If there is anything that causes anxiety on the internet, it calling people fat. It is a easy thing to do, and quite frankly the people that do it have a leg to stand on because on some level it is a personal choice and being overweight does lead to health issues. Then there are the people that do the opposite and shame previously fat people for celebrating their no longer being fat–like Adele. Which is equally juvenile. Let’s be real here, Adele was corpulent enough that people lobbed insults at her for being fat, while simultaneously being from a country (UK) where it is socially acceptable to mock gingers. Does anybody recall if Adele was ever made fun of for that?
This is my review of Founders Solid Gold Lager.
I know I said it is juvenile, but quite frankly these clowns deserve it. In West Texas a bar owner took it upon himself to open for business and his property was ultimately raided by a SWAT team for violating Gov. Abbott’s Coronavirus lockdown order.
Now, according to the Ector County Sheriff there were people protesting with guns on the property and were simply there to instigate a response from law enforcement…not that open carrying a long gun is illegal (or unusual) in Texas…
The sheriff told Fox 24 that they were “not here to violate anybody’s rights” or “take good citizens’ guns from them.”
“We’re just here to enforce the orders set forth by the governor and enforce the law,” he said, adding the protesters were “trying to intimidate people and provoke a response.”
The bar owner — who was released later Monday on a $500 bond — insisted authorities had “no business” arresting any of them
I realize that Ector County is a rural county and the only town there you might have actually heard of/driven through is Odessa, so a lot of local cops are going to do double-duty. So this wasn’t really a SWAT team was it? Yes, but not really–get a load of these lard asses.
Meal Team 6
I realize most of us have less than cordial opinions about the police; especially in light of this particular raid with an up-armored vehicle purchased from the Army for the Iraq war. It doesn’t do any favors to that end if you lumber out of said up-armored vehicle to shut down a bar. If part of your job requires engaging in combat with an equally armed assailant, hop on a treadmill once in a while before you embarrass yourself when you can’t fit into a Level III vest.
“We can use a fat ass like you on the force to tactiCOOL Cosplay.”
Founders tends to make good products and this on this is no different. A crisp, refreshing slightly mass-produced Pilsner-like lager sold in the same section as other highly mass-produced Pilsner-like lagers. Its delightful in its simplicity, ubiquity, and overall non-threatening nature. Founders Solid Gold Lager: 3.2/5
IIRC, this was also one of the first 15 packs that was sold by Founder’s. Between that and the PC Pils, they also showed that craft lager was a big market. Of course, in some areas (like Ohio), craft lagers were already around for quite some time.
I got a 15 of the All Day Session Ipa, I don’t do sessions, but it sure was tasty,
I don’t think Founders makes a bad beer. There are some I don’t care for (looks at the Curmudgeon and the like), but they’re well made beers, and their Porter is a world class example of the style.
their Porter is a world class example of the style.
Seconded.
I would say the same for Lagunitas, always good Beer,
Indeed. I could drink those Li’l Sumpin’ beers all day.
The Curmudgeon’s Wife was far too sweet and maple syrupy for me but it makes a dame fine beer batter bread.
Also, I’m sorry if my snoring was a distraction on the Zoom thingie, I fell asleep and woke up around noon.
I tried that beer twice. I had the same impression as you for the first. I tried it a second time just in case I got unlucky with a bad batch. Nope.
3 things we are personally responsible for, our time, our money and our weight. I am saddened by some in my immediate family that don’t understand that.
Something not thick and syrupy? I might drink it.
ps- fuck
the policeeverybody.*Not you people, though
What do you mean, you people ?
Fuck Society https://youtu.be/RogZ_wh9V5k
Especially the Scotch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT-myaChOUc
Please tell me you mean “the Scots.”
Of course. I keed, I keed.
HRH Queen Elizabeth refers to them as “our Scotch” and “Scotchmen”. Good enough for the rightful Empress of India, good enough for me.
Gimme Beer or Gimme Death https://youtu.be/sTuo2Ckaeko
Alright, here you go.
That’s a pirate shanty disguised as ska.
Here’s some snotty punk from Indianapolis. https://youtu.be/daY8M5upeR4
Related:
Winnipeg woman focusing on body positivity after being targeted by hockey players’ misogynistic slurs
I dunno. Yes, they said unkind things about you. But you’re kind of putting it out there, sweetheart.
Those of you who do not appreciate Q’s links can check out her Instagram.
“Social media” ruins lives. Film at 11.
I hope she’s proud of herself.
The audio I heard this morning had her saying something about how all bodies are beautiful, which is what really enraged me.
Taking such lousy care of yourself that you eat yourself (or do it in another way) into a disease that’s going to kill you young is not beautiful at all.
Smokers should try the body-positivity thing and see the media hypocrisy.
Honestly, I was expecting her to be a lot larger.
The one guy was kicked off the team???? Are you kidding me?
He’s not a very good player, I’m almost certain that was a key factor.
Adele is not recognizable. The fat shaming and skinny shaming is juvenile, as you said, and somewhat political (identity politics), but she really does not look like her even with side-by-sides and it is disconcerting.
THAT said, I am awful with faces, especially if I see people out of context. So that could be just me.
I was not sure that I knew who this person was. So I looked. I hadn’t, and now I have an excuse to forget her.
She sang “Skyfall” from the Bond movie.
Never saw that- Sean Connery was the only Bond and I didn’t bother after he left the role- and never heard the song. She seems to be a pretty generic pop female vocalist. Yawn.
It was the first Bond I’d ever seen because Daniel Craig.
What can I say, I like blonds.
Finally a beer I’ve actually drank. Now I can calibrate ms’ other reviews.
Ha! I’m not completely insane!
*lights anthill on fire*
Fuck it. It’s 9:38, and I’m gonna pour a drink. Smirnoff and lemonade, dash of ginger bitters, Perrier. I’m christening it the Vodka Sonic.
https://youtu.be/mMaYTKeHQMQ
The thick blue line.
Guffaw.
The sheriff told Fox 24 that they were “not here to violate anybody’s rights” or “take good citizens’ guns from them.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!
I have not had this Founders product yet. Generally I like their products. I should try it.
Yesterday at the bottle shop I bought a four pack of Founders Backwoods Bastard. Yum.
And then he proceeded to do exactly that.
“Good citizens” wouldn’t own any guns, and they’d sit at home obediently waiting for the government to provide their needs and tell them what to do.
