I have no idea why I chose this picture.
I’m mixing myself up a cocktail and I’m thinking to myself, “self, what are we forgetting?”.
No more time for chit chat. Links!
i have no problem with the barter system.
Okay, now you got Spud’s attention, and not in a good way.
A little smooth Billy Joel tonight.
Sounds like I need to go make some CO2.
Try having some baked beans.
Oops! Misread that as CH4.
In addition to CO2 and CH4, I think most farts carry a hint of H2S. For flavor.
You have methane if you have archaea living in you large intestine. Not everyone does. You can test it by trying to set your farts on fire.
“i have no problem with the barter system.”
But when can I use the right of conquest to pay for my mortgage?
Flat beer? Like the morning after every fraternity party; didn’t bother me then.
+1 hangover cure
Near the top! Good evening glibs and gliberinas. I’m now armed and ready for bear, well bear cubs at least. Also I would be even more insane if I couldn’t have all my previously held beliefs echoed. Thank you
Welcome to the weekend. A friend of mine stopped over to day to drop off Girl Scout cookies, and stayed for a couple of pints. While both of us are still working, we see the destruction going on around us.
I’m very afraid for when my co2 tank runs out. No idea how soon I could get more. Maybe I could push beer with propane
Fuck off, Tulpa!
Or, well, unless you’re a sock for somebody else, in which case, disrobe!
Thanks:)
Was on the zoom last night as count negroni. I’d made this account in 2017 but never used it.
Dude! I remember you. It’s been some time. Some, some time.
Hah, long time. Good to be back around
I ‘member ya too, good to see your bits and bytes in the intarweb.
I thought you already had a negroni-themed account here with a negroni avatar? Or is that someone else.
There goes the neighborhood
I don’t think I ever did. Posted as Count Negroni on TOS for a while
Was it Negroni, please?
Probably
That’s it!
You are not Negroni, Please, then? You are COUNT Negroni, yes?
I meant Sweating Gin != Negroni Please.
Sweating Gin == Count Negroni.
Lots of people in this place like negronis.
I look across the ‘desk’ where my keyboard sits and see dozens of models I’ve assembled since this mess began… and I’ve painted less than four of them.
I don’t even have a color scheme reference for the sisters of battle done.
Huh. I thought the vulture article would feature pics of all the politicians descending on NYC to stand on dead bodies.
I fully expect corona-palooza to one day make it into this book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds
***
The book was published in three volumes: “National Delusions”, “Peculiar Follies”, and “Philosophical Delusions”.
***
I’ve thought the same thing. Great book, and a good reminder that “None of us is as stupid as all of us.”
Protest in NH today to reopen the state. Crickets from the state’s paper of record.
DEG was planning to attend. Hopefully, he’ll report on what he saw.
Beloved commenter DEG was heading to that NH protest today. Hopefully at least Glibs will get a report on the event.
I am pulling pictures from my phone onto my computer for some processing. I’m sending out a report to a mailing list I’m on first, then I’ll write up an article for Glibs.
I’m working on the Glibs article. So far, Tonio’s how-to has been helpful.
Done.
awesome, looking forward to it DEG.
Patch covered it! Hundreds Rally In Concord Demanding Governor ‘Reopen NH’
Nice! It pleases me to see so many people there not wearing masks.
I’m honestly surprised we (as a general populace) have put up with this peacefully as long as we have. Glad to see more people starting to get fed up.
The one picture is blurry, but I think I see myself in the crowd.
I confess, I did look, wondering if I’d be able to spot the Glib!
Hah! I had a bandanna over my face and, thanks to the rain, my hood up.
The birds of prey were spotted circling over Downtown Manhattan Friday
If your diet is carrion, can it really be said to be prey?
Doesn’t stop eagles
Eagles? Or Kansas, another band popular in the 70s, who sang:
Carrion, my Wayward Son.
Booooooo! *throws rotten tomato*
What’s Bobby Brown’s favorite song?
The Beat Goes On
Whitney Houston Beats Bobby Brown to Death
This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW4Bm7q_zOc
Oh, cripes!
?
If you said that, you’d have to say that about the national bird too.
Last Monday on my morning run, I was watching a bald eagle teaching two young eaglets how to circle/hover/hunt. Pretty cool.
I’ll see your pedantry and raise!
The words predator and prey both come from the Latin word for plunder, praedari.
The more you know…
Zombies would qualify as prey.
What’s a vultures favorite song?
Carrion My Wayward Son
damn your nimble fingers
I’m mixing myself up a cocktail and I’m thinking to myself, “self, what are we forgetting?”.
In my case I was forgetting to mix a cocktail. Thanks for the reminder.
What’s a vulture’s favorite song?
Carrion My Wayward Son
Damn squirrels.
[Kiff sigh]
I have no idea why I chose this picture.
It’s a mystery.
“Show me a man who knows Calculus!”
Fifty glib-points to anyone who recognizes the reference.
I hope that everyone is well and not crying into their blankets at night like that imbecile Brian Stelter. Possible frontrunner for Derp-Tweet of the year.
