I am running out of beer from Glibfest, but thankfully Easter approaches so I should be able to get back to what I do best: drink, and read things on the internet.
This is my review of FRAMBOISE SMITH (H/T: Nephilium)
According to Business Insider, an online magazine sponsored by Dollar Shave Club is looking for new financiers. Here is a link to the article that isn’t behind a paywall.
But why would a company that specializes in a product almost exclusively marketed to men cut their ties? Lets find out.
This article explains how MMA Fighters and WWF Wrestlers are into Q:
As such, Labe continues, “Many of the people working in these fields operate with the mindset of small businesspeople, so-called ‘rugged individualists’ who think for themselves. They’re cynical, hard-bitten, scrapping for every penny and often ruthless to each other, but also the most easily conned, subject to false beliefs that not only have they figured out all the answers to, they managed to do so through cloak-and-dagger study of messages encoded in goofy internet posts.”
TL/DR answer: they might not be progressives.
Here’s one explaining David Kibbe’s 13 body types. Supposedly, its an archetypal system around how women can dress in a way that flatters their body type. Men don’t need to worry about it, as there are three male body types: ectomorph (Gilligan), mesomorph (The Professor), and endomorph (The Skipper).
Here’s one explaining why women wear bras during sex. TL/DR answer: Issac Netwon hates you.
Here’s another from their relationship section:
Even “good” feminist straight men find themselves replicating all sorts of inequalities, whether it’s house work, parenting work or having bad sex that centers on men’s orgasms over women’s. Meanwhile, women’s passions and careers are sidelined, and they’re doing way too much emotional labor because their husbands or boyfriends won’t go to therapy and don’t have any close friends. The list goes on and on of all the ways people get caught up in cycles of straight misery. This is why the majority of heterosexual divorces are initiated by women.
This one…this one is great:
Men simply have more to lose than girls if they don’t fall in line with “gender typicality,” which is a term developmental psychologists use to understand masculinity and femininity based on peer comparison. In a patriarchal society like the U.S., boys consistently show higher levels of pressure to be masculine than girls feel to be feminine, which is predicated on them having more power, and therefore, more to lose. Basically, if you’re not a traditionally masculine man, you’re afforded less power and privilege.
I wasn’t very conforming growing up, for example. I had three older sisters, loved playing with My Little Ponies and got a lot of crap from cousins and friends at school about not following gender rules closely enough. So I know firsthand how patriarchy and power can be in play for boys as young as three years old.
…and now they call him a Bronie. Not that I am kink-shaming.
Gee, I wonder why they stopped funding this outfit?
What is FRAMBOISE SMITH? Its a Belgian Ale Nephilium made in his cellar. When he offered it, I had one of these Firestone Walker Bretta Rosé on hand to try side by side. Truth be told, Firestone Walker knows what they are doing but Nephilium had them beat. Where theirs was bitter, his was crisp. His was nicely effervescent while theirs could be a bit overbearing. Ultimately where a Firestone went too far for me is the unapologetic sourness, which was why I preferred Nephilium’s. Before anyone suggests I am pandering and I just got a free beer—I got both for free (not the pictured one, of course) and I am not the only one here with this opinion. FRAMBOISE SMITH: 4.5/5
You best believe I be a Firstin’.
Dude. The my little pony pic was unnecessary.
Envious of you people who drank Nephs beer.
This times eleventy.
It was good. He brought a bottle to Virginia. It was as good as I remembered.
Dude. The my little pony pic was unnecessary.
Don’t kink shame.
For those with good vision, yes that was bottled in a repurposed Sam Adams bottle. For any interested, I have the recipe saved in a BeerXML format, or can put it into a readable format. This beer did manage to pull me home a Best of Show at a homebrew competition as well. There’s only a couple bottles left from this batch. But… I do have a batch that’s been aging on cherries for about five years now. It should be ready to bottle in the next year or so.
Road trip to The Cleve!
“The Cleve”? It is only a Cleve in a Land of Cleves.
Locally, we do refer to it as the CLE or the LAND.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBaCG-HcEBU
Cleves is a pretty little city. Not too far from the Roman ruins in Xanten, although I didn’t get to visit those.
