Tear it up Glibbies, the floor is yours.
We miss ya, Stevie.
Thursday night open post
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Spudalicious
Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…
Someone stop the car. Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shiticaca.
That is all.
And the Lake Titicaca.
The Popocatepetl is not in Canada
Rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico
Canada, Málaga, Rimini, Brindisi
Canada, Málaga, Rimini, Brindisi
Yes, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet
Nagasaki, Yokohama
Nagasaki, Yokohama
Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet
Trinidad!
And the big Mississippi
And the town Honolulu
Ah! Takes me back to high school choir!
Lake Titicaca
First head about, um, said Lake from The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Stevie is number 3 in my top 10 guitarists of all time.
7th at best, probably not in the top ten if I’m being honest, but he gets points for dying tragically.
You’re taking your contrarian bit too far
Not even in the top 600 of cello players.
I know it’s not fashionable to say but he’s not even the third best blues guitarist. you add in rock, jazz, classical, etc and he barely cracks the top fifty. And that’s not to say I don’t think he’s great, I have all his shit, he’s just not one of the ten/twenty/thrity best ever. And neither are most of my favorites, but one must accept hard truths.
+1
Is it bad I agree with you quite a bit of the time?
Mo, in a continuation from the Mourning Lynx: I checked on the prices for Lasik for astigmatism and the websites mostly advertise prices from $1500 to $3000. Don’t know how expensive those special glasses will run but it still might be a money-saver.
Thanks. That’s about $1500 to $3000 more than we can spend on a surgery that isn’t covered by insurance.
The glasses are mostly covered and we have our flex account for the rest. That will, however, eat up a lot of our flex account, which was drastically cut with Obamacare when our premiums went up to $950/month.
Thanks Obama and Justice Penaltax.
I have astigmatism and the eye folks say that Lasik won’t work for me. I already had cataract surgery, about 15 years ago. I had no improvement after the cataract surgery, I wasn’t having any problems before either.
I’ve tried contacts, contacts with glasses. Now back to glasses, just tougher to see well is all. Life goes on…
Mo, hope your daughter had good results today from her exam
No. It just proves that you can be a cunte, just like me.
Mostly the few people who don’t care for/about SRV are considered cuntes by the rest of the world.
Also, being a good blues guitarist is like being the smartest kid in special ed.
Urthona drops the gloves.
Uh, I have to agree? with Sir Hyperbole. It pains me to the marrow but he’s right, you know.
On brand.
Now I want to play Riviera Paradise…
^agreed…
Very good, and needed as I lament lost love. All of his longer songs are deeply moody and worth playing.
“So far the coronavirus has taken the lives of 25 people with over 600 cases confirmed worldwide.”
About 1 billion in China, and say 4 BN on the planet. Express as a percent.
Discuss.
My bad….8 BN on the planet.
Discuss further.
Seven billion, but who’s counting?
. . .
Yeah, it’s another bio-panic. **HEAVY SIGH**
If only the CDC can get that $1 Billion in funding like they wanted to combat Zika….
And ebola, and SARS, and MERS, and bird flu and super ghonorrea
Don’t forget the super AIDS
Viral Superhero?
Sup!
I see the YouTube fact checking bot is hard at work on South Park videos…
Washington Monument strategy. They don’t want to give up those sweet sweet dollars for “studying” firearms or tobacco.
So if those figures are to be believed a 4% fatality rate. Probably at least ten times that number have gotten it and not sought treatment though. Maybe .4%? Which would still be bad. Of course I’m pulling this out of my ass and it’s guesswork though.
I don’t think we’ll get an accurate number for a few months
Obligatory
I gotta complaint fer da management.
I’m too busy to comment on the morning links, but I do frequently read them. Howcomewhyfor there’s only EPL results, and not Serie A? Some of us like to follow dirty soccer, not just rich soccer.
What the fuck language are you speaking?
Modified Queen’s English, football-dominant . . .
MILLWALL!
Romulan, if the Google translate is working properly.
It’s some strange dialect of Karen.
Pretty sure it’s Bent at the Waist Hands on the Knees Showing Cleavage Suzy.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6b/ba/ee/6bbaee1bc88f82e2a8be9d5fb7c37a79.jpg
Because just like hipsters flocked to IPAs and you beer people have to suffer with extremely hoppy beers, hipster soccer fans glommed onto the EPL and now the sports shows act as if that’s the only league that matters. (Never mind that the Primera Liga has had the best UEFA coefficient for several years and it hasn’t been close, last year aside.) Those of us who have been fans of the sport for decades get screwed when it comes to the CL.
Sloopy is a sports hipster – good explanation. Thank you. : )
England and Germany are the only European soccer leagues on basic cable. Spain, Italy and France require paying extra.
Paying actual money to watch soccer on teevee? Wow. That sounds like a bigger waste of money than paying to watch NBA basketball on teevee. Or paying extra for the paint drying channel.
I like you Canacreon! You’re good people!
