Once upon a time, I was at a Sheppard AFB tech school. In order to create the required number of volunteers to “clean up” the schoolhouse and parts of the base that may or may not be seen by some general visiting the base, the squadron commander orchestrated a plot to able to punish every Airman he could muster. This way the clean up would in effect be punishment.
So he ordered a shakedown of the dormitory.
This story calls for an appropriate culture war beer…this is my review of Yuengling Lager:
Of course multiple NCOs storming through my room and found my stash of magazines were disappointed, and perhaps even dismayed that stack of magazines were all gun magazines. Elsewhere they did however find something worth the hassle: half empty gatorade bottles of brown liquid in nearly every other dorm. They even got a drug bust style photo because one of the guys in my class managed to forget to throw away about 30-40 bottles locked away in his closet. Why were so many Airmen at Sheppard AFB dipping? We weren’t allowed to smoke on base.
Which brings us to the latest moral panic. Apparently, the product now is called Zyn, a smokeless pouch about the size of one of those little cinnamon gums (cue the promo for Big Red). Designed to deliver the amount of nicotine found in a single cigarette or less, they also have one other selling point: there is no need to spit. Naturally, this has gained popularity in blue collar circles but also among the grindset bro crowd (TW: Vox) that tend to not only be younger, but conservative. Its a stimulant, that keeps you up longer to grind, bruh! Longer hours means closing more sales; always be closing bruh! This panic has even spilled over into the last place on social media for moral panics to be found (TW: LinkedIn):
Reader, I must confess here that I have parked a Zyn. It was like drinking three Monster energy drinks then immediately getting on a roller coaster in the middle of a Skrillex concert. After 30 seconds, my gums were tingly and my saliva tasted like acid. After a few minutes, I felt my stomach acids gurgling up my trachea and my heart pounding. I unparked. My discarded Zyn, once a proud pouch, looked like chewed-up gum. As David Foster Wallace once wrote, “My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.”
Why do the nannies always make these things sound awesome? This naturally drew the ire of advocacy groups, which means they got the attention of politicians happy to make sure the only people getting a buzz at work are politicians themselves. Which means of course, the counter culture picks it up.
What did Yuengling do? Why they tried to cash in on Bud Light’s folly last year if you take the statement, “We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over beer,” to mean they aren’t going to market their product with trannies. I take it as, “leave me out of this,” and that’s probably good enough. Known for its amber color, mild hoppiness, and historical significance. It has quite a bit more flavor than the average yellow lager while still still being cold, refreshing, and not particularly smug about the actual process of drinking beer. Drink it, drink a lot of it. You’ll be happy you did. Unless of course you live west of the Rockies. I found this by accident in Texas and while the score may reflect the novelty in part, it is in fact pretty good. Yuengling Lager: 2.9/5
I used to like Yuengling black and tan. Not sure if I’ve had regular Yuengling.
When I was in PA for a year I put away a bunch of Yuengling Black and Tan, good stuff.
I think I bought some at that group of stores and gas stations in the Breezewood meme.
Yuengling Lager is separate from regular Yuengling. Think I may have tried the lager once…should probably check it out again.
Their Hershey’s chocolate porter is pretty good. Not that I love Hershey’s but it’s nice to have two PA companies partner that way – the chocolate flavor is pretty strong but it’s better than a lot of indie stuff.
Their Oktoberfest is pretty good too, but not as smoothly drinkable as the regular stuff.
Regular Yuengling is the “standard” beer I keep in the fridge/kitchen for when I want something basic and don’t feel like anything fancy.
I had that fairly often when I was stationed in SC. Not bad at all.
“War is Hell, but smoking makes it worthwhile.”
“Why do the nannies always make these things sound awesome?”
That does sound like an extremely exaggerated description. Any amount of nicotine that is like “three Monster energy drinks” would also give you a terrible headache.
It’s a gross exaggeration. I enjoy snus and when I couldn’t get my usual (General FTW), I tried Zyn. I found it meh, flavor wise, and certainly not a blast of nicotine.
Death by snus-snus?
That would be my choice.
Just in case you were unaware.
It’s a good beer to have when it is hot and humid out. Makes sense to find it in Texas. I discovered it in Florida.
I generally prefer dark heavy beer, but there is a place for “lawnmower beer”.
