bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦
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Yes, it’s not that we’re actively “trying to keep up this boycott” — we just, for myriad reasons including personal risk, have no desire to go to the US.
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Yes, it’s not that we’re actively “trying to keep up this boycott” — we just, for myriad reasons including personal risk, have no desire to go to the US.
I bought a 3D printer just to replace the bulb cover on my range hood. Then realized I needed to learn CAD in Fusion 360 to design it. Then actually printed the part out of transparent PETG. Then became hooked. (Two years ago and the cover is still there)
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I bought a 3D printer just to replace the bulb cover on my range hood. Then realized I needed to learn CAD in Fusion 360 to design it. Then actually printed the part out of transparent PETG. Then became hooked. (Two years ago and the cover is still there)
Why does he care what she thinks? If I had his money, I would ride my giraffe to her house and have my Oompa-Loompa robot army bury her lawn a foot deep in hundred dollar bills.
Just to show her how little I cared. That would totally work.
Just to show her how little I cared. That would totally work.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Why does he care what she thinks? If I had his money, I would ride my giraffe to her house and have my Oompa-Loompa robot army bury her lawn a foot deep in hundred dollar bills.
Just to show her how little I cared. That would totally work.
Just to show her how little I cared. That would totally work.
My daughter sent me some food for Father’s Day. They delivered it to a neighbour.
6:00 pm: Daughter complains
11:00 pm: They leave the replacement outside the back door
7:00 am: I notice a bear happily eating my burger
I don’t blame them for the bear, necessarily, but they are a shitty company.
6:00 pm: Daughter complains
11:00 pm: They leave the replacement outside the back door
7:00 am: I notice a bear happily eating my burger
I don’t blame them for the bear, necessarily, but they are a shitty company.
November 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My daughter sent me some food for Father’s Day. They delivered it to a neighbour.
6:00 pm: Daughter complains
11:00 pm: They leave the replacement outside the back door
7:00 am: I notice a bear happily eating my burger
I don’t blame them for the bear, necessarily, but they are a shitty company.
6:00 pm: Daughter complains
11:00 pm: They leave the replacement outside the back door
7:00 am: I notice a bear happily eating my burger
I don’t blame them for the bear, necessarily, but they are a shitty company.
The Great country of Africa!
November 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The Great country of Africa!
Not only that! One night her Doberman was going crazy, barking at the closet. All of a sudden he couldn’t bark. She took him to the vet, who said “leave him with me.”
The minute she got home, the phone was ringing. It was the vet. “Get out of the house! Your dog was choking on human fingers!”
The minute she got home, the phone was ringing. It was the vet. “Get out of the house! Your dog was choking on human fingers!”
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Not only that! One night her Doberman was going crazy, barking at the closet. All of a sudden he couldn’t bark. She took him to the vet, who said “leave him with me.”
The minute she got home, the phone was ringing. It was the vet. “Get out of the house! Your dog was choking on human fingers!”
The minute she got home, the phone was ringing. It was the vet. “Get out of the house! Your dog was choking on human fingers!”
Also, I heard about this family that hired a baby sitter? Who was secretly high on LSD? And they told her to put the turkey in the oven at 6:00… BUT SHE PUT THE BABY IN INSTEAD! This ACTUALLY HAPPENED to a neighbour of my cousins friend.
October 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Also, I heard about this family that hired a baby sitter? Who was secretly high on LSD? And they told her to put the turkey in the oven at 6:00… BUT SHE PUT THE BABY IN INSTEAD! This ACTUALLY HAPPENED to a neighbour of my cousins friend.
“The horse has fired the horse catcher”
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“The horse has fired the horse catcher”
What color is the sky right now above your port?
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
What color is the sky right now above your port?
Very nasty and FAKE. NYT needs to be disciplined with a 10% tarif.
October 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Very nasty and FAKE. NYT needs to be disciplined with a 10% tarif.
If true, this is a telling reveal of the insular nature of American culture. There are plenty of examples of normally functioning - even impressive! - politicians in Europe, Asia, the Americas, everywhere! But American culture has always been focussed on itself, to the exclusion of all others.
