In light of events that may or may not have lead to a number of people here stocking up on certain canned goods, I thought I’d let everyone know an easy way to actually eat the contents of those cans and not disturb your delicate gastrointestinal tract.
This is my review of Golden Road Guava Dia.
Legumes are difficult for some people to digest on account of 
oligosaccharides occurring naturally. This is not specific to pinto beans, other legumes like chickpeas or lentils contain the same sugars. These sugars are not digestible in the human GI tract but bacteria living in your colon however, will digest these sugars with flatulence as an unpleasant byproduct.
Few studies on the matter exists but in general should you soak the beans for 12 hours enough of these sugars will soak into the water to be discarded. Get new water and cook like normal. I normally just go overnight but given that I don’t have a ham hock on hand as often as I would like, not do I have this kind of time either, I just keep a few of these on hand.
MAGOYA
Does this 12 hour soak time sound like a feasible step in the process of our industrial food supply? Probably not. Which is why you will likely find beans floating in an unappetizing, thick goo. This goo will make your life suck for a few hours.
So what is the hack? Buy whole beans, otherwise all the sugars are mashed up into a cylindrical blob and you can never avoid whats coming. Just pour the can into a colander and rinse them off. Then mash them up, toss them into chili, eat them as is, or don’t—its your call. I’m just helping out.
This beer is a bit odd. Guava is not terribly sweet, almost bitter. Which is a nice counter to the awful sweetness from pineapple. Somehow it works. It reminds me of a local offering I can get in 25oz cans. If you long for the time when you can chug an enormous can of beer in the parking garage prior to a baseball game, this might be for you. Golden Road Guava Dia: 2.5/5
Never cared for fruity beers, myself. Might could have a Samuel Adams later on.
That sounds pretty good
Me three!
Would you stop yelling at me please?
Ordered some Samuel Smith Cherry and Raspberry beer from Total Wine since they haven’t been in stocks locally.
I only ordered 6 of each but since the store told me the cherry was being “discontinued” – not from the brewery but from the store(??? – import changes?) I wound up buying the whole case.
Waiting on the Raspberry to come in now.
At the store I stopped at today to replenish beer and mixer stocks, there were signs all of the beer aisle:
“Due to nationwide aluminum can shortages, some items may be out of stock.”
Cans?
Yeah. As breweries have had to shift to off premise sales, and there are mobile canning companies, those without bottling/canning lines of their own shifted into cans. This has caused an aluminum can shortage. Ska Brewing is slapping new labels on old misprinted and cans they had over-ordered.
Supply chains… how do they work?
No, I’m wondering who intentionally buys a canned beverage.
Besides Yusef.
…and Tres.
/raises hand
Cans are a better option for beer, same as boxes are better options then bottles for wine. Cans are lighter, stack better, let in no light, have less breakage, chill faster, and let in no oxygen.
And can’t be resealed, and are less ergonomic to drink through, and warm up faster.
Beer bottles aren’t designed to be resealed either, and you should be pouring the beer into a glass anyway.
And make the beer taste like aluminum.
Chipping Pioneer: Not with the modern cans (unless you’re drinking it from the can), they’re lined to prevent aluminum taste in the beer.
Neph: That may be true, but I started getting my favourite beer in cans for the reasons that you mentioned. I went back to bottles because it didn’t taste as good. Flavour profile was flat. I attributed that to the cans. Maybe it was something else.
CP and UCS are right on this. Beer tastes better from a bottle.
The “new normal” means another crazy shortage every month. Spin the wheel and see what’s next.
Like Dr. Pepper?
That was… unexpected.
People drink that?!
Hey, now! Dr. Pepper is my soft drink of choice when we’re eating fast food out. (At home, I usually just drink water, though I’m presently nursing a bottle of Cheerwine left over from a recent trip to Oinkadoodlemoo BBQ.) Also like Mello Yello/Mt Dew, but the flavor of the belches drives me to my knees. Never have developed a taste for colas.
Oinkadoodlemoo?
Local BBQ chain. Pork, chicken, & brisket. Of course, I love the carb-laden sides as much as or more than the meat. Thick, creamy mac-n-cheese and yummy little “baby baker” taties marinated in something wonderful.
Maybe Tom T will pick some up on the way home from the music store…
Mt. Dew is the bomb, by far my favorite soda, but I stopped it to cut down on sweet-stuff.
Mountain Dew throwback FTW – real sugar, real good!
Yeah, these are the import oversized bottles. Figure it might be shortages due to shutdowns in the UK too.
I get gas from everything, so I don’t care. I find it odd how many people blame all their GI problems on ‘this one thing’ but never cut that thing out, just complain about it.
Stomach issues have forced me to give up the spiciest of the foods I adore. Tai, Indian, my favorite chilies, no mas.
*sheds a bitter tear*
Oh, brother, do I feel your pain. Bell peppers have been off my menu for about a decade now. I love them, I earned a merit badge in Cub Scouts for making stuffed peppers, but something happened with my ability to digest them and now they just tear me up inside.
The last time I ate food spiced with ghost peppers(my favorite) my ass looked like it transplanted from a baboon for a week. Ha!
” It reminds me of a local offering I can get in 25oz cans.”
Is it EARTHquake ?
Do you want it to be?
Lol the last line of the review is a gem.
Good… afternoon? glibs.
I had no choice but the venture out into the malignant glare of the daystar and battle the green menace encroaching on my property. I have one thing to say:
Eyebrows don’t work.
For whatever reason they send the sweat into my eyes instead of away from them.
I believe it was Fran Lebowitz who described the sun as “that harsh overhead lighting so unflattering to the heavy smoker.” Was never a smoker, but agree re: the harshness. And its cruelty to the fair of complexion.
Well, I’ve recovered from my bout of outdoors.
This first time I step into the sunlight for the day, I sneeze. Just the once, then I’m fine.
It’s weird.
It’s because you’ve been exposed to the corona.
What was done there has been seen (but not stared directly at).
#metoo
It’s heat softening the snot in your face. Doctor told me name of the condition once. I forgot what it was.
Huh, well I’ll be damned. I just thought it was some unknown psychological thing.
Nah we have a kid that sneezes in the sun. Its a real thing
Sneezes in the sun, you say?
“Sneezes in the sun, you say?”
My God, you’re old. Now get off my porch and shit, before I have to start speaking in Hamiltuckyese!
For the record, I really hate that song.
Solar covid. Happens to me occasionally.
If you know someone who starts sneezing repeatedly after they have just eaten something, it’s because they have been drinking recently. That also causes snot re-hydration apparently.
I’m trying to figure out why the cat has occasional fits of (messy) serial sneezing. I blame Tom T, who rejected “Sterling,” the perfectly dignified name the Humane Society had given the cat, and renamed him “Snot.” Self-fulfilling prophecies.
I like it. I think I may have mentioned that my remaining cat’s name is Sneezer, because you know….
I’m with you. I don’t like jokey names, I like human names for my animals.
I don’t remember seeing that. I like it! Slightly more dignified than “Snot.”
