OT: 105th Obsequious Banter Thread: Penny for Your Thoughts

[Asnito]

My wife couldnt get the lawnmower started and I told her it needed gas. She told me she already filled it with gas and the dipstick said it was full...

Oh boy, hopefully she didn't get it started

 

[sabremike]

 

[Embiid]

My wife couldnt get the lawnmower started and I told her it needed gas. She told me she already filled it with gas and the dipstick said it was full...

Reminds me of a buddy of mine in HS. We were both working for our other friend's dad's service station. My friend went out to do full service for a VW camper and proceeded to put gas in the back of the camper where the oil tank was. Customer wigged out and my friend said he only put 50 cents worth ...lol. My friend's dad had to remove and empty the tank...and I think clean it somehow. He was a mechanic of course.....was pretty annoyed at my friend..

 

[ajgoal]

My wife couldnt get the lawnmower started and I told her it needed gas. She told me she already filled it with gas and the dipstick said it was full...

While I was on deployment one evening, Squadron sent a fueler around to fill the tanks.

They sent an unmarked gasoline truck.

Abrams run on jet fuel. We had to replace three jet turbines.

Because parts of them exploded.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Cooking chicken in NyQuil is dangerous, FDA says, citing a video posted on TikTok

"Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways," the FDA said in a recent update.

www.nbcnews.com

We live in a society

 

[Asnito]

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[Runner77]

 

[ellja3]

The half marathon was today

Girl ran it at a 12:35 pace. I ran it at a 10:05 pace. Was insane.

Fun!

My A-goal for HM (in 2.5wks) is challenging own PB 1:51:47 (8:31 pace), buuuuuuuut that PB was 6 years, 1 kid, 2 serious ankle injuries and shitton of beers ago, so I don't know... B-goal is 1:55 (8:46 - more likely). C-goal - to not die on the course, which my boss made me promise would be achieved.


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Sssooo, mobilisation announced in Russia, surely that will end well....... They say it's ''partial'' - meaning they will only call up guys with past military experience, but that's bs; there's already reports of people being recruited literally from the streets, if they fit the targeted age interval.

Lithuania and Latvia have already annouced full military readiness to counter any bs coming from Russian borders, incl. refugees. What a time to be alive.

Also, this cannot be good news for guys like Fedotov, Michkov, right?

 

[Embiid]

Loose talk of using nukes again by Putin...says he is not bluffing. I mean whether he is or not I guess we will see when he annexes Eastern Ukraine and now claims an attack on the annexed territory is an attack on Russia itself and thus a pretext to use tactical nukes. This war seriously needs to end and not with the creation of a desert and calling it peace....

 

[Embiid]

Fun!

My A-goal for HM (in 2.5wks) is challenging own PB 1:51:47 (8:31 pace), buuuuuuuut that PB was 6 years, 1 kid, 2 serious ankle injuries and shitton of beers ago, so I don't know... B-goal is 1:55 (8:46 - more likely). C-goal - to not die on the course, which my boss made me promise would be achieved.


-- -- --

Sssooo, mobilisation announced in Russia, surely that will end well....... They say it's ''partial'' - meaning they will only call up guys with past military experience, but that's bs; there's already reports of people being recruited literally from the streets, if they fit the targeted age interval.

Lithuania and Latvia have already annouced full military readiness to counter any bs coming from Russian borders, incl. refugees. What a time to be alive.

Also, this cannot be good news for guys like Fedotov, Michkov, right?

Fedotov I fear will be canon fodder...methinks he would have preferred being canon fodder in net for the Flyers than for "Puta" Putin...

Praying I am not a nuclear casuality while I am in Italy...

 

[Embiid]

Hopefully Fedotov hides in a refrigerator box and gets stowed in one of the flights out...

Flights out of Russia sell out after Putin orders partial call-up

One-way flights out of Russia were selling out fast on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin ordered the immediate call-up of 300,000 reservists. Putin's announcement, made in an early-morning television address, raised fears that some men of fighting age would not be allowed to leave...

finance.yahoo.com

 

[ellja3]

Fedotov I fear will be canon fodder...methinks he would have preferred being canon fodder in net for the Flyers than for "Puta" Putin...

Praying I am not a nuclear casuality while I am in Italy...

If that's a consolation, I'll be f***ed first.

 

[kudymen]

Well this world really needs to go F itself in the past few years.
There are some things I would probably find intriguing if it was a movie.. but watching live how the regular Russians bought out basically all one-way flight tickets out from Russia until say this Sunday, how the markets reacted, what happenned not only to availability but also pricing of flight tickets out of Russia, what happened with the oil prices.. nuclear weapons talk..

