Beauty

by | Oct 13, 2020 | Pastimes, Travel | 297 comments

Disc on Shrooms

                                                                                                                                                Beauty 

Of course one of the first things I did when I moved to the Western Michigan shore, was run the Udisc app and look for courses. Udisc is a free app that does a lot of cool stuff, more later. Niece #3 and I decided to play the Beauty one Saturday, located in Mason County, it’s one of three courses on the same property, and a nice park it is!

 

 

 

So pretty

A nice little group

We soon hooked up with some friends and headed out, after a few sunny holes we enter the woods, here’s an example of a fairway, not very fair, but a lot of fun trying to navigate.

Trees!

Did I make it?

This is another 24 hole course, I guess 24×3=72? like 18 holes of ball golf, but whatever, check this out, Hole 13, trees everywhere, no open tee shot to the Basket, Jacob rips out a long shot and Shing! Chains? Maybe.

Ace Man!

Oh Hell Yes!, his first Ace and my first witness, cheers all around!

Headed to the sunlight

 A bit more of the forest and we finish in the sun, tired but happy.

Manistee has a Disc course.

Indeed, this little town has a 5 hole course, which never stops Disc players from creating 9, or even 18 different holes, but here’s some tree golf for you, the baskets are in the center of the frame.

me

Hole #1

Hole#2

Hole#3

Easy huh? Short huh? No one has ever managed to birdie the whole thing, I wonder why?

Ah, Udisc, if you play disc this app is for you, 9000+ courses, with course layouts, yardage, conditions, leaderboards and anything else you need to play the game, anywhere in the World (mostly NA), it’s sanctioned by the PDGA, so you know you’re getting all the courses.

I’m trying to slide in games while visiting breweries, maybe a Doubleheader next. Cheers!

 

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Yusef drives a Kia

Yusef drives a Kia

Punctually illiterate But never late

297 Comments

  1. Hyperion

    Hey, Yusef. Have you planned out how to handle the 9ft snowdrift hazards?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      the players here tell me we can play pretty much alll year, maybe Banzai syle but hey….

      • CPRM

        Just gotta get out yer snow shooz der guy.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        got da muck boots, eh? an da Carhartts,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        an a big bug out/ oh shit I’m stuck set or gear,winter shit and 6 dys of food

      • Hyperion

        That’s why I asked the question.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        this place will kill you quick, be prepared….

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Blonde at St. Andrews in Scotland

      Blonde: What do you do in the winter?
      Scotsman: We play with rrrred balls!
      Blonde: It’s those silly skirts!

  2. UnCivilServant

    Disc on Shrooms

    Trippy.

    • Count Potato

      MIT’s frisbee team was known for playing on acid.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        yes they were, how ever we play disc, Whammo says so, lawsuits and stupid snit

      • Count Potato

        They play “Ultimate”, whatever that means.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Ultimate is meh, no real challenge, but hey, have fun, I know a few, they are cool,

      • R C Dean

        Thanks more of a “ball” game than golf. Very different.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      It landed there, for once i thought take picture, Alt text……

      • UnCivilServant

        I saw the alt text. You really shouldn’t let the discs use drugs.

  3. CPRM

    Hey Yusef, if you’re on the Western shore You might be able to get some Green Bay stations. If you can get CW 14 out of Green Bay I can share something with you.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I should be in my house this weekend, I’ll check it out,I’m a GB fan so ,yes!
      Thanks!

      • CPRM

        I know we have some viewers on the western shore, and the CW transmitter is pointed west from Green Bay, so assuming you’re close enough to shore you should be able to get the Fox 11 signal that’s omnidirectional from the same source. Fox 11 airs all NFC vs Green Bay games that aren’t prime time, and all AFC at Green Bay home games that aren’t prime time.

      • Count Potato

        Continuous wave?

      • Rhywun

        I know what he’s talking about but my brain is blanking out on what the initials stand for. Some TV network.

      • Rhywun

        All that history is a blur. I sort of remember it is “that’s where Buffy and Angel are on” but that’s about it.

      • Count Potato

        OK, because transmitting morse code didn’t make much sense.

  4. Rhywun

    I feel like I’m in a Monty Python sketch about how not to be seen.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      you understand…..

