I mean, its not that Super, but since we don’t do Stir Friday in our house, I tried to come up with something. Its what I got for this Friday depressing gray, no sun, gonna rain and get colder day. I hope everyone else is having a Super day, too.
Warty Hugeman says, “fuck your science, bro. Squat more.”
“Lawmakers want to know why people are leaving New York.” Too much lawmaking? Nah, that can’t be it.
I agree with Ms. Loretta on this, country music IS dead. The only question is how long its been that way. For instance, was her collaboration with Jack White country? Maybe.
Be on the lookout for a single-issue-voter.
Example of Ms. Loretta doing something great, but not… country. If it is possible for her to do anything and it not be country.
SugarFree’s Dem Deathwatch
Poor John Delaney. I guess America just wasn’t ready for a President that looked like a penis with teeth.
Bold prediction: Warren will bow out is she comes in 3rd in Iowa and New Hampshire. The money is already running low and the stone-cold crazies are on the Bernie train. And I give a low probability she will accept the VP slot for anyone.
ONE THOUSAND MINUTES OF GOAT FUCKING
Are you talking about last weekend’s party at Adam Schiff’s place?
I mean I heard he fucks goats. Disturbing if true.
So, fucking goats makes you all bug eyed?
The goats are bug eyed at least.
First!
So, noticed this at work but wanted to save for a new thread.
Not disturbing at all (viral)
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1223330282004049920?s=09
Well, there is a germ warfare lab in Wuhan.
“We are currently witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019- nCoV). The evolution of 2019-nCoV remains elusive. We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag. Interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature. This work provides yet unknown insights on 2019-nCoV and sheds light on the evolution and pathogenicity of this virus with important implications for diagnosis of this virus.”
What? is that Space language?
Microbiology.
What they said is that a new form of…flu…has likely been deliberately weaponized by combining it with a disease that incapacitates the human immune system. That would make it very deadly.
Apparently the effort failed as the Corona virus is being overblown. It is not as deadly as chicken little makes it. out to be and the disease they used to attack the immune system (AIDS) has largely been conquered.
It is not as big a threat as we were initially led to believe but it does show that there are some serious bad actors in the world.
Yes, which proves that unless one is arguing that the PRC is a doomsday cult bent on destroying all life on the planet, the bioweapon theory makes no sense. An airborne HIV would have no tactical value as it would be very, very difficult to prevent it from infecting your own troops and/or civs. If you look at known biological agents, while many can be aerosolized, the primary vector of transmission is either water, spores, or zoonosis. To create a biological weapon that can be spread by sneezing is lunacy.
Just because they might have tried and failed, doesn’t mean they weren’t trying and something went wrong.
The question remains, why would they create a weapon with characteristics that would make it uncontrollable when there are better options?
If that’s where it is from, they probably were trying to create a weapon with better characteristics, and one of their failures escaped.
“We’re doomed.”
“Game over, man.”
Sounds like a bunch o’ horseshit to me.
*spits*
That does kinda make sense if it were engineered yet I think we have basically….finally….cut the balls off of HIV.
Did you know Harvey Weinstein lacks balls as well?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jessica-mann-harvey-weinstein-accuser-testifies-deformed-mogul-used-injections-before-rape
“The first time I saw him fully naked, I thought he was deformed and intersex,” she said, as Weinstein put his head into his hand. “He has extreme scarring that I didn’t know if he was a burn victim but it didn’t make sense. He does not have testicles and it appears that he has a vagina.”
Its been a while since I took microbiology but here goes…
We are currently witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019- nCoV). The evolution of 2019-nCoV remains elusive.
Its a shapeshifter.
We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag.
The shapeshifter wears one of four, funny hats.
Interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature.
Each of these hats are similar in shape and construction to other hats worn by HIV-1.
This work provides yet unknown insights on 2019-nCoV and sheds light on the evolution and pathogenicity of this virus with important implications for diagnosis of this virus.”
The more we learn of the shapeshifter, its hats, its origin story, and what it likes to stick it’s hat into are all relevant for diagnosis and treatment.
Thank you for that simple distillation. I shall convey this to everyone I know.
I predict this is just like an ordinary flu.
“Poor John Delaney. I guess America just wasn’t ready for a President that looked like a penis with teeth.”
Yet, Jaws is the greatest American movie.
It is known.
Um, Jaws 3 would like a word.
I didn’ even know Delaney was running
Neither did anyone else.
Didn’t Delaney used to play “Jenny” on All My Children?
I though he was the original Q?
I don’t even know who he is.
Who’s Delaney?
Bonny’s main squeeze, according to their friends.
“Researchers established the one rep max in the two groups. They then used a linear positional transducer — essentially a specialized stopwatch and tape measure — to record the length of time it took to lift the weight, and the distance the weight was moved to establish a “velocity measurement” in one of the groups. That coupled with the one rep max established the load velocity profile for the athlete.
At each session, the load velocity group completed a warm-up consisting of a series of repetitions where the weight load was gradually increased and their velocity measurement taken. Each rep was recorded and compared with their pre-established load-velocity profile.”
That sounds way too complicated.
DEADLIFT MOAR!
Lynn’s collaboration with White was pretty good regardless of what it was. I’d also like to congratulate her for being alive because I thought she was long dead for some reason.
Country music is not dead
It just doesn’t live in Nashville or on the radio.
Correct^
Yep. Radio is in a coma. Even SiriusXM (their better music channels slowly get yanked and moved to streaming-only)
I was gonna link that if that wasn’t what you linked. Good song…
Nice!
Also, not country.
My son has become a Florida-Georgia Line fan. I don’t know where I went wrong as a father.
Lock him in a dog kennel And play Randy Travis on a loop. It’s your only choice now.
He still likes Johnny Cash, so there’s hope yet.
His love of the poon that follows that band has overcome his love of good music.
To plug my 2nd favorite website on the interwebs, read savingcountrymusic.com if you want to keep up on real country still being made.
Ive posted more times in 20 minutes than the last 3 years. Interesting.
I’ve seen them a few times in concert. Good show, except it’s split between country and thrash metal. So if you’re staying for the whole thing, you’re in for a bit of a surprise.
“Hundreds, if not thousands, will gather in the streets next month to break up the long winter. As part of the celebration, there will be a chicken toss. Any attendees that catch the chickens being tossed from the roof get to keep the fowl.”
Sounds fair to me.
Hundreds, if not thousands, will gather in the streets next month to break up the long winter
The population of Ridgeland is 273, at the last census.
Sounds like a highly popular event that the PETards have to fuck up because they can’t stand animals being mildly inconvenienced.
Millions Drop Dead As Brexit Finalized
The force is strong with the Bee.
Yang it is. He’s the Democrats’ Trump.
So you are saying Trump is the yin to Yang?
No, he’s just Yanging your chain.
Oh, you’re calling them Ying Yang Twins.
