My sinuses are about to go ape shit.
Howdy, Glibbies! Gorgeous weather here in manly time. Sorry for you folks on the other side of the Rockies. I’m sure it will be a light storm this late in the season.
Hey! Did you know there were birthdays today?
The grass is always greener on the other side of the desert.
I’ll just leave this here for you guys to snark and debate about.
No, this is mocking poor little Meg. And I’m sure they have zero fucks to give over the Twatter outrage, they’ve been shot at.
This is gonna light some hair on fire.
Now let’s do it someplace where it has real effect. Like all over the world.
Peace out, Glibbies.
Snow? Meh.
I am sick of plowing it. I am ready for summer……..fuck snow!
I think you might be plowing it wrong.
Where he lives, it probably doesn’t matter how you plow it, it just drifts shut again.
Another wasted day of buying a side by side. First dealer said they had one, but it wasn’t there when they went to look. Might have been sold.
Second one texts me this morning asking if I was still going to come in this weekend. Show up after #1. One was allegedly sold this morning and the other is just not there and they don’t know where it is. Completely baffled. I know if I lost $10k of inventory, my boss would be like NBD. WTF would you txt me without checking your inventory anyways?
Isn’t “Know what you’ve got to sell” Business 101?
So, what kind of side by side?
side by side = double barrel?
When you’re talking rifles or shotguns, yes.
But if you’re talking Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello, on the other hand…
Double barrel rifle?
I would like a marvelous Animal piece on this. Please and Thank you.
Hmm. That would be an interesting piece, wouldn’t it?
Now that I think about it, a lot of the old big game/elephant rifles were double barreled affairs.
Not the real fun kind. Kawasaki Mule.
Ah. We’ll be looking for some kind of side by side ATV up in the Great Land, probably this summer. I really have no preferences as to brand, though.
Went from Gator to Kubota to Polaris to Kawasaki and happy with what we see. They seem to be the only ones with a small wheelbase unit (SX) anymore. It just needs to move us around on small acreage and small loads. Don’t need 1000lb pneumatic dump or 2000lb tow or 6 passengers or go 65mph over sand dunes.
……or go 65mph over sand dunes.
How do you know until you tried it?
Noted. We’ll be likely looking for a two-seater with enough whump to pull a meat trailer.
Yeah, I’d expect you want more of a hunting type for more rugged terrain. There are larger Mules or other side by sides that would work better.
Happy ending. First dealer salesman, although a bit put off from the not there model, seemed like a straight shooter in terms of their pricing and incoming inventory. Called them back about putting me down for one of their incoming and they’re going to order one on Monday with my name on it and email me the VIN.
I’d like to know one example of Meghan Markle being disadvantaged by her African American roots.
It made her more vulnerable to people telling her she’s always a victim.
That would be plausible (that she’d been raised to think her race held her back) if she were not so obviously orchestrating her Royal Family grenade lobbing at every step along the way.
There are many descriptions one can make of the Suitcase Girl from Deal or No Deal, but victim isn’t one of them.
100% guarantee that if it was the best way for her to get attention, she’d be kissing royal butt right now. But since she’s convinced that coming to America and playing a victim is the best way to get attention these days, and sadly she’s right, that’s why she’s doing it.
I’ve talked to a few Brits recently and they say they’ll do anything to keep us from sending her back.
Eliminate their wokist and pro-lockdown viewpoints?
We’ll take care of the embarassment for them.
It’s nice to be able to follow the royals from afar and not have to pay for them.
Queen Liz is pretty universally liked or even admired. People remember her during WWII and through plenty since then.
Prince Charles OTOH has broken with tradition (constitutional monarch tradition) of not taking a stand on politics. Instead, he picked global warming and sustainable living as his pet causes. How tone-deaf do you have to be to declare yourself champion of a cause that is the antithesis of how you live your daily life?
Will and Kate are plain vanilla, just how the Brits like their monarchs. They might be ok if the monarchy survives that long.
But I suspect that once the narcissistic and self declared expert on architecture and sustainability takes the throne, there are going to be new calls to end the institution.
Meghan isn’t helping, but her husband got relegated to Minor Royal status the moment his nephew was born. Harry will just be a has-been posing as a great crusader; his actions and words have no consequence, and the Oprah interview tarnished his image even among Americans.
Tell them to un-f&@k-up Doctor Who or she’s on a plane to Heathrow tomorrow.
Ooh, GT us wheeling out the big artillery!
If I was supreme overload, she’d be back on that plane yesterday. Harry’s a damn fool, I hope they disown him and the wokeness ticket runs out.
