Here’s a puppy who definitely did not chew the roll of toilet paper off the holder in the guest bathroom and distribute the resulting bits all over the house yesterday:
I got nothing else. Trying to work my way through a nasty stomach bug of some sort that has left me queasy for four days straight. It’s a good idea to stay away from the news if you’re feeling queasy. But this is an open thread — y’all discuss whatever you want.
ET
Oh that’s not a guilty pup face. At all.
LAO
“Not Guilty” — Maggie aka destroyer of beds and toys and stuff I like.
Baud
Cherish every moment, Betty.
Corner Stone
That sweet little pup never did a bad thing in his entire life. Stop trying to taint the jury pool, B Crack!
NotMax
Peanut/almond/cashew butter: smooth or crunchy?
:)
schrodingers_cat
Badger says who me? Must be Daisy I can’t even reach the toilet paper.
Elizabelle
Not he. No indeed.
Steeplejack
Very pleasant here in NoVA today: 82°, humidity 58%, sunny, bit of a breeze. Positively balmy for midsummer. Drove a friend to a knee rehab appointment and ran some errands after that. Nice to be away from the news. I’m almost afraid to turn on MSNBC. Think I’ll go with the Brewers-Cubs game.
rikyrah
Badger is soooo cute :)
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Crunchy!
Gravenstone
Hopefully the shredded paper only emanated from the actions at the front, and were not accompanied by the processed remains out the back.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
I always go with crunchy. Dunno why. Made the choice at some time in the distant past, and now it’s force of habit.
Corner Stone
Man, somebody needs to do an intervention for Dave Weigel, stat.
LAO
@NotMax: Waves hello — crunchy, of course.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Perfect thread for some questions I’ve been wanting to ask. I need input from BJers on the cat-dog introduction process. Thrown into some kind of temporary insanity after our long restful vacation and our many recent relatively-peaceful years with one elderly cat (just deceased), my wife and I just adopted a young kitten (3 1/2 mos) AND a young dog (18 mos). And I mean JUST. The cat came to us Thursday and the pup on Friday.
Their individual acclimation is going as well as you could expect. The cat spends most of her days in a private apartment in a back room, but is brought out for socializing in her cat carrier with the door off. She will hang out on whatever table she’s put on and seems completely confident, only occasionally retreating back into the carrier.
The dog had a number of issues, and we suspect he’s never lived in a house or as a pet before. He’s learning to play. After a couple of early accidents he seems to have gotten (or remembered) the idea of house breaking. One worrisome thing is that no food seems to excite him. He eats very little and very tentatively. I don’t know how to train a dog if he doesn’t regard anything as “oh boy, yummy treats!” But anyway, he’s happy and seems to be well settled in.
So here’s the state of dog-cat relations: the kitten sits on the table looking regal. The dog walks around and around the table, whiing and sniffing and occasionally popping up to stick a nose in the cat’s direction. She ignores him for the most part. But he’s still desperately interested in this strange new creature. Still hasn’t gotten used to her being there.
So I’d like to know how this relationship is likely to progress. What are people’s experience? I should add that Sammie (the pup, full shelter name Samwise Gamgee and we liked it and kept it) is kind of hyper. Till he settles down for the night, he’s constantly disappearing and then reappearing with some object (my wife’s embroidery project, the Sunday paper, a pair of socks, a spray can of Lysol!) that he shouldn’t have and that we can’t even figure out where he found it. Maybe “nonchalant” isn’t in his skill set, but I am hoping that he will settle down as far as the kitten is concerned and make friends with her.
Sorry for the long post. Been saving these thoughts up for a couple days. Your thoughts?
SenyorDave
Manafort’s defense rests after calling no witnesses (headline on Yahoo). I pray that there isn’t a hung jury. I assume he will not get acquitted outright (I might have to leave the country if he does, don’t want to live in a country that stupid).
rikyrah
@Corner Stone:
WHY?
what’s up with him?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@NotMax: Crunchy of course.
Major Major Major Major
@Corner Stone: speaking of trials, did I see that Manafort’s defense team moved straight to closing arguments on their first day?
Gin & Tonic
I’ll join in the (so far) unanimous consent for chunky. And only peanut butter, no other nut butters allowed.
I’m off shortly to visit my physical therapist after a long absence to see precisely where I am. There’s probably no more improvement coming at this point, 17 months out, but we shall see,
EBT
Today is my 35th~!
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
I vote for smooth.
ETA: I see I’m in the minority.
NotMax
Sort of watching Secret City on Netflix in the background. Slow-moving political conspiracy thriller, but the producers were trying too hard. It’s not necessary to throw into the pot every single ingredient from every similar program ever made.
Steeplejack
@EBT:
Happy birthday (I presume)!
Litlebritdifrnt
Badger is the cutest thing ever (well after my Flossie years ago Spent the afternoon with Mum trying to create a wedding dress into a bussle, so I can appear as Princess Louise with Mum as Queen Victoria on the Queen Victoria train carriage in September.
embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk/aboutus/queen-victorias-golden-jubilee-carriage
MisterForkbeard
@Major Major Major Major: Sort of? They just immediately rested their case after trying to get the case dismissed.
Closing arguments are apparently tomorrow.
@SenyorDave: Hell, even a hung jury indicates a severe stupidity and/or corruption problem. This is about as obvious a case as you can get. Literally everyone involved admits they did it with Manafort… except for Manafort. But they all have documentary evidence of it.
rikyrah
@EBT:
Happy Birthday :)
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Can you get American-style peanut butter in KL? It’s very very hard to find in the FSU countries.
cmorenc
He’s got the “who, MEEE?” look of feigned innocence down pat.
Amir Khalid
@Major Major Major Major:
If I recall, they already had a motion-to-dismiss bounced. I think LAO said they were betting it all on their cross-examinations.
NY Robbin
@NotMax:
Crunchy everything.
Another Scott
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: We have portable pet fencing that we put up for our ~ 18 month old puppy Ellie. Otherwise, she too gets into things she shouldn’t. Got it at Petco.
She was afraid of the floor when we brought her home, and still doesn’t like shiny surfaces. But she’s come out of her shell a lot in the last 6+ months. (According to a DNA test she’s 3/8 Aussie Shepherd, 1/8 Collie, 1/8 Rottweiler, 3/8 misc.)
I assume his appetite will come once he’s better acclimated. Our Ellie was 28 pounds when we got her (didn’t eat much at all at the rescue place) and is around 40 now (about where she should be).
It sounds like you’re doing the pet introductions well. You’ve got plenty of time – don’t feel the need to rush them.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
TenguPhule
@NotMax:
Smooth peanut butter only. The rest, no just no.
Amir Khalid
@Gin & Tonic:
How many styles of peanut butter are there? We get local and imported brands in Malaysia, including some American ones. They all look and taste like peanut butter.
Jerzy Russian
You can make Badger into a good puppy using this one weird trick: simply redefine everything he does as “good”, then he will be a good doggie all of the time!
Baud
@EBT: Why are you hanging out with the old timers?
Happy birthday!
NotMax
@EBT
Birthday greetings.
