A little something to get your mind off this mornings picture.
Fall has arrived. Over the last week, or so, mornings have been cooler and the breeze has that fall note to it. This is my favorite part of the year.
Putin and Trump continue the long tradition of international checkers.
Japanese? So the maximum weight load is 90lb?
Name that movie. No, seriously, I can’t remember the name of it.
So much for a future of honesty and integrity.
I’ll take the fat, thank you.
PSA. Don’t play this song early in a relationship and try and convince her it’s a positive.
Even if you follow it with this one, it’s too late.
Rittenhouse *should* walk, fully exonerated.
But reality, well, reality sometimes fails to conform.
And the criminal that attacked him, along with other members of the mob, charged with felony murder.
Regardless of judicial verdict, his life as a free man is over.
“Justice” will be served.
(Sprays pitchfork repellant around perimeter)
He’ll do OK if he manages to beat the rap and not be too mentally scarred from it. Rightly or wrongly, a lot of people see him as a hero and he’ll always be able to get a job.
He can change his name to Chad Chaddington III and move on.
I’m betting he will be ok in the long run.
Kyle Rittenhouse/Nick Sandmann 2040!
Bernie Goetz agrees.
You motherfucker!
Blame it all on my roots
I came here in boots
And ruined your black lives affair.
Lach wins the internet.
I like the one:
Joseph Rosenbaum died doing what he loved; chasing minors.
Follow up from last thread, where I commented on the lack of authenticity in the jerk recipe. Here was what we made: https://thepeachtruck.com/blogs/the-peach-truck-kitchen/spicy-jerk-chicken-with-peach-chutney
It was very good, even without the scotch bonnets.
Nice. That sounds good. Although I would leave the raisins out of the chutney.
Scotchies are over-rated, even when I was young enough to put up with the “burn your asshole for days” experience. There are far less incendiary chiles out there with much more interesting flavours that can still bring some heat, if that’s what you’re into. And jerk marinade’s actually really good even without any heat.
Love those island flavours, mon!
Related, I processed a half dozen Hatch peppers (mild not the hot ones) for freezing last night. Thought I had washed my hands thoroughly. Hour or more later was watching tv and had itchy eye so rubbed the corner….. shortly it went to slightly dumb and then slight burning sensation. “Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck” as I ran for the sink to flush my eye.
Jerk sauce with no onions? Or soy sauce? Or lime juice?
Do I need to post my real recipe?
Also scotch bonnets are habaneros. Many nightshades vary in shape depending on where they are grown. Take four datura cuttings from the same plant, grow them in four different conditions, and you’ll get four totally different looking plants.
Count gets it. A whole fuckton of green onions, garlic, soy sauce, lime juice, and this hot sauce that the Haitian guy at the market sells because it’s got the heat and the allspice. Awesomesauce!
The Russia pilots crossed within 100 feet of the nose of the B-52 multiple times and also caused turbulence to the B-52 restricting its ability to maneuver, according to the statement.
They were just trying to give Trump his new orders. What’s the big deal?
Nah, they just email his orders to his AOL account, routed through Hilary’s server.
That’s so 2016.
So they are angling for the “work from home” market.
I should have checked to see if the last thread was dead.
NH Trump supporters react to “Please wear your masks” before yesterday’s Trump rally.
Now that brings a tear to my eye.
And the comment: “Very intellectual people. Hmmmm..”
So now the left sees mask non compliance as an indicator of stupidity, whereas unquestioningly following illegal orders is High intellect?
Uh, duh.
Yes.
“WEARING A MASK ISN’T POLITICAL, IT’S AN INTELLIGENCE TEST” was on a sign I saw at the Keene, NH anti-mask ordinance protest.
a counter-protestor’s sign.
They’re not wrong. It’s a good IQ test.
Now, they might have the scale inverted…
Heh
Fall has arrived.
Shut your whore mouth. No it hasn’t.
Meanwhile, in other downer news
https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2020/08/portland-trail-blazers-legend-cliff-robinson-has-died-reports.html
Cliff Robinson
Kevin Duckworth
Jerome Kersey
Paul Allen
Someone is killing Rip City era Blazers. Anyone seen Scotty Pippen lately? Has Clyde Drexler been provided increased security yet?
My only complaint about Fall is that it doesn’t last for about six months.
Yeah, it’s arrived here, too. I’m still waiting for the first hard frost that kills all the mosquitoes and allows us to sit outside and enjoy the sunshine. ’Nother coupla weeks, probably…
Seriously. Autumn is the best season, if for no other reason than that it heralds the return of brown liquors.
Dark rum?
Aged tequila?
Yep.
I tend to drink a lot of gin and vodka when it’s hot out, and as the leaves turn to gold, the liquor turns to rye, bourbon, and scotch.
Summer here lasts just long enough to go through a bottle of gin and a bottle of Pimm’s.
Your summer lasts a week?
Ahhh… a fellow Pimms drinker. I’m partial to ginger ale or lemonade, although gin or even iced tea works.
I killed a liter of Knob Creek in the last two weeks.
I may have a problem. I mean, have you seen what that shit costs?
…about three weeks.
Plus when it’s hot, I drink pretty much everything tall.
Do people actually say that to actual whores? I would think that they would say something about holding still and sticking your tongue out. Of course, that might just be cinema.
Loved watching Clyde the Glide when I lived there. He was poetry in motion. And a cool dude.
The company, SkyDrive, said in a news release on Friday that it had completed a flight test using “the world’s first manned testing machine,” its SD-03 model, an electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle. The flight time was four minutes, the company said.
Now try again with a real power source.
You mean SOLAR?!? ;-)
+1 small block V8
“Consuming your own fecal microbiome helps keep off lost weight”
Eat shit and diet.
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It always comes back to ass eating.
You would have to eat your own ass.
I’m not saying that it’s impossible, but I am saying that if you’re that flexible, you’d probably settle for autofellatio.
And you probably would need to lose weight either.
um, would not
The ultimate elite humble brag?
Speaking of eating shit.
Sorry, America’s Hat.
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/montreal/2020/8/29/1_5084561.html
It’s not your fault, Canada’s Underpants.
We have our own, home-grown, idiots up here in The Great White North.
The Great White North
That hasn’t been banned yet?
Speaking of which, noticed a local roofing company has signs out front of their place “It’s ok to be white”. Business isn’t exactly known for their professionalism in public relations, they previously had pro life slogans up, but still sad to see that. The future isn’t colorblind, it’s tribalism.
Tribalism makes it easier to keep people on the reservation.
Mexico is your underpants. 🙂
Exactly. We are Canada’s beer gut.
