ZARDOZ FRIDAY NIGHT ADVICE

by | Apr 30, 2021 | Advice | 132 comments

 

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. A QUICK REMINDER BEFORE ZARDOZ GETS TO DISPENSING ADVICE – 1) THE GUN IS GOOD, 2) THE PENIS IS EVIL. OK THEN, ON TO THE ADVICE.

Q: I work as a receptionist in a small medical office. I love my job, but I cannot tolerate when my co-workers make fun of our patients. Sometimes it happens while the patients are still in the exam rooms, maybe within earshot. Even the doctor contributes to this crudeness.

Some examples: “Did you see the size of that guy’s nose?” or, “What’s with the color of her hair?” or, “He smells like he hasn’t had a bath in weeks.” This goes on throughout the day every day. Is there anything I can do or say to change this mindset? We have great patients.

A: WHILE ZARDOZ SHARES THE STAFF’S CONTEMPT FOR BRUTALS, ZARDOZ MUST ADMIT THAT IS A BIT AWKWARD IN WHERE IT IS HAPPENING. THEREFORE, THE MINDSET MUST BE PUNISHED, NOT CHANGED. ZARDOZ WILL SUGGEST A) CLEANSING THE ENTIRE OFFICE STAFF, OR B) GRAIN SLAVERY FOR THE LOT OF THEM.

Thank you, and have a nice day!

 

Q: My daughter “Tiffany” is 12. Her best friend, “Wendy,” lives down the block. We are good friends with her parents.

How do I put this: Wendy is a thief. She has no impulse control. When she comes over, she helps herself to whatever is lying around, mostly candy and trinkets. For this reason, we no longer allow friends into our children’s rooms.

Recently, another item went missing, and my daughter spotted it at Wendy’s house. I told her she should say something and take it back, but she is shy. I want to say something to the parents, but I’m afraid it will ruin our friendship. I don’t think the mother knows her daughter does these things. Any ideas?

A: THIS SITUATION CALLS FOR A BIT MORE TACT THAN THE USUAL CLEANSING OR GRAIN SLAVERY.Β  LET US TRY THE FORCED AGING OF THE THIEVING TWERP. ZARDOZ WILL HAVE SEVERAL ETERNALS COME AROUND AND TAKE CARE OF THIS.

ENJOY EARLY ADULTHOOD!

ONCE AGED, THE THIEF CAN BE TAKEN CARE OF WITHOUT ANY OF THE COMPLICATIONS OF CHILDHOOD.

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

About The Author

ZARDOZ

ZARDOZ

SERVANT OF THE TABERNACLE, THE ETERNALS OF THE VORTEX. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, SEE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwZhKGgmoUI

132 Comments

  1. trshmnstr the terrible

    The answer to the first one is to post deepfakes of all of those people in compromising sexual positions in the examination rooms.

    The second one can be handled in the old fashion way. Chop off a hand.

    • LJW

      Isn’t the old way to chop off the hand of a parent. That way the child learns their bad behavior brings harm to loved ones? Of course if the kid is a sociopath that will only encourage bad behavior.

      • UnCivilServant

        No, you cave in the child’s head and start over.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’m ambivalent to which or whose hand is chopped off. There just needs to be a hand removed from a body.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        I’d settle for a random limb. You people are so persnickety.

    • DEG

      This works.

    • blackjack

      The answer to the first one is, does she realize that the patients do the exact same thing about her? She’s just stressed because she knows this same thing is happening after SHE leaves places.

  2. Aloysious

    HAIL ZARDOZ.

    The answer to both questions is simple: have their servants beaten.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Former Juno star? She’s been cancelled out of the movie?

      • rhywun

        Don’t dead-accomplishment him.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        I sure hope so his entire misogynistic career is based off of stealing roles and awards from women. What a monster.

    • rhywun

      pronouns he/they

      That’s not how this works.

      And you spent thirty years having a panic attack every time you had to put on a dress? GTFO.

      • Mojeaux

        And you spent thirty years having a panic attack every time you had to put on a dress? GTFO.

        Right?!

