Oh joy, the links!
Time to go out into the world and look for absurdity. I know, not much of a task, eh? But let us see what we can come up with this fine day…
- HAHAHAHAHA! Um, “no“. I didn’t know whether to send this to SugarFree or to just laugh and move on.
- To be fair, he was promoting food when this happened.
- Oh, have they now?
- So California waves Sirhan Sirhan out (and the Feds smile and nod at John Hinckley) and the Frogs keep Carlos the Jackal in. Has the world gone mad?
It’s like the flippin’ world has turned upside down.
“Oh, have they now?”
That’s not even counting all of them.
From what I’ve read it’s at least 17,000.
Not that I have anything against Haitians immigrating, but it should be way more organized.
You best be quiet or there will be no one to mow your lawn. All the good Messicans are already taken. And the Guatemalans are in ‘short’ supply. No pun intended.
And you won’t even have to pay your Haitians all of the time. Just get you a good set of horse reins, they’ll know to stay in line.
A bigger crock of shit, never was conceived by man.
Maybe Sirhan Sirhan will get confused and shoot Bet O’Rourke.
Maybe he could shoot Hinckley, and the Jackal could grenade Sirhan.
Also appropriate music
Good news everyone, the missing girl is black.
“Blood on the pillow, blocked bedroom door and unlocked window: Police looking for missing 19-year-old Florida college student ‘find signs of struggle inside her apartment'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10033603/Police-looking-missing-19-year-old-Florida-woman-signs-struggle-inside-apartment.html
Which TV bint was squawking about how “Missing White Girl” syndrome, or whatever? Well, here’s her chance. Let’s see what, if anything, she does with this story.
A local newsreader got suspended because he wanted to add a little editorial about Missing White Girl Syndrome.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/KTVU-Frank-Somerville-suspended-16487202.php
Thicc?
Heh.
I saw the pictures and thought, “She has a Demi Rose-like look to her.”
A little thicc for my taste but young and cute. We’ll be hearing about this one for awhile as well.
I hope she is found alive.
“attractive” is way more important than “white” for those stories. But that doesn’t fit the narrative.
Funny how that adjective is always left out of the complaints. I’m pretty sure that if Tyra Banks went missing, it would make the news. I know I’m dating myself here.
DO not like these stories.
/father of 19 year old girl
#metoo
/mother of 18yo girl
My daughter runs, bikes, and kayaks by herself all the time. The Mollie Tibbetts thing three years ago really freaked out my daughter.
So, I taught her to shoot, then bought her a hand gun and a case if practice ammo.
My daughter tends to travel in a pack. Despite that, she got spooked on a camping trip once when some weird fucks showed up. She talked to me about getting a pistol. I’ve taken her to the range several times so she knows how to handle firearms. When she turned 21, I told her to get her permit. I don’t know if she did, but if she needs to borrow something, she knows she’s welcome.
Permit? To own a gun? What dystopia do you live in.
Concealed carry permit?
Yes. Sorry, I wasn’t clear.
Still, a violation of the 2nd amendment.
*Grumbles*
Aaaah. Makes sense.
French President Emmanuel Macron was hit with an egg while he was visiting Lyon on Monday to promote French gastronomy.
🙂
l’oeuf for the oaf.
“In June, a man slapped Macron in the face during a walkabout in southern France. The man was ordered to serve four month in jail.”
Can you imagine the shit show that would happen if someone slapped Biden (or any of our better, so long as they were not named Rand)? It would be an assault on our sacred Democracy! Nothing short of military COUP, an INSURRECTION if you will! They will be held without trial, not just for 9 months, but for the rest of their lives. Guantanamo Bay for em. They dared touch one of our royalty.
“The Taliban could get their hands on up to 150 Pakistani nuclear weapons after America’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, says Trump’s former security adviser John Bolton”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10032795/The-Taliban-hands-150-nuclear-weapons-says-John-Bolton.html
So we’re back to weapons of mass destruction?
Without reading the article, my question is why did Pakistan abandon 150 nuclear weapons in Afghanistan?
They wanted in on the trend.
I learned it from you!
Also without reading the article — why would anyone believe John Bolton at this point?
The notion that Pakistan is going to share any of its nukes with anyone is absurd. Much less give 150 nukes to the frikkin’ Taliban. The Pakistani attitude toward the Taliban is more “Keep your enemies closer” than it is “Yay! Brother Muslims!”.
Bolton isn’t claiming that Pakistan would give them nukes, but that the Taliban could take their nukes.
A military that can maintain cohesion in the face of the Indian military would fall to the Taliban? I’m not buying it. It’s one thing for ISIS to expand over Northern Syria and Iraq, or the Talban to take over Afghanistan, but I’m not seething them roll over the Pakistani army even if a number of them are sympathetic towards them.
Agreed.
Road sign with arrow: Poorly guarded Pakistani nuclear weapons depot.
The Pakistani attitude toward the Taliban is more “Keep your enemies closer” than it is “Yay! Brother Muslims!”.
From what I’ve read, factions in the Pakistani military/government have rather enthusiastically supported the Taliban, so the relationship seems more like the latter than the former, but this still in no way indicates that they would trust them with nukes. Hell, I don’t think the US would trust Canada with nukes, so the idea that Pakistan would trust the Taliban with nukes is absurd.
