SP’s on the road and you slackers are barely keeping us in posts.
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Sunday Night Open Post
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SP’s on the road and you slackers are barely keeping us in posts.
Here’s a blank (non-ribbed) canvas for your snark and commenting pleasure.
I know I haven’t seen a single one of the films up for any Oscar (I have no idea which ones are even up for one,) and it’s a “school night,” so I can’t turn the awards show into a drinking game. Furthermore, because of the Oscars, virtually everything else on every other channel is a rerun.
Maybe I’ll get some reading done for a change.
That’s OK, neither has anyone else.
Long ago I was of the mind that they shouldn’t give out awards annually, as it cheapened them
NBow I’m of the opinion they should just end the awards.
25 year delay. They should be awarding the Oscars for 1996 movies tonight.
It’s a deal, if we can revoke the Best Picture winners for 1968-1983.
Why just those 15 years?
One of the worst string of “winners” in Oscar history.
Really? You have Rocky, the Godfather, the Sting, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the Deer Hunter and Patton in there. These are less deserving than Fucking Crash (’06) and all the other woke bullshit movies from recent years? No.
Yeah, the Academy really screwed up when they selected the first two Godfather movies.
You’re full of shit
Patton 1970
The French Connection 1971
The Godfather 1972
The Sting 1973
The Godfather Part II 1974
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975
Rocky 1976
Annie Hall 1977
The Deer Hunter 1978
Kramer vs Kramer 1979
Outside of Kramer v. Kramer, it’s a solid list.
Overrated crap.
You have my condolences.
Speaking of the movies, another casualty of governments’ enforced shutdowns.
I’m to the point where I’m unhappy with any movie under 10-20 years old and dreading a movie under 5. The quality has fallen right off a cliff. And that’s even filtering out the superhero garbage.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36221199/oscar-nominees-gift-bags-hammer-dogs-in-cars/
Save dogs or participate in riots? Either way, they should include a toe tag to go along with attempting to use that hammer on someone else’s vehicle.
Hammer Time!
Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo, can’t touch this!
I would bet you don’t know anyone with less interest in the ac-awards than me. I honestly have no idea what movies might be on their list of nominees. I would be surprised if I had even seen any of them.
There’s too much real life to focus on for me.
*sniffles* I want to get posts together, I just keep having trouble getting text on the page.
You can do it!
I wish I could think of a topic I could write about, but I fear that anything I know well enough to expound upon, some (many) folks here would be far more qualified to address.
Fodder for discussion is welcome.
Yep. You don’t have to be an expert on any topic. Just starting a conversation is plenty good.
Kick off a discussion, it’s a good thing.
I’ve got at least three posts I need to buckle down and finish up.
Expound on the virtues of pineapple and anchovie pizza!
AHEM! No anchovies, please!
Now I want some Gentleman’s Relish spread on toast.
In prison and the navy, that means something totally different.
Hope everyone had a good weekend.
Love this site, appreciate the sarcasm.
Fuck off, Tulpa.
Make me!
Sarcasm is just our way of beating people down with words.
https://www.coolfunnyquotes.com/author/anonymous/i-love-sarcasm-its-like-punching-people-in-the-face-but-with-words/
Yeah someone posted a rant video of a crazy lady who was wearing a tee shirt with that slogan. I was circling back to it ( to paraphrase a certain press sec).
For Christmas, one of my sisters gave me a mug that says “‘sarcasm’ queen.” (The misuse of scare quotes around “sarcasm” on the mug offends my sensibilities, but that’s a pet peeve.) I prefer to think of what I offer as scintillating wit.
Please don’t disabuse me of that
Given my success rate with being witty, I can only lay claim to being a half-wit.
“Never attempt to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.”
You’re a funny guy, UCS
“Whut? I’m a clown? I amuse you?”
Am I being detained?
I don’t know about anyone else, but I had a damn fine weekend. I’m now thinking I need at least one more glass of wine to face the prospect of work in the morning.
I’ve been doing some retro-gaming: Skyrim
and end up skipping most of the talking by the characters. “come on, the game is slowing up!”
There is one and only one reason I always support the Stormcloaks – To spite Maven Blackbriar.
