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I need direction.
East.
East?
I suggest South East.
Exeunt.
South bound
Southbound
I was pleased to see your name pop back up in the comments but never goat around to saying welcome back. Welcome back!
Thanks! It’s fun to pop back in from time to time. I’m gonna try and make one of the zoom meetings again. Still Friday nights?
Fridays and Saturday nights. I’ve been starting them at 20:00 Eastern.
If I’m the one that’s hosting (most nights) here’s the link set as a recurring meeting.
Excellent. Thanks Neph.
# metoo
No worries, I drop the link in the Friday afternoon and Saturday evening links as well.
One of my favorites by Primus.
About 5 years ago at a show, Les stopped in the middle of the first song because there was a bunch of commotion in front of the stage. Some skinny kid was getting roughed up by security. Les had the kid brought up on stage, put a chair about 5 feet to his right, and pointed for the kid to sit down. Then the band jumped right back into the song where they left off. That kid had the best seat in the house for the rest of the show.
That’s an awesome story. Good on Les.
East?
go south
Face North.
Girls won’t touch me ’cause I’ve got a misdirection.
go down
Hi self.
HI self, how are you doing?
Hi, Fi. Sell high.
Here’s a good thread on the MSM on Hunter Biden:
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1337146492977606656
“Went largely unnoticed”
https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1337125861028487168
Clicks
Dammit
Of course. They rig in Hidin’ Biden, then force him out in favor of Horizontal Harris because that bitch (like Biden, but he is old and compromised) will be anyone’s puppet for power.
So, Herself will, of course, be invited to the swearing in, first of Biden, then, a yr later, Harris. I expect her face will crack from the force required to keep her smiling.
I’m trying not to anger myself before bed. Not clicking.
Then good thing I didn’t link The Daily Beast article.
“Politico before & after the election”
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1336941405759934464
Found below
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1337053141817241600?s=20
CWAA
“Swalwell Spoke At Same 2013 Event As Alleged Chinese Spy Who Worked For Dianne Feinstein
Rep. Eric Swalwell spoke at an event in 2013 along with a former staffer for Sen. Dianne Feinstein who is alleged to have spied for the Chinese government.
The group that hosted Swalwell and Russell Lowe, the Feinstein staffer, was led by Christine Fang, who herself is alleged to have worked as a Chinese secret agent from 2011 to 2015.
Fang developed close ties to Swalwell, Axios reported this week. She raised money for his political campaigns and planted an intern in his office.”
https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/10/eric-swalwell-chinese-spy-christine-fang-russell-lowe-dianne-feinstein/
We could just nuke the fuck out of anyone who consorts with known spies.
We’ve spent the whole year partying like it’s 1984. I’m a little surprised the MSM has not yet unironically embraced ‘The Ministry of Truth’ as their official name.
The Ministry of Truth never went back on a line of propaganda. (That I remember) Today’s media is The Ministry of Truth at the Moment.
The truth was whatever it needed to be at the moment. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Just like we can smoothly switch between ‘Russians hacked the elections!” to “Election fraud is a myth.”
Ya, but they memory holed all evidence that they were not at war with Eastasia. Twitter is rife with evidence that can’t be memory holed. We have but one step to achieve true 1984.
And youtube is ON it. I expect the rest of big tech will not be far behind.
He can be the first President to get impeached before he takes office..but then we’d have President Harris. Just leave the corrupt old fool in I guess. Also TMITE.
“It still disgusts me that any reporter’s response to that garbage Russian disinformation in the New York Post was to ask the Biden campaign for comment on the “allegations.” Have we learned nothing?”
https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1316976244194447361
Don’t bother, it’s a post-facts world.
“Yeah my own standard recognizes the difference between pushing back on Russian disinformation and calling the press the enemy of the people. But then again I’m not a tool of Russian disinformation”
https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1317315540621447169
“Director of OMB Nominee”
“Why haven’t you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story? Read more in this week’s newsletter”
https://twitter.com/NPRpubliceditor/status/1319281101223940096
Best reply.
#TeamHuge #Battlebots
Here comes Huuuuuuuuuge!
Nooooooooooooo!!!
Smeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I am not good at talking, how about bitching? It is going to finally snow here. I am pissed. I hate plowing/shoveling snow. Especially such a minuscule amount that it just turns into a frozen mess.
I hate that 32 degree rain/snow/freeze mix.
Worse than Covid it is.
I’m more likely to slip and bust my ass on that mess than I am to suffer an injury from covid, so yeah… agreed.
I hate falling down on the ice, but when I do I quickly look around to make sure not one saw me (after I check for the pain spots).
The humiliation makes the pain worse.
Especially if some one runs over and offers to help.
I have 3 ribs on my left side that agree with you, compliments of my neighbor’s thawed/then-frozen-over driveway.
Umm… western, maybe you might consider your locale? Failing that, maybe make fruit vodka slushies from ice slush and sell them.
Until they run you out of business for violating unconstitutional edicts.
Dude, If I had my druthers I would stop and have drinks with you because I lived close on one of the coasts, get drunk, accidentally break some of your shit and piss in your walkway shrubs, but at this point I am here for the foreseeable future. I have resigned myself to that and it is all good. I just like to bitch because I am a malcontent.
Bitching about fucked up shit is it’s own reward.
So you’d act like my other friends? Especially the malcontent part.
