North American Sampo?
I am still fighting off a cough and such (‘vid test Sunday, even though I know it is simply a chest cold, so I can still care for my parents, dammit). So I am just letting the Cryptid Contributors take the space to preview Thanksgiving from their… unique perspective. Have it, Cryptids.
STEVE SMITH NO HAVE TURKEY, JUST POSSUM.
STEVE SMITH THINK HIM TRY FIND CAMPERS WHO MAKE THANKSGIVING. NO WANT POSSUM AGAIN. HIM THINK NOBODY DO THANKSGIVING IN WOODS – THEN SEE THIS. STEVE SMITH HOPE THIS REAL! HIM FIND FOOD AND GOOD CHEER. BY GOOD CHEER, MEAN CAMPER RAPE. STEVE SMITH VERY THANKFUL FOR GLIBERTARIANS.COM… AND CAMPERS.
WAIT, STEVE SMITH WANT INVITE TO DINNER!
HI SHIP! HAND OVER ALL STUFFING AND GRAVY!
FREE CASCADIA!
SEA SMITH VERY GRATEFUL – SHIP CARRY GOODIES HAVE “ACCIDENT“. SEA SMITH HAVE FUN – HE GET GOODIES, AND CAN USE CONTAINERS. BY USE CONTAINERS, MEAN RAPE. HE NOW HAVE ENOUGH FOR FRIENDS COME OVER FOR THANKSGIVING.
FREN, NOT FOOD.
BLOOP!
SEA SMITH THANKFUL FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS.
COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
WAIT….WRONG HOLIDAY.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. IT IS THE TIME TO GIVE THANKS… FOR MANY THINGS. THE GIFT OF THE GUN, THE CLEANSING OF THE FILTH OF BRUTALS, AND THE CHOSEN ONES SUPPORT OF GLIBERTARIANS.COM. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED.
Zed, are you sure this is enough?
ZARDOZ HAS HAD THE GRAIN SLAVES FLOGGED EXTRA, SO THAT THE ETERNALS OF THE VORTEX MAY HAVE A THANKSGIVING FEAST! IT APPEARS THE GREEN BREAD ONE IS MISSING… NO MATTER. CARRY ON!
MMMM…
THE CHOSEN ONES SHOULD REMEMBER, AFTER THANKSGIVING COMES CHRISTMAS, WHEN CLEANSING CLAUS VISITS!
THE GIFT OF … THE GIFT.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
It shall be, a ZardoZ Christmas for Me!
The Gift of the Gun?
Already got the gun, need, The Gift of AMMO!
Amen!
the ole Catch 0.22
Catch 12 Gauge,
Yes, yes they will.
Speaking of, I’m thinking I want a backup G26 for Xmas.
It’s not pretty or special, it’s very practical though.
I have a g27, great gun.
my only complaint is the roundness of the grip. It needs to be straight.
I think that, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, Trump should five a speech, where all he does is recite Ateve Martin “you stole it! I knew it…” etc. That would be funny.
All hail ZARDOZ!
https://amp.thepostmillennial.com/imma-shoot-them-journalist-arrested-over-threat-to-kill-republicans/
She seems nice.
https://nypost.com/2020/11/20/lab-owner-jailed-for-faking-drug-tests-that-cost-parents-child-custody/
15 years.
Too much? Too little? Or just right?
I’m leaning to too little.
That’s… just straight up evil. I agree, I feel like 15 is too little.
Indeed. 15 plus an annual face punching.
Yup. And I’ll bet there is more to this. Follow the money.
Luckily, I’m nowhere near Cascadia, because I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner over a campfire before. My husband’s birthday falls on Thanksgiving periodically, and he wanted to go camping. Roasted duck in a dutch oven. We also did Christmas dinner in the Everglades over a campfire a year later.
I used to make a damn tasty pineapple up-side-down cake over the campfire. I’ve also made some pretty good pizzas.
But duck?…bows to LG
You gotta be willing to just hang out around the campfire all day. But that’s kinda my thing, so I was cool with it. The turkey I did for Christmas in the Everglades was truly the epic dish, though. I used Smitten Kitchen’s dry brined turkey with roasted onions recipe, and fashioned an Alton Brown level tinfoil tent over the dutch oven since the turkey wouldn’t fit otherwise. People walking by the campsite looked at me like I was a weirdo, but it was a grand time, and we ate like kings that night.
To be fair, you *are* a weirdo.
(You’re a glibertarian. We’re *all weirdos.)
True, and one of my favorite things to do is stretch the boundaries of campfire cooking.
Campfire girls are outdoorsy and that means stringy and tough, girlscout cooking is better. They don’t even sell the cookies in person anymore, they do it online. Makes for much better marbling. Oh wait you meant… Carry on.
The girl scouts have developed a strange, funky taste. I prefer to just grab the free range orphans. They have a far higher ratio of grass in their diet.
Hail Zardoz.
Man. This week beat the shit out of me, physically and spirituality.
I still have one more day of work.
Ugh.
All right. Enough whining. If anyone feels like some music, I’m spinning tracks for a few hours on y station.
https://mixlr.com/wyntr
I have to go back to work at 9 o’clock. *sigh*
I mean, I’m still playing songs to slit your writs to for the next 30 minutes.
Easy Slitstening 104.5
24hr gay steel mills, whatchagonna do? STOP dancing the night away? Cmon.
/Simpsons
That sound like more fun than preparing for database server shutdowns.
chin up, little camper. I feel your pain.
Im getting ready to go in too
I’m not into the dudes, or dancing really, but I could prolly hang out at a steel mill all night if there’s molten metal goin on.
Lach?
Industrial processes are fascinating to watch.
Fascinating. Useful. And yet, most people are like “huh, meh, fuck you, that’s stupid”.
But I’m the jerk for hating those people.
“Quit reading books ya fag”, that’s what I grew up with. From people who probably are now married to someone of the same sex.
Fucking Faggots.
