Tourist faces backlash after dancing on Mayan pyramid in Mexico
An angry mob in Mexico poured water on a clueless female tourist, hurled insults at her and demanded that she be locked up after she ascended the ancient Mayan pyramid and was filmed dancing on the stairs.
The unidentified woman, who is said to be a Spanish national, sparked an outrage Monday when she ignored the rules barring visitors from climbing Mayan Temple of Kukulcán in Chichén Itzá, which was named in 2007 one of the New 7 Wonders of the World by UNESCO.
After reaching the top, she gyrated her hips and waved her arms in celebration, drawing loud jeers from a large group of tourists observing her wild antics from the ground. Some of them were heard calling the disrespectful visitor an “a–hole” and an “idiot” in Spanish. Chants of “jail, jail, jail” and “lock her up” in Spanish could be heard in the background.
The blonde woman, sporting bright-red tights and a blue T-shirt, ducked into the temple room, before descending the pyramid’s 365 steps. She was met at the base by officials with the Mexican Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), along with a furious crowd.
In viral videos that have been circulating on TikTok and Twitter, irate onlookers are seen dousing the insolent tourist, who has been dubbed “Lady Chichén Itzá,” with water from plastic bottles, and calling her “stupid.”
This pleases SugarFree.
This does not please SugarFree.
Kanye West: I asked Donald Trump to be my 2024 running mate
Kanye West says he asked Donald Trump to be his 2024 presidential running mate during a meeting at the former president’s Florida estate this week.
The 45-year-old rapper — who has returned to Twitter after he was banned over his an anti-Semitic rant — said he traveled to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach to make the pitch, and a Trump source confirmed the visit to The Post Wednesday.
“First time at Mar-a-Lago. Rain and traffic. Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting. And I had on jeans. Yikes,” West tweeted Tuesday night.
“What you guys think his response was when I asked him to be my running mate in 2024?” he asked, using Twitter’s poll feature to add buttons with the choices “That’s very Ye” or “That’s very Nay.”
The hip-hop star, who now goes by Ye, has previously met with Trump in New York City and Washington, DC, including at a lunch with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump where he dropped an F-bomb in the Oval Office in October 2018.
The Hat and The Hair and The Ye
This pleases SugarFree.
I spent a long time denying how much I like this song, but I gave in. The way it builds upon itself, adding layer after layer until the end of the song, and the lyrics, and become the inevitability of inescapable fate.
Band: Everclear
Song: Santa Monica
Album: Sparkle and Fade (1995)
I am still living with your ghost
Lonely and dreaming of the west coast
I don’t wanna be your downtime
I don’t wanna be your stupid game
With my big black boots and an old suitcase
I do believe I’ll find myself a new place
I don’t wanna be the bad guy
I don’t wanna do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just wanna see some palm trees
I will try and shake away this disease
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
I am still dreaming of your face
Hungry and hollow for all the things you took away
I don’t wanna be your good time
I don’t wanna be your fall-back crutch anymore
Walk right up into a brand new day
Insane and rising in my own weird wayI don’t wanna be the bad guy
I don’t wanna do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just wanna feel some sunshine
I just wanna find some place to be alone
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
Yeah, watch the world die
“Chants of “jail, jail, jail” and “lock her up” in Spanish could be heard in the background.”
So like a Trump rally?
I assume some TikTokers are good people.
There are good people on both sides of the border.
Very fine people.
You assume wrong.
She’s going to destroy the quiet dignity of a site where human sacrifice was practiced.
Angry gods must be appeased.
Eh, she trespassed at a minimum. It’s also some combination of a religious site and a remembrance site (like Auschwitz). I would have no problem with her doing some time in a Mexican prison.
Mexican prison for trespass? Because I’m sure you aren’t arguing that offending people’s sensibilities is grounds for prison time.
I went to Cancun when I was about 8 or so, and my family climbed a pyramid. I don’t know if it was the one in question or not, but the one I climbed had huge chains down the stairs to help with the climb.
However, they may have changed their policies in the intervening 40+ years.
The steep angle on those things would likely scare me away.
Indeed. I wouldn’t do it today, even if it weren’t against the rules.
“Because I’m sure you aren’t arguing that offending people’s sensibilities is grounds for prison time.”
I am becoming increasingly less opposed to punishing people for being merely “offensive”.* If someone were to fire up the ovens at Auschwitz for a barbecue, would you really say jail time was out of the question.