That’s low….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIHmmd8rrfE
Random tax question. If I run the hrblock tax calculator with and without deductions and my refund doesnt change (I assume because of the higher deductible) – should I just do a simple return?
I would say yes, just to reduce the chance of a government employee seeing more of your personal details.
Are you asking if you should itemize or take standard deduction?
Yeah, itemizing my fiving used to give me a bigger refund, but looks like all my giving doesn’t equal the revised deductible now.
*giving
Depending on the state you live in, there is a chance that itemizing would still be beneficial overall if you get a bigger benefit on your state return that offsets any additional tax you might have to pay to the Federal Government.
Last year the standard deduction was more then itemized for me.
Looks that way now.
Gracias.
Still seems like this years refund is larger than last years…while I think my income is higher too…might be some other things I’m not seeing.
Btw…can anyone explain the “medical expenses” deduction? I don’t think I have anything qualifying because I submitted a bunch of claims over the year, but curious.
Again, IANAA
Medical includes such things as any out of pocket expenses (your co-pay), mileage to and from the doctor’s office (at whatever this year’s mileage allowance is—or it may only be half the mileage allowance), medical devices (canes, etc.), and IIRC, vitamins, OTC meds, and Band-Aids.
The IRS will have a list of things allowed and not. If it does not specifically say X IS NOT ALLOWED AS A MEDICAL DEDUCTION, but it is medical, I would count it.
Unless you are staying in a nursing home, you probably cannot claim a medical expense deduction.
You CAN, but it won’t add up to very much and therefore, not worth the effort.
I think the withholding schedule got updated last year, because as it currently sits, I’m getting a fairly large rebate (which pisses me off).
Trump doubled the standard deduction.
Yeah…it’s a big change. I thought I updated my W-4 last year when my contract switched companies, but apparently I still don’t know how to put in the right numbers based on being a single person as head of household, etc. I plan to switch jobs again in a few months – maybe I’ll get it right this time.
I thought the revised deduction numbers had taken place last year, but my refund looks a lot bigger this year so who knows.
That’s my understanding (based on info from my friend who works for the IRS) – the withholding tables weren’t adjusted correctly at first, and that caused issues (as in, people who’d been getting refunds suddenly had to pay). That’s been readjusted.
Unreconstructed: Yeah, last year I owed a small amount (as I usually aim to do). This year (where I got a raise), I’m currently getting a house payment as a rebate (with the paperwork received so far).
I just crossed the threshold. Itemized last year, and unless something unexpected happens I’ll be taking the standard this year.
Same here. Standard deduction was more than itemized. First time.
IANAA, but I have very rarely had a year where schedule A deductions were more than the standard deduction, especially after Trump raised it.
I do not bother with them anymore.
Same. Once he doubled the standard I don’t need to itemize anymore. Which makes it take about 10 minutes to do my taxes.
If I run the hrblock tax calculator
Amazon has a good price on HRblock deluxe download. It should automatically use whichever deduction is to your benefit. I switched over this year after using TurboTax for the past decade.
Newegg had the HR Block at 50% off for a while if you subscribed to their newsletter.
I do it on online (“Express1040”), about 15 bucks total and it does that too.
Credit Karma is free, if you don’t mind them trying to sell you on new credit cards.
I used them last year and TurboTax. They came to the same number.
I do turbo, if I’m satisfied I send it in. Before turbo I’d send in stuff I couldn’t figure out, sometimes they raised my refund, sometimes they lowered it. Never worry, if you think its right send it in, if the IRS finds an error they’ll tell you.
I think I’m related to Loretta Lynn. My Gma From Hell #1’s people are from Butcher Holler and there was some geneaology done that buttressed the point.
I am not into geneaology. I leave that to my research-happy aunt.
She’s your aunt AND your cousin!
And a floor wax.
I was channeling Chinatown, not SNL.
We can split the difference and promote Polynesiantown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9H81Yq9TRE
Polynesiantown
I was channeling Chinatown, not SNL.
So now you’re saying the Chinese don’t wax their floors?
/cnq
I thought Mormons were supposed to be really into genealogy.
All Mormons are genetically predisposed to like doing geneaology.
Except me. Must have passed over.
“really into genealogy”
That would be…an understatement. The time I spent with the family on my mother’s side was a revelation. I even got stuck in a family circle the next day because I discovered that side of the family was from Ireland, not Scotland. Most polite 90 minute interrogation I’ve ever experienced.
I like knowing where I come from and finding relatives and stuff.
I despise research.
“DNC overhauls debate requirements, opening door for Bloomberg
The Democratic National Committee is drastically revising its criteria to participate in primary debates after New Hampshire, doubling the polling threshold and eliminating the individual donor requirement, which could pave the way for former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg to make the stage beginning in mid-February.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/31/dnc-shifts-debate-requirements-opening-door-for-bloomberg-110017
I call foul.
I assume it’s still blocking Tulsi?
Biden’s toast.
Mini Mike & Special K ticket in the works?
Mini Mike & Special K ticket in the works?
This would be proof that there is a God, and that he hates us.
Well, with Mikey and Klobuwhatever being a ticket running to be the most powerful people in the free world, can you blame Him?
I hope she resigns her Senate seat, just to run. A newbie wouldn’t be any different but maybe someone more attractive.
Bloomberg is running so there is no cash limit to his influencing the election and advertising. He has no chance and this is merely to get around campaign finance laws.
Sounds about right. America hates Bloomberg even more than they hate Hilary.
If America was a person, it’d drown that two bit Napoleon wannabe in his own Big Gulp.
I award you ‘Comment of the Day’.
Trump did a funny bit in his rally yesterday where he put his hand chest high, about Bloomberg’s height, and said “I’ve had enough of that guy up to here”.
Just give Hillary the nomination already.
‘Overhauls’. Is that what they are calling it?
*smirks and nods head*
They have to rig the thing so a billionaire can save the party from an elderly commie. And do it without noticing the irony.
I don’t understand why she thinks that will win her a significant number of votes.
What if the Department of Young Trans Person does not approve of anyone?
A fair point. Dept of Young Trans Person would have to approve of themselves first before approving anyone else. Unfortunately it’s stuck in a feedback loop of demanding approval from “society”.
Now I am starting to like this idea.
Then we can abolish the department?
Appealing to the young people of the Red Guards. She truly is an evil Maoist.
The party’s base is woke, white college-educated urban types. This is for them.
Children’s crusades be all the rage, yo.
Today, in the wrong side of the matrix
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘I can’t promise I won’t get physical again, I get so mad I lose it.’ Amber Heard admits to ‘hitting’ ex-husband Johnny Depp and pelting him with pots, pans and vases in explosive audio confession”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7947733/Amber-Heard-admits-hitting-ex-husband-Johnny-Depp-pelting-pots-pans-tape.html
I suppose the “don’t stick it in crazy” rule applies both ways there.
