Good evening, Glibs.
I am definitely getting too old for all-nighters, but we seem to have achieved a more stable server situation.
However, some people are still complaining of continuing 503/504 errors.
Please clear your site cookies and empty your browser cache. If after doing so, you still experience problems, please send me an email or tech support form telling me exactly the error you are receiving, where you are located, the time you received the error, and if it resolved.
Since we did a full server migration and not just some maintenance, the site’s permanent IP address has changed. Additionally, we have added extra security layers, since, while I could identify much of the intense IP traffic as certain registered users, we suspect that at least some of the traffic spikes were indeed bots.
This extra security means that some individual comments may take longer to post than you were used to. We use the site more like a forum than a regular blog, but we can’t really expect it to behave as one.
So, in conclusion, I’d like to invite you to your Sunday Night Open Post!
She did it!
I mean the Karen, she did it. She ratted you out.
Testing
Slow, but no error!
Thanks for keeping the wheels on the bus, SP
/kisses ring, genuflects
My submission.
Seconded. The fact that you continue to work so hard to give us degenerates a place does not go unappreciated.
Thirded
“Additionally, we have added extra security layers, since, while I could identify much of the intense IP traffic as certain registered users, we suspect that at least some of the traffic spikes were indeed bots.”
/Eyes other commenters suspiciously
But… we’re all Tulpa!
But some of these Tulpas are robot Tulpas!!
*edges towards exit door*
Primes EM-pulse weapon.
I am definitely getting too old for all-nighters
It’s all over after 16.
(Thank you!)
OPEN POST ANARCHY
http://archive.li/FWj1F
“I could identify much of the intense IP traffic as certain registered users”
*looks around nervously*
It wasn’t me, so it could have been you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVs5AyjzwRM
Would.
Indeedy.
So I watched and youtube recommended this video by her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPmnyNODEqY
I missed you comments a few threads back when I was whining to Sean about not jumping. Blue Skies to you as well!
Are you still jumping?
I got married and had kids. Wife said no more fun for you! No more motorcycle either. The minute I get these spuds out of the house I’m hopping on a bike to Sebastian and jumping for a month straight. If I live that long.
I used to jump at Monroe, GA. Fun group. Taught me never to admit that I did anything for the first time…..
+1 case of beer.
I wonder… is there any other group with that tradition? I can’t recall having run into it anywhere else.
Jumping? Or case o’ beer.
I did EMP testing back in the 80’s. At the time (years before digitizers) data were collected with oscilloscopes and ‘scope cameras using Polaroid film. The film that we used was roll cartridges of 8 frames. It was the responsibility of each tech to make sure that their camera was ready for the next shot. Filming a “frame 9” meant buying a case of beer for the crew after the work day.
It was fun to watch someone change a cartridge of film during the 10-second countdown and get the screen box closed in time.
I stopped riding motorcycles the second I found out I was pregnant. Haven’t been on one since.
I kept the motorcycle endorsement on my license to prove I once had a life. It’s had the side benefit of me never getting a ticket from a motorcycle cop. Cop “What do you ride” Me “I’m between bikes at the moment”
My libertarian buddy that I constantly share memes back and forth with made a pithy statement the other day that may be an old trope but was new to me:
“Irony is getting ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt by a motorcycle cop”
Made me LOL for real.
Oh, that’s brilliant!
I gotta remember that one.
That’s how I knew my hubby was my father’s favorite son-in-law. He contacted me to ask if I’d be okay with him giving my husband his bike, since his wife wouldn’t let him ride any more. I, of course, had no reservations.
Oh, and the video linked above is worth the watch under the heading of “wood”. (the rare triple entendre in this case)
Blue Skies
Strange coincidence… some friends came over this afternoon to borrow our kayaks. The very second they pushed away from the dock, the wind picked up and lightning moved in to the area. So we hung out at a distance for a few minutes and the wind prompted me to tell my “that time when we left the ground and the winds were at 10mph but they jumped up to 15-25mph gusts by the time we were exiting the plane” story. I haven’t told that story in at least a half-decade.
Anyway, it ends with the flags by the hangar pointing one way, the big windsock pointing another way, and the little windsock pointing in yet another direction. The agreed upon pattern pre-jump was the worst possible option, given the 3 differing data points. And we were in an Otter, IIR, so a lot of jumpers in the sky. All coming in from varying directions. I tried to follow the pattern…. ish… because a bunch of people ahead of me were heading that way. But as I near the ground, it is clear that I’m in a hell of a crosswind, so I try to slide left over the runway and angle in at 45 degrees into the wind. But someone with a faster rig pulls up to my left, so I have to stay the course, parallel with the runway, adjacent to the tree line.
Right as I pass below the tree line, a viscous vortex coming off of the trees collapses the right side of my canopy. It was exactly like standing on the roof of a van and having someone pull the van out from under you. My immediate reaction was that the earth is really, really big. I mean, I hit it as hard as I could, and it didn’t move at all. I laid there for a long minute with the wind completely knocked out of me, assessing organs and bones. Bruised, but unbroken, thankfully.
One girl got dragged across the parking lot… a handful had to land way over on a softball field. And the guy who was jumping the crossfire that was the size of a napkin somehow lived through doing a downwind swoop that must have had him at a groundspeed of over 90mph, clearing way more than a football field of tarmac and grass.
So I tell that story, and the next conversation I have, you guys are talking about going jumping.
I hate those sticky vortices.
I’ve not experienced anything on that magnitude yet and I hope that I never do. I have known too many people whom have been injured by turbulent air and heard a few second hand stories of people killed by dust devils. At my old DZ the veteran jumpers seemed to be overly conservative when it the wind picked up, a trait that I hope rubbed off on me. That being said there are some times you can’t forsee what the weather will throw at you.
Last summer my canopy collapsed in an updraft and I descended 1000ft straight down. My cells re-inflated as I reached for my cutaway. That was as much excitement as I hope to have in the near future.
