HI SHIP!
SEA SMITH GET FRIDAY NIGHT SPOT! HE HAPPY TO GIVE MANNERS AND ETIQUETTE ADVICE. FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS DERSERVE BEST ADVICE. SEA SMITH HERE TO DELIVER! BY DELIVER, MEAN…
Q: How much rude and boorish behavior should a host tolerate from a guest before saying something?
We invited some family members over for dinner whom we had not socialized with in some time. They first asked if they could come at 5 p.m., their normal dinnertime; ours is more like 6:30. I offered what I considered a reasonable compromise of 5:30. They arrived at 5:15.
They offered to bring appetizers, which turned out to be a store-bought container of cheese dip (and no crackers).
Dinner was served buffet style, and we allowed the guests to go first. Under similar circumstances, my wife and I would have waited until everyone was seated before starting our meal, but they had no such standards. It also made it too awkward to practice our normal custom of saying grace before the meal.
We did enjoy each others’ company over the evening. The male family member is very outgoing and gregarious. He dominated every conversation to the point of excluding the rest of us. If we were talking, he would simply interrupt or talk loudly over us.
This behavior worsened as the evening — and alcohol consumption — continued. After being interrupted several times, I politely asked that he allow me to finish my conversation. A second time, I simply turned to him and asked that he “Stop. Talking.” Neither of these suggestions took hold, so I eventually snapped, raised my voice and said, “Please. Stop. Talking.”
Now I am the pariah of the family, while he is still everyone’s darling boy. What should I have done differently?
A: SEA SMITH THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE SMASH HE HEAD INTO SALAD BOWL FIRST. HE NO LISTEN, GET DRUNK AND LOUD…THEN THROW CHAIR AT HEAD. NOBODY RESIST WWE FUN! DONNYBROOK AT BUFFET! YOU WELCOME FOR GOOD ADVICE.
Q: I have had my unusually intelligent dog, “Regina,” enrolled in a class to learn advanced tricks. Each dog learned one major trick to demonstrate in a showcase at the end.
A different owner taught her dog to close a cupboard upon command, bringing in a detached cupboard and happily demonstrating that her dog would now nose the cupboard closed upon hearing, “Close it.” After the showcase, the cupboard was open as the students chatted with the instructor.
I mentioned that I should teach Regina the cupboard trick. Without really thinking, just mentally practicing, I looked at Regina and said, “Close it.” Regina promptly did so, since she knew what I meant after watching the other dog do it once.
The other owner’s face fell. I could see she was a little dismayed. I could see how it was thunder-stealing for Regina to easily learn something that had taken the other dog several weeks. I didn’t know what to do, though, so I just stood there awkwardly until the conversation moved on.
The real solution here is probably not to utter commands absentmindedly, but since that already happened, is there anything I could have done to defuse the situation after? I can’t very well tell someone that I’m sorry my dog is so smart, but perhaps I could have made a joke along the lines of, “Oh, your dog must have explained it to her,” or simply said I was sorry without specifying why.
This situation probably arises for parents of highly gifted children, too. What, if anything, should I have done?
A: SEA SMITH THINK THIS WHAT CALLED “FIRST WORLD PROBLEM”… IF EVEN REAL. BUT SEA SMITH HERE HELP SILLY LAND HOOMAN. INVITE OTHER HOOMAN AND DIM WIT DOG TO BEACH. SEA SMITH HAVE FRIEND TAKE CARE OF PROBLEM…
NICE DOGGY
NOW THEY NOT AROUND MAKE YOU EMBARASS!
YOU WELCOME.
COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
They offered to bring appetizers, which turned out to be a store-bought container of cheese dip (and no crackers).
Wow.
Bad guests.
Is that considered “bad form”, asking for a friend.
The faux pas is the lack of a dip delivery system.
Oh, I got the dip delivery system right here
/Joe, Rudy, Donald, Name your own sleazeball
Too slow!
*spreads cheese dip over Toobin*
“/Joe, Rudy, Donald, Name your own sleazeball”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9PiqCeLEmM
If you’re bringing a dip, you should at least bring something to eat the dip with.
I got your dip delivery system right hier!
*grabs Toobin*
LOL!
I don’t think you want to put that into ghost chili salsa…
Definately not my double peppered salsas.
I’ll gladly put Toobin’s dick in it.
