Andy Rooney has a sweet ass desk.
Regardless of what I said last time about the over/under rated artist thing, none of you are listening to enough Tony Joe White.
I’m not claiming that I invented this but I don’t remember seeing it anywhere else – schmearing some mustard (I recommend The Original Mister Mustard Hot) on your tortilla before adding cheese greatly improves your average quesadilla.
At this point my feelings about people wearing masks is on par with my feelings about grown men wearing baseball caps, You look stupid but it’s your choice and just maybe you have a good reason for it (but I doubt that.)
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it shouldn’t take over a minute or two to press/toss/roll out a pizza dough.
It has recently been brought to my attention that “some” of my comments on the site make me seem like an asshole. I want to assure you that I’m going to work on that. It should be “all” of them.
Much whinging is done about drivers who “hang out” in the left lane, but the real problem drivers are those who don’t know how to turn left. Starting the turn too soon, cutting the corner too sharply, crossing over the oncoming lane of the road they are turning onto, and then eyeballing the driver they nearly run into because that driver had the nerve to actually pull up and stop where they are supposed to.
Don’t be the asshole in the red car.
Speaking of Left turns, what would you do if you were driving the blue car in the following diagram. Allow the red car to enter the drive thru ahead of you or not?
Would it matter if there were fewer cars in the beer dock line?
When did bars get rid of foosball, pinball, Galaga, and darts? I miss playing games while drinking. Now everyone just sits at the bar and stares at the televisions and/or phones.
Starting a social media post with “I don’t know who needs to hear this…” Is so last month.
When I have to do something I don’t want to (physical therapy exercises, tedious paperwork, calling my mother, etc…) I put on Radio Margaritaville and don’t let myself turn it off until I’m done.
My initial reaction to almost everything that passes for “News” these days is – “For Fuck Sake who gives a flying rat’s ass”. So don’t worry about offending me if you have that exact same reaction to this post.
Oh, oh! I almost forgot. I’m going to need you guys to stop using the words “hyperbole” and “hyperbolic” in the comments. It’s bad enough I have to scroll past all of The Imposter’s post when using Find to see if anyone is talking about me. Sooo… if you could go ahead and start using words like “exaggeration” or “embellishment” instead that would be terrific, OK?
Your beer dock question perfectly matches what happens to me every day when I pick up my daughter from school. I am the red car. Occasionally, someone will let me in, but generally I have to wait forever.
“Forever” is a hyperbolic description of how long it takes, isn’t it?
Mebbe he’s still waiting.
I live where traffic is almost non-existent. When I have to drive to town I use every curse word I know and trust me, that is a lot.
There’s no substitute for lifelong learning, is there? ;-)
What about the personbehind the person who lets you turn left in front of them? WHAT ABOUT THEIR NEEDS, HUH???
::stops, takes several deep breaths:: Sorry – pet peeve.
In most places, if there’s room, it’s legal to pass someone waiting to turn left on their right.
I’m not behind the car waiting to turn left. I’m behind the car that stops to let the other car turn left. ?
UCS is the guy in the yellow car who T-bones the guy in the red car when the douche in the blue car stops to let him turn.
And seriously, fuck that guy in the red car, he is fucking up everyone’s day. In both cases.
My general rule when driving is that I’ll follow the rules, and do my best to impact other drivers routes the least. This means if traffic is stopped at a red light, I’ll avoid blocking a driveway to let people in/out, and avoid slowing down for that asshole who made a left turn into the turning lane expecting me to slow down to let them into the driving lane.
I will block a driveway but I will also keep going if it is blocked, and approach from a different direction.
There is a reason UPS Routes for right turns.
I’ve noticed a number of times, the left turning driver pulls their car to the right of the lane. What kind of asshole does that?
Incompetent ones.
When I was being taught how to drive I was quickly told how and why not to do that.
OTH – on a motorcycle you are quickly shown why putting your body, but not the bike, over into the other lane when turning can lead to a bad time.
This. Only a really stupid asshole has to drift right to wind-up for a left turn.
Drive the big rigs! (Only reason to do this)
+1 button hook turn
Gappers. I would be in favor of the death penalty for gappers. These are people who stop at red lights and leave about 4 car lengths between them and the car in front of them. Usually, this prevents others from getting into the left turn lane. It’s so much fun to see that lane empty, see the green arrow come on, then see it go to red and be unable to get into that lane because of THE STUPID FUCKING GAPPER.
Yes. The appropriate distance is 3/4 of a car length. Just enough to GTFO if roadrage mcroidhead or panhandle mccarjack decides to make trouble.
This ain’t Iraq, tighten that up, soldier.