To be fair, I lived in NH for a year in the 10’s, so I do have some idea what it’s like in real winter and not just Florida winter. “Oh shit! It’s going to be below 40 tonight!” (Runs around, head explodes)
I remember one winter a friend of mine in Ohio calling me about the weather. He had heard on the news that the temps would be 40 below. He wondered if the news were hyperbolic or real.
I told him, “The forecast low is -6 F. With the wind chill it is supposed to be -40 F.”
He said, “Oh”.
I-O!
He was probably one of them southern Ohio pansies.
w/e
You guys up there melt when the temperature gets above 80º F.
He lives outside Cincinnati. He grew up near Greensburg, PA.
Oops.. At the time of the phone call, he was living outside Dayton. He currently lives near Cincinnati.
Tres:
We routinely break 90 here in the summers, even touching the triple digits a couple of years. Those are the times people risk swimming in Lake Erie or the Cuyahoga.
It snowed in NYC yesterday morning. It was gone an hour later, but that’s already more snow than we got last year.
Someone nearby is cooking something delicious-smelling. Like kabobs. I think I may have dinner after all.
Ambiguous statement. Are you planning a home invasion and snatch and grab when your neighbor takes it off the grill?
If I knew where the smell was coming from…
Wasn’t me! We had fish for dinner (it was delicious though).
My neighbor gave me French onion soup. It’s awesome.
Now I’m getting really hungry
I decided on a cheebooger & fries. The short ribs are an all-day affair, so gotta save those for the weekend.
Because I love you all…OK, maybe not love…er, because I like you all, I gift you Abdul Qazi’s kabob recipe….
1 lbs lamb cubes, Salt to taste, 1/2 tsp onion powder, Pepper to taste, 2 cloves fresh garlic, 1 green pepper chunked, 1 tsp yoghurt, 1 onion chunked, 1-2 tsp olive oil, 1 tomato in wedges (I substituted large Mushrooms) 1-2 tsp fresh cilantro, chopped. 1-2 tsp chopped parsley, 1 lemon in wedges.
Directions: Rinse lamb in cold water and pat dry. In a blender or food processor combine the onion powder, garlic, yoghurt, olive oil, cilantro, parsley, salt and pepper. Blend well. Spread on lamb and let marinate at least 2 hours, overnight is better. Thread meat onto four skewers. Thread vegetables onto four different skewers, alternating the pepper, onion and tomato. Cook over a medium hot grill, supporting the ends of the meat skewers so the meat does not touch the grill. Cook skewers about 10 minutes, turning two to three times. Serve with rice and wedges of lemon. Serves four. Doubles easily.
Stolen.
Gladly given. I met Abdul in the suburbs of Chicago…ended up digging a deep irrigation well in his home village back in the ‘stan.
Small world.
Should I list some primers on Gunbroker? I could probably do without two or three cases, and the prices they’re going for are nuts.
Which is the higher libertarian calling, hoarding munitions or capitalist price-gouging?
There’s no such thing as gouging.
Pretty sure only true libertarians load their own.
Well, yeah, they have to- there are no libertarian women
*takes bow*
Is a case a 1000 primer carton? Or bigger? What are the other sellers charging for a similar item/quantity?
A case of primers is 5000. A carton is 1000. I have two or three cases (10k-15k small pistol primers) that I could probably do without.
Brand-name small pistol primers are selling on the auction sites for $150-200 per carton, sometimes more. I saw an unbroken case of 5000 go for $1100.
WOW
I haven’t bought any for a long, long time, were about $2 @ 100, 2 cents a piece. $20 @ 100 is about what I’ve have in my reloads,, from the old days.
I don’t have any use for small pistol. Some of the boys that shoot way more than me should be interested though.
Go on take the money and run…ooh ooh ooh, go on take the money and run…
Yeah! Yeah! Oooh, ooh, ooh…
Mighty Mac tower tour for Yusef. I’ve done the labor day bridge walk many times but never been in the towers.
https://youtu.be/nhk9MLdQmlI
That’s very cool
I watched Modern Marvels: Mackinac Bridge on history channel last night. The iron workers that built the bridge had cannonballs for balls.
Cool!
My one grandfather was a long-haul trucker. He said he had driven trucks over that bridge. He said it was interesting when the winds picked up.
Like this?
https://youtu.be/CCGxoVxO86Q
I don’t think he lost a trailer, but he talk about taking up multiple lanes as the winds pushed the trailer around.
Mackinac bridge fun fact:
All suspension bridges are designed to move to accommodate wind, change in temperature, and weight. It is possible that the deck at center span could move as much as 35 feet (east or west) due to high winds. This would only happen under severe wind conditions. The deck would not swing or “sway” but rather move slowly in one direction based on the force and direction of the wind. After the wind subsides, the weight of the vehicles crossing would slowly move it back into center position
So… looks like DeWine is getting some pushback on his latest diktats.
You can open a bar at 5 am in Ohio?
Yep. But IIRC, there’s a minimum time between when you close and when you open. There’s a couple near me that catered to the third shift workers at the Ford and GM plants. In previous years, quite a few places close early on St. Practice day (3/16) in order to open for kegs and eggs on St. Patrick’s day.
I don’t remember it precisely, but it seems like TX has a law that a car dealership must be closed on either Saturday or Sunday.
NoDak still has a Blue Law that car dealerships can’t be open on Sunday.
MN too
I messed that up.
I’m sure there’s a law; what’s weird is that the dealership must decide: whether to close on Saturday or Sunday.
Or maybe the law says they can only be open six days a week.
One of them deals.
