TRUE FACT: One of TPTB invented the Ball Park Frank, the hot dog that plumps when you cook them.
1991 commercial. Ah, 1991… The year I turned 21. I had anal sex with a redhead on her birthday. I can’t find her anywhere on the Internet. I think she might be dead.
How could we all have failed her so utterly? Shame, people. Shame.
Anti-‘Cancel Culture’ Reason Magazine Accused of Canceling Columnist for Being Too Anti-Trump
A leading critic of “cancel culture” is being accused of canceling one of its own—for speaking out too loudly and too often against President Donald Trump.
Throughout the Trump era, Reason magazine, a digital and print publication published by the nonprofit libertarian Reason Foundation, has routinely sounded the alarm about the perceived threat posed by “cancel culture,” the modern phenomenon in which people are publicly and professionally ostracized for heterodox beliefs or remarks. The magazine has lambasted other outlets like The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Intercept for firing or pushing out key staffers whose views or actions were determined to have conflicted with their respective editorial missions.
And yet, a long-time Reason columnist and policy analyst alleges that the libertarian magazine dropped her over her vehemently anti-Trump views.
“After 15 years, the curtains came down for me at Reason today. My views, I was told, had become too out-of-step with those of the organization,” Shikha Dalmia announced Tuesday evening in a Facebook post.
Fun article. It’s an amazing flurry of lies, misdefintions, half-truths, and bad faith. Read up, Johnny!
Hay! Who’s ready to barf?!?
This morning my family paid our respects to Senator John McCain as I prepare to be sworn in tomorrow. Senator McCain has been a hero of mine since I was a young pilot. He left a legacy of service to Arizona and country that can’t be matched, but that we should all strive towards. pic.twitter.com/CSkhVXPmfW
— Captain Mark Kelly (@CaptMarkKelly) December 1, 2020
Sorry, more barfing…
A Colorado photographer said he watched the now-famous monolith in southeast Utah fall to the ground
The mysterious monolith discovered last week in a Utah desert just disappeared — but it wasn’t taken by aliens or government conspiracies. It was moved by another phenomenon: TikTokers.
Colorado adventure and outdoor lifestyle photographer Ross Bernards told CNN he saw the monolith being removed by a group of four last Friday night.
Bernards, who has about a decade of experience in hiking and navigating deserts, set out to capture photos of the world-famous monolith with a group of friends last Friday after determining its location earlier in the week.
After he and his friends had reached the location of the monolith and had been taking photos for over an hour, they heard the voices of a new group rounding the corner toward the location. Bernards assumed the group of four was there to take photos as well, but that was not the case.
“They immediately started really pushing on it, like throwing their whole-body weight into it,” said Bernards. “It took them maybe three big pushes to get that thing to pop up a little bit and start turning on its side.”
As soon as they were able pry the entire monolith loose, it fell straight on the ground and made a loud bang. It sounded as if someone threw their largest stew pot off a ladder as hard as they could, Bernards said.
“Once that happened, one of them said this is why you don’t leave trash in the desert,” said Bernards.
Gob-forbid 2020 have a little mystery or whimsy, eco-fucks.
This was on MTV in the background during the, uh, birthday present mentioned above.
Still playing from its release and popularity in 1990. Probably because 1991 might have been the worst year in popular music in my lifetime.
Look upon the Billboard #1 hits and despair!
“Justify My Love” – Madonna
“Love Will Never Do (Without You)” – Janet Jackson
“The First Time” – Surface
“Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” – C+C Music Factory
“All the Man That I Need” – Whitney Houston
“Someday” – Mariah Carey
“One More Try” – Timmy T
“Coming Out of the Dark” – Gloria Estefan
“I’ve Been Thinking About You” – Londonbeat
“You’re in Love” – Wilson Phillips
“Baby Baby” – Amy Grant
“Joyride” – Roxette
“I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)” – Hi-Five
“I Don’t Wanna Cry” – Mariah Carey
“More Than Words” – Extreme
“Rush Rush” – Paula Abdul
“Unbelievable” – EMF
“(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” – Bryan Adams
“The Promise of a New Day” – Paula Abdul
“I Adore Mi Amor” – Color Me Badd
“Good Vibrations” – Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
“Emotions” – Mariah Carey
“Romantic” – Karyn White
“Cream” – Prince and the New Power Generation
“When a Man Loves a Woman” – Michael Bolton
“Set Adrift on Memory Bliss” – P.M. Dawn
“Black or White” – Michael Jackson
So, what… “Cream” is the best song? With “Unbelievable” And “Gonna Make You Sweat” as good nostalgia party records? The rest is just a nightmare of rancid ear-semen.
Wow 1991 was indeed a shitty year for pop music.
Walter Williams died. RIP.
And yea Unbelievable and Make You Sweat are decent nostalgia pop. The Prince song is probably the worst of all his hits (which makes it better than anything on the list there).
Hope the redhead made better sounds than any of that shite.
I posted “One More Try” once, and one of the Minnesodans (I forget whether it was Jimbo or Tundra) declared it the worst song he’d ever heard.
That said, don’t diss on “Joyride” or “Love Will Never Do (Without You)”.
Yeah, C+C Music Factory brings back a lot of memories. I didn’t own that crap but I probably danced to it drunkenly dozens of times.
You leave Dee-Lite alone!
Music like that is the reason I drifted to metal around that time.
I can’t tell if we have more of a gerontocracy or a necrocracy, but then again maybe there isn’t much difference between the two.
It’s the Struldbrugs so little of both.
Jobless Shikha Dalmia is a better birthday present than a carton of smokes any year…
But not as good as anal sex?
I guess that depends on whether you’re pitching or catching,
I’d be mildly interested to hear Reason‘s side of the story. They’ve kept ENB around as far as I can tell so I don’t think “views too out-of-step with the organization” is really a disqualifier there.
That’s because she writes some actual real libertarian opinion. As far as her as a person is concerned, you don’t try to doxx colllege students over making a joke about a sandwich if you’re a libertarian. That’s about as authoritarian as you can get. I would have fired her bony ass over that.
I read the comments on her facebook post, I had no idea there were people who enjoyed her writing.
The retards are with us.
How else to explain Big Cake?
Shreek, Shreek sock #1, Shreek sock #2, Tulpa, Bo, Mary, maybe Nikki.
So what are we predicting? Slate? The Atlantic? Jezebel? What lefty rag needs a token ex-libertarian?
I’ll go with Slate as a landing spot. She’s not erudite enough for The Atlantic and not nearly bonkers or jargon heavy enough for Jezebel.
Salon
OH and she’d go broke on Substack
Ah c’mon, Teen Vogue needs her voice.
C’mon, man! C + C Music Factory is timeless.
Wow, that is a terrible list.
That her views were ever consider in-step with the organization is one reason I can’t even be bothered to even peek in there any longer.
Did Dalmia even identify as a libertarian? Enquiring minds want to know. I don’t remember ever hearing her discuss that but I mostly avoided her articles back when I perused reason.
She wrote a lot of two minutes’ hate but she also wrote some libertarian interest pieces from time to time. I find it hard to believe that she was fired for her ideology. I think Stinky’s more on the mark, though it could also be behind-the-scenes drama instead.
You have a dry ham and cheese sandwich from the hospital cantina. You have two choices: FAT-FREE mayo or Miracle Whip. Which do you choose.
Looks like I’m fasting.
Dry. And then put butter on it.
I’d probably mix a packet of each, just out of spite.
Dig through your purse until you find a mustard packet.
Mustard
This
The Muppet is right about kbolino being right!
Neither, I usually eat ham and cheese dry.
Masochist, eh?
It’s fat free mayo just vinegar?
A fan of KC style BBQ is throwing shade on Miracle Whip?!?
Normally I would take you to task for your food sins, but I’m in too good a mood today because last night was Last of Thanksgiving Leftovers Hotdish. Can’t be mad.
*haughty sniff*
I am a defender of Miracle Whip as a condiment that has its place in the pantheon. That, and Spin Blend too. I use all three depending upon the application. The question was posed to those who trash MW in favor of mayo.
Also, I eschew the BBQ sauces that are made of brown sugar, molasses, and ketchup, light on the ketchup. I prefer more vinegar-based sauces.
I am a defender of Miracle Whip as a condiment that has its place in the pantheon.
