Hot Sauce Revisited

by | Oct 6, 2021 | Cooking, Food & Drink, LifeSkills, Recipes | 354 comments

Last December I explained how to make a fermented hot sauce.  I thought I would revisit the topic and show you what I’ve done this year. I planted bell peppers, jalapenos, habaneros, and Anaheim peppers this year.  My neighbors planted tabasco peppers, so I had some of those available as well.

I made four varieties of hot sauces this year.

First, I made a jalapeno hot sauce (jalapenos, onions, garlic, green bell pepper) and a Fresno hot sauce (red ripened jalapenos, red bell pepper, onion, garlic).

Next, I made a hot sauce from a blend of habaneros, Anaheim peppers, onion, garlic, grated carrots, and Fresnos.  Finally, I made a habanero and garlic hot sauce with a few tabasco peppers tossed in.

I let them ferment for about a month. Then I drained the brine (reserve it!) and put the vegetables through the food processor and then the food mill.

Last year, my hot sauce was kind of pulpy and this year I wanted it to be smoother. So, this year I used a finer disc on the food mill, then put it through the strainer.

Then I added brine back to taste, added some apple cider vinegar (again, to taste) and bottled it.  I heated the Fresno hot sauce which kills the probiotics, but the rest I just bottled.  Kept in the refrigerator, they should last for months.

I got two 5 ounce bottles out of the jalapeno, Fresno and pepper blend sauces.  I got three out of the habanero garlic sauce because I added more brine to it.

The Fresno sauce is not hot enough for my taste.  I think I didn’t have enough peppers compared to the onion and bell peppers.  The pepper blend sauce starts a little bitter but then has a good flavor and a nice lingering heat.  After talking about it with Double Eagle, I think the problem is that I used whole garlic cloves and they may have had a sprout in the center – that can cause bitterness.  The jalapeno sauce is just right – nice heat and good flavor.  I’m really happy with it.

The habanero garlic sauce is my favorite.  It’s nicely sour with a lot of garlic flavor and good heat.  I’ll definitely be making that again next year and in larger quantities.

Here are the first three bottled sauces.

Here are the habanero garlic bottles.

Note – the pulp will settle when the sauces sit because I’m not using any emulsifiers or stabilizers.  I shook them up so they would look pretty for the camera.

Have you tried fermenting hot sauce? (Pistoffnick, I’d like to see pictures.)  How did your experiments turn out?

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354 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    Spicy foods do not agree with The First That Will Change Everything.

    • Rebel Scum

      Yeah, I like Thai but sometimes it comes back to haunt me.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        I once went to a Thai restaurant with a West African co-worker that mostly catered to foreign students. And as he put it “they have it going from 1 to 5. I have the 2, and you, being a white boy, might want to start with a 1” It was the hottest food I have ever eaten. But, my wife loves spicy Asian food, so I brought the leftovers home. She took one bite, declared it too hot for human consumption, and side-eyed me for the next week.

        Good times, good thaimes

      • rhywun

        The nice lady in the Thai food truck one day mistakenly thought I had asked for the top level of hot (I forget the lingo; there are no food trucks any more so I probably won’t ever see them again) and when I brought it back to the office I had to throw it out it was so inedible.

        It’s not a fucking contest; food needs to be edible FFS.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Yeah, I made the mistake of speaking my broken Spanish in a Mexican restaurant and then ordering Camarones Diablo. That was the second spiciest meal I have eaten. It did make the eight-hour drive the next day… entertaining.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        My brother and I stopped for green chile cheeseburgers at a roadside stand in Carizzozo NM on the way back from a deer hunt. They weren’t chiles they were jalapenos and the hotness scale was far into the “inedible” range. Even after scraping most of it off the burgers were barely edible.

        Some folks get carried away with the heat when the whole thing is about the flavor.

      • Not Adahn

        It’s a tolerance thing. When I first moved to Bryan I was ordering “3 star” from the local Thai place. By the time I moved to Austin, I was ordering “5 star.” It really did taste better and was no more difficult to eat at that point in my life.

      • Fourscore

        My son took us to his favorite (according to him) Thai restaurant in Austin, showing off he ordered a 3 pepper, Mrs F (who likes spicy stuff) ordered a 1, being a MN guy I ordered a Zero and gave the waiter ‘no spice’.

        Smart Aleck son poured down beer after beer trying to cool his belly. I was impressed though and my order was just right, as was Mrs F’s.

  2. Yusef drives a Kia

    Those look wonderful! the custom bottles are icing on the Cake, Thanks T!

  3. rhywun

    Carrots seem like an odd addition but dang those look yummy.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I agree for Salsa, due to texture, but I hear it adds a bit of sweetness to the whole thing, i may be wrong, I don’t use them in my Salsa.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, the sweetness is why it seems weird to me. I don’t make stuff like this but I generally only come across carrots in pizza sauce. I do use them in stews.

      • Not Adahn

        Yellow Bird makes good hot sauces. I think their original one was habanero and carrot.

      • mikey

        Discovered Yellow Bird This week – good stuff
        Melinda’s also uses carrots. They also give the sauce body.

    • Spudalicious

      You need the sweetness to round out the heat.

      • rhywun

        I’ll bow to your expertisery in food things, but I don’t see carrots in any branded hot sauces (?). But yeah I can see it as a kind of fix if things get too hot.

      • Spudalicious

        It’s not mandatory, but it does help round out the heat. It’s a great touch to a habanero hot sauce. I don’t use it in fermented sauces, because that’s a different animal. Fresh condiment type salsa with habaneros, carrot makes a nice touch. I would probably add some to a brined hot sauce as well.

  4. Rebel Scum

    I happen to be hot & sauced. ///WastedWednesday ///Jk

    • rhywun

      Workin’ on the sauced.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Tall whatever you’re drinking!

      • rhywun

        ? Tall vodka and orange sodas.

      • R.J.

        That looks good! What did you change up?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I can alter almost any of the picture, I want to create enough frames for Chapter illos, for a story I’m having edited, YAY! Yusef has an editor!

      • rhywun

        Nice! Pulpy.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Thanks! Tales of the Belt is a big Comic book,

      • R.J.

        I have been doing images on my phone for posts with PhotoFunia and gotten good results. I need to up my game and do full photo altering like that.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I would love to find an illustrator that would help me with my Story, that would be cool,

      • CPRM

        Meh, link still works.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        CPRM, my PS skills are manifold, 20 years dicking with it,

  5. db

    I’ll be right down to try some of that sauce.

  6. R.J.

    I have some red jalapeños now! This is inspiring me to use them instead of watching them rot.

    • Tulip

      Just don’t use too many onions – mine was too mild.

      • R.J.

        I should have a clean dozen by Saturday. I am going for it and making hot sauce.

      • Hyperion

        Seriously, I made a gallon of fresh salsa yesterday with Jalapeno peppers and it was so hot we couldn’t eat it. I just now added more tomatoes to it.