I know it’s a double edged sword, but I think (a) its already being swung by one side and (b) you either defend what you think is worth defending, or you lose it. Unilateral disarmament in a recipe for losing, and I don’t particularly care to lose much of what I value in the world to narcissistic sociopaths who will weaponize abstract principles to neuter anyone who stands in their way. See, also “its a private company” as a defense of the castration of the public square by Big Tech.
Caveat: I am in a cranky mood today and have been hitting the whiskey, so I may change my mind tomorrow.
I get where you’re coming from.* But I don’t think merely climbing up it and celebrating making it to the top rise the same level as firing up the ovens…maybe I’m splitting hairs there. However, I agree 100% about protecting ones culture and beliefs.
My poorly worded snark was actually referring to the punishment. I agree this rises above regular trespass. I absolutely believe she should be punished, but I just felt prison (Mexican or not) is too much if this is a one-off thing.
*Breaking the whiskey out when the ribs come off the smoker in 30 mins or so.
Trivial example: If the “tuners” who blast their engines outside your house 24/7 won’t stop unless a few of them go to jail, well, is that really so bad? They aren’t even trespassing, but merely being “offensive”. They won’t stop because people just complain and ask them to knock it off, so do they get license to keep doing it, period?
Another bad analogy. How much whiskey have you had? 🧐 The tuners are interfering with everyone in earshot’s right to enjoy life. Much different than climbing an old rock that thousands of people have climbed in the past.
So, apparently more clarification is needed. My hangup was purely your call for prison time. Jail time should absolutely be on the table, and a fine and other civil penalties (like being banned from the sight under threat of stiffer penalties) should be imposed.
Jail is really what I had in mind.
To you it’s an old rock. To the Mexicans, apparently, it’s something more. The tuners are just doing what they want to enjoy life, so by telling them not to, aren’t we just interfering with that? At some point, values matter, I guess, and those values aren’t going to be rational, entirely, but will be based on some kind of community consensus.
In libertopia, local residents would put a stop to that right quick. No doubt some will come up with unique, inventive, and hilarious ways of doing so.
LOL!
Have any Republicans actually suggested putting Medicare and Social Security “on the chopping block”?
You’re not getting the message. They’re EXTREME. More extreme than any sports drink of Doritos variation.
More extreme than Dan Cortese?
Dan Cortese is a RETHUGGLIKAN after all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyhrgWO5Uic
Well, Bush did at one point floated a suggestion allowing people to direct their SS “investments” into the stock market if they wanted. That’s the same as forcing grandma to eat cat food, right?
Bush had solid plans for both immigration and social security reform, and both were immediately shot down. So he said “fuck it, I’ll just start a war instead, you guys love that shit”, and the rest is history.*
* j/k, that’s not how it really happened. Though he did have solid plans for both immigration and social security reform.
Now, it’s more likely that the Democrats will float a plan forcing 401(k)/IRA investments to be in ESG/Government Bonds.
REFORM!
None that I’m aware of, but the fact checkers didn’t bother to look at the claims, so they must be legit.
“Correct Attribution”
Tremble before my ostentatious outrage
A gunman opened fire at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Saturday night, killing five people and injuring 19 others. At the time, Club Q was hosting a drag show and was expected to hold two more drag events the following day to honor Transgender Day of Remembrance. Now, however, lives have been stolen, others have been critically wounded, and Club Q has closed its doors until further notice.
Adding salt to the wound of all of this is the hypocrisy of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who tweeted that “the victims & their families are in my prayers.” This is the same person who has become notorious for her anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, wild conspiracy theories and glorification of guns and who has played a significant part in helping mainstream some dangerous talking points about queer and trans people. Unsurprisingly, her tweet fell flat and sparked outrage from the LGBTQ community and its allies, who unapologetically called her out for failing to acknowledge exactly who was targeted in the attack.
As a queer person, I’m heartbroken and devastated by the shooting, but as a journalist, I am unfortunately not surprised. The shooting at Club Q is a tragic yet predictable outcome of demonizing LGBTQ people and using children as political pawns.
Yeah, okay.
Whatever.
Good point the author, now what time’s Drag Queen Story Hour?
“Queer” = “I can safely ignore anything further you have to say because your politics are going to be a dumpster fire.”
The Missing Link
https://variety.com/2022/music/news/congress-hearing-ticketmaster-taylor-swift-fiasco-1235440740/
Congressional hearings about the inability of white women to get Taylor Swift tickets.
