Glibertarian Cocktail Experiment – The Fruit Sushi

by | Dec 27, 2020 | Cocktails | 231 comments

SugarFree and I had a discussion a while back about what sort of cocktail a Fruit Sushi would be. SF thought a blended dark rum drink with a horchata base and fruit cocktail. His vision entailed a blue curacao floater shot with a wee comb in it. Having, I guess, nothing better to do with my time, I tried to implement this. I made horchata using a recipe that I had used before. I had some leftover dark rum from making the Alton Brown aged eggnog. I acquired some plastic shot glasses and blue curacao (that trip to the liquor store ended up costing me three figures, because I also found some 10 year old Basil Hayden rye. If nothing else good came from this cocktail attempt, at least I got that.

So, horchata, ice, fruit cocktail in the blender (with a few pieces of fruit reserved for garnish). Add rum. Approximate proportions: 2 cups ice, 1.5 cups horchata, a 5oz can of fruit cocktail, and 4oz rum. I did not have the bartender skills to float the curacao shooter. It kept wanting to sink in the blended drink. I guess either more ice next time, or find a self-floating shooter glass. When all mixed together, it looked more like blue milk from Star Wars.

The Verdict

This drink was waaayyy too sweet. It makes tradit blended rum drinks like pina colada or daquiri seem balanced. Which probably makes it perfect to offer 17 year old interns or for grownups who can’t change a car tire. But seriously, however sweet you think you like a tiki drink, this is worse.

What I might try next time: making an unsweetened horchata and draining the fruit cocktail. But probably not. The cocktail was bad.

What are your suggestions for the Fruit Sushi cocktail?

A better cocktail: Spicy Margarita

2 slices fresh jalapeno

2 slices fresh cucumber

1/2oz agave syrup (or other syrup – I don’t really notice a flavor)

1/2 oz Cointreu

Muddle all above together add:

1oz lime juice

2oz tequila

Shake and double strain over ice.

 

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Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots. He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion. Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft. Brett is becoming legend. Brett can never die. Brett can never die. Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.

231 Comments

  1. Gustave Lytton

    I’m upset that while Fruit Sushi has registered here, he’s never joined in for the hazing.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Sake base
      Cointreau
      Grenadine
      Rum
      Triple Sec
      Lime Juice
      Simple syrup
      Carbonated water
      Maraschino cherry

      • westernsloper

        ^ this guy gets it.

      • juris imprudent

        No argument about the ingredients, but the proportions matter – thimble fulls of the alcohol, and pints of the rest, because every single one should be the weakest ass motherfucker you ever drank.

  2. westernsloper

    Just needs moar rum.

    • R.J.

      Agreed. More rum, less fruit cocktail.

    • TARDis

      Ice
      Rum
      Done.

      • Festus

        Watermelon, forty ounces of rot-gut Vodka and a large syringe. Let sit for 48 hours. Ultimate beach drink.

  3. westernsloper

    And ya, aint doing that margarita either. I like spicy but not in a margarita. WTF is wrong with you.

    • Count Potato

      Spicy bloody mary can be good.

      • The Hyperbole

        There are non spicy bloody marys?

      • Count Potato

        Yes.

      • straffinrun

        Depends if she was vegan or not.

      • westernsloper

        A bloody mary is supposed to be spicy. WTF is wrong with you.

      • Count Potato

        I don’t see how we are disagreeing.

      • westernsloper

        Just give me a minute I will think of something.

      • BakedPenguin

        He’s just mad because last night on the chat we were talking about his time as Deputy Director of Operations in the CIA in Nairobi, working with the Masai to overthrow Obinga.

      • Tulip

        ?

      • Festus

        I always miss the good ones.

  4. Count Potato

    “His vision entailed a blue curacao floater shot with a wee comb in it.”

    LOLOLOLOL

  5. Aloysious

    Garnish for the Fruit Sushi: fruit cocktail skewers. The skewer itself would have the little frills on the end. To add some class, and distinguish the drinker from other vulgarians. Each glass would need multiple ‘kebabs’ to discourage drunkards from stealing from their fellow party goers.

