Another New Years will inevitably come and go. Which means a few things involving tax liabilities but more pertinent to several of us are the number of people recently convinced by white supremacists to resolve to improve their overall physical fitness…
…here come the Nazi Rezzos!
This is my review of Boulevard Brewing More S’more:
Like Hans Grüber, I read about it in Time magazine.
What’s the most surprising thing you learned in your research?
It was super interesting reading the reflections of fitness enthusiasts in the early 20th century. They said we should get rid of corsets, corsets are an assault on women’s form, and that women should be lifting weights and gaining strength. At first, you feel like this is so progressive.Then you keep reading, and they’re saying white women should start building up their strength because we need more white babies. They’re writing during an incredible amount of immigration, soon after enslaved people have been emancipated. This is totally part of a white supremacy project. So that was a real “holy crap” moment as a historian, where deep archival research really reveals the contradictions of this moment.
Not Richard Simmons
I at first assumed this was another “historian” who was going to apply a half-witted perception of societal ills onto a historical concept and therefore render contemporary interpretations of said historical concept as nothing more than racism, misogyny, etc. Ultimately to be saved by Richard Simmons.
Turns out, once I began researching it further, its not too far from the truth:
In Europe, the First World War started in August of 1914, with the entrance of the United States occurring three years later in 1917. With the United States’ entry into the battle, hundreds of thousands of military personnel were drafted and trained for combat. After the war was fought and won, statistics were released from the draft with disturbing data regarding fitness levels. It was found that one out of every three drafted individuals was unfit for combat and many of those drafted were highly unfit prior to military training (5,9). Government legislation was passed that ordered the improvement of physical education programs within the public schools.[…]
This was in line with a movement in Europe known as “Muscular Christianity”. Here’s a rundown on the British version, convenient for those of us that only speak English. The idea being if society can only be as strong as its weakest member, society therefore must create the incentive to improve the lot by strengthening itself where it is weakest. Consider the imagery of shirtless, strapping lads working dutifully in the fields in Nazi and Soviet propaganda. Even in the context of the ancient world, Greek city-states would train athletes to compete against themselves in a relatively peaceful manner were always portrayed in the most physically perfect manner possible.
It was this way I discovered out of the “Muscular Christianity” movement a “Muscular Judaism” emerged around the same time, particularly in Austria. The idea being strength must be countered with strength. It gained so much traction, prior to the Anschluss a disproportionate number of Olympic medals were awarded to Austrian athletes of Jewish descent, relative to the Austrian population.
Which means this bit from Family Guy was dead on.
Of course, nothing in the Time article makes the connection the same people advocating physical fitness on a nationalized scale were the same early 20th Century eugenicists. I can’t imagine why. Be strong because you ARE stronger, comrade.
This is not the first “s’mores” stout I’ve had. Previous versions I’ve tried I found a bit sweet because of the burnt sugar taste they often incorporate to give the impression of s’mores. That’s not an issue here, because this was barrel aged. So this is like taking a white girl beer, and dropping a shot of bourbon into it. Does it make it better? Yes, actually it does. Yet, this is sort of turning into the IPA wars: instead of covering up a terrible beer with a high abv, they are covering up a slightly less terrible beer with high, whiskey sourced abv. It may be lazy, and I may otherwise excuse it because I happen to like it, but today I will recognize it as lazy. Boulevard Brewing More S’more: 3.5/5 (11.8% ABV)
the same people
Nope, no connection at all. Must’ve been some other icky people.
Oh, happy B-Day to Mrs. JI
Seconded. You have something special planned, right JI?
The ribs, as requested, are on the smoker. Champagne is chilled. Then we’ll both fall asleep long before midnight!
“Then we’ll both fall asleep long before midnight!”
Great minds think alike…
Happy wife!
The idea being if society can only be as strong as its weakest member, society therefore must create the incentive to improve the lot by strengthening itself where it is weakest.
Or you can just purge the weak and infirm.
It would be natural.
On its face, this seems reasonable. Where it leads is another story.
Mejicano: Could you start adding ABV to your ratings?
Sure. 11.8%
https://www.boulevard.com/beerinfo/more-smore/
So this is like taking a white girl beer, and dropping a shot of bourbon into it.
Panties were dropped?
Beds were puked on.
*sensible chuckle*
Why not both? /Frat boy
“Does it make it better?”
How could it not?
Happy new year, resort formerly known as Squaw Valley
The National Weather Service in Reno on Thursday upgraded to a winter storm warning that lasts through 4 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 1, for up to 5 feet of snow above 8,000 feet, 1 to 3 feet above 7,000 feet and 1 to 5 inches at lake level.