TL;DR: Juventus wins everything.
Cool links, bro.
The best links. The classiest.
Hey, knock off the sarcasm. I spent several minutes on this.
It’s the final track on The Sky Is Crying.
Blue music
Nice choice.
OPEN POST ANARCHY!
http://archive.li/aCAex
You just can’t help yourself, can you?
(Gotta be that rarified Colorado air.)
No and probably. Either that or the brain tumor.
Imma guess that helped himself a couple times.
https://www.indy100.com/article/frequent-ejaculations-prevent-prostate-cancer-health-science-sex-7817986
https://giphy.com/gifs/mrw-post-vote-YYfEjWVqZ6NDG
I’ve posted it before, but help yourself!
5 and 44.
56
Annual HOA meeting was tonight. I didn’t have anything to complain about this year, but some people certainly did. I also like it when someone else brings up a nitpicky thing that annoyed me, but I didn’t complain to the association about.
My only complaint with the HOA we joined six months ago when we moved in is that the guy who’s supposed to be doing our snow-clearing is sadly lacking in promptness. I find myself digging out of snow that he’s supposed to be digging us out of. So much for those snow-clearing fees.
I guess I’ll be happier next year at this time when I’m in Arizona, New Mexico or Eastern Cali with the spousal unit and pup . . .
Come, come, come to the Sun…..
HOA meeting? I don’t understand…you didn’t murder everyone at the meeting?
Freedom of association. I chose to live here.
It’s actually quite well run and not a bunch of Nazis.
Well, except for that Sean guy.
My dad was born in Austria…
?
You… umm… you know who else was born in Austria?
Sure. Free association.
…but I don’t get it.
The sinners must be made to comply! There can be only 1 shade of shutter! HOAs demonstrate just how futile libertarianism is, we’d throw out the tyrants then vote to fine our neighbor because his kids left toys in the yard.
Get the non-conformist!
http://archive.li/xoTc4/c0ba79f2ea9c12ebd815edc97efef1c1c9b61ba0.jpg
Whos said thius?
“‘They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortune-tellers…they predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the 1970s, and an end of oil in the 1990s. These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives. We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country, or eradicate our liberty. America will always be the proud, strong and unyielding bastion of freedom.’”
Great minds…
Aye!
The music link sent me down a short rabbit hole ending here.
Great song.
It reminds me of whats her face number two. We both liked a beer buzz early in the morning until she decided we shouldn’t. That marriage lasted 9 months so doesn’t really count.
Truly a great song, but her bad lip job? bad makeup? is really distracting.
“[Trump recommends] that we ‘reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortune-tellers…they predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the 1970s, and an end of oil in the 1990s. These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives. We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country, or eradicate our liberty. America will always be the proud, strong and unyielding bastion of freedom.’”
https://spectator.us/davos-trump-advice-crybabies-home/
That’s what we in the business call a facial.
But first we gotta do something
7 B of us have to plant 1 T worth of trees and the sooner the better if we expect to save Mama Gaia from some catastrophic event that we’ve never seen the likes of before. If I’ve done the math right each of us will be planting about 140 trees or so.
I’m ready but I’ll need some seeds/seedlings. If I plant fruit trees I maybe can sell some apples, etc. If I grow lumber I can’t cut one down unless I replace it right away so we can keep our bonus 1 T trees. I’m guessing there are some people that are too young, too old, too sick, too important, you get the picture. That means some of the tree planters are gonna have to double/triple up on their tree planting. We can’t plant willy-nilly, we need a plan, to get the right trees in the right place.
Damn, this project is getting complicated…Hope that cheers you up, Tundra
I’m cheered, 4Score!
And I’ll help plant the trees.
We’ll get Jimbo too and head for NoDak, lots of empty space, they need lotsa trees over there. We can stay with MikeS, he seemed sort of nice.
I’d guesstimate that I’ve planted over 200 trees in my lifetime. How many has Greta planted?
Although I’ve chopped down probably 50 or so
As far as NoDak goes, there’s a reason only sugar beets and wheat grow in that forsaken place.
Suthen’s got the entire Glibs contingent covered already.
I’ve got fucking nothing.
Cheer me up, motherfuckers.
Please?
Here is some cheer.
More cheer
You are amazing.
Yes, I know.
OK, I’m cheered.
And really turned on. Well done, k.
https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/604025/86001936.jpg
Would spot.
Thank you.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/01/23/nick-sandmann-tops-twitter-trends-after-cnns-chris-cuomo-white-knights-for-greta-thunberg/
LOL!
Maybe time to delete the account, eh?
Idiots with chainsaws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrJGPMXCNDw
The dude on the ladder…omg.
I’ve never been trained to cut trees, but I’ve had much better success than those idiots.
Excellent!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEF6CD38B0FC7CECB
Doing it better.
You had to bring that up, didn’t you?
Unbelievable. You could see the problem in every example before it happened.
