The culture war took an…entertaining turn this week.
This is my review of Energy City Brewing Bâtisserie Smores Stout:
First it started with a vulgar chant that began at college football games, then turned into a euphamism. TW: Salon, but this one is chock full of yummy tears.
Then Bryson Gray made a song. Sure it was a rap song and I can’t link to it because its a rap song, and YouTube is racist. Wait, that can’t be the right reason. Look, its not on YouTube because they banned it over medical misinformation. The problem of course is that it’s impossible to hear it on the radio because it’s technically vulgar and no mainstream outlet is going to cover the story. Surely there’s a way we can find out if the song made a splash?
There sure is. Turns out you can still download it on iTunes. So many people downloaded it, it took the number 1 spot from Adele. You know the British artist that lost a ridiculous amount of weight. Seriously though, good for her! Of course it prompted this humorous hot take:
Meantime, “Easy On Me” was knocked off its perch at number 1 on iTunes after 10 straight days. The temporary displacer is a moronic single called “Let’s Go Brandon!” by Bryson Gray Tyson, an anti-Biden record for anti-vaxxers. Idiots are pushing this piece of crap up the iTunes chart, but no one in their right mind would spend money on it. It’s not a song, or a record, it’s just garbage.
Adele will be back at number 1 by tomorrow.
Nope. As Yogi Berra is often credited with saying, “making predictions is hard, especially about the future.” A day later this guy was proven even more wrong:
In what may be a musical first, two different rap anthems with the same name — “Let’s Go Brandon” — held the No. 1 and No. 2 spots Monday on the iTunes top 10.
“Let’s Go Brandon” by Bryson Gray featuring Tyson James and Chandler Crump topped the charts, one spot ahead of “Lets Go Brandon” without the apostrophe by Loza Alexander, pushing British superstar Adele’s “Easy On Me” to third place.
I assume some level of confusion was involved in downloading the wrong song title, so they just download them both.
This one threw me for a loop. It has all the stout terms people generally associate with stouts on the side of the can. The problem was when I went to drink it. All I tasted was sugar. Pure unadulterated sugar, filled top to bottom by some sort of Satanic ritual that forces unknowing souls into an inky black sugary abyss. There is little in the way to save yourself from this eternal torture except to not finish the can and recite ten Hail Mary’s. I’ll be fair, its not terrible if you like things that are overly sweet, but for once here is a stout I wasn’t fond of. Energy City Brewing Bâtisserie Smores Stout: 2.15/5
“First it started with a vulgar chant that began at college football games, then turned into a euphamism. TW: Salon, but this one is chock full of yummy tears.”
OFFS, fuck off you pussies.
Hipster juice of color!
Now I feelz better.
“YouTube deletes rapper’s ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ song claiming ‘medical misinformation'”
OFFS, fuck off you pussies.
Why? oh why would someone do ‘Smores Stout?
That’s Fucking criminal
I’m also a huge fan of not putting chocolate milk or Old Bay in beer. Beer purist snob I suppose.
Heard some decent things about the smores stout that Saranac Lake does. Dont recall if I’ve tried it yet.
Saranac’s pumpkin ale is legitimately good.
Saranac makes some good beer, but I can’t bring myself to drink a S’mores beer. I don’t even like S’mores, I doubt I’d like them in a beer.
I’ve had a couple of good ones. Chocolate works well with stout, a little lactose to add the sweetness (milk stouts already do this), a touch of vanilla, and some graham flower (or the appropriate biscuit malt) to add a graham cracker undertone.
Locally, a brewery does a great dessert stout called Hot Chocolate w/ Marshmallows.
Its not unusual, to be honest, this one just went too far.
OT
Roma, incidente al corteo di Biden: vettura ncc tampona auto di diplomatici Usa
Alla guida un autista romeno di 40 anni. Un urto abbastanza violento, tanto che il rumeno è rimasto ferito a una mano, anche se non in modo grave
https://roma.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/21_ottobre_29/roma-incidente-corteo-biden-vettura-ncc-tampona-auto-diplomatici-usa-b7e92dea-38c5-11ec-8ce2-c94918111ac8.shtml
I read that as ‘Biden got ass raped by a Gypsy with a tampon’.
autistic Gypsy
Even better, Eastern Europe headline news: Biden is ass raped by an autistic Gypsy with a tampon, forgets what continent he’s on, what day it is, what planet this is, what his…
But he fondly remembers the peggings his long dead wife used to give him.
Ouch.
I only know Italian that’s used in music.
Adele was hot when she was only half the woman she is now.
I assume some level of confusion was involved in downloading the wrong song title, so they just download them both. -this would not have happened if Adele was not fatphobic
Just like with the all new Adele, they got twice the deal they expected.
Adele Eats Spotted Dick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDdAPHuRGN0
, Cockles & 10 Other British Dishes | British Vogue
She dated Prince Andrew?
How much did that cost in pounds?
£20 — same as downtown.
Jolly good!
Cheerio! I don’t mean goodbye, I mean drank!
“if Adele was not fatphobic”
Next thing, she’ll show her racism as well by saying that Stacy Abrams is overweight.
Stacey is not overweight, she’s obese (and ugly).
I’m just thinking of a new word that combines ugly, fat, and dishonest…
disfuglyest?
Unscrupulobeastly?
I commend you shitlords for your efforts here.
Anna Navarro.
Spudilicious from the top rope!
OT:. GO BLUE!!