    • UnCivilServant

      When asked, don’t stand up.

      • Rhywun

        ?

        *yeep*

      • db

        Rhywun has not learned the first lesson in Not Being Seen

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Narrator: It was the middle one.

  5. Yusef drives a Kia

    I’m going to play the Beast tommorow, the first hole is enormous,,

    • westernsloper

      All holes are enormous.

      -Winstons Mom

      • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

        She’s way smarter than to advertise like that.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        and the second hole is right intoa tunnel,

  6. westernsloper

    Except the first pic, ya, no fairways seen. That is bumper disc golf.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      We call them tunnels, fairways? maybe 8 out of 24, gotta shape that shot and hope, good un,

  7. Sean

    I got nothin, but thanks for sharing Yusef.

    *I might have entered the drinking portion of the evening.

    • Sensei

      Does a glass of wine with dinner count?

      Thanks Yusuf!

      • Sean

        It’s all subjective.

        I hold off until close to 8 pm,then dive in like Scrooge McDuck into a pool of money.

      • Count Potato

        #metoo

      • Rhywun

        #methree

    • CPRM

      I did that, checks clock, 5 hrs ago. Having two days off in a row is grand.

      • CPRM

        I mean, it should be a Human Right Imposed By Law!

    • db

      I was planning on not drinking this evening but now I’m starting to re-think that.

      • db

        OK, Troeg’s Haze Charmer won the argument

    • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

      I’m sure I have.

    • Rhywun

      I’m a couple cocktails in. I haven’t even received my first full paycheck from my new job and already my head is spinning. And the fact that I can’t get more than 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night isn’t helping. A couple more cocktails should help with that.

      • Rhywun

        Ow. Sorry 🙁

      • Count Potato

        Yikes!

    • westernsloper

      I enter the drinking portion of the evening at about 1500. Hence why I eat and go to bed about 1930. 0330 comes early.

    • DEG

      *I might have entered the drinking portion of the evening.

      I was there. I’m in the middle of shit show at work, so I decided to stop drinking. Probably safer.

    • db

      AC Bootay

    • westernsloper

      You follow some weird MF’s on twitter, but ya, HA!

    • CPRM

      Can we please not reduce EVERYTHING to juvinilism? I mean, that’s MY JOB!

      • Sir Digby Classic

        How about, to adult themes?

        Spooky Brick
        @LucienGeorge5
        Replying to
        @TheHinduDindu
        Okay sue got a dump truck tho

  8. Fourscore

    Good to see you out and about, Yusef. Life goes on.

    Gettin’ enough work? Should be a busy time as the heating season is starting.

    • CPRM

      Commies may have a point that we’ve become too decadent.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        What the fuck are you talking about? That gave me hope in humanity again.

    • Rhywun

      Against my better judgement I actually laffed.

    • Sour Kraut

      I like gender reveals, they piss off the overwoke “but they haven’t chosen their gender yet” nutjobs.

  9. Rhywun

    Sigh. WTF, The Bills?

    • Count Potato

      There is Tuesday night football?

      • Rhywun

        It’s 2020, dude.

      • Rhywun

        Jesus, what a shit-show.

      • Count Potato

        I guess it’s over now.

      • Rhywun

        I flipped away in disgust.

  10. db

    Disappointing: I can’t find any 8″ steel toe logger boots made in the USA for less than $220. Sadly, my employer only has a $200 per year allowance for safety shoes.

    • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

      Eat the $20 gladly, my man. I knew a guy who had his toes chopped off — took him a year to re-learn how to walk reasonably normally.

      • db

        My current work boots have walked on 4 continents, but it’s time to retire them. I’ll probably actually keep them as souvenirs.

    • CPRM

      And my employer won’t reimburse me for my sex swing. Fucking commie capitalist pigs!

      • db

        You must be a realtor?

    • CPRM

      Is 8″ the length or the width girth?

      • The Gunslinger

        Asking for a friend?

      • db

        ‘Scuse me while I whip this out…

    • Ownbestenemy

      Are Keens (the ones that are US made) outside that price range?

      Our Boot Barn gives us discount since we buy 30 pairs of boots almost yearly.

