During the summer and autumn months, I do my vegetable shopping at a farmer’s market. Actually, la piață. In Romanian this word can mean several things. It can mean market as a physical place, market as in “free market”, or it can mean a square in a town or city – the latter similar to the Italian piazza where the etymology comes from; the pronunciation is basically the same as in Italian. But, when someone says “merg la piață” (I am going to the market) people know exactly what one means, a place with various stands selling mostly fruit and vegetables, and some meats and cheeses. Such markets exist in most places, though in Romania there are decidedly on the not fancy, low end side. Unlike say the equivalent in Munich or Vienna.
I decided to make a short picture post on the topic. As usual the pictures are not the best – I need a new phone – and they are not very artistic or planned, allegedly because I want to give an idea of the feel of the place as it is on an average day. Also I like to be spontaneous with my pictures. Furthermore, I tried my best not to look like I am taking pictures and to avoid getting too many faces in. And I do not know how to take pictures.
These are not called farmer’s markets like in the States, just markets, although some say “producer” markets or “peasant” markets, as peasants are still a thing in Romania. Unfortunately, many are controlled by the local city halls in cahoots with the local mafia, and a lot of peasants and direct producers can no longer find or afford a place, and many are dominated by basically traders, intermediaries if you will, some good – buying quality produce from the farmers, some bad – buying from the same wholesale distributors supermarkets buy.
I don’t know about the old U S of A but at least in Europe, most produce one buys from the supermarket is not that good, usually from varieties selected for long shelf life rather than taste, which are usually picked before ripening and ripened in crates. I am one of the unlucky ones, as I grew up in the country side and am accustomed to the taste of good fruit and vegetables, as such I rarely like anything found in a supermarket. People who grew up in Bucharest don’t know any better, and so they enjoy the stuff more, ignorance being bliss and all that. Fortunately for me, I can get the good stuff from my mom’s garden and sometimes from the market.
The market has good and bad produce, you need to know how to pick. I generally do, but not everyone does, otherwise the bad stuff would not sell. The old rule of if it looks to uniform and beautiful it probably is not that tasty applies to most produce. Late summer early autumn are the best times, as the largest variety of vegetables are ripe and tasty. For fruit I like most of them not fully ripe, so I prefer early summer.
Back in the day – that can mean anything, but in the case of Romania it can be narrowed down to from 20 years ago down to times immemorial – there was little produce to buy during winter, so Romanians stocked up and pickled a lot. Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. For many things, this is no longer necessary. And younger people, understandably, can’t be arsed anyway. I mean who has the time? Potatoes and carrots and onions, for example, you can buy anytime. In the previously mentioned past, autumn mean you had to stock up on these for the winter. There are still potatoes sold by sacks for those who still do. And onion in large “ropes” as they are called here by the roadside in Buzau county, famous for red onion.
I have few pantry staples myself. My mom has more, because of the idea of not going out in inclement weather due to the need to buy a small thing or other. Also my mom pickles, because we just don’t like the taste of the purchased stuff. This is one thing I will probably continue, as I have pickled some myself.
The market, in this case, is one of the older and better in Bucharest. It has a large covered hall with stalls for plant stuff and a separate one for cheese and meat. Outside the entryway, there are the sellers of melons and squashes and cabbage, these are generally more voluminous than other things.
Inside there is the rest of the stuff.
There are fresh and dry herbs, along side with all sorts of pickled things, jams, zacuscă , borș, and other staples of the Romanian kitchen.
There all all sorts of vegetables (yes, in Romania tomatoes count as vegetables)
And various fruit.
In the autumn, presses appears in the market pressing fresh grape must which people like to drink, for reasons unknown to me as it is way to sweet.
And to end things here is the cheese market.
It looks like a place for the poors.
Thats not nice to say about Romania.
You’re such an ass.
Did make me laugh though.
I’d be very pleased with a farmers’ market like that. I’ve got no beef mingling with the poors; in fact, I may prefer them to our current crop of “betters”.
Poor people’s grocery stores had more/better selection of raw ingredients, fewer finished goods.
Sorry, but the card says “poops”
Looks better than most US farmers markets.
Yeah, that is some top shelf stuff there. I am a little suspicious of the “pet carriers” in the first pic, though.