October 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If true, this is a telling reveal of the insular nature of American culture. There are plenty of examples of normally functioning - even impressive! - politicians in Europe, Asia, the Americas, everywhere! But American culture has always been focussed on itself, to the exclusion of all others.
My father grew up in a really small town in Ontario (Grand Valley). I asked him whether they had a phone in the 1940s:
“Of course we had a phone!” (Indignantly)
“What was your phone number?”
“37”
“Of course we had a phone!” (Indignantly)
“What was your phone number?”
“37”
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
My father grew up in a really small town in Ontario (Grand Valley). I asked him whether they had a phone in the 1940s:
“Of course we had a phone!” (Indignantly)
“What was your phone number?”
“37”
“Of course we had a phone!” (Indignantly)
“What was your phone number?”
“37”
I’ve wearily given up on the “begs the question” thing but hugs to those still fighting the good fight ❤️
October 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’ve wearily given up on the “begs the question” thing but hugs to those still fighting the good fight ❤️
I used to ride my bike from SD through Camp Pendleton. I once snuck both of us around a chain link fence going into the ocean into the officers beach club and had a shower before riding home.
This is not at all germane to the post but it will be the one and only time I get to tell the story.
This is not at all germane to the post but it will be the one and only time I get to tell the story.
October 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I used to ride my bike from SD through Camp Pendleton. I once snuck both of us around a chain link fence going into the ocean into the officers beach club and had a shower before riding home.
This is not at all germane to the post but it will be the one and only time I get to tell the story.
This is not at all germane to the post but it will be the one and only time I get to tell the story.
Paul Henderson’s goal and what everyone else said.
October 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Paul Henderson’s goal and what everyone else said.
But he does know about “Magnets” and other Elements!
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
But he does know about “Magnets” and other Elements!
That’s pretty much my point: stupidity is a far more important consideration than age as far as one’s likelihood of falling for scams. Broadly speaking…
October 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
That’s pretty much my point: stupidity is a far more important consideration than age as far as one’s likelihood of falling for scams. Broadly speaking…
i don’t know your age, David, but I’m 64. Way before I started using the internet in ‘93 I was very familiar with scams. Yes, it used to be one on one, and maybe less slick. There are more now. But I don’t think an old person like me should be more easily tricked (dementia aside) than a young one.
October 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
i don’t know your age, David, but I’m 64. Way before I started using the internet in ‘93 I was very familiar with scams. Yes, it used to be one on one, and maybe less slick. There are more now. But I don’t think an old person like me should be more easily tricked (dementia aside) than a young one.
This reminds me of how these news stories are always saying scammers are “preying on the elderly”. The elderly should be *less* likely to fall for scams, not more: they’ve had decades more time to observe the pattern, and scams have been around since before they were born. A 15 year old OTOH…
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This reminds me of how these news stories are always saying scammers are “preying on the elderly”. The elderly should be *less* likely to fall for scams, not more: they’ve had decades more time to observe the pattern, and scams have been around since before they were born. A 15 year old OTOH…
The take-home lesson here is that good, principled people will be cheerfully exploited by unprincipled people on that very basis. So what is a good person to do? This is the advice I gave to my daughter:
Do no harm but take no shit.
Do no harm but take no shit.
September 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The take-home lesson here is that good, principled people will be cheerfully exploited by unprincipled people on that very basis. So what is a good person to do? This is the advice I gave to my daughter:
Do no harm but take no shit.
Do no harm but take no shit.
Congratulations on this beautiful science!
September 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Congratulations on this beautiful science!
My first HP scanner: $2,000 before taxes. And that’s all it did!
September 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My first HP scanner: $2,000 before taxes. And that’s all it did!
I wrote my PhD thesis on a PowerBook 140 in 1991. I don’t want to make anybody jealous, but it had a 40 megabyte hard drive. Yes, you read that correctly — that’s *million*!
September 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I wrote my PhD thesis on a PowerBook 140 in 1991. I don’t want to make anybody jealous, but it had a 40 megabyte hard drive. Yes, you read that correctly — that’s *million*!