OT: 119th Obsequious Banter Thread: April Foods Day

[swami24]

Fri afternoon, perfect day, working from home, all systems still down due to cloudstrike issue. Cigar on the deck time may be a few hours early today..

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Is there a catchy Y2K esque name for this disaster yet?

I've seen Crowdstroke, Cloud Strike, and Crowdstricken.

 

[DancingPanther]

I hope all my bosses had a horrible time today

 

[Rebels57]

The whole fam had off today so we took a trip over to the Beach in Belmar, NJ. What a great beach and chill little town. Only 1:15 away from Philly too.

 

[Embiid]

I honestly have no clue. It didn't give any number readings and the crackhead that came out didn't give us any either. The only thing that I really know is that one of the pipes coming off the hot water heater was really loose and it is directly below a return, so he was thinking that could have been the issue. We reset the thermostat/reader and after it did its calibration, it went back to a normal level reading, so maybe it had to do with the hot water heater, but really unsure.

You sure the crackhead didn't toke up on that loose pipe?

 

[DancingPanther]

The whole fam had off today so we took a trip over to the Beach in Belmar, NJ. What a great beach and chill little town. Only 1:15 away from Philly too.View attachment 895930

Tags or no

 

[trostol]

The whole fam had off today so we took a trip over to the Beach in Belmar, NJ. What a great beach and chill little town. Only 1:15 away from Philly too.View attachment 895930

why do i feel like it is closer lol had a friend who lived there and it seemed closer whenever i'd visit

 

[Rebels57]

Tags or no

Tags...you scan a QR code and pay on Venmo

 

[swami24]

I think there are only about 10 free beaches in NJ, which I believe include AC and the wildwoods

 

[prototypical4thliner]

The whole fam had off today so we took a trip over to the Beach in Belmar, NJ. What a great beach and chill little town. Only 1:15 away from Philly too.View attachment 895930

Belmar is our go to, love it. My brother in law lives in Brick so it is super convenient.

 

[DancingPanther]

I think there are only about 10 free beaches in NJ, which I believe include AC and the wildwoods

Correct, was just wondering if that was one of them, I had never heard of that beach before

 

[swami24]

Ok, it is a popular place, being at the end of 195, and thus one of the quickest to get to.

 

[trostol]

 

[Cody Webster]

Do you celebrate that win if you're Oscar?

 

[Rebels57]

I know we dont talk Politics, but holy shit, Joe Biden has dropped out of the race.

 

[kudymen]

I really don't know what to expect. Then again same fearful feeling of unknown I've had ever since my first thought about the 2024 election.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I know we dont talk Politics, but holy shit, Joe Biden has dropped out of the race.

I guess we’ll see but based on everything up to this point I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes out he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

 

[sigma six]

The shirt I bought ten minutes ago:

 

[swami24]

The last open convention was 1952, I thought it was much longer ago.

 

[Magua]

Are we allowed to talk about the 1896 presidential election and the Free Silver movement?

 

[Chinatown88]

Are we allowed to talk about the 1896 presidential election and the Free Silver movement?

No.

Also friendly reminder to everyone. Gate keep your hobbies.

 

[Magua]

No.

Also friendly reminder to everyone. Gate keep your hobbies.

This is exactly what a bimetallist would say.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

This is exactly what a bimetallist would say.

Reported

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

 

[Flybynite]

The last open convention was 1952, I thought it was much longer ago.

1968 would have been if the Democratic Party hadn't manipulated things the whole way through. Hubert Humphrey never appeared on most state ballots and almost all of his delegates were party elites controlling state delegate conventions or caucuses since most states didn't have an open-voter primary for President in those days.

He also massively abused the 'favorite son' loophole which allowed a state to have a popular Senator or Governor run in the caucus or convention and have the delegates awarded to them. Then that person could award them to another nominee.

So basically imagine today if you had no primary in Michigan, but Gretchen Whitmer was able to decide who she wanted to give the delegates to.

All of that (plus RFK being assassinated when he had at the time the 2nd or 3rd most delegates) led to allowing Humphrey to have enough on the 1st ballot to avoid an 'open/brokered convention'