As I understand it, part of the problem is that some of the fans thought it was a cruise and not a concert.
Yet another DC Swiftboat controversy.
The Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia
My brown niece got a ticket. Racist?
It can’t be cultural appropriation, so she must be a victim of white supremacy.
The message is don’t fuck around with Taylor Swift.
I think her various breakup songs already conveyed that message.
(Yes, I know the actual lyric — but that’s what I keep hearing her sing anyway, and it is funnier.)
The woman is absolute pure pop perfection. I’m a huge fan.
Also love that Everclear tune. Whenever I hear it it takes me right back to a certain point of my life in the mid 90’s that will never return.
Yeah, it does do that.
It’s the rare track that I don’t own but I always like hearing it.
I periodically go on Everclear binges (!) the first few albums were so goddamn good.
And this one always makes me smile.
How about some Social D?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXW7WMSBpk
Yaaaas! I got into Social D late…about the time of their last album. Bakersfield is one of my favs from them.
So goddamn good.
I’ll raise you more.
I’ll call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdZb2inh4YM
Tundra:
I’ll yield. Somewhat related, the girlfriend and I have been in discussion to shifting our spring trip to Vegas from Viva to Punk Rock Bowling for 2024. Less events, but more bands, and quite a few from my youth.
That looks amazing!
I’ve never been to Viva, but the bands at Bowling are in my wheelhouse.
I can’t believe they’re all alive!
Bookmarked. Thanks.
Although maybe I oughta hit Viva at least once.
Tundra:
Viva does have the burlesque shows (with the main one hosted by John Waters for the past two years), burlesque bingo, the car show, dance lessons, makeup and hair lessons, and the like. But in my opinion, the band list has not recovered from the shutdown year.
Thanks, Neph.
Bowling looks really fun.
OFFS.
Why do you want to erase gay men from history?
She was met at the base by officials with the Mexican Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), along with a furious crowd.
Were they armed with obsidian knives?
I think that’s Aztecs?
“Julia Fox gives NSFW description of Kanye West’s penis”
https://pagesix.com/2022/11/23/julia-fox-gives-nsfw-description-of-kanye-wests-penis/
Hopefully, he’ll bring it up during the debates.
Finally, what the world has been waiting for.
Only if he decides to go hard on his opponents.
She’s nice to lie about him like that.
Shouldn’t she have been pinned down and had major organs removed to appease the gods?
I think someone at the scene suggested that.
That will get them booted from Twitter!
When I first reported on the right’s anti-LGBTQ “grooming” narrative back in April, I was afraid that this hateful rhetoric would lead to violence, and now my worst fears have been confirmed. For months, bad-faith actors on cable TV and social media have relentlessly attacked our community, whipping up hysteria and constant threats, much of which has unfortunately been spread and legitimized by certain politicians like Boebert.
Throughout her career, she has repeatedly expressed her disdain for the LGBTQ community. In recent months, she has baselessly accused drag queens, trans people and LGBTQ-allied teachers of “grooming” young children. She’s compared gender-affirming medical care to mutilation, vilified trans athletes and claimed that LGBTQ characters shouldn’t be in TV shows that kids might watch. Boebert also suggested that there should be an age limit on when people can come out or transition, similar to the age restrictions on alcohol and tobacco products. In August, she even warned drag queens to “stay away from the children in Colorado’s Third District” in response to a flyer advertising Drag Queen Story Hour at a local library.
Oh, HORROR.
I don’t get the drag shows for kids thing. I’m not horrified by it (until they really start sexualizing it), but it’s a caricature. If the real aim was to show that being gay is normal and mainstream, they’d show a gay couple throwing ball in the park with their kids, going to church, etc. I’ve been to some drag shows and they’re good, campy fun. It didn’t occur to me to bring my six-year-old along.
If the real aim was to show that being gay is normal and mainstream,
Narrator: It’s not the real aim.
If the real aim was to show that being gay is normal and mainstream, they’d show a gay couple throwing ball in the park with their kids, going to church, etc.
We’re waaaaay past that. Those guys are practically shitlord level in the woke caste system these days.
Interesting take on DQSH: https://www.city-journal.org/the-real-story-behind-drag-queen-story-hour
Okay, I’m getting my holiday on but that looks like an excellent article that I’ve bookmarked so I can read it tomorrow morning over coffee. Also, check out the long topmost comment by Clever Pseudonym.