Therefore, only bad citizens have guns, and taking their guns away is not harming good citizens.
You’re disturbingly good at this double-think stuff.
I’m sorry, can you cite the law that was broken?
Does Texass have a law that makes not obeying the chief executive’s order a punishable offense during times of emergency? Serious question.
If so, does the Texass Constitution have some sort of verbiage that grants the legislature the power to delegate its lawmaking authority to the executive?
Unsure. Read through this and get back to me.
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.418.htm
lol
You could replace the entire thing with:
“You may not initiate aggression upon another”
Yes.
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.418.htm#418.173
Further discussion, from the point of view of county DAs
https://www.tdcaa.com/tdcaa-covid-19-update-no-2/
damn
Thx
That, plus:
Additionally Article I, Section 62 of the Constitution of Texas gives significant powers to the executive in times of emergency, but curiously these emergency powers are defined only in terms of disaster following “enemy attack”.
curiously these emergency powers are defined only in terms of disaster following “enemy attack”.
Lil Rona is an enemy attacking us.
No, no, no!
It’s the Chinese Communist Party that’s attacking us! Get it right, dammit!
I hang my head in shame and will report to the re-education camp.
Lighten up, Francis.
Any of you homos touch me…and I’ll kill ya!
There was one?
Does Texass have a law that makes not obeying the chief executive’s order a punishable offense during times of emergency? Serious question.
Situational Stalinism.
*Why doesn’t the spell check in Chrome recognize “Stalinism” as a word?
I wish I knew. Would love to be able to argue against them.
Good afternoon glibs. How’s everyone doing?
I’ve had that beer. I tend to stick to lighter varieties when I’m out drinking. They go down easy, and come up easy, if things should get out of hand. (haha)
The high ABV beers are just too dangerous when out socially (heavily) drinking.
And I needed to Google Adele
She lost several “stone” and looks quite different now.
I would go so far as to say that being a bit heftier is part of her brand. It’s almost like changing pen names and having to start over again.
I knew a young lady back in my Uni days who had aspirations to make a living with her (quite angelic) voice, but she was significantly overweight, and was worried that if she lost too much weight it might affect her singing. Apparently, that’s a thing.
I wonder if Adele’s worried about it, or if her weight-loss was managed by people who know how to avoid such outcomes. Just spitballin’ here. The woman’s voice is her meal ticket, and losing it (or having it change too much) could be financially disastrous for her.
And then there’s actor Laird Cregar.
“Apparently, that’s a thing.”
I think Classically Abby did a video about that.
It’s 30 degrees cooler today than yesterday. Not sure what to with the day…might just hang out. Neighbor is getting their house fumigated so I have the cat locked in the house, and I’m not so sure I want to sit on the patio with that next door anyway.
Yeah, it’s 65 in my house. Had to turn the furnace and all the space heaters on.
Maybe it’s a day for BAKING!!!
Maybe corn bread, as requested by the TDs. I need to mow the last section and I have other errands to run.
Thanks for the av pic. It actually gives me some hope. Last time we had this discussion you mentioned that one of the biggest challenges was growing them around other trees with established roots. We’re trying to do that in a couple of places, but it looks like you have a competing tree there and your avs are doing OK.
Overall, I’m cautiously optimistic about most of them surviving.
It’s always a day for baking. What are you gonna make?
Mini chocolate souffles tomorrow for Mothers Day.
Also lemon ricotta pancakes fir breakfast. Not my favorite, but wife loves them.
Lemon ricotta pancakes, yum. Looks like my wife is gonna do a sausage, bacon and egg operation. Hopefully with asparagus and hollandaise. I don’t know. I’m sitting on the sofa, listening to some greasy rock n roll on WFMU, and sippin vodka.
Might I suggest this? If I wasn’t going to work shortly I would be making this:
Apple Crumble Coffee Cake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-owmUy7vFg&t=335s
Maybe it’s a day for BAKING!!!
On it. 67% whole-wheat loaf is doing first rise right now. Added some extra gluten flour, and a 1/2 tsp of diastatic malt to improve the rise. I’ll see what happens!
Lookin’ real good so far! Took less than 30 minutes for the second rise, dough looks awesome. Heating the oven to bake now.
Good luck; we’re all counting on you.
You are The Breadman https://youtu.be/J-Ps7y40gDo
You mock me, sir.
Baguettes at dawn.
And don’t forget the butter, you scurrilous cad.
I thought David Gates was the Breadman.
I wanna make “it” with you, Teds.
Got-DAMN!
Voila!
Nice, tight, even crumb. Perfect sandwich bread.
Malt diastase and extra gluten flour it is.
Incentives Matter, that loaf is GORGEOUS!!! I can damn near smell it from here. Great job.
Agree, that’s an outstanding loaf of bread! Kudos.
Adele fat? Ninja, please.
Id split that in two like a piece of dry hickory.
You crack me up.
I need a Size 18 or better….
She was slightly chubby when she first hit it big, but I wouldn’t have kicked her out of bed. But not sure I’m up to splitting firewood at my age.
A fat discussion and no mention of Biden? Poor Joe, doomed to be ignored.
Beach rules changing from”must keep moving” to “limit groups of 8”.
Restaurants to open indoor seating at 50% capacity on Monday.
SC is opening.
Bought some New Belgium Tripel this morning. Had one with lunch. Good, but not Old Belgium good.
My review of every founders beer: yes, this is what this style tastes like. I give it a 4.3 out of 5.
Kicking Down Doors
And knocking down tables in a restaurant?
Call the police, there’s a madman around.
In a west end town in a Covid world?
Titania McGrath on Adele’s weight loss:
It’s confirmed, they are a death cult. I mean, I don’t care if they all get fat and die. The problem is that they want us to die also. Will.not.comply.
Titania McGrath is a (hilarious) satire account but yes.
What’s an Adele?
It’s a British chick who sings.
why do people try to sound cool by pretending they don’t know who famous people are?
Because the notion of fame is retarded and the expectation that I should know who someone is because others do annoys me.
the notion of fame is retarded – i agree but it exists ans most people inadvertently hear about stuff they don’t give a shit about
Why is someone being widely known for doing something very well retarded?
I think the notion of fame as we know it now implies more than that. But to be fair just because i don’t like the card dash ian clan it does not mean they are not good at what they do
And I wasn’t pretending. Had no idea who this person was.