Mary G
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: When a dog was added to my household a few years ago, the cats would hiss and swipe at him because he bounced at them looking to play and they interpreted it as an attack. After a few months he accepted that he was low man on the totem pole and started ignoring them, except to eat their food and poop. The cats decided he was OK and tried to make friends and cuddle up and sleep with him and he would have none of it. It was pretty funny; he’d be sleeping on the couch and one of the cats would snuggle up and go to sleep, and he would wake up and run off. There were no injuries and it was fine. Sounds like you are doing it fine. It’s very early in the relationship; let them take their time.
Miss Bianca
So, speaking of doggie (mis)adventures…
Sigh…
Whenever I hear Luna making actual dog noises – you know, like barking or yipping, rather than wooing or yodeling – I know there’s trouble. Sure enough, she’s yipping at something by the terrace. How did I know it must be a rattlesnake? Fool dog! All that expensive rattlesnake avoidance training, and here you are courting disaster! So…since it was so near the house…my hero D obliged me by dispatching the sucker with a couple shotgun blasts. Neither Luna nor Watson was bit. So…back to our regularly-scheduled reality – editing an ad for the Chaffee County Democrats BBQ and writing up an article. Heart still pounding a little.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
On the crunchy / smooth thing, it’s one of those things on which people can differ of course. Like toilet paper or paper towels (when hung on a similar dispenser), do you hang them so it unrolls from the top or the bottom.
But I remember a conversation on that subject which still sticks in my memory 30 years after the fact. Some co-workers and I were discussing this important subject and agreeing on why we liked over-the-top. Our boss chimed in, “wow, it never occurred to me that the people who preferred it that way would have a reason for it.”
There was his way, and there was the wrong way. Anybody who did things differently than him couldn’t possibly have reasons for it, they were just being willfully wrong. It’s an attitude that still appals me and that I still have trouble believing a rational human being could have. But I suspect it’s rampant in Hannity-Rush-Trump land.
jeffreyw
@NotMax:
Smooth.
LAO
@EBT: Happy 35th!
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: I guess that’s what I was asking. I’ve not found American-branded peanut butter in the FSU countries, which means bringing a few jars when I travel makes me popular.
TenguPhule
@SenyorDave:
Perhaps he intends to plead incompetent defense counsel?
Adam L Silverman
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I can’t speak to the dog-cat interaction, but as someone who whenever possible has adopted rescue dogs as young as possible – from four months to 1 year for all but the Blue Tick I found running loose in the middle of I70 east of KC in MO in 4 degree weather who was around 2 – I recommend the following for the food issue:
tasteofthewildpetfood.com/dog-formulas/high-prairie-puppy-formula-with-bison-roasted-venison/
Add warm water to the food and mix with a spoon. This will create a gravy that should be enticing. You may need to use fortiflora once a day as this is an ultra premium dog food. And, of course, if you switch dog food, you have to do it incrementally so as not to upset the pup’s system. My dogs do amazing on this stuff and there is never a weight maintenance issue since I switched them onto it about a decade ago.
Sam’s witching hour, or hours, is completely normal. All puppies have them and they grow out of them at different rates. You’ll need to puppy proof as much as possible. Getting him a lot of different toys that he wants to play with and playing with him with them will help. As will making sure he gets plenty of exercise. Just remember, puppy teeth are wicked sharp little daggers.
Same with bladder control. It can take up to two years, and occasionally a few months longer, for dogs to regularize their need to urinate. And remember, even when they do urinate, dogs do not completely empty their bladders.
Corner Stone
@rikyrah: Weigel was just on MSNBC and he looks like shit. He still has that ’70s weak pornstache and has put on maybe 40 pounds or so. He was wearing a short sleeved polo type shirt and he looked like he had escaped his job at the Dept Motor Vehicles suburb branch. Somebody needs to tell that dude he’s a professional and should act like one.
TenguPhule
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Always the top, what are we, savages?
Cermet
Well, hope you feel better. I understand real ginger can help a good bit. Never tried it myself (and have trouble believing) but worth a try – never seen or heard of a dose level that works but I guess a gram in a capsule could work if the medical papers are correct.
Gin & Tonic
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Start a thread here about pizza, or martinis, and you’ll get plenty of that. You don’t have to go to Hannity-land.
Baud
@Corner Stone: Maybe Robert Costa put some kind of Dorian Grey spell on Weigel?
Yutsano
@NotMax: Am I going to be the only one who will be agnostic on this? I like both for different reasons.
TenguPhule
@Miss Bianca:
How did it taste? Thems good eating.
LAO
@Amir Khalid: It’s America. We are ridiculous. I love PB , used to have a shop in NYC.
Cermet
@TenguPhule:My call on the WP comments section.
LeeM
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: We have had a rotating menagerie of cats and dogs for 30 years – perils of marrying a vet. As long as the dog isn’t cat aggressive, they usually sort out. Most pups quickly learn that kitties are armed on all 4 corners and aren’t playthings. Cats can get up & away from the dog if they want.
The Lodger
@NotMax: Crunchy peanut butter; I’ve never seen any other kind of crunchy nut butter. Almond sounds weird though.
Corner Stone
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
No. No. NO! Stop it right fucking now with this bullshit. There is one and only one way to hang toilet paper. The sheets roll out over the top. The top, do you hear me? Anyone who accepts an underhand grab for TP is a traitor to the core ideals of America and deserves to be hung by the neck until dead, dead, dead.
TenguPhule
@Amir Khalid:
A lot.
Smooth, crunchy, jelly already premixed in, honey instead of sugar, low salt, low sugar, low sugar and low salt, etc.
lamh36
Adam L Silverman
@SenyorDave: Remember, his DC trail starts next month with a completely different, and most likely normal, Federal District Court judge in the DC circuit.
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone: Comrade!
jeffreyw
@NotMax:
Watching Sacred Games, decent. I wish they subtitled everything, English is spoken sometimes but accented to where it is unintelligible to my aging ears. The subtitled dialog is good for the occasional giggle.
Pogonip
Smooth.
Pet mavens, is it true that if you bump a pop-eyed dog the wrong way you can knock its eye out? They’re usually very sweet and I’m always afraid to pet them. So I make who’s-a-good-boy noises and feel like I’m cheating the dog out of petting.
Another Scott
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Over the top is easy to reach for, but the other way is good if you have a cat that likes unrolling it – it just spins instead. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
lamh36
This is true…the number of folks on the left and the right…who were treating Hope Hicks like she was just a lamb caught up in a wolf’s nest, rather than just as calculating a person as Omarosa…hmmm
Oh and add Melania to this list as well…
Baud
@lamh36:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders can’t guarantee that the American people will never hear Trump saying the n-word live.
Corner Stone
It’s just great that 95% of this WH press briefing is about Omarosa. Nothing else going on in America, or the world.
lamh36
lamh36
Gelfling 545
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: For quite a while mine was a dog and two cats household. My late dog, Snarla came into the house about the same time as the current cat, Mewtant. They essentially ignored each other. The other cat, Clementine ,who arrived a couple years later when my daughter came to stay with me after being hit by a car, hated both cat and dog, avoiding them wherever possible and defending her personal space with claws if necessary, though it rarely was. After Snarla dog passed and Flora arrived as a tiny puppy, Clementine ignored her but Mewtant, by then pretty elderly, seemed willing to accept her at least so far as to curl up with her to sleep in chilly weather. This is a lot of words to say that, essentially, they will work out their own power structure.