Plus moobs, don’t forget them. And we’ve got the congestive heart and fatty liver too.
At least we’re not the shit tube.
Not the bottom end, anyways.
After my visit to the ER I was reminded that our shit tubes are about 5 ft long and very close to our hearts at the top.
Well, more like 25 ft (20 ft for the small intestine, 5 ft for the large), but who’s counting?
I was just thinking it’s not shit until it gets to the colon. Your mileage may vary. Any doctors, please chime in. 🙂
Does that make Baja Canada’s dick?
Well, we already have Florida as our dick.
Well that makes Baja our dangly hemorrhoids then.
Clerk: Uh, this hamster writes mysteries under the name of John A. McDonald.
Lisa Simpson: How can a hamster write mysteries?
Clerk: Well, he gets the ending first, then he writes backward.
Thanks Spud, finally cooled off enough to shut off the AC and open a BR window. Next week will be in the 60s for highs and 40s at night. Won’t be long before I’ll have a little fire in the morning. Garden is closing out with tons of tomatoes, cukes, squash, melons. I picked a honey dew today, too often we run out of time before they get ripe but Mrs F proclaimed it to be the way she likes it (and me, too.)
There will be a table set up of various peppers for the Honey Harvesters to take home. How hot? I don’t know and don’t care, cause they are too hot for me and probably UCS. The other half said some were too hot for her, that’s all the discouragement I need, I’ll accept that answer.
Used to drink at The Piano Bar in Long Branch, NJ, don’t remember seeing Billy here, not in 1958 anyway.
Horrible garden this year. I’m going to have to go buy tomatoes at a local farmers market because I don’t think I’ll get more than three or four quarts of sauce. Same goes with tomatillos and peppers.
Other than tomatoes, our garden has been a disappointment this year too. I’m thinking some serious renovations might be in order this off-season.
I got the ultimatum, NO MORE TOMATOES or CUKES! No more room for them. I brought in about 6 gals or Roma yesterday, another 6-8 gals waiting to be picked, a big bucket of cukes,, we’re busy plotting who do give them to, but we still want friends. This is the best garden I’ve ever had, June was hot and dry but with irrigation stuff grew. July and August average but not much rain ’til mid-August.
My bee partner has several Mhung employees, he’ll be leaving with a car full of stuff tomorrow, plus the local finger nail shop is going to get a surprise on Monday but they’ll all be happy.
Fourscore is the cucumber fairy!
I used to leave cucumbers* on my neighbor’s doorsteps, ring the bell, and then run away.
*its better than a flaming paper bag full of dog shit
I have eaten more cucumbers, made more pickles, and given more away than ever. BTW, cucumber gimlets are awesome! Eggplants, tomatoes, okra, beans, and squash have done great this year. All in all a great garden year. Winter squash and sweet corn have done well, too. Just need to figure out a way to keep all the varmints off my grapes so I can make more wine. Bastards.
I bought generic corn seeds at Fleet Farm. Corn grew well but the taste/texture is also generic. Very starchy. Next year back to Gurnees for the top shelf stuff.
Had two wood chucks but they ‘disappeared’, no raccoons or skunks or squirrels in the corn. Deer eating crab apples but that is normal.
Not a great garden year for me in Doloot. I have gotten a few green beans, a few cherry tomatoes, a fair amount of kale, 2 habaneros, 1 jalapeno, and a shit ton of cilantro/coriander. The deer have done bad things to the cucumber vines. Most of the other peppers haven’t done shit. Absolutely no Roma tomatoes nor tomatillos.
My only cuc plant gave up the ghost after I was getting a good harvest, and now my second one is all over my deck railings, but only a few tiny cucs so far.
Lot’s of tomatoes still coming, on, they finally start producing lots of flowers and tomatoes again after it fell out of the mid 90s last week or so. Back into the low 90s again today.
I have some new peppers coming on now. Japanese purple sweet peppers. They’re almost black, never grew them before. The flowers are prolific and dark purple.
Oh, and picked my first real batch of jalapenos yesterday, around 20, big and fat.
Well, if he’s going into a career in government, I suppose he’s going to be a blood sucking parasite, but really? Transylvania University?
Ugh, I ate too much bbq.
There’s no such thing as too much BBQ. Just take a Tums, unbutton your pants, and eat another plate.
You’re just trying to get in his pants.
Impossible.
*burps loudly*
Mmmm…smokey burps…
For those interested, I’ll kick off a Virtual Happy Hour at 20:00 Eastern tonight.
I’ll try to show up, but I’m still trying how to post ANYTHING (like images etc.) to Zoom, and I’m either too stupid, or the instructions available on-line were written for a software release that’s about ten generations old…
“…still trying to figure out…”
Sheesh.
I did it once but I can’t remember how. Share screen? I think? (Picture of the space shuttle riding piggyback on a 747 ~1979-1980. Kristen damn near orgasmed.)
I saw that live when they were transporting the shuttle once through the Springs. Easy close enough to Pete Field to get a pretty good look. I would have been maybe 12? Mom thought I wasn’t impressed enough, and kinda scolded me. But I thought it was neat.
Went right over my house at barely a few hundred feet. I could count the rivets on the 747’s wings. My buddy’s a photog and he went up on the hill to get a good shot. My back yard was a thousand times better, LOL. The guys at the airport got to go onboard and see the thing. I was working at the trash truck yard then, so I missed it.
Shit, I missed the ’79-’80 part. I meant the trip to the museum a few years back.
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Thanks Neph!
Thank you! I will join tonight though I might join a bit late as I have a bunch of stuff to wrap up.
Watching Woke NASCAR tonight. I’m rooting for Ryan Newman. And against Bubba Wallace.
I tuned into Woke Tennis earlier and they were in the middle of fellating Naomi Osaka so I immediately dropped out. One of the biggest tournaments of the year – the US Open in NYC – starts Monday and I’m royally pissed that she fucking ruined it for me. Though to be fair, if it hadn’t been her, it would have been someone else.
they were in the middle of fellating Naomi Osaka
So close and yet so far.
And Clint Bowyer. He’s like the new Kenny Wallace. Love him
https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1299812383955787788
Trump in Louisiana, just being friendly with first responders.
“Sell it tonight on eBay. Ten thousand.”
I have never like ANYTHING about Trump, except he’s moderately entertaining.
This brought a tear to my eye.
I wonder if the Secret Service is annoyed that they have be on full alert all the time after guarding pansy-in-chief for eight years.
Fall has arrived. Over the last week, or so, mornings have been cooler and the breeze has that fall note to it. This is my favorite part of the year
This time of year is when I hate Texas. Car was reading 107 when I was out earlier, and it won’t stop being “hot” for another 45 days. The one thing I will miss from Virginia is the seasonal change.
