Monday, 21 February 2020, 0515 CDT
“….there’s no tone. I’m supposed to leave a message after the tone? Hey mex! Its Swiss. I need you to do something. Call me back at your next convenience. You know the number.
…[Unintelligible]Goddamn it. I hit the headset button, why isn’t this hanging up?
Tuesday 22 February 2020, 0515 CST
”Hey Mex! Its Swiss. Call me back. You know my numb—-“
Tuesday 25 February 2020, 0518 CDT
“[Unintelligible] Mex! Your voicemail sucks, and my [unintelligible] receptionist is quarantined by the Indian government. Call me back damnit!”
Wednesday 26 February 2020, 0515 CDT
“Mex! You can’t run from us! We’ll call everyone we have to to get a hold of you. We’ll [unintelligible] send STEVE SMITH to get your dog [unintelligible] again, you full well what I’m capable of —“
Wednesday 26 February 2020, 0517 CDT
”Mex! Its Swiss! [Unintelligible] your [unintelligible] voicemail! Write something about the damn debates last week. Everyone is cashing in on it and we want in!
…and write about a Radler. Steigl or GTFO.”
Damnit.
This is my review of Moosehead Grapefruit Radler.
The debate last week was ridiculous. Mostly a bunch of idiots trying to pile on an octogenarian bolshevik. There was also a gay man that can’t pass a Turing test, some lady from Minnesota, a VP that stopped bleeding from his eyes or, bleeding from his whatever.
Then there was my personal favorite: Senator Moral Scold made Bloomberg look like an ass. He sort of had it coming, really.
The issue at hand is Bloomberg’s tendency to have former employees sign Non-Disclosure Agreements. Nobody really knows what is in them, other than a few blurbs here or there related to his terrible sense of humor around women. She a used this as a crude political stunt by using her prowess as a Harvard Law professor and “drawing up” a release of the NDAs. She supposedly sent him the release by text but she definitely threw it out on Twitter for her dozens of fans to eat up. Eventually, she did get Bloomberg to release a few of them, but of course not all of them.
Is this really that big a deal? Not really. NDAs are used all the time by companies to keep certain things secret—namely intellectual property, trade secrets, sensitive information about the company that isn’t subject to SEC regulations, and the like. One thing to be reasonably certain about Bloomberg’s NDAs with these women, is it is improbable they are covering up anything illegal. Contracts after all are enforceable by law, and the courts cannot enforce a contract with terms that are otherwise outside the law. Given Bloomberg’s previous campaigns it seems likely this sort of thing would’ve turned up years ago.
It is entirely possible Bloomberg is somewhat awkward in person, being a billionaire, and has absolutely no concept of basic human interaction. Need an example? This is Bloomberg petting a dog.
He said something he thought was funny, but isn’t and had to pay somebody off to keep it from going public. NDAs after all require both parties to agree so he could be bound to something in the agreement that benefits the other party. What could he be bound to? Just to speculate, he probably paid these women a lot of money for one, and because he happens to be a media mogul had something equally embarrassing on them as well. There is a lot of competition in the media market, and not many newspapers or TV stations will hire somebody featured in a Girls Gone Wild video from 1999 (still speculating).
Then what hits me? Warren is such a shameless hack, I just wrote an article defending Bloomberg. I need a drink….
…but not another one of these. This was awful. If you like grapefruit, this has it. If you like grape juice….this also has it. It is disturbingly sweet with an obnoxious whiff of citrus. It actually makes me consider rescinding my opinion of Shandy (whoever invented it deserves to be shot) and applying it here. I will not however, bite on that lead just yet because there are better Radlers out there but we’re talking about a bar low enough Elizabeth Warren can pass. Moosehead Grapefruit Radler: 1.5/5
Radler, or STEVE SMITH? Hmmm.
And you’ll notice I didn’t say “first, bitches!”. I think it’s childish and reflects poorly on the site.
Your restraint is commendable.
Spudalicious; the adult in the Glibs room.
The Radler of posters.
who is the shandy?
Not it!
*touches nose*
No; Nephilium is the Radler of posters.
*narrows gaze*
Of course you didn’t, Bill Clinton isn’t President any more so there are no longer first bitches.
Blurst!!
You stupid monkey!
he wasnt wrong, but why make that your first post?
Radler is Nephilium.
This is what I get for going to a brewery opening and a Mac and Cheese fest today. Internet fame!
Would you rather be the Nick Gillespie of something?
I figured I already was.
Man everywhere I go on the internet I see a Bloomberg ad.
Even here.
jk
kinda
*sensible chuckle*
Lately it seems like every other ad on the radio is either Bloomberg or the Census.
Youtube is absolutely polluted with them. All of them are different versions of the same thing. A poor minority who’s been robbed, raped, and thrown into the mean streets, by heartless racist republicans. But here comes Super Mikey to the rescue. He’s gonna get it done.
Hey, poor oppressed minority. Here’s a tip for you. When Mikey tells you he’s gonna get it done, what he means is he’s going to ban your big sugary drink. And if you try to buy one from the shady black market guy hanging out in front of the 7-11, you’ll wind up with 4 fat cops sitting on top of you until you stop breathing, forever.
Amazingly, I haven’t gotten one yet.
Don’t you people use ad-blockers?
Great. Little Mikey got control of Glibs.
At least we could get some workout photos from Tulsi if we’re going to get political stuff.
I’m confused, why will Mike get that little boy done? Is he Catholic?
That kid is an unfinished abortion. Mike will get it done.
“they don’t count if they didn’t make it down the goop chute alive!”
HAHAHAHAHA. I gotta remember that one.
going to try that on the wife tonight.
It’s fantastic. Let him burn another half billion dollars. When he loses, every time the Dems bring up Citizens United point to his loss.
A montage of Bloomberg ads with volume at 11 – every fucking time.
Bloomie: “Who the fuck’s kid is this, get it the fuck away!”
not many newspapers or TV stations will hire somebody featured in a Girls Gone Wild video from 1999 (still speculating).
Sad.
I like the change from CDT to CST and back again in the call transcript. Count down until an edit faery fixes it and I look more fucked in the head than usual.
Steigl or GTFO.
I visited the Stieglkeller in Salzburg when I was last in Europe. There was a large line to get beer thanks to an idiot American tourist.
The American tourist kept asking, “I want an IPA. Do you have an IPA? I want something hoppy.” It was clear that he was an idiot and also clear that the bar staff did not speak enough English to understand him.
Fuck! You are at the Stieglkeller! In Austria! The land of pale lagers, doppelbocks, and wheat beers. That is, if you get beer. Wine is probably a bit more popular. And not only does he apparently have no clue about Austrian beer and that he’s holding the line up, there is a sign in both German and English behind the bar that says, “We have just tapped a Pale Ale”. A Pale Ale isn’t an IPA, but it’s close.
Just before I said something to the idiot American, one of the Austrians in line suggested the American get a Goldbräu as it is a “very Austrian beer”. The American bought a Goldbräu and left. I’ll bet he probably bitched about the beer sucking even though Goldbräu is a damn fine beer.
When it was my turn in line, I ordered a Zwickl in German. The beer was delicious.
Goldbräu there is better than goldbräu here that’s been sitting too long. Had my first one in departure lounge at the Vienna airport. It was heavenly.
Unless it has a shit ton of cascade hops, it’s a pussy beer.
*drink’s Urthona’s goldbräu*
The bar in the open middle of the departure lounge? I love that bar. And agreed, the beer on tap is indeed heavenly. I have no idea what I drank as I ordered by just saying “beer bitta, por favor, please and thank you.” That bar was especially awesome when you could smoke at the bar. Then they put in those smoking booths to accelerate lung cancer.