Yes. Being on a lawn or near a lake, and sweating is your use case.
““Yuengling, The Oldest Brewery in America. Independently Owned and Family Operated since 1829 because we make good beer,” Yuengling Brewery’s account conspicuously tweeted out with a photo of an American flag and a traditional lager Yuengling beer can.”
That doesn’t seem conspicuous.
I went back and read those comments that Mojo mentioned this morning. Even though some of them rarely comment here, I don’t see how it’s TPTB. I’m more curious why people who used to comment here often stopped commenting. I also read that a bunch of “inactive” accounts were purged? So maybe they tried to stop by and found they couldn’t login? It’s common for people to come back to sites after being absent for months or even years.
People burn out in waves. I saw the Mike’s comment last night, first time in a long time. We will all burn out.
I don’t think the purging of accounts is a great idea. Make it easier for people to come back
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID!
The purge was early on, if I recall, before they went the even more drastic step of archiving the first couple of years of the site, to try and keep the site functional.
Comment, don’t comment. Post, don’t post. Ain’t no supervisors around here.
What will bring and hold new Glibs are interesting posts and comments. Period.
And awesome gun/range articles. 😉
I’ll chime in, as someone who registered almost when the site launched. I love the site and the articles. Heck, I even bought a Glibs t-shirt (wear it proudly out here in LA; also wore it when visiting the Philippines, at one of the Tom Woods School of Life in person events, and the 2022 Freedom Fest), a Glibs coffee mug, and a Glibs coaster.
I read and commented frequently the first several years. I was on one of the early happy hour zooms.
Not sure when my commenting became more sporadic. My memory’s a little fuzzy there. But it may have been around late 2019 when work got very busy. Then when the craziness of covid lockdowns happened in the spring of 2020, I was scouring various sites for sound, common sense information and seeking out actual science on the subject.
That summer I was busy with both work (lots of craziness in changing covid policies and doing my best to communicate with our freelancers on what the hell was going on, when/if they’d be called back to work, can they apply for unemployment, when called back to work, trying to calm the hysterical ones worried about the commie cough…I work in sports broadcasting so that summer was particularly hard for a lot of people with many major sports leagues idiotically canceling games/matches for weeks, then resuming without fans in the stands. I’m still pissed out that).
So I think it was that year that I stopped commenting or even coming to the site regularly. I know I missed out on lots of great posts.
No real reason why, apart from finding some other avenues that were discussing all the BS covid polices, following the folks from the Great Barrington Declaration, Ethical Skeptic, eugyppius, Dr, Robert Malone, Igor Chudov, Dr. Matt Wielicki, Jordan Schachtel, Ian Miller, el gato malo, Simulation Commander, Tracy Hoeg, Ivor Cummins, Kevin Bass, Nick Hudson, Dr, Simon Goddek, Michael Senger, William Briggs, Jikkyleaks, Jennifer Van Laar, Julie Hamill, Richard Ebright, Denis Rancourt, Justin Hart (who got a serious case of TDS recently), Phil Kerpen, Vinay Pasad…
This kept me quite occupied as I consumed as much intellectual ammo as I could.
Trying to do better this year in frequenting the site.
Dang it. This was in reply to Common Tater’s question at 11:30 am.
It sounds potentially not-awful. I wonder if it’s available around here.
People burn out in waves. I saw the Mike’s comment last night, first time in a long time. We will all burn out.
I wonder how much of an effect the fizzling out of the plague hysteria had on commenting people. Maybe being able to get back into the real world pulled them away from their keyboards.
What is this real world you speak of?
In all seriousness, you may have a valid theory. What were the average comment counts prior to then? That would be a good research project.
Comments were busier before March 2020 than they are now.
Hard to say it wasn’t just a wave without looking all the way back. I can look at my posts and see it was a wave. Started in the 100s, swelled to 300s, then back down to 100s. I think the morning posts would need to be analyzed to see a trend. My posts only go back to 2021.
I lurk a lot more,
There. Admitting the problem is the first stage to becoming a regular commenter again. Don’t you fee better now?
I get logged out a lot: does that help?
I get frustrated a lot trying to second-guess the squirrels – that might put off folks with lesser dependency.
And life happens.
