¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Nov 23, 2021 | Daily Links | 276 comments

My shopping list yesterday was short, but I needed to buy a can of pumpkin.  Yes I’m a godless heretic for buying it in a can, deal with it.  Turns out there was no pumpkin to be found, and I needed some pumpkin.

So I went to the Food City in my neighborhood.  Food City is a local grocer owned by an Uncle Fester looking dude that once ran for governor that doesn’t sell chicken, they sell pollos….there was an entire end cap filled top to bottom with canned pumpkin.  Apparently the Mexicans have no need for pumpkin during the third week of November.

Here’s some links!

 

Get a load of the scrambled eggs on this guy!

Isn’t this how a lot of guys wind up joining the army?

The “far-right” is back in Chile, get the helicopters ready:

In a speech to supporters late Sunday, Kast doubled down on his far right rhetoric, framing the Dec. 19 runoff as a choice between “communism and liberty.” He blasted Boric as a puppet of Chile’s Communist Party — a member of the broad coalition supporting his candidacy — who would pardon “terrorists,” be soft on crime and promote instability in a country that has recently been wracked by protests laying bare deep social divisions.

I would like to know more about his stance on taxes before I endorse.

This guy is turning into a Bond-villian.  I fully endorse.

So…it was a regular police event?

 

 

Here’s a tune.  Just think:  We’re only a week away from telling people to eat shit over saying “Merry Christmas”!

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276 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “My shopping list yesterday was short, but I needed to buy a can of pumpkin. Yes I’m a godless heretic for buying it in a can, deal with it. ”

    I’m using a can I bought five years ago.

    • Swiss Servator

      You have pedialyte and barf bags ready?

      • UnCivilServant

        If the can is uncompromized and hasn’t developed botulism, it’ll be fine, just flavorless.

      • Count Potato

        I don’t see why it would be flavorless.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Because it’s a can of mushy squash with some cinnamon added.

      • Count Potato

        There is no cinnamon in canned pumpkin.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Yes, but the Pedialyte was purchased in 2013.

  2. Count Potato

    “Get a load of the scrambled eggs on this guy!”

    I’ll take your word for it.

    • Penguin

      I thought it was going to be another of monkey smashballs.

  3. UnCivilServant

    I sent to the butcher to buy steak and ended up stuck in a turkey line. Fortunately, I managed to get out of there with two hefty NY Strip steaks that aren’t the extra thin cuts the grocery store sells.

    My fridge is overstuffed now. I don’t have any pumpkin though.

    • UnCivilServant

      Oh, the only turkey I have is in the half a turkey sub.

    • db

      Look at this guy, sending to the butcher for things. Must be nice to have servants.

      • UnCivilServant

        Less fun when its just typos.

  4. Count Potato

    “Colombian President Iván Duque has condemned the actions of police cadets who dressed as Nazis as part of a ceremony meant to honour Germany.

    The so-called cultural exchange event caused outrage after photos shared on Thursday showed cadets at the Simón Bolívar police school in SS uniforms.”

    WTF??

    • UnCivilServant

      Is it wrong that I’m almost laughing?

      • WTF

        Almost?! C’mon, that’s hilarious!

      • Sean

        Urkomisch!

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Its not wrong, but it is a bit disturbing.

    • Gender Traitor

      Authentic uniforms borrowed from their elderly neighbors?

      • DEG

        Wrong South American country.

      • DEG

        Oh… duh.

        The refugee trains brought them.

      • Suthenboy

        Nah. Every country is Latin America had oodles of National Socialists hiding out. Every major city had a German restaurant. In the evening you could sit in the main dining area and watch them file in and disappear into the private part of the club.
        All of those stories of intrigue, cloak and daggery and secret kidnappings are nonsense. All you had to do was sit in the German restaurant and wait for a who’s who of National Socialist villains to walk in.
        There is a reason they chose Latin America. There was/is a lot of sympathy for that flavor of authoritarianism in that part of the world.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Communism where the government gets business todo much of its dirty work?

        The World is overrun with tyrants looking to enslave the serfs and convince useful idiots to do the dirty work of mass murder, genocide, slave tending, and propaganda.

      • Rat on a train

        Do they sell ovens?

      • robodruid

        Just gas ones.

      • rhywun

        “Declare war on the cold front!”

        OMG, that’s comedy gold.

        Some countries still have a sense of humor.

      • Sensei

        Try to picture “Hogan’s Heroes” getting made today.

      • Rat on a train

        Which character is recast as trans?