Seasonal change
I am not ready for fall, but I will say I really enjoyed a slow drizzle most of the day and temps in the 60’s-70’s. Great nap! And then a thunderstorm rolled through a bit ago. Nice change from 100’ish.
That’s the reason I left TX after 17 years. We had 2-3 days in the low 90s here, even the 80s with a little humidity is hot. Winter is long, cold with short days but at least there isn’t any mosquitoes.
I got my wife to leave TX once, and it was a bust. I don’t think I’ll be getting a second chance.
Even I would have a hard time living in the upper Midwest, but wife would divorce me in an instant if I moved her anywhere Chicago latitude or further North. She thought that DC was too cold, and it dropped below 10*F all of 2 weeks over the 3 years we lived there.
I’d have zero complaints about Dallas if it were half the size, 250 miles to the north, and had a plentiful source of water.
I worked in the metro area for a while plus Austin, rarely in San Antone or Houston. My wife is VN, lived in TX before we met and a long time after we got married. We’ve been in MN for about 35 years, she couldn’t live there any more. My kids are in central TX but that’s where they grew up, home to them, although my daughter lived here for 30 years. Not bad here if a person doesn’t have to go to work or work outside in the winter.
Hell introduces 13 new varieties of pineapple pizza.
Who is it? Who is the Bee’s mole here?
I wish to consume beverages with them, whomever it is.
Well, if we get the whole glibertariat together, we’ll guarantee it.
Maybe @morganisawizard? I have no basis for that, other than she’s a libertarian who works for them.
Man, fuck all y’all. Pineapple on pizza is awesome. I will fucking die on this hill.
HEY BUDDY!
Awesome? That’s a bit much. If there’s good beer to go with, I’ll eat it. But not awesome. Maybe with some nice pancetta, bacon, and speck it would be okay too.
Only with bacon.
Canadian bacon, eh.
CANADIAN “BACON” IS NOT BACON!!!
But it is still great on a
notEnglish muffin with egg and cheese.BACON, egg & cheese croissanwich or GTFO.
Can I have a three-way with both? mmmFrench and English. I’m so full.
Mais bien sur, guv’nor.
Indeed.
I recently had a pizza from a local Italian place that hasn’t gone under (yet!), and they did a pineapple and crispy prosciutto pizza that was FUCKING AWESOME! Sweet and savoury (with hints of caramelization) FTW!!!
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LOL
Due to changes in my mother’s plans, my plans changed and I visited her yesterday instead of monday. My time at her place is the only time I see cable television. I noticed two things.
First, in the commercials for Tervor Noah, he came off as a deranged conspiracy theorist. I don’t think he’s good enough of an actor to look that unhinged.
Second, in a string of cooking competition shows, I saw a pattern – of the four contestants, there was always exactly one black contestant and one asian contestant, with the other two spots up for any demographic, but when there was a white dude, the last spot was always female. You don’t get a pattern like that without a quota.
Do normies see these things or have I become hypersensitized?
I haven’t categorized the contestants that closely but it sounds about right. In general, those cooking competition shows are some of the wokest AF shit on TV.
I have to leap for the remote when that smug prick comes on – his commercials are very frequent and on multiple channels.
No. I only see TV when I visit my parents and the grating, hyper-theatrical-emoting that they do baffles me. Regular viewers must have come to expect that’s how people on TV are supposed to talk.
Good to see you’re safe. Did the horoscope predict tornado warnings?
Their tornado warning goes out to a much larger area than it should. Brief periods of moderate rain is all we got.
Tervor Noah seems a bizarre choice for that show. I can’t imagine he’s kept much of the audience.
There wasn’t much of an audience to begin with. The actual numbers were pretty small.
I’m racist too, UCS, I would pick up on that as well. Affirmative action for the win.
Yep. The great British baking show always has 1 or 2 gay male contestants, 1 or 2 Indian contestants, 1 or 2 black contestants, and a single mom with a sob story and/or a tattooed blue hair chick/dude/androgynous thing.
Same thing plays out in most of these types of shows. Carefully curated diversity.
My wife watches lots of those House Hunter HGTV shows. She reports the last five she watched were: Sixtyish gay couple; thirtyish lesbian couple; black dude with white wife; Asian woman with white fiance; and twentyish white couple looking to spend about $500K on their starter home and were incredibly snobbish about what kind of tile and appliances they must have.
So, an inverse cross section of the population skewed towards the least common denominator.
Oh yeah –
Contestant on Different cooking show: “Cornish Hen cooks a lot like chicken.”
Me: *headdesk*
Am I the only one who feels like this Summer never happened?
I hate summer every year – too hot – and steamy. I really do need to look for something in the mountains. Can’t wait for fall.
Can’t say I’m with you on that one. I spend a lit of time working outdoors and while it hasn’t been overly hot this year, in fact, it probably has been a hair cooler than normal but the humidity has been fierce. I’ve been sweating my ass off.
It’s just that so much shit got cancelled. Also, I think I’ve been rather depressed. So I didn’t do many of the things I could have done.
Yeah, I can agree there. I’m not the most emotionally stable person to begin with and the last several months have taken a toll on me as well. I’m far more short-tempered than I was prior to this shit and fighting off depression has been a challenge. Hang in there, bud.
Thanks.
Yeah. This.
Not being able to take my summer vacation definitely has made it weird for me. ?
One summer never ends
One summer never began
But then suddenly, last summer…..
I met Martha Davis of The Motels backstage after a show, right when they were at their peak. I had done some college radio promotion for their album so got the backstage pass. I told her I had been promoting them, and tipsy me asked her if that deserved a kiss from her. To my surprise she laughed and planted a big wet smack right on my lips. Probably won’t ever forget that night.
At least no ones summer began with a mortarboard death, because all the graduation ceremonies were cancelled. Thanks covid!
Pot roast with daikon turned out pretty well. Trying to think of another way to increase potato-like consistency and decrease tanginess a little. Probably something that could be added to draw some flavor out? Or do something else before adding the raw daikon to the pot – bake a little?
Oven roast – like garlic, or maybe a light smoke?
This was a slow cooker. Added daikon raw along with seared beef 8 hrs ago – lots of garlic, etc in the sauce.
Molasses. Not enough to taste, but it will mellow things out amazingly.
My recipe already has one tbsp brown sugar. I can add molasses as well next time though.
Bourbon. Well, save some to add to the pot.
Currently 104 in North Texas.
No way Covid can survive in this weather. I can barely survive in this weather and I’m not 1/100th the size of a cell.
