Yep, remnants of a TPTB get together.
Have at it folks.
Sunday evening open post
About The Author
Spudalicious
Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…
First.
Moj… Do you have graphic artist contacts who could get me the “starter kit” for a new consultancy: a logo, some graphics for business cards, invoice letterheads, and a basic website? Other Glibs who do this work can also post here. Would love to farm this to Glibs.
If you can use a sword wielding squirrel riding an eagle carrying a rattlesnake as a logo I got you covered.
I can sketch a decent cock and balls. Been practicing since I was 12.
Looking for something a little classier. A cock and balls and vagina. To signify victory.
V, for victory?
I thought V was for vacuum?
I thought it was v for vagina…
V, for victory?
I figured you got started earlier than that, “Seth”.
Huh….it seems Brett L is on to something…er, uh….has the right idea.
I can glue a tophat and monocle on any cartoon you got
Can you glib up my avatar?
send the file to DonEscapedTexas@outlook.com if you like
what do you want to do with the other eye?
it doesn’t work out so great 🙁
http://27bslash6.com/p2p.html
http://www.daviscreates.com/
Shows mostly ad stuff but I do brand identity work as well.
Your ad stuff is magnificent! Loved the Tilt-a-Whirl ad campaign.
All my contacts were long ago and they were hungry then and then they got busy and expensive.
I don’t know anyone, but I’ll tell you what you should do is go to Fiverr and see what you can find there.
I found someone to doctor up two book covers for me (that I now don’t use) on eLance which is now Upwork, I think. I was very happy.
And I now don’t use them only because they were people and I wanted to get people off my book covers.
Bep bep bep-bep.
Last?
Not any more.
Always.
You have excellent taste, sir.
First and last
Kudos Rhywun.
Last
Why I’m proud of my grand kids: From my youngest grand daughter
You may have seen that WI Governor Evers has joined forces with the other Midwest lunatics in reacting to COVID. Schools are officially closed through the end of the year and the safer-at-home order is continuing through the end of May. Will and I are fed up. The lies and fear-mongering in mass media has gone too far. So… we did the thing and participated in a protest. Last Friday we headed to St. Paul with another couple to protest the abuse of government power at the Governor’s mansion. You may have seen some coverage of it. Huge turnout of libertarians and Trump supporters. I hid my identity as a public school teacher with friends and family that are more liberal. Just easier to keep my participation in the protest on the down-low. I’ll stand up for our Constitutional rights but I won’t waste my time or energy dealing with the repercussions from people that only believe in the 1st Amendment when it caters to their agenda.
I made a poster that said “Let each business decide. Power to the People” on one side and “Don’t Tread On Me – Land of the Free” on the other. Maybe you can find Will and I in the video below. We are right at 25 seconds but our faces our hidden. It was a peaceful protest with quite a bit of noteable accounts. I will have to tell you all about it.
Check it out: https://twitter.com/chrisbergpov/status/1251256847929147397?s=21
Beautiful.
Bravo!
Remember when we used to joke about law-and-order authorities wanting to put everyone in prison to have a zero crime rate? I remember. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Good times those were.
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Encore!
I will have to tell you all about it.
Do please.
You raised ’em right.
Was she one of the lovely young ladies we met last fall?
Nice work, Fourscore.
Reposting because the other thread is going to die: Hickok45 shoots a Lee-Enfield No. 5.
I wonder how bruised his shoulder was afterwards.
303 Limey isn’t that bad. If it hurts you then you arent holding it right.
My No. 5 left bruises on me. That’s not happened on any other .30 class rifle to me.
I have my Dad’s 30 Rem, Model 141. It pummels my left cheek bone. A right handed bolt action 30-06 is not a problem.
Those jungle carbines are known for having a hellacious kick, a standard Enfield isn’t too bad though.
standard Enfield isn’t too bad
NBD
I have my grandfather’s Rem 30 Express. Basically a factory sporterized M1917. “Lightweight” .30-06 with a steel butt plate. It leaves a mark.
That’s a nice looking rifle.
My gosh, that’s sweet!
Govs that continue the total shutdown are assholes but there is a nagging feeling thay Whitmer would order a “shoot them” if protesters continue or amass on the Gov steps.
Maybe someone could return the favor.
Tap
Maybe someone could return the favor.
Maybe the squirrels could return the favor.
Double tap
I’m worried about that too.
Lansing’s mayor is threatening “repercussions” for protesters. Rats of a feather?
They could be more direct, I guess:
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1251913289925382145
What in hell does that mean? Repercussions? Such as?
The hired help has forgotten their place. I am really getting fed up with this nonsense.
Vague threats are much more effective at arousing fears.
Lansing has a long history of utterly vile mayors.
They’re going to cite people for not keeping sufficiently far apart and various other bullshit:
https://www.wilx.com/content/news/Lansing-Mayor-Andy-Schor-569726321.html
I wouldn’t object to these rats being made to have feathers
I see what you did tar
I’ve seen a few leftists who are super mad that the cops aren’t breaking these protests up with tear gas and beating the protesters.
While I still like my friends who are lefties, and I think those on the right in general don’t harbor malice to those on the left, I’m more and more stunned how many on the left truly hate anyone that disagrees with them. And since the agreed positions for the left seem to change daily, the mental gymnastics they go through to maintain their smug loathing is remarkable.
I have tried all my life not to allow my feelings for people’s politics or religion to color my feelings for the person. That is becoming increasingly difficult as those political beliefs increasingly threaten my life, livelihood and liberty.
It was one thing when we were reasonably sure their dreams of political control over even our daily movement would never come true. Now that we’re seeing it happen in real time, battle lines are being drawn.
I see one of the main problems as the sheer dishonesty of the Left, and of the sheep type normies who follow them blindly. The Orwellian twisting of language.
“They’re just asking people to stay home.”
No, they are ordering people to stay at home, and if people refuse then they will commit violence against them.
“It’s just a simple request. Why can’t people just listen to it?”
Because I am not a slave, I am a free man.
It’s the same thing with political correctness. “We’re just trying to get people to be kind. What’s wrong with that?” No, you’re enforcing speech crimes and ruining the lives of people you disapprove of while people like Northam can skate by and have the media pretend ‘Coonman’ was never a thing, simply because the media supports the same sort of authoritarian policies he does.
It’s kind of the same thing with every thing they espouse. With the exception of gay marriage, I can’t think of a single other lefty policy where the way a lefty would say it works is actually how it works. Their entire political philosophy is cloaked in a network of lies, distortions, and logical fallacies.
You can’t build true from crooked timber.
I support gay marriage simply on the basis of freedom of contract. The rest of them just make me want to scream ‘fuck off slaver!’ (And since I work from home, actually do, a lot.) I want out. I have complied with the cower in place orders simply because that’s how I generally lived anyway and I fear the police, but every day that it continues makes my rage grows larger.
Hey, @OBE, how’s your wife’s biz doing?
Booming but we are limiting grooms to two a day so we can be cleaner than normal.
Had her first competitor bitch about a groom. My guess is that my wife swipped the dog from them.
It is good too cause one of the 15 year olds is making some good cash while school is out.
EXCELLENT!
I think about you guys all the time when I’m eyeballing RVs for office space.
Comments sure are slow. Everyone off video chatting again?
“Misty Mountain Hop” is a good song.
It is. I’m more of a Houses of the Holy fan myself.
The best Led Zeppelin song.