” I’m going to need you guys to stop using the words “hyperbole” and “hyperbolic” in the comments. It’s bad enough I have to scroll past all of The Imposter’s post when using Find to see if anyone is talking about me. Sooo… if you could go ahead and start using words like “exaggeration” or “embellishment” instead that would be terrific, OK?”
Yes sir, Mr. The Hyperbole, sir.
I’m reminded of the line from “The Fountainhead”.
Person, to Howard Roark: What do you think about me?
Roark: I *don’t* think about you.
Yeah, I co-supervise a part-time employee. Whenever they don’t get the hours they want, they accuse myself and their other supervising of singling them out. My immediate thought is always, “Uh-huh. You’re so important in our lives that we sit down several times a year to figure out how to screw you over.”
“some” of my comments on the site make me seem like an asshole.”
Some? You arent trying hard enough. If I can do it so can you. What one man can do another can do.
I wear a baseball cap because my bald head gets sunburned if I don’t.
Here here. And I’m not wearing a fedora, sombrero, flat cap, or do-rag. Plus I play baseball so it’s required.
I guess I could try the Urban Sombrero.
Maybe this?
That looks like a giant Hershey’s Kiss.
Fedoras are cool. Just sayin’.
Mine’s a bit faded and rumpled, so I’ve been wearing my Gibson’s hate of late.
I’ll have to remember to bring the Fedora to Ohio.
Sure…
I have several fedoras (along with a pork pie, a bowler, and a few flat caps).
I think their image has suffered from teenagers wearing cheap trillby hats (actually slightly different from a fedora) with ratty jeans and T-shirts with stupid jokes printed on them.
A well-made felt or wool fedora looks great with a button-down “camp shirt” in the summer or an overcoat in the winter. Scala and Bailey both make nice hats that are affordable. Borsalinos and Stetsons may be nice, but I just can’t justify dropping $200+ on a hat.
Let me know when straw boaters make a comeback.
Haha, I’ve thought about one of those too. The Maurice Chevalier look is still awesome.
There is a horse track in town, so there are also three different hat shops. They do sell boaters at one of them.
Although what most people call a fedora these days is in fact a trilby.
Yep. That’s a minor pet peeve of mine.
Brim widths, chiefly.
See also homburgs, esp. Audrey + Bogey in Sabrina.
(Damn. Ibid.)
Indeed they are.
A sombrero for baseball seems a bit unwieldy.
Pakol or GTFO!
Yup.
Think what you want.
But… Don’t wear it inside, particularly when sitting down for a meal.
Y’all need a homburg.
Humbug.
Supposedly it’s to keep hot brass from falling down the front of my shirt/behind the eyepro.
I guess I could wear a different kind of hat, but I hate putting things in my ears, so it would have to work with over-the-ear hearing protection.
I guess I could put on the earpro first, then put on a coolie hat or something.
Mebbe I could rig a pith helmet to work like the hard hats set up for earpo. That would look cool with the monocle.
You would need to shave just the chin and get the moustache/cheekbeard combo going.
… I could do that.
*searches Amazon for pith helmets*
My Grandpa actually wore one of those when he was out in the sun all day in hot weather. He loved him some Clyde Beatty headgear.
Not gonna happen.
You don’t have the clearance to change language.
Get back to your designated work station, citizen.
Xe doesn’t like us using them’s handle in off-label uses?
Is it OK if I skip your comments, hype, my time is limited? I have important things/people waiting.
Sure, it’s just space filler anyway. I really doubt any of it will be on the end of year test.
Test? What test?
Hyperbole’s trial by Ordeal to prove whether he is actually a Nerd.
The Pon Farr.
I am not sure how horny Vulcans amount to a test.
Congratulations, you passed.
You never let another car pass no matter what
Is that why you don’t drive?
You take that back I do drive! Every Sunday
My initial reaction to almost everything that passes for “News” these days is – “For Fuck Sake who gives a flying rat’s ass” – the people who fuck up our lives do
That’s a bit of a hyperbole, don’t you think?
…Or would that be “hyperbolus?”
Overbolucked?
A giant bolus?
Ewwww….
Pool, darts and cornhole are played in the local bars.
I guess that depends on what kind of bar it is.
You don’t like a little cornholing in the back of the bar?
We’ve got a couple here that have sand volleyball courts set up at them.
You can’t really call it beach volleyball when you’re next to a parking lot instead of a lake/ocean.
My German colleague claims they play “stump” in bars.
https://europeisnotdead.com/germany-hammerschlagen/
Whycome are there greenbacks being laid down in the pic?
You wouldn’t want to wager real money.
That shows up from time to time around here. To say there are German roots in this area would be an understatement. There’s German restaurants still around here. Quite a few of the breweries will make good German bier.
It occurs to me that it requires a certain type of clientele to give them a hammer to play with while drinking. It would never work in Glasgow.
