Last Tuesday I drank a Bang before I went to the gym. Studies suggest, drinking a caffeinated beverage an hour prior to exercise results in a more efficient workout. Coffee is preferable but I didn’t have time to make a cup, so I got the next best thing. My gym requires a mask at all times now, so when the inevitable belch occurred ten minutes in, followed by my inevitably gagging on my gastric fumes.
This is my review of Weihenstenphaner Vitus
It reminded me of this letter I came across penned by doctors in Belgium speaking out against many COVID measures. They took a tack with masks I had not considered:
Our Labour Code (Codex 6) refers to a CO2 content (ventilation in workplaces) of 900 ppm, maximum 1200 ppm in special circumstances. After wearing a mask for one minute, this toxic limit is considerably exceeded to values that are three to four times higher than these maximum values. Anyone who wears a mask is therefore in an extreme poorly ventilated room. 35
As I sat there trying to get outside to doff my mask (Recommended) it occurred to me we have similar federal government agencies in this country that have similar safety regulations for exposure to poor atmospheric conditions. While I was at tech school we had several weeks of training on underground HV distribution systems. This included manhole safety. I’ll wait…
Being a sealed chamber, a manhole can accumulate gases inside that are hazardous, or that can displace the oxygen in the air. I’ll wait again…
Before entry OSHA requires the worker test the ambient air with a device for a variety of atmospheric conditions. To test the device our instructor turned it on, and let our a hearty breath into the sensor. The device’s alarm went off. “But why?” He asked. We all know why. His body absorbed enough oxygen out of that breath of air in his lungs to a level low enough the device registered an unsafe level of oxygen. Rebreathing my rancid breath confirmed in practice what a lot of us believe implicitly: that which keeps things out also may keep things in.
Now the truthful arbiters of that which is determined to be factual and truthful, in a manner that is presented as truly, fact-based truthiness say this is hogwash. In response to a video they find an expert to debunk the theory this might create an unfortunate circumstance where a mask can expose the wearer to an unsafe level of of oxygen:
“Exhaled breath is only about 16% oxygen,” she said in an email. “When you exhale in the mask, some small volume of air will be left in the mask (in the small space between the mask and your face) with this lower concentration at the end of an exhalation. As you inhale, that air is rapidly replaced with fresh air from the room filling your lungs (a much larger volume) with air at normal oxygen conditions.”
“The sensor is trying to respond to these rapidly changing conditions,” Koehler added. “However, sensors cannot respond instantaneously to changes in concentration. It might take them, say 10 seconds to respond to a change in concentration, but your breathing rate is faster than that. So likely what is happening is that the sensor ends up with an intermediate value of 17-18%-ish that you typically see on his meter. You can also tell that the sensors don’t immediately respond to the change in concentration because they keep alarming after he takes the tube out of the mask.”
OSHA defines an unsafe level of oxygen as anything below 19.5% with increasing degrees of severity for lower levels of oxygen. Which in all fairness, they do state in this factcheck.org article, and that OSHA did not respond for comment. I do not mean to imply anything out of this as safe, unsafe, silly, hypocritical, Voodoo, or anti-science. Assume the level of risk you are most comfortable.
I do mean to suggest one part of the federal government says one thing about an issue is perfectly safe, in fact recommended with the force of law, while another part of it suggests something else about the same issue with the force of law. Both of which draw their conclusions from scientific research. They’ve assumed a level of risk on our behalf that perhaps we shouldn’t be comfortable.
This beer is a German Hefeweizen, and at 7.7%abv it is a fortified German Hefeweizen. It tastes like bananas with a twist. You ever let bananas sit for a few days and eat it when turns a black/brown color because the sugars fermented? Thats what this tastes like. Its truly awful. Weihenstenphaner Vitus: 2.5/5.
So happy that the gym on base is finally open as late as 6 PM. Able to fit in a workout every day after work now. Unfortunately only active duty can go every day. If you’re a contractor/reservist/etc you can only go every other day (based on last name). Max occupancy right now is around 80 – I think I’ve seen around 30 in there at a time.
Although this week they also made it so that you have to put your mask back on when you’re moving around from your machine, but you’re good to take it off while you’re working out. Sounds like Norfolk is finally opening up too in term of requirements so things might be easier for reserve stuff before the end of the year.
BTW, working around ships, you’ll learn a lot about “gas-free engineering”. You *WILL NOT* go in a void/tank/etc that has just been opened (without breathing apparatus, etc) – needs to be certified safe by a senior qualified person – in the shipyard, normally a 24 hour wait, depending on schedules, etc. People have definitely died that way before.
I am back into a routine hitting the gym at a tiny Army base in the middle of Tokyo. This place has 90% of anything most gym rats could ask for – and I have a 35 lb kettlebell in my locker there to complete my requirements. Most of the people using it are there after work so when I show up before lunch time I’ve mostly got the place to myself. A couple hard workouts a week and I’m good.
Well, we can change in the locker rooms, but showers are still closed. At least I’m used to driving home to shower after working out.
Showers here are same as in the before times. I need to shower because I always end my workout with a good 30-40 minute run. No way for me to ride the trains home without a shower.
Truly awful, and you still give it 50%?
I had the opposite complain the other week. It seems like beers he loves never get above 3.75.
BTW, I have accumulated like 3 friends on “Untapped” in about a year. If anyone wants to share their info, let me know. A social network entirely about drinking beer is my jams.
I routinely rate stouts at 4 or above.
What about porters? Don’t they deserve some sweet, sweet sharpshootin’ Latino love? 8^>
They’d probably just as soon be tipped generously, based on how many of your bags they carry.
I’m on Untappd, but under my real name, which I’m not about to publicly link to my handle.
Most of my friends on Untappd are rando’s I’ve met at beer fests, and a couple of like minded beer geeks. 5,595 check ins with 3,646 unique beers.
Wow, I thought my 2333 checkins / 1546 unique was a lot.
Yeah I just realized maybe that was a dumb request.
Truly awful, and you still give it 50%?
I give them a point simply for not having floaters.
MS typically only reviews hipster juice, so truly awful is still pretty good.
Just for you, an American lager that I think would match your tastes:
Cold Beer Here.
Of course, I picked up a four pack of this for myself today.
I give that a 10 out of 10 chance of tasting like IPA bitter swill hipster juice.
