Gonna be playing this all weekend. Don’t @ me.
Just in case you forgot about this glorious bit of news last week or needed extra incentive to move to the last best place… (h/t: Warty)
Was the COVID Aid bill too long for you to read? Here‘s a TL;DR version.
Good news for those of you who already have a PS5 but not enough storage space…
I would so love to go and see this, but I might never leave.
Are you smarter than a mom in the UK? Let’s find out.
Mr. Riven is going to be hearing this many, many times this weekend. Just in case you thought it was all blowjobs and buttstuff sunshine and rainbows, being married to me; go ahead and listen to that six, maybe seven times in a row and tell me what you think.
Those legless, perfectly spherical termites are the worst
How do they compare to a spherical cow?
Much smaller, and they eat less grass.
I realize that DeSantis has a bit on his plate right now, but I keep waiting for him to press the Florida legislature on this.
The Rs appear to have majorities in both chambers of the FL legislature. Why not? Are there any Republican groups in the legislature who could push for it?
They could do away with Florida’s waiting period too.
“The woman, from Australia, said her children have a plastic toy house in the garden which had been left unused and closed up for three days.
But when she looked back inside she found “thousands” of shiny black balls covering the floor and on the walls, posting photos online in the hope someone could identify what they were.”
It’s Australia, so it could be anything.
Although I’m not saying it’s aliens…
“FBI is ‘aware’ of American Airlines flight’s close encounter with ‘fast-moving cylindrical object’ over New Mexico at 36,000 feet – but won’t confirm investigation”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9304359/FBI-aware-incident-involving-flight-close-encounter-fast-moving-cylindrical-object.html
“Japanese political leader tied to a ‘Scientology-like’ cult that claims it can cure coronavirus for $400 and believes its founder is reincarnation of alien will speak at CPAC”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9303925/Japanese-political-leader-tied-Scientology-like-cult-speak-CPAC.html
Who’s speaking at CPAC, the founder or the alien?
If it is the alien, let me know – I’ll watch.
I believe that quite a bit of New Mexico is MOA over a certain altitude.
An extinct, flightless bird, over a certain altitude, in a completely different part of the world from the only island on which it was ever found?
You sir, are mistaken.
Obviously, it wasn’t anyone reloading shot shells since gunz are banned there.
I think you can get guns for hunting, but they don’t make it easy.
The Aussies not from the cities or the southeast coast suffered a similar spike in boating accidents around when the government held its buy back program.
The way it was put to me by a guy whose parents live in the Queensland countryside was “Have you *seen* a cassowary?”
Tough to argue
. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/amp/news/2019/4/why-the-cassowary-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-bird-568931
Everything in Australia is trying to kill you. Their national language is screaming.
And yet they seem to be doing ok.
They seem to be like Americans in that the population ranges from the freedom loving survivalists and the Pearl-clutching law-givers.
Per most of the movies I watch from there – it tends to be mostly other people trying to kill each other.
Just watched “The Horseman” this week. Interesting to see a revenge flick from a country where guns are less available (only one used at the very end of the film). Plenty of other inventive ways to get back at your daughter’s rapists. (low budget)
Other Aussie ones worth checking out from the last couple years – “The Rover”, “Wyrmwood”
I know someone who had a crippled sandhill crane put its beak right through his hand when he was trying to grab it. Sounds like he wasn’t a complete outlier either.
I’ve never shot one, but I see that NoDak still has their season open. Maybe think about that next year.
When we had our cabin in Wisconsin, you’d see huge flocks of sandhill cranes right around the time to pull docks.
My ex-girlfriend volunteered at a raptor rescue clinic. She said that the really dangerous birds were Cranes and Great Blue Herons. They will poke you in the eyeball if you get close to them.
The hawks and owls, OTOH, would generally freeze solid when they were the least bit confused, so they were easier to handle.
And certainly not a curious kid who found one and took it apart.
Is gun ownership increasing in Australia?
Article is from 2018.
Australians now own more guns in total than they did before the 1996 crackdown, according to figures from 2016 – the last time they were comprehensively studied.
That amounts to more than three million firearms, according to separate government statistics.
But gun ownership per capita has dropped by 23% during the same time, said Associate Prof Philip Alpers from the University of Sydney.
Sounds about right. IIRC, in order to buy any ammunition you have to prove you own a firearm in that caliber. So if you happen to have had a ‘boating accident’ you would probably one day want to purchase another gun in the same caliber as the one you ‘lost’ in said accident.
And you may find yourself… living in a shotgun toyhouse….
/Australian Talking Heads
“Just in case you thought it was all blowjobs and buttstuff being married to me”
So you’re saying he’ll be disappointed?
I didn’t think that, but I will now.
I thought there was Scotch involved too?
Groundskeeper Willie just watches, no touching! I don’t know if that counts as involved or not in your definition of sex.
There will be tonight. Probably should have dinner ready before hand
I finally got around to watching My Neighbor Totoro. Utterly charming and delightful. Like if you could somehow purify weapons-grade charm and delight, and mainline it.
https://youtu.be/Ues6vY_KIoc
I’m happy that Utah is on that GOA list as well. Cox has redeemed himself some in my book for that.