Phwew! reaching for the reserve is high pucker-factor.
My buddy who took up skydiving with me had to cut away on his second jump. Guy who packed his rig packed him a line-over.
As he’s telling the story of looking up and seeing a bow-tie, one of the instructors says, “So, was that your first cutaway?”
I’ve not had a reserve ride yet and I’m glad i never had that freak/dumb one so many people talk about when they were a students or A-licensed jumper. At this point I hope my experience gives me the calmness and presence of mind to where it isn’t a big deal or close call.
^Oops, that was a reply to Cyto
One of my great fears was always being right below 1,000 feet and having a problem. Because it would be just like me to either
A) cut away when I didn’t need to and have the reserve open right as I hit the ground – slowing me just enough to save the life, but not much else.
Or
B) hesitate, decide that I was too low to cut away and get slammed under a spinning mess when I could have easily avoided death by simply cutting away the second I saw trouble.
I think the skill to pull off either one of those maneuvers is closely related to my ability to pick the wrong line at the grocery store.
Yeah, last winter I took a coach course that was excellent. The instructor said;
“Most skydivers die trying to fix a bad canopy”
That stuck with me. Under a 1000′ (as I’m sure you know) your best hope is to pull the reserve and hope it doesn’t entangle with your main. I hope to God I never have to play that game of roulette.
FWIW, I worked with one of the pioneers of skydiving – Doug Angel.
https://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/2015/01/obituary_william_doug_angel_76.html
RIP Doug.
I don’t know if you’ll know this name, but Dan Poynter was a long-time client of mine.
The name sounded familiar, but I had to Google it to make it ring a bell
While hoping I’m not being morbid or crass, it makes me happy to see old skydivers die of natural causes after a long and full life. Everyone makes much of the ones who die in accidents but there needs to be more celebrating of the ones that squeezed every drop out of life that they could and then died with their friends and loved ones around them.
When I ran out of cigs, I’d bum a Pall Mall unfiltered from him. Wheee.
When he ran out, he’d bum a Malrboro red from me and tear off the filter…
Gotta love those old guys who give zero fucks
I used to jump with one of those guys. He was into accuracy. One day he pulled out his big accuracy chute and flew right to the edge of the hangar. There was a wind deflecting over the hangar and he put his canopy right in it. He held that thing in the draft for way over a minute, just floating there 30 feet in the air, a few feet from the edge of the roof.
Really cool moment.
And I still see him when I close my eyes and think of skydiving because he was one of my AFF instructors. An old 60’s burnout with a grey pony tail, he was holding my reserve side.
As I went to do my circle of awareness, I turned to him and said “9,000 feet”, not because I was at 9,000 feet, but because that was the number we rehearsed. (when I looked at my altimeter, my brain reported back “ROUND! YUP, IT IS ROUND!!!”)
He grinned at me like some stoner-demon and stuck out his tongue while making the “Hang loose” sign.
That face is burned into my brain with permanent ink. What a great dude to have around the DZ… always chill, always on top of things.
Finances glibertarians post-‘full server migration’ ?
SP, need donations?
Is that the issue, the server? Yeah, I can donate a monthly fee. Web hosting is dirt cheap these days, so more resources shouldn’t stress us orphan owning, diamond mine baron, jewel encrusted monocle wearers too much.
All the donations we have received, and continue to receive, are much appreciated.
Thanks to the work of the Board of the actual non-profit Glibertarian Foundation who owns the site, we generally maintain about 12 months worth of expenses on hand, then donate any surplus to liberty-minded organizations. So, we are not desperate. Ever.
If we ever do get to that point, you can be pretty sure they will put out a fund-raising appeal. I am not on the Board, and not a PTB. I am just a trained, volunteer monkey pushing buttons, because it amuses my husband and his RL friends to have this place (and an unamused OMWC is not a good thing). TPTB all contributed the initial funds, but I am pretty sure they feel it needs to be self-supporting going forward, and it has been.
Thanks for asking.
Nothing cheers me up like this./a>
Mother trucker.
That’s awesome to hear, and one of the reasons I initially contributed after I finally stopped lurking. I saw that the excess was going to liberty minded organizations, and figured, ‘what the hell, if the contribution doesn’t go towards paying to running the site, it *will* go to something I approve of.” Thank you so much for your time and efforts, keeping this little slice of heaven running.
As a humble contributor, I’d like to point out that all the hard work you actual powers-that-be folks do to keep us all going here is deeply appreciated.
Best online hangout evah!
How did a few volunteers build it without the help of government regulators??
^ Underrated comment.
And agreed, the best.
It is, isn’t it? Despite the errors and extra workarounds needed to post everyone shows up and works around. That says a lot.
This site is what socialism would look like if it worked. Or something.
Yeah, this really is a special group. I mean, there’s a good dollop of short-bus-special tossed in there too….
But I’m glad this is here. With the death of the Agitator and TOS devolving into a sock-puppet troll-fest presided over by a group of addled would-be-reformed-liberal libertarians who obsess over Cheetos, I don’t know that I’d have anywhere to find an intelligent conversation.
Or, if not intelligent, at least not infuriatingly, mind-numbingly stupid.
They didn’t build that. It was all Obama, all the time.
HR is stuck in the 60s?
Ah, an open post.
Nostalgia means the pain of returning home in Greek. I am nostalgic for Tanzania today.
There is a style of music called kwaya (choir) similar to gospel. I heard this song a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvIH-ARVRr8
Jamani, Yesu yupo! – Everyone, Jesus Exists!
Reduplication is common element in Swahili. Polepole means slow. Papo hapo means right there or on the spot. Daladala is a minibus and the most common form of transit.
I lived in Morogoro for a while. The biggest mountain there is called Uluguru.
Women often wear decorative cloths called khanga. They usually have sassy sayings on them. Women are less free in speech, so clothing with sassy sayings is an outlet for them.
