Saturday evening 2021 is fucking over, links!

by | Jan 1, 2022 | Daily Links | 320 comments

 

Screw 2021! On to the next disaster of a year.

On the plus side, OMWC, SP and, WebDom and I have been playing a rousing game of smash liver the last couple of days. To make up for it, we ran the shop today, because employees were off. I for one, needed the respite. And it was pleasantly nonstop most of the day.

 

How about some links!

 

Totes not racist.

 

Strapping on in Beverley Hills.

 

Uhhh…

 

I have no sympathy for anybody who gets in a gondola in Mexico.

 

Wait, what?

 

Overachievers.

 

Happy New Years!

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Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

320 Comments

  1. WyoDave

    Go Utes!

    • WyoDave

      First?

      • R.J.

        Well done.

      • juris imprudent

        Bro undone by a cowboy. He may never show his face again.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I’m digging the avatar, too.

      • juris imprudent

        Thanks, that’s the actual whiskers.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Fuck Off Tulpa!
        /it’s been a while

      • WyoDave

        Thank you, and Happy New Year Bob.

  2. westernsloper

    And it was pleasantly nonstop most of the day.

    I have a hard time believing Spud can do anything except horizontal.

    • Spudalicious

      I have more than one talent, sloper.

  3. Fourscore

    Howdy Spud, Good that the employees got the day off. Shows good management skills plus demonstrates to the employees that the management can do what they want the employees to do.

    • db

      It also never hurts to demonstrate that employees are never irreplacable.

      /evil management hat off

  4. Fourscore

    AOC wants to run with the big dogs but doesn’t expect to have to go in the tall weeds.

  5. slumbrew

    Wait, there’s a _new_ Mexico?

    • Chafed

      I’m as shocked as you are. But there it is.

      Hobbit hardest hit.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Kinda large, nice though,

  6. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Listening to the Malone interview. He hits on a point I’ve made, this is about the massive horizontal integration of corporations across industries. While he doesn’t say it directly, massive entities like Blackstone that are benefiting from loose central bank policies, have undue influence in tech, pharma, military, media, and the regulators those entities have captured.

    • westernsloper

      I appreciate where he is today, but holy shit he has been the problem for forty years.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Accept the allies you get because we’re going to need them.

      • westernsloper

        ok ok

      • Chafed

        How has Malone been a problem? That’s a real question.

  7. westernsloper

    RE my neighbors and you all can chime as you would like. If you live in a neighborhood where nobody shoots off giant fireworks on New Years eve and then you are the asshole who shoots off giant fire works what wakes you up when you have to go to work in the morning…… Ya, you are the asshole.

  8. Shpip

    But over the past year, Hollywood’s total violent crime rate increased 25 percent with its homicide rate doubling, robberies up 41.6 percent and shootings up 54.2 percent over last year, Los Angeles Police Department shows.

    ‘Beverly Hills is definitely a target,’ said David Perez, a security expert who previously worked security in the Clinton White House and at the Pentagon.

    I’m doubting that the perps can read all that well, but they seem to have taken Sutton’s Law to heart.

    • Fourscore

      I knew the law but somehow Dillinger kept coming up in my memory. Willie knows the law, even if he denies ever having said it.

      • Shpip

        See, Dillinger was famous for something else.

  9. Nephilium

    Evening all, while I can’t promise it will be as memorable as last night, it’s a Sunday Saturday, so here’s the Zoom/Happy Hour/Discussion room for tonight.

    I can say that the edible glitter based drink has been made, and the girlfriend will have to taste it.

    • westernsloper

      I thought you meant you were starting that now. I got some shit to say!!!

      • Nephilium

        Nah. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern, as is tradition.

      • Animal

        I got some shit to say!!!

        What else is new?

      • Tulip

        I got shit to say to the people who suggested I stay at South of the Border!

      • westernsloper

        Well good luck squeezing those gripes in between whatever the fuck Animal or Swiss have to bitch about. And WTF border are you south of? Have you been kidnapped?

      • Tulip

        I’ll explain on zoom

      • Shpip

        the people who suggested I stay at South of the Border!

        Oh, geez. You stay at the Hotel Florence, about 20 minutes south of SOB, and you eat dinner across the street at Town Hall.

        You stop by South of the Border on your way north for a few minutes for a soda and some kitsch.