I don’t follow the chariot races
No, I’M Spartacus!
Which one is Blue and which ones are the green guys?
The good guys wear Blue (Wolverines).
The evil guys wear red.
*blink*
It’s a bit better then saying pinstripes, black and gold, or purple and black… but not by much.
Y’all and your foozball and your fancy foozball friens…
Huh… I was expecting an article about Winston’s Mom reviewing the Thundercats reboot or something. Shame.
https://youtu.be/aE9Dp-9xhyc
Thundercats reboot
Do. Not. Give. Them. Ideas.
I think it’s already happened, hasn’t? And it was woke as hell, failed in every way, and its failure was blamed on white male neckbeards? I remember because it was such an out-of-the-ordinary way for one of these “reboots” to fail….
Multiple reboots I believe. I watched one of them, which wasn’t bad (the 2011 one). Set up a very nice story arc, didn’t get renewed for a second season. Not much in the way of woke in that one.
I should’ve refreshed.
Maybe, this was the first DDG search result that suggests there is one in the works but nowhere near complete.
https://screenrant.com/thundercats-movie-updates-release-date-cast-story-details/
She should do a video entitled Let’s Go Adele. I’d watch.
I just went to Amazon Music account to listen to Let’s Go Brandon for the lulz, and wow…I counted 22 different artists doing a song with that name. Excellent.
The market has spoken.
So theyre trying to piss off Bernie and Joe Biden? No one needs 22 kinds of Let’s Go, Brandon.
OT: can’t vouch for the legitimacy of this, but damn if true.
If true, people should hang.
Hell, even if it’s only half true truck loads of people should hang. I don’t mean drop hanged with a neck snap either. That made me queasy with rage.
I’m reading it right now, but after only a few paragraphs, I already believe it. If the dems keep power for the next several years, there will be millions of us getting disappeared.
I wonder how it got out.
Doesn’t matter, the media will orchestrate a concerted effort to bury it and maybe 1% of all Americans will ever hear of this.
Democrats creating libertarians at an unprecedented rate. Soon we will be 1.5% of the population.
Fact: most people do not care about this, because it isn’t happening to them. By the time it is, it will be too late.
I wonder how it got out.
My first thought as well.
Some unknown shitlord on the inside
Ditto. My thought is (if true) it was smuggled out via a lawyer.
Or just someone on the inside who was passed the note.
I mean, unless anyone thinks you could actually work with those people every day without eventually hating them. I mean, most people do have an actual conscious, don’t they?
Wouldn’t this be easy to prove or disprove for those who know how to search for such things?
Like this?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/dc-jail-conditions-contempt-investigation/2021/10/13/65292cd0-2ba1-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html
And nothing else happened.
Hmmm…I’m starting to distrust Duck Duck Go results. Or I just didn’t try hard enough.
This was interesting:
While I don’t doubt that, I’d imagine this a very busy two-way street. I’ve not heard any Dem politicians known for defending civil rights take up their cause.
Hmmm…I’m starting to distrust Duck Duck Go results.
I mentioned this a few weeks back. It was just an intuition, but the ordering of links and presence/absence of known articles made my STEVE SMITH sense tingle.
and even the ACLU has gotten involved
That’s suspicious to me. I’d think the current crop of ACLU types would masturbate to stories like this. “YEAH, THEM DEPLORABLES GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE! OOOHHHH YYEAAAAH!!”
On the other hand, I can see the government treating political prisoners like this.
Made some excellent filet steaks for the family while I was visiting:
1. Before dinner, take half a beef tenderloin, roast to an internal temp of 130 degrees and remove from the oven.
2. At dinnertime, slice into stupidly thick steaks. Put the ones for the MW-eaters in the cold pan, turn on the heat to max and cook until crusted. Then put the ones for people with taste into the now ripping pan and do likewise.
The boarder must have given Lily a bath with conditioner or something, because her coat was ludicrously soft. Like rabbit fur soft.
Unfortunately, that conditioner seems to also be an excellent mud adhesive.
Good…fucking…gawd…
Cringe!
The point is talking down to people isn’t exactly getting the crowd excited, unless Terry is the crowd and this is dress rehearsal
She truly makes Hillary look eloquent. That must be her sole purpose, because I can’t think of anything else.
Pantry pr0n
Now will go read the links.
Verified hoarder, kulak, and wrecker.
HOW DARE YOU, SIR!
I am NOT a HOARDER!!!
You can take the dragon from it’s hoard. But you can’t take the hoarder out of the dragon!
Clearly I need to fill up those shelves with baking ingredients and more pickles.
I had pickled Biquinho peppers for breakfast this morning. I got 4 jars of these things! /joins hoarders
looks like you have plenty of tuna, Jeez
More than 7 days. I bet she thinks we didn’t see that, hoarder!
Yusef, can’t you catch those Tuna is the Great Northern Sea there?
Sure you can. It just takes either the jaws of life and a winch, or cutting the side of the dragon open.
“I am NOT a HOARDER!!!”
That looks like more than 7 days worth of some things to me. Hoarder!
4 bottles of lemon juice < 7 days
I have more than 7 days of Goya black bean soup. I confess, I did it, guilty as charged!
What on earth do you do with it?!
I use like one of those little lemon bulbs a year.
We had that discussion a few nights ago. her lemonade recipe is 50/50 water lemon juice plus splenda.
I figured it had to be lemonade. I haven’t drunk the stuff in years.
