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I hope that guy survived his bad swat. But, a great metaphor for what happens when you venture unprepared into the unknown. Be Prepared.
With a childhood like I had, and what the Millennials and later had or have, there is no preparing because the preparation for failure is so deeply and fully embedded. Self-mastery starts with self-directed behavioral conditioning. Anyone here understand what I mean? Has to do with RP field work.
I am ‘way pre-millennial, so please indulge me. I was a Boy Scout and our motto was “Be Prepared”. Big words. As a scout it meant being able to provide first aid at an accident scene. Stopping blood flow, preventing further injury. Good stuff. At a forest management conference one of the participants, who had been through intensive military training said “Anyone who goes out in the woods without means of starting a fire is really stupid”. So yes, be prepared any way you wish.
Taking action is punished by the police. Hence, in NYC pedestrians step over the dying and the freshly dead like stepping over used gum. I try to stimulate mental preparedness here, and you see what I get for it. It’s not your Boy Scouts anymore, but it was when it was worth anything.
I am sorry to hear of such a lousy situation, beyond the realm of natural, neighborly existence. Here, in the southern Appalachians, the old ways are still holding on. People would stop on a dime to help someone in need.
Not many loose dimes in Appalachia. Just saying. They would be as rare as an Ethiopian chicken.
I was guessing the guy with the bat was maybe from that part of the world. Hope there was a loose dime nearby, because it looks like he may have needed someone to stop.
If what you say is true, I could almost move there and marry a senior citizen. Almost.
No, you wouldn’t like it here.
Funny, but for lack of a dating and love life I wanted to life in or near the big city. Now, I’d like to live in a rural area where everybody knows each other (and it’s not a bad thing). In these times the simple life is the best life. I don’t want to be in the war until the last battle. You don’t get credit except for winning the last battle. Let the dumbasses keel ich oder. Oh, but I just might like it. You don’t know how isolated I am here, and it’s not rural enough for me to feel safe, go figure.
White fang – man, you grew up soft. While you were learning how to stop blood flow, my clan was teaching us how to start it. I suspect in coming days that the second is likely to be a more valuable skill.
Re fire, I have one word: Zippo.
True, to a certain extent, but there’s other things beside people than can fuck your day up. And shit can hit at the most unexpected times, when the gadgets aren’t available. Nice to have that basic ability.
“Gentlemen, this is a football”
Back in the days Vince Lombardi, the Green Bay Packers had a most interesting beginning to pre-season training. All the players knew that at the first team meeting, the legendary coach would waste no time getting straight to the point. Many of the men, half Lombardi’s age and twice his size, were openly fearful, dreading the encounter. The coach did not disappoint them, and, in fact, delivered his message in one of the great one-liners of all time. Football in hand, Lombardi walked to the front of the room, took several seconds to look over the assemblage in silence, held out the pigskin in front of him, and said, “Gentlemen, this is a football.” In only five words, Lombardi communicated his point: We’re going to start with the basics and make sure we’re executing all the fundamentals.
Good application in every area.
TS – in my line of work, I emphasize to my clients to learn and understand the basics, and develop the desire to execute them consistently. After too many years, I am still amazed at the lack of knowledge I encounter.
Hey Loopey,
Looking at your downer count, I’m guessing you are conducting one of your ,”How To Win Friends and Influence People” seminars here tonight. heh heh
White Fang seems like a decent sort but he need not roll up in here like he is allowed to just sit on our sofa and drink up the beer without some pain. Do what you do best old friend.
BL, been here a while, observed, and posted a few comments. Learned to chose my battles.
fang- I’m mostly living in oblivion so did not know your handle. Loopey is a good guy, it’s all fun and games now unlike the old days.
Bea whassup!
RiNS- Just hangin’ around in the great wide open, whassup with you up in Canukistan?
Lucky you!
As for Canuckistan there isn’t much to report other than me being stuck at a desk drawing bridges, at least for now anyways…..
Can’t seem to find the time to just hang around. Hard to anyways, what with the earf hurtling upwards and turtles all the way down. Most days I it better to comfy chair, have a beer and just hang on.
I love this song… it is fun.
Self-abuse can be such an ugly and painful thing …
Sometimes you just go blind.
How do you know?
Paulita has left a trail of blind dudes in her wake.
.
Rumormongerer!
Don’t believe it. That’s what the nuns said but they did not have a clue.
Think of it as a learning opportunity….