      • DEG

        Hopefully you’ll wait until I join. I want to finish up the Joe Rogan/Robert Malone podcast.

    • R.J.

      Is there a recipe for this drink?

      • Nephilium

        Start with a girlfriend who is easily distracted by shiny things. Have her buy you a bottle of Christmas booze, and get distracted when she sees a bag of pink glittery stuff. She thinks it’s special sugar to put on the rims of glasses, when it’s actually something called a “Christmas Cosmo”. Read the print on the package, and see that they want you to mix this with 5 cups of Pinot Grigio (not a bottle, but 5 cups), or 2 cups of vodka and 3 cups of water. Then mix with a whisk until it’s completely dissolved. Mix it up, and put the pitcher in the fridge, and notice that the glitter falls out of suspension after a couple of minutes.

        /gets immersion blender out to finish the prep work

      • westernsloper

        Don’t encourage him.

    • pistoffnick

      …edible glitter based drink…

      My poop is all sparkly and magical!

      • R.J.

        “Confetti poop”

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Oh, look, a progressive!

  10. DEG

    “If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet,” she tweeted. “Ya creepy weirdos.”

    Go fuck yourself.

    • Q Continuum

      I wouldn’t fuck AOC with someone else’s dick.

      Horsetoothed idiot.

      • DEG

        I’m certain there is a sex tape out there of her.

      • R.J.

        Please never link to it. She is literally hideous and deluded.

      • TARDis

        I’d watch it… if it’s her earning a gold medal in the Watersports Olympics. Fuck her “constituents” for foisting that POS upon us. And no, THOT, not interested. There are literally tens of millions of women more interesting than you.

      • DEG

        Don’t visit (NSFW) r/Politically_NSFW. She’s popular there.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I was going to say they’re slightly cruder than Glibs. Then I saw the Demi Rose shoutout halfway down and realized it probably is glibs.

      • EvilSheldon

        I am 100% certain that AOJ has said, ‘If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best,’ and meant it…

      • westernsloper

        I would.

      • WyoDave

        Three way with Psaki.

      • westernsloper

        A new suit, a limo, brunch, antibiotics, trojans and an open bar I am game.

      • MikeS

        And an alias. Be sure to use an alias.

      • straffinrun

        Same. My resolution is to only have sex with POCs this year.

    • rhywun

      It’s so kind of the far-left NY Daily News (I can play that game too!) to white knight for her.

  11. Not Adahn

    So wait, literal Gucci Glocks?

    • blackjack

      The serious bling weapons are in Mexico. Like these.

      BTW, I just bought a cop car. 2015 Caprice ppv. 6.0 LS motor. Mine is super nice, all silver ice metallic with an immaculate interior and none of the crazy idle miles or superfluous holes drilled in everything. It also has carpet and not the vinyl mat most come with. It’s flex fuel, so i running it on corn liquor right now. Doing some upgrades and deciding if I want to flip it and make a few or keep it all to myself. It was a county sheriff car and never really patrolled streets or anything like that. I’m probably going to sell my Sky and make some money off the chip shortage, whoo-hoo! The later ones like mine have upgraded suspension, interior, radio and electronics. Mine has two agm batteries in the trunk, backup camera, bluetooth, usb, remote start, factory tinted windows and I just installed CTS alloy wheels. I’m really enjoying it. It feels like a natural progression of the GM muscle car. Handles good, 355hp, killer brakes, 4 wheel independent suspension, abs/traction control. Would buy again.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        The six-liter is the Holden V8 out of Australia. Cops hated those cars for patrol because once you put the handle for the pillar stop, the laptop, the controls for the light bar and siren, cage, and all of the rest, it gets really cramped in the driver seat. Add in the belt they all wear and getting in and out is a bitch, at least that was the complaint when I worked for the cop car company. They all love SUV’s though.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Pillar spot light. Sheesh.

      • blackjack

        Yes. 2014 was the year they fixed a bunch of issues on them. They redesigned the seats to make more room for the bat belts. Beefed up the struts and suspension parts and a bunch of other upgrades. The damage was done and Ford swept in with the super crappy Explorer. I wanted a cheaper one to mess around with, but the County cars were super nice, so I bought the nicest one. I paid a bit much (12.5k), but it’s super nice. Mine never had spot lights or the pushbar. No lojack holes anywhere. The only hint it’s a cop car is the missing console. I’m waiting for a 5th gen camaro console to adapt and a ZL1 suede steering wheel. I’ve fixed almost everything that goes wrong with them, so I’m pretty hip to what to watch for. Mine’s been babied. I don’t expect any problems for a good while.