Depends on the day, my mood, what kind of car the red car is, etc.
Baseball caps (where I live AKA “loser lids”):
Keeps the sun out of my eyes; and
keeps the rain off of my glasses.
My loser lid is free of advertisements, but that’s about it.
Years ago, my wife and I lived in a condo on the beach in Alabama. The road that ran along the beach, Perdido Beach Blvd, was six lanes and very busy. Sometimes it would take quite a while to make a left into our parking lot. We were near a corner with a red light, and one time when the light was red all three lanes stopped far enough back and waved her through. She did not account for a car speeding up the shoulder to get into the turn lane, however, and got t-boned.
Alabama has beaches? You learn something new every day
It has a seaport too.
that is probably how they imported white supremacy
It comes in bales.
It’s kind of the same as Romania having beaches. Romania is the Alabama of Europe.
Nah that is Bulgaria. And Albania is Mississippi.
Quite nice beaches too! Look up Gulf Shores and Orange Beach if you don’t believe me.
I love Gulf Shores.
Hah! I went to Perdido Key Beach, apparently only a few miles away from Orange Beach, just two weeks ago. But it was already in Florida.
Yep. Happens quick. When we moved out of that condo, we just went a short ways east and got a home in west Pensacola by the back gate of the Navy base. Perdido Key was maybe 10 minutes away on Gulf Beach Hwy.
Control-F through that, Hyp.
When did bars get rid of foosball, pinball, Galaga, and darts? I miss playing games while drinking. Now everyone just sits at the bar and stares at the televisions and/or phones.
Years ago, there was a bar I used to go to in Philadelphia. The owner advertised, “No T.V.s.” Notably, he also didn’t have foosball, pinball, or Galaga. It was a bar you used to go to to have a few bears and have a conversation with whoever you went there with.
He was asked once about why he advertised that he didn’t have television. His response was that you could be talking to the most beautiful girl in the world. And if that “fookin’ flashing box” (he was Irish) was in the corner, you’d be paying more attention to it than to her.
Damn, if I didn’t love that place.
*Tonio perks up*
My first though, too!
“Thought.” Thought, dammit.
Although the way that comment reads with the typo is a completely different thing altogether.
Another amusing typo in there.
DA bears, da bears, da bears! ?
Stargate > Defender > Galga
Also, your weak-ass, bitch-made, car diagrams leave out a tractor/trailers.
Until you’ve pulled a 53′ trailer through narrow Philly streets, have a seat hoss.
Tall Cans already Tres?
I got called in to work tonight @ 8
Ignore/Embrace my surliness. Im not a fan of going to bed at noon- unless it involves a Size 20 woman, a camera man, and the risk of HPV. Or Type II diabetes.
Actual diabetes, or just the risk thereof?
Despite Tres’ stated preference, Cool Whip and Other Delights was a commercial flop.
+1 brick to the face
The chance.
I already called you ‘The biggest asshole on the internet’ what more do you want?
Something that isn’t an unprovable compliment?
There’s always one greater in ℕ
See, that’s hyperbole.
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Now how the fuck did such obvious spam go through gmail spam filter? it usually works pretty good…
anyway if you have student loans contact julieann-rbech.pqvozbcvl@hotmail.com
Almost actual English.
You think YOU’VE got it bad? Try CTRL+F “Mo”. People, put the j on it, please. If Hyperbole can beg, so can I.
I’ll think about it over a mojito.
Whilst wearing a mojave hat?
Hey Moj-carena !
The difference is you’re asking, and he’s trying to give an order in the style of the boss from office space when he’s not the boss of anyone here.
So… Mj?
I search for MJ too.
Asking doesn’t always get you what you want, but telling a gaggle of libertarians what to do is just on top of too much.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hx1jdgTs03U
(EDS? Who?)
Try ‘Mo,’ or ‘Mo.’
?I ask for mo and mo / How can I be sure? 😉
or ‘Mo?’
You should start a club.
mo js mo problems
Am I right?
You would think that a site like this would contain more instances of ‘Evil’, but nope, it’s mostly my name…
See… this is why an uncommon handle can help. Especially if it has a misspelling in it (though most people just use the first syllable).
You know how many times I’ve had to unintentionally read comments about CPR?!
I assumed everyone but me was using a plugin for most recent posts.
Who uses a plugin?
?♂️
T O’G, I can’t tell what that image is supposed to be (combo of my eyes/my monitor) so I’m not sure what your response was.
(shrug)
you kids with your newfangled emoji:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No plugin for iPad.
Also, if I come in late morning, I’m not going to read 300 comments.
I get offended when people use the wrong end of your handle, Mr ilium. Neph is a fictional kingdom, not a glib poster.
Got my MOJO working!
https://youtu.be/8hEYwk0bypY
I think I type Mojo. Because I had a cat named that.
