, get my eyes dilated and checked on the day, then return the day after, so I don’t need more than my weekly container will do. Since the meal-time one is new, I dedicated a left-over pill bottle for travel with those.
Cardio doc and I discussed warfarin vs Equilis. I’ve been on Warfarin for over 13 years, and I’m well used to the quirks. The doc doesn’t like Equilis, says he’s had patients with adverse consequences (either heart issues or stroke–can’t remember which). I know the pitfalls of too much/too little warfarin (repurposed rat poison for the win!), so I’m staying with the old, cheap drug. Still had to stop 5 days before my last knee fix. Worst case it’s 7 days, usually 4-5.
For dental, I stop a day before, since the dentist’s trigger point is an INR of 3.5, and I usually(!) run 2.5. Got surprised with use of steroids a while ago, either from interocular or a topical cream I had to use at for something else. Seems steroids will raise the clotting time; hit 3.4. Should have been below 3.
For most meds, I’ve built up a surplus (refill a week ahead of time, it adds up over the years), and got a couple of tool/small part carriers from Home Desperate. There’s a smaller Ryobi one (maybe 12″ x 18″) with a clear top and compartments. Use of a labeler makes finding the right med easy. Never tried to take them anywhere, but they fit nicely at the top of a bookcase. Other brands do similar cases, but the Ryobi was perfect for my location. Still had to get another one as my meds got more complicated. Sigh.
Unless Elon Musk has 67 Senators in his hip pocket, he’d get more results by hiring a team of operators to provide a practical demonstration of “The reason we have police is to protect criminals from the citizens”.
they can’t force you to wear pants: I’m fairly sure I knew the name of the place that makes at least a similar style of patches
political corruption, economic shutdown: Well, it might not be political corruption, there is a remote chance that it is mostly academic corruption, and a bunch of ‘scholars’ who want to kill all of us ‘uneducated’
zohran frigid/warmth: dude thinks that 100 F is chilly becuase he grew up in a place with a lot of burning sulfur. He thinks you are cold if you are not burning in hell, and wants to bring you inside.
Norman Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’ were paid for by a grasping and tyrannical government. Some of them are still good art.
Hortman: Walz said it was politically motivated, his friend the shooter said that Walz ordered the hit, and she voted against some of the Walz fraud enterprises. If Walz’s friend the political assassin was not so clearly mentally ill, and so clearly an unreliable witness, maybe we could have stopped more of the harm before it happened.
examples cited: yes, I identify as unhinged, so I feel seen when people say so
Interesting that FDR started with 2 traditional ‘negative’ freedoms and then added 2 ‘positive’ ones that weren’t considered freedoms. The difference between ‘of’ and ‘from’. The Reader thinks we should periodically remind Democrats about number 4. Democratic run cities aren’t very good at it.
How, exactly, are people to be ‘freed’ from want and fear? What if their ‘wants’ are impractical or impossible? What if their ‘fears’ are irrational? How are they to be addressed?
The communists have indeed ‘freed’ millions. The dead do not want, nor do they fear.
Furry con. SNRK Oo, just one museum guard? Sure…. If only real apocalypses would wait for nap time to finish. Waiting for 2026. I feel underarmed…. I was literally thinking that about the asteroid last week. That porch. You’ve been where I used to live…. Lunar new year… that doesn’t even make sense. Given Easter and Passover are based on a lunar year as well, every Jewish and Christian community would qualify.
Let this year be better than the last! I know, low bar….
The Venezuelan memes are dropping. Of course that picture of Rubio looking sulky is out explaining he just learned he’s now governor of Venezuela, Cuba and the new Shah of Iran.
To be fair, as long as Trump isn’t appointing him acting Shah of Non-Iran, the expectations and duties are still almost reasonable.
Puyi and Napolean don’t really have any active successors, and basically the USA has some historic claims that could reasonably be interpreted as implying that those are also duties of the US Secretary of State.
(Special military operation. Special military operation. Special military operation.)
Especially China. Plus other countries cuddling up to China in defiance of the US. Apparently, US special forces intelligence (to be separated from FBI or CIA intelligence) found Mudro because of China’s representive going to where Mudro was hiding.
