There really seems to be no end to the hilarity here in our little liberal arts college town. My greatest challenge is Looking Serious and Concerned, and not falling over convulsed in laughter. One of the girls (I think that’s her gender this week) working at our shop, an Art History graduate, was having a panicked discussion with our “You can’t talk about chromosomes!” girl. The topic: a house on the main drag, subdivided into student apartments (which describes 90% of the houses on the main drag). The girls were in a lather once again because the boys who live there are murderous bigots. I’ve heard them fretting about this before, but I really did need to fill in some details, so started asking questions.
ME: Have you met any of them?
GIRLS: No, absolutely not!
ME: Do you know any of them?
GIRLS: Fuck, no! These are not the kind of people we would ever talk to!
ME: I have never heard of a murder or a mugging here.
GIRLS: They’re planning violence. Right now, they’re probably talking about beating up queers!
ME: What makes you believe that?
GIRLS: (looking at me like I’m an oblivious moron) Have you SEEN that house????
ME: Yes… looks like some college kids who spend a lot of time out front grilling burgers and hanging out.
GIRLS: There’s a Gadsden Flag! There’s an American flag! There’s Tiki torches! You know what THAT means!
ME: They like a cheap source of light when they’re outside grilling?
GIRLS: (in unison) CHARLOTTESVILLE! RACIST SYMBOLS! (look at each other with that ‘Grandpa is sooooo ignorant and hateful!’ look)
ME: (tries hard not to laugh hysterically, taps out of conversation)
Seriously, I can’t believe the wonderful comedy I get every day for free.
You know what else is free? Yep, birthdays. And today’s include a woman who could keep up with the Joneses; the other female lead in The Devil and Miss Jones; the William Henry Harrison of popes; a guy who invented the most iconic character of the 20th century; a guy who was a step ahead of Joe DiMaggio; a guy who was the perfect “moody and sensitive” gay stereotype; a guy who, like Fred Willard, managed to transcend his material and always be funny; an incredible guitarist who was patient and helpful with questions from an untalented teenage me; a holy gimmick act; the Patron Saint of Butte, Montana; a ridiculously talented and versatile musician and actor; Jeff Garlin’s spirit animal; the most insightful and brilliant comedian of my lifetime; the most insightful and brilliant film and TV auteur and voice actor of my lifetime; and a big fan of the New York subway system.
Let’s do our Links before the queer-beatings commence.
Man, they are truly determined to fuck up royally. With our money, of course.
Man, they are truly determined to… well, you know.
First, I checked to see if the dateline was April 1. It wasn’t. WTF.
Haven’t done one of these in a while.
Leave the profiteering on this to the news professionals, boys.
Old Guy Music is on theme from yesterday- Jewish electric guitarists, this time featuring a birthday boy of whom I have fond memories. Oh and a guy who played piano OK.
I don’t know how you put up with that foolishness.
I wouldn’t last 1 day in that environment.
I don’t understand why they don’t turn on OMWC.
Must be the “free” candy he hands out.
Yeah, I’m wondering if they have any idea who he entertains in his spare time on weekend mornings.
One suspects he very much wants to keep things that way.
BTW, thanks for the tales from Progtopia, OM.
Ayo. I think it would stop being funny very quickly.
It is endlessly amusing. I just stopped getting worked up about other people’s silliness many years ago.
That’s so insane, I need a recording of it to believe it. Are you in a single-party consent state?
I’m almost glad my son doesn’t talk to girls.
Oh man, can you imagine being a guy and that’s your dating pool?
Imagine meeting their… mothers.
*shudders*
Their mothers might be normal.
No… imagine meeting their professors.
As the British blogger David Thompson likes to call such people, “severely educated”.
If nineteenth century novels and Pink Floyd songs are any indication, British education could be pretty severe.
Their mother’s might be the new normal. As in divorced with no father in the picture. Maybe OMWC can subtly inquire.
But yes, their professors are probably even worse.
“Art History grad”
Looks like she’s already peaked out, OM. She’s lucky to have found a good job and can begin to start paying off her student loans.
My mother has a degree in Art History. That used to be referred to as a MrS. Degree.