  6. robc

    Rum is too committed to flavor and Hemingwayesque. Vodka for the base. After that I have no clue.

    • rhywun

      Also, rum makes me projectile vomit.

    • R C Dean

      Definitely vodka.

      Also, Chambord.

      Lemme think on the rest. Lime, probably. Needs something else.

  7. Ted S.

    Use the blue curaçao for an Electric Lemonade: vodka, 4C or similar lemonade, blue curaçao, and sour mix (I substitute with simple syrup mixed with lemon and lime juices).

    It’s good for hot summer nights, and the electric blue color is a good conversation piece.

  8. Count Potato

    How about lose the horchata? Saki is made from rice, and like sushi, it’s Japanese. I have no idea what kind of fruit people eat in Japan. Square watermelon? Overpriced pears? Anyway, toss them in a blender with ice and saki.

    • Count Potato

      Um, sake

  9. But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

    There’s no flaming anything. What the Hell is wrong with you people?

  10. Count Potato

    “Jimmy Galligan held on to a three-second clip of a White teenage girl saying the N-word while singing along to a rap song for years. He posted the clip publicly when the girl had been admitted to a university in order to ruin her life.”

    https://twitter.com/billygerent/status/1343246265904103424

    CWAA

    • Q Continuum

      Let he who is without sin…

    • Gustave Lytton

      I wouldn’t shed any tears if his body was found dumped in a field.

      • juris imprudent

        Death doesn’t entail years of misery, and since he’s a miserable SOB… his still barely breathing body.

    • straffinrun

      For the University of Tennessee, the outrage over Ms. Groves followed a string of negative publicity over racist incidents at its flagship campus in Knoxville. Last year, Snapchat photos of students wearing blackface and mocking the Black Lives Matter movement went viral

      Thou shall not mock BLM.

      • Q Continuum

        Lèse-majesté.

      • Ted S.

        They should have said they learned it from Ralph Northam and Justin Trudeau.

    • Rebel Scum

      Crowder had a theme like this once. Everyone who has ever sang along with a rap song has said “nigger”. Little Jimmy and the university are assho.

    • mrfamous

      This is a symptom of a much larger more insidious disease: deriving pleasure from the infliction of suffering on the “other.” He wanted her to suffer. Period.

      So now he has made her suffer. I suspect that thrill of vengeance he was expecting either never came, or was extremely fleeting. And now he continues to be damaged with no capacity for self-reflection or general empathy. He’s been taught it’s an awful world, and as a result he lives an “awful” life, even if, objectively, he might not have it too bad if he just could change his mindset.

      This isn’t good _for him_. This does not help _him_. This is not the victory he thinks it was gonna be. Fucking tragic, and the adults that corrupted his thinking like this ought to be ashamed.

    • kinnath

      The ghost of Christmas past needs to haul Jimmy’s ass back to the 60s for a brief awakening.

    • Festus

      So who is that fag?

    • Ted S.

      Maybe he meant to say “facism”, discrimination against the faceless.

      • Q Continuum

        “Factism”: discrimination against facts.

      • Rebel Scum

        CNN’s unspoken motto.

        Speaking of, Tapper and the Potato took a shot at my girl Kayleigh. Naturally, she corrected them.

      • Q Continuum

        Kayleigh swallows. I just know it.

    • rhywun

      Look at the fascist up there ↑

    • rhywun

      Ooooo must try.

  11. Q Continuum

    One part of my life that I keep somewhat buttoned up is my brief, ill-conceived stint as a bartender at a Latino nightclub in Tucson. Arizona (at least at that time) had a law in which you could serve at age 19 but not drink until 21. So I could technically serve, but not drink. Things I did ranged from making drinks for drunk chicks with overtly sexual names (Screaming Orgasm, Slippery Hard Nipple, Slow Comfortable Screw Against the Wall) to the occasional machismo guy ordering a Buffalo Sweat. This consisted of taking the spill mat and dumping it into a glass. I may have had to clean vomit off the bar after serving that once.

    I did not last long at that job, in spite of the lonely drunk girls looking to have metaphorical and literal holes filled after last call.

    https://archive.li/gx15g

    Slutty Sunday.

