Headlines triggered me instantly today. So here’s a little travelogue through OMWC’s first few hours here.
Truffled risotto with bruschetta and arugula salad.
A couple of good bottles of vino were consumed.
As a joke, they called it Skynet.
OMWC handled breakfast duty this morning.
Let’s finish with something positive.
I think this sets the countries mood fairly well.
Truffles, wine, and undercoooked eggs?
:/
How is that egg undercooked?
If the yolk is still runny, you need to give it more time. Just from that picture I can tell that yolk is nowhere near set.
I’ll take bad culinary takes for 1000, Alex.
I’m sure you already have them.
Everyone does. So you won’t be getting any money.
Now, I’m as okay with cooked yolks as the next girl, but there’s something magic about a hot runny yolk soaking your toast. I like eggs prettymuch any way they’re cooked. Unless it’s a Denver omelet. I hate Denver omelets.
The taste and texture of undercooked yolks is at best disgusting, and has made me retch before.
Hard fried eggs on toast makes an excellent open-faced sandwich.
My favorite eggs are deviled.
Try it on a toasted English muffin a la egg McMuffin.
The issue I see is the potato on the bottom left is almost raw
Yeah, we never doubted that your taste is purely sartorial.
That picture looks a lot like my brunch today. Subtract the mushrooms and add a couple Boar’s Head sausage patties. Dunk the potatoes and sausage in the hot yolk… yum.
It’s undercooked egg whites that are disgusting.
The liquid yolk is such a staple, I can’t imagine anyone disregarding it. As an emulsifier for sauces, bursting forth from a one-eyed jack/egg-in-the-hole, gently cooking into a golden glaze in carbonara, sopped up with a biscuit, melting into grits… the runny yolk is where it’s at. Chalky hard yolks are fit only for salads, Deviling, Scotching, and the like.
As an emulsifyer, or a custard, or any application where the taste and texture has been dealt with, there’s nothing wrong.
If your hard yolks are chalky, you’ve been dusting them in chalk.
Good on a sandwich, too.
Fuck, yeah.
Reminds me of a scene from Tampopo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqA-mP0MhZg
What the hell did I just watch?
Oh yeah.
I think it’s called “snowbarring”
What the hell did I just watch?
Total awesomeness, d00d/doodess. After watching the movie, the fetching young lady who ultimately became the spousal unit walked me back to her place whereupon we banged each other’s eyeballs out. She still talks about this particular scene, 30 years later, and how it “set the mood,” so to speak. (I thoroughly recommend watching the entire movie if you have the time.)
@Frank
I LOL’d.
I’m a bad person.
Total awesomeness, d00d/doodess.
It’s one of the all-time great foodie movies. Love the scene with the junior salaryman ordering lunch.
Damn, there’s a Criterion Blu-Ray. I may have to spring for that.
One minute you’re enjoying a Denver omelette, the next, someone’s sticking a gun in your face.
If anyone wonders, the magic time is 6m 30s for the perfect hardboiled egg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzIdk8UHHUU
IFLS.
Then why are they called “ten-minute eggs”?
Isn’t that the time it takes from cold in a pressure cooker?
It’s the time after the water boils, and you take it off the heat.
That guy’s French, they use metric over there.
Ah I made a mistake, it’s a ”Soft-Boiled” egg.
Hardboiled is indeed 10 minutes.
But yeah a cook friend of mine did confirm it’s the time once the water is boiling.
Important part is to put it directly in cold water once it’s done because otherwise that’s how you get that green layer.
I once got a picture perfect hand boiled egg cross section. It was so perfect it looked almost fake.
I forgot to take a picture, but it got made into a deviled egg.
6 1/2 minutes for a soft-boiled egg?? I was raised on 3-minute soft-boiled eggs. I now prefer a 5-minute egg – the white is cooked, and the yolk is still yellow-orange but not runny. (I don’t put the egg in until the water’s boiling. If you leave the spoon under the egg a moment, the shell usually doesn’t crack, in my experience. Or at least not so much that the egg guts all spill out.)
It depends on the size of the eggs. ?♂️
This….
And I use an Instant Pot.
For large eggs:
16 ounces of cold(ish) tap water
2 minutes of high pressure time (manual). Actual cooking time is about 10 minutes because of heating time. I should time it sometime.
Fast pressure release.
Straight into ice water.
My wife did the boiling for T-day deviled eggs. I said they were going be overcooked (olive drab green). She didn’t know what I meant until I showed her.
…and the initial temperature of the eggs and I suppose the time might be somewhat longer in Silverton, CO than in Bston.
Late to the party, but: “steam”.
https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/the-secrets-to-peeling-hard-boiled-eggs.html
I use this technique (steamer + shock in cold water) when I make deviled eggs en mass, with great results. It’s fast, too.
So a jew can eat what only a pig can find?
Something something pearls before swine.
Truffles are okay, but not worth the price tag.
You were in good enough shape to eat?
We’re old.
The breakfast looks like a good restorative.
Needs more Bloody Mary though.
I don’t know much about wine or truffles, but that is a nice knife.
Interesting moiré; have never seen that.
I believe it’s a raindrop Damascus*.
*Things learned of Forged in Fire.
That was going to be my comment. That is a distinct blade. Love it.
Thank you, when I decided it was time to replace my 30 year old Wusthof, I looked to Japan. That’s a Kikuichi Gyoto with a Swedish damascus blade. I believe it’s 52 layers. I should be able to give it to my kids.
The hamon is kind of mesmerizing. Bitchin’ knife, d00d!
Kikuichi Gyotoya ya da da
Kikuichi Gyotoya ya here
Tasty looking food, for my next magical trick, I’m going to do a remake of Heroes,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI
wish me luck, hard to even do it, let alone better,
You ever hear Lemmy do it ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4c7hzt1_4Q
“They could issue mandates on mask use indoors and limit the use of nonessential indoor spaces that are high-risk for spreading the coronavirus. Indoor dining rooms are an example, the agency said.”
So it’s safer if they eat in the bathroom?
Re-post from the last thread:
Any suggestions for positional vertigo?
My truck has been stuck in my garage with a leaking power steering hose and bad axle seal.
Tried again to crawl under her and as soon as I look up, the damn room starts spinning. I rinse my nose every day and take 2 Meclizine Chewable Tablets – 25mg.
I felt fine for the last couple weeks, so I thought I could do something today and now after one attempt I feel a little seasick.
So frustrating, that’s how I spend a lot of my free time and I really don’t want to give that up and send her to a shop.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Are you sure there’s not so ething else going on? Iron deficiency anemia? Cardiac issues?
I’m fairly healthy for my age (49) I run 4 times a week and have never been told I have any iron deficiencies with blood tests.
The VA Doctor said to try the Meclizine and keep my sinus clear which I’ve done to the best of my ability.
I don’t know. I have sporadic vertigo, but it usually corresponds with something else going on. Usually it’s because I haven’t eaten for a few hours.
For me, it’s usually the weather going from hot/humid to cold/dry. And I must admit alcohol consumption/dehydration is probably a factor.