They have to be closed on either Saturday or Sunday, their choice. Carmax took them to court over it and the suit went to the TX Supreme Court, where the state ultimately prevailed. Although, I’ve bought at least one car at a “closed” dealership on N. Shepard in Houston. “We’re dating the paperwork for tomorrow since the title office is closed today.”
People go to bars in OH at 5 a.m.? Sounds more like a vegas thing.
I’ve seen guys hammering on doors at bars at 7am because they just got off third shift, and WHER MUH SHOT AND BEER!!!!
The local has morning regulars, waiting for the doors to be unlocked.
When there was a Social Security office across the street, there would be a good crowd twice a month.
Are you on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago?!
Hah, no. Formerly blue-collar Somerville, MA, home of Whitey Bulger* and the Winter Hill Gang (Winter Hill is a few blocks away).
It has changed a bit, but the local had those morning regs, then late afternoon Irish painters and plasters would show up starting around 3, then that’d turn into Tufts kids a few hours after that. A fun mix.
*When I first moved here for school, I was taken aback by the fact that the FBI’s most wanted’s brother, Billy, was the president of the Mass Senate. NBD, apparently. “They never talk”.
There’s a local under a mile from me that opens at 07:00 every weekday. It’s the darkest bar I’ve ever been in, and has a decent food menu. The beer menu is… tolerable.
If tar and feathers and a rail are not involved, it’s not enough.
There is interesting turns on the shutdown front in my neck of the woods.
… and?
Did the impeachment proposal go anywhere?
Not yet. Nor has there been a vote to override the veto on the bill that would limit his powers.
A video for SF (in SF.) Battle bots indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cp7aD0q63g
Go ahead and talk amongst yourselves.
You are all the voices in my head.
Voices in my head…
There’s a little green man in my head!
Finally received my Groenfell Black Bottle Special Mead. Not bad. Its a dry honey wine at 19.2%.
CHA-CHING!
I mean, it is Ben & Jerry’s, but it’s also Unilever. This is just so goddamn cynical corporate marketing wokeness, I can’t even.
https://twitter.com/benandjerrys/status/1337034601479409664
They have always been fucked with wokeness even before wokeness was a thing. Chocolate Fudge Brownie though. Damn.
Karamel Sutra
LOL
BTW, if Ben & Jerry’s were ever real Vermonters, they would have had a black raspberry flavor from the beginning.
Mmm. I’d eat that if they kept their stupid fucking politics out of it.
/wonders if there’s a loganberry ice cream
Make your own
I haven’t seen loganberry drink since I left Rochester a few decades ago. Maybe the new Wegman’s that opened up in one of the hipster parts of Brooklyn sells it.
^^^ This ^^^
Not that hard.
I’ll recommend The Perfect Scoop for guidance: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073QZ26D4/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
Feh. I’m not a big enough fan of ice cream to invest in spending time to make it.
You can use the ice cream maker to make sorbets, ice cream, frozen custard, and (most importantly) frozen cocktails.
The book contains a recipe for Negroni Slush. C’mon, you know you want that…
https://twitter.com/park_dub/status/1337055081636777986?s=20
One of the greatest days of my life was watching non-elite joe flacco out play kaepernick in the 2012 super bowl. Yes, the score was close at the end, but that was after the NFL cut the lights to give SF time to regroup to make the game closer to keep viewership high. Flacco is a husk if his former self and should probably retire and devote his full time to his 17 children along with his barefoot and perpetually pregnant wife
And now a happy video: Shooting some old guns w/ Kat!
Try guess the weapons!
OK.
M1 Garand
Tommy Gun
Lee Enfield No. 5
Cz 75 (? can’t see this one clearly)
M-16 (? Maybe an AR?)
1911A1. I can see a beaver tail grip.
M1 Garand again
1911
M1 Garand again
SKS. Looks like a Yugo with grenade launcher
Lee-Enfield No. 5 again
Mauser. Hmm… gotta go by what I can see. 24/47 maybe?
Benelli M4
Luger
Why did Eric Swalwell fart?
He likes to eat Chinese.
?
https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1337068676034555905
CWAA
Thin frame but decent rack. I wonder if she has sammich-making and beer-fetching skills.
I find Twitter a weird animal. If I am not signed in the “more tweets” list is some leftist weird angry stuff. If I am signed in it shows more in line with what I follow which is liberty minded folks. It perpetuates ones bubble.
I read a thing about that, and it’s true of the algorithms governing facebook and google, also, as well, too.
They’re still trying to steer you into the “light,” however subtly. They have a goal. They have various means at their disposal. They intend to push the issue, and they do. Even if it takes a long game.
When one sleeps with a Chinese spy is one hawny again an hour later?
She didn’t love him, long time?
I once bedded a beautiful lass who often made a similar joke. It was an inside joke with her best friend, but when they mentioned Chinese food, I knew what they meant.
“EXCLUSIVE: YouTube Employs Chinese Communist ‘State Secrecy Bureau’ Software Engineers
A host of software engineers for the platform have formerly worked for Chinese Communist Party-run institutions, raising the question as to why a revolving door exists between YouTube and the China-based universities.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/news/youtube-employs-ccp-operatives/
“Disney just announced that Disney Plus will debut:
– 10 Marvel series
– 10 Star Wars series
– 15 Disney & Pixar series
– 15 Disney & Pixar features”
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1337154570418409474
No.
Not even if it was free.
