Saturday evening inversion links

by | Jul 24, 2021 | Daily Links | 254 comments

How come you west coast assholes can’t keep your wildfire smoke in your state?

 

As sure as day follows night, the summer inversion is here and it seems the smoke from every fire to the west of us funnels right into the valley. We can actually see the mountains today for the first time in almost two weeks.

 

Orange Man is jealous.

 

So when I put a glass to my lips, what part of it’s anatomy am I touching?

 

I think people are finally getting tired of the bullshit.

 

This could be an interesting place to visit.

 

Looks like they could have used Taco Bell back then.

 

I leave you with a love song from Ozzy.

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254 Comments

  1. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I’ve seen some depressing Tweets from Australia. Lots of “if you people would just comply, this would all be over!”

    I hope I’m wrong, and that there’s a critical mass to make changes.

    • Suthenboy

      Are those tweets from the brother that died of the cooties for not wearing a mask?

    • EvilSheldon

      So complying for two years wasn’t enough?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Evidently Australia suffers from mass OCD.

      • Chafed

        This time it will work for sure.

    • Derpetologist

      “If she hadn’t worn that short skirt…”

      There was a rape case in Italy where the successful defense was that the plaintiff’s jeans were so tight, she must have removed them herself, therefore the sex was consensual.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denim_Day

      • hayeksplosives

        Holy shit, that is terrible.

        Years ago some Islamic asshole (from Iran I think) engaged in some rape apologist action in which he likened women wearing sexy clothing to putting out a plate of meat.

        “If you put out a plate of meat, of course you must expect that the cats will come to eat it. You can’t blame them.”

  2. Mojeaux

    I love this song.

    I have started to listen to music entirely differently since I’ve started watching Rick Beato’s videos regularly. I took piano lessons for years and competed and sometimes won and I don’t understand 5% of what that man talks about.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      He is good, but I don’t agree with his biases at all,
      /Subjective

    • Old Man With Candy

      I watch his stuff regularly. I wince a bit when he talks about technology, but his music stuff is great.

      • Mojeaux

        I have zero desire to get back on a piano (or clarinet, either, which is my other instrument), but I can’t stop watching his vids. Did you see his video “Why do people hate jazz?”

      • Mojeaux

        *checks music library*

        Yep, got it.

      • zwak

        Added that to the database! Thanks Teds.

      • Sensei

        I’m assuming you mean as regards to sound reproduction. Yeah.

        OTH, electric guitar is a collection of distortion boxes so whatever gives you the sound you want…

  3. Yusef drives a Kia

    We had some Yellow sky from the smoke last week, on the Lake Michigan shore, that’s a lot of smoke,

  4. Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

    Edmonton’s also been socked in with smoke for the last eight days or so, but a weather front change happened around Wednesday/Thursday, and today’s moderate (temp around 25° C/77° F) with light winds, low humidity (thank God!) and blue skies.

    Much more like the summers here I remember from when I was much younger.

    • westernsloper

      We had smoke a few weeks ago but a few rains have taken care of that.

  5. westernsloper

    So when I put a glass to my lips, what part of it’s anatomy am I touching?

    That is between you and your glass.

    • TARDis

      The NSA, CIA, FBI, (Woke)DOD, IRS, et al, beg to differ disagree vehemently.

      • juris imprudent

        Eh, they’re always vehemently disagreeing (with one another).

    • blackjack

      Nobody likes a glasskisser.

    • Pope Jimbo

      You are going to catch some social disease if you are drinking from a thot glass.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      The rim, obviously.

    • westernsloper

      I have work tomorrow, as I did today, and today was not enjoyable to get up for after staying up too late due to Zoom happy hour last night so no Zooming for me. Just slag me for not sharing the cooking of a sausage and Walla Walla (waves at Gustave) onion pie of which the crust will be lightly sauced, moderately topped yet cheesy while remaining perfectly rigid. *deletes rest of comment*

      • Nephilium

        My plans tomorrow include hitting up a brewery, grocery shopping, fixing a patio screen door, and getting a bike ride in. Not necessarily in that order.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Blackjack, from the previous thread:

    Well, my test came out negative. Like everything covid related it makes no sense. I had some symptoms and my kid had none. He’s positive and I’m negative.

