Sunday Evening Mysterious Happenings Open Post

by | Sep 13, 2020 | Open Post | 424 comments

I have no idea why I think any of you might care about the minutiae of my life. However, it’s never stopped me before and I’m going to tell you about it again.

Those of you who have dined at our place know that we use large, white, square dinner plates as salad plates. These let us have free creative plating rein. Easy to add an accompanying item or garnish to the plate with the main salad, whatever form that might take.

Inevitably, over the years the number of said plates has dwindled at a fairly steady rate; we use them every single day. I no longer remember where I purchased them 10+ years ago, so we set out to find more of the same style.

OMWC and I have visited various restaurant supply stores (date night!), looked around websites etc, but have never found the exact plate. It’s annoying to drag them out each night and see chipped corners, and we are down to just three, so we can never use them for guests anyway.

Well, I finally found some online that are very close to what we have, including the width of the rim and the actual food area. (Wait, don’t you measure your plates?) So on Thursday I ordered two sets of six each. Due to arrive sometime between 21-24 September.

This afternoon, Wonder Dog let us know that someone was on the porch before my security camera notification could even pop up. A gentleman left a box propped against the door.

I just went out to retrieve it and was confused to find…a package from Walmart.com that contains six smaller, regular-salad-size versions of the plates which I ordered. No, I didn’t order the smaller size as well. No, I didn’t order the larger plates from Walmart (and haven’t ordered anything from Walmart since last spring). No, the tracking number doesn’t show who sent the package.

The tracking on my actual order from another vendor shows that they are still scheduled to arrive next week. And the tracking number doesn’t match.

And none of our cards have been charged for this order.

My conclusion is that someone who has been here for dinner heard me complain about the dwindling “salad plate” supply and has sent us a gift. Maybe.

Or the vendor from whom I ordered just purchases their supply from Walmart and messed up and sent me a box of the smaller plates. Probably more likely.

 

Now that you’ve heard  all about my exciting life, enjoy your Sunday Night Open Post!

 

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SP

SP

I've got an idea! How about we just stick to the Constitution as written and then the government can leave me the fuck alone.

424 Comments

  1. Grumbletarian

    Today I received a jointer and planer I had ordered last week. Christmas in September!!!

    • Rhywun

      I got a new coffee grinder. W00t!

      My old one broke a few days ago, so I resorted to some emergency Folgers I had in the fridge. Sigh.

      Then I saw the exact brand and flavor of the beans I had been working through when my grinder broke but in pre-ground form, at Rite Aid of all places, so of course I bought it so I could compare. I’ve never tried the same coffee in bean and pre-ground form before.

      Holy cow. Fresh ground is totally worth it. The pre-ground stuff doesn’t even compare.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Aw, don’t tell me that. I hate the noise.

      • Rhywun

        I love the noise. Because it means I’m about to drink a great cup of coffee.

      • Nephilium

        Roasting your own is even better, but realize you’ve got a 24 hour lag time before the coffee is ready to be ground.

        If I have a bad habit, I’ll do it well.

      • Rhywun
      • Rhywun

        Yeah my busted one was really messy too.

        This one promises on the package to be less messy. We shall see.

      • EvilSheldon

        So true. My Baratza is the best stupid tchotchke I’ve ever bought.

    • The Hyperbole

      Tool porn, what’d ya get?

  2. Nephilium

    How do you break so many plates? In the past 20 years, I’ve chipped one plate (which was tossed), broke one shaker glass, and the girlfriend broke one snifter I had. I’m more irritated that I only have 7 large plates instead of 8, but for Thanksgiving, it’s all paper plates and real silverware.

    • SP

      You’ve obviously never been to one of our dinner parties.

      • Nephilium

        I have not.

        The girlfriend’s mother was complaining about the paper plates the first Thanksgiving she came to. Until she saw that we did cleanup in under 15 minutes, and were sitting at the basement bar drinking instead of washing plates. The dishwasher got filled with serving plates, platters, and the like.

        Are you short on shaker glasses? I haven’t paid for one in the past decade, and I’m running out of room for the free ones I acquire.

      • Mojeaux

        I did Tday one year with throwaway plates and cups, but they weren’t paper or Solo cups. They were heavy-duty plastic ones, because I wasn’t going to eat on paper plates, but I didn’t want to hand-clean delicate china and crystal, either.

      • Nephilium

        These weren’t the dollar store paper plates, and had enough heft that you could hold a meal and cut it on them. But I refused to go the plastic silverware route, or the plastic cup route.

        Back in the before times when I hosted parties, my favorite friends were those who would help me wash glassware before leaving.

      • SP

        I am almost always willing to take glassware or dinnerware or serve ware off someone’s hands.

        We’re meant to be acquiring OMWC’s Mom’s beautiful, white, mid-century china when we finally sell her FL place.

      • Nephilium

        The rule in my house is never pay for a shaker glass. I’ve got dozens of them. I’ve contemplated drinking in a new one each drink for one of the Zoom meetings, but realized that I’d be the only one to notice it. During Cleveland Beer Week (usually in October) there are lots of bars that do a “take the glass” promotion for buying a pint.

      • DEG

        The rule in my house is never pay for a shaker glass.

        How do you pull this off?

        I have only one that I haven’t paid for. The rest I bought. I think all I’ve bought from brewpub gift shops when I travel.

      • Nephilium

        I’m apparently a charming drunk. On top of the usual “take the glass” promos, I’ve gotten handed glasses like mad for the weeks after Cleveland Beer Week going into my regular places. The last glass I paid for was the Siberian Night shakers, after I drunkenly broke the one I took from a bar (after asking the staff). It also helps that the Winking Lizard has the beer of the month which comes with a glass.

      • DEG

        I guess I need to step up my game.

      • SP

        It’s a good rule.

      • Nephilium

        And if you’re serious, let me know how many shaker glasses you’d like, and if you have any branding preferences,

      • Don escaped Duopoly

        Neph is a conspicuously balanced diner; he doesn’t even tilt a bubble after four beers. NewWife and I could trip over a toothpick.

        TFW you’re at your kids place and he’s using some stoneware or spatula from your first apartment with your first wife 35 years ago

      • Nephilium

        /blushes

        If I get back to traveling for work again, I’d be glad to meet up for a pint again.

        I’m currently putting together a care package for my niece who moved out to CA from OH.

      • Don escaped Duopoly

        yeah, I’ve got to up my weeknight game if it’s a work trip

      • TARDis

        You’ve obviously never been to one of our dinner parties. John Wick reenactments.

    • Hyperion

      I have this set of mushroom canisters. Sears, 1972, made in Mexico. My grandmother got those when I was maybe 12-13 years old. Those things have been all over the country, coast to coast. Since I inherited them when she passed away, in my mid 30s, they’ve been moved every time I’ve moved. Let me see if I can count… 7 times I think. It would have been more times than that when I was a kid they would have been moved around. Not a single chip or crack.