He was dumb enough to try EARFquake tho. Made me proud.
I love the Weihenstephaner Hefe usually, but I admit I am also very partial to bananas.
Yeah this one is right up my alley.
Today’s supermarket pick:
Shiner Oktoberfest
Anyone had it?
Nope. But Lennie’s has a decent Oktoberfest (for American brewing) this year. Those “Sconnie’s” made up for their summer shandy dreck.
That beer sucked bad, sorry
I have not. But I’m not a big Oktoberfest/Marzen fan.
Swiss and some of the others were saying that the Great Lakes Brewing Company Oktoberfest this year is outstanding.
No idea if I am. I guess we’ll find out.
Great Lakes is still the best of this year’s class.
Yes, it is passable.
When I was in grade school the next door neighbor girl told me bananas were boogers from an elephant’s trunk. And it did seem like bananas were the right shape and kind of hard gooey that made it seem possible. Even then I knew it wasn’t true, yet I’ve still never been able to like bananas since then.
Goddamn. If you’re not watching on Amazon Prime, the tv show “The Boys” is fucking awesome. Watch it.
I had forgotten they sent Jean Claude Van Johnson to series, so that’s what I’m watching now that I got Prime to watch The Boys season 2.
Can confirm.
Weirdly, we also binged Cobra Kai and *spoiler* Ali may come back for season 3 (teased, not a done deal) (season 3 dropping next year). What will be weird is seeing Madelyn Stillwell in an entirely different context so soon.
I’ve also watched that, but am truly frustrated with how much of the plot is advanced by silly misunderstanding.
Still there’s something always compelling to me about a fuck up getting his/her life together and there’s a fair bit of that.
Cobra Kai?
Agree with both. Johnny’s story is painful but I’m glad they’re not making Daniel a saint.
I was amazed that Stingray was Richard Jewel, that dude can acts!
Oh, I had to go googling there for a minute because I thought you meant THE Richard Jewell was playing Stingray. Oops.
Johnny makes stupid decisions. Stupid decision #1: Giving Kreese another chance.
Johnny is a fuckup, Kreese is his mentor, all the plausibility needed for that story arc.
It’s a redemption story, so at some point, Johnny has to quit fucking up so much. However, I can see WHY he makes so many bad decisions. He really never was taught how to make good ones, but he’s learning. Slowly.
But this also goes into the lack of communication. He and Daniel have had 2 great opportunities (3 if you count the last scene in the last episode of season 2) to completely clear the air and they got close, but never hit the target (much less through the target).
The moment he realized that honor was more important than winning at all costs was poignant. Zabka’s really good to have that written all over his face but doesn’t teach it until after he’d thought about it awhile.
Johnny thinks. Maybe he doesn’t think in the right direction always, but he THINKS. Having the kids get in that concrete churner was a BAD idea but damn, it was creative.
Yeah, I binged season one a few weeks ago and am now (as of midnight Friday) totally caught up on Season 2 also.
It’s entertaining. Just don’t try to read any online reviews or anything like serious commentary on it. Leftie losers actually use the word “Trumpian” to describe Homelander.
lol what?
It’s a show. If it tries to tell any lessons, it’s that everyone has flaws and giving absolute power to anyone or any company/govt agency/mob etc is a bad idea.
I’ve seen them try that comparison, but it doesn’t work. Anyone, Homelander isn’t remotely patriotic. It’s all hollow marketing, just like everything around the Seven.
I’m on the fourth episode of season two. The one thing that stands out so far is the new woman on the Seven, an apparently racist sadist who used to be named “Liberty” but evolved to become “Stormfront”. Mmm-hmmm. Bet the writers think they are very clever and sending a message with that one. Natural progression of all liberty-minded people, it is known.
They’ve assumed a level of risk on our behalf that perhaps we shouldn’t be comfortable.
You think you should decide? How droll.
In the little over a year I’ve been I’ve gone through 5 Smok mods that I’ve been able to buy locally. So when this last one started to shart out on me II decided to give the internets a try. My Geek Vape Aegis just came via the post. Much robust.
As for beer I’ll stick with my Red Dog (now back in stock!), Schwarzbier and chocolaty porters.
Red Dog is still a thing?
Fuckin’ A! (There was a shortage from early July until last week, but the party is back on!)
I’m at the gym right now. I wear my cloth pull up thing over my face between machines if somebody is nearby. Otherwise it stays around my neck.
But, do you dry your balls with the
pubicpublic dryers?I don’t shower here, ever.
Ashamed of your small penis?
Don’t want to make the others feel inadequate.
Too much staring.
Yeah, it gets tedious.
Like standing @ the urinal and the guy next to you says “nice watch”.
Finally, a review of real beer, skipping the hipster juice. Yay!
Even if it’s bad real beer.
To go off-topic real quick, but after seeing a picture of Nikole Hanna-Jones and her clown hair, does anyone else think she looks like Rachel Dolezal? Or that other professor who was impersonating a Black woman?
About 3 of them came out at the same time.
She does, a bit. However, I think she’d still be “black” even if there wasn’t a huge swath of American society that would award a societal caché towards the melanin privileged.
Oops – cachet
Where is everyone?
The gym, apparently.
So we can brag tomorrow.
His body absorbed enough oxygen out of that breath of air in his lungs to a level low enough the device registered an unsafe level of oxygen.
CPR kills.
CPR[m] kills
Three weeks later in tech school they got us CPR certified and sure enough the smart ass in our class asked the instructor about that. The response was a very annoyed Tech Sergeant explaining its better than not breathing at all.
Or go/nogo meters are set for a comfortable buffer of safety for both detection and ensuring a little leeway if toxic gases vent into the confined space. Particular when gas detection sets were larger and used after purging prior to entry only. The current generation is wearable and provides a more immediate alarm if conditions change.
This was in 2008 and the meter used in class was probably ten years old.
I do mean to suggest one part of the federal government says one thing about an issue is perfectly safe, in fact recommended with the force of law, while another part of it suggests something else about the same issue with the force of law. Both of which draw their conclusions from scientific research. They’ve assumed a level of risk on our behalf that perhaps we shouldn’t be comfortable.
*Shoots MS with a taser*
Wrong think shall not be tolerated.
I’ve been tased. I highly recommend it.
