Yeah, I’m phoning it in. I requested a day off work during the one week at work where my boss is responsible for a quarterly presentation to the board and other seemingly important people. I got the inevitable text around 20:30 while I was at the gym that I needed to log in and take care of a few things. Said I’d be back home in an hour. I didn’t say why—I am not doing that again. About a year ago I sparred with a Russian guy the first time all the gyms closed. I don’t recommend sparring with a Russian guy. The lecture I got when she asked “how was your weekend?” isn’t something I wish to rehash as I happen to prefer being fully employed.
Oh, right—this is my review of Grand Canyon American Pilsner:
As mentioned earlier this week in the comments (H/T Chafed IIRC) Playboy is making history once again by tapping David Hasslehoff’s daughter for their first plus-size model for an issue in the German market. Yes, I’m sure she has a name but I am going to go with David Hasselhoff’s daughter. It is in this way, we can allow jokes about her eating hamburgers off the floor or how Germans feel about David Hasselhoff and still remain family friendly.
I don’t think this is really off the wall, and I might even go so far as to argue it was inevitable. Consider:
The idea that Americans are fat is so uncontroversial I am not even going to link it. Multiple studies then circulated during the early 00s pointing out cultural differences in the view of beauty vs. obesity.
Maryanne Davidson of the Yale University School of Nursing and Kathleen Knafl of Oregon Health and Sciences University reviewed 20 papers published over 10 years on descriptions of the concept of obesity by health professionals, Black Americans, Latino Americans and Caucasian Americans. Davidson and Knafl found women in general base their ideal weight on cultural criteria.
“Black American study participants defined obesity in positive terms, relating it to attractiveness, sexual desirability, body image, strength or goodness, self esteem and social acceptability,” said Davidson. “They didn’t view obesity as cause for concern when it came to their health.”
Affinity for thicker females might even be stem from even more basic desire as this study published in Nature sought to replicate. They noted previous studies identified a relationship between a “high adiposity” model being considered attractive to the rater being physically hungry. They concluded:
The reason for the difference was possibly because in previous studies, levels of hunger were confounded by alcohol consumption.
Ouch.
Hasselhoff’s daughter…for um…context
Whatever the reason, call it multiculturalism, body positivity, wokism, things began shifting in recent years. First it was Sports Illustrated having a plus size model (who wasn’t exactly fat). They then put Ashley Graham on the cover. Then Victoria’s Secret, who previously marketed their products with models that easily doubled as extras on Schindler’s List, got in on the game.
Honestly, I am pretty meh on the whole thing. No, not because I’m a chubby-chaser, because there is nothing forcing me to like this. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and if corpulence didn’t sell they wouldn’t market it. Playboy didn’t die with Hugh Heffner, after all. Like all other print media it died with the internet, where you can find naked pictures of adult women of any age, color, creed, or even prosthetic device.
Is this beer some hipster version of something that would otherwise be labeled as juice? I don’t know, probably. It is Czech? No, its made in a railroad town in Northern Arizona. But if you let it warm up to around 60 degrees you might be fooled anyways. It is good for what it is: Non-threatening yellow beer. Grand Canyon American Pilsner: 3.0/5
Ugh, she looks like a saloon whore in a western – one who’s customers are all really drunk.
Is she working on a Sex Farm?
Something something cushion…
Argh, This song is what I was thinking of
Thanks for the double ‘Tap.
Too bad Reiner is such a POS.
Here’s the song for this post, right here.
I prefersome zydeco.r
Is just my imagination, or is she really cross-eyed? Maybe she’s shit-faced drunk.
“Maybe she’s shit-faced drunk”
hawt
That is my complaint. She has some manly facial features.
Amazing what a shower, normal makeup, and airbrushing can do. That Robyn Lawley looks pretty good in the SI picture.
“Airbrushing,” that’s so quaint. Now they have a skin-smoothing filter in some of the photo editing apps. Photo retouching, whether with brush or airbrush, was an art. Motion picture photographers used to smear vaseline on the camera lens to smooth out the image for close-ups of aging movie stars.
Soft focus + vaseline+ softbox lighting= she’s glowing!
I still dial numbers when placing a call!
So do I. Do you also keep a check ledger in case your bank makes a mistake?
I’ve switched to software version, so sort of? I’ve caught many mistakes over the years in my reconciliation, but so far none have been the bank’s fault.
