I've got an idea! How about we just stick to the Constitution as written and then the government can leave me the fuck alone.
448 Comments
CPRM
on March 1, 2020 at 6:04 pm
I know first?
Plinker762
on March 1, 2020 at 8:22 pm
This whole “first” thing really degrades the site and turns off people from joining. I come here for quality rape squatch discussions, not this kind of drivel.
Spudalicious
on March 1, 2020 at 8:26 pm
And Q’s titty posts.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 10:02 pm
Plus, funny misspellings. And, quality bitching!
Wait….
MikeS
on March 1, 2020 at 6:10 pm
I know seconds!
CPRM
on March 1, 2020 at 6:12 pm
My first first and I don’t think any of gif givers are on. 🙁
MikeS
on March 1, 2020 at 6:17 pm
??
OBJ FRANKELSON
on March 1, 2020 at 6:11 pm
U haven’t been this early since my ancestors started wrecking monasteries in North Umbria!
OBJ FRANKELSON
on March 1, 2020 at 6:14 pm
OFFS! Now you decide to friggin not autocorrect me.
*I haven’t
Christ on a cracker.
Jarflax
on March 1, 2020 at 6:12 pm
Orders received General! And will be carried out.
Not Adahn
on March 1, 2020 at 6:13 pm
I think so Brain, but where will we find eighty pounds of camel butter at this time of night?
MikeS
on March 1, 2020 at 6:18 pm
Narf!
gbob
on March 1, 2020 at 6:18 pm
I was wondering what we were going to do tonight.
Aloysious
on March 1, 2020 at 6:33 pm
Try to take over the world?
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 10:03 pm
Brain–you’ll find it where you always find camel butter at night.
Winston’s Mom.
gbob
on March 1, 2020 at 6:16 pm
So with Buttigieg’s campaign prolapsing, with a painful sucking sound as it pulls out, there really isn’t a candidate who appears even slightly sane. Amy, perhaps, but she has no shot.
This is totally going to be a brokered convention. To be honest? I’m a little interested. Conventions have been boring since 1968
The Bernie bros are going to riot.
God damned, this is going to be a blast.
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 6:21 pm
Finally the answer to Ross Perot’s “great sucking sound” question.
OBJ FRANKELSON
on March 1, 2020 at 6:25 pm
Special K probably reminds too many people of their middle school principal.
OBJ FRANKELSON
on March 1, 2020 at 6:31 pm
What do you think the line is on a repeat of the ’68 Democratic Convention?
I think all the pieces are there, a Republican nominee that is reviled by the left, a Democratic party desperately trying to keep itself from drifting off into crazy town and a bunch of radicals with a demonstrated penchant for roiting.
MikeS
on March 1, 2020 at 6:34 pm
…and on the shores of Lake Michigan.
OBJ FRANKELSON
on March 1, 2020 at 6:41 pm
Good point. I give it at least even money for to devolving into a literal dumpster fire.
Might be a good time for any Milwaukee Glibs and the guys at Red Letter Media might want to look at using up some vacation time.
I see this more devolving into Campaign 1972 than 1968. The GOP candidate reviled by the Dems who respond by going waaaaaay left and nominate a candidate despised by most of the country.
I don’t see the 520-17 final electoral college count (with NY, CA, NJ and MA any Dem has 107 votes) but I see a big win for Trump.
dbleagle
on March 1, 2020 at 9:54 pm
I am going to reopen HST’s “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972”. I have read each prez election year since 1976. I think this year it will be eerily prophetic.
“Pete believes this is the right thing to do for our country, for our party and for Americans across the country eager to heal our divided nation, defeat this president and work to fix our broken politics,” a campaign aide said ahead of Buttigieg’s expected comments Sunday night.
You know, the nation wouldn’t be so divided if they stopped calling everyone racist Rushun spies.
MikeS
on March 1, 2020 at 6:21 pm
Yeah, I might believe him if the comment didn’t bemoan our “divided nation” while simultaneously implying it is all because of Orangemanbad.
Yeah, remember all those republican-led bans on avocado toast, fixies and man-buns? Who can blame the east coasters for being bitter after all those midwesteners decided to dictate how people should live.
Gotta admit that his explanation of why he said, “I’m running for US senate” makes sense. Of course, all Wallace had to do to find out if it was taken out of context was to play the previous sentence or two. And he didn’t. Journalists today… smdh
MikeS
on March 1, 2020 at 6:29 pm
And he picks herself for VP?
AlmightyJB
on March 1, 2020 at 6:31 pm
Or Lou Reed.
gbob
on March 1, 2020 at 6:31 pm
He has Alzheimers, hes not suicidal.
OBJ FRANKELSON
on March 1, 2020 at 6:52 pm
Nah I’d say Fauxchautus as an a attempted sop to the crazies or a purple state Dem Govenor Hickenlooper maybe?
Rhywun
on March 1, 2020 at 7:02 pm
It will definitely be a woman.
Sean
on March 1, 2020 at 7:03 pm
But not Tulsi.
*Sad trombone*
J. Frank Parnell
on March 1, 2020 at 7:07 pm
Probably Warren, partly because muh diversity and partly in a futile attempt to pull the Berniebros back in.
westernsloper
on March 1, 2020 at 7:21 pm
Stacey Voter Suppression Abrams
AlmightyJB
on March 1, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Seems logical, which is why it’s probably wrong.
creech
on March 1, 2020 at 6:46 pm
Is this a good time for either Biden or Bloomie to go to AmyK or Warren and say “if you drop out now and endorse me, i’ll put you on my ticket?” [I’m sure that’s a quid pro quo but probably only illegal if Trump did it.]
Stinky Wizzleteats
on March 1, 2020 at 6:56 pm
Only if they get double crossed later because either one of them is a ticket killer.
Tres Cool
on March 1, 2020 at 6:32 pm
So I spent the afternoon under Jugsy’s truck, replacing a section of brake line that had a pin-hole leak.
New line, couple of compression fittings…..off to the races. Then- I stripped (not broke off which is my usual MO) the bleeder on the affected caliper.
Anyone ever mess with those Dorman repair kits for bleeders ?
OBJ FRANKELSON
on March 1, 2020 at 6:36 pm
Have you tried vice grips and blind rage?
Tres Cool
on March 1, 2020 at 6:48 pm
Oh its nice and loose. Thats the problem. I backed the bleeder out and the threads were packed full of aluminum caliper.
OBJ FRANKELSON
on March 1, 2020 at 6:59 pm
Tap and die’s no good?
Plinker762
on March 1, 2020 at 7:04 pm
Looks like an easy repair. Drill and Tao for a new bleeder and seat. How much is a new caliper?
Tres Cool
on March 1, 2020 at 7:10 pm
$60 for re-man
On a truck with 192K on her ticker. Hence the ‘do it cheap’ part.
Plinker762
on March 1, 2020 at 7:27 pm
I get it. I’ve owned a lot of old vehicles but I now figure in my time to rebuild parts vs buying reman.
Make sure the brake line fitting comes out sans aluminum.
DrOtto
on March 1, 2020 at 9:49 pm
Envoy 4.2 correct? Rust will kill it before that engine dies. That 4.2 I6 is good for over 300k. Inline sixes are naturally balanced so they seemingly live forever.
Yusef drives a Kia
on March 1, 2020 at 6:36 pm
Dude, glutton for punishment? that’s a young mans Problem, pay for it already..
Tall Cans!
Tres Cool
on March 1, 2020 at 6:48 pm
Iknowrite?
Lackadaisical
on March 1, 2020 at 9:36 pm
these euphemisms just keep getting dirtier.
Yusef drives a Kia
on March 1, 2020 at 6:39 pm
When in BhC, Jimmy’s Burgers for Mexican food, very Cali style, very good….
Derpetologist
on March 1, 2020 at 6:39 pm
a humor warm-up
Queen Bee in Favor of Hive System
A TREE HOLLOW – The queen bee of a local hive reported satisfaction with her species’ caste system. “Aside from the egg laying, it’s a pretty good job”, said the queen. However, several local drones voiced grievances ranging from decreased honey rations to a royal jelly embezzlement scandal. In response, the queen said that “we all know it isn’t a perfect system, but it’s the best one there is. It’s fine to say it would be better if the drones worked less and reproduced more, but how is it possible?” The queen later added that their efforts are better spent on passing common sense stinger control. “If it saves the life of even one larva, it’s worth it”, she added. The queen also pointed to progress in allowing private geo-location dance classes for underprivileged drones.
Not Adahn
on March 1, 2020 at 6:57 pm
All the drones do is reproduce and die.
Derpetologist
on March 1, 2020 at 7:09 pm
Oopsy, I mixed them up with workers.
This is what I get for doing entomology while drunk.
Naw, it’s too sweet, best if cut with equal parts Krupnik.
Not Adahn
on March 1, 2020 at 7:29 pm
Steel Challenge registration is open for next week. It looks like the RO class is taking over on the 15th. That should be the last RO class interference — they’re bringing in some Official Instructor(tm) to get everyone certified.
Is it really over (or winding down over the rest of this year)? How come it isn’t even being reported here?
Stinky Wizzleteats
on March 1, 2020 at 6:58 pm
News with positive repercussions for you know who is verboten.
juris imprudent
on March 1, 2020 at 8:02 pm
We’re only pulling out part way, the tip is still in there. If the Taliban are smart, they’ll play nice until we’re gone. I’m not putting money on that.
Tejicano
on March 1, 2020 at 8:07 pm
How is this an example of how bad Orangeman is? Nothing to see here, no-sir-ee!
After a month of being a vegetarian, today is an orgy of meat. Bacon for breakfast…just bacon. A really nice strip steak for lunch, and burgers for tonight. I go to the fridge, and it turns out my woman picked up 85/15 beef instead of 80/20. For the love of god. I need that fat!
Ouch! I’m a man who loves my fat, but that’s a bridge too far!
Tres Cool
on March 1, 2020 at 7:14 pm
Im with Bob- 80/20 is the ideal ratio for burgers, specially when grilled. Ill get 85/15 or 90/10 if i plan on meatloaf or tacos.
Rhywun
on March 1, 2020 at 7:33 pm
I’m torn. I like the easier cleanup of 90/10 but the 80/20 is cheaper. I don’t really notice a taste difference.
juris imprudent
on March 1, 2020 at 8:05 pm
Ground beef? For tacos?
I just pulled 15lbs of beautifully cooked brisket off the Traeger. All for shredded beef. Waiting for it to cool to finish the pull/chop and pack up for freezing.
And people wonder why seniors vote in such high numbers.
61North
on March 1, 2020 at 7:04 pm
I posted a few months ago about the widowed lady down the street and I thought she was looking for something. Well, she is emphatically NOT looking for something. At least from me. Oh well. Hahaha.
Maybe it was too soon for her. I don’t know. All I know is that I haven’t misread signals like that in a long time.
juris imprudent
on March 1, 2020 at 8:08 pm
I’m so glad I’m married – I was always lousy at reading signals (mostly missed as it turns out). I’m not even on the damn spectrum!
61North
on March 1, 2020 at 8:11 pm
I told a female friend the details and even she was confused as to how I got turned down.
creech
on March 1, 2020 at 8:32 pm
Chances are she unexpectedly turns up at your house in a month or so wearing nothing but a raincoat.
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 7:37 pm
Emphatically NOT counts as consent. Get in there.
Tejicano
on March 1, 2020 at 7:50 pm
Good for you for giving it a try. Nothing to lose and sounded like something to gain.
Besides, now that the idea has been breached sometimes it ends up with a late evening phone call “for some coffee” or other some such…
Lackadaisical
on March 1, 2020 at 9:45 pm
heh, I remember. good job on trying. you’ll get the next one.
Derpetologist
on March 1, 2020 at 7:07 pm
♫ Biden makes a gaffe…we all point and laugh…not so smart…a real bad start…he’s a lame-o….Sniffs hair of little girls! Palms to grease…and stuff hide…He’s a lame-o
Lying dog-faced pony soldier! Corn to pop and chains to swing, he’s weirdo….