They’re #SciencingTheShitOutOf#Science!
Vitus isnt my favorite, but its a damn good beer. Everything about your review is wrong.
no wheat beer is a good beer. the style is just bad.
Wheat beers are good. IPAs are bad.
just no.
This time Pie is right.
You are wrong. So is Hyperion below.
I try to like your banana flavored swill but perhaps I am not descended exclusively from monkeys.
https://youtu.be/PI4xVeRjunk
Not exclusively.
Say hello to your future, Minnasodans
The 2020 western–United States wildfires have scorched more than 5 million acres, and they continue to blaze. Because of climate change, we know that this weather isn’t a fluke, but a trend—our future. The time has come for us to flee.
My husband and I plan on moving to the Minneapolis area this spring. We chose this flat, cold, landlocked city because my sister and her family live there, it has a vibrant literary community, it’s affordable, and, most importantly, it’s unlikely to suffer a 20-year mega-drought and consequent wildfires. Perhaps our reaction is extreme, but so is the weather. Though I’m already mourning the ocean and the Douglas firs and the view of Mount Hood that makes me gasp every time I look to the east, I know that if I stay, I will miss them even more, for I will not get to go outside and enjoy them.
California girl leaving Oregon for Milwaukee needs a new nest to shit in.
Good luck.
The Great Awakening 2.0! The End Is Nigh!
Some good news finally, because when we move, I’m sure as fuck not going anywhere that cold or riot infested. Maybe at least during the 3 months of warm weather, she can avoid being eaten by mosquitos by helping burn down what’s left of the city.
Buh bye! Historically ignorant imbecile unaware of the drought conditions and subsequent wildfires of merely a hundred years ago can GFO.
The Atlantic will publish anything these days, won’t it.
After that “20 year drought” line, I really wanted to link to that Sam Kinison clip. But at least she can follow advice.
Where exactly is this 20 year mega drought? Three years ago California had one of its wettest years ever, filling all the reservoirs to capacity, so much so that there were dam failures. The state officially declared the previous drought had ended, and there are presently no homeowner water restrictions. Last winter was a little light, and we could be in a drought again if we have a dry winter this year, but anything relatively normal and we’ll be fine.
And we’d even be in better shape if the ecowarriors didn’t continually fight for dams to be torn down and to prevent any new reservoir projects. Several years back there was a movement to tear down the almost century old Hetch Hetchy reservoir in the Sierras near Yosemite, which supplies just about all of San Francisco’s water because it had taken away some beautiful mountain scenery that affluent hikers wanted returned. Luckily voters rejected it overwhelmingly. We have more than our share of beautiful mountain terrain here, but the state us technically mostly a desert, for crying out loud.
Yes, it certainly is vibrant in Minneapolis right now. I look forward to the follow-up, where she learns that pretending to be an ‘ally’ by putting up a blm sign doesn’t work.
Twit.
Defend the Scandinavian colony of Minnesota against the Left Coast invaders!
Portland, Seattle, and San Fran/LA has been leaking folks to Colorado for years. Then Austin.
Who knew Minnesota was next? Was it even on their Woke-dar before BLM?
Or maybe it was the assassination of an innocent visitor from Australia by the Somali diversity hire cop? That’s got to have scored some woke points for these cretins.
Interestingly, I walked over to meet my new neighbors this afternoon. They had a place near Loring Park, but funny, now they are in MG.
The dad didn’t say it, but the vibe was “we are getting the fuck out of that city”.
Good that they moved to MG, getting crowded in Podunkville. Week end traffic is fierce, until the first snow, then the little 4 wheelers get traded in for snowmobiles.
WFH may change the whole local landscape, may take a little time. Some of the deserted villages may make a comeback.
Yep, I think that’s exactly what will happen. It all comes down to internet. Your town has done a great job.
Which, come to think of it, may be a bad thing…
Why hasn’t Mt. Hood been cancelled? It’s white. It’s pointy. We all know who wrote hoods.
Maybe it’s just me, but what the hell exactly is going on with the dem presidential campaign? It’s like they don’t even have a plan to win and they’re not even trying. SloJo is back in the basement and Camela is dead silent. Are they that confident of the fake polls? Are they relying strictly on cheating? I think it was yesterday that SanFran Nan was still saying that Biden should not debate Trump. All of this while Trump is relentlessly on the campaign trail. 3 years apart in age and Biden could be Trump’s grandpa by the appearance of it. I mean I got it when they just assumed that Hillary was just waiting for the coronation because Trump had no chance. And even then Hillary was still trying. This is truly the most bizarre shit I have ever seen in a presidential campaign, and I’ve seen them all since Carter. WTF is going on here? This is conspiracy theory level stuff.
It’s like they don’t even have a plan to win and they’re not even trying. – I think the plan is trump will lose by himself.
Even they cannot be that stupid. The polls are well within the margin of error and they know that they are over sampling democrats and a lot of Trump voters will either troll them or just refuse to talk to them.
They plan to steal the election through vote count fraud.
Why break a sweat campaigning when you can just fudge the numbers?
And they are playing up the “Trump wants to be dictator for life!” narrative now so that they can deflect attention from vote shenanigans.
If trump points out any iffy election results or wants them investigated, the lefties will hold it out as PROOF that Donnie is trying to steal the election.
I know how old Cheeto Jesus is. I STILL am shocked when I see it in print.
A fan of picking mushrooms, eh?
Older than Reagan when he left office.
He amazes me. He truly does.
There are a lot of things I don’t admire about him, and I have never liked him. But I do try to own up to what I DO find to admire about him and his age:energy level is one of them.
I find it incredibly interesting how he lived his entire adult life within the Democrat bubble and has been able to truly dominate the entire system as a conservative. He’s no more a Republican than some janitor in Manila – but he is the top office of that party.
“I find it incredibly interesting how he lived his entire adult life within the Democrat bubble”
Watch the ‘Trump’ documentary on Netflix if you haven’t and you’ll get it. That does the best job of explaining why Trump is who he is. In short, he was always fighting NY establishment, who were getting in the way of his lofty plans for the city. He was going to build the tallest building in the world in Manhattan and make them pay for it.
That he’s not an establishment Republican is one reason I like him. Mainstream GOP have turned into nothing more than a party who exists to carry water for the Democrats while pretending to be against them.