That was very enlightening IIRC.
Long story short, the radicals took over another institution and are twisting it to suit their own nefarious purposes.
Sound familiar?
Interesting. That quote from Rubin sure gives up her game, every group is named in a standard straightforward way except for “those whose eroticism transgresses generational boundaries.”
“a gay couple throwing ball in the park with their kids, going to church, etc.”
Which is all some of us ever wanted, was to be that nice normal gay couple down the street. We fought so long, so hard, to just be normal.
But now you can have so much more!
Related, an oldie but goodie…
https://www.theonion.com/gay-pride-parade-sets-mainstream-acceptance-of-gays-bac-1819566014
Which really has been the norm for at least 30 years. I can’t think of a neighborhood I’ve lived in that didn’t have at least one nice normal gay couple.
This bullshit has nothing to do with gay people.
to just be normal.
Nope. Shot right past that into unconditionally loved by all. Celebrated for being different, for being BETTER. Normal? Who the fuck wants that – there’s no visibility, you’re just part of a crowd, not the STAR of the SHOW!!!
I believe that everybody’s a celebrity,
And we’ve all got personality
And individuality.
We all read lines,
And we all act a part,
We all need a script
And an audience to play to.
No matter what you do,
Or who you are,
Everybody’s a star.
Sounds about right…
I don’t know who did that, and don’t want to know who did that. That way, being blissfully ignorant, the desire to hunt them down and punch them in the nose will pass.
Knew it was the Kinks, but guessed wrong on the song. I thought it was from celluloid Heroes.
“I’m not horrified by it (until they really start sexualizing it)”
Based on what I have seen on a few clips, they have. Toddlers stuffing money into drag queen clothes type of stuff.
FGM is cultural affirming medical care.
That’s because “gender-affirming medical care” IS mutilation hidden behind noble-sounding bullshit wording.
^This
It’s also coddling mental illness and it destroys minds just as sure as it destroys bodies.
Everything this person lists as being “anti-LGBTQ” is at worst, anti-TQ. There is not a single example of her doing anything anti-LGB.
I know there’s a growing movement within LGB to distance themselves from TQ. I really hope they keep getting louder. I really don’t know if we can end this madness without leadership on it from within the LGB community.
But what do I know, I’m just a northern-redneck straight white male.
Not gonna happen since radical elements of the latter latched themselves on to the former and highjacked the whole thing.
But that’s what I mean. The former need to speak up and start ostracizing the latter. No small feat, to be sure, but I really think the end to this has to come from LGB. The straight majority can maybe get wins in court and legislatures, but it has to be a culture change for it to really stick. And that has to come from LGB (and non-crazy TQ).
How’s that worked out for Andy Ngo?
Santa Monica holds up so well.
And I support a Ye/Two Scoops ticket.
Ye isn’t a big fan of Kushner and his brother.
Exactly.
Probably the only way to get rid of those fuckwits.
Being an LGBTQ person in this country is already hard enough. Having your entire existence constantly politicized, as if your very humanity is a question up for debate, is hard enough. But now, even our safe spaces are being attacked and taken away from us — the very spaces we were forced to create because society didn’t want to have to see us in public in the first place. We deserve so much more than this. We deserve to be able to not live in fear and to not have our rights and existence constantly come into question. We deserve to feel safe in our own spaces and not be made to feel like our lives are somehow inappropriate. We deserve to go to gay bars and drag shows or walk down the street without being attacked or harassed, or killed.
WHEEEEEE!
Those lights are really bright. Your gas bill must be astronomical.
We deserve to do the attacking. It’s our turn.
constantly politicizing your entire existence
FTFT
Thanks for the armored hermit crab vid, Sean!
(Dead thread for those who want to watch)
Are they coming for Ohgra before the Great Conjunction?
🙂
Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress are EXTREME
Dissent is Treason
First time by, I read that as “chatting with your Uncle TOM at Thanksgiving”.
Uncle Tom is a jive turkey….
No crime issues in NYC
https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-dies-2-weeks-swarm-nyc-dirt-bike-atv-riders-assault-him
So roaming street gangs.
For all they decry the “Wild West”, you can be damned sure any outlaw gangs thought twice about who they’d harass to avoid getting shot.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK – The Duke – Film Clip
https://youtu.be/x7DpMq6hbJY
Jeebus.
