The latest test, albeit an obscure one, came at the passing of Stirling Moss.
wow: look who didn’t wreck today
The big boys with their editorial standards got it right.
typical handiwork of Sir Stirling Moss
The fawning little nobodies inside the industry got it wrong.
We excuse the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Formula 1 offices, und der Spiegel from this critique; they aren’t American institutions. Excuse them from WHAT, exactly!?
We excuse Europeans for using (and therefore ratifying) titles of nobility and any associated ranks.
If foreign rags wish to run “Sir Stirling Moss,” I don’t care that they still have not learned any better. But things should be better on the western shores of the Atlantic:
We should abhor the enduring tendency in the United States to acknowledge such titles, particularly the British “Sir” and “Dame”
Sir Elton John ?
But they survive and even thrive in our popular lexicon. While hardly a national institution of record, Good Morning America continues this presentation, suggesting that there’s a certain appetite amongst heavy day-time viewers for this sort of nonsense. The trend persists in pop culture widely, often heard on late night during an introduction; of course, James Corden is a British subject and doesn’t know any better, but should NPR outlets corrupt their coverage with such usage?
fappable princess ?
Well, this sad little habit would not matter at all if it didn’t have a serious residue: the structural evil of monarchy is caricatured. The corollary of this cartooning is that the rightful motives of the Founders and the plain meaning of their documents are ignored. That is to say: it is not normal for Americans to regard any hat-tip to nobility with outrage; it should be, but it is not. Indeed, what flies in the face of We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal more effectively than to recognize separate ranks of personages such as some crown in some foreign island has ordained?
assassination without representation
The correct responses to “Sir Elton John” are a shudder and a pity than any American would casually promote a visiting pianist above Washington and Lincoln; the easy embrace of such honorifics (the excusing of them as mere social token) diminishes and disrespects plain history: (George III) has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. How should we regard the regalia and heraldry, the petty insignia of the very same throne that visited those horrors upon us? The Founders, with clear minds and fresh recollection, easily agreed: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States (Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8).
Americans are so stewpid !
But isn’t a hereditary title quite different from an award for achievement? It is a matter of degree, but the social consequences are the same: a deference to some deemed as our betters. At a minimum, the crown inherited the right to decide who the achievers are, so the very investment should be moot. Can we agree that recognizing knighthood is preposterous: ranking Patrick Stewart above Medal of Honor winners?
Greenville TX, y’all
These latter have come closest to ideals of service and sacrifice and loyalty, and yet we do not refer to “Sir Audie Murphy.” What exactly is the lesson of recognizing the foreign knighting of a Star Trek actor other than to agree that distant crowns are the ultimate arbiters of rank and worth.
just following orders from Buckingham
The proper American posture on royalty is disgust: we abhor the wide track of horrors paved by familial entities, inheriting unchecked power, compelling their subjects to prosecute every sort of crime against not only foreign peoples but their very own neighbors. We should regard the holdings, the works of art, the lands, and the castles of aristocrats as ill-gotten, as symbols of the least legitimate of institutions.
rolemodels for us all !
Royal weddings should be ignored by Americans; notions of nobility should be stripped from the Disneyfied culture; the tiniest acknowledgement of noble structures and rituals must be purged from any accepting (much less adoring) acknowledgements. Borrowing from Edward Stanton’s dismissal of Lincoln’s assassins from the discourse: We wish to hear their titles no more.
+ Dame Elton
So if I’m an Earl, and an O.B.E., does that make me an Earlobe?
According to a bottle of Laphroaig I’ve got, I’m a Scottish Laird.
So WA-A-A-IT!
Judge Napolitano disagrees.
/continues to piss off the girlfriend by referring to the British royal family as welfare queens
Does he?
Good for you Neph.
In fairness to me, this rant was never thought to important; indeed, I asked SP not to run it unless she had absolutely nothing in the queue, so I guess the cupboard was bare.
Ahem, not quite Don…..
who knew!
I’m always up for some HVAC or frisbee chat; that’s much more important than this.
Well for those who don’t just want to make Skeeter Pee, there’s another fruit and sugar wine to make.
those are solid instructions and visuals by any standard
For most of their experiments, I get annoyed at the steps of brewing half way through. To me it’s I used X ingredients, at Y temperature at Z time. Then I introduced the variable.
well, there is mead
https://www.glibertarians.com/2019/02/the-nectar-of-the-gods/
https://www.glibertarians.com/2019/02/and-now-for-some-fabulous-fruit-mead/
Chain, yanked,
Saul Good Don!
That is the best kind of rant! It’s like a sports argument. No consequences, just pure argument for the sake of argument. (right up until you get one of those tOSU, orUK, or Duke, or… fanatics, who turns it into blood on the streets. You know who you are!)
I just looked, we must be bored because there are a lot of articles in the works right now
we abhor the wide track of horrors paved by familial entities, inheriting unchecked power
Which of course explains the Roosevelts, Kennedys, Bushes and to lesser extents Dingell, Daley, Hunter and Gore nepotic hold on public office. Like hell we abhor this – at least as a country vice our mean-spirited, vocal minority.
Southern gentility was a pale mockery of aristocratic airs, but they had that better-than-ya’ll attitude even if it had an ever so slightly folksy tint. That cultural clash, with northerners most unimpressed by that was no small part of the uncivil conflict.
Meh, this one doesn’t matter to me at all. The US doesn’t grant titles of nobility. If using someone from another country’s title offends you by all means refuse to use it, but if you tell me I shouldn’t I am going to yawn.
So, what do you think of Mr. President or Senator?
Doesn’t bother me at all. Honestly I think objecting to titles is fetishism. It isn’t the title that is the problem it is the privileges, and we got rid of the titles but largely kept the privileges, which is backwards. Also, while I understand thatthis aspect is different in many ways, I am always skeptical of egalitarian impulses. I believe that the only equality that should be promoted is improperly called equality. It is more properly called laws of general applicability. In other words none of us is factually equal, and no attempt to make us so can, or even should, succeed. All we should do is see to it that our laws are limited to direct harms inflicted on another’s life liberty or property, and that those laws apply to everyone equally. Then leave people alone to be free, which includes inequality as an inescpable consequence of unique individuals making unique choices and using their unique abilities in their unique circumstances.
I’m a firm believer in rule of law, and think that the proper application of laws would get the worst offenses of liberty off the books quickly. If someone wants to claim a title, doesn’t force people to do it, and people do it. I may think they’re all idiots, but I don’t think they should be prohibited from it.
Hell, one of the few times I was a fan of the Eastlake (OH) cops was the day after they mayor signed a curfew law. The law banned any child under 18 from being on the roads past 22:00 for any reason. This happened in the late 90’s. The day the law was signed, the cops arrested the daughter of the mayor on her way home from work.