Life hasn’t changed here. Just finished whipping up some cowboy stew.
1lb ground beef
1 sweet onion chopped
Brown beef until onion is clear
season with chili spices
Add 1 can diced tomato
1 can Ro-tel tomatoes with habanero
1 can sweet corn
1 can black beans
cook over medium heat until tomatoes dissolve
Simple, easy, fast. Very hearty. Eat with Ritz crackers.
That sounds fantastic. Thank you for sharing the recipe, I will have to give that a try sometime.
It is usually a cold weather recipe but since we are having our easter snap…..
Easy, fast and hearty. If you dont have any Ritz crackers spoon it over corn chips and top with grated sharp cheddar.
I just need to get some ground beef. Making this tomorrow. Eating too much chicken recently. Thanks Suthen.
That is fine grub.
No link to the tweet in question?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/i-crawled-in-bed-and-cried-cnns-brian-stelter-laments-prepandemic-life-in-newsletter
this is the best news I’ve read since this all started.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but he climbed back out again.
Laura Loomer, a 26-year-old conservative provocateur running for Congress in the Sunshine State, is gaining strength with activists and donors buzzing about the possibility she is the conservative answer to New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
She got booted from facebook and instagram, though there is a Laura Loomer Fan Club on instagram.
Article on the Rally to Reopen NH to come soon.
I was considering going myself, but then I took a nap.
I hope that everyone is well and not crying into their blankets at night like that imbecile Brian Stelter. Possible front-runner for most cringeworthy Journo-Tweet of the year.
Damn squirrels are out in force today!
Here ya go, bud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc1-lDNBPMo
Want an antibody test? Book a flight on Emirates.
In defiance of public health orders, we had beverages on the driveway with neighbours this evening. Nobody died.
I took the dog for a walk, not wearing a mask.
Nobody would have gotten within six feet of me anyway.
WaPo headlineI just glimpsed:
“Gretchen Whitmer is a rising star.”
If you yearn for the feel of a boot stamping on your face, forever, sure. That makes total sense.
I thought she was doing all this to show how she shouldn’t be the VP nominee; given that she probably won’t be able to carry MI ever again.
I just need to get some ground beef. Making this tomorrow. Eating too much chicken recently. Thanks Suthen.
we had beverages on the driveway with neighbours this evening.
If the sun was out, I’d be outside drinking a Red Hook, right now.
pro-communist protest in Brooklyn
great for those suffering from low blood pressure!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTEXPcjg1mo
Protest larping is fun!
I like the one guy who was simply “I need this, I need that, gimme gimme gimme”.
Seems like there’s always very few “from each according to his ability” types in these marches, but plenty of “to each according to his needs” types.
I have a jenuwine commi flag in a box around here somewhere. One of my high school buddies was into campus crusade for christ when he was in college in mid 80’s. He got involved in smuggling bibles into USSR or some such shenanigans. Since our favorite teen pass time when out too late was stealing flags from local businesses, like the assholes we were, he stole a hammer and sickle for me. Still have it but don’t know what to do with it. Maybe go run it up the flagpole at the state capitol in Denver.
Fly your American flag upside-down.
destroy capitalism
Sounds like “destroy freedom”.
Now the talking point is, “Trump incites seditious disobedience!”
It is inconceivable to those cretinous order-followers that President Cartoon Villain is scrambling to jump in front of a parade which has already started without him and is rapidly gaining momentum.
Because only trump-bots don’t like being rescued from the most lethal plague in the history of plagues.
From the people who have been urging is to resist. I guess it’s different when they do it.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/xandr/matterhorn-swiss-alps-lit-american-151539866.html
“Switzerland’s famed Matterhorn mountain was illuminated with an American flag for a few hours as a symbol of solidarity during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Our thoughts are with all American people at this unprecedented time. We look forward to meeting again at the foot of the Matterhorn, we are all in this together,” the tourism organization Zermatt Matterhorn wrote on its Facebook page. “
MSLSD on the Michigan protest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-GzuZukQs
The Heil Whitmer sign got a sensible chuckle out of me.
I liked the obviously hand painted “I prefer dangerous freedom over safe slavery”
I kinda thought that would go without saying in America…. at least it would have in my youth.
Good on them for protesting, but fuck them for blocking traffic. It’s not cool when Antifa does it, and it’s not cool even if I agree with the sentiment of the protest.
And another fuck you to MSDNC for only caring about traffic when they oppose the goals of the protestors.
*whispers*
No one’s working to piss off…that why they’re protesting…
?
The 3-minute mark of the video shows a screenshot that looks an awful lot like the protest was blocking traffic.
The Brooklyn commies weren’t blocking traffic.
Do better, NH.
I have to agree with the ranty hospital worker. I didn’t like it when Black Lives Matter blocked the roads in Minneapolis. I needed to get someplace.
I’m happy for you to protest, gladly support your right to protest, BUT DON”T FUCK SHIT UP FOR ME.