I search for Tard. It usually comes up with something snarky and interesting not as a reply to me.
Part of my new job has me reviewing civil plans for new construction. This is all mostly local. I live in an area with a different township/city every 3 miles. It amazes me how each requires something a little different in every plan. Many townships require traffic flow, parking diagrams, and a whole assortment of vehicle pathing overlays for a new parking lot. This has to be approved by the township before they can do anything. Sometimes I wonder about civil engineering. Is it possible to remain a fan of small government and be a civil engineer? Or does jumping through all the red tape make you a fan of small government?
And yes, the civil diagrams account for the big vehicles, snowplows, fire and garbage trucks.
A good friend and his dad, partners in a civil engineering firm, started me on the path to libertarianism, many a moon ago.
decentralization is small government or it would be if there were no big ones on top
I guess a draconian small government is better since you can easily escape it by moving to the next town over. Not so with the federal leviathan.
Pinball most places got rid of because pinball machines need maintenance to keep them running, With the death of the arcade, there aren’t as many companies doing that maintenance. Hell, even the barcades that advertise free play charge for pinball play.
Pool and darts are still pretty common at bars up here, as is bar bowling and the table shuffleboard game as well.
Maybe upgrade/downgrade your selection of bars?
Last I heard, there is only 1 pinball company left. Fucking Monopoly! The Government should take them over! Serves them right!
grown men wearing baseball caps, You look stupid but it’s your choice and just maybe you have a good reason for it (but I doubt that.)
Here in the desert southwest if you are not wearing something on your head you are begging for skin cancer and/or heat stroke. Baseball caps are comfortable and common. I’m always covered, either a cap or wide-brimmed hat.
Wearing a baseball cap backwards, however, still makes you look like a dork.
He’s hoping the tumors will sprout hair?
Agreed. Cap is mandatory in some places due to heat and sun. Wearing backwards is a clear sign to avoid that particular person.
Reposting from Rebel Scum at the end of the last post because it’s good stuff
https://twitter.com/iandprior/status/1402417063059234821?s=20
I think it’s a good reminder to myself in other areas not to give the prick the satisfaction and let them steamroll their crap.
The best pinball machine is Funhouse, fight me hyperbole.
I’ve never played Funhouse, but looking it up it seems to have similar gameplay and features as Earthshaker, I’d have to spend countless drunken nights playing Funhouse in a seedy off campus bar to make a fair comparison.
After a closer look, they were designed by t he same guy one year apart, no surprise they are similar.
Pretty cool
I have Creature from the Black Lagoon. Lots of fun stuff on that, like taking a break from pinball and using the flipper buttons to beat up the guy at the food stand. Still one of my favorites.
Probably let them in. Oddly, I think I’m more likely to let them in if the line at the beer dock is longer; probably because I let people turn in front of me when traffic is backed up ahead of me anyway. I’m just not in such a big fargin’ hurry that one more car in front of me cause me to rage out.
Until that car has THE MOST COMPLICATED ORDER IN HISTORY, which is what seems to happen to me.
my feelings about grown men wearing baseball caps, You look stupid but it’s your choice and just maybe you have a good reason for it…
I wear a baseball cap sometimes on the weekends and I go out somewhere, informally (errands, quick bite to eat, etc.). It may well look stupid. But, it looks less stupid than my hair if I haven’t bothered to groom it.
As for ‘grown men wearing baseball caps’, the HAT scowls. [wish I could imbed pics like our betters]
Baseball caps at the baseball game #FTW! It’s fucking hot out there, dude. Cold wet towel on my neck and a baseball cap on my head.
Also, when I had shaved my head, I HAD to wear a hat or a scarf because I’d get sunburn on my head. Also also, when my head was shaved, winter was brutal. I never knew how much my hot heavy hair protected me in the winter.
There are cooling bandanas/gaiters that are designed for that neck issue.
I wear a cycling cap because of the sunburn issue, it doesn’t look cool to have a cycling helmet burn pattern on the top of a bald head.
I think there were a couple of weeks in 1983 when painter’s caps were considered cool.
I specified grown men, women can get away with it because they can’t play baseball and thus the cap is obviously a fashion choice and not some just a lazy thirty year old dressing like a teenager or frat brah.
All hats are a fashion choice.
They can be functional as other have stated above…shading ones eyes, keeping ones ears dry, protection from the sun for bald people.
French Berets or GTFO
You should have kept that opinion quiet, like Marcel Marceau.
The Greek fisherman’s cap is acceptable in a pinch.
Maximum commie effect.
Just don’t have any dogs around.
“‘Rrrrusty.’ Hmph.”
Love that silly movie.
GTFO.
The Jayne Hat.
Ive eaten more pussy than cervical cancer.