So there’s a remake coming out of KOTOR.
I’m slightly excited and terrified.
(going back to the previous post, melatonin helps me get to sleep, but not stay asleep).
Why remake it?
And I’m in a boycott of Disney, which extends to their licensed products.
If you’re a comic book fan, I’d recommend Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
Keep in mind Captain America is one step below Spider-Man for my fanboy levels.
I was never a Marvel fan even before they got bought out.
Besides, it would only remind me that I need to work on Shadow Five and Junior Redemptioners.
Kotor looks like a nice place to visit.
It is. Went there in October of 2019. Like to spend a few weeks there and in the interior of Montenegro.
And the passage/harbour to get into Kotor is amazeballs.
Another ex-Yugoslavia place that looks like it would be amazing to go to is Bled in Slovenia.
Tourists to Hawaii are getting sticker shock from the Law of Supply and Demand.
Some have struck on a novel solution.
Not going to That Facist hellhole?
Is facism discrimination against people who have faces, or people who don’t have faces?
I say we make Fauchism the discrimination against conniving bureaucrats.
That would be for people who want to make us all hide our faces.
I gotta go to FLA for a wedding in July. Prices are already creeping up. I did get a two bedroom house complete for about 100.00 a day, so there’s that. It’s a block from the beach and across the street from the intercoastal. Fuck Hawaii, after all that jailing they been doing.
That’s an astonishingly good price for Florida coastal, even in the heat of July.
What part of the state?
Ormond beach. The heat is gonna suck. I gotta wear a suit-ish outfit for a wedding on the sand.
The birthday suit is a suit of sorts….
That’s probably what everyone will end up wearing by the end of the night, what with the open bar and all.
Hopefully the no-see-ums won’t be out in force.
All things (i.e., cost) being the same, you might consider flying into JAX and driving down, rather than coming up from MCO. I-95 is a breeze compared to I-4.
Daytona Beach is right down the road, and makes for some interesting people watching. The Speedway is an interesting tour if you’re into that sort of thing.
And of course, if you’re really feeling saucy, you can take a dip in the ocean in the shark attack capital of the world.
Last time we flew into Orlando and drove from there. This time, straight into Daytona. Ain’t nobody got time for an hour long drive through dead flat inland FLA.
The beach in Daytona is amazing. Out here the water is freezing and the sand is abrasive. I can see why the sharks like the warm water. What’s baffling is why anyone would bother surfing a beach with no waves to speak of.
The beaches on the Florida east coast tend to be brown sand, and so hard packed that you can drive on them — which is why all the early land speed records were attempted there before someone discovered the Bonneville Salt Flats.
New Smyrna tends to have good surfing because of an accident of geography, just like every other surf spot. When the wind is coming in off the Atlantic (particularly a brisk northeast wind after a cold front), it water wants to pile in. During falling tides, a major amount of water is flowing out through Ponce Inlet. When conditions are right, the surf stacks up nicely.
Unfortunately for surfers, the falling tides also bring huge schools of baitfish through the inlet, and the apex predators sit right outside the inlet waiting for the twice-daily piscine smorgasbord to come their way. In the murky water, the white sole of a surfer’s foot is sometimes mistaken for a small fish, and Mister Lemon Shark gives it a nibble.
As luck would have it, the big boys that will put you in the morgue (Great Whites, Tigers, Bulls) are very rare. Even during our much-publicized “Summer of the Shark,” alligators still killed twice as many people.
So, they have waves there? Daytona had smaller waves than the worst day at the worst beach in Cali. Three foot is a don’t-even-bother day out here. The sand was like sugar. Soft and comfortable to walk on and the water was warm like a jacuzzi. Out here, the sand is very scratchy and the water is quite cold, but there’s waves. We get great whites when we get sharks and they do real damage, but it’s exceedingly rare.
and MCO sucks with all the fecking tourists and pushy midgets NTTATWWI with their pet chickens in cages and shit: MIA without the classs
when you’re trying to get something done, skip MCO
SIL is getting married in the Keys in December. Wife got a place for less than 200/night.
