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NOLATiger163
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re: 2026 WC “Pride Match” in Seattle featuring
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 12/9/25 at 8:20 am to DaleGribblesMower
OP, considering you didn't link a reputable source, I figured you were joking. But no, this is real:
New York Post
Per the BBC:
:rotflmao:
New York Post
Per the BBC:
quote:
A 2026 World Cup fixture designated by organisers as an LGBTQ+ 'Pride Match' will feature two countries where homosexuality is illegal. The local organising committee in Seattle, one of the host cities for the Fifa tournament next summer, have said the match at the city's Lumen Field on 26 June will feature celebrations of the LGBTQ+ community.
:rotflmao:
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re: Bikini-clad Jewel, 51, flaunts incredible figure in 'shameless thirst trap' during Barbuda
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 12/9/25 at 8:11 am to wallowinit
quote:
I have a comforter that I acquired probably 50 years ago that has that exact same print that’s on her bikini.
So you're saying you've long been prepared to comfort her?
re: How long did it take you to know your spouse was marriage material? Study says 172 days
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 12/9/25 at 8:03 am to dyslexiateechur
Assuming we mean traditional dating between employed adults living in the same city and seeing each other multiple times per week, then yes, an average of six months seems about right to get a strong sense whether the other person is potential marriage material for you.
But it takes considerably longer to vet the person, give time for issues to arise, cracks to emerge, incompatibilities to surface, etc. Even assuming full-time traditional dating, IMO it's a bad idea to get engaged until you've been dating for more than a year, and no quick engagements, give yourselves at least several months from engagement to wedding ceremony.
But it takes considerably longer to vet the person, give time for issues to arise, cracks to emerge, incompatibilities to surface, etc. Even assuming full-time traditional dating, IMO it's a bad idea to get engaged until you've been dating for more than a year, and no quick engagements, give yourselves at least several months from engagement to wedding ceremony.
re: An aristocratic bride search Must-Have list worthy of the OT
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 11/25/25 at 10:25 pm to DesScorp
Hmm, he wants a son or two, but at 79 he only requires the woman to be 20 years younger than him?! I know in this day and age of Better Living Through Chemistry, some women that age have carried babies (no doubt with donor eggs and in vitro fertilization), but he really ought to be aiming below the ole 'half your age plus seven' when wanting kids. To be clear, in my opinion nobody near his age should be having kids; it's irresponsible to father a kid you probably won't live to raise to adulthood.
Oh, and he's not an aristocrat, I think. The normal distinctions in the U.K. are, going down in order of precedence:
(1) royal: king / queen then prince / princess;
(2) noble: duke / duchess, marquess / marchioness, earl / countess, viscount / viscountess, then baron / baroness; then
(3) baronet, like this dude, is a hereditary title of dignity and certainly qualifies as part of the gentry, but a clear step below.
Oh, and then this bit:
Oh, and he's not an aristocrat, I think. The normal distinctions in the U.K. are, going down in order of precedence:
(1) royal: king / queen then prince / princess;
(2) noble: duke / duchess, marquess / marchioness, earl / countess, viscount / viscountess, then baron / baroness; then
(3) baronet, like this dude, is a hereditary title of dignity and certainly qualifies as part of the gentry, but a clear step below.
Oh, and then this bit:
quote:About his current baby mama:
Sir Benjamin ... says she can't come from countries beginning with 'I' that have green in their flag, which rules out residents of Ireland, India, Italy, Ivory Coast and Iran. He said: 'I don't mind Canadians, Americans, Germans and Northern Europeans - what I like to call similar people. I don't think marrying an Eskimo is for me....
Slade has a daughter, Violet, with entrepreneur and former child author Sahara Sunday Spain, 34 ....
quote:Source: Wikipedia. I wonder what she thinks of his requirements for baby mama number two.
