Now, some of the members of our household are more tolerant and less prone to kvetching than others.
So, am I going to mention that when I turned on the cold water tap this morning, the water which surged forth into the basin was hot enough to brew tea?
Or that I’ve had to create a non-stop waterfall so my outdoor herb pot gets enough water?
Or the fact that The Wonder Dog has started to use a (gigantic) litter box just to avoid dashing outside for 30 seconds to pee?
No, I’m not.
But I will mention that this is your Sunday Night Open Post! Have fun, kids!
Wow. SP just gave Zardoz the stink eye on the front page.
I ain’t afraid of no ZARDOZ.
Of interest to exactly me, I just managed to establish the base row for a new crochet project on only my second attempt. So…yay me?
The words I live by: anything is possible if you set your sights low enough.
UNDERACHIEVERS UNITE!
UNDERACHIEVERS UNITE!
You rang?
Bought a brand-new steel-string acoustic-electric guitar about ten days ago, and have realized that, no matter what, I’m going to suck at it for a very long time — I’ve got no strength in my left hand (and osteoarthritis is threatening to spoil my fun), and no toughened-up fingertips either.
On the plus side, I’m finally learning to read actual music after 46 years.
Underachiever, indeed.
Oh, the guitar? It’s this one:
https://www.amazon.ca/Seagull-032471-Peformer-Jumbo-Guitar/dp/B001RIY6EU
Nicest one I’ve ever owned, that’s for sure.
a/ stay at it but go slow
b/ sound is more important than anything: don’t worry about speed or complexity at all, it will come; focus on fretting properly
c/ good posture will be really important later, but you can screw it up now; force yourself to sit and hold correctly always; bad habits are shockingly hard to break later
Yep. I’m already trying to figure out the best way to hold my left hand so that, when I’m fretting the two bottom “bass” strings, I’m not curling my wrist so much that my tendons want to spasm on me. Bit of a challenge, it is.
I’m only doing “walking the fretboard” exercises for five minutes a day and soaking my fingertips in saturated saline solution every night to toughen them up. I’m not 22 years old any more, that’s for sure.
My people.
*nods, fist to chest*
I have managed to finish a few colors in my cross stitch project.
*checks local weather
Only 106. No wonder it felt a bit warm when I was upstairs. No I don’t do AC. I think my tomatoes might need it though. Things go green grow to half size and stop.
Your indeterminate tomatoes stopped growing? Try watering the ground in the morning and evening and see what happens.
They are all in big pots. Friday I moved them to a shadier area to try and cool them off a bit. Hope that helps the poor things. They are roasting on the vine.
Pots will raise soil temperature. If they are clay pots, you know those brownish orange things, try keeping them wet, or set the pots in an inch or so of water.
Covid has been an absolute boon for my line of work. Apparently I am countercyclical.
Work for a mask factory do ya?
Sign printer.
Online teaching of a certain sort.
Business is busier than ever. It’s great, though working 7 days a week is tough. Yes, I don’t leave my chair, but it’s still draining being that on all the time.
Online teaching of a certain sort.
Aaaaah, Chaturbate model. Gotcha. 20 years ago I would have done the same.
NO EUPHEMISM I SWEAR
Teaching to code?
CDC-funded doctor ?
I have a double-cousin who worked for a major candy company for over thirty years. He always said their sales boomed during every economic downturn. Apparently when people are worried about money, they can go get a candy bar for a dime (or a dollar, over the course of his career) and have a cheap treat that makes them feel better.
That has me wondering how the ‘rona is affecting candy sales.
I have a bowl of chocolates in my refrigerator. I never do that.
Ex-Lax?
Ha. No, Dove mint chocolate minis.
Gay.
?️?
Oh, good luck tomorrow. I hope you’re reading Glibs while you convalesce.
Apparently when people are worried about money, they can go get a candy bar for a dime (or a dollar, over the course of his career) and have a cheap treat that makes them feel better.
A friend of mine pointed this out to me. The small luxuries keep going.
I thought they (we) went to a bar. I would go every time something good happened or some thing not so good. Then I started going every night and some thing bad happened every night when I got home. Small necessities…
It’s a dry heat, right, SP? So not too noticeable if you’re cooking eggs on the sidewalk.
lipstick as well in the last century: it was the one nice thing women never deny themselves
So, am I going to mention that when I turned on the cold water tap this morning, the water which surged forth into the basin was hot enough to brew tea?
When I was a kid the family did a cross country trip. We spent a night at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. I swear the water came out of the taps there hot too.
Well, if it was only tea, it’s not that useful.
Or that I’ve had to create a non-stop waterfall so my outdoor herb pot gets enough water?
Don’t go chasing waterfalls
More waterfalls
For Rhywun (get well soon!) and the other gay glibs
Hawt, if you squint a little.
What a perfectly cromulent phrase!
One more (very mellow) waterfall.
This is a first. Ted linked a song I like.
You just like the thought of burning down Andre Rison’s house, don’t you?
Who?
I figured you’d remember this story
Aaah, yes I do have a slight recollection of some such nonsense.
Apparently, he was a scrub.
How big of litter box?
It was soooooo big that…
I thought Arizona WAS a litter box.
Yeah but for some reason they store it in the oven
GT wins the internet.
That’s quite an honor, but where am I going to put it?
The toilet seems a good choice.
And take 2020 with it.
Toilet of note
Where is your mask citizen?
https://twitter.com/AshBCoffin/status/1282340755407806465?s=19
“Imagine what machines will be able to do in the next 5-10 years.”
In less than 5 years, they won’t even know which bathroom to use.
Vote Blue?
Every robot gets $15 an hour and a vagina that no one can use. Progress!
Front hole you transphobic bigot!
Lol!
There are no links to ignore?
/goes to pour another drink
/panics
I’m losing count of how many beers I’ve drank. I wanted to pot up some more peppers, but I didn’t get it done.
He looks like he would make a good coin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Carrier
whatchu talkin’ bout, Willis ?
somehow when we were agreeing how unattractive the south and west were earlier, I decided to just let it go that our using AC down here was cultural (NY) appropriation
conversely, all those Friedrich window units in all those NY apartments were made in San Antonio
I was the last poster on the morning links! So I’ll repeat here! And, do not worry about doxxing with my surname. I lie about everything! Even that!
I didn’t know about Milton Berle. From his wiki: 1908-2002. “Milton aided Fred Travalena, Ruth Buzzi, John Ritter, Marla Gibbs, Lily Tomlin, Dick Shawn and Will Smith.”
But i learned something that…interests me. His first marriage was to a showgirl, who was quite the looker. Her name is JOYCE MATHEWS. “Mathews, with one T.” (That’s something all of us have to say, as the one T spelling is very rare and mistakes happen unless we say that constantly.)
*Cough*
I imagine this is why my prodigious pecker comes in handy and where my rugged handsomeness comes from… *Looks around…Runs away!*
This Milton Berle?
Round and Round
Milton Berle
For LG if she’s here. A couple of weeks ago, I gather. https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/07/01/anoka-family-witnessed-helped-woman-gored-by-bison-at-yellowstone-national-park/
Holy shit. I just do not understand the sort of mentality that causes a person to tease wildlife like that. Makes you wonder what she thought the outcome would be; she’d tame it and ride bareback around the park?