Key word: “factions”.
Other factions, not so enthusiastic.
It’s John Bolton, so instead of 150, read 15, and instead of “nuclear weapons”, read “gender-reveal fireworks”.
So now we can’t deport anyone who comes from a craphole? The laws are just, you know, suggestions. If an agency decides it doesn’t like the law, it just gives an exemption.
But, even though everyone from Haiti has temporary protected status, we still deported a few thousand?
None of this makes any sense.
And Cubans are all sent back. No, it does not make any sense.
Well Cuba has free universal education and medical care, so they have no reason to be fleeing.
Cubans are sent back punitively after Obama got pissy over their (R) voting.
It makes perfect sense if you assume that the goal of it all is to displace (enough of) the current US population with captive D voters.
+1 loyalty oath
Afternoon Switzy.
Real Assassins should have three names. Sirhan only has one, and I’m not sure what Hinkley’s middle name was.
I think they’ll still have what it takes to get past today’s secret service though.
It’s like when your mother uses your middle name you know you’ve done something real bad.
“Rat On A!”?
last name is “a train”
Of the Chicago A Trains?
Summoned.
I’m pretty sure Sirhan Sirhan’s middle name is Sirhan based on trends.
A friend of mine was taking university classes, and the instructor in his English class was asian. Another student from the mideast was named Hassan Hassan. As I was told, the instructor inappropriately asked “Hassan Hassan, why did your father give you 2 first names?”
I worked with a guy who was adopted at a young age by a family whose last name was the same as his first.
Swissy, I need to ask you a question. Could you email me? moriah at moriahjovan dot com. Thanks!
Sounds hot.
Well, it’s work-related, so for certain definitions of “hot”, sure.
And for certain definitions of work too.
Why dont you just call him? According to Sharpie, he has a phone. Even though its at some undisclosed location near Liechtenstein.
Done – the email is titled “You rang?”
I had a bet with myself that that would be how you’d reply. LOL
whaddup doh ?
They really should stop giving me days/nights off. Im drunk as hell.
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“R Kelly, 54, is found GUILTY of all nine counts of racketeering and sex trafficking: Singer faces up 100 years behind bars for recruiting and sexually abusing women, girls and boys over three decades”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10033105/Kelly-GUILTY-racketeering.html
Damn.
I think he still has state charges pending in IL. Personally I would just drop the case at this point. As it would be a waste of court time after this.
HAHAHAHA, It’s like you’ve never met a prosecutor before.
Those higher offices won’t fill themselves.
What the doc said. Because he might get the federal charges overturned on appeal, or get a reduced sentence on some charges. Plus he might get time off for good behavior. The state judge will, I believe, get to decide whether state time is served consecutively with, or concurrent to, federal time. They want to make sure he spends the rest of his life in prison.
They believe he can fly.
Just when they got prisons to not smell like urine-soaked hellholes.
Huh. Too mad Ike Turner died, they could have started a band. Two Jailed Assholes.
The judge refused to let the public into the court to watch his trial. kungflu “precautions”. They had the trial on video feed where people could watch it from another room of the courthouse. Does that make any sense?
Violated his 6th amendment right to public trial.
I watched the couple shows on him and what he accused of. This guy was protected for years but his time will come. So the state needs to do it right. The state did the same corrupt shit against Cosby. Do it right or dont do it at all.
NPR is really trying to make it seem like most of the Haitians have been deported. While on some of their stories they will admit the number released in the US, on those they place that at the beginning of the sentence, saving the number deported to the end where they read it with great emphasis. Other stories they won’t mention those released at all, just saying that “many” of them have been deported.
We have a friend who is in the border patrol in Texas. They are picking up about 300 people a night and letting a lot of them go. But there are many more than 300 that aren’t caught. So there is no way of knowing how many have gotten in.
Is there a coherent explanation for how all these recently emigrated Haitians ended up inside the United States to begin with?
They have phones and can talk to family that’s already here and therefore they know that the border is open.
I don’t think that explains how so many of them showed up in such a short time at one border crossing.
Horse and rider are more useful for herding than confining…
From Chile no less, amongst others.
Modern communications creating the demand and perhaps smuggling rings providing the logistics and maybe the financing. I would guess that once the ball gets rolling in a close-knit immigrant community it doesn’t take a lot to recruit more people to go. Safety in numbers.
The current run rate of known illegals is north of 1 million a year. There are only 10 cities in the US with populations bigger than that.
Border Patrol hit 1M interactions with illegals crossing the border a month ago. The vast majority got a bus ticket to the US city of their choosing.
1M interactions with illegals crossing the border for 2021
They misspelled “series of felonies”.
She knows how the game works. You never apologize, you never admit wrongdoing, and you always shift blame to someone else.
“What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Checks out.
Have any witnesses turned up missing, yet?
Thanks, Swissy!
Upside Down!
That was my guess for Swissy’s link. Although that doesn’t strike me as being one of his genre’s of choice.
I would prefer some funk to disco.
Funk, you say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nclSNIamjg&ab_channel=KEXP
Cool music link, bro!
