Perfectly normal.
This is the mildest winter we’ve experienced since we’ve been in Idaho. I haven’t used the snow blower once and the snow pack is still at 100%. How about some links?
China dun fucked up.
Totally not a third world shithole.
Just stay the hell out of Idaho.
Like him, or not, he’s a badass.
I just like this guy.
A bit of good news for Boeing.
A decent little tune for you week-end.
China dun fucked up.
Apparently they didn’t even acknowledge the problem for weeks.
Corrupt, communist government in China doesn’t react in timely manner. *shrugs* That’s a man eats dog story in the ROC.
The scary thing is that this reportedly got out of China’s bioweapons facility in Wuhan.
4 weeks?
What you did there was seen.
And gazes were narrowed.
They need a better name for that Chinese virus. I pick Kung Flu.
Crouching Doctor, Hidden Serpent. Or maybe that would work for something else.
That’s the title to Spud’s picture choice.
*howls, tosses garlands*
Heh, heh.
I saw that earlier you Plagiarist….
Just said that he picked it not that he coined it.
nitpicker…..
Straff gets it.
All the doctors were kung flu fighting,
Those cats were fast as lightning….
All the doctors were Kung Flu fighting,
Those cats died fast as lightning.
FIFY.
Weekend music
Seek help.
Um, my erection hasn’t lasted longer than four hours.
Barry Manilow gives you an erection?
You know you can’t smile without me,
Can’t smile without me,
You can’t laugh and you can’t sing,
You’re finding it hard to do anything.
So…that’s a “yes”?
Nice.
Huh? This is weekend music (although the fucking record label censored the official video release for some fucking reason).
Locust swarms in Africa are worst in decades
Nuke it from orbit.
If locusts eat the crops, does it not make sense to eat the locusts? Look at all that protein flying around in big swarms. Gas them, collect them all on big parachutes or something, and have a big locust barbecue?
‘Locusts now on the verge of extinction, the wold is in peril!’
Harry Chapin’s radio station is in peril?
Dance Band on the Titanic…
Sen. Mike Lee scooters from March for Life to ‘jury duty’ and gives a surprise interview along the way
Less cringy than Beta on a longboard.
He’s such a buttoned down guy, it’s fun to see him cruising through DC on a scooter.
Boeing’s 777X jetliner takes off on maiden flight
Then the computer deliberately stalled and crashed the plane, killing everyone on-board.
Damn your nimble fingers!
Why is Assface on the main page?!
Some kind of connection with cream jeans on this page?
Goes with the title.
I thought it was another cat butt shot.
Maybe he just plain sucks?
It’s not Arseface.
I think it’s the landings that have been a challenge for Boeing lately.
I don’t think locusts are the species that make most of Africa third world shitholes.
That would be Homo sapiens.
I read that earlier and gave me a chuckle. Although I do doubt the NPR reporter could not find Ukraine on a map and I think he is just pissing her off more. Need collaboration from the aid in the room.
Whistleblower!
I guess that should be “confirmation”.
Speaking of assface Schiff
Schiff said, “First of all, what was most striking to me about the president’s presentation today is, they don’t contest the basic architecture of the scheme. They do not contest that the president solicited a foreign nation to interfere in our election, to help him cheat. I think they acknowledge, by not even contesting this, that the facts are overwhelming. The president invited Ukraine to get involved in our election to help him cheat against Joe Biden. That is uncontested, uncontested in our presentation and uncontested in theirs.”
If saying it would only make it so.
They really like stealing a base with that “interfere in our election”. Same as when they say “digging up dirt on Biden”.
Wait, I missed when the Democrats had their convention and picked Biden as the nominee.
“Meet the Press” is going to have Schiff on tomorrow and, to provide balance, no one from the other side.
Missed the last post, but I’m gonna crack one (or two) of these tonight.
That looks tasty.
Did someone say Maiden flight?
Knew it.
Me too though I didn’t realize the entire movie was available online.
Eddie no doubt approves of Mr. Parnell’s post and link.