    • DEG

      Good gallery. A few could have fit in the GlibFit gallery.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      I once worked with a Russian woman who said she would start with slippery nipples, then sex on a beach and then an orgasm. If necessary she’d have an abortion. Ah, Katya.

    • DEG

      A relative’s then-girlfriend ran off with his best friend’s then-wife after the two women hooked up at a party.

      One of the two men, I forget which, walked in on the women while they were going at it. The women grabbed their clothes and left the party.

      The women packed their bags later that night, left their homes, and shacked up together.

      • Sean

        I’m gonna need some pics here.

      • DEG

        I never met the friend’s ex-wife.

        I met the relative’s girlfriend. She was pretty good looking. No pictures. Sorry.

  12. DEG

    What are your suggestions for the Fruit Sushi cocktail?

    Didn’t Robbie get this nickname because he was admiring bits of fruit rolled up into rice, i.e. not sushi because there is no fish? So maybe a Fruit Sushi cocktail should have no alcohol.

  13. l0b0t

    If using the blue curacao, a martini glass rimmed with colored sugar would seem appropriate.

    • KSuellington

      Ha! I think colored sugar should go on any of these Fruit Sushis

      • straffinrun

        The glass frosted with Aqua Net.

  14. KSuellington

    Vodka
    Roses Lime
    Pineapple Juice
    Chambord

    Shaken with crushed ice and strained into a martini glass with a maraschino cherry and slice of orange.

    To be sure.

    • l0b0t

      I would drink that.

      • rhywun

        #metoo

    • R C Dean

      Damn, K. Convergent evolution. See my thought above.

      That’s going to be really sweet, though.

  15. rhywun

    The Verdict

    This sounds like a really bad morning after to me.

    • Sensei

      I’m imagining you creating the word – 落ちんちん.

  16. BakedPenguin

    Fruit Sushi:

    1 Vodka
    1 Cointreau
    Ice

    Serve to Robby until he learns to change a tire (or at least gets a can of Fix-A-Flat)

    • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

      Does the WEF specialize in being vile elitists?

    • Rebel Scum

      Why replicate meat when you can eat meat? And if we are spending all this time and effort trying replicate meat does that not tell us that we are supposed to eat meat? Fuck. Off.

      • rhywun

        If someday we are able to print a steak that’s molecule-for-molecule the same as a real steak – sure, why not? Until then, I’ll pass on plant-steaks.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        ^^ this.

        Just like renewable energy and electric cars, I’ll think about switching when it’s competitive with the real deal.

  17. juris imprudent

    Maybe Trump should fire his lawyers, since they’ve been exceedingly careful to not present evidence of this massive fraud to any court. In fact, the suits they’ve filed go out of their way to avoid any allegation of fraud. Funny thing that. Also funny how courts aren’t as easily duped as average folk.

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1342830505163706369

    • juris imprudent

      Reminds me of the Democrats in ’16 – and all the talk of collusion; a term which has no meaning or ramifications in any court, save that of public opinion.

      • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

        Isn’t “collusion” just what people mean by “conspiracy” in the popular mindset? No-one ever said these people would use terminology with rigour or accuracy, after all…

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Ugh, this shit again?

      *puts phone down and finds something better to do with the evening*

  18. Sean

    Last week was almost magical. Tomorrow is a return to the dailey grind.

    *sigh*

    • rhywun

      Mine doesn’t start ’til Tuesday. ?

      • TARDis

        Get to work, tax cattle! I’m off ’til next year.

        Actually, I’m always a bit “off”, but no work until the 5th too. ???

      • Sean

        ?

        I’m supposed to be under quarantine for some more days.

        I mean, I rode on elevators with strangers, in another state.

        Us: “You can join us”

        Them: “Thanks. We’re over it too.”

        it was all very polite, and over it. Repeated multiple times.

      • DEG

        More people need to be over it. I now see people regularly walking on my street wearing masks.

        Blech.

        Last count I saw, 671 PA restaurants are defying Wolf’s orders. 60-some-odd gyms are also defying. Last time I saw a count, which was on the 16th, it was 300 restaurants and 32 gyms defying Wolf’s orders.