I just spent 90 minutes watching a kid soccer game and drank 2 liters of water.
Of course the over air conditioned indoors covid probably loves.
Luckily some relief on the horizon.
Those hurricane tendrils were nice for a day or two. I’m pretty sure in the future it’s going to be Florida or Texas coast for me. The 100+ crap sucks.
Looks like the last 100+ weekend though at least.
*crosses fingers*
I let the daughter run through the sprinkler this afternoon, but without the shade it would’ve been a bust. Even standing in the (tepid) water, the heat was overwhelming when out in the Sun. I had to mow this morning (it had been 3 weeks), and even at 9:30, it sucked. Cooler temps can’t come soon enough…
https://twitter.com/joshglancy/status/1299734436792197120
Mostly peaceful giant lizard walks through Tokyo.
That is heart breaking.
LOL I just spooled up a Columbo and in the preview I’m thinking “they have the nerve to cast a Johnny Cash look-alike”. Then the guest list appears and it IS Johnny Cash. God bless the seventies.
Just one more thing, what channel was it on?
There’s a live one on Cozi TV now but I wanted pause ability because I need to cook soon so I pulled up one I recorded from Sundance.
SundanceMeTVAll 3 channels show it at various times.
OK, thanks.
Also Hallnark Mystery.
Do any channels have Banacek? Another of the NBC made for TV mysteries like Colombo. George Peppard as a private eye, much cooler than his character on The A Team, and so very different from his gigolo character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I’d love to stream one of those if available, I wonder if it will seem as good as it did when I watched as a teenager in the 70s.
I don’t know for sure if this was from Banacek, but what popped into my head when you mentioned it was a quick clip with the title character quoting what’s supposedly an old (Polish?) proverb: “Only a man with nothing to fear smiles back at the rear of an elephant.”
That was definitely from Banacek, part of his shtick was always quoting such apocryphal Polish proverbs.
Geez I remember seeing that on some late-nite cable channel a couple decades ago. Good stuff.
Not sure if anyone has linked… Seems the whole fight on Kenosha began when Pedo guy tried to light a gas station on fire. Rittenhouse put out the fire which made the pedo angry enough to attack him.
https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/08/29/kenosha-wi-what-started-the-event/
A pedo and an arsonist?
A renaissance man.
A true martyr to the left.
Do we know for sure pedo guy attacked him?
Multiple eye witnesses including the Fox reporter on Tucker last night.
From the video I’ve seen, it doesn’t look like he ever made physical contact. But… it’s really really dark.
According to the reporter pedo was enraged and tried several times to grab the rifle.
I was just talking to a co-worker about all of this. It occurred to me; If i’d read a story like this in a book, I would’ve laughed my ass off at how unrealistic it is.
Kid shows up to help out a friend watching his business.
Does community service.
Is armed the whole time, with a loaded mag. Has good firearms etiquette.
Runs into a mob to put out a dumpster fire they’re trying to push into a gas station.
Runs away from mob and is pursued.
Shoots pursuer in self defense.
Stays on scene until mob turns on him, again.
Runs away.
Gets pushed down by the mob.
Manages to successfully engage almost all of his attackers without getting further harmed, while sitting on the ground with more mob advancing.
Doesn’t manage to hit anyone else but his aggressors.
Doesn’t go full fight or flight the WHOLE time.
All of his aggressors are convicted felons.
Walks to the cops to turn himself in.
All of it’s on video.
It’s like watching an action movie and shaking your head the whole time saying “yeah ok!”
I’ve been around plenty of young Marines who couldn’t have handled the situation nearly as well.
Also used controlled fire, still has 1/2 to 2/3 full magazine after engaging 3 targets in two separate locations.
You’re lucky. A couple of co-workers asked me what happened. I started explaining how the first guy chased him down and tried to take his rifle. The second guy hit him with a skateboard and the third drew a pistol on him. The kid was trying to get away the whole time.
Another coworker freaked right the fuck out. Started screaming that I’m the problem and lives are more valuable than property, etc, etc. I told him he was welcome to his opinion, but I believe he was protecting his own life from a bunch of thugs who wanted to burn down other people’s businesses and then tried to kill/harm him for stopping that. Fucking guy ranted and rave at 11.5 for a few minutes and was inconsolable. I thought he was relatively cool before that, but, now I just don’t know. Now, I gotta work the whack job every day. At least, the other guys seemed to understand and agree. It was a classic example of people going off the deep end in favor of obvious lefty talking point lies. I feel mildly traumatized by it. I’ve been scouring the net to verify I was right and yes, I was right. Amazing example of self control during a serious display of self defense.
Pretty sure this kind of stuff is solidifying Trump’s landslide victory. The major lefty players all support this bullshit. They are charging a 17 y/o patriot with first degree murder, in an obvious attempt to placate a crowd of low life thugs. We might eventually reach the same level of retardation we were at during the early seventies, except this time, nobody feels any compulsion to accept truths that don’t align with their politics. Never have I ever, indeed!
Don’t know where you work, but if you have HR, you need to file a complaint against the coworker right the fuck now.
Prolly, but it’s just not my style. I’ve never been a “tell the authorities” type, except when it’s the authorities I’m telling on. That guy probably already regrets his BS and has plenty of shame to prevent further outbursts. I sure ain’t gonna sic the woke dept. on him. Hell, I’m afraid I’ll get in trouble just from talking to them.
Oh you poor deluded thing. He has no remorse and is probably going to report you to HR. You gotta decide if you want to be the first or second to tell your story. I hope to hell you have cooperative witnesses.
^This. It’s not about hurting the guy, it’s about covering your own ass.
Well, I’ve been martyred by the system enough times that it don’t hurt too bad anymore. Also, I’ve learned to stand up to them. I always win now that I fight back. I have two witnesses. Besides, my own conscience won’t allow me to stoop so low. I’d lose all respect for myself, if I did that. People are allowed to be assholes to me. I make a point of not being one back, not for them, but for me.
this. When I had a coworker make a joke to our chief diversity officer about me manspreading, I had my side of the story on record with my boss within 24 hours, and had a call with him to explain how I would never be working with this coworker ever again.
If she had ever escalated the insanity, I had on record that she was making me really uncomfortable and that I requested to never work with her.
They have no compunction against
using the system to fuck over those they don’t like, and they have enough of a persecution complex that they’ll invent an injustice whole cloth because you passed them a bit too close or a bit too far in the hallway.
(damn phone)
Jeebus.
I think it’s time to change the 48-hour Rule to 168 or more. What the hell else is gonna be revealed??