I dated a woman who’s mother had a nasty little Pomeranian. His name was “Wilhelm von Ticksandfleas”.
So you can register them to vote?
I’m not a Democrat and neither were my two girls.
Previous cat was George. (Another self-fulfilling prophecy – he wanted to be petted and petted…) I was all set to argue for Gracie if we adopted a puss, but this little tom – who looks very like George – chose us (particularly me) in no uncertain terms. I wasn’t prepared with another name appropriate for a male quickly enough.
We had a cat named Scab because when he came to us as a stray he had a massive wound on his neck. We always got weird looks from the vet when we have his name.
LOL one of my favorite Donald Ducks.
Or Daffy even. ; )
DAMMIT. I knew something looked wrong there.
::gives Rhy a (gentle) virtual hug::
When I was a kid, a family from Michigan moved into my neighborhood. They had a miniature schnauzer named Woofgang. I was too young to get the pun.
Thing was, the dog was fine romping around with the kids on Michigan turfgrass, but was allergic to Florida centipede grass, which made playing with us and going for walks problematic.
Woofgang went from being a schnauzer to a schneezer.
Huh. I thought that was a Vagus nerve thing.
If have to refrain from drinking to verify this. Guess I’ll never know.
Same here. I don’t have to eat a lot of food for it to happen to me. It will happen while I’m still eating. Three to four drinks, eat a little, start sneezing. It sucks when that happens a restaurant.
Anecdotal I know. There was a guy on different crew but in the same area I worked that used to sneeze madly after breakfast and lunch everyday. Much worse than me. I never have the problem at work. Long story short, he got fired for drinking on the job.
Whenever the Vagus Nerve is mentioned the Dion song “The Wanderer” starts running through my head.
My nose has been running after I eat. No idea why.
It’s not due to drinking. I only drink at night long after I’m done eating.
Perhaps you are built upside down, so your nose runs and your feet smell?
No, but webmd says it’s cancer.
I sneezed like that after pulling a gallon of milk from the cooler at a grocery store. You’d think I pulled out a gun from everyone’s reaction.
It’s not their fault your sneeses sound like gunshots.
Back in college a fraternity brother bet someone he could drink an entire gallon of milk in 20 minutes. A bunch of us crowded into a room to see him try. About two quarts in he started sneezing, then began projectile vomiting white streams ten feet in every direction, soaking us all. A glorious memory.
Maybe I was over pale to begin with, but since getting a little sun in SoCal (I’m still relatively pale, but freckles have made their return after 20 years’ hiatus), everyone tells me I look “healthy” and that San Diego has been good for me.
So there needs to be an in-between Nightwalker and leather belt.
Today is the second or third day in a month I can leave the AC off. One thing sunlight is sometimes good for is burning off the real enemy, humidity.
INORITE! I opened the house as soon as I got home from work (7:30 am) and enjoyed a nice stout and some eggs and toast on the front porch. Beach is PACKED today!
In other news, a statewide Jackass Convention is kicking off at Stone Mountain, Georgia, today. Complete with armed demonstrations, flag-burning, and mouth-breathing on both sides. Idk if the news channels are covering it much yet.
Antifa, BLM, Neo-Nazis militias and a giant, Confederate version of the Behistun stele : what could possibly go wrong? Hopefully nothing kicks off and idiots on all sides make it home safely. But I have my doubts.
A fine people jamboree.
I always rinse canned beans. I don’t soak dried beans though.
#BlackBeansMatter
For whatever reason, my favorite – garbeanzo bons – have no ill effect on me. Love to eat ’em by themselves just with some Italian or oil & vinegar dressing. For anything spicy, though, beans or no, Beano is de rigueur pour moi.
I never noticed getting gas from eating beans. The again, I eat beans pretty regularly.
“then”
Me neither. I just don’t like the taste. Happily, “fiber” is more or less verboten to me for awhile.
Eat more bacon.
Been meaning to. I still have two frozen packs from the beginning of the plague. But starting last night I am working on a box of sausages and beef I got from Stiglmeier.
No mention of drugs falling out of his ass:
Man in ‘Pointing guns at penis’ Facebook group shoots self in penis, becomes a hero in group
Q: What’s the difference between a chickpea and a lentil?
A: [REDACTED] wouldn’t pay to have a lentil on his face.
[REDACTED]
You mean Rachel Ray?
Totally would.
She’s cute as a button. Miss her on “America’s Stupidest Chefs” or whatever that’s called.
Do you know who else was too cheap to pay to have a chickpea on his face?
Oh geez, I just got it.
Antifa, BLM, Neo-Nazis militias and a giant, Confederate version of the Behistun stele
*Sets cruise missile for 1000 foot airburst*
Nuke it from space…
Public service announcement for anybody interested in military history: At long last, Montemayor has posted his second (and third!) Youtube videos for the Battle of Midway.
It had been like a year or so since the first one, and I was seriously wondering if he’d been hit by a bus or something.
I like the older military history stuff, usually the Nepoleanic Era is the most modern I pay attention to….as an aside, Thomas Cochrane was a fucking badass. I’d love to see a Profiles on Toxic Masculinity article about that dude.
His toxic masculinity needs to be addressed in volumes: Royal Navy, Chilean Navy, bedrooms, investment scandal, and I think I’m missing some.
Thank you!
*checks clock*
Well, it’s officially past noon in God’s Timezone.
*cracks a beer*
Yes. It’s not like I have to wait three years for three-year-old cheese.
Though, to be fair, I don’t like beans. YMMV.
Aged cheeses aren’t priced at $1 per unit because they are shelf stable either.
I’m just shooting my mouth off :/
Sure it would add to the cost of beans, but it could be done. Call them “organic” and watch them fly off the shelves.
They do. Its depressing how stupid people are won over by lazy marketing.
wait, you mean you didn’t place your order back in 2017?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1294640261587439617
??
Poor old gropey Joe.
OT: Hockey player tells truth, “opts out”.
Apologies if drugs fell out of my ass, but this came to my attention as I am giving the game one more chance this afternoon.
If you have a moment, check out the AFL’s website and watch the end of the Carlton-Fremantle game.
Will do. I’ve tuned out the season so completely out of touch. I hope Carlton won.
LOL I wasn’t even aware of that rule. “Down field” what now?
Short version: if the man disposing of the ball gets hit late, then the free kick is given at the point where the ball lands.
Thanks, yeah, I had to look it up. Something about “and the ball hasn’t been retrieved yet”.
I’ll take it!
https://mobile.twitter.com/VBitter01/status/1294056203849306113
76th out of 85. Good work there Joe.
LOL. I don’t care about the rank but the lying is a tad troubling.
PS. You know those clips are old because they’re reporting it instead of shoving it under the carpet.
Yes, the rank is only relevant because he blatantly lied about it.
This is the “best” they had to run with in 2020.
I hope Trump’s campaign team is paying attention.
Ok, I made it though this conspriracy parade?
Anyone else? Somebody please debunk this for me. Please!!!
I’m waiting for the cliff notes on this one.