I’m surprised after mentioning the tiki torches, they didn’t go full Biden and say how the front yard boys had “neck veins bulging with hate”.
While I’m surrounded by students, here in America’s Schoolhouse, at least there are budding engineers, scientists and business majors to balance out the women’s studies lunatics.
Small liberal arts college towns are their own special place.
Which puzzles me – what are Ag/Tech [male] students doing in those parts OMWC?
There’s two big colleges here, a state ag/tech and a private liberal arts. The contrasts are… entertaining.
As yes, producing a useful education in one place and consuming wealth in the other.
Maybe they can vaccinate all these extra dollars, which will then die of blood clots, thus solving inflation.
“Today we face an economy in transition, and as part of the transition we are seeing higher pieces for some of the things people have to buy,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said in an interview with ABC News.
“That’s exactly why the president was focused in the American Rescue Plan in ensuring on getting stimulus into the hands of the American people, so they’d be able to buy the products they need,” he said.
The solution for the Treasury Department, however, is not monetary, but medical.
“But the reality is the only way we’re going to get to a place where we work through this transition is if everyone in America and everyone around the world gets vaccinated,” he said.
Apparently you don’t have to know anything about economics to be a “Treasury official”. That’s encouraging.
I’m not a big Scott Adams fan, but he was right on when he described an Expert as, “…someone assigned to an Expert’s job. No other qualifications are necessary.”
Scott is a deep well of confirmation bias, condescension, and statistical misinterpretation along with the occasional very good insight. On the whole I’m not really sure what to think of the guy.
Safe and interesting to listen to.
Read and reflect, taste and see, and sort the wheat from the chaff.
Some of his pronouncements are garbage but others are nuggets of wisdom.
He is hit or miss but I think part of that is his persuasion schtick. I believe he aims to infuriate his audience in order to motivate them to shore up their own arguments for their positions at times.
“…confirmation bias, condescension, and statistical misinterpretation along with the occasional very good insight.”
That’s why I don’t like him. He reminds me too much of myself.
My dad taught me, long, long ago that an ex- is a has been and a -spurt is a drip.
*gales of laughter*
“Never” it is, then.
Why in the actual fuck are so very many, thousands upon thousands, obsessed with getting everyone Covid “vaccinated”???
It really makes me want to grab some tinfoil.
Is there something in there other than marginally helpful proteins and MRNA mods? Are they trying to chip us??
You take the average person and strip them of conventional religious belief, they aren’t magically transformed; they just affix themselves to some substitute set of beliefs. These people really believe that bureaucrats are priests and government is god.
Ignorance, groupthink, and a feeling of smug moral and intellectual superiority…that’s all that’s needed.
OK Stinky said it even better than I did.
[passes ceremonial roll of aluminum foil to HE]
TMITE is trying to tarnish that NBA player who quit over this issue with that theory, in contrast to the player’s actual stated reasoning.
But really, is it any more ridiculous that what they are actually doing?
Sometimes, when I order a new entree at a restaurant, and it turns out to be awful, I feel the compulsion to have my wife try it. That way, I am not lonely in my unhappiness.
There might be something to this.
“Tell me that don’t stank!”
Also, I’ve noticed an unfortunate tendency of newly divorced women to try to convince their female friends that they too should get divorced.
Bitches be crazy, yo. That’s why I prefer to hang out with dudes.
Inorite??? ::fistbump::
Mythical present company excepted.
Misery loves company I guess. I know someone whose wife left him with the kids while she shacked up with some dude and hung out late at night with the “girls”. Apparently she also got an endometrial ablation, so she could be more readily DTF. Fun times didn’t last too long (about a year) as her parents were not happy with her middle-aged shenanigans, and boy-toy became a financial burden. Not to mention, the “girls” didn’t really want to hang out with an “old” lady.
He took her back. Now he’s working overtime to pay for “her” pool.
He took her back.
Oof. Methinks she didn’t learn her lesson.
☝️This too: Misery loves company. It used to be that people who took that too far we’re ostracized though, now they seem to hold the cards.
The vaccine is just the shiny object. What they really want is instant unthinking obedience.