Someone pointed out that the CCP sending their high level envoy yesterday for public meetings likely let the U.S. IC nail down exactly the location of Maduro last night so Delta could do their thing.
It’s like that Harold Coyle novel where the new butterbar shows the OP-FORCE where her platoon’s positions are by running back and forth to all of them.
Ironically, Maduro’s removal is probably good for China. China needs cheap oil, even more so with all of the economic problems that the population is having at home. Getting Venezuelan oil pumping again should help lower the price of oil, which is good for China.
But the CCP’s gotta go mess around in other parts of the world even as its own country falls apart (and it is falling apart). And as a result, the Chinese leadership is having a panic attack even as something that’s good for the Chinese people as a whole takes place. Because the CCP’s gotta CCP.
Yesterday’s The China Show broadcast had a long segment where the hosts talked about the CCP literally banning countdowns for the New Year, and had local cops arrest people who shot off fireworks (in some cases causing the fireworks to shoot off toward nearby crowds when the cops tackled people who were holding fireworks tubes that were “active”). The China Show hosts are of the opinion that it’s because the government is scared of people gathering, though I’m wondering if it’s because the CCP is starting to view New Years Day (as opposed to the Lunar New Year) as a “Western” holiday.
Trump has already confiscated oil tanker sailing from Venezuela to China. Getting oil pumping in Venezuela and lowering oil costs isn’t going to help China get Venezuela oil. Might let China get middle east oil cheaper if Trump lets China get any oil at all. China is supposed to be on a-not-get oil embargo.
It seems likely that the info that Iran was providing to Maduro advanced drones and other weaponry, along with Revolutionary Guard forces to use them, was what triggered the operation to actually remove Maduro from power, as it is quite clear Iran would have used them to attack the USA, particularly as the Mullahs appear to be losing their hold on power, and will certainly try to strike at everyone they can, especially if they know they are on their way out.
I was reading earlier today that the Russians also sent some cruise missiles. The person who mentioned that also speculated that might be tied to why a seemingly random warehouse at a dock was taken out during the strikes.
When my hair had color and before second son (for reasons known only to my genetics after second son, the few hairs retaining color turned pitch black) my hair was that very dark auburn that only reveals red in sunlight. But the temper was there.
I find it one of G-d’s own jokes that I’m the one stuck holding back people from doing the unadvisable in anger. Himself has a sense of humor.
Same. The red highlights turned bright white, starting at age *23. Before I was 30, very visibly white. Hair now, and for the last 25 years at least, is, by dominance: White, Gray, and Black/dark-brown. It was interesting coloring it. Each color takes on the (semi-permanent version) die differently. Wasn’t trying to hide the white and gray, just toning it down. Haven’t colored now since fall 2019. Hair comes across as white blond in the right light. Wet, it looks gray.
(*) Dad and his brothers all had gray hairs before they were out of HS, but never went fully gray before death (one uncle still living). OTOH, maternal uncle, and all three of his boys were bald before out of HS. The cousins got that gene from both parental lines. Mom, and one of my sisters, have the female version of thin hair across the scalp. I’ll take early gray, thank you very much.
My wife likes to say she’s Irish Blonde now She found her first white hair t age 12. My hair used to be bright red under the sun but brown otherwise. All grey now. The temper abides though.
My mother and my sister had the dark brown with red highlights, but the red in their hair only required bright indoor light to show, not sunlight.
As for gray hair, mine slowly went to salt and pepper from about 35 to about 50, by which it had gone to fully gray. My dad MAYBE had a hundred gray hairs among all the black ones, when he died at 90. Dammit.
On the white? It has started turning more gray over the last few years. We’ll see longer term; I’m 69. Mom’s is steel gray at 91. Maternal grandmother was pure white. Paternal grandmother’s was mostly black with white and some gray streaks.
To be fair. I understand as a young toddler my hair was white blond, but it darkened down to dark before I was two. What surprised the family is my youngest sister was also white blond but while hers became darker, it stayed blond. She is 64, and while her hair has started turning white, the white is invisible, just blends in, against the darker blond.
I identify as a red-head by reason of temperament although most people think I’m a brunette just by looking.