It’s quite professionally done. I tried to walk away about four times, but I couldn’t help myself. I hope she doesn’t commit suicide. Right out of the she breaks my heart by showing my second favorite “news” babe with the kingpin of the cabal. Asset indeed.
PSA for our California peeps: Brownells has got your back.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/brownells-shipping-standard-capacity-magazines-to-california-get-em-while-you-can/
Will look; thanks!
Its bacon curing day. Also maybe a smoked meatloaf for tonight. Need more beer though
I can personally answer the sneezing question from earlier in the thread.
I’m making Louisiana Hot sauce from the bag of cayenne peppers my neighbor gave me. I was fine until the went into the blender. I should have waited for the mix to cool a bit before putting it on high.
Facebook reminder from a few years ago. Pre-Glibs even!
::thinks back to Thursday evening horse article:: Hmmm…
Look, Mr Churchill was a product of the 19th century. Workhorses were far more common, and the injuries were no different than “so and so got hurt in a car crash” these days.
Ohio continues to follow the science:
Ohio schools can’t use face shields as widespread replacement for masks during coronavirus pandemic, ODH says
For the love of Pete, neither one really works! At least the shields don’t interfere with the wearer’s speech and breathing.
I am baffled by the number of work colleagues who are tired of the COVID mess yet accept as inevitable that we will be living with these restrictions for years.
#RESIST
So there’s a shortage of face shields.
/fool me once….
Hatch chiles are in stores. Any good recipe/uses for a handful or three? Other than canning/preserving.
https://www.food.com/recipe/chuys-hatch-new-mexican-green-chile-sauce-40666
Put on any eggs, enchilada, or burrito
Hatch chillies are a marketing scam.
There. I said it.
Okay, thats mean. Here you go.
https://www.yummly.com/recipe/Hatch-chili-rellenos-326148?prm-v1
Nah. Real Hatch has a unique flavor. That said, don’t know if I could pick it out from other New Mex Chilis, but it/they are different from what’s grown other places.
Just like sourdough starter from San Fran is different than elsewhere, same with the Hatch grown chili.
It’s like all dope in the 70’s was “Columbian”
It’s like all dope in the 70’s was “Columbian”
1976 prices for a lid (ounce):
$15 for “Mexican”
$20 for “Red Lumbo” (Columbian)
Do note that the weight included a lot of stems and seeds.
Well, I mean they are just Anaheim that are grown in the New Mexico Hatch area, right? So yeah, marketing scam. I’ve never seem theme here. I have a jar of chili powder made from Hatch and I love that stuff on corn. But I don’t think I’ve ever actually ate one, we get the Anaheim from the store here.
You can buy Hatch seeds on the intertoobs, but since you’d be growing them in your area, I don’t think they will actually be Hatch peppers. Balmer peppers anyone? Great with crabs.
Does terroir (to use the French term) have any impact on the flavour of a Hatch chile? It seems that where something’s grown oft-times influences flavours.
What’s still a mystery to me is how they can assign a Scoville unit to Jalapeno peppers. I think it’s 8 or 10 thousand for those? But you can’t really tell. I’ve had some that you could just eat them and they had no perceptible heat or maybe just the least hint. I had some last week that I picked off one of my plants. I took one that was a big fat mature jalapeno, but no cracks in it on turning other colors or anything, it was just the normal green. I always take a bight out of one before I cook with them. I took a bite of that one and almost immediately I could feel the heat. A couple minutes later I was walking around with a water saying ‘OMG’, that’s fucking hot! So I adjusted the amount down for my salsa, Jebus, that was one fucking hot jalapeno. Some friends of mine from Mexico brought some from there once and I couldn’t eat them, seriously, those things would burn me the fuck up. And I can drink Cayenne pepper sauce right out of the bottle and eat Jalapenos all day, unless they are super hot like that. I love spicy stuff, but I have no idea how people eat those really hot peppers, like reapers, that shit be cray cray.
Current salsa in fridge has been reaperfied.
Next batch is gonna get scorpioned. I posted the pic last night of my first Apocalypse Scorpion chocolate pepper. I’m a lil bit scared of it, not gonna lie.
Those who are about to burn, we salute you!
I ain’t going near that thing. I have some lemon peppers that I’m interested in doing stuff with. They’re supposed to be 30,000 Scoville. They’re hot, but not any hotter than the hotter jalapenos that I’ve had. But the citrus like flavor is interesting and the plants are really pretty.
I don’t know how you eat those reaper peppers, any flavor would just be overtaken by the heat. I guess cooking, like habaneros, but just eating them, no way.
Hyperion: Yeah, the super-hots are for cooking, not for snacking. I’ll use one ghost/reaper per pot of chili (as well as several other peppers).
I don’t know if it is a scam because they are good chilis, but it is marketing and good marketing at that. It is known the best chilis are grown on the western slope of CO but they don’t advertise it.
Green chile cheeseburgers.
/begin Homer Simpson drool mode
Just roasted a batch and dehydrated half of those.
Used in one of my bacon batches that I just threw in the icebox to cure
Oh and I used some to make an avacado-tomatillo dressing
Also yum.
It was supposed to be salsa but came out a bit thick and creamy so….dressing it is! Tastes like the ball-field guacamole from yore and I love it.
Sounds like home-made Heredia.
Thank you all. Have some ideas now.
The worst farting spell I ever had came from eating a combo of bacon jerky, chili, a Complete Cookie, and beer. I was farting like a foghorn all through the next day.
Fun fact: the word flatulence comes from the Latin word for blowing, flatus. This is also where the words flow and flute come from.
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flute (n.)
early 14c., from Old French flaut, flaute (musical) “flute” (12c.), from Old Provençal flaut, which is of uncertain origin; perhaps imitative or from Latin flare “to blow” (from PIE root *bhle- “to blow”); perhaps influenced by Provençal laut “lute.” The other Germanic words (such as German flöte) are likewise borrowings from French.
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Today’s brews are Ayinger Oktoberfest, Death Before Disco porter, Silent Accord milk stout, and Buddha beer.
I’ll stop drinking tomorrow, I promise. I’m serious this time.
I really am going to stop drinking tomorrow. I don’t like working with a hangover. My god, I had a bad one this morning. No beer for 10 days, so I made up for it last night. At some point, I can barely remember anything. I don’t remember going to bed, but I do remember my wife saying ‘Mr Hyperion, put that damn sword away, you’re going to cut yourself or break something! If you break my things, I’m going to kill you!’.
One time, I killed a 12 pack of White Claw and went to bed around 3 AM. I woke up in the room around the corner from mine with no memory of how I got there. The room was unlocked, which explains how I got inside. I had a hoodie on and my keys in my pocket. I’m pretty sure what happened was I got up in a drunken stupor, got a bag of chips from the vending machine, and then when I couldn’t open the door to my room, I just kept going until I found an open door.
Not my best night, to be sure. One of the events that sparked my quest to be booze free.
I suppose it’s possible someone broke into my room at night and carried me off as a prank. I think I would have woken up though. My wallet was on my desk and nothing was taken. Nobody shaved off my eyebrows or wrote on my forehead. Yeah, I’m pretty sure it was mean wandering around in a drunken stupor.