Sorry, that was supposed to be a reply to Gustave in #14
Well now that have eaten some fried chicken and I have that gem of knowledge I am going to go cut some grass and trim the muscadine.
Re: Hats
I only have one hat.
https://connerhats.com/collections/outback-hats/products/bounty-hunterwater-resistant-cotton-hat
I only wear it when I am in the woods and it is raining. I pair it with a water repellent poncho.
Well, it IS Pride Month.
Where’s that “Damn” gif from Friday?
Look Tres, it works like this – your wife buys a hat for you, you wear the hat. Same for any attire. Smile and put it on.
Bounty hunter? Suthen’s exit music
https://youtu.be/G14VOFc66do
No. If red is signaling a left turn, or at least is exhibiting characteristics fo a car about to turn (ie just sitting there), that means red is yielding to oncoming traffic. Blue therefore has right of way, unless for some reason blue were to wave right of way. An ambulance or firetruck coming from behind red to clear a path on a narrow road might be a reasonable example of why blue might yield.
Blue may also just be being overly polite and let red pass. Otherwise blue should turn first into the drive through beer dock.
I think I puked a little.
I could see a little bit of mayo, but the mustard is a bad take.
Now I’ve puked twice.
#metoo
A quesadilla is bread and cheese, mustard pairs well with both of those things.
So you put mustard on your pizza then?
I will now.
Are you not dipping the quesadilla? Salsa, sour cream, guac…nothing?
Salsa usually, I’m talking a light schmearing, by the time the cheese is melted into/on it you don’t notice the mustard like you would on a coney or a Hot Sam’s pretzel, it just adds a slight tangy bite and in the case of the spicy mustard I use some heat.
Don’t listen to those callous sophisticates; the mustard sounds delicious. Maybe even a wee bit of horseradish for a skirt steak filling.
Philistines, l0b0t, we are surrounded by philistines!
Kikkoman has recently released a wasabi/mayo sauce that is just divine. I’ve been trying it on many things and finding it quite toothsome.
I can’t believe I’m sortakinda agreeing with Hype here, but a small amount of mustard powder in (for example) the powdered “cheese sauce” that comes with most boxes of mac ‘n cheese actually helps rescue it from the truly banal. A scattering of powdered onion whilst mixing it up also helps.
“Joost a peench!”
Sambal oelek is good on quesadillas and on grilled cheese.
Try chili powder too. (by itself, not in conjunction with mustard) I’ve never tried mustard before. Maybe next time.
Or paprika.
Smoked ghost chili powder will give anything a lil zing.
Try grilled cheese with Korean gojuchang or ssamjang (just a thin layer). Yowza!
*hurk*
Speaking of hats, why is it they cannot get actors in movies depicting U.S. Soldiers to wear a beret correctly.
Correct
Incorrect. (Although the guy in the foreground seems to be closer than most)
When I went back into the National Guard, i could never wear that fucking thing right. Just gave up and wore the cammo soft cover unless explicitly ordered to wear a beret.
Just like other things, you need to shave it and then get it wet to shape it properly.
After they took the black beret from Ranger Regiment and turned it into a participation trophy (friggin Shinseke). I did everything I could to not wear it when I was in leg units.
The PC was awesome. And at least the cunt cap folded flat unlike the wadded up beret.
The convention at the units I was in was to press the beret flat and have the flash sticking out of your cargo pocket.
Big Army NCOs got big mad at us, much to our amusement.
Wadded up is a bit of a misnomer. It was more accordion but sill took up more room.
Fuck them Rangers! They stole the black berets from the Cav.
I forgot about that. You guys got stetsons though, you can’t horde all the cool headgear.
And the spurs!
+ AR-671
I only wore a beret when I was at Ft. Benning, but that was 30 years ago
There is the AR 670-1 “correct” and there is the right way. The reg will make you look like less of a dweeb, I suppose.
Also incorrect
Although in ’68 the modern conventions of beret wear might have not evolved. They only started wearing them during the Kennedy administration.
Berets are the least of it. Bad haircuts and people with no clue putting emblems on uniforms in haphazard fashion always get me.
And then there’s Brit style
https://www.royal.uk/sites/default/files/styles/grid_2x2/public/images/feature-chapters/army.jpg?itok=DrBS7h97&anti-cache=ebab91b7d16aa
The French are atrocious as well, it looks like they are smuggling Belgian waffles under absurdly oversized berets.
Speaking of headgear, Hollywood gets the PC wrong just as much. It should have a slightly disheveled look, although a little Ranger roll is ok. Should not look like a blocked out French kepi or you sat on the thing for the past three hours. Fuck Castro.
And they almost always show Marines with hair that’s too long. Jarhead was a shitty movie but they got the haircuts right, at least.