You know why, it’s frightening, but true,
If everyone takes the sacrament, everyone is in God’s eyes.
Or sumsuch.
You – are not of the body.
Can you say Collective Action Problem?
I knew you could!
Here’s what fully vaccinated (and then some) gets you.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/
These are mostly vaccinated people, right?
a holy gimmick act;
Just don’t talk about what happened to her after the events in the movie.
“ People at my record company think that two women who live together must be lesbians. They assert even that nuns in convents are in love. I deny these rumors as I testify against every creepy spirit. The answer is still obvious that I am not homosexual. I am loyal and faithful to Annie, but that is a whole other love in the Lord. Anyone who cannot understand this can go to the devil!”
They’re planning violence. Right now, they’re probably talking about beating up queers!
Being an enlightened and caring progressive means always assuming the worst about other people.
How else can you keep up a steady supply of victim cred?
Progjection!
The teen girl tic thing is an actual phenomenon. Girls, teen girls in particular, are very susceptible to social contagion. It’s why you allow two anorexics in treatment to speak to each other and house them at opposite ends of the hospital. Girls can and will share physical manifestations of mental/emotional disorders.
It also explains a lot of the transgender craze among the same.
That was my immediate thought and I noticed that the WSJ didn’t make that obvious leap.
why you don’t allow
need more covfefe
Why would anyone, especially young girls, cultivate ticks? That’s best left to the science people.
They get ticks so the rest of us will flea.
That pun is so Lyme!
It explains the tic of wearing a toque.
You won’t be laughing so hard when those tiki torches are found at the scene of a bunch beat-up queers.
Six months later, there will be a small item on one of the back pages of the newspaper that the beating was a hoax perpetrated by the supposed victims.
Those things aren’t cheap. Never leave them behind!
the other female lead in The Devil and Miss Jones;
Georgina Spelvin?
I was thinking it was Him
https://powerpuffgirls.fandom.com/wiki/HIM
Not Him?
“Shekel Surplus” is the name of my new album.
Thanks, OMWC.
Your links are the one constant in an ever-changing universe.
I will pour one out for Norm tonight.
If you get even one laugh out of them, my work is done.
Honestly, your whack-a-doodle college kid quips strike me like an evangelist relaying stories of the demonic possession of our youth. I’m not sure if I’m one of the faithful or just a mark.
These stories make me laugh, and then they make me deeply worried about the future.
Same here. I chuckle and roll my eyes and then it dawns on me, “shit, these people will be in charge one day…”
Reminds me of my senior citizen friends and the vaccine.
Consider it done then ✅
Garbage in, garbage out
Under current worldwide commitments, global emissions are expected to rise by about 16% in 2030, compared to 2010. That would put the planet on track for more than 4 degrees Fahrenheit of warming by 2100.
At that point, rising sea levels would inundate coastlines, extreme heat waves would be significantly more common and more intense floods and droughts would potentially displace tens of millions of people.
Current talking point:
Joe Manchin is the bought-and-paid-for lackey of Big Carbon Pollution. He personally will kill billions by derailing President Climate Change’s global warming plan.
“He personally will kill billions by derailing President Climate Change’s global warming plan.”
Stop trying to make me like him.
Current talking point is that he has personal holdings in the industry (never specified what or how much, of course), so he should have no say.
Now do all the former FDA people working for pharmaceutical companies.
“Why did Obama buy a beachfront mansion?”
He is so going to make those insurance companies pay
I seem to recall something about a Gubmint program that takes care of beachfront disasters for the rich and wealthy. I can’t remember who did the “news” piece on it.
Stossel.
Ah yes, the ‘Stache. Thanks.
I thought “current worldwide commitments” (LOL) were going to heal the Earth by 2050 or whatever. Did Paris not happen??
Are there any vacancies at Hick House? Asking for a friend.
I walk by it every day coming home from the café. They actually seem like very fun and nice kids, students at the AgTech school, who are getting a laugh at the ease of trolling the liberal arts types.
So they will one day be producing the food that their detractors will be eating.
