Let’s see what this past week held for me. More deliveries of booze and sweets from grateful clients and vendors, lots of work (for which I am grateful), and gym still required to be outside. I ate too much, ate too much of the wrong things (damn you peanut brittle and dark chocolate), and found reasons not to get up to get to the gym before work. I did partly redeem myself by getting in twice after work.
So, I’m looking for small victories this week. One was conditioning. I got my days in and pushed myself. Jump rope time was over 20 minutes. My runs were awful but at least I went.
I really want to blame my a-hole governor for my poor running but that’s on me. I don’t think I’ve run for five months. Getting back on the road, it showed. My wind is for shit which is really puzzling because my jump rope time is way up. I find jumping rope about as intense as running so I can’t quite square what is going on. The aerobic load jumping rope is being distributed through more of my body compared to running. But that doesn’t really explain why I’m huffing and puffing 10 minutes into a run but I’m fine jumping rope for twice as long.
It’s been a short week during strange times so that’s it for exercise news this week.
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My frustration with public officials continues unabated. WHO surreptitiously deleted herd immunity from its website while claiming only vaccines build immunity. You know how you get people to support Alex Jones? That’s how.
As if Fauci had not revealed himself to be a liar before, he really went for it this week by once again moving the goalposts on what will be required to reach herd immunity. The money quote:
In the pandemic’s early days, Dr. Fauci tended to cite the same 60 to 70 percent estimate that most experts did. About a month ago, he began saying “70, 75 percent” in television interviews. And last week, in an interview with CNBC News, he said “75, 80, 85 percent” and “75 to 80-plus percent.”
In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.
Hard as it may be to hear, he said, he believes that it may take close to 90 percent immunity to bring the virus to a halt — almost as much as is needed to stop a measles outbreak.
Your gut feeling is not science and sure as hell is not a reason to curtail our civil liberties. So, the truth is he doesn’t know but is quite willing to lie to us. Here is hoping history treats him as the fraud he has become.
All the nonsense that is mask mandates have generated something funny. I hope this is real.
I need something to mellow out. Maybe this week’s music link will help.
Barely related: MikeS, if you are out there, next week Eddie Trunk’s entire show is AC/DC. You should probably place your Amazon order now.
He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.
The Fabians would be proud. He’s so evil that the bioethicists blanch.
We’re not worthy. Perhaps in a hundred years we will be ready for His message.
His gut feeling is telling him he’s too full of shit and needs to dump some of it.
The mask thing (the Twitter video) has to be fake…right?
“Mmm, essence of Alpo and furry balls”
I flinched and gagged.
inside out?
The woman is apparently former (and likely future) porn star Mia Khalifa, so I’d bet a bunch of money on hoax.
Really? The woman in the video looks much fitter to me.
That is what I have read. I’m not exactly enthralled with this story, so my willingness to do a full investigation is kinda lacking.
She is definitely one of the biggest attention whores out there so that part checks out 😉
I got all my favorite candies in my stocking so I’mma work on these this week and next week, I’ll start stress eating protein instead of the most convenient whatever.
As if Fauci had not revealed himself to be a liar before, he really went for it this week by once again moving the goalposts on what will be required to reach herd immunity.
I did not know until last week that evil little gnome is 80 years old. Why the fuck are we listening to a senile attention whore who has spent his entire life working for the government?
You know who else is a senile attention whore who has spent his entire life working for the government?
J Edgar?
General Hershey?
Joe Biden?
Robert Byrd?
Ted Kennedy?
Mitch McConnell?
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In March 1967, shortly before the expiration of his educational draft deferment upon graduation from law school, McConnell enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve as a private at Louisville, Kentucky.[17] This was a coveted position because the Reserve units were mostly kept out of combat during the Vietnam War.[17][18]:11–12 His first day of training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, was July 9, 1967, two days after taking the bar exam, and his last day was August 15, 1967.[11][17] Shortly after his arrival, he was diagnosed with optic neuritis and was deemed medically unfit for military service.[17][19] After five weeks at Fort Knox, he was honorably discharged.[17] His brief time in service has repeatedly been put at issue by his political opponents during his electoral campaigns.[17][19][20]
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Ya don’t say…
My sister used to fly into Washington National. In the pre-911 days, Mcconnell would often be on her flight. He would show up at the gate just as boarding was about to start. It was hilarious the time the flight was delayed as he obviously didnt want to interact with his constituents.