I’m hongreh. It’s looking like sardines and crackers.
I’m lazy, too.
See my simple recipe up-thread
There’s nothing wrong with that. King Oscars packed in olive oil are scrumptious.
King Oscar’s Mediterranean Style are my favorite
Awhile ago I heated up some pulled pork, heavy on the vinegar/red pepper BBQ sauce, topped with shredded Gruyere. That should tide me over for a bit. I am thinking it is a Party pizza night.
Totino’s?
I’m waiting for sourdough bread to cool
The Guardian, the newspaper that makes me wonder who won the cold war.
Armed protesters demand an end to Michigan’s coronavirus lockdown orders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b6GvszlkR0
I may have pointed out before that we dont have insurrection here because people have too much to lose.
If the lockdown continues that will change.
Yup… The partially finished next installment in my Civil War 2 series addresses that.
Elizabeth Warren was just on the news. Thank goodness she’s the sort of person who can rise above petty partisanship.
Re jailed Instagram star:
I did a quick search for Fatemeh Khishvand and I got some weird shit. Are those all photoshops or did she really do that to herself? She doesn’t belong in prison but a mental hospital probably wouldn’t be out of order.
A mental hospital. In Iran.
*sucks breath through clenched teeth*
Special effects makeup.
She’s in prison because Iran.
Ah, OK, I managed to find a real picture.
My understanding is it’s all fake (i.e. ‘shops). Wikipedia says something about nose and lip jobs but who the hell knows.
Ya, she looks kind of scary.
See my simple recipe up-thread
I don’t have any of that stuff, and I’m not going to the store.
How far are you from Louisiana? I have two guest rooms.
Got any leads on gator hunts?
Uh….100 feet out of my back door, but why would you want to do that? What the hell are you gonna do with a giant lizard?
Holsters. Lots of holsters.
Replace the ground beef in your recipe?
Suthen,
Last time we were in your area I tried a couple of times to meet with you for a beer but I never heard back.
I missed the video hookup, sorry to say. The middle-schooler managed to put off just enough work all week that I had to sit with him and drag him through the last of it until 10 pm. Homeschooling blows.
Then I binged the new season of Bosch. Just finished it… it is pretty darned good.
One really good thing about this series… the characters don’t suddenly and dramatically change out of convenience to the plot. Bosch didn’t suddenly turn gay, the cantankerous old cops stay cantankerous and old… it is refreshing to have a series that runs through 6 seasons without lazy writing resulting in sudden shifts in the personality of characters.
The wife watches those evening soap dramas designed for chicks – like Grey’s Anatomy – and I try to watch with her so we have some touchstone experiences. Those shows just randomly change the main characters’ core features all the time. OK… now that chick who was living in the boiler room? Yeah, turns out she’s super rich. And an orthopedist. And she’s banging on of the intern dudes. And she’s all about the guys… No, wait. Now she’s a lesbian. And she doesn’t have enough money to have her own place. And she’s getting gay married… …. on and on…
It is as if everyone watched Lost and saw their success and just said “screw it! I guess continuity doesn’t make a bit of difference!”
As far as I know there is another one tonight. I had to tap out early last night since they let me work today. “let me work” let that sink in. Fuck “they”.
There is one planned. Planning on starting it up in ~15 minutes.
Let me fix my hair and do my makeup
The wife watches those evening soap dramas designed for chicks – like Grey’s Anatomy – and I try to watch with her so we have some touchstone experiences. Those shows just randomly change the main characters’ core features all the time.
Every non-comedy on network TV eventually turns into a soap opera.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/heres-how-much-downstate-new-york-is-skewing-the-united-states-coronavirus-numbers/
Can we give NYC to the Dutch or something?
*tosses beads on the floor*
Sure, they can have it. Sooner is better.
Yes, in exchange for Greenland, a night with their prime minister, and 2 conditional picks in next year’s draft.
In exchange? You have unrealistic expectations. We’ll be lucky if we don’t have to agree to assume a portion of the NY pension liability to make the trade.
Hell, we probably have herd immunity by now.
NYS from Westchester/Rockland counties south has had right around 92.5% of all the cases in the state for at least a week now.
I have no idea why I chose this picture.
Frolicking tatas?
Silicone Saturday sez support your local thot!
http://archive.li/EpPrn
I like #19.
I press the “download report” button and nothing happens.
https://www.express-scripts.com/corporate/americas-state-of-mind-report
Now the (CBS) news is talking about the disparate impact of the plague on indian reservations. Maybe they should be asking why those reservations are the equivalent of third world shitholes.
*raises glass of vodka*
It’s a mystery
It’s because they won’t privatize the land.
And have racist pseudo governments.
Get rid of those too.
It is Trump’s fault, duh. The world was a paradise until Trump became President.
I posted an article to my FB to tweak my leftie friends – it was about France and their healthcare system. It read just like here, and my comment was “what – no Trump to blame it on?”.
Villages off the road system in Alaska have lifetime wavers for various sorts of welfare. Surprisingly, they are not paragons of order and productive people.