Save a spot for me. I truly love watching molten steel and house-sized ladles zipping through,
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E15/827542
I’ve got the next week off. Except my ADD friend started demoing his recently deceased mom’s house for remodeling. Except, he doesn’t own the house yet, and the VA is only giving him ten days to get it up to code for a loan. So, guess who got drafted to save his house for him? Who starts remodeling a house before they own it? Just crazy. Gotta run new electric and water. But, since his folks didn’t get a permit when they finished the basement, it is still listed as unfinished, and he has removed all the drywall from the basement, I should be able to run everything pretty quick. Sigh. I hope.
Run
A
Way
Can’t. Had by broken van towed there last week. If he looses the house, where am I gonna park the van until I have time (hahahahaha) to fix it? Who’s close to me and can weld my van for Glibbucks?
Just like the plot of Sunset Boulevard. Sorta.
Uhmm, how so?
The opening has William Holden trying to get away from the creditors who want to repo his car, and he pulls in to Norma Desmond’s house to escape.
And gets a flat tire in the process.
Ted, I found a blog just like yours but Criterion-specific. http://www.criterionconfessions.com/
You’re ready for your closeup?
Netflix has already greenlit it, so if you backout…
Oy. Good luck!
Pretty sure this is on-topic
There used to be a Mortal Kombat type game called Primal Rage. It had dinosaurs and King Kongs instead of people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aF-HtQ_BcU
Anyway, one of the giant apes was called Chaos. His special moves included brain-scrambling farts and toxic barf.
He was my favorite. I think STEVE SMITH would approve.
My brother would always beat me at Mortal Kombat with Scorpion’s get-over-here! move. He stopped playing me when I figured out how to do Liu Kang’s kneeling fireball.
STEVE SMITH’s coup de grace moves start at 2:20
Moves include various bodily functions and the way every jerk jumps into a pool.
Damn. I knew a designer who worked on that game. If I recall correctly, it was when Warner Brothers was trying to salvage something out of the debacle a decade earlier of buying Atari. Dude was convinced that Atari would return to dominance,
Still a good game.
you mean a Street Fighter-type game?
fucking MK fanboi. “it’s got blood and decapitation”.
SF had Chun Li. Fight Me.
Hydoken. You Lose. Next?
Hey, if you go open a new tab in Edge…is that the bridge from Beetlejuice?
Everyone keeps talking about the Irish guys buying plane tickets just to drink. Same thing happened when I went. It was Holy Thursday and alcohol sales are prohibited for that holiday. We had to take a ferry to England that day. There were about a dozen Irish who bought tickets for about 100 bucks a head, just so they could buy a case of beer from duty free once we hit the international line. Then they just drank the whole way and all the way back. They didn’t even bring cars. I guess this is a thing in Erie.
I don’t support ethno nationalism, except for the Irish. We got something in our blood.
That’s booze, obviously.
It leads to poetry.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/11/18/jason-momoa-aquaman-danny-sheehan-video-call/
That lil kid…goddamnit…it’s dusty in here.
awwww
I’m more disgusted. It’s Aquaman 2 advertising using a dying kid. Because TMITE in politics isn’t enough. Now let’s commercialize leukemia.
Also, Aquaman 2? WHY?!??! I still don’t understand why the first one happened.
I’m the worst sort of super hero movie junkie. Disney buying Marvel has done more for my background-TV-programming this century….they’ve done more for my ability to criticize plot and dialogue than you could believe. I’ve watched the “Amazing Spiderman” pair of films. I’ve even watched the Toby Maguire Spiderman series more than once, despite the fact he shoulda dumped Mary Jane’s inconsiderate, selfish ass then killed Franco along with Defoe and spared us the subsequent two films…
I’ve enjoyed the new Star Wars films. No, they’re not as good, there’s plenty of shit to answer for, especially with 10x the budget and 100x the manpower (how’s that work out…), but I watched em and my eyes didn’t explode. Not quite as full of the same level of Lucas worldbuilding that leaves me feeling full of 240+ mins of movie after only 90mins… but they’re alright.
Aquaman was completely forgettable garbage that I’d never waste a 2nd pass on. That this kid is so excited about the movie and toy makes me question the disease’s effect on his cognitive development.
Is Aquaman the only movie/TV program/character he’s been exposed to, then maybe I could understand. Does he know about Wolverine?
Wolverine is the sheet
Meh I’m just thinking of the kid.
I hate superhero shit.
That this kid is so excited about the movie and toy makes me question the disease’s effect on his cognitive development.
I guess you missed the part of the article that said he had brain cancer.
When I started questioning if his disease was affecting his cognitive development?
As someone who works tangentially to support cancer research, no, I didn’t miss that I used language specific to it.
Glad I’m dehydrated from drinking.
As good an excuse as any to have a southeastern Glibs meetup.
No.
#keto
I figured Limey getting extradited for making fun of Preet was going to be the next big Glibs meetup.
WAIT, STEVE SMITH WANT INVITE TO DINNER!
BY INVITE TO DINNER, MEAN…
ZARDOZ HAS HAD THE GRAIN SLAVES FLOGGED EXTRA
So flogseed has a higher smoke point than flaxseed?
WHEN CLEANSING CLAUS VISITS!
Cleansing Claus must be the cat because she already destroyed* the tree.
*Ok, not “destroyed”. But she treats it like her personal jungle gym and I have an extra half-month to come home and have to fix it every day since the gf got me to put it up early in order to be “festive”.
I have a small palm tree in my indoor garden inherited from my late mother that my since-acquired cat can’t leave alone.
The tree lives in a chicken-wire column since-then. Neither have been super happy about it. Le sigh.
Not much help for an Xmas tree…
Indoor palm tree is neat. And yeah…just gotta re-flair out all the branches each day. But it is causing way more wear and tear on an artificial tree than I care for.
I started growing some indoor plants as well, they should grow as well here as anywhere….
HA, artificial tree, shit. Huh…my cat wasn’t interested in THAT at all for some reason. Just the live plants.
Been an avid indoor gardener since my teens. I refuse to move to warmer climes where cacti or other tropicals can survive outside, so…
MD gets hot enough. Cold enough too. I’m pretty well stuck at this latitude. I’m back in the foothills since my last move. I kinda hope to die where I am, or close to it. Bout 130mi from where I was born, along just-about the same fold in the Earth.