If I didn’t hate the airport and flying so much….
BA confirmed.
Beer Advocate?
I pity the fool.
Dammit. That reads more combative and insulting than it sounded in my head.
Gustave:
No offense taken at all. I caught the reference.
I mean, I could have gone with the Brewers Association instead.
Never apologize.
https://youtu.be/DJnKm6ftPu0
I’m driving for my summer trip out west and to go to Honey Harvest in the Fall.
When airlines don’t require masks or vaccine passports (I see the latter coming) I’ll fly again.
Dude! That’s great! I look forward to meeting you finally.
But I’m flying on Monday. No vaccine passports yet.
You’re flying without being vaccinated. You’ll be dead before you land!
Either that, or you’ll be responsible for the deaths of 27 morbidly obese diabetic hypertensive grandmas.
Good luck.
Only 27? I think Tundra can do better than that.
Maybe he can do better. Is cross-checking and spearing allowed in-flight?
Also, Honey Harvest in the Fall sounds like a semi-romantic Fem-Pr0n.
It’ll be good to meet you and everyone else.
I see vaccine passports coming. Qantas has plans to require them. Israel is requiring them. NY is rolling them out. The thing is, there are so many competing interests involved and different systems involved combined with a growing backlash, I think vaccine passports might fail.
That’s the spirit. ?
Thanks, again!
Neph gave me the gift of drinking out of a pig’s asshole.
And I found my glasses.
And the girlfriend thought you wouldn’t like it. 🙂
Sour is good. Embrace the sour!
Rant/request/brag all combined into one, just because of what I’m doing with my Saturday morning:
My oldest daughter (18) recently started a full-time job as an Advanced EMT with the FD in a neighboring (very nice/prosperous) county. So I was helping her understand benefits packages, etc., and how it relates to my insurance through work. Short answer: for medical/dental it’s of course cheaper for her to stay on mine.
Anyway, back before the plandemic, she was working as a seamstress in a local business (another homeschool mom). She got bumped onto “official” unemployment through the GA DOL about a year ago, so she got a bunch of checks over the past year. She objects on libertarian principles to “free money”, but i explained she can consider it a partial refund of all the freakin’ taxes I have to pay. So she just got her first paycheck and is trying to make the Unemployment checks stop. Neither of us has been successful in finding anything on the docs she received or the DOL website about how to STOP getting checks.
The request: Any of y’all know how this works, or what she has to do? Does the state figure it out and stop writing checks now that they’re seeing state withholding, or what?
The brag (in addition to the whole paragraph above): She and her best friend (another 18yo girl) are both griping that the whole thing is obviously meant to drive dependence on the state – buying votes with my money.
Good job, daddio!
I wish my dependent daughter had the same respect for me. Good on you, and her.
Seconded.
Considering I’m having trouble getting Ohio to stop trying to process fraudulent claims in my name (no checks sent out yet to my knowledge, and my unemployment account is now flagged as suspicious). I’ve got no idea how to get them to stop sending checks.
They’ll catch it soon enough I’d say. Just don’t cash them. We (those on LOA) got a small payment that was supposedly owed a month after returning to work.
They’re direct-deposit. Evidently she and Mrs. Tree have tried “calling the state” for the past few weeks, but I don’t know how aggressively. I haven’t been in that part of the process. If I can’t figure out something soon we may try to get the local bank to shut it down.
Buy cripto with the checks and then give it back when they figure it out when your daughter is in retirement.
Oh shit. Crypto. Before Ted rolls around to correct me.
Nice work, man.
I’m really working hard to cultivate my own shitlords/ladies. The little victories are sweet!
Word of the day: Aposematism.
Definition by example: https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1374219116081414144
I love it.
I have a great suggestion on where to start.
Not looking to hook up with a Trump supporter.
Oh honey, I have some bad news for you….
Her made up name should be Kobayashi Maru.
I love a good Belgian and a Framboise as well.
I’ll be heading here in early April. https://www.fourcitybrewing.com/about-us/
One of the owners sings in a band and they are real fun.
https://rudeboygeorge.com/bios/
Here’s one explaining why women wear bras during sex.