Went to the zoo with the wife and kids today. Wife still has a lingering cough from a cold she caught. People were giving her strange looks whenever she coughed. Was tempted to jokingly say “I can’t believe they let you out of quarantine”. Probably best I didn’t start a stampede.
grrizzly
on March 1, 2020 at 8:16 pm
I’m trying not to tell anyone that I returned from Japan only 10 days ago. And I don’t even have a cold.
When I was checking in for my flight to Tokyo in Chicago in February, the agent noticed that I had a Chinese visa in my passport. I had to reassure her that my last trip to China was in 2018. Nobody had ever noticed any visas in my passports unless they had to verify that I had one for that specific trip.
Tejicano
on March 1, 2020 at 8:50 pm
I’m not sure what they would make of my passport. I live in Japan (actually at the epicenter of the biggest community outbreak here – but that doesn’t show up on the passport) and I was just in China in the middle of December.
grrizzly
on March 1, 2020 at 8:58 pm
Where in Japan? I was in Yokohama the day before they started releasing passengers from the cruise ship. I even tried to avoid the Chinatown there and yet when I had coffee on Motocho Street there was a guy sitting next to me sneezing and coughing all the time.
Tejicano
on March 1, 2020 at 9:10 pm
I don’t know how much these details are reported in the US press. There were three women who tested positive who all are members of the same gym near where I live. My wife is a member there and both my kids take ping pong lessons there. I heard that my city is being referred to nationwide as “Corona Town”.
Yusef drives a Kia
on March 1, 2020 at 7:28 pm
When I was young it was Kill the Old! and take their money!
Now it’s, Kill the Hippies, that’s it, they have no money…….
“A Defence of Poetry” is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley …… It contains Shelley’s famous claim that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”.
Ah, Shelley. Man of the future. Politicization of Everything, Culture Wars and Cancel Culture were so obvious even then
Been watching Remington Steele this weekend. Stephanie Zimbalist was hot.
Tres Cool
on March 1, 2020 at 7:35 pm
def wood
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 7:35 pm
See the new Doctor Who?
Sean
on March 1, 2020 at 7:43 pm
Nope. Tapped out @ episode 3 for Jodi last year. So bad.
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 7:44 pm
You’ll love the new twist in the finale that aired today. /Sarc
Rhywun
on March 1, 2020 at 7:47 pm
Oh do tell. Nobody’s watching it any more.
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 7:49 pm
The Doctor is original a girl (black I think?) not from Gallifrey with infinite regenerations and the Time Lords stole the ability to regenerate from her.
Rhywun
on March 1, 2020 at 8:11 pm
Uh this show is never going to end, is it.
Not Adahn
on March 1, 2020 at 8:23 pm
All NuWho since Moffat took over have progressed thusly:
Put The Doctor into a situation which it impossible to get out of.
Resolve the situation by breaking canon and giving him a new superpower.
Tres Cool
on March 1, 2020 at 7:57 pm
Honestly, I quit after that Capaldi guy started.
However, and I think I mentioned it before- Hugh Laurie as Dr Who.
Moonlighting was awesome! Right up until they banged.
Rhywun
on March 1, 2020 at 10:22 pm
Neither of those shows was in the rotation in my house growing up. It’s a good bet I’m more familiar with whatever they were programmed against.
l0b0t
on March 2, 2020 at 3:21 am
#metoo
Down in rural SW Florida in the 1980s, CATV service stopped about 1/4 mile away from our house. The population density was too low for Storer Cable to run the lines. Via our giant mast antenna, we received local CBS and NBC affiliates but not ABC. I never saw much of what ABC had to offer.
Toxteth O’Grady
on March 1, 2020 at 10:27 pm
I miss Moonlighting reruns. “What kind of clothes do you suppose would be worn by a man with a mole on his nose?”
Drake
on March 1, 2020 at 8:24 pm
Yes, definitely my type.
Chafed
on March 1, 2020 at 8:25 pm
You are correct, sir!
/Ed McMahon voice
Gustave Lytton
on March 1, 2020 at 9:23 pm
Yes she was. Totally hit all of the right notes then and now for me.
He’s the candidate of class warfare, not on behalf of the poor, but of young wealthy people seeking more power and influence at the expense of the more established wealth of an older generation. It’s tech industry bros warring for influence with fossil fuel titans, not for the poor, but for themselves.
Bernie’s base is much less than 1%. Call it the 0.001%. A wealthy and influential young lefty elite with disproportionate influence over the internet is setting the nation’s agenda using digital media, tech dominance, and the Weekend at Bernie’s campaign of a senile socialist who barely knows where he is and won’t release his medical records after a heart attack because they will show he’s barely there.
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 7:38 pm
The Rich and powerful have always been the biggest socialists.
Also I don’t think it was a coincidence that classical liberalism died once the pietist religious groups gained political and economic power.
creech
on March 1, 2020 at 8:25 pm
Probably not in 1919 Soviet Union?
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 8:37 pm
Well the Bolsheviks were in biggest in the cities:
The bottom line was that the Bolsheviks received between 22% and 25%[17] of the vote, albeit as clear winners in Russia’s urban centers and among soldiers on the “Western Front” (two-thirds of those soldiers’ votes). In the city of Moscow, for example, the Bolsheviks won 47.9% of the votes, the Constitutional Democrats (Kadets) 35.7% and the SRs 8.1 percent.[18] While losing the urban vote, the Socialist-Revolutionary Party received around 57-58% (62% with their social democratic allies), having won the massive support of the rural peasantry who constituted 80% of the Russian population.
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 10:17 pm
Lenin’s dad was ennobled also…
commodious spittoon
on March 1, 2020 at 7:40 pm
Anyone remember that article from awhile back suggesting that the new class distinction isn’t material wealth, which has become less and less apparent, but in expensive beliefs? And that the expensive beliefs of the rich are in fact much costlier for the underclasses that embrace it to enhance their own standings.
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 7:51 pm
A wealthy and influential young lefty elite with disproportionate influence over the internet is setting the nation’s agenda using digital media, tech dominance
These people were supposed to be libertarian, right?
creech
on March 1, 2020 at 8:26 pm
That’s about what “Wired’s” libertarian founders were saying back in the day.
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 8:32 pm
So what happened to those founders?
And yeah it was assumed that our current internet outrage culture would be a libertarian one. Glad that didn’t backfire!
Tulip
on March 1, 2020 at 7:37 pm
Chili is done and resting in the fridge. It’s really mild, gentle heat in the back of the throat. We’ll see how it is tomorrow.
Akira
on March 1, 2020 at 7:41 pm
Nice.
I have some gyudon + broccoli on the stove (not traditional, but fairly healthy and damn tasty). There’s a bigass tub of tomato meat sauce in the fridge from last night as well.
I really need to start that cooking website I’ve always been talking about.
Tulip
on March 1, 2020 at 7:42 pm
Or write stuff here
Derpetologist
on March 1, 2020 at 7:41 pm
Is it pining for the fjords?
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 7:38 pm
Sketchers or New Balance?
MikeS
on March 1, 2020 at 7:39 pm
Sketchers
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 7:40 pm
Just bought a pair of both. You are correct.
Rhywun
on March 1, 2020 at 7:46 pm
I bought a pair of Skechers once. They fell apart within six months. Never again.
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 7:48 pm
*looks at shoes*. Huh, there isn’t a “t”.
MikeS
on March 1, 2020 at 7:51 pm
Yeah. I knew that. Was waiting for you to notice.
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 7:54 pm
Skech is a stupid word.
Tres Cool
on March 1, 2020 at 8:17 pm
If you don’t wear these, you may as well carry a purse full of tampax.
MikeS
on March 1, 2020 at 7:49 pm
Wow. The half dozen or so I’ve owned have held up much longer than that. And my wife has been wearing nothing but Sketchers for 5+ years now and never had a complaint.
Sean
on March 1, 2020 at 7:53 pm
I had several pairs of their @work shoes. They’ve been awesome.
I don’t have them in the rotation anymore, but they were probably the best fitting shoe I’ve ever owned. I’m wearing Saucony now.
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 7:40 pm
But more deeply, “Affluent white men who don’t like being told what to do are by far the most important constituency for libertarianism. Such men would consider it a dreadful imposition to have to pay, whether directly or indirectly, for the right to drive a car or use air conditioning.”
This created a steady-state in which the climate steadily worsened and libertarians steadily denied that their cities were underwater, on fire, or gripped by pandemics, repeating expensive talking points about solar cycles or crooked scientists who were hoping to dismantle capitalism (IOW: “Reality has a well-known leftist bias”).
Global warming is the ultimate refutation of Lockean propertarianism. No one can pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere while leaving “enough and as good” for everyone else. It has taken thirty years, but this undeniable fact has finally killed the propertarian movement in the United States.
“libertarians steadily denied that their cities were underwater, on fire, or gripped by pandemics”
Guilty as charged
Rhywun
on March 1, 2020 at 8:17 pm
*looks out window*
Yep, not on fire or underwater. Go fuck yourself, Cory.
Tejicano
on March 1, 2020 at 8:27 pm
I just looked out the window here. I guess, since it’s raining you “could” say that the city is under water. But that would be a stretch to expect me to buy into their panic.
Derpetologist
on March 1, 2020 at 8:09 pm
“Affluent white men who don’t like being told what to do”
Here, let me fix that:
“people who don’t like being told what to do”
Hmm, still too wordy.
“people”
Ah, that’s it.
Everyone is a capitalist when it comes to their own wallet and everyone is an anarchist when it comes to their own life.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 10:43 pm
straight-up climate denial
The fuck is he talking about? Whatever this “climate” bullshit is… makin’ shit up.
Oh boy. People murdered because they are trans comes up.
Wasn’t that debunked?
If you need to lie to make your point, you don’t have a point.
Plinker762
on March 1, 2020 at 8:18 pm
Yes, they have one of the lowest rates.
Plinker762
on March 1, 2020 at 8:17 pm
The streets run red with transgender blood.
juris imprudent
on March 1, 2020 at 8:19 pm
Comments turned off. Hmmm.
61North
on March 1, 2020 at 8:20 pm
HMMMMMMMMMMM
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 10:46 pm
What great reporting–asking a, what, six year old what they would do (policy) as President.
JD is Unemployed
on March 2, 2020 at 6:44 am
I once met a girl in a bar, from Austin, over here in Blightly fucking her fiancee’s brother while he was deployed in one of those foreverwar places (about which they were remarkably candid). She was a dark-skinned lass, and said earnestly to us that “Texas outside of Austin is scary“, apparently never having been out of Austin. I dunno. My buddy, being a sunuvabitch, had latched onto something else she said and pressed the point to start a “RAAACCCEE WAAAARRR” argument about whatever it was between her and the brother, mostly because he’s occasionally a bit a of an obnoxious SJW and actually believed what he was saying, but also because I think he enjoyed pouring the gas and lighting the match, so to speak.
***
Homocil focuses on the unhappy parents of obviously gay male children, who can’t run right, who like to bake creme brulee, make sequined dresses and perform as a male cheerleader.
It starts off with what looks like an ad about depression, with a blue-tinged picture of a man sadly staring out the window, with the narrator asking, “Do you suffer from inexplicable anxiety? Are you confused an upset? Do you have an overwhelming feeling that you’ve done something wrong? You can’t control whether he is or isn’t” — an image of the man’s son twirling a baton fades by — “But you can control how it affects you. Homocil can provide relief from Parental Anxiety Disorder.”
***
Enjoy that purity spiral, you window licking trash humpers!
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 8:06 pm
When that originally aired would the socons have been the only ones who complained?
Funny. A guy I used to work with – 20 years with the SAS and lots of similar work after that – told me how his family was doing their best to try to shield him from the knowledge that his son is gay. He thought it was funny since first, it didn’t matter so much to him (he loved his son regardless), and second because he had figured this out years before. After decades working in close quarters with lots of men – in industries where almost all the participants were men – from different backgrounds and had a very finely tuned gaydar.