I’m 2200 miles from Home, in the Cold lands, I relish the challenge, my crops will kick ass!
Is. There. A. Challenge. That Yusef does not accept.
No.
We had a Norfolk Pine for a number of years that we decorated. Until it got too big, then I hauled it to the office, where we have a great open atrium, lots of sun, perfect spot for it. Except now no one is in the office, so it’ll probably die of neglect, because the building people can’t be arsed to water a tree twice a week.
Southern Hemisphere, most exotic. The header pic on the wikipedia article is in my desktop-pics folder.
Bonsai was another focus of the early indoor gardening….I can’t leave them alone enough. They all died from an excess of attention. Since I got a house of my own to landscape, I’m doing much better with my outdoor junipers/cypress. They don’t need cutting, I just leave them alone and they do awesome.
Oh, another point is, non-tropicals cant live indoors all year-round. They NEED winter to live. Without a dormancy/break period they just exhaust themselves to death. “Oh, is it spring again this month, seems odd, but Ok” *another set of new needles* *and…dead*
I just put mine up. https://photos.app.goo.gl/sBzRwx9Bc1harbrZ9
Cute. And I envy your closet space.
Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom.
I’ve been a
grass cutterlandscape specialistcar washerautomotive detail technician, andCAD monkeyresidential infrastructure designer. Will work for steak.I’ve always thought that rugby player and risk manager make an odd juxtaposition in that resume.
That is not how this works…
Nancy Pelosi just now insisted that the election was a success for House Democrats because they got more in the popular vote.
This aggregate party vote consideration is bullshit and needs to stop. The vote is by district for the House and by state* for the Senate such that the reps are supposed to represent their respective district and senators their respective states.
*requisite 17th amendment-hate disclaimer.
Additionally, children, as you can see, when Democrats win by even the slightest of margins it is a “mandate”. When Republicans win by any margin they are hateful, fascist, bigots that should not be allowed to govern.
Also, who the fuck builds a full sized truck on a unibody chassis? (Dodge, that’s who)
Uggh, I ordered a pizza and the delivery time is two hours.
Damn governor and the damn lockdown.
They just opened the first In n Out burger in Colorado a mile from me. 12 hr wait. People in line at 3 in the morning. YouTube videos of fights in the drive through. WTF? It’s a burger!
What’s going on is that there is a large number of people who are on unemployment, because the government and media are stupid, and these unemployed people have nothing better to do. Sure, they’d rather wait in line for concert tickets- but, well, the government has decreed no concerts.
Fucking Ticketmaster still won’t refund my $150 for parking and the Four Seasons with Carlos Santana opening, even though the concert was scheduled for July 3rd, at least one of Santana’s members (George Santana, Carlos’ brother) has died, and there is no way that concert will ever happen.
I want my 150 back.
I have seen this in my home town when they opened a KFC. The last KFC there closed like 10 years ago. Then 2 years ago a new one opened at a different location. Lines for a mile on the first day.
Same thing happened with the first Sonic to open within 90 minutes of my area. When it opened, the local police had to set up and direct traffic around it, the lines stretched for so long. It was a good month or more before the drive-thru wasn’t so long it stretched through the entire shopping center.
I forget, are you in the DC area? If so, I know that Sonic. What a flipping mess, even months later.
I am, and yup. We’ll still drive out to Winchester or Stafford over waiting in the lines there.
I got my money back for the Jonny Lang show that is a true covid fatality. It took a bit of persistence, though.
BTW, people, in-n-out is just not that good. It’s way better than Mcd’s and burger king, but that ain’t saying much. I eat one maybe twice a year, and mostly when people from work are going anyway.
When I still lived in the Bay Area, there is one I would stop at on the 580 corridor, mainly because it was the only thing on that side of the freeway halfway between my place and a friend’s. But in general, no. I don’t wait in line for food if I can do anything else. One opened a little north of me here in Oregon, and my wife was all excited, but I cannot for the life of me see why.
Then again, I don’t really care about food.
Husband is from SoCal and fluuuuuuuuuuuuuvs him some In’n’Out. I found it…unremarkable.
“Jonny Lang”
A NoDak boy done good.
*sniffs haughtily* I saw him when he was still “Kid Johnny Lang”
OFFS.
So, three hours to get a damn pie.
And the driver called to tell me my address didn’t show up on google maps. I live on 5th, it ain’t a big town, kid.
That is unacceptable.
I have a great pizzeria across the street 🙂
“Delivery”? What’s that?
1/2 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1/2 oz. Dry Vermouth
2 oz. Rye
1 maraschino cherry
Stir in an Old Fashioned glass
Take Five
Jazz has always been so hit and miss for me, but Brubeck definitely is on the “hit” side. The same goes for nujazz, some of which I adore, some I despise.
I like, thanks!
Give this a try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4xKvHANqjk
Fuck, that is *good*
One of those things I stumbled upon.
And the bassist is a smoke show. Totally not my type, but I can watch her play for hours.
Like Messer Chups
Clicked on a different link by the same group and found an excellent comment:
Growing up, when I was finally permitted to walk into a store and purchase alcohols, the Manhattan and Martini were my first projects.
The Martini immediately transformed into a bowel of olives submerged in gin with a dash of vermouth. “Martini Salad” or something, I forget what I called it now.
I’m guessing the Manhattan didn’t follow suit because I’m just not as much of a sweet-treats guy. But now…a bowl of tart cherries sitting in some sort of brown liquor/bitters mix…yeah, that sounds like a pretty nice dessert. Some almond bits. Oooooo, dash of kirschwasser. Bridge that cherry/almond thing together, kirsch tastes kinda like almonds from the cherry pits.
Alright, bit of syrup to dessert it up. Or use sweet cherries, but I’m too into the pie-cherry flavor lately. *puckers* (No, don’t use Pucker brand cherry, unless you want to, then do, i’m not some Cherry Nazi.)
Healthy snort of Rye
Splash of orange liqueur (tonight it was Patron Orange)
Squirt of Woodford Chocolate bitters
Ouch
ChocOrange is a good combo. I got some liqour filled chocolates a while back that mightve had that exact combo of liqour inside a few.
A “Perfect Manhattan”.
What is best in life?
