Greetings, Fellow Glibs.
I hope that this New Year brings us all some much-needed deliverance from the jackbooted thugs pretending to be our “leaders.” Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst is my time-tested motto.
However, as Banjos pointed out this morning, OMWC and I have had a better year than many. Our kids are alive and well, neither of us lost our one remaining parent this year, the Wonder Dog is managing to stay with us even though slowing down in her old age, we have a home, employment, interesting and varied pursuits, great food and drink, and friends near and far. (I’m including most of you in that.)
The community here at Glibs has been a continuing surprise. We will have our fourth anniversary in February. Thanks to everyone who adds to the community whether by donating to the server fund, writing articles, commenting, running video happy hours (thanks Neph and Tulip!), or hanging with other Glibs on Discord.
As you know, we’ve had an ongoing evolution responding to our enduring popularity. We’ve tried to maintain a balance between voluntary sponsorship (without resorting to ads) and meeting server capacity needs. While TPTB initially fronted the money for this enterprise, you all have so far succeeded in keeping the lights on by your much-appreciated monetary gifts.
To help maintain the best performance at a reasonable cost, without requiring me to take on this project as a full-time volunteer endeavor, I’ve moved the previous year’s posts and comments to yearly archives, as mentioned before and linked from the front page. 2020’s posts and comments will shortly be archived, as well. These archive sites are not increasing our costs.
In the midst of all the server shuffling about, we had a very short-lived experiment in adding a discussion forum. Suffice it to say, some people love the forum format, and others are content to never darken a forum login page.
For those who like a forum as a way to connect with other community members, have longer-form conversations, and build relationships, you’ll be pleased to receive my New Year’s gift to Glibs:
Now located on a separate server, I have ported your Glib login details over, to make signing in as simple as possible. If you’ve changed your password or are new here in the last week or so, you may need to re-set it. Your Glib registered email address will allow you to do so.
The forum has additional possibilities for your profile, but please be aware that while the forum requires Glib membership, anything you add to the profile will be visible to the other forum members. You also need to remember that any posts you make are visible to the rest of the community. Additionally, you can “mention” someone by looking up their @ in the Member Directory.
And, yes, you have an edit button! This is a feature that I can turn off and on at my whim, so behave and don’t make me use that power as a digital rusty tin can lid. 😉
I’ve set up some preliminary forum categories under which you can Add Topics. If there is something you feel needs a separate category, feel free to leave me a message in the appropriate category near the top of the Forum index and I’ll take it under advisement.
There is an additional cost for this new server, but what that will ultimately turn out to be will depend on usage. As time and money allow, I’d like to add private messaging next. Donations are always appreciated, of course.
I hope you enjoy your gift! (Because you can’t return it.)
Consider this your New Year’s Eve Open Post!
Happy New Year!
*toots horn, throws confetti*
Thank you, SP! You’re wonderful!
Yes. She. Is.
More than you can know, and indeed you know more than most.
Thank you SP! I shall endeavor to be active on the new forum.
Tried to use the donate link just now & it seems broken.
In what way? On the site or on PayPal’s end?
Seems like a PayPal issue…one sec & I’ll post a screen
OK, I can have our foundation treasurer look into that. Thanks for the heads-up!
https://pasteboard.co/JHwKM33.jpg
Oh, OK, just a temp glitch on their end. It worked for me just now.
I’ll keep an eye on it.
Of course, people can always just send me the money…. 😉
Well now that’s interesting – when I decreased my donation amount, it worked. But there’s no way to edit the amount once I’m on the Paypals.
Same thing happened to me just now! I wanted to give the $100 amount, but it said it wouldn’t work, but allowed me to donate $50. So hopefully that will help keep the lights on for awhile, and I’ll donate some more after the new year.
Thanks SP and all TPTB, contributors, everyone! Happy New Year! You all make life so much more tolerable.
My donation went straight through. ???
I aim to donate monthly, but I could just periodically throw a chunk at you, if that’s preferable in any way.
Anything that any of you give, we are grateful for. Remember the first rule of Glibs giving – it had best DAMNED well be mere discretionary income – if you erode any other giving to charity, church or family…we would be very sad.
My three large that was supposed to be my UK flights has been burning a whole in my pocket. I’ve been doling it out, bit by bit. It’s been good for letting go of the goals & aspirations I had set for myself, lifestyle-wise.
Interesting, I’ll look into it when I figure out how to use it,
Log in. Look for a category in which you have something to say. Click the category name. When it loads, hit Add Topic. Type.
I’ll try it, thanks SP!
I don’t get it,
I get sent to the dashboard, not any forums.
^This!
Hmmm. I’ll check on this.
Try going directly to this link:
Forum
That looks more like a forum. 🙂
As I said downthread, in order to keep the forum somewhat “private” we have to use several membership plug-ins and processes. Which complicates things for some people and not others, apparently.
Doesn’t work for me, and I’m logged in.
So Ted, curator of old movies, says that A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum?
Something peculiar, a comedy tonight!
Thanks for keeping the lights on!
(I’m including most of you in that.)
That cornbread discussion must’ve been heated.
Thanks SP (and the other PTB)!
Some people just have no appreciation for cast iron
It’s hard on halogen ceramic cooktops. I’m quite happy to use it in an oven or over a campfire (or on the grill outside…).