This is the extreme, violent criminal version of the same shit that’s happening all over the city and in other cities too that I’ve been complaining about for years.
And they keep telling us we don’t need ARs with 30 round magazines.
I’ve been advocating any two wheeled vehicle on a sidewalk not driven by a child is allowed to be taken out with a baseball bat. No questions asked.
Wholeheartedly agree.
What happens when you let all kinds of e bikes and the like loose with no traffic enforcement of any kind.
It’s also cars being modified at sketchy auto shops to be as loud as possible. I don’t know why that got so trendy but it started around 2018 or ’19.
You either have a culture of self-centered assholes, and all that entails, or you don’t. I prefer the latter, myself. And keeping the self-centered assholes in line often requires a firm, very firm, response. And I’m OK with that.
Nothing like having the last outstanding Congressional race in the country: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/election/california-elections/article269098742.html
We’re number 1! We’re number 1!
(See also — this state should be farging embarrassed with the voting processes they’ve slipped to… but of course, they won’t be… because it makes the harvesting easier…)
That SacBee article you linked to was a weird news article, SDF. All it did was present facts. There was no opinion at all about who the better candidate.
It’s because Republicans won’t let them start counting mail in votes before election day. At least that’s what the previous excuse was.
Back when CA started “non-partisan” -cough-bullshit-cough- commissions to set congressional boundaries is when this went into high gear. That area had been a Minority-Majority district via VRA, but as the numbers keep dwindling, it is no surprise that an R is starting to make in roads, and the D’s who control said commission can’t do anything about it, as it is Federal.
And if this wasn’t Dems getting in the way of free and fair elections, the UN would be pissing itself to get in their and fuck around.
Now they’s in trouble!
One of the weapons used by the suspect in the Club Q shooting was a “ghost gun,” sources tell FOX31.
Ghost guns are made by individuals using parts that can be purchased and assembled, or 3D printed. A privately-made gun without a serial number is difficult or impossible for authorities to trace.
——-
It’s unclear where Aldrich may have gotten the gun — whether they bought the parts online and assembled it or bought it from someone else.
Sources tell FOX31 that the long gun used in the shooting was a ghost gun. It appeared to be fully automatic, sources say, allowing the firing of at least 40 to 50 shots before good Samaritans tackled the suspect.
To be sure, randomly killing people is not cool; but using a gun with no federally approved serial number takes things to a whole ‘nother level!
He, errr they, is really in trouble now!
“sources”
Shouldn’t it read “tackle the suspects”?
ATF: Well that does it, this gun simply does not exist because we can’t trace it. I’m afraid they is going to have to go free.
They? I hope they catch his accomplices.
Have some Q-approved Schumann for your Wednesday afternoon listening pleasure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jbHbDena_U
Classy!
State instant background check is over 22k deep. CHL queue is about 3k.
Instant queued up.
hahaha less-than greater-than eaten as tags, how about /=
For all they decry the “Wild West”, you can be damned sure any outlaw gangs thought twice about who they’d harass to avoid getting shot.
Looking down the barrel of a scattergun might inspire you to mind your Ps and Qs.
Holy forking shirtballs. Look at this rogues’ gallery
https://mobile.twitter.com/WSBChairman/status/1595523032570814471
It’s hilarious. Zuckerberg must be delighted he won’t be the least popular person on the panel.
Wow! To me, the message from this is the same as the message from Theranos and Bernie Madoff (and covid, but that’s slightly different): the elite experts are no different from the rest of us. They make good calls and bad calls. They’re just as susceptible to everyone else to be bamboozled. So, stop giving them power to ru(i)n everything.
I would add, that sometimes the elite experts are worse because they get to gamble with someone else’s money or with a chunk of theirs which will not significantly affect their day-to-day life. I’m more cynical because (a) Australian; (b) old; (c) if I gamble my money wrong, it’s gone.
Meteor time.
They don’t even have to hide the whole operation behind closed doors anymore. This is just to spite the rest of us.
But I have to wonder with at least one part of the house of cards falling apart whether this event will actually take place.
Seems stupid on Zuckerdroid’s part but I fully understand Zelensky and Yellin’s rationale. It’s returning a favor.
“Howls Of Outrage After New York Times Confirms SBF (the fat charlatan ponzu scheme that just got discovered guy) To Speak Alongside Zelenskyy, Yellen”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/howls-outrage-after-new-york-times-confirms-sbf-speak-alongside-zelenskyy-yellen-dealbook
OK now, this is a bit blatant even for them.
