Plan B Forum

Peculiar set of data that assumes Walmart is the only source of groceries in Chicago. I'm no expert on urban resources, but it is not obvious to me that Chicago will be a food desert with half its WalMart stores folded. There are plenty of other grocery stores (and even 4 remaining Walmart stores) ...

T.S. Eliot would have made a lousy songwriter. :lol: :lol: :lol: :ok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This here (just stolen from some twit on Twatter): Taylor Swift: Hey, could you make dinner tonight? Taylor Sw...

Happy Memorial Day to all, but especially to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the country they love

Uhhh...so Trump is telling people who have already *DIED* for their country to have a "Happy Memorial Day"???

Sorry, but I feel compelled to put this photo in this thread.
I'll just see myself out now...

Yup, right.

Ram Jam. Thank you, ma'am!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_2D8Eo15wE


(I especially loved the panda lamps!)

I would think that, if it isn't already illegal it certainly SHOULD be illegal to use a taser in a dangerous or irresponsible manner, or in a situation where such use has a high probability of causing a lot of "collateral damage". And firing a taser in a gas station, at a running gas pump, surrounde...

Meade— think of it this way: let's say two gunmen approach a stranger in a public space. Gunman A tackles the stranger and knocks him to the ground; Gunman #2 fires his gun but misses his target (inflicting only a minor flesh wound and miraculously neither hitting any of the many innocent bystanders...

IIRC in England (at least as of 5 years ago) speed limits were still posted in miles per hour.

Do British websites use biscuits?

This just showed up in my Facebook feed:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3851085 ... 833394399/ (Yeah, yeah...I know: algorithms...AI...yada yada yada...)

And also too...
IMO "The Mary Ellen Carter" is an absolute fucking masterpiece!

Gaaak. I just now noticed my typo in the title of this thread. Is there any way for me to correct it?

Thanks, Bill, for mentioning Stan Rogers. I totally agree.

Snailgate's comments about Great Lakes storms (and of course my own post of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald") put me in mind of this minor gem by Stan Rogers:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRtO3vfUbPY

Posting this now even though he died two weeks ago ; nobody else here seems to have noticed. Arguably one of the most meticulously historically accurate folk songs ever written: tV9PoWQVga0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9PoWQVga0 Gordon Lightfoot.jpg And one of my own personal favorites (which n...

Well played, Campbell's Customer Service Dept.!