Huh. You might be on to something there for me too. I am regularly dehydrated because apparently, 8 glasses of water for me is NOT enough. I try to get more than that, because at one time when I was seriously low-carbing, I was drinking 3 gallons a day. My skin was to die for.
“I was drinking 3 gallons a day.”
wow
My skin was to die for.
Was the water radioactive? ?
3 gallons a day? That would kill me by itself.
I get most of my water from coffee. People think it’s weird that I don’t drink much of anything when I eat. I say I am hungry, not thirsty.
She just Glows.
Absolutely Radiant.
Women pay hundreds of dollars a year for skin that looked like mine, just drinking that much water.
3 gallons a day. Yep.
That sounds difficult.
The only time I was phyiscally able to consume anything close to that amount was the height of this summer when I was sweating buckets all day.
Mr. Mojo: “Where are you, and what’s that hissing sound?”
Mojo: “I’m peeing! Duh!”
Mr. Mojo: “The price of radiant skin.” Sighs.
It wasn’t, but that was because I gradually trained myself to be that thirsty. I wasn’t forcing it.
And no, I didn’t have anything wrong with me driving that thirst.
I have also been so dehydrated I had to be hospitalized and pumped full of potassium. That was a hell I’d rather not revisit.
When I’m working outside a lot in the summer, I drink equal amounts of Gatorade (or electrolyte equivalent) as water.
Ugh. One of the many unpleasantnesses I experienced this summer was multiple rounds of potassium IV in the hospital.
It literally burns your veins. I walked out of the hospital with bandages over the bubbling skin.
You ain’t kidding.
I had gone into the hospital in the evening. By morning, my K still wasn’t high enough so they put a syringe full of it straight into my arm. I have a very high tolerance for pain, and I have given birth twice, and I would rather undergo 16 hours of hard labor again than have a syringe full of K shoved straight into my arm.
I was drinking 3 gallons a day.
My mom ended up in the hospital doing that kind of thing. It’s really easy to get behind on your electrolytes when drinking that much water.
I had some problems with vertigo after an ear infection. Occasionally, certain positional changes would trigger it, and it seemed to be worse/come back whenever my sinuses would act up. Of course, it would never trigger when I saw my doc no matter what he tried to trigger it, and I would never be able to get an appointment with my doc when it was at its worst.
Eventually it went away never to return.
After one visit, my doc gave me some meclizine to help out when I had an attack.
Whenever it acted up, I did what I could to keep my activity levels up. If something triggered the vertigo, I’d stop doing that as much as possible but look for something else to do to stay active that wouldn’t trigger it.
Are you me?
It seems like I can only cause it by lying under my truck and looking up at whatever I am trying to work on.
If I wake up dizzy I can still get out and go running.
Are you me?
Heh.
Eventually I gave up talking to my doc about it.
It’s a dodge. It may have to mfected you.
That got a laugh out of me.
She has had her share of issues, but with 350,000 miles, she still fires right up.
Then invite your doctor over to help you work on your truck.
Now you’re thinking, I like it.
I had the same problems a few years ago, when one of my friend popped the floor nailer while I was taking a measurement down next to him… in a closet.
I couldn’t look up for the next few months.
I hope it will pass but just as me, it could be ear related.
I knew of a guy that had his ear drum popped and didn’t knew about it until the doc checked it.
Today’s gluttony consisted of a small Chick-fil-A peppermint shake, that I have not yet finished.
I went Christmas shopping at the nearby nature center and indulged in a piece of maple sugar candy for myself.
I made some bacon for breakfast, and overcooked it a little, so I made a second batch.
I had delivery mexican food for lunch, but it leaked all over the bag so I’d had to unpack it in the kitchen, and ended up leaving the tortilla chips on the counter.
So I made some subpar cheese sauce from kitchen scraps.
Went to a local taco chain for lunch, then made chicken paprikash for dinner. Tomorrow is the day of gluttony… assuming the weather holds up. Wings, beer, and football.
I’ve been eating lots and lots of burgers for the past few weeks; the George Motz videos have been inspiring. One of the styles involves poaching the patty in beef broth and onions, then putting that into a grilled cheese. After a few days of these, using a broth made from a mix of Better Than Bouillon beef and roasted garlic flavors, onions, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and Pickapeppa sauce, I had a nice thick beefy mess. I made a roux, mixed in the beefy goodness and some cream and had very nice gravy with which I topped boiled baby potatoes.
Reporters wearing masks look so stupid.
Anyone wearing face diapers looks stupid.
With my Stetson and bandana I look like Jesse James which is the complete opposite of stupid. I’m probably going to keep the look even if we get a vaccine or our collective balls back.
Maybe in another day and age. But this day and age? Face diapers are stupid.
Odd to think that the first thing those enforcing the mask would have done a year ago if they saw someone get in a store with a mask is to call 911.
A gun store in town won’t let anyone in with a mask because only robbers wear masks into stores.
They got a visit from the Clown Prince’s and the town’s goons about it.
Did they arrest the goons?
According to the owner, the goons reminded him about the Clown Prince’s latest orders.
No fine or arrest. Yet. We’ll see what happens the next time the goons show up. The owner is not going to back down and let mask wearers into his store.
The local liquor jobber has likely grown weary of my playfully shouting “Stick ’em up!”, while brandishing finger guns.
Pity my poor credit union coworkers.
I called the cashier, who wearing a bandana, at the local store, Jessie James and claimed he was holding me up. He didn’t deny it.
Hope TedS’ doesn’t dissect that sentence
“But the bear is still out there and Benham said it won’t leave them alone. It’s been back to the house several times since the attack.”
Is it legal to shoot a bear on your own property? He could keep a large SA revolver in the wheelbarrow he uses to carry his balls.
Don’t know about CA but here nuisance bears are shot often.
In CA, it’s probably illegal to hurt the bear, and if you get eaten you’d be cited for giving the bear indigestion.
BRAAAAAAPPP
It depends on the part of California. Around Tahoe the Bay Area transplants would have a fit. Up near Shasta the waitress at the coffee shop I ate at was bragging that she had the bear paw from the bear she hunted hanging from her rear view mirror.
It was over 20 years ago, but one of my dad’s neighbors shot a bear that was pounding on his back door.
Nothing happened to the neighbor, legal wise.
I think the correct answer is: “Well, he came back to the house once”
I call it solving the problem. “Got a nuisance bear?”
“Not any more”
It kept coming back. It was dumber than the average bear.
Only would come back to my house once.
Hash browns of the re-hydrated variety are far superior to home fries. That last pic makes me hungry though.
That was potatoes, chanterelles, and lions head mushrooms.
Fancy home fries are still home fries. I caramalize onions in my hash browns and top with cheese but they are still hash browns.
That sounds tasty,
/takes down notes
I’m not a fan of dogs, much less pitbulls, but seeing the skin ripped off that dog’s head was painful. Ay yai yai.
Yikes. Guess that’s the last link which I didn’t click on… and won’t.
First power outage of the night. Only lost power for a minute.
I heard a loud boom in the distance. Power goes out. Then about a minute later another loud boom. Power comes back.