I can’t understand why they didn’t include the artwork for the Stranger In a Strange Land single. Best Eddie IMHO
So, if the CIA is sooper dooper trustworthy about anything they say about Trump, how can the former head of the CIA not be sooper dooper trustworthy when he talks about Trump?
^ Nazi bot identified ^
“in the air, tonight, oh Lord”
/not Boeing again
The last twenty four hours have been a nightmare. I’m so tired but I can’t sleep for fever dreams. I went back to bed at two and thought I woke up Sunday morning. No, it’s only five.
.
Beer is the cure, and some good Meat based food products, Doordash is easy,
Sorry, dude. The flu sucks.
Everyone’s favorite saucy Aussie.
Rhywun’s favorite saucy Aussie
Ugh what a garbage-person.
He plays Nadal next. Too bad both of those shits can’t lose.
Nadal is just creepy and twitchy. I don’t actively despise him to the same degree as Kyrgios.
He’s also an inveterate rule-breaker and whiner, complaining that things aren’t structured to benefit him. Nadal could simply have played enough grass to ensure the #2 seed, but decided to bitch instead. And it’s not the first time he’s bitched about such stuff.
I wasn’t aware of that gripe.
Speaking of seeds, I’m getting a little tired of watching Those Three never getting any significant challenge in the first few rounds – hell, some of them I’ve never even heard of – while tons of possible threats are busy knocking each other out. The system stinks.
Anno Domini 1996’s favorite saucy Aussie
I was thinking of this Aussie.
That’s not Angela White.
She’s Aussie? Sounds American to me.
If you can’t win, change the rules.
The ethical advisory arm of the federal judiciary is circulating a draft rule that would ban judges and their clerks from belonging to the Federalist Society, an organization aimed at fostering an originalist interpretation of the Constitution at law schools and through forums and debates across the country.
The proposed rules change is the latest salvo in a campaign to cast the Federalist Society as too political, and thereby politically risky, for judiciary participation. The Wall Street Journal editorial board labeled the proposal “judicial political mischief masked in high sounding rhetoric,” a step that is spurring a backlash among “judges and others” who should denounce it as “undermining legal education in America and perhaps violating the First Amendment right of association.”
We can’t have people that are apparent textualists ruining the living constitution.
Wait, the Supreme Court is head of the Judicial wing, shouldn’t they be the ones setting the rules?
I swear, the Left has never heard the term Blowback? This Shit is gonna blow up, how big is anyone’s guess, Civil War? ehhhh, New political parties? Mebbe,
There is no embedded beuracracy.
:Looks at impeachment:
None whatsoever.
The ethical advisory arm of the federal judiciary is circulating a draft rule that would ban judges and their clerks from belonging to the Federalist Society
Do they want me to double my contribution to FedSoc? Because this is how to get me to double my contribution.
Just because we are to busy working, the Left thinks we don’t care about such things, they should read the Art of War sometime,
Know your Enemies,
“As for putting the ACS side by side with the Federalist Society, it’s a fig leaf for what politically motivated people would want to see happen,” said the Federalist Society member. “If the ACS fell off the face of the earth tomorrow, nobody would notice, and the reason is that law schools are steeped in liberal orthodoxy, the bar is steeped in liberal orthodoxy. You don’t need it. The ACS is a sacrificial lamb on the altar of trying to destroy the Federalist Society.”
If you want to see the mechanics of making a fundamentally unfair thing seem superficially fair, this is a perfect example.
I had to check the article to figure out what ‘ACS’ stood for. I never heard of it.
Saw a good movie last nite on Netflix, Shot Caller. It’s not groundbreaking, but a really well done prison/crime thriller/drama. If you’re in the mood for something dark and violent it will serve it up.
Shot Caller
“something dark and violent”
I’ll stick playing with the wind, PMA is a good thing, but you enjoy,,
If you define the republic add whatever entrenched bureaucrats in the state department ( looking at you CIA) want, then Schiff is defending our republic.
