Cracked Pipes

by | Feb 12, 2022 | Beer, Drugs, Food & Drink, Media | 189 comments

I noticed the Russian guy that ran a small convenience store in my neighborhood sold the store to a new guy a few months back.  The new guy is cool, but I can’t call him the Russian guy at the A-1 store.

This is my review of Robinson’s Trooper Fear of the Dark English Stout:

So how cool is the new guy?  He bought out most of the existing inventory from the Russian guy and rearranged the aisles to have an additional counter in the center of the store as you walk in.  The inventory?  Its mostly crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia.  Granted recreational marijuana is legal in AZ so his variety of bongs is no longer a legal issue.  But how does one sell crack pipes when crack is illegal?

There is nothing illegal about owning a glass tube, right?  The crack-cocaine is illegal not the pipe, and none will be the wiser since he set up a Bitcoin ATM in the store.  No, I haven’t used the ATM yet.

Which brings us to this Snopes article where they initially explain it is “mostly false” the government is giving away crack pipes.

What’s False

This was just one of around 20 components of the grant program and far from its most prominent or important one, despite being the primary focus of outraged news reports. The purpose of the program was to reduce harm and the risk of infection among drug users, not to advance racial equity, although that was a secondary consideration.

Right.  They continue to argue…

While the reporting around this document focused almost exclusively on “crack pipes,” it could just as easily have focused on the infectious disease testing, naloxone provision, or even sterilized syringe distribution required of grant recipients. Disapproving news articles zeroed in on the safe smoking kits not because of the prominence given to them in the grant description itself, but simply because it allowed them to include “crack pipes” in their headlines.

Its almost like arguing they never explicitly funded drone bombing weddings in Yemen because they were really just funding 1000 other things related to the War on Terror.

Snopes updated their rating on this a day later to “outdated” after HHS put out a statement saying:

HHS and ONDCP are focused on using our resources smartly to reduce harm and save lives. Accordingly, no federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits

That’s a relief.  It gets better because after this was updated progressive groups are now complaining they are NOT giving away crack pipes in the safe smoking kits.  In the meantime, I will continue to purchase beer and other sundries from this guy since I am operating under the premise Team Brandon is about to drop the bottom out of the gray market for glass tubes by distributing “free” crack pipes to every American.

 

But this guy does have an interesting variety of beer in the cooler.  This one in particular for all the Iron Maiden fans out there will probably be a bit disappointed.  Its..okay.  I thought it was kind of flat and didn’t really have much to go on.  Its not really sweet like a milk stout, but doesn’t quite get to the dry (Irish) variety either.  Its just blah.  Which is fine if you are looking for blah.  In the realm of food and drink, the British do blah remarkably well.  When they venture down the rabbit hole of blah they get hilarious, sometimes disastrous results.  So in that sense this is perfect.  I just find it fitting Bruce Diskinson put his name behind it, because like everything else Iron Maiden related today, its just coasting on its well-earned nostalgia. Robinsons Trooper Fear of the Dark English Stout: 2.8/5

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189 Comments

  1. westernsloper

    Standard British dishes thus became the ones that have the bad reputation today: spotted dick, cottage pie, cold meat pasties,

    I may or may have not put bologna on whats her face number one or two’s tits.

    • westernsloper

      The first part was supposed to be block quoted. Format ruined my joke.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Bologna? She must have had enormous areolas. Pepperoni pasties FTW.

  2. Yusef drives a Kia

    a 4.5% Stout? what a shame.
    Iron Maiden still rules!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Right?

  3. Don escaped Texas

    counter in the center

    there’s certainly a need for that some times

    I just moved into a new office, and my choices are stunning to the traditionalists.

    My desk faces a wall; you enter rhe open doorway to my side across a large, open, inviting space.

    There are no corners jutting out into the room. I don’t hide behind a desk or peer over monitors.