Some of the bumper stickers are funny too. My favorite was Wabongo hawana imani – the clever have no faith.
Sadly, nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.
Derp, did you partake of the any fine Tusker lager (motto: Bia yangu, Nchi yangu) when in Tanzania? I was digging for a t-shirt yesterday and came across my Tusker shirt. Seems it shrunk since I bought it in 2006.
Oh yes. Ndovu was my favorite elephant themed beer however. Tembo is the standard word for elephant, but they say ndovu in some places.
The beer names are meant to appeal to tourists, I think: Kilimanjaro, Safari, Duma (cheetah). There were also some South African brews like Castle.
In the Peace Corps, everyone who goes to Asia comes back a philosopher, everyone who goes to Latin America comes back a revolutionary, and everyone who goes to Africa comes back a drunk.
Can confirm.
that’s a great saying.
interesting story Derp.
Thanks. It’s nice to have an appreciative audience for my Africa stories.
Did ever tell the story about the time I had to fight siafu, the killer ants?
Derpy vs Siafu, artist’s depiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9mYJQd0w_8
I didn’t know that, thanks. I suffer from nostalgia quite a bit.
“Homesick for places you have never been and things that never were.”
“You know, you remind me of a poem I can’t remember, and a song that may never have existed, and a place I’m not sure I’ve ever been to.”
-Abraham Simpson, husband, father, WW2 vet, traveling medicine salesman, and night watchman at a cranberry silo
Heh. My current lynx post is a warning to stay away from nostalgia. I haven’t completed it. It’s about comfort food but I’m embarrassed, what with all the foodies around here.
super drunk Orson Welles commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6P1ifGjvEE
So that’s what I was like last night? No wonder wifey is upset.
Seriously, I couldn’t watch even half of that, my sides hurt from laughing so hard, lol!
Fuck, I give up, I’ll try again tomorrow, rflmao!
Remember, it isn’t real derp unless it comes from the D’erpe region of France.
Everything else is just cheap sparkling stupidity.
Hmm, that’s a good band name.
What an excellent phrase, Derpy.
Cheers!
Seriously SP, your dedication, artistry in designing the site and the professional maintenance you perform to keep it up and running are really amazing.
^Yeah! What he said!
Do the donations go through PayPal or what? I’d prefer to mail a check or hand an envelope of federal reserve notes in person.
I expect to be out west in a few months for R n R. Hopefully I can make my donation then.
On 2nd thought, Western Union is also a possibility. I prefer not to put my debit/credit card info online unless absolutely necessary. I only use them in person when cash is not an option.
SP rallies the troops, artist’s depiction: https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9788184820263-us.jpg
Just mail ’em a check, or if like you said before wait until you are out west and meet them for lunch or coffee and hand it to them. If I wasn’t holed up in my lair and refusing to leave I would choose the second option.
was not….were not….I think my grammar skills are deteriorating.
Email me and I can give you a mailing address for a paper check. Sp@ this website.
Thanks.
K, noted.
Thanks SP.
Can anybody confirm that Kim is burning in Hell yet?
Also, what are the odds that his little sister (the one CNN was slobbering over for her GURL POWER) is a bigger psychopath than he is?
“what are the odds that his little sister (the one CNN was slobbering over for her GURL POWER) is a bigger psychopath than he is?”
100%
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
+1 Ching Shih
Probably not more evil than this:
Belle Gunness
Holy murderers, Batman!
That beats the speculation that Pa Ingalls was part of a posse that “took care” of a serial killing family one place the Ingalls family lives.
The Donald is gonna go over there and grab her by the…
You know what? I’m not gonna even make that joke. Because I’m too classy for that….
You are?
It’s funny, the number of people who made such a big deal over Trump bragging that he could grab someone by the pussy and they wouldn’t complain… and the near silence over a woman complaining that Biden actually did grab her by the pussy and she complained and got nowhere.
All animals are equal, but…
They don’t even try to pretend anymore.
Interestingly, Animal Farm and Elmer Gantry (I blame Mojeaux) are the two titles I most recently purchased. I haven’t read Animal Farm since around the 7th grade, and figured it was time for a refresher, since I’m fucking living it.
Hey, 1984, you ain’t got nuthin on us! /current reality
LOL Happy to feed your intellectual hunger.
I’m happy to have you do it. It’s how I’ve always discovered new books to read. By reading the authors other books referenced. 😀
Latest I heard is (again) SK doesn’t believe it.
I think the 48-hour rule may need to be extended given, you know, NK.
The evil sister probably had him offed. I’m sure her supporters probably had a little phone call with Biden’s handlers and found out what a sweetheart deal they’re going to get if they can just get rid of badorangeman. Mini-Pooh Bear probably refused. They then probably had a conference call with Hillary about how to get away with it and have it covered up. So she had no choice.
I found a biography of Kim Il Sung in Swahili at the library of the school I taught at. That was one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen. There were also a bunch of Russian science posters in the physics and chemistry labs. The Vietnam War strained US-Tanzanian relations, so the second half of the 1970s, Peace Corps got the boot in favor of their Eastern Bloc equivalents.
I shit you not, the East German one was called the Friendship Brigades.
Makes as much sense as peace corps.
Like NASA, DOE, and others, it is a child of the Cold War who is now living in its parents’ basement.
You see, during the Cold War, the US tried to convince 3rd world countries to adopt democracy and capitalism; whereas today the US tries to convince 3rd world countries to adopt democracy and capitalism.
I was a guest speaker in a history class over there. They were studying the Cold War and I was asked to provide the American perspective. A student asked “why does the US oppose socialist governments?”
I said that socialist governments usually come to power through violence, commit human rights abuses, and confiscate the property of foreign businesses.
One of the reasons African countries gravitated toward China and Russia during the Cold War is because those countries had no history of colonialism there. Chinese and Russian leaders also had a better understanding of the peasant mindset.
