Compulsory Yiffing

by | Sep 12, 2020 | Beer, First Amendment, Food & Drink | 267 comments

This week Joe Arpaio, formerly the Maricopa County Sheriff, accepted a Cameo…(TW:  AZCentral).  I know, you are probably rolling your eyes at the mentioning of Arpaio; bear with me here.

This is my review of Four Peaks Masskrug Monsoon Dunkel Lager:

Cameo is a shout out service where celebrities, or people that are simply well known for whatever reason, will film a personalized “shout out” for a reasonable fee.  Well-known people like Arpaio.  I can’t tell if this is intended to be parody, but this is the result:

VIDEO LINK HERE

I have absolutely nothing to say here, other than I don’t think he is familiar with Furries.

Yes, John McAfee is on cameo.

This beer like Arpaio is a local issue, so its not available for most of us.  Its a limited run that was prompted by their declaration this summer sucked, so they are skipping directly to fall.  Clever marketing, and it means I got local yokel Oktoberfest in August(!). Its pretty good, but it fell flat pretty quickly.  I was expecting better. Four Peaks Masskrug Monsoon Dunkel Lager: 2.9/5

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267 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Four Peaks Masskrug Monsoon Dunkel Lager”

    How do you order that at a bar?

    • robc

      Dunkel, please.

      The odds of their being two is very low.

      • Count Potato

        OK, because I’ve worked bars where if the customer tried to say that whole name, I’d be on to the next customer.

      • UnCivilServant

        Whycome you hate precision?

      • EvilSheldon

        Bartending is piecework. There needs to be efficiency on both sides of the wood.

      • Rhywun

        There needs to be efficiency on both sides of the wood.

        Don’t I know it.

      • UnCivilServant

        Got deprived of a lot of drinks for talking slowly?

      • EvilSheldon

        Nah, but I don’t flag down the bartender unless I know what I want to order.

        If the bar is slammed and you’re dithering over your drink order, you’re costing me tips. Like I said, piecework.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Hey look, mister. We serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don’t need any characters around to give the joint “atmosphere”. Is that clear, or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer?”

        https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/quotes?item=qt0461018

        (What drink does Clarence finally decide upon? Flaming rum punch?)

    • Nephilium

      Four Peaks Dunkel.

    • commodious spittoon

      Dunkel brau, beer tap frau, bitte.

      • C. Anacreon

        If I only asked for a “Dunkel” I’d be worried they might bring me a donut or a rotary engine.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      1. Go to their taphouse
      2. Order “the Dunkel”

      • Fourscore

        Old guy walks into a bar

        Black bartender,”What’ll it be”

        Old guy, looks at bartender’s name tag “Gimme a Dunkel, Tom”

        Bartender walks away, really pissed

      • Fifth Knight of the Derp Table

        Heh.

    • Hyperion

      “How do you order that at a bar?”

      You just ask what this week’s hipster juice special is.

      • Nephilium

        More Double Two Hearted for me.

        /has a six pack in the fridge now

      • DEG

        Double Two Hearted?

        Regular Two Hearted was fine the way it was.

      • Nephilium

        More of a good thing. Looking at the calendar, it’s about a six month difference from Hopslam, so it lets them keep two solid IIPA’s in rotation. Happily, Best Brown is also back on the shelves.

      • DEG

        Ooo…. Bell’s Best Brown is good.

        I haven’t been beer shopping in a while. I’ve been drinking beer in bars so I don’t know what is on the shelf locally. I can tell you what’s on tap though.

    • slumbrew

      I need to find my cup.

    • Tres Cool
      • slumbrew

        What am I, chopped liver? Look at what that man is wearing.

  2. Brightfame Overlight

    Four Peaks makes good beer,

  3. Nephilium

    The Cleveland Oktoberfest is usually held over Labor Day weekend. It was cancelled this year. For those who like Southern Tier Pumking, whiskey, and get Southern Tier high proof spirits, they have made a Pumking Whiskey. I only qualify on two counts.

    • Ed Wuncler

      Currently drinking a Great Lakes Octoberfest. The first time I ever had it was a couple of years ago at a Browns Backers Bar in Chicago. I think I ordered 5-7 beers and by the end of the game I was slurring my words.

      • Nephilium

        On the beer run today, I picked up some “too local” beers to try to help out the breweries. One from Working Class brewery in Kamms Corner (I know one of the brewers there), and one from Missing Mountain down in Akron (a place I’ve been meaning to get to, but…).

        Unfortunately, I’m not a big fan of Oktoberfest/Marzen beers. They generally come across too sweet for me. Not liking pumpkin beers just makes this time of year the worst for seasonals for me. The real fun came when Great Lakes released Blackout Stout in kegs for the first time. It got delivered to the bars same as any other GLBC seasonal would be. The difference being that Blackout Stout is ~10% ABV, and for the bars that didn’t do craft (except the Dortmunder and Seasonal from GLBC), they sold them by the pint at regular price. It lead to some entertaining times.

      • Rhywun

        Picked up a sixer of ‘Warsteiner Pilsner’ today. Is it any good?

        I assume it’s common or it wouldn’t be at my supermarket.

      • Nephilium

        Yes it is good, and fairly widely distributed. I had a Maß of it last weekend as a matter of fact.

      • Rhywun

        Kewl.

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, it’s good.

      • Hyperion

        What I’ve been drinking is mostly DAB, Carlsberg, and Bitburger.