    Everything is clean and open. A chair beside my desk invites you to sit as an equal, to roll out your drawing or spread out your notes and consult and collaborate…..my world is orderly, and there is room for you and your needs.

    My preferences come from all over. You don’t rush a dog or horse face on: you sidle up to them. Industrial engineering is clean and flexible; I can spin around to three worktops, a bookshelf, or a vertical file…or I could play rugby in all the unified space. Feng shui: if only I had Korean furniture with no corners at all!

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I always face the entrance to my work space, even at home. Too many times has an unexpected visitor made me jump out of my skin.

  4. Ownbestenemy

    SP and OMWC sorry about Wonder Dog. As life left this Earth another came into it. My niece gave birth to her beautiful baby girl. 6lbs 8oz, 18 inches with a full head of hair.

    • Mojeaux

      Congrats!!!

    • Tundra

      Nice. Congrats to you all!

    • Fourscore

      Thanks for some good news, OBE

    • Ownbestenemy

      Thank you. Mom and grandma and great grandma are beaming with joy. I’m just here to enjoy the moment

    • Ghostpatzer

      Convey, Uncle OBE!

      • Ghostpatzer

        Er, congrats. Spellchuck strikes again.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Mazeltov!

  5. Tundra

    I really don’t understand the outrage over the crack pipes. I’m considerably more outraged that they are ginning up a war with a nuclear power.

    Fuckheads.

    Even if the beer kind of sucked, you have to admit that label is awesome!

    • Fourscore

      Easy to find cracked pipes. Electrical problems are tougher.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      The label is awesome, that’s why I bought it!

    • Chafed

      It’s another example of rules for thee but not for me. It’s really that simple.

  6. rhywun

    Just went a little nuts at the supermarket since Gov. Rached let me in.

    The sticker shock is just bananas. Seems worse than just a month or two ago the last time I stocked up.

    • Chafed

      Inflation is real.

  7. Penguin

    Sorry to OMWC, SP & WebDom. Congrats to OBE.

    Tundra’s point about war is well taken. I wonder if the crack pipe story was leaked to take away focus from that, and the plethora of other fuck-ups of the Biden ‘administration’.

    Good line, Fourscore.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Thanks Penguin. Smoke Crack, not Ukrainians

      • Penguin

        I remember when my niece was born. This Christmas, I got her prep books for the SAT and some AP courses.

        Time flies when you spend most of it passed out on the floor.

      • Tundra

        Amen.

        How are you faring these days, Penguin?

      • Penguin

        I’m ok. How’s the new state?

      • Tundra

        I love it. It’s a nice fit for us and we get to see the kids.

        The weather is phenomenal.

  8. R C Dean

    he set up a Bitcoin ATM in the store

    I’ve been seeing those in some of the convenience stores (which are famously sources for “repurposed” drug paraphernalia). My question: how many serious drug abusers actually have bitcoin accounts/wallets?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Wall street Heroin addicts?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Wall street Heroin addicts?

        IIRC, Coke was it when I worked on the street. Financial Services, that is

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I have to see how the machine works. If you put in $20 and it prints out what is effectively a prepaid debit card then they won’t really need a BTC wallet.

      Maybe next week.

  9. Fourscore

    I just did an electrical repair, an overhead fluorescent fixture had 2 tubes die last night. Opened up the cover, saw that one tube had slipped down out of the contacts, left the switch on, stuck the errant tube back in place and replaced the cover. Took about 5 minutes, including putting the chair back that I was standing on. The missus thinks I’m an engineer and I won’t disappoint her by telling her the whole story.

    • Don escaped Texas

      I’m looking forward to getting LED lumen density with bulb swaps to such fixtures, but I don’t want to deal with the 20 minutes to wire around the ballasts

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        20 minutes? try 5, it’s that simple

      • R C Dean

        I’ve done straight replacements of the tubes with LEDs. Just remove fluorescent tube, put in LED tube.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        IME, you need to bypass the Ballast and hot the tombstones direct to the voltage source, 115 or 220 it matters not.

