In lieu of pet pics, let’s play a game. Guess who is the proud owner of these modified and unique glasses:
HINT- I’m not the one running around in prescription sunglasses.
Snicker.
by John Cole| 88 Comments
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a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Lovey has been naughty.
PS. Can we please have proof of life for Steve and Shaw(u?)n. I’m certain I’m not the only one who’d like to see that.
geg6
That’s two different pairs. Brand new ones and the slightly older backups. Fuck me. And fuck you, Cole. ;-)
rikyrah
Never leave the glasses unattended. Don’t blame the babies.
LOL
rikyrah
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
YEP
Proof of life……LOL
geg6
@rikyrah:
I’ll take the blame for pair number one. But I have no idea how she got pair number two. They were not within reach that I could see, but she got them somehow while I was in the shower. She is a magical and devious little devil. And I love her so much.
geg6
And she does the same shit to my ankles.
Big R
Whoa, your ankles have lenses in them?
NotMax
Found this more than moderately interesting:
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
Will your insurance replace them under the “Act of Dog” provision?
eponymous coward
Did Rick Perry come over for a visit?
John Cole
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Shawn is at the beach and Steve is outside prowling the yard. When it is cool and the bugs are not bad, I leave the sliding glass door to the back yard open all day and he goes out at night to do cat things.
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: I have a lot (a LOT) of acorns, and looks to be a bumper crop this fall. But no porkers running around, AFAIK.
But speaking of pigs, yesterday I picked up an exquisite melon at the local farmer’s market. I’ve been indulging in chunks of that with a good prosciutto throughout the day. That’s really one of life’s better combinations.
Gin & Tonic
@John Cole: West Virginia has beaches?
Peale
Went to see Lilly Tomlin’s new movie, Grandma. Theater was packed…with about 4 of us under 70. When my boyfriend got up to get drinks before the movie, I heard a old woman’s voice behind me ask her husband to change seats because she wouldn’t be able to see over “that tall one who just left.” My boyfriend is 5’6″. When he came back I asked him to slouch for the movie.
Roger Moore
@Gin & Tonic:
No, but those tiny states back east let you go to the beach without too much trouble even if your state lacks them.
Kay (not the front-pager)
@geg6: I don’t know what the problem is. You still have a perfectly good right lens in 1 pair and left lens in the other pair. A little super glue and an exacto knife are all you need.
Poor goggie.
Mike J
@Gin & Tonic: When somebody says they’re going to the beach, I assume they mean Rehoboth and I live 3000+ miles away.
Amir Khalid
@geg6:
You can tell Lovey is a centrist: she attacks both sides equally. But is there a photo of the little darling herself?
RaflW
Gnaws Barkly?
Amir Khalid
@Peale:
I am 5 foot 9, and until I read your comment I had never thought of myself as a giant.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: I am almost 5’10” and I look down on you from a great height.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@John Cole: Thank you for the update.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I think that Steve ate Shawn and Cole just doesn’t know how to tell us.*
*I am cynical about cats.
Mary G
Those puppies are quite the chewers. Thank goodness they are so cute.
Jay C
@NotMax:
“More than moderately interesting“?? – Scary, I think: able to jump a 2m fence? How the hell long are the legs on those porkers?
Omnes Omnibus
@Jay C: Not really much longer than they are on domestic pigs, but these guys are lean and have tusks.
Duane
BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Wow, you’re rather tall.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus:
A wise decision.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: Silly easterner, the water isn’t what gets ya tan. Well, maybe in West ByGod Virginia it does.
BillinGlendaleCA
Attempt II to get a dual boot of Win10 and Linux Mint on this Compute Stick. Attempt I was a clusterfuck.
ETA: The screen just went black, not promising. Never mind, just the screen saver.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): My boss was just bitten by her neighbor’s cat. I have more examples.
Suzanne
That sucks. Puppy chewing is annoying. Thanks for posting this, Cole. I was feeling the urge to go to the shelter and adopt someone today, but these pictures took care of that.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: My cocker almost bit me the other day, attempting to get an ice cube that was intended for the yorkiepom. She was successful in getting the second ice cube and I had to get another from the freezer for the little one.
Omnes Omnibus
@BillinGlendaleCA: Cockers just want the thing they want. If someone gets in the way, they will feel regret later.
feebog
Years ago, when my boys were still very young we took a long driving vacation in our Bronco and travel trailer. We camped overnight in Pendelton Oregon and took our German Shepard pup for a run at a nearby park. We were followed back to the trailer park by a curly haired mutt. The next day we took off and the mutt followed us all the way through town, and onto the freeway. By then my wife and kids were in a panic that the dog would be hit and killed. So we stopped, picked him up and went back to the trailer park. No one knew who owned the dog, so voila, we became a two dog family. That night we slept in the trailer, but we kept Duffy (the new mutt) in the Bronco. The next day I discovered he had eaten my sun glasses. Not just chewed them, completely eaten a pair of sun glasses. Duffy pooped green plastic for about three days, but suffered no other ill effects.