  7. CPRM

    I made a hot sauce with the ghost peppers I got from Sean, jalapenos and habaneros. It also has garlic, onion, tomato, red wine vinegar and spices (some cumin, salt and cayenne powder.) I’ve had a few tastes, but waiting for it to mingle a bit longer before I use it outright.

  8. Spudalicious

    I recently found a couple of small jars of fermented hot sauce I made a few years ago. One red, one green. I forgot how long I fermented them, but they were still in perfect shape and plenty hot.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Big enough Pic?

      • Spudalicious

        Prolly should have sent a smaller resolution.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Nice pics though,

    • Tulip

      nice

  9. Yusef drives a Kia

    I add a touch of White Wine vinegar, flavors tend to come out, and my Peeps dig it,

    • Hyperion

      What? I thought you were American, and we own the Oort cloud and the Amazon you know. You’re one of them Koreans, aren’t you?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I have several vinigars, WW just seemed to work,
        /Not French!

      • Hyperion

        The Koreans told me they invented both Ketchup and Mustard and did both with vinegar.

        My wife makes Vinaigrette with vinegar, the stuff is wonderful.

        I’m not making anything else, especially fermented until I finally arrive back home in the Appalachia with all the other Hillbillies. Coming soon.

  10. DEG

    Looks tasty.

  11. Hyperion

    Hot sauce is best made with Cayenne peppers. Sorry, Tuip, you know I love your posts, but why do you hate the kang of all hot sauces, which are all made with Cayenne peppers? Is it white supremacy? It is, isn’t it?

    Disclaimer: I have never made a hot sauce.

    People told me to stop drinking beer and eating salt. You know what I did? As a true libertarian, I ordered the max amount of beer and salt you can order online. And I now always put salt in my beer. I just did it again.

    Nyuk, yuk, yuk, I know you are, but what am I?

    • Tulip

      I had cayenne peppers last year (and still have some dried). Maybe next year.

    • Spudalicious

      You salt your beer? What are you? 130 years old?

      • Hyperion

        Almost half that much. Shut up with your white supremacy.

      • DEG

        Gose is traditionally brewed with salt.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        that’s why Gose is gross? thanks! now I know….

      • DEG

        Gose is good.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Pick one, I’ll try it, my XP isn’t well served,

      • DEG

        My favorite. However, it might not be easy to find.

      • Shpip

        Okay, it’s not a true gose, but I really enjoy the Cotton Mouth Crusher from Saugatuck. I’m assuming they distribute to the You Pee.

        Different beast altogether, but the stuff from Virtue Cider, located a short distance from Saugatuck, is some of the best dry cider I’ve ever had from a place not named England, France, or Spain.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      If you need salt in your beer, change your Beer, Good God man!
      It’s not Corona I hope,

      • Hyperion

        It has nothing to do with need. No one needs more than one beer.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        “No one needs more than one beer.”
        HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

      • Hyperion

        And I just planned a trip to the Oort Cloud, where I will take all the available Space MILFs.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Gottta fight me for em Space boy!

      • Hyperion

        I already fought with her and her tits and her tits won. But I’m eager for a rematch, both of her tits are cowards and I’m calling them out.

  12. Q Continuum

    OT: I don’t understand how anyone is even remotely surprised that the Kung Flu came from a lab (and I think it’s pretty much confirmed that it did at this point). “Oh jeez, a novel virus just happened to pop up around the corner from a lab where they’re doing research on the exact same kind of novel virus! What a coinkeydink!” Further, the reaction of the IFLS crowd to the “lab leak theory” should have been telling on its own. Just like the 2020 election fraud claims, you do not immediately and aggressively silence and discredit those asking a question unless its a question you don’t want people to hear the answer to. People *should* care about where the virus came from, just like they *should* care about election integrity. Silencing those seeking the truth only serves to inculpate the silencers as participating in a coverup.

    These people scare me a lot worse than the election fixers or even crooked, liberty-destroying politicos. Based upon the response from these lunatics, there is no remorse whatsoever and no lessons learned. The money spigots have continued flowing and research has continued chugging in the PRC. The next virus they engineer could actually be the plague they pretended the Kung Flu was; MERS has a 30-40% CFR. Make that more contagious and/or potent and you’ve got Malthusian pornography.

    • Brochettaward

      It was revealed today that the Facebook “whistleblower”/prog operative was in charge of suppressing the Hunter laptop story. Odds are, she had a hand in suppressing lab leak talk, as well.

      Not only did it leak from the lab, but the Chicoms probably knew something was up well before they let the world know. What do we pay our intelligence services for, exactly? Because they never seem to be ahead of the game on anything. Meanwhile, the Chinese have probably infiltrated every apparatus of our bureaucracy and compromised god knows how many politicians.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        That’s about right, and We are Fucked, God this place gets depressing…..
        /Truth is a Bitch

      • Chafed

        +1 Eric Swalwell and Nancy Pelosi

    • Hyperion

      Imagine people’s shocked faces when they find out it was released on purpose by the CCP and American lefty assholes.

  13. pistoffnick

    “(Pistoffnick, I’d like to see pictures.)”

    Oh you naughty, naughty lady!

    Here:
    Hot sauce on the right from all the red peppers from my garden, Kimchee on the right

    Jalapeno hot sauce on the left, habanero on the right

    The jalapeno sauce mellowed quite a bit and is now to wimpy for me.

    Tomatillo salsa (it was a good year for tomatillos in the garden)

    *gratuitous dick pick*
    https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s–i_HR8TmE–/t_Preview/b_rgb:191919,c_limit,f_auto,h_630,q_90,w_630/v1539801628/production/designs/3338029_0.jpg
    *come on, click on it! You know you want to*

  14. Hyperion

    Wilder vs. Fury 2

    I’d give about a million dollars to see Fury accidentally knock out racist asshole Bayless in the middle of the ring and just let him lie there until the buzzards pick out his worthless eyeballs. Seriously, is this asshole really not a Post Office Employee? Because no one else would employ his worthless racist ass.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Aw, Rick B seems nice enough, speaking of salsa.

      • Hyperion

        Who is Rick B? It’s like that Brad dude you all are talking about. Who?

      • Hyperion

        Dude, there is no way anyone named Rick is that big of an asshole, except for Rick Moron at PJMedia. And he’s best butt buddies with Turtlehead.

      • slumbrew

        Rick has said “we’re not close” and left it at that.

        Two more different brothers I can not imagine.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I think the third brother is a travel agent in NW OKC, their hometown.

      • slumbrew

        That must be weird – “my brother, the sports-caster and my other brother, the Michelin-starred chef…”

        Cooper Manning at least has the “I blew my knee out early” thing.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        See also Gummo and then Zeppo.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Wilder’s corner should have thrown in the towel the moment his ear drum was punctured. He lost equilibrium and ability to focus after that. Hopefully the third installment is as entertaining as the first.

      • Trigger Hippie

        *rewatching the first fight*
        ….actually, after five rounds this fight is boring as shit.