It seems like every night this past week was another rally. WTF.
Right? I’m 20 years younger than he is and just looking at his schedule wears me out.
If the erratic half-literate spiel is an act, I’m impressed.
I think it’s because he’s out of his depth of experience, and he hasn’t improved much since he was elected. Maybe that shit works in a board room or maybe he knows how to hire better people within his profession so he doesn’t talk that way there. I don’t know. He is confounding on many levels.
They seem to believe polls that they’re easily going to win everything and so are just trying to hide and not fuck up.
The theories are:
1. They are going to cheat so hard it doesn’t matter.
2. They are trying to adjust Joe’s schedule to get rid of his sundowners so he functional in the debates.
3. The revolution will intensify after they lose (from Russian collusion and white supremacy).
All of those are plausible. But 3 is the most plausible. As the underdogs, they maintain their riots and victim status for the next 4 years in the USA, while they double down on the poor Palestinians are being fucked over even worse by Trump and his fake, yet for real white supremacist peace deals in the ME.
My guess? Most of them (the DNC) can’t imagine why anybody is going to vote for Trump so they’ve put up a candidate that most of their plain-vanilla democrats will accept – while knowing that the switched on kids know Kamala will be installed once SloJo is sworn in before being kicked to the curb due to 25th amendment. They assume they can get both sides of their followers – both the traditional base and the hot blooded socialists with this dual candidate mix.
Perhaps they know they are going to lose, and want to appear so certain that they will win, that after the fact, it will appear to lend credence to their being shocked at losing, so they can react in a certain way?
I don’t know. Around here, there are plenty of Trump signs in yards, but also a number of Biden signs. In our area the Biden signs are outnumbered by about 2:1, and in the more rural areas, they’re almost 100% Trump. Trump won our county in 2016, and I remember seeing few Trump signs back then, but a fair number of Hillary signs (maybe equal to the Biden count now).
I am concerned about how few Trump signs I’m seeing to how many Biden signs.
THAT SAID, there aren’t many of either. MAYBE together I can count on two hands. Maybe I’ll need a few toes.
Do you live in a rural area where Trump signs are less likely to get people in trouble with their neighbors? I suspect there are many areas where people don’t think it’s worth the potential shunning to post support for a candidate.
I don’t see any yard signs around here. There were lots of Obama signs and a few Hillary signs.
So, I’m thinking what you just said.
No, I live in a tiny city that’s become a bedroom community of Kansas City. It’s bustling and growing.
However, about a month ago, I did go to my great-aunt’s funeral out in the middle of farm country, about 70 miles away from my place and saw exactly one yuge Trump sign on a farm and one yuge Biden sign on a farm.
There should have been a lot more of both, but that was it.
I have definitely seen more signs this year than I remember seeing in 2016. It didn’t seem in 2016 that many people here were very exercised about either candidate. I do remember thinking there were a significantly greater number of Hillary signs here than Trump signs.
In 2008, there were tons of Hillary signs during the primaries, but few of those were replaced with Obama signs when he won the nomination. There was very little enthusiasm for Romney here in 2012.
One neighbor who sported a Gary Johnson sign in 2016 has switched to Trump this year.
Here in my little corner of Queens, there are FAR fewer signs than last election (those were almost all Trump, with one GayJay sign as an outlier). This time, there are a smattering of Trump signs but still no Biden stuff in sight.
I’ve never seen a presidential sign in 20 years in NYC. Only signs for local assembly creatures and such – most of whom I’ve never heard of. My Congressional seat seems to be a battleground this year after flipping to the Dems last time, so there are more than the usual number of signs for that position.
All, and I mean literally all, of the pickup trucks and SUVs I’ve seen out here with either trade union stickers or Salt Life stickers have Trump stickers as well. The Democrat Party seems to have lost the blue collar vote.
To clarify, the Democrat Party seems to have lost them at the national level. I’m sure they will continue to vote for the same slimy parasites at the local level that they always have.
I should add I do see presidential stickers on lampposts and shit, but not this year. Not a one that I’ve noticed.
There aren’t many “houses” around here, maybe that’s why I don’t see traditional signs. The ones I do see are almost exclusively placards in shop windows.
Around here I see only mayoral signs, and in the great majority for the more conservative candidate.
I have to assume, the evidence being abundantly plastered all over the news every day, that most people just want to live in peace and not have their residence surrounded by mobs and their property being destroyed. That’s why the lack of Trump signs. That wasn’t happening so much prior to the last election, the craziness started after Trump won.
A republican canvasser stopped by my house yesterday, and from talking to her, that’s what I’m gathering, too. She said a lot of people who told her they planned to vote republican this year had indicated they were keeping quiet about it and were unwilling to put up signs for fear of being hassled.
Yep, and it’s the same reason Biden has a small lead in the polls.
They know they’re going to lose, at least so far as any legitimate polls go. They either believe their fix is in, or their plan is to to whine, pule, impeach and sue for the next 4 years.
By “polls”, I meant the booths, not the phone calls to random people.
The dems have suddenly started calling for their constituents to vote at the polls. Which was going to kill everyone from commie pox just a week ago. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. Also, vote early, but vote often. So mail-in ballot + vote at polls is twice as good. And all of their voters deserve to vote twice because they’re all victims of systemic racism. Can we let the Palestinians vote in US elections also, since they are the ultimate victims and have no voice in the world?
They know Biden is collapsing and Harris is terrible, so they’re trying to take them out of the picture and run “Generic Democrat” against Trump, hoping that anti-Trump sentiment (plus some targeted voter fraud) will push them over the line.
Yeah, this seems to be it, to me. Biden drops in the polls every time he actually comes out and does something. So they hide their horrible candidate(s) and coast on “Biden is Obama 2.0” as much as possible.
I want Barrett to have at least a little hearing, because you know Kamala will be unable to NOT be a shrieking harpy. They can’t hide her forever.
At the risk of being full of holy Shiite, I think the DNC is counting on fraud and violence. Not sure how much of either they’ll encourage.
New record levels of both. Plan accordingly.
Maybe it’s just me, but what the hell exactly is going on with the dem presidential campaign?
I’m beginning to think their “plan” boils down to “It’s our turn.”
Makes sense if you are them.
