The sweetest sound

by | Aug 19, 2022 | Musings | 82 comments

Sweet sound of laughter

And silent cries,

A glimpse of light,

Through tear stained eyes,

 

In silent darkened rooms,

A voice calls to me,

Beckoning my return,

To safer times, to be with me,

 

We fare thee well,

And trip the light,

And pretend,

There is no illusion,

 

But certainty and distance

The dividing abyss,

The detriment of reality,

And all goes amiss,

 

Times that we have walked,alone,

In wind and snow and sun,

Loneliness is banished,

In presence of someone,

 

Lets drink til dawn,

And greet the day,

And say good night again,

To you, til then,my dearest friend,

My emptiness is at an end,

Or just illusion, as it ever was,

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Yusef drives a Kia

Yusef drives a Kia

Punctually illiterate But never late

82 Comments

  1. Ownbestenemy

    Nice work Yusef! This will go well with the sausage and peppers over pasta dinner tonight.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Laughter Ted, you need a girl, stat

    • Ownbestenemy

      Shit thought we were an hour 20 into thr post…sorry Bob. I don’t want to take away from your works

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        No worries bro, I thought the story was ridiculous as well

    • thrakkorzog

      Is there any reason she shouldn’t have danced with him?

      Did she argue against dancing in public?

      Did they do the most forbidden of all dances? The Cabbage Patch?

      If no, then who cares?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        My Wendy used to go out dancing on Saturday night with her best friends and they would dance together which the guys Dug and they would dance with some of the guys and she always came home and fuck my brains out, that was just fine with me

    • Ted S.

      If a dumpy, homely male politician did the things Marin did, what do you think the general reaction would be?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Cheech?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They’re definitely not going after her because of NATO.

      They might go after her if she tried to torpedo NATO.

    • db

      Wait, will your wife dance with me? I got moves.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I don’t think anyone is going after her, although they should be*. It’s just that she’s young and a head of government 10 (like a super desert).

      *Way too young to be a politician at all, let alone a PM. She’s clearly immature and acts accordingly. The type of “dancing” and lap sitting is also inappropriate for a supposedly married person, but in todays sodom and Gomorrah society, it’s perfectly ok other than some residual titillation of the readership and clickbaitery.

      • Ted S.

        As I mentioned in a previous comment section here, she was a covid close contact and responded to that by going clubbing. But she’s goodthinkful, so she can get away with it.

      • Lackadaisical

        Agreed, with yours and GL’s comment. That was more than dancing- the dude was clearly snogging on her neck. My wife would have beat the shit out of a guy who did that, not kept dancing with him…

      • Ted S.

        It feels to me much like the double standard toward teachers who use their position of power to get sex. If a male teacher does it with a female student, it’s totally icky and throw the book at the guy, but if a female teacher does it to an adolescent male, well lots of guys say they were hot for teacher at that age, so she should be allowed to get away with it.

    • Shpip

      I’m not sure why me, or anyone else in this country for that matter, should be concerned with the off-work activities of the head of government of a country that A) most Americans couldn’t find on a map with both hands, and B) has a population smaller than metro Atlanta.

      So the PM of Finland wants to have a few cocktails and wiggle her ass once in a while. Are we supposed to get the vapors when elected officials in Laos, the Gambia, Belize, Paraguay or any other bush-league country wants to relax and cut loose? As long as they’re not torturing dissidents, rounding up ethnic minorities, or shooting peasants from helicopters, I don’t give the slightest of fucks (and even if they are, I only give a teeny, tiny fuck — just don’t try that shit where I live).

      When I become god-emperor, I’m going to spend every waking moment that I’m not crushing the enemies of freedom smoking cigars bigger than STEVE SMITH’s dick and drinking scotch that’s older than my favorite mistress, and I won’t give a rodent’s rump who knows it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I think you can drink 19 year old Scotch without first becoming god emperor.

      • Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo

        So, you are going for a dick measuring contest?

        /Cathy Newman

      • R.J.

        I can recommend the CAO America for cigars which meet your criteria. I drink cheap, blended Winston Churchill scotch and have no good advice there.

      • Shpip

        Had a Romeo y Julieta Reserve Churchill tonight. Along with the La Aroma de Cuba of the same size (7″ x 54), they’re my favorite moderately-priced cigars. I went back to the Tampa suburb of Ybor City recently, and discovered the last working cigar factory in town (there’s an article there), and will be trying their American Cigar shortly. They’re not cheap, but I expect them to be excellent.

        And God-Emperor Shpip will happily drink Talisker and The Oban all evening, after drinking Hendrick’s and Monkey 47 all afternoon. It’s good to be God-Emperor.

      • Lackadaisical

        “I’m not sure why me, or anyone else in this country for that matter, should be concerned with the off-work activities of the head of government of a country that A) most Americans couldn’t find on a map with both hands, and B) has a population smaller than metro Atlanta.”