HI SHIP! HAND OVER ALL STUFFING AND GRAVY!
Let’s face is, Turkey is just the keto approved filling to go along with our StoveTop’n’Gravy.
Only if Winston’s Mom cooks the Stove Top in an ashtray.
Two of my favorite things: Camo Yoga Pants and Rifle
This man knows what’s up.
Eh. But I don’t get the whole food-and-sex thing either.
Food is good. Sex is good. Putting whipped cream on skin is just fucking disgusting.
mmmmm, maybe not,
Food and sex = interesting and tasty
Guns and sex = weird, but OK
Bathrooms and sex = gross
To each his own
Toilets and sex may be gross, but what about showers and sex?
Clean. Approved. Shower sex is acceptable, Citizen.
Yeah, let the water continually rinse away the naturally produced lubricants. Does your shower pull from Jessie’s 55gal drum, or you and your gal are JUST THAT MOIST? I did describe my issues with Telfon-dry hands above…
Imagery involving Sex in Water is worse for me than America’s Funniest Home Videos Football In The Crotch videos. Do they still play those. Pretty sure the show still exists…
pool sex, hot tub sex, plenty of natural slickness
Isn’t the water moist?
Water is not good lubrication. Slippery and wet are different things.
Someone isn’t a Bon Jovi fan.
“Someone”? Hasn’t covid gotten the last of them by now?
Isn’t Ted the guy with a 55gal drum of lube, now displaying no understanding of lubricity?
Or was that just Jessie with the drum?
Anyone who knocks shower sex has never had it.
….sex in a clubs bathroom stall ain’t so bad…
I keep trying to retire, or at least leave the HVAC trade, but noooooo, I’m being sucked back in,
a local company needs just what I have to offer, Close, good money, going to see about it on Monday,
/Roller Coaster! of Love!
It’s good to have options!
Oh darn, force me to make good money doing what I do best, and rather enjoy,
thanks Peeps!
Good luck!
I thought The Smashing Pumpkins were dead. Wtf is this? Appropriate premier date though.
How has Billy Corrigan survived cancer for like 30years?!
How Rude, but funny as all get out!
If i had cancer, I’d laugh at it. That’s my standard.
Same. Dark sense of humor and humor is how I cope.
*fist bu–leaves han—fake hand falls o–no, that was my actual hand, shit*
Oh dear… someone’s let him indulge himself again. There might be four or five decent songs on it.
yep
There might be four or five decent songs on it.
Now who’s indulging him? What was the name of that one good song on Melancholy again?
I have five or six “liked” in my iTunes. But yeah that’s out of twenty-eight songs.
ugh…so, I want to cancel amazon, but itunes sounds even worse.
also, i dont have anything apple, so there’d be THAT whole pain in the ass. might as well buy that macbook i’d been thinking about for tinkering/work-support just to get the account that goes with it.
When I say “my iTunes”, I mean the library of songs I own. I don’t stream music. I use the little “heart” symbol to thumbs-up the songs I like. I grew tired of the 1 to 5 stars ratings thing.
https://www.pawschicago.org/fileadmin/media/images/News___Features/2014/S14_Billy.jpg
Just noticed this
*WHERE* is the many-colored dome of the Sampo?!!??
Ma’am, the many-colored dome is an option you did not order.
is there a zoom tonight?
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81197592540?pwd=ZTJlS2tYODM1TFBpbmo4czlJWlJDZz09
I’m too drunk already. Maybe I’ll catch up tomorrow
Sounds as if there’s no such thing.
No, Ketchup is real, it’s why Trump was impeached.
I feel like Steve Smith isn’t even trying. We’ve got tons of wild turkeys around here.
You saw the trouble one lady had trying to muder 101 puppies?
Imagine STEVE trying to rape 101 Wild Turkeys.
That could explain why they were running this afternoon.
It’s the annual Running of the Turkeys after EVERY Trump electoral defeat. Every year.
Stupid.
Daughtry is still a thing? I thought he went back to selling cars, or whatever.
I you trying to say babies only come out male now? I don’t follow.
/readingcomprehensionfailorintentionallyobtuse?
*i you…
Yeah, i dunno. “Are you…” is what it should be, I’m pretty sure. No idea what my hands were aiming for though. That’s how my typing works. I think, and pass it off to the hands. What ends up on screen…well…they do a pretty good job most of the time. Alcohol definitely interferes with the process, and if I don’t triple check their results. OMG Help Us our human/body/brain/fuck how do we even describe the part thats not the hands….uh, Hi, we’re the hands and we want the hell outta…shit, shhhhh, dont draw any atten…
Like, they didn’t even hit submit? They can’t wait till I’m blackout drunk? I dunno, somebody’s watching Evil Dead 2 as a reminder of what noncompliance can bring.
Who’s not following? Follow this, sucker. *follows own fist to floor*
And people on TOS used to give me shit about typing on my phone….
Which I don’t understand either.
I give my phone shit for the typing on my phone.
Credit where credit is due. Blaming you makes no sense at all.
https://charliekirk.com/news/kyle-rittenhouse-is-released-after-posting-2-million-bail/?fbclid=IwAR3SdHmJ3jWVcH33aZmAmMMjMUnEHnh-FmJHE92yf3_da7JvvTpQd0xyHKo
Before the drugs fell out of his ass, my rapidly-left-to-right-with-sufficient-alcohol-eyes read that as “rittenhouse-is-dead”.
48hrs max till some blm/antifa scum kills him.
How could they? I thought guns were banned in Illinois except for super lawful people? He should totally be safe.
Do you even rocks, Broh?
I mean, it’s like you skipped four billion years of the evolutionary arms race.
Ricky Shroder helped bail him out. 2020 keeps it coming.
https://gab.com/JohnRivers/posts/105245831315824026
I honestly can’t tell which one of the older dudes is Ricky.
Ricky Schroder is the guy who beat the Soviet Premier in the SNL episode, right?
He pawned one of his silver spoons.