      • Sensei

        Corporal Louis LeBeau

      • juris imprudent

        Lois LeBlow?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        this^

      • Bobarian LMD

        I seem to recall Richard Dawson in drag on one episode?

      • Ted S.

        The slogan itself is clever. Using Hitler, however….

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Castle Wolfenstein fans?

  5. Nephilium

    Trying to find actual pie pumpkins around here is a pain to begin with. After reading from some of the chefs, the extra time and work doesn’t seem worth it. Of course, there’s always the question of what kind of squash is in the can of pumpkin regardless. There’s a couple places around here (including Trader Joe’s) who do sell canned butternut squash and canned pumpkin.

    • UnCivilServant

      Once you douse it in spice, it’ll be hard to tell which squash it started out as.

      • Nephilium

        Yep. There was a brewery that took this to the correct route, and produced a Nunkin pumpkin spiced beer. The Brulosophy home brewing blog did a blind taste test to see if people could tell the difference between that and a beer made with pumpkin.

      • robc

        I thought that was pretty common. The spice is what the “pumpkin” drinkers are after.

      • Nephilium

        You’d think that… but it really isn’t (at least in my experience). At least one local brewery brags that they only use pumpkins from local farms, which is why they’re pumpkin ale is usually out later. Several homebrewing friends of mine after I sent them that article, were adamant that “they could tell the difference”, and continued to buy canned pumpkin to add to the mash every year.

    • Count Potato

      You could also make sweet potato pie, if you didn’t want to use squash or anything canned.

      • Nephilium

        I could. But I’m not planning on much in the way of cooking for the holidays this week. Put in a grocery store order yesterday afternoon (for pickup today) that was out of stock on an annoying amount of items. But tomorrow I’ll be roasting a chicken for dinner, then stripping the bones and such to drop into the instant pot to make stock overnight, and then making chicken soup on Thursday. If the girlfriend is still laid out tomorrow, then I may just skip the roasting the chicken, and make chicken soup tomorrow for the next couple of days.

    • Ted S.

      I’m making apple crisp, since Thanksgiving is just me and Dad.

  6. Ghostpatzer

    “Invest here and make all the money you want,” Bukele, dressed all in white and wearing a baseball cap backwards, said in the beach resort of Mizata on Saturday. “This is a fully ecological city that works and is energised by a volcano.”

    You know who what else got energised by a volcano?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Iceland?

    • Ted S.

      Harry Truman?

    • Tonio

      Xenu?

    • Rat on a train

      The one ring?

    • C. Anacreon

      Hot Liquid Ass Fire Cheetos?

      • Suthenboy

        We have a winner!

    • db

      My sixth grade science fair project?

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Er, east I mean
        *goes back to day drinking*

    • Suthenboy

      Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan?

    • Tundra
    • Loveconstitution1789

      Sauron?

  7. Shpip

    Get a load of the scrambled eggs on this guy!

    Saw that pic, and all I could think of was this charismatic fellow.

    • Fourscore

      I’m in envy, about all I had was mashed potatoes and gravy on the front of my uniform, when I went to the mess hall on Thanksgiving

  8. Drake

    Joe Biden blames oil producing countries for not having “ramped up the supply of oil quickly enough.

    Isn’t the U.S. an oil producing country? Is he saying that other countries should have known how incompetent he is and anticipated him fucking up domestic production?

    https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1462602564457873410

    • WTF

      Yeah, I think that’s pretty much what he’s saying.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Sure, but what does that have to do with your link?

    • waffles

      That’s insane. 100k extra IRS agents? There’s no reason to do that unless you intend to do some gestapo shit.

      • Drake

        NKVD shit Mr. Kulak.

      • Chafed

        Narrator: They want to implement gestapo level shit.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Americans dont seem to admit how much the IRS knows about Americans that the rest of govt doesnt. IRS is not normally subjected to 4th amendment restrictions.

        Democrats are coming for all dissenters. Better pick a side and fight or a side will be picked for you.

    • rhywun

      Maybe producing oil is another one of those jobs Americans won’t do.

    • hayeksplosives

      I scrolled down on the Twitter page and saw that Elon Musk really did carry out his threat to give JP Morgan a one-star review on Yelp.

      Yelp screenshot says: “Used to come here. Service has degraded. Place is just living off its name. Doesn’t accept DOGE.

    • Chafed

      Markets. How do they work?

      • SDF-7

        Mr. Lizard’s shock troops?

