This helps.
I gots the Rona blues. Beautiful day though. Most of the garden is in for the season.
A discussion elsewhere regarding Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and sci-fi in general. Debate ensued.
“Anyway, Card argues that sci fi and fantasy stories can be focused on 1 of 4 things: milieu, idea, character, or exposition. SW films are milieu stories. If you judge them by ideas, character, or exposition you’re doing it wrong.”
Discuss.
Now the links!
Muhrica! “You government ‘tards had your chance, we’re bored.”
This whole Rona thing is going to have major repercussions in our society. I wonder if the Dems are finally going to pay the piper? It’s pretty clear who’s running the most totalitarian states right now.
It’s bad enough that we have hate birds, birds that hate, now we have Murder Hornets.
The fat kid returns. Whatever was wrong with him, it looks like they drew blood gases at some point.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it isn’t a duck billed platypus.
A little Traveling Wilburys for tonight.
After not having seen a human being for two weeks, I fled the state for a few hours.
It was just a trip to the store, but it still did wonders for the
psycho* psyche.*It was a typo, but a funny one.
Even psychos have to worry about their psyche.
Psychedelic means mind revealing in Greek.
The more you know…
I think psyche is actually soul in greek. Nous was mind.
I don’t think Derpetologist likes it when people correct him. 😉
[hard stare at Ted]
Psychology is the study of the mind, not the soul.
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In colloquial British English, nous also denotes “good sense”, which is close to one everyday meaning it had in Ancient Greece.
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From Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) + δῆλος (dêlos, “manifest, visible”) + -ic. Coined by English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond in 1956 in a letter to Aldous Huxley.
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*stage whispers*
The Mayans never thought Spanish cavalry were Centaurs.
*ducks*
Someone doesn’t know the difference between Mayans and Aztecs.
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The most common theory holds that the idea of centaurs came from the first reaction of a non-riding culture, as in the Minoan Aegean world, to nomads who were mounted on horses. The theory suggests that such riders would appear as half-man, half-animal. Bernal Díaz del Castillo reported that the Aztecs also had this misapprehension about Spanish cavalrymen.[16] The Lapith tribe of Thessaly, who were the kinsmen of the Centaurs in myth, were described as the inventors of horse-back riding by Greek writers. The Thessalian tribes also claimed their horse breeds were descended from the centaurs.
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Sorry, I mistyped. I wouldnt know, Im not familiar with Mediterranean Neolithic history, Im just relaying what contemporary sources said during the Conquest of Mexico.
I’m just contending that they didn’t think they were centaurs. Contemporary sources in particular just say they were riding deer, for example this bit:
“Auh in quinmama in inmazaoa, iuhquin tlapantli ic quaquauhtique”
Or translated to english:
” And those which bore them upon their backs, their deer, were as tall as roof terraces”
Trying to hunt down that quote..
See, now this is interesting. Thanks, TH!
My pleasure. And here’s a decent Reddit thread about the subject I found:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/268f4u/where_the_centaurs_really_based_on_the/
…Sometimes I reread my comments and absolutely cringe at my grammar.
…I bet I should probably do so again. Ha!
*hits bowl*
Bennington – Brattleboro – Keene and back?
I used to do that trip a lot back in my college days.
I used to do the VT-9 route a lot too, but got off in Brattleboro.
“…but got off in Brattleboro.”
I BET YOU DID! SAY NO MORE!
Marlboro coeds?
If those were towns along VT-9/NY-7 to Keene, then yes. I didn’t pay much attention.
When WA closed “nonessential” businesses, I sent my two shop guys home for the first two weeks. I kept going to the office because I have plenty of paperwork and engineering to do. After two weeks, I started having one guy come in each week. Next week I’m having both of them come in again. I have customers that have money and want to buy stuff. I’m going to make sales and ship product before the government trashes the economy more. I could probably say we are essential since technically we deal with transportation. Except all my customers are also shutdown by our esteemed leaders. Anyway, fuck Inslee.
I have also watched the businesses near mine. Across the street from me is a sign shop. The first two weeks they were closed completely but now they are working too. I feel bad for the local bars and restaurants. It is near impossible for them to reopen stealthily.
Shit, this was supposed to be a new post.
Some try (same story I linked earlier).
When I was out today, I noticed several places open that wouldn’t qualify as “essential” (oh, how I hate that turn of phrase). If there isn’t more civil disobedience in the next couple weeks, I’ll lost what little hope I have left.
You guys are too easy to abandon hope.
I expect quiet disobedience – ignoring the pols but not drawing attention.
The way I look at it, if they have opened their doors for business their products or services are probably essential to somebody = otherwise they would be wasting time for no probably income.
And at the very least, their own jobs are essential to themselves. Problem solved.
The cracks are forming in the dam, I expect it to crumble this week.
Hopefully, the tsunami will wipe out a couple politicians.
Only a couple?
My “wipeout” has a much darker connotation than you’re thinking.
Darker than this?
The warmer weather and people wanting to be outside is what’s going to break it wide open. That’s why the statists and the media have already started to plan the next battle and assault on our freedoms, for this fall, timed consequently for right before the 2020 elections.
You might be right about this. My wife – who’s been on team lockdown up to now and thinks the protesters are idiots – just asked me if I think it’s safe to take the kids to the community pool.
Most likely yes, unless we adopt measures that countries like Taiwan have perfected: masks, social distancing, and contact tracing of the infected. That’s enabled Taiwan to limit the spread of Coronavirus and save lives.
Without them, an attempt to reach herd immunity could result in many more deaths.
Meanwhile, the WHO refuses to acknowledge the existence of Taiwan. For real.
In fairness, just about everyone including the US and Taiwan itself, don’t officially recognize an independent Taiwan.
The fact that they’re an island helps, too.
Bullshit
The biggest factors that helped Taiwan were the fact that they are an island and their knowledge that WHO doesn’t recognize them so they would have yo go it alone anyway. So when they saw what was going on in Wuhan they implemented the SARS strategy they had put together when that virus was raging in China the last time. They were prepared and didn’t wait for WHO before they pulled the trigger.
Essentially, not being recognized by WHO was an asset.
Don’t tell me what to do.
But thinking a story is about only one broad brush is missing the point of telling stories.
It has more to do with which feature is dominant, and which play supporting roles. It’s not one of the four and none of the others.
And yet the quote is saying “Don’t think about or discuss the vital supporting elements without which there would be no story.”
Well, it certainly isn’t a character study.
I mean, Vader has an arc. He’s evil, then he tries to make his son evil. Then he saves his son from the evil guy and is redeemed. So not so much of an arc really. More of a sudden switch based on a traumatic event. I mean… his ghost is white and glowy…. so I guess he’s switched. But it seems like asking a bit much. I mean, is “not wanting your son to be lightning-murdered” really the same as “not evil”? I mean… even Hitler had a dog, after all…
The clouds finally cleared here. Tomorrow I plan on a bike ride, and then a “virtual party” for a friend celebrating May the Fourth, and Cinco de Mayo.
It was rough today, as today
isshould be Free Comic Book Day. It’s one day I take out my nephews, and we get to hang out and go to the comic store, and the candy store, and get some food. None of that could happen in these trying times.This is just too great not to share immediately.
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A 2010 Cognition research article showed disfluency could lead to improved retention and classroom performance. The article stated that disfluency can be produced merely by adopting fonts that are slightly more difficult to read. In the case studies cited in the article, Comic Sans fonts were used to introduce disfluency.[25][26]
Comic Sans is amongst fonts recommended for dyslexics, as it has fewer rotated and mirror-image glyphs (“d” vs. “p” vs. “q”) and is “sans serif.”[27][28] Lauren Hudgins of The Establishment argued that attacks on Comic Sans were a form of ableism.[
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In October 2012, a Dutch World War II memorial called Verzoening (“Reconciliation”) was revealed on which the names of Jewish, Allied and German military deaths alike were written alongside each other in Comic Sans. The names were eventually scraped off after complaints from Jewish organizations, but the rewritten message was once again in Comic Sans. According to the city government, this was done because the letters fit the shape of the stone and were easily visible from a distance. It was, however, criticized for making the memorial look “ugly” and “cheap.”
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I have no words.