I am very confused. I thought clearing the cache and cookies went away back in the early aughts.
No, we still do that sometimes. Actually I have mine set to clear every time I close the browser.
However, rebooting, that is for peasants. Real IT people never reboot. I haven’t rebooted my PC since 1982. Reboot is what you tell idiot users who dare approach you with stupid questions. Reboot you moron! And don’t come back round here more!
I have mine to clear every time I close the browser too (firefox). Rebooted last night and when I posted this morning, I still had the “refresh” bug where the post wouldn’t complete until I reloaded the site. Guess we’ll see how this goes now.
still seeing this bug, but I’ll try to remember to clear everything before I reboot next time.
It’s still the same for me as well. But the workaround is OK. I think it was Tundra who first posted it ‘post, wait a few seconds, refresh, bam, good to go!’.
lol. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve had an editor ping me on slack to say “the site isn’t working right. I’m going to reboot, brb.” … as I’m telling them to clear their fucking cache and cookies. In other complaints, was woken up at 10:30am even though I fully intended to sleep until noon by a panicked editor saying “the site must be down the article I just published isn’t showing on my profile or in my CMS.” I tried to blow him off, messaging back from my phone, “I was asleep. I can get into the CMS.” Does he take the hint? Nooo. Keeps messaging. “There must be problems with the site because I can’t find the article I just published.” Finally give up on going back to sleep and tell him I’ll check it after I make some coffee. Ten minutes later, “The site isn’t having any problems at all. The reason you don’t see that article in your listing is because you updated somebody else’s article.” Do I get an apology for waking me up and making me work on a user error over the weekend? Of course not. I get an, “Oh, okay. Thanks for the help.” Grrrrr.
What a maroon.
Heh, exactly! The editor in chief of the site I work for is a really awesome guy that consistently comes down on the side of free speech and liberty and reigns in the worst impulses of his younger journalists. It’s the only reason I keep helping rather than pointing out that it really isn’t my job.
The Cache and Cookies sounds like the name of a lovely English pub.
::ponders thusly:
Yes. Yes, it does.
i’m just gonna drop this here https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a30447453/bat-quarters/
Have the Atlanta police department looked into those racist coins yet?
we all need more Hed PE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byf2tBOqq1s
hed pe renegade
Does the back say “China 2020”?
as a tulpa i must do as i must do but, YOU must listen to He PE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOE2X9PyCyo
Open post cinematic submission.
Two things to never wish for:
Dogs continue parallel evolution with humans to the point where they can talk
You have the ability to read other people’s minds
Still I laughed my ass off at, “delivered cream to her back porch”. I thought the film was great!
Yep, it is hilarious
The power to read minds might wind up being a curse… but the power to catch a clue would have been helpful from time to time…..
Sweet.
Dogs feet smell like Fritos.
But they taste like Cool Ranch Doritos.
Good find! I laughed.
ten out of ten. Must see YouTube.
What’s the Best Vagina Emoji?
I vote tulip but only because I’m a big Bukowski fan.
It’s peach. It has been peach for hundreds of years. It has been peach since man discovered peaches.
She’s a Georgia Peach. Nobody has ever said “she’s a Dutch Tulip”.
Peach. Your one and only lady-parts symbol.
At least, the only one on the desirable side of the ledger.
Peach is code for tush. boomer.
Tushy isn’t juicy, or sweet. Or covered in hair.
Peach. Now. Then. Always.
Don’t get started with no trans-inspired icon swapping.
Besides, Medlars is the fruit you are looking for with that one.
It’s covered in peach hair.
Medlars.
True Romance called it. “She tastes like a peach.” Peach emoji wins.
A classic.
My world is now better place. Thx
while I could identify much of the intense IP traffic as certain registered users
I’ve mentioned this before, SP, but please don’t hesitate to let me know if Eyepiece is disproportionately taxing site resources. I can always change the refresh rate to something slower (it’s every 2 minutes now) or remove that feature if it’s causing strain on resources.
Did you sell the house?
Hey trsh,
Since SP’s fixes I noticed the “Avoid Page Refresh” feature has a few quirks now.
1- it strips out symbols like “+”
2- after manual refresh, it doesn’t catch and mark all new comments as “New” the way it used to
Just a friendly bug report 🙂
clarification on 2-
It catches some of the New comments, not all of them
Link requested in previous thread.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20062141v1.full.pdf
The Riggies were delicious. Fine job, sir.
come on, some of you must have seen the bat quarter, give me some feedbeck
]
come on, some of you must have seen the bat quarter, give me some feedbeck
]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOE2X9PyCyo
I think they are getting desperate knowing that hard currency is soon to be a thing of the past so they are trying to turn it into collectibles.
Or, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is trying to keep justifying its expanded staff and budget from the state quarters days.
For those of you with a hankering for older films, Quentin Tarantino’s reviews are wonderful.
Tarantino on Deliverance
A double feature of Deliverance and The Wild Bunch at age ten.
My God.
WK Stratton’s Wild Bunch book is a fun read!
I didn’t see Deliverance until I was in my 20s. It was weird. But it suffered from the same awkward delivery and cinematography of most other movies I have seen that were made in the 70s.
neph should get it. Hed PE. or I am missing the point. personally, I dont care. I like it. Ohio 🙂
I’m out :0
I could swear I’ve actually seen Hed PE in concert at some point in the past. I don’t do the ‘fuck off Tulpa’ thing because I’m new enough to never be sure who is and who is not a tulpa for reals. But, uh, if it keeps you coming back and feeling welcome, “Fuck off, Tulpa!”
SP, if you are still around.
Link to glibertarians.com still gives me a “Server not Found” error. I even rebooted my LAN server (running my DNS)
The only way I can access is to append /2020/ to the address.