The CDC can fuck right off.
I’m not going to read the article, but I’m certain whatever is in there will make me second this. Actually, I second it anyway just for good measure.
But down the road, he said, as these small unmanned helicopters become cheaper and more powerful, they will provide more efficient ways of policing urban areas. That could aid police departments at a time when the number of recruits is on the wane across the country and many voices are calling for funding cuts after months of protests against police violence.
I’m reminded of a fantasy novel I read once. The world was loosely based on France in the run-up to the French Revolution. The world had a similar revolution. The revolutionaries used miniature magic drones to monitor resistance movements.
And now Buddy is making a speedy recovery. But the bear is still out there and Benham said it won’t leave them alone. It’s been back to the house several times since the attack.
Shame he can’t shoot it.
Fuck it all. Hank Hill is now on the side of the mask-wearers:
It’s Saturday, which means the two week tradition of Zoom/Happy Hour/random Japan tours will be going on. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
Hank Hill would not wear a mask. Definitely not “Rusty Shackleton”, either.
Boomhauer – maybe ironically.
fun history
***
West Point said there were two cadets who never had demerits. Actually they graduated the same year, 1829. They were:
Charles Mason who graduated # 1 in class and had no demerits.
Robert E. Lee who graduated # 2 and had no demerits.
Of course we know who Robert E. Lee was. Charles Mason resigned his commission in the engineers after only 2 years to become a patent lawyer. He moved to Wisconsin. According to “Who Was Who in the Civil War”, he was considered a copperhead, because he was Democrat who criticized President Lincoln.
The Naval Academy’s No. 1 graduate with no demerits was Jimmy Carter. He graduated in 1946 with no black marks. He served on active duty with the Navy until 1953 and later became the 39th president of U.S.
***
Custer had the all-time record for demerits – 726. He became a brigadier gHeneral at 23, the youngest in US history. But he is mainly remembered for being turned into a human pin cushion by the arrows of the Lakota.
History is a record of troublemakers.
“gHeneral” ?
Uh, from the land of Fnord. Yeah, that’s the ticket…
Actually there were two generals younger than Custer. Brig. Gen. Charles Dodge was 21 years old when he was made a general on 11/29/1862 and Galusha Pennypacker made brigadier general on 1/15/1865 when he was 22 years 7 mos. old. Pennypacker made Major General a month later, making him the youngest major general in U.S. history. In one of those Civil War coincidences, Pennypacker was Custer’s fifth cousin.
Oh come on, that’s a character from Harry Potter isn’t it.
I would’ve put money on that being a Derpie original.
[scribbles on notepad]
Custer was the “goat” of his Academy year – meaning he was last (academically) in his class. He went on to prove why at Little Big Horn.
Everybody’s in despair.
Every girl and boy.
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
Everybody’s gonna jump for joy.
2 parody Eskimo songs
The Only Gay Eskimo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwO33oUawM8
Lesbian Eskimo Midget Left-Handed Ninja Albino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB9DSWxtsgU
Long time since I listened to ‘The Only Gay Eskimo’…lol
Sybaritic Saturday is squeezing and bouncing into your evening.
https://archive.li/NrmL8
Some of those pictures are of plastic.
If #31 got a top that actually fit, she’d win easily.
One and two: Good.
Three: Face diaper. Shit. Done. Fuck. Ruined it.
Sorry to go OT but I feel like I need to repeat to a few people here how you run clean elections :
1- 1 scrutineer and 1 secretary per ballot box. The scrutineer touches and count the votes, the secretary notes them. The scrutineer is not allowed to touch the compilation papers (except for his signature at the end) the secretary is not allowed to touch any physical ballot.
2- Ballot boxes; visible at all times, not hiding under the table.
3- You open all of the ballots boxes at the same time.
4- Nobody authorized to leave before everything is counted, the ballot box is sealed and the count is approved by the supervisor and both scrutineer and secretary.
5- The supervisor doesn’t participate in the count, cannot handle non-sealed nor open boxes.
6- You definitively don’t get to fill a ”duplicate” ballot because some idiot couldn’t fill it properly. It is discarded, period.
7- The election observers (once vetted) can go wherever he wishes and observes any room he or she wants. Anybody intimidating them should be the one escorted out in handcuff (and put to the wall if you ask me but I don’t get to make the law).
That’s how we run elections in Canada. That’s how any real free country does it. That’s how I did it when I was supervising it. Otherwise I would be in jail.
None of those principles were applied in Georgia. None. After that hearing and just the video, anyone still having doubts about the legitimacy of those elections is either a fool or a cheat themselves.
At this point, you’re a joke America.
At this point? We’ve been a joke for decades!
/starts stockpiling nukes
When you hosers put someone on the moon I’ll listen to you aboot whom is or whom isn’t a joke.
He’s not wrong.
Yeah , he is.
1-I got no problem’
2- visible to whom? what does he think happens under that table that couldn’t happen in plain sight?
3-All 150 million? and what does at the same time mean, same day, couple hours, fifteen minutes, second?
4- okay
5- okay
6- What if the ballot is damaged by the handling of the poll workers? some valid ballots will be spoiled through no fault of the voter, just toss those?
7- first half sure, second half define intimidating? you want to put people in rape cages or “up against the wall’ because one person felt “intimidated” by another.
You cannot create rules that cannot be subverted. It is not possible.
exactly, Anarchy!!!!!!
All you need are enough minions to do your bidding. Fill their heads with enough shit, and they will autonomously carry out their assigned tasks.
2- Visible in anybody in the room. Why was some kept away? We had all of ours in the same big room. No need for a backstore, or hidden under a table. Rent a bigger place if you need more room.
3- I meant every boxes in the same counting rooms. No hidden boxes that suddenly appear 4 hours in. 2 people assigned per boxes, prior to the election. Nobody else gets to fiddle with it.
6- How can someone fuck it up as much that you can’t read a ballot? That person has no place to be a poll worker if he or she rips apart ballots. And even then, this is why it’s a 2 person check + a supervisor to agree with admitting a ballot or not.
”Damn, I just ripped a part this ballot, do we both agree it said Democrat?” – ”Yeah, it happens, I agree, let’s fill this ”non-conformed ballots we both agreed on document” that we have here and get a 3rd person signature”.
Not ”Sure let’s just make a new one and fill it how we please”
And finally, I’m just judging by the words of the people that were witnesses at the Georgia hearing. Of course I go hyperbolic, but if the scale of intimidation is anywhere as was reported, there is some criminal intend of the worst kind involved.
Sees like the bottom 10% of my kid’s first grade class could figure out how to run an election without giving the appearance of deep rooted fraud, unless they were engaged in deep rooted fraud. But I keep getting called a “Fanboi” for saying as much. Well, that and my belief that Trump did a decent job, relative the other douchebags in office during my lifetime. Which seems objectively true to me.
Stop going to websites with idiots. If someone actually wants Biden, they’re an idiot. (That doesn’t mean they have to like Trump, btw)
If someone can’t see the election was corrupt as fuck, they ARE an idiot or a political whore. No qualifiers.