Exactly! What are you going to say? “Shame on you, Banjos, for not hanging out with us all morning instead of homeschooling your kids”?
Kids have to learn how to shitpost sometime.
I assure you, Banjos kids are uniquely capable of posting shit.
This is just too fucking precious to not share.
Given all the above, the UAW’s endorsement choice seems to have been fairly easy. However, it has drawn angry dissents. Johannah King-Slutzky, a Columbia University graduate student in English and comparative literature, complained to the Intercept, a left-wing publication with a staunchly anti-Israel line, “A president who supports genocide and is actively sending funds and weapons to Israel to kill children, families, that’s not something that I feel has earned my endorsement.”
Aparna Gopalan, also a graduate student (Harvard Anthropology) and UAW member, wrote a scathing article for Jewish Currents, a left-wing publication, decrying the endorsement. You might be confused as to why so many UAW members are graduate students at elite universities. The answer is that the UAW organized graduate students, who now account for more than a quarter of its members.
And while graduate students have material interests, they have taken, shall we say, a broader and more abstract view of how to pursue those interests. Gopalan’s article argues that the UAW has erred by confining its position to questions like labor law, economic policy, and the social safety net, which favor Biden over Trump. “In their most visionary iterations,” she argues, “U.S. unions have repeatedly reached for this capacious understanding of their role, insisting that in a globally integrated system of accumulation, everything — even foreign policy — is a ‘bread-and-butter issue.’” It may not be surprising that the graduate-student wing of the UAW has a more visionary understanding of its mission than do the people who work in car factories.
Gopalan’s story quotes fellow UAW member Adithya Gungi (also a grad student at Columbia), who says, “Donald Trump needs to be opposed. But this does not mean a full-throated endorsement of a Democratic president who has been actively supporting a catastrophic genocide in Palestine.”
Actually, that is exactly what it means. Let me explain a feature of the American political system that may not have been taught at the Ph.D. level at Harvard and Columbia but is nonetheless extremely pertinent. In a political system in which two parties compete for a series of winner-take-all state contests, without a parliamentary-style system allowing small parties to accumulate delegates, one of the two major parties is going to win.
That gibbering commie Fain sounds like he has more in common with the academic wing of the UAW than with the guns/boats/snowmobile rank and filers.
Aside from the part about knowing damn good and well which side his bread is buttered on.
“You might be confused as to why so many UAW members are graduate students at elite universities. The answer is that the UAW organized graduate students, who now account for more than a quarter of its members.”
WTF??
Makes sense. Commies organize.
Traditional industry has been declining. The coffers need to be kept full. Most of the larger unions have branched out into disparate areas to bring in more dues. Previously non-unionized government employees are easy pickups.
Easily captured and exploitable cohort with the correct politics already. It says all you really need to know about that outfit, really.
Yeah, I was also surprised at the percentage.
Does Ken Shultz* know you’re borrowing his wall of text?
*Your answer from the other day, Mojeaux
THAT’S IT!!!! Someone noted it was Ken, but I swear I woke up in the middle of the night racking my brain for the fucker’s last name.
Wait…is Ken back?
No. I believe he was the one on TOS who pointed me to the Glibbening, and I couldn’t remember his name.
I wonder how this person feels about actively laundering funds and weapons through the UN to Gaza to kill children.
Euphoric. Possibly orgasmic.
Defense optional in Newcastle today?
Better than Sheffied Utd. evidently. Neither match available to me but found the scores.
I’m not a Libertarian, but everyday I get a bit closer to going . . hey you . . taxation is kinda . . . .
All I got was a red stapler…
Drink it, drink a lot of it. You’ll be happy you did. Unless of course you live west of the Rockies.
Where it’s called Best Foods Beer.
👏 Golf 👏 Clap 👏
For you watch guys
Luxury giant LVMH is making a push to gain share of the global luxury watch business, with a newly formed watch division and an array of new, higher-priced models.
Sales of luxury watches worldwide are estimated at about $30 billion this year, according to market research firm IMARC Group. They’re expected to grow to more than $37 billion by 2032, as global wealth increases and Generation Z and millennials become more interested in high-end mechanical watches.
LVMH’s jewelry and watch division posted sales of $11.8 billion in 2023, representing a 7% increase in organic growth. The luxury giant now has 10 watch brands, including TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith, along with fashion and jewelry brands such as Louis Vuitton, Bulgari and Dior that also make watches.
