My reaction to that interview? Total boredom, along with my reflexive shouting, "Get to the frickin' POINT, will you?" Terrible interviewer! It was like overhearing a conversation in Starbucks!
I’m used the “young people” not being so good at speaking in general, let alone interviewing, but my point was the information she had dug up from WPath’s own members.
Unfortunately, we had no other option. It would have best to remove the laminate, but it was not feasible. The vinyl plank we're putting over it is cheap stuff. This is completely a cosmetic thing.
That vinyl will trap moisture and cause the laminate to warp and buckle over time, causing the new stuff to bulge and shift. I tore up the laminate that I installed by myself, but had professionals install the vinyl. It was done to increase the value of the condo while I was putting it on the market. Over $4K for a five-room place. But if you don't have the cash, you do what you must!
We were looking at downsizing and had opportunity to tour a number of newly built "retirement homes", many (unfortunately) built by mega-builders like Pulte and Lennar.
That's where we found out that the current trade name for this stuff is "LVP", which stands for "Luxury Vinyl Plank". I've got to admit that LVP sounds a lot nicer than "plastic floor".
The problem for us is that we've lived for the past 40 years in homes that had real solid oak hardwood floors. Sure they require extra care and maintenance, but hardwood floors provide a feeling of warmth and sturdiness that plastic floors or carpet simply can't match.
Here: the Jason Arday as a fantasist circus continues. It is hard to keep up with the latest revelations about what he claimed. It would appear he reported and various people to the police for daring to question discrepancies in his Phd thesis. https://x.com/benryanwriter/status/2084773615736848507
He has now withdrawn and will take up a position in policy to do with combatting antisemitism. He recognised that he has more work to do to prove that he has changed and doesn't want his past to be a distraction.
I am referring to Arday as the British George Santos
And Cambridge is reminiscent of Harvard and its ex president Claudine Gay. Experts in academics similar to Dr Science the Fauch. No more deference to colleges and their biases and cheaters
It is really quite something. Every day seems to bring a new revelation. The 7 Up was just fantasy time. And two colleges/universities including Ohio State have confirmed that he was never a visiting professor there. Plus the Guardian confirmed that the pig's head story was untrue (the butcher said that it was something they'd remember as police visits are something which stick in the mind.
I read a long article somewhere about this Professor Arday. Some pretty damning evidence he is a liar but let me tell you story. When I first started teaching at the Art Institute of Houston 28 years ago, we had a black adjunct who spoke with an unidentifiable “British” accent. I asked my first boss and mentor Dr. Joe Orlando (RIP) what was up. He said, “I don’t know but he’s supposedly from East Texas-maybe Vidor”. To paraphrase the great Boxing 🥊 Promotor Don King, “Ain’t no nig—- from Vidor speak with a British accent” or they would have drug his black ass behind a pick up truck like they did James Byrd. (Trigger warning: PoetKen believes in total equal treatment of all people. The above events are simply social commentary of a somewhat scabious nature. Reader Discretion is advised). 🤷♂️
And as I said every day a new revelation. Today's tit bit, Arday falsely claimed to have published a book on black masculinity with a specific publisher. No such book has been published by Palgrave and was abandoned as a project a few years ago. In order to obtain a position at Cambridge, you actually have to have published a wide body of work. Query: Did the Cambridge appointing committee know the book had not been published and was in fact an abandoned project when he was offered the position? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/05/jason-arday-falsely-claimed-to-have-published-book/ or https://archive.ph/qLqsR
I can't understand how a nonverbal 7-year- old can appear on a rebooted 7-up, not to mention the original, whose participants are now elderly. For those who haven't seen it, the 7-year-olds talked about their lives and expectations, and were visited every 7 years to see how they progressed and changed. It's not surprising that the most self-aware kid, who grew up on a farm, became a physicist.
I think that show is fascinating. You mention a re-boot. Have they started with a new group of children, or are they still following the original group.I think the last one I saw was about 5 years ago.
There's supposed to be a final visit to the surviving members of original group for 70-up, but no new group as far as I know. It was intended as an exploration of the British class system and that's definitely changed.
They did a reboot of people who were 7 in 2000. His age means he would not have eligible. He is now saying it was a local thing which people called 7 up. There are lots of unanswered questions about Cambridge and others' due diligence.
Arday, like Fauci, Platner and other fabricated icons boot licking leftists were all too eager to line up for, were rising stars shot down by their own documented available history kept secret from the public until simple investigative journalism blew their cover. Rather than face the enormous backlash from exposing the leftist heroes, media and academia chose to look the other way and go along with the lie.
S&S will have to adjust print runs etc. I can see why they are standing by him. Contracts are involved and he didn't plagiarize his autobiography, even if it is ghost written (and much may be stretching credulity) .
Cambridge have more serious questions to answer. It is the reporting of journos and anyone who questions to the police.
They’re in too deep. Need the book sales to recoup their investment. They don’t give a rat’s butt if it’s truthful or not, only that it sells before the buyers learn the truth. Don’t be surprised if they publish another author’s unauthorized biography exposing the fraud soon.
“It’s all about money/ain’t a damn thing funny/You gotta have a con/in this land of milk and honey” Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five “The Message” music 🎶
There was an interesting comment in TFP from the father of a kid with Autism; in his experience, it's almost impossible for people with Autism to lie and this is yet another one of Arday's fabrications.
For a more inspiring story about Marathon running and charitable contributions, look at the life of Canadian Terry Fox, who ran a marathon equivalent on 143 consecutive days using a prosthetic leg, to raise money for cancer research. He only stopped because his cancer returned and affected his lungs; he intended to run across all of Canada.
Fox's amputation was above the knee and he ran through a great deal of pain.
Annual events in his honor have raised about a billion Canadian dollars for cancer research.
I am beginning to consider leaving my part-time job as a locksmith because I feel that everything I know has been passed on to the crew I work with, leaving me to be just a "niche" employee whose expertise is only used on occasion. These guys functioned profitably without my input, and they will probably abandon whatever changes I fought to make over the past three years. Further, I have begun to realize that I cannot change the work ethic that they have been expressing from BEFORE my arrival.
My boss is 65-years-old, and he and I are of a like mind about a lot of the trade's practices, but the younger guys are more set in their ways than an old man such as I. But in their defense, I was much the same when I entered the trade back in 1977! I thought that I had a "better" idea about how to do things till, at last, I realized that the "old" ways were not erased by time, but were STILL relevant to today.
My only hesitation arises from the existential question: What NOW?" What will I do with my time? Will I just sit in the recliner next to my wife and watch British crime shows, or "House Hunters" ( a fate almost worse than death)? Or will I find another job where my presence is just tolerated and which requires nothing more than following instructions?
Right now I hate that I am viewed as a fossil from the old days, but that is what I AM! Has anyone else dealt with this issue? Calling Mr. Karg!
If I did, I could just imagine myself devolving into a desiccated husk of a human being whose muscles have lost all function except for trips to the fridge or the bathroom.
I have been retired 13 years. I fill my time up.in many ways. Exercise and stretching routine in morning with walking or biking later in day. In addition to exercise I keep my mind active. I am always doing 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles ( if u afe interested can suggest some fun ones). I am not a card player but know many who are pretty religiously so.to speak.