The girlfriend wanted it for the Mandalorian. We already had Hulu, so it cost $6 to add Disney and ESPN (which I don’t think I’ve used once).
https://twitter.com/craftychrystal/status/1336829181070602244
In fairness, it does have all the various Spider-Man cartoons (shut up! I’ve been a fanboy since I was a kid), the rebooted DuckTales, and Gargoyles.
I’ve passed on Star Wars since the Last Jedi. The only thing that’s even tempted me was the Lego Star Wars Holiday special (and I could pass that off as a Lego thing).
I’ve played a couple of the Lego video games and the Star Wars one was the best one.
I’ll pass…
Pass
“10 Star Wars series”
I can’t wait to see how they fuck this up. Yes the mandalorian is pretty cool and solo was better than expected but everything else aside from those two isolated projects have been mediocre to shitty. If only they didn’t completely annihilate 20+ years of expanded universe canon for their masturbatory exploits. They’d have a decent well of stories and inspiration to draw from (EU tidbits in mandalorian non-withstanding). Fuck maybe they’ll realize they were wrong, thrown Kathleen Kennedy in the basement and bring back EU stuff. As a long time fan I want to see them succeed and have good content.
FYI, if you haven’t been keeping up with the new season of the Mandalorian they are absolutely bringing back some of the EU stuff (at least, I’ve heard it’s EU stuff, I’m not that big of a Star Wars fan to know first hand). They’ve had Ashoka Tano, mentions of Admiral Thrawn, and a survived-the-Sarlaac Boba Fett.
Oh yeah. I’ve been keeping up with the mandalorian. That seems to be the only one that has EU aspects in it. Shit even the prequels had EU stuff in them. But like I said imandallrian just a few tidbits here and there, but I was hoping they’d flesh out some of the other elements a little better, IE: the heir to the empire trilogy, the X-Wing stories, tales from the bounty hunters, jabbas palace, and the Courtship of Princess Leia (guilty pleasure).
Thrawn was the main villain in the last couple seasons of Rebels.
I figured that was the case. I knew the twilek Jedi from the one episode of mandalorian with Michael biehn knew who thrawn was and was a character in rebels and clone wars, But I never really got into either one.
I guess to someone who is familiar with the EU it would seem like tidbits, but to me them spending whole episodes on some of that stuff makes it seem less like they are just throwing some easter eggs around and more like they are setting up for bringing a lot of that stuff back into canon.
I’m still watching for those very story arcs. Fingers are highly crossed. Also want to see them revisit Amy Sedaris.
The Mandalorian is good. I hope that the Kenobi series is good, too.
People like Feloni and Favreau and Watiti doing the work is a good thing.
You should give it a chance. (Favreau is pretty much a libertarian.)
That happy face you’ll make after you get your vaccine.
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/060/583/558/original/ea94559fc5df3d61.jpg
Are they having a stroke?
Some of the people in the trial developed Bell’s palsy. But they promise that it’s unrelated. And Congress gave them immunity, so shut up and get it.
Think of your crooked face as a freedom pass.
Wisconsin, 5400 strokes!
Bell’s Palsy according to some other versions of the picture I’ve seen.
Melinda Gates and her weirdo hubby are worried about vaccine nationalism:
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1337049040962412548
And to think I used to think Steve Jobs was the asshole.
American companies developed it as they develop many drugs…but Americans are not allowed to benefit from that. Sure…
That said there is no way in hell I am taking any vaccine for this particular flu strain.
I’ll give it a few months to see if it’s fucking people up first but I’ll probably end up getting it. I’m not too thrilled about the mRNA aspect of the vaccine though. Interestingly enough, the Russian vaccine doesn’t use that approach. I wonder if it’ll be available here.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/24/russia-to-charge-less-for-covid-vaccine-and-to-produce-1-billion-doses.html
They also make booze out of gasoline. I hear it’ll get you dead drunk.
It’s called 151.
Discontinued a couple years back.
Why is the rum gone?!
But seriously I had a bad experience with 151 in college.
Rebel Scum:
Here in Ohio, 151 is the maximum proof for any alcohol sold. With the discontinuation of Bacardi, the only thing I generally see at that proof is Everclear (151, we don’t get the high proof stuff… that would be too dangerous).
I brought back Stroh 80 (160 proof) back from Austria on my last trip there.
And ‘Krokodil’ is/was a favorite over there. (If you don’t have a strong stomach, don’t look up images for it.)
You must dislike pics of gangrenous limbs just as much as I do.
I thought I had a high tolerance for that type of thing. Seeing a living human with a visible bone showing proved me very, very wrong.
I used to tolerate all kinds of crazy shit when I was little that I can’t look at now.
I’ll pass on that.
I looked. Where’s Dr. Pimple Popper?
Right there with vaccine feet girl.
and the link got disappeared. Let’s see now.
Just came up with the best B movie plot. Zombie Mail Order Brides.
I’ll invest!
If somebody needs it, right on. 99.8% of us don’t need it and many of us don’t trust it. I ain’t taking it unless they make us to keep working. Just don’t need it and it doen’t seem very sussed out. They found out about the EPI people after they got a retail dose? WTF?
2020 has made me seriously consider how far I’d go to keep the job I just got a couple months ago, from woke shit to covid theater.
I think the answer is going to turn out to be “pretty darn far” because I’m *really* happy to have a job now.
Yeah. We are going have to forgo raises and probably take some hits because the government screwed itself along with all the rubes. Last thing I want is to be hustling for money in the coming ” post pandemic economy.” I am going to sue them if we take any serious hits. I have a case that says they can’t create an emergency and then use it to justify violating contracts, which is exactly what happened here.
