Hey kids,
Since we are always in need of content, and I always end up with an interesting assortment of stuff in my browser by the end of the week, I’ve decided to throw them in a post.
Enjoy.
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Mediterranean Grilled Stuffed Avocados
It may be better for metabolic health to run in the afternoon instead of the morning. Perhaps. Maybe. I dunno.
Those Medieval Pilgrims had dirty minds.
A fantastic performance by a Slovenian a cappella group.
Would. Add some chopped ham and we are talking better.
I found I was healthiest when I exercised in both time frames but I got over that nonsense.
You are my hero, Agent Sloper.
Agent Sloper! *snort* I love it.
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Heeeeee heeeeee!!!
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How do you say “Agent” in Central African?
They use sign language.?
I think it’s wonderful they created a sign just for you
You’re going to be Agent Sloper from here on out.
Huh, all this past year we should have been adorning our masks with penises and vulvas.
So many lives lost because of forgotten wisdom.
Wait, you didn’t?
Is that a pic of a guy riding a dick, with a bag of dicks he’s selling?
I need that.
One of many lessons we’ve learned during the “pandemic.”
Of course the Irish would prefer the afternoons, for anything
/1/4 Irish
https://youtu.be/wu1UXCdyNo0
Prove they don’t. And here I thought my vagina and balls on chin mask where an original idea. My vagina mask idea is rather elaborate and involves a blow up doll and a diving mask, but I think I could pull off the balls on chin mask with one trip to Hobby Lobby.
Depends on which particular flesh based phalluses and vulvas one is considering. I’ve seen a few where it would have been much safer to stick with the metal ones.
IIRC, Angel City Chorale did a similar cover. I like a lot of their stuff, but a some of it is cheesy enough that I feel like I’m my parents when I watch it.
It was good. Not as good as the most linked song on glibs though. I actually even like Totos version but I am a dork.
#metoo
The “essence” still shines through, where you can immediately recognize it after just a few notes.
My family and I started watching the new version of “Name that Tune”, and they have a segment where they play popular songs, but in another genre. You immediately know that you know the song, but can’t figure out where. It’s my least favorite part of the show.
I saw commercials for that and just assumed it was going to be all “current” pop songs and I would be completely useless at identifying any of them.
Primarily mid ’90s, some ’80s and ’00s, and even some late ’70s.
I don’t recall any songs on the show from the last 5-10 years. If there were, it was maybe 1 or 2 songs at the most.
It’s a fun show, especially relative to what else is on: nothing.
I liked it in the 70s. My other fear is they would make it all “hip” and “edgy” and thus unwatchable. You know, like they ruined every other game show revival in the last couple decades.
It’s not hip. Jenna whatshername and Randy from American Idol.
Jameson? Haze?
Ha! I was wondering why google wasn’t telling me her last name.
Jane Krakowski.
Fun fact: she secretly dated the MyPillow guy and hid it from the media.
Get used to it.
I will never be my parents.
Oh, and I can actually dance, so I won’t be embarrassing my kids.
Maybe on the first assertion.
LOL on the second.
I have a story to back that up, but it only works in person. There’s a lot of thrusting and gesticulating.
Kind of like ordering while in line at Chipotle?
You don’t need to pantomime diarrhea if it’s real.
Excellent music link, thanks!
With the exception of a few beers at SP’s house 2 weeks ago, I achieved my goal of not drinking for 2 months.
Vacation starts tomorrow; I’m going to get Tom Brady drunk.
Pro tip: non-refundable means non-refundable.
Yeah, I’m a couple weeks into a 30 day pause. The holidays and a Caribbean jaunt pushed me to take a break.
Where are you going? We just had to book some tickets that were about to expire. Hellooo Texas!
Maui. Covid tests all came back negative, and the flights were free (the corporate tower where my wife’s office is located lets her put her rent on a Hawaiian Airlines credit card. They were supposed to ask for direct debit after the first month, but they never did)
I already remotely checked in on the first leg, and I’ve been “upgraded”, which tells me that the room that I actually booked is not available, and that entire wing of the hotel is shut down. It’s a nice upgrade, but I’m going there to be outside. I don’t care about hors d’oeuvres or whatever the perks are.
I’m prepared for the trip to either be awesome or sad.
Turks was fucking awesome, so have faith! My fellow beach-goers were beyond cool. It was if everyone wanted to force things back to the Before Times.
Have a blast, brother!
Thanks!
I’m hoping big brother is just at the airport.
It was for us. All sorts of seriousness that miraculously disappeared in the shuttle to the resort.