Harry has always been considered a bit thick, but Meghan was bristling with red flags.
He’s either more stupid than we thought, or he likes drama like his late mother did.
I think it’s more the emotional scarring from losing his mother than intelligence.
The problem I have with them, is that they have no idea about real life, the one most of us live in. Most people, at least at some point in their lives, have had to worry about their next meal, keeping a roof over their head, providing for their family, paying bills. These people have NEVER had to worry about any of that for one second in their entire lives.
When they’re ready to give up all their privilege and go live in the real world with the rest of us, then they can whine and cry victim, and even then it will not be appealing behavior. But what they are doing now is truly appalling, they’re a bunch of delusional assholes who need to shut the fuck up.
GT breakin’ out the B-Card! They need to do a Dallas-it was all a dream card.
Life is so hard
It was probably her African American split ends.
50 lb. sack of millet was $10 last year, $30 this year.
Chicken feed up 10% this month.
Now that is how you euphemism right there.
Inflation’s a comin’. Everybody gird your sphincters!
“Dubai Sees Population Surging 76% on Lure of Beaches, Greenery”
Yeah, and I think if you can keep your mouth shut and stay out of trouble, you’ll be fine. Just be careful and don’t attract the gaze of the authoritah or you’ll get sentenced to 1000 lashes.
You need to be a “licensed alcoholic” with a state authorized “papers please” to buy booze there outside of the bars. *or at least that is the way it used to be* Praise Allah!
Fuck Dubai. It is a facade of bright lights and fancy buildings hiding slavery and oppression.
The reason I said that is there’s an episode of that locked up abroad where a British citizen was hanging out with some high society folk there and somehow he actually got introduced to some of the royal family. They asked him to get them booze, because you know, it’s illegal there for citizens but mostly legal for fureners.
So this guy went back to the UK and smuggled them in some liquor. And all was happy. Until it wasn’t. One day they broke down the door of his flat and started demanding him to show them the guns. He was like ‘I don’t have any guns’. So they beat him up and hauled his ass off to prison.
He somehow managed to get the Brits to get him out of there. But he was sentenced to 1000 lashes, for whatever he done. That’s one freaking thousand lashes.
So, no one should be fucking around over there.
One thousand lashes.
Otherwise known as “One of the most painful ways to execute someone we could think of.”
Yep. What I’m trying to say. If you’re over there, watch you step and don’t be thinking it’s some kind of bastion of liberty for you to play around in.
Yeah, that is a part of the world I would never willingly visit.
I’ve got a buddy who is gay and who visits (er, “visited”?) Dubai regularly for sales reasons. He goes to great lengths to make sure the people he meets there have no idea he’s gay.
Tunisia used to be a favorite spot for Brits and continental Europeans to go frolicking in the sun and surf, and their “Western ways” were tolerated by Tunisia due to the economic advantages.
But then some jihadi shot up a beach resort (i.e. foreigner playground) near Sousse and killed about 40 people, mostly brits.
That had a dampening effect on the holiday makers. I don’t know if things are “back to normal now” or if that’s even possible.
That was in 2015. I had to look it up. Seems like longer ago.
That was in 2015. I had to look it up. Seems like longer ago
The squirrels are slow today. Two minutes apart? Slackers.
There was an episode of one of the Tony Bourdain shows in Marrakesh, or one of those sorts of places. He was at the mansion of some Euro-expat and all their expat friends and while the servants were bringing them their after dinner cordials , Tony asked asked them “how many of you smoked hashish?” And they all raised their hands while one asked “did you mean today?”
Barbarians gonna barbar, yo.
“Nuke the site from orbit.”
Sorry if someone posted this already…
If a Commerce Department report is delivered to Congress but isn’t covered by the mainstream media, and doesn’t get put on the departmental Web site, does it make a sound?
From the report:
“The evidence does not show that during last decade, a time of expansive growth of electronic communications, particularly on the Internet and mobile devices as well as social media, there has been a rise in hate crime incidents.”
“…this research, and much like it, fails to demonstrate any causal relationship between increased social media use and increased violence. This research does not present even comprehensive descriptive data correlating increased hate speech on social media with increased hate crimes.”
“Further, this censorship poses real dangers to our political system. Under the hate speech prohibitions and other censorship rules, the platforms have removed content that many consider seriously engaged with pressing political and social issues.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/03/03/exclusive-unreleased-federal-report-concludes-no-evidence-that-free-speech-online-causes-hate-crimes/
We all muttered unhappily about “hate crimes” when relevant laws were being passed.
But we did nothing and so they passed. And now it’s worse to beat up an 83 year old black woman and rob her than it is to beat up an 83 year old white woman and rob her.