Yeah, our piece of shit governor is telling everybody to wear masks under eventual penalty while not wearing one at his daily press conferences.
We’re expendable, but his mommy isn’t.
absolutely
When I say purge as a libertarian, I’m only offering my own perspective and preferences; I don’t want a law; we’re certainly still friends. Everyone is welcome to all fetishes whatsoever.
Agreed, and I hereby order all Glibs to henceforth refer to Jarflax as “His Eminence, Flax of Jar”, “H.Em Jarflax” will be acceptable in the written form.
right! stop that! silly! your tinfoil must be wearing out
I’m ready for tomorrow’s happy hour already
Shouldn’t it be Jar of Flax?
Funnily enough I have no idea what (((Russian))) name got Ellis Islanded into Flax. The (((German))) side of my Dad’s family were Ellins and Fernbergs, but the direct male line goes back to around 1900 as Flax, starting at Ellis Island. The interplay between (((German))) (higher status, inclined to the learned professions and more acceptable businesses) and (((Russian))) (Got their start doing the kind of jobs the japanese call the 3 ks, and made a fortune that was lost in the crash by buying tallow, lard and hides from the slaughterhouses and selling them to the tanners and soapmakers) is a source of some amusement/interest to me. It is apparently a big thing in ashkenazi circles even to this day with the (((Russian)))’s being the lower status.
Okay, that’s 30: I’m off to watch stupid stuff on tv with NewWife
the river was beautiful a moment ago; the evening walk paid for the calories of three beers, so smell ya later
Outstanding. I would go a step further. Once you depart an office you are no longer referred to as “Senator”, “Speaker”, “Ambassador”, “Honorable” etc. In fact I won’t call a judge outside of their courtroom as “Your Honor”.
True fact: I live near where Obama used to vacation. Once I encountered him and the Wookie on the beach as I was body surfing. A reported shoved a microphone in my face and asked what I had said to them. I replied “Have a good vacation Mr and Mrs Obama.” She was shocked and said “You didn’t refer to them as Mr President and First Lady?” I replied, “Hell no. They are the hired help and work for me.”
I watched the local news that night. For some unknown reason my reply was missing from the series of people they showed.
Except this, once a Marine, always a Marine,
/ the ultimate honorific, Semper Fi!
I always read that in the same vein as “you can’t be sort of pregnant or kind of dead – it’s one or the other” – and in all these cases none are necessarily a good thing. Some of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen a human do I saw while I was in the Marines.
Ha! And agree. I would go a step further. Once you depart an office you are no longer referred to as “Senator”, “Speaker”, “Ambassador”, “Honorable” etc. In fact I won’t call a judge outside of their courtroom as “Your Honor”.
We have our own titles of nobility.
Mr and Mrs are honorifics are they not? you should have called them “Block Insane Yo mamma and Moochelle.”
They weren’t being jerks to me, at the time, as individuals. So I’ll accord them the courtesy I would extend to anybody else. Maybe I should have tossed them a shaka and a “Wazzup bra?” but I don’t think I can pass as a local.
Were not are. If they are still were, most people would be using them falsely, as they aren’t armigerous.
They closed off the whole north end of the island the Christmas we were there because the Obama’s were going to have a picnic on the beach. I wanted to ride in a glider. My brother-in-law wanted to rent a plane. Those businesses lost out on our money so a single family could have a picnic on the whole fucking northern beach to themselves
OT: Breaking News! Ohio has developed a graphic to fight the coronavirus:
https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/families-and-individuals/how-can-you-respond/in-this-together-ohio-logo
#suckmyballs
Reminds me of the “ribbon bully” episode of Seinfeld.
Fuck Ohio!
Since they’re blocking PA residents from buying liquor, they’ve made my list of places to hate on.
It’s a sad day that NJ scores a point on another state. My gf brought a liquor resupply from NJ today.
I’m set for a good bit longer. ?
As an Ohio native, I’ll gladly offer my services if you want any of our liquor shipped to you. My dad was jealous today when I mentioned I lived in the delivery range of three breweries.
Your offer is much appreciated, but currently not required. ?
/hides his homemade applejack and beers
Sourdough bread sounds good………
Working on getting loaves that I’m happy with shipping out.
Saul good , Neph,
Cheers!
Ears perk up at Applejack. I’m sipping on some nice iced Laird’s right now.
This expat Pennsylvanian also offers his services. Liquor stores are still open in NH.
Noted and appreciated.
If things get really bad,bring bacon and bourbon. ?
My favorite bourbon.
The problem is that as long as ichigan is being worse no one in Ohio will rebel, because literally all they care about is beating TSUN (That Slut Up North) or is it TTUN (That Tyrant Up North)?
At least here in CLE, we can say we’re better off than Pittsburgh.
And they can’t even do the hashtag correctly in their own tweets:
https://twitter.com/OHdeptofhealth/status/1250921918389260288
Togeether?
Forever, no less
And I was confused by #in on the bumper sticker.
We’re in this hate together
His Royal Highness, the dearly departed Prince Duke Sir Alwin Jarreau, O.B.E, C.B.E, A.B.C, M.D., C.R.E.A.M. R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Well that should do it. Time to open all the businesses back up.
This article is offensive in every way! Titles of nobility are the only thing separating a distinguished Muppet like me from the riff raff like Rufus!
You are goddamned right they are!
And thanks for the monocle upgrade! I found that if you click the avoid refresh it does away with the 504 errors. You are indeed a supreme trashmonster.
Good to hear! I tried the no refreshes earlier and it didn’t work for me at the time, but I’m glad it’s working for you!
You, sir, are a noble lad.
test
I still get errors except it’s 503 – Service Unavailable
I enabled “avoid page refresh” and then refreshed the page. Seems to be working to avoid the 50X issues now. *crosses fingers*
Ya, the avoid page refresh seems to kill it. Just have to reload page in the browser after commenting.
It’ll eventually pop up. 2 minute timer on the page refresh.
Oh. I didn’t see that – was confusing your mentions of that with “Dynamic Comments Refresh”. What on earth is the difference?
Comment refresh is what loads the new comments automagically. The page refresh one makes it so that you can post comments without the page refreshing.
test
afdsafdsa
Okayyy… very strange behaviors now.
testing…
test2
OK, I still have refresh manually.
At one point, I got a new error:
No Page refresh is a bit, erm, experimental. There are bugs that I haven’t worked out yet.
It does shorten the comment process in these trying times.
How revolutionary of you.
Tomorrow, I’m going to break all the social distancing crap threats just so I can recreate this.
I had the wherewithal to clink on an HM link and was rewarded with a good laugh.
How do you find the shit you find?!? That was hysterical.
You have any context for that, HM?
USAA always refers to me (and all others, I presume) by rank. No one is impressed, including me. The best title I enjoy is “Grandpa or Dad”.
