The girlfriend and I got to attend a Michael Symon talk Sunday. It was a really good time, he talked with another local chef for the first section, and his co/ghost writer for the second section. Lots of references to restaurants in the past, talk of the issues with the business today. One that really stood out was the talk of profit margins, Michael mentioned that when he was running his first big place here (Lola) they were able to clear ~15% profit margin (saying that 20 was possible for some places). The modern places he’s been involved in are happy to get to a 5% profit margin. That’s a hell of a change.
The plight of the small business catering to an entitled customer base.
Small businesses sends out a message about the tariff impact.
I… why?
It wasn’t the skin color of the actors that made the movies shitty.
Just call them dongles.
The EU is protecting Canadian Rye Whisky (which doesn’t require rye… seriously) at the cost of their own production.
This could open up some interesting Fair Use arguments.
From local news, it looks like there’s lots of protests scheduled for tomorrow.
I’m not sure I follow all the way to the same conclusions, but this was of interest to me.
Let’s get you into your drinking for the weekend though, I’m sure that’s what handfuls of you check in on Fridays for.
The Old Fashioned
- 2 ounces whiskey (bourbon or rye are the standard)
- 1 sugar cube
- 2 dashes bitters
To make this, drop the sugar cube into your glass. Add the bitters to the sugar cube, then muddle the mixture into a paste. After that’s done, add the whiskey, and give it a brief stir. Add a large ice cube if you’d like, or several small ones, or none at all. Garnish it with an orange twist (flamed if you’re feeling fancy).
Why this basic bitch of a cocktail? Because it is a basic cocktail. This is my go to for testing new bars out, and determining if I want to keep going the cocktail route there, switch to two parts, or stick to beer. Because it’s so basic, there’s nothing you can do to hide anything, it’s all right there. This is also one of the few cocktails that really benefits for a higher class base spirit. Some of the common variants are smoking the cocktail, pre-mixing it and barrel aging it in house, different sweeteners (simple syrup is very common), or layering different bitters together in the glass.
With that, I hope the weekend finds you all well.
Old fashioned = definitely my non-beer drink of choice these days.
I have those and vodka martinis. For untold years. I am a creature of habit.
I tried an Old-fashioned about a month ago for the first time and really liked it. Usually I like straight up or on the rocks so that mixer surprised me.
I’d go Manhattan over Old Fashioned.
Although more likely to go dirty martini these days, or just rye neat – sweet vermouth is not keto.
You could always go the Perfect Manhattan route to cut down on the sweet vermouth.
Looks like sweet vermouth isn’t that bad – about 4g per oz. So less than 2 per Manhattan.
Campari, OTOH, is about 8g per oz. So I gotta ease up on the Negroni variants. Which kinda sucks.
I used to be a Manhattan kind of guy, but I have been drinking salty dogs lately.
They are just… refreshing.
What is your opinion on smoke in drinks?
Personally I find it fun at home (Fire! Fire!) but at a bar it just adds unwanted flavor.
I’m the opposite. I like at the bar if there’s a bit of production value to it.
At home I wouldn’t bother.
Depends on the drink, I’ve had some absolutely fantastic smoked cocktails, quite a few middling ones, and a couple of gods awful ones. I’ve got the equipment to do them at home, but rarely do. Rather than working through a smoker, I prefer to use things like smoked salt and the like to add that flavor.
It’s like smoked cheese. I can take some, here and there. But a whole tray of smoked cheese, with no others is brutal at a party. Same for smoked drinks. Maybe one, then back to normal.
I had one on a cruise a few years back, where they served the smoked old fashioned under a glass dome and then removed it at the table for a smoky reveal. That was some artistry.
Rauchbier is good. Kinda tastes like bacon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoked_beer
I like my beer and bacon separate but equal.
Mmmmm Bacon.
Urthona, whatever you segregationist. (I agree)
Rauchbier is one of the few beer styles that I cannot get into. Unlike a few others, it is one I respect, its just not for me.
Or, what Urthona said.
Bamberg’s Schlenkerla Rauchbier is pretty good. Goes well with the sausage, potatoes and stuff that Germans eat.
