Aphrodite is a Cane Corso. Cane Corsos are easily identified BY THEIR OWNER TELLING YOU THEY ARE A CANE CORSO.
This week the only significant factor continues to be Venus retrograde. There is an oddly specific indication of said romantic difficulties keeping you in a state of stasis, but it’s unclear whether that indication applies to the entire week, or just one day early in the week. Sometimes the calendar and the skies are at odds with each other. Interestingly, this is a good example of the tension between astrology as a theoretical SCIENCE! and an empirical one. Adapting the SCIENCE! to today’s needs, the theory leans heavily towards Mercury being the ruling planet of computers what with the whole messenger and speed portfolios and all. However, in empirical terms, Venus seems to have the most actual effect. Just as an example, when I went to look up the date that Venus will return to direct motion, the automated system at theplanetstoday.com tells me:
Venus (retrograde) in Capricorn. Venus at Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Some theorists have claimed that Venus controls computers because Venus rules copper, and computers have copper wiring. Some theorists are profoundly stupid.
Wrestling with Banks is more of a lucha libre affair.
So, with that out of the way, let’s see what the cards have to say:
Now he just needs a teeny little 40.
Capricorn: 4 of Wands – Parrr-teee! This is one of the cards considered so auspicious that even reversing it can’t make it mean bad luck. And while there is a party scene with celebrants and wine etc, they are way in the background. The foreground, the pavilion is empty. This is a card showing you that there is a place for you and that it’s your turn to have joy.
Aquarius: Blank – Interpretations vary.
Pisces: The High Priestess reversed – One who pretends to wisdom but is in fact a shallow platitude spouting pseudowit.
Aries: 2 of Swords reversed – Misdirected vengeance, clumsy/ineffectual use of violence.
Taurus: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb.
Gemini: Page of Cups – A brownnosing suckup.
Cancer: Page of Coins reversed – Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury.
Leo: Queen of Cups reversed – Dirty rotten hoebag what done you wrong, vice, depravity, dishonor.
Virgo: Page of Swords reversed – Weaselly little backstabbing fuck working against you.
Libra: 6 of Swords – Travel by water, departure under unpleasant circumstances, bringing your troubles with you to a new place.
Scorpio: Temperance – Yes, yes temperance is boring. Looking at this card directly, you can see an advocation for less of an abstemiousness-based lifestyle and more of a Golden Mean-based one. The Angel as one foot on land and one in the water. The sky is partially overcast, but with enough of a gap in the clouds for the sun to come through. Someday I’ll have to find someone who reads Hebrew to tell me what’s written on the angel’s chest disguised ad folds in the cloth.
Sagittarius: 8 of Coins – Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business.
She has no respect for what it costs to heat a house
Whycome there no alt text on the open door?
CaptionAlt text contest!My entry: “I identify as a cat.”
Correct entry and only acceptable answer
Who let the dogs in, who let the dogs in!
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
Bark.
I had no idea the Cane Corso breed existed before becoming a regular at my local dog park. Sweet dogs.
Virgo: Page of Swords reversed – Weaselly little backstabbing fuck working against you.
Ah, that’s my next door neighbor to a tee
Great pics!
I like the Cane Corso, but have noticed the same thing about their owners. And the little dude who needs the 40 is adorable.
But Lily wins this round of cutest pup – even if she has no fucks to give about your heating bill!
I’m gonna ignore the LeoScope this week.
I showed my wife a picture of a Cane Corso, and she simply refused to believe it wasn’t photoshopped. So I found a video of one of the beasts.
She couldn’t pick her jaw up off the ground.
I wrote Scottish deerhounds and Cane Corsos into Cods & Cuntes (as NotAdahn knows). With the Cane Corsos, I was trying to find a war dog breed/personal guard breed that might have existed in 1420, so I had to scroll back to Roman times and the closest I could get was an Italian mastiff. I really just needed to know what they looked like so I could write my heroine’s “big black bitch from hell”.
I would take an Alaskan malamute over a mastiff any day of the week but both are such great dogs.
Big dogs are superior except they tend toward a relatively short life.
I’m gonna look seriously at a Heeler once my two are gone.
We had an opportunity to have a heeler. He was a year old but deaf. He was a handsome feller but the stars just did not align.
My daughter has a Heeler. Hyperactive dog. She has to run with it or bike with it pretty much everyday to burn off energy. That being said, it is a wonderful dog.
