My oldest was poking around in a closet when he came across something that piqued his interest.
No, it wasn’t a secret stash, porn, or even a secret stash of porn.
This is my review of Zywiec:
He found a PSE Recurve bow I bought while I lived in Colorado on account of my wife watching the summer olympics nonstop. She watched the archery events and said, “I could do that…”
While she never attempted to shoot it…ever, the boy heckled me enough times for me to find a range he can try it out. Unfortunately, it resulted in several arrows falling short. The boy’s utter lack of arm strength didn’t stop me from sharing it on my Facebook page.
This lead to my aunt asking if I wanted one she had lying around in her shed. Somebody whom she once cohabitated apparently owned it and since she was never going to use it, she would bring it up next time she was in town.
That was the next weekend where she signed off on an MMJ card for my parents. Who then sent me a photo of the bow telling me to go pick it up. It looked a bit trashed.
Then I noticed something in the photo:
“Wait, does that say Hoyt?”
”Yes, not sure if that means anything…”
This was definitely the screwiest, random re-gift from my aunt or any other relative I received in a long time. So next time I took the boy to the range I had the guy at the desk look at it.
“I can’t in good conscience let you shoot this. Its missing a few parts, the gouge in the limb isn’t going to hold, and did somebody rest this on the pulley for ten years?”
”Probably. I got it for a good price.”
”An Aspen Contender is a classic but you’ll never find parts for it. Put it over your fireplace or something, it is pretty.”
I’m not so easily discouraged, but I will have to make this a two part series. Sorrey.
Zywiec is a Polish brand that I’ve reviewed before but probably shouldn’t link to on account of the article actually being about the origins of the Polish joke. The comments unfortunately devolved into a hot mess where pretty much everyone began tossing out racial/ethnic slurs at each other, myself included. Because I would like to maintain a level of civility on this site, and due to recent news of WordPress deplatforming sites they deem uncouth…Meh. Screw it (Screendoor on a Submarine)
The beer is a bland Pilsner lager, made in the usual competent but unremarkable European style. Which is always better than the other way around. Zywiec: 2.8/5
Someday I shall go bowfishing for snakehead. I haven’t been able to find a bow that has the draw weight I want that isn’t a child’s bow (yes, I’m a noodle-armed bitch)
One the things the Dan Carlin series about the Mongols stressed was how stupendously wiry and strong they were after spending their whole life shooting bows and riding horses.
Thanks to neighborhood demographics, one of our local supermarkets has a HUGE Polish beer section, almost all of them are 2 for $4 and well worth the price.
Finally, MS reviews a non-hipster juice beer.
“The beer is a bland Pilsner lager made in the usual competent but unremarkable European style.”
Translation: not bitter IPA swill.
Disclaimer: I’ve not tried that one.
Not every hipster craft brewer makes IPA, but hipsters do like IPA.
Calling everything hipster juice is basically wearing onions on your belt and shouting at clouds.
“Not every hipster craft brewer makes IPA”
They don’t call all of them that, but they all taste that way.
*places onions on belt, shouts at clouds, drinks a Carlsberg*
MATLOCK
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATLOCK
There is a local brewery that makes a “hoppy lager” and I can’t tell the damn difference between that and an IPA. I prefer boring lagers.
Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brewed a refreshing lager from hops and barley….
We-e-ll, I’m Rappin’ A.B. and I’m here to say,
if you want to drink beer, well Duff’s the only way!
I said the only way! Break down!”
/Rapping Animatronic Abe Lincoln in the Duff Gardens Hall of Presidents
Mine was named “Obligatory IPA”.
This seems like fake news.
There is probably one guy the Hipster Brewing Guild refuses to allow to have hops just so they can claim this.
Metropolitan Brewery in Chicago.
Their Iron Works Ale is from a homebrew recipe created by ClubMedSux, who used to post on TOS.
Alt, not Ale. Although it is that too.
One of my best teaching memories is leading a gaggle of 3rd-8th graders through a semester of archery. First class was “this is how you’ll get kicked out of my class – might want to listen” and the rest of the sessions was practice.
So great seeing the kids go from can’t even nock the arrow to consistently hitting 12″ targets at 90 feet.
How marriages fail.
Wife: The mudroom is a mess we need somewhere to hang things.
Me: OK, we can put some built-ins on either side of the window to hang jackets and a bench to sit on in between with an open storage area underneath.
Wife: But I want it to be cute. Like a couple of wall hangers and some decorations. Maybe some cubbies for each of the kids to put their scarves in.
Me: Scarves? Where is all the shit that currently occupies the space going to go? Our kids don’t put their underwear away. Do you think they’re going to honor a cubby system?
Wife: You’re missing the point. I want it to be a pleasant space.