I hope these people get a Kamala Harris-like as a prosecutor for some rinky-dink bullshit offense they may even have not committed, and get sentenced appropriately Harris-like. They will deserve it.
That’s what pissed me off the most about all of this.
I don’t care if it’s actually Biden that won. Heck I’ll defend it.
I’ve lost mine, properly. I don’t mind losing,
I’ve played Dwarf Fortress; losing is fun. Losing makes you refine who you are, forces you to do better.
What I don’t like is being lied too. Being told that I should shut up and take it.
It’s not the ”You lost!!” that bothers me, it’s the ”How dare you ask!?”.
No, Trump lost and Biden is probably going to be the next president, but shouldn’t we properly address his legitimacy?
– No no you’re crazy, shove it down there under the table next to the extra ballots we had laying around.
Right there with you.
Whoever is propping up Biden played the Game of Thrones and won.
It still stinks to high heaven.
Fuck You, our System is a joke, We are just fine,
/I know the arguments, go for it,
At this point, you’re a joke America.
#Winning!
LOL
Having been a scrutineer in several provincial and Federal elections in Canada, I too am puzzled and bemused by the veritable shit-show that is the U.S. voting system.
It comes from a long and storied tradition of corruption that goes back to the founding of the republic.
Like so much of what ails America, it boils down to race and guilt. Any attempts to run a clean election are immediately characterized as “racist” and because that is the absolute worst thing that anyone can be accused of it is enough to make everyone look the other way while the shit-show is allowed to take place. The fact that “race” has nothing to do with running an election is immaterial.
It will be the end of us.
It will be the end of us.
Agreed.
And, I’m sorry. You have way too many race hustlers; for us, they’re still (mostly) a curiosity.
Bingo. This x1000
The impenetrable irony is that the party doing the bitching about racism is the party that spent MOST OF ITS FUCKING HISTORY enforcing racism.
Amen.
At least we have plausible deniability.
Canada chose to elect Justin Trudeau.
With three Federal parties splitting the vote somewhat equally, we too have plausible deniability — more people didn’t vote for Justin than did vote for him. (In Justin’s first electoral victory, nationwide, only 200,000 people more voted for the Liberals than the Conservatives, but because of our first-past-the-post system combined with high-efficiency vote ridings, the Liberals got a crushing majority of the seats.)
There hasn’t been a Federal party since before the 20th Century (if memory serves) that can say they got an actual mandate with 50%+1 of the popular vote.
Those are all perfectly valid cogent arguments.
My point is that Trudeau is a total ass clown.
Oh, yeah. Two-thirds of the Canadian electorate agree with you.
Heh I voted for the guy the first time he showed up. I was willing to give the guy a chance.
My grandma held him in her arms. They use to go to the same Church as where I was baptized.
He’s a bit of my fault.
Sorry heh.
But the guy got elected properly. We choose him, we deserve our moron hard and good.
I’m not willing to say it’s the same with you guys yet, that’s the thing.
Simple solution: Resolve all elections through successive rounds of Russian Roulette. Last one standing wins. One term only. Must have at least candidates. If there is only one candidate, the office goes vacant for the term and taxpayers get a refund on the position’s salary/benefits.
There’s a board game for that. Local (to me) guys designed and sold it, they also did a big party game called Two Rooms and a Boom.
That was back in the day when you could have 20-30 people get together and talk…
Nice!
This presupposes that the Elites in both parties have any interest at all in a fair and secure election system.
Apparently they’re not even interested in the appearance of fairness and security.
They’re interested in winning. Anything that subverts that goal is to be dispensed with immediately.
That game can be played in both directions. Bullets don’t care if you went to Yale.
If a candidate is unwilling to lie, steal and cheat he/she doesn’t want to win ’cause certainly the opposition is willing to do those things. Honest elections is a contradiction of terms.
When you have Trudeau running your country, you might be a shade circumspect about laughing at other countrie’s elections.
That being said, when you have Bush Jr., Obama, Trump and Biden/Harris running your country for the first quarter of the 21st Century, you might wanna just zip it.
Got to love democracy in all it’s glory, no?
I’ve told my mom, if democracy is so great, how did we end up with Biden or Trump as our choices?
And that’s not mentioning the shit show that led up to it.
The liberals won fair and square, I might not like him but he won. Shady media/politics lies and manipulation sure, but that’s still in the field of ”ok”
I don’t have any evidence, as you keep asking for and refuting as we keep providing you, of such voting fraud in Canada. Not at that level at least. Being closely involved with a federal and provincial party organization, I would be quite interested if you can give me some.
I have nothing against a vote going against my ideas or the party I worked for. Our elections weren’t stolen.
If you want to know, people were weary of years with ”Harpeur” at the job. We needed our dreamy savior time too. That’s it. That and Quebec had lost its love affair with the NPD (Jack Layton being dead for a few years) and many went back to the BloQ, or didn’t vote, or went Trudeau for the ”Hopey and Changey” side of him.
It was a very predicable change. When Canada doesn’t know who to vote for, we vote Liberals. It’s like half way there. They used to be our moderate party.
But I guess you are at the point of denial where it makes more sense to criticize other countries fair elections – where nobody are contesting them, at all – instead of just accepting that yours were a bit shady. Well, I dunno. It’s sad.
A bit shady?
I don’t think we’ve had an honest election in the history of our country. It’s just gone off the deep end.
Yet some people will tell you it’s not even a puddle.
There’s a degree just above lukewarm which is what I term the temperature of hotel room water, and that’s what I’m getting out of the hot water tap. I prefer bathing in scalding water, instead I’m getting hotel room water. It’s infuriating.
How old is your heater?
Is anyone else using your water?
Have you checked the thermostat? (Not running joke question this time, I’m serious)
Agree, check the stat on the heater and adjust, it won’t bite you,
I’ve set my heater to produce water at 140° Fahrenheit (60° Celsius). Why? Because:
https://youtu.be/q3svW8PM_jc?t=17
Because you want to scald hogs in your bathtub?
Nonsense. That’s what the room-sized microwave in the basement is for.
Well, that and the hobos, that is.
IMO, You should be able to turn water hotter than you want for a shower. I don’t like particularly hot showers, but I only have to turn the dial a shade beyond neutral.
That reminds me, *sniffs armpit* I should shower today. Thanks.
I had that happen a few years ago. Turns out that one of the two heating elements stopped working in the water heater. The remaining element was enough to water just above lukewarm. You can easily replace the element, but I ended up having to replace the entire heater since it was close to 30 years old and parts were non-existent.
Yep
You must stay at different hotels than I do. The water always comes out at scalding.
Meanwhile at home, my wife can’t get a hot enough bath because of the antiscald feature in a modern single handle faucet.
A good use of some drone footage.
No, My kites lift me off the ground enough as it is, them and the waterguys are fun to watch, that’s about it,
Those guys riding up the steeps blows me away. Who needs a lift.
I prefer to stay on the ground, but that can get hard in High wind…
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
Around here, it’s all phrasing all the time. ?
Reminded me of Eddie Murphy in 48 hours:
I’ve been in prison for three years. My dick gets hard if the wind blows.