I agree with Clarity Seeker. If you are disciplined enough to establish a healthy routine, exercise, activities, keeping your brain sharp, you’ll be fine. If you are concerned that you will not have a good routine, then, yes, you should seek some other employment to keep the body and mind moving. How about hanging out your own shingles as a locksmith. You’re the boss.
I’ve been retired for 8 years and have a good routine that keeps the body and mind functioning well.
I really enjoy British TV even though they have their woke "quotas" to fill. The ones I watch are not nearly as obnoxious as the American TV which try to teach us how we all should think.
My favorite as far as European shows, are from Italy, and 2nd I would say Sweden. I get MzH and PBS International (not the regular PBS).
Agree with you about American tv- I divorced it and ran off with Miss Britainna. Now I see she’s no better. Italy and Sweden? The hell you say! I’ll perhaps give em a try.
Italian are the best to me and then Swedish. Sweden has some good crime shows, many referred to as Scandanavian Noir. I like the characters in the Italian shows and a lot of their shows have a smart humor.
Like you, I am a goal oriented person and have just recently have a lot of time on my hands (my husband, fully retired), being fully disabled. We find projects to complete.... even if they are small. I also have a couple of hobbies that interest me and that I can feel rewarded when they come to fruition (like gardening/yardening and cooking). We are not tv watchers, although we enjoy watching some shows/movies/series in the evenings.
If you're 88, cooking and cleaning takes half the day. I used to play chess and card games, but they all died or moved away. I'm currently reading "Coolidge."
I read his autobiography - very sparse, as you would imagine. He was a real character, though - he went to my alma mater and I've seen his law office in Northampton as well as his childhood home inn VT, where his father swore him in by candlelight.
For you Sir. I was Over the Rainbow one night and Kirk Douglas was there. I was drinking with an Austin friend who wanted to be an actor was totally in awe and freaking out. I said, “do you want to meet him?” I walked over and said, “Mr Douglas, I wanted to tell you how much of a fan I am of your work” He gave me his classic cocked headed look, “What do you mean, my work?” I answered, “sometimes life itself is work”. He laughed, patted me on my back, and said, “Come with me”. He then got behind the bar and started mixing us super strong drinks. I called Gunning over and he and Kirk talked acting for a bit. Next day my handler found me and said “ I hear you boys were making the scene last night” lmfao 🤪
No I just got drunk there. But Charles Gunning DID end up in AA and gave me his signed book, I need to find that to donate it to an archive. Saw Dan Ackroyd and many others, once you’re up there everyone knows you’re in the Industry But you know all this…
I'm partial to sleeping in my own bed, but yes! Yake the car and stay in hotels/motels and enjoy the amenities and take advantage of their free breakfasts!!
Would you ever be interested in sharpening knives and tools? We had a neighbor who did that but he moved away. A few blacksmiths will sharpen knives for restaurants but they won’t take on ordinary home cooks, or hobby gardeners. I know it involves buying some equipment. However, it’s a service that’s always needed. A person can only get a good edge on a knife at home for so long and then only a pro sharpening job will do.
I have looked and looked for a "mobile knife sharpener" as I hear there are some of those. For the right person, who has patience, precision, and the willingness to learn a new skill, I think there would be at least as much work as anyone who does this would like.
When we lived on NYC upper west side some 30 years ago, there was a knife sharpener guy who would park his van on 103 rd street. Word got around quickly. There was a line! When demand dwindled, he moved on.
In Vermont, we would take our knives to him. Half of them, anyway as he had so many others to do, we had to wait about a week to get them back.
Reminds me how old I am. We had a guy strolling down our street every few months, singsonging, "knives and scissors sharpening, knives and scissors sharpening." There was also an iceman. There were even Indians in teepees, along the Cuyahoga River. No kidding, my Dad took me once to see them.
“Burn On, Big River, Burn On/Now the Lord can make you tumble/ and the Lord can make you quake/ and Lord can make you overflow/But the Lord can’t make you burn”-Randy Newman from “Sail Away” 1973 😆
I remember the 1969 fire on the river. My lefty friends at that time laughed at the absurdity of it. A sort of gallows humor, but they’ve lost any sense of humor whatsoever as they’ve aged. That river caught on fire about a dozen times!
They ended up cleaning the river and even turned the downtown end of it into a boutique tourist location. Of course, many of the businesses failed, and it became a ghost town, but the river is still clean, and fish no longer float belly up into Lake Erie.
In every small town, there used to be at least one guy who did this kind of work. Now people just throw out and get new. My cooking knives are old, good steel. When I told the blacksmith I was considering replacing them, he said “don’t”. My dad was a contractor. I’d forgotten about saw blades. Cool you found that business card.
I've used a Chef's Choice electric sharpener for many years, and it works very well. Even on my old Chicago Cutlery knives which are at least 45 years old. Great investment.
Thank you! I’ve thrown out soooo many knife sharpeners! My brother bought me one that so far, works. I give it a year , it was a state fair purchase . I’ll shop for the Chefs choice sharpener.
The Frost stone house in Bennington used to be really lovely. Since the college took it over, I haven’t been back. I’m afraid to see what they’ve done to it. His place up in Middlebury I saw once with a friend who was at the Breadloaf Writers conference. Not sure if that belongs to the college or not.
I can do safes, but not very many. My expertise is designing and implementing master keying systems for commercial properties. That is my niche at my current employer. It takes someone with a slight case of OCD to keep things organized, and record-keeping is just as important. When I started, I was aghast at what was going on around the shop, and how the employees would leave the files lying around, expecting them to be magically updated and refiled ALL BY THEMSELVES! This could easily become a specific rant about "kids today", but I shall refrain for now...unless someone asks!
I had the same question 3 years ago when I retired. Since then, I have traveled, I learned how to draw, i learned Portuguese and I set up an electronics lab to do experiments. Our home is in better shape and I have also done nothing for days, because I can.
Even before we had actually moved to Western North Carolina, I had been sweet-talked into ‘volunteering’ to help with the drama program at the local library (I was a newly-retired theatre teacher). I’ve always been a workaholic, so the ‘drama program’ quickly became a community theatre, so successful that it outgrew the library. Our first auditions at the Arts Center were set, unfortunately, for the first night of the pandemic lockdown.
For the first month after, I waited and prepared for the eventual reopening. Then I began to lose my mind.
So, we completed all the work the house had needed since our move, turned a large shed into mini-museum for my husband’s collection, built four more sheds from scratch, added a gazebo, then (since we had used all the justifiable available land on our property) started on dollhouse miniatures. I’m just finishing my eighth 1:12 scale structure now. No use to anybody else but me, but it keeps my mind sharp and my body out of the recliner.
We also volunteer at a local museum and have joined a metal detecting club.
I’m not woke enough to return to the theatre scene now. Like you, I’ve been phased out. But, I’m not ready for the graveyard, just yet.
Good luck (and pull your wife off that couch - it’s not good for her, either)!