The rain Thursday night into Friday melted all the snow, and hunting season ended Tuesday, so I finally got out in the trails with the dog for the first time in three months. Only 15 minutes because there was still a lot of running water, but the dog was happy.
Unsurprisingly, we didn’t see any mountain bikers.
I’d like to give Foochy a feeling in his gut, with an axe handle.
I need something to mellow out.Try this. And perhaps a white claw and a bong hit. I am tired of being mad. Or try this.
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Silversun Pickups
I don’t remember who first linked them here but they are great! H/T to whoever it was.
Maybe the best music video ever made, but I have a thing for short dresses and moose paintings on velvet.
I knew I recognized those guys, but this is the song I remember:
Panic Switch
Also, I have this sudden urge to identify as a chair.
Or, just be awesome.
Or perhaps snow sports and electro music is your thing.
For the folks out there interested in weight loss, Dr. Mike at Renaissance Periodization has a whole series of videos on fat loss (which is what you really want, not weight). It’s generally aimed for lifters, but the principles mostly still apply. They’re all fairly lengthy, so it’s more of an in-depth thing, but I liked them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slXxO2zJXUI
Thanks for this. I’ll check it out later.
WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website
luckily the internet is forever. Fuck these people.
With a rusty spoon.
Unsurprisingly.
Social media is removing posts saying that herd immunity can be achieved via natural infections, citing the WHO’s new Ministry of Truth definition (the one claiming diseases cannot become endemic without pharma injections).
The endumbening continues. How long before it hits medical schools?
Time to befriend a trusted veterinarian.
I already had to save my own bacon once when hospitalized with “Flu” in 2018. Turned out they had missed the pneumonia until I made a scene and that persuaded the doctor to order an X-ray and culture.
“Expert” is not something I assume about medical personnel.
It’s astonishing.
The thing about “conspiracy theories” is that sometimes they turn out to be true.
People conspire
That mask thing…
Also, The following media includes potentially sensitive content.
Twitter is assho.
to bring the virus to a halt
That is not how it works .
Shhhhh. You’ll give away the surprise ending.
Every time I hear a politician gasbag something like “we’re gonna beat this thing” or some such folksy twaddle, another blood vessel pops in my head.
Well… there’s always next year.
I take it the Browns lost?
They did. But there’s also next year for getting back into shape. 🙂
Not sure, but the Raiders are the only team in the NFL so stupid as to intentionally not score a touchdown and then lose by a field goal. You seriously cannot even make this shit up.
Oh, ye of little faith, they can still make the playoffs. This is our year!!
I’ve lifted many heavy beers over the last week and I’ve only gained 20 more lbs!
That being said.
How to succeed with the woman folk in your life
Dude is a national treasure.
Are there any Glibs in West Vagina?
Depends on what direction Mrs. Q is facing when we’re having sex.
/rimshot
I’ll be here all week…
I think I see why she’s expecting.
THEY NEVER TOLD ME THAT COULD HAPPEN
You know, I meant what formerly was known as West Virginia.
I can’t seem to stop calling it that since before I moved here, I met a lady on LinkedIn who lived in MD. Since I had 2-3 offers from prospective clients in MD, where she worked in IT, she was trying to help me. We sort of hit it off and then started talking off LinkedIn by chat.
We decided to meet, for business purposes only, of course. She suggested we meet up at Deep Creek, in Western MD. I said I don’t know where that is. So she asked me to get on Google Maps. She said ‘Do you see Deep Creek, MD, way over there in Western MD’. I said ‘No, but I see a Deep Hole, West Vagina’. I don’t really know why I said that, I can’t remember, but I thought it was funny. I had a few beers by then. She got pissed and said ‘Can you be serious for just a minute!’. I said ‘Probably not, but I’ll try’. Anyway, that resulted in me sleeping with her best friend, and she has only spoken to me a few times since then. Women! It was all her fault, but I was still to blame.
Using the last of the smoked duck fat to toss cauliflower and roast. Unfortunately, too much to fit in a single layer in the dutch oven (which I used to melt the fat) so I needed a second pan for the oven
#keto #notvegan
I just had a ~1/2lb hamburger. Yum.
~10 pounds of $USD 0.77/pound fresh turkey slow-roasting at 300 degrees Fahrenheit. Gonna eat the bejeezus outta that tonight.