God of decay? God of famine?
Growing up I think we always had Miracle Whip for some reason.
If I’m being completely honest, if you had asked me this morning about the difference between MW and mayo, I wouldn’t have had an answer. I would have guessed that MW is just a brand of mayo.
I take it that that isn’t the correct answer?
That is not the correct answer. Miracle Whip is a tidge sweeter and has spices in it like paprika.
Huh. You think I would have noticed that given that 99% of my use of miracle whip was to make white bread and american cheese sandwiches.
I believe it’s a cheaper alternative to real mayo. At least, I assume that’s why we always had it and never had mayo growing up.
And yes, it tastes *very* different. Unpleasant, IMHO.
Miracle Whip.
Just for that I’m going to buy a jar and have a Miracle Whip and Banana Sammich.
*rhythmic vomiting noises*
Yup. ima like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGoBpQqKNZY
You’re Chundering! Tehe, new word learned here yesterday! Thanks, Festus.
Miracle whip is great for turkey salad. *pukes at the banana sammich
No I don’t. I’ll live on my stored fat for 6 months first.
Saliva mixed with CoVID phlegm.
Hey, no Florida town ever changed its name to Fat-Free Mayonnaise.
Oh, and Heinz Salad Cream FTW.
Miracle Whip. It is not artisanal, it is not even mayonnaise but it it Miracle Whip.
Dalmia’s gone? My guess is the reasons were she deals in half-truths, poisonous rhetoric, and histrionics regardless of what bullshit the article throws out. She should’ve been shitcanned at least a half a decade ago.
1991was worse than I thought, Yikes!
I was in college and listened to something much different.
Ditto, I only recognize a tiny number of those.
What I was listening too in 1991: This is from the Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey soundtrack, the album cover in the video is from 1992.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcss_VLUdmc
Megadeth, Nirvana, Janes Addiction, yep, you’re right
I know some people hate the Metallica Black Album but I don’t….
Not a big Metallica fan but I do have the Black Album on DVD-A. Wherever I May Roam and Enter Sandman in 5.1 is a cool listen every now and then.
Badmotorfinger, Hymns to the Silence, Luck of the Draw, Mr. Lucky, On Every Street, Sailing the Seas of Cheese, The Sky is Crying, Ordinary Average Guy.
I think I had just started at Memphis State and was too busy listening to local music there.
The first pop song I heard in 1991 was Divinyls – I Touch Myself. The bus driver who picked us up at Cherry Point and drove us back to Camp Lejeune after the Gulf War cranked it up for us. Listening to a hottie sing about touching herself was a nice homecoming.
A magazine firing someone because the person’s writing doesn’t fit in at the magazine is not cancel culture. Get back to me when they try to keep her from ever getting another job as a writer.
^^THIS, so much.
Ding ding ding! Most people have to advance the stated goals of their employer to remain employed, whether you are a writer, a grocer, or most anyone else.
Has the sammich maker either in on the issue yet?
weighed in
She would, but she is still standing in the kitchen looking at a loaf of bread trying to figure out how to undo the twist tie.
Next big decision is: Miracle Whip vs. Mayo
I’m still amused by this. I can’t believe that there is so much dissension on this issue.
Yes! What the assholes who defend or ignore cancel culture completely miss is that the offensive part is having a third party try to butt into a private transaction (employment or otherwise) and mess it up purely out of spite. Despite the nanny culture that we live in, there’s still a small sliver of disdain in our cultural heart for busybodies.
Well, if systemic racism = any racism, then a lefty writer getting shit-canned once can = cancel culture.
“Barr Comments ‘Twisted’ By AP, DoJ Says Not Done Probing Election Fraud
The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a statement on Tuesday in response to the backlash from an article by The Associated Press which quoted Attorney General William Barr saying that “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
“Some media outlets have incorrectly reported that the DOJ has concluded its investigation of election fraud and announced an affirmative finding of no fraud in the election. That is not what the Associated Press reported nor what the Attorney General stated,” a DOJ spokesperson said, according to CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge.
“The Department will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific and credible allegations of fraud as expeditiously as possible.””
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/barr-comments-twisted-ap-doj-says-not-done-probing-election-fraud
Reposted from AM Links, *bangs cup on ground*
SP? I think, wrote a post awhile ago on how she makes her online life more private. I have been searching for it for awhile now, and cannot seem to find it.
Can anyone with special powers help me find this post?
SP? I think, wrote a post awhile ago on how she makes her online life more private.
Probably by deleting old posts from websites.
I always hated your links the most.
Just go watch The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and if you watch closely enough you can see how real 3l!t3 h@xors operate.
She has a private server in the NSA megafarm in Utah that automatically deletes her footprint and reports OMWC’s to her.
First rule of Private Browsing Club is not to reply to petulant n00b posts. 🙂
Gotta leave some turkeys out there for Big Tech to track and monetize so they leave the rest of us alone.
#1 when I was born, so I can’t really diss too hard on 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdSqLfuRN18
Mine
https://youtu.be/Y_RCvsiavuM
Everything else sucks by comparison
Mine from ’67
Between that and my penchant for Miracle Whip, I’m starting to think I don’t have as refined a palette as I thought.
#1 when I was born…you all can suck it
https://youtu.be/WGU_4-5RaxU
That’s a good one. Grace Potter does a killer version of that live.
She’s from Vermont!
Yup. I love her live shows. I was lucky to catch her open for a show in 2006 and became a big fan. I’ve seen her about 15 times since, including 4 nights on the beach in Jamaica with Gov’t Mule.
Libertarian from birth.
Do I have to find a phonograph to play it?
This feels like some cosmic joke, I loathe this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h04CH9YZcpI
I read the Daily Beast article on reason.
It’s not going to cause me to renew my subscription or go back to their site.
Albums from ’91 that I listened to a lot:
1) Metallica Black Album
2) Nirvana Nevermind
3) Pearl Jam Ten
4) G’n’R Use Your Illusion I & II
5) A Tribe Called Quest Low End Theory
6) RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magic
I’m still proud of at least 2 of those.
Not a bad list at all except for the G&R stuff (Right Next Door to Hell and Doubletalking Jive were good though).
Come on, Estranged is the ultimate power ballad. People had to stop writing power ballads after Estranged.
I’m going to have to relisten, that one’s not ringing a bell. I mostly remember the overwrought schlock of November Rain so maybe I have a skewed memory of those albums.
Its in the same vein. Overwrought and schlocky, but somehow Slash makes it not as bad as it should be.
I think 3 of them are fine. Not a big Nirvana fan, but I will give you a pass for it.
Nirvana was about a 50-50 mixture of awesome and meh songs. Basically, all their good music could easily fit on a single CD, if anyone actually listened to CDs any more.
But that would be one kickass CD.
I went to this concert in 1991. I think I saw Iron Maiden and Rush that year, too.
I went to that one too at Alpine Valley. Half the garbage cans around us were on fire after the show. I seen a lot of bloodied up people that night.
Some great albums came out in 1991:
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – God Fodder
Swervedriver – Raise
This Mortal Coil – Blood
Dinosaur Jr – Green Mind
Front 242 – Tyranny for You
And who could forget:
U2 – Actung Baby
*ducks*
Swervedriver Raise is still one of the best albums ever.
?
I was getting my education in New Wave from the older brother and sister at that point and just started to branch into my punk years.
I’ll be honest with you, I love his music, I do, I’m a Michael Bolton fan. For my money, it doesn’t get any better than when he sings “When a Man Loves a Woman”.
Percy Sledge would like a vote……..
I should’ve specified that that was a movie quote from Office Space because I don’t want those who are unaware to think I actually do like his music. Bolton was/is just terrible.
I saw him on some late night show many years back. I’d never heard of him. He covered “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay,” just himself singing and playing the guitar. He started off yelling the lyrics to *that song of all songs* in his way. So off-putting. Absolutely horrible.
+1 no-talent assclown
Yes, he could sing high.
Part of the problem is in order to get the “sound” he wanted, he had to really strain his voice to get there. Which leads to things like belting out ballads because he couldn’t get that timbre without the volume.
As opposed to someone who sings high with actual control and technique, like John Cowan:
Example one (from the 90’s)
and here’s him doing the same song, in the same key, at 60 years old. That’s what good vocal technique will get ya.