I shared that fact because I’m proud that I don’t know them, just because others do, and offer that up as an alternate way of living that some may find attractive.
And I do sound cool
And I wasn’t pretending. – I had a feeling Crusty did hence my reply.
Fame happens, so does notoriety. I think the problem is people worshiping the famous thinking that they are above the normals and somehow beyond the human condition.
yes mostly this. We had people good at hitting a ball in the right way get elected mayors and members of parliament though they were barely literate and had no basic understanding of anything outside hitting a ball in the right way
That’s a much more eloquent explanation than mine.
If you’re a good singer, great. It doesn’t mean anything more than you can make my ears happy for a few minutes. Doesn’t mean you’re a good person. Doesn’t mean you are someone to emulate….
why do people try to sound cool by pretending they don’t know who famous people are?
Exactly. Its more cool to know who these people are and still despise them,
wut?
Hurry, CNN and NYT, bury this.
It doesn’t make sense to me that they insist on only opening up after a vaccine, meaning they’ll be giving people reduced viral loads to create immunity, while at the same time claiming people who survived the disease, which implies they got a much higher viral load, can get the disease worse when they get re-infected.
Also implies that the asymptomatic cases that test positive could be fully recovered COVID cases.
Since there has never been an effective coronavirus vaccine, seems like an impossible standard to ever meet.
Bury this too – PA is closed because of lies.
Saying that “the system failed us” is a cop out. Theoretically, people still have the ability to vote for reps that aren’t complete shit. Shitty reps are a reflection of a shitty constituency.
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1259120554717573123
The unfortunate truth is that people just don’t like liberty all that much. Most people want to be ruled, whether that be by a monarch or an omnipotent bureaucracy.
relevant Dilbert comic
https://dilbert.com/strip/1992-02-26
To paraphrase a Carlin bit: everyone says politicians suck, but they didn’t land in a spaceship from Mars. They’re product of American schools, churches, and communities. So maybe something else sucks- like the voters. Garbage in, garbage out.
Oh well. So it was, so it is, so it will be.
you know who wants liberty? pedophiles.
that being said I have no idea who the tweet references.
Pie, Netflix is currently running a documentary called “Untamed Romania.” Breathtaking video of the wild through all seasons. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
2 quibbles:
1) some movie editor thought that every time a baby bear showed up, silly background music is required.
And
2) in the final 3 minutes, and they have to to the obligatory “habitat loss, humans, global bla bla…” which is apparently a requirement for all nature shows these days. Those segments have a stapled-on feel to them.
The producers had to staple on that bullshit. Some of the financing for the production had strings attached would be my guess.
Thanks for the recommendation though, I’ll add it the queue.
You won’t regret it! The bigger the screen, the better.
Romania has it’s pretty places but then again every country does (except Hungary )
My “TV” is a 13” MacBook air. Living the dream.
To be fair, illegal logging is a huge issue for Romania. Rhousamds of hectair of old growth woodland disapear misteriously
I have no idea how i managed to misspell thousand like that
I’m going to guess it all becomes a lot less mysterious when you trace the bribes.
yes. there were locals who tried to stop the illegal logging trucks and the local police threatened them. so there’s that. I blame the Austrians myself.
Schiff.
while I know more on USistan politiking than the average European, the Schiff never seem that important to me to learn who he is, but the name rings a bell
“why do people try to sound cool by pretending they don’t know who famous people are?”
this makes about 0 sense.
Burn!
no, it has to make sense to be a burn
Adam Schiff. CA Dem and head of House Intel Committee. He spearheaded the impeachment hoax and it’s been revealed that he and his cronies were knowingly lying about the whole thing.
I knew he was a dem representative but honestly I can’t be arsed to care about the particulars
Central PA counties say “Fuck You” to Wolf
A small but growing number of county officials are challenging Gov. Tom Wolf’s control of the state’s staged, regional reopening from the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, with majority commissioners in two midstate counties unilaterally declaring Friday that they will consider their counties in the “yellow” phase of the state’s reopening plan effective May 15.
Letters from a group of Lebanon County officials and Dauphin County Commissioner Jeff Haste echoed a similar protest from Beaver County, the only county in western Pennsylvania to be excluded from Wolf’s announced extension of first-phase reopening steps in southwestern Pennsylvania next Friday.
In addition, sheriffs in Perry and Cumberland posted Facebook notices stating that they would not be a part of enforcing business shutdown orders.
Foot traffic was way, way up at the Fresh Market today. People are done with the shampocalypse.
Face masks in full swing, but that’s fine.
I notice vehicle traffic, with one exception, has been up in the area I live in.
The exception is when I went out yesterday to get some takeout, I noticed the main north-south highway through the area, which would be bumper-to-bumper on a Friday at that house, was empty.
I thought it was Friday. Then I saw Mexican Sharpshooter’s kitchen.
Glad to be of service.
Olympia, WA anti-cower-in-place protest taking place now.
bring out the tanks !
Even though I’ve seen “Meal Team 6” several times, I can’t stop laughing.
I heard it from Warty on Wednesday, by Friday it was a meme.
Today’s fart logic courtesy of The Atlantic
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There is one way out of the mess: To fix the economy, the country must solve the public-health crisis. Survey data show that the economic turmoil is driven not primarily by government shelter-in-place policies but by Americans’ fear that going outside will result in illness.
To allow the recovery to begin, the United States must implement the kind of strategy that other countries have used to defeat the coronavirus. It must test widely to find infected people, trace their contacts who might themselves have been infected, and isolate that potentially infectious group from the rest of the susceptible population. Setting up this kind of infrastructure was one of the initial goals of the social-distancing measures that states and cities started in March.
***
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/theres-only-one-way-out-of-this-mess/611431/
[Kif sigh]
Have you been awake since last nigt?
No, I slept OK.
I am always surprised by those you can function on little sleep.
I need lots and even then it takes me a while to get functioning in the morning.
and someone might need a nap 😉
Repeatedly testing 330 million people is a piece of cake
And contact tracing tens of millions of people is going to be super useful and cheap.
Ten million new permanent government jobs! Current unemployment fixed!
STFU, you maundering twat
Melinda Gates, co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gave the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic a grade of D-minus, saying it’s created “chaos” in the U.S.
Gates said the U.S. has “wasted so much time” and doesn’t have national leadership to provide enough tests, protective gear and other supplies and services needed across the country. She cited Germany as an example of a nation that was able to keep certain sectors of its economy open while also keeping its residents safe.