      After my wife and I got married, she took a liking to those things. She told me ‘if anything happens to us and we aren’t together anymore, the only thing I want is your mushrooms’. I said ‘deal, they’re yours’.

      Since then, she has either broken the lids or chipped or cracked all 6 of them, lol. Now she found a set on eBay and wants me to buy them for her for replacement. Wiminz!

  3. juris imprudent

    Contemplates the menagerie of misaligned food serving platforms in his own kitchen. Slinks out side door.

    • SP

      Oh, we have plenty of random and mismatched dinner and serve ware. We have little bits of my great-grandmother’s good china, various platters from my other grandmother, OMWC’s wedding china from his first wedding back in the day when people still gave that for a wedding gift (I’m like wife number 8 or something), bits and pieces people have brought us as hostess or housewarming gifts. We use almost all of it.

    • Bobarian LMD

      ^^This.

    • Hyperion

      That’s classic American style. I think they call it eclectic. I’m a fan, on purpose!

    • Tulip

      I’m deliberately that way. I have white plates etc. Acquired at thrift shops, and all serving dishes are glass (cut, pressed, etc) again from thrift shops. So, it doesn’t matter if I break something. It’ll be easily replaced.

  4. Grosspatzer

    If the plates don’t fit, you must acquit!

  5. Old Man With Candy

    That wine in the photo looks a bit oxidized.

    • Cancelled

      Looks like sherry to me.

      • blackjack

        Oh! Sherrie! fro Mo.

      • blackjack

        *FOR Mo. One of the greatest female singers from the eighties!

      • blackjack

        Sorry, but

      • blackjack

        Sorry, but this is proper journey.

      • Mojeaux

        Nah, bruh, that’s not proper Journey. This is proper Journey.

        *hilds up lighter*

      • Mojeaux

        holds*

      • Rhywun

        Jesus, is everyone drunk tonight?

      • db

        maybe…

      • Nephilium

        If Mojeaux is drunk, we’re in the end times.

        /knew someone in a Journey cover band back in the 90’s

      • Agent Cooper

        Why are you asking Jesus?

      • blackjack

        Because he got tye died for our sins?

      • Tejicano

        Because his brother Sergio would know but he’s passed out.

      • kinnath

        I like this one better.

      • Mojeaux

        ???

      • Rhywun

        ?

      • Mojeaux

        TIL I am not the only Glib who likes Journey.

        WHO KNEW?!

    • kinnath

      I have mead that color.

  6. mikey

    We got two pairs of very ugly shoes delivered to us from WallMart. Never shop there. The shoes didn’t even fit either of us. They were addressed to us but no idea why they were delivered.

    • SP

      Inexplicable.

  7. mikey

    Love the plates. Used to have a set like that. I drop things a lot.

    • Nephilium

      Plates to me are unimportant. My good glassware on the other hand…

    • SP

      Our daily plates are all plain white, but not a set. We use the large square ones for salad, the normal round salad sized for sides/bread/desserts/lunch/snacks, and the large round dinner plates for whatever the main is. We also have some oblong plates that are perfectly sized for asparagus spears. 12 ounce bowls, 8 ounce bowls, 16 ounce handled soup mugs, various ramekins, tiny dessert and dipping sauce bowls, variously shaped small bowls for serving or desserts. All just plain white. They mix and match with anything else we use.

      One of these days, I should take a photo of our eat-in kitchen open shelves. We have a LOT of regularly used kitchen and dining stuff.

      • Hyperion

        “Our daily plates are all plain white”

        Same here. They’re made in Portugal. They remind me of the ones in the pic at top. Very thick and durable though.

        Wife has a lot of dinner sets, we just don’t use them.

  8. Sean

    Wait, you don’t use old Corelle plates?

    • SP

      That’s what my late Mom used for most of my life. *sigh*

      Although, I will admit to owning plain white Corelle in salad and luncheon sizes that we use for house concerts. When we do one, we have an actual dinner-party-type buffet and those stack more compactly and are lighter for people to carry around and eat from in random seating locations.

      • Sean

        You may have noticed I’m a fan of the old Corelle…

        Or at least two particular patterns. ?

      • Gender Traitor

        Our everyday tableware is comprised of the following:

        Dinner plates – 4 faded stoneware, 3 Corelle (don’t know name of pattern,) and 1 ceramic plate of unknown origin
        Salad plates – 3 faded stoneware, 4 Corelle
        Bowls – 4 faded stoneware, 3 Corelle

        We also have lunch-sized Melmac-ish planet plates, one for each official planet in our solar system. (Sorry, Pluto!) I avoid using the Mercury plate (I think – on treadmill, so can’t look) because it looks like a plate of puke.

      • SP

        I don’t judge.

        Well, maybe a little.

      • db

        we have a large complement of the “college student green” pattern that was my grandmother’s.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Nuttier than squirrel shit.

    • Agent Cooper

      He gets totally owned in the comments.

      • Lazer

        Good. I looked but didn’t see the comment section

      • Hyperion

        All of them pretty much echo what Bobarian said.

    • Shpip

      That’s a level of satire that eludes even Titania McGrath. At least I hope it is.

    • Nephilium

      I love my cast iron pans. And the best add on to them I’ve ever purchased was a chain mail scrubby to wash them with.

      • db

        I buy the stainless steel scrubbers you can get from brew shops to clean my cast iron. Sadly, you can’t get them in stores mostly, because they are also useable as packing for distillation columns for some “proscribed” processes, evidently.

    • SP

      LOVE LOVE LOVE those book plates! If the platter were available, I’d have already put it in my cart.

    • TARDis

      Excellent. These will be great as a gift for Mrs. T. Maybe for her birthday, or Christmas. Definitely not anniversary though, right?

      • Ted S.

        Anniversary gift is a new vacuum cleaner, isn’t it?

      • Mojeaux

        Yes.

      • TARDis

        Anniversary gift was going to be a big ass party, but the Swamp/Commie/RINO shit stains have that messed that up. I was thinking she should be paroled after 30 years. I was even considering some renewed vows and all. Oh well.

      • Ted S.

        HM likes big ass parties.

      • TARDis

        I want to say something here, but even I have my limits.

        “Nothing, honey!”

        *closes door*

      • db

        This just made me think of the exact pronunciation of that phrase in the old Honey-Nut Cheerios commercials, and shudder.

      • db

        I guess it wasn’t Honey-Nut Cheerios, but “Nut-n-Honey Crunch.” Still….eeeeesh.

      • R C Dean

        Rule No.1 of spousal gifting:

        No anniversary or Valentines gift can plug in.