I have a couple of gray hairs though.
My dear husband is completely gray. (Brushed aluminum he calls it.) He says that I have virtually no gray hair but he went gray soon after we wed because I’m a carrier.
That’s not quite fair to Lesko; his whole thing was that people should be aware of government largesse*, not scamming (an admittedly accommodating) government.
Funny meme anyway.
* Not that it’s all that accurate to use ‘largesse’ to describe funds gathered at gunpoint…
My main takeaway from this was that with a beard Carroll O’Connor looks like a cross between Audie Murphy circa A Time for Dying and 47’s VP circa present day, while Ludwig von Mises looks disconcertingly like Mel Brooks.
The daycareing suggests that the autism ‘epidemic’ is sparkling government funding (and fraud), and that maybe vaccines are both a) not causing autism b) largely fraud with the ‘science’ being for hire, for profit, and for fraud.
My guess though, is that the real correlation between vaccines and autism like symptoms is between 0 and 1.
More than suggests. Data Republican did a deep dive, and it turns out the “epidemic” was predicated not on diagnoses, but on the weakest of assertions by non medical personell.
The ‘autism epidemic’ is caused by lazy incompetent teachers trying to excuse their failures by claiming the students have learning disabilities, instead of them having teaching disabilities.
According To Hoyt 
I am not touching that laundry pile. I’ve made that perfectly clear.
And when the cops come knocking, we were building a treehouse that week.
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Hm. Writer. I suppose in Hemingway’s case it works with alcohol also.
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Alcohol has other problems.
The thing is that you enter state-dependent learning, so you can’t just switch.
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Re Roomba/war against the machines
obviously written by someone who has never been owned by cats or dogs.
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Granted this unfair the other behaviors of canines but…
Dog (noun): Mobile stomach with an advanced guidance system.
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I see you’ve met my dogs (all of them, over the last 30 years).
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“Your dog is overweight! It’s not good for her,” says the veterinarian. “She needs to lose 3 – 5#’s.”
Now at age 9 (2026) she only has 15#’s left to lose.
You left out:
“The only force faster than a toddler when any food hits the floor.”
“The reason why your toddler’s eating area is sparkling clean.”
“Cat cleaner up.” Or: “Thought you said the cat threw up?”
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Worse than museum gift shop. Museum book store! I had been informed that instead of a Euro budget in the [redacted] and [redacted] book stores, I have a kilogram limit. Little did they know that I had already hit the Tirolia Books shop across from the cathedral, and arranged shipping!
And the caffeine one is a leeeeetle too true these past two weeks.
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same, same.
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Arranged shipping? *Thumbs up* Plan.
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The Reader suggests we need to buy Sarah a larger subscription to King Harv’s Coffee.
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Oh. Yeah. That WOULD help. I mean….
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Got to the third meme and remembered I hadn’t taken my Cockcrow Chemiatræ yet. Thank you!
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Yeah. I have to take thyroid meds at five am. I finally broke down and put the pills in one of those “daily” pill things, because otherwise, I remember waking up and drinking water, but did I have the pill? No one knows. And if I forget, I REALLY feel it.
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Aye. I have a set for the morning pills, plus another for the bedtime pills. Plus a vial next to the coffee maker for the pill that’s indicated “Take with plenty of water, and food. Or Else!”
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I not only have AM and PM cases (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9LD5KMJ?th=1), I have the AM meds set as a reminder on the phone. Only have one that uses bold letters for “Do not ship dosage, except under medical supervision. If you do, don’t double up.” The expensive one, naturally. The one that has to be stopped before any surgery involving bleeding (yea, that one).
My sister and BIL went on a cruise that covered Japan. BIL said that Japan requires all medication to be in the original containers, prescription or not. He said it was a PIA. Remember joking about old people having to have a special travel carry-on for just their medications? Not so funny now. We’re those people. I would be if we were going anywhere that is required.
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Though I have seen multiple-week pill things, mine are just one at a time, so have to bring the original bottles any way for longer trips.
Meds come in the carry-on. I can buy most things, but replacing a bunch of prescription meds would be a true pain.
