Tonio helped me out of a tight spot Monday. I apparently have eye herpes in my left eye and can expect random recurrences of excruciating (jesse.in.mb would tell me I’m not being crucified) feeling like my eye is being stabbed with a knitting needle for the rest of my life. Yaay. I added to the list of things I never want to hear again: “we may have to have [the surgeon] take a laser to that eye.” And that was an unexpected addition to having the dermatologist take a hot poker to some questionable skin cells on my back. He laughed at me and said my Irish skin in Florida was going to make me a customer for life.
Anyhow, now that modern chemistry has brought it down to a dull blurriness, I am picking up Tonio’s links so he can entertain his beau on a nature excursion. And happy to do it. My vision quest was obviously successful since (a) I can mostly see out of my left eye and (b) the hurricane went somewhere else. I hope everyone else’s week has been improving as it goes along.
Howdy Doody is my copilot? Seems like you have to put up with a lot of bullshit to pull that off.
It can’t be the weird eyebrow tattoo that caused police to search her car.
News from the goatee-Spock universe.
I’m not sure if using Greek font in Outlook actually counts as obscuring information.
More sensible reading of the 2A.
This one is in heavy rotation around the house right now.
How many bodies do you have??
Wow, that pic huge.
Actual size of Brett’s eye.
I suppose not everyone can have attack eyebrows. Hope it goes away soon, Brett. Good luck (we’re all counting on you…)
Attack eyebrows
Yeah.. but those look like Civil War eyebrows… one is tame but the other side is trying to secede from the forehead. Nothing on Capaldi’s.
That was the pic I had been expecting.
I hope you are better soon. How did you catch “eye herpes”? So I know not to do that thing.
It’s a spin on the old “you’ll shoot your eye out.”
Wear safety glasses at the orgy.
SWAMP SMITH VISIT BRETT L TO SHOOT THE BREEZE… AND BY BREEZE — MEAN BRETT’S FACE.
Does SWAMP SMITH ever get swamp ass?
Or is that what SWAMP SMITH only gives?
I’m gonna need lots of funding to study this fascinating subject.
SWAMP SMITH ALWAYS OKEFENOKEE FRESH!
Eeew!
/teenage girl
Contrary to Florida Man public opinion, you’re not supposed to look through the glory hole..
Lookin’ for love in all the wrong places.
If that’s a gang tattoo (because it sure reads like she was dealing), that’s an…. odd gang of “thots”.
And if she was sincere… well, I have to say she has rather an inflated opinion of herself (I’m no prize either… but I’m not going to get “hottie stud” tattoo’d anywhere visible like a moron).
I was on the road a couple weeks back, and saw a bumper sticker on the back of an SUV saying, “MILFing ain’t easy”. As I passed the car, I looked over, and the sticker was right. The driver definitely fell short on the MILF part of MILFing.
She just thought the F was “Forego”.
And it was unnecessary? 🎵
So yeah, you’d think that drug crews would have the common sense to keep some preppie white guys on the payroll to do their trafficking…
I’m curious what this violent crime was, that she possessed a weapon during the commission of…
How did they find at least two people among Michigan government bureaucrats who are familiar with the Greek alphabet?
Former Lambda Lambda Lambdas and… Omega Mus?
Oooh… studies! Like all the ones talking about mask effectiveness that turned out to be bullshit?
And the climate ones… that turned out to be bullshit?
And the room temperature superconductor ones that I didn’t follow up on… but I’m pretty sure are bullshit?
Dude — next time just take a picture of Watusi in the car and post it instead of your column. It would be more honest.
And shitty op eds w/o a comment section are an affront to God and man.
Those are called “diatribes.”
And having your article get blown out by the commentariat makes you start to look like TOS.
So, LAT gets hit By SHAT?
Apparently, the evil Spock universe is full of criminally stupid people who tell blindingly obvious lies.
The LA Times has consistently been the worst paper on covid.
The lockdowns did not save millions of lives. One estimate said it decreased 4,000 deaths from covid, but increased 100,000 deaths from other causes.
“COVID cases among Florida children spiked, tripling compared with the pre-reopening period. Overall, Florida ranks 19th among the states in cumulative COVID cases per 100,000 children. (Its record is probably significantly worse, since its figures cover only children up to 14 and most other states’ count kids up to age 19.)”
So who gives a shit?
