There is not much to report this week. I’ve also been busy with work and St. Patrick’s Day festivities. I did not attend any committee hearings or watch any recordings of committee hearings.
SB 155
SB 155, which codifies some of the Governor’s emergency orders into law, passed the Senate on a vote of 23-1. My guess on its next step is that since it has a “FN” tag, it will go into the Senate Finance Committee for inclusion in the Senate’s proposed budget.
SB 138
SB 138 is a bill introducing price controls during emergencies.
Granite Grok ran a piece on the bill, and says the bill lost a Senate sponsor. The bill status page on the state Legislature’s web page still shows, as I write this, that Sen. Bob Guida is a sponsor. We’ll see if it changes.
News for the Week
NH Journal ran an editorial in favor of HCR 2, the resolution to end the state of emergency.
Daniel Horowitz mentions Gov. Sununu in this piece critical of legislatures around the country letting governors do whatever those governors want.
Some people confront a Republican who voted against HB 63, the bill rolling back emergency orders enforcement actions.
I saw talk of an anti-mask protest involving burning masks. It was supposed to take place in Concord, NH on the evening of the 17th. I have seen no news reports about it. It was St. Patrick’s Day. Instead of attending, I was out enjoying St. Patrick’s Day festivities.
The Week of March 22nd through 26th
I expect this week will be another week with not much news to report. Some legislators I know say the House will have a multi-day voting session early in April, which will include a vote on HCR 2. Depending on what happens next week, I might take a break from writing these.
cool
constitutional carry continues to move through the TN legislature
That’s a good thing.
Despite my hatred of Sununu, I have to give him credit for some things. He signed the Constitutional Carry bill for NH during his first term (2016-2018).
Someone took a picture of a sign on the door of the bar I went to for the beginning of my St. Patrick’s Day fun. Note the fine print that you’ll need to zoom in to read.
Heh.
Sigh. ?
We never learn, do we?
Does it apply to ammo?
Here’s the section defining “necessities”:
(c) “Necessities” means food for human or animal consumption, potable water, pharmaceutical products including prescription medications, wearing apparel, shoes, building materials, gas and electricity for light, heat, and power, ice, fuel of all kinds, and fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, together with tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and equipment required for the actual production or manufacture of the same. “Necessities” shall include any other vital or necessary good or service except those:
(1) Subject to continuous maximum price regulation under the provisions of any state or federal law;
(2) As to which the state’s authority is preempted; or
(3) Furnished or provided by:
A. Insurers; or
B. Nonprofit hospitals, medical service organizations, or health maintenance organizations authorized to transact business within the state.
Ammunition is not specifically mentioned, but… ammunition is necessary to have a functioning gun. Somehow I think the government wouldn’t agree with my interpretation, and besides, price controls lead to shortages.
Well, “necessities” should be free anyway. Like, OMG.
I define gin and limes as necessities.
Nope. We’ll see what happens with this bill. I don’t like that it has bipartisan support.
They do t need to learn because they already know.
The point is t to make things more affordable for poor people. It’s to create shortage and manufacture panic.
Nope.
Wife and I just watched a video on the overheated real estate market, and the guy perfectly described all the things that are causing it. And then at the end, to fix it he suggests… price controls. Argh!!!!
It’s worked wonders in NYC.
KY just passed a voting law this week. I don’t know what’s in it exactly, but being praised by Rand Paul is reassuring.
I’d still want to read the law. If Paul likes it, it might not be that bad, but…. we are dealing with politicians here.
Here’s a not hysterical take on it.
Details therein.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-03-16/kentucky-lawmakers-advance-bipartisan-election-reform-bill
What I do know is that it makes a 3-day, no excuses window to vote leading up to Election Day.
The entire vote is on paper. We told the machines to eat a dick.
Absentee voting still has several restrictions. Same as before.
Counties may open election centers where any resident of the county may vote regardless of precinct.
Other various bits.
I just don’t get the supposed need for “early voting”. If you can’t take a half-hour out of your day on a Tuesday, you don’t really give a shit, now do you?
I am suspicious of any attempt to make it “easier”.