        I’ll just buy some type of European pilsner /lager. Last week I had some good Czech beer, Praga I think.

        Sometimes I’ll drink some other style beers, like Marzen, Heffe, anything but IPA. Ayinger is a great heffe.

        I avoid American IPAs, which are all bitter swill made in plastic mop buckets. Except American lager, which is not lager, but a bitter IPA like swill, made in plastic mop buckets left out in the sun.

        Americans do lots of good things, beer is not one of them.

      • Nephilium

        Americans do lots of good things, beer is not one of them.

        This may be the most wrong statement ever posted on this website. And this includes those who defend pineapple on pizza.

        /deletes long post about bringing back historic and extinct beer styles while creating new ones

      • Hyperion

        Name me a good American lager? They’re all IPAs.

        Sadly, the only decent tasting lager or pils type beer here is Miller Highlife and there’s no alcohol in it.

        You get a choice here. The Budweiser style commercial grade stuff that tastes like some sort of vile chemical with a little artificial beer taste. And the craft stuff, which is only IPA bitter swill.

      • kinnath

        Name me a good American lager?

        Corporate brew or craft brew?

        One local shop here has a really nice Vienna lager and several make Czech Pils.

      • Nephilium

        Hyperion:

        A good American lager… alright:

        Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold
        Hansa Black Flag Schwarzbier
        Market Garden Ripple Effect
        Penn Brewery Penn Pilsner (actually a Vienna Lager, there’s a story there)
        Brooklyn Insulated Dark Lager
        Hoppin’ Frog Gold Band Export Bohemian Dunkel Lager
        Rheingeist Cheetah
        Oskar Blues Vienna Lager
        New Belgium Shift
        New Belgium 1554 Enlightened Dark Ale
        Sierra Nevada Vienna Lager
        Terrestrial Brewing Look Shaun, I can Make Classic German Beer Too!
        Market Garde Nano OG Lager
        Founders Solid Gold

        This is just a list of ones that I’ve had and enjoyed. Shit, here in Ohio we have several breweries that specialize in Eastern European beers and German beers.

      • Hyperion

        OK. I asked the wrong question. Name me an American lager that is like Stella Artois or Heineken.

        There aren’t any, not that I’ve tried anyway. And I’ve tried a lot. They all taste like IPA to me, too hoppy and too bitter.

        If you don’t mind the overly hoppy bitter taste, then sure there’s lots of those type beers here that could be considered good. There just none of them that are like the European lagers that I like. Someone here actually told me once that it’s because those beers are very difficult to make for some reason. I can’t remember what it was, something about the brewing process. Maybe it’s the water?

      • Hyperion

        Any who, I just got some more Carlsberg, cheers!

      • Nephilium

        Hyperion:

        Then you’re looking for Euro Pale Lagers, a much smaller selection then lager. I’ve had a couple of good ones, but they were all from local breweries with minimal in state distribution, let alone out of state distribution. You’ll need to hunt local. As for the ones I listed, not a single one has an IBU or an IBU/OG ratio that would come close to even the smallest IPA.

      • Hyperion

        I believe Heineken is considered a malt lager and I thought Stella is just a regular lager. I think both are 5.4% ABV.

        But I’ve tried many here in so many pubs and I’ll read their extensive beer list and ask ‘you have any lagers like Stella?’, and they’ll say ‘oh sure, this is the one’. It will be a similar color, but will be overly bitter, always.

        If I drink beer in beer pubs here, that’s why I always only drink dark beers, stouts, etc. Or give a heffe a try to see how it is.

      • DEG

        Unfortunately, I’m not a big fan of Oktoberfest/Marzen beers.

        More for me.

        In fact, tonight I will go back to the one local brewpub for more of their Oktoberfest.

        I’m drinking a little red wine right now. I have a pot of beef burgundy on the stove. This wine is leftover… well… until I drink it all.

      • Nephilium

        Yep. I don’t understand those who want to kill off a beer style. If there’s a style I don’t care for, I just won’t try it. There’s plenty of styles and beers that I do enjoy.

      • Hyperion

        The best beer of that type I’ve ever had was the original Christian Morelein I used to buy in Cincy. It was Marzen like, but it was sort of unique. My friends and I would buy all we cold get. Haven’t ever seen it around here.

      • Agent Cooper

        My fave GLBC beer is Dortmunder Gold.

  4. Brightfame Overlight

    I’m relaxing in the rain with a Dogfish head SeaQuench session sour, limes , black li.e peel and see salt, yum!

  5. TARDis

    Fun fact:(From Wiki)

    The word Stein alone is not used to refer to a beverage container in German; rather, Krug, Humpen or, especially in southern Germany and Austria, Seidel are used. Likewise the word Bierstein in German suggests calcified residue buildup in a brewing vessel rather than a drinking vessel for beer.

    We always said ein Maß, bitte.

    *Lights Derpy signal*

    • Fourscore

      Always said “Un mas, s’il vous plait” . Well, it worked in France anyway, maybe in Quebec

    • Rhywun

      Yeah, the vocabulary around this stuff is kind of murky. It’s like the pop/soda of Germany.

    • DEG

      We always said ein Maß, bitte.

      You were in southern Germany? I don’t think that would work in Köln or Düsseldorf.

      • TARDis

        Stuttgart (Nellingen), Oberammergau, and Garmisch. What do the northern Germans use?