Right on have a good time. I am curious to hear how things are over there right now. I can’t imagine that tourism is anything close to normal levels with all the COVID bullshit. If you are going on the road to Hana (or just part way down) the Twin Falls Farm is a nice spot to stop where you can hike to a few waterfalls. The first is not that impressive, but the second is pretty cool with a little cave behind the falls. It is about 30 minute or so hike in to the second one I think from where you park off the highway. Perfect for kids.
Since we have 9 days this time, we are serious about Hana.
Did you go there and back along the north side, or did you go all the way around?
The one time I went all the way to Hana we just camped out near the Seven Sacred Pools and then went back the same way. That was pre kids though with buddies. I think the north side road is only recommended if you have 4WD (at least it was a while ago). The waterfall I mentioned is really early on the road, it is about 30 minutes or so away from Paia from what I remember. Aloha!
Thanks!
This place was pretty awesome for a (Hawaii prices) relatively cheap family lunch or dinner and had really good fresh fish. There are three locations on Maui I believe.
Umm a link a guess would help.
https://paiafishmarket.com/
We went all around in the counter-clockwise direction in 2014. There was a small segment (1 mile?) of an unpaved road. But the surface was hard, no issues at all. I drove a generic rental sedan. Totally worth doing.
How long round trip?
You don’t want to be in a hurry on the road to Hana. Lots of places to stop and check out. We had a flight to Honolulu around 6-7pm and departed from Andaz after breakfast, not very early. And we spent the day on that road.
Nice. Enjoy that. Eskimo Candy for some Poke? (If they are still in business) I was a fan of that place.
Haven’t heard of it. Whereabouts?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eskimo+candy&t=brave&ia=web&iaxm=places
Not sure if that link will work or if they are still open. I know the Vid killed a bunch of places over there. Idiot government.
Also, I was last on Maui in 2015 so I might not be the best to recommend places. Loved Maui though.
You’ve been more recently that I.
It looks good. I love local places. I’ll be near Kihei for the first 2 nights.
Another great find: Cafe O’Lei. Everything there is delicious, and great lunch specials.
Hopefully the trip is good.
Remember to register with the State before you leave for the airport. You will get a Q code. Make sure to have it on your phone since some airlines will not let you board w/o it and the state will check when you arrive.
Print out your negative tests, plus save a copy on your device (pdf) since the State often forget to upload data. (I shit you not.)
Enjoy Maui. Great walk in snorkeling up north at Honolua Bay. It is a protected area so there are lots of fish and rarely many people. Plus there are great views across to Molokai. I spend one night a year anchored there and and always have seen lots of marine life. Then we party and race back to Oahu the next morning.
If in Lahaina the best pizza is Prison Street Pizza. It actually favorably compares to some NYC pizza well known spots. I hope it is still open.
If it is hard to get in to Haleakula for sunrise, go at sunset. Fewer people and same view to the other side. If going for sunrise, get a bike and ride down the mountain. It is a blast for an all downhill ride. In the before times you could book with a company to get a ride up, watch the sunrise and ride back down to your car.
Thanks! The pizza rec is especially important during covid. I have zero expectation of sitting down to a meal.
Honolua Bay is on the list for later in the week, but we’ve been hearing some things about shark attacks. I’ll probably keep the kids close to shore.
I have the Q codes and PDF. Just filled out the health survey. Apparently, they are also requiring an exposure notification app now. I’ll follow the letter of the law and download it, but I’m leaving my phone in my room.
Thanks again!
ah, you’ll have to give me tips, since our flight and trip is booked for Maui at the end of March. We were supposed to go last year for spring break, but of course, no, so put it over a year.
I was supposed to go last March. It was a no go, but non-refundable. So I sent my parents instead. They just don’t care. They were some of the last in before the lockdown, but, they also were holed up with horrible weather.
Though Black has yet to uncover evidence specifically linking sexual badges with plague prevention, he says it’s likely that they were used for that purpose, and to deflect other problems, too, such as the ‘evil eye.’
Alternative theory: Medieval hanky code. I’ve uncovered no evidence to support my alternative theory but I think it is likely.
I like the Austro-Hungarian Empire/Ottoman Empire meme.
And here I thought learning semaphore code was complicated.
As with most things in Europe the Romans did it better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinus#:~:text=Phallic%20charms,%20often%20winged,%20were%20ubiquitous%20in%20Roman,from%20children,%20mainly%20boys,%20and%20from%20conquering%20generals.
Available on Esty or Amazon.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/808832444/519-grams-ancient-roman-silver-phallus?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_a-jewelry-necklaces-pendants&utm_custom1=_k_a6ce12208d2e149c00ae72040b4ddcd0_k_&utm_content=bing_319895460_1309518497232333_81844932342727_pla-4585444526383008:pla-4585444526383008_c__808832444&utm_custom2=319895460&msclkid=a6ce12208d2e149c00ae72040b4ddcd0
I would buy one of those Etsy rings.