Robert, it will take time to build a "new" life and some things you choose won't work out. I am not really one who should be giving advice, but don't let fear and anxiety keep you from making the jump. There are so many skills to develop. I learned how to do a lot from watching Youtube. I sell antiques/vintage decor online and can work at my own pace. I buy a lot of what I sell online. I like to repair things made from another day, or change them a bit to make them new again. I am not suggesting this for you, but it might help to think of things you have always been interested in, but never got a chance to pursue. Good luck!
It's been said by others, but setting up a routine is important – one based on "mens sana in corpore sane." I'm 80. Just finished writing a book. My routine:
Up about 530, on the road for a 4-mi or so walk by 6.
Home about 745 (not as fast as I used to be!).
Breakfast with newspaper and sudoku.
Writing and email.
Ride exercise bike, do chores and run errands.
Lunch (light).
Do a few puzzles.
Read (and sometimes write).
Exercise bike and weights.
Wine and dinner.
Reading and/or TV.
Bed ~10.
Kind of boring, but keeps juices flowing both mentally and physically. Many I know do woodworking; some play pickleball; a lot golf. The key is to work mind and body.
Join the local gym for health benefits, volunteer at the local botanical garden, historic site, animal shelter. Or if you are really bored church/religious groups. Those folks will keep you busier than a full time job!
Before we put floating waterproof hardwoods down during Covid we removed the carpeting and tiles, then added 3/4 inch plywood over the existing builder wooden floor. The new 3/4 inch plywood was screwed into the cross beams that hold up the house, the result was a solid steady base to overlay the hardwoods. The new floor is amazing. No squeaky soft spots and very firm. We got the 3/4 inch plywood before the prices sky rocketed after Covid.
No rain yesterday. Yahoo! My yard is flooded. It’s been awful. Hoping for more of the same today. Looks like the west coast could use some of this rain. Crazy people starting fires. Sad
originally I was just going to meet my two sons at the other end, but then my DIL got out with a 3 mo old baby strapped on to hike the trail....couldn't abide by that.
Is anyone else tired of the on-again, off-again "negotiations" with Iran? I am sick of the bloviations emanating from the White House these days, and am ALMOST yearning for the 2028 elections. Well, not REALLY! I wish that I could pull a Rip Van Winkle and sleep for a generation till THIS craziness passes, and a different craziness comes along.
My preference, if I were forced into a Time Machine, would be to go backwards, to the 1970’s. I could see all of my favorite rock bands and times were simpler. No internet either.
In the late 60s and early 70s, I DID see all of my favorite bands! Led Zep, CSN before Neil (crab-ass) Young, and then later, with his addition! Blood, Sweat and Tears, Credence, Grand Funk, Iron Butterfly, The Who, Captain Beefheart, James Taylor, Electric Flag...and the list goes on!
Anything after about 1972 is lost to me. I became enmeshed with Contemporary Christian music for a while, and then entered my Country Music stage until the Kenny Rodgers/Dolly Parton era began. Then, it was off to Classical music. Today I stick to older rock, country, and some Classical for comfort's sake.
Yes. Steve Huston the drummer was a good friend of mine. I think my tribute poem to him (which I read at his funeral RIP) is floating around the Internet on some of their tribute pages. 📃
I saw Page Plant in the early 2000s in H town. Saw him in a few dives in Austin around then as he was dating an Austin folk chick so lived there a while.
I recently saw Plant with Alison Krauss, it was a great show. They did a few Zeppelin songs as well. I got turned onto Led Zeppelin later in life by reading about the band in books, several. One book takes the reader through their history and the making of their albums. So as each chapter rolled forward through LZ I, II, III, IV, etc…I listened to each album. It was a great way to learn about their music and how Page put it all together. He is really an amazing dude. But the one thing that stands out for me the most with Led Zeppelin. And that was the relationship Bonzo and Page had in the music. They were truly telepathic. I cannot point to another band where the drums and guitar were more aligned than Zeppelin.
Peanut Butter Toast for breakfast. The bread if your choice, toasted as you like, key first step is a light coat of coconut oil. At this time of the year our coconut oil is liquid so I use a spoon to apply it. I also use spoons to apply and spread the peanut butter, natural peanut butter of course, this morning it was Teddy's, then the final step is a light swirl of local honey. The combination is awesome. Be aware that the honey will want to drip off of the toast, it's a bit messy, not good for eating while you're driving your car, eating it over a plate that you can lick clean is recommended 👍😊🍯🐝
Apparently wolves have moved into California (the four legged kind) and are attacking and eating beef. Ranchers are upset and the lone R in the California state fruit and nut house proposed a bill that would have allowed ranchers, with authorization from the CDFW, to use nonlethal deterrents such as pepper-balls and tear gas to haze wolves and protect herds. It was withdrawn because democrats who’ve never met a predator they wouldn’t stand up for objected.
I guess those ranchers refuse to do wolf eradication the old fashioned Idaho way. Shoot shovel shut up.
If you have enough land you can pretty much shoot anything you want and let nature (scavengers) take their course.
Vultures around here will clean even a good sized carcass in about 2 days. Racoons, coyotes, mice, then the insects will take care of the rest.
I just learned they are opening a wolf sanctuary in a small town about 9 miles from where I live. I certainly hope none of them get out, or are "put back into the wild." It's the last thing we need- beef prices are too high to have that many predators poking around where they don't belong.
I suppose, but I haven't had a really big cheeseburger made out of wolf.
I can get lost very easily on a YouTube or Discovery channel show about a trophic cascade. Wolves and bison, in particular. To reintroduce or not reintroduce, that is the question. I find the entire thing fascinating, and I think I can really see both sides. I don't know where I stand, to be honest.
People are a part of nature, but so advanced because of our ability to create and use tools that we do/should have some responsibility other apex predators don't have. But balancing that...big, long discussion with I think no real resolution in sight.
There was an episode on Yellowstone about this subject. The wolves were actually tagged and trackable. Made it difficult for the guys on Dutton Ranch to play stupid.
I was trying to imagine the In-N-Out shooting in Idaho if it took place in Mamdami's no prisons, no police, no guns Amerika.
There are no guns in his utopian dream, therefore neither the off-duty officer whose job would be nonexistent, nor the good samaritan would’ve had a gun. The criminal DID have a gun though and the casualty count would have been much higher in Mamdami’s Amerika. The only hope of thwarting the attack would have been if a group of blue haired, man bunned, nasal ringed, tattooed, trans Mamdamites had an emergency meeting and voted to catch up to the gunman in an effort to immediately begin rehabilitation counseling and have him swear his oath of loyalty to the DSA. Would he face any sort of punishment? No. He’s the good guy. In fact he would be praised for killing the enemy; white racist colonizers and oppressors. A statue would be commissioned for his heroism and erected in the town square.
A high-ranking Westchester County police official drove the getaway car for her son in an apparent gangland shooting in the Bronx, police and sources said Tuesday.
Jennifer Lackard, a deputy police commissioner, the “Deputy Commissioner of Wellness”, with the Mount Vernon Police Department, was arrested at her home And subsequently fired.
Lackard was aptly named. She lacked the capacity for a scintilla of intelligence.