        Also, Maß seemed like more of a beer festival thing where they use the giant 1 liter mugs. At your local Gasthaus, it is more like just asking for the type, such as Helles, Pils, Bock, etc.

      • DEG

        In some Munich restaurants, they served me beer in a Maß.

        In Cologne and Düsseldorf, I just asked for a beer. “Kölsch, bitte” in Cologne and “Alt, bitte” in Düsseldorf.

  6. Brightfame Overlight

    Or black lime peel and sea salt,
    I hate autocorrect

  7. Riven

    Little-known fun fact… Back when I was 13-18ish, I used to play this game.

    Despite the potential for, uh, shenanigans, I mostly fell into the “dream editor,” which, in hindsight, was a lot like learning a basic coding language.

    Good, anthropomorphic times.

    • commodious spittoon

      Riven confirmed for Second Life furry creep. Degenerate even by Glibs standards. Look upon her and despair.

      • slumbrew

        Agreed. Furrys are right out.

      • Nephilium

        There’s two steps below them still.

        /mourns Brunching Shuttlecocks

      • Riven

        Thank you for this defense. xD

      • slumbrew

        I had that chart on my wall at work for years.

      • Nephilium

        I’m not really sure it’s too much of a defense… 🙂

        In fairness, I did my time in LARPing (Vampire even).

      • commodious spittoon

        The Masquerade, you fucking nerd? At least I did Werewolf.

      • Nephilium

        commodious:

        Yep. Never liked the hippie warrior mindset of Werewolf.

        I was even in a game that was linked with other cities and traveled to play a couple of times.

      • Riven

        How does this compare to FCLORP-ing? 😛

      • commodious spittoon

        I never actually RP’d it, I just owned the player’s guide. I’m a lameo like that.

        Can’t remember much of the PC game, either.

      • l0b0t

        How about those of us who wrote rather detailed rules for tabletop wargaming using our 3 3/4” G.I. Joe figures and built massive cardboard/foamcore cities in the garage? We resisted Warhammer for a long time because the figures lacked articulation.

      • Hyperion

        You left the lowest of the low bottom dwellers off the chart. We have them around here. They play games on cardboard squares with hand painted pictures on them, and crude objects like cards and dice, and weird little figurines! They don’t even use a PC, no graphics, no WSAD, no mouse, true troglodytes!

      • Riven

        Aw, hey! This was well before Second Life was a thing! (I think?)

        It was a lot of fun, though: learning to mod, patch, and script.

        There was a whole section called “Furrabian Nights,” that I found endlessly hilarious. I’d say use your imagination, but maybe don’t.

      • commodious spittoon

        As long as you’re not a vore. I hate that I know what that is.

        I fucked around with RPG Maker as a teenager. Never learned to code, though.

        There was a whole section called “Furrabian Nights,”

        Okay, no, despair.

      • Riven

        Ah, I am familiar enough with the depths of the internet to know of vore, but it is not my jam. There’s definitely something out there for everyone… if you look hard enough.

    • EvilSheldon

      Interesting! I’ve always dug games with embedded scripting capabilities.

      I’ve been playing Shenzhen I/O lately, which is less a game and more an uncomfortably realistic sim of being an embedded systems programmer in Shenzhen. Takes me back to my college days, and not really the good parts.

      • Riven

        Man, that … that doesn’t sound like a lot of fun. Surely there are easier ways to get back to the not good college days, like breaking a ramen brick in half for dinner?

        I’ve been stuck playing Fall Guys basically since it came out.

      • UnCivilServant

        When I first saw the promo for Fall Guys, I described it as “A Candy-colored Nightmare”. I still can’t look at gameplay footage without it hurting my eyes.

        Is it at least fun?

      • Riven

        It is a lot of fun, provided you don’t take it too seriously. Definitely a party game. You are constantly jockeying for space while sometimes trying to stay with the herd and looking for advantage. But the playing field is absolutely even, so it can be pretty frustrating if you’re playing to win v playing for the fun absurdity of it.

        It’s fun to play on my own in my living room, but it’s more fun to play with a few people in your living room, maybe having a few bowls of loudmouth soup, and passing the controller after a round or two.

      • Nephilium

        There’s a picture I’ve got from last Thanksgiving of my nephews, my niece, and her boyfriend all furiously engaged in playing Super Smash Brothers on my Switch. There’s a time and a place for party games.

        I’ve been thinking about picking up the Avengers, but the game as a service portion turns me off. I’m really hopeful CDPR releases a good Cyberpunk game in November.

      • Riven

        I think we are all hopeful for that. C’mon, 2077… Just be good. Be the game we all wish you are.

      • Nephilium

        Riven:

        Because it’s CDPR, I’ve almost pulled the trigger for a pre-order. Which I haven’t done since… ME3 I think?

      • Riven

        Same… **Almost** preordered. … Almost. I really want to believe.

      • UnCivilServant

        I did preorder. I have a whole bunch of factors and only a handful of companies can qualify for a preorder. If it turns out bad, CDPR loses that status. If it’s just okay, they skate. But so far it looks good.

      • commodious spittoon

        The Hat Films guys seem to enjoy it. I only watch for the banter.

      • EvilSheldon

        It’s less fun, and more something to do to keep my brain from melting into a puddle.

      • Rhywun

        Or riding four different friends’ couches in a month.

      • Rhywun

        I like some of the Zachtronics games but that one got a great big “Hell no” from me.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Game or mechanical turk?

  8. Suthenboy

    Re Arpaio video: There is something. I never expected to see.