I think in this case it is a two way street.
Coronavirus explained.
I kind of want a bee hoodie now.
So good.
And yeah, a Bee hoodie would be cool. If I ever wore hoodies.
Boom.
I agree with Ms. Loretta on this, country music IS dead. The only question is how long its been that way. For instance, was her collaboration with Jack White country? Maybe.-
I like country and Jack White, even when he is doing covers.
https://youtu.be/XkcGuZHPbKk
Country music isn’t dead but it’s starting to smell bad.
How about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY
I was paraphrasing Frank Zappa in regards to jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RokLK8I61mI
great song though….
Country Music ain’t dead it’s hiding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QzcrflqDCg – Tyler Childers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHhaIR6Gcc – Mike and the Moonpies
No idea how to do the link magic.
There needs to be a resurgence of Western.
Try this for Western,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cD85l48QOg
The Dead South
More Canadian Western
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCebq5lLgos
The best country music (in mine own opinion) coming out now is 50% from Kentucky 50% from Texas. So we got half a chance. Problem is, this sort of thing is barred from radio. I’ve seen a bunch of these guys, in NY and PA, fill good sized theaters and venues. It’s around, just not promoted in the traditional channels. There might not be an AM country station playing quality music, but I’d bet real county sifts into Spotify playlists all across the country.
Radios still exist?
Speaking of Texas, I have to plug my old buddy’s music.
Where is Lucinda Williams from? I really enjoy the malaise she sings with.
Pretty sure she’s from Louisiana.
Quite a bit comes from OK too – the whole “Red Dirt” thing goes from at least Austin to Tulsa.
I like both kinds. Country and Western.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS-zEH8YmiM
Marty Robbins FTW!!!
First saw Mike & the Moonpies at a local festival. I was there to see Jason Boland, and they played just before him. Those dudes are GREAT!
I’ve been to a lot of shows… most of the times, the openers were the same half dozen local bands (of which 1 was good and 2 were tolerable). Every once in a while though, the tour came through with their own openers. And on a rare occasion we would get an opener who blew away the headliner. Best one of those that I remember was the Belmont Playboys.
A positive outcome.
On Thursday, a Texas court ruled in favor of Jeff Younger, the father of James Younger, the seven-year-old whose pediatrician mother was attempting to medically transition her son into a girl.
Too bad Jeff can’t sic Cole on his ex-wife’s ass.
At the very least, it really calls into question her competence to be a pediatrician? How many other children is she malpracticing?
That first question mark should be a period.
It transitioned?
[golf clap]
Related. Blocking puberty blockers for children.
They’re pushing puberty blockers as the new Ritalin or something.
That is good news…now pull her medical license.
Good, She’s lucky he go all James–Younger Gang on her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%E2%80%93Younger_Gang
he didn’t go all
Yes, we know who Cole Younger is. 😉
Some of us didn’t. I appreciate the reference.
What if the Department of Young Trans Person does not approve of anyone?
The Department in question is dissolved, and all employees are put to the sword.
Romney Confirms
Yes Vote On Witnesseshe is a total and complete loserAfter making the case for calling witnesses both in front of the cameras and behind the scenes this week, Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, a frequent Donald Trump critic, made it official Friday. He will vote to allow additional witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial.
“ Romney Confirms Yes Vote On Witnesses, Issues Statement On What Decided It”
If it contains any statements other than ”Because I’m a sack of shit” I don’t want to hear it.
He’s so Catty…..
Trump should send Pierre some more frog legs.
“Surprisingly, Nerdy Scientists fail to understand psychology”
“The Sheriff of Nottingham wants to know why people are leaving and going to America”
I left the radio on a country station Tuesday for the dogs while wife and I went to town. Before we left I heard three different songs and could not tell the difference between them. To call it generic, formulaic pop crap gives you an idea but doesn’t fully cover it.
I don’t gamble. Want me to put money up? I need a guaranteed profit. Therefore I am putting up ten bucks that says Kristin Schwank has never been hungry a day in her life.
Hey, that Loretta song aint half bad. I wouldn’t buy it but I wouldn’t change the station either.
I bet I can get you gambling by the end of the day.
Be on the lookout for a single-issue-voter.
*spits lunch on screen, laughs riotously*
I had a dog once that liked to fight dogs, so is it still animal cruelty when the dogs enjoy it?
If both parties are into it, I say it’s ok.
Imagine my shock.
NewsBusters, an arm of the Media Research Center, determined that Democrats presenting articles of impeachment were given “double the airtime and showered their arguments with mostly praise, while expressing only criticism of the President’s legal team.”
Democrats received 95% favorable coverage while there was 100% negative coverage for the Trump team:
In stark contrast, every evaluative statement from reporters and anchors about the merits and effectiveness of Trump’s defense team were negative. Of the 13 total statements, ABC and CBS each had five with NBC pitching in with three.
1. Trump is accused of obstructing congress by taking them to court.
2. Pelosi says Trumps defense lawyers should be disbarred for defending him.
Does anyone really think these people won’t start filling mass graves in five minutes if they get the power they really want?
It takes longer than that to set up the machine guns not to mention digging the trenches.
I laughed
Well, first they need an environmental impact study. And scrubbers for the crematoria.
The lungs of the dead will filter the air for the living.
“Lawmakers want to know why people are leaving New York.”
Obviously, because they don’t want to pay their fair share.
IANAA, but I have very rarely had a year where schedule A deductions were more than the standard deduction, especially after Trump raised it.
Aren’t you a Schedule C filer?
Yes, but that has no bearing on Schedule A, which is the itemization of personal deductions like medical (e.g., out of pocket expenses, mileage to get to the doctor), charitable giving, etc. If that stuff doesn’t add up to more than the standard deduction, there’s no point in itemizing it.
Ayup.
Right. You can choose to itemize or take the standard deduction.
But people who make serious money get into the A.M.T. (which needs to go away). If you make X amount of dollars you don’t get to choose anymore. You have to pay the higher of tax figured with deductions versus A.M.T. You have to figure it both ways to know.
I got royally fucked by the AMT once. A $3,000 refund became a $7,000 bill.
Ouch, dude. Condolences, no sarc.
“And I give a low probability she will accept the VP slot for anyone.”
As the establishment have already decreed, she will accept Biden’s VP offer.
Cynical. I like it.
And I don’t see either Biden or Sanders running for a second term. They are both old men already and the office has it’s pressures.
Yeah but neither are going to beat Trump, so does being a VP pick for a loser hurt or help your chances for 2024?
No way anyone wants her around. Khobashar and Buttplug are the VP candidates.
She’s coming out before the convention. If being gay, vagina, and Injun doesn’t do it, then she whips out Mr. Winkey that they cut off her last year and then Biden has to step down and give the nomination to her… xe… xer?
“Lawmakers want to know why people are leaving New York.”
