I don’t care. Given they keep stealing our jokes, I am going to fact check a Babylon Bee article.
This is my review of New Belgium Fat Tire (I seriously haven’t review Fat Tire):
The claim: Eating soap as a child leads to having a taste for IPA.
The facts: IPA became popular with craft beer drinkers during the late 00’s early 10’s for reasons nobody really questioned. Is it selling? Yes? Who cares, make some more right? Extensive market research is available that suggests IPA is the most popular style of beer in an industry slowly losing market share to other fierce competitors. So much so an 11.4% annual growth in sales of IPA is expected—a doubling of the total market share from 2018 through 2025. This is not a beverage that is going away any time soon.
Furthermore, research is available from the CDC and other state-funded services that suggest children during the time in question prior to the surge IPA sales began poisoning themselves with hygienic, self-care products. This is a constant public health concen because scores of small children and people with significant psychosis are constantly eating soap. Unfortunately, there are no studies that link both available on PubMed. Not even a retrospective review of ICD-10, or more appropriately for the timeframe in question, ICD-9 codes to even correlate the timeframes.
What can be identified, is a correlation between use of anti-bacterial soap and endocrine disruption. This is caused by a common ingredient in anti-bacterial soap, called Triclosan. It has been used in a variety of hygiene products for decades:
Triclosan is a chemical with antibacterial properties. For more than 30 years, it has been used in consumer products such as detergents, soaps, skin cleansers, deodorants, lotions, creams, toothpastes, and dishwashing liquids. Triclosan can be added to other materials, such as textiles, to make them resistant to bacterial growth.
How did Missouri handle lockdowns? They switched to whiskey.
This overuse of endocrine disrupting chemicals was only exasperated during the COVID-19 pandemic, where hygiene practices such as hand washing were encouraged by public health agencies worldwide. Couple this with the increased incidence of attempted suicide during the pandemic, some of which was likely attempted by eating household cleaning products and the record alcohol sales during the pandemic, speaks to a growing concern for public health officials in the coming years. It is possible endocrine disruptors in hand soap lead to a level of comfort with such hormone blocking chemicals found in popular alcoholic beverages, which also is a growing concern for public health officials. None from this country, obviously.
The verdict: Pinocchio’s pants are on fire! There is no causal relationship between eating soap and a taste for IPA. There is a relationship between hand washing and endocrine disruption. Babylon Bee needs to wash their mouth out with an all natural, Triclosan free soap, lest they give themselves man-boobs.
In nearly five years of writing this weekly feature, I have yet to review Fat Tire. Nothing against it, just for some reason I guess I looked it over. Its a fine example of a balanced American Amber Ale that was popular before IPA took over the market share and made other styles become an afterthought. It was a simpler time—a better time. Meh, what am I saying? New Belgium Fat Tire:: 3.5/5
Fat Tire is my go-to when I drink beer, but I can’t find it in 711 anymore
Apologies for not recognizing you, K, and sorry to read belatedly about doggo. And I once recommended a kids’ pug book to the wrong glib lady. I have a lot to be sorry for…
Ha! Join the awkward club, friend. Nothing to apologize for.
The avgeek mention yesterday had me wondering.
KK, I didn’t know this was you, and I am very sad to hear of the loss of you doge. We lost our little buddy a few months ago, and not a day goes by without thinking of him.
Thank you ❤️
It’s so jarring when you realize they’re not following you around the house, or lying in their bed, or waiting for you to drop food, or greeting you at the door, isn’t it? It’s really difficult for me to change routines with small stuff. This is such a major change, I can’t even.
My fall-back here is Alaska Amber, which is never disappointing. They also brew a white ale that’s not bad.
Back in your old state, Coors had a local-only product called Colorado Native. I loved that shit.
Yeah, I had that a time or two. Good stuff.
Fat tire was my first craft beer, 1996 in Penrose CO. New belgium makes some nice ales
It exasperates me when I see people swapping similar, but completely different words in a sentence.
OT (sorry) – Beloved hometown newspaper might want to have the copy editor give the headline writer’s work a once-over. https://bocabeacon.com/wordpress/news/are-you-interested-in-receiving-a-flue-shot-or-covid-19-booster-in-the-fall/
Is “shooting the flue” some kind of sex act I’m not aware of?