More alarmingly, it allows the stats to make inferences and speculations on what was/is going through the mind of the perpetrator.
That is scary territory. No one can know what I was thinking; the state can try to prove my actions, but not my thoughts.
That Charlie Hebdo cartoon is fucking hysterical. Nice to see someone still has the balls to do completely tasteless jokes.
Out of curiosity, I confirmed that Amazon is still selling those books. Who knows for how much longer?
This has got to be on the list.
https://www.amazon.com/Tarnsman-Gor-Gorean-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B00J84L0XK/ref=sr_1_4?crid=P5EBH943QIJQ&dchild=1&keywords=gor+book+series&qid=1615677780&sprefix=gor+%2Caps%2C367&sr=8-4
If Apple is cloning other people’s work (they reported, without evidence) I think there’s already a remedy for that, no?
Also, I’m curious to know what business they are “dominant” in. Considering they are a hardware company and none of the products they produce are “dominant” in their category.
I suppose Google “dominates” search but not using them is as easy a typing a different URL into your address bar.
Microsoft’s “harms” were hashed out decades ago and it’s just as ludicrous today.
In short, this looks like the gummint wanting to wet their beak to me.
I believe Google’s current anti-trust issues have more to do with online advertising then search. Apple does have a monopoly on one thing… access to the Apple walled garden. In my mind, that should be permitted, but what do I know. On that side, there is some interesting jockeying going on with the Epic/Apple/Steam suit.
TLDR version: Apple subpoenaed a huge amount of sales data from Valve saying they needed that to defend against the Epic suit by saying that the market they’re being sued over is selling digital games, not just access to the Apple store.
I’ll check that link in a moment, but…
As for the “walled garden”… every games console has one and I don’t hear anyone crying “anti-trust!” over it. It’s part of the package – neither Apple nor Microsoft nor Sony nor Nintendo wants their platform to be shit all over with worthless, buggy crap and users seems to appreciate that.
Yeah. Epic is not the good guys in this fight. While they’re complaining about the terms of service of selling their product on the Apple Store (all payment processing must be run through Apple, giving Apple their cut), they’ve got a more curated (and feature-less) game store then Steam does.
But on the console side, I believe that most of the curation there is in the online stores. I think with a developer’s license, you can release your own games on physical media that don’t go through them.
Interesting stuff. I think only crazy people play games on a phone or tablet but I guess that’s just me.
It’s a Saturday, which means that for the lurkers, Tulpas, and feds that frequent this board, I’ll be kicking off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Tech lessons tonight at 20:00 Eastern.
Thanks Neph!
Yay!
I hope nobody objects if I chime in with an advice bleg. As a lot of you know, my wife and I just moved from NYC to South Carolina. One of the things that we both wanted to do was get a gun. Today was a nice day out. We went to a gun store/range and tried one out for measure. We think we like the H&K VP9 for home defense. They let us try it out on the range and it was pretty fun to shoot. It seems like it might be a good choice for us. The wife seems to have trouble with the slide lock for a lot of semi-automatics. But this one seemed workable for her. And it seems like the 9mm is a somewhat available round. We’d considered revolvers, but it doesn’t seem like most are available in 9mm. Even absent availability, I’m concerned a .357 magnum might be a bit too much recoil for her. It sounds like they might be a little pricey. But, I see it as an investment.
Any thoughts?
Most revolvers are DA/SA these days. There’s barely any recoil with SA.
DA/SA?
Double action / single action
She can shoot .38 out of a .357 and when you want to you can shoot .357 out of it. Plus revolvers are cool and don’t jam.
Also, easier to clean, like penises.
Revolvers absolutely do malfunction, and when they do, it usually requires tools and a vice to get them running again.
Don’t just try one gun. Try several, to see if you can find something that you both like. 9mm will be fine for both of you.
Ammo is a shit show right now. Prices are almost triple what they should be. If you can find 9mm under 75 cents a round, buy all of it.
Bought some of this a couple weeks ago – haven’t had time to try it out though.
https://www.trueshotgunclub.com/product/tulammo-9mm-115-grain-fmj-50-rounds
A good price, but it’s steel cased TulAmmo. It’ll shoot just fine, but it’s dirty.
Tulammo shoots cleaner than CCI Blazer by a long damn shot.
No argument there. Although I would put PMC up there as well.
**Cough**
(promo code stpatricks10 got me 10% off, which brought my grand total to just a shade over 60 cents/round)
I believe 38 Special, a lower recoil round, will sub for 357.