    I am on the wagon these days but I gotta say Sharpie….your beer photos always make me want beer. They look so tasty.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Haven’t heard a reference to “the wagon” in a while.

      • slumbrew
      • Nephilium

        This also fits.

      • Ted S.

        Probably the last time you referred to yourself as “tight”.

      • C. Anacreon

        “Old timey words for intoxication are tight!”

        /Movie Executive Guy

    • LemonGrenade

      I laughed hard enough to cry a little bit.

    • Suthenboy

      Why would New Zealanders give two shits who the US President is?

      • Brochettaward

        Because progressives demand that everyone everywhere live under their thumb.

      • Suthenboy

        That really is a sick obsession if you think about it. How unhappy they must be always fretting that they dont have enough power over others….

        I dont want to be in charge of anything. All being in charge means to me is that everyone else’s needs, wants and fuck-ups become your problem. Fuck that. Go away and leave me alone.

      • Hyperion

        I could be wrong, but I think it’s how we got ourselves in a forever war in the Middle East. New World Order. Hmm, wonder how they came up with that? Remember how excited CNN was with Arab Spring? The Arabs and the Persians were finally going to get woke. Everyone getting woke, new world order! Everyone is just like us, cause we so woke!

      • C. Anacreon

        I dont want to be in charge of anything. All being in charge means to me is that everyone else’s needs, wants and fuck-ups become your problem. Fuck that. Go away and leave me alone.

        We have a winner for the One True Libertarian.

      • Ted S.

        I thought *I* was the One True Libertarian!

      • TARDis

        *Crosses Suthen off the Glib Servant Leadership Awards nomination list.

      • Chafed

        That is the correct answer.

      • Agent Cooper

        It’s like a Brit I worked with asking my opinions on Brexit. I told him I didn’t care. (I mean, I certainly have an opinion about it, but it’s irrelevant because I have no vote)

  9. DEG

    This beer like Arpaio is a local issue, so its not available for most of us. Its a limited run that was prompted by their declaration this summer sucked, so they are skipping directly to fall. Clever marketing, and it means I got local yokel Oktoberfest in August(!). Its pretty good, but it fell flat pretty quickly. I was expecting better. Four Peaks Masskrug Monsoon Dunkel Lager: 2.9/5

    Fell flat pretty quickly? Sad!

    I had some of one of the the local brewpub’s Oktoberfest last night. Delicious.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I’ll be picking up Oktoberfest shortly.

  10. Sean

    Whelp, I probably didn’t need to use that whole hot pepper on my wrap.

    ???

    • UnCivilServant

      Maybe have a few other ingredients besides tortilla and pepper.

      • Sean

        Beef, cheese, greens, and some asiago dressing.

    • Nephilium

      Ahh. The shame of overdoing it with hot food.

      I enjoyed my culturally appropriated lunch of habanero, potato, and cheese pierogis pan fried in ghee.

      • Sean

        I haven’t forgotten about you. I’m waiting for some more chocolates to ripen. Hopefully soon.

      • Nephilium

        No worries, and no rush. I’ve got plenty of dried reapers and ghosts to keep me in spicy food.

        Although, with all travel killed, it means the girlfriend isn’t going to visit her aunt this year, so I don’t get my week of cooking the spicy food that I love. She still thinks jalapenos are too hot…

    • mexican sharpshooter

      No. You did.

  11. commodious spittoon

    I realize The Junction is a one off thing (?) but I’m really curious what more the author had on his mind. I demand you do my thinking for me and don’t leave me to plumb the kiddie pool depths of my imagination

  12. Gender Traitor

    Speaking of languages, I just got the Obamacare-mandated Summary of Benefits and Coverage for my med insurance. The page with some required notice translated into every language someone might speak somewhere includes one in something called Ilocano. I have never heard of that language. Of course, I’ve hardly been anywhere, but still…

    • Rhywun

      Our tax dollar at work.

      • Rhywun

        “Dollars”, even.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      A language from the northern Philippines, apparently. Had never heard of it either.

    • Suthenboy

      “Ilocano is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines. It is the third most-spoken native language in the country.

      As an Austronesian language, it is related to Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian), Tetum, Chamorro, Fijian, Maori, Hawaiian, Samoan, Tahitian, Paiwan and Malagasy. It is closely related to some of the other Austronesian languages of Northern Luzon, and has slight mutual intelligibility with the Balangao language and the eastern dialects of the Bontoc language.[dubious – discuss] [8]

      The Ilokano people had their own distinct indigenous writing system and script known as kur-itan. There have been proposals to revive the kur-itan script by teaching it in Ilokano-majority public and private schools in Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur.”

      I hate giving clicks to wikipedia.

      FIL did three tours in Vietnam. On leave once he and some other guys took a trip to Northern Luzon. He claimed the Ilokano speaking tribes were still practicing cannibals and their villages typically had lots of skulls on stakes near the approaches to the villages.
      Not exactly my idea of a vacation destination.

      • Gender Traitor

        the Ilokano speaking tribes were still practicing cannibals

        Those who have come to the US must be progressives, albeit not vegans.

      • UnCivilServant

        Are you a veganist if you only eat vegans?

      • Gender Traitor

        ::thinks about this, but not too hard:: Veganvore?

      • Gender Traitor

        “Ve’ve alvays been at var vith vegans.”

      • But Enough About My Weird Culinary Fantasies

        Are you a veganist if you only eat vegans?