      • db

        Keen doesn’t make any models with an 8″ ankle. I like the extra support of the high ankle and prefer the logger boot look.

      • westernsloper

        Aaah, I just figured out what you meant. You mean those mid calf lace up leather boots that punks wear in the mosh pit. To each their own.

      • westernsloper

        I know what logger style is. The heel makes the punks in the mosh pit look taller. All the guys who worked on buoy boats and then ended up at small boat stations in the CG wore them back in the day. There is lots of slimy shit on the deck of a bouy tender so it made sense. Not so much at a small boat station but guys like the boots they like. Like I said to each their own.

      • db

        Yeah, I often spend time stomping around in muddy gunk, so it’s nice to keep my feet up out of it as much as possible.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Never mind…you said logger boots. I have some lineman boots if you are size 9 that I never wore cause i left the military lol

      • db

        Thanks, but that won’t fit, quite.

      • westernsloper

        I don’t think Keens are US made but I have never been wrong buying a pair of their boots. Or maybe some are and I just never cared about looking.

    • Sensei

      This guy made my news feed for a crap pair of Carharrts.

      Looks like his channel is dissection of boots.

      https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAnvil

      May give you some ideas.

      • db

        thanks, I’ll have a look

    • Don escaped Duopoly

      I wear Thorogood, stipend or no

      you only got two feet

      • db

        I might spring for a pair of Thorogoods. Normally, I’m not so big on “made in the USA” but I’m tired of buying shit made in China (regardless of quality) that quite possibly has been assembled by slaves. Fuck off, Slaver.

        OTOH, Thorogood makes a big deal out of their factories being union shops so…

      • pistoffnick

        Some of the logging catalogs I get advertise prison blues http://www.prisonblues.net/

        Why in the fuck would I want to buy jeans made by prison labor? How is that a selling point?

        Also looking at you, Carrol Shelby.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        Your business gives them something constructive to do? It’s not like you can feel the rapes and murders.

        Also, if you’re lucky, maybe one of the workers had some meth or somesuch on their hands when crafting your order.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And they’re goddam popular, among work jeans.

        Also, you can be sure they’re not made by antifa because those people aren’t getting charged, let alone convicted of felonies.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        I mean….GL is speaking trooth, here.

    • pistoffnick

      “Sadly, my employer only has a $200 per year allowance for safety shoes.”

      Look at Mr. Moneybags over here! My employer only reimburses $60 per year and safety toes are required in my area.

      I tend to go for Keens. They look dorky, but I like all that room in the toe box.

      My step-dad swears by Red Wings but I don’t think they are made in the US anymore.

      I’m still looking for a pair of steel toed Crocs.

      • db

        I think Red Wings, Carolina, and a couple of other brands are all owned by the same company now, and none of them are USA made any more. Too bad. My first pair of Carolinas that I bought in 1994 for a co-op at a plant lasted a long time. I wore the crap out of those, they were so comfortable that I wore them even when I wasn’t at work. Over the years, I have still bought Carolinas, but the quality has dropped off.

      • pistoffnick

        I had a pair of Red Wing logger boots 30-some years ago . They were like walking on clouds for the first half hour. The rest of the day it was like walking on nails.

        I really wanted to like them. The factory was less than 40 miles from where I grew up.

  11. straffinrun

    The bench thinking about hosting ACB’s ass instead of RGB’s: “Wood”

    • Sensei

      You’ll be unsurprised there is a Guardian article from one of her HS classmates explaining why she shouldn’t be confirmed.

      I couldn’t be bothered to open it.

      • straffinrun

        Lol. If your HS classmates from a quarter century ago don’t know you, who does?

      • Sensei

        Well I was unaware that she went to an all girls Catholic school.

        Having gone to an all boys Catholic school and dated girls from the local all girls Catholic school I can tell some stories…

        Sadly no sailor seifuku…

      • J. Frank Parnell

        If I’m not mistaken, it wasn’t actually a “classmate”, it was someone who went to the same school but not at the same time that ACB was there.

  12. DEG

    Nice pictures!

    • straffinrun

      Yep. It’s nice to see glibs enjoying life.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      it was just pre-emptive self-defense against a white supremacist!