NotMax
@Jay C
@Here’s a look-see.
Suzanne
@efgoldman: Who said the Southwest was great? It is mediocre at best.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: Truth. Especially if the thing they want is a bird.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: Did you find batteries?
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Aha. I just hope that there was a happy ending.
Suzanne
@efgoldman: I answered later on in the evening.
The problem is that the damn thing uses a USB charger, not regular batteries. I already have a shit-ton of devices that require charging, and I can’t charge them all at the same time. THAT was why I was complaining. I need the phone, the iPad, AND the funfunfun to charge simultaneously. And I have to say that having to charge the damn thing the way I charge my work devices makes it feel like WORK.
To answer the question: Yes, I charged it.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I see what you did there.
Suzanne
@efgoldman: Jesus, I answered both of you.
Suzanne
@efgoldman: Judging by the hilariously immature behavior I just exhibited, I think I’m the Beavis.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: Good for you then.
@Suzanne: I have no idea what you are talking about.
NotMax
@Suzanne
Come again?
;)
/ashamed of myself for that one
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: Seriously, adult, um, implements totally have the minimal Apple aesthetic these days. Which is awesome, because I am not a form-follows-function kind of girl, and some of those “lifelike” ones are a total buzzkill. But actually having to use my damn iPad charger to power the damn thing was PISSING ME OFF.
Suzanne
@NotMax: I already did, thank you kindly.
wasabi gasp
good lord…this place sometimes.
Suzanne
@wasabi gasp: Hey, last night, you missed shit-identification chat, and a couple of days ago, we got to hear about John’s ball hanging out of his shorts.
I love this place. These are MY PEOPLE.
Duane
@efgoldman:
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Suzanne:
It could be worse — mine uses a proprietary charger. I had to order a new charging cord from Sweden when the original one got lost when we moved.
Suzanne
@efgoldman: It came with the charging cord, but not the little square part that plugs into the wall. And I have a crapton of cords, but only 2 of the square things. And we already have too much crap to charge. Frustrating.
Omnes Omnibus
@Duane: Could you actually reply? Thank you.
wasabi gasp
@Suzanne: I clearly need a reader app.
Suzanne
@Mnemosyne (tablet): That sucks.
I have a Clarisonic face brush that has a proprietary magnetic charger, and I left it in a hotel room earlier this year. Had to have a new one ordered.
These people here don’t understand THE STRUGGLE.
Major Major Major Major
Just going for a stroll with a friend yesterday…
What a nice Tahoe trip.
Suzanne
@efgoldman: We have 2 iPads, 2 Kindles, 2 iPhones (plus the old ones that we keep charged up and loaded with apps for the kids to use when we want them to be quiet), three laptops, 2 older-style cellphones, 3 Nintendo DSs, and that’s not counting the bathroom stuff like the Sonicares and the Clarisonic.
Do you see why I am pissed that I have SOMETHING ELSE that needs charging?
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (tablet): @Suzanne: When I travel, I can’t take my Sonicare toothbrush. I doubt that this is the same.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I cannot leave the Sonicare at home. I love the damn thing. I keep a regular toothbrush at work to use after lunch, and it is always such a disappointment.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
You get a second childhood?
I thought that you had to continue the first one, not that one got a second chance. Once again I’ve been doing it all wrong.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Suzanne:
Almost 10 years later, I am annoyed that I left a $30 bottle of organic cleanser in the hotel room after our wedding and housekeeping THREW IT AWAY.
@efgoldman:
I have to admit, I had never heard of that place even though I live about 10 miles from it. We may have to check it out someday.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
I used to do work for the company they owned, somewhere around 35-40 yrs ago. Have been through the workshop a couple of times but haven’t seen the museum. Nice guy. Like how he spent his money.
Benw
@Suzanne: between 3 kids and 2 working parents, I’m right there with you. We finally bought a surge protector for each room (more or less) that comes with grounded outlets AND several USB ports on each. You can get them for $20-30 each. No more little square transformers! We only keep those around for travel. I also got a transformer for my car lighter socket that has a standard grounded and one USB outlet so I can charge my phone and run a 3DS (for the kids, I swear!) while driving. Saved my bacon many times.
NotMax
@Suzanne
Something like this might take some of the edge off the struggle.
Suzanne
@Benw: @NotMax: Yeah, I definitely need something like that. I have power strips everywhere in the house, but not the USB, so I need the blocks. And I’ve bought some aftermarket blocks and cords, but the Apple devices KNOW and won’t charge with them.
This is why I was griping about my personal, uh, massager being out of charge. Grrrr.
Stella B
I have a six port charger:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LMIA9L4?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
One charger and a whole bunch of cables.
Suzanne
@Mnemosyne (tablet): AHHHHH that would make me crazy.
