MS. MANNERS
ETIQUETTE EXPERT.
STEVE SMITH GLAD BE HERE. HIM BEEN THINKING ABOUT ETIQUETTE. SO NOW HIM HAVE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS TO SHARE ADVICE WITH! HIM READ OLD HOOMAN MS. MANNERS. SHAKE HEAD…NOT GOOD ADVICE AS STEVE SMITH GIVE.
SO HERE ADVICE FROM STEVE SMITH. STEVE SMITH HAVE BEST MANNERS!
Q: Please help me form a polite response to people on the street who feel they must tell me to put on a mask. I, like many others, suffer from medical issues that make it very difficult to tolerate a face mask for more than a few moments. Ironically, these same medical issues cause me to be at a higher risk for infection and serious consequences from COVID-19.
I self-isolate as much as possible. I sincerely appreciate others wearing their masks, as this helps to protect me and people with similar issues. I want those who are expressing concern about my going without a mask to know I’m not being a jerk; I’m just doing the best I can.
A: STEVE SMITH HALP WITH PROBLEM. HIM COME ALONG WITH YOU. WHEN MASK NAG HAPPEN, HIM PUT ON MASK AND DEAL WITH KAREN. BY DEAL WITH, MEAN RAPE.
MR. SMITH ESQ., WILL HANDLE ALL MASK INQUIRIES
WORD GET OUT SOON, AND NO MORE MASK PESTER. IF NOT WANT WAIT UNTIL STEVE SMITH ESTABLISH YOU REPUTATION, SAY “CDC SCIENCING DOCTORS SAY NO MASKS OUTSIDE. WHYCOME U HATE SCIENCES?” THEN HIT ON HEAD WITH BIG ROCK.
HERE ANSWER!
Q: My community, like many others, encourages recycling, and each household is allotted two open bins for a weekly pickup. Because I live alone, I have extra space left over in my bins, so I allow my neighbor, who has a family of five, to place her overflow into mine.
Ordinarily this would be fine, except that it has led to a regular assortment of her family’s wine bottles being placed on the top of each of my bins, on full display for the neighborhood.
This wouldn’t bother me, except that I am a recovering alcoholic — a fact that many on the street are aware of. This new barrage of liquor-related refuse has led some neighbors to speculate that I’ve relapsed, as I’ve done in the past. I’ve fended off several veiled inquiries probing the possibility of my needing help again, as my denial is never fully believed.
I don’t mind helping my neighbor, but how do I politely ask her to exclude the wine bottles from my bins? It sounds funny to say that I worry about the neighbors examining my recyclables and drawing incorrect conclusions, but in reality, that’s exactly what’s happening.
A: STEVE SMITH KNOW THAT NO GOOD DEED EVER UNPUNISHED. THROW BOOZEHOUND FAMILY BOTTLE BACK IN THEM YARD. SAY YOU SAW RACCOON, IT DID ALL TRASH DUMPING! WHEN OTHER NEIGHBOR LOOK AT THEM, LOUDLY WHISPER ABOUT HOW THEM MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE WCTU MEMBER.
STEVE SMITH EVEN PROVIDE FREE RACCOON.
IT ALWAYS EASY BLAME TRASH PANDA.
FREE CASCADIA!
“ It sounds funny to say that I worry about the neighbors examining my recyclables and drawing incorrect conclusions…”
It sounds like you quit drinking for all the wrong reasons.
What will the neighbors think?
https://youtu.be/4eNsApIjNDY
If you saw my beer can collection……
?Michigan sucks for recycling
Doesn’t MI have a mandatory nickel rebate on cans?
How about you tell your neighbors to fuck right off for looking through your fucking trash. Holy fuck, these people. I knew a bunch of these lunatics when I was sober. The whole fucking world is not interested in your inner drama. Get over yourself and do what you’re gonna do.
I, like many others, suffer from medical issues that make it very difficult to tolerate a face mask for more than a few moments.
Bullshit, I don’t give a fuck whether people mask or not but I do find the amazing amount of people who can’t breathe through a piece of tissue paper incredulous, It reminds me of the second hand smoke whiners.