Thats just insanity

 

[Jack Straw]

Cooking chicken in NyQuil is dangerous, FDA says, citing a video posted on TikTok

"Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways," the FDA said in a recent update.

www.nbcnews.com

We live in a society

Probably not as dangerous as cooking it in gasoline though.

 

[Embiid]

Well this world really needs to go F itself in the past few years.
There are some things I would probably find intriguing if it was a movie.. but watching live how the regular Russians bought out basically all one-way flight tickets out from Russia until say this Sunday, how the markets reacted, what happenned not only to availability but also pricing of flight tickets out of Russia, what happened with the oil prices.. nuclear weapons talk..

Thats just insanity

I'm going to add the Fed in there...love how they create inflation by juicing stocks and bonds since the last financial crisis and now is fighting inflation by trying to kill demand on the backs of regular folk by creating unemployment...

Free market....where profits are privatized and losses socialized.

 

[mja]

Loose talk of using nukes again by Putin...says he is not bluffing. I mean whether he is or not I guess we will see when he annexes Eastern Ukraine and now claims an attack on the annexed territory is an attack on Russia itself and thus a pretext to use tactical nukes. This war seriously needs to end and not with the creation of a desert and calling it peace....

Generally, someone who has to say he is not bluffing is bluffing. Ukraine has already attacked Russian territory and the only response from Russia was more saber-rattling or outright denial out of embarrassment. There wouldn't even be any point to it, because it wouldn't actually accomplish anything, and China surely wouldn't abide by it. They'd take his ass out themselves. Ultimately, backing down in the face of threats like this is untenable, or else it's going to be hung over our heads for a generation. We wouldn't get peace, but rather perpetual warfare that'll spread over Eastern Europe and beyond. This is the time to punch the bully in the nose and to keep punching him until he drops.

 

[Embiid]

Right...

Another former Putin ally dies after 'falling down several flights of stairs'

A FORMER Putin ally and top aviation expert has died in Moscow, becoming the latest of the Russian president’s associates to meet his end in a mysterious fashion since the start of the war in…

www.the-sun.com

 

[Embiid]

Generally, someone who has to say he is not bluffing is bluffing. Ukraine has already attacked Russian territory and the only response from Russia was more saber-rattling or outright denial out of embarrassment. There wouldn't even be any point to it, because it wouldn't actually accomplish anything, and China surely wouldn't abide by it. They'd take his ass out themselves. Ultimately, backing down in the face of threats like this is untenable, or else it's going to be hung over our heads for a generation. We wouldn't get peace, but rather perpetual warfare that'll spread over Eastern Europe and beyond. This is the time to punch the bully in the nose and to keep punching him until he drops.

Personally I am concerned by a zero sum game....

 

[mja]

Personally I am concerned by a zero sum game....

I realize that, but I think you tend more than a bit towards the paranoid. In any event, even if he's not bluffing, you can't let him get away with it, or else you're just letting him know he can keep on doing it. Appeasement isn't a viable path forward.

 

[Embiid]

I realize that, but I think you tend more than a bit towards the paranoid. In any event, even if he's not bluffing, you can't let him get away with it, or else you're just letting him know he can keep on doing it. Appeasement isn't a viable path forward.

I think there is more to "it" than most people think and there really hasn't been much discourse about the perils of escalation and our national interest. I think most people like you tend to oversimplify the situation...so we'll call the personal attack even.

 

[mja]

I think there is more to "it" than most people think and there really hasn't been much discourse about the perils of escalation and our national interest. I think most people like you tend to oversimplify the situation...so we'll call the personal attack even.

T'was not a personal attack, rather merely a sincerely honest opinion. I see nothing gained in our national interest by looking the other way as Russia vainly attempts to remain relevant as a global power by trying to reconstruct the Russian empire, which is all this is really about in the first place.

 

[Lord Defect]

T'was not a personal attack, rather merely a sincerely honest opinion. I see nothing gained in our national interest by looking the other way as Russia vainly attempts to remain relevant as a global power by trying to reconstruct the Russian empire, which is all this is really about in the first place.

Did you just try to casually use the word ‘twas and not expect to get called out on it?

 

[mja]

Did you just try to casually use the word ‘twas and not expect to get called out on it?

Damn, you got me.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Probably not as dangerous as cooking it in gasoline though.

Well when you put it that way

 

[DancingPanther]

GM @BigToe Magnus is demolishing people. He's not death by a thousands cuts endgaming them, he's blowing people off the board at a 2950 level lol