Those are for the vampire bats
you can find good produce overall but nothing to exotic
There was a farmer’s market/flea market near where I grew up that had some similarities. It had more variety in goods available.
It was a real farmer’s market. It featured a livestock auction.
There was also a monthly car auction.
No masks?
*this is why you have curfews*
pre pandemic pics, some of them. I thought about this post for a while but kept postponing
Interesting how the younger ones won’t pickle.
Prosperity does dilute cultures, but it’s much better to have more fresh produce available.
pickles are associated with not finding fresh stuff, not with just wanting to eat pickles. Also you can buy pickles of inferior taste in the supermarket.
Just curious – are there similar markets for breads, meat and so on?
not really. Meat is found in various butcher shops. There is one large hall in a different market with like a dozen butcher shops next to each other though.
Do they carry different stuff?
not really… I mean somewhat different but 75% the same
Are the painted pumpkins a normal thing or American Halloween creeping in?
mostly the latter
Damn Celtic influence.
Hey, a turnip might be fun to carve this year.
“Carving the Turnip” sounds like an ’80s film about rural teens working the farm all day to afford their rad freestyle skiing gear and entry fee to the big tournament.
Or a lost Blackadder episode.
That sounds like you have a cunning plan.
American Halloween = Gay Christmas
I though that was Mardi Gras?
Looks very similar to US farmer’s markets, except our onions aren’t pointy.
we needed pointy onions when we were fighting the Turks
Our local farmers market has just about everything.
Plus it hosts an outdoor fleamarket.
after a neighbor cat filled my basement with fleas, I am disinclined to purchase more.
Ahh… the Q-Mart.
Ooo… the slot car track is still there.
I have a friend who hits Q-town every weekend. I didn’t know it had a farmers market attached though.
Is the fleamarket the reason for their routine visit? It can be interesting.
You used to have to go to the flea market in Houston to purchase R12 Freon w/o a license. Apparently, they would smuggle it in from Pakistan in tanks marked as helium.
Do they have any coolant as good that isn’t banned?
Yes, as we are tool collectors.
Cool! This does look much better that the farmers markets in the ‘States.
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeese. There is a cheese store here. They sell other things from other countries, and they sell Madagascar vanilla by the quart (~$150) (OMG). But they had this Spanish (I think goat?) cheese that was divine. It was also $30/pound.
I’m not much for veggies. I’d probably buy onions by the rope, though. I don’t see any Roma tomatoes. That’s My Dude’s favored variety.
My mom pickled a bunch of cucumbers once. She used a large crock that held I don’t know how many gallons, but it was as tall as a tall kitchen trash can and way bigger around. Anyway, that was the last time she pickled anything. She canned a lot of green beans (pressure cooker canning) and beets. I love both. I love them slightly less out of tin cans than glass home-canned jars. She also made blackberry jam. Nom nom nom. I like blackberry jam almost as much as I like grape jelly.
I like pickles and pickled sausages, but those are all the pickled things I will eat.
Anyway, this was lovely, Pie. Pretty pretty things I will never eat, but are pretty to look at. Thanks.
Thanks. Here in the market you buy the plain white Romanian cheeses, nothing foreign. There are specialized cheese stores for that.
I like vegetables, mostly uncooked. Tomatoes bell pepper cucumbers radishes. I do not like eating most food without a side salad .
The wife will pickle pretty much anything; pickles, mushrooms, carrots, beets, you name it. And she also cans tomatoes, which is the only way to eat that trash. She would probably like to make cheese at some point but hasn’t gotten there. Yet.
By the way, Mojo, I didn’t get a chance to answer you the other day, but the Cougars I was referring to are Washington State University. I was born in that PAC-8 town, and my mother and her father were born in Pacific League towns, so it is the best league.
That’s pretty much the way it works in the States, too.
Supermarket produce is at the top of that pyramid. Even food service produce is better according to my brother when he was doing that professionally. If Sysco/whoever dropped off substandard produce or any goods, they’d send it right back. Wouldn’t take it and if it wasn’t readily apparent, call up Sysco and they’d come back out.
Not at publix grocery. You pay more but the fruit and veggies are top notch.
In America you get what you pay for. If you buy cheap, you get cheap.
Have you ever taken food back to a grocery? I have at publix and they give full refund. Even top notch grocery chain makes a mistake with food item. Rare but it happens.