Norm goes to an Adell concert – https://youtu.be/bOo_SbQmoaQ
From the dead thread, my wireless clickity clack keyboard for feeling like I’m accomplishing something when I am on a tech writing tear:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07CNGSWTL?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
Ooh… that’s pretty. I recently went with an ASUS model and am very, very happy with it. https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Falchion-Wireless-Mechanical-Interactive/dp/B09BTFVRMR/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=asus+wireless+keyboard&qid=1634474210&s=electronics&sr=1-5
Both of those are purdy. I am in the market (soon) for a mechanical keyboard.
This one currently tops my list of candidates.
Don’t really need wireless and I want the full set of keys.
That is cool. I went for indestructible and clicky with a Logitech K480. Having difficulty adding links today or I would provide. It’s vaguely retro and you can drive a nail i to a board with it.
Some day, one of those girls will be sitting on the side of the road in a cold, cold rain wishing she knew somebody who could change a tire…
+1 Robbie!
Ychanging tires is toxic masculinity!
We need government programs to send squads of gender neutral tire changers out over the nation’s highways to prevent MEN from helping!!
(Yesterday as we crossed from East California to Nevada, there were areas of no-shit zero mobile phone coverage. I reckon the she-beasts from OMWC’s tale would have died from anxiety.)
“Right now, they’re probably talking about beating up queers!”
Fever dreams.
They have their eye on you.
I bet if one of those bros started chatting up one of woke girls, she’d be giddy about it.
Giddy, and frightened that someone saw her.
The love that dare not speak its name!
PCU was a documentary
No doubt, but the second she was back alone with her girl friends, she would savage you.
Norm’s joke about Janice might be my favorite from him. https://youtu.be/QYvVMmV7khM
For me, the Moth joke.
Yeah that one is worth the investment.
Frog goes into a bank to get a loan came across my YouTube recommendations this week. It made me laugh.
https://youtu.be/MNp4imCLTP4
“Grandpa, what’s a glibertarian?”
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3867598/hooters-uniform-fury-skimpy-short-shorts-x-rated/
It is a shame they are forced to work there.
The outrage is fake. Free publicity. They know they look good, and love it. I call BS.
*grins*
Whoever’s running that outfit doesn’t give two fucks and I like it. We need more of this.
If breasts don’t get asses in the seats anymore assfloss and the cameltoe are good alternatives.
Big tits is a Gen X thing. Doomers and Zoomers are more into ass. They’re just keeping up with the times.
changing tires is toxic masculinity!
Morlocks have their uses.
“They’re planning violence. Right now, they’re probably talking about beating up queers!”
I witnessed her cavorting with the Devil under the light of the full moon. Hysterical accusations are dangerous.
The analogy is quite apt.
The funny part is they would think cavorting with the Devil under the light of the full moon was totes cool.
I have to brag on my cat. He was so good on the 5+ hour drive yesterday and the living in a hotel for the past 3 days in Cali, being in a hotel now ( through Monday I predict).
When I got up to pee an hour ago, he followed me to the hotel room bathroom and got in his litter box to do his thing. He looked earnestly into my eyes like a dog does when pooping with that “You got me, right?” stare.
Now his only problem is that he can’t decide which of the Queen beds to occupy, mine or the spouse’s.
He’s a weird kitty. Especially for a Yorkie…
We drove cross-country long ago with my wife’s (girlfriend then) damn cat. Spent one morning chasing the stupid thing around a hotel parking lot in North Texas.
My grandma drove the last surviving member of her brood of seven that remember when I was little back and forth between FL and NY a couple times.
That cat was the meanest SOB I have ever encountered. I was terrified of it.
I can’t imagine those trips were very pleasant at all.
Got a call from my boss last night. He’s a good guy and clearly reluctant, but he had ask if I was vaccinated.
Since I said “no”, I have to get anything I need out of my desk tomorrow and as of Tuesday I will be a remote employee for the foreseeable future (until OSHA gives them the legal cover to fire me).
In related news, my house goes on the market this week.
Sorry to hear that. Unless you want to work from home. But if you are selling your home, then I guess you don’t want to work from there.
I think you made the right decision, though, concerning the vaccine.