  13. straffinrun

    Watched Burr’s SNL monologue. Nice. The skits he was in were awful.

    • Count Potato

      The beer one I saw was pretty funny.

      • straffinrun

        Oh, yeah. Forgot about that. I’m guessing Burr wrote it.

    • westernsloper

      I liked the Samuel Adams one someone posted. And yes, the monologue was hilarious to me but I am me and well, that explains that.

      • Don escaped Duopoly

        I had to post it

        The monologue was solid: the way we know is the chickenshit audience was afraid to laugh

      • westernsloper

        Thanks for posting it and sorry I can’t keep up with who posts what.

      • straffinrun

        The blonde chick on SNL is komedy Krytonite and the flakes doing Update deserve atomic wedgies.

    • Don escaped Duopoly

      his cartoon set in 1973 is spot on

      the intro is inspired

      • straffinrun

        I love Burr, but for some reason that show doesn’t quite land for me. The intro is perfect, though.

      • Don escaped Duopoly

        oh, it’s certainly tedious if you lived/live it; there are no surprises
        and some poetic mistakes I let go (they cram all of the seventies into 73)

        slice of life needs edge (King of the Hill) to let the banal bloom: too on the nose and too obvious is boring; I might only watch three episodes

      • straffinrun

        I think you’re right. That 70’s Show was funny because it wasn’t quite right regarding the times.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        What did you find inaccurate? I thought it implausible that they went coatless so often, and especially that they would dare inhale in hardass Red’s basement.

      • straffinrun

        Those and the clothing was too clean.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        I am a big fan of the first 3 seasons of F/F. This last one just seemed to be more and more screaming at everything, and less subtlety.

        Yeah, that’s been a hallmark of the series–this last one, though, seems to be all yelling.

    • Brochettaward

      Only the elderly and hipsters watch SNL.

    • grrizzly

      Good for the woman to stand up for the passenger.

    • straffinrun

      Mostly naked girls are hot.

      • Count Potato

        Do I need to post Lena Dunham?

      • straffinrun

        Most mostly naked girls are hot. Bastard.

      • Count Potato

        Set theory is important.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      is that the girl who sold her bathwater or just some girl trying to look like the girl who sold her bathwater?

      • Sir Digby Classic

        I do think it’s her. Then again, it would be no surprise if there are wanna-bes thotting it up.

  14. westernsloper

    My world famous baked tacos are done (30 mins late due to a phone call). Have a great night all and thanks for doing a post Yufus. Have a great night all!

    • straffinrun

      ? ?

  15. Yusef drives a Kia

    Someone in the office tested positive, so they shut the entire plant down til Tuesday, golf an Trumpbucks, what’s not to love!

    • Count Potato

      No “trumpbucks” for a while.

    • Heroic Mulatto

      “The Japanese” = 3 old farts on a cable news program.

      God, collectivists are so dumb.

      So, so dumb.

      • commodious spittoon

        See one, you seen ’em all.

    • Count Potato

      I have no idea what that is about.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        That’s Jared Taylor.

      • straffinrun

        Mr. (I have no ill will towards Blacks-I just don’t wanna live with them).

        He’s a fool.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        I’m still trying to process this…he’s a white supremacist, right? Who thinks White people are inherently dumb/lost/stupid because of a perceived lack of collectivized thinking?

        Does he fancy himself as a/the Whites’ savior, or, something?

        I can’t even with that shit.

      • straffinrun

        I don’t know much about him other than he grew up here and then moved to the states. AFAIK, he’s a typical white separatist.

  16. Sour Kraut

    Good looking course. We have a killer one here in Marin known as Stafford Lake. Ranks 9 out of 10 on the Marin view-o-meter. Watch out for the poison ivy though.

    Where we lived in Potsdam Germany, we were across the street from a course. It was much less formidable than Stafford Lake, but had a nice following of quirky Berliners.

  17. Count Potato

    ESPN is playing some BLM thing that has nothing to do with sports.

    • straffinrun

      What does the “E” stand for or is it taking a knee, too?

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        You mean RheeeeESPN?

    • Rhywun

      I watch sports, but I refuse to watch “sports shows”.

      • Count Potato

        Inside the NFL was good when it was on HBO.

