GlibFit 4.0 – Is There Something Going on Today?

by | Feb 13, 2022 | GlibFit | 392 comments

 

I’m phoning it in today. Most of you are already drunk. So, this will be a glorified open post populated by my brain farts.

I want to thank Samsung for creating their own collection of TV channels. If you have any Samsung device with a screen you can watch for free. They created a Baywatch channel. I believe in small government, but rather than defund NPR let’s take all their funding to ensure we have Baywatch in perpetuity. The plots are preposterous but no more preposterous than NPR’s version of the news. If we are going to subsidize something, it should be a show with impossibly beautiful people, unrelenting optimism, and dedicated to helping other people.

I admire the Canadian Freedom convoy. Those Canuckastani truck drivers must be beyond fed up. I don’t know if Poutine Boy will actually do something but there is a chance these guys may be on the receiving end of the Ottawa police force. Why didn’t our truck drivers think to do this in some blue hellhole like NYC or Chicago?

A year ago, I was writing about the blue-on-blue political violence (words are violence, right?) concerning covid restrictions and school closures. I thought the end of all covid related restrictions was near. I was obviously wrong. I no longer have any idea what will make the covid pornographers conclude it is time to go on with life.

I’m recycling this song from a year ago. It seems oddly appropriate for the Canadian truckers.

 

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392 Comments

  1. Mojeaux

    What’s going on today?

    True crime and cross stitching #FTW!

    • hayeksplosives

      True crime viewing or creating?

      Also, I assume you are watching Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez “Only Murders in the Building” right? It is about actual murder but also about murder aficionados.

      • Steve

        Fantastic series

      • Mojeaux

        *gasp* I totally forgot I wanted to see that! THANK YOU for reminding me!

      • Mojeaux

        Oh. Hulu. ?

    • DEG

      I heard it is something involving American football. I don’t keep track of American football. The real stars of the show are the female cheerleaders. They aren’t shown prominently enough in my opinion.

    • Tundra

      Long walk, car wash, getting ready to grill.

      Grueling, really.

    • rhywun

      Done with knifework and getting a beef stew cooking.

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    For some strange reason, the youth orchestra always schedules concerts on Superbowl Sunday.

    So I’m recording that instead of gorging on guacamole right now.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The conductor is a little bit irritable today. In think he may want to be at home too.

    • hayeksplosives

      When I was there he church council head in Minnesota (don’t laugh) I made sure that our annual congregational meeting to approve budgets and confirm officers was alway scheduled for the weekend before the Super Bowl.

      Pastor was a football fan himself but never had done the math or understood why the attendance was so low. I handled it for him for ten years.

      He apparently fucked up this year, according to my buddies from there.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s pretty obtuse.

      • hayeksplosives

        I meant to convey that when he scheduled it prior to my arrival, he either put it on the conference championship days (NFC and AFC) or on the Super Bowl itself.

        Well, duh. Those are goi g to be “lightly attended” days. But the weekend prior to thr stoopid bowl has no NFL action at all, thus the perfect timing, lots of attendance and enough quorum to change rules if needed.

        The only rule they ever changed was to eliminate the term limits so that I could continue as council chair in perpetuity.

      • Brochettaward

        People who schedule things over major sporting events are usually assholes. Sometimes, I suppose, they just didn’t think about it.

        I don’t even really care about the Super Bowl unless the Steelers are in it. This is about principle. No, Karen, I don’t want to attend your wedding on Super Bowl Sunday.

  3. Penguin

    Good song, from a punk band who could actually play their instruments.

    • Chafed

      It’s funny, to me, to hear people say that about punk bands. There were definitely some that fit the mold. Plenty could play. I always think of the Sex Pistols. Steve Jones and Paul Cook could play in any rock band. Glen Matlock was a competent bass player. Sid Vicious didn’t know what he was doing. That’s not unlike plenty of bands.

      I’m glad you like the music.

      • Penguin

        I guess I’m thinking more of the hardcore bands that came later. Another punk band that could really play was the Dead Kennedys.

      • Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

        East Bay Ray could really shred on guitar. Another unsung punk great was Poison Ivy Rorscharch. She could really tear it up and indeed wrote all the music for The Cramps.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=083gTyPChNM

    • Tundra

      The Descendents have one of the best rhythm sections in the business. I would say that the vast majority of the punk or punk/pop bands I listen to are extremely capable musicians.

      • Count Potato

        He could play, but Bill Stevenson was a total douchebag.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Obscure punk band that had amazing chops: Tot Rocket and the Twins.

    • Chafed

      ?

    • UnCivilServant

      #1 demonstrates the hazards of facelifting.

    • Chafed

      I will be really impressed if the A-10 breaks off to strafe Gavin Newsom.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      What? No F-15? Am disappoint.

      • Tundra

        No P-38 is even more disappointing.

      • MikeS

        #metoo

    • Tundra

      Thanks! Will be watching that!

    • MikeS

      Good grief. The show starts with a big promo for all the inclusivity that the AF is doing. Including maternity flight suits.

      • rhywun

        I was going to flip over by 6:30 or so… I figure the game might be going by then.

      • rhywun

        Oh wronged that, never mind

  4. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The COVID pornographers will decide it’s time to get on with life once we all submit to their whims and acknowledge their supreme benevolence.

  5. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Big Jet TV rerun for me (some decent x-winds at Heathrow today)

    May play The Sims in a bit. After I finish this article for Glibs.

  6. DEG

    I’m phoning it in today. Most of you are already drunk. So, this will be a glorified open post populated by my brain farts.

    Drunk? I have not yet begun to drink.

    On a serious note, I actually have not had any alcohol today. Though I am heading out to a weekly liberty meet-up later tonight.

    I want to thank Samsung for creating their own collection of TV channels. If you have any Samsung device with a screen you can watch for free. They created a Baywatch channel. I believe in small government, but rather than defund NPR let’s take all their funding to ensure we have Baywatch in perpetuity. The plots are preposterous but no more preposterous than NPR’s version of the news. If we are going to subsidize something, it should be a show with impossibly beautiful people, unrelenting optimism, and dedicated to helping other people.