Yeah… “cases” just means how forced the testing regimen is to me. Talk to me about real hospitalizations (i.e. OF not WITH) and/or deaths. For statistics about kids, saying “Oh noes… more kids had COVID” to me says “Good… more kids got natural immunity built up and will have stronger immune systems as we go along.” Pertinent info for this asshole.
The 4,000 were essential. The 100,000 were not.
CoVid is not of the body.
Lockdowns created or saved millions of lives just like government spending and jobs.
There’s always the Final Solution to the eye problems.
Talk about blinding me with science….
Seriously, there is no way to search for any non U.S. English character? Bullshit.
I can imagine me explaining that to my state and federal regulators.
First you’d have to think of doing such a search. Then the bureaucrat would have to add the keyboard to their computer via the settings. Then they’d have to type the text without fat fingering it despite being unfamiliar with the letters or the keyboard. So yes, it probably can be done, but it’s a lot of hurdles for your average government employee who probably doesn’t want to do it anyway.
You don’t even have to do that.
I can’t install Japanese on my work pc, but I can go to a page with the Japanese character set and cut and paste them into the application of my choice.
Can you rename my drives from “master/slave”?
I can easily search for Russian words in my Outlook. If you know which combination of Greek letters to search for, you could search for Flint spelt with Greek letters.
Apparently, it prevented searching for keywords such as “Flint”.
My, what big eye you have.
Is it brown?
My friend long-ago insisted “Brown Eyed Girl” was in reference to… that brown eye and I can never not think of that when I hear the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udEZ_JjNz4E
Next thing you’ll tell me is the Rolling Stones aren’t talking about brown sugar.
The better to eye-fuck you with, my dear!
Face Tattoo Girl: I could change her I think, I mean I’ve seen worse, and a little powder’d cover that unfortunate tattoo no problem.
That’s her problem – she hasn’t met her white knight!
Not that she’s left a trail of shivved white knights in her wake.
Never white knight. It will ruin your life.
Good news, everyone!
The Biden administration will put up to $12 billion into converting auto manufacturing facilities into plants for hybrid and electric vehicles, it announced Thursday.
Automakers will be able to receive loans or grants to convert their factories into those that make plug-in electric, hybrid, or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters Thursday.
A total of $10 billion will come from the Energy Department’s Loan Program Office and an additional $2 billion coming from Inflation Reduction Act grants. The loan program was also bolstered by the Democrats’ climate, tax and health care bill.
The Department will also make an additional $3.5 billion available for domestic battery manufacturing that was made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
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The Energy Department said that both sets of funding announced Thursday will prioritize good working conditions, including facilities that pay high wages and commit to retaining or expanding collective bargaining agreements. However, there will be no specific requirements needed to get the funding, Betony Jones, the director of the office of energy jobs confirmed.
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re smack dab in Utopia.
Battery powered Utopia.
Was that by Duran Duran or the Dresden Dolls?
I think it’s a category on Porn-Hub.
Great. you reminded me of Amanda FUCKING Palmer.
Day, ruined.
Nope. Gary Numan, Are Friends Electric
+1 Lordstown
Solyndra Mark XIV…. sigh.
I could rant about how FedGov has zero business fucking with the market, that Elites obviously don’t believe in capitalism, democracy, republics or anything beyond the Technocratic Dictatorial State and how it is a complete betrayal of the country and Western Civilization for all their claims of progress…. but y’all know it, and I don’t need to say it.
Just so damned frustrating… And dollars to donuts Granholm (or a family member) is on a board of someone about to profit from this largess….
Especially since they are sure that they can produce any result with right amount of spending, taxes and credits.
There are some problems that basic physics and/or resource limitations will prevent from being solved the “DC Way”.
The amount of rare earth minerals needed to create enough batteries to meet the needs of just the US are beyond what is available. It would be just as effective to make math easier by announcing that you are making $12B available for rounding pi to 3. The money will be gone and you still won’t be able to divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter rationally.
The powers that be really and truly thought that MMT would work, that Climate Change is an extistential threat, and that Internationalism is the only way forward.
That the first was proven so intensly wrong, no one outside their clique gives an appropriate shit about the climate, and that nationalism keeps popping up like whack-a-mole around the word is driving them banana’s. And they are going to ever greater lengths around the world but especially the EU and whatever the powers behind the throne here in the US are calling themselves, to make sure that their greatest fears aren’t realized.