I prefer it between my lips and into my lungs, but you do you.
Avoids the paywall. There is a local one in the crazy town next to me that I refer to as NJ’s Berkeley.
They can do what they want. I will be at home, relaxing and having Old Fashioneds and assembling puzzles. I am finally done with all the hard house set up work. Only a half days’ work in the garage remains.
Glad your move-in is going well.
At one of my local drinkers, I overheard the bartender agree with some turd of a customer that Old Fashioned’s, “…are kind of a girly drink.”
I was offended down to the core of my being. I didn’t go back to that bar for almost a full day.
Nice
They do make a pretty good Old Fashioned (Woodford, simple syrup, Fee Brothers bitters, twist of orange peel), but like most places these days, you have to tell them in no uncertain terms to go easy on the simple syrup. An Old Fashioned shouldn’t be a desert cocktail.
Amen to that.
*blink*
Of all the things I’ve heard an Old Fashioned called, girly is not one of them.
I think the point is to set up the joke though.
Urthona:
—Modern Drunkard (Original here)
It was indeed intended to set up the joke, but it was a true story. The sense of confusion I felt only added to the wound in my soul…
I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of rule 45:
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Even in a car in the woods…
Why, because it has sugar in it? I suppose you could remove that and just have bourbon and bitters. Which isn’t bad if the bitters are of quality.
Did you grab your purse and leave?
I really have a hard time respecting any gamer who doesn’t already possess a set of Arby’s Dice(TM)
If you roll a natural 20, your sandwich comes with curly fries.
Whataburger dice would be the true Texan choice.
Yeah. They really dropped the ball on this promotion.
Yes, and from the store that brought us $300 Whataburger Justin Boots. Do better, Whataburger!
The black squiggly projections that carried this thought from my brain to yours are merely the medium, not the message.
This sounds familiar.
From the photo in the protest article “If it looks like a coup, if it acts like a coup, it is a coup.” I guess we’ve gone from everything being infrastructure to everything being a coup now.
I like this ‘Hands Off!’ protest. Does it also cover the government keeping their hands off my guns, my motorcycle, my private communications, and my investment accounts?
“Get the government out of the bedroom! It has things to do in my bank, my kitchen, my garage, my backyard…”
“Hands Off! and fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab,”
So, reducing the power of the government of which you are a part is an “unprecedented power grab.”
He is grabbing power, away from the unelected administrative state, and that’s what these people are protesting.
Hands off my Communist Dictatorship!
The other day I had a discussion with my Japanese teacher about the beer girls at all the baseball stadiums there. She is a huge baseball fan. I mentioned I’d send her a documentary on them and now my YouTube feed is full of videos with cute beer girls hustling customers.
Since this is a Neph post. It’s draft, an 18kg keg, and they come to you!
https://youtube.com/shorts/HwapKm2LPwk?si=fY4p0hMwKID8lhIE
I visit in a few months again. I need to remember to go to a ball game.
I’m not a huge baseball guy, but I’d go just to experience their take on it.
Japan loves baseball just as much as the U.S.
A buddy of mine was an exchange student in Japan. He’s about 6′ 5″. He said the seats at the baseball stadiums were too small.
I’m only 6’ but I have been known to hit my head on the door frame in between rooms. Especially because people keep refilling my alcoholic beverages.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/mediaviewer/rm4125688320/
We’ve got a local guy who’s well known and loved by the fandom. When the lockdowns happened, and he could no longer sell beer at games, a local brewery partnered with him, and he was available to have beer delivered to your house. He would record himself coming up the driveway calling out.
Without clicking, I’m guessing it’s the leather-throated “Ice. Cooooold. Beeeeeeeer!” guy?
Ah, no. I was thinking, “that guy’s gotta be pretty old at this point”.
Blue Jays. And fired 17 years ago.
I’m getting old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxdYUmjO8U
Has anyone else ever just clicked on random recommendation links jsut to fuck with the algorithm?
Yes
I’m a married man — but I think I can still get away with saying that I sincerely don’t understand why Japan has a birth rate problem or why so many of them have such weird fetishes. Plenty of normal lovelies, you loons… get busy with gettin’ busy!