      • TARDis

        Bypassing the ballasts are easy. One thing I don’t understand though. Why did they put fluorescent tubes into closets and laundry rooms in the first place?

    • Mojeaux

      chair … that I was standing on

      Dude, WHAT?!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Are you just learning that men are not all that bright?

      • Tres Cool

        She must be new. I once stood on a bar stool that swivels and replaced a ceiling fan.

      • Mojeaux

        YOU didn’t just break your hip and spent 18 months recovering!

      • Fourscore

        Ah, Mojo, it’ll be a year next month but probably as good as it will ever be. Pelvis, not hip.

      • Mojeaux

        Time is weird, and your hip is close to your pelvis, but the point remains!

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I’ve stood upon mini refrigerators to change out lamps. A chair isn’t the worst thing.

      • Mad Scientist

        Real men stand on tilting office chairs with wheels.

    • Tundra

      Haha!

      I love it when that happens.

  10. Tundra

    Watching some of the livestreams from Ottawa. Fucking Canucks are getting it done.

    Things still look peaceful in Windsor.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Check out the video below of them carrying out a guy with a compound fracture in his left leg. It’s just swinging around unstabilized.

        I can tell you from previous experience that is fucking excruciating beyond belief.

      • rhywun

        Oof I think I’ll pass. ?

      • R C Dean

        Which video?

      • Tres Cool

        They should just dress in black and self-identify as ANTIFA

      • Hyperion

        They should identify as black non-binary antifa.

      • Hyperion

        This is deeply disturbing. These Canuckideplorables are not even wearing masks! Where are Klaus and Bill Gates when we need saving? I thought they had this thing under control? Where is my great reset I was promised? Where is my build back better? They’ve let some senator from West Virginia and a fringe group of truckers ruin it all! Who will be our savior?

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      The Gillets Jaunes are there!!

      • Raven Nation

        “demonstrators have set up portable toilets where Trudeau’s motorcade usually parks outside the prime minister’s office.” I hope they did that on purpose.

        New Zealand: “Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard on Friday ordered his staff to turn on the lawn’s sprinklers to douse them and to play Barry Manilow tunes and the 1990s hit “Macarena” over loudspeakers to annoy them. Protesters responded by playing their own songs, including Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It.”

      • PutridMeat

        Those protesters best be careful or ole Dee Snyder will get his panties in a wad and tell them to stop using his song.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    This was just one of around 20 components of the grant program and far from its most prominent or important one, despite being the primary focus of outraged news reports.

    Slave labor used in building the WWII German rocketry facilities was a small part of the overall scientific research and development project carried out at Peenemunde.

    Mostly false, lacks context.

    • rhywun

      hth

  12. R C Dean

    I check out the beer review while getting a growler and sandwiches at the local brewpub. Es perfecto.

    We are watching a Canadian government that has lost the Mandate of Heaven. Tear gas and billy clubs against happy crowds of normies just doesn’t scan. Here’s hoping this is sticky, and leads to a less lefty Canada.

    Truck Fudeau!

    • Hyperion

      Don’t listen to this right wing extremist agitator. Blame Canada, invade Canada!

      • dontreadonme

        What can’t he do?!

  13. Hyperion

    Hipster Juice!

    What is up with our esteemed leaders? It appears that Twink of the Norht has lost control of their own basket of deplorables and is just letting them unleah terror upon the whole of the world. Meanwhile, our own senile verions of The Twink is obsessed with Ukraine.

    But it seems obvious what must be done. Forget Ukraine, bring any troops home and invade Canada immediately. Start with missile strikes on these convoys. Tony, Obama, and Raytheon would approve. Then invade Canada, declare them our 51st state and ban trucks, after all they are causing climate change. 97% of scientists agree that trucks are bad and we must invade Canada.