GlibFit.
https://archive.li/q6pai
Your tag line always gets me here:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/4D1UU2qyLJsl/
You’re welcome.
humor warm-up
UK Mobilizes for Operation: Right, Stop That
LONDON – Amid escalating international tensions, the British military has raised its alert level from “What’s All This Then?” to “Spot of Bother” after more than six decades of “Right as Rain”. The next and highest level, “Tally Ho, Lads!”, has not been issued since 1940. Speaking before Parliament, Prime Minister Johnson briefly glanced at his notes and then began quietly whistling the Colonel Bogey March. He was joined by Parliament, who then left the building and began marching down Whitehall. The procession ended five minutes later at a pub a respectable distance away. At a press conference, Royal Air Force Assistant Spokesman Air Chief Marshal Sir Percival Alistair Uxbridge Hottentot Coburg Gotha, was asked what comes next. He responded by calmly polishing and replacing his monocle, sipping somewhat loudly from a cup of Earl Grey tea, twitching his mustache, and then quietly muttering “Hm”. The room nearly erupted with gasps and whispers at this sudden outpouring of emotion from this famously stoic and reserved officer. Admiral of the Fleet Raymond Frobisher Tesco cut short his holiday in Majorca and returned post haste in his luxury yacht Chuffed to Bits to take command of Task Force Sound As A Pound, Love. Meanwhile, the US has promised its support by launching Operation Whoop-Ass, which will commence just as soon as the Toby Keith concert finishes and all the miniature flags have been planted.
As an Anglophile, I approve this message.
And now, time to lie back and think of England.
fun fact: Queen Victoria liked to draw and collect pictures of naked people. I guess you could say it was her secret. Her son Edward VII aka Prince Albert had a special sex chair for carousing with ladies of the night in Paris. Imagine Sugarfree, but with a more Rococo style.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/610974/Prince-Bertie-three-way-love-seat-Paris-lust-Royal-Prince-of-Wales-playboy
Bert’s wiki article omits the special chair for some reason, but does note his many diplomatic coups as he was fluent in French and German.
I started watching Valley Of The Dragons. HOLY MACKEREL! The wee alligator has a dorsal ridge glued to its back and is only fighting the lizard because an off-camera grip hurled the thoroughly confused lizard into the poor little thing.
That movie was the genesis of the ASPCA warning.
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American Humane’s first “No Animals Were Harmed” end credit was issued at the end of the movie The Doberman Gang in 1972.
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The Doberman Gang is a 1972 film about a talented animal trainer who uses a pack of six Doberman Pinschers to commit a bank robbery. The six dogs were all named after famous bank robbers. Their names were Dillinger (John Dillinger), Bonnie (Bonnie Parker), Clyde (Clyde Barrow), Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, and Ma Barker.
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fun fact: the skinny French guy was the mayor in Animal House. His co-star in Valley of the Dragons played Dean Wormer.
“Son, fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.”
LOL
While you people engage in frivolity and dissipation, I am wrestling with Chinese software, which involves dealing with a 468 page (actual number) user manual translated from Chinese to English via at least one intermediate language.
See if the DNC can lend you a Chinese National working for a Dem congresscritter to help you for a while.
“help”
from some Famous But Incompetent functionary:
When the Russians want to spy, they will spend 10 years training an agent, bring him to America in a submarine, let him spend 10 years working his way up the American intelligence apparatus and only exploit him once he is firmly in place.
When the Chinese want to spy, they send 10,000 college students to the US and tell them that if they bring back any useful information, they will buy air conditioners for their grandmothers.
https://wordminds.com/blog/chinese-english-translation-mistakes/
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Many U.S. businesses have learned the hard way that an ad or marketing campaign that worked stateside may not have the same charm when translated into a foreign language. Global giants all have passed through awkward branding when advertised in Chinese. Here are some examples: KFC’s slogan “Finger-lickin’ good” was translated into a not-so-appetizing phrase: “Eat your fingers off.”; HSBC “Assume Nothing” campaign was nihilistically translated as “Do nothing”; Ford’s “Every car has a high-quality corpse” was far from the advertising image they wanted to invoke; Electrolux centered on the tagline “Nothing sucks like an Electrolux.”; “Come alive with Pepsi” was translated in Chinese as “Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead”, etc.
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“Nothing sucks like an Electrolux.”
Is she single?
I had an Electrolux fridge in Tanzania. It did indeed suck. In the sense that there were parts hanging off the back and it was not the least bit functional.