    Call me crazy, but I think that tells us more about the test than it does about you or the kid.

    • westernsloper

      *ding ding ding*

    • blackjack

      Yeah. It’s all pretty hocus-pocus. if my kid actually is positive, and I am unvaxxed, then I should be positive too. At least one of the tests are not legit. Or, the whole thinking on it is wrong. Either way, I’ll likely have an extended quarantine.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Police have now warned that the huge crowds gathered for the protests could see Victoria’s lockdown extended.

    The state’s chief health officer Brett Sutton also hit out at protesters, saying the demonstrations would not free Australians from Covid, and warned the pandemic was far from over.

    One group of five protesters told Daily Mail Australia they’d travelled from the epicentre of the new outbreak, just for the rally.

    ‘We don’t give a f*** mate, this lockdown is killing us,’ one said.

    You’re going straight to bed without supper, you lot.

    • Ted S.

      Lock down every single government employee, including the police and the folks who work for the ABC.

    • TARDis

      Oh, Sheilas.

      On that note, went to the grocery store in the hoity-toity part of the county. I was sad to see diaper compliance was back in the majority. It may have never gone down, but I wonder if the new and improved Rona propaganda has once again destroyed the psyches of the masses.

      • rhywun

        Thank you.

        I had to sit through this live to see the B-52’s.

      • Ted S.

        There’s an interesting musical coupling.

      • rhywun

        My college activity fees paid for it – they had to appeal to everybody I guess.

      • Nephilium

        One of the stranger pairings I saw was Andrew W. K. opening up for Flogging Molly.

      • EvilSheldon

        That is indeed strange, but I’ll bet it was a ballin’ show…

      • Nephilium

        EvilSheldon:

        There was some interesting times at the beginning, when the frat boys tried to throw punches in a pit. The SHARP’s took them down quickly and repeatedly.

    • Suthenboy

      “…the pandemic was far from over.”

      Of course. How are they going to usher in international communism without crushing the economy and creating the new (compliant) soviet man?

    • rhywun

      This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    “Why do people hate jazz?”

    It’s boring and tedious. Next question.

    • Ted S.

      Less boring and less tedious than improper threading.

    • TARDis

      Wut? All of it?
      Does not compute.

      • westernsloper

        Wut? All of it?

        Yes.

    • Mojeaux

      His hypothesis was that because jazz players are not loyal and do not form bands, no one ever really got to a cohesive sound that people could appreciate and come to expect. There are a few exceptions: Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, and Vince Guaraldi, all of whom have the same musicians, a cohesive sound, and, therefore, platinum albums.

      I have a couple of Miles Davis’s albums, used to have Pat Metheny’s (CDs got lost and I haven’t repurchased mp3s), and have Vince Guaraldi’s Peanuts Christmas album.

      • Gender Traitor

        Another possible exception – Bela Fleck & the Flecktones? Don’t know if they’re still playing together, but they put on a hell of a show back in the day. Caught ’em in Springfield years ago, and Victor Wooten had some bass players of my acquaintance ready to lay down their instruments in “We’re not worthy!” despair.

      • EvilSheldon

        Aw yeah. I caught Bela Fleck and Chick Corea at a little coffee bar down the road from where I live now, maybe five years ago. Just amazing.

      • Penguin

        Victor Wooten had some bass players of my acquaintance ready to lay down their instruments in “We’re not worthy!” despair.

        I can verify this.

      • Mojeaux

        Nice jam. I didn’t listen to the whole video because it was over an hour long and I didn’t have time, but he did not mention Bela Fleck or Chick Corea in what I watched. I suppose we could toss Dave Brubeck in there too.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I know, some hate it because there’s more than three chords. But really, there’s numbers beyond three that aren’t just simply lumped together as “many.”

      • EvilSheldon

        As a lover of jazz and prog and TDM, it hurts me to say this, but, here we go…

        It’s a LOT harder to write a catchy, salable, three-chord pop tune, than it is to sit down in front of ProTools and noodle on your guitar for twenty minutes.

      • Sensei

        +1

        Part of having a framework is to see how you create within it. That’s what makes it interesting. Mind you folks that make something vast understandable and approachable also have my respect as well.