Yum! Looks like the produce situation in Bucharest is pretty good. Your point about “if it looks too pretty and uniform it’s probably not tasty” is certainly correct in the US for tomatoes. The ones available in grocery stores are mostly varieties that are selected for their ability to hold up to bumpy transportation and not spoil on the journey. The farmers’ markets in the US have the best tomatoes, other than the ones you and your friends grow at home.
your friends
Assumes facts not in evidence.
I prefer to take the high road, even when addressing the unfriended, such as lawyers.
Got it. As I have told my colleagues: “Always take the high road. That way you can direct plunging fire into your enemies.”
Hurtful. Accurate, but hurtful.
Objection: save that for the Bro Ward.
Pie: NOM! or yum, whichever. I am reminded of this children’s book; do you know it? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4948.The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar
nope. not a thing when I was a child. I have heard the title before.
How do your countrymen use the tarragon? Around here one mostly sees it in béarnaise sauce, or occasionally chicken salad.
tarragon is not used that much. our chief herb is thyme
Thyme, yum.
I thought I saw tarragon, dill, flat parsley, and ?
Curly parsley is probably more common in the States. Yuck, bitter.
tarragon, dill, flat parsley, and – basil mint and some other stuff…
Hey, Jonathan apples.
How about parsley, sage, and rosemary?
Jonathan apples are the most popular apple in Romania
Stinky made me do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLQphyy4YNw
sage and rosemary and oregano and coriander and stuff are also found even if not seen in pics. and lovage Romanians use a lot of lovage a;most as much a s parsley.
I did not get the reference that movie was not in any way memorable to me.
Rosemary is awesome on pork.
Here, queued it up to the relevant lyrics
https://youtu.be/XLPKM1W9mLY?t=69s
Thyme and parsely on porkchops with mustard gravy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tVF_tPZH6U&t=230s
My wife and I make these often, they are phenomenal.
You don’t care for Simon and Garfunkel or other ’60s folk music, Pie? Remind me not to tell you about my lemon tree.
It’s very pretty.
Another version of Scarborough Fair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaAq4Yc5o4g
Another version…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEYiwPHSUBk
Being First doesn’t leave one time for trivial things like friends.
Mmmmmm….cheeeeeeeeeze.
All the farmer’s markets in my immediate vicinity (one next to the Metro station, one on the west side of Old Town Alexandria) seemed to have shut.
One of the most radical attitude shifts I’ve encountered as at a cheese stall at the Marche du Vieux Port in Quebec City. They were utterly disdainful of me until I asked for an epoises, at which point they not only spoke English but were determined to stuff me with as many samples as they could.
Is that a yellow monkey eating a banana on the box?
Looks like the work of some kind of crazed Carpathian Dr. Seuss.
Our last-of-the-season neighborhood farmers’ market was this past Saturday. ***SNIFF!!!*** It’s held outdoors in the parking lot of a nearby church. I’ll miss the homemade baked goods most of all.
Happily, starting next month there WILL be a winter market once a month in the banquet center of a nearby public golf course.
We should take a trip down to Jungle Jim’s and document that for the site.
The place sends me into sensory overload the moment I walk in.
Okay, but NOT ON A WEEKEND! :: shudders at thought of the roiling sea of humanity:: Maybe few enough people have Columbus Day off to make it tolerable?
Very cool. And most of those veggies look better than what we typically get here in NJ, which is sad as we are known as the “Garden State”, a nickname that goes back to a time when much of the state was dotted with small farms.
I hear you grow great tomatoes.
We do, but not as many as in the past, and not easy to find. The tomatoes are the reason Campbells originally set up shop in Camden, South Jersey is still pretty rural. North Jersey is bedroom communities and urban decay.
Hey, Judge Nap has a farm up there.
Not sure I want to know what he is growing…
Hemlock.
“I drank what?”
It’s a penis stretcher. Wanna try it?
Filed under H for toy.
Oooh, I so wanted to save this song for a post. But the time is tight. “Carrot Juice is Murder.”
https://arrogantworms1.bandcamp.com/track/carrot-juice-is-murder-4
Such a great song.
OMG, that is great! Laugh out loud lyrics and backing vocals to die for.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125439/quotes?item=qt0328351
amazing!
What’s food?
Its the stuff you put spices on . . . . Oh. Never mind.
Hyponatremia #FTW!