      • Rhywun

        LOL I love the “customers also viewed these products”

      • db

        oh my.

      • db

        “extreme sex stool”

      • Nephilium

        /tips a hat

        I’m glad someone went there, I deleted several posts as my better thoughts outweighed the alcohol tonight.

      • Cannoli

        No anniversary or Valentines gift can plug in.No anniversary or Valentines gift can plug in.

        I’m cool with cordless power tools

      • Tejicano

        Well, that sucks!

      • Mojeaux

        I would love getting those for our anniversary, but that is a frivolous expense at the moment.

      • TARDis

        My wife reads at least one, usually two, and sometimes three book per week.

      • TARDis

        I meant to say birthdays and Christmas are supposed to be a bit frivolous.

    • Rhywun

      I like them too. And I have never seen them outside a cooking show.

  9. Grosspatzer

    We have two sets of everyday dishes, one in the basement which never gets used and one on the main floor. Since we were not watching football today, Mrs. Patzer decided to swap them. By which I mean, have me swap them.

  10. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I have about five sets of fine china I can part with if you promise not to tell my wife.

    • Mojeaux

      I was storing my mom’s and my aunt’s separate sets of china. Neither of them wanted their stuff back until I said, “Okay, look. This is not my stuff.” Aunt took her stuff back. My brother got mom’s china (has a lot of sentimental value, but more for him than for me).

  11. westernsloper

    I own two plates, one of them the square wmart plate, two soup bowls and two salad/pasta bowls. I like my salad in a bowl. A big bowl.

    • Sean

      Elaine?

      • Don escaped Duopoly

        I laffed

      • westernsloper

        If that is a Seinfeld reference……..would.

      • Sean

        Yes. To her big salad bit.

    • Don escaped Duopoly

      I figured you ate out of a baby moon hubcap using a spanner wrench and the fibula of an old enemy; definitely drinks tea from jelly jars.

      • westernsloper

        Ha. I cooked carne asada tacos a week ago or so on an old plow disc. I have pics and intend to write it up but I am lazy.

      • kinnath

        I saw a video once of someone hammering an old plow disc into a Mongolian grill.

        Pretty impressive

      • LJW

        We have a plow disc in the garage with horseshoe handles. Use it to cook slop when we go camping.

      • LJW

        Whoops typing on my phone. *Plow disc with horseshoe handles, in our garage*

      • Shpip

        I figured you ate out of a baby moon hubcap

        Hubcaps are for eggs benedict.

        After all, there’s no plate like chrome for the hollandaise.

      • Aloysious

        That right there deserves a Clint Eastwood squint.

    • Nephilium

      Shit, most of the time I eat salad out of plastic containers. I can throw in dressing, snap a lid on, and shake it to toss the salad.

      • Cancelled

        You wear a lid when tossing salad? I would have thought once you went full HM you’d throw caution to the winds

      • Nephilium

        The hat makes it classy.

      • Agent Cooper

        McDonald’s needs to bring back Salad Shakers.

      • pistoffnick

        “…shake it to toss the salad.”

        Phrasing!

    • Rhywun

      #metoo

      In fact I just finished a salad in a big bowl.

  12. Ted S.

    I have no idea why I think any of you might care about the minutiae of my life

    Because if we don’t you’ll come after us with a rusty can lid.

    • SP

      Well, there is that.

  13. Count Potato

    Seeing all these empty stadiums is so sad. I never would have guessed this shit wouldn’t be over by now.

    • Roland of Gilead

      I watched Lions vs Bears this afternoon and I had to turn the sound almost off because their fake crowd noise was so annoying and overpowering.

      • C. Anacreon

        Mitch Trubisky for MVP!

      • Roland of Gilead

        Halfway through the 2nd quarter I was calling for Nick Foles

      • Count Potato

        “fake crowd noise was so annoying”

        That too. No idea how they think that’s a good idea.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        they had an opportunity go the xfl route and mic everybody up. they blew it instead.

        Were it up to me, I’d shut off the football. it’s not carrying my interest. Wife is marginally more interested, but I’m not sure she lasts through week two.

    • Chafed

      #MeToo

  14. Agent Cooper

    Fiestaware here. Tried getting a matching butter dish. Best price was $47. Nah.

    • SP

      Estate sales.

      • db

        ebay works. We have a set of china that Dr. Girlfriend’s Mom gave her when she went to grad school (don’t know where she got it–probably a thrift store) that we really like. I found that searching the pattern name (printed on the bottom of the plates) turns up tons of available pieces and replacements for broken plates, etc.

  15. Tundra

    I like plain white plates. It’s all we’ve ever had.

    Ours are round though.

    • Rhywun

      Mine are all solid black. Because black is how I feel on the inside.

      • Nephilium

        May this send you down a rabbit hole.

      • Nephilium

        /raises a double two hearted

      • Tundra

        Damn you.

        *settles in*

      • Rhywun

        Close ?

        But I was actually fishing for this

      • Tundra

        You know I will never link Moz.

      • Hyperion

        Black plates matter

  16. kinnath

    We found a stoneware pattern that we liked probably 20 years ago. It was being discontinued. We went to three or four different department stores and bought every piece they had.

    I few pieces have chips after all this time, but we can serve 12 if we want to.

    • SP

      Nice!

      • kinnath

        And there is gold rimmed china someplace that has been used a dozen times in 20 years.

    • C. Anacreon

      And it’s Stoneware to my soul,
      Stoneware topped with a jelly roll,
      And it’s Stoneware.

  17. Ted S.

    Our current plates have a lighthouse theme, since Mom was big into lighthouses. The set before that was the white Corning Ware type stuff with a blue pattern.

    It’s a different pattern from the dark blue stuff Mom got from her wedding. That set was built like a tank because we still have the 2-quart kettle and three or four pots/pans that get a lot of use 56 years on.

      • Agent Cooper

        Have one of those bequeathed from my mother.

      • SP

        Oh, yeah, the standard Corningware. I think everyone on both sides of my family had some of that.

        We recently acquired 6 of these with lids that we use as individual gratin dishes or casseroles.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Don’t have the lid but use the dish for baking sausages or apples.

      • TARDis

        My mom was a Corning Ware woman, all the way. Wash them wrong, and you were in for a bad night.

      • DEG

        Yep. My mom had a shit ton of that stuff.

      • db

        Spring Blossom is what we have from my Grandma. My parents had the Snowlflake Blue, and later, “English Breakfast.” I still have 2 of those.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Have the same pattern for a veggie server. It’s divided up the middle so that your corn and and carrots won’t miscegenate.

    • Grumbletarian

      True enough, but I wonder if feeding the ‘OMG Trump’s a tyrant!’ hysteria is a good idea.