On our way into the park on the second day, a minor traffic jam tipped us off so the hubby pulled over and sure enough there was a bison grazing not fifteen feet from the shoulder. In my eagerness to get a close shot, I slipped in the gravel on the shoulder and landed on my ass, and I just *froze* until I was sure the bison wasn’t paying me any attention.
Every year people are killed trying to play with baby animals.
I was raised too much on ‘“leave no trace.” I suppose. I don’t even pick flowers in the park: that’s what cameras are for.
* lifts beer *
First weekend in August, we’ll be in the Mat-Su borough, looking over some properties. ‘Rona be damned.
It’s past time to get the hell out of Colorado.
Good luck! Beautiful there and great tasting water.
Wow! That will make for a longer commute for some of your projects.
Worth it.
But he’ll be closer to his fellow bears.
I saw mention in the morning thread that OMWC and SP watched Watermelon Man last night; it was directed by Melvin Van Peebles, the focus of an article I wrote.
It’s a genre that Ms. Rural Appalachia was not much exposed to before.
Point of order- ‘Appalachia’ implies ‘rural’.
Wheeling disagrees
Nah, thats just general white trash like Lower Price Hill, Norwood, or Dayton, Ky.
Not truly impoverished.
Lower Price Hill is truly impoverished. Trust me my office is in Price Hill and the barely 18 going on 97 junky whores can be seen from my window
Time to close the blinds.
Nah…its a slum.
I used to have a client in Prestonsburg, KY. Driving the Mountain Parkway to get there, and upon arrival into town- people living in dirt. Thats Appalachia to me.
Pam Grier FTW
*NSFW
*warning to Q- she got some jacked-up t0ts
Pam Grier, Bless This Mess.
She is adorable.
My favorite Pam Grier scene
Of course its Robert DoQui.
And a friend of mine that was a cop for the Rosewell PD in Georgia said that women would actually put razor blades in their hurr.
She was sexy as a mug even later on in Jackie Brown.
The comments are a bit crude to say the least
yo B….dont hate the playa- hate that game aight ?
I have a friend who looks a lot like Mario Van Peebles. His
wifewoman was our real estate agent when we bought our house. Damn, can she work some negotiating magic.I play a game with my wife’s old cat (she’s 15). I call it, are you still alive? She was the runt of the litter, and has never been healthy. She is still a runt with a tiny head and a rat tail. For years, we stare at her on the deck, with her arthritic back pressed up against the posts. “Is she still breathing?”, we ask. This evening I sat there for five minutes, watching her. Please don’t be dead yet. Not today. She’s always tired and in pain. I don’t want to disturb her if she is sleeping. Dammit, she is not breathing. I approach her as quietly as my fat self will allow. She wakes up with her ‘I can’t wait to eat your dead face’ look. Whew! One more night with herpes cat. Life is good.
Ours is 19 now and we’ve been referring to him as zombie cat for the past year. He looks like he should be dead already but he still gets up and moves once in a while.
I had a huge yellow Tabby that was 22 years old before he just disappeared. I assume, he went off by himself to die. In his latter years, he became famous in the neighborhood as the meanest cat around. He was like the Alpha Male Prime.
One of my neighbors kept telling me that he was getting in her Koi pond. I also worked at the same company as her. One morning, like 8am, she bursts through the door of the IT office and, all purple faced, said ‘That cat! That mean cat of yours, he’s the meanest cat ever, he was in my pond again this morning! I tried to run him off, but he just hissed at me! That’s the meanest cat ever! You better keep him over there!’. LOL fucking L. I have no doubt he was doing it, but fuck, he’s a cat, what am I going to do?
Like, you’re going to tell him not to and he’ll knock it off, right?
I shall quote Heinlein…again.
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” …
Don’t be silly. I got a shotgun and a shovel, and an undisclosed location.
That might actually work for felines, womenfolk not so much.
we’ve got a runt; sometimes she hisses and I just laugh and scratch her on the top of the head: you don’t know what to do or who your friends are
our runt turned into a 15+ lb bruiser. all the prickly personality, and the muscle to back it up.
he’s the most loving cat around people, but he doesn’t take any shit around animals. He’s the cat who didn’t bother moving from his sunning spot on the driveway when big dogs walked past.
Its just right for a fire outside tonight.
Went ahead and did it. The cool night air reminds me of camping and the fire is crackling just right.
Got an Ellicottville cold spresso open, good stuff.
*lifts beer* finally started our campfire. Dinner will be late tonight but the kids have been hiding inside playing on their iPads all day, we wore them out so badly earlier in the week. They won’t care.
Cheers. Little guy and wife are already in bed, so I’m just chilling with you folk.
Enjoy the peace and quiet by the fire. It really is one of the joys of life.
Thank you, if not well deserved, it certainly is needed.
So long as your fire wasn’t built with the timber from an orphanage, I’ll bet you deserve it.
Worse, it was a haunted orphanage.
Wouldn’t I be doing the world a favor I either case?
More free range orphans/no More ghosts?
I’m afraid the ghosts now haunt your place.
Sorry man.
“Young White Mother Killed By Black Lives Matter Mob for Allegedly Saying ‘All Lives Matter,’ National Media Fully Ignores”
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1282150903663988736
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/young-white-mother-killed-black-lives-matter-mob-allegedly-saying-lives-matter-national-media-fully-ignores/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/young-mother-shot-to-death-after-telling-blm-supporters-all-lives-matter-family-says/
https://fox59.com/news/crimetracker/indy-mother-becomes-2nd-homicide-along-downtown-canal-in-1-week/
What?
Huh?
What’s the slang version? Nigga? Serious question.
Never mind those two, dead, young people…
The canal didn’t kill them.
https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1282451569573654528
OFFS!
A cursory search does indeed verify that the national media is ignoring it.
Erzählung über alles
I had a German book of stories called Erzaehl mir was! – tell me something, tell me a story
The stories started out easy and got progressively harder. It was the first foreign language book I read. I think I was about 12.
There’s no way in hell CNN is reporting that.
So Im spitballing here, but Jessica Whittaker (sounds white) was with her financier Jose Ramirez (sounds latin(x)) and… “were hanging out along the canal when someone in their group used a slang version of the N-word.” (nigga)
“That word prompted a confrontation by a group of strangers.”
“Eventually the two sides separated because they realized they were both armed.”
Works for me.
“However, minutes later Ramirez claims the killer opened fire from a nearby bridge and ran away.”
This is where I hate in everyone in Indiana even more than I did before. (Not you Evan- you’re cool).
I’m sure any minute now angry mobs of white people will be burning down BET headquarters in a peaceful protest.
I saw a really big stag beetle last night. I didn’t know they lived in the southern US. Fun fact: the word stag comes from a Norse word that means male. Steggr means male bird in Old Norse and steggi means tomcat in Icelandic.
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late 12c., probably from Old English stagga “a stag,” from Proto-Germanic *stag-, from PIE root *stegh- “to stick, prick, sting.” The Old Norse equivalent was used of male foxes, tomcats, and dragons; and the Germanic root word perhaps originally meant “male animal in its prime.”
Adjectival meaning “pertaining to or composed of males only” (as in stag party) is American English slang from 1848. Compare bull-dance, slang for one performed by men only (1845); gander (n.) also was used in the same sense. Stag film “pornographic movie” is attested from 1968. Stag beetle, so called for its” horns,” is from 1680s.