Perhaps they’re being brainwashed into it like American youth.
If anybody cares this is the documentary.
https://youtu.be/8akrL-GgAY4?si=f0atZO9wkvaKFBXI
No subs, but YouTube’s machine translated subs have gone from absolutely useless to about 65% correct.
78. If you haven’t been 86’d from a bar then you are prancing through life like a dilettante.
“I’ve been thrown out of worse places than this.”
Or you just aren’t a drinker. No prancing involved, sorry.
I got 86’d from an eating club at Princeton. Does that count? Because to be honest, it still sounds pretty dilletante-ish.
Never been thrown out of a bar. The opposite is what usually happens, people offer to buy me beers if I’ll stick around, but then again I’m one hell of a guy and to know me is to love me, so that is understandable.
That article was lovely.
Or interest probably only to you:
For some reason, the youtube algorithm has decided to fill my feed with Elisabeth Wheatley videos. If anyone knows who she is, it would be you.
I will admit, while I don’t entirely get it, the “book goblin” shorts amuse me.
I did not know anything about this person, but now that I’ve looked her up, I’m terribly ashamed at my out-of-date website and lack of proper merching.
No, seriously. This woman’s website is fabulous.
In one of the videos I clicked on, she referred to a book from 2005 as “old school” or something like that. And she implied a book from the 90s was the far distant past.
It made me irrationally angry.
I could go on a rant on the state of the romance genre and its subgenres, but I won’t because I’ll work myself up into a lather.
There is nothing new under the sun.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welch,_West_Virginia
“Learn to punch cards.”
Question for you glibs – Does it count as “New Old Stock” if the manufacture date is 2015, but it is out of production?
I bought two TEAC 3.5 Inch floppy drives, they have sequential serial numbers (seller said they had a large lot of them) and a production date of Jan 25 2010. Do these qualify as “New Old Stock”, or merely “Out of Production”?
FWIW, I’d go with New Old Stock, as Out of Production implies to me that production might yet resume some day. Mind you, I’ve seen decades old New Old Stock returned to new production (typically integrated circuits).
I suppose. That’s as good a criteria as any.
I successfully flashed the firmware on my GoTEK, and I wanted to test it and the drives that arrived today… only the motherboard with the floppy controller won’t arrive until tomorrow.
First World Problems.
Saw something similar when I used to lurk on a SciFi modeling (the plastic kind… um… the kind that comes in a box… wait, SF still might find that unclear — the ones done with injection molding to recreate starships and naval vessels!) site. Most of the people there were pretty cool — but some of them would do custom lighting kits or mod kits to make rarer varients of ships using parts from “normal” ships… and they had some real horror stories.
Most of these were “produced in their garage” — but there would be times when someone would present themselves as a small business… and take pre-orders… and then not respond for like 2 years. Sometimes they explained / made it right (like “Oh I had a heart attack, sorry… just catching up”), sometimes they didn’t… but there’s definitely an element of caveat emptor in hobbyist areas combined with patience and understanding up to a point.
Wait… people would pay others to do the fun part of the hobby for them?
Yes. Not everyone enjoys designing their own resistor circuits and soldering apparently. Much less has a resin (most of the aftermarket parts at the time were resin block based or etched brass) printer lying around. This was before 3D printing really took off, mind you… and lightsheet was bigger than LEDs, now that I think of it…
What new spore of madness is this?
Extracurricular
In a post on X, Newsom addressed the U.S.’s global trading partners, writing “California is here and ready to talk.”
It comes after a Fox News report revealed that Newsom is directing his state to pursue “strategic” relationships with countries announcing retaliatory tariffs against the U.S., urging them to exclude California-made products from those taxes.
In response, White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Fox News: “Gavin Newsom should focus on out-of-control homelessness, crime, regulations, and unaffordability in California instead of trying his hand at international dealmaking.”
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Amid the turmoil, the Newsom administration is concerned that California’s almond industry, a key agricultural exporter, could lose billions of dollars, as countries like China, India, and the European Union impose retaliatory tariffs, Fox News reported.