BRICS are the proof, in their eyes, of satan come to life.
What if I don’t feel like paying for the left’s cult?
Just wait till you see their solutions for that pesky lack of demand.
Smart, keep the cheap guns in the car in case you need to ditch them.
Sadly, SKS aren’t as cheap as they once were. Still regretting not stocking up on them and not picking up a crate of moist nuggets.
#metoo
SKS is the second best rifle ever made, right after the Lee Enfield.
Ahem. Which Lee-Enfield? And what about the Lee-Metford? There were elenvty-billion variants all with different designations probably intended to drive collectors and supply clerks and armorers insane.
Though on the other hand…. the Schmidt-Rubin series (except the 1889) is superior.
There is a reason I simply said “Lee Enfield”: Lee action with Enfield rifling. Done. (Speed patents are nice, though unnecessary)
Not a fan of the Schmidt. but I will admit to coming of age when they had all been bastardized with rechambering.
The Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Metford Carbine, MLE, and LEC don’t have charger loading. The SMLE Mk I series introduced charger loading (well, there was an India pattern that had charger loading like the SMLE Mk I, but I can’t remember if that was introduced before or after the SMLE Mk I) using a sliding charger guide which was fragile and prone to breakage in the field.
The SMLE Mk II ConD is just a Long Lee converted to the SMLE Mk I pattern.
The SMLE Mk III and SMLE Mk IV ConD series are just too complicated to count though they are nice rifles.
So… while I like Lees and own several examples of the abovementioned types, these can’t be in the running.
The No. 4 is a good solid rifle. The No. 5 is rather punishing to shoot.
I still have not shot any of the .22 conversions I’ve acquired, but I think they will be fun to shoot.
I’ve only shot Schmidt-Rubins in the GP-11 variant of 7.5mm Swiss. They’re simpler than the Lee series and I really like the straight pull action. I like the sights on the No. 4 better than all of the Schmidt-Rubin series, so the No. 4 has that going for it, but overall I like the Schmidt-Rubin series better.
Oh, I know that there are numerous variants, off all ages and all points of the empire, but I loves them all! (except the damn Jungle Carbine, as you say)
Some Schmidt-Rubins imported in the early eighties had, by SARCO if I remember right, the chamber recut for 7.62, which, while close, doen’t really work (much of the same type of problems happens when English bicycle companies tried to use French components – breakage occurs, in unfunny ways), and they had a bad rep for along time. Also, Schmidt-Rubins don’t really have the romance of battle. But they did have some nice diopter sights, so they got that going for them, which is nice.
I like all the Lees too… just I like the Schmidts better.
I remember reading on Swiss rifle boards about some being converted for other calibers because of the difficulty in finding 7.5mm Swiss. I think Waffenfabrik Bern made versions in .30-06, for Swiss expat gun clubs in Mexico if I remember correctly.
The conversions were pretty badly done from what I heard.
Circumcision, pizza crust, pizza ingredients, boxers or briefs…..we already have so many important debates raging that I have a hard time keeping up.
Now best rifles? Good grief.
Winchester 1894 for the win. It isn’t even debatable. Well, anything designed by St. Browning really…
No lever gun has been in contention for the best rifle since the invention of smokeless powder.
Suthenboy, I love ya man, you know I do, and I love the 1894 Winchester too. But the pre-64 Model 70 will always be the Rifleman’s Rifle.
I have one in 30-06 that due to the aquatic nature of whitetail I lost in a tragic boating accident. People say it’s the most reliable bolt gun, but pretty much all bolt guns are reliable.
In all seriousness the American Mauser knockoffs are damned good rifles. I have a few Rugers and Winchesters in 25-06, 30-06, 338 win mag, 375 H&H and 458 win mag.
Ii wouldn’t pass up another one at a decent price.
I am still sticking with my ’94 for every day use and hunting. 375 Winchester is an excellent round for such.
As they say, Germans make the best hunting rifles, Americans make the best target rifles, and the English make the best battle rifle.
While I do have a Mauser in .30-06, it is going on the block soon. But nothing will replace my interwar Commercial BSA in .303. I have been around enough American guns in my lifetime, but not one of them are of that level of quality.
Cowboy Nationals is at the club across the street from me. Ruger is bringing the new Marlin 1894 to demo.
