Saturday Evening Open Post

by | Nov 26, 2022 | Daily Links | 206 comments

Nope, didn’t have much for tonight.  The board is yours.

Its a Free For All.

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206 Comments

  1. Sean

    Meh.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I think this does indeed meet the requirements for a first.

      • Chafed

        That may be Uncle Ted’s best song.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Agreed.

      • Chafed

        Too Sacheen Littlefeather for me.

      • MikeS

        Yeah, I suppose. But I have a gift/curse where I usually don’t really focus on the lyrics unless I put some effort into it. The cool groove guitar work of this song has always kept me from delving too much into the lyrics.

        TL;DR: I get the gist of the song, but I can let it go and dig the music.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Heh. This guy gets it.

      • Threedoor

        Yes.

      • MikeS

        I was sticking with the Ted Nugent theme

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Ted Nugent is really one sided though.

      • R.J.

        I second this opinion.

      • Ted S.

        One-sided like a Klein bottle.

      • MikeS

        If I had FU money, I’d put together an arcade with all the cool shit. One room would be just rock artist/bands pinball machines. I don’t know how big the room needs to be, the only ones I know of are Nugent, KISS, and AC/DC but I’m sure there are a dozen(s?) other cool ones in existence.

      • Threedoor

        I have five machines. AC/DC, Zeppelin, and Captain Fantastic (Elton John) are the music themed ones. I felt stupid spending 8k on a pinball machine but I really wanted LED Zeppelin.

        There are a ton of cool machines.
        I’d like to have the TMNT machine and my wife wants the most sought after machine, Medieval Madness because there used to be one at the bowling alley that she remembers as a kid.

  2. DEG

    From the dedthread: Tom Woods interviews Jay Bhattacharya about the recent SoHo debate on lockdowns.

    • westernsloper

      That was a great episode.

    • Threedoor

      Is it weird that I listen to Woods in the shower?

      • Ted S.

        Yes.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        A little bit

      • MikeS

        How long of showers do you take, anyway?

      • Threedoor

        Depends. Mondays are longer as i usually haven’t showered all weekend because they m living out of my work truck.

        10-15 min. I paid for the damn well and I’ll use all the water I please.

      • Threedoor

        Hahahahah

      • Chafed

        Do you fantasize about him while you’re in there?

      • Threedoor

        His baldness ruins it.

      • slumbrew

        I have been assured that bald is beautiful.

      • Threedoor

        I wear a hat. And I’m tall. I
        Don’t have to look at my own thinning hair.

  3. Shpip

    Now that the midterms are over, one of Florida’s progressive newspapers explains to their readers that the inflation that wasn’t happening, is transitory, and is also totally Putin’s fault is here, and it’s going to be here for a while.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘Too much money is sloshing through the economy.’

      I mean, at least they’re not totally wrong, though that doesn’t really explain it entirely. It is also the collapse in productivity.

      • Lackadaisical

        I dunno, I thought it was a pretty good article.

        Except:

        “So, some economists recommend that growth in the economy should be stimulated by increasing immigration judiciously. There are more than 11 million job openings in America. Filling those jobs will go a long way in stimulating economic growth, which would lower inflation”

        Ah, yes, the only way to reduce inflation is to suppress wages for the maids and landscapers of the people you gave all the trillions of dollars to.

  4. MikeS

    That pic is off the hook. Or it slaps. Cool beans? Whatev, it made me lol.

    • juris imprudent

      I’ll be the first to second that.

      • MikeS

        Worst first ever.

  5. juris imprudent

    And Oregon State overcame the OSU curse, thanks to the unbelievable generosity of the Ducks.

    • Ted S.

      And the Ducks’ ghastly uniforms.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        Phil Knights revenge.

      • Shpip

        Some Florida commuter school with airs is trying something similar this week.

        Doesn’t seem to be working, as they’re down 28-7 at the half.

      • slumbrew

        Dude, what did you do!?

      • Shpip

        Willed them to come all the way back, only to fall in the final minute.

      • slumbrew

        Thank you for the excitement, then.

      • slumbrew

        That final catch was unreal.

  6. Aloysious

    It’s a free for all?

    I didn’t know Ted Nugent was a Glib.

    • Aloysious

      And the link is under the picture.

      Fail.

      I blame Joe ‘Potato Head’ Biden.

  7. R.J.

    I just got home from Shreveport. Took and extra two hours due stop and go traffic outside of Dallas. Why did I come back again?

    • Chafed

      Because you love us?

  8. Threedoor

    I had a great thanksgiving. No BS. No obligatory family crap. Just my wife and the kiddos at the only opera restaurant in town with all the other losers. It was awesome.

    • Threedoor

      Open. Now an opera restaurant would be ok as well.

      • R.J.

        I could get into the concept of an opera restaurant.