COPD. Just sayin’.
Of course secondhand smoke is worse. It’s been inside the lungs of a filthy smoker! That vermin contaminates that natural tobacco.
Breathe https://youtu.be/8TTPCGbNJsg
Breather XOXO https://youtu.be/7ybftS-XG_A
Breathe
Breathe deep, the gathering gloom.
Remember To Breathe
At least it’s not Maroon 5
Maroon 5 – Harder To Breathe
That was fucking cruel.
Breathe you fucker.
Breathe with me
Niiice.
TIL the lead singer killed himself in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Flint#Death
Breathe
Girl at work has major asthma and breathing problems which has led to hospitalizations previously. I believe her.
Sure there are some people who may have issues, just as some people may have issues with some one smoking in the same room with them, I’m just skeptical of how many people suddenly can’t wear a mask for ten minutes just like the all the people who started coughing when someone lit a ciggie across the room.
I’m sorta with you on this one, but the far bigger problem is the nanny assholes demanding everyone wear a mask. I have to at work for 9.5 hours a day and I drop it under my nose or all the way down whenever I can. I roasted one of my lungs in the ’94 earthquake and actually have COPD. I can wear the face panty long enough to go to the store, but that’s about my limit. Longer than that and I’m lowering the thing at least below my nose.
You’re confusing ‘can not’ and ‘will not’.
I really don’t give a fuck what excuses people use to keep the karen brigade off their dick.
I’m taking people at their word, they are the ones making bullshit excuses, whether they need an excuse or not doesn’t change the bullshit-ed-ness of their excuse. Man up and say “Fuck you I don’t want to wear a mask”. don’t hide behind some lame “My lungs are wimpy organs ” justification.
You ever consider that the only reason they gotta float that reason is the assholes trying to force the masks in the first place. I’m all for owning your rebellion, trust me. I’ve gone to jail for shit like that, but I don’t harbor any malice towards people just trying to be left alone by weaseling out of it. Good for them.
Put another way, don’t ask me no questions and I won’t tell you no lies.
Yes I have considered that, my problem is that you have ceded the high ground, you are giving them power by saying that you need a bullshit excuse to ignore their bullshit rules.
you are giving them power
They have all the power they need already. They’re gonna steamroller dissen
Well then let’s just roll over and shown them our nuts then.
I don’t want the high ground. I can attack just as effectively from the gutter.
Pull hair, poke eyes, groin stuff. Whatever I gotta do.
“I’m taking people at their word,…”
That’s your problem.
Whatever, the reasons to wear a mask are bullshit, so why should anyone give a fuck about excuses that are “bullshit”?
Not paper, but 2 layers of cloth. With 64% relative humidity, it gets hard for me to breathe (as well as see – I wear glasses).
Work is instituting a new policy: If you voluntarily prove you have been vaccinated, you get a special sticker for your badge (and a $100 gift card to the severely overpriced company store). That sticker allows you to go maskless while at work. I think I may have to invest in one of those Cricut sticker making machines!
My work is begging us all to fess up who’s gotten the MKUltra shot. I’m the only one who hasn’t yet, in my shop. The supervisor came out and bragged about how he weaseled his way in before we were eligible. The few rational people there are now beginning to have doubts that it was as wise as they figured. Especially now that Biden is forcing us to stick with the exact same face panty regimen as we’ve had this whole time, at least until Sept.
Eventually we may have to take the needle. In the meantime, I’m sticking to Needles and Pins-uh https://youtu.be/ugDXpdjmpgw
I like some oldies, but I want the hard stuff in my needles.
Noice. Rabbit hole; entered.
Mask Nazis to be supplied by HR?
I had to quit wearing some of my masks that were just too thick if my asthma is flaring up.
I have found my double layered chiffon ones to by far easier to breathe through (and lightweight too), even though they have a fairly tight weave.
With glasses, masks are nigh impossible.
Woah! Steve Smith is looking good for his age. I had no idea!