Pompeii had penis pavers and not one on Etsy in your link. I am seeing a business opportunity there. I have the skill to build a mold, a concrete mixer and a penis.
Truly a man for all seasons.
Your penis would be an unfortunate place to get concrete burns
Ha. You don’t make the mold with concrete.
Seems apropos.
That wasn’t in any Latin class I took.
We read a few Catullus poems, but not that one.
So, today we were informed at work that it is now a legit federal offense to not wear the specified mask in the specified manner. We will not only get dinged on our security badges (with a points system leading to eventual suspension or revocation) we will also face employer discipline and ( thanks, Biden!) federal prosecution. It’s only at airports, because apparently, the EO doesn’t have enough juice to imprison the whole country for not wearing a mask, just me and my coworkers. Yes, I do feel special.
If you have to wear a mask “properly”, you may as well breathe while you’re at it.
Nope. They issued a list of acceptable versions. Two layers of cloth, minimum. No bandanas. The neck gaiters have to be doubled over to form two plys, must cover nose and mouth and, get this, can’t have any valves like the super high quality medical ones. Anything else is federal violation. They’re super cereal about it too, because Biden ain’t paying for covid time off like Trump did.
Did they happen to mention which federal law they believe applies?
Check out this guy thinking they pass laws now. We do executive orders. Please try to keep up.
You beat me to it.
“Pen and phone part trois”
Yeah, it’s an EO that covers all federal properties and, apparently they have some claim to airports. I know we have probably 5 or 8 law enforcement agencies floating around in it. At least a few are federal.
AFAIK, common carrier airports are subject to federal regulations, but my understanding is that it’s under the FAA and to a lesser extent US Customs and Immigration.
The property itself is LAWA, which is a branch of the City of Los Angeles.
My initial instinct is that the order is bullshit, and the feds have no authority. However, you can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.
Yeah, I work for LAWA. They are telling us that this is how it is. It’s clearly from the EO and it shares some verbiage with it. It seems the president, while rescinding the horrible authoritarian orders of his predecessor, gave himself the power to arrest and try anyone not wearing a mask at an airport in the US.
Oh… it’s THAT order. I thought it was only for passengers?
Look on the bright side. At least you are not a pipeline worker. They didn’t even get a chance to get fired for not wearing a mask.
Followup question since you were talking about your contract:
Isn’t LAWA generally considered financially healthy in the long term, and completely insulated from the LA City’s budget?
If there’s a budget shortfall, can’t they just increase the user fees? I assume that $10-$20 of every airline ticket goes to LAWA.
I know this “crisis” has hit the airport specifically. There’s like no planes flying. I’m so used to it, I’ll be annoyed when they start the back to back takeoffs again. They play it to sound worse than it is, so our useless union will sacrifice more. I know Trump gave them a shitload of money and that pretty much evened up last year. If they were smart they’d let go of this pandemic bullshit and let people get back to living. BTW, I think the fees are on takeoffs and landings. That, and leasing property.
Yes, but mostly temporary. Flights will resume as normal “soon”. With depressed oil prices, there might even be a glut of travel.
I flew to Phoenix for 40 bucks the weekend before last. Obviously, that’s not due to oil prices, but, when the price is right, there’s much more demand.
I’m not a union guy, but it sounds like you guys got bludgeoned with bullshit
HAHAHa-ha!
That’s what you get for having a job. If you’d just go on the dole, you’d be able to stay home and bask maskless while eating doritos and lady gaga oreo’s
At least you have the comfort of knowing you’ll still be standing when the rest of us are stacked up like cordwood.
There are many terrible things that come with wearing masks, and there is little to no proof that they do a speck of good in preventing respiratory illness (at least outside clinical settings). They fucking suck, and I absolutely hate wearing them, but as I work constantly in others’ houses and apartments I wear one when inside if the owner has one on. I wonder how many crimes over the next decade will not be solved as it has now become normalized to wear them?
I had one of those zoom out and look at the big picture moments today. Stories like yours really make it clear how far the tyranny has gone especially over the past year. Controlling the means of escape (airports) is a good first step at securing the gulag.
I hear Mexico is going to finish the wall on their own dime.
So Trump was right!
Sorry. Fuck the Covid Cultists.
Should help with the whole social distancing thing.
The Vagina Museum is probably hard to get into, but once you are it’s a lot of fun!
I find that after visiting the exhibits I want a ham sandwich and a nap though.
There’s a vagina museum? Huh.
I hear it very dusty in there.
The food court is just a Long John Silver’s.