For Bob.
https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/japanese-salaryman-creates-jaw-dropping-model-of-shinjuku-from-paper
That’s Amazing, and all paper, OTOH, modern paper is so varied and cool, I can see it, just takes time and planning…
It’s been done.
More info here
Bits aren’t tactile, Paper and PVA are,
LTModel,
If you read the first link carefully, they digitized a cardboard model that was built in the 1820s and still exists.
I wanted pictures, not an article,
/Beer Time!
Did you click around the second link?
Too much labor, you enact it,
Nice!
I’m guessing that guy is not married.
or like Wendy, doesn’t give a crap how I spend my free time,
/Happily Married for a reason
Heh, there is that possibility too.
There was a guy i knew of on a racing forum who would put together amazing paper models of race cars. It’s a level of attention to detail that I could never achieve.
That sounds tedious, but fun!
First example I could come by (not necessarily the most beautiful I’ve ever seen)
Holy Crap! that’s beautiful! the Tires were done well, thanks TRSHY!
All my origami attempts end up looking like gyoza.
…now I want gyoza.
Always with this.
…now I want biru.
There’s a building in that city with a giant coin leaned against it?
YUGE! and CLASSY!
I dunno about the coin, but that’s the Tokyo Metro Government Building
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_Government_Building
The big blue circle? That’s on some art school building.
Third or fourth one down with the ¥1 propped up against it.
Yeah, you’re right. That’s 都庁.
*cue Hallelujah chorus*
Tochōmae station just hit me. Of course.
Holy cow!
He’s also doing a version in 1970
https://twitter.com/fe2aeifqz0x9ayw/status/1212887357059284992?s=21
70’s Tokyo would be where I’d set my time machine.
https://youtu.be/xpNmmUDHokw
From the shithole article:
Kenya is about 224,000 square miles, or 143 million acres. So if my math is right, about .12% of the land is infested by locusts. Might be a national emergency when so little of the land is farmed efficiently, but I’d still rather the country (or the farmers) contract for their own pest control.
has to be caused by GLOBAL WARMING.
only explanation
Because when the food is gone, they move on.
This is the warmest winter I’ve seen since I left TX 35 years ago. We’ve had a lot of snow, I’ve cleaned the yard 5 times already, usually only 3-4 all winter. The next 10 days look unseasonably warm. I blame impeachment.
It’s been awful nice, hasn’t it? (large amount of snow, notwithstanding) I think we’ve only hit -20 twice. And it hasn’t stayed sub-zero for more than a few days at a time.
I talked my wife into letting me buy a Bobcat. It makes moving snow almost fun!
Sorta jealous…
Bobcats are cool. But I don’t want to live in an igloo…
Find a reason to move dirt around. Or check out the dozens of attachments they have and find one that you just can’t live without! Tiller, mower, post hole digger, pallet fork…
I think we’ve had -20s about 3 times, only below zero about 10 days. I don’t mind the snowblower, its just walking, for the most part.
Jazz! on the Radio!
https://kspc.org/listen/
Johnny hates jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctwqa3QCwMw
Ted S. sock puppet confirmed.
Not me!
I’m living rent-free inside Mike’s head.
But why the hell would I want to live in North Dakota?
Come to AZ, Heat, and Guns, mmmm, same thing?
Because it’s nearly Sconnie-free?
But…. Snow and Cold…..
Yeah. That too!
And close to MN, in case the NoDaks want to see some trees.
https://kspc.org/listen/
Comments Ted….
Except that’s a decent song. (Fight me.)
As I age, I tend to rise before dawn, and when the Sun sets, I get ready for bed, I don’t look forward to evenings and such, and actually don’t like the dark so much anymore, is this odd?
/older Glibs
Bed at 9 PM
Up at 5-530 AM
Early to bed and all that, I’m waiting for the Wise to kick in. Better get here soon, I’m kinda running out time. Can’t get the boy outta the country and vice-versa
I still prefer to stay up until well after midnight, but work on the weekdays making me get up at 06:00 prevents that on all but the weekend nights.