Northam to those who refuse COVID vaccine: ‘Think how you want your obituary to read’
Resister of tyranny?
“Died in bed at 90, killed by a jealous husband”
Wait, no – I want to steal a line from Oliver Reed:
“My only regret is that I didn’t drink every pub dry and sleep with every woman on the planet.”
Relevant
His (non) reaction is just great.
+1 Leroy Brown
“Unlike former governor Northam, [name of deceased] never dressed up as a Klansman.”
was last seen on Sunday chugging champagne with two midgets
In lieu of flowers, please tell Governor Northam to fuck off.
“trashy died taking a bullet for a school bus full of children going to private school after shooting three Nazis in their respective urethrae”
I already have my headstone made.
HERE LIES —- PATRIOT WHO WOODCHIPPED SO MANY COMMIES THEY CREATED THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN COMMIE.
Hillary won’t apologize, but on her deathbed she will whisper “rosebud”.
Which eldritch being does that incantation summon?
stay tuned for the next episode of sugar free….
Covid update from the TOK household. I ended up getting my J & J vax today. I figure, the fewer the shots, the fewer the chances for a reaction, and I’ve satisfied my requirement for hockey. Meanwhile, Mrs. TOK is still having an elevated heart rate when she works out. They’re putting her on a baby aspirin a day to prevent blood clots, and sending her for an EKG just to make sure she’s ok. Apparently some people can have this type of post-Covid heart issue for a few months.
Did she take the J&J as well?
No. She had a severe reaction to an MMR vaccine before we were married, and she gets allergic reactions to all sorts of normal things like laundry detergent. She’s not planning on getting vaccinated, and I’m fine with that.
My wife has some auto – immune stuff and has been advised to stay clear of those things.
But both our wives won’t be allowed into concerts or sporting events, and if Joe Biden has his way, they won’t be able to have a job.
Joe Bidens America – putting women back in the home and out of work.
Ive seen a report that over 2 million women never went back to work at physical locations with SArS -COvid hysteria shutdowns and stay home now. Some probably work from home with new companies now but still that a lot of women.
Ask people who favor vaccine mandates why they want to kill your wife.
I thought you had to wait awhile after infection if you opt to get vaccinated?
No. People with COVID-19 who have symptoms should wait to be vaccinated until they have recovered from their illness and have met the criteria for discontinuing isolation; those without symptoms should also wait until they meet the criteria before getting vaccinated.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html
These are the criteria:
Federal workers were the backbone of Metro. Their absence is taking a toll on the system.
Fortunately, helicopters dropped $763 million over the stations so you can get by for a couple years until you find another way of getting outsiders to pay for your operations.
WMATA is practically the only way to get around in what is probably the wealthiest region of the entire world and they not only can’t manage to turn a profit they run on a good year with operating costs 238% of revenue?
Welcome to the wonderful world of public sector unions.
An Army flight surgeon is recommending that the Pentagon grounds all pilots who took the COVID shot due to their risk of cardiac episodes during flight and other documented adverse reactions.
https://www.scribd.com/document/527710479/Affidavit-of-Whistleblower-Ltc-Long
Are they going to give him dishonorable or just other-than-honorable for that?
This could get interesting.
“All personnel must be vaccinated”
“No one can fly who has been vaccinated”.
Where have you gone, Joseph Heller?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to him.
CATCH-19?
*applause*
What a novel idea!
I’m no doctor or anything, but it seems to me that those cardiac risks could be today, next week, 5 years…..
Thanks for taking part in our vaccine trial !
I’m going to remain in the control group.
Do you count as being in the control group if you’ve had Lil Rona?
If so… then #metoo.
I don’t think I’ve had it. Never been tested so maybe.
I take the Dr. Z. cocktail before going out in public.
I have to ask:
If you (and I mean this generically, not you, Drake) aren’t in a high-risk group, isn’t taking prophylactics also an overreaction? This is a risk/benefit call, like getting vaxxed, so there’s not really a wrong answer, but I wonder if we had decent reporting/info on this disease, if people would feel the need.
Perhaps – I don’t bother with that stuff on days I work at home. I’m in big meeting the next 3 days. In the morning I’ll add a Quercetin to my normal vitamins. In the evening I’ll take a zinc and maybe an EGCg Green Tea Extract capsule. Nothing that’ll hurt me.
I’m also at the gym now and about to do 30 minutes of cardio – trying to stay out of the at risk group that way too. More ss
…more stuff I should do either way…
Dr Z said in an interview that Zinc is what stops covid. But zinc does not cross into the cell well, so HCQ is used to improve the uptake of zinc.
Thus, zinc is the bullet — HCQ is the gun.
We were taking zinc and a quality multivitamin (C and D3) since the beginning of the pandemic. {should help prevent the common cold as well}
When my wife tested positive, the Doc said the tester lit up like a Xmas tree and there was no doubt it was a true positive. He was also amazed how mild her symptoms were.
After the positive test, we both OTC quinine pills and increased the zinc. She recovered within days.
If you are going to take anything, take zinc, C, and D3 — and take it EVERY DAY.
Thats been my stance since December of 2019, when I was sick as hell for a few days, with a lingering dry cough for 10 days after. Im unvaccinated, yet Ive been exposed to quite a few CoVID+ people that got sick, and I didnt. Maybe there is something to this ‘natural immunity’ malarkey.
