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Snopes updated their rating on this a day later to “outdated” after HHS put out a statement saying: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
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.
The first part was supposed to be block quoted. Format ruined my joke.
Bologna? She must have had enormous areolas. Pepperoni pasties FTW.
All of those dishes are delicious.
a 4.5% Stout? what a shame.
Iron Maiden still rules!
Right?
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!
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.
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.
Congrats!!!
Nice. Congrats to you all!
Thanks for some good news, OBE
Thank you. Mom and grandma and great grandma are beaming with joy. I’m just here to enjoy the moment
Convey, Uncle OBE!
Er, congrats. Spellchuck strikes again.
Mazeltov!
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!
Easy to find cracked pipes. Electrical problems are tougher.
The label is awesome, that’s why I bought it!
It’s another example of rules for thee but not for me. It’s really that simple.
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.
Inflation is real.
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.
Thanks Penguin. Smoke Crack, not Ukrainians
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.
Amen.
How are you faring these days, Penguin?
I’m ok. How’s the new state?
I love it. It’s a nice fit for us and we get to see the kids.
The weather is phenomenal.
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?
Wall street Heroin addicts?
Wall street Heroin addicts?
IIRC, Coke was it when I worked on the street. Financial Services, that is
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.
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.
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
20 minutes? try 5, it’s that simple
I’ve done straight replacements of the tubes with LEDs. Just remove fluorescent tube, put in LED tube.
IME, you need to bypass the Ballast and hot the tombstones direct to the voltage source, 115 or 220 it matters not.
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?
Dude, WHAT?!
Are you just learning that men are not all that bright?
She must be new. I once stood on a bar stool that swivels and replaced a ceiling fan.
YOU didn’t just break your hip and spent 18 months recovering!
Ah, Mojo, it’ll be a year next month but probably as good as it will ever be. Pelvis, not hip.
Time is weird, and your hip is close to your pelvis, but the point remains!
I’ve stood upon mini refrigerators to change out lamps. A chair isn’t the worst thing.
Real men stand on tilting office chairs with wheels.
Haha!
I love it when that happens.
Watching some of the livestreams from Ottawa. Fucking Canucks are getting it done.
Things still look peaceful in Windsor.
But not in France.
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.
Oof I think I’ll pass. ?
Which video?
Livestream from Ambassador Bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWBUqyB7y2k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4whzZhPdhA
Ottawalks is back. Quite a party!
They should just dress in black and self-identify as ANTIFA
They should identify as black non-binary antifa.
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?
The Gillets Jaunes are there!!
Smear story by the AP reprinted by the usual places
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-united-states-justin-trudeau-blockades-f3368c041216343175d255a2ce23eb84
They’re just Trumpistas and besides Canada is rolling back the restrictions already.
“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.”
Those protesters best be careful or ole Dee Snyder will get his panties in a wad and tell them to stop using his song.
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.
hth
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!
Don’t listen to this right wing extremist agitator. Blame Canada, invade Canada!
Brian Boitano can’t save them now!
What can’t he do?!
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.
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.
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.
Silicone Saturday needs a plumbing job.
https://archive.md/1F91I
Just popped a Heineken. #HangoverReliefNow
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.
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.
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.
Mine too. Her b-day was last week.
Tomorrow is the worst anniversary,
If I had known, I would have put her in this morning’s Birthdays list.
For a fee, of course. I *am* Jewish.
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.
This is well worth the read, Lincoln was a great man,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/remembering-mr-lincoln-11.php
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.
I always wonder though, could there been a better way?
Dead bodies everywhere.
Jesus, that number still blows my mind,
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079870231/super-bowl-truckers-protest-dhs
GFY. Received reports? From themselves that they dreamed up that morning.
I love how NPR has a Super Bowl Special Series as if football fans or even casual watchers were their target audience.
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.
Here’s a story I had not heard about Lincoln, a regular Perry Mason he was!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/a-genius-for-friendship-8.php
https://mobile.twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1492581655122481156
Anti convoy protestors. Low T on parade.
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.
Could be Quebecois, which I guess would qualify as a troll.
Ardbeg Corryvreckan or Laphroaig Quarter Cask ?
Sorry, I don’t speak Vogon,
You obviously don’t appreciate good poetry.
Their eminent domain policy sucks though,
Can’t argue with that. But then, our system is in one of the poorer neighborhoods of the Spiral Arm.