I should try it. I have a bulb of lemon juice that’s probably going bad.
No wonder the store shelves are empty.
/sarc
Looks great, Mrs F is not quite so neat. I complain about the “Best Used by Date” being a year or 2 old
“Oh, it doesn’t hurt, it hasn’t been opened”
There are a lot of factory sealed foods which can remain edible for years, the biggest problem is that their flavor degrades with time. It’s still safe to eat, but less enjoyable.
I even got an official quote from Hormel on the shelf life of Spam – indefinately if the seal is unbroken, but it will lose its flavor after five years.
So it improves with age?
With all of those, as long as there is no swelling/dents in the can.
/had a puffy can of artichoke hearts he just had to toss
you declined Botox?
I had a civics teacher in high school, Mr. Cerny, who had a substitute he always used, whose name I can’t remember. This substitute would tell the greatest stories. He claimed that he wanted to fight the nazis before America entered the war, and so joined the Canadian airforce. He was shot down, and put into a POW camp. He claims he was the basis for one of the characters in The Great Escape. He had a can of spam that he kept in his sock for an emergency. Towards the end of the war, the Germans stopped letting red cross trucks through, and weren’t feeding the POWs very well. He got sick and finally broke out his spam stash. The can had opened and the contents were moldy. He ate it anyway, and claimed the mold was like penicillin, and he was cured of whatever failed him. The truth of recollections that were, at that time 40 years old, is debatable, but his stories were great.
Isnt she required to have 3 months or a year of food on hand? Something like that?
We knew we would be moving so we didn’t do too much stocking up. Now that we’re moved we can get back on the prep wagon.
Our basement is ginormous, half finished, half not.
Hoarding?
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/10/29/wales-Guinness-World-Records-Harry-Potter-collection/1531635529993/
Welsh woman.
Until I see her goat collection, I’m calling fake news.
I watch hoarding shows. I honestly do not know how the spouses live with that, especially year after year after year. Neither my husband nor I are hoarders, although my kids are and I used to purge XX’s room when she was melting down with overwhelmedness (although it appears that traumatized her, so I stopped doing that) and I dread purging XY’s room, but we have done it.
One of my ex GFs mom was a hoarder, real life hoarder in true. I mean the house wasn’t messy or anything, but she had plastic containers from the 1940s and 50s. Boxes and boxes full of them. She would never throw anything like that away. She washed ziploc baggies and stored them, forever.
Hoarder? No. Clearly a Mormon though!
No. Look at the bare shelves. I bring dishonor to my people.
You just moved in. Bins of flour, rice, and beans will soon appear out of nowhere.
I’ll let Hype (the other one) judge your pickle choices.
“Hype judges.” is a complete sentence. He’s much like a cat in that way.
There’s only one. And some fakes.
The shelves, they are bare!
How indecent.
You’re turned on, aren’t you? Admit it.
Empty closets definitely have an allure to them.
Yes. I pride myself on my bare shelves.
This kitchen, however, has very little cabinet space for the things we use regularly (dishes, glasses, spices, medicine) (yes, my medicine cabinet is in my kitchen), and most of the shelves are way up where I can’t reach, so they are effectively useless.
The bottom cabinets are just 2 gaping maws with no shelves and they go waaaaaay back under the countertops. I used tubs to sort things out and stack. My skillets and pans are in a relatively organized heap in one of them.
Mixing bowls, stand mixer, baking pans and the like all went in the new Ikea cupboard. I suppose I could have put them in the pantry, but I didn’t have that sorted out yet.
One will have to be very careful about putting things back precisely to keep anything in order. My old house had so much cabinet space you could just throw anything anywhere (which was its own problem while XY was doing the kitchen).
(yes, my medicine cabinet is in my kitchen)
Makes sense to me. I get my supplements from the bathroom and immediately walk to the kitchen for a glass of water. Wife’s pill box is on the kitchen counter.
Because you can hide in them?
Because the kids are far less likely to find my wife and I in one for a period of roughly 20 mins.
I must say, I do like a u-shaped pantry. I have pantry envy.
The cupboards are bare. The shelves are low on stuff due to Trump stealing our democracy.
Are you having supply chain issues there? It’s practically empty!
Naw, I just don’t cook much, and I haven’t baked anything in years. Everything I need to make XY’s favorite food is in the pantry or freezer. WHEN I cook, I only cook XY’s favorites.
I guess you could just hoard some munchies then. We occasionally load up with Prime Pantry, but it looks like it’s being discontinued.
WHEN I cook, I only cook XY’s favorites. Way to spoil the kid. He’ll never leave home then.
Speaking of baking, XX is coming over to bake some stuff for a party. Yay! No, I’m not getting misty eyed or anything. I’m sure she’ll raid the pantry while she’s here.
Unless he gets a handle on his grades and his attitude, he won’t be able to afford to move out.
Meh. Just realized that even if he gets a good job he won’t be able to afford to move out. Fuck Joe Biden.
She made vegan brownies. Hurk?
Um … How? What do you sub in for eggs?
I asked Mrs. T who was in the kitchen with her. She did not know.
*shrugs*
It shows what’s really important to her.
I would not have guessed tuna and alfredo sauce.
Uh, I find that what is overrepresented in my cabinets are those cans and jars I don’t eat.
Do you buy things you don’t like a case at a time?
It’s cheaper in bulk, all right?!
Shouldn’t you reseal that Aunt Jemima mix and sell it on the collector’s market?