“That’s the kind of leadership we should expect as citizens in this country, and we’re not getting it. We haven’t gotten it yet during this crisis, and you’re seeing what’s happening. And it’s chaos,” she said Friday on NBC’s “TODAY.”
Aside from billionaire-lassoing, what demonstrable problem-solving skills do you bring to this discussion? Telling other people what “they oughtta” do is not exactly a rare or useful attribute.
“Well, I would have pulled a bunch of magical cures out of my magic hat as soon as I looked into my crystal ball and saw what was happening.”
Germany is in better shape, maybe we should study what they did. However, boiling it all down to “leadership”, and one individual’s leadership at that, is about as useful as studying nuclear physics by throwing two rocks together.
Of course, the question of just how bad off the U.S. is does not have a clear answer yet. The CDC’s data points to lots of COVID-19 deaths, but slightly fewer non-COVID-19 deaths versus prior years. Given that, even at the height of the disease, a lot more people were still dying of other things, that works out to a lot fewer excess deaths than one might expect. Indeed, it is looking like as few as 30-40% of the COVID-19 deaths are excess deaths.
What I saw at the Free Ohio Now rally (Richland county edition) as mentioned by Neph in the morning links comments.
The Payless shoe store has been torn down and an Autozone is being built there. In the parking lot behind the erstwhile footwear sellers eleven protesters milled around an SUV with “Everyone is Essential” soaped onto the rear window. The crowd size ensured that if I approached someone would try to talk to me, so instead I went the the Speedway and got a bag of BBQ pork rinds and a diet Pepsi (It was my only option, Charley’s has been defunct for years and the Denny’s wasn’t open for carryout, no Moons over my Hammy for me) I parked across the street and watched as I ate my snack. By this time the eleven people had spread out along the roadside near the intersection where normally a dude does the ‘will work for food’ thing. There was a young girl with a big American flag, four people held signs. One “Open Ohio Now”, one that said something about being conditioned to see freedom as selfish, and two “Please pray for President Trump”. There were no Tacitcool Timmys and no attractive young women, It look cold and windy out there so I left. I did however beep and extended my fist out the window as a show of solidarity as I drove past.
was Ohio particularly free before covid?
No, but we all pretended it was, the old rules and regulations had been around so long they were/are just accepted as the way it is.
a good fiction makes an easier life
I like the place and the people, but Ohio was the state that fucked with the Libertarian Party the most. While I don’t care for the LP much anymore, I am strongly opposed to restrictions on political choice. That I don’t like the party is not a good reason for the state to harm it.
Every time the LP would meet one of the new goalposts, the major parties in Ohio (primarily, the state GOP) would shift the goalposts some more. One of the old H&R trolls used to argue that following Ohio’s ever-shifting intentionally harmful and arbitrary rules for political participation was just about the rule of law. If you wanted to debase the notion of rule of law, you could hardly do better than using that as an example of it.
I like the place and the people
Have you met Tres?
Thanks for the report.
Survey data show that the economic turmoil is driven not primarily by government shelter-in-place policies but by Americans’ fear that going outside will result in illness.
This is nothing but an odious barbaric lie.
“The government is blameless.”
Go fuck an armadillo.
I don’t know anyone who “fears” the virus at all. I have one direct report whose daughter is immune-compromised so he is working from home and being very careful, which makes sense, but it’s also no skin off anybody’s nose.
Surprisingly, I know a number of people who are almost irrationally afraid of the ‘Vid, including an old buddy who I thought was much more level-headed than he’s acting now (although he does tend to fits of monomania and, being highly analytical, a tendency to go into paralysis by analysis). Funny thing: all of the seniors who live around me are quite chill about the virus, and rather pissed-off at our provincial government’s response to it.
Age really does give you perspective, sometimes.
I live with my 82-year-old father and neither of us particularly fear the virus. We’re much more worried about the government reaction.
Getting a three-day furlough didn’t help, either.
which one of you pays rent?
Dad, because he gets the senior citizen discount on property taxes*, although the property is in a trust so that the government can’t claw it back if he has to go in a nursing home.
*The mortgage is paid off, but property taxes mean you’re really only renting your property from the government.
We have to keep banning things, otherwise people will act irresponsibly and do the things that are being banned.
But the bans themselves aren’t having any direct effect, because everybody agrees it’s irresponsible to do the things that are being banned.
These two ideas are kind of contradictory, no?
Just like with alcohol Prohibition, this lockdown crap is turning us into a nation of scofflaws.
And, sure as shooting, once people have been forced by govt into breaking a silly law, they question and break others.
Maybe some good will come of this whole debacle.
Stop laughing.
I am less comfortable with the number of rounds I have on hand than I was a year ago. And while still on the fence for plates, I wasn’t really even considering them in January either.
And watched videos that prove PASGT is maybe useful for fragmentation. Maybe.
I waffled on it for too long, but I’m happy I got my order placed when I did.
I’m comfortable on the rest.
Ahh, the spin of how people were responded to perceived threats and curtailing their contacts voluntarily.
I bet people won’t wash their hands either unless the government mandates it and installs video monitoring of sinks. And a smartphone app that tracks how often and where you wash your hands.
I was talking to a classmate yesterday, we were drinking coffee, not sheltering, not social distancing…I pondered as to what would happen if Pearl Harbor got bombed today. 80 years ago there was a mad rush to the recruiting station, young men (and some women) volunteering for military service, waiting and wanting to defend the country. Kids lying about their ages in some cases, to get into the military. Obviously the draft took a lot as well but that was somewhat later and those were not volunteers.
I can’t help but speculate about today. I honestly don’t have any idea but it may be totally different. If a draft (horror of horrors) was instituted what would happen? I know some would head for the recruiters but how many?
Seems like society has restructured, for better or worse, I have no idea but if the CV is any indication it seems like a lot might shelter in place, under the bed.
The recruits would be largely from flyover country, mainly rural, disproportionately Southern.
Just like after 9/11.
Just like always – although my PI training series had a surprising number from Massachusetts and Connecticut.
I deployed with a guy that did a short stint as a recruiter in VT (seriously). While TDY a recruiter stationed in TX said every morning he had a line of kids outside his recruiting station and would tap 4-5 on the shoulder, then ask the rest to come back the next day.