Waking up at normal people hours was a goal I set when I got unemployed. I have alarms set to go off for a whole hour, they never wake me up.
I found I need to set multiple alarms, outside of arms reach, over a 15 minute period to actually wake me up at the beginning of my early rising work. It’s gotten easier over the past two years, but I still dislike it.
Well, lucky
meyou, then!at the top of the Hour, Le Show, all French Music, pretty fun stuff, DJ Fifi LaRue,
https://kspc.org/listen/
Late start to the day, but I got a lot done. I sighted in Gelding, but she’s having major issues with feeding. I’m thinking it’s the BCG, I’ll swap that out with one that I know works well, maybe tomorrow. Got the workbench assembled, just need to bolt down the top and the vice.
Since I was in the part of town that has the liquor store that sells Talisker, I went in for a bottle but they don’t sell it anymore 🙁 So I got a bottle of Ardbeg “An Oa” to try. Smoky ad delicious. The only thing wrong with this Scotch is that I’m not drinking it in front of a fire reading a book with a hound at my feet.
Wait, you gave your gun a name?
Weirdo. ?
I cleaned and lubed two ARs today. No shooting though.
All toys get names or at least Genders, old Kia was a Girl, New Kia Van is a boy,
Discs are Sweetness, kill and flick, they have names….
I don’t typically name them, but this one seemed to need it. And the female pronouns to go with it. The only other one I’ve named is my EDC, “Glibby.” The gun I’ve fired the most is just “The CZ.”
Speaking of the CZ, two weeks ago at the steel shoot, the wind was strong enough to blow my range bag into the snow. So I wound up with about 40 rounds of rusted steel cased 9mm. Today I loaded it up, and the CZ ate them without so much as a hiccup.
I cleaned and lubed two ARs today.
*Unzips*
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/P1sHDwU8Sq66ygqth8RXjQ.ohgApJ_HvQJb_eQK7V0Ny3
Careful not to have a negligent discharge
So how did Trump manufacture the Coronavirus to distract from his impeachment?
All that “medical research” funded by the Koch Bros., of course.
How? Corona and Lime! this is known….
If we could only remove Trump, ban guns, institute nationalized healthcare and tax the rich at 95% all our problems would be solved.
Igh. Took the woman to a record store now I’m stuck listening to Steely Fan, Flaco and Springstien. Kill me.
If it’s old Bruce, you’ll make it, otherwise , kill yourself now….
He’s makin’ it, all right.
Steely Dan +1
Springsteen -1e174635
Falco meh
“Falco 3” was a big part of my teen years but yeah it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Couldn’t care less about the other two. ?♂️
I don’t like Mozart, either.
JSB or GTFO,
Wagner
Bach is my jam too.
I prefer grape.
Yeah, I would have.
JSB?
Jerry Sarcia Band?
Handel.
Oh, get a grip.
Did you know Jesus Christ was the Messiah’s handle?
Aha ha, ha ha…yeah.
No love for Vivaldi?
Four Seasons is one of my favorite.
If you like Steele’s Dan Mo you should check out Fagan’s solo album (if you don’t know it already).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-rrrof1TJc4&list=PLaEiEoU756zuLH_9Z-ERUa-DJnpFpykli
Got a call from our son asking if we could find any face masks here in MT for the DIL to send to her family in China. Granny is in the hospital and in China the family is expected to do most of the work. A Chinese hospital is not where you want to be right now. The Vegas/Henderson area is wiped out of masks (large Asian population).
Looks like Home Cheepo in MT is as well (I’d figured the two Asians would be in Arizona for the winter). The nearest Lowes claims to have them in stock. Guess I get a trip into town.
Surge pricing discussion 2.0 anyone?
I noticed a lot of PRC peeps in BhC lately, and a lot in Vegas, should we worry?
/seriously
Year of the Rat, baby!
Does that mean our horoscopes are going to be extra-accurate?
All of a sudden, they are celebrating it all over the place, Chinese Collusion!!!!!