    Baywatch has boobs that people want to look at. Can NPR say that too?

    Why didn’t our truck drivers think to do this in some blue hellhole like NYC or Chicago?

    There is a convoy in the works for the US. The Northeast organizers are specifically avoiding NYC. The stated reason is tolls. Getting one truck through NYC and down the Jersey Turnpike to DC will cost about $100 in tolls. Congestion and the possibility of a much heavier handed response from the police than what we’ve seen in Canada were not stated but probably also factors.

    The Canuckistani police are already getting ready for a strike on the truckers when the truckers leave. I saw a news article on CTV News that the Ontario police are going to look to yank licenses from truckers taking part in the protest.

    Weight is up. I had too many indulgences last week. 274.4 lbs.

    Next week, if the weather is good, I will be in PA for a swing dance. If that trip happens, no check-in from me next week unless I get back early.

    • rhywun

      the Ontario police are going to look to yank licenses from truckers taking part in the protest

      Thereby extending any ill consequences and assuming the blame for them.

      That’s great police work there, Lou.

    • Fourscore

      “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”

      That’s the problem, the truckers have a lot to lose

      • Brochettaward

        That is the problem in general. People still go back to pretty comfortable lives. People will endure a lot of tyranny when they have big screen TV’s, smart phones, near endless amounts of entertainment, and an abundance of food.

        People can debate where the line where violence becomes justified is. We currently live in some bizarro world where left wing mobs can freely engage in violence against their fellow citizenry while nominally protesting racism in policing and the government while being cheered on by most of the media and funded by large corporations. This has been deemed socially acceptable.

        But people to the right of the protesters can’t even gather in a noisy and inconvenient manner without being smeared as fascists and being threatened with retaliation.

        If the left wing violence was justified, I think violence against the state actors supporting covid restrictions is more than justified, personally.

    • Tundra

      Did they drop the mask bullshit for the dance? Or was that MA?

      • DEG

        The mask, vaccine, and pre-dance quarantine bullshit is for the Boston dance, which has restarted after their pause.

        The dance in PA started up in defiance of Wolf’s orders. No mask or vaccine requirements. If you are sick, stay home. I know some folks that attend the dance received the Covid-19 vaccine, but they don’t seem to care if others haven’t. Only twice have I seen people wear masks, and those folks are in the very tiny minority.

      • Tundra

        Fuck yeah. Have fun!

      • DEG

        Thanks!

        I’m hoping for good weather unlike last time.

    • Don escaped Texas

      Most of you are already drunk.

      Yes, why of course.

      • Chafed

        Don gets it.

      • Don escaped Texas

        the only thing I’ll get right today

  7. R C Dean

    “The Canuckistani police are already getting ready for a strike on the truckers when the truckers leave”

    Yeah, one of the demands from day one should be “no retaliation”.

    • Gustave Lytton ????

      It would take a lot more bodies to do that.

  8. Gustave Lytton ????

    Why didn’t our truck drivers think to do this in some blue hellhole like NYC or Chicago?

    I think it’s a couple of factors
    1) the restrictions in the US have varied widely, but almost all are far less than Canadian ones both in severity and duration

    2) any protests would and have been tarred as fascist uprisings and the state’s brownshirts (antifa) have been let free to harass them. See pretty much any protest, including the covid ones in CA.

    3) 1/6 imprisoned a lot of would be agitators and sent a message to the rest

    4) a large part of how it worked was that the amount and breadth of support was unexpected

    • Don escaped Texas

      well put

      What is weird is the expectation in some quarters that a populist, labor-centered reaction would have shape or center or accomplish much. There is a core of central notion that I applaud, a more useful thing than so many million pussy hats chanting in circles, and yet it’s not going to matter: if some jurisdictions would yield, it is because they were going to anyway; if they were not near yielding before, they are no closer now.

      The idea that government has over-reached has hardly occurred to anyone but the reactionary; he will be satisfied when government overreach returns to the correct points and when his enemies are again properly targeted instead of himself.

  9. Steve

    I’m going to watch the game while I do homework. I’m still a little salty about the AFC Championship I still enjoy entertaining football.

    As far as the freedom convoy and COVID hysteria I really do feel like there are large portions of this country living in two different worlds. I think the last time I wore a mask was briefly during a meeting back in October. It’s been voluntary since at least Halloween. General mandates went away months ago. I don’t even know when they officially started or stopped because no one really enforced them in any businesses I go to. No one asks about vaccination status and our school board has opted to cease contact tracing for positive test results. I read the news and just shake my head.

    As far as GlibFit, 5.09 trail miles today in barefoot shoes. Average pace was 9:13/mile. I did a few sets of pullups and burpees in my backyard yesterday while wearing a 40lbs(ish) backpack. My knees are letting me hear about it today but nothing bad enough to even think about taking something for the pain.

    • Count Potato

      Fuck off, Tulpa?

    • The Last American Hero

      Sounds like paradise. Meanwhile, I’ve had to don a mask nearly every day since March 2020, with no end in sight, COVID passports to dine in or attend an event with no end in sight, and soon they will be redefining vaxed to include boosters – with no end in sight. Kids are still masked in school and half the people around here mask outdoors. This shit will never end.

      • Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

        Huh, sounds like Oregon.

        I mean, sounds like Oregon in the Willamette Valley. No one else does this shit.

      • Don escaped Texas

        just a few years ago I was still calling on clients in PDX and SEA…..I would have lost my mind if I had to put up with their crap lately

  10. hayeksplosives

    The bengals colors are orange and black, like my Alma mater Oklahoma State.

    So on that very weak basis, Go Bengals!!

    • rhywun

      I’m mostly rooting against the other team.

    • robodruid

      Go Cowboys?
      Not that i ever participated in the OK rivalry.

    • Don escaped Texas

      for Highland Park and the University of Georgia, I pull for Stafford today

  11. Gender Traitor

    Our weekend getaway wrought havoc upon my alleged GlibFitness, between the delicious and generously-portioned meals in the state park lodge and the largely sleepless nights in a room with an overenthusiastic heater. Maybe making up for the backsliding will create the illusion of progress! ?