      • Threedoor

        I’t wouldn’t work in my hometown. Every new restaurant that’s not some crappy chain fails. That and there are only 40,000 people in the county, and another 25,000 across the river half of which are on welfare nothing remotely high end or Novel flys.

      • Ted S.

        At least until they sell out and make everyone switch to Brave or Vivaldi.

      • Threedoor

        I’ve been to one. Phantom in
        Seattle over twenty years ago. It was entertaining. You won’t catch me going back to Seattle anytime soon. After the Cascadia subduction zone trips I’ll go.

      • R.J.

        I saw what you did there, Ted. And I salute you.

      • Threedoor

        I’m not cultured enough to know.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        What browser are you using?

      • Threedoor

        Safari on my phone.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        So, you don’t use Brave or Vivaldi?

      • Threedoor

        I’m Assuming they are some web browsers. For android?

      • rhywun

        I dunno about Android but I think all are available on Windows and Mac.

      • Threedoor

        The last tech thing I did was Fortran 77 over twenty five years ago. Much beyond point and click and I’m out of my depth.

      • rhywun

        I tried to like Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi. Just could not.

        Opera stuck with me for awhile, especially liked their mail client – but finally all the quirks just got to be too tiring to deal with.

      • MikeS

        I’m loving the hell out of of Vivaldi. The tab stack thing is my jam. I haven’t noticed any downsides to it yet. YMMV

    • Tundra

      Hell yes!

      It was me, my wife, my son and his buddy who was solo.

      One of the best Thanksgivings ever!

      I think I hosted like 35 last time in MN. Done with that.

      • Threedoor

        My mother demands holidays at her place. I spent my entire life being told I can do things on “your own time”. I’m 45. I refuse to sit in her house that hasent been clean in over twenty years hearing the same stories about her going to Italy in 1967 and stopping her from feeding one of my kids under cooked, frozen, or age inappropriate foods.

      • Ted S.

        Mom’s trying to get your kids drunk?

      • Threedoor

        Three hour Turkey one year.
        Tried to give my one year old frozen blue berries another.
        A couple months later baby carrots, slimy with rot.
        She tried to give my infant with no teeth some cake a couple months ago.

        I’m surprised my sister and I survived her.

      • Ted S.

        Depends on the size of the turkey. The young turkey breast Dad and I had was done in three hours.

        My Mom’s cooking went badly downhill when we got our first microwave, and she decided to do lots of stuff in the microwave that probably shouldn’t have been, like undercooked baked potatoes.

      • MikeS

        When I was a bachelor, microwaved potatoes were a staple. Took a few attempts to get the timing down, but I got damn good at adjusting the time for different sized spuds.

      • Threedoor

        It was not small.
        My moms is an RN. She’s worked in nursing homes for half her career. She’s always diagnosing everyone with something and refuses to see the elephant in the room which is what got her sister, Parkinson’s. She’s had all the symptoms, mild but has had them for ten years now. She’s going to get kicked out of every home there is.

      • Lackadaisical

        Sorry to hear about your mother.

        I have a distant relative by marriage who is like this. All the food will be ancient and growing things. I don’t know how she survives. Never again, particularly for the same reason as you- my son isn’t eating rotten food.

    • Ted S.

      Thanksgiving was just me and Dad, with me doing the turkey this year.

      I hadn’t done a turkey this size before, but it turned out OK. I already picked up one of those 3-lb. Butterball things for Christmas. I think it was three bucks more than last year, thank you Brandon.

      • MikeS

        What about Sonny?!

      • Ted S.

        I’ve got a picture of him waiting for Dad to carve won leftovers off the bones, but I haven’t uploaded it to the internet yet.

      • MikeS

        👍🏻

      • Tundra

        LOl.

        That’s focus!

      • Ted S.

        Sonny was a stray, so he’s strongly food motivated.

        Unfortunately, ha can also be extremely defensive with food, or anything he thinks might be food.

      • Tundra

        You can hardly blame him.

        Rescue dogs are a crapshoot. Sonny looks like winner.

      • Ted S.

        He’s improved quite a bit since we got him. But there are still time where he’ll do things like park himself somewhere and not want to let me go past.

      • MikeS

        Good boy!

      • Ted S.

        I wish he were that well behaved.

      • rhywun

        Awww!

      • Tundra

        Right?

      • Chafed

        What a good boy.

      • Threedoor

        Game hens are just the right size for a solo meal.

    • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

      Just the wife and I, and one chicken pot pie.

      • Threedoor

        That’s all a guy really needs.

      • Ted S.

        Technically a guy needs sex too.

      • Threedoor

        Just not with the pie.

      • MikeS

        Don’t kink shame.

      • Threedoor

        If it’s your pie you can do whatever you want with it. I’m not gonna share it with you though.

      • slumbrew

        If I’d known it was that kinda party…

      • Ted S.