Elizabelle
Gonna go see Beth Macy give a book talk this afternoon at the Library of Virginia at 5:30 p, on her new book Dopesick. I have mentioned Balloon Juice to her at previous book promos (she wrote Factory Man and Truevine as well, in 4 productive years). We will get her here for an author’s chat one of these days! Wonderful writer.
Amazing journalist out of Roanoke VA (born in Ohio). Article from the Roanoke Times (her employer for almost 25 years) on her newest book. Longtime journalist Beth Macy traces opioid crisis in ‘Dopesick’
The NY Times has given Beth three major articles in a month. Looks like this will be a big book for her.
Beth Macy, July 20, 2018, ‘I Am Going to Die if I Keep Living the Way I Am.’ She Was Right.
Tess Henry’s body was found in a Las Vegas dumpster on Christmas Eve. This is the story of the six years of addiction that led her there.
NY Times podcast: Beth Macy talks about ‘Dopesick’
NY Times book review, July 25: ‘Dopesick’ Traces the Opioid Crisis, From Beginning to Blow Up
Why yes, Beth Macy is my heroine.
Gelfling 545
@lamh36: so then, yes.
lamh36
CarolPW
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Shortly after I got my first cat, I figured out that much less TP was unrolled by the cat if I put it on unrolling from the bottom. Then when I got Hek 14 years ago he figured out how to unroll it no matter which way it was hung up, so I stopped hanging it up at all (I put it on the windowsill). He would still occasionally get the roll down and bat it all over the house, but he didn’t find it nearly as much fun.
LAO
@lamh36: Cheryl had a great response:
lamh36
NotMax
@jeffreyw
Easy enough to turn on subtitles. And you can customize their color, font, look and size at the Netflix site (although any changes you make there usually won’t show up for 24 hours).
jeffreyw
@TenguPhule:
Not to mention the kind that the oil rises to the top and has to be stirred in every time. Helps to add salt to that kind.
StringOnAStick
Our 10 month old pair of kittens look like cats now, but still think like kittens. They’ve made a few attacks on the toilet paper roll, but never when you aren’t in the room. Once I was sitting there and they both ran in and started unrolling it as fast as they could. I think they were trying to help…
lamh36
JPL
@EBT: Happy Day!
@Corner Stone: It’s almost like MSM forgot about the hundreds of children still separated from their parents.
In defense of Weigel, if he is on the road covering a republican candidate, he’ll fit right in with the rest of the crowd.
TenguPhule
@Gin & Tonic:
We all agree pineapple doesn’t belong on a pizza.
lamh36
3 Words: CENTRAL PARK FIVE!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Another Scott:
@Mary G:
@LeeM:
Thanks for the reassuring words of wisdom and experience. It really does help. OK, I won’t worry and I’ll try to be patient.
@Adam L Silverman: Interesting. I have been thinking that some sort of “gravy” might help. The appetite is an issue because he came to us with two prescriptions and as I’m sure you’ve found, it’s a heck of a lot easier to get a dog to take a pill if there’s some food he loves so much he’ll swallow it whole as fast as you can give it to him. And of course it has to be soft enough to hide a pill in.
TenguPhule
@lamh36:
She’s not been paying attention to reality recently, has she?
Gelfling 545
@Corner Stone: apparently the drawing subitted for the patent of the first toilet paper roller showed the tissue as coming up over the top rather than down the back. businessinsider.com/patent-shows-right-way-to-hang-toilet-paper-2015-3
Major Major Major Major
@EBT: happy birthday!
Adam L Silverman
@Amir Khalid: Why do you hate Freedom?
The Dangerman
@schrodingers_cat:
Could be both (used Daisy as a step stool).
The Truth. Preach!
TenguPhule
@Cermet:
It does. I speak from experience.
raven
@LeeM: What’s the vets stance on CBD oil? Mine turned me on (get it) to a brand undergoing clinical trials at Cornell. Lil Bit continues to cough intermittently after her “Tie-back” surgery and the Lar Par message board mentioned it as a possible aid.
Miss Bianca
@TenguPhule: You ever see what a shotgun loaded with birdshot can do to a snake? Anyway, popped the carcass chunks into a freezer bag and I am freezing them. For when I get the shock collar from my friend. Because Luna got too damn close even to the remains for my liking, while Watson (sensible pup!) kept a respectable distance. So…more training needed for Luna, obviously.
Kay
@JPL:
IMO he’s done great work on congressional races, while everyone else is covering Trump. And I don’t even like him because he uses the term “ballot security” which is a phrase the voter suppression side uses :)
It’s code.
But- he is doing a good job.
danielx
Additional proof, if such were needed, that cats never look or feel guilty about anything but can totally exhibit embarrassment, while dogs are the complete opposite.
Gravenstone
@lamh36: Yet the lying fuck declared just yesterday that the word “isn’t in my vocabulary”. If she responded even somewhat viscerally to the potential, I imagine it means he’s fairly free with it in the confines of the WH and environs.
James E Powell
@Amir Khalid:
On a recent trip to my local grocery (Von’s Pavilions) I saw about 20 different kinds of peanut butter but could not find the kind I wanted, basic smooth peanut butter, nothing added, nothing taken out, not less salt, not less fat. I was prepared to go into full Andy Rooney mode, but judged that the other people in the aisle would not get the reference or find it amusing.
Gelfling 545
@TenguPhule: Despair or over confidence? Though I’m wondering what any witness FOR Manafort could have said.
lamh36
A Ghost To Most
@Miss Bianca:
I’m glad your dogs are ok.
Where’s the sport in using a shotgun? The last time a rattlesnake tried to bite me, I killed it with my walking stick and a rock.
Steeplejack
@LAO:
“Dark Chocolate Dreams” peanut butter. Whoa! That is tempting.
Mnemosyne
@Miss Bianca:
Has your vet talked to you about getting the rattlesnake vaccine for both dogs? It can make a real difference in survival when it takes a while to get them to the vet.
gbbalto
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: The patent application for toilet paper shows the right way to dispense it!
ETA: Beaten to it, I see
jeffreyw
@NotMax:
You misunderstood, I have subtitles turned on, but they are not bothering to give English subtitles when the dialog is in English.
Mnemosyne
@EBT:
Happy birthday! Hope you and your family have a great day. ?
danielx
@lamh36:
Oh, well, that would come as a total shock.
But not a surprise.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@TenguPhule:
WHAT?!? That’s not only wrong, but stupid, illogical, and possibly a sign of conservatism. From the bottom, always, because there’s less resistance and it unrolls smoothly instead of tearing into bits (less surface area in play to cause friction).
ETA: @TenguPhule: Obviously a criminal conspiracy goin’ on around here.
The Dangerman
@Gelfling 545:
Promised pardon if buying off a jury member doesn’t do the trick. I assume no juror woke up with a horses head in their bed.
Gravenstone
@lamh36: “He’s not a racist, per se – he’s just an asshole in general.” Great defense, folks!!
Gravenstone
@jeffreyw: Do you salt the bulk, or a pinch on each application?
Elizabelle
@Miss Bianca:
Ah. I was thinking you were going to make some kind of cajun spiced bites. Just like chicken.