Well, Comic Sans does suck.
<font=”Comic Sans”>I don’t see why people say that</font>
Perfect.
My local liquor store does not carry Dickel’s Rye. But I was able to finally fill out the fourth flight with one made in NY (St. Lawrence Spirits). Not in the mood to do a tasting tonight though.
“Mr. Looney went out on a recent day in Blaine, carrying clear jugs that had been made into makeshift traps; typical wasp and bee traps available for purchase have holes too small for the Asian giant hornet. He filled some with orange juice mixed with rice wine, others had kefir mixed with water, and a third batch was filled with some experimental lures — all with the hope of catching a queen emerging to look for a place to build a nest.”
I don’t think you need to use rice wine, because an insect can’t know that it’s asian.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8281101/Giant-murder-hornets-kill-50-people-year-Asia-invaded-US.html
fifty a year?
LOCK DOWN EVERYONE!
It’s more that it’s threat to bees.
That’s a much higher death rate than typical hornet stings. Therefore we must all shelter in place until a hornet vaccine can be approved by the FDA.
Don’t. Give. Them. Ideas.
This.
Giant hornets? Eh, just import some Chinese hornet eating needle snakes. Then important some snake eating gorillas. The gorillas will all die by winter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
? out 4 ?
BREAKING: CHINA IS ASSHOLE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8281085/Wuhan-virus-lab-cover-up.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8280921/Chinas-Bat-Woman-Shi-Zhengli-denies-trying-defect-confidential-files.html
The Atlantic hardest hit.
In OH, Dewine has sugar-coated and euphemized his “stay-at-home” order into “Stay-Safe-Ohio,” which will feature periodically tossing the citizens more scraps of “privileges” every so often, presumably as long as we’re not naughty. I think he made a strategic error thinking he could keep bars & restaurants – and entertainment venues in general – closed until May 29th. I predict large-scale noncompliance with, at the very least, the ban on gatherings of more than ten people when Memorial Day weekend comes around.
Things must be clearing up, Amazon’s shipping times have dropped from a month to a week. Soon it’ll be two days again and everything will be back to normal.
We can never go back to normal! You want people to die!
Well, yeah, but that has nothing to do with resuming normalcy.
I did a commando raid on not-my-usual grocery this morning to look for something my usual grocery doesn’t carry. Not too hateful – busy, but not packed. No one-way aisles. Fairly even split between masked and unmasked shoppers. (I grabbed my as-yet-unused one just in case, but had no intention of using it unless forced to do so.) The only “social distancing” marking was a “Please Wait Here” spot on the floor near the self-checkout. And most important – the store had what I was looking for. (Realized later I hadn’t thought to look for TP, but we can easily dip into our Strategic Reserves if necessary.)
My usual grocery store might lose that status given how much petty tyranny I got from the employees when I was last there (before the illegal mask order went into effect)
Hannaford, Price Chopper, or Shop-Rite?
The Hannaford here has been out of paper products for way too long, and have had too many meat shortages too. Price Chopper is way too expensive, and the one Shop-Rite is in an irritating place to get to.
My usual was price chopper. And I’m confused as to why it would be more expensive in your neck of the woods. Prices are comperable around here.
The one I went into seemed much more expensive than Hannaford the last time I was in it. Maybe they were trying to turn it into one of the upscale Market 32 things.
But it’s up in Saugerties and I don’t normally get up that way, so I’d rarely stop there anyway.
The fact that my local Hannaford and Price Chopper are directly across the street from each other might have something to do with bringing the prices together…
Commando raid… so if I remember correctly, that means you weren’t wearing pants?
Pants? Yes. Bra? Hell, no.
Must be this sudden preview of summer. It’s beautiful outside here today. Mid/uppers 70s, sunny, not even a breeze. Wife has been running around here all day in a sundress with no bra. I said ‘Woman, you can’t be just running around here with them titties out, it’s indecent!’. She made that little noise she makes that says ‘I’m totally ignoring you’.
She took over the grill and made some killer New York Strip and she made this thing she makes that is different types of little tomatoes, cherries and pears, bell peppers, and cilantro in some type of sauce that reminds me of balsamiq vinegar. I know it has vinegar in it, not sure what it’s called, but it’s sooo freaking good.
“‘Woman, you can’t be just running around here with them titties out”
You are dead to me Hyperion.
WTF is wrong with you? You remind me of Woogie in Something About Mary.
No underwear, not no pants.
Why not both?
Not any pants
But DeWine has very important groups writing guidelines to open other things. VERY. IMPORTANT. GROUPS.
Of course, up here in Cleveland, the Metroparks have cancelled everything through September and at least two of the suburbs have cancelled all of the summer events as well.
Stay-Safe-Ohio. By doing what? Nothing? Asshole.
Anybody else think the Traveling Wilburys songs sound like music written by a committee?
I think they pretty much all were.
If you can’t tell which Wilbury wrote which song you shouldn’t be allowed to express your opinions on music.
They all had input though.
Look, Fat. That’s what it says on the liner notes, but come on, if Bob didn’t write Tweeter and the Monkey Man I’ll stop starting my shit-postings with ‘Look, Fat.’
No, no. Don’t ever stop doing that. It needs to live forever.
Mini “dead pool” – Who will be the last Wilbury standing? Dylan or Lynne?
Dylan. He may prove to be immortal.
Mr. GT noticed this uncanny resemblance some years back.
Loved Vincent. One of my favorite actors as a kid.
I like the Traveling Wilburys. That’s a good song.
Californians weary of stay-at-home orders that have left millions unemployed staged displays of defiance Friday, with hundreds of flag-waving protesters gathering at the Capitol and along a famed Southern California beach, while a sparsely populated county on the Oregon border allowed diners back in restaurants and reopened other businesses.
While much of the state’s population remained behind closed doors to deter the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged the building anxiety while repeatedly teasing the possibility the state could begin relaxing some aspects of the restrictions next week.
Newsom, it sounds like you lost.
But as he approached the hive, he said, the rustling of the brush and the shine of his flashlight awakened the colony. Before he had a chance to douse the nest with carbon dioxide, he felt the first searing stabs in his leg — through the bee suit and underlying sweatpants.
“It was like having red-hot thumbtacks being driven into my flesh,” he said. He ended up getting stung at least seven times, some of the stings drawing blood.
Yikes.
A US medical professional told NK News that the mark might be a scar from recent cardiovascular procedure — possibly a right radial artery puncture, which is performed to get a blood sample for analysis.
Not a kinky sex act with his harem?
“Before he had a chance to douse the nest with carbon dioxide”
WTF? Gasoline is how you do it, noob.
Thinks back to an extremely unfortunate event in my childhood involving a yellow jacket (ground hornets for you non midwesterners ) nest.
Gasoline is risky, explosion + fire+ stinging insects = bad day.
“Gasoline is risky, explosion + fire” You millennials.
I’ve never had it fail. Destroyed dozens of hornets and wasps nest with it. Never stung one time. It kills them instantly. The lighting it on fire part is just for the lulz.
Sometimes they have a back door, and in my admittedly limited experience it not only doesn’t kill them instantly, some of them survive to sting the crap out of you when the firecrackers go off igniting the gas, which shoots flame out the back door catching a bush on fire. This results in additional pain when Dad discovers that you have set a bush on fire with firecackers you stole from him and gasoline your friend stole from his garage. Explanations about needing to destroy the hornet nest are ineffective in avoiding that pain.
Dad’s are weird that way.
Man, if a hornet tried to sting me I would just punch that bug in the face.
Sure you would. If you just saw a little coyote, you’d take off running like a girl!
Did it involve garbage cans?
/The Swarm
Raid Outdoor Wasp & Hornet Spray + a lighter. It shoots about 25′ and will stick to surfaces.
Quite possibly the greatest headline ever:
Robot ‘spy’ gorilla records wild Ugandan gorillas singing and farting
https://www.foxnews.com/science/robot-spy-gorilla-records-wild-ugandan-gorillas-singing-farting
RAWR! STEVE SMITH FART! STEVE SMITH SING! STEVE SMITH RAPE! STEVE SMITH RENAISSANCE APE!
The gorillas couldn’t tell it was a robot, or were they just playing along?
They don’t seem to be interested.