“Shot through linoleum,” as Joan Rivers used to say.
Way to steal my thunder (thighs)!
Just as long as it’s tight
“We’ve found that wearing two loosely fitted masks will not give you the filtration benefit that one, snug-fitting … mask will,” Sickbert-Bennett said in a statement.
“The best kind of double-masking is when you and the person you are interacting with are each correctly wearing a very snug-fitting mask,” she said.
Put a plastic shopping bag over your head, with duct tape around your neck, just to be sure
Either way, two fewer hungry mouths to feed.
The only sure fire way to cure COVID is death.
Commit suicide to flatten the curve.
Cure Covid and reduce CO₂? Sign
methem up!“That’s not funny, that’s Sickbert!”
/Ernie
First it was Sports Illustrated having a plus size model (who wasn’t exactly fat).
Her, plus size? WTF?
Is she 7’3” tall?
Well, she ain’t thin.
Prominent clavicle says otherwise.
You glibs ‘caring about’ me has sent me down a dark and depressing path. Neurology appointment yesterday, no conclusion. MRI scheduled for Thursday. Nerve conductivity test on my birthday. So now it’s a month of fear and trepidation, thanks, assholes.
Then our work here is done. ::brushes imaginary dust from hands::
Seriously, though, hope it all turns out to be nothing serious. Either way, it’s better to know.
But knowing is only HALF the battle.
Granted. I admit, I’ve been very lucky to enjoy good health so far. ::knocks wood. Bruises knuckles:: However, both of my parents AND my paternal grandmother had Alzheimer’s, and my dad and his sister had Parkinson’s to boot, so I may have that laugh riot to
dreadlook forward to.Best wishes, dude.
Stop it. I’m sure you’re every bit as conductive next Thursday as you are today. All you need to do to test this theory is place a fork into an electric outlet.
Eh, that’s nothing. Just wait until the spinal tap.
In all seriousness, I’m glad you decided to get checked out.
THICC
https://archive.li/wSLBh
Further: I find the fashion industry’s definition of “plus-sized” to be much more in line with the rest of the world’s definition of “normal”, “healthy” and “sexy”. I’ve always assumed that the fashion industry being run primarily by gay men as the reason why it seemed to prefer women with adolescent boys’ bodies.
No hips??? No thanks. I don’t care that much about what’s up top.
*shudders*
No, it’s because the fashion industry prefers models who look like clothes-hangers.
Gay man don’t have any more interest in women with adolescent boys’ bodies than in regular women.
I was scrolling thinking…THICC? but it never came…but that is okay.
I’ve always assumed that the fashion industry being run primarily by gay men as the reason why it seemed to prefer women with adolescent boys’ bodies.
I was once accused (by a woman) of wanting a twenty-something year old woman with the body of a fifteen year old boy, just because I find female athletes like tennis players and skiers incredibly sexy and beautiful.
Sue me.
an ass like a 10 year old boy, am I right?
The Hoff’s daughter should have followed her dad’s lead and just stayed at home eating hamburgers off the floor. She doesn’t look nearly as good in this airbrushed photo.
https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/david-hasselhoff-daughter-hayley-arrested-dui-cops-article-1.3167511
Yes, she reminds me of Meagan McCain before defending her dad on a daily basis began to eat away slowly at her soul and left her a lifeless mass of carbon based molecules. Mostly adhered together by Ben and Jerry’s with a nice, dry chardonnay.
She really does have a Megan McCain vibe going on. Hopefully Count P won’t be posting daily links to her posing for our enjoyment.
Miss Piggy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isMFxOLbiro
(Potentially NSFW)
“ain’t got a rump roast like the back of my hoggie”
That’s funny.
Maher is an assclown, but I’ll give him credit; he is pretty consistent most of the time and he’s not shy about calling out the Left’s stupidity.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/maher-praises-desantis-knocks-liberal-media-for-getting-covid-wrong
No doubt people like him will be first against the wall when the Wokeitarians take complete control.
But he repeated the lie that Trump told people to drink household cleaners so he’s still good.
Meh… I don’t mind if they take some liberties and propagate silly Trump tropes. Just be f%*#ing funny.
If there were any actual comedians out there besides Adam Carrolla and Norm McDonald Trump would be a comiedic gold mine with just the stuff he actually did.
DEMOCRACY!