Wot?
Well, woman anyway.
It’s gibberish. Free the boobies!
Thanks for the review, Señor!
But that article on male body types was hilariously bad.
And very different drug regimens.
Tundra gets it.
Those drug regimens must have changed over time. The Mr. Olympia winners in the late 70s/early 80s look a lot less freakish than the winners in the 90s.
Tribal People love cheesecake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iYQxH2-VM8v
I like the Cheech Marin guy. “It’s VIP cake!”
Those are some big slices of cheesecake.
Average Western person: this is a good piece of cheesecake.
One of these guys: May God increase this baker’s business.
Which one is more enthusiastic?
Bismillah
You mean you never suggest kissing the chef’s hands?
Of course they like cheesecake. They’re tribal people; not tribal monsters.
Abut, these guys looooooove cheesecake. Like Garfield loves lasagna.
Like Jason Biggs loves warm cherry pie?
(at the risk that I’m being set up)
Apple pie?
Even “good” feminist straight men find themselves replicating all sorts of inequalities, whether it’s house work, parenting work or having bad sex that centers on men’s orgasms over women’s. Meanwhile, women’s passions and careers are sidelined, and they’re doing way too much emotional labor because their husbands or boyfriends won’t go to therapy and don’t have any close friends. The list goes on and on of all the ways people get caught up in cycles of straight misery. This is why the majority of heterosexual divorces are initiated by women.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… Huh? Were you saying something?
Counterpoint from David Thompson.
To be fair, anything written on Scary Mommy is pretty much an own-goal, and it’s painfully easy to mock.
I’d wager it has more to do with the laws bias treatment of women as children in divorces.
The surest way to kill any chance of my having an orgasm is to put pressure on me to have an orgasm.
*deletes comment
I put absolutely zero pressure on the woman to have an orgasm.
Gonna need a ruling from the judges whether this warrants a narrowed gaze.
Seems like more of an own goal to me. But hey, I’m not the arbiter of narrowed gazes.
You should have started this comment with “As a firster… “
Having that giant thing on my wrist would drive me crazy.
* conceals 43mm wristwatch from Brooks’ view *
From the dead thread.
Here’s a peer-reviewed white paper/article from Environmental Chemistry Letters (2021), published on SpringerLink and downloadable as a PDF, arguing that due to a number of hard-to-explain features of CoV2, the lab escape hypothesis should not be ignored or downplayed:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10311-021-01211-0
Thanks. Brett Weinstein has been hammering similar points. For me, it’s simple: what are you not allowed to talk about?
(It was fucking lab leak.)
I hope it was a lab leak.
My nightmare is that it’s a test run.
Plandemic 0.9B
I already wrote this book in my head. The vaccinations everyone is getting isn’t primarily for Cootie Sniffles, it’s for a virus that’s already been bio-engineered. It is a virus that has both an exceptionally long latency period, and then will kick human ass faster than Hanta/Ebola/Rabies combined.
This is nothing but an obedience test. That’s my nightmare.
That’s actually a plot point in the book Kaleidoscope Century. There was a vaccine that was distribute to loyal KGB/Russian agents to protect them from AIDS, which caused it to mutate into SuperAIDS which wound up wiping out a large amount of humanity.
It is not a happy nor cheerful book.
LOL
It really is well written. I think I’ve read through it 3 or 4 times. The main characters are all sociopaths, do piles of unspeakable acts, and essentially win. It’s part of a series that includes the entire world getting enslaved by an AI virus (called a meme in the book) eventually.
The author has a niche in writing really dark future scenarios. Mother of Storms is probably his lightest book, and it deals with a cataclysmic chain reaction setting off a world destroying series of hurricanes. Then there’s the Daybreak series that deal with the collapse of modern infrastructure due to a plague of nanobots that destroys plastics, rubbers, fuel, and metal based conductors.
That’s quite a recommendation.
I didn’t think Daybreak was dark at all.