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I have two from the link. Both are AM/PM for one week. Anything over 2 weeks and I need the pharmacy (bottles).
We don’t typically fly. But I did this last October. Had a carry on, and personal item. The medical needs were in the personal tote just in case forced carry on gate checked. I don’t just have medication I take, but something that lets me sleep without keeping an entire building awake, and me alive. Minimum two week replacement required. Custom build. Note, hubby has said my snoring isn’t anywhere near as bad as dad and grandpa’s were.
Seriously. BIL and sister had a room down the hall from mom and dad at the hotel when youngest sister got married. Hubby and I booked a room (accidentally, I promise) a few floors away and down the hall, we didn’t hear a thing. BIL’s response was, “OMG! Why didn’t you warn me?” Not like sister didn’t know. We grew up with it. They weren’t even in the same suite, or even next door to mom and dad’s room.
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Wife used to snore. I snore – a bit of sleep apnea, but I refuse the cpap/bipap/grandpappy whatsis recommended after my sleep study. But wife would lie down and be just out in a minute or two. I can’t do that, so I wear earplugs to sleep, even now when no one else is here.
I have often wondered what the ‘you gotta check that carry-on’ does when that bag has all my rechargeable batteries, including laptop, camera things, power brick – a that stuff one is not supposed to check. Just a backpack, and it fits under the seat in front of me, so I don’t compete for overhead bin space.
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My medical adventures are back to the more-or-less standard; drive over the Cascades the day before, get my eyes dilated and checked on the day, then return the day after, so I don’t need more than my weekly container will do. Since the meal-time one is new, I dedicated a left-over pill bottle for travel with those.
Cardio doc and I discussed warfarin vs Equilis. I’ve been on Warfarin for over 13 years, and I’m well used to the quirks. The doc doesn’t like Equilis, says he’s had patients with adverse consequences (either heart issues or stroke–can’t remember which). I know the pitfalls of too much/too little warfarin (repurposed rat poison for the win!), so I’m staying with the old, cheap drug. Still had to stop 5 days before my last knee fix. Worst case it’s 7 days, usually 4-5.
For dental, I stop a day before, since the dentist’s trigger point is an INR of 3.5, and I usually(!) run 2.5. Got surprised with use of steroids a while ago, either from interocular or a topical cream I had to use at for something else. Seems steroids will raise the clotting time; hit 3.4. Should have been below 3.
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For most meds, I’ve built up a surplus (refill a week ahead of time, it adds up over the years), and got a couple of tool/small part carriers from Home Desperate. There’s a smaller Ryobi one (maybe 12″ x 18″) with a clear top and compartments. Use of a labeler makes finding the right med easy. Never tried to take them anywhere, but they fit nicely at the top of a bookcase. Other brands do similar cases, but the Ryobi was perfect for my location. Still had to get another one as my meds got more complicated. Sigh.
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The fun is that the blister pack ones need to be put into those in the blister pack, or they’ve degrade.
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Unless Elon Musk has 67 Senators in his hip pocket, he’d get more results by hiring a team of operators to provide a practical demonstration of “The reason we have police is to protect criminals from the citizens”.
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He has the operators. They just don’t have that tasking.
Yet.
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they can’t force you to wear pants: I’m fairly sure I knew the name of the place that makes at least a similar style of patches
political corruption, economic shutdown: Well, it might not be political corruption, there is a remote chance that it is mostly academic corruption, and a bunch of ‘scholars’ who want to kill all of us ‘uneducated’
zohran frigid/warmth: dude thinks that 100 F is chilly becuase he grew up in a place with a lot of burning sulfur. He thinks you are cold if you are not burning in hell, and wants to bring you inside.
Norman Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’ were paid for by a grasping and tyrannical government. Some of them are still good art.
Hortman: Walz said it was politically motivated, his friend the shooter said that Walz ordered the hit, and she voted against some of the Walz fraud enterprises. If Walz’s friend the political assassin was not so clearly mentally ill, and so clearly an unreliable witness, maybe we could have stopped more of the harm before it happened.
examples cited: yes, I identify as unhinged, so I feel seen when people say so
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1. Freedom of speech and expression
2. Freedom of worship
3. Freedom from want
4. Freedom from fear
Interesting that FDR started with 2 traditional ‘negative’ freedoms and then added 2 ‘positive’ ones that weren’t considered freedoms. The difference between ‘of’ and ‘from’. The Reader thinks we should periodically remind Democrats about number 4. Democratic run cities aren’t very good at it.