Me: It’s a mudroom, we don’t live in it. The kids drop all their crap in here and the dog sleeps here.
Wife: You’re not listening to me.
Me: *walks away muttering*
Just find her Pinterest page and memorize it, geez.
Wife: *shows me pictures from Pinterest of mudrooms where the families appear to only own two Panama hats, a linen shopping bag and some flowers*
Me: *points at jackets that have been hanging on the back of the garage door since last winter*
FWIW, your idea CAN be pleasant (again, see Pinterest where they do your idea all the fucking time), but you have to tidy constantly to keep it that way. Matching outerwear helps.
I would love that if I had a mud room, which I do not.
In my plan (in my head) when building the house was a mud room. Then I realized we would be entering the house from the downstairs. I moved a wall, made an extra bedroom and the mudroom became a bathroom, with access from the new bedroom and the kitchen. Much better idea.
Also, I identify coats we don’t use and donate them. Purging is wonderful.
You need to find a cable package that excludes all of the home & garden channels (and there is a shit-ton of them).
“Wife: You’re missing the point. I want it to be a pleasant space.”
Get her a she shed and let her decorate away.
I just cleared up one room of a bunch of useless clutter and piled it in the basement – it was all hers. I promised that if we do end up moving she can have one room all for her
hoardingcollecting.We have to get out of here asap. My wife has done
hoardedcollected us out of space. I’m just thinking one day ‘where the hell did all this stuff come from?’. Seriously, I don’t buy anything. I bought a computer monitor and a TV in the past 5 years, that basically takes up no more space than was there before. We have 2 10x10x10 storage bins that are so full, you open the door and that’s it, no more space. And there’s zero extra space in the house. And as soon as we get a bigger place with more storage, she’s going to see that as a green light to go on a shopping marathon, sigh…you have a room with mud in it? clean the mud first and then worry about decorations.
I’m with Pie. If you’re covered in mud you shouldn’t be going inside.
That’s what garden hoses are for.
Not a perfect solution, my hose faucet is in the basement, behind a locked door*, so I’d have to go inside to get the key to hook up the hose.
*I do not leave exterior doors unlocked.
Carabiner with key hooked to your belt loop while working outdoors.
Do you have plans to switch your garden faucet to the outside of the wall? My mother’s is in her garage (contactor mistake #472), but I ran a line and punched out a hole for the outside faucet and hooked it up.
Not really.
I don’t have a yard, so I rarely have cause to be working in the mud.
Remember the FedExed carpet samples in Lost in Translation?
[drinks Suntory whiskey]
*drunkenly sings Pretenders and Roxy music songs off key*
What’s a mud room?
It’s an entryway for donning or removing protective gear, especially gear soiled by adverse conditions such as snow or mud. It is essential in some areas due to the climate.
That was called a ‘front hall’ when I was a kid…that sounds more fancy. A whole hall for the front.
Synonyms exist.
Yeah, but why go by the less fancy one? (Especially when the latter didn’t come into vogue until the 70s/80s)
*shrug*
I don’t have either, I have an enclosed porch.
The mud room doesn’t have to be in the front; it can just as likely be in between the garage and the rest of the house.
In my mind the Front Hall/Entry area is usually a more formal space around the main entry for guests to take off their hats and coats and what not. The Mud Room is off the garage or a rear entrance and often part utility/storage/laundry.
Oh, so now you’re getting fancy with an attached garage and calling my nomenclature fancy?!
Shut up and get back in your hovel peon! Real people with mud rooms are talking.
I thought that’s what a garage was for. But then we don’t have any snow and not much mud.
*whirring and smoke emanate from a mysterious box*
Wife (translated): I want one place in the house not cluttered by kid and husband stuff. I don’t care if it isn’t functional. I don’t care if you need to find a new place for all the outdoor stuff. I want just one room in the house to be my oasis.
I have a recurve in my basement my uncle gave me when I was 20 and it was old when I got it. Kinnath helped me identify it and give me some instruction. The one time I took it to the range somebody slyly wanted to know how much I’d take for it, so I kept it. Anyway, I’llget to the range someday when I feel like my rotator cuff can take it, since it’s only pinned in 3 places and not four.
Archery seems somehow elegant, doesn’t it?
While also being badass.
Sadly, a recurve bow is nigh-on impossible to carry in your purse.
Where there is a will there is a way.
My diaper bag wasn’t that big.
It’s taller than I am.
My youngest niece has a college scholarship for archery.
She can lead the revolution!
That. Is. AWESOME.
As long as she doesn’t catch that nasty Chinese disease going around college campuses. Maoism.
This is s real danger. Public schools are indoctrination centers.
“You can go get your nails done or play golf but kids can’t play on the playground. But they can if they’re at school. And you can go to a public pool but you can’t go to a restaurant or an AA meeting. Because science.”