The even dirtier Sanchez.
(the bio at the end of the article implies that the writer is the editor ?)
And therein lies the problem.
Also OT: my favorite Twitter thing today is nicknaming race grifter Shaun King.
We have
Talcum X (most popular)
Martin Luther Cream
Snow J Simpson
I love that game. I think White Shadow has also been used.
Colin Pap-ernick
The Off-White Shadow.
Ah crap, I hadn’t seen Chafed’s response.
You’re so cute all is forgiven.
Sandy Davis, Jr.
IPA is designed to cover up the taste of shitty beer by making it even shittier. It’s like taking rotten meat and making it so spicy that all you taste is heat.
Also, it’s pretentious. Also, it’s disgusting and tastes like drinking lawn clippings.
/tell us how you really feel
The hopping was done so they could ship it to, wait for it, India! Stabilized the barrels
English IPA is superior to American. That being said, I like IPAs. You don’t, good. More for me. The worse thing about them… is the price. I like most beer styles though: Ambers, Pale Ales, Tripels, Bock, Hefeweizen; it’s all good. Just no Bud, Miller, Coors, etc. When my daughter moved out, I told her to take the Miller Lite left over from my MIL’s visit and give it away.
My favorite beers are standard German Helles and Euro Pilsners. Hard to get them not skunky sometimes.
Q gets it.
I enjoy Fat Tire Amber Ale. My local Total Wine used to carry their white ale. It was terrific but I think it’s been discontinued. ☹️
We don’t have Total Wine here because of state liquor laws about store ownership. But I heard one of their radio spots — apparently they have a store in northwest CT — and it was hilariously targeted at women, promoting chardonnay and prosecco.
I believe they still sell it, its just seasonal.
What time of year do they sell it MS?
Should be in the summer but around here its all Kölsch and fruity IPA during the summer.
That’s only true in poorly made IPA’s. A well balanced IPA is a balance between sweet malts and bitter hops, with the flavor notes being different based on the style of IPA (West coast, Midwest, England) you’re going for (the New England IPA is a different beast entirely).
My review of the Smirnoff, orange juice, carrot juice, and Perrier I’m sipping. Boozy and good. Goodbye to Saturday.
I volunteered to work today, soooo boring, but hey money.
but hey money
Well, yeah.
I still have 6 hours to play before dark, its not too bad.
I hit up two (new to me) local breweries today. One for a bite, one for a pint.
One of them had one of the more unusual beers I’ve ever sampled. A Dill Pickle Gose brewed with pickle brine (they also had a spicy variant). I’m glad I only got a sample of that one. About 20 miles into a bike ride, I could probably enjoy it, but not on a chilly mid-60’s rainy day.
I know I already thanked you, but I really appreciate you having my back last night. You didn’t have to do that. You’re a good egg.
/virtual hugs
No worries. The only thing a person needs to do in life is die. Everything else is optional. I sleep better making other peoples lives better when I can.
Also, it’s disgusting and tastes like drinking lawn clippings.
I had a brew at a local place popular with the dogs-and-strollers crowd which tasted like they mixed it with Pine-sol. Fucking awful.
Couple this with the increased incidence of attempted suicide during the pandemic…….
NPR even went there this morning. They of course blamed it on the “pandemic” and not governments overreaction, but still. That one is not staying in the closet any more. Excellent review of a mediocre beer Mex. I had a complete breakfast pizza fail this morning. The crust stuck to the pan in such a way I had to eat the sausage, eggs, sharp cheddar, spinach and green onions off the cutting board with a fork. It had sausage, eggs, sharp cheddar, spinach, and green onions in it so it was still ok.
I hope deadhead checks in later. He is running this. From what I can tell he is still on the trail after 27 hours. I should be up there to cheer him but work fucked that up and well, I suck.
Ho-lee shit. That is David Goggins territory. Good luck to dedhead.
Ya, I would be surprised if deadhead has not crossed Goggins path. It is not a large group that runs in those circles.
I had a burrito, and that route is insane.
Godspeed Deadhead
First time back in San Diego in about 3 1/2 yrs. Stopped by Half Door Brewing for dinner last night. Tripel was on the bitter side but still 10.8%. Berliner was a lot more flavorful. Good food, and now they’ve got some tall cans plus crowlers. Good stuff.