We’ve had many election days where precincts have been packed to the hilt until we’ll after closing time.
I don’t see any issues with 3 days, so long as the voting is in person, which it is. It allows for no excuses.
I’ve never waited more than ten minutes in line. *shrugs*
Fine. I will allow for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. In person.
Absolute hard-stop on Tuesday. Absentee ballots must be postmarked, oh… one week early. All counting must be done by 9pm Tuesday.
Fuck. No.
Overloaded precincts means they’re too large, too few machines (even if it’s just the punch type), or slow workers. All of which should exactly one election cycle and be fixed the next time. Use a lamppost if they can’t fix that shit.
My state got rid of Sunday early voting after some blatant electioneering by the black churches (dubbed “Souls to the Polls”).
Give a rousing sermon about how you have to vote for Democrats, send the entire congregation to the early polling place, have a big picnic afterward. Also, fried chicken.
They fucked this state up so much in ’18! They got the shiny new machines and cut the polling places down to a quarter of the old number, but let everyone vote at any place, regardless of precinct. The line was about an hour at my closest place. They did this to ensure that people would only use drop box ballots. Any guesses why they want that?
“Also, fried chicken.”
Phrasing?
Inside joke for refugees from TOS.
^^^^^
The entire vote is on paper. We told the machines to eat a dick.
Bet the tallies still end up in spreadsheets.
Some people confront a Republican
*reads
So the kid thinks all businesses should have to play by the same rules even when said rules are unconstitutional. Fuck off.
Yep, he can fuck off.
I looked for you on the livestream of the rodeo.
Did not see you.
Most of it sounds like totalitarianism to me. Fucking price controls?
It’s a slow week. The previous two installments had better legislation to cover.
Jim Boeheim shouldn’t be coaching Syracuse. He should’ve been fired in 2012. #changemymind
I don’t doubt it, Yuf, I just meant for making a record of your ideas unless you forget them before you are reunited with your cables. Happy noodling.
Spotify makes my neck hurt, to much good Metal,
Die Motherfucker Die!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E39Q1n31yNSwu
Du Hast ?
A little Rob Zombie, too. Not really my cup of tea, but I’d give it a listen if I had to, say… spend the next 3 hours 14 minutes hosing down a fish processing plant.
I’m going to attempt to find some musicians out here, company fliers, anything, this is a really small area, Nowherlandia,
“…spend the next 3 hours 14 minutes hosing down a fish processing plant.”
Is…is…is THAT a euphemism?
“The hours will seem like minutes…”
But it wasn’t really wasted time!
Sorry, that was, ” the hours GO BY like minutes.”
“…take a ‘lil something to make them go away!’
Nah. I mean I’ve worked alongside dudes at some crummy jobs who would play this stuff. 8 hours working a restaurant kitchen, 16 hours of film production . You wanna play this stuff? Sure whatever. At least it’s not Maroon 5 or whatever genre of fucking awful music that is.
Sound euphemismy to me.
This version will help with your neck
In 301 AD, the Roman Emperor Diocletian issued the “Edict on Maximum Prices” (Edictum de Pretiis Rerum Venalium)
Government asshats have been trying this same move for nearly 2000 years. I’m sure the outcome this time will be great, though.
Thence Sunday became the Sabbath, oops,
No face diapers 4 DEG on Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.li/iki6D
It’s a good gallery. The lack of face diapers is appreciated.
Watching the fury from the deep on BBCA. Not a fan of the animation style.
Haven’t followed that; is it a re-creation of another one of those lost tapes?
Seems so.
3rd Doctor.
Derp. 2nd.
…
Yeah, the animation is terrible. Why is everybody bouncing up and down?
It’s distracting. I’m more listening to it at this point.
I’d rather they just show one of the existing Troughton stories.
“Pledges at the Delta Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma were allegedly forced to take part in an activity called “blow or blow” — where they were told to choose between snorting a line of cocaine or performing oral sex on a man, according to the Indiana Daily Student.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-university-sorority-under-investigation-for-alleged-sex-drug-hazing
Who knew KKG were libertarians; add in some Mexicans and you’ve got a regular libertopia!