In my younger, snottier days; when I was invited to a party, I would offer to bring an appetizer or hors d’oeuvre. I would dice up a raw onion and drop it in a bowl and present it to the host upon my arrival.
I thought it was hilarious. Nobody else was amused. Well, some others were amused; but they were assholes like me.
A co-worker once brought K-ration meatballs to our company Thanksgiving potluck. They were not well-received.
I would have loved that!
Meatballs and BBQ sauce was the finest of all MREs – fight me!
K-Rats, not MRE. They were pretty disgusting. Probably leftovers from WWII.
K-rats or C-rats? Very different animals.
K-rats, if I recall. Whichever is worse.
*laces up gloves*
Ok.
1) corned beef hash
2) Pork with rice in BBQ sauce
3) Pork chow mein
4) escalloped potatoes w/ ham
5) Ham slice
6) Beef stew
7) Beef franks
8) Spaghetti w/ meat sauce
#4 Escalloped potatoes w/ham was absolutely delicious (if a bit too salty).
A classy red onion or a low class white or yellow onion? It matters.
White onion.
Soup of the Onion by Beef Jerk. Snotty Australian jangle lo-fi about drugs…. and soup. https://youtu.be/bF_ONAh8gmI
Shoulda tied it to your belt, as was….
I like your new avatar.
Thanks. I was absolutely blessed to have a spontaneous, private tour of Ardent Studios in Memphis, TN a couple weeks ago. I got a very detailed look at Studio A where Big Star, Cheap Trick, Replacements, Bar Kays, Zz Top all recorded magic there.
I need to write that story up for Glibs. Went to Sun Studios and Stax that day, too.
Nice.
Yeah. I was just taking some photos of the exterior on a Sunday morning. Then a very special person invited my wife and I inside and spent alot of time showing us the place.
It was awesome. Except we had to keep our stupid facemasks on. And I wasn’t allowed to play any of the instruments. Oh my god to play an Am7 on a guitar in Studio A….
All hail Zar…oh. Nevermind.
Its the thought that counts.
Dinner was served buffet style, and we allowed the guests to go first. Under similar circumstances, my wife and I would have waited until everyone was seated before starting our meal, but they had no such standards.
I’m not familiar with such standards at a buffet.
It also made it too awkward to practice our normal custom of saying grace before the meal.
Fuck you. Do that in private. Don’t try to force me to take part in it.
In fairness, they were in their house. I think that qualifies as private. I’ve got several friends who pray before eating, and never have I felt forced to participate.
I’ve actually been asked to say the prayer, or whatever it’s called. I don’t think the hosts cared for my Bart Simpson quote.
^This. If someone saying grace, especially at their own table, bothers you the problem is with you not them. Someone following their own religious rituals is not necessarily or even likely doing so to show off. It’s simply part of their way of life. If you want to experience this to an awkward level invite an orthodox Jew to dinner. He’ll likely bring his own food as his rituals require dedicated utensils and cookware for different foods, meaning even if you avoid all of the dietary landmines you probably are incapable of actually serving a kosher meal. Just recognize that none of this is a judgment on you, or even voluntary behavior; it is a thing he believes his God requires of him. Or you can restrict your circle of acquaintance to atheists, agnostics and true unbeleivers like Unitarians, but that seems pretty boring to me.
Something I’ve found about many atheists, especially younger ones, is that they are legitimately afraid of being exposed to religion. Like they’re going to catch God-cooties if they accidentally get too close to a church. It’s fairly pathetic.
They seem to have to little faith to be atheists then.
I’m a strong agnostic.
Damn it!
Too little faith.
It’s still funny.
Don’t be silly Ted. You can’t pray properly unless someone is watching you do it, just like Toobin’.
Being interrupted is a big pet peeve of mine. What I’ve done in that situation is to say nothing when someone who interrupts me alot asks me a question. Just stare at them. When they eventually go “What?” I say, “Sorry, I’m just waiting for a hand signal or some other cue to let me know it’s my turn to actually finish a sentence.”
Being interrupted is a big –
Look, Ima let you finish, but Kanye has the best interruptions of all time.
https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/heroism/images/e/e8/Judge_Peckinpah_being_triggered.gif
In all fairness it turns out Kanye is much more entertaining to listen to than Taylor Swift
While on the topic of dips…http://www.whatsgoodattraderjoes.com/2015/06/trader-joes-bacon-cheddar-ranch-dip.html?m=1
Yes. ?