Ponzu scheme.
You dip your bitcoin in that?
Fonzi scheme.
Fonzie Scheme.
I was not disappointed.
So everyone who has three names gets to be known by a cool acronym now? I quit.
Does FJB count?
We could go back to the first initial last name first syllable thing ala A-Rod and call him S-Fry. Or would it be prnounced S-Free?
Wait, S-Free…???
I’m actually shocked. I was certain that SBF was going to be arrested any moment. But he isn’t even disinvited from the panel.
From what I can tell, it wasn’t even a Ponzi scheme (which is using incoming deposits/investments to pay off earlier depositors/investors) so much as it was outright theft (transferring depositor funds from the FTX exchange to the Alameda trading operation to be gambled/invested for someone else’s account). I’’m guessing the protection money he paid to the Dems is actually giving him some protection.
My limited read is the same. Just loaned customer assets to a related entity.
Naturally expressly forbidden too.
Loaned without their consent, “collateralized” with “tokens” they created out of thin air. One of the more feeble attempts at laundering/coverup I have seen.
This is it. If I had to guess at the whole structure, I would say that it was a Dem money laundering operation, that was “run” by a kid. A kid who was put in place to look like all of the D’s fantasies about the world, namely that the youth are so smart, worked. And there was someone in back who was actually in charge. But, it was so successful, and so many of their idiot friends wanted in, that they opened it up, as they had started to believe their BS.
And this is what it turns into.
The financial records appear to be almost non-existent so proving anything is going to be a challenge.
From what the new CEO says, a group of 5 year old ADHD children would run a company with more rigor than SBF and his fellow managers did.
I’m afraid to ask but… are those Thanksgiving talking points real?
I believe so…
What’s Thanksgiving without political talking points and a good old knock down drag out family brawl? Good God, just overeat, get drunk, and fall asleep watching football.
All too real, my friend. All too real.
Your link! Eet is broken!
If you delete the stray quotation mark at the end of the URL, it works.
Fixed. Thanks.
Seriously Japan? No idea this was happening.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/23/japanese-schoolchildren-end-covid-ban-lunchtime-chatter
My daughter would not be able to take it. She can’t stay quiet for a moment.
Japan has such a conforming culture. I couldn’t work at most companies there.
Me neither. I am a spazz.
I bet they don’t even let you masterbute in the breakrooms there.
Or stick your dick in the mashed potatoes.
OTH, you are free to grope on crowded trains.
In their defense, there is still a recognizably Japanese culture. There is increasingly less of the American culture from two or three generations ago, and I am wondering what will change to prevent the day when there will be nothing of it left.
But this won’t affect food prices…
https://apnews.com/article/business-caribbean-global-trade-dominican-republic-puerto-rico-a396b180eeb5ac0989fef3b4b23f1d51
I’m starting my 4 day weekend.my
Yay.
*Lights firecrackers*
What would we do without CNN and experts?
‘Did you put on weight?’ or ‘Should you be going for seconds?’
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/health/holiday-boundaries-questions-comments-wellness/index.html
🏳️🌈
“Why yes! I put on weight. And I want seconds. I’ve been eating GREAT off of all the commies. Ribs, steaks, everything. I see you are enjoying that ham I brought! Good!”
Hey, kids! You remember what today is? That’s right, it’s Wednesday, the day that at 20:00 Eastern the Glibs Humpday Zoom will automatically start itself and admit all comers. Remember this thing hosts itself; try logging-in to your zoom account if it doesn’t admit you.
Fuck yeah. No work tomorrow!
Which means I’ll probably be hopping on tonight, and starting tomorrow I’ll have the no host needed (AKA no Neph needed) holiday Zoom free for all.
We’re going to Boston Market tomorrow. That’s it. That’s the day.
I have had many Boston Market Thanksgivings. They are the best. No relatives!
I’m actually happy to be seeing my nephews again. Just last night, the youngest asked (through his mom) if I was going to be bringing my mac and cheese as a side for Thanksgiving. I was informed that he was very happy when the answer was yes.
Tomorrow will be bacon, cheddar, Gruyere pasta (going with rotini, as I’m out of elbow) and cheese. The bacon grease will be used in the roux, and to fry breadcrumbs to top it with.