      • Hyperion

        I have to agree with that. The other thing that no one is talking about is that Wilder looked scared shitless from the opening bell.

        The first fight, Fury pulled a clinic on Wilder, Fury is a master boxer, not with that much power. But he makes Wilder look stupid with his boxing prowess.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I honestly thought Wilder won the first fight by a point. I had Fury up by a point until Wilder put him on his ass. Neither one of them landed clean, memorable blows or any combinations worth noting. Most of the big shots were landed on the back of the head by both fighters. Basically, depending on your preferred fighter, you could have scoured almost all the rounds either way. I have no problem with it being called a draw.

      • Hyperion

        I’d agree that Wilder won the first right, despite being owned for all those rounds.

      • Trigger Hippie

        One must live by the professional boxing point system and a judge’s boxing style preference. The simple fact is Fury got knocked down twice and never truly dominated the rounds he won on technical skill.

      • Hyperion

        Disagree, Wilder won the fight, but Fury won all of those other rounds on technical skill.

      • Hyperion

        Other thing I’ll point out here. Fury was about to beat Wilder senseless when they finally stopped the fight. Stopping it was racist. Why not just let it go on like they did when Ray Mercer almost killed Tommy Morrison?

        Don’t think anyone remembers that?

      • Trigger Hippie

        Yeah, I do. I first started boxing as a kid about the time Tommy Morrison went pro. He would show up at the Golden Gloves with his mullet and high collared wind breaker to receive praise and collect groupies.

        Fun Fact: He fucked the older sister of a classmate of mine and gave her herpes.

        On a serious note: letting your fighter’s pride override his health is a terrible trait of some coaches. I’ve told this story before but a dude a few years older than me was a top 10 national fighter as an amateur boxer for years, went pro and got to something like a 12 and 0 then stepped into the ring with the wrong person. He refused to quit, his nearly lifelong coach refused to lose faith in his surrogate son and recognize that the only possible outcome for him after four rounds was more damage and he was dead before the ambulance reached the hospital.

        Real life ain’t a damn Rocky movie.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘The other thing that no one is talking about is that Wilder looked scared shitless from the opening bell.’

        I’ll grant you that. After Fury picked himself up off the canvas after that 12th round knockdown Wilder was stunned. Hell, I was stunned. Wilder went into the second fight thinking: “Holy shit. I can’t knock this guy out, I have to outbox him.” He would have probably lost without the injury…Wilder’s form is sloppy, his punches loop too much, his stance is too narrow, he’s too stiff kneed, his jab is mediocre, headwork is minimal…he’s an extremely imperfect fighter. That being said, if his coaching staff insisted he worked on widening out his stance, increasing his head movement and basically fighting “shorter” he’d far more successful against Fury. As you’ve stated, Fury isn’t a powerful fighter for his height and size. And if you watch closely, Fury rarely throws body shots outside of a clinch. Those shots have no ass behind them and can be ignored. If Wilder tightened up his punches, bent his knees more, used more upper body movement and kinda adopted a Tyson style of upper body/face guarding while waiting out openings he’d destroy Fury.

        But he won’t. I predict a close win by Fury in a 12 round decision.

  15. rhywun

    LOL the Rangers just won a game at MSG and as they were interviewing Zibanejad on the ice I swear I heard faint calls of “Fuck Joe Biden”.

    • R.J.

      That would be a great ring tone. A crowd chanting “Fuck Joe Biden”

      • db

        would install

  16. Hyperion

    I just had to tone down my salsa that I made yesterday. It was so hot you could not eat it, unless you are an illegal Messican immigrant.

    So I used part of it for other things and put more maters in it.

  17. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I’d like to try those on a barbacoa taco with some cilantro crema and a little minced red onion and tomato. Maybe some queso freso.

    • pistoffnick

      There is a place in Wichita called Poblanos that makes the best barbacoa burritos. I haven’t been back for 10 years (because it’s Wichita). It was at least 2 lbs. of pure delight.

  18. Mojeaux

    Paging @Chafed. Just found this guy. For whatever reason (God poking me in the forehead), he popped up in my FB feed.

    • rhywun

      That mustache is kind of sad. Dude, you’re blond and pretty, you don’t need to follow that fad.

      Was he saying something?

      • Mojeaux

        Was he saying something?

        I wasn’t listening.

    • Chafed

      I have no idea who he is but enjoy your beefcake.

  19. Shpip

    I’m being a Florida Man homeboy here, but my favorite pepper to make hot sauce with is the datil, a smallish yellow C. chinense with a bright citrusy flavor and significant (though not habanero-level) heat. The Bosslady’s homemade sauce with this includes carrots, Vidalia onions, and fresh lime juice.

    In my limited experience, they’re damned hard to grow outside of a 50-mile radius of St. Augustine, but if you can get them to cooperate, the product is worth the effort. My go-to commercially made sauce of that cultivar is Dat’l-Do-It Devil Drops, available online.

    • kinnath

      Of course, it started with Nixon/Ford.

      I don’t see another Reagan hiring another Volker any time soon. So, the future looks pretty fucking grim.

    • Hyperion

      Biden took less than a year to make Carter look like a genius.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Expecting? you ain’t seen nothin’ yet my friend,

      • kinnath

        Yes, expecting.

        We are at 1974 right now. A 20% misery index is only a couple of years away.

      • Hyperion

        I think you must mean 1984+?

      • kinnath

        Nope. I mean 1974. Misery index hits 20% in 1975; calms down to a “modest” 13% rate; then spikes up to 22% just prior to the election in 1980.

        This leads Reagan Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?ask

      • kinnath

        fucked that up 😉

      • rhywun

        If Desantis is smart he’ll just repeat that mini-speech word-for-word.

      • Hyperion

        The problem with DeSantis is his voice. But since he doesn’t need to expect any competition from the hapless dems, he should be good.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, Reagan had The Voice. Jeez, he was (mostly) good at speechifyin’.

      • rhywun

        Hard to believe we’re not close to the Carter years yet. I have no memory of how miserable it was but fuck it seems so miserable now.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I ‘member, gas lines and high prices

      • kinnath

        I remember very, very well. I can’t express how angry I am that we are going to live through that again.

      • rhywun

        Except this time around we seem to be lacking the common wisdom of just how awful it is (that part I do remember from the 70s). Unless “Fuck Joe Biden” is the beginning of some sort of awakening. I dunno.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I just keep on rollin’ as best I can, i do think we are well and truly fucked as a Nation,
        Bummer…..

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Actually pretty sound compared to nowadays,

      • rhywun

        I’ll know the circle is complete when a Republican wins New York in 2024.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        I was 5 to 9 during the Carter years, so not much of a direct memory of it, but I do remember my dad riding a bicycle to work, a lot of back to the land stuff, everyone watching the thermostat, and the election of 80 blowing up my parents marriage.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I was 7 to 11 and the only thing I remember is mom and boyfriend hijinks.