The way it’s been my entire lifetime, 2 term presidents is the norm. It’s hard to get rid of an incumbent, and they’re not even taking that into consideration. I know how the left think ‘but this president is the worst ever!’, but they fail to realize that not everyone is them.
There’s certainly a chunk of voters with Trump fatigue.
My local state rep is out knocking on doors in our neighborhood.
He is pretty good on issues, so I answered to tell him to keep up the good work.
Have you given him a good spainin about the Glib secret plan?
Nah. I’m on enough lists.
As a Glib, you must accept that you are already on all the lists and if there’s a new one, you’ll be the first on it.
knocking on doors – shaking hands and kissing babes?
Well, that’s better than shaking babies and kissing hands.
I… I just…
More for me then.
Of course, I have a friend who hates bananas and is super-sensitive to the flavor of them. He dislikes almost all Belgian beers because he claims they all taste of nothing but bananas.
almost all Belgian beers are bad for multiple reasons. too sweet overly alcoholic and generally unpleasant flavor
Except Grimbergen. That stuff’s ambrosia. Mother’s milk. A drink fit for an Elder God (and possibly the only drink that could put an Elder God in a good mood).
There is delightful Golden Girls episode wherein Betty White’s character confesses that back in St. Olaf, her boyfriend (based upon her breasts) gave her the nickname “Old Bananas”.
Oddly enough, I like the Belgian variety. Heffs are just not my thing.
Thanks for the actual science, Señor. Won’t matter, though. We need to drop this bullshit yesterday, but I don’t see it ending for a long, long time.
I’ll be skipping the banana beer. Appreciate the heads-up.
No, no, thank you.
Ahem. When this mask nonsense started, I believe I was an early voice of saying, “this will make your O2 sat drop precipitously.” My wife had it happen going to the doctor and wearing one of those things. I don’t want to call it “expertise,” but having worn helmets and masks and scuba gear and all kinds of face-coverings for sports and leisure activities, I stand by my claim that the masks may have as many deleterious effects as supposed benefits. Aren’t people with COPD exempted? Isn’t the reason for that exactly the proof – the hashtag Science! – one would need to know that the alleged cooties protection has to be weighed against the possible downsides to having one’s breathing apparatus covered?
Fuck, this is so fucking stupid. It makes a white hot rage bubble up inside me. Fuckkkkkk all of these assholes.
Only 6% of COVID deaths were people with no co-morbidities. Process that. About 12K deaths and we’ve collapsed an economy. And if I see one more bullshit “once in a century PANDEMIC” claim, I’m going to vomit. It’s all a complete fucking lie.
I probably shouldn’t mention this, but my neighbor – a teacher – said that by advocating getting the machine rolling again, I was advocating for ‘survival of the fittest’ and dooming people like her to death.
She’s a nice lady so I cracked a joke and called it a day.
Who doesn’t want the government-sector workers to die?
Interesting that she regards herself as an evolutionary loser.
Another expression of self-loathing. It’s truly amazing that these people have managed to get themselves in charge.
More London protests: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8775451/At-15-000-people-cram-Trafalgar-Square-Not-Consent-rally-against-lockdown.html
More UK-centric perspective (daily blog with many comments): https://lockdownsceptics.org
The thing I find most interesting about that, is that it’s commie Corbyn’s brother leading the charge. He should know, having been that close to a leader of the world wide commie regime.
Run by Toby Young the #cancelled and long-time friend and guest of James Delingpole.
Isn’t the Jeremy proximity strange?
They also have a podcast, London Calling, but that’s even more Brit focused than their blog. Apparently they used to know BoJo personally and are greatly disappointed in him.
Oh goodness, yes. To both points.
Then again Peter Hitchens is also someone, so.
Another odd choice of brothers.
None of it is about keeping people safe, never has been. And it’s sure as fuck not science. It’s all political. Sometimes you have to make omelets to get your global communism dream.
Where’s the omelette?, asks Eric Blair.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tulF_c8JwA
Heh. He started out on (my) local cable, and famously told Kathie Lee and Hoda to stop interrupting him on the Today Show in ’08.
Great moments in Kathie Lee history
It’s exhausting, is what it is.
I haven’t worn one a single time to enter a single place (except my sisters graduation) in two states and no one has said a word about it. I think many people know it is bs. The questions is why is there no mass civil disobedience? I have tried to stress with family and friends that it is actually bad for their health to wear one all the time but they still go through the charade, particularly when entering business such as restaurants.
The HR bitch at my place snipped at me yesterday for not having it all the way over my nose.
They installed a new facial-recognition thermometer Thursday afternoon, and she insisted everybody have their picture taken the way they come into work in the morning, which means masked. Well fuck, I’m the first one in the building pretty much every day, so I only have the goddamn mask around my neck. That, and they changed badge access so that you have to do the one-way traffic thing. If I go to the bathroom before the start of my shift and try to come back the same door I went out (next to the time clock), I can’t come in that way any more.
A whole bunch of the other workers, on coming in and seeing the thermometer camera, commented that this is where their annual pay raises went.
I’m so happy I have PTO all this coming week.
Am reminded in a roundabout way of this: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6l2euf
Thanks for tip about The Hospital. Weird yet educational.
Tried and failed to comment anonymously on your blog the other day. Maybe my iOS was too old (ex-phone).
https://mobile.twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1309899381735411713
Elder abuse.
He keeps reminding of my father in the year before he died – at 93.
I’m a little surprised Trump didn’t nominate the Cuban chick.
He hasn’t technically nominated anyone yet, right? I believe the official announcement is today (probably this evening). This could be a feint to get leftists to display their bigotry and willingness to spread misinformation before going with the Cuban chick.
Haven’t posted the past few days because I was on vaca in the Outer Banks. Weather was what most people would call iffy but I liked the overcast days (rained a bit more than ideal, but meh) and I am now of the opinion that it would be nicer to go in the first two weeks of September when the weather begins to cool but the water is still warmish (it was frigid this past week).
Requisite anecdotal campaign sign report: 10 to 1 Trump to Biden signs/stickers/flags during the whole trip. I guess one side is not very enthused.
I have said before that I think Trump will win in a landslide. Well, now I’m defining “landslide” as fraud-proof.
My brother used to torment my sister: K has two brothers and a sister, and D has two brothers and a sister, and I have to brothers and a sister, but you only have brothers. For some reason that really bothered J.