Republican Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger has called on congressional GOP leaders to expel members of the “America First Caucus,” a newly formed group co-created by Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Kinzinger referred to the group as the “White Supremacy Caucus.” The group’s seven-page policy platform, released by Punchbowl News, calls for a “common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and a return to an architectural style that “befits the progeny or European architecture.” Anglo-Saxon is a term for white people related to Germanic inhabitants of 5th century England.
“I believe anyone that joins this caucus should have their committees stripped, and the Republican conference should expel them from conference participation,” Kinzinger wrote in a Friday evening tweet. “While we can’t prevent someone from calling themselves Republican, we can loudly say they don’t belong to us.”
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The group opposes all COVID-19 lockdown orders, international climate change agreements, foreign aid, granting of asylum to immigrant refugees and birthright citizenship. Its platform warns that “mass immigration” threatens “the long-term existential future of America as a unique country with a unique culture and a unique identity.”
The caucus also opposes any educational efforts that “undermine pride in America’s great history and is actively hostile to the civic and cultural assimilation necessary for a strong nation.”
Fuck the dumb hicks who voted for them. We cannot allow them to say horrific things like “Not everything about the Anglo-Saxon political heritage is bad.”
Such horrific. So trigger.
I do think irony is properly deployed here. The Angles and the Saxons did migrate to Britain, displacing the Romans who displaced the Britons…
Roman-Brittons (likely a mix of the Celts and Romans, who could’ve been from anywhere in the empire).
The chronology of peoples in Britain, as I understand it, is:
Neolithic european hunter gathers -> agricultural peoples originating Anatolia and/or the Eurasian Steppes (maybe the Caucuses as well) speaking a language that might be in the same family as the Basque language (I would love a clarification/correction from HM on this point) -> Indio-Eurasian language speakers (Celts more or less) –> the above mentioned Romano-Brittons –> Anglo-Saxson –> Danes/Norsemen who, after a bunch of looting and pillaging, were eventually absorbed into the Anglo-Saxon cultural milieu –> Normans (King William, 1066, etc.)
Opps, forgot “/pedant” tag.
I’m not really a big anti immigration or anti trade guy, but I will be amused with any of their antics that drive the left nuts.
Kinzinger is welcome to form his own America Last or Anti-American caucuses.
It’s great that these assholes are showing their true colors. The only problem is with the Marxist takeover of the media, government, and business, there’s no countervailing force to do anything about it. Keep pushing though and leave the masses with nothing to lose. It’ll work out well in the end.
You know how you get more groups like this?
Continue doing everything the Democrats did in 2020.
Anglo-Saxon is a term for white people related to Germanic inhabitants of 5th century England.
You know, Nazis.
“We’ve found that wearing two loosely fitted masks will not give you the filtration benefit that one, snug-fitting … mask will,” Sickbert-Bennett said in a statement.
“The best kind of double-masking is when you and the person you are interacting with are each correctly wearing a very snug-fitting mask,” she said.”
They tested the filtering of sodium chloride particles. No mention of the realtionship between th size of those particles and the size of the virus.
It’s amazing that it took all the way up until 2020 for science! to discover that a simple piece of cloth functions as a virus stopping mechanism. How this is possible for the COVID vírus , but not other respiratory viruses, of which extensive studies have been done for decades, should not be questioned. The high priests of science should not be questioned, nor should they reveal where they glean this information. They should be obeyed.
They tested the filtering of sodium chloride particles. No mention of the realtionship between th size of those particles and the size of the virus.
Why do you deny SCIENCE!, heretic?
When something is in the eye of the beholder, but the physical and phenomenal makeup of the beholders is largely similar…the saying kinda loses any bite.
Inchoate shrieking
The “liberty” promised by the Declaration of Independence is interfering with the “life” and the “pursuit of happiness” in ways the Founding Fathers could never have imagined.
Given the choice, with help from conservative courts and Second Amendment true believers, the country is choosing personal freedom over public safety, giving some of its people a feeling of liberty, but also causing many people to die in the process.
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In today’s US, where everything seems like a partisan, political fight, the subject might be Covid restrictions or gun control, but it’s generally the same Republican lawmakers and governors pushing liberty versus a science and public health crowd pushing statistics about lives lost.
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The spirit of those Second Amendment arguments is evident in a new interest in the First Amendment, which protects the rights of assembly and worship — rights that some Americans feel are being overrun by state orders and recommendations to practice social distancing during the pandemic.
Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, went after Dr. Anthony Fauci in a heated exchange on Capitol Hill Thursday, demanding to know when Americans can have their freedoms back from the pandemic.
“What metrics, what measures, what has to happen before Americans get more freedoms back?”
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases laid out reality.
“Right now, we have about 60,000 infections a day, which is a very large risk for resurge. We’re not talking about liberties. We’re talking about a pandemic that has killed 560,000 Americans,” said Fauci, who later said his “best estimate” would be to have the number of infections per day “well below” 10,000.
the reality is Republikkkins want you to die!
We already have substantial data that lockdowns and mask mandates have either no or very little effect though.
What’s his suggestion that actually works?
Life itself is a death sentence! Therefore we must suspend all freedoms, put you in a protective bubble and lock you up for the sake of public health! DON’T YOU CARE ABOUT SYUNS!??!
PS: If you take CNN’s coverage on the Kung Flu seriously after one of their execs said, on tape, that they purposely sensationalize and lie about it for political purposes you are an idiot.
“Fear sells, happy doesn’t sell, sad doesn’t sell”, or something to that effect IIRC.
Life: Sexually transmitted and 100% fatal
Except for our eventual eternal God- Emperor who will eventually lead us to to establish a stellar empire and purge the heretics and xenos and keep humanity pure.
but it’s generally the same Republican lawmakers and governors pushing liberty versus a science and public health crowd pushing
statistics about lives losttyrannyFixed it for them.
Yeah, the founders had an overreaching police state in mind when they talked about the pursuit of happiness. Also, it was pursuit that was talked about, not a guarantee of getting happiness. Or that government could decide what form that happiness would take for each individual.
Liberty is more important than safety.
*My* liberty is infinitely more important that *your* safety.
but also causing many people to die in the process.
I found it! I found the false premise! What do I win?
The federal government has, arguably, barely tried to exert authority on Covid.
Former President Donald Trump disagreed with federal mandates like a requirement to wear masks in public places and pressured states to lift restrictions.
Biden has chosen to let states make their own rules, avoiding a fight over his authority and instead making masks mandatory in federal buildings and on public transportation. While public health agencies have repeatedly warned not to let up, states — led by Democrats and Republicans — have moved to loosen mandates and restrictions. The people have their freedom, and with it has come the potential for a fourth Covid surge despite a remarkable vaccination effort.
What is it that compels some people to parade the colossal depth and breadth of their ignorance before the public?
Even that senile knucklehead Biden knows he has no legitimate claim to an authority to issue a nationwide mask mandate.
I saw a lively big sign outside a store that showed a hello happy face (presumably) under a blue mask right next to a normal unmasked happy face.
The sign said “unmasked or masked; all are welcome!”
What a ducking concept, eh?
These people have my vigorus support and if I lived near the greater Dayton area, I would patronize this business. I don’t care what they sold, even if they specialised Jewish headwear, I would be the best looking kippah adorned goyim the world has ever seen.
Right? My cask tips have been flowing abundantly at places that respect freedom.
Something for all you Zoomies.
https://youtu.be/JMxr8Nq-w_w
Kermit be Thicc.
Kermit has skills that the ladiezzz want.
Hey, Minnisoda Glibs. Have you scheduled your meetup with HM? Looks like he’s in town for the celebration.
https://mobile.twitter.com/gee2theaitch/status/1382653111941074948
Probably NSFW.
I will neither confirm nor deny.
Hi, HM! Nice to “see” around these parts!
Thank you!
Now that my husband has lost 80 lbs since December I am officially heavier than he is.
I need to lose weight but also to build up core strength for helping him up and down and in the car etc.
Contemplating whether to hire a pro or just do it myself.
Is hubby home?
Not yet! He is out of the hospital and now into a rehab intensive place to prep him for home. Maybe 1-2 weeks, depending.
Progress day to day is incredible, but once he is tired, his mind gets blurry. I need to know I’m safe before he comes home.
?
I vote pro, if he’s amenable. Don’t spread yourself too thin.
^^^This.
You’ll have enough on your plate just being his emotional support, and it’s going to drain you too. If the money isn’t an issue, hire someone.
BTW TOG, forgot to tell you before that I dig the new avatar.
Thanks; at Xmas I was given that in t-shirt form.
You can also split the difference and do a group fitness thing. I’ve seen folks get really into it because of the accountability to their peers rather than just to a trainer.