        Meta-vegan.

      • Hyperion

        That would actually make you a carnivore, or at least an omnivore if you have veggies with your long pig.

  13. Hyperion

    More trouble in Middle East, bad orange man to blame

    Has CNN got word of this yet? Trouble maker and totally bad orange Nazi, Trump, has sent his Nazi sidekick, Pompeo, off to the middle east to stir up trouble once again, right before an election! It’s outrageous!

    Oh, and good luck with this one, guys, it might even last a week, but I doubt it. There really are some guys you cannot deal with, you have to just let them kill each other off like it was meant to be.

    • Viking1865

      Money talks, bullshit walks. The Saudi and other Gulf Arabs subsidies of terrorism was only possible because the US foolishly, for decades, decided that it was an amazing idea to source our petroleum from Saudi Arabia. The American taxpayer funded both sides of the war.

      Fracking does more to stop terrorism than every single intelligence agency and commando in the Western world’s combined efforts.

      • Rhywun

        Is Biden for or against it this week?

      • Hyperion

        Yes

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      These peace treaties are foreign election interference. They make Orangemanbad look good.

    • Suthenboy

      Yep, we have been down this road more than a few times but if anyone can pull it off Trump is the guy who can. We will see.

      • Hyperion

        Biden comments:

        He says what he does and he’s, it’s the opposite, it’s a false peace, not like I’d do, I’d do, I’d… we need a president who tells the truth and he and the opposite, he says, he can’t even remember, and the thing.

        CNN calls it greatest response of all time.

    • Nephilium

      They do. Probably advertising corn fed beef too.

      • Gender Traitor

        Not potato-fed?

      • kinnath

        That’s the people of Ireland.

      • UnCivilServant

        you don’t feed potatos to cattle.

      • Tulip

        You can feed cows potatoes

      • UnCivilServant

        Why would you waste perfectly good potatos on the cows!?

      • Hyperion

        What? Cows don’t grub up taters and eat them raw?

        They’ll eat them if you cook them and put some butter and sour cream on them. Maybe a little salt.

        But this would cause the 2nd great potato famine.

      • UnCivilServant

        I said you don’t, not that you can’t.

        Keep the cows away from the potatos. They’ll join each other on the plate in the end.

      • Sean

        Not my plate!

        #ketolife

      • Nephilium

        I asked about it while I was there (as here it’s grass fed beef that’s advertised). They can’t grow corn well in Ireland, so by default the local cows are grass fed, so to them corn-fed is the exotic better one.

        People always seem to want that which is harder to get.

      • Hyperion

        Yep, the greatest expansion of capitalism ever. Got straight hair, ladies? We can fix that. Got curly hair, ladies? We got a fix for that too.

  14. Viking1865

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The Starr Hill Fall Tour is in stores.

    https://starrhill.com/fall-tour-variety-pack

    Every single one of these beers is good. Every. Single. One.

    • Rhywun

      *shrug* We’ll see the results in a year or two. Something something labs of democracy.

    • mikey

      So, situation normal. This is always true everywhere.
      The cops have no obligation to protect anyone anywhere ever.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I read that Castle Rock was decided on liability grounds.

      • Hyperion

        That’s not what they do. They show up after the fact and play investigator, and then arrest people to feed into the courts machine.

        The problem I can see as a possibility, is once the hardcore criminals realize that the cops aren’t ever coming, even after the fact. Then, after Beta gets all the guns, and the hardened criminals who are basically already organized crime gangs running cities, will also realize that people can’t protect themselves and they’ll just start robbing homes in broad daylight.

        All of these cities are going to become unlivable hell holes, but the democrat controlled federal government will just send them bailout money until there’s no bailout money left.

      • mikey

        In the UK home burglaries now mostly take place during the day. The homeowners not only aren’t armed, they go to jail if they resist the burgler.

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, I know, it’s insane and that’s where we’re going here. They have Castle Doctrine here even in MD. You do not have to retreat and if you kill someone in your home, that is self defense. Which is how it should be.

        I think the only exception to this is MA, which is insanity. But the democrats want this bullshit everywhere.

      • EvilSheldon

        Home burglaries in the ‘States mostly take place during the day, too. The occupants of the house are usually at work then.

      • Hyperion

        I should have stated that differently. I mean home invasions, not burglaries. IOW, they will know the homeowners are there, but won’t care because they know the home owners cannot defend themselves and they have no fear of arrest. Because who’s going to arrest them, the cops are defunded or quit. As an added bonus, since the homeowners are there, maybe they can kidnap and ransom them or at least get their jewelry and wallet. Maybe a trip to the bank for some forced ATM withdrawals.

      • EvilSheldon

        Pretty much Brazil and South Africa, then. I could see things going this way.

        Stay strapped!

      • EvilSheldon

        Shit. The cops barely even handle that level of investigation anymore. These days the cops do traffic, and handle the cleanup if there’s a dead body or substantial property damage out in public. Maybe.

        I’d take the whole defunding thing more seriously if the cops were something other than pain-in-the-ass ticket takers and paperwork filers.

      • Hyperion

        I dunno, I mean apparently they show up to shoot people dead, or at least a dog, occasionally. Isn’t that how we got here?

      • C. Anacreon

        The problem I can see as a possibility, is once the hardcore criminals realize that the cops aren’t ever coming, even after the fact. Then, after Beta gets all the guns, and the hardened criminals who are basically already organized crime gangs running cities, will also realize that people can’t protect themselves and they’ll just start robbing homes in broad daylight.