He became the richest man in the world by ripping off software ideas – then he married a 5 who also happens to be a Satanist. So yes, he’s an asshole.
Yeah – you’d think for that money, he could’ve at least gotten a 9 Satanist.
A 9 satanist? Do they exist?
FDA has been sitting on their hands. This vaccine could be several weeks into usage by now.
So my tax dollars are paying to support this. Now I am supposed to have this vaccine given away to other countries for free because “feelinz”? Plus “my betters” want me to be mandated to take an experimental vaccine? Then once this unproved new class of vaccine is involuntarily injected into me it will be so effective that I will still need to wear my “talis-mask”, right? But since I won’t be charged directly and my taxes paid for research, production, distribution, medical staff, that means this was “free”?
I quote a great man with my reply. “Fuck off slaver!”
Sounds very familiar, dbl. Free in the sense that it’s paper and brand new uncirculated and to be printed dollars later.
I coined “talismask” to be like “talisman” but if you are using it like Taliban, then that’s new and exciting.
Jobs was Secret Capitalist CEO.
You’d think with all that money she could have a nose-job. But she doesn’t because she’s secure in who she is, and I respect that more than some floozy getting big tits
Tomato Sandwich, Yum!
How did I miss the first episode of BattleBots? Oh well got it record now. I feel like the world is less shitty tonight.
That’s a thing still/again? Used to watch it while in my teens.
With the Democrat, government agency and mainstream media corruption on display, I wonder at want point does this boil over into a revolt?
18 states plus the PA house have joined the Texas suit. Many Blue states have lined up with Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and the PA gov. Regardless of whichever way the SC decides, the fault lines in this country are starting to crack.
Audio was leaked from the political director from one of the Dem runoff candidates that they plan to pack the SC with 3 Dem justices once they take the Senate. That might be the tipping point.
This shit feels like the kind of thing you’d read about in a history book covering the year 1860.
So how does this one go? X number of state legislatures vote to leave the Union and stop enforcing federal laws or taxes? President Harris calls out the Army (less all those who resign to go with their seceded state) to capture each state capital and drag them back into the Union? Or does the West Coast form its own country, the Northeast another, and the Upper Midwest have intrastate civil war to decide whether to join new Confederacy or ally with one of the coasts?
I can’t see how that would be a plausible outcome. I guess maybe it depends on your definition on “Upper Midwest”.
I can, at least for a few of them. I can totally see downstate Illinois deciding to leave Chicago, Michigan dumping Detroit, Wisconsin saying goodbye to Milwaukee, and the outlands of Minnesota deciding they don’t want to be tied to Minneapolis-St Paul any more.
Cities versus rural areas – everywhere.
I don’t consider Illinois to be UMW (maybe I’m wrong?). And as far as Michigan, the mitten goes east and the UP goes west. SE Wisconsin goes with Chicago. M/SP and Duluth have a mass exodus of refugees heading to the safe confines of Wrigley Field. There will obviously be localized skirmishes everywhere.
I mentioned it a while back; I picture a mid-continental country with it’s core being the plains states (North Dakota to Texas) and then spreading out to various degrees east and west.
None of the above. We all just accept it and revel in the fact that we have decent wifi and eat good.
Angry people start blowing up car bombs. Gov cracks down, resulting in more car bombs and occasional gunplay, which eventually erupts into assassination attempts, formation of terror cell/militia groups, and general misery for the next 20-30 years.
So, early seventies, part two?
A lot more guns than bombs here. I think it starts with assassinations. Or else Harris sends what’s left of the cops out to seize guns and they become walking meat targets.
Northern Ireland II; Terrorist Bugaloo.
STEVE SMITH FIGHT FOR FREE CASCADIA!
While I don’t want this to escalate into a national division and certainly not into civil strife, I am glad that there are fault lines, because it means that people are starting to push back. Without people willing to stand up and say no, the socialists and communists will walk all over everyone. And I do believe that the best way to avoid the worst outcome is for there to be a large, strong, clear defiance – make the tyrants see that there is a huge cost to going where they want to take us, and perhaps they will think better of the attempt.
Um…no. As long as there is no cost to the Nomenklatura, they will keep pushing.
McConnell needs to offer Manchin whatever committee he wants to become a Republican. Right now. ,
Manchin is special today. He won’t be if he becomes a Republican.
I don’t think he would vote to pack the courts anyway, now that I think about it.
Tiny Lister dead at 62
Dang. Which was his best role. Friday or the 5th Element? Have to go with Friday.
Fifth Element. Or perhaps that is just because of Milla Jovovich. ///multipass
I’d say Fifth Element is the better movie overall. But Deebo is much more iconic than the President. Probably a closer argument is Ruby Rhod vs Smokey.
Fifth Element is the perfect B Movie. Fight me.
How is it a b movie? World class stars, awesome effects, and major box office money.
I dunno, it feels like a B movie. ?♂️
I wasn’t aware of its box office.
It’s an A-list B movie. A-movie funding and talent, B-movie plot and setting. It’s totally bonkers, cheesy, and the aesthetic is the type of corny that is not something you see in any other A level sci-fi but see all over the place in B level sci-fi. The first time I watched it I was just thinking WTF the entire way through – how did they think this was a good idea, and why are they right?
They were right because Milla Jovovich. OMG, when she said “big bada boom”, that was it: she now owns my heart- or at least my loins.
Have to go with Fifth Element cuz I haven’t seen any of his other movies.
In the name of all that is holy, please stop smoking.