Chambered in…..? I played with one in 30-30 and it felt 2x as heavy as the Winchester. Also, it was a bit front-heavy.
.44 mag
Elmer Keith approves.
Obviously I survived my date with Inappropriately Young Woman (though she does pass the (age/3)+7 test) and I appear to have both kidneys (unless she was subtle enough to leave a dummy behind in its place).
The weirdest part is… I’m not going to share the entertaining anecdotes from the evening because I kinda want to keep her around.
Is that a typo? I was under the impression it was age/2 + 7
Same rule of thumb thought. Kids these days…
Some people are bigger prudes than others.
I don’t have the money to live the Leonardo DiCaprio lifestyle.
Plus as I tell my wife dating a 20 something would basically kill me. At 10:30pm I want to be getting ready to relax and be home and not deciding the first place we’re going to go out to visit and party.
10:30?
I turn into a pumpkin at 9:15.
What is this o’dark thirty business all about?
That and the way they talk. Vocal fry and uptalk would kill me.
I had to turn off Malice’s interview with the Libs of TikTok chick because of her voice.
She uses standard English and pronunciation! And she fully types out her words and correctly punctuates!
Clearly she’s going for the long-con.
Both kidneys and your liver.
“I had to turn off Malice’s interview with the Libs of TikTok chick because of her voice.”
Really?
Remember Sarah Vowell? And Ira Glass? NPR, home of vocal idiosyncrasies.
Really?
Yeah. Nails on a chalk board. It happens with dude’s voices sometimes, as well.
Not everyone can sound like Kathleen Turner or Mike Rowe.
She sounded fine to me.
Brought to you by Virginia Slims Menthol.
I might be able to come pretty close, if I do say so myself.
But I’m not going to say to which one. 🙄
For GT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MItlvHdoQ-8
The last time I dated a girl that young, she legitimately didn’t know who Aerosmith was.
https://youtu.be/oJ11Vq6N7rk?si=F0NDVpbpo-D4o_uR
The last time I dated a girl that young, she legitimately didn’t know who Aerosmith was.
If Mrs. T dumps me there is no way I’m looking younger than 50. I may actually retire, come to think of it.
At this point, there is only one way out, and I will hold off on that as long as possible.
Pfffttt.
I cut my teeth on May-December Harlequin romances when I was a wee adolescent. In my 15yo mind, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a 36yo CEO falling in love with an 18yo ingenue. NOTHING, I TELL YOU!!!
And what if the dude isn’t in a high-status occupation, and isn’t particularly attractive?
1. Be Attractive.
2. Don’t be unattractive.
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Is a very, very good comedian, or in a famous rock and roll band.
Alright alright alright!
“That’s what I love about these
high schoolcollege girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.”The students have returned.
Topical, for those who spent some college years in the Boston area (or just want to know what ‘Storrowing’ means):
https://twitter.com/MassDCR/status/1694450259420717300
+1 11foo8 bridge
Ours has its own Facebook page.
Dammit, I do not feel December! I feel mid to late September at most!
Wake me up when September ends…
Try to remember the kind of September when you were a tender and callow fellow.
OK, Grandpa.
25, I like this new math. Who am I kidding, I couldn’t handle a 34 yo from the old math.
For me, the (age/3) + 7 gives a wider range, and all above the legal drinking age.
It puts the available choices all over 24 for me, so, I got that going for me, which is nice.
I WAS ASSURED ABOVE THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MATH!!!!
Oh….yeah I have heard that one before. “If she is old enough to go to the store alone she is old enough to get bred.
I make my own bread and stick to the math.
*30 years into a happy marriage with a woman who is 10 years older than I am.
You never know… if we didn’t manage to scare NPR Lady away (yet).. this lassie may be tougher than ya think.
I thought NPR lady didn’t read this.
I thought he’d shared some of it and she’d met several of us. Seemed like a trial by fire already, anyway.
Compiling a dossier?
(age/3)+7
Hey now!
I don’t know why people like me yelling at them. They clearly must, ‘cuz they keep doing stupid shit.
>.>
@Mikey … I’m sorry that you are wrong about Skittle eating.
I just can’t fathom someone sorting skittles by color before eating. Seems really weird.
/ADHD
Fuckin people, man. Fuckin people and their battery pack mini impact drivers. You do not need to hammer an 8mm driveshaft flange bolt to 60 pounds of torque, motherfucker.