It’s a dadgum mystery.
Bad Orange Man hates Red Man
The task force “is composed of federal officials charged with enhancing the criminal justice response, consulting with tribal governments on potential solutions and empowering native communities with information,” a press release announcing the new campaign said.
“President Trump is committed to addressing systemic challenges in Indian Country, and this task force will develop and implement an aggressive, government-wide strategy to combat the crisis of missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives,” Bernhardt said. “By working together and listening to impacted citizens and tribal communities, we intend to tackle these complex issues.”
“The disappearance and death of American Indian and Alaska Native people, particularly women and girls, is an especially tragic chapter in a long story of marginalization and trauma suffered by native people,” Barr said. “We are committed to addressing this challenge, to reducing the violence and protecting the vulnerable from exploitation and abuse.”
“The task force is eager to get to work to address the issues that underlie this terrible problem, and work with our tribal partners to find solutions, raise awareness, and bring answers and justice to the grieving,” Barr said.
End federal recognition of the racist pseudo governments.
Why do you hate casinos?
I think they should be open to any social club.
Warren will hold out for Treasury Secretary. She wants to be in a position where she can do some real damage.
Hysterical progs establish bogus two degrees of separation link between Trump and murderer through Ayn Rand, try to smear entire right while conveniently forgetting decades of progressive apologism for Stalin and Mao.
Oh, FFS. Thom Hartmann.
Never trust a man who sticks an H in Tom.
I can’t make it through that gibberish.
I’d say that’s the stupidest thing I ever had or ever will read but it isn’t and it won’t be. It’s still pretty stupid though.
?♂️
The Nancy McLean school of history.
Rick Beato argues that rock is dead and spoiler, it was taking the blues out of it that made it lose its soul.
On to country music and where Loretta Lynn comes from. In the movie Brave, they had a lot of music I could not tell was Scottish. It SOUNDED Appalachian, which is stupid since I know where Appalachian music comes from.
Country’s lost its folk Scots-Irish and bluegrass soul.
That said, I like a lot of music I can’t label as This thing or That thing or Some Other thing. I like a lot of music that has mixed influences. Sixx:A.M.’s Modern Vintage is labeled “hard rock,” but … it’s really not. It’s pop and funk and soul (and a teeny bit of country). It’s not really surprising since the lead singer’s day job is as a pop producer and songwriter. It’s not what I’m used to hearing from Nikki Sixx, but I still like it.
How about my Favorite type, Bakersfield Honky tonk,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6F7xMRWB10
missed the point.
When people say “rock is dead” or “country is dead” they are referring to the fact that NO ONE LIKES IT any more.
The music itself has not expired. There are still 100s of people faithfully playing the genres in dimly lit bars all over the country to audiences of 3 and 4 and failing to get any traction.
No, I didn’t miss the point.
“X is dead” is shorthand for “Radio doesn’t play the stuff I grew up listening to and love anymore. I know it’s out there, but I don’t know how to get my hands on it.”
Lynn is upset that “country” radio isn’t country.
Why not just say “Radio Is Dead”? FM radio stations used to be cool with DJs who played what they wanted. Now they are all corporate-run crap. My typical drive is 10 minutes of flipping through stations, then switching over to Pandora.
See Tom Petty’s song “The Last DJ.”
I last listened to the radio for music (outside of being stuck in rental cars) back in late 80’s. It doesn’t help that my preferred genres didn’t get air play back then, and still don’t get air play now.
Yep. At some point, the antenna disappeared from my car. I have no idea when because I just listen to Amazon Music anyway.
Fellow yodeling fan?
Punk, Industrial, Rockabilly, etc…
I was country when country wasn’t cool.
No I meant the person who wrote the article
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!
*runs away
sometime YT is cool,
Marty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuX79Ud8zI
Not to be argumentative but
Bluegrass is actually derivative (in, say, the same way acid and hair rock are). It’s just packaging, NTTAWRT.
* strokes last, fading red whiskers *
Personal note: I’ve got nerve damage and suddenly can’t play. Seeing an expert soon, but this is grim stuff. I write and draw LH, and golf suddenly sucks . . . Ugh.
Sorry 🙁
Hope you get better soon.
I’m sorry, that sucks, hope things improve,
Sorry.
Sorry to hear that man.
Good luck. Hopefully, it isn’t permanent damage.
I’m sorry to hear that, but what is LH?
Left hand, I think.
Doh!
There is a tendency towards the monogenre anymore. Alternative rock radio plays the same as the pop station as the country station just with different branding. All aimed towards being inoffensive while it plays in minivans across the country.
As for being dead, the sold out shows I’ve been to in this year refute that. Good sized venues, very committed fans.
There is no big touching point for music anymore. People either care enough to dig real far into an artist or they toss on WSUX on their ride home and zone out.
Exactly this. There’s a middle ground of curation (for lack of a better word) and time management that is missing. All the behavioral research that went into radio programming years ago is completely gone except for a few Sirius XM channels. As a result music either becomes overplayed hits or obscurities. If you were to chart it, the bell curve of music has become a hockey stick.
Yes, lack of curation. All DJs play the same music. Something I hated doing.
I think I found this thanks to the sidebar on a glib’s link.
My kind of country 😉
[modulo the insane amount of money behind these guys]
I detest the ‘X genre is dead’ bullshit. There is plenty of excellent country music still being created. Except it’s not all in fucking Nashville or on commercial radio.
Maybe she needs a Spotify account…
I was going to say purt-near the same thing. Right now somewhere someone is making new music in whatever obscure genre you can think of, and it’s getting easier and easier to find and access it.
Exactly this.
If that stuff doesn’t add up to more than the standard deduction, there’s no point in itemizing it.
Oops. I misinterpreted what you were saying.
As mentioned above by other astute commenters country is not dead and doesn’t live on the radio. It does live on internet radio though. I’d highly recommend the Boot Liquor station on somafm. 24/7 commercial free streaming radio. It has both kinds of music on it, country and western.
http://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/bootliquor
There are like 7 country stations on SXM. I flip through them and have plenty of good tunes. Hip hop is another issue. They need a dedicated 80-90’s rap station. Just give the RZA full creative control. It worked for Wu Tang.
Agreed. Recommend saving country music website for keeping up to date on albums coming out.
This shit touched a nerve, I commented more in an hour than I have in 2 years on this site.
Things Glibs will fight over:
Music
Food
Alcohol
Books
31-24 Niners Mo. maybe next year for Mahomes.
I’m sorry. Were you speaking to me?
*haughty sniff*
Keep a handkerchief handy for that sniff.
LOL
First superbowl for the Squaws in 50 years. So let’s see, Mahomes will be 74 for the next one.
Thiccness
That’s ‘with outsiders’ right?
I can’t imagine glib’s fighting over books. Or music, really. (Trash talk is not fighting)
Oh well okay. Trash talking.
Like pineapple on pizza.
