Mike A

Exactly!

For us “old timers”:

I typed hoses instead of houses. Definitely a Freudian slip. As a native San Franciscan, I can opine that Painted Ladies is not a Freudian slip. You have to consider our history, starting with the 49ers Gold Rush, being at the “end of the world” on the western edge of the continent, there’s a certain rogue spirit and sense of humor.

We have neighborhood watch signs. I just commented on the origin of the unique signs in the OP, how residents felt sorry for the victimized tourists and took matters into their own hands by creating their own sign using humor to point out the inconvenience & anger experienced when your vehicle has been broken into, the message being an ounce of prevention = a pound of cure.

That goes back to 2018, when local residents at Alamo Square in San Francisco created & posted the sign (see article below) to warn tourists visiting the “Painted Ladies” Victorian homes. Thieves like to target tourists who tend to carry valuable items in their own or rental vehicles. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/prevent-car-break-ins-san-francisco-sign-angry-poisonous-bees/196293/

Exactly - a modern day feudal system. There's more, but, again, I am reluctant to expound on it. Since the 1990s I’ve been saying the U.S. is heading back to the Gilded Age, full of robber barons w/monopolies & huge gaps between the haves and have nots. In the last 10 years I changed it to we’re past the Gilded Age and heading towards feudalism. Lack of any anti-trust enforcement. Look at the rise of compensation of CEOs in the last 60 years or so: https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2020/ And in companies buying houses to rent them out which reduces housing stock, which reduces the opportunity for families to be able to afford their own homes & acquire wealth that can be passed down generations: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/how-wall-street-bought-single-family-homes-and-put-them-up-for-rent.html Feudalism, here we come.

This is what Boxing Day in the U.S. is:

Nope, not really Bill. Check out the dog videos, ripping all manner of things to bits, including destroying chair legs with those teeth powered by mega jaw muscles. Cats love Christmas trees, and tend to scratch furniture which can be mitigated, but they aren't overly destructive really The real downside to cats is having to deal with their vomiting, mostly from furballs. Or whatever else they swallowed that they shouldn’t have. My wife had a discussion years ago with a neighbor regarding cats vs children. The neighbor won this “debate” when she said that children at least eventually get over vomiting whereas with cats it’s a lifetime problem.

NASA'S Psyche Spacecraft Uses Laser To Beam Cat Video To Earth

I’ll see your It Was A Very Good Year and raise you a Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds:

Reminds me of a Sam Kinison routine years ago:

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Outstanding, very well thought out, cool how the “skeleton” is the IKEA desk and so much equipment is efficiently put together in a relatively compact space. Curious as to how long it took from initial conception to finished state? Very nice!

OK, we’ll agree to disagree.

No jokes about Elon? OK, let's get serious Meanwhile, back on planet earth

The result when a $400 billion boy plays with fireworks 💥

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/10/1899171/-Nostalgia-and-nutrition-The-dark-forces-behind-the-90s-food-pyramid

It’s funny how some acronyms seem to be “reversed engineered” so that the acronym itself conjures up a desired image/impact/theme/feeling:

https://www.allrecipes.com/article/difference-between-jam-jelly/

Actually, there wasn't that much doughnut action. It's more about the limited options for eating after midnight. The Presidio wasn't a big installation, so there was no 24-hr. mess hall. MPs would get extra pay called "separate rations" for purchasing their own meals. So, food acquisition was a major topic. For those of us on the desk, "what are we eating later" was the first order of business. Come to a consensus on what we felt like, where to order from, did they deliver, etc. The worst thing to order would be pizza. If it were just the group on the desk ordering, when it came, there would be an intermittent stream of patrolmen coming in and looking at it with sad eyes saying "can I have a slice?" You really can't refuse them, but before you know it it's all gone and you didn't have much. One of the dispatchers came up with a brilliant idea. She was a vegetarian and asked me if I liked pesto. I did, but never tried it on a pizza. Her plan was that we would share a pesto pizza. Sure enough, when they started asking us for a slice, she offered them some of ours. They were expecting pepperoni or sausage but saw ours and said, "What's that green $#*+? No thanks." Worked like a charm 😄 One night a delivery person from a Chinese restaurant came running into the station & onto the desk area (not allowed) waving a paper and yelling "Why I get ticket? Why I get ticket?" He was delivering an order to another part of the post & was pulled over for speeding. After they calmed him down, squared him away with the ticket and he left, the desk sergeant called in the patrolman who gave him the ticket and chewed him out. "That guy delivers our food here! You can't give him a ticket! We can't order from them anymore, who knows what they'll do to our food, spit on it or something worse!"

Having worked at the Military Police desk at the Presidio in San Francisco over 30 years ago (especially on midnight shifts), I can attest to why police are associated with doughnuts: https://time.com/4800386/donuts-doughnuts-police-cops/