Last month, the company named Frederic Arnault, the 29-year-old son of LVMH Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH Watches, which includes the TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith brands.
Get your checkbooks out, and sharpen those goose quills.
Anyone wanting to spend a lot of money on a watch should check out the goods from A. Lange & Söhne.
I’m surprised the luxury watch market is that big. I wouldn’t bet on it growing much, if at all.
I’ve always wanted a moonphase watch, but (hangs head in shame) l’m only likely to get a quartz one, if at all. The money for it keeps getting spent on guns, ammo, and training.
Frederique Constant makes one thats reasonably priced. The slimline is the one I’m wearing in my avatar.
https://frederiqueconstant.com/watches/collection/manufacture/manufacture_slimline-moonphase/fc-705v4s4/
Very nice, although I like my moons silver. That is a good price for what they are delivering, I am sure. But if I do get a new nice watch (not a daily beater), I’m unlikely to go over $1,000.
If I was ever inclined to have a nice watch it would’ve been a Raymond Weil Parsifal. But they discontinued the men’s line.
Hookers and blow are notably absent from your list.
I’m not into luxury watches. But I do have a small collection of antique pocket watches. Two are from a short lived company from my hometown – The Aurora Watch Company from Aurora, IL (1883 – 1892). It was eventually purchased the Columbian Watch Company (later renamed the Hamilton Watch Company).
Does Ken Shultz* know you’re borrowing his wall of text?
He used to write his own walls of text, as I recall. I plagiarize.
” It was like drinking three Monster energy drinks then immediately getting on a roller coaster in the middle of a Skrillex concert. After 30 seconds, my gums were tingly and my saliva tasted like acid. After a few minutes, I felt my stomach acids gurgling up my trachea and my heart pounding.”
Evidently this person has no tolerance to nicotine, or has ever used it. That experience sounds exactly like how I felt the 1st time I put a plug of RedMan in my cheek at age 13 or so.
I guarantee that RedMan delivered a lot more nicotine.
Also, he’s a pussy and an attention whore.
Imagine what would happen if he fired an AR-15!!
One of his testicles might finally drop?
Just saw a similar product at a gas station and had to look it up, the packaging didn’t explain what the fuck it was. Why not just use nicotine gum?
Also, so many people talk about nicotine as a stimulant. It doesn’t have that affect on me unless I smoke a cigar. I can’t tolerate stimulants like caffeine, but smoking cigs before and now vaping calms my racing heart and helps quell anxiety.
Nic does the opposite to me – kind of glad I kicked it.
I knew you could. Good job, Rhy
👍
grindset bro crowd
Hmm, never heard of them. Have zero fucking interesting in learning anything about them.
They do sound like kids I would spray with a hose.
It’s all part of the grind, bruh.
*Lifts pants up to nipples
*turns on the water
With something medicated.
I think it’s just a new way of saying go-getters, or yuppies. Nothing changes but the name really.
Yeah. Young ‘uns who are ambitious and willing to work.
No wonder reddit hates them.
You ever get ads from grifters promising to teach you how to make $xxxx.xx a month in passive income?
Grindset Bros.
You ever take a call at 0200 and close a deal with a supplier in Hong Kong in your underwear?
Grindset Bros.
Your last set of chin ups was absolute shit but you don’t care, because you took a call, and HANDLED IT with a line of women looking at you dirty because you are still kneeling on the pull up assist machine?
Grindset Bros.
You own a pair of driving loafers, but haven’t worn them because you haven’t earned enough for the car to go with it, because goals goddamnit?
Grindset Bros.
Is your favorite show Suits and Gordon Gekko is your Slack avatar?
Grindset Bros.
You have a biweekly podcast on wealth building, use the proceeds to buy a combination of divided focused ETFs, crypto, and NFTs, all while blasting Gary Glitter after the cold opening?
Grindset Bros.
Ah, someone who aspires to be Tom Cruise’s character in Tropic Thunder.
Well, his character in Rain Man is pretty much the ur-grind bro.
You haven’t been touched by a woman in 6 months, and haven’t touched your dick in 3 years because you ain’t got time for that?
Grindset Bros.
I’ve closed some deals at 2am in my underwear. Never in Hong Kong though.