Pushback
The U.S. is “nowhere close” to achieving herd immunity from Covid, and more transmissible variants mean even more people will need to get vaccinated to reach it, a CDC scientist said Friday.
Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a given community have antibodies against a specific disease, either through vaccination or prior exposure to the virus. That makes it difficult to spread from person to person and even protects people who don’t have any immunity.
“Currently we know that the majority of the U.S. population is not immune to SARS-CoV-2 and variants may cause this portion of the population that is not immune to increase,” said Adam MacNeil, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
To reach the threshold of herd immunity while battling new, more contagious virus strains, a higher proportion of the population needs to get vaccinated, MacNeil said at a Food and Drug Administration meeting reviewing Johnson & Johnson’s application to authorize its Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use.
From the people who want us to believe no human is naturally resistant to the plague. Despite a year of indicators to the contrary. I can’t believe those clowns have any credibility whatsoever, with anybody.
Currently we know that the majority of the U.S. population is not immune to SARS-CoV-2
Actually, we know no such thing. We have no clue how many people have (i) “baseline” immunity via T-cells, (ii) “cross-over” immunity from previous coronavirus infections or (iii) had it and recovered but were never tested.
variants may or may not cause this portion of the population that is not immune to increase
Are these variants more or less virulent than SARS-CoV-2?
I’m immune to all the noise ref: the virus. It is what it is.
The ancient one shows wisdom.
OT:
Michael Malice interviewed Justin Amash in the most recent “Your Welcome.” Boy did Amash come off squishy and seriously blue-pilled. It was comical watching Malice’s reactions to many of Amash’s answers. He asked thoughtful questions and rebutted Amash in a respectful way, though you could see that Malice was quite deflated about 5-minutes into the interview. It was an interesting interview, but my impression of Amash definitely hasn’t improved. If he is the future of the LP, it is in sorry shape indeed. Here is the video if anyone is interested.
One needn’t publicly espouse an all out attack on someone you disagree with. Sometimes just ignoring them or talking about something different is best.
Amash did the former. Now the only people who give a single shit about what he has to say are the “libertarians” at TOS. He no longer is a positive voice for liberty, but just another anti-Trumper.
Exactly this. That’s what I liked about Malice’s interview, too. Obviously he was less than thrilled with a lot of Amash’s answers, but he wasn’t hostile or on the attack. Malice did well letting Amash make himself look like a fool and talk himself into a corner. You could get a sense of Amash’s TDS throughout, though. The comments on YT were quite scathing.
Yeah, he was a big disappointment.
I loved that pic of Amash, Massie, and Paul heading over to the Capitol together.
Now, not so much.
https://images.app.goo.gl/eRpaRYnzGSmRdcsJ6
The sad part is that a guy who could have been a fighter for liberty will fade off into irrelevancy because of his TDS. He makes the mistake that many TOS libertarians make and that is assuming that the Progressives and Libertarians can find common ground if they let water down some of their principles.
I’ve always said it, but the reason why this will never happen because for instance take criminal justice reform. Libertarians come from the belief that the government shouldn’t have such power to fuck over people while Progressives have no problem with the government having that power as long as they don’t fuck over certain people.
This is why I was not at all a fan of Obergefell. It got to a less objectionable answer (but not the right answer) via a very anti-libertarian method.
Now, there’s no way we will ever get government to reduce their grasp on marriage. Yay, prog-libertarian alliance…
I think it was the right answer, but the wrong method. It should have been passed by state legislatures, not decreed by judges.
Marriage is one of the things that drives me batty. If you ask someone, anyone, who they are married to, they will point to their spouse. But if you ask them then why does the gov’t need to get involved, you will get nineteen million miles of BS. None of which says anything about who is getting married.
I married Mlle Zwak. I did not marry the US Gov’t. And no matter what happens, I am married to Mlle Zwak. All that the gov’t needs to do is to enforce contracts as it does in every. other. case.
Liberty doesn’t have a constituency in this country. Maybe if we had a parliamentary system you’d be able to climb just above the minimum support level for representation. But in our geographic district system? No chance – we’re getting Congress-critters that really do represent the average American.
I got a similar vibe but I think in a lot of ways being a politician means you are stuck parsing your answers. He might also be somewhat isolated from the “normal” population as a result of it too.
I think the big takeaway that I got from the questions was that he is very quick to side with “everything should be constitutional” as a black and white, until Malice asked about how his votes were, if they were always constitutional or not. I actually understood his meaning, that sometimes you have to implement something that is distasteful if it rolls back something even worse, but it seems hypocritical to say that it’s black and white that morons shouldn’t storm the capitol, then to say, “well I voted for about 50% of things that wouldn’t pass strict constitutional muster.” Also, his take that people shouldn’t push back because that will force the government to get bigger. Like the government has ever needed an excuse to try to grow.
I expected political speak. Like Hayeksplosives, I feel like he was a disappointment. Also, I had to laugh out loud when he said that he is a Hayek libertarian. Ha. Sure you are, Justin.
Spent the last hour watching, well listening to it. I find Amash disappointing in many of his conclusions, but I think he’s largely right about the disappeal of freedom to most people. More depressing is the utter kabuki theater of modern politics. what’s the pill color for collapsitarian?