I have been obsessing about the noise coming from the rear of the Element which sounds like a wheel bearing on its way out. However, I finally pulled the stupid hubcaps off, which are captured by the wheel nuts themselves and not just clipped to the wheel in order to do temperature reading at the hub. No evidence of the amount of heat one would expect from a bad bearing.
Today, I pulled the driveshaft off, to see if I have a bad u-joint (probably- tyherear is pretty stiff, but it’s not gravelly, yet. The center bearing seems fine.
Interestingly enough, when I have the thing in the air, in neutral, it takes quite a bit of force to turn the driveshaft. It kind of feels like the center diff is a viscous coupling. Of course I can find no useful info on the intertoobus.
As for the noise? Maybe it really is just tire noise. I have been telling myself that for a year.
Rotate your tires and find out.
Better the battery pack than someone with and air compressor. At least one is semi-silent.
Hey. You leave my cheap Porter pancake air compressor alone. I ❤️ it.
I have a complete hatred of pneumatic tools, and compressors. Electric brushless, or hand operated for me.
Starting to get that way, too. I don’t do much finish carpentry any more, but if I did I would invest in the quietest cordless guns. I get headaches even with ear protection.
Please tell me this is true.
https://twitter.com/bambkb/status/1697202927851438376
It’s Newsweek so barely better than the Weekly World News at this point, but…
https://www.newsweek.com/arrest-bill-gates-protesters-car-microsoft-private-dinner-boris-johnson-1640346
Damn… old
https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1697334742431998221
I’ve already sent him a downpayment.
Can you record the Bahamian Hollering for me?
That might be difficult from my coffin, but I’ll give it a shot.
Geez, Brett. Sorry about the eye.
Glad the hurricane skipped you, though.
More sensible reading of the 2A.
Absolutely. Can’t wait to see the EOs that this will spark.
…is that a stormtrooper helmet in the flag cerakote on the deagle?
Maybe if you squint.
Fucking ugly, regardless.
Rotate your tires and find out.
That’s probably coming. Although I’m not sure it would matter; they’re ll the same.
It wouldn’t hurt to do a rear alignment. I doubt the factory calls for visible negative camber, which it currently has.
“Elon Musk calls his transgender daughter Vivian a ‘communist’ who thinks ‘anyone rich is evil’ and accuses private Santa Monica high school Crossroads of brainwashing her”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12467123/Elon-Musk-transgender-daughter-Vivian-Crossroads-Santa-Monica.html
The school costs $50K a year.
Then make sure you cut him off and let him figure out how to acquire “according to his needs” by his lonesome, Elon.
Probably owes child support through college.
Crossroads is a commie school unquestionably. It is also where the daughter of a friend went until she was mercilessly bullied and the admin did nothing. Fuck that place.
I remember a young Jack Osbourne being dropped off there by his nanny. (No offence to adult JO.)
Kudos to whiz for his excellent proof. I emailed it to a professor of number theory at UFL. Also, some nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania wants to do a phone interview with me. If all goes well, my next job will be reactor operator. The pay is very good. It seems the course of my life is to continually fail upward. Our dear friend tarran is a former Navy nuclear propulsion officer, if I recall correctly.
I emailed my book to a few literary agents yesterday. I have a list of about 140 and I have 130 more to contact. In the meantime, I’ve been pimping my autobiography on Facebook. So far, four people have requested to read it.
I am off to eat local BBQ to celebrate.
Future me, artist’s depiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z1Hl67fNt0
👍
The math prof probably could come up with (or already knows) a more elegant proof, especially if his specialty is number theory. Anyway, it was fun to work it out.
Gates, one of the world’s richest men, has been at the center of unfounded conspiracy theories involving the COVID-19 pandemic and the development of a vaccine.
Unfounded. Disinformation.
I’m pleasantly surprised that somebody who isn’t particularly an anime fan realized that a surprising amount of the music is very professionally written. When you get rid of the autotune dreck it’s actually quite musical.
The INSANE Harmony Of YOASOBI – IDOL
I made mention that I was surprised that the theme song reached the ex-US Global #1 spot.
Learn Japanese Through Anime Titles – Oshi no Ko – 【推しの子】
I don’t play video games.
I have at least 2 original soundtracks I love from video games I don’t play. I don’t know how I came to find them, but I’d love more.
