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Nobody wrote anything.
You know what to do.
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Everyone is busy/indisposed/drinking/cleaning/decorating/footballing.
Nobody wrote anything.
You know what to do.
Taxation is theft.
Theftation is tax.
You didn’t pay the theft tax.
Is there a Glib quorum for golf in the low country ?
My clubs are in my Mom’s basement in KY.
I stopped playing about15 years ago. So no?
Would you prefer a donation?
Yes.
One of my state representatives is in the video in this article.
Rudy’s got the ‘vid.
Oh no, he’s only got a 99% chance of survivial!
Being old and demented, his personal odds are probably worse than that.
Who is this team in white, and what have they done with the New York Giants?
I expect a 4 way tie in the NFC East, which will be impressive since Philly has a tie.
Giants or Skins. Eagles lose all their remaining games.
The Jets are 12-0 now. Top that. They had decided that they finally had a chance to not go skunked since they were playing the Raiders. But in spite of the Raiders great effort to let them win a game, they let Henry Ruggs get wide open with 13 seconds left in the game, so there was that. Hint: not a good idea to let the fastest guy in the NFL get wide open, durrrr…
I meant 0-12 damnit.
The Brown’s perfect season waves hello!
The Jets are still in contention!
My Chicago Bears started the season 5-1, and have now dropped six in a row, their season essentially over at 5-7 after looking playoff bound early on. Today we were at a restaurant having brunch outside in what was likely our last chance to be served a meal in California this year. I went inside to use the head and passed by the empty bar, where they had multiple games on, poor place probably had to pay for the commercial Sunday Ticket package and now has no chance to recoup on the cost. Bears-Detroit was on; with less than 5 minutes to go, the Bears led by 10 points, and the Lions had the ball on their own three yard line. Because of the Bears “vaunted defense”, I figured they were finally going to break their losing streak. But by the time I returned from the bathroom, the Lions had scored two touchdowns to take the lead that would win them the game. Sigh. The loser Lions did that? Don’t know how, don’t want to know either.
The loser Lions did that?
It’s called a dead coach bounce.
The Giants are being the Giants, playing defense and pounding the ball.
Rudy’s got the ‘vid.
God’s judgement on him.
Those Dem governors? That was a conspiracy by anti-SCIENCE Republican terrorists.
Been hearing nothing but whining from Dems about how he’s not wearing a mask enough.
In a few days he’ll be in the clear on that concern.
Such innocence.
*pats Urthona on head*
I just got back from a holiday event. No masks in sight. People hugged and shook hands. There was delicious food.
There was a raffle. I wanted some of the silver coins. Instead, I won this. It works.
GlibFit since I missed the post: Weight is on a downward trend again. I missed a couple of days at the gym because of a sore throat. It turned out to be nothing. The day it started I spent a lot of time outside in the cold, and I think my throat was just irritated from that. There was no fever or other cold symptoms.
Looks pretty cool.
Yes. I like it.
Purdy.
Also, illegal in New York.
This implies there are legal things in New York.
Superspreader confirmed!
A list of PA bars that needs support.
“PIV-CON, Inc.”
Wut?
I missed that.
I’m certain it doesn’t mean “Penis in Vagina” because only people with a dirty mind would think that.
Just the existence of that list and the bullshit “crimes” called out in it boil my blood.
“Served alcohol without a meal”
What the FUCK is that supposed to do in furtherance of public health. Someone needs to tell these fucking busybody state fuckers to go pound sand and eat a bag of dicks.
The Neo-Puritans have discovered in the ‘vid a perfect excuse to impose their utopia on us.
Supposedly this is the GoFundMe for the Staten Island bar that is trying to defy the Lil Rona Panic Orders.
The news is saying he “tried to run over a cop”. Regardless of what actually happened, I would not expect that GoFundMe to last much longer.
Fuck.
I just donated.
Yeah, I assume the asshat sheriff jumped on the hood.
The article I read was vague on the details which tells me that’s probably exactly what happened.
The Bell Mawr gym owners appeared on Fox. The clip is about six and a half minutes long. They are continuing to defy Gauleiter Murphy’s orders. They want more businesses to defy these orders and are working on a plan to help those businesses out.
Snipers?
🙂
I like the cut of your jib.
The clip is about six and a half minutes long.
I’m pretty sure that is correctly called a “magazine!”
6 and 1/2 minutes is not really great accuracy.
wow: I totally missed that
Jeez, millennials really are the worst.
Our parents warned us the internet would break our brains. It broke theirs instead.
https://theweek.com/articles/951759/parents-warned-internet-break-brains-broke-theirs-instead
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Whenever I bring up the subject of broken boomer brains to my peers, the response is the same: My dad is just like that. My mom does that too. I’m begging my parents to stop watching Fox. I’m begging my parents to stop watching MSNBC. I would break their TV if I could. I would set up parental controls on their internet if I could. I tried to get my stepdad off Facebook — I ended up having to unfriend him on there instead. They’re always on Twitter. They’re always on YouTube. They’re always posting memes. They’re always texting links. We can’t have a conversation about politics anymore. They’re always dialed up to 11.
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They should all go back to snorting condoms, eating Tide Pods, and ironically playing skee ball in Chuckie Cheese while they listen to Green Day.
[goes back to snorting condoms, eating Tide Pods, and ironically playing skee ball in Chuckie Cheese while listening to Green Day]
I’d be interested to know what the “sketchy thing” is. Shikha article at The Week? #toosoon
like look at that logo. You can’t trust that.
Our best and brightest, folks.
20 years ago Mom was resending the bogus warnings about the “It takes guts to say Jesus” virus.
“Fuckoff, this is a free country, I’ll live my life how I like”
We can no longer have a free country, too risky. Maybe you can have your free country, with common sense restrictions (decided by us), if you obey.
I like Skeeball. So does God.
+1 Dogma
-1 Charlie Hebdo
I have no respect for people who kiss up and kick down.
That is, Kevin Smith should have made a movie about Islam if he really wants to be a daring film maker.
He had one in the works, but decided he didn’t want to put his family at risk. Sometimes cowardice is just smart.
My wife loves it. I’ve been looking for a machine to go with my pinball machines.
“Our parents warned us the internet would break our brains”
No work to be done. Your brain was already broken by public school, you whiny ass little pussies.
Chess will destroy our children!
Novels will stop our children from reading!
The comics will corrupt our children!
Dungeons and Dragons will destroy our children!
Heavy Metal will convert the children to the Devil!
You forgot about backwards Satanic lyrics.
…and they was right, too…
Dad? Is that you?
Yes, son, stop playing those records backwards, you’ll go to hell!
I’ve done my damnedest to avoid the knee-jerk “kids like it, it’s wrong!” thoughts as I’ve gotten older. I can even make a rational argument about why “Let’s Play” videos are popular (it’s video’s of someone else playing a game that you’re watching).
There are still some things I can’t comprehend, and just write it up to the generation gap.
“Elvis should be only shown from the waist up on TV, He’s too suggestive in his moves.”
/As every middle aged housewife turned on tv, if they had it
It’s the responsibility of kids to drive their parents crazy. Grandparents only laugh, remembering their own kids
I haven’t spawned, so I’ve just been an uncle.