All they need is cell phones to be our equals.
Ok I’ll admit it, the gorillas farting in the video had me giggling like a seven year old.
Coronapalooza got me thinking about how lucky I am. I’m naturally solitary and OK with long stretches indoors. I feel bad for others not like that, particularly the ones out of work. I’d donate blood, but I was waiting until after my next fitness test which has been indefinitely postponed. Haven’t been outside Camp Swampy in a month. Haven’t been inside a gym in a month. Kinda sucks, but I can handle it. Thank god for this place. I’d go nuts without it.
Hopefully there will be a quiet, gradual revolt against the lockdown. If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.
I have had some fun exploring Camp Swampy. There was a POW camp here during WW2 for Germans and Italians. The ones that died have their own cemetery. The tombstones just give name, rank, and date of death. A lot of them are from close to the end of the war. Suicides maybe? There was a rash of suicides among the Axis towards the end.
Coronapalooza got me thinking about how lucky I am. I’m naturally solitary and OK with long stretches indoors. I feel bad for others not like that, particularly the ones out of work.
Same here with the exception of the ‘indoors’ part. Luckily nobody in my area seems to be trying to shelter inside. Everyone is out walking, running and biking or doing yard work. Even though the parks are closed, they aren’ enforcing it and you can still access the trails and parking lots.
Haven’t been inside a gym in a month. Kinda sucks, but I can handle it. Thank god for this place. I’d go nuts without it.
Same here but it’s gotten me inspired to make a semi-respectable functional fitness garage gym. I’ve got a pull-up bar made from galvanized pipe, a plywood ploy-box, a yoga mat and I was lucky enough to get two 45 lb dumbbells ordered early on before they were totally unavailable. I have a jump rope on the way. I miss my olympic lifts but I can do plenty with what I have.
Hopefully there will be a quiet, gradual revolt against the lockdown. If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.
That’s my hope also. I think it’s already starting in some sectors but like Plinker said upthread, the bar and restaurant owners are the one’s getting really screwed; they can’t open without drawing a lot of attention and a lot of the state and local ordinances are written in such a way that they cannot get around the commie-cough rules.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1256663159437393921
Looks like it got taken down.
5 foot 6, 300 pounds and smokes 4 packs a day. Say what you want about his politics, but that is badass.
When things can’t go on forever they don’t.
Smokers, heavy drinkers, obese, in that order. Any combination will speed up the process.
The fat kid got the hat trick.
True, but a 2,000 woman harem means his life is measured in dog years. That bastard is like 231 as a fat fuck smoker. Credit where credit is due.
“Opinion: No, the media isn’t fair. It gives Republicans a pass.”
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1256402030769442816
That’s some “opinion”.
“Let’s start with the big picture: Right-wing groups persistently engage in conduct for which Republicans are not held to account. The latter are allowed to remain silent after instances of conduct with a strong stench of white nationalism, but pay no penalty for their quietude. Right-wing demonstrators at Michigan’s statehouse this week — angrily shouting, not social distancing, misogynistic in their message, some carrying Confederate garb — were not engaged in peaceful protest. This was a mob endangering the health of police officers and others seeking to intimidate (small “d”) democratic government. Some protesters compared Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) to Adolf Hitler and displayed Nazi symbols.”
Now do antifa.
If Rubin didn’t exist, the left would have to invent her.
Some protesters compared Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) to Adolf Hitler and displayed Nazi symbols.”
Only Nazis would call Hitler a Nazi.
“Some protesters compared Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) to Adolf Hitler”
But what’s the problem?
I bet the display of Nazi symbols were anti-Nazi in form too.
If they were right-wingers they must have been comparing Whitmer favorably to Hitler, right? Because right wingers admire Hitler so much, right Jennifer?? Hello?
That’s the official Washington Post twitter feed? Not just some random reporter, huh?
Ho… Leee… Crap!
These people make parody impossible.
Spud, you have your garden all in? No more frost expected?
I put in some cool weather stuff, radishes/carrots/beets but we’re not out of frost danger yet. I’ve been tempering the tomatoes/peppers/eggplants, waiting for warmer weather. I bring them back in the house in the evening.
Got the bees and installed them in their new homes, they were happy little Italians. If the Killers show up there’ll be a little skirmish but the Mafia critters will win.
Last frost is usually May 10th and there’s no forecast for cold weather at this point. I will still put plastic cones over the tomatoes and peppers for a couple of weeks.
Since Spud hasn’t replied, I’ll chime in.
Some of my maters are blooming, the patio variety ones.
My peppers are finally starting to look like they’re going to come out of it and start growing. It was sort of chilly here almost all of April. I get the feeling that peppers do not like cool weather too much.
I’m getting ready to start a second round of peppers and tomatoes from seed. It typically does not frost here until the first week of November, but tomatoes do not do too well in October anyway. I’m going to overwinter some of the peppers, I’ve kept Jalapenos for up to 4 years and year 2 and 3 they just got very prolific.
lol, bad timing.
Yeah, there’s no way I can overwinter peppers unless I grow them in containers.
I grow everything in containers right now because I sold all my property and haven’t bought again, yet. But I’ve always grown a lot of stuff in containers. I just like doing it, I guess.
I have a lot of stuff inside in the little peat pots right now. Tomatoes and peppers are big enough to go in the garden but still looking at frost. On the warm days I take them outside for a few hours. I will have 18 hills of watermelon, figure each hill will have 3 or more melons I’ll have a few friends dropping by for coffee and admire the garden. We have about 2 quarts of cuke pickles left, we had close to 50 but they get ate up when the fresh aren’t available out of the garden.
Back from the “salon”. Used this as a jumping off point
https://youtu.be/cDPO9oXeyXg
Not nearly as good as that guy, but still married. So far.
Can’t tell if that’s a beautiful man or a handsome woman.
Xe is offended!
McAfee/Musk 2020.
Rocket men. Just that one of them doesn’t require an actual rocket to get out of low earth orbit.
Musk ain’t no native born.
South Africa, right?
Yep
I’m not saying for president. It’s their combined IQ.
Perhaps he should change his name to Ed Muskie.
How about this – Team Red picks a guy; Team Blue picks a guy. The each get to be president for 2 years. There, everybody gets a pony.
There will be a mad rush to see how far they can go with executive orders.
How about this – Team Red picks a guy; Team Blue picks a guy. They each get to be president for 2 years. There, everybody gets a pony.
FTFY.
Lol *Rolls Neph a nut*
This is what I get for trying to fix typos.
[cracks open another beer]
Was booze free for 3 days this week. The struggle is real.
I was researching some quotes and I get hit with a wall of the same ad. It was like the Brady Bunch tic tac toe but with cirrhotic livers instead of faces.
Didn’t touch a drop til I was 21. It really sneaks up on you.
I started making a list of all the beers I tried and stopped at 60 because it was taking too long. Then I was making a list of breweries and stopped around 50.
It’s a weird feeling walking through the beer aisle and trying to find the one you haven’t had before.
Someday I’ll put the plug in the jug. I really ought to.
I don’t drink bere, so trying to find one I haven’t had before shouldn’t be too difficult.
If I had more money, I’d try more wines, however.
RateBeer – 1,821 ratings
BeerAdvocate – 316 ratings
Untappd – 3,571 unique beers
That’s not counting the ones I tried before rating beers online…
I suddenly feel much better about my beer habit.
Glad I could help. Of course, going to a beer fest easily gets you a good 30-some unique samples.
When I go to a bar, I go for flights or 5 oz servings instead of pints. Gotta cut back somehow.
My first choice at a new brewery is usually a flight. That’ll give me a decent feel for what they can do well and what they can’t do that well. From there, I can select a pint based on that information.
Elaine? Wood. Might be real but they aren’t spectacular.
I figured Spud was grumpy because he was caught masturbating to Glamour magazine.
Not in 40+ years.
Don’t lie, it was the Sears catalog?
Ha! My first porn. I used to get in trouble when I sneaked a peak at the bra section at around six or seven. I didn’t know why at the time, but I found it fascinating.
Because it wasn’t that long since you’d been sucking on them.
Probably so.