It appears the islamocommie El Sayed won the michigan primary for Senate over the incredibly weird Betty booped voice female. There will be a celebratory mass Muslim prayer service (men only) in the streets later today. And Medicare for all Sayed’s medical provider wife will still not take Medicare in her practice. They will however, be vacationing in the UAE to check on their rental properties.
In the long run his victory is positive since he will lose in November, whereas Betty Bland would’ve been presented as a moderate Democrat and would’ve been the latest Mikki Sherrill.
Islam is rapidly gaining. I missed my exit yesterday and ended up driving through downtown Albany, NY. Muslim women all over, wearing the head coverings and masks (why are they still wearing masks?) I stopped in a gas station for directions. Muslim owner. I was shocked though I should not be surprised . It’s happening.
It sometimes seems like half of our country fell into a sort of Stockholm syndrome with regard to Islam not long after 9/11. It is unfathomable especially why women and gays would not only tolerate its rise but advocate for it.
The odds of me voting for a Muslim are about as likely as me sodomizing my two female cats 🐈 (who are between the ages of 6-9 so within Mohammad’s age range)
We live in an area of Ohio where our grocery and other shopping are located in a highly populated Muslim area. (Our city/state is second only to Minnesota). The major annoyance, apart from their unfriendliness, is their habit of ‘talking’ (I’m being kind here) on the phone in public on speaker where every conversation sounds like a hostile argument. They are by no means the only ethnic group that loudly broadcast their conversations in quiet places but the most annoying in my experience.
Even the many cops in this area I drove through appeared to be Muslim. Funny I thought it was “defund the police” but they’re all over in a heavily Muslim area? As I was getting out of my car , suspicious, hostile glances cast my way. In that neighborhood, I am the enemy apparently. Very strange experience. The gas station owner was very nice though and gave good directions.
I Hate when people are loud on their cell phones in public! By now, I thought everyone understood common courtesy re cell phones, but I guess privileged groups are exempt.
The way of the dodo. Like me. The world seems to be leaving me as fast or faster than I am leaving it. On a hopeful note, have you ever noticed how positive people become when one is genuinely respectful, cheerful and appreciative of them? I practice that, like a game. Sometimes jaded, nasty people just need some TLC. I’m not giving up the ship. Yet.
When I got laid off during COVID, I ended up walking the dog three times a day, cleaning the house... and drinking more! After two weeks, I began to think that I was involuntarily "retired", but then I was called back to work after my employer got one of those COVID loans to keep the business going. In a way, I was disappointed, but in 2021, at 69 years of age, I was not yet ready to retire. What the layoff didn't accomplish, dealing with the change in people's attitudes and behavior post-COVID finally nailed it down. I became tired of the bullsh*t people were expecting, and the general "me first" attitudes that I was facing daily. So, in 2023, I sold our Cali-condo for a mint and retired to Georgia.
Happy Hump Day! Nice hardwood floors and mallet.
I think she said it was vinyl.
I must have missed that post. Thanks 😊
Yup, vinyl plank over the top. Really badly laid laminate planks underneath. That's what we're hiding.
I defer. I have never done a home makeover or even repair in my life.
Try it. You'll like it......
Heard this Daily Wire story about WPath. Unbelievable these sick people. Highly recommend a listen if you’re interested in the trans craziness.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/inside-wpaths-private-forum-trans-regret-damage-co?row=0&elementPosition=3&rowType=Web+Search
My reaction to that interview? Total boredom, along with my reflexive shouting, "Get to the frickin' POINT, will you?" Terrible interviewer! It was like overhearing a conversation in Starbucks!
I’m used the “young people” not being so good at speaking in general, let alone interviewing, but my point was the information she had dug up from WPath’s own members.
Are you putting the vinyl OVER an existing flooring instead of removing the old stuff??
Unfortunately, we had no other option. It would have best to remove the laminate, but it was not feasible. The vinyl plank we're putting over it is cheap stuff. This is completely a cosmetic thing.
That vinyl will trap moisture and cause the laminate to warp and buckle over time, causing the new stuff to bulge and shift. I tore up the laminate that I installed by myself, but had professionals install the vinyl. It was done to increase the value of the condo while I was putting it on the market. Over $4K for a five-room place. But if you don't have the cash, you do what you must!
We were looking at downsizing and had opportunity to tour a number of newly built "retirement homes", many (unfortunately) built by mega-builders like Pulte and Lennar.
That's where we found out that the current trade name for this stuff is "LVP", which stands for "Luxury Vinyl Plank". I've got to admit that LVP sounds a lot nicer than "plastic floor".
The problem for us is that we've lived for the past 40 years in homes that had real solid oak hardwood floors. Sure they require extra care and maintenance, but hardwood floors provide a feeling of warmth and sturdiness that plastic floors or carpet simply can't match.
Yeah, I know. But this place is definitely a fixer-upper. Just trying to make it look like a liveable fixer-upper.
Celia, is your flooring a DIY project? I think Robert is right. Putting the vinyl over the old may cause problems later
It is. Can't afford professional work.
Wish I could help 😕
I appreciate the thought!
Great hardwood floors.
Here: the Jason Arday as a fantasist circus continues. It is hard to keep up with the latest revelations about what he claimed. It would appear he reported and various people to the police for daring to question discrepancies in his Phd thesis. https://x.com/benryanwriter/status/2084773615736848507
And GB News have covered the story about the 'safety covers' which Jessica Kingsley Publishing are producing to 'protect' children in supposed 'unsafe' families. <huge eye roll> The publisher is v strongly gender affirmation. https://www.gbnews.com/news/outrage-after-publisher-launches-safety-covers-allowing-young-people-to-hide-gender-identity-books-at-home
Also should rehabilitated neo-nazis be allowed to stand for the Conservative party? Badenoch said yes. Other people think there should be a re-think. The man in question now actively works at trying to dismantle antisemitism and conducts courses with approval of the Home Office for the police. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/08/04/badenoch-defends-selection-of-ex-neo-nazi-as-tory-candidate/ or https://archive.ph/BoQiM
If rehabilitation isn’t allowed, then what’s the point. Shouldn’t redemption be encouraged?
It is a local office (bin collections, pot holes etc). His local association has backed him. His victims are less certain, but ten years have passed. This is the op ed he wrote about why he knows Britain is failing her Jews: https://conservativehome.com/2026/08/05/joshua-bonehill-paine-britain-is-failing-its-jews-i-know-where-this-hatred-leads/
He has now withdrawn and will take up a position in policy to do with combatting antisemitism. He recognised that he has more work to do to prove that he has changed and doesn't want his past to be a distraction.
I am referring to Arday as the British George Santos
And Cambridge is reminiscent of Harvard and its ex president Claudine Gay. Experts in academics similar to Dr Science the Fauch. No more deference to colleges and their biases and cheaters
It is really quite something. Every day seems to bring a new revelation. The 7 Up was just fantasy time. And two colleges/universities including Ohio State have confirmed that he was never a visiting professor there. Plus the Guardian confirmed that the pig's head story was untrue (the butcher said that it was something they'd remember as police visits are something which stick in the mind.