The Moar You Know
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I normally say “lavish praise/affection” as that works with most non-food motivated dogs. Our last pup – now a full grown 2 1/2 year old – didn’t give a shit about food OR praise AND had attitude and willfulness and quite a bit of OCD/anxiety for days and I’ll be honest, I love the little guy like I’ve loved nothing else in my life, but I seriously considered sending him back. More than once. He required firmness, leash corrections, antianxiety meds, a trainer and a lot of patience. Rally training did him wonders, because he could hang with other dogs, which is really his favorite thing ever. As he aged a bit, we finally found food items he did like (bacon, of course) and overcooked chunks of hot dog. We then had to manage the inevitable loose stool, but that was easy (canned pumpkin, not pie mix but just the processed pumpkin).
Little 65 pound fucker turned my hair entirely grey.
Of course now that the little bastard is trained like a soldier and gets constant commentary from all around at just how well behaved he is, NOW he cares about food.
JPL
@Kay: He covered the Handel/Ossoff race, and was on record as saying that Handel’s receipt of white powder helped her win by getting out the republican vote. He also mentioned that he assumed that it wasn’t sent by an opponent.
schrodingers_cat
@jeffreyw: The dubbed English version is so-so. I watched it in the original languages (mostly Hindi but also Marathi and Punjabi) with Hindi subtitles. That was good. English subtitles are better than your average subtitles.
Corner Stone
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: What are you, insane?
TenguPhule
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
Unrolling from the bottom actually leads to more resistance and a far higher chance of the roll spinning around freely because the sheet in your hand separated from the roll too early. Have you never had to use a public building restroom before?
Shell
Toilet paper is FUN! Puppies and two year old humans agree.
James E Powell
@lamh36:
First, the statement to which you responded isn’t true. It’s ridiculous.
Second, I don’t remember anyone “on the left” who treated Hope Hicks with anything but contempt and disdain. I certain don’t recall anyone characterizing her as “a lamb caught up in a wolf’s nest.” [NB – Make sure that your figurative speech makes sense. Wolf’s don’t have nests.]
clay
@lamh36:
Huh. Normally I would expect her to lie, and issue a flat denial. I can only imagine that this means she expects this tape to be made public very shortly.
Mandarama
I love seeing Badger, guilty or not.
My family is having a hard time. Our beloved golden retriever (once pictured here, long ago) had a stroke this summer, and he is back in the hospital for the third time… difficulty controlling seizures. He’s a rescue but is somewhere between 10–12 and I had hoped we would keep him with us as our oldest goes off to college, maybe introduce a younger dog. Now I’m just hoping he gets to come home again and that we will know when it’s right to let him go. On top of all that, on my kids’ first day of school a week ago, one of our kitties got out in the morning rush and was killed. We live on a cul de sac, but he got spooked and ran and a neighbor hit him. (She was also devastated, poor lady.) We had to tell our boys when they got home. My oldest, the senior, particularly loved this kitty and is grieving. We have had all of our three pets for 10 years and it’s hard to imagine we could lose two so fast.
TenguPhule
@The Dangerman:
Manafort can’t afford a horse any more. He had to make do with rat heads provided by the local strays.//
JPL
I found an empty roll of toilet paper in Finch’s toy chest, and I still blame my son’s maltese because Finch would never put anything.
Gravenstone
@jeffreyw: Suppose closed captioning would make the screen too busy? That would at least capture the English dialogue as well.
jeffreyw
@Gravenstone: It’s been so long since I’ve bought any of that I can’t say.
Elizabelle
@clay: And more than one tape, too.
Elizabelle
@Mandarama: I’m so sorry.
NotMax
@Yutsano
I’ll stand with you.
Smooth for baking, for sauces and as a complement to things already crunchy* (English muffins, toast, matzo, etc.). Crunchy for sammiches on soft breads and as a topping.
*Exception – either kind on crackers or any other tiny amuse-bouche item.
Shell
Hmmm, wonder what the reasoning was for this. I guess, no witnesses, no cross-examining by the prosecution.
Immanentize
@lamh36:
Well, Bill was the first black president
hueyplong
Going in, I would not have guessed that Omarosa would unravel these fucks. But look at the last 48 hours.
I hope Trump wasted a lot of money getting that Apprentice producer to deep six his tapes.
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
No. I don’t like nut butters. The flavor is meh and they’re all way too dry. Give me hummus any day.
LAO
@Shell: This thread does a pretty good job explaining why no defense case (as a general proposition)
RedDirtGirl
@NotMax: Crunchy! Without a doubt! And almond reigns supreme!
JPL
@Mandarama: My 12 year old golden had a stroke and it took a several weeks, but he did recover. Sunny lived another five years.
I’m thinking good thoughts for you.
Miss Bianca
@Mnemosyne: They both have the vaccine, no worries there, at least!
btw, completely o/t, just finished “A Gentleman in Moscow”. It was…interesting. Not quite sure how I feel about it.
satby
@Baud: aw Baud, I remember you mentioned your dog was older and facing health issues. I hope you haven’t lost your friend.
gvg
@The Lodger: My nephew’s day care had an unnamed child seriously allergic to peanuts, so all children were not allowed lunches of peanut butter or traces in other snacks that year. Almond butter is like enough in taste to substitute. Eyeopening how many foods may have traces. Apparently it’s because the processing plants do multiple foods. This particular allergy can kill, so it’s no joke, but I’ll admit to feeling impatient about it sometimes.
Yutsano
@NotMax: I have actually used crunchy in a Thai peanut sauce and it produced a wonderful texture. I only found out later in life that it’s supposed to have a texture like that.
Corner Stone
@Shell: Can’t cross a document stack. If all the prosecution had was Gates they may have had a shot with a vicious cross against him. But from what I have read/seen, that banker fellow from Steve Calk’s bank pretty much put the dagger in Manafort’s attempted defense.
If the judge could have kept his god damned mouth shut we’d probably be looking at 90% convict chance. Now I am not so sure.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
Crunchy! I now have to order my Jif Extra Crunchy from Amazon because my local Stop & Shop refuses to stock it. I’m not asking for larks’ tongues, for God’s sakes.
Now watch somebody call me an asshole for complaining.
satby
@EBT: Happy Birthday ?!
@Amir Khalid: I prefer smooth too.
RedDirtGirl
@Amir Khalid: When I was growing up in the 70s, the peanut butter everyone ate was full of sugar and emulsifiers. Only the crazy hippies had the stuff that was just ground nuts. I never liked nut butters until I ate the pure stuff.
Immanentize
@Elizabelle:
I love how Omarosa has so confused them — they really have no idea what she will release or say next. And they know it’s true. All of it.
And she has the receipts! They are at alarm bells and claxons 111!
Miss Bianca
@A Ghost To Most: Wasn’t aiming for sport, sport. ; ) I was aiming for “I am so sorry, but AAAAGGH, you must die!!”
eric
@LAO: Yes, but this is a very specific defense: I did not know what the guy was doing in my name. Strikes me, for a specific intent crime of this sort, you gotta say you did not know and explain why the same evidence the jury saw either (1) fooled you or (2) was never shown to you in real time so you had no reason to know. Not doing that, tells me he cannot do that. (The jury will be instructed not to do what i just did, but good luck with that.)
zhena gogolia
@Yutsano:
True, I had to eat creamy for a while recently and it wasn’t so bad.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@TenguPhule:
Have you never noticed that the floors of public restrooms are all too often littered with a snowstorm of torn-off bits of paper because the default is unroll-from-the-top and the paper (especially the cheap, thin stuff usually stocked in public potties) tears into shreds rather than unrolling into an actually usable length?
