Friday Afternoon Links of Mixing It Up

by | Nov 20, 2020 | Daily Links | 381 comments

He didn't take my advice and now has only himself to blame.

So appalled by muh links he refuses to look. Rude.

Apparently I’m bucking some trends. How about all y’all?

By the way, if you’re not sure what to make next week, we’ve got you covered–and with plenty of time to do your shopping still!

Brett L asked me to include this link and let you all know that he’s thinking of you and misses bringing you the links. Aw.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the age spectrum… Hey, how’s your workout routine going, btw?

Of course, no one is getting out of here until we get a local link. Yes, Great Falls is across the state from me, but anything in the 406 is local to me.

Please remember to make smart choices about your physical appearance; I don’t care how much you’re trying to impress family at Thanksgiving.

And here’s a little something for your back pocket…

About The Author

Riven

Riven

[riv-uhn] noun 1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd. 2. often aims to misbehave. 3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.* And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.

381 Comments

  1. Rebel Scum

    Theoretically, What Kind of Hair Dye Would Melt Down Your Face When You’re Sweating?

    I guess Rudy G. is cheap.

    • The Other Kevin

      Maybe it was that spray paint stuff that makes you look like you have more hair.

    • Count Potato

      Regular “permanent” hair dye doesn’t come off with shampoo.

    • Mojeaux

      Classy. Very classy. Most classy of all.

    • Raven Nation

      There’s a scene in a comedy where that happens. Seinfeld? Simpsons? something else?

  2. Shpip

    Oleksii Novikov of Ukraine earned the title for the first time Sunday in just his second year of competition, breaking the world record in the partial deadlift en route to a victory at the 2020 World’s Strongest Man competition

    Probably needz to squat moar.

    • Florida Man

      I have to say at some point even healthy activities become unhealthy. Putting that much strain on your body is probably not great for your blood vessels, tendons, hell who knows what else.

      • pan fried wylie

        I assume there’s a reason it’s referred to as strain, and not Happy Cell Metabolism Fun Time.

      • pan fried wylie

        1120/20/2020 at 420:20 pm

    • CPRM

      But how many trucks did he pull? Did he carry both fridges the farthest? Sounds like the competition is way less fun if ‘deadlift’ is part of it. How many stones did he put on top of the pillar? Sports sucks in Current Year!

      • robc

        I like the “carry the stone shaped like Africa” competition.

      • juris imprudent

        Truly the white man’s burden.

      • pan fried wylie

        Depends. Do they carry the stone to Europe or America? Problematic…

    • Not Adahn

      partial deadlift

      The “still somewhat alive lift?”

      • pan fried wylie

        The Mostly Deadlift

  3. Rebel Scum

    Breaking News: You just got burned.

    McEnany thanked the reporters then for their questions, and Collins asked one more question as she turned to leave. “I don’t call on activists,” McEnany said, and she kept walking.

  4. The Other Kevin

    I am getting my hair cut tonight and we’re doing that tint that tones down the gray. Please do not think less of me, fellow Glibs.

    • Florida Man

      Embrace the gray. Chicks dig older men.

      • Sean

        Astra likes old dick.

      • Florida Man

        It is known.

    • Tonio

      Glad to see the nose back on your avatar.

    • Gdragon

      Movember is exposing the only place I have gray. My birthday was last week and I’m never going to share the pictures I don’t think.

  5. CPRM

    Apparently I’m bucking some trends. How about all y’all?

    I’m bucking that trend some people call ‘sleep’. I think it’s FAKE NEWZ! If I continue on this path, might be a pretty interesting Zoom tonight, or I might pass out into a TV like Tall Cans Baby Head.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Youtube served this up for me a day or two ago.

    Feats of science and engineering.

  7. Shpip

    It’s a 5 minute walk from my house to the pub. It’s a 30 minute walk from the pub to my house.

    The difference is staggering.

    • The Other Kevin

      Consider this stolen.

    • Florida Man

      Bravo!

    • Tonio

      [drunken applause]

    • Yusef Von Gomez The Blind

      well Done Sir!

    • Ownbestenemy

      A few hiccups on the way home it would seem.

    • Riven

      Yes.

      Also, they are building a brewery right now near me that I consider within “stumbling” distance. Can’t wait.

      • Atanarjuat

        I bought my house based on the property being far from noise and intrusion, and good for wildlife. Now I see that there are other considerations I should have taken into account.

      • Nephilium

        /looks at the breweries 3 – 10 miles away

        What?

        That’s only about 20 of them. Extend it to 30 miles, and you more then double that (and 30 miles is a solid bike ride in good weather, when water stations and restrooms are open).

  8. Count Potato

    “El Paso posts grim ‘help wanted’ ad for $27.20-per-hour temporary morgue workers who can lift up to 400lbs to help move bodies of COVID-19 victims”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8970919/El-Paso-posts-grim-help-wanted-ad-27-20-hour-temporary-morgue-workers.html

    “EXCLUSIVE: Virus, what virus? No panic buying in El Paso as shelves are fully stocked, residents are seen leisurely shopping at strip malls and dining indoors despite the Texas town being the Covid-19 epicenter with hospitals filled to capacity”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8966441/Business-usual-residents-El-Paso-Texas-despite-rise-COVID-19-cases.html

    Something about the duality of man.

    • CPRM

      Because government is not known for staffing beyond what is needed, much frugal.

    • Florida Man

      Holy shit! 400 lbs. like deadlift or what?

      • juris imprudent

        In a morgue – what else would you expect?

      • Florida Man

        Applause ?

      • pan fried wylie

        Yeah? Because I thought THAT’S THE JOKE in your comment.

        That’s why I went with the serious question. Sheesh.

      • pan fried wylie

        I mean, they dont have any fucking gurneys?

      • juris imprudent

        If they’re stiffs, a dolly would work wouldn’t it?

      • pan fried wylie

        Well, then we’re back to considering the hiring ad.

        The way the two transport devices operate, you’re going to be looking for people with different experience and capabilities depending on which one you have. Gurney drops down vertically, you can roll the load on. Depending on your dolly, maybe it’s got the extra set of wheels to roll horizontal…otherwise, then you’re dealing with the whole tipping-up situation which can actually be more difficult for people who aren’t tall enough or weigh enough to lever the dolly upright.

        Yes, I own a dolly at home, why do you ask.

  9. Rebel Scum

    Then there is this cunte.

    BREAKING I have successfully BLOCKED a massive gun show from operating at full capacity this weekend in NOVA.

    Putting hundreds or even thousands of Virginians at risk for the sole purpose of selling guns is just not worth it and I’m pleased that the Judge agreed with me.

    Let’s play a game called “Count the Constitutional Violations!”

    • Tonio

      Why it’s almost as if they are afraid the peasants might get ideas about revolting.

      • pan fried wylie

        They do smell bad…oh, what?

    • Ownbestenemy

      “I have…” That utterance from a governor should chill any citizen but alas, it is their daddy keeping them safe at night I guess.

      • Swiss Servator

        That is the AG. Even worse.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Change governor to government official then. However agreed it is worse

    • RBS

      Why did I read through that thread?

      • pan fried wylie

        All out of rusty eyenails, I assume.

    • Viking1865

      Some MAGA dude on Twitter pointed out that the gun show venue is right next to a WalMart, and that the people per square feet of the WalMart, which can remain open, is greater than the gun show’s planned admittance.

      • pan fried wylie

        Yeah, but WalMart doesn’t sell guns so it’s totally diff…huh? Oh…uhhh SHUT UP YOU DEPLORABLE PIECE OF SHIT.

  10. limey

    Apparently Sidney Powell and Tucker had some sort of disagreement or misunderstanding? The PR on this whole thing has been a nightmare. If you glance at the Gateway Pundit you’d be fooled into thinking they might still have a case, and maybe the statistical evidence holds up, and maybe the affidavits and other evidence (circumstantial or otherwise) is somewhat compelling, but I gotta ask:

    WHERE’S THE KRAKEN?

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      The evidence is everywhere and considerable. The question isn’t where is the evidence, but rather will the evidence hold up in court. I don’t know if their evidence is fabricated or not, but that’s one of the points of going to court.

      As Scott Adams posted, the Dems are doing their damn best to brainwash people with “No evidence” is being used to reframe “plenty of evidence but not yet proven in court”.