A Newsom official also told Fox News that the new Trump tariffs will hinder access to essential supplies, like construction materials, needed to rebuild after the Los Angeles wildfires. The U.S. currently imposes a 14 percent duty on Canadian lumber, with the rate possibly rising to nearly 27 percent this year.
Calexit!
I… why?
https://www.norsefoundry.com/products/arbys-metal-dice
Sold out already, that’s why.
In sensing a potential business model shift here.
If your fast food chain isn’t already focusing all its R&D on beautifully crafted metal gaming dice, what even is it doing?
They are nice looking dice, I just don’t get the Arby’s connection. I would think it would have made more sense for Arby’s to give out a random individual dice with a food purchase or the like.
If you roll a 1, you have to eat the Arby’s.
(Piggybacking on my earlier joke).
Oh look, there are protests in my town and a neighboring town tomorrow. Lovely. At least the forecast calls for rain.
Don’t be silly, dongles need to dangle.
Re: Steve Jackson Games — okay, probably doesn’t hold for the board… but have these turkeys never considered 3D printing? I’m seriously wondering if someone pooled their orders, got an industrial strength printer and could make their dice, tokens, whatnot for a reasonable price domestically with a lot more customization and quicker feedback and turnaround.
Because their message seems downright whiny to me…
I’d be leery of 3D-printed dice. The weight balance is going to be questionable. Tokens, sure, dice, no.
What? You don’t play using loaded dice?
The issue is with the reasonable price. The second piece (from Stonemaier) goes more into the costs and impacts:
That number is the marginal costs.
What quantity do they expect to move, and how much is needed for overhead?
Reminds me of the “physical copies” you used to buy retail that just had a paper card with a Steam key in it.
Since from what I hear the Switch 2 is closer to a PC — I can dream that Nintendo might just open their catalog to Steam and leave their overly restrictive sharing models and tying to physical hardware behind for a change.
And a Sovereign class while I’m wishing.
I’ve been seeing rumblings of Steam potentially getting onto XBox (as well as talk that there were plans in the past to do that).
Well that would be remarkable, and contrary to their entire strategy for decades. Do they really want massive heaps of untested games blowing up in innocent customers’ faces? I doubt it.
Anyway, I wasn’t even aware Switch had games on media. I just bought one last year and all the games are downloaded on the device and a micro-SD card I added.
California, the world’s fifth-largest economy, plays a crucial role in driving U.S. economic growth. As the largest importer and second-largest exporter among U.S. states, with over $675 billion in two-way trade, it holds significant economic influence. Therefore, Trump’s tariffs could have a major impact, potentially increasing costs for California businesses, disrupting global supply chains, and putting pressure on vital industries within the state.
Being on the Pacific coast might have something to do with those import/export numbers. How much of that cargo just passes through?
However much manages to run the gauntlet of train robbers and truck hijackers and get inland.
I earlier wasn’t on board with this whole tariffs thing, but now that I’ve found out how much it hurts California…..
I know right…
So in addition to our medicines and various green fantasies, our boardgame industry is also beholden to China.
I guess throw up your hands, and that is how it has to be.
If “beholden” means “its customer greatly benefit from”.
Sure but cheap comes at costs that we are starting to notice.
I would definitely not characterize our pharma industry being all but entirely dependent on a hostile, thieving, totalitarian regime at all a “benefit”.
Do they really benefit though? I mean sure, utility is met, but its just cheap shit. We have the means of making cheap shit too.
I was relieved today to find that the tariffs do not, so far, affect the one med I get from a Canadian pharmacy. Xarelto was $700/3 months *with* the Medicare drug discount. These guys can provide the generic for 10% of that. Bought from Canada, made in India, shipped from Mauritius. Smdh, but relieved.
That entitled, racist twat can shut the fuck up. I could not read more than two sentences of that pathetic whining.
Oh, and stop making shit up.
Random thoughts. Trade imbalances* (and perhaps unequal tariffs to nudge that) leaves an excess of USD sitting around. Which to some degree are probably used to hold federal debt, so paying for Washington’s spending addiction.
* I’m skeptical of the published trade numbers particularly when it’s an in-house subsidiary manufacturing (US company controlled in foreign country) or importing (by foreign company owned US sales unit). Opportunities to manipulate the numbers.