Sheesh.
The Dangerman
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
I’m calling shenanigans. I think surface area and friction are same over and under; now, we can talk effects of gravity or maybe coefficients of restitution since the pulling might slightly make the roll out of round.
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore:
Just say no to bean dips.
Immanentize
@LAO:
I put on a defense in maybe 10% of my trials — max!
And I remember each of them as scary events.
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha Let me catch my breath hahahahahahahahaha
RedDirtGirl
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Always have the roll go over! Further away from the floor, and closer to the hand!
LAO
@RedDirtGirl: Waves hello — I love crunchy PB, as I declared earlier, but I just remembered that the first time I ripped my small intestine, my doctor figured crunchy PB was the culprit. 25 years later, I’m still living on the edge.
Yutsano
@Corner Stone: This is really going to come down to the jury instructions. Depending on how they shape out, that could determine what kind of verdict to expect. However, from my perspective, this is such clear tax evasion that it would take severe jury nullification to change that outcome.
And even so, this is just the first trial. Even if somehow Manafort gets off on all these charges, there’s another bite still coming.
TenguPhule
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
It is not. That’s part of the reason why public building restrooms suck.
(I’m not talking public parks, which suck for an entirely different reason because my state has a horde of fucking Mongol Vandals.
Kay
@JPL:
He’s good. It’s straight political reporting with lots and lots of detail.
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
Well, Bill was the “first black president,” as I recall from the 1990s.
NotMax
@jeffreyw
Have never encountered that. Sounds like the default subtitles which accompany the program rather than having the subtitles option turned on. Try going into “Audio & Subtitles” and confirming there’s a check mark next to the subtitles you want.
If you’re using a Roku, go into Settings on the Roku home page and choose the option there for subtitles you want as well.
I happen to have it set so that I get subtitles on everything I watch on Netflix and have to go into Audio and Subtitles to turn them off for any particular program should I so choose.
trollhattan
@Another Scott:
That’s a lot of eighths–I was impressed they added up to 1!
Day we brought our current pup home was a day of firsts for him–first time with a collar and leash, first car ride (yes, he ralphed but we were ready with a towel), first time with stairs, first time on regular floors and rugs, first time away from his mum and siblings…it’s amazing how quickly they can accommodate change.
LAO
@Immanentize: Ugh — trying to direct a witness is the worst after a lifetime of leading cross-examination. Also, I find the press coverage surrounding the Manafort trial to be woeful uninformed. For example, Defense files motion asking for an acquittal — so dramatic! Is it annoying or just me?
zhena gogolia
@clay:
Hence my hysterical laughter.
ruemara
Smooth. But sometimes chunky. Sometimes powdered.
For pet introductions, keeping interactions and situations positive is key. Feed them together. Offer treats & high praise for when they successfully hang together. & good luck.
And here’s a kitten looking like a lump.
Raven
Well obviously I’m not going to get an answer from the vets partner but this is the CBD oil I ordered for Lil Bit.
trollhattan
@TenguPhule:
And all POISON!
Another Scott
@LAO: Relatedly, in Popehat’s timeline, is some speculation about why the defense rested so early (from a former AUSA):
Interesting threads.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
LAO
@eric: Except for the fact that Manafort’s defense cross-examined all of the witness on that theme. Testimony that witnesses give on cross is evidence too. I wouldn’t read a lot into the failure to put on a case, especially along the lines of Manafort must be expecting a pardon.
NotMax
@Yutsano
Neglected to mention that if one inadvertently burns soups or sauces, stirring in a little smooth peanut butter will remove or blunt the burnt taste, so it is handy to have around for that contingency.
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: Why do you hate America? Why do you hate Freedom?
Mary G
@EBT: Happy 35th whatever it is!
b
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: we’ve always had both dogs and cats. if the cats are introduced young enough and the dogs don’t immediately attack to kill, they adjust just fine. the biggest issues are to be sure the dog can’t reach the cats food or litter box, and the cat has a place to retreat the dog can’t reach. continue to take it slow. we took about 6 weeks introducing the new kitten to the 3 golden retrievers and they now get along fine. have fun with your additions to the family!
NY Robbin
@lamh36: Amen!
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: Hanged by the neck. Otherwise, we’re good.
LAO
@Another Scott: Thanks for the link. I saw that earlier and think his analysis could be also be spot on — Rule 404(b) evidence has often ruined my best efforts.
Corner Stone
@zhena gogolia: Asshole.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: She can’t disclose that information per the NDA.
zhena gogolia
@Adam L Silverman:
You know what? In Phineas Redux (1873), Trollope repeatedly uses “hung” to refer to a person. So I’m thinking “hanged” is not the good old Queen’s English after all, but some 20th-century innovation.
zhena gogolia
@Corner Stone:
Love you too.
Immanentize
@zhena gogolia:
See, me, at 128….
LAO
Wow — this is, just wow:
zhena gogolia
@Immanentize:
I saw that! Always read the whole thread first . . . . A lesson I’ll never learn.
lamh36
@LAO: but he was only a deemed racist when he ran for prez acoording to SHS
satby
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: As long as the dog isn’t cat aggressive they’ll sort it out themselves, and if it was cat aggressive you’d have already seen that.
As to dog food… I’m going against the prevailing wisdom here and will say that absent any health problems the dog won’t starve if you just let him graze. Some animals will nibble a bit now and a bit more later but they eat as much as they need. I hide pills in canned wet dog food and otherwise feed my two grazers dry dog chow (Purina). The two that wolf down their entire bowls are kept on a separate floor so they don’t eat the other dogs’ food.
The plus side is that dogs that prefer to just nibble over the entire day seldom develop overweight issues.
eric
@LAO: I understand. But juries are people. I remember during one civil jury trial, the jury was allowed to ask questions. Those sons of bitches had the judge ask the question that i purposely did not ask and was not touched by the other side because neither of us knew the answer. If they want to know, they want to know. That is what would concern me. Not enough to ever put that guy on the stand, but it would really concern me.
zhena gogolia
@LAO:
Making him “well-educated” would be more laborious than anything John Howard Griffin went through.
Immanentize
@zhena gogolia: A lesson I refuse to learn!! It’s more interactive that way.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Or Trollope was just a contrarian.
;)
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
I hate all true nuts.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@EBT: Happy b-day, you’re about 3 weeks older than the kid.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: Federal ruling that the Trump Organization discriminates against African Americans in regard to renting to the from the Nixon Administration’s DOJ.
jeffreyw
@NotMax: I went to Netflix and looked at the options for the series, The audio is in Hindi with English subtitles checkmarked, but there is an option for English [cc], I’ll go with that and see what up. I’m at the last episode already, but I’ll keep that option in mind, and also go to account prefs and poke around some. Thanks!
dexwood
@Raven:
Wow, that stuff ain’t cheap. 90 bucks for 62 chews. If, however, Lil Bit benefits, it’ll be worth it. Any idea how quickly you might see results?
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
I found another example in another 19th-century writer, but I can’t remember what it was.
Betty Cracker
@Gelfling 545: Snarla and Mewtant! LOL!