***
Bucksnort
now hightail it outta here
For Derpy.
As I have mentioned, I am cross stitching. Some of us save our thread scraps as a measure of our work. I used to save mine in a jar.
Anyway, even though the word “ort” means “a scrap or remainder of food from a meal”, we call our thread scraps “orts”.
Ooh, that’s a new bit of language trivia for me. Thanks!
I got hooked on videos which try to analyze the languages of Star Wars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bnBqXQ1DE8
She stores them in the Ort Cloud.
*Ahem*
“Oort” Cloud.
You’re welcome.
It was a bad pun.
I was waiting for that. You never disappoint.
offal is the gutpack of left-over critter parts after one butchers the skeletal muscle away
it’s also what industrial engineers call the scraps from trimming/cutting operations
I never knew the second part, great term.
I’ve heard swarf and dross, but never that.
***
Life, as many people have spotted, is, of course, terribly unfair. For instance, the first time the Heart of Gold ever crossed the galaxy the massive improbability field it generated caused two-hundred-and-thirty-nine thousand lightly-fried eggs to materialise in a large, wobbly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had just died out from famine, except for one man who died of cholesterol-poisoning some weeks later. The Poghrils, always a pessimistic race, had a little riddle, the asking of which used to give them the only tiny twinges of pleasure they ever experienced. One Poghril would ask another Poghril, “Why is life like hanging upside down with your head in a bucket of hyena offal?” To which the second Poghril would reply “I don’t know, why is life like hanging upside down with your head in a bucket of hyena offal?” To which the first Poghril would reply, “I don’t know either – wretched isn’t it?”
***
I see those egg council creeps got to Douglas Adams to. You’d better run, egg!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAFMFFQlkI
Douglas Adams too even
Funny (to me anyway) is I eat a shitload of eggs ,sausage, etc. My total and bad colesterol is below the normal range
My ex-wife too
So, am I going to mention that when I turned on the cold water tap this morning, the water which surged forth into the basin was hot enough to brew tea?
That reminds me of my trip to Darwin, Northern Territory. My hotel did not have cold water. Warm water and hot water.
Air-conditioning is unhealthy, bad, miserable, and sexist. I can’t explain how many times I’ve gotten sick over the summer b/c overzealous AC in offices.
#banAC
You left out the O
*polite applause*
Just like you in bed with your wife!
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AOC suggests NYC crime surge due to unemployment, residents who need to ‘shoplift some bread’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nyc-crime-shoplifting
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“Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren’t paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent and so they go out, and they need to feed their child and they don’t have money,” Ocasio-Cortez continued, “so they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry.”
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has reported a staggering increase in shootings and violent crimes in recent weeks, as officials warn there’s “a storm on the horizon” amid calls for changes.
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Most commonly shoplifted items:
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Grocery. Cigarettes. Energy drinks. High-end liquor. …
Over-the-Counter Medicine. Allergy medicine. Diabetic testing strips. …
Health and Beauty. Electric toothbrushes & replacement heads. Lotions and creams. …
Clothing. Denim jeans. Designer clothing/denim. …
Electronics. Cell Phones. Digital cameras. …
Home. High-end vacuums. KitchenAid mixers.
***
Note the absence of food staples.
Try harder, Gulag Barbie.
“KitchenAid mixers”
Wow.
Ive never really shoplifted anything more valuable than maybe a snickers bar. Ive had a kitchen aid. Those things are heavy and bulky. Im not clear on how someone thinks they can pull that off, other that just crash through the door and jump in a waiting car.
MY parents would have beaten the shit out of me for at least a week if they knew I did something like that. Seriously, I’m not a saint, but I have never stolen anything in my entire life.
Major stores (i.e. ones with a PR department) will just let you walk out the door with anything.
Really?
@Count
Sure, they just write it off. Rather than deal with any possible PR issues.
I shoplifted some ear buds once, that’s probably the most expensive I ever did. Though I did once buy a case of beer at knife point. Lol.
I’ve had some bad beer before but nobody ever had to threaten me with violence to buy it from them.
Pesky blue laws. ..
Hispanic Olive Oyl is confused. College was hard. Bar tending was harder, congress, too hard.
Took more a minute, bit that’s a great nickname, also probably ‘racist’ somehow.
I love this place.
Also, not seeing how shoplifting increases murder.
QUIET, YOU!
Fuck you, that’s how.
We gotta write off shrinkage as a result of racism, and just charge wypipo for that. So when your bill shows up to cover shoplifting, just shut up, it was your fault.
I swear to god she has to be performance art. It’s just too spot-on.
Sure, go back to your cave.
I’ve mentioned before that ASHRAE has an optimal humidity range
It should never be below 10-15 degrees from ambient.
OPEN POST SLUTTY ANARCHY
http://archive.li/8y91q
Number 7 should be chased through a town with pitchforks.
Was it Tonio that wrote an article about photography? Setting up a shot was part of it if I remember correctly. I think #5 should read that article.
#11 is cute.
I like #23’s iChive gallery.
11 is the knees.
I’d do them all except the real doll, but 3 and 24 would hold a special place in my heart
3 will kill you after sex and eat your body over several weeks.
Hawt.
Rank your top 5 dad movies. Mind you, dad movies rock.
1. The Great Escape
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. The Dirty Dozen
4. The Blues Brothers
5 – tie. Depending on their sport of choice: Rudy/Field of Dreams/Hoosiers.
Dudes rock.
Honorable mention: Ronin. Ronin rocks.
I love the Blue Brothers. I’m on a mission from God.
Define “dad movie”
Exactly. Movies with dads in them. Movies that a dad would like. Movies that a dad would show their kid.
Whatever the criteria, Ronin doesn’t belong in there. Stop trying to dragJohn Frankeheimer through the dirt.
The list was made with love – I’m a Frankenfan from way back.
Carry on!
Black Sunday it is.
Zulu
Young Frankenstein
The Producers
The Wrong Box
Kelly’s Heroes
My dad has always been a comedy genre guy. So my definition is probably way different than others.
Caddyshack
Animal House
Odd Couple
Planes Trains Auto
Blazing Saddles
No Rocky or Rambo? I feel like one of those must be included.
I feel like Rocky 2 is more of a dad movie than Rocky 4, which is just an all-around perfect movie.
Missing In Action series > Rambo in the dad world imo
Red Dawn, Jaws, Terminator, Blues Brothers, Robocop
Shawshank redemption, stand by me, die hard, airplane, 3:10 to yuma
Huh…..this is actually the best of the five-lists. Damn, good on ya.
Ronin only gets an Honourable Mention?
What the Hell is wrong with you?
Alcoholism. Depression. Huge balls. Out of shape. Overworked. Unlikable. Nasty farter. No respect for authority. Stubborn. Sharp toenails.
My wife says I’m charitable to myself in criticism as well.
You left out “an HVAC lightweight”
As usual, your list works also for top Porn titles.
Debbie does Dallas ous pretty good actually.
One from each
Kurosawa
Leone
Brooks
The guy who did Dog Day Afternoon
And ConAir.
Eiger Sanction.