Maybe its just HIS TRUTH
I read a long article somewhere about this Professor Arday. Some pretty damning evidence he is a liar but let me tell you story. When I first started teaching at the Art Institute of Houston 28 years ago, we had a black adjunct who spoke with an unidentifiable “British” accent. I asked my first boss and mentor Dr. Joe Orlando (RIP) what was up. He said, “I don’t know but he’s supposedly from East Texas-maybe Vidor”. To paraphrase the great Boxing 🥊 Promotor Don King, “Ain’t no nig—- from Vidor speak with a British accent” or they would have drug his black ass behind a pick up truck like they did James Byrd. (Trigger warning: PoetKen believes in total equal treatment of all people. The above events are simply social commentary of a somewhat scabious nature. Reader Discretion is advised). 🤷♂️
Like scabrous?
Yes Mr Karg that is what I wanted to write but Autocorrect didn’t like it and I didn’t proofread, nice catch ⚾️
Shouldn’t the trigger warning come before?
Wouldn't that take all the fun out of it?
And as I said every day a new revelation. Today's tit bit, Arday falsely claimed to have published a book on black masculinity with a specific publisher. No such book has been published by Palgrave and was abandoned as a project a few years ago. In order to obtain a position at Cambridge, you actually have to have published a wide body of work. Query: Did the Cambridge appointing committee know the book had not been published and was in fact an abandoned project when he was offered the position? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/05/jason-arday-falsely-claimed-to-have-published-book/ or https://archive.ph/qLqsR
I can't understand how a nonverbal 7-year- old can appear on a rebooted 7-up, not to mention the original, whose participants are now elderly. For those who haven't seen it, the 7-year-olds talked about their lives and expectations, and were visited every 7 years to see how they progressed and changed. It's not surprising that the most self-aware kid, who grew up on a farm, became a physicist.
I think that show is fascinating. You mention a re-boot. Have they started with a new group of children, or are they still following the original group.I think the last one I saw was about 5 years ago.
There's supposed to be a final visit to the surviving members of original group for 70-up, but no new group as far as I know. It was intended as an exploration of the British class system and that's definitely changed.
They did a reboot of people who were 7 in 2000. His age means he would not have eligible. He is now saying it was a local thing which people called 7 up. There are lots of unanswered questions about Cambridge and others' due diligence.
Thank you.
Arday, like Fauci, Platner and other fabricated icons boot licking leftists were all too eager to line up for, were rising stars shot down by their own documented available history kept secret from the public until simple investigative journalism blew their cover. Rather than face the enormous backlash from exposing the leftist heroes, media and academia chose to look the other way and go along with the lie.
Thanks for clearing that up, DM, now I don't have to read up on Arday. I see TFP has a thing there.
Worth noting that, of course, the needed investigative journalism was not done by journalists.
It's hard to believe that Cambridge University and Simon & Schuster are standing by Jason Arday.
S&S will have to adjust print runs etc. I can see why they are standing by him. Contracts are involved and he didn't plagiarize his autobiography, even if it is ghost written (and much may be stretching credulity) .
Cambridge have more serious questions to answer. It is the reporting of journos and anyone who questions to the police.
They’re in too deep. Need the book sales to recoup their investment. They don’t give a rat’s butt if it’s truthful or not, only that it sells before the buyers learn the truth. Don’t be surprised if they publish another author’s unauthorized biography exposing the fraud soon.
They may sell books anyway. Read the lies for yourself!
Nice. They can monetize on both ends.
“It’s all about money/ain’t a damn thing funny/You gotta have a con/in this land of milk and honey” Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five “The Message” music 🎶
The ideologues face an identity crisis that is shattering, like thermal shock to hydrocarbon molecules.
Oust Charles and invest Arday with the Crown.
There was an interesting comment in TFP from the father of a kid with Autism; in his experience, it's almost impossible for people with Autism to lie and this is yet another one of Arday's fabrications.
He suffers from Ought-ism.
For a more inspiring story about Marathon running and charitable contributions, look at the life of Canadian Terry Fox, who ran a marathon equivalent on 143 consecutive days using a prosthetic leg, to raise money for cancer research. He only stopped because his cancer returned and affected his lungs; he intended to run across all of Canada.
Fox's amputation was above the knee and he ran through a great deal of pain.
Annual events in his honor have raised about a billion Canadian dollars for cancer research.
I would think nowadays the cure they offer in Canada for cancer is MAID. Think how much money the health service would save!
I am beginning to consider leaving my part-time job as a locksmith because I feel that everything I know has been passed on to the crew I work with, leaving me to be just a "niche" employee whose expertise is only used on occasion. These guys functioned profitably without my input, and they will probably abandon whatever changes I fought to make over the past three years. Further, I have begun to realize that I cannot change the work ethic that they have been expressing from BEFORE my arrival.
My boss is 65-years-old, and he and I are of a like mind about a lot of the trade's practices, but the younger guys are more set in their ways than an old man such as I. But in their defense, I was much the same when I entered the trade back in 1977! I thought that I had a "better" idea about how to do things till, at last, I realized that the "old" ways were not erased by time, but were STILL relevant to today.
My only hesitation arises from the existential question: What NOW?" What will I do with my time? Will I just sit in the recliner next to my wife and watch British crime shows, or "House Hunters" ( a fate almost worse than death)? Or will I find another job where my presence is just tolerated and which requires nothing more than following instructions?
Right now I hate that I am viewed as a fossil from the old days, but that is what I AM! Has anyone else dealt with this issue? Calling Mr. Karg!
Stick w the British shows. Ever watch Suspects? We just finished first season. Just detective stuff no personal lives segments
If I did, I could just imagine myself devolving into a desiccated husk of a human being whose muscles have lost all function except for trips to the fridge or the bathroom.
I have been retired 13 years. I fill my time up.in many ways. Exercise and stretching routine in morning with walking or biking later in day. In addition to exercise I keep my mind active. I am always doing 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles ( if u afe interested can suggest some fun ones). I am not a card player but know many who are pretty religiously so.to speak.
Good routine, which is so important Clearity Seeker.
Volunteer somewhere.
I agree with Clarity Seeker. If you are disciplined enough to establish a healthy routine, exercise, activities, keeping your brain sharp, you’ll be fine. If you are concerned that you will not have a good routine, then, yes, you should seek some other employment to keep the body and mind moving. How about hanging out your own shingles as a locksmith. You’re the boss.
I’ve been retired for 8 years and have a good routine that keeps the body and mind functioning well.
I never wanted my own business! Too much to worry about.
I gave up my Brit shows when they all went woke. Cancelled Britbox. The last good (maybe great) series, for me, was Line of Duty.
I really enjoy British TV even though they have their woke "quotas" to fill. The ones I watch are not nearly as obnoxious as the American TV which try to teach us how we all should think.
My favorite as far as European shows, are from Italy, and 2nd I would say Sweden. I get MzH and PBS International (not the regular PBS).
Agree with you about American tv- I divorced it and ran off with Miss Britainna. Now I see she’s no better. Italy and Sweden? The hell you say! I’ll perhaps give em a try.
Italian are the best to me and then Swedish. Sweden has some good crime shows, many referred to as Scandanavian Noir. I like the characters in the Italian shows and a lot of their shows have a smart humor.