Waking up in a different bed than the one you went to sleep in is not a fun experience.
I think I drank 10 16.9oz pilsners and lagers last night. I assume they are all 5 or 5.something alcohol, so I was buzzed for realz.
Even if I pass out drunk, I sleep very lightly. Seriously, the least little strange noise will wake me up immediately. If I don’t wake up, I’m probably in a coma. I keep a tactical flashlight and a pistol on my night stand. My wife can vouch for how fast I will wake up and go for the weapon.
Her son came here last summer to go to my wife’s citizenship oath thing. It was supposed to be a surprise, but she knew about it. Although she failed to tell me. He arrived here like 1am in the morning and she left the key outside hidden for him in case he arrived and we were asleep.
I heard something that woke me up and I’m thinking ‘was that my door opening’? Then I hear footsteps. So first thing I did, I reached around behind me to see if my wife is in the bed. When I saw she was, I got one of those adrenaline rushes that will wake you right the fuck up and I was out of the bed, weapon in hand. My wife apparently then woke up, because she said ‘Honey it’s my son, don’t shoot him!’. I was a little pissed, we had a talk about that. That’s only the 3rd time in my life I thought I was going to confront an intruder, all of them turned out to be family. Fuck that shit, not fun at all. I’m getting ready to install an alarm system. Not sure whey I haven’t already.
Wow, you could have shot someone like that. It’s happened to others many times. Yeah, definitely get that alarm system.
When I kept a gun nearby in the places I’ve lived, I put it far enough away that I would have to get out of bed and walk a few feet to get my hands on it. It seemed safer that way.
It’s easier when you live alone because then you don’t have to worry about other people finding the gun.
I am reliably informed that around my parts White Claw is the drink of choice for middle-aged chicks who are into pottery. So, you know, something to think about.
Well, it is also stocked in bulk on military bases, although it has yet to edge out Bud Light.
“It is also stocked in bulk on military bases”
This does not reassure me. Red wine one step up from vinegar? Rotgut rum? Vodka that doubles as hydraulic fluid? *Those* are drinks for soldiers, dammit.
We have all that too.
Man, now I want some Military Special liquor*.
https://abc.nc.gov/Pricing/ViewItemDetails/85451
*I think it’s all the same, they just change the color and label.
Yuppie juice?
The worst farts I ever had was from home-made trail mix, specifically raisins, peanuts and Smarties (for my American friends, they’re like chocolate M&Ms, only edible). Subsequent, erm, research has demonstrated to my satisfaction that the raisins were the worst offender with the peanuts a distant second. Chocolate’s not a huge friend of mine, either.
This mix once caused me to fart so noxiously that a young lady who walked by twenty seconds later exclaimed “Is there a sewer backup someplace nearby?” (She had no idea that I’d just been there.) I no longer eat trail mix, or raisins/grapes, for that matter.
You don’t even get real smarties?
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0972/7116/products/all-city-candy-mega-smarties-candy-roll-225-oz-smarties-candy-company-1-roll-293012_300x.jpg?v=1557259478
M&M bashing? Do better.
Just Rockets by another name.
As for M&M bashing? Low-hanging fruit, easy target, yadda yadda yadda.
Smarties: a low-carbing weightlifter’s best workout friend.
OK, smarty,
Go to a party,
Girls are scantily clad and showing body
Interesting BBC piece on Branko Zebec, who’s credited with laying the foundations for Bayern’s domination: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52970612
Grade school rhyme Ted’s post recalled:
Marty Farty had a party,
Everyone was there.
Tutti Frutti blew a beauty,
Everyone went out for air.
suggested music: Rondeau (Masterpiece Theatre theme)
Wherein Bill Maher and failed Democratic presidential hopefuls ponder whycome them yokels in flyover country don’t like them
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/maher-says-bidens-lead-over-trump-too-slim-hillary-was-ahead-by-more
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“When I was campaigning around the country, I said, ‘I’m running for president,’ and someone would say, ‘What party?’ and I’d say, ‘Democrat,’ and you could see this negative reaction oftentimes,” Yang told Maher. “And this is from truck drivers or waitresses or retail clerks that I thought the Democratic Party was fighting for. And the fact that our message is not reaching certain Americans. I think the Democrats need to do some soul-searching and say, ‘Why is it, why is it that so many people think the Democratic Party isn’t speaking to them, isn’t fighting for them, is patronizing them?”
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Why indeed. Such an impenetrable mystery that is…
Yeah, it’s a total fucking mystery. /derp
“And this is from truck drivers or waitresses or retail clerks that I thought the Democratic Party was fighting for”
The problem is that Yang doesn’t actually know who the Democratic Party is fighting for. His vision of the Democratic Party is that they fight for the construction of a regulated, progressively taxed market economy, with a social safety net for the poor and incapable. But those things already exist, and there’s not a single politician anywhere pushing for their elimination.
What the Democratic Party in 2020 is actually fighting for are government workers, government cronies, and government created “industries” like trial lawyers and regulatory compliance, the climate and racial justice scams, etc etc. They want to tax truck drivers and waitresses and retail employees and give their hard earned money so that government scientists can name fucking crustaceans in the Caribbean making three or four times as much money as the people they are taxing.
They want to empower their lawyer buddies to sue truck drivers into poverty if they spring a gas leak on some fucking “protected natural area.” They want that retail clerk off her company health plan and onto to Medicare For All. They want that waitress to pay 6 dollars a gallon to gas up her car because rich liberals really really love the idea of big swathes of the Great Plains being pristine, not covered in icky oil wells.
Like, Yang is really big on automation and modernization right, that’s his thing. Well how come every fucking business around the world has used technology to cut their admin staff, except the federal government? Why do they have millions of paper pushers doing a job that could be handled via computer? Because the Democratic Party is the party of government, they’re not fighting for anything but the parasites. They are exceptionally good at fighting for the parasites.
Excellent rant.
Flawless…victory!
Yeah, I am reminded of that time John Edwards to his wife on date to Wendy’s to show how he was a man of the people. Which may have worked a little better had he not cheated on his wife so often.
I’d need to be a Hindu god to face palm enough.
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In an August 8, 2008, statement,[102] and an interview with Bob Woodruff of ABC News, Edwards admitted the affair with Hunter in 2006, but denied being the father of her child. He acknowledged that he had been dishonest in denying the entire Enquirer story, admitting that some of it was true, but said that the affair ended long before the time of the child’s conception. He further said he was willing to take a paternity test, but Hunter responded that she would not be party to a DNA test “now or in the future”.[103] Initially, campaign aide Andrew Young claimed that he, not Edwards, was the child’s father.[104] Young has since renounced that statement, and told publishers in a book proposal that Edwards always knew he was the child’s father; Young alleged that Edwards pleaded with him to falsely accept responsibility.[105]
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Christ, what an asshole.
You are fucking spot on, bro.
10/10 would read again
#metoo
I wonder which party is behind taxing tips at nearly 50% so that waittresses have to lie about their income. Or which party is designing regulations that have caused many truckers to just retire early instead of dealing with onerous regulation.