True. But it sounded like 9mm ammo was a lot more available. We’re both going to need a lot of range time.
It was, and will be. Right now everything is hard to find.
The VP9 is an *excellent* choice, especially for a new or beginning shooter.
I don’t like revolvers in general, and I really don’t like them for beginners. Details upon request. But seriously, go with the VP9.
Don’t focus much on the slide release RIGHT NOW.
As it’s a new gun, almost all of them are a bit tight to navigate, but they free up with some use.
However, what is your wife’s grip strength? My wife had that issue with her first Glock and never got better. She loves her Walther P99.
The VP9 is quality hardware.
Also, one gun for two people? You each should have one. ?
Agreed. But, one step at a time. One step at a time.
I figure if we get one we both like to shoot, she’ll be easier to convince on #2, since it will mean I won’t either be hogging the gun or bothering her for my turn. After that, of course, hunting guns are just a natural progression.
So knockdown drag out fights are more interesting (and equitable)?
No. But, “Honey, let’s get a gun” then “Honey, let’s just get another” seems a lot easier sell than his and hers. Especially to a girl who’s lived in New York for 26 years.
I was being my usual self. But seriously, the first several pistols should be ones that both of you are comfortable with.
Wife guns: Purse – https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/model-442-0
Bed side table – https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/model-19
Load with 38 spl, not 357 mags. She picks it up and pulls the trigger. There is nothing to figure out, no mechanisms to operate. She picks it up and pulls the trigger. Easy, simple, nothing to think about.
Don’t startle her…
Why do you think Suthen taught himself to cook so well?
I keep a .38Sp next to me for the same reason. 00 is in the closet. No movie bullshit. Not going the ratchet it. Shell is already chambered. Safety off. Then boom.
Wouldn’t call it movie bullshit. I once scared off an intruder with the sound of racking a shot gun. Which is way better than having to fire it.
“All you’ll see are assholes and elbows” – the guy who sold me my shotgun on the merits of having to rack it.
If I’ve already emptied my revolver, there will be no other warning. Assholes and elbows indeed. All over the walls and carpet.
That’s a shame.
The sound of a 12-gauge being chambered is one of the most bowel-loosening sounds I can think of. By itself, it would probably end a potentially deadly encounter before it started, as the house invader ran like Hell to get away from the source of that noise.
9mm will be the first cartridge to recover when the silliness ends. There is a reason it’s insanely popular.
Find a gun club. They all have a women’s league or something similar. Then the two of you can get into shooting sports!
Had to spread some gravel today. Spreading gravel sucks. Especially since they brought the wrong kind and I didn’t look at the invoice so I didn’t know before the guy dumped it and I saw a lack of granite dust that was supposed to be accompanying it. Oh, well. It’ll still work and I might get more in the fall anyway since it wasn’t quite enough to cover the areas of the driveway I wanted to.
I’ve got two gravel piles, and one dirt pile.
I share your pain.
No tractor?
Nah. Drive is only 2 cars wide by 2 cars deep and the guy dumped it in swaths so I mostly just had to rake it out. What he accidentally got in the road was a bitch to get into the driveway though.
Oh. I’m no stranger to shoveling gravel. But when I got a tractor, it went from grueling labor to an excuse to have fun.
I did some of that last weekend (granted only a few spots). It’s tough work.
Quarter bye with dust? I hate that stuff.
I kinda needed to have to rehabilitation for the driveway since I have been lazy and let it get into sorry shape. So I figure that would help it reestablish.
It’ll do just fine, I just don’t have fond memories of my couple of encounters working with it.
Great choice of music tonight, Spud. I have the Willie doing Gershwin CD but truthfully it’s not my favorite. Willie was a younger man when he was with Kenny for that recording.
The driver won’t spread the gravel for you? Our guy puts a bar in the back of the truck that controls the spread so the gravel drops where we want.
We badly need rock for our driveway, but the shit is so damn expensive.
It is not expensive. It is free.
The cost is the gasoline/diesel and labor to dig it up and transport it.
*waves hello to Creepy Joe*
Prolly over exaggerated.
And definitely because of
global warmingclimate change.Dubai Sees Population Surging 76% on Lure of Beaches, Greenery
And possibly no convid nonsense?
I wonder if the woman in the picture knows the danger she is in. :/
When I was there a couple years ago we were warned not to dress like that.
Was it Dubai or Qatar that legalized enslaving western women for sex a few years ago?
Did either ever outlaw it?
Fury as French magazine Charlie Hebdo uses George Floyd’s death to mock the Queen and Meghan Markle’s racism concerns
Based AF. That made me laugh.