Yeah, probably when I was 9 or 10, I stated noticing that the female underwear section was interesting for some reason. Shortly after that was when I started seeing girls as fascinating creatures instead of cooty carrying members of the enemy tribe.
Okay, personal story time. Why not, I’m a little tipsy.
At the age of ten my family and I went on vacation to Colorado to go up Pike Peak, see the Garden of the Gods, family in Pueblo, ect, ect. Not the point of the story.
Anyway, soon after we entered Colorado we stop at a Walmart for something I can’t remember, and since it was 1990 I was allowed to wander freely for about half an hour while my parents shopped and my older brother and sister did their thing(THE HORROR!!!).
As I wandered I came across the rack of posters the have in the back section. I started filing through them looking posters of cartoons or sports stars I liked when I flipped to a poster of four bikini bottomed models wearing tight wet shirts cut down enough to show underboob. I stood there kinda awestruck for a few minutes then suddenly got a hard-on. My first public boner, ladies and gents! I got extremely red faced, kinda did a cross legged, hunched over sprint to the checkout stand to look for my mother, luckily found her soon, told her I didn’t feel well and asked for the car keys to sit out in the car in case I got sick.
When the family got back to the car I was in the trunk section of the hatchback curled up. It took me two hours of pretending to be sick as we continued to drive to Colorado Springs before it tired out.
Ahhh, the good old days.
“Okay, personal story time. Why not, I’m a little tipsy. ”
My first public boner was in gym class. Those school issued gym shorts didn’t hide nothin’. It happened as I climbed the rope to the ceiling.
There’s you a metaphor…
he saw a pile of dead members of the colony in front of a hive and more carnage inside — thousands and thousands of bees with their heads torn from their bodies and no sign of a culprit.
“’I couldn’t wrap my head around what could have done that,” Mr. McFall said.
Only later did he come to suspect that the killer was what some researchers simply call the “murder hornet.”’
I wonder if some European bees will develop the defense some other bee species have against hornets that entails them swarming and completely covering the hornet then vibrating their bodies until they overheat the hornet to death…
Where’s that video…here!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K6m40W1s0Wc
Another gift from China (or maybe Japan).
Japan, I believe.
So kind of like Chelsea Clinton was fed as a child except instead of honey bees it was decapitated receptionists that Bill got caught banging.
And instead of flying, there was ponderous slithering.
https://twitter.com/RMata0312/status/1256569550134546432
WTF??
The show must go on.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1256696015702425601
But I’m sure the posters there have no problem at all with the left media here in the USA praising another murderous dictator, Xi Jinping, who is also responsible for this pandemic clusterfuck?
I agree with the unicorn.
“For the sake of the thousands (at a minimum) that could’ve died instead, I’m glad he’s not dead.”
But Trump is incapable of not trolling.
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1256308242944126977
Assholes.
CEO Mojo Jojo says, “Nah, bruh.”
How does Dice keep from getting banned from the Twatter? I don’t get it. Does he have some real dirt on Dorsey?
Misinformation about public health is deadly.
2A is killing people.
Once we burn down Congress, we march on California.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday….The killer bees vs the murder hornets. Coming to a state near you!!
[opera applause]
Winner takes on the Warrior Wasp.
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Warrior wasp refers to several types of wasps, known for ferocious appearance and aggressive behavior:
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Synoeca is a genus of eusocial paper wasps found in the tropical forests of the Americas. Commonly known as warrior wasps or drumming wasps, these insects are known for aggressive behavior, a threat display consisting of multiple insects guarding a nest beating their wings[2] in a synchronized fashion, and an extremely painful sting. The sting is barbed and if used often kills the wasp[3], which may be the reason why such a striking defensive display is used. This display escalates from drumming inside the nest to hundreds of wasps moving on to the envelope of the nest and of continuing to drum and only if this does not deter the threat do the wasps begin to sting.[2] Entomologist Justin Schmidt has put the sting of Synoeca wasps high up in the rankings on his Schmidt sting pain index and has described it as “torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano.”
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[power chord]
Hey, Neph. Are we Zooming tonight?
I don’t have one scheduled, but can set one up if people are interested.
I’d probably be handing off control early though.
“I’d probably be handing off control early though.”
Look at Washington over here.
Nah. Today’s been rough for me, and I do want to get in the saddle tomorrow morning and get a decent ride in. I may have to deliver some home roasted coffee while riding.
Of course we’re interested
Alright all y’all.
Meeting has been set up.
Whoops. I didn’t realize my headset was muted before I left. Oops.
Thanks for setting it up. It was good. I’m out for the night.
https://www.aier.org/article/woodstock-occurred-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/
Whelp, I’m exhausted. A 2 hour brake job turned into 6 hours and 3 trips to the store because I ordered the wrong front pads (great job filtering for my car , autozone ?), forgot the rear calipers were the weird twisty kind (and the first twisty caliper tool I bought sucked), and I discovered rotor damage on the rear wheels. For the first time doing a brake job on my car (which is weird because ive done a ton of other repairs and maintenance) , I can’t complain too much.
I spent $350 on mid-range pads, a pair of rotors, and the necessary tools. I don’t know what a shop would charge, but I’m guessing $600 or so? Anyway, next brake job is gonna be the cost of the pads and rotors, because now I own everything I need to do it. Maintaining one’s own car is a great way to save boku dollars.
Never got into car repair, aside from simple stuff like changing wiper blades and bulbs. When I was 11 or so, I helped my dad reassemble the engine of our Dodge Caravan. We called it the SandCrawler ’cause it was the same color as the Jawas’ ride. The first time I saw Star Wars, it was on a VHS that was made from a TV broadcast. There was Caravan commercial right after the scene where the SandCrawler shows up.
Anyway, many hours scraping off old gaskets from parts soaked in kerosene. When we had the engine on the stand, it cool to see the pistons move by turning the crankshaft by hand.
IIRC, the most vehicle repairing I ever did was changing the clutch cable on my Kaw 650.
My first car was a Beetle. Second car, another Beetle. Third car, a Rabbit. Fourth Car, a Fastback. You learn how to do your own repairs real quick when you own these things. Deep engine work was a no go, but everything else could be figured out just by looking at it for a while.
Good job!
You probably saved money. $80/hr for labor is pretty standard.
Ugh, that reminds me I did my brakes a few months ago and never finished (broke the bleeder valve). I guess I have time now to slap new calipers on.
You shouldn’t have to change the rotors again for several brake jobs.
Hopefully not. The rotor replacement was because I put off this brake job too long, waiting for a decent weather day to do it in the carport. Consequently, there was a wheel with a fully depleted, disintegrating pad and a grooved, warped rotor.
Cool!
After my bad experience with my lemon of a Subaru Forester, I bought a prepaid maintenance package for my new truck. The piece of mind is wonderful, but I’ve always felt a little guilty about it. I do truly enjoy working on cars.
“I worry that the past two months of quarantine have given people the idea that the way for humans to win our million-year war with microbes is to avoid them completely, and I’m here to tell you: you can’t.”
https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1256425181960003585
Technically, it’s not a quarantine, but he’s right about this.
Ugh. The replies are horrid. “Shut up Bill or we’re all going to die!”
There is nothing worse than death.
They honestly believe that.
At a place I worked, we had a light board we could program with phrases that would be displayed. I decided to have it put up “It’s better to die on your feet then live on your knees”. HR got a complaint about the morbid phrase, and I had to change it.
Everyone believes that, otherwise slavery, torture, imprisonment, listening to the beach boys, etc would never happen.
Sharing my dislike of certain bands is how I make friends, too.
Cool, we can be besties!!! OMG OMG!!!
Do we exchange Facebook logins now? I really don’t know how this works.
Let’s start slowly
Get a room.
For some reason I don’t think straff is picking up your good vibrations.
Sure, but wouldn’t it be nice if he did?
Sure. But then his daddy would take his t-bird away.
I’m sorry, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt that perhaps you have not listened to enough Beach Boys to know better. I’d suggest listening to Pet Sounds all the way through before you blaspheme again.
Yeah, done that, been there. “listen to Pet sounds…blah blah blah.” one good song. the rest is a meh at best.
https://twitter.com/jordylancaster/status/1256668002055061506
Caren White, ladies and gentlemen.
She’s not your superwoman.