I worked for a tree service for a couple years while I was starting my business. Even when you know what you’re doing it is dangerous, especially when fatigued.
There was this novice we would run into every once in a while who started his own tree business and he was doing all kinds of stupid, dangerous shit and taking on large jobs that he had no business doing. We used to talk about how he was going to kill himself and we even told him that to his face. About a year later I heard he died in a tree accident. He was working by himself and a big limb landed on him. He bled to death over several hours before anyone found him.
I had a friend in NJ that sent me pictures of limbing off a tall ladder. I told him he was scaring me and not to do that. A couple weeks later his wife emailed and said he was in the hospital, after falling 40? feet, had the ladder against the limb he was cutting off. Took a couple operations and a long rehab. I thought he might have been in the video.
I admit I still do some dumb stuff. But one thing I never do is lean a ladder against a tree and cut limbs. I’ll cut limbs that are 25-30 feet up, but I’m using a long pole saw (manual or gas) while standing on a ladder away from the limb. Even then I make the cuts small enough so I won’t get hurt or knocked off the ladder if they come down on me. When I was in my late teens / early 20’s I used to do some really dumb stuff like free climb trees with no ropes and take off large limbs.
I read your posts all the time about honey bees. Have you ever got your bees from B & B Honey Farm in Hokah, MN? That’s real close to me. A friend of a friend used to be the manager there and still might be.
Ugh. Those videos leave me feeling sick. Anytime there’s a rope attached to the tree like those, it’s not going to end well.
I’m watching the bit on the ladder and saying out loud, “oh, no no no no no…”
That had Darwin Award written all over it.
OK
I was just gonna post a Grace link. Great minds…
I’m gonna go see her in 2 weeks either in Milwaukee or Minneapolis. Always a great live show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-epBSpoSwU
I’ve stood next to her a few times, and those legs are something else.
I stumbled upon her here directly or through the youtube sidebar on links I followed. She does have some incredibly nice drumsticks. Would love to see her live, looks like a fun show.
Hmmm. She’s coming to the Palace…
She puts on a really fun live show. She gives it 100% every night. I liked her original band The Nocturnals better than her current band, but they are still good. She writes good songs from multiple music genres.
*bunk*
Cheer, Blue
So, who’s got Netflix, likes David Lynch, and has 17 minutes to watch?
This guy!
I revived the special lid for my well-loved instant pot that turns it into an air fryer.
I predict culinary adventures this weekend…
I Was a Lid
I’ve only run across them a couple times, but I’ve liked what I heard.
I mostly know them from this, which I goddamn love (wait for the bridge).
Prominent Democrats hate immigrants:
https://www.nj.com/healthfit/2020/01/booker-menendez-demand-coronavirus-screenings-at-newark-airport-as-illness-spreads.html
Isn’t the impeachment charade enough of a distraction for these people?
The only U.S. airport with a non-stop flight to Wuhan is JFK, not Newark.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Tianhe_International_Airport
Government must appear to be doing something.
You just named two of the worst airports in the world in one sentence. Nice work!
JFK and Newark?
As far as the ones I have been to, yes. Hands down winner of worst in the world goes to Laguardia though.
Have you been to Wuhan Airport? Where does it rank versus JFK and Newark?
Nope never been to China but I can tell you the airport in Addis Ababa is nicer than Lequardia.
whoops Laguardia. whatever.
So what kind of screening is actually effective? I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a health inspection already like entering Japan. Unless there’s some specific reason for more detailed screening, it’s just walking past an IR camera.
A quarantine longer than the incubation period of the disease being screened for.
If you don’t develop symptoms, you’re good.
Grandpa Gulag loves him some violence.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-campaign-calls-police-on-reporters-for-asking-questions-about-his-staff-talking-about-killing-people/
The sheer irony. Stalinesque.
LOL that staffer is like something out of central casting.
Well to be fair, that reporter seems like an adversary of the proletariat.
“Yeah baby ’cause I’m the Evil Midnight Bomber what Bombs at Midnight!!! Ah ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! And so he says to me, you got legs, baby, you’re everywhere…you’re all over the place!”
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/man-accused-of-setting-off-bombs-in-bucks-county-expected/article_2b43b08c-3e2f-11ea-8f69-1703f9ac2572.html
Local news.
Boom baby boom!!
I love that people get that reference here.
I watched it every sat morning in college with my roommates.
I still see the CHA on the moon when I look up at night.
Choice of beers tonight was Bud or an IPA (from a Bud owned “craft” brewery).
Sad. Slumbrew and I had more options in a local pub.
Yes. But it’s free. Except for the tip.
Indeed, it was a good selection.
Good news: grrizzly is not some sort serial killer. I believe I still have all my organs intact.
(in truth, he’s a cool dude – thanks for meeting up!)
Bears are not known for selling organs.
It was awesome to meet you.