    • Rhywun

      he told a crowd of hundreds of supporters, most of them not wearing masks or socially distancing

      That’s my cue to stop reading.

    • creech

      He best concentrate on winning a second term. Lately, I’ve run into a number of his admittedly lukewarm supporters who are now buying the media’s “he lied and people died” covid nonsense.

    • Hyperion

      I don’t think the crazies really need anymore triggering at this point.

  18. TARDis

    Lookit SP, making mostly dudes talk about dinnerware.

    • Count Potato

      I don’t have anything interesting to say on the subject.

      • blackjack

        C’mon, man, dish!

      • Count Potato

        What you did, has been seen.

      • Rhywun

        Put on lid on it!

      • Nephilium

        Really? No link?

  19. Don escaped Duopoly

    In backcountry you work down to how little you can get away with. It’s been years since I carried more than a plastic mug and spork. Someone’s gotta carry a cook pot, but that’s my entire personal kit. I prefer soups and oatmeal because you can drink your dishwater, leave no trace.

    • Count Potato

      I’m surprised how many tent companies went out of business.

    • kinnath

      If I can’t get there with a 4wd SUV pulling a 12-foot trailer, I ain’t going.

      I have two of these.

      • db

        See you at Cooper’s Lake sometime.

      • kinnath

        Usually stuck out on the Serengeti.

        When I am there I teach classes.

    • db

      Backcountry camping: I carried three bottles of two-buck Chuck that my companions handed me down into the Grand Canyon on a backcountry hike. When it came time to drink it it was f***king awful (110 degF during the climb down) and we poured it out with tears in our eyes and then had to hump the empty glass back out with us. awful!

      • Threedoor

        I usually take a full sized watermelon on hikes where I’m meeting buddies. I jokingly brought one camping in high school and have ever sense. They still make fun of me for bringing cans of soup.

      • db

        Do you inject it with vodka?

      • Threedoor

        Never thought of that.

      • db

        You’re welcome

      • db

        BTW, nice truck! I had a ’76 C model pickup with 3-on-the-tree in high school. What a ride. It had basically no paint, so everyone else knew I didn’t care. Traffic parted like the Red Sea for me.

      • blackjack

        I got a ’62 fleetside shortbed c-10. 292 with a t-5 overdrive trans. I gotta get around to making motor mounts for it. The motor is still hanging from the hoist. I have triple webers for the 292, but I’m not sure they’ll fit with the firewall/master cylinder. Might have to use my offy/holley 4 bbl.

      • db

        My truck had some sort of non-4wd towing package with a 350 small block with Holley 4 barrel. extra leaf springs in the back. The weak point in the system was the clutch.

      • Threedoor

        Sounds like a Big 10 package. DB.

      • Plinker762

        The stories I heard in the Air Force was the alkies bringing in oranges injected with vodka.

      • Threedoor

        That should be fun Blackjack. I built a 63 GMC shortbox that I put a 400 Pontiac and th350 in. I used the factory 73 and up clamshell Moyer mounts and frame brackets. Make some half inch spacers and all that stuff bolts in by drilling two holes in the crossmember and one on each frame rail.

      • Threedoor

        There were a lot of them taken To JRTC.

      • blackjack

        Yeah, the 292 is odd duck. It has the right side mount moved forward about 6-8 inches. And of course, the ’60-’62 chassis is weird also. No regular stuff fits it. I bought some street rod mounts, but they need the old cut and weld trick. I should prolly just swap the whole crossmember from a ’73-up into it, but I lack the ambition to do all that. Mine has torsion bars.

      • Plinker762

        I used to drive ’76 K20 which had a transplanted 454 driving a Dodge diesel NV4500 and Chevy NP205. I had to make my own adapters for both ends of the transmission.

      • Threedoor

        I put CPP steering stuff on my 63 so I could run a standard saganaw box. Control arms and disk liters from a 75 van. It’s pretty wild how much Chevy kept dimensionally the same for a long time. A front crossmember swap is the easiest way to do it. I swapped a 71 front into a buddies 65 years ago. We had to egg out one hole on each side, other than that it all bolted in. The power brake stuff is a bit different than 67 and up. To use a later booster you have to take them apart and clock the halves 90 degrees.

      • blackjack

        Yeah, I get the extra hassle of my hydraulic clutch. It’s built into the single pot master. I would (will) have to finagle a way to split them up. Prolly a wilwood with a custom lever or something.

      • Threedoor

        That would be a good Trans for my 91 3+3 plinker. I almost didn’t buy it because it had the stick. But the price was right. I bought it for the 454 and extra D60, can’t have too many of those in my pile. My Blazer has the sm465 in it and I’m simply tired of shifting. And overdrive would be nice.

      • Don escaped Duopoly

        egg out one hole

        reminds me that they went from six lugs to five in 73

        My 69 had drums x4. A kid can learn a lot about the world when speculating on whether his truck will stop.

      • Threedoor

        The clutch master/brake master combo is an odd one. The later 64-66 power booster bracketry is kind of hard to find. I whent sloppy with mine rather than finding the right stuff. I’m not proud of it. I used the Van booster and master and drilled new holes in the fire wall, which interferes with a reinforcing rib on the inside. Most ghetto work I’ve ever done. I torched the rib out and ran with it.

      • Threedoor

        2wd went to five lug in 71. I’ve never liked the five lug look. But I’m not much on 2wd stuff either.

      • Don escaped Duopoly

        2wd went to five lug in 71

        It’s so clear to me now that you’ve corrected me; in my defense, I haven’t ground a valve in 40 years

      • Gustave Lytton

        Sealed bottle of mouthwash, poke hole in seam at bottom, drain, fill with food coloring and vodka or similar, wipe hole with soldering iron or similar to reseal. Box in care package and ship.

      • Threedoor

        I’ve never ground a valve. I just wear stuff out and replace it with less worn out stuff. Which would explain the stack of small blocks I’ve got with no stem seals and spun bearings.

      • Plinker762

        The overdrive with granny gear was nice but the ’06 2500HD with a duramax put an end to my desire to drive the older trucks. (although a standard cab and with an auto 350 ’74 series is always nostalgic for me)

  20. Mojeaux

    Since our plates were older than dirt and started breaking, I just went to the thrift store and bought a bunch of plain white plates at $1 each. I’m not proud of it and I’d rather have a full service for 12 of those book plates, but here I am.

    • Count Potato

      I bought my first set of plates at a garage sale. I don’t remember what they looked like or what happened to them.

      • Mojeaux

        I confess: I like shopping at thrift stores because it’s like a treasure hunt.

    • hayeksplosives

      Yeah, we do the finest plain white Cornette that Corningware has to offer, with French White cooking bowls, platters, etc.