Anarchy is black-pilled, IIRC. Close enough for gubmint work.
Black pill with the pink band?
But Malice is all about The White Pill as an anarchist.
If you are a Doomer, its a black pill.
“America’s culture and campuses are ‘under SIEGE’ by the woke brigade’s attempts to cancel conservative thought, Scott Walker tells CPAC”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9304843/Americas-culture-campuses-SIEGE-woke-brigade-Scott-Walker-says.html
He’s right, but maybe he should read this from Scott Alexander:
“A Modest Proposal For Republicans”
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-republicans
Although it’s not about eating Democrat babies, unfortunately.
Democrats don’t have babies. They have fetuses.
You know, that does tend to explain the whole no-such-thing-as-gender, when you can’t even deal with ontogeny.
That’s definitely Scott close to his best.
However, so many people in the comments seem totally incapable of understanding his point.
Scott = Scott Alexander
Because many of them are the over-privileged blue-pilled elitists he’s talking about.
I went to work this week, passed out ads for a special Avon sales for skin care, watched TV: Netflix, Hulu etc, did my piano lessons onlines, played Nintendo switch, did laundry, took out the trash on Tuesday and worked out 4 days this week. Also am reading a book on the Troubles in Ireland. That is what I usually do almost every week. I’m boring. I’m like same shit different day. 🙁
On the upside, at least you have a gym.
I grow Mushrooms and get drunk, that’s my routine, oh, and laundry, (Blech)
Yeah the mundane is real but mundane is not all that bad.
yep, Monotony never gets old,
I got a small mountain of laundry to catch up on too.
It will be a dull weekend.
Speaking of small mountains, I’m excavating two large piles of accumulated household papers – paid bills, insurance policy renewals, financial docs, etc. – and scanning them into my PC with my nifty new compact scanner so I can pitch/shred the paper.
I haven’t been good about filing personal paperwork. This is going to take a LOOOOOOONG time. But as long as I get rid of more paper than comes into the house on any given day, it can’t take forever, right?
Right?
Tomorrow is a local shredding event. GF has a big ole garbage bag filled for it.
The day I figured out that the scanning apps on iPad are actually really fucking good was a great day.
Three words:
Backups, backups, backups.
Yup. Got the flash drive waiting for when I get to a good stopping point (read “when I get sick of picking through the piles.”)
My gym is now online classes, it is cheaper. It’s $9.99 a month for online only. I can do anything from Barre, Yoga, weights, cardio, dance, and etc. I do go to gyms about once a week, with real people. Going to a Cycling class today with real people.
Well, it sounds like you have quite a bit of equipment at home.
There’s a fair amount here.
/looks over at equipment she doesn’t use.
Another Mythical Female Libertarian?
I think that makes 5 now.
His comments come a week after a Wall Street Journal opinion piece claimed the U.S. will achieve herd immunity by April.
Those bastards at the WSJ just want everybody to die.
I wonder why they didn’t bother to say who wrote that article, or what their reasoning was. Just didn’t have enough space, I guess.
“Proud Boys leader condemns members who destroyed property in Capitol riot and admits he does NOT think the election was stolen – as he says he had to testify in Roger Stone’s trial for Russia probe
Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio condemned insurrectionist who stormed and destroyed the Capitol but relished in members of the government ‘fearing the people.’
In a Thursday interview with CNN, the chairman of Proud Boy refused to walk back a post he made moments after the Capitol riot that showed politicians hunched over as they hid from the fanatic Trump supporters.
‘I’ll celebrate the moment that the government fears the people,’ Tarrio said. ‘[But] at that point I didn’t have all the information that was coming in, why they were cowering.’
Tarrio failed to show sympathy for the politicians, claiming their ‘only worry in life is to be reelected.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9302133/Proud-Boys-leader-says-condemns-members-destroyed-property-Capitol-riot.html
“failed to show”. Was he obligated to show?
Yes he needs to grovel at the altar of Democracy.
“Bro, from what I’ve seen on TV, y’all live in a bad neighborhood. People breaking shit, stealing the furniture, getting in fights with police. I don’t go in neighborhoods like that.”
Tarrio failed to show sympathy for the politicians
…and? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FAILED!
Getting ready to invite the in-laws over for Sunday dinner. Dinner will be Black-eyed peas and rice, roasted brussel spout with bacon and a skirt steak w/ red chimichurri sauce. Dessert is being made by the teens, which will be homemade banana bread.
[One “ess” is a dry sandy place, two “esses” is a sweet treat for after dinner. -EF was here]
https://twitter.com/lisasrina/status/1365028600639082499
OFFS!
I’m trying to remember the last Netflix production I saw that didn’t have a black woman in either a lead or prominent supporting role. Can’t remember any, but I’m usually pretty smashed when I watch Netflix.
Was it Netflix that made that historical drama that was chock full of black English nobles in the 18th/19th century?
Mindhunter
Stranger Things
Mindhunter = Awesomeness
Cancelled, sadly. We never even got to see Holden bag BTK 🙁
Noooooooo!