      • slumbrew

        7-11 for me; I have a vague memory of waiting in a huge gas line in my dad’s Capri, based on the day of the week and the final license plate number.

        Watching the thermostat was a pre-existing condition for my parents and lasted until after I went to college.

        (they lived hand to mouth for pretty much all of my childhood – I wore clothes from Goodwill long before it was cool)

      • rhywun

        Watching the thermostat was a pre-existing condition for my parents and lasted until after I went to college.

        (they lived hand to mouth for pretty much all of my childhood – I wore clothes from Goodwill long before it was cool)

        ‘Member both of those.

      • slumbrew

        TBF, it was a good-sized house – they did the whole “worst house in the best neighborhood” thing; 5 bedrooms by the time they finished off one of the attics. And just one heating zone for the oil-fired furnace.

        An associate professor at a community college just did not make that much. I out-earned dad pretty early on in my career (a fact he was pleased by).

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Hand me downs for me. I am two years younger than my brother, so it was patched knees and grass stains before that was cool. If it ever was. And yeah, watching the thermostat was a passion for the old man.

      • slumbrew

        3 of 4, albeit only one 5-year-older brother, so any number of hand-me-downs. Goodwill was for when those ran out.

      • kinnath

        Age 19 in 1976. Got married had first kid. Second kid in 1979. Worked two jobs from 1979 well in to 1980 to pay rent and feed my kids.

        Mortgage rates were up around 15%. I thought I would never own a house.

      • Mojeaux

        the election of 80 blowing up my parents marriage.

        *settles in for story time*

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Not much to tell. Mom was a born and bred Berkeleyite, and dad grew up in Stockton, the Detroit of CA. She was liberal and he was conservative. I remember him gloating a bit when Regan won, and maybe I am getting a bit Post Hot, Ergo Propter Hoc but I remember feeling that things went downhill real quick after that. They divorced in ’84 after 19 years and she moved out.

    • kinnath

      I spent a lot of time staring at the floor mats in the taxis in Moscow. Just too fucking scary to look out the windows.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Yeah, I remember going the wrong way on one of the ring roads a couple times.

    • rhywun

      comedy gold

  20. Mojeaux

    @pistoffnick, you can’t put more than 2 links in a comment or else it goes to pending.

    • Hyperion

      OK, Karen.

      • Brochettaward

        Karen is the name Hyperion likes to go by when he dons his wig and goes into the woods to suck dick.

      • Hyperion

        LOL, it’s about time you woke up, brah.

        I don’t need a wig, I have real skills.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        So, half and half?

      • Tres Cool

        So you like fish sticks ?

      • Mojeaux

        Hyperiod used to think I was the worst. Now I’m just Karen.

      • Hyperion

        Karen is even worse than the worst.

      • Mojeaux

        I don’t like your attitude. I want to talk to your manager.

      • Hyperion

        Karen, uhhhwhatttrruuudoinerree? Just get on the 405 and keep going and never come back!

  21. Tres Cool

    Is there a Zoom tonight? Im about to fall off the couch, and ideally not into another TV. I mean, it can happen.

    /Chevy Chase does Ford

    • slumbrew

      I was annoyed by Jimmy Fallon’s total inability to keep from laughing during a sketch, but I’ll forgive them for cracking up during that totally ridiculous sketch.

      Bill Hader is a gem.

      • Hyperion

        “I was annoyed by Jimmy Fallon’s total inability to keep from laughing during a sketch”

        Yeah, I don’t like that either. Doing that is an especially annoying form of faux self perceived elitism.

      • Chafed

        Kinnath gets it.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘I was annoyed by Jimmy Fallon’s total inability to keep from laughing during a sketch’

        +1 Horatio Sanz…the most unprofessional, unfunny fuck to ever disgrace that terrible program.

      • slumbrew

        I have and still laugh every time I watch it.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        He and Cecilia Strong make the show at this point.

      • slumbrew

        *Cecily

        She’s great.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Her Tulsi Gabbard was the shiz.

  22. hayeksplosives

    Off topic and out of date.

    That 96 year old Nazi secretary bitch need to be persecuted. Maybe I’m raw because I have just read “Savage Continent” and “The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War” but those bitches and bicycle boys knew exactly what was going on, and they most definitely had a daggum choice.

    If she thought she were taken advantage of, she’d have fessed up and gone to trial. Many low-level folks did and were excused.

    That mother fucking Nazi teen avoided justice and reconciliation because she wanted to evade the Tell-Tale Heart that condemned her for her actions and inactions.

    Fuck that bitch. Sloopy is right.

    • hayeksplosives

      I meant “prosecuted” not “persecuted”…

      • Tres Cool

        Outside of “righteous indignation” or “we got ’em!” are you going to put a 96 year-old woman in prison?

        Reflect on who you’re angry at. Its not her. Otherwise, remember Slobodan and that Bosnia mess? Where’s his cronies being pressed to confess their war crimes?

      • Brochettaward

        I don’t have any problem putting a 96 year old Nazi in prison.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Victory is still written by the Victors, she is Evil, she must pay,
        /tired of molly coddling

      • Loveconstitution1789

        You think america “won” WWII? Nazis run europe. America lost.

      • Chafed

        Yes

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Serbians were using genocide in Bosnia partly because of treatment by the croatians/Bosnians during WWII and the occupation by Nazi Germany.

        Yugoslavia was mainly held together by Tito the Commie. Once he died, the fragile state split into old racial and national countries. They had old beefs to settle.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Dayyum! Correct though,

    • Hyperion

      Calm down, there’s no way a 96 year old person needs to go to prison. Unless she’s discovered the fountain of youth, and last I checked, Ponce de Leon only exists now in a Brazilian Novela.

      • Brochettaward

        Why does being 96 even matter? If she were 25, she would nearly as much of an actual threat to society. It’s about justice for someone who participated in the most heinous, vile shit humans have ever done to one another. She doesn’t get a pass because she evaded responsibility for so long.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        This Bro, even if she does no time, she needs to admit culpability,

      • Tres Cool

        There’s the fault in your logic, shit-for-brains.
        Unless she’s running some sleeper-cell for Nazis at her age, she isnt a threat. So why put her away in a rape-cage to make yourself feel better that “we got this bitch off the streets” ?

      • Brochettaward

        Here’s the fault in your logic, which was already pointed out. At 25, she wouldn’t be a threat to society, either. She was a secretary at a death camp. Like many Nazi collaborators, she is far more likely to go on to live a law abiding life and causing no more harm. But you wouldn’t be sitting here making this argument if she were 25. You’d be fine punishing her.

        So she’s 96, that means she gets to go her entire life without any punishment for being a participant in the deaths of thousands? Yea, that’s bullshit.

      • Tres Cool

        OK, so like I pointed out previously- where’s Slobodan’s cronies and why arent they being hunted? Or Pol Pot? Or a Idi Amin? Why arent went chasing down those genocidal bastards as much as Nazis?