Dude, it’s not a mix. It’s just corn meal. I don’t even make cornbread that much, but I’mma have to do something with that shit.
No love for corn bread? I generelly prefer to add some creamed corn or some whole grain corn to the mix to get that full kernel pop in the bread.
The girlfriend won’t let me use jalapenos (let alone anything spicy).
You mean dog bread? No, I hate it. The Brazilians have their own version and I hate that as well.
No love for corn bread? Damn… I was at least expecting a fight over white vs. yellow corn bread, or sweet vs. savory corn bread.
No love. I also hate sweet potatoes, pears, and beets.
One thing, I do like the Brazilian Sweet Potatoes better, they’re not as sweet and they’re light purple not orange. But I don’t love them. I’ll still take a regular not sweet potato any day.
No love for cornbread? Of course I love cornbread. What else would it be for?
I wish I had a pantry like that in this house.
JFC woman you need therapy. The neatness is not normal. I started listening to this today. I am thinking most of your pantry would not pass muster.
The sound of silence?
Or this
It would not pass muster, but remember I’m feeding a skinny teenage boy. My keto cabinet is out in the garage at 0°F.
I just do not get he entire keto diet thing. No one ever did that on purpose until the last few decades. Before people did it because they were starving to death because it was winter in Europe in a historical period known as the Pleistocene.
There is no way that diet is healthy for you. I did actually do it, they called it the Atkins diet back then. That’s how I know it sucks.
Different diets work for different people.
/looks at the food pyramid/plate/whatever the hell else they’re running with now
Never take the advice of ‘experts’ whether on diet or anything else.
In the apocalypse, I’ll leave you to run and organize my armory.
Be happy to!
On topic: Against my better judgement I clicked on an article entitled: “Alec Baldwin and wife Hilaria dine in Vermont bar closed to public as ‘Rust’ probe picks up steam”
I said article, read this, which makes me hate that douchebag even more:
I believe Baldwin is a recovering alcoholic. I seem to remember a bunch of alcohol-fueled domestic abuse while he was married to Kim Basinger.
That said, I don’t find it admirable for a recovering alcoholic to be drinking pretend beer.
Now I’m wondering how long he’s been in recovery, since the IPA craze is a relatively recent (late 20th C) thing.
I guess the bar might only have one kind of non-alcoholic beer.
Yeah, that is not recommended. One winds up wanting the real thing, I’ve seen it too many times.
When I was low-carbing, an ongoing theme was “don’t use artificial sweeteners because they lead to the real thing”.
Narrator: They do.
Some of them prefer the taste to the other usually-available sweet fizzy beverages.
“I believe Baldwin is a recovering alcoholic.”
He’s an unrecovered and totally unapologetic giant asshole. That much is known.
Truth
Damn! Is there some Nobel Prize for being the scummiest shit heel in Hollywood or something?
There was but they ran out of them due to super high demand.
I think we are all assuming he actually did quit drinking.
I guess I forgot/didn’t know he quit drinking.
At any rate, IPAs are bad enough with alcohol. Why drink one without it?!
/half kidding
He shouldn’t drink. He’s already a giant asshole.
Nothing to say about the links, except “pwnd the libs!”
Some very good friends, from high school, finally reach the point of needing to move into a senior apartment complex. They are upper middle class from their own boot strapping. Anyway, they had a large lake home filled with 55 years of married collectibles. The Missus didn’t want to part with her books, her needlepoint and houseful of furniture. The husband begrudgingly sold all his wood working tools, guns, 2 antique cars and all the other man toys.
They moved into a 2 BR apt, one BR is totally full of boxes, unopened, they are neither physically able to unpack and no place to put it anyway. They have no kids. At some point, reasonably soon, it will be very easy for the estate people to buy every thing.
I ain’t moving, my kids and other relatives can fight for the leftovers, which they won’t want anyway.
I fancy myself as more cat like. When I reach that age, I’m just going out in the woods to die and maybe they will never find me.
Oh yeah, my friends’ living room has a lot of 1/2 empty boxes, hard to walk around the stuff.
A few weeks… months ago? my wife was watching a show and she seemed to be really enjoying it. So one day, I sat down with her and said ‘What are you watching?’. So as always she says ‘Shhh! and pauses it’. So when she did that, I saw what it was. And I suddenly realized that because I can often hear the TV from my desk, I had some cringe worthy moments thinking ‘What garbage is she watching?’. Madame Secretary. Seriously. So one day when I was feeling more than usual like a heartless monster, I said ‘You know that show you’re watching, that is supposedly based on a real life character’. So she says ‘Who?’. I said ‘Hillary Clinton’. She didn’t say anything. I think she stopped watching it, lol.
In heartbreaking news:
Sad Teas
Works for me. I hope he keeps his future shenanigans local, but I doubt it.
The problem was when I went to drink it. All I tasted was sugar. Pure unadulterated sugar, filled top to bottom by some sort of Satanic ritual that forces unknowing souls into an inky black sugary abyss. There is little in the way to save yourself from this eternal torture except to not finish the can and recite ten Hail Mary’s. I’ll be fair, its not terrible if you like things that are overly sweet, but for once here is a stout I wasn’t fond of.
Barf.
Bryson Gray’s “Let’s Go Brandon” is back up on YouTube.
RE: the featured image: I have fond memories of “Thundercats”.