Typically Japanese in many ways. Take a western form (i.e western octave and key changes) and refine it more than is typically done in the west.
Ishikawa Yui – INOCHI NO NAMAE from CrosSing
Why Spirited Away’s Soundtrack is SO Iconic
Chrono Trigger (wrote much of Cods & Cuntes to this)
LA Noire (wrote much of 1520 Main to this)
I’m enjoying LA Noire.
I’ll give you one from Gundam. Gundam is rather well noted for the franchise selecting well known composers as well as selection of singers.
森口博子 with 寺井尚子「水の星へ愛をこめて」(森口博子「GUNDAM SONG COVERS」収録)
That’s lovely.
Thanks. I’ve never seen the anime. Just had the song pop up in play list.
Here are the lyrics
https://www.animelyrics.com/anime/zgundam/mnheawk.htm
A lot of what you’re posting, I hear the same chord progression over and over again, in bits and bobs. I thought it was unique to “ABC,” but I don’t listen to Japanese pop/ish at all so I didn’t know it was a thing.
Japan’s favourite chord progression and why it works
So almost at a Rick Roll, but not quite…
THANK YOU!!!! I love David Bennett Piano.
I have a bunch of videogame soundtracks.
Here is a recent favorite.
Very interesting! How is game?
I’d never heard of it, but it is well reviewed on Steam.
I loved it, but I’m not the HARDCORE gamer a lot of you are. It’s more about “atmosphere” than git gud skilz.
But I finished it (a rarity)… twice (even more rare).
That’s my preference as well.
Although I don’t mind a good mindless FPS. I did get my start playing Doom on a 486 over a modem with a friend.
I’ll see your “Idol” and raise you “ABC”.
One of my favorite SP bits.
Making Lorde’s New Music – SOUTH PARK
Was expecting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNEdxZURTaI
Disapoint.
CONTEXT CLUES!!!
“The investigation into Abernathy’s alleged “drug-selling activities” was conducted by the sheriff’s office, Spartanburg County Narcotics Unit, Spartanburg County Home Detention, Spartanburg County ICE Team, Homeland Security Investigations, Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and Union County Sheriff’s Office.”
Did you bring enough guys?
Note that she didn’t have the drugs on her – after the traffic stop, they got a warrant for her storage unit. As you do.
” possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.”
the violent crime of having a bunch of drugs in a storage unit?
Huh?
then later in the article:
I don’t know how to read that other than she had the first set of stuff at the stop that the Mobile 4th Amendment Violator signaled on, then post-warrant they found the second set in the storage unit. What am I missing?
Well, maybe let her off with a warning and tell her those SKS rifles mess up a lot, she would be better with something else.
Yeah, they’re prone to slam fires but I can see she’s fine with living dangerously.
I’ve shot a few deer with an SKS. I mess up more often that the Chinese model. I understand that some of the Rooski models have rough chambers and don’t eject on occasion.
Maybe he just wants to train them with her?
I’ve already sent him a downpayment.
I’d rather have these guys
I have a complete hatred of pneumatic tools, and compressors. Electric brushless, or hand operated for me.
I don’t use air impacts, but my air die grinders on fab projects? Something something cold dead hands.
Yeah, anything that takes a compressor is verboten in my eyes.
“Tucker Carlson predicts Democrats’ 2024 playbook: War with Russia or assassinate President Trump”
https://thepostmillennial.com/tucker-carlson-predicts-democrats-2024-playbook-war-with-russia-or-assassinate-president-trump
I did find it odd that twice in his interview with Trump, Tucker asked him about being assassinated.
They can’t let him get reelected and lawfare isn’t working.
Meh, assassinating him would be stupid and guarantee a GOP victory.
GOP-E win wouldn’t be much better than a D win.
I will take anything better for $200 Alex!
Sold!
(Me too)
Why not both?
We didn’t assassinate him and it’s a darn good thing we did. For Our Democracy.
Challenge: Can You Spot The Trans Woman In Each Of These 9 Photos?
Oh my. Number 9.
LOL I was expecting #3 to make an appearance.
You know this to be true…
I nearly pissed myself when I scrolled past them all and landed on #9.
Potential Ray of Sunshine:
https://laughingsquid.com/101-year-old-woman-still-working/
I want to know why Bret didn’t take me for a spin on his boat when I visited him in Tampa Bush.