    • R C Dean

      I have zero doubt that the Pentagon is abuzz with plans to “assist the legitimate government of Canada restore order.”

      Zero. Doubt.

      Just like our military followed ze orders to keep the rabble away from the Capitol, they will follow ze orders to clear the rabble from the bridge in WIndsor. Our military will be turned on the citizenry before Canada’s, mark my words.

      • Hyperion

        Now that they are not attacking tragets in the Middle East, what are they supposed to do?

        I think the truckers believe you also, since they are all now leaving.

  14. Hyperion

    Just popped a Heineken. #HangoverReliefNow

  15. TARDis

    Sorry for the loss of your wonder dog.

    And congrats to OBE. I hope the world improves soon. On a maudlin note, today is my mother’s birthday. She died much too young.

    • Ghostpatzer

      today is my mother’s birthday. She died much too young.

      Aye. My parents and in-laws left us long ago, and I miss them all. Lots of good memories, though; whatever bad memories there might have been have faded to nothingness. Remember the good times.

      • TARDis

        My brother called me 6 months after his 57th birthday because he had lived longer than my mom. Something about beating a curse. I said something about it being a good thing we have some of our dad’s DNA. “Oh, and mom didn’t make you a drunk.”

        whatever bad memories there might have been have faded to nothingness

        Mine have not faded, but I can remember them with a wry whimsy now.

    • rhywun

      Mine too. Her b-day was last week.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Tomorrow is the worst anniversary,

    • Old Man With Candy

      If I had known, I would have put her in this morning’s Birthdays list.

      For a fee, of course. I *am* Jewish.

      • TARDis

        Ha!

        That reminds me, is this the time for Gilb subscription renewal? I thought this place started in Feb. I can’t remember.

        It’s funny that my mom shared a birthday with Abe. My brother told me she was a racist, but I never saw that. Never heard her use the N word or say antisemitic things.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Thanks for that, Yusef. It’s easy to forget that slavery was once considered totally OK by a good number of people here. There are still parts of the world where it is acceptable, unfortunately. I found this interesting:

      Then as now, “diversity” was a shibboleth hiding an evil institution that could not be defended on its own terms.

      The more things change, the more they stay the same.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Jesus, that number still blows my mind,

    • Gustave Lytton ????

      I love how NPR has a Super Bowl Special Series as if football fans or even casual watchers were their target audience.

    • hayeksplosives

      As usual, the “danger” is entirely created and contained inside the imaginations of the lefty “victims”. I don’t care how afraid they are; there’s been no actual threat. They just pretend there is one and it somehow becomes fact.

    • Penguin

      At around the :30 mark, there’s a guy visible holding a sign reading “All Convoy Leaders are on Record Doing Many Racisms”

      I don’t know if it’s funnier being real or being a troll.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Could be Quebecois, which I guess would qualify as a troll.

  16. Sean

    Ardbeg Corryvreckan or Laphroaig Quarter Cask ?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Sorry, I don’t speak Vogon,

      • TARDis

        You obviously don’t appreciate good poetry.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Their eminent domain policy sucks though,

      • TARDis

        Can’t argue with that. But then, our system is in one of the poorer neighborhoods of the Spiral Arm.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Why not both?

      • Raven Nation

        I support this answer.

      • R C Dean

        Indeed. Side by side tasting.

    • The Hyperbole

      Laphroaig, you get that square foot of land.

      • Sean

        Practical.

        This is what is went with.

      • Raven Nation

        “This is what is went with.”

        Clearly you’ve started tasting both.

      • Don escaped Texas

        proper English is not for which we’re known

        in some part, it’s more fair to say that Scots speak an awful German

    • Don escaped Texas

      my Islay DNA says: coin toss

  17. Sean

    Looks like Gordilocks got Twitter suspension.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Yup. That’s their motto, cancel anyone who speaks truth.