** I’m also skeptical of the published tariff rates. At least importing, the rate values not just by origin but also the item*** being imported. There’s no universal flat rate per country. Or wasn’t before this week.
*** many well documented attempts to skirt this such as Ford importing cargo only Transits with windows and seats only to junk them before final delivery or clothing manufacturers adding buttons and pockets to make an article a technically different one with lower corresponding rate.
I don’t think trade imbalances really lead to an excess of USD sitting around. They could lead to a decline in your currency’s value, but that’s due to demand.
Colorado beer news: Left Hand and Dry Dock are merging. They are the 3rd and 8th largest Colorado craft breweries respectively. Dry Dock will move their brewing to Longmont, but will keep their Aurora taproom.
I met quite a few higher ups from Left Hand when I rode with their sponsored team for the MS Buckeye Breakaway several years back. They were really nice guys, and they sponsor every MS ride (with at least one C level guy who did the 150 mile/50 mile option for all of them).
Left Hand/Dry Dock- they should rename “The Stranger”.
Thoughts from dedthread on Canada+ being pissy bitches:
It does kinda surprise me. If I were the United States’ neighbor, I’d turn on my Politeness up to MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE. Nation’s *should* feel the same toward Israel, but obviously that’s different for (((reasons))).
Simply put, I straight-up wouldn’t fuck with that US dude. I’d go *out* of my way to make sure my client/ customer got his breakfast served exactly how he wanted, with the bacon crispiness carefully delivered. Fresh cup of coffee, and the day’s paper at the table. I’d likely be an annoying sit-com character, like the restaurant owner in Seinfeld refilling Jerry’s cup after each sip.
(In this metaphor, you bet your ass I let Uncle Sam bed me. He couldn’t stop me, the way I threw myself after him. I didn’t know he swung that way, and I certainly don’t, but I’d cheerfully ensure he had a *spectacular* evening. See also: I’m not gay for pay, but I’d be gay for say. (I highly doubt that line’ll ever be broached, as I don’t know enough famous folk. Dash-nabbit.) I s’pose The Man fucks me his own way. I wish he’d have the dignity to at least properly pull out. Instead, he goes my route with Winston’s Mom, just surging and splurging away.)
Using Trump’s line on Zelensky about ‘holding the cards,’ our economy is a massive club to wield. My armchair thinking sees the tariffs as strong, immediate pressure to get everyone’s attention to press expediency. (I think reciprocal tariffs make sense, though I’m ignorant). It’s certainly getting Euros+ to talk about being more self-reliant. Baby Steps are good steps. The speed of the ‘attack’ on institutions is impressive, and I think the strategy was necessary. And well-played, so far. For the most part? Hrm.
Bloodbath
In a post on X on Tuesday afternoon, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the layoffs represented “a difficult moment for all of us” but that “we must shift course” because Americans are “getting sicker every year.”
An official at the National Institutes of Health with knowledge on the matter, who asked not to be named, told ABC News that the layoffs were an “HHS-wide bloodbath,” with entire offices being fired.
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In a video statement posted on X prior to the layoffs, Kennedy said that he plans to bring to the agency a “clear sense of mission to radically improve the health of Americans and to improve agency morale.”
In the six-minute clip, Kennedy claimed that the U.S. is the “sickest nation in the world,” with rates of chronic disease and cancer increasing dramatically and the lifespan of Americans dropping — though Kennedy did not present any data in his video to support those claims.
Smoking and the use of tobacco products contribute to both chronic disease and cancer — and the offices tackling those issues are among those that were gutted in Kennedy’s recent moves.
Gotcha.
We need more people on government explaining the dangers associated with tobacco use.
Show of hands, how many people here know tobacco use in all its forms can be harmful to your health?
Would one more study convince you that it is harmful?
“Gutting the public health system while claiming to fight disease is a dangerous contradiction,” said Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist and chief innovation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, as well as a contributor for ABC News.
“We should be focusing on strengthening – not stripping – the public health system if we’re serious about tackling chronic disease,” Brownstein continued. “Dismantling key infrastructure will only set us back in the fight to keep Americans healthy.”