And lying about your tips will get you in the gulag. Yeah, I wonder who would support that? Why the champions of the little people, that’s who!
All so they can make sure the 1% have their 100% SALT deduction.
Am I so not drinking anything that comes in a can looks like that. Hipster juice!
Trashy, if you’re there, I updated my Firefox and now my read comments don’t mark themselves as read when I refresh. Is there something I need to do with Greasemonkey or Monocle?
Qualifying at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In front of completely empty stands. It looks like a goddam tire test.
Pathetic.
I wonder if anyone at the CDC is familiar with the story of the boy who cried wolf.
Lol, crying wolf is their job.
I’ve been considering changing my handle to an honor you bestowed upon me a little while back. Only time and inspiration + inebriation will tell…
TH/FKotDT
With great power comes great responsibility. Remember and fulfill your duty, always.
I wonder if anyone at the CDC is familiar with the story of the boy who cried wolf.
More like a rich kid who “kidnaps” himself and cuts his own ear off and mails it to his dad because he needs money to pay his drug debts.
Well how come every fucking business around the world has used technology to cut their admin staff, except the federal government? Why do they have millions of paper pushers doing a job that could be handled via computer?
An excellent question.
Rhetorical, but excellent.
I ask that myself everyday at work. Hell up to 3-4 years ago the only way to submit paperwork to VA electronical was via fax. Fax is more secure but come on…
We use Smartphones to collect data, and the App actually Works! and we get a lot of slack I didn’t think FedGov would put up with,
I posted it a couple days ago, but I will repeat.
The government took in 3.5 trillion in taxes last year. You could send the 30 million poorest households in the country 4,000 dollars a month and it would cost less than 1.5 trillion. Computer goes through all the tax returns from the previous year, sends 4000 dollars a month to the 30 million poorest. You can’t make it twice in a row. So if you sit on your ass and only collect the 48,000, then you’re off the dole next year. Post a million dollar bounty for people who defraud the system. So worst case scenario you have a permanent class of 60 million households that just alternate yearly collections. Still cheaper than the current system.
Add in a 300 billion dollar defense budget, and a 500 billion dollar allocation for the remainder of the federal government, and I have a 2.3 trillion dollar federal budget, which means I can pay off the debt in around 20 years with the current level of taxation.
The Democrats clients are not the poor, or the starving, or the hopeless, or the uneducated, or the sick. The Democrats clients are the government workers and all the associated contractors and nonprofits that make their living supposedly helping these people.
Today in “didn’t we read about this months ago?”:
Yeah, that’s not exactly fresh info.
Beyond Meat and Wegmans are perverts in cahoots
That stuff is actually really good. It’s expensive also, so unless you are vegan, there would be no sense in buying it. But anyone who tells you it’s not edible and is awful, is pretty much full of shit, IMHO.
lol this guy like peckers!
Dude, you ain’t Broketard, get some new material.
All I heard was Hyperion eats old guy penis.
You ain’t Broketard, ya’ll get some new material.
This beer is a bit odd. Guava is not terribly sweet, almost bitter. Which is a nice counter to the awful sweetness from pineapple
I think I will avoid this beer.
In the name of public health, officials in the Live Free or Die state can now enter any property
From Emergency Order 65 – An order authorizing assessments of civil penalties against businesses, organizations, entities, property owners, facility owners, organizers, and individuals who violate emergency orders (That’s everyone, in case you were wondering).
WHEREAS, in accordance with RSA 128, RSA 141-C, and RSA 147, local health officers are authorized to investigate, including inspecting sites on public and private property without the consent of the owners, all nuisances and other causes of danger to the public health;
The State, in the name of public health (Hygenic fascism), can do whatever the hell it wants, as warned. Should you decline or refuse, Order 65 outlines how you can be cited and fined.
Quoting grizzly, “With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?”
Well that’s unconstitutional on its face, but oh wait I’m being handed a note….
Hmm The FYTW Clause says it’s not actually unconstitutional.
“Well that’s unconstitutional on its face”
So, how is it different than anything else California is already doing? Biden said he’s going to make all this shit national, federalism is a thing of old white slave owners, like his VP’s family fortune.
Geezus.
Killdozers are going to be all the rage in 2021.
Post Master Henry Atkins wouldn’t have stood for this behavior!
Textbook agitprop. The silent majority shrugs its shoulders while the useful idiots get fawning, world-wide attention for their schemes to take power.
If you think you had a bad week….Bugatti Chiron And Porsche 911 Involved In $4 Million Crash
If I’m driving the Bugatti, I’m not only having a good week, I’m having a good life.
We finally got approved to start before 11:30, considering where we live, and have begun splitting shifts, I work from 9-1 today, I pulled off when it hit 120 degrees.
Maybe go back out at 4, if the wind comes up, but this shit is Dangerous to just walk around,
/Tall Cans!
HEY YUFUS!
Stay hydrated
Can these 16.9oz Euro cans be considered tall cans? If so, tall cans, bois!
#AllCansMatter!
if they contain Beer
TALL CANS!
BRAWNDO!
It’s got electrolytes……………..
Sup Tres!
Thoughts on the weapons?
Well, didn’t BLM say they were disappointed that there wasn’t any whitey militias around?
This is not good, since our government already don’t have excuses enough to lock us all down. How bout some martial law? Wouldn’t that be nice?
I’m not racist, but the whitey is right this time. Stop destroying history, you fucking luddites, or go join the Taliban, this is the sort of this those assholes are up to.
Go fucking home and take care of your family, idiots. Useful idiots. It’s sad that BLM doesn’t even know that’s what they are.
I think they are idiots.
For those who fail to understand, there has been a fully-planned, completely fake grass-roots effort under way for several years to foment racial unrest in the United States. It is not by accident that we are here. This was the objective all along. And it started with an event just like this one.
Charlottesville wasn’t actually the beginning, but it was the first time the plan worked. Here was the plot: These groups had spent years trying to use racism to drive political power, but in the era of Obama, “whitey is racist” was losing its power. So they had to work overtime. And they did. They had their BLM moments, but still no great traction. You see, they didn’t have an opposition. There’s no great TV moments if you scream “Don’t murder innocent black people” and everyone yells back “I agree! Don’t murder innocent black people!”
And then they came up with a new strategy. To get that opposition they so desperately needed, they would attack cultural touchstones. They began “protesting” various civil war monuments. It didn’t get much traction, even though some city counsels went along with the calls to get rid of the memorials. Then they came for the Charlottesville Monument Avenue. This is a central image of the city. It is akin to coming after the Statue of Liberty in New York, or the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The people see it as iconic of their home. Finally, a strategy that paid off.