      • Tonio

        “cancel anyone who speaks truth challenges the elites

    • Mojeaux

      Just came here to report that.

    • rhywun

      Pathetic.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      What a clown show

    • Ownbestenemy

      Lol he is the most benign on the whole situation. Shit gets real when Viva gets the ban.

      • Mojeaux

        Viva?

      • Penguin

        Viva Frei. He’s done a lot of reporting from the streets of Ottawa.

      • westernsloper

        Viva Frei. Maybe.

      • Ownbestenemy

        On of the Canadian lawtubers. Viva Frei has been down doing live streams in Ottawa.

      • westernsloper

        I had much better covid hair than Viva. I just got let loose before him.

    • Tundra

      100%

  18. Penguin

    This is dated, but I hadn’t seen it previously: Biden Christmas Stories.

    • Hyperion

      Looks like this Bumble thing is paywalled.

      • Penguin

        Hmm. That’s odd. What browser are you using?

      • Hyperion

        Chrome

      • Penguin

        I’m surprised that Rumble can’t play nice with Chrome, given its’ widespread usage. It may be that Alphabet doesn’t like any competitors to YT (which doesn’t appear to have the video.)

      • westernsloper

        #loser

      • Hyperion

        I only use Duckduckgo for the pr0n.

      • Hyperion

        Actually, I see now I can watch the vid. I got confused because it says ‘login to read comments’.

      • Hyperion

        LMAO, that is freaking hilariuos.

  19. Not an Economist

    Funny business in Bob Saget’s death? Apparently some Doctors claim the head injuries Bob received could only happen as a result of major trauma, such as a car accident.

    • R C Dean

      As someone who regularly reads post fall medical reports, including imaging, etc., I can assure you that it is possible to get major head trauma with a simple fall. Up to and including g fatal trauma.

      • Mojeaux

        Yeup, one slip in a puddle in the bathroom, konking your head on the floor…

      • Hyperion

        My ex-sil fell in the shower, hit her head on the tub, and they found her dead in bed about an hour later.

      • rhywun

        Yikes. Yeah, falling in the shower is a major concern of mine. Especially after last year’s hospital fun when I was pretty wobbly for a few weeks. I find myself grabbing hold of the towel rack and the window sill a lot more than I used to.

      • Hyperion

        I’ve actually been taking epsom salts bath this winter instead of a shower, it’s very relaxing and not nearly as much chance to break your head.

      • rhywun

        I hate baths.

        “I’m sitting in a tepid pool of my own filth.”
        /Kramer

      • Hyperion

        You chould take one more than once a year, that’s how you prevent that.

      • Tulip

        Always go to doctor if you hit your head.

      • TARDis

        What if my wife hits my head?

      • westernsloper

        Whatever.

      • Hyperion

        What about if the robovac runs over your toe again while you’re folding your socks to put away?

      • Tundra

        Sure, now you tell me.

        /50 years of hockey in the rear-view

    • Hyperion

      No one needs 600 guns.

  20. Hyperion

    This is an extreme slow day on this extremist site. Y’all driving Canadian trucks or OD’d on hipster juice?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Too much fascination with the Canadian protests and they’re glued to their TV sets and the bird app.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Something I’ve noticed writing these every Saturday for a few years. There are more comments during seasonal peaks, like the middle of summer or winter. Its warm in a lot of the country today, a lot of us could have gone outside.

      • Hyperion

        Feels like it’s about 70 here, I have the patio doors open.

      • Hyperion

        Actually thought about firing the grill up, maybe tomorrow if it stays like this.

      • TARDis

        I went outside today, and I just turn on the gas grill. I’m thinking about changing into shorts. It’s warm in the afternoon sun.

      • rhywun

        It hit 59 here. Snow all day tomorrow. ?

      • Hyperion

        See, climate change is real.

      • westernsloper

        I’ve gone outside numerous times today. To get fire wood. It is a beautiful day out there but I like it warmer and firewood makes it warmer in here.