An avalanche warning is in effect through 7 a.m. Sunday for the storm packing gale force winds and rain on snow followed by high intensity snowfall could result in large, widespread, destructive slides.
Strong winds will gust up to 50 mph with 100 mph or more possible for Sierra ridges.
Hopefully it will have some appreciable effect on the drought.
Damn that global warming!
CLIAMATE1!!!!
It’s still Squaw Valley to me, my favorite resort to ski. I’ve skied down almost every part of that mountain with the exception of the chutes that gave it the new name. Bring on the snow, can’t wait to ski it soon. And it will be nice to not hear about a drought again this summer.
This is Gavin Newsom’s California. We are going to hear about drought no matter what.
Speaking of Squaw Valley
https://fox40.com/news/local-news/california-feather-alert-bill-announced-to-help-find-missing-native-americans/
Squaw Alert and Papoose Alert were taken.
But I hear there’s some hot competition for Watermelon Alerts.
Hey, shut up bigot!
How many of them are killed by fellow members of the tribe?
Most murders are someone the victim knew, so I’d wager a lot of them are killed by other tribe members.
Will we get Dot Alerts too?
I think Burrito Alerts are next.
Toxic gas release?
Dot.gone
A feather alert? That should put a red dot on the board!
That sounds nasty.
Hopefully it will have some appreciable effect on the drought.
If not by increasing the available supply of fresh water, perhaps by reducing the number of people competing for said water.
Nice screen shot of Trading Places on the main page there. We rewatched that at Xmas and it is still great, and totally unpolitically correct. It is most definitely a Christmas (and New Years!) movie. Central to the movie plot is the whole nature/nurture debate. The movie gets it wrong in my opinion, but that makes it a better film. I used to be more on the 50/50 side, but as time has gone on I’d say genetics (on the individual level) are probably closer to 65-70% and culture and family helping shape the remainder of the person.
So, what you’re saying is, we need a strict genetics progrom to cure societies ills?
Abortion until the age of 18?
“Progrom”.
Heh. Portmanteau of the year.
Watching my 7 nieces and nephews grow up over the last couple of decades has pushed me much further into the ‘nature’ camp.
I’m the oldest of six kids and seeing that play out and watching my friends’ kids grow up has definitely pushed me further into the “nature “ camp. Having my own kids as well has. You can see completely different personalities from a super young age form. And then there is the genetic disposition to mental and physical illnesses that really alter a life. I was just having a discussion yesterday with a long time customer about how his genetic colon cancer that he got in his early 40’s has profoundly effected almost every aspect of his life since then, especially as the treatment gave him a ruined pancreas and steadily progressing diabetes.
‘genetic disposition to mental and physical illnesses’
Yup, hitting hard here as well. I think to some extent you feel that nature is more important because most humans are getting a fairly similar environment.
I was one of those single people who would sneer at misbehaving children and say, “I would NEVER put up with that.”
So here I am, 17 years later saying, “It’s nature. I did the best I could.”
I say pretty much the same thing. Only it’s 60 years, and I don’t have kids.
I know a family who is damn near perfect in every way (I’ve seen it in action and the mom is a good friend of mine). They’ve got one prodigal son and they just really couldn’t do a thing about it. Fortunately, that kid found his way back to a productive, non-drama life, but it took a while.
Oh and I mentioned in a post some time back that I haven’t sorted out the “free will” concept because I hadn’t yet sorted out “nature versus nurture.” Or vice versa. Chicken/egg.
Do we actually have free will when we do not know that we can choose something else because we don’t know that there is anything else out there to choose? And other philosophical questions like that.
“Constrained will.”
. . .
I’ll show myself out.
Eh, as a parent, and watching my friends kids, it’s nurture in my opinion. Far too much of the parenting techniques come into play for me to say anything else. And this is coming from a “wild child/little hellion” as various adults called me.
I’m somewhere in between. My parents are from families of 6 and 9, respectively. Comparing myself to the my 28 cousins is a case study in nature vs. nurture. We differ genetically in marginal ways (everyone from my parent’s generation is mostly from the same town) but the few that are “different” are the result of marriage well outside of the town, or (like my sister and I) moving away,
Morning, Glibs.
What’s up.
Not me, apparently… 💤💤💤
Me neither. Big party Thursday ad Friday. I need a disco nap.
Drove back from NY Tuesday, out Wednesday, Thursday and tonight.
I’m going to collapse tomorrow.
#metoo
Mmmmm… sleep debt.