      • blackjack

        Btw, the rear seat and the trunk are astoundingly huge. I went to ask the llanta usada guy to install my alloys and he said, “sure, go get them.” Then, I pulled all four 18×8.5″ rims out of the trunk.

      • Sensei

        +1 no cylinder deactivation.

        Nice find!

      • blackjack

        No, I think it has DOD. I’m going to disable electronically and keep an ear out for lifter problems. Might just swap out the cam and ditch the dod pre-emptively. Depends on how well it holds up, or how hungry for more power I get.

      • Sensei

        Bummer. Do you have to pull the AC condenser to change the cam?

      • blackjack

        It’s possible to leave the condenser in, but it’s a headache. Bungee cord it to the hood, basically, and you have just enough room. Allegedly, by ’15 they beefed the system up enough to last better. We’ll see.

  12. Sean

    “News that the U.S. population barely grew this year, together with ever-falling birthrates and the decline in immigration,”

    Decline in immagration?

    Southern border says “what?”

    • westernsloper

      Shush racist.

    • Not Adahn

      Ah but we successfully kept the snowbacks out.

    • Urthona

      I still feel like not enough Democrats are scared to reproduce. We need something more severe than covid.

      • R.J.

        I sense a project for 2022. A rumor must be developed.

      • TARDis

        Weird Al needs to redo his parody song.

      • MikeS

        Fuck, for stupid. OK, let’s all play this game. My mom is currently in the hospital with Comonia…which is a damn sight more serious than flurona. I bet there’s hundreds of people in hospitals with Car Accivid. Probably a bunch with Sepsivid, too. Get a fucking life.

  13. creech

    Five touchdowns in under three minutes?
    At least the Ute-tOSU game is exciting. Some of the other bowl games really sucked and exposed several teams as frauds. Then there was pathetic tPSU, once ranked #4 and now not even in top 25. Surely an effort worth giving Franklin another year years to build on mediocrity.

    • WyoDave

      Crazy. The Utes better come out of the break with some pass defense.

    • juris imprudent

      OSU-ND was pretty good too.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Sounds about right. The only intellectual rigor in grievance studies is rigorous adherence to unassailable religious tenets.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘The question one can ask is whether it is really a reconciliation between milk and coffee that has been implemented or whether adding milk to the coffee is a way to take away from the coffee its unique properties and instead impose the black drink white properties.

      Milk in the coffee can with critical glasses be seen as a drink-based colonization. The hot and strong coffee cools and is rounded off in taste with the help of the milk, which thereby controls and domesticates the coffee.’

      *doffs hat*

      Excellent trolling, young man. I’m still giggling.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        I assume the fact that I drink my coffee black means I’m guilty of cultural appropriation?

      • R.J.

        I like my coffee like my women…

      • commodious spittoon

        From a pot in the lobby in a little foam cup.

      • R.J.

        Heyooo!

      • Nephilium

        Chopped up and in the freezer?

      • MikeS

        Freshly ground?

      • EvilSheldon

        …expensive?

      • Trigger Hippie

        Black and bitter.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Fitting eulogy for the recently deceased Dr. Grichka Bogdanoff.

  14. Shpip

    An Ohio State University footbaw team has given up 35 points… in the first half.

    Whose turn was it to attach the AED to Sloop?

    • WyoDave

      The Utes have a better fight song and sexier cheerleaders than tOSU. Fight me!

  15. juris imprudent

    Hoping the coaches for Utah point out #11 for Ohio State in the halftime talk and tell the db’s to pay more attention to him.

    • Shpip

      /watches first drive of 2nd half

      Doesn’t look like they did.

      Nice pick on the next play, though.

  16. Ted S.

    OMWC, SP and, WebDom and I have been playing a rousing game of smash liver the last couple of days.

    Hey now, you’re all-stars.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      But you Ted, are a Rock star,

  17. Sean

    ˩

    • pistoffnick

      O

      • commodious spittoon

        L

      • MikeS

        E

      • commodious spittoon

        N

      • db

        E

      • commodious spittoon

        PLEASE DON’T TAKE HIM, EVEN THO YOU CAN

    • rhywun

      ¬

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Que?