But I’ve thought back on what adults thought of my passtimes enough to try to avoid the same style of knee jerk reactions. Hell, I had a discussion with one my nephews last Christmas about the fact that I had chosen an unfair thing to do, and here’s why I did it.
I have a videotape of all the rock and roll that was televised up to the 1980’s. Well, not all, but most. It has the Stones on Ed Sullivan singing, ” Lets Spend The Night Together” They made him change the lyric to ” lets spend some time together” Every time he sings it, he rolls his eyes all dramatically, and the last time, he lets loose with the real lyric. It’s kind of like syaing, ” What’re they gonna do, It’s all done now. Really cool.
I watch Let’s Play videos all the time because I suck at most video games and I need help when I’m stuck.
Or I want to see if the game’s any good before I spend money on it.
Eminently practical on both counts.
I prefer a written review without spoilers. But I also have a shameful backlog of games (and honestly I’ve been playing more Rocket League and MTG:A over the past couple of months).
But I’ll stand up for those who watch eSports as the same as watching any pro sports league.
I need to see the game in action. My backlog is also too big and mostly consists of games that sounded better on paper.
As for eSports, well. I can’t fault people for finding something that harmless interesting, though it’s not for me at all.
eSports make about as much sense to me as meatspace sports – ie, I don’t understand the appeal to spectate.
I’m still buying games on a semi-regular basis. I’ve avoided all pre-orders since ME3 at least.
I’ll watch for a couple of minute or highlights on eSports for a game I play just to see how low my skill level really is. But I’ve frequently in real life had to compare the teams on that to pro sports players to explain the skill level.
Related.
It’s a good thing kids these days have no interest in social media.
Jeez, millennials really are the worst.
Grown men playing video games !
I am back at a particular hotel for the first time after the most recent lockdown, and the TV remote now has a silicone condom over it.
I support this.
Not for the Wuhan, but because of what those filthy people who last used the room did.
I like this hotel for the location. It’s not the cleanest, or the most pleasant smelling, or the most well-appointed, or the quietest, or even necessarily the cheapest. Sometimes there have been weird, greasy smears and hand prints on the walls.
Does the condom appear to have any, err,uh, residue on it? Any remote sanitizer in the room?
No residue as far as I can tell. I have a little bottle of hand gel but I’m going to play pathogen roulette and not sanitize it or my hands after use. I’m guessing it’s there what for making it easier for the cleaner to do that so I don’t have to.
Ps I watched a documentary about Vikings presented by eminent historian Megan Fox. It was about what you might expect.
native Tennessean
You think the silcone condom is changed?
At best they turn it inside out between visitors.
But you can dunk the thing in disinfectant yourself without risk of shorting out the remote.
Though, come to think of it, I don’t use hotel TVs.
And it all depends upon the cleaning crews and their management whether they clean or change the remote socks.
They probably didn’t change the sheets, I wouldn’t stress about the remote.
It’s actually a semi-transparent molded thing that fits the shape so not a disposable item. It’s kind of cloudy but transparent enough to see the keys through. They skimped on de-gassing before molding I guess, otherwise it could be a lot clearer? Mlah.
It’s purpose is to allow them to wipe the remote with a sanitizing solution without getting the solution in side the key pad thus breaking the keypad.
Well, yeah.
the TV remote now has a silicone condom over it.
Because of what you did
towith it last time you were there?We do not speak of this.
The incoming legislature has displeased the Clown Prince
GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU has been publicly critical of large gatherings that he believes didn’t include proper COVID-19 precautions.
So while partisans might have found it jarring, Sununu’s sharp rebuke last week of the House Republican Caucus at the McIntyre Ski Area in Manchester last Nov. 20 that resulted in at least “four” positive COVID-19 cases was true to form.
“It was horribly managed, horribly managed, there were a lot of individuals who were there not wearing masks,” said Sununu, who wasn’t present but received reports.
“There was an open buffet as well.”
Sununu said House Speaker Dick Hinch’s leadership team should have informed House Democratic leaders once they learned from the Department of Health and Human Services that multiple COVID-19 cases were traced back to this event.
“Public health had done contact-tracing and there was good communication among the House Republican leadership about what took place,” Sununu said.
”There was not a broader risk to the public,” Sununu said, but “As things moved forward, the communication should have taken place between both parties.”
A legislator says only four tested positive, and those four were wearing masks. All who attended the event had been notified about the positive tests. The legislator also says, “[He is] getting pushback for the first time. Cry me a river.”
Enough to remove him? Or even just burn down his edicts?
The impeach inquiry was withdrawn.
I think out of the huge amount of bills and resolutions in the hopper related to the Lil Rona Panic, I think a resolution ending the state of emergency gets through. I think a rewrite of the emergency powers law gets through too. Probably not much else.
We’ll see in January/February.
If they end the state of emergency that takes away all the edicts, right?
What about the municipal ones?
I hate to sound like an interrogator, but I really need somewhere I can go to have a normal day.
If the legislature or governor ends the State of Emergency, all the state level orders go away. If the legislature ended the State of Emergency, I don’t know if the Clown Prince would find ways to implement the orders through other channels similar to Gauleiterin Whitmer. We’ll find out in January/February.
Some of the municipal mask ordinances are tied to the State of Emergency. Some are not. It would depend on the ordinance.
The only municipality I know of that has tried enacting Lil Rona Panic ordinances other than mask ordinances is Nashua. This Wednesday, Nashua will consider a curfew. Because Lil Rona only comes out after dark. I don’t have any details on the curfew.
I remember talking with you about Keene because it is close to New York.
I looked up Keene’s mask ordinance.
It terminates (trigger warning: PDF) if the State of Emergency ends as currently written. Scroll to the end.
That’s good.
NY 7 to VT 9 drops me off right at Keene. It’s pretty much the closts part of the state to me.
Careful. It’s full of college kids, though.
And a sibling.
I’m pining for a Chinese buffet. All of the good ones by us have gone out of business.
dammit
now I want szechuan
All we’ve got is surplus bat soup.
Wet market or canned?
I love a spicy szechuan.
Just buy a wok and learn to make a good white sauce and a good brown sauce. Then throw in some water chestnut, mushrooms, snow pea pods, baby corn, bok choy, bamboo shoots, and use your imagination. I’ve been doing it for may moons now.
Mine had baby shrimp in it tonight. Not implying that I made it, only that I had it for dinner.
Well, the protein is optional, can be shrimp, chicken, steak, dog, cat, whatever. Ancient Chinese secret.
Sesame oil is the secret. And coconut amines.
Sesame oil is the bomb.
Gonna wok around the clock tonight.
My sauce secret is orange blossom honey.
Good choice
There was never a good Chinese buffet in my area. Most were expected to be money laundering places more then restaurants. Now Indian buffets we’ve got in spades.
“There was an open buffet as well.”
This is another thing that mystifies me. If the ‘rona is spread by spit droplets in the air, why all the concern about buffets and wiping everything else down with alcohol or bleach constantly?
Seems like if airborne spread is the concern then the constant cleaning of surfaces is unnecessary as is the shuttering of buffets. If surfaces ate the concern then masks are unnecessary.