I am having Thanksgiving with the Tall Thin Spaniard what Lurks on this Site’s family tomorrow. Nothing big. It’s going to rain a lot so probably we will huddle under his outdoor patio umbrella, smoke cigars and watch crappy over the air TV on my 7” portable TV. This is what is good in life.
If I send you my address, and a modest sum, would you pls. ship to my house?
I’m not sure it’ll survive the shipping, but I’ll gladly share the recipe if you’d like.
I’m having stilted Thanksgiving at my dad’s. I’m making rolls: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/crusty-european-style-hard-rolls-recipe
In previous years, I would do pretzel rolls, and a hard yeasty roll. Now it doesn’t seem fair to make my family pack up two cars with kids and have them drive across town. The girlfriend has no family left in the area to attend, and it’s just us, my niece, and her husband on this side of town.
Wish I had a Boston Market. Harrumph.
+1 harrumph
I think there may be one left in my area. Most have gone under.
Best Mac’n’cheese next to Stouffer’s, which is the best.
I’ll pit my homemade mac and cheese against all of them. Stouffer’s as far too many fast and easy foods, started here in Ohio.
I can guarantee yours doesn’t have that sweet sweet factory-processed aftertaste.
Mojeaux:
It does not, at least I really hope it doesn’t.
We were planning to meet my sisters & BIL at a historic local restaurant, but my oldest sister & BIL both came down with the ‘VID. Thus we’re staying home and having the traditional jambalaya and toasted ravioli.
Wow. That sounds awesome. I’m really not much for the traditional turkey dinner anymore.
In one nod to the conventional bill of fare, we do have one of those FREAKIN’ HUGE Sam’s Club pumpkin pies – for two people…and procured before we knew the restaurant plans were cancelled.
…and it’s our second one in as many weeks.
Yeah, no work! I just ordered my wife a bottle of Wine on Drizly. I don’t drink, fuck. This is no fun. I’m just going to eat myself to death, damnit.
Careful with that. It can happen. Are happy gummies an option?
Happy gummies? You mean with Cannabis?
Yes
I’m in MD, no Cannabis for us until 2023 and then guaranteed they will fuck it up and you will go to jail for some slight variation on how much you have on you or how many plants. 2 plants? WTF? How much cannabis have these morons grown? None, dummies.
Apparently your future home in WV is already on board.
I didn’t hear that yet, about WV. Lots of good growing areas there, nothing like mountain weed to go with your shine.
Do you have any idea how much I hate kale? I mean who the fuck would like it? The baby stuff is fine, but the fully adult Kale, the texture is god fucking awful, you might was well eat rag weed!
I use it in a green soup, but that’s about it.
My wife uses collard greens in soup. Not kale though.
Kale and corn is good.
13 minutes for a bottle of wine, to my door. No wonder I was a fucking alcoholic.
Help me out here: Is the guy in the foreground in the Mayan pyramid a blind guy with one of those walking sticks? Or was he playing Chichen Itza’s putt-putt course?
*Mayan pyramid picture
It’s the Chichen Stick, for poking uppity tourists.
I was thinking he’s about to bash her with a golf club. Many woke, so brave.
Excellent links. I have history with that song and love it. Who knew it was prophetic. Not that I have black boots or even a suit case but the whole watch the world die thing is getting closer and closer.
Gay bar shot up. *Extreme, yet thinly veiled glee*
Shooter is non binary. *Disappoinment and silence*
Shooter’s Dad is “conservative republican”. *Glee reappears*
Saw quite a few people go through that emotional process over the past 24 hours.
I think it’s grandpa who is the conservative Republican. Dad is the mma fighter/porn star. Who the hell is scripting and casting these stories?
Both?
https://mobile.twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1595519454900805649
Jesus.
Ah, blaming it on the Mormons now.
My lefty Mormon friends/family have been doing that since it happened, citing a talk one of our leaders gave as being a dog whistle command. All sorts of screaming and hooting and hollering at the church. My brother official resigned his membership.
This kid could turn out to be a vegan member of GreenPeace with Mein Kampf on his computer and it will somehow be blamed on “right-wing extremists.”
Oooh! Another LDS faction! What’sit’s name? “Reformed” is already taken. Maybe “Awakened?”
It’s called “ExMo.” It’s its own little cult.
Splitters! Splitters!
This guy is almost every cable news outlet’s wet dream made real.