There ain’t nothing wrong with cast iron. I’m cooking in a cast iron wok right now.
Cornbread doesn’t need to be cooked in cast iron, though.
It simply SHOULD be.
Thanks, SP, and the rest of you villainous ruffians and nonconformists, for making the world a better and more bearable place.
We may be lost, but we’re making good time. Damn the torpedoes. Full steam ahead.
Thanks SP. You all have been a sanity and life-saver this year and I truly appreciate it.
Glibs is pretty much why I’m still alive, not kidding,
Thanks! all you Cretins!
Wow….if you click on “members”, it’s amazing how many there are who rarely, if ever, comment.
Indeed.
HOLY MACKEREL!!! Who ARE all those people?
Got me. There are a handful I recognize from long ago, but most of them I was seeing for the first time.
There’s, what, a core group of maybe thirty to forty of us who post at least semi-regularly? Maybe less? And yet there are 55 pages of members.
There are many people who registered at the beginning (and since) and only read. We get A LOT of page views by these folks.
Part of my desire for the Forum is that there are many people who just can’t get to the posts in real time, and therefore don’t bother to comment, because nobody will ever see it. This is a way to help bring those people the same kind of connection the mainstays here have found.
Which is a great idea. I know there are convos on threads that are dead (or about to become so) that I’m sorry that I missed out on.
That is probably common. It would be great if you could acknowledge someone’s response without typing a response in dead post. Kind of Facederpy, I know, but at least there is a response. “I give you 4 out of 5 monocles.” Or something to that effect. ???
Or just drag it to the latest post. That’s what I do.
Well sure, if it’s something worth dragging to the latest post.
Yeah, there is that. Worth a comment, but not worth dragging.
On that note:
Women going to work in lingerie??? Aw, yeah!!?
Oh look! I was worth dragging to a new post!
*likes Mojo’s post*
I am one of these – read late, rarely comment.
Anyway, thanks SP for all that you do here and Happy New Year!
If you open one of the shutters of glibertarians.com, it looks like this.
Ugh. Look at all those deplorables.
Is the member thing in the forums?
yes
Thanks.
Yeah, I’m not seeing the member thing, either. Only thing that I see is a single post by Yusef.
So it did work? hmm
Got it now, thanks!
I may be dense, but when I log in to the discussion forum, I’m taken to a WordPress control panel. Then when I hit “Visit Site” I’m directed back to the login page. I don’t seem to be able to see any actual discussion forum.
A couple others have seen this behavior.
Try going here
I get this:
Same. Manually type the URL I have listed below and give it a go!
I got the same result as before.
Interesting.
If click your link above I resolve to:
https://www.glibertarians.us/member-options/?_s2member_vars=sys..level..0..page..96..L2NvbW11bml0eQ%3D%3D&_s2member_sig=XXXXXXXX
OTH;
If I manually key in:
https://glibertarians.us/community
I can get into the forum.
Same.
That’s bizarre.
a Redirect to here,
I’m feeling really sad today. My neighbor canceled dinner because she couldn’t get her jeans dry. I feel like I got rejected for a date.
She was that excited to see you?
Someone left her jeans out in the rain?
Is that a euphemism for something? Just hanging them up for a few hours isn’t doing it?
Dear Glibertarian Forum, I never thought this would happen to me….
That is a suspiciously lame sounding excuse.
Yep. I think she made other plans.
“I have to wash my hair.”
(Cultural foot-note: back in my Uni days, I actually had a young lady use that as a reason she couldn’t date me on a certain night. Since I maintained a “one-and-done” policy of asking the fairer sex on a date, I never asked again. Six months later I discovered via a mutual friend that she was baffled why I never asked her a second time. It was the Eighties, and “no means no” was all the rage.
Wish I had tried that policy. I was more “I can’t ask her cause I know she’ll say no.”
That never stopped me. Not because of overconfidence, mind you, but because the worst they could do was say “no.” (I got a lot of “no” in my dating years.) And one of the most memorable girlfriends I ever had prior to the spousal unit was someone I asked on a whim and I was genuinely shocked that she said “yes.” That led to the best two years of my life prior to SU.
Also, suspiciously creative.
Agreed. Just go to dinner pantsless; that’s an appropriate way to see out 2020.
No, the appropriate thing is to sit in your soggy pants and suffer.
Just another in a long line of rejections & unkindness I’ve experienced this year.
Sorry, KK. Most people suck. That’s why there are so many authoritarian/statist assholes.
*hugs*
Not to pick at a potentially healing wound, but did you figure out if you got ghosted on the cookies this year, or just standard USPS screw-up?
I got them on the Sunday or Monday after xmas (they were mailed from Maine on the 12th!!!). At least that worked out
W00t! Confirmation that you’re still in her good graces, plus cookies. A double win, really.
I ate them all in 2 days (~2 dozen)!
While I aim to control myself, 24 cookies in 48 hours ain’t no thing.
If you add up the total time, it was probably 10 minutes
That is the nature of cookies, nothing to be ashamed of.
I’m sorry, KK.
Keep letting me know if you are having problems getting to the forums. Because I would prefer keeping them private to the community, I have to have several levels of membership plugins and settings involved in the process.
Update:
I’ve added an extra option to the Login screen, in case you get sent there instead of directly to the Forum. If you have logged in and end up in the dashboard, now hitting the Visit Site button will take