The ones I’ve seen in Japan are just N95 ones, just with a little more comfortable face and straps.
Try a medical supply store. Should be able to get a box of masks.
Order from Japan. No shortage here.
Hit me up at my handle if you want me to ship some over from Ohio. We don’t exactly have a large Asian population here (we don’t have a Chinatown, we have an Asiantown… I wish I was kidding).
Deplorable, racist, bigot, Larry Elder makes futile attempt to defend Bad Orange Man
He’s not as bad as that white supremacist that’s been Rush Limbaugh’s producer for almost 30 years.
I can’t even right now with this guy’s obvious white supremacism.
Just stay the hell out of Idaho.
Speaking of Idaho. I stumbled across this guys you tube channel and watched a few today. The flying is cool, great video footage and well the GF doesn’t hurt either.
No, I don’t actually go into the sky, I just fly stuff remotely, Fuck Flying..
/Scaredy cat
Yes, she is nice to look at.
‘From Lithuania’ Will this Rushun Election interference never cease!?
There are quite a few remote air strips in Idaho. It’s really cool.
And would.
Apparently there is a whole bush plane community on you tube. They don’t need no stinkin air strips. Very cool stuff and Idaho is awesome in spite of its lattitude. I have only driven through.
There’s a grass strip about 20 miles upriver from the cabin with a campground next to it. There’s also a trail we like to hike in the summer. Every now and then, you’ll see a bush pilot do three touch and goes to meet his monthly training requirement.
This Draco plane needs about 100′ to take off. Pretty amazing. First bush plane I have seen with an engine that big. Sheezus. Or should say needed. Apparently builder/owner crashed it.
The crash video was pretty cringy. It was a pretty nasty crosswind takeoff.
I hadn’t seen the actual crash. He should have just nosed it in the wind and taken off from the apron. Big bummer, that was a hell of a plane.
They’re nuts and that plane is badass.
Surely you guys have seen the Valdez STOL competition
Heard of it, but sea level is for pussies. Although landing a plane in nine and a half feet is mind boggling.
How do those planes handle in heavy winds?
Like a feather I imagine. They are really light. There is a happy medium I am sure. The Super Cub has always been the bush plane of choice from the pilots I have known personally. I understand those are getting harder to find these days though. I was taking lessons in a 182 but never finished to get my license. My instructor, who I had the hots for, (she passed away for mysterious reasons) said it was the SUV of bush planes. Land on a dirt strip but not really bush capable.
Supercubs are good for that. Earlier today the Supercub from the hangar next to mine was screwing around landing on the muddy grass between the runway and the taxiway. He’d keep the tail up, turn around, and depart the other direction.
If you’re still interested in flying maybe you should look into the sport pilot license. It’s been around for around 10 years or so now. No medical certificate required, and the required flight time to get the certificate is about half that required for the Private certificate.
“Alex Jones was unavailable for comment as he was driving a tank around shouting into a megaphone about gay frogs.”
Ok, somebody here definitely writes for the Bee.
there are more than the 200 of us that think the same way,they just haven’t heard of us yet…
Not a glibs meme, just a meme.
I wonder what my “right answers” are. Non-English speaking minority at least, I would guess.
You voted D for last 156 years and will continue to do so; died from smoking, drunk driving and climate crisis.
Fucking NSA capturing all digital transmissions and the government is complaining when we don’t bend over even further. Stop infringing on people’s privacy and maybe they’d be willing to cooperate on stuff like the census.
I’m in consideration for a Census job, I’ll let you know…
Sellout.
Rekt from the inside is what he’s going for.
Thank you Straff! I know what I’m doing….
You’ll let us know how your deal with the devil turns out?
In my job search I considered it, but I thought I’d get fired right quick for staying off everyone’s fuckin lawn.
Now I wish I could write a sketch for Andrew Heaton about a libertarian census taker who stands at the edge of the driveway and just yells the questions.
I’ll do an interview,
I expect you’ll all wind up like this.