Yeah, the short life span is a no-go.
8 year lifespan for a Bernese? No way I’d put myself through that. I’m really hoping to get at least twelve years out of a partnership. I’m counting on Lily having hybrid vigor.
The red track suit dog looks demoralized. Never wear a track suit. His/Her owner should be ashamed.
What do you have against gopnik dogs?
In tracksuits, they are just Slav’s to their owners.
My thoughts exactly. There’s something about the Rus peoples and tracksuits…
Flashbacks of some unsavory folks you have dealt with sloper?
Cane Corsos are easily identified BY THEIR OWNER TELLING YOU THEY ARE A CANE CORSO.
I’ve noticed the same thing with Rhodesian Ridgebacks.
We’ve been considering a Cane Corso or bull mastiff for our next dog. Wife has her heart set on a Rottweiler though.
Make sure you have taken your blood pressure meds.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/08/what-role-did-the-fbi-play-in-january-6/
No great new revelations, but it is fairly comprehensive in tying the pieces together.
From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, after Bashir describes “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” to Garak,
My adaptation:
“Hey, that’s my fuckin’ eyepatch!”
Oh, come on!
I looked it up – it’s on fucking maps.
Just in case one wasn’t clear about which side the swamp is on.
If someone had come to me a few years ago with a script containing all of this stuff, I would have laughed them out of the room telling them it’s just too ridiculous to be believable.
Yep. Never let your guard down. There are feds amongst us.
JFC…….Disband the FBI. Disgraceful.
That Banks looks like possible cuddler.
Banks is pretty awesome, as are most Aussies. There is another one named Toby that looks identical to Banks, except that Toby has one brown and one blue eye. They’re not littermates.
I’ve thought about making a pass at Banks’s mom. She’s not bad looking, and a lush.
Figured it was that or a border collie. The wispy fringe hair tells the tale.
Speaking of dogs, if I had the money and land I wouldn’t mind own one of these: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W3kEcsaJZec
The Kangal Wolf Killer
Dogs are like babies. Nice to pet/hold for about 3 minutes and then give it back ASAP.
A rare bad take, Mo!
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Heh.
Yeah I can only take them in small doses, myself.
My mom had five basset hounds in later years. Visits home were… something.
I can make any dog lovable . . . in about two hours…. so long as the first five minutes are invested in killing its owners.
😀
I knew there was a reason I liked you.
It’s fun watching the social ties develop between the dogs.
There is a regular there named Troy. He’s a “Native American Indian Dog,” a malamute/black bear cross. He just stands around being regal and accepting the subservience of the other dogs. Doesn’t run, doesn’t play, rarely interacts with other dogs. However, his owners are friends with me and they of course love Lily. They’re interesting people, part of the Soviet Union > Israel > US storyline.
Anyway, there was an intact male Dalmation in a bogus service dog harness the other day. He tried to mount Lily, and Troy just erased him.
Ha! Good boy, Troy.
Troy just wants Lily for himself.
The humans were stunned. Troy is there twice a day and never shows the slightest interest in another dog.
Dirty rotten hoebag what done you wrong, vice, depravity, dishonor.
So, normal.
So I get crappy cellphone coverage when I am at work cause of the 5g buffer FAA is imposing at ‘certain’ airports. 50 of them, which if you live near a moderately large airport, 5g is going to be turned off.
So you obviously want planes to crash and kill Granny.
Oh, so that’s the deal. I wondered.
My personal phone is Verizon and my work phone is ATT. They both work better In Pahrump than in Vegas.
What? Why?
I thought 5G was completely fine.
There’s an odd amount of paranoia about it. People who think that “chem trails” are a thing also believe that 5G causes a resonance inside owl skulls and kills them.
Also, the frequencies put aside for 5G do have some overlap with other communication allotments.
C-band frequencies are used for radio altimeters on aircraft. There is a *possibility* that 5g could interfere.
5g is going to turn the altimeters gay?
Capricorn: 4 of Wands – Parrr-teee! This is one of the cards considered so auspicious that even reversing it can’t make it mean bad luck. And while there is a party scene with celebrants and wine etc, they are way in the background. The foreground, the pavilion is empty. This is a card showing you that there is a place for you and that it’s your turn to have joy.
I think I’ll go hang out with my old friend Tucker Carlson, then! – Ted Cruz
Virgo: Page of Swords reversed – Weaselly little backstabbing fuck working against you.