Seans knows whats up.
Keep grindin’ bruh.
Why is the Hong Kong supplier wearing my underwear?
And no, I still haven’t learned and even better, still don’t give a shit.
Is Juris grindin? No, totally not grindin’.
See, I thought it was the Bro at his new favorite website.
As a Texan I’m somewhat ashamed to admit it, but I prefer Yuengling over Shiner now. I don’t know if it’s my taste or Shiner itself that has changed, but I remember Shiner being better in the past.
I remember enjoying Shiner in the past because there were so few choices. It was so different it was a breath of fresh air. Now, the beer fridges at stores are longer than a house. There are better beers. Remember before Shiner was distributed, it was Lone Star? Oy.
When I was stationed at Ft. Hood our go-to was Texas Pride. Which I believe is a product of Pearl Brewing.
No wonder I embrace Milwaukees Best now.
Texas Pride and another local, which I can’t remember, a buck a 6 pack 50 years ago. Week ends were made for yard work and 2 bucks’ worh of beer.
Here that was Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold, now it’s more Fat Head’s Headhunter or Brew Kettle White Rajah. You’ll generally see all the first on tap everywhere, and one of the other two.
the first on tap everywhere
So Bro’ can’t get enough of it?
Shiner is what Bud and Coors and Miller would taste like if someone did an inexpensive not too heavy beer correctly.
Better beers out there, sure, but a great alternative to the major brands’ moose piss beer.
The brewery tour for Shiners is great. Went there in the depths of the “pandemic” and the only person wearing a mask was Mrs. Prole, before she quietly took it off partway through the tour. Not a beer for the easily panicked.
I think the first time I had a Shiner was in 2002. I was one of those squares that didn’t drink until he was a little bit before 21. They were already distributed in College Station at that time.
I like Shiner when I can get it. Hoping to pick up a 6 pack in Slidell tomorrow when I get there for a week of work. (can find if I go to the Total Wine, but not generally in my local grocery store).
LCDR, if you can try Karbach or Lakewood. Really good stuff out of Houston and Dallas respectively.
I’ll see what the Walmart has in stock. My hotel is across the parking lot from a couple restaurants that I plan on checking out too, so they may have it on tap. Specifically looked for a place within walking distance of food this time – these’ll be long days and I don’t want to get back in the car when I’m done.
As a Texan I’m somewhat ashamed to admit it, but I prefer Yuengling over Shiner now.
Isn’t that considered “messing with Texas”? To my understanding thats a felony in Texas punishable via electric chair.
Well, I’ve got some of my todo list done.
Picked up the plastic crack (I’d payed for it two weeks ago, so…)
Got some fresh protein from the butcher.
Did two bottle return runs. (I’d sat on so many that I got $20.05 back)
Cleaned up some. Place still looks terrible.
Picked up the trash and literal shit (canine) my neighbors throw on my sidewalk and margin. Assholes.
Took cardboard to the bin.
Found my range bag (it was hiding under the cardboard waiting to be taken out)
I want to set up my resin printer and print out some base toppers for my plastic crack, but there’s not enough warm hours left today for ventillation.
I’m rearranging and backing up my pins from Pinterest. I wondered why I’m so invested in my Pinterest account, when I realized, I spent a lot of time curating those pictures and I LOVE looking at pretty things, and Pinterest is notorious for suspending accounts for no good reason, and I’m scared to death all my 18,000 pins are going to go poof in the night because Pinterest got a bee up its ass. I back up my ebooks and I back up my Pinterest boards. I value these things.
I hope they’re categorized. It’d take forever to just browse that many.
Oh, of course. That’s what the big time suck and joy of it is, categorizing them.
Sans serif, not sans serif, Sans serif, not sans serif. Comic bold!
I’m scanning paid bills so I can shred the paper in my futile attempt to cut down a little bit on the clutter. (Yes, I still pay most of the household bills by check from paper bills. ::braces self for howls of derisive laughter from those who pay everything online:: Two exceptions: phone bills and credit card.) After I back up my laptop, I’ll shred the paper. Don’t know if I’ll ever need these records, but if I ever do, I’ll have ’em.
@Patzer, I lied. I have close to 1,500 fonts, including ones I bought that I can’t use for anything other than the project I bought them for.