      • Chafed

        Ask the Bosnian, Cambodians, and Ugandans. We aren’t prosecuting the 96 year old Nazi. Germany is.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Is anyone asking why Germany is?

        Germany is facing an election coalition of straight up commies running germany. socialists famously tried to distance themselves from Nazis, eventhough The Nazi Party is a socialist party. Different type of communism.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Pol Pot and the Khmer Rogue were supported by the US and others after the Vietnamese knocked them off and replaced the Khmer Rogue with their own commie stooges.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Was she a Nazi or a nazi collaborator? Big difference.

        Every occupied nation in Europe had nazis and nazi collaborators. If you were a Nazi, you had to be admitted into the Nazi party (NDSAP) and given a number. Not everyone that worked in concentration or death camps were Nazis.

        Do you people know that arabs, muslims, russians, ukranians, french, americans, finnish, swedish, italians, greeks, british, albanians served in the SS?

      • Tres Cool

        Do you know that American Indians (Indigenous People) had black slaves?
        G_d, I love me some irony.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        AmerIndians had white slaves.

        Israelites had slaves.

        Egypitians had slaves.

        Africans had slaves.

        People dont know history like they think they do. A big mistake is looking at history thru a modern political lens. You will be made to look foolish.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Threat ain’t got shit to do with it, and you know it, Tall friend, I despise Nazis then and now, she knew what she was doing, read some History,
        Fuck,

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Lets round up every 90 something year old cook, baker, farmer, american businessman, and Soros that even helped the Nazis one bit in 1939-1945.

      There are statutes of limitations for a reason. This is a misdirection campaign to focus attention from the tyrants and their Kungflu hysteria.

      Furthermore, true Nazis are still running Europe and trying to take over America to make them Commies utopias. Lets focus on these Nazi tyrants please.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        I notice nobody here is advocating soros being imprisoned for being a Nazi. Dude was a Nazi and worked confiscating and collecting jewish property.

        Lets confiscate all ford company property since henry helped the Nazis. IBM too.

        Even WWII veterans who endured more than you people will ever endure, forgave German and Japanese peoples for WWII.

      • Tres Cool

        Thats kinda my point- 96 years later, when every is a Nazi, who are the Nazis?
        Certainly not those AntiFa youth that torched a Federal building and burned down a city, a la Kristallnacht.

        Dude- they may ACT like facists, but they’re really ANTI-fascists.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Im kind of shocked that Glibs are falling for European Nazi distraction tactic 101.

        Israeli pilots purposely shot the USS Liberty and killed US sailors. I will never let that historical fact fade. At the same time, I dont advocate trying the Israeli pilots for some crime, even if they arent dead.

        Time heals all wounds.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Her crime is outliving the real monsters. The Nazis orchestrating the Holocaust are long gone, running out of low level guards, so now it’s any participants.

      Look at the trials post war. None of them were clerical staff. It was camp commandants or specific guards. And some of them were outright acquitted. If secretaries were complicit enough to prosecute, they should have been prosecuted then not 75 years later when there’s basically no one else left.

      Maybe next they can go through the employment books of those companies that used slave labor and find some office boy to put on trial.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        I get people are frustrated at tyrants but this going after secretary is accepting the current European Nazi narrative that this lady is some war criminal and the current EU politicians are not war crminals.

      • Brochettaward

        Her crime is outliving the real monsters. The Nazis orchestrating the Holocaust are long gone, running out of low level guards, so now it’s any participants.

        But she did participate. Actively in the deaths of thousands. Is the mistake now or then? Frankly, a lot more people probably should have been held to account for their actions.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        So did schlinder and his jewish secretary. They made lists to save jews but they also participated in using slave labor. The jewish councils gave names to the germans and those people were “resettled”. Everyone knew what that meant people nobody ever came back or wrote letters.

    • grrizzly

      How many employees at your old company did you instruct to wear a mask? You told us you were in a position of authority there. If there was a single person who felt–correctly or not–that you pushed him or her to wear a face mask then you are a collaborator.

      Sometimes it’s a good idea to get off your high horse.

      • hayeksplosives

        I instructed them to reject or accept the vaccine per their conscience. I told them I didn’t want to know their status because it’s none of my business.

        I handed out “Minimally Compliant Mask” brand masks to them and always offered for them to take off their masks when they entered my office.

        One of my guys refused the vaccine and wanted people to know he had refused it, so he wore a mask daily in accordance with corporate policy. Even though I’d gotten the vaccine, I resumed wearing the mask out of solidarity with him. Every day.

        Not sure what high horse I’m supposed to be on.

    • Not Adahn

      Maybe I’m raw because I have just read

      Yup.

      You just received a recent emotional stimulus, and you haven’t perceived and suffering on the part of the perpetrator. Therefore your vengeance response is activated.

    • slumbrew

      Yes, yes I do.

      • Brochettaward

        Who would have thought that Artie Lange would have outlived Norm?

      • slumbrew

        Not Artie, I’m sure.

    • Tres Cool

      what are you? New?

      Norm is a G_d

    • Hyperion

      I don’t know what it is. But no matter how hard I try, I cannot find Norm Macdonald funny at all.

      • straffinrun

        You’re saying the worst thing about Cosby was the hypocrisy?

      • Tres Cool

        It was the rape.

        I saw that, too.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        That was the best.

    • hayeksplosives

      Wow. What a bunch of tedious women.

      Norm was a giant.

  23. robodruid

    Good Evening guys, slighlt medicated, need some advice.
    I have seen a pre-publication template for religous exemptions.

    While I am a lapsed Roman Catholic, i am still Christian, still believe the bible was written by people who saw what they did and tried to understand what they saw.
    But i do have TOS Spock as a major component of my “deeply held beliefs” And I sometimes feel the spirituality of animals…Science, the scientific method, the questioioning of all assumptions….They are a fundamental part of my soul that makes me me. How to translate into govt. speak?

    Their possible questions:
    #1 Please describe the nature of your objection to the COVID-19 Vaccination

    #2 Would complying with the COVID-19 Vaccination requirement substantially burden your religious exercise? If so please explain how.

    #3 How long have you held the religous belief underlying your objection?

    #4Please describe whether as an adult you have received any vaccines against any other diseases (such as a flu vaccine or a tetanus vaccine) and, if so what vaccine you most recently received and when, to the best of your recollection.

    #5 If you do not have a religious objections to the use of all vaccines, please explain why your objection is limited to particular vaccines.

    #6 If there are any other medicines or products that you do not use because of the religious beliefs underlying your objection please identify them.

    #7 Please provide any additional information that you think may be helpful in reviewing you request.

    I think a good argument is not phase 3 trials and no control groups, no control groups means there is no science, only hope. Since there are calls for a 3rd shot the theory that says 2 should have worked is now proven false and not science.

    All of this is with the work or Trashie’s doc.