        I saw this happen on the TV documentary “Gotham”.

    • TARDis

      Anyone remember Cisco? I do.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I was thinking of the wrong Sisqo

      • Hyperion

        Yes, my grandmother used that stuff by the gallon. And my arteries are still not clogged up. Myth busting here.

        Oh, Cisco, never mind, that’s an IT network equipment company. One of their sales reps gave me a shirt one time.

      • BakedPenguin

        No, it’s a former Star Trek captain.

      • Hyperion

        Black Star Trek Captains Matter?

      • Rhywun

        Sisko heard that Kirk could chew some scenery and said, “Hold my beer.”

      • C. Anacreon

        “Oh, Pancho!”
        “Oh, Cisco!”

        “Cisco, kid, was a friend of mine.”

      • TARDis

        Where;s TPTB when you need them? You all deserve a narrowed gaze.

        Also, you forgot Food!

    • TARDis

      That made my day.

      • DEG

        #metoo

    • Sean

      Nice. ?

  15. Hyperion

    I can no longer make sense of this chatroom. Lard, butter milk biscuits, black lime peels, and hipster juice. I’m trying to stop drinking and I can’t, because ya’ll are triggering me.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Can’t tell if serious.

      • Hyperion

        You should know by now that all my posts are totally serious.

      • UnCivilServant

        So totally unserious, got it.

      • Hyperion

        That’s not what I said.

      • UnCivilServant

        But it’s the only thing that makes sense. If all your posts are unserious so is the one about all post being serious, and they are no longer self-contradictory.

      • Hyperion

        Nope.

        Just being silly. I did a post that was not to be taken seriously. But part of the post included a topic that may have given a feel to it that I might have been being serious.

        Which is why I can see why MS might have thought I was being serious. He just made a post about beer and I said ‘I was trying to quit drinking but you people are triggering me’.

        It was not serious. But easily could have been taken otherwise.

        But I just don’t see how my follow up about all my posts being serious could have been taken to mean none of my posts are serious.

      • Fourscore

        But he is a known purveyor of exaggeration, seriously . Even his disclaimers.

      • Hyperion

        I just don’t even have any idea what you are talking about, 4score.

        Known by who?

      • Fourscore

        Now you’re taking me seriously.

      • Fourscore

        Now you’re taking me seriously.

    • Hyperion

      I’d like to see what the Biden crowds are doing. But I haven’t been able to find one. But he’s up by a zillion in all the polls, lol.

      • Sean

        There’s plenty of Biden crowds…portland, seattle, rochester, kenosha, pittsburgh, philadelphia, etc.

    • Hyperion

      Cutout Joe is the most articulate of all the Joes.

      They should send it to the debates.

    • Drake

      I saw my first Biden lawn sign today. After driving past a hundred or so Trump signs and flags in northwest NJ on my way to hike.

      • Sean

        Maybe they lost a bet?

      • westernsloper

        During my morning perusal of the twits prior to going to work I saw something like: ‘Judging by yard signs I see, Biden will come in third after Trump and Fire Wood for Sale.’

        Should have liked, that was an excellent tweet.

      • Sean

        ???

      • The Hyperbole

        Joking aside, is it just me or are yard signs far more rare now then twenty or so years ago? If I see three yards signs on a block now it’s exceptional, when I was a yoot they were everywhere, one of the ‘pranks’ us delinquents would pull would be to round up all the signs in a neighborhood and put them all in some dork’s or hot girl’s from lawn. We’d fill a good size lawn now you’d get maybe a dozen.

      • Agent Cooper

        Currently 57-28 Trump around me.

    • Hyperion

      He needs to hire someone to dust his wall hangings and wipe off the decade old finger smudges.

      • TARDis

        They have, but the “help” is too busy wiping up drool and cleaning up piddle stains.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Heckler’s Mudslinger’s veto

    Vice President Mike Pence has canceled plans to attend a Trump campaign fundraiser in Montana following revelations that the event’s hosts had expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory.

    President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign told The Associated Press on Saturday that Pence’s schedule had been changed, but the campaign did not provide a reason or say whether the fundraiser might be held at a later time. The change comes after the AP reported Wednesday that hosts Cayrn and Michael Borland in Bozeman, Montana, had shared QAnon memes and retweeted posts from QAnon accounts.

    The baseless conspiracy theory alleges Trump is battling an entrenched bureaucracy and sex trafficking ring run by pedophiles.

    I can’t be bothered to find out.

    Meanwhile, mainstream Democrats are advocating full on socialism and abandonment of all Constitutional restraints.

    • Drake

      Trump isn’t battling an entrenched bureaucracy? I don’t know about the pedos, but the first half doesn’t sound like a crazy conspiracy theory.

      • Rhywun

        Nope. They link the two ideas on purpose.

      • hayeksplosives

        My SO has waded through all the QAnon muck so that I don’t have to.

        He’s convinced it’s real. Granted, the man loves him some conspiracy action, but still.

        Kinda like that sect of powerful and successful pagans in The Ninth Gate having their annual orgy.

        I don’t want to know.

      • EvilSheldon

        When you have a bunch of people who all work in the same jobs, who all went to the same schools, who’s families all know each other, who all live in the same bubble of shared cultural assumptions, then it doesn’t really count as a conspiracy.

        Great movie, though.