For whatever reason, I am irrationally enraged (okay, uber irritated) by his appropriation of “princess.” No, asshole, you’re a dude, not a bad-ass GI Jane.
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Spudalicious
on March 1, 2020 at 8:21 pm
Getting the pizza oven dialed in. It’s nice to be able to eat the mistakes.
I charred my pizza badly tonight. “Another 30 seconds” turned into 5 minutes as I was talking with the wife. I ate the 3 least carbonized pieces and bummed off my wife’s (well cooked) pizza for a 4th.
MikeS
on March 1, 2020 at 8:26 pm
I was talking with the wife
Rookie mistake
Spudalicious
on March 1, 2020 at 8:28 pm
Yeah, getting the air temperature high enough to balance the deck temperature is my nemesis. I was cutting crust off tonight.
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 8:31 pm
“I was cutting crust off tonight.“
/Buttigeig
Derpetologist
on March 1, 2020 at 8:36 pm
Throw out your hands! Stick out your tush! Hands on your hips! Give them a push! Don’t be surprised you’re doing the French mistake, voila!
The next semester has been delayed pretty much country-wide. Friends had last week off. I was supposed to start today but corp has closed all campuses throughout the country and now the semester starts NEXT Monday.
It has been breathtakingly stupid seeing everyone wearing masks everywhere they go. I honestly cannot think of anything that would compel or make all Americans do something similar–this is what homogenization I suppose can do for a nation/people.
YES. I still don’t wash my hands after taking a piss. I learned how not to piss on myself decades ago. It just isn’t a big deal. Neither is this flu, IMO. I pretty much hope that I get it just so I can show everyone how much of a pussy this new boxer is. Full disclosure: I have never had the flu in my life. This is wheat being dirty as a child gets you. Resilience.
Lady and I are on a frayed rope. She has broken up with me….and I think that’s probably for the best. I don’t like what she’s asking and I know I can’t give her what she wants out of a relationship. Frankly she has been dealing with it like a person who doesn’t have any grown-up experience with relationships, though I can’t exactly tell what the causes are. She’s both younger than me, less experienced and South African (so cultural differences). Shake those up and you get Angry Lady.
Being able to go out and talk with friends and have (for me) a normal life again has been reawakening. I even got to perform (me on drum kit, acoustic guitar and bassist) for play in front of an audience. Most importantly, I finally have my own Sphere of Solitude where I can be me and enjoy life in my own way.
It’s amazing being around people who have made this ex-pat decision. I don’t always, or even often, agree with them about shit, but we all overlap because we were willing and wanting to flee whatever we had come from. It makes me happy to talk to them.
I hope everyone is well!
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 8:39 pm
Wash your hands. The flu, corona or whatever may not kill you, but you don’t wanna give it to a weaker person. And I’m glad to here you’re back in the neighborhood.
Evan from Evansville
on March 1, 2020 at 8:49 pm
Nope. The world needs people like me. Urine is inherently a discharge of liquid from the body. Don’t drink it (really, for flavor reasons rather than disease) but it ain’t gonna kill you under anything resembling normal circumstances.
People need to be exposed to dirt that got assembled on a jungle gym. All of these masks and washing and paranoia is just fear and (honestly) authoritarianism taking over.
I mean most of what I just typed. I am a natural contrarian, but it is an issue that I enjoy being on the ‘Wrong Side’ of. The world is dangerous. People should get used to that.
Sorry to hear about the end of your relationship but it seems you are finding the silver lining(s) to this new life.
Sounds like the timing of your arrival worked in your favor. Welcome back to Asia!
Funny you mention “fleeing whatever we had come from..” I don’t really feel that I was fleeing as much as moving towards something I wanted more at the time. I guess there are some aspects of having fled but those points seem to have become more pronounced over the years/decades.
Evan from Evansville
on March 1, 2020 at 8:56 pm
“Funny you mention “fleeing whatever we had come from..”’
There is something to that here, where the expats really do all know each other<–this isn't true in Seoul which has too many faces for us to keep track of. Daejeon is about the size of Indianapolis (1.5 or so million people) with about 2.5-3k expats, most teachers but not all.
I didn't FLEE America but felt like this was my best way of getting a paycheck. I graduated in 2009 and shit sucked for a boy like me to get paid/laid and create something. Last night (and others on this first week) I hung out with a 21-year-old who has been here for a couple of years. I came in December of 2009 and have spent the last decade in Asia. It was odd and interesting being the Elder Statesman as now I'm only at the end of my 32nd year. I honestly think I handled it quite well. Feels good to help a person who is going through what I went though–even though I did it over a decade ago and things have indeed changed.
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 9:01 pm
Glibs are my expat friends at least in feeling. I used to hang out with the expat community in the early years, but now I spend almost all my time with the natives. I find most Westerners at least as boring as the Japanese, but the Westerners are less polite.
Evan from Evansville
on March 1, 2020 at 9:17 pm
MY response to this comment would require an essay to get my full feelings across, so I’ll be brief.
I think that is a tremendously interesting take on life over hear and would love to hear more. Koreans tend to be incredibly boring people, though my contrarian brain-frame and my not being Korean are assuredly responsible for that.
You are also older than me and have a family and can speak the language. My Korean works out but is shit. Those are the obvious differences. I’m also just happy to be on my own again. Last year was a rough one, but being back in my Asian home town is lovely.
I do my best to embrace the things that are different than the things that I grew up with. Being angry or upset with things is rarely an emotion that makes the situation better.
Oh, how I love being a weiguk over here.
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 9:24 pm
I don’t care if you live in Taipei, Cairo or Scranton, you have to find a way to exist with those around you. I’ve seen so many foreigners come around with chips on their shoulders. This or that is bad here. If I ever hear, “Back in Canada…” again, I’m gonna lose it. Go back if it’s so much better.
Evan from Evansville
on March 1, 2020 at 9:45 pm
Totally agree.
To be short, When In Rome. Totally true. I hate when people here not only don’t learn the Korean ALPHABET, but are abjectly opposed to doing so. It’s not that hard to get under one’s belt. Yet many people here don’t put out the short effort to do so.
Those are expats that I don’t relate with.
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 9:54 pm
If you stay long enough you’ll a) eventually buckle down and learn the language b) not learn the language, get disillusioned and leave c) not learn the language and stay, living a shallow life filled with resentment. You seem like an a) type.
Timeloose
on March 1, 2020 at 9:55 pm
Agreed. You gotta be happy where you live. If not start looking to change your location.
Tejicano
on March 1, 2020 at 10:24 pm
Yeah, you have to live comfortably in the place you are and need to be connected to it somehow.
I enjoy being the foreigner who is both connected to my nationality while having connections to this country in ways that few foreigners do.
I was in the US Army reserves drilling on a local Army base for years and as a retiree still go to the local bases for shopping. On the other hand, I also have connections to groups where I am obviously the only non-Japanese (though in some cases I know there are one or two Chinese or Koreans). I have been a member of a Buddhist temple where I am the only obviously non-Japanese and I also have been in professional organizations where all members held government issued credentials which each of us had to take classes and test for all in Japanese.
Lifestyle shows were an unlikely bulwark against consumer culture. Even if you didn’t follow their advice to the letter, they pulled back the curtain of consumer goods and showed how you could create things in your own home from a mixture of raw materials and ingenuity, be that an MDF shelving unit or a home-cooked curry. Because these shows were broadcast on the BBC, which needed to avoid mentioning brand names and appeal to a broad range of income brackets, there was a natural tendency towards recycling and mending.
….
But it’s a shame none of them are being watched by young people, many of whom will be living for the first time in their own home, which they need to furnish from scratch. Young people are an unfortunate contradiction when it comes to environmental issues: though a record number of those between 18 and 24 see the environment as a pressing political issue, they also spend more on takeaways than any other group, and are far more likely to chuck an item of clothing away after wearing it only once.
Branded YouTube tutorials are trying desperately to disabuse young viewers of the notion that DIY is a good alternative to buying new stuff. Ikea’s YouTube channel includes a high-budget gameshow where flatmates decide which furniture to buy, while Homebase’s how-to videos link to Homebase-branded products. These are shameless ploys to make young people buy more things they don’t need. Carol Smillie would be having none of it.
On the tombstone of this administration the epitaph should read: “Here lies the Conservative party, it brought death to the country it claimed to love. It killed the working class it claimed to represent. It said it was for the north but wouldn’t keep northerners alive.”
Actually, libertarianism is even emptier than that. If we want to be ultra-logical—like, say, Star Trek’s Vulcans—then no one deserves anything. Everything we are and do results from our character, talents, and upbringing. And all these are what John Rawls called “morally arbitrary”—things bestowed on us, which we can’t take credit for. Philosophically speaking, there are no grounds whatever for claiming ownership of resources desperately needed by others.
….
Sunkara imagines life in a pasta sauce factory in New Jersey as socialism gradually arrives in America over the middle decades of the twenty-first century. Initially owned by a genial old Italian American, the company is hit hard by national and international pressures. The owner is sincerely sorry, but the workers have to tighten their belts. They form a union, but there is only so much it can do: Some things, like the compensation of owners and managers, are not negotiable.
As the Boomers die off and the Millennials take their place, however, the country’s politics move left. New Jersey native son Bruce Springsteen, at the head of a left-populist movement, is elected president. Social democracy appears: “health and education become social rights; child care and housing are made affordable.” Capitalist opposition is moderate but steady, effective enough to radicalize quite a few people. Debates swirl everywhere about whether to go full-socialist, and eventually a majority decides to. All enterprises above a certain size—including the pasta sauce factory—are nationalized and handed over to their employees, who thereafter vote on compensation, discipline, the division of labor, whether to reinvest profits, and so on. Despite furious capitalist opposition, the new order survives its birth pangs.
….
Does a discussion of Bolshevism even belong in a twenty-first–century socialist manifesto, except perhaps as a brief and lurid cautionary tale? If socialism is the popular democratic control of the economy and society—genuine and not, as in the United States, merely formal—then not only was the Soviet Union at no point in its existence the embodiment, even partial, of anything that Sunkara (who is staunchly anti-authoritarian) or I would call socialism; it was not even trying to be. What was socialist about it? Well, in the first place, it called itself socialist and claimed to speak for the working class. In the second place…. There is nothing in second place, or third place, or any other place. From day one after the “genuine popular revolution,” all independent worker and soldier initiatives were crushed, while non-Bolshevik politicians and intellectuals were told to go jump into the “trash can of history,” in Trotsky’s much-admired and revoltingly thuggish phrase. Popular self-government was not even dreamed of. What, exactly, are twenty-first–century Americans supposed to learn from all this—except, perhaps, not to trust people who admire the Bolsheviks?
….
There are some important matters that neither book comes to grips with. Libertarian hero Friedrich Hayek claimed to have demonstrated that well-functioning markets were uniquely able to match supply and demand, to yield accurate prices, and to avoid shortage or excess; and in every subsequent conversation between a conservative and a socialist, the conservative has waved Hayek’s demonstration in the socialist’s face. A few socialist writers have tackled Hayek’s “information problem,” but there’s no agreed-on socialist solution, apart from insisting that of course we have no use for central planning. Given the resources of contemporary information technology, it ought to be possible to decentralize the planning process and model an economy—perhaps, as Sunkara suggests (without elaboration, alas), one including commodity markets but not capital and labor markets—that will produce freedom, equality, and abundance. If some socialist has cracked this problem, the news hasn’t gotten out.
hayeksplosives
on March 1, 2020 at 9:38 pm
Educated beyond his capacity to undertake rational thought.
Derpetologist
on March 1, 2020 at 9:39 pm
I applied for a job in a lipstick factory in New Jersey. I know that sounds like joke, but it isn’t.
***
Nathan J. Robinson is a PhD student at Harvard University and a recent graduate of Yale Law School. He writes children’s books, such as “The Man Who Accidentally Wore His Cravat to a Gymnasium.” He blogs at The Navel Observatory.