Despite slander to the otherwise, I do use seasoning, especially salt.
Food is the stuff you stick in your gob when you’re hungry.
What are those things being sold by the scoop?
the third fruit pick?
raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, blueberries in the back, to the front rosehip (from Rosa canina,), sea-buckthorn which are used as folk medicinal remedies (don’t know of the efficiency but at least they have vit c) and sometimes for jam.
Rose hips! I knew those were familiar. Never actually seen them for sale as a food.
Sea buckthorn I’ve never heard of or seen, which is why I couldn’t figure it out.
here rose hip are mostly used dry to make tea
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/sea-buckthorn-uses-and-risks
This looks better than the farmer’s markets I saw in Ireland. Perhaps comparable to USA. Some of the California farmer’s markets were an embarrassment of riches. Maybe times aren’t so bad after all.
Santa Monica esoterica!
OT: Today in “I give up” –
You can guess where they’re going with this. But among all the self-congratulatory back-slapping over how “progressive” this is, nobody seems to be asking what happens after the collections are decimated.
“We need to get the popular crap out of here to make room for rightthink anyway.”
Are the lions free too?
I don’t suppose any college libraries are offering such amnesties.
Nobody needs 27 kinds of vegetables. State Market #36 has only Rutabagas this week. You will like or else. Support President AOC’s “Stamp out Food Inequity in America” program.
there was a joke in communism:
A man goes to the grocery store and ask what do you have for sale? the answer is: what you see is what we have. Ok, says the man, I’ll have two meat hooks and an empty potato sack
Pie, have I asked if you’ve seen this? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087747
i am not sure maybe? It vaguely rings a bell but no clear memory
You probably know Robin Williams, the American Benigni. He defects to New York and rhapsodizes about the coffee choices in the supermarket.
Music for vegetables
She left me for a vegetable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTOG20ZNJ6k
* insert rim shot here *
And
Thanks, forgot about that one. My favorite vegetable.
I thought James Brady was Reagan’s favorite vegetable.
too soon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Umy19k5hI
Whole album is pretty good.
Ah, I remember him from “Wet Dream” on Dr. Demento.
I have never heard that one, I’ll check it out when I get home.
Wet Dream is hilarious.
Looks pretty similar to the West Side Market here in Cleveland. Pretty much every suburb around here also does a farmer’s market on a regular basis through the summer and fall.
Thanks, Pie. We don’t shop the farmer’s market, most of our fresh vegetables we grow ourselves, in the summer and fall. This year we didn’t have a garden, for reasons, but the neighbors, in their kindness, gave us a lot. I’m planning on a garden next year, not sure at this point how that will work out. Maybe smaller but we do like the fresh stuff.
We bought a couple store watermelons this year, edible but barely. Can’t compare to mine. None of the supermarket veggies taste as good as our homegrown but we live with what we have, in the off season.
Pictures reminded me of the years in Europe, with the local markets. I really miss the warm French bread and German/Spanish baked products.
Thanks Pie! I will have to show these pictures to my mom. Her father emigrated from Romania. Also, I would love to learn how you make pickles. My apologies if you have already done a post on that.
I did not make a pickle post I do not have the pictures.
It’s not often you get asked for pickle pics around here.
Got the new sidesaddle shell holder mounted on the Beretta 1301. Looks solid. Hoping to get it to the range this weekend to make sure its ready for class in a few weeks. Still looking for a light mount that will put the light under the barrel instead of off to the side. My first try turned out to not be big enough to go onto the magazine tube – at least it was cheap. Maybe I’ll try measuring this time.
Really liking (a lot) the co-witnessed red dot sight – the red dot goes on the front sight post, and man, is it fast to a pretty sight picture. I can even do both eyes open. I’d like to try this setup on a handgun, but finding a tall enough front sight is going to be a challenge.
Un-asked-for advice, but here goes – there’s no need to line up the red dot with the front sight. Just put the dot where you want the bullet to go, and cut loose. It’ll be even faster.
And you absolutely can do the mini-red-dot thing with a handgun. If you desperately need absolute cowitness iron sights, check out http://www.ameriglo.com and http://www.dawsonprecision.com.
Don’t co-witeness.
Try to get the front sight out of the picture when using an optic.