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1332499637488427008
This shit is making guns laws seem sensible.
It is all sensible. It’s what happens when you let people vote on what other people are allowed to do. Democracy sucks.
The beer is a bland Pilsner lager, made in the usual competent but unremarkable European style.
Sounds like something i could drink. At least it doesn’t look like it was mixed with coal tar.
Wife: You’re missing the point. I want it to be a pleasant space.
Eek.
It’s aesthetics over utility, deplorable. Your toxic masculinity is keeping you from seeing the right way to think. You’re going to need the mandatory toxic masculinity classes.
I suspect that conversations much like that one are why we no longer live in caves. Uggette: Cave stinky and not look good. Ug: Cave warm and make skywater not on head. Uggette: Make cave pleasant or no lie down with you. Ug: Building house now.
Just be glad that bows are still legal, for now. Once they have all the guns, how long will that last? Not every long, bows and blades are next on the disarming the peasantry agenda. Maybe if we’re lucky we can still have a spork in the house for dining purposes, after the forks and butter knives have been outlawed.
I just watched Mark Steyn hosting for Tucker Carlson. Depressing.
He played a snippet of Schumer rallying the Democrat base and saying “And we are going to win Georgia! And then we will CHANGE AMERICA!”
It was just missing the twirling of a mustache and evil cackle.
I like America. I don’t want Schumer’s version. He doesn’t like guns and wants Covid masks forever, fine —he can do that for himself. But no, he wants to end the filibuster so that 51 votes is all they need, plus adding seats to the Supreme Court to offset the three Trump appointees.
One of the numb nut Dems running in Georgia says that Americans who voted for Trump must repent! He expanded it to say that we must repent for our worship of whiteness.
If the Dems take all branches, America as we know it is done.
Steyn: https://youtu.be/bIzYfiWQSBk
If the Dems take all branches, America as we know it is done.
Yep.
I think they will take all three branches.
Archery is fun.
I don’t like compound bows. The let-off feels weird. Recurve, longbow, or other similar style.
I think I’ve had the Zyweic Porter. I don’t think I’ve had the lager.
I think it is about time to get a little yard work done.
Having shot both recurve and compound, I prefer compound, because it takes less effort the hold full draw while I aim.
Shooting just for fun, yes recurves are much better. But if you actually want to hit what you are aiming at (without having to do a ridiculous amount of practice) you can’t beat a compound bow with sights.
I guess I must have squatted enough back in the days when I shot archery because I could hit what I aimed at with a recurve without sights.
I have only shot a compound once and really didn’t like the feel because it’s not what I was used to, but I can see how accuracy is better, especially at higher weights. Still, I love the feel of a recurve or longbow and nothing beats the thrill of using instinctive shooting to hit the bullseye .
Fatty Bolger, from the dead thread.
So Dems requested and returned a lot more ballots than Repubs, across the state. Biden won the mail-in vote in York County 2 to 1, but lost the day-of vote 3 to 1. In Philly Trump’s votes all came day-of and the mail-in was crazy-slanted to Biden; but Biden’s total vote in Philly was right near normal.
Assume the Dems, by virtue of their love of expertise, took the covid restrictions far more seriously than Repubs – is it then so surprising that the mail-in vote would run heavily to Biden?
I would still be interested to see the down ticket votes, which could show the ticket-splitting (as happened in the Pittsburgh suburb in the other link) or vote total anomalies (which would lend more credibility to vote irregularities).
I think the inconsistencies between Biden votes and down-ballot votes may be explained by the hundreds of thousands of ballots that were checked only for Biden, leaving the rest of the ballot blank. Meanwhile, very few single vote ballots for Trump. Who goes to all the trouble to vote and then only does one race? A tinfoil hatter might think it’s much easier and quicker to mark just one circle and then move on to the next ballot if you need to manufacture as many votes as you can for your candidate; the hell with those other candidates, and besides, they didn’t pay for any help.
Ain’t gonna hit the Quintella that way.
DAMMIT! *Quinella!
Quintella is when that guy from Jaws kills 5 sharks, I assume.
When I went to college at UNLV I saw all these signs around saying ,”Your kid could be the next Pollok”, Being from Central Wisconsin I was was mystified where the end of the Polack joke was. (I’m part Polish, so I can say that word!) (On a probable opening line for a Polack joke, I just drunkenly bought $900 worth of video equipment)
About 50 years ago I went to an Army school in NJ. Since we had no people of Polish extraction in the class I became the necessary Polack by default. Latvian heritage was close enough and I didn’t care, the jokes were never harmful and we could all laugh at them. Ethnic/sexist humor was rampant in the military and few, if any, were offended.
“A Latvian and an Estonian walk into a Lithuanian bar, see?”