      Hundreds of sworn affidavits is evidence. The video of 100,000 ballots being dumped for Biden is evidence. The Georgia election official caught on audio acknowledging the recount is a farce and that they are only reporting the original election numbers as the recount numbers is evidence. The Edison polling data showing the switch is evidence.

      Do we need Biden on video, backed up by genetic testing to prove it’s him, stating the Dems did all of this? The veracity of the evidence remains to be proven in court, but there’s reams of it and it takes a lot of hours and people to go through all of this and prepare it for court.

      As to Gateway Pundit, and this is more a general comment, I’m at a loss as to where to get news these days . I used to read the WSJ daily and they won’t write a single word about this. Fox has been skin suited. i don’t know where to find reliable info anymore. GP is the only one that reports on this besides Newsmax, OANN, and a couple others. GP is outlandish but at least backs up all of their articles with primary source video or audio. The audio/video could be faked but that’s one hell of enterprise if they’re fabricating this much stuff.

      • Sean

        Here’s the thing, when the smoke clears and if Trump pulls it off for 4 more years, I demand heads on pikes.

        Not low level fuckery toads, but the ring leaders. Heads on pikes. Full stop.

      • B.P.

        [insert Youtube disclaimer about the AP calling the presidential race for Biden here]

      • Yusef Von Gomez The Blind

        ON EVERY FUCKING POLITICAL VIDEO!
        talk about 1984 style propaganda….

      • limey

        I actually posted something along these lines the other day, but I suppose I’ve been demoralized and brow beaten so much since that I lost perspective. The wheels of justice are turning slowly, but part of me believes that even this won’t be enough. The gaslighting about “no evidence” is so insulting to anyone who understands the first thing about how the legal system works. I suppose what I worry about is that the insidious root is so firmly, deeply embedded that it can still pull off the heist and subvert jurisprudence.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        It’s tough. The Dems, the media, the gov bureaucracy, and much of the establishment GOP has circled the wagons around Biden. This isn’t as much about Dem vs Gop as it is being their swamp in danger. This was big enough for Fox to drop their mask and I have no doubt Tucker has been bought out. He’ll still do his normal shtick but won’t touch the election.

        The evidence may still prove false in court, or may still not matter even if everything, from Dominion to paper ballot fraud, is 100% proven as true.

      • juris imprudent

        I’m a little afraid that a considerable part of our country won’t accept the evidence falling apart even if it has the substance of rice paper. Because they want to believe this is what happened. Then we will hear how the absence of evidence is evidence of the conspiracy (so vast as to encompass every political and media faction not faithful to the Donald). At that point, a person has to really calibrate their beliefs, because they’ve become detached from reality.

      • Suthenboy

        Suits me. It would be fitting for the Dems to spend the next four years wiping shit out of their eyes. I hope there are plenty that will not accept under any circumstances and spend four years making the left’s life hell.

      • Jarflax

        If there was a conspiracy using the Dominion software it may be provable. I don’t think there was an actual conspiracy, but I do believe the results were fraudulent. Ballot harvesting is fraud, and requires nothing more organized than a climate in which the grass roots volunteers out there “getting out the vote” believe that Trump is literally Hitler. Add in weak to nonexistent security in the handling of mail in ballots and you have fraud without any reasonable path to proving it. If you doubt for one second that the activists for Team Blue would break the rules you must have been asleep all year.

      • pan fried wylie

        If you doubt for one second that the activists for Team Blue would break the rules you must have been asleep all year.

        And if you thing they’d do it without blabbing about it on one of the variety of easily logged blabbing systems they blab on….oh, never mind, mysterious logging accident has deleted every /var/log directory on the planet.

        I mean, not the /var/log directory on any of MY server, but every bidensupporterblab server in existence.

        It. is. the. damnedest. Thing. *shrug*

      • pan fried wylie

        “Dude, don’t give them ideas!”

        sususudio rm -r *.*.*.*:22/var/log/*

        *dusts hands off*

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Here’s the problem. I dunno about the sycophants, but I’m at the point where I don’t trust jack shit that anybody says about anything. We’re in the age of corruption, and I don’t trust the judiciary to get it right. I don’t trust law enforcement to get it right. I don’t trust TMITE to get it right. I don’t trust AltMedia to get it right. The ship has sailed on institutional legitimacy for me. I don’t think I’m alone. This election sure stinks, and there’s too much at stake for too many people for me to believe even a tiny fraction of what’s being put out there. Primary source evidence or GTFO, and that’s for both sides.

      • pan fried wylie

        -1 trust

      • Viking1865

        The problem is that we know from previous American Presidential elections what the signs of victory that are harder to fake.

        Carrying FL and OH

        Carrying bellwether counties

        Gaining millions of votes as an incumbent President compared to your first election.

        Gaining House seats

        Gaining governors

        Now, on the flip side, Joe Biden is a long time politician who has never cracked 20% of the vote in his own party’s primary. Now all of a sudden he is the most popular politician in American history? That just doesn’t compute.

        I said it quite a few times: I would totally accept an election where fewer people voted for Trump then last time, and he lost because of that. But I do not accept that there are 500,000 living human beings in Michigan who couldn’t be bothered to vote for Clinton in 2016 but all of a sudden decided they were Juiced for Joe!!!! in 2020. It flies in the face of everything we know about electoral politics, that a perennial loser candidate who had no energy, no excitement, no enthusiasm among his own base got more votes than anyone has ever gotten in a Presidential election.

      • juris imprudent

        Let me ask you – what happened in your own district/county. Anything you question about those results?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The veracity of the evidence remains to be proven in court, but there’s reams of it and it takes a lot of hours and people to go through all of this and prepare it for court.

        The issue is and will be “evidence of what?” Democrats will gladly concede that there were isolated incidents of vote fraud that had no impact on the outcome. In order for this challenge to have legs, there needs to be incontrovertible evidence that the election was swayed to a level that changed the winner of the race.

        Affidavits are a start, but they’re not enough. Statistical analyses are a start, but they’re not enough. They need to present a rigged voting machine, source code, fraudulent ballots in numbers big enough to catch people’s attention (at least 100 from a single precinct), something more than stats and affidavits.

      • westernsloper

        They will never get those things without real investigations. That is how it is supposed to work. Lawyers present evidence of possible crimes, state AG’s, Feds start investigations. The lawyers do not have power to issue search warrants and seize anything that might prove what you just typed. They can ask for it but they won’t get it. The bogus recount in GA is proof of that.

      • pan fried wylie

        The lawyers do not have power to issue search warrants and seize anything that might prove what you just typed. They can ask for it but they won’t get it.

        “Hello, we believe you’ve committed a violation of standing law, we’d like you to voluntarily submit this physical evidence that proves as much so we can have your freedoms removed in a court of law.”

        “Uhhh, no?”

        “Oh. Alrighty then, here’s my wallet, the account information for my life savings, would you care to rape my Mother, Wife, Sister or murder my children, because that’d all be cool too.”

      • Agent Cooper

        What I don’t understand is why Powell would sign on to such a task if there wasn’t at least a shred of truth and provability.

        Guiliani is a typical pol/grifter without shame so he I understand.

  11. Florida Man

    Hey, how’s your workout routine going, btw?-

    I’ve got a nagging injury in my left arm that hurts to do overhead press or lateral raises. On the bright side, it doesn’t stop me from doing my cardio or other lifts. How is your lifts going?

    • mrfamous

      They’re going good, but at the end of every week I get this foreboding sense that this might be my last day in the gym.

      The COVID Karens around here are begging for a lockdown and throw epic tantrums when they don’t get what they want. It’s a purple state quickly going blue, and the red Gov has already shown himself to a spineless weasel. The gyms are going to get shut down for a third time, I can feel it. The tyrants are feeling extremely emboldened…

      Deadlift = 4 sets of 5 at 325
      Squat = 4 sets of 5 at 245
      Bench = 4 sets of 5 at 185
      OHP (strict) = 4 sets of 8 at 120

      I’m 6’0″, 182 pounds, 49 years old

      • Florida Man

        Damn son! You putting up some serious numbers. Hope you don’t get boxed out by the government.

      • mrfamous

        Thanks. My gym owner (he owns the whole chain, but happens to workout at the one I do at the same time I do) has fought the governor at every step and I assume would continue to do so, so we’ll see.