    As for the game, my fondest hope is that the Bengals acquit themselves honorably and refrain from getting their asses handed to them.

  12. Mojeaux

    I made a mistake. I’m on a clear-liquid (other than 3 protein shakes per day), low-carb diet before pet ulcer surgery.

    I thought I would finish up the sugar-free lemonade I had made (heavy on the lemon juice). Shockingly, my pets did not react kindly to this (they never have before) so I had to have a small piece of bread to settle all that back down.

  13. Fourscore

    Load those California/Texas truckers up with the homeless, free transportation to DC and let them petition the government for new tents and free drugs.

    • Chafed

      I would gladly contribute to that.

  14. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Something in the queue for the editors to masticate.

    • UnCivilServant

      I don’t want pre-chewed articles. Can they macerate instead?

  15. hayeksplosives

    AOC is trying hard to flip Texas to blue.

    “If we flip Texas, we flip the country!”

    She’s not wrong. And I’m sure there are many agents working on fortified election outcomes from Texas going forward.

    I weep for our nation.

    • Penguin

      Regular Texans need to get their capitol moved.

    • Sensei

      If they actually did something consistent about immigration instead of turning a blind eye and not handing everyone a check they might have a chance.

      OTH, when illegals commit criminal acts that’s all on the state to fix.

      You can have relatively easy legal immigration or a social safety net. Pick one.

    • rhywun

      Seems inevitable to me. You too, Florida.

      • Brochettaward

        My favorite part of living in Florida was watching people who bitched endlessly about DeSantis because he has the dastardly (R) after his name enjoy living their lives relatively free of covid restrictions. Like, sitting in restaurant while most blue cities and states are locked down and hearing someone rant about how heartless and what an asshole DeSantis is one table over. You’d think he was the one who locked the elderly up in homes with covid cases or something based on how Dems talked and still talk about him.

        There’s like zero self-awareness on the left.

      • rhywun

        One of my Florida coworkers was bitching the other day about how everyone walks around without a mask. I wonder if he wears his respirator in restaurants.

      • Chafed

        Florida has gone increasingly red since covid started. Republican voter registration out numbers Democrat registration for the first time in decades.

    • Chafed

      She is the wrong messenger. The persuadable middle doesn’t want what she’s selling.

      There is nothing inevitable about Texas going blue. Hispanic support for Team Blue has plunged over the last 5 years. There is good evidence Ted Cruz won reelection because of the Californians who moved to Texas. It turns out most of them voted Republican.

  16. Tundra

    Chafed!

    Great song. And yes, apropos.

    Thanks for the Samsung info. I have one of their ‘smart’ TVs, so I’ll look for Baywatch!

    I will watch at least some of the game. Grill is heating up and ribs will be going on shortly.

    I was just an OK Glibfitter this week. Got in all my miles, sleep was good, but my appetite was absolute shit. I am trying to hit a certain protein level every day and it was tough this week. I could definitely feel the lack of food in the weight room.

    No matter how you cut it, everything – food, exercise, sleep and people – needs to be dialed in to be truly healthy. Feeling good about this upcoming week, though! I hope all of you Glibfitters do too!

    Go Rams! Or Bengals! I don’t really care.

    • Chafed

      ?

  17. grrizzly

    Is it really a Super Bowl if Tom Brady isn’t playing?

    • Tundra

      No Brady or Rodgers makes it all the more interesting.

      • Brochettaward

        I mean, you haven’t had to worry about Rodgers in a Super Bowl since February of 2011. Get with the times, grandpa!

      • Tundra

        True, but it was looking pretty grim a few weeks ago.

  18. Sean

    Biscuits are in the oven and the filets are now bacon wrapped.

    • Tundra

      What’s you filet technique?

      • Sean

        I prefer grilling, but it snowed overnight into this morning.

        So…cast iron it is.

        These are 9 oz each, so 5 minutes a side on medium+ heat. Then top with garlic butter and put in the oven at 350 for 5-10 minutes until up to temp.

      • Tundra

        Nice.

        (Although you do get a demerit for not toughing out the weather)

      • kinnath

        Reverse sear.

      • UnCivilServant

        I really need to figure out the inverse sear. I will cook a steak inside out.

      • kinnath

        Microwave does that. I don’t recommend it.

      • UnCivilServant

        It doesn’t, actually.

        Testing with a roast sized piece of beef has showed that it does heat from the outside in.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Had a bet about this with a work colleague, many, MANY years ago (before the general availability of the ‘Net! YES! I’M THAT OLD!); we settled it by actually phoning the R&D arm of Sharp Canada at the time and talking to one of their engineers who worked on microwave projects.

        UnCivil’s correct. The microwave oven heats up exterior surfaces first. How could it be otherwise? The microwave radiation first encounters water molecules on the outer surface of most foods, and most of the energy gets dumped there first. The interior’s the last thing to get heated up, and much of it is transfer of heat from the outer surfaces. That’s why re-heating something in the microwave slowly is more successful than just nuking the BeJeezus out of it.

        There are exceptions. For instance, if the outer surfaces of your food have little or no water molecules, the microwaves will pass through those layers largely unabsorbed, and will encounter water molecules deeper down, which will cause abnormal heating. An extreme example of how disastrous this can be is heating a raw egg in a microwave.

        BOOM.

      • Not Adahn

        if the outer surfaces of your food have little or no water molecules, the microwaves will pass through those layers largely unabsorbed,

        If I had to guess, that’s where the myth got started: An early demo was to microwave a hot dog in the bun.

    • Jerms

      Biscuits? I dont even know who you are anymore.

    • Chafed

      Go euphemisms!

  19. Yusef drives a Kia

    I just finished making a gallon of Caramel Apple hard cider, next is some sweet Mead, and then some Cod filets for dinner, life ain’t too bad,
    /Cheers!

    • Tundra

      Cheers, Yusef. Way to crush a tough day!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s colder than Hell, MI but a bright sunny day all the same. I am glad to have you guys around, and you’ve always been kind,
        Cheers!
        And Thanks!