So those redneck boys were just trying to ward off the plague?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/diJLWo6CKY0/hqdefault.jpg
I just learned of George Schulz’s death. 100 is a good innings. I’d heard him give interviews and participate in online discussions in the past several months and he was really on the ball.
He certainly gave some lucid interviews very late in life, but I feel like the Theranos thing really tarnished his reputation. He fell for that hook, line, and sinker.
Telly Savalas’ version of If
Crooning at its best.
Good enough to join The Players Club
Rock hall 20021 inductees
• Mary J. Blige – I liked her Superbowl show but no.
• Kate Bush – no
• Devo – yeah
• Foo Fighters – Fuck yeah
• The Go-Go’s – Sure for equalities sake
• Iron Maiden – No
• Jay-Z – No
• Chaka Khan – Fuck Yeah
• Carole King – probably should be yeah, but I cant be arsed to give a rats
• Fela Kuti – Who?
• LL Cool J – no
• New York Dolls – no
• Rage Against the Machine – Fuck Yeah
• Todd Rundgren – as a producer fuck yeah, as an artist no
• Tina Turner – This is a question?
• Dionne Warwick – no
Hyp can see thousands of years into the future now.
What do you mean Iron Maiden no? Iron Maiden should be in the hall of fame.
Derivative. added nothing to the art form.
But you were all in with the Foo Fighters?
They took alt rock back around to hook oriented catchy pop tune-ish power rock. Iron Maiden took prog metal mixed it with DandD and gave us lame Led Zeppelin.
Dude, the Pixies did that, and they were fun too.
Which is why this whole exercise is pointless and mastubatory.
The Pixies are nothing like lame Led Zeppelin.
pointless and mastubatory.
You say that as if there is something wrong about pointless masturbatory-ing-ation-ness
That’s fair.
Alternate joke: If it wasn’t for pointless masturbatory I’d hardly ever masturbatory at all.
Rage for sure. “But I had their politics!” I don’t care. That bass rocks. Warwick is a master. Complaint being that she isn’t rock?
That and a one hit wonder in the genre.
You are not what friends are for.
I’m sure You be able to move beyond my faux pas.
Should have used ambulate instead of move.
Easy for me: I hate their music too.
Point. Same for me and Bruce Springsteen.
I’m not a Snivelsteen fan either.
First five Springsteen albums were amazing and I can still listen to them. Then came Born in the USA and he sucked from that point forward.
They did a free show at my college about a year before their first album came out. Before they started playing the singer went on this big rant talking about how awesome MEChA is for standing up to the Eurocentric education system. It was so eye-rollingly stupid that it kind of turned me off to their music, so a year later when my friends showed up with their CD I couldn’t really get into them.
There’s a really good Minneapolis funk band that’s been playing my favorite local music joint for years since they were wee lads. A couple years ago I recorded them doing a Rage set that was stellar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BOS2RoaDIc&t=1352s
During the first set, they also did a really cool version of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ASCM6XTjYM
Their best tribute shows though are Allman Brothers with an extra drummer and guitarist / singer. Great musicians all around.
LaCrosse – Fuck yeah!
I love it here. Moved here for a job 27 years ago and planned to stay for two years. I liked it so much I decided to start a business here 25 years ago and stay.
Besides the natural beauty and laid back atmosphere, the local music scene here is crazy good. Do you have some connection to here or just visited?
No Dionne Warwick?
Why don’t you…walk on by…with that nonsense.
Fuck them.
Great music doesn’t need a goddamn museum.
And nobody agrees what’s great. There’s some certain no brainer great acts that belong there, but really, they’re just doing whatever strikes them at the moment, now.
I put this label on you and now you’re going to complain? Geez.
Sure it does, you progtards, always trying to erase the past and tear down monuments to the achievements of true rock and roll legends only to recognized some obscure nerd band that has six thousand albums that no one ever listens to. Should have called themselves “The Bay Leaves”
Rush is a really progressive band! With interesting chord changes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8vtKRzuAj0
That’s it? Progtards?
I feel that you are flailing a little tonight, Hyp, but I love you anyway.
Random rock n roll legend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdTFeW8FCto
Obscure band that no one listens to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KwswFa70D0
Rock on, Hyp!
I here I thought Lou Reed was dead. I keed, good stuff Tundra.
Without real radio, how can we legit tell who modern rock and roll heroes are now? Music is ultra-decentralized now, which means that few of us will have any sort of real overlap. There’s a good chance that most people wouldn’t know more than 5% of my record collection, nor would I know more than 5% of theirs if it’s anything made after 2000. Very few bands, even great bands, made the millenium transition successfully, and what’s come out since, with some exceptions in the mega-famous pop world (Taylor Swift, et al), is distributed in ways that don’t encourage much overlap with what others are listening to, and with little overlap, there’s no real way to form a consensus.