Are you my older brother?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaids
And there will be no consequences for the perps
That’s not necessarily what it was but ruling that out is nothing but politically motivated horseshit. That being said, a hell of a coincidence that a lab that studied bat coronaviruses and that conducted gain of function research was located in the same city where the first outbreak occurred, no?
The real question is…
What difference, at this point, does it make?
According to things i have read…
Not caring if your female sex partner has an orgasm makes you a self-centered asshole. This seems reasonable. Also, being overly (whatever the hell that means) concerned about your female sex partner’s orgasms makes you a self-centered asshole. Hmmm.
It’s almost as if people are individuals with individual needs & tastes. It’s almost as if sex partners should communicate their tastes & needs to each other. Horrifying, all that work. It would be so much easier if everyone just did it all the same way. Or with robots.
Bbq ribs, collard greens, and pimento cheese for dinner today. Southern goodness and keto as fuck.
You had me at Bbq ribs, collard greens and pimento cheese. I can stuff myself with any one of the three.
You had me at ribs, collard greens and pimento cheese. I can eat way too much of each. ?
OFFS…..Wordpress is fucking with me.
⬅
Bone in prime ribeyes for dinner tonight.
Locally raised.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/ILhxt60YQqmBJND1MnXyCA.86LEIWsvu2FhY0B6Zls27-
They seem underdefended.
Indeed. See#37, previous page.
The woke left won’t put their money where their mouth is?
I am shocked.
Speaking of orgasms, I’m-a watch the Dirty Jobs marathon on Discovery.
First episode: Making C-Cell Batteries
No, that’s How It’s Made.
Doh. I sit corrected.
The second episode is the {CENSORED} they make that are powered by the C-cells.
For me, it’s simple: what are you not allowed to talk about?
(It was fucking lab leak.)
The story I linked this AM featured a direct vicious personal attack on Redfield, which tells me pretty much everything I need to know.
*puts on tinfoil wide brimmed cowboy hat.
Was it leaked or engineered and planned to do exactly what it did?
I’m increasingly at a loss for words for all the free floating derp.
How much would it take to get Remy off the other site and here where he belongs?
Remy is indeed a treasure. I have no clue how his business relationship works with Reason. He’s about the only thing worth looking at there on TOS.
Is Stossel still on TOS?
Is Youtube ready for Sugarfree stories made into musical numbers?
It may be necessary to create a separate platform for that sole purpose.
If its not, it better be.*
*this is not some kind of hint,
Have ya ever heard of beer yoga? Me either. I was searching stretching videos and this came up in my youtube. I blame big AI.
Pints and Poses is a pretty common thing at the breweries here… or at least it was back in the before times.
I got serious about stretching recently and realized I am fucked. I am sooooooo not flexible anymore. I am trying to fix that to help my other problems.
A beer bar near me used to have something similar on Sunday mornings.
I should have gone, but never did.
My sister wanted me and the girlfriend to meet up with her at one in the before times. Then the shutdowns happened.
She’s making me tingle in my bathing suit area.
In the front of the bathing suit or the back?
Was not expecting the degree of thickness, looks like she’s been chugging beers for a go while. Not complaining, a definite would!
Interesting stories, but I was nervous about the fact of condoms and razors being mentioned in such close proximity.
Libertarian sporting area. #idiocy………. Love it!
Forgot the link.
The new phones are here! The new phones are here! Tom T. went up to the FedEx depot to retrieve them. Turns out they WERE supposed to be delivered yesterday but got left – along with a bunch of other packages – out on the loading dock. The guys there were nice enough to locate them, even the one with the slightly-mistranscribed tracking number.
Now comes the fun part./sarc Damned if I could figure out how to back up my current phone. Drives me crazy when the instructions don’t match reality. Tom T. backed up my photos for me, but I resorted to writing down the important contact numbers. #technoretard
I think I’m going to wait until he gets his new phone up and running before I attempt to activate mine. No sense both of us pulling out our hair at the same time.
Are they Samsungs? If so, Samsung Smart Switch is almost mindlessly easy to use, and virtually bulletproof.
If not, I have nothing further to add. ?