By far the best optics mount for my shotgun is a low-profile mount that comes as a co-witnessing mount. Co-witnessing is supposed to be a thing if your optic quits for some reason, but I find I like it regardless, even though my “dual-fuel” Trijicon RMR doesn’t have batteries so that’s not an issue. I like the ability to still have a front sight, and be able to focus on it without worrying about the back sight blurring out.
Some might disagree but if you need a fancy sight for a 12gauge shotgun, youre doing it wrong.
Maybe a flashlight or laser to light up a target area at night.
At 5-10 feet, a man is getting sprayed with a bunch of lead. Shotguns are one of the few light weapons that can literally blow someones head off.
With the shotgun, my cheek weld gets me there very consistently with the red dot. The dot lands on the post, and I feel rock solid for the shot. I think the co-witnessing speeds up the process a little, and will help with accuracy at range with slugs. We’ll find out.
I’ve got a red dot on the Para, but I’m just not confident/consistent in my presentation. It sucks when I present from a draw and have to fish around for the dot. I think I’d like a front post, at least, that I can use to lock it in consistently. The “suppressor height” sights are supposed to co-witness. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of parts for Paras. Never mind the sights and mounting plates, I can’t even find a replacement slide if I get the one I have milled and its botched.
Or, I guess I could just practice a lot more.
Well you’re in luck on one point – Para Ordnance slides are pretty much the same as Series 70 1911 slides. Any gunsmith who can mill a slide for an mRDS mount can swap in a Colt or Springfield slide, if worse comes to worse.
I wish I had a better suggestion than ‘Get good!’ regarding your presentation woes. I understand that a lot of people have problems finding the dot on the draw, but I never did myself. Of course, I’d been shooting iron sights in USPSA for fifteen years before I picked up my first dot gun, so I already had a pretty good index.
Do you have a dry practice schedule?
Second the “get good” and “dry fire practice.” a few minutes a day of disciplined dry fire will really help your draw and presentation.
Do you have a dry practice schedule?
Not one I have been able to keep. Which I know is my real issue.
My mornings are seriously crowded trying to get in a minimal workout, and my evenings tend to go straight to happy hour, and I won’t touch a gun if I have a beer open or a cocktail mixed. While I would enjoy a dry practice session during the day at work, well . . . .
I can dig it. And it’s absolutely smart not to mix booze and gunpowder. But I swear to Enkidu, if you can find fifteen minutes a day for some dedicated dry practice, in a month you will be an order of magnitude better.
Just push back happy hour for fifteen minutes. That first cocktail can be a reward for being such a dedicated gunslinger. *wink*
I know, I know. Geez, Dad. . . .
Pushing back happy hour seems extreme, but In These Unprecedented Times, I guess we all have to make sacrifices. I kicked myself on Saturday – I sat down for a beer, and realized I hadn’t done my Gun Chores for the day.
If you need a slide for a Para, see if Dawson Precision will fit you a nice one like a Caspian. They used to specialize in Paras before Para’s troubles.
I’m about to the point where I stop trying to turn the Para (which is, to be fair, 30 years old) into something its not, and just buy a new handgun to fiddle with. I do like Mrs. Dean’s HK VP9, a lot, but I like me some .45 ACP also. I’ll have to look at their HK45. I am just struggling to spend the money on another gun and associated gear right now.
And I’ve been fighting off this inexplicable longing for a suppressed .300 Blackout bullpup, because I also like Mrs. Dean’s Tavor X95 and they make it in .300 Blackout. I see the use case for a gun like that becoming more . . . likely.
Apparently the Maverick 88 is a shottie I can’t afford not to buy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9OL7IquoIo
A case of ammo, or two shotguns?
Hrmm… $200 for a shotgun.
Does he not do any tests out of the box? What’s with the mile long list of modifications to the factory setup?
He’s doing a series of “for the poors” equivalent of RC’s setup, after he did a review of RC’s setup.
Sort of like bolting a spoiler and premium spark plug wires onto your ’03 Civic LX…
Don’t forget the stickers, they add 5-10hp.
Dey better be red, cuz evey one knows da red ones go fastah!
Eh, a flashlight and sidesaddle are good things to have on your home defense shotgun, and will actually be better than not having them.
A better analogy might be putting better tires on the Civic.
Since my civic loved to stall out if you hit the brakes or wanted to shift from first to second, it needed other work before new tires.