Did I misunderstand the question? Hire home aide or trainer? I iz confusèd.
I muddied the waters. I will hire in-home help for him.
I think I could benefit personally from a pro helping me get in shape mentally and physically. It’s difficult to seek mental health counseling if you have security clearance though. So I might not be able to.
But you have us! For free !
Life coach? And sure, trainer if you can afford all that staff, Lady Hayek. 😉
Non-threatening yellow beer.
That is what I cracked today for some meat cooking. Mich Ultra. Grilling athletically.
Must be nicer on that side of the mountains. Over here I’ve got 8 inches on the ground and it’s still coming down.
I got more than that and… oh! you mean snow? Never mind.
Damn! Ya way nicer than that. 54 now but it did snow on me on my way home from town this morning. Nothing stuck. Not the best grilling weather but I will take it.
I only have 1 thing to say. Just one:
Cellulite is all right!
Get her a bunch of tattoos. You’ll have shade in the summer, heat in the winter and moving pictures year ’round.
Ive fucked more fat women than Weight Watchers.
Just call Tres an Eskimo cause he’s got a whale hunting license!
Fucking brilliant. Kudos. 🙂
…”I am officially heavier than he is.”
Stop turning me on.
In other news, I think my trasition to being a redneck is complete. I have a Camaro up on cinder blocks in my backyard (cheaper than jack jackstands and given how busy I have been at work, much less prone to corrosion). I am pulling the transmission tomorrow for a rebuild (wish me luck, never done an auto trans rebuild before).
Needs more doorless fridge and above ground pool.
Needs more Grizzly Longcut (wintergreen) and multiple TallCans of Milwaukee’s Beast Light.
/looks in mirror
/confirms
I quite litteraly have a can of Grizzly wintergreen in my back-right pocket.
Does tall cans of Yeungling count?
Look who spent their stimulus check on snobby beer instead of a strip bar and meth.
I suppose weed vape cartridges puts me in the hipster category. (It makes it less apparent to the kids when the Missus and I are getting baked)
I am going to build a hillbilly trans jack out of some lumber and my regular jack if that helps my white trash status.
The cinder blocks vs. jack-stands buys you some cred. Can I have the car when it falls on you?
Year of said lawn ornament?
1992, last year of the 3rd generation.
Just jackstands, phone posting blows.
I’ve rebuilt a couple of Mopar 727 autos. I didn’t find anything particularly difficult. Just make sure the valve body is spotless and doesn’t have any rag lint in it.
I have been binge watching rebuild videos for my particular transmission on the you tubes. It helps that GM put the TH700-R4/4L60 in a ton of vehicles from the late 80s through the early 90s.
The 4L60E I have has this annoying habit of wanting to SLAM 1-2 and 2-3 after about 10 miles. To the point that the tires chirp and the traction control comes on. Like any other advice you find on the inter-tubes, it could be anything from a valve body, shift servo, or TCM.
I just shift it manually and its happy.
As I understand it 2-3 clutch failures are are common with that family of transmission.
2-3 is subtle compared to 1-2 that sounds like its trying to rip the ass end out
To the best of my knowledge, the unit has nearly 200K on it, so Ill drive till it grenades and replace the entire thing. Likely myself, with a reman from Jasper
Man, I paid good money for high stall converters and shift kits to get that same effect out of a bunch of TH350’s and 400’s. It’s not even worth it if you’re not breaking things from too much power.
We hit up the small local gun show that we’ve ignored for years.
Nothing special. We bought some targets. She also got a t shirt and I got an ammo can. Meh.
I was finally tempted to pick up a partially formed bit of plastic. He was sold out of the one I wanted.
I went to a gun show down in Big Lake this morning. Gratified to see that this Alaska gun show (granted, sample size of one) had less tactical crap and more hunting/plinking stuff, but a lot of that was badly worn, cheap stuff. One guy had a plain 20 gauge Model 12, made in the late Fifties/early Sixties, at the end of the run. It was a plain-jane field gun, no checkering, plain barrel, about 50% finish. I don’t have a 20 gauge Model 12 yet.
Guy wanted $400 for it. I offered $250 cash. He declined. I left. He might get that $400 from someone who wants an inexpensive shotgun for a kid, but it’s not worth that to me. Looked with some interest at an 1892 Winchester in .38-40, but couldn’t make up my mind how bad I wanted it, which generally means I don’t really want it that bad.