NH GOP wants Grandma TO DIE!!!!!!1111!1!1
An unspecified number of positive cases of COVID-19 emerged after a meeting of newly elected House Republicans Nov. 20 at McIntyre Ski Area in Manchester, state public health officials confirmed Tuesday.
House Republican Leader Dick Hinch of Merrimack said a “very small number” contracted the virus and that he expected anyone infected would skip Organization Day, which is to be held outdoors today [Wednesday] on the University of New Hampshire’s Memorial Field in Durham.
“We are experiencing higher than usual rates of infections in our state, and the Legislature and its members are not immune from that,” Hinch said in a statement.
Legislators who decline to wear masks or face coverings will be seated apart from the rest on Wednesday, officials said.
Outgoing House Speaker Steve Shurtleff, D-Penacook, said the House GOP never told his leadership team about the infections and he learned of it through the media.
“This decision puts the lives of all members and staff of the House of Representatives at risk. We were with Republican leadership just yesterday (Monday) for Organization Day, and the COVID-19 outbreak was not mentioned to anyone,” Shurtleff said.
“Shame on Representative Dick Hinch and other members of Republican leadership for putting politics before the lives of the those who chose to serve in our volunteer legislature.”
I chuckled at this bit:
House Democratic Leader-to-be Renny Cushing of Hampton is scheduled to hold a press conference call early Wednesday morning to announce he and most of his colleagues will not attend the event out of concern for their own health.
During an impromptu online caucus of House Democrats Tuesday night, two-thirds said they would not be there, according to party leaders.
Such a protest could make it easier for the newly-elected House Republicans to change operating rules for the next two years.
After Democrats won back the House in 2018, they reimposed a ban on carrying weapons in the State House and also mandated all its members attend sexual harassment training sessions.
In 2019, the House censured a small group of House Republicans who had refused to take those classes.
Zero is a number.
Huh?
An unspecified number of positive cases of COVID-19 emerged
As soon as I heard about the Republican caucus mentioned in the article being a “superspreader” event, I said, “Prediction: It will not be a superspreader event”.
I expect my prediction will come true.
Higher than usual rates? I guess it is higher than the 0.00% it was before last year.
“Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell rush to vote through Defense bill in face of Donald Trump’s threat to veto it unless it also ends internet giants’ Section 230 protection”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9010021/Its-f-ing-joke-Democrats-voice-fury-Donald-Trumps-threat-veto-crucial-defense-bill.html
Veto it, please god!
This is the best part about Biden being president next. TRUMP THE SPITEFUL!!
On the one hand, repealing section 230 is dumb. On the other hand, we shouldn’t spend more money. So, I hate them both.
Cause ========> Effect?
Who knew Diabetes was sexually transmitted?
I better call my uncle then…
“More Than Words” – Extreme
I remember hearing about mothers and daughters that loved that romantic ballad, and so got tickets to their concert, and got something…different…than they expected.
Was one of those daughters a redhead?
Pulling up the topic of shooting realism in movies from the last thread, I always enjoy these videos: https://youtu.be/HB0CZ_5sPPw
“Pigs won’t fly! Emotional-support animals are BANNED from airplane cabins: Transport department rules only service dogs can travel with their owners and other pets will have to be placed in cargo for a fee
The U.S. government has ruled that emotional support animals will no longer be considered service animals on flights in a decision that could earn airlines an extra $60million a year.
The Transportation Department issued a final rule on the Air Carrier Access Act Wednesday after years of tension between airlines and passengers who bring their pets on board for free by saying they need them for emotional support.
For years, the Transportation Department required airlines to allow animals with passengers who had a doctor’s note saying they needed the animal for emotional support.
Yet, airlines believed passengers abused the rule to bring a menagerie of animals on board including cats, ducks, turkeys, pigs, pandas, kangaroos and in one case, a peacock.
In August 2019, miniature horses were even added to the list of service animals allowed to travel on domestic flights under new guidelines provided by the federal government.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9011009/Emotional-support-pets-no-longer-allowed-service-animals-flights-Dept-Transport-states.html
How did someone get a panda?
If this had come out before the election, Trump might have won. The Deep State strikes again.
I mean, I’d really kinda of enjoy being seated next to a panda.
Its the same reason that Disneyland had to modify their handicapped rules, the reason why people park in handicap spots, etc, or dip in and out of the HOV lanes, cross double-yellow lines to pass… People abuse shit, news at 11.
I was born in 1991. So I was at the right time to have a Green Day, Nirvana, and Godsmack/Korn/Disturbed phase.
Way to make the board feel old.
I have scars older than you.
I figured rancid ear-semen was the other present you gave that 21 year old redhead.
Rancid Ear Semen will be the name of my next band.
I can see the album cover now. A large cadre of cauliflower-eared vikings raising oars in defiance of the oncoming rogue wave.
By the way, is it the same redhead in the picture on the homepage?
She’d be about 46-47 now, assuming she is alive.
A friend just sent me a Christmas gift of homemade Rona masks in festive holiday fabrics. I will duly thank him for he is a nice fellow, and genuinely means well. Yet I will continue to wear disposables because I refuse to celebrate this, incorporate it into celebrations, or pretend it is anything other than horror regardless of how seriously you take the public pandemic precautions.
Same.
I might relent for some nice sequins though.
“More Than Words” makes me melt (in the good way.) None of you used that song to get laid? That has to count for something in its favor.
These are the smoking gun accounts of electoral perfidy? More like the YT with the guy mindlessly racking the shotgun.
a subcontractor with the United States Postal Service, claimed that a trailer he was driving, one full of potentially upwards of 288,000 ballots
Did it have ballots in it or not? How exactly would he know – were the boxes all marked “illegit ballots for PA”?
himself also a subcontractor for USPS — alleged that he was told the postal service was planning to backdate tens of thousands of ballots
I guess I could swear to that to and not really be held accountable for perjury. Of course, he didn’t actually witness any such crime.
claimed to have witnessed a Dominion Voting Systems vendor inserting jump drives into voting aggregation machines in Delaware County, Pa.
Awesome – we actually have a location. Oh, but Delaware County didn’t use Dominion, they used Hart Intercivic [manual link – https : / / http://www.delcopa.gov/publicrelations/releases/2020/newvotingsystem.html%5D
Yeah, tell me how reliable all of these EYEWITNESS accounts are again?
Once again, it is enough to start an investigation. Eyewitness accounts are notoriously bad, but its enough to get a murder investigation started. This isn’t 17th century England, we don’t have to hire a thief-taker* to bring the accused to court and collect the evidence ourselves. That is the responsibility of the state AGs.
*although I have suggested that that was a better system.
Is thief-taker akin to ‘child catcher’ ?
…asking for OMWC
I figure if you have a dozen eyewitnesses, 3 or 4 of them will be spouting complete BS. Focus on the other 8, steel-man your argument instead of straw-manning it.
Well these guys are 0 for 3.
Yes yes, we’re all well aware of your belief that this was all above board.
See, my thought is if there is even 1 fraudulent vote, the state and federal AG should be investigating. Its a felony up to 5 years in jail in federal law.
Should be but won’t, especially at the local and state level. They obviously don’t give a damn.
Every election there are people prosecuted and convicted of voter fraud.
Then why all the talk about how it doesnt exist?
They pedantically brush it off is because why. It isn’t “wide-spread”, its “only a couple of cases”. I think someone made the best comparison when they mentioned murder or even less benign, stealing.
It is against the law and we have plenty of proof that people do it because well, we look for it. While I generally believe most people will do the right thing, doesn’t mean that is so.
I had every opportunity for the past 10 years to vote in two separate locations and KNOW I wouldn’t get caught because they do not look for it.
Debunking the ridiculous claims (like 170,000 votes without registered voters, or precincts returning %200 voter turnout) ≠ voter fraud not existing.
But that isn’t what robc was referring to Hype. Go back throughout the years, all the talking heads have been saying that voter fraud is a myth with brushing off the egregious cases that actually were investigated as one-offs.
We can put our heads in the sand and say crime doesn’t exist if we don’t police it too.
C’mon, if it were anything other than something you really want to believe, you’d be laughing at this. This is right in the same ballpark as Steele’s work.
To be fair, this is not evidence that was presented at either of the PA or MI hearings, as far as I know. This is evidence gathered by a 3rd party in order to file suit. Likely this suit will fail.