Build Back Better? Yes, no….yes…..NO! – Joe Manchin
Catching up on the overnight thread:
MikeS: Thanks for the kind words.
Sean: About the Lee-Enfield: It’s a No. 4 Mk II. The serial number puts it in the middle of the 1954 Irish Contract. I don’t know if any of these actually went to Ireland. 1955 dated guns were not part of this contract despite what many out there say. 1955 production was for the RAF, who didn’t want the guns. The government wanted to keep the factory open and so had them make guns for the RAF despite the RAF not wanting them. Supposedly some of those did find their way to Ireland, but not as part of the 1954 Irish contract.
Someone sanded the stock. My first impression of the pictures is the stock doesn’t look right. I looked a little more closely at the pictures. There should be a serial number on the fore-end near the muzzle end. That number should match the receiver serial number. I see part of it in one of the pictures. It’s weak and looks a little fuzzy, and might not match. My 1955 dated No. 4 Mk II has a weakly stamped serial number on the forend, but the numbers are crisp. The maker’s marks/inspector’s marks on my 1955 dated rifle exist and are crisp too. I think if you get more pictures of the stock showing the serial number and the maker’s/inspector’s marks you’ll see either those marks don’t exist or are fuzzy/weak. Those inspector/maker marks should be on the buttstock directly behind the trigger and two on the fore-end (one behind the middle barrel band and the other between the serial number and the muzzle). One more thing: The wood doesn’t look as proud as it should be in areas. The buttstock wood should be a bit proud around the buttplate and the buttstock socket, and it doesn’t look proud or as proud as it should be.
Metal condition looks good. Bolt and receiver serial numbers match should match. Either the picture is poor quality or someone mucked with the serial number on the bolt handle. Only part of the number is on the bolt handle. The magazine is serial numbered, and matches. To me it is not a big deal if the magazine is unnumbered or not matching. The bore should be mint for a rifle of this vintage. Corrosive ammunition was still in use but this rifle wouldn’t have seen much use while in service. Maybe the bore just needs a cleaning.
I’m not certain the seller is correct about the lack of cracks. It looks like there is a crack on the rear handguard running back from the middle band. That could be grain, but it looks suspicious.
The seller is wrong about the brass buttplate. Post-war UK manufacture No. 4 rifles should have a brass buttplate, but it is not a distinguishing feature of the No. 4 Mk II. The trigger is the distinguishing feature. The Brits moved the trigger mount from the trigger guard to the receiver with the No. 4 Mk II. Note the transverse screw at the back of the fore-end. They couldn’t use a tie strap like on earlier rifles to reinforce the fore-end. The strap can’t get around the new trigger mounting. So they switched to a transverse screw. You need to take the screw out before removing the fore-end. Remove the fore-end from the receiver end, pivoting at the muzzle end. Otherwise you damage the draws which are critical for absorbing recoil and accuracy.
There are better quality examples out there. Unless you really want a rifle in the Irish Contract (50,000 rifles, who knows how many are floating around the USA) and/or intend this as a shooter and can get it for, I’d say, no more than $600, I’d pass.
And Mike: I’d like to meet you too. I plan to be at Honey Harvest this year if it happens.
Thanks!
You’re welcome!
Capricorn: Turns out it’s going to be a COVID party.
Guess what I got for my birthday?
Laid?
Ha!
Wife won’t come near me right now.
I pray that you don’t get it to the degree I did and your symptoms are mild.
Grassy Ass
The Necrinomicronis?
Klaatu veratq necktie!!
Sagittarius: 8 of Coins – Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business.
Get a job? Don’t be fatuous.
I thought Aphrodite was an iffy name for a dog. But there’s one there named Eris.
My parents had a komondor named Omar.
Aren’t those the things that look like a couple skeins of yarn with eyes and a nose?
Same,
HEY YUFUS!
The dog with dreads.
Racing dog? ??
Brings to mind the joke:
“An atheist, a vegan, and a CrossFitter walked into a bar. I know this because they told us all within 5 minutes.”
LOL
*snark*
Wife is Capricorn and is need of some joy – health issue; we’ll know more this coming week.
lobot or rhy, you ever been here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQMiQjmK50
Would. And I quit eating tortillas but damn.
I am not sure why I like to spend my Sundays watching cooking and extreme sports. Very weird. #selfreflection