No bar, it was self serve bottles. I think it was the Air lounge with a Schengen zone flight.
Aaaaaah, I was never uppercrust enough to hit the lounges back then. Do all China bound flights offer free face masks?
Hah! It was Eurobusiness class. Coach seat with an empty middle. Not much crust there. Euros are
funny.
I had a decent breakfast once at Vienna Airport. Bread, liver paste, marmalade, butter. It was probably the only breakfast without eggs that I liked.
Don’t they call that breakfast The Lady Marmalade?
Same with Pilsner Urquell: marvelous in Chechia, skunky when it finally arrives here.
Nice of you to have ordered in German, but it would have been nice if you had ordered in Austrian.
Heh. I guy at a local brewery today was saying he likes Canadian beers (Labatt, Molson, etc.). One of the staff tried to direct him towards their IPA. I suggested a pils or a blonde, or if he wanted to get out of his comfort zone, to go with one of their big stouts or strong ales.
Complete list of items that won’t be banned in a Bloomberg administration: Pictures of Mike Bloomberg.
This was awful.
Seriously? I never would have guessed.
You know, this business of not sleeping in my own bed really messes with my commenting. Oh, well.
Sacrifices were made.
Which of the MT glibs are you sleeping with?
All of them.
I only know of one other one. FdA.
And Riven
mikey
Threadcount not right?
If it isn’t Tulip, I’m going to be mightily pissed off at you.
I think it’s childish and reflects poorly on the site.
The lower the stakes, the more vicious the competition.
I got a notice on my phone from Business Insider (yeah, I’m not really sure why it’s on there, either) about how Obamacare would have saved us all from the coronavirus, because insurers are required to provide federally mandated vaccines at no cost. Presto!
I guess Obamacare would have magically provided us with a pre-emptive vaccine for a disease nobody ever herd of. Once again, President Cartoon Villain has killed us all.
“insurers are required to provide federally mandated vaccines at no cost”
I’m sure that would have them hustling hard to find a vaccine, for the privilege of giving it away for free.
And now drug makers will try to extort the maximum amount possible. If you won’t pay, you die. Just like in dystopian SF movie.
No way are vaccine developers human also.
I’ve toured the Moosehead brewery in Saint John. It was an okay tour and the beers I tasted were okay – nothing stood out. Didn’t try the grapefruit radler – can’t remember if it was even available, but tried their regular lemon radler. Like all the other tastes, tt was okay. I can enjoy a shandy/radler on hot summer day.
The Molsen Golden is way better in Canada on tap than what you can get here in the US. Downside is that you have to go to Canada to get it.
Rating: 0.0/5 would not go to Canada again.
You are loco. Alberta is one of the most pleasant places I’ve ever traveled.
Stay out of any sizable city and Canada is nice. Go to Alberta. Weather’s good there in the fall.
Aaaaaaand now you know why, after 4.5 years in the Lower Rainland™, I moved back to Alberta (Edmonton, where I first met the spousal unit). Vancouver’s great if you’re a tourist, a welfare recipient (or one in training, AKA all of the “actors” who are living with five other people in a one-bedroom apartment on East Hastings) or if you have a metric shit-ton of money, but for everybody else, it kinda blows. Some of them are even aware of it, but they all feel trapped there.
I used to drink Moosehead and Calgary back in my high school days.
I love a Radler but wasn’t aware that someone is bottling it. Just dump some 7-Up in the beer of your choice and drink generously.
There’s lots of bottled Radlers out there — my local booze store has a metric shit-ton of ’em available usually by April (with one or two examples available all year ’round). Here’s what’s available in the system in Alberta, ferinstance:
https://liquorconnect.com/Products/Search?query=radler&page=1
Here’s what’s available in Alberta’s system at the moment:
https://liquorconnect.com/Products/Search?query=radler&page=1
Lots of Radlers available in bottles / cans. Here’s a selection from Alberta’s liquor system at the moment:
https://liquorconnect.com/Products/Search?query=radler&page=1
Q: What do 7-Up and a nun have in common?
A: Never had it, never will.
It’s pretty common among the breweries here in Cleveland, most of the breweries will have at least one radler/shandy during the summer months. Only a couple do it as a regular offering instead of a seasonal though.
RE, Sexy Prosecuter. I would love to practice law with her IYKWIMAITYD. RE the beer. Sounds horrible. I don’t mind a citrisy beer but grapefruit and grape juice sounds disgusting. Thanks for taking one for the team MS.
I’ll take the Defense Attorney.
Elizabeth Warren?
You’d rather Kamala?
Not a threesome?
The only correct answer.
“I’l see opposing counsel in my chambers. Now.”
Take a 15 minute recess, because this ain’t gonna take me very long.
“Here come the judge, here come the judge” [And you have to be fucking old to know that one.]
Sammy Davis Jr., on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.
I remember the phrase but didn’t know where it came from.
Pigmeat Markham. Animal fail.
He may not have been the first, but I believe I referenced correctly.
@animal, I remember when that episode was first broadcast. It was memorable for SDJr doing the bit.
That stuff isn’t beer.
So no good huh?
https://youtu.be/haZPPBJC8Ic
That one doesn’t look particularly appealing, and I don’t mind citrusy beer.
OT: work has begun in earnest on the house. This whole moving out of VA thing may actually happen! PODS container comes out on Monday, and kitchen countertop appointment is Monday afternoon. Sooooo much to do before April 1!
Sweet!
I missed it; where are you landing?
95% Dallas. 4% Ft. Collins. 1% stay local.
Basically, if my boss tells me there’s a desk waiting for me in Dallas, we’re going there.
?
Woohoo!
Good luck.
Congratulations.
Good luck!
Awesome. Good luck with the move.
Congrats Trashy. I hope it all goes well.
w00 h00!!!!
Dallas is not the worst city in Texas.
It is the worst Big city in Texas, but once you get used to driving like a Texan, there are great things to be found outside of it.
That area is blessed with the Babe’s Chicken Dinner chain, so you’ve got that going for you.
Babe’s? With Chicken E in the area, you’re going with Babe’s?
(in seriousness, I’m looking forward to Taco Bueno and Whataburger from the fast food class)
Dallas is the devil that we know (lived there 5 years), but I don’t know that I’d call it the worst big city. I’d take Dallas over Houston any day of the week. Austin isn’t really my type of city, but I can see the arguments for Austin over Dallas.
“Virtue Signal: The Game of Social Justice” is getting a few low ratings like this one:
Anyone who doesn’t rate this a 1 endorses rape and fantasizes about lynching, y’all.
I backed the project on kickstarter. I received two copies, one for me and one for a friend. I haven’t played it yet but I look forward to it.
My name is Mike Bloomberg and I endorse this r- what?
“one for me and one for a friend.”
have I ever mentioned that you’re my favorite glib?
So what you’re saying is, is I should have bought three copies?
Pass him yours, you won’t be keeping it long.
it certainly wouldn’t have gone amiss.
This whole moving out of VA thing may actually happen!
Go team go!
I really hope Bllomberg buys the election. Watching Trump RIP him to shreds would be comedy gold. Biden would be like watching someone beat up an old man with Alzheimers. Buttplug would be like watching someone beat up a retarded child. Amy K would be about as much fun as it would be to sleep with her. Bernie is too insane to notice hes being beat up. Warren might be fun, but we already did Trump beating angry schoolmarm last time around.
No, bloomie is the best choice for comedy in October.
The novelty of America choosing from two obnoxious New Yorkers does have a certain appeal. Even better if Sanders runs as an Independent and it’s three obnoxious New Yorkers.
Holy shit. That *would* be the best timeline. Sign me up.
I want this now.