Just got back from windy day on the course, enjoying Bells two hearted ale, not hoppy, very fresh, 7% MI beer is pretty good
My favorite beer.
+1
Still waiting for the one to knock it off the podium.
Coffee is preferable but I didn’t have time to make a cup
Does not compute.
I was driving.
Looks like a big turn out for the prayer today.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MajorPatriot/status/1309887746018881538
And of course BLM is protesting the prayer march.
https://mobile.twitter.com/rawsmedia/status/1309916528423383041
Those fuckers need Jesus.
Looks like one of the attacks on Barrett will be that she adopted two black kids from a Haitian orphanage.
Yes, that will be an attack, not something her supporters hold up as evidence of good character.
Investigations are underway, and there will be demands to investigate how she is raising them as well. You may recall opposition from race activists opposing interracial adoption.
Caveat: based on some twits.
She’ll be accused of calling some law student a godless niglet whore. And the Haitian adoptees are only proof of her horrible racism.
Likely. To hard to predict what totally made up attacks will be levied.
One of the tragedies on politics is that it brings out the worst in people. How can you rip someone apart for adopting two kids from the perennial shit hole Haiti and saving them from a life of poverty and destitution? Seriously, what goes through someone’s mind when they decide that the one of the most defective things about an individual is that they adopted two black kids from Haiti.
Angelina Jolie must be considered a white-supremacist now.
That was the first thing I thought of when her name came up.
Is the Hollywood crowd going to pile on with this nonsense also?
Of course the real reason they dont want her is ABORTION, but if they scream too loudly about that they will open themselves up for accusations of BABY KILLER!
She is depriving them of the authentically Black experience is what I’ve been told. Hearing that makes me want to cry. Collectivism is evil.
I saw a Twit about how transracial adoption is ” fraught with trauma and potential for harm”. Anti-racists seem to me to be the most racist people.
The left wants all the world to live in a Haiti like equality. She’s setting these kids up for disappoint by raising them here.
Ugh… just dropped daughter off at theater camp and went to my fave Long Beach bar, Shines, to have a Boulevardier as it was delicious last week. Different bartender than the past month, he had no idea what a Boulevardier was, nor even a Negroni. To add insult to injury, the place is covid packed (all 6 barstools occupied), so I’m relegated to the lounge bar, like a lady.
Pinky up, d00d.
I’m trying to establish myself as a regular. Last week’s 2 Guinness, Bulleit rye, and Boulevardier was $15… with unknown bartender, today’s Guinness and neat Michters was $16. Sigh…
just dropped daughter off at theater camp
It’s September, isn’t it?
I am still writing proposals even over the weekend. My chief brainiac sent over a draft. As I was making edits and fixing formatting, the file closed and my changes were gone.
I was deliberately working on a copy on my local desktop to make sure network connections wouldn’t screw me, but it crashed anyway. No warning, no “not responding”. It just disappeared.
I clicked Word to reopen it, but the auto saved version had almost no changes.
I HATE rewriting due to glitches. I just have to walk away a while.
Man, that sucks. I’m sorry.
“I am still writing proposals even over the weekend…”
Posts like this really trigger this reitred person.
I do not miss that even a little.
Amen!
Same here.
Occasionally Mrs. Suthenboy will complain about being bored. All I have to do is mumble something “Well, you could always go back to work. I am sure they would take you back in a second.” to shut that down.
Oh man. I hate when that happens. My rewrite is never as good as I remember.
I’ve lost sections or scenes of books before. The rewrite is usually better.
^^^professional writer
You just THINK your rewrite isn’t as good. What I find is that what I have to get across is more succinct and characterization more fleshed out.
I’ve heard “good writing is rewriting” but I’m not convinced. I had just gotten all the styles in the document beaten into submission so that the format would be right (the “professional” tech writers don’t even know how to make a template properly), and then I’d started rephrasing a few parts and correcting typos and mismatches of case and such.
So all of that was just wasted, and none will get better with repeating.
OMG the styles are more work than the writing! Serious condolences.
Making a pot of Mughlai mutton curry. Smells of nutmeg, mace, cardamom, cumin, and pepper fill the air.
I’m trying it in the Instant Pot for the first time. Takes a lot of the standing and waiting out of it when it works. I might have to make an online booklet of Indian cuisine adapted to Instant pot cooking.
That sounds excellent.
No cilantro…..right? *cringes waiting for answer*
Make an ebook and sell it. There are plenty of Instant Pot cultists out there.
Yeah, like myself. Especially when it comes to IP curries. That dish sounds awesome.
That sounds delicious. I’m still playing with the sous vide and have not yet joined the instapot craze. Also, sorry Suthenboy, soapweed is yummy.
Thanks for the encouragement. I will keep it up.
This one doesn’t have cilantro (it’s an optional topping for serving). It has a lovely saffron infused yogurt (or sour cream) that goes in right at the end.
And Bengali stir fried potatoes—mmmm!
I dropped Mrs. Suthenboy at her girlfriend’s house this morning and they are off for 10 days to the beach. I cant decide if I am going to do all of the things I planned on doing while she is gone or spend the time on the couch with a drink in my hand.
Decisions, decisions…..
Compromise. Spend some time on the couch thinking about all the things you plan to do. Pretty soon, you’ll be up doing them, and you still got to be a layabout.
I have been doing just that since about 6am after I dropped her off.
I am a little jealous though….their favorite restaurant is a seafood place that makes the world’s best crab cakes and I have been wanting to steal their recipe. For some reason that I cannot understand it is impossible for me to replicate. The next time I can find a dog sitter and go with them I am going to bribe a waiter for the recipe. On the other hand…10 days of silence is hard to pass up.
Hell, I can cook anything there is except that one thing. Why cant I cook crab cakes?
Not my department, but which recipes are you using?
There are hundreds online but most are basically the same. I dont remember as I ended up surrendering. I tried four or five different ones.
I want that restaurant’s recipe and now I cant remember the name of the restaurant.
Wardog at the course!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ePJQp89XbaXHYsQC6
OMG, that happy tail.
She also found a stink pot, and that was the result, Niece 3 never saw such a site!