According to our local news, for example, the MSM is now identifying Rittenhouse as a “far right wing vigilante” who went to Kenosha looking to kill peaceful protesters. And that he’s “an example of Trump’s fascism, and others like him will likely next be going to polling places on election day to shoot poor Blacks trying to vote.” ( That came from a BLM spox they quoted).
Getting ready to hit our warmest month. We’ll have highs in the mid 80’s and drop to around 77 each night for the next 10 days. As long as the Trade Winds don’t stop everything will be okay. Rain is a bit low for this time of year which has forced me to water the garden daily. The second round of spinach never took off but the squash, tomatoes, japanese cukes, watermelons and snow peas are doing okay. I started a couple of sunflowers at grandkid’s request. The mint is done for the summer but the basil is keeping up with demand.
I am trying to grow a strawberry guava tree from seed. We’ll see how that goes.
I miss being able to go to Hawaii. ’Specially the Big, but Oahu would be fine, too . . .
I can’t keep mint alive. It gets white spots and dies. Everytime.
Most people can’t kill mint when they are trying.
Mint grows like a weed up here (as long as my ferns don’t block out all the sun)
Loves the winter, pops back up in the spring with more vigor. Hmmm, mint flavored honey, might be worth a try.
Sometimes I wish the Bee was real.
With Professional Sports Canceled, Jordan Peterson To Host First Televised Lobster Fights
Well, a lot of their satire does eventually become reality.
A Successor to A Worth Cause moves to IndieGoGo.
https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1299433988600156160
CWAA
I do like his use of ‘reckless disregard’ tho. Don’t hear that so much these days.
It turns out my 84 year old mother has gotten her Iowa Permit to Carry. Apparently she is thinking about getting a revolver.
Any suggestions on what a tiny 84yo women should be shooting? Caliber and/or weapon.
Ruger LCR 22LR
DA only, no hammer
Nice little purse or pocket gun.
Saw that. Looks like a good option.
.380? .22lr? How healthy is she?
She’s maybe 5 ft tall and 100 lbs. She is healthy and active. She spends a lot of time tinkering in her garden.
But she is not strong.
Anyone know anything about: SMITH & WESSON MODEL 317 KIT GUN SMALL .22LR REVOLVER
I don’t know anyhting about that particular revolver, but I’d recommend whatever she get, that it’s hammerless.
Has a hammer
I don’t think you can go wrong with a S&W revolver. I’d just try to take the carry issues into consideration. The 43C may be more convenient.
Thanks. Looks interesting
I lost a 317 in a boating accident.
Stock, it’s a 12 oz. gun with a 12 oz. trigger pull. How strong are her hands?
12 oz. trigger pull
I think that’s what I needed to know.
If you get a trigger job it’s perfectly good revolver.
The old ones had fixed irreplaceable sights, but the new ones are adjustable.
thanks, that’s good to know
Problem is, it is really really hard to get a good trigger job on rimfire wheelguns. They need a lot of mainspring tension to ignite the rimfire primers. Lighten the mainspring too much, and you’ll get light strikes.
Put in a hydrolic piston so that the trigger you pull applies more pressure on the real trigger… provided you can managed the increased travel required. actually, nevermind, it’s a terrible idea.
High 5 for your Mom, K. She’ll be the least suspected of the Carry and experienced enough to handle the situation.
My brother had lunch with her. I haven’t actually talked to her yet. She want’s to avoid a pistol because she is worried about racking the slide.
I need to get a Sig 238 or Springfield 911 (.380 ACP) in her hands and see how that works.
But we may need to go down to .22LR.
The 911s are solid. I have two.
Bought one for my daughter.
I don’t like tiny revolvers for newbs, especially newbs with potentially limited hand strength.
Maybe one of these? https://www.smith-wesson.com/firearms/mp-380-shield-ez-0
I like the shield family
Smith & Wession 380 EZ or Standard Manufacturing Thunderstruck.
…nimble fingers…
M&P EZ .380?
Anything that requires her to wear a bandolier like Sean Connery in Zardoz.
…You want to see 84 year old women dressed like that?
Rule 34
Don’t make me post that .gif again…
How about a Taurus PT22? Semi-auto with no slide to deal with.
I will check it out
I was looking to buy one of them today, but they seem to be sold out everywhere.
Oops, I was looking at the TX22, not PT22.
Everything is sold out everywhere
For those looking forward to watching the new Bill & Ted movie, Red Letter Media revisits the two old ones. It’s a good refresher if you don’t feel like rewatching them:
https://youtu.be/Gwrl6P5c1R0
…why would you not want to rewatch them?
Dunno, time maybe?
I’ll rewatch the first one, but I don’t remember the second one being so great.
I’d recommend re-watching them, they’re epic.
The part where evil bill and ted meet the babes and one of them says ‘I gotta full on robot chubby, so get over here and put out!’.
Loved the first one, but in the second one it kept annoying me that Keanu’s hair was always covering his eyes. I kept thinking, will you push your damn bangs out of the way? How can you see anything??
Captain Kirk singing the blues, with Ritchie Blackmore tearing it up on the guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYMsP1-NgSg
I like this one better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C56KoGpf2P0
This one. For real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XAZOSrHo-c
I gotta agree with you on this. I won’t post another version, because this is top level. Although BB sounds a little raspy. Maybe a cold or too much partying the night before? Either way, this is light years better.
CZ owners: Armanov is having their grips on sale, cheaper than Lok:
https://armanov.com/collections/sale/products/spidergo-pistol-grips-for-cz-shadow-2-sp01-and-75-series?variant=34705417568414
Downside, most colors are sold out.
Do you have a pair and are they thinner than the factory grips?
I do not. I run Loks.
Wonder if they’ll fit a Witness.
They have different grips for Tanfoglios for sale on that site it looks like.
Holy shit, 95 bucks? My Witness only cost a little over $300 to begin with! They do look nice though.
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1299764408298733574
Radley Balko has turned into a fucking retard.
Trump broke his brain.
I hope the mob ends up on his doorstep. What a fuckstick.
Wow. I’m gonna pour another beer.
I thought the Sullivan piece was good. Although I didn’t agree with it entirely. These people are misreading what he wrote.
Yeah the big point is not WOOHOO FASCISM, it’s that the first characteristic people look for in a polity is a baseline level of law and order. If liberal government will not provide that, they will turn to other methods. The Kerensky government in Russia gave way to the Bolsheviks because they were not willing to enforce the laws of a liberal polity against the declared enemies of that polity. They had the numbers, they even had the guns, but they lacked the will.
Statesmen of soft hands and huge libraries and subtle phrases can govern the liberal polity, but all polities, in the end are creations of force, and force belongs to the rough men. Always has. Always will. The warrior makes the State. He may turn it over to the statesmen, but the wise statesmen always ensures that the warrior is honored, the warrior is respected, the warrior is treated as the guardian of the liberal order, not as some wicked brute.