    Give me *and us some ideas

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Tell them to Fuck off and walk away, it’s hard, but I felt it was the right decision, YMMV,

    • Hyperion

      Fuck them. Give them your own template, which have been decreed as legit by your religion. If they disagree, their heretic asses deserve to die.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That is I am guessing what my template will ask when it comes out next week. Good luck

    • slumbrew

      #5 If you do not have a religious objections to the use of all vaccines, please explain why your objection is limited to particular vaccines.

      #6 If there are any other medicines or products that you do not use because of the religious beliefs underlying your objection please identify them.

      That seems to be a bit “clown nose on, clown nose off” – they want to hear your non-religious objections, then jump right “list your other religious objections”

      • robodruid

        Well, I figured thats when i would pivot to my religion of science, and one of the rules of science -Control groups- Since this vaccine doesnt have it and others do/did i think i have a logical way to bifuracte that.
        And saying that, I can say i dont use medicines /procedures that are not done by double blind tested methods. Holistic Medicine. (the stuff that’s diluted but retains its energy?(remember i am medicated right now….

      • slumbrew

        the stuff that’s diluted but retains its energy?

        Homeopathy.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I get what Yusef and Hype are saying but guy is trying to keep the job not stick a large middle finger up his bosses ass.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        You have already resigned yourself to losing your job, so go out with your diginity, fuck it,

      • robodruid

        I have to say, my current Boss has been best i have had.
        Is aware of our mission, knows the players, can talk the talk. Encourages us to do better. Promotes from within.

        I also get what Yusef and Hype are saying. Life would be difficult if i was fired. I am willing to jump through the hoops.
        Just want to make sure i succeed.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I admit, my Kids are full grown, the Wife has paseed away, I really have nothing to lose, I understand needing to to feed yourself, but I’m expendable.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        “I’m expendable.” Also makes me Dangerous,
        /Hello FBI!

      • Trigger Hippie

        “I’m expendable.”

        Hey, me too!

        https://youtu.be/GKkiCFOE-Ic

        From one disposable soul to another.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        YEP! I like Marylin,
        /You Betcha!

    • rhywun

      I’m disgusted at all the questions.

      I want to say “Mind your own business” when the time comes. I hope I can.

    • straffinrun

      Nothing screams freedom of religion more than having to prove it to a stranger.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Agreed and its for the litigation afterward. If I get canned but my buddy who makes the same argument doesn’t, it gives the FedGov lawyers pieces to dig through.

      • straffinrun

        Not gonna begrudge them for getting the exemption, but the argument itself is BS. I’m not religious and I still don’t wanna get the vax. I go to a designated church and suddenly that is ok?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I told db that since I am the person who will grant, after getting the overall recommendation to or not by our “tiger team”, I will accept any that present an argument in good faith. No religion needed. But that is me and I don’t think I have any employees that are requesting.

      • straffinrun

        Good. I belong to The Church of Latter Day Taints. Lick it Bootlickers.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Prepared to lose, but I will seek the exemption, but will not grovel. Here is my reasoning, it goes against my beliefs. I was baptized as a Presbyterian and the Presbyterian church that I identify with has come out against it as a congregation (that absolutely has no play into and they cannot say it does or elude to it), has provided me spiritual guidance and rooted my faith that at this time, I will not be receiving the vaccine.

      #1 See above

      #2 Yes, I would be going against my faith and good conscience by engaging in this.

      #3 This has no bearing on a religious accommodation

      #4 Again, this has no bearing on my request.

      #5 See #3 and #4. Each religious accommodation is for a specific event, not a blanket catch all.

      #6 They can’t ask this unless you are making a disability/medical accommodation request along with your religious.

      #7 While I do like Hypes/Yusefs response, By taking this vaccine I will be abandoning my faith that would be devastating to my morale, my way of life and my good conscience.

      They don’t give it, fine. Like I said, for FedGov, it really is going to have to be all or none are granted based on religious grounds because otherwise a manager in Salt Lake that has allowed them to be granted and another in LA that hasn’t, will be a spectacular shitshow of suing the government.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Its tough but freedom isnt free.

        Just so you know, the more people that ignore their employers about this issue, the harder it is for employers to go after resistant employees. There is strength in numbers. Make them fire you, then sue them for lost wages.

        Fight now or fight later. The choice is yours. This fight is not going away.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I Fight, Just Say’n

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Welcome to the club. It meets daily and the fighting never ends.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Tell them fuck off. Govt has not enumerated power to require americans to get any medical anything.

      If the genome therapy/vax is so great convince americans to get it. Commies in govt cant do that, so they have gone insane with tyranny.

    • hayeksplosives

      Wow. Their format is the definition of a loaded question. It’s meant to demean your deeply held religious beliefs . What dishonest MFers.

      1 Corinthians 6:19

      “ 19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

      The covid “vaccine” is not fully vetted. Why would you allow such an unknown into the temple of God? Wait and see if it does more good or more harm.

      Ecclesiasticus 8:9

      “ The end of a matter is better than its beginning; Patience of spirit is better than arrogance of spirit.”

      No rush; patience is a virtue.

  24. Ownbestenemy

    My first world problem tonight…Anaheim Ducks announcers are treating the game as a 3 hour talk show and not calling play by play. It’s annoying as fuck especially if I want to do something in the kitchen or something.

    Stop both being color men and do your job.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      /reason #111125695 I quit sports all together,

      • Ownbestenemy

        I’m fine with banter and when there is a lull in game play I get it.

        Whatever, Kings made up a three goal deficit to tie it up.

    • Hyperion

      Wait. You actually expect a so called professional expert to actually be skilled at their job?

      I’ve been able to 100% of the time call NFL foozball plays better than those experts for at leat 30 years now. And I’m not even trying. When did we start expecting incompetent fools to start knowing where their own ass is?

    • slumbrew

      It’s pre-season hockey. B-squad all around.

      • Ownbestenemy

        For some teams. Their announcers have always been trash but there is no excitement from them and it’s a pretty good paced game. I miss Bob Miller, one of the best to call the game.

      • slumbrew

        Different sport, but JFC is the local broadcast team unbelievably cringe-y when covering the Pats pre-season.

      • straffinrun

        Jesus Fried Chicken sounds delicious.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Is that a Mexican recipe? Anyway, off to play a dictator or kill one…note sure what the point of Far Cry 6 is.

  25. This Machine

    Found this post on my favorite contemporary sci-fi writer’s blog page today. It’s about the current climate hysteria but it serves just as well as an admonition against the current insanity that the IFS crowd is putting on full display:

    So, in this case, the fact that scientific debate is open to skepticism and welcomes skepticism is counted as common knowledge. You do not have to be a scientist to know as much as a highschool student knows about how science works. It works by observation and experiment, not by a show of hands of men in white coats declaring certain opinions to be heresy.

    Moreover, common knowledge holds that scientists welcome skeptical inquiry. However, when those who propose scientists to live up to the commonly accepted scientific standard, that is, to base conclusions on experimental evidence, not on shared group-prejudice, are literally called heretics and subjected to public humiliation to silence them, not to mention threats of criminal prosecution, at that point skepticism is not merely allowed, it is required.