Papa FTW!
Yeah that is weird of USAA. I only use my old rank for certain, very limited, reasons when dealing with the military. Other than that I prefer that people don’t know because it makes absolutely no difference.
It is interesting to see the paperwork that enabled me to accept and wear foreign awards. The very first reference is to the US Constitution.
I think the NFL should throw their huge cultural weight around next week to help break the swamp fever of lockdown politics.
Before the first draft selection is announced Goddell should come to the podium and announce to the entire USA that starting the Thursday after Labor Day the NFL will play in stadiums and before fans.
Let the fretful governors face the rightful fury of Lions fans, Eagles/Steelers fans, Vikings fans, Packers fans, Seahawks fans, Giants fans, Jets fans (if any), Bills fans etc. See how long the governors will persist when facing recall elections and the full wrath of the NFL’s legal team.
That would work, right now the govs are terrified of being first, just in case. They’d be taken off the hook is Goodell et al made the decision. The NFL jury has made the decision…
^ This man knows how to fight a fight. I am not sure the karen’s of the world would tolerate that though. Every death in America would be attributed to breaking quarantine. It is already happening.
It’s going to happen sooner or later. We’re not going to be in lockdown until this illness is eradicated, and people will be dying from it whether we open up tomorrow or next year. The Karens will throw a shit fit no matter the date. There is no ameliorating them.
DE -You beat me to it. I saw an article earlier today that the PGA had scheduled events (4, I think) for June.
My first thought was, “Wait until MLB decides they’re moving forward and specific governors try to #resist re-opening and won’t allow the stadiums to hold events.”
It’s one thing to distract the people with bread and circuses while you steal some of the bread from them. It’s another thing entirely to steal the bread AND take away the circuses. That might be the one thing that could break this. The four major sports could bring this all to an end by saying, “Fuck you. It’s not bad enough to cancel our sport.”
Now… (adjusts tinfoil more smartly)… the NBA will absolutely follow the most draconian measures because they’re on the Chinese teat HARD, so I will predict they open last and make a big public ado about how the other sports should be respecting what their betters in govt say…
There’s my big prediction.
Local paper already had an article if there would be watch parties at the stadium if the Indians were playing down in Arizona.
The leagues absolutely need to be willing and anxious to play hardball. If Cuomo goes we won’t let the Yankees and Mets play in NY the MLB response must be, “Fine. They will forfeit those games.” I hate the Yankees but admire the willingness of their fans to fill the stadium game after game. Those fans will not take to heart any politician telling them they will forfeit to the Red Sox, or anybody else.
The Vegas hotel and gaming people will not put up with their new Raiders cash cow to be sacrificed on the altar of Kung Flu fear. The LV industry is hurting which means there ain’t shit for dollars going into the state coffers. The legislature will be on the NFL’s side since they can’t deficit spend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CszQBNgZr0s
Ee-gads, DE.? (on the youtube link)
Man, there are some things I just don’t get and never will.
“…Vikings fans…”
I consider myself one, but I’ll never set foot in that fuckin’ stadium that was forced upon me.
I wonder how the commission is making the payments with no tax income?
with virtual pull tabs {snort}
I blame you nutjobs for me purchasing body armor. I danced around it, put it off, dismissed it as silly…but finally put my cc info to that shopping cart and hit accept.I
Did you buy the plates? Or just the pistol rated kevlar?
I went with this: https://www.spartanarmorsystems.com/ar550-level-iii-body-armor-certified-plates-and-spartan-cyclone-light-weight-sentry-plate-carrier-package/
If I don’t like it? I’ll see if my gf likes it. She’s not gotten to the “I need armor stage” yet, but she’s close…
Congrats! Those look nice.
Still dancing myself. Meanwhile IFAKs arrived today. I think I’m going to get some more magazines next.
Did you go with Good, Better or Best? Guaranteed or your money cheerfully refunded to your next of kin?
Why? are you in Chicago? or Baltimore?
Driving distance from Philadelphia.
That’s why Sean needs body armor.
that was my thought, in AZ, you use this for armor,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/AYdo1F7YefWoDXnf7
i know drugs are falling out of my ass, but i love it,
/Killing machine……….
Beautiful.
Sean, if I can be so presumptuous, I strongly recommend you spend some time wearing it while walking. Then maybe for short jogs, etc. Do some shooting in it, as well, if you’re serious. It’s not a big deal, but you want to be comfortable with it under the circumstances where you might have to use it. Just a thought, not a sermon… 😉
Noted. Thank you.
Good on you for helping Yufus. ?
Royalty!
Sir Osis of Liver!
Sir Loin of Beef!
Tucker is harping on liquor stores again. Back off, asshole.
Is he a teetotaler?
Goody two shoes.
Pffft whatever. Who didn’t quite drinking in 2002? Doesn’t mean you have to stay a quitter.
Quitting is for losers…….
Ruins your formatting?
/kicks a rock
Tucker is an interesting character in that his instincts lead him to conclusions that are either dead-on correct or absolutely horrible, and rarely in-between.
Fun fact: girls on dating apps don’t respond well to wannafud?
I didn’t know they responded at all. At least not to me.
I’ve seen a marked uptick in bumble message traffic since the panicdemic started, must be more bored women out there. What I’ve learned; I can’t get the least bit excited about text-banter and really quickly get distracted and wander off from my phone.
Conclusion: Dating Apps are antithetical to normal human mating.
Online dating is a wasteland. I must have something wrong with me because I keep mucking about on them.
Well they’ve contributed to it being nearly socially unacceptable to approach a woman you don’t know outside of a very specific set of circumstances, which is great for guys like us.
Sigh… everyone on Tinder is an old lady looking for a long-term relationship or a young lady trying to sell me pictures or have me pay their bills.
So what are these age ranges?
/for other people
This^
About this “Sir” thing. It sounds cool but I don’t really see it any different than appending “doctor”, which has already been covered. It doesn’t really mean anything to me except (in a former life) referring to an officer, or on the civilian side as a sign of courtesy toward a stranger (excuse me sir). Even that one is kind of annoying. A couple of days ago I was outside working the grill and throwing the ball for my dog when I heard the neighbor kid saying “sir excuse me sir” repeatedly. I don’t know for how long because I guess I had tuned him out. He wanted me to throw his ball back. i guess I didn’t know who the “sir” fella was that he was looking for.
That kid was taught right. What’s he supposed to say, “yo”?
I agree. But I do live in the hood, so it would be more expected.
I’m a big fan of politeness and have found it pretty much everywhere.
We live by it around here, everyone is nice and polite, I love it here!
/AZ ROCKS!