    • Sean

      …and spending another 3 trillion dollars, emptying prisons, and defunding police. Plus more shutdowns, mandatory vaccines, mandatory testing, mandatory contact tracing, etc.

      And then there’s encouraging the rioters.

    • But Enough About My Weird Culinary Fantasies

      QAnon’s so 2019.

      The world has been run by The Illuminati from a bunker in Tibet since 208 BC.

    • Mojeaux

      As long as they’re back for Easter, I’m good.

      • Sean

        ?

  17. Fourscore

    Only 4 KIAs in Chi-town so far today (by noon) but one incident had 6, yep, 6 shot (2 Ks, 4 Ws). Must have had a revolver.

  18. Grosspatzer

    Only 4 KIAs in Chi-town so far today

    Yusuf hardest hit?

  19. hayeksplosives

    We had our garage sale today. Borrowed som tables from the country club and sorted stuff and arranged it last weekend.

    All I did was list it on NextDoor, saying we’d open at 11am, and people showed up in droves when we opened up the garage door at 9. Turns out there was already an organized plan to have garage sales in this neighborhood.

    So we didn’t have to put up signs or anything. Mostly we sold smaller items, except one Specialized bicycle. But somehow it added up to 400 bucks! And the junk is out of my house/garage.

    There are still some nice items, but the traffic really tapered off so I think Goodwill gets the rest, if they take it.

    We didn’t wear masks. Most shoppers did. One thanked us for not wearing masks and gratefully took hers off. Sad to see so many sheeple obeying “guidelines”.

    One Japanese American dad called the mask thing stupid and when he found he had a receptive audience, he unburdened himself. That Jap is pulling the lever for Trump, and can’t wait to do so.

    • Grosspatzer

      400 bucks, nice haul! I doubt we got 50 for ours last year. Clearly you acquired superior junk over the years.

      • hayeksplosives

        I suppose it was good “junk”. Some of it worked fine but was outdated, like a Sony stereo (nothing fancy; just for the casual listener). And the Christmas ornaments sold welll, as did new shoes and other random crap. A Bluetooth tricorder (the really nice ones that are replicas of what Spock and Kirk had) sold to a grateful Hispanic nerd and his buddy.

        I still have the Pioneer Vsk 1021.

        I accidentally put my Trinitite rock on a table and had to retrieve it.

        People buy the weirdest stuff.

        Looks like I’m still stuck with my 4 antique radios.

    • Sean

      Excellent, all the way around. Well, except for the excessive masks. ?

    • Mojeaux

      Excellent haul! Good work, you.

  20. Annoyed Nomad

    Re: the New Zealand “Dump Trump” beer mentioned above, an American brewery should name a beer that’s insulting to New Zealand. Maybe with “kiwi” in the name. What would be a good name and appropriate style of beer?

    • TARDis

      Something sour with too much yeast.

      • Nephilium

        You mean something like this?

        Though I did enjoy it.

      • TARDis

        Sounds okay to me.

        Tangy Infected Lager

    • kinnath

      Kiwi sour ale.

      “Sod Off Mate”

    • Drake

      “Turn in your guns and submit lager”

      • Annoyed Nomad

        Lol

    • Annoyed Nomad

      I was thinking something along the lines of “Kick a Kiwi” or “Krushed Kiwi” with some graphic showing some idiot wearing a New Zealand flag shirt getting his ass kicked.

      • The Hyperbole

        You seem to be mistaking insults of Trump as insults of Americans. A beer insulting the NZ Prez or King or Chief Shaman or whatever they have would be the appropriate response. I’m certain their are some NZ’ers who love Trump.

      • Annoyed Nomad

        Maybe it should be more along the lines of “STFU Kiwi” because I don’t think their opinion of American politics is relevant. When I traveled to Australia after a recent vote on whether to continue to recognize the British monarchy, I asked various Australians their opinion on the vote. I didn’t tell them mine.

      • The Hyperbole

        Sure, but we are the biggest game in town and insinuate ourselves ( yes sometimes they ask for it) into nearly every other countries biddness, so I can see why they might be concerned about us as opposed to Ecuador or Togo.

      • EvilSheldon

        So we need a beer insulting Xi Jinping?

    • Sean

      He’s a crafty one, that Trump.

      • TARDis

        He’s crafty like a good beer. ?

    • Rhywun

      What’s she hiding on her neck?

      *shudder*

      • hayeksplosives

        Her Keeper, like the one that controlled Emperor Molari on Babylon 5.

      • Rhywun

        No spoilers!

        I need to start watching that box set I ordered.

      • Drake

        Really? I wish I could watch B5 for the first time again.

      • Rhywun

        Really. I only saw it once or twice back in the day and don’t remember a thing. That was a very inconvenient time for me to be watching any regular television.

      • hayeksplosives

        I’ve wished for the same thing! To enjoy it fresh.

        It is still fresh because while watching it, you can’t miss the parallels to the past, and to a possible future under EarthGov.

    • Hyperion

      “when the numbers of people who are affected and the numbers of people who are dying from this virus only increases”

      They have no shame about lying.

      • hayeksplosives

        Why should they feel shame when they are cheered on by their peers and their idols for the very behavior we would all find shameful?

    • Suthenboy

      The radical left is. radical and like all radicals they are detached from reality and do nothing but spout pure bullshit.

      Honestly, if Trump loses this election I will disown my country. I still haven’t forgiven the fuckwits that voted for Obama in 2012 and only nominally give a pass to the ones that voted for him in 2008. This will be the last straw if Biden wins. Goddamned commies.