Watchout Patzer! Mo lied!
Next you’ll tell me Trey wants more than money and respectability, unless Mo made up that whole story
😱
I missed some conversation but yeah, I bow to that nerdiness. There have been a couple fonts I’ve wanted to get out the wallet for, but the other day I found this one and I’m kind of obsessed with it. Very impressive for somebody’s student work.
Not my cuppa, but neither is Dyslexic and yet I totally see the point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDyslexic
I remember when that appeared on my Kindle. Yeah, weirdness.
This one suits my needs, which is mostly programming (i.e. monospace). But I can dial in the variable kerning and use it on my Desktop too which is neat.
Yeah, that would be tiring to read. If it helps people, though, that’s seriously great.
So it seems what may be my last week at TestingCorp® Ive been sentenced to New Jersey.
Its been decades since Ive visited the “garden state” (Ill be near Camden- not a garden)…..can I pump my own gas yet?
“Ive been sentenced to New Jersey.”
Haha!
And no.
That’s a bit over an hour from me. Don’t get shot in Camden.
No
So close to Philly, and yet so far.
What crime brought this sentence?
Giving notice.
Basically.
But I expect a counter offer sometime mid week. Or the concession that I dont relocate.
No.
Think Cherry Hill or those suburbs if you must come to the PRNJ.
Watching golf on TV. California may be literally the shits but I’d love one of those Pebble Beach houses. Jesus said there were many mansions in heaven
Got to believe heaven is the Monterey Peninsula.
That’s some mighty fine business journalisming, boys
Zuckerberg owns about 350 million shares of the company, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission
Unless he sells or buys more shares of company stock, and assuming the quarterly dividend remains at the same level, Zuckerberg will also gain off of the company’s dividend payouts to the tune of approximately $700 million per year.
While dividends excite shareholders because they reward investors for just holding the stock, they’re also widely criticized for artificially inflating the stock price without spending on employees or improvements to the underlying business.
Letting the owners share in the financial returns of the enterprise, like… you know, owners? It should be illegal.
So much wrong with that article. Shareholders are rewarded “just” for owning the stock. They also bear the risk that the stock price declines. If the company didn’t pay dividends, the cash would be reflected in the stock price in the form of capital gains. When the company pays out dividends the stock price declines by an equal amount in theory so they don’t artificially inflate the stock price. Stable dividends can reduce the risk which might make the stock more valuable, or it indicates that the company doesn’t see any growth areas to invest in, which could reduce the price. BTW, who works criticizes dividends? I’ve never heard that complaint. Where’s the evidence, CNN?
I was so bothered by that article I had to look up the author. She’s a 24 year old know nothing linguistics major with zero business experience. Great stuff, CNN.
“I was at a Sheppard AFB”
I grew up (well, after grade school) down the road in Vernon. Pater a Mater Dean still live near there – the Rancho Dean is in White City.
I may have driven by there. There is a stunning lack of things to do in Wichita Falls, so exploring on the weekends is the best option.
If you went West for more than 45 minutes, you’ve been there.
You think there’s a stunning lack of things to do in Wichita Falls? That’s where we would go to have something to do.
The mall got old, watching movies is difficult with a 9pm curfew, next to nothing was open on Sundays, and I couldn’t even find a proper gun shop. That really surprised me.
The thing is, if you are actually stationed there everyone loves it. If you’re there for training, not so much.
Gotcha! They only want to ban it and everybody knows it.
ORLY? Tell every hospital and doctor and insurance plan who treats them exactly like cigarettes.
Seeing some of the health care comments on threads this past week…made me think about it a bit more. Obviously this is specific to my condition…but I do think this is one of the things that makes the US essentially unique in the world.
May have mentioned before, but a few years back I got a diagnosis that my tailbone bends in the wrong way when I sit down (probably from falling down stairs on my ass on the ship or falling out of my rack) – aim to get it fully documented when I finally get my VA claim in the system. As a Reservist…my health insurance is Tricare for approx $50/month ($200/month if I had a family). It’s one of the reasons I try and sell the Reserves to folks when I hear they’re getting out. It’s worth a lot – not just for continuing to earn retirement, etc.