It’s not supposed to make sense.
I know……and it causes my autistic brain to short circuit.
That was debunked months ago. But something must be done and endlessly wiping down surfaces is something.
Via Instapundit, here’s an interview with a leftist who isn’t completely insane:
What Does Liberalism Even Mean Anymore?
It means the same thing it meant when the commies invented the term progressive, and then hijacked the word liberal. You know, at least 50 years ago. IOW, communist.
” Democrats are now trying to pressure Biden into student loan forgiveness. Can you believe it? What kind of society thinks it’s ok to ask 12 million people who lost their jobs to Covid to foot the bill for the student loans of the top 40% of earners? Sure, maybe it will accidentally help someone in a food line who dropped out of college. But college-educated Americans are back at work. The Covid recession is over for them. Why are the Democrats designing legislation to help the people who need it least, in the belief that some of the benefits might trickle down to help those who need it most? “
Why? The election is over and the white non-college types voted against them while the white educated suburbanites (likely to have kids with loans) need to be rewarded.
Yes, the college grads and the college-bound are their main supporters now. Hell, they brag about it.
I think it’s about time to lump talismasks in with vibrating weight loss belts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iet33fqk9OE
Science! Marches on…
speaking of masks,
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William L. “Wild Bill” Carlisle (May 4, 1890 – June 19, 1964) was one of the last train robbers of the American West known as the “Robin Hood of the Rails” and “The White-Masked Bandit”.[
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By early 1916 he was destitute, with only a nickel in his pocket; he decided the quickest way to obtain cash was to hold up a train. Carlisle robbed his first train in Wyoming on 9 February 1916 wearing a white bandana over his face and armed with a toy pistol and a .32-caliber pistol. During the robbery he gave coins to a guard to make up for his lost tips, gave a dollar to a man to pay for his breakfast and bowed to a woman who tried to take his gun from him.[5] He held up two more trains over the next two months. He was caught on 22 April 1916 and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins on 10 May 1916 after a two-day trial, even though he never shot anyone during the robberies and did not take money from women, children or servicemen. In prison he worked in the shirt factory.
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I’ve read every article on Wikipedia that contains the word Wyoming. In the words of my favorite killer robot, I have detailed files.
OK, who needs a calendar for 2021?
JFC.
Frequently bought together with Obama’s latest empty-headed gasbagging. LOL.
So precious
In an effort to stay open but prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, Pitkin County announced this week that it will be adding a new public health requirement for visitors.
Starting Dec. 14, anyone who is visiting the county and planning to stay overnight will need to take a COVID-19 test 72 hours before arriving, get a negative result and then sign an affidavit saying they’ve done so.
If they do not, the visitor will be required to quarantine for 14 days or until they obtain a negative test result.
Pitkin County = Aspen
Compliance rate? I’m going to say less than 20%.
20%? Very optimistic. I say around 4-5%. Ain’t nobody got time for that kind of wackiness, especially after we all know we’re not gonna die from this thing.
So I just dove into season two of Alpha House and find that Penn Jillette plays a Senate candidate from the Democrat Party. Shocking!
plays?
“Nobody wrote anything.”
I’ve been working on something…
Me too. I even have a draft up. For weeks now….
I gave up something the other day because I couldn’t figure out how to generate simple single-line spacing. I pasted from a single-line source, but then it got weird and I just gave up.
Covid rant: plenty of my Sunday was taken up today by panicked work phone calls and text messages. Three members of my organization are not feeling well which spurned a bunch of preemptive quarantines, stupid questions and ultimately the witch hunt questions of:
“Were they wearing their masks last week?”
“Who were they in contact with for more than 15 cumulative minutes?”
“Were they maintaining 6-feet?”
…….There are traitors to the faith among us. Their sins will find them out.
You look at your phone on Sunday?
I have little choice in the matter…
One downside to support is I have to regularly answer random calls to my cell. If it’s outside my work hours, I generally just let them go to VM.
I wish I had that luxury…..tomorrow would be hell had I elected to ignore those calls
My philosophy is that if it’s so important you’re calling me from an unknown number outside of business hours, it’s important enough to leave me a message.
/admits to actually listening to messages
Ugh, been there. The nature of my current work doesn’t require that thank God but I’ve had my share of putting out surprise overnight fires and such
my wife’s company has the 15 minute thing too. I don’t get it. that ones really odd. it would seem like it could take seconds.
But it sounded good when some public health bureaucrat made it up……SCIENCE!
If it “took seconds” we’d all be dead by now. The fifteen-minute thing came about when they realized that small amounts of the coof are harmless – you need large amounts to get sick and that only happens when a victim is breathing in your face for long periods of time.
naturally. that sounds sciency.
Wife is watching a Samba contest on Brazilian TV.
The short chick on there now, wow. Thicc little broad. There is just a whole lot of sexual assets packed into that little package.
Even the founder of Zappos couldn’t survive lockdowns.
The Death of Zappos’s Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior
Oh boo hoo. I’ve done all that and more. What does that have to do with getting trapped in a house fire?
You know what to do.
Panic?
So, you don’t have your towel?
Paging Swissy?
Something something ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal.
Mom is not here and that guy is sitting on the couch eating microwaved pot pie and watching C-SPAN again and I am not happy about it
/ her cats
topic: the contentious Buchanan – Lincoln transition
Arg!
I’ve done absolutely zero foreshadowing of the type of enemy that the next fight scene entails, and I’m not sure how much I want to blindside the reader or if it’s appropriate to the fact that the characters have no clue it’s coming either.
you owe the reader nothing but reasonably-motivated characters
all the rest is a matter of style
Incorrect, but nice try.
Coherency is a pre-requisite.
If the character doesn’t know it’s coming, then the reader doesn’t necessarily need to know.
I’m a sucker for foreshadowing. I think it rewards those who were paying attention to the little details.
But a major plot driver for the next section of the book is the push to get rid of the enemy’s ability to field the guys that give a nasty shock at this juncture. (I’m talking roundabout because I’m trying not to spoil the story.)
So I have a character who doesn’t tell people things they don’t ask about and/or they assume something wrongly. She doesn’t do this to be a bitch. She does it because she can’t be arsed to suss out the incorrect assumptions and correct them. Anyway, it ends up that the people around her get blindsided by things she does (when they shouldn’t—it’s their fault for assuming things).
Anyway, she does this to the reader, too. The reader falls into the same trap that her friends do.
My editor thought that was cheating. I said, “She does it all the way through the book. Why are you special?”
… “Good point.”
I would not want to read that book. I would seriously get angry at the character. Which may be hypocritical as I have characters who flat out state as fact things that are wrong because they believe otherwise.
Probably the same reason I can’t stand characters or contrivances that keep salient information from the reader when it would otherwise be in the scene. Though I may be misreading how it is implemented, my status as “not a character in the book” is what makes me special.
I’m sorry, I almost certainly worded that thoughtlessly, I’m severely agitated at the moment, and unsure of the cause. It’s making me… curt.
Hello Curt.
No worries. ?
It would have pretty much made the book flat and boring if the reader knew what my character had in mind.
The plot point in question was, “Will he be able to seduce her or not?”