You fucken Americans better make China pay you fucken cocksuckers.
In brighter news, looks like Caren’s article from today was taken down. She musta got a lotta death threats or something.
Newsom doesn’t seem to be getting it.
Today major parks in Montreal were full. Even today people were stalling around as if nothing. No social distancing. The only places where the idiocy continues are in stores. Apparently some are asking people wear masks. Costco those retards started this. Do people really need Costco to the point they’re willing to be sheep? I can’t see this lasting long.
It’s almost as if people really seem to be concluding it’s all political now and, well, are just engaging in civil disobedience. I was proud today.
My buddy, on the other hand, maintains a ‘new normal’ posture. His pharma company sees little changing in the near future and are investing in working from home strategies for the sale team. Out of pure ignorance, I don’t see that lasting either. Sales is all face to face. I know doctors are big fat scaredy cat babies about corona but it’s likely to peter out under its own weight.
What you think?
My neighbors across the road are having a party. About 15 trucks in their driveway and kids running everywhere. Appears they are not keeping to the ten person gathering rule.
Our local dog park just reopened. I think the owners are happier than the dogs (and the dogs are very happy)
When did “Dog Parks” become a thing? I don’t remember them when I was in the states.
They’re all the rage now. Even here.
Early 2000’s is when I recall them becoming a “thing”.
When parks departments started cracking down on dogs and more people started living in apartments and houses without yards.
Makes sense.
I don’t really enjoy the one near me. It’s filled with a combination of weirdo’s, white trash and prissy dog owners that expect dogs to not be, well…..dogs. I decided I was done when a girl in her twenties told a hispanic couple she would call animal control if their dog ‘attacked’ hers again.
People don’t get that it’s natural for dogs to figure out a hierarchy.
Plus mine is a dick who insists on being at the top, (even though she rarely fights) so theres that.
Dogs in a permanent situation need to figure out a hierarchy and you need to let them. Dogs playing at the park should be under the owners voice control. Roughhousing is fine, but I have seen too many people sitting there oblivious while their rottie or pit gets serious. And yes I know “pit isn’t a specific breed” and “they are super gentle and wonderful dogs” and “there are no vicious breeds, just bad owners” and all the rest of the goto lines these days. I don’t buy it. Different breeds have different temperments. It is one of the aspects of breeding. Herding dogs herd, pointers point, and dogs bred to guard need owners that understand training and exercise control in public..
Mine, being a herding dog, feels the need to herd other dogs. It’s one of those things I can’t rein in (unless I put her on a leash and negate the whole point of the dog park), it’s how she plays and interacts with other dogs. 95% of other dogs put up with it, 5% get pissed (I don’t really blame them). The only part that sucks is the people who can’t just accept that dogs aren’t automatons and as long as they aren’t hurting each other, will sort things out and generally be peaceful.
Like COVID, it’s the dog park Karens that ruin the experience.
I’ve only ever seen a few instances of people bringing in truly ‘mean’ dogs. And yeah, those people are almost always inbred looking morons.
Jarflax is spot on. Pay attention. Just because my dog is bigger doesn’t mean your dog hanging off his neck is cute.
Sorry I’ve offended everyone with our virtual dog park. Guess I’ll go home.
Your dog herding other dogs and getting snapped at when it goes too far is what I mean by roughhousing. Blood, a dog getting dragged down or rolled onto its back, the transition from a the warning growl to the serious growl are what I am talking about. Dog owners that can’t tell the difference, or who don’t care are assholes. Dog owners who let dogs play are fine.
Of course, and people who bring dogs who take it that far are assholes. I appreciate when people bring muzzled dogs to the dog park, if they have demonstrated they are willing to take things that far you owe every other dog at the park at least that much insurance.
Sorry Spud, I read that as a reply to me. Upon second look I see that you were replying in general and not specifically to me. I took offense where it wasn’t warranted.
Even though I’m a heartless anarchist, I love the public dog park. It allows my wife’s Golden Retriever to socialize with other dogs and expend some energy. Charlie’s (the aforementioned Golden) favorite dog is a one-eyed Husky named Kyber. They can wrestle for literally hours.Charlie often comes home with scabs on her neck, but she loves it.
Charlie is known for running up to people and sitting on their feet until the people pet her.
Sadly the dog park is closed because of the spring thaw. It is just a mess right now.
Dog people are good people*
*even though I am a cat person.
Very late response but I wanted to share it again. As a Glib said in response many months ago, the video is very cathartic, and I’m not really a dog person:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g2wsNw07wRY
There used to be a longer version of this video I can’t find that showed the dogs running from the feild towards the pool. The look on their faces was pure bliss.
Dog parks are life-saving.
We’ve been going to the only local-ish one that’s been open through the whole corona mess, but with another opening today it was nice to get a change of scenery. Gorgeous day too.
Silicone Saturday is all about estrogenic adipose allocation.
http://archive.is/86gwR
On one hand, a lot of oversized posteriors.
On the other hand, only one ugly tat.
Y’all keep bringing up sundresses today.
Yum.
“You wear those dresses
Sun comes shinin’ through
Can’t believe my eyes
All this belongs to you.’
https://youtu.be/Y9wTQsAgktg
Well, it’s a day late but…
/Lyrics NSFW
I knew I should have bought bacon today but I looked right at it and said, naaa, not today. Idiot.
recently I learned
The T Rex skeleton Sue was named after the gal who discovered it. She had quite a life. No college degree either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Hendrickson
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In 1963, Hendrickson had a large circle of friends in the diving business, and one day was invited to participate in a salvage diving expedition off the Florida Keys, which she eagerly undertook. Her job was to retrieve valuable building materials that were stored in a cargo freighter which ran aground on a coral reef.[6] While continuing her work in salvage, Hendrickson soon found herself exploring old shipwrecks, later visiting the Dominican Republic. She was fascinated by working in the company of archeologists and fell in love with the country, visiting the island often.[7]
By the mid-1980s, Hendrickson had also tried her hand at amber mining in the Dominican mountains. She had become one of the largest amber providers for scientists. Hendrickson also found three perfect 23-million-year-old butterflies, which make up half of the whole world’s total collection. Although she found the work too monotonous to pursue full-time, writing that “You could dig for months and find nothing in the Dominican caves,”[8] she continued studying paleoentomology, becoming an expert at identifying fossilized insects.
She also met Swiss paleontologist Kirby Siber, who allowed her to join his team consisting of paleontologists Carlos Martin and Peter Larson.[9] The group began excavating Miocene baleen whale fossils at an ancient seabed in Peru, and Hendrickson joined the team for several summers, discovering fossilized dolphins, seals, and sharks.[9] She later accompanied Larson to the Black Hills Institute in South Dakota. By this time, paleontology had become her main passion.[10] On August 12, 1990, while examining a cliff-side in South Dakota with a team from the Black Hills Institute, she discovered an important Tyrannosaurus rex specimen – the largest, most complete, and best preserved T. rex ever found. The find would later be named “Sue” in her honor.
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https://ca.yahoo.com/news/canadians-dont-qualify-cerb-getting-210000150.html
People aren’t stupid. Like the comments.
Ooops.
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/japanese-island-suffering-avoidable-second-100937097.html
I just don’t know what these people think the end game is.
STAY INSIDE PROLE OR YOU WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH
Cheeto Jesus may be all over the place, completely unreliable and unprincipled, but I’ll give him credit for letting governors make their own decisions about the lockdowns. I realize he did it to cover his own ass, but right thing for the wrong reason and all that. It may have woken some part of the population up to Federalism.
I’m afraid that if anything, a healthy percentage of the population’s takeaway will be that we need more centralized control in the executive branch during arbitrary times of crises to stop the states that refuse to comply with the federally suggested guidelines. However, I think that perception will change considerably if this drags out into Memorial Day weekend. By then not only will the economic impact be so severe that it will no longer be able to be ignored by the media, but I believe that what remains of the remnant of classical liberalism left in North America will emerge and collectively revolt for freedom.
I hate collectivism as a general rule of thumb but, goddamn, a groundswell of the revolutionary spirit would sure warm my heart right about now.
“White house press secretary pledges to `Never lie` in first press briefing” /Fox News today
Sweet. We’re gonna finally find out who killed JFK and JR.