And I, for one, am shocked that the French would mock the British.
It’s an eternal sport between the two of them. Without a French/British rivalry, the world would be unbalanced.
I think I just found my new profile pic. My current one is too esoteric to trigger the cretins.
U.S. will not resume assistance to Ethiopia for most security programs
So you’re saying that Biden and his administration are racist.
*golf clap*
Today, Sat. March 13, is the last full 24-hours that I’ll spend in the US for quite a while.
I again return to Korea. This is Take 5 there. Throw in Singaporean and Thai life-changes as well. But I’m 95% done packing up my life. It’s by design small, but it’s still fun and shocking to look at. I’m landing to what I know best. Time to take it on with gusto and accord.
Ev Version 2..0 is here and it’s starting oh-so soon. Hard to think about all of the details and packing your whole life up and worrying about forgetting anything..especially when one is noted to have pretty severe memory issues. But I’m actually much more calm than one would expect. It’s time to go on, and I’m actually going to land in the cushiest way possible. But. I’ve been defeated before by the ides of reality, and know that it could happen again. But I’ve got everything in my hand and ready to go. It’s all on me to actually do it and succeed. I’m quietly quite confident. But I must take that step.
Here we go, fellas. You guys are the best. This is hands-down my favorite place. All of you, your quirks and expertise are quite fun to try and absorb. I hope that my experience can be an equal spark onto others, for whatever reason.
Onwards. Upwards. Always.
Bon Voyage, Evan!
???
Good on ya, mate.
“Today, Sat. March 13, is the last full 24-hours that I’ll spend in the US for quite a while.”
Lucky you.
Have fun!
Travel well young man.
Go you!
Good on you, Evan!
So, are you leaving Sunday, March 14th, or the following day? Both fit your ambiguous description.
“Gone are the days we stopped to decide where we should go, we just ride.”
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
There’s internet connections in Korea. Just thought I’d randomly mention that.
Happy travels and have fun young fella!
Good fortune and tailwinds to you!
Safe travels and grand adventures, Evan!
Let us know how your quarantine will be going.
How about your lady friend? Is she part of the package upon arriving? Inquiring minds and all…
Good luck on your new adventure, Young Man
Good luck good sir!
Wishing if you all the best on your latest adventure.
You’ve been through some crap that weaker folks wouldn’t be able to take. You’re ready for what this life throws at you next.
Happy trails!
Best of luck to you Evan. So glad that you’re healthy enough to travel again.
*salutes*
Hope you are doing well, good fella.
Brooksie! @Evan.
Alabama GOP to give Trump framed resolution calling him one of the ‘greatest’ presidents in history
Make Reasonable Competence Great Again!
He’s most definitely the best in my lifetime. Not a lofty goal to be sure.
In mine too, for several reasons including simply being entertaining. But my lifetime only goes back to Bush the Older’s admin.
Been around since Johnson. Although I don’t really remember it.
But anyway, Trump has been by far the best.
That’s pretty much the capstone to one’s career: when Alabama steps up with its ringing endorsement.
To be fair, Mississippi wanted to be the first to give such an award, but nobody knew how to spell “president” on the plaque.
Lol again.
Lol.
Spud: Are you too from the land where the grass is blue?
Caintucky? The dark and bloody land?
Yes.
I only ask because the link for the storm is from a local news station.
I used to live there. The home of the 2 best Congress critters we currently have, that Rand guy and Massie.
My only problem with the Smurf turf is that Boise wears matching blue uniforms for some home games. It makes it tough for shitty eyes to follow the game.
“Congress Is Leaning Towards a Big Tech Breakup”
Hahhahhahhahaaa!!!
Sure. Chiney Jo and his CCP handlers are dependent upon big tech to tow their commie lion.
So the XX is stuck in Denver after an ill advised trip. Was supposed to be home this afternoon…. Boyfriend’s mom paid for a hotel.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler has died
An inspiration for bald headed beardos everywhere.
Hagler, Leonard, Duran, and Hearns, some of the truly great days of the sport of boxing.
Yep, I stopped following it in the aughts, so it’s possible there have been better fights since but the late 70’s-80’s had just one great bout after another.
Well, sure, there’s been plenty of great fights since, but it’s hard to equal that era for the middle weight division.
And the heavyweights had Ali, Frazier, Foreman, and Norton around the same time. It was the heyday of the sport.
Do you remember how HUGE a cultural moment it was for the entire country whenever Ali fought?
My favorite middleweight of that era and one of my favorite boxers. Dude was a train.
Maybe the best left-handed boxer – in any weight class – ever? (I can’t come up with anyone).