  20. UnCivilServant

    After the thread on movies to trigger the group meeting with, I decided to rewatch Lord of War. It opens up with a disappointingly inaccurate statistic claiming 550 million firearms in circulation worldwide. Even when it was made, that wouldn’t have accounted for the US alone.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m wondering if the people who made Lord of War assumed the audience would automatically side with Valentine (INTERPOL Agent), as he’s so odious that his only redeeming characteristic is sticking to the letter of the law. Or was he always meant to be an outright villain. Nowadays it’d be easier to tell.

  21. Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

    Baywatch? Huh, never took you for a Hoff fan. NTTIATWWT. Still, Little Fingers are always welcome.

    I didn’t quite get all my workouts in, but that is OK as I am in the middle of remodeling the upstairs bath, which is enough of a workout. At least that is what my doctor says. Weight is down a bit, but I don’t really worry about that, as long as I am feeling fit.

    • Chafed

      I like the Hof in a similar way to Shatner. Hof is, at best, a mediocre actor. But he made the most of what he has. He has a sense of humor about himself, and he is glad to give the people what they want.

  22. Gender Traitor

    On my (Android) phone, Google Play services (which I hardly ever use) keeps pestering me about backing up my data. I think it’s just honked off because I deleted the gmail account that I also never use. Is there a way to make the hounding stop that doesn’t involve creating another gmail account that I won’t use?

    • MikeS

      I didn’t know you could operate an Android without a gmail account. I thought it was mandatory.

      • PutridMeat

        Wipe, flash the ROM, install new opensource (fully) Android release, vio-la de-googled phone. Now some of the very popular apps require a google ID, so you’re SOL there (though perhaps a way to spoof it – I haven’t pursued it since I don’t really use those). Android itself is completely open – Google Android builds in proprietary closed source stuff for add and tracking, but you can definitely android without google involved.

    • Sensei

      Turn off notifications for play services?

      • Sensei

        Just checked. On 12 you can select specifically backup and restore.

      • UnCivilServant

        I turn off Play Services entirely. I don’t need it for anything I do and it just wastes battery.

    • Ted S.

      I just made the mistake of trying to disable Google Play Services on my phone. Now half the applications won’t work and the phone doesn’t want to update Google Play Services.

      • UnCivilServant

        There’s one simple trick to get around that – Use the phone as a phone, not an omnitool.

      • MikeS

        Then why get a smart phone? They still make flip phones

      • Ted S.

        I mostly only use it to browse the internet on my breaks, check my email, and have a weather app, which is why I bought a cheap phone. I don’t do much, but there are things I want to do.

      • MikeS

        No, I get it. My intention was to ask UCS why he has a smart phone if he doesn’t use any of it’s extra features.

      • UnCivilServant

        Because they don’t actually sell a good flip phone anymore. Omnitool users have pushed the market in the wrong direction.

      • UnCivilServant

        I see no good reason.

      • MikeS

        See my comment to Ted.

      • Sensei

        APK Mirror.

      • Ted S.

        Well, my phone, one of those cheap pre-paid phones-in-a-box, is closing in on seven years old. I’ve been thinking of replacing it for a while, but when I went to Best Buy to get a replacement, I found that our local Best Buy had been shut down. And then when I picked out a phone on the Verizon app, I was told it was out of stock because of the Biden chip shortage. Thank you Brandon.

        In fact, the phone doesn’t seem to want to install or update any app.

    • AlexinCT

      Fuck Google. They have been pestering me for close to two years now, at least 3 times a day, to give them my birthday and I have been just dismissing the shitz. I bought a new PC and they refused to let me bring in my favorites without first updating my birthday in that app. Since I did that I have noticed they have been fucking with me hardcore. I hope an asteroid impacts that shithole of a company’s server farm.

  23. kinnath

    Luján planning return to Senate in time to vote for Supreme Court nominee

    Luján also said that he plans to return to Washington, D.C., in “just a few short weeks.”

    “I’m proud to report then I’ll be back on the floor of the United States Senate in just a few short weeks to vote on important legislation, and to consider a Supreme Court nominee,” Luján said.

    • Fourscore

      It’s only a stroke, he’ll fit right in as a senator, no one will notice and someone can push his voting button.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        +1 Captain Pike

      • Penguin

        He’d be better than our current President.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        “Blink”

      • Penguin

        I know that’s a trite comparison on my part, since that could also apply to any number of inanimate objects or plant phylla as well. What I find truly amazing are the (admittedly decreasing) number of Americans who think he’s doing a fine job.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s an apt comparison, too bad people think he’s up to the job in his state, sad in a way.

    • Rat on a train

      consider a Supreme Court nominee
      It’s like a pre-approval letter for a home loan.

  24. Jerms

    Thanks for all you do Chafed. Even when you mail it in its enjoyable.
    Killed it at the gym this week. Started taking Andarine with the Ostarine about a week ago. Havent seen much gain in strength but starting to see an improvement when looking in the mirror.
    Just saw the CEO of moderna erased his twitter account and sold 400 mil worth of stock. Looks like the co-founder just sold over a billion worth. Not sure how solid the source is but if true the truth might be coming soon.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Just saw the CEO of moderna erased his twitter account and sold 400 mil worth of stock.

      Interesting. Pfizer just postponed an application to the FDA for approval of their COVID vaxx for children 6 months to 5 years old; Edward Dowd (a former Blackrock exec) had this to say about that on YouTwitFace:

      https://twitter.com/DowdEdward/status/1492210235234152455

      • Chafed

        That is interesting. The results with 2 shots were nonexistent. The were gambling a third shot would work. I’m guessing they couldn’t even find a way to pretend it does.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Yep.

        I hope I live another 20 years. It will be fascinating to see how future historians will try to unpack all of this insanity.

      • The Last American Hero

        They won’t.

    • Don escaped Texas

      I see $1.8M. $400M takes time and a ton of paperwork…..link please

    • Chafed

      I heard about the deleted Twitter account. If those stock sales are real, and I am skeptical, then look out below.

      • Sensei

        Nobody sells that amount at once.