Ghey. NTTIATWWT.
Not even – it’s chicks.
“Greek life” is yet another of the many things in life I don’t get. I guess I’m not wired for that kind of nonsense.
“Greek life” is yet another of the many things in life I don’t get. I guess I’m not wired for that kind of nonsense.
#metoo
Nor me, but it sounds as if there are a few former pledges among the Glibs.
Can confim.
And crazily enough this discussion now comes around full circle since as some here already now the current Governor of NH was actually my Pledge Trainer in college. Never any fellatio or yayo involved though 😉
already *know
Yeah it’s one of those things that I not only have interest in participating in, I can’t even imagine why anyone would want to participate in it.
Huh. It probably reflects my opinion of Greek life that I assumed fraternity and not sorority.
I was a Gamma Delta Iota (God Damn Independent). I never did get the whole Greek life thing. But toga parties led to some fun times. How did the Roman formalish garment become a Greek thing was never explained.
I’ll be fair and note my younger brother was in a fraternity and they basically just spent time getting drunk and doing drugs. They had someone from the national chapter (? org? whatever) there during his initiation and they were all scolded for not taking it seriously enough.
He’s still pretty tight with some of his brothers, decades later, which is pretty cool.
My fraternity roommate for two years and I have stayed very close ever since, despite living 2,000 miles apart. We both got married later in life (he didn’t tie the knot until he was 57!) but we were best man in each other’s weddings.
Which leads to the always appropriate “Why not both?”
I was once engaged to a former chapter President of that sorority, and my sister was also a Kappa at a different school, but both were one state over from Indiana. I can tell you there’s no fucking way any of this ever happened. Think the Virginia girl who claimed to have been gang raped at a frat house, only to have it later proven as all lies. Someone is making shit up, and the gullible world and those that want no more Greek systems at colleges are only too eager to believe it. Frankly, it’s just about impossible.
This is more believable because it’s 1) a choice, and 2) hazing by the sorority itself. There is no “predator” angle here to take.
The usual suspects have never liked the Greek system. I can see some of them in the media jumping on stories like this whether the stories are true or not.
I can tell you there’s no fucking way any of this ever happened.
I don’t know… I’ve heard there are some pretty believable documentaries on this on something called PornHub. Video evidence and everything.
I love documentaries!
I was in a sorority and don’t believe this.
I do.
I was never in a frat.
The stories I heard when I was teaching at university, however, lead me to believe that this stuff is commonplace. From what I gathered, most Greek parties ended up as fuck and suck fests.
In a library bathroom was scrawled “YY sorority sucks dick like it’s their job.”
This was in the mid aughts.
There’s no doubt that during fraternity-sorority “exchange” parties at the fraternity houses, there’d be a lot of pairing off, but always with couples ducking into rooms, not that different than high school parties when you get down to it. But never anything formalized, nor orgies. A lot of people in houses take rules very seriously and would happily tattle on offenders, so every hookup was in private. Wild stories were pretty much just that, stories.
At my college one of the fraternities was rumored to make their pledges fuck sheep during initiation, and another was said to have pledges climb into a dirt pit, then the actives would all piss down onto them. None of those things really ever happened, but they made for great tall tales.
Ooooops, everyone, looks like we just ran out of cocaine, so…
That’s closer to what could possibly be truth. One thing that they do like to do in sorority initiations is get the girls nervous and/or embarrassed. So maybe said sorority even does have the “blow” game as part of the initiation, but getting pledges scared and having to pick is the extent of it. Perhaps those that pick coke get told they are all out, and instead have to stick a carrot up their nostril instead. Or those that pick fellatio get told that the boys are running late, so they have to lick the crotch of an undressed Ken doll instead.
I read they tricked pledges into thinking they’d be doing drugs or BJs, then it turned out to be a big joke – in other words, a hazing stunt. No actual cocaine or BJs, just humiliating pledges into thinking there were.
Such at least is the allegation which is being investigated.
It still might be made up – but it’s more plausible than if they actually carried through with it.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/complete-chaos-breaks-bristol-uk-war-police-vehicles-torched-station-ransacked-k9s-hit-mortar/
Meanwhile, in the UK…
Gee.