      • Sensei

        何?

      • Trigger Hippie

      • rhywun

        Exactly.

  18. commodious spittoon

    Port Charlotte Heavily Peated 10 year.

    It’s pretty peaty.

    • westernsloper

      I had a black lab/golden retriever mix named Pete. Called him peaty.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Did he smell like a bog?

      • commodious spittoon

        Was he into heavy peating?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        only if distilling Mate,

      • commodious spittoon

        You best bring ’em back wherefrom you got ’em.

  19. Don escaped Cancun

    @Soulsmithy – Fun fact: Jan. 1, 2022 is the exact date of the events in ZARDOZ.

    • Trigger Hippie

      We’re obviously twenty years behind schedule.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Well shit. At least the vast majority of us will be dead before then. Enjoy the downward spiral.

  20. straffinrun

    “ Interest in the therapeutics has peaked with the arrival of the new Omicron variant and its widespread ability to evade the vaccine.”

    I have something in common with Omicron.

    • Sensei

      So you and one of my friends are the only two hold outs in the country.

      All my other friends, their spouses and families have been all in.

      • straffinrun

        As usual, it’s very easy for me to not do something.

      • Sensei

        What’s the deal on middle school aged children and vaccine status/requirements there?

      • straffinrun

        No requirements as far as I know. The govt actually set up a hotline you can call to report people who harass you over not being vaxxed.

      • Sensei

        Can you call for rhywun and me and report Murphy and Hochul?

      • straffinrun

        Honestly, I’d get out of there if I were you guys. They are just getting started on the terrible ideas that are coming down the pike.

      • rhywun

        Thinking about it. Can’t leave before November.

      • rhywun

        Or I could leave earlier, depending on how much money I want to leave on the table.

      • straffinrun

        Odds are you could squeak by and avoid most of the craziness. It’s a big world, though, and just trying to squeak by isn’t really worth it if you don’t have to. Good luck.

    • rhywun

      ?

      • straffinrun

        ☠️?☠️

      • Trigger Hippie

        *squints*

        Oh, champagne glasses.

        …for a second there I thought that was a backside view of a bent over rooster and thought to myself: “Why in the ever-loving fuck does that emoji exist?!”

      • DEG

        Rule 34.

      • straffinrun

        Any cockle do?

      • Trigger Hippie

        My cock used to crow at dawn but now that middle age has set in it just doesn’t seem to care anymore…good. that’s just extra time to sleep.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I get by OK without, but damn I love Pussy!

    • commodious spittoon

      I was given a somewhat exasperated telling off by a senior engineer I do a lot of work for because he didn’t want to take me on a site visit when I admitted I wasn’t vaccinated. I realized immediately that I should have lied. A few days later he asked me into his office and apologized for having questioned my decision.

      • rhywun

        I should have lied

        Nah.

      • commodious spittoon

        Given how unreliable the vaccines are at preventing reinfection… WDATPWIM?

        But really, at the time it seemed conceivable that passports would become a thing, and even though the partners had made clear they had no intention of enforcing any sort of mandate or even wanted our status for paperwork, we had no idea whither goes the state enforcement. So I told the truth. Now it seems moot and all but dead.

      • Ted S.

        The problem is that the Supreme Court could still validate Biden’s vaccine mandate.

    • Hyperion

      Dude, she’s like Brithish. I have been told right here on this site that all British chicks are hideous. I’m not fully convinced yet, so if she wants to take off all her clothes, I am willing to take a look, just out of fairness.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        She’s a waif of a girl, but cute!

      • Hyperion

        Unlike that hulk of a woman at the party I was at last night, who tried to pull me out of my seat to the dance floor. Good grief, she was strong, I thought it was Steve Smith at first, I was almost traumatized.

      • Hyperion

        And seriously, when her and her bf/husand came over later to talk to us, I swear they were both tall, but she was like 7ft tall. She was a Shesquatch! I feel bad for saying that, they were really nice, lol.

      • commodious spittoon

        YOU WANT SNU-SNU?

      • Hyperion

        LOL. Good grief, when I first saw her, I thought man, that is one big woman!

      • Hyperion

        I just did SF a favor, Shesquatch can be his newest muse.

      • MikeS

        She German. Sober up.