“Hey, that ain’t funny!”
Then a Russian walks in and BOOM Baltic Unity Party forms.
10 am on a Saturday when MS’s beer review drops is when I have a beer. I am a dedicated Glib that way. And the link to the review that devolved into racist mayhem is worth a good laugh. You people are
nutsracist af.I’m disappointed he doesn’t ship all of us bottle so we can enjoy it while reading the review.
Eh, some of us don’t like carbonated beverages.
I am afraid TPTB do not pay me…so I can only send some to Ted.
Re deplatforming.
The first mistake was using someone else’s platform. Glibs doesn’t have that problem—yet. Webhosts will be next.
“The first mistake was using someone else’s platform.”
It’s necessary for most to reach an audience.
The first mistake is using somebody else’s internet, internet domain registry, online payment service, bank, credit card company….
Well, exactly why I said “yet”.
The first shot across the Paypal bow was years ago when they stopped trading with erotica/porn writers and other adult entertainment purveyors. I am not sure if the Feds were behind that, though. It seems to me there was some federal involvement.
Operation Choke Point
That. *sigh*
Indian summer remains. Getting ready to open the windows and continue to tidy up all the wiring for new TV.
OT: Amazon sucks fucking donkey balls.
My TV arrives yesterday and I get a knock on the door. No text like they promised, no call, just a knock. Wife and I were both in the kitchen. I walked to my den, grabbed a mask out of the box, put it on and walked to the door. I’d estimate that somewhere between 40 and 60 seconds elapsed in that time. I open the door and there’s my TV outside just sitting there, no one in site.
I’ll back up a minute on my tirade and say, I paid Amazon an extra $20 to have this thing placed in the room of my choice.
So I decided to chase these people down if there’s still time and I caught them headed to the parking area. I said ‘Hey, where are you guys going? I paid Amazon to have that thing delivered inside the house, and you’re just going to leave it outside?’. One of them never said a word, but the woman, apparently the leader of the delivery clan says ‘Well, we were knocking on the door’. I said ‘That was one minute ago, you only knocked one time and no one texted me as promised’. So she then, looking very reluctant and sad she didn’t make a clean escape and get out of doing her job, heads back up with her silent male in tow and they put the TV where I told them to. At this point I am beyond pissed off.
So today, I will contact Amazon and give them a good ass reaming about this. Amazon’s service continues to head straight off a fucking giant cliff.
That’s what happens when you expand your services beyond what you can control.
That’s what happens when you control so much of the market that you don’t have to give a shit.
Just to let you know, that is better service from Amazon than anyone in fly-over country has EVER gotten.
Part of why they are still successful, even as they’ve lowered the bar from underpromise and overdeliver.
Indeed. I’m waiting for a package that should have been here yesterday. In the before ChiComPox times, we had same delivery on many things; now it’s 2 days if we’re lucky.
Calm your tits! Even with Prime the fastest I’ve gotten anything is 4 days. Check your City privilege!
You live further in the middle of nowhere than Fourscore. Don’t get mad at us for geographic happenstance.
I’ve been to Fourscore’s, he’s like a 1/6 of a mile closer to a ‘town’ than me.
we don’t even have amazon Romania
The delivery folk are afraid of the vampires.
I figured they’d deliver everything by bat.
I think that’s the joke. The delivery ‘folk’ are the real order. The fitbit is just extra, like a happy meal toy.
People in Barrow, Alaska told me that they got their Amazon packages in two days with Prime.
In the bumfuck place I live we could always rely on two day Prime delivery like clockwork. I guess we are close enough to a shipping hub that the logistics worked out as planned. Now we are two weeks out at earliest.
so you like exploiting low wage people you greedy libertarian
Exactly NOT that. I’m always nice to delivery people and tip better than most people I’m sure.
Do your fucking job is all I’m asking.
Job that guy was hired for, “Make your own wages by working for a dynamic internet based company that lets you set your own hours and become your own boss while taking advantage of your own of your specified talents and certifications!”…Job that guy got, “Drop off a thing”
They must’ve gotten similar training to cops – knock, if no one answers within 10 seconds, go on to next step (for cops of course that is breaking down the door, for delivery, moving on to the next package).
Huh. Varies by locality I guess. Amazon delivered our 65” tv and wall mounted it.
They’re really good here. It’s a local Amazon hub near where I work.
I didn’t ask for mounting because I despise wall mounting for TVs. I just asked for them to bring inside the house, which they apparently thought was too difficult and decided to just run off and not do their job.
