We’re overdue for a clean thread, so here’s some cute animal videos.
Also, a Tropical Storm Watch for the coast of North Carolina from Cape Lookout to Oregon Inlet. So if you live in those areas, please take appropriate precautions!
Now back to our regularly scheduled cuteness!!!
Big R
The kitten is just like my Albany at four o’clock every morning. Boop!
Miss Bianca
Aww…SQUEE!
Thunder and lightning like crazy here for hours. Finished my logging just in time!
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: Logging? Like axes and saws and trees logging?
The Ancient Randonneur
Adam, the last two Walter posts that Cole put up haven’t been tagged as such. I don’t think he saw last night’s Kangaroo post commentary. A couple people were talking about writing up the story so I pointed them to the new Walter category.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: yup. Gotta get that firewood somehow…
seaboogie
Not sure if Debit and the FP team would be up for the demands of such a thing, but I kind of feel like a “Your Daily Walter” post each day until the election might be a balm to get us through the coming days…like this post, Adam – and Digby’s panda videos and such. Sweet fur-critter pics could be the anti-venom to the “he who shall not be named” hate parade.
lamh36
“Clean” thread…hmmm…
ok, well..I’m beginning to rethink the marital separation between me and Idris Elba…especially with him sharing pics like this: sigh…
Wooh…alright…work in the morning, off to bed…have a good one BJ
Adam L Silverman
@The Ancient Randonneur: Okay, good to know.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: Cool. Parts of my family ran a sawmill and were lumber people. Not lumberjacks, but those who managed the flow of the lumber rafts down the rivers to the sawmills. To this day, my dad is fascinated by old sawmills.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: Did you sing the lumberjack song?
Adam L Silverman
@seaboogie: I have no connection to Walter or Debit. So you’ll have to harass someone else.
Miss Bianca
@lamh36: Wait…you and Idris…had a thing going on? But…(sniffles, blinks. goes back to “The Wire”).
Major Major Major Major
:)
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: Frankly, I was panting too hard most of the time to do much of anything but grunt. It is hard work on a steep, steep slope! But maybe next time!
@Omnes Omnibus: I’d love to have access to a sawmill! It’s all chain saws to bring down and carve up and then a 12-lb maul to reduce it finally to stove size! Tho’ I am informed by my friend that there is actually a saw mill attachment for a skid steer…
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: okay, noted.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca:
Damn, if this is not an example of “context is your friend.”
Adam L Silverman
@The Ancient Randonneur: @seaboogie: I’ve emailed Alain asking him to create a special, searchable category for the Walter posts like for Mayhew on Insurance. I’m sure he’ll take care of it. In terms for daily or regular updates, you’ll have to ask Cole about that.
jl
Thanks for the cute petvids.
But I have a complaint for the BJ management. The third video was titled ‘Kittens Annoying Dogs’ and I skimmed through the first two in full expectation that the third would provide sufficient cuteness. But, I think half the dogs in the last video did not even notice the kittens bothering them. How could the kittens be really bothering them, then? The cuteness quotient was substantially reduced thereby.
I feel cheated. Now I have to go back and watch the first two, and hope that the cuteness was not diluted by a first viewing.
lamh36
@Miss Bianca: yep…I eve went back to my maiden name on my FB page …no more LAMH Elba back to LAMH Nola…lol
hovercraft
@Miss Bianca:
Coming on the heels of that last thread, I did a double take. Sorry I have a dirty mind.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh, crap…LOL! I think I’m blushing…at least it feels like I am!
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: @Miss Bianca: Almost thought we were back in the discussion of porn and erotica from the previous thread…
Suzanne
Watching that video is bringing back to me just how irritating kittens are. Seriously, they’re adorable as a defense mechanism against murder.
Of course, as I write this, my Scout purrs and snuggles on my lap. She was a kitten from the depths of Hell, and she grew into such a sweetheart.
Adam L Silverman
@jl: right…
seaboogie
@Adam L Silverman: Okey-dokey. And I guess that will just stay fucked off, also too.
Adam L Silverman
@hovercraft: @Miss Bianca: Actually lumberjack has now made an appearance in the previous thread. So the circle of commentary life is complete!
jl
@Adam L Silverman: The second video was extremely cute. Consider me cuted for the evening. Thanks.
Punchy
Cape Lookout to the Oregon Inlet? Isnt that pretty much the entire contiguous 48 states? Thats one hell of a troppy.
Adam L Silverman
@seaboogie: Um, okay. I didn’t mean it to tell you to shut up, just that you’ll have to take it up with Cole. Wasn’t meaning to imply harass was a bad thing here. I’ve done what I can do by asking Alain to do the special category thing like Mayhew on Insurance. Beyond that, I’m the wrong point of contact.
Adam L Silverman
@Punchy: I have no idea. I copied it off the alert I got on my iPad:
jl
Someone needs to look into this ‘cats and dogs living together’ thing. What the hell is going on with that? No more cats and dogs living together until we figure out what is going on.
And a BJ front poster, Adam, is posting this stuff almost as if he approves of it.