And even then, they had to orchestrate things. The “we want to keep our monuments” crowd applied for a permit to hold a rally. And the city corralled them into a park. And Antifa showed up and lined a street adjacent. And the police, under orders from the city, shuttled all those people directly into the Antifa crowd. Exactly what they wanted. Antifa attacked the rally attendees – physically and verbally. And we all watched live on TV as NBC and CNN told us that “racist groups are attacking counter-protesters with clubs!” I watched it on NBC – and they were showing a black clad Antifa group attack a group of middle aged men. NBC’s anchors and analysts pointed out the military clad antifa group and said “these right wing hate groups came prepared for violence, and you can see with your own eyes that they are attacking the citizens who came to peacefully protest their presence!” Oooops. Had the script, but forgot to check the jerseys that the teams would be wearing today, I guess.
Anyway, that was the strategy. Attack a cultural icon, draw out normal people who are not racist or against anything other than people coming to their home and wrecking things, and then when they take to the streets to let their voices be heard, physically assault them and count on the media to report just how violent you are.
Smash cut to Stone Mountain. “We demand that this be torn down!” Idiots come out to march in opposition to that notion. Antifa types assault them. Media reports “Right wing hate group protest turns violent!”
Idiots.
“For those who fail to understand, there has been a fully-planned, completely fake grass-roots effort under way for several years to foment racial unrest in the United States.”
Our beloved government, doing what Charles Manson could not do.
In this case it was a network of Soros and Obama affiliated groups that came up with the “attack the confederacy” strategy.
I’m not at all convinced that Obama wasn’t a party to the St. Louis events that lead to the creation of BLM. Holding off on your findings for a couple of months while riots spread, when you knew within 24 hours that “hands up, don’t shoot” was a lie is a bit suspicious to me.
They are not just idiots, they are assets… for now.
We just need to run them through this.
Not this?
https://www.auctiontime.com/listings/construction-equipment/auctions/online/195727363/vermeer-1250
Is the guy in the first photo on suicide watch? Where’s his bootlaces?
“The sculpture is America’s largest Confederate memorial”
Uh, yeah.
It is also the largest sculpture in America. It is in fact the largest bas relief in the world. It dwarfs that other monument of white supremacy, Mnt. Rushmore.
That’s pretty easy to learn. It is in the first paragraph at wikipedia. I mean, you do have to wade through a half paragraph of political propaganda to get to it, but it is right there in the summary.
I fully expect the wokesters to go after Othello at some point, because it portrays a POC violently lusting after a white gal. How problematic!
We’re told thus and such is racist. Do you want to know what else is racist? Just about everyone born before 1950, and most of the people alive today.
Year Zero, here we come!
I submitted my list of Cultural Revolutionaries to the school board that is renaming schools named for Jefferson, Wilson, and Hoover.
The ‘wokesters’ are going after anything that represents Western civilization. That’s their target, they’re Marxist scum, nothing more.
Went to a laser show there back in the 90s. Don’t recall what it was about but it was some kind of summer thing…pretty sure it wasn’t celebrating the confederacy…but it’s been a while.
Poor dumb honkey couldn’t even tell he was being whitewashed.
Also, the article and captions repeatedly refer to “anti-racist activists”. We are an amazing country. We have “anti-racists” who have a nakedly racist agenda.
Yep. I’ll bet you can do the same with most antifa supporters as well.
Goya black bean soup poured over white rice is a delicious meal by itself. I eat it with Tabasco or Crystal hot sauce. If you need a quick and super easy meal, grab a rotisserie chicken and a can of Goya black bean soup, cook up a pot of rice and cut up the rotisserie chicken. Done. Two cans of beans and a chicken feeds my 5 easily.
My daughter likes to make a burrito out of it. My son dumps a pile of salsa on top to make a tropi-chop (Pollo Tropical is a regional fast food chain and this is their signature dish). The young one likes to have the rice with butter and salt and the chicken with tomato ketchup.
Feeds the whole family a hearty quasi-home cooked meal for well under $10. Total prep time…. how long does it take you to cut up a chicken? Wanna just farm that out to the family at dinner time, put down a zero for that. 15 minutes to cook rice, which consists of measuring water and rice into a pot and then waiting 15 minutes. **
**I mention the rice because a friend of ours who is a newly single stay at home mom was reticent when we were at her place and the kids didn’t want to leave… I suggested we make general tso’s chicken and she was kinda freaked out. She didn’t have any rice packets. She had never made real rice – only the boil-in bags or instant stuff. What? So I taught her how to make rice that evening. She was really nervous and kept saying “I don’t know… I never” over and over as I walked her through it.
1. Grab a pot and put it on the stove.
2. Grab a cup or glass. Fill it with water and dump it in the pot. Do that again.
3. Fill your cup or glass with rice. Dump it in the pot.
4. Put the lid on and simmer for 15 minutes until the rice is totally done and the water is all absorbed.
“That’s it?”
Yup. That’s it.
She laughed out loud. “That’s soooooo easy!”
Yes, sweetie. It is as easy as it gets.
I’m big on Alton Browns method. Toast the rice in hot fat (butter, olive oil, even bacon grease), then when its nice and nutty and every grain is covered in oil, then pour in boiling water or stock. Cover, cook on low for 15 minutes, then take off the eat, and slip a clean dish towel between pot and lid and let it steam out for 5 or 10 minutes. Makes really really good rice that doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pot. Definitely an extra effort but really good.
Sounds great!
The recipe I need to find is the rice from Chipotle. They make a cilantro rice that is to die for. I tried a recipe that I found online, but it wasn’t great. I added cilantro and lime to the water and stirred it in once will cooking. The cilantro was over-cooked and the whole thing just didn’t taste quite right. It was OK, but nothing special. Chipotle rice is like crack.
I would guess the way to do cilantro lime rice is to fish out the cilantro before you actually add the rice. Just let the cilantro infuse into the water as it comes to a boil, then pull the leaves and stems.
Well, you got the ‘fish out the cilantro’ part right. Now add sweet basil. You dont cook rice in water. You cook it in chicken broth and add butter to keep the grains from sticking together.
This is known.
Taking out the cilantro? WTF? MOAR SOAPWEED!
Yup, I use that method with rice all the time. I add chicken stock (usually Better than Bullion which rocks) and a bay leaf. If I’m feeling more adventurous I’ll add chopped onion and celery to the rice as it is browning and then when fluffing with a fork at the end add a handful o chopped parsley or cilantro. Muy bueno.
Goya black bean soup fucking rocks. My cabinets always have plenty of that in stock. You don’t even need to include the rice, just heat it in a pan and it’s read to go, yummy.
Why didn’t I know about this decades ago. When I was a kid the only kind of dried beans that we ever had were the terrible kind. Pinto Beans. Blackeyed peas. Lima beans. Yuck. Kidney beans are tolerable, if you put them in chili. But other than that? Blech.
Then I moved to South Florida. I dated a Cuban girl briefly. She took me to her family’s weekend picnic. Mom made black beans and rice – they mix it together and call it con gris. Sooooo goooood. How did I not know?
I started going to Cuban restaurants and getting the Churrasco. If you have never had Churrasco, you must immediately head down to your nearest Cuban restaurant and order the Churrasco – skirt steak with a chimichuri sauce. Holy crap. beans and rice, fried plantains…. damn. That’s how you do it.