Sorry to hear it. You going to relocate to a friendlier state?
Yes. May rent in NJ or PA for 1 year. My wife has not gotten that call yet.
And I’ll work remotely as long as they keep paying me, but I think I’m on borrowed time.
Get thee to the South then (but be careful there too).
Texas or Florida seem to be the preferred destinations. If you are from the New York area, then you might like Florida better, since so many New Yorkers have already moved there—I lived in Tampa/St. Pete for a while, and half my fellow employees were from NY, the other half from Cuba. Hyperbolically speaking, of course.
If you are interested in political fights, Tracy Beanz is working against the Republican Establishment in South Carolina, and is having some success.
There is also West Virginia. They are paying workers $12,000 to move there
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/get-paid-12000-to-move-to-west-virginia/
Sorry to hear about your employer’s policy. Good on the house sale, may you quickly find a buyer with deep pockets and an inexplicable desire to move TO New Jersey.
I’m dreading this too. My wife, however, is all in on covid theater. It’s caused quite a few arguments. Not sure if moving out of Massholia is an option since she is only licensed to work here, and her family is a great support system for our 1 year old.
Set up a mailing address in Montana, where vax mandates are illegal. Then, as long as there isn’t a fed mandate, you are in Catch22 territory.
If they are gonna play bs games, win bs games.
I think Kayla needs to wash her feet.
The HORROR
There’s a space between that 0.1 percent and the 90 percent that’s often overlooked: the 9.9 percent that resides between them. They’re the group in focus in a new book by philosopher Matthew Stewart (no relation), The 9.9 percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture.
There are some defining characteristics of today’s American upper-middle class, per Stewart’s telling. They are hyper-focused on getting their kids into great schools and themselves into great jobs, at which they’re willing to work super-long hours. They want to live in great neighborhoods, even if that means keeping others out, and will pay what it takes to ensure their families’ fitness and health. They believe in meritocracy, that they’ve gained their positions in society by talent and hard work. They believe in markets. They’re rich, but they don’t feel like it — they’re always looking at someone else who’s richer.
Those aspirational monsters, stealing all the pie from the deserving poor.
*As far as meritocracy goes, comments from “experts” like the aforementioned Treasury official and the vast Public Health Quack Army lead me to believe they have a handle on it. Meritocracy, in any meaningful sense of the word, is a thing of the past.
Does he talk about the movement between “classes”? Does he talk about the proverbial bootstrapper who starts out in his dad’s garage?
The poor want to be poor. That’s why the Democrats do everything to keep them poor.
Gah, do you even politics?
I came from a poor family. I didn’t like it.
Ditto.
The author clearly believes that she won’t be one of the serfs when her favored form of government finally takes over. Honey, I’ve got some bad news for you…
Fuck these power-hungry Marxist shitstains.
>>They want to live in great neighborhoods, even if that means keeping others out, and will pay what it takes to ensure their families’ fitness and health.
I live in a great neighborhood – and yes I want to keep poor people out of it. Imagine that!
And the taxes here have that effect.
They hate us, our culture, and our values. Anybody who espouses or embraces this kind of bullshit hates you and will gladly support your demise.
It’s time for us to start acting like we’re confronting an existential threat because we are.
Merit has been displaced by credentialism.
Ugh.
In any case, from what I can see, getting into a top-tier college may get one good connections, but very little useful education.
I am talking liberal arts eduction, not STEM
Yup. Although a traditional liberal arts education with an emphasis on philosophy, classical literature, and mathematics is actually quite useful. What passes for liberal arts these days is another story.
^^^This. I used to donate to Phi Beta Kappa as a supporter of “the liberal arts”. As I saw it, that included logic, rhetoric, classical literature and philosophy. Now it’s all PoMo social justice gobbeldy gook that actively discourages critical thinking and logic. I stopped donating 10 years ago.
Does he talk about the movement between “classes”? Does he talk about the proverbial bootstrapper who starts out in his dad’s garage?
That was as far as I made it.
Something tells me no. As far as bootstrappers go, that would just be more aspirational treachery and deceit; searching for new ways to separate others from their meager wealth.