You have been answered repeatedly. You don’t have any interest in the answers, you want to mock. That is certainly your right, but it has gotten very old. If I wanted to be called a paranoid idiot every 30 seconds for finding the election suspicious I could be on Twitter.
Fine we are all paranoid Trump lovers. Clearly Biden the Savior is annointed as lord. Nothing suspicious happened, all the oddities are because Trump was the worst condidate ever and if only we had had Romney running it would have been a Republican landslide across the board. Democrats are exactly the same as Republicans and there is no reason for a libertarian to ever vote for a Republican as the lesser evil. We should all delight that we will have so much to complain about over the next 4 years. I mean imagine the funny quips we can post when they require all IRAs and 401K plans to invest in the new, special Social Security liquidity bonds. How funny will it be when the Court goes to 15 members changing the makeup such that Sotomayor is now part of the Conservative wing writing dissents to opinions ruling that judges can issue annual search anyone anytime warrants because owning property is probable cause.
You really see this as the Manichean struggle of good versus evil? Maybe that’s part of the problem.
Good? Not really well represented in this situation. But evil is on display here and yes, I see this as a watershed. If we swallow this, as you seem to, as just another election, maybe a bit wierd because of Covid, we will get more of it, and the Republic is already on its last leg. Yes, I freely admit I am emotionally involved, I don’t think we can afford to be above the fray anymore. All the “I hope they get what they ask for good and hard” talk ignores the fact that we will be getting it as well. And those talking about voting with their feet seem to miss the fact that the left will never tolerate red States allowing freedom. The left hates federalism, They only tolerate it when they aren’t in control of the Government.
Yes, what is evil is that we may have stolen elections in a first world country.
What is good is that we contest them and ask, investigate, follow the leads to the tons of irregularities that happened. Until then I don’t think we won’t be able to appoint the rightful president.
If you fail to see that, there is not much to be done. You’re either not that clever, or are interested in seeing those elections being rigged.
RIP Hugh Keays-Byrne – The Toecutter *and* Immortan Joe.
I liked Toe Cutter….
He will be missed…
His gravestone is already written:
“I am the Nightrider. I’m a fuel-injected suicide machine. I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller!”
Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla !
This is the AK-47 Assault Rifle, the preferred weapon of our enemy. It makes a distinctive sound when fired.
The Nightrider was the guy who died in the first chase. Toe Cutter was the guy who picked up his coffin at the train station and terrorized Max and co the rest of the flick. Hit a Semi head-on face first.
His henchman is my avatar
“‘COVID risk to ALL Americans is at historic high’: Leaked White House report issues dire post-Thanksgiving warning as US records highest single-day death toll since April 30 with 2,597 fatalities”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9009679/US-records-biggest-daily-Covid-death-toll-2-473-fatalities-record-99-000-people-hospitalized-coronavirus.html
“All Americans”, meaning collegiate superstars?
My co-workers were absolutely horrified that I went to Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt and uncle’s club (big mistake, the food was terrible) and went out to dinner at a couple of restaurants over the holiday.
The joke really isn’t funny anymore.
This is all so fucking stupid. Long term damage is being inflicted on societies around the world.
On the plus side, it should be really easy to take over after all the competing interest groups have eaten themselves…
This morning my family paid our respects to Senator John McCain as I prepare to be sworn in tomorrow.
I hate this cunte but ain’t it a little early to be swearing in?
Was he a special election?
Well he is “Special”
So special he gets to stand for election again in two years I believe.
So, he was filling an empty seat and can be sworn in now instead of waiting until January.
Sometimes an outgoing person will resign early so that their replacement can have seniority within the class.
On my 21st birthday I had to cajole the bartender in Turkey to check my ID. I did get felt up by the guy on the left, but not on my birthday https://pasteboard.co/JD7htYl.jpg
How do you say ‘wannafud?’ in Turkish ?
I assume they don’t give a damn about your age in Turkey?
Yeah, not much of a drinking age there. In 1993, at least. Not sure about since they’ve become an Islamic Republic.
I was there at exactly the right time – they were the most stable, most open, and most Westernized in their whole history. By the time I left in June 1993, I could see the writing on the wall about the Islamism, even as they elected Tansu Ciller Prime Minister.
Have you ever been inside a Turkish prison?
I have, Captain Over. I have been inside the Midnight Express prison.
Do you like movies about gladiators ?
Have you ever seen a grown Man naked?
/Roger
Yes, I have. Oh wait, my bad, that was your momma.
/missing the joke.
Joke
Purposefully missing the joke. I’ve heard that crap ever since UCLA. I’m out there busting my buns every night!
There was an article published in WSJ a month or two ago that said that Italy did everything right in its fight against COVID-19.
Italy bans Christmas midnight mass, movement between regions
I don’t get where this is coming from. It seems like a terrible idea.
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn promoted a petition Tuesday calling on President Donald Trump to temporarily suspend the U.S. Constitution, declare martial law and order the military to oversee a national re-vote for the 2020 presidential election.
The petition, published Tuesday by the Ohio-based non-profit group We The People Convention, said there was “no peaceful way left to preserve our Union” following President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory and urged Trump to exercise his “extraordinary authority” to avert a second civil war.
“Limited Martial Law is clearly a better option than Civil War!” a letter accompanying the petition states. …
The letter accompanying the petition said Trump must be prepared to act as former President Abraham Lincoln did at the onset of the Civil War in the early 1860s
Lincoln didn’t prevent a war by acting like a dictator. It was just more in a series of constitutional violations committed by the administration.
I dunno but how come I haven’t seen the news about Trump you know, saying if all said and done, I will leave?
Yeah, that would push us much closer to the civil war, not further away.
Which I wouldn’t doubt that either the Right or Left had groups waiting in their wings to push shit like this and edge us closer to it.
Something tells me Flynn is a little bent about his treatment at the hands of the DOJ/judicial branch.
Of course if the Constitution is already ignored and the Republic dead, then Trump doing this wouldn’t be any different than installing Biden in a rigged election.
The real question is do we still have a Republic governed by the Constitution?
We’re still pretending we do.
Well, I’d say there’s over a hundred millions leftist who believe we purportedly live in a democracy, not a constitutional republic, and the vast majority of them can’t even define the latter.
There’s tens of millions of non-leftists who understand the term constitutional republic, and know damn well that’s not how to describe anything that happened in 2020.
Somewhere out there must be a few unicorns who both know what the term means, and actually believe we still live in one.
You mean all those states that are to be a republican form of government that are all being ran by the executive that is making all the rules, dictating when the legislature meets (in some states), establishing fines, etc?
I agree with Scruffy – we are just pretending because acknowledging what is real would probably not be a good idea.
The first step in becoming a recovering alcoholic is admitting you have a problem. I’d say the bad idea is pretending that the Civics 101 bullshit we were taught in the government indoctrination camps, in any way resembles the de facto authoritarian police state that has gotten so much worse this year.
Acknowledging what is real is the best possible idea.
So Flynn couldn’t just take his pardon and keep his mouth shut.
FWIW and as an interesting read: https://mwi.usma.edu/origins-american-military-coup-2037/
Could you? What he was detained/imprisoned for is currently being practiced by a yet to be elected (officially) president/administration. At some point people run out of cheeks to turn.
So many Reconstruction fantasies going around. Everybody wants to create a crisis, nobody wants to prevent one.
Well, that would not stop the Civil War, but I’m not sure it would harm the republic. Does it actually harm a corpse to kick it?
Did the estate pay for an open casket?
Went to town to do a few errands. There were 3 or 4 people OMG not wearing masks, including a milfy young mom and her (10, maybe?) little girl, which made me smile.
I had mine on my chin in droolcatcher setting, just in case. It must be psycho mask Nazi girl’s day off. No sign of her.
I own several Fleece lined, neck Gaiters because you know, wind on your neck, then I realized they make make the perfect Not Mask Mask, walk in to Walmart, mostly up, once in, back to neck gaiter mode, Fashionable Noncompliance, and I have matching Beanies,
Since Ive been working 10p – 6a, nobody in the place has a mask on.
I think she might be dead.
Some people will go to any lengths to hide from you.