The niece was going to have hers in the keys, but they have a bunch of friends in Daytona. He owns a couple of houses there and they can just stay in one of them.
Which Key?
Not that I am going to crash it, it’s just the keys used to be one of my favorite places on earth that I have been. My last trip there changed that thought.
Willingness is the key. /formerly sober.
My supervisor is renting a place south of Cancun for fiddy bucks a night and spending his days on a boat fishing up barracuda. He says the trip will set him back less than two grand for two weeks. I’m pretty flippin envious.
Alright, since there’s complaints about a lack of content. The next cocktail article will be written in the next two weeks (and be about making frozen drinks with your ice cream maker).
Is there any preference as to where I go after that? I was considering going into the garnish world, but thought that may be to geeky for people to pay attention to.
Non alcoholic variants of drinks?
The mocktail movement?
It’s a possible thing, but for most cocktails if you substitute ginger ale/citrus soda for the liquor, it’ll still be a solid drink for you’ts. Keep in mind it’ll be a bit on the sweeter side, so cut down the simple syrup/sweetener.
Just spitballing. I know there are some teetotalers here, plus always some reason to make one without booze such as a school night or for kids. Maybe even just the standards like Shirley Temple or Roy Rogers?
I meant no disparagement in my comment at all.
It would be a change,but if people paid attention to making their own grenadine, the drinks won’t be too expensive.
Neph I would enjoy a mocktail article. Summer is coming and youngest daughter will have friends over. Please include store bought ingredients when applicable. I will happily mix a mocktail but I’m not going make the component parts.
I’d like to see some spocktail recipes. That’s where you only drink what’s rational.
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I too would enjoy a mock tail article.
My husband and I now both need to knock off the sauce (I had already a year ago but have waffled a bit during the present difficult times).
He was a third generation bartender, and I think he’d enjoy a new twist on mixology.
We happen to have a yard full of fruit trees so that would add some fun.
Oranges, lemons, limes, limes with pink innards, tangerines, pomegranates, passionfruit, blood oranges, kumquats, plums, cherries, apricots, apples, pears. Too much for us to use! We give some to neighbors but it’s still too much.
And some other fruit I can’t identify but it’s tasty.
Anyway, I’d love a mocktail that hits the same notes as a Long Island tea.
Cocktails you can make with White Claw.
Sounds like something that should be called a Gandhi.
Neph too geeky? This is territory that does not exist.
So based on westernsloper’s post I’ll talk about the difference between scry lands and health lands.
Liqueurs, and their roles in cocktails?
I’m thinking fruit-based vs nut-based vs herbal, like Cointreau vs Amaretto vs Benedictine.
Just throwin’ something against the wall, seeing if it sticks.
To me, liqueurs are accents to a good cocktail.
I agree. Maybe a focus on a particular liqueur as a “why you want this in your bar” focus.
For instance, do creme de cacao, and feature a Bushwhacker (fits right in with your frozen drink article), a gin / brandy alexander, the Pink Squirrel for fans of things retro, and my personal favorite, the Twentieth Century.
Escape from a penal colony
Covid 19 coronavirus: Australians exploit Tasman bubble to use New Zealand to get to other countries
Happy Anzac Day!
“Ask your doctor if Anzac is right for you!”
Only BEAM is right for you! ANZAC’s filled with fascists!!!
I used to like to use the “Ask your doctor” line in reference to a local minor league ballplayer named Beau Amaral. I tried it once with our family doctor – who was the local team’s doctor – and he either didn’t get it or didn’t think it was funny.
(Last name pronounced “AM-er-AWL.”)
When you go through customs on the way into Aus, they ask you if you’ve ever been convicted of a felony. Best answer is, ” I didn’t realize you still had to to get in here!”
Prince Philip actually used that line
I wondered where it came from. My buddy swore it was original, but I didn’t believe him. Thanks.
+1 Prince Philip
“I wasn’t aware it was still a requirement.”
– Prince Philip, God bless ‘im
He was my favorite 20th century royal.
In the Royal family spoof sitcom “The Windsor’s” (Netflix) they never had an actor portray Philip but they would read (fictional) letters and cards from him in honor of his cantankerous but scathing wit.