It’s a Hard on Flying Big Kites in Big wind, a true adventure,
Hidden Moon’s Little Apples isn’t bad.
CWAA
Wasn’t he the tentacle porn guy?
Yeah.
Kind of a weird comparison. I take it he was expecting people to understand the numbers in terms of specific nationalities among the Jews killed, hence “from Germany and Austria”, so in that regard he was being oddly specific yet correct, if you assume that all covid deaths were actually covid deaths, and not inclusive of deaths where a positive covid test had been recorded within the last six months, which is all beside the point. I’m pretty convinced that Eichenwald is moderately to severely autistic. Pissed away a 20+ year career of being a respected if often wrong journalist to mainline and freebase TDS all day every day.
As a side note, Tucker was especially annoying when he had Eichenwald on to talk about his tweets. He should have just let him talk and tell his shaggy dog story about how he once was told by unnamed sources in the Trump organisation and the CIA that something something orange man bad. If you let Kurt Eichenwald talk for long enough, he will piss on his own shoes, so to speak.
Have you guys tried any of the bourbon barrel aged Cabernets, and if so, what do you think of them?
I tried one of the boxed brands, can’t remember which, and was pleasantly surprised.
Ray Thomas was a sexpot. Deny it, pussies.
I’ve never met him but I trust your opinion, comspit. I’m a sucker for two first names.
I’m a sucker for two first names.
Well, duh. You are a Brit, after all . . .
He said two, not twelve.
Are you confusing Brits with Spaniards?
You know what else flautists are capable of?
Breaking my heart.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopTheLeftPurge
“6. Me today, you tomorrow.”
First time in California, here for a week for work. Governor closes everything down
Way to go, bub.
“Yes, it used to be beautiful – what with the rackets, whoring, guns. Sometimes, sometimes, things would happen.”
Eat him.
Clearly, it’s all your fault.
California, particularly Southern California, should be paradise on Earth. Leave it to politicians to fuck it all up.
Fuck. Tell me all about it.
Jesus that’s the truth.
Still remember when I lived in Simi Valley as a kid. I loved it, more than I have liked any place since. Was angry with my parents for moving back east for most of my life. I can’t even imagine what a horror it would be today.
https://archive.li/05jN5/b7f3759be9712515b8206a3f89c380191a5cb470.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/I3lxW/187bf52f29330ac82aac7e9aa38c7b020f3ee09b.jpg
NSFW.
The phrase “built like a brick shithouse” comes to mind with this one.
This too reminds me of the aftermath to Tampopo. Thank God.
I picture a little thicker when I hear that phrase, but it works.
I picture them a little less pneumatic when I hear that phrase.
Yeah, and more like a linebacker. She does seem to have broad shoulders.
https://archive.li/aLZYG/42238319030a0da2c55f94505bcc795d843b7eb4.jpg
https://archive.li/oDkb3/9377dd73c38ca7a566de310e750f8fe17a0ef903.jpg
NSFW.
She is unhappy.
Good god, expand that and it’s the attack of the 50 ft woman.
Flashback to the old days of trying to download Internet porn.
That website probably dates from the old days of trying to download Internet porn.
That must be a special photo because it keeps shutting down my browser.
From the dead thread, chafed said (in response to Drake opening up on NRO cucks)…
Forget it The Hyperbole. This is Chinatown.
And all I could think of was Peking Cuck.
LOL
Man, today just flew by.
Trump is live on Newsmax, in case you’re into that kind of thing.
I feel like that guy’s always president. When’s the next guy up?
Soon as he’s done pulling his dog’s tail.
He’s pulling our leg.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/david-lander-squiggy-on-laverne-shirley-dies-at-73/article_57884534-97a4-5568-806a-acdc0f777b63.html
Sad!
RIP Squiggy
My kids grew up watching Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley. I was there with them, when comedy was easy, silly and young kids could laugh.
I hated Happy Days and sort of liked Laverne and Shirley – saw them “live” one after the other when I was little. The latter still seems more “fresh” to me – Happy Days was hopelessly square. At the time I didn’t catch that they were supposed to be in the same universe.
Some actual carolers just went by. They’re all piled into the back of a pickup with a case of beer and a big propane heater. Maybe I should go run and try to join them.
Bunch of grandma killers!
Make sure they’re wearing their masks. ?
Awesome.
The neighborhood next door to mine is semi-famous for its tacky Xmas displays. I should finally walk over and check it out some day.
Local news last night had a retch-inducing story about some family that was doing a big display for the healthcare workers.
Excellent
Lucky bastard. Our parade got cancelled. First time since 1984. It went right past my house. Wife’s on TV being interviewed about it one year. They asked , “how does it make you feel?” She said, “it makes me feel jolly!” With my kid in one of those kid backpacks. Pisses me off that it’s done. This is my street. 2017. Gone.
Fuck the killjoys.
Christmas was never my favorite holiday, but when I see this stuff getting cancelled, it both pisses me off and puts me into a Christmas mood in order to piss off the killjoys.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BuCap004/status/1335360686608834560
Meanwhile, in Britain…
I like it.
Tonight our little town had its first-ever Christmas parade. It was also the first community event since the Attack of the Covid Monster. It was a fun time. Sidewalk full the length of Main Street. Happy crowd with little kids running around and laughing. Masks <10%. Suck it ShortTony.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/teZfmY5boTj4kppKA
I like it.
Fuck Fauci. Fire his ass.
Fire the rest of him too.
I’m ok with getting rid of him piecemeal.
Like with a woodchipper?
I was thinking machete, but then I am feeling unkind.
Woohoo! At least your little corner of America isn’t dead yet.
We done good in choosing a place to retire. I’d be insane if we still lived in Massholeistan.
I wish I lived down the road from you.
Thanks.
Nice pictures, Mikey, good to see that sanity exists in some places. Nice crowd and your town looks great.
Merry Christmas to you and all your friends and neighbors, you chose well.
Mikey, I took a look at your town and the available real estate. I guess I need a few more trees and lakes but the town and property looked super nice.
You’re better off with Tundra for a neighbor, anyway.
America with guns:
https://twitter.com/timothywjohnson/status/1334947912619585537
America without guns:
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1335342897865101312
RE: Guns and Booze: There used to be a story on the old SwissRifles.com board about a member’s trip to Switzerland. His host took him to a range for a day of shooting. Before shooting, everyone went to the range’s bar to have either a glass of beer or a glass of wine. Then they spent the day shooting. When done shooting, they put some solvent in the bores of their rifles, set their rifles in a rack, then went back to the range’s bar for another drink. According to the guy writing the travelogue, this was a normal occurrence at this range.
One drink over a day’s shooting? They were stone sober when handling live ammunition.
Wouldn’t matter at my club.
If the club officials find out you were on the club shooting after you had been drinking, regardless of amount of booze consumed, where consumed, or how long before shooting it was consumed, you’re out.
As far as I can tell Joe is just looking at an unloaded gun.
They’re just a street gang. They claim territory, spray paint their tag everywhere and battle with opposing gangs. They probably control the drug trade too.
