Monday, May 25, 2026

This is news for those who skeeve public toilet seats...

There are many unspoken, strange things in a public restroom  - the gaps in toilet seats are one of them. And while you might think it’s a manufacturing error, there’s actually a very real, legal reason why public toilet seats look the way they do compared to your porcelain throne at home.
Since 1955, that center gap in a public toilet seat has been required in every public restroom across the country, thanks to the American Standard National Plumbing Code, which states, “Water closets shall be equipped with seats of smooth non-absorbent material. All seats of water closets provided for public use shall be of the open-front type.”
According to one toilet expert who will remain un-named, “A closed oval seat creates a continuous surface where skin presses against plastic that thousands of strangers have already sat on. Removing the front section eliminates that contact zone entirely. Fewer shared square inches, fewer bacterial transfer points between users.”

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"Say that to my face..."

The heroic, Purple Heart-winning Army veteran, who US Senate hopeful Graham Platner sneered in a screed on his burner Reddit account didn’t deserve to live, tore into the Democrats for continuing to back the Maine candidate. Pfc. Ted Daniels, who captured viral helmet footage of himself moving into open terrain to draw Taliban fire away from his squad in 2012, said Democrats backing Platner owe his children an apology. 
“I’m very thick-skinned, and he said it,” Daniels told The Post. “I don’t want an apology, and any apology from him [Graham] at this point would definitely not be sincere. What I’d really like is for Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Hakeem Jeffries, and everybody else on the far left to tell my children to their face that they are endorsing and supporting a man who said that their father should have not lived. Cheering on the death of their father.”
About seven years ago, Platner, a Marine veteran, sneered at Daniels from his “P-Hustle” Reddit account. Daniels had gone viral in 2012 over heart-pounding footage of himself out in the open on a ridge in Afghanistan with bullets flying all around him, trying to create an opening for his seven fellow soldiers.
“This video never gets old. Dumb motherfucker didn’t deserve to live. At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt,” Platner, then a 34-year-old, chided on his burner Reddit account. 
 

If one single veteran votes for this Platner prick, they 
should lose any benefit gained from their service. 
'Nuff said...'

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For those of us lucky enough to have come home...

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Here's what I think is going on in Garden Grove, California. This massive tank of methyl methacrylate (MMA), an organic chemical (like benzene or paint thinner) used for creating aircraft transparencies - think fighter jet canopies - and structural adhesives - for gluing graphite composite structural components together - has supposedly sprung a leak. 
It's not the liquid escaping that is the problem. But it's the access of air to the material through the leak  causing the material to cure. Just like a tube of glue will eventually harden if it has a leak. The chemical reaction that causes this material to cure and harden is an exothermic reaction. That means when the reaction occurs, it gives off heat. Last I heard, the temperature of the liquid had risen from room temperature to 90° F. It's kind of like a runaway nuclear reactor situation. There's no nuclear material involved but it's the same idea. It's a runaway chemical reaction involving a large mass of material trapped inside of a structurally compromised tank. 
The vapors produced when this material cures are toxic. Of course the liquid material itself is highly toxic and you wouldn't want it flooding into storm drains and such if the tank gives way. That would be an environmental catastrophe. But it would also be catastrophic, of course, if the curing reaction continues to take place, causing a pressure buildup in the tank and the tank explodes, releasing chemical vapors into a highly populous area.
Chemists from GKN, the aerospace corporation where this is taking place, are putting themself in harm's way to monitor the situation, as well as local hazmat crews. The options being talked about are definitely about major damage control. Something bad is going to happen. It is not a situation where things are under control. Severe environmental damage is at high risk level and high consequence level. - Steve Slocum
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Having lived for so many years at the Jersey Shore, there's one weather-related thing I know for a fact.
The weather on Memorial Day weekend is almost always shit. This year is no exception up there.
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And we'll take this as gospel because they have been dead-nuts correct every year. Accept for maybe every friggin' year. Why do they bother publishing inane shit like this - as if anybody either 1) Needs to know this for some reason, or 2) it makes a difference to who, and in what way is hearing this of any value or consequence?
 The only thing you really need to know is that there are probably four or five people drawig really good salaries at NOAA who's major function is to come up with totally irrelevant data like this. Juss' sayin'...
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That's subtle. I like subtle...
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Watching the PGA Championship reminds me that I'm as wild a driver off the tee as Tiger Woods is on the road. Did you ever hit a golf ball so far to the left it grew blue hair and started protesting? 
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This is British actress Madeline Smith in a publicity photo from 1971. She is pictured as the character Erotica in the film Up Pompeii. Smith was a prominent model and actress in the 1960s and 1970s, well-known for her work in Hammer Horror films like The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970).Other Roles: She also appeared in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973).
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Respect, honor. remember...