Speaks to you, does it?
Been there brother.
*facepalm*
A strong second: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j-WltVu194
A good third: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSfpwuUauwI
Yes.
Oh yeah
I came close to having that happen to me.
When I was younger, I would have said the heavy stuff, like Immigrant Song is best. But damn, I can’t get enough of Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, and Your Time Is Gonna Come.
Both are good.
So, your time came?
Yes. But now I’m stuck at home with her instead of moving back to NOLA. Quarantinocolypse can’t end soon enough.
Memphis Minnie FTW
I’m a guitar guy, and this ain’t no guitar anthem, but it strikes me as sincere; I was stunned the first time I ever heard it
My bee partner put some property on the market on Thursday. Had a looker yesterday, an offer today from a different person. Start at 110K, offer was a 100K. He is a happy guy tonight but we’re scrambling now to find a place for his bees. Fortunately we don’t have them and maybe 2-3 weeks yet, or longer. Nothing in blossom yet anyway.
We hav already had our first bloom. Bees have been….busy. I have swarm traps out….nothing yet but I am hopeful. This bad weather isn’t helping.
Two of my hives have swarmed already. Totally missed it. Hopefully they are headed your way.
You had a hooker yesterday?
a swarm came over the house two weeks ago that sounded like a squadron of bombers
Heading out for an afternoon sail. Fuck the namby pamby cower at home government drones!
No protests here so I will protest by using my freedom to decide my activities. (Monocle tip to Fourscore and his spawn for protesting da man.)
Back in a few hours to catch up.
We need your location to compile our data:
Karens and Cuntes test #1: (dbleagle)
Just send a Chinese drone so Xi can keep track too.
I already assumed that all Karens and Cuntes report directly to the DNC and the CCP.
I did some really stupid/crazy stuff when I was younger but I see stuff like this, and realize I was just a piker.
That is some pretty hard-core dumbassery. Good grief.
I want a wing-suit. This would be me.
Here ya go
My fave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc
That reminded me of this scene
Holy crap.
No way in hell…
I always wonder how you ‘practice’ wingsuiting. I mean parkour and skiing and the bike stuff you start out on plat ground and work up to a point where you have great skill and know your body’s capabilities, and then you start the crazy, one error = instant death stuff, but wingsuiting looks to me like you can only do it in a setting that one error = instant death. So how do you get good at it?
Old pilots, bold pilots….etc.
Not die a few times?
Jump out of planes before doing cliff dives.
There are facilities with giant fans where you can practics freefalls and wingsuit activites without the risk of splatting on the ground.
I want to try it.
I hear it’s fun. never done it.
I did it once a long time ago. It was during the time I was actually skydiving. Sort of a meh for me.
I don’t know how much it’s changed in 20+ years.
Well, if you’re already throwing yourself out of airplanes…
There was an article I read a few years back discussing how all the wingsuiters were dying, experienced and inexperienced alike. The theory was that the more experienced you were, the more likely you were to get nearer to objects (which heightens the thrill apparently), thereby negating your advantage in experience.
Can’t remember who it was – I think it was on Joe Rogan – some guy who held a number of records for wingsuiting stunts saw too many friends pass away and came to his senses and swore the activity off forever. Something about surviving more than X number of jumps really comes down more to luck than skill.
When wingsuit flying goes wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY9m8sVM1Sg
Since I got sucked into YT, maybe someone can explain why two gnat-sized objects are flying behind an A380 (heavy) and they’re not tossed around by wake vortex? Or is it cause they’re so close?
KK? Where are you?
Mostly camera angles. They are above or to the side of the plane. The vortexes move downward behind the plane.
I see that here- https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Airbus_A380_Wake_Vortex_Guidance
But I dont get the 5 nm criteria when they’re at the same altitude.
I found this link in the comments
I’m a dick. But I’d love to see one of them get sucked into one of those RR Trent 900 engines.
To allow for inaccuracy of the altimeter on either plane.
Most men flying, seem to understand,
That a man technically hasn’t flown ’til he lands
If you’re coming into land and you crash and die
All you really did for sure was get too high.
~Todd Snider
I made it to 0:48 before I had to tap out.
If that’s not photoshopped tell me where the dude is holding his beer?
I like to occasionally consider how today’s events would have been received when I was young (er.) In the 70s,80s, or even 90s, you couldn’t have possibly forced the whole country to stay home for a month and stop making a living because of the possibility that 1/00th of the population might die from a new virus. Just would not have happened.
Hell, this shit didn’t even happen with H1N1, which was much more dire than Kung Flu.
I was very, very pregnant during that mess, so stayed in more than usual. Otherwise, life went on as normal, except no one but my husband was allowed in the delivery room with me when I had our daughter, or allowed to visit while we were in the hospital. Which, since I had to kick my sisters out of the delivery room because they wouldn’t stop bickering during my first birth, was kind of okay by me. We never shut down entire states, though. It’s one of the reasons my rage over the current situation is so high.
I agree.
I remember the 70’s pretty well and believe you are correct. I remember high school kids protesting the dress code by walking out of the building en mass and parading down a main street.
Missed the new thread so reposting.
If people seem to be 50/50 split on their level of fear, what do the fearful do when states re-open. Will they return to “normal,” will they go back to work if it means returning to an office, will they send their children back to schools? It seems that many are genuinely fearful, trusting and believing those that predicted (and continue to predict) the worst. Will they return to living. If half of the workforce is unwilling to go back to work, what do you do?
Well, absent the massive welfare state we have, you tell them “Sure, you don’t have to work. Good luck buying food.”
In the real world; we keep printing money and expanding programs to support their insanity/laziness. Then inflation -> bank collapse -> more bailouts and printing -> stock market collapse -> Great Depression Squared -> civil unrest -> ?.
Increase welfare benefits, mandate maximum hours allowed to be worked per person, fund more food banks, add vast hordes of social workers, and raise taxes.
Who gives a fuck. Let them sit in their houses. I’m done with them. (that may have sounded ruder than I intended but seriously they need to grow the fuck up)
It has been weird, people I wouldn’t have expected to be fearful are pretty concerned.
And it makes me sad to see people so afraid at the grocery store that they keep a disinfecting wipe on the cart handle (between the handle and their hands).
I know how living in constant fear and anxiety makes life sad, numb, and ultimately unfulfilling.
Sounds like you have had some experience with that, guessing (and hoping) that has improved. Someone very dear to me lives in that world, and it is heartbreaking.
Keeping the wipe is just downright silly. Yes alcohol or the qat solution kills the virus but the mechanical action also removes germs from the handle. Just leaving it in place doesn’t do that.
Of course, how many people let the solution sit on the surface for 1-10 minutes before grabbing the handle and wheeling away?
People were already minimizing their exposure prior to the lockdown. Restaurant/travel/hospitality were all down and would continue to do so. That would have spread and the economy would have shrunk regardless. Maybe recession vs depression. Once the economy is shrinking, it will take a lot to reverse as businesses and individuals start acting more conservatively.
Until there is either a vaccine, effective treatment, or much better understanding of the virus, things won’t return to normal.
Slutty Sunday is now doing curbside pickup.
http://archive.li/zIu0p
I like big tits.
I cannot lie.
So did Joe Walsh.
#1 looks scary.
#3 is lovely.
I an intrigued by #4’s tongue.
#7 – I always figured naked/nearly naked Twister would be overrated. I don’t see anything here to change my mind.