Not, because right turns always have right-of-way over left turns. That’s not being an asshole either, just rules of the road….
Now I have to figure out how to use the words hyperbole and hyperbolic in every comment I make.
If you take some rest in a hyperbaric chamber you’ll open your mind to other possibilities as well.
Time to talk about catenaries and the hyperbolic sign and cosign.
The brain says TYPO! the moment moment the finger clicks on the Post Comment button.
I hate it when I type what I hear in my head and randomly include homophones.
I’ve been a baseball hat guy basically my entire life. Mom’s got the childhood pictures to prove it.
Can we still talk about hyperbolas?
Those conversations never actually reach a conclusion, no matter how far they go.
They get pretty close though.
He’s changing his handle to The Asymptote?
“Oh, oh! I almost forgot. I’m going to need you guys to stop using the words “hyperbole” and “hyperbolic” in the comments. It’s bad enough I have to scroll past all of The Imposter’s post when using Find to see if anyone is talking about me. Sooo… if you could go ahead and start using words like “exaggeration” or “embellishment” instead that would be terrific, OK?”
Also, could you folks stop saying “thank you” because I keep coming across those when trying to find my own handle.
Thank you – I mean danke!
ありがとうございます
There’s also a whole lot of talk around here about leftists “ignore”ing the Constitution. Imma need y’all to start saying they’re “disregarding” it because it plays hell with me ctrl-f’ing myself.
I remember the Army hot weather caps from the mid 70’s – 80’s which I always thought looked absolutely hideous. It resembled an olive drab baseball cap but uglier and gave the wearer a sloppy looking appearance. Now it looks like the Army has copied the USMC’s soft cover which they call a patrol cap. Big improvement.
The Pickle Suit ball cap with the extra long brim was fucking hilariously bad.
For a year, (1984?) I was authorized to wear jungle fatigues, with the jungle hat, because the Army was cleaning out the inventory and getting ready to authorize the new hot weather BDU.
You could buy a full set for $7.
If you put extra heavy starch on those fatigues, they would look super sharp… for about 15 minutes.
By the end of the day, the always looked like they came out of the bottom of your duffle bag.
But that was the most comfortable uniform I ever wore in the Army.
That’s the one – with stupid looking elongated bill. When I started basic at MCRD San Diego in late Oct ’76 we were issued green sateen fatigues – aka the pickle suit. Hated them. In Dec ’76 we were issued the new camo fatigues which were both comfortable and cool looking. We were not allowed to wear them until January ’77.
Oh, so you’re a Marine (well, mostly anyway, San Diego and all), disregard my post below ?
https://www.series-80.net/acteurs/lance-legault/acteur_lance-legault_4_1154957064.jpg
The Army calls them patrol caps. In the Marines, we called them eight-points. Ours are octagonal, the Army’s are round.
Much whinging is done about drivers who “hang out” in the left lane, but the real problem drivers are those who don’t know how to turn left. Starting the turn too soon, cutting the corner too sharply, crossing over the oncoming lane of the road they are turning onto, and then eyeballing the driver they nearly run into because that driver had the nerve to actually pull up and stop where they are supposed to.
This is next for me after left lane hogs.
Speaking of Left turns, what would you do if you were driving the blue car in the following diagram. Allow the red car to enter the drive thru ahead of you or not?
I’d only stop to let him make his turn if, once the traffic ahead of me moves, if I need to stop (not say make a right turn into the beer dock) around the entrance to the beer dock. Otherwise, keep moving.
When did bars get rid of foosball, pinball, Galaga, and darts? I miss playing games while drinking. Now everyone just sits at the bar and stares at the televisions and/or phones.
A bunch of bars near me did so under The Clown Prince’s Lil Rona Panic orders. Those games are slowly coming back.
Oh, about the beer dock, I misread what you wrote.
I would not let him in ahead of me. I’d make the turn into the beer dock without letting him in.
OT: PA Legislature slaps Wolf down, effective immediately.
I read the version of the resolution that passed. Despite what the PennLive article says, I see nothing in it about continuing certain orders which rescind regulations.
Yay.
I made a snap decision. I’m going to Happy Hour to celebrate.
Let’s see if the courts uphold it or use the invisible ink clause. Like the emergencies began before the changes so are not subject to them, only future declarations.
We’ll see, but I’m skeptical they will do much.
Wolf has claimed he can continue the orders through a public health law a la Whitmer.
Three of the five Democrats on the State Supreme Court have not had their retention vote.
If the folks behind the constitutional amendments can get enough votes to pass those amendments, even if it is just barely, they can get enough votes so that those state Supreme Court justices lose their retention votes.