Good luck!
No no no, I am the most workless person on this website. The other thing too, if you want.
But what do you do with your time? Look for the guy dressed in black and holding a scythe?
Like you, I am a goal oriented person and have just recently have a lot of time on my hands (my husband, fully retired), being fully disabled. We find projects to complete.... even if they are small. I also have a couple of hobbies that interest me and that I can feel rewarded when they come to fruition (like gardening/yardening and cooking). We are not tv watchers, although we enjoy watching some shows/movies/series in the evenings.
If you're 88, cooking and cleaning takes half the day. I used to play chess and card games, but they all died or moved away. I'm currently reading "Coolidge."
Tell me about that book - is it good? He’s one of my favorite presidents
I'm still in the first third, just getting to and through college was a harsh life, it reads.
I read his autobiography - very sparse, as you would imagine. He was a real character, though - he went to my alma mater and I've seen his law office in Northampton as well as his childhood home inn VT, where his father swore him in by candlelight.
For you Sir. I was Over the Rainbow one night and Kirk Douglas was there. I was drinking with an Austin friend who wanted to be an actor was totally in awe and freaking out. I said, “do you want to meet him?” I walked over and said, “Mr Douglas, I wanted to tell you how much of a fan I am of your work” He gave me his classic cocked headed look, “What do you mean, my work?” I answered, “sometimes life itself is work”. He laughed, patted me on my back, and said, “Come with me”. He then got behind the bar and started mixing us super strong drinks. I called Gunning over and he and Kirk talked acting for a bit. Next day my handler found me and said “ I hear you boys were making the scene last night” lmfao 🤪
Good story. Did you know, by your times, "The Rainbow" was hosting afternoon CA meetings? Making amends, I suspect. I ought'a know.
No I just got drunk there. But Charles Gunning DID end up in AA and gave me his signed book, I need to find that to donate it to an archive. Saw Dan Ackroyd and many others, once you’re up there everyone knows you’re in the Industry But you know all this…
Get an RV and go see the country!
Or do it in a sedan, golf clubs in the trunk.
I'm partial to sleeping in my own bed, but yes! Yake the car and stay in hotels/motels and enjoy the amenities and take advantage of their free breakfasts!!
Nothing is free!
Would you ever be interested in sharpening knives and tools? We had a neighbor who did that but he moved away. A few blacksmiths will sharpen knives for restaurants but they won’t take on ordinary home cooks, or hobby gardeners. I know it involves buying some equipment. However, it’s a service that’s always needed. A person can only get a good edge on a knife at home for so long and then only a pro sharpening job will do.
I have looked and looked for a "mobile knife sharpener" as I hear there are some of those. For the right person, who has patience, precision, and the willingness to learn a new skill, I think there would be at least as much work as anyone who does this would like.
When we lived on NYC upper west side some 30 years ago, there was a knife sharpener guy who would park his van on 103 rd street. Word got around quickly. There was a line! When demand dwindled, he moved on.
In Vermont, we would take our knives to him. Half of them, anyway as he had so many others to do, we had to wait about a week to get them back.
Agree, it takes a fastidious person for this job.
Reminds me how old I am. We had a guy strolling down our street every few months, singsonging, "knives and scissors sharpening, knives and scissors sharpening." There was also an iceman. There were even Indians in teepees, along the Cuyahoga River. No kidding, my Dad took me once to see them.
Our most recent knife sharpener guy gave his customers band aids when they retrieved their newly sharpened knives. Just in case.
Cuyahoga River? Are you a former resident of "The Mistake on the Lake"? The river that caught fire? I grew up in Cleveland and left in 1971.
“Burn On, Big River, Burn On/Now the Lord can make you tumble/ and the Lord can make you quake/ and Lord can make you overflow/But the Lord can’t make you burn”-Randy Newman from “Sail Away” 1973 😆
I remember the 1969 fire on the river. My lefty friends at that time laughed at the absurdity of it. A sort of gallows humor, but they’ve lost any sense of humor whatsoever as they’ve aged. That river caught on fire about a dozen times!
They ended up cleaning the river and even turned the downtown end of it into a boutique tourist location. Of course, many of the businesses failed, and it became a ghost town, but the river is still clean, and fish no longer float belly up into Lake Erie.
Yeah. I just found a box of old skil saw blades of my father’s. Inside was a business card of the guy who did blade sharpening.
In every small town, there used to be at least one guy who did this kind of work. Now people just throw out and get new. My cooking knives are old, good steel. When I told the blacksmith I was considering replacing them, he said “don’t”. My dad was a contractor. I’d forgotten about saw blades. Cool you found that business card.
That old steel. I found a straight razor of my grandfather’s. The carbon steel had not a speck of rust.
I've used a Chef's Choice electric sharpener for many years, and it works very well. Even on my old Chicago Cutlery knives which are at least 45 years old. Great investment.
Thank you! I’ve thrown out soooo many knife sharpeners! My brother bought me one that so far, works. I give it a year , it was a state fair purchase . I’ll shop for the Chefs choice sharpener.
I think the one my brother gave me is a generic version of the manual chefs choice sharpener. A 3 step deal. Maybe it will last longer
He could advertise at local mosques
Yeah, there’s that nowadays. Not a problem in Vermont-yet.
I need to see Frost’s places before I pass
The Frost stone house in Bennington used to be really lovely. Since the college took it over, I haven’t been back. I’m afraid to see what they’ve done to it. His place up in Middlebury I saw once with a friend who was at the Breadloaf Writers conference. Not sure if that belongs to the college or not.
PK, please tell us what you had for breakfast today. You are en fuego this morning.
And scissors!! My sewing scissors need to be sharp
There's a work crew of locksmiths. Are you safe crackers?
I can do safes, but not very many. My expertise is designing and implementing master keying systems for commercial properties. That is my niche at my current employer. It takes someone with a slight case of OCD to keep things organized, and record-keeping is just as important. When I started, I was aghast at what was going on around the shop, and how the employees would leave the files lying around, expecting them to be magically updated and refiled ALL BY THEMSELVES! This could easily become a specific rant about "kids today", but I shall refrain for now...unless someone asks!
Fascinating. Who would ever have thought, but then I guess somebody has to do it.
Do you mean cleaning up after kids?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!
No. The way I cook there's lots of cleanup.
I think slight OCD is actually what we used to consider a normal person capable of focusing for more than 2 seconds and knowing how to work.
Your job is very important in modern society. As to retirement, poets don’t retire.
To paraphrase the great boxing 🥊 promoter Don King 👑 “they’re ain’t no Safe Crackers, Mr Karg” 😝
"What to do with my time?"
I had the same question 3 years ago when I retired. Since then, I have traveled, I learned how to draw, i learned Portuguese and I set up an electronics lab to do experiments. Our home is in better shape and I have also done nothing for days, because I can.
You will find tons of things to do.
Oh, my, yes!
Even before we had actually moved to Western North Carolina, I had been sweet-talked into ‘volunteering’ to help with the drama program at the local library (I was a newly-retired theatre teacher). I’ve always been a workaholic, so the ‘drama program’ quickly became a community theatre, so successful that it outgrew the library. Our first auditions at the Arts Center were set, unfortunately, for the first night of the pandemic lockdown.