I’d say yes. Did you have it as bad as this fully vaccinated guy?
https://mobile.twitter.com/EugeneDaniels2/status/1441163173139206144
“ And the one thing I do know is that it would have been so much worse without the vaccine.”
No, no you don’t.
Hmm…
My experience was Lil Rona was a bad cold, basically what he described, until I got bacterial pneumonia on top of it.
He doesn’t talk about pneumonia, so I had it worse.
“We have to treat this like our journalism…get it out fast without any knowledge of facts and worry about the fallout if something ends up wrong later. Hell we sweep things under the run all day long”
This is how I feel the medical industry is acting right now. Especially the big Pharmas. They know if they can entrench into the Federal Bureaucracy, they are set for life.
All part of the “Green New Deal”.
And communist china conquerors America without ever firing a shot…well a bullet.
Your president, ladies and gentlemen.
A lot of my friends are left leaning and die hard Democrats and I’ve been needling them about how incredibly incompetent the Biden Administration has been since starting in 2021 and their many fuck up’s. I got one friend super peeved when I said that the Left pride themselves on being so smart and knowledgeable but yet this guy was the best they had in 2020?
That’s because stoopid Americans can’t handle a smart Progressive like Beto or Warren, so we had to nominate a dumbed down candidate in order to get their votes. If only Americans, especially those rubes in flyover country, were smarter, we could get better top men and women to lead us into the light.
/what they probably really think
I think the biggest irony about a lot of them is that they believe that they are the smart ones when in reality they follow a political doctrine that takes power and money from the average person which at the end of the day creates more inequality.
One of the biggest blind spots that I see among my left leaning friends is that they never seek the cause of an issue. They simply blame some evil force and then create legislation that takes something from that evil force and gives it to those that are “suffering” not ever realizing that perhaps it’s government’s polices that have created these inequalities.
The idea that any of their policies could have negative, unintended (though highly predictable) or opposite ramifications beyond what they believe to be intended is not even worth discussing. Like, it’s not even on the table. If you so much as suggest as much, you don’t get a rebuttal or a counter argument, you get a “HA!” For the average left voter, there’s never any point in looking past the stated intentions of our pols or technocrats.
Which is why all leg bills are named Nice Things For Nice People. Because (as we have all learned from Antifa), some large percentage never looks past the name on the tin and politicians know that. It could have cyanide in it, but it says it will make you younger and more beautiful, so how can that be bad?
I’m still in shock at how people can live with our political system for decades (boomer-cons I’m looking at you) and still take anything that comes out of the mouths of pols or anyone at corporate media at face value. What they say and what they do have almost no correlation (if anything it’s an inverse correlation. Yet, nearly everyone you meet and try to discuss politics with will just regurgitate media talking points or what a politician says they want to do and act like they just said something the least bit insightful. Even very intelligent people act this way. Porn acting is more convincing and has better dialog that what these malicious mid-wits come up with. Politics breaks peoples brains in ways that I just can’t comprehend.
Remember intelligence does not mean that you have common sense, know history, have bravery for fighting tyranny, or can escape tribalism.
Hitler and the Nazi won two Reichstag elections to gain seats. Hitler was named chancellor because he had political power and some popularity.
The nazis didnt seize power until Hitler was already in charge via the democratic process.
When he was nominated it was before covid happened and the economy was great so they never expected him to win.
Just remind them that the democrat party is the party of slavery, kkk, and segregation. The republican party was literally created as an abolitionist party to challenge the democrats.
When they try the narrative that the parties “flipped”. Ask them to find or ever name 2 racist democrats before 1965 who flipped to republicans in office.
Another jab is to ask why Obama was the token black democrat when white democrats control the party? Then democrats pick a segregationist like Biden to run in 2020.
The Art of War by General Milley. As excerpted by the Babylon Bee.
https://babylonbee.com/news/general-milley-is-releasing-a-revised-version-of-the-art-of-war—-and-weve-got-exclusive-excerpts
Topic from dead thread – can’t get me enough discussion of septic tanks (is that better or worse than gold-fetishes?).
Do any of you septic tank experts know of any downside (other than financial) to significantly over-sizing a septic system? I’ll potentially be building something in the not so distant future, and am planning on putting the largest system feasible. It will likely be a staged build, so the septic will likely go in long before the actual build, so I might end up with a 3-4 bath septic system but only 2 bathrooms. Unlikely – you can never have too many bathrooms really – but possible. Any downside/issue with that?
*nods knowingly at Putrid – need to figure in the orphan stables*
is that better or worse than gold-fetishes?
Better – the septic tank serves a valuable purpose.
See if you can get a “renitirication line”, basically takes the solids from the final stage and puts them back into the primary stage.
Sorry Re-Nitrification
I think so. Septic systems need to run wet, and one that is too big might not be able to run optimally because it won’t have enough water running through it. Now, what counts as “too big”, I haven’t a clue.
As long as the tank is sealed properly, A too big of a system shouldn’t be a problem. Unless it’s “really” too big.
The only issue might be that biome doesn’t get enough waste for it’s size to properly set-up; but I’d think that would just mean adding more helpful bacteria (Ridex, yeast, roebic) more often.