Because she kept her subplot internal dialogue to herself in favor of the more obvious stuff, the reader is as blindsided as the hero is. He should have guessed her end game. If the reader does, that reader IS special and thus, it’s a joke the reader shares with me, the writer.
“I see what you’re doing here, writer.”
*wink wink nudge nudge*
I disagree. No man has ever been able to guess what women are thinking.
LOL
Foreshadowing is your clue to quality literature.
I guess I see it as a certain sort of turbocharging that with time and space isn’t really much needed.
Faulkner used it less than most (I approve), but in his short-story A Rose for Emily there’s this heavy-handed buying of the arsenic scene that wouldn’t be quite so necessary in one of his usual tomes.
You don’t want your story to turn into a Seinfeld episode.
The thing about foreshadowing subtly is that it demands the reader to pay attention to every detail. If the reader doesn’t catch it, that’s their fault.
If you want the reader to get it, you have to get more obvious.
I’ve given this example before: I wrote a character with a secret identity, but I wrote it so that that character and the reader were co-conspirators, which led to the reader wondering why the other character didn’t figure it out.
Well, shit, I thought it was obvious that only the most fantastical person in the world (and she was most certainly not fantastical) would get it. That’s where I caught myself in a trap. The readers were like, WHY ISN’T SHE GETTING THIS? SHE’S AN IDIOT!
In my re-edit, I had my character ask WHY he expected her to figure it out because it was a stupid leap to make. “People take drugs to keep them from making those kinds of leaps.”
So there’s a gazillion ways you can foreshadow something, on a spectrum of heavy-handed to so subtle you might as well not have tried, and a gazillion ways for your other characters to react.
I foreshadow to both reward observant readers, and to make sure I have all the pieces on the board.
For this coming fight, I’ve thought it over, and as its more the unveiling of a secret weapon than anything else, I think it’s okay to blindside the narrator.
Oh, point I failed to make: She’s an Aspie.
nice try, but
what about how the earth’s crust cooled and the thermodynamic balance in the setting and a tidy description of the protagonist tying his shoes every morning ?!!!!111!?
Aww… *Bleep*!
The whole scene is supposed to take place during a public holiday with festivities. Dug would certainly pay attention to the goings on there… and I haven’t even thought about how the locals would celebrate.
It’s the Emperor’s Brithday (Observed), and all I know is that it’s customary for him to give out food to the crowds, and gifts to those who managed to get seats inside the arena. The ancillary details are still vague in my head. I want to get text on the page, but I need to think about this.
Orgy! Orgy! Orgy!
I don’t care how much I cribbed from Rome on this particular culture, I’m not going full Caligula.
NEVER go full Caligula.
The previous local holiday was a very staid occasion where Dug didn’t see anything going on. But that was more of a religious holiday. The Emperor’s Birthday would be a more secular holiday, and already has public celebrations, so I figure there is more open festivities rather than private observances.
Carnivale? Mardi Gras?
Something along those lines.
Describing such riotous celebrations will be… an interesting endeavor.
OBEY
White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx said Sunday she’s frustrated with the persistence of false claims about the spread of the virus.
In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Birx said she’s heard members of local communities “parroting back” misinformation about the effectiveness of masks and called for stronger mitigation efforts.
“When I go out, I just don’t meet with health care providers and governors and mayors, but I also meet with the community,” Birx said. “And so I hear community members parroting back those situations, parroting back that masks don’t work, parroting back that we should work toward herd immunity, parroting back that gatherings don’t result in superspreading events. And I think our job is to constantly say those are myths.”
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“I think it’s really important that every single person understands that the way this virus is spread is if you’re with anyone indoors without a mask, that’s a viral spreading opportunity,” Birx said. “If you’re outdoors and hugging and kissing individuals, that is a viral spreading opportunity. We have to really understand how contagious, how infectious, this virus is.”
“So this is where we find ourselves,” she said. “And we have to listen right now to what we know works, which is mask, physical distancing, washing your hands. But not gathering. You cannot gather without masks in any indoor or close outdoor situation.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week issued its strongest mask-wearing guidance yet, recommending people wear masks whenever they’re not at home. Birx appeared on camera wearing a mask.
Unerringly correct, she is. There is no legitimate counter argument. Holy Writ has more holes in it.
White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx said Sunday she’s frustrated with the persistence of false claims about the spread of the virus.
To be fair, “public” health officials have been spreading a lot of false propaganda about the virus.
None of that worked out here. We are not any better off for having done this crap for 9 months. There’s just a lot of broke assed unemployed people getting the ‘vid now. And recovering from it at 99.9%, btw.
Even if no one there HAS the virus!!
Yes, “parroting”….
It couldn’t possibly be that the advice of the experts has been inane, self-contradictory, and mendacious from the start. It’s beyond he pale that the hoi pollio would have come to this conclusion unless there was seditious voices feeding them lies.
FOS.
Feature, not bug.
“When I go out, I just don’t meet with health care providers and governors and mayors, but I also meet with the community,”
Why are you going out in a pandemic?
Right? Why no Stay at Home To Stop Vyruhs!?!/1/1/1!?!
Found a brief bright spot in the misery of the last two weeks when I was Christmas shopping this morning. I had NO IDEA they made padded sticks specifically for kids to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079X31D77/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8
total link fail. For kids to hit each other with! Now I’m happily anticipating my nieces and nephews attacking everyone in sight on Christmas morning.
Not pugil sticks?
That’s what I was looking for originally, but 1) most of my nephews and nieces are still pretty small and 2) they’re already whacking each other with three limbs, so this is closer to what they’re trying to do anyway.
https://dismalfogs.lochac.sca.org/files/2018/06/IMG_3666.png
Boffers.
Easy to make.
More boffers.
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Those are pretty awesome. I found some similar looking items on amazon but they didn’t look nearly as sturdy. Mostly I’m just pleased they even still make hitting toys. I thought violence outside of videogames was officially on the unapproved list.
That doesn’t even look like a sword. You can buy cool looking ones that do look like swords. I’m the fun uncle.
There was a “discussion” with one of my nephews as to why it would be inappropriate to bring his bow and arrow to his great-grandma’s funeral.
Who else was going to fire the flaming arrow into the boat?
+1 S.O.B.
I did look at some of the practice/play swords, but they either looked like they’d probably take damage or break after a good whack, or they were wooden, and I was worried that when my 14 year old started playing with his 7 year old cousin, they’d injure each other. This seemed like a good starting compromise. Plus, I have 7 nieces and nephews plus my own kids to shop for, so there’s price considerations too.
PVC pipe inside a pool noodle wrapped with duct tape. They are sturdy and can deliver a pretty good thump.
Will keep that in mind when it’s time to make upgrades. I can see a few of the kids really getting into this.
Only like $5 more
Nerf made swords and we got some for the kids in the late 1980’s. The grandkids are now using the same swords when they visit. A good foam sword is a priceless toy.
We used to use Hotwheels tracks. Of course my brother used the one with the launching hook and sliced my head open with it. Got about 6 stitches from that one.
Ouch! That’s part of what I’m trying to avoid. I don’t mind them tussling or even whacking each other, but they were doing it with fallen tree limbs, which seemed a bit much.