I don’t like pizza much and I hate pineapple so pile on everybody!
Mahomes is the pizza, the rest of the team is the pineapple.
Ah, okay. Sure 😉
“EXCLUSIVE: Columbia University Found Him Guilty. But He’s Got Voice Recordings, And He’s Not Afraid
“Don’t you wanna fuck me?” she asked multiple times, on tape, in clear words. In fact, she affirmed her desire to have sex with her classmate no less than 29 times. She wanted him to fuck her and she wanted it, her word, “hard.” He wanted that, too. But something in his gut told him he better protect himself. And not with a condom.
After messing around for approximately 15 minutes — kissing, fingering, grinding, throat pressing (or “choking” as Columbia’s filing asserts) — she reiterated her desire for rough sex and he pumped the brakes. He thought of the squeaky bed, paper-thin walls and her roommate. When she refused to take no for an answer he pressed record.
In total, he claims she bit him three times, yanked his pants down, and grabbed his buttocks in an attempt to “force her mouth on his penis.”
It wasn’t even a day later when she accused him of sexual assault under the university’s Title IX statute. She didn’t seek medical attention or call the police.
“Ben tried to have sex with me,” she told her roommate after he left. She also told her boyfriend, who allegedly questioned how drunk she was. She called him an “asshole” and hung up. That morning she informed the school that Feibleman had sexually assaulted her.
Columbia University allegedly investigated the matter for six months. In June 2017, a panel of three administrators held a Kangaroo-style hearing in which they never used any evidence he provided or asked “Jane Doe” a single question about his side of the story. Neither of the two investigators on the case even showed up. In the end, the school withheld his degree, effectively ending his career in journalism.”
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/23/columbia-university-guilty-ben-feibleman-voice-recordings/
I hope the jury awards him Columbia’s entire endowment.
But he agrees to give some back if they kick her out.
She taunted him about being a Marine who was afraid of heights.
HEY! Now I really hate her.
Well, ya know, gravity does come in pretty handy but it is a really unforgiving bitch.
At this point I instinctively assume every accusation like this is a lie.
Congratulations pinkos. Mission accomplished.
I automatically assume that the accuser is a liar and a slut.
I felt bad for him until I found out he was studying journalism.
True, They may have done him a favor.
And us.
That’s the ironic twist to the story. The episode “end[ed] his career in journalism,” but there are no careers in journalism.
She needs to go to prison.
This. Until some Becky ass bitches end up doing hard time for pulling this shit, it’s going to grow exponentially.
I hope the judge goes all STEVE SMITH on Columbia.
“GAME OVER!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1222655839573565440
It looks like the more delusional respondents on that thread are still holding out hope for a conviction. I hope they’re stocked up on Paxil because they’re going to need it.
My favorite was the “Fuck Trump” with the C replaced by a hammer and sickle.
So clever.
That is pretty scary. The divide gets wider and any kind of reconciliation or dialog further away.
I remember the zeitgeist all the way back to Nixon. The knee-jerk hatred from the left for Trump and Reagan far exceed the hatred for either Bush and Nixon. I think it’s because Reagan and trump left the plantation. Everyone knew Bloomberg was a temporary RINO.
Another similarity is that Trump and Reagan both showed the ability to go right over the media’s heads and speak directly to their voters.
Yes, I do as well.
Interesting that in both cases much of the flamethrowing is launched out of the same state.
I am fairly sure I have told the story more than once about the old German I knew in Mexico. We used to tease the guy because as soon as you brought up the subject of socialism he would lose his shit. His bald head would turn beet red, pound his fist and then he would point a finger pistol at you and say “Zere iss only von vay you kan deal vith dem”
Sports scientists from the University of Lincoln, UK, compared the average weights lifted by two groups over six weeks: one using a traditional training method of a “one rep max” — the maximum weight an athlete could lift — and one using a load velocity profile, where the weights were tailored so they lift either more or less at each session.
All who used the load velocity profile became stronger despite lifting less overall during the six week period.
Did I miss something? I didn’t see the article explain how the control group trained.
“We need to find out why,” he said. “I suspect that we will hear about things like bail reform, we’ll hear about high taxes, but we may also hear about other issues as well, so we want to get the full picture.”
I’ll go out on a limb here. The legislature won’t do anything about the biggest complaints.
Hundreds, if not thousands, will gather in the streets next month to break up the long winter. As part of the celebration, there will be a chicken toss. Any attendees that catch the chickens being tossed from the roof get to keep the fowl.
I’m reminded of the Hegins pigeon shoots, where the protestors kept the shoots alive.
That Lorette Lynn song is good.
The Nigerians* will no longer attack Jussie in Chicago
Did Kyrgyzstan make the list because the Tsarnaev brothers cannot be forgiven?
*sarcasm font
The first paragraph already has a non-truth. Immigration does not equal travel. None of the Trump administration’s travel bans have targeted non-immigration visas. Nigerians can still travel to the United States as tourists or students if they meet the requirements for those visas.
They allude to the difference in treatment of Nigeria and Co. and the original countries on the ban list.
Wow, Belarus was close to the danger zone.
Hypothetically: A friend of mine might have gotten into a squabble with some Eritreans that are essentially street bums/scam artists that were loitering at a place of business he is connected to in a major city and charged with a criminal offense. He might have showed up for his trial and the prosecutor might have been personally associated with the business owner and said “Oh shit. I know all about those guys and the insufferable shit they do. Charges dropped.”
Maybe.
From the Bee: Epstein Released From Hell After Announcing He Is Transgender
Fake new. The devil would never fall for the woke garbage.
Chuckle
Brexit news: Union Jack flag comes down as Britain’s time in EU comes to an end
T-15 minutes!
Any bets on the next country to leave?
None. Germany goes hot to takeover Europe now.
Poland would kick Germany’s Ass right now, they actually Have an operational army
Correctamundo
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germany-military-begins-war-drill-ill-prepared-troops
Unless they had a beer drink off. I think Germany could take them. If it was a vodka drink off, Germany would get smoked.
Poland, Hungary
I think they still get a lot of aid from the EU. They might complain a lot, but I don’t see them getting off the gravy train any time soon.
The leaches or the ones being bled? Hard to say. When they run out of other people’s money leaches get testy. When other people start running out of money to buy off leaches they get testy.
Toss up between Italy and Poland. I would lean toward Poland, they are probably worn out on being told what to do by furriners.
Poland gets more EU money than any other member. Not sure if that strengthens their membership or makes it the weakest.
I’m trying to think which country would have the most to gain by trading with Britain and telling the EU to piss off. My guess is one of the PIIGS.
Spain’s going commie again. Maybe them.
Again?
Jeebus. I saw a movie not long ago shot in Spain. It looked like it was shot in Cuba. Everything was rusty, paint peeling, falling apart, crime out of control. A real shithole.
Some people are incapable of learning.