      • Sean

        It was very liberating. Gf forgot all about her mask by day 4 and got her coffee with out it.

      • DEG

        Excellent.

    • DEG

      Mine starts January 4th.

    • Rebel Scum

      I’m in the office Monday and Tuesday. Off the rest of the week.

    • egould310

      I’m off till Jan 11. Thank fucking christ. I’m losing my shit, and am about due for a meltdown. https://youtu.be/srwqjOBKCsQ

      • straffinrun

        No kidding. Sword of Damocles is giving me stress.

      • straffinrun

        You too. Nothing worse for me than anyone else.

  19. kinnath

    20-something kinnath liked to drink alcoholic koolaid.

    1 shot vodka
    1 shot blue curacao
    1 shot lemon sweet & sour

    Tall glass full of ice

    Top it off with Sprit

  20. The Bearded Hobbit

    OT and a few days late:

    I’m still harping on the “Die Hard is a Christmas movie” theme. Tonight I came up with a suitable retort.

    If Die Hard is a Christmas movie then The Lion in Winter is also.

    Fight me.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Why would anyone fight you for being right?

      The real question is, is The Battle of the Bulge a Christmas movie?

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        By the same (flawed) criteria, yes.

      • Gustave Lytton

        *pictures Henry Fonda on top of a berm, firing a Thompson from the hip, while saying “Ho Ho Ho, time to open your presents, you dirty Krauts!”*

      • Ted S.

        I’m imagining Fonda assigning rooms in Yours, Mine, and Ours.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Santa Claus and Baby Jesus gang up to kick ass on the krauts?

      • Ted S.

        George Formby, although he doesn’t have his ukulele here.

    • cyto

      So is Lethal Weapon.

      And I don’t like to fight. Takes too much effort. How about we just pour some of the good stuff and catch a good movie instead.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        (clinks glass)

  21. Rebel Scum

    Vodka. Orange juice. Two Advil to take in the morning.

    But I haven’t had a screwdriver since college. Had a bad experience and now the smell of hand sanitizer makes me gag.

    • cyto

      Most of the cheap sanitizer around here smells exactly like very cheap tequila.

      Nasty.

  22. Shpip

    If the drink is going to be fruit sushi, shouldn’t it have some sushi in it?

    My vote is for the tuna colada.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Don’t really have a dog in this fight but I always pictured “Fruit Sushi” as a chunk of mango on some formed rice wrapped in seaweed.

      • cyto

        Isn’t a Fruit Sushi a writer for reason? I never knew there was another context.

    • rhywun

      *hurls*

    • Shpip

      And now I have the ol’ brain cogitating, wondering what cocktail I could use marinated anchovies as a garnish for. Roll ’em up, skewer them… a martini is a natural, but could I take the edge off a negroni by subbing out the Campari with Aperol and adding the fish as an additional sour/savory element?

      Guess I’m off to Ho’ Foods tomorrow to stock up and start experimenting.

      • Tulip

        Blehrgh. No, just….no.

      • l0b0t

        Bloody Mary seems like a natural fit for anchovies. I’ve always liked mine piled high with bar-fruit: pickled okra, pickled green beans, olives, the works.

  23. Rebel Scum

    Goddammit.

    President Donald Trump has signed into law a $2.3 trillion coronavirus aid and government spending package aimed at restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a partial federal government shutdown.

    • juris imprudent

      I thought he had veto’ed it? Was he just letting sit on his desk while he vacillated?

  24. cyto

    Google pushed this at me on youtube

    https://youtu.be/e9yK1QndJSM

    Brian Williams interviewing Edward Snowden.

    It was very informative. Brian Williams had Edward Snowden on. The whistleblower who blew open the illegal surveillance of the American people.

    He used the opportunity to push the narrative that Trump’s election was due to Russian interference. He also used it to attempt to get Snowden to say bad things about Trump. At the time I was not as tuned into the over-the-top reporting as we are now. So although I noticed it, it did not resonate as strongly as it does in a world where we watched Anthony falchi field daily questions that had nothing to do with covid-19 or public health and were only designed to bait him into saying something bad about Trump.