I was just thinking about deadhead yesterday. He’s insane. Good luck to him.
https://www.opensplittime.org/events/hardrock-100-2021/summary
I was pleased with the six miles I ran this morning.
?
You should be. *cough* GlibFit *cough*
That’s hot. G/d bless him; I did a couple 100 mile forced marches in Army, but I was 19/20 and, consequently, nigh invulnerable. Today, I would drop dead from that altitude alone.
Living at half what he is at the altitude doesn’t fuck with me so much. Being out of shape at that altitude fucks with me though if doing anything more than eating. I am slowly trying to change that. 19/20 we were all indestructible. That is why the military recruits that age group and not mid 50’s beer guts.
I bet he loses to a Nigerian. Thought there are absolutely no racial or sexual differences, none at all.
The guy who won is a Frog not Nigerian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_D'Haene
That guy is unreal. The race is not over yet.
He lost to a Frenchy? Let’s never let him live that down.
The Frenchy just imagines that there is a German behind hum.
The only person I know who enjoys IPAs is my little brother. Therefore I posit that liking that flavor correlates to taking the last sip of a warm beer, which my brother often got from my dad. Of course, when it was soda he got ‘the higher up’, or first drink.
Here’s a headline: “Workers Plan to Sue Florida for Ending Unemployment Early”
https://money.yahoo.com/florida-workers-plan-to-sue-for-ending-unemployment-early-201619597.html
Are you really a “worker” if you’re on unemployment?
FFS, people sueing to steal other peoples money now. These are interesting times.
JFC. Unless these benefits are somehow mandatory under federal law, I don’t see how these lawsuits can be won.
Find enough judges willing to flout the law.
John Galt may have had the right idea.
Subjecting people to three-hour political speeches?
Well, maybe not that part.
If it was good enough for Castro….
Going Galt — Cloaking device not included.
I thought this was going to be a review of a cilantro-infused beer.
The one missing angle.
They don’t need your help coming up with bad ideas.
Coriander is a traditional ingredient in most Belgian Witbier.
At lunch yesterday I ordered a Perky Porter from a local brewery, never making the connection that it used coffee as an ingredient. I’m allergic to caffeine and there was no information on the can or the brewery’s website about if the porter had a caffeine content. So I just didn’t drink any of it. Why does every fucking beer have to have extra ingredients now a days?! Last time I got a porter at a brew pub it had coconut! Fuck, I hate everyone.
Fuck, I hate everyone.
Welcome to the party, pal!
Hipster juice is the answer.
But is it made from real hipsters?
It would be the only thing they are useful for. I hate getting behind one of them in the Wholefoods line. They don’t bathe and they might have fleas, and they put their produce on the belt, no bags, have to save the planet you know, one at a time. I want to stab them in the eye with a fork, really.
Dude, that’s you get for shopping at Whole Paycheck.
“what” you get, even.
I rarely shop there. Only if it’s something specific that we can’t get anywhere else. For produce, if I want to spend too much, I’ll go to Fresh Market.
On the way home, I stopped at a grocery store that the chain uses to run their clearance beers out of. At times you can find amazing deals there (once I managed to grab bombers of Victory Old Horizontal for $3). They had a rum barrel aged Imperial porter from Thirsty Dog at $9/4 pack instead of $25/4 pack. Grabbed one of them, and didn’t notice until I got home that it’s an Imperial porter aged in rum barrels over fucking COCONUT.
I hate coconut.
At least I grabbed a $5/6 pack of an orange hefeweizen that’s solid from another local brewery.
FFS, people sueing to steal other peoples money now. These are interesting times.
Society owes them.
Well, The President is saying Facebook can kill you, so that should make everything else an open and shut case on life or death consequences.
My Marshall’s trip the other day was a success. 3 pack of readers for $9.99 (I’m very hard on glasses) and a 10.5” Lodge griddle, with a dent on the handle, for $4.99. I’m gonna go sear some skirt steaks, then take a nap for work tonight. Y’all have a wonderful day.
Every time we go somewhere, I pray that we do not drive by a Marshalls, because my wife’s shopping addiction will kick in and 3 hours later…
“The claim: Eating soap as a child leads to having a taste for IPA.”
Hyperion Fact Check: 100% true.
So that’s why you like IPA?
It’s why I do not drink that mop bucket bitter swill.