All those reservations in downstate New York, no doubt.
Eerie photos show a flock of vultures circling over an empty Manhattan during lockdown
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
Ja.
I knew it!
“She’s young. She’s energetic. She’s feisty. She’s anti-establishment, and she has an enormous national following, as does AOC, which can help finance a congressional race.”
Hopefully she’s not an imbecile.
She’s running in a district that’s a lock for Team Blue. It doesn’t matter what she is or says or does.
Then let’s sit back and enjoy the theater that will be her campaign.
i have no problem with the barter system.
Hmm…I do have a spare bedroom…
Alternate headline: Journo’s discover the “real estate” fetish channels on PornHub.
That along with the landlord vids would be my favorite genres if I watched that kind of stuff.
Semi-slow roasted, thick cut chops with Weber Smokey Mesquite came out rather well.
The credentialed government client classes are starting to feel the pain.
https://www.kgun9.com/news/coronavirus/uarizona-announces-pay-cuts-furloughs-for-all-faculty-staff
Expect the Dem/Op/Media complex to start trashing Trump for not “opening the country” sooner.
I thought they were trashing him for opening too soon.
I cant keep up.
Trump is always on the wrong side of every issue – it is a gift.
It’s about fucking time to read stuff like this.
I wonder why they have money problems?
Beer may lose its fizz as CO2 supplies go flat during pandemic
FBN is going to ferment a judgmental squint if it keeps this up.
GAY
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1251532625942130689
Best reply: “When a potato starts weeping, it’s time to toss it. It’s been in the back of the pantry too long.”
Yeah, that was good.
The “men” at NPCNN and MSDNC are such pathetic soyboys.
They are the soyboys, of radio…
They chase electrons to and fro-o-o-o…
Hi, fellow Glibs! I hope everything is going your way.
I did the Glibs Zoom thing for a minute but was never able to get into the swing of the chat. Maybe I’ll try again.
Stores still have goods here in my neck of the wood so we are doing ok now. San Diego is having a protest today too against beach closures/ etc. I’m not going (having a massive asthma bout at the moment) but I will check fo local coverage tonight.
My brother lives in PB, literally across the street from the beach and can’t even walk along the ocean. How is swimming or surfing alone affecting anyone? Note to self: move back to San Diego. Everyone is hot and no one really works
Closing the beach is just a straight up middle finger to the plebes. They didn’t even do that here is SF, thank god. We have GG Park and Ocean Beach to let the kids run free. I can’t even imagine how much worse this would be if they closed those.
Me neither. I’m not a chatty person. It’s fun to listen in, but hard to get a word in edgewise 🙂
same here.
but there were quite a few people.
I don’t get the beach closures. That is the one thing Polis did not do here is shut down public spaces. I think he knew even his supporters would riot if he did that.
It was a little hard to get in edgewise last night. Lots of people on and they were all quite talkative.
I enjoyed listening while finishing up some work.
(or what rhy said… Always read the thread before posting)
The one time I was on it basically was two people doing 90% of the talking. Honestly I prefer commenting here by a large margin.
Anything over 4-5 people on Zoom is difficult to work. I enjoyed seeing people and listening, but commenting here is easier and you can do other things while doing so, I’m usually bouncing between here and doing dad and husband duties while the kids are up and later at night half watching something and listening to music.
went for a walk and everyone is out in the nice spring day. Yeah they don’t give a crap about the county health office…
It’s been like that since the beginning here. Big box stores are all packed. Social distancing is bullshit.
Peeps are taking it a bit too seriously in my neck of the woods. And there is still no tp or paper towels at the grocery stores. I am about to have to open my spare 12 pack that I have been keeping on hand since way before this nonsense*.
*For some reason I had the inclination months ago that this would be a good idea. Turns out I was right.
I’m seeing more people wearing masks and gloves lately. That’s about the only “precaution” people are taking.
And there is still no tp or paper towels at the grocery stores.
Reading that with your avatar right next to it, I’m enjoying mentally hearing it in the voice of the Great Cornholio.
Idiocracy has arrived – behold President Camacho’s stimulus plan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nlvk7qFHTw
I’d straight up vote for him scro. Kick ass..
The governor has locked down my sector of Iowa. However, no one seems to have noticed.
I was out shopping a Lowes and Target today. There are more masks being used, but still less than half of people are wearing them.
Went to Lowes today, myself. They have a nearly sound proof sneeze shield at the register, which made it fun having to nearly yell in order to communicate with the cashier.
I find that I stand at the edge of the plexiglass so I can talk around it. I don’t think I am supposed to do that.
I prefer to use self-checkout wherever they have it so that I have to deal with as few other people as possible.
Fuck the assholes who can’t read that it’s an express self-checkout and bring up an entire cart full of stuff.
They need to implement those prison intercoms. After all they are putting us in a sort of prison with this lockdown.
The market across the street has a loyalty program where you have to give them your phone number. Through the plexiglas. Gah!