At least in rock-based genres.
Yes. It is glorious.
Agreed! Besides, I love the 250-2,000 seat venues for live shows. Those are usually my favorites, and the Twin Cities are loaded with those types of venues for live music.
This is for…. Rock?
and Roll!
Both kinds!
After reading this list I’m going to….say a little prayer for you.
CW: lotta whites
‘• Iron Maiden – No’
You’ve lost your goddamn mind.
;p
Sorry to harp on it but you just claimed that the Goo Goo Dolls are a more acceptable entrance into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame than Iron Maiden.
Mary Titty Fucking Jesus Christ on a Cracker, dude…
*rereads*
Oh, The Go-Go’s
Well, don’t I feel like an asshole…
The point still stands!
I… I did the same thing. I’m also a big Goo-Goo dolls fan. Are they hall of fame worthy? No. But they did quietly put out a lot of good music.
Huh, I thought the Go-Gos got in years ago.
Mary J. Blige plays rock music?
And yet another year passes with no recognition from the Hall for a very seminal, influential, tight and much-loved band by other musicians (and by people at BBQ keggers), Little Feat. When will it finally be their turn? There’s room for T Rex but not Little Feat?
Somebody’s not willin’.
That grilled avocado would go great with a rib eye.
/feeling like a carnivore.
Or a salad.
Porn stars shooting guns.
They’re at the Gun Store. I’ve been there. Those women weren’t there when I was there.
Looks like they had the AC turned up.
Finally,
some good news:
Maybe striking out 200x a season won’t be as cool anymore? This whole “long ball or bust” shit has to go.
Did they also go to 7 inning games? Less home runs will induce more boredom what with a shorter game producing fewer rallies with NL pitchers having to bat too.
LessFewer home runs will induce more boredom/Stannis Baratheon
If home runs = not bored, I’m out. It’s boring. I want baseball, not dudes just muscling the ball.
This. Balance between offense and defense isn’t boring. The home run should still be in play, just not eight times per game. Likewise, NFL teams shouldn’t be able to get over 28 points week in and week out. NBA teams should have to work hard to get to 90.
When you’ve lost the mascots.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrMet/status/1359632006833872897
Glibshive, I have what may be a stupid question.
IF I were to switch to an Android phone, how do you play your music tracks on it…?
NB: I don’t want streaming or a subscription of any kind. I just want to sync the music I own from my computer to the thing.
My current iPhone might give up the ghost soon and I’m looking at options. The intertubes are just barfing up pay service crap that I’m not interested in.
You mean an app that plays mp3’s?
Well, yeah, but it has to sync with the collection on my desktop. Is there an iTunes equivalent? I’ve never had an Android phone so I have no idea how it works over there.
It’s been quite a while since I messed with the fanboi hipster devices. Last time the apple stuff deleted all of my music because it presumed that I pirated all of it. I have hated Apple products ever since.
No idea, but there are a bunch of “best android mp3 player” articles, such as these:
https://phandroid.com/best-android-mp3-player/
https://techviral.net/offline-music-apps-for-android/
Here you go:
I’ve used 1 and 10 Both were great.
I’m on Spotify now, so pretty much everything I owned is on there. I’ve also used Amazon Music and it allowed me to play my own stuff through their player.
Lots of options.
Thanks! I don’t see any info on that site about apps that sync with my desktop – can I assume they all do that?
Not sure, I only use my phone now, even when I’m on my computer. I have one called VOX that I used to use in lieu of fucking iTunes, but I’m not sure if they have an app.
Most devices other than Apple let you just load files directly. No real syncing involved. Just drag and drop what you want into them. Your problem might be that Apple won’t let your stuff out. The rest of the devices are way freer than Apple.
*shrug* iPhones have a disk mode. That’s not an issue.
The issue is I don’t want to manually drag and drop files.
Dude…. what model is your phone???
My current phone is an iPhone 7.
Dad?
*slides iPhone 6 out of sight*
There are apps that do such things. There are a few options for exactly how. You can go as simple as sharing a folder between devices or as complex as setting up a plex server.
i use muzio. works well enough. Left apple. picked up a note 9. i’ll never go back.
Note series is very nice. My last two have been notes. The stylus is helpful.
Android devs need to get their act together and put out a half decent browser that supports extensions, though. I’m stuck on Kiwi browser, which sucks. Either that or I kiss Eyepiece goodbye, which sucks too.
If you have a Windows desktop then you can use Windows Media Player to sync your desktop and phone.