62-3-2 I believe. 52 by KO. Damn, but he knocked a lot of people out.
And of the three guys he lost to he went on to beat 2 of them in rematches.
And he was robbed in one of those three
“Why Britain needs a written constitution”
The author doesn’t seem to give any concrete, specific reasons why this is so. But she does manage to mention that she just published a book about modern constitutions of the world.
In a way, I sympathize. She wants to promote her new book, and an article with a current-events angle will alert readers that the book exists. And she shows familiarity with UK constitutional history.
Yet as for identifying specific issues and describing how they would be dealt with better under a written constitution than…whatever you call what they have now…the article isn’t so good from that point of view.
https://www.ft.com/content/bf81ea49-96b0-4329-bbaf-f58fdf6e0630
Wait – the article didn’t have a paywall the first time I checked!
Constitution? Those things were written by slave owning WYPIPO like 100 years ago. Why would they want that? Look how bad that made the USA. We had to build a wall to keep people in.
A written Constitution (as we have seen from the U.S., France and [as of 1982] Canada) doesn’t have any additional value, as far as I can tell. Wanna violate the Constitution? Go ahead!
What’s that you say? Yours is special because it’s written down? Aw, you’re so cute!
Yeah, it needs to be backed up by a culture that’s willing to enforce it.
China has a “written constitution”, FFS.
this
Fuck Bagehot.
“Why Britain needs a written constitution”
So corrupted and paid for senators can appoint corrupted and paid for “justices” to interpret said constitution exactly how their masters want?
Unity. Healing.
Brooks stated that he thinks there is a possibility of bipartisan compromise, but “The question to me is, Democrats, do they really want to? They hold the power here. Do they really want to? Or do they regard the current Republican Party as so illegitimate, it’s not worth compromising? And I think that sentiment is really the guiding force within the Democratic Party right now.”
Republicans should have to wear some sort of identifier, such as a yellow patch.
Feeling is mutual. I don’t want any unity with these commie fucksticks. They’re the enemy. And NOT MY PRESIDENT VIVA LE RESISTANCE!
I think it should be pink hats that resemble lady bits.
The GOP are a bunch of fucking pussies. The Biden admin should be harassed within an inch of their lives for the next 4 years, 24 fucking hours a day, 7 days a week, with no break and no mercy.
The clitoralcasquette?
Wut? At fine haberdasheriettes everywhere?
The mayor will be disappointed if he learns that the statue doesn’t have a cop in it:
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Wisconsin-mayor-wants-giant-Robocop-statue-in-his-16022299.php
That’d be so cool. Where do I donate to make this happen?
Put it in the town square, opposite a statue of ED-209.
Today is the national military k9 veterans day. Who knew? In other news jetblue has OAN back.
I see Tucker roasted the new woke military. Credit where credit is due.
Additionally, women can serve in military rolls but should never be in combat*. There. I said it.
*By that I mean front lines, in the shit, etc.
Agreed.
I don’t have a problem with it unless they lower the standards which they did which which I do have a problem with so I guess I actually do have a problem with it. That being said, what he specifically had an issue with was pregnant women in combat roles which I unequivocally agree with and the military brass are acting like a bunch of pearl clutching Twitteratti little bitches.
About to hit the sack so posting the daily…
My grandfather and father in 1940: https://postimg.cc/VrmfCbJQ
My grandfather, my brother and myself way back when: https://postimg.cc/ZB6qS2TF
And finally, once upon a time I described how many pines here had been given a very specific bend by an ice storm back in the ’40s. Here is a photo of my father taken during that ice storm: https://postimg.cc/tn0VdFgD
Good night all and safe travels Evan.
Hiya, Spud!
The kids tell me that the freak out in CO is unwarranted.
That may change.
https://twitter.com/nori_reed/status/1370582209921482754
interspecies erotica?
STEVE SMITH SOMETHING OF EXPERT ON INTERSPECIES SEXY TIMES.
You’ve never seen Equus?
uh, what?
How did she not get stung to hell and back? Those are some chill bees.
Bees like people. They like to light on you then smell and taste your skin. They also have a tendency to crawl up. If they crawl under your clothing you will move and the fabric will press on them causing them to panic. That is when they sting – when they think they are being aggressed. Bee suits are not sting proof, they are just built so that bees cant get inside your clothing.
If you are calm and non-fearful (bees can smell adrenaline. If they think you are afraid they figure you are up to no good) you can handle them without being stung.
There is a zen to handling bees. It can be one of the most calming kinds of work you can do.
Gross. #Idon’tdobugs
I don’t “do” bugs, either.