P is the best golfer I know. I watched him shoot 64 this year at the toughest course we play. We’re the same age: not spring chickens. Everyone loves P . . . something radiant and decent about him. He has smoked since Watergate.
They took a foot off this week: vascular disease. It is whittling him down from the inside; there is every reason to believe this is the one of many ugly steps to come. I’ve got a buddy who’s a quad; lots of my buddies are dead (makes for weird scrolls through the phone’s contact list); but damned if this doesn’t seem different.
He’s optimistic; that’s his way. Good for him; I’ll try to keep up appearances. I have trouble with my good foot; I’m missing parts of my bad foot; it ain’t fun. I’m really upset and have no idea what to do about my mood.
Diabetes?
Sounds like Buerger’s disease.
Chess? I just got my ass kicked by the hardest intermediate bot and I’m a few beers in, so I’m an easy win, I’m sure.
I don’t find you
Try this: https://play.chess.com/npkT
not bad if you never get to play
Thanks for the game! We’ll have to do it again soon.
WHO WON?!?!?!?!11?!?!?!
He beat me because I wasn’t paying enough attention to the clock. I’ve never played timed chess before.
Oh, it’s always set to something; I’m not draconian about it: any reasonable pace is okay by me. If one doesn’t have a clock online, you get guys taking 20 minutes a move or saving themselves by checking their game on a separate engine. So I usually have mine set for 10 minutes: 10 minutes each, so, theoretically, could go 20 minutes.
Another entirely reasonable set-up is, say, 3/30, where each gets three minutes to start and another 30 seconds each move. I’m glad to play all night with a guy who takes no more than 30 seconds per move . . . and of course you bank some time early when you’re slamming through your opening.
I wanna play! I learned the game starting at 4 yrs old. Pappa was Polish.
try this
https://play.chess.com/BLwe
Oh, it’s always set to something; I’m not draconian about it: any reasonable pace is okay by me.
I like the idea of timed chess, but I’ve been focusing on thinking through the moves rather than making the move of first impression while playing the bots, to a decent level of success.
It definitely caught me off guard when I looked down and saw I had like 2:30 left and you had 7:00 left. That was shortly after I blundered my queen away. After that it was just a scramble to try to save enough time to make it to an endgame of some sort.
Im off to work, kids. Try and not burn the place down while Im gone.
/sets down matches
Alright. It’ll be an accident then.
*spills Everclear on Neph’s matches*
Oops!
I’m headed home from work. Drove four hours to work on a control system only to find out that the communication module I brought to install is defective.
The breathless CCPV news in WA is that ICU use is at 80% of capacity. The quiet part is that a quarter of of the patients are CCPV related.
Not to mention that ICU use is probably always at 80% capacity.
You mean they don’t want to have a lot of empty beds?
Wtf is ‘context’?
80% is actually on the low side.
Hey, could anyone give a rec for decent bottle of red wine? I have to get the SIL an Xmas present, and I don’t know what else she likes.
You could go classy!
Haha. Yes…many people like to get drunk in the face of adversity. And some people will even pay for High Life to accomplish that goal.
The problem is that it’s mildly tempting to me to buy it as a Christmas gift for my dad.
It’s not the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen on sale this year.
I hovered over the link, saw “Cleveland Browns”, and knew you had found the most ridiculous thing.
Honestly, If I see those High Life bottles for sale, I’ll be getting one or two. I’m a sucker for gimmicks. I once bought a bottle of Tin Cup whiskey purely because of the tin cup you get. Still haven’t finished off that swill.
It’s for a series of $50/bottle Cleveland Browns wines.
I’ve seen the High Life bottles, they’re a standard end cap item in my neck of the woods, even in the good beer store.
Back in 1999, Bud came out with a Millennium Edition (the King of Beers in a magnum bottle). They did not sell well at the bar, so I got to have some. I sold my last one on eBay in 2015 for around $300.
If only Miller High Life didn’t taste like carbonated ass.
The good part is it makes you regular. Wait, no, that’s irregular.
It’s terrible. I thought it might be good because it’s one of those blue-collar been-around-forever types, but blech.
She also like chocolate. All women do. Science!
Um…
I don’t HATE it, so that’s something, right?
Hey! I said: SCIENCE! It is settled!
I think the WuFlu is not deadly enough to justify tanking the economy, therefore, I am a science denier.
There is no such thing as too much lemon.
Three exclamation points. Sorry about all the yelling!!!
–PTerry
Like an old man laughing at his own jokes.
And now you’re calling me an old man. I love you just a little bit less.
Also, Lemon Heads are the bomb.
and lemon bars.
and lemon pudding.
Lemonheads are indeed great.
Lemon!
My man!
So… Chocovine?
/side note: do not buy chocovine
does she like spice or must?
I find most red chicks are one or the other
for spicy, get her a case of this
https://www.winemag.com/buying-guide/wolff-2018-syrah-edna-valley/
I barely know that she likes red wine. I might go with MikeS’s suggestion, since pretty much all women like chocolate.
I’d go with Neph’s suggestion, but I know she’d leave them for my brother to drink.
Bread and Butter wines are pretty decent. I am not a wine guy but I had to buy some for friends. I picked up the Pinot Noir but the Cab gets good reviews as well. The friends really liked it.
Thanks, AC. I just went with a medium level Cabernet Sauvignon. I probably should have been a tad more patient.
Depending on whether or not SIL is hawt, you might go with a nice red from Menage a Trois.
Pick anything off the shelf that’s at the upper range of what you think is a reasonable price.