This is insane.
My Aussie colleague (who’s been running the department for my during my family medical leave) is getting impatient that he can’t go see his elderly parents in Queensland.
He was formerly a firm liberal, but our conversations about Adam Smith, Hayek, Friedman, etc have opened his mind toward libertarianism, and COVID hysteria is about to push him across the finish line.
Man, the big L libertarian party missed the opportunity of a lifetime last year…
But then they would have to figure out what to do on Friday and Saturday evenings when they no longer had those important cocktail parties to go to.
You want to improve the Libertarian party? What kind of party would it be without some cocktails?
“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave…”
Sorry most of us suck at providing content. I blame…….me. Thanks for the open post Staff.
I have been watching Formula 1 Drive to Survive on Netflix. I think someone here was part of a Formula 1 pit crew (maybe P Brooks?). I’d love to hear their thoughts on this.
I have not seen this. I did a bike for a driver from the Gauloises cart/ppg team. He gave me tickets to a race at the local track. It was amazing how much money and effort the teams put into it. Each team had a semi truck for a shop and a second semi which was basically a high end restaurant. They had landscaping and waiters and everything. The race was pretty cool too.
Really? Part of a pit crew? I, too, would be interested in any thoughts/stories.
That series made me a F1 fan. They were smart to start with Riccardo, as he’s funny and charismatic.
Cool, hope you enjoy Tulip. If you do like it, I would recommend the documentary Senna, which is one of my favorites. Maybe you’ll get into the races, they are really fun to watch. I’ve watched the Monaco race since I’ve been young, but only really started to get into it three years ago. That would be cool to have another F1 fan here in addition to Slum (and P Brooks, I believe).
I’m an F1 fan, too, though I’m not all that privy to what’s going on behind the scenes.
But then I’m a fan of road racing in general, though since I’m a Track Day guy, I take a more keen interest in watching races at circuits that I’ve actually driven, i.e., Daytona, Sebring, Barber, VIR, etc.
As I expand my geographic “tracks driven” footprint (I’d love to do a vacation where I worked in a weekend at Road America with the Honey Harvest), I expect my spectatorship interest to increase as well.
Nice! What do you drive on them? I’d love to try a hand at a high performance car on a track.
I am booting up my IRigg to play some really bad guitar. If Muzzled or I think it was Sheldon, rambles by, what was the name of the lesson guy you two mentioned?
I was messing around with my Les Paul Melody Maker earlier. Trying to teach a little to my 8 year old. He’s got an Epi L/P special. He’s not all that bad, but I think I need to get him some real lessons.
all I will say is that it’s a life’s work to undo the bad habits you learn from playing bad equipment
that said, I’m shocked at what folks around here have cranked out on sad planks
if I could go back 40 years and get a real guitar there is no telling
Yeah, he’s hard on stuff. I’ll get him better equipment when he starts at least trying to take care of it. Besides, the Epi is not all that bad. I had a Hondo L/P when I was around 14 and I’d rank it close in quality.
If formal lessons don’t sit well with him, at least introduce him to guitar tabs so he can learn the chords, keys, and notes by name.
https://www.justinguitar.com/
I’m replacing the strings on my Chapman. Wish me luck.
Thanks! I tried to replace strings on a cheap box wood guitar I have somewhere around here. It never sounded right because I probably did it hammered and mixed up strings. I am going back over 20 years here. Imagine if I had actually tried to learn guitar in those 20 years. Christ I suck.
Justin Guitar.
My wife and I caved and got the vaccine. They set up a site near me and it was too convenient. My third arm is growing in nicely.
You know you can still get Covid, right?
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Especially the VARIANTS!?!?!
More flavors than Baskin Robbins!
UK variant, South African variant, Brazilian variant; just don’t dare call the “original” strain the Chinese coronavirus cuz that’s RAYCISS!!
Hitler?
Nein! Not this time.
“My third arm is growing in nicely”
Gripping hand. Sweet.
Drink a beer, smoke a cigar and masturbate.
Sounds good in theory, but I’m way too uncoordinated to make it happen.