        I was told it was going to be a key party, so I brought key lime pie.

      • Lackadaisical

        What else is the wife for?

  9. Tundra

    “Then these dudes are a couple of faggots, huh?”

    What a perfect movie.

    Happy Saturday, peeps! Gorgeous day here. Took our old dog for an amazing hike.

    • Timeloose

      Billy Ray Valentine…Capricorn!

  10. Shpip

    Florida Man, FSU fan, takes the whole tomahawk chop thing a little too far.

    • Lackadaisical

      I’ve never realized until now how many of these Florida man stories are from the bay area.

      And seeing all the junkies, none of it surprises me anymore either.

  11. pistoffnick

    When in doubt I whip it out…

  12. pistoffnick

    The penultimate is pecan pie.

    Fight me.

    • slumbrew

      What’s the ultimate, then?

      • Shpip

        Bourbon to wash it down with.

      • slumbrew

        Make it rye and I’m with you.

      • Shpip

        I should have a quick quip to answer that. I’m known for my rye wit.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        A Shquip?

      • MikeS

        strawberry rhubarb pie is the ultimate.

      • Threedoor

        Apple bourbon pie.

      • Galt1138

        “Apple bourbon pie.”

        That sounds wonderful, paired either with good bourbon or a nice stout.

    • Tundra

      Kind of. Depends on the season.

      My grandma used to make me a strawberry rhubarb pie every year for my birthday (August). Key lime is also amazing in hot weather.

      But for Thanksgiving? Fuck yes!

    • Timeloose

      Apple pie is still my go to. Moms this year was killer. Northern Spy apples not too sweet with just the right amount of spices.

      • MikeS

        Apple pie can be amazeballs. What has soured me (pun intended) on apple is that everyone has their own (wrong) idea on how the finished product should taste. Bland and/or overly-sweet seemingly being the favorite ways to make it. Your mom’s sounds intriguing.

      • Timeloose

        You need the right apples and the right spices. It shouldn’t taste like a spice rack, but you need some cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Spy

        We used to have a northern spy apple tree in my backyard when I was a kid. My mom used the apples for one pie a year at thanksgiving.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      He’s not wrong

    • Ted S.

      I thought Brochettaward was penultimate.

      • MikeS

        He’s tertiary at best, but magnanimous Firsters like me let him have his fun.

      • Chafed

        👍

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Pentultimate: So many to choose from

      Ultimate: Huckleberry-raspberry.

      • pistoffnick

        I don’t see how it can compete with pecan pie.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Also: substitute pinon nuts for pecans. You can’t do 1:1 so it takes a little bit of practice.

        My favorite pie is the one the I am eating at this moment.

      • MikeS

        Juneberry (Serviceberry) is another solid choice.

      • Annoyed Nomad

        I volunteer to be a judge to taste test all the nominated pies.

    • MikeS

      Pepsi!?!?!?!?! This is why I don’t Zoom…very often.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        I’m to the point in my life where Diet Dr. Pepper with Cream Soda is the peak.

        In other news; Mrs Hobbit has a new canine friend, an 11-year old Yorkie named “Wut”.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        The (lame) joke works both ways:

        “What’s you’re dog’s name?”

        “Wut”

        (Louder) “What’s your dog’s name?”

        or

        “What’s your dog’s name?”

        “My dog’s name is ‘Wut'”

        “What?”

        “I said my dog’s name is ‘Wut'”

        Barrel o’ laughs. Bottom line, though, she misses her last dog.

      • MikeS

        Wut? Love it. Is Wut a rescue?

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Not really; we “rescued” it from my cousin’s wife who had one “Wut” too many.

    • Mojeaux

      Wrong. Wronger than wrong.

    • Mojeaux

      And also, Dr. Pepper is carbonated barbecue sauce.

      • Timeloose

        That sounds better when you put it that way.

      • UnCivilServant

        It tastes nothing like BBQ sauce.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Well, my local store doesn’t carry Diet Squirt so I’m stuck.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        I acn’t even. Real BBQ has no sauce. Sauce is for spaghetti.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Until you add sauce it’s just smoked meat.

  13. Chipping Pioneer

    There is talk of Freedom Convoy 2.0 in Ottawa this coming February. Y’all are invited. Even the weirdos. BBQ is difficult in Ottawa in February, but I’m sure we can get it done.

    • UnCivilServant

      My passport is expired. I don’t think I can get into Canada.

      • rhywun

        white nationalist and anti-immigration groups

        LOL same thing duh

      • MikeS

        Only when the COVID-19 pandemic required the border be closed completely did this traffic significantly diminish…

        Oh fuck off with this shit.