  21. Hyperion

    Fuck 2021 and an early ‘Fuck 2022’. Think our betters cannot make it worse than the last one? They say ‘Here, hold my beer’.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Ignore them, what can they do, fire you?
      /oh, shit

  22. Hyperion

    Man, WV folk really know how to party and I have a massive fucking hangover to prove it. Trying to drink my way out of it all day, still not there, but I do not give up easy.

    • Hyperion

      You are getting a lump of coal from Saint Fauci this Covidness.

    • Chafed

      That’s good Straff.

  23. commodious spittoon

    Steve Jobs named his daughter Eve.

    Steve Holt’s mother in Arrested Development is named Eve.

    EVE JOBS!

  24. Hyperion

    Don’t get your hopes up about 2022. The democrats are going to do something insanely desperate. I think they might fear that they cannot pull off another pandemic atttempt or massive election fraud. They’re going to totally jump the shark. Sorry for my dire prediciont, but there’s probably zero chance I am wrong. Just get ready to go into survival only mode.

    • blackjack

      You had better memorize all the freeways you need to take to get the hell out of dodge. Keep reciting them until it’s second nature. It’s a survival tactic.

      • Hyperion

        I’m gonna take the 15 until I hit the 340 and stay on it until I can’t take it anymore!

    • commodious spittoon

      We’re giving Dems much too much credit. We’re a year into the Biden admin, they’ve accomplished essentially nothing, at least given where their sights were, they haven’t fortified elections for all of time, they’re barely clinging to ~40something% approval, they’re losing minority and independent voters in droves, and unless Trump weighs in heavily in 2022,

      aw christ we’re boned.

      • Hyperion

        Seriously, at this point, all I want is a small plot of land where I can raise my own food in an area where people are very willing to just shoot you if you try to take their stuff.

  25. Gender Traitor

    Had the pleasure of witnessing tOSU come from behind to win the Rose Bowl…by following the play by play on my phone after our cable and internet went out. ?

    • juris imprudent

      We lost the HD signal, watched the end in low-res. That was a great fucking game.

  26. commodious spittoon

    Dewar’s blended scotch whisky japanese smooth mizunara oak cask finish product of scotland is probably the best whiskey from a screwtop bottle I’ve ever had.

    • Hyperion

      My SIL (son, not sister) kept asking me last night where the moonshine is, he wanted to try it. I was like dude, just because you’re in WV, doesn’t mean there is moonshine at every tavern. Where we live now in MD, you can get all you want of it at a liquor store about a mile from my house. All of it is in little jars that look like canning jars. Totally authentic, I’m sure.

    • straffinrun

      ?

    • commodious spittoon

      $26 for a bottle they couldn’t bung it?

    • commodious spittoon

      Getting smoother the lower the bottle gets. Imagine.

  27. juris imprudent

    So two of the three OSU’s won tonight, I think the other one won their bowl game as well.

    • Shpip

      Oregon State dropped their bowl game to Utah State.

      The Aggies had no trouble penetrating OSU’s defense, got right up in their guts the whole game.

      (Yes, there’s a juvenile beaver joke in there, but I’m way too mature to make it.)

  28. R.J.

    Is there a pizza topped with hot dogs and hot dog toppings? Or is this a new business idea?

  29. one true athena

    I’ve been mildly rooting for Utah, since I know a kid on the team this year. Good game, boys!

    I’m eagerly awaiting next year when I get to be the one with the UNIVERSITY OF (somewhere yet unknown) MOM sticker on my car, which will determine who I root for in all sports from now on.

  30. rhywun

    “The Obsolete Man” is on. It seems more relevant than ever.

    • commodious spittoon

      Link me that, that sounds relevant

      • commodious spittoon

        Crimony.

      • MikeS

        One of two excellent library-related episodes staring the great Burgess Meredith.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, the other one was on earlier.

      • rhywun

        Gotta love New Years. There are two Columbo marathons going on.

      • MikeS

        I need to get back to Columbo. I started binge watching the entire series but somehow got sidetracked by Inspector Morse. Then Poirot. Now it’s Schitt’s Creek*. Almost done with that.

        *I know. One of things does not belong here, right?

      • rhywun

        I don’t know what Schitt’s Creek is but I’ll guess that is the one that is not like the others.

      • MikeS

        It is very funny. And drops some heartfelt moments on you from time to time. Would recommend.