The wiki lion taming article has some interesting tidbits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_taming
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Circuses were regularly under attack in the press and at the pulpit as “traveling death” and “moral ruin.” [22] But predecessors of Van Amburgh were less inhumane.[23] Despite his great success and popularity, Van Amburgh regularly faced criticism for the cruelty he showed to his animals.[22] Van Amburgh reportedly beat his animals with a crowbar.[3][9] In costume, whether in loose-fitting jungle clothing or ancient Roman gladiatorial garb, Van Amburgh would bait the animals, attempting to evoke as much ferocity on their part as he could.[3][6] Thereupon, he would beat them into submission. “His piece de resistance was forcing the lions to … lick his boots as the ultimate sign of his conquest and the animals’ abject subservience.”
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Wombwell frequented Bartholomew Fair in London and even developed a rivalry with another exhibitor, Atkins. Once when he arrived at the fair, his elephant died and Atkins put up a sign “The Only Live Elephant in the Fair”. Wombwell simply put up a scroll with the words “The Only Dead Elephant in the Fair” and explained that seeing a dead elephant was an even a rarer thing than a live one. The public, realising that they could see a living elephant at any time, flocked to see and poke the dead one. Throughout the fair Atkins’ menagerie was largely deserted, much to his disgust.
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“…traveling death…ruin…resistance…forcing…to…lick his boots…conquest…subservience…Bombwell.”
Street Fighter was an OK fighting game. It was no Killer Instinct, mind you.
SF had the best music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etDon1LH1vA
The UK’s #1 Shitlord uses it as his theme song.
Primal Rage and Killer Instinct
two things i never played and never thought i’d think about again.
primal rage was one of the first with mocap wasnt it?
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The first video game to use true motion-capture technology was arcade fighter Virtua Fighter 2 (1994)
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Video game music reached perfection in 1992. I could pedal forever listening to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFVZSaW0ogw
One of the first home console games…
I never paid attention to arcades. Renting carts for the ‘ntendo was as much as I could manage.
Had I been smarter, I wouldn’t have asked for a video game system at all. Trainset stuff, or model airplanes. It was before I discovered Warhammer. But definitely something more constructive and skill building.
I still think I enjoy video games…but I’m not really convinced anymore.
Last time I played was about 7 years ago. My last achievement was beating a level I had been stuck on for 14 years in Caesar III. It was the Lugdunum one.
It took me a year to get past one of the last Nod levels in Command and Conquer. You have 2 squads separated by a river patrolled by a GDI missile boat and have to recapture a base. Turns out the key is send off one guy to be a sacrificial lamb for the napalm strike.
I forget how I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belousov%E2%80%93Zhabotinsky_reaction
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A Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, or BZ reaction, is one of a class of reactions that serve as a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, resulting in the establishment of a nonlinear chemical oscillator. The only common element in these oscillators is the inclusion of bromine and an acid.
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The discovery of the phenomenon is credited to Boris Belousov. In 1951, while trying to find the non-organic analog to the Krebs cycle, he noted that in a mix of potassium bromate, cerium(IV) sulfate, malonic acid, and citric acid in dilute sulfuric acid, the ratio of concentration of the cerium(IV) and cerium(III) ions oscillated, causing the colour of the solution to oscillate between a yellow solution and a colorless solution.
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His work remained obscure because of communism. Yet another reason communism sucked.
Very few (commercially useful) reactions are defined by their equilibrium conditions. We try to force them to their limits and limit them to conditions outside equilibrium to make separations more economical. One of the reasons catalysts are so highly prized, even if it takes lots of energy to purify or regenerate them.
even if it takes lots of energy to purify or regenerate them.
BECAUSE THERES A BALANCE SHEET AND WE PROCESS A BILLION FUCKING TONS OF THE THING WE USE THE CATALYST ON, AND ONLY USE A MILLION TONS OF THE CATALYST FOR.
LIKE, GODDAMIT, NUMBERS, WHAT THE FUCK IS SO HARD.
yeah, pretty much. Spend a million to make a billion.
Sorry. I wasn’t actually asking YOU to clarify. I was asking morons to stop being fucking retarded.
oh no, I got it.
ok, so, like, gimme a million yo.
I forget how I found this
Shit. I’m THE PERSON to answer this. Over the past 20yrs, I bet I constituted a 0.x fraction of wikipedias traffic. I’ve read so many reaction articles I barely understand it’s retarded. Not too complicated, one of the Elements pages or one of the involved Compounds. The directionality is pretty universal; it’s rare to be led to a reaction article back from a product. Articles involving nylon textiles would tend to link to [nylon], where you would find all the process shit.
How would the situation have panned out had wikipedia and the internet existed back then, discuss. %Veklempt
I don’t follow. I’m assured communism hasn’t ever been tried.
you have a point
I remember something called a Lindlar catalyst from college. The professor said the guy who invented it made bookoo ka-ching because it’s still the only way to turn a carbon-carbon triple bond into a carbon-carbon double bond.
I was pretty good at chemistry in high school and liked it. I studied chemical engineering on a full scholarship. And then after my engineering career fizzled, I did half a dozen different things.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
a dozen different things. For the US Govt. Traitor.
Either you pay into it or you take from it. Fight the ocean and you will drown.
Fight the ocean and you will drown.
Returning to shore…nm, I’m playing devil’s assholecate.
As a youth I wanted to defend my people. Before I was old enough to make that decision I learned my life would be expended to produce wealth for the wealthy and powerful and probably make MY people less safe in the process.
I found a different way to pull buckets from the ocean without drowning in it. They’re still salty, hard to drink buckets. I wish I could make a living doing something people actually wanted. But while the ocean is still lapping at my shores, you can be GODDAMN SURE imma keep bailing it out over my waterwheel.
When you’re young and full of dreams, you want get out of Bedford Falls and make a name for yourself. At least that’s the way I was. You get a little older and learn that about a billion other people are doing that too, so now what?
It’s all good though. I’ve achieved almost all my goals. Seen much of the world. Had plenty of adventures. Just a few things left. The mistakes and wrong turns are what made my life interesting and what I suffered just made me stronger.
It is a good day to live and I am thankful.
I never wanted to “Get Out”. I understood The Grass Being Greener by 16. I gave up on life by 18, and threw my earning in with my mom for whatever she wanted to do…
As long as I was paying the bills had been sufficient 1997-2017. Without her leadership, I’ve had some difficulty finding a life of my own. I was basically dead already and going through the motions. Maybe I still am, I don’t know how I can tell for sure. I’ve never had some clear picture for where I’d like to be.