***
Still, among New York’s creative underclass — cash poor but culturally potent — it feels like everything but socialism is now irrelevant. “I’ve noticed that there’s a kind of baseline assumption in the room that everyone is a socialist,” says Brostoff. “And if they’re not, it’s because they’re an anarchist.” Coolheaded Obaman technocracy is out; strident left-wing moral clarity is in. And while this atmospheric shift is felt most acutely among the left-literary crowd, it’s also bled into the general discourse, such that Teen Vogue is constantly flacking against capitalism and one of the most devastating insults in certain corners of the internet is to call someone a neoliberal.
…
McElwee, a lapsed Evangelical Christian who used to intern at the libertarian Reason Foundation, has through sheer chutzpah transformed himself into one of the go-to voices of New York City socialism. (He tracks the performance of Abolish ICE tweets via Excel spreadsheet.)
Rhywun
on March 1, 2020 at 10:19 pm
Way, way TL;DR but it reads like a foreign country, not the city I live in. There are millions of New Yorkers who do not inhabit the world this article describes.
Urthona
on March 1, 2020 at 10:20 pm
Ditto. I was a New Yorker before relocating to Texas. Wasn’t one of the cool kids, clearly.
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 10:23 pm
The problem is that these are the types who influence City Hall, Albany and elect the Reps and Senators.
Rhywun
on March 1, 2020 at 10:33 pm
Machine politics in action. Tammany Hall were pikers compared to the present-day operation.
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 10:44 pm
Ah, Machine politics. I don’t think it was a coincidence that the New Deal started once the Democrats gained power in the cities and their urban political machines gained enormous power over the Federal Government.
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 10:27 pm
Fun Fact: the reason NYC has off year elections is because when the Republican-controlled state government consolidated the city in the 1890s they wanted to ensure that state elections and presidential elections did not occur at the same time as local elections to reduce Democrat turnout in New York City. Hasn’t been working lately…
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 10:29 pm
Well I should say the real reason was to make it harder for Tammany Hall to rig gubernatorial and presidential elections…
Toxteth O’Grady
on March 1, 2020 at 10:19 pm
How on earth do you go from Reason to socialism?
Urthona
on March 1, 2020 at 10:20 pm
Because you were full of shit.
Chafed
on March 1, 2020 at 10:39 pm
Very likely. He may also be the type that seeks the most extreme position possible.
Winston
on March 1, 2020 at 10:21 pm
Erm…Weigel
straffinrun
on March 1, 2020 at 10:29 pm
Lol.
Gustave Lytton
on March 1, 2020 at 10:27 pm
Just an intern. Could well be just an opportunist and not any sort of ideological agreement.
“Imagine being in your 70’s or 80’s, worth billions, and spending any of your remaining time on earth working to make sure your tax rate doesn’t go up, even if it means millions of other people your age will suffer. How is that not sociopathic behavior?”
Every other site works, just not youtube. Good thing I got the last episode uploaded before this hit.
CPRM
on March 1, 2020 at 10:48 pm
It’s working for the first time today. watching the highlights from Houston V Dallas XFL. It was on FS1, which I don’t have and I spent the day with nieces and nephews.
CPRM
on March 1, 2020 at 10:53 pm
Holy shit, Landry Jones was talked about as being a legit NFL starter for a little bit, but he’s a damn turnover machine in the XFL. PJ Walker is too short and has poor release angles, so I don’t think he could be top tier in the NFL, but he’s tearing up the XFL.
CPRM
on March 1, 2020 at 11:23 pm
And youtube is gone again.
Rhywun
on March 1, 2020 at 11:34 pm
Must be you. Working here.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:37 pm
C, I can’t find anything that suggests it’s down in your area.
In neighboring states, yes–any chance your provider is somehow feeding it through Minneapolis?
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:05 pm
“JOHNSONville”
::snickering::
CPRM
on March 1, 2020 at 11:12 pm
don’t you dare get shit on talk shit about MY JOHNSON! My aunt knew their daughter before they sold nationally.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:16 pm
So, if you had been set up with their daughter, and had married her, would she have given you…
(wait for it)
The JOHNSON???
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:17 pm
Hey–you wanted to be entertained tonight.
CPRM
on March 1, 2020 at 11:19 pm
Um, the daughter is now like 80. Maybe her grand daughter. I’d take a johnson (just once as an experiment! I had too much to drink!) to never have to worry about working again.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:39 pm
If the granddaughter has a custom Johnsonville Brat dildo….
Well, you just gotta party with her. Wild child, that one.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:12 pm
Crossing my fingers for: The Sandmann Times, The Rolling Sandmann, CBS(andmann), S(andmann)BC…
CPRM
on March 1, 2020 at 11:17 pm
Man, what if he becomes rich on suing them all, and when he turns 35 runs for president? That’s like movie type shit!
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:19 pm
Well, if he’s successful against just ABC, that’s Mouse Money, right there. Owning a piece of The Happiest WorkWokeplace on Earth.
Maybe he has some better ideas for Star Wars….
Rhywun
on March 1, 2020 at 11:21 pm
See, if I were him, I probably would have just laid low and let it blow over. Of course, I didn’t get a free ride to college from settlement dollars so I guess there is some advantage to playing hard-ball.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:29 pm
The resident attorneys would be a better determinate of this theory: I would figure that, the longer he waited, the less of an impact it would appear to have on his life. And, that’s where the tort is (I think).
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:23 pm
Does anyone know: Why are so many of these online news articles about COVID featuring a pic that looks like a shitty, tween’s-sleep-over-activity, tie-dye t-shirt?
Makes the disease look non-threatening and vaguely fun.
CPRM
on March 1, 2020 at 11:28 pm
Because it’s (supposedly) an electron microscope picture of the virus, and it makes it seem all sciency and shit. Don’t you fucking love science brah?!
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:30 pm
What I love is that Getty images must be making a small fortune off of that pic.
Also, looks more like some kind of test-strip (what are they misroscoping that shows up hot pink? On 2nd thought, don’t answer that…)
Gustave Lytton
on March 1, 2020 at 11:44 pm
Hey, your urologist’s office called. They have your lab results in…
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:50 pm
The New Deal was often described in the 1930s and ’40s as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” or a “Trojan horse,” he said.
Now that kind of argument sounds more like crying wolf. Facing yawning inequality, heavy debt burdens, obscene costs of living, and stagnant wages, young people have warmed up to redistributive politics.
I’m voting for Bernie now! No one needs more than one Universal Soldier!
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 12:12 am
Yeah, and I think someone form the production of the one with Goldberg stayed at either the hotel I was working at (at the time), or the sister property where I started. I remember when it was being made (a lot shot in Waxahachie–about 40-50 miles south of Dallas).
Whoever it was (could have been Goldberg, for all I know) didn’t cause any kind of ruckus; it was just scuttlebutt for us employees.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 12:17 am
The ’09 one had John Hyams directing, and his dad doing cinematography.
I guess Peter liked working with JCVD.
CPRM
on March 2, 2020 at 12:20 am
There were a few people at work playing the six degrees game, and I got to drop the knowledge that I can play that with people I’ve actually spoken to. In 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon I’m only one degree away that way.
Gustave Lytton
on March 2, 2020 at 12:22 am
I’ll join you in voting for the Bern. Universal Soldier was a perfect movie.
Or maybe it was Ally Walker.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 12:26 am
Ally. Definitely.
I mean, I do love me some US, but….Ally.
Gustave Lytton
on March 1, 2020 at 11:49 pm
Mike! has his silly ads in my YouTube. That dastardly Trump has defunded CDC completely so “we don’t have the organization we need”. Hey dipshit, you and your fellow travelers did that when they funded crap science and bullshit gun control cover. If public health stuck to public health, like this current covid-19 spread, which is what they supposedly are all about, we’d all be better off.
I hope the little gnome drowns in his own big gulp.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 1, 2020 at 11:52 pm
I’ll probably laugh he gets COVID.
dbleagle
on March 2, 2020 at 12:12 am
No probably here. I would laugh at that until my ribs hurt.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 12:17 am
::fist bump for dbl::
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 12:19 am
Of course, nothing creates an issue warrior (for both good and ill) like personal experience.
If he got it and recovered, watch out for even more of his authoritarianism.
/if that’s possible
Derpetologist
on March 1, 2020 at 11:56 pm
I feel a headline coming on…
Breaking news – Bloomberg denies being short, living in a tree with elves
I like how his ads are trying to re-write history that he was mayor during 9/11 and he created a Swine Flu vaccine. And yet Trump is the pathological liar billionaire no one can trust.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 12:00 am
Steyer’s ads were doing their dead-level best to equate Bloomer’s stop-n-frisk with being a Republican, which is short-hand for raycis (Steyer is still playing that one note). Since, you know, all those other R mayors were copying his style.
CPRM
on March 2, 2020 at 12:04 am
Well, TBH, that is probably the only thing Bloomers and Republicans ever agreed on.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 12:08 am
Depends on the Repub. Mother Tucker sure seems to love it.
CPRM
on March 2, 2020 at 12:33 am
I got a lot of compliments in my first two weeks on my lunch box. But I wanted to bring this one, but I couldn’t find it. It’s here somewhere.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 12:36 am
Damn–gotta find that Robocop one. Punching ED is awesome.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 12:42 am
Oh, I wholeheartedly support that.
/Redbubble, maybe?
CPRM
on March 2, 2020 at 12:47 am
Oh, back to why I didn’t put the Warty Hugeman stuuf on redbubble, I remembered afterward, they apply EU laws to the products, so it was Swastikas that on the art why it were denied.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 12:52 am
Ah…..well, they are Aussies, which might as well be European.
The only thing I ever bought from cafepress is my mug, and I was actually amazed at the quality.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 1:05 am
The clothing leaves a lot to be desired.
CPRM
on March 2, 2020 at 1:13 am
Then don’t buy the clothes. Lots of other stuff. I can’t help that I’m the guy that always gets flagged for infringement when thousands don’t.
When youtube was young I tried to upload the scene in Chronicles of Riddick where he says ‘I bow to no man’ to use in a blog post, it got a copyright takedown before it even went live. Now this is the (invidio because the actual youtube still isn’t working for me) search results for that exact scene.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 1:20 am
Hey, I’m not trying to shit on ya–I simply want everything I wish, to be done according to my personal specifications!
Also, linky no worky.
Also also–big deja vu moment writing this up.
CPRM
on March 2, 2020 at 1:24 am
Yeah, I’m a take a brake, eat something and be back. Staying up for 24 hrs gets harder after drinking 15 beers.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 1:29 am
L’Chaim!
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 1:39 am
“It’s environmentally friendly, because it’s electric, at least in some parts of the city” So much money spent to make dumb people, it is truly a great achievement.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 12:41 am
Whew! It’s free! It’s free! Now, we don’t have to pay for transportation! It saves me money!!
How will they keep it running, though.
Oh, through taxes….
o_0
CPRM
on March 2, 2020 at 12:59 am
But only THE RICH will pay, pinky swear.(Rich includes anyone who legally works)
Gustave Lytton
on March 2, 2020 at 1:02 am
Well duh. Gotta take advantage of that 52 weeks of vacation every year for all. Use it or lose it!
hayeksplosives
on March 2, 2020 at 1:39 am
Anyone who legally works and is not well-connected to a politician, that is.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 1:48 am
legally works
That this a real situation in this country is some bullshit. Some very sad, enraging bullshit.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 1:48 am
dagummit, tonight of all nights I don’t have insomnia. I’m gonna fall asleep soon. Usually I’m forcing myself to sleep, but now I’m actually tired. I might sleep soon at the most inconvenient time.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 2:00 am
We we have that effect on people, and you qualify.
CPRM
on March 2, 2020 at 2:04 am
What do you mean ‘people’? Fucking racist!
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 2:07 am
What do you mean ‘people’?
And, there’s the hook line for the remake of Soylent Green.
CPRM
on March 2, 2020 at 2:08 am
But, I’m probably also gonna put on a 2hr long documentary and not actually fall asleep, and be wide awake. whatever. Tis what it is. stupid human body.
Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
on March 2, 2020 at 2:09 am
Well, you know I’m up, if you get chatty/email-y.
hayeksplosives
on March 2, 2020 at 2:35 am
Mark Steyn dusts off a 2003 column on SARS and how Canada’s free healthcare helped spread it.
I’m 33 e-pages from the end of OUS. (Chapter 16.) I’m sorry it’s taking me longer than I had hoped to finish – didn’t get as much time to read Wednesday or Thursday night as I would have liked. Enjoying, and will follow up with e-mail when done. (No sneak reading at work today: payroll AND time for EOM reports. Also boss back and always itching to close previous month’s books.)
Whenever it fits into your schedule. I will invariably have follow-up questions, but I’m not going to ask ahead of time so that it doesn’t influence your impressions.
See! They ban plastic bags and all the houses ice up!
Lackadaisical
on March 2, 2020 at 6:48 am
Heh.
This happens pretty often along the lake there. We get massive waves, including a standing wave that changes the water level by 5-10 feet.
JD is Unemployed
on March 2, 2020 at 6:48 am
How far off is airborne HIV? I am given to understanding that the Chinese labs are prone to accidentally releasing these things before they have a vaccine ready.
I know first?
This whole “first” thing really degrades the site and turns off people from joining. I come here for quality rape squatch discussions, not this kind of drivel.
And Q’s titty posts.
Plus, funny misspellings. And, quality bitching!
Wait….
I know seconds!
My first first and I don’t think any of gif givers are on. 🙁
??
U haven’t been this early since my ancestors started wrecking monasteries in North Umbria!
OFFS! Now you decide to friggin not autocorrect me.
*I haven’t
Christ on a cracker.
Orders received General! And will be carried out.
I think so Brain, but where will we find eighty pounds of camel butter at this time of night?
Narf!
I was wondering what we were going to do tonight.
Try to take over the world?
Brain–you’ll find it where you always find camel butter at night.
Winston’s Mom.
So with Buttigieg’s campaign prolapsing, with a painful sucking sound as it pulls out, there really isn’t a candidate who appears even slightly sane. Amy, perhaps, but she has no shot.
This is totally going to be a brokered convention. To be honest? I’m a little interested. Conventions have been boring since 1968
The Bernie bros are going to riot.
God damned, this is going to be a blast.
Finally the answer to Ross Perot’s “great sucking sound” question.
Special K probably reminds too many people of their middle school principal.
What do you think the line is on a repeat of the ’68 Democratic Convention?
I think all the pieces are there, a Republican nominee that is reviled by the left, a Democratic party desperately trying to keep itself from drifting off into crazy town and a bunch of radicals with a demonstrated penchant for roiting.
…and on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Good point. I give it at least even money for to devolving into a literal dumpster fire.
Might be a good time for any Milwaukee Glibs and the guys at Red Letter Media might want to look at using up some vacation time.
Speaking of-
‘Boxing on an iceberg’: Video captures workout on floating chunk of Lake Michigan
” Democratic party desperately trying to keep itself from drifting off into crazy town”
Seems to me more like it’s trying to navigate a path back from crazy town – but doesn’t really have a destination in mind yet.
Crazy town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEDrU85FLE
Heinous.
I see this more devolving into Campaign 1972 than 1968. The GOP candidate reviled by the Dems who respond by going waaaaaay left and nominate a candidate despised by most of the country.
I don’t see the 520-17 final electoral college count (with NY, CA, NJ and MA any Dem has 107 votes) but I see a big win for Trump.
I am going to reopen HST’s “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972”. I have read each prez election year since 1976. I think this year it will be eerily prophetic.
Bootyjudge gave up for all of us, such sacrifice.
You know, the nation wouldn’t be so divided if they stopped calling everyone racist Rushun spies.
Yeah, I might believe him if the comment didn’t bemoan our “divided nation” while simultaneously implying it is all because of Orangemanbad.
Inorite, If only those coastal elitist commie shit weasels would stop denigrating people they disagreed with.
I don’t get it.
I don’t doubt it.
Sounds about right.
Yeah, remember all those republican-led bans on avocado toast, fixies and man-buns? Who can blame the east coasters for being bitter after all those midwesteners decided to dictate how people should live.
What the fuck is a Fixie?
Interesting take on the current goings on in the Middle Kingdom.
https://quillette.com/2020/02/22/losing-the-mandate-of-heaven/
I identify as a Toaster,
Dont complain, then, if I start shoving bread up your ass.
Which one are you?
I have a guess.
Fracking Cylons.
Number Six can toast my bread anytime she liked.
You mean you’re hot? You like to warm up buns? You want bread?
He’ll take it in both holes at once because it makes him feel hot?
And we’re done. Congratulations to Tejicano on winning the internet.
Just like finely toasted bread.
I’m putting it out there now. Biden, ftw.
Circle gets the square!
I’m betting he gets lost on the way to the convention and delivers his acceptance speech to a row of parking meters.
Well he also could wrest the coveted, “Most Likely to Confuse the Podium with a Urinal Award” from Admiral Stockton as well as win the nomination.
That would be fun until it becomes just sad.
Biden Calls Chris Wallace ‘Chuck’ Immediately After Dismissing Questions About His Mental Capacity
And that’s not the Babylon Bee
I’m really looking forward to seeing him debate Trump. Bonus points if Biden’s only retort is “*you’re a towel”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvi0JSYUv_w
Gotta admit that his explanation of why he said, “I’m running for US senate” makes sense. Of course, all Wallace had to do to find out if it was taken out of context was to play the previous sentence or two. And he didn’t. Journalists today… smdh
And he picks herself for VP?
Or Lou Reed.
He has Alzheimers, hes not suicidal.
Nah I’d say Fauxchautus as an a attempted sop to the crazies or a purple state Dem Govenor Hickenlooper maybe?
It will definitely be a woman.
But not Tulsi.
*Sad trombone*
Probably Warren, partly because muh diversity and partly in a futile attempt to pull the Berniebros back in.
Stacey Voter Suppression Abrams
Seems logical, which is why it’s probably wrong.
Is this a good time for either Biden or Bloomie to go to AmyK or Warren and say “if you drop out now and endorse me, i’ll put you on my ticket?” [I’m sure that’s a quid pro quo but probably only illegal if Trump did it.]
Only if they get double crossed later because either one of them is a ticket killer.
So I spent the afternoon under Jugsy’s truck, replacing a section of brake line that had a pin-hole leak.
New line, couple of compression fittings…..off to the races. Then- I stripped (not broke off which is my usual MO) the bleeder on the affected caliper.
Anyone ever mess with those Dorman repair kits for bleeders ?
Have you tried vice grips and blind rage?
Oh its nice and loose. Thats the problem. I backed the bleeder out and the threads were packed full of aluminum caliper.
Tap and die’s no good?
Looks like an easy repair. Drill and Tao for a new bleeder and seat. How much is a new caliper?
$60 for re-man
On a truck with 192K on her ticker. Hence the ‘do it cheap’ part.
I get it. I’ve owned a lot of old vehicles but I now figure in my time to rebuild parts vs buying reman.
We have a winner! And its Dorman junk!
https://www.amazon.com/Dorman-13960-Brake-Bleeder-Repair/dp/B000CO76PQ
Make sure the brake line fitting comes out sans aluminum.
Envoy 4.2 correct? Rust will kill it before that engine dies. That 4.2 I6 is good for over 300k. Inline sixes are naturally balanced so they seemingly live forever.
Dude, glutton for punishment? that’s a young mans Problem, pay for it already..
Tall Cans!
Iknowrite?
these euphemisms just keep getting dirtier.
When in BhC, Jimmy’s Burgers for Mexican food, very Cali style, very good….
a humor warm-up
Queen Bee in Favor of Hive System
A TREE HOLLOW – The queen bee of a local hive reported satisfaction with her species’ caste system. “Aside from the egg laying, it’s a pretty good job”, said the queen. However, several local drones voiced grievances ranging from decreased honey rations to a royal jelly embezzlement scandal. In response, the queen said that “we all know it isn’t a perfect system, but it’s the best one there is. It’s fine to say it would be better if the drones worked less and reproduced more, but how is it possible?” The queen later added that their efforts are better spent on passing common sense stinger control. “If it saves the life of even one larva, it’s worth it”, she added. The queen also pointed to progress in allowing private geo-location dance classes for underprivileged drones.
All the drones do is reproduce and die.
Oopsy, I mixed them up with workers.
This is what I get for doing entomology while drunk.
Were you at least drinking Baerenjaeger?
Naw, it’s too sweet, best if cut with equal parts Krupnik.
Steel Challenge registration is open for next week. It looks like the RO class is taking over on the 15th. That should be the last RO class interference — they’re bringing in some Official Instructor(tm) to get everyone certified.
Okay.
Thanks for letting me know.
I shot a (USPSA) stage today so blazingly fast that my raw time was only 1.5x of Josh’s. And I got 20% more points than he did.
I was temporarily possessed by the loa of John Wick.
No, but I did get my head stuck in a honey pot.
Oh, bother!
Everything Trump does is illegal, it is known. To be honest I don’t really know if this is a correct ruling, but if the past is any indicator it probably isn’t.
Time for another impeachment.
Please rise for the Russian/impeachment/whatever anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAovdZ7WmF8
Oh goody.
I mean it worked so good the first time.
violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998
Why do I seriously doubt that act was something anyone here would consider “reform”?
Not the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998!!!
What a monster. I’m definitely voting for the commie now.
U.S. and Taliban Sign Historic Peace Agreement
Is it really over (or winding down over the rest of this year)? How come it isn’t even being reported here?
News with positive repercussions for you know who is verboten.
We’re only pulling out part way, the tip is still in there. If the Taliban are smart, they’ll play nice until we’re gone. I’m not putting money on that.
How is this an example of how bad Orangeman is? Nothing to see here, no-sir-ee!
BBCs rundown of Tuesday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51581001
After a month of being a vegetarian, today is an orgy of meat. Bacon for breakfast…just bacon. A really nice strip steak for lunch, and burgers for tonight. I go to the fridge, and it turns out my woman picked up 85/15 beef instead of 80/20. For the love of god. I need that fat!
70/30 or GFTO
Ouch! I’m a man who loves my fat, but that’s a bridge too far!
Im with Bob- 80/20 is the ideal ratio for burgers, specially when grilled. Ill get 85/15 or 90/10 if i plan on meatloaf or tacos.
I’m torn. I like the easier cleanup of 90/10 but the 80/20 is cheaper. I don’t really notice a taste difference.
Ground beef? For tacos?
I just pulled 15lbs of beautifully cooked brisket off the Traeger. All for shredded beef. Waiting for it to cool to finish the pull/chop and pack up for freezing.
Oh, lookit Carnegie over there
Meh, it’s cheap. I haven’t done the math on price per pound of wasted fat.
70-30? Is that for self-deepfrying burgers? I’ve never seen anything fattier than 80-20
I mentioned it to my wife who works in the meat department at a local grocery store. She had three comments:
1. They used to sell it years ago until one of the media-driven fat health scares and they stopped.
2. “You’d never believe how awesome a burger made from 70-30 tastes”
3. She used to watch Martha Stewart and Martha said she’d never buy burger leaner than 70%
Martha- “I used only 70% lean to mix with my award-winning jailhouse ramen bake…”
*Nelson laugh*
…AND she said “I grew up on it, you probably did, too.”
mea culpa
I mean, I’d try it, but I’ve never seen it in the store.
Did you give up vegetables for Lent?
I lost at a dart game against my gal. It she’s a veggie, but and it was a risk, but let’s say that what I was betting for made the penalty worth it.
So, anal
Add bacon and cheddar.
And lard
Yes to Sean and AlmightyJB’s suggestion.
My freezer is full of 90/10, but it’s home grown and I cook it to medium rare. Very happy with it.
I do 96/4, and I/we are satisfied with it.
Schumer says that seniors shouldn’t have to pay for the vaccine that will be available after they are all dead.