I read about infection modeling today. Turns out it was one of the first applications of differential equations.
from wiki’s Mathematical modelling of infectious disease article:
***
The earliest account of mathematical modelling of spread of disease was carried out in 1766 by Daniel Bernoulli. Trained as a physician, Bernoulli created a mathematical model to defend the practice of inoculating against smallpox.[2] The calculations from this model showed that universal inoculation against smallpox would increase the life expectancy from 26 years 7 months to 29 years 9 months.[3] Daniel Bernoulli’s work preceded the modern understanding of germ theory.
In the early 20th century, William Hamer[4] and Ronald Ross[5] applied the law of mass action to explain epidemic behaviour.
The 1920s saw the emergence of compartmental models. The Kermack–McKendrick epidemic model (1927) and the Reed–Frost epidemic model (1928) both describe the relationship between susceptible, infected and immune individuals in a population. The Kermack–McKendrick epidemic model was successful in predicting the behavior of outbreaks very similar to that observed in many recorded epidemics.[6]
***
On the radio, some health “expert” was saying that it’s perfectly fine to revise the model as new stats come in, which seems unscientific. Most models assume random mixing to make the equations easier to solve.
I propose something I call Rats Not Stats. Put a bunch of rats in a cage. Now you can measure the population density, number of infected, etc. Infect 1 rat (maybe one that causes a fever so you can track the spread with infrared cameras) and see how long it takes to spread. When you get the curve of number of sick rats vs time, you can do a polynomial regression to get an equation that shows the number of sick rats as a function of time. I’m sure there’s a lot more to it, but it’s a far better data set than hospitalization statistics which can be off for all sorts of reasons.
related note – a lot of stores have signs saying card payment preferred. Can someone explain to me why it’s better for everyone to touch the same keypad rather than hand over cash?
Did you read the part about starting insanely high and then revise down repeatedly until it ends so you’ll be a little closer to the final outcome. That’s the best way to become a bigshot, saving the world and stretching your 15 minutes as far as possible.
The worst case scenario with no mitigation predicted 2 million dead in the US.
The model that assumed maximum mitigation (one of the IHME ones I think) predicted 200k, which got dropped to 80k, and then 60k.
Perhaps this my clown college education talking, but I learned you start with good (read: correct) data, then you make the model. And if your model’s prediction doesn’t match the data, guess what’s wrong?
I wonder a pandemic could be simulated in a petri dish. At least that would involve actual cells and viruses.
At my local grocery store they’ve solved that problem by putting plastic wrap over the keypad, so nobody is actually touching it.
And no, they’re not changing the plastic wrap between customers. But at least the customers aren’t touching the keypad.
With a chip or a slider CC, you don’t touch the keypad anyway.
Yep, I rarely touch one, except at smaller shops which tend to make me “sign” for some reason.
I do, because when you pay debit, you have to put in your PIN.
I just can’t bring myself to borrow money with a credit card to buy a morning snack.
I have never used a CC pay pad that didn’t require button pushes.
Is it debit, or credit?
Do you want cash back?
enter your pin/push “enter”
I’ve used chip machines where there was no button press required.
It depends on how it’s been configured.
I would love to have that at virtually every place I shop.
::sigh::
Because the cashier isn’t handling the keypad. Ideally it would be wiped down between each customer. And customers should be sanitizing/cleaning their own hands after leaving the store anyways.
Speaking of ideal, it would be better for cashiers to wear gloves, not for the virus itself which can’t be absorbed through the skin, but to use alcohol sanitizer on their gloved hands between each customers along with wiping down the cash register pad and whatever else they’ve touch along with the customers’ groceries. Using that frequency of sanitizer on bare hands is not very good.
Confirmed! Gustave is Howie Mandel!
Ha. Whiskey tits. Beautiful.
a strangely soothing video – mowing the lawn with a scythe – turns out it’s about half as efficient as gas mower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGNTYPmeLXk
My back hurts just watching that.
Needs more
Needs more cowbell!
I remember visiting my German relatives and one of Dad’s cousins made me take the scythe outside and cut some grass for her rabbit.
She also served what I think was unhomogenized milk, which had an interesting texture.
You sound homo-phobic.
That’s it, you’re demoted from commander to lieutenant!
Hey, it’s all that milk that advertised right at the gay community.
“Milk–$3.98 Gal Homo”
https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/connecticut-man-broke-into-restaurant-spent-days-eating-downing-booze-cops/
Amused I am.
He was social distancing!
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENK245mtPTo
Part of the answer is that like birds, they had air sacs that helped support the skeleton, so the supporting muscles and bones did not need to be as heavy as they are in other large animals.
Like birds? Birds are dinosaurs.
I’m glad Fiona Apple is back.
Are you feeling like a criminal?
I’m angry. Not at anything, just angry.
It’s baitin time.
I’m angry too. We can form a club and wear large red A’s on our shirts.
Signifying you’re open to anal?
Fuckin’ A!
We could have our own flag
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71swSPt2BQL._AC_UX522_.jpg
I’m angry, not an anarchist.
“Can I golf?” Yes. But it’s up to the course owner. And there are major restrictions
Also, don’t tell them you’re Jewish.
Golf cart = Bad
That’s a good description. I vacillate between anger and despair.
Yeap, that’s me as well.
I don’t have bouts of despair.
But I know the stress-eating doesn’t help my mood, since I get mad at myself to doing it.
It’s gotten better since I started seeing people push back. The thought of everyone just complying with orders without any questioning whatsoever was depressing. I know people are mostly sheep but even a sheep will respond to being kicked.
Did no one get warm, fuzzy feels from the links I posted last thread?
The video of a three year old getting a huge motorcycle parade for his birthday? A community bonding together with no fucking Karens.
I thought that was hugely redeeming…
I am not here all the time.
*truncated comment for being mean-spirited*
I shouldn’t snap at people.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/178612249448/
There are two videos on the page. I think three of you delve into the comments.
I have an objection to visiting a facebook site.
Plenty good warm and fuzzy, tempered with the reality that I am in fucking New Jersey. Was considering PA as a retirement destination before all this, now even more so (and not to bring NJ there, either).
I really like the area I live in, however, fuck that asshole Wolf. He needs to go.
Heh. I’ll see your Wolf and raise you a Murphy. I may have a spare kampposr lying around.
Lamppost. I hate phones.
Amazing that it didn’t try to auto-correct “kampposr”.
fuck that asshole Wolf. He needs to go.
Seconded.
#metoo but Prohibition II: DTs Boogaloo has me questioning that idea.
As Sean said, Wolf’s gotta go. On the plus side, the natives seem to be less supine than my neighbors.
That was totally cool. I’ve been in a few of those. The best was when we picked up my friend’s daughter from elementary school out in Bullhead. About a dozen bikes. The kids were in awe of it. Prolly no one ever picked on her again, after that.
In these trying times, a good healthy dose of apathy is your friend.
Whatever.
That’s always been my default mode.
So is skateboarding.
I, too, find myself pissed off.
Beats some of the alternatives.
I spend most of my time away from people. Also I dont watch news much lately.
I live in the middle of nowhere. I dont get out much. My dogs, bees and wife get my attention.
That’s how I stay out of jail.