Continuously going in and out of full lockdown and having every citizen be a prisoner in their own homes foments anger?
Who knew?
Currently the UK right now is essentially in the same mode of lockdown everyone was in a year ago. It’s fucking madness. However bad we might have it here in some places is nothing compared to Europe.
I did alot of drugs in Bloomington, IN for a couple of years. Nice town. Good drugs. Never blew a dude, though.
Well, that you remember.
Dude, if you thought that Bloomington was a nice town, those must have been some good drugs.
Go Boilers!
Not in Bloomington anyway.
“Ex-Clinton adviser Naomi Wolf warns US becoming ‘totalitarian state before our eyes’ under Biden
“Author tells ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ Americans must wake up before it is ‘too dangerous to fight back'”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/naomi-wolf-tucker-clinton-adviser-biden-lockdowns
Some people have their eyes open. Evil the traditionally evil ones.
The other truth is that 1996 era Clinton would never cut it in the modern Democratic Party. He’s not radical enough (though I’m sure he could have found a way).
Oh hell, I’ve been confusing her with Naomi Klein all this time.
Appropriate: https://mobile.twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/1364263148761489410
LOL
Didn’t we determine many years ago at TOS that all Naomi’s were deranged?
I’ve known two IRL and this totally checks out!
This song hits me hard, We’ve lost, Dancing ,and all the things we took for granted, We lost Dancing…
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E37nigSu2HewZ
What comes next, will be, Marvelous,
Also lost dancing
I’m trying to get a band together, It;s going to ne hard here, or just DIY if needed,
Plenty of dancing here!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L9l8zCOwEII
?
Legit pop song or over produced junk?
I don’t subscribe to the concept of “over-produced” – I listen to a ton of music that requires it.
That said… this isn’t horrible. But it’s not my cup of tea, either.
There is definitely overproduced.
I found it a little tedious.
Over-produced is when a band that sounds ‘too clean’ to me.
OK, I’m insane, I should go to bed, instead I’m going to bake a cake,
What kind?
Ghey wedding? Hey! They made me make this joke!
Only if it’s of your own free will.
Yusef, the Wasted Baker, don’t pass out,
What kind, you nutjob? ?
Spice cake with Cream cheese frosting, yum,
Damn! Spice cake with coffee-tinged frosting is my fave; as it was my fathers before me.
Horowitz mentioned that some state legislators have very limited sessions. Is NH one of these states? I thought it was mostly a Southern or Western thing.
Dunno, but they have something like 1 rep for every 5 citizens, I heard. AND, they get paid basically lunch money to do it.
Close… but not quite right. 🙂
There is roughly one representative per 3,000 residents. The ratio is fixed the state constitution. When creating state representative districts, the state is first broken up into counties, and then counties broken up by municipal lines. There is a criteria for determining whether or not a municipality can be broken up. For the house, districts can be represented by multiple people. The town I live in makes up one state house district represented by multiple people.
There are 24 senators. The number of senators is fixed in the state constitution. The state constitution also states that senate districts must be as equal in population as possible. Counties aren’t considered in drawing state senate districts but the folks drawing the district lines are supposed to follow the same rules about breaking up municipalities as are used for drawing house districts.
Both representatives and senators get paid $200/term ($100/year) plus expenses. Some get a little creative about what counts as an official legislative expense.
Yeah, I was exaggerating a ‘lil.
I wouldn’t mind them just getting paid lunch money.
Lunch around here cost about 15-20 a plate. 100.00 won’t last a whole week for lunch.
Lunch is a bit cheaper here, but, I should have done the math.
“supposed to follow the same rules about breaking up municipalities as are used for drawing house districts.”
We have the same argle/bargle in Penna. where the Karens are always upset about state rep districts breaking up a township or borough into two districts. Why? I would think it much better to have two spokesmen in the House for your municipality than just one. You’ll end up with a voice on more committees, too.
The Legislature is normally in session for a few months every year. I think this year it is scheduled to be in session for roughly six months. The current session ends in June. The Governor or the Legislature can call the Legislature into a special session.