I’m old enough to have been taught that honorifics are a lubricant in polite society and generally will refer to people in formal settings by their title and last name… but I’m young enough to resent the sort of people who think I should keep calling them Dr. after we’ve already been out drinking and I’ve seen them sloshed. “Dude, you have a phd, you didn’t go to med school, and I’ve sung along with you to David Allen Coe, so at this point I can call you by your name if I want to, dammit.”
That is a solid standard. I have met in person two groups of people with PHD’s who demand they be called Doctor other than actual Doctors who I have no problem calling Doctor. First experience was a PHD in English. A professor who lived down the road when I was a kid. We called him dick head behind his back but his daughters were really hot. The other is German geophysicists I worked with. They took great offense if you did not call them Doctor soandso. I have gotten drunk with the latter but not the former. I did get drunk with the former’s daughters more than once though.
I had a meeting with the head of the electricians and, after he had explained his requirements, I said, “Yes, sir.” He looked at me and said, “You don’t have to call me sir.” I replied, “You can take the boy out of the Scouts, but you can’t take the Scout out of the boy.”
I use sir and ma’am all the time.
No fucking way I’ll ever stop.
Easy to be polite. A smile works, too.
#metoo I ma’am and sir all strangers. I was raised that way so it’s pretty much an automatic reaction and I wouldn’t stop even if I had the ability to do so. Common politeness is mostly costless, makes other people happy, and can pay surprising dividends.
Me too. When addressing someone older than me that I don’t know it is always sir or ma’am.
Don’t call me Sir!, I work for a living!
I agree with you. I didn’t differentiate between “Sir” the title and “sir” the polite way to address strangers. I’m just not used to being called “sir”.
I searched, but couldn’t find, the Bloom County strip. Steve went ballistic when some young dude referred to him as “Sir”. The rant ended with Steve saying something like “I can’t think of anything worse than some dude calling me ‘sir'”. The last panel was some sweet, young, thing saying, “Sir…?”
What bugs me is cops, lawyers and reporters calling some scumbag criminal “the gentleman….”
So, I’ve got a big pile of beer in the fridge, and I need to keg up a batch I brewed a couple weeks back. So, to make more room in the fridge, and because I’m a bad influence, there are virtual happy hours planned:
Friday at 19:00 Eastern
Saturday at 20:00 Eastern
? Thanks Neph
seconded.
Better to be a bad influence than none at all.
Thanks for keeping these going.
“Sir” Elton John is a downgrade.
“Dame” Helen Mirren is a downgrade.
There is no title that would live up to Elton John or Helen Mirren, so sometimes I think QEII is a little star struck and gives out titles as an excuse to hang out with rich bougies.
Have you watched the second Kingsman movie?
Yes.
My point is that Elton John is better than any silly little title that means nothing in the English nobility. “Sir.” That’s a knight. Pfffttt. Barely above landed gentry.
Make him a marquess or a duke, then I’ll be a little less dismissive.
Musician = Churl.
I cut my teeth on romance novels where merchants were trash but had more money than penniless nobles. Rubbed me the wrong way when I was 11. Still rubs me the wrong way.
That’s why you decided to write about the right way you want to be rubbed?
“Dear Cods and Cuntes Forums–I never thought this would happen to me…”
That sounds right
Tulip! I saw you tweaked your knee and wanted to offer this thought:
You can try to do “pistols” – which is the name I learned for the single-leg squat.
N.B. It is an advanced move!! But there are a ton of good ways to scale it, still get results, and keep yourself moving.
1. You can put your gimpy leg on a pillow and then use your good leg to sit back in a squat – onto the couch, or a chair, and then stand back up with the good leg from as deep as you can.
2. USE YOUR ARMS FOR AS MUCH ASSISTANCE AS YOU NEED!!
3. Cut your squat #s in half. So, you’re on day 32, do 16 one-legged squats, then 17, then 18, and gradually add in your bad leg as it can bear weight.
Don’t try this if you feel like it’s a disaster or don’t have a good, safe “setup” to do it, but learning to work around injuries and keep moving is in and of itself a critical skill that all humans should have. We used to, but it’s another thing that’s died. Here’s a great article on the more general premise of working out while rehabbing an injury. It’s a free pdf to download from the link.
I’m still walking the dog.
So that’s what the kids are calling it these days!
Never mind…
/MISS Emily Latella
QEII doesn’t choose who gets titles for the most part. I feel more sorry than anything towards the sitting British monarch. Almost completely defanged and supposed to act as a walking skinsuit for the government of the day.
The state of Britain in general just saddens me.
And now that naughty Prince Harry has his balls in his wife’s vise, that makes me sad too. He was the only spark left in that family.
Mojeaus, if you have not seen it, please download this now (link expires next Friday) and watch it as soon as you can. The Long Good Friday, stupendously hot Mirren + stupendously violent Hoskins = good cinema.
Mojeaux, if you have not seen it, please download this now (link expires next Friday) and watch it as soon as you can. The Long Good Friday, stupendously hot Mirren + stupendously violent Hoskins = good cinema.
Will do! I have to download the app.
Since inflation is about to destroy my saving, i figured id take on a little debt today.
https://www.huggm.com/VehicleDetails/used-2017-Chevrolet-Silverado_1500-Crew_Cab_Short_Box_4_Wheel_Drive_LTZ-Charleston-AR/3600258863
That’s purty. It’s nice to see you here and I hope all is well with you and your family. Is the mill still operating?
On a limited basis. Demand is low. The automakers arent making automobiles, so we are in the toilet, business wise.
Im a maintenance guy though, so we are good on work. Until we aint.
It’s almost as though deciding half the economy is nonessential and closing it down kills the half that you decided was essential
Our gun barrel market is booming though. Thats only about 5 percent of our business, but its something.
Nobody needs 8 speeds
/Bernie Sanders
Damn right. I grew up on 5. And i had to manually shift them.
8 is bourgeois excess thats steals from the proletariat.
5? Kulak!
What pisses me off about this thing is, the chevy 420 hp 6.2 V8 gets 15 city/20 hwy, my 2001 Ford w/245 hp gets 14 rain, snow, uphill, downhill. OK, progress isn’t always bad.
FWIW, my 02 silverado that im replacing gets 16 mpg. Period. It gets 16 on the interstate. It geta 16 on the highway. It gets 16 hauling 10000 lbs of hay uphill, and it gets 16 with the engine shut off while coasting downhill.
Every now and then it gets 15, but thats only when its stuck in the mud.
First crushes as a child – Audie Murphy and Hoss from Bonanza.
you’re not far from Greenville
First crushes as a child
Two girls in my first grade class.
First crushes as a child
Winston’s mom and Farrah Faucett
Maryanne and Linda Carter
Her name was Karen Maxie
I asked her to marry me and she said yes so I gave her a ring from a bubble gum machine.
We were 9 years old.