Spent a while chasing down a wild goose that proclaimed someone at the show had some 16-gauge Winchester AA hulls for sale, but it turned out to be a false hope.
Still and all, a good time.
You don’t want this?
https://archive.li/ziiTB/f9b063375fa3addc9bd89267b230d360a90d4dd7.webp
Why would I, when I could have something like this?
Day 1 of Police State Ontario. Encountered no stazi, but didn’t venture beyond the front yard.
Put out a sign that you think the government is bullshit..they will come.
mais en anglais et en français!
Lèse-majesté makes a comeback in Canuckistan.
My two month old just made a gesture that looked vaguely like a Nazi salute.
Who cares about the fact that she has no control over her limbs and is not fully sentient, she must be cancelled!
Has she pooped up and out of the neck of her onesie yet? If not, you must keep her.
Lol. ?
By brother always got the trifecta, the 3Ps from my boys when they were wee babes and he would hold them. Piss, puke, and poop.
Now now, spit up isn’t really puke. LOL.
I think I’ve mentioned, I have New Year’s video of my daughter spewing into my wife’s open mouth. Hehehe.
I guess we know who’s sleeping on the couch tonight.
The mega poop is a right of passage. One of mine pooped in their high chair to the point that it was oozing down the sides of the chair. It was horrific.
It’s funny because you and your spouse instantly turn into Hazmat specialists.
“What do I do with the high chair?!”
“Burn it in the back yard like it’s a fire ant mound!”
Me: “What do I do with onesie?!”
Her: “Throw it the fuck away…. And get that shit out of my kitchen sink! Ohh Gawd, there’s shit in her hoo-hoo!”
Me (quietly):”So that’s what hymens are really for.”
Once, when Tres Version 2.0 was around 5 or 6, I took him for a haircut. The barber got the sides really close, and when we got home, I noticed it would be ripe for a part on the side.
Fast forward a couple hours (and some beers) and I noticed a grease-pencil. 1 ersatz brush mustache and “hold your arm up like this” later….I sent the pic to the baby-mama and hilarity failed to ensue.
I call our dog an Austrian Shepherd this morning because she was getting unusually demanding (getting close to meal time).
Also…my kids LOVE Fawlty Towers and their favorite episode…..you guessed it. Don’t mention the war!
Imagine a half breed Norwegian/Mexican toddler goose stepping.
https://youtu.be/yfl6Lu3xQW0
You naughty moose!
I have a Camaro up on cinder blocks in my backyard (cheaper than jack jackstands and given how busy I have been at work, much less prone to corrosion). I am pulling the transmission tomorrow for a rebuild (wish me luck, never done an auto trans rebuild before).
NICE! Put a five speed in it.
I finished the scratch-built 2 inch Honda exhaust. I road tested it yesterday, and there is a noteworthy performance improvement (I deleted the plugged up catalytic convertor of unknown age). I needed to re-do the muffler clamp, so I pulled it inside and did that a little while ago. I couldn’t resist firing it up with the muffler off. It sounds SNAPPY with a straight pipe.
I’m just a juvenile delinquent at heart.
A manual is on the list, for sure. However, a rebuild kit is an order of magnitude cheaper than a new transmission and I just want to get it on the road right now.
Its like watching a generic sitcom and the viewers can anticipate the next lines from the actors
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/16/fauci-suggests-locked-down-states-are-doing-worse-than-texas-because-people-are-ignoring-lockdown-orders/
Latitudinal, sez I (that is, regional weather differences).
I just laugh when Fauci cannot fathom that his views on this all are crumbling around him and that maybe, just maybe, his path was incorrect or more damaging. So instead, its “they didn’t follow the rules”.
And it’s so desperately pathetic as well. It doesn’t even make sense; if Texas has no lockdown and is doing better, then wouldn’t people ignoring the lockdown order mean they would be doing well also? I fucking hate that loser.
That doesn’t even make sense within the rules of the alternative universe he inhabits. Unless he’s claiming that Texas and Florida followed The Rules more obediently than Michigan and New York until suddenly they didn’t have to.
The only rule in his universe is that he makes the rules.
Another contractor coming by to estimate the kitchen wall demolish, moving of the fridge, and a nice beautiful island so I can have proper prep space to cook. Last one came in at 15K…I am sure we could do most of it cheaper on our own but time vs money vs hassle has us looking for outside help.