PSA: The Decades channel is running a Wonder Woman marathon.
Mornin’. Pretty fair piano player there, indeed.
Birthday boy John Rocker would be a big hit with your students.
“Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you’re riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It’s depressing.”
Not much has changed.
I doubt John Rocker has ever taken the 7 train in his life.
Anyone who is familiar with NYC subways would know that the 7 train is one of the more civilized rides. The J and L are much more interesting.
The L has been gentrified all the way out to Bushwick now.
But yeah, the farther reaches of the J… oof. I’ve never even ventured out that way.
Seriously, there is a house at the opposite end of Alfred from the Hick House, full of freedom loving whack job liberals. OMWC and I agreed that we wanted to party with both groups.
I miss real hippies…
I don’t “miss” them but I wouldn’t hesitate to party with them.
And here I though you were one of the glibs who could shoot properly
I though you two were too old to party
I’m damned good for about two hours.
Hahaha, okay, I thought that sounded familiar. There used to be the upstate NY regional burn (PortalBurn) right near there, off McHenry Valley Rd. Damn!
Sexy redheads on Slutty Sunday will arouse your female penis.
https://archive.is/rvo6W
And real ones! hell yes!
I dont see numbers by the pics anymore so I can objectify them in the comments and I aint counting
but this is a solid list I see nothing to ewww
“Frustration at the administration’s continuation of Trump-era immigration policies is bubbling over.”
So the reason we’re about to hit an all time record for illegal border crossings is because he’s continuing policies that reduced border crossings drastically?
I haz confuze.
I think what they actually mean is Biden hasn’t implemented their complete wish-list; amnesty, more hand-outs, etc.
The article mentions that “Remain in Mexico” might be coming back which makes me LOL.
I wonder how many other DAY ONE reversals of Trump policy are going to be quietly walked back.
Yeah, I posted something on FB to troll my liberal friends about Biden re-implementing Trump’s stay in Mexico policy asking if they were going to cry racism again.
What they really want to do is shirk responsibility and shift blame
The fight over vaccine mandates between the White House and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is putting businesses in the middle. But many are picking the White House’s preferred policy.
American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, which are both based in the Lone Star State, say they will defy Abbott’s order that no business in the state can impose a vaccine mandate on employees or customers and comply with President Biden’s mandate that all companies with at least 100 employees require vaccines or weekly testing for employees.
Other companies based in Texas have already imposed vaccine mandates and have given no indication they will change their positions in the wake of Abbott’s executive order.
Witold Henisz, the Deloitte & Touche professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, said the conflicting orders are a “hassle.” He also said that most big corporations favor vaccine mandates, since it makes it easier for them to do business. That will put them on the side of Biden and against Abbott, even if they avoid advertising a political stance.
“The large companies — the airlines, the big retailers — they want to get to the point where it’s safe for their employees to come in. So they’re overall happy with the mandate, and this political appeal from Abbott is the last thing they wanted. It’s a hassle for them,” Henisz said.
Sure. They just want cover to say, “We’re only following orders.”
“Southwest Airlines”
Funny how that mandate caused a spate of bad weather.
Yeah, bullshit.
Is Biden’s mandate real, yet? Is it anything more than a proposal?
There is a real one for fed workers. The rest is fever dreams.
“sick trolls have taken it upon themselves to dress up as Brian Laundrie for the holiday”
How DARE they have a sense of humor! Get a *real* halloween costume like these folks.
https://archive.is/U5Bl9/d102e8c94795415499d765244754efc7770b6719.jpg
A new Marxism-Leninism-Maoism reading group has recently been established in Belfast, Occupied Ireland.
Activists have begun studying the MLM Basic Course written by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
If you are based in Belfast and would like to study and analyse the third and highest stage of Marxism; Maoism get in touch with us today!
https://twitter.com/MaoismIreland/status/1449699757811699719
Everyone knows hoxhaism is the highest stage
Come for the camaraderie, stay for the famines and the mass executions!
Eh, it’s Northern Ireland. They will just kneecap you and drink a sixer.
What was Pol Pot?