Broken bones and stitches build character. That’s what health insurance is for.
Chicks dig scars.
For my own kids, sure. For my sisters’ kids? That’s the beginning of internal family fights and personal injury lawsuits, no thank you.
Ain’t nobody had health insurance when I was a kid. The other kids would all have a conference to determine if the hurt kid was hurt bad enough to justify telling the grown ups. You’d always get in trouble for getting hurt. Get slapped all the way to the hospital and everything. We used to limp past them and try to hide the fact that we’re injured.
Kids still do that @blackjack. My son was fucking around, fell of a chair and landed on his wrist wrong. It wasn’t until a week later, when we were halfway through our trip to Disneyworld that he admitted he thought it might be broken. It was.
They work much better when you take the padding off
For kids to hit each other with! Now I’m happily anticipating my nieces and nephews attacking everyone in sight on Christmas morning.
Pool noodles?
*I think that’s what they’re called.
Moar violent!
If the character doesn’t know it’s coming, then the reader doesn’t necessarily need to know.
“Don’t go in there.”
“AAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!”
“Toldja.”
Annie Lennox is Hot, fight me,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg&list=RD0-EF60neguk&index=30
Where would you like to be punched in the face first?
Sorry, on a Kitty in a Casket roll now.
Agree. But I’m biased. Looks quite a lot like an ex of mine.
None of that worked out here. We are not any better off for having done this crap for 9 months.
You did it wrong. It would have worked if you hadn’t failed to follow orders properly.
And if you did properly follow orders, it was because of all the other
splitterskulakswreckersscience deniers otherwise we wouldlive in the great communist utopiahave beaten the virus!“Say ten Hail Anthonys and call me in the morning.”
Covid, meet Cure,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXCKLJGLENs
That’s a good song.
Protowave, killer,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM3oBxve4Wg
This is the worst 31st post I have ever read.
You have nothing to say, and are therefore irrelevant, have a nice day!
when all else fails, Tank!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xH9_9znxWM
“This is not just the worst public health event, this is the worst event that this country will face, not just from a public health side. Yet, we know what behaviors spread the virus, and we know how to change those behaviors to stop spreading the virus.”
Pull your skirt down, you big squealy drama queen. Nobody wants to see that.
I’d like to seal that idiot cunt in a metal tube and let her sink slowly into the Marianas Trench. “Worst event this country will ever face” my ass.
I keep telling people who are smart enough to engage;
This only ends when the politicians and ‘experts’ take helicopter rides and having unfortunate woodchipper accidents. I’m not advocating violence, simply stating a fact. These people will not stop until this shit costs them personally.
*and/or have
The worst event this country will ever survive is a Biden admin. If we survive that, we can overcome anything. The odds for that however, are worse than SMOD hitting us next year and surviving that. But at least, SMOD will cure first world problems, while a Biden admin will take them to doomsday level.
Not the actual Civil War?
His truth is marching on
It will be a lot worse than that, sorry to say.
Recency bias.
I bet the Harris administration will be worse, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it started not long after Biden’s first 100 days in office.
Depends on the results in Georgia.
Fingers crossed.
Loeffler was well-coached tonight. She was a perfect robot, perfectly dodging all the predicted questions and turning to vagaries as suited her. She had zero personality, but she made no mistakes that I saw.
Contrast that with her opponent whose platform consisted only of identity politics and bigger government.
No matter how much the aliens try to steal the election, I don’t see how she loses.
I’ll report back from their low country later in the month.
Hopefully additional scrutiny will force them to run elections on the up and up. While I’m at it, might as well pick up a powerball ticket since the jackpot is over 200 million now.
Contrast that with her opponent whose platform consisted only of identity politics and bigger government.
No matter how much the aliens try to steal the election, I don’t see how she loses.
I mean, Biden just won Georgia on a platform of mainly identity politics and bigger government, so maybe that’s what Georgia wants now?
I feel like maybe you need to be talked off a ledge here.
No, she’s right. In the other extreme events, most people had an incentive to act rationally. When the government, the media and all the goofballs are ranting and raving, there’s zero hope of overcoming anything. I’d rather face a real catastrophe with reasonable leaders and populace, personally. This whole scheme does not bode well for the future.
this is the worst event that this country will face
Just wait until the consequences of the mounting debt come due and we crash the world economy, without the ability to borrow & bail out any more. That will put this whole COVID thing to shame.
(Since the voice was future tense, I’m avoiding bringing up the many other times in the past that things have been worse in the good ol’ USA, but I think the rest of you already have that covered, anyway.)
Get Of My Lawn! I’ll rock your fucking head off1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-MTO9gHmqY
Don’t go in there, pt 2
The body of a Texas man was found after what authorities believe was a deadly mountain lion attack.
Christopher Allen Whiteley, 28, was reported missing on Thursday after last being seen early Wednesday morning in Lipan, Texas, the Hood County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday. Whiteley’s body was found in a nearby wooded area after a search.
A preliminary report from the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office found Whiteley likely died of a wild animal attack.
Put him down as a plague death.
What kind of pussy gets killed by a mountain lion?
The kind not carrying a gun which can kill a mountain lion?
/\
| Hyperion is that kind of pussy. Got it.
Tell us about your feline killing gunz, Broketard?
Do tell us about your feline killing weapons, Broketard?
It’s not like I like doing these things, you make me do it.
I have a right hand and I have a left hand.
the kind that doesn’t own guns
Paging Swiss. Swiss, narrowed gaze stat.
Shut up and listen Bro!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY
That ain’t woke, muh systemic racism! Ban it!
You got the undulating fat chicks, get em outta here!
Once upon a time,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wBDDAZkNtk&list=RDfGj77BrEgj4&index=6
thanks
/Hat tip sir!
Completely unforeseeable
School districts from coast to coast have reported the number of students failing classes has risen by as many as two or three times — with English language learners and disabled and disadvantaged students suffering the most.
“It was completely off the rails from what is normal for us, and that was obviously very alarming,” said Erik Jespersen, principal of Oregon’s McNary High School, where 38% of grades in late October were failing, compared with 8% in normal times.
Educators see a number of factors at play: Students learning from home skip assignments — or school altogether. Internet access is limited or inconsistent, making it difficult to complete and upload assignments. And teachers who don’t see their students in person have fewer ways to pick up on who is falling behind, especially with many keeping their cameras off during Zoom sessions.
——-
In Charleston, South Carolina, administrators and teachers are raising the possibility of adjusting grading the way they did in spring, where instructors were told to give 50s instead of 0s to make it less punitive for disengaged students, eighth-grade English teacher Jody Stallings said. “I’m an English teacher, not a math teacher, but I’ve learned zeros are very, very devastating to an average,” he said.
Our best. Our brightest.
Deborah Birx was unavailable for comment.
“Deborah Birx was unavailable for comment.”
Wait, I thought that Birkenwokenscarfenstien was dead?
NYC is not even giving grades now. Which makes sense since most of the teachers aren’t teaching and most of the students aren’t learning.
Evergreen rules.
I’m a Geek,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo&list=RDfGj77BrEgj4&index=7
My favorite tune from Denver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMuEOxir6w
He one a\was a Journeyman but not here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cgQJzJsM5U
As long as you’re not a ‘wonk’, we’re going to let you live.