Beer run was completed, with two different types of IPA picked up (a wet hopped local one, and a collaboration one for Cleveland Beer Week) and a pumpernickel lager which looked interesting.
Chili has been simmering for just over an hour, and should be ready for dinner. I have learned of a new thing to fear from Sean’s super hot peppers. While I washed my hands fine, and no burning in my eyes or nostrils, but some of the capsaicin managed to get underneath some of my nails, so I’ve got some mild burning go on under the nails on a couple of my fingers now.
I get that a lot and I kick myself for not wearing mechanics disposable gloves when handling. (Chopping and moving about the pieces) Since my hands are so dry I get it in cracks on my fingers too. Only thing that ever worked was soaking my hands in plain white vinegar. That is only a temporary solution if the burning is real bad.
Time fades all burns.
/thinks back to the time I got ghost pepper in my eye.
Hmm. Pumpernickel.
It’s from Columbus… Wolf’s Ridge. Just because I couldn’t head down to meet up with Sloopy doesn’t mean I can’t have a Cowtown beer.
Having one now, it’s quite good. Very mild touch of rye, and a little sweetness in the finish. If this is their winter seasonal, I’ll probably be getting quite a bit of it. One of my other usual go-to beers is made by a brewery that has started requiring proof of vaccination for any in house events, so I’ve shifted my spending away from them.
That beer sounds good.
Bread of color! I like pumpernickel. Wife bought some raisin bread from the bakery at the local Giant. She didn’t know what it is, lol. I haven’t had it for probably 20 years. It’s pretty good.
Liquor store was cleaned out of my Wild Turkey 101, so I’ll be trying Maker’s Mark Cask Strength (108.5 proof) this week.
“I’ll be trying Maker’s Mark Cask Strength”
I got a bad hangover just thinking about it.
My beer runs typically go like this:
Orders beer online.
Goes to door in jammies in approx 20 minutes, gets beer.
10.fucking.minutes. Beer delivery done right.
Then Karl Hungus arrives?
Not sure what a Karl Hungus is, but I got beer.
You answering the door in your jammies made me think of this:
https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6236/3185/1600/karl.jpg
I’m not sure that scene was either that bad or that good.
“He fixed the cable?”
“He fixed the cable?”
Steven, I made us scramby eggs! Now come back here so that I may brain thee!
Having gone grocery shopping this morning, I would like to state something for the record.
*clears throat*
FUCK JOE BIDEN.
That is all.
Seconded.
I was just telling someone that this is the first time I can remember, I mean it’s been a long time, that we go grocery shopping and we check the prices of every single item we buy.
I don’t know how people on lower incomes afford to eat. Joe Biden fucking hates poor people.
That’s been a wonderment for years. If there are 4 kids at home its easy to go through a gallon or more of milk a day. If a couple are
teenagers add 50 %.
Joe Biden doesn’t hate anyone, he’s beyond the point of emotion. An ice cream will turn that frown upside down.
Thirded. I wonder how long it will be before the Commie-Nazis call it making a threat to the demented POS and people start getting harrassed by the Prog-Stasi.
Yep. Random items out of stock (earlier this week the grocery store was cleaned out of seltzer water), and now I’m pretty much only purchasing things on sale. Anything that’s a non-perishable staple are getting stocked up heavily when on sale.
Thankfully, as long as power remains stable, I’ve got a chest freezer downstairs filled. I need to start digging some of the pork and beef roasts out of there as the weather starts changing.
I went at about noon. Too many masked up zombies. Blech. Parents committing child abuse AKA masking their kids. Blech.
I don’t like the prices.
LET’S GO BRANDON!
The Mr and I went to a Chinese restaurant last night (good ratings on Yelp, run by an actual Chinese couple). They had signs taped up everywhere that said the prices were temporarily 10% over the menu prices due to ingredient shortages and increased costs.
The wife/greeter/server pointed that out to everyone as they entered and said “it’s ok for you?” to avoid surprises later.
I looked at the Mr and said “Let’s go Brandon.”
I keep wondering if this is what the 70s felt like. To me, it seems a bit different in that everything is simmering under the surface and there is almost half the country that’s asleep at the wheel and would vote for Satan himself so long as he affirmed abortion and hatred of whites. There’s no Reagan landslide coming to fix this decade.
No memories of the 70’s here, but I’d actually feel hopeful if I heard there was this much division, bile, and hatred thrown towards “the other”. At least it would show there’s a way out.
One small hope I have is that things like the Let’s Go Brandon rap and the like may be helping some groups leave the D plantation.
Yeah, the malaise was pretty near universal in the 70s. You didn’t have half the country cheering it on like we do today.
The 70s was actually the last time I felt truly free and music was still good.
Well, the 80s were OK, but things definitely started going downhill in the 90s.
things definitely started going downhill in the 90s.
I’ve never been able to sort out broad-based societal decline from the fact that our town went from rural to suburban during the 90s. Either way, we went from a small farming neighborhood where everybody knew everybody to suburban sprawl where we didn’t even know the next door neighbors over a period of about 7 or 8 years.
It does seem that packing people into an ever more population dense environment breeds retardation.
At the same time, I’m still an advocate of ‘God save us from nice little towns’.
Depends on the area and the people.
My experience lately, is that I love West Virginia regardless of the pop density and at the same time hate Maryland regardless of the pop density.