Turns out, once I began researching it further, its not too far from the truth:
Lenny Kravitz is a professor at the University of New Mexico?
At least he’d know how to use apostrophes correctly.
Do you wanna get away, Ted?
Maybe even fly away?
Are you gonna go his way?
(Actually a rock gospel song)
It surprises me how few people realize this, as if everyone is so preoccupied with the killer riff they forget to listen to the words.
How many of them are killed by fellow members of the tribe?
Shush, you.
You might as well ask how many ran away hoping never to be found.
This is not the first “s’mores” stout I’ve had. Previous versions I’ve tried I found a bit sweet because of the burnt sugar taste they often incorporate to give the impression of s’mores. That’s not an issue here, because this was barrel aged. So this is like taking a white girl beer, and dropping a shot of bourbon into it. Does it make it better? Yes, actually it does. Yet, this is sort of turning into the IPA wars: instead of covering up a terrible beer with a high abv, they are covering up a slightly less terrible beer with high, whiskey sourced abv. It may be lazy, and I may otherwise excuse it because I happen to like it, but today I will recognize it as lazy. Boulevard Brewing More S’more: 3.5/5
Hmm… sounds like a pass for me. I’m not a fan of marshmellows. S’mores mean marshmellows.
Marshmallows, properly roasted, are wonderful.
Sure, but not chased with beer.
‘11.8% ABV’
Jayzus.
Sounds like something I might like, if it’s not too heavy on the bourbon.
Drinking some homemade krupnik. I was a little heavy on the cinnamon when I made it… But not bad.
4.1768/5 (~30% ABV)
Regular or Old Krupnik?
I should probably open one of my bottles of storebought. I haven’t drank alone for years.
Thats why I have dogs (and you people). Im never alone.
With the NSA around you’re never alone.
Text yourself about it, let them know how you feel.
https://youtu.be/SegAoSpHJck
These euphemisms!
Heh.
I like regular actually. It’s been a long time since I’ve bought in store and I couldn’t find any locally.
My go-to has been Old Krupnik, and I was caught off guard the first time I accidentally bought regular. It was a “This isn’t my usual” sort of reaction rather than anything more severe.
The Krupnik is a good after dinner drink. The regional drink called Boilo was a attempt to replicate Krupnik by Eastern European immigrants.
It’s drunk warm/ hot like a toddy.
https://delishably.com/holidays/boilo-moonshine-wassail-pennsylvania
I prefer it chilled from the freezer (kept liquid by the alcohol content)
Speaking of honey-based alcohol, I bought a corkscrew so I can open my mead. Watch, now I’ll find my old corkscrew.
Happens everytime.
I have 3 bottle openers based on this method.
I’ll show you my utility knife collection some day.
Step back and marvel at my caulk gun collection.
This got me good. I spent months searching before breaking down and spending $4, instantly find the old one.
I have at least four utility knives. One on every floor of the house and at least one in the garage.
Same for tape measures.
All my tape measures end up in the same drawer.
All of you need a New Year’s Resolution to First more.
And then to First some more.
And finally, to First even beyond that.
Get First.
*Teetotaler but inveterate KC fangirl squees at a hometown brew being reviewed.*
Let’s breed the icky people right out!
I stopped in their taproom while I was in Kansas City. 2021. Still a bit too much Covid stupidity, but at least the beer was good.
You haven’t seen Idiocracy have you?
Happy New Year Suthen Boy. Good to see you here again.
Suthen! Good to “see” you again! All the best for you and your spiffy Spousal Unit in the New Year.
I mean, 2023 can’t possibly be worse than 2020 through 2022, can it?
Just tell me you weren’t holding a beer when you said that.
I have not.
I just know that the lefty proggy illiberals have it in for those they deem icky. That’s most of us.
NYE was only a thing for us growing up because it’s my mom’s birthday today. She’d just rather stay home in a quiet house making her annual caramel corn. Parties are just too much effort. XX just went over to help her take down her Christmas decorations and I sent her birthday presents along (jigsaw puzzles).
RIP Ratzinger
Staying with a bilingual pun and the abuse scandals of his Papacy
Leer en español
We had a gay nazi pope, now it is adios commie pope. Who is next?
Well I bought a Casio CT-X3000 or CT-X5000 (as an X-mas present for myself). Not sure which, but it was obviously stupidity motivated.
That said, I’m learning Whiter Shade of Pale. Got the first few bars down.
Impressive to manage on a calculator
/deliberately obtuse
Probably because it’s the Annie Lennox version…
https://youtu.be/nh-jSRf0yNE
https://youtu.be/jEDChHFUiVA
Thank you for that. Friend in HS had the RS version.