Yes. If that doesn’t make the rest of the country turn NY into the dystopian nightmare that is Escape From New York, nothing will.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s already here.
^so much this.
it’s like he didn’t even read my article.
I’d have to check later. If it was a midday, I’m having trouble finding spare time at work to look. New employer hired out for a reason…
It was actually. lunchtime slot.
it’s allegedly about which states are the freest, but really proves new York is the worst.
Get money out of politics or something.
Just a test. The system appears to be eating my comments. Hopefully this one goes through.
Nope. Still not working.
Nope. I’m unable to see it. Try buying a new keyboard.
Strike that. The system appears to be eating certain replies.
Specifically to Rhywun. Weirdness.
AAAAAAGH!
BLOOMBERG HAS TAKEN OVER GLIBS HQ!
WE’RE DOOOOOOOOOMED!
This one didn’t come through either.
Bloomberg keeps drinking my Radlers.
I went with a hazy IPA.
Figures. A lot of Bloomberg’s NDA’s are from what his staffers call “The Zima era”.
Zima. Because zhit happens.
Mike for Black America’s policy of “supporting the development of 100,000 new Black-owned businesses” sounds like a great way to nannify MUH REPARAYSHUNS to make sure the money is spent the way Mike Bloomberg thinks it ought to be spent instead of just giving it to the slaves and letting them walk off his plantation and spend it any which way they please.
All of America is clamoring for NYC-style politics, you know.
That’s great news! In that case Mikey won’t need the National Guard to step in and enforce his policies! It’s so much easier when people just do as they are told!
Have you ever met a New Yorker?
Radlers in bottles / cans.
It comes in electric blue now…
https://www.motortrend.com/cars/ford/f-150/2019/2019-ford-f-150-raptor-refresh-brings-improved-shocks-recaro-seats/
Electric Blue
Don’t like it? I could go for the diesel to be honest.
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a20076911/2018-ford-f-150-30l-v-6-power-stroke-diesel-first-drive-review/
Yes you could
All in, the truck cost $66,405.
FML.
Buying a Ford diesel (post 2005 or so) is buying trouble. I was advised to go Chevy and get the Allison transmission or Dodge with the Cummins. I went with the latter.
The old 7.3l was a beast.
Guy who had owned one of those was among those advising me to stay away from the current stuff.
The 6.7s are good. I have one with 200k on it. Any new diesel suffers from the emissions technology they come with, but mine has over 400hp and 825 ft/lbs of torque to pull anything I’d ever want. They are very expensive to repair however.
I liked them when they didn’t suck.
I liked them in college, but they made me puke one night.
Those big F O R D grilles they do are kind of hideous, but the aftermarket options all manage to look worse.
Says the man driving a Peugeot.
A poo-joe, as you American’ts say. How on earth did you know?!
Of course, most of them will never leave pavement.
“The idea behind a Raptor is to go fast on uneven terrain.”
Ahh so you’ve driven the streets of Duluth!
Legal pot prices slashed
Nothing says, “Let’s keep kids out of the criminal justice system,” like criminalizing and/or banning very goddam thing under the sun.
Nothing says “I want to help black Americans build wealth,” like taking away their ability to defend their wealth and their lives.
MMMMMM Partially hydrogenated fats
I immediately and unquestioningly believe that Bloomers eats Crisco straight from the can.
Which of the MT glibs are you sleeping with?
She is definitely not ready for Glibtime.
She’d be horrified.
You’re living on Glibtime babe, you wanna run away
The heck is a Radler? Sounds a mite too fancy and fruity for this ol’ cowboy.
Essentially a shandy, ‘cept made with grapefruit instead of lemonade.
I think they are the same thing. A Radler is just what they call it in Germany. *This* one has grapefruit but if you order a Radler in Germany you will get lemon.
Some kind of Snake I think…….
My wife doesn’t much like beer, so she drinks that kind of crap when we visit the local brewery. On a really hot summer day I might do a little lime or lemon in a Corona, but otherwise don’t want fruit in my beer.
FAGGOT!!1
I had me one of them Modelo “Chelada” tall cans and I have to say, given my low expectations, it wasn’t actually terrible. It’s not a proper michelada, but in a pinch it ain’t tea bag.
I won’t call him names, but even I avoid lime in Corona.
And keep the damn orange slice out of my wheat beer.
You say that, but I know at least one person that thinks lime in Corona is stupid, but always gotta have that slice of orange in a Blue Moon. BM is the only wheat beer I’ve had where it was even suggested that there be a slice of orange in it – so is it particular to BM or have I been missing something?
It’s a gimmick they started in their ad campaigns.
Shocktop even uses an orange slice headed mascot, so it’s not just blue moon.
I don’t get an orange slice offered everywhere in my wheat beer, but enough. My assumption is that some bars figure all wheats should get an orange slice since the BM rep told them BM has to have it.
Its part of their advertising if I am not mistaken.
Oranges in some wheat beers predates BM. I first encountered wheat beer when I visited Germany 25+ plus years ago. We stayed with distant relatives and Helmut had a fridge in the cellar for nothing but a delicious wheat beer. When we would go on tours and stop at bars I’d order wheat beers and about half the time an orange slice would be added. I remember this because I asked Helmut (or had his wife who translated for us ask him) why he never put oranges in his, he made it clear that putting fruit in beer was verboten. I have kept to his standards since.
Interesting – didn’t know that.
Well it’s anecdotal evidence and only in Germany, when I got home I could barely find any wheat beer (I finally found a drive thru that would special order me a case of Hoegarden), this was right before the craft beer explosion. It was a few years later I noticed Blue Moon and never bought one because the orange slice in the adds offended my Helmut influenced sensibilities.
MikeS, no kidding. Citrus in wheat beer is an abomination. The brewers work hard to get that wheaty/yeasty balance and then some yokel wrecks it with a slice of lemon.
Greece just closed their border with Turkey and put military units there to enforce it. No desire for more rapeugees – this time with coronavius.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/02/greece-closes-borders-deploys-army-helicopters-and-naval-warships-to-defend-europe-from-foreign-invaders-sent-by-turkish-regime/
Maybe they’ll try to sneak in the back door.
What you did, I saw,,,
Serious journalism
Pence is now in charge of the U.S. response to a global outbreak that has already killed at least 2,800 people worldwide, sickened more than 83,000 and decimated the stock market at a rate not seen since the Great Recession.
——-
“Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill,” he [Pence] wrote in the article dug up by BuzzFeed News.
He continued, without citing sources: “In fact, 2 out of every 3 smokers does not die from a smoking related illness and 9 out of ten smokers do not contract lung cancer.”
——-
The CDC says smoking “is the leading cause of preventable death,” with cigarette smoke responsible for more than 480,00 deaths per year in the United States (including more than 41,000 deaths from secondhand smoke exposure). It says tobacco use causes more than 7 million deaths per year worldwide.
Pence is a science denier! He’ll pray the virus away! The CDC would never lie to us, or manipulate data in order to get their budget increased.
I thought second hand smoke had been thoroughly debunked.
Third-hand is where it’s at now.
I never heard that, but the leading cause of preventable death is obesity.
I’m not fat! I’m big boned!
Penn and Teller covered second hand smoke on Bullshit!.
Basically, the studies were based on people who lived with a smoker for decades. Their rates of lung cancer were a few times higher than the general population’s rate, which is minuscule. News stories dropped all the nuance and just said, “Second hand smoke increases the chances of you getting lung cancer!”
I’d think it’s bad during pregnancy but that’s more direct than second hand.
A pregnant woman probably shouldn’t smoke, but the second hand smoke studies that P&T talked about made no distinction concerning pregnant women.
You’ve got a way more serious problem if the fetus is exposed to any kind of smoke.