The posting errors at my end are probably because I haven’t upgraded to the latest greasemonkey addon. I didn’t like a lot of the additions so I stayed with the earlier version.
Are you using https://www.glibertarians.com. Or just typing in glibertarians.com ?
Your link gave me the same error.
Email me with your complete info, OS, browser, etc etc.
Thanks.
Huh…I think my comment just disappeared.
Started watching FD Tacoma today. Good stuff. ?
Yeah, it’s good stuff. And I don’t watch “new” sitcoms.
today I learned that amphetamine is short for alpha methyl phenyl ethyl amine, and it is a metabolite of nutmeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3H23g5kT0
One time in college, I had a homework problem of finding the rate law for a 3 or 4 step reaction with one of the steps being reversible. I spent 3 hours on it and still couldn’t figure it out, but I was proud of my persistence.
Another time in organic chemistry lab, I struggled to write the steps for a reaction. With no time to spare, I had a flash of insight. When my graded paper was returned, I noticed I had written a molecule where a carbon atom made 5 bonds.
Oh, fiddlesticks…
Mm, nutmeg.
I bought a nutmeg grinder and LOVE it!
Nutmeg is underutilized.
Not when making a NY strip and baked potato.
but sometimes not knowing what you don’t know is actually a benefit. And any good scientist knows this.
It’s almost like science is based on skepticism and inquiry seeking new information (I understand there is a method to it…). Always question and try to falsify that which you know (or don’t know) to be true.
a more stable server situation
Indeed, it is preferable that waiters/waitresses get your order right while not lashing out irrationally.
So, Amazon is still cancelling my subscribe and save for Lysol wipes. ?
Really?
Walmart has canceled my last two orders from the last two weeks. And the other grocery I visit still has no tp. I need some things. And I need tp. . .
I found store-brand TP today. Dish soap was almost completely wiped out so I couldn’t get the one I wanted. The potato chip display was empty. Lots of oddly missing stuff.
Dish soap was almost completely wiped out
I usually get Dawn Platinum, now nowhere to be found now but others are still available.
Lots of oddly missing stuff.
Today I saw shelves that were the same way, but I failed to note what exactly it was other than it struck me as odd that it was not bread/rice/soup. Also notice that there is no longer, at least for the moment, a shortage of poultry or beef like there has been. *looks in chest freezer* (since I got that thing for Christmas I have seemed to have a subconscious need to fill it and keep it filled. So I have not been wanting for protein, as it has been full enough since December…)
Also, all sponges except the crappiest generic models. ?
So, not sponge-worthy?
All right… I’ll tell you the secret on TP.
just keep it between us, though.
If the warehouse club doesn’t have it….
Boating supply.
They have the boating TP. Expensive. Made to disintegrate. But last I checked, they had plenty.
Also… janitorial supply store. They have the institutional stuff that they stock at work, if you can convince them to sell it to you. You might have to take a whole case, but at least you’ll have a clean tush.
I blame Trump.
Siberian Husky temper tantrum
That is some mighty fine heterochromia.
fun fact – Eskimo comes from a word that means “someone who can lace a snowshow”. Husky is short for Huskimaw dog. Huskimaw is a variant of Eskimo.
and now you know…
Derp, I swear to God, if you upstage me again… when you upstage me again… I swear to God… I’m going to continue swearing to God, I swear to God.
I also swear on occasion. And by “on occasion” I mean “like a sailor*”.
*I wasn’t in the Navy but I was pretty much born on a boat and raised on the bay. So it is fitting.
Snowshoe, I meant.
Damn you, Killian’s Irish Red! You taste great and make me stupid!
for commodius:
A Swahili tongue twister – anafanana na nanasi (he looks like a pineapple)
What’s Batman’s favorite element? Sodium, because
NaNaNaNaNaNa Batman!
You are the Superman to my kryptonite, you know that? You’ve made me a villain. I am made villainous because of you.
But why? How?
I like you. I think you’re cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgS50Y06bnY
When I kill myself, I’ll write your name on the mirror.
[anguished Zoidberg groan]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7gxStnBfbg
You always have an answer.
Not pejorative for raw fish eater?
The Dakota did that. See Societies of the Plains Indians, Volume 11, Part 1.
The staple food of Inuit/Eskimos was blubber, not fish.
Virology and Forgotten History
Jeebus, Adolf Mayer looks like Albert Einstein.
The happiest sound there is.
There’s a little part in the middle when you start to question
but no, you’re wrong
it’s still very much
the happiest sound there is.
WW2s Highest Air Combat
That was cool, never heard that story before.
Any PA Glibs know what’s in the water of Lower Makefield Twp?
https://www.lmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Moving-Permit-instructions-and-form.pdf
It’s close to Philly so anything and everything?
Might be cross-contamination from NJ, way too close to Trenton.
W. T. F.
Moving out of? It’s all bad, but…Am I moving away? Yeah, to kisstehfattestpartofmyass, Wyoming.
Trying to avoid becoming a sanctuary city.
This is why I love you all. Normies first reaction would “NBD, the permit’s free, isn’t it?”.
Ice Cream In The 18th Century?
Looks like Kim has officially bought the (state-owned collective) farm.
Clutched his chest while strolling, then batched heart surgery.
Interesting…
the South Korean daily, The Korea Herald has an article Published : Apr 27, 2020 – 10:37 Updated : Apr 27, 2020 – 10:42 that has him sending gratitude to workers building a tourist destination.
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200427000260
So lies Kim
We won’t be missing him
Link
Rest in Peace
For when he does exit
https://youtu.be/uR8Mrt1IpXg
Hopefully he is dead.
Srsly? What’s your source? Most recent news items found by DDG say SK is claiming he’s “alive and well.”
Tom Cruise Actor Pitch Meeting
Hopefully he is dead.
He is, but don’t be cheerful.
Right now, his evil sister, Pooh Bear, Biden’s handlers, Angela Merkel, and Hillary are on a conference call.