/I can’t tell any wines above 20 bucks or so apart
Wait for Spud or OMWC…they know ALL.
Um, a bit more info please? Any idea what she likes?
If you can swing it, a bottle of Banyuls and some dark chocolate. You’ll end up seeing your SIL naked.
Kay, thanks OMWC – not wanted, so I’ll know to avoid that in the future.
Spud – I know jack about her tastes, so I’ll just go with blank hope.
Watching Occupied. First episode in and it’s good. Thanks Tulip! Worth giving money to the Obama fund.
three episodes
not bad
I’m digging the IKEA vibe and PM Quisling Jr.
I might give it a try. I reactivated Netflocks to see the new season of The Crown.
I will give occupied a whirl.
I just finished In the Flesh tonight (Amazon Prime) based on a recommendation from Tulip.
It’s about a small British city after the zombie apocalypse (after a drug for those suffering PDS [Partially Deceased Syndrome] to control their symptoms) has been developed.
Asshole.
https://mobile.twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1337112178869071873
That’s the guy I voted for. *sigh* Better than McCaskill, but still.
For voting for that guy, (and to tie up my previous post) you get COVID vaccine feet girl
*skims article*
*scrolls down*
*skims article*
*scrolls down*
AGH!!! WTF?!?!?!
I SAID my only other choice was McCaskill and that was a close race!
Hrmph.
Sorry, Mojeaux, I know what it’s like…
“We have great options! You can choose between Crohn’s disease and mild Elephantitus!” Whee, Democracy!
Yeah, it’s exactly like that.
He’s a constitutional lawyer. Says right there in his twit bio.
Fucking idiot. Perfectly happy with Operation Choke Point, as long as they target his pet causes.
CWAA
ding ding ding
Idiot.
I didn’t know he was a troglodyte.
“Hey, let’s cut off financial access to legal things we don’t like.”
What are the odds that guy’s got a secret hobby blowing guys in truck stop bathrooms? People who rail against porn too loudly usually have some strange skeletons in their closets.
A good reminder just how much Republicans suck.
How people pay for a premium subscription to Pornhub literally falls under the “none of your fucking business” but this crusading jackass has to out nanny the opposition. Plus I’d wager thousands that the number of times he’s spanked it to Pornhub > 0. So he’s a hypocritical shitstain as well.
Really thought that GOP types would have a better attitude towards things that hurt absolutely no one and they would adopt a more live and let live attitude. I can see this view was highly misguided. Unless this a-hole is an outlier.
He strikes me as more of the old school morally inflexible GOP type. They aren’t as prevalent as they used to be but they’re still out there.
^^^This.
A team of scientists from NASA used the old Voyager 2 data and found some interesting information about Uranus. Uranus had blasted a gas bubble of enormous size, it was nearly 22,000 times bigger than Earth.
I will reach an age where I don’t find Uranus jokes funny. I just don’t know when that will be.
If that ever happens; kill me.
mrfamous – especially when they’re discussing massive gas coming out of it.
Elementary school science teachers – at least those who are actually working – debate the pros and cons of mentioning this news to their fourth graders.
The smell must have been awful.
Gas music from
JupiterUranus?Alt: You know who else expelled gas from Uranus?
Tomita Yann?
Ugh, MIL is over, which means network TV has been on the entire time…. Im so close to “accidentally” shutting off the network connection to the TV. Even just hearing the odd word or two has convinced me that it’s cancer. It’s not that I’m uninterested in it. It’s that I don’t want that evil dreck in my house.
It’s garbage, now please excuse me while I go back to watching a quasi hot Russian chick cut up a bar of soap with a kitchen knife.
And I think its gonna be a long long time,
Hello,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM&list=RDgxEPV4kolz0&index=12
for All my Friends,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjpF8ukSrvk&list=RDgxEPV4kolz0&index=16
Want Pussy? this is how,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWgJyJNcMIQ&list=RDtnV7dTXlXxs&index=5
Play the song, not Play the song
Ted’s is that you?
drunk Yusef is Drunk!
PCC!
Saw your good news. Excellent!
Yarg!
Joe and Kamala named Time’s Person of the Year.
I’m feeling restored and renewed already.
Blessed mother of the papacy.
Does anyone take Time magazine seriously any more? Does Time?
They were supposed to come out with an adult version, but I guess it never materialized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TT81o4hL4c
And I’m shifting gears,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckM51xoTC2U&list=RDtnV7dTXlXxs&index=11
I would have been disappointed if it were any other link, with that setup.
The perfect song to be driving east on I-8 near Gila Bend trying to get back in time for 8am class in Tucson.
We did a first ascent in the Kofa Range and the moon was fat and gibbonous with a deserted road. Occasionally we passed a freight train and rarely a semi going our way. The climb and descent took longer than planned but we didn’t care.
Freedom and flush with success after risk. America was a hell of a great place to be in 1981.
Hell yeah!
So you’re saying we peaked when I was 11? Just great.
As long as you’re not Sniff N the Gears.
I hate Laundry up here, at least twice as much, what with all the layers, ughh,
If drunks are posting songs, then I will post the ultimate drunk song.
https://youtu.be/uJB_cOrxqf4
https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2020/12/10/victory-over-philly/
Get yer LTCF.
I heard an audio clip of a woman in the UK visiting her elderly mother in a nursing home. The mother was in a wheelchair being pushed by a nurse with a phone. The daughter was on the other side of the glass.