      • DEG

        #metoo

      • mexican sharpshooter

        We’ve left a hot rock in the corner for him, still no Mr. Lizard.

    • Drake

      A politician who delivers on his promises.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Let’s start with him.

    • Sensei

      In 2007, Chisholm told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: ‘Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody? You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen.

      ‘It does not invalidate the overall approach.

      in this case given the guy’s priors this was ridiculous. But excessive bail in many parts of the US is a real thing and I’m all for stopping it.

      • Tonio

        “Mr president, I don’t think it’s fair to cancel the program just because of one or two slip ups.”

      • db

        Thank you, General Tonio.

      • Drake

        Darn shame I have well water.

      • Ghostpatzer

        excessive bail in many parts of the US is a real thing

        Yup. Not sure about the solution, but there is this concept of a speedy trial written down somewhere which if adhered to might mitigate the problem. Spending a few days in the slammer waiting for trial isn’t great, but turning that few days into months and years is a very bad thing and happens far too frequently.

      • Sensei

        Plus in this case I read that “divert” as the same as “put into treatment”. He means that he is going to put someone in a substance abuse program who in turn kills somebody.

        That isn’t what happened in here from my understanding. So it makes that one “kill” quote even more out of context.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        – x number of insurrectionists.

      • Rat on a train

        One factor to use in bail calculation, does the accused have a history of skipping bail like Mr Party Crasher?

      • Loveconstitution1789

        The constitution guarantees nonexcessive bail for all defendants. If you violate reasonable terms of bail, then the definition of nonexcessive might require more money.

        Speedy trial is also important to justice.

        Not fair for defendants when DAs can sit on indictments and investigations then give newly charged defendants 1 week to prepare a defense.

        The criminal justice is so broken that it requires massive overhaul. Making it so only serious crimes of injury and theft are given prosecution priority and end all victimless crimes like drugs and vice crimes would be a good start.

      • robc

        The big problem is granting bail to someone who has recently skipped out on bail.

        I can’t imagine an amount that would be excessive for a bail jumper.

      • Sensei

        So more than $1k?

      • Drake

        Judge just set his bail at $5million cash. If somebody does pay that bail, that guy better have his head on a swivel – people might hunt him down.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        ^this. They used to use bail for bounty hunters to hunt down bail skippers dead or alive. For murder anyway.

        The constitution is silent on what the courts can do to get return defendants to appear for trial.

      • Homple

        People might want to look closer at that “overall approach”.

      • kinnath

        The process is the punishment.

        Prosecutors overcharge defendants and use excessive bail to force plea bargains.

        Bail reform is necessary.

        The fuckup in this case does not change that.

      • Homple

        “Prosecutors overcharge defendants and use excessive bail to force plea bargains.”

        Forget reforming bail. Reform the prosecutors.

      • kinnath

        Embrace “and”.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        There is a real interest in having plea bargains in the criminal justice system. How fucked up that system is pretty much requires all defendants to endure a speedy trial so prosecutors are forced to follow the constitution and drop charges for cases they cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

    • WTF

      Well, I guess the people of Wisconsin are learning elections have consequences.

    • rhywun

      And yet he was elected anyway.

      The honesty is refreshing, though.

      • Count Potato

        No one pays attention to local elections.

      • Chafed

        Some will now.

    • Suthenboy

      High crime keeps people beaten down and dispirited. It is a powerful tool in the tyrant’s toolbox. Take your pick of authoritarian shitholes and you will find that crime there is rampant. It is done deliberately.
      Why is this John Chisholm piece of shit not stretching a rope?

      “Now and then you have to shoot an Admiral to encourage the others.” – Voltair

      Bitcoin city? A scam.

  9. waffles

    It’s impossible to figure out what the hell is going on in Chile from western media. I thought the radical left was taking over. Guess it’s the opposite? I once made my friend’s Chilean ex-wife hate me by saying Pinochet saved Chile by lining up all the communists and shooting them. So there’s that.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Sounds like your friend married a communist.

      • waffles

        Yeah, Pinochet didn’t get them all. She was a communist like AOC is a communist. Except possibly even more privileged. The divorce was acrimonious, no children.

      • rhywun

        She was a communist like AOC is a communist.

        A communist who hides behind a pretentious label like “democratic socialist”?

      • Ed Wuncler

        Democratic socialist is a polite way of telling people that they’ll nicely ask you to take your shit before resorting to force.

      • Suthenboy

        Try saying no and that niceness evaporates instantly.