Not cancelled officially, but the next worst thing.
https://netflixlife.com/2021/02/23/is-mindhunter-season-3-coming-2021/
No black lead, but one of the major supporters is a lesbian in the show, with the subtext of how horrible it is to have to hide it.
Although it seems like they put too much emphasis on the idea that academic research is the key to catching serial killers (particularly when Holden first meets sociology chick spouting off criminal sociologists), I do like that the show also starkly showed the close-mindedness of academia through the lesbian chick leaving it when she was in the cusp of riding the academic train in the first class car for life, and via the near complete unwillingness of academics to even feign working with the feebs. Not only were they (rightly) skeptical of the feebs, but there is the subtext of them also fearing that their theories, when put in to actual action, would be bullshit.
Except as you get into season 2 you begin to see what an utter failure this idea of criminal profiling is.
And was in fact so in real life as their methods completely fail.
I actually enjoyed this honesty from the show, and I’m not surprised most people didn’t like it;
Very true. The hubris of those who Believe is exposed, and the result of slavish devotion to theory by those in power is misery for the target.
The answer is somewhere in the middle, and the show does a good job of showing that need for temperance in theory.
Everybody knows there were hundreds of black English nobles in the 18th century.
That’s where they picked up their penchant for Courvoisier.
Wynonna Earp
Black dude, though. He doesn’t count because male privilege.
Hence, “dark skin black women” and not just “black women”.
The first rule of woke is it’s never enough. They will always find a new axis of oppression to elevate.
Black Anne Boelyn is my favorite. ScarJo can’t possibly play a Trans, but sure, let’s make Anne Boelyn black.
Here’s the thing: I don’t actually care about the skin color of the characters. I do care about hypocrisy.
Well, I should have expected the spice level I got.
I browned ground beef with a can of chipotles in adobo. Put it on a tortilla with mozzerella. It would have worked better with just the adobo.
A whole can? Yeah…
Never used canned chipotles before.
Oh well, I now have a better idea.
I still finished it, but the best part was the sauce of adobo and beef juice soaked into the tortilla.
yes, I know I should have just tasted one of the chilis.
Yep that stuff goes a long way. I usually only use one or two chilies out of the can with some of the sauce. Chop them up or processes them into a sauce to drizzle on top of the protein.
It’s one of the issues I have with recipes that call for 1 or 2 canned chipotles. Most of the peppers I buy now are dried.
Put that in some stuffed bell peppers with the mozzarella.
I’ll have to try that, but I’m out of peppers (of all varieties)
I would recommend red/yellow/orange bell pepper with that mix. Blanched first then roasted over your gas grill/range if you can. Another route is some smaller sweet peppers for a small finger food dish with those stuffed in your mixture.
Since I’m only ever cooking for myself, I’m unlikely to cook more than two full-sized stuffed peppers. More smaller sweet peppers might work. But I’ll have to see what’s available.
a can of chipotles in adobo
*starts sweating*
It wasn’t that bad.
I’d think the smokiness would’ve been more overpowering than heat.
Adobo sauce can get pretty darn hot.
8k Scoville rated peppers. That ain’t hot.
I don’t think its a heat issue, its an overwhelming issue. It is supposed to compliment not be the star.
Top with sour cream.
Well, it’s a weekend, and some things are part of the new lockdown: Zoom/Happy Hour/Fight club, starting it off at 20:00 Eastern.
It is now just the culture of the site. To think, my garden was started and has gone through much sustenance during that time but the one remaining constant in it is Zoom and scallions.
I don’t know if I’ll make it; we have an emergency vet appointment at 11 tonight. We were supposed to take the cat to the vet this afternoon (other cat swiped at him and hurt his eye last night so we added him to the other cat’s appointment), but we couldn’t catch him and had to make an emerg. appt. for tonight.
Eek! Hope that kitty is okay. Animals are resilient and hopefully just caught an eyelid or tear duct.
Best wishes for kitteh.
Thanks. He’s spooked now and we can’t find him–he’s somewhere in the master bedroom but who knows where?
Dude you should totes join! Or at least leave the camera on, I’m sure everyone would love to watch some pussy chasing.
* A coworker had his cat pop up in his background yesterday and it went full on ass licking. I had to turn off my camera because I was laughing so hard. After the standup I told him that all the pussy licking in the background distracted me so badly that I don’t know what we decided in the meeting.
2 younger coworkers were very nervous as us old farts made about 2 million pussy jokes.
Although the zooms were set up as mitigation to lockdowns and such, I, as someone who rarely ventured out to anything more than dinner with the family or various baseball activities in the beforetimes, I sincerely hope they stick once life may resume.
I’m not a nightly/daily/weekly socializer. I’m not down the pub every other evening. I prefer to take nice vacations to going out when I’m home. So, yeah – I’ll be around pretty much most Fridays, COVID or not.
Awesome!!
Free tiddy shows!
Now I’m worried I showed something on camera when I was…impaired ?
Just your proverbial ass, like everyone else. So no, nothing untoward.
+ 1 nip slip
I thought that meant Straff slipped on a banana peel.
OK, so turtlenecks from here on out. Gotchya.
*Tactical* turtleneck.
The things I miss the one night I don’t show up…
As long as you didn’t actually remove a garment and swing it around over your head it’s just an accident.