Note that the deadline for introducing new business has passed. The Legislature can override the deadline with a 2/3rds vote.
Back in my grad school daze, one of the profs I saw frequently was from Kentucky.
He used to recite the old adage that “the Kentucky legislature meets for sixty days every two years. Folks say that the Commonwealth would be better off if it met for two days every sixty years.”
Where the hell did the weekend go?
I demand a recount.
I had a 600$ Weekend, but damn was it fun,
/I don’t like Mondays, I wanna shot the whole day down,
or Shoot the Whole, Day, Down
Love the Boomtown Rats. I was lucky enough to see them in a small theater in Chicago while they were touring to support that album. Bob Geldof really knew how to work the audience. Incredible rocking show.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GStr1ZHxlDI
Today’s my RDO, No work for me, every payday Monday! Next week is a holiday, so another three day weekend, whoo-hoo!
I mean tomorrow is my RDO.
My weekend was more hectic than my week, dominated as it was by #1 son’s 13th birthday extravaganza.
Sat 11:15 – escape room
12:30 – drive 30 minutes to a diner famous for gigantic, outlandish sundaes and shakes. Wait over 45 mins for a table
3:30 – take the kids (4 7th grade boys, 3 5th grade girls) to the park.
6 – come home, set up for a fire in the firepit and an outdoor movie
7:30 – kids roast hot dogs over the fire and make s’mores, watch Lego Batman
10:30 – after some video game time, send them to bed.
Sun 7 – start making pancakes, french toast, and sausages for breakfast
7:30 – break out the waffle iron because one whiner doesn’t want pancakes or french toast
12 – Kids are leaving. Cleanup begins
5 – go to family birthday dinner at my sister’s house.
8 – team call for product pitch in class tomorrow night
Only now, finally, am I done.
Hot dogs, smores and escape room. I guess you want the kids to work hard and play hard. 🙂
Burnt rye toast for that one.
With frickin’ caraway seeds!
Waffles > pancakes
And thick crust > thin crust pizza
Wrong.
God bless you.
https://archive.li/jyhLr/853fa1f6af47d3b39e1b3ecc3b5ce805fd3625a4.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/x9xU9/19492254e4e36b5fea94cd3eb4224e9e7af8d0a9.jpg
NSFW.
Yes! Redheads?
https://archive.li/stgwB/df9d276bddf8a16e6ead29a8b119e819499f5643.jpg
NSFW.
Well, Done, Yippee!
https://archive.li/Gs4xB/a2602c79a83d1c4b8948cf4b06a4e39a8031ce80.jpg
NSFW.
Yowza
https://archive.li/GuP0H/55f3901ee4b6d516366d565782c4a9cb6502f459.jpg
NSFW.
Damn! still want that in Red…..
Yum,
By Friday I made it to that FL grocery store that was in the news last month because many shoppers and employees were not wearing face masks. The owner is a Trump supporter. The store is upscale: something between Wegmans and Whole Foods. Plus, there are a few bars, some of them serving food, and regular live music. Among both the customers and staff only 5-10% wear masks, which is consistent with the mask wearing outdoors in that part of Florida.
Today we went there for an early dinner, which was nice. Nobody in the restaurant area upstairs had masks except for a young woman dressed in black with a “press” badge who took some pictures. Probably a spy. The place was fully packed. Must be the most normal experience so far.
I only get that experience in Breweries here, I guess the covid hates good beer,
This sounds good.
I tell all my non drinking friends to try the breweries, good food, and not a Bar scene at all, very nice dining experience,
Just got back from the little skatepark. My kid had some of his friends show up. They had masks and so did dad. He kind of freaked out when I went to shake his hand. He said NO! The mask!!!, so I said sorry and just waved at him from 6 feet away instead. He was marveling that I was skating. He said there was no way he’d do that, he was 58. I told him I was 55, but I’m nowhere near as daring as I used to be. It was weird to encounter an actual mask worshiper.
I quit when I turned 50, sad but true, as far as the Ken goes, fuck off Pussy!
I was a pool skater, and got very High, fell a few times when I got older, even with full pads I knew it was time to stop, before I hurt myself,
A total bummer..