Hi Neph, I’m getting a “the host has another meeting in progress” notice when I try to join the zoom.
My fault. I started the wrong meeting.
The correct one has been launched.
Mea culpa. I don’t even have alcohol to blame for it.
/kicks rock
/Kid Rock
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kutsxy9pRo
Hanging Rock by Boomgates https://youtu.be/L2BfCxRtX2s
Snotty jangly Australian lo-fi. Live!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwX2TnsTPE
Hotter chicks. Sounds more like music. ?
The host is busy at the buffet table.
Doing Jack About Fake News
Does everyone video or audio chat in the zoom group? I would join but it’s always when I’m putting the kids to bed so I’d only text chat.
Nope. Some sit and lurk.
Yeah, I figure that people who are coming over for a fun night really have to do a lot more than any of that pissant shit to anger me. It’s one fucking night. You got interrupted and they didn’t bring chips. Fucking try and deal with the extreme trauma this has caused you. It’s not like they live here or anything. Let your fucking guest dominate the conversation. It’s not a big deal. People are who they are. If you don’t like that kind of person, just make it through the night and don’t have them back. What kind of asshole writes in to a manners column and bitches about some petty bullshit that happens at a dinner party? Fuck you.
This is why I don’t nave any sofas or davenports or chesterfields, if you come over to my house we stand up and socialize until you get tired and leave, most people never return, it’s wonderful.
I’ll bring an onion. What’s your address?
166 Wood St.
https://www.redfin.com/PA/Doylestown/166-Wood-St-18901/home/38568505
You’re surprisingly close to me.
Dibs on the couch.
Apparently my few friends are more socially well mannered. Some always ask “What can I bring?” I always say “An appetite”. With a table of 6-8 and Mrs F likes to insure that no one will leave hungry there is always way too much food. I designate some one near the soup to serve that, all bowls go around ’til everyone has some and the eating commences. Then its non-stop eating/conversation but always polite and no interruptions. At the end of the evening Mrs F is busy trying to get rid of the excess and folks will take their favorites to go.
That seems to be the case with our friends too but I must admit the last few months have been torture, with no one wanting to visit. The calendar has also put a crimp on the entertainment, our friends are the same ages as us, night driving is a chore, food preparation isn’t quite as much fun as it used to be. The last year or two or three has been more taking out the group and picking up the tab, it goes around, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. Everyone will initiate and pick up the tab without anyone keeping score.
“What can I bring?”
Hookers. The correct answer is hookers.
Bringing just hookers is like bringing just dip. If you bring hookers, also bring blow.
close, except
dip:crackers::blow:hookers
Make sure the party is well airconditioned. If the hooker gets sweaty the blow won’t snort well off her tits.
That sounds like a good story.
And good cheese.
Hookers? Hookers? Fishing can wait. We need to get rid of the coyotes first.
You have your orphans delivered straight to your door?
The etiquette my extended crew has developed is:
Guest: what can I bring?
Host: nothing, just yourself
Guest: OK, *brings wine*
That works out all around.
We must have friends in common.
/brings Two Buck Chuck for Chafed and slumbrew
The host who felt he should have become everyone’s hero by telling the guest with logorrhea to shut up should read “Appointment in Samarra”, John O’Hara’s 1934 debut novel. The protagonist is a socialite who decides everyone will think he’s the greatest if he throws his drink in the face of another socialite he finds annoying. Instead, that one act starts a downward cascade and eventually leads to destroying his life.
reject left-wing fascism
Donald, you gas-lighting somebitch. ///Iapprove
More dips talk. http://www.whatsgoodattraderjoes.com/2020/04/trader-joes-onion-chive-cream-cheese.html?m=1
Good stuff, but a lil too thick for chips. Works with celery, if you swing that way.
Do you even Heluva Good bro?
It not real. No chance it real.
Did I miss another lexicon shift with the term coyote, as it pertains to smuggling immigrants or is all Twitter doing a Ok Boomer to OMB?
Even wokepedia still has the term…
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”–RAH
I think they are pretending to not know what a Coyote is so that they can act smug that DT is using a term that sounds weird? IDK.
They’re pretending to not understand a well-known vernacular expression for political purposes. Shocking, I know.
Because they don’t live in the Southwest where brown people are visible. That terminology has been around for 30-40 years, at least. The local TV people were using it at least that long ago in TX.
Hell, I’ve lived in the Northeast my entire life and I know what “coyote” means in that context.