I didn’t say anything about selling my organs…
On the other hand, bears are harvested for their organs…
Oh really? How about sub-thread 24 here? https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/01/sanders-voters-suffer-from-case-of-mistaken-identity/
It’s a fair cop, gov’ner
On the plus side, I can confirm you had pants on.
“Beers”
I’m still liking the Bud Copper Lager.
Evening Glibs.
*waves*
*wanders of to make another cocktail*
off
*hic*
Maybe you should have someone else mix the drinks – you don’t want the alcohol on the floor instead of in the glass.
Excuse me, but we’re into the straight whiskey time of the night.
Isn’t it like 6:30 there? That’s hardcore.
7:30. Cocktails are a pre-dinner endeavor.
Good to see you out tonight, UCS
How are things out in slightly eastern nowhere?
Finally a little warmer, close to freezing for the next 10 days or so. January thaw
Hi UCS!
I finally got a chance to read Part 1 – excellent!
You writer people are amazing.
Like any other skill, it’s the result of a lot of practice – I’ve been working on writing stories since high school.
“Confirmed: Donald Trump’s Great Grandfather Was a Tangerine”
FTA:
“In an emotional and startling admission today, President Trump confirmed a CNN story alleging that the president’s great grandfather was a tangerine.
“My great grandfather,” President Trump said during an afternoon news conference “came here on a trade ship from Belgium. A classy [ship]…the best [ship]. And yes, he was a tangerine.”
CNN anchor, Chris Cuomo, seemed stunned by the admission, commenting on air after the president’s remarks “so we got one right”.
In the midst of the Senate’s impeachment trial, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi avoided discussing the topic when asked by reporters while House Judiciary committee member Adam Schiff insisted that President Trump’s genealogy was a distraction from the proceedings.
“What we should be discussing is this president’s crimes” Schiff noted, before adding “but I will say that Russia’s number one export is tangerines, which seems a little too coincidental.”
Genecists are perplexed by the president’s admission and many were unsure what to make of it.
“Ho…how can his great grandfather be a..fruit?” Dr. Eugene Varb wondered aloud during an interview on MSNBC. “I don’t understand what is going on, to be honest.”
100 seconds till doomsday
Or something. I don’t know how they come up with this.
The Atomic Scientists clock should be renamed the “Just Making it Up as We Go Along” clock. Who in their right mind thinks we are closer to nuclear annihilation today than at any point during the Cold War.
Just because you add the word “science” to nonsense doesn’t make it any less nonsensical
I’m surprised it took them this long to react to Orange (you know that’s what this is about).
So they are finally tracking SMOD?
You really have to give these people credit. they’ve moving the clock around as long as I can remember (and that’s a looong time) and they still are really serious about. It takes some kinda determination to keep someting this stupid up for this long.
2 minutes to miiiiiidniiiiite, to kill the unborn…..wait a second.
Uhh hello they’re scientists so obviously it’s science. Duh.
People who do video chats in public should be flogged.
Hear, hear!
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4f6d0c91-f704-49a1-b714-75601d7eb19b
http://archive.li/aCeGG/c3e897485d0b32dcb5b0b986c5919ed3bc407842.jpg
NSFW.
Half the picture is missing.
#fail
The bottom half features a penis
If you just use your imagination!
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-star-trek-series-features-utopian-society-somehow-surviving-without-non-binary-pronouns
Hah!
If you don’t hate Facebook (the company), you should.
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/01/23/facebook-for-the-prosecution/#more-42720
I’m not seeing the problem with The Law being required to follow the rules as written before expecting personal data from these guys.
The Rhoda Morgenstern of websites. So needy, so brazen, so very horny.
Funniest comment this week – UCS “lunging for his strangling gloves”. Discuss.
I larfed. Forgot to comment.
I scared the dog when I read that.
The funniest part is he wasn’t joking, he actually has them.
I’m a fan of Maggie, but it sounds like a pass:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/reviews/outmatched-fox-review-jason-biggs-maggie-lawson-2-1203477401/
I don’t know who that is. The dude is the pie fucker. I drive Wifey nuts when she’s watching the telly. I drift back and forth and say shit like “I remember him! He was in that show we liked!”
Chick from Psych.
In honour of the Baseball Hall of Fame inductees:
Who is the greatest baseball player of all time?
Gary fucking Carter.
Not sure if serious.
Half-assed serious. He was my idol when I was a young catcher. (Stop it! Stop that right now!) He played clean and died young. The actual best field player is tough. Maybe Ozzie? Best pitcher goes to Gaylord Perry because I can’t get over his name.
Willie Mays, you cunte.
^
Probably, yeah.
I grew up in the Bay Area with Mays, Cepeda and McCovey.
All us kids got bruses on our chests from trying to make basket catches like Willie.
RH: the Rajah
LH: the Man
Rod Carew
Nice pull. He was smoooooth.
My hero.
If you recall, he had a unique batting stance. Being a lefty, I tried to emulate. It went something like this:
Coach: what are you doing?