  18. Brochettaward

    You people are boring as shit tonight. This will not do at all.

    • straffinrun

      Maybe it’s cuz we’re all too busy sucking dick, right?

      • Sir Digby Classic

        You speak for yourself, you….you….dick-sucker!

        I’m far too busy being cool as ice to be chowin’ down with you clowns.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Record store had the movie poster hanging on the walls for years. Along with Jim Nabor and other intentionally provocative stuff.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        I, uh…..I actually went to see it

      • Gustave Lytton

        I wasn’t cool enough.

      • Chafed

        What medical condition causes that?

      • Sir Digby Classic

        The lack of cool? I wouldn’t know….

  19. leon

    I’m i crazy for thinking Adelle’s Skyfall is the best bond intro song?

    • db

      I thought nobody did it better than Carly Simon?

      • Sir Digby Classic

        She thought nobody did it better than someone with “e” in his name.

        /that’s the clue she gave to some fool who parted with his $ to find out.

      • db

        Why in the world did it take me this long to realize how funny Roger Moore’s name is?

      • Sir Digby Classic

        Pfffft…slow on the uptake, eh? Hahahahaha…..

        ::quietly writes down that name joke::

        /dammit

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Loja Moa? ? ? ?

    • Sir Digby Classic

      No. But, just because you aren’t crazy doesn’t make it correct.

      /you may, in fact be, correct, though

    • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

      [Am I] crazy for thinking [Adele’s] Skyfall is the best [B]ond intro song?

      No.

      And fix all your goddam spelling mistakes.

      Yes, I’m drunk. But I can still spell.

      • leon

        dont tell mi how to life my live

      • Brochettaward

        Bully!

      • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

        Boring, bully, make up your mind, firstling.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Yes.

      It’s clearly “Gold..fing..ga (wuh wuh wah)”

      • C. Anacreon

        I’m partial to Nancy Sinatra’s “You Only Live Twice”

    • DEG

      The guy who wrote “YMCA” has on Trump using the song:.

      Victor Willis of the Village People says Trump is welcome to continue using “YMCA” at his re-election rallies — he just wants to see the commander in chief do the iconic dance.

      “’YMCA’ is everybody’s anthem and go-to song for fun. As for the president’s use, I have not granted permission for use at his rallies because permission is not required,” Willis told Bloomberg News through a spokesman.

      “If I were a Trump hater maybe I’d sue him simply out of spite,” Willis said. “I am not, and I’m not going to have my lawyers sue the president. But he should at least do the ‘YMCA’ dance while he’s at it.”

      • one true athena

        Well, that’s refreshingly level-headed.

      • straffinrun

        Yep, and that’s exactly why his opposition can’t follow that line of thinking.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        “If I were a Trump hater maybe I’d sue him simply out of spite,” Willis said. “I am not, and I’m not going to have my lawyers sue the president. But he should at least do the ‘YMCA’ dance while he’s at it.”

        Wow, crazy that one of the Village People turned out to be a Nazi.

      • Chafed

        Smart guy. Well played.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        Yes…up until he wants DTJ to dance. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Younger crowds and internet links playing my music which will probably mean some more interest in maybe buying the song? Sure.

  20. straffinrun

    How can anyone be certain that Trump or Biden is absolutely gonna win? I’m looking at all the same tainted data and can’t make much out of it.

    • leon

      Pretty much. I lean towards Biden, but i don’t think it is a sure thing either way.

    • grrizzly

      The election is not close. We just don’t know who will win.

      • hayeksplosives

        Intriguing.

        I suppose that likelihood is worth pondering.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      When you say “win”, do you mean win on election night, or win 3 weeks later after enough ballots turn up in a couple of states to swing the states’ electoral votes?

    • hayeksplosives

      Yeah, my Dad told me Never pull out a gun unless you are going to shoot someone.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        Sounds like former Mr. Abell should have listened to Dad!

    • commodious spittoon

      I guess the bad day fishing chestnut isn’t entirely true.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        OK, friggin’ html screwed me over yet again!