    And perhaps most prescient:

    Moreover, no Green ever admits wrong or admits mistake. Once the last fraud fails to achieve panic, the Greens ignore it and move to the next. Imagine visiting a doctor who tells you, each visit, that you are about to die of a horrific and fatal disease unless you buy some expansive placebo and give the doctor ever more control of your life, exercise, diet, and psychological habits: and then he says the same thing again the next visit, but each time the lethal disease is different. How many years of doing this would you need to suffer before you realized that this doctor is a quack?

    No masks. One mask definitely. Now two masks. Back to no masks. Now one mask definitely. Two weeks and we’ll have this thing licked. Ope, back to lockdown. My mask protects you; your mask protects me (oh man, was that a devilish thing to do). Now you can be outside again. Oh, wait, wear a mask. Now don’t. Now get vaccinated. Do it again. Now your vaccine doesn’t work; blame the folks who didn’t get theirs (re: devilish). Don’t forget to get vaccinated! Now we’re having a lottery. Now we’re fed up. Comply. Obey. Trust the science.

    It is hard to pray for one’s enemies.

    • straffinrun

      No has ever died from giving up their freedoms.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I laughed, sadly,

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      NEVER! trust the “Science” that’s how science works, Hello…….

    • slumbrew

      Wright can write his ass off – haven’t read much of his stuff but “Awake in the Night Land” still haunts me.

      It’s a great point re: the parallels between “never wrong” AGW proponents and the current “never wrong” covid experts. The same motivation in both cases – ‘Obey.’

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Its the same people, doing the same thing. Sure, covid is a real disease, but the “cure” is way worse. And as Covid stops being effective, we will go back to being bombarded with Climate shit. I used to be global cooling, and before that SST’s were going to rip a hole in the ozone, Nuclear will destroy everything, too many people, and on and on and on.

        It’s just Malthus, fucker was as bad or worse than Marx.

  26. Tundra

    Sauce.

    Love it, Tulip!

      • slumbrew

        A live version of what’s probably their best jam

      • slumbrew

        That’s damn good. Thanks!

      • Tundra

        That whole album is interesting. The Avett Brothers were his band.

        Fixin’ To Die

      • slumbrew

        I’ll check it out, thanks!

      • Chafed

        You’ve gone soft. Where is MikeS when he’s needed?

      • Tundra

        Possibly.

        Not soft.

      • Chafed

        You are correct sir.

    • slumbrew

      Called the link before I clicked, which pleases me. That CD was on heavy rotation back in the day.

    • KSuellington

      You probably know this but I just discovered that this was originally The Kinks. Such a great cover that I’ve heard for years thinking it was an original.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C50mbaDDA0Y

      • Tundra

        I didn’t know.

        Thank you. This is sublime!

      • KSuellington

        Cheers guys. I’ve been on a Kinks kick and found that one. I’ve heard The Hydophonics version a hundred times or so. It’s fun when you find two versions of the same song that are both perfect in their way.

      • slumbrew

        Took me a while to realize that the best part of ‘2 Wicky’ was an Isaac Hayes sample

      • KSuellington

        Isaac Hayes just tearing it up. I didn’t know that one either. Great stuff.

      • slumbrew

        I can get lost in whosampled.com

        Issac Hayes: 1476 samples, 305 covers, 2 remixes

      • KSuellington

        My mind’s playing tricks on me.

      • Tundra

        Spicy!

        Isn’t it funny how we each find artists that spark something? G Love is so far outside my normal but I love his stuff.

      • slumbrew

        Ah, Polly Jean…

        *le sigh*

      • slumbrew

        That’s an incredible performance – just a guitar and her voice.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Amazing that it was almost 30 years ago.

      • KSuellington

        Jon Spencer did a couple albums and a tour with one of my favorite old bluesman. Just some fantastic stuff out of the 90’s.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CEWyHC-iAk

  27. straffinrun

    I’m gonna need to kick that recipe up a few Scovilles, but looks tasty, Tulip.

  28. Chafed

    Great article Tulip.

    • Chafed

      Virus gonna virus.

      /Alex Berenson

      • Akira

        The infuriating thing is that most Branch Covidians will handwave this away as “just one study” and continue to insist that Dr. Rand Paul shouldn’t be listened to because he’s “not an epidemiologist”. They do this in tandem with taking all their COVID info from politicians and media figures – e.g. people with little to no scientific training (sure, they have Fauci, but he’s been a career bureaucrat who basically sold out his M.D. title… Not to mention that his predictions have been so wrong and his statements so contradictory that nobody should trust him, doctor or not). “Following the science” is wholly unrelated to actual scientific findings. It’s about maintaining the narrative.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        The skeptics will be vindicated at some point. When that will be, I have no idea. /Thornton Mellon

      • Ownbestenemy

        What are you talking about? I just watched the Great Saint Fauci on his show and he is just a humble man trying to save just one life. If only people would have listened to him, AIDS would have…wait…COVID would have…nope not that either. He is a swell guy

  29. hayeksplosives

    Tulip, I think it was on your advice and the subsequent concurrence of Glibdom that the book “Fiery Ferments” was worthy. I duly purchased it for the household along with pepper seeds and a nice incubator tent.

    Unfortunately, January-February this year was when my husband’s serious health issues raised their ugly Hydra heads, so I abandoned the project.

    However, with going to the new house in the Nevada desert in a couple of weeks, I am keen to restart the project!!

    Your article above is inspirational. Thanks!!

    • Tulip

      I hope you enjoy it.

  30. Ownbestenemy

    Alright…this guy, Juan, in Far Cry 6 sounds like Strong Bad…*imdb*…nope not him..but damn does it sound like him.

  31. Ownbestenemy

    I will be down in SoCal in November and the only place I will be allowed to enter is a grocery store or a family member’s home. What a dystopian shithole.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      LA city? County?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I just lump it all in now. First part, LA County for parents then Orange county for a baby shower to give praise to myself as being the greatest great uncle ever to live.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I hear it applies only to La Ciudad.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We skirt it a bit when the niece and I go gallivanting about town. We will stay clear. I assume County is not far behind. Why not impose it on 10 million persons? Gotta get your vidgasm on sooner or later.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Didn’t the sheriff say he wouldn’t enforce it?

        Cheer up, it might never happen! (or not for some time?)

      • Ownbestenemy

        🙂 We wont care actually. Don’t want my cash fine.

    • grrizzly

      So, no real difference in the last 18 months. I wasn’t around during the single month without an indoors mask mandate in LA.

    • Gustave Lytton

      And then what. She’d just do her smirk and sidestep the question/assertion or ignore it. She has no shame or sense of personal honor. Most of them don’t.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Come to think of it, she might actually be a soulless ginger.

    • hayeksplosives

      Gives “circle back” a whole née meaning…

  32. hayeksplosives

    I’m trying to find things more interesting than tap water to encourage me to hydrate w/o containing acid or caffeine or blah blah blah.