Mine was big enough “for a 4 bedroom apartment” and just currently has me and the Wife using it. No issues in 10 years, had it inspected a couple years ago and was still working good. I’ve been pretty religious about feeding it.
Sorry, 4 unit apartment.
When our house was built, the septic guy said they size of the tank was based on bedrooms (as a proxy for how many people will live in the house). And he said that he always adds one bedroom as a buffer because people tend to make their houses bigger (say adding bedrooms to an unfinished basement).
So our septic is sized for four bedrooms even though two people live here.
Note out system is an “active system” in that it pumps air into the tank to facilitate decomposition (anyone with an aquarium will get this idea). It then dumps clean “drinkable” water into/onto the ground. Out tank outputs to a drainage tile that goes downhill about 10 ft drop over 100 feet. The tile/standpipe then dumps onto the ground. However, I have never seen the ground so wet that the water comes out of the standpipe instead of absorbing into the ground along the way.
We have twice a year inspections and tests. The output of our system is way beyond the regulation for dumping the water directly onto the ground.
That’s an interesting system. Never heard of that. How large of an air pump does it take?
No idea.
When we put an offer on the lot, it was conditional upon passing a perk test (the realtor suggested that).
The guy came out to start the perk test and called me about two hours later to tell me it failed (they’re supposed to go for 24 hours).
Explained that he dug three holes and found standing water in all three (it was April in the middle of a very wet spring).
So we have no leach field. Can’t have a leach field. Need to be able to dump clear water on the ground in a really bad wet spring. That’s where the active septic comes in at three times the cost of a normal system.
Ah. I see. I’m used to the leach field type around here.
Yup. I’m the only house in the development without a leach field.
Although the guy right next to me has had serious problems a couple of very wet springs.
I’ve heard horror stories about leach field systems in soggy areas in wet years. Thankfully, that isn’t (hasn’t been so far at least) an issue here.
I’m not even sure what is up with y’all, but if I see any fields around here with leeches, I’m buying a flame thrower!
I bought a house in FL back in the day that the sewer would not drain in heavy rain. Young and ignorant. Luckily whats her face number one made us move so we got out of that trap. She made us move to Oklahoma which is a giant leach field so………
You’ll pay more for getting it pumped out and more for the initial tank. But may not need to pump as frequently.
An oversized tank that stays healthy (for good measure add Ridex, etc. as others have said) could very likely never need to be pumped. From my anecdotal evidence, as well as some rando honest-sounding septic folks on the internet, the dirty little secret of the honey wagon industry is that the majority of septic tanks don’t need to be pumped anywhere near as often as they are.
People put too much fat down the septic system. It settles and is not consumed by the enzymes. My neighbor had their first stage blocked by fat.
Having regular service to check that a septic is working properly is way cheaper than replacing the septic system. But yeah, service about every 4-7 years depending on usage.
The main thing is to keep the engineered and proven septic tech working as designed.
Ive seen the inside of a septic tank when they are being serviced. Septic tanks can be forgiving but certain errors will cause you expensive repairs.
“Will Hillary EVER apologize for propagating the biggest hoax in US political history?”
I believe it was Hillary that coined the phrase “vast right wing conspiracy” back in the Monica days. The Trump/Russia collusion b.s. is a literal vast left wing conspiracy. I can’t wait for all of the perp walks to start. Haha I crack myself up.
Biden getting 80 million votes or whatever it was is the biggest fucking political hoax in history.
I wanted to go on a nostalgia kick and play a 19 year old game (C&C Renegade).
I found the CDs, ran the installer just fine… only to find that no compatability settings in Windows 10 would let it actually run. It just crashed.
Oh well, the graphics probably would have bugged me.
I got a copy in a bundle off ubi-soft that had all the old C&C games. I got it to run, but would repeatedly flake out/crash/hang-up after five minutes.
Red Alert 2 still works, though.
They released an official remaster of at least red alert 1 recently.
I’ve not shelled out $10 for it because EA.
The entire bundle I got was some weekend special for 5 or 6 bucks.
You want old school? Installed Daggerfall (Unity) on Linux this weekend. Granted the install was more fun than the game thus far… “Graphics” are, of course, shite, but it’s a vast fricking game. After the fun of the install wears out, I’ll probably delete it after a couple of hours of gameplay!
“I found the CDs, ran the installer just fine”
Wait. You’re telling us that you have a device attached to your computer in which you can put these ‘CD’s?
I heard that someone did that and their computer just exploded and took out an entire exterior wall. Stay safe out there.
I still play “Clive Barker’s Undying” once in a while. Love that game. I don’t bother with old discs any more but luckily that one is on GOG.
Ditto “Anachronox”. That one is even on Steam.
+2 hands the size of bowling balls.
Undying was a great game.
My nostalgia play was Far Cry 3 a couple months back. Still a damn good game.
The oldest game I have played recently is Dragon Age Origins. That was 2009. I didn’t start gaming until 2007. That and Gothic 1 (2006) are the first 2 PC games that I bought. Both are still great games. The graphics are dated, but still great games.
Usually my nostalgia kick goes to the old D&D games like Neverwinter Nights II. Which besides the ruleset, was still fun to play through a few times.