      • Chafed

        Hence my s

      • Chafed

        Skepticism

    • Chafed

      Thanks for the kind words Jerms.

  25. Fourscore

    My indoor TV exercise was interrupted this week by 2 hours of snow blower operation. Finally had a reason to play in the snow.
    I really need exercise but waiting ’til the snow disappears so it’s safer for me to walk. Snowblower is OK ’cause it has handles.

    • CPRM

      Snowblower is OK ’cause it has handles.

      Really just a motorized walker if you think about it.

      • Fourscore

        Yep

  26. Brochettaward

    Great Firster, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that one stood against many. That’s what’s important! Firsting pleases you, Great Firster… so grant me one request. Grant me being First! And if you do not listen, then the HELL with you!

    • DEG

      Conan did it better.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        And then he GOT TO THE CHOPPAH!

      • Not Adahn

        Conan did it better.

        Well, duh.

      • Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

        “What is best in life?”

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      hey, they were rebelling, it’s right there in the name, we can’t have that now can we?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Lol should have stuck with the fringe accounts like Gords and then it provides cover for Canada and Twitter and most likely the CIA. But going after a news org? Get fucked.

    • MikeS

      Not sure how Twitter works, do they have more than one account? I went to their webpage, clicked the Twitter link and was brought here.

      • Sean

        Huh, no idea.

        Maybe I’m fake news. *shrug*

        I try to not be.

      • MikeS

        Maybe it’s something to do with Twitter for mobile?

    • LCDR_Fish

      I can see them on my phone right now

  27. The Late P Brooks

    WHY AREN’T THE PEOPLE IN THESE KKKALIFORNIA ADS WEARING MASKS??????

    • Chafed

      That’s a good question

  28. Penguin

    The Canadian counter-protestors had at least one Communist flag at their demonstration.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    America the Beautiful? WTF? Star Spangled Banner too raciss?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Came after…and America the Beautiful should be our anthem

    • Urthona

      They did those, but they forgot to do an anthem for whatever country LA belongs to.

      • Chafed

        That’s about right.

      • Tundra

        I still prefer this.

        I know it’s fucked up now, but I’ll always remember the good CA.

      • rhywun

        Big fan of their old stuff but I can’t keep up so I stopped trying.

    • Old Man With Candy

      It’s the verse that praises hanging the gender-fluid.

  30. Ownbestenemy

    We are not glibfit. Pulled pork from yesterday, three types of chicken wings…that’s just before halftime

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      I love you, man.

  31. Tundra

    I’m already tired of the virtue signaling.

    Might be time to go back to Reacher.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Hahaha Billy Jean talking about exclusion and then only girl football players on field. Hahahahahahahahaha

      • rhywun

        She is the worst. I can’t stand her, at least the constant politics.

    • rhywun

      I flipped over 5 times between 6:30 and 7:00 and got a commercial 4 times.

    • Chafed

      Is Reacher short for reacheround?

  32. Ownbestenemy

    Ugh…woke commercials already

  33. CPRM

    The Rock bought the XFL after covid killed it. Isn’t this collusion?

    • Urthona

      That was weird having that intro but he did a good job of it.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Just curious how he is still alive since his transphobic tweets

      • Don escaped Texas

        in a perfect world, he and Dog the Bountyhunter would have done that as a duet

      • Brochettaward

        He’s not white so he gets a pass.

  34. Count Potato

    “I want to thank Samsung for creating their own collection of TV channels. If you have any Samsung device with a screen you can watch for free. They created a Baywatch channel. I believe in small government, but rather than defund NPR let’s take all their funding to ensure we have Baywatch in perpetuity.”

    Vizio has the same thing, but no Baywatch channel, as far as I know.

    Also, I’m only on my fourth beer.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      I’m drinking cheap-assed French brandy.

      “Snooty, yes, but I like it too!”

      • Count Potato

        I like Christian Brothers as an all-purpose brandy.

      • Raven Nation

        Finished off some Martell cognac just now.

  35. The Gunslinger

    I think I over did the snow shoveling today. I shoveled my driveway this morning and then my FIL’s driveway. They just got back from Florida and he’s in no shape to be moving snow. By this point in the winter you would think my body would have adjusted but I hurt. And it’s making me ornery.

    • Count Potato

      I hear drinking helps.

      • The Gunslinger

        I think I just need to stop getting older.

      • Chafed

        It couldn’t hurt

      • MikeS

        *snigger*

      • rhywun

        For some reason I’m reminded of these things that could not be a thing today because reasons.

      • The Gunslinger

        I’m gonna try some Rocky Road on a warm brownie.

  36. straffinrun

    No spoilers! I plan on not watching the game when I get home.

  37. J. Frank Parnell

    Goooooooaaaaaaaaalllllll

  38. Don escaped Texas

    where did all the footprints on the beach go overnight

    I’m related to a bunch of hillbillies, and the conspiracies they adore are childishly transparent to anyone who knows anything about government, business, or people.

    But, pre-internet along those lines, Greenpeace held a news conference in Memphis decades ago about how they had pictures where they had caught someone red-handed dumping on the banks of the Mississippi: twas a dredge, of course, a Corps of Engineers dredge, doing what it does that they had caught. The spoil, of course, will eventually wash back into the river as everything does, so, yeah, great catch there, Greenpeace.

  39. Count Potato

    Zero carb beer?

      • Count Potato

        Bud Light is already water.

      • MikeS

        It’s a start

      • Don escaped Texas

        I always trashed light beers, but then I noticed that I get the same endorphin rush from drinking one even though the taste and buzz aren’t there. I just love the rush, so maybe a lighter gate is a good idea ?

      • MikeS

        Yeah. I love “good” beer, but light beer has it’s place. And in your situation, it sounds like a low cal/low carb light beer would be preferable.

      • Count Potato

        Watery beer is preferable if you are working. That’s why I call it “lawnmower beer”.

      • rhywun

        I had to do some work but my password expired today and they won’t let me change it.

        WTF

        They could have told us in the emails that would happen but no. I entered my old PW and a new one. There is no logical reason why that shouldn’t work.

      • Chafed

        Enjoy your day off.