Last year, I bought a 55″ Tv from Bestbuy. I didn’t get a bracket, so I leaned it against the wall on top of a short cabinet temporarily, until I could earthquake proof it. My kid slammed the drawer on the cabinet about an hour later and the fucking TV slid down and smacked him on top of his head, crunching the screen and breaking it. My wife took it back and half heartedly tried to assert it may have been broken when it came out of the box, but she also said, ” It might have been broken by my 7 y/o, too” The BB guy said he was exchanging it because she allowed for the truth, where most people insist it’s BB’s fault. I was amazed. I was resigned to having to spend another grand replacing it.
Mine barely fits on the entertainment system. The legs are 16.25″ wide and are V shaped and come to points with small rubber leg caps that are barely 1/2″ wide. I have no idea WTF Sony was thinking, it’s difficult to even buy a TV stand that is more than 16″ wide. Ours is barely wide enough for it to fit. Wifey and I put it up there and did everything, it’s 75″, so a big job for us seniors. And she’s 5’2″, but she managed to handle her side with no problem. I’m going to buy a universal stand. There are tons of complaints about that stand all over the internet and seems most people are buying the universal stand as a solution.
I hate wall mounting. And I mean not really my business, but too many people put those up too high for proper viewing. I especially hate when people put them over the fire place, dumbest idea ever thought up.
We’ve always placed our 65″ on an electric/heater/fire place thing. It’s been great!
We have ours hovering between two matching bookcases so that it kinda looks like an entertainment center.
It’s not arranged as an altar to the TV. The fireplace is unblemished and occupies a different wall.
I don’t like the tv to be the center focus of a room. The mounting works best for us and the midline of the TV is about eye level to an adult sitting on a couch or chair.
We have ours on the wall with bookcases flanking it and a low entertainment bench for the other electronics. Mr. Mojeaux’s hobby is watching TV while sweepstaking, so it is the center of our living room.
You had those people come into your house? DON’T YOU KNOW WE ARE IN A PANDEMIC AND YOU ARE GOING TO DIE?
Did you buy a Sony? They control the pricing, so it wouldn’t be any less expensive online than if you bought it from a local place.
XBR 900H 75″. It wasn’t a planned thing. My 5 year old Visio just died. It was on sale and yes, the price was the same everywhere, but I trusted Amazon to not fuck up the delivery, a mistake. I won’t make another big ticket item purchase from them again, I’ll try elsewhere.
I’ve had good experiences with Costco delivering refrigerators, couches, and mattresses.
I won’t make another big ticket item purchase from them again, I’ll try elsewhere.
Costco. I’ll never buy a TV, computer, or major appliance anywhere else again because of their 4 year warranty.
On the bright side, the Sony 900’s are great TV’s.
You seem awfully bent for a guy who got the service he paid for.
Shh, don’t argue or he’ll release the Karen.
All the carriers have gotten weird since Covid. I had a Fedex delivery yesterday at my house that was a suppressor. Required an adult signature and was COD. They just left it on my porch and drove off. Had quite a few firearms including an MG delivered that way. I know they don’t necessarily know what the item is but when it says direct signature required on it with a COD label and you have to X through multiple screens to deliver it in the system you would think they would pause and ponder a bit.
Oh, and good on ya taking the kid shooting with the bow. That is good fun. My recurve I had as a kid is long lost but I have fond memories of trying to shoot the running salmon with it. I never hit one.
https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1332499247346888704
I’m surprised CNN ran this.
Watch this lovely young lady smash $130,000 worth of booze at a British supermarket
https://notthebee.com/article/stay-off-her-bad-side-this-lovely-young-lady-smashed-130000-worth-of-booze-at-a-british-supermarket
Oh, literally smash…I think that’s a death sentence here.
I wonder how many Millwallers wanna find this youngster and kick her DNA into next Tuesday?
Too bad you can’t defend your property in the UK.
i have a feeling the supermarket considers those things as sold… probably gonna get the money from insurance so to say
Nice call. I name you Pandemic Prime Minister.
Glad she hurt herself.
Carrie Nation reincarnated.
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/11/one-of-every-375-oregonians-over-80-has-died-with-covid-19-exposing-lethal-toll-on-states-elderly.html
My blood is boiling. Total garbage reporting. No where does the report put what the total number of 80 and over that died in the same period or their total mortality rate. Totally incurious. Three minutes pulls a rough estimate of 9k deaths last year from state statistics in that same group so about 1 in 20 has probably died over the same period.
The journalistic malpractice that has occurred over the span of the past nine months should be career ending for thousands of people in that line of work. That Johns Hopkins study that made the rounds yesterday should be on the front page of every paper in the nation.
The one that shows no increase in total deaths, or a different memoryholed study?
I may have fallen far short of my career “potential,” but journalism is another field I’m glad I narrowly missed entering.
Reel journolisming R hard.
Sadly, one of my close friends has a daughter who’s presently attending Carleton for the express purpose of obtaining a degree in Journalism.