^ This is so important. ^ IANAL, but here’s my take of laws compelling compliance with census questions:
-The Census Bureau is restricted from sharing personal data it collects.
-The Census Bureau does not have a a law enforcement branch.
-In order to arrest and prosecute someone for non-compliance, they’d have to give personal info to the FBI, or another law enforcement agency…which it is barred from doing.
To wit; prosecuting you for breaking the law would require them to break the law.
How much and what kind of data do you need to determine congressional seats? Many of the questions deserve a “None of your fucking business” response.
Agreed. The questions I got on that in-between year survey were extremely invasive. And the thing is, there are methods of collecting it that are probably cheaper than maintaining an army of census workers. The one that comes to mind; instead of asking me how far I drive to work and what time I leave and return every day (no shit actual questions) all you have to do is use one of those mechanical traffic counters on the road.
But that doesn’t track individuals, individuals are dangerous and need to be tracked.
Ya, sure, but seriously, how many toilets you have in your house is need to know stuff for big brother.
Well, it can determine taxes.
Illinoispoliticians have issues.The toilet one is interesting though, because it tracks the spread of indoor plumbing over time. Granted, it’s probably not useful anymore, but for the 20th c it was a good way to see (overall) wealth increasing.
I’m hoping to find out, undercover Glib Census Dude!
They don’t need my info for congressional seating arrangements, I’m not gonna vote anyway.
But if you want pork, you need to be counted.
The counting is the only relevant question on the thing. All the rest is for BS social justicey manipulation.
I haven’t answered the census for the last 4-5 times. I just tell them its the same as the last one. Last time got the forms twice and they got wet. Then I neighbor came by, I told him if it was important he could fill them out. Had a pre census come last time, I told him I was too busy, went in the house ’cause it was my coffee time.
I looked at the fine, I thought it was $250, figured they wouldn’t prosecute for that.
And when, pray tell, in the entire history of humankind, has this stopped the government?
Fair point.
Um…Hitler?
I have not answered the last 2 cencsii (?). They send people. To ask questions. I find that the key is to be in your front yard with an implement like a weeding tool when they show up. And to politely not answer their questions.
My house is 100 yards from the road, down a gravel driveway, with a gate that is always closed when I am home. I do not expect a knock on the door.
I’ll answer because I don’t want that drama. But I’ll still mutter under my breath about all the shit that’s none of their damn business.
I don’t mind answering the question “How many people in your household?”. But when the first question is “Does anyone in your household have a mental illness?”, I tap out.
Yeah, there is no reason to answer those questions. They will not do anything to you if you don’t. If people would just stop answering, eventually it might go away.
This sucks, but someone is speaking up,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_G33E8AI9s
If only they paid more taxes, they wouldn’t have to rely on these dodgy charities!
Get fixt.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRPnnF0LwjE
I haven’t heard that for…… 35 years? Maybe more.
Speaking of getting fixed
Would prefer that was Frankie Howerd. Or, Areosmith.
I youtube video of a camera pointed at the TV just isn’t as good without the heavy breathing.
I used to have that album, several formats ago (cassette?). Good stuff.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/brooklyn-invades-iowa
“Brooklyn Invades Iowa”
This article made me remember that Hillary Clinton’s campaign’s rural outreach coordinator was based out of Brooklyn. If this is the attitude that Democrats and their media allies are going to continue to have through 2020, it’s very possible that Trump may be president for life.
VICE: That bartender at a gay bar in Iowa supports Trump. I mean, really? Am I right?
Iowan: How can you wear your jeans so tight? Don’t that hurt your testicles?
OMG that snapshot.
See, that’s why I asked you about the parts of NYC with the wops swinging baseball bats. I don’t want to visit the part of town where the guy in that picture lives. I already try to avoid those provincial people where I live.
I hear you. That guy does not live in my part of Brooklyn.
My neighborhood is actually interesting because it’s sort of a middle ground between “dump” and “cool”. Hipsters totally ignore it but it’s nice here. And I mean “nice” in a way that ought to attract a lot of hipsters but it doesn’t because it’s a little too far away or a little to “middle class” etc.