Yeah, I’d probably light my dick on fire, stroke the beer, and pour the cigar down my throat.
Good for you! Absolutely nothing wrong with being smart and taking advantage of the modern miracle of mRNA based vaccines.
My article on procrastination is still In the planning phase.
🙂
Take your time, man. We prolly still have two more years of lockdowns and mask mandates. Ain’t going nowhere!
I’m going to sleepforever! Why get up?
It’ll write itself.
So, let’s assume for some reason, POTUS steps down and VPOTUS takes the office.
At that point, new POTUS must nominate a new VPOTUS. The new VPOTUS must be approved by a majority of both the House and the Senate (and, of course, there is not VPOTUS to break ties).
How much leverage to does the turtle have at this point?
Yeah, the
cucks(R)’s will just make sure the dems keep winning so it’s easy to bitch about all the evil things they do.Good lord… can you imagine how horrible the person she likely already has in mind is going to be?
POTUS will hang on – even if DOCTOR Jill has to run things – at least through 2022 elections to see how things turn out. They’ll keep Kamala at bay by reminding her she can potentially govern for ten years if Pharaoh makes it through two years of his term.
Do they really want Kamala in for ten years? I’m sure there’s other people in the party who need to be paid off.
And do you think they’re above empty promises?
The girlfriend and I got into smuggling activities yesterday.
We live close to a bridge between Quebec and Ontario, so there is a roadblock on the bridge.
She sells Tupperware. Her contacts are on both side of the river, and she had to deliver something to a customer about 15 mins on the Ontario side. Not an essential product at all but it’s still for work and we’re not gonna pay 15$ of shipping for a 10$ product. So we tried to go thru.
After a bit of arguing, they let us thru.
It’s weird to feel like a criminal for delivering Tupperware in Canada, but here we are.
It’s really pathetic because we have so many people living on one side of the river and working on the other that it is pretty much useless. It’s also quite ridiculous to have at least half a dozen cops, standing around, controlling a car every 2-3 mins. We now have our very own TSA!
Every single time I flew into Canada and the one time I drove across the Ambassador bridge, I got detained and fine tooth combed. Once, they unpacked my bags and laid out all of my clothes like the crime seizure photos the FBI used to do in the ’50’s. They brought out of the interrogation room and asked me if this was luggage, just to show me what they had done. It filled the whole terminal walk way. They asked me if I had ever been convicted of a felony. I said no. They said, ” I’m going to ask you again, have you ever been convicted of a felony?” I said, ” I’m going to answer again, NO!” Fuck Canadian cops.
Fuck them and fuck the metric system.
And that bitch Anne Murray
Apparently they thought you had felonious bad taste in clothing.
In fact, it was a dress code violation. Long hair and tattoos, traveling with a famous porn star.
Ok, we need that story.
It’s not much of a story. I dated a porn star around 1991 or so. She danced as a featured dancer all over the continent and I went with her a bunch of times. I did get rousted by the feds when they came to arrest her ex ( who turned to robbing banks when she left him for me) They broke into every door and window in the bedroom at 3 in the morning with many guns, dragged me into the living room by my hair and started handcuffing me. Then she (pornstar chick) came running out yelling, NO, it’s not him. The guy you want lives down the street at XXX whatchamacallit street. I left her because she kept having celebrity drug addicts come over and shoot heroin at the house.
If that’s “not much” of a story, I want to hear your real stories.
“It’s not much of a story.”
lol
Blackjack is Ron Jeremy.
Without the ugliness and the being in prison.
Note he doesn’t disavow the point for which Jeremy is best known.
Odd, as porn stars is one of Quebec’s main export.
From 3 to 300 felonies a day in less than a year. And they claim there is no inflation.
Meanwhile, in nature…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f1dnocPQXDQ
I went and bought a robart hobby paint shaker. The mechanism is a simple as you’d expect, but I’ve already revived 3 pots of $5 paint, so as I work through my collection, it should save me more than the purchase price, despite the markup.
And the lid dilemna?
Rubber bands. I forget which glib suggested it, but it was far too simple to mess up.
I was not prepared for that.
does anyone here know the difference between a double- and triple-tight ?