I keep crossing my fingers and hoping that she’ll see the light and take up something more valuable (and more acceptable) to society, like being the piano-player in a whorehouse.
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2020/11/gun-advocates-take-the-lead-in-embracing-suicide-prevention-message.html
Fuck off slavers. The concern for suicides is a complete and total red herring. Of course there’s an appearance of phony gun rights huckster Alan Gottlieb.
I like America. I don’t want Schumer’s version. He doesn’t like guns and wants Covid masks forever, fine —he can do that for himself. But no, he wants to end the filibuster so that 51 votes is all they need, plus adding seats to the Supreme Court to offset the three Trump appointees.
One of the numb nut Dems running in Georgia says that Americans who voted for Trump must repent! He expanded it to say that we must repent for our worship of whiteness.
If the Dems take all branches, America as we know it is done.
Not content to shit in their own nests, they desperately want to shit in ours.
The journalistic malpractice that has occurred over the span of the past nine months should be career ending for thousands of people in that line of work. That Johns Hopkins study that made the rounds yesterday should be on the front page of every paper in the nation.
i wish somebody could explain to me (in short sentences, using small words) why it is not good news that this “pandemic” is not nearly as broadly lethal as first feared.
If it bleeds, it leads.
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
Also, If it Breathes, Choke It.
Yet here we are. A lot of us still in government enforced lockdowns.
Because it will be harder for sociopathic politicians to hang on to that sweet, sweet power they grabbed by scaring people.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8965173/amp/Man-cheats-death-8ft-concrete-slab-falls-100ft-car-scraped-ice-Russia.html
Meanwhile, in Russia…
Ok, rains of frogs are one thing, but raining Jersey barriers can fuck right off.
Also in Russia:
Mayor of Novosibirsk defends decision to shape city’s main ice rink like a penis for 2nd consecutive year
That’s a dick move, man.
From the sidebar
*snort* Did you look at those buildings?
Just came back from our small town nursery where we buy our Xmas tree every year. The prices were all up about 30% over last year. I managed to get a decent one despite the lot being fairly picked clean from yesterday, when according to the saleslady it had been a madhouse there. I guess it makes sense, if you’re going to be stuck inside your home for the next month, might as well have a nice tree to look at and give the house a pleasant holiday scent, despite the staggering prices.
But this continues a trend I’ve been seeing lately, which is not yet reflected in national inflation figures — the small, independent mom and pop businesses that have managed to survive, be it manicures, barbers, dry cleaners or this nursery, have had to dramatically increase prices to make up for months of forced closures. Completely understandable, and I’m much more willing to give them my money than the big chains, but the steep price rises will have an effect eventually, as basic economics has certainly not been exempted by the pandemic.
We have an artificial tree to reduce the fire risk, since it would be a pain for the fire trucks to get up our driveway.
Does the driveway curve downward? Like a certain punctuation mark for example?
…..give the house a pleasant holiday scent
Pull my finger.
Are you saying you want people to die because you are greedy for the economy/ capitalism.
/actual FB posts in my former friends list.
/Cathy Newman
Zywiec is alright. It seemed to follow the Polish here when they came in large enough numbers to make it more popular, and although I haven’t had it for a while, it’s generally available and pleasant enough.
I read the review and thought “good ice-cold after working in the garden on a hot summer’s day.”
Nothin’ wrong with those brews.
I got a can of this rosé half off at Safeway: reminded me of y’all and Steve Smith. https://cascadianoutfitterswine.com/
Paging Spud and OMWC, Spud and OMWC to the canned wine aisle.
Red Blend, STEVE SMITH APPROVED!
If it’s half off and you drink way to much of it, does that mean you won’t see double?
Made by Cascadian Outfitter Swine .com?
Hell hath no fury like a scorned Florida woman:
Woman uses ‘Fresh Meth Tonight’ cyberstalking campaign to target romantic rival, deputies say
Speaking of scorned meth heads. * TW, the “nation”
They’ve convinced themselves already.
Any port in a storm, so to speak.
DIE HARD is a Christmas movie.
That is all.
Duh.
It’s not even December yet. Too soon.
Ha.
That is the Christmas equivalent of rickrolled.
Sort of, it is only the 28th though so it doesn’t count.
I can’t believe I’m saying this but I’d much rather be Rick rolled than WHAMMED.
Besides, Rick Astley is a really good sport about tbe Rick Roll phenomenon. He refuses to try to monetize it by doing a remix or anything like it. He seems to think that would be rather undignified for a middle aged gentleman such as himself, said to an interviewer that it would look rather pathetic to go chasing fame with a new generation.
I like both songs.
Relevant
That’s the sort of thing I’d post!