OT for Gustave
https://youtu.be/OJ_-aA-ofIE
Popped up on my playlist. No idea why somebody subbed this. However, it’s an interesting conversation study. Two young women joined the voice actor’s agency . Ages 15 and 17. The differences in how the two girls speak is interesting. The older significantly more adult like and the interviewers responses to her are also different. Also with the interviewer, but not her two kouhais she speaks in a more typically feminine manner.
Clint did his own stunts! Truly impressive.
Plus there is an Archer homage to it episode.
Thx! Added to watchlist.
I always think of clash of the titans as a dad movie. I thought it was great when i was 6 (?)
I wanted to watch a bunch of ray harryhousen movies recently, but I can only find them in forms like Region 2 DVDs and crap like that.
I know almost nothing about actors or directors. This is why my list had just one movie.
I remembered clash of the titans because I saw it was available on Netflix.
Harryhousen was a special effects guy, famous for stop-motion work,
Ah, I did like the special effects, though I’m sure they’re fairly unimpressive now.
If it’s movies to watch with your dad, mine are:
Young Frankenstein
Army of Darkness
Die Hard
Airplane
Aliens
My dad made sure I was conversant in anything involving the Marx Brothers, WC Fields, Huntz Hall, and Charlie Chan. So…
1. It’s a Gift
2. Duck Soup
3. Million Dollar Legs
4. A Night At The Opera
5. The Old Fashioned Way
Sorry, Charlie. But damn, I love me movies with Mantan Moreland.
Duck Soup is a true classic. I really like A Night At The Opera, too.
But their post-Paramount movies…yeesh.
Miracle, Caddyshack, The French Connection, The Dirty Dozen, The Godfather.
My latest look at Ohio coronavirus numbers:
According to the latest Health Dept numbers there have been 3,058 deaths. But as recently as July 9th, nursing home patients accounted for 70% of the deaths (2,101) and prisoners accounted for 3% (86). That leaves only 27% (804) for “the rest of us.” Source: Cleveland.com
According to the Kff.org site, Ohio has about 74,000 nursing facility residents. The state has a population of about 11.73 million, so nursing home residents are less than 1% of the population, but represent 70% of the Covid deaths.
The Covid death rate “for the rest of us” has reached about 7 per 100,000 total population (the way it’s tracked on the CDC site). The most recent year, 2018, of Ohio’s Influenza/Pneumonia Mortality Rate was 15.7 per 100,000 total population. We would have to more than double the death rate of non-nursing home/prison residents to achieve the level of flu/pneumonia deaths.
If I swear to never visit a nursing facility or prison, can I stop having to wear the stupid mask?
It’s so fucking stupid that we KNEW very early on that this thing was going to mostly affect the elderly and/or those with health conditions, but they chose not to use that knowledge. All the “experts” pushed the idea that every single person is at a huge risk of dying from this thing. As a result, efforts were not focused where they should have been; tons of people died as a result and a great many more had their lives severely disrupted.
With every other health issue, they make use of demography to determine where the efforts need to be focused. For example, they don’t tell men to get mammograms for breast cancer, and they don’t tell young people to get colonoscopies to detect colorectal cancer because there’s such a low chance of those groups having those diseases. (Yes, I know that 70% is not a particularly huge supermajority, but I bet a large part of that remaining 30% were elderly).
And now ‘testing locations’ are popping up all over, and the media is encouraging people that arent sick to get tested. If something like around 80% of people with the ‘rona are asymptomatic, who cares?
What happened during all our other “crises” ? Were people being tested ?? ????? for AIDS? Pissed tested for crack cocaine? Checked for SARS, Zika or H1N1 ?
I keep hearing how our infection rate is doubling nearly everyday, yet I dont know anyone thats had it- granted, Im just 1 person in the state. But where are the dead bodies that should be piling up in the streets ?
I am north of NYC so in a prime zone and I know a few people who have died, and they were all elderly and/or overweight.
If you’re 65 and a 275lb lady…I mean…it’s not like life was going to be everlasting.
the CDC’s own data in one handy chart: https://www.acsh.org/sites/default/files/coronavirus%20covid%20mortality%20us%20by%20age.png
And yet there are school districts that won’t open in the fall.
Totally not a terrorist organization.
Young White Mother Killed By Black Lives Matter Mob for Allegedly Saying ‘All Lives Matter’
Take away lesson: if you have a confrontation, particularly one involving threats of violence or firearms- leave the area immediately.
It sounds like she was shot from a distance.
“I Have Some Questions for the Sensitivity Committee That Approved This Swastika Necklace”
https://jezebel.com/i-have-some-questions-for-the-sensitivity-committee-tha-1844334672
https://twitter.com/Jezebel/status/1282138866707828738
Do you know who else published idiotic political takes?
The statement goes on to point out the differences in swastikas, such as the Nazi swastika is “pointed clockwise and tilted at an angle.
So it is ok as long as you remember to put it on right side out?
Those things are everywhere in parts of southern Asia. Basically an Aryan peace sign (a lot Aryans went south into Asia instead of west into Europe). I was with a bunch of people studying in Sri Lanka – we used to say “who wants to eat at the Nazi place today?”
Can I get Schnitzel, Spatzle, and Strudel?
Wait, it’s not really a Nazi restaurant?
True story- a consulting company I worked for shared a building with an accounting firm. One of the accounting staff people happened to be (((them))) and was in a breakup, when her ex (allegedly) painted a swastika on the outside of the building. My boss and the guy that owned the accounting firm were partners in owning the building, and me and some co-workers were tasked with scrubbing the thing off and painting. She came out while we were cleaning it up (prolly more upset over the breakup than the imagery) and I told her, “look, whomever did this was a dumbfuck- the swastika is backwards. They cant even do a proper hate-crime. You’re better off.”
Hilarity failed to ensue.
Preet ?
O RLY?
Wow, now that’s how you white privilege
For the next ZARDOS help desk article.
My wife bravely has confided in me she was sexually active with her older brother for 20 years (give or take). She ran for home and left him right before she arrived in my state. She cut communication for three years. We’ve decided to be radically honest with each other, but unfortunately, that means I know everything we do in bed came from him: threesomes, filming, every dirty thing that my wife amazed me with was all taught by her older brother. I can’t seem to move past that. They were kids when this started—he was a young teenager, and she was even younger. I know it’s not her fault, and she was abused. But she has talked to him a few times in secret, and once read a text saying “I can’t get you out of my head.” I now feel like the woman I live to serve and love will never crave me or enjoy me more than her secret abusive lover. I am drowning, and don’t want to let this hurt ruin us. What the hell do I do?
Dear Penthouse Letters….
After 20 years I’m not convinced it’s abuse. ..
https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/07/wife-sexual-relationship-brother-advice.html
Here’s the link
That’s basically the plot of one of the later “Flowers in the Attic” novels.
There’s more than one?
Oh yes, there was a whole series of them. Virginia Andrews only wrote the first 3, IIRC, tracing the main protagonist up to a (very messed up) adulthood, and then a ghostwriter did more about descendants. I read them back in the 80s as my Rebellious Teen Trash Novels, lol.
One was too many.
My only contact with them was one night flipping through channels I watched about 25 minutes of a movie. Once I grasped the plot was Mom poisoning her captive children, who were being raised by their older brother and sister, who were in a commited sexual relationship I turned it off so I have no idea what happens after that, and don’t have any desire to know.
Care for a powdered doughnut?