Since we’re apparently not doing phrasing any more, some buns for the hot dogs that plump (esp. #14 and #36):
https://thechive.com/2020/12/02/congrats-on-making-it-to-hump-day-have-a-reward-39-photos/
or
https://archive.is/XbUmW
It’s a shame the image search engines can’t find more information about #27. I’d like to see the front view.
#2 is cute.
Click on the green link below #27 to see an awesome collation that will make you forget her. Or possibly him. Some mild ambiguity about gender in that pic.
I took a look at JAVISUA’s gallery. A picture collector. Some good pictures in there.
Agreed #2 is cute.
A leading critic of “cancel culture” is being accused of canceling one of its own—for speaking out too loudly and too often against President Donald Trump.
Now that President Cartoon Villain has been tossed, like a dog-chewed Raggedy Andy doll, on the ash heap of History, she serves no purpose.
Didn’t Shika also have some hobbyhorse of hers about some Indian politician being especially horrible and how no US govt people should ever talk to him? I sort of remember that being one of the things she would harp on (when she was taking a break from beatifying immigrants).
Maybe Biden will be talking to that politician she hated. They know she might blow up and write something critical of Biden and then all the cocktail invites would be right out the window. Just as DC was building the cocktail circuit back better too!
Narendra Modi
She really hates Modi. Really really really hates Modi.
“More Than Words” – Extreme
Barf. My hatred for that song is boundless.
Now but I’ve tried to talk to you
And make you understand
All you have to do is close your eyes
And just reach out your hands
It was such a ridiculous grandiose request for a blow-job.
Project Veritas Shunned By Journalists For Practicing Journalism
Mysterious Tower Of Missing Trump Votes Appears In Utah Desert
O’Keefe has neither a press pass nor a journalism degree from Columbia, so of course he can’t be a journalist.
That is right! The credentialed clause of the 1st Amendment. 😉
Brains on partisanship.
Like everything, solid reporting would solve a lot of our issues that get fractured and spun into conspiracy theory-esque like nonsense.
Trump admin claims in Nevada I think have a good chance, if they can carry it to the Court. Nevada has automatic voter registration when you get a license. NV DMV instituted special hours for new residents to get their paperwork done, but only instituted it on September 19. Benign on the face, but the only thing you have to do is is sign an affidavit that you won’t vote in the upcoming election if you moved the state within the past 30-days.
How many new residents didn’t read the find print when they went to the DMV and thought “oh I am automatically registered!” and went to the polls and cast a provisional ballot. How many did the State actually catch if they were looking?
The flip-side is how many residents moved in August/September (after they have already filled out and sent in their mail-in ballots)?
OK, so how will they know which votes to throw out, seeing as how whom one voted for is secret?
Bootsie Collins: Solid!
the, uh, birthday present
This is how you show you really care, by letting her drive on her special day.
Report from the wilds of SE Texas: Went to renew my vehicle registration (I’ll not rant about that here), and the county tax office had multiple prominent signs stating that masks were required in the office (but not the hallway leading to it, which had helpfully placed green footprints to remind you to keep your distance). However, two of the clerks were maskless, and no one batted an eye when I went in without one (not even one in my pocket, because I said “screw it” when I realized I’d left it in the car).
It’s getting better I think…at least here.
I have resorted to wearing it improperly. I’m actually afraid of getting attacked in the grocery store by one of my tolerant leftest neighbors.
On that subject, I really want to set fire to the pseudo human being sculptures outside of town hall that are wearing a masks with signage about being in this together.
Here in the People’s Republic of Austin part of Texas there’s no place left where going maskless won’t make you the lone person in a crowded business – and damn few where you won’t get told to put one on if you want to shop there.
I’m starting to get pissed off at the prog sheeple here.
I carry one just in case – I don’t have the fight in me to argue about it, especially, say, in my building’s elevator.
I absolutely refuse to wear one outside though, and I will ignore anyone who tells me otherwise.
I carry one just in case, too, but they have to explicitly tell me to put one on, not just suggest it; and they need to be an employee, not a customer. And I’ve walked out of quite a few businesses rather than mask up.
It’s not arguing if you keep walking past someone asking, “Sir, do you own a mask?” Customers saying anything about it get a Strong Ignore.
I agree with Stinky on the Dalmia issue. The truth is Dalmia’s articles were predictable. And predictably bad. Even when I found myself in agreement with her position, I found her arguments cringeworthy. And given the turn of the magazine in the Trump era, really, she was expendable. She wasn’t writing a damned thing you couldn’t get just as easily from Suderman, Brown, Britschgi, et al. What doesn’t make sense is the notion that they got rid of her for being “too anti-Trump”. The entire outfit has been driven to distraction by the Trump administration.
With a few exceptions, Reason has gone to total shit in the last four years. It was on its way during the eight before.
They fell victim to the same thing that plagues society writ large, namely a desire to remain socially relevant in the age of social media when the overall trend has been to purge dissenting viewpoints.
They either had no spine to begin with, or were always cynical opportunists who didn’t actually believe in free minds and free markets (I’m looking at you, Suderman and Bailey).
Nevada is supposed to present their vaccination plan, whatever that means. That will be interesting. What will be more interesting is if I am in a category that will be forced to take it because of my job and the FedGov.
I don’t suppose the plan will say “vaccinate people who request to be vaccinated”.
To clarify (as if anybody cares)… maskless people in the same grocery store where the psycho mask Nazi chick flipped out on me the other day.
Other than the grocery store (I don’t go to Albertson’s, but I suspect they are corporate-behemoth-strict), a gratifying number of people in Livingston are pretty laid back on the mask hysteria. I have to go to Bozeman tomorrow; I suspect people are more high and tight over there.
Our local Albertson’s is ran like the Albertson’s I remember as a kid and how Mr. Albertson would have it. It is friendly, always helpful and no one has said a word to us when we half-ass the masks.
I really miss the Albertson’s stores in my area. They merged with Safeway(?) a few years ago, and mostly because of local regs had to close one or the other in each locality (competition reg stuff, IIRC), and they chose mostly to close the Albertson’s.
They had the best store-brand dry roasted peanuts I’ve ever had.
I shop there out of family dedication. Mr. Albertson sent my aunt to college after hearing of my grandmother’s plight. I know they aren’t the same and have been bought out, but until they screw me over personally, the will get my business.
And to rub it in how awesome my grandma was, J.R. Simplot kicked in the down-payment to her house in Idaho, the owner of Boise Cascade used to fly her (then a low level secretary) to California to see her kids who all moved and was friends with one of the candidates of who possibly could be the model of Rosie the Riveter.
” but I suspect they are corporate-behemoth-strict” then you say, ADA! they shut up, Walmart did,
I have a ego to large to even try to lie about it. We are medical gods in my family.
So the missus is watching one of her cooking game shows, where the contestants are making “updated retro dishes.” One competitor made updated tuna casserole.
Me: That’s one thing I’ve never eaten in my life… tuna casserole.
Wife: Me neither. Sounds gross.
So I’ll ask you guys. Is tuna casserole a beloved American comfort food classic, or an abomination that belongs in the country’s culinary closet, never to re-emerge.
Also, is it tuna, or tunafish around y’all’s parts?
An abomination that we ate for subsistence before Dad started making real money.
In the case of my mom’s tuna (noodle) casserole, she always seemed to overcook the macaroni noodles, making the entirety a mushy mess. I don’t have good memories of that particular meal.
But, worse than canned raviolis on a bed of frozen carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower and then cooked in a casserole pan?
No, not by a long shot.
Huh…depends, we use both in my household. Did you get the tuna? Why don’t you make a tunafish sandwich? Get the tunafish cans out…guess it depends on what we are saying in our house.
And it isn’t an abomination at all. Made correctly, it is cheap and delicious. Like liver and onions.
It’s not an abomination. What OBE said – cheap and tasty.
It’s quick, it’s easy, it’s adaptable, It’s tasty enough. I always have the fixins in the pantry for those too lazy to actually cook times, or the drunk yet hungry enough to cook situations.
1) Tunafish
2) Tunafish hotdish is pretty good. One of the things you need to be aware of though is that Tunafish Hotdish is not topped with tater tots like a normal hotdish. It has a fancy topping of La Choy chow mein noodles (crunch) and cashews.
No, you put potato chips on tuna hot dish.
Acceptable if you are going for quick and dirty. But why not be fancy with those crunchy chow mein noodles?