Now there is something for the menu at the café OMWC – Pol Pot Pie.
Is that the one that has no chicken, but chicken bones instead?
It’s an empty dish followed by a bullet to the brain.
That’s the Diet Pol Pot Pie.
Adam Corolla and Ben Shapiro (I know, I know; about 5 min) discuss the lost art of risk evaluation vis a vis the vax:
https://youtu.be/9t70dKEnSvA
Huh, a reasonable discussion. What a breath of fresh air.
After a week of constant rain it is becoming a beautiful October afternoon 14 C And dry.
/
So what is everyone drinking? Red wine I hope as beer season is over
I am having a glass of
https://www.vivino.com/tramier-l-and-fils-la-minee-bourgogne-pinot-noir/w/1222866?year=2014
I’m guzzling diet pop to stay awake after another long night.
have a scotch and go to sleep. it is sunday.
Sounds good.
When will you be over to babysit?
teach the kid some self sufficiency
Tonight, likely a local Saperavi.
beer season is over
Lager season may be over, but we are moving into porter time.
it’s till covfefe over here, then we get to the
Tall Cans!
/Porter time mmmmmmm
Sounds awesome. I am going to go outside and have my coffee. I like it black and bitter like my heart. There is a light breeze and 18C.
Right now? The last of the coffee.
Last night I went full hick, and drank a large Wendy’s lemonade topped up with a generous helping of Rittenhouse 100-proof bonded rye. Hence the coffee this morning…
What sad and deprived world do you live in?
https://www.winedeals.com/petulante-pet-nat-white-2020-750-ml-95667.html
I opened that last night for dinner (sushi)
apparently greed causes inflation
https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1449585521831858176
Soviets nostalgic for bread lines?
LOLOLOLOL
think of the community
I am sure mom misses sleeping in the car in line for the gas station
Sweet Jesus, that’s a Pope quote? Just damn…
They don’t call him Commie Pope for nothing.
Well greedy little shits sitting on their lazy asses getting government money handed to them did have some effect on inflation.
“Alec, you ignorant slut!”
Who could possibly have seen this coming?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16442733/open-relationship-fears-girlfriend/
Priti Patel threatens to fine social media firms if they keep refusing to allow security services access to encrypted messages: “Tech companies cannot carry on hiding behind the facade of protection of privacy. It is unacceptable”.
https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1449672820057944064
She really is a piece of work.
Is this related to the MP who got murdered?
I suppose that is one more thing that is going to be exploited as justification for growing the surveillance state, yes.
Welp, first ‘Splosives and now me. Tonight is the last night we will spend in this house. Unlike ‘Splosives, we have been afforded the luxury of moving a little bit at a time. We won’t be done by the time the movers get here tomorrow morning for the heavy stuff, but most of it will. XY has been remarkably cheerful and enthusiastic about his helpingness. He said (post my surgery), “I don’t want you to pack or move, Mom.”
Sadly, our truck is in the shop. Happily, UHaul is cheap.
hide a bottle of scotch cat somewhere before you leave as a surprise for the next people
Oh thank you for reminding me I need to get cash for tips for the movers tomorrow.
Good to hear things are moving forward Mo, bummer aboot the truck, right when you need it,
RE: The woke-ettes at the cafe.
https://www.glamour.com/story/hooking-up-with-trump-voters-essay
The pussy wants what the pussy wants.
That is hilarious.
I much prefer corn tortillas
Corn tortillas for tacos, flour for burritos. There is no debate about this.
There is no debate because corn tortillas will tear if you try to make a burrito out of them. ?
That’s a lot of words to say “soy boys don’t do it for me”.
Yeah, she basically just wrote an ad for alpha-maledom!
Deidre spreading lies.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16442605/girlfriend-ex-well-endowed-insecure/
tell the girlfriend your ex had bigger tits nicer ass and a tighter pussy,, and gave much better head so she feels equally insecure
No.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/onlyfans-model-who-sells-orgasm-25215015
Why I won’t comply part #1238435209
“Established in 1990, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national early warning system to detect possible safety problems in U.S.-licensed vaccines,” says its government website. As of October 1, 2021, VAERS has reported 16,310 deaths after COVID shots so far — with 5,326 (33 percent) occurring on Day 0, 1, or 2 after vaccination — and 778,685 total adverse events.”
https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/14/the-worst-is-yet-to-come-from-bidens-vaccine-coercion/
It’s funny, now that I’m double jabbed and we know the jabs are more harmful than good for most people, my wife hasn’t said a word about my son getting his.