Oh, I’m angry, but it’s about plenty of specific things. Mostly, I’m angry that the governors shut down their states, we’re shedding jobs left and right, and I’m not even allowed to bitch about it at work outside of a select few coworkers. The rest would gape at me in shock and horror that I didn’t believe the experts, or believe that the government has our best interests at heart. I’m angry that this was just one big fucking power grab, a test, if you will, to see if the populace were sufficiently soft enough to huddle in their homes, simply because they were ordered to, based on outlandish models that continue to not prove true. But at work, where I spend a huge percentage of my time, I instead have to deal with tone-policing assholes that get huffy and want to ban commenters as angry as me, simply because they referred to Northam as Coonman. They’re so busy jerking off to disaster porn and patting themselves on the back for their ‘heroic coverage’ of a ‘worldwide story’ that they never stop to question why it’s never becoming as disastrous as predicted – even in NYC – although it’s certainly terrible there. So instead I have to spent 80% of my day biting my tongue and swallowing my general rage so I can keep getting paid. No wonder I’ve been drinking so much.
OK, that phrase, relating to anyone with any kind of “Fuck You” power, really pisses me off.
If you ever flip these people off, please leave it in the air an extra second or two, for me. Please.
Will absolutely do. But…. as a single income household with kids, I’m unlikely to truly break cover that far. I’ll stick with rescuing conservative commenters on my site from being banned by petty authoritarian leftists with no tolerance for disagreement… and continue to seethe while I wait for them to catch up to reality.
Pssst…they’ll never catch up to reality.
Ewww…yeah. Yeah.
What they will do is their damnedest to make reality conform to their views.
Is anyone else excited for semen tree season?
The trees.
The bees that I don’t have yet? They may still be in CA enjoying the good life of almond blossoms and whatever fruit trees are available.
The bugs.
Top three movies that put a scare in to you.
The Shining
Blair Witch
The Exorcist
You left out Wizard of Oz.
Flying Monkeys are terrifying.
Blair Witch . Lol.
I know! It got me, bro.
Wait Until Dark.
Yeah, that’s a good one.
The Vanishing was pretty messed up.
The original version, not the remake.
I don’t think I saw the original. I’ll have to check it out. The Jeff Bridges version pretty good.
It’s scheduled on TCM at 6:00 AM Tuesday.
Cool thanks!
Recorded
#metoo
I’m recording a lot of movies lately for some reason.
The Ring
That one form when I was a kid with the murderous dummy.
Not a movie but the TV adaptation of Salem’s Lot.
Haven’t seen it in ages so I can’t say if it’s held up, but I saw this when I was about 12 and I’m pretty sure I didn’t sleep for a month.
yep the kid floating outside the window bit, probably laughable by today’s standards but sunk right into my 9 year old psyche.
I remember it spooked me. Not THAT much, but it was memorable.
That one form when I was a kid with the murderous dummy.
Dubya?
Jeff Goldblum in “The Fly” really freaked me out.
It was creepy good!
The scene in Taken where the daughter is on the phone with Dad while being kidnapped made my hair stand on end. It was only one scene in the movie but I have daughters and it’s not often I have that type of reaction to a movie anymore.
There’s a Karen in each of those.
Alien
The Legend of Boggy Creek.
I was around 8 when I saw it. Scared the shit out of me. Went to a double feature at the drive-in with my dad and I neither of us knew what that movie was about, lol.
My mother’s side of the family had property at Boggy Creek. It took a while for me to figure out that movie Boggy Creek was in another state. I still remember asking her about it vis-a-vis the movie, and if they ever had Bigfoot sightings and whatnot.
GoodBad times.“And now here’s something we hope you really enjoy.”
How about this.
Um, YES!
The bass player should have kept her bleached blond hair. Love watching SCOTS live vids on YT every now and then.
Stossel on China’s surveillance state, including its 200 million security cameras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDCVf0_FY3Q
Stossel on coming US bankruptcy; featuring SadBeard* at 1:48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmjkEM3AJ1Q
*SadBeard was the name given in the Before Time to Matthew Yglesias, one of the dimmer bulbs at Vox
I thought Krugabi is Sadbeard.
Paulie Krugnuts?
I recall some idiot telling me 25 years ago that the government could just give everyone a million dollars because they print the money. I just laughed it off because I knew he was a moron. Guess he could teach at Harvard now.
I did a 9 mile ruck this weekend. Nothing too arduous. I wore a 40 lb weight vest and had about 3 lbs of water on me. The only thing of note is that I wore flip flops, which raised the eyebrows of the others. Start to finish was about 3 hours. There were some hills.
I said to them that the VC walked the Ho Chi Minh trail in flip flops and the Roman army went everywhere in sandals. I’ve rolled my ankle way more times while wearing boots vs other footwear. And only boots have given blisters.
Flip flops seem like they would not be very comfortable. What kind do you use?
Fat Tire made by an Under Armour – Michelin partnership. Sturdy, very good traction, and comfortable.
Cool thanks. I gave up boots for tennis shoes while hiking years ago.
Trail shoes are the best. All the stability of tennis shoes, but with a grippy sole and a plate to avoid intrusion.
I think that’s what I’ve got — Columbia hiking shoes. They’re water-resistant too.
OMG I went hiking in sneakers by mistake a while back and my feet were NOT happy with me.
Yeah, you have to have something with thicker soles or you’ll feel every rock.
The trail up the mountain was all rocks.
I rolled a joint once. My ankle still acts up when its about to rain.
I’ve rolled a lot of joints.
Oh! You mean ankles.
LOL!
I only made it about 2 minutes and I can’t stop laughing.
“Deedee Mega Doodoo”
“La Tits”
“I dropped my hot pockets!”
“I’ll probably sit around and cook some soups”
lololol
“It’s a man, actually, Derek.” LOL!
The Hamburger. Lol.
Burgler. Sheesh.
The house cat. So good.
The Hamburglar had me in stitches..
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I wouldn’t mine Ms. Hamburglar, sans stitches IYKWIM…
That’s good.
GET OFF MY YT ACCOUNT!
I no-shit, swear to Jesus H. Koresh I watched that shortly after noon today.
I need to start doing situps as part of my workout. I’ve always hated doing situps and did leg lifts instead; but I think those are working my legs a lot more than my stomach, which is where I need the burn. Any advice? Secure my feet under the couch? Legs bent or straight? Hands crossed over my chest or behind my head? Thanks.
Ozymandius had a good dissertation on core exercises in today’s GlibFit article.
Ah, thanks.
I have diastasis rectii, so none of them for me.
Floor sweepers – Lying on back holding medium weight* barbell above your chest. Lift both legs together and touch the weight on one side with your toes. Lower legs back to starting position then raise them again, touching the other weight.
* “medium weight” should be just enough to assist in keeping the shoulders on the floor.
Forgot to mention – you can do a modified version by lying on the floor, body perpendicular to a sofa or bed with your head towards the furniture. Grip the bottom of the frame with your hands to keep your body on the floor as you raise your legs, alternating touching toes to the furniture to outside of one hand and then the next.
For Crusty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ4PZVj66ac
Oh, start at 3:30
I responded up top Mo about the business.
If I understand the CV correctly it seems to be most hazardous to the old, the obese and those with serious other medical problems. In the future I’m going to double my social distancing or just walk away from those kinds of possible encounters. At Walmart I’ll be scurrying around, furtively, always on the look out for encroachment by ‘those people’.
It may cause some anxiety on my part but its the only way to play it safe. It may even cause some of ‘those people’ to question my motives but I want to be 110% safe, can’t afford to take any chances.