For the first month after, I waited and prepared for the eventual reopening. Then I began to lose my mind.
So, we completed all the work the house had needed since our move, turned a large shed into mini-museum for my husband’s collection, built four more sheds from scratch, added a gazebo, then (since we had used all the justifiable available land on our property) started on dollhouse miniatures. I’m just finishing my eighth 1:12 scale structure now. No use to anybody else but me, but it keeps my mind sharp and my body out of the recliner.
We also volunteer at a local museum and have joined a metal detecting club.
I’m not woke enough to return to the theatre scene now. Like you, I’ve been phased out. But, I’m not ready for the graveyard, just yet.
Good luck (and pull your wife off that couch - it’s not good for her, either)!
I bet the library would love to have your miniatures to display. It’s not just about books anymore dontcha know
Robert, it will take time to build a "new" life and some things you choose won't work out. I am not really one who should be giving advice, but don't let fear and anxiety keep you from making the jump. There are so many skills to develop. I learned how to do a lot from watching Youtube. I sell antiques/vintage decor online and can work at my own pace. I buy a lot of what I sell online. I like to repair things made from another day, or change them a bit to make them new again. I am not suggesting this for you, but it might help to think of things you have always been interested in, but never got a chance to pursue. Good luck!
It's been said by others, but setting up a routine is important – one based on "mens sana in corpore sane." I'm 80. Just finished writing a book. My routine:
Up about 530, on the road for a 4-mi or so walk by 6.
Home about 745 (not as fast as I used to be!).
Breakfast with newspaper and sudoku.
Writing and email.
Ride exercise bike, do chores and run errands.
Lunch (light).
Do a few puzzles.
Read (and sometimes write).
Exercise bike and weights.
Wine and dinner.
Reading and/or TV.
Bed ~10.
Kind of boring, but keeps juices flowing both mentally and physically. Many I know do woodworking; some play pickleball; a lot golf. The key is to work mind and body.
Wow! Awesome, 👏
Join the local gym for health benefits, volunteer at the local botanical garden, historic site, animal shelter. Or if you are really bored church/religious groups. Those folks will keep you busier than a full time job!
Are you covering a hardwood floor?
That's what it looked like to me, but I don't want to get involved.
Good policy, Mr. K.
Before we put floating waterproof hardwoods down during Covid we removed the carpeting and tiles, then added 3/4 inch plywood over the existing builder wooden floor. The new 3/4 inch plywood was screwed into the cross beams that hold up the house, the result was a solid steady base to overlay the hardwoods. The new floor is amazing. No squeaky soft spots and very firm. We got the 3/4 inch plywood before the prices sky rocketed after Covid.
Many folks enjoy original hardwood floors. I’m not a real estate person but I’d never cover them with vinyl.
I prefer hardwood, but it's beyond my purse and now beyond my energy.
Understand, you are generous helping your son AND doing the contractor work. Add it to his bill. 💸 lol 😂
I am Tool Woman! I love doing this stuff…except that it isn't as easy now that I'm 60. Fortunately, Jem-Dad is a good helper.
No, the floor underneath is laminate, very badly laid.
No rain yesterday. Yahoo! My yard is flooded. It’s been awful. Hoping for more of the same today. Looks like the west coast could use some of this rain. Crazy people starting fires. Sad
We have rain in NJ today.
Last week I "Hiked the Glen", rained about half way thru to soak me to the bone...and the temps were not what I was used to (mid-60's)
Came back Saturday to no chance of rain until the end of time...
Hiking in rain was fun once, when I was a kid.
Today, not so much.
originally I was just going to meet my two sons at the other end, but then my DIL got out with a 3 mo old baby strapped on to hike the trail....couldn't abide by that.
Hi Brian I forget what part of NJ you are from but if you were a partner at Price you may know about Rumson. I have kin from there.
Is anyone else tired of the on-again, off-again "negotiations" with Iran? I am sick of the bloviations emanating from the White House these days, and am ALMOST yearning for the 2028 elections. Well, not REALLY! I wish that I could pull a Rip Van Winkle and sleep for a generation till THIS craziness passes, and a different craziness comes along.
My preference, if I were forced into a Time Machine, would be to go backwards, to the 1970’s. I could see all of my favorite rock bands and times were simpler. No internet either.
In the late 60s and early 70s, I DID see all of my favorite bands! Led Zep, CSN before Neil (crab-ass) Young, and then later, with his addition! Blood, Sweat and Tears, Credence, Grand Funk, Iron Butterfly, The Who, Captain Beefheart, James Taylor, Electric Flag...and the list goes on!
Ever listen to Head East?
Anything after about 1972 is lost to me. I became enmeshed with Contemporary Christian music for a while, and then entered my Country Music stage until the Kenny Rodgers/Dolly Parton era began. Then, it was off to Classical music. Today I stick to older rock, country, and some Classical for comfort's sake.
There's Never Been Any Reason
Yes. Steve Huston the drummer was a good friend of mine. I think my tribute poem to him (which I read at his funeral RIP) is floating around the Internet on some of their tribute pages. 📃
You saw some good stuff indeed.
I really really regret not seeing Led Zeppelin when I was going to shows in the ‘70’s.
I saw Page Plant in the early 2000s in H town. Saw him in a few dives in Austin around then as he was dating an Austin folk chick so lived there a while.
I recently saw Plant with Alison Krauss, it was a great show. They did a few Zeppelin songs as well. I got turned onto Led Zeppelin later in life by reading about the band in books, several. One book takes the reader through their history and the making of their albums. So as each chapter rolled forward through LZ I, II, III, IV, etc…I listened to each album. It was a great way to learn about their music and how Page put it all together. He is really an amazing dude. But the one thing that stands out for me the most with Led Zeppelin. And that was the relationship Bonzo and Page had in the music. They were truly telepathic. I cannot point to another band where the drums and guitar were more aligned than Zeppelin.
Alison Kraus yes they dated
Yes...great music back then. Chicago and Led Zepplin...my favorite.
I don't read it.
Peanut Butter Toast for breakfast. The bread if your choice, toasted as you like, key first step is a light coat of coconut oil. At this time of the year our coconut oil is liquid so I use a spoon to apply it. I also use spoons to apply and spread the peanut butter, natural peanut butter of course, this morning it was Teddy's, then the final step is a light swirl of local honey. The combination is awesome. Be aware that the honey will want to drip off of the toast, it's a bit messy, not good for eating while you're driving your car, eating it over a plate that you can lick clean is recommended 👍😊🍯🐝
Trying to back away from the carbs.... greek yogurt and strawberries this morning for me.
That's my second breakfast - plain Siggis with strawberries, bananas, blueberries, whatever fruit we happen to have
Yup, Fage, blueberries and raspberries for me.
Teddy’s! We go through a jar a week.
I love pb toast.