The smears by the antifa supporting hacks at the local rag continue, but so far no fireworks.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/09/portland-protests-bring-proud-boys-counter-demonstrators-saturday-live-updates.html
Plenty of quotes by BLM supporters who don’t realize, and neither do their hack allies, how racist they are.
https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/2020/09/26/dozens-body-armor-arrive-portland-right-wing-rally/3548692001/
“militarized body armor”
John has a sad.
Thought they join before they got drafted?
I was half hoping the PB’s were lying again, and they had no intention of going to Portland. Antifa would just wind up fighting other cells that came into the city.
That said, I’d feel bad for any randos caught in the crossfire.
https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1309942904312324096?s=21
Classy
This city kills fascists and Proud Boys
I thought leftists considered them to be one in the same*.
*via the leftist definition of ‘fascist’, of course.
When are these genius’ gonna figure out that meeting the useful idiots in the street is a waste of time? Show up at the mayor’s house. Show up at the DA’s house and have a little talk with them.
Cut the head off of the snake.
Who, the Proud Boys? They’re holding a rally to show that they exist and haven’t gone away, which triggers the antifa and BLM goons. They aren’t going to the riots to confront the idiots there. Going to the mayor’s residence (wherever that is now) or similar would be viewed and portrayed as crossing the line and threatening public officials (never mind that the rioters have done the same).
Does his sleeve say “slut”?
I used this analogy with great success recently to explain to someone too young to know what the term ‘useful idiot’ means.
“Let’s say I want to live in your house. To do that I have to get you out. I hatch a plan…then I go out and collect 100,000 cockroaches. One night while you are sleeping I sneak in your house and release then. Now, you cant tolerate that many roaches so you either have to exterminate them or, if you find that untenable, move out. If you move out I can move in, but see, I cant live with 100,000 cockroaches any more than you can. Now I have to exterminate the cockroaches.
Get it? The cockroaches cant win. No matter who comes out on top, they have to go. They will be rounded up and disposed of either way.
The useful idiots re the cockroaches. Look at them. All they can do is disrupt and destroy. and that was their function in the plan. Once that is done they are done. BLM and Antifa are the cockroaches. They are all going to end up against the wall and they cant see that.”
I could see the light come on and hear the wheels turning in their head.
Catching up on my YouTube feed watching a Crowder vid and he shows a clip of a press conference where a “journalist” is expressing his virtue by wearing a mask that says “America Needs Journalists”. You are right but not how you mean, you cunte.
Sigh. BBC-A is running another one of their nature-show marathons and it’s non-stop propaganda about stoopid destructive humans. Who doesn’t love being lectured at all the time?
You mean they’re not running classic BBC stuff like ST:TNG?
I miss Peep Show and The Office, but that was quite some time ago.
I take it Britbox is the current solution.
Quite a few of the British comedies are on Hulu right now. Black Books, Coupling, and Spaced. Just checking, they do have Peep Show.
Not on the weekend.
Stay safe, Sloopy
Those bugs have always been around. Usually the victims are kids who swam in a pond or lake. Some pretty nasty bugs live in stagnant, low oxygen aquatic environments.
Pro-tip: If the water supply goes off or the water sources for your system get low the water in lots of dead end branches of the system drain back into the main water supply lines. When the water starts working normally again you are going to be getting a zoo out of your kitchen sink and shower heads. The way they deal with it here in my area is to put so much chlorine in the water that it makes the paint peel in your bathroom when you shower.
After a water outage is restored boil your water before you drink it, or stick with bottled water. Also, when you shower be careful of getting water in your mouth or nose.
Investigations are underway, and there will be demands to investigate how she is raising them as well. You may recall opposition from race activists opposing interracial adoption.
“She stole their cultural heritage from them!”
Why are we feeding birds and not squirrels?
Are you kidding? Have you ever fed a squirrel?
They only eat the easiest, best parts and throw the rest on the ground. They are not grateful. They become aggressive and demanding. They are asshoe.
Birds are prettier, grateful and dont waste anything.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026
Then there these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZkAP-CQlhA
Not actually a squirrel…Microwave antenna filled with acorns by suspected Woodpecker
Fuck off, you show me a bird can move that much acorn. Not even a nut dealing badger could move acorn like that.
Whoever the culprit is I am guessing those accumulated over several years.
Yeah, seems awfully speculative to blame it on a woodpecker… as if those lizard-toed bastards ever did anything impressive since the Cretaceous.
This, nothing but disease infected pests
Feeds is the wrong word. Maybe challenge. They’re so much more interesting than birds. Squirrel obstacle courses.
I watch the squirrels outside my window all day long as I work, and I’ll tell you, they work very hard. It’s a constant back-and-forth from wherever they’re getting their food up in the tree. They occasionally carry stuff that’s bigger than they are, but up the tree they go. I always thought they buried their food, but I only see them take it up the tree.
The squirrels here bury acorns in the yard all summer long. They also move bulb plants around.
/looks at random tulip in the middle of my yard
They are certainly amusing.
Wife and I hand raised one that fell out of a nest before it’s eyes were open. Built a little squirrel house inside for it to sleep in at night. Used to walk around with him sitting on my shoulder or sleeping in my jacket pocket. After he was fully grown I was amazed that they are as smart and sociable as any dog and make quite a good pet.
My squirrel hunting days were over for good. Dammit.
*Squirrel house was an oak log about 12 inches in diameter, two feet long, rip sawed in two then the inside hollowed out. I put it back together, drilled a entrance about 5″ in diameter then dropped rags in for bedding. I put it in the bedroom atop a 4×4 pillar about 6 feet off of the floor and attached a couple of ‘limbs’ to the pillar.
*rip-sawn*
ugh.
Sometimes the bad shit gets too much, I’m taking a break, too much toxic shit,
See you Monday, or not
Still a lot of love out there, dude.
Enjoy your break!
TY, I just get tired of all the bad, I had a nice day, and bad news wrecks the vibe,Saul Goodman!
Refuse to submit.
Your posts always make me smile. Your dog always make me smile. You are creating healthiness whether you know it or not.
Thanks Tundra, I get a good vibe up here, think Ludington MI, I’m just so over this year, a total mess, lost Wife, job, CCP virus, can’t we all just start over?
Start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmFCL2p9wPc
*takes notes*
I don’t know if you’ll see this, but fuck it; Yusef, I love you man, and I too am so over this year, the worst one of my life. May we get through this one and make 2021 the best year yet.