OTOH I may keep on doing what I’m doing now, which is nothing different from the past. Life gets so complicated when there are so many unseen, unknown boogie men
Life gets so complicated when there are so many unseen, unknown boogie men that you can’t just shoot
If I understand the life correctly it seems to be most hazardous to the old, the obese and those with serious other medical problems.
CV and life seem to cause a lot of the same problems
Rosanna Rosannadanna’s voice:
” I dont understand how a corona can get a virus anyways. Isn’t it just a mechanical typewriter? It doesn’t even hook up to that modulus thingy with the phoneline and all. Computers have 1s and 0s and the internal net. They get virus’s not regular old…. What’s that? Oh. Nevermind.
Emily Latella?
Man…. The wife is working from home 3 days a week from now. Kid is home from school until at least early May. I’m at home until early May. This can’t turn out well.
Choose B!
You and the wife can always try bukkake porn.
More alcohol. For them, not you.
Not drinking her alcohol ever again. Those cans of Lemon Sours packed too much of a punch. Only 9%, but they aren’t made for sipping.
You don’t drink sake?
On special occasions only. New Years, Birthdays etc. Yummy, but not an every day drink.
I noticed that a lot of stuff is suddenly temporarily out of stock on Amazon. Kind of shotgunned all across- shampoo refill, power tools, CDs, textbooks, whisky. Looks like you can still get get White Ricker if you get desperate.
Mr. Mojeaux and I had the “I can’t work in the same office with you because you don’t like chitchatting when you work” discussion.
Me: That will never change.
His working at home is good for our budget. It is not good for our marriage.
That’s been a long-standing difficulty exacerbated by the lockdowns. I’ve worked from home full-time for about fourteen years. My husband has stayed home to take care of the kids for nearly as long, so we’re normally with each other all the time anyway. Or, I thought we were. Now that casually dropping by a friend’s house, or having the kids out of the house during school hours, and Boy Scouts, with the attendant campouts and activities or my occasional trips to NYC for work are all gone, I know what all the time really means. We’ve started keeping separate bedtime and rising time hours, just to give each other a few hours of privacy each day.
You’ve probably got a bigger place than our Condo. I’m hanging out in the storage room half the day. The separate bedtime and rising hours is a good idea. For some reason, though, the wife thinks that I shouldn’t stay up until 3am watching GoT. *Shrugs*
Yeah. Even in a three bedroom house on half an acre, it’s starting to feel crowded. But the hubby and I both acknowledge that we do have *some* different interests, and we indulge those when the other is preoccupied. The hard part is having the kids at home all. the. time. The fact that we’re down to only one other family in the neighborhood that hasn’t succumbed to pangolin panic and locked their children in the house with nothing but video games and TV, has made it even more difficult. I WANT OUT!!!
*hands straffin wakizashi*
So I got on Derpbook today (I know, I know) and posted something to the effect of:
“One good thing about All Corona, All the Time news is that we didn’t have breathless, maudlin coverage of the twenty-fifth anniversary of when Tim McVeigh reminded the feds that they couldn’t massacre American citizens with impunity.”
Yes, I was feeling snarky. You can, however, imagine the reaction.
Well, he did it by massacring innocent Americans. He shoulda worked for Janet Reno and the DoJ at the time.
At least not without using a drone…
Hoo boy. That would have resulted in at least ten unfriendings for me.
Someone wants a surprise party thrown for them.
*No Knock, Knock*
*Who’s there?*
Bad news out of Canada.
The cops shot each other?
/did not read the article.
As I said in the previous thread, it’s a civilian-involved shooting.
(And yes, I know the cops are civilians, too.)
No way. They dont have guns up there. Totally safe for everyone.
Headline: Police: At least 16 killed in shooting rampage in Canada
By Kate SheehyApril 19, 2020 | 4:41pm | Updated
In the article: “It almost certainly will be more than 10. How much more than 10, I don’t know,” admitted Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather.
They updated a crappy little article where the headline no longer matches the body of the article. NY Post be lazy people. Spend 3 minutes and write a new one.
“The idea that this could happen in our community is unbelievable,” said local lawmaker Tom Taggart.
Yep–just the kind of reality-based thinking you want in an elected official.
Rash is spreading, little clusters of welts up one side and across my chest and stomach. I think it’s the CovAIDS. I think I’m done for.
I think it is almost certainly Hansen’s disease.
Hanson’s disease
No Hanson’s disease!
Or Henson’s disease.
https://youtu.be/W9yYaBkKnok
For those of you who larfed at Jar’s link (I was one), I just watched an interview with one of the Hanson brothers — the one who was actually named Hanson.
Hilarious behind-the-scenes stuff. Worth your time when you have some to spare.
Well, shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8G6omkAwI&list=LLbqMBkI_lKRIOp9iOtu_2vA&index=2&t=61s
Fingers crossed that its hives due to stress over the situation instead.
Obligatory.
I’m puttin $20 on histoplasmosis.
Allergy? You try an antihestimine like Zertac and some Cortisone?
Maybe it’s lupus.
Or, a pointed stick.
“To help prevent hives avoid exposure to substances that give you allergic reactions”
https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/diseases-conditions/hives
Maybe stress, maybe allergies, maybe lupus. I took some benadryl but I can’t tell that it helped.
Try some Cortisone cream as well. If Benadryl doesn’t work, I would try Zyrtac. I am not a doctor, I just play one on the internet. Are the welts warm to the touch?
If they are, it’s possible you have an infection too. Either way, go see your doc. I’m sure your fine, you may even be transforming into some kind of super powered mutant!
Not warm. Modestly itchy. Some are starting to peak. If I die tonight, burn my avatar and delete my internet history.
Have you tried Qualludes? They used to calm me right down.
Here you go.
Kinda sounds like Shingles. For your sake I hope I am wrong.
I’m trying to watch Super Troopers on Comedy Central but I don’t find cops funny. Too bad cos I like Tacoma FD a lot.
That was always a stumbling block I had with Super Troopers, too. While I laughed at the pranks, they were all the sort of shit that would have infuriated or terrified me, had a cop done that to me in real life, even the meow schtick. I liked Club Dread better.
Club Dread, +1000
I desperately want to hear someone say this during the lockdown protests: “Back off, fun pig! You wanna fun-fucking-arrest me? You better get a fun-fucking-warrant!”
You sound like you’ve met me before. That’s why I married a lawyer.
I just quit doing Quaaludes.
Hey, Merle, I was wonderin’… if ya had any ‘ludes on ya?
So did I. It turns out they were keeping me calm.
Yeah, they’re good for that:) lol.
Old local CBus band.
https://youtu.be/wFaEJMEEmFA
That was supposed to be a comedy?
Reno 911 was funny in that trailer Parks Boys kind of way.
Hm. You’re right, Reno 911 was funny.
I stopped Super Troopers and now I’m watching the latest Tacoma FD that I taped.
English-language translation of a paper (original in Hebrew) that was linked to a few days ago wherein an Israeli researcher claimed that the COVID-19 virus would follow a relatively fixed growth and decline curve, regardless of the kind of social policies invoked to attempt to stop it or slow its spread:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-end-of-exponential-growth-the-decline-in-the-spread-of-coronavirus/
Haven’t had time to read the translation yet, but a buddy’s already seriously crapping all over this, and from a brief scan of the paper, I can’t determine why. Anyone interested in finding out? I’m slammed for time before tomorrow.