Where I am is sure better than where I was a year ago. And better than 2 years ago. And better than 5 years ago, even if Mom was still in the picture back then, and my Brother was still around the house…and better than 10 years ago when I was trying to prove that it was impossible to drink yourself to death.
In the same job the last 10 years. Slightly evolved responsibilities. I do what needs done, and learn what I don’t know. I get the job done, communicate clearly, and respond timely. And I’m really the only billable time on a contract that used to have 4 billable fulltime people….so I think I’m making us money now, but that’s not my wheelhouse, so, shrug. Accounting is my Brother’s thing. Until he was promoted to President this year…I knew he had strong administration chops, but I didn’t expect him to hit Pres just 7yrs out of school. I tutored him through Statistics class. Never took Stats myself before I dropped out of highschool and got my GED ahead of my graduating class…
Life is crazy. But let some fucking bureaucrat tell you at 14 how you should do the rest of it, European Youth.
May I ask how a chemical engineering career fizzles? Because I was fortunate enough to make it past that point, barely.
If you hate your job or your boss.
If you end up doing very little chemistry as part of your job.
If you argue with your boss or point out his stupidity.
I worked at a bubble wrap factory for a couple months. They had big silos full of plastic pellets. In the spring, it would get very humid and water would condense in the silos and mess up the plastic. During a meeting, my boss suggested putting blowers at bottom of the silos to dry off the water. I tried in vain to explain the concept of dew points and added that you can’t stop a hot cup of coffee from freezing in the winter by blowing on it. He didn’t take it well.
The job after that was a plastic bag factory. I wrote some purchase proposal. My boss didn’t like my writing style and sent me a “correct” sample – his, of course. It was full of curious phrases like “enable the ability” (dept of redundancy dept?) and “human-operated manual process” (do we have monkeys working here?) and “financial exposure” (JFC, really?) which I made fun of. He didn’t take it well.
I took the first engineering job offer I got, which was a glass factory near Chicago. In the phone interview, the guy asked me what I knew about sapphire. I said it’s a crystalline form of aluminum oxide, but I can’t say whether it’s body-centered cubic or face-centered cubic. He asked me how I knew those terms. I said I read a materials textbook one weekend when I was bored. It got me the job.
I have hated both my job and my boss, at different times. I told my boss to go basically fuck himself on a conference call, which everyone else wanted to, but they needed their jobs too badly to do that. Ended up elsewhere after it got too painful. Now am in a good place managing process engineers, making sure they do the right thing.
The progression seems to be:
learn job x
do job x
teach job x
manage job x
Glad you reached your happy place.
Thanks. I still get to do a bunch of engineering, but I’m having to pass it on to the next generation, and that’s OK too. I like teaching, Managing is OK if I get to do it my way.
Having walked into every job with the assumption that work and bosses suck, i’ve never had a job or a boss that sucked.
I’ve liked some more than others. I’ve never quit a job. I had one job move out of state that I didn’t decide to move along with. Just because of the geographical aspect, otherwise, I would’ve stayed with it. It didn’t make me happy, but nothing will, I’ve come to realize.
Happiness is an illusion the paymasters dangle to keep you hoping for more.
The deepest thing I’ve heard about work is that you get minimum wage for what you actually do. The rest is for dealing with assholes.
Yes. I describe my job as “paid intelligence for stupid assholes”.
I had to deal with more assholes when I made less money.
My real value to the organization seems to be the fact that I’m one of a few people who bothers to think beyond their silo to figure out how the parts interact and what the impact of changes in other areas will propigate.
Of course, they never seek me out before they’ve broken something. It’s miopic, but not assholery. So I just draw an X on the digram, go “Thar’s your problem” and send them to the team who can fix it.
But so few of them built half an agency’s infrastructure while making sure everyone’s stuff played nice together even when we couldn’t afford to do it right.
I miss the machines, but I’m not supposed to have root anymore… ‘not supposed to’ being the key phrase. They still haven’t dared take it away.
The more I make the more stupid/asshoe I deal.
If you hate your job or your boss.
If you end up doing very little chemistry as part of your job.
If you argue with your boss or point out his stupidity.
Then the other two begin to matter. The 2nd is WHY the 1st. and the 3rd. It’s a bad list.
Quit and find a job where you can chemicals, like you wanted, instead of giving up just to survive. Ive been giving up to survive to something like 20years and i barely want to live anymore, how’s it working out for you?
My goal at 18 was to join the Marines and learn Arabic. That was in 2003. I figured it was dumb to turn down a free engineering degree when a shooting war was going on.
When my brother joined the Army in 2006, that killed my military dreams for a while. I went to Africa with the Peace Corps instead. It was a great adventure.
But I did finally become a military linguist and I loved it. Been kind of touch and go lately, but still, it’s been a great run.
And hey, I’m still young enough for the French Foreign Legion.
I’ve burned plenty of bridges and pissed in the ashes. So this is my jam now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgeIINs1TrQ
Eat it, losers and haters. Like any of you candy-asses could do what I’ve done.
Thanks. Derp’s whole fucking family is younger than me. Fucked Morgan Fairchild lately too?
You young, doubtlessly-sexy sonomabiatch.
A friend of my GF went into linguistics many years ago. As his wife says, he spends a lot of time in countries ending in -stan.
Were you born before 1952? Do you need Old Glory Robot Insurance to protect your medicine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM
I’m not that young. I have a noticeable amount of white hair from stress and a drunk’s roadmap from alcoholism (booze free for 76 days today).
I’m 5’4 and women have been mostly turning up their noses at me for 20 years. My last girlfriend hit me up for money at the beginning and again after she dumped me. I visited her on a road trip after I finished training and ate all the breakfast sandwiches in her fridge. I gave her $60 cash and asked if we were even. She said no. I said goodbye and drove away.
Such a swell gal. I met her in Monterey. She made most of the way through the Chinese course before she got a medical discharge for a back injury. It was fun while it lasted.