      • Mojeaux

        This applies to writing pulp fiction/Harlequins. I never could get the rhythm of writing to spec like that. I could get ALMOST to the bullseye, but never got it quite on the nose, so I gave up. I can tell a structured story. I just can’t tell one that specifically structured.

      • Sensei

        I’m mixed on Jazz. Some of it I love and other parts just don’t work for me. The more atonal it becomes the less I’m interested.

        I have the same issue with modern atonal orchestral music.

      • Mojeaux

        The more atonal it becomes the less I’m interested.

        Same.

        My dad loved Grofe’s Grand Canyon Suite and I tried, oh did I try, to love it to, but I just don’t.

        Unrelated: My mother cannot stand Carmina Burana and she’s a classical music maven.

      • Sensei

        Too German?

        I neither love nor hate Carmina Burana.

      • Mojeaux

        Too cacophonous. She wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between Orff and Led Zeppelin.

        I love the whole thing and I have five different recordings of it, one of which is a percussion/chorus-only version.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I only like O Fortuna

        In The Messiah, I only like Hallelujah Chorus

      • Mojeaux

        I also adore Messiah, and I have FOUR different recordings of that. I even sang in a locally famous Messiah choir once. That was a blast.

        Then again, I love baroque music anyway.

        The other piece I have multiple performances of is the Rach III. This one is the best. It’s 45 minutes long and is my personal Pomodoro. I measure task time in Rach III’s. “That task took me 2 Rach IIIs.”

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        The best piece I ever played as a violist was Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity. I’d put Ruslan & Ludmila Overture in a solid 2nd.

      • Mojeaux

        Will check those out. You coming to the Zoom?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Probably see you there in a bit

      • TARDis

        ^^THIS^^

        When it sounds like 4 or more dudes rubbing their flaccid members on their instruments in a discordant cacophony, I’m out. I get that I have the musical talent of an autistic cherub, but I can appreciate some skill when I hear it. A lot of what I like in Jazz would no doubt be considered “pop jazz”.

        “This is a quintessential jazz recording.” NOPE.

      • blackjack

        I don’t like any music where you can play two separate albums simultaneously and it doesn’t sound much different.

    • Not Adahn

      Growing up as a classical musician, I was supposed to like jazz. It’s what classical musicians did to relax. It almost always bored me.

  9. zwak

    As I was saying yesterday, before I was accused of calling the wife the odious D word, that even the liberals are starting to question all the Covidicy. I mean it’s not too surprising. We here at Gliberteens have formed a sort of social bulwark against the “sciencing”, but most people do not have that and have to rely on the TMITE, which, as we all know, is the enemy. But, after a year and a half, with 1/3 of business worldwide having closed, 1/2 of all people have lost income to this BS, and, fortunately, not a whole lot of bodies and the ones that there are usually 75 to 85 years old. The whole thing is starting to, even for the true believers, stink on ice.

    At the very least, people are starting to ask “was this all worth it?”

    • Raven Nation

      “not a whole lot of bodies and the ones that there are usually 75 to 85 years old.”

      Logan’s Run II: the covid cleansing.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Nice sign in that aussie protest story:

    ‘We are your employers. We are not your slaves.”

    Looks like somebody didn’t get the updated terms of service.

    • juris imprudent

      Appendix to the social contract.

  11. EvilSheldon

    “Panpsychism, the idea that inanimate objects have consciousness, gains steam in science communities.”

    Trust the Science!

    • juris imprudent

      Love the irony that philosophy discarded it.

  12. Sean

    Whelp, I grilled those steaks from last thread.

    I also grilled some zucchini, and topped it with cheese and chimichurri.

    #lazycook

    Came out pretty good.

    • juris imprudent

      I did a zucchini lasagna last night that turned out quite well (especially for a first attempt). Zucchini seems to be in abundance this year (ours came from a neighbor’s garden).

      • Sean

        GF has made that before. Pretty tasty.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m sorting out a 16oz. Prime ribeye, broccoli with Hollandaise, Caesar salad, Blanton’s Old Fashioned to start, and a few Spaten Optimators to wash it down.

      *urp*

    • Suthenboy

      You people are dead to me. Use noodles FFS.

      • Sean

        I grilled some avocado last weekend. ?

      • Suthenboy

        Gah!!!