My friend was lucky to get 1-2 recruits in a month.
I think its close (a small number) to that here in Northern MN. The recruiters recently moved out of visible offices along the main highway and farther out, maybe the lease was up and rent was too damned high. May be a little easier right after high school graduation but the off months may be lonely.
My son bought some weights and set them up in the garage. He’s had a number of his friends (most of whom would be college freshmen) over to lift with him – ignoring the “social-distancing” bs. My only rule is to close the garage door so our shitty neighbors on that side can’t see them. They all know this lockdown is a bunch of crap.
My only rule is to close the garage door – i would have thought squat beyond parallel and no cat back deadlifts would be sensible rules to add
He’s an exercise science major – he can make those rules.
Presidents Bush 2, Clinton, Trump, VP Cheney, Biden all had more important things to do, rather than look at VN. Obama gets a pass ’cause he was too young at the time.
I was curious about Pence and he was also too young to serve, being all of 15 when Saigon fell.
The overwhelming majority of WWII were conscripts from what I recall. There was peacetime conscription a year before Pearl Harbor (including mobilization and activation of the National Guard). Even with that, less than 15% of the US population total was in uniform during WWII. The myth that everyone served is just that.
And Lewis Hershey can burn in hell.
Myth or no, every President from Truman to GHWB was a veteran, although Truman was a WWI veteran whereas the rest were WWII veterans (or both, in Eisenhower’s case).
According to the National WWII Museum, 61.2% of the military were drafted, leaving 38.8% as volunteers.
50 million men from 18 to 45 were registered. The Selective Service statistics page gives the total inductions during WWII as 10,110,104, which would indicate that the percentage would be somewhere around 20% were drafted based on registration.
Blacks were passed over for the draft because of racist assumptions about their abilities and the viability of a mixed-race military. But this changed in 1943, when a “quota” was imposed, meant to limit the numbers of blacks drafted to reflect their numbers in the overall population, roughly 10.6 percent of the whole.
I’m torn. I am proud of my military service and feel that many others would benefit from a hitch as well. When it comes to the draft though, I would be a refusenik on principle; slavery is slavery no matter the reason.
Anecdotal aside (I’ve mentioned this before) I enlisted at 17 (spent my 18th birthday in combat) so consequently never bothered with Selective Service. From 18 – 20, I received a regular delivery of nastygrams from the Selective Service folk threatening me with all manner of penalties for not registering for the draft. These letters were all mailed directly to me… at the barracks… using my military rank and unit as part of the address. yet another nudge along my path to anarchism.
These letters were all mailed directly to me… at the barracks… using my military rank and unit as part of the address.
Your tax dollars at work. See, this is proof they just don’t have enough tax dollars.
The government mostly consists of quasi-automatons who don’t particularly like what they do but certainly never want to have any responsibility and are just waiting until they can retire.
I am watching the latest Joe Rogan Elon Musk thing and sometimes I think this Rogan dude either ain’t all that bright or not that good at this whole knowledge / rational thought thing. But then again he is wildly successful so it works for him,
He got popular because he shows a glimmer of independent thought rather than clapping like a seal and repeating preapproved goodthink. He’s not particularly intelligent, but I’ll give him credit that he actually does long form interviews in which he asks real questions.
he just said “I have always speculated that aliens could potentially be us” Lay of the DMT Joe
His lack of mental acuity allows his guest to speak freely. It allows me to determine if the guest is a idiot.
Just got back from the Cuyahoga county Free Ohio Now rally. Approximately 100 people gathered, opened with a prayer, God Bless America being sung, and the Pledge of Allegiance. About 4 people were carrying anti-vaccination signs (in general, not just Covid related), and one person was dressed up as a Crusader and talking about the New World Order, the Mark of the Beast, and how the Covid vaccine would rewrite your DNA to remove the gene responsible for Godliness. Walked up to the street, where we only got yelled at to fuck off by one passer by, with more people honking, waving, and giving thumbs ups. Two local news stations came by (and we were apparently live on the news), and someone was flying a drone as well. No visible weapons, but it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that there were people carrying concealled.
Thanks for the report.
Not a problem at all.
Here’s some video from the other news station that was there.
Thanks!
would rewrite your DNA to remove the gene responsible for Godliness. – also shrink you dick 2.34 inches
Pretty good cover of Neil Young’s Heart of Gold by Christine and the Queens.
Christine is not her name and only one person shows up in the video so I’m not sure who the Queens are.
“When she visited London in 2010, she was inspired by the work of local drag queen musicians, including Russella,[11][12] who accompanied her in one of their early concerts. The queens then became her “Queens” as a backing band. She dedicated many of her creations to them and to all transgender individuals, describing their genre as “freakpop”
I hate to say it, but I’m starting to like Musk. His openly rebellious attitude is a breath of fresh air.
“Fuck you, California, I’m taking my ball and going to Texas.”
Good for him.
Head for SoDak, Elon, you’d be welcome, I’m sure
today I learned
NASA creates beautiful infographic to tell us that astronaut poop burns like shooting stars
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/09/15/nasa-reminds-us-that-astronaut-poop-burns-up-like-shooting-stars/
awesome
“ Your poop will not look like a shooting star — unless you, too, become an astronaut. If that’s not a motivation to stay in school, I don’t know what is.”
I pondered as to what would happen if Pearl Harbor got bombed today.
NYT and WaPo would print front page editorials begging Trump to surrender, Lives are too precious. Freedom is an illusion. Not worth it.
the Germans are a much more peaceable people today, why would they bomb Pearl Harbor?
Germans?
Forget it, he’s on a roll
a *Kaiser* roll!
Wife just told me that she saw a story this morning where two kids caught the commie cooties and died because they caught some new mutation of the virus.
“I told you, did I not? When disaster fatigue starts to set in they will try to kick things up a gear. Second wave, new mutation…something, anything to keep this going long enough to completely destroy the economy. These people are so tiresome and predictable.”
“Yes you did.”
I guess they are holding their ‘second wave’ card up their sleeve for now.
Murder hornets!
Kawasaki disease!
Doom!
They are also pulling magical mathematical rabbits out of the hat: “The death toll would have been 1/5 what we had if only We had shut down sooner!”
“Trump’s dallying killed people!” “Trump’s action killed people!”
All sensational, all unprovable.