*Remembers Tonio defrocking and swinging shirt overhead*
Was I supposed to slip a Washington in your banana hammock?
It gave the middle aged ladies a thrill, though
MW, you weren’t the one who requested the dance, but it’s always nice to help make it rain.
I don’t recall hearing any objections.
“I don’t recall hearing any objections.”
I was SHOCKED to find such lewd filth from a supposedly Family Friendly site!
As a non-gay man, I found Tonio’s furry chest titillating.
I always miss the fun. Quaffing along with you folks and getting to see some funky hair is always a highlight of entertainment value.
The SITE is family friendly. Nobody said anything about the zoom.
Aren’t all chests titillating?
I was hoping to get another pun avalanche for Swiss, but I suck, apparently.
I’ll try, but if things open back up here, there will be some nights where I’ll be heading out. As great as all y’all are, at least one bar I’d like to get back to has a soft cell phone ban (from the site that half of you won’t click through to):
Rule 1. Women initiate conversation
Rule 2. Google can’t settle arguments; only arguing can do that
Rule 3. Religion and politics encouraged (see Rule 2).
Rule 4. No fighting
Rule 5. No kissing
Getting a drink there is a wonderful experience, and great fun for a cocktail geek like myself.
I’m sure we can figure something out!
Out of an abundance of concern for my fellow Glibbies, I would like to point out that we’re coming up on a full moon tonight. You have been warned.
::secretly hopes Tom T falls asleep early so she can sneak into the Zoom and watch the wacky hijinks::
Please don’t tell my daughter (she’s obsessed with werewolves for some reason)
Trashy, the Las Vegas Classic is going on this weekend, the best Disc Players in the World,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFwUfe9IA8o
I’ve played a course on their tour twice (Idlewild in Northern KY).
It’s a son of a bitch! The >1000 foot hole is a nightmare. The narrow fairways flanked by woods are a bitch.
But it’s still a good time, even throwing a 95.
Nice! I’m curious to see what their courses look like. Even the no-name courses around here are intimidating to a noob like me. (especially the holes designed to favor right handers… My forehand throw isn’t consistent yet)
We have a few courses local.
My house backs up to a Park with a mostly easy, wide open 9 hole course, except the weed line flanking the drainage creek spanning the entire length of the course which seems to attract every goddamn disc I own.
Definitely learn a decent forehand throw. For me I don’t get nearly as much distance on it because I don’t run up like a backhand throw. But the added security of it not being a shitshow makes up for it.
That should be interesting since we are in our windy time of year.
Is that at Sunset or the other big park?
Paul! You is Wearrlwelf!
I noticed the moon behind the clouds when I came home this morning. All the employees kinda were assholes all night.
Please dont make it worse.
Im going to bed.
Slip an ambien in something.
Or give him a yummy melatonin gummy.
Or a THC one!
I’m not sure I’ll join. I’ve got a lot to do.
https://twitter.com/WilliamTurton/status/1365109969490567169
LOLOLOL
Got my hands on pineapple juice & coconut milk. Tonite is gonna be ?
I’m stocked up on Tall Cans, maybe I’ll drop in and watch,
You’ll
poke yer eyeoutpiss yerself, kid!Watch out for falling coconuts?
The hospital says I really do get to pick up the mister Chris afternoon. Then a nurse will come to our house between 5pm and 9pm to show us what to do.
(“Dear Penthouse: I never thought this would be happening to me…”)
So I am unlikely to Zoom.
But never say never…
Does he have a picc line?
Those things suck.
I had a picc line when my youngest was just a month old. I was scared to death to hold him because you just never know what little baby arms are going to do, and all I could think was he’d rip it out.
I’m sure we can all give you good advice if the nurse was unclear. Drunk Glibsourced home health nursing advice is probably airtight.
Agree
Hurray!
(“Who’s Chris?” asks the Mr.)
I have no idea how this turned into Chris.
The mysteries of my fat fingered typing plus autocorrect are awesome to behold.
This is good news. I hope he gets well soon.
Then I am definitely joining tonight.
Turn down your mike like those girls turn down me.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
By twisting the knob to the left until it clicks?
Sometimes I wished I could drink so that I can become truly impaired.
Sure, I get stoned, but that’s not at all the same as being drunk, which can be fun. I don’t mind a good strong buzz, but I don’t like drinking.
I only drink Friday & occasionally Saturday. If it wasn’t COVID times, I would probably consume less than one drink a month.
Every single individual on Saturday’s zoom drank more that night than I’ll have in a year.
Brett, Neph, and Swiss each had more than I’ll have in a decade.
I neither drank nor spoke on Saturday!
*thinks through schedule to figure out whether a trip to Total Wine is in the cards*
I just got back from Total Wine. Their online ordering/curbside pickup is amazingly quick for a Friday afternoon.
*peruses recycling bin that would make a biker bar blush*
Takes all kinds, I guess.
I am thinking its probably time to take a break from the booze. A short one, to be sure.
I’ve had booze-related personal traumas, so I tend not to indulge very often.
Ze Covids are causing a rise in all manner of partaking.
Until this last year, I very rarely day smoked. For me it was always an “after everyone else was in bed” thing, and that was for the last almost 3 decades. Now I’m smoking by 10am at least 3 days a week, and by 2pm no matter the day.