At my supermarket you can still just punch your phone number into the credit card keypad for the loyalty program.
it’s okay though, they wrapped the keypad in plastic wrap so it’s nice and sanitary.
I’m thinking they need the bullet proof carousels like at Harold’s Chicken Shack in Chicago.
Same here but the ones wearing masks are either wearing them with their nose exposed or hanging the mask under their chins.
*facepalm*
I just don’t get the under the nose mask wearers…not only does it look stupid, it defeats the purpose.
We live in a society where people need to be instructed how to wash their hands.
And get grounded for a month when daddy disapproves of how we did it.
I’m waiting for the day when I hear of the news story about the guy who goes into an Arby’s bathroom with his infant and comes out with a dead kid after a teenage employee previously scratched out the ‘c’ on the Baby Changing Station sign.
He’ll sue because the sign led him to believe it was safe to hang his baby there while he turned away to use the toilet. And he’ll win. Sounds insane, yes? Just wait. Not anytime soon, but within ten years, it’ll happen.
You leave Arby’s alone!
Are they four-eyes? Glasses fog up with mask over nose.
Went to the hospital the other day and a woman in scrubs was wearing her mask with her nose uncovered.
Then I binged the new season of Bosch. Just finished it… it is pretty darned good.
That’s good to hear. Goliath ran me off. That last story made no sense whatsoever.
Is that zoom thing on for tonight?
there is a link above.
Since when the hell did three vultures become a flock? And do they not have vultures in NYC? Why the freak out? You’d think at least a few would live in Central Park to pick off the deal squirrels and such.
Squirrels? What are dead hookers, chopped liver?
Oh, wait…
I assumed they were usually fish food.
“Coney Island Whitefish”
that got a legit lol
It’s just another excuse for more pandemic porn.
Yeah, we have a large flock that roosts somewhere in our neighborhood. Have seen them hanging out in groups of a dozen or more on the neighbor’s roof, and caught pics of them using our old swing set as place to chill out.
Ditto. We have up to a dozen that congregate at the hippie neighbor’s place, eyeing their geriatric ankle biters, waiting for the payoff.
lol. For all they’re supposed to be omens, the neighbors didn’t die, nor did my kids. I like that there’s still enough wildlife in the neighborhood I can enjoy the sight of the occasional fox or vulture.
Oh! About a month ago I was working on a house in a rural area and the neighbor’s three German Shepherds started going nuts and lunging against their chains. I was up on a ladder so I could get a good view of the backyard and out of the treeline comes an adult fox. It just stood there for awhile until it was sure the dogs couldn’t get off their chains and then started coming closer. It kept creeping up a few feet every minute or so until after about ten minutes it got to around forty feet of the dogs and just hung out for awhile while they hurt themselves lunging at it. After a few minutes it got bored with fucking with the dogs, turned around and jogged back into the trees. That was pretty damn cool to see.
There are a few that live around my neighborhood. I’ll see them out some nights, but it’s more likely I’ll hear them marking their weird screechy barks. We also have skunks, which is slightly less fun.
I havent seen any foxes yet this year. Usually they come down to the creek to get some water and hunt. I was surprised that the cats aren’t particularly afraid of them. They act the same way as when a rival cat comes by.
Thanks YouTube, Scab the pet buzzard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kil4FlMAFz0
He looks like a sweetheart.
Oh, he’s much calmer than a raven or crow (also scavengers). Buzzards aren’t corvids, though.
Indeed. Too bad the Skeksis face of death kinda ruins it.
Buzzards are always looking for a new roost around here. They usually choose a tree near water. After a month or so the buzzard poop kills the tree so they are always in search of a new one.
40 buzzards shitting all night over-fertilizes the soil.
Technically, it’s a kettle of vultures.
Turkey vultures are my favorite bird. Cleaning up the shit of the world and looking good at the same time. There’s a hill about three miles away where they’ll ride the thermals all afternoon long in the summer. If you’re close enough to hear their wings, it’s even more impressive.
Star Wars: The Rise of Rey Palpatine
Is anyone seeing the celebrity circlejerk on the teevee now? Bag of dicks,etc. Makes me hate everyone even more
Hard pass. Watching old Bond movies.
Watching V: the original miniseries!
That’s a good one.
It seemed appropriate, given the current atmosphere.
Check out how much the alien leader in V looks like the current governor of Michigan.
Heh, think I saw a meme about that in Powerline week in pictures. Agreed!
Holy fuck.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen it. Maybe I could download it somewhere?
Amazon is selling it on Prime. Don’t think it’s on Netflix right now, not sure of other sources.
Who knew Elton John could sound even shittier than normal
Doesn’t matter how much you pitch it, not tuning in.
OT: Hey TNToledo, I hope your brother knows that the Mike Gotch bridge remains open. And of course they can close the parks and bike paths, but not the sidewalks.
He’s a left fielder. Needz moar govt. He works at a university so does his husband. They toe the pandemic lion.
Well, it’s like spring break for locals out there. Everyone and his dog (literally). Sorry that he’s presumably freaking out.