        There’s this thing called “wearing a suit even though you’re a girl”. It’s not like it hasn’t been done.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s good she’s telling her story. She’s so brave, kinda like Jesus.

    • Animal

      Utter.

      Horseshit.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      That is very triggering to ZARDOZ,

  3. Trigger Hippie

    Did drunken Franco Harris just take a whiff of some pussy off his Terrible Towel before announcing a pick? Sure looked like it.

  4. Hank

    “An Indian woman has died after the police were accused of taking her oxygen cylinder away to give to a VIP amid acute shortages and a health system overwhelmed by the world’s fastest growing Covid outbreak….

    “Agra Police have vehemently denied the claims, saying: ‘It was an empty cylinder being taken away from the hospital for refilling.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9529923/Indian-woman-dies-Covid-two-hours-police-oxygen-cylinder-VIP.html

    • one true athena

      Sorry, India, this is not your fault, but my ability to care about disaster porn is pretty much done.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Sad, isn’t it? And it’s all our various governments’ fault, too.

  5. Rebel Scum

    “Patriotic” is the term that is the next target of the left.

    β€œA lot of folks excited that they can now shed these masks if they’ve been double vaccinated. Are you going to be one of these folks now? Are we no longer going to see the President of the United States outside with the mask on?” Melvin asked.

    β€œSure, sure,” Biden said. β€œI mean, but what I’m going to do, though, because the likelihood of my being able to do outside and people not come up to me is not … very high. So it’s like, look, you and I took our masks off when I came in because look at the distance we are. But if we were, in fact, sitting there talking to one another close, I’d have my mask on, and I bet you’d have a mask on, even though we’ve both been vaccinated.”

    β€œAnd so, it’s a small precaution to take that has a profound impact. It’s a patriotic responsibility, for God’s sake. It’s making sure that your wife, your children, if, in fact, they haven’t been vaccinated, making sure that they’re not going to get sick,” he concluded.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Why be patriotic for something that doesn’t deserve patriotism?
      Do you know who else was patriotic?

      • Tres Cool

        Francis Scott Key ?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He wrote a good song but I think we ought to replace that with this:

        https://youtu.be/c5BL4RNFr58

      • Ted S.

        Technically, as Dr. Chet could tell us, he didn’t write the song.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Michael the Brave?

      • Hank

        William Tell?

    • Ted S.

      Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel

      — Samuel Johnson

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yep, the patriotism argument means you don’t have a good argument.

      • Hank

        Examining Dr. Johnson’s remark by the rules of logic, non-scoundrels can still take refuge in patriotism.

        But given the large number of scoundrels, the guy telling you what your patriotic duty is should be presumed scoundrelly until proven otherwise.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Patriotism/Collectivism, go along to get along, sell your soul for safety, do not deviate from the Orthodoxy, you are nothing more than the sum of a whole, your body isn’t your property and doesn’t really belong to you, “Hey buddy, don’t do that.”…Modern Marxists aren’t the new Puritans, they’ve always been Puritans with an ever shifting(mostly godless=state worshiping) dogma..the modern version is just the successful long game come to fruition.

      What was the point of this dogshit comment?

      *burp*

      Oh yes, middling minded impotent rage.

      Carry on.

      … Happy Friday!!!

  6. Rebel Scum

    We are all white-supremacists now*.

    On Wednesday night, President Joe Biden told a Congress that “white supremacy is terrorism,” after claiming that US intelligence considers it “the most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today.”

    Hours earlier, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) set the stage for the new narrative by telling MSNBC’s Nicol Wallace that “The predominant part of that domestic threat ” is white nationalists, adding “We can’t ignore that because of a political sensitivity that some of the folks are part of the Trump base.”

    Less than 24 hours later, Bloomberg is reporting that the Biden DOJ is “actively considering” whether to seek a new law which would allow prosecutors to bring specific charges for domestic terrorists who plot and/or carry out attacks, according to a senior department official.

    “One of the things we’re looking at is would we need new authorities,” said deputy assistant attorney general for the department’s national security division, Brad Wiegmann, during a Thursday House hearing.