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/chicago/news/press-releases/fbi-chicago-warns-illinois-residents-about-covid-19-vaccination-card-fraud
“I’M NOT LOCKED IN THIS INTERROGATION ROOM WITH YOU. YOURE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME. AND BY INTERROGATION BEEN RAPE..”
I probably made a couple of dozen car insurance cards for friends, back before the statute of limitations ran out on that sort of thing, when they first started giving people 1000.00 fines for that bullshit. I just would have rather’d my friends kept that money.
A friend indeed. Now you have to submit policy information at every renewal or any other DMV transaction.
Reminds me of, uh other people, who would print up DOT on yellow stickers for their longtime skull caps when motorcycle helmets were first made mandatory.
In Cali, the insurance companies report directly to the DMV and, by extension, the cops and the court. Ain’t no faking it anymore.
Hmmm.. I wonder if they have the same here and the required proof submission is just verification/penalty for false statement/bureaucratic inertia.
Zardoz gives the gift of the gun, STEVE SMITH give the gift of the raccoon (AND RAPE)?
I don’t mind helping my neighbor, but how do I politely ask her to exclude the wine bottles from my bins? It sounds funny to say that I worry about the neighbors examining my recyclables and drawing incorrect conclusions, but in reality, that’s exactly what’s happening.
Easy. Tell them you learned recycling is a waste of time and resources unless it is steel. Also, who gives a fuck what ones neighbors think.
Fuck the Neighbors https://youtu.be/jg9JnTr1SfY
Rooting around gun stuff tonight, I found cases of ammo I forgot about. Yay me.
Rooting around in my freezer today, I found a couple of pork chops. https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/L_oI_LheRX-wiGNlyR7KLA.aqYWktSH6OZ34aNqEKhSKX
Your security for said pork chops is conspicuously absent.
My hands are registered as deadly weapons with both the FBI, CIA, Interpol, and the International Police.
So you can’t put ’em in your pockets without a CCW permit?
Mmmm…pork chops…
That’s what I had for dinner.
Last fall, Pope Jimbo gave me 2 pheasants, dressed or undressed, cleaned anyway. Had an Asian style soup with shredded pheasant for dinner to night, Jimbo is a charitable guy, feels sorry for me too. More soup tomorrow, I hope.
Glad to hear you’re doing better. And soup. Soup of the Onion https://youtu.be/bF_ONAh8gmI
I just found the rest of my case of cowboy action .44 magnum rounds. I gave up on them because they spit copper out of the cylinder gap. Probably fine in a lever action. I have about 250 rounds. Low power and smoky too.
Howdy Peeps! I got nuthin’ except,
TALL CANS!
Nu Metal,
https://open.spotify.com/collection/tracks
Cheers, Bob! Bourbon and branch. Metal Carnage https://youtu.be/klkOzpus_4E
Old Fashioneds with Four Roses Single Barrel. Plus, I have a bottle of cheap pinot noir for a late dinner. I’m gonna be fucking worthless tomorrow…
At MIL’s for her birthday – wine at family friends, bourbon smash at restaurant, split a bottle of rosé, now single malt. I may not be all that worthwhile tomorrow either.
Oooooh, wine>whisky>wine>whisky? Drink a bunch of water, and pre-mix a pitcher of Bloody Marys for tomorrow morning…
Hydrating as we speak.
Not the first time I’ve mixed it up like this, so I’ll be OK. Just a nightcap, not really getting after it.
I dodged the “Implicit Bias” training bullet today. Got stuck in a long job doing a fuel pump on a Caprice cop car. My buddy did it and he said Garcetti gives a rambling speech to start the festivities. Yeah, this Garcetti. I looked over his shoulder and saw a snippet. The part I saw said it was bias to offer to help people and then, literally in the next sentence it said it was bias to not offer to help people. I am dreading having to sit through that shit.
Thank goodness I got my vaccine back in March or August or whenever, or I’d still have to wear the mask to go shopping.
For a state with over 50% of its adult citizens vaccinated, mask compliance is still almost 100%. I saw three other maskless people in two different outings this afternoon.
We’re allegedly going to free of our mandate June 15th, at least out in the world. At work, Biden fucked us with a mandate until September 13th.