@ES…to answer your question from the morning – think a Shield+ vs. a nickel classic Sig. Maybe a two tone P220.
I’d like a Kahr K9.
I have 2 polymer framed Kahrs. They make nice guns.
Today’s ray of hope.
I met my husband’s heart surgeon in person yesterday. Like all the Scripps doctors, he was awesome. Really spent time and cared to talk and to listen.
He ended with a proffered bare hand for me to shake. I was so stunned I hesitated half a tick snd he made his hand into a fist-bump and said “..or if you’re more comfortable…” I immediately thrust forward my naked hand and we had a real human handshake IN THE HOSPITAL! He then converted it into a hug.
It meant the world to me.
Awesome! That’s wonderful.
😀 Some doctors recognize what human touch can do in the healing/comforting process. Just don’t look it up on Pronhub.
BRB
Did someone call for a proctologist?
Glad you’ve found two doses of local sanity. Scripps LJ or Encinitas?
Fauci cries.
I would rather not touch than do a stupid fist or elbow bump. (And I haven’t.)
That is probably the best thing I have heard all day!
a rebuild kit is an order of magnitude cheaper than a new transmission and I just want to get it on the road right now.
Automatic transmissions are part of a very short list of things I decline to work on.
Well for me, the worst case is I hit a brick wall and take the trans to a shop and save cash on the labor of them pulling it.
You actually will need some special tools for this. There’s a bunch of clutch spring compressors and pulling tools involved. It might still be worth while. Oh, and you gotta worry about the converter and make sure to flush the lines and cooler. I haven’t done a slushbox in a long time, but it’s not as simple as installing a new kit. You might could bring the individual clutch packs to a tranny shop and have them swap the plates out on each, maybe.
Took my lower over to a coworkers place today. Wow. Great collection and smithing setup. I think he’d make some glibs jealous. We drilled out the trigger pins again and it’s working better, but still unreliable. I’m ordering a set of anti-walk pins and hopefully that’ll do it, otherwise this lower may just be done.
Time to fire up the charcoal to smoke some beef short ribs. Marinated in bourbon and
Old Hickory dipping sauce.
Nom.
Excellent.
Nice.
And it’s so desperately pathetic as well. It doesn’t even make sense; if Texas has no lockdown and is doing better, then wouldn’t people ignoring the lockdown order mean they would be doing well also? I fucking hate that loser.
He’s a senile quack. Just buy his snake oil and take a spoon full, morning, noon and night or you’ll die horribly.
Hollywood big-shots find that their elite private school is grooming their kids to be crazier than they are –
One parent: ‘I marched in the Black Lives Matter protests last summer but I have a problem with teachers telling my son that America is a bad country and that, because he is white, he is, by definition, a racist.’
Another parent: ‘My daughter – who doesn’t have a racist bone in her body and who was colour-blind until her school started making every conversation about race – came home and said black and Asian kids are being encouraged to gather in ‘safe’ groups during breaks and lunch….
”My daughter said, ‘Mummy*, if I’m a racist does that mean no one will want to come to my birthday party?’ She’s being educated in fear and that’s a very dangerous path to go down.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9482317/Elite-Hollywood-school-parents-say-white-children-taught-racists.html
*I guess this is how Brit papers spell “Mommy.”
PEITE
something something chickens coming home something roost something
Ya’ll should have gotten a black kid. They’re gonna tell my kid that he’s totally cool and your kids are the problem. HA!
Don’t you realize that you’re just using your son as a shield for your overwhelming guilt. It’s probably play act some slavery fantasy or something also. Couldn’t possibly be that you want to raise/love him and that skin color is incidental.
Narrator, now getting peeved: That is exactly what BLM promotes and you might have noticed it had you paid more attention beyond anodyne slogans, you pathetic moron.
This had to start hitting the elites before it would ever start getting pulled back. I sincerely hope that stuff like this is a sign of an approaching apotheosis of wokeitude.
BLM promotes whatever damages American culture, in hopes of bring about a communist revolution. They literally hate all of us, including themselves.
That is it in a nutshell. Pure, undiluted evil.
Bring back the gibbet, and put it in front of the state Capitol
As states around the country lift COVID-19 restrictions, Oregon is poised to go the opposite direction — and many residents are fuming about it.