    Weigmann added that while the department has been successful using existing laws to fight domestic terrorism – including bringing charges for offenses involving weapons or explosives violations, hate crimes and arson, there have been more than 430 arrests made in connection with the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol “carried out by extremist supporters of then-President Donald Trump” (as Bloomberg puts it).

    *Well, anyone that opposes the current regime, that is.

    • Rebel Scum

      Speaking of assuming facts not in evidence:

      Democratic Rep. Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania – chairman of the subcommittee, said that: “Right-wing extremist attacks and plots have greatly outnumbered those from all other groups combined and caused more deaths as well,” adding “This is a cancer on our country.”

      • Rebel Scum

        Additionally, collectivist ideologies are not “right-wing”. They are patently left-wing. Also additionally, “extreme” is a relative term, you dishonest cunte.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Right wing and left wing are played out, it’s individualism vs collectivism that matters. As far as pols go I’ll take Manchin or Gabbard over Liz Cheney and her scum ilk any day. Anyone who throws out the right/left canard should be viewed with suspicion.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’d definitely take Tulsi over Liz.

      • Rebel Scum

        For the purposes of having a left/right spectrum I consider the following…

        Left: Big-government collectivism
        Right: Small-government individualism

        I’ll take Manchin or Gabbard over Liz Cheney

        Agreed.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I hear you on the left right thing but people tend to go into the weeds arguing about the definitions instead of discussing the important points. Was Hitler left or right? Who gives a shit? Same with Stalin or Mao or many others.

      • Gustave Lytton

        If those right wing assholes won’t play their kabuki role in our civil war larping, we’ll just roll right over them.

        Also, fuck you Traitor Joe, you mentally degenerate asshole. Sic semper tyrannis.

    • Trigger Hippie

      You get a hate crime!

      You get a hate crime!

      YOU GET A HATE CRIME!!!

      …?!!!!!!!!!!

    • Not an Economist

      β€œThe predominant part of that domestic threat ” is white nationalists,

      If you try to kill a bunch of Republican Congressman, that is called suicide by cop.

      What the Democrats, DOJ, and FBI are doing is claiming anything related to the left is just random violence, while anything related to the right is terrorism.

  7. Yusef drives a Kia

    I can not believe the week I just had, I( flew out to Cali, had a Fuckfest, then went home to a bunch of work drama, Life is good,

    • rhywun

      Never change, The Washington Post.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I say we make Mel Gibson the Pope and let him sort it out.

    • Hank

      I’ll believe that the Pope and the bishops are actually Catholic when I actually see it.

    • rhywun

      I wonder how all those “right-wing bishops” feel about being dragged into the Post’s ridiculous political theater.

  8. Spudalicious

    #1 – SEND THEM TO GRAIN SLAVERY!!!

    #2 – CLEANSE, THIS EVIL SEED FROM THE GENE POOL. STERILIZER HER PARENTS AND SEND THEM TO GRAIN SLAVERY!!!

  9. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Anthony Cumia and Gilbert Gottfried riff on topical humor based on Bob Denver, Liberace, Todd Bridges:

    https://youtu.be/ZKpyr_r_BB8

    Funniest shit I’ve heard in a while.

    • Drake

      If I have to go back to a daily commute, I’ll have to pay for Compound Media.

  10. Trigger Hippie

    Last call: Sorry all. I’ve had a shit week and I’m currently shit posting tonight to let off some steam, that’s all. It’s out of my system now and I won’t post again tonight. Don’t hesitate to comment because a response by me may be a possibility. Comment away.

    …again, sorry. I’m out.

    • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

      We all have those weeks, d00d. Peace.

    • Gustave Lytton

      If that’s shit posting, it’s the mildest shitposting I’ve seen.

    • Chafed

      This makes different from the rest of us how?

  11. Tres Cool

    Im off to work, kids. Mind the shop.

    /faces Zoom call. Moons KK

  12. Rebel Scum

    From the morning links:

    Agent Cooper on April 30, 2021 at 10:37 am

    I like SOLO. Fight me.