 

The first Memorial Day - originally called Decoration Day - was organized on May 1, 1865, in Charleston, South Carolina, by formerly enslaved African Americans and Union troops. 
They held a parade and properly buried Union soldiers who had died as prisoners of war at a former Confederate racetrack.While several cities and localized events have claimed to be the "birthplace" of the holiday, the historical record points to competing milestones. The early history of the holiday is defined by these key events:
May 1, 1865 (Charleston, SC): Rediscovered in Harvard archives, newly freed Black Americans held a massive tribute to Union soldiers at a former low-country planter racetrack that had been used as a Confederate prison. The event featured 10,000 participants, including 3,000 Black schoolchildren carrying flowers, followed by picnics and speeches.
May 5, 1866 (Waterloo, NY): Waterloo, New York, is recognized by Congress as the official birthplace of the holiday. On this day, the town closed its businesses and residents flew flags at half-staff to decorate the graves of fallen veterans.
May 30, 1868 (Arlington National Cemetery): The first official national observance was established by General John A. Logan, leader of the Grand Army of the Republic (a veterans' organization). Participants decorated the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers, a tradition solidified by a speech from Congressman James A. Garfield.
Memorial Day was later established as an official federal holiday, and in 1968, Congress moved its observance to the last Monday in May.




Sunday, May 24, 2026

Not exactly copping a plea...

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Preparing for hurricane season already...



In the summer of 1992, Florida didn’t just get hit 
by a hurricane… it got permanently changed by one. 
 
What started as another storm tracking across the Atlantic quickly became one of the most devastating hurricanes in American history. The wind was unreal.
Entire streets vanished beneath debris. Power poles snapped. Roofs disappeared. Palm trees bent sideways until they finally gave up entirely. 
From Homestead to Cutler Ridge and across huge parts of South Florida, entire communities woke up to scenes that looked more like disaster movies than neighborhoods people had lived in days earlier.
Meanwhile across the state, emergency crews worked nonstop through destruction. Helicopters searched flooded neighborhoods from above. Families survived hours hiding in bathrooms and closets, and neighbors immediately started helping neighbors before the storm had even fully passed.
People who lived through Andrew still talk about the sound. Not thunder. Not rain. Just the nonstop roar of wind so loud it felt like the entire world outside was being torn apart in real time. After sunrise came the silence. No traffic. No air conditioners. No city noise. Just broken trees, shattered homes, flooded streets, and the overwhelming realization that South Florida would never look exactly the same again.
And somehow… life still carried on. Communities rebuilt. Families helped each other clean debris one house at a time. Restaurants reopened. Power crews worked around the clock. And Floridians once again proved that surviving brutal hurricanes is not just part of living here…
…it’s practically part of the state identity. 
Even today, Hurricane Andrew remains the benchmark. The storm every longtime Floridian still compares every hurricane to: “This? Nah… you should’ve seen Andrew.” 





I had no idea it was filmed here in Florida - my favorite WWII movie. Robert Montgomery and John Wayne. 'They were expendable'

 
The 1945 war film They Were Expendable, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, was shot on location on Key Biscayne, Florida. The production utilized the location's palm trees and sandy landscape to replicate the Philippines during World War II.
Key Facts About the ProductionRelease Date: December 31, 1945
Location Use: Key Biscayne's tropical scenery and beaches substituted for the Southwest Pacific.
Military Authenticity: The U.S. Navy supplied actual 80-foot Elco and 78-foot Higgins PT boats for the film.
Local Background: Much of the site work and base camp was situated in the area that would later become Key Biscayne's Hurricane Harbor.
 

Robert Montgomery was able to draw on his activity as an actual PT commander (at Guadalcanal and Normandy), as could Jim Havens, one of the second unit directors and the film's explosives expert. Perhaps due to his cumulative experiences in the war, Ford poured a lot of himself into the filming. John Wayne said Ford "was awfully intense on that picture and working with more concentration than I had ever seen. I think he was really out to achieve something."
 