(((They))) certainly are the experts on plaugues so I believe him. I have lambs blood over my door, but I always do just to be safe.
Interesting. I don’t have the skills to discuss the validity of this (or the lack thereof), but I do have a number of (((coworkers))) who may be discussing this tomorrow. Almost all of them are on the panic bandwagon, so I don’t think this will be well received.
I think that’s the “70 day lifespan” report. The little I saw of one report from last week, he seems like he might be fairly vociferous against lock-downs and economic death. If that’s the case, I can imagine that a lot of people think he’s publishing something fitting his pre-conceived ideas.
I don’t know if he is–why would he risk any professional standing on this? But, we all know there are plenty of people who think this was meant to be an apocalypse, and that only the ‘brave people in charge, making the tough decisions’ are what has averted it.
I don’t know if I should admit this, but yesterday I spent the entire afternoon carefully picking apart several tangles from Hell in the yarn I’m using for my current knitting project. The yarn is very thin – barely thicker than thread – so as I neared the end of the ball, it collapsed into a jumbled mess. I could easily have cut out the tangled bits and tied the ends together, but knots mar the appearance of a flat piece like a scarf, and besides, this is pricey, high-end yarn – 100% linen. (I’m hoping any of you who engage in highly-detailed work for a living or for a hobby won’t think I’m crazy. Or at least not crazy for THAT reason.)
I decided that a task like this requires (in proportions I haven’t yet determined) patience, obsessiveness, and stubbornness. Right up my alley. Since my higher-level thinking skills (such as they are) were not required for the job, I started thinking of the task at hand as a metaphor for what it may take to fix the economy once all these crap restrictions are lifted. It’s going to be a mess, and as we’re trying to fix it, if we pull on one part of the strand to loosen it up, another part might tighten into a knot. It will probably take a lot of trial and error – and certainly patience and persistence – to undo the mess that’s being made. That is, if those in power don’t just take the expedient shortcut of cutting out the troublesome bits and trashing them.
I think I need to get out of the house.
If we got rid of all the politicians, it would fix itself.
It will fix itself despite politicians, it just takes longer when they’re leeching off of it.
I’m with you, GT. I’ve spent untold hours trying come up with a satisfactory way to (quickly and efficiently) craft rivets for scale model military vehicles and Japanese robots.
Sugar?
Ooh, that’s clever. I’ll give it try next time I’m building. SO far the best has been using a tiny drops of cyanoacrylate, followed closely by very thin slices of plastic sprue.
I don’t know what size models you are working with, but there are different coarseness. Like sanding sugar might be about right.
I make parts for my bikes by manual machining. It’s very concentration intensive and that makes me lose all my other stresses. Riding motorcycles does the same thing.
To me, the perfect knitting or crochet project combines nice, long stretches of mindless repetition with points at which you must focus on a complex step like turning the heel on a sock. I think of it as a kind of Zen thing. [Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about Zen.]
I rode motorcycles for 51 years. I bought my first bike (a 1949 Harley 125) when I was twelve.
Giving up bikes was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, way harder than quitting smoking.
Back country snowmobiling for me.
I understand. I’m about 40 years into my riding career, not about to quit just yet.
Why Alexander the Great made terrible sweaters.
Fuck a duck. The land around Chernobyl’s on fire.
I have an alibi.
Oh, you mean that other place where a communist government had a catastrophe and pretended not to, in service to the good name of their ideology, thereby consigning millions to extreme suffering? That Chernobyl?
That Chernobyl.
I’m fascinated by Pripyat (the support town) and Chernobyl.
Me too. I live about 10 miles from Santa Susanna, where the worst nuclear meltdown in US history happened. The staff freaked out and ran and just let it burn. They came back after it ran out of fuel and just mopped it up. There are still people who worked there then living in the area. I used to hang out in the hills where it happened (coincidentally, the same hills where Charlie Manson lived in ’69!)
Do you know about the Goiânia incident? A buddy of mine from there told me the story of that. It happened right after Chernobyl. Someone broke into an abandoned radiologic clinic and took out a bunch of highly radioactive cesium. They ended up giving it away and people in the favela rubbed it on themselves. It was glowing blue salts and it got all around the slum from these two scrap thieves.
A couple months ago, the journalistos were worried our Democracy was being destroyed. Now, as the protests show Democracy still lives, the same journalistos are calling them irresponsible.
Along with the ChiComVirus cases/death index, we should have a permanent Hypocrisy Meter right up there with the Debt Calculator. In fact, two Hypocrisy Meters – one Red and one Blue.
Anyone interested in a mouse gun in .308?
https://www.cabelas.com/product/gun-library/springfield-gun-library|/pc/103792680/c/109187280/colt-mustang-pocketlite-308-acp/3593868.uts?destination=%2Fcategory%2FSpringfield-Gun-Library%2F109187280.uts
Chapter 1:
Guy sucked on the tube and a wad of water dislodged, sliding down his throat. His mother’s teet now hard metal. Some of the rats in the lab were exhausting themselves on their running wheels, but most of them were either gnawing on their doubled chocolate rations or dutifully watching the screen of Dr. Reddenpecker giving updates on the contagion.
“A reminder that the cost of stability is freedom. It is not oppression if you follow the protocols out of love” the smooth voice of the female British announcer assured the rats over the speaker. Guy had become skilled at timing his self-pleasuring sessions to reach climax when she said “love”, but today the announcement was a few minutes early. He worked furiously to catch up. Too late. Today was shot and the one the one thing that added structure to his life was taken away.
“Psst, Julia” he hissed to his next cage neighbor. “You ever think we could take down O’Brien if we all rushed him at once? One cat against 100 rats. Possible?”
Julia’s red eyes darted back and forth, searching for snitches who might be within earshot. “Yes, Guy, that is what I’ve thought since the day they convinced us to climb into these cages.” She buried her head into the sawdust and nibbled on the contraband coffee bean Guy had smuggled in for her. “Make that one last” Guy warned, “Getting harder and harder to come by.”
*Bahooga! Bahooga!*
The lab door opened with a metal click and Dr. Covid Reddenpecker strode in, his fur free body feline, yet fleshy. O’Brien jumped to attention and saluted the Doctor. Identifying as a cat was a power move for O’Brien. Going from rat to cat was a point mutation of evolutionary genius. Some of the rats looked at Dr. Reddenpecker as a savior, while others ignored his presence. Julia and Guy felt the ancient hatred of his species well up and it added a tinge of crimson to their already red eyes. This hatred was no where near the level of hatred they had towards the other rats in the lab that rolled over and exposed their bellies to the doctor. Guy poked his nose through the bars of his cage. “That’s it. I’m making a break for it tonight. You in?” Julia didn’t hesitate. “Of course.”
Tomorrow brings Chapter 2: The break out.
While I applaud your writing skills and ability to capture the futility of our times, I can’t help but think this would be much better in anime.
Straff–If you’re still around, I am liking this. It would be interesting to see this in animated form, but, I’m ready for C2.
http://archive.li/gT6jQ/03a3266033de08da0b8cf140abcd688fe6c419e0.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/sL9FV/8c47933e88446b45fe764bcfdec9f78a353fb621.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/0KMaP/7e67b507079c3ae88d1c55547cd7294dfeafd713.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/stqBz/a8653ce2f1ef08c25d30387131ce867928a1bc4f.jpg
NSFW.