I wanted to go on a nostalgia kick and play a 19 year old game (C&C Renegade).
Did you dance now?
gog.com is great for that. Unfortunately, save game editors don’t work with those versions.
Things that are pissing me off today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2021/the-reckoning-casting
They’re trying to rehabilitate that monster.
What did Steve Coogan do?
Hamlet II.
Jimmy Savile, BBC’s well protected paedophile is being rehabilitated.
Jimmy Savile is dead, you can’t rehabilitate a dead person.
I think maybe she means Savile?
My wife went with my son to Target for some Halloween decorations. I was watching some Glib recommended Youtube. Thanks to sloopy, I had the Flock of Seagulls video cued up and my wife asked me if I wanted anything. I played the video, pointed at Jennifer, and said “Can I have one of those?” Am I a bad person?
“Am I a bad person?”
Yes. But it has nothing to do with Jennifers.
Jennifers (27 of them!)
That’s a whole lot of Jennifers. The color on that video… it’s like bad acid trip toad world.
^^^Yes
The tune is fun though.
“The tune is fun though”
true
If doing things different is your style.
https://youtu.be/WgM1nLYg1IQ
Video after auto-played this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j04Jvx0GD08
I love people that use YouTube for proper use.
Serious brewers make their IPA in 10 gallon plastic mop buckets with 20 lbs of hops.
Be sure to keep the temp at a constant 90 F.
You can tell you’ve had success if it tastes exactly like everyone else’s bitter mop bucket swill.
Do I need to link to all the brewing articles written by Neph and me?
I… don’t know?
You and Neph are brewers?
It’s best if you follow up a case of that with a case of this:
Little Kangs!
Blech! Plus it brings back unpleasant memories of being at a college with like a 9:1 male:female ratio. What the fuck was I thinking?
Oh well, I was supposed to get an internship at Kodak. Dodged that bullet at least.
I drank quite a bit of 12 Horse Ale though.
Forgot all about 12 Horse Ale! Bev of choice was something called “Utica Club;” kind of exotic compared to Ortliebs.
IIRC, and I probably don’t, UC was popular with the Syracuse kids. I don’t remember trying it.
Heh I grew up there and I don’t remember that commercial.
So our HR and managers have begun collection of religious and medical exemption requests. Wonder if I send mine in now or wait. What to do. I’m thinking waiting til court rules on the one case that some federal workers have going on…so as to not be targeted
There doesn’t appear to be any benefit to getting in early. I’d stay mum.
That is kinda my view. The attestation program was voluntary and while they can assume all they want, no manager can ask me my medical status so I will ride it out until my hand is forced I guess.
My religion is ‘Glibertarian’ and I have this medical condition called ‘Shitposting’.
That works every time.
Twenty years old here and now now 43.
「出逢った頃のように」Every Little Thing
2008 and today are only 13 years apart, so wouldn’t she be 33?
Or is she 20 in the music video and 30 in the first picture you posted?
I’ve had my after work beer… Here meaning the song is from 1997.
20 years old + 24 years ago.
Yeah, but the URL in the photo says 2008, which means she wouldn’t be 43 in the picture.
I was figuring you thought she aged well, when a picture from 13 years ago wouldn’t necessarily imply that.
Got it!
Speaking of anniversaries
https://youtu.be/Y73pNN1BtdE
They know how to work her catalog!
https://youtu.be/RTIPC56Vjfc
It’s not like she’s going to put out any new material!
This won’t end well.
Plus they are ineligible for unemployment too.
She assumes everyone in the Guard got the vax?
Don’t worry the woman with facts.
Or a medical professional that is also a guard member…wonder how that will play out. Fired from your job but able to serve in the NG unit doing your job.
Bad news, we fired your midwife.
The good news, Corporal Smith the Accounting student will be here instead.
THEY ARE MEDICALLY TRAINED.
Begs the question why they are not making more money in healthcare than the National Guard, but don’t think too hard about it.
I went through the Army’s Combat Lifesaver course. Is that medically trained?
That’s advanced training. Basic first aid in basic is “medically trained” no doubt.
“I will get to you as soon as I find how to treat a viral infection in the CTT manual.”
Army foot powder for all other ailments.
That….can be a very interesting line to tread if she has any True Believers in the ranks of the NG. Will be interesting if she deems it isn’t enough and orders a draft of the unorganized militia 😉
I’ve seen an estimate of 70k healthcare workers who could (will?) be fired.
It’s nice that they have 70k fully trained national guardsman ready to step in for this very specific situation.
I have heard that math is not the forte of the left.
Do you have any idea how hard they worked to find someone better than Cuomo? I mean the mayor of NYC wasn’t available, he was busy
playing mayorcompleting the transition to 3rd world shithole.But turns out she’s a lightweight. She didn’t even mention sending in tanks. What an amateur.
She fell into the job. And now she wants to keep it so she’s progging as hard as she can.
What if the hospitals just don’t fire the people? Is she going to send in the National Guard to fire them at gunpoint?
she will deploy medically trained National Guard troops
Most, if not all, will have to leave their current healthcare job in NY to go work in some other healthcare job in NY. My guess is the net increase in healthcare workers in NY will be . . . zero.