        To an extent I agree. But i think A) and B) are not so relevant. For example, Trump’s personal life wasn’t good by my standards, BUT, that didn’t really affect his job performance, and as we all know, most these politicians have some serious skeletons in their closets- maybe the ones who are open about it are actually less depraved. It is hard to know either way.

        Besides that if we’re about to get into a defensive pact with said country- their leadership DOES matter to us, particularly since Finland has been at war with Russia in the past and they are direct neighbors. In that context the size and geography skills of the average American doesn’t count for much.

  2. Brochettaward

    FIRST
    FIRST
    FIRST IT ALL OUT
    These are the things that I can do without
    First on
    I’m talking to you
    First on

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Calm down Francis

  3. R.J.

    Nice work Yusef!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Ty Sir!

  4. Fourscore

    The sweetest sound comes from a baby’s laughter. To hear the little ones laugh so hard they can’t catch their breath.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Ladies come in a close second 4x
      I smile every time she laughs

  5. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Thanks Yusef

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Most humbly welcome Sir

  6. Yusef drives a Kia

    My dearest, we just fought a mighty battle in which many lives are lost yet I still live tonight. we March through the evening into the Dawn and yet another battle, hopefully we may yet win another and proceed South to kill those damn Confederates, all my love Robert

  7. Gustave Lytton

    From last thread’s water leaks. Our copper pipes developed leaks that we didn’t discover until the supply developed a large leak (and soaked the carpet underneath where it broke in the wall). Ended up repiping the entire house with pex.

    At work, I’ve seen pretty much every type of leak into electronics: plugged roof drains, broken water pipes, leaking standby generator engine coolant, etc. Basically any liquid that doesn’t have adequate containment demonstrates gravity works. Oh, and wall seepage to below ground levels.

    • one true athena

      Since I started it, I will share that we found it’s been coming from my son’s toilet tank. He never bothered to tell anyone there was water on the floor, apparently he thought it was collecting in the corner after his shower. So water’s been seeping between the tile and baseboards for probably months, and only recently got bad enough to appear in the ceiling below.

      This is after last year’s exciting pipe collapse beneath the foundation and we had to reroute that drain outside and through the lawn.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Youch! Pulled it back to see what damage there is?

      • one true athena

        Haven’t got to that horrifying part yet.

    • Mojeaux

      Pex is awesome. I think the same company makes SharkBites, which are also awesome.

  8. Gustave Lytton

    Hilarious. Local school district announces that COVID absences will be treated the same as any other absence. Except that if a student tests positive, they have to stay home a minimum of 5 days and be symptom free at least 24 hours after absence of fever. How the fuck do incentives work?

    • rhywun

      +1 vid party

  9. Festus

    Hah! The old fart across the way was cranking some ELO when I first came outside. I heard some yelling and then the Country commenced. I guess she only likes both kinds of music 🎶.

    • Festus

      To be fair, it wasn’t terrible. I just found it amusing the way that the tunes kept getting louder and softer during the “debate”. I guess she won. Silence reigns.

    • rhywun

      I was walking around the other day and heard a car playing ELO, at a tasteful volume. I almost fell over at the not playing shitty Arab techno-rap at an ear-crushing volume that is the usual fare around here.

  10. Gustave Lytton

    All the Little Fires is downright stupid.

    • Festus

      I’m not familiar

  11. Festus

    Ahahah! Just bought two cartons of ciggies on the black market and every single pack contains 15 instead of 20. Shrinkflation, folks.!

    • Festus

      What’s a man to do? Call the cops?

      • Festus

        I’ve figured the scheme. Before the packs go through the plastic wrap portion, a certain number are set aside. Someone opens them up and removes 5 ciggies and then puts them back into the mainstream. There is a good reason that we don’t trust Indians.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Festus!

        “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.” Gee, thanks, WP.

  12. groat scotum

    I sometimes feel like I’ve got this whole thing figured out till it turns out I don’t

    • groat scotum

      It turns out I’ve got nothing figured out at all. Nothing at all.

      • groat scotum

        Actually I have everything prefigured ignore the rest of it I’ve everything figured out.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Spitty!

  13. Yusef drives a Kia

    Hello and welcome to my friday, enjoy your days off for I must deal with parts, lots of parts

    • rhywun

      Happy Friday

      • Sean

        Um….

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Thanks rhy!

  14. Sean

    Hey Tulpas!

    • Lackadaisical

      I thought that already happened at some place- and they immediately had to close up shop.

      • Sean

        VELVEETA.

    • Tres Cool

      competition is healthy for any business

  15. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    whats goody yo

  16. Lackadaisical

    So I recently replumbed a bathroom (btw, the toilet was the easiest part like ALWAYS, guys)

    but I am getting a few drips from the sink bowl to strainer connection. I already tried using plumber’s putty on it, but no success. This was a new but crappy strainer they had put in to sell the house, not sure if I’m missing a gasket since I didn’t see one for there or if I just need to retry doing the putty,… or get a new strainer? Technically the color doesn’t match the new faucet anyway.