It’s that time of year, every VFW, American Legion, Rotary, Kiwanis, church, benevolent society, and restaurant are offering fish fries (at least around me). Personally, I write off any that don’t have perch and/or walleye, and any that don’t offer pierogi don’t recognize the local market. By the time you lot are reading this, I hope to be several Mai Tais in, as the girlfriend and I will be at Mai Tai Mayhem. Please keep this in mind while complaining about any links that may have been already dropped int he comments or the morning links.
Maybe WB games isn’t the right target for this protest (and seriously image people, a Wario reference for WB).
Personally, I still contend that Midnight Suns was underrated.
Less than 0.1% of content is “extremist and hateful”, on a basically unmoderated platform. I call that pretty damned good.
Got to love when an old demo/game that was thought lost gets found again. (H/T: R.J., who I hope is aware of Orwell which happens to be on sale right now).
I think this says more about insecurity than it does unrealistic beauty standards.
This does explain my issues ripping some older stuff (that coincidentally were WB products)
Pope Jimbo visits, and then this happens? I think the Pope has some questions to answer.
I’ll defer to the mythical ones around to talk about the accuracy of this piece.
Flappy headed maple puck suckers!
For this week’s cocktail, the lazy writer of this piece would just go with the Mai Tai. But I feel like I’ve tapped that well a bit too recently, so let’s go with a drink that most will recognize the name, but few will know what’s in it (it’s damn near criminal that I can’t find the Harvey Wallbanger scene from Game Night).
The Singapore Sling
- 3 part (0.75 ounce) gin
- 1 part (0.25 ounce) Benedictine
- 1 part (0.25 ounce) Grand Marnier
- 1 part (0.25 ounce) Heering cherry liqueur
- 4 part (1 ounce) pineapple juice
- 2 part (0.5 ounce) lime juice
- 1 dash Angostura bitters
- Club Soda (to top)
Add everything except the club soda into a shaker filled with ice, and shake until chilled. Strain into a Collins or highball glass over fresh ice and top with club soda. To garnish, you can go with a slice of orange and a cherry.
Here’s hoping your weekend goes as well as mine or better. I expect to get at least one post out of this to put into the pipeline.
Take this First to the bank. You’ll be rich.
He didn’t see anybody.
Turns out when everyone is hiding indoors to avoid Jimbo, they run out of things to do.
Okay the Steam one is funny. Now lets do FB, Insta and Pintrest!
Steam forum signal to noise is still pretty bad these days. Lots and lots of trolls — and not very talented or funny ones. Still, that’s what the search function is for.
I guess most here have the benefit of the worst SNR that the Internet threw at us decades ago. Unfettered, pure free speech
It would be nice if the KofC around me did… I tend to only see one through all of Lent.
Today I’ll be splurging for Red Lobster since our closest one hasn’t gone out of business yet. SDF-7-A’s birthday… so figure that’s as nice as I can be on a Friday in Lent, hitting Baskin Robins afterward (or Cold Stone Creamery) to let him pick out an ice cream cake or whatever he wants (since he couldn’t tell me what he wanted on repeated queries). Only downside is Modesto traffic on Friday afternoon always sucks, sucks, sucks…. Think of me as y’all enjoy your libations!
Strange things are in a foot race at the Circle K, Ted.
Bogus.
Kindly keep me out of this.
Undoubtedly painful and idiotic cosmetic procedure or new breakfast cereal?
Chocolate flavored Labia Puffs – they’re GREAT!
Blarg.
I could put my lips around that.
Given the quality of writing and gameplay over the last few years — I personally hope the entire AAA studio set collapse and we get back to not thinking we need $200+ million just for the stupid graphics so you have to over-monetize every aspect… typically meaning trying desperately to sucker folks into gambling or live service models. Bleah.
On the plus side… it does keep me from worrying too much about graphics cards updates…. if I don’t buy new AAA titles, I tend not to need anything that will stress it.
I have the good fortune to have little to no interest in any of those games.