Winston’s mom does.
This weekend was driving from Spokane to Summit County CO for work. Drove through Sloperland this time. Still making down here but can sit down at a restaurant. In Idaho Falls, no one wore masks.
Across the street from our favorite hotel in Idaho Falls is a Jakers and the Sandpiper is less than 1/4 mile away. There is also an Outback nearby but we haven’t had the need to go there.
I stayed in the new Hilton Tru. I won’t say where I ate, but I had a not so good steak.
I tried to take a picture of the old house on the Idaho border but the lighting was bad.
I was in Idaho Falls a couple of weeks ago, and you are right. No one over 30 cared. The youts? Holy Jebus, they have moved the mask to a fashion necessity.
By the way, the Snow Goose (I think) brewery is pretty good.
Some how Idaho Falls has become a regular mid trip stop for a lot of my work travels.
I think you mean Snow Eagle. Right across from the Falls, great beer and food. Take a walk after eating, toward the Angel Moroni place; good views, nice town.
That could be it!
The owner was really nice, he and his wife were sitting off to the side while everyone did their thing, and when I got up to leave, I accidentally left my hat. But he came running out with it, saw from the plates on my truck I was from out of town, and asked me how I heard of the place, what I thought of the beer and food, and so on.
I have been watching Formula 1 Drive to Survive on Netflix. I think someone here was part of a Formula 1 pit crew (maybe P Brooks?). I’d love to hear their thoughts on this.
I did IndyCar.
I know nothing about that show. Sorry, that’s not much help.
That’s super cool. IndyCar pit crew stories would make for some great content here…
Thanks, sorry I had the wrong car.
They both have four wheels so close enough.
The elf had 6 wheels until F1 made a new rule.
https://www.snaplap.net/tyrrell-p34/
Someone always has to ruin racing by trying to get an edge (rolleyes thingy here)
+1 Smokey Yunik
wow: blast from the past
I remember his passing, maybe 30 years ago
And I would love to hear about that, how you got into it etc.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wehVzQt4Czg
Yeah, I’m not feeling it.
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Causation is misidentified, but an interesting thread.
https://mobile.twitter.com/clawsonsmithy/status/1386407764587515904
Yeah, now they just make shit like Avatar.
Pixar’s Onward was fantastic. Last movie I saw.
I’ve enjoyed most of what I’ve seen from them.
Same. It’s nice to have something to watch that isn’t at least 10 years old.
I don’t think I’ve seen a movie that paints corporations in a positive light in decades.
Oooof.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eKnlZoKCo98
“Christmas came several months late for twin four-year-old girls in Kansas who released their wish list on balloons – one of which drifted hundreds of miles before it was discovered by an elderly couple who set out to make the kids’ dreams come true….
“‘When I got it I noticed a folded yellow piece of paper sealed with a red star, and it was a Christmas list from a girl named Luna.’
“He and his wife Lee Ann Leopard Bamburg made it their mission to track Luna down and make sure she got everything she wanted for the holidays….
“The couple brought the final item on Luna’s list: a dachshund puppy named Max.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9509781/Louisiana-couple-Christmas-wish-list-tied-balloon-released-twin-girls-Kansas.html
And then the parents murdered the well intentioned, but misguided, strangers.
“Hi, you don’t know me, but I brought your children a pet baby elephant. It was on their list.”
“We call him Stampy.”
But he never forgets!
And he LOVES Henry Mancini.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E17/451250
Every family needs a weenie dog.
We had dachshunds when I was growing up, cool dogs, but do not let them near cats or rabbits, or any small animals really.
They will kill them.
Most of the ones I’ve known have been pretty sedate, mostly interested in rats if anything.
With regards to modern movies being terrible; agreed.
However, I love a good movie and can’t give up trying to find a good one.
A very pleasant surprise was Waiting for the Barbarians. Good story, and the casting was, I thought, unusual. By that I mean the big name stars played roles with a twist.
If you like a slower paced drama, you could do a lot worse.
Reason eleventy for not watching the Oscar’s.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/04/25/oscar-winner-travon-free-today-the-police-will-kill-3-people-and-tomorrow-the-police-will-kill-3-people/
You know who else is watching the Oscar’s?