Disc every Day, Disc Golf forever..
Yeah, it certainly hurts a lot worse to crash now. I get some vert, but nothing like my glory days when I was a teenager. I ain’t about to do an aerial now. Fuck no! I’ll ride about a foot into the vert though. When I’m in the mood.
I say disc because it’s a low impact, very good for older guys,
Fear the shredder.
I blew 10 feet out back in the day, Big Fucking air, now, no thanks, I Like my knees,
You can always get replacement knees.
Just got an email from HBO Max that they’re now streaming a new documentary “Inside the QAnon conspiracy”. They’re really going to keep playing this up as our nation’s biggest challenge, I guess. *eyeroll*
Next up, no doubt: “Inside Emmanuel Goldstein, our most fearsome enemy”.
BOTH q-anon supporters are obviously interested in overtaking the federal government. Same/same with the sovereign citizen movement. Nothing at all like Antifa or BLM.
They aired The Swamp anyway.
InfoWars, but I chuckled
https://api-assets.infowars.com/2021/03/2449779144427481227.jpg
Would you get in more trouble for walking around without a mask on or with your fly open? I did both today, but only one was accidental.
No contest. Unless your junk is falling out from the fly.
Men’s underwear basically doubles as shorts. I’m very anti-pant.
It was so nice in SW OH today that we were inspired to roll our rarely-used fire bowl out to the middle of our “pitcher’s mound” (a large but low mound in the middle of the back yard where, legend has it, once stood a Mighty Tree.) We didn’t have any hot dogs, but we DID have the fixings for an andouille-nie roast! 😀
So, you called for your bowl, but not your pipe or your fiddlers three?
(Never mind me, I’m just jealous)
Bowl, that reminds me..
But she likely is a merry old soul.
You couldn’t just stop at “merry”? 🙁
Having an old soul is supposed to be a good thing. Unrelated to your chronological age.
Good advice, don’t bake when drunk, what a disaster,
Cake Wreck?
Total,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/F4M4tG37miak8dQ29
It probably tastes good,
/Drunk Yusef,
Yep, it tastes just fine, what a mess…
It looks like you fucked it.
fucked it up, one minute too late
That photo made me laugh out loud. But it probably will taste just fine.
It is still tasty,
How do you slice it? Grab hunks off the edge and go from there?
Grab it by the pussy.
Nothing could be worse than this (repost, sorta): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2iWTJqo98
Remarkable, as in, worthy of remark.
Enjoy the Silence,
The former Mrs. Andrew Cuomo…
This probably doesn’t get seen enough, speaking of: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJpRGpc6iic
That opening was my ringtone for a long time.
That;s worse than my Cake wreck
Drop cake is good.
Legit LOL.
*Insert at least you tried meme*
I hadn’t been following this story, which sure looks interesting…whatever these things are, they’re probably more than Ed Wood dangling pie plates in front of a camera.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9387129/There-lot-sightings-public-Anticipation-mounts-ahead-UFO-report.html
So I’m watching this pirate docutainment, and I questioned a thesis that posited that piracy was an existential threat to slavery in particular, and British trade and the whole of the Empire in general. That England and the slave trade was somehow within close reach of full collapse in the early 18th century. And all due to a handful of pirate captains. I found that exaggerated, at the very least, and likely complete bullshit.
So I sought out to investigate, and rather than running in to something illuminating, I ran in to perhaps the most anti-Semitic piece of writing I’ve read in quite some time.
(A very small bit in a long screed of some ultra-racist shit) In an article about piracy and slavery….
And a whole lot of typical leftist trickery:
Because, you know, slaves were taken because of “racial prejudice”, not because they were being used as the coal in an economic engine. As if there’s somehow a difference when you’re taking, selling, and killing people.
https://goldenageofpiracy.org/culture/pirates-and-slavery.php
Holy Hannah—that is a potent drink of anti-Semitic writing you found there. Wow.
The teaching of history failed the writer of that piece. Another case of thinking that slavery is exclusive to the New World, that all its perpetrators were white, and lasted from about 1600 to 1865.