Which one? We recently went through all of the Connery and Moore ones. A lot of fun.
Sundance is showing the first three (out of order, of course). I have not seen two of them so I thought why not.
All the Sean Connery are good.
Watching old Bond movies.
With Epix on-demand having all the old style Bonds available for free on cable right now, I’ve been introducing my wife to the Sean Connery ones one at a time.
She’s hard to get to commit to a whole two-hour movie (she never thinks she’ll last that long before falling asleep, “can’t we watch Dateline instead? It’s only an hour,”), so we’re only up to Goldfinger.
She was amazed at Connery though. She only knew of him as some old guy.
A little into Dr. No she blurts out, “He’s incredibly handsome and charming!” Well, duh.
I started off with Sean Connery in Darby O’Gill and the Little People. Early celebrity crush.
Heh, heh. I loved that one as a kid.
Connery was the best Bond, but I do kinda love the 70’s/80’s Moore ones as well. He definitely had the humor thing going.
Me too. I wouldn’t mind rewatching it.
Imho, Connery is better than Moore. They only went downhill after they ran out of Ian Fleming.
Both version of Casino Royale — the parody and the recent serious version — are worth watching.
Moore will always be my favorite if only because he is the Bond I grew up with.
Had no desire
Also has no desire.
Nice:)
Watching “Exhumed” on Amazon. https://youtu.be/R3VtR9FPmLg
Shitty horror movie. I pretty much just watch shitty horror movies, shitty kung fu movies, shitty biker movies, shitty movies in any genre.
Drinking Jim Beam and Coke. Gonna make a spinach salad with olives, feta, tomatoes, bell pepper, red onion, chopped parsley. Leftover chicken breast cubed and fried in bacon grease. Lemon, garlic, evoo dressing.
Maybe some capers, too.
Crap, I have to sign in so I can’t download it.
You are lucky you can get all that at your supermarket. All the ones around here are out of stuff.
I saw it was on the schedule and rolled my eyes.
Casablanca is on TCM, but I’m watching something off my DVR. (Haven’t decided what yet.)
I have no idea what you mean.
Do I want to keep it that way?
I suspect an awards show that I am unaware of.
I’ve already went through the past six weeks in a pissed off state about 75% of the time, I can’t subject myself to anything that would raise that higher.
Ditto. Can’t even look at Facebook since the feed is all “stay in! do what your governor says!” puke.
“…pissed off state about 75% of the time…”
Hey! that’s my shtick.
I”m only pissed about half the time. The other half I’m depressed.
The number of protests of the shutdown orders that have taken place nationwide this weekend has heartened me a little bit. It’s nice to see people outside of Glibs waking up to how ruinous this is, which gives me a tiny bit of hope.
It’s a “concert” showing how much these celebs enjoy sucking government-worker dick.
Some celebrities should look into a more direct approach.
Oh. So FarmAID ?
It’s another We are the World we are the Children. We love everyone who thinks like we do.
Of course, the Ethiopian government was using all that aid as a weapon against the Eritreans.
Elton John . . . checks out.
Dude, what? I can’t see anything over this pile of projects in my inbox.
What’s a ‘teevee’?
A sound and light box used to placate the masses and espouse govt funded horseshit such as PBS and CNN. Also sports when the government approves.
Concise definition. Approved.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/heres-how-much-downstate-new-york-is-skewing-the-united-states-coronavirus-numbers/
This explains a lot of the media freakout. Obvious OrangeManBad has a lot to do with it, but the provincialism of the media plays a huge roll as well.
I wish I could share that, but the people who need to see it will take one look at the source and rhee at me.
NY reporting is BS too. If you die in a hospital you’re a CV death because if they weren’t so overwhelmed with CV they might have been able to save you.
which is ridiculous since they’re not overwhelmed at all.
Also if you die without being tested.
I do believe there is $3,900 in federal funding attached to each death listed as “Covid” . Incentives, how do they work?
File under – “Too many damn boxes”
Just sorting through some old game boxes and magazines to verify that they’re all safe to toss (PC Gamer, Inquest and Original Xbox Mag) from ’99-03ish….found a sealed copy of Bryce 5 (3d modeling software that I guess I bought before graduating in 02 – academic edition). Thought it would be fun to experiment with back in the day, but obviously never had time/inclination to actually use it (and probably just forgot about it completely).
Can anyone still use something like that or should I just toss it? Guess I could add it to the Goodwill stack at least (it is Mac/PC hybrid).
Psych Student Wants Free Speech ABOLISHED
Psych 1, Psych 2, what do you know?
He’s a psycho that does not understand history and/or is a wannabe tyrant, if only to satiate his delicate sensibilities.
I assume they all do. why’s that news?
“Orion Melehan, CEO of Santa Cruz, California-based LifeAID, a specialty beverage company, said two of his production partners are looking for alternative CO2 sources.
“It does have us up at night figuring out what our options are,” Melehan said. [strong]“It highlights the laws of unintended consequences[/strong]”
someone gets it. what are the chances?