Hmmm, coronavirus, the solution to SS insolvency?
Time to cull the herd.
And people wonder why seniors vote in such high numbers.
I posted a few months ago about the widowed lady down the street and I thought she was looking for something. Well, she is emphatically NOT looking for something. At least from me. Oh well. Hahaha.
Damned if I didn’t go for it.
I thought you were going to say she was found dead in her house. 😐
Good for.you on trying anyway.
I’ve heard “I’m not that kind of woman” before
It’s the only way to find out she’s not interested.
Maybe next time save the leather suit, ball gag, and riding crop for after she agrees to a date?
It’s a numbers game
It is, but she watches my house when I travel, so I had to make nice to ensure she keeps doing it.
Oh well.
I thought the best part of being a widow was libertinism?
Or was she just not into bears?
We’re here! We’re queer! We don’t want any bears!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gruDq0hFsmU
Maybe it was too soon for her. I don’t know. All I know is that I haven’t misread signals like that in a long time.
I’m so glad I’m married – I was always lousy at reading signals (mostly missed as it turns out). I’m not even on the damn spectrum!
I told a female friend the details and even she was confused as to how I got turned down.
Chances are she unexpectedly turns up at your house in a month or so wearing nothing but a raincoat.
Emphatically NOT counts as consent. Get in there.
Good for you for giving it a try. Nothing to lose and sounded like something to gain.
Besides, now that the idea has been breached sometimes it ends up with a late evening phone call “for some coffee” or other some such…
heh, I remember. good job on trying. you’ll get the next one.
♫ Biden makes a gaffe…we all point and laugh…not so smart…a real bad start…he’s a lame-o….Sniffs hair of little girls! Palms to grease…and stuff hide…He’s a lame-o
Lying dog-faced pony soldier! Corn to pop and chains to swing, he’s weirdo….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPqpmSWwuGk
You know what to do.
Bang on the drum all day?
Bangin’ on the drum like a chim-pan-zee…
oopsy – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0
I thought this was more for situation 61N finds himself in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG5ghP8XLW8
Some chick is on it.
You know what to do.
OK, roll over!
Roll Over
Went to the zoo with the wife and kids today. Wife still has a lingering cough from a cold she caught. People were giving her strange looks whenever she coughed. Was tempted to jokingly say “I can’t believe they let you out of quarantine”. Probably best I didn’t start a stampede.
I’m trying not to tell anyone that I returned from Japan only 10 days ago. And I don’t even have a cold.
When I was checking in for my flight to Tokyo in Chicago in February, the agent noticed that I had a Chinese visa in my passport. I had to reassure her that my last trip to China was in 2018. Nobody had ever noticed any visas in my passports unless they had to verify that I had one for that specific trip.
I’m not sure what they would make of my passport. I live in Japan (actually at the epicenter of the biggest community outbreak here – but that doesn’t show up on the passport) and I was just in China in the middle of December.
Where in Japan? I was in Yokohama the day before they started releasing passengers from the cruise ship. I even tried to avoid the Chinatown there and yet when I had coffee on Motocho Street there was a guy sitting next to me sneezing and coughing all the time.
I don’t know how much these details are reported in the US press. There were three women who tested positive who all are members of the same gym near where I live. My wife is a member there and both my kids take ping pong lessons there. I heard that my city is being referred to nationwide as “Corona Town”.
When I was young it was Kill the Old! and take their money!
Now it’s, Kill the Hippies, that’s it, they have no money…….
This was vaguely amusing: help keep hell clean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0ntUMyZLk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defence_of_Poetry
Ah, Shelley. Man of the future. Politicization of Everything, Culture Wars and Cancel Culture were so obvious even then
OPEN POST ANARCHY
http://archive.li/uFHa9
6 and 12
27
Too many RealDolls.
Hopefully 26 isn’t a RealDoll.
Been watching Remington Steele this weekend. Stephanie Zimbalist was hot.
def wood
See the new Doctor Who?
Nope. Tapped out @ episode 3 for Jodi last year. So bad.
You’ll love the new twist in the finale that aired today. /Sarc
Oh do tell. Nobody’s watching it any more.
The Doctor is original a girl (black I think?) not from Gallifrey with infinite regenerations and the Time Lords stole the ability to regenerate from her.
Uh this show is never going to end, is it.
All NuWho since Moffat took over have progressed thusly:
Put The Doctor into a situation which it impossible to get out of.
Resolve the situation by breaking canon and giving him a new superpower.
Honestly, I quit after that Capaldi guy started.
However, and I think I mentioned it before- Hugh Laurie as Dr Who.
Discuss.
I liked Capaldi, but the story lines were sometimes not the best.
No doubt. When they named Pierce for a Bond movie, I could not see it at all. But I thought he did a good job
Who caries it? I loved that show (and Stephanie) when I was a kid.
Decades channel.
I’m sorry, was there a girl in that show?
Remington Steele v. Moonlighting.
Go!
Simon & Simon
Moonlighting was awesome! Right up until they banged.
Neither of those shows was in the rotation in my house growing up. It’s a good bet I’m more familiar with whatever they were programmed against.
#metoo
Down in rural SW Florida in the 1980s, CATV service stopped about 1/4 mile away from our house. The population density was too low for Storer Cable to run the lines. Via our giant mast antenna, we received local CBS and NBC affiliates but not ABC. I never saw much of what ABC had to offer.
I miss Moonlighting reruns. “What kind of clothes do you suppose would be worn by a man with a mole on his nose?”
Yes, definitely my type.
You are correct, sir!
/Ed McMahon voice
Yes she was. Totally hit all of the right notes then and now for me.
Has this been posted yet?
Bernie Sanders is Funded by the Wealthiest Zip Codes in America
The Rich and powerful have always been the biggest socialists.
Also I don’t think it was a coincidence that classical liberalism died once the pietist religious groups gained political and economic power.
Probably not in 1919 Soviet Union?
Well the Bolsheviks were in biggest in the cities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Constituent_Assembly
Lenin’s dad was ennobled also…
Anyone remember that article from awhile back suggesting that the new class distinction isn’t material wealth, which has become less and less apparent, but in expensive beliefs? And that the expensive beliefs of the rich are in fact much costlier for the underclasses that embrace it to enhance their own standings.
These people were supposed to be libertarian, right?
That’s about what “Wired’s” libertarian founders were saying back in the day.
So what happened to those founders?
And yeah it was assumed that our current internet outrage culture would be a libertarian one. Glad that didn’t backfire!
Chili is done and resting in the fridge. It’s really mild, gentle heat in the back of the throat. We’ll see how it is tomorrow.
Nice.
I have some gyudon + broccoli on the stove (not traditional, but fairly healthy and damn tasty). There’s a bigass tub of tomato meat sauce in the fridge from last night as well.
I really need to start that cooking website I’ve always been talking about.
Or write stuff here
Is it pining for the fjords?
Sketchers or New Balance?
Sketchers
Just bought a pair of both. You are correct.
I bought a pair of Skechers once. They fell apart within six months. Never again.
*looks at shoes*. Huh, there isn’t a “t”.
Yeah. I knew that. Was waiting for you to notice.
Skech is a stupid word.
If you don’t wear these, you may as well carry a purse full of tampax.
Wow. The half dozen or so I’ve owned have held up much longer than that. And my wife has been wearing nothing but Sketchers for 5+ years now and never had a complaint.
I had several pairs of their @work shoes. They’ve been awesome.
I had a pair once. Terrible quality
Skechers here.
New Balance 574
https://www.newbalance.com/pd/574-core-plus/ML574V2-28389-M.html?dwvar_ML574V2-28389-M_style=ML574SOU#style=ML574SOU
New Balance.
Brooks
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YDKOMJ8/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_IPgxEbXQB2476
You really should’ve posted that in a new thread.
I see what you did there
I like Brooks. Been wearing the Addiction for many years
New balance.
I don’t have them in the rotation anymore, but they were probably the best fitting shoe I’ve ever owned. I’m wearing Saucony now.
Damn, screwed that up:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/boingboing.net/2020/01/27/galt-underwater.html/amp
Lol.
As if being underwater could stop hamster objectivism
turn your hamster into a fighting machine!
https://imgur.com/gallery/Vowfd
“libertarians steadily denied that their cities were underwater, on fire, or gripped by pandemics”
Guilty as charged
*looks out window*
Yep, not on fire or underwater. Go fuck yourself, Cory.
I just looked out the window here. I guess, since it’s raining you “could” say that the city is under water. But that would be a stretch to expect me to buy into their panic.
“Affluent white men who don’t like being told what to do”
Here, let me fix that:
“people who don’t like being told what to do”
Hmm, still too wordy.
“people”
Ah, that’s it.
Everyone is a capitalist when it comes to their own wallet and everyone is an anarchist when it comes to their own life.
The fuck is he talking about? Whatever this “climate” bullshit is… makin’ shit up.
I breather AIR, mutherfukker!
Despite Biden’s SC win, Breadline Bernie’s betting odds have actually gone *up*.
Fucking scary.
A large chunk of Buttchugger’s supporters might go for Bernie?
What It’s Like to Be Transgender in Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQKWyPlBzeM
[Homer scream]
I made it to 1:30 and clicked out.
FFS.
Ring the bell and get off my beach!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7txhqtL-DQ4
Oh boy. People murdered because they are trans comes up.
Wasn’t that debunked?
If you need to lie to make your point, you don’t have a point.
Yes, they have one of the lowest rates.
The streets run red with transgender blood.
Comments turned off. Hmmm.
HMMMMMMMMMMM
What great reporting–asking a, what, six year old what they would do (policy) as President.
I once met a girl in a bar, from Austin, over here in Blightly fucking her fiancee’s brother while he was deployed in one of those foreverwar places (about which they were remarkably candid). She was a dark-skinned lass, and said earnestly to us that “Texas outside of Austin is scary“, apparently never having been out of Austin. I dunno. My buddy, being a sunuvabitch, had latched onto something else she said and pressed the point to start a “RAAACCCEE WAAAARRR” argument about whatever it was between her and the brother, mostly because he’s occasionally a bit a of an obnoxious SJW and actually believed what he was saying, but also because I think he enjoyed pouring the gas and lighting the match, so to speak.
Texas isn’t scary.
Well, maybe some neighborhoods, but that urban problems, not Texas problems.
I know, I’ve been there. I liked it very much.
Sounds like nice people. What possessed you to hang out with them?
It’s a small bar, pretty cramped in some quarters, so as the beer flows you sometimes end up chatting with the people next to you .
I cranked out some beef and barley soup today. Used stock from prime rib bones I froze a few weeks ago. It came out great.
I also grilled some marinated petite tender steaks, steak fries, and grilled asparagus.
Petite tenders are a great cut. They are cut from the chuck but have no fat. Not as tender as fillets but much tastier.
https://jesspryles.com/rare-steaks-the-petite-tender/
You should probably see your doctor about that.
Hey, it’s probably easier to get her to swallow that way although she might want to chew it a bit first.
Hmmm….could be. Of course, I don’t want to be the one conducting experiments.
I decided to do a search for an old SNL skit about a drug called Homocil, intended for effeminate boys.
Well surprise, surprise, surprise…it’s been scrubbed from YouTube. Now why might that be?
Found this though: https://www.glaad.org/advertising/library/homocil-parody
***
Homocil focuses on the unhappy parents of obviously gay male children, who can’t run right, who like to bake creme brulee, make sequined dresses and perform as a male cheerleader.
It starts off with what looks like an ad about depression, with a blue-tinged picture of a man sadly staring out the window, with the narrator asking, “Do you suffer from inexplicable anxiety? Are you confused an upset? Do you have an overwhelming feeling that you’ve done something wrong? You can’t control whether he is or isn’t” — an image of the man’s son twirling a baton fades by — “But you can control how it affects you. Homocil can provide relief from Parental Anxiety Disorder.”
***
Enjoy that purity spiral, you window licking trash humpers!
When that originally aired would the socons have been the only ones who complained?