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1386490885832159233
His beer came from an ice cold plant!
Hitler’s brain, down in the cyrogenic freezing chamber?
Read that. “In New York, Black graphic designer Carter James tries to get home to his dog, Jeter, the morning after a first date, only to find himself trapped in a time loop in which he is repeatedly confronted in the street by a white NYPD officer, Officer Merk.”
Groundhog Day except he gets laid everytime? Boo hoo.
Now e’rbody in Hollywood is just trying to out-woke each other.
It’s all so fucking tedious.
Ignore it, I do
Ignore what?
Good grief what Oscar bait. They were probably tripping over themselves to throw an award at him.
I liked this film the first time, when it was called Groundhog Day, and the second time, when it was called Happy Death Day.
It was pretty good on Edge of Tomorrow too aka Live Die Repeat aka All You Need is Kill
I thought it was pretty solid, apart from the cringy scene with the cops and a few other minor issues.
I also watched The Critical Drinker’s episode about it today. I normally think he’s pretty good, but I thought he was way off base on this one.
I’ve watched most of the Falcon episodes, and the action scenes are Falcon good.
I understand there’s a bit of Falcon incoherence because the original plot involved a worldwide plague, but they had to dial that down because of Covid.
I think all that’s left for me to watch is the last Falcon episode. It better have some cool Falcon fights.
THe Oscars just structured the entire show around Chadwick Boseman winning for Best Actor, putting it at the final slot (instead of Best Picture, which is usually last) and then … he didn’t. Hopkins wasn’t even there to accept, so Joaquin Phoenix was like “whatever. I’m out!”
LMAO
LOL
GT, I missed your question on the previous article.
The answer is that I got the Martin Backpacker. He didn’t like the original strings though so he wanted me to take it home for now so he can restring it later.
I suspect he’s a little afraid to try playing yet. We’ll see when he gets home in a couple of days.
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Whelp, I’m up for the day. Leg cramps are a fun alarm clock. I hope I didn’t wake up the neighbors.
Mg / potassium deficiency?
*shrugs* Happens once a year or so.
Ugh! I’m more prone to the occasional foot cramp. Suddenly you feel as if you have opposable toes.
This one was bad. I can barely walk. Good thing I already took today off 🙂
Lucky, I guess, but a hell of a way to spend your day off. 🙁
6abc.com/lower-merion-school-district-covid-19-outbreak-penn-valley-elementary-second-grade-class/10548676/
“Eight 2nd grade students and two family members who are fully vaccinated have tested positive.”
How’s that vaccine working for ya?
SEVENTY-NINTH WAVE!
Close it all down.
They are vaccinating 2nd graders?
https://www.fox10tv.com/news/us_world_news/man-says-he-was-kicked-off-southwest-flight-for-not-wearing-mask-while-eating-twizzlers/article_27719da7-dc85-5a34-a700-58d59c404887.html?block_id=1033999
This is all so fucking stupid.
So no more eating or drinking on flights then.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_BsjMi4bM
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Hello Glibbies, how are things,
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Hey Yu! I suppose it’s still cold enough for y’all up there?
Im in Oceanside, getting ready to fly home, where its gonna be 65 today, not bad at all T
Ha! I’ve been there a time or two. Glad to hear you got a chance to defrost.
Visiting a good friend, a nice little vacay from the Northlands, we had fun,now its back to the grinder
I bought a Japanese phrasebook there when I got my first orders for Okinawa – and look how that turned out!
Turning Japanese eh?
That bad, huh?
Overall, it probably changed my life in more ways than if I had knocked up a sister-in-law – but with a lot more up-side than you would expect
I have 1 more Imperial stout to slam before my flight, maybe get some sleep then,
Good morning, Yu! That’s a pretty darned early flight where you are. Safe travels, and glad to hear you had a good time!
Morning.
Good morning to you, too, U!
Thanks for the snippets you sent me last night. I think a couple of rereads are in order to get me back up to speed on each tale. Nice “problem” to have!
How are you this morning?