Indeed
https://www.glibertarians.com/2019/12/shoot-the-glass/
Damned straight, it’s a Christmas movie. Even has a story book to go with it.
https://www.target.com/p/a-die-hard-christmas-by-doogie-horner-hardcover
Also for any Die Hard fan, definitely watch the “movies that made us” Die Hard episode about how Die Hard came to be. Really cool stories. Like that they wanted Rickman’s face to register actual surprise and fear as the watch lets go and he falls to his doom. So they got Rickman into his harness for the fall ( he did have to fall some distance) and then they dropped him without the full count, so he really was surprised when he dropped.
link to book
It does have a guy coming down a chimney. (mildly NSFW) as if anyone is actually working today or this year for that matter!
Today in dumb:
Guest kitteh has returned. It seems the little hunter executed a wayward chipmunk that had gained unlawful ingress to the family abode. My XX’s friend’s mother called it inhumane and demanded the cat be exiled. They are not vegetarians.
*head desk*
It really bugs me when people start squawking about keeping cats indoors because they’re killers.
Gaia is not nice and not woke.
I keep mine indoors because NYC streets are no place for cats to run around. 🙁
Back in Tallahassee, Some friends had a cat who would climb up onto the roof of the house and wait for the bats to emerge from the dormer window. He would leap and tackle them midair. Such a good boy.
I keep mine inside because he’s an idiot and doesn’t understand cars.
That too. Stefano, the elderly ticked tabby, would often try to dash for the door and go explore the front porch. Until the one day he tried after a blizzard. Understand, he was born in a barn in Shreveport, LA; the snow taught him a stern lesson and he hasn’t dared to cross the threshold since.
I keep mine indoors as a rule because I want them to live long, healthy lives.
That is the entire reason for the existence of the domestic cat!! Don’t deny the cat the satisfaction of a job well done just because you feel sorry for the vermin rodents.
Fucking humans. Always anthropomorphizing animals; they HATE that.
The fact she used the word inhumane makes me wonder how her daughter survived infancy.
Ha! I see what you did there
My XX’s friend’s mother… demanded the cat be exiled.
It would be a long silence from me if confronted with that demand. The tension would probably be visible as my brain simultaneously tried to suppress both indignation and scorn.
Like this ?
Ayup
My neighbors thank me for my cat killin all the mice. Construction sends the fuckers scurrying around. Apparently, Kitteh drops off carcasses at other people’s houses too.
Kittehs do bring presents. They are proud and want the praise for their kill, and they really are honoring us humans when they bring us the gift.
Unfortunately my cat brings in still living lizards and then lets them go in the house so she can hunt it again at leisure.
“Don’t play with your food!”
“I’m not eatin’ that. Yuk!”
The two frog eyes ours barfed up onto my wife’s pillow were a bit muchthough.
Oh, you have a lizard hunter too?
“What is this twitching in the driveway? Oh, a severed tail. Goody.”
Mine always loved the tails. I guess they did their job and let the lizard escape on occasion. Not always, though.
Yeah my old girl would bring me dead rats, and live mice. The occasional bird was left outside. I think she was upset when I took the rats outside, like she’d put in the effort and brought it to me and I was being so ungrateful, not that she’d hold it against me.
Update: The cat is not doing so well. I just went down to the basement for a beverage. XX is in for a surprise when she returns. I heard him yakking in her bedroom. Life lesson coming right up. Must have been a sick chipmunk.?
Pop Culture Cocaine that gets ‘This Close’ to getting it, then falls flat.
This close, yet this far away
It’s officially 70 degrees today, warmer even than that in the full sun.
It will be 40 degrees tonight. Rinse snd repeat tomorrow. No front moving through; just the daily cycle here.
Craziness.
It’s not crazy, everything else is. This way, we get to bitch about how cold it is at night, yet still bitch that it’s too hot during the day. Best of all worlds!
October in Ohio. A/C during the day, furnace (in my case boiler) at night.
70 is not too hot. 70 is almost warm.
We got to 48 today and sunshine, Good enough,
Have pity on us hothouse flowers, Yusef.
I know, but I take liberties in order to make a point some times. 70 is pretty much ideal, most of the time.
70F inside the house is cold. Outside, that temp is 30F cooler than the average midsummer day here.
Reminds me of Calgary, in mid-to-late summer. Very strange climate.
Samichlaus 2015. Yum.
For the uninitiated, the name means Santa Claus in Swiss German.
So DEG is just getting to drink a lot like Christmas.
/son of dad’s side, long line of Schweizerdeutsch drunks
You know how the occasional high school football team will put their “mascot,” the local Down Syndrome kid, on the field for one play at the end of a meaningless late-season game and let him score?
Well, Vanderbilt did roughly the same thing today at the collegiate level. The usual bien-pissants are ga-ga over the stunningness and bravery.