Most evulest Zoom meeting of all time?
the dangers of over-training
An Athlete Squatted 500 Reps In 20 Minutes. This Is What Happened To His Kidneys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnxqc4sT85I
Good grief! I’d better sit here quietly drinking beer and eating potato chips. That’s far safer.
Rhabdomialaysis; the consequence of jumping in WAY over your head or else training like a straight-up dumbfuck. It was a constant bugaboo in the early days of Crossfit when
more grueling was thought to=better training
People who aren’t stupid realized that was a retarded paradigm and adapted.
Man for man, I’m sure a Somali militiaman or VC was able to withstand much more hardship than the most hardcore US soldier. No amount of training can replicate the endurance that comes from spending your entire life working hard outside, with only simple food to eat, and no amenities like AC or hot showers.
The Japanese in WW2 boasted of their ability to endure hardship, and it turned out to be irrelevant.
George Carlin said he joined the Air Force because they were the branch that would fly halfway around the world, drop some bombs, and then be back in time for a cold beer and a hot shower.
We had rare, rare cases of rhabdo in the early days of CF, but unlike marathon directors, we thought it needed publishing. NYT pilloried us for it, even though we later learned almost everyone who completes a marathon would be clinical for rhabdo. I wound up becoming a bit of an expert on the subject when plaintiff’s lawyers saw a potential windfall; I was a part of the defense of every rhabdo case that was brought. We never lost because we were so far and away more knowledgable on the subject than any of the plaintiff’s attorneys or the (mostly) fakers who were trying to make a few bucks thinking we would just settle.
Old military training manuals (from the 50s) have a good deal of info because the “new unfit trainee meets drill instructors” produced LOTS of it, but the military knew what we had to (re)learn: unless it’s the actual systemic condition where you have kidney failure because of the shredded muscle byproducts clogging the kidneys, the reality is that it’s just IV fluid and bed rest. The pain can be so bad that it requires serious drugs while you’re getting the fluids.
The earliest cases of rhabdo were from the Blitz, IIRC. Crush injuries have rhabdo as a secondary problem and it took them a while to figure out why a guy with a crushed arm, for example, was later dying of complications from kidney failure.
The more you know…. ***** (insert star gif)
Oh dear God! This man’s kidneys have exploded. There’s nothing left.
Crazy thing called love.
https://youtu.be/zO6D_BAuYCI
The song never really popped until Dwight Yoakam honkied it up a little bit.
I love and really appreciate you all.
For each of you.
Thank you, man!
Thank you SP.
Stop.
Back In Time
My glib password is the only password I’m not constantly forgetting.
Music For Boys
I’m late to the party. Thanks for all your hard work SP.
Remember the bat? I think he made it. Well, he at least made it out of the shoe-box bat-home I made him. I choose to believe he is happily living in my trees and will (too) soon be feasting on mosquitoes.
I do remember the bat. I’m glad he made it. I’m also glad to see you post. I may be wrong but it seems like I haven’t seen anything from you for about 2 weeks. I was starting to worry.
And of course no Twin Cities music list would be complete without Curtiss A.
EDG will probably dig these guys.
a song for those wishing they were in Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyRy2pvnYOQ
http://archive.li/3ilpD/c0fed6de4e988ad41d94c37f663263d6904b74ff.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/5v9eE/1fe8354055afe224f4168203614e6a4f9f94f922.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/nx7uN/2eb428e8f533b5d4cad6dca13ceabeabf4ebc181.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/eT6kT/b54f708cbf67176f461fd6f92dc54145fe80e0a3.jpg
NSFW.
She was beautiful right up until I noticed the tattoos.
Arm behind her head? Tattoo cover-up sleeve? I think there are options, if you’re willing.
Also, wazzup, Chafed??
Take a quick peek at today’s GlibFit and you’ll be up to speed. I have to go to my office tomorrow because my banker emailed me this morning for additional payroll records because of a new regulation.
This may come as a surprise but I don’t think the government is competent at most things.
very nice,
Wow, 102 degrees, stupid people and Long Bella walks, what a day!
My attempt at Derpology.
Michigan Governor to Fight Suicide Pandemic Strict With Stay at Home Order
(Roiders) Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer rolled out a series of measures to flatten the curve of suicides that have been spiking recently for unpredictable and unforeseen reasons.
“Due to the prevalence of people ending their lives by jumping from bridges or walking their dogs in front of our finest police officers, we have made it illegal for nonessential people to leave their homes starting today” Whitmer said at a press conference Sunday. The governor went on to explain how each household in the state will be sent a coil of heavy rope and razor blades. “It’s imperative that we send struggling people items which be used to hang laundry and such. Shaving also must be a part of any citizen’s personal hygiene” the Governor said while stroking a leather strop on in her left hand.
This is good. I can feel the gears turning in my head. It’s a good start but how to make it Frosted Flakes Grrrrrrr-reat! ?
At a minimum I could proofread before submitting. Sheesh. Screwed up the headline. Should be “Strict stay at home order”.
That is eerily spot on for her. To the point that I wanna warn you not to give her any idea.
But, hell–we all know she and/or her ‘people’ already have this in a planner somewhere.
Also, what’s I miss these last few days? Lotto winnings? New pets?
Same old same old, Digs.
✊ Word, straff.
I dunno if SOSO is a good thing, or, bad. But, I’ll take it.
Good!
https://youtu.be/kXt5NWY5Ay0
Yeah, I saw that tour–Warrant opened for them. Nose bleed seats.
Good times!
Mojeaux most jealous.
That’s an excellent book or tv show title, btw.
Mojeaux most jealous!
She’s like an evil Leslie Knope from that place where evil Spock came from.
The strange rock creature spoke:
Interesting. While Team Blue retreats when confronted with force, it is not fundamentally different from Team Red.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEDLI3baJpw
1102: can anyone see this?