Anyhoo…I’m fully in the UVA healthcare system under Tricare. I could probably switch to University of Mary Washington, but I only have to head over to Charlottesville every few months. This specific treatment is about once every 6 months – will try to push to 7 next time to see if it’s manageable.
But back to my basic point….I can just log in to the UVA messaging system (full access to my record so I can print stuff anytime), send a message to the clinic and schedule an appt for 3 weeks from contact date (I schedule 30 days before I expect to start experiencing pain based on normal history and treatment timeframe) – I go in (on Tuesday), check in at the clinic, Dr sees me 30 min later (same guy who suggested the pain treatment back in 2021 – he’s done it every visit since then) – he injects steroids into the base of my spine using ultrasound imaging assistance, and I roll out less than an hour after getting there…and my co-pay billing will be something like $27. I guarantee I couldn’t get that level of service in any other country in the world.
US TikTok traveler goes ex-pat to Europe.
OMG HEALTHCARE IS FREEEEEEEE!
Six months later: [bitter] But you pay for it. I’m totally broke from taxes. [/bitter]
And in my experience you have to bribe the doctor and nurses to get any service.
Yuengling and Rolling Rock were the beers of choice for university students in DC in the 90s
Rolling Rock and Red Stripe were the go to beers in the punk scene when people didn’t want Bud/Miller/Coors. Yuengling wasn’t available here until the past decade or so.
In my spot too. I lived in Philly.
Bonus Ray o’ Sunshine:
Two legged dog teaches a puppy with the same birth defect how to walk.
https://twitter.com/BarkAndLaugh/status/1729968479762071827
Every day I am exposed to new wonders
https://twitter.com/HAv2RtrnVdeoTps/status/1753835167108472989?t=_obxVGQC8Yw6nhPfXLtO-g&s=19
That was insane.
More Tom Knapp
https://youtu.be/4FQj3GtmzFY
He must be John Wick’s father.
I have one free drunk dial I can cash in at my (drunken) leisure 😂
He’s better now?
Yeah – when he showed up here to replace my awning canvas, he was still really embarrassed. I’m a straight shooter, though – we talked it out.
Excellent!
I see a bestselling memoir and a quirky cult favorite adaptation in there…
Awning canvas ?
You need to get cable.
How much are you normally charged for drunk dialing?
I actually looked for that Yuengling at the store a little while ago. None. Looked for Shiner. None. I did grab some Full Sail Amber Ale, which I have not had in a long time.
Yuengling’s a solid beer that’s everywhere in this place I live and it’s way better and cheaper than Bud. I figured it was easy to get anywhere in the US of A but looks like I was wrong.
Bingo. I like beer of all kinds and level of hops.
Yuengling is my go to refreshing beer. It’s also cheap. Win.
Are there better beers, sure. But there are many more expensive beers that are worse.
Why is Hickok45 still on YouTube?
Drinking Yuengling after a day’s work at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland was practically mandatory.
Tucker Carlson wasspotted in Moscow. An interview with Putin?
Pisshookers at the Moscow Hilton.
But seriously, if he got that it’ll be interesting no doubt. Could be Snowden or god knows what else too.
Tucker is collecting orders to pass to Donald.
That’s what CIA propaganda operatives post on Twitter
Seriously, this person is from Langley, VA.
LOL I was just being glib.
That nonsense is so played out. Even the people that believe it don’t believe it.
Totally not a propagandist, either.
“Also, check the linktree from my profile for our other social media channels: On IG, we focus on memes and short videos, and on YouTube you can find interviews and longer videos about pro-Kremlin propagandists and their narratives.”
Re: comments above about the EPL. I don’t see anyway Sheffield United stays up – barring points deductions for Forest and more deductions for Everton. I’m pretty close to saying Burnley’s gone too.
No! 😱
Why?
Paying almost zero attention this year beyond “where is Liverpool?” Most of the games I want to watch are on pay-streams.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67978537
🙄
Because they’re not Man City.
Just peeking in. Glanced at the article.
The sanctimonious people banning, lecturing , scolding etc are sadistic puritans. They dont give a fuck if you live or die. They give a fuck about the environment
They dont give a fuck about children. For them it is about making you do as you are told and punishing you for who you are.
Wanna know what they will go after next? Simple, anything you like, anything that give you satisfaction, relief or joy.
Live west of the Rockies.
Have tried Yungling
Did not like it.