  10. Certified Public Asshat

    A few people I know who had very strong opinions on the Rittenhouse case (guilty) didn’t even know about the Ahmaud Arbery case.

    I’m not sure what it means, but my head hurts.

    • Spudalicious

      Ask them about Andrew Coffee, and your head will explode.

    • Suthenboy

      It means TMITE.

  11. DEG

    Mexicans need to unite and support the “national project” it is carrying out,

    Hmmm… is a bundle of sticks involved?

    Mr Kast described it as a choice between “liberty and communism”.

    He’s wearing a face diaper in the picture. I am suspicious of him.

    The so-called cultural exchange event caused outrage after photos shared on Thursday showed cadets at the Simón Bolívar police school in SS uniforms.

    Who do they think they are? Prince Harry?

    • Tonio

      [Golfklatschen]

    • Suthenboy

      Suspicious of him? All I see are vagaries and platitudes. No details of what this reset is but he doesn’t really have to say it. I have a pretty good idea what he has in mind. You dont need three guesses. One will do.

    • The Gunslinger

      Nope. Flawless.

  12. Gustave Lytton

    From the last post re kei trucks. Jalopnik posts the meeting attendees and doesn’t have a clue as to who is what. CA and OR have been hostile to kei trucks for years. OR has had the exact language up for several years now being used by the AAMVA as the grounds for their policy and used elsewhere. I don’t think it’s a coincidence. I think those two states in particular are pushing these bans.

    They will ban classic cars as soon as the foundation is laid. If modern safety standards are the new standard for everything, no way could older cars let alone something like a Model A be allowed on the road.

    • Sensei

      There are a lot of rich people with car collections.

      It will be interesting to see the politics at play that will allow them to keep their collections while the guy down the street with 1970 Nova has to send his to the crusher.

      • UnCivilServant

        I predict an NFA-style tax stamp and pre-approval process that is beyond the reach of the average car owner.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Restricted registration/plates that only allow usage on public roads as part of an official parade/organized ride/or an educational nonprofit. That would cover the well off and well connected and screw over Joe Classicsixpack who wants to run errands on Saturday in his baby. Not to mention Johnny Dirtbag who wants to use his as a daily driver.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        This is another reason flying cars were never subsidized by govt. once you leave the roads, govt has a harder time piling on personal vehicle/plane requirements. Only postal roads are mentioned in the constitution.

    • Homple

      Iowahawk will be pissed.

  13. hayeksplosives

    To whoever asked if my Turkey giblet gravy would work with the Turkey stock byproduct of their Turkey roast method, I see no reason why not.

    Go fit it! Do use low sodium broth if you’re going to cook it way down though.

    • db

      That was me. Thanks!

    • UnCivilServant

      use low sodium broth if you’re going to cook it way down

      Wut? No salt licks?

      • UnCivilServant

        You’re going to drink six wild turkeys? You liver will weep.

      • Not Adahn

        Alas, my flock has sought out more predator-free living conditions since Lily got free rein over the yard.

    • Unreconstructed

      Kinda OT, but your pumpkin pie recipe earned me many credits with my girlfriend’s family on Sunday. After a good showing last year with my family. Thanks!

  14. juris imprudent

    The Bee is perfect, just perfect!

    Jonah Goldberg And Stephen Hayes Quit Fox News To Join ‘The View’

    • slumbrew

      Savage. I love it.

    • Suthenboy

      Good riddance to those pieces of cheese.

      Bye boys.

  15. robc

    Answer to game from previous thread: Maria Montessori.

    • Ozymandias

      Wow. I sure didn’t have that in the office pool.

  16. LJW

    @animal @DEG

    Finally got my hands on it. Double conformed it’s a Spanish M43. It has a Falangist crest engraved in the metal. Who knows if that was carved after the war in an attempt to add value or if it was really used in the war. Can’t find any info on the serial number.

    • DEG

      I’m poking around on GunBoards and other gun boards. The crest is a yoke and crossed arrows? That’s the Falangist crest. It sounds like some people have confused the Civil Guard (sword and fasces) with the Falangist crest, like this one here.

      • Animal

        Olson lists that as the Guardia Civil (The Spanish national police force, or at least, one of them) crest, so that’s consistent with the M43. Ones made for the Army had a stylized eagle crest with “Fabrique De Armas” around the top, “La Coruna” (the factory, I think) on the bottom, along with the year manufactured. Like this one.