Stupid Drumpfler clearly is under the impression that literal coyotes carry migrant children across the border to save them from elusive, nazi roadrunners.
“Welcome to Tijuana
Tequila, sexo y marihuana
Welcome to Tijuana
Con el coyote no hay aduana”
Manu Chao https://youtu.be/JVmjLGxFJAw
They forgot Bush using it and spanglishing the pronunciation up for the crowd.
*dramatic pause* Kai-o-tays
Hey now, nobody could murder the Spanish language like Jimmy Carter. https://youtu.be/1Um2UzFja00
Of interest to Cancelled:
Northern Ohio landlords sue CDC over coronavirus eviction moratorium, claiming agency overreached
COVID Cunte
The action from Mayor Lori Lightfoot comes days after a warning about surging COVID-19 cases in the city, with the average number of daily cases approaching 700.
As part of the new rules, bars without food licenses again cannot have indoor service. All liquor sales at all establishments must end at 9 p.m.
Non-essential businesses must close from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. Essential businesses, such as grocery stores, pharmacies and take-out restaurants, will be allowed to operate.
…
“If we need to take further steps and move back to Phase 3 or even go back to shelter in place, I’m not going to hesitate to do that,” Lightfoot said.
“I don’t want to put more restrictions in our city,” Lightfoot added. “No one does, but I have to do what is right to save lives and if that means rolling back further, I will.”
The move is frustrating for some bar and restaurant owners, considering that earlier this week officials said dining out has not caused the latest spike in COVID-19 cases.
The last lockdown didn’t work but this one will!
She has fucked up so badly, it’s almost unbelievable. And people I hear from are *pissed*. Chicago’s next mayor is going to make Daley Sr look like a hippy flowerchild.
“I don’t want to put more restrictions in our city,”
Why do you make me hit you baby? You know I don’t want to.
“I have had my unusually intelligent dog, “Regina,”
That’s weird. Everyone has an unusually intelligent dog. And their kid is a great kid. And they have a bumper sticker to prove all that. Life is strange. Is this a simulation?
My dog is not smart.
Her nickname is pinhead. Not just because she is a greyhound.
My parents had a dog that was extremely sick as a puppy and suffered brain damage as a result. He was one of the stupidest dogs you’d ever meet, but mostly friendly.
The smartest dog I have ever owned was also the most neurotic. He ate money. (I pulled a five dollar bill out of his ass. $5 is $5 , man). He was afraid of fireworks and gun shots (despite being a hunting breed). He embarrassed me at the beach (peed on another beach-goer). Still, I miss Barney.
Current dog is…not so bright, nor as troublesome.
And I am just as allergic,
I had a Weimaraner that was, hands down, the stupidest creature I have ever taken care of. He had a bump on his head that we figured was the storage area for his brain. I was always impressed by my black Lab but the smartest dog that I have ever owned was our Shih Tzu. My estimate of his vocabulary was around 50 words.
Headline in local rag:
“Commissioners Respond to Recent County Courthoue COVID Outbreak”
Second para:
“We have one confirmed case and through contact tracing a dozen employees are in quarentine.”
An OUTBREAK I tells ya.
The response? Close the courthouse!
*sigh*
Shhhhhhh! Be vewy vewy quiet
“I could see she was a little dismayed. I could see how it was thunder-stealing for Regina to easily learn something that had taken the other dog several weeks”
Now you’re just making shit up.
Verdict?
A former flight attendant had sex with a 15-year-old boy at an Australian school where she worked — but spent just a week behind bars because she is considered at “low risk” for reoffending, according to a report.
Melissa Nosti, 33, who lives in a suburb of Sydney, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months in the slammer for having sex with the student at the school where she worked in 2010, the Sun reported.
The former Tiger Air flight attendant made a video appearance in court from the Silverwater lockup as her lawyer made a bail appeal that she was at “low risk” for engaging in similar behavior again based on a doctor’s assessment.
Odd that she is identified as “former flight attendant” but no mention of her job at the school.
The 15 year old would probably do the 18 months for her if he can get some more of that afterwards.
The verdict is it’s a bullshit double standard.
I’m confused by the timeline in the story… so she worked at the school in 2010 and had sex with the boy in 2010 (when she was 23?) and this just came up now? Or she had sex recently with a 15yo who just happened to go to the school she worked at 10 years ago?