      I do have silver flatware. Bit of an odd mix.

    • But Enough About My Weird Culinary Fantasies

      This is our dinnerware:

      https://www.replacements.com/china-christopher-stuart-van-gogh/c/12064

      It’s been obsolete since the early Oughts, but every so often we find stuff on eBay (or Replacements.com, the above link, but they’re stupidly expensive). Shoulda bought more back in the day, but we have enough for sixteen place settings. The way things are going, that should last me ’til death.

  21. Not an Economist

    I got my sister’s wedding reject dishes.

    • Brochettaward

      See…I don’t think using a teleprompter is standard for fucking interviews/appearances on shows. These aren’t supposed to be prepared remarks he’s giving.

      That he can’t be trusted to go off script in the slightest doesn’t speak well to what his handlers think of his mental state.

      • db

        It’s not even that they’re “prepared remarks.” I’m sure the technology has advanced to the point (probably decades ago) that a third party can type prompts in in close to real time, to allow a presenter to appear to be composing their thoughts in real time.

      • CPRM

        the technology has advanced to the point (probably decades ago) that a third party can type prompts in in close to real time

        Yep.

      • l0b0t

        There was an article several weeks ago, after Biden’s camp was busted with some more plagiarism, that mentioned (in passing, below the fold) that the offending material had slipped past the very expensive anti-plagiarism software suite purchased by the campaign to prevent another gaff. His handlers know that misappropriating the words and ideas of others is such a problem for their candidate that they purchased software to mitigate it. Why isn’t that the big story?

    • CPRM

      Looking at the picture, the reflection seems to be whatever streaming software they are using in the Biden Bunker, there is text in the upper right quadrant (since it’s a reflection, that would be upper left in the actual software), but no way to tell if it’s a teleprompter panel, it could be anything from slate titles to the how to instructions.

  22. DEG

    My conclusion is that someone who has been here for dinner heard me complain about the dwindling “salad plate” supply and has sent us a gift. Maybe.

    That’s probably it.

  23. SP

    Just to note, we enjoy having the stuff we have, but we could certainly do just fine without it. We are not snobs by any stretch. I mean, we hang out here. 😉

    And if you invite us to your place we won’t even notice what plates you have. We’ll be there to enjoy the company.

    • kinnath

      Any time.

    • Nephilium

      /polishes the glassware just in case

      • Festus' Mustache

        Wipes bum thrice.

  24. Threedoor

    We have my wife’s collection of Mikasa plates. My wife loves small plates. I despise them. Thankfully my toddler has broken most of the non full sized ones. Good riddance.

    • Chafed

      Good kid.

  25. db

    Got my 300 WM shooting 0.3 MOA today. Very pleased with that. Now have to tweak that load.

    • Rhywun

      Now have to tweak that load.

      ?

      • db

        “Nuttin’ Honey!”

        — See above.

    • Count Potato

      “Got my 300 WM shooting 0.3 MOA today.”

      That’s great, for any practical application.

      • db

        Yeah, I have two handloads that do that now, a 168 grain Hornady A-Max, and a 208 grain Hornady ELD-M. Now going to work on the 230 grain Berger Hybrid OTM

    • EvilSheldon

      Sounds like it’s pretty tweaked already…

      • db

        Always room for improvement

  26. R C Dean

    Re: plates.

    Fiestaware FTW.

    We do have some white plates, bowls, and pasta dishes (4 each) that I can’t remember where I got them. Other than that, Fiestaware all the way.

    • db

      Radioactive type? The original was made with clay from the Ohio Valley that is heavy with radioisotopes. I had a home near one of the original clay quarries and the radon count was quite high before we did remediation there. I visited the Comanche Peak NPS in Texas, and they had a cool display: a Geiger counter positioned above a lazy Susan with various items on it, including a uranium fuel pellet (not spent) and a piece of original FiestaWare. Of course you know which set the Geiger counter off to a much higher degree…

      • SP

        We have about 12 uranium glass dessert dishes. Hardly ever use them, but they are so cool.

    • Gustave Lytton

      We use Fiestaware for our dog bowls. They hold up well.

      Our main dishes are some line from Williams Sonoma and we like them. Have had Corelleware and Denby in the past. Both are gone down. (Plain non vintage corelle, not Cornflower Blue so set the pitchforks down)

      Flatware is the real problem. We have Oneida from NY, but the pieces are starting to dwindle. The Asian crap they sold, and maybe still sell, under the Oneida name was absolutely horrible. Pieces would rust in months or even weeks under normal use and washing. So disappointing.

      • But Enough About My Weird Culinary Fantasies

        We use Fiestaware for our dog bowls.

        And your pups are just glowing with health!  ;-)

  27. peachy rex

    Pfaltzgraff 4 lyfe, bitchez.

    (Possibly the least intimidating usage of that formulation ever.)

  28. Chipping Pioneer

    My conclusion is that someone who has been here for dinner heard me complain

    Other possibilities:

    1) OMWC
    2) The CCP
    3) Alexa

    • Tulip

      Alexa ordering from Wal-Mart would be an awesome hack.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      speaking of the CCP, the local texmex place has a poster up in the window that says “end the demon CCP” and has a bunch of stuff about how the commies are to blame for covid.

      • Gdragon

        Epoch Taco?

  29. Gustave Lytton

    Good thing you didn’t ask to get rid of a turbulent priest.

      • straffinrun

        Cuties Pie?

      • db

        OFFS This frickin’ Pope. I left the church because it was overrun by commies back in the ’90s. People said I was making shit up.

      • The Hyperbole

        What am I missing. what’s wrong with “God gave us food and sex, so we should enjoy them”? That’s commie?

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        *shrugs* nothing in that article was in any way out of line with my beliefs, and I’m not even catholic.

      • Nephilium

        He shouldn’t know what either are. The vow of poverty and celibacy you know.

      • Cancelled

        Poverty does not equal starvation, and I knew I wanted to have sex and expected it to be pleasurable long before I had any.

      • db

        Nah, the actually commie stuff is commie. The free love and hedonism stuff is just simply not Roman Catholic. Or maybe it is, if you believe Andrew Lloyd Webber.

        I left the Church because it was in conflict with my opinions on liberty and private property.

      • Nephilium

        I’m one of those who went through Catholic education and never went through Confirmation. I respect those who still follow the rules and believe it’s good. I’ve got several friends/acquaintances who dropped out of the Knights of Columbus because it wasn’t Catholic enough for them.

      • db

        I happened to grow up in a particularly bad parish in one of the worst dioceses in the country, as far as the abuse scandal went. Neither I, nor, to my knowledge, any of my close friends, were directly affected, but the more I learn as the years go on, the less I feel that the RCC is representative of God’s will on earth.