      • LJW

        Yes it is

      • LJW

        Sorry yes it is the Civil Guard

  17. Tres Cool

    “Get a load of the scrambled eggs on this guy!”

    Ay! Mi huveros!

  18. Tres Cool

    WRT my “49 beers in 48 hours” challenge.
    I ran out of beer and went to get more.
    Is there a Zoom call tonight? I have TVs to fall into before Jugsy gets home tomorrow.

    • juris imprudent
    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      One of his most controversial moments in office came when he appeared reluctant to condemn white nationalists who clashed with protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, that left one woman dead.

      ‘You had some very bad people in that group,’ Trump said. ‘But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.’

      Ugh the fine people hoax/edit too.

      • Ed Wuncler

        I think the worst part is that you can prove that Trump’s quote was taken out of context and it won’t change the minds of those who have a visceral hatred of him.

      • C. Anacreon

        Even worse, me trying to point out what was actually said not long afterwards, to my three San Francisco lefty buddies I was having a beer with, resulted in them calling me a “Trump lover”.

        With the TDS crowd, you couldn’t even try to barely correct misconceptions without being lumped in with the MAGA types.

      • KSuellington

        Ive also been accused of “liking Trump” for trying to clear up misconceptions of that event and the Russia Culluzion fantasy. Like has got fuck all to do with it. What are we in the fifth grade here? I both read the transcript and watched the video of that chaotic press event. It’s crystal clear to anyone who is not totally deranged by Trump hatred what he means. He even foresees that the next targets will be Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Also, the Founders tore into one another in the media of the day. Using their language of the day, the Founders were much more “mean” against their detractors than Trump ever was against his opponents on Twatter.

      • Suthenboy

        “Trump lover”

        It is all projection, all of the time with these morons. One’s personal feelings about the individual holding any given office means jack shit. Shit in one hand and put your feelings in the other hand. Which one carries more weight?
        Nobody gives a fuck about someones feelings.
        When you vote you are voting for policies, not people. Leftists do. not understand that because they have a propensity for cults of personality. I find that very creepy.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        If pointing out Lefties are liars who refuse to actually accept corrected quotes of Trump makes me a Trump lover. then Im a Trump lover.

        Why you people bend over backwards for Lefty lunatics, I will never understand.

        Just remind Lefties that call you such things, that Trump is the best President in US History. watch the Lefties wish you into a concentration camp.

    • Chafed

      Someone wants attention.

    • B.P.

      Can’t. Stop. Telling. Same. Lies.

    • Suthenboy

      “conservative columnist Max Boot”

      *facepalm*

      What are we going to do with these fuckers?

      • Tundra

        I just ignore them. Works pretty well.

  19. Count Potato

    “CDC Director Rochelle Walensky: “To give you a sense of what lockdowns were able to do in other countries, and I mean really strict lockdowns, in China their death rate is 3 per million.””

    https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1462882966053392392

    Lying or possibly that stupid?

    • Ted S.

      Embrace the power of “and”.

    • Chafed

      Gullible in the extreme.

    • juris imprudent

      Might I suggest knowing it is false and choosing to use it anyway – which would be evil.

    • Sensei

      Why would either Cihina or the CDC lie? Unpossible.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Now I really hate that bitch.

      Even if you accept China’s bullshit numbers, the steps they took included welding people into their apartments and forcefully taking others away to God knows where to probably die.

      Walensky just crossed a philosophical line that ought to end up with her getting disappeared.

      • Gustave Lytton

        No shit. Her position is closer to just put a therapeutic bullet on everyone and there’s no way for the virus to spread when everyone is dead.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Their methods were draconian and their numbers are horseshit.

  20. Count Potato

    “BREAKING: President Biden will require essential, nonresident travelers crossing U.S. land borders, such as truck drivers, to be fully vaccinated beginning on Jan. 22 – AP”

    https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1463252168656441349

    OFFS!!

    • grrizzly

      Let’s say I commented on a different aspect of the news.

    • Animal

      He can’t do that. But then, half the shit he’s tried to do, he has no authority to do. But I seem to recall there are Supreme Court findings defining interstate travel as a constitutionally guaranteed right.

      • Tres Cool

        Isnt that also like the ‘sovereign citizens’ with no valid license pull the “Im not driving this car for commerce, Im travelling, and you can impede that” when they get pulled over and a cop has a gun to their head ?

      • The Hyperbole

        I think US land border means Mexico and Canada, not interstate, hence the nonresident stipulation.