    So enjoy this blast from the past. Perhaps the most meta thing you will watch. An interview about exposing the deep state that is all about protecting the deep state.

    You will also come away even more impressed with Snowden. That dude is seriously sharp, and he is on point.

  25. Count Potato

    “Lying, of course, is par for the course with Kamala Harris.

    This is an excerpt from the preface of her book where she describes the night of the 2016 election when Trump won.

    There are “everybody clapped” stories which are more believable. Who actually takes this seriously?”

    https://twitter.com/OliverJia1014/status/1343010644589604865

    She won her Senate election on that same night.

    • cyto

      When she was a kid they celebrated Kwanza? Hmmmmm. Nah. Not buying it.

      Nobody celebrates Kwanza. Certainly not back in the 1970’s. That is as obvious a tall tale as your girlfriend in Canada.

      • Rebel Scum

        But my gf in Canada is a total babe. And Kamletoe definitely smoked pot while listening to Tupac in college.

      • cyto

        She strikes me as more Mariah Carey and El DBbarge. Tupac would have been after her time.

        Maybe Boys to Men.

      • cyto

        Your girlfriend has some sort of blemish. Send her around and I’ll check it out for her.

      • egould310

        Heyooo!

      • Rebel Scum

        What is that tat just north of her panty line?

      • l0b0t

        Looks like either “respect” or “inspect”?

      • Rebel Scum

        I would have plenty of respect as I inspected.

      • TARDis

        She needs about 5 pounds of insulation, and a pound or two of muscle. I’d be happy to make her some sammiches, but she ‘s going to have to hit free weights on her own too. Other than that, she’s perfect.

        /Dirty old man

    • rhywun

      Holy crap, that’s cringeworthy.

      This just comes across as another one of her lame attempts to sound human and in touch with the average voter.

      It’s a bit more than that. It’s an implausible attempt to black herself up. The “average voter” doesn’t give two shits about Kwanzaa. And that includes black, brown, blue, and green voters.

      • cyto

        That chick is way whiter than me. She is more of a square than Tommy Smothers.

      • blackjack

        She’s a cop. A former top cop. She dreamed up new and exciting ways to put people in prison for almost nothing, and then did it. Hard to get more evil than her.

  26. cyto

    Based on your recommendation, I have been watching Preacher on AMC. You were right. It is really good.

    And I see the connection to The Boys. It suffers from some of the same problems and conceits, but I will opine that Preacher is actually better, despite the overt messaging.

    So thanks for the recommendation.

    • cyto

      I am also rewatching The Expanse with my daughter so we can catch the new season together. I’m hoping that shark has not been jumped, and they are just reloading.

    • Mojeaux

      I will agree that Preacher is better, but I think that’s because they can take more liberties. Once you’ve introduced God, angels, demons, and vampires, you can, in fact, justify an inbred Jesus progeny named Humperdoo.

  27. straffinrun

    It’s about time we start turning on each other.

    • Q Continuum

      FUCK YOU STRAFF

      • cyto

        I think he was referencing the new fad of altering gender identification.

    • Rebel Scum

      You can’t strafe and turn at the same time.

      • cyto

        Ooh, circle strafe! That was my go-to in Quake death matches.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Show us on the kaiten where the fruit sushi touched you.

    • KSuellington

      So what are you wearing staff?

  28. Q Continuum

    Mrs. Q is having preggo-induced mood swings big time. Ugh.

    At least I have one component of the top quality pussy.

    https://imgur.com/xJNrww3

    • cyto

      My heart goes out to you. Been there many times.

      The good news is that you won’t get any credit for time served.

      • cyto

        My favorite story is the time when I was cleaning out the pantry. I had the entire contents of the pantry stacked in a giant pyramid on the kitchen table, and I was on a step stool ripping contact paper off of the shelves when the wife got home from work. She proceeded to spend 15 minutes blowing me out for not doing anything to help her around the house. She screamed bloody murder that the pantry needed cleaning out and she wished I would help her with that.

        I waited 2 days and asked her about it.