      • MikeS

        It originally aired on CBC, it’s on Netflix, now.

  31. Brochettaward

    Fireworks are such a seconder activity. If loud noises and bright lights entertain you, seek help. Setting them off comes across as a pathetic attempt to compensate for a small penis.

    And straffinrun sucks dick.

  32. commodious spittoon

    The verve isn’t related to the verve pipe

      • commodious spittoon

        It’s sll hoinh bryerrn mu

      • commodious spittoon

        mothrrgh frickhnn my brainwaive

      • commodious spittoon

        Fuck you all fuck you al fuck you all all kinds

      • commodious spittoon

        Alright where are we now

      • commodious spittoon

        Wait, sorry, I’m on to Audioslave.

      • commodious spittoon

        Like a stone so there

      • commodious spittoon

        Pistoff gets it

  33. commodious spittoon

    Right, my asininity ends with my being done with myself.

    • commodious spittoon

      Wouldn’t you rather be similarly done with yourself.

      • commodious spittoon

        Anyone ever read John Dies At The End that’s a great novel

      • slumbrew

        Great book. Sequel is creepy AF.

  34. Gustave Lytton

    Took the wife out to dinner and grocery shopping, now onto shortbread and port while watching The Avengers. Jan 1 is looking good so far.

  35. ron73440

    The Expanse’s last season has convinced me I shouldn’t watch adaptations of books I like.

    The first four seasons were good in spite of changes made just to create drama.

    Last two seasons, I don’t understand why they made Naomi stupid. Holden doesn’t act like a captain, and apparently anybody can be a pilot.

    /rant off, going to watch Bubba Ho-Tep now. It looks hilarious.

    • rhywun

      Just started the first Expanse book. Since I don’t have a commute to read through any more, it will probably take me even longer than the TV version.

      • ron73440

        It is a long as book and there are many of them.

      • rhywun

        Yasss. Only way to write a proper series.

      • slumbrew

        Reading the final, ninth book now. Great writing.

    • ron73440

      Black JFK is awesome.

    • commodious spittoon

      I don’t hate you.

      At least, I’m not looking for a reason to hate you.

      • MikeS
      • commodious spittoon

        My cat really liked that.

      • MikeS

        Your pussy has good taste.

      • commodious spittoon

        Are you in your thirties?

      • MikeS

        God, no. Knocking on my 50s.

      • Chafed

        You look good for 72.

    • slumbrew

      That song brings me back.

  36. prolefeed

    I like my wife the way I like my coffee – dark, sweet, and full of cream.

  37. commodious spittoon

    Kate Nash- Foundations

    Another of those songs that I can’t help but

    I just love this woman.

    Christ, that was thirteen years ago.

    • commodious spittoon

      Thirteen years ago, I was 22. I started dating Annette. I can’t say I fell in love with her, I don’t think we were ever in love. At least, I was never in love with Annette. I should have been, She was in love with me. Annette was lovely. Lovelier than I was.

      • commodious spittoon

        I moved on to Shawn. She was thinner, and that was about it. She was a bony girl, a very intelligent woman, whom I wanted for her bony body. I think I could care less about her relative intelligence.

      • commodious spittoon

        Things got muddy about then. I dated some whore, and then I broke up a marriage. Then I reconnected with a woman for the first time in years.

      • commodious spittoon

        Things get upsetting here. I don’t like these times. I want to move on.

      • commodious spittoon

        Well this is all kinds of faggoty.

      • Q Continuum

        You just need to go get some Los Cuates and all will be ok.

      • commodious spittoon

        Who the fuck are you. Text me.

      • commodious spittoon

        You’re either Zach or you’re Tony, and either way, I’m going to throttle you. It’s going to be messy. So come clean.

      • commodious spittoon

        You’re either Zach or you’re Tony, and either way, I’m going to throttle you. It’s going to be messy. So come clean.

      • commodious spittoon

        Swear to god, if you’re Scott and I find out Scott is a whole helluva lot more cerebral than I ever gave him credit for, I’m throttling the cerebriality out of you

      • commodious spittoon

        Or, my God, you could be Joe. I will slit my wrists if you’re Joe. You have family, you have career, you have everything I could possibly want, please don’t be Joseph. I envy Joe. But I’m not Jealous. Please don’t suddenly show up here and transmute my enviousness of Joe to jealousy. Please don’t make me jealous of you, Q.