She seems fun.
nice pics, something about these ladies seemed more appealing than usual, maybe it’s just the professional lighting, etc.
So….did Cacciatore get his wish to be erased from the site?
If so, did he ever mention why/does anyone know what precipitated it?
It was bizarre. I thought he was joking at first. Something went off inside him. He misread how TPTB interact with the commentors, thinking they were acting aloof. Maybe he was just drunk. I dunno.
Do you know what that particular interaction/lack of was?
He just showed up in the Night Shift last night asking for it, and I thought maybe he had been in the chat and had some sort of argument or other issue.
Dude, it came out of nowhere. Suddenly he was telling SP that she thinks she’s so great and how TPTB treat the commentariat as below them. He said that they don’t interact with us. Then the profanity started and that was enough for me. If he’s having a rough time, I get snapping a bit. Just went way too far with it.
This is why my only friends are imaginary.
They’re always when you need, satisfaction guaranteed!
Damn it, now I have an Atlanta Rhythm Section playlist going.
I am my own best friend
Heh. Nice linkage!
Er, um–YouTube linka-dammit….
That was clever.
It’s your own worst enemy!
Was that in the zoom chat?
Yeah. To be honest, I don’t wanna talk about it, but since he brought it into the comment section, I think it’s only fair to explain it a little.
Yeah, no problem. I have just been stuck wondering about what might have happened, since it didn’t seem related to the post. Last thing I want is to start pissing off you
ladies andgents with shitty links that are meant to get a laugh or incredulous head-shake.I’m now somewhat glad I didn’t join in, as that would have put my headache into overdrive.
Thanks for the explanation. I only saw the comments on the Night Shift post and couldn’t help but wonder what had happened.
Thanks for shedding a little light in this. I had wondered what we did. There was one dramatic departure in the past but that was well explained (reasonable is a different subject).
So you DO want to piss off the ladies? ; )
On net, I’d say everyone gets one or two chances to be an asshat. We all have bad days. It is only when it becomes most days, or even “recurrent” that it is a real problem.
Forgiveness is divine, all that crap…
It is only in an intimate relationship that there are things that can’t be unsaid. For the rest of the world, a little grace goes a long way.
Glad you saw that, GT. Just a simple nod to our imaginary ‘female libertarian’ types
::gales of laughter::
I would make a joke about “better pissed off than pissed on”, but this crowd is pretty weird, so ya never know…
Well….
Is that the golden shower equivalent of the eggplant emoji? I don’t know my emoji-speak for off-beat sexual practices. I’m married since before that was a thing, so I don’t have to text about kinky diversions. I get my “no” face to face.
“off-beat”….?
And, here I was, thinking you’re a beach/coastal type. I guess you just take ammonia with you when you hit the water, Mr. Never-Jellied.
What happened?
Cacciatore dropped into the comments last night and asked that his info be scrubbed from the site. He hadn’t posted anything in the comments prior to that.
Said that he thought it would be “a net positive” for him.
Strange and sad.
Did you guys scare him off with your zoom meeting? I saw that response, a bit odd. Hope he’s alright. Everyone is under such stress right now, it is very no bueno.
^ this. I have seen some weird assed shit lately form people I know. This thing is freaking some people out bad.
A week or so ago I had an apartment manager go off the rails and start throwing things around his unit and ranting about the end. This guy is pretty frazzled on a normal day. This is terrible for people’s mental well being.
We tried to talk him down for about half an hour. It’s a shame. I liked that kid.
Melting down in the Glibs comments? HOW EMBARRASSING.
Eh…he wasn’t in any kind of real meltdown mode in comments, so much as just cryptic and wanting out, for lack of a better term.
But, I was shocked. Then again, I suppose I’d rather be the ventee, even if I didn’t precipitate it*.
*as opposed to somewhere where he might have bigger consequences. He didn’t take aim at anyone when he commented.
Just making fun of my episodes of drunken mawkishness here.
Sorry–tbh, I don’t associate such with you.
So, at least you’ve got that goin’ for ya….
Yeah, he said nothing to explain what had happened. I was guessing he was doxed to somebody outside this forum and wanted to erase his comments – he didn’t say anything about something happening here.
Your links are pretty darn good Digby, don’t let anyone tell you different.
Eh, they’re silly, even if they are actual news (go figure, amirite?). But, I do very much appreciate the support. Just sorry there’s something negative occurring that is only just tangentially related to a post of mine.
It looks like it was not related at all to your posts. Even if it was, well, they are Late Nite, and advertised as such. I really think it was just the stress of the present day situation. I appreciate having this spot now more than ever. Carry on Glibs.
We have the best links, perfect links.
#YuuuugeLinkage
Sick link though, bro. Dude, your links are out of control, everyone knows that.
Your links had nothing to do with it. How about we give him a week or so to at least apologize to SP? For now I’m going radio silent on the issue. Oh, and I don’t need an apology at all.
Well, again, much thanks for the clarifying light. And, I like the ‘just give it time’ approach.
It looks like you’re checking out my ass.
I’ve never been all that smooth. Certainly not as smooth as her.
Jeez, I thought it was just me being a Petulant child,
Howdy!
That got me laughing as much as the ‘sperm tree’ comments from CJ, et al.
Not saying you’re a sperm tree. Though, I’d have to start charging you if you want me to.
/$20
Color me naive, but: https://www.theblaze.com/news/iran-disputes-us-navys-accusations-of-provocative-encounter-warns-any-error-in-calculation-will-receive-a-decisive-response
USGC….in the Persian Gulf? Why the hell are they ‘guarding’ the PG??
They got to play in Vietnam.
You know, I never thought of that. Because, of course they did.
Haha suckers, I’m joining the Coast Guard so I don’t have to go to war. What? They need coastal patrol boats, shit.
?
“Our organization was established to guard the coast. Are you saying Iran doesn’t have a cost?”
/USCG representative
This, I like. ?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacksonville-florida-beaches-reopen-three-days-after-states-coronavirus-death-toll-spiked
Prime example of hysteria motivated by politics. For some reason, team D just can’t help themselves.
This is about Jacksonville reopening their beaches. Now, Jacksonville has not seen much in the way of Covid-19 so far. And the beach is probably the last place where it is going to spread, with all of that UV, wind and no hard surfaces. And if you look at the photos, people are definitely spread out – way more than at the grocery store.
So why the hate? “this is what happens when politicians don’t believe in science” What? If you were following the science, you’d be asking about findings that “at the beach” was a significant source of viral transmission. I’ll bet that it isn’t . But that doesn’t stop the “reality has a liberal bias” crowd. They just declare themselves to be scientifically proven correct and claim victory.
I was surfcasting today at a beach that had a lot of people, but everyone was spread out. Closing beaches in some places is insanity. Thank the lord they did not do that here, that has been my respite from this idiocy.
Saturday we had to stop playing Disc due to the crowds at the park, don’t want to hit anyone, so i stayed home today, Monday will be fine.
Walmart is still packed with people and well stocked, I got my favorite Paper towels, and some Carne Asada for grilling, people around here are done with hiding..
I find all the “haha, those stupid Trump voters are going to die because they went to the beach” comments interesting. Also the “millions of young people are going to die too” comments.
It just shows how they can’t look up the webpages with the age breakdowns and realize just how skewed the fatal numbers are to the older population. I just shake my head at how they eat up the BS the main stream press puts out.