Sahara Sunday Spain was born in San Francisco, California, to Elisabeth Sunday, a contemporary artist-photographer and, Johnny Spain, a former Black Panther civil rights activist and convicted murderer.
re: When online pictures don't match real life
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 11/22/25 at 3:05 pm to Will Cover
Got to look for full- or 3/4-length photos where the body is visible (no baggy clothes, strategically-placed items, etc.). If you saw those, and they weren't representative, then you were basically lied to. If after meeting her you can see how the pictures were reasonably accurate but just well-chosen to hide the weight, then learn how to conduct due diligence.
Either way, it sounds like weight is a deal-breaker or very close to it, and that plus some degree of deception means no repeat. The key difference, IMO, is if you were straight-up deceived, then you're fine saying so and leaving. Otherwise, stick it out, be polite, and just don't go for a second date. Well, IMO, anyway.
Either way, it sounds like weight is a deal-breaker or very close to it, and that plus some degree of deception means no repeat. The key difference, IMO, is if you were straight-up deceived, then you're fine saying so and leaving. Otherwise, stick it out, be polite, and just don't go for a second date. Well, IMO, anyway.
re: This guy is so relieved he got his SNAP benefits for his 6 kids
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 11/8/25 at 10:56 pm to 420centraltime
quote:
Should he and his family be forced to drink shitty tap water?
Abso--f'ing--lutely. If you are spending my tax money, then you drink tap water and don't get to buy any junk food or junk drinks.
And FWIW, I drink tap water all the time, usually straight out the tap and into my cup.
re: Most New Orleans thing ever?
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 11/8/25 at 10:48 pm to tigerbaiter
OP, no explanation much less quote, plus a blind link, is a terrible way to start a thread.
That said, the story is interesting enough. I can't vouch for the background or accuracy of the source, Louisiana Illuninator, but it claims:
That said, the story is interesting enough. I can't vouch for the background or accuracy of the source, Louisiana Illuninator, but it claims:
quote:
Orleans sheriff says she missed campaign report deadline because her attorney was incarcerated
Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson successfully argued Friday that she shouldn’t have to pay the full fine for missing a campaign reporting deadline because her attorney was incarcerated at the time.
The Louisiana Board of Ethics voted to reduce Hutson’s fine for filing the annual report for the Orleans Jedi Guardian political action committee, where she is the chairperson, three weeks late....
The board was apparently swayed by Hutson’s explanation that she didn’t realize the PAC’s attorney, Jimmy Burland, was behind bars and couldn’t file the paperwork on time....
A longtime Louisiana lobbyist, Burland pled guilty to federal charges of possessing child pornography in November 2024 ....
Hutson, who lost her reelection campaign earlier this month ....
The PAC only took in one donation during the entirety of 2024 — $275 from Hutson herself — and only had $97 available in its account at the end of last year ....
re: 2025 Official TD Poll: Standard Time Vs DST
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 10/29/25 at 9:35 pm to lsufan9193969700
Kids having to get to school when it's dark is definitely an issue with remaining on Daylight Time during the winter. It's not such a big deal for me / my kids, because I drive them, but a lot of kids wait outside for a bus or even walk. Don't think we really want that situation to be in full darkness or anything close to it.
Using New Orleans as an example--and e.g. Shreveport would be considerably worse--by the time you get to the latest sunrise of the year (around January 10), Daylight Time would mean it would not even really start getting lighter in the eastern sky* until about 7:36 a.m., and actual sunrise** would be around 7:59. With more than a few schools starting in the 7:45 - 8:00 range, lots of kids would be waiting for a bus or walking in the dark. Go choose your location and check it for yourself.***
*I've chosen the sun 5 degrees below the horizon for that.
**Which is standardly defined as the center of the sun right at the horizon.
***See, e.g., the NOAA website.
Using New Orleans as an example--and e.g. Shreveport would be considerably worse--by the time you get to the latest sunrise of the year (around January 10), Daylight Time would mean it would not even really start getting lighter in the eastern sky* until about 7:36 a.m., and actual sunrise** would be around 7:59. With more than a few schools starting in the 7:45 - 8:00 range, lots of kids would be waiting for a bus or walking in the dark. Go choose your location and check it for yourself.***
*I've chosen the sun 5 degrees below the horizon for that.