When you “believe” in and “love” science, you can gloss over all of the not remotely scientifically rigorous things you also believe and arrive at methodologically sound conclusions by dint of your virtuous nature.
Yeah, it’s like the “it would have been better under Obama or Hilary.”
Possibly true, possibly untrue. Unprovable either way.
Woe is America! If only Trump had locked the country down when the World Health Organization the Dr. Fauci all said there was nothing to worry about!
the much more contagious mutation in the news some days ago turned out to be nonsense.
From the numbers I am seeing I am starting to wonder if this cold really is worse than other colds that go around. Looking at the numbers other countries are claiming it appears to be, but looking at them here it appears….I dunno because I dont know how many people normally die from colds every year.
I am also wondering if the trend of wearing masks in china is the result of the ChiComs pulling this same shit years ago and now our political class is just following the Chinese playbook.
Mask wearing in China prior to this was more a function of their air pollution than from disease control.
I thought that might be it but the other idea popped in my head. I thought if I tossed it out someone would know.
I think japanese and koreans used to wear masks way before this
Great beer. I get lots of the Solid Gold for summer drinking. The Gold and Cold Lager from SBC is great as well.
https://www.sbcbeer.com/project/goldencold-lager
The SBC is priced at a slight premium as compared to Duff and Fudd but much better.
Cheap Beer…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BB8z08_8uhM
By the way sharp shooter, Meal Team Six made me laugh aloud enough to scare may dog.
Is it a link? I searched it and a bunch of stuff came up. Not sure what to watch…
The caption from the cops in the article above.
I cant claim to coin it, but its too perfect an insult not to share.
Guys, guys, guys!
Eggs were *not* an original ingredient in cakes!
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/movies/on-every-box-of-cake-mix-evidence-of-freuds-theories.html
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A segment on the early marketing of Betty Crocker cake mix is particularly illustrative: when housewives failed to respond to the concept of cake from a box, marketing researchers were puzzled. Finally it became clear that the women felt guilty about baking a cake to which they had contributed so little, so the recipe was changed to require the addition of an egg.
The marketers’ quaintly Freudian logic — that women would be comforted by the subconscious notion that they were offering up their own eggs to their husbands — may seem funny in retrospect, but the trick worked, and Betty Crocker became a household name.
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Edward Bernays was a nephew of Sigmund Freud.
Mind, blown.
Eggs are and have always been necessary in CAKES, just not in cake mixes.
Yeah, I was gonna say, you cannot make the cake without an emulsifier, and there’s few emulsifiers other than eggs, and none as good.
Now I am picturing Kids in the Hall Chicken Lady offering a cake made with eggs “fresh from my baawwwwdy.”
I liked Son of Flying Pig and Running Faggot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl-iutItKlA
“They said he was scarred. Scarred for life! BAAWK!”
Eggs were in the original cake mixes in the form of powdered. Betty Crocker simply removed the powdered egg and got housewives to put ’em in themselves.
(We studied this business case in Marketing class.)
Homer taught me everything I needed to know about marketing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lKuugZCD6A
Vodka Sonic
2 oz of vodka
1 oz lemonade
Dash of ginger bitters
Into a shaker of ice. Shake.
Pour into a tumbler with ice. Top with soda.
I use 2 oz if vodka, because I want a strong cocktail. Don’t use that velvety vodka, either. No Belvedere or Grey Goose. Use Smirnoff, Sobieski, etc.
Lemonade: I’m using store bought, but some fresh homemade shit would be killer.
Ginger bitters I’m using Hella cocktail stuff. Got it at Total Wine it’s decent.
Soda because generic cocktail mixer. I’m using Perrier cause I’m fancy and shit.
Should be garnished, I don’t have garnishes in my place right now. Mint sprig , lemon slice, candied ginger would be great. Alone or in combination.
I though tito or something like that was the goto vodka for americans
It is for me, when I dine out. Vodka martinis with a twist.
At home vodka is New Amsterdam 100.
Tito’s is very good, but I prefer Smirnoff. It’s got a little stronger ethyl alcohol taste which appeals to me.
Also, when you shake the cocktail shaker, smile. Look like you’re having fun, and everyone else will have fun, too!
Learned that on Bar Rescue.
world class mask changer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fWVAN0Er_4
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Bian Lian (simplified Chinese: 变脸; traditional Chinese: 變臉; pinyin: Biàn Liǎn; literally: ‘Face-Changing’) is an ancient Chinese dramatic art that is part of the more general Sichuan opera. Performers wear brightly colored costumes and move to quick, dramatic music. They also wear vividly colored masks, typically depicting well known characters from the opera, which they change from one face to another almost instantaneously with the swipe of a fan, a movement of the head, or wave of the hand.
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sadly, no sound in video
similar Japanese act from Penn and Teller’s Fool Us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taGqwxC2dpU
with glorious sound!
It’s now snowing styrofoam beads at my house.
The stuff has the same consistency.
It’s May not November dammit.
Gropple
Is that a new word? I’d never heard it before a month ago.
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Graupel (/ˈɡraʊpəl/; German: [ˈɡʁaʊpl̩]), also called soft hail or snow pellets,[1] is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) balls of rime.[2] The term graupel is the German language word for sleet.
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Thanks for the definition. I learned something new today.
Some more information
Thank you. I wonder why using “hail” or “sleet” has fallen out of favor. Maybe graupel is more descriptive.
Bad spelling on my part. The word has been around a while. My exposure to the word comes from snow sports. Graupel can cause a weak layer in the snowpack making avalanches easier.
I’d only heard it so spelling doesn’t matter 🙂
Do you use an avalanche beacon when you go out? Being buried by an avalanche is not something I want to experience.
Bah, if you’re trapped by an avalanche, just make a signalling device out of ski pole like MacGyver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSaWxpV4xpg
Queen of Battle helping to control avalanches
https://youtu.be/J2NOuhTCkd8
Only 105mm…
Field artillery is king of battle. Infantry only queen of battle.
Derpy pawn of battle.
You know, that episode of MacGyver might be the root of my fear.
It freaks me out that you may not know that you are upside down.
Interesting, usually they use recoiless rifles. May be an issue of ammo availability.
Gustave, those (DOT?) guys are SO slow. It’s weird watching arty NOT being worked at breakneck speed.
Doh! And I knew that. I’ll turn in my blue cord now. Once I find which closet it’s hiding in.