Yep. And I’d also guess many of those NG soldiers will be doing unskilled labor too. But the Gov gets the appearance of doing something.
I can’t get Twitter links to open. Anybody else having trouble getting to Twitter or is my internet broken (for the better)
I haven’t been having any difficulty, but then I’m signed in to Twitter.
I can’t even get it to open in order to sign in.
I shouldn’t look a gift-horse in the mouth…
This is going to be really interesting. I wouldn’t be surprised if the AMA steps in and shuts this down hard. They don’t want everybody finding out that most of what doctors do falls into the category of a moderately skilled trade, and all of what nurses do is basically janitorial work.
Damn near one of us.
That moron is up for reelection in just over a month and hasn’t bothered to campaign.
“and hasn’t bothered to campaign”
Was a huge success for Biden. Is he also hiding in his basement? I hear that’s the real secret.
Not campaigning is his best play.
1. Nobody knows who his opponent (Ciatterelli) is. Why give him any publicity?
2. An actual campaign would force Murphy to own the current situation, which is (to put it mildly) fucked.
You only need to campaign if the press is against you.
Massie going hard at Swalwell.
You know who else went hard at Swalwell?
Isn’t this Massie one of them crazed libertarian domestic terrorists? Does anyone know of his whereabouts on Jan 6? He looks like the insurrectionist type for sure.
Germany is going to have a new Chancellor. What could possibly go wrong?
“What could possibly go wrong?”
Merkel will have nothing but free time on her hands and no one will be able to get a job playing an evil marionette?
Hype, I saw your question last night, no, I plan on taking the Xbow out tomorrow to sight it in and do some bench testing, I’ll keep you posted.
Cool, let me know. I’ve been thinking about getting a crossbow.
I’d say no more than with the previous Chancellor, but then the extremist Greens are almost definitely going to be in the next governing coalition.
Dude, the Greens are going to save Germany from affordable efficient energy. What’s wrong with you? You don’t even Grettel?
Is the “former Marxist” still in the running? Latest article I read said there isn’t a damn bit of difference between the major candidates.
I don’t know which one is the “former Marxist”. SPD finished slightly ahead of CDU/CSU. But the CDU/CSU, FDP, and AfD together have a majority so there’s not going to be a left-only government.
My understanding is the two most likely choices are Ampel (SPD/FDP/Greens) and Jamaica (Union/FDP/Greens), with the Greens preferring the SPD-led coalition and the FDP preferring the CDU/CSU-led coalition.
The FDP will settle for whatever gets the cocktail party invites.
I think they’ve been out of government since 1998.
I get the impression nobody really wants another grand coalition, so it’s going to be the Greens and FDP with one of the two big parties.
An interesting part of this is the German system doesn’t give the plurality winner first shot. Both sides can try to form a government at the same time.
The SPD guy is the former Marxist. I don’t know anything about the Green or the Linke candidates but you can probably bet they’re also “former Marxists”.
Thanks for the links Swiss.
I meant to ask this on the GlibFit thread yesterday, but do any of you fine people have an opinion on timing of supplements? I take my D3/K2 and MCT oil in my morning coffee. Then, usually around lunchtime I take my C, Zinc, Boron, Quercetin with Bromelain, and a low dose multi. Creatine usually after I work out.
Do you think timing matters? Are there supplements that fuck with each other? I haven’t noticed any issues, but since you people seem to know more than health professionals, well, here we are.
I have no idea. I take all my Vits in the morning and creatine after stretching/workout in the morning as well. I take tequilla, lime and soda after my afternoon bike ride which did not happen today because I wayyyyyy over did it Sat night and grilling yesterday. Felt like shit today.
Oral, or suppositories?
“suppositories?”
The drugs will fall out of your ass.
“Do you think timing matters?”
After taking supplements for more than 30 years now, I honestly just do not know.
I take Ashwaganda, L-Theanine, Magnesium Citrate, and Phenibut about an hour before bedtime. Outside of that, I take most all other supplements sometime after I get up, have coffee, and get something to eat.
I don’t think I’ve ever met a medical doctor who won’t tell you that supplements only get you expensive pee. I also think that they don’t know shit about supplements or nutrition. I’d even go as far as to say that anyone who thinks most people in the USA are getting 100% of the daily nutrition they need from diet alone are bordering on willfully ignorant.
they don’t know shit about supplements or nutrition
Can confirm. Hell, most of them think the Food Pyramid was handed down on stone tablets during brush fire.
lol, probably
I also think that they don’t know shit about supplements or nutrition.
I am sure some do because I have listened to them on podcasts, not my personal Dr though. I recently had a physical with the full blood workup and all blah blah blah. He went over the results all good and then I asked him what my Vit D level was. He did not order that. One of the main things I have heard in my obsessive rage reading and learning about this fucking virus they are stealing our rights over is that Vit D is one of the easiest things to help you not contract the thing. This fucking guy did not even test his patients levels of it. How does he not know that? I have heard it multiple times/dozens of times. How is he not telling his elderly patients to get some sun or supplement? It was mind boggling.
My doctor seems to routinely test for and recommend supplements. I take D and most recently, C.
? I eat a C when I feel like it.