No
Lillet and gin might be my summertime drink. Quite refreshing.
Lately I’m swilling 柚 highballs. Don’t know what Yuzu is in English. “Citron” is a weird word for it.
Just Yuzu, I think. The flavor resembles citron but genetically doesn’t seem to be close. Yuzu is a cross of the mandarin and another Chinese fruit.
Hmmm… they seem to be quite hardy and easy to grow. Now I’m interested.
Adding China-China Amer and bitters makes Pimms on steroids. I like it!
The site’s not letting me link. I suppose I can’t take the hint…
Everything in moderation.
Wink
::AAGH!::
Sorry, straff, but, I don’t go in for these back-door shenanigans. Sure, I’m flattered; maybe even a little curious. But, the answer is NO!
Maybe last night’s Rob Zombie link broke it.
Well, it does have that effect. Very infectious jam, that one.
I’ll tell ya–the more I learn about John 5 (Hell Haw link), the more impressed I am by that guy. He seems very chill; soft-spoken, and immensely talented.
You have a forbidden word in your username, I think, according to spam filters. So, when you post with a link, it thinks you are a Bad Actor.
That’s weird, considering I’ve linked numerous times during the recent woes. Is it the caps NOT? It couldn’t be the “naked”, could it???
We migrated to a new server with more robust security features. I’m thinking for several of you, I’m going to have to white list your IP addresses. Which, if people are using VPNs, will get sticky since they most likely don’t post from the same one all the time.
Well, I went ahead and changed up…let’s see if it worked: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/2946597e-aa25-4e3d-a1ed-08e785fdb6ab
Looks like it might have. You didn’t get snagged on that one.
Sweet freedom!!
Interesting. I was having the same problem yesterday. I haven’t tried linking anything since.
Maybe the new server seems caps as a ‘letter agency’, and blocks links based on that? I mean, we are glibs, after all.
*sees, not seems.
Sweet freedom!!
#MeToo
Digby knows all about forbidden words. It’s safe words he can’t remember.
Is that why I’m in so much pain? I probably should seek guidance from Creosote A on this.
Test
Hello everybody!
Sup DJ?
Morning! How’s Japan handling the Wuflu?
Huh guess it’s early afternoon there, not morning
Half closed, but not on lockdown.
Was thinking about your problem this morning. Broke down and ordered beans from Doutor’s Hawaii plantation. Not a bad cup of coffee at home.
But, not those red sausages, eh?
/not that I blame you…
No. 🙁 Still looking for another place that has non laughable shipping.
Dotour is decent. Actually found an open one at the next station.
Huzzah!
Our wonderful experiment in central planning is working out so well!
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1101313916898598912?fbclid=IwAR2grHo6xRVBHmuHJX9bppHzNuTKBNIgB4b78MjmaoKeEBf0JANUp9Jaxw4
Well, time to start hoarding bacon. And ham. And steak. I really can’t eat chicken over and over. Vat meat, anyone try it?
Well, that’s terrifying.
Alrighty…::cracks knuckles::
Uh-oh: Seems that someone jazzed on the flannels again.
Try another one now, please. (Playing with settings.)
How about this?
Well, hopefully this will stay OK overnight.
Thank you kindly–for everything.
wut
https://twitter.com/RickHertzberg/status/1254509734838841344
Really, the main problem is that I let you all get spoiled. If there had been constant issues with the site mechanics from the beginning, nobody would be noticing or complaining now. 😉
The site just got too popular, you’re victims of your own success.
For you SP: The Falcon Lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNbJITD3T8
you’re right, we would have been complaining earlier.
1212 test
Failed.
Woohoo!
Hello Aurora, Illinois!
https://youtu.be/s86AAjLLRKo
Managed to lose a donut. That’s a first. *Pats jeans pockets one more time*
“Pocket”?? I think you’re carrying those donuts all wrong…
Maybe it rolled away. *Checks under train seat*
BTW–my new avatar seems to also checking out yours. Same Old Same Old…
On my phone it’s a bit hard to see. Peeping Tom?
Yep. A throw-back to my original NANI avatar from the dawn of Glibs.
I’m sick of security footage!
C!!!!
Anything new at work?
3 more work days till I’m laid off again, exciting!
Yeah….not what I was hoping for. Well, enjoy it while ya got it, I guess.
I am gonna go kamikaze though, like I said, so maybe when HR comes back to work I’ll be in trouble.
Ooof…if going through the ‘dance’ didn’t already work my nerves, add HR into the mix definitely would. So, Godspeed on that front.
Yeah, and my own departments rules. But, the world is ending, why not.
I am in no fucking mood for work. I’ve been at it for 2 hours now and it does not seem to get better.
I really need to lay of the booze this week and start dropping some weight
And these are my morning thoughts
Also the spelling of thought is pointlessly over complicated. Thot would have been sufficient.
This guy gets it!
Most people seem to find thots less than sufficient. I’m not necessarily one of them, though…
Oh, you’re talking about linguistics, and grammar! My bad.
Sorry for the work blues. It’s the usual here for me, which is pretty good, actually.
I’m finished for the day! ?
Now, to get busy with nighttime work?
Yep. Finished 5 seasons of Game of Thrones over the past week. John Snow knows nothing.
He knows the red head is a hottie. For real, too–Kit married her.
And was the hot maid in Downtown Abbey.
He gets dumber as the show goes on.
Considering how season five ends, I doubt it.
Well, at least your in for some surprises then.
Ooh. Zombie Snow bastard?
That would have been better writing.
Straight people and drug addicts can also get Covid 19.
The gays and the straights; the whites and the spades?
I demand the ability to post pictures. PICTURES!
Otherwise you want to be banned?
replace your avatar with the picture you want to post?