For l0b0t
https://youtu.be/v94qdpJqK9w
Pure poetry in motion. Thanks. That is how crews win AAMs and ARCOMs for being fastest in Division during evaluations. I was on the M167 Towed Vulcan SHORAD system and I still have dreams where I’m screaming out the 42 pre-fire checks.
fun fact: the blue infantry cord is based on a French award from WW1 called the fourragere. The US Army adopted it during the Korean war to boost the morale of the infantry.
Before that, only certain American units and soldiers had been awarded the cord by France. Audie Murphy was one.
The one cord I really would have like to have earned is the Bundeswehr Schützenschnur.
Is that the silver cord with the eagle on it? There was a fellow in my unit with one.
Yep. That’s the one.
I wear a beacon whenever I go snowmobiling, even when conditions are safe. It is a good habit to form.
Hail is larger ice balls
Sleet is not completely frozen
Hail is solid ice, graupel is not solid.
A closer look at the Musk article shows that he plans to sue the county too. He has the money and the will to do it.
Apparently Newsom said he could open in Fremont, but then the local county health official Erica Busybody said “we have not given the go ahead” and “we haven’t given a green light.”
So they admit they are playing high stakes Simon Says with us underlings?
So he’ll be spending money he likely grifted from Commiefornia to sue Commifornia for more money.
Should I cheer him on for that? Seriously asking here.
I think there may be more, I’ll post below.
Of course, the question of just how bad off the U.S. is does not have a clear answer yet. The CDC’s data points to lots of COVID-19 deaths, but slightly fewer non-COVID-19 deaths versus prior years. Given that, even at the height of the disease, a lot more people were still dying of other things, that works out to a lot fewer excess deaths than one might expect. Indeed, it is looking like as few as 30-40% of the COVID-19 deaths are excess deaths.
As in the olympics, we should throw out the highest and lowest scores, and see what we get.
If we threw out New York and Wyoming(?), we’d see a significant downward shift of the graph, I reckon.
New York really was an outlier. They do need to look long and hard at their medical supply chain and resources so they don’t have this overcrowding and understaffed thing again.
Didn’t NY state have a bunch of stuff in storage that they forgot about until after the first few weeks of panic? I seem to remember reading something along those lines but it might have been misreporting from somewhere.
The fact that they had doctors operating ventilators who had never operated a ventilator was also a problem. Many of them got turned way too high and damaged lungs, killing many patients.
NYC had to import healthcare staff, while other states had spare they had to furlough.
New York needs to be more ready for mass casualties.
There are nurses being furloughed and laid off in NYC because of the cessation of most procedures while simultaneously, Cragslist has help-wanted ads for nurses in NYC with pay starting at $120 per hour for trauma/ER nurses.
Seems like there is a work skill gap – nurses who know what they are doing and something else.
One story I remember reading turned out to be a scam: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/seiu-uhw-masks-coronavirus-ppe
The I-95 corridor from DC to Boston is the closest thing the U.S. has to a megacity and it has, unsurprisingly, been the epicenter of COVID-19 in the U.S. NYC is at the heart of that megacity and again unsurprisingly got hit the worst. Looking at population-adjusted figures, generally speaking 6-8 of the top 10 spots are held by states (+DC) in that corridor.
Anybody have a reliable source on how São Paulo and Mexico City are doing.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-politics-idUSKBN22K1TA
“They’re going to present me with an initial proposal on Monday,” Lopez Obrador told reporters during a regular news conference. “And we want to announce it to you and to the Mexican public on Wednesday or Thursday.”
The government has been under pressure at home and abroad to set out plans for a return to normal as it battles the pandemic that has killed nearly 3,000 people in Mexico.
I assume testing is limited to Mexico City and a few other wealthy/urban areas.
“…killed nearly 3,000 people in Mexico.”
In Mexico that is called a ‘ weekend’.
Sao Paulo might be tricky: https://brazilian.report/coronavirus-brazil-live-blog/ the state is “no longer making sensitive data available, such as hospitals’ occupancy rates or the number of patients with pre-existing conditions.”
No one could have predicted that a virus would spread fast in a city which is the center of the world’s economy and home to 8 million!
C’mon everyone! Let’s go to the Chinese New Year parade!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_VWoxb6bVg
Actually, New York is already on a downward course, more so than most other states.
New York + New Jersey > 50% of total US deaths
More snow in southern NH. God damn global warming.
When it’s unexpectedly cold it’s called climate change.
Fuck. Another trip to the reeducation camp?
When it’s unexpectedly cold it’s called weather.
York county DA tells LE to stand down if businesses reopen without Wolf’s blessing.
https://www.yorkda.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/COVID-19-Enforcement-Guidance-Updated-05082020.pdf
It’s happening!
Wolf lives in York County if I remember correctly.
The natives are getting restless.
It would seem that based on that letter, any LE agency knowing that criminal enforcement is on unlawful foundation, should likewise regard civil enforcement as equally shaky. Further, the unwillingness of the DA to weigh in on the underlying constitutionality is evidence that such an order is not presumptively valid. In a just world, that should strip away the just following orders sovereign immunity for individual officers’ acts.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/09/pressure-mounts-pa-gov-tom-wolf-democrats-question-coronavirus-shutdown/
His fellow Dems are breaking ranks. That is great news and they’re using science and facts. ?
Seeing how much pushback and how many protests I am almost tempted to renew some faith in my fellow Americans.
This could be big. The Republicans have passed bills reigning Wolf in, only to have them vetoed. The votes were almost on party lines. A few Democrats voted for the bills and a few Republicans voted against them. The majority voting for them was nowhere near enough to override a veto.
If enough Democrats start joining forces with the Republicans pushing, Wolf is done.
There’s multiple counties and law enforcement now making noise and saying on the record that they won’t enforce the shut down. Next week is going to be interesting.
Please let that happen in New York!
Doesn’t Cuomo have a 77% approval rating or something equally unbelievable?
You still believe in polls?
I have this bridge for sale…
especially since it’s the only place in the us with a terrible coronavirus record.
81% as of two days ago, specifically on his handling of corona virus.
The whatever-the-fuck-they-are for bars, here (rules? suggestions? mandatory kabuki?), are worse than a joke. It’s different, every day. Being “at the bar” (sitting/standing) is verboten. Getting a beer handed to you across the bar is apparently not acceptable, but the dummy behind the bar can walk out into the room and hand you your drink from a foot away, and that’s okay. The customers have, for the most part, abandoned any pretense of “distancing”. We just stand or sit in groups at the tables.