At least porterhouses were on sale today. *shrug*
Unrelated LOL. My company has a client & product that I’m working on which includes the syllables “Port” and “House” and *everyone* keeps unwittingly calling it “Porterhouse” – even the Hindus.
Mr. Brightside was eleven years ago. I never….
Such a good tune.
Is it a good breakup song or a good never was song? It’s hard to pin down.
The video is magnificent.
Yes.
I dig it too. One of the last good “pop songs” that I could have in my library and just as likely see on SNL or wherever – before the biz got took over by garbage.
I’ve really misjudged this song. There’s some undertones I never realized.
?♂️ I’ve never paid the slightest attention to the lyrics.
More like sixteen.
Too right. My God. I was a strapping young lad then. Now I’m a strapping old lad
More of a Mr. Brownstone kind of guy. I used to listen a little, but a little got more and more.
🙂
GnR was blasting out of every dorm room my freshman year (1988). Can’t fucking stand them.
Me neither, but I don’t mind that one song. It captures the nineties in Hollywood quite well.
Once, I worked on a bike for a cop. His plate read, ” THNX AXL” I wondered what it meant, so when he picked it up I asked. He told me that he pulled AXL over for DUI in his Lambo. He let him call for a ride and didn’t bust him, because he was a fan. Some time later, this bike showed up at his house. Hence the plate.
I didn’t have my car for 8 months or so at DLI. My girlfriend would pick me up and drop me off at the gate. One time on the ride back, I heard this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2OO8RSxymU
Ah, memories….
When I loved in Chicago, I went to the ren fair in Bristol, Wisconsin a few times with my then girlfriend. One day at the fair, I rode an elephant, ate a big turkey leg, drank a bunch of mead, threw axes, and had my beard complimented by a guy dressed as a pirate. I was dressed as an Arab sheikh complete with robe and turban. At the end of the day, we went back to my place and made sweet love.
That was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I live that day over and over and over?
“Giuliani’s Michigan witness Mellissa Carone harassed, sent sex videos to boyfriend’s ex ”
https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/26813/giuliani_s_michigan_witness_mellissa_carone_harassed_sent_sex_videos_to_boyfriend_s_ex
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9015555/I-WASNT-drunk-Rudy-told-shush-says-star-witness-Trumps-voter-fraud-claim.html
That just makes her more credible.
Ill need to see the video.
Yeah, how’d that lady get arrested for supplying free porn to an adult?
Like I said, insane.
But for the Missouri River running through town it would be a desert. Lots of trees and mountains nearby though.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/tyFPKHGz887ndPrm7
Despite the snow, I like that view.
That’s beautiful.
“We should all be watching 25 year old Simpsons episodes to find out what comes next.”
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1335325632423743494
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Was going through some old pics of my travels and came across a gem from the Paluxy dinosaur track site in Texas. I took a picture of a funny sign. Here is the text:
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One day Cope showed Marsh his reconstruction of a new type of seagoing reptile. Marsh correctly pointed out that the only thing new about it was that Cope had put the head of it on the end of the tail. Cope hated Marsh for the rest of his life.
***
Oh, how I laughed.
dramatic paleontology music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyYt1P5rQLE
It turns out that the Sinclair dino mascot is based on the wrong skull. When they tried to change the original statue to make it accurate, it looked bad, so they added a marker to explain that.
I bought a Sinclair dino plushie at a gas station on my way back from a trip to Lake Tahoe. He graced my desk at DLI and elsewhere. I strapped an American flag to his back with a rubber band. I found the flag on Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey on the 4th of July, and, finding the sight unbearable to my soldier soul, rescued it. If asked, I explained that it is piece of art that combines my greatest loves.
[begins humming Battle Hymn of the Republic]
?
And next spring’s vacation is already cancelled.
Sorry to hear that. My general spring vacation has already been pushed to Fall. The girlfriend and I are still hoping we can schedule a European trip next summer.
Fuck.
Sorry.
Sorry, man. We’re likely not going anywhere until next Biktoberfest in FLA, except for small weekend deals locally.
I found a pic I took of myself the day I decided to lose 50 pounds and join the Army. I looked liked the Duluth Trading guy. It’s been almost 6 years since that day.
And now you have a career selling undergarments?
See, you *can* write comedy!
I quit drinking cold turkey exactly 6 years ago today. I finished my last Heineken at 11:58 pm on December 4, 2014. Haven’t touch a drop since.
I went from 30-50 drinks a day every day for at least the previous 6-7 years to zero. I detoxed at my sister’s place for 5 days so she could keep an eye on me and check my vitals (She’s a doctor). It was by far the scariest thing I ever did. Luckily no DT’s. Just the shakes for a couple days.
Drinking and partying with friends is shitloads of fun.
Being a depressed alcoholic with feelings of hopelessness is miserable.
Getting the fog out of my brain and having a clear head after about 6 months is priceless.
Life is good again. A general contentedness and gratefulness.
I remember you said you quit a couple months ago, so thought I’d share since I reflected on it quite a bit today. BTW, enjoy your articles and posts.
Thanks and congrats to you. In a couple of hours, I will hit day 91 without booze. First week was hard, but no withdrawal.
The year before I decided to join the Army, I was killing about a 6 pack every day after work. Not a good time overall in my life. And when I got fired from my job…
The standard Peace Corps joke is that everyone who goes to Asia comes back a philosopher, everyone who goes to South America comes back a revolutionary, and everyone who goes to Africa comes back a drunk.
Can confirm.
It’s OK. My story had a happy ending.
Lifted the 145 lb atlas stone 4 ft off the ground a bunch of times today. And pull ups. And rode 50 miles on my exercise bike.
Thanks. I was talking to one of my best friends today who was in the Peace Corps in The Gambia. He’s Filipino, but everyone there thought he was a rich Chinese guy! His Peace Corp friends could definitely party. The night before his wedding in Long Island his friends gave me a bunch of Qat to munch on. A couple hours later there were six cop cars at the hotel because of me. I’ll share the story some other time. I didn’t get arrested.
Good on you with the exercise. That’s impressive lifting for a guy your size. I’ve gotten in pretty good shape since I quit. The job helps (landscape maintenance for last 33 years). I walked about 20 miles today behind a brush hog. Plan to be up in about 5 hours to do it again.
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I drink about 1/10 of that every day. Never came close to your figure, but never want to quit either.
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I did drink more for a period, and didn’t like it.
I was a high functioning, heavy drinking party animal type for about 20 years before I took the slide. When I got as low as I did I figured I better never go back.
I still like going to music shows and hanging out with my friends and family when they drink. Everybody loves having a designated driver!
Thanks below to Unviv and Gender Traitor.
Holy shit, man. Good on you for breaking that habit.
Happy Soberversary, Pud.
That’s amazing, man! Well done.
30-50 drinks a day is… wow.
I bet these good folks aren’t worried about masks:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RD-ERJLgrpJO8&feature=share&playnext=1
In between the snakes and the badass guitar licks who has time to worry about that shit?
Because of COVID and working from home, I have to have 2 internet connections. I have a load-balancing dual WAN router and everything.