“Hustler Founder and Porn Magnate Larry Flynt Dead at 78”
https://www.vulture.com/2021/02/hustler-founder-larry-flynt-dead-at-78-adult-entertainment.html
Teenage boys hardest hit
The ex-wife of Larry Flynt Production’s president was an Illinois activist in the Libertarian Party. She had a few stories to tell once the beer flowed.
no zoom tonight?
Friday and Saturday. Occasionally holidays.
Market failure!
Hangovers on workdays.
Calendar failure!
I thought Neff was running a weekday thing.
Nope. I think Tulip spun one up earlier this week for DenverJ, but there wasn’t much participation, so they shut it down after an hour.
She started one at my request on SB Sunday.
3 or 4 of us chatted for a bit, then it was over.
I was supposed to be at hockey practice now but I got half way there and the toll road was covered in ice and my car was all over the place. So I came back home. Stupid winter.
Sounds like an Alanis Morrisette lyric.
Tonight was our first night back in a few months, so yes.
Iced toll road?
Failure of capitalism.
I’ll take on snow at almost any depth but ice is a game-changer. I bought studded-snow tire for my Pontiac but haven’t had much of a chance to check them out yet.
Dry winter here, so far.
Really cold and snowing almost every day for the past few weeks. It’s like a throwback winter. Used to be like this when I was a kid but it hasn’t been like this for a few decades.
I went to go work on the rental house. Made it to the freeway before the rain started to really coming down. It was 29 F degrees. I immediately turned around and went back home. People in Texas are insane when it comes to winter driving.
*nods emphatically *
It’s not that I can’t handle driving on wintry roads down here, it’s that I don’t trust the other drivers to not kill me.
And nobody should be driving on black ice. No sand, no salt, no go.
Less than a half inch of snow will totally shit down central and eastern NC. What is worse is the rain freezing on contact making a hockey rink of the streets.
Freezing rain fucking sucks. It’s the worst precipitation short of Shark Tornados.
Good lord! .45 GAP is out of stock.
I tried to find .327 . . . maybe it’s no longer made
I found a 4 boxes of .38 SW last sat. I don’t know of anyone who could use it. It’s som old black power era round I believe.
no idea: if you drained them and tried to reload as .38Spl, I’d guess the die would wrinkle and crush the brass . . . couldn’t resize it
Looks like a .38 short with a slightly larger diameter.
as .38 S&W Short, or 9×20mmR is a revolver cartridge developed by Smith & Wesson in 1877. Versions of the cartridge were the standard revolver cartridges of the British military from 1922 to 1963. Though similar in name, it is not interchangeable with the later .38 Smith & Wesson Special due to a different case shape and slightly larger bullet diameter.[1]
American Rifleman had an article or two recently about .38S&W chambered WWII productions for Britain.
Gun Jesus: https://www.forgottenweapons.com/38-sw-the-other-38/
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/38-sw-the-other-38/
Interesting…
I was just trying to think of something practical: struck out.
Versions of the cartridge were the standard revolver cartridges of the British military from 1922 to 1963
I thought .455Webley was their workhorse
You can get a Webley in .38S&W.
327 Federal Mag? Looks like Buffalo Bore has it in stock (would let me add it to my cart anyway). Not cheap though:
https://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l=search_list&s%5Btitle%5D=Y&s%5Bshort_desc%5D=Y&s%5Bfull_desc%5D=Y&s%5Bsku%5D=Y&s%5Bmatch%5D=all&s%5Bcid%5D=0&s%5Bsearch%5D=327+federal
I’m down to 100@45ACP, a brick of 22LR, a smattering of 357Mag, and a dozen odd 00buck.
Why isn’t this a market opportunity for someone . . . somewhere ?
Biden’s been talking about EOing mail order ammunition out of existence so I’d guess that would put a damper on most potential up and coming ammo suppliers.
Golly gee willikers I’m so glad we don’t need a legislative branch anymore! It’s ever so much more efficient to just elect a monarch!
I’m guessing the Second Amendment Foundation would be all over that.
White supremacist organizations have no say in government actions.
Yet, oddly courts pay heed.
Just require a background check and Alan “Common sense gun safety is A-OK with me, btw send me a check” Gottlieb will be ok with it.
Because the capital investment involved in setting up an ammo manufacturing plant is huge. I’m talking like nine figures huge.
You need automated press lines to swage and jacket or plate your projectiles. Those are special machines that need to be designed and installed as one-offs, you can’t just buy an automated bullet-swage off the shelf. You need similar machines to draw and form your cases. Then you need the raw materials to keep those lines fed. You need to arrange with a powder manufacturer to supply you with powder, and an in-house ballistics lab to figure out your charges and handle testing and safety. I don’t even know what’s involved in making primers, but I assume it’s at least as complex as making the cases. You need to do packaging, and QA. You need plant space, and equipment operators, and payroll, and shipping.