Derp-T has white hair. I might have believed that before today. Now I know he’s just some 22yr old, Facebook-game-clicking, easy-as-you-pleasy, Curly, Dark, DUNCAN IDAHO LADYGRABBING SEXYFLEXYASSMFKER>……I just can’t even with you people.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-appears-to-doubting-tucker-and-lets-him-touch-the-fraudulent-ballots-himself
Hah!
What’s hilarious here is that I have friends who didn’t grow up with any Christian background and the’yd have no idea how funny this is. The Bee ought to consider the potential for their audience that lacks a christian upbringing. Do they even know there is such a thing?
I have the barest of Christian tutelage in my background, but I know what doubting Thomas means. I mean, just barely. I had to google the term to make sure that’s what I think it means.
Honestly, Thomas was my hero back in the day. In 3rd grade they taught it like he was some sort of heretic. He was my role model.
yo jesus lemme poke them ribs
And tomorrow I can no longer drive to NH. VT is the only outlet left; it will be on the banned list a week from now.
https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-travel-order#lower-risk-states-
PA sucks too. My plan is to fly to the Outer Banks and sit on the beach after Thanksgiving. Fuck this bullshit.
Are they setting up border checkpoints? Because it’s past time to just ignore them.
as the Michiganders would say,
Vaya con Dias, mein Froinds!
Dios con lockdownenandeers mein nutsackens, eich!
Travel with the lightbingers, Friend.
Wait, that sounds not right
Wouldnt it be great to live in the timeline where it sounded right. Oh well, that timeline is soooo boring.
…and the ‘Sconnies say “Vaya con queso.”
I’ve taken the holiday week off, and will be traveling and whatnot. So I’ll be sporadic, but I’ll be dropping by. Y’all have good week, and make sure to celebrate the good things in our lives.
Lick my bawls, Tulpa
Did I do that right?
FUCK OFF. (iow, not all, dude, cmon)
🙁
Every so often today both my monitors have flickered to black for less than half a second (just long enough to notice) I can’t tell if it’s electrical, or a data problem. (ie, is it the monitor flickering because of a power fluctuation, or is the computer sending it bad data for half a blink).
It’s irregular and intermittange, but driving me nuts.
I moved one monitor to one of the UPSes, so I should be able to isolate the issue. If both still flicker, it’s data. If only one, it’s power.
Cables, display adapter, power cords…. so many factors
What software is running when it happens? High refresh monitor + 60hz model?
YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO PROVIDE SO FEW DETAILS~!!!!
/unsubscribe
I just got a 144hz panel recently, and I had flickering issues at first. I did not do a proper job of narrowing it down.
I did get a higher quality DP cable than the one that came with some monitor in the past. Also at the time I witnessed the flickering, I was running VLC out to my TV via HDMI….
Since then I put the spare PC on the TV, and main PC only runs the one montior at 144hz. But do you see the variety of flashing issues that could result?
OF COURSE YOU DO SO WHY WOULD YOU ASK SUCH AN UNPREPARED, UNDETAILED QUESTION.
For Shame. Did you misplace your monitor-tech-support-question-typing gloves?
If you keep shouting at me, I’m going to have to speak to your manager.
YOURE NOT MY SUPERVISOR
/MACRAME
Lets see – Windows, Firefox, Libreoffice.
144hz refresh rate at both ends.
It doesn’t appear to have any connection to the activity, but it hit both monitors at exactly the same time and for the same duration.
I haven’t seen a flicker since I moved one monitor to the UPS, but the issue was intermittant to begin with, so that only provides so much information. The move did mean they are now no longer drawing from the same wall outlet, but I’m pretty sure they’re still on the same house circuit.
The UPS didn’t impact the flicker, so I turned down the refresh rate to 120hz.
Over an hour without a flicker. We’ll see if that holds.
Hmmm, the flicker i described ONLY hit the fast display. Hence why I assumed it had something to do with either the video playback software, or running displays at different rates.
I’d still try just one display to simply the investigation.
These are identical model monitors connected by identical model 3rd party display port cables to the same video card.
Yes, and identical products are comprised of non-identical components adhered together with non-identical soldier joints.
Would you like to continue your point, or just unplug one monitor. I’m pretty sure one of the DP outs on my Vega isn’t good, but you go ahead and assume that everything thats the same works the same all the time anyway because that’s ne…no i’m not even finishing that sentence. Really?
If the source is a defect leading to a difference, you would see a difference in effect.
And I am not going to run on one monitor.
I never said you gotta keep one screen for the rest of your life. Just diagnose the shit.
Having said that, after running 3x 1080p c.2011-2016…
I’ve been running a single screen since my experiments with 4k, and more than happy getting my workshit done in that space, without any of win10 desktop tricks. Now at QHD (2560) it’s even easier, but 4k is nicer. Fits everything on one screen with 150% scaling….text is soooo smooth. It’s like eye butter. But I could still fit all my copypasta windows on the one screen at a time.
How’s your eye glasses doin?
It’s not the monitors. You are having microblackouts. Probably a toomah.
IT’S NOT A TOOOMAH
Check the connections. Put your gloves on first.
OMFG, THE CONNECTION CHECKING GLOVES!!!!
The flicker impacts both displays identically. If it were a connection, they would not be in perfect synch. Any impact from windows preparing to swap to the ‘working’ monitor would be delayed, and it would sometimes cause windows to be shifted to a single monitor.
Alright, alright, you have your gloves on. Next step.
You have more issues with Windows than any person I have ever conversed with.
Like, honestly, when win10 came out, i was about to become a janitor and give up computers and electricity.
If you just make sure to force youre updates when they WONT bother you, it’s not a total piece of shit or any different than win7 really. With a few, very minor, not worth the cost, improvements. MSFuckers.
The update thing was bullshit, but they’ve backed off on it quite a bit now. 10 is a good OS.
Eh…..
I gotta keep on those updates. If you keep shit open, and dont keep on the updates, IT WILL FUCK YOU IN THE ASS.
I would argue, but then I remember the sort of desolate land you reside in.
Seriously, I’m not a big computer nerd, but I’ve never heard of anyone have as many issues with Windows as you.
Don’t all sign point to the video card?