It isn’t like anyone in NW Minnesoda was actually making chow mein. All those noodles were going 100% for hotdish toppings.
I think it’s OKish. I’d say of all the things my Ma cooked, that was probably one of my least favorite and I’ve never attempted to recreate it.
I like tuna.
Recipe 1
tuna
mayo
garlic powder
onion powder
salt
sweet relish
put on buttered toast with American cheese (optional)
Recipe 2
tuna
extra sharp cheddar, grated
hard-boiled egg
white onion, diced
paprika
parsley
chili powder
cayenne pepper
salt
black pepper
dip with Wheat Thins
If you get quality tuna you can make some excellent tuna cakes with them too. i like your recipes, added to my lists of things kids can make
This is to dress up the cheap stuff. I wouldn’t use good tuna for this.
Oh I forgot the mayo with Recipe 2
Cooked tuna is the abomination. Raw or gtfo.
Not even a euphemism
You need to get laid
Would you suffice for at least seared after rolled in sesame seeds and coated with wasabi and soy sauce?
That’s OK. But I’d rather it raw.
Growing up my dad (and me when I got older) would catch a ton of tullibees (aka ciscoes) for food.
Mom would can them and try to get us to eat it by calling it tulli-fish. It was horrible. I bet we probably have at least 5 jars of canned tullibees in our basement somewhere.
We were sitting around after my mom passed and her making tullifish was one of the stories that came up. My father tried to say that we liked tulli-fish growing up and my sister and I jumped all over him telling him how wrong he was.
Cooked egg noodles, tuna, cream of mushroom soup. It’s simple, easy, and nostalgic (at least for me).
Prefer tuna helper to tuna casserole, but I’ve had a good one every now and then. Now I just eat the tuna packs every day for lunch for the last 4 years….
With a few exceptions, Reason has gone to total shit in the last four years. It was on its way during the eight before.
I haven’t even looked since I made mt way here. The only writer there worth a damn was Tucille. Is he still there?
Only twice this year.
Seems that way.
Off on a tangent.
Why would I ever pay for one of those medical emergency buttons for my dad? If I don’t get an email dump from him every couple days I’ll start to worry.
His email dumps are him replying all of his emails. Even when there have been several replies. He replies to each email in the thread. Just replying to the last one is for sissies I guess. But I get about 20 emails all at once.
He’s a smart guy, but computers and how they work still baffle him pretty badly.
OK, I complained too soon. One of his emails had this gem:
AHAHAHA!
I always giggled at the I’ve fallen and I can’t get up commercials. However, a few months ago the wife’s grandmother spent nearly 24 hours on the floor, lying in her own feces, because she fell and couldn’t get up. If the risk is there, and you will enjoy his company for a few more years. Just get something simple.
Is tuna casserole a beloved American comfort food classic,
Something like a creamy tuna/noodle casserole can be okay. My grandmother used to make it. I wouldn’t want to live on it.
Tuna helper got me thru college and a couple of lean years after that.
No more.
That was a great treat growing up. I wouldn’t knock it today, though I would leave out the disgusting green beans.
PS. “Italian green beans”, I think they’re called. The big, flat ones.
I like skinny green beans.
Fat shamer!
Protip- if you have hamburger/tuna “helper” and sub the milk & margarine for cream & real butter, it takes to whole new level.
That’s like putting extra virgin olive oil on ramen noodles. Which I do. It’s delicious.
So virgin it hasn’t even heard the word “sex”.
While I found you lot from TOS, I’ve only been back to search for inspirational quotes from AG. Despite being a member I dont think I ever posted there.
Agile Cyborg during a rare moment of lucidity:
Agile Cyborg
June.22.2016 at 8:39 am
Excess warnings also foster the emergence of superstition-grade thinking on activities and creations that rarely deserve this even while warnings are required and never posted on things far more pressing to be avoided- like government, for example.
No fucking courthouse has a warning label on it stating: Caution: Building Exhibits Imprisoning Levels of Societal Insecurity
Fucking scrape labels off the goddamn bikes and hang gliders and place them on the motherfucking institutions of the world.
And to balance that equation with “Classic” AC:
Agile Cyborg
April.26.2015 at 7:18 pm
Satans sploodge is brain jizz mixed with jesus ass flowers and all those resonants and spices and my magic splashes veggies make for the best fucking stew of contemporary streams from all the humans in a huge quaint bowl with crackers.
I miss Agile Cyborg.
reading his old posts is like drukenly following YouTube sidebars….I could do it all night. Have another classic:
Agile Cyborg
April.26.2015 at 9:31 pm
Martin Luther is black star, lovely boy. I masturbated my fat cock to him one time and as the jizz spilled from my sweet hole the Man showed up over my white cock and said that I needed to stop getting off to MLK philosophy and not because Martin Luther get this jizz festival- it was because he was dead and he didn’t know this white boy personally. I get that shit. If you get off to dead MLK he needs to know your ass personally…. I wish I would have known MLK personally….
Man, this shit is in worlds I didn’t even buy tickets to.
canned raviolis on a bed of frozen carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower and then cooked in a casserole pan
*hisses, makes sign of the cross*
I often went hungry the nights we had that (wasn’t offered – or allowed – another option).
All my siblings agree it was absolutely the worst. Just foul.
That’s just not right.
At least provide peanut butter and mayo on white bread as an alternative.
Uh..there are no alternatives. I worked for this food, your mom made the food, you will eat the food.
^ this.
And, honestly, it was as much my stubbornness as my folks’:
“This is a steaming pile of hot garbage, and I’m not going to eat it!”
“Then you can sit at the table until you do”
** clock strikes 11 PM on a school night **
“GO TO BED YOU WILL EAT THIS TOMORROW”
** throws it away at school and bums half a sandwich from my friend **
I’m a little less strict with my kids, but close. In our case, it’s “eat it once and we don’t have to have it again”, especially when there’s a consensus on it.
That stopped the second I vomited in my plate–not on purpose.
I always felt bad for my cousin. I was (and still am) a garbage disposal when it comes to food and my aunt would make food for us. I would finish my whole plate no matter what and she was a bird eater.
“Why can’t you be like [insert nickname here] and eat all your food [insert another nickname here]? He always enjoys my cooking and you never eat!
Heh, I should have thought of that, as that ravioli travesty engaged the gag reflex, for sure.
If I could have stuffed enough down that it all came back up I may have short-circuited the process.
My mom had tried her hand at egg foo yung.
I found out later everybody (including her) had a hard time choking that down. And yet I was the villain of the piece. smh
See if i venture off in a culinary direction that I am not comfortable with, it is made separately and as a gee-whiz thing until I can master it.
My son did that. Which is why instead of pulling the “you must at least eat some of everything” line, we went with: eat it or don’t, but I’m not making a separate dish for you, and you don’t get dessert. Then again, I’m also wasteful enough that if something tastes bad after I’ve made it, I’ll toss it and order a pizza. I haven’t had to do that in over a decade, though.
That is our household. We have one teen that hates mushrooms, but the rule is, if there is an ingredient you do not like, quietly separate it out from your meal on the side and go about eating.
Whole dishes, we haven’t blacklisted any yet.
The rule when I was growing up was ‘you must eat three normal bites of everything offered’. Liver and onions, boiled beets, Sauerkraut, whatever.
Reading here I realize there is not much I won’t eat. All of those would be a gleeful OBE at the dinner table.
That would have have also been a no-go for me: Mayo was inedible in my eyes until I was well out of high school.
I may have been something of a picky eater when young.
Sigh. I grew up in a house like Kwihnsy, you ate what was served and you didn’t make a peep about it. When I cooked for our kids, I took the same approach.
My wife is the exact opposite. She is a short order cook who would cook anything our kids want if they didn’t like what was served up.
That caused a lot of conflict in our marriage (especially when the kids were young). Upon reflection, I agreed that my hard line doesn’t make a ton of sense. Like Scruffy said, reasonable alternatives can be found. My wife never budged. She would cook anything the kids wanted.
The issue went away as the kids got bigger because we started making the kids cook dinners. They had to plan the dinner and do the cooking (we’d help if needed). Once they started cooking they got way better about not bitching about dinner.
Similar here for me: I want to make something that we all will enjoy; why torture people with nausous concoctions? But, if we agreed on it, then we’re not just going to dump it.