All this, and you’re never more than one school shooting from having your industry shut down overnight. So you can pretty well forget about attracting investors.
All the big ammo manufacturers (that’s Federal, CCI/Speer, Remington, and Olin/Winchester, maybe Hornady if you squint.) are running factory lines dating back to WWII. All the little guys are buying at least some of their components from one or more of the big guys, which is where the bottleneck happens.
It sucks, but these shortages happen and they’re not completely unpredictable. When prices are low, stock up. That’s the only way it works…
I buy a good smattering here and there and by the case. The big thing I do that saves me a lot of money is, I very rarely go the the range. When I tlak to people that run through over 200 rounds at the range I cringe. That’s a ton of money!
That all depends on what you want to get out of your shooting habit. For me, 200 rounds is about the cutoff, below which it’s not worth bothering going to the range at all (my range is just over an hour from home.) In 2019, I fired somewhere around 20,000 rounds of mixed 9mm and .40S&W.
Ammo sitting in your basement does very little good. Ammo fired at the range equals skill. If you have the skill, the ammo problem tends to sort itself out.
My saving grace is that I have a shit load of components to reload both 5.56 and .45ACP.
I have a good amount of 12g, a smattering of hunting bullets and small bore bullets. But not nearly enough 6.5 Grendel. I have done, but what I really need is 6.5 Grendel components.
I can find that in my couch cushions.
Back to the future on Ass Wednesday.
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Sup Q!
Wurd up.
31 makes want to get a DeLorean with a Flux capacitor.
Tennis update:
10 cases at a Holiday Inn in Australia is the talk of the town – states closing their borders again. Will the Australian Open close down?
#we’velostourfuckingminds
It’s just a fucking grind and a coin toss.
A cousin died from covid today. A much older cousin had died at 40 a while back, but this is only the second in my generation on either side. We were little kids together; our parents are the same age and were close; my parents saw her grow up and can’t imagine what it’s like for her parents to have outlived a child. She was decent, patient, hard-working, and probably got it driving her sister all over two states to see their mom who was in the hospital for unrelated issues.
We just hit freezing today. I was walking in the woods at lunch as I often do, and it was a good feeling: I was very awake (although saw no deer today), and it wasn’t too windy. I got back to the office just as she died and sat down to work on a “Justice Center” in east Tennessee.
1 in 700 seems like good odds, but it turns out I know 700 people, so, you know.
That sucks, Don, sorry to hear it.
Who ever thought that the US was going to somehow be able to contain it’s people and shut everything down as if we were China is a fucking idiot. Once it hit our shores, what’s happening now in the US was never preventable. I’d say we’re going to be better off for it in the long run. The countries that somehow managed to keep it out are just going to wind up in the same boat.
The not so secret secret is that China didn’t manage to contain it either. I guarandamntee you it’s running rampant there as well, they’re just better at hushing it up.
Hey, China _totally_ got it under control – just look at their numbers!
+1 Thomas Friedman
Oy. Sorry Don.
Condolences.
Especially with the young age if I understand that correctly.
Sorry Don.
Sorry 🙁
@Cy
Yeah, I suppose that Oz will get hit too if/when they dial down the authoritarianism. They seem to think that if they lock up tight for long enough, the ‘vid will just go away. I wish them luck with that.
Throw back, 1989 Arsenal Hall w/ Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson. It even has the commercials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ACpcZbB04
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As far as content goes, Those of us who are American seem to have slowly but surely evolved/devolved into the very people most of our ancestors voluntarily fled from. Pondering this has made me seek a particularly American trait about myself.
I believe I’ve stumbled upon one.
Despite my humble origins and lack of significant family successes throughout the ages, I can accurately date my earliest known family bloodline to 1500AD.
521 years of documentation covering one’s family when one’s family has never been much more than European peasants and American white trash is, I’m guessing, a uniquely American thing to claim. Most families throughout history outside an established aristocratic lineage could never trace their blood back so far. Yet in this place, at this time, such a thing is possible with just a few hundred hours of free time and a keen interest. Being the most documented, litigious society in history helps with that(drawbacks are easily apparent, I know).
So, as a general topic, I’m leaning towards writing about that and asking: What do you think, at this dark point, still makes you uniquely American?
My willingness to publicly criticize our overlords.
*Must be over eighteen, some restrictions may apply, not legal in all states, void where prohibited* 😉
Sorry, I really do appreciate your response, honestly. Thank you. I’m just reflexively snarky right now.