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The last two are not possible for government to grant. PERIOD.
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How, exactly, are people to be ‘freed’ from want and fear? What if their ‘wants’ are impractical or impossible? What if their ‘fears’ are irrational? How are they to be addressed?
The communists have indeed ‘freed’ millions. The dead do not want, nor do they fear.
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“Hairstyles used to make people look older”. Image shows people wearing a lot of makeup.
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“You can stop using the big words. They don’t impress me.”
I wasn’t trying to impress you.
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“I was just trying to get my meaning across precisely. But thank you for self-identifying as inarticulate.”
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What big words?
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The thing is, I have some language impairments, and it is really hard for me to adjust what words I use for other people.
The more excited I get while talking, the less in control of my tongue I am.
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<Older son at 4.
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Words are tools. I outgrew the Melissa and Doug set a long time ago.
When all you have is an expletive, everything gets f*cked.
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C4C (because I can’t think of anything funny).
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oooh. STEVE take the camera out of my office.
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Furry con. SNRK
Oo, just one museum guard? Sure….
If only real apocalypses would wait for nap time to finish.
Waiting for 2026. I feel underarmed….
I was literally thinking that about the asteroid last week.
That porch. You’ve been where I used to live….
Lunar new year… that doesn’t even make sense. Given Easter and Passover are based on a lunar year as well, every Jewish and Christian community would qualify.
Let this year be better than the last! I know, low bar….
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The Venezuelan memes are dropping. Of course that picture of Rubio looking sulky is out explaining he just learned he’s now governor of Venezuela, Cuba and the new Shah of Iran.
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LOL. Poor Rubio.
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To be fair, as long as Trump isn’t appointing him acting Shah of Non-Iran, the expectations and duties are still almost reasonable.
Puyi and Napolean don’t really have any active successors, and basically the USA has some historic claims that could reasonably be interpreted as implying that those are also duties of the US Secretary of State.
(Special military operation. Special military operation. Special military operation.)
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2028 US Presidential GOP Primaries.
Rubio “No!!!!! You can not make me be US President too!”
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This morning, the Mullahs are running around in circles screaming, I betcha.
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It is devoutly to be wished.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in Tehran,, Beijing, or Havana right now. I bet you could learn new swears in every language.
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Especially China. Plus other countries cuddling up to China in defiance of the US. Apparently, US special forces intelligence (to be separated from FBI or CIA intelligence) found Mudro because of China’s representive going to where Mudro was hiding.
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Someone pointed out that the CCP sending their high level envoy yesterday for public meetings likely let the U.S. IC nail down exactly the location of Maduro last night so Delta could do their thing.
Thanks, China!
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My thoughts almost exactly. “Um. Wait? What? Wow! China the stalking horse! Thanks, China!”
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It’s like that Harold Coyle novel where the new butterbar shows the OP-FORCE where her platoon’s positions are by running back and forth to all of them.
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Ironically, Maduro’s removal is probably good for China. China needs cheap oil, even more so with all of the economic problems that the population is having at home. Getting Venezuelan oil pumping again should help lower the price of oil, which is good for China.
But the CCP’s gotta go mess around in other parts of the world even as its own country falls apart (and it is falling apart). And as a result, the Chinese leadership is having a panic attack even as something that’s good for the Chinese people as a whole takes place. Because the CCP’s gotta CCP.
Yesterday’s The China Show broadcast had a long segment where the hosts talked about the CCP literally banning countdowns for the New Year, and had local cops arrest people who shot off fireworks (in some cases causing the fireworks to shoot off toward nearby crowds when the cops tackled people who were holding fireworks tubes that were “active”). The China Show hosts are of the opinion that it’s because the government is scared of people gathering, though I’m wondering if it’s because the CCP is starting to view New Years Day (as opposed to the Lunar New Year) as a “Western” holiday.