We wear into the building and out of the building at the ATCT and tracon. No one is really following at least in our FAA facility.
The culture where I work is punitive in nature. We will get sanctioned for any and everything. It’s getting a bit more relaxed, mostly because almost everyone got vaxxed. It’s still mandatory almost all of the time, especially when a big shot is around. We’re city workers on a federally controlled property.
Our is… exactly the opposite. Nobody working in the office ever bothered with the mask. Even the postmillennial twerp I’m training has quit it with the mask theater when he leaves his cubicle. We hired on a 20-something engineer, she doesn’t wear one. The intern doesn’t wear one.
The only people I see wear the mask around the office is the founder, who’s in his mid-seventies and drops in only occasionally, and the guy who took his wife’s name in the marriage. I won’t bother elaborating on that other than to say it’s somewhat understandable since his wife and her boyfriend have a newborn around.
I don’t even know what the face of my intern from 2020 looks like. I could recognize his eyes and eyebrows though, I think.
How the hell do the shops know if you’re vaccinated? Do they make you prove you’ve been vaccinated for mumps and rubella too?
Shhhh We’re all very conscientious citizens and nobody would ever fib about something big like whether I’m protected against a virus that all the unmasked and therefore vaccinated people can’t give me.
Circular reasoning is circular.
And yet, like Winston’s Mom, somehow less wrong.
Coming in 2026….
Culinary question. Pounded chicken breast to make even, seared and then finished off in oven to 165.
The texture felt raw but was surely cooked through. Was it the beating or didnt let rest long enough?
Needed more choking. It always very tender after enough of that.
Funnily the intertubes calls it ‘woody breast’
So hah!
Spongey texture?
Slightly yeah.
Same old song and the same old devil but a slightly different version:
https://youtu.be/Jwtyn-L-2gQ
They were damn badass back in the day, no doubt.
The idea of a young Keith Richards seems weird.
Good news: A new restaurant opened up in our neighborhood a few weeks ago. I was there last Saturday night to pick up a takeout order, and almost nobody was wearing a mask. I think one waitress had a mask, and a few customers had masks when they came in, but I didn’t see any of these incoming masked customers freaking out about the lack of masks. Some other restaurants around here seem pretty indifferent about masks – most of the employees are wearing them, but they don’t seem to be giving customers any shit if they’re not wearing them.
Bad news: I went to an outdoor mall tonight and at least half the people walking around outdoors had masks. WTF people, you all need to start fucking loving Science.
I was asked this week at work (by some dude from another department) whether I had gotten my COVID shot yet. I immediately asked back “Have you had your prostate exam yet?” That was the end of his line of questioning.
Lol, I just tell them I’m immune, been there, done that,
Not immune, but I already had it in March last year.
WINSTON’S MOM: Prostate exams cost extra.
The mask theatre is about over at work, even the Big boss is escaping the Diaper when he can, none us us backline people wear them, except for theatre, it’s really sad to mislead your work force, yet they do,
If they don’t play ball, they will be ruined through social media or some other crusade calling itself “[Fill-in-the-blank] Justice.”
It’s easier to go along with the theater than to undo bad publicity from stupid tweets and other social media.
How far down that path (the go along to get along path) we go is up to the individual. I don’t think we’ve hit rock bottom yet.
Local Safeway finally pulled up the one way stickers this week.
Yeah, our board game sticker came up a while ago. They also opened both doors. For most of this, they only let you go in one door and out the other. Apparently the powers that be were listening to the late seventies Led Zeppelin album when they dreampt that one up.
If it wasn’t for the place I work I would have gone postal long ago. The only person who ever wears a mask at work is the college student intern and even she is starting to forget to put it back on after lunch or having a drink.
The stupid Tokyo (and surrounding areas) STATE OF EMERGENCY we are enduring means no alcohol served anywhere in Tokyo and at most venues in adjacent suburbs. You would think the Taliban was taking over. Two major reasons why I chose to live here was for the (heavy) drinking culture and seeing pretty faces all the time during my commute. My workplace has become an oasis for me – they have a fridge and cases or ChuHi and beer stacked up. Popping one open at my desk at 5:00 PM is always an option. Generally – not every day but 3 or 4 times a week – the owner and/or company president call me over to have one (two, three?) before 6:00 PM if I haven’t started by then.