True stories: my husband was assigned Flowers in the Attic for his senior year English class in Oklahoma. Also, amazon once recommended VC Andrews in ‘Parenting and Relationship Advice’ just no.
I’m doing one of my favorite things right now. Colombo is one of my favorite shows, and I think Colombo is one of the best characters in the history of TV/film. Peter Falk was perfect and his idiosyncrasies for the character make him stand out and give the show it’s fundamental draw.
Tonight it’s the pilot, Prescription: Murder.
I’m having a great time. I also finished editing a novel and this is how I’m enjoying my evening. I also JUST applied to a new school and am feeling well accomplished for my Sunday.
Enjoy the things you can. Focus on the positive and never sink into the negative.
Good advice. Thanks Evan
I remember watching through the series and there were some episodes where I went “That guy will get off with a good lawyer.”
The episode with Leonard Nemoy as the guest killer is a prime example. At the end of the episode, Colombo has no incriminating statements, no unexplainable contradictions, and the only piece of physical evidence anywhere was discovered – in the pocket of the thusfar frustrated investigator. A decent lawyer would savage that case if a fool of a DA brought charges.
*Nimoy*
lik I spel fgud
Don’t think that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy the show, I agree on the points you raised.
It does seem to be an idiosyncrasy of the show.
In Search Of Sasquatch–That was a kick-ass In Search Of
Colombo antagonist villians, ranked:
Jack Cassidy – obvious choice but still
Patrick McGoohan. Dude rocked.
Robert Conrad – that episode has the cute blonde from The Rockford Files in a bikini and I think heels. My God.
Eddie Albert
Dick Van Dyke
I’m watching it too.
*Turns around before leaving room*
Oh, just one thing I don’t understand…
Why would you talk to a cop? Don’t you have a lawyer?
EXACTLY!
Never speak to the police! None of that shit would EVER hold up in court! Just don’t talk to them! Anything you say can and absolutely WILL be used against you!
I refused police searches back even when I was 18. They surrounded me and even brought drug dogs and there were maybe 10 cops that time. Yes, I was driving dirty. Didn’t consent to shit.
Even my law-abiding mother thinks that was a great No to tell to the authorities.
Got off scot free. Not even a speeding ticket. EEH!
Good work I’m always such a pussy around cops.
Yeah, shut the fuck up.
Hah!
I hate shows where the criminal basically chooses just because the cops figured out it was him, when they’re not even confronted with evidence or anything.
Texas hospital says man, 30, died after attending ‘COVID party’
““Just before the person died they looked at the nurse and they said, ‘I think I made a mistake. I thought it was a hoax but it’s not,” she said, according to the station.”
Paging Doctor Bullshit to the ER paging Doctor Bullshit.
If he was intubated (presumably) how did he talk? Did he write a note? Blink in Morse code?
I suspect a man who tested positive died of something else.
It was super gonorrhea wasn’t it?
worse – Mongolian Yak Herpes
Exactly what I thought when I saw that. My nemesis (my niece doctor) sent that to me.
My reply:
A government that lied us into war in Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, a government that has put us almost 30 T in debt, a government that can’t deliver the mail, can’t teach kids how to read. some how is telling the truth about some mystery killer from China.
You’ve got me convinced.
People that use hand sanitizer multiple times a day but buy organic food are on top of the science? You’ve got me convinced.
People that didn’t attend covid parties also died, 3 ,000,000 (actually more) is 2020
If you want to really have fun, ask an I-love-science drone or maskanista about food irradiation.
No, you dunces, it doesn’t make the food radioactive, for the same reason you don’t gain superpowers when you get x-rayed at the dentist.
take it away, John Stossel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cojejse50pY
It would save more lives than masks.
Ban microwaves!
Watching TV will damage your eyes, circa 1955, you’ll need glasses soon.
5G cell service caused the corona!
(seriously, they’re tearing shit down in Europe over that)
All that’s missing is “Trump told me so”.
Shouldn’t you be in bed? Or are you still purging?
/Mom
I can’t possibly turn in at 10 o’clock. I wasn’t planning on more than 3 or 4 hours of sleep anyway.
You got a lot on your mind (or ass)….but like I said above, good luck. The (937) contingent is on your side.
Best wishes, Rhywun – hope all goes well!
^This.
“I know a covid party has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame Trump. Trump made me what I am.”
Five favorite comedy movies: Caddyshack, Animal House, Slapshot, Blazing Saddles, Some Like it Hot.
Repo Man, Duck Soup, The Big Lebowski, Dr Strangelove, Used Cars
Blazing Saddles
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Ed and His Dead Mother
Safe Men
Young Frankenstein
Birth of a Nation 2
Well there goes your writing gig for Tucker Carlson
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Beetlejuice, Animal House, Airplane, Spaceballs
Airplane!, Blazing Saddles, Caddyshack, The Private Eyes, Spaceballs
Am I correct in assuming that “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut” falls under musical rather than comedy?
Fuck, I hope not!
I blame canada.
It’s a war movie.
Strafforism: How you say something is not as important as how you say it.
so, it > something….got ‘it’
Australian feeds his pet 17-ft long, 3-legged crocodile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TamVPhcdIFw
Crikey!
Man lives in house with pet 2-ton bison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxDlsfpBKqA
This may in fact be the dumbest man on earth. Just start minting those trillion dollar coins I’ve heard so much about and send everyone one. Problemo solved!
It won’t be safe to go outside until there’s a cure for the common cold and until we find the fountain of youth.
***
On average in the US, the flu’s death rate is .1%, while the coronavirus’ death rate is 5.2%.
Both viruses are most deadly for the elderly. The flu kills .83% of infected people above age 65, whereas the coronavirus’s death rate is 10.4% for infected people from age 65 to 74, 20.8% for the 75-84 group, and 30.1% for people over 85.
***
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-rate-us-compared-to-flu-by-age-2020-6
movie pitch – Cocoon 2: Coronavirus Boogaloo
5 spunky seniors escape from the old folks home and embark on a quest to the reach the fountain of youth before the plague takes them.
Yeah, I know there was a Cocoon 2 already.
No one except Business Insider believes the mortality rate for infections is 5.2%, they’re only dividing deaths out if when there were only confirmed cases of people with serious symptoms, and ignoring all asymptomatic and mildly infected people who never tested. The CDC’s own numbers currently predict the overall mortality of all people infected as .0024, far, far less than .052!
His followers are on the same bus. We can print our way out of this. Trump is actually on board with those from Keynesville.
Wow.
….
Well, i mean it would make everyone’s job easier…
I read the responses, holy fuck. I have to keep repeating to myself that they aren’t that many and not everyone is that stupid.
I remember when I was 6 or 7 and have an idea – then wonder why nobody ever did that, then immediately think that I probably was missing something about that idea and try to figure it out.
A nation of billionaires with nothing to buy, sounds idyllic. I always wanted to starve to death with 10 figures in the bank.
Ummm…”Men”. Did you see those fucks gobbling up his shit?? “My job could easily be done from home, so lock everything down! It’s the other side that doesn’t care about people!”
Piss on those turds.
There are very few Japanese women that are rendered less attractive by wearing a mask.
It’s the eye focus.
Just had this discussion with my friend. We were talking about my class describing people for something like to give a description. We noted that in English color plays a role that doesn’t really exist in Japanese which focuses on shapes.