TBH – that picture and story is so damn cute. My first crush was the girl next door, but she was 5 years older. We became friends, and she was a complete tomboy, to the point of both of us tromping around the neighborhood with no shirts on. But we also fought and she would beat the ever-loving shit out of me. Ahhh, yes….the salad days of youth.
The girl next door was smoking but, unfortunately, was also about twice my age (8 vs 16).
You may call me Supreme Emperor of all Existence.
http://archive.li/FYIk7
Thot Thursday.
#4 looks like a woman you’d meet in a bar, chat up, and got shot down by.
I find watching the British royals for entertainment.
It doesn’t matter what titles they have and don’t have, and they don’t cost me anything.
But I don’t feel revulsion, so fuck offslaver.
I was playing a show when they announced Diana’s death,
I walked to the mic and said” That’s why she was Princess DI!”
not well received by the crowd……
lol
Too soon!
Careful talking about Princess Die is a minefield!
Fuck Royalty! I work for a living, so does Rufus….
Is anyone else starting to get annoyed by all those “we’re all in this together” ads, e-mails, etc. that advertisers have been running seemingly nonstop? Yeah, we will be back when cower in place is lifted. We don’t need to constantly be reminded how woke you are. I’d love to see just one ad that says, “We are opening at 9am tomorrow; please consider shopping/dining with us. And to Governor ____, go fuck yourself.”
Is anyone else starting to get annoyed by all those “we’re all in this together” ads, e-mails, etc. that advertisers have been running seemingly nonstop?
Yes.
Starting?
I’m a bit insulated since I don’t watch TV.
I would like to see that too.
“We’re all in this together”
No, I’m in this completely alone, as I always am… in a sea of pants shitting morons.
Fuck “nobility”. The local judge who signed our cower in place order was caught going to his granddaughter’s birthday on the same day he extended his order for us peasants. This is how you know they’re serious and it’s not even a power grab at all. First time in my life I was glad social media was a thing as the pics appeared on Twitter.
Exactly this. We have nobility in this country, it’s just through cronyism and not genetics.
Also, I was 1 of 2 in the grocery store without a mask. People really are lemmings. So disappointing.
If Tejicauno (sp?) roams by I got on the pull up bar today. I had to get a bucket to stand on and did a few jump up chin over bar let downs. I tore a bicep a few years ago and never got it fixed, so that arm is all but fucked for strength. Just a few let downs and it hurt. It is amazing how an arm readjusts though. The bicep is deformed but the muscles closest to the elbow have gotten bigger. Very weird. I need to get the bands out and do some assisted pullups. They are around here somewhere. I did do some time on the waterrower now that I finally finished replacing all the needed parts on that thing.
Hey Westernsloper!
Sorry to have been away – you posted about my lunch time so I was not on-line.
Yeah, do negatives with an assist to get up on the bar. That will help you get strong enough to start.
I don’t know how much that torn muscle is going to limit you. You might want to see a doc about it if it hurts too much. I have a much similar but more minor issue towards the wrist of my right hand – looks strange but doesn’t limit me or hurt at all.
I just watched the Bernie endorses biden video. Biden looks awful. He looks like he had a stroke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vascular_dementia
My God, the slitted eyes. Looks like a dementia patient. Wonder what excuses the Dems are going to come up with to keep Gropey Sleepy Joe out of the debates?
That’s part of the goal of playing up the danger of the wuflu as long as possible. If they can keep Biden out of the public eye, away from debating Trump, and limited strictly to scripted video addresses, if they include cheat by mail, they have a chance of winning the election.
I wish libertarians were as good at cheating as Dems.
I hate cheating, although I get the sentiment. I wish the rest of the populace trusted their neighbors enough to make their own decisions well enough to try freedom, but the general response over the lockdowns leaves me with zero hope that’s gonna happen.
Agreed, although this lockdown is definitely turning my kids Libertarian.
I’ve been doing my best with that by reading them Heinlein from a young age, and generally explaining my reasoning when I make the decisions I make or disagree with what their schools are teaching them. Sometimes, I get a bit too strident and the hubby has to take over, like when the school sent my daughter home with an assignment that suggested the only people that helped the community were government employees and non-profits. I went on an extended discussion of how vital businesses of any sort were to a community, both through providing critical products and services, and through their own volunteer work. Virginia has really gone downhill, and they’re starting within the classrooms.
Vote by mail and ballot harvesting don’t benefit one party over another!
Heh. And voter fraud does not exist, either.
who would we cheat for? the recent choices suck,
YUSEF! 2020!
Well done electing this chick Michigan, well done.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-democrat-gov-gretchen-whitmer-abortions-are-life-sustaining
She’s a peach.
I’m happy to see people protesting her tyranny.
I’ve been sniffing glue on the job for the last 2 days.
/installing strain gages
#cyanoacrylics (superglue) fer life
I still feel kind of fucked up.
CA is my friend,
/RC airplanes
better living through chemistry
CA is my enemy.
/tries to unglue fingers
Don’t touch your pp!
They make a Kicker that can fix or release CA glue, vital if you play with it a lot, ask me how I know….
we have the kicker in the vending machines at work. My problem is I want it to go slower.
Wait I thought you would have glove specifically for that.
The tiny pieces on model are too hard to work with when wearing gloves.
And even more difficult with tweezers.
Reversed tweezers FTW
reversed tweezers, FTW
It’s not a matter of keeping hold, it’s that I find it more difficult to position the peice with tweezers.
I type this with severely stiff fingertips.
For a project I worked on years ago I had a tech gluing pieces of PVC pipe together. When I went to check on him the fumes in the room were almost overpowering. He had a grin that went from ear to ear. Probably the best day at work of his life.
I worked at a boat yard back in the day and we were building a new boat. Me and this other guy got sent to the engine room to glue the insulation to the hull and bulkheads in that space. I have never been so stoned and never had as big of a headache a few hours later. Well, that is not actually true, I have been that stoned but that is not the point.
Awkward!
We should abhor the enduring tendency in the United States to acknowledge such titles, particularly the British “Sir” and “Dame”
Aw, I think it’s cute. Like calling your shih tzu Princess.
Sounds like I’m still going back to work for 2 weeks starting Sunday; but now I’ll have to wear a mask for the whole shift. I hope stifling anger burns calories, because I’ve been doing a lot of that.
I keep having to cut myself short when I start ranting to my kids about how evil this lockdown is, and what damage it’s doing to the country. I’ve largely let them treat this entire ordeal like an extended spring break – fuck all the ‘voluntary educational activities’ the schools have been sending out. But between a forced march of fourteen hour days for the past month while we push new bat soup flu related products and changes, plus the lockdown, has made LG a seriously close to exploding kind of citrus. The pin is halfway out and it won’t take much more jostling to come loose.