Oh Jesus…. hovering over that is enough for me… no way do I want to read that if it is what I think it is. I think lip fill is stupid enough — seriously, what in the world happened that Instagram Thots are held up as beauty standards instead of Uncanny Valley Exhibits. Stop it ladies…
I can’t ever recall looking at a snatch and thinking “Needs more puffy.”
I remember looking at one and thinking “wow, that’s puffy”.
PUFFY「愛のしるし」
I buy games there but what kind of weirdos hang out there?! It sounds like just another social media toilet. I mean, concern-troll I guess but maybe just tell people to get a life instead.
Agreed.
Called a ‘Labia Puff’, the procedure injects fillers or fat into the labia majora, the outer lips of a woman’s genitals, to give it a fuller look. As Dr. Karen Leong, a plastic surgeon who offers the procedure explains, “a ‘labia puff’ can give you a younger, more rejuvenated-looking vulva. As collagen production slows down with age, it is possible for sagging and wrinkles to appear on our bodies, including the vulva area.”
It’s almost streaking season. A girl’s gotta look her best.
I’m firmly of the belief that if you’re at the point that you’ve unveiled the inner sanctum, the guy or girl in question isn’t going to criticize the tapestries.
Dick Dale >>>>>>>>>>>>>SRVed.
I work with a guy named Dick Starr…greatest…name…ever
*immediately closes tab*
This is why you hover over links before clicking in these parts, let me tell you.
I used to prep for the Friday fish fry during my normal Thursday night shift at the greasy spoon. I had to thaw 200 lbs. of frozen cod, make the cole slaw and potato salad, all while cooking for my normal customers. People came from 100’s of miles around. I didn’t understand why.
Mean girls article- tl; stopped reading.
I sensed a lot of overlap with the women in Korea who aren’t having children from the immediately previous article.
Meanwhile, in Britainistan…
Defender of the Faith indeed.
Eh… as a Roman Catholic, all of ’em since Henry VIII have been heretics anyway. 😉
Has an empire (okay, former) ever imported its own conquerors?
By the time Rome fell most of the legionaries were German, so kind of.
Some say Rome.
I believe the debate is about the decay of Roman religion such that Christianity supplanted the old pagan worship.
I’d say post WWII Japan might be closer to what you are thinking.
U.K. Imam Opens Service With Land Acknowledgment Of Indigenous Britons That Once Inhabited London
The Bee hardly ever disappoints.
I love the conspiracy theory that he converted to Islam years ago.
If he had he wouldn’t have bothered divorcing Diana. Just thrown her in the Royal Harem with Camilla.
Probably not that long ago but yeah, he’s not gonna advertise it.
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers
Federal money makes up a significant portion of budgets in some rural districts, which rely more on grants and philanthropy because of their limited tax base, said Sharon Contreras, CEO of the Innovation Project, a collaboration among North Carolina school districts. A grant to that group supported teacher recruitment and retention, providing scholarships for teachers pursuing master’s degrees if they agreed to return to the area and serve as principals for three years.
“These districts struggle to attract teachers,” Contreras said. “They struggle to attract principals because they can’t compete with larger districts.”
Across the country, the grants paid student teachers to gain experience in classrooms, funded scholarships for aspiring teachers, and sent teachers to workshops to learn from peers. As recipients scramble to appeal the cuts, many say they could lead to fewer well-prepared teachers in classrooms, particularly in subject areas and regions already struggling with shortages.
“I think what’s unknown at this moment is how many individuals are going to continue to go into teaching, who may just have had their scholarships disrupted,” said Kathlene Campbell, CEO of the National Center for Teacher Residencies.
And of course the unstated presumption would be a laser focus on academic fundamentals, rather than woke educrats’ wet dreams of social engineering.
The are laser focused on the three Rs, Racism, Revolution, and Regendering toddlers.
How much more? And why is everyone else forking over tax dollars to them?
From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs?