Great song.
PS. My 10th grade math teacher made no secret of her feelings about him. She shared them at every opportunity.
Did it rise to the level of uncomfortable oversharing?
Nah. I was amused. Hell, I found him attractive myself……..
Apparently “Big in Japan”
カントリー・ロード
This isn’t the only group that’s covered it that I’ve seen on YouTube.
I’d rather face a real catastrophe with reasonable leaders and populace, personally. This whole scheme does not bode well for the future.
Dec 8, 1941- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt today offered our unconditional surrender to the Japanese Empire, saying “Freedom is not worth a single additional lost life.”
You and me Baby,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k&list=RDfGj77BrEgj4&index=30
The Roof is on Fire!!
the Real version,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7OvPTmhtiY
Either the Broncos stepped up their game a little, or the Chiefs are being sloppy. I vote #2.
“Manitoba, Canada court rules churches not allowed to hold drive-in worship services”
https://twitter.com/WestphalianNews/status/1335674501133176841
WTF, Canada?
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/885158548
$1,400 for a plane jane P228.
can I sell rusty pocketknives on that site?
Plain…plane…whatever.
Air Marshal edition?
I think I paid $450 for my P228.
That is my favorite handgun, fits my smaller hands perfectly.
(Or it was before that unfortunate boating accident)
You lost your hands in a boating accident? I’m so sorry.
Unsurprising. Lots of people are losing arms in their boating accidents. BH got off lucky with just a hand.
How’d you lose your leg?
It got crushed between two ships as I boarded from one to the other.
How’d you lose your hand?
Sliced off with a rapier!
How’d you lose your eye?
Right after the rapier incident, I got a hook and then… a bird shit in my eye!
In 1941, My grandfather was at Pearl harbor and saw a bunch of things a 17 year old shouldn’t see, but he did, and never told the tale.,
Is it true it was an inside job?
Tomorrow is Pearl Harbor Day, never forget,
The legacy
I’ve worked for two Japanese firms. Mom’s dad never liked it one bit. The German firm didn’t upset him quite as much, but it was no small thing.
My grandfather who never had an unkind word about anybody made the comment that they weren’t very nice during WWII.
Mind you his wife and my grandmother had a large portion of her family imprisoned and killed as part of the “Final Solution” and I never heard him make such a blanket statement about the Germans.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EogxDuzW8AMJg4z.jpg
I’m ready for Christmas.
In other music reminiscing:
I can’t wait one minute more
So, Cyberpunk 2077…yeah or nah?
Can’t tell you, it’s not out yet and I’m avoiding leaks.
I will play it after the first expansion comes out.
I plan to play wednesday at around 7pm. (Assuming the timezone calculations are correct)
I’m just managing expectations by avoiding the influx of information that screws up first impressions.
my thing is i never seem to play rpgs more than once so i like to wait at least one expansion to maximize the experience.
*shrug* I’m not criticizing the choice, it’s your time and money.
No one knows. Just play AC Valhalla right now, it’s the best game ever created by humans.
Was it still made by Ubisoft?
If so, I’m going to pass.
Yes, and it’s the best RPG I’ve ever played.
So it’s not an Assassin’s Creed game then.
They burned too much of my goodwill. I’m not giving them any more of my money.
It’s not. it’s barely an ac game. and vikings. they’ve never won a super bowl but they’re fun to play as.
Not true. It is an AC game. Stealth is still necessary if you are not completely OP, which is hard to do. The British Aisles map is incredibly immense. It makes Skyrim look like a 6 hour game.
At this time, I have focused my skills on ranged weaponry because it’s what I do in games. But I have a two handed axe that will totally fuck up everyone if I get to swinging it. Last night during an intense battle, I jumped up into a cart and would just start swinging that as soon as anyone approached me, limbs and heads flying everywhere, lol. But you can get overwhelmed and so the stealth aspect is still very important if you don’t want to get frustrated. And the atmosphere and graphics, OMG, I suggest you do not miss this.
I don’t know. Stealth doesn’t feel that useful any more. Could be doing it wrong.
“Could be doing it wrong.”
Yes, it’s more difficult. Taking your time and using the ‘whistle’ skill is much more difficult. Combat skills are much more important. I sort of enjoy that.
I’m still on Origins, but the increasing lack of having the hidden blade having it’s own dedicated button has been a a deteriorating factor in the ‘stealth’ play of the game. More and more it’s get in ‘this spot to execute’ rather than being open ended gameplay. And Origins was the first one to have the retarded ‘XP’ meter that I had to turn off. I’m not playing Final Fantasy.
I don’t have Origins, I went with Odyssey.
I’ll say this, Odyssey in no way compares to Valhalla, neither does any other game they’ve ever made, that I’ve played.
I’ve played ever major release now up to Origins (not the PSP or other non platform/PC games, even if they were rereleased as PC games) and since Black Flag and Rogue every release has gotten worse in combat and story while expanding the ‘world’.
Black Flag was my fav AC game until this one. There is no comparison, this is the best game released in a very long time by anyone. No, I don’t work for Ubisoft, neither am I in particular fond of them as a company, lol.
I’m just trying to say, play this game, you will not regret it.
I’ve played and completed every installment upto and including Odessey, and felt less and less engagement since about AC 4
Correction – I did not complete syndicate.
I ran into a mission where you were tasked with protecting Karl Marx, shut it off and never went back.
“UnCivilServant”
Well, you see, bro, you are not listening to me, for whatever reason. I’m just trying to spread the word, Valhalla is maybe the best RPG ever created, and if it’s not, I can’t remember what is. The last game I loved this much was Gothic 1, way back in what? 2007? And that game was maybe already 7 years old?
I’ll play Cyberpunk 2077 and if it is as good as AC Valhalla, I’ll be the first to admit. Hell, I hope that it is! It’s just that I seriously doubt it. Valhalla is a once in a couple of decades type game.
The thing is…Assassin’s Creed games aren’t supposed to be RPGs…
Hyp – You’re overselling it.
I really don’t care about which you regard as better.
We get it, you really like this game, but everything you’ve been describing is nothing like what made the series good.
If it were a standalone title, it’d still have the handicap of being from Ubisoft, but wouldn’t be more salt in the wound of “we stopped making AC games, but throw the label on these titles for name recognition”. That might get it to “we’ll see”.
As it stands, you’re sounding like this discussion has gotten you upset, and so you’re upping the hype level each time.
Dude, if you think I am upset about a discussion of games on the internet, you’re living in a different reality from the one I live in, lol
Then have you read your posts? It sounds like you’re foaming.
You’re freaking out dude, you’re freaking out!
Also, you should know that Cyberpunk 2077 is being made by CD Projekt. The devs of TW series. Games well known for their story and too many hours of cutscenes and a horrid combat system. Don’t get your hopes up. I’m sure I will play it. Do I expect it to be as good as AC Valhalla? No, not even close, the chance of that is laughable at best.
Sounds like you’re jealous.
Buyer’s remorse?
I don’t even get what you are saying? Buyer’s remorse why? I can and will buy Cyberpunk, what am I jealous of?