We also noted that emojis in Japanese have a big eye focus whereas in English it is mouth focused.
Yep. You don’t take a picture of a beautiful sunset with a dumpster in the shot.
Yes, you do.
Contrast and juxtaposition can make for a great image.
But if you’re comparing the mouth to a dumpster, you’re sorely mistaken.
They’re dumpsters when I’m done with them.
Sunset
God’s work is getting derivative.
I need an excuse to share my vacation photos.
You have a way with words…
Also although braces are becoming more the norm, I find it amazing that a gal with a snaggletooth is a thing there.
They cover their mouths when they laugh for a reason.
*These are just jokes. They’ve said wildly offensive things about me. Of course, they thought it was a compliment.
I took it as such. No worries!
I do find the mouth covering cute. You’ll note mostly women only however.
They cover their mouths so the other person doesn’t puke in it.
Yeesh. Even offended myself with that on second reading.
Japan is a weird place.
Also the native people are a bit unusual.
Don’t pick on the Ainu, they get enough shit from the Japanese.
What’s wrong with the Ainu?
Hah! UCS beat me to it.
DSL are vital.
I find that hard to believe.
And yet you live there. I actually have a photo in the living room that I took in Yokohama with two elderly bicyclists wearing face masks: in the last four years I traveled three times to Japan in the fall or winter.
I’m a bit confused. My comment was by no means an insult.
There are effectively two negations in your sentence: it’s getting hard to follow.
Masks leave the most beautiful aspect in view. I got an eye fetish.
Here it’s not like in Japan. People wear masks AND they stay away from each other as much as they can. Perhaps someone with 20/20 vision is unaffected, I am.
neo-Islamicist confirmed
^THIS!!!^
29 years ago today “Point Break” was released.
America was great.
“I got my 1st tube today. Sir.”
The best worst Patrick Swayze movie is Road House.
DO NOT ever watch “Black Dog” with Randy Travis and Patrick Swayze.
Really- Im not like the others. Im you’re friend. It will completely lower the bar for what you think a “bad movie” is.
That sounds like a challenge!
SHUT YOUR DIRTY WHORE MOUTH!!!
“I thought you’d be bigger.”
“Pain don’t hurt.”
“It’s my way or the highway.”
I have a silver coin that says Abolish The Federal Reserve, Debt Is Slavery! from the Gold is Money mint. It’s my 2nd favorite silver coin. My favorite is my Shark Week coin.
My favorites are from the “Egyption Gods” series because the artwork is fantastic.
I want one of these.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2013-WARBIRD-Original-Silver-Bullet-Silver-Shield-1-oz-SBSS-ART-GEM-BU/271962385191?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
Ha! Love the name of this one: https://www.govmint.com/coin-authority/post/gold-is-money
Govmint – get it? That’s up there with “gummint” from Riders of the Purple Wage.
***
In July of 2011 Congressman Ron Paul asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke a simple question: “Do you think gold is money?” His answer: “No.”
For a person like me, who has spent their career studying the history of money since the beginning of civilization, his answer struck me like a brick to the head.
Yet part of me was unsurprised. His answer is part and parcel of the mythology, carefully crafted, to turn bits of official-looking paper into “money” in the minds of the public. To admit to the obvious fact that gold is money would be to admit that the emperor has no clothes.
***
https://twitter.com/n_3_q_0/status/1282456715296780288
Do you know who else spoke German?
The Vonn Trappe family?
My mom?
Learn German. It will set you free.
But that sounds like a lot of work
Lies! Plus, too much work.
LOL
It is work.
Agreed. The number of people who pick up second languages (outside the home) readily with minimal effort ain’t huge.
I’m calling it a night. Feel better. Hopefully see you back here soon.
All three of you get oven time for goose stepping on the punchline.
Oh C’mon, it was only 122 today, you didn’t go out i it did you?
I was wondering,at what temperature do people just die?
If your brain temp gets to 106 or thereabouts, you’re toast.
The question is how much you can avoid that.
Stay hydrated!
Tons of Tall Cans!
Yeah, but there is a temperature that will just kill you no matter how much you drink. I want to say it’s around 140 or so.
123, Apparently.
123, dry heat, Eyeball death………………
it’s deadly out right now, not fit for humans, Fortunately, we made A/C, so life is wonderful, remember that next time you go shopping or fresh food.
Lackadaisical wrote: “I was wondering,at what temperature do people just die?”
Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year, it’s just not widely reported.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6W9iOjTKM
In Arizona it is not spontaneous. It is God playing with his magnifying glass.
Sometimes people just explode. Natural causes.
122, and I can’t get my place below 90, yippee?
All your handle changes are making me want to re-watch Caprica.
Fuck that. Im still trying to get my head around Battlestar Galactica. The 80s ruined this one for me.
Dirk Benedict as Starbuck – HAWT! – Dirk Benedict turns into a snake – lifelong nightmares!
Katie Sackhofff as Starbuck, Hawt!
Caprica was the best show, watch it,
The thing is, unlike other Az Glibs, I thrive in this shit, til about 110, then its time to hide, but if you want to play, get up before dawn…
Why would you get up before dawn if you’re already up drinking tall cans?
I wait til 8, it’s only proper,
League of lonely Drunks………….
Charter member. Cheers!
After 115 it’s just hot.
No, thats 105
you both mistyped 65.
It is strange how much worse 113 is than 103. You wouldn’t think so, but it is.
Go on…
Measure it in BSPM. Balls sweat per minute.
“#DeleteTikTok
Unplug. Reprogram your brains. Social media is awful, but #TikTok is actively insidious.”
https://twitter.com/SomeBitchIKnow/status/1280537516102365187
I get the feeling China is allowing this and similar content on purpose.
Im morbidly obese, 52 years old, haven’t had a fist fight in 20+ years, and was far from a badass then, and no one in that video is rocking my shit.
Ha ha ha… Yeah, I suspect any number of those freaks would see me and think me too old to do much in return but once they did lay hands on me, well, I’d be done with “polite”. And they’d best have a) their health insurance paid up and b) enough is cash and savings to cover the deductibles.
They can rock their own shit, after a painful shot in the gut.
#ColostomyBagsMatter
I’d like to ask you praying Glibs to put a word in to the big Man for my wife and I. We’re expecting our second kid pretty soon and he’s really screwed up. The last six weeks have been a rolling tragedy and I’m not taking it well. Id never thought in my worst nightmares I’d be mourning for someone not born yet and who might yet ‘make’ it.
Not religious, but I’ll throw one up to the big Guy for you. That must be unbelievably tough on you.
God Bless You and yours, Life can suck pretty bad….
I pray things work out the best possible for you and yours.
Dude….hmu on gmail @ nonplussed16
Ill have my church and the entire eastern seaboard prsying to Jesus H. Vishnu and w/e deity you like.
“We need positive vibes” -Oddball
Best wishes 3D.
Prayers sent.
I’m sorry to hear that. I will remember you, your wife and little one I my prayers. Best of luck.
Thanks a bunch. I’ve only met one Glib in meatspace but I think you guys are some the the nicest semi anonymous people I’ve never met. It means a lot to me that you all are out there. You’re a glimmer of what’s not shit in the world.
Count me in on this as well. Prayers sent, clothing rent.
/something like that.
I am sorry that you are going through that. Praying things turn out ok for you guys. God bless.