*fights urge to leave off-color comment*
Euphemisms, amirite?
It’s like we aren’t even doing phrasing anymore.
Fan of one hit wonders?
See my remarks of a couple weeks ago regarding “you are your only health advocate.”
My primary care doc does a Vit D test 3 times a year. I get copies of all my labs and review them, generally/preferably before my quarterly check-ups.
I am not going to a Dr quarterly. I hate Dr’s offices. They are full of sick people I don’t want to be around.
I’m 70 and take some meds that call for periodic blood tests for liver function and blood chemistry. Fortunately, I’m quite fond of my doctor.
I’ve already drank an amount of alcohol that exceeds the combined consumption of several European countries and my liver function is 100%. WTF?
Aaaah, gotcha. I am on a mission to be off all meds. fuck big pharma.
“Aaaah, gotcha. I am on a mission to be off all meds. fuck big pharma.”
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Shame on you! I bet you don’t even wear a mask in the shower!
You can’t get off those meds! Those are for life! That’s why we call it a treatment. If you get off them, we can no longer treat you!
You radicals…
Drugs that are metabolized in the liver can be problematic for the aged. I’m still at 100%; testing will let us take steps if it starts to slip. Safe/sorry.
“I am sure some do because I have listened to them on podcasts, not my personal Dr though.”
Those guys are not approved of by Dr. Fauci, America’s Doctor, or the AMA. Some of them are probably not even unvaccinated, so basically domestic terrorists.
Vit D. I take the Thorne 5000 IU, 2 a day. They’ve gotten the micronization to the point that 2 of them will fit on a dime with room left over.
I don’t know about timing, but some vitamins & supplements do interact negatively. From memory, I think it has mostly to do with preventing absorption )I checked into this because I wanted to make sure none of the vitamins or supplements I was taking interfered with my BP meds).
Here’s one source on vitamin & supplement interaction: https://www.vitacost.com/blog/what-vitamins-should-not-be-taken-together/
Oh, and melatonin interferes with Vitamin D uptake.
Melatonin will keep me from sleeping at all, if anything will.
Hey good information, thanks for that. Based on those recommendations I changed 2 pills in my regimen.
I take GNC Mega men vitamins in the morning.
*shrug*
Vitamin D and Vitamin Beer, with Meat,
Those are solid multis. I took them for many years. I now take all of my vitamins and minerals in their own capsule, tab, softgel. But I’m a vitamin snob I guess. Some of my favs are SuperiorLabs and Thorne, they make quality stuff. Also Nootropics Depot if you’re into any type of nootropics. I really like the racetams like piracetam and aniracetam. They keep expanding the variations of this stuff so fast I can’t even keep up with it.
I don’t know how much it matters, but I do try to spread them out over 3 meals. Multi and cal-mag-zinc with breakfast. Vit D, B12, and boron with lunch. Cal-mag-zinc, and D with supper. Herbal supplements similarly spread. I figure it can’t hurt to try to “load balance” the inputs rather than spike some or all at 1 point in the day.
I can’t really take much of any of it without food, fucks up my stomach. Exempt the evening beddy bye mix, I’ll take that with a beer.
For sure. I can’t take the multi (high B vitamin load plus all the other goodies) without food. Instant nausea. The others, not so bad, but they all absorb better with food.
The B Complex I take, SuperiorLabs is super potent. I only take it once a week. The smell is so strong, I honestly have to hold my breath before popping it into my mouth to keep from gagging. And it will turn your pee bright yellow, lol.
I hate nausea, it’s like one of the worst things known to humankind for sure.
That makes sense but I am too unaware and plan like a moron to work them into other meals. Also I refuse to become my parents who set alarms for when they need to take their “fiber” and have their pill boxes with times and dates. Insanity! I am eating them in the morning and done!
“ho set alarms for when they need to take their “fiber” and have their pill boxes with times and dates.”
Overkill for sure. It’s like one of my co-workers who weighs her food. Seriously. Life is too short for that, I’ll just eyeball it, worked for my grandpa and his grandpa before that, so works for me.
“Cal-mag-zinc” Sounds like you are growing weed over there,
“Cal-mag-zinc”
I thought it was a hand gun.
Grind up a full bottle of Flintstones with your morning coffee and rub one out on the train. Breakfast of champs.
I’m down with your Parking lot vitamins………….
epin gleepin gloppin hemoglobin.
My parents had to hide those things. I’d eat the whole bottle if given the chance.
lololol
Same as her Summer’s Eve, eh?
I’m trying to think of a witty comeback, but I’m laughing too hard.
????
You hav to use the pointy drink box straws.
‘Flintstones’. Holy blast from the past.
I once took a Centrum Silver and had to shower like a dozen times to try to get the taint off of me.
My family has a bunch of 80+ year olds and some take vitamins and some dont. I think they all take any medicines and vitamins in the morning.
Good enough for me. Many dont even have great diets or exercise regularly.
https://twitter.com/iliveasnatalie/status/1441942893904662530
WTF, Canada?
It’s Canada.
“We are currently at 117% infection rate.”
In Murica, we’ve now passed 1000% infection rate. Especially in Florida. Saint Fauci tried to save us, but we aren’t worthy.