Still here
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/homocil/2861382
Also YouTube still has this one
https://youtu.be/hCOSejS1SSY
Even back in its heyday, SNL had a hit rate of about 20%. I wish that show would die.
You Know Which other Boomer institutions always sucked and should die?
Boomer Esiason? (just kidding, I like him)
Also wasn’t SNL big appeal was that it is pissed off old fogeys and busybodies?
Live from New York! doesn’t sound so impressive anymore.
Well it was back in 1948…
I always liked Land Shark and Samurai Hit Man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NS2H55dxI
Funny. A guy I used to work with – 20 years with the SAS and lots of similar work after that – told me how his family was doing their best to try to shield him from the knowledge that his son is gay. He thought it was funny since first, it didn’t matter so much to him (he loved his son regardless), and second because he had figured this out years before. After decades working in close quarters with lots of men – in industries where almost all the participants were men – from different backgrounds and had a very finely tuned gaydar.
That transgender Navy Seal had an interesting autobiography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Beck
Of course, it was *Christopher* Beck who made through the training.
For whatever reason, I am irrationally enraged (okay, uber irritated) by his appropriation of “princess.” No, asshole, you’re a dude, not a bad-ass GI Jane.
I’ll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URz-RYEOaig
Kid sends me a text message. “Papa, there’s something strange in the house!” She put the mosaic on it. Any guesses?
https://imgur.com/a/cugPMNz
Pet centipede?
That was my guess. Not an insect, evidently.
She hasn’t been riffling though the nightstand on mom’s side of the bed, has she?
Tre’s mom making a play for glib meme.
Tentacles. Its always tentacles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Committee_on_Nutrition_and_Human_Needs
Getting the pizza oven dialed in. It’s nice to be able to eat the mistakes.
I charred my pizza badly tonight. “Another 30 seconds” turned into 5 minutes as I was talking with the wife. I ate the 3 least carbonized pieces and bummed off my wife’s (well cooked) pizza for a 4th.
Rookie mistake
Yeah, getting the air temperature high enough to balance the deck temperature is my nemesis. I was cutting crust off tonight.
“I was cutting crust off tonight.“
/Buttigeig
Throw out your hands! Stick out your tush! Hands on your hips! Give them a push! Don’t be surprised you’re doing the French mistake, voila!
Watch! me! Faggot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMK6lzmSk2o
“sounds like steam escaping”
I am back in Korea!
The next semester has been delayed pretty much country-wide. Friends had last week off. I was supposed to start today but corp has closed all campuses throughout the country and now the semester starts NEXT Monday.
It has been breathtakingly stupid seeing everyone wearing masks everywhere they go. I honestly cannot think of anything that would compel or make all Americans do something similar–this is what homogenization I suppose can do for a nation/people.
YES. I still don’t wash my hands after taking a piss. I learned how not to piss on myself decades ago. It just isn’t a big deal. Neither is this flu, IMO. I pretty much hope that I get it just so I can show everyone how much of a pussy this new boxer is. Full disclosure: I have never had the flu in my life. This is wheat being dirty as a child gets you. Resilience.
Lady and I are on a frayed rope. She has broken up with me….and I think that’s probably for the best. I don’t like what she’s asking and I know I can’t give her what she wants out of a relationship. Frankly she has been dealing with it like a person who doesn’t have any grown-up experience with relationships, though I can’t exactly tell what the causes are. She’s both younger than me, less experienced and South African (so cultural differences). Shake those up and you get Angry Lady.
Being able to go out and talk with friends and have (for me) a normal life again has been reawakening. I even got to perform (me on drum kit, acoustic guitar and bassist) for play in front of an audience. Most importantly, I finally have my own Sphere of Solitude where I can be me and enjoy life in my own way.
It’s amazing being around people who have made this ex-pat decision. I don’t always, or even often, agree with them about shit, but we all overlap because we were willing and wanting to flee whatever we had come from. It makes me happy to talk to them.
I hope everyone is well!
Wash your hands. The flu, corona or whatever may not kill you, but you don’t wanna give it to a weaker person. And I’m glad to here you’re back in the neighborhood.
Nope. The world needs people like me. Urine is inherently a discharge of liquid from the body. Don’t drink it (really, for flavor reasons rather than disease) but it ain’t gonna kill you under anything resembling normal circumstances.
People need to be exposed to dirt that got assembled on a jungle gym. All of these masks and washing and paranoia is just fear and (honestly) authoritarianism taking over.
I mean most of what I just typed. I am a natural contrarian, but it is an issue that I enjoy being on the ‘Wrong Side’ of. The world is dangerous. People should get used to that.
Typhoid Mary was an ubermenche.
Would.
Hell yeah.
Good luck, man.
Sorry to hear about the end of your relationship but it seems you are finding the silver lining(s) to this new life.
Sounds like the timing of your arrival worked in your favor. Welcome back to Asia!
Funny you mention “fleeing whatever we had come from..” I don’t really feel that I was fleeing as much as moving towards something I wanted more at the time. I guess there are some aspects of having fled but those points seem to have become more pronounced over the years/decades.
“Funny you mention “fleeing whatever we had come from..”’
There is something to that here, where the expats really do all know each other<–this isn't true in Seoul which has too many faces for us to keep track of. Daejeon is about the size of Indianapolis (1.5 or so million people) with about 2.5-3k expats, most teachers but not all.
I didn't FLEE America but felt like this was my best way of getting a paycheck. I graduated in 2009 and shit sucked for a boy like me to get paid/laid and create something. Last night (and others on this first week) I hung out with a 21-year-old who has been here for a couple of years. I came in December of 2009 and have spent the last decade in Asia. It was odd and interesting being the Elder Statesman as now I'm only at the end of my 32nd year. I honestly think I handled it quite well. Feels good to help a person who is going through what I went though–even though I did it over a decade ago and things have indeed changed.
Glibs are my expat friends at least in feeling. I used to hang out with the expat community in the early years, but now I spend almost all my time with the natives. I find most Westerners at least as boring as the Japanese, but the Westerners are less polite.
MY response to this comment would require an essay to get my full feelings across, so I’ll be brief.
I think that is a tremendously interesting take on life over hear and would love to hear more. Koreans tend to be incredibly boring people, though my contrarian brain-frame and my not being Korean are assuredly responsible for that.
You are also older than me and have a family and can speak the language. My Korean works out but is shit. Those are the obvious differences. I’m also just happy to be on my own again. Last year was a rough one, but being back in my Asian home town is lovely.
I do my best to embrace the things that are different than the things that I grew up with. Being angry or upset with things is rarely an emotion that makes the situation better.
Oh, how I love being a weiguk over here.
I don’t care if you live in Taipei, Cairo or Scranton, you have to find a way to exist with those around you. I’ve seen so many foreigners come around with chips on their shoulders. This or that is bad here. If I ever hear, “Back in Canada…” again, I’m gonna lose it. Go back if it’s so much better.
Totally agree.
To be short, When In Rome. Totally true. I hate when people here not only don’t learn the Korean ALPHABET, but are abjectly opposed to doing so. It’s not that hard to get under one’s belt. Yet many people here don’t put out the short effort to do so.
Those are expats that I don’t relate with.
If you stay long enough you’ll a) eventually buckle down and learn the language b) not learn the language, get disillusioned and leave c) not learn the language and stay, living a shallow life filled with resentment. You seem like an a) type.
Agreed. You gotta be happy where you live. If not start looking to change your location.
Yeah, you have to live comfortably in the place you are and need to be connected to it somehow.
I enjoy being the foreigner who is both connected to my nationality while having connections to this country in ways that few foreigners do.
I was in the US Army reserves drilling on a local Army base for years and as a retiree still go to the local bases for shopping. On the other hand, I also have connections to groups where I am obviously the only non-Japanese (though in some cases I know there are one or two Chinese or Koreans). I have been a member of a Buddhist temple where I am the only obviously non-Japanese and I also have been in professional organizations where all members held government issued credentials which each of us had to take classes and test for all in Japanese.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/29/home-improvement-shows-youtube
New stuff from Dan Carlin!
I Love this guy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C1n3Z__EkE
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/29/it-is-official-tory-austerity-has-stifled-lives-untold-poor-britons
Communist mouthpiece says communist things, news at 11.
[rises to applaud]
+1 Magaret Thatcher the Milk Snatcher
Yes, that was an actual slogan.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/margaret-thatcher-became-known-milk-snatcher/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/newrepublic.com/amp/article/156447/millennial-socialism-jacobin-current-affairs-book-review
Educated beyond his capacity to undertake rational thought.
I applied for a job in a lipstick factory in New Jersey. I know that sounds like joke, but it isn’t.
Anyway, I’ve seen the future already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HRcNgAhn2E
Policies are advanced. Faces are stamped, forever.
Sum it up in 280 characters??
“Philosophically speaking, there are no grounds whatever for claiming ownership of resources desperately needed by others. “
Literally a psychopath’s logic.
There’s a Monty Python skit for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-pU8TFsg0
And a leftist shit heel arguing for it as well:
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Nathan J. Robinson is a PhD student at Harvard University and a recent graduate of Yale Law School. He writes children’s books, such as “The Man Who Accidentally Wore His Cravat to a Gymnasium.” He blogs at The Navel Observatory.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/could-governmentmandated-_b_6585126
Rich, Ivy League Urbanite socialist. Unpossible!
Complete with half-assed British accent!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk6HKpjGgQM
Why, it’s like William F Buckley huffed a can of spray paint!
Spoken like a true Eastern Elitist. Oof. I mean until WWII that is how the Eastern upper class elites spoke.
Holy shit, he really is faking an “Atlantic” accent! What a fucking fraud.
It’s not a new argument either. Marxists have been making the same argument for over 100 years,
“You will ride eternal, shiny, and chrome!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhm-4kDBhio
resources desperately needed by others
Does that include lofts in Manhattan? Or gender reassignment surgeries? Tuition payments? Or just cans of baked beans and whatnot?
It’s what you get when trying to make an argument using adjectives. “Desperately”. He’ll decide what that means.
Adverb? Fuck
You’re a whisker away from writing the prog version of The Big Rock Candy Mountains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/03/socialism-and-young-socialists.html
Way, way TL;DR but it reads like a foreign country, not the city I live in. There are millions of New Yorkers who do not inhabit the world this article describes.
Ditto. I was a New Yorker before relocating to Texas. Wasn’t one of the cool kids, clearly.
The problem is that these are the types who influence City Hall, Albany and elect the Reps and Senators.
Machine politics in action. Tammany Hall were pikers compared to the present-day operation.
Ah, Machine politics. I don’t think it was a coincidence that the New Deal started once the Democrats gained power in the cities and their urban political machines gained enormous power over the Federal Government.
Fun Fact: the reason NYC has off year elections is because when the Republican-controlled state government consolidated the city in the 1890s they wanted to ensure that state elections and presidential elections did not occur at the same time as local elections to reduce Democrat turnout in New York City. Hasn’t been working lately…
Well I should say the real reason was to make it harder for Tammany Hall to rig gubernatorial and presidential elections…
How on earth do you go from Reason to socialism?
Because you were full of shit.
Very likely. He may also be the type that seeks the most extreme position possible.
Erm…Weigel
Lol.
Just an intern. Could well be just an opportunist and not any sort of ideological agreement.
Ah yes. Probably just needed experience.
presented without comment:
Why Coal Country Elected Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJZmr7E2M_U
“Imagine being in your 70’s or 80’s, worth billions, and spending any of your remaining time on earth working to make sure your tax rate doesn’t go up, even if it means millions of other people your age will suffer. How is that not sociopathic behavior?”
https://mobile.twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1230711561343234048
I guess a majority of Americans are sociopaths for trying to pay the less in taxes.
Damn phone adding words *pay less in taxes.
Nope, I’m derped out.
[begins chest compressions]
Breathe, damn it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EngKxF3Cqh4
I can’t imagine going through life always envious of other people.
That’s not just envy–that’s straight-up coveting. And, if they get their way, some theft/robbery thrown in.