As manufacturing is closed down, welding suppliers should have extra CO2
In Santa Cruz? Those are super long odds.
I can’t believe I hadn’t figured this out before, but a liberal dose of Frangelia poured over vanilla ice cream is really really good.
You could say that again.
That again.
*sighs*
Frangelico liqueur, or Franzia box wine?
I can’t believe I hadn’t figured this out before, but a liberal dose of Frangelica poured over vanilla ice cream is really really good.
Dang, and I’d gotten pretty good at the “hit the comment button twice, then “back” when you get the warning, then refresh” thing. Trying to fix spelling got me.
The squirrels got excited by the thought of nut liquor
Phrasing?
nut licker
Don’t mind me. My current client has me punch drunk.
LOL. I rant at my computer all day. I don’t know how you deal with people on a regular basis.
I hate having to get on the phone with people. I’d rather just be a CAD-monkey. Even talking to clients. And it’s not even that it is difficult. It’s just an annoying interruption, especially the guy that should be retired by now who thinks everything is a crisis at all times.
*shrug* I kinda have to if I want to keep myself in Bit o’ Honeys.
It’s usually not a problem. People are happy to have someone do what they can’t and who actually understands the process and will guide them through it. MOST people are super happy with whatever I do because they don’t know what they want or how it should be.
It’s just that I’ve had a convergence of people who know what they are doing and what they want, which is fine, but they are also micromanagers. They also refuse to believe that X can’t be done the way they want it to be done and *reliably show up on every single ebook reader and app ever*.
“Sure I can do it. That doesn’t mean it’ll look right when the reader is looking at it.”
“But is there a way to force it to do that?”
“I did as much forcing as I can.”
“But what if you do it Y way?”
“I can do it that way but it’ll look like crap.”
“Show me.”
“Here.”
“… Show me the other way.”
“Here.”
“… Okay, now let’s try Z way.”
“Can’t be done.”
“I thought you were the best?”
“I am. That’s why I know it can’t be done.”
I’m about to tell a prospective client that I can’t fit him into my schedule at this time because he started out acting like I’m his admin. No, pal. I’ve already got 3 people doing that to me at the moment. Don’t need another one.
Heh, those are the worst @Mojeaux. If you’re paying someone to do the job, why not just step back and let them do it? If you’re so sure you know the better way to do it, you should be doing it yourself. Glad to hear you have the backbone to decline clients that treat you like that.
He also wants a “discount.”
For what? Because your mentor sent you to me?
Mind, I quoted him this a year ago. He knew what it’s going to cost. He calls me up yesterday and we chat, discuss it, and then he lays the “I will expect something of a discount.”
Me: *gaping like a codfish out of water* Um…That’s the best I can do.
We haggle for a few moments. I’m not haggling. I’m trying to tell him every single which polite way I can say it that no, that’s the price.
How can I say this delicately? He is from a country where women are second class if they’re noticed at all. He expects that he will get the discount.
“Well, take the weekend to think it over. We will discuss it again Monday.”
Yeah, well, by Monday my schedule’s going to be too full.
Years ago, I worked with an overseas QA team and even though I was the team lead, frequently had to deal with some of the men on that team assuming I would act as their secretary simply because I was female. I would shut them down cold with “you are capable of writing your own bug reports or you aren’t capable of working on my team.” The US folks would never have tried that, simply because they already knew they reported to me. I’ll give them credit, as fast as I shut them down, they’d adapt, but they definitely had to be shown the palm first.
I chose my phrasing quite carefully thank you very much.
You are very welcome. Couldn’t let it go…
Lick her? I barely knew her!
I’m getting by on Chrome just submitting the comment once, waiting about five seconds, stopping the page, then hitting refresh.
That seems to work best of all the proposed workarounds.
I actually contributed something useful to the conversation! That’s it, I’m out! Leaving on a high note!
*doing my best George Costanza Exit*
Same here. Or hit the escape key. Vivaldi (Chrome).
What if you pour it over squirrels?
I’m hard pressed to find a sugary liqueur that doesn’t go well with vanilla ice cream.
Try a Quaalude. They’re yummy.
https://www.food.com/recipe/russian-qualude-266147
I’d never heard of that before seeing it in Mr. Boston recently but have been wanting to try it ever since.
Watching Casablanca right now. Maybe not the best movie to air if the goal is to get people to do what the government tells unquestioningly, sit at home, and pray that the wolf passed them over.
That’s a good movie.
Rated as the 2d best propaganda film of all time. They used a bunch of French and German refugees. Plus the female lead was kept in the dark about who she’d be leaving with.
Maybe TCM is trying to encourage “the Resistance”.
An old rant but a good rant.
It weirds me out when Razor isn’t wearing sunglasses.
I can’t listen to five seconds of that guy.
I’ve never seen that guy before. I thought he was pretty good.
Best ranter on the interwebz. When he gets going he’s pretty damn funny.
Yeah, the French self-defense course thing had me laughing.