“Federal money makes up a significant portion of budgets in some rural districts”
Yeah, we have already identified the problem. We are past that.
can’t compete with larger districts
What? For those selfless souls devoted to the education of children, all and everywhere? How DARE YOU impugn them, that they have filthy, greedy motivation for where to work!
“These are programs that families and kids rely upon,” New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, whose office is one of the leaders on the case, said in an interview, “and if the president wants to get rid of them, the appropriate way to do it is through Congress.”
New Jersey is a famously impoverished rural state in flyover country.
The one that has us 35 trillion dollars in debt? That Congress?
35? Get a load of this guy….
The numbers dont really mean anything anymore.
NJ is neither rural nor flyover country, but it’s at least as shitty as Mississippi.
With apologies to Suthen I prefer Louisiana comparisons because of the corruption.
This place, that place…they have reputations The fact is the best place to find the worst corruption is where you find people.
the people who have stolen trillions yet never produced anything in their lives are suddenly concerned about starving children and old people in sackcloth.
Haven’t we seen this movie before?
Are the ambulatory dildos at the ADL seriously proposing that if Arda K’s hateful content had been censored, that he would have been less likely to carry out his mass stabbing? Does anyone else see how stupid this concept is?
If Steam didn’t exist those people would be alive today.
Why can I never think up stuff this clever?
18″ is not a machete. It doesnt make for a very handy knife either.
Not sure what to make of the pussy puff thing. Like the streaker article there is no informative image for me to make a rating on.
Goddamned monkeys. We learn how to print flesh and what do we do? We print peckers. Good lord.
Only the best most reliable third hand hearsay
In recent weeks, the Trump administration’s economic policy agenda and the way that agenda is being implemented has spooked consumers, businesses, and investors. The so-called “soft data” — polls and sentiment surveys — reveal a distinctly downward drift in people’s feelings about Trump’s tariffs, DOGE’s layoffs and budget cuts, and the lack of attention to pre-existing stressors such as grocery and housing prices.
Polls are 100% reliable.
I have no doubt some people are getting nervous, especially those with the most to lose if their economic paradigm is reduced in influence. People like Jared Bernstein, for example.
Trump’s victory was narrow; hardly a sweeping mandate. It will only take about 5% of his voters to lose faith in MAGA economic growth, and the 2026 elections will be a blue wave putting Dems back in control and really lame-ducking Trump for the final two years.
And the R response to this rather than attacking his tariff stupidity and the like will be trying to buy different votes with increased deficit spending and eroding different sets of rights.
We are fucked either way we may as well enjoy laid off FedGov worker crying TikTok videos before the next civil war.
Imagine how gleefully the left will punish the country the next time they are in full control.
Hopefully by the time they get there they’ve moved on from the craziest bullshit. It’s clear that DEI won’t win elections anymore. Surely their next bit of nonsense will also be stupid, but it’s not often we come up against something g as evil as wokeness.
You guys. 🙄
We’re not even two months in yet…
Besides , we’ll all be blown up by midterms.
Trump inherited an economy that was reliably growing based on a simple, solid formula: The strong labor market, in tandem with easing inflation, was and is generating real wage gains that support consumer spending, which, at 68% of the US economy, is the biggest portion of GDP. At the same time, business investors have been pretty active, investing in technology, especially AI, but also, encouraged by Biden-era incentives, in domestic production of computer chips and clean energy.
That’s their story, and they’re sticking to it.
Nothing says productive highest value investment like government
incentivesbribes.What? Green energy boondoggles keep the economy afloat.
It is known.
How are things going down in Argentina?
*rhetorical…response to dems criticism of the economy
That’s different because reasons.
You should know that.
Look, the whole world is upside-down down there.
Lesotho LGBTQ+ organisation says it has not received $8 million from US as claimed by Trump
Well of course not. They have received encouragement and kind wishes from the American organizations who actually received the money. People in Lesotho don’t vote in American elections, for the most part.
And with the money cut off it’s gotten more difficult to import them to states where they COULD vote.