His is. Mine’s an obsolete LG Enact – a horizontal slider with physical keys for my fat thumbs. I’m going to miss it. I sure hope I like the Stylo 6 I’m replacing it with.
If the OS is Android, do yourself a favour and get a copy of Swiftkey keyboard (now owned by Microsoft). Made my phone actually usable.
Alright all. Hold down the fort, I’m off to break in the road bike for the first ride of the season. About 10 miles out, stop at a place (right now it’s either a chicken wing place or a local brewery) for a bite and some beer, then decide to return the same way, add some miles, or take the short way home.
? I am forcing myself to get on the new bike tomorrow.
Good luck. If you haven’t ridden in a while keep it short, and plan on taking the bike in for a tune up (or tune it up yourself) after the first 50 miles or so.
50 miles? So I am good for a year or two.
My goal is 1,500 miles this year.
My plan, if the leg allows, is to head to the trail head near me. Ride up the hill/trail/single track until I feel like I might stroke out, turn around and go back to the car. That endeavor has always been less than a mile. I have issues.
Excellent.
I took my Mustang out. A friend of mine and I went up north for what was supposed to be a gathering of anti-mask/anti-lockdown folks at Funspot.
Funspot has signs up on the door about Sununu’s mask order. “Masks are required unless you can keep six feet distance from other people” and then in fine print, “The mask order allows medical exemptions. If you aren’t wearing a mask, we’ll assume you have a medical exemption. We won’t ask because medical information is private.”
I’d say the crowd was about half and half masked zombies and unmasked people. We never found the gathering. But that’s OK, we had fun playing old-school arcade games. I spent quite a while playing Cruisin’ USA.
I’m embarrassed to say that when we left, I stalled the Mustang. Urgh. I was doing so well. Though, it’s been a long time since I drove a manual on anything approaching a regular basis. This is the fourth time I’ve driven the Mustang. It’s a good car.
Managed an average moving speed of 14.5 MPH on the first ride on the road bike in a while (over about 10 miles).
Drinking some beer and waiting on chicken and chicharrones.
Nice
I should also add that two or three people liked my shirt.
Oopsie – was I not supposed to do that?
JFC that’s shameless.
“Making the World Safe for Intersectionality…
‘Left-wing (and “right-think” centrist) Twitter responded with horror, denunciation, and dismay. I was against LGBTQIA “rights,” you see. How could anyone be against human rights? Unpacking the philosophical, political, and practical policy premises behind this new course by our military is a useful exercise and reveals much about the current state of America’s ruling class (right and left)—as well as the rhetoric around our modern theology of identity politics and social justice….
‘Leaving aside the arrogance of the U.S. lecturing the rest of the world on sexual morality and civic health given the state of the precipitous breakdown of the nuclear family over the last half-century, the fundamental problem with all this is the confused notion of “rights” at the center of the campaign….
‘…Now America’s military—armed with this dogma and empowered by the chief executive and the Secretary of defense—goes abroad in search of heteronormative and cisgendered monsters to destroy. Meanwhile our enemies are making the cool calculation that we are no longer a serious country. This will not end well.’
https://bit.ly/3rtbyg6
WTF kind of mixed uniform mess is that? And that poor Marine in the second row can’t seem to figure out the should straps of the flag carrier, not doubt still too traumatized from years of not being allowed slings and such. It’s not a weakness to order your LMGs with a heatshield. Less likely to melt your crayons.
My downstairs neighbor and I just had a mutual rant about how ridiculous white liberals are. She said they treat her (she’s in home heath care) like a retarded pet that has no knowledge or resources.
They’re they fucking worst.
Stormcloud Brewery, lunch and Beer, here’s our contact tracing information,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/jxtjWVRKYTc4EECe7
“Stormcloud”?! Sounds like some sort of white nationalist outfit. No wonder they want your digits.
You were smart to go incognito.
Great Food and Beer, all Belgians, Yum!
Nice. My usual fake is Valentine Michael Smith.
I used the Governor’s office phone number and a fake name.
Tardy, but: “You’re terrible, Muriel!” 😉
Eventually, they’re going to come for your favorite condom brand.