Tundra:
Goddamit.
Tundra: What?
Coach: Why are you standing like that?
Tundra: Rod Carew does!
Coach: Tundra, you aren’t Rod Carew. Stand up.
Tundra: Awwww
I still tried for the rest of my baseball career. He was the best.
I emulated George Brett’s swing as a kid. That didn’t upset my coaches much seeing as how he was a technically sound batter for the most part. As I grew older, I tried to copy Will “The Thrill” Clark’s. That didn’t work as well. My high school baseball coach once said I had the prettiest swing and miss he’d ever seen and that I need to cut that shit out or I’d sit the bench.
Mom’s mom went to one MLB game when she came to visit me in Texas. Pushing 80, she was a second-generation Cardinals fan as most Southerners over 50 are. From the woods of Mississippi, deep in Choctaw County, she knew the game, like her neighbors, from decades of late KMOX broadcasts.
I had never sniffed a foul ball. I saw it coming, thought little of it, never made a move, and Clark’s foul fell in my lap. She rode 700 miles from east MS to see Will Clarke after never taking in a single Mississippi State game. I handed her the ball and, again, thought nothing of it.
Mom cleaned out the house and tossed most of my grandparents’ meager effects except for a bible, a German razor, some odd crockery and quilts . . . . and that ball. I keep it on the dresser in the guest room.
Nice story! Without looking, he played for Mississippi State, yes?
Jesus, I meant to ask if he was a native of Mississippi. Sorry, I’m distracted and not really proofreading my brain farts right now.
That’s a nice story, Don. I mean it.
Not a Jew, but I hear his agent is…
He converted.
Sad thing is, Bonds could have had a well deserved spot in the debate before, well,…
He didn’t need to become a pin-head but he did. Fuck him and the cheating fucks that sullied my favorite game.
Pretty much my take.
The clear and the cream?
Yep.
At his prime? Ted Williams or maybe Ken Griffey jr.
That dude who pitched a no-hitter on LSD
Fourscore still around?
NewWife buys metric shittons of honey in these tall, skinny bottles and then doesn’t really eat that much. I noticed that we had a thousand dollars of the stuff in the root cellar, so I started working it off. Lots of it is crystallized which isn’t a huge problem when your in a butterknife mood, but how do you get it to reliquifiy? I reheat it in boiling water, but I want to add a tiny bit of water. How do I keep from over-thinning it . . . seems like no amount is small enough.
Why would you package honey like that?
Never underestimate a woman’s inability to resist a pretty bottle and label.
That explains why she might buy it.
So the bottle was designed by the marketing department?
No wonder the packaging science majors went off and designed unopnable clamshell plastic containers.
It better have been.
I don’t drink. The smell of beer makes me gag. I couldn’t make it through 25% of a tour of the Buffalo Trace distillery.
But damn, those bottles in the alcohol aisle are almost irresistibly gorgeous. I just stand there and look at them, they’re so pretty.
Many perfume bottles are also gorgeous. I regret throwing out a couple of them (perfume I didn’t like) in a fit of decluttering.
Hah! I have to sneak jars into the garbage because Wifey wants to re-use them. We’re up to our armpits in stuff we don’t need. Small house, many crafts. I’m lucky if I can venture between the kitchen and the den. When we’re both in the dwelling I start climbing the walls.
Why can’t you just add invertase enzyme to it? That’s how the bees do it…
Microwave.
The problem is a loss of water. If you microwaved, it would get drier: more crystalline.
Once it’s crystalline, you’re stuck with it. Microwaving can be done a number of times. The one thing that will cause honey to spoil is adding water to it.
Sounds like a job for Fourscore.
Double boiler is your friend. Old school but it will cut.
But will it keeeeel?
Heh! I like you GT!
I like you too, Fes! Speaking of Forged in Fire, is it me or is J. Neilson a sadistic sombitch? He approaches those strength tests with a little too much glee.
My mother enjoys that show a lot.
He’s trying to get catastrophic failures for the camera.
It’s part of the show. Maybe he does enjoy his job, but that’s no crime.
Except when they’re beautifully made blades. That just makes me cry.
I’m especially partial to a good Damascus. Some of those patterns are just stunning.
Do not mention double boilers to me.
I went to great lengths to get a vintage Pyrex double boiler WITH A LID.
It comes. I use it. I love it. I haz a happy.
Then my son broke the lid, making the vintage Pyrex double boiler almost worthless.
Ow. You’ve mentioned before that he’s a “breaky” fellow. I went through a stage at about 6-7 wherein everything I touched turned to dust. I broke enough mirrors that I’m unsure whether I’ll outlive the curse. Poor Grandma, she had the patience of Job.
Yes. He is indeed a breaky fellow.
I remember it like yesterday. I couldn’t help myself. Grandma cried, Grandpa kicked me in the bum.
It was like an out of body experience. I could be just standing there and shit would break. Who else gets tripped and tumbles down the stairs into the parlor window? If I ever believed in ghosty stuff it would have been back then. I was already a fretful child, I needed none of that.