They want a Collapse, until they get one,
No – no, they really do. By the time this gets to full collapse the government will be mailing boxes of cash to everybody because it will be about as valuable as toilet paper. So at least THAT shortage will be fixed.
I’m starting to lean toward stress hives, I am fucking lit, fucking wired right now. Popped some propranolol.
Wired around us late-niters? Seems like you picked the wrong time to start sniffing glue…
I wish I could blame the quarantine, but I’m not so even-keeled at the best of times. I think I need to go back on Paxil or something.
Have you changed laundry detergent or are you using a new soap? Or maybe the manufacture changed the formula in the soap you use. A shower may help if it is an irritant on your skin.
Had the same thought, but no, no changes.
I had stress hives once, it freaked me out. Hope they clear up soon.
Regarding the talk of folks getting snippy with each other…..
Yeah, this sequestration is affecting different folks in different ways.
My wife is not cut out for this at all. I have to walk on eggshells at “certain times” as it is. But now? Ouch. She needs down time, alone time, and most of all, social interaction in group settings with other adults. None of that is happening. So she’s ready to pop.
I’m fine. My girls are mostly fine. But the boy is like his mom… and even though he’s been mostly good, the stress is starting to show up. He hasn’t mentioned anything, even when prompted. But you can tell from his behavior and emotional responses that being isolated from his friends is weighing on him.
I’d give a dollar to have the wife turn off the CNN propaganda machine though. She’s kinda obsessed at this point, and it isn’t helping her stress level. Plus, it takes every bit of will power I have not to go on a rant when I hear some of the nonsense coming from that station. Particularly when Cuomo is hosting. Holy crap… that guy!
So I have been saying a prayer of thanks to the Lord for teaching me restraint and patience.
The news media is showing what a cancer it is on civilization.
CNN! Poor you. Tony Bourdain was the only bearable thing on that channel.
On the protests in Michigan and the response from government…
Compare and contrast with Antifa protests in places like Seattle. Or attacks on conservative protests in the same cities that are tolerated by the government.
Even worse than Seattle is Portland. The local government is tacitly supporting Antifa.
Yeah… that’s who I meant.
I’m on the east coast of Florida. You can’t get farther from that part of the country and still be in the continental US. So I count “is on the pacific ocean” as “close e-damned-nuff.
One has a river port, the other a seaport. Both ruin the rest of their state.
I challenge denizens of the northwest to name the largest city in Florida and correctly locate it on a map…..
Skeeterville? Humidia? Gatortown? At the tip? 😉
I love all of those.
My vote: Ticlaw
Surprisingly, the large metropolitan area at the tip of america’s wang (over 6 million) does not contain Florida’s largest city, despite being the second largest metropolitan area in the southeast. The city of Miami proper is less than half a million.
I know it’s not Niceville, been there. And Orlando, yuck, although I enjoyed touring the space center.
FUCK YOU, MIAMI
Area-wise it’s Jacksonville since Anchorage is city-borough
It appears that very few people there DON’T support them–tacitly, or, openly.
Virus, different. *mike drop*
/branch covidians
Oh, that IS awesome, Gustave. I am actually afraid we will
needhave that, if things don’t turn around./OK–need it.
A priest, a rabbit, and a minister walk into a bar.
The rabbit says, “Y’know, I might be a typo…”
Heheheh…ya killin’ me, Shpip.
Also, have I told you
lately that I love youthat your screen-name is a wonderful sort-of mantra? I find myself saying it a lot, once I read it.x
How about a preacher and a bear?
I want my Carolina red dogs, but not at $83 for shipping. Too bad.
A kind of sausage/hot dog, I take it?
Also, $83?? Will they cook them for you, as well??
Yep.
http://carolinapackers.com/
They’re good but that’s a bridge too far.
$64+ for me. Good Lord…
And now they’d sent me a coupon because I walked away. A whopping 20% off. Make it free shipping and it’s a deal.
Yeah–damn skippy, make it free.
What is that…like $6, $8 off….It’s nice and all, but…
Interesting vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL9laD6gE_8
They mention, at the end, about ‘removing the stigma of pot consumption’. I hate to say this, but, it’ll take the death, or, critical illness (i.e. cancer) of many of the Boomer and some Gen X generations to do this. Since a lot of pot culture was a repudiation of normies, those normies aren’t going to be keen to view the users any differently. Especially when it’s always been taboo and often a crime–criminals use it, therefor highly immoral.
Not disagreeing with the premise, though.
A war on your own citizens, way to go puritans, such a genius idea.
I always shake my head at my Gen-X peers that used it as teenagers and are now against legalization.
Does anyone think the government is going to give up its new revenue stream?
I would also like to know the interviewer and interviewee opinions on gun restrictions.
I think LL is probably against it. No idea about the guy.
Too many Karens be like “if government doesn’t explicitly tell us we can do something, we must assume it’s illegal”. Remove it from scheduling and deal with marijuana federalism? Red states probably keep it illegal and keep the black markets and drug wars alive, while blue states find a new cash cow in administrating dispensaries, licensing, regulating, but still find they are dealing with black markets to circumvent their taxes and bureacracy? Imagine Austin becoming a weed sanctuary city in Texas.
I once pulled up behind a township police cruiser at a red light. The cruiser sported a bumper sticker that bragged about the fact that said cruiser had been purchased with proceeds from drug-related asset seizure.
But no, of course there’s no incentive to keep the War on Drugs going./sarc
You should have pulled them over.
Mornin’ Glibs. Today is day 1 of my house arrest diet. The plan is very complicated, it is “Eat less, move more.”
I also started a new spreadsheet to keep track of what goes down the gullet so I can more accureately tell myself to stay away from the fridge.
All the best, man. Mine has been working out well (although technically started before house arrest). I’ve lost 11.4lbs in six weeks, which must be the slowest weight loss ever, but I’m pleased.
It’s the trend line that matters, as long as it’s moving in the direction best for you, be happy.
I’ve found it very difficult to stick to the low-carb diet that worked for me in the past. I take a nice low-carb yogurt with me to work for my breakfast, but then a couple of hours later I’m hungry again. And there, in the break room not ten feet from my office, there are those pesky Pop Tarts. And here I am with two quarters…
Good luck. Eat less carbs. ?
you anti-carb bigots are almost as bad as evangelical vegans.
Which is more correct for this application? Anti-carb bigot or carb bigot? Or are both correct usages?
‘carb bigot’ is too bread, as it also includes pro-carb bigots.
I meant to say broad, but too bread also works.
Yes, it does.
My biggest problem is that for me, carbs = comfort food. Two of my biggest weaknesses: mac & cheese and certain varieties of potato salad.
Carbs are my kryptonite.
Rather than take away tasty for an unbalanced nutrient intake, I do actually lose weight when I control portions and don’t just sit like a lump.
I also need to get back in the habit of exercising. I miss going to the YMCA. I have a treadmill, but now that it’s getting warmer, I’m more inclined to walk outside with the Mr. Unfortunately, he’s not really up to walking at the pace that would get my heart rate up enough to do some good. (I tend to walk at a brisk pace anyway. My boss claims he can tell it’s me coming down the hall because of the speed of my gait.)
I have free weights in my house, but nowhere to walk without going outside.
Is your immediate neighborhood not conducive to a pleasant outdoor stroll? Ours has no sidewalks but is otherwise not so heavily-traveled as to be hazardous to pedestrians.