Adam L Silverman
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: You can also add small amount of things to make the food interesting. Blueberries are both safe for dogs to eat and good for them. My girls love frozen blueberries, which I use in my protein smoothies. You might buy some blueberries, freeze them, and mix them in with his food after you’ve given him a few as a treat. I’m also a big fan of the Blue Dog Bakery treats. I’ve switched the girls to the grain free, but I’ve never had any tummy trouble issues on either the regular or grain free. As for gnawing, chewing issues, and check with the vet first given he’s still got puppy teeth, but deer or elk antlers are excellent. No sharp shards to irritate his GI track, all natural, harvested ethically by gathering them after the deer or elk shed them.
p.a.
In those highly scientific YouTube videos where “people from x try food from y” most Euros I’ve seen despise peanutbutter.
A regular answer foreign travellers give to “what do you miss most about the US” is “the food, especially tacos.” Maybe they visit those lucky locales with a truck on every corner.
Betty Cracker
@Mandarama: Jesus, that sucks! I’m so sorry. :(
NotMax
@jeffreyw
Yeah, that’s the one. Just paused the program and looked and I have English (CC) enabled. So am getting subtitles on the Aussie program which is currently on.
satby
@Mandarama: condolences on both your kitty and your golden’s troubles. He’s pretty close to the far end of the average lifespan for that breed, so whatever happens he has had a good longer than average life with you. But that doesn’t make it easier to face, I know. Hoping they can sort it out and give you all more time together.
b
@Mandarama: I am so sorry. we have 3 goldens. the oldest turns 14 in 2 weeks. she is hanging in there but has serious health issues. hoping your golden does better, comes home, and you have several more years.
Adam L Silverman
@JPL:
Cocaine is a helluva drug…//
clay
@LAO: How on earth did this not come out during the campaign? Why on earth wasn’t every single interview he ever did examined and scrutinized and dissected? He’s been a public figure for decades; he has reams of TV footage or interview quotes… was no one willing to go back through them and report out what they found?
Why is it that basic journalism competence seems to evaporate when it gets near Trump’s orbit?
Baud
@satby: No, but it’ll be sooner than I’m prepared for.
chris
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Hot dogs! cut it into 5-6 chunks, hide the pill in one and let the dog see all the chunks. Feed them fast and the pill will not be noticed.
zhena gogolia
@clay:
Nobody would have cared. I give you Access Hollywood tape.
Betty Cracker
@LAO: Not in the least bit surprised Trump said that. It’s widely believed by the whiny-ass white people I know who are part of Trump’s base.
NotMax
@NotMax
Also have the subtitles set to yellow, with no background. Watch a fair bit of Nordic noir, and the default white subtitles are pretty useless in scenes with snow on the ground.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
Watch out where the huskies go . . .
Baud
@zhena gogolia: Agree. It’s not like he said that he wanted to be a well educated superpredator.
Frankensteinbeck
@clay:
Lots of reasons, starting with ‘There wasn’t much going on to begin with.’ Others include but are by no means limited to their obsessive need to attack and degrade Hillary Clinton, and the idea that Republicans are racist being absolutely taboo.
On that last, the news media is directly, using that word, accusing Trump of racism now. I am awed that they have been pushed so far. These are people who gush over how good looking Nazis are, as long as that Nazi can give them any other label to use instead.
Humdog
@Raven: I recently read that vets are prohibited from even discussing medical marijuana, even just CBD and even in mj legal states, with their patients’ caregivers. Their license is at stake. It makes dosing a guessing game, but dispensaries try to give general advice. Any CBD that can be sold to humans should work for critters. Start at lowest dosage. My 55 pound Pitt did well with a half a human dose once a day.
satby
@Raven: I may need to get those for my Hershey. He’s developed some arthritis that’s slowing him down.
Thanks!
NotMax
@p.a.
In sort of the same vein, very cute video: Kids React to Rotary Phones.
lamh36
Like I said earlier…I’m betting Omarosa done already talked to a lawyer and is being counselled on where the legal lines she can’t cross is.
D58826
OK I think Der Fuhrer is beyond disgusting but why this fixation on the ‘N’ word. The number of people over the age of 5 who have not used it, at least once to shock their parents or impress their juvenile friends, is probably approaching 0. He has shown in big ways and small that he is a racist bigot with or without using the N word. It is just a distraction from his other crimes.
Miss Bianca
@Mandarama: Oh, so sorry to hear it. : (
satby
@Baud: it always is. ?
germy
Here’s a powerful campaign commercial:
youtube.com/watch?v=kVesBIZdJNU
Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney’s first ad in his race for New York Attorney General.
MisterForkbeard
@lamh36: When your defense to “Has the president said racist things about black people?” is “Well, he’s also said racist stuff about the Chinese and Mexicans” you know they’ve been backed into a corner.
germy
@lamh36: I thought a NDA was not binding for government employees?
Barbara
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: My dog used to love his daily meds rolled into a slice of Kraft cheese, or half a slice. He got annoyed when we ran out and used bread instead. Someone told me that dogs love fish as well, and I give my dogs fish skin as a treat when I have it. Just watch out for bones.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
That’s hilarious! But uncomfortably close to my day job.
Adam L Silverman
@Mandarama: My sincerest condolences. Keeping good thoughts for you all.
Just One More Canuck
@lamh36: WTF?
Steeplejack
@jeffreyw:
There must be a setting for “closed captions,” which are designed for English?
D58826
@Barbara: We had to wrap the bassett hounds pill in liverwurst. And then search the kitchen floor where he had spit it out after devouring the liverwurst. The pill was as clean and dry as when it came out of the bottle.
Adam L Silverman
@Immanentize: While, to paraphrase that famous strategist Mike Tyson, no plan survives a punch in the mouth, it is very hard to plan for crazy.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@RedDirtGirl: I said “over” when I told my story, but actually back in the day I believe I was defending “under”. The logic was that due to the extra resistance, it seems to be easier to tear with one hand. I live with an “over” person and have usually let her have her preference over the years, except every once in a while when I feel rebellious. But it’s so low on my list of issues I care about that I actually forgot what my historical preference had been.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: Crunchy does not mean “added gravel”.
lamh36
Melanoma has chimed in.
TenguPhule
@lamh36:
She’s the first person I think Trump will try to have killed. For obvious reasons.
Doug R
@TenguPhule:
I beg to differ: sanremopizza.ca/sites/default/files/_DFP0859.jpg
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: IIRC the two words were different in Old English and morphed together over time – except for the past tense.
clay
@zhena gogolia: I’m not suggesting it would’ve changed the outcome of the election. But just the fact that Donald Trump has said things, on the record, on TV, and that those things DIDN’T come to light in 2016… that’s just baffling to me.
The media loves showing Donald Trump! They had hours of footage of Donald Trump already in the can! But they didn’t show it?!? Why the FUCK NOT???
As a side note, I don’t think we can say that the Access Hollywood tape didn’t have any effect. His poll numbers dropped heavily when that came out. Who knows, it may have cost him Virginia. But, yeah, it certainly didn’t have the effect that it SHOULD have.
TenguPhule
@germy:
IOIYAR.
We live in a timeline where rules no longer mean anything because Jeff Sessions is in charge of enforcing them.