Bees like people
YMMV. I’ve worked with hives that were very docile. I’ve worked with hives that wouldn’t let me get within 50 feet of them.
Supposedly darker hair makes the bees less docile (reminds them of bears) , and I believe it. I’ve gotten stung 100 yards from an agitated hive that my fair haired grandpa could walk right up to.
Gilmored it.
I must have picked a picture of a light brown bear for my avatar for a reason.
Do grizzlies go for bee hives? I was under the impression that was a black bear thing.
What kind of bear is Winnie-the-Pooh?
Honey bear. Duh.
European brown bears are more or less the same as grizzlies. They are known to love honey.
Lady knows her bees. Well done and lucky to find the queen to make the move go smoothly.
Wood. (Not the bees)
Hello internetz!
Hello, Cy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9uz9ig_Ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a7VEFsIMSM
George Dickel Rye – yeah or nay? I like Bulleit FWIW.
Dickel is very good and is made by the same people as Bulleit from what I understand, just filtered like Tennessee whiskey. For the money it can’t be beat IMHO.
Thanks. I’ll give it a try.
Well, both Dickel and Bulleit are MGP mass-produced rye, so if you like one, you’ll likely enjoy the other.
I’m about to find out. Thanks.
I didn’t like Dickel as much.
Dickel’s pretty good. I like Tin Cup for a good value.
What do you recommend when I’m willing to drop some real coin?
Depending on your definition of real coin… Knob Creek Cask Strength or Thomas H. Handy rye whiskeys.
In the 40-50 range Basil Hayden’s is really nice stuff to sip straight.
Lock, Stock & Barrel Rye is the best I’ve ever had. It’s also stupid-expensive. But it’s so, so good.
I’d tell you if I ever had real coin to drop on liquor ?. I splurged on Whistle Pig once, and it was very good, but not so much better than a Tin Cup or even and Old Overholt to justify a price more than twice as high.
Thanks all of you. I’ll file that away for the future.
“Scientists unlock the ‘Cosmos’ on the Antikythera Mechanism, the world’s first computer”
https://www.livescience.com/antikythera-mechanism-worlds-first-computer-modeled.html
I’m not saying it was aliens.
I’m faking this, good job and a home, but I just want out, there’s no reason to stick around, Wendy is gone, I need to quit kidding myself and follow her,
I’m worthless and broken,
adios, for now
Nah, stick around brother!
Hasta luego.
It will pass. Zoom might take your mind off it for the time being.
What’s this? Don’t talk like that! Find someone you know and can confide in. Then let us know if things worked out.
Battered and beaten down though you may be, you are never worthless.
I, a stranger, will probably not hit the right note in trying to console you, but at least you will be able to laugh at the very clumsiness of my efforts, and realize that if some random person is inspired (however bumblingly) to try and cheer you up, maybe you’re worth something.
So here goes, if you’re still reading.
I doubt we’re here by accident. Even if we don’t know the exact reason we’re here, we can safely bet it wasn’t for the purpose of despairing. And I can certainly talk about lost loved ones – we can draw on our memories of them for inspirational purposes, and isn’t that what they themselves would wish we’d do with their memories? Use those memories to inspire good deeds? They wouldn’t want their memories to be the occasion for our tormenting or hurting ourselves.
I only speak so boldly because you put out this question to the whole universe, so I’ll be one of those who attempts an answer.
Author!
I’m in Total Wine and witnessed a crime against humanity. Bud Light Chelada Clamato. I’m going to need therapy.
only now? that shit has grossed me out for months now,
Which part are you objecting to? Cuz chelada and clamato are delicious.
Micheladas are delicious, but premade Bud Light micheladas are fucking disgusting. They taste like bile.
No comment on clamato.
Bud Light is fine if you want cheap, light beer. Clamato is disgusting. Mix them together and you’re a monster.
Love Clamato. If it weren’t filled with sugar I’d drink it all the time.
But my cheladas are almost always with Modelo.
Because…because why not?
“Meghan Markle will use the furore over her interview with Oprah to launch a political career which could take her all the way to the White House, if rumours circulating around Westminster last week turn out to be accurate.
“One senior Labour figure – a veteran of Tony Blair’s Downing Street administration with strong links to Washington – claimed to The [Daily] Mail on Sunday that Ms Markle, 39, was networking among senior Democrats with a view to building a campaign and fundraising teams for a tilt at the US Presidency….