Hillary?
Next week she’ll be screening the real footage from the Alien Autopsy.
Bubba Hotep killed JFK.
JR was shot by LBJ
Pfft. You believe in JFK? Never existed, man.
[bong gurgles]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7y2xPucnAo
Fake moon landing? Try fake moon. Why do you think it slowly falls apart every month?
Read between the lines. There’s some groovy stuff out there.
It’s not falling apart, the lamp inside is rotating. It’s a lighthouse to warn the aliens this place is awful
relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42mn6N7pPA0
oh how I laughed
And UFOs, the truth is out there.
I posted a link last night where CNN claimed she already lied in regard to Flynn:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/politics/kayleigh-mcenany-first-press-briefing/index.html
It’s top-notch bullshit journalism.
I just assume everything published by CNN is a lie. It’s a pretty safe bet.
[Waits for CNN to post an article reading “This article is a lie”]
I hate to say it, but she set herself up for immediate failure when she said that. How anybody with that job can be naive enough to say such a thing when the media will not only lie about her suppoused lies but also rightfully call her out when she muddles the truth? Of course she’s going to lie, that’s her fucking job!
I’m pretty sure I saw her a handful of times on Red Eye and if I remember correctly she’s a lot like Kristin Tate: Fun to look at but as deep as a thimble.
This will go badly for her.
Shocking moment man, 25, pushes Texas Ranger into a LAKE after he told a group of people illegally drinking and smoking at park to social distance
Legend.
I look forward to the day when “social distancing” fanatics become the 21st century equivalent of flagellants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hre4Oaqu1D8
Walker would never fall for that.
(Texas Ranger or park security guard? Don’t have to click through to know that’s the Daily Fail thank to the random WORD capitalization)
Chuck Norris is 80 now.
I, uh… damn.
When Chuck Norris jumps into a pool he doesn’t get wet, the water gets all Chuck Norris.
He’s a Texas Parks & Wildlife (TPW) ranger, most likely. Could work for city or county, but, considering it’s Austin…
But, yeah–NO, not a Texas Ranger, you limey fuckwads.
Truly, he is one of us.
A hero of the people!
Okay, that warmed my heart this evening.
Thanks, CJ.
I fail to see how “asshat” or “assclown” is an improvement over “asshole”.
I prefer assnugget.
Explain.
STFU, Assbag.
https://youtu.be/tyVZFm7P0CQ
Asshole would be giving the guy too much credit.
As opposed to HM, who’s an ass man.
I like titties too.
So, Ass N Titties?
(I’m going to guess that was an HM link to begin with)
Do you have a clown, or, hat, attached to your ass? Plus, a hole is usually seen as a negative vis-a-vis a person.
January Jones sends a cheeky message as she flashes her cleavage in TINY blue bikini: ‘Don’t forget your flotation devices’
This one’s for you, Q.
Yaaaaaaas…
Hiiiiiiiii.
How long have I been gone? I dunno. I’ve been away because everything in the world is making me angry. And I don’t like feeling angry all the time.
At least Florida’s governor has something of a brain when it comes to these restrictions.
Glad to see you back JB.
I had this talk with Mrs. Suthenboy yesterday…dont let ’em make you mad. The shit that is going on has always gone on. It’s always been bad. Relax, the world is going to keep on spinning.
It’s tough. The Karens today are terrible enemies. Used to be you could kind of respect slavers for their brutality. Moral panics are the worst.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
And I don’t like feeling angry all the time.
I’ve gotten used to it.
Truckers protest against low freight rates outside the White House while heavily armed men surround the New Hampshire and Oregon capitols as anti-lockdown demonstrations continue
“Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin’ logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin’ hogs
We is headin’ for bear on I-one-oh
‘Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, “Pig Pen, this here’s the Rubber Duck
“And I’m about to put the hammer down”
The pictures of the heavily armed army laying siege to the Capitol Building in NH seems to be the same 5 guys…
“Heavily Armed?”
I don’t see a single crew-served weapon. That’s not even light infantry.
The Daily Fail took better pictures than me.
I didn’t notice the guy carrying the Tavor. I would have had a chat with him. I have a Tavor. They’re nice guns.
Re: Wasps. I hate wasps. Well, not all wasps. There are quite a few species that are either harmless or even beneficial. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutillidae)
The ones I hate are the overly aggressive species. I know…they are really defensive, not aggressive and that comes from having everything in the world wanting to eat their babies. Ever fish with wasp larvae? It is impossible not to catch fish with that for bait. Never the less, these species harm bees and that’s a bridge to far for me. Fuck ’em. I kill them every chance I get.
That’s just what we need, another species of aggressive, stinging fuckhead bugs that menace bees.
Fun fact: vespa is wasp in Latin and Italian. It’s possibly related to the words web and weave.
Kifii (kee FEE) means wasp in Swahili. Those things put me on edge.
Man, if a wasp gets near me I just punch it hard right in the face.
Ukijaribu kupiga ngumi kwa kifii, atakung’aata kwa uso.
If you try to punch a wasp, it will sting you in the face.
That isn’t a Swahili proverb, but sure sounds like one.
Here’s a real one:
Nyuki akija nyumbani kwako, mpe bia. Siku moja, labda wewe utakuwa kwa nyumbani nyuki.
If the bee comes to your house, give him a beer. Someday you might be at the bee’s house.
Let owah powahs kom-bine!
What sort of beer do Kenyans drink?
Never been to Kenya, but they’re probably similar to Tanzanians. Serengeti is the most popular beer there, if I recall correctly.
Fun fact: Serengeti means empty place in Masai. In Masai, ole sere means goodbye. The literal meaning is stay empty. It’s what they said to the land when they left one pasture for another.
Stay empty, my friends.
Anyway, there’s this stuff called konyagi (cognac) which is marketed as gin. Most people buy it in little 50 ml servings that look like soy sauce packets. Then they mix it with soda.
Most tribes have their own brew. The general word for booze in pombe. Where I was, the local brew was this stuff called mbege and it was made with bananas and millet. Had quite a kick.
As in “stay vacant till we have to come round here again”? Jesus, that’s bleak.
If your life depends on cattle, you don’t want anything else eating the grass. In olden times, the Masai believed god appointed them to be in charge of all cows. Other cow-owning tribes came to hate them. Hence the Masai reputation as fierce warriors.
There’s a great book called Is It Possible? It’s the autobiography of a young Masai who is sent to school. The title comes from his father’s doubt that a Masai can hold a spear, shield, and book at the same time.
A friend of mine went to a Masai BBQ. They make a big fire and surround it with sides of beef. When one side is done, they just flip ’em to cook the other.
Fun fact: Masai make gaps in their front teeth on purpose. It makes is possible to give water and medicine to an unconscious person.
Shit, I just realized I turned into an Onion article.
There’s More To Life Than Just Traveling The World And Marveling At Its Varied Peoples And Cultures
https://www.theonion.com/theres-more-to-life-than-just-traveling-the-world-and-m-1819583838
Mine crowded real bad. What’s their secret?
Shove a stick in there to force the teeth apart. A lot of tribal guys lose a tooth or 2 from fights and initiation rituals anyway. Makes it easier to rearrange things.
Mswaki means toothbrush in Swahili. It comes from an Arabic word for the tooth chewing stick that Arabs traditionally used to clean their pearly whites.
Oh yeah – late male circumcision is a thing over there. Boys get the talk about all the important things in life and then get snipped. The pain makes them remember. People that don’t have written language have to make lessons stick somehow. Pain is the best teacher.
Aristophanes wrote the play “Vespa” (the Wasps) and it still is performed. I took my kids to the Greek theater in Syracuse, Sicily to watch a performance in the 1990’s. They were fascinated by the play, but didn’t really care that people were watching the same play in the same place in the 420’s bce.
Wife was always nonchalant about wasps. I would warn “Look out! There is a wasp!” and she would basically ignore me.
Until she got stung by one of these fuckers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polistes_carolina
She doubled over in pain, breath sucked out….”Oh my God how do I make it stop?!”
Turns out she had never been stung before in her life, somehow.
“Now I see why you were always warning me! From now on when you warn me I am going to run!”