Awesome job on the floor Celia 😊
Apparently wolves have moved into California (the four legged kind) and are attacking and eating beef. Ranchers are upset and the lone R in the California state fruit and nut house proposed a bill that would have allowed ranchers, with authorization from the CDFW, to use nonlethal deterrents such as pepper-balls and tear gas to haze wolves and protect herds. It was withdrawn because democrats who’ve never met a predator they wouldn’t stand up for objected.
I guess those ranchers refuse to do wolf eradication the old fashioned Idaho way. Shoot shovel shut up.
If you have enough land you can pretty much shoot anything you want and let nature (scavengers) take their course.
Vultures around here will clean even a good sized carcass in about 2 days. Racoons, coyotes, mice, then the insects will take care of the rest.
I just learned they are opening a wolf sanctuary in a small town about 9 miles from where I live. I certainly hope none of them get out, or are "put back into the wild." It's the last thing we need- beef prices are too high to have that many predators poking around where they don't belong.
The wolves were there long before the cattle Sir,
I suppose, but I haven't had a really big cheeseburger made out of wolf.
I can get lost very easily on a YouTube or Discovery channel show about a trophic cascade. Wolves and bison, in particular. To reintroduce or not reintroduce, that is the question. I find the entire thing fascinating, and I think I can really see both sides. I don't know where I stand, to be honest.
People are a part of nature, but so advanced because of our ability to create and use tools that we do/should have some responsibility other apex predators don't have. But balancing that...big, long discussion with I think no real resolution in sight.
So was Polio! 😊
Vultures are a protected species in rural Texas
As they should be. I don't know how brutal the landscape would look without them.
I'm always surprised they don't work faster, though. It is interesting to watch them do their thing, as long as you aren't squeamish.
There was an episode on Yellowstone about this subject. The wolves were actually tagged and trackable. Made it difficult for the guys on Dutton Ranch to play stupid.
Well that’s Hollywood. Wolves are breeding so fast now that it would be impossible to tag them.
In many ways Hollywood creates a new reality for us.
I was trying to imagine the In-N-Out shooting in Idaho if it took place in Mamdami's no prisons, no police, no guns Amerika.
There are no guns in his utopian dream, therefore neither the off-duty officer whose job would be nonexistent, nor the good samaritan would’ve had a gun. The criminal DID have a gun though and the casualty count would have been much higher in Mamdami’s Amerika. The only hope of thwarting the attack would have been if a group of blue haired, man bunned, nasal ringed, tattooed, trans Mamdamites had an emergency meeting and voted to catch up to the gunman in an effort to immediately begin rehabilitation counseling and have him swear his oath of loyalty to the DSA. Would he face any sort of punishment? No. He’s the good guy. In fact he would be praised for killing the enemy; white racist colonizers and oppressors. A statue would be commissioned for his heroism and erected in the town square.
And not a bit "over the top" here.
He just asked for “animal style”
Vaguely? Or "poetically?"
Yes both
A high-ranking Westchester County police official drove the getaway car for her son in an apparent gangland shooting in the Bronx, police and sources said Tuesday.
Jennifer Lackard, a deputy police commissioner, the “Deputy Commissioner of Wellness”, with the Mount Vernon Police Department, was arrested at her home And subsequently fired.
Lackard was aptly named. She lacked the capacity for a scintilla of intelligence.
It appears the islamocommie El Sayed won the michigan primary for Senate over the incredibly weird Betty booped voice female. There will be a celebratory mass Muslim prayer service (men only) in the streets later today. And Medicare for all Sayed’s medical provider wife will still not take Medicare in her practice. They will however, be vacationing in the UAE to check on their rental properties.
In the long run his victory is positive since he will lose in November, whereas Betty Bland would’ve been presented as a moderate Democrat and would’ve been the latest Mikki Sherrill.
One hopes.
Islam is rapidly gaining. I missed my exit yesterday and ended up driving through downtown Albany, NY. Muslim women all over, wearing the head coverings and masks (why are they still wearing masks?) I stopped in a gas station for directions. Muslim owner. I was shocked though I should not be surprised . It’s happening.
I was shocked, I tell ya, back in the late 90s a mosque appeared across the street from my CA meeting, in Culver City, CA
It sometimes seems like half of our country fell into a sort of Stockholm syndrome with regard to Islam not long after 9/11. It is unfathomable especially why women and gays would not only tolerate its rise but advocate for it.
The odds of me voting for a Muslim are about as likely as me sodomizing my two female cats 🐈 (who are between the ages of 6-9 so within Mohammad’s age range)
Is Talerico any better? The guy is nuts.
Not meaningfully better.
Your comment reminds me to stop complaining about the heat and bilingualism in South Florida.
We live in an area of Ohio where our grocery and other shopping are located in a highly populated Muslim area. (Our city/state is second only to Minnesota). The major annoyance, apart from their unfriendliness, is their habit of ‘talking’ (I’m being kind here) on the phone in public on speaker where every conversation sounds like a hostile argument. They are by no means the only ethnic group that loudly broadcast their conversations in quiet places but the most annoying in my experience.
Even the many cops in this area I drove through appeared to be Muslim. Funny I thought it was “defund the police” but they’re all over in a heavily Muslim area? As I was getting out of my car , suspicious, hostile glances cast my way. In that neighborhood, I am the enemy apparently. Very strange experience. The gas station owner was very nice though and gave good directions.
I Hate when people are loud on their cell phones in public! By now, I thought everyone understood common courtesy re cell phones, but I guess privileged groups are exempt.
The phrase ‘common courtesy’ will go the way of the dodo🦤.
It is becoming increasingly uncommon.
The way of the dodo. Like me. The world seems to be leaving me as fast or faster than I am leaving it. On a hopeful note, have you ever noticed how positive people become when one is genuinely respectful, cheerful and appreciative of them? I practice that, like a game. Sometimes jaded, nasty people just need some TLC. I’m not giving up the ship. Yet.
I practice courtesy and respect as well. Until they convince me they don’t deserve it.
Privileged groups are exempt from A LOT of bad behavior.
Cell phones and courtesy. No overlap in Venn diagram.
Fox News hasn't called it yet for Sayed. There are still votes being counted.
The mail in ballots will break the woman’s way, Yahweh told me.
You are on a roll today, PK Jones. It started with the supply and demand for knife sharpeners at mosques. I can't stop laughing.
Thankfully we ain’t all Muslims yet!
Of course, but I assume you meant ’printed’ rather than ’counted’.
Now it's been called. But the story is that he only won by 1%, not the huge margin predicted by the polls.
Just looking at y'all doing those floors made MY knees hurt! Will look great once it's all done!
It isn't so much my knees as my thighs. Getting up and down a lot is not old-person-friendly.
The floors look great
When I got laid off during COVID, I ended up walking the dog three times a day, cleaning the house... and drinking more! After two weeks, I began to think that I was involuntarily "retired", but then I was called back to work after my employer got one of those COVID loans to keep the business going. In a way, I was disappointed, but in 2021, at 69 years of age, I was not yet ready to retire. What the layoff didn't accomplish, dealing with the change in people's attitudes and behavior post-COVID finally nailed it down. I became tired of the bullsh*t people were expecting, and the general "me first" attitudes that I was facing daily. So, in 2023, I sold our Cali-condo for a mint and retired to Georgia.