Just checked, mine is a 500A, gift from Christmas circa 89-91. Has had at least 30 rounds ran through it. Still works great (I think, need to check that out in a couple of weeks) No upgrades
Great “cheap” version of a mossberg shotgun. Nothing cheap about the parts that count.
Try a ‘00’ then slug ammo… setup. Any intruder that doesnt lose their head with the ‘00’ will have a bad day with a slug round in them.
Obligatory music.
I was expecting this
Was expecting this
Do you have a sling on your shotgun?
I do. If you need both hands free, its either sling it or put it on the ground.
Thanks Pie. Looks like many the farmer’s market I’ve been to in NJ.
Much as I dislike metro NYC if you go to the wholesale markets here you can quite good quality and variety of all kinds of food. Combination of lots of immigrants and restaurant industry in my opinion.
OT – wish me luck I’m installing Windows 11 on my gaming machine as I type. If it completely breaks it I’m OK as it isn’t my primary machine. However, fixing it will still be a PITA.
I’m so sorry to hear that.
More curiosity than anything else.
Only about 50% of my hardware here is new enough. And another of my machines doesn’t have Windows 10 installed under UEFI / Secure Boot. And I have no desire to try to nondestructively partition it to UEFI. It’s supposed to be possible to do, but looked painful.
See, I thought MS was stopping at 10, and that was enough of a change. I’m going to ride 10 to its limits and beyond, the way I did 7 and XP.
Pie, do you have any markets where people sell art and handicrafts? Does your farmer’s market have people selling soaps and lotions and stuff like that?
Does your farmer’s market have people selling soaps and lotions and stuff like that? – no
Pie, do you have any markets where people sell art and handicrafts – yes but not permanent ones. There are some weekend markets doing that and, traditionally, there “fair” like markets organized periodically, but not every day of the year
Here, farmers markets have strong ties to hippie culture so you will often see vendors of “natural” “handmade” etc. personal care products. Also dog treats.
Yep. Cookies, pies, candies, etc.
Reminds me of a market in Cuenca, Ecuador where my cousin and her husband shopped while they lived there. They had a game to see who could find the cheapest bananas. I think her husband won with 25 for a dollar.
In a land where all bananas are teleported in from South America and the Carribbean, the idea that one might be able to buy 100 bananas for USD4 is like some sort of make-believe. One of my uncles who has since departed was reportedly quite scared by the first banana he saw as a child.
One of my uncles who has since departed was reportedly quite scared by the first banana he saw as a child.
I hate to break it to you but he was talking what he saw at the rectory.
<blockquote I mean it's one banana Michael. What could it cost, $10?
RIP Jessica Walter
Screwed that up
RIP Jessica Walter
Trying again, just for practice.
Theres always money in the banana stand….
And in a different kind of market –
Man selling catalytic converter online left a bag of meth on coffee table in the picture’s background, sheriff’s office says
Let this be a lesson to anyone selling online. Taking care to use proper photos that don’t include unnecessary background objects will help you avoid all kinds of problems with your sale.
Does anyone else HATE these self congratulatory posts like this?
Absolutely.
I saw a Craigslist ad for a TV. The dude was standing in front of the TV taking the picture and so it caught his reflection.
Unfortunately for him, he was nude and had a raging boner. It was impressive, too.
Oh, dear, sweet, innocent Mojeaux – that wasn’t an accident.
AFAIK, that’s a “thing” – posting things for sale and “accidentally” including a reflection of your naked self.
+ 1 Chris Cuomo
*hangs head in shame at such raw naivete*
The guy was obviously testing subliminal advertising!
Did it firm up your decision to buy?
I wasn’t in the market for a TV anyway. It was too big and heavy.
TWSS
As predicted, here we go…
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.19.21262139v1
Can you explain that as if I am a plasma physics PhD dropout and not a medical type person?
Variants which wholly escape the antibodies produced by the mRNA vaccines have taken hold in San Francisco.
Vaccinees present with similar viral loads and symptoms to the unvaccinated.
In other words, the existing vaccines are now useless at best.
As a measure to prevent infection = useless. As a measure to control peoples = priceless.
Did you see that shit from NIH resigned? 1 down, a couple thousand to go…Ha!
He should be hanging from a lamppost.