        Is your OHP pain in your bicep or shoulder? If it’s in the bicep you might have an impingement. I’ve had it before and seated machine presses weren’t too bad. It went away eventually. I did a lot of pitching as a teenager and my right shoulder area has been a bit wonky ever since.

      • Florida Man

        I think it’s the deltoid looking at which muscles are used in dumbbell lateral lift.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Throw very many curveballs? Nowadays, they don’t usually let kids throw very much breaking stuff until they are 14 or 15.

      • pan fried wylie

        Do they even have the motor coordination before then?

      • B.P.

        My kid plays on a quite-competitive 12-and-under team. The level of competition is pretty daunting. They practice year-round. Some of the pitchers throw curves, and pretty damn good ones at that. Most of them have very convincing change-ups. It’s a long way from the “throw it hard in that direction” play I experienced in Little League.

      • pan fried wylie

        I was just speaking from my personal experience of not really finding, like, 90% coordination till 14 or 15 something. 39 next bday, and I’m still refining that shit on the regular.

      • B.P.

        I couldn’t run for shit until I hit 30, and I played football and baseball in high school. Might’ve been a lack of effort.

      • mrfamous

        I did, but that’s not it. Bad fastball mechanics, probably. Or the possibly more likely, pitching hurts arms no matter how hard you try and prevent it.

      • pan fried wylie

        Arms weren’t built to fire projectiles?

        No. Shit.

      • pan fried wylie

        HUMAN arms. obviously i wasn’t referring to the ‘arms’ that WERE specifically invented and refined over centuries to launch projectiles.

    • Riven

      Currently on hiatus, unfortunately. Wah wah. All I want for Christmas is a nice, low-bar back squat.

  12. pan fried wylie

    Pie only eats cauliflower if it’s pickled, which is the last bit of proof that his shit’s all tarded and he talks like a fag. Nothing wrong with pickles, they’re great, but c’mon dude, your deep Euro Sophistication is showing again…

    Cream of broccoli soup, replace half / double recipe with cauliflower. Or just Cream of Cauliflower soup. so there’s steamed & pureed covered.

    Roasted or deep fried, obviously, easy and *chefs kiss*

    Neighbor family growing up, Middle Eastern dude married to a fat White Trash lady, when I was over hanging out with their son, the Dad would make us this awesome pan fried, battered cauliflower. I wish 11yr old me had been smart enough to ask for the recipe, or just pay attention to the prep, dammit.

    • Count Potato

      I like to toss it with Jamaican curry powder and salt, then toss it with ghee or oil, then roast it in a hot oven.

      • Sean

        Jamaican me hungry.

      • prolefeed

        Phrasing? I mean, cauliflower is technically not a salad by itself …

      • Not Adahn

        I do something very similar with powdered chipotles.

    • CPRM

      Battered and fried Cauliflower is amazing. There are a few bars up here that serve it. That with some poppers, fried mushrooms and onion rings makes for a great appetizer platter.

      • Florida Man

        I had a heart attack just reading that.

      • Count Potato

        I miss deep fried artichoke hearts.

      • pan fried wylie

        Baby artichokes, treated like roasted brussle sprouts.

        You’re Welcome.

      • Threedoor

        That sounds amazing.

      • Not Adahn

        Pakoras!

    • Tonio

      I like pickled cauliflower.

      • The Hyperbole

        It’s the best part of any giardiniera.

    • Suthenboy

      *pushes plate of cauliflower over to pan fried Wylie*

      The only veggies containing asparagine that I like are mustard greens and asparagus. You can have all of my cauliflower, pickled or otherwise.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      These are some weird euphemisms.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Gonna need QAnon to decipher.

  13. Tonio

    Okay, I don’t have a stand mixer but have long lusted for one. Kitsch red for me, followed by pro stainless, or retro white.

    • UnCivilServant

      Oh come on, the one I got my mother was only… $300.

      But it has lasted a decade, and survived a houseifre without sign of breaking down.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Ours (Kitchenaid tilt mixer) is pink. If I had to do it over, I’d get a higher grade one. Kneading dough is a bit painful to watch.

      • Florida Man

        We have one, but it never gets used. I don’t know why we NEEDED one.

      • dontreadonme

        I am the same way. I have 3 mixers and never use one…except using the attachment to the Kitchenaide to make sausage. I prefer the workout.

      • Mojeaux

        Ours is pink also, but that is because my husband won it. I would never have spent the money on one myself no matter how much I wanted one (and I did).

        Had I had a choice, I would have chosen red and chrome.

        If I bake yeasty stuff or pie crust, I do not knead it in my mixer, although I have a dough hook. I do use it for cookie dough and it does fine.

      • Tonio

        Once you go bowl-lift (as opposed to head-tilt) you never go back. Also, highest motor wattage you can find. My kitchen is too small for the mixer I want.

      • Not Adahn

        When my mom ugraded hers, I got her tilting one. It still works, and is some sort of green.

      • one true athena

        Yeah I have my mom’s mid-80’s (? I think) one. It’s some mustardy shade of yellow. I keep it in a cupboard with a cover on it though, so doesn’t matter.

      • Surly Knott

        You’re going for a Hobart?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I heard ’86 was the year they were no longer made by Hobart and switched to plastic gears. Dunno if I have that right.

      • pan fried wylie

        Re-greasing mine has been on the TODO list for couple years now, so I’ll have to report back if it ever happens. Or maybe do an article, if I follow through on the refinishing step.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Agreed. Just did the bowl lift transition a few months back when I stripped out the drive gear on my Artisan model making a double batch of pizza (yeah, I’m a dumbass)

    • CPRM

      Outside of cars, I’ve never taken the color of anything I bought into consideration. I’m not a racist (except for cars, they should be red and look like they can go fast *swoons*)

    • Nephilium

      Oh shit. The red is kitschy? I thought it would just run faster!

      Seriously, it was the one I was able to find as an open box return (with everything intact) at a Bed Bath and Beyond. ~25% off before the obligatory 20% off coupon.

      • UnCivilServant

        The red is kitschy? I thought it would just run faster!

        Only if Tonio is an Ork. He never struck me as very Orky.

      • pan fried wylie

        WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

      • Tonio

        Bargain!

    • limey

      I don’t think I’d want one when I could just chuck a mixer attachment in the drill press.

      • Swiss Servator

        Oh, flaunting your machine tool privilege, shitlord?

        nicely done.

      • pan fried wylie

        Funny, I have a drill press attachment for my Kitchenaid.

      • westernsloper

        Holy shit this is genius.

      • pan fried wylie

        Sure, buying a drill press IS genius.

        And if you’re a fucking genius, I’m sure you can afford one already. Jerk.

    • Tulip

      Mine is raspberry pink.

    • Agent Cooper

      We have the one that is dark grey and rough-textured.

      • pan fried wylie

        “Kitchenaid Tacticool”

        /eyeroll

      • Agent Cooper

        I think it was the only left in stock wherever we bought it.

      • pan fried wylie

        Pretty sure that’s why mine is white.

        As i pointed out above, if I ever get around to re-greasing the internals, while I have the body panels off I intended to spraypaint it into a ripe red Chili.

      • pan fried wylie

        And I was eyerolling that they MAKE it that way, not that you bought it.

        #MixOn

      • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

        Yeah, the only one they had on sale when we went to buy was the fire-engine-red one. Didn’t care one way or the other.

    • The Hyperbole

      Mine is the one that says Hamilton Beach on it, and is marked down about $500.

      • Jarflax

        You guys call your kitchen orphans some odd names.

      • pan fried wylie

        Lil’ “Makemeasammich” is still my favorite of the lot.

      • pan fried wylie

        ‘Sammi’ for short.

      • Jarflax

        I miss Little Saucier. That flambe accident was tragic. Her younger brother simply doesn’t have the same skill with egg yolk.

      • pan fried wylie

        Litter Saucy-er. I hate him.

      • pan fried wylie

        Little. legit, finger-brain-based typographical error there.

        It’s a tuhmah.

      • pan fried wylie

        Yeah, figures.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    It’s complicated

    “When people set fire to a building, it really does not liberate me one bit,” said Mingus Mapps, a Black resident who won a seat on the Portland City Council this month. “It does the opposite. It fuels the political culture that makes racism possible.”

    ——-

    The anarchists believe working within the system is futile and say the political order and capitalist economy must be torn down.