    Today I sliced a cucumber and threw it into a big “sun tea” sized jar of water and put it in the fridge, just like I’ve seen in hotel lobbies and the like.

    I’ll be dipped; it’s really tasty and makes me come back for more! Who knew it was actually good?!?

    • Sean

      I don’t recall ever having fresh made cucumber water.

      Wait, that sounded weird…

      • hayeksplosives

        Try it! The first one is free….

    • Ghostpatzer

      Try a shrub. Neph dropped a short writeup on this a month or two ago, works well in about a four to one ratio with seltzer.

  33. Sean

    I am the king of capsaicin!

    I have enough in stock to kill you!

    Muahahahaha!

    ?

    Seriously, Tulip, if you want some super hots, hit me up. I might be able to still get you a package this season.

    Most of my stuff is already picked and in the freezer, but the plants are still producing for now.

    • Tulip

      Thanks Sean! I appreciate it, I may take you up on it, but would have to think about how to tame the heat. I don’t really go above habaneros.

      • Sean

        I don’t really go above habaneros.

        Yeah, these are a pretty big jump from there.

        The ghosts would be the next in line, but they’ve kinda given up.

        The two brain strains, peach reaper, and the chocolate bhutlahs are still going. But they all start at 1.5m SHUs or higher.

      • slumbrew

        Coming soon: Sean’s Original Artisanal Pepper Spray

  34. hayeksplosives

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10065275/Dave-Chappelle-sides-JK-Rowling-slams-trans-community-canceling-author.html

    During his sixth Netflix special, The Closer, Chappelle, 48, joked about Rowling’s 2019 argument that transgender women were not actually women and were a threat to her identity.

    Rowling, 56, received a slew of hate messages and death threats for her comments on sex and gender, with #RIPJKRowling trending on social media last year.

    She was labeled a TERF, a trans-exclusionary radical feminist, and Chappelle said he embraced the label.

    ‘I’m Team TERF. I agree. I agree, man. Gender is a fact,’ Chappelle.

    The world is insane.

    • Ghostpatzer

      “In a new ad campaign, survivors and one nurse hope to show people the potential consequences of not getting vaccinated. Most of the participants share their story of being on the brink of death and regretting not getting the vaccine.”

      Here’s your new ad campaign. Just needs a few minor tweaks.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness

      • UnCivilServant

        Were any of the testimonials from people who were made aware of and recieved early treatment?

      • Ghostpatzer

        You are very funny this morning, UCS.

      • Ghostpatzer

        “You get a kidney! And you get a kidney! And you… wait, not jabbed? Have a coffin!”

    • rhywun

      And they’re throwing a quarter billion at another goddamn propaganda push. JFC.

      Who the fuck is not “aware”?

  35. Tres Cool

    …where’s my beer ?

    TALL CANS™ !

    suh’ fam

    • hayeksplosives

      Not much of nothing is up around here.

      Now that I got my middle-of-the-night jibblies over, I’m going back to bed in hopes of a few more hours of sleep.

      Have a lovely day, everyone.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, homey!

      I no longer have any reason to follow the baseball postseason, so maybe I’ll get something useful done instead. ?

  36. UnCivilServant

    It seems my body has decided to collect on the sleep defecit from last week.

    I really didn’t want to drag myself out of bed this morning.

    • Gender Traitor

      Have you used the comp time from your evening work yet?

      • UnCivilServant

        Some, but I still have some for tomorrow. Today has too many high profile meetings to cut out early.

    • Ghostpatzer

      #metoo. Hit the hay at 9PM last night, was wiped out from a late Tuesday night coding frenzy.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Just hit up a coworker who has ADHD. There’s got to be one, they’ll be able to help you out.

      • UnCivilServant

        As far as I can tell, there are none.

  37. Ghostpatzer

    Mornin’,all

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, ‘patzie! Nice creepy new avatar! ?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Thanks! Halloween is right around the corner!

  38. robodruid

    Good Morning All.
    Soon the sun will come up, and it will be a wonderful day.
    Goal is to get one good thing done….

    • Ghostpatzer

      Mornin’!

      Soon the sun will come up

      If only. Haven’t seen the sun all week here

    • UnCivilServant

      You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

    • Festus

      Here’s an inconvenient truth, Sunshine – There is no such thing as a free lunch.

    • rhywun

      we would like to hear Republicans – and venal Democrats such as Joe Manchin — be specific about what they find repellent

      There are numerous articles out there for anyone to read. But this person is obviously on board with all of it so why bother?

    • Festus

      “But I want it Noooow!” he bleated.

  39. Festus

    Mornin’ All! Last night was funny if it weren’t so sad. They are trying to rehab the first aid room at one of my sites. It’s been used a storage area for nigh on two decades. It has a porcelain basin sink that apparently had water sitting at the bottom forever. They want it ready to go yesterday. The plumbing leaks and the bottom is so scaled that the best cleanser it my arsenal didn’t make much of a dent. Fucking cheap-skates need to replace the entire thing. I’ve got some acid based stuff that I hold in reserve but they will be sorely disappointed by the result. Fuck You, hire a plumber!

    • Ghostpatzer

      “First aid room”. That sounds like the last place I’d want to treat an open wound

      • Tres Cool

        Somewhat better than the “Last Aid” room, I suppose.

      • Festus

        The guy behind all of this is so anal that everyone thinks he’s an asshole. Seriously. I “clean” his office nightly and he has everything lined up on his desk like a drill sergeant for pens and pencils.

  40. Ghostpatzer

    The virus isn’t the only thing that is killing people. Who knew?

    https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/10/06/murder-rate-30percent-pandemic/2301633526041/

    “Emergency physicians are continuing to follow an increasingly worrisome upward trend in violence in the United States over the past year,” said Dr. Teresa Murray Amato, who wasn’t involved in the CDC report.

    “It is unclear what impact the pandemic has had on these trends and more research will need to be done to better understand why this is happening,” said Amato, who directs emergency medicine at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, in New York City.

    It’s a mystery, indeed.

    • Festus

      What was that one behavioral study called? Mouse Utopia or some such? This is like that.

    • Tres Cool

      “…and more research will need to be done to better understand why this is happening”

      Hah! I smell easy money. Who wants to help me write a grant proposal ?

      • Sean

        “How cocaine affects violence rates during the pandemic.”

        Or:

        “How tall cans affects cocaine use and violence rates during the pandemic.”

  41. Festus

    Called home last night at the appointed time and my poor Judi was in tears about the forced vax. I am filled with impotent rage. I talk a good game but she’s the one attending rallies. If she wants to keep her job it’s jab or walky. Not cool. Not cool at all.

    • Ghostpatzer

      *sigh*. Hang in there, Festus.

      • Festus

        Thanks, guys. It’s going to get much worse before it ever gets better.

    • Sean

      Sorry Festus. That sucks.

    • Festus

      I’m trademarking “Jab or walky”.

      • Ghostpatzer

        +1 Lewis Carroll