Regarding the cover photo for the post:
It’s runny how real cultural difference is in perception of well, a lot of things.
For instance, the first Christmas wifey and I were together, way back in 2008, I told her that she has to watch Christmas Story with me. She totally did not get it or think it’s funny. All these years later, she still does not get it or think it’s funny. In the same scenario in reverse, I do not get most Brazilian ‘humor’ or think it’s funny. Silly, yes, funny no.
Tales from the Fresh Market – post pandemic.
Customers with masks is now almost non existant. The poor employees are still being forced to wear them. ?
All the limes were bad. Bare spots on the shelves again – including fresh prepared food. No haas avocados.
Prices continue to rise, and portion sizes continue to shrink.
Fuck Biden. Fuck the Democrats. Fuck the Republicans.
I didn’t see many people wearing masks a few days ago when we were in there.
We were in Wholefoods about an hour ago and it was about half and half. When we were walking to the store from the parking lot, I look over and my wife had hers on and I said ‘Why are you wearing that thing outside?’. It was 96F. That seems to make those damn things even more intolerable for me.
56% humidity, feels like 104, heh. Fuck that shit, this AC feels good.
Enjoy it while it lasts they will be outlawed soon.
I hope lardass politicians are the first to die from that.
Yeah, it stopped raining here and the sun came out to turn the place into a sauna.
I probably COULD mow the grass, but I think Ill have another beer here in the a/c.
Supposed to be 87 here today. And nobody has air conditioning up here. Fuck, I moved here to get away from this shit.
Good news, by Wednesday it will be back down in the 60s.
Well, lucky for you, August will soon pass and it’ll be winter again.
Yup. I’ve already got my snowshoes unpacked.
After you wrote that series of articles about moving to Alaska, I started checking out Alaska. Juneau is gorgeous, wow. It’s all too cold for me, pretty to look at, but…
After you wrote that series of articles about moving to Alaska, I started checking out Alaska. Juneau is gorgeous, wow. It’s all too cold for me, pretty to look at, but…
Check out Bethel AK, heaven on earth!
Is it too cold for squirrels?
Juneau seems nice, but you can’t get in or out by land. It’s a weird setup.
The state liquor store still has signage “recommending” masks. This was being ignored by the staff and all but one customer.
They took down the signs here a few weeks ago.
All the limes were bad.
This is why I always get the little plastic bulbs.
Hurk
Bare spots on the shelves again – including fresh prepared food.
I noticed bare spots too at our regional store earlier today, especially pasta and frozen foods. I went in just to grab sale soda and milk (kids go through 8 gallons/week), and ended up filling two carts with dried pasta, bread flour, and canned goods.
Drinking a Hofbrau Dunkel to try to beat the heat. Also have some Peroni and Carlsberg in the beer fridge. Wife is getting ready to head out to Berlin in a couple of hours so I need lots of beer and internetz to survive. Dulles, I hate that fucking airport.
Based on numbers I made up 50% of IPA drinkers don’t actually enjoy the taste, they drink it to look cool and show moral superiority over cheap “light beer” drinkers.
cheap light beer sucks balls. That is facts. I tried bud lite/light once. It tasted like water gone wrong.
Bud sucks, making it a lite beer made it suck more.
I know, right? Down at the local pub, the yuppy douchebags love sipping their $20 IPAs. Dumbasses, the $3 house happy hour stuff tastes better.
The same applies to wine. Most people couldn’t tell the difference between a $10 box and a glass of Domaine Leroy Musigny Grand Cru.
*sips boxed chardonnay&seltzer on the rocks with pinky stuck out.
I hope you didn’t forget the little umbrella.
There have been some entertaining (to me at least) taste tests done to both beer and wine drinkers. Most people (including myself in this) will taste based on expectations and labels first, their taste buds and noses second. There’s a reason the breweries serious about QC use triangle tests.
Fuckin n Rollin https://youtu.be/Rpam-XmVTPY
i find that I like ipa less than i used to, though I think this is in part due to changes in local craft brewing. They all got more alcoholic and sweeter. I don’t like sweet in beer. In the end I like a pale ale more or a basic Czech pilsner. I started liking india pale lagers more. nice crisp bitter. I still do enjoy some IPAs though
“Czech pilsner”
Wut? Check Pilsners are the cats pajamas, bro.