“A source said: ‘The Blairite, internationalist and Democratic party networks are buzzing with talk about Meghan’s political ambitions and potential backers.’…
“The source added that the presumption was that the Duchess was eyeing 2024, when President Joe Biden will be 82 and deciding whether he wants to run for a second term.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9359141/Is-Meghan-Markle-preparing-bid-Americas-woman-President.html
There’s no way in hell Biden will be deciding any such thing, even if he is still alive.
I’m not sure Biden is capable of deciding on his own what to have for dinner.
Um, isn’t she Canadian?
Californian. So Californian that her Dad worked on Married….With Children and sometimes brought Meghan along to watch the show being made.
Huh. I stand corrected.
The story is still idiotic. She knows nothing, has no charisma, and is unsympathetic.
Pshaw, she just needs a media makeover.
knows nothing = breath of fresh air, enthusiastic can-do spirit
lack of charisma = more charisma than Biden
unsympathetic = a black American girl who followed her dreams.
If any undesirable traits remain after that makeover, just don’t cover them.
Wow, I almost had myself believing my own BS, which I suppose shows that it works on dumb people.
Where do I cast my votes?
Scary effective, worked on Biden/Trump.
I can’t imagine her oppressed minority shtick plays well with unmistakably black people… most of whom did not, to my knowledge, marry into royalty and immediately begin trashing her in-laws.
I suspect most people who aren’t deluded white savior complex progressives find her pretty despicable, narcissistic and manipulative and so oppressed for her heritage that she constantly has to remind people she’s 1/16th Cherokee or whatever.
She’d get Kamala-numbers in any election.
As a reminder, our future president couldn’t win a single primary.
If I remember correctly, she didn’t even complete one primary.
(Deep)fake but true.
Knew that would happen.
I was hoping this was Meghan Markel porn. I wouldn’t stick it in her crazy, but would totally watch.
OFFS.
Silicone Saturday rides to the rescue!
https://archive.li/nK27i
Nice to see you Q.
Bonus!
https://archive.li/kLxSQ
18 is my kind of gal.
#1 is very pretty, without looking like a thotiana.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwX2-tOVkAEJ5Wm.jpg
???
The definition is right there on the t-shirt.
It is like a CCP parade in there.
The Meat Tornado Burrito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsNg-KrFxCA
There was a burrito place called “Poblano’s” in Wichita that was run by a beautiful Latina lady. She would cuss at her brothers in espanole (but she made it sound beautiful, elegant even). They sold 2 lb. burritos. My favorite was the Barbacoa with hot green salsa.
I probably averaged going there once a week. There is not much I miss about Wichita, but those burritos are one.
One lunch hour I was there with some coworkers and a picture of my adopted daughter’s father showed up on the TV. Wanted for distribution of cocaine. He’s probably out of prison by now.
That’s better than what I named mine.
I think I saw this video before.
*snickers*
LOL I forgot I was on call for work, and somebody called. *hic*
Did they notice your lack of sobriety?
Best of luck, unless you’re a surgeon, in which case maybe you could beg off.
Nah, just computer shit.
Communist scum rioting in LA again.
Great! Which would be better for parasite prevention?: M240B or M2A1HB? More bullets or fewer bullets that are more likely to ruin someone’s day?
What a bunch of useless assholes.
You can never go wrong with the Browning. Hide behind a wall? No problem. The .50 will find its way to you with no issues.
It’s an insurrection.
Quiet, you.
Domestic Terrorists, oh, wait, that is actually accurate. Nevermind.
Judi bought me a 4lb broom. There will be much pain happening. I’m not sure how much drier you can make beef jerky but here we are.
At least she didn’t buy you one of these.
Why?
The heavier the broom or mop the better the pushin’.
I’m going to modify my brooms with lead slugs.
Sonofabitch. Maybe I should skim the daily news slightly more often than I do.
I see that Marvelous Marvin Hagler died yesterday at 66.
One article says it was from complications of the COVID vaccine. No idea if that’s true.
RIP, Marvin.
Yeah, I had no idea the clocks were changing until I rolled out of bed for my mid-night wake period and looked at the clock on my computer. ?
Our tickity-tocks don’t change until the 28th. Two weeks of the links being an hour early for me, and maybe Pie. I don’t know what the government decrees that the time should be in Hungmania or whatever.
Good morning, Glibertnam!
Good morning Limey.
I heard some interesting stuff about Scotland lately. You properly policing your own thoughts over there?
‘sup fam ?
The benefit of working overnights is that daylight savings time means pretty much nuthin’ to me
HOU @ STL and coffee
Zoom was awesome! Ended only about an hour ago. Weighty things were discussed and world problems were solved, while I made snarky comments/Simpsons references and ogled a pretty lady.
Don’t ruin a good thing. >.>