        ::ahem::

        I’d rather be fishing alive

  21. grrizzly

    Leaked audio of @NYGovCuomo admitting that the new COVID lockdowns in New York (targeting Orthodox Jews only) is not based on any science or medical expertise, but rather in his words is a “fear based response.”
    https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/1316222568177827842

    • Ownbestenemy

      That…will go nowhere.

  22. leon

    This faux controversy about “Sexual Preference” is so stupid. Such a Red Pill

    • hayeksplosives

      ?

      I guess I missed something

      • leon

        ACB said “Sexual Preference” during her testimony today and now the Media and Dems are saying that this is highly offensive. Only “Sexual Orientation” is ok.

      • hayeksplosives

        Oh my stars. So it’s not a label, it’s the label of the label they object to.

        Crystal clear. Carry on.

      • dbleagle

        I prefer sex and I think most people do. Why is that controversial?

      • Gustave Lytton

        It the “prefer” part. Makes it sound voluntary, rather than innate.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        “Voluntary”? You mean, we can’t just take what we want??

      • PieInTheSky

        maybe maybe not but in the end it should not matter…

      • Gustave Lytton

        If you choose to be LGBTQ, you can choose not to be.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Heretic! One does not choose those. They are ingrained! How dare you suggest that maybe some people might just make a life choice.

        Standard disclaimer, I don’t care what people do or are or whatever their inclinations are.

      • PieInTheSky

        you can choose not to be – yes but this is still your choice and no one else’s business. Whether you choose or not is irrelevant imo.

      • Ownbestenemy

        So that would be a ‘preference’ then…sorry Pie, that is non-approved language as of 3pm EST Oct 13, 2020.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Its full on changing the rules of the game while mid game. I would hope most people see through it but they won’t and they have their red meat for the base.

    • one true athena

      And Webster’s Online changed the defnition to be “offensive”. TODAY. jfc.

      We are fucked if Dim bulb Hirono (or worse, her Tumblr Tween staffer) are ruling the language of America.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And Judge Barrett apologized for using it. Never…apologize. If I were her, I would come back in the morning and say

        “You know what, it isn’t outdated. It might have been on the way out of our lexicon of ever changing meaning, but certainly wasn’t some throwback language from the 50’s or 60’s. If it will make you all feel warm and fuzzy inside I will say sexual orientation, but I will not apologize for using a term that was used up to September of 2020.”

      • Sir Digby Classic

        Plus, it others those that are bi, and do have preferences.

        Then again, everyone has preferences when it comes to romantic situations.

      • PieInTheSky

        Unless you are heterosexual and not attracted to trans women, then it is phobic or some shit

    • PieInTheSky

      As recently as last month, Webster’s Dictionary included a definition of “preference” as “orientation” or “sexual preference.” TODAY they changed it and added the word “offensive.”

      Insane – I just checked through Wayback Machine and it’s real.

      https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1316223349719216128

      funny if true

      • Sir Digby Classic

        I have to say–“funny” isn’t the word I’d use to describe their behavior.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That is why “packing the court” and the instant change of meaning was important; but people (some here) just brushed it off as who cares, stupid concept anyway, or whatever else was said. It changed to meet a talking point, just as this did.

        So now, anyone that wanders upon the internet, to think, you know what, this is weird. Let me look it up. Well look at that! Webster’s says its offensive! Devil Woman!

        Sep 28 didn’t have the ‘offensive’ marker, and today it did. My kids were mid game and I called them out so they can see propaganda in real-time.

  23. hayeksplosives

    I wonder how big the “follow the winner” crowd is this election.

    Particularly with social media and the need to be liked and approved, the segment of undecideds who cast their votes for whoever they expect to win, so that they are part of the winning team, might be larger than in prior years.

    • Sir Digby Classic

      Huh….I never thought of that. Could be, though.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      (*had* happened /grammar pedantry)

    • Sir Digby Classic

      That is rather funny. Almost too lenient for her evil ass.

  24. Ownbestenemy

    Might be looking for a new place to live. Apparently, after 3 years we have a new ‘management’ company running our HOA and they have decided that my wife’s trailer is a violation. I am trying to square away the details because we are not a gated community, so the streets are under city jurisdiction, but they are claiming it is a ‘common element’.