    Biden, as head of a party supporting the free-market system and private property rights, is no better than Trump, more than a dozen said in interviews.

    Distrusting the media, all refused to give their names. But pamphlets distributed at a recent rally outline their far-left philosophies.

    “Abolish All Mayors” — the title of one booklet — advocates “the complete democratization and community control of all city bureaus and the abolition of the police.”

    “Why We Break Windows” advocates an end to private property and invokes the Boston Tea Party to explain the point of “political vandalism” during revolts.

    “Shop windows represent segregation,” it says. “To smash a shop window is to contest all the boundaries that cut through this society: black and white, rich and poor, included and excluded.”

    In some ways, the anarchists have served the Black Lives Matter movement in Portland, creating a spectacle that drew attention to the cause of racial justice after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

    Some of the anarchists have also been involved in antifa, the movement that clashes with far-right groups.

    But the violence has also caused problems for Black Lives Matter.

    White Marxists know what’s best for the black folks. Always have, always will.

    • CPRM

      “Why We Break Windows” advocates an end to private property and invokes the Boston Tea Party to explain the point of “political vandalism” during revolts.

      I didn’t read that pamphlet, but I’m guessing they missed the mark. The ‘Tea Tax’ was actually a ‘tax cut’, but only for those favored by the crown; the protest was against the disparity in taxation between the favored and the ‘normal’ folk. (Which was spurred by some of those involved being ‘pirates’ in the avoidance of taxes on similar goods)

    • B.P.

      So the LA Times defines Antifa as a movement (perhaps just an idea) that clashes with far-right groups. I guess when no far-right groups are around they still gotta get up to something.

  15. grrizzly

    1,700,000 people were put under house arrest by mistake.
    A Whole Australian State Shut Down Because of a Takeout Pizza That Didn’t Exist

    Soon after authorities in South Australia state were told a man had contracted Covid-19 after buying a takeout pizza from a restaurant with an infected employee, they ordered more than 1.7 million people to stay at home.

    Schools were shut. Outdoor exercise was banned for six days. The state premier—worried by how quickly a virus outbreak had nearly spiraled out of control in neighboring Victoria state—asked the federal government to halt international flights into Adelaide, Australia’s fifth-biggest city by population.

    Except, as it turned out, the man was an employee of the pizza restaurant, who likely contracted the virus from a co-worker. Health authorities say he misled them, sending them scrambling to find other customers who may have been infected.

    “Had this person been truthful to the contact-tracing teams, we would not have gone into a six-day lockdown,” said Grant Stevens, the state’s top ranking police officer.

    To authorities, a customer contracting Covid-19 simply by purchasing a pizza was an indication the virus could be spreading widely in the community. It also suggested a virulent strain of Covid-19 could be circulating, with people potentially being infected through contact with surfaces such as cardboard pizza boxes. Instead, the man had worked alongside his infected colleague in the kitchen at the Woodville Pizza Bar in suburban Adelaide, which narrowed the group who could have also become infected.

    • Sean

      Sounds legit.

      Science, bitches!

    • CPRM

      It WaSN’T A MISsTakE, iT WAs A LiE And He ShouLd HaNg FeR It!!!!1111!

    • Count Potato

      Not the Bee?

      • UnCivilServant

        Not the Bee! Not the Bee!

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s a cockup on so many levels. At best, maybe a handful more Aussies will realize how incompetent their fearlessful leaders are. Hah. Yeah right.

      • grrizzly

        Aussies on Twitter naturally blame the guy who lied about a pizza AND the owner of the pizza place who should have known that the guy wasn’t just a customer. That’s about it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yeah, I saw that at the other place. No blame for the ones doing the lockup or the ones who fucked up the investigation. And certainly no examination of why a lockup would be warranted for a single event. Or a misinterpreted single event.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So much for Mad Max.

      A nation of pussies.

    • limey

      Good timing; i’m already in my bunk.

    • DEG

      #1 – nice opener. I looked at her iChive gallery. I suspect breast implants.

      #2 and #44 are the same woman. Her iChive gallery is small but top notch.

      #10 is cute.

      The first hit for a Google image search of #28 is apropos

      #32 looks like Charlotte McKinney.

      Hello #39.

      #41 – face diaper. Disqualified.

      #43 – good IChive gallery.

      Good gallery overall.

  16. Ownbestenemy

    Gave the teens a choice for dinner…gumbo, jambalaya or etouffee

    I don’t really care which since I can make any of them.

    • pistoffnick

      I love some good Cajun cooking. My wife did her internship with a lady from the sticks of Louisiana. She showed us how her family makes shrimp etouffee. I promptly proposed a 4 way marriage, but got shot down.

    • pan fried wylie

      Gave the teens a choice for dinner

      Not really.

      “Hey kids, how much liquid you want in your shrimp and rice!”

      • Jarflax

        LOL, I had the exact same thought.

      • pan fried wylie

        “I don’t really care which because I get what I want regardless.”

      • pan fried wylie

        We call it Democratic Dinner Night

      • pan fried wylie

        Well, I call it that. Fuck whatever you call it, peon.

  17. Nephilium

    Well, most of us have illegal curfew orders in place now, so why not hang out with the rest of us. It’s Friday, so I’ll kick off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Rantfest at 20:00 Eastern.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Thanks Neph. Between cooking, Valhalla and you guys I might pop in for a gander

    • Tulip

      Thanks Neph!

    • DEG

      Thanks! I don’t know if I’ll join. I think a stomach bug whacked me this afternoon.

  18. Mojeaux

    @Mad Scientist said in the dedthred:

    So, I’m not sure how this works, but I know I paid exactly ZERO dollars for the system on my roof and the battery. In return, I buy my power from the company that installed it, and it’ll be about $120 a month less than I’m paying Edison. And if we generate more than we use, the true-up credit at the end of the year goes to us instead of the solar panel company. I have no idea how they’re making money on this, unless it’s heavily subsidized by someone.

    Our energy company has requested a utilities meeting to impose a $25(? can’t remember) surcharge on people with solar power, and if they won’t go for that, then a surcharge on everybody.

    • Florida Man

      So they nudge everyone to get solar, then penalize them for getting solar? Man, I can’t wait until we get Mr. Fusion and can tell the power companies to suck on a brick.

      • Mojeaux

        Solar is not pushed around here (KC). I would even say it is quite discouraged.

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, it doesn’t work when the panels keep blowing off your roof.

      • Animal

        Paging Mr. Shipstone, Mr. Daniel Shipstone.

  19. Rebel Scum

    Harsanyi
    on the case.

    Note the celebratory tone in which the attorney general — allegedly the state’s top law-enforcement officer, not a babysitter or even a health official — talks about stopping Virginia gun owners from peacefully assembling and practicing their Second Amendment rights.

    Herring found a judge who let him shut down The Nation’s Gun Show, which his office called “a massive potentially 25,000-person indoor gun show” that “would most certainly become a superspreader event and could infect hundreds if not thousands of Virginians with COVID.” Knowing that it would be financially untenable for them to continue, Herring demanded the event be open to only 250 people when it has a capacity for 25,000.

    Herring’s contentions are all risible. There is no evidence that the 50,000-square-foot facility that was to house the event — one that requires masks and social distancing and operates at 50 percent capacity — will become a superspreader event. If it were so, Herring would be fighting to shut down every Walmart and Target in Virginia.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Of all the Virginia pols, I despise Herring the most.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    “a massive potentially 25,000-person indoor gun show” that “would most certainly become a superspreader event and could infect hundreds if not thousands of Virginians with COVID.”

    I miss “You’ll shoot yer eye out, kid.”

    • CPRM

      It’s amazing how only ‘right-wing’ things are superpreader events. This bug sure is ideological.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Newsome agrees while waving from Maui

    • Gustave Lytton

      “You don’t really need a vote abortiongun.”

  21. mrfamous

    Whatever ones opinions on masks or lockdowns, doesn’t it start to sink in with people that if a bunch of restrictions don’t seem to prevent outbreaks, then tripling down on those same restrictions seems unlikely to help any? Regardless of _why_ the restrictions aren’t working, seems like new restrictions wouldn’t work for those exact same reasons. What am I missing?