It is real simple. If you want success look at someone who has achieved it and do what they are doing.
I remember reading how many refugees they were taking and I was floored. At the time, unemployment there was like 30%.
Wtf are the refugees gonna do, I wondered?
They’re going to refugee the fuck out of that welfare state. And now the Germans are going to pay for all of it without the UK.
Haha yeah.
I’m not really a “they took our jerbs” guy, but it seems odd to force a country to take workers when the young men already there don’t even work.
Vote the right way?
In all honesty, if you’re going to let in a bunch a refugees wouldn’t you be better off letting people in from Spanish South America?
“wouldn’t you be better off letting people in from Spanish South America?”
Can they pass the wokeness test?
Woot!! Happy Brexit British Glibs!
Wut? Aren’t those sort of like female Glibs? You know, mythical creatures?
There’s a couple here at least.
Breaking: no impeachment witnesses vote passes
Good, my proggy salty ham tears supply was running low.
They don’t appear to realize they just got spared weeks of disappointment and seeing the Bidens testify anyway.
They wouldn’t be leftists if they didn’t bite the hand that feeds.
“They don’t appear to realize they just got spared weeks of disappointment”
After months and years of disappointment, I’m starting to come to the conclusion that they actually like that, a lot.
Trump impeachment trial live updates: Senate votes to block witnesses amid new Bolton bombshell
(Emphasis mine) Um, no. They voted not to allow witnesses. Nice wording ABC.
Not giving is taking,
Not allowing is Blocking,
Prog up Man!
Bombshell. Uh huh.
These people never watched coyote/roadrunner cartoons when they were growing up, did they?
Bombshell. They never said there were any explosives inside.
/Snopes
Oh, FFS, the Bolton ‘bombshell’ was old news, yesterday.
Yeah, Bolton the Boomer completely overestimated the length of the news cycle. He needed to leak his book two days ago if he wanted it to have an impact.
“Bolton bombshell” *rolls eyes*
Huh. Funny how Shokin demanding that Ukraine investigate Biden didn’t meet “bombshell” status. I’m not sure it was even reported in the U.S. outside of conservative media.
“Breaking: no impeachment witnesses vote passes”
Well, there you have it. Trump confirmed dictator.
Is it time for the grain slaves yet?
What is stopping these “witnesses” from going on TV and telling their stories? They can, and I bet they do, go on da teevee and rant about Orange Man hate U Crane. Since it was a political process anyways, there will be impeachment witnesses just in a different forum.
What the hell?
Seriously, this is some fucked up shit. Are they sure the last name of at least one of these 2 is not Clinton?
Again, still fucked up
Indeed
“A contempt of court charge is generally a misdemeanor under Idaho law, with a penalty of just five days in jail and a $5,000 fine. But Kay Woodcock said authorities told her it could be used to seek Lori Vallow’s extradition.”
I guess having missing children isn’t illegal.
“I guess having missing children isn’t illegal.” Sure, if you’re not involved.
Something is really fucked up about this entire thing. First of all, people around these folk just keep getting dead under mysterious circumstances and neither of them is a Clinton. Then you have 2 missing children involved.
This case must have the worst team of investigators in history or at least one of them really must be a Clinton.
I hate to even make any conjectures about things like this, but I’d be shocked if both of those kids are not already dead and the 2 lovebird’s there are guilty as fuck.
Given their history, those kids are quite dead.
So, that tic-tac-toe image at the top. Is the goal of the game to cross out everyone but the old white folk? I mean except Yang, he’s the old white people of the yellow clan.
Ahem. It is obviously a bingo card. Geez.
Looks like the best dart board ever to me.
Or a really shitty reboot of Hollywood Squares.
Hollywoke Squares?
That’s why I spent ten years thinking that McDonald’s was a Canadian company.
https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/when-the-first-mcdonalds-in-moscow-opened-it-was-pretty-insane/85769083/?view=list
The Moscow McDonald’s initiative was a joint venture between McDonald’s of Canada and Moscow city council.
The very first McDonald’s in Moscow opened exactly thirty years ago.
Americans are boggled by the idea of a country with an economy such that the opening of a single hamburger store is a historical event. They dont think it can happen here because they have never seen it in person.
If the cancer of socialism here grows much more they will find out what it means.
Taco Bell, Canon City Colorado 1997, I laughed my ass off, the line was blocks long,
Yes. This is why I’m zero tolerance on socialism, and can’t support somebody like Gabbard no matter how supposedly libertarian she is on other issues.
Being the least commie in a gang of commies, still makes you a commie. Even if you have the best tits, still a commie.
That is right Fatty. I think she is sincere and wants the right things but she is so far wrong….
She is the one you dont ‘deal with’.
You stop talking shit about Tim Hortons!
The very next year, the Soviet Union collapsed. Coincidence?
“Wait… this is the shitty American food? What the hell is their good stuff like?”
Those Soviets sure knew how to queue up peacefully.
Queue
When I lived in Eastern Europe, one of my friends loved McDonald’s because the staff was so friendly, unlike the waitstaff at most of the local establishments back then.
https://twitter.com/annakhachiyan/status/1223344572270596103
Looks like OKCupid went retard.
OFFS
No one who gives a fuck about those signs is ever getting laid anyway, so it’s sort of a wasted effort.
Is it OK to pretend to be woke to get some trim?
I thought that was the only reason to be woke.
Thank God I got married before the internet dating thing got started.
It went retard a long time ago.
I recently rejoined after several years away. It is a wasteland.
At the bottom of their front page, they have a series of links. One is a random link marketing OKCupid to various markets. Here is their conservative dating link. It makes me laugh when I consider that link combined with their blog and the welcome message I received after I signed up. The welcome message came from an OKCupid employee who is married with kids and is wearing a “DTFight The Patriarchy” shirt in one of her profile pictures.
You first
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/01/31/students-demanded-disinvestment-fossil-fuels-professor-offered-turn-off-heat/
There shouldn’t have been an offer, he should have turned it off and let them freeze their woke asses off. That will just be a very light warning as to what is going to happen to them if the fossil fuel industry goes away tomorrow.
Next you’ll say the professor should have just walked around and also started grabbing everything made with plastic (pens, mechanical pencils, laptops, etc…)
Only after turning the heat off.
take their shoes and clothes, Eyeglasses, Insulin injectors, Refrigeration, A/C,
now we are getting somewhere…
Plastic? All of that cotton was produced using fossil fuels. Make ’em strip too. Take away everything they have including their books and computers.
No campus buses either. Walk or ride a bike to class.
Also, no clothing or shoes made from synthetic fibers. Go run down a musk ox and skin it, woketards.
Not vegan! Gotta be from plant fiber! But not cotton, ‘cuz that’s totes racist…
…and not wool, of course. I think that leaves linen. Organic, “ethically sourced” linen.
I have seen the future, and it is wrinkled.
This made me laugh.