    The trailer is never stored more than 48 hours, as per our city regulation, it is nearly always perpetually hitched to a vehicle otherwise and we have all our neighbors on board with defending us. Just have to get them to put it in writing. I was thinking a sad emotional plea that this is the only way we can survive during the government mandated economic crushing restrictions.

    • PieInTheSky

      Might be looking for a new place to live. – Alaska?

      • Ownbestenemy

        While I thought she was at least open to the idea, wife firmly said no today.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’ve seen landscaping services store their trailers inside the fenced areas of self storage places.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah, we might just have to look into that. We are curious how the HOA is going to take it.

        City says “You may store one travel trailer on your private property as long as no one is sleeping inside and it is not connected to any utilities.”

        HOA says “No truck, mobile home, travel trailer, tent trailer, trailer,…or other similar equipment or vehicle may be parked, maintained…on any Unit or Common Element or any street so as to be Visible From Neighboring Property”

        All those random capitals are from the actual regulation of course.

        I need to find the regulation that says the HOA doesn’t have authority over the public streets (we are not a gated community).

      • Ownbestenemy

        1. In a common-interest community which is not gated or enclosed and the access to which is not restricted or controlled by a person or device, the executive board shall not and the governing documents must not provide for the regulation of any road, street, alley or other thoroughfare the right-of-way of which is accepted by the State or a local government for dedication as a road, street, alley or other thoroughfare for public use.

        Well, that seems that the HOA cannot regulate the parking in my area. Fuck I don’t want to have to get a lawyer.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        Can you hire one to send the a letter on his/her letterhead? Would that be an escalation & a warning?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I didn’t read far enough on the regulation…apparently Nevada says HOAs can impose ‘reasonable’ regulations on public streets and then proceeds to carve out exceptions for utility and emergency vehicles. As if HOAs go around during emergencies when such are on the streets taking pictures.

        I don’t know, Ill have to break the news to my wife who already gets freaked out over these types of things.

      • Ownbestenemy

        It gets weirder. Former HOA president (cool guy, just didn’t want broken down vehicles in the area) said if we aren’t gated, we are good and should follow the city regulation. Looking like lawyer time. Business expense I suppose.

    • nw

      You might have some sort of estoppel type argument if you want
      to fight them on it. After three years, it’s probably reasonable
      to rely on being able to keep doing what you’ve been doing.
      A lawyer in your jurisdiction would be able to give advice.

  25. straffinrun

    Since I don’t get hit on often, getting googly eyed from a severely mentally ill 50 year old woman wasn’t all bad.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Last time I was hit on, wife and I were at a bar and she went to the ladies room. Red haired barfly scooted next to me and was all chatty until wife came back. Wife asked “who is that?” I replied “my ride home if this doesn’t work out”. The couch was comfy that night.

      • straffinrun

        Read Kinnath’s story to see how it could’ve turned out.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That would be a tangerine dream if that happened to me. Or it could just be the blood in my eye from my heart being ripped out of my chest.

  26. Gustave Lytton

    There is an r/recoilbutts subreddit.

  27. Ownbestenemy

    The newspaper in Las Vegas is saying the two are in statistical tie right now. Which is interesting, because 270 and RCP have Nevada leaning for Joe by +5 points.

    Me thinks local polls are better, but all polls are shit.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Until the end when they tighten up to salvage their reputations the national polls are politicized junk that are good for observing trends and little else.

    • Gender Traitor

      Morning, UCS. How’s things in your neck of the woods?

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m stressed the hell out. I should not wake up frazzled.

      • Gender Traitor

        Dude! Don’t take it so seriously – it’s only work (I hope.)

      • UnCivilServant

        But when you’re already stressed from one thing, other little things have more impact.

      • Gender Traitor

        Here ya go. It’s an oldie but…an oldie.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Geez! Calm down, ya big ole elephant. The mice aren’t in the walls (yet).

      • Tres Cool

        “Mice” reminded me:
        I did some work for Smucker’s a couple times. Once I was at their peanut butter plant in Pennsylvania, and I noticed all these boxes along the walls and near entry doors. I asked the engineer I was working with, and he told me they were ‘mice and/or rodent traps due to the amount of peanuts on site”. I remarked, “but how do you keep the elephants out?”

        I was met with a blank stare and the sound of crickets.

