Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Motown is Joe-Town!

Even though I know this is a bad idea, I’m off to do it anyway!

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

He really is that stupid.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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Respite Thread: Laughter is Good

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geg6 posted this on her FB page and I had to steal it.

Albatrossy sent me this one:

These are all me, LOL

 

I think someone sent this to me, but I didn’t make a note when I bookmarked the video. Identify yourself!

Zookeepers at Denmark’s Odense Zoo thwarted an escape attempt by a flock of their penguins after following a trail of wet footprints. The zoo joked, “Perhaps our penguins [have] seen ‘The Penguins of Madagascar’ too much?” in a statement posted with the video on November 10.

I am off to the Botanic Gardens for their Halloween event and then out to dinner. I’m hoping there will be some ice cream involved somehow. Have fun and share some videos/stories that make you laugh. So I can come back later and enjoy some more smiles.

 

 

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  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    Taking care of penguins has to be one of the Best Jobs Ever.

    Ice cream baby is a complete hoot–grabs entire scoop, shoves into face. Reminded of when mom finally relented from her role as organic nazi and gave our toddler her first taste of chocolate. Her bug-eyed look of delight and wonder had no precedent and at twenty, she retains the craving formed in an instant that day. Super picky, of course. “Hershey? What’s that?”

  7. 7.

    geg6

    That baby cracked me up this morning when I really needed it. We got a last minute call from  the agent who listed our house yesterday for a showing this morning and we were not prepared for it. I really want to sell this house but I needed a day to get it ready!  Never expected such quick movement. We have another at 10:30 am tomorrow and I am just freaking out.

  13. 13.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Technical issue. Can’t see the ice cream or pig one on the laptop (Firefox). Just a blank space on the screen. But everything shows up on my phone. I’m literally laughing so hard I’m crying.

    Wife is on a Zoom and looking at me funny. Will share with her and enjoy them all over again in an hour or so.

  14. 14.

    zhena gogolia

    With all my operations, my husband has been doing all the cooking. Today was supposed to be my glorious re-entry with my fail-safe beef stew. Except I’m so unused to cooking that I forgot to buy garlic and celery. It’s not going to be very good. Oh well. No guests.

  16. 16.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @NotMax: Always loved licorice. I’ve sampled many different kinds and loved them all.

    Also black jelly beans. When I was a kid I’d trade other boring flavors for the black ones at Easter. As an adult I just buy a bag of black ones for myself.

    Circus peanuts have no reason to exist though.

  18. 18.

    Frank Wilhoit

    I came back to work from lunch one day, some ten or twelve years ago, and there was a penguin (<i>Spheniscus</i> sp., I think) walking around the lobby of my office building.  It was “Zoo Day”, and I had failed to notice any of the advance publicity for same.

  21. 21.

    geg6

    @eclare:

    Yes, we’re going to stay in the area.  This house and property are too much for two people, one of them in his mid-70s.  We have a very large multilevel house with about an acre and a half of property.  We want to downsize by a lot.

  22. 22.

    Suzanne

    @Frank Wilhoit: I was in Denver for a long weekend in December a few years ago with Mr. Suzanne. We went to the Museum of Contemporary Art, and there was a camel outside. Filming a commercial. The camel was an actor. Incredibly photogenic.

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    Mom and Dad know their kid likes ice cream. 😁

    Good to see kids still like to dance to rock ‘n’ roll.  Brings back memories.

    That pumpkin-loving pig! 🥰

  27. 27.

    mrmoshpotato

    @zhena gogolia: We’ve all done that.  (I have to write out a grocery list, because I’ll forget something surely.)

    It’ll be good.  And now I want to check my cupboards for some canned beef stew.

  33. 33.

    Dangerman

    Was it here where I saw the video of the smart dog, being asked to jump higher and higher (over TP as I recall) until it got too high and the dog said screw it and crawled under the cabinet? I need to send that to someone.

  46. 46.

    Albatrossity

    @catclub: Indeed. Lots of places near the shore in New Zealand have had their porch crawl spaces or other spaces under the house claimed by the Little Blue Penguins, who waddle up from the sea every night and look for a nice burrow or hidey-hole.

    Birds that eat fish have some pretty potent-smelling poop. Penguin tenants are usually evicted quite quickly once they are discovered!

  51. 51.

    schrodingers_cat

    For those curious

    This is what I posted yesterday

    @prostratedragon: It is one of Rahman’s best scores.

    Another one from Rahman, more wistful. From Swades (My country) (midaughts)

    Yeh jo des hai tera 

    This country of yours

    Is calling you

    (Always gets me in the feels)

    This is a bond that can never break

    Composed and sung by A. R. Rahman.

    This one is for zhena_g, she loves Shahrukh Khan.

  52. 52.

    Yutsano

    @Albatrossity: ​ A friend of mine from New Zealand calls blue penguins the Canadian geese* of New Zealand. Apparently they’re pretty nasty and territorial!

    *Normally I would wonder how he knew, but he was actually born in the US. His family left when he was about 10 because his dad had to flee the country. I’m not clear on the details but it had to do with a whistleblowing incident.

  53. 53.

    eclare

    @Sister Golden Bear:   Those are great!  Love the “Left the apt at the same time as the neighbor so jumped back in” outfit.

    I am horrible at remembering names so I would be “person who avoids coffee maker in the office when someone whose name she can’t remember is there.”

  54. 54.

    StringOnAStick

    Yesterday we met the new neighbors from the house directly across the street; we were glad to see the prior owners leave since they’d been dogging us since we moved in about not liking the state of our yard; they even told the new owners that the landscape transformation we are in the middle of is “not allowed” because there isn’t any lawn.  Which is not true because there is no HOA and whatever standards enforcing group there was disbanded over 10 years ago.  This is a desert with a declining water table; the city wants to see more xeriscape and less lawn.

    The new neighbors are thrilled with the coming xeriscape transformation in our yard and excited to see what gets created here, and they loved the backyard (the one I recently posted about in a garden chat).  They want to do a xeriscape in their front yard too so I offered to help them with advice and resources.

    Of all the 4 new sets of neighbors in the past 2 years, all 4 are from CA, and 3 are from the Bay Area; all are work from home tech types.  Some locals complain about “all these Californians” but we’ve had excellent luck making friends with them (probably because being new to town, they are looking to make friends too) and they’re all fellow liberals, making Bend bluer in the sea of central Oregon red.  We are friends with people in another part of town and 2/3 of those couples are also liberals from the Bay Area.  Being able to work from home has changed everything in desirable areas, that’s for sure.  I can’t stop what it has done to housing affordability, so I am not going to become one of the scolds about it; it’s out of my hands.

  58. 58.

    Albatrossity

    @Yutsano: Yeah, the penguins are not regarded favorably, at least by the folks who live near the coast (which is most of them, in NZ).

    I do think it would be cool to have a penguin couple raising kids under my porch, but it would make the porch pretty much unusable for anybody else!

  59. 59.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    @Sister Golden Bear: whole thing sounds like the old joke: how do New Yorkers celebrate Halloween? By getting up & going to bed early, wearing boring old clothes & being really nice to each other.

    Come November 1st,  NYC goes back to staying up all night, wearing black outfits & being scary and dangerous for the other 364 days of the year.

  60. 60.

    TaMara

    This was a fun read! Thanks everyone.

    Also, penguins – my ex-husband spent a year in Antarctica and, besides his job, helped out a penguin researcher – the big ones, Emperor I believe. He said they were very, very smelly. Which I think is saying something in Antarctica – because they also encountered elephant seals, which were super smelly, too.

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