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Whatever happens, the majority of people outside the major metro areas are done with the restrictions. All the Governor and his Swarms of Officers can do is attempt to harass the people by enforcing ever more unpopular edicts, eroding further the trust people have in his rule. The more he does that, the more will be inclined to make a statement at the polls.
Regarding bar games: I miss the trivia game they used to have in all the bars back in the 90’s.
Regarding baseball caps: I only wear one when it’s sunny and I’m going to be outside for at least an hour with little chance for shade (i.e., a long walk), and only so I don’t have to smear sunscreen on my forehead and risk having it drip into my eyes when I sweat.
Ditto, and;
They don’t do much, but are better than nothing, and headphones-compatible.
Not mentioned: how this reflects on the quality of American education
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said that the number of Republicans who believe former President Trump will be reinstated as commander in chief later this year represents a “glaring warning” on continued widespread acceptance of Trump’s unsupported claim of a stolen 2020 election.
In remarks from the Senate floor, Schumer referenced a recent Politico-Morning Consult poll that found that 29 percent of Republicans believe that Trump will be placed back in the Oval Office later this year.
The poll came after New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said last week that Trump has been pressuring conservative media to legitimize his theory of a “rigged” election and has been telling people in his inner circle that he believes he will be reinstated by August of this year.
While 61 percent of GOP survey respondents dismissed the conspiracy theory, Schumer said the nearly 3 in 10 Republicans who supported Trump’s claim “is a depressing fact of our times that there is an audience out there who will literally believe anything the former president says, no matter how unrealistic or untrue.”
Why don’t you invite Randi Weingarten to come explain how this could be possible?
Meanwhile in 2019
Is probably in the double digits.
I just don’t believe that tens of millions of Americans think that will happen.
Ahh, people familiar with his thinking. So, its bullshit, then. I mean, does anyone think that if Trump really believed that, he wouldn’t have said it publicly by now?
I believe that same survey also found that 13% of dems believed the same thing.
Speaking of Left turns, what would you do if you were driving the blue car in the following diagram. Allow the red car to enter the drive thru ahead of you or not?
If there were more room, yes. Considering that it would back me up onto the road, no.
but the real problem drivers are those who don’t know how to turn left
Amen! I’ll add that sometimes the dashed guide lines in the intersection are absolute shit.
My vehicle turning pet peeve? People approaching an intersection with a dedicated turn lane. They will not put their signal on to indicate that they are going to enter the turn lane, so you have no idea where they are actually going. Once completely ensconced in the turn lane, and often as they start the actual turn, now they put on their signal. THANKS A LOT YOU HYPERBOLIC DICK HEAD! DON’T SIGNAL WHEN IT’S ACTUALLY RELEVANT AND WILL COMMUNICATE SOMETHING OF USE TO PEOPLE AROUND YOU, BUT DO SIGNAL WHEN YOU ACTUALLY HAVE NO CHOICE AND I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING! AUUGHGHGGHGHGHGHG!!!
Sorry, got a little emotional there at the end.
You know what I hate? People in front of me in the turning lane who have their damn blinkers on in the turning lane the entire time you’re waiting there, in the dark, being blinded by their freaking blinkers. I KNOW YOU’RE TURNING, ASSHOLE, WE’RE IN THE TURNING LANE.
I don’t put mine on until the crossing light turns red.
If I can offer a counterpoint… if you have your blinker on in the turn lane, I can pretty well assume that you’re actually going to turn. I’ve been cut off by enough oblivious people who ended up in the turn lane by accident to not trust that the turn is actually happening unless the blinker is on.
Interesting. I have never witnessed such an occurrence. I have definitely seen people in a non-turning lane try to turn across other non-turning lanes, but not the cutting-off-by-going-straight-from-the-turning-lane.
Actually, I may have once or twice seen that, but it was by people who knew their mistake and relied on the kindness of others rather than make the turn and recover from the mistake at the next intersection.
There’s a (flawed) design at some interchanges around here where when you get off the highway onto the service road, the first three lanes are turn lanes. If you’re not paying attention, you can easily end up in a turn lane without knowing. Especially in the dark. At one intersection close to here, I automatically leave 2 car lengths in front of me if there’s there’s car in the turn lane with no blinker. I assume they’re going straight
I’m familiar with those kinds of interchanges from time I’ve spent in Texas. Around these parts, we don’t have enough land to spread intersections out like that and things like “service roads” are never seen.
I remember being astounded at how much land Texas used up on local roads compared to what I had been used to all my life in PA.
It’s an adjustment, for sure. The first time I moved here, it took me months to adjust to the aggressive driving style. When I drove back to Indianapolis the first time, it was a reverse culture shock, seeing how passive the drivers were. People actually zipper instead of jockeying for position? What is this shit?
I once witnessed a person in the left turn lane execute a perfect PIT maneuver on the guy in the center lane (which was left turn or straight).