LOL. Czech, type-o corrected. That was the American say to spell it.
What do you call a slovakian thats been tossed out of a bar?
A bounced Czech !
Heh, how’d you learn a Czech joke?
Drank too many Pilsner Urquells most likely.
That and OG-2X-OG that I dated for a bit was a big, huge, giant, polock.
No, you adjusted my mail order bride joke from a couple of weeks ago. Czech mate!
Booooo!
Y’all gotta stop that.
Y’all gotta stop that.
No, YOU stop that!
Having had a Serb pilsner from a 2L plastic bottle that I liked I am pretty sure I would like a Czech pilsner. My go to beer when visiting Americas hat is Pilsner. I am acquiring a taste for some IPA’s. Some also suck.
The state liquor store still has signage “recommending” masks. This was being ignored by the staff and all but one customer.
Some places have “mask if you’re unvaxxed” signs, which people like me completely ignore. There are very few (but more than zero) masks in evidence. There were a few people at the grocery store wearing them yesterday.
*If they even had a sign which said, “Wear a mask if you’re sick,” it would at least present the appearance of having been based on some sort of logical thought process. I think it would still be stupid and pointless, but…
It’s like saying men should wear a condom 24 hours a day, no matter what, because “abundance of caution”.
Men?!
Hateful.
Penis having persons is the term, I believe.
Cismale penile supremacist
I was introduced to a new guy (new to me) at work yesterday and extended my hand for a hand shake. He recoiled in horror, then came back with a fist, which I ignored.
Extending a closed fist to a stranger is not a friendly gesture. It’s the opposite.
I put the guy in the “useless” category mentally. First impressions matter.
The way the company is going, that guy is going to be your boss next week.
No shit.
But he has an area of technical usefulness so he’s overqualified for management.
Good reminder to work on the resume some more and expand the job search. I’m open to pretty much anywhere that is not West Coast, New York, greater DC.
Everybody else is moving to KC. You next?
I just got back from Daytona Beach. I love that place. So relaxing and free feeling. They actually protest against communism there. I’d move there right now, except I can’t take the salary hit. I know the cost of living would offset a bunch of it, but not enough.
That, and you’d have to learn how to cook meth.
That would help make up for the reduced income, I guess.
“You know how much condoms cost when I was in school?” Me either- we never used them.”
– Willie Nelson in “Half Baked”
*paraphrased
“Do you have any idea how much your mom and dad paid for condoms?”
*silence and a shrug*
“Obviously not enough”
/stealing that
‘Saright, I probably stole it too, just can’t remember if or from where.
I hit the supermarket, the drug store, and the bodega where I get my vapes today and all are now “mask if you’re unclean”. I counted maybe two other unmasked individuals altogether. There is minimal evidence that people are over this shit. *sigh*
Every time I go into 711 (every other day), all the dudes are unmasked and all the chicks are masked. I haven’t worn a mask in over a month or more.
The breweries I visited had no masked people in them. The grocery store had a handful.
I was half tempted to tell the woman with the mask on under her nose that she should pull it up. But my second thoughts kicked in, and I stayed quiet.
I am not an IPA fan. Course I almost never drink beer at all anymore. If I do, it’s a wheat, like Fransiskaner (sp?)
Right now I’m having a Diet Coke out of the can. That’s probably a signal of white supremacy now cuz of OMB.
Is it now?
**Heads for the fridge for a can of Diet Coke**
?
If you like hefeweizens, Ayinger Brau-Weisse is the best you can get unless you go to a microbrewery that does it rally well, like the one in Frankenmuth, MI.
Everything is a sign of white supremacy except not being able to speak English while looting the local CVS and voting democrat.
Uuuuh WEISS BIER? Wo ist der Schwarzbrau?
Schwarzbier? We have the Schwarzbier.
And to Juris below… I believe Kristalweizen would be the Shaun King of beers.
Hefeweizen – the Shaun King of beers.
OT: Darwin in action.
I wonder how fast you have to be going to wrap your car around a metal support. Maybe whoever they were drag racing will come forward and answer.
Jeebus, that looks like something out of a GTA game.
All the drag racing and other assorted vehicular dick-swinging that has been plaguing our streets for the past couple years actually seems to be dying down recently. Maybe people are getting jobs again.