That bites. How long has that been in place?
It’s been on again off again for a few months. And it gets interpreted differently at different places. The first go-round it was “no drinks served after 7 PM”. Now there are some venues that don’t serve alcohol at all, some that do – but only until 7 PM. From what I’ve seen everywhere in Tokyo has stopped serving alcohol entirely.
So my office has become a bar after work shuts down. Any of us who want to hang out are invited to stay and drink. The owner has friends show up and people from other companies we collaborate with are invited to drop in and have a few.
Having your office transform into a bar after hours? I can imagine worse fates…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfgs9FRD25M
Some well needed nice news. Friend is building a gaming PC with his young teenage son. As has been noted here new video cards are scarce. He ordered a 1650 GTX from eBay to tide himself over until the 3000 series became more available. Turns out it was scam seller. So my friend had the hassle of protesting the charge with PayPal and an unhappy son.
So he went over to the local Micro Center to essentially buy any video card they had so they could at least get the system working. He was explaining what happened to one of the sales staff and she felt badly for him. She sold him one of three 3070s they had in stock that they were reserving for people buying whole systems. Price was $700 which given the crisis is actually quite reasonable.
That’s breath of fresh air!
Cool. MicroCenter is generally pretty awesome.
Fuck me.
“face diaper” = “block insane yomamma”
Not quite that bad, but similar vibe to me.
I laughed the first month or three. I’m sick of the whole mess now.
+1 libtard
Hate that. Every bit as bad as “rethuglican”. OK, maybe not quite as stupid, but still…
Nah. Not even remotely similar.
This.
I might have agreed six months ago but the longer this shit goes on the more scornful I’m getting.
Friday Funbags at the buzzer for the win!
https://archive.li/nFy5B
Did we get a new fake President this week?
https://mobile.twitter.com/AirCoinRespctor/status/1395530015333355527
Ha ha ha! It would be funny if they had three or four of them which they trot out at different times. Just in case the worst of the bunch voids its warrantee.
Everytime I read what tyrannical states are requiring, it reminds how Florida and Georgia’s lack of mask mandates and lockdowns has been treated by the commies in the media.
I dont wear a mask. Im not getting any wuhanvirus vaccine. I have gone out almost every week to shop, eat out, and drink booze since the hysteria began.
Georgia and Georgians are doing great. We have had steady visitors from nearly every state since this started. Atlanta is run by Lefties, so they have the some of the science denial requirements going on. Even the lemmings are not wearing masks.
We have some businesses and out of state corporations that require masks, so you go into businesses that dont.
We just get ignored by the commie media because from day 1, Georgia’s handling of wuhanvirus blew the Lefty narrative out of the water.
I wish you all the best but cold war 2.0 and civil war 2.0 are going to take its pound of flesh from most Americans.
Also pay close attention to vaccine antibody studies.
Evidently people who had the virus have spikes in antibodies and people who get the vaccines have spikes in antibodies. The vaccines work as designed. Duration of the wuhanvirus antibodies is unknown.
I dont think we will ever get the truth on actual wuhanvirus caused deaths, actual exposure rates to Americans preMarch 2020, or admission from democrats that they are the party pf slavery, kkk, and segregation.
My experience has been that outside of Deep Blue cities the mask compliance has been pretty patchy. Here in CO, outside of Denver and Boulder the mask compliance was never very high and for the past couple of months it’s been close to non-existent. I was going out to eat up until q-ette was born (then my non-participation had nothing to do with masking).
I’ll also give credit where it’s due: Polis has been relatively, comparatively non that shitty for a Dem.
Murphy is still trying to keep this shit going in NJ.