Also, would.
confused by the timeline in the story
///metoo
AR and M14 mags came in today. hopefully I never have to pay $200 for the right to keep them.
have to pay $200 for the
rightprivilege to keep them.Also: What mags?
The ARs are the cheap magpul 30 rounders
The M14s are checkmate 20 rounders
I meant as in what one would say to inquiring tyrants, as in mags that don’t exist.
(and I also use Magpul AR mags, or I would if I possessed any super scary rifles of color, which I haven’t since the boating accident…)
*recalibrates sarcometer*
$200 each.
At the risk of giving them ideas, were I a socialist sociopath I would wave the tax on the initial registration but not for further transfers. That would get a lot more compliance. It would cost me a minor fortune to pay the registration taxes on all the stuff I lost in the boating accident.
I also wonder what their plan would be for ammo links?
$200 each.
Yeah, that’s ridiculous. All for a box with a spring inside
“All for a box with a spring inside”
– which in many cases, particularly P-Mags, will only be good for a few years.
In further reasons that 2020 sucks, it looks like there will be no more Mindhunter coming to Netflix.
What’s strange is that this was news back in May. Netflix also did not do a lot of press/marketing around Season 2. I’m a little bummed.
There were rumors floating around, this is from Fincher saying it’s D-E-D for the time being.
I gave up in S2E1.
Netflix has a shitty track record with renewing their shows. You basically get 2 seasons and then cancelled outside Stranger Things.
I thought it was three seasons, mainly because of the contracts they wrote that had large payouts for the shows in their fourth seasons…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/19/why-new-zealand-rejected-populist-ideas-other-nations-have-embraced?utm_source=pocket-newtab
New Zeland is clearly better than everywhere else because they don’t elect icky populsits.
I suspect NZ is being funded, but I don’t care enough to find out for sure.
See if we just got rid of Faux News everything would be great here too.
See Freedom of the press doesn’t work!! You will get conflict if you let other people present conflicting ideas.
The secret is, you don’t let people present the wrong ideas.
I noted the article referred to Trump being a “strongman.” How has he run roughshod over the Constitution in comparison to the Light Bringer or any other president since Hoover?
https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-professor-defends-jeffrey-toobin-in-wake-of-zoom-masturbation-scandal/
***
In the wake of the Toobin scandal, others have found unique ways to condemn the CNN legal expert. A feminist bookstore in Madison, Wis. complained that that there was a “consent issue” at play, saying “no one on that call agreed to be masturbated (potentially) about or to share space with someone who was having a sexual experience.”
***
Without consent, what he did was literally rape. Literally.
***
This is the very argument dreamed up by Portland State Professor Peter Boghossian and colleagues when they purposely wrote a number of ridiculous social justice-related academic papers and tried to get them published in academic journals. One of the papers drafted in the so-called “Sokal Squared” hoax was entitled “Rubbing One Out: Defining Metasexual Violence of Objectification Through Nonconsensual Masturbation,” in which the author argues that men who masturbate while thinking about a woman without her consent are guilty of “sexual violence”
***
SCIENCE!
Wow, looks like someone didn’t read the EULA.
It always has to be somebody personally victimized… can’t just be left at “don’t fap in public”
Oh I’m sorry I thought this was America.
I’m wondering how this is supposed to work in real life?
“Hello Susan? Yeah, this is Marty from the Marketing department. Yeah, up on the 3rd floor. Hey, like, it’s Saturday morning and I was rubbing one out so I was wondering if it would be OK if I thought about you, like in the red sweater you had on last Thursday? Would that be a problem? … hello?… …Susan? Are you there? …”
On a subway in Stockholm, a guy (nicely dressed “business guy” in a raincoat) sat down across from me and after a couple of small talk pleasantries, he asked if I mixed if he fantasized? I was unclear on what he meant until I lowered my newspaper and saw that he’d whipped it out and was holding it.
I said I’d rather he didn’t and got up to leave at the next stop. He apologized, and I’m all “it’s ok, I’ll just change cars” like I’m the one with something to be embarrassed about.
Anyway, that is apparently fap consent etiquette.
Well you are Hawt, not like I would do that, just Say’n
Err…thanks?
So *do* you mind if we fantasize?
Dude, never go Euro, you’re better than that
HNOTH
Hit nail on the head
Relevant
Half of my high school teachers including Ms.