Ford was quick to show newcomers to his set who was in control. Robert Montgomery would later direct some fine films, but he received an amusing rebuke from Ford early in the shooting for They Were Expendable after suggesting a different way to compose a shot. Ford listened, then made the shot Montgomery's way. Asking if he thought it went well, Montgomery replied that the shot went fine. Ford asked, "Did you really like it?" and Montgomery replied that he did. Ford then opened the camera, yanked the film out, and handed it to his actor, saying, "Here - take it home with you."




Absolutely clueless - on the White House lawn...

 
NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Julie Tsirkin was taping a live segment on the White House lawn when the gunshots rang out — with her wearing a look of 'mild confusion' as the not-so-distant bangs echoed. Another idiot - off camera, a male voice - can be heard saying, “Sounds like fireworks.”
She briefly turns toward the direction of the racket before looking at someone off-camera and asking, “What is that?” Jeez.
Gunfire - serious automatic weapon gunfire - erupted right near this fuckin' dingbat and she honestly didn't recognize - or realize - what it was and how much danger she might have been in. This is the perfect example of why we should never take to heart anything these third-rate cub reporters say on air. You can see her on Instagram here: 
  

If she really is that fuckin' naive - that incredibly stupid, she should serioiusly be thinking about working on her next career - taking orders at the drive-up window at Burger King.

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Is it a coincidence her name is Karen?

Six Guatemalan men had driven 70 miles from Glen Burnie - tools loaded, tarps spread, shingles laid - and by the morning of March 23, the job on Bayly Road was nearing the finish line. Somewhere close to $10,000 was waiting for them at the end of it. It never came.
Instead, federal immigration agents arrived. The workers were surrounded, commanded down from the roof, and taken into custody. Their van sat in the driveway, doors open, thousands of dollars in tools left behind like a still life of a raid. One of the men’s wives was five months pregnant. They have two other children.
The woman at the center of it all - Karen Trevino, identified in court records as Karen Jeanette Trevino - now finds herself under the weight of a potential felony investigation, a viral condemnation, and a Maryland extortion statute with teeth.
Maryland Criminal Law Code Section 3-701 is not ambiguous. It prohibits obtaining services - or avoiding payment for them - through the threatened use of a person’s immigration status as leverage against them. Legal experts, including Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council, have said the alleged conduct in Cambridge fits that statute with uncomfortable precision.
The math matters here. At approximately $10,000, the alleged extortion lands in a sentencing tier carrying up to 15 years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
 
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It took off okay, but...

This is the dramatic moment Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket explodes into an enormous fireball after splashing down in the Indian Ocean. Footage shows as the rocket crashes into the sea as planned before erupting into flames.
Elon Musk called it an “epic” landing as he congratulated the SpaceX team. The CEO added: “You scored a goal for humanity.” SpaceX launched the Starship V3 – its largest and most powerful rocket yet – on Friday for a test flight.
It took off from the southern tip of Texas, near Brownsville, after the launch had been delayed by a day by a malfunctioning hydraulic pin. The Starship V3 is designed to launch more satellites and aims to carry future Nasa missions to the moon.
 

It was the 12th test flight of Musk’s rocket – despite the fiery landing, SpaceX said the craft test flight met its major objectives. Last year, mid-air explosions rained debris over the Atlantic after back-to-back Starship launches.




Going to extremes 'cause the gas is too high? Maybe you're not high enough...

 
A Georgia handyman's answer to soaring gas prices is turning heads everywhere he goes - because it involves driving a child-sized Barbie camper. Mali Hightower, 30, says he built the bizarre homemade vehicle after getting fed up with paying nearly $90 to fill up his aging Mercedes-Benz convertible.
So he pulled a discarded pink Power Wheels Barbie Dream Camper out of the trash, fitted it with a two-gallon engine from an old power washer, and turned it into a mini gas-saving commuter car.
Now, I'm sure any cop'd tell ya it ain't exactly street legal, but I bet he got a lot of likes or whatever on TikTok or Instagram. 'A' for effort, buddy...



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This is news for those who skeeve public toilet seats...

There are many unspoken, strange things in a public restroom  - the gaps in toilet seats are one of them. And while you might think it’s a m...