      • Sean

        Don’t hold back, how do you really feel?

    • Tulip

      Wow, she actually said that.

      • Hyperion

        Considering the things democrats have been saying lately, not sure why you’d question it.

      • Suthenboy

        I make that remark every time that witch opens her mouth.
        Never forget, Nancy used to pal around with Jim Jones. She is a full blown communist at heart.

  21. Grosspatzer

    https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/09/kean-u-student-dorming-on-campus-tests-positive-for-covid-19.html

    I hate these stories, and I see them every day. ONE student tested positive, and it’s big news? Give me a break. My son just had his classes at Scranton “temporarily” switched from in-person to online because of too many (whatever that means) positive tests. And the kids are not permitted to be in a dorm room other than their own. I’m sure the learning experience will be stellar, in a 10×10 room shared with a roommate.

    • Sean

      Are any of the positives showing symptoms? How many are getting retested if not?

      • Grosspatzer

        No one is saying, but since i’ve seen no tales of horror in the media I am assuming not much in the way of actual illnesses, standard virus behavior. Son does’t know anyone who is actually sick.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The positivity rate is downright ridiculous. Gee, seasonal allergies and colds decrease so people aren’t getting tested for them? I bet the positivity rate will decrease as fall turns into winter.

    • Rhywun

      The whole point is to butter you up for closing the campuses. Don’t turn that spare bedroom into a sewing room yet.

      • Grosspatzer

        Heh. Just stocked the new freezer with steaks. That boy loves him some steak.

    • Grosspatzer

      Do they have Netflix accounts?

      • Hyperion

        They were just trying to get their cast together for the new Netflix series!

    • Annoyed Nomad

      I remember when Chris Hansen was doing those To Catch a Predator shows. He did one in the Dayton area and I recognized one of the guys from a building I used to work at on Wright-Patterson AFB. Creepy!

  22. Sean

    https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/09/former-nj-judge-and-fox-news-analyst-accused-of-sexual-assault.html

    “A former New Jersey Superior Court judge turned Fox News legal analyst has been accused of sexually assaulting a man more than 30 years ago who was set to appear in his courtroom, according to a federal lawsuit.

    Andrew Napolitano, Fox News’ judicial analyst, allegedly forcibly sodomized and sexually assaulted a man in Hackensack who was facing three counts of arson in Napolitano’s courtroom, according to the lawsuit filed in New York Southern District Court by attorney Jon L. Norinsberg, on behalf of the alleged victim.”

    • Hyperion

      More than 30 years ago?

      Sure.

      #BelieveAllBuggered

    • Grosspatzer

      What if you commit a felony and are schedule to appear in my courtroom? What if I find you attractive? What if I offer you a way out of your predicament?

      • Hyperion

        You take it and then scream rape 40 years later when you find the guy is a TV personality.

        I think both that sort of offer and the screaming rape 40 years later would both be wrong. Just saying.

      • Grosspatzer

        Are you serious?

    • Suthenboy

      I think the left burned their credibility on sexual assault allegations to the ground already, so I am calling bullshit.

      30 years ago huh? Just now coming out a few weeks before an election? Sounds familiar. Did he use the pitiful and transparently fake squeaky voice when he told about it?

  23. Sean

    Comet Channel is starting Dr. Who: Invasion Earth 2150 right now.

    • Hyperion

      What? It’s going to be another 130 years before our new overlords save us?

      *resumes calls for SMOD 2021*

  24. Hyperion

    Anyone ever hear about this?

    Mysterious mounds of Aisle of Pines

    I found this interesting because unlike a lot of there ‘mysteries’, this one has apparently not been solved.

    I read that entire article and there’s been no shortage of far fetched theories thrown out by serious researchers.

    To my untrained eye, those just scream ‘100% natural origin’, IOW, no people involved with that. No tools or anything associated with human activity ever found around them.

    Also, they just look natural, like no sort of pattern that would show human intention. They’re just randomly located.

    My guess, some sort of ancient extinct plant or tree, or that with some sort of organism involved. Like ancient trees destroyed by some infestation of something and that’s what left. The so called ‘concrete’ is just some sort of natural concretions.

    • Suthenboy

      I am too lazy to look right now but I need more info. What is the elevation of the locations of these tumuli? I am inclined to think they may be human made. I am probably biased because the mound building injuns around these parts left zillions of mounds. Once you learn to see them they are all over the place.
      Sadly we have very little knowledge about that culture because they disappeared long before the Indians that we found here arrived. The same is true for the ‘Aztec’ pyramids in Mexico. The Aztecs did not build them. The Aztecs found them after the builders either died off or just abandoned them.
      When DeSoto got to Jonesville he asked the injuns what the mounds were for and they said “We dont know. They were here when we got here.”
      I suspect the mound/pyramid building mentality is something natural in humans and these in the South Pacific could be more of that phenomena.
      Also, peak Ice Age sea levels were as much as 200 feet(?) lower than today and land levels were not the same as today. It might be worth a look to see if there are any mounds now underwater.

      I just pulled all of that right out of my ass.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s fascinating how many stone tools get dredged up by fishing vessels because of the area that got submerged after the last glacial maximum.

  25. ignoreLander

    “Hold my Stein” – I like that. Hey, remember when Arpaio made some convicts pick up trash wearing pink teddies or something like that? Good times.