Having a berry old-fashioned-ish cocktail. Knob Creek Bourbon, Colorado Cherry bitters, the cognac/triple sec soaking liquid from the berries I rehydrated for bread pudding the other night, with some of the leftover berries, topped up with carbonated water. Seriously delicious.
While my personal chef creates a fabulous dinner.
We had a good day out, too. Moved several cases of wine from a remote-and-expensive wine storage to a new very-close-and-inexpensive wine storage, picked up a small grower vegetable box which included fabulous “wild” mushrooms, scored some frozen Lou Malnati’s tomato casseroles, purchased a couple (more) bottles of a phenomenal French wine we had last week, and ordered 6 others from the same place.
I really *needed* a good day away from the news and the Internet and the bullshit.
That sounds great!
You had me at Lou Malnati’s…
Sounds like a great day. Glad you and the Old Man are doing well.
Cheers!
Right on, the past six weeks have been such a shit parade. Glad you could get some respite. The drink sounds awesome.
Strange, but true.
Actual quote from an actual politician.
““I had a real honest conversation with the people in our state. I told them I took an oath to uphold the Constitution of our state, of South Dakota,” she said. “I took an oath when I was in Congress, obviously, to uphold the Constitution of the United States. I believe in our freedoms and liberties. What I’ve seen across the country is so many people give up their liberties for just a little bit of security and they don’t have to do that.”
o Kristi Noem – Govenor of South Dakota.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/04/18/sd-gov-kristi-noem-claps-back-at-critics-who-wanted-her-to-implement-a-statewide-stayathome-order-n2567167
Compare and Contrast with.
“That’s above my pay grade, Tucker,” Murphy responded, saying he “wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this.”
New Jersey’s Gov.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/above-my-pay-grade-new-jersey-governor-claims-bill-of-rights-did-not-factor-into-his-coronavirus-executive-orders
Can we work on speeding up global warming? These old bones can’t take the climate in SDak right now, but with a little help…
Furiously starts researching real estate in South Dakota.
You have plenty of time:)
That is, unfortunately, true. Unless the madness continues, I intended to be in South Dakota over the 4th of July, which would have given me a chance to scope it out. Still holding out hope. So many bookings I’d hate to see refunded.
Ah, well hopefully you’ll be able to go. I was really alluding to the fact that there’s plenty of land there.
Ha, thanks. For now, seething and stuck in Virginia.
SD governoress, would. Plus she has principles! Double would!
If I lived in SD, would offer the hubby a 3way with her. Would, as well.
/applauds
Should be pretty cheap now, since apparently everyone in South Dakota is dead.
Maybe I’ll get lucky and swoop in as an early buyer! Better dead than
redcowering under my bed.I would be very interested in moving to SD when I start looking for a US base in the future. I have a bunch of relatives in the area so There are reasons to do it. The downside is how much my wife hates the cold so I would be going alone. Not likely.
Well, I went and buzzed off my own hair. Of course I know there are going to be missed spots.
But most of it has been dealt with. I should not have had to do that.
Got my shipping notice from Sally Beauty! Clippers will be here Thursday. Haven’t cut my own hair in over twenty years.
This is the first time I’ve paid over $100 for a subpar haircut.
I briefly worked in a Sally Beauty Supply warehouse a millenia ago.
When a poker game goes wrong
I’ve not yet begun to defile myself.
Knew it. Love that flick.
Can’t figure out how 35 people died here. Must be an especially strong COVID mutation.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/local/emergencies/2020/04/17/andover-nursing-homes-bodies-found-inspection-reports/5147583002/
Watching Waco, on Netflix. So far it seems like a fair portrayal, only 1 episode in.
I have no idea why I chose this picture
“I have no idea why I chose this picture”
Huh. Really?
See comment #15 above.
Stand and deliver?
How do I reach these keeeds?
Yor money or your life https://youtu.be/4B2a6l6wM2k
This Chinese virus has taught me Charmin>Petalo>bare hand
Okay, no one gets the reference.. Sheesh
Hey Gustave, where did you find Dubonnet? Is it the kind made in KY? I want to try the Queen Elizabeths’ fave cocktail, G&D + lemon.
“I have h idea why I chose this picture”
Huh. Really?
May I complain about the commenting format? Or is that forbaten? If so, then I’m complaining about the commenting format.
What about it?
My solution to the regular db timeouts was to install tampermonkey, then monocle eyepiece, then click the option for dynamic comments refresh both on then off. In Canary, that seems to have solved the issue. I comment on whichever posts I want, move back to the top of the page, the do a manual refresh and Bob’s my uncle.
Hold on… I’m refreshing my AOL browser.
I’m letting my hair grow and using minoxidil. Imma look like George Custer by the time all the young teachers show up beginning of August. Only a little older and alive. And native Americans love me.
Yeah, barber’s closed here. I have Mad TV Kenny Rogers hair now when I roll out of bed.
Rode with the wife today for her first metric century. Probably her only one. It was like anal. The curiosity is satisfied and now her ass really hurts.
Huh? Hm… who was peg… OH! Bicycles!