Are people really going to buy into this cootie bug horse shit again?
They won’t know until they try and wreck a few more lives.
But omelette and eggs and good chance they were undesirable anyway.
Yes
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity”
— St. Heinlein
They have learned the correct behavior with application of rewards
As long as I get a $20 gift certificate I’ll lock down again! /idiots
I will definitely not be letting these people affiliate their church with mine. Not because I care that much about LGBQ stuff, but because I know deep down they are happier being oppressed than being accepted.
Not being a very religious person at all, I have no idea why being part of a bigger church is such a big deal. Just run your own church the way you want and stop whinging.
* Of course, I’d let them join the Church of Jimbo – but they’d have to double tithe.
Just go Presbyterian. It’s easier that way.
Once you go Presbyterian you’ll never be queer again?
“I have no idea why being part of a bigger church is such a big deal. ”
It isn’t about them being part of a bigger church. It is about destroying that bigger church.
Pretty much every faith is starting to shatter along these lines.
News you can use
I don’t even want to know how you skittle-sorting weirdos eat Blizzards.
They don’t do my flavor in the app, the rat bastards.
I have never been to Dairy Queen.
What the Dilly Bar?!?!!?!?!
DQ is the best. It had some competition when A&W used to still have drive ins.
Is it my imagination, or does A&W’s root beer not taste as good as it used to?
The internet alleges they fucked with vanilla flavor.
There is a NYS class action lawsuit about it.
Nothing does.
When I was growing up, the A&W’s was just across the street from the giant park complex where we hung out all summer. The park had ball fields, tennis and basketball courts and a few playgrounds.
The root beer at A&W’s tasted awesome because it was always something you would go get after playing all day. It was like 90 cents for a quart of root beer that came in a waxed cardboard carton. Even when we didn’t have cars, we’d hit he walk up window and the loiter on the sidewalk.
Of course it doesn’t taste as good now. Life isn’t as simple and fun as it was then.
A&W still has drive-ins here, and DQ isn’t worth eating their corn.
Don’t even mention Sonic to me.
The one in Sweet Home is one of the few surviving longtime locations and its better than most, usually. The rest are recent franchisees. Still a number of former buildings standing.
I think there are one or two over on the east side of the state, Ontario or out in LaGrand. But, it was the one in Sweet Home I was thinking about.
Still, DQ sucks.
Florence, forgot that one.
Used be a lot fewer DQs too. They were more of a small town thing. The only one I remember in the mid valley was the one in Philomath. And the expensive one outside of Toledo which had chili burgers.
Was, when dilly bars were made onsite. Not any more.
I will still get chocolate-dipped cones. Those will do in a pinch.
“It’s the best”
The last one I was in a DQ was nearly 40 years ago. Natchez, Ms. I sat down at a window booth and unwrapped my hamburger. That bench was greasy, the table top was greasy and the floor littered with crumbs and other food scraps. I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye just as I discovered a hair in my food. Turning tot he right to see what the motion was I discovered the largest palmetto bug I had ever seen on the window, staring at my hamburger and I swear it was rubbing it’s front two paws together in anticipation.
I have never been back to a Dairy Queen.
*For those unfamiliar with palmetto bugs: https://cdn.branchcms.com/7a9NPRODgB-1191/images/palmetto-bug-in-greenville-sc.jpg
They are about 2 to 2.5 inches long.
Recent observation: It seems those darned kids today mostly dont know what a root beer float is. I make one at home nearly every day. It used to be one of the most popular drinks in the US for many decades. What happened?
Rootbeer floats are why I said A&W used to be able to compete.
Yeah, no idea why the punks of today don’t appreciate a good float.
Must be regional. Here several of the breweries make their own in house root beer (non alcoholic, although there is generally an adult variation with a shot of liquor in it), and will generally have a root beer float as a dessert option.
Every time I visited my grandma first thing we would do is go get a A&W root beer float.
Butterscotch has disappeared as a flavor. Changing tastes.
I’ll bet Joe offers Wurther’s to the children after he fondles them.
Good. Butterscotch has always been disgusting.
Uffda. I just eat ice cream at DQ. I have probably only eaten any other food there once or twice.
And I think all the ones I have been in have minimal seating. You are supposed to grab-n-go. You deserve bugs if you are so hoity-toity you want to sit down to eat!