Sore from post exercise muscle ache as I’m still unaccustomed to the arm wrokouts I’ve added.
I felt my treadmill jaunt a bit in my legs a couple of hours later. Were you able to sustain your distance on yesterday’s walk?
I made 3 miles again yesterday. I’m still too tired after three miles to push for four just yet.
No rush – you can stick with that distance for a while. Can you plan a route that would add distance in smaller increments than another entire mile?
Not accurately. I measure out distances on the map. The next known route is 3.8 miles.
That’s a heck of an increment. Maybe walk your three-mile route, then…walk around your house a couple of times?
It’s not so bad. I just have to be acclimated to the current distance first.
Good stuff! That means progress! I hate when I bust my butt in the gym for hours and barely feel it the next day.
Hours?? As in…plural?? That’s physically possible for humans?
Remember GT, it’s entirely possible for humans to perform manual labor from dawn to dusk. It’s a matter of practice, conditioning, and the degree of activity.
Not sure. But then technically speaking, Marines aren’t exactly human.
Sup U? Back to writing I hope?
Trying. But right now I’m getting ready for work amid bouts of knocking everything on the floor.
I slept 4 hours, now 11 hours to get home, and Im wiped out, a lot of fun was had
Yikes! Eleven hours?? is that actual elapsed time or just “clock” time including time zone changes? Either way, sounds as if it includes a long layover.
4 hours in O’hare, which sucks, but they have bars so…
“…but they have bars so…”
A man after my soul…
Mornin’ Globs! Hope everyone is feeling fine and dandy today. Hurt one of my lats on the Sunday “Hell” shift and sprained my ankle a bit on Saturday night which we won’t get into overmuch.
Good morning, Fes! Sorry about your ankle, but I bet you wowed the crowd with your tap dancing! Sounds as if an Ace bandage may be in order.
“This bandage has shot down five enemy aircraft in battle.”
“…and then wrapped up the pilots’ injuries with itself.”
Ace Rimmer! What a guy !
sup’ home team
Good morning, homey! So far no wrecks reported along my commute route, so it’s all good (knock wood!)
Full moon tonight, though, so beware!
Camera and sound were off. It weren’t my first rodeo! 🙂
Got a niggling thought in my head about an article that’s probably been done before. “Temptation and Ethics”. How do you personally deal with that little demon sitting on your left shoulder? I’m not sure if I can articulate the idea well enough to pass muster here so if someone else wants to take a crack at it I’d be sanguine about that. Something that’s been rolling around in my brain for the last couple of months.
Maybe I’ll compose it more as a question and let the Glbertariat have at it in the comments. When have you been tempted to do evil and why did you not fall prey or even better, how did you resist those base urges? I think it’s an interesting thought experiment and because I value this community, it might help me weather some future storms. Granted, I’m aging out of sinful behavior but it might give me some perspective about why I made so many bone-headed decisions when I was a young man.
Jesus H. Koresh. What a night.
whaddup doh ?
Well, time to shoo Little Black Kitty off my lap and go get ready to leave for work. Still filling in for Reliable Co-Worker, though another co-worker will cover the most time-consuming daily gotta-do while I work on staff payroll. I swear half our staff got their COVID shots this pay period, and I have to collect the documentation and correctly code any time off they took for it (for the shot itself and/or recovering from it.)
You have a good one, Red! Sunday and Monday are my personal bears. Tuesday and Wednesday is when shit gets done. Thursday and Friday are coasting. Saturday is “Willie’s Time!”
I feel stupid. I opened up my windows and turned on my fans… but forgot to turn off my furnace.
“Are you trying to heat God’s green earth?” *Dad saying*
Yes.
Greta will be stopping by. Your punishment will be to spend the night with her.
Mornin’ dollops, er clumps, um clods. Globs! I meant globs.
I didn’t know you were my teenage daughter
I left the sliding glass door open to the deck last night (and left my heat on too.)
I was wondering how the temp dropped so much over night.
I don’t feel stupid, but I do blame the gin.
Did you wake up with your panties hanging from the lampshade?
Did I leave my webcam on too?
I’m your only subscriber on OnlyFans. Your secret is safe with me.