And like your house, the kids are now old enough that they’re doing at least 3x meals per week between the two of them, which has made for much less complaining about dinner, since they get to feel what criticism of your own hard work feels like.
Part of it for me as a parent is trying to teach gratitude even for things you wouldn’t have chosen yourself. I think that gluttony is not simply overeating, but being controlled by good to the point that won’t consider anything that we don’t feel like or that doesn’t make our taste buds jump for joy. So part of it is a self-discipline thing, too.
There’s a balance in there somewhere.
controlled by FOOD*
Both my sons have gotten a lot of points when their girlfriends learned that they are accomplished cooks.
On the other hand, both of them have groused about being taken for granted by their roommates who have no idea how to cook.
Still they both are grateful that we made them learn how to cook.
Benefit of a latch key kid was you had to learn on your own. Well that and a couple trips to the ER to get stitched up for cutting off a thumb while making something.
My parents had gone on some trip and taken my sister with them. I was old enough to be left alone (13-15?). I spent one afternoon going to a local gun show where a guy put on a demonstration of how to really sharpen a knife.
Ran home and tried it out myself. To test my news skills I started trying to cut a golf ball in half. The family dog came in and distracted me so that the knife slipped and I was able to slice right through the first knuckle on my left hand right down to the bone (like it was butter).
My first thought was “Get off the carpet” because mom would kill me if she came home to blood stains on the carpet.
After I was off the carpet, I wrapped my hand up in a towel and grabbed the keys to our car. I didn’t have my license yet but I had done enough driving on farms and hunting that I knew I could do it. In my panic, I put the car in drive instead of reverse and hit the side of the garage (not too hard).
Then at the ER, I couldn’t remember the phone number of where my parents were (on a piece of paper back at the house). So the ER folks stitched me up, sent me home and told me to call back with the number so they could get the insurance number. No cops were called or anything else was done.
I still get shit about cutting golf balls when the family gets together.
We would make good cut finger buddies Pope…I immediately wrapped up my thumb in a towel. The thumb wasn’t completely severed, but like you, down to the bone. I had not vehicle to jump in but rather called my mom at work only to be told she was in a meeting. So being the nice young gentleman I was, said “okay, thank you” and hung up.
Brother in-law happened by the house and saw me sitting there with a blood soaked wrap and a woosy OBE rushed me to the ER. ER said the cut was so clean all I needed was a shot and some butterfly bandaids.
*bloody fist bumps OBE*
It really is a struggle is it not? I want my kids to experience all the flavors of the world, which they do, but I don’t want them to be so turned off of things because I made it terribly. To what I said above, about the teen with the mushroom dislike, his step-mom makes some that he loves. That is all I ask. I know I don’t make them like she does, but you found a way to enjoy it. Learn from her so you can make them at home!
That is when I get the teen response “Why would I do that?!”
but I don’t want them to be so turned off of things because I made it terribly
I read Thank You For Smoking years ago and that guy was always drinking negroni cocktails, so I looked up the recipe and tried them at home. They are decent and I liked them.
Fast forward a few years and a buddy and I are going to Chicago on a business trip and we start talking about cocktails that we have made at home but never had in a bar so you have no idea if your home version is decent or not.
I brought up the negroni and admitted I wasn’t even sure how to pronounce it because I had only read it in that book.
We get to the hotel and the elevator has an ad telling us that the hotel bar has a happy hour special on negronis. Talk about serendipity! We are super excited to go try a professionally made negroni.
We get to the bar sit down and our waitress comes over and she is one of the blackest women I have ever seen. She asked what we wanted and our white male asses were almost too terrified to ask for a negroni out of fear of mispronouncing it.
I pointed at the ad that was also shown on the bar menu and said we’d like a couple of those and could she tell us how to pronounce it? She rolled her eyes and said we didn’t have to worry about getting in trouble. I told her that she could see where we’d be a bit nervous about asking her for one. Then we all had a good laugh about how stupid our race relations had gotten.
That seems to be how most people in real life react to the more ridiculous aspects of our culture. Maybe because it’s manufactured and forced on us by our betters.
The Negroni sbagliato is very nice twist on the original btw.
@Jimbo: LOL!
@Lady: Negroni Mistake? My curiosity is piqued. I love Negronis.
So negroni sbagliato appears to substitute prosecco for the gin.
I am totally down with trying that. Especially since I just picked up a bottle of prosecco yesterday.
Jimbo, Ive done my best to instill into Tres Ver 2.0’s head: know how to cook something, play an instrument (ideally piano or guitar), and learn to dance a bit. The chicks will love you.
Ya, playing piano (and singing) may or may not have gotten me some welcome attention at school, summer camp, church, etc.
Update that to Tres Ver 2.0/OBE 2.1. My boys don’t understand when I tell them something its because it was a chance I didn’t take only to be told later that if I took that chance you would have gotten it.
Teach them to be polite too.
As I told the oldest Altar Boy, “be polite and you can get away with murder”.
All of my kids got out of several scrapes at school simply by “Yes Sir, No Sir”-ing the authorities.
Both my wife are very non-musical, so we didn’t do to well at instilling the singing or musical abilities in the kids.
^^ Just had that conversation yesterday with my teen. They are Mr and Mrs, even if they say you can call me Y and X.
Kids go through phases. Pushing too hard when they are in a stubborn mode is just as likely to end up with them never trying anything new as it is to overcome the stubborness. On the other hand giving in and makingthem mac and cheese or chicken tenders when the rest of the family is eating something else just begs for them to refuse to try any new food. For the most part we went with you have to try it. You don’t have to finish it, but if you don’t eat it you aren’t getting anything else instead. It mostly worked, although there were a few times stubbornness broke out on either side, usually when some food that was a favorite last year suddenly became “gross”.
My kids and I will eat the same thing every day for forever and then one day just stop and never eat it again.
Burnt both my kids out on fruit hand pies, and XY is burnt out on pumpkin pie.
I’m burnt out on an expensive and wonderful kielbasa last year because it was all I ate for about 4 days straight.
So when my kids don’t want something, I have to take into account how many days they’ve had it.
If I made XY’s favorites as often as he wanted me to, he’d probably get burned out on those too. XX doesn’t like much of what I cook but she’s developed things she likes from my suggestions.
My best friend in high school had a younger brother that would eat nothing but hot dogs.
That phase lasted an entire year. Nothing but hot dogs and liquid.
“I had anal sex with a redhead on her birthday.”
Related.
https://archive.li/bMOYN
Not enough redheads…but it will do pig, it will do.
This one is like a roller coaster. Excellent. No thanks. Excellent. No. Hawt. No.
#18 is Aussie porn star Angela White. I was saddened when she got on the “transwomen are women” train.
Google image search says this is #1’s instagram page.
#2 used to have an instagram page, but some tagged pictures are still on other instagram accounts. They can be viewed here.
#4 is either lifted from a MILF porn gallery that was on reddit, or the gallery I found and the picture from the Chive were taken from a camgirl named Busty Brynn. I’m not sure. I’d dig more into the search results for this woman and search for more of the women in the Chive gallery Q posted, but I really need to get some bugs fixed for work.
Oops.. #3 is the one that used to have an instagram page. Not #2. I didn’t research #2.
So I sometimes get calls where I have to go alone into what is (hopefully) a vacant house. I just did one. Got the locks opened and the place is an absolute mess. Junk everywhere strewn about. I thought I heard a noise and I’m calling out for someone to answer. I have pepper spray handy and I turn on the light in the downstairs basement bedroom and am greeted by this. Jumped a bit and then had to laugh.
https://imgur.com/a/qrRXJ64
What the fuck? OMG, laughing so hard.
HAHAHA WTF
https://i.imgflip.com/4op7l5.jpg
Hehehehe. That’s why I love this place.
I also have no idea WTF. I could only assume they did it on purpose to fuck with people coming in as it’s a family fighting over who gets dead relative’s house situation and I was told to change out the locks. I don’t think I want to be on that team.
A quick DDG search of the “Team Bubba” moniker doesn’t narrow it down for me, either. Quite a varied return on that term.
NASCAR term I thought.
My mind immediately went to Monica Lewinsky, but you’re probably right.
I thought it would be the other side. AKA Team Clinton.
Wow.
No one around and the locks changed? Time for Bubba to learn about login’.