Good on her for kicking at the P5 level. Next time maybe she’ll get it past the 30 yard line.
In seriousness though, all of the obsession over race and gender and the like in our culture has taken away from moments like this. Instead of “hmm, cool that she got a shot”, my reaction is “ugh, this shit again? I guess Vandy is resigned to social signaling instead of winning.”
First person to do something is cool. First whatever-person to do it is condescending bullshit. Celebrating it says “X are inferior, therefore for a member of X to do this thing thousands of other non-X have done is amazing” Now, in the context of football where women are clearly less capable of playing the game it would mean something if a woman actually was so good that a team wanted her to play, but that is never the actual story. The story is always like this one. They seek out a woman who is barely capable of doing some single thing in the game and put her out as a conversation piece. And then the same people who find opening a door for a woman offensive and patronizing cheer this utterly patronizing “Oh look how cute a girl played football” moment.
It is offensive. Women are not prevented from playing football by prejudice. They are prevented for the same reason most men are prevented. They are not large or strong enough.
The first female NFL player will likely be a kicker, where sheer muscle bulk is not as crucial as accuracy.
Today’s kickers are fairly jacked. 50 yards is no longer a total crapshoot.
I hate roughing the kicker/passer rules.
#metoo
Roughing people up is kind of the entire point of the game.
I prefer the kicker rules to the passer rules. Hit the kicking leg, 5 yards. Hit the plant leg, 15 yards. I’d be fine with getting rid of the 5 yard one and just keeping the protection of that plant leg.
Roughing the passer is unintelligible, IMO. I’m fine with protection for late hits on thr QB, but they already have an infraction for that.
Football would be 10x better easily if field goals were entirely eliminated.
First black player earned it. First gay player earned it. It’s a shame this appears to be a stunt.
Yup. As Adam Vinatieri once said, “There aren’t even 32 NFL-caliber placekickers in the NFL.”
Vanderbilt used to be an awesome traditional educational institution 30 years ago. They have become woke all over now and it’s unbearable to most of us who have to tolerate that shit on a daily basis.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086161
Disclaimer: have never seen.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102517/
Even better fit: member of the woman’s soccer team brought in to kick.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286112
Weird chick the protagonist digs brought in to play soccer goalie? OK, not as great a fit but a fantastic movie nonetheless.
I fucking love the 80s!
* full disclosure, this vid is from ’95. The song is eighties, though and I saw him open for ZZ top around ’85 or so.
The 80’s were truly great for music!
https://youtu.be/2gQEDwjhaDE
80’s music
This is the stuff I used to listen to on cassette back then. In my Alpine deck in my Chevelle. Loved the eighties.
Cray was going to be the next big thing, but somehow that never quite happened.
He sold a bunch of tapes/albums back then. I know I bought about 5 or 6.
He’s got 5 Grammys but is somehow not that well know.
Not persuading enough?
Er, don’t know how I totally overlooked this link.
Saw him at Jazz Fest in N.O. around ‘92, before it grew into the total shitshow it has become.
Sigh… yeah, it stopped being about the music many years ago (although the Hackberry Ramblers were always a treat). I just go to consume my weight in crawfish bread, cochon de lait po’ boys, and strawberry Bourbon drinks.
I’ve done French Quarter Fest a few times, at the recommendation of locals. Far more enjoyable and manageable.
He plays pretty good for a blind white boy.
Yup, 1980’s had some cool tunes.
Lotta cool tunes back then!
I do not agree with this particular opinion excusing the police being able to demand ID and punch you for filming them in public while not at all interfering with their activities.
Whatever happened to GoPros? Don’t people know how to record discreetly anymore?
Neither do I. And the writer’s copsucking tone is disgusting.
I don’t know the law in Kentucky but in many states this ends with a nice payout from the taxpayers – not that the cops give a shit.
Nice to see the comments are mostly in strong disagreement with the writer.
Was Brett really here yesterday?
Florida man thaws Thanksgiving turkey in backyard pool
In 2018 I saw a video of a black guy at a city council meeting going on about how he is the majority and governments that support gun control aren’t supporting people like him.
I didn’t know that was Mark Robinson. He was recently elected as North Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor.
In 2018 he gave a speech to the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum. I didn’t know about it. My gun club linked the video in their December 2020 newsletter. As part of the introduction, we see the speech at the city council meeting, then Robinson speaks. It’s a good speech. Video runtime about 12 minutes.
A Maß of Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest now.
Best ofest, imo.
I’ve seen this commercial a couple times now and I’m still trying to wrap my brain around it: apparently, 60 Minutes is going to try to blame Trump for the election mess. Not that I’m gonna watch it tomorrow but I’m curious at the logical leaps that lead them down that path.
Every accusation is an admission. Iron law.