Need money for race car
Speed cameras? We have them all over the place here. Any school zone and any place that saw a traffic fatality is getting a pair of cameras.
Don’t drive in MD. Driving on the beltway, seeing cars doing 100 mph+ and weaving in and out of traffic is an everyday thing.
Horrible way to go, but that is one very sturdy piece of transport infrastructure right there.
Ps – you and your “drag racing”. I’m not saying street racing doesn’t happen, in fact I’m more aware of it than I’m going to get into here, but I expect that much of what you call drag racing isn’t necessarily racing.
Pps – *does a burnout right outside your apartment*
It is a handy term for various goings-on.
There IS a lot of drag racing, though.
Proof: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpbAXWPC_9U
Damn your nimble fingers!
?
[imagines RuPaul running the Hardrock 100]
Fast. During my high-school grad celebration back in ’76, two grads were doing 90 MPH down Groat Road (twisty, windy river valley ravine road with a speed limit of 35 MPH) here in Edmonton in a TransAm, and were killed instantly when they lost control and careened off into a bridge support (IIRC). I and some friends found out about it the next morning when we were having breakfast at a local greasy spoon.
Again, the car was nearly cut in two, although “torn” would be a better description.
We get the same thing out here, but they drive nicer cars and are semi-famous.
“Internet famous”.
Christ, what a douchebag.
That’s two miles from my house. It’s a tiny residential street with a 25 mph speed limit. The same street runs past mine, one block down.
My hair color is running like Rudy Giuliani’s. I’m just not destined to be a ginger.
“Does the carpet match the drapes?”
“Yes, but not the upholstery.”
Don’t give up! Head out this direction when you get your RV, and I’ll hook you up with the gal who does mine. She ain’t cheap, and she’s clear across town, but she is SO worth it to me! ::resumes novena praying her stylist never retires::
*Free RV Parking @ Tres’s Palatial 2X-Wide*
/when Jugsy is out of town, of course
I have been going to my stylist for, like, 13 years. I’ll definitely need a new one when I’m outta here. “Ain’t cheap” to me is relative. I pay urban high-end salon prices.
I don’t know why this color won’t “take” in my hair. It must be whatever product she uses. I think Kevin Murphy, but I could be wrong (she sells Kevin Murphy shampoos, so I assume the color is also KM)
You may want to chat with ChaiGirl (aka, the girlfriend), she’s studied hair dye and the like, and may be able to give recommendations.
How does that even happen? My hair never runs when I color it.
That’s only because Guilani’s hair dye wanted no part of that presser. I’d have ran too.
Makes sense to me.
It comes easier to some of us than others.
Even some of us who don’t want it.
I count 12 bears right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nprdq03e8yI
I read that as 12 beers. Imagine my surprise.
I saw a neat video of a wolf catching a salmon.
https://www.pennlive.com/life/2021/07/i-am-a-beekeeper-7-year-old-central-pa-boy-handles-hive-with-50000-honeybees.html
Nice.
He’s a little Zero-Point-Three-Five-Score! 😀
That reminds me – none of the many beekeeping Youtubes I follow has posted in a while.
I blame Colony Collapse Disorder.
KK are you still in the market for a Winnie?
I’m in the market for any Class C 28-30′, doesn’t need to be a Winnie.
You got a lead?
I have a very good one but it’s a class A. Just a bit over 30’. The people who own it took very good care of it and it only has 8K miles.
Here is the listing.
https://www.rvtrader.com/listing/2017-Thor-Motor-Coach-WINDSPORT-29M-5016232701
She’s a real beaut, but way over my budget. Thor makes a beautiful Class C as well – have looked at a couple of them.
Given the market right now, I don’t think they’ll have a problem selling.
Ok, it was worth a chance.
Definitely! Let me know if you have any more RV-selling friends! 🙂
Before your cruise https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dbNjIhzKrq8
That’s a really good cruise channel! He’s got tons of good knowledge.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O3NgLlg1TFQ
The AR15 secret ability explained. ?
I am 30 seconds in and love the painted magazine.
And the purple glasses. If I had a daughter…..
I do have a granddaughter and I have been shopping…
Okay, so KC Glibs (Libertesian, LJW, Ozy, TriggerHippie, et al). Mr. Mojeaux and I are going to meet up with DEG tonight at 6:15ish at Bryant’s BBQ at 1727 Brooklyn (18th & Vine district). The more the merrier!