      • Animal

        Oh. Duh. Yeah, he may have the authority to do that. Too bad he isn’t applying that restriction on the Rio Grande.

    • rhywun

      Is he referring to “international borders”? I can’t make head or tails of that.

      • B.P.

        He’s probably referring to the Illinois/Wisconsin border. I’ve heard there’s a lot of illegal crossings there.

  21. Count Potato

    “REPORTER: “How many barrels of oil does the U.S. consume per day?”

    Energy Sec. Granholm: “I don’t have that number in front of me. I’m sorry.””

    https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1463243774860181520

    OK, so how much for a blow job?

    • juris imprudent

      $20, same as downtown.

    • Ed Wuncler

      Hahahaha.

      This reminded me of the time when we were on a phone call and the VP of Finance asked me a question about how we book revenue for our gainshare/rebates customers. I wasn’t expecting that question to come up so I wasn’t prepared to answer and man did I get my asshole ripped apart by my manager after the phone call. After that, I always make sure I’m on top of my shit just in case I get some random ass question.

      If a peon like me can figure that out, how in the fuck can someone like Granholm whose been in positions of power and responsibility for a long time pull the, “I don’t have that number in front of me. I’m sorry,” line?

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Responsibility? Has she ever actually been held responsible for anything?

    • Drake

      We all knew it doesn’t apply to illegal immigrants.

      • db

        You can’t expect an undocumented person to carry a vaccine passport.

    • Urthona

      Perfect timing. Shipping is so smooth right now no one will notice thousands of truckers quitting

      • Sean

        Can anyone point to anything this admin has done in America’s best interest? And you can’t say getting out of Afghanistan, as they totally fucked that up beyond belief.

      • db

        Finally going so hard ahead that they reveal their incompetence to everyone?

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Trump wanted to pull out of Afghanistan. Democrats and RINos blocked that.

        El presidente biden gets credit for being an accomplice of stealing an election, that its.

    • rhywun

      I wonder how Strawberry Shortcake is going to evade the inevitable pointed question from that Fox guy this time.

      • Urthona

        That guy is so mean. It’s like he’s not even rooting for the government.

      • SDF-7

        Now I want the next Republican administration to have Bitch Pudding as their PR wonk.

    • Ed Wuncler

      “parade crash”

      Makes it sounds like an accident instead of a deliberate incident.

      • Rat on a train

        He was upset because he wasn’t invited so he crashed it.

    • db

      I can finally get my buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff!

      • Tres Cool

        +1 Daffy Duck

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s despicable.

    • B.P.

      If they place a big order for ‘h’s and hyphens, they can repurpose the signs to “Dollar-Three,” thus creating a price range for inflation.

      • Rat on a train

        Motel 8 is false advertising.

    • l0b0t

      Sigh… when I was a kid they were all dime stores, when my mom was wee, they were five and dime stores. I just want to tie an onion to my belt and go give the Kaiser the business.

      • SandMan

        Me too!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It might be the Hundred Dollar Tree before this is all over.

      • Fourscore

        Sure, if you want the whole tree. Twigs and branches are priced accordingly

  22. Yusef drives a Kia

    The parks department is cleaning up leaves, and knowing us they left us some fun, Leaf traps!
    Josiah is still looking for a disc….
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/2Rh8P97HvYnoqQsK9

  23. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Drugstore vaccinators tell jokes and dress as superheroes to prevent a chorus of woeful cries breaking out among children now eligible for the jab
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/nervous-pharmacists-face-line-of-fearful-patients-kids-getting-covid-shots-11637682674

    Pharmacies in the U.S. have aisles of bandages, cold medicine and toiletries. Now, expect to see aisles of screaming children. Millions of children ages 5 to 11 are in line for Covid-19 vaccine shots, and many aren’t happy about it. “These are not willing participants, for the most part,” said Beverly Schaefer, owner of Katterman’s Sand Point Pharmacy in Seattle.

    He organized one at a nearby school earlier this month and gave each child a color-coded wristband, based on what parents said about the likelihood of their children throwing a fit. The screamers were directed to a “VIP lounge.” “Even if they scream and cry, it doesn’t scare the bejeebies out of the others,” said Dr. Amin, who has a side business planning weddings.
    The clinic featured live music and jugglers, and the vaccinators wore superhero capes. The post-shot waiting room had a librarian reading stories, a magician and the chance to write a thank-you note to vaccine developers.