I just offered my Son a place to live and a business opportunity, and he Destroyed Wendy’s car and stole my guns last year,
/Still my son
*wraps tape around LG to keep spoon in place*
That aught to do it.
Just you guys, here, helps a ton. There’s truth in the say that misery loves company.
I like you so much. Have I said? I really like you.
I have really been enjoying the Provison and 1520 Main is already purchased and next on the list. You have been my primary lockdown reading, and I thank you for helping to keep me entertained. I even told my mother (an ex-communicated mormon) about your books and sent her a link.
Sorry, only the 4th beer excuses my typo with The Proviso
??????
Egads woman, is your language this dirty when you’re talking your kids? #Phrasing
CPRM, you are keeping me laughing during these irrationally trying times, and I thank you for that.
Wow, that is some harsh friend-zoning! #AllWomenSuck #IncelArmyUnite!
Damn, and I was trying to be gentle. I’m out of practice after this many years of marriage.
I feel you both. I’ve been holding it together and the kids have been absolute troopers, but I can’t take much more of this. My business is probably down 70% at this point, especially when I have to switch off with my wife on minding the kids so she can go to work.
Ouch. Hope wherever you are, either the governor comes to their senses soon or the citizenry revolt. I was very disappointed to find out there were protests in Richmond today, and I didn’t know until after the fact. I’m tempted to head to the next one.
I think KSue is in SF, CA, so probably the best thing we could do for him is to offer him & his family an escape route.
Thanks guys, yes I am in SF. We own our house here and pretty much the only family we have in this country is within a few miles. Not quite ready to bug out, but we are on week 5 of this bullshit.
I hear you. All my family is in Virginia, and half of them are fully on board with keeping VA comfortable while we decide whether or not to kill it. The other half are quietly seething, trying to avoid open warfare or exchange of blows over the fiasco.
The classic Glib dilemma.
https://i.imgflip.com/3wz1bf.jpg
Both?
@ RC Dean!, it’s been three days, I’m feeling alright, a little tired and a scratchy throat is about it, can i go out now? I’m bored…..
good to hear
Thank you, just the Flu, but I need a clearance from my Doctor,
RC Dean is my Doctor…
Shit! now I’m gonna get a bill!
Yikes!
If you get medical advice from a Lawyer you may regret it almost as much as getting legal advice from a Doctor.
RC is a Doctor in Tuscon, You and Ozy? you guys are my Lawyers, Please don’t bill me yet…..
RC is a hospital’s head honcho lawyer, not a doc. C. Anacreon and Florida Man are docs.
I Stand corrected, He still gave me some sound advise,
is there a Doctor in the House?
And I’ll still get a bill……
I could be wrong but I do not think Florida Man is a Doctor. The way he talks about what he does I had him chalked up as a nurse anesthetist or a tech, not an MD.
I think you’re right, JF. I have an alternating vague impression he is/is not.
There are way more lawyers on this site than doctors, and RC is in the lawyer category. I am not even sure I can name all the lawyers. And computer geek coding types, forget about it. Too many to keep track of without Hyperboles sticky note and string board.
my guesses:
Chafed
Jarflax
Ozymandias
R C Dean
See Double You
Swiss Servator
There’s a couple more too.
RBS, Esq.
Trashy, too.
of course!
JB
Dude, if you got in a car wreck tonight and someone said “I heard him cough”….you’d be listed as a CoVID death
#AdjustTheCurve(Daily)
Ken from Kingman’s Wife said just that, She is a Nurse,FWIW
The numbers are far from what was predicted- they need those numbers by any means!
That was the gist of our Convo, and she just got laid off for lack of elective surgeries, we are Fools,
/Short Cans for now!
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/:
UNFLATTEN THE CURVE!
Here the coroner is elected, doesn’t mean they know shit. Wrong COD was put on my dad’s death certificate, and that wasn’t even when there was a disease de joure.
Contributing factor? Jesus Christ. Way to pump up the stats.
Idea:
Once per year Great Britain should hold a large jousting tournament and all “knights” are required by law to participate.
What about the Dames?
There’s nothing like them.
Id watch that for a dollar!
Don’t forget the Oral Sex!
Sir Elton John Vs Sir Ian McKellen! Queer joust for the haute!
Elton v. Alan Carr. A Queer-Off!
::Looks around, moves quietly to the corner::
Oi, not that corner!
::tries one of the other four corners::
Nobody puts Diggy in a corner!!!
??
I think somebody threw up over there, try not to step in it.
You don’t happen to have a cape, or, a cloak, that you could throw over it, do you?
How to use your $1200 for the greater good
Luckily our country’s own wise and benevolent leaders have seen fit to cut the vast majority of us a check for $1,200 in an effort to stimulate the economy. And in a stroke of luck for the fan of the homemade guillotine, that just so happens to be the exact amount the internet says it would cost to build one.
Cake is not considered an essential good.
LIEZ!
I’m sure I could build one using things I have on hand, it might not be as clean cutting as the expensive ones, but I’d be willing to let my governor test it out.
Good, we are going to run out of lampposts.
Digby, are you accusing me of sending you a cursed hat? Because I assure you I did not pay extra for that, if it is it’s just a bonus.
“That is cool, I thought.”
No j’accuse. Although, I am gonna keep an eye out for just such a thing.
All the chain coffee shops have followed the state’s recommendation (as in “You really, really, really should close down) and shuttered. No Starbucks, Tully’s or Dotour. I did manage to find this one total shithole nonchain shop that is still open. I went there once last year and was blown away by how awful the coffee was, by how terrible the service was, by how fucking dirty the place was.
Went there yesterday and it’s still the exact same place it was, but now it’s teeming with customers. I think I just fell in love.
Sounds like it’s the kind of place that Booger would run.
Did I hear that?
That brings back the mems…
/Christine
The ugly girl is the prettiest at the ball when the government kills all the other girls.
Pucker up, Honeycup.
OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH! I understand all that hate, now.
“Any, you know, any life is a life lost,” he added, “but …”
Impossible to pull that sentence construction off in these trying times.
Moran. It doesn’t even kill 2 to 3 percent of their parents. (Might want to curtail the visits to Gramma and Grampa, tho.)
Playing the hunting video game again. Mission – harvest two goats.
I head up into the hills, a pack of small, horned quadrapeds runs past me. I shoot one and collect the carcass.
Doesn’t count as a goat. *scratches head* *double checks* It’s a Mouflon.
Anyone for mutton?
Shoot more bipeds.
Someone is looking for a ‘visit’ from STEVE SMITH.
They said goats, not sheep, you fucking racist!
I found my last goat on a cliffside. Getting to the body to harvest it was interesting.
I promptly fell off the cliff.
In a fun little piece of attention to detail, the M1 in the still does the ping eject of the en bloc clip when you fire the last round. And if you reload the rifle partially full, the clip ejects with the correct number of remaining rounds in it… but there’s no accounting for the one that should be in the chamber.