    • Ownbestenemy

      They want it, that is the difference. They want someone to tell them when it is safe, when they can do business, when they can go to the park, when they can dine out.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      People like the theater. It makes them feel safer. It’s fake empathy from the politicians.

      • one true athena

        Yes, it’s sickening how many tweets in defense of any of these measures boil down to “they mean well! They’re protecting us!”

        Of course everyone of these people also declare they’re “super antifascist, totally would fight fascists in WW2”. No, you idiots would definitely be throwing Jews on trains because you’d been told it would make you safer.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’m giggling because I’m imagining a screaming Karen staggering around on Omaha Beach screaming about how this shit is too dangerous and why isn’t Ike imposing a lockdown RIGHT NOW!

      • creech

        “Oh my God. This gun crazy dude just stepped on the egg nest of the threatened Normandy Beach Plover.
        And where’s your fucking mask, Medic?”

      • pan fried wylie

        Over there, with the rest of their face.

    • Suthenboy

      What are you missing? The purpose of the lockdowns, that’s what.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That people are stupid herd animals?

    • Agent Cooper

      You see it with stupid Twitter replies like “Thank you, Governor, so much for protecting us!”

      The dissolution of personal responsibility sickens me.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Scrolling through the comments (I’m a bit masochistic today), you can see that there are a ton of bots on both sides. Same comments, same phraseology by multiple commenters.

    • DEG

      You’re missing the Wreckers and Kulaks that just won’t do as their told.

      It’s always their fault. It’s never the policy.

      • DEG

        “they’re told”

        /puts dunce cap on

      • Jarflax

        Grammar wrecker!

      • pan fried wylie

        No, no, no.

        He was HOARDING the proper grammar.

        GET HIM!!!!!

  22. trshmnstr the terrible

    Hey Ozy, if you’re hanging around I have a quick question about your JAG stint.

    Did y’all have any JAG specific continuing legal education requirements above and beyond your state bar requirement?

    • Ownbestenemy

      All I know is medical doctors that couldn’t keep or pay malpractice insurance went into the officer corps. Doesn’t answer your question I know.

    • CPRM

      I hope he says they were required to watch JAG.

      • slumbrew

        In-her-prime Catherine Bell was a bit of alright.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Hail Ceasar!

    • Not Adahn

      Please tell me one of the subjects was named Grodd.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’ve already seen that movie.

    • Suthenboy

      That doesnt seem very wise.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I hate shitty unethical animal experimentation like this.

      Those monkeys didn’t do anything to deserve such treatment.

      Why not splice human genes into politician brains? Who cares what happens to them? And doG knows they could use bigger and smarter brains.

  23. Count Potato

    “GENDER CRITICAL activist journalist Joani Walsh threatened to take her own life in bizarre plot to ‘bring down’ Stephanie Hayden and to send the note to Hayden’s bereaved relative in last act of revenge. Walsh wanted to be a martyr for the anti-#transgender cause.”

    https://twitter.com/flyinglawyer73/status/1329815740980015105

    WTF?

    • Hyperion

      I wish these people would stop making promises they won’t keep. We have a population problem, didn’t anyone read Population Bomb?

  24. Derpetologist

    Since I missed it – I’d say I’m doing better than my parents money-wise. Before the Army, I never had the same job for more than 2 years. Had about dozen jobs since the age of 16, including working in a liquor store in Chicago for 3 days. Technically, I wasn’t fired. A scout is thrifty. No debt, plenty of savings, Army bonus, and a nice inheritance from my dear grandmother who also left me her collection of college Latin books.

    I was hoping to have a wife and kids by this age. My parents and grandparents hit that milestone before they turned 30. There’s still time and I’m in no hurry.

    Like that song, I did things my way. I paid a price, but it was worth it.

    In other news, I finished the nerd bible, AKA the Lord of the Rings.

    [conga line tune] spoiler, spoiler, SPOILER! spoiler, spoiler, Spoiler!

    The bad guy loses. It was amusing to see Saruman reduced to being a 2-bit thug and then failing at that too. The most dreaded tyrant is at heart, just a bully who needs a punch in the nose.

    From now on, I will shout Melkor! whenever I struggle to open something.

    • Swiss Servator

      “Mellon”. Melkor was basically Lucifer in the Silmarillion.

    • Hyperion

      There really is no comparison between money and freedom

      So, I’ll put it like this:

      I have far more money than my parents had and have way more potential to do things with money than they ever had.

      That being said, they were 1000x more free than what I am right now and were not constantly day and night being threatened by the dictats of scores of tyrants both great and small.

      So, no, I’m way worse off than my parents were.

      • Florida Man

        I miss the freedom loving days of prohibition, segregation, founding of the FBI, gun control, gold confiscation, EPA and illegal gay marriage.

      • mrfamous

        I do however miss the freedom loving days of November 20, 2019. I’d be on my way to happy hour at the Salty Sow (RIP) right about now.

      • Florida Man

        It’s an ebb and flow…of shit.

      • pan fried wylie

        Shit rolls downhill, and we’ll all be buried down there eventually.

      • Jarflax

        Don’t fall prey to the “everrything is worse now than ever” fallacy. At various points in your parent’s lives the United States had rationing of basic food stuffs, ration coupons for gasoline, price controls, wage freezes, attempted nationalization of major industries, a 90% tax bracket, a communist vice president, a ban on private ownership of gold, and significantly tighter restrictions on firearm ownership.

        Liberty is under threat, but it has been under threat, and just as serious threat for most of the past century.

      • Tulip

        Exactly

      • mrfamous

        “rationing of basic food stuffs, ration coupons for gasoline, price controls, wage freezes, attempted nationalization of major industries, a 90% tax bracket, a communist vice president, a ban on private ownership of gold, and significantly tighter restrictions on firearm ownership”

        I’m assuming you just copypasted that from the Biden/Harris website ‘platform’ section? 😀

      • pan fried wylie

        No, my Mom pulled it off perfectly.

        Born 1960, died 2017. Grew up in the full-bloom of the post-war-boom, full sexual liberation her whole adult life, died before shit started hitting the fan.

        Nice Job, Mom.

      • Gadfly

        a communist vice president

        Who?

      • Jarflax

        Henry Wallace

      • Threedoor

        We’re getting another communist VP.

      • Derpetologist

        I think perspective plays a big part. My grandfather got drafted for the duration in 1942. We still have his WW2 uniform somewhere. It would probably fit me. He gave me the Army clothes he bought as surplus in the 70s. Whenever I wear the old jacket, I get compliments and questions.

        I spent 2 years in Tanzania eating beans and ugali* everyday and taking baths with cold water from a bucket. And some days there wasn’t any water. Pretty much everything else in life is a cakewalk after that.

        Anyway, I feel like I’ve had a fairly comfortable life, certainly compared to people who experienced things like the Depression and WW2. And the kind of hardships people face in poor countries would break a lot of Americans.

        Tough times don’t last, but tough people do. As learned in the primary song, we all have work, but nobody shirks, put your shoulder to the wheel.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYV-flkDTDs

        *the national food – it’s a stiff porridge made from corn flour and water – tastes like wet sawdust

      • Yusef Von Gomez The Blind

        I’m eating Mac and cheese with hamburger, being broke never tasted so good,

      • Derpetologist

        Fames optimus est coquus

        Hunger is the best cook

        They have donuts over there, you know. They’re called maandazi. I ate a ton.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGyO7SE5BmQ

      • pan fried wylie

        Add a dallop of sourcream.

        Now you’re a fucking gourmet for an extra dollar. Bit of salsa, or any other sort of pickled/canned veg you can think of, not too much liquid.

        Mac & Cheese is a platform for Greatness.

        MACA.

  25. pan fried wylie

    Flood control and water impoundment for farming and other uses hasn’t gone away.

    Fresh Water? Pfffffttttt, who needs THAT in California? BLOW THOSE DAMNS ALREADY!

  26. trshmnstr the terrible

    I’m debating heading over to the range this evening. On one hand, I haven’t shot in 8 months and want to knock off the rust and try out the new M1A. On the other hand, I don’t want to drop $120 on an hour of shooting.

    • LJW

      I’ve been staying away because ammo for sale has been practically non-existent and I don’t want to dig into my stock.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’ve been waiting because I’m still paying $40/month for an annual membership to the range in VA. I’ll eventually get a membership here, but paying $20 for an hour on the range plus $40 for 50 rounds of 9 plus $50 for 60 rounds of 223 plus $25 for 20 rounds of 308 is just a lot of money. That, and even if I’m willing to pay those prices (I’m not), you mentioned availability being an issue, and you’re right.