      • Lackadaisical

        “Only when the COVID-19 pandemic required the border be closed completely did this traffic significantly diminish, resulting in the U.S. government detaining those whom Canada returned after refusing them entry and beginning deportation proceedings against them, a controversial move since many of them had cited fear for their safety or freedom in their native countries;[9] Roxham and other irregular Canadian border crossings were reopened in late 2021.”

        But isn’t it really interesting that they could always have stopped the illegal immigration, they just didn’t care to? All while pretending it was impossible to do.

  14. Festus

    Call-back to the FEE article about wearing ties. Fuck that shit! I only wear them for funerals and you know what else? They are pre-tied around the collars of the only two dress shirts in my closet. I give less of a shit about Windsor knots than I do about how to properly fold a fitted sheet. Hate wearing a tie!

    • MikeS

      Festus fucking gets it.

    • Threedoor

      DD214 protects me from ever wearing a tie again.

      • Gustave Lytton

        *looks for neckwear block on the form*

      • Lackadaisical

        Maybe he’s got a pension that means he never had to work again?

  15. Lackadaisical

    Good morning morning people. Happy advent.

    • Ted S.

      Good morning to you, too.

    • Sean

      Morning y’all. ☕

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Lack, Ted’S, Sean, hayek (are you up late or early?), EvilShel, Scruffy, rhy, Stinky, ‘bodru, SSD, and homey! My, there’s a lot of us here this morning!

      Choral music on the satellite radio, chai latte in the mug. This may be my favorite morning of the week!

  16. Ted S.

    The soccer is getting interesting.

    • Sean

      Go home, you’re drunk.

      • hayeksplosives

        👆👆👆👆

        Hilarious.

      • Sean

        😉

    • hayeksplosives

      I can’t even, with the “author”’s easy interchange of the terms turtle and tortoise.

    • EvilSheldon

      You have a turtle?

      • Sean

        Yes. It’s actually my gf’s.

      • Gender Traitor

        She saved it!! 😃

      • EvilSheldon

        Turtles are cool. Tortoises, too.

    • hayeksplosives

      DO NOT BREAK GLASS.

      “He’s standing right behind me, isn’t he?”

    • hayeksplosives

      Allow me to interpret.

      They are insane and ultra high maintenance, and should be added to my secret database of “People I’ll Never Hire or Associate with.”

      • Sean

        That’s gonna be a big database.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I went to Target for some tree lights yesterday. I was thrilled to find out that I can buy Christmas decorations that are designed by genderqueer non-binary people.

        I totally stocked up in case this trend ends.

    • EvilSheldon

      I wish that I could get people to understand – there are no safe places. There are dangers that you’re prepared to handle, and dangers that you’re not…

    • rhywun

      Does the Genderqueer card trump the Queer card?

      • Not Adahn

        Depends. Are thy hetpassing?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I think it’s the equivalent of a wild card.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s a longwinded way of saying “I’m mentally ill, my husbandwife too.”

    • robodruid

      I thought they recommended not using shipping containers as bunker material.
      Seriously interesting how they got that built.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        The ceiling of shipping containers will buckle under the weight of the soil if the structure isn’t reinforced. I’ve seen reinforced containers commonly used though.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They make for decent concrete forms. Dig a hole, place the container, add rebar around it and pour.

    • hayeksplosives

      The bunker had shipping container boxes stacked together to create a three-level building, with even a scissor jack elevator and tunnel ladders inside. Deputies say they found 36 guns, a pound of methamphetamine, an ounce of cocaine, a half ounce of psychedelic mushrooms and 200 pill capsules. Investigators also found $240,000 in cash and $700,000 worth of gold and silver. The duo was using the stolen electricity to power the bunker, deputies said.

      Whoah. I’m impressed. They can’t have been total screwups to accomplish what they did. Only mistake was stealing grid power. Idiots.

      Where do the seized assets go?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        To the police Christmas Party fund

    • Ted S.

      At an RV facility?

      Is KK OK?

      • hayeksplosives

        Sorry; misthread. Should have been new.

        NOT CALLING KK A CUNTE!!!🤣

      • Ted S.

        LOL.

      • Ted S.

        I remember once on a board about women’s tennis, one of the commenters meant to type “Correct on both counts”, but forgot the final O. 🙂

      • Tres Cool

        “….and the women’s midget track team is a cunning bunch of runts!”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Lorenz is far worse than the that.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That’s the girl that cries about being doxxed in interviews right after she doxxed someone. Such a pure piece of shot that I almost wonder whether or not she’s actually doing a bit.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Pretty sure she’s a full blown psychopath

      • Gender Traitor

        …locking people in, resulting in building fires from which no one can escape…

        -1 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (ackshually -146)

    • Tres Cool

      Awww….home tweak home.
      They even had pictures on the wall.

    • rhywun

      Better late than never I guess to realize that the US is not your friend.

  17. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    yo whats goody yo

    TALL SABBATH CANS!