Friend of the folks died at 97 this week. Impressive life and was working up until just about the day she died except that her driving passion was single payer healthcare and bigger government.
I cant understand people that spent the majority of their lives watching the USSR and support the exact policies of that evil system. I cant help but think they are morons.
And she was this close.
Sorry. Somber day. God rest her soul. I’m sure she enjoyed tremendous end-of-life care courtesy of a system that isn’t rationed by bureaucracy.
Eric Hobsbawm, awful pinko, lived to 95.
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In a 1994 interview on BBC television with Canadian academic Michael Ignatieff, he shocked viewers when he said that the deaths of millions of Soviet citizens under Stalin would have been worth it if a genuinely communist society had been the result.[3][43][44] Hobsbawm argued that, “In a period in which, as you might imagine, mass murder and mass suffering are absolutely universal, the chance of a new world being born in great suffering would still have been worth backing” but, unfortunately, “the Soviet Union was not the beginning of the World Revolution”.
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Christ, what an asshole.
Easy to like omelettes when you aren’t the egg.
Except I can imagine being eggs in an omelette that’s worth having. I can imagine being some poor SOB in WW2 feeling like it’s worth it if it means Germany doesn’t rampage across the continent. But what do the communists offer? We’ll kneel on your spleen until you give up the goods, but someday in the future you’ll give up the goods without our needing to kneel on your spleen?
Fuck that guy especially for having parboiled eyeballs as well as mushy brains.
A slightly funnier treatment of your sentiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZz2HF5KtrY
Just got back from a lovely afternoon visiting with friends who think the lockdowns are bullshit and social distancing is something for the immunocompromised. So refreshing to spend time with people who feel like I do again, I think I can make it through another week of the proggies I work with without losing it. Maybe.
Just keep talking and barely noticeably creeping up on them an inch at a time until you are a foot away. They will start avoiding you.
Peace. Peace at last.
We all already worked from home so I couldn’t invade their space in the first place. It’s why it’s been so hard to sell them on how damaging this has been; their jobs are safe, so fuck everyone else. Hanging out with the non-Karen normies reminded me there’s still hope.
So far the funniest scene in Batman (1966 TV series) – Robin fighting a midget.
These Reuters photos of a strip club in Oregon operating as a drive through takeaway service confirm that we have reached the neon anime sci fi part of our future dystopia.
Apologies if drugs fall out of any of these girls’ asses.
Joseph∞
@saputawsit
Replying to
@JERICHO and @sdbcraig
If Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t feature drive-thru neon gas mask strip clubs I won’t feel like I’ve gotten my money’s worth out of it.
Brilliant.
A review of The Emoji Movie
“Anti-Free-Speechers Still Aren’t Taking Their Own Arguments Seriously”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/anti-free-speechers-arent-taking-own-arguments-seriously.html
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1256698911739252742
Gov Kuntface extends her enabling act until July.
https://www.oregon.gov/gov/Documents/executive_orders/eo_20-24.pdf
How is that even possible – does the Oregon constitution give Governor’s unlimited power? Confirmation that selling the Portland condo was the correct choice.
The statutes around an emergency declaration apparently do. The legislature can override the governor, but I doubt there’s any way that would happen.
Just think how much the governors must be enjoying this. They are finally getting to fulfill their dreams of absolute power as they save their subjects from the plague.
And legalized fraud
https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2020/05/portland-public-schools-plans-to-furlough-teachers-principals-other-staffers-1-day-a-week-but-theyd-make-more-money-not-less.html
“There will be no stimulus to economy if the industrious and thrifty are constantly compelled to hand over the fruits of their industry and thrift to the lazy and extravagant.”
Ludwig Von Mises
Whoa, I just woke up, and have no idea what happened, my head doesn’t hurt, so I didn’t eat shit…
I went to bed sober, had a full nine (!!) hours of sleep, and woke up groggy, confused, head aching, and angry. So much for sobriety.
I had a terrible hangover this morning. I think I’m stopping the drinking thing for a while again now.
Hangovers only happen if you stop drinking -Nawlins saying
Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Yeah, I know, it went away after noon when I started drinking again. Unfortunately, that’s not sustainable long term.
‘Laissez les bon temps rouler!’
Really missing Bill Grigsby right now…
I had a terrific stress dream in which I was trying to get home from a community college campus I’ve never attended in a van I borrowed from my most disaffected brother, which he’s never owned, to a house I’ve never lived in, during the onslaught of a snowstorm, and despite all my efforts, I couldn’t get underway… I couldn’t find my things, I was trying to stock up, I lost my wallet. Eventually I woke up.
Needless to say, I’m drinking tonight. The welcoming inky void of blackout drunk.
I had this fucked up dream for months, maybe years, where… Some context first… This was just a few years ago and of course I’d already finished high school and college years ago. But in this dream, It would be the first day of college classes and I couldn’t find the classroom I was supposed to go to. Everyone else seemed to be busy going to their classes, but for some reason, I couldn’t figure out where I was supposed to go and I’d just run out of the building in a panic.
I would wake up super stressed out from that dream and it went on for a long time.
There are…fireworks…going on in my neighborhood.
W.T.F.?!
Don’t be a narc, Moj.
Are they really fireworks?
Late May Day celebrations?
Sure, Karen, that was just your neighbors popping some popcorn. Now get away from their kitchen window and go back inside and observe social distancing!
Is Lou boogying?
Around 11am this morning, I think that’s what time it was, I heard an approaching very low roar and the windows were actually shaking. I wish I would have thought to grab my camera or at least my cell phone. I went outside on the deck and watched 2 V shaped formations of 6 fighter jets each go over the house. They were super freaking low. My wife ran out there and said ‘what was that!?’.
I’m not sure if there was an air show somewhere today or it was just a military exercise, but that was fucking awesome. Goddamnit, I never have my cell phone in my hand at times like that!
Blue Angels and Thunderbirds did flybys for frontline workers this weekend.
That must have been what is was. It was almost directly overhead of my house. I’ve never seen fighter jets in formation that close to the ground before.
Fighter are OK but it’s time to worry when the bombers start doing flybys. Those would be practice runs for when the government starts nuking infected cities.
[laughs in Navy]
Delivery Of Atomic Weapons By Light Carrier Aircraft (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqjJg08HPfc
AF fighters are nuke capable too.
Makes sense. You were a zoomy I take it? You mentioned working with things that go boom.
I knew a guy who was a USAF weapons loader. His favorite thing to do was to go into airports, and when people asked what his job was, he’d say real loud “I PUT BOMBS ON PLANES!”
Can’t find the meme, but it was a forklift that had been driven off a loading dock and big ass dented up nuke on the ground. The caption was “you make one little mistake, and everyone goes crazy…”
I started as an AF Munitions Maintenance Officer with extra schooling for nukes. I was a SAC weenie working with B52s. Started in the Weapons Storage Area and then moved to the flightline. I worked with nuclear and conventional weapons maintenance technicians and later I was OIC of the loading branch. I loved working with the ammo troops. Gun nuts to the last, I fit right in. We also had EOD in our squadron.
Cool stuff, Plink.
Me? Army sergeant, Arabic linguist. 4.5 years in.
I’d like to stay in for 20 and get the pension. Sometimes I think I’d be happier hanging up my uniform and going to work for the alphabet soup. Or taking whatever job I can get in Wyoming.
And then I can use my free time to dig up dino bones, like young me wanted to do.
The AF was good for me. Being a shy guy that grew up in the country the experience of being a LT and then Capt. really helped. I loved being out in the bomb dump and then on the flightline. However, I could see the writing on the wall and a desk bound management job didn’t interest me. Besides, I had an engineering degree and wanted to build things so I separated after 5 years. (It’s the Air Force, not the Aircraft Maintenance Force is what we used to say)
Now I design and build parts for tramways (skilifts, etc). I still miss the jet engine sounds and smell of their exhaust. A lot of memories come back to me when I get on and off the regional planes which load with air stairs.
If I see the Enola Gay flying over at 40,000 ft, I’ll duck under my desk.
A Japanese flak crew tracked the bomber as it flew. They were about 100 yards away from the bomb when it exploded. The light was so intense that it melted their eyes, which oozed down their faces. They stumbled around screaming for a few hours before they died.