    Forcing children to write thank you notes to the vaccine manufacturers after being held down and jabbed against their will. If there is any justice whatsoever in this world, there will be a reckoning for this one day.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I’m sick of it, I’m retreating from the World, for now,
      /eyes up

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        You and me both.

        *keeps shopping for acreage in the ozarks*

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Land is cheap up here, WFH would work fine,

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Wife has an aversion to real cold, else I’d be back in the Midwest in an instant.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I heard a YouTuber referring to it as medical rape because of the degree of coercion involved along with the penetration aspect. Maybe a bit overblown but he had a point I think.

      • Urthona

        To be fair, any shot a kid gets is a comparable experience.

        I’ve medically raped my children many many times.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        You have a point I suppose, that applies more to adults.

      • Urthona

        I had to get my 6 year old kid a covid test once because he had a cold.

        You would’ve thought the nasal swab was the worst conceivable human torture. He still talks about it.

      • KSuellington

        Heheh. I have a six year old as well. When we went to Mexico this summer we had to get Vid tests before they left us back in the land of the free. He flipped out when he figured out where we were going on the way to get tested. He bolted into the parking lot and hid behind a dumpster. I had to hold him down as he yelled and wriggled. The Mexican pharmacy guy barely touched his nose with the swab. You woulda thought he was being tortured. We took them out for pancakes after and the six year old wouldn’t eat a thing. He just sat there with a stuck out bottom lip and gave us the mean eye all breakfast as his brothers lapped up their pancakes.

    • Sean

      Gross.

      We’re living in sick times and our “leaders” are evil and petty.

    • Mustang

      Thanks to the comments here, we are spreading out my little one’s routine vaccinations just to monitor reactions with each shot and reduce the overall impact.
      You’d think we’d had ducks on our heads when we explained that we aren’t opposing routine vaccinations, we just don’t want them all at once. When the time came to consent to the initial shot, my wife crossed out the COVID option on the paper and wrote a big NO next to it. They weren’t recommending it, but just in case…

      Wife is awesome.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Most pediatricians really don’t like it when the parents exert their rights.

        They just expect you to follow their recommendations, most of which they’ve never really given any actual thought to, they’re just following the recommendations of the system.

      • Mustang

        I gave up listening to a lot of it because I’ve witnessed multiple doctors at different locations just googling shit and coming back into the room right after and giving me a canned response. I used to think it was just because they were crummy military docs but I suspect it’s more widespread than I want to believe.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Quite widespread.

        I’ve had my run ins with docs over my kids. I’ve since learned to preface any discussion with a very detailed genetic profile of a specific condition my eldest has. Once they realize you’re well informed and researched, their attitude tends to change.

      • Mustang

        I think it may have been your comments that drove the decision to spread the shots out, but I can’t recall the exact logic behind it. Do you mind reiterating it?

      • Loveconstitution1789

        If you get your kid 16 vaccines at once and there is a severe reaction, you cannot hope to prove any causation.

        In the military, I got a whole bunch of overseas precautionary vaccines Americans dont really get anymore and got sick as a dog for 3 days. It included temp over 103F and hives. Who knows which one did it to me or maybe it was the overload to my immune system.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Just think that a lot of doctors in the military were private docs wanting to avoid malpractice. Probably a wives tale though

      • Ozymandias

        Nope.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Cool, thanks, TCD is always good, now go away!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Really good observation,

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Excellent observations.

      Modern screenwriters either don’t know who Joseph Campbell is, or they hate him.

    • The Hyperbole

      Jesus Christ, I can’t imagine investing that much of myself into a children’s space opera movie franchise, grow up people.

      And yes I realize that I have written two articles dissecting and critiquing old timey radio westerns. That was different because reasons.

      • kinnath

        Star Wars it just an example.

        BBC did the same shit to The Nightwatch by Pratchett. Destroy the heroes and replace them with toke totems.

      • kinnath

        fuck I can’t type today

        “woke totems”

      • ruodberht

        Children’s? So not Star Wars, which Mr. Plinkett pointed out the obvious with on this point…15 years ago?

        Children’s movies don’t have intergalactic trade agreement censure votes and murder of entire tribes of sandpeople. If anyone still, in 2021, hasn’t seen the Plinkett reviews (or somehow missed those really obvious, easy points).

      • The Hyperbole

        Yes, yes, children’s programing can’t have any adult elements, Bugs Bunny never made a sideways comment and the Republic serials of the 40’s didn’t have any political subtext or icky love scenes. Star Wars is all about spaceships and ray guns and aliens and robots and magic, the boring scenes where “plot” is developed is only there so the kids can take a bathroom break or buy more Jujyfruits and another half gallon of soda.