Kemp locked down in April 2020 so I don’t give us as much credit as, say, South Dakota, but at least he reversed course after only a month. I’ve been living mostly normally, but proximity to Atlanta means there’s still too many places with restrictions for my liking *glares at Northside Hospital and their draconian visitor policies*
I bet he didn’t even score a five-million-dollar book deal praising his own magnificence. What a loser.
What a sucker.
Water runs uphill, pigs fly, and a university apologizes for censoring “transphobes.” In the UK!
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/05/21/british-university-apologizes-disinviting-academics-over-views-gender
At least they got around to it. That’s more than most universities.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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I almost got caught unconscious on account of the inebriation and also the benadryl, but I’m back, I’m back I don’t know what for or whereof for but I’m back, I tell you I’m back, jesus crimony I’m tired but I’m here now.
I’m fully awake now, still pretty drunk, but really very awfully awake now. So. What else is going on with us all now.
There’s this.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/05/21/you-people-are-monsters-randi-weingarten-says-to-keep-elementary-school-students-in-masks-until-theyre-vaccinated/
I passed a school the other day, and they had the fucking kids running on the playground with masks on. Children, who have virtually zero chance of spreading the disease. Outdoors, where there is zero evidence that spreading it is likely at all.
Fucking child abuse.
I’m with you. Whenever I see young kids in masks it breaks my heart.
^^ I have seen toddlers being forced to have them on. What a sad fucking tragedy.
All sorts of studies prove that babies are highly tuned to recognize and interpret human faces.
Will their social development be affected? I don’t see how it couldn’t be.
That is icky science of old and is probably based in white supremacism
Booze and Benadryl! You’re a Viking.
Jesus these people suck. Stop caring what other people think! Tell the busy bodies who want to “help” to fuck off. See? Now you are all better.
That’s perfect advice when said in Bender’s voice.
I also tend to read comments in the voice of the avatar character (if there is one).
There was/is someone with the handle “Butthead” who had the character Butthead as his avatar, and it made it hilariously confusing when he would post something really eloquent because I read it in Butthead’s voice.
I was the last one standing! IolBot is cocooned in olive drab. Glib talk over.
Congrats!
Sorta proud to not be pissing my pants.
Sorry, I told ’em, “don’t make me host”… But no.
Nobody cares.
#CanadianStrong
I don’t know quite how I feel but it ain’t great. Mornin’ Globs!
Good morning to you Festus,
It is evening here. About to have dinner.
A fine good evening to you, Sir.
There’s no fool like an old fool.
There’s no business like show business.
I’ve been outed! Thanks Festus. If only it wasn’t for these pesky kids
Good morning, 4(20) and Fes! Greetings from Tranquility Base! Lots of birds singing, so far (knock wood!) no sign of cicadas yet at Chez GT/TT. Delightful – almost too warm for my hoodie, but not quite warm enough to shed it for just my jammie top. Mug of light iced mocha latte at my side. Couldn’t be better!
This lovely thing is just starting to bloom right off the edge of the patio directly in front of me.
Pretty. What is it?
Morning Glibred!
Good morning, TARDy!
I…don’t know what it’s called. I didn’t plant it – it was here when we bought the house 15(+?) years ago. It’s some kind of lily, and I think there’s “star” somewhere in its name. ::tries vainly to hide plant ignorance shame::
Lilies are great. I know nothing about plants either. I got a peace Lily from my company when my father died 9 years ago. It’s still kicking. They are the perfect plant for ignoramus in liked me. I forgot to water it this week. It was near death last night. Now it’s back.
Suh fam”
What’s goody yo
Good morning, homey! You seen any cicadas yet? A couple of my friends & co-workers have, but so far so good over here.
The cicadas over here are like my tits.
Current status: calm
So no stir fry yet?
We get cicadas in Japan every year. We had them in West Texas where I grew up but the Japanese cicadas are about twice the size as the ones in Texas.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nnySDpCXxL0
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FoDNFsQGDjE
Moar ?
https://www.wfmz.com/entertainment/coffee-break/25-movies-that-take-place-in-a-single-location/collection_50b7f747-5758-54a1-9392-1762ac9934d7.html#1
#1 will surprise you!
Is it pr0n ?
“Log Jammers” ?