    It wasn’t enough for Darth Disney to destroy Luke. They also had to destroy Han. I couldn’t even make it through this garbage while drinking and Mystery Science Theatering the fuck out of it. And I tried twice.

    • one true athena

      Leia too.

  13. Rebel Scum

    So we are not supposed to embrace and experience other cultures?

    Some parents told 8News that the β€˜promenade’ walk-through planned for Saturday evening, is β€˜culturally insensitive.’

    β€œThere are NO pandemic travel restrictions at the PROMenade! Visit Hollywood, Mexico, Kenya, Italy and Paris for delicious themed treats, gift cards, and giveaways (not to mention more great photo ops!)”

    According to an online sign-up sheet for the β€˜Around the World’ theme, the high school’s parent, teacher and student organization asked for several decorations. Among them are items like animal masks, baskets, rain sticks and drums. The items are intended to represent Kenya.

    For Hawaii, Midlothian High School PTSO members asked for tiki torches. For Mexico, members asked for maracas. …

    β€œSome were disgusted. Some were very concerned, and some wanted to seek some type of assistance in helping the school as well as the county guide and navigate these waters that we always seem to find ourselves back into,” said Marks. …

    Marks believes there needs to be more diversity and inclusion training within Chesterfield County Public Schools and that there should be people of color also involved in these types of decisions.

    β€œTo ensure that every culture here in the county is appropriately celebrated and appreciated and not appropriated and disrespected,” said Marks.

    • Hank

      “Tonight’s prom theme is, ‘baby, I promise I’ll be respectful when I appropriate your culture.'”

    • dbleagle

      Hawaii is not hugely into tiki torches. You want to look like a local? Flip flops, boardshorts, t-shirt or aloha shirt, and sunglasses will fill the requirement nicely. Put up a “Remove shoes” sign, throw shakas liberally while using the Hawaiian language words everybody knows: aloha, mahalo, braaaa, auntie/uncle, kapuna, puka, ohana, kamaʻāina (hello/goodbye, thank you, braaaa, older woman/man, elder, small hole, family, local)

      • dbleagle

        South Park had an excellent episode which lampooned Hawaii effectively and funnily. “Going Native” Season 16, Episode 11

        If you’ve spent time here you can recognize it all, plus it was set in Kauai instead of the easy poke at Oahu.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Doesn’t mahalo mean garbage?

      • Mojeaux

        You forgot haole.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        That is an important one, it lets you know that you may need to run. Especially if you are on the inland side of Waikiki or the west side of Ouahu.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        I spent a week on the west side of Oahu, the Makaha Coast. Makaha means savage in Hawaiian, so apparently it’s had a reputation for some time.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Big sometimes awesome, sometimes angry, and racist Samoans live there, I don’t know what the threat was when it was named.

      • dbleagle

        I thought about it, but unless you are saying, “Sorry braaa, but what do I know? I’m just a dumb haole.” There are few polite ways of using the word. But you are correct- everybody does know what it means.

  14. zwak

    In the PM lynx I mentioned that I received the JAB and that the med establishment were morons. And then left everyone hanging.

    So, the back story; I have MS and take an immunosuppressant. Oregon did not release the general pop for the virus until the 19th of this month but had various groups of “need” go first. Teachers, obese and aged. But not people with MS. OK, as I am not very worried about the virus. So, OK. But, my wife is a bit of a hypochondriac and has low-level fears of the ‘Rona. And, working for the university, she was given some priority. OK. But now she wants me to get it. OK, why not.

    Now, I expected my health insurance to notify me of my eligibility, as everyone was now eligible. You know, give me some direction with this whole shebang. But I heard nothing, so I did a little digging and found (by using the search function for their website) that the main location for my health provider did indeed provide the JAB. Now, with the giant push to immunize everyone under the (USA, not Indian) sun, that there would be some sort of notification on the home page. But no.