Already happened. The FDA prevented TheyFit from coming into the country for a while. But they’re back, available as myOne.
What is FRAMBOISE SMITH? Its a Belgian Ale Nephilium made in his cellar. When he offered it, I had one of these Firestone Walker Bretta Rosé on hand to try side by side. Truth be told, Firestone Walker knows what they are doing but Nephilium had them beat. Where theirs was bitter, his was crisp. His was nicely effervescent while theirs could be a bit overbearing. Ultimately where a Firestone went too far for me is the unapologetic sourness, which was why I preferred Nephilium’s. Before anyone suggests I am pandering and I just got a free beer—I got both for free (not the pictured one, of course) and I am not the only one here with this opinion. FRAMBOISE SMITH: 4.5/5
Better than Firestone Walker? Nephilium, do you have more?
Not really….
Muwahahahahahaha
Him having more, that is.
One or two bottles. One is caged and corked, but the cage is rusty enough I don’t trust transporting it.
Which reminds me, I need to send you a note about my road trips since I’ll be heading through Ohio.
Good deal. Look forward to seeing you again. The girlfriend and I may be heading up to New England this summer as well.
It would be good to see you again.
Let me know if/when you are up in New England in the Summer. Hopefully some of this insanity will die off by then. I have a list of folks from H&R for setting up meet-ups.
I just watched a video of a Brit screaming “Trevor, you fucking cunt!” at his Alexa, so I’ve had a good LOL for the day.
I like doughnuts.
Minute 9:10……… what the fuck is that?
Looks like sweet red bean paste. Pretty common in Asian pastries, actually.
Although the slab o’ whatever they put on the doughnut on top of the paste? No idea.
I think the slab is butter. It looks identical to the butter cut earlier in the video and later in the video, when the doughnuts are placed out for sale, doughnuts with similar slabs have an English label reading “Butter Bread”.
I saw that, and then my mind recoiled from all the butter.
I like me some butter but whoaaaa with that slab.
Brown-25 from Uranus Corp.
Racism, plain and simple
It has been more than two months since Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president of the United States, a historic moment for the country, as Harris is the first woman and the first woman of color to hold the second highest office in the land. Yet, Harris — along with her husband, Georgetown Law professor Douglas Emhoff — is still, ostensibly, living out of suitcases, unable to move into the private residence reserved for the vice president because it’s still undergoing renovations.
It’s unclear why the renovations are taking so long, said one administration official, but it’s a situation that has left Harris increasingly and understandably bothered, according to several people who spoke to CNN about her situation. “She is getting frustrated,” said another administration official, noting with each passing day the desire to move in to her designated house — a stately, turreted mansion two-and-a-half miles from the White House — grows more intense.
Poor thing.
“Don’t make me angry. You won’t like me when I’m angry.”
I don’t like you now.
Meh, not afraid.
*taunts not bulletproof guy*
The Vice-Presidential residence will be ready soon, said a spokeswoman for the Penelope Construction Company.
We need more money!
What’s really going on.
it’s a situation that has left Harris increasingly and understandably bothered
She’s gonna be even more bitchy when she realizes that the west wing is overdue for a gut job and it’ll probably start about the time she wants to usurp the throne.
If her husband teaches at Georgetown, shouldn’t he have his own place already?
He does. His whores live there though. Commie-La is someone else whore.
This is the fourth time I’ve driven the Mustang. It’s a good car.
Is it a new one, or an old one?
Brand new 2021. Six miles on the odometer when I picked it up.
Unfortunately, it comes with a safety package standard. That package was an option for 2020. Unfortunately, by the time the fall-out from the Lil Rona Panic orders and some stuff at my job settled down enough that I felt OK with paying a lot of money for a fun car, the factory had stopped making 2020s. A lot of the safety stuff defaults to on every time you start the car. You can also never truly turn off the forward collision assist, but you can prevent it from hitting the brakes and turn down its sensitivity.
If you haven’t already, I encourage you to skim the manual. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to turn off the auto brights on my fusion until I came across the instructions in the manual. It was some setting buried in a menu tree that wasn’t exactly intuitive.
This is not how I was taught to get razor clams.