When my wife takes her THC drops I lament that she doesn’t have to work at getting a buzz like I do. #FedGovLife
No work, but you do have to plan ahead.
Edibles hit me WAY harder, and for WAY longer. BUT it takes much longer from ingestion to hit. From “instant” when vaping it, to 60-120 minutes with edibles. And vaping only lasts 90-120 minutes, whereas edibles last 4.5-6 hours, with the peak lasting 3 or more hours.
So while you don’t have to work at it, you do need to plan for it.
If you’ve got some coconut/vanilla ice cream, you can fire up your blender and make Co-Co No-Nos.
Deadly. Very deadly.
No, I assumed it was mostly running and screaming.
LOL you can’t make this stuff up.
So the worst school capo in NYC history – don’t just take my word for it – resigned suddenly today. One would hope in disgrace.
So who is his replacement? None other than that chick who was just in the news for making her victims to do that fake “black power” salute from some movie. Because of course.
??
If I have grifted further than anyone else, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants!
OFFS!!!
Is stealing bread morally OK if you need the bread to feed your starving child? I don’t know, but what if you are stealing high end liquor because you need to go to the Glib Zoom party?
Even assuming that there is a high end distiller that could charge a premium for their product, how big of a bottle would you need to hold $2000 of Blue Curacao?
Maybe this one?
https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/worlds-biggest-bottle-auctioned-99454/
“cost up to $2,000 a bottle.”
Yeah, this is for insurance claim consumption only. A cop friend once told me that I’d be shocked at how many people claimed they had $1,000 cash in their glove box when reporting a vehicle break-in to the fuzz.
Is stealing bread morally OK if you need the bread to feed your starving child?
No, but you should still do it.
I don’t know, but what if you are stealing high end liquor because you need to go to the Glib Zoom party?
Admitting you can’t afford to buy high end liquor loses you a few Glib points, I believe. At the very least slab a high end label on some cheap drek.
How about admitting you don’t drink at all?
In my defense, I am the designated zoom driver.
We all love it when our Zoom Mom joins us!
*Puts Blue Curaçao in high end liquor bottle*
That happened here during the BLM “mostly peaceful protests”. The downtown sports bars lost all of their big screens, the liquor, the tap handles, and all the glassware in the establishments was smashed.
They’ve just announced a potential reopening date for those locations. All of their other ones reopened a while back.
Friday Afternoon Tunes:
https://youtu.be/YdG-9ZLZYzk
lolz.
NPR on the ride home was all sorts of entertaining. They had someone on to talk about fat-phobia, and how you normies shouldn’t get upset when a fattie gets bumped up the vaccine queue before you, how Biden’s cages are TOTALLY different than Trumps because reasons, and the host introducing the Quebecoise butter expert as being from the University of Doll Housey.
Normies actually shouldn’t be that upset about fatties budding in line ahead of them. Why? Because normies are pretty much immune from the Rona. So yeah, even though us chubbies should be working out more, it does make sense that they should get a couple preference points.
Fatties shouldn’t go ahead of 70 year olds, but within their age cohort knock yourself out.
Just give people the fucking shot if they want it. The only priority should be oldsters. This endless slicing into a ‘Vid Shot Intersectionality Stack is tedious and counterproductive, because it slows down giving people shots.
My wife’s head (and her friends’ heads as well) would explode at the idea that some people get ahead of her in line for the shot somehow who didn’t deserve it as much as her.
She is avidly watching the rules for Minnesoda’s rollout. After a bunch of my elderly relatives discovered how much easier it was to get the shot in Wisconsin, she is now learning all their rules.
She’s 55, healthy and is convinced she’s got one foot in the grave. (She will protest and tell you that she has high blood pressure, but I never knew about that until this Covid stuff started).
The only obstacle in her life is the fact that she is married to me.
She will protest and tell you that she has high blood pressure
High blood pressure is a problem (I have it), but I can’t count it as a serious issue when all of my grandparents with the same issue lived into their 90s (some of whom are still alive).
According to the narrative, that just means too many white people will get it.
That’s only when you’re trying to save as many lives as possible.
In local news with parents working from home, everyday people can make there way down to yell at the school board.
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/education/ccsd-board-greeted-by-protests-concern-during-first-in-person-meeting-ahead-of-return-to/article_5baed63a-77c6-11eb-992d-a77acec32cd1.html?block_id=1002214
Headline says concerns, the concerns are not about in-school but older kids still locked out of any type of meaningful education. This is relation to the CCSD basically saying they probably wont be back to school even in August. We have been on the hunt to find a place for our kids but its been slim pickings now. I waited too long.
Workplace drama being re-enacted by my gf. She goes the extra mile and tries to sound different for each person involved. ?
Is this purely for entertainment or are you stuck having to take it seriously?
She’s just venting. I’m only expected to nod and throw out a “sorry honey” randomly.
Maybe she has a future in audiobooks.
“HUGE BREAKING NEWS: Judge Rules Maricopa County Must Provide 2.1 Million Ballots From 2020 to Arizona Senate for Audit”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/breaking-judge-rules-maricopa-county-must-provide-2-1-million-ballots-2020-arizona-senate-audit/
Orgasmic headlines? Never change, TGP.