      • commodious spittoon

        Mostly I like my definition of envy and jealousy spelled out with some specificity.

      • commodious spittoon

        Yuck. All this gets the editorial magic

    • Chafed

      You make a strong case.

  38. Festus

    Happy New Thing, Glibbies! I took an extra day off just to spite management and my liver. Hope that all of you have a less interesting 2022 than I will.

    • commodious spittoon

      Don’t count on it

      • commodious spittoon

        Sorry, that was wrong.

        My real threat is: Good lord yes you will have a new thing glibbies new day extra day off spite management

      • Chafed

        Jesus CS. You are going to have a monster hangover.

      • MikeS

        Yup.

      • commodious spittoon

        Thanks a lot guys I thought we’re in this together.

      • MikeS

        We are. I was just about to say you are a hell of a lot more fun than the crew that Zooms every night and aren’t coordinated enough to talk and comment at the same time.

      • MikeS

        I mean, I know they are all pretty old, but come on.

        *shots fired*

      • commodious spittoon

        I try to include you all, but I think it’s only me that ever suffers the horrible consequences of my drinking.

      • MikeS

        I hope you’re only joking about “horrible consequences”. I drink too often, and it took me quite a while to learn, but I now stop short of horrible consequences.

      • commodious spittoon

        Alright, for example, some stupid drunk gets wasted and rents Terminator 3 because hw ants to watch it ?? because he has fond memories of it??

      • Chafed

        I feel for you CS. I’m not criticizing. I’m empathizing.

      • MikeS

        Oh shit. It’s 1:30. This week of vacation has allowed me to get into my old bad habit of staying up way to late. I’m off to bed, kids. I’ll leave you with something to ponder.

      • MikeS

        Took me 20 fucking minutes to make that last comment.

        Also, CS, if T3 is the extent of your horrible consequences, you’re doing OK.

      • commodious spittoon

        NO SIGN OF BRAIN TRAUMA

      • commodious spittoon

        DROP DEAD ASSHOLE

        UNABLE TO COMPLY

      • Festus

        I won’t but well wishes to you, all the same, CS!

    • MikeS

      Happy New Thing to you, Festus!

    • Chafed

      Right back at you Festus. Let’s hope sanity takes root and you year is less interesting than you anticipate.

  39. Festus

    Anyone else miss just hanging out with your friends in warm, convivial surroundings? I sure do. It started small when they banned smoking indoors but step by step the Nannies have stripped the world of fun. Next came draconian drunk driving laws. Now it’s come to the point that you can’t even attend church and even if you wanted to, the Pastor probably agrees with the Government. This is a totalitarian’s wet dream and a waking nightmare for the rest of us. Forced medical intervention? Seriously? It’s all over but the crying, now.

    • hayeksplosives

      I feel ya.

      There’s a fundamental difference in being there physically versus being on zoom. I’d give you a hug in person, for example.

    • Festus

      Buddies and I used to love to play a few frames after our shift. That’s long gone, well before this newest bullshit started. It was incremental and then the Hoodoo Gurus really started feeling their oats and now here we are, held hostage by school marms and nobody will say shit even with a mouthful of it. I’M DONE WITH IT.

      • hayeksplosives

        These weird times in the wee hours when nobody else is stirring is when the cuckoo thoughts come in…

        What iffs and HowComes? And such abound.

        Still, I am determined to be positive.

        Miles to go before I sleep.

      • Festus

        I’m still here with many zany thoughts, Lady Greeneyes.

      • hayeksplosives

        Is that your kitty cat in your profile avatar?

        My cat is definitely in charge of the household.

    • Sean

      Ah, the days of being young! Little money, little responsibilities, rattle trap cars, random hookups, odd groups of friends… And smoking. Smoking was cool.

      All that was good. I’m pretty content where I am now though.

      • rhywun

        All that was good.

        Yup. Imagine still being young and having all that taken away.

        We got “lucky”.

  40. hayeksplosives

    Well shit.

    I made the mistake of queuing up the Ken Burns Civil War masterpiece.

    It is not a cheery tale. I do wonder: what would it take to pit brother against brother to the death? If the cause were just, could we even do it?

    • Festus

      Stay tuned, you may find out in real time. Hope you’re doing well, Splodeylady!

      • hayeksplosives

        Hey, if you want to text/chat the insomnia away, ping my email hayeksplosives AT ProtonMail and we can exchange digits.