Tiedeman“Tittiman”, Ms. Noll, the Spanish teacher, who wore short skirts and high heels, and Mrs. (I can’t remember her name and my wife’s dog ate my yearbook, but she was sophisticated and smoked cigarettes in front of us during debate/poetry/ drama meets)….well, I owe them apologies.Incidentally, “Hot for Teacher” by Van Halen was the second video I ever saw on MTV.
Peter Bosshogian. Heh.
He needs his junk chopped off and tossed into a blender.
Peter Bosshoggian, colleague and close confidant of Joanna Gambolputty.
What are you talking about? They proved that 90% of the academic journals would publish unreviewed hot trash. Public service
This is a really good idea
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minneapolis-residents-city-council-gun-violence-plan
1) Martial law, mandatory lockdown in your house.
2)No gun violence.
3) Problem solved!F
4) $$$
How divorced from reality do you have to be to think a PSA campaign will stop gun violence? Clearly the reason young gangbanger [insert stereotypical name for young male of your chosen racial or ethnic group here] is shooting [insert stereotypical name for young male of other racial or ethnic group here] instead of writing him a letter detailing, in nonaccusatory terms, his grievances is that no one has ever exposed him to an NGO’s simultaneously moronic and condescending ad explaining that shooting people is wrong.
It’s 2 worlds, real and journalistic,
John Laurens: Forgotten Patriot
What was that about he and Hamilton?
Et tu, The NY Post?
Once again: there is no, and never has been, any law and/or edict requiring one to wear a face mask in one’s residence. Apartment building lobbies and elevators are NOT “public space”.
Stop lying. And stop making me defend that fuck.
I think playing gotcha when lefties forget the mask just acts to reinforce the idiocy. Yes, they are lying hypocrites, but all the orders are silly tyranny and there is nothing even remotely culpable about not wearing a mask. Pointing out that they obviously know that the maskirova is false because they don’t wear the mask in their private life is one thing, accusing them of evil for not wearing it just normalizes the idea that not wearing a mask is somehow evil. Unfortunately the right wing media is no better at nuance of logic than left wing media so we always get the worst of all worlds, no effective push back and a race to the bottom.
maskirovka
Ted must be already in bed.
Damn it, and I was so proud I finally got to use that one.
It’s a really good word. Thanks for reminding me about it. I should use it occasionally. Too bad I so rarely speak Russian.
All this story tells me is that playing “gotcha” is more important than even the more-or-less reasonable stance their opinion writers used to take on this issue. But… they must know their readers are scratching their heads at the lies like I did. Right…?
Basically we have reduced the debate over how our Republic should be run to the level of TedS v Sloopy the week of the Game. The older I get the more I think the three most important texts in US history are Washington’s farewell address, Eisenhower’s farewell address and Smedley Butler’s War is a Racket. I don’t think a Republic can survive party politics , or an alliance of the military with industrialists (or other government bureaucracies, the HEW/healthcare alliance and the Social Security/finance alliance do the same thing) . Parties turn governance into a prize in a team sport instead of a necessary duty, and the alliance of the military with industry leads to sytematic looting of the public purse, and the creation of the completely unaccountable deep state to protect that corruption.
Huh, apparently we’re conducting air strikes in Afghanistan to support the Taliban against ISIS:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/two-decades-after-911-pentagon-providing-covert-air-support-taliban
Definitely time to leave.
It’s come full circle. We started out funding and arming them to fight the Soviets. Then they collapsed and we had created a monster so we fought them. Then we turned Iraq into a
Democracyfailed State which enabled the Islamic State movement (is it ISIS in Afghanistan? doesn’t ISIS stand for Islamic State in Syria?), and now we have come back to using the Taliban against the Islamic State. Well, it was expensive, but at least we learned… not a damn thing.Get the fuck out
Get the fuck out
Get the fuck out
Remain indoors.
I thought about linking that twelve or sixteen or twenty months ago, whenever this shit started, but figured it was hyperbolic and who needed any more cynicism.
I probably linked it. I love linking Mitchell and Webb, unless I’m linking Armstrong and Miller.
Where’d they all go? There’s no one else. It’s awful lonely. Let’s stand together.
That’s Numberwang!
The Glibertariat has become broken and divided…by Zoom.
You can’t even First on Zoom.
You could host it, then you’d always be first, but yeah I agree. The zoom meetings are entertaining sometimes when drinking but they gut the comments.