        It was one of the rare occasions when she could actually see it. She said,”I knew it was crazy when I was saying it, but I was so mad I just couldn’t stop myself”.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I waited 2 days and asked her about it.

        Brave man.

      • cyto

        Actually, that is great advice for Q. You do not mention the hormones. It is like fight club. Keep it to yourself. That topic is like pouring gasoline on a fire. Actually, it is like pouring gasoline on yourself during a fire, expecting that it will somehow help your situation.

      • Sensei

        LOL’d.

      • Dr. Chipping Pioneer

        If you don’t confront the crazy, the crazy will continue unabated. I wade in when the common wisdom would suggest that one should not. I’ve been rewarded with a not crazy partner. She might even end up on here some day. At which point, I would probably make my exit.

      • Q Continuum

        I’m blessed (in many more ways than one) in that Mrs. Q is relatively quick to admit wrong when crazy (in the female way). I’m very lucky, beyond the two most wonderful things about her (her mind and her heart) and the second two most wonderful things about her (you can guess).

        The only downside is her dislike of cold climates. I’m wearing her down.

      • cyto

        Or move down here. Plenty of room in Florida…

      • Q Continuum

        Been there, done that. MS from U of Miami. I like seasons.

      • cyto

        We have seasons.

        Tourist season. Not tourist season.

  29. Tres Cool

    Im off to work, kids. Mind the shop.

  30. Sensei

    Today in actively deceiving your customers…

    Never go full Logitech.

    Because spending an extra $1 or so per unit is too much money, but not the drilling of the face or the dummy piece.

    • Count Potato

      Wow

  31. Hyperion

    “The Fruit Sushi”

    Doesn’t he work at TOS?

  32. Hyperion

    I’m a ask again until I figure it out. Anyone here live in WV?

  33. Hyperion

    I started mixing my beer with my wife’s eggnog. So good, White beer, give you more privilege.

    • rhywun

      Jesus… that sounds like a rough day after too.

  34. Q Continuum

    I know I’m irreverent and a lecher. However, I sincerely hope you all feel G-d’s love at some point.

    We are all blessed.

    I may be drunk but I’m not wrong.

    • R C Dean

      Make it the hot one. She’s already insecure about her hot friend, anyway.

    • Gustave Lytton

      We agreed she could continue the flirting if she shows me the conversations but I’m not sure this is doing any good for our relationship.

      ?

  35. rhywun

    LOL Al Michaels just uttered the word “Redskins”.

    • hayeksplosives

      I noticed that too.

      I had wondered if they’d been delaying live broadcasts so that censors could catch it lest it destroy someone’s self esteem.

    • invisible finger

      Just like both of their fans.

  36. UnCivilServant

    All that snow I posted pictures of… it’s gone.

    I just took the trash to the curb, and there wasn’t even a snowbank remnant to contend with.

  37. hayeksplosives

    OMG. Al Michaels accidentally said the “Washington Redskins” on live tv.

    He immediately corrected himself, then said “Well you knew it would happen eventually.”

    I wonder if they will make him sit out a couple of Sunday Night games like they did when he didn’t fall in line over the #BLM anthem-sitting theater.

    Al Michaels for NFL Commissioner!

    • rhywun

      like they did when he didn’t fall in line over the #BLM anthem-sitting theater

      Really – huh. I wasn’t watching football back then. I can see it though. Dude is like 76 years old.

      I shudder to think what craziness will rule the world when I’m that age. Hopefully I’ll be retired and not give a shit.

    • rhywun

      I wonder what all his unhinged hangers-on are going to do with their time after January.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I bet Dr Gu pulled the lever for DJT.

      • rhywun

        That’s Covid Czar-Elect Dr. Gu to you.

      • Chafed

        Ha! I’ll bet you are right.

      • Ted S.

        Mr. Gu.

    • Chafed

      Good abs on Mrs. Q. I pronounce her GlibFit.

      Just out of curiosity, does she know you are posting these photos?

      • Q Continuum

        Approved for public dissemination.

  38. Mojeaux

    We have a new Tulpa! Hi R.J.!

    • Chafed

      Are you having hallucinations or is this a thread fail?