      • MikeS

        Have a couple light beers and relax.

      • rhywun

        Vodka and Sparkling Ice will have to do.

    • Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

      Piss. It’s called piss.

  40. hayeksplosives

    Fuck it.

    My spousal unit and I have decided neither of us wants to be the designated driver so we are just hanging out at home.

    As I mentioned earlier, we have probably the biggest TV screen in Pahrump anyway. And I can mute the stupid commercials.

    I have no jerseys relevant to the teams (unless Oklahoma State orange and black counts) so I’m currently sporting my Russia hockey jersey. Anisimov, 42.

    • Don escaped Texas

      Sergei Zubov is my alltime favorite hockey player. He always did the right thing, the high odds thing, with precision. If the puck didn’t hit your twig on the tape, the pass wasn’t meant for you: it was just passing between your legs on the way to someone else. I believe in playing the odds, and I wish Zubov could teach his discipline and commitment to excellent to engineers and managers.

    • Ted S.

      I’m wearing a Packer hat, only because I’m not wearing anything red. If I had a red sweatshirt on, I’d be matching it with my Bayern München hat.

      • straffinrun

        You say that to all your phone sex clients.

      • Raven Nation

        I hear ya; I’m trying to find my Vfl Bochum shirt right now. 😉

      • rhywun

        Now I want some FC Würzburger Kickers artifact. I would prefer a hat.

        Was excited to see them reach the 2. Bundesliga. Less excited to see them in last place in the 3. Bundesliga now.

    • R C Dean

      Go on . . . .

  41. Penguin

    Damn it, I was looking at a list of “prop” bets, and the one I was interested in was Beckham scoring the first Rams TD at +850. But I couldn’t do anything about it. Thanks, Florida court system.

    • KSuellington

      I took the over on the number of times cannabis will be mentioned during the halftime show at 4.5

      • Penguin

        Just looked at who the performers are. Good call.

      • rhywun

        Bob’s Burgers will be back on FXX just in time thank God.

      • Penguin

        I went to a Star Trek rerun on DVD, but yeah…

  42. straffinrun

    For some odd reason I feel the awareness of breast cancer being raised.

    • Don escaped Texas

      one of my college buddy’s son would have been 25 today: leukemia at 12

      fuck cancer

    • rhywun

      Stop not watching. It’ll go away.

      • straffinrun

        Can I get some completely inaccurate updates on the big game?

      • Ownbestenemy

        3 to 1 going into OT

      • straffinrun

        Sweet. Did Mahomes score a safety?

      • Chafed

        Cal 47
        TTUN 35

      • Chafed

        Speaking of which, whatever happened to Playa Manhattan?

      • straffinrun

        He shouldn’t have cried wolf. Now he really has no internet and the repair man won’t come back.

      • Chafed

        Makes sense.

      • rhywun

        Bengals ahead 42 – 0.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Cal 1, the other team 0

      • Count Potato

        Gretzky just a hit double, Bulls up by 5 on the third hole.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Good one!

    • Chafed

      ?

    • Sensei

      旨?

  43. Tundra

    Mushrooms stuffed with artichoke/jalapeño dip in the air fryer was a hit.

    Why are the easiest recipes the best?

    • rhywun

      Sounds yum ?

      • Tundra

        They are terrific. A lovely Russian woman at Costco was giving out samples of the dip. We started chatting and she told me how much her family liked this.

        I tend to listen to Russian chicks.

      • straffinrun

        I keep hearing about these “air fryers”. Sounds like an oxymoron or a new version of a snipe hunt.

      • Chafed

        They are real. I just bought one.

      • straffinrun

        Fried in air, not oil? What have we become?

        *revels in own ignorance*

      • rhywun

        IIRC you add a little bit of oil. You can make French Fries and fried chicken and shit much more easily.

        I want one.

      • straffinrun

        Throwing pieces of potato into hot oil isn’t complicated.

        *still intentionally obtuse*

      • rhywun

        Maybe less messily and more healthy.

        I made French Fries a couple times and the cleanup is a pain in the ass and you have to be careful with the high temperatures required plus you have to use a lot of oil which means shitty oil.

      • MikeS

        Depending on the food, a light coating of oil is helpful, but when cooking most things we don’t use any. Especially frozen snacks meant to deep-fry or bake…in they go and are done in the same time as dep frying, without all the oily bullshit.

      • AlexinCT

        I don’t fry my french fire anymore. I prefer to oven bake the fuck out of them. Especially the sweet potato fries.

      • MikeS

        Miniature convection ovens. They are very hot these days.

  44. Chafed

    That Michelob Ultra ad would have been a lot better if a character from the Big Lebowski walked in at the end.

    • KSuellington

      Yeah, either The Dude or Walter Sobchek would’ve been way better there.

    • Brochettaward

      The Big Lebowski didn’t have any empowered black females in it, though.

    • Ted S.

      The Big Lebowski is overrated.

      • Old Man With Candy

        How many times were you dropped on your head as an infant?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Right?

      • rhywun

        Never seen it but it is on my DVR now.

      • Tundra

        Top 10 funniest movie ever.

        One of those ones you find gems every time you watch it.

      • KSuellington

        Underrated flick there.

      • R C Dean

        I would go with, good, even very good, but not great.

  45. straffinrun

    Even the NFL makes face masking illegal.

    /apologies

    • Brochettaward

      That joke? That joke right there? You are less gay when you are actually sucking a dick.

      • straffinrun

        You did a spit take and lost a future generation?

  46. Count Potato

    So far, glad it’s not a blowout.

    • Chafed

      Completely agree.

  47. Brochettaward

    This just a reminder that Joe Mixon Ray-Riced some college girl and the media just decided it didn’t happen after he was drafted.

    • Chafed

      When did ricing become illegal?

      • straffinrun

        When the Japanese guy became an NHL ref.

  48. Brochettaward

    I can’t imagine being the out of touch boomer ad executive who thought let’s put Trevor Noah in our commercial.

    • rhywun

      Gah glad I missed that.

      He is such an awful person.