    Anyway, even with the startling lack of direction in my state, I made an appointment and showed up about a half-hour before my allotted time. And had no wait. See, there wasn’t any great crowd of people who wanted it, so it was a breeze to get in and out. I just had to fill out some paperwork for the nurses. Ah, questions about allergic reactions (all good), questions about if I had already been vaccinated (?), and the interesting question, to me. “Do you take an immunosuppressant?” Or something like that. And, when the nurse noticed that line, she remarked “oh, that makes you more susceptible to COVID!” No, because Our Governer, Kate Brownshirt doesn’t think so, or I would have been given precedence, no! The nurse did not seem to get this.

    But they did give me a sticker once JABed to show everyone that I had been vaccinated. This is like an I VOTED sticker, which is obviously more important than letting people know that they can get the vaccine.

    The other thing that struck me was people wearing makes outside after the CDC declared that it was OK not to. Now, that might not seem like much, but this was a college town, wear they are quite proud to put signs in their yards that they believe in SCIENCE!!!! So, why don’t they follow the CDC’s scientific guidelines? Maybe because it has nothing to do with any scientific fact at this point, but is closer to a religious fetish.

    • one true athena

      the nice National Guardsman did not give me a sticker for my jab yesterday! NO FAIR

      But yes, we noticed the same thing. First shot, the line at Long Beach Convention Center was frakking Disneyland, switchbacks and hundreds of cars. But yesterday for second? we drove right in.

      I saw a chart that the JJ “pause” made demand for all the vaccines fall off a cliff. Good job CDC you are all morons and the top floor should have been fired a year ago.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      The VA has called me a few times to set up an appointment to get it. I am taking a wait and see approach, Plus, I have already been infected (and I SURVIVED!*) so I am probably relatively immune,

      *as did %99.9 of my age cohort

      • Chafed

        My health insurer sent me two emails today suggesting I get the jab.

    • Mojeaux

      Edit? No, and I wouldn’t. That’s a niche area.

      Format for ebook? Absolutely.

  15. Gender Traitor

    Just got home from a little winery in an old schoolhouse out in the country one county over. Watched a father & son musical duo we’ve known since the son was a prepubescent harp (harmonica) prodigy. He’s now a grown-ass man and can growl the blues. This song was the evening’s finale – reminded me of a story Tom T’s BIL tells of once getting a similar offer, but across the other border. (For the record, he respectfully declined the offer.)

    • Mojeaux

      I don’t know if you have ever heard of Rick Beato, but he has a YouTube channel that is just fantastic (if a little intimidating for a childhood musician who never understood theory). He does a series on “What makes this song great?” and breaks down different rock songs. He does other topics too, lists on the 20 greatest Whatevers.

      • Gender Traitor

        Thanks! His name sounds familiar, but I don’t know where or how I may have heard of him. Just scrolled through the list of his videos – Jeeminy criminy! I could spend the rest of my life watching them! Checking out one of his episodes about Tom Petty at the moment. πŸ™‚

      • Mojeaux

        But I suspect you might enjoy this one even more.

        HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! I ran across that the other night and bookmarked it for when I have an hour of mindless labor.

        I’d stumbled across this video about a key change in a single song.

        lol I noped out at “modal mixture common tone enharmonic double chromatic mediant modulation”.

        For somebody who did a lot more music than art as a kid, I feel like I can understand art’s nuances better than music’s. Also, did I tell you I’m going back to school? For art.

      • Gender Traitor

        I remember seeing you say you were thinking about it! That’s fantastic! What are you going to study first?

      • Mojeaux

        “Design Foundations” and “Drawing I.” I may sign up for another one, but I’m debating putting myself on a degree path or not since a degree is not my goal.

      • Gender Traitor

        Ah! Gives me flashbacks to first semester freshman year at Miami, when I took “Visual Fundamentals” and Drawing 1. I was able to skip the second semesters of those classes because I’d put together an AP portfolio for visual art my senior year of HS. (Also got to skip Art History after taking the AP test.) I think I overdid it second semester trying to take too many art classes at once, and after that I started my long stint of changing majors almost every semester. :-/

        I wouldn’t recommend taking more than two studio classes at once, especially as busy as you say your biz has been lately. You ARE used to pulling all-nighters, though, right? πŸ˜€

      • Mojeaux

        The other class I was thinking about taking was history of western art, which is an internet class.