A top health official is considering indefinitely extending rules requiring masks and social distancing in all businesses in the state.
The proposal would keep the rules in place until they are “no longer necessary to address the effects of the pandemic in the workplace.”
Michael Wood, administrator of the state’s department of Occupational Safety and Health, said the move is necessary to address a technicality in state law that requires a “permanent” rule to keep current restrictions from expiring.
“We are not out of the woods yet,” he said.
But the idea has prompted a flood of angry responses, with everyone from parents to teachers to business owners and employees crying government overreach.
Wood’s agency received a record number of public comments, mostly critical, and nearly 60,000 residents signed a petition against the proposal.
Opponents also are upset government officials won’t say how low Oregon’s COVID-19 case numbers must go, or how many people would have to be vaccinated, to get the requirements lifted in a state that’s already had some of the nation’s strictest safety measures.
“When will masks be unnecessary? What scientific studies do these mandates rely on, particularly now that the vaccine is days away from being available to everyone?” said state Sen. Kim Thatcher, a Republican from Keizer, near the state’s capital. “Businesses have had to play ‘mask cop’ for the better part of a year now. They deserve some certainty on when they will no longer be threatened with fines.”
What’s that? Specific plainly defined goals and hard numbers? That’s not SCIENCE!
The rules will remain in place until the Top Men feel safe.
The rules will remain in place until the Top Men no longer have a tyranny boner. Which is to say never.
Rejoice, workers. The chocolate ration has been increased by one ounce.
Your state reps do this: indefinitely extending rules – you vote them out
Yet we have allowed our ‘health officials’ to dictate our lives.
Hah. The latest concern that that rich predominantly white zip codes have higher vaccination rates than poorer/more pigmented zip codes. The state health idiot and the gov both apologized profusely and promised to meet the demands of the extortionist groups that want money to do outreach. Meanwhile, the number of Spanish language billboards and advertising already is close to matching the level in Puerto Vallarta.
Ignored in all that is the state’s own prioritization of healthcare workers, nursing home residents, and backwards by age, then frontline workers, before the general population. Anyone with a half a brain would see why the demographics line up line they do.
Yeah, and the poor people are used to disobeying bullshit laws and dictates. The vax is bullshit. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
I’ve never had Ramen shop Ramen, but I am going to make a try at something like this Over the weekend. Mine will be chicken heavy and noodle light. Trying to get back on the right eating path.
You need to get to a good ramen place then.
So has anyone had the pfizer jab, due to work I am thinking of biting the bullet and getting it since it seems to wear off according to their ceo
Same one day muscle soreness where the jab went in as with any other injection. No other adverse effects.
Thanks, not happy about being compared
Ed but it is nice to know.
Sorry phone went nuts
Not happy about being compelled, but it is really good to hear that.
‘I don’t recommend sparring with a Russian guy.’
‘About a year ago I sparred with a Russian guy the first time all the gyms closed. I don’t recommend sparring with a Russian guy.’
It can be done.
Just keep in mind this simple truth: A good fighter with heart and who is in great shape can defeat a great fighter with milquetoast conviction.
To paraphrase Tyson: “I would have lost to Ali because he was willing to die in the ring to win a bout, I wasn’t.”
To be fair anyone would have lost to Ali when he was in his prime. He wasnt known as “The Greatest” for no reason.
One of my favorite photos: http://media.oregonlive.com/sports_impact/photo/muhammad-ali-sonny-liston-apjpg-72962f764c2144bb.jpg
Paraphrased: Interviewer – “Who threw the hardest punches?”
Ali – “Sonny Liston. It wasnt even close.”
Anyone have a 3/4″ drill bit? I have a 1/2″ and a 1 and 1/2″. I am sure if I go to Lowes to buy one, I will find that I do have one in a drawer somewhere.
It’s not very easy to make a clean 3/4″ hole with a silver and deming drill bit. You need to use as many steps as possible, meaning you need a whole bunch of bits. That means you need to keep slowing the bit down as you get bigger. Not many drills go slow enough to make a 3/4″ hole without killing the bit. If the material is thin enough, try a unibit. The have each step already and all you have to do is oil it well and go as slow as possible. Unless you’re talking about drilling wood?
If he is, I’ve got a 3/4″ nail biter right here. Welcome to borrow it.
Yeah, I have an S&D 3/4″ that he can borrow, but shipping might get close to the cost anyway.