      • Not Adahn

        Somebody did one of those studies where they pretend to understand you by whom you follow on the Twitters and who follows you.

        Ad peeps were even further left than academics.

      • Chafed

        Holy crap. That’s astounding. You would think their clients would care about that given how much money they spend.

      • Chafed

        In spades.

      • MikeS

        ?

      • Chafed

        I regret nothing. See Charles C. W. Cooke’s takedown of Noah.

      • MikeS

        My smirk was because I thought you were making an edgy pun with your choice of words.

        Noah is a piece of shit, and Cooke wrote a good takedown. If anything, he was too easy on him.

      • rhywun

        Pay blocked.

      • Chafed

        I was/did. I regret nothing.

      • MikeS

        I hope I’m not breaking any rules pasting this. Credit: Charles C. W. Cooke @ National Review

        On Twitter, Noam Blum points out that the comedian Trevor Noah has joined the pile-on against Joe Rogan. “When Joe Rogan says, ‘I wasn’t being racist. I was just being entertaining,’” Noah said on his show, “No, Joe, I think you were using racism to try to be entertaining.”

        This is appalling in and of itself. Noah is a comedian, and he should understand instinctively that context matters — especially given that Noah himself came under fire a few years ago for having made jokes that were subsequently deemed to be offensive, and that he responded to these charges by arguing that “to reduce my views to a handful of jokes that didn’t land is not a true reflection of my character, nor my evolution as a comedian.”

        Among those jokes were: “Originally when men proposed they went down on one knee so if the woman said no they were in the perfect uppercut position.” And: “Behind every successful Rap Billionaire is a double as rich Jewish man.” And: “Messi gets the ball and the real players try foul him, but Messi doesn’t go down easy, just like jewish chicks.”

        If they so wished, other comedians could have responded to Noah’s explanation by saying, “When Trevor Noah says, ‘I wasn’t being sexist or anti-semitic. I was just being entertaining,’ no, Trevor, I think you were using sexism and anti-semitism to try to be entertaining.”

        But they didn’t. Instead, one comedian said of Noah: “Too much for 140 characters, but NOTHING he said was out of line, and he’s a funny dude. F**k the haters, Noah!”

        That comedian’s name? Joe Rogan.

        Which is to say that Trevor Noah is now making indignant hay out of behavior in which he himself indulged, and for which the person he’s attacking strongly defended him. Rarely do we get a better example of the difference between the liberal and illiberal mindsets.

        What a disgrace.

      • Don escaped Texas

        Cooke’s right, but nothing matters in the era of identity politics: we are not judged by our ideals or behavior….all that matters is whose jersey.

  49. Brochettaward

    Also, for those who don’t remember, OBJ likes to have women shit on his chest.

    • Ted S.

      That’s not illegal.

      • Brochettaward

        Ted S. Scatological sympathizer or participant? You decide. We already know he has no sense of humor.

    • Chafed

      You know this how?

      • Chafed

        I don’t think any of them are credible.

      • Brochettaward

        Your only source for a story like that is going to be women who were paid by OBJ to shit on his chest. How credible are you going to find any of them, sans them providing video evidence in the act?

      • Chafed

        Given the class of people involved, if this happened there is a good chance there is video.

  50. Tundra

    *mute button*

  51. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I see Morgan Freeman is whoring for Erdogan.

    • Chafed

      What did I miss?

      • MikeS

        Morgan Freeman whoring for Erdogan.

      • Chafed

        Perhaps you could be more specific.

      • MikeS

        I would if I was watching any of it. 🙂

      • Count Potato

        Turkish Airlines commercial

      • Chafed

        Is it a national airline or privately owned?

  52. Count Potato

    Organic carbonated water?

  53. straffinrun

    Being threatened by Justin Trudeau is like ________________________.

    • MikeS

      a house fly buzzing your ear.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      being pegged by a wet noodle

    • DEG

      a mime screaming.

  54. Brochettaward

    Seeing all the celebrities at the Super Bowl while average fans would have to get a second mortgage to go…

  55. Chafed

    Why all those celebrities unmasked in LA when there is an indoor mask mandate? Don’t they follow the SCIENCE!!!

    • rhywun

      I don’t know the specifics in CA. Maybe they just had to show their papers.

      • Chafed

        Nope. LA is a covid hell hole. You must where a mask in any indoor public setting and all businesses. They are clearly in violation of the “law.”

      • MikeS

        Just 2 weeks ago Magic Johnson and Da Guv got busted sans mask. Rules for thee, peasant.

      • Chafed

        100%

      • rhywun

        I remember that but it’s not like the Rules don’t change every five minutes.

      • Chafed

        That’s true. In LA they get worse with time.

    • Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

      As the mayor said, they didn’t inhale.

    • Gustave Lytton ????

      Rip. Just like Benny Hill, the visuals tell the story.

    • AlexinCT

      I ketpt waiting for them to make the girl make the “ehh-eehhh” osunds but it never happened.. Fuck you Straff. I hope Godzilla gets your ass for leaving me hanging like that…

      • AlexinCT

        Them Japanese nee better cameras.. Whenever their cameras hit the hooch the pixelation goes stupid…

        And that big lady walking over the guy is sexual abuse man…

    • Sensei

      Definitely a loss.

      • straffinrun

        You and Gustave know what’s up.

  56. rhywun

    The half-time lineup seems… calculated.

    • Chafed

      You don’t say.

  57. Gustave Lytton ????

    Well shit. Bread collapsed today. So much for sandwich bread this week.

    • MikeS

      No need to be so crusty.

      • UnCivilServant

        At least he’s not juggling.

        /the greater good

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Just stay drugged, it will be fine,
      /too late……

    • Penguin

      Perhaps you didn’t have enough malt.

    • CPRM

      Make sauerkraut and dumplings.

  58. straffinrun

    Shunning The Big Lebowski and oily food in one thread. This place is going downhill.

  59. The Gunslinger

    Snoop brought some thicc cheerleaders.

    • Chafed

      Yes he did. Where is Heroic Mulatto when you need him?

  60. Tundra

    What the fuck?

    • UnCivilServant

      You’re going to have to provide more context.