They could never earn it, so they’ll by gump take it.
Am I the only one that’s had youtube only working about 2hrs a day for the last few days?
Every other site works, just not youtube. Good thing I got the last episode uploaded before this hit.
It’s working for the first time today. watching the highlights from Houston V Dallas XFL. It was on FS1, which I don’t have and I spent the day with nieces and nephews.
Holy shit, Landry Jones was talked about as being a legit NFL starter for a little bit, but he’s a damn turnover machine in the XFL. PJ Walker is too short and has poor release angles, so I don’t think he could be top tier in the NFL, but he’s tearing up the XFL.
And youtube is gone again.
Must be you. Working here.
C, I can’t find anything that suggests it’s down in your area.
In neighboring states, yes–any chance your provider is somehow feeding it through Minneapolis?
‘Cause they are hosed, it would seem.
I’ve had these all-in-one chilli cheese dogs several times, and they are good. What would be awesome is a taco dog.
“JOHNSONville”
::snickering::
don’t you dare
get shit ontalk shit about MY JOHNSON! My aunt knew their daughter before they sold nationally.So, if you had been set up with their daughter, and had married her, would she have given you…
(wait for it)
The JOHNSON???
Hey–you wanted to be entertained tonight.
Um, the daughter is now like 80. Maybe her grand daughter. I’d take a johnson (just once as an experiment! I had too much to drink!) to never have to worry about working again.
If the granddaughter has a custom Johnsonville Brat dildo….
Well, you just gotta party with her. Wild child, that one.
Oh boy!!
Crossing my fingers for: The Sandmann Times, The Rolling Sandmann, CBS(andmann), S(andmann)BC…
Man, what if he becomes rich on suing them all, and when he turns 35 runs for president? That’s like movie type shit!
Well, if he’s successful against just ABC, that’s Mouse Money, right there. Owning a piece of The Happiest
WorkWokeplace on Earth.Maybe he has some better ideas for Star Wars….
See, if I were him, I probably would have just laid low and let it blow over. Of course, I didn’t get a free ride to college from settlement dollars so I guess there is some advantage to playing hard-ball.
The resident attorneys would be a better determinate of this theory: I would figure that, the longer he waited, the less of an impact it would appear to have on his life. And, that’s where the tort is (I think).
Strike while the iron is hot
I’m rewatching the first season of Babylon 5. Julia Nick’s has a small role. Would.
http://archive.li/Ph6yx/f0a5d5816a8512fab21253d3ffb409181a8bae47.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/mXZY5/9118af1f4fa6dd189a5541ee51f73e2354a8204c.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/Fra7d/0ca51e46e1e128f5e712bc3e0d636e47b4ecd4bb.jpg
NSFW.
Does anyone know: Why are so many of these online news articles about COVID featuring a pic that looks like a shitty, tween’s-sleep-over-activity, tie-dye t-shirt?
Not the only article I’ve seen, by a long shot: https://www.theblaze.com/news/first-american-confirmed-dead-from-coronavirus
Makes the disease look non-threatening and vaguely fun.
Because it’s (supposedly) an electron microscope picture of the virus, and it makes it seem all sciency and shit. Don’t you fucking love science brah?!
What I love is that Getty images must be making a small fortune off of that pic.
Also, looks more like some kind of test-strip (what are they misroscoping that shows up hot pink? On 2nd thought, don’t answer that…)
Hey, your urologist’s office called. They have your lab results in…
You win THIS time, Gustave.
/I would say, “touche'”, but, eww….
https://youtu.be/sZqVUjziexk
The next exciting chapter in: “Young ‘uns be STOOPID, Yo!”
I’ll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9p1ivjT-0c
Like FDR trapped in a Honda Accord….
Probably the finest satirist in like…ever.
Proudly presenting the “It’s Finally Ironic”song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32LCwZFoKio
And Obama Care would never lead to Single Payer, that was a lie! Democrats would NEVER push for that.
https://hotair.com/archives/taylormillard/2020/03/01/jewish-professional-wrestler-wins-wwe-title-saudia-arabia/
As a fan of Bill, I heartily approve of this “Sprots-tainment” event!
Meh, it’s the same hypocrisy that lets them drink and watch porn, not going to change much.
No doubt–I just like that Goldberg’s back at WWE.
Megadeath!
I approve of his choice.
Universal Soldier 2 sucked though. (actually I think that might have been 3, I think there was a direct to video one in between…yep)
Oh, it was 4, because there was another shitty one.
I’m voting for Bernie now! No one needs more than one Universal Soldier!
Yeah, and I think someone form the production of the one with Goldberg stayed at either the hotel I was working at (at the time), or the sister property where I started. I remember when it was being made (a lot shot in Waxahachie–about 40-50 miles south of Dallas).
Whoever it was (could have been Goldberg, for all I know) didn’t cause any kind of ruckus; it was just scuttlebutt for us employees.
The ’09 one had John Hyams directing, and his dad doing cinematography.
I guess Peter liked working with JCVD.
There were a few people at work playing the six degrees game, and I got to drop the knowledge that I can play that with people I’ve actually spoken to. In 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon I’m only one degree away that way.
I’ll join you in voting for the Bern. Universal Soldier was a perfect movie.
Or maybe it was Ally Walker.
Ally. Definitely.
I mean, I do love me some US, but….Ally.
Mike! has his silly ads in my YouTube. That dastardly Trump has defunded CDC completely so “we don’t have the organization we need”. Hey dipshit, you and your fellow travelers did that when they funded crap science and bullshit gun control cover. If public health stuck to public health, like this current covid-19 spread, which is what they supposedly are all about, we’d all be better off.
I hope the little gnome drowns in his own big gulp.
I’ll probably laugh he gets COVID.
No probably here. I would laugh at that until my ribs hurt.
::fist bump for dbl::
Of course, nothing creates an issue warrior (for both good and ill) like personal experience.
If he got it and recovered, watch out for even more of his authoritarianism.
/if that’s possible
I feel a headline coming on…
Breaking news – Bloomberg denies being short, living in a tree with elves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CatVau4D1kg
I like how his ads are trying to re-write history that he was mayor during 9/11 and he created a Swine Flu vaccine. And yet Trump is the pathological liar billionaire no one can trust.
Steyer’s ads were doing their dead-level best to equate Bloomer’s stop-n-frisk with being a Republican, which is short-hand for raycis (Steyer is still playing that one note). Since, you know, all those other R mayors were copying his style.
Well, TBH, that is probably the only thing Bloomers and Republicans ever agreed on.
Depends on the Repub. Mother Tucker sure seems to love it.
I got a lot of compliments in my first two weeks on my lunch box. But I wanted to bring this one, but I couldn’t find it. It’s here somewhere.
Damn–gotta find that Robocop one. Punching ED is awesome.
Have you seen my Robocop from the Villains perspective photoshop I did for Cracked?
Oh, I wholeheartedly support that.
/Redbubble, maybe?
Oh, back to why I didn’t put the Warty Hugeman stuuf on redbubble, I remembered afterward, they apply EU laws to the products, so it was Swastikas that on the art why it were denied.
Ah…..well, they are Aussies, which might as well be European.
Maybe Teespring?
It’s already on cafepress! If you want it buy it! I’m not some conglomerate here to chase your hipster dollars! I’m just a drunk who makes cartoons.
True, but…I’d have to put up with CafePress quality. Well, lack thereof.
Something for Redbubble, et all: https://twitter.com/rfm_al/status/1234278708330090497/photo/1
The only thing I ever bought from cafepress is my mug, and I was actually amazed at the quality.
The clothing leaves a lot to be desired.
Then don’t buy the clothes. Lots of other stuff. I can’t help that I’m the guy that always gets flagged for infringement when thousands don’t.
When youtube was young I tried to upload the scene in Chronicles of Riddick where he says ‘I bow to no man’ to use in a blog post, it got a copyright takedown before it even went live. Now this is the (invidio because the actual youtube still isn’t working for me) search results for that exact scene.
Hey, I’m not trying to shit on ya–I simply want everything I wish, to be done according to my personal specifications!
Also, linky no worky.
Also also–big deja vu moment writing this up.
Yeah, I’m a take a brake, eat something and be back. Staying up for 24 hrs gets harder after drinking 15 beers.
L’Chaim!
Also, email
This was the one or similar that I had
http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-2004-16225&max=1000
My brother had this
http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-AHB2010q66077-001
but didn’t use then for the most part. They were at our dad’s house and we had school lunches at our mom’s.
Those both look VERY familiar. From the Long Ago….
Pretty sure they were at least second hand. Did not get them new.
The metal SW lunch boxes are back, as nerd item boxes. https://culturefly.com/products/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-collectors-box?_pos=2&_sid=3a2159c77&_ss=r#search
The Disney one is so cute!
But the metal lunchboxes always developed a permanent reek inside.
Luxembourg is the first country to make public transportation free
https://youtu.be/jLKdfONmtcA
I’m reminded of this
https://youtu.be/wIiu89zKa4U
Youtube still isn’t working for me, not sure what is going on.
The first one is just people saying how great it is that it’s free.
Second one is from Elf where buddy sees the sign for Worlds Best Cup of Coffee and goes in to congratulate them.
Try https://invidio.us/watch?v=jLKdfONmtcA
And https://invidio.us/watch?v=CUPDRnUWeBA
“It’s environmentally friendly, because it’s electric, at least in some parts of the city” So much money spent to make dumb people, it is truly a great achievement.
Whew! It’s free! It’s free! Now, we don’t have to pay for transportation! It saves me money!!
How will they keep it running, though.
Oh, through taxes….
o_0
But only THE RICH will pay, pinky swear.(Rich includes anyone who legally works)
Well duh. Gotta take advantage of that 52 weeks of vacation every year for all. Use it or lose it!
Anyone who legally works and is not well-connected to a politician, that is.
That this a real situation in this country is some bullshit. Some very sad, enraging bullshit.
this is*
Working.
Public Enemy Fire Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat
Damn commies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8y-9_Gjn8
Keep an ear open for, “rusty, shit-house gate”
#PurePoetry
dagummit, tonight of all nights I don’t have insomnia. I’m gonna fall asleep soon. Usually I’m forcing myself to sleep, but now I’m actually tired. I might sleep soon at the most inconvenient time.
We we have that effect on people, and you qualify.
What do you mean ‘people’? Fucking racist!
And, there’s the hook line for the remake of Soylent Green.
But, I’m probably also gonna put on a 2hr long documentary and not actually fall asleep, and be wide awake. whatever. Tis what it is. stupid human body.
Well, you know I’m up, if you get chatty/email-y.
Mark Steyn dusts off a 2003 column on SARS and how Canada’s free healthcare helped spread it.
https://www.steynonline.com/10081/when-the-system-infects-you
Hmmm….”America’s Hat”….”Canadian Healthcare system”….
MEDICINE HAT!!
Ergo–they’re trying to kill us.
Today I found out–FUCK
Related.
Probably NSFW (audio).
Also NSFW audio
Morning everyone.
I hate PeopleSoft.
Morning, UCS.
FTFMe
I’m 33 e-pages from the end of OUS. (Chapter 16.) I’m sorry it’s taking me longer than I had hoped to finish – didn’t get as much time to read Wednesday or Thursday night as I would have liked. Enjoying, and will follow up with e-mail when done. (No sneak reading at work today: payroll AND time for EOM reports. Also boss back and always itching to close previous month’s books.)
Whenever it fits into your schedule. I will invariably have follow-up questions, but I’m not going to ask ahead of time so that it doesn’t influence your impressions.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/03/02/frozen-houses-lake-erie-new-york-mh-orig.cnn/video/playlists/atv-trending-videos/
Damn.
See! They ban plastic bags and all the houses ice up!
Heh.
This happens pretty often along the lake there. We get massive waves, including a standing wave that changes the water level by 5-10 feet.
How far off is airborne HIV? I am given to understanding that the Chinese labs are prone to accidentally releasing these things before they have a vaccine ready.