You keep your hounds of war at your feet, and feed them good meat from your own hand. You do not keep them in the kennels, feeding them cold bones. Because at some point, someone comes to the kennel, and feeds that hound good meat, and praises him, and tells him “You come to my heel, and you will be at the high table where you belong.” Stranger might wear a red cloak, or a brown one, or a black one, but the result is the same in the end.
Agree
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-trap-the-democrats-walked-right
It runs off the rails at the end where Sullivan can’t help but sneer at non-college grads, repeats the lie of some sort of current threat of white nationalism, says Trump won’t accept a close defeat (while ignoring that’s exactly what the Democrats have done for the past four years), and pins hope on a Biden victory.
I think if loses, he goes to Mar a Lago, focuses on his business interests, plays golf, writes a book but doesn’t slouch around the country for four years – like Hillary – moaning about how he was robbed.
No, he gets hauled into court in chains to answer for his crimes!
I mean, I already knew that Balko had degenerated into a leftist sack of shit at this point, but he’s actually agreeing with David fucking Klion now. Wow.
Well, the weather finally broke at the end of last week. Thank god. The air is way to thin up here for 100 degree days. Are the fires still burning in Cali, because I can see the mountains now but not well?
I think when California starts burning, it doesn’t stop until the fall rains put it out.
A Successor to a Worthy Cause is back!
“Fantasy Tradwaifu”
lol
Looks like Mad Lad of Albion is Count Dankula, and Oracle of Austin is Alex Jones.
My just slightly younger brother mentioned he’s never seen Falling Down. ?♂️
Fall? WTF?
I finally decided to get off my lazy fat ass today and get back to Glibfit.
Only walked 2.6 miles, fast, not as fast as I used to be able to when I was 40 lbs lighter. I actually ran a few short stretches, like 50 ft. OMG, running, OK, bumbling, stumbling, bumbling. Felt about as light on my feet as a hippo must feel.
Anyway, it was fucking HOT!
Fall, my fucking ass.
YOU MIS-MALIGN THE GOOD HIPPO,SIR!
I DON’T THINK YOU CAN DO 19 MILES PER HOUR!
;^)
I can’t bite you in half either.
OK, bad choice. But I bet Mr Hippo cannot keep up that 19 mph for very long. I don’t see him chasing me across the savannah for very far if I make the initial escape.
Today was fairly hot here but, other than that, it’s been rather temperate for August. We had a cool June, then a blast furnace July, now an unseasonable August. Weird summer.
I took advantage of the tax-free weekend here and ordered a 4k TV set. Still not sure what the point of 4k is with so little content.
TBH, I can’t tell the difference. Full 1080p/i and 4K both look amazing on my 65″ TV. Maybe I could see the benefit if I were sitting 3′ away?
I used to care about this stuff. I had an HD DVD player. An HD DVD disc often had the HD version of a movie on one side and the standard definition on the other side. And I would watch a sequence in SD and then in HD: never was certain there was a diiference.
Sort of related – I just bought an all-region Blu-ray player to replace/upgrade my old all-region DVD player and I’ll be damned if the promise on the outside of the box to “upscale my DVDs to near-HD quality” isn’t something close to true. The difference in quality is remarkable. Maybe my old player was a piece of junk. But my DVDs look amazing now.
Do you have a link to the all region blu-ray? (*crossed fingers that it’s korean*)
Here.
The actual model delivered is “newer” according to a piece of paper inside the box. Also, the link now leads to a slightly different model from a different seller. (WTF, Amazon?)
Anyway, the model number on the box is BDP-S1700 and the box says “Made in Malaysia”.
You gotta love spinning the wheel and seeing what actually arrives in the mail.
Those reviews make me hesitant.
220-electronics is the modifier and seller that I’ve seen get high marks elsewhere.
They sell on amazon, but their own website is here
https://www.220-electronics.com/sony-bdp-s1700-region-free-blu-ray-dvd-player.html
*shrug* You roll the dice. I don’t trust any reviews on Amazon any more.
That was my actual seller.
Looks like I got fucked with a $50 Amazon tax. Sigh.
I think they just put a bunch of stuff on sale. Don’t know about shipping charges either, as haven’t looked that far.
standard shipping of 3-7 business days was free.
You’ll be able to see what you don’t like with greater definition.
Because hate birds are the 2020 bird here is a cheery little story to but smiles on faces.
https://zookeeperproblems.tumblr.com/post/148474117426/the-great-flamingo-uprising
I’ve seen this before. I love it.
Oh lawd, that had me laughing out loud.
I think I’ve seen that story before.
Biden’s battleground states lead has completely collapsed. Trump is up by 2 now.
And they are both going to have to campaign on the ground for the next 2 months. Not looking good for Sleepy Joe.
Everything the Biden campaign, and the Democratic Party in general, is saying and doing lately reeks of panic. Their internal polling must be disastrous. Hell, they’re even babbling about Russia again!
There aren’t really many polls showing that. Trafalgar showed him leading Wisconsin and Michigan recently though. It’s possibly a Republican slanted poll though.
Wrong. Yes there is. The RCP average. And you’re not going to bet more accurate than that.
And all of the polls are badly skewed towards democrats, because Trump voter will not talk to pollsters.
The samples have been rather heavy Dem slants too. One of the polls brandished at me recently in an attempt to show Biden running strong had a partisan split of 26 R/41 D/33 I. That’s silly.
How do you figure? The RCP average shows Biden leading Trump by 3 in battlegrounds. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/trump-vs-biden-top-battleground-states/
The Trafalgar poll attempts to factor in the so-called “shy Trump voter”, which is why it’s somewhat controversial. If it’s right, though, Trump is doing well in battleground states now.
I still think Biden is being viewed as “Generic Democrat” in the eyes of many many voters, and that usually polls well. Hell, if all I knew about Biden was his Tweets and his little videos, I’d like him a lot.
I still think if he ducks the debates Trump will absolutely go to town on him with the simple message of “He’s too frail to debate, he’s too frail to be President. Period.”
Hell the other day he did an interview on CNN where he was actually reading from cue cards, kept looking down at his talking points, and couldn’t quite make it pop. Dudes brain is fucking mush.
Possibly. I have no idea.
The thing that amazes me… and several commentators pointed it out this week … there is barely any polling of swing states. So far polling basically blows. The DNC and RNC just happened and all we got this far is a handful of crap polls from a few states that barely surveyed anyone. I mean is there no money to be made here?