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Trump has already confiscated oil tanker sailing from Venezuela to China. Getting oil pumping in Venezuela and lowering oil costs isn’t going to help China get Venezuela oil. Might let China get middle east oil cheaper if Trump lets China get any oil at all. China is supposed to be on a-not-get oil embargo.
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Oh, absolutely. Massive panic attacks, especially since Trump made his statement warning the Mullahs against killing the protestors.
As I noted in the other comments section, what the US did to Maduro is absolutely awe-inspiring.
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Need Meme with “Obama or Biden Line in the Sand. VS Trump 45/47 Line in the Sand.”
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Yeo:
It seems likely that the info that Iran was providing to Maduro advanced drones and other weaponry, along with Revolutionary Guard forces to use them, was what triggered the operation to actually remove Maduro from power, as it is quite clear Iran would have used them to attack the USA, particularly as the Mullahs appear to be losing their hold on power, and will certainly try to strike at everyone they can, especially if they know they are on their way out.
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I was reading earlier today that the Russians also sent some cruise missiles. The person who mentioned that also speculated that might be tied to why a seemingly random warehouse at a dock was taken out during the strikes.
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“Daaaang, Joe, that ‘fishing dock’ sure lit up the night. Wonder what kind of fish they were unloading there?”
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Fair is fair – the Rooskies sent cruise missiles, and the U.S. sent gps-guided bombs.
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I have also seen the suggestion that Venezuela might be the ‘Argentina’ of the Iranian Islamists when they flee.
That welcome mat has been taken off the porch.
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The Reader believes what Rubio really dreads is regime change in NYC.
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The U.S indicted Maduro on gun charges ! Does that mean the Dems will now advocate for private ownership of machine guns?
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I’d settle for termination of the NFA. I really want a suppressor for the .22s. Machine guns can wait.
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SBRs for me, but otherwise same same
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Suppressed 9mm PCC SBR (there, lots of jargon!) is really quite impressively quiet.
Gotta move my NFA stuff into a trust.
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Guys, for my next glowie impression, I’m going to ask why we haven’t arrested Macron yet.
Totally doomed for surely sure. Doomy doom doom doom doomed.
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Because we’d have to arrest all of France. And honestly, what would be different from what they do to themselves?
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And we’d also have to arrest all of England, with the same caveats.
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…so, anyone got Jessi’s email?
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The wife is a redhead, so absolutely this,
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When my hair had color and before second son (for reasons known only to my genetics after second son, the few hairs retaining color turned pitch black) my hair was that very dark auburn that only reveals red in sunlight. But the temper was there.
I find it one of G-d’s own jokes that I’m the one stuck holding back people from doing the unadvisable in anger. Himself has a sense of humor.
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He’d better, given the people He has to deal with. I mean, writers. ;)
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Same. The red highlights turned bright white, starting at age *23. Before I was 30, very visibly white. Hair now, and for the last 25 years at least, is, by dominance: White, Gray, and Black/dark-brown. It was interesting coloring it. Each color takes on the (semi-permanent version) die differently. Wasn’t trying to hide the white and gray, just toning it down. Haven’t colored now since fall 2019. Hair comes across as white blond in the right light. Wet, it looks gray.
(*) Dad and his brothers all had gray hairs before they were out of HS, but never went fully gray before death (one uncle still living). OTOH, maternal uncle, and all three of his boys were bald before out of HS. The cousins got that gene from both parental lines. Mom, and one of my sisters, have the female version of thin hair across the scalp. I’ll take early gray, thank you very much.
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My wife likes to say she’s Irish Blonde now She found her first white hair t age 12. My hair used to be bright red under the sun but brown otherwise. All grey now. The temper abides though.
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indeed he does. We’re grateful though.
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Imagine if He didn’t…
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Was? I don’t know who you think you’re fooling, there, sis.
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I’m perfectly calm now. Perfectly.
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My mother and my sister had the dark brown with red highlights, but the red in their hair only required bright indoor light to show, not sunlight.
As for gray hair, mine slowly went to salt and pepper from about 35 to about 50, by which it had gone to fully gray. My dad MAYBE had a hundred gray hairs among all the black ones, when he died at 90. Dammit.