Shana
@TenguPhule: However, canadian bacon and sauerkraut on pizza is surprisingly good. Happy Joe’s – Quad Cities.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule:
The Hawaiian State Police will deport you to the mainland for talk like that. No we do not all agree with thiat.
Steeplejack
@Gravenstone:
In my experience with multi-language shows, closed captions don’t show up when a foreign language is being subtitled, only with English.
Miss Bianca
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I can’t believe the “tp over/under” debate is raging on BJ! I remember when it was raging at “Ann Landers”, for chrissake! LOL!
TenguPhule
@Doug R:
You would. You are also a sea monster, so your tastes don’t count.
Baud
@Miss Bianca: My toilet paper holder is sideways.
raven
@dexwood: Not really, I got the oil. I’m probably going to give it to Bohdi too since he’s creaky.
jeffreyw
@Steeplejack:
I think it is on a title by title basis, Sacred Games offers English[cc] and Hindi[cc], plus subtitles in Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and others. Note that subtitles are not the same as closed captioning.
raven
@Humdog: cool
Adam L Silverman
@zhena gogolia: It wouldn’t surprise me. I just like the sound of hanged.
cliosfanboy
@Elizabelle: my wife loved Truevine. It’s on my nightstand pile now.
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
You’re an asshole for complaining about complaining!
MisterForkbeard
@clay: Many of these things DID come to light. Including quotes about how he didn’t want a black guy as an accountant but would only want jewish men.
The thing is, the Democrats already knew he was a racist shitstain. The media knew this stuff was technically old news – it had been around forever and they don’t want to ever actually accuse Republicans of anything untoward, so they didn’t push it. And Republicans LIKED that Trump was a racist bigot.
It’s a convergence of factors, but the key thing is that the media didn’t want to go down that road for various self-serving reasons and the Republicans responded well to it.
@Baud: Ah, the “Horizontalist” heresy.
Gelfling 545
@ruemara: Just a note: if you ever have a pug do not feed it with any other pet. At best, the pug will eat the other pet’s dinner along with her own. At worst, there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Pugs are quite laid back gererally but they get serious about food.
Shana
@jeffreyw: How about closed captioning?
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Die Heretic! //
germy
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: @clay: I posted that video on the front page during the campaign in 2016 in a post on the President’s issues with race and religion.
Baud
@TenguPhule: Your insincere snark tags don’t fool me.
Barbara
@LAO: I gave it a 50/50 chance that they would rest without presenting evidence. There is almost no point in presenting more evidence if Manafort does not testify, especially because so much of their defense is that Manafort was duped and embezzled by Gates. But if Manafort testified, or if others testified to his good character, there was a high likelihood it would give the prosecutor the right to present rebuttal evidence or cross examine Manafort about things that were even more damaging to the defense than what was already in evidence. I am sure Manafort was involved in making the decision.
D58826
@MisterForkbeard: BUT HER E-MAILS
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Yup.
“The hanged man’s last meal” carries an entirely different connotation than does “the hung man’s last meal.”
:)
JPL
@D58826: He has admitted to grabbing woman by the p-ssy, continues to call blacks low IQ individuals, females hormon-l, pow’s captured weak, and openly mocks gold star parents. We all know what he calls Hispanics. There’s a new tape where he says educated blacks have an advantage over educated whites. Yeah the base assumes he uses that word. It’s time for MSM to concentrate on children who were locked in cages, and those children still separated from their parents.
Trump is a racist pig, and republicans don’t care.
Gelfling 545
@chris: With Flora the Pug, I find the best way is to drop the medicine on the floor as if accidentally. Then she’ll gobble it before she knows what it is.
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: How could SHS guarantee that Trump hasn’t said any given word? That’s kind of a crazy question, tbh. Even if Trump has never used the N word, he has given us ample evidence of his racism towards Blacks (and others) before and after he became President. No debate needed.
Roger Moore
@zhena gogolia:
I just poked around, and found this interesting bit from Merriam-Webster. They say hanged and hung were used more or less interchangeably for a long time, possibly with some tendency for judges to prefer “hanged” over “hung” when pronouncing sentence. They recommend you use “hanged” for judicial sentence and “hung” elsewhere, but more because it will keep people who are sticklers about that quiet than because the meaning is unclear.
Adam L Silverman
@germy: It isn’t, the only ones that bind Federal civil servants are the NDAs tied to their clearances. What the President is trying to have enforces is the NDA she signed with the campaign.
Baud
@Patricia Kayden: Typically, press secretary’s are supposed to speak for the president. So it’s understood that if she guaranteed it, she checked with the president and that was the answer she got.
jeffreyw
@Shana:
As a result of the comments from NotMax and Steep, I’ve clicked on the English [cc] box, I will watch it later to see if that heals my complaint.
Bess
@raven: Start small.
My sister talked me into trying some for my aching joints. It turns out one drop will eliminate the pain and lasts for a long time (days). It takes it some time to kick in, I generally will take my dose before going to bed and wake up pain free.
I’m a scientist by training and orientation. Rather skeptical that such a small amount would work so I did a test on my partner without explaining what it was or what it was for. During the next day I enquired about knee pain and none was reported. I waited days for another complaint of pain and repeated. I went through at least a half dozen tests before I revealing ‘what and why’.
I’d suggest starting with a very limited dose and observing. Apparently there is no industry standard for concentration so you’ll have to feel things out.
Doug R
@jeffreyw:
Some older blu ray players can’t handle captions. I know our cheap Sony blu ray player from a few years back couldn’t. Try watching on a lap top, there should be an option for subtitles for the deaf & hard of hearing (SDH).
Maybe the show hasn’t been captioned yet, some older tv shows haven’t been converted yet.
Shana
@zhena gogolia: Oooooh, Trollope! Come sit by me.
JPL
@Adam L Silverman: Today she claimed that Trump knew about the emails beforehand.
That would be during the campaign. Mueller won’t care though.
MisterForkbeard
@JPL: NDAs also can’t restrict you from talking about actual crimes, so even if she believes it was a crime she’s mostly covered here. IANAL, so my opinion on this is completely uninformed though. :)
Corner Stone
@Shana: I wish a trollop would sit by me.
NotMax
@Doug R
For those cases (among others) the Netflix and the Amazon Prime AI produces the closed captions on the fly.
Although with Amazon, there’s sometimes a glitch that puts them on the screen out of sync with the spoken dialogue, which is tres annoying.
jeffreyw
@Doug R: I’m watching it streaming from a Windows PC hooked up to a TV.
divF
@EBT: Happy Birthday !
Late to the party, but … I found my 35th to be special because of the Dantean connection:
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ….
Frankensteinbeck
@JPL:
There is a long list of horrors that the news should be covering more than they do, but I think this racism issue is more important than it looks. Racism got us here. Racism drives the Republican Party. Liberal policies would be in place across the board without the furious desire of white bigots to punish America for not worshiping them anymore. And central to that entire process is that at least since Reagan, for the vast majority of even liberal whites accusing anyone of racism was utterly taboo. The news media and their slavish devotion to pretending Republicans aren’t bigots is a linchpin. Getting them to actually accuse the leader of the Republican Party of racism, using that word, is a huge social change.
Citizen Alan
@Miss Bianca:
I have never understood the “tp over/under” debate. It seems to me that if you just leave the toilet paper roll sitting on the toilet tank when not in use like 95% of people do, the problem solves itself.