        The Mrs. and I were invited for dinner recently. The host prepared halved and pitted avacados filled with cilantro laden pico de Gallo. I didnt know what to say so I just sat in a corner and sipped drinks.

      • rhywun

        FFS.

      • zwak

        Hate Crime.

  13. rhywun

    You know you’re getting old when you’re reading Steam reviews of games it feels like you played yesterday and everyone is like “I remember playing this when I was 6”.

    • Suthenboy

      Welcome to the club. I grew up with a 16″ black and white TV and we only got two channels.

      • TARDis

        Well I was more privileged than I thought. We always had four, the big three and a local UHF station.

      • rhywun

        No PBS? We got our 5th (WUHF, appropriately enough) in 1980.

      • Suthenboy

        No PBS. Two channels and the only thing us kids watched was early Star Trek. The rest of what was on was drivel. Soap Operas and News.
        I remember watching firefights in Vietnam, the moon landing and Nixon resigning. Other than that it was Star Trek. In black and white….so I missed the whole ‘red shirt’ gag.

      • rhywun

        Heh yeah we had a mixture of color and B&W TV sets. In my mid-teens somehow this gigantic floor model color TV got passed down to me. It was probably 20 years old or more, and the picture was pretty dodgy but damn I was spoiled.

      • TARDis

        My dad won our first color TV at bingo night at the base NCO club. I remember him making us watch Nixon’s resignation on it. About two weeks later he sold it along with his prize 1970 Gran Torino because he got transferred to Italy.

      • blackjack

        We had no remote controls. Used to have to stand at the TV and turn the dial on command. I remember watching the evacuation of the embassy in Vietnam. Our TV was only really on on Saturday. Cartoons and old series like Gilligan’s Island and F-troop. That kind of stuff. We only watched a few hours and then we were back outside. Later, it was Saturday Night Live, Midnight Special and Second City TV.

      • TARDis

        I never heard of PBS until XX and Teletubbies.

        *Dials Child Abuser Anonymous*

  14. The Late P Brooks

    NSW Police Minister confirmed 57 people were charged after attending Sydney’s protest and a strike-force has been established to investigate who was in attendance.

    ‘What we saw today was 3,500 very selfish boofheads — people that thought the law didn’t apply to them,’ Mr Elliott said.

    ‘If we don’t see a [Covid] spike in the areas these protesters came from in the next week I’ll be very, very surprised,’ Elliott said.

    ‘It was just a whole lot of halfwits. There is no doubt in my mind that at least one individual there today had COVID, it is statistically impossible for us not to consider that.

    ‘I’m appealing to all 3,500 people to get tested tomorrow, if not for themselves for the sake of their family and friends.’

    Why bother? They’ll all be dead in a matter of days. Nothing to do but dump the bodies into the sea.

    • Suthenboy

      “…people that thought the law didn’t apply to them…”

      At some point ‘the law’ and the people that write it lose credibility. I think you are finding out where that point it, fuckhead.

      • Suthenboy

        IS, not IT. If you are gonna curse someone you should at least get your spelling right.

    • Gustave Lytton

      At some point the damn is going to break and these Gestapo are going to be found a victim of a robbery gone wrong with nothing taken.

    • Raven Nation

      Some the quotes coming out of Australia are unbelievable. The NSW premier sent extra cops into some areas of western Sydney. The police commander said something like, “too many people are leaving their homes without a good reason.” And the premier made a comment along the lines of, people just aren’t doing the right thing and I’m so disappointed in them.

      • Ted S.

        “too many people are leaving their homes without a good reason.”

        Suppressing the people who pay your salaries, however, is apparently a good reason.

      • Suthenboy

        If you have spurs you gotta use ’em.

  15. Suthenboy

    Panpsy…what? We have been through this gibberish before. Back in the ’70s some fruitloop tried to argue that trees are sentient. That is just the last one I remember. The notion of genies or jhin (sp?) is that inanimate objects have spirits. It is an ancient, primitive idea that nearly every culture entertained at one time or other. The muslim world still has their feet nailed down to it. It is the basis for the ‘no graven images’ rule that primitive cultures had/have. Spoken words or graven images would conjure spirits blah blah blah, so it was forbidden.
    Taken root in science, my ass. Anyone who subscribes to it is straying from science.