**Which is standardly defined as the center of the sun right at the horizon.
***See, e.g., the NOAA website.
re: Here's the average IQ by state in the US
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 9/28/25 at 5:42 pm to Koach K
quote:WRONG! You fail. By definition, half the population is below the median. Half the population may or may not be below the average, depending on the distribution.
By definition half the population is below average.
Feminist website caused Charlie Kirk to be shot.
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 9/10/25 at 3:15 pm
SIAP, but this seems interesting:
September 8, 2025 @ 12:49 p.m.
Source: Jezebel
September 10, 2025
Source: CNN
(No, I don't really believe "witches" cursing someone directly caused the shooting, but wow things are dangerously hostile.)
September 8, 2025 @ 12:49 p.m.
quote:
We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk
Source: Jezebel
September 10, 2025
quote:
Political activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk shot at Utah event
Source: CNN
(No, I don't really believe "witches" cursing someone directly caused the shooting, but wow things are dangerously hostile.)
re: "I found this in my husband’s pocket, is it a bullet?"
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 8/18/25 at 8:24 am to Smeg
Clearly a bullet--obviously has to be from an HK with polygonal rifling, or a scale model Armstrong gun (Wikipedia).
re: Video from the exploration of the USS Yorktown in April
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 8/13/25 at 11:23 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:In some ways it was too bad we didn't get the very last battleship the United States planned, which would have been--wait for it--the U.S.S. Louisiana, BB-71, a Montana-class battleship (Wikipedia). Same main guns as the Iowa-class, but twelve of them instead of 9, plus much thicker armor and much bigger.quote:It’s very common. For example, here is the USS Iowa everyone knows…
I didn't know the navy renamed ships after each other, until today. I thought a ship's name was its name, until the end of time.
But here’s the first battleship named USS Iowa…
And there was the older battleship U.S.S. Louisiana, BB-19
and also the nuclear ballistic missile submarine SSBN-743
Girlfriend's name checks out for Kentuckian who wants to be Florida man
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 8/13/25 at 11:03 pm
Well, sort-of checks out, maybe. From Yahoo:
And to complete the picture, here's the co-winner his mom, Farthing, and Fightmaster:
SIAP, but I don't recall seeing this one here.
quote:
Body camera footage from a Florida police officer shows a Kentucky Powerball jackpot winner, who collected his prize just hours before, getting arrested for allegedly kicking an officer in the face during a fight.
James Farthing and his girlfriend, Jacqueline Fightmaster, were arrested at the TradeWinds Resort in St. Pete Beach, Florida ....
According to a separate arrest affidavit, Farthing's girlfriend is accused of trying to fight other patrons in the resort bar.
“She appeared very intoxicated and was yelling, screaming and making incoherent statements,” the affidavit reads.
And to complete the picture, here's the co-winner his mom, Farthing, and Fightmaster:
SIAP, but I don't recall seeing this one here.
If the car's a rockin' - died doing what they loved edition
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 8/10/25 at 11:02 pm
SIAP, but according to The Sun:
Went out with a bang.
quote:
Adriana Machado Ribeiro, 42, and Marcone da Silva Cardoso, 26, had driven to a hang-gliding launch ramp after a party in Venda Nova do Imigrante, south-eastern Brazil....
The pair began being intimate - but then their movement caused the car to tip over the edge....
After about 100m — before the car hit the ground — the pair were thrown from the vehicle, likely after it struck a rock....
The couple were found naked, not far from the mangled wreckage .... Investigators suspect the couple’s movements inside the parked vehicle caused it to shift and teeter over the cliff edge.
Went out with a bang.
re: RIP AOL dial-up internet
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 8/10/25 at 2:46 pm to S
I better hurry up and use those free 100 hours!
re: Lawyers of the OT, do y’all use AI?
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 8/1/25 at 9:24 am to arseinclarse
quote:
I enjoyed her argument attacking defense counsel’s billing in connection with the motion. “Your honor, it should have only taken three minutes to put the citations into google, not 7.3 hours!”