I found this to be a better story from GWP, at least it gave me a rise.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/maryland-teacher-seen-masturbating-zoom-lesson-8th-graders-says-dumb-luck-caught-video/
Why do they need a teacher’s aide for zoom and online learning? There’s less interaction and workload on teachers than ever.
He’s a toobin’ man, don’t fool around with a toobin’ man
I’m a Zoomin Toobin, Toomin Zoobin, whhheeee!!!!
The singer in Riven’s link to Persona 5 Scramble sounds eerily like a slightly updated Basia (remember her? — I had such a
hard-oncrush for her back in the late 80s).Takes me back. {wipes away single manly tear}
You are supposed to tell that tear to get back up in there, not wipe it away. Don’t you even man bro?
Did you try hugging an olive tree?
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/02/roseburg-motel-fined-31k-for-overcharging-wildfire-evacuees.html
Better that there be bare shelves in times of need. Also, fuck the whining asshole who knowingly signs the room rate at check in and then thinks somehow they should be able renegotiate the rate when checking out. Don’t like, don’t check in. It’s that simple. Oh, there isn’t anywhere else close by that’s open? No shit, that’s why the rate is that high. Sleep in your car if you don’t like it. Sleep on a park bench.
Now do cities that have conventions and such and the hotels raise their rates because…there is a finite amount of them or something. Sure it isn’t during a fire, but its the same concept. I expect more of this in the future.
Local governments are buying up motels to house displaced people from the fires, further reducing the number of rooms for next time. It’ll be six months afterwards or more before the motels are up and running. If they haven’t found another place to live by then, they’re never going to move out of the government housing. They’re trying to do the same for the
homelesspeople experiencing homelessnessunhoused.The local “housing” agency changed their name to the Orwellian “Homes for Good”.
I prefer “Homes for Evil”.
https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1365059178507739143
They just want to find her OnlyFans.
Fucking Stasi and their IMs.
I have a tip for them. GO.FUCK.YOURSELF.
Looks like some Congressperson’s daughter to me…
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Quisling Hunter
@Wenbeauty
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Feb 25
Replying to
@FBI
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@BaddCompani
Y’all are going to need about 100 snipers next time. “militia groups tied to Jan 6th say they want to “blow up the Capitol” around the State of the Union. “
Shouldn’t the username be Cognitive Dissonance?
Heh. Look at this. Imagine woke France being not as woke as us. In fact, they must be racist.
NO MAIL IN BALLOTS
Destination Fucked, Ozzy Man!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsaTJ1YqqY
In addition to Montana and Utah, the other 16 Constitutional Carry states are Arkansas, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
16 states isn’t enough. I’m amused that Vermont is still on the list despite the current state government.
In Forbes, Adam Andrzejewski writes that a provision in the $1.9 trillion House bill—“the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021”—would allow federal employees to make up to $1,400 a week without working.
Nice work if you can get it.
Didn’t know, but nice to know since I’m getting ready to move to WV. Mostly because it’s not MD (commie), VA (commie), or PA (ultra insane high taxes). And I’m going to save at least $1000 a month at least with a bigger, nicer home.
Nice. What part of West Virginia you looking at moving to?
Berkeley County, most likely. Martinsburg, Charles Town, or Harpers Ferry, or nearby. Probably the former two because Harper’s Ferry is impossible to buy, it’s probably one of the hottest real estate markets in the county.
Cool. I am in Charles Town. I was looking at Martinsburg as well since my wife is pretty much permanent telework lol and we don’t need to be so close to DC anymore. Just FYI I am an FFL and do free transfers.
Awesome, feel free to email me. We’ll probably be, I’m guessing, in Martinsburg before June.
Also, I forget that Harpers Ferry is actually in Jefferson County. But I never see anything available there anyway. All of my clients are in Baltimore, but I haven’t been to any offices in almost a year and don’t plan on going back.
OK, I missed the what are you reading post today, but I have something better!
How about a podcast that gushes about one of the sloppiest fantasy series ever?
I can’t remember how I stumbled on this podcast, but I’ve been hate listening to it for a while now and I just can’t get over people adoring Wheel of Time. The series had its moments, but by about book 6 or so I was hate reading it. I just wanted one fucking plot line to resolve gracefully. Never fucking happened.
These fan bois treat Robert Jordan as though he was the best writer ever. The episode I linked above goes on and on about the meta physics of the series. The go on and on and never even suspect that what they think is really cool is all because Robert Jordan was a lazy hack writer who pulled shit out of his ass all the time!
I tried to hate-read Donaldson but just couldn’t sustain it beyond the first half of the first book.
I read the first and second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series.
I also read the Wheel of Time series… except for the prequel book.
WoT and Sword of Truth are two series I gladly threw away without trying to finish them.
Sword of Truth got a LOT better. Esp the commie-hating, libertarianism of “Faith of the Fallen”.
Been meaning to get around to rewatching the 2 seasons of “The Seeker”. Can’t believe they went the Xena route – when it totally needed the GoT adult treatment.
I gave up on it when there was basically no forward movement to the series coupled with Goodkind’s lecturing.