In honor of the mayo conversation above: https://www.midcenturymenu.com/cranberry-candle-salad-a-vintage-hellmanns-recipe-test/
I am going to make that just because now. Thanks Tulip
Look, you put “midcentury” and “mayo” and “cranberry” together, I’m not clicking on it.
You are right! It needs Jello brand gelatin, and to be served in some sort of corningware to be a proper midcentury classic.
excuse me I think I need to be sick now.
Aw c’mon. It’s wonderfully WTF
I totally am, because I love the “Gallery of Unfortunate Foods”.
This doesn’t disappoint. It’s as horrifying as anything Lileks has ever posted.
I love that site so much. It’s better than Lileks because you get to see Tom’s reaction.
LOL, I didn’t scroll down before.
Speaking of retro dishes…
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/vintage-recipes/
The fact that basic homemade bread is on there shows us where our society is at…
I made a crown roast for a dinner party once. It looks really impressive, but isn’t that hard.
Did you put pants on the bones?
If you mean put foil over the exposed bone, then yes.
You and KK should get together…
🙂 I was joking about the paper frill pants caterers usually put on crown roasts. I like to cook very much, but because I learned to cook because I like to eat and don’t care much about presentation my chef character sheet looks like this:
out of 20
Technique: 11 (average of a number of 18-20s and a handful of huh how you do that? cause I am self taught)
Ingredient selection: 15
Soups: 18
Entrees: 18
Sauces: 12 (see technique above
Baking: 12 (see technique above, but add in the fact that dusting rolling pin and slab with flour is apparently wizardry and I can’t seem to do it right so I end up with pastry stuck everywhere exceptwhere I want it)
Plating: 0
Presentation: 0
I wish there was a cooking competition like that. Who care about presentation. I want to see what table licks their plates when they are done as the qualifier.
I care about presentation. It makes it even more enjoyable.
I think I gave the wrong impression. I am saying I never practiced any of the techniques for making things look good because I learned to cook for myself and I was just as happy eating from a bowl or some tupperware. It’s a weakness of mine I am admitting, not something I am dismissive of in the art.
it’s a family fighting over who gets dead relative’s house
If it’s in San Fran, I assume it’s worth some pretty serious money.
Likely a 1.3 million total fixer. 1200 square foot about. Comes with the t shirt.
What could possibly go wrong with this plan?
Cleveland City Council considers limiting fee delivery services charge to help restaurants survive coronavirus pandemic
You joined Vegas!
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/clark-county/clark-county-caps-third-party-food-delivery-fees-at-15-2087939/
See you brought a bit of us, to you.
It’s almost like they’re sharing a wish-list of horrible policies to impose on us.
Nah…just for fun, pull up all the governors emergency orders side by side and see how they all read exactly alike for fun.
I think NY(C) already did this. Stealing our best ideas again.
Huh
Campbell County, Va., is taking a stand against Gov. Ralph Northam’s COVID-19 restrictions as its Board of Supervisors endorsed a measure Tuesday night that calls on county agencies not to enforce Northam’s crowd-size limits and other orders.
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When Northam tightened his COVID-19 restrictions last month, Virginia was averaging 1,500 newly reported cases each day. In its most recent 24-hour update, the state reported more than 2,400 cases.
How can you turn your back on measures which have clearly been proven effective?
So in one day of not following restrictions all these ‘cases’ came up? Almost like our local news quipping about how Thanksgiving is driving up the numbers..
Makes you wanna ride a roller coaster and pull your mask down as it’s rising, pull it down as you’re plummeting and turn to the lady next to you: “See! Masks work!”
*pull it up as you’re plummeting.
Need coffee.
Oops. forgot to turn off muh eye-talix.
Huh. With all the build-up to this game, I would not have expected it to be boring as fuck.
Oooh, a FOIA request for all radar data in Las Vegas on November 22 from someone form Billings MT. I am guessing Alien Hunters, but who knows.
Nah, it’s Gina Haspel.
Tried to watch Rudy’s latest hearing , this time in Michigan, Jesus what a shit show. The chair, after expressing how solemn these proceedings are stated that they will try and get them done by 9:00pm (because world shattering things can get resolved in three hours), maybe a little longer since he was late showing up to get them started. He then made a point that these witnesses weren’t witnesses just people giving testimony, and they would only let each panel member ask 1 question, no follow ups (because that’s how you get to the truth of any matter). Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that he said he “was” going to let the panel more thoroughly question the ‘not quite witnesses’ until one of the panel members was rude to Rudy at the start of the hearing.
Seriously watch for yourself these people are insane.
This may be my favorite recipe from that site: https://www.midcenturymenu.com/aspic-aquarium-1960-a-crazy-mid-century-gelatin-test/
Gelatin molds received a bad rap in the 70s/80s.
Jesus.
I still can’t figure out how mayo figures into either of these.
I mean… yuck.
McCain’s death will be mourned by millions while most people won’t even know who Walter Williams was. Barf, indeed.
Agreed.
Walter Williams is a big loss to the world. I am very sad about that one.
His site needs attention
http://walterewilliams.com/
Ah, I see, one them Uncle Toms. /TMITE
Turns out the Keating Five was not a jazz quintet.
McCain lands on the Money sometime,
“Anti-‘Cancel Culture’ Reason Magazine Accused of Canceling Columnist for Being Too Anti-Trump”
Or just maybe for being a terrible writer and too anti-libertarian and anti-intelligent and anti-common sense and anti-not stupid?
So is this how we do society from now on? If I ever lose a job, it will be because the company was too anti-Welsh. I’m so stealing that.
The teen is venturing on coming up with his own riffs….some are…80s worthy, most are 90s and some just need to never happen again.
I remember reading once long ago that Eddie Van Halen would go in his room and start a recorder and just play for like 8 hours. He would go back later and listen for things he liked but I sure there was some less than stellar stuff as well.
I have spent many hours doing that, Digital recording helps, cut what you like, and save in a folder for later review, he did it with tape, God Bless him!
For every two words I publish, there is one I do not. I have snipets files that are up to 75% the length of the published book (e.g., 100,000 word book, 75,000-word scenes and snippets I cut).
““After 15 years, the curtains came down for me at Reason today. My views, I was told, had become too out-of-step with those of the organization,” Shikha Dalmia announced Tuesday evening in a Facebook post.”
Well, it is ‘supposed to be a libertarian publication’. Herpity derpity derpity doo, let’s place the race card!
What freedom is more important than the freedom to race bait?
Well, I mean if she was my employee (Why would I have hired her to start with? Unless it was a government mandated quota. And seriously how damn hard would it be to hire an Indian chick with some actual talent? Not that hard.), I’d congratulate her freedom to do that race baiting as much as she wanted without anyone bothering her, on her own time.
That being said, she’s still probably a better writer than Thomas Friedman, or Frank Bruni. And those two clowns actually have paid jobs at the NYT. But at least they know their job, which is too dumbly parrot commie bullshit as was established by Walter Duranty’s precedent nearly 100 years ago.
Dalmia can’t even figure out that she was writing for a supposed libertarian publication and can’t figure out anything to write about libertarian opinion other than Oragne Man Bad! Open Borders Good!
“Hay! Who’s ready to barf?!?”
I’ve just decided to make myself barf ready for the remainder of the year, or maybe 4.
“A Colorado photographer said he watched the now-famous monolith in southeast Utah fall to the ground”
I’ll just say again. This is what happens when you make people extremely bored because they’re not allowed to do normal human stuff. The boredom needs more metallic petro fueled mulching devices IMHO.
ToeCutter was covered above, Just Say’n
I knew back in the late 70s when I first tried weed and tried to reckon with the fact that this plant could be illegal. I knew right then that something was badly wrong with the direction of this country. And this is where we’ve wound up. I was young and inexperienced, but I was not stupid, I could still sense when something was not right and that it was leading down a bad path.
Weed is pretty overblown, I predicted the same when it became legal, just another form of Soma, and I smoke daily, FWIW,
I haven’t used weed in 32 years. But it being illegal is draconian level bullshit. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What happened to all that?
It has been legal for me for at least 10 years, and everywhere I move, it becomes Legal,
Liberty and Soma!
I have a feeling we would give Dropkick a run for a messed up family Christmas time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-sdR6Yzk
Perhaps she has had a change and goes by a different name now…you didn’t say whether you were pitching or catching.