    • Derpetologist

      The Arabic equivalent of Romeo and Juliet is called Layla and Majnoon. Majnoon literally means [possessed by a] genie. That’s how much he loved her.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_and_Majnun

  16. Chafed

    Good music Spud.

  17. rhywun

    Ugh I have to do some work now.

    • Not Adahn

      First day of two day match down,and I’m sitting on top of the overall leader board. Which is a dangerous place because there’s limited maneuverability up there, and absolutely no cover.

      Took five goddamn hours to reset for tomorrow.

      Feels good man.

      • EvilSheldon

        Sweet. Nice shooting!

      • Not Adahn

        Now, sleep for tomorrow!

      • Chafed

        Good work NA.

      • Sean

        Congrats!

    • rhywun

      W00t done.

      It turns out that proper prior planning does indeed prevent piss-poor performance.

      • Count Potato

        That was fast.

      • rhywun

        Yah I just had to verify I didn’t fuck up Production.

        I get to repeat the process tomorrow morning.

  18. Yusef drives a Kia

    It’s all Saturday in ManisTEE, Chili is rockin’ some golf and women, humid as fuck, all together a good day

    • egould310

      Sounds like a good evening. *cheers!*

      Just wrapped up two hours with the electric guitar. My fingertips are a little raw. Time for a vodka/carrot juice.

      • Tundra

        Did you get my link this morning?

      • egould310

        Yeah new Descendents! Just downloaded it. Will be the soundtrack for the Sunday morning run.

        How’s the move going?

      • Tundra

        WTF is going on with the site tonight?

        Again, I spent the day consolidating shit so we can move the leftovers (and the dogs) in her car and my truck. Most of our stuff is already in Denver. Overall, we’re killing it!

      • zwak

        So, Milo finally came home from college?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I just uploaded a shit load of songs to Spotify, links whem they publish/
        /You will dig it,

  19. Tundra

    This could be an interesting place to visit.

    I’d fuck it up. But sure, a good place for other people.

    Someone stole my daughter’s license plates from the mail. I’m getting tired of this shit.

    Any ideas?

    • Chafed

      Move out of state?

      • Count Potato

        I think he’s already moving.

    • blackjack

      Maybe it was the same guy who manufactured them?

  20. The Other Kevin

    I watched Germany vs China in badminton today and I enjoyed it. What the hell is wrong with me?

    • Tundra

      You’re a hockey player. Did you really think we’d age gracefully?

    • Count Potato

      Was it at least women’s badminton?

      • blackjack

        That would make it middlenmiton. Still no such thing as goodmiton.

      • The Other Kevin

        It was mixed doubles.

      • slumbrew

        I may have just watched woman’s water polo.

        I didn’t mention to my wife that the shots of them exiting the pool were a high point.

        Sort of like this: https://youtu.be/4ND5sZ_yf6I but with fewer gators

    • The Other Kevin

      Lol I guess I just like sports, and I enjoy seeing the underdog win. I don’t always watch for the USA either. I think I can just appreciate training and skill and dedication no matter the sport.

      • Count Potato

        I wonder why people take up certain sports. Like the biathlon.

        “I think I’ll dedicate my life to shooting and cross-country skiing.”

        “Why?”

        “I don’t know. I saw this James Bond movie once, and it looked kind of cool.”

      • blackjack

        I always wonder how some businesses manage to stay afloat. I’ll see a place where I knot the building has to rent for a couple of grand a month, and it’s a shoe repair place, or used jeans. How much are they getting for used jeans and how many do they have to sell to cover overhead and the salaries of the three people that seem to work there?

      • Mojeaux

        Mob front, like mattress stores.

      • Count Potato

        So they can go to the mattresses?

      • Nephilium

        I still miss my old mid 20’s after hours hangout, a coffee shop that was a money laundering front for the Italian mob. They had Jamaican Blue Mountain as the house coffee, sold it for $5 a glass, and free refills. They were open until 04:00 on weekends.

      • Fourscore

        In Austin years ago there was a small VN restaurant where the back room always had a few-several old VN men, I was convinced it was a bookie joint with associated card games going full on.