Eat a rack for me.
Will do!
Nice, have fun. Let’s see what happens with an east coaster meets up with you fly over folk. Maybe he’ll get lucky and there will be a tornado to really nail the experience.
Id be there but I have to work tonight.
In fact, its nearly bedtime.
Only six blocks away from Wilber Harrison, his KC baby and a bottle of Kansas City wine.
Maybe…not sure yet. Everything has gone sideways on me this week and I’m behind schedule even running errands. May be stuck waiting to get a tire replaced and mounted. Busy, busy, busy.
Do the best you can, dude.
BBQ, eh?
There are few things I enjoy more than a nice rack.
BBQ or boob. They both have their place.
If I were extremely crass and ungentlemanly, I’d say “yes, in my mouth.” But I’m not, so I won’t.
Well then, rack ’em up!
I’m not a big pork or ribs fan, actually. I like brisket and chicken.
Mmmm #metoo
Enjoy. I’d say to buy DEG a beer for me, but I know you don’t partake, so it doesn’t seem fair.
He’s free to get beer there. We’re picking him up, so we’re the DD.
I’ll be there. Solo – missus is still in an unpacking frenzy.
I’ll be wearing an appropriately Glib tee-shirt and jeans. (Hint: it has been a theme of one of Mojeaux’s smut novels.)
Yay!
Nikki Sixx’s dressing room?
Ouch, fuck me! I just cut myself with my Wakizashi. But it wasn’t that bad. But I have to tell you, when I felt that it was one of those moments you close your eyes, I was afraid to look at it. Paper cut, I was lucky, really lucky, that thing is razor sharp. It’s always funny because when I have it out playing with it, my wife always freaks out that I’m going to cut myself. I told her, these are made for indoor use, that’s why they are so short, I’m not going to cut myself!
Two winters ago I slipped & fell in my parking lot and stabbed myself with my car keys in my hand. Luckily it was the fatty part below my thumb. I probably should have gone to urgent care because there’s was…adipose tissue…coming out of it. I bandaged it myself for days & days. I have a nice scar to show for my hubris.
So, yeah – getting a cut with a sharp instrument is infinitely better if you have to get cut.
Youch! That must have sucked.
I was afraid it was deep. And it could have been. I immediately grabbed my shirt because I knew there was going to be blood everywhere, walked to the
bathroom sink and didn’t really want to open my eyes to see the carnage . I thought ‘yeah, now your wife gets to gloat because you’ve finally cut your hand half off’. Of course I did it when I was sheathing and unsheathing it, which I for some reason love to do. Ninja warrior you know.
Has anyone seen or used the Wasabi knife sharpener system. It looks like it should work really well.
It has been blooded, and now must be named.
Autumn Wind is taken by my katana. Perhaps Doofus’ Bane?
Hipster Juice
What in the world are you doing screwing around with one of those things? You aren’t 14 years old anymore.
*PLaying pirate with a machete when I was 8 I stabbed my opponent ( a pine tree) and my hand slid about half way down the blade. That was fun. While stitching the muscles and tendons back together the doctor couldn’t quit bitching about an 8 year old boy with a razor sharp machete and wanted to know how I acquired it. “Uh…my grandfather gave it to me. He is an engineer and Surveyor. He had a few extras and gave me one.”
That only made him curse more.
His wife took away his throwing stars.
We used to play swordfight with hot wheels tracks. My brother thought it would be funny to use the one with the spring loaded hook, and promptly cut my head open with it. Stitches and everything. Back then, you rarely went to a hospital unless you were in serious danger of dying.
I stabbed my opponent ( a pine tree) and my hand slid about half way down the blade.
I did the exact same thing with a machete. Bad times, but no stitches.
A friend of mine did that. When he regained his composure he wrapped his arm up and got into his Rubicon to dive himself to the hospital.
It was then he discovered the flaw in his plan: He cut his right arm and his Rubicon was a manual.
Reminds me of that Netflix movie, The Package.
Where is the thunderstorm I was promised????
Here. For the past month we have gotten one every 24 hours.
The t-storms here always seems to split north & south around Alexandria/Arlington. It’s like Jean de Florette.