Ok, but until quite recently, that was everyone in America.
I just noticed your avatar, BEAM. Very nice.
*sniff* It’s nice to be noticed.
/breaks down, starts sobbing
That Ford diesel:
We previously detailed how Ford beefed it up for domestic truck duty, but here’s a brief refresher: The block is a compacted graphite-iron casting, and new components include a forged crankshaft with specific rod and crank bearings and a variable-geometry turbocharger. The common-rail fuel injection runs at 29,000 psi, while twin fuel filters and a dual-stage oil pump address purity and lubrication issues.
No thanks.
Yeah
That sounds unadvisable.
I just want a simple powertrain that will run for more than two years without an overhaul or major service.
Build a time machine and buy a car pre-1996.
I have a 96 Suburban with 300K on it that’s about to get a reman engine/transmission (5 to 6K) and some body work, probably another 3K plus a new stereo $600.
I’ll get another 150k miles out of it at least for under 10K. I can’t get close to that cost per mile in anything new that’s bigger than a sedan.
Plus the cost of gas, although I don’t know how much better the gas mileage is in a new Suburban.
Have the prices on car audio gone up as home audio has gotten cheaper? 600bucks seems steep, but we have no idea what the pricetag includes there.
That’s insane. Just freaking insane.
A buddy of mine was perusing the trucks at the Dodge dealer a while back and saw a decked-out 3/4 ton priced at $90,000. SMDH
And while the Cummins engine is next to bulletproof, that transmission is a POS. So you’re buying a 90K perpetual problem.
Mine is warranteed through 100K miles. When it goes after that, I’m going to try like hell to get an Allison put in.
Buy a Chevy.
Christ, just buy a Porsche.
Or one of those….
Oh, nevermind. They aren’t for everyone, but the prices on the Tesla. Model 3 and future Cybertruck are lower than the ICE vehicles competing with them.
After the subsidies, I presume?
The first house I ever purchased was in 1990. It was a okay house in a nice neighborhood in Tucson. I paid $70K ($138K today). The price of new trucks is insane.
So you’re telling me to check out the new Gladiator?
https://www.caranddriver.com/jeep/gladiator
Eh, that’s in the ballpark for a common rail diesel. The little Mitsubishi 4 cylinder diesels in all their cab over trucks and all sort of equipment are 23,000 ish psi if memory serves. You have to have enough fuel pressure to overcome pressure in the combustion chamber or is not going to work.
In case of emergency
You can keep it in the trunk of your car, in case you get stuck in a ditch.
I’ll keep it in the bed of this.
I made a solemn vow never to buy a Crysler again
I thought second hand smoke had been thoroughly debunked.
You can get cancer from seeing an ad for cigarettes on your teevee. That’s why they banned them.
Hm… finish watching Liverpool shit the bed, or flip over and laugh at the Grauniads? Decisions, decisions….
You could have watched Bayern fans go off on Hoffenheim’s patron. (Apparently the guy, one of the founders of SAP, is trying to get around German football’s rules on majority ownership of clubs, something that a lot of German fans take seriously.)
And Lewandowski didn’t even score a goal.
When I tuned in, the game was suspended so I missed what happened. I find these protestations mildly humorous given that Bayern looks to be sailing towards its, what, eighth? consecutive title now.
Apparently Dortmund fans have protested too. But like it or not, Bayern is still majority-owned by its fans. If you want to become a member and try to run the club into the ground, have at it. 😉
And to be fair, Rummenigge and the players weren’t happy with the protest.
Don’t care. So they managed to hoodwink more fans into paying their fees than any other team – a feedback loop which results in them getting the title year after year. I fail to see why that’s more “moral” than Mr. Big Bucks paying for it. The protestors need to get off their high horse.
I’d bet the real problem is the CL payouts which is why leagues that only get one CL spot each year tend to have the same team over and over.
So Senile Joe is probably going to win SC today. The media will begin collectively creaming its pants becuz their golden boy will be temporarily resurrected. Bernie will crush the field on Sooper Toosday and the rest of the primaries, but fall just barely short of the majority needed to get the nomination outright.
DNC will do a brokered convention and give the nod to Biden, Bloomy, Herself or (outside chance) Queen Zero. Bernie Bros will burn Milwaukee to the ground.
I’m not so sure about Bernie crushing everybody next Tuesday, considering the number of states with large black populations that might still vote for Biden.
A lot depends on how many people get to 15% in California.
Bernie is more popular among blacks than Biden now.
Yeah we kept saying that about Trump. I think Bernie may win this thing outright.
Saw a poll today that Bernie is now leading my state of Texas for dem nomination and tied with Trump for overall.
Disgusting.
My wife told me last night that she’s concerned about how much socialism affirming crap she’s seeing on her social media feeds. If the suburban mommy crowd is feeling the Bern, that doesn’t bode well for the future.
Good and hard.
with a soccer mom? sure.
with my wallet? certainly more likely. ..
*sigh* It’s true.
I’m sure all those women would have loved to live in the USSR, so they appreciate the joy that comes from the near total absence of chocolate, perfume, stylish clothing, and having to stand in line for 2 hours every time they wanted to buy something.
Is it time to panic?
If it wasn’t for the real harm a Bernie presidency may do, Watching all the Trumpsters freak out would be entertaining, a complete reversal of 2016, give them exactly the opponent they want, the confidence that it’s in the bag, the certainty that he is going to burn it all to the ground, all turned around on them.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, BERNTARD!
So America is Doomed, right?
And Red States will remain red forever or when they become blue they will get rid of the bad stuff (racism, socons, Confederate statutes) but keep the good stuff like guns, low spending and low taxes like all the other blue states, right?
No. New Hampshire is a hapax legomenon.
Well they are going to pass a seatbelt law soon…
adaptive cruise control with stop and go
Speaking of which, yesterday, I crossed the street in front of a big new pickup truck which was stopped at a stop sign. I heard it re-start before it pulled away. I don’t know if it had one of those stop-and-go systems or if the driver was just trying to wring an extra few feet out of a tank of gas, but it surprised the hell out of me.
Maybe it’s just because I cut my mechanical/driving teeth on Limey shitboxes with Lucas starters, but the absolute last thing I want is a car that just shuts itself off on its own initiative.
Is adaptive cruise control the name for that feature that helps assholes who catch up to you suddenly slow and tailgate you for miles because they are too stupid/lazy/prickish to pass? It should be outlawed.
Yesterday, I got stuck on the on ramp behind a driver who thought it would be fun to stop before merging.
So I tried to pull out into the passing lane to pass the car once I got on, only to realize the asshole was driving a Jaguar with much more pickup than my 2004 Subaru.
If I see somebody getting ready to do that shit, I slow way down, let them get down the on ramp, and then gun it so that I can merge in before I get to them. I’m not gonna end up on the shoulder because dipshit mcslowerson cant get up to the mesh speed.
Yield signs mean stop if it is not safe to merge, so you need to be ready for someone stopping on the ramp.
On the other hand, if it is safe to merge, there is no reason to stop on the ramp. Get the fuck on the highway without stopping in that case.
This ramp is a weaving lane, so no yield sign.
And traffic wasn’t that bad.
Ahh. I know what you’re talking about. I shouldn’t have assumed (ASS ME).
Earlier today, I was boxed in in the right lane right next to an on-ramp with a yield sign. I couldn’t have gotten out of the way of the folks coming onto the highway from the ramp. One of those guys damn near side-swiped me because he didn’t slow down/stop.
Traffic is usually low enough that most people on the main road move over into the passing lane to let people merge. (Yeah, I know you’re not normally supposed to do that and learn to merge normally….)