        I respect believers greatly, since many people I know and love were and are, but the brand is tainted, shall we say.

      • Nephilium

        Shit, I was an alter boy for years. I respect those who still follow the teachings, and am full of disdain for those who claim to be “Catholic” while ignoring most of the teachings of the church.

        It’s fair to disagree, but once you disagree with doctrine, you’re no longer a Catholic.

      • db

        Totally agree with that. I used to be a Catholic. Not sure I’ll ever be one again. It’s kind of a shame.

      • Nephilium

        db: Explaining to the GF that if you break one rule of Catholicism, you’re technically out of it is always entertaining. Technically, I’m excommunicated since I’m ordained in the church of the Apathetic Agnostic (tag line: we don’t know, and we don’t care).

      • Gustave Lytton

        Whoa! That’s where I drifted away, other than going to services for a few more years after.

        Being married to a non-catholic, I’ve gotten a lot of questions of Catholicism and realized how little being raised as one and going to school did for actually imparting doctrine.

      • db

        The fact that so many lay people were involved in covering up the utterly base evil in the abuse scandal is something that most accounts fail to note. There were people who not only covered it up, but personally profited (professionally, and sometimes financially) from it. And some of them are still highly respected members of the community.

      • Nephilium

        One of my friends and I will still (well in the before times) sit and drink and argue about theological things. It was always entertaining watching the other tables back away from us as we kept drinking. We did manage to outguilt Jack Chick people one time after walking out of a bar.

      • Cancelled

        I think you are missing pinkopopebad. You need to learn the proper response to anything anyone says. It works like this:

        Step one decide if the person is Good or Evil?
        This may involve an actual evaluation, but in a pinch you can substitute Team identity.

        Step two if the person is Evil then anything they say is evil, stupid, and clear evidence of moral dissolution and must be greeted with mockery or rage. If the person is Good then anything they say is good, wise and clear evidence that they care deeply about others, and must be defended no matter how much mental contortion is required.

      • db

        haha, no, please don’t attribute that kind of thinking to me.

  30. The Hyperbole

    Dinner plate nerds!

    • db

      Mikasa, sukasa.

      • db

        *bows stiffly*

  31. straffinrun

    Sorry, Hype, I finished the cartoon without your help. Thanks, though. (Probably should’ve taken it though)

    Part one:

    https://ibb.co/hZ5VScB

      • The Hyperbole

        Very nice. 1.3 thumbs up.

      • CPRM

        I’ve been taught you’re ignorant.

        Is that supposed to be read that he’s been taught that the other guy is ignorant? Or, that he has been educated, and the other guy is ignorant?

      • db

        I read it as #2.

      • straffinrun

        Your choice. “I’ve been taught that you’re ignorant” is how it was intended.

    • The Hyperbole

      Dude, don’t just give it away! Make it a multi-week series and win the love and respect of your fellow glibs.

      • straffinrun

        Should I stop doing that?

  32. robc

    I stopped going to free glass nights when I ran out of room to store the glassware.

    • C. Anacreon

      There was a time when most of my glassware was free football logo tumblers received from the corner gas station every time you filled up. At least they matched, I guess.

  33. The Hyperbole

    I no I’m late for the glibfit article but I want to report that I just consumed 800 calories worth of BBQ pork rinds.

    • db

      1/2 a bottle of cabernet sauvignon, 8 mini tacos, and 3 beers.

    • CPRM

      Low carb, so the calories don’t matter, I think, or something.

      • The Hyperbole

        So that’s why I’m still hungry?

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      What kind of plate did you use?

      • The Hyperbole

        I didn’t use one but if I did it would have been whatever kind that the one plate that I own is…round, red and usually on the draining board.

  34. Cannoli

    Our everyday dishes are white with a diamond/quilt-like pattern around the edge. I have one set of china that originally belonged to the great-grandmother I’m named after, and another set we got when we got married. My main problem is that I have a big family, so I frequently end up having to mix and match even though I have a ton of dishes.

    • SP

      That was a problem in my childhood family.

      And, your great-grandmother was named Cannoli? Must be an Italian family.

  35. CPRM

    One night at work I was explaining to one of the younger guys at work about the Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings animated movie, since I got home that day youtube has been recommending that I rent it from them. I know I’m being surveilled at work, but I didn’t know it was by youtube.

    • straffinrun

      They know what you like. Synchronicity often means you simply didn’t see the connection or Snowden only knew a fraction of what’s going on.

      • CPRM

        But, I don’t like lord of the rings. That’s actually why I brought up the Bakshi cartoons with the younger guy, to say that I never read the books, only watched the live action movies once and saw the cartoons when I was a kid.

      • straffinrun

        What are we implying? If “we” is your real pronoun.

      • CPRM

        *shoulder shrug emoji emoticon*

    • l0b0t

      The Crumb/Bakshi beef notwithstanding, I prefer the animated Tolkien fare to the Peter Jackson stuff by a wide margin.

    • one true athena

      Google is always listening.

  36. straffinrun

    I use my Franklin Mint pewter figurines as silverware.

    • db

      I hear that if you need to clean them, it works really well to soak them in wine before you drink it.

  37. straffinrun

    It’s a little premature to get sex advice from the Vatican.

    • CPRM

      I guess it depends on the age of the person you’re looking to get busy with. #Cuties

      • straffinrun

        The Popemobile has an actual mobile.

  38. straffinrun

    Had to run to catch my train. Without a warmup, I run like Robert Duval.

    • straffinrun

      This is fine.

    • CPRM

      How come these unstoppable climate caused fires don’t happen with all the apple orchards? That would be a great smelling fire.

      • Gustave Lytton

        There’s some filbert farms inside the burn area. Will have to stop and see if it’s roasted after the roads are reopened.

      • Threedoor

        It smells like oak and hops to me in Spokane.

  39. KibbledKristen

    I got two new meat thermometers today. One is the kind you leave in the meat, the other is the stabby switchblade kind

    • CPRM

      I’ve only used a meat thermometer like 3 times. I ain’t scared of no ghost trichinosis.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’m less concerned about food safety as not overcooking the meat. That’s where the meat thermometer shines.

      • CPRM

        If you cook everything rare, you don’t have to worry about over-cooking.

    • Chafed

      I know the first one is a euphemism but I’m still working out the second one.

      • Digby's Patented Booty Sweat

        With the right amount of heat is reached, the thermometer pops out of its sheath?

      • Chafed

        Only KK knows for sure.

    • Shpip

      Way to put a stop to your dry spell.

  40. one true athena

    Well, don’t plant them. You don’t know what kind of plant you’ll get!