I have a shirt my wife bought me. I couldn’t figure out why she spent so much time ironing it, looked really great and when I got to work it was all wrinkled.
Thanks. That’s what I live for.
That and cheese.
I have at least six different kinds of cheese in my fridge right now.
*makes secret handshake*
Lawzamercy! Y’all are givin’ me the vapors! ::fans self::
Down to 4 here. You win.
Three hard cheeses…gruyere, Romano and parmesan
Not hard cheeses….extra sharp cheddar, Feta and Swiss.
I have to cop to being a hardcore addict…I also have a half gallon tub of sour cream. You can never have too much sour cream.
***SIGH!!!*** Just had my annual physical yesterday, and apparently my cholesterol is a little high, Doc says go low fat/low cholesterol (already trying to go low carb.) What’s the latest on correlation between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol levels?
Basically zero correlation for most people.
Let’s see I have sharp cheddar, swiss, romano, and four cheese blend
& three pints of sour cream
Just my opinion. Doctors are mostly full of shit, since their financial well being in the current medical industry, depends a lot on them prescribing the latest drug and keeping you on it, forever. Cholesterol drugs are the top money making drug on the planet.
They tried to put me on that shit because my cholesterol was slightly elevated over the current standard, which keeps getting lowered. I got it way down through diet and exercise, along with my blood pressure. Which they say is I’m just lucky, or genes or something, because diet and exercise can’t have too much to do with it, only drugs. And cholesterol drugs can have very serious side effects, including liver damage and muscle damage. Fuck that shit.
1 3yr ‘Sconnie cheddar, 3 other local ones given names instead of types.
I’m good on cheeses, but I’m almost out of sour cream. ?
Hype, luckily the doc isn’t recommending any drugs for me yet. Mr. GT’s been through that shit after two bouts with TIAs (mini-strokes.) His conclusion: never let your doctor prescribe you a medication that has its own TV commercial.
What Mustang said. Saturated fat has more impact that dietary cholesterol.
Also, the correct fiber is hemp.
Hemp! Perfect!
Unless it needs to be ironed. I hate ironing.
“never let your doctor prescribe you a medication that has its own TV commercial.”
Sounds like good advice.
My blood pressure was dangerously high about a year ago and my doctor was finally able to get it down, after a scary stay in the hospital. But then he went all fanatical about statistics. My BP was around 120/85 and I was feeling really good, but he wanted it lower.
So he put me on another BP med. After a couple of days on that stuff, my BP was down to 110/75. I still felt good, but then my doctor got all fanatical about statistics and upped the dosage. A few days later I was dizzy all of the time and felt weird as hell. My vision was all fucked up and my sense of perception and distance was all sorts of weird. It’s like my vision had one focal point on one side and a different one on the other. I completely could not function and felt like I was having a stroke. My BP was 95/60! I called him and went back in and showed him my BP and said I cannot function like this. He reluctantly took me off that shit. I mean I was getting off it regardless. I was still taking 4 meds. Today, my BP is still around 120/80 and I take one med and half dose of another and want completely off the shit. One reason why I quit drinking, with that goal in mind.
I love CHEESE, Grommit!
In my fridge:
Double Glouchester
1000 day aged Gouda
Wedge of Parmesan
Grated Parmesan
Sharp cheddar
Mild cheddar
Mozzarella
Swiss slices
“Murican slices (even though I am a cheese snob, I love ‘Murican cheese)
In the freezer:
Grated Swiss
Grated Gruyere
Grated Mozzarella
Grated mild Cheddar
Taco mix
Woah, Hyperion. Seriously think about another Dr. 120 / it is pretty good, quite good really. 110 / 75 is about as low as I’d ever want to get. How’s your heart rate and blood oxygenation?
“Murican slices”
I’m partial to Cooper Sharp American.A
It melts perfectly on grilled burgers and browns perfectly under the broiler.
GT: If you ever make it more north in Ohio, you should plan on swinging by Ashland. Grandpa’s Cheesebarn has become a mandatory stop any time we’re going down 71.
American cheese is just cheese sauce cooled down to make it more sliceable.
Cheese sauce is delicious.
The freezer counts? I have mozzarella and american in there.
mozzarella
Swiss
extra sharp
American
cream
cottage
Dammit, I forgot parmesan.
Alas, I have no Gouda.
“How’s your heart rate and blood oxygenation?”
Heart rate is around 60bpm resting. So pretty good. The other stat I don’t know, but I check my BP every day and wear a fitbit so I always know what my heart rate is.
Agreed. Turn off the heat and that fuckwit that they apparently are giving a degree in physics to, toss his ass out of school.
“No? OK, how about we turn off the heat at the factory down the street?”
*Riotious Applause from students*
Got in trouble with my new daddy. Not the first video at the top, scroll down.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chuck-schumer-scolds-kamala-harris-sherrod-brown-impeachment-trial
My 3-Year-Old Son is a Girl Now | We The Internet TV
I identify as a Daffodil…
See how easy it is?
Bad last day or two. One of our fish tanks failed, thankfully the the 90 gallon rather than the 130. Wifey- “My fish! (tears)” Me – “My sub-floor! (resignation).
Oh shit, Shop vac and some dry air Stat!
Most of it got soaked up pretty quick-like (Little Doggo did her job and scratched at the bedroom door like STEVE SMITH was after her) so it was about 30 gallons at best. Now we have this fish tank to get rid of and I’m still recovering from hernia surgery. I told her that we’re gonna wrap it in the biggest blanket she can part with and I’m gonna break it up with a hammer. Nobody is carrying two hundred pounds of partially intact, broke-ass glass out of my house down the steps and into the icy wild.
I have two fish tanks. One looks suspiciously like a freezer and the other looks uncannily like a deep fryer.
I laughed.
Those seem sort of small. How do you cast without the lure hitting the glass?
Oh, dear. Sorry, to each and both of you.
I could have stopped her before the hobby got too large but instead ignored my instincts and decided to leave well enough alone. This is why we have horses, now. That 130 tank is coming down with the house.
What does “failed” mean? The pump went kaput?
Sounds like the glass broke.
Yeah, I should’ve read his follow up.
Catastrophic failure. A chunk of the front came out about the size of an equilateral triangle 12″ square at the top. We had big goldfish in there and they like to suck on stones and spit them against the glass. That shit’s like 14mm glass but who knows how old it is or how many times it’s been moved. There’s a huge crack running from the break to the corner. Bleed-out just waiting to happen. Hence the blanket and hammer solution.
Assholes.
Time for a new tank, eh? Sounds like the goldfish were trying to make a break for it.
Kamikoi
I quit drinking alcohol and sometimes, like right now, I’m bored as fuck.
I can definitely relate to this right now.