  61. Tulip

    Since I am not a football person, I am watching “Dangerous Roads” on Prime. First up is Alaska’s Dalton Highway. Gorgeous.

    • AlexinCT

      How it’s made marathon on the Science channel. Just not to keen on them doing Tofu… If I wanted fake shit I would watch some tranny channel..

      • AlexinCT

        They made up for that Tofu shit by doing buttplugs.

      • MikeS

        Hahaha. Thanks, CPRM. That was funny.

      • MikeS

        The tofu spins right round like a record baby. Right round. Round, round.

      • Penguin

        Good video, CPRM. I learned a lot.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        That was lovely. Thanks CPRM.

      • Gender Traitor

        How It’s Made always reminds me of something a teacher would leave around for the sub to show the class if the teacher didn’t leave any lesson plans.

      • Don escaped Texas

        god it’s awful

        they’ll be showing some nothingburger assembly and then, when the critical device or process arises, they never show or explain where the important part came from. So it’s always just legos with almost no meaning. it’s like Steve Martin’s advice on being a millionaire….first: get a million dollars, then……….

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        when the critical device or process arises, they never show or explain where the important part came from

        You can thank IP lawyers like me for that one.

      • Don escaped Texas

        tab A goes into slot B, we oil this bearing, AND THEN A MIRACLE OCCURS

      • kinnath

        tab P goes into slot V, and then the miracle of life occurs.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        tab P goes into slot V

        Well, fuck, THAT’S what I’ve been doing wrong all these years!

      • UnCivilServant

        Before my mother cancelled her cable, “How It’s Made” would be the default show we’d put on when I was visiting because you could either watch it or let it be background noise without any issues, and it was almost being marathoned on the weekends.

        We’ve cracked a few jokes about its absense since.

  62. Count Potato

    Worst halftime ever?

      • Count Potato

        OK, that’s awful.

      • MikeS

        Yep. Bob Costas makes my skin crawl.

    • Tundra

      Easily.

      All of a sudden, Aerosmith and Brittney Spears is looking pretty solid.

      • Chafed

        Aerosmith was solid. Why Bertney wore a sock on her hand I’ll never know.

    • Chafed

      Probably. My 16 year was looking forward to it and was disappointed from the beginning.

  63. Ownbestenemy

    Half time is just Dr. Dre saying look at my empire muthafuckers

  64. R C Dean

    Thinking back, the first halftime show that comes to mind as the greatest is Prince.

    Followed by U2. Off the top of my head.

    • rhywun

      The Prince one might be the only one I have actually watched.

      The lineups are almost always nothing I want to see so ??‍♂️.

      • Count Potato

        Not Madonna or Lady Gaga? They’ll revoke your membership!

      • rhywun

        I do own one Madonna album somewhere but I don’t know anything about Ms. Gaga.

      • Mojeaux

        I like a lot of Madonna’s early-middle, up to and including Dick Tracy. After that, meh.

      • kinnath

        My daughter was enthralled with Madonna when she first broke big in the 80s. It was much later that I learned that Madonna is only a year younger than I am.

      • Mojeaux

        I can’t say I was enthralled. I liked her stuff, sure, but I was more into the hair bands.

      • rhywun

        Like a Prayer has some nice tunes that were not radio or club hits. Maybe some other albums do too but I wasn’t interested enough to find out.

      • Mojeaux

        The only two Madonna albums I ever bought were a compilation album of her more contemplative songs (Something to Remember) and the Dick Tracy soundtrack.

    • Count Potato

      Prince was the greatest.

      Just like Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones, U2 aren’t American.

      The Blues Brothers with ZZ Top was very American.

      Aerosmith wasn’t bad, and back then Britney Spears was a total smokeshow.

  65. The Late P Brooks

    Just about time for the Rams to give this game away on a silver platter?

  66. The Late P Brooks

    Well, huh.

  67. CPRM

    Heh, it was the Rams who got into the Superbowl last time against the Saints on a missed PO call, wasn’t it?

  68. Chafed

    What happened to the punt, pass, and kick awards?

    • Don escaped Texas

      compare Andy Reid to his competition

  69. Count Potato

    I just realized this is at least Mary J. Blige second Super Bowl halftime.

  70. Count Potato

    That was a lousy punt.

    • Count Potato

      Ditto.

  71. pistoffnick the refusnik

    Most “meh” Superb Owl ever.

    • Count Potato

      It was a close game.

      • kinnath

        Is it over?

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        Is it over?

        Is it in yet?
        Yes Elizabeth, it was in, And it is over.

  72. CPRM

    LA is TEH GOAT! Suck it flyover Hicks!1!1!111!11!!! They totally love the NFLz there now! The Rams might be able sell more than half their tickets next year.

    • hayeksplosives

      You have reminded me of a wonderful moment with my father.

      I was 10 years old or so and dropped a very dry sarcastic comment on current bets.

      My dad looked at me for a few seconds, said “you are a mean little kid” and brought me in for a big and rare hug.

      It meant the world to me then, and means a ton to me now. Thanks, Dad.

      • CPRM

        My family has always been big on puns and sarcasm. 8 years ago or so my parents began taking care of a young child from a broken home. She was very underperforming academically and my mother and I spent a lot of time tutoring her. One night, after she had lived with them for several months, she made a very clever pun, something should couldn’t even grasp earlier. We were all very proud.

        After leaving my parents’ care I hear she is now a teen mom and HS drop out. Sad.

    • rhywun

      Hey whatever’s good enough for Bennifer is good enough for me.

  73. grrizzly

    It looks like no one was wearing a mask at the Super Bowl.

    • CPRM

      Because Biden defeated Covid with his own bare hands. Until the next SURGE comes after the mid-terms.

    • rhywun

      I’m sure they were all jabbed. It’s a good thing that prevents transmission.

      • CPRM

        It’s a good thing that prevents transmission. you from becoming a Rushun Terrorist.

  74. straffinrun

    Game over, man

  75. CPRM

    Another white guy named Super Bowl MVP!? 75% of the league is Black! Where is the 3/5 rule!? #BadAtMathAndHistory