Now if only they would let me load the full eight rounds. (They even admit the clip isn’t full by showing the space where the other cartridges go when you load the rifle)
hmmf
Confederate flags
Something I don’t remember from my childhood is the double standards that I now find common in the backwoods from Richmond to El Paso: Stars&Bars side by side with Stars&Stripes. I’ve seen it a lot on large ranches in east TX; I don’t remember it in MS; but I have this vague notion of seeing the two together on several occasions, whatever that might mean.
Who did you mean to reply to?
I was intending to Brooks it
go figure
Fucking laptop is driving me crazy.
Not sure if it’s why, but when I updated tamper monkey, my cursor disappeared. It’s a convertible so it has touchscreen. Which would be great, except my kid stepped on it and the right half of the screen no longer responds.
I started messing with it and uninstalled the touchpad. Fucking windows ten has no means of searching for and installing the actual hardware, only legacy hardware and they presume you already have everything factory installed. Tried downloading a new driver, but HP said I already have the latest driver. If only Windows would let me install it. Now, I have to use mousekeys for any on the right side of the screen. It’s very frustrating.
Gonna prolly buy a mouse tomorrow and at least I’ll be able to navigate around trying to find the answer. Mousekeys ain’t working too good and some buttons just will not let me click them.
just figured out that 5 is left click in mousekeys, still have no idea how to right click.
Well, let’s see if Sally Beauty can be trusted with their inventory. Their clippers don’t show sold out, so went ahead and ordered one.
HQ: Denton TX, a great little town and home to the Peterbilt plant
Does Peterbilt make more than trucks? I certainly know where that facility is, but, had no idea.
I know what my Peterbilt.
Is her name Sally, by chance?
I don’t think they make anything else. Peterman the truck company was acquired by Paccar the railcar company as I remember it (in the same way they bought Kenilworth trucks). I don’t think they make anything but trucks now.
The straight trucks built at Ste Therese are occasionally badged as Petes, the trucks built in Mexicali almost never are.
I got good at that sally mae road to the overpass to airline road or whatever.
KenilworthKent & Worthington
Old truckers never die, they just get a new Peterbuilt.
‘Expected Delivery 4-16-2020 to 1-20-2021.’
Just buzzed my head tonight. My god what a relief. It really does help me sleep better.
do you have that classic little Friedrich air conditioner ?
No…? It’s much too cold still for air conditioners.
And yet you’re still awake to post this remark…
Pfft. “Better” just means more comfortably, with less sweating. I still can’t find more than six hours to save my life.
Me too. Its closer to an inch now and bugs the shit out of me.
I have the clippers, I just haven’t actually done the cutting.
Don, good article.
In general, I only take a little bitty bit of the use of the word “should.” Straff and I have discussed this before that “should” (aka “there oughtta be a law!”) is a very interesting and loaded word in Libertopia.
7:13 >> When I say purge as a libertarian, I’m only offering my own perspective and preferences; I don’t want a law; we’re certainly still friends. Everyone is welcome to all fetishes whatsoever.
Right.
I thought about framing such a footnote at one point but
chose not tocompletely forgot about it because I figured this might come up.Just add ~san, ~sama, ~kun, ~chan, or ~ppon to anyone’s name and you don’t have worry about titles. The commenter Sensei has really thrown me for a loop, however. I’ve never referred to anyone as Sensei-san.
I got promoted chan by two guys at the second Japanese firm I worked for
I found them quite perceptive: half of them adored me, half hated me: the same as when I work for American firms
Checks out. ~chan is for little girls.
* curtsies *
pon… pon pon?
Straff, You’re kidding, right? You’d either say ~Sensei (Tanaka-Sensei for Dr./Teacher named Tanaka) or just Sensei in lieu of the name.
Or are you reaching for something else?
I think he’s talking about the Sensei, our fellow glib. A title for a title-handle….
Oh, little Sensei-Kun?
Is that correct? I know of Domo-kun, so….I guess that might work for Xim/Xir/Fin Fang Foom
I don’t speak japanese, so I don’t know.
*Pushes glasses up* Fing Fang Foom was an extra terrestrial who’s form as conceived by humans resembled that of a dragon *snort* not a gender.
AKSUALLY, Fin Fang Foom turned out to be one of many disguises worn by Loki’s son Jormundgandr (The World Serpent), when he wanted to spy on Humanity. It’s all laid out in the Bearded Thor issues of The Mighty Thor (IIRC, 358 – 405).
Seems right. For example, if you saw a little black boy, you’d call him Kunta Kente Kun”.
This is the best response by an author….ever.
/present company of authors excluded
//maybe
‘Why would you call a black kid the same thing my parents named our black dog?’ Millennials younger than me.
Our black dog was “Lady”. She was a real bitch.
Heh, Lady was our black and white border collie.
tsk tsk tsk
Oh…
/it’s like when you pause a video, and get a person in mid-blink–that shit is hilarious.
In that case you just call him/her Sensei.
I assume Straff is just being glib, or maybe just having a brain-fart.
His family name being “Sensei”. Like if you were John Doctor and got your PhD you’d be called “Doctor Doctor”.
I prefer the Japanese exchange student named Kakisaka. She tried to go by her family name in the US but everybody told her to use her first name.
I guess I should explain…
Kakisaka, pronounced in Japanese, has a nearly silent “i” so it sounds like Kak-saka – the same way a Japanese would pronounce “cocksucker”.
隣の客はよくかきさか食う客だ。
Reference.
Bah.
https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/6725266#answer_17463301
Sorry – stepped away for some daddy duty. Kids are getting ready for the Eiken in May.
His name is “Sensei” so it’s weird. If he were a doctor, we’d call him “Sensei-sensei”.
*Wonders what Doctor Who is called in Japan*
They probably use the English title.
Dare-sensei? Never watched it so it’s kinda outside my wheelhouse.
I thought it was just like how kids address the teacher – “Sensei”. Nothing else required.
You think we’re going to follow Japanese grammar when we can’t follow English grammaticals?
The View–proving that “fuck-ugly” and “stupid” aren’t mutually exclusive.
Saw some people claiming there were Swatiskas and Confederate flags at that rally. True? Dunno, but why wouldn’t you interview those people if it were true?
Juris needs to straighten them out
From just a quicker perusal, there was at least one Rebel flag (go figure). There were plenty of signs comparing MichGov to Hitler, along with swastikas.
Methinks theses are people trying to “turnabout is fair play” all the lefties that play(ed) the Trump = Nazi, and BusHitler crap. That said, the flags and the gridlock that seems to have affected a hospital emergency entry (couldn’t find that it gridlock actually affected any transport to the hospital) is what all lefties are focusing on.
If this is about Michigan, I saw one picture of one rebel flag. That’s it.