We never ate skirt steak when I was a kid. Nobody did. It was the cheapest crap there is.
We were idiots. That stuff is fantastic. And really easy… thin, so it cooks fast. You want it medium/medium-rare. But it holds up to over-cooking.
What we didn’t know about food in my neck of the woods growing up could fill a book. A whole library of books, in fact.
“Why didn’t I know about this decades ago.”
Because you’re gay and were too busy eating old man penis.
I know about black beans because my wife is Brazilian and black beans and rice are a staple there. And she’s the one who knew the Goya brand and started buying it for our home. So I lucked out there, again.
I’m literally laughing out loud.
I haven’t had a chance to have a completely juvenile conversation in…. well, a long time. We are so stupidly PC these days. Thank you! I needed that!
Feijão com arroz e bastante farofa com vinagrete. Carne, frango ou peixe. Prato feito é muito bom rapaz.
Vinagrete is great stuff as well. Also, farofa with beef.
Uncle Roger will be very disappointed that you didn’t rinse the rice first.
https://youtu.be/53me-ICi_f8
Wife’s method:
Rinse rice well and drain
Add rice and water to pot
Bring to boil and cover with a lid wrapped in a clean dishtowel (one that won’t bleed), turn down to simmer
Cook for 20 minutes
Turn off and let sit for 10minutes
Adjust for brown or near brown rices
“Turn off and let sit for 10minutes”
I don’t rinse, and only let it sit for about five. If your rice sticks it will unstick if you leave the lid on and let it sit on a trivet .
I always add salt, and either oil or butter, to the rice and water.
Jean (Wong Toy Jin) Lumb’s method, which she taught to a dumbass ten-year-old kid (me) back at her signature Kwongchow Cantonese Restaurant in Toronto in 1968:
The vast majority of rices cook best with a ratio of 1 part rice to 1.5 parts water. This is the ratio used for “steamed rice” in most Chinese restaurants and families (it’s actually boiled and then simmered, but “steamed” somehow became the standard name for the method).
Place 1 part rice and 1.5 parts water (by volume, please) into a pot. Unless you suspect the rice to be inadequately cleaned, no need to wash it. (In fact, if you like eating with chopsticks, not washing the rice allows the starch to cause the rice to clump together, which makes chopstick eating easy). Bring to a boil, and then turn down to a simmer, starting your timer at 20 minutes the moment it starts boiling. When you achieve a simmer (approx. 1.5 – 2 minutes later), cover and leave alone until your timer goes off. Then turn off the heat and let the rice sit for another 10-15 minutes (the longer time should be used for rice quantities above 1 cup of raw rice). Then uncover and serve.
Brown rice uses exactly the same ratios, but requires almost 45 minutes of simmering (the bran covering the rice won’t “crack” until almost 25 minutes after starting the boil/simmer, at which time the hot water can finally reach the inner starches of the rice). Then let sit off the heat as above, uncover and serve.
N.B.: If you’re using Uncle Ben’s brown “converted” rice, the timing is the same as for white rice, because the Uncle Ben’s is par-cooked to the point that the bran is pre-cracked.
You can certainly add salt, a small splash of lemon juice and/or a small pat of butter at the beginning of cooking time, if that’s how you wanna roll. You can also use flavoured broths.
“Steamed” rice is so simple, even the 10-year-old dumbass could do it.
Who was Jean Lumb?
https://jeanlumbfoundation.ca/?p=6427
Easier is you buy a rice cooker, so you don’t have to time a damn thing. Throw the rice and chicken stock (or water) in, hit the start button, walk away.
Thinking outside the box: Eyes painted on cow butts thwart lion attacks .
Also, Swiss will need to update his photo collection.
The accident is a reminder to all of us to exercise caution when overtaking – a longer trip to your destination is always a safer alternative to taking a chance.
Right. Because that’s why you buy a car capable of pinning you back in the seat. So you can chug along at the speed of the slowest car on the road.
I never had a need for speed. I also have the best driving record among the males of my extended family. My brother totaled his car about an hour after he got his license. My dad flipped a car over among other misadventures. His brother drove my dad’s truck off a cliff in the mountains near Sylmar, CA. I presume he did some kind of McGuyver maneuver to escape going with the truck. My dad was on a Mormon missionary in Germany at the time. When he got back, he asked where his truck was.
Ah, about that…
It was at the bottom of a long drop. I forget what special wrecker service was required to retrieve it.
Oh yeah – I lost one uncle to a motorcycle accident when he was 20 or so. And the other uncle drives so badly I stopped riding with him after one trip. Last time I checked, he had hit deer on at least 4 occasions.
My dad was on a Mormon missionary in Germany at the time.
Er, phrasing?
Jebus. Strike that “on”.
If you find yourself in New Hampshire, some restaurants could use some support.
I’ve been to Makris. It’s pretty good.
FloridaMan™ at work: Man claims to be health inspector, demands drink or will shut down Earl’s Hideway
That guy was having a fantasy that he’s actually Horizontal Harris and has been elected president.
You cast aspersions….. but I had a serious question that I’m never going to ask, and nobody else is either. During her presentation with Biden, Joe fawned all over her, talking about her devotion to family.
Now, I don’t know much about Kamala. We aren’t close. I’ve just followed her since learning about her from her record as a prosecutor. She turned up on civil libertarian’s radar more than once. So I’m a bit biased against her, because of that background. But I don’t know a thing about her family life.
Except one thing. One, simple thing that I think you really, really would have to ask about if you were sitting there listening to that description of her as a strong family woman. You see, the only other thing I know about her is that she had an affair with a 60 year old married man while she was in her late 20’s and getting her career started. That’s the only thing I know about her family life.
Now, it isn’t definitive. People change. But damn, if you got your career started by being the other woman, I don’t think I’d put “devoted to family” at the top of the list.
Actually, now that I think about it, I do know one other thing about her as relates to “family” directly. I watched her performance in the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. She had absolutely no qualms about slandering a quiet family man with the dirtiest of lies, simply for political expediency. It didn’t bother her one bit to sit there accusing a guy who seems to center his life around his daughters of being involved in massive gang rapes. She absolutely had to know that the entire thing was a farce. I don’t believe for one second that she’s that much of an idiot.
So yeah.. I think if you are sitting there with your press pass and they keep pushing “strong family woman” at you, you really have some questions that need to be answered. And if you don’t at least ask them, then yes, you are a partisan hack.
Does it matter that Willie and his wife were “amicably separated” for more than tens years before the “Affair.”
Not so much no. She used her pussy to get appointed to commissions and get a leg up on her political career, maybe not illegal, but certainly highly immoral.
For something that doesn’t matter so much it sure gets cast in the worst possible light. I hadn’t looked into it before but the impression I had was that she was some home-wrecking side piece banging Willie in the office while his wife was clueless, not that they were openly dating and that Willie and his wife had been separated for 12 years.
We just went through a couple years of MeToo bullshit with all the attendant hand wringing, lawsuits, reputation destruction, financial destruction and criminal trials that went with it. All for what appears to be largely transactional sex.