The guy in the center was turning left and had his blinker on. The guy on the left just proceeded straight and plowed the center out into the middle of the intersection.
After he spun the guy, he then drove on obliviously, cutting off everyone else in the intersection.
My guess, based on the car, was he was some octogenarian who probably should have been grounded years earlier.
My general approach; turn on signal to indicate that I’m getting into the turn lane. Turn it off once I’m in the lane. If not turning across oncoming traffic (e.g. right turn on a northbound road), the signal never goes on again. If turning across oncoming traffic (e.g. turning left on a southbound road), turn signal on when preparing to turn, or earlier if there are people in the left turn lane on the northbound side so they know I’m not southbound and they can safely start their turn.
I don’t think it’s hyperbole to suggest this is the only rational acceptable approach to turning.
Is glibs really so starved for content?
TPTB are an indulgent lot.
We’re all free to throw stuff at the wall.
Yes.
They post my stuff . . . . so yes.
Yes, you should feel free to do better.
I’m as surprised as anyone that they publish my stupid articles.
Can confirm.
I’m going to need you guys to stop using the words “hyperbole” and “hyperbolic” in the comments.
You’re not my supervisor!
And I’m not working weekends either!
Tres, if you are still up and about, I would be delighted to meet your better half (if schedules align; working overnights has disadvantages) and not knock her up.
Your take on baseball caps is spectacularly wrong.
Your take on Galaga in the bar is spectacularly right.
Technically I think the blue car has the right of way, but I always let the person make the left turn.
I’m a bit too young for Galaga in bars, though I played the hell outta it in 7-11 growing up. For me, Golden Tee Golf was the big bar video game.
Big Buck Hunter was always fun, too.
Same here – I could have bought a GT home edition with all the money I’ve dumped into GT at bars. There is a bowling alley near by that has a retro game room full of 70’s and 80’s games and vintage pinball machines. Pretty cool – they have most of originals including Space Invaders.
You can check out some of the games they have here:
https://westcountylanes.com/Arcade
but I always let the person make the left turn.
Minnesoda nice.
The drivers I despise are the ones that turn right from the left turn lane. There’s a specific intersection where this happens at least once a week (no hyperbole). I’m not engaging in hyperbolic rhetoric when I say I hate them with the heat of a thousand suns.
Ok, I’ve had enough working hyperbole and hyperbolic into comments.
Hyperactive hyperbole is hyper-exhausting.
Shuuz was my favorite barroom arcade game – https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9536
All of the cars are on the wrong side of the road.
Stand on your head.
˙sʞuɐɥ┴ ˙ɹǝʇʇǝq s,ʇɐɥ┴
What is this sorcery?
Seems normal, normal to me.
You can achieve this by activating your Australian plug-in while posting from the northern hemisphere.
¡∀ ,uᴉʞɔnℲ
¡ʎɹǝɔɹoS the
https://youtu.be/Du4D2nJEPuk
ʍolq puɐ sɹǝʞooH sʇɹɐℲ ɹǝǝq ƃnldʇʇnq
Cool.
This so-called “limey” is really an Aussie or a Kiwi?
˙˙˙sʞloɟ ‘ǝsᴉno˥ zǝǝſ
I think all of us knew this guy once in our life. And even though he was at the center of every memorable event, we had to unfriend him because he destroyed something in our house or the girlfriend couldn’t stand him.
https://youtu.be/Waz7n87qVow?t=207
You’re already closer than you think.
Being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian isn’t a good schtick with a group fairly well-wired to reality, particularly where your ratio seems to be much higher to defending statist pieces of shit on team blue, but… whatever floats your boat. I find the Bro way less tedious because his firsting is an obvious schtick and his contributions elsewhere are generally well-thought and original.
I will say that I liked the comic a lot and every once in a blue moon you’re contrarian schtick is justified.
The guy in blue should let the guy in red in unless there’s some compelling time-crunch; I try to look for opportunities to be nice to my fellow man whenever they present themselves in my day-to-day…except in the comments section.
I’ll use whatever words I want.
Good to know.
Cute lil guy.
Headlamps
I like her voice
That too
Turkeys are done.
* checks C-SPAN*
Nope, they’re still all there.
Fun fact: That’s Cindy Lou Who from the Jim Carrey Grinch movie.
https://www.sgammo.com/product/223-556mm-ammo/500-round-case-556mm-55-grain-fmj-m193-imi-ammo-made-israel-military-industri
~$300 shipped/500 rds.
I once bought a 500 round half case of Wolf .223 for $89.95 us tax and thought it was a little spendy.
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That was back in arpund 2001 or so
IMI is good stuff but no.
Cool links, bro.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it shouldn’t take over a minute or two to press/toss/roll out a pizza dough.
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