      • pistoffnick

        plot? what plot?

        Star Wars (Muppets in Space) is just a crow hopping from one shiny object to the next.

  24. Aloysious

    There’s nothing wrong with canned pumpkin, as long as it’s Libby’s.

    They use a particular variety of sweet pumpkin. The Sugar Bear variety is close in taste, but it’s only available for a short time in the fall.

    • C. Anacreon

      When it says Libby’s Libby’s Libby’s
      On the label label label
      You will like it like it like it
      On your table table table

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        You’ve got lovin, on the table,
        /Pedant

    • Count Potato

      Really?? I think Libby’s is one of the worst. Pictsweet and Trader Joe’s are better.

      • Penguin

        Okay – Hormel vs. Mary Kitchen Corned (or Roast) Beef Hash?

      • Tulip

        Yes.

      • Penguin

        We have consensus.

      • pistoffnick

        Corned beef hash (my regular Sundee treat) >>Sausage hash>>Roast beef hash

        Hormel is local to MN so it is all I know. Mary don’t know shit.

        Libby’s is also local to MN. +1 large con cob over the Rochester skyline. One of my grandpas (the one who got his hand caught in a corn picker and chopped it off with an axe) worked there so he could continue to work the farm. We used to steal peas and corn from the neighbor who grew for Libby’s.

      • pistoffnick

        corn cob (not con cob)

      • Penguin

        I went to a middle school right next to an orange grove. I got lots of ‘free’ citrus until one day, a spider jumped on me from a tree. Thing looked about the size of a tarantula.

        I’ll admit a bias against Hormel, since they discontinued their Tamales. Now, I have to get La Preferida tamales. At least I have them available.

  25. LCDR_Fish

    What up yo?

    Regarding the afternoon universe conversation I missed – and the possibility of different areas of the finite universe acting in different ways, I’ve always been a big fan of Vernor Vinge and his “zones of thought” spatial design for the galaxy.

    • Urthona

      It’s just turtles all the way down.

      Fairly obvious.

    • juris imprudent

      Wasn’t familiar with him, that looks intriguing.

      • slumbrew

        You’re missing out. Those are great books.

  26. Yusef drives a Kia

    Tomorrow is going to hit 43, I can’t believe we haven’t had weather yet, I’ll take it and play whilst I can,

    • Tundra

      70 yesterday and 68 today. WTF?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Right? like the weather changes, or maybe the Climate does things, hmmm

      • Animal

        Five here at the moment. Hey, we got above zero!

      • juris imprudent

        That’s what keeps the riff-raff out, amirite?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        not -5, but our temps make it hard for the riff raff to get by, see ya!

  27. Spudalicious

    Unless you’re growing your own sugar pumkins, harvesting them two weeks before you make your pie, so they have time to cure, it’s not going to really taste any different than canned pumpkin. And even then, it won’t be a massive difference.

    • hayeksplosives

      By the time I’ve added nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, ginger, and Eaglebrand condensed milk, it’s going to be tasty anyway.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        i remember Eagle, the best…

      • Spudalicious

        Exactly.

  28. Tundra

    That gif.

    Dios mio.

    • SandMan

      I like the way she leans into the smack! Hypnotic.

      • Tundra
      • SandMan

        Thanks!

      • robodruid

        That was from a hamburger add?

    • Ownbestenemy

      I’m 200+ comments late cause of the gif

      • Tundra

        Careful. Tendonitis is a killer.

  29. Yusef drives a Kia

    I started baking again, got a silicone muffin pan and tried out cheesecake pucks, a tasty but horrible failure, I’ll try something different. Next is Sea salt Turtle brownies with Coconut fudge topping, decadent..

    • Mustang

      Devil’s advocate…there’s nothing there that says it’s related to the vaccines, not that I’d expect them to say so, but it’s also possible that it is from COVID itself. There’s literally zero data in the original BBC article. Without any data, there’s a huge range of possibilities.

    • Suthenboy

      The vaccines are neither safe nor effective…for anyone.
      At this point they have lied and jimmied the numbers so badly that nothing they or anyone says can be believed.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I refused and pay the consequenses, the the Glibs keep me alive,

      • Loveconstitution1789

        The EU released their numbers for vax deaths and injuries.

        50k deaths and 1M injuries.

        While these numbers are surely skewed because causation can be tough to prove, governments have lied about CoVID deaths for 18 months.