      • rhywun

        I was also a bit puzzled but holding my tongue.

      • Mojeaux

        See under Sloper’s comment #2.

        He/she was in pending (in the dashboard) for quite a while.

  39. grrizzly

    The morons have been wearing their face masks everywhere, indoors and outdoors, since May.

    Mass. reports 2,973 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 100 new deaths
    Daily death count reaches triple digits for the first time since May

    • Urthona

      Most states are also reporting 3-4 days worth of numbers all on one day because of holidays and states are breathlessly reporting this as if they’re all records. You kinda gotta look at the trend lines.

      • grrizzly

        Why would anyone care about anything sophisticated? The reasoning is done on the subhuman level. I agree with you on the substantive point, but it’s completely irrelevant.

  40. egould310

    Doggy Style – Goofy Head https://youtu.be/WVeOuWH1i4o

    That’s Doug from Descendents/Dag Nasty on bass. Brian Baker Dag Nasty/Bad Religion on guitar. And my ear is telling me Bill Stevenson Descendents on drums. But he’s not credited. But, c’mon it’s him, right?

  41. egould310

    Big Drill Car – In Green Fields https://youtu.be/yUghK76VhnI

    Mark Arnold’s guitar sound is so good. I want that guitar sound.

    • Dr. Chipping Pioneer

      So, flat-chested women? ?

      • Festus

        We joke but the era of the Speakeasy is coming back a century later.

      • Festus

        Nice! I’ll bet you love old Loony Tunes as much as I do!

      • Festus

        I kinda, really dig ballet dancers so more for me?

  42. Gender Traitor

    So…Christmas became a bit of an adventure at Chez GT. Quiet day at home until Mr. GT got up from his late afternoon nap with left side weakness. Hospital confirmed a mild stroke. He’s doing pretty well – talking & eating normally. PT took him for a short walk with a walker yesterday. We’re still at the hospital waiting to see if he’s admitted to a short-term in-patient rehab program. (Reportedly fewer COVID delays than outpatient.)

    • Dr. Chipping Pioneer

      Sorry to hear that, GT. Here’s hoping for a full recovery.

      • Gender Traitor

        Thanks, Dr. Chip.

    • UnCivilServant

      Even mild strokes can be pretty bad, what’s the prognosis?

      • UnCivilServant

        I could have phrased that better. I’m sorry, I just got up.

      • Gender Traitor

        You’re fine. His prognosis is good. Already working on improving his left hand dexterity because guitar.

    • Don escaped Two Corinthians

      hang in there

      in this shootout with life, are you the Butch or the Sundance?

      • Gender Traitor

        Well, he says his nickname back in the day was Sundance, so I guess that would make me…Butch… ::frowns::

      • Festus

        You look too happy in that avatar to be butch. I’m going with Sundance.

    • Festus

      Jesus. Hope everything goes according to plan, GT. Many vibes sent your way. Say Hi to the music man and pass along my well wishes.

    • Grosspatzer

      Sending healing vibes your way, all the best to you and Mr. GT.

    • Sean

      Yikes. Sorry to hear that. Hope he’s going to be OK.

      • Festus

        A few years ago I woke up with a dead arm. After many tests it just turned out to be a pinched nerve. Two weeks and back to normal. Hoping and praying it’s the same thing. Best wishes Red!

    • mrfamous

      Yikes. Best wishes.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Sorry to hear that, GT. Hope he recovers quickly.

  43. Not Adahn

    Fruit sushi: Midori and clam juice.

    • Trigger Hippie

      I thought the point of Fruit Sushi was that it didn’t have animal products in it.

      So, I propose the lamest drink I can think for the title: Pink Moscato, pineapple and pomegranate.

  44. UnCivilServant

    One of my pre-christmas orders that got delayed till today was delivered at 7:22 am. I didn’t know the mailman was even delivering that early around here. Usually he shows up around noon to three.

    • Festus

      Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver are about to fill every hole tomorrow.

    • Sean

      My mags disappeared 10+ days ago in Philly. I filed a grievance with the USPS yesterday online.

      • Festus

        Probably lost in a tragic boating accident before you could take them canoeing.