Like punching drywall.
Did that. My parents were awesome.
Sometimes people just do really stupid shit EC. 🙂
Paulita is finally taking a toll on you dude.
She had me at Senorita. Not many of those left west of the Pecos.
you had me at z
By the look of that guy, he may have just knocked out his last tooth. He does not look like a prime intellectual specimen, does he.
How I love TBP
In Foghorn Leghorn voice:
Boy! I say, Boy! Now that’s what we call a TBP tuition.
Hi John – I am trying to gently prod white fang, but so far he is not taking the bait. Appalachians are usually pretty sensitive about their inbreeding, opioid addictions, and lack of teeth. I suspect he will eventually be unable to resist a response.
It is a slow day. Figured might as well poke an Appalachian and see what happens.
OK, now we got Big Red and White Fang. This place is going to the dogs. What’s next, Ma Barker?
Ol’Yeller by the way he is ducking me!
El Coyote, thanks for joining in. Your sense of humor is damned good.
C’mon – the Ol’ Yeller line is damn funny.
Welcome to my world, LLPOH. I feel the same way every Friday Fail.
So is the dingo one…
don’t forget the damn dingos
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/10/01/dingo-ate-my-baby-saying/
Now that is how you slip into the conversation without embarassing me. I will apologize to mark branham… you probably scared him a bit.
Polk County Tennessee is my other stomping ground; note the Smokey Mountains voted for Trump; where are those morons you’re talking about??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election#/media/File:2016_Presidential_Election_by_County.svg
I don’t know who posted this but it was not me.
I could make a guess who. Nice pick.
Really? Nice pick? I thought this site was secure enough that some jerk off could not jump in and assume your identity. Proven wrong. How about it Admin. How secure is this site?
Dude, it was someone making the statement that you were singing your death song. Fucking wit’ you kinda shit. If you want to see REAL someone using your moniker, check out Admin’s Part One. Somebody made an actual real-deal comment using TS, and it wasn’t me. I left a suggestion to get a different moniker.
Whole different animal.
Oh, the good old days when the Dopple Gangbangers around here went at each other like Monkeys fighting for the last banana in Paradise.
It took me a while to realize the moniker stuff…
Listen.. the name/moniker is tied to the email address you enter, as far as the image goes.
If you want to get fancy and silly (and there is quite enough of that around this place, I will admit!) you will create a WordPress account.
I do not get notifications on posts where I do not want them.
My moniker is always different Magoo, is that because I’m special? Do you know why I can’t have an assigned moniker like normal commenters? I don’t need a fancy picture like you, Paulita or RiNS, just something to call my own…….
I will create a “how” to for you and put it on a comment… maybe here.
thanks
I did not post it either
Looks like a a llpoh thing, seeing the icon, which shows up on some of your other posts. I really thought you were OK, until you pulled this piece of crap. Sorry dude but you are a slime ball.
If you are gonna make accusations best check and make sure you are right. Because I been known to bite. Something you and your one tooth are not capable of, I know.
your one tooth…. stop that right now Chief, you are making me laugh!
And pee your pants?
Maggie- My lifelong friend passed away Monday, I made it in time to see him before he had to go.
My condolences Bea….. sorry for your loss.
Thanks RiNS.
Ah, you were in mine and Geneva’s conversation when we walked together. Which reminds me… I’m walking with her now.
We will say nice things.
Mags- I knew a Geneva about 50 years ago in GA. Thanks for the nice words/thoughts.
BL,
Same thing happened to me in 2015…my condolences my friend.
I keep a picture of me and my buddy standing together drunk and stoned at a Halloween costume party in the late 70’s close by…always makes me smile.
Thanks Mark. 🙂
Whitey, you said you had learned to pick your battles. Like a total noob, you stuck your foot in it less than a week in. Never accuse LLPOH of anything you cannot prove. Yokes is a good investigator, learn from him. Take my advice, apologize to LLPOH and may the force be with you.
El Coyote, Back here in the Appalachians there are hybrids, coyote/wolfs that possess the best traits of their mixed heritage. They are larger, stronger and more cunning than your western variety. You stand with a big dog, Lippy? The ex-pat who ran off to Australia and has time on his hands to piss on those of us living back here where we were born, for better or worse. You are one of the more cerebral and interesting members of this group, but suggesting that I apologize to a bully jerk off like Lilly? No fuckin way.