Never in my life have both connections gone down at the same time, but it happened tonight.
Does anyone have the score to the Cal game?
My internet is having fits and starts too. 17-21 CAL.
8-3.
Liberty 0 Newsome 21
Gah. I hate everything around networking, routers, etc. If there is a part of “tech” that is more loaded with confusing jargon I don’t know what it is. I had to get a new router recently and thank God it was more- or-less plug ‘n’ play. It came with a hundred-page README full of stuff I’ll never understand or find a use for. I’m not a dummy – I’m a professional software developer FFS. I can’t imaging what the average rube makes of that stuff. At least I get to use the same router for both work and play.
I was annoyed when cisco bought linksys and their consumer grade hardware stopped having IOS prompts. A definate downgrade from my perspective.
Then again, I have a habit of working closer to the metal than their target market.
If there is a part of “tech” that is more loaded with confusing jargon I don’t know what it is.
It’s not even the jargon in the traditional sense. It’s the fact that each feature is like 8 protocols layered on top of one another. I’ve learned to hate the word encapsulation.
How about abstraction instead? Those layers exist to get around the limitations of each of the lower layers.
I mean, can you imagine if every application needed to understand the signalling on the wire and how to get to the other end of the network? The sheer excess dumbfuckery that would cause on top of the storts of problems we see today…
Most people think of a “router” as the thing that gives you the internets, wifi and all. It works, to a point. I basically have what hotels have, which isn’t as expensive as it sounds, as long as you use Ubiquiti.
I have a pair of Aruba APs. Super easy to install and much better functionality than the consumer grade stuff.
I had not heard of them before, but they sound like a competitor.
I have 4 Unifi APs.
I’ve figured out that that dialing down the power and adding more of them works well.
I just get pissed off that for a Cisco voice certification, I need to get their networking certifications.
Shit. My wife just went to the grocery store, apparently there’s loads of empty shelves because they got hit with people panic-buying groceries by the cartful today in anticipation of Newsom shutting everything down.
Fucking seriously fucking fuck this fucking bullshit.
Le sigh.
I added TP to my shopping list tomorrow specifically for this reason. I can’t believe it but here we go again.
We’ve been stocking up for the last few weeks. Every time we go to the store, TP is impliedly on the list. Walmart was getting pretty bare. Our preferred brand was gone despite there being a pallet of the stuff being unboxed two days before.
I was at one of the local grocery last week and no issues. They even had name brand TP shelves full. I’ve ordered online this week because I’m lazy for going out right now.
I’ve seen both today. Ralphs… stripped bare. Bristol Farms… everything on the shelves.
Price gouging works.
Well, one of the decent sushi places around here closes at the end of the month. Owner specifically didn’t mention restrictions or loss of traffic, but it’s apparent. The sad part is the sushi has been really good since covid stopped their kaiten setup.
Chinese noodle place around the corner closed a month or more after a name change. That one relied on Chinese students so no surprise.
*didn’t specifically
Hopefully, the Greek restaurant downtown makes it.
At this point, all I have is despair.
Fuck.
The only sushi place in my home town called it quits this summer. Idaho didn’t even have a lockdown but fear killed them. They had only opened that location, 1 of 2, three years ago. Total drag.
How did Hamilton, the musical, become a sensation four or five years ago? I’ve just watched it on Disney+. I failed to notice a single catchy tune.
I don’t know. I had one of the songs from that inflicted upon me, and the only result was a headache.
Actors of color play whypipo. Not raving about how wonderful it is makes you racist.
I heard their song in the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade. Big Meh from me. Trying too hard.
By choice?!
No offense, but I’d rather subject myself to The Masked Singer.
Well, it’s in 4K Dolby Vision. My partner refused to watch it, though. I guess I’m just trying to maximize the value out of $6.99 I paid for the Disney+ subscription.
Sheet. Verizon tried to give me a Disney+ subscription for free, and that was still too expensive.
I took it to watch one show.
It had some good music, IMO, and a few great singers, but it doesn’t compare strongly to the more classic popular musicals so I can only assume it reached sensation status due to paltry competition in the “new musical” department. Other than Hamilton and The Book of Mormon, I can’t think of any recent decent musicals.
I think I figured out what I was doing wrong.
“Beyond the Edge of the Map” was composed largely to the sounds of Sabaton and Powerwolf.
I didn’t have any music on to drown out the world during my previous vacation.
My latest puzzle – how do I make researching exciting?
The characters are taking a trip to the library because I need them to learn some things. And as a rule of thumb, I figure if I’m bored writing it, the reader will be bored reading it.
At least I’ll get to indulge in describing architecture. Though I doubt it will be a while before anything will compare to the description of the Dwarf Palace in “Prince of the North Tower”. I have to let myself get more fantastical with some of these places. Not the library. It has to be culturally consistant with the people who built it.
Put some explosions and shit in their way, on the way to the library.
More seriously… if the stuff they’re learning is relevant to the plot, it shouldn’t be hard to make it interesting.
TW: Star Trek
I always enjoyed watching Data or whoever query the computer and find out interesting shit that helped him solve some problem. It needs to be reeled out in tiny bits that help the reader/viewer piece it together ximself.
Well, there’s one of the issues. The two facts in question are that the locals know nothing about a particular sea, and that the documents the narrator nabbed contain the recipe for the stuff the bad guys were making in a previous chapter (they can’t read the script, so don’t know what it is yet). These are not, strictly speaking, all that vital.
Sexy librarian?
+2 eyes
Hrmm… That might cause problems, since Olander is married, Konstantin’s underage, and Dug’s dating Svetlana…
Our high school librarian was … not sexy. We called her Conan. The librarian.
Speed it up. Call it two pages. Character x had conversation with character y in library, after they sneak in their late lunch and have some banter they stumble onto a lead which takes them elsewhere six hours later or something.
Right now the scene is 199 words long.
I do most of my thinking before I put it on the page.
Oh, I read that as “Cut it two pages”
Need more caffiene.
Have the librarians be horny wenches?
Any of y’all shitlords know why my Firestick is using Wifi even though my TV has a direct internet connection to my router? I don’t get it, yet. If I run an app directly from my TV, no issues, but my Firestick is apparently using Wifi and I get connectivity issues.
Is it even designed to use the TV’s network connection?
See my rant about networking above.
The various technologies “work” but I get the sense that even people who deal with this stuff for a living are just winging it.
Packet switching and routing is easier to understand than microprocessors.
I don’t have to understand microprocessors to do my job. Most programmers don’t work at that level.
My main gripe is that consumer networking products are released with wholly inadequate instruction on how to actually connect to anything. It’s all trial-and-error. It needs to be raised to an (even) higher level of abstraction the way programming has.
I learned to code from machine language on up. It probably skewed my perspective of things.
Kudos. I learned from playing around with assembly language as a teenager that I didn’t have the aptitude for playing around with assembly language.
Your Fire stick is not designed to receive internet connection from the HDMI port. Probably, because most TV’s won’t share their internet connection through their HDMI ports even though it’s theoretically possible.