Adam L Silverman
@jl: I am very open minded.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: All jokes aside, you sound like you know your business. I’ve never liked being asked to split something that an ordinary axe won’t do. Mauls are weird as shit and I don’t want to deal with them.
seaboogie
@Adam L Silverman: Understood.
Lizzy L
I’ve had enough cuteness for the night.
FYI: the Animal Control officer who took the initial report on the dog who attacked me thought that the dog was a mastiff/Great Dane cross. BIG. Both of those are gentle breeds. It pisses me off. That dog got a raw deal.
Omnes Omnibus
@Lizzy L: You are lawyered up, right? What did your counsel say about talking about it here? Not being mean. Interested in anything else you have to say about anything else. Please, please, check with your lawyer before you say anything here about your case until you settle or finish a trial. It matters.
Lizzy L
@Omnes Omnibus: I have spoken to a personal injury attorney. I will not say any more for now.
Omnes Omnibus
@Lizzy L: Right. Were I your counsel, I was advise you not to post any details. Let your counsel have complete control of how, if, or when certain things are mentioned. Avoid mentioning them here or among your meatspace friends as well.
Mike J
@Miss Bianca:
Tell me more.
Slowly.
Steeplejack
@Punchy, @Adam L Silverman:
Oregon Inlet, North Carolina.
There is also a Durham, Oregon, and a Raleigh Hills, Oregon. LOLOLOLOL. True facts.
Adam L Silverman
Oh, goodie! Huma Abedin went off and forgot to set the parental controls on her husband’s phone:
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/report-anthony-weiner-has-once-again-sent-sent-the-gro-1785877779
While the sexting occurred last December, the story is just breaking now in the NY Post, because, of course, someone thinks getting this out there now will somehow impact the election or something…
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: Its like people moved from places and when they got where they were going they just named the places they settled in after the places they left. And just to screw with us on our American geography finals. The bastards!
And I knew that both the specific locations were in NC.
jl
@Adam L Silverman: I am so out of the news/gossip loop, I didn’t know that Abedin was married to this joker. At least that what Ms. Wiki says. OK, so mystery solved. That is why this dope gets so much attention whenever he acts out. Though, why Abedin hooking up with this idiot should be a public issue, I can’t quite see it.
But thanks for prompting me to get up to speed with current affairs.
Edit: I mean, the late Scalia used to go hunting with his bud Cheney, a guy who showed very poor judgment in hunting while drunk on rum and coke, right? I thought hanging with a certain kind of publicly accomplished loser was an acceptable lapse in judgment for bigshots. But Huma can’t do that, I guess.
jl
@jl: Just to be clear, I think hunting with lethal weapons while drunk is a worse lapse in judgment than the Weiner fool sending underwear buldge pix and doing gross flirts on social media.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
Isn’t he so precious? Wait, is that the right description?
Nice to know that there are assholes on both sides of the aisle. Equality and all that.
jl
Of course, Abedin is really pretty and has a beautiful smile, while Tony has always seemed kind of gross, in several ways, to me. Maybe horrified fascination at the pair explains why it stays in the political reality show news.
burnspbesq
@lamh36:
Forget him. You can do better.
jl
This blog has destroyed my moral fibre. Silverman did it. His fault.
Kittens And Puppies Playing With Babies Compilation 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyg4EgtTMc
SgrAstar
@lamh36: @lamh36: @lamh36: Able was I, ere I saw Elba….hahaha. Someone had to say it. :)
SiubhanDuinne
Is anyone here?
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’m just about to go to bed. The late-night action has really fallen off in the last month or so. Dunno why.
Steeplejack (phone)
And I’m out. Zzzzz.
Origuy
A musical post to tide you over. Quebecois trad band Genticorum.
ETA I saw them Thursday night at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: I blame Hillary.
ETA: I’ve just been catching up. Went out for a birthday dinner for madame and the kid. Madame’s is today and the kid’s is next Sat. The kid still has blonde streaked hair. I learned that the niece has gone platinum blonde.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: The Birthday Girls.
Gin & Tonic
Saying hello to the insomnia crowd, as it is 10:30 am here and I’m getting ready to head to the airport.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gin & Tonic: Apparently this blog seems to be the cure for insomnia, the insomnia crowd has dwindled.
ETA: Have a safe and uneventful flight.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic: Safe travels, G&T!
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Nice! Happy birthday to MadameinGlendale and KidinGlendale.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Happy Birthday to them!
satby
@Gin & Tonic: Not usually in that crowd, but moving is stressing me out I guess. Have a safe trip.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne:
@satby: Thanks much.
satby
Seems awfully quiet around these here parts.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: It is indeed. How about some pictures from my visit last Friday to Fantasy Island*?
*Peacocks and bougainvillea included at no additional charge!
Gin & Tonic
@satby: All checked in and ready to board. See you on the other side.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Neat!
WaterGirl
@lamh36: I was completely unaware of your separation. How could you not let me know that Idris Elba was available?
JR in WV
@jl:
I pretty much gave up hunting in the eastern mountains because 75% of the guys I bumped into were either drunk or working on it hard. Carrying guns around in the woods drunk = bad news as far as I’m concerned.
Once some rounds fly past you, the excitement levels all change from anticipatory to dreading.