This right here. Faith of the Fallen was at least readable, the next book just introduces two completely new main characters and follows them for the whole book. At that point, I tapped the fuck out.
I was done once I noticed that Richard never really did anything, faced with any challenge he just tried really hard or just really wanted it and voila! even the trite 80’s training montages made it look like the hero actually put in some work. even if in a ridiculously short period of time.
I’ve never really been a big fan of Gutfeld, but if there’s even been an evisceration of anal regions, this must be it.
Owww, muh arse!
STEVE SMITH ONLY DOES EVISCERATION OF ANAL REGIONS. WHY QUESTION EXISTENCE OF STEVE SMITH?
Things to write on disposable masks. Here’s what I’ve got so far :
– THIS MASK DOESN’T WORK
– CECI N’EST PAS UNE MASQUE
– A LA LANTERNE
– I CAN’T BREATHE!
– TMITE
– THIS MASK IS TYRANNY
– DOES THIS MASK MAKE ME LOOK FREE?
– PLACEBO
– IT’S WOOD-CHIPPER TIME!
-I WEAR THIS TO PREVENT YOUR COVID DERANGEMENT SYNDROME
-COVID LIVES ON THIS FOR UP TO 72 HOURS
-JUST DON’T ASK ME TO GET INTO A BOXCAR
I like lanterne.
That is, I especially like that one; not that I dislike the others.
-FO&D
-THIS MASK IS 0% EFFECTIVE
-YOUR PSYCHOSIS SHOULD NOT BE MY PROBLEM
-YES I AM INFECTED (with no shts to give)
-SLAVES WEAR MASKS
-THERE IS NO COMMIE COUGH EXCEPTION TO THE CONSTITUTION
-YES, I DO WANT YOU DIE
-I NEVER ASKED YOU TO WEAR A MASK TO PROECT ME
-FAUCI DELENDA EST
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“! In her testimony before Congress, Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman says militias tied to the January 6th attack have stated their desire to “blow up the Capitol and kill as many members as possible with a direct nexus to the State of the Union.” ”
https://twitter.com/NicoleSganga/status/1365006597102182404
Bullshit.
Did you read the replies?
Some of these people are clinically insane.
Yes, yes, they are.
This will probably be lost in the noise, but I’d be interested to hear what you think of P5: Strikers. I played Persona 5 and liked it a lot, but I wasn’t feeling like dropping another $60 on The Royal. Strikers is a totally new game, but it looks like Dynasty Warriors, a game genre which can get real boring real fast.
I’m thinking $10k under asking.
I saw that house in Breaking Bad.
It comes with a free pizza on the roof.
Looks tempting. If I was retired and alone.
Not much room to be comfortable for more than one person and in that neighborhood you wouldn’t want to leave it unattended for more than a couple hours.
Kids are watching Disney Junior and this commercial just came on.
https://youtu.be/DHB1L_YdVw8
*Barf*
Can’t wait for the Clarence Thomas version.
I remember when it used to be lame to be a suck-up or sycophant to those in power. Especially on the left.
Only racist people have a problem with political propaganda targeting your children. I mean, come on.
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1365292312394358787
WTF??
https://twitter.com/NeoConLs/status/1365146968704638977?s=20
?
Typical, just typical.
Chilling at my New Mex joint, working a beer while I wait for takeout. Also admiring the cute as a button bartender. Who should be a yoga pants model.
That is all. Carry on.
I dont care how creepy it looks..it is acceptable to snap a photo
Heh… at the spin class tonight they were doing a rider appreciation thing. So they were encouraging us to take pictures in the class, and tag the instructors. I think there was a group picture we could have waited for after the class, but there’s no need for me to bring up the average age and weight, while dropping the average attractiveness.
What’s his name?
What does Mrs. Dean think?
Ignorance is bliss.
I’m neither asking her name nor taking a pic for you pervs.
We’ll find our own bartender in yoga pants. With blackjack, and hookers.
Cool link, bro.
Vat happened to za link?
humbug
You want people to die, go back to your house and nail the doors shut from the inside.
It’s not about them dying, it’s about saving grandma and grandpa!
I always laugh at the meltdowns people have when they get covid. “We did everything right, but you wreckers and kulaks gave us covid anyway!! Wear your masks like we did, assholes!!!!”
The person who invented yoga pants is a hero.
Well, only if the right people are wearing yoga pants.
The lululemon guy? He was on the Atlas Society Zoom interview thing the other day. Apparently when fat people said his clothes were coming apart he told them they were too fat to wear them, or something. Dude pulls no punches.
David Bromstad is very good at his job as an HGTV host. He meshes well no matter who is the lottery winner—the sassy black lady from Tampa or the redneck family from Arkansas.
The hospital told me at 4:30 he’d be ready for pickup at 5:30, so I dutifully came and parked at the front entrance where they said to at 5:25. Been waiting ever since.
At least I have my iPhone!
I don’t know if he will have a PICC line, but he will have something for daily infusion of his antibiotics.
Excuse me, ma’am, you can’t park here. This area is for pickup only.
*starts writing ticket*
Did everything go smoothly? I haven’t caught up on today’s glibbing.