The daughter said to the nurse that she was concerned about her mother’s color, a bluish tint to her lips. We don’t hear what the nurse says, but the lady goes on “Of course you’re not concerned, you never are. Can I please speak to your—WAIT!! Don’t take my mother away! Listen! Don’t take her away! Don’t take her!” as she hits the glass with her palms helplessly.
That is one of the most horrific things I’ve heard through this COVID debacle.
If we learned anything from the Charlie Guard case, it’s that the NHS monopoly will assert physical custody and control of its “customers.”
“Protecting” the most vulnerable.
On a lighter note, I typed an email in which I referred to having had a “fleeting moment of generosity” and autocorrect changed it to a “fellating moment of generosity.”
Good times, good times.
Fake news. As a long time Glib and cis-hetero Shitlady you would have never typed anything involving so-called term “generosity”. Next you’ll have us believe that you use the “altruism” in a non-satirical sense.
Gotta love the invisible hand, baby. Even my selfishness serves others.
It literally is win-win.
That is generous.
Oh, Charlie Gard treatment.
But don’t worry, Biden socialist health care will be totally different.
Ah, damn. wrong comment.
At the time, I thought the NHS blocked the travel because they didn’t want to be shown up by the American med team.
But after Covid lockdown, closure, and enforced curfew, I see that it was the petty tyrants putting those uppity parents in their place. As a warning to others.
And you’d already referenced that case in your previous comment. I’m gonna go back to the bench now.
The spot next to me on the bench is all warmed up for ya.
Over the years I have had a number of arguments over what the limiting principle is in regards to government action in regards to the general welfare. Even fairly early in life, I could see that the safety mandate that government takes can easily become extremes. Often it would be about drug laws, or smoking bans, or seatbelt laws or the like such as no longer being allowed to ride in the back of a pickup. Frequently when I wanted to point out how far it could be taken I would use a hypothetical example of passing a public helmet law. After all there are many head injuries from slip and falls and of course it would protect you against a car accident while driving , a classic argumentum absurdum. “Now you are just being ridiculous.” Little did I know that 2020 would basically make that happen.
Despite Hawaii’s deep blue tint, riding in the back of a pickup is legal and very common here.
If in December 2019 you would have told me that Americans would have surrendered with nary a fight to the health socialists I would have laughed in your face. If you tell me in December 2020 the health socialists were on the March. I will just sign, agree, and reach for another drink. The worst Karens and Chads are the young. Most of us born in the 1950’s and 60’s seem to taking the panicdemic much better than those born just a decade or two later.
Brad Stine was right when he said helmets would screw up an entire generation and turn them into whiney twats.
What’s up with Donald Trump JR’s girlfriend being Gavin Newsom’s ex wife?
I didn’t know that until today.
She’s into hair gel.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MpvUoCL001Q
?
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/photographer-who-captured-engagement-at-peddlers-village-hoping-to-track-down-the-mystery-couple/article_55815726-3b38-11eb-9c69-f7fe8c5f903c.html
Local news.
Tom Wolf is an asshole and I hope he dies of the ‘vid*.
* We all know he won’t. ?
https://www.nj.com/news/2020/12/joe-biden-kamala-harris-are-times-person-of-the-year-2020.html
?
It’s not a Nobel but it will do for now.
/taps foot
I’d like to congratulate them on joining a list of people that contains other august luminaries such as Hitler and Stalin. I hope they don’t manage to live up to that high bar.
https://news.yahoo.com/hijabs-cosplay-indonesian-finds-calling-040830878.html
Poor kitteh does not look amused.
Ugh, dressing up animals in cute outfits that are completely nonfunctional is bizarre.
Cats aren’t dogs. Film at 11.
Remember that kid who got in trouble for showing a BB gun at Zoom call school? The school board declined the other day to remove that from his record:
https://reason.com/2020/12/07/kamauri-harrison-school-virtual-bb-gun-suspension/
“The Harrisons have argued their home is not an extension of Ka’Mauri’s classroom”: Sounds reasonable to me.
They need to remove their son from the school board’s record. If that’s how the school is gonna be about things, then they can’t be trusted with any aspect of their son’s welfare. I can see temporarily tolerating the ravings of an individual nitwit at the school, but when the board signs off on it?
mornin’
Thanks to the fucked-up weather in SW Ohio, Im cultivating a scorching sinus infection. The best part is the drainage going down my throat makes me cough.
All night at work I was looked @ side-eyed more than a few times.
Current titty status- potentially infected
Mornin’, homey. Hope you feel better quicker and, most of all, don’t have to be subjected to the nasal probe. : (
Feel better.
I was told once that ‘the doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient’. However, as a doctor (I bought my PhD from the Universal Life Church), Im prescribing myself a 6-pack of tall boys and 2 benadryl. That should hold things down. I’ve already taken so much zinc, I should be galvanized.
Don’t forget the vitamin C.
And vitamin D
Shit! Every time I sneeze at work I get that reaction and my work life consists of dust.
I bet she didn’t wear enough masks.
Husband: Local nurse who died from COVID-19 did everything to avoid it*
*other than it seems she had just gotten over pneumonia
They are milkin’ the hell out of that story.
I havent seen how old she was, but just shot out kid #7?
I half expected to learn she was an STNA or maybe a candy-striper, and the local media was hyping it up. I looked her up. According to the nursing board she’s a legit RN.
Well, was.
DOOM AND PANIC
Heh.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/st-louis-circuit-attorney-off-mccloskey-gun-case-after-using-it-for-political-purposes-judge-rules
Repost that on the next thread, please.