Collins did some great work in the past, but his steadfast commitment to GOF research and then his absolutely evil suppression of therapeutic treatments from the NIH schedule make him a monster for the ages.
But also the virus isn’t especially dangerous for most people. ugh
Largely unexplored. We should create a government agency or three that could look into that. Oh, wait, we do.
The lefty narrative is that every American must submit to vax plus boosters.
This sars covid19 is a biological weapon being used to destroy america and freedom around the world. War has been declared. Wake up.
Obviously, everyone wants their own technical. Apparently you’ll need at least two stars to make it happen.
The worst part is, the Hilux was non-functional.
I mean, at that point, take the gun off and remount it in the US on something that runs.
Reduced in rank to E-1, forfeiture of all pay and benefits, 25 years confinement at the USCB at Fort Leavenworth. Pay solatia money (from his forfeited pay and pension) to as many family members as can be determined.
would that pay to family be calculated from the original rank or the E-1 pay rate?
Can a commissioned officer get reduce to an enlisted rank? Or would it just be down to 2LT?
I’m sure there’s a way to strip an officer of their commission.
If you’re throwing them out altogether, sure – just curious if you can bust them down to an enlisted rank.
I’m no expert on this, so keep that in mind.
I think officers are “dismissed from the service”. Which doesn’t exactly strip them of their
commission. Similarly, I think once you are commissioned, you are permanently subject
to recall. I don’t even know if officers are even generally demoted as part of a court
martial. I suppose it’s possible, but it would be career ending, and I think they generally
treat something that might get a enlisted person a demotion as worthy of dismissal.
I suspect that even an officer that had been dismissed from the service could be recalled.
Also, note that by “recalled” I mean without a special law or some sort of draft. Obviously
the government could draft anyone and everyone if it wanted to. (Before everyone chimes
in with their libertarian objections, I am noting actual power, rather than commenting
on how one might justify it.)
I was in the retired reserve until I was 58. As a general rule officers are subjected to recall until age 60. I wasn’t asked if I wanted to be retired at 58 or stay ’til 60, I could have appealed but not sure why I would want to.
It’s not automatic, but if you’re not retired, you can resign your commission (if you don’t have a service obligation) and you’d no longer be subject to recall.
*recalls Switzy to AD, installs him as IG of the Army and takes leash off*
/first day of President for Life Gustavo’s term
?
You’ve got my vote.
“Your first task is to provide me with a list of generals and admirals I shouldn’t fire. I’m expecting it to be a pretty short list.”
“Fuck, at this rate we’re gonna have to out the Pentagon up for sale. With all the firings, 80 percent of the office spaces are vacant. “
Instead of Leavenworth, can we just hand this piece of shit a pistol loaded with one cartridge?
He might miss.
These stupid motherfuckers are the best we have?
If there were pictures of me taking possession of an AA cannon, I wonder what time in the morning the no-knock raid would be executed?
“Oh that, it’s an Antique 88.”
Thank you Pie. I love these.
BTW for someone who doesn’t know how to take photos you did a damned fine job.
I would shop at any of those places any day over the grocery I just got home from.
at certain times you can even find okra
“at certain times you can even find okra”
But why?
*Okra is one of the few vegetables I don’t like.*
But fried okra! no slime!
The slime helps to thicken gumbo.
I thought that’s what carcinogenic filé powder was used for.
If you can’t find filé, will cornstarch and root beer work?
carcinogenic??
The roots are. Dunno about the leaves.
Thank you for that bit of Romania, Pie. Very cool, and very appreciated.
I would give good munny to get my hands on those peppers and spring onions. Holy crap, those look tasty.
Surprised to see so many pumpkins and squash. I like the decorations.
The pictures were fine, they just didn’t have any wemons in them. Where the Romanian wimminz at?
Romanian wimminz
They looked better in the book.
Must. Have. Wardrobe.
Those would be a great addition to my portrait studio’s wardrobe closet.
I can see it!
The old rule of if it looks to uniform and beautiful it probably is not that tasty applies to most produce.
People, too.
Thanks for the tour, Pie!
It looks like a lovely place and I could go insane in the fruit and cheese markets!
::gives Tundra a big hug and a smooch on the (facial) cheek::
Stop, you’ll make me blush!
(don’t stop)
Brutal.
There are some funny people still left.
L O L
“Shall we do some domestic terrorism?”
Ouch, shots fired.