Maybe it will relax fairly quickly, but if this shit continues, I’m going to be staying home a lot. We just need some better weather.
These germs are real sticklers for the rules. They carefully observe the 6 foot limit and they won’t transfer to your food and beverage if brought around front for you.
I picture little viruses and white blood cells taunting each other. “Ah, you fooled me this time with your mandatory bananas, but we’re going to find a weak spot!
Mandatory Bananas
[adds to list of band names]
Hey, I was just following orders!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/g6zvf7/homemade_masks_scarves_bananas/
I am still not convinced that they have a clue how it is transmitted.
I assume it’s transmitted the same way as other coronaviruses?
Likely, yes. Early on I heard lots of speculation and haven’t gotten any answers but now thinking about it that was probably scaremongering by implication.
I don’t know if these guys got their screenplay from Jussee Smollet or if they really are white supremacists, but either way, it’s a bad look for San Diego suburb Santee.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8303263/Couple-wear-masks-SWASTIKAS-grocery-shopping-California.html
Over/under it’s just someone “poking fun”? Pepe the Frog – really? Come on.
I find people who desperately seek attention to be very tiresome. What the hell is wrong with them?
The fewer people know I exist the happier I am.
Suthen, you are speaking some truth. As much as I HATE urban/NYC living, there is something to be said for the anonymity that such a populous place provides. Having been in small Florida and Louisiana towns where I was immediately known to all and sundry as the guy with all those tattoos, it’s nice to be virtually invisible.
Maybe you shouldn’t have sought out all that attention by getting those tattoos. :-p
When I had my dog attack the only people that knew were my wife, the deputy that accompanied the ambulance and the two EMTs. Then the hospital staff. Aside from my wife I had never met any of those people before.
After I recovered and got out again it seemed everyone I ran into in Grant and Rapides parishes knew all about it and half of. those people I did not remember meeting before.
Yes, in a sparsely populated rural areas everyone knows every time you fart before. you do.
Day two of burning the front yard pile. Eating far too many hot dogs.
As the CV winds down Chicago picks up the pace or at least stays in the running
https://heyjackass.com/
Last shooting here about 10 years ago. Previous shooting around 10 years prior to that. Average number of guns here: 48 per person.
Chicago doesn’t have a gun problem. Chicago has a people problem. The culture there is shit.
You know who should fuck off?
This guy – https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-coronavirus-response-chaotic-disaster
The new talking point “chaotic” and “chaos” – Gates, Obama
But Trump is the one breaking norms.
Queen’s Brian May Hospitalized With Butt Injury Following “Over-Enthusiastic Gardening”
Be safe out there, Olds!
Soccer Feminists Oppress Themselves… How To Fix It |
Sober Saturday continues with Beck’s and Heineken’s booze-free brews. I was tempted to buy beer and didn’t.
[waves Self-Control pennant]
Anybody got a funny headline idea?
Finally Something Positive from the Trump Administration: Aides test positive for Corona Virus
I like it!
Virus Mysteriously Vanishes After Claiming Knowledge of Clinton Scandal
I don’t know. My headline truthiness meter broke the day I read that President Donald Trump was being sued by a woman named Reality Winner.
How about “Democrats surge among people too foolish to avoid a phone survey”.
Heros for a New Age: Meet the Group of Yong Men Who Bravely Lead the Way on Self-Isolating and Social-Distancing
So our best Chinese local is supposed to be open today (closed since March) but nobody is answering the damn phones. I want my shrimp toast and pork buns!
Do they have an app, online ordering, or messenger pigeons?
Sadly, no. I even schlepped down there and nobody was in the building. Pizza pie, calamari, and baked clams it is then.
Cuomosexual
PSA: 3rd rock from the Sun is available free for Amazon Prime members.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0749SC3WL
Fun fact- NYC woman I dated was a dead ringer for Kristen Johnston. And 6′ tall in her bare feet.
I know it’s been mentioned here, but not sure if anyone knows it could go this far, but:
Musk finally say fuck Commiefornia
Let this please be true. I need more lulz right now.
You know what I think is sad?
How FEW people are pissed off by this. Good for him. Was never a fan, but he went up a notch in my estimation.
I like Musk. Sure, he’s an asshole, but he’s the asshole we need right now. Most people at that level of intellect, drive, and success are assholes. I’m a little disappointed with Thiel right now, who is much more of a libertarian than Musk, but he’s been silent for a while. These guys could do something about breaking the left’s monopoly of the media.
So we ventured to the local supermarket today. I don’t think there’s anything we wanted that we didn’t get. Wife is freaking out though, because some shelves were looking bare of things we haven’t seen be out of stock before. I didn’t feel any panic.
Things seem expensive, but we’re well stocked on basics and today was just sort of splurging. 10 llbs of hamburger, 5 lbs of New York Strip, another 10 lbs of beef for roasting, 10 lbs of chicken breast and thighs, 6 lbs of shrimp. Lost of other stuff we do not need. $360 and it filled one shopping cart about as full as you can possibly get it. I have to tell you, it seemed to me like the cost was about 2x what we spent at Walmart 2-3 weeks ago, but it was more splurge items and Walmart is way cheaper than that place, always.
Anyway, pops another Heineken, life is still livable, for now.
There is now some in concern about the meat supply chain I expect the panic is worse than the actual shortage
Dammit! Dead threaded again.
C’mon over! No Glib left behind!
today I learned
The Language Sounds That Could Exist, But Don’t
skip to 4:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uZam0ubq-Y
I say they should be called Winslow consonants, after the Police Academy sound effects guy.
From Drake’s link on the last thread.
“Sadly, 3,106 of our citizens have died due to Covid-19. The average age of those that have
passed away is 79 years old.
To date, of these 3,106 deaths, 2,108 of these persons lived in nursing homes, personal care
homes and assisted living residences. That means 67.9% those who have died lived in these
types of settings.”
PA life expectency: 78.5
https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/pennsylvania-life-expectancy
The garden full of poisonous plants with a skull on the gate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGo9gYypQc8
It also has marijuana, which is kept in a cage and used to teach children about the danger of drugs.
comment gold: “This one kills you, this one kills you, this one kills you, this one behind the cage…it makes you giggle and eat junk food, this one kills you…”
damnit! wrong thread