I don’t use boiling water, but just get a pot of hot water and let the jar sit in it for a while. Normally liquifies just fine if I stir it around a little with the mentioned butter knife. And truth to what Mojeaux said below.
“Butter Knife”? Next thing you know the Glibertariat will start chiming in about “Poop Knives”. Which one is best, this one has features, EZY flick and the rest.
Get it up to about a 100 degrees and keep it there for a while.
No boiling water. Add no water.
I frequently microwave honey to liquefy it before I make mead.
Another good solution is to put the honey in a picnic cooler and fill it until the jars are almost covered with the hottest water you can get from your tap. Close it up and wait a couple of days.
DO NOT ADD WATER TO THE HONEY.
Since Kinnath is yelling, he must be right! I’m going to use that strategem, moving forward.
Cautiously encouraging news on the cancer front:
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/health-51182451
You get your car out?
Yes, thanks for asking. Just had to wait on a buddy with a tow rope to get off work, which means I missed work today, which means work on Saturday. Oh well. Could have been much worse.
That’s good. Back last week in the deep-freeze Wifey marked up her newish car. She also backed into someone with my truck last summer. She’s a competent driver but she gets lazy. I was worried about her state of mind awhile ago but that can probably be set in the over-cooked and fretful pile. Still wish she’d stop smashing metal, though.
The last crash that I caused was 9 years ago. Merging into traffic and some butthole decided to come to a complete stop while I was shoulder checking. Van full of screeching children. I gave up my bonafides and left the scene. My driving record was spotless so he got fixed for nothing and I used my tax return to repair the trusty Tacoma. I haven’t had a speeding ticket since 1991.
Sounds great but it seems like one of these stories pops up every few months and then you never hear about it again.
Yeah, that’s why added the cautiously to my link description. Even in the best case scenario, this probably won’t be useful to the public for at least a decade. Thanks, FDA.
Derp, the American public. I get excited while typing nonsensical snark and forget stuff.
Looks like your avatar is on point.
The Hippie abides.
Well crap
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lehrer
RIP
Don’t remember much about him. Was he fair?
He was an actual journalist.
The thing of about the phony period of impartial journalism that many of the journalists believed it themselves and actually strived towards that goal. Similar to the congeniality of politics. Lots of problems whitewashed over, but there were good points.
solid
Wichita, Marine
I still record the show, but it’s nowhere near as good
but few things are
Nothing is as good as it used to be Don. Don’t you even curmudgeon?
I think he tried to be.
Lady working at my go to coffee shop uses polite Japanese, speaks in normal volume and smiles, but it’s plain as day she is furious all the time. It’s weird.
Should be interesting when she finally snaps, huh?
I’m thinking ulcers will get her first.
Bleach and ammonia.
my soul sister
Ah! Now we learn the origin of Grindr!
Obviously not getting enough of the D, like a lot of females over here. Wish I could help…
Vitamin D? : )
SRV… good choice. Fine choice.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/23/queen-gives-approval-brexit-bill-officially-becomes-law-12111066/
Holy shit! This might actually happen!
As I said this morning, Britain is changing their status from subject to vassal of the EU.
Supposedly temporary – I haven’t seen any recent reporting on the details.
Tundra’s link is SF’ed
https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/23/queen-gives-approval-brexit-bill-officially-becomes-law-12111066/
Well. Spare on the details, that one is.
Outstanding work!
https://youtu.be/-zPDx6HQ_9w
The crossbow guy has really upped his game.
He’s got the best laugh.
Imagine what he’d be up to if he didn’t live in Germany.
Outstanding.
Well crap. Just found out that my good work buddy, and really best IRL friend apart from my wife, is probably going to take a medical retirement. I’ve been on the road so haven’t had a chance to chat directly for a few days. Dammit. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Music for my mood.
https://youtu.be/SPWDhYiHl44
Also, fuck shitty aircraft maintenance.
Kat Timpf’s sister is hot:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Ihlz-n8EC/?igshid=kuq5sai5xpug
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/ec/4f/d5ec4f733462d19b6a3ed1e87edafa6f.jpg
That looks expensive.
Doesn’t hot and expensive usually accompany each other?
Yes, I’m reefed and it took me that long to come up with a reply.
Would both.
I find Kat herself quite fetching.
She’s friends with Jerry Only. How could you not dig her off that alone? The glasses and cute butt do help though.
She strikes me as a ton of fun; there’s a whiff of Florida Woman about her, but I think that’s part of the attraction. Plus the glasses. Plus the butt.
I get the feeling she’d challenge me to a farting contest after a night of Chinese food and hard alcohol…my kinda gal.
But, but I thought that I was the only one… *Runs to his bedroom and slams the door, cranks up Thin Lizzy*
Something to regale the grandchildren with! “Remember when…?”
Great gams.