        Maybe I’ll go and just shoot 308 and 40…. Decisions, decisions.

  27. pan fried wylie

    I like the idea of covering more roofs with solar panels just to decentralize the grid.

    Natgas-autoreforming combined-heat-power stationary fuel cell systems.

    Natgas -> Electricity, heat, water, CO2. Install a tank if you don’t trust / don’t have nat gas piped in.

    Not sure if commercially available yet…I probably couldn’t afford it if so. BETTER THAN FUCKING BATTERIES.

    • Mojeaux

      In some nebulous future, I would like to have a camper-trailer for an office. (If I were to suddenly lose my husband, I’d just get a truck and a 5th wheel, travel, and carry my house with me.)

      Anyway, I’ve been back and forth with myself over solar v propane v gas generator. For an office, I would need juice for a small fridge, AC, lights, chargers, and computers.

      For a house, I would want to boondock a lot and I would want an incinerating toilet.

      That said, NONE of this is ever going to come to fruition, but it’s something I like fantasizing about.

      • pan fried wylie

        you’re looking at like 2kw+ of solar panel, to run all that stuff AND get some charge to the batterybank at the same time. That’s like a whole RV roof, I think . 1m-sq panel is like 150W output, under peak sun, last time I looked, if I’m recalling correctly. Also, at about 15% efficiency, with 1kw of avg solar radiation per sqM, theoretical Max is only around 150W.

        At the equator, with 12hrs of sun per day and a tracking system that could point the panel at the sun for 12hrs a day…

        150W * 12hrs = 1.8KWHrs

        Let’s say your minifridge conveniently draws 150W, and runs about an hour a day to maintain temp. Then it needs 0.15KWHr a day.

        So with ideal solar input, one panel could charge your battery bank and run your fridge. De-rating for YOUR solar conditions is where it gets tricky.

        You won’t have a tracking system most likely. Are you going to move the vehicle around throughout the day to obtain better panel angel in relation to the sun? Otherwise, lets say 4hrs midday with good sun.

        I dunno, I’ve had too many drinks for this to be a very helpful presentation, but….I’d go with a fuel cell system in MY fantasy.

      • Agent Cooper

        “but it’s something I like fantasizing about.”

        Especially the dead husband part …

        JUST KIDDING!

      • Pope Jimbo

        She said she dreamed of her husband being as stiff as a board. I don’t think she meant dead though….

      • Mojeaux

        He has been stiff as a board countless times during our marriage.

      • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

        I’m listening…

      • pan fried wylie

        Are you a fan of splinters? Because Mo likes splinters.

      • Mojeaux

        Like most smart men who are not also fantastically wealthy he’s worth more dead than alive. ?

      • pan fried wylie

        It’s our curse for being smart enough to fall for life insurance.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Let me restate: I like the idea of some amount of decentralization in the power grid to make it more robust and less susceptible catastrophic events.

      Whether it is solar, natgas or unicorn farts, I don’t care.

      • mrfamous

        It seems like if CA persists in this, some level of decentralization is going to occur whether they like it or not and whether it’s a good idea or not. I mean, black markets flourished in the Soviet Union. Folks will start looking for ways to generate power without permission.

      • pan fried wylie

        Abortion powered generators.

    • pistoffnick

      I want a small self contained nuclear reactor in my basement. Buy fuel for 5 years. Trade it out for a new model when it is spent.

  28. pan fried wylie

    If you bought a non-Kitchen Aid mixer, enjoy hauling that heavyass piece of shit to the dump next year.

    *caresses his Kitchenaid that’s old enough to go buy me liquor*

    • Surly Knott

      Mine’s a Cuisinart — rated higher than the Kitchenaid by America’s Test Kitchen the year I bough it. It doesn’t get much use, but does a great job when I’m making Angel Food cake (gluten free, from scratch).
      My food processor is a Kitchenaid.
      Apparently I’m a contrarian 😉

      • pan fried wylie

        My food processor is a Kitchenaid.
        Apparently I’m a contrarian ?

        No, because mine’s a black’n’decker.

      • pan fried wylie

        (I was really hoping my processor was a Cuisinart, dammit, Sorry.)

      • UnCivilServant

        I… don’t own a food processor.

      • Jarflax

        None of us ‘owns’ one

        Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

        We ‘adopt’ them.

      • UnCivilServant

        You’re not one of those robo-rights radicals, are you?

      • Jarflax

        We prefer the parentless to the lifeless round these parts.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      An actual kill list would not be sent to anyone.

      • Gustave Lytton

        By fake, I meant a complete forgery.

        On the other hand, getting the media to list potential targets could be interesting. They almost did it too.

    • Suthenboy

      It’s fake. These false flags are getting tiresome. They really think after the 5,683,923 times they have been caught that anyone is going to buy this?

  29. Pope Jimbo

    Tundra and I had lunch today and came up with what we think is a great idea.

    Owners of restaurants that are being shutdown by governors should turn them into ad hoc distance learning centers. Parents pay a small fee and drop the kids off. Kids can sit at a table and use wifi to do their distance learning. Kids get out of the house and have some semblance of a routine. Also get to hang with other kids. Wait staff could act as half assed hall monitors to make sure that kids don’t stab each other.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I shared that with the guy I used to do a lot of business traveling with. We were laughing that you could probably get a cheap enough ticket out of Midway in Chicago to make that feasible, but the problem was that the service at Midway is so atrocious that you’d be an idiot for trying that stunt.

        Midway is the single worst airport I have ever been in when it comes to getting a drink. One Friday when I was trying to get back to Minneapolis, the bartender (who wasn’t working that fast to begin with) announced to the packed bar that her backup hadn’t shown up that day and it was time for her 15 minute break and then turned around and refused to speak to anyone for 15 minutes.

      • Nephilium

        I got stuck in Midway with a 3 hour delay once, and the bars shut down at the start of it. It was hellish.

      • mrfamous

        Thereby proving that they are smarter than the dipshits passing all of these horeshit laws. Make one of them Prime Minister instead.

  30. Derpetologist

    help me write my next satire – pick your favorite or suggest your own

    Philistines Push for Common-Sense Sling Control After Tragedy

    Giggling CDC Scientists Order All Americans to Wear Paper Bags with Eye-Holes

    Smug Preachers, Survivalists Keep Saying ‘I Told You So’

    • Mojeaux

      Smug Preachers, Survivalists Keep Saying ‘I Told You So’

      Bzzzt. This is not satire.

      • Derpetologist

        QUIET, YOU!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Sampson gives teary testimony at Senate Committee hearing on the importance of properly licensing hair stylists.

      • Derpetologist

        I can work with this.

        Famous Strongman Dies After Defying Lock-down for Haircut

    • DEG

      Good.

    • Jarflax

      Bureaucrats need to be taught fear. I’m not advocating any particular lessons, but they won’t stop pushing until they start to fear consequences.

    • B.P.

      Didn’t Fauchi say people should not shake hands ever again?

  31. Derpetologist

    today’s language lesson

    Sahib (rhymes with saw-hip) means close friend or companion in Arabic. The earliest companions of OG Mohamed are sometimes called by the plural, Ashaab. When the word migrated to the languages of South Asia, it came to mean a hunting guide, and later any skilled European hunter or soldier would be called Sahib as a token of respect. George Orwell was called to kill a rogue elephant in Burma because he was the local sahib.

    The Celtic equivalent of sahib is ghillie, which means boy in Scots Gaelic. Boys were often hired as hunting guides, trackers, and gun bearers. This where the term Ghille Suit comes from. A famous Irish song is Mo Ghille Mear (My Brave Boy)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxjvNUNXhkU

    • Jarflax

      And when the Gallant Laddie led his army out to bloody defeat, and dreams of a free Scotland faded in the Culloden mud, the tattered remnants were shipped across the water in chains. And their sons formed the backbone of the army that beat Cornwallis at Yorktown. Sometimes liberty finds a way.