We actually do not have a very good real time picture of anything at all.
Is Trump really losing by 5 in Florida? Can’t remember the last Florida poll that was worth anything.
Hey Urthona, my apologies to you.
You are right.
I was actually looking at Trump being up by 2 compared to 2016.
They’re still showing Slow Joe up by 2.7. Which if I compare to 2016, probably means he’s down by about 6 points vs Trump in battleground states. Which probably means a bigger margin of victory for Trump this time
I’d guess Trump wins all the states he did last time, plus Minnesoda and VA.
That’s a great sign though that he’s doing better than last election. I just saw that.
The way I remember it last year, was that the polls seemed to be off by about +8 democrat. For example, last time I had checked they had Clinton winning OH by +2 and Trump actually won it by +6.
This time I think the margin of error will be greater, because there is no way most Trump voters will talk to pollsters, for very obvious reasons.
Liberation of Baghdad, Pt II
Hopefully there will be no requirement for the “Thunder Runs” part II
Apparently not everyone is on board with BLM
https://twitter.com/RPeavyhouse/status/1299894854051196928?s=20
https://twitter.com/RPeavyhouse/status/1299891814762045440?s=20
Scroll down (because twitter is shit) to the guy swinging a crowbar calling others “Nazis”.
This one was supposed to be for the tweet with the egg. What POS Twitter is. How hard is it to actually link to a tweet if you want to link to a tweet?
Our intrepid reporter is an idiot, of course.
https://twitter.com/RPeavyhouse/status/1299841710285942784?s=20
No, the Constitution doesn’t specially mention or protect the Press as a job. It protects the act, basically communicating to others on whatever you wish, without inhibition from the government. It’s not protection for only specially credentialed and employed journalists. And none of that has anything to do with subject.
Not sure if this has been answered six times or so upthread, but the movie SP is thinking of could be Runaway, a Tom Selleck / Gene Simmons (who made a mighty fine bad guy) flick from 1984.
Among the things in the antagonist’s arsenal were these autonomous spider-looking things that jumped on people, injected them with acid for some reason, then detonated.
Well, Spud, anyway… not SP.
I had a friend who needed a conference room for some reason or another, and she went to the Pickwick bowling lanes in Burbank to try and rent theirs. I went along and checked it out with her. The owner said it was a very upscale room and Gene Simmons used it for every birthday party he had. Then, I asked him ” Really? So did he rock and bowl all night?” He didn’t think it was funny, but at least, she did. I’m a smart ass IRL, too.
Alternative rag tries to trot out a sympathy sob story, surprisingly sane commenters pick it apart
https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/08/26/advocates-say-the-covid-19-moratorium-on-evictions-only-protects-those-with-papers/
How long can all of the people dependent on those rents go before they lose their shit or default. How about the airBnBs and Homeaway investments?
My current bet is, Trump wins, no more stimulus packages (i expect 1 between now and the election,) about Jan-Feb mass evictions hit. About July of 2021 we start into a housing market collapse and mass home loan defaults.
The other option, which I’m thinking is about a 30% likelihood, is they’re going to print us out. If that’s the case, than being in assets like housing or stocks is going to be where it’s at. I don’t see Trump doing this after he wins the election and i don’t think the Buffett bought gold for the first time ever for no reason.
I think that timeline is about right, but I think the housing prices probably won’t substantially drop until late next year, if not early 2022. I keep harping on the median home price to median household income ratio. 3.25 is normal. 4 is high. We’re sitting at 5. Last time we were here? 2006.
My house is worth so little that even if it drops to zero, my net worth will still be positive.
One thing that surprised me, that I feel i should’ve seen coming, the population flight from the cities. I think it’s heavily distorting certain real estate markets and I really don’t have a good estimate for how long or the scale of it. Even after the COVID scare goes away, there’s a lot of areas that have been ceded to the looters. Much like Detroit, it takes a LONG time to heal or regrow those areas of a city.
That’s assuming that the areas will ever regrow. There’s been a huge shift for companies to work from home and now that they’ve been forced into it, I think they’re going to stick with it. I foresee a lot of commercial spaces coming available. Why pay for the insurance, utilities and leases for office space when your workforce will stay home and pay for all of those things for you?
I don’t think “work from home” lasts any longer than it has to. At least that is my hope.
We’re going to the “whatever you want” approach once the immediate insanity ends.
I hate the office. I would work from home the rest of my life without batting an eye. It cuts hours off my work day, I can eat decent food for lunch, I have a door to close when I have a conference call, and people stop bothering me with random requests and chit-chat.
The socialization part is lacking, but thats on me for being a homebody.
The state is still of the mond that “People in cubes means people working” rather than, you know, actually trying to figure out who’s working.
*mind
Some will return, others won’t ever. My company’s execs who have been extremely skeptical of WFH (while they themselves do it or set up their work location at a remote site that’s convenient for them) has had the wool pulled from their eyes.
HR is now going through and deciding which jobs need to be in a traditional office and which don’t.
Along with the office savings, they’re probably going to go after locality adjustment next (of course, the flip side is with WFH, the competition for talent in flyover bumfuck just got a lot greater).
My boss (effectively second in command, though not officially) seems inclined to let many/most of those who’ve been working from home continue to do so for the foreseeable future. He did it himself for one day, just to try it in case he ever HAD to work from home, and he said he didn’t like it personally but thought it made sense for the organization to have as many as possible WFH.
However, Thursday and Friday we had technical issues (primarily phone, I believe) that prevented the WFH folks in our call center from logging into our phone queues and, in at least one case, from logging into our core data system. That put the burden on the one gal who comes in to the office – and who has to process most or all of the mailed-in payments and deposits – and the guy who’s supposed to be transferring to my department (Accounting/Compliance.) That’s the sort of thing that can breed resentment among co-workers.
My parents live on a lake in far northern Wisconsin during the summers, and the real estate market has been fairly stagnant there for some time. But over the past few months, she told me just today, it’s exploded. A real estate friend says they have lists of people telling them to bid on any property that opens up, sight unseen. Their friends put their house up last week, and had six offers the first day…they accepted one that was $100K over asking price.
We’re hearing the same stories from friends around the country living in rural places, and in the more remote suburbs with large private lots. After all this a ton of people are desperate to get out of the cities, and want someplace that’s secure, private, spacious, and where kids can run around without masks or nosy neighbors. And as long as they can get internet, they can continue in their same jobs. WFH looks like it is here to stay, and if so, why not be in your own little kingdom than the tiny spot you endured just to be a shorter commute to work?
Now I’m mad.
I still haven’t saved up enough to buy my escape place, and these horrible people are driving up the prices because they’re running from things they voted for.