It had the voice sampling.
Naw, this thing is huge. You’d have a hard time carrying it unless you’re Warty-sized. I’m not.
The Casio Grand Piano?
note: s/b “hard time carrying around with you”. It’s not a pipe organ. (although it has those ‘voices’). It’s about 25 pounds – which isn’t much, until you’ve been carrying it for an hour. Whatevs. I was stupid, now have new toy. Could be worse. I’m gonna play For Your Love by the Yardbirds and keep on working on ‘WSOP’.
Do you have the voice to sing along with that one?
Note – I have never heard Penguin sing.
Probably not. That doesn’t mean I won’t try.
Now you have to post a video of it.
Says you!
That sounds racist. Harumph!
These days, I’m sure it is, somehow…
I am in the market for a reasonable USB-compatible keyboard I can use with GarageBand. My son got an electric guitar for Xmas from my cousin.
Yamaha PSR-EW310 or Keyboards from AMS.
Note: Amazon probably all these thing for cheap. I dislike Amazon, so I don’t link to it.
For the Casio WK 6600: Supported memory cards: Up to 32GB SD memory cards or SDHC memory cards
I bought the Casio CT-X700 as a last-summer present for myself. Haven’t touched it in months 🙁
Thanks for the reminder 🤬
I really ought to get back to learning but learning is hard.
That’ll teach you to use the legal term to make a comment/joke on current events.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/nc-state-football-announcer-gary-hahn-suspended-indefinitely-saying-illegal-aliens-bowl-game/
They’ve changed what you are allowed to call them about a dozen times. I’m not even sure what the correct news speak term is these days.
That’s true of most of the woke nonsense. It’s a game of never ending shifting goal posts that we are all expected to engage in.
The constant changes are necessary to catch wrong-thinkers!
😊 They’re starting on the Litigation backlog in NY.
The NBA, summarized in one quote:
Just finished prepping mini beef Wellington appetizers for tonight. Just a egg wash and a bake away from goodness.
I just finished prepping deviled eggs, pigs in a blanket, and a prime rib for tomorrow.
Ummm devils eggs
Deviled eggs don’t last long in my house.
Darn those things, always getting themselves eaten.
They don’t last long at my house either.
/takes out trash.
By the way does anyone in the NC Triangle want to face punch my BIL for me. I’m glad I’m nowhere near him right now.
I could make a call to my brother in Apex…
I would never seriously solicit such behavior. But if he would take it upon himself to layout a fat, drunk, entitled POS who likes to brag about how smart he is….
Hey! Leave me outta this
We need the backstory.
Random observation:
I read a story about the guy who was arrested for killing those four people in Moscow (Idaho).
I believe it said he had no social media presence, or something to that effect. He must have learned something in those criminology classes.
I have no social media presence, I haven’t killed anybody. Admittedly, when I got my minor in criminal justice, social media hadn’t metastasized like it has now.
UCS has totally murdered a bitch. He has a pair of chokin’ gloves and everything.
Not anymore.
Oh damn, that’s dark.
You can’t just pass on a setup like that.
*insert Homer backing out quietly gif*
https://youtu.be/_lPJ9J-6vDw
They don’t fit?
Finally found a gift for my older sister & BIL for our planned belated holiday get-together on Monday, so I’m feeling a little better. Don’t know if they’ll like it, but if he doesn’t, I’m sure my BIL will say so. 🙄
Why would you say something like that? I’ve never told someone I didn’t like their gift, even if it was true. At worst, I was unenthusiastic.
Well, he probably won’t come right out and say so, but his reactions to gifts are fairly…unfiltered.
I got my SIL popcorn and peanuts. Pretty sure she’ll like it. Got my bro Mad Max & Road Warrior. Pretty sure he’ll like it. Gonna get my niece a $25 gift card. She probably won’t care. Whatevs… Show them you care by getting as close as possible. Then you don’t have to worry about it for another year.
My older sister is diabetic, so it’s difficult to find “gifty” food for her. She just retired, and her husband did a few months back, and our other sister barely makes ends meet. (She recently needed our help to replace her broken car with another older used car. I got her an AAA membership.) I’m lobbying for us to “wrap up” the holiday gift exchanging thing and just get together for a nice, special meal for future Christmases.
I’m lobbying for us to “wrap up” the holiday gift exchanging thing and just get together for a nice, special meal for future Christmases.
We successfully went to that model in our family many years ago. I thoroughly recommend it.
“so it’s difficult to find “gifty” food for her.”
Steaks.