      • Derpetologist

        That time a bunch of Irishmen stole a submarine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenian_Ram

        ***
        During extensive trials, Holland made numerous dives and test-fired the gun using dummy projectiles. However, due to funding disputes within the IRB and disagreement over payments from the IRB to Holland, the IRB stole Fenian Ram and the Holland III prototype in November 1883.[3] Although Holland III accidentally sank in the East River, the Fenians took the Fenian Ram to New Haven, Connecticut, but discovered that no one knew how to operate it. Holland refused to help. Unable to use or sell the boat, the Brotherhood had the Ram hauled into a shed on the Mill River.
        ***

        History repeats – first as a tragedy and then as a Monty Python skit

        How do you accidentally sink a submarine? Like this?

      • pan fried wylie

        History repeats – first as a tragedy and then as a Monty Python skit

        “No, I do believe we got that racist garbage cancelled. *dusts off hands, resumes whiting-out history book*”

  32. Sean

    Oh my god. They have teenagers wearing masks to play basketball or football.

    ?

    • Q Continuum

      This isn’t going to stop until people stop it.

      • westernsloper

        I got my first talking down for not being masked up today since the first day of this idiocy. Old geizer with his mask falling off his face got within two feet of me to ask why I wasn’t taking this seriously and wearing a mask? He claimed he had three friends who have died and this is serious! This makes this man a friend of almost 1/3 of all deaths in the county. All of the 10 deaths are out of nursing homes. I stepped back and muttered JFC fuck off. The asshole then grabbed what he wanted from the cooler in front of us and then proceeded to go behind the counter into food prep area and help himself to whatever he needed there. I was so taken back I was speechless. I don’t shop there often because it is the store the insufferable assholes shop at (read Telluride) but they have ready made sushi rolls that are not bad.

      • pan fried wylie

        Ready made sushi rolls. It’s like you want to get sick.

        “…w/e, I got my sushi, paid for my gas and was on my way.”

    • Derpetologist

      Wait to you see a battalion of guys in omnigogs march by.

      [anguished Zoidberg groan]

    • Urthona

      Here in Texas my daughters have been playing soccer since May without facemasks.

      Although the eldest daughters’ coach just got COVID.

      Although he’ll be done with COVID shortly and won’t have to worry about this shit anymore.

    • DEG

      I think #6 is Beth Lily.

      #37 – Aussiestan in happier times.

      Good gallery.

  33. Pope Jimbo

    A ray of sunshine in Minnesoda. Of course it won’t make much difference around here for another 6 months or so.

    The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted Wednesday to allow anyone to go topless in the city’s parks without being ticketed.

    Under city and state law, it’s legal for anyone to be topless in public. But a Minneapolis park ordinance continued to make bared “female breasts” in city parks and parkways grounds for an indecent exposure citation.

    • Derpetologist

      “You Must Be This Ugly to Be Nude”

    • Pope Jimbo

      Yay! Posting next to Q makes this all the more funny!

      • TARDis

        Indeed. But how do the GlibBroads feel about it?

        Free the nipple already! Even if it looks at the ground.

      • Jarflax

        Dude NSFW has a meaning! That falls under NSFB.

      • Not Adahn

        She can’t be all bad, she has a Border Collie.

    • pan fried wylie

      “Meanwhile the parks remain closed to all visitors.”

  34. Pope Jimbo

    Totality of circs!

    I demand to see the body cam footage.

  35. Pope Jimbo

    Biden can secure Peace in our Time, so says the brilliant Ilhan Omar.

    President Biden has a tremendous opportunity to reverse this. Instead of siding with one group of dictators over another, we should position ourselves at an equal distance from both, allowing ourselves to be honest brokers, protecting our national security and interests while promoting human rights and democracy. We can hold Iran accountable for its human rights violations while also holding Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the UAE accountable.

    This applies to the occupation as well. Ignoring the suffering of the Palestinians runs counter to our most basic values. Moreover, it threatens our national security. No less a figure than Trump’s former defense secretary said that the United States pays “a military price every day” for our role in perpetuating the occupation. As I have said before, we must reinsert the call for a two-state solution with full human rights and self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians back into the public debate with urgency.

    Another 4 years of Trump would have been devastating to the pro-PLO yahoos here. As more arab states made deals with Israel and left the Palestinians more and more isolated, the yahoos here would have lost their minds.

    • Agent Cooper

      This will be one of the biggest tragedies of the post-Trump era.

      • hayeksplosives

        Well, Dems have proven over and over that they have no use for any of (((them))) that aren’t self loathing pro-democrat-socialist types.

    • Rebel Scum

      Another 4 years of Trump and we might see an Israel/S.A./UAE/etc. coalition depose the Mullahs in Iran. We can’t have that!

      • Jarflax

        Make Wahabism Great Again

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’d take the Shia over the Wahabis, they’re considerably more tolerant and open-minded. Really over Sunni Islam in general.

      • Jarflax

        I am not at all a fan of Iran, but the fawning over Saudi Arabia befuddles me. The enemy of my enemy is NOT necessarily my friend. Hitler being evil does not make Stalin good. Bin Laden, and 15 of the 19 911 perpetrators came from the same country, and none came from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, or Pakistan. I understand the difference between extremists and their homelands, but I am really tired of us being used as the Saudi’s janissaries.

  36. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Hollywood Decides to Bestow an Emmy on Andrew Cuomo, to Celebrate His TV-Friendly Mass Murder of Thousands of Grandpas and Grandmas”

    http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=391372

    I for one think it’s about time he was recognized for all of his hard work regardless of what all of you whiners think. Sometimes to address a crisis you have to break a few eggs, in this case old folks in nursing homes, you know?

    • Urthona

      Already lol’ed on social media.

      He literally presided over the worst COVID numbers in the entire first world.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’d be hard to to pick a less appealing person to build a personality cult around. Maybe Ilhan Omar but she has one too unfortunately.

      • Jarflax

        This is the part that I find most infuriating. I can respect those who have a lower tolerance for risk than I do; the disease is not the joke many here like to call it (including me on occasion) it has a death toll somewhere between 3 and 10 times that of a normal flu. I can understand their grasping at straws like masks and curfews, even while despising those pushing them against all evidence. What I cannot accept is the narrative that the Governor and Mayor who presided over the one part of the country that actually had truly disastrous numbers of deaths are taken seriously when they address the rest of the country, which had deaths ranging from no increase over normal numbers to a minor increase.

        This is all a result of the idiocy of equating suffering with heroic virtue. You are not a hero because bad things happen to you. Your heroism, or cowardice, is defined by how you respond to those bad things. You are not a great leader because the world did not end when something horrible happened under your watch (and this includes Giuliani as well). The world is resilient and survives disasters in spite of government responses far more often than because of them.

      • Viking1865

        FDR is considered the greatest President of the 20th century because of the misery he chose to inflict on the nation. Cuomo worship is just another manifestation of that.

      • Rebel Scum

        The activist / executive power-grabbing presidents get lauded. The guys that just did the job are lost to history.

      • westernsloper

        I do not call the disease a joke. It is not a joke any more than the flu is a joke. They both kill some people. I do not believe the vid has killed even 3 times more people than a bad flu year though. We will never know how many people this has killed because the numbers have became a joke. You can’t put people who die in car accidents down as Covid deaths and then tell me to believe the numbers. A bad flu year is 60 to 80,000 deaths and that is probably an accurate number that will be reached with Covid once the Died With Covid is pulled out of the count by some honest person.

      • Jarflax

        60,000 -80, 000 is the very highest end of flu death years. The normal spread is closer to 20-50 thousand (I am perfectly willing to stipulate that flu death numbers are far from exact). I also grant you that we don’t have accurate Covid numbers, but since my point was about people’s fear level the stated numbers are relevant.

      • pan fried wylie

        You’ve forgotten the concept of the Cruel Joke.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      “They were going to give him a Grammy but he just would have murdered her.”

    • rhywun

      “not-the-bee”

    • mikey

      But Short Tony said NY’s response was “beautiul!”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Fairly young guy in fairly good shape, he’ll be OK.

      • Jarflax

        I would be genuinely afraid to go to a hospital if I were him. Too many ways some woke nurse can end you.

      • hayeksplosives

        “Medication time.” Says Nurse Rached.

    • Yusef Von Gomez The Blind

      And nothing else happened……

  37. DEG

    After around just five weeks of training in the gym’s “Prime Time” classes — training sessions for seniors — he was already seeing a noticeable improvement in his physical strength. It allowed him to be more capable on his feet. He didn’t even need his cane.