I hate living in the suburbs of a large city. Cookie cutter tract homes suck. HOAs suck. Soccer moms suck. Property value whingers suck. Postage stamp lots suck. The incessant growth sucks. Nosy neighbors suck. Anti-social neighbors suck. Obnoxious neighbors suck. Planned development sucks. The traffic sucks. The annoying spoiled brat kids suck. The “keeping up with the Joneses” assholes suck. Miles of the same shit in every direction sucks.
In my experience, things are changing in the suburbs. A lot of the bullshit that used to be contained to the city is making it out into the suburbs. Some of it is the creeping leftism intentionally being exported. Some of it is moral degeneracy in line with the rest of the culture. Some of it is a general suspicion of others, as common beliefs and experiences are stripped away from neighbors.
trshmnstr:
I think there’s a difference between the old suburbs and the new suburbs. Where I am, there’s no developments (other then condos and apartments being put up on unused properties), and no HOA’s. My neighbors on one side identify as redneck hillbillies, and other then being Stillers fans and some late loud weekend parties, quiet and decent neighbors. A neighbor across the street has a huge house, and has recently retired from being a contractor.
The houses were all built back in the 1950’s, so there’s a lot of similar floor plans, but there’s no HOA to rule over us. There’s an unfortunate number of pro-cop and pro-auto union signs up, but that’s also related to the area.
“Cookie cutter tract homes suck. HOAs suck. Soccer moms suck. Property value whingers suck. Postage stamp lots suck. The incessant growth sucks. Nosy neighbors suck. Anti-social neighbors suck. Obnoxious neighbors suck. Planned development sucks. The traffic sucks. The annoying spoiled brat kids suck. The “keeping up with the Joneses” assholes suck. Miles of the same shit in every direction sucks.”
There’s no way I could agree with you more.
Yep, that sounds completely foreign to me, Neph. I live in a neighborhood built in the early 90s. I’ve also lived in neighborhoods built in the late 90s and early 2000s. The neighborhoods I’ve experienced that were built in the 60s and 70s were very different.
Probably partially because the obnoxious assholes are attracted shiny new stuff, and partially because something changed in the actual subdivisions that makes it worse.
trshmnstr:
It’s the same kind of neighborhood I grew up in, just with a different ethnic mix. If you grew up in one of the neighborhoods, you could walk into any of the other houses, and know where everything was in a couple of minutes. There’s shops in the area that have been in the same family for three or more generations, and are still open and selling goods. You can see the places that are new places built on the bones of old ones (a chain of convenient stores, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut are the biggest around here), and chains of strip malls. When I was growing up, most of these areas also had wooded areas where us kids would go play in. Most of those have been converted to housing (with the exception of the parks).
The fact that you don’t know what the 70s felt like means you will never know what it feels like unless Giant Meteor 2024 wins the election and you survive it.
I’m sorry for your loss and get off my lawn.
There wasn’t anything like social media in the 70s, so the only publicly raving lunatics were end-timers babbling on street corners. The governing classes were greedy sneaks but not wannabee dictators. There were still some whiffs of intelligence among the intelligentsia. You could make a joke and not be fired for it. Our spies and secret police mostly bothered foreigners and left us pretty much alone.
I look back on the 70s as a golden age compared to today.
And the 1950s were better yet
Same thing when I had Central Waters’ Duncan Graham Cracker Stout. Central Waters makes one of my favorite porters, but I couldn’t even make it through 1 can. Sickly sweet.
Cracker Stout? White supremacy beer?
Obama Stout. Half cracker, half dark.
I thought we all knew that O’bama was Irish!
We call that a half and half, black and tan, black and gold, or the like depending on the light part.
This is still up, and it’s glorious.
Fuck Biden
Age-restricted.
Damn, rhywun, I thought you were 18. I apologize that this site is not really family friendly.
I think he’s too old to get a reaction.
OT: The Lincoln Continental
But Lincoln was under the gun – literally. The government – which never just asks – was beginning to tell (via the regs) car companies to make their cars more “efficient.” This put pressure on the companies making cars to downsize them – as lighter and smaller translates into uses less gas.
There was also the problem of figuring out how to get cars to emit less of the gasses being emitted that the government was now regulating.
Five thousand pounds – and 460 cubic inches – were as doomed as an ice cream cone on a 90 degree July afternoon.
Lincoln held out the longest – maintaining the size of the Continental all the way through 1979 – two years after GM and Chrysler gave in and downsized what had been their full-size cars to what by prior measures would have been classified as mid-sized cars.
But in 1980, Lincoln folded, too – and brought out a downsized, de-powered fifth generation Continental that shared its platform with the Ford LTD and the in-between Mercury Grand Marquis.
Interesting read, thanks!
I remember wondering why the big cars I saw growing up in the eighties were called “mid-size”. Until my stepfather bought a used boat of car that barely fit in our garage.
For my cishet shitlords:
Jen Psaki?
A) Hard would
B) Not with someone else’s dick
C) Only anal
I’ll go with C.
Put on a bag on the head I guess. Those freaking weird hard hair parts all over her head is disturbing. I guess Biden had to find the only person with plugs available for the job.
Better double wrap that rascal if you do. I recommend a layer of duct tape with [REDACTED] glued to it.
Who do you think one of the SF (Joemala) characters was based on?
I’ve been missing a lot of the noon posts unfortunately. 🙁
B,
I would not on a plane,
do you think I’m insane,
a, with a splash of c
I’m sorry, but batshit-insane redheads are my thing
See also: ex Ms. Tres Cool
Note the eX, And I love me some Redheads, but she’s a very bad person, go get her Tres!