The racist writer adds the Jewish angle, which I haven’t seen before.
And yet, the idiot author has a right to free speech. I wonder if the site hosting service he uses likes to “cancel” hate speech, because if they do, they missed a spot.
I saw the traveling Whydah pirate ship exhibit. It was an excellent exhibit and showed many aspects of pirate life I didn’t know.
One thing that was notable was the success of African pirates. Some were runaway slaves, some joined the crews directly from Africa. There were interesting contemporary illustrations showing the diversity of the crews, including among captains.
Anyone wanting true pirate info could do worse than to search on Whydah.
I’ve always thought about the allure of the pirate’s life having purchase on a young sailor’s mind simply based on the evident truth that he wasn’t likely to live to see 50, maybe not even 40, so as long as you were selling your life you might as well sell it for as much as you could.
(cont) so. assuming most sailors fought primarily for their team/ship, if that ship had been lost and the sailor somehow survived he would be a prime candidate for the pirate’s life.
A lot of sailors had no loyalty to their ship. Especially those who had been press-ganged into service. Naval service was worse than pirate service, so a lot defected simply to reduce their misery.
I was just judging/assuming that they felt some allegence to those around them since this is the primary motivation for most combat troops to this day. BTDT so it seems to ring true.
However, if the largest swath of them had been pressed into service they would probably feel free to change allegiance at the first opportunity.
Crazy person writes badly; quelle surprise.
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/03/22/south-beach-party-just-moves-in-different-direction-despite-8-pm-imposed-curfew/
Zomg. People. Partying. The horror. ?
This thread was a little eye opening
https://twitter.com/MisterCommodity/status/1373506957252911106?s=19
That is insane.
Wow.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l41Oo_Tw
My favorite Romanian cover band.
?
Well…
The “state of emergency” has been lifted in Japan – yeay!!
So I ran out to one of my favorite Irish pubs – and found are only open till 9:00 PM. Bleah…
So it looks like I only have a seat until the morning links drop.
Cheers! ::raises coffee mug::
Morning.
Morning, UCS!
Did you get the latest update on the story?
I got the one you sent Saturday evening, but we’ve traded messages about that. When did you send this one?
Oh, there it is! It didn’t show up on my phone, but landed on my laptop!
I don’t know what your email setup is up to. I just sent messages.
Not your fault, of course. Messages show up on my phone unless I happen to have e-mail open on my laptop. Those on my phone will later show up on my laptop, but when they appear on the laptop, they’re downloaded from the server. (Terminology? I know just enough tech to be dangerous.)
Latest installment read, and a quick reply sent. Thanks!
Morning/evening to y’all too!
Meh..
It seems they’ve changed their soundtrack a bit. Still a lot of Irish music sung by people in the right accent. But the edginess is all gone. They used to play songs like Dropkick murphys and refrains like “bugger off” and the like. Now it all sounds like stuff selected for a Disney movie.
Ahh…
I had to make a little request to the waitress to get the music changed. This is better.
Hey Friends! Any news about our resident Beekeeper? In better climes I must admit that the trainee did a bang-up job on Saturday. Cut two hours off my shift last night. Whoo-hoo!
Hey Festus! Nice to hear that you have somebody you can depend on at the job. Maybe you’ll be able to take a day off every once in a while?
Have you checked the Forum for updates on 4×20? SP set up a dedicated thread.
Also glad your new co-worker is lightening your load!
There do not appear to be any new updates in the forum since the initial one.
Jeez, I completely forgot there was a forum now. I think I saved a link somewhere…
But not on my phone.
Thanks all! I worry for him. I don’t visit the forum but if someone could update his status that would be good. On the work front, I’m hoping to get back to five nights a week by May. I’ll miss the overtime but Judi’s car is paid off this summer.
It’s on the front page, just below the logo.
Meanwhile, in Australia…
LOL. Next year.
Cool. The cops have another year of beating up innocent people to look forward to.
It’s what they signed up for, after all.
OK. The authorities here just lifted the “State of Emergency” and the trains are back to being as crowded as usual for this time on a Monday evening. Cool.
Comme ci comme ca…