I’m not saying the squirrel menace isn’t real, but it’s okay to laugh at it.
Smoked bourbon chipotle burgers in the smoker.
Hey BP, I found some weather!
Words. On a page.
More than 150 restaurant owners and chefs on Thursday released a joint letter announcing their support for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, arguing that President Trump “has failed the restaurant industry” in his responses to the coronavirus pandemic.
The endorsement comes as the food industry continues to face the impacts of COVID-19 across the country, with Yelp reporting last week that approximately 60 percent of the restaurants on its platform have been forced to permanently close since the start of the pandemic.
Thursday’s letter, titled “Restaurants for Biden,” cites analysis from the National Restaurant Association that “three decades of restaurant jobs were lost during the national shutdown in March and April,” asserting that the continued strains on restaurants could be tied to Trump’s delayed responses to the pandemic.
“Throughout the crisis, the restaurant industry has begged this administration for support,” the group wrote in the letter.
“We have pleaded with officials to fix the PPP program, recognize the oncoming tsunami of restaurant closings that we are now starting to see and respond with a plan,” the group added, referring to the Paycheck Protection Program.
WTF?
I guess that means welfare for every restaurant owner and employee in the country. And Trump is a big stingy doodoohead.
Yep. They want money.
Fuck’em.
Biden wants a national shutdown. I wonder how that will affect the restaurant industry.
Trump wasn’t the one who closed their restaurants.
They are not interested in finding the responsible party. If they were they would be outside their governor’s office raising hell.
They are only interested in finding a check in their mailbox.
The owners and chefs wrote in the letter that Biden “would take the immediate steps needed to solve the COVID crisis and support America’s small businesses and restaurants in our recovery.”
No need for details. Everybody (except President Cartoon Villain) knows exactly what should be done to solve the crisis and make the plague go away.
“Huh?”
/restaurants in South Dakota
make the plague go away
The plague only goes away when the plague mutates to become *ghasp* more contagious and *sigh* less harmful. IOW it snuffs itself out.
*Gasp, even… ///fat-finger ///proofread
You don’t say
“There are a lot of people, including myself, who aren’t excited,” Gicola Lane, a 31-year-old Black woman and criminal justice organizer from Nashville, told CNN in an interview. “Because of what we have seen happen in courtrooms, in our own neighborhood and all over this country. And we know that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have played a part in that system.”
Still, she plans to vote for the Democratic ticket in the fall.
The lack of enthusiasm for Biden and Harris points to deeper concerns over their ability to unite the party absent what many perceive as an existential threat posed by four more years of Trump. Demonstrators on the front line of a wildly invigorated social justice movement see movable objects in Biden and Harris, where the current administration looms like a stone wall blocking their push for change.
“Voting is not an expression of my moral values, it’s a decision to choose the political terrain that we fight on,” Aaron Bryant, a 28-year-old Black man from Durham, North Carolina, told CNN.
Bryant, an organizer and electoral justice fellow with Movement for Black Lives, plans to vote for Biden and Harris, but only as a means to an end.
“Do we want to fight on a political terrain that advantages the worst among the capitalist class and the right wing? Or do we want to fight on the terrain that advantages the middle of the road centrist moderate option? I think one of those options gives us as a movement a better opportunity to strategize and move forward,” Bryant said.
Biden: not commie enough, but more pliable than the Evil Orange Man.We’ll bend him to our will.
“criminal justice organizer ”
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have played a part in that system.”
“Still, she plans to vote for the Democratic ticket in the fall.”
Of course she does. A ‘criminal justice organizer’ doesnt get paid if the problem is fixed.
I guess it is Amy C. after all.
Waiting for the calls of racism for her appropriation of two black children.
It’s already out there.
Random twitterers or “serious” people.
It has already started.
Begun, the
CloneConfirmation War has.I hate NYC.
https://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/apa/d/brooklyn-studio-walk-in/7203420816.html
#metoo
Want to buy a 3,000 ft house in NJ?
It’s a trap!
+1. Although I live closer than Drake to NYC so my house is half his size.
Younger coworker just found a nice deal in Manhattan now that both apartment supply and violence have increased.
That’s the problem. Outer borough rents are spiking as folk flee Manhattan.
Run!!! Don’t look back!
I love livin’ in the city.
And we just there, laughing at him
Stood there?
Holy shit.
Wife watches that house hunter show. I was talking to her one day when it was on and they were in SanFran and the asking price of the house was $800,000. It was less than 1000 sq ft and it was unlivable. They had to spend an additional 60-80 thousand just to repair it enough to where they could live in it. So their budget was 1 million, for a 900 sq ft home.
pets ok
Life can’t be so bad with a friend.
Even the pet would reject that place and go live on the street.
What is that? A former storage space off the garage?
The rent is too damn high.
I have 11 acres on the water, complete privacy, ~2000 sq feet not including the enclosed garage, two outbuildings.
Central air and heat, ceramic tile floor, 80 gallon water heater, large wood stove/fireplace, full size washer and dryer, 16×60 back deck, 7 person hot tub, on and on…you get the idea. I can shoot my guns in the yard.
Less than $600/month.
I will never live in a city again.
It’s a human right to have a two bedroom apartment in New York City or LA or San Francisco, or, you know, wherever.
Quit bragging Squire, you’re making me jealous as fuck
The roaches are a free perk.
Even the roaches rejected that place and went to live on the street.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/09/pa-officials-react-to-president-trumps-supreme-court-nominee-amy-coney-barrett.html
Hell must have frozen over, Toomey said something that didn’t piss me off.
“Instead of focusing on tackling the virus ”
That’s the other PA Senator, Casey, giving Trump advice. Casey, of course, was among those burdening Trump will impeachment crap back when the
virus was getting a foothold in the U.S. Casey is a zero who, unfortunately, will keep winning re-election as long as he wants to keep running.
This beer is a German Hefeweizen, and at 7.7%abv it is a fortified German Hefeweizen. It tastes like bananas with a twist. You ever let bananas sit for a few days and eat it when turns a black/brown color because the sugars fermented? Thats what this tastes like. Its truly awful. Weihenstenphaner Vitus: 2.5/5.
Awful? Sad. I liked Vitus.
Ayinger brau weisse is the best Heffe.