Not supposed to? It’s the polite and commonsensical thing to do.
In my experience, it is usually safe to merge at any speed above speed_limit – 10, but they’re doing speed_limit – 25, which makes it unsafe to merge.
It doesn’t help that the suggested speed signs on most ramps are way too low.
You should merge at flowoftraffic+5 , easy to brake and drop into hole.
It’s normal behavior in New England and been normal for years before adaptive cruise control was available. Drives me up a fucking wall.
Many years ago, I had an old 1973 Bronco that I was driving back and forth to work in addition to its outdoor chores. (Wish I still had it; those things are worth come bucks now.) The thing had a three-speed manual transmission and 4:11 gears, so it pretty much topped out at 55mph on the highway.
I worked with a guy who had a brand-new Mitsubishi rice-rocket of some kind. He bragged that he paid $10k over list price to get one of the first ones sold in the Denver area. We drove home along the same route in the afternoons, and he thought it was funny as hell to ride right up behind my Bronco on the highway and start flashing his lights.
So one day I’d had enough, so I pushed in the clutch and stomped on the brake as hard as I could. I’m amazed he missed, but somehow he took to the shoulder and avoided impaling his radiator on my trailer hitch.
The next day he confronted me about it. “Wow,” I said, “didn’t you see that dog in the road? I didn’t want to hit someone’s dog.”
“I didn’t see any dog!”
“Well, maybe because it was you were following me so close that you couldn’t see anything but my fucking tailgate.”
He didn’t try that shit again.
🙂
Brilliant! I would never have thought to give a “real” excuse. I would’ve just said something bitchy like “Don’t ride my ass.”
And while the Cummins engine is next to bulletproof, that transmission is a POS. So you’re buying a 90K perpetual problem.
Do they have a transmission subscription service, so you can just get the tranny replaced every 40k miles instead of waiting for it turn queer and eat itself while going down the highway?
Eh, that’s in the ballpark for a common rail diesel. The little Mitsubishi 4 cylinder diesels in all their cab over trucks and all sort of equipment are 23,000 ish psi if memory serves. You have to have enough fuel pressure to overcome pressure in the combustion chamber or is not going to work.
I get it. I’m just not convinced the marginal gain from direct injection is really worth the added complexity and risk of spectacular engine bay fires in gasoline engines.
*Not a diesel aficianado, but even diesel will burn if you atomize it and spray it on a red hot turbo snail.
I thought we were discussing the new small Ford diesel though? Every diesel is direct injection by nature, using a common rail and electrical control of the injectors rather than a mechanical system just gives much finer control over the timing.
Yeah I’d agree that direct injection in a gasoline engine is chasing some very fine margins.
As a result of ad-blockers and not watching cable/satellite TV, I can honestly say I have never seen a bloomberg ad, except for in mockery.
#metoo
Anna Paulina Luna
woof
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9HpHWMHExT/
I’d like to see her Luna IYKWIM
Would.
idk, could be too skinny.
Maybe some Catalina Lauf for you then
https://www.instagram.com/catalinalauf/
yaaaaaaaaasss…
Really hoping these fine women win their races and we have some smart & sexy patriots in the House.
They’re always welcome at my house.
definitely an improvement.
“I will not however, bite on that lead just yet because there are better Radlers out there ”
Mex, I told you …
What are you buying with Bloomberg’s money?
Raclette
Got back from my first IDPA classifier. When I started about six months ago, I was “almost just OK” (actual quote). I have now officially graduated to “Just OK.” Heck, if I had been just one shot more accurate, I would have ranked “not bad.” (Officially: Marksman, 0.6 seconds away from classifying as Sharpshooter.)
I need to practice reloads, and either get a better holster or train around the one I have. Unfortunately, left-handed holsters for Beretta 92s aren’t as common as you’d think.
https://www.theholsterstore.net/Pro-Carry-LT-p/procarrylt.htm
Yeah, for this application, IWB is probably non-optimal.
I’ve got three different ones currently, the one that’s easiest to work from is a Fobus paddle, but the RO said the cant is too far back, so I can’t use that one.
I had an all-leather one that kinda worked, as does my current one (a hybrid from Aliengear). The issue is that the leather side is too soft and the draw varies with the pants I’m wearing and how much sodium has been in my diet lately. That 0.6 seconds I needed to shave off was total of four different draws. Supposedly I should be looking for a first shot time of 0.17s. I’m nowhere near there yet.
How does it work when not wearing pants?
They have both options and a number of different styles.
This is probably the next one I’ll try:
https://aliengearholsters.com/beretta-92-full-size-also-fits-m9-shapeshift-paddle-holster.html
Trying holsters gets expensive fairly quickly.
a humor warm-up
Taliban Missionaries Make Their Case: No Feminism, Everyone Has Guns
PROVO – Having finished their morning prayers, Brothers Ahmed and Mansur prepared once more to preach to the residents of this heavily Mormon city. “We see Mormons as natural converts: they don’t drink, they supported polygamy, their homeland is a desert, and they really like guns”, Brother Mansur explained. “Yes, they even refer to their founder as ‘Prophet’ and use the same title for the current head of their church, though this is of course utterly blasphemous”, added Brother Ahmed. The missionaries spend most of their waking hours handing out pamphlets to students at Brigham Young University. “They are all very polite people. Sometimes they bring us Rice Crispie squares and invite us to church”, said Brother Ahmed. The two have also attracted the attention of local Mormon missionaries, who sometimes speak with the Taliban pair. According to local missionary Elder David, “Muslims are natural converts to Mormonism: they don’t drink, they fast, pray, give alms, and think all other religions have been corrupted. And those beards make them all look like Brigham Young”.
Deep, That’s good stuff right there.
I meant “Derp”. May God send this fornicating spell checker to heck.
*hearty snort
Got into a spirited discussion with my brother over Trump this morning. We agreed not to discuss it again. We don’t want a rift over politics that doesn’t really affect us anyway.
I cannot say a word of praise of Trump without being seen as a Trumptard and he can’t say anything trashing him without being seen as having TDS.
There is no middle in this climate. Any concession, any criticism, is either black or white.
Everything is. SJWs are all-in or all-out. Purity tests are required before every act or word. “Identity”: You can’t be a tomboy or a femme straight guy. You’re really a boy or really a girl. Nothing in between.
I feel that. Last time my family was going at it over politics, the SJW sibling threatened to no longer let us visit his home (wife & kids) if we voted for Trump because TRUMP IS A RAYYYYCIIISSSSTTTT. … Wow man chill the f out
Unfortunately, my liberty loving sibling is abrasive as hell and lacks any persuasive technique so things just escalate from calm to shouting over each other quickly.
Either you’re with us, or you’re against us.
Followed up with “elections have consequences”. But I’d recommend having some cover between you at that point, the exploding head splatter will travel.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, TARDTARD!
So you can’t even spare a few keystrokes to put that in bold like you do for everyone else? I see how you are.
*rides in on white horse*
SHUT THE FUCK UP, TARDTARD!
❤❤❤
SHUT THE FUCK UP LOUDTARDS
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I got into an argument with my mother over Trump and the corona virus. CNN, Politico, MSNBC, etc are all reporting that Trump called the coronavirus a hoax. I knew some of what Trump had done and had seen an article stating that Trump had moved faster the Obama did on one of the other viruses, so I said that contradicted what he had done. She hates Trump and basically assumed what the MSM said was true.
Ann Althouse -no fan of Trump- watched the speech and concluded it was clear Trump called the Democrats and main stream news media claims about what he was doing was a hoax. However because of Trump’s speaking style, she also said she could see how it was misconstrued.
NPR literally (as in literally) said that “maybe Trump is using ‘hoax’ to mean ‘inconvenient truth.'”