Yowsa! Now I go to the box and feel shame…
Uh oh. My gal and I, for reasons we can’t explain, honestly thought it was Friday night. She’s asleep, and I’m looking at some empty wine bottles and realizing that tomorrow morning will be…difficult.
Hmm. Oh well. Here’s a pretty little song from Birdcloud. “I’m saving myself for Jesus”. I love these two. They put on a crazy show.
That last line does not resonate.
@Hyperbole: You haz mail.
Where’s my mail? Now I feel like a Jack-Mormon… Harumph! Harumph I say!
I do not send gentlemen email if they have not first sent me some. It’s not proper. *haughty sniff*
*sensible chuckle* I like you Momo, yer alllllright!
Got it, Thanks again.
Found on Instapundit. Don’t fuck bananas.
OFFS. “Don’t do this if you’re allergic to bananas”. No shit, Sherlock.
I was going to ask what I missed today. I’m glad I didn’t.
@UCS: CLOTHES AND MONEY AND LUXURY AND COURT INTRIGUE!
*melty*
Now that I’ve squeed, very well done. Sadly, I have no criticisms to offer. You wrote what I like to read.
Well, it’s only part 1, I’m sure there’ll be opportunities for criticism by the end.
That stockpot of not-marinara I made yesterday?
Gone.
XY ate about 75% of it. I like that he loves my food, but geez, little dude.
I’ve not made marinara, but I’ve read if you’re making it from scratch using carrots adds the sweetness you need.
The recipe my mom used when I was a kid actually called for sugar. I don’t want sweet sauce, so unless I’ve put in too much salt, I don’t use sugar.
I made this last night and was promptly informed it is NOT marinara.
I saw it, I’m unaware of what makes or doesn’t make marinara, but in my experience it’s always sweeter than other pasta sauces.
Marinara is almost one of the mother sauces – it’s simple and is often a base for other things (like Mojo’s sauce). The meat and/or the mushrooms move it beyond simple marinara.
Thanks for that link. Very interesting. I am not a foodie, so I didn’t know there was such a family tree.
I personally believe that Hollandaise is a beverage.
The hamburger makes it NOT marinara.
Basil is the teensiest bit sweet-ish, or else it just mimics sweetness, and tomatoes are also the teensiest bit sweet. Onions also have sugar.
That looks tasty but, agreed, that’s not marinara.
You know; I’m growing tired of having to veil my own thoughts in my own artistic pursuits. Fuck it! If there’s another round resumes sent within my profession, I’m putting my name to the damn cartoons. I’ve grown sick of trying to hide.
Enjoy Polka?
I wish you nothing but the best, CPRM. Find your niche.
Are you an alien?!
I gravitate towards you sort.
ungrateful ingrates, the lot of ye!
Paging Pie. Pie to the white courtesy phone.
We already have nips. The straw just makes it sadder.
LOL I loved the straw. Juice boxes for adults.
I know you don’t drink, so take my word for it when I say drinking straight vodka out of a straw is a bad idea.
I also don’t use straws. 😉
Environut!
Straws are bullshit.
While straw bans are bullshit, sippy lids being more widely available is a big plus.
‘sippy lids’, one day you’ll be all growed up!
I just don’t like them. I also don’t like sippy lids. Just give me the damned glass and let me drink like normal people.
Then again, I drink A LOT of water and I tend to chug it, so straws and sippy lids defeat my purpose.
I find I actually drink more faster through a straw. Probably why this crops up in ‘drinking’ debates.
‘sippy lids’, one day you’ll be all growed up!
It’s a tongue-in-cheek reference. It’s a return to lids of my youth.
Shiny plastered people holding hands! Shiny plastered people holding haaaaaaaa–aaaa—aands!
Just the thing for the kiddies’ lunchboxes!
Right?!
Ooooh, plot bunny!
My brother got a “Land of the Giants” lunchbox when he started first grade and I never got to go to school at all. This is where my envy started. Wait! Not true, he got to go see the Batman movie with Dad but I couldn’t go because I was “too little”. God damn, no wonder I was such a surly boy.
Wait, why did you not get to go to school at all?
Of course but they didn’t have kindergarden at the time. Talk about feeling left out. Davy and I are pretty much “Irish Twins”. We learned everything together. That’s why I could read at three.
My brother is still mad he got taken to Dollywood instead of Disney World like the rest of us 30 years on; people hold grudges. I don’t get it myself, probably why I get called an asshole so much.
Checks out, I would have been two at the time.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/what-happens-when-you-dont-vote-in-a-federal-election/8786684
Go. Fuck. Yourself. you sniveling little shit.
(No you mojo! The clickbait writer)
Every fascist thugs in that country should be eating a 100% lead diet. Which is why they’ve officially disarmed their population and turned law abiders into unconvicted criminals.
LOL No, I knew exactly what you meant because I had the exact same reaction!
