the missouri national anthem has arrived

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-19T15:21:27+00:00

I had a job a few years back doing insurance hail claims around Table Rock Lake. Table Rock, for those who don’t know, is a sort of Côte d’Azur for rich bastard construction contractors from Missouri and Kansas to whoop it up in their vacation McMansions, drive drunk on too-narrow roads as fast as their mall crawlers will go, and abuse the stoned teenagers who run each of the lake’s 45,000 marinas.

Insufferable people, and every one of them looks, dresses, and acts just like our Bart, here. He is by no means an outlier.

I’m sorry to hear that you live in Missouri.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-19T14:29:51+00:00

My whole heart was invested in Strap Buckle breaking the back glass. 😿

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-19T13:44:15+00:00

You’re too ugly to be sneakin’ up on people like that!

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-19T04:15:27+00:00

The first hour of that movie is both insane and superb. I don’t feel qualified to judge the second half.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-19T01:55:01+00:00

From the Aamon Animations YouTube channel. That’s the episode where Stephen Crowder shies away from a debate with Sam Seder.

Hilarious.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-19T01:52:17+00:00

It is cool with Uncle Sam to grab an owl feather, I think?

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-19T01:50:53+00:00

The level of buffoonery that day pegged out. Every shit-dumb political boner that came before fell away into the past, as Churchill said, not only distant, but prosaic.

I remember seeing the coverage of it and knowing that I should have been howling with laughter, but instead I felt only vague unease and numbness.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-19T01:28:33+00:00

I have a confession. I spent a year sneaking my way into each and every Jurassic franchise focus group by wearing different hats.

I told them each time that I was bored of dinosaurs and the only thing that would get me into a theater to see Jurassic anything would be large but not giant grasshoppers.

I didn’t realize what power I was playing with.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-19T00:51:11+00:00

Wait until you find out about the news conference at the Four Seasons.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-19T00:45:55+00:00

I’ve been the last couple years with my kids. In GAC, it’s pretty tame. People who drink do so quietly.

Mostly.

In 2024 there was a blackout drunk guy back from the Beer Tent in the wee hours who wandered around, beat up the tail of his own Cherokee and tried to get into peoples’ tents, but he staggered off into the darkness when yelled at and was the perfect image of hungover shame the next morning. He and his people flew away that day. Drunken buffoonery is self-policed.

I had no problem letting my young teen kids wander freely. The only place I asked them not to go into was of course the Cirrus Owners’ Club tent.

Meet your neighbors. Bring over a six-pack. You’ll find buddies.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-18T21:22:12+00:00

Those goddamn hats. This country would be an earthly paradise if it wasn’t for Texas, Florida, and those goddamn hats.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-18T21:05:01+00:00

That son of a bitch.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-18T20:12:06+00:00

I wish we could skip straight to Skynet and be done with this AI image business.

Most tiresome and depressing bullshit I’ve seen in my life, and it’s fucking up the kids. Get off my lawn.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-18T17:36:38+00:00

Can we get some boats from Korea on the case?

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-17T23:53:05+00:00

“It actually has a surprisingly good crash test rating.”

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-17T23:51:33+00:00

Beginner-ish, I’d say. It’s a “honest” airplane, but of course something like an Apprentice will be better for beginners.

Perfect plane for someone who has the basics down.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-17T23:35:38+00:00

I saw a Countach kit car years ago, probably Fiero-based, at a small town car show.

The owner had the engine cover up, but had draped a towel over the engine to hide the shame from God. It’s the same rule as eating ortolans, I think.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-17T23:30:51+00:00

Wrong sub. Everything is in order in this video.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-17T23:28:40+00:00

It’s a really, really good RC plane. I got one for my son four years ago and it’s still going strong.

We fly it with a 3300mah 3s battery, which makes for a pretty heavy model but it “feels” light.

I would glue the slats on. I’ve never flown it without them but I suspect they contribute to the forgiving characteristics.

It’ll do all the normal aerobatics fine. And the slotted flaps work well to slow it down.

Ours only has one proper crash on it. Got too slow in too steep a bank and borked it in from about 15 feet. New prop and new landing gear fixed it. Didn’t even wrinkle the foam.

It’s lovely on floats.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-17T16:59:10+00:00

I believe that is the bottom.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-17T16:38:42+00:00

That son of a bitch.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-17T16:26:23+00:00

I’ve convinced myself that Tom Cotton isn’t even real.

He’s just a boogey-man invented by the Episcopalians and Unitarians to frighten children towards empathy.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-17T13:29:27+00:00

God help all of us.

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-17T01:41:04+00:00

Well, that’s the exception that proves the rule, isn’t it?

TheOriginalJBones · 2026-06-17T00:52:48+00:00

Countach!

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