I got giardia from a papaya I left in there.
Peace Corps – We Get More Diarrhea Before 9 AM Than Most People All Day
Rhywun was not kidding about the Browns losing to Contact Tracing, not to the Jets.
They went into the game without ANY of their staring wide receivers. Not because they had positive COVID-19 tests or felt symptomatic. Nope, it was because they might have been near someone who later tested positive.
What a fucking joke. They should just call off the Olympics now. We will NEVER get to 0 new cases.
I have been in contact with 0 people. That is always the answer when they ask.
That’s ridiculous. There should be an extra large asterisk next to every statistic and award this season.
It’s even worse then that. They were all in a recovery room, and someone may not have followed proper mask etiquette. So they were all put on the ‘vid list.
The Browns had a winning season, which has been a long time coming. I can be happy with that.
While you people engage in frivolity and dissipation, I am wrestling with Chinese software, which involves dealing with a 468 page (actual number) user manual translated from Chinese to English via at least one intermediate language.
So what you’re saying is it’s harder than Chinese math?
fun fact: I tried doing a math problem in the search bar, something like 2e10/6e8, and I got redirected to some wacky Chinese site. Turns out different countries use different formats for URLs.
You hacked into the matrix.
I don’t even see the code anymore.
+1 Sophia Stewart
She claimed the Wachowskis plagiarized her 1981 story when they made their hit film.
That’s the Wachowski sisters, shitlord!
Now that I think about it, I suppose they ended up plagiarizing a lot more than just a story.
No, no, no. The Matrix is totally original, unlike the lazy hacks who wrote Alice in Wonderland or The Wizard of Oz.
And certainly not The Book of the Duchess, written in 1372.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Duchess
And it wants to sell you Viagra.
ALOL
*spits cereal out of nose*
Are you sure that your doctor said that sex is right for you? Limpdick Fauci wants to know, as the new direktor of the public health authority.
Fauci’s guilty pleasure is to watch Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman and fondle himself.
“Oh yeah, drop a fuel air bomb on a super-spreader Trump rally…”
fapfapfap
For some reason, youtube requires you to sign in to view any of the clips. I guess the film hasn’t aged well. Maybe it was the part about the US military bombing a US city?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRjB5ImoHXk
I’d pay to see him assraped in the new version of Deliverance, by toothless hillbillies. The only problem is that he’d enjoy it too much.
In my former life (no not CIA goddammit) as I left a shithole country I had an I-pad loaded with some movies and music in my backpack. When I got my first beer on the plane after how ever long not having one I put in my ear buds and this was first on the play list.
That was on the soundtrack of Cruel Intentions.
Sleazy 90s romantic drama was groovy.
GlibFin update: put together 2021 budget today. We are trying to do sinking funds instead of adjusting budget each month for things that happen to be due.
Seriously, guy, do we have any West Virginia Glibs?
“Guys”
I’m not your guy, buddy.
And you don’t live in WV, so…
And BTW, Hayek, I hope you were not offended when I said you had a nice new avatar a couple of days ago. That was actually a compliment, I hope that compliments are not verboten these days around these here parts.
Uh, I took it as a compliment, thanks.
Not sure of any other take that could be had, but whatevs.
If anybody thinks that they’ve offended me, they almost certainly haven’t.
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By ‘guys’, I meant ‘all of us’, a sort of norm for all of us in the USA and Brazil culture norm. You’re a pretty lady, and I felt a need to compliment, and BTW, your hubby is a good looking guy too! Although I’m not sure, the dude to his right with the lion’s mane might be some serious competition!
I noticed that.
It would be hard not to. My wife pointed that out to me, BTW.
I grew up in WV. I also joined the Army from there. On the ride to MEPS, I sat next to a guy wearing boots, bib overalls, and no shirt underneath. I think his name was Clem.
Y’all come back now, ya hear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7qhVJIPfck
I’m looking to by a home there. Apparently, it is the hottest real estate market in the USA, or the world, maybe in history. I’m sure it has nothing to do with people fleeing Baltimore and DC, in a mass exodus. Because that can’t be. I’ve been assured by my betters that people love highly taxed, disfunctional 3rd world shitholes with out of control crime and failing infrastructures, and undrivable roads.
I just looked at one property there and it has a fucking airplane hangar. I don’t have a plane, but I still want it.