Drives me crazy. Every event like this turns into a battle of two sides, then some shitty attempt at gun control. A pox on both houses. People died because a mentally ill man, with plenty of warning signs, was not stopped prior. There are only two solutions:
1. There should be no gun-free zones, ever. From age 6 every citizen should be taught to shoot, and wearing a piece should be an adult rite of passage for every citizen. Man or woman. It should become weird to NOT see someone packing.
2. Prosecutors, do your fucking jobs. When that guy went nuts and required police intervention, he never should have gotten back on the street without a full evaluation. If we can’t all pack heat in public, do the motherfucking job we pay you for.
My rant is ended.
Good rant.
Would read again.
Me too.
One of the reasons the homeless situation here on the west coast is so out of hand is the lefts insistence that you cannot, in any way, shape or form, denigrate mental health. It absolutely must be looked at as a blessing, inspiring art and culture. And this, obviously, extends to any mass shooting. It simply must be the evil gun talking to the poor, poor soul in his sleep.
Animism. Tell me how it works again?
Have you ever read Beyond This Horizon? Very early (1942 or 1948 depending on if you’re referencing the serialized version or the collected novel) Heinlein book. It still has the concept of UBI as an economic policy, but every adult male is expected to be carrying a firearm and be prepared to duel (unless they’re wearing a distinctive piece of apparel). There’s a partial quote that’s used by quite a few people without knowing it’s from this book:
I have and thought the same.
Fun time with eugenics to boot!
All of L. Neil Smith’s non-Star Wars books had the same concept.
‘What’s important is not what happens to any five of our community, what’s important is what happens to all of us, politically!’
You’d think they were treated like Uyghurs by the way they act.
Or that this is Qatar and not the U.S.
Ya, shit be weird, or maybe crazy people kill people. Who knows.
Person being loud and boisterous is Chinese. Sigh of relief.
Person’s wife is Japanese. Disappointment.
Wife’s family is ethnically Korean. Relief reappears.
So, these Messicans have no sense of humor at all, huh? She was Spanish, they’d best be careful. Quetzalcoatl will come back for real this time.
Saturday I am going to try Thanksgiving eggrolls.
Thank looks good. Maybe with an orange dipping sauce?
My husband hates cranberry sauce, so I would whip jellied cranberry sauce and alternate with gravy for dipping.
I missed out on one of our local pierogi places Thanksgiving pierogi:
I’ll need to pull the trigger earlier next year.
OMG that sounds amazeballs
I stopped in on Saturday, asked about them, and were told they were sold out at both locations for the year. Today is the last day to indulge in the New Bomb Turkey from Melt though:
At least the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Melt comes on Friday:
Daaaaaaang….
*removes hat
Welcome to the midwest. We do fat people food well. I mean, I find it hard to believe that the Polish Boy is relatively unknown outside of Cleveland.
I’ve had a Polish boy or two. I did spend some years in Buffalo, after all.
/tips hat
Ummm….
Would. But…….
Glad I didn’t sit next to her on an airplane…
https://www.intheknow.com/post/mom-universal-studios-size-inclusive-rides/
I’m enjoying the newspeak and the engineering challenge of making rides fit small children and large adults.
Meh. I fit in an airplane seat but not in one (1) ride at Harry Potterland. As in there is one I don’t fit in, I fit in all the others.
I bet it was that dark ride with the overhead roller coaster. My shoulders wouldn’t clear that one either.
You didn’t feel compelled to take to TikTok and explain how it was just all unfair?
Good gravy. A little self-awareness and proprioception would make her life a bit easier.
/looks up definition of proprioception
I knew it!
Better: “I had a feeling that’s what it meant”
Universal should be happy. When the mob that is demanding grievance is mortally obese, all you have to do is wait them out.
/looks over at the Florida death from earlier this year.
You sure you want to push to get on a ride they said you’re too big for?
“There’s a place in Jersey called ‘Action Park’. You might want to go there.”
Sadly, she’d need a time machine.
Crap. “mortally” => “morbidly”
It worked.
Still works.
And accurate
Well, duh Mike….that’s why it works.
*sigh
I swear, I’ve only had 1 beer.
I love how they’re smiling in their little rants. It’s an achievement for them to have something to claim victimhood over.
It wouldn’t bother me a bit if people like this got dumped at sea. They’re corrosive to society.
Would. But only if she could keep her mouth shut during the appropriate times.
You climb on top of the pyramids? Straight to jail. Right away.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw
Heh.