      • egould310

        My favorite pho place in Long Beach, CA had to be a book-making operation. Go in on Saturday morning and there were 15 Vietnamese dudes watching the Nebraska vs Ball State football game; very intensely.

        Also, when you left the tip you put it in a garbage can. Seriously. Not on the table. Not at the register. In the garbage can next to the register.

      • Nephilium

        At least for the old computer equipment and repair shops, they were being used as money laundering fronts for the Russian mob here.

      • rhywun

        I wonder who they’re laundering for here. There are so many of them. I also wonder if my block really needs four jewelry shops.

      • Nephilium

        I had a friend who the Greek mob kept trying to recruit. They bitched a lot about the other organized crime in the area, so I learned a lot.

      • Ted S.

        They don’t all dress like guidos?

      • rhywun

        They don’t all dress like guidos?

        No, they’re all run by Middle Easterners. Not many guidos left.

      • EvilSheldon

        There was a (pretty damn good) Chinese restaurant back where I lived in MD, that I’m convinced was a laundry for the Wa Ching. In five years I never saw a single person eat there.

      • The Other Kevin

        I think it’s just chance. I stared sled hockey because a guy at my church played and asked me to check it out. I tried curling once because my hockey coach invited me.

    • rhywun

      Well don’t keep us in suspense… who won??

      • The Other Kevin

        China, sadly. The German woman looked stressed out if her mind.

    • Swiss Servator

      I saw some of that too… boredom wins.

    • Fourscore

      He was a funny guy, I loved his accent.

    • Chafed

      That stinks

    • Timeloose

      Great song. Thanks Yuseph.

  21. grrizzly

    I noticed today that the Olympic broadcasts are available in 4k. I almost forgot that I have a 4k TV.

    • rhywun

      The TV I’m looking at is 4K but I’m too ignorant of this stuff to know if I need it. If teevee isn’t normally broadcast at 4K, am I wasting money on 4K…?

      • grrizzly

        You also need the right cable company and “cable box.”

        https://www.nbcolympics.com/4k

        I have Fubo TV and Boston is one of the few markets where it provides Olympics 4k.

      • rhywun

        Huh. I have Spectrum but I’m considering Fubo. And I’m in the right market.

        Not that I have any intention of watching the Olympics but who knows what comes later.

      • egould310

        “ who knows what comes later.”

        Trans-Olympics. The 4k really lets you see the bulges in ultra hi-def. You’ll be able to tell if the lady is circumcised or not.

      • rhywun

        The future of television scares and confuses me.

  22. Yusef drives a Kia

    I just bought 5 tickets on Bransons spaceship, cool, however worthless,

  23. Yusef drives a Kia
    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Bad url!

  24. trshmnstr the terrible

    Adult night at the waterpark next town over. Probably the most fun I’ve had in years.

    It hit me how much sitting behind a desk all day sucks the adventure and excitement out of life. Time to make some focused injections of excitement.

    • egould310

      “ focused injections of excitement”

      Mainlining crystal meth?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Need moar Disc, I broke the Innova tradition and bought a River, 7,7 -1 0
        Really wierd disc

    • Chafed

      I’m hoping your stories about “adult night” at the waterpark involve more than an inner tube.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      That’s because Zoom sucks my friend,

    • Gender Traitor

      Did everyone else pass out?

      “No large flat-screen TVs were harmed during the filming of this Zoom meeting.”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Tres was asleep?

  25. Yusef drives a Kia

    I bought ticket for a rocket ship,

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  26. Yusef drives a Kia

    I’m going to make money as a musician, and go into space before I die, already did the family thing, what a life!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Holy shit! where do you start? I could climb that ladder, wow,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        OTOH, I have had boobs that big recently so, yes on the ass,

    • Chafed

      I wish he was up to comment on that photo.

      • rhywun

        *clicks*

        Oh dear God.

    • robodruid

      She has a nice smile.

  27. Gustave Lytton

    The IOC is a corrupt piece of shit. The women’s road race has it easy(ier). I don’t care. I’m enjoying the shit out of the road race, just like last night. Chuckling that the Namibia and ZA chicks are a little light in the melanin loafers. Not real Africans? Also enjoying the smiles of some of the ladies.

    • Chafed

      Completely agree it’s corrupt. I’m hoping to maintain my streak of not seeing a single second of the Olympics.