I do rather enjoy the vapors over the rebel flag when goddamned hammers and sickles festoon every single leftist/antifa outing ever.
“B-b-but…the Commies weren’t raycis!! That proves they are the good guys, compared to the awful American South!”
Even better – I was at TOS, reading Shikha’s post about the Michigan rally (why do I do these things to myself?) and, in mentioning the Michigan Proud Boys, she calls them a “supremacist” group. Not “white supremacist”, but just generic supremacists.
What is that even supposed to mean? I’m guessing she is well aware that, despite the many stupid things they do and espouse, the Proud Boys have more than a few members who aren’t white, and she was anticipating someone calling her on that.
I believe you are on target with this.
Speaking of.
Doesn’t matter. Pig-ignorant commies will find a reason to bitch about it regardless.
The only thing that has quelled my rage is that I don’t want break my own things. I could buy a punching bag, but I’m guessing all the places I could do so are closed by fiat.
Could you mow, and make a hay (clippings) dummy? Could put Behar’s caricature on it, for better punching…
Snowed again this week. I have strips on my lawn where the snow melted from getting sun all day where the grass is green and growing and strips that still have snow on them.
Ooh!–draw her face in the snow, then, piss on it!
Relief, and…..well, you’ll get relief.
“I was trying to figure out why there were Confederate flags flying around during the … alleged protest. Just because I couldn’t figure out what that had to do with the coronavirus,” she said.
The protest was alleged, but the flags at the alleged protest were real? Uh, okay…
Talked my guitar player and he wants to rewrite his lead work for this song,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzHW2ONJR-k
I wish I knew how to write music, I’m just a lyricist.
Does ‘womp womp’ count?
Try it again, BITCH! (I had set it to private long ago, now unlisted to out myself for a while since WE ALL GONNA DIE!)
Wait a tic–you’re supposed to be Catholic!
You’re saying Jesus didn’t have Blue eyes!? #Heretic
Reminds me of a 70’s era Jesus portrait painting that was in the basement when I was a kid.
Who knew that Hair was a lyricist?
I did, he’s a gentle soul, inspired by S-Club 7 😉
CPRM is really Barry Manilow
https://youtu.be/vHIdHIWfnl4
OK; George Carlin praying for him to get a boil on his ass is really bridge too far!
Yusef does Reggae, Well,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HbNPdzyXsM
“We’ve shown that the people are sheep.”
#GreenNewDeal! #TrialRun! #FuckYouWreckers!
Will we learn lessons for tackling climate change from our current crisis?
That bullshit models are bullshit, authoritarians layer ever more nonsensical mandates that have nothing to do with the stated purpose, and China is blowing smoke up our ass? Those lessons?
I’m finally getting through my first draft of a short story I plan on submitting here. How much detail should I put in a short story? How many words should a short story be for Glibs? The story as it’s designed needs to be read in one sitting, so I don’t want to do it in two parts.
You’re supposed to do more than one draft? So I’ve been articling wrong this whole time?
The part of The Fern that I did took about three drafts. You may have been more reckless.
I wrote each chapter there after in like 10 minutes while drunk. UR stoopid.
Oooh….that’s….hmmm. I kind of want to suggest the Subaru Horror Theater as a guide, since they are easily digestible (heh) short stories. But, the have a commercial, and, this is your style, not SF’s.
That said, I suggest a low-to-medium amount of detail, at least for a ‘first run’. Yeah, I’m presuming you’ll do others; sorry/not sorry. 🙂
Thx. I’ll try to eliminate unnecessary details and the devil can jump ina lake. Of fire.
Assume that instead of reading your story, most people will skip ahead to look at titty pictures, whine about the consequences of their awful life choices, or hijack it so they can talk about their own writing. In other words, write it for you and put in as much or as little detail as you like.
^^^THIS! I’ve made terrible life decisions and you all should listen to me.
Pfft–I’ve written better failed characters than you…
http://archive.is/0FNGf
http://archive.vn/Otvni
http://archive.vn/xcOlw
Hold on….I can’t tell what’s supposed to be linked, other than the BK tweets. I notice a mention of a soda fountain “for that thirst”….Was that in response to my favorite phrase?
Yeah, he looks far worse off than you. Looks kinda smelly.
I just write them as if I was planning to publish them, but skip the proofreading and editing stages.
Sounds about the right amount of effort.
Some noncovid related fuckery, Ozzy Man’s destination fucked:
https://youtu.be/HP1RXQHv1DI
Good stuff.
I always have trouble watching those ones. Too much fuckery in my own past.
Funny here that private liquor stores have been allowed to extend hours. They can open at 7 am. We’re the anti Pennsylvania! Not 35 years ago you couldn’t even buy beer on Sunday without going to a restaurant or trekking out to the radar base in hopes of being signed in by a short-hair. I guess the Premier wants to keep his head off of a pike in these trying times. (Yeah, I went there…)
Why wouldn’t he? Fish pillows are uncomfortable.
Dead or alive https://youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU
I’ve heard it both ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho
Wait, what are we talking about?
My ears! They burn! Of all the shitty bands from the 80’s I think that I might just hate that one the most. If Jon weren’t so damn pretty they’d have been a bar band.
Snail paced progress:
https://www.wfmz.com/health/coronavirus/some-state-owned-liquor-store-workers-back-on-the-job-to-process-online-orders/article_a4f225a4-8041-11ea-bae2-a35530515655.html
“HARRISBURG, Pa. – Workers will be back on the job at more than 100 of Pennsylvania’s shuttered, state-owned liquor stores.
That doesn’t mean those stores will be reopening. Instead, workers will be helping to process online orders.”
When liquor sores started the on-line thing here the local Sikh community was on it like stink on farts. Dear Lord those people have a sense of business acumen. Taxis, trucking, menial mill jobs. They live in rather insular communities and are very family oriented, just like the majority of North America used to be and they are thriving. It’s like the Phillipinas taking over the janitorial work and convenience stores. At least the Phillipinas are generally friendly. Sikhs can be be surly lot.
https://metv.com/stories/rip-danny-goldman-who-went-from-mash-to-voicing-brainy-smurf
RIP Brainy smurf.
Well, at least he didn’t voice “Rapey Smurf”. That’s a blessing.
THAT “STEVE SMURF” TO YOU!!!
I was going to flee into the woods, but I saw typewriters, and knew I couldn’t deal with SMITH-Corona.
You’re in rare form this morning, sir! ::applause::
Yeah, that was good.
I was aiming for well done, but didn’t go long enough.
That’s what he said!
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-cheeseball-day-april-17/
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Keep this handy.
A furry Smurf. So far as I know the only ones with any hair were the pin cushion and Poppa.
Samsung just pushed a geofence app to my phone without consulting me… Not very pleased about that.