TUESDAY #3572

One Of My Very Own

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EMAIL: ralph.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

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Had a doctor's appointment today. I have low sodium, which is rather rare. She showed me the list of possible causes from kidney problems, etc then pointed to "Beer Diet."

FUN WITH LANGUAGE

I have a sister who shops like that. She spends half her life mailing stuff back.

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Having taught at the university level I can appreciate this. 

( RH: Of course, it's probably fake, but still provocative.

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I'm not big on tradition. I figure someone made that up one day rule and I didn't have a say in it. So one Thanksgiving my mother asked us around the table to state what they were thankful for. I hate shit like that, so when it was my time I said, "I'm thankful that I never got caught for all those felonies I committed."

This was my mother's reaction...

We didn't have to do that again.
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All things Ralph.

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*MNBT

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[verification needed]

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People like that are called pedants.

I once shared that while driving in a landscape like this I like to imagine every human footprint being visible so I could see if any spot remained untouched by humans.

I was contacted by a viewer who informed me all about how with erosion, soil accumulation, floods, etc, there could be no footprints after a short amount of time.

So let me try again. If you had a magic wand and could make every human footfall visible on this landscape BY FUCKING MAGIC, then how many would there be and would there be any areas footfall free?

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Shoutout to all you people who got through the day without a nap. Pulling an all-dayer is pretty tough.

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VEHICLE ODDITIES

I've mentioned before how strange it is to be in that young man's position - at the wall between raining and not raining, although we know every storm must stop somewhere.

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Kind of looks like they are floating.
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If you must text, then don't drive.

But there are stupid motherfuckers who think they are immune.
And did you notice that the guy's little car just drove away on its own?
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"Did you just fucking see that?"

  - Everyone in the car probably.

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This is fucking amazing. Do you think somebody is just fucking with us?

Notice that they never showed the very top...why not?
They also seem to be moving exceptionally quickly.
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New truck concepts.

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If a church got an insurance settlement because of an act of god, wouldn't that be fraud?

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SHIT YOU DON'T SEE EVERY DAMN DAY

Two brothers were rescued and treated at different NGOs, and then reunited.

Hell, they all look alike to me.

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Everyone prefers their food to be organic these days.

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All some of us want is a stable relationship.
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Even a good Samaritan has his limits...

Imagine growing up in a neighborhood like that. Would it be possible to grow up "normal?"
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I ran across this with a caption that read:
"A Robin Williams mural went up in my neighborhood."

I smelled a rat and ran the image through Google search. The first hint was for me to use the Internet and even gave me a link as to what the Internet was...

Then there were these finds...

The exact same image with almost all of the captions the same. I call bullshit.
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Jenga Gone Wild

 Asians.

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They built a better ramp this time.

We hardly ever see devices like that when they work as designed.
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If Y'all would stop sending pictures of your penis to children, that would be great...really.

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Seriously, we put shit like this in our bodies!

I call it food by Dow Chemical

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Then there's the other extreme...

Yes, some people call this breakfast. To me, it looks like somebody left the window open while their son was mowing the grass.

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What we have done to our oceans is suicidal.

If enough fish die then half the world's humans starve.

But think what we are doing to our own personal space.

Who would want to live in such an environment?

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The ignorance that allows people to be alarmed by this easily explains anti-vaxxers.

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You know that feeling when you are trying to be lazy and someone starts being unnecessarily productive around you?

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I know it's not all that funny but think about a guy drawing that back wheel like that.

BROKEN ARROWS

Silo accident documentary: Command and Control

As a retired nuke guy, this hit close to home.
It all started during a maintenance accident:

That fuel tank was under extreme pressure.

The real problem comes if the fuel tank loses all pressure meaning it can't support the oxidizer tank sitting atop it, and when it collapses they explode...just like they were designed to do.

The rescue team feared for their lives and the team leader decided to enter the silo alone to check the pressure.

And thus broke Rule #1 in ALL nuke areas.

Not only that but the two people must be of equal experience and knowledge.

Anyway, a nuclear missile silo with the warhead attached blew up.

And many servicemen were injured.

Miraculously only one died.

They found the warhead in a ditch a mile or so away.

The Air Force admitted to this...

There have, in fact, been thousands.

I, personally, almost caused a broken arrow as the result of a prank I pulled on my eave-dropping Sargeant, but that's a story for another time.

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How wonderful.

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PARADOX