A. The advent of synthetic vanilla flavoring.
B. Cow’s milk instead of goat’s milk for ice cream.
The world was once a better place.
Preach!
I fucking loved DQ. My Grandma lived a couple blocks away from the one on Southview in South St. Paul. Walk up, no inside seating, closed winters.
I can’t even imagine how many cones, freezes and Dilly Bars I consumed.
It truly was a better time.
Frozen stuff is great, hot dogs are good, the rest is lacking but the ice cream and slushes and whatnot makes it worthwhile.
We don’t have a DQ nearby any more. The closest is half an hour away.
Now that I’ve had Culver’s frozen custard, I’ll never go back to DQ.
Today’s local Flavor of the Day. Pint acquired last night. Haven’t started it yet, but I’ll report back if I don’t die of bliss.
Blindfolded?
Hey NA, should we hook up for another USPSA match?
Which one? I’ll be at Iron Sight Nats and the locals here.
If you read up above, I think he already has a date.
She doesn’t have a handgun license. Yet.
Her dad apparently has a gun room.
Handgun license —-> “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Teach the girl safe gun handling and move to a better state.
79g of carbs in a small Blizzard. Sorry, no.
Non-completely overwhelmed me would have loved to go math nerd on all of you.
But I’m having a slightly rough year.
*downs wine *
*heads back to laptop to continue drudgery*
🥂
My vision quest was obviously successful since (a) I can mostly see out of my left eye and (b) the hurricane went somewhere else.
🙂
“The officer wrote him some warnings,” Reiman told the TV channel. “There were some citable issues with that situation. The officer chose to write him a warning and ask him to take the animal back home and leave the city.”
EXCUSE ME I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA!?!?!
Must have been an ugly bull. If it had been a good looking one, no one would have hassled him.
No human remains found 2 years after claims of ‘mass graves’ in Canada
It’s fun to watch the narratives die. Not gonna help all the churches though.
Yeah, but they got a holiday and a bunch of money out of it, so it was worthwhile.
And for the sake of argument, let’s say their are kids buried there. How does it compare to the child mortality rate at the time? If you go to any cemetery from those years, you’ll find a shocking number of kids. Well, shocking compared to today’s standards anyway.
Yep. There was an old cemetery in my neighborhood. Shocking number of lamb headstones.
For those reasons, and many more besides, the whole thing was a bunch of BS from the get go. But it did give the Trudyiets a reason to hate on the church and something for the internationalists to rally around.
Commies sure do love burning churches.
It got a conversation started and that’s what’s important.
Lol
Is it my imagination, or does A&W’s root beer not taste as good as it used to?
I had some A&W draft root beer at an A&W restaurant a few years ago and it was so sweet it felt like I had been stabbed in the pancreas. I managed to finish my root beer float, somehow.
Corn syrup has the nasty habit of being more sweet with less body than actual sugar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Uffda. I just eat ice cream at DQ. I have probably only eaten any other food there once or twice.
I have eaten at the DQ next door to the Jolly Green Giant, on 90, a couple of times.
“Non binary” friend of teen over in panties and garter belts with a ‘long’ shirt and I ain’t having it in my house…out you go! Wear some damn clothes
Hm. That will be a story.
Wut…
Just try to stay out of The Daily Mail.
Wait, this is a problem now?
Good for you. Your house, your rules
Seconded.
Pics or it didn’t happen?
AFAB or AMAB NB?
It makes a difference.
Anyone around?
Went to orientation at the grocery gig today. I have computer training to do tomorrow and Sunday. I made money today. Feels good. Structure is reentering my life. Outpatient is going to officially start soon.
That’s going to be interesting. I likely need to talk to my best, and in America my only, friend. Humdinger.
Good work. You know we want you to win.
Thanks, man. I take slow, goofy steps in my life, but they eventually lead upward. Another broken femur or not.
It does feel like I should tell you to stop calling me Shirley…
Since you are going to be working around a lot of the young wimminz, remember it’s half your age plus seven. Or one third plus seven. Something like that.
You’re only as old as the one that you feel.
Wait, 2 new episodes of Archer dropped yesterday?
Why wasn’t I informed?!
Cant sleep, so I turned on the news…FOX.
They caved and fired their most popular commenters. Huh. Now they are desperate for ratings and making fools of themselves.
Latest segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfnnujU1DUk
We really do live on planet stupid.