Well it only takes three minutes--if it's a real case. Chasing ghost-cases and disproving fake citations might be just a tad more labor-intensive.
quote:
I encourage her to take up the appeal as she suggested.
What, do you own the popcorn concession at the state Fifth Circuit? 'Cause I could see oral argument rapidly moving to ... a different orifice.
re: Lawyers of the OT, do y’all use AI?
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 8/1/25 at 9:17 am to jbend
quote:
Which judge?
Judge Nancy Miller (Division I)
re: Lawyers of the OT, do y’all use AI?
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 7/31/25 at 8:36 pm to arseinclarse
So you were in the 24th at 9 a.m. today?
Do you find the most amazing part: that the lawyer claimed it was okay to use Google and ChatGPT and Copilot to check each other, instead of Westlaw or Lexis or even Fastcase? Or that she doubled down on things after being questioned? Or what?
ETA:
Fun day for the first-year associate on the other side, I bet.
Do you find the most amazing part: that the lawyer claimed it was okay to use Google and ChatGPT and Copilot to check each other, instead of Westlaw or Lexis or even Fastcase? Or that she doubled down on things after being questioned? Or what?
ETA:
Fun day for the first-year associate on the other side, I bet.
re: Driving the levee road from Baton Rouge to NOLA
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 7/14/25 at 12:47 am to BHM
In New Orleans, with all the wharves and such, you cannot drive onto either the top of the levee or a true river road (at the bast of the levee) until the upstream end of Audubon Park, where you can drive Leake Ave. From there you can remain until you hit the old Colonial Country Club property in Harahan, and have to jog over to Jefferson Hwy. Not too much farther upstream you can go back to the river road and remain on it until you hit the Bonnet Carré Spillway. If the spillway is closed and dry, then you can cross its bottom not too far (300 yds?) from the river; otherwise you have to cross it on Airline Hwy. After that, other than cutting a few corners where the river bends sharply, you should be able to pretty much stay pretty close to the river into Baton Rouge.
re: Front license plates. Do we need them?
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 7/11/25 at 1:12 pm to turnpiketiger
Texans do. If you move to Louisiana and have a Texas-registered vehicle, then you have like 60 or 90 or maybe 120 (I forget) days to re-register it here, or else you're violating Louisiana law.
As for what Louisiana should do: how about we spend a year dedicated to impounding every vehicle that lacks a valid rear license plate, and then if somebody wants to discuss the costs and benefits of requiring front license plates, we can revisit the topic.
As for what Louisiana should do: how about we spend a year dedicated to impounding every vehicle that lacks a valid rear license plate, and then if somebody wants to discuss the costs and benefits of requiring front license plates, we can revisit the topic.
re: Part of USS New Orleans found
Posted by NOLATiger163 on 7/10/25 at 6:14 pm to CharlesUFarley
quote:
The navy design philosophy at the time was "All or Nothing". It primarily applied to battleships but carried over to lesser armored ships. Instead of using lesser degrees of armor over lesser critical parts of the ship, it was determined to armor all critical equipment up to standard and use nothing on spaces that were not critical.
They used "soft bows". They mainly contained anchor chains.
That's a logical supposition, except that the bow tore off the New Orleans in a place well within the armored citadel / main armor belt, specifically, "just forward of turret II" i.e. aft of turret I. See the official report:
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/w/war-damage-reports/uss-neworleans-ca32-war-damage-reportno38.html
The finding, which appears to be well-accepted, was that the torpedo explosion itself wasn't so catastrophic, but it caused the detonation of explosives in a magazine. That magazine explosion tore the ship in two, and tore the main armor belt with it. Unfortunately I can't find a drawn armor diagram for the ship, but I'd bet heavily that it would show the main armor belt extending from the front of the barbette for turret I (the most forward turret) continuously to the rear of the barbette for turret III (the single aft turret).
Also: the linked report talks about the bow swinging around and hitting the rest of the ship, as someone mentioned, for any who may be interested.
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