/hangs head in shame
Big Trouble In Little China is among the top five movies ever filmed,
Even my wife loved it. Nice work, John Carpenter.
So 2 out of 3 teens have seen it..until last night and now have all been bathed in its glory.
192 cylinders and around 24,000 hp
Fuck, yeah.
Nice, RS!
I was statoned at Ramstein AFB in Germany. Our building was not far from the runway and there were always F-4s A-10s and F-16s flying over – no one noticed. O day two Spits flew over (an airshow that weekend). I thought the building was going to tip over as four floors of mostly pilots rushed to one side to watch and listen.
https://hushkit.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/spitcar1.jpg
That was the color of my ’76 spitfire.
When I was a teen in AZ (70’s) multiple warbird owners flew over the desert very low and very fast. Once when we were rock climbing the P-51 “Precious Metal” flew over us and we waved and he waggled his wings. Cool? Hell yeah. About 15 minutes later we hear mighty engines in the valley below us. We start trying to find the planes when Precious Metal glinted in the sun. He was coming in fast followed by two planes. He pulled up and passed way low over us, followed by a second P-51 and a P-38. It was AWESOME! To this day it still is awesome.
Seeing 16 fighters together is something more than I can really imagine. Those were some lucky people.
Fuck. It’s snowing and we’ve already got about 6″ worth.
Yikes. Too soon.
https://www.fox9.com/news/tuesday-was-2nd-largest-october-daily-snowfall-on-record-for-twin-cities
Do I blame global warming or systemic racism?
6″ is not enough usually
Show-off.
So. If there is interest. There are tentative plans for a group watching of Zardoz for Halloween.
At whose house?
How are you going to stream it?
I can share a stream on Zoom.
Cool
That was fun. Went out to a haunted corn maze…the owners of the farm put up all the signs for Covid theater but said straight on their site…if you aint in line we dont care.
A whole night out with others not afraid of each other was oddly refreshing. People that wanted to mask up did, other that didnt want to didnt. No weird looks or people getting upset.
They told us that this year has been their busiest ever and I told them “yeah you are providing a little bit of freedom that everyone needs.”
Oh and definately more than 250 people there or whatever the limit is in NV for gatherings.
haunted corn maze – code for orgy?
Was trying in vain to do the Zoomy but got hung up on quickly by friendly female voice. Also, I keep getting logged out on this site.
I know when I’ve been insulted!! /Lucy Van Pelt
Zoom still going? Geesh…just people sleeping? Or a different zoom
I dunno: just thought I’d see. Someone must be awake somewhere.
We have a dinner reservation in Palm Springs Saturday night. Under no circumstances will I don a mask while sitting at a table. A perfect opportunity to mock, insult and humiliate everyone trying to enforce this. We’ll see how it really works.
https://www.palmspringsca.gov/home/showdocument?id=75328
In addition, face coverings are now NOT required to be worn by people who are:
• Seated at a table or bar at a restaurant that is allowed to be open. However, if any
employee (such as a waiter/waitress, etc.) approaches the table/bar, each person at
the table/bar must put on his/her face covering while the employee is present at the
bar/table.
We told our local waterhole, that which is going above and beyond what is allowed, we’ll be back when this is all done as long as they are still in business.
Most Nevada bars are gaming bars. We don’t play machines but will drink and eat. They told us because we don’t put 1000s of dollars in the machine you are relegated to the booths.
I even said what if we want to play like 20 bucks and again said they would ask us to move to a booth if other players wanted the machine.
Ill drink at home. Bye.
Thanks for coming to CA. We need the dues! Hope nobody spoils your time.
Masks shall not be required at CA polling places, I read the other day.
Speaking of voting, the stock Polling Station photo is in Shropshire, not that anyone besides Limey and Charlie Suet would care.
I don’t see any polling station photo. Is Charlie Suet from dA uNiTeD kInGdOm?
Ps – Numberwang is a poor imitation of Quizzlestick
Keep touching that mask!
I apologize if anyone felt left out on the Zoom. Everyone left and there were only two of us barking at each other.
You and your mustache ?
Even Fustus doesn’t argue with his mustache.
Just checking in. Not disappointed.
06.25h beers! Tall Cans!
Mornin’, homey! Tallish mug of chai latte for me.
‘sup pimpnotic !
OSU plays at noon. Im very excited.
Oh, leftover Donato’s for supper/breakfast. Enjoy the autumn air if you’re camped on the porch.
Are we there yet?