Why not both?
I support this answer.
Indeed. Side by side tasting.
Laphroaig, you get that square foot of land.
Practical.
This is what is went with.
“This is what is went with.”
Clearly you’ve started tasting both.
proper English is not for which we’re known
in some part, it’s more fair to say that Scots speak an awful German
my Islay DNA says: coin toss
Looks like Gordilocks got Twitter suspension.
Yup. That’s their motto, cancel anyone who speaks truth.
“cancel anyone who
speaks truthchallenges the elites“Just came here to report that.
Pathetic.
What a clown show
Lol he is the most benign on the whole situation. Shit gets real when Viva gets the ban.
Viva?
Viva Frei. He’s done a lot of reporting from the streets of Ottawa.
Viva Frei. Maybe.
On of the Canadian lawtubers. Viva Frei has been down doing live streams in Ottawa.
I had much better covid hair than Viva. I just got let loose before him.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1492345379169386504?cxt=HHwWkICy-eWN8LUpAAAA
Yes.
100%
This is dated, but I hadn’t seen it previously: Biden Christmas Stories.
Looks like this Bumble thing is paywalled.
Hmm. That’s odd. What browser are you using?
Chrome
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.)
#loser
I only use Duckduckgo for the pr0n.
Actually, I see now I can watch the vid. I got confused because it says ‘login to read comments’.
LMAO, that is freaking hilariuos.
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.
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.
Yeup, one slip in a puddle in the bathroom, konking your head on the floor…
My ex-sil fell in the shower, hit her head on the tub, and they found her dead in bed about an hour later.
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.
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.
I hate baths.
“I’m sitting in a tepid pool of my own filth.”
/Kramer
You chould take one more than once a year, that’s how you prevent that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Spinell#Death
Always go to doctor if you hit your head.
What if my wife hits my head?
Whatever.
What about if the robovac runs over your toe again while you’re folding your socks to put away?
Sure, now you tell me.
/50 years of hockey in the rear-view
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/02/pa-amish-farmers-600-guns-were-seized-but-its-unclear-if-he-broke-the-law.html
Not guilty.
No one needs
600guns.This is an extreme slow day on this extremist site. Y’all driving Canadian trucks or OD’d on hipster juice?
Too much fascination with the Canadian protests and they’re glued to their TV sets and the bird app.
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.
Feels like it’s about 70 here, I have the patio doors open.
Actually thought about firing the grill up, maybe tomorrow if it stays like this.
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.
It hit 59 here. Snow all day tomorrow. ?
See, climate change is real.
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.
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.
28F here.
Just have very little to say.
So, what you’re saying is that the Chiefs aren’t the only reason why KC sucks?
Twisted yourself into a pretzel to get that one off. ?
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!
Sometimes, Hyp, you are more opaque than Agile Cyborg.
Moj, you’ve seriously never watched Oklahoma?
I saw a high school production of it when I was in elementary school 114 years ago. Does that count?
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.
It should count.
Four X 20 wins.
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.)
Ok, GT, that made my day. Never thought I would hear that tune with barbershop harmonies.
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!
Who are you rooting for in the big game tomorrow Mo?
Fucking MIC is going to get its war no matter what.
What are we up to? 9k troops in the theater?
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/biden-sends-3000-more-troops-to-ukraine-huge-spike-in-war-chatter/
Needs more Powell Doctrine…
Is that the one about presenting causi bellus based on false evidence?
Remember the Maine!
remember the Maddox!
Remember the Glavine!
that’s cruel
** remembers time before the designated hitter and runs sobbing from the room ***
Don’t forget the Smoltz and the Avery.
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.
The War Pigs are hungry
Well, you took away their ME forever fix. Damn libertarians running the world.
We have always been at war with EastEuropa
Coming or going?
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/12/pentagon-orders-departure-of-us-troops-in-ukraine.html
Being redeployed to the Canadian border where they belong. Open fire on them Canucks, Comrade Ceausescu Biden.
Well that doesn’t bode well…one report says leaving other says more going.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-send-3000-additional-troops-europe-amid-tension-ukraine-border
Oh..Poland. so pulling troops back into neighboring country but building up. Look! We don’t want war!
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.
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.
Typically, non-plastic sporks are Titanium
I was a bit windburned myself afterwars.
Canadian truckers need to be blasting this from their rigs Bastille Day
New Canadian National Anthem? It is their product afterall.
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.