Damn son, your a brangin shame ta me now. Now, quit a pesterin these boys cause its done late and I tol ya not ta be burin no lectricity at this hour.
Momma done served supper long go. Git ta bed, now! Git!
I’m right, you are wrong and you know it. And, out here in cyberspace your bite is toothless.
Tarantino had a great quote in 4 Rooms, “The less apt a man is to make declarative statements, the less apt he is to look like a fool in retrospect.” It is an excellent quote to learn and apply to your life.
Looks to others count to much. I mean women are liberated and that’s a problem. No one care what actually gets done anymore.
? What does women being liberated have to do with no one caring what gets done?
I think virtue signaling is a problem. Men who make omelets break eggs, and the libtards focus on imperfections of producers to be omnipotent producers whilst consuming without care or accountability. We need men who do things, imperfectly but effectively, not men who are hesitant. That’s how we got here. The right ugliness will be damned beautiful, if only.
Too much flat land in the background to be Appalachia so we don’t take offense from fools. Looks more like the mid-west. As far as clan learning, we don’t leave blood laying around. Pigs eat everything. (except for the head unless you run your tractor tire over it a couple of times) Hard to be charged with anything if there’s no evidence. (learned that from my Papaw) Plenty of dimes around here – it’s just that the ones worth anything are in bags along with the guns in the gun safe. And yes, we actually have gun safes to hold the guns we don’t need quick access to.
They call it safety glass.
This place is a coffee shop on poets night compared to ‘The Burn’ circa 2011 or so. Still the best site, but she’s a deep thinkers place these days. Stick around, the vibe changes with time and that’s cool. Why? Because that’s the way Admin wants it!!!! Retro days will come around.
Ruh Roh, Retro.
Well, this is all fun, but I’m sippin’ on a Kirk and Sweeney rum n coke, chicken in the oven and I have a new Breedlove guit-box just aching to bleed the blues.
Later.
Throw in a dobro, double bass and a banjo and you’re on to something — just sayin’ (fiddle never hurts either)
Sippin bourbon and branch, there is a break in the weather and life is good. Carry on friends.
Glenfiddich and a medicinal herb – all is good with life.
Oh, man… that guitar can sing.
I am really, really pissed that at 9:12 PM someone posted a comment using my ID. WTF? How secure is this site if intruders can pose as previous commenters? I used my alias “white fang” today and some entity followed up with a post with my name that was not mine.
Admin, you need to tighten your security.
RP
Fang, lil’ fella, hate to break it to you but stolen identity is so common here that no one pays attention any more….
Is that maybe you, my girl?
maybe and maybe not
fang getta gravitar tag…
It doesn’t make it impossible to be spoofed but most folks who are doppelers are too lazy to go the extra mile… it probably wouldn’t stop a fella like the Injun but worth a try
And it wasn’t Llpoh that did it.. there would be tells
just saying.
Keep it up and you are gonna be the theme of this thread..
I thought it was about reality dug instead.
Stolen identities are just part and parcel of TBP. When it gets too silly I just shut the computer down and spend some time with my sweet girl:
Starfuker!!!!!!! There will be pain!
Above is Star being humorous………
she’s adorable…
This is my Jacob when he was just 10 weeks old.
It appears to be our Native American living in OZ, LLPOH, a long time contributor. How stupid to steal another’s ID and post something. If you have something to say use your own ID not someone else’s.
Pearly Whites – check out my comment on your comment on my comment. Maybe it will ease the tension, bud.
I left it at 192 … on your mark, get set, go!
1) it was not me
2) but it could have been – doppling is a TBP tradition
3) tough titty if you do not like it
But the milk is still good.
The security here is pretty good…
I’ve learned a bit about the security here… it is as good as YOUR OWN online habits are…
Over the years, most of us have gotten to know one another’s “tag” lines or hints.
We had an enormous Doppleganger war here a few years ago… nobody knew who was insulting who.
It was AWESOME!
We love you and miss you Stucky!
Those were the days.
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It’s a good thing that fellow didn’t use an axe and the earf wazn’t spinning at 666 mph.
That woulda then really left a mark…
Flat earf?? And that is 1100 mph.
No wonder time flys!
If time flies by and flies time byes and times fly buys and thyme buys flies, which time would you buy if wiseacres like you could buy time or thyme and things time buys?
100. I win
If you are not careful she will start looking for YOU in all the wrong places.
Haha… she thinks this place is a good place to take a break from watching Otto and fiddling around her new house.