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On the white? It has started turning more gray over the last few years. We’ll see longer term; I’m 69. Mom’s is steel gray at 91. Maternal grandmother was pure white. Paternal grandmother’s was mostly black with white and some gray streaks.
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I thought it highly entertaining when my niece said I was going blond.
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Right?
To be fair. I understand as a young toddler my hair was white blond, but it darkened down to dark before I was two. What surprised the family is my youngest sister was also white blond but while hers became darker, it stayed blond. She is 64, and while her hair has started turning white, the white is invisible, just blends in, against the darker blond.
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I too resemble the redhead vs. blondes vs. brunettes comparison. You do NOT want to see what happens when a redhead goes cold. Truuuussssst me.
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Oh my, yes.
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Oh my, yes.
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I identify as a red-head by reason of temperament although most people think I’m a brunette just by looking.
I have a couple of gray hairs though.
My dear husband is completely gray. (Brushed aluminum he calls it.) He says that I have virtually no gray hair but he went gray soon after we wed because I’m a carrier.
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Gray hair is hereditary. You get it from your kids. 🤣
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Likewise insanity.
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I don’t have gray hairs.
Those are white hairs mixed with the dark brown hairs. 😉
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I am now completely grey.
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Credit for the meme’s posted in this thread: Grok Memes (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).
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The Reader thinks that is especially mean – it doesn’t specify the number of digits in the password.
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I think I saw on a youtube video that it is at a university in the PRC, so cruelty is not entirely unexpected.
However, if the answer is straightforward enough, brute forcing the digits might not be too hard.
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The question is how many attempts you get before lockout.
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Jeez, even if you figure it out, they don’t tell you the first how many digits of the answer.
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Grok thinks it’s:2.70932464349827720982314157975.
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The one about books at bedtime reminds me of when I bought Shogun and finished it that night. *YAWN*
The very first one I’ve seen in a slightly different form:
“A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.” — Alfréd Rényi (widely attributed to Pál Erdős)
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Unlikely. The Mathematician falls asleep with caffeine. So … uh…. peanut butter into theorems?
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The Fraudmobile, the Fraudmobile, driving around in the Fraudmobile. Oh what a wonderful way to feel, riding around in the Fraudmobile!
And guess who were saying Stop when we were complaining about the 2020 fraud?
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I am assured that all the fake votes were ONLY in Georgia.
Totes. Pinky swear.
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That’s not quite fair to Lesko; his whole thing was that people should be aware of government largesse*, not scamming (an admittedly accommodating) government.
Funny meme anyway.
* Not that it’s all that accurate to use ‘largesse’ to describe funds gathered at gunpoint…
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My main takeaway from this was that with a beard Carroll O’Connor looks like a cross between Audie Murphy circa A Time for Dying and 47’s VP circa present day, while Ludwig von Mises looks disconcertingly like Mel Brooks.
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Wouldnt he be the character from All out of the Family in the Bearded Spock Universe….so evil?
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!Qaplah Carajo!
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Let’s see if WP(DE) effs this up:
https://x.com/VodkaPundit/status/2007555520568389935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2007555520568389935%7Ctwgr%5E62996d44dd4cdd811ab11114c7200523d2927ade%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F766713%2F
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hm: let’s try:
https://x.com/VodkaPundit/status/2007555520568389935
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hmph.
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Here’s my Don McMillan impression:
‘It should be speed of light squared.’
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And when it’s not squared, it doesn’t matter. Or, maybe just converts to plasma, though what blood components might have to do with it, I dunno.
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The daycareing suggests that the autism ‘epidemic’ is sparkling government funding (and fraud), and that maybe vaccines are both a) not causing autism b) largely fraud with the ‘science’ being for hire, for profit, and for fraud.
My guess though, is that the real correlation between vaccines and autism like symptoms is between 0 and 1.
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More than suggests. Data Republican did a deep dive, and it turns out the “epidemic” was predicated not on diagnoses, but on the weakest of assertions by non medical personell.
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The ‘autism epidemic’ is caused by lazy incompetent teachers trying to excuse their failures by claiming the students have learning disabilities, instead of them having teaching disabilities.
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