So there is a huge hypocrisy there (what’s new) when proggies choose to ignore this particular transactional sex. For me, this is far worse than the Hollywood director trading a movie part for blowjobs. I’m not forced at the point of a gun to go pay to see that movie.
Regardless, none of that will come up at a debate. I find her anti-Catholic bigotry more damning and I doubt that will come up, either.
It is interesting that the same people who kept Bad Orange Man’s infidelity front page news for years are suddenly mysteriously silent about her.
Well, of course there is no mystery. It’s the same reason they’re so quiet about Hair Sniffin’ Joe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgpXjJ7pSkQ
Suck it, Pep.
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Sterling missed a wide open goal just before Lyon went the other way to make it 3-1. 🙂
Julien Laurens, French football “expert”:
“On whether Pep Guardiola overthinks in the Champions League…
Massively. Sometimes it works, like against Real Madrid in Spain. Great, that works. But too many times it hasn’t worked.
It didn’t work away against Spurs last season, it didn’t work against Monaco three years ago because he messed up the second leg.
Why don’t you play your normal team in a normal formation tonight against a team that is far weaker than you? Why do you need to adapt your formation to the opposition?
It just doesn’t work like this. He has to take the blame. He has to take responsibility. It has happened too many times.
He has to step up and say sorry, I keep trying to come with ideas and it’s just not working. If i was a City fan tonight I’d be really cross with what Pep Guardiola has done. He messed it up big time.”
It didn’t work when he was with Bayern, either.
Damn… I might just have to watch the repeat and enjoy that.
I think I found a new church: Gabola church ‘connects with God by drinking alcohol’
Prince used to claim to connect with God via sex. Sounds like an even better idea.
Why not both? And be x-tra saved ?
There is definitely a synergy there. Maybe there is something to this Unitarian movement after all…..
God created man, man created religion. Why not just skip that shit and decide morality on your own. Because we are all capable of doing it.
Ok, you guys gotta see this one:
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1294430362404364289
AOC saying police unions shouldn’t be endorsing candidates. AOC, against public unions!
Guffaw!
Im sure she feels the same about Teamsters, UAW, and AFGE, too.
And the post office.
Lets flip this around on the teacher unions:
“The American Federation of Teachers endorsed Biden. I’m sure this is part of their neighborhood outreach plan.
Also, does anyone else see a potential problem with teacher unions – having a monopoly on educating your children – promoting “preferred” candidates for office or is that just me?”
I have a problem with ignorant morons teaching children and that is exactly what is happening.
The College of Education at DePaul churned out some hotties but from my personal experience, when I was single and went out on a date with a teacher, they were the most entitled individuals I ever encountered. They thought that praise should be lavished on them simply due to their profession and they also usually where the ones who despite going on a couple of dates would never ever dream of reaching for the wallet to split the bill.
They aren’t all just ignorant morons. Some of them know exactly what they are doing. And it ain’t teaching reading, writing, and rithmatic.
I’d have to agree with both of those statements.
Yes, even FDR was against public sector unions.
Yep, as I ranted about upthread, and have said several times: the old Democrats had to get votes from huge chunks of private sector workers who actually produced things. That’s not really true today.
A UMWA member in 1940 might hate the boss man, hate the corporate fatcats, but at the end of the day, his paycheck came from a private corporation that made money based on how much coal it sold. They were organizing for better pay and working conditions, so that they could keep digging coal. There were bonuses not for hitting diversity targets or for volunteering for some leftist nonprofit, but for digging lots of coal.
The modern Democratic Party’s political power base is from government employees, the government contractors, and the government created industries. It’s not coal miners and steelworkers and autoworkers and stevedores. It’s teachers, bureaucrats, government contractors and consultants, trial lawyers chiseling money based on a million bullshit laws, regulatory compliance, pass through contractors, HR professionals, etc etc.
https://www.ncdemography.org/2019/12/13/nc-in-focus-top-employer-by-state-and-county-2019/
Don’t even get me started on the rise of the “nonprofit” sector.
Right, they are being paid with taxes not “profits”.
The other thing is that they are often “essential” services. What happens if the police or paramedics go on strike? If coal miners, factory workers, etc. go on strike it only affects one company, or maybe even only one plant.
Nonprofit? That went bye-bye as far as I can tell. The hot new thing for the last 10 years is not-for-profit, which scored better in the focus groups I guess.
Not-for-profits are sort of like not-for-booze beggars. Even so, I wouldn’t mind getting stuck in the Big Rock Candy Mountains for a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ
Fighting between Proud Boys, er White nationalists (how come BLM isn’t labeled Black nationalists?) and “counter protestors” in Kalamazoo. This won’t stay limited to fisticuffs and sticks.
You know who else threw down in Kalamazoo?
https://youtu.be/t521jxF8tyc
Upthread Hyperion and I had a completely juvenile exchange about penises.
On that note, the last episode of The Fifth Column was worth a listen. They had Andrew Sullivan on. I should call him “the recently cancelled Andrew Sullivan”.
He was talking about the Gay community from a few decades ago when he was coming of age. He talked about their wicked sense of humor in the face of real discrimination and the terrible scourge of AIDS (where maybe 1/3 of your friends eventually ended up dead). Then he compared that with today’s uptight and anti-funny culture.
Well worth hearing what he had to say.
You started it, you totally gay penis eating monster!
Get a room, you two!
But, he’s gay!
“I’m not gay, but I am willing to learn”
Harold Ramis, we miss you.
Good to see he’s more than just the token non-leftist on Maher. I used to read him in the early before times, like 20 years ago. (Damn…) I know he went nuts a few years ago, though. Hope he recovered.
Yeah the whole “Sarah Palin covered up her daughter’s teen pregnancy by pretending the baby was hers” was absolutely bizarre. I thought it was particularly insane because Trig Palin has Downs syndrome. You know you has babies with Downs? 44 year old women, not 17 year old girls.
We all have our bad moments, his was just particularly bizarre. I also don’t like his “I am totally a conservative even though I voted Obama, Obama, Hillary, Biden.” But that’s a money making gig, that “house negro conservative pundit”
That entire campaign was an embarrassment. It was the first time I had ever seen any aspect of the sexism that the left was always warning me about. They went after her on every sexist trope you could possibly imagine. It was the female version of Clarence Thomas and all of the naked racism he endured.
I totally didn’t understand your post… so I googled Sullivan. He’s a conservative commentator? What?
He’s the former editor of New Republic. He’s loudly and openly gay. He hates Trump more than he hates AIDS.
He describes himself as a conservative, but I didn’t really hear that in the interview. More of a former leftist who has come around to a more libertarian worldview. And he’s been offended by the excesses of the left enough to have firmly rejected them.
He’s a conservative the same way I’m a Trump supporter. I keep ending up taking positions defending Trump not because i have great love for the man or his politics, but because his opponents are so absolutely intolerably wrong that I wind up with a compulsion to tell them the error of their ways. His positions on much of what would be considered conservative (like the Bell Curve) sounds more like “you guys are completely wrong in your censorious approach to ideas” than it does a full throated embrace of conservative ideology.