My parents left WV months ago. There are various reasons: Governor Bubba the Hutt, aka Jim Justice, who urged the hill folk to “just follow the fuckin’ guidelines” on live TV. Ah, and of course the inventory tax, which is why so many car and RV dealerships are right across the border in some other state.
Around 2000, some nitwit in the state legislature suggested building a wall around WV to keep people from leaving, because no one’s ever tried that before.
Chuck Yeager, a famous son of WV, was hungover and had a broken rib the day he broke the sound barrier. He decided to get drunk and ride a horse the night before. Which is a situation many WV boys like me can relate to.
And yet, to this day, WV has no Covid restrictions, and some of the lowest taxes in the nation.
“Around 2000, some nitwit in the state legislature suggested building a wall around WV to keep people from leaving, because no one’s ever tried that before.”
I’d most definitely outright ban people coming there from DC.
Nope. They all live in East Virginia.
Some GilbFit advice:
Watch Another Round and become inspired to drink like Hemingway.
I didn’t see any whiskey on breakfast corn flakes, so I’m assuming this is some kind of fake news.
Didn’t Hemingway do some Hashish? Or maybe that’s another artiste I am thinking of.
Further evidence linked at a great Twitter follow
The above would represent your basic Crusty party if it wasn’t for the lack of the dead prostie soaked with gleeful drunken urine.
Dave Smith and Michael Malice onThe Red Pill
It’s happening!
Those pallet book shelves are a war crime. Fuck off hire a cabinet maker for christs sake.
Agreed, those look terrible (shuffles Sloper away from our old apartment library, a bedroom with all 4 walls lined floor to ceiling with milk crates full of books.).
I have no problem with your milk crates. You forget I have seen them. That is just proper use of space! Pallets on the other hand should be used to move stuff wit a fork lift or as kindling.
Have I mentioned my love/hate relationship with plastic pallets? They’re great for the times I have to pick ’em up to stack. However, they flip over if you don’t empty them in a specific manner. Also, what about all the bonfires? Pallets were always prime bonfire fuel for holidays/sports events.
Michael Malice’s voice is much higher pitched than I imagined it would be.
Nice work, Beetlejuice!
Is it too much to hope to at least see some of these pols (like Pritzker and Beetlejuice) pay a price for this?
Local news has been putting together a list like that here for CLE as well. Keep in mind that (at least in name) our governor is a Republican. They’re all asshoe.
Someone should send Lightfoot & co. some fake free meal coupons to those places. Jesus. Hundreds of people worked their asses off to build those places, and hundreds (or even thousands) counted on them. It’d be nice if they invented a drug that induced shame, so every politician could be injected with it.
Nashville Glibs – sorry to hear about the bombing. At least it looks like no one was killed, other than the main suspect.
And in far less serious news, sorry Neph, Warty and other N. Ohio Glibs, but you can’t expect your team to make the playoffs and leave out powerhouses like the Giants or the Cowboys.
SCREW YOU, 2020! Guitarist Tony Rice passed away on Christmas day.
I first heard Manzanita only a few weeks ago. 🙁
At least the Nashville bomber had taste and a sense of humor
https://youtu.be/fllN8bUJ77c
Could have been some modern auto tuned bull crap.
Worse, it could have been K-Crap.
Bind Torture Sing.
Motion smoothing is utter shit and now streaming channels are doing it. Who the hell wants to watch everything as a soap opera? First and worst experience was the tv in supposed higher end hotel had it turned on. Thanks for ruining the tv watching, assholes.
“Motion smoothing is utter shit ”
Are you talking about “240hz” displays? Or at least 100hz? Are you kidding me?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_interpolation#Soap_opera_effect
Yeah, I know about that. But it’s complete BS. As a gamer, the first thing I do is turn off motion blur and depth of field. Everything looks better at higher FPS, it’s just that you are not used to it. I cannot stand all that motion blur, it sucks.
Though the end effect is generally equally shitty, motion blur and motion interpolation are somewhat opposite. Motion blur is about making a higher framerate source look “better” on a lower framerate display whereas motion interpolation is about making a lower framerate source look “better” on a higher framerate display.
High refresh rates are fine for content that can take advantage of it (video games, mostly). And 120 Hz is actually a good choice because it is a multiple of 24 (movies), 30 (most TV), and 60 (some TV and video game streams). But the TV should not fill in the “missing” frames. It will look like hokey shit.
Theme music for 2021.
I’m in love with Mary Mack – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpcrYS8l64A