Housekeeping threw away my charger and I got angry and called the hotel manager over it. Of course, that was the trip when I went to a conference and the cat died while I got dropped off at the airport, so it wasn’t the worst thing that happened that trip.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Suzanne: If it’s standard USB, you can just plug it into the computer. It’ll charge slower, but it’ll charge.
Bruno's Mom
@Suzanne:
I bought a Bolse® 60W / 12-Amp 7-Port Fast Charging USB Wall / Desktop Charging Station With SmartICᵀᴹ Technology from Amazon, and this charger is Fast! As a couple with lots of devices, this charger is a God send…
Suzanne
@BillinGlendaleCA: Our computers are in a public part of the house. I can’t charge the sex toys in the family room.
Well, I suppose I could. But that’s oversharing even for me.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Stella B:
I have a couple of those, plus I had a regular power strip with 2 USB ports on it, but Keaton threw up on it the other night and we had to throw it away. I keep various size cords plugged into them all the time so they’re there when I need to plug in.
wasabi gasp
@Suzanne: Might wanna stick one of these in your bug-out bag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZgIbAjuEk
Tree With Water
Here’s an interesting and even heartening account of an Israeli political dynamic that pits Netanyahu against the Army. To which I say, “way to go, Israeli Army”. It’s nice to know they haven’t all lost their minds over there. And I say that well knowing that Americans- above any and all the people’s on the planet- should tread humbly and lightly when criticizing the political dysfunction of any one else’s government.
http://www.juancole.com/2015/08/military-struggle-netanyahu.html
Anne Laurie
@Jay C: Wild pigs should scare you — they’re smart, mean, and fast. And they breed like rats, or humans.
True story: Great Danes were developed to hunt European wild boars. A cross between greyhounds, for speed, and mastiffs, for size.
Medieval boar spears have “wings” above the metal head, because the beasts would “run up” the blade to attack a hunter.
TheMightyTrowel
@Anne Laurie: we have a major feral pig problem in my neck of the woods. Recent attack got a good bit of media : http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-27/feral-pig-traumatises-walker-and-dog-at-mount-jerrabomberra/6650016
Anne Laurie
@TheMightyTrowel: From your link:
Boarhound/mastiff cross! — not saying it’s genetic, but I can see how (why) the dog broke its harness to go after the pig.
I’d probably have the same impulse to throw myself between them, but truthfully, poor woman should be grateful she didn’t get bitten by the dog as well, in all the excitement.
(Actually, after the last couple years living with a 20lb rescue papillon-cross whose bite inhibition is not what it should be, my impulse would probably be to step back and look for something like a stout branch to shove between the combatants, but then everyone’s a hero on the internet… )
NotMax
@TheMightyTrowel
Feral pigs on Maui, too. Hunters do go after them (as well as the axis deer), a not small number of whom hunt with bow and arrow.
Attacks aren’t all that frequent, but their (the pigs, that is) fouling of brooks and streams is a constant, ongoing problem.
Voldemort
Re: wild boars in Europe. Am I the only one who is imagining Obelix having a feast??
Anne Laurie
@NotMax:
Not to mention, IIRC, the pigs eat rare native birds (especially fledglings) & other small fauna, along with indiscrimately damaging vegetation…
Toschek
@Omnes Omnibus:
Ha, I’m 5′ 11″ but you’d never know it due to my perpetually hunched over posture. I picked this terrible habit up from my mother who acts like the weight of the world is on her shoulders, and thought it was “natural” to carry yourself this way. To the casual observer I might seem to be about 5′ 5″ and then when I put my shoulders back, suddenly a giant.
I need to practice posture, especially as I’ve gotten older this has resulted in all kinds of back problems, neck cramps, you name it. Just to give you a flavor of how bad it is, my nickname in high school was Quasimodo (the meaner kids would call me “Hunchy”).
J R in WV
@Omnes Omnibus:
Once upon a time I was 6′ tall, but now I’m 5’11” after aging some, and rolling a PU truck, and having a heavy tool dropped on my head, etc, etc.
But I still tower over you guys! ;-)
HeartlandLiberal
@NotMax: Wild boars are one of the greatest destructive forces in the Great Smokey Mountains. Years ago I and my brother were tent camping, and awakened in the middle of the night by a ranger who was out hunting them, trying to reduce population.
Google “Wild Boar European Hog information for Great Smoky Mountains National Park” and find full article on yoursmokies dot com. If I put the link in, I fear this comment will disappear into moderation abyss.
HeartlandLiberal
@Voldemort: Asterix and Obelix, one of my favorite comics of all time. I think I have every issue ever published in English, and half dozen scattered in Latin, French, and even one I picked up in German.
satby
Getting to be a big problem here too:
satby
Now with actual link: http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10370_12145_55230-230062–,00.html
shell
Calling Asterix and Obelix!