      • Fourscore

        Cold today, I got my outside work done yesterday, cleaned the snow from the driveway. A -24 this morning and another tomorrow but then it’s gonna warm up. Inside today and tomorrow.

        No more firewood for me.

      • Mojeaux

        28F here.

        Just have very little to say.

      • Hyperion

        So, what you’re saying is that the Chiefs aren’t the only reason why KC sucks?

      • Mojeaux

        Twisted yourself into a pretzel to get that one off. ?

      • Hyperion

        Nah, it just rolled right off the thought train and right off the tongue with unpredented ease. I got more! They’ve went about as fur as they can go in Kansas City, they’ve went about as fur as they can go!

      • Mojeaux

        Sometimes, Hyp, you are more opaque than Agile Cyborg.

      • Hyperion

        Moj, you’ve seriously never watched Oklahoma?

      • Mojeaux

        I saw a high school production of it when I was in elementary school 114 years ago. Does that count?

      • Fourscore

        Oklahoma wasn’t a state when I was in grade school. Cattle still being driven on the Chisum Trail, had to watch where you walked during recess.

      • Hyperion

        It should count.

      • westernsloper

        Four X 20 wins.

      • Gender Traitor

        For many years, I’ve been unable to hear mention of Oklahoma without thinking of how a Dayton-area record store and head shop appropriated the title tune. (Attention Tres Cool & Annoyed Nomad – here’s your ear bug du jour. You’re welcome.)

      • Ghostpatzer

        Ok, GT, that made my day. Never thought I would hear that tune with barbershop harmonies.

      • Gender Traitor

        As is mentioned quickly at the beginning, this was sung by the singing and dancing Dinglebears (sadly, as this was a radio jingle, they were never seen.) There was an earlier jingle, to the tune of the old Tin Pan Alley song “Pretty Baby”, in which they sang,

        We’d like to thank the local SPCA
        For giving bears like us the chance to sing and play
        For Dingleberry’s to-daaaaaaaay!

      • The Gunslinger

        Who are you rooting for in the big game tomorrow Mo?

    • Fourscore

      Needs more Powell Doctrine…

      • Gustave Lytton ????

        Is that the one about presenting causi bellus based on false evidence?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Remember the Maine!

      • Don escaped Texas

        remember the Maddox!

      • Ghostpatzer

        Remember the Glavine!

      • Don escaped Texas

        that’s cruel

        ** remembers time before the designated hitter and runs sobbing from the room ***

      • The Gunslinger

        Don’t forget the Smoltz and the Avery.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Fuck the DH. Bartolo Colon, one of the worst.hiitera in history, went deep at age 42. If I live to be120 I will never see anything like that again.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      The War Pigs are hungry

      • Hyperion

        Well, you took away their ME forever fix. Damn libertarians running the world.

      • hayeksplosives

        We have always been at war with EastEuropa

  21. UnCivilServant

    Evening, Glibs.

    I had to force myself to leave the house. Made it out to Winter Steel and did scorekeeping most of the morning. Almost thirty people turned up, so we went into a more formal order rather than the casual one we’d used when there were fewer people. So I ended up talking a lot more than I normal do outside of work meetings.

    • Hyperion

      I think DHS has their eye on this creator of weapons of mass destruction. No one needs more than a spork. We just have to figure out how to make them from something other than plastic while still keeping the children and the sea turtles safe.

    • Not Adahn

      I was a bit windburned myself afterwars.

  22. Hyperion

    Canadian truckers need to be blasting this from their rigs Bastille Day

    • Hyperion

      New Canadian National Anthem? It is their product afterall.

  23. westernsloper

    When in the open ocean floating on water with a thousand fathoms to the sea floor a person peers into the purple water and wonders about life.

    I am trying Swiss I am trying. I have something but the ghosts won’t let it go. I will come up with some bullshit I promise.