A Ghost To Most
@Miss Bianca:
Understood. There’s something primal that happens when snakes rile us up. For me, that same drive kicks in when a dog snaps at me. I’ve kicked a couple in the snout.
Gelfling 545
@Patricia Kayden: It would be a stupis question but I don’t think she was asked it in that way i.e. to guarantee anything. That was how she chose to frame her answer, which to me, suggests he uses it. A lot.
Mandalay
@Corner Stone:
David Frum is worse. Even when he is wearing a suit and speaking coherently he still looks like he just woke up, stinks of booze and slept under a bridge last night.
Barbara
@MisterForkbeard: The biggest problem with an NDA is that if someone really doesn’t care about damages or is judgment proof, in most cases, there is no way to silence them. An arbitrator can’t enjoin the publication of a tape or news article or book.
Steeplejack
@jeffreyw:
That was my point. See my addition at #236.
satby
@Baud: so the tp hangs left, then. Of course.
Steeplejack
@germy:
That’s a Zen koan right there.
Yarrow
@EBT: Happy birthday!
NotMax
@Mandalay
I’m hard pressed to come up with any clothing yet invented which would make Michael Moore look dapper on TV.
:)
Baud
@satby: When I’m president, I’ll end the divisive TP issue that’s tearing this country apart by giving every American a free bidet.
Corner Stone
@Mandalay:
Are you suggesting there’s a problem with that?
cain
@TenguPhule:
yet, I continue to have it with italian sausage and jalepenos.
satby
@Baud: Cole will be pleased.
schrodingers_cat
@jeffreyw: Which episode are you watching? The only person who speaks in English for any length of time is ElNaaz Norouzi’s character.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Eurotrash.
TenguPhule
Join Hawaii in declaring War on Chicago’s Aloha Poke Company!
Assholes trademarked the name, then sent threatening bullshit to businesses that had used the name well before it did. Also, they do not make authentic poke.
raven
@TenguPhule: What’s the proper pronunciation?
NotMax
@TenguPhule
According to Mario Batali, neither does cheese.
;)
chopper
@EBT:
yaaaaay!
NotMax
@raven
Ah-LOW-hah.
:)
Halfway between Poh-kee and Poh-kay is most common, in my experience..
TenguPhule
@raven: Poe-ke
TomatoQueen
Crunchy. To make your own, get a bag of roasted peanuts, some peanut oil, and some salt. Buzz up in the food processor. No additives, no sugar, all flavor alla time. Almost as good as Laura Scudders Peanut Butter, my late mother’s favorite.
Of course he said it. He’s said any damn thing at any damn time.
I am a New Haven girl. We don’t do pineapple on pizza. Ever.
IE 11, vpn, autofill works as well as the nym saver, Puerto Rico, Aleppo, Yemen, Flint, kids in cages.
TenguPhule
@NotMax: Well played.
Steeplejack
@jeffreyw, @Steeplejack:
My final note, just to be clear:
In my prodigious viewing of European crime shows on MHz, my favorite third-tier cable channel, and other sources, my experience has been that foreign languages are subtitled (if you’re not watching a dubbed version), but when characters drop into English—as, say, when the Swedish detective is trying to move things along with a shady British businessman or an Eastern European sex worker with no Swedish—the subtitles disappear. But, if you have closed captions turned on, you get those for the English.
I have never seen subtitles and closed captions clashing on the screen. Why/how would you closed-caption something in a foreign language anyway, especially if it’s already going to get subtitles?
Anyway, hope you find some settings that work. My limited experience with Netflix is that it can be a little confusing because sometimes your changes don’t take effect immediately.
Domestic short hair tabby (fka vheidi)
@StringOnAStick: thanks.that made me laugh
Yutsano
So…we gonna TBogg for Badger?
RedDirtGirl
@Mandarama: How horrible for all of you! So sorry!
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack:
I wish an Eastern European sex worker would sit next to me.
Yarrow
@Yutsano: Got a ways to go.
Corner Stone
@Yarrow: What did you just say about Elon Musk?! How dare you!
sukabi
Betty, you should know by now. No pictures = no proof = never happened. ???
NotMax
Sigh.
Elderly landlady knocked on the door, all in a tizzy because she somehow got it into her head (from comments made by ladies at her church, apparently) that the inspection sticker on her car, reading 8/18, meant that it expired on August 18th.
Talked her down, gently but firmly.
sukabi
Adding Feel better soon Betty☺
raven
@Bess: Thanks! The specialists have no idea why she’s coughing but it may be related to inflammation so what the heck.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
On all the Scandinavian shows they’re so sad and pitiful that it’s a huge turnoff. You never see any that are really into it! They’re there mostly to lead to the sinister Russian/Eastern European crime lords that are controlling everything through their bland Nordic business partners/fronts.
Now, Maigret, there you get some old-school French hookers (circa 1950s) who are a credit to their profession.
Yarrow
@Corner Stone: What really matters is the location where things were said, not that they were said at all. You know that now.
zhena gogolia
@Roger Moore:
Thanks, interesting. I’ll remove it from my list of pedantic pet peeves. If it’s good enough for Trollope, it’s good enough for me.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
“Hi. My name is Kasimir. Is taken this seat?”
:)
zhena gogolia
@Shana:
Love him. I especially love that I’ll probably never get to the end of all his novels.
Yarrow
@raven: I commented previously that I know two dogs who benefited from doggie acupuncture. One had arthritis and the other had cancer surgery and was going through chemo. It helped both tremendously. The one with arthritis would be still before treatment and running and jumping like a puppy after treatment. You might see if it’s a good fit for your dogs. It was very calming for both dogs.
jeffreyw
@schrodingers_cat: I’m up to ep 7, if that is who I think then there will not be much more of it.
schrodingers_cat
@jeffreyw:She plays Zoya Mirza, the megastar with the no good boyfriend.
NotMax
@schrodingers_cat
Heh. Sounds like a bottled condiment.
“Pass the zoya mirza, please.”
schrodingers_cat
@NotMax: Its not an uncommon Muslim name in India.
sukabi
@Roger Moore: hmmm…the man was hanged by the neck, but he was hung like a horse…
Not quite the same thing.??
Admiral_Komack
@James E Powell:
The plural of “wolf” is “wolves”.
Mel
@NotMax: Cashew, crunchy. Drizzled with chocolate.
J R in WV
@Amir Khalid:
Some peanut butter has foreign ingredients in it, like high fructose corn syrup or other sweetners, for example. We do sometimes get a jar of almond or cashew butter, all always crunchy, it doesn’t stick to the roof of your mouth as badly as smooth nut butter.
The best is just whipped nuts, no added nonsense needed.
J R in WV
@TenguPhule:
NO, NO, NO !!!
No jelly, no sugar, no sweetners, no salt. Just nuts, sometimes a little oil if the nuts were too thick without to make the butter.
JUST THE NUTS !!!!
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
I go with smooth as well.
Used to do crunchy, don’t know why the switch but it’s smooth all the way now.
TenguPhule
@J R in WV: Amir asked for a list, not personal preference. Also PB & Honey go well together and I’ll fight you over that.
columbusqueen
@Amir Khalid: smooth, baby, smooth.