Fo reals. I hope this works out for you guys.
Non-religious but I can hope for the best for you and your family. Wishing for happiness and peace for you.
I’m sorry Threedoor. I’ll keep you in my prayers.
I am so sorry Threedoor, I will certainly be wishing for good things and trying to throw whatever positive juju I can at all 4 of you.
I shall hold a good thought for all of you and your medical team, as well.
Sadly for my boy there is no good outcome. It looks like major brain damage, he has severe bilateral ventromegaly, and downs was confirmed as icing on the cake last week. If he makes it into the world alive, at this point it looks like he will but that’s not guaranteed either. Odds of him making it to his second birthday are pretty fucking low.
We’re not prepared emotionally for any of this. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever dealt with and it hasent really happened yet.
Not being a parent myself, I hope this will be received in the manner it’s intended–
Prepare for both situations (birth & living with that disability vs the other outcome) as much as you are able. Fight for him as much as possible, so as to demonstrate tenacity, even to a new-born. It seems babies often surprise experts and parents alike in health scares. Let us know should you need anything.
I’m so sorry, Threedoor. In case the prayers of an agnostic do any good, you have mine. I hope the medical pros working with you can steer you toward the appropriate support, whatever the outcome. And of course this here gang of miscreants always seems to be prepared to step up for one another in a crisis and do whatever we can.
Prayers sent your way.
Sending my wishes to you and your wife.
Sorry. Best wishes to you.
Can you imagine looking around the US and thinking, “Perfect. We’re going in exactly the right direction”?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ecs2GTiXYAAN1pI.jpg
No kidding.
I thought this was going to be the dog on fire saying ‘this is fine’
I’m trying to watch Mrs. Columbo, and I can see why it flopped.
The main character is distinctly unlikeable. After describing a malfunctioning intercom as if she were a crazy person, she blows up on the person who reacts as if she’s talking like a crazy person.
Cinematography doesn’t help. A lot of wasted time on the screen that doesn’t contribute to the plot.
Oh, yes the scene where the dogs walks across the freshly mopped floor is so vital, especially when the plot has nothing to do with tracks, and it doesn’t even inspire a revalation.
Spoilers much? Geeze.
Unlike Sean I don’t have I don’t have have any pics, but I got a ribeye about to go on the grill with asparagus and sliced new potatoes smothered in butter, onions and an anaheim pepper.
do you at least have firearms in proximity?
He’s in rural Wisconsin. On his person? Maybe not, but there is one in proximity.
No, my arm did not catch on fire, this time.
Nice.
I just grilled a burger with pepper jack on the coals from my fire. Ducking top notch with a nice Smokey flavor.
But, do you have have have?
This is creepy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1281597902398164992
Good, now people can stop telling me I should smile more, because for some reason it’s sexist.
Only if you’re telling a woman to smile.
You have to keep smiling while they abuse you.
I’ve learned how to pass of a wince as a smile. 20 year marriage vet.
Right in the feels. /6 years
What happens if they’re wearing a mask?
Also, reminds me of a plot line from ghost in the shell.
Never seen it. Good?
Absolutely. One if the best anime ever.
Oh yes.
As if. We’re still gonna all be in masks then.
There isn’t a song that is better than its Muzak version.
This fucking comment literally cost me ¥720.
You really ducked up the cost benefit on that one.
Yes I did. Missed train by 5 seconds. *Taxi!*
How?
Lolly gagging up escalator to catch train. Got to see the doors closing at least.
I got in an elevator once and the Muzak version of ‘Love in an Elevator’ was playing.
Perfect. Get off at lingerie?
I was in Nordstrom. I think I was looking for a bathroom.
Happy new years!
Hitting the hay, g’night all
Night.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Shields told investigators that he had been diagnosed with Schizophrenia, but had not been taking his medication.
Uh-huh….
Also– three felony counts of evidencing prejudice WTEver-lovingF
What do you expect from modern day England? *reads story again* WTF!?!
Inorite?!
Well the forecast was accurate and it rained and cooled down some. a nice 15 degrees outside as we speak
Good morning glibbies
Damn, that does sound nice. It’s almost 90F here at just before midnight. 65% humidity, so, it’s close to being like living in Crusty’s trousers.
Are those real degrees or silly metric ones?
Good Morning, Pie!
Do you drink coffee or tea in the morning?
I’m a black coffee guy. And I get my wife some variation on a latte.
Coffee. V60. I have some Ethiopian right now.
Bow-chocka-bow-bow!
BLACK COFFEE? RACIST!
Pffft…..OF COURSE you’d want that coffee “whitened”.
Our local SF suburbs elementary schools are talking about being 100% online this fall. Even though the great majority of parents want onsite schooling, the local news only shows teachers union members saying how unsafe it will be, no parents. Meanwhile, the number of deaths in those under 18 in this state of 40 million people remains at zero.
Teachers, OTOH, are scared as shit about kids giving them the Wu Flu.
“Ladies–we have to protect our phony-baloney jobs!”
Meanwhile, there’s research out there showing that kids rarely pass the disease on to adults, though adults may pass to kids. Perhaps the frightened teachers can just stay at their desks with a mask on and no kids may come close to the teacher’s desks, should be safe, right? But the teachers are counting on still being paid if they’re too afraid to work, of course.
The Pres of our college district said that, while they will listen to concerns (fears) about returning to work with COVID still out there, no one will be getting paid to stay home.
So, fuck ’em. These union assholes are just worried that people will start questioning their long-held beliefs that public schools are a must-have.
You take the Queen’s shilling, you do the Queen’s bidding
Studies have shown that missing a year of school leads to lifelong lower income, higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse, higher rates of suicide, etc. But hey, as long as Trump loses, then it’s all good: those kids were all gonna be fucked anyway once they learned magic thinking- like boys can be girls just by tapping their shoes together and reciting “there’s no sex by genome, there’s no sex by genome.”
The schools actually should “follow the science” like they always say, and the science is overwhelming that the kids should go back, already strongly endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. But oops! Almost forgot, Teachers Unions are more important than science.
The one teacher I know is pretty concerned about going back. Wants testing and contact tracing to even consider going back. And when back, masks and reduced or rotated students in order to social distance. If kids do go back I think they may spend most of their day disinfecting things.
This. The 3 R’s–Readin’, Writin’, and ‘Radicatin’ COVID.
Huh. It’s like the teacher is wearing a goatee. In pre covid days, the germ breeders spent most of their time infecting things. Agar with legs.
Hey! everybody! I’m awake again! the Desert really fucks with your sleep habits, but hey, only 100 degrees out now, time to chill………
Fuck,
Yup–time to chill, indeed.
Well, got my Megadeth radio on, and a beer in hand, waiting til I’m sober to work on PROJECT: Telecaster again, a good idea,
99 Ways to
DieLive!I know he has a really bad rep, but, Dave Mustaine in a helluva guitarist, and had to re-teach himself to play after nerve damage. So, kudos to him.
Dave is my Fucking Hero! Megadeth is the best technical band in the world, and Dave writes a great song,
My first rock show. I managed to catch a drum stick Nick Menza threw.
RIP, Nick.
You never know who will say what about Dave, but, the more I hear, the more I think Megadeth should have been called the Thinking Man’s Rock/Metal band (it was Queensryche the last time I heard).