You sound like you’re trying to talk up your misallocation of a limited gaming budget to convince yourself the choice wasn’t a mistake while know it was.
Even if you didn’t intend it, that’s how you’re coming off.
I don’t have a gaming budget. Games are $60 at most.
What I said is that I will buy and play Cyberpunk, but I seriously doubt it will be as good as AV Valhalla.
I still do not get what you are getting at.
loved the witcher games
I liked #3.
I tried and failed to get into 1 and 2.
On the strength of #3 and their customer relations, I’m still willing to give them a chance. A good performance will improve their goodwill level.
Right now there are few company that have any from me. Most are in the “wait for release”, but both EA and UbiSoft have dipped into the “not one red cent” range. only CD Projekt Red is still in the “I might risk a pre-order” range.
3 is awesome.
not gonna lie. i collected all the gwent cards.
“3 is awesome.”
Yeah, it is, as long as you only care about story, and like the longest movie you’ve ever played, and don’t mind terrible button mashing combat.
*blinks*
*blinks*
Hyperion, I thought I knew you. Did you like Fallout 3?
I’m getting the impression that you’re angry.
Fallout 3 was OK, with the worst ending in gaming history.
Now ask me if I like Fallout NV, which I had more than 200 hours in.
…and don’t mind terrible button mashing combat.
Has AC Valhalla changed their combat style? Because terrible button mashing combat is how I remember the last two AC games. At this point, I mainly play them because I’m a sucker for running around in gorgeously detailed facsimiles of ancient locales, which few other games offer.
I got more emotionally invested in the first 2 Witcher games. 3 was a lot of fun, but even though the world was more expansive, the story didn’t seem to be.
“Has AC Valhalla changed their combat style? Because terrible button mashing combat is how I remember the last two AC games.”
The game has been patched and has become much better since release.
The game is most definitely not button mashing, the combat is complex and requires skill. You have to get down all the key combinations to be successful, including dodge, block, special skills key combos, and special skills number assignments. You can just button mash, but you’ll get dead really fast.
I feel strong for not pre-ordering it.
I have picked up Greedfall and Hyrule Warriors this week, so I’m not that strong.
I had to look that up. I guess I’m not surprised that someone extracted my least favorite activity of Zelda games* and made a whole game out of it.
*not called “fishing”
This one is a prequel to Breath of the Wild. I’ve enjoyed it so far, as it gives me a reason to walk away from the computer, kill a slew of monsters, and go to bed.
I just don’t care for combat. Which rules out A LOT of games for me.
“Greedfall”
That’s a really good game, by far their best effort.
Cyberpunk 2077’s Voice Options Are A Trans Nightmare Made Virtual
How dare they!
Offense is never given, only taken.
That’s not a bad point, however.
I agree.
Sadly I wouldn’t have gotten past the title of the article to get that point.
I’m also curious as to this claim “Why is CD Projekt Red dealing so much in racial stereotypes?” thrown out with no corroborating evidence considering that Cyberpunk 2020 was created by the one black guy in TTRPGs and he consulted on the game.
So voodoo practitioners are stereotyped as proficient hackers?
Or was it the Japanese as salarymen stereotype?
Fuckin Polacks!
I haven’t so much as seen anything about the game.
I’d be amazed in this day and age that there aren’t a variety or races in the game as both NPCs and the players.
Unless you’re telling me all the bad, err, “persons” are non-white… With apologies to those who trans-species, of course.
My Black cousin wanted to be a game designer and was into RPGs…too bad he’s in prison now. (wishes that was a racist joke, but life is cruel sometimes)
My Black cousin wanted to be a game designer and was into RPGs…too bad he’s in prison now.
If he’s in prison, he should have plenty of time to work on designing an RPG. Assuming you are talking table-top, not PC.
I’m sorry to hear that. Yeah….life.
(He’s not in prison for ‘racist’ reasons, apparently black guys can kiddy diddle the same as white guys)
I had been debating whether to ask “Did he do it?”
This is not the same person you were helping?
No Moj, not my not brother that I was trying to help out. He was a feather indian. My cousin was from Haiti. You can’t tell them apart!?
(seriously though the fact that folks remember things like this round here, shows how SPecial this place is)
birthed from an ambition to play around with race, gender, and sexuality through the lens of rapid modernization.
How true is that? Color me skeptical that cyberpunk is all about “playing around with race, gender, and sexuality. That said, I’m not familiar with the genre, so I dunno.
From what I know of the genre as a filthy casual, it’s not about any of those things.
It’s about corporate power politics and dehumanisation, sure. But the rest of that? There are trappings of hedonistic moral decay, but it’s far from the center.
Yeah, I’ve read some of the classics of the genre and I don’t recall very much of that. If they were “playing around” with anything, it was humanity itself. Not so much “race, gender, and sexuality”.
Is TekWar cyberpunk?
I thought no one else remembered that.
And you reminded me that I scooped up a whole heap of the paperbacks secondhand for cheap and haven’t read them yet.
It was Shatner and one of My Two Dads, of course I ‘member it.
Ok. I’m biting my tongue here.
All I shall suggest is that, in addition to the seminal works cited by the author, you reread/rewatch works like Johnny Mnemonic, Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, pay special attention to Molly in both Johnny Mnemonic and Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero (which introduced biopunk, if I am not mistaken), Strange Days, Lawnmower Man (the movie), Videodrome, eXistenZ, I.K.U., Dollhouse, Appleseed, Akira, Schismatrix, and depending on how far you want to stretch the definitions of the conventions of the genre, The Windup Girl and Xenogenesis. And that’s pretty much just off the top of my head.
2020 duh. https://www.amazon.com/Cyberpunk-2020-Roleplaying-Game-Future/dp/0937279137
/hides his original printing from I.C.E.
My Lemon cake was perfect, just right amount of everything, Yum!
Quit lording your fancy lemon cakes over us.
MMM, Lemon cake…
damn you.
Lemon and black pepper sugar cookies. Make them.
ahem.
African American pepper sugar cookies.
*sends urthona to re-education camp*
It’s BLACK pepper sugar cookies, shitlords!
Must try, recipe?
Here you go. Basic sugar cookies with lemon zest and black pepper.
That Ritz commercial… Yeesh.
Made this banana bread this morning.
https://youtu.be/q2eybluZjXM
This is dinner
https://youtu.be/aSmhyJfuOB0
I’d give her the 贅沢シチュー。
See you tomorrow kids Peace!
Boa noite.
POV: You’re 5 years old and you just answered your kindergarten teacher’s “good morning” with “bad morning.
Hot for teacher
https://mobile.twitter.com/AndoBaruka/with_replies
Ugh.
https://mobile.twitter.com/unrealAnnaAdams/status/1335436610914152448
Both of those are nasty.
Perfect.
I think you found Bruschettawad’s gif. Now to get TPTB to use it…
Bacon wrapped cherry and apricot stuffed pork roll.
Yum. What a pleasant surprise.
Boom chika boom.
Slow night. Where the Digby at?
Did he take a break from Glibs or something?
That’s what he announced.
He gone
Like Hall and Oats.
Yeah. His departure is very odd. He’s treating us like we are substance he is abusing and needs to quit cold turkey. He even turned down an offer regarding my cartoon plans.