      • Gender Traitor

        Oh, that would be excellent. Do you know if it’s log-in-whenever-you-damn-well-please, or do you have to show up at specific days & times? One of the writing classes I’ve considered taking at the local CC has always been either in person or online-but-at-specific-times, and It’s always weekday afternoons in the middle of my work day. πŸ™

        I wonder if the Janson art history text is still widely used for survey classes. I don’t know what happened to the copy I had – wish I still had it.

      • Mojeaux

        Do you know if it’s log-in-whenever-you-damn-well-please, or do you have to show up at specific days & times?

        No, it’s a lecture and on a specific day and time. However, I decided such a class isn’t really part of my goal and I would be wasting time when what I want is to be able to draw and paint the things in my head.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        The Adam Neely vlog about the key change focuses on Celine Dion’s performance of the song both before and after she lost her husband; the analysis is both musically quite sophisticated but also very touching and human. I found it quite moving and not at all intimidating, and I’m certainly no sophisticate when it comes to music.

      • Gender Traitor

        I’m a bit of a sucker for a well-done key modulation. (Think of the Whoville Whos’ “Welcome Christmas” song in the original Grinch.) I try to sing stuff like that a cappella when alone in my car just to see if I can do it. (Narrator: Sometimes she can’t.)

      • Mojeaux

        So the Carpenter song “We’ve only just begun” — You might have noticed I deliberately didn’t use that for Jack and Daisy’s wedding. πŸ˜‰

      • Gender Traitor

        I remember wondering about that when I read it. I can’t remember if you’ve told me why you didn’t. Just too obvious?

      • Mojeaux

        “We’ve only just begun” is just a cliche. “Top of the World” was for the kids. “Sing a Song” was more subtle, playing to Daisy’s need to perform and Jack’s love of Karen’s voice.

    • Spudalicious

      That was glorious.

  16. Shpip

    So I’ve printed out a few CDC COVID-19 vax cards that I downloaded from the forum. Seeing how they’re filled out from the innumerable pics on social media, I’ve decided to make my pharma company and dose lot as “J+J NCC 1701” (don’t see any reason to fake two doses of Pfizer or Moderna).

    What are the chances that anyone looking at the card would a) be a Trekkie, b) recognize the fake lot alphanumeric, and c) call me out on it?

    • Gender Traitor

      For increased obscurity and greater geek cred, try

      • Gender Traitor

        Oops! Try THX 1138.

      • Chafed

        You’ll be fine if the agent is under 50 and isn’t a movie buff.

      • Shpip

        Yeah, the wife is a Star Wars gal. She’d probably notice, but wouldn’t say anything.

        As it is, our summer vacation involves driving to the Outer Banks, then to Sea Island, Georgia, so a coof hall pass won’t really be necessary… this year.

  17. dbleagle

    Damn it. The system just ate my comments about how looking at low flying videos and living a low flying flight are vastly different.

    • Tejicano

      This is why I usually type long posts into a Word document and then copypasta them into the “COMMENT” field here. That’s saved my assertions more than once.

  18. topnotchtoledo

    Fun Amtrak fact for tax payers: 87,000 average daily users. That is .00026 of the US using Amtrak on average every day.

    • topnotchtoledo

      Biden wants to spend 10 billion a year on Amtrak. They claim to have 30 million users. That’s roughly $300 per ride, not rider since many in the NE corridor are repeat. We could just give every single “ride” $300 and the taxpayer would break even if we eliminated Amtrak. It’s a bigger waste of money than I imagined

  19. UnCivilServant

    I remember why I don’t cook for myself so much. I’d eat even more than I do.

    Cooked two rashers of bacon (halved) used the bacon fat to toast two english muffins (split)

    In the same pan cooked a pair of burger patties seasoned with salt and pepper next to two eggs seasoned with pepper.