The older I get, the less selective I become. A, if I can conjure up the first half.
A-. And she wouldn’t get any say in how it goes.
C and then I’d wipe my dick on the curtains.
I first heard of the Let’s go Brandon songs hitting the charts in Hunting Glamp. Where I had to tell my friend to shut the shit off already. Not that the songs were bad, but holy fuck enough songs already. Sorry the timeline interrupted Adeles hit, #would, but whatever. Lets Go Brandon! Thanks for the review, will not purchase.
This might be easier on the ears:
MESUS – DICTATOR (Biden’s a B***h)
He angry. I like it.
Umad, bro? Yeah, Imad.
Ya me too. Except the Afghanistan hatred should probably be directed at the past three pesidents. “Fuck Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden” doesn’t rap lyric well though.
What really pisses me off is that it was Trump’s idea to get out of there. I’m first pissed at Trump for not just doing it. I’m more pissed that Biden fucked it up so badly and TMITE does their pom pom dance. Assholes.
Norm McDonald once quipped – “I would like to see Adele sitting on my toilet, eating a Reuben.”
G/d bless and keep that wonderful man.
AK-47s and fighter jets for Taliban, rocks for us
Murika
We called it America
Or if you prefer…
‘Merican
Merkin?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/omg-lost-joe-biden-nearly-pushed-off-stage-todays-g20-rome-official-photo/
I miss president Trump.
Also, not creepy at all with the plebs having to wear masks.
“I miss president Trump.”
Seconded and thirded.
And I was never all-in on Trump which I feel I always need to point out. But compared to the senile clueless slug of a grifter who embarrasses this country every time he’s seen, hell yeah, give me some Trump!
The aerial maps of Tesla’s factory don’t do it justice. One of the comments makes a comparison to the spaceship in Spaceballs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/qj09p9/gigafactory_yall/
Wow, I wonder how many Raptors it takes to launch the thing?
Jeff Bezos makes bid to TX to steal the contract by building a lego structure in his basement.
https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2021/10/ice-cube-exits-jack-black-comedy-after-declining-covid-19-vaccination.html
Ice Cube is a deplorable?
That’s racist man!
Did he vote for the most popular president of all time? Well, then he ain’t black.
Fuck the
policevaccine?The article says he masked up and donated masks to others, so he’s not against precautions (however futile) , but he’s taking a principled stance against injecting himself with unproven “vaccines.”
Nothing wrong with that. In fact, his pro-mask activities should cause his would-be critics to think about the differences between masking and putting altered genetic material into one’s body.
So my kids are watching some inane kid’s sit-com called Some Assembly Required, and I’ll be damned if my favorite foul-mouthed player for the Letterkenny Shamrocks isn’t a regular. https://youtu.be/8blrnQwS4LE
Here is a cast Q&A where he has to dodge the question of his other shows by recommending everyone use IMDB. https://youtu.be/4Lr_Pi8O48U
Letterkenny was a surprise hit for me.
#metoo I really enjoyed it. Although, for my taste, it seemed to eventually devolve into being dirty just to be dirty and I lost interest. It was like a Mirror Mirror version of Corner Gas.
And the final season devolved into a shameless display of Canadian wokeness that left it unwatchable for me.
Pretty much.
I’m glad I stopped at season 6.
I think of the children who remembered the kind conductor on Shining Time Station, or those who wondered why their parents were laughing at Sesame Street when some guy was a genie popping out of a bottle in a cloud of smoke.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-police-union-calls-for-investigation-into-citys-covid-19-testing-contract/
“City employees, including police officers and firefighters, who aren’t vaccinated have to be tested for COVID-19 twice per week at a cost of $65 per test, which is deducted from their paychecks.”
That’s some bullshit right there. No bid contract is also shady as hell.
The union will cover the cost, right? They must have a sizable fund for such eventualities, that’s what the dues are for.
*Glances up, notes porcine aviators*
Equity!
Ugh. Again with the equity!!
Before a couple of years ago, I’d only heard the term equity used in the context of finance and contracts. Now it’s the favorite buzzword of all “social justice” self proclaimed warriors.
I found this handy definition:
Here’s fair.
^ this,
To which I say, “Buy the damned tickets, you spongers!”
^this^
What does any of that mean?
Someones a loony
I had to read it twice to find the key difference.
Yep, that’s because it’s the neutered SJW commie definition of equality.
Equality, in contrast, aims to ensure that everyone gets the same things in order to enjoy full, healthy lives.
Equality is really freaking simple. People are people. Treat them with humanity, no matter who they are, what they look like, or what they do. There is no “less than”, there is no “greater than”.
Yeah, that quote is not at all what “equality” means.
“Ugh. Again with the equity!!”
The one I’ve come to hate the most is ‘Health equity’.
Let me translate.
It doesn’t matter how sick you are, it only matters that we are all equally sick. Healthcare! Experts! SCIENCE!
My cat is enthralled with the in-ground pool, something he’d never seen before. He is sitting at the edge of the pool, dipping one paw in, and bringing the water to his mouth to drink.
Cute, but the problem is that it’s a salt water pool!! This can’t be good for him. I’m trying to get him to drink a bowl of fresh water but I think ha likes the game of drinking from the pool.