*shakes head and gives look of complete understanding*
My doc grinds my ass all the time about how much I drink. I really get tired of hearing about it but he is a great doc so I let him slide on that. One day he said (He is from the ME) “You are Irish aren’t you? Oooooh. Ok. “
Irish= No liver, no problem….
I just tell my doctor what he wants to hear. We’re both happy that way.
Blood tests don’t lie. Ask me how I know.
I ignored the one he wanted me to do last year. He wrote another one for me this year. I’m gonna put it off for a while.
[holds magnet out and leads Spud around]
Hobbies, the answer is hobbies, build, play Golf, walk, hike, play with toys….
you’ll be fine,
Yeah, I’m trying that. Just that nothing is fun without beer. Except for maybe Staff’s suggestion below and my wife has the flu, damnit!
Just have her face into the pillow so she doesn’t cough on you.
Seriously, Disc Golf has got me away from beer and cigarettes, Ball golf was an excuse to get drunk,
try it, it’s way cheap to play,
Hobbies….I love wood and love to build furniture.
I had a giant shop fan on the back porch that one of my dogs kept pissing on. That rusted the housing to pieces. The motor and spindle were still fine so I decided to disassemble the thing and make a wood lathe out of the parts.
I am still working on it. Apparently they put the fan blades on using a 5/8 stop-ring with a set screw. I dont know why they used a set screw. The fucking ring is heat-shrunk on and I cant find my torch.
In other news, people are not all bad: I ordered a new rear sight for my SW model 60 that the dog snagged off of the side table in order to use the holster for a chew toy but it never arrived. 60 bucks for the damned thing. The PO said they delivered it but delivered to the wrong address, a common occurrence around here. Las night just after dark a neighbor showed up at the door with the sight. He apologized and said it took so long ( a month) because it got lost in the mountain of junk mail he gets. I have done the same thing myself.
I am very pleased.
Nice people!, my Daughter “found” a payroll check that vanished in October, good endings are good,
Nice.
Fuck.
Off!
Happens. Every time I stop drinking I stop posting on Glibs.
Needs More Beer!
/Festus!11
Hey, me too but only for a year to see if I can. Come Jan 1, 2021 that goes out the window.
Lol. You sound exactly like my situation. One year. Then I’ll look at the situation again. Might be OK if I would just drink occasionally, but once I get started I want to drink every freaking day. Not good. My last beer was Jan 6.
I’ve cut back to hit the goal weight. Now instead of a beer or two a night (with more on Friday and Saturday), I’m pretty much only drinking on Saturdays (unless there’s an event, like the superbowl).
The weight thing is why I quit, mostly, but overall a health goal. I lost 60 lbs and gained 20 of it back. It really pissed me off, so the first thing I decided on was giving up the beer for a while, until I decide I can have some once in a while without drinking it daily and screwing up my fitness goals.
A year?!?!? I did a week while I was sick and on the zpack. I was proud enough of that.
After a few weeks, you don’t much care anymore. You’ll just be bored most of the time, especially around beer o’clock. But sleep with no alcohol is fucking pure gold.
How do you get bored not drinking something? I mean, does drinking consume the whole of your attention for however many hours you’re doing it?
Nope, it makes some other things more interesting. Watching sports or playing games are two common examples.
Brighter colors, better opinions that you can’t wait to overshare! Join us, Mormon! Jooooiiiinnn Uuuusss!
Reminds me of this:
Sometimes late
When things are real
And people share the gift of gab
Between themselves
T’was a jest, sweet Mojo. Some folk don’t drink and for others it let’s them skate along. I’m of the latter camp.
No, no, no, I LOLd.
There are a few things in life I would like to experience because it feels like I would have “arrived.”
One of those is pulling an all-nighter with your beloved and a bunch of really good friends, over good food and I guess for them good wine, and really get into deep and erudite conversation. Like, there’s a real connection there, you know? Relaxed, deep, late at night, dark, warm. Maybe outside around a fire pit in the spring or fall, or a cozy kitchen in the winter.
Yeah, it’s a small and stupid thing, but that’s a romantic vision I have in my head.
Sure. But you write Romance novels. For every one of those candle-lit, bon-vivant soirees there will be about a thousand “hold my hair” or “Imma gonna kill him” moments. You’re missing out on not much at all. We just know our appetites.
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1223374201786109952
Calvinball!
LOLOL there is not enough popcorn in the world for this shit.
Good Lord they are gonna do it again? They openly denigrate red voters, then start openly denigrating their own base. They torpedo their base’s preferred candidate two races in a row and try to remove a duly elected president on straight party lines. Then to top it off they bitch and moan about people destroying ‘democracy’.
I am starting to think we wont need any rope. Their party base will do the unpleasant jobs and we can just sit back and enjoy the show.
ha. if a guy isn’t even popular enough to win their own party, is he really gonna beat trump?
Nope.
None of them are going to beat Trump. But Suthen is right. There’s nothing to do. Just get the popcorn and enjoy their self destruction.
Oh, Grampa Gulag could win the nomination in a straight up election. That is why they are fixing it.
None of the sacks of shit they have for a potential run against Trump could win in the general. Not even close. That is why we are seeing the hysterical grasping at straws panic behavior.
It’s scary how popular Sanders is. At this point I think we need to raise the voting age to like 45.
We need to scrap public education or figure out a way to completely overhaul it, or we’ll be soon be dealing with 60 year old adult children.
*looks at Driver’s licence* Nearly there!
It’s expected. Everybody sees that government is broken and he’s offering bold plans. Terrible, but bold.
Digging your own death pit is a bold strategy, Cotton…
You know who else had a bold solution?
We’ve all let Adam Schiff down. Go to your rooms and think about what you’ve done.
Ok. My room is where all of my good shit is.
My room is where I try to get some sleep.
Is there a Doctor in the house? Wendy now has MRDO, which is bad? I was told it’s worse than MRSA, please contact me at,
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i think It just means an infection that is immune to antibiotics.
I know that part, but how bad is it to treat? they are using massive, nasty antibiotics but…..
I fear I’m losing her….
Sorry 🙁
Ditto
I’m sorry, Yusef.
They’ll have infectious disease specialists on it.
Shit.
Not a doctor, but dealt with this when my Mom was in the hospital. MRSA (methicillin-resistant staph) is just one type of MDRO.
When I was in the hospital they roomed me with a guy that C. Dificile. Fun! They put up stickers everywhere yet failed to tell me about his condition. Being his roommate was just as pleasant as you might imagine. They didn’t care, I was in there for an un-sexy disease so was treated accordingly. “Pancreatitis, eh? Let’s ignore you for a week and hope you go away.”
I’ve had the flu since Sunday. My workout has been coughing. Both my back and abs are hurting (because I fight it). At least, my cough is mostly gone.
My wife is having it right now. I just got over it. Mega doses of good vitamin C and Echinacea tea got me over it really quickly. I just gave my wife the vitamin C and put on the tea kettle.
That sounds rough. Hang in there!
Get well soon!