That article is just infuriating. The guy doesn’t like any of the assholes and doesn’t want to vote for any of them. And why didn’t he read the letters he was sent? He’s illiterate. Fucking Australia is fining and illiterate man for not voting. Of course, not being able to read a summons is no defense. And the thug commission’s lawyers get to add their fees onto the judgment, which will be taken out of his pension in $5 increments.
And those assholes are persecuting thousands of supposed citizens after every election.
Yeah, being forced to vote isn’t the same thing as having the right to.
#MakeAustraliaAPenalColonyAgain
Watching The Witcher. It’s Q-approved, I suspect.
Hope you played the 3rd game, because if not it’s damn confusing (speaking as someone who played the first two games and not the third before watching)
確率変動中
https://youtu.be/pXSxA3gWCxs
¥1 pachinko. I won $10!
Who knew you could make big money with little silver balls? Well, besides Winston’s mom.
It’s stupid, cheap fun. I play once a blue moon.
Right back atcha Straff.
Ok.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3aBmcsCrOyg
That is some weak softcore porn. No wonder America won the war.
With this one you get to squeeze a rubber booby when you play.
https://machine.p-gabu.jp/guideworks/machinecontents/detail/5464
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“3 Proud Hill”. It’s right there in the name.
Whiny little bitch.
Jesse approves.
You’re not wrong.
I finally understand why he likes bears.
That’s a girl bear tho.
Better not tell Jesse.
Makes me want to find a picinic baskaet!
Mojo! Don’t trust bear! Bear is ass hole!
https://cantrellandcochrane.com/imgs/4cc03a58910258584fa22590195066e7.jpg
NSFW.
Holy Heavy Hangers, Batman!
Dumb AOC Accidentally Strangles Herself Tying Her Shoes (Because She Is So Stupid)
That is some piss poor satire.
Agreed. I thought it was a Nee knock-off satirizing the Bee.
This was just 5th-grade boy playground “humor.”
Bee* knock-off
Dollars to donuts tomorrow’s a snow day. *sigh*
what’s that down there, like 3”?
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/497/609/819.jpg
It’s whatever the insurance company tells the district they aren’t covered for.
Snow days are about the bus routes, and we’ve got a lot of narrow, hilly, curvy rural roads in our district.
Today, my son’s bus got stuck and another bus rolled over.
Agreed – they’re normally much, much better than that.
That’s bad enough that I feel like I’m missing a joke…
I think they are mocking their critics. The piece is so obvious and over the top. It’s like a progressive satire of their own work.
Whatever will convince you I suppose. ‘It wasn’t funny because they’re pointing out how unfunny the no funny…’
That’s what happens when I don’t get hired, things go down hill real fast.
It’s a shiny, flashing troll at their critics.
I hope that is just a failed meta joke.
That’s what it is.
Can I get an OFFS?
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/01/23/important-doomsday-clock-reset-thursday-to-just-100-seconds-before-midnight/
10 seconds to love?!
The antidote after too many Bloomberg commercials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6G2Vtt08s0
Take my vote!
Alt right, I must retire now to my Study. I’m classy like that.
The NBA regular season has become unwatchable. Travel, 3, alley oop. Rinse and repeat. They’ve rendered every stat meaningless when compared to previous eras. Too bad.
Well, they’re knocking the socks off of previous eras in the “Money from China” category at least.
No kidding. They recover from the cocaine era by selling out to the meth dealer today. 🙁
Moar cowbell
https://youtu.be/_rlUQsC8ECk
No, young man! THIS is how one cowbells! https://youtu.be/qFhM1XZsh6o
Yet another California fail.
https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-01-23/california-red-wine-spill-cabernet-sauvignon
Might not some consider it an improvement?
Mornin’, Sean!
Mornin’
I don’t think the river will notice. The wine will be too diluted to cause any issues outside of the immediate area of where it entered the waterway.
Just for visual reference – here’s a picture of The river in question. 100k gallons in that isn’t going to do much, especially if it’s just wine.
Some other types of spills, sure. But not wine.
Stop being so rational.
This is California, that wine may cause cancer!!!!!
This is California – so might the river!
Can fish get drunk? Let’s find out!
Space cookies!
https://www.wfmz.com/news/first-space-baked-cookies-took-hours-in-experimental-oven/article_588b641c-4693-5c5d-9d69-ad2e10bb8343.html
Hours? Cookies are supposed to bake in ten minutes..
Well, if you can’t even get the oven up to cookie baking temperatures, no wonder it takes forever.
Taking the afternoon off to visit our local Humane Society in hopes of adopting a couple of kittehs. This little guy is a possible contender.
Is the tissue box included?
If that’s where he feels safe, I imagine they’d throw it in. Bonus!
Tissue box? Aaaah. I just thought perhaps he was one of these.
“The webpage will not show this image anonymously.” : (
Oh! THERE it is! ::looks at image:: …two half cats???
It’s a trap. JD is trying to turn your computer into a rooshan bot.
Totes adorbs.