      • Festus

        Fuck it, I have nothing to hide. You can reach me thusly 1 778 675 0908. I’ll be up for at least a couple of more hours.

      • Tres Cool

        /considers sending dick pic
        /decides to let a couple more beers sink in

      • Sean

        Yeah, is that a cell # Festus?
        Inquiring minds want to know.
        ?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Next you’ll be reading Shelby Foote, who seems to be the inspiration for Ken Burns’ overly lengthy output.

      • hayeksplosives

        I do own and have read Shelby Foote’s three volume epic.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They’re also good for crushing walnuts when dropped.

  41. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    yo whats goody

    • Sean

      Mornin.

  42. Fourscore

    Mornin’ TC and Festus and Happy Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down. to all

    • Tres Cool

      Its a cover but you made me do it.

      She checks nearly all my boxes.

      • Fourscore

        Emily is a cutie and the real name of Podunkville. Good choice.

  43. Fourscore

    A -30 this morning but a warm fire, a fresh cup of coffee and lots (well, one or two of y’all) friends up and about and life is good.

  44. Fourscore

    The seed catalogs are arriving, full of the joys of spring and anticipation. Some how life doesn’t always match the pictures.

  45. Sean

    I had keto brownie & ice cream with whipped cream for breakfast. Yum.

    • Fourscore

      I’ll be having oatmeal with a dash of very local honey, an over ripe banana and some OJ to wash the pills down

      • Tres Cool

        I have some AIGS I need to use, so Ill likely make some omlettes. And a hash-brown casserole (for Jugsy).
        Since Ive been up all night, TALL CANS®!

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m hard boiling the eggs of unknown age.

        If they’re no good, it’s less of an issue to dispose of them. If they’re good, I can make something food from them.

      • Tres Cool

        Now Im hearing Bubba Gump, “Mama says AIGS is the fruits of a barnyard. Boiled eggs, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, egg hollandaise, deviled eggs, pickled eggs…”

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, the eggs were good.

        I’ve decided to make macaroni salad.

  46. UnCivilServant

    Morning, Glibs.

    I need to go and get everything in order today. Darn smithing class is in Maine, so I can’t just run home between sessions.

    • Fourscore

      Morning UCS, are you on vacation? Maine is a bit of a drive this time of the year.

      • UnCivilServant

        I am on vacation this week. The first class is on tuesday. Tomorrow I am driving the ~5-6 hours out there.

      • Fourscore

        Old time smithing? Anvil, etc? Make horse shoes?

      • Fourscore

        Damn, that’s some serious stuff, you’ll be headed for the nearest Renaissance Fair come fall, to show off your skills.

      • UnCivilServant

        I still don’t have anywhere to practice, so my ‘skills’ might still be nonexistant.

      • Sean

        I imagine ‘smiths aren’t much on board with covid games.

      • UnCivilServant

        None of the materials have said word one about stupid theater.

  47. robodruid

    Its cold out there, may have to bring out buckets of water for the chickens.
    Morning.

    • Tres Cool

      sup’

    • Fourscore

      I’ll need a wheel barrow of wood but I’m gonna wait for a while, too early and way too cold for a geezer.

    • Tres Cool

      “…with resource-poor countries around the world desperate for access to these lifesaving treatments.:

      Citation needed. And NOT from the WHO and/or Fauci.

    • Fourscore

      Public Service Message. Next year Weight Watchers will have a float.

    • westernsloper

      Hello Bill Gates.

    • Gender Traitor

      The robot nurse isn’t creepy at all.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The whole thing is fucking weird and pervy looking.

      • rhywun

        Here she is in action.

    • Gender Traitor

      ::DDG’s “mummer”::

      Mummers have their roots in the past, tracing as far back as ancient Egypt. They’re best documented during the medieval period, where the mummers’ play was a popular pastime for the poor. There’s a wide variety of mummer plays, but they’re characterized by big masks and pantomime traditions.

      ?

      ::disappointed that there’s no mime emoji::

      • Sean

        Tune in. The pageantry is very impressive.

  48. Not Adahn

    Feeling much better this morning. Eggs and chiles for breakfast with cinnamon coffee to keep the sinuses open. I partially disassembled the vacuum cleaner and may have fixed it. Lily is doing her best to make my efforts irrelevant.