More Sara Bellum cosplay from NDK shot
https://twitter.com/KhainsawCosplay/status/1448746508061339661
Halloween decor seems to be trending toward skeletons doing interesting things in the yard. I just passed a house with a skeleton posed as if running. Behind him (or her) is a skeleton driving a lawn mower, and running over another skeleton. Behind the lawnmower is strewn various bones. At the end of the line is a skeleton with a rake, to gather up the bones.
Another house changes its skeletons. The first one was several skeletons posed as if golfing, with bags and clubs, and a little skeleton dog beside them. Yesterday, they were instead gathered around the pieces of a bike, apparently trying to put it together, while another skeleton sat in a chair, pointing at the others, it’s head thrown back and it’s mouth wide open, as if laughing derisively.
Fried green tomatoes. They taste like eggplant tempura
https://twitter.com/jaspergregory/status/1449423110218805250
never fried green tomatoes myself maybe I should try sometimes
Fried green tomatoes taste like batter fried unripe tomatoes. Which is mostly an excuse to eat something batter fried. It is still infinitely better than anything to do with eggplant.
I prefer fried red tomatoes, particularly Creole tomatoes when they’re in season.
A fresh Fall of Civilizations about the Assyrians:
https://youtu.be/jpAphcaVJIs
Very long and very good, what I’ve watched so far at least. The best history docs on the interwebz IMHO.
Someone spotted it Saturday, but Paul Cooper is awesome, but the Best? Dan Carlin might have a say in this….
Maybe the best with a video accompaniment? I like Carlin too but I always listen to him in podcast form.
Agreed on the video, and I find I have to get ready to listen to Carlin, he keeps me very occupied once he gets going.
3 hours? aint nobody got time
I like to listen when I do monotonous stuff like painting walls.
They’re planning violence. Right now, they’re probably talking about beating up queers!
One day, these gals might find out the truth about dudebros.
Or maybe not. Smug ignorance certainly has an appeal to some.
Thank you for enacting my labor – that was precisely what I was thinking about.
U.S Immigration – Foil Arms and Hog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjab8fanzHc
All three of my kids are vaccinated, and are doing the full court press to get me jabbed too. A conversation with my son yesterday (edited for brevity and clarity):
Him: If I visit you and get COVID, they’ll shut down my workplace.
Me: I just got tested for ACL Fest. Don’t have it. Pretty sure I had it back in early 2020, so I probably have natural immunity. I don’t have any comorbidities. And you’re vaccinated, so you’re safe anyway, right?
Him: It’s about public health!
Me: Which part of the public are you worried about? Cause it ain’t us.
Him: Follow the science, you unclean heathen!
My sister is a mild covidiot, but I love her and do my best not to ever talk with her about it. I’m an engineer, she’s not a techie in any way other than knowing computers pretty well, so she knows better than to attempt to lecture me about “science;” so we just don’t have that particular disagreement (openly, at least).
I attended a wedding and reception last night, which was held in a barn on the campus of a local university. The restrooms were in a nearby college dining hall. I know this is basically the least unexpected thing anymore, but the little basket of personal toiletries in the men’s restroom included tampons and panty liners. It was a little odd to see that–it’s the first time I’ve seen such a thing in a men’s restroom.
The odd thing is that there were three bathrooms, labeled Women, Men, and “All-Gender” but they still put tampons in the men’s restroom.
*expedites home search in the middle of nowhere*
Hey, you never know when you might need to stop a nosebleed…
It’s about public health!
The Health of the State =/= Public Health
they still put tampons in the men’s restroom.
Bottom line- the line for the men’s room is usually shorter.
Guilty.
Pelosi calling it quits?
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/maria-bartiromo-pelosi-planning-on-stepping-down/