My mom grew up in the same part of New York as Trump at the same time and traveled the same social circles until the Trump family became really successful. At times, she talks in the same manner. I just want to know what sort of freaky shit was in the Hudson circa 1946-48.
Fuhgeddaboutit
HeyFuckyou!
Living in New York City?
Fair enough.
I just watched a portion of Trump’s press conference on MSNBC, following the host said “Trump gave a VERY unsatisfactory answer” when asked about whether he said the virus was a hoax, then mumbled something about Trump may have been talking about Democrats. Last night Shields and Brooks ranted about Mike Pence being put in charge – “in 2000 he said smoking wasn’t a killer because two-thirds of people don’t die…this needs someone who understands science!”
At this point, there is nothing the MSM or Dem’s won’t say about Trump.
Logic be damned, they’re going to Katrina the shit out of him over this virus, and there isn’t a damn thing anybody can do to stop them.
Anything to give us Bernie. Yay!
You did see the morning links?
luckily my immediate family are all pro liberty.
with some of your usual blind spots, none of them are true libertarians like me.
http://www.hinews.cn/pic/0/14/72/64/14726446_453565.jpg
Tell me more about your religion.
We’ve got Hoppin’ Frog that does several variants of their Turbo Shandy… which clock in at 7.5% ABV, taking it out of the realm of what I would consider a shandy.
And news came out the other day that we’re number 4! News from the CDC that doesn’t talk about a coronavirus:
So… a normal night out? And then linking it to “alcohol-related deaths”. What a load of shit.
That is what passes for public health these days. There is just so much less mileage in real vectors.
They’re spending money on this shit instead of preparing for coronavirus.
The internet is chock full of people making comments like ‘I’ve been drinking 2 glasses of wine a week now. Am I an alcoholic?’ I’m serious.
According to some, the definition of an alcoholic is someone who drank some alcohol and enjoyed it.
ding-ding-ding
I guess the British NHS are revising it daily and soon an alcoholic will be anyone who’s ever thought about maybe having a drink that might have alcohol in it.
The drastic swings in the year-to-year numbers reported in the CDC linked website suggest that there may be more bullshit than science here.
Let me go find my shocked face.
OTOH I finally Learned to sew a proper hem on my little Machine, Darting by hand sucks, a proper machine hem looks much better,
You too? What the fuck even happened around here the last hour I was away? Someone do something!
The seamstress bomb went off.
And we thought orange bad man and Coronavirus were the worse we have to face.
Definitely a time saver! Plus some machines include all kinds of specialty stitches.
I have an ancient Singer, the first electric motor model they made, that I keep because it’s cool and it also makes a gorgeous straight stitch.
I have a plastic 1990s era Brother machine as well that I keep for all the different stitches AND a cool feature where you place the fabric you want to put a buttonhole under the presser foot, then clip the button into a little holder that acts a caliper for button diameter. Then the machine makes a perfect finished buttonhole to match, and all you have to do is take out the fabric and gently run a seam ripper to separate the two parallel sides of the button hole.
Word of caution: if the machine gives you trouble with a tension mismatch between bobbin and spool, I recommend taking it to a Sew and Vac type store to let the pros do it.
I got an Amazon Baby machine just for Kites, but it Hems my Dickies quite nicely, I was taught how to sew by Mom and Grandma, very handy skill to have, but machines are cool!
it Hems my Dickies quite nicely
THESE EUPHEMISMS.
My Singer model 128 “La Vincendora” on somebody’s eBay auction, with electric motor and light.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-SINGER-SEWING-MACHINE-MODEL-128-13-W-PORTABLE-CASE-WITH-LOCK-AND-KEY-SEE-PIC/143523085833?hash=item216aa47e09:g:080AAOSwr8BeOGXJ
That model has the “vibrating shuttle” instead of the usual round bobbin. Fun to watch. Mine was $55 back in 1995 or so. Came with tons of special feet for doing piping, ruffles, all kinds of stuff.
Singer machines still are precious in India, built to last, and many meant to be human powered.
My mom got a fancy sewing machine a couple years back that you could load files in from a PC to do custom stitch work. I don’t know what she did with the old Singer she had from the 70’s-80’s.
I salivated over a commercial quality embroidery machine that took files and would then instruct the Operator which thread to install when.
But it was $3k. Maybe they are cheaper now.
We have an industrial sewing machine at work (‘chutes). I have seen it sew 2 pieces of 1/4″ plywood together.
Herbicides sprayed on the disc golf course are turning you into a woman Yusef. Darting is what you do when you want to tag a bear.
Long delay, but- Just in case:
I thought we were discussing the new small Ford diesel though? Every diesel is direct injection by nature, using a common rail and electrical control of the injectors rather than a mechanical system just gives much finer control over the timing.
I’m not a diesel guy, and after I tossed that out, I started to think maybe diesels have always been direct injection. Fuel pressure has to be really high to overcome cylinder pressure (and get atomization), and the injectors have to be some sort of temp and pressure resistant unobtanium to live in the chamber. I just have reservations about the long term survival of the fuel rails, running those pressures and living in a pretty inhospitable environment. Maybe they’re supposed to be replaced on a scheduled interval; I don’t know.
I don’t think injector nozzles suffer more from temperature or pressure than exhaust valves do.
Does the whole fuel line, pump-to-nozzle, experience 29k PSI, or is that only felt at the nozzle? Or do I understand pneumatics/hydraulics even less than I thought?
I finally Learned to sew a proper hem on my little Machine, Darting by hand sucks, a proper machine hem looks much better,
I didn’t know kilts had hems.
Dude, is an intervention warranted here? Someone do something!
Of course they do. The worsted would unravel otherwise.
My Dickies 15″ Shorts are as close to a Kilt as you can get, super long and baggy, with lots of room for yopur stuff, IYKWIMAIKYD
your stuff…
Jeebus, Drudge Report is worse than a grocery store tabloid now. The thing is just plastered with big red headlines prognosticating doom from Coronavirus. Who the hell owns that thing now? It used to be a decent news aggregate site, but now it’s just sensationalized click bait. I’ve probably made my last visit there.
It’s pretty bad right now, but it has always been a bit tabloidy
You mean like the Glibs comment section about 2 to 3 weeks ago?
Don’t you mean “2 to 3 hours ago”?
SHUT THE FICK UP, KUNGTARD!
CLICKBAIT!!
But it does seem he’s caught the TDS.
I’ve heard Drudge no longer owns it.
Dr. Drew has been ranting about the media regarding corona lately. He posted a video yesterday, and there’s a clip of him ranting on the view from a few weeks ago making the rounds on the social media.
Here’s the video if anyone is curious. I had to turn it off because his wife keeps interrupting him and it’s annoying af. He is a very patient man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-fyDs_mrK8
I’m starting to think the stock market may be overreacting and probably by spring we won’t even be talking about this anymore, the media will be freaking out about something else. (eyeballs XOM call options)
The stock market is reacting to government reactions.
They’ve known that for 12 years the economy has been standing on feet of clay and it would take just one black swan event like this for it to all come crumbling down.
So you’re saying that it is time to panic then?
If the had read Von Mises they’d have known it was standng on feet of clay since we went off the gold standard, and the clay got wetted when we went off silver
I’m starting to think . . . by spring we won’t even be talking about this anymore . . .
Because we’ll all be DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The living will still have Trump as President, and they will envy the dead.
Maybe we can have another clown panic like in the run-up to the last presidential election.
Meanwhile… in local news.
Oh shit, something else to freak out about!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/disease-x-feared-hit-ethiopia-21601531
Dammit.
Maybe they caught it from Biden.