Heh. My neighborhood is solidly middle class and blue collar. I think one hipster couple moved in, and sold the house a couple months later. There’s still an old Italian grandma raising chickens in her yard (in violation of city laws) around the corner from me, and there’s a guy who rebuilds bikes for kids and sets them on his lawn for free every Christmas and fall (start of the school year).
Hey, yooz guys on the tractor, is there a Starbucks around here somewhere?
LOL that article is hilarious. And I guarantee you that every single one of those Vice persons grew up in a place like Iowa and is running like hell from it.
I grew up in a place that is not Brooklyn but unlike these assholes I don’t run away from it.
Dickhead.
For subscribers only. How did your read the article?
Trumps got that one covered.
Dickhead.
The utterly patronizing and morally bankrupt assumption that because a person is homosexual, or has dark skin, or just isn’t male, that they must vote for the party offering them
equalityscraps from the pork being stolen, really is the most disgusting thing about our elections.They didn’t learn from Thune beating Daschle. Thune made a point of only employing SD citizen’s, except for three positions. Daschle had canvassers from Boston. It didn’t go over well.
Alright, last Cigarette,
Good Luck! Do It! (I have been pondering quitting again for about the hundredth time.) I had quite for years and started again for some reason I can’t explain.
I used to say that I quit twenty times per pack.
The day I did quit, though, I quit. Threw the cig I was smoking out the window followed by the remainder of the pack. Never smoked another and didn’t need patches or vape. Just quit.
My smoking was never (exclusively) about nicotine. With my anxiety disorder, I always wanted something to numb my throat. Before I smoked menthols I sucked on mints all the time. My condition leads to the feeling (true or not) that my throat is swelling shut. That is the relief I was looking for that was satiated by cigs. Nicotine was just the price I paid to get that relief. Now that I vape, if I ever get money to spend on things I may not consume, I can try dropping down the nicotine content well still getting that throat numbing that lead me to smoke.
Nicotine isn’t all that bad for you. It actually may help to prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s.
A friend was able to quit with Chantix after decades of smoking. It gave her weird-ass dreams, but that wa about the only side effect.
I have a friend who had success with that. Didn’t work for me (if I am right it is the anti-depressant turned smoking cessation aid) but that was 20 years ago and a dark time in my life. I took it and felt my life wasn’t so bad and I needed a beer and a cigarette to celebrate. Not a fan of mind altering chemicals unless for recreational purposes now. I will quite when I am ready. Again.
It’s almost a year since I quit by buying a vape mod. Smoked for 15 years, was up to 1 1/2 packs a day at the end. After the start-up costs of buying the mod, it was crazy how much money I had left over weekly.
Do it, man. I sincerely hope that you succeed. I said that to myself many times. Ultimately, it was drugs (Chantix) that got me over the hump.
Bob, if It helps, I quit about a decade ago. The taxes pissed me off, and I decided to do a slow restriction on where and when I could smoke. Basically, it was a method of weening.
It works!
/Nanny state
Just got back from the Gentlemen (and several pints afterwards, which led to an entertaining discussion at the bar about whether cunt, gash, or ax wound was more offensive).
Man, that gay bar must really hate women if they think cunt is as offensive as being hit with an ax.
*walks away whistling.
The lesbian I was with agrees that gash is worse then cunt. The random female social worker didn’t know what any of the words meant, even after I said she had them, and I didn’t. In her defense, she claimed she was drunk. Her friends then told her to Google blue waffle.
If you value your sanity, don’t Google blue waffle.
Dude last night because I got curious about something I read, I googled and read the transcript of the toolbox killer tape. Blue waffle isn’t in the league. Seriously don’t read that, and if you are ever training with the FBI and they want to play you the tape don’t let them.
This was a (relatively) innocent social worker. I suggested she Google Lemon Party instead.