Lesotho: “We have an LGBTQ+ organisation? What is that? We were supposed to receive money? When did this happen?”
Barring that one Monty Python sketch, death by firing squad seems preferable to any other form of execution.
Gene Hackman’s death is the sort of horror I’d expect from a morbid vignette in a Stephen King novel, one of those asides he’s so good at constructing to flesh out the horror of The Stand or whatever. Alzheimer’s, wandering around the house for days after his wife, his caretaker, had died in their bathroom (from Hantavirus, of all things), his dog slowly starving to death in its kennel because he didn’t know any better… that is nightmarish. And finally himself dropping dead from heart failure in their kitchen. And then they’re not found for another couple weeks. Good lord.
Jeez, is that what happened? I have not been keeping up with the news.
It is exactly what you describe GS. I want to know how it got to that. Hanta virus has very noticeable symptoms for days. There is no way a person ill with it would not notice or think it serious. No way others seeing that person would not immediately think they need hospital care. How long did this go on and NOT ONE PERSON checked on them? The guy is 95 and no one is looking after him or checking on her?
This is a horror-show death by neglect. That makes your scenario seem even more horrible. Such a miserable death and their last thought is “No one cares.”
Oh, Hanta virus is passed on by rats. I wonder what the condition of that house was in the months leading up to that.
Yeah, I’m in a nursing home of some sort at that age. A nice one, I hope.
Presumably the kids thought she could take care of him, and had no idea she died first.
Likewise, since I’m here with Dad, my siblings don’t feel the need to check up on him constantly. Heck, they barely call me to ask about him; we text each other if we’ve got any interesting photos worth sharing.
I was six for the early 90s outbreak in New Mexico and was terrified of hantavirus. Hell, every time I see mice droppings I still think about it. Last year my uncle died. We cleared out his house. It was filled with mice droppings (mice that made nests out of fiberglass insulation, the fucking maniacs). I was thinking about hantavirus. Chances of getting hantavirus? Probably rounds off safely to zero. But now I know it wasn’t and isn’t zero.
That is scary shit. People who clean out and restore old cars and houses can catch it. I always wore a mask whenever digging about in an old car.
Uh. Damn. Um. Fuck.
I’d much rather die in a wink. Um. It’s really not bad, or I assume I would’ve died if it weren’t for urgent (and damn good) treatment. Hit by the car and then I was put into a coma for a while. Now, I don’t remember anything about that day, The Incident itself, the set-up, and really a month-or-so pre and post. Thank you, Evan. You were wise to turn the Memory part of our brain off. (Unpleasant for all involved, but I got back on my feet.)
Hackman… I’m with the gs. Nightmarish. In ways I am VERY PLEASED I can’t (really) imagine. When it kinda sorta happened to me… Again. Thanks, Brain for turnin’ that shit off. You had FAR more important shit to manage.
Who is going to buy a used sex doll?
https://duluth.craigslist.org/tag/d/duluth-sex-doll/7832696840.html
We’re not going to kink shame you.
[clicks on link]
LOL!
Pfft, that’s why you rent, don’t buy.
How exactly does one get rid of such a doll?
Asking for a friend of course.
You give it to pistoffnick.
If you had the money, who would you buy that for as a prank gift?
I would buy it for my cousin. Would I get in trouble from his wife? Certainly.
They don’t open the bars till 9am?! Losers.
That’s when ya bring your own in. Or if drinks are outrageously expensive. Ya bring your own. It’s not hard. (Ev has never known large quantities of ‘money.’) In Singapore, sans Sling, cuz FUCK booze is expensive in SG. *Everyone* maxes out at the airport, the legit best in the world. A fifth of Jack back then would easily cost $100. Cheap shit for ~$70. Singapore is the anti-Korea when it comes to booze.
It’s expensive, and not easy, but I eventually got a weed guy in SoKo. I wouldn’t *DARE* dream of even trying in SG. Strange, authoritarian state in many ways. Oddly free and accepting in others, markets ‘n cultures, especially.