Whatever, Carlos.
a Romanian idiom: a vinde gogosi
literal meaning: to sell pastries
idiomatic meaning: to tell lies
lies and pastries are both full of hot air
and on that note, I bid you all adieu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoA4LSz072c
Hah, just gave my little brother his Teddy Ruxpin tape that I found in my stuff.
As far as the language, ‘I ope you isn’t tellin us no porkies!’
Hopefully it wasn’t Screamers special edition Ruxpin.
If it is, we absolutely must get Peter Weller on the job!
Ahem. Dr. Peter Weller.
Does he get a pass on the “Doctor” honorific sneer?
I think I know CPRM’s answer
I’m guessing that he’s not a jerk enough to use it himself, which is why it’s fun to call him that. Unlike another PhD- Dr. Tedros of WHO (a total POS with a track record a mile long of incompetence and poor judgement).
There was a sales engineer at an equipment vendor who was a former professor and PhD before taking the plunge. Super nice guy and would disclaim the Dr thing if it came up, but all of his customers would call him Dr Firstname anyways. Easy way to distinguish him from anyone else with the same name.
Yeah, I’ve never seen him pimp the title, and I think he does what most competent, learned people do–use his knowledge and training accurately and authoritatively.
gogosi – I would not translate that as pastries it is way to general . More as donuts.
Also it is gogoși
Teresa Teng to play me off
https://youtu.be/NwinxSAfAQE
Didjits to play me on.
Top work, SP. Lovely stuff.
See now I’m kissing up to try making up for all my kvetching.
Morning.
I sitting here listening to all of my neighbors dragging their trash bins to the curb. All I want to do is go to sleep.
Must be monday.
Hey, with no one else on, the comments post snappily.
Morning, UCS. Just here to slow the site down for you. You’re welcome. ; )
Morning.
It’s amazing how over the course of the weekend I can almost invert my sleep schedule to nocturnal. Of course, now I need it back to normal, but my system hates that.
I have to be careful of those oh-so-tempting weekend afternoon naps – especially since there’s little else I can do right now, and yesterday afternoon was rainy, cold, and generally disagreeable here. If I nap too long on Sunday afternoon, I have trouble getting to sleep that night.
Invert your sleep schedule? That doesn’t sound like fun.
The worst part is when I do zonk out after work I’ll have this gap of wakefullness when I want to be asleep, then manage some unrestful sleep in the wee hours just before the alarm goes off and I need to start work. because I’m still tired from the day before, I again end up zonking out after work, but waking up not that long after… rinse and repeat.
Who knew that all we had to do to conquer the COVID19 was give every workplace and every household one of these and every cell phone customer one of these? Would’ve been cheaper than what was done instead.
I thought you just put your phone in the microwave for a minute to sanitize it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNR4hKbSH7I
Not the mama!
I remember when that show was on, but I didn’t watch it. How long did it last? (Too lazy to look it up on IMDB.)
4 Seasons.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101081/
I have a Dinosaurs t shirt ? around here somewhere…
“I survived the Meteor.”
Heh! The family’s name was Sinclair. Clever!
And grandma Ethyl. I loved that show. Howard Handupme, Mighty Megalosaurus…
‘It means, and I never thought I would say this, that the government has to give us money.’
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/tc06WQJFQ6GMeNUEfyAE8w.iIVtGWD0LWAT3QArPCvRxE
Why is one and only one of them wearing shoes?
Dunno.
https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Robbie_Sinclair
“He’s a bit of a rebel, questioning his father’s authority and often playing a part in episodes focusing on environmental issues., or at least the only Sinclair family member, to ever wear shoes. ”
Doesn’t really explain it though.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/04/23/Dog-breaks-Australian-record-with-litter-of-21-puppies/4311587669913/?spt=slh&or=11
That’s way too many puppies.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article242260406.html
As more of the anti-body studies are done and it becomes apparent the mortality rate for this thing is close to seasonal flu we still need gestapo. Fuck. Off. Slaver.
What, and put the 400+ brave souls at risk?!
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-devil-dog-day-april-27/
Chocodiles>Devil Dogs
I concur, and I have never had a devil dog. Must be a regional thing. They stopped calling Chocodiles, Chocodiles though and call them fudge covered twinkies. Still delish.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/04/23/Farmers-start-to-kill-pigs-they-cant-sell-to-slaughterhouses-due-to-closures/8001587596149/
But the top men said the food supply would always be stable. How could this have happened? I was assured it was an impossibility.
Gang Of Masked Bandits Steals Another $500 Billion From Your Grandchildren
https://babylonbee.com/news/masked-bandits-steal-another-500-billion-from-your-grandkids
The Bee
‘Worcester establishes April 27 as ‘Take Out Day’ in effort to help small businesses amid coronavirus pandemic’
By Michael Bonner for Advance Local Media LLC @ masslive
Heck, almost every day has been “Take Out Day” for us since Ohio’s restaurants were ordered closed. I’m actually starting to get tired of the locally-based restaurants in our neighborhood. Except for Oinkadoodlemoo, but that’s because I have a weakness for their mac & cheese and their little roasted potato sides. I need to find a Carbs Anonymous support group.
Oh don’t worry, the Romney and McCain-esque Pachyderms will go along with this out of “the spirit of compromise and bipartisanship”.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/stealing_the_election_in_plain_sight.html
They’ll get what they want eventually, they’re utterly relentless once they set their mind on something. What I want to know: after pissing away $6 trillion and basically putting the country under de facto martial law, how would 1000 years’ Democrat dynasty really look much different?
As I’ve said before, the US does not have magic dirt. We can hold out longer than most because of our tremendous infrastructure and legacy wealth, but if our leaders consistently behave like Third World tinpot dictators, the results will be that of a Third World tinpot dictatorship.
https://victorygirlsblog.com/lockdown-is-destroying-food-supply-chain/
The laws of economics are like the laws of physics; one cannot just wish them away and they apply everywhere all the time.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWdbI5gXsAAr3rd?format=jpg&name=large