I thought you weren’t supposed to use placenames in disease names? Or is that “You’re not supposed to use chinese placenames”?
It’s good to be a permanent member on the UN Security Council.
Bleeding eye fever is a better name.
I don’t disagree.
Good band name too.
Time to freak out over Bernie or Biden instead?
Woohoo. My new red dot showed up this afternoon.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/1cGCZmJrSveZMQ1qmxoURQ.hJHdSc_fXPd9d6VEaIhfsW
Sig Romeo 5
Big fan of red dot sights.
I have the model of that which takes AAA batteries.
I’ve got that on my bullseye pistol. It improved my slow-fire targets.
presented without comment:
Professor says transgender daughter denied health coverage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0OWOf369RM
Bullshit.
At worst, denied “elective” treatment for its mental problems.
Which is why we must have MC4A – so people can get reassignment surgery and then re-reassignment. Some clever medical entrepreneur will devise a flippable bit-set for the gender fluid.
I’ve already started changing the gender check boxes on all my apps, to slider bars.
Spider Robinson wrote a short story about a guy who developed a cure for cancer, but it had an unexpected side effect. Those who took it woke up with their gender flipped. The story went through the cultural impact of this, including religions complaining about the drug, people using it for entertainment, and commenting that the person who found the drug died of cancer.
Denied coverage specifically excluded by his health plan. This isn’t the plan denying treatment that’s at least arguably covered. It’s denying what is specifically excluded.
straffinrun on February 28, 2020 at 7:06 pm
Saw that. Funny. I have a policy of always doing laundry at a local laundromat whenever I travel even if I don’t need to. Just a great place to get the real feel of a place. I went to one in Bruges and couldn’t read shit on the machine, so an old lady came over and shows me how to use it.
He’s also stymied when an ATM is set to Spanish…
Or does laundry in Bruges involve non-standard temps and speeds? Settings dialed in with keypads rather than knobs?
*plans to do the rest of this weekend’s laundry with eyes closed*
I’ve not seen a laundromat with a knob on any of the machines in decades. These days it’s all buttons, and the layout varies by model.
*I tend to have to visit a laundromat during a road trip, so I do see new ones at least once a year.
I’ll be damned, fuck me and my laundry-at-home privilege I guess.
Mom used to take us to the laundromat as kids to wash the comforters that wouldn’t fit at home. Eventually those all wore out and were never replaced, so my last trip to a laundromat was c.1994.
Our water has so much iron a magnet could probably bend it, so it’s off to the laundromat to wash clothes.
We have a Bosch dryer, however.
The laundromat has water softening, I take it.
I don’t think injector nozzles suffer more from temperature or pressure than exhaust valves do.
Exhaust valves are big and simple, and they have comparatively high surface area for heat transfer. But- I haven’t been keeping up. They (whoever “they” are- Bosch, Detroit Diesel,?) have obviously found a way to make direct injection reliable on production vehicles.
I’m just a “Keep It Simple, Stoopid” luddite.
Needs more “I’M SCOTTY KILMER AND I CONSISTENTLY TALK AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS BUY A TOYOTA CELICA!”
I remember a pretty good radler that was from a brewery famous for pilsners. I can’t remember the name, but it came in a red and white can. The name was something like Stiglitz. It was always next to Zywiec beer at the store.
Stiefel beer! That’s what it was. It seems that beer has not washed away all my brain cells. Yay!
Stiegl.
Their grapefruit radler is loved among my friends in summer (and for drinking after a long bike ride).
Ah, yes, thanks.
[pulls out driver’s license to jog memory about name]
It’s just funnier with your comment directly above mine. 🙂
They also make a lemon radler, which is a decent substitute, but the grapefruit one is a staple in the summer.
The internet is chock full of people making comments like ‘I’ve been drinking 2 glasses of wine a week now. Am I an alcoholic?’
Alcoholic? Probably not. Definitely a loser, though.
Ned Flanders at the AA meeting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1fuZHiOQc
LOL
Ned was the best but they were all good!
Radlers.
Just checked Liquor Connect’s database for Alberta booze. It only lists 51 Radlers. Is that enough?
That’s at least 28 too many too Feel The Bern.
Advice from the Glibertariat sought:
I get nonstop texts and phonecalls from two desperate campaigns, Georgette Gomez (apparently a San Diego “LGBTQ Latina” running for congress in not-my-district, but maybe the district of the asshole who used to have this phone number) and Lizzie “Point-and-Scold” Warren. I have tried all the usual trolling responses (“Want a dick pic?”) to no avail.
Suggestions on creative trolling?
set it up so that calls from one of those numbers are automatically forwarded to the other?
That would be cool but I bet they somehow auto reject that.
Pretty vanilla, but I’ve asked them before what the candidate’s position is on campaigns being allowed to make unsolicited texts/phone calls when private business’s can’t.
I like that. But it may whiz over their heads (and yes, I’ve asked about their candidate’s position regarding legalization of golden showers).
If “Want a dick pick?” doesn’t stop it, it’s probably some kinda automated system, in which case, trolling’s no fun at all.
Although I do like Not Adahn’s idea above. Mebbe you can get ’em trapped in some kind of infinite loop.
“…rolling blackouts across the nation as two call centers located on each coast robocall each other and consume a majority of generating capacity…”
The good ole days when misconfigured vacation reply messages could take down email.
Now I’m wondering…
Is it possible to upload files to their system over the phone? Even if you couldn’t really do it it might be fun to say “Oh, hey you prick, here’s a virus *play recording of modem sounds*”
Even if you couldn’t really do it (you can’t unless you’re already Skynet), they don’t fucking know that.
The REAL birth of SkyNet.
I kept my Minneapolis prefix and phone number for my personal phone. I get bugged by Minnesota campaigns non-stop.
Have you offered them dick pix?
I wouldn’t even prank them with YOUR dick!
That would cause envy, which is their fuel.
Put them on hold. Say you’ll call them right back. Ask the same questions over and over. Pretend not to speak English. Blow a whistle or kazoo without warning. Use Yakety Sax as hold music. Push random buttons on the phone while talking. Start reading from The Great Gatsby.
*Looks back in old texts*
I had this interaction once:
Duly noted!
Suggest they post some advertisements on /pol/?
I just reply with “Fuck Off Slaver” then block the number.
No more hollow threats. Send the dick pics.
Freeman Dyson is dead. There goes my Dyson Sphere along with my flying car to get there in.
He built a hell of a vacuum. ?
Wait, he was still alive?
Time dilation.
He was until the drugs fell out of his ass.
We’ve got a Dyson Animal. Great vacuum.
One of the things I noticed along my medical adventures here is that my “bracelet” that IDs me in the hospital shows my name and DOB and GENDER prominently.
Because medical professionals know it matters. Can affect diagnosis, dosage, treatment options.
So what do they do with transgenders? If an XY declares as an XX, are the X-ray techs still required to ask them if they could be pregnant? Do they give “female” doses?
This is going to come to head at some point when transfolks insist that their truth be acknowledged by the care team for the patients’ mental health.
Clearly their biochemistry will acknowledge their chosen pronouns.
Maybe even their DNA changes…
“shows my name and DOB and GENDER prominently.”
You should mess with them as tell them as a gender fluid, your gender may change several times a day and if you don’t get a new bracelet each time it happens, they’re racist transqueerphobic Nazis.
I like that…
You really want to fuck with a nurse like that? Not wise.
“You really want to fuck with a nurse like that?”
Well, I haven’t seen pics yet.
I seem to remember hearing something about a misdiagnosis resulting from a transgender person not telling the ER doctor they were transgender. I can’t remember if the person lived or not.
Your sex is in the medical record, which is what matters (when things are working right). The bracelet should have a barcode, which is what matters for just about anything clinical. The gender on the bracelet is luvvy condescension and gutless virtue signaling.
