Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (6/1/22)

Quote I

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. Saint Augustine

Quote II

Grief changes shape, but it never ends. Keanu Reeves

Quote III

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie

Fish and fishermen.

Men With Their Fish – Fantastic Vintage Snapshots
The fish play second fiddle to the men holding them in this dip into Robert E. Jackson's wonderful collection of snapshots.

There are now three certain things in life: Death, Taxes and HOA Exit Fees.

FORT MILL, S.C. — Many homeowners are familiar with homeowners association (HOA) fees, but in South Carolina you could have to pay to leave your neighborhood group.

Isabel Ward was surprised to find a more than $1,700 bill from her HOA when she sold her home in Baxter Village in Fort Mill.

Ward said she loved her home in the neighborhood west of Highway 49. She lived there for eight years, but decided to build a home on Lake Wylie.

As current events get dicier. You may wish to place these "critters" in your arsenal.

An exploding rat, developed by British secret agents during WWII. Rat carcasses like this would be filled with plastic explosives and planted in the boiler rooms of German factories. Factory workers would find the dead rats and shovel them into the fire, thereby triggering a major explosion.

Born on this day:1 Jun 1946
Daniel Hamilton, American musician. He was a member of The T-Bones with his brother Judd Hamilton, and later was the lead singer of the soft-rock group Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds that had the 1975 US No. 1 single 'Fallin' in Love'. He died on 23 December 1994. via thisdayinmusic.com

Born on this day: 1 Jun 1947
Ronnie Wood guitarist, songwriter, painter and radio presenter. Originally a member of UK band The Birds, he first worked alongside Rod Stewart in the Jeff Beck Group. He then got together with three members of The Small Faces to form the Faces joined by Rod on vocals. His songwriting partnership with Rod extended to Rod's early solo albums. Wood joined The Rolling Stones in 1975 after the departure of Mick Taylor. via thisdayinmusic.com

Suck it up Buttercup Genius Award Winner.

A dad got so angry that a portion of chips came without the advertised sauce that police had to be called.

James Lewin, 22, wanted some Brewer’s Fayre £5.79 chipotle beef chilli-topped chips which should have had cheese sauce, soured cream and spring onions on top.

But when they arrived he was not happy.

He shared pictures of the meal he was served at The Drove in Newhaven, East Sussex, on Monday where he was with his mum, Natasha Sherwood, 40, girlfriend and little sister.

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posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM

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