Where at in Northern Wisconsin, Mr. Studly McBeefcake?
Near Eagle River and Rhinelander.
My parents live in Iron River, MI where my Mom grew up. I go through both towns on 17 every time I visit. Occasionally making it “south” to Eagle River on snowmobile trips. Small world.
If you’re ever up that way for Thanksgiving, may have to have a Glibs meetup. I usually spend 4-5 days at my parents for the holiday.
That would be great, but the folks usually leave for Florida in early October. We’ll probably be up next summer if the world returns to some semblance of normal by then. CPRM lives up that way, and I had the privilege of meeting him for a drink last summer up there, so a Glibs meetup could be something excellent to shoot for.
They must have been good – the comments have been blocked.
“Far-right” group burns a Quran in Sweden. Result? Riots. This AP story is rather vague about just who was rioting, saying only that 300 or so people gathered to protest in response. About half the brief article is condemning the supposed religious hatred of the right wingers who dared to mock Islam.
There is no mention of freedom of speech, of course.
“which are an affront to U.N. values”
Is rampant corruption and organized child rape really a value?
??
https://twitter.com/therealcoryelia/status/1299908378810957825?s=21
https://twitter.com/therealcoryelia/status/1299899574228856834?s=21
https://twitter.com/powers2045/status/1299914150253146112?s=21
Try again
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ego5BQ2XsAA8pIg?format=png&name=900×900
Somebody posted this funny one the other day.
https://westernrifleshooters.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/898b79697778bc19.png
And the expected happened apparently.
https://twitter.com/pdocumentarians/status/1299918464706965504?s=21
Shootee is deceased. Fuck.
Damn. Please keep us posted as you learn more details?
Video, apparently. From about a half block away.
https://twitter.com/priscillas_view/status/1299926295476928513?s=21
It doesn’t even look as if it happened near a group of protestors.
::scrolls down and sees linked news story:: So…reportedly NOT connected to the protest/riot. Why was someone shooting video?
Linked news story is another shooting from a couple months ago. Video was apparently just live streamer that was there.
I might have to make a popcorn run
https://twitter.com/pdocumentarians/status/1299881109132468224?s=21
How dare they yell at the Press! They’re privileged clergy of the rightthinkers.
https://twitter.com/pdocumentarians/status/1299901288642043905?s=21
How is it after midnight?
It’s not too bad – not much different from just before midnight.
Oh yeah – finish Lucid Blue yet?
I’ve read through Part 10. If you don’t mind my saying so (I don’t think this would count as a spoiler,) I really like the counseling session scenes. They’re like little character study interludes.
I don’t get to use Doctor Lindenbaum enough in the stories.
I think the scenes with him work well in the context of this particular cast of characters. It makes sense that they’d need (or be required) to talk to him, and little by little we find out how they got where they are now.
DC police smash up the BLM snack van from Portland and yank the occupants out.
https://twitter.com/richiemcginniss/status/1299922479453007874?s=21
They should be sponsored by Safelite at this point.
I guess DC can get something right.
Sigh. The weather is nice now so of course that means near-constant drag-racing outside.
I miss the near-constant fireworks.
Tell me again why you continue to live there?
The free fireworks shows.
An angle I had not considered.
(I assume the answer is much like mine: friends/family/work/otherwise like the city life)
It wasn’t like this in the before times.
ISTR the drag-racing was a thing for quite a while? Or was it just the stupid whistle-exhaust thing?
I guess that started last summer (?). Don’t know why. But it’s much worse nowadays.
I guess they’ve returned to their parents’ basements. Quiet now.
Video of Rhywun from then
https://youtu.be/MKLVmBOOqVU
I swear nothing can kill Keith Richards.
Clean living?
Nighty night, Glibbies! I’m going to bed, hoping to dream about superheroes saving us from All Of This.
Night.
Hey Glibs! Sorry that I missed the festivities last night but older fellers like me need a longer regenerative period. Like about a week.
Wifey is off to the acreage for the weekend so she buys me about five days of ready-made meals like I’ll starve in her absence. She’ll be hanging the house key around my neck soon enough.
Just take those old records off the shelf…
What kind of weirdo posts at 4 in the morning?
Look at our respective avatars and ask that question again.
Straight weirdos.
You were missed but I’m glad you got some rest.
Sorry, JD. I loathe that song. Fifteen years of weddings, tournament dances and other forced jovility have left it browned at edges, if you will. Not as bad as AC/DC or The Eagles but a close third. Every time I had to get up and cut a rug to that tune left me a little more bitter and dead inside to the point that I refuse to dance at all. I’m the Bartleby of Dance parties. Don’t get me started on this one https://youtu.be/HYUtAXlQaSg.
In the late 80’s I was playing on at least three different softball teams plus tournament teams on the weekends. I kind of lived for it. Every tournament had a dance on Saturday night and the music was always the same goddamned same.
I’m okay with that song. There’s a healthy dose of surf and country that hits me just right. I do enjoy a nice, crisp clap in the percussion, too.
I thought I was the only one….
Sorry, kids, but I need to take the site offline to finish an upgrade.
Back soon!
Nary a blip! My what sharp tin can lids you have…
Exciting.
How goes it, Limey? Pissing off the neighbours?
Pretty good thanks. I’ve no idea. There’s various comings and goings as they rent the property or let friends stay there. I’ve not been making much noise because it’s been raining, mostly. The neighbor on the other side who never used to be there (another second home) during the LoCkDoWn has been there more often now. I really ought to go out and do some fixins on my car but I know it’ll just start pissing down again.
How’s things now it’s just you and the cats (and fish?) for a little bit?
And we are back!
If you were auto-logged out during the upgrade, log back in. If you encounter any problems with that, send me an email and I’ll be happy to help you out.
Well, maybe not happy, but I’ll do it anyway. 😉
Don’t play in traffic.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1299913296443658240
https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1300019042732761089
Ted Wheeler belongs in prison.
This is not civil society.
Good morning, Sean. No offense, but I don’t know how much more of this I can stand to watch. I appreciate you keeping us aware of what’s going on, but…do you have any good news this morning?
We’re all still on the right side of the turf.
How’s that? 😉
Good morning, all!
Good morning y’all
So I just checked in on DerpBook; I’m trying to ween off of it – checking once per week and not replying to anything. A Libertarian group to which I belong is excited because Jo will be appearing on Kat Timpf’s show on the FOX network. So very many of the comments are negative and are excoriating the Libertarian Party for constantly pandering to conservatives and Republicans “because they are dumb and easy to sway so they join the LP and then muddy the brand.”!?! Really? The LP has been pandering to conservatives? Really?