Yeah, there comes a time. I sent Xmas cards with piece of paper to kids/grandkids, that’s about all my cards/gift giving. I printed 2 pictures, document size of my wife and framed them (for her). She absolutely loved them, plus a couple more things. I think next year I’m going to print /frame pictures for all the kiddos. Some people have their pictures stored on their phones but who doesn’t like a picture of themselves?
Usually all HH attendees get an 8 X 10 group photo but this year we didn’t make one, some left early, some arrived late. Next year no one leaves with a group photo taken so I can send you/blackmail you a picture.
I severely dislike being photographed.
Too bad, hehehe. Photoshop UCS in and surprise him
Sorry she doesn’t like beef jerky.
Hey! Something useful! I actually appreciated these kind of presents when I was in bad sorts in my 20’s.
(Reminds me, I gotta renew with AAA).
Srsly? Just say “thank you”, then sell it on eBay.
Re-gift the present to someone you don’t like, make them feel guilty
I only get gifts from the wife. Son calls on the day, mom calls… at some point. Brother and I talk on our birthdays, mostly.
I give a lot of gifts, but I don’t feel the need for a special day to do that.
For Sloopy:
TTUN QB just threw a TD pass. To a TCU DB.
I know it’s a message for Sloopy, but did you have to write it in cypher?
tk pvcy srsly ftr rdng Pt’s srs. N vwls 4 m.
Tulsi is a terrible fill in host. The monotone droning and asmr lighting aren’t cutting it.
Stop focusing on how she speaks and picture her doing the wild thing with ya and she rocks the house for a lesbian.
Point of Order- if she’s a lesbian, she isnt doing anything with you.
-Respectfully Submitted
Don’t harsh his fantasy – if thinking he is god’s gift to women so much that lesbians can’t resist that dick, let him have his Bro moment. It’s just in his head.
I am The Great Firster’s gift to all of existence.
As a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, I have a way with them!
She’s hot, when you add on the politicians curve.
Just dropping in to wish all you Glibronis a Happy new Year and all the best in 2023. May the evil eye of FBI, CIA, NSA, and of course the IRS never fall upon any of you great people!
Happy New Year, Alex!
HNYA!
🥂
Oh! That’s a ‘clinking glass’ emoji. I first saw it as something else…
Heh. Now I can’t unsee it.
Wife is watching Pray Away about the whole ex-gay conversion therapy community. I decided that title is lame and it should be titled The Once and Future Queens.
In the 1950’s they knew all about Queens.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rAZ6PtAnmkQ
“Hey, Lady! Wanna be Queen for a day?” “We’ll give ya some smokes!” ha ha ha
Ewilight Zone marathon today. There was one I don’t remember seeing ten times. It was about a pair of haunted shoes.
Bum finds dead hoodlum in an alley, and steals his spiffy shoes. He gradually (gradually is relative- it’s only a half hour show) becomes the hoodlum, and seeks out his hoodlum partner who killed him, to exact revenge. Hoodlum partner gets the drop on him (again). Dying, he mutters, “I’ll be back.” At the end of the show we see the next contestant in the alley trying the shoes on.
I like it.
I’ve only seen that one once. It’s a really good one*.
*I think I might say that about every episode
I’ve seen all of them so many times I’m on the Columbo marathon this year. I’ve seen all of these too but not so many times.
Ooh! What channel?
Sundance.
Cozi is having a Columbo marathon tomorrow.
Two marathons walk in, only one can walk out.
FWIW Sundance shows HD-quality versions and Cozi doesn’t.
OTOH Sundance shows way more commercials.
👍🏼 Thanks!
Cozi went back to the first season of Quincy today. Nice to see a real mystery story instead of the moral panics that dominated the final season.
Ahh. Yeah, I caught some in the last few weeks and hoo boy it was getting tedious.
Have a hankering for chow mein tonight. Chinese New Year will be early this year.
FU autocorrect. Suddenly doesn’t like mein now.
Mein seems to work. But I guess it can be a bit of a struggle.
Mein is best by a nice warm kampfire.
Racist autocorrect.
Big plate of beef chow mein?
Oh yes. Send this shit year out with some Warren. Don’t mind if I do.
So, you are Mein Eater now!
Ask Amy: Why am I meeting so many argumentative men while dating?
Obviously it can’t be you. It’s not like you are both divorced and this has happened with multiple men.
I just made this thing.
If you had a good 2022, here’s hoping things get even better for you in 2023. 🍻
If you had a shit 2022, you weren’t alone. Chin up. Let’s make 2023 our bitch. 🍆💦🍻
A dead thread mis-thread. Fuck 2022