      • Gustave Lytton

        That how I was going into it. Dislike all of that, the changes to modernize the Olympics, the lack of spectators, NBC’s crappy coverage, excessive commercials.. and I’m watching it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Omg. They just did Omer Shapira and several others soaking themselves in water in slow motion. I’ll be in my bunk.

      • rhywun

        Prowling the Olympics for elusive torso shots brings me back… I’m better than that now.

      • Ted S.

        You are? :-p

  28. Festus

    Howdy Friends! Just ducking in for a sec because Shun Day is less than an hour away. I might have an hour or so to muck about.

    • rhywun

      Way past my bedtime. *yawn*

      • Festus

        I hear that. Sunday is double-plus good. Ugh. I loathe it so.

  29. Festus

    Judi’s car payed off in full on Friday! Expect catastrophic breakdown in 3…2…1…

  30. Festus

    Hayek! If you’re out there , I really dig your new avatar! “The Persistence of Felines”

    • Sean

      ⬆ ?

      • hayeksplosives

        Thks dude. And good morrow to you!

    • hayeksplosives

      Thanks, Fes!

  31. hayeksplosives

    Thomas Massie, March 16, 2020

    “ When this is over, the greatest harm to society will have been the public’s unquestioning acceptance of the unchecked authority of governments to force private behavior and disrupt economies.

    I fear the actions taken by our government will make FDR’s internment of Japanese-Americans look like a “light touch.””

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Based.

      • hayeksplosives

        I was looking way back on my Facebook posts (to see if I can get hired anywhere) and was stunned to see the date on that prediction by Massie.

        I agreed with him then, I agree with him now, but I never imagined it would still be going on a year and a half later.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The man’s a prophet.

  32. Tres Cool

    Suh’ fam?
    Yo what’s goody yo

    Sabbath tall cans!

    • hayeksplosives

      Woot! I had a short screwdriver instead. Zat ok?

      • hayeksplosives

        Mornin UCS.

    • Sean

      Morning

      • Sean

        How goes the healing? Sneaking in any bacon yet?

      • UnCivilServant

        I did sneak some on a turkey sandwich with no trouble. I kept testing the boundaries until I got a reaction with a beef gyro. (technically a Dürüm) Do anything less greasy than a döner kebab has not had any impact on me.

      • Sean

        ?

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, homey & hay & Chippy & Ted’S & Sean! (You still here, Fes? Anyone else lurking?)

      A bit steamy at Tranq Base this morning after last night’s “festivities.” Stayed up WAY too late last night after indulging in a Saturday afternoon nap, but it was worth it! Came out around 2 a.m. EDT to watch a MAGNIFICENT thunderstorm! The wind blowing the rain up under the patio roof drove me back into the doorway into the garage, but I persisted! This morning, I am armed with my trusty Skeeter Zapper, as conditions are particularly conducive to those pesky pests.

      Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to respond to an e-mail. I’ll probably see you again when the Lynx post.

    • UnCivilServant

      I still have no idea what that means.

  33. Tres Cool

    Replying to Q and the pic he posted for me: could make it work, but she’s kinda slender. Needs more FUPA.

  34. hayeksplosives

    Random cool stuff you’re unlikely to see in your local news:

    Five US Soldiers at Dugway Proving Ground took an unusual opportunity to earn a foreign army medal by qualifying with a rifle and pistol issued to the German Armed Forces.

    Some 70 German Army Soldiers were at Dugway Proving Ground, adding to their chemical and biological defense skills, when the opportunity was arranged for a few American Soldiers to qualify with an ally’s primary battle rifle and pistol.

    When the last shot was fired, all five U.S. Soldiers had earned the Schützenschnur badge in gold. It may be earned by officers but only enlisted military personnel may wear it, according to German Army regulations.
    The history of the Schützenschnur medal dates back to the Dutch War of Independence (1568-1648) against Spain.

    I put a pic of the medal and some of the soldiers on Imgur.

    https://imgur.com/a/QVu6NHC

    • UnCivilServant

      So why are officers not allowed to wear it?

      • hayeksplosives

        I assumed it was some sort of recognition that officers were frequently just fancy noblemen who had no fighting skills but plenty of pretty medals, so they reserved this one just for dudes with skills.