Well, it is in the middle of this. I’m waiting to see if the refresh rate change works.
I did check for a new driver, but I’m at the most recent.
https://archive.li/aB46f/3bfae6cfc94088b672c27ab826ac4d4631cc34ff.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/1X3Wl/c1829bf4f95e405e2be399d2242a318fc220720c.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/PhSxi/968e12f9553ff850fa4d8aaa6ea786b8f8f1a1f5.jpg
NSFW.
Looks like one of our VPs.
satire idea
Trump’s Wedding Featured Song Written by Nazi-Associated Composer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6rX3wlDsVI
Like, in Big Trouble in Little China, when Trump remarries the greeneyed Chinese girl to keep the Old Demons at bay for another generation?
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Cancelled Big Trouble In Little China 2 Movie Would’ve Been …
screenrant.com › Movie News
Nov 3, 2020 — Screenwriter Chip Proser says he wanted his unmade Big Trouble in Little China 2 to be a less racist portrayal of the original film’s story.
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Is Disney’s It’s A Small World ride also racist? How about Fantasia with the dancing mushrooms?
Meanwhile, here’s how China deals with issues such as blackface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8ehjt-ZH_o
If it’s a repeat of the story, it’s doesn’t deserve a numeral. Or the title for that matter.
Dude, your self-authored satire is usually way better.
“Chip Poser”? Cmon.
*way more convincing
Be More Detailed
“Better/Good” are shit words, do not use them.
I’m apparently so drunk that 16 minutes of a youtube video of Pauk Desmond tracks feels like 2 hours?
more importantly, did Desmond Dekker Come First?
I figured it out; the moron who posted the track labeled the times wrong and set the beginning of each track to its duration plus the beginning of the overall video.
Now explain why amazon deleted “Santa Monica” from Everclear’s Sparkle and Fade recently.
Shocking Play Taught to Children Features Suicide, Underage Sex
We got to vote and skipped that one for one that teaches The key to a happy marriage is psychological abuse.
would it be faster to just text each other, then post it here?
Are you on zoome? Should I get on the zoomyzoom? I assume I’m an at-best-tolerated contributor and wouldn’t be welcome in person…so I should definitely bust out the laptop and get on the Zoooooooomerzzzom stuff all the young (people older than me) are playing with, right?
“No, it’s over, don’t bother.”
You should get on the Zoom. It gets wild and crazy on Friday nights.
Dammit, i keep meaning to but keep refreshing and replying here….
“Not taught soon enough. 5yr old pregnancy runs rampant. More funds needed for abortions. Of the 5yr olds.”
“Local Bobby Gives Thumbs Up to Teen Suicide?”
I’d like to see a proper argument AGAINST teen suicide. They’re mopey, full of demands, dont want to contribute….
I’m waiting.
You put teens in skirts and they pay their own bills. That’s something.
Ok, I feel like we went from “pieces of shit should kill themselves” to “teens should all make money by whoring” awful quick, and without reason.
But I’m the drunk one?
The moral thrust of the universe seems to be against whatever puritanical norms we grew up enjoying. I’d be destroyed thinking back on some of my girlfriends like that J Geils song. I still think of my exes as nuns temporarily sullied by me. But the new age, these girls
Actuallly I don’t think it’s anything new, we’re just being introduced to the new middle class.
The universe only has an amoral thrust.
The song that knocked Der Commissar off the top spot not once, but twice.
https://youtu.be/W9S3YMmIFdw
So what if it was an Eurovision winner.
Well that was something else on the Glib Zoom. Yikes.
Judi’s about ready to sever my nards right now for no apparent reason. Thanks, assholes. Lolbot is her favorite and she really digs Neph.
Please don’t chop his nuts off cuz I joined.
(You mentioned everyone else pretty much, and it wasn’t Mo’s brief appearance getting you neutered for NO REASON. WOMEN!>!)
I always miss the good ones.
Whyperbolie would break space time.
You didn’t miss much unless you like seeing a mild mannered Canadian lose his shit for a few seconds. I wish that I had footage of Pan acting the fool.
Pan trolled us. We fell for it. We’ll rub some dirt on it and keep playing.
Trolled?~!~?
The image in your head of the 4Chan mastermind sitting in his semen stained lair is personified by pan.
Im with Hyperbole- having just gotten home from work, I missed a good one too.
I don’t know if he’s trolling for fun and or profit. Judi felt very sorry for him.
Wtf? Now I feel sorry for myself, I guess.
I feel bad for enervating his delusional antics.
Ok then, not welcome, got it. 4chan? semen? those are some seriousl calm and mature tits there.
since Im already on beer #3….
Current titty status: calm
Fuck you. Mess with the bull and ya gets the horn.
Did I piss in your cornflakes or something? I’m sorry for whatever I might have done to offend you, but I honestly did not see it.
You shrimp-shouldered Imp. If I ever got a hand on you I’d shake you like a colicky infant. Hell, I’d fight you with one wrist tied to my ankle and my cock shoved up my own ass. Limber dicked cocksucker.
That is an excellent point, please continue.
To Pan, This is almost a sacred space for many of us. The PTB set this up of their own free will and out of pocket. Fuck you for shitting in their swimming pool and laughing about Hershey Bars.
You’ve completely lost me.
Look to your left you dumb fuck. Do you see an empty vodka bottle there?
Yup, and I opened another. Yet, I haven’t started spewing invective at anyone for no reason. What’s your excuse?
Dude. It was a Zoom chat. At least a half dozen people were there.
They were. Odd you’re the only person freaking out and swearing at me, while everyone else on the call bid me goodnight when it ended.
(I haven’t i didn’t shop ahead that well, dammit. I’m dry.)
Just behave yourself on the platform. I have no power to bend you to my will but this is mostly a happy place full of generous spirited people whose main ethos is “Fuck Off Slaver!”
You’ve been the rude one in the whole interaction. I’ve always enjoyed reading your comments and it was nice to meet you on zoom, but I dont understand your reaction today at all.
Don’t try to gaslight me. You were super-drunk and lost some time, apparently. It happens to everyone vis a vis vodka.
The vodka I didn’t drink and the time I didn’t lose. Got it.