As for reading the transcript, I may be interested, but I also was very interested in the two seasons of Mindhunters that got released on Netflix (and really impressed with the guy they got to play Ed Kemper).
I had tears in my eyes. It was rough. and to Mike, Norris is still alive in prison, Bittaker died last month at age 79 still awaiting execution.
Sometimes life isn’t fair.
Every time I start leaning towards anti-death sentence, vermin like this bring me back.
Two girls one cup, lemon party, Mindhunter, Seven, hell even the movie some asshole on /b/ paid heroin addict brazillian hookers $500 to make (it includes a scene of one hooker shitting in another’s mouth, she eats it, then vomits it into the mouth of a third. This is worse. This is a little girl literally begging for death because of what they were actively doing to her.
OK. That’s about enough.
Yeah, sorry. I was trying to warn people off and went too far.
No, you didn’t. You said just enough to get the point across.
The Shirley Ledford tape? JFC. I stopped when the pliers were employed. Hopefully someone killed those motherfuckers in prison?
The only gay bar experience I have is from having gone with the lady and her female friends. The bartenders didn’t start treating me right until I started ordering vodka-crans…
I have used cunt and gash in mixed company. I’m not sure that most people would get “axe wound”.
The general group wasn’t normal people, we had just gone to see a Guy Ritchie film. And my favorite foreign expressions are still from Australia and Ireland.
Ireland – Neck it = To kill a pint
Australia – Handbrake = the SO who prevents you from having a good time.
Amongst the Irish (and the Brits as well I believe) “cunt”is really not a very offensive word at all. It’s maybe a bit more salty than “damn”. It’s funny how words get taboo. Saying “fanny” in England is not the rear, but the front and a fairly offensive term, not like how we consider it almost a kid’s word.
We brought up thing like that, such as telling an Aussie that you’re Rooting for the home team this weekend…
Or when a Brit warns you not to mess with a guy at the bar. “Watch out! He’s hard!”
Well, that would definitely work for me, then.
Maybe this explains the popularity of Brazilian Jujitsu….and Turkish oil rasslin’.
My experience has been the word “cunt” can be used as punctuation in most commonwealth countries.
ws is a pretty good cunt.
I wouldn’t use any of them around men. I’m not a pig.
Was the film as interesting as the conversation Neph? Ritchie is a real mixed bag. Lock Stock and Snatch were brilliant, easily in my top 100. Revolver and Rock n Rolla were utterly terrible
Rock n Rolla [was] utterly terrible
You shut your whore mouth!
Damn right, slum!
Fucking immigrant….
Don’t forget about those invasive crayfish…
Who could forget??
CPRM SMASH! [folks who don’t like that movie that I like]
To be fair, the shutting of one’s whore mouth IS rather funny.
Lock Stock and Snatch are among my favorite films as well. I’d compare the Gentlemen favorable to Layer Cake. Similar concept, Layer Cake has a bit more humor in it, The Gentlemen runs with the unreliable narrator a bit more. I was pleasantly surprised by the way they built back to the entry scene.
Layer Cake had humor? I missed that. And then it led to X-men First Class…I don’t want to talk about it anymore.
The Fcuk scene in the beginning; Gene’s gun issues; xxxx’s issue with the girlfriend when he gets kidnapped; the Duke…
Right on, I also enjoyed Layer Cake. I’ll have to check the new one out. Cheers.
Someone (I don’t remember who) (I don’t want to) used “gash” in a romance novel. During a sex scene. From the woman’s POV.
Since I know that no one here is sober.
What, hic, do you mean?
Recovering from yesterday, considering joining Twitter to see if I can get blocked by the entire cast of SNL. Except I think that Keenan Thompson and Kate McKinnon are genuinely funny. And Cecily Strong is a solid would.
Also I thought that Adam Driver was Chad Kroeger.
I thought he was Benedict Cumberbuns.
Because I like rocked up pop songs, especially with hot, female drummers.
Is that the new non-deathplane Boeing?
So far…
Look–you lot can continue your morose cuntery next door.