/fell on black days
BTW, in reply to your comment the other night – much of P-Town was shut down for the winter, as you’d imagine, but there was enough open that we had some really good (takeout) meals to enjoy in front of the fireplace. Our AirBnB hosts said it has been a very busy off-season – lots of people like ourselves who just need a change of scenery.
Not caring much about my “bloodline”; my father was an only child who’s father died when my father was very young, so my family on that side is murky, to say the least and, yet, I don’t think it matters. Down that path lies tribalism, I suspect.
That’s a fair assessment.
I’m not trying to claim a feeling of pride about it(like I said, Peasant/White Trash), just pointing out that being an American may make such knowledge more accessible for me.
I’ll grant that I’m probably indulging in some collectivist nonsense here. My only defense is that I feel a bit lost in regards to what in the hell “American Exceptionalism” is suppose to mean at this point.
I was never foolish enough to believe that a collective of people was ever “greater than the other” because we happened to live here and were somehow a cut above the rest of humanity, but I believed that our form of rule of law let those here that were to be so. Our form of government was radical, unique, and allowed personnel freedom on a grander scale than ever before seen.
I believe we’ve lost any such uniqueness. What do we still have to distinguish us? That’s my main question.
Whoops, I didn’t mean that in opposition to you – apologies if it came off that way.
Perhaps “not being defined by your ancestors” would be a better way to put it – that feels very American to me.
Oh, no worries at all!
I’m not offended in the least. I was just throwing out ideas about certain things that may still give you some identity about what it means to be American at this point.
Please, criticize away!
I’d say the frontier attitude.
There’s no one coming to save you.
It’s yours, if you can defend it.
You’ll have an over abundance, if you work for it.
Monarchs are for guillotines not thrones.
If someone attempts to assert authority over you, your first instinct should be to want to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Work hard. Play harder.
Like whatever you want. Play whatever you want. Drink and eat whatever you want. Live wherever you want. Say whatever you want! Love whomever you want. Worship whoever you want. Work how and when you want. Just don’t piss in anyone else’s cheerios. Be prepared to face the full responsibility of the decisions you’ve made in life.
You’re entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness.
If someone attempts to assert authority over you, your first instinct should be to want to tell them to go fuck themselves.
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
Keep living that dream. No snark or sarcasm intended here. I mean that.
Fuck you, that’s what.
Furst!
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sup’ fam
Im kinda just now hitting my stride. Since ‘Dom did some Slav ish- have some Marie Daulne
In honor of the winter ice sheet being laid down across my fair county I am eating ice cream out of the carton.
Before the power goes off, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKY6TZEyrI
In the decline of American culture, there will be at least an insert for Fred Silverman and his burning shit filled streak through television.
Howdy Glibbies, what’s up this mornin?
Snow. More snow.
Gotta go clear my car and sidewalks. ?
and inch a day, maybe more on the weekend, barely enough to shovel,
Mornin’, Yu & Sean. 17 degrees F and light snow. Going to have to clean off my car again. : (
Howdy GTand U, time to run, Cheers!
Be careful out there!
Morning. Stay warm Yusef
Morning, ‘slinger!
Morning, people.
Morning, UCS.
How’s it going?
OK. Things have quieted down at work (knock wood.) I’d have taken some more time off if I didn’t have a meeting this afternoon. I may try to take tomorrow afternoon off, especially if I can pound out the minutes of today’s meeting by then.
In reading progress, our hero is about to visit his estate for the first time.
How ’bout you?
I’m realizing I have no space to do prep work for cooking.
Despite the square footage of my kitchen, there’s almost no counter space or cabinet space, so my table is cluttered with stuff that doesn’t have a shelf space.
Is there room for at least a small prep table with a shelf or two? A place you could mount hooks for hanging pots?
I have to refactor the whole layout. I’d probably need help because I’m just not seeing the best way to do it.
Worst would be that any table would quickly develop level surface syndrome (any level surface accumulates clutter unrelated to its function)
::points to term, points to nose:: That’s our home all over. Good thing we’re clutter-blind.
I recently got two small cabinets for either side of my kitchen table. One holds spices and baking supplies and the other holds oils and vinegars and pet supplies. They are also counter space for stuff. Freeing my counters for prep.
People? Where?
Morning, Tulpae.
Good morning everyone. My 13 year old Gateway monitor died a few days ago. The best deal I could find was at Micro Center. There are 3 Micro Center locations near me; 1 in Sunset Park Brooklyn, 1 in Flushing, Queens, and 1 in Westbury, Lawn Guyland. All 3 of them are exactly 48 minutes away. Sigh…
Been there. It’s next door to a Bed Bath and Beyond and a nice food court if that helps.