Nuclear weapons do not kill instantly and painlessly. After 2 weeks, 99% of the radiation was gone. The stuff that stay hot for a long time? It’s only dangerous if you eat it or breathe it in. Alpha and beta radiation can be stopped with thick paper and leather respectively.
Take it away Galen Windsor, you lovable nut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejCQrOTE-XA
He helped build nukes in the 1950s. He eats uranium on camera to prove the dangers of nuclear waste are exaggerated.
Why, the average person could withstand 200 chest x-rays a year, and they ought to have them too!
They come in low now and drop them by parachute.
They have it in that museum in NOVA, I can’t remember what the name of it is now, I’ve been drinking all day, but they have a lot of cool stuff in there.
My wife and I were standing on the walk over path where you can almost reach out and touch it, last January when we were down there, and I said ‘That’s the Enola Gay’, and she says ‘what?’, and I told her, that’s the plane they dropped the bomb on Hiroshima from.
Udvar-Hazy aviation museum? Been there. I liked the USAF museum in Dayton better.
Yes, that’s it. If you’ve never been there, you should go, they have a lot of damn awesome stuff there.
Well, never mind, you just said you’ve been there. Like I said, I’ve been drinking for about 12 hours now…
There, there Hype. I’m drunk as skunk right now too.
Stupid pandemic.
I’m a little bit sad that my daughter isnt going to get to visit Udvar-Hazy one last time before we move away. She loves that place, and it has inspired an interest in aviation and space that continues to this day. Just this week, we were landing on the “moon” in the kitchen, wearing pretend astronaut suits and shooting “aliens” (the cat in the kitchen window).
There’s a Grumman wildcat (I believe) front and center on the loft in front of the SR-71 that she calls the “angry airplane” because it has shark teeth painted on it. Every time we go, she has to say hi to it.
Fuck the branch covidians. There’s no part of life that can’t be fucked up by them.
“There’s a Grumman wildcat (I believe) front and center on the loft in front of the SR-71 that she calls the “angry airplane” because it has shark teeth painted on it. ”
Yeah, I remember that!
Up close the SR-71s look kind of beat up. Flying that fast wears the leading edges. They also leaked fuel when on the ground.
Upon further review, angry airplane is a Curtiss kittyhawk
I had a Flying Tigers P-40 model complete with a shark’s teeth paintjob when I was a kid. The big green machine always like painting angry faces on tanks and planes.
1951 was the year of the tiger, so some Army psyops genius decided all the tanks in Korea should be painted to look like tigers, which made them much easier to see and shoot at.
https://i.redd.it/48v4ig2hgyv41.png
They flew by here too. I heard them go past, but wasn’t able to see them though the trees. We get dulles traffic overhead whenever the wind blows right, but fighter jets have a distinctively sharp note that the commercial planes don’t.
We get some flyover from BWI also, but I knew immediately that was no commercial aircraft I was hearing. I really do wish I would have had my cell phone in hand. We live in a forest of old growth trees, but they were still very visible directly overhead, I could have gotten a killer pic, damnit!
I live within a mile of Buckley AFB, and those jackasses do a low flyby every couple months. They were really low this morning. It’s illegal, it’s annoying, it gets all the dogs in the hood barking, babies crying, etc. I hope somebody got a month’s KP duty for this morning’s little stunt.
They probably got medals instead. Well, probably not, but I doubt they were reprimanded. Being that loud on purpose is no different than walking up to somebody and yelling in their ear for no reason.
I lived near Shepherd AFB for a while. That’s where USAF trains people in single engine jets. I never heard or saw anything really stupid though. There was a bar with a wall covered in USAF patches that was kind of cool. Lots of foreign pilots get trained there.
Oh. One of the news stations carried a replay of the Superbowl.
I guess we won.
Just think, you only have to wait another 50 years now.
Oh, you mistyped 40 weeks.
Don’t be a narc, Moj.
If you are not a vice cop, I am not a narc. ?
20 out of twenty-two starters returing, well, 19 to start the season(F-ing Breeland), More depth at running back, o-line, and Gay Jr to replace the 1st round bust Ragland? Coupled with the probable lack of cohesion amongst most NFL teams due to the lockdown nonsense for any team that experienced a free agency hit or a coaching change?
I like our chances.
Dude, Al Davis apparently came back to life and allowed the Raiders to select 6 wide receivers in 5 rounds of a draft. You Squaws are in real trouble now!
Ha! True. Al always loved Olympic speed with little football IQ(Rocket Ishmael). But It’s a copycat league. And everyone with a strong armed qb(That includes Carr. I don’t hate Carr as a qb, he’s just a little mentally fragile. If he toughens up he can be legitimately dangerous again) without a good running game will try to throw four low budget Tyreek Hills on the feild and hope to outrun a defensive scheme.
“Tyreek Hill”
That guy has to be the fastest player in the history of the NFL.
The Raiders started down this path of fuckup with the Antonio Brown debacle. I was literally screaming at my computer ‘The dude is a fucking psychopath, what the fuck is wrong with you!’. They had plenty of serviceable receivers before that clusterfuck. Fuck, I don’t even want to talk about it, depressing is what it is.
Well then, to end on a positive note, you guys do have Jacob’s and a very solid interior O-line. I forgot about that.
To be honest, as much as as I liked Morse, he is undersized and too injury prone to be a reliable center. That’s why the Chiefs traded him to the Bills.
He was Hudson’s replacement. Hudson is a great fucking center, and Hudson was released to make room for Fisher’s contract. So we got Morse and and a mediocre left tackle as reward. I think they should have kept Hudson and kicked Fisher for a cheaper yet equally serviceable takle, but that’s just me.
37 seasons and counting, my friend. Those are/were damn thin bragging rights. 😉
recently I learned
the Y-chromosome bottleneck
The men alive today are the descendants of about 5% of the men who were alive 7,000 years ago.
https://www.livescience.com/62754-warring-clans-caused-population-bottleneck.html
Zardoz already happened without the gift of the gun!
Fat lot of good it done us then, innit.
And yet the Cuomo brothers somehow made the cut.
[Flanders voice]
I guess life is easier to get into than Arizona State.
Prayers or whatever for our progeny.
“5% of the men who were alive 7,000 years ago”
They must have been some real assholes.
Everyone will eventually be the ancestor of everyone alive or no one alive. And the former doesnt take that long.
PBS says the real Adam never met the real Eve:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNQPQkV3nhw
http://archive.li/Nc57P/f72aace54c3bada4ebd5ab1c0271f56eb6634ffb.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/g04zX/88e7f3bc984bb85532b33f670015ff03d150369b.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/UvJcG/b4022ba3f859df766e6cf0dee7bfce6761e85af7.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/x0nPp/1e9f426ce095b8d9e2a2d86cb40ef4e4b1da16c9.jpg
NSFW.
This one, the last one,
I just on the news that 43% of Canadians think the solution to coronavirus is to increase taxes. Jeez Man…
Until they have to pay them. Then they’ll scream louder than a Zoolander threatened with a beating by a Girl Scout.
‘What…what!? Sheeekkkk, shreeeekkkkk!!! What happened to my paycheck! I didn’t mean that I’m supposed to pay more taxes, only the bad people!’.
Another thing interesting about this coronavirus is seeing that technocratic globalist elites are a bunch of statist fucks. I mean who woulda thunk that a group of people that desire unaccountable power over the entire planet are not libertarian?
*starts making list*
You would be surprised.
And Turdeau Jr. banned guns by Order-in-Council without even passing a law. Damn I thought weed and being an urban bilingual McGillian should have made him a libertarian?
No of course, you can have all the weed you want, until we get all your guns. Then we may have to reconsider it, for your own good. What are you going to so, throw rocks at us?
OK, the reason I like to make “but I thought…” comments and go off about cities and universities is because I read about the 19th century classical liberals and even some of the more optimistic proponents of post-Cold War globalization and many of them really did think that their victory was inevitable. Also many of them really seemed to think that urban statists, statist university students and statist university professors were all literally impossible. I mean until very recently the notion of a public school teacher being a statist was thought to be literally impossible by classical liberals.
Thank you for answering that question, Winston.
So, the classical liberals were wrong. My only point is… we all know that.