I think I have the colonavirus. Gah, it’s like somebody nuked my innards!
Who’s Yehudi?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Colonna_(entertainer)
I have it too, so I’m popping vitamin C and drinking echinacea tea. Worked last time.
I read that as pooping vitamin C.
Well if you take enough of it…
Suggestions on creative trolling?
Try telling them you needy fifty bucks to renew your NRA membership.
“Xenu comin’.”
That would be great to do with the money mino mike is paying influencers.
Here’s my Mini Sewing Machine, 22$ on Amazon, with a beer for size comparison,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nYQojodpo5REXWWaA
Good Lord, if that thing were any smaller it’d be a singularity.
Well there is a Detached Base that comes with it, but it’s not for cuffs and such, but they put a slot in low for the purpose, good thinking,
Do you have the amazon link?
Out of curiosity, I just tried “mini sewing machine.” Got way too many hits back:
https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=mini+sewing+machine&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
here, it went up a little bit, but it’s a nice little machine,
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GX87P1K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
“Mini sewing machine” Produced over 8,000 results.
I do check reviews and such before i buy from Amazon, this one is nice enough, Link^,
So you see the problem. Trying to find the exact model is a needle in a stack of needlers.
Did you see the link? it works, yes?
The link works. Thank you.
Trying to find the exact model is a needle in a stack of needlers.
Not at all! Compared Yusef’s pic to the ones offered up — if it took me longer than 5 seconds I’d be surprised (though there’s a ton of sellers for that exact model and/or its “upgrade,” probably produced by the trillions at GuangZhou People’s Heavy Industries or somesuch . . . ).
This^, they just reverse engineered some cool Euro stuff
Neat! Perfect for hems, repairs, and curtains. ?
how much to replace a jacket zipper?
How much is the Jacket? that much……
20 bucks. Same as downtown.
Larf….
Bought myself a bottle of Jameson. I think I will partake of it tonight instead of tomorrow night, in case it has some adverse affects. I haven’t had whiskey in a long time. My stomach decided it no longer liked it so I stopped drinking it. I’ll try to have really light mixers and see how it goes.
Godspeed.
Careful. I wouldn’t have Tres Version 2.0 if it wasn’t for Crown Royal.
“And the children fought over the purple sack.”
(relevant bit starts at 33 minutes) https://archive.org/details/OTE_19920200_Fod_and_Drink
Ginger beer is a common one, as is coffee, sugar, and heavy whipping cream.
The man I will always think of when I heard the word “socialist”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjDIKxYmNDs
Got the 2nd of 2 shots in the shingles vaccine today. Bring it on, old people chicken pox.
My SIL got it at 35. It was not pretty.
Oh, HORROR!
White House Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on Friday played down the deadly coronavirus that has caused U.S. stock markets to plummet, telling top conservatives that wall-to-wall news coverage of the disease is a ploy to hurt his boss, President Donald Trump.
“The reason you’re seeing so much attention to it today is that they think this is going to be what brings down the President. That’s what this is all about,” Mulvaney said at a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, where Republican Party superstars and right wing media personalities gather each year.
“I got a note today from a reporter saying ‘What are you going to do today to calm the markets?’ I’m like, really, what I might do today to calm the markets is tell people to turn off their televisions for 24 hours,” he added.
Mulvaney’s characterization of media coverage of the virus came as the S&P 500 was headed for its worst week since the Great Recession.
It’s an outrage, I tells ya!
@UCS, I have been eyeing all my boxes of Terrain materials, it may be time to proceed, what say you? It’s still a process, but we could start planning, if you want to,
Pics filled article or GTFO.
It’s coming, I think maybe it’s time to open the Toy shop for business
Go for it!
*starts getting resume together*
presented without comment: feminist professor experiments with online dating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsLcR-ijA_U
If you’re going to post a parody TV show, at least come up with a more believable name than “Sitting with Sallie.”
I read that as Shitting with Sally….
There’s a Game show…
[peers into viewscope, Spock voice]
It appears to be a show on a public access channel in Kenora, Canada. It is sponsored by Shaw Communications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_VeZBOCsUE
I laughed at a couple of places.
Her bitching about dating being hard.
And her bitching about men “mansplaining” how to use the app.
There is an island called Orango where women propose to men. It’s one of the few places in the world where that is the norm. If a woman offers a special fish dinner to a man, they are married.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/where-women-propose-and-men-cant-say-no/
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To have refused, explained the old man remembering the day half a century ago, would have dishonored his family — and in any case, why would he want to choose his own wife?
“Love comes first into the heart of the woman,” explained Nananghe. “Once it’s in the woman, only then can it jump into the man.”
…
In recent years, young men have become increasingly bold, going so far as to openly propose marriage — a dangerous turn, say traditionalists.
“The choice of a woman is much more stable,” explains Okrane. “Rarely were there divorces before. Now, with men choosing, divorce has become common.”
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“special fish dinner”….
/giggity
Too bad John’s not still around – I think I fould her.
https://mobile.twitter.com/orwellngoode/status/1231637973915099143
In the 2nd pic she’s knocked up. Not fair.
And despite her being a touch small for my tastes…..wood.
Go Battleaxes!!
Go banana!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQIVeD-Uudk
That’s why they call him Thrillhouse.
Do an image search for Milhouse tattoos. You shan’t be disappointed.
Oh my. That Crybaby is fabulous.
Denied coverage specifically excluded by his health plan. This isn’t the plan denying treatment that’s at least arguably covered. It’s denying what is specifically excluded.
Do we have a “weeping Obama” pic for situations like this? We should.
This is the best I can on short notice: https://me.me/i/inflation-that-makes-the-economy-bigger-right-the-funniest-obama-90039d7d1fd3469cbc71ab47a14885dc
My wife bought a 12 pack of Fresca. I’m not sure if I’m married to an old woman or middle aged gay man.
Why not both?
What does xe identify as?
/Points to previous response.
That does seem mutually exclusive.
Or, you know, a Superbowl-winning quarterback.
Len Dawson is impressive but wife is prettier.
You’re a lucky man.
Vodka. Mix with vodka.
Hey!
^ Fresca fan identified ^
This is the best I can on short notice
Good one, but needz moars sadz.
My wife bought a 12 pack of Fresca.
They still make that? I had no idea.
Yes, it is delish!
Me neither. I was shocked. Then disgusted.
It’s one of the few diet sodas I can stand. Though last week I discovered that diet 7-Up is not bad either (and much better than diet Sprite).
today’s language lesson
fataha means to open in Arabic
miftah means key; the literal meaning is opener
fatah (sounds like fah-tuh) means conquest, as in opening new lands for Islam; it is also the name of the political party founded by Yasser Arafat
faateh means conqueror; it is also the name of a series of Iranian missiles
Al-Fatiha refers to the opening verses of the Koran; there is a tradition of whispering it into the ears of newborns and the soon to be dead.
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Imam Abu Abdillah Ja’far as-Sadiq said that whoever cannot be cured by Surah al-Fatihah, then there is no cure for that person. In the same narration it is written that if this surah is recited 70 times on any part of the body that is aching, the pain will surely go away. In fact, the power of this surah is so great that it is said that if one were to recite it 70 times over a dead body, you should not become surprised if that body starts moving (i.e. comes back to life).
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The h in that word is not the same as English. The fancy name for it is the voiceless pharyngeal fricative. Imagine you finish mowing the lawn on a hot summer day. You go in and take a big gulp of a cold drink and make that “ahhhhhh” sound. That’s the sound. Arabic also has an h sound the same as English and the h/ch sound like in chutzpah or Hanukah.