Hmmm. OK. Hope he’s doing well.
I guess he found Jesus after Trump lost. *This claim is disputed by The President Of The United States Of America*
And felt bad about how he had treated his wife for the past few years. And the blame was placed on us, collectively. Because, he was even planning a trip to come up and visit me as recently as October, but kind of gave me the cold shoulder in my last e-mail.
I won’t pretend I understand his reasons but it is what it is. People are people.
I get it. If you’re trying to live life as a devout Christian, there’s a lot that can pull against that here. It’s one thing if you have the discipline to keep your priorities in order, but it’s hell on the faith if you’re slipping.
I don’t get that at all. You walk through the valley of death always. I absolutely buy “I’m gonna read my Bible more with the time I was spending on Glibs” . . . . nothing wrong with that.
I think there’s a lot of stupid shit typed up here, but it never had an ounce to do with how I walk in the world or how I treat my wife.
I read him to say he has a lot going on. I can’t say I know he’s wrong . . . but I sure doubt it. A man has core principles or he doesn’t, and drinking from the same well as a whore won’t send you spinning into an orbit of iniquity.
I don’t get that at all. You walk through the valley of death always.
And when you’re struggling to do right by your beliefs, you eliminate the part of the walk that tempts you the most.
Good on you if you have the discipline to avoid the excesses. Not everybody is so disciplined.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/11/black-saturday-morning-links/#comment-1771980
Ooooh.
Well, if you are bored…
“The Redditor Who Ate His Own Foot – Tales From the Internet”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4VXX-CFSs
Huh. Likewise hope he is OK and gets whatever is eating him taken care of.
This Christian for one won’t abandon you sickos.
Glad you won’t, and hope that Digby finds the peace and balance he’s seeking. As several other folks have said, the commenters here keep me sane, especially this year.
This place is the closest thing I get to human interaction outside of work most days.
My coworkers are okay people, but I can’t joke around with them.
I’d rather be with you guys than with the finest people on earth! 😉
Thank… Hey!
So we are not the finest? 🙁
*sniffles*
Patrick Mahomes is fucking unbelievable!!!!
After all these years I am so glad “my tribe” (pun intended) finally got a QB, and he might be the best ever.
Just the way he contorts his body/arm angle to make throws. WOW
Looks like they are sealing the game, night night
He is looking to be a great.
But…
Can we retire the Narcissist Screen already?
https://i.redd.it/0whfj8rbla361.jpg
*chuckle*
That’s awesome.
LOL
Sweet.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eziJbXq-dH4
Bro, that’s haram.
I’ve been assured by the Japanese government that AKB48 is perfectly wholesome.
Very wholesome
See?
I feel dirty now.
Got any more?
Wife shopping HM?
Some game called Cyberpunk
https://twitter.com/ThadK02/status/1335244709258784772
Brings me back to the basement in the 90s rolling dice.
Last!
Piker
And?
It’s over? I just got here!!
Oh well. I have a couple of Tom Woods podcasts to catch up on.
B-wad is always first. That’s boring now.
Pffffft.
December sunset.
https://ibb.co/3rFZNtm
December Morning,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XWot169cUM7g2pKK9
Morning.
For some reason I’m still awake.
I found the power cable for my 3DS.
I’m not sure why I own 3DS, but apparently it still works, and I haven’t lost any save games.
Mornin’ woke up at 4, work at 7, after a 45 minute Snow drive, fun times
Fun.
I did remember why I have a 3DS. It was for the road trip where I knew I’d have to wait for Glibs to arrive if I was first to designated meetups.
Mornin’ We used to spend months in the winter driving remote active logging roads from cut-block to cut-block. The company operated on a shoestring and yes, we’d get terribly stranded every few weeks. Jesus Christ Dad, buy a couple of batteries and an extra spare tire before we venture a couple hundred miles out into the bush. That winter was the breaking point for me after we had to shank’s mare it ten miles out when the sled broke down. Every third step your foot would break through the crust and you’d be up to mid thigh. Dad got frostbite.
Morning. Are you going to make it through your work day without hitting the wall?
I’m still awake because I’m still working. 19 hours so far. Two more to go.
Yikes! Is that an actually scheduled work shift?
Yegads! I was pouting over my 13 yesterday. Got a hair-on-fire phone call from Vancouver about sewage emergency at the big site. Peel meself out of bed after about 4 hours of sleep and hop in the shower, still a little muzzy from the night before. Dry off, get dressed and then find a text message. False alarm. Asshoe was responding to 3 day old news. Whelp, up now. May as well get at ‘er. A mug of tea and hit the road. Both sites took twice as long as usual. I’ll be regretting this come the morn. We put up “Out of Order” signs on that washroom but It appears that it was used all weekend judging by the toilet paper consumption. Fuck I hate this time of year. All the casuals that are untrained in the ways of Festus. Oh and I got to butt heads with the most unpleasant supervisor in the company. “Have you called the plumber yet?” ” I wouldn’t know, I’m just filling in! Where’s your safety vest and steel toes?” Cunte. That was nice. She’s hated me for 7 years for no reason that I can feature. I must have an unpleasant mug or something. Great bag of guts she is. I’m not sure how she even waddles. Mean, fat and ugly is no way to go through life, Child.
I’m sorry your job is so unpleasant these days. : (
Thanks, just venting as usual :-). I remember being a little guy and realizing that some people will take a dislike to you for no reason. I was such a friendly fellow and it kinda crushed me. Fortunately, I only see her a handful of times in the course of a year. These are the hungry months, my job is actually not that hard for about 8 months of the year but this is when the Piper gets paid. If I can maintain calmish tits for the next few weeks, I’ll be fine. I hope your job gets better, too!
I like 13s.
Avoids traffic.
4 hours OT
1 hour comp time banked.
Most co-workers are gone, so it’s quiet.
Wait for Q’s NSFW links?
Mornin’, Glibbros and Glibroads!
Mornin’, TARDy!
Hey GT. Is there a music selection this morning?
I know I usually miss the morning stuff, but I am temporarily on 4-10s for awhile.
Here’s one that was running around my head yesterday. https://youtu.be/yoUm8nlXoqs I few years ago.’ve posted it before but it was a
Well that was weird. Song plays though.
Pretty good tune. Damn, he died too young.
I like his solo stuff more than The Residents but I’m an idiot so take that as it stands.
Huh. Now that you mention it, Sean hasn’t posted his own early morning links, which almost always include a music link.
My music links don’t rock nearly as much as his, but here’s some friends of ours with an original and topical song.
I ran late this morning and didn’t have time.
At work now. Fun times.
She seems nice.
For some reason, it seems to go well with Tres’ music link.
“I’m a Custodian in a Postal plant!” “Fuck You! I have a much greater chance of catching the cooters than you do you dim, fucking Twat!” “My Wife works in an airport as a security screener! She has a much higher risk of getting the Yellow Peril than you do, Karen!’
Well done. That was fun.
Nice!
I’m sure Ive linked this before, but a great way to start the day.
Sadly, its 5 pm in my head but…..BEERS!
And mornin’ home-slice
It works for me.
Heh.. I love that tune! Thanks Baby-head!