Case in point https://pasteboard.co/KbDp5PI.jpg
Here its I-70 or US 35 thats the demarcation line for our weather.
Too-local quibble: I’d say 70 inherited it from US 40.
Given that the 2 are sometimes barely a mile apart at times, a difference with little distinction
Here too. Temp has gone down to something suiting a human.
At the risk of having rotten fruit and vegetables thrown at me I will admit that the best beer I ever had was a Budweiser. It was the middle of the summer, hotter than hell and I had just finished some physical labor. It was one of those small 7oz bottles and it was so cold that water had condensed and frozen on the exterior of the bottle. I slugged it down in one go. I think that is the only time I actually enjoyed a beer. I have to say Sharpie, some of your photography tempts me from time to time.
An ice-cold Bud can be just what the doctor ordered in such a situation.
Agreed. Sometimes the best is what you have when you really need it.
An ice cold lager is great.
The local neighborhood Facebook page helpfully posted a photo of a huge wreck at the intersection of the interstate and the road I use to access it.
Looks like I will be a homebody for a while today.
It is slightly concerning to have only one way out of here, especially since we are in a wildfire kill zone.
Another reason to consider moving. That and my house price keeps going up.
But is it a bubble or inflation?
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Iron Sheik with the truth bombs, as usual
https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1416490208569270273
I WILL HUMBLE YOU!
On my way back from a little shopping excursion, this popped into my little pea brain:
What are the odds federal employees are actively assisting those “workers” and “worker advocates” currently suing Republican states over cancelling the federal unemployment bonus checks?
All of the local officials, business leaders and activists that supported the bolsheviks were rounded up and shot after the revolution. They never saw it coming.
Fucking retards.
I forgot to include the artists, academics and journalists. They were converted to worm food as well.
Almost guaranteed, given that the EPA gives out grants to NGOs to underwrite lawsuits against the EPA.
Self licking ice cream cone.
Almost guaranteed, given that the EPA gives out grants to NGOs to underwrite lawsuits against the EPA.
Exactly what I was thinking of. They even guide the plaintiffs’ legal strategy and arguments, I think.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_v._Boise
The city of Boise and homeless activists were pissed for years that the only shelter was run by a private Christian organization and wasn’t a straight up enablement and lifestyle subsidization (and grifting) “housing”.
You know… I think I’ve finally figured out why the IPA hate rubs me the wrong way. Almost all of the complaints about it have as much merit as Democrats talking about economic issues.
Heh.
I’m drinking one right now. I agree with detractors that they are definitely soapy, but not totally unpleasant.
This is tonight’s selection: https://www.adnams.co.uk/beer/shop-by-taste_1/ale/jack-brand-crystal-rye-ipa.htm
That “jack brand” line of beers they do seems to be an attempt at copying yank “craft” beers. I’m guessing based on the description you could probably recommend something incredibly similar from your side of the pond.
At only 5%? That would be the tough part. It would also depend on region as different brewers have different distribution footprints here. But, for the Rye IPA world, I’m a big fan of Sierra Nevada Ruthless, Founder’s Red’s Rye, and He’Brew Lenny Bruce RIPA (this one is a double).
It depends on the beer, and the hops used. I’ve had some that went too heavy on the Simcoe hops that added an unpleasant flavor (that stood out once you were twigged to it). I mean, I’m not a big fan of Scotch ales or Marzens (both come across too sweet for me in general), but I don’t bag on them, and I can still pick out a well made example of the style versus a poorly made example.
I too am not a fan of the sweetness. I’ll kee an eye out for that Ruthless.
wasn’t a straight up enablement and lifestyle subsidization (and grifting) “housing”.
Not FAIR!
While I like an IPA (I am not afeared of taste) right now I am drinking a Deschutes Lil’ Squeezy juicy pale. Perfect for day drinking at 5%!
#TIL they have commercials for studs during horse races.
Why did this song just pop into my head? 😉
I would have guessed this song.
I like some IPAs, if they get good flavor but not too much bitterness. The beer category that needs to die in a dumpster fire is sours – haven’t tasted any that didn’t provoke a WTF grimace.
Did the Shiner brewery tour recently, had a couple good beers. And not one person taking the tour was masked, because rural TX.
I’m trying to make a saison pun. Never mind.
Ziegen > Shiner, maybe