    Excellent.

    Novikov, however, won in part because of his performance in the partial deadlift. The 24-year-old lifted a 1,185-pound bar roughly 18 inches off the ground, which bested the previous world record at a sanctioned event in 1983, according to a news release.

    I was scratching my head at why this counted, then I saw the picture.

  38. Derpetologist

    apologies if this was said already

    It’s possible that there was both widespread voter fraud AND that Biden would have won without it anyway.

    If it’s possible for Trump to win a close race fair and square, it’s possible for him to lose fair and square.

    I will hold judgement on whether there was massive, organized fraud until I see a smoking gun.

    • UnCivilServant

      Key question – What would you accept as “a smoking gun”?

      • Jarflax

        A 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano.

      • DEG

        Nicely done.

      • juris imprudent

        +1 magic bullet

    • Sean

      It’s possible that someday I’ll bang a supermodel.

      • pan fried wylie

        Do you REALLY need to get pelvis-stabbed that badly?

      • pan fried wylie

        *stabbed by pelvic bones

      • Rebel Scum

        See Q’s link above for that cushion for the pushin’.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The court cases won’t go anywhere without overwhelming evidence. If the accusations they’re making are backed up with concrete evidence we’ll know soon enough, if not Trump’s done.

      • juris imprudent

        Except that no ref in NFL history made more blown calls or was more in love with his explanations of a call. That is one meme that is so unintentionally ironic it is unbelievable.

      • pan fried wylie

        That isn’t THAT’S THE JOKE? I’m so confused…

      • pan fried wylie

        A few thousand verified dead people voting would not be enough to sway the results, so who cares, shut the fuck up and hand over everything you own now and the results of your 20hr shifts in the labor camps till you die.

        This fucken guy…

      • The Hyperbole

        The problem with that is even if you prove dead people voted you can’t prove who they voted for. Maga Hats will scream that obviously only Democrats cheat and thus it has to be that the “dead” votes are all for Biden, but it could be a very smart counter fraud operation, finagle “dead votes” for Trump then cry foul, get fake votes for Trump counted and at the same time get real votes for Biden cancelled. Just the kind of shenanigans a smart hustler like Trump would come up with, as far as I’m concerned every voting irregularity at this pint was probably perpetrated by Trump, he’s the only one smart enough to pull this kind of grift off.

      • pan fried wylie

        I mean, yeah, it’s only been a trope of dead people voting democrat my entire life, but sure, now they’re voting Trump.

        But whatever we do, we definitely cannot investigate the actual ballots as submitted to confirm that one way or the other, so obviously Trump cheated. How have we not impeached that cheating, murdering, Keys To The Office Clutching, literal mother-raping motherfucker yet?

      • The Hyperbole

        But whatever we do, we definitely cannot investigate the actual ballots as submitted to confirm that one way or the other

        Exactly that’s why Trumps stealing of this election is so smart, he knows we can’t prove it, he’s subverting the time honored tradition of the secret ballot for his own evil purposes.

      • pan fried wylie

        ohhh, duh, we got 5D Checkmated, AGAIN, goddamn he’s SO CLEVER!!!111

        *facepalm* x1.35×10^7

      • The Hyperbole

        Wait, you think we can “investigate” ballots to confirm who the dead people voted for?

      • pan fried wylie

        Man, I don’t know shit. I don’t vote. I keep to myself and wish everyone else would TRY to do the fucking same.

        I’m glad I never put money in my 401k, cause now I don’t have to scramble to save that shit.

        Dying has always been MY retirement plan, Suckers.

      • pan fried wylie

        Like, I can barely keep track of any of the election bullshit. “Numbers, blah, ballot, blah”

        None of it looks legit. None of it looked legit last election. Or the one before that. Or th…

        I dont vote because voting on who gets to steal from me to decide who else besides me gets that money has never seemed legit in the first place, so who fucking cares.

        Arguing over the legitimacy of my mugging provides me with very little amusement, but the subthread about standmixers died. So here we are.

      • Tulip

        Why are you blowing off zoom?

    • grrizzly

      Given what we know the deep state, both parties, the media did to stop Trump from becoming President in 2016, I believe that Trump won his re-election unless I’m presented with overwhelming evidence otherwise. There’s concrete proof that there’s no rule of law in this country. But I’m supposed to believe that the presidential election was remotely fair. No, it wasn’t.

      • The Hyperbole

        450,000 votes is fairly overwhelming evidence.

      • pan fried wylie

        The votes we’re questioning the legitimacy of are the fairly overwhelming evidence.

        Good enough for me, here’s my earnings.

  39. DEG

    New Lil Rona Panic restrictions in Philly, plus a lawsuit

    In light of the restrictions, some business owners are taking the matter to court. A lawsuit has been filed against the City of Philadelphia and Mayor Jim Kenney.

    Attorney Brian Fritz represents “Philadelphia Restaurant Owners Group Against Lockdowns.” He is seeking an emergency injunction to prohibit the shutdown of indoor dining.

    “Philadelphia Restaurant Owners against Lockdown” officially filed a lawsuit against Mayor Kenney & The City over the second round of #COVID19 restrictions @6abc https://t.co/492c7ZZfV8 pic.twitter.com/BFJUmkkrDC
    — Annie McCormick (@6abcAnnie) November 19, 2020

    “We have no reports and no studies of somehow the restaurants being linked to any infections. How is dining in a restaurant in Philadelphia more dangerous than going to a Lowe’s, Walmart, Wawa or the city’s Christmas village?” Fritz said.

    • B.P.

      “Philadelphia Restaurant Owners against Lockdown”

      PROAL…. pronounced “prole”

      • pan fried wylie

        Lacking enough local man…personpower, they’ve reached out to the Siamese expertise of the Phuc Ng Paseents to bolster enforcement.

    • Raven Nation

      “How is dining in a restaurant in Philadelphia more dangerous than going to a Lowe’s, Walmart, Wawa or the city’s Christmas village”

      That might be a bad way to argue. The city might shut down all those businesses as well.

      • hayeksplosives

        IF WAWA IS SHUTDOWN, ALL MILITARY TECHNOLOGY TESTING ON THE EAST COAST WILL STOP IMMEDIATELY!!

        I’m actually serious about that.

      • DEG

        Shutting down WaWa would make me sad because I like and miss WaWa.

      • pan fried wylie

        Do you want them to shut down WaWa? Because this is how you shut down WaWa.

      • pan fried wylie

        Wait, no, that is your goal isn’t it. Now i re-read, and you worded it specifically to drive some spiteful fuck to close them down, only way I can read it now.

  40. Not Adahn

    Anyone have an extra $2k burning a hole in their pocket, classicfirearms has some surplus Swiss Lugers.

    • pan fried wylie

      Yeah, Mr. Fucking Shooting Competition, all I have is my 12ga but sure, here have my savings for the gun I can’t afford before I’ll ever need it.

      At least I’m equipped to blow my brains out before the zombies can rip my intestines out.

      Here ya go, monies.

      • Not Adahn

        I never said I was going to be buying one. They’re not even very good guns. Just purty.

      • pan fried wylie

        Sure, not unless we gave you money for it.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Beautifulest pistol ever but not two grand worth of beautiful.

      • pan fried wylie

        Nothing is $2k worth of beautiful.

        Hear that, Ladies?

      • juris imprudent

        Now skill on the other hand could be worth $2k.

      • pan fried wylie

        I didn’t say my soul wasn’t up for grabs, just that beauty wasn’t gonna buy it.

    • Sean

      *checks pockets*

      Nope.

      • pan fried wylie

        BULLSHIT.

        I know for a fact it takes longer than 19mins to check those pockets.

      • pan fried wylie

        Funfact: exactly the length of time as the length of scarf in cm.

      • pan fried wylie

        nope, i didn’t provide a unit of time. *kills self*

      • Sean

        Well, I had to count the money.

      • pan fried wylie

        I need nitrile gloves to count paper currency.

        My hands are like teflon anymore. Yet to find a productive use for the development…no, doesn’t help there.

    • pan fried wylie

      He’s not THAT good a shot. I feel safe.

      • pan fried wylie

        Missed ‘kid’ at the end of the sentence, misinterpreted as we’re all supposed to keep our heads low now that he’s free to murder again.

        Derp.