There is a pic of giant spider in my Africa pics. I espied it near Morogoro. Thinking it was this guy. While searching, I came across this guy:
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The king baboon spider is rusty brown to orange in color. They live in the shrublands and grasslands of east Africa, often using vegetation as a protective cover for their burrows. They are one of the few tarantulas that use stridulation as a major defense mechanism in addition to rearing up and striking. They produce the stridulation sound effect by rubbing the femurs of their first and second pairs of legs.
They are a slow-growing species, but can reach a leg span of up to 20 centimetres (7.9 in). They are burrowing spiders with thick back legs used for digging. They generally hunt beetles, cockroaches, and other spiders, and they will put silk near the entrance to its burrow to detect vibrations of passing prey.
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The one I saw was in a web. Its body was the size of a king size Hershey bar and its legs were about 8 inches long.
The things I’ve seen, man….
I would not put my hand that close to a spider that size.
Yeah, I wanted to make a similar pic with my spider. One gal in our party shrieked and cried when she saw it.
This one time in Africa, I was having Thanksgiving with my hippy dippy happy clappy granola crunchy Peace Corps pals. My job was to carry the turkey on the bus. We named him Mr Delicious and his keeper had spent a month feeding him garlic. We each took turns saying goodbye to Mr Delicious before he went on to his glorious destiny.
The tiny house was crowded so I crashed on the couch. I awoke to a stabbing sensation. I thought it was a nail poking me through the couch. Another stabbing pain a few minutes later. “Well, I hope it’s not a scorpion” I thought as I lifted the blanket to see what was poking me.
AH FUCK IT IS A SCORPION I screamed. GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF! I flung it off, chased it down, and pounded it flat with an eco-friendly Tevas sandal.
One in our party was called Dr. Josh.
“Dr. Josh! What should I do?! Help!”
“I don’t know! My degree’s in philosophy!”
And so spent the day lying down as my foot throbbed. We later learned that the bigger the scorpion, the weaker the venom. Somehow, I did not find this comforting.
I got stung by a scorpion bit by a spider once and it caused the tissue to necrotize. I didn’t know what was wrong but thankfully I messed with it and ended up digging all the rotten tissue out.
I recommend going to a clinic for that.
It was definitely of the Nephila genus. Looked a lot like this Giant Golden Orb Weaver
When I put a pic of it on Facebook, a gal I was friends with in college announced she was *not* coming to visit me in Africa.
speaking of giant spiders…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThmQZcX9g0
one more cool vid for the night owls
Fastest shooter EVER, Jerry Miculek- World record 8 shots in 1 second & 12 shot reload
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzHG-ibZaKM
He can fire a revolver faster than most soldiers can fire an M16 on semi.
Very nice, Spud. I’d eat that.
Tonight, I made pollo espagnol, which is my own vaguely Spanish concoction of chicken thighs, chorizo, onions, garlic, mushrooms, tomatoes paprika, olives. Garnished with parsley and preserved lemons. I’m sure it’s not authentic, but it’s tasty.
It sounds tasty. I did another beef stroganoff – but it was the best stroganoff I’ve made yet. Nailed the salt and the viscosity of the liquid – the two things I usually fuck up the most.
Do you do ground beef or cubed?
Stew beef. Chuck, I think. Seared it a bit with some flour and paprika. Except I forgot the paprika and just dumped a bunch of it into the liquid later…… Sigh.
Didn’t pull the trigger quick enough on TP tonight on Walmart. Out of stock again already.
I got lucky at Costco a week ago. We don’t really need another package but Newsom kept rattling his Saber. I figured better safe than sorry.
That’s really where we are right now. Still have enough but would like more.
I’m sure antifa/blm looted some. For the right price it could be yours.
Why does sound more and more like a failed soviet state?
Could it be that government controlling the economy never turns out well?
Ding ding ding!
The Great Reset Forward will cure that.
Save us, Joe!
https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/04/john-durham-kevin-clinesmith-prison-carter-page/
Good. Now his state bar needs to discipline him.
Is that a threat, slaver? Fuck off.
It’s 2020. Uncreadable.
I have no idea if I’m supposed to come in to work for the next three weeks or what.
We have three proposals due before Christmas.
I’m thinking I’ll go in on Monday and give you a full report on how the traffic stop goes…
Be sure an insist on seeing the most recent calibration for the thermometer, then mention a NIST-traceable standard. That should make anyone’s Monday morning.
Quentin Tarantino on Spaced. What even is this? Is this reality? Am I dreaming?
Jessica Hynes standing in front of Martin Freeman.
Not to be too faggy but I do appreciate the mise en place.
I clicked and didn’t adjust the volume first. That was a painful five seconds.
Every time I click on a twatter link from you fine folk the sidebar is always full of stories about K-Pop boy bands. My Grand daughter has only been here for maybe 12 hours. Am I secretly Gay for effeminate Asian men?
It’s 2020. Uncreadable.
The comment so nice that it needed saying twice!
Probably, but don’t ever let anyone tell you that’s not okay, hun. You’re on the right track, baby, you were born this wa-haaayy.
In Audrey Tang’s post-futurist Trans-humanist technocracy we will all be smooth-chinned androgynous cybernetic boy-girl-(wo)men.
Fuck that noise! I like being a (old) man! Angular and not rounded, proud of the decibel levels of ones own farts.
Secretly?
That stuff don’t even ripple my nipples. I can feature toe fungus ads because Judi has an ongoing battle with it but bum-fucking Asian toy-boys is not up my alley.
To whomever is doing the food prep in the above photos – TAKE YOUR GODDAMNED RING OFF! It gets caught on or in stuff or gets washed down the sink. I can’t watch other people using a knife without cringing. Taught Granddaughter #1 a few skills last night. How to peel an apple. How to present your holding hand while chopping.
I’m very much the same when it comes to filing. I’ve politely and carefully asked people if I might demonstrate the correct use of a file, but if they permit me to demonstrate, they generally go back to using it like an enraged orangutan with a hacksaw the next time I see them filing. I can tell you from experience, that at least 99% of people are absolutely incapable of ever being willing or able to use a file correctly. Anyone who isn’t me who touches my files without permission is likely to receive a swift kick to the backside that is precisely triangulated to shift them out the nearest exit.
#shitlord
Huh. When I need to file things I generally follow the prompts. #joking
Also, Judi and I are not Preppers in any serious way but she spent a fair portion of my pay cheque on pet food. I guess we can eat it first before we eat the cats and dog.
Do you not have takeout bbq where you live?
I think that’s what we’re having for lunch.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/shots-fired-dueling-pro-trump-versus-antifa-rallies-olympia-result-gunfire-videos/
Chaos.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/12/04/Man-tops-66-mph-in-electric-wheelchair-for-Guinness-record/8431607103586/
The covid #s keep increasing!!!!!11!1!
Fear. Doom. Lockdowns. Creepy Joe will save us.
mornin’ ya’all
Did you hear about the guy with 5 dicks? His pants fit like a glove.
Current titty status = calm
Mornin’ Baby-Head! How’s life treating ya? Mine is purely dumpster fire worthy.