        Fuckin humorless nerds.

      • Sean

        What has you stressed out?

  28. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Getting my morning Styx fix this this morning and it looks like the Dutch are locking down over the Sweet and Sour Sniffles:

    https://youtu.be/3HLynT7DPSU

    Didn’t the sacrosanct WHO just say to not do this?

    • Gender Traitor

      Oh, man! I thought you were talking about the band!

      Ixnay on the artial-may aw-lay – don’t give them any ideas!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I was never the biggest fan of Styx the band. Mr. Roboto was maybe OK I guess.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Gah! *switches lunchroom tables* Early Styx is palatable, late Styx is rancid.

      • Tres Cool

        I concur. I think the 1st LP I purchased was “The Grand Illusion”. Pieces of Eight was IMO their last decent album.

        By the time Paradise Theater and Kilroy Was Here came around, they were done.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        In my own defense , the video was big when I was a kid and MTV played the hell out of it. It has sentimental value for me more than anything else.

  29. Gender Traitor

    Like father, like son. Again, though, he shouldn’t give them ideas about the pyramids.

      • limey

        Islamic State in The Pacific Northwest has kind of ring to it, but I believe the more accurate analog would be the Taliban, since that seems to be how they want to rule.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Agreed. Religion is ancillary to the Taliban’s goals. They want control at any price. At least Isis has a Philosophy, Dude…

      • limey

        Militant, dogmatic progressivismismism is a cult, so that counts, and I was thinking about the Taliban packing people into indictrination centres to read the Koran all day basically being somewhat analogous to the indoctrination via public schools and institutional takeovers or the far-left, progressive ideological war machine. Zero tolerance on dissent and heresy.

      • limey

        I’m going pretty “old man yells at cloud”, but, well, just me started on all the missteps that the Sohrab Amaris of this world have taken in reacting to this shit. I can unload on the big govt nationalists just as easily but somehow all they seem to do is fall into every trap set by their ideological enemies, like Vietnam, they’re fighting guerillas without the ability to fight a guerilla war.

  30. Festus' Mustache

    Mornin’ Glibbies! Found something that gave me an involuntary eye twitch. Perusing the Vancouver Sun I noticed that they had changed the website. Local, Provincial and National stories all up near the top where they ought to be. Read further down the page we get to politics, commentary, sports, financial and human interest. Fair enough. Just past that it got to lifestyle and the brand spanking new section called (get this) “Healthing”. I swear, the egregious verbing of nouns is one of the worst outcomes of the last ten years. This in a newspaper that has been in print for a century.

    • limey

      Healthing. It’s like adulting but is also inclusive of cooties and chicken pox.

      • Festus' Mustache

        It’s the infantilization of their readers that bothers me so. Like they don’t trust us to wipe up after going in the big toilet or to even cut our own toenails. “Healthing” is letting bureaucrats set Government policies and restrictions on our natural rights. I guess I’m not a very good “healther”.

      • limey

        You can fight a guerilla war against healthing with whiskey and cigars. No, wait, that’s actual health. Well, citizen, I hope for your sake that you don’t slip and fall off the big toilet because you aren’t following the guidelines on big toileting, and look forward to being shamed as a “science denier” if you refuse to be “led by the science” in wiping.

      • Festus' Mustache

        I’m a rebel. Back to front.

      • Festus' Mustache

        I wear the mask down there, too. I’m protecting everyone else, you see.

      • limey

        That’s pretty cavalier wipinging in a world of male “front holes”, Fes.

      • Festus' Mustache

        I do what I want! I do what I want!

    • Festus' Mustache

      One of my sites has had five attempted break-ins since Saturday. They are gaining access through the back compound which has a newly installed 12′ fence topped by three strands of barbed wire. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Problem being that whenever they get caught the only punishment they get is the time the spend in pre-trial. Judge just fives them probation on top of the orders they were already subject too. Bring back the Gulags!

    • Festus' Mustache

      That’s a lot of Piss Hookers!

    • Festus' Mustache

      The best part is that they are getting replacement ballots. Gee, I remember a time not too long ago, say four years wherein if you fucked up it was simply a spoiled ballot and that was the end of that. November, December and January are going to be a shit-show.