They, and Iron Maiden, can tell some damn good stories with their music, and gt you thinking while rocking.
Damn good Call Digby! Dave and IM are the marks to match in modern rock, Nick will be missed……..
Aaaand, now I have to break out the Dremel, to make room in my guitar body for the new pickups. yikes!
After watching some shill video on a guitar building course I’m really into the idea of building my own solid body electric git-tar.
It started so simply……….
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gCjNooVK6zTJzkRw7
Ohhhh, shit.
Oh, simple to install……………….
/yikes
Stairway o Heaven is a Contrived Piece of shit song, there,
Someone had to say it,
This just in: 70s noodly rock song discovered to be well-executed, pretentious crap.
+It takes Balls to trash Zeppelin
Nah. The first two albums are excellent. Everything after that I’ve got no particular affinity for.
Ahem Z3 is my favorite, different
It has it’s moments.
I’m so sick of Claasic rock, Steve Miller? really?
I ain’t harborin’ no particular fondness for them neither.
Hey, I like Steve well enough. I can’t say I’m gonna buy me any retro tour shirts, or anything. But, he’s got his charms.
Led Zep not good? Insanity plain and simple.
It’s just listening fatigue at this point. I still dig their later albums because they didn’t get played to death on the radio. “Physical Graffitti” and “Presence” are my favorites but I’m growing tired of them, too. Can’t listen to Beatles or Stones.
I only found out about Charlie Daniels’ recent passing just last night. It’s time to swap out the old long-haired country boy in my avatar again.
British Goat ropers? who knew?
/looking out my Backdoor
Otis Redding doesn’t do Stand by me very well, trust me on this………….
I love Motown, it reminds me of my Parents, cool people they were,
Have you ever seen Standing in the Shadows of Motown? It’s a wonderful documentary about the Funk Brothers, the house band. There’s also modern concert footage featuring the surviving musicians and current artists singing the big hits. My particular favorites: Joan Osborne tearing up Heat Wave and Bootsy Collins being Bootsy on Do You Love Me. We were lucky enough to catch the Funk Brothers live not long after the film was released – an honor and a privilege!
Way cool Bootsy Rules! as does Motown in general….
Grrrr! I’m at my downtown site yesterday afternoon when I spy one of the walking dead traipsing down the middle of the thoroughfare. It stops and weaves a bit and makes a beeline for my Tacoma, the only vehicle parked on both sides of the block and tests the doors. It was a female of the species so all I could do was scamper outside and bark at it until it shuffled away. Fucking thieving junkies. Thing was, I was feeling sorry for her until she tried to rip me off. If it had been a guy I’d probably be in jail right now. Broad daylight and so brazen. This shit has gotten out of control, even here. Don’t rip off the working man you Cunte! My stuff costs me blood, sweat and toil.
I’ll cut a bitch who touches my Subaru!
They are lost Souls, I am nice, but Firm, back the Fuck up! you cannot trust them at all, don’t ever feel for them, sad but true, and I like to help,
When I told Judi about it over the phone there was a moment’s pause and then “Oh Dear. What did you do?” She knows old Festus is another scary white boy…
Not a parody:
https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1282259909032189952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1282259909032189952%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F494550-usa-today-trump-t-shirt-imperial-eagle%2F
“ The claim: Trump campaign shirts feature imperial eagle, a Nazi symbol
Our ruling ruling: True“
Do you know else used an eagle to symbolize national pride?
the Romans?
I think I have a drinking problem – I keep downing water faster than I can filter and chill more.
It’s down to 100 here, quit bitching,
/I know its hot everywhere,
Hmmm….I hope this is just due to the heat. If the thirst persists after the weather cools down, please don’t ignore it.
Of course it’s due to the heat. I’m spending sweat-drenched days in front of the fan trying to avoid heat rash.
We’ve got a rewarding bad behavior problem here just like the big cities on the Coast. If you build it, they will come. Our small city set out the salt licks and every bum, hobo, junkie and vagrant in a three hundred mile radius has descended on our downtown like a plague of fucking locusts. There are literally hundreds of them and we just keep sweetening the pot for the ne’er-do-wells and rapscallions. Just last week a young woman was stabbed to death right outside the fucking courthouse. Shitting on the streets, needles everywhere. Sorry guys, I’ve been a little tightly wound lately.
What a nightmare! So sorry to hear that.
Downtown PG has always been rough but it used to be because we had more bars per capita than anywhere else in the country. Now it has become a true shithole and we keep making it easier for the indigent to set up house even while trying to gentrify the area with boutique shopping, new condo developments, brew pubs and tony restaurants.
I just don’t get it with municipalities kissing the asses of the homeless. They deserve pity, sure, but coddling them only leads to more and more problems and it’s not good for them either.
https://youtu.be/NFNaRGcZ28Y
South Park got it right years ago.
Change? Spare some change mister?
“Chaaaannnnge”
Lol. We kind of are South Park.
4am in Vegas…100 damn degrees nearly. Ugh this summer is gonna suck.
It damn near froze here on Saturday night. I’ve lived here for fifty years and I’ve never seen such a summer of suckitude. We still haven’t got over 75 American and here it is, mid-July. Today’s high temp was in the 50’s with wind and yet more rain.
Here, I don’t think it’s gotten below 75 even in the dead of night for a long time.
I shouldn’t complain overmuch. Heat and high humidity are not my friends. Festus runs at a higher temp than the average bear. It’s just so fucking dreary.
It was actually cool ish here last night. Still nice this morning.
81 here in Tejas. The coffee came out of the pot at work luke warm. Bunch of fucking amateurs.
7:30 am and I’m already cranky.
Not a good sign for today.
I’m just kind of… numb.
Could be worse. Could be Rhyun.
I gotta ride a sketchy elevator up a 200′ radar tower just to document a serial number. I am not happy but its easy OT monies.
Nope Nope Nope
Ill snap some photos…noce view of the airport and vegas from up there
Will you also share them?
Yeah of course
Psssst…. hey! Want some glib?
*Rogal Dorn*
Nnno.
*/Rogal*
Magnus did nothing wrong!
Except for the whole making a deal with Tzeentch thing.
Hell of a week to quit Glibs
Give me some of that good yokel shit.
https://twitter.com/BeachMilk/status/1282471685099261958
Da fuq?
Thicc!
I had no idea there were any blacks(?) in Latvia.
Also, that’s an ugly statue. Here I thought Latvian were based.
I know where the crimson spray paint is headed.
Rofl
I didn’t do nuthin!
Maybe I’m slow but I don’t see what he actually did wrong.
Yeah. I didn’t get it either. There might be some missing footage. /shrug
I kind of don’t think so. Just bootlickers licking.
He had his punching gloves on and he was being an asshole. Fuck him and fuck the NYPD for hiring tiny girls to do a man’s job. What good were they in that situation? Stand around at the back of the scrum and get jittery.
This is blowing up on my facebook. Had a liberal friend act like it was no big deal:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-woman-shot-killed-argument-black-lives-matter-supporters
Just like the lives of 90 year olds are more important than the entire lives of children, this lady’s life doesn’t matter to liberals.It doesn’t fit the narrative so it doesn’t exist. try arguing about statistics regarding the blm movement. .. anecdotes are more powerful than data, so long as it conforms to your view of society.
Oh, that is not good.
L O L.