    But thank you for the off-hand reminder to check ebay for my china pattern. I dropped a plate a few years ago but we don’t really use the fancy stuff very often so I didn’t bother to go look for a replacement. But it’s so easy. *click*

    I have everyday boring Corelle that replaced both of our really old shit we’d been carrying around for years. It was supposed to be ‘temporary’ but since it doesn’t break I haven’t had much impetus to buy a “real” set.

  41. Chafed

    Hey Late Night Glibs, Sir Digby broke his wrist. I’m told it’s completely unrelated to masturbating. Send him your best wishes and know he may be slow to reply.

    • Digby's Patented Booty Sweat

      I’m told it’s completely unrelated to masturbating.

      This is totally true, and only slightly related to communicating with CPRM.

    • CPRM

      But, he was already adept at one handed typing, so he should be ok.

  42. Brochettaward

    I own some paper plates that I wash and reuse. They have race cars on the rims.

    • C. Anacreon

      The people who make those have rim jobs.

    • CPRM

      Private property isn’t even real man! Su casa es mi casa. What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine.

    • Chafed

      Let’s see how many looters get buried.

      Any news on whether the guy arrested in Oregon for setting fires has Antifa links?

      • Threedoor

        I saw that four people had been arrested, so far.

      • Plinker762

        Fake News. I have it on good authority that civilians just sit around waiting for the government to save them during emergencies.

      • Digby's Patented Booty Sweat

        Do I be angry that she had more than one house while on the public dime, or, happy for her/the family’s financial success?

      • Plinker762

        Nobody needs more than one room.

        Don’t be envious.

      • CPRM

        Volunteer, so the two homes could be from her day job.

      • Gustave Lytton

        She only became the chief two years ago, so the houses probably didn’t come from that. .75FTE for a very rural district probably isn’t making bank either.

      • hayeksplosives

        I just watched a show from 2011 where a guy was talking about how government gets people to give up rights when they are scared and want to be protected.

        He said the crisis “could be a natural disaster. It could be a war. It could be economic, or even a pandemic.”

      • CPRM

        If you list enough things, you might be right at some point.

  43. CPRM

    Smoked a porkbutt with applewood today and pulled it. It will be marinating in my redacted BBQ sauce for the next week, when I will take it as my dish to pass at Honey Harvest.

  44. Gustave Lytton

    I hate WordFence. Those asshats need to be fed into woodchippers.

    • CPRM

      porkay saynor?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Stupid third party security plugin for WordPress has my isp’s IP(s) blocked for whatever reason. Don’t care. Can’t visit a number of WordPress sites that use it now.

  45. CPRM

    So, Amazon orders usually take about 7 business days to get here. I’m doing a the free trial of Amazon Prime, which touts 3 day delivery, to test and see if there is a difference I ordered a DVD of Captain Ron. It says it’ll be here in 5 days. Real clear metrics there Bezos.

    • hayeksplosives

      7 days???!! 3 day turn on Prime???

      Where the heck do you live? Ted Kazinskis old place? Mars colony?

      • CPRM

        7 *business* days. Hell, it takes USPS 3 days to deliver from here to Green Bay, which is less than 50 miles.

      • hayeksplosives

        I must have lived nearer an Amazon hub, both in MPLS and Escondido. I am used to next day delivery in both locations on Amazon Prime items.

      • CPRM

        And thus is the reason we shouldn’t allow cities to dominate rural politics. ‘What do you mean you don’t have [Insert Thing City People Are Used To].

      • Rhywun

        My stuff spends an extra day within spitting distance across the state line at a distribution center.

        Prime can suck it; I’m not wasting my money on that.

    • salted earth

      Do you want Amazon workers to die!? It is not possible to get Captian Ron to you in fewer than 5 days without giving someone COVID. Are willing to kill people just to watch an awesome movie 2 days sooner.

      • CPRM

        If they want me to pay $12.99 a month, damn straight, they should be fighting gladiatorial fights for my enjoyment.

      • salted earth

        Make sure to unsubscribe if you don’t want Prime so they don’t keep charging you.

      • CPRM

        I know, I’m not a rube or and idiot, just a drunkard.

      • salted earth

        I didn’t know, I don’t drink, I am not a rube, so I guess that leaves idiot.

      • CPRM

        I’ve known things like that since Columbia House was a thing.

      • salted earth

        It might have been that a year after the initial free month they gave me another free month and I didn’t realize it. Then they charged me.

      • CPRM

        I’m a stingy bastard. If they say their giving me 30 days free, it will be cancelled before those 30 days are up, just to make sure there isn’t an ‘error’.

  46. hayeksplosives

    I confess I watched some BFL today after closing down the garage sale day 3 (the rest goes to Goodwill).

    I couldn’t believe the bears pulled out a win. Quite the finish too.

    Brady vs Brees. I know which one I’d rather have a beer with. But even despite today, it’s hard to argue that Brady ISN’T the G,O.A.T.

    • CPRM

      The GOAT lost by 11 points? Seems awfully sheepish.

    • Lackadaisical

      Brady vs Brees. I know which one I’d rather have a beer with.

      Brady?

      I dunno, allegedly he’s a super racist Hitler dude, so probably an OKish guy?

  47. CPRM

    So, my little brother decided he won’t be coming along on my trip.

    I’m planning to leave Friday morning right after I get home from work and drive the RV up to Lake Superior. Since I’ll be alone I’ll probably just stop by the lake and think ‘wow, that’s a big lake’. then find a spot to park the RV drink. I had been thinking of taking the whole ferry ride to the Apostle Islands. But when I’m alone I never feel motivated to do much. I usually don’t even go into restaurants when I’m alone, it just feels odd.

    • Digby's Patented Booty Sweat

      But when I’m alone I never feel motivated to do much.

      This will change once you get married.

      • CPRM

        Don’t shove your Married Privilege in my face, unless you’re into that, IYKWIM.

    • Festus' Mustache

      Uh oh… Party at CPRM’s place.

  48. TARDis

    Wheeeeee! I’m dizzy today.

  49. I'm Here To Help

    My wife was on a plate spree about a decade ago. I’d come home from work to find her unpacking a new set of dinnerware. Two weeks later there’d be a new set. I think she’s finally settled on one now.

    I did make a huge mistake one time though. I was in Afghanistan and wandered into the PX at Bagram just to see what they had in stock (they had very intermittent resupply while I was there, and when they got a shipment of Monster energy drinks, it was like a plague of locusts descending on the store). Walking through they had what you’d expect to find in a war zone – Gold Bond foot powder, more beef jerky than you would ever want, an aisle of mouthwash, and Corelle covered butter dishes. Just the plain, white butter dish with the cover. I stopped and stared – what the hades would you need a covered butter dish for in Afghanistan?!? But there they were, about 10 of them sitting on the shelf. Go back the next day, and there were about 2 of them left. Day after, they were all gone. I spent the next 4 months of my deployment searching every desk I came across to see if I could identify who had purchased the butter dishes and what the heck they were using them for, but I never saw one.