The “public health system” which brought us the snifflepocalypse? Fuck you and the broom you rode in on.
Kennedy has said he wants to tackle the obesity epidemic, including childhood obesity.
Research does show that obesity is rising in children in the U.S. and is occurring at younger ages, with approximately one in five children and teens in the U.S. having obesity, according to the CDC.
*gnashes teeth*
Oh, you mean fat kids?
“experiencing heft”
Gravitationally oppressed.
Oooh, nice. Rhy coming in high from the tubby rope!
Ozempic school lunch program.
“Why didn’t I think of that” /Michelle Obama
@ TOG:
The second one, “open your mouth and say oink” was Norm Macdonald. Not Patsy Stone.
At least that Im aware of.
I meant “the last mosquito that bit me had to book into the Betty Ford Clinic”, or some variant. Wasn’t that you?
Mitch could be a good article topic. 🤔 “But what about the Dufresnes?!”
“How can anyone eat at a time like this? People are missing.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saoZjwf7Mfo
(Wow, 20 years.)
And Steven Wright.
Is it just me or am I insane to think Biden, Bush, Clinton, or Trump’s actions really dont have that great an impact on my actions?
Sure prices, but overall, I work to ensure my family is okay. I guess I cannot get too worked up on what DC does, but what Boone County or even Kentucky does.
Hell, found eggs and farm beef for good prices.
Yep, get up go to work and ignore all the other BS
Watching a classic Doctor Who episode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_of_the_Daleks
Campy AF with Alexi Sayle playing the DJ.
This protest from Neph’s link is funny. The Florence Mall is dead. I mean, maybe 100 or so folks will see them. Most will be annoyed. Good venue choice folks!
It may be the first time I tell Mrs OBE “Lets go to the mall!”
The story I was told was that the watertower said “Florence Mall” but that upset some people. Hence the name change to “Florence Ya’all”.
My town has a “commons” perfect for this shit. I live one block away but too bad for them I’m out of town.
“They’re taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to stop them. ”
THEY TOOK OUR JERBS!
Which one of you was this?
7:09 p.m. A non-law-abiding citizen proposed that the entire Kalispell Police Department surround him at Depot Park so he could challenge the ticket he was given earlier
I dunno but more interested in this “11:40 p.m. Some kids – including one in a black hoodie – were practicing their fastballs from a ditch toward oncoming traffic.”
What does the black hoodie mean? Imply? Inquiring minds want to know!
“Up to no good”
“5:28 p.m. A driver threw a beer out of her Jeep Wagoneer while en route to the liquor store.”
Wasteful.
Funny police blotters are gold.
I mean, who hasn’t done this?
6:39 p.m. A disgruntled former employee kept leaving drunken voicemails that said, “say goodbye to your God.”
Last link….on the right path but a long way to go.
The only Mitch Hedberg line I can remember off the top of my head:
“I’m not blocking the fire exit. I’m first in line.”
A broken escalator can only become stairs. “Thank you for the convenience.”
To wit.
Is it just me or am I insane to think Biden, Bush, Clinton, or Trump’s actions really dont have that great an impact on my actions?
*reports OBE to Ministry of Love*
Thomas Sowell, now 95, reacts to Trump’s tariffs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9LYO_qFLeE
The other day I read him saying that Smoot-Hawley caused the Great Depression. Uncle Milt had a completely different idea–tight Fed monetary policy. Others say that Hoover’s frantic interventions turned a normal slump into a deep depression. Who TF knows?
Amazing how America has lost the ability to manufacture board games. Board games, for gawd’s sake.
We’re not gonna make it, are we? America, I mean.
I might.
If you can figure out how to make and box up a fecking Parcheesi game, you could become the next Elon Musk.
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Norse Foundry is based in Florida, if that’s what you’re referring to.
https://www.norsefoundry.com/pages/faqs
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I was commenting on the link item complaining about the effects of tariffs on board games. I’m surprised the complainer thought he could only be supplied from China. I’ve read similar unbelievable stories in the last couple of days.
Ah, my bad. Also, nice T2 reference.
“It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.”