    Stacked bacon on the bottom with some sliced pickled banana peppers. Stacked the burger patty, a slice of american cheese, the fully cooked fried egg, and the upper half of the muffin for each.

    So much flavor, so juicy.

    • Gender Traitor

      I love a fried egg on a burger – I used to get that at Steak -n- Shake before they began circling the drain and closing all the nearby locations. πŸ™ Fortunately, the regional Big Boy chain started carrying the Farmhouse Boy, though I still usually default to my beloved Swiss Miss.

      ::discreetly dabs drool from keyboard::

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh noe πŸ˜‰ I didn’t mean to cost you a keyboard πŸ˜›

      • Gender Traitor

        Don’t worry. Ummm….I think it’ll be OK. ::fires up hair dryer::

        In other tech news, apparently the fan in my work PC is on its last legs. I usually leave it on and just log out of Windows, but I had to reboot yesterday and it started a Dell hardware check and suddenly started beeping LOUDLY until I frantically clicked on the “Continue” button. And, of course, our Senior VP of IT (only techie on our staff) was off Thursday & Friday. I moved my small office fan to blast air at the CPU, which cluttered up my desk even more than it already was, but the machine hasn’t crapped out yet. ::crosses fingers::

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t know what sort of support you have with dell, but they would replace parts for us even when it was a case of user damage (ie plugging a 120v power supply in a 220v outlet) In any case, fans are easy to swap out.

      • Gender Traitor

        The machine is still under warranty, and our 3rd party tech support checked what he could remotely, opened a ticket, and told us how to go about requesting service at Dell’s website. My boss gave it a shot, but was getting instructions to install something he says he didn’t have access to install. I had to shut the PC down for the weekend anyway – my boss and the IT SVP are coming in to do something Sunday that required all PCs be shut off – and the IT SVP will be back in Monday to deal with it.

    • Chafed

      Dagwood Bumstead is that you?

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t tell me you wouldn’t have wanted one.

      • Chafed

        Well being vegetarian… let’s just say I like your concept.

  20. dbleagle

    Damn you Mo! I have fallen into the time suck hole of “What makes this song great?” Very interesting.

    • Mojeaux

      Happy to help! ?

  21. Gender Traitor

    Before I wreck my sleep schedule entirely, I think I’d best head for bed. The challenge: get in the bedroom and shut the door behind me before either of the cats can follow me in.

    Good night, Glibdom!

    • UnCivilServant

      Good night. I should probably get sleep myself.

  22. Ownbestenemy

    Yard sale day tomorrow. Got a air hockey table that we picked up free that we are going to sell. Some other random crap…actually if someone wants to take it, I am just willing to let them.

    • Chafed

      Selling someone else’s trash for money sounds like a sweet deal.

    • Tres Cool

      Damn it…Id like an air hockey table !

    • Suthenboy

      Congratulations to every idiot that spent the last four years foaming at the mouth about Orange Man Bad and then pulled the lever for Biden.

      • The Hyperbole

        Had I done those things I don’t think this would be high on the list of my regrets, He appointed a woman who once worked at the same magazine as an idiot who believed the “Israel knew about 9/11beforehand” bullshit? That’s some very weak tea.

      • Festus

        Hype being Hype. I really dug your illustrations for Tonio’s little bed-time story. How goes it, Friend?

      • The Hyperbole

        I am well, Festus. Sunshine and coffee, going to a cookout/hang-about for the big horse thing later, all in all I got no complaints.

  23. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh

    Whats goody fam

    • Festus

      Mornin’ BH! Got work sort of herded (for now) and am going to drown meself in short cans for awhile more and spend my one day off sleeping it off! What’s the good word with you?

      • Tres Cool

        I got out on time, Jugsy is home for the weekend, and I have 30 regular-sized cans (not counting hers).
        Sounds like we have a similar plan for the day, only I work tonight.

      • Festus

        *takes stock* Yep, about 30 sounds right. Imma gonna get a little faced this AM! Cheers to the beers and who cares about the queers!

  24. Festus

    Wow, last night’s Zoomer must have been a doozy! It’s deader than Biden’s testicles around these parts…