    Told my wife about the butter dish, and she immediately asked if I got one for her. Nope. Spent the rest of the deployment checking the stock for resupply. Asked coworkers who deployed after me to check for me. Nope. I’m still in the doghouse for not getting one.

      • I'm Here To Help

        Yeah, but it didn’t come from a war zone. She doesn’t just want a butter dish. She wants a tactical butter dish…

      • UnCivilServant

        Buying for back home.

      • Lackadaisical

        I like to think there was some hardass marine who got it for his tea set.

      • UnCivilServant

        “It was impossible to find proper scones in Tora Bora.”

      • Tejicano

        About the only thing I can come up with – and only if some locals there had access to this particular PX – would be to use the dish as a mold for improvised plastic explosive. Seems like the right size and material.

      • Rhywun

        I want one that’s air-tight, so I went to Amazon yesterday and wish-listed one.

      • Gender Traitor

        This is the pattern I grew up with. My oldest sister (I’m youngest of three girls) now has it and obsessively collects the serving pieces we never had when we were kids.

      • Gender Traitor

        Is that the same pattern Sean uses to show off his meat steaks?

      • UnCivilServant

        Maybe. I mean it’s not exactly a rare or expensive item.

      • Sean

        I have both of those patterns.

      • Tejicano

        “…obsessively collects the serving pieces we never had when we were kids.”

        Kinda like my mother wouldn’t let me watch “violent” TV shows like Mission Impossible or have toy guns.

        Note for parents; Never restrict your kids from normal stuff unless you really want it to take a set.

      • Gender Traitor

        My middle sister bought me Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots for Christmas a few years ago because we hadn’t been allowed to have them as kids. : )

        Likewise, I wasn’t allowed to watch Dark Shadows when I was a kid, so as soon as it popped up on SyFy some years back, I HAD to watch. Found out quick how cheesy the early episodes were.

      • Tejicano

        My mom pushed me away from anything she deemed violent. So I enlisted into the Marines on my 17th birthday with a guaranteed combat arms contract – and I currently could arm a couple A-teams, everybody with both long arms and handguns in caliber of choice. I frequently watch Forgotten Weapons and rarely learn anything new to me.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Most of the stuff that we weren’t allowed to watch turned out lame (Brady Bunch because it was sexist) and all the toys that we lusted after broke right away. The early to mid-70’s were the king of false advertising.

  50. UnCivilServant

    Morning, Morning Glibs. Once again in the office. Will be working from home the next three days, then back in the office for friday.

    I need to check the schedule for next week, since it’s not on my calendar. Took the stairs again, found the more annoying desktop support guy already in his cube. (I swear that guy lives here, who’s in at 6:05am for the day shift besides me??!?!)

    • PieInTheSky

      well unlike you the desktop support guy has big plans and is putting in the time.

    • Gender Traitor

      Morning, Morning UCS. Is there a rationale for your current in-office/WFH schedule, or did higher-ups just draw straws/cast dice/perform some other ritual to determine who works from where?

      • UnCivilServant

        “We can’t have the office at 100% capacity, so phase 1 we’ll have 1/3rd of the staff in on any given day, phase 2 will be 1/2…”

      • PieInTheSky

        I am starting to like work from home… I certainly don’t want to go back when it is still warm and a no AC policy cause covid. Which ignored anyway when I went cause fuck that.

  51. PieInTheSky

    I cannot relate to your American plates…

    • UnCivilServant

      Our food doesn’t try to run away by the time we’re ready to eat.

  52. TARDis

    Mornin’, Glibs. I’m still at home. 🙁

    • PieInTheSky

      Where were you supposed to be?

      • TARDis

        I should have been at work an hour ago. I’m having some lovely vertigo today. The Meclazine is making me sleepy. Trying to wake up.

      • Gender Traitor

        Yikes! I think a day off is in order. Any idea what’s causing the vertigo?

      • TARDis

        It happens regularly in the Fall, so I suspect it has something to do with allergies. It’s a bit early in the season though. I’m sure the booze isn’t helping too. I really don’t want to burn a day, but I can’t drive like this.

      • Tundra

        I feel your pain. Mine started a few years ago concurrent with some hearing loss. The ENt battery of tests showed fuck-all. The doc speculated that a virus damaged some of the nerves in my ear.

        So now I have ringing in my ears and occasional bouts of the vertigo. interestingly, I’ve had a couple over the last week, so i wonder if you are right about allergies. Meclazine works well for me.

        I will also note that when I do strict low carb and no booze I never have them. I think there is an inflammation issue,

        Good luck, man.

      • Sean

        no booze

        *faints*

        I will also note that when I do strict low carb and no booze I never have them. I think there is an inflammation issue,

        Interesting.

      • TARDis

        Thanks. It’s really just an inconvenience these days. It was much worse when I was a kid.

        The first time it happened. I fell down in the middle of a store one. Parents freaked out, doctors, all that. I was out of school for a week. I think I slept about 16 hours a day. After puberty I didn’t have much of problem for decades, but it’s been common now for about 5 years.

      • Sean

        That sounds sucky. Sorry dude.

      • Festus' Mustache

        I have a similar problem with my balance but if you tell me to quit beer some bitch will get cut 😉 !

      • PieInTheSky

        Is this a recurring issue since you have medication?

      • TARDis

        It’s just over-the-counter, nothing major.

      • Festus' Mustache

        In all seriousness, my vertigo has more to do with age rather than anything else. The fluid in your ears loses viscosity as you get older. I was once a monkey and now I can’t climb more than ten feet off the ground.

      • PieInTheSky

        May I interest you in Pie’s Patten Youth Serum?

      • TARDis

        Does it involve biting? If so, I’m out.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Yes. Yes I am very interested in the girl holding up the bottle!

    • UnCivilServant

      Working from work sucks.

      New York State Office of Information Technology Services
      Site Category Blocked

      URL: upperhandholsters.com/products/teotwawki-holster

      Category: weapons

      • PieInTheSky

        Secure Connection Failed

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        Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

        The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
        Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

      • UnCivilServant

        Clearly someone wanted to accessorize with their collection of bugaloo shirts.

    • Tundra

      Ewwww.

    • EvilSheldon

      The Kydex pattern is pretty cool. Don’t know about the holster though.

  53. Festus' Mustache

    This place. Hundreds of comments about dishware. I am well and truly impressed!

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m pretty sure we could converse on just about any topic.

      • Festus' Mustache

        I found an interesting array of toe jams yesterday. Care to weigh in?

      • Tundra

        I disagree.

      • Festus' Mustache

        You’re supposed to say “Hey Buddy! Stop doing that!”