I don’t want him to get kidney failure.
probably just curiosity. So long as it doesn’t become the primary drinking source, I wouldn’t be too worried.
https://www.discountsaltpool.com/are-saltwater-pools-safe-for-pets
Get him a fountain.
This,^ Sophie loves hers,
I might give it a go. He drinks from his bowl indoors regularly; I don’t think he *needs* a fountain. But he’d probably like one.
They don’t generally do stupid shit. When he gets enough of the salt, he’ll quit drinking it (says the lady whose cats are free-fed and they don’t get fat).
Tuna is awesome.
/that is all
Swordfish, salmon, tuna, scallops. In that order.
Have you actually seen a scallop? Because if you just saw that thing in the wild, there ain’t no way you’re trying to eat it.
I’ve eaten one plucked off a rock 50′ underwater. Delectable.
How did you breathe and eat at the same time while 50′ underwater?
My wife and some other Brazilians were eating raw Sea Urchins at Praia dos Carneiros last time I was down there. They tried to get me to do it and I was like there is no fucking way I’m eating that until I’m starving to death to save my life.
Steelhead, trout, crab (Dungeness, not that king or snow crap), crawdads, lobster, clams, salmon(coho), shrimp, scallops, cod or halibut
“cod or halibut”
Well, those are two of the best salt water fish.
Try Crappie, Bluegill, Yellow Perch, and Walleye for fresh water. All great.
I actually wanted to get oysters today and wife and I did not want to go out. Can you believe there is not a single place in Baltimore that will not deliver oysters in the shell to your home the same day? We live in the stone age here I tell you.
Allow me to suggest adding this to certain dishes…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuobushi
Now I feel like some okonomiyaki.
Not my favorite thing. I like the ingredients, but not so much all together.
Puts me in a distinct minority, however.
*reaches over griddle to cut another chunk*
I’m a SMASH guy.
Salmon, Mackerel, Anchovies, Sardines, Herring
Healthy and delicious.
I had pickings of a cold rotisserie chicken in the fridge and needed a quick lunch. So I chopped up the chicken, added grape halves, chopped apple, glazed pecans and blueberries (a salad topping packet), broccoli slaw, Mayo, and a bit of cool whip. Mixed it and wrapped it up in a tortilla.
That will be added to the mental file. It was tasty.
God I miss cats. I can’t wait to move to my new property so I can get some of those critters again.
Good man.
I was telling my wife, we have to have 2 at least. Cats are not good without another one of their own kind and just humans around. I have always noted that.
Also, I find them must more entertaining if there are at least 2.
‘much more’.
OK, my level of dranking has now reached the bad typing stage.
Unless you have two cats who hate each other.
This is true.
We try to get littermates.
However, this has backfired on us this go-round. Our 2 littermate cats get into hissing and slapping fights if they just look at each other the wrong way. Almost 3 years, still can’t tell who’s the alpha.
Chunky Monkey = solid black, sleek micropanther, pronouns he/him/it/fuzzy dude
Snickerdoodle = long-haired tortoiseshell with a docked little nubbin of a tail, pronouns she/her/it/floof
“We try to get littermates.”
The very best situation. Last 2 I had were 2 brother barn cats at 6 weeks old. They were best friends.
2 male barn Tabbies. One yellow and white and the other orange tiger striped. The orange one was crazy. He didn’t make it 2 years. After having to rescue him stuck high up in a tree during an ice storm, he just disappeared. The yellow and white one became a famous hunter. We called him ‘Little Cheetah’. He was 20 lbs of solid muscle. Strong as an ox with Cheetah like reflexes and speed. My neighbor tried to buy him from me after we were standing in my fenced in garden and I said ‘Yeah, he kills rabbits and squirrels all of the time’ and he says ‘You mean like young rabbits?’. Then a fully grown rabbit bounds out of the bushes in a corner of my garden and Mr. Kitty kills it and trots off with it in a fraction of a second. I mean it was like an episode of Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom from the 60s. And I said ‘I mean like that’. And the guy wanted to buy my cat, lol! He had a problem with critters around his property. I had 25 acres and he had 30 acres. I mean I don’t think the cat could do much against the groundhogs and coons, and coyotes, but he was a rabbit and squirrel terminator.
Well… of his filmography I’ve seen (haven’t seen his new documentary) – “Last Night in Soho” is definitely Edgar Wright’s weakest flick. It’s not a bad flick, and captures some atmosphere really well with some nice editing effects, but just not as tied in as his earlier stuff. And his newer ones just aren’t as tight as his writing collabs with Pegg.
Baldwin is a fucking idiot. He’s giving press conferences.
“Baldwin is a fucking idiot.”‘
Tell us us about the time when you still believed this was not true?
I gotta get rid of the oatmeal in my pantry without throwing it out. Fortunately, I just learned that XX likes oatmeal cookies. I shall make her some, along with cornbread.
I also have rice. Why I have rice, I do not know. Not only does no one in this house like rice, rice shreds my innards.
No, I know why I have oatmeal, rice, and 2 bags of cornmeal in my pantry: COVID panic buying, that’s what it was. By golly, I was not going to let my family starve!
The rice is for when a cell phone falls in the toilet.
Oh, I remember now! I was making microwavable heating pads.
Ha I actually used rice for that during my Troubles last year.
Standard white rice like one gets at Chinese take out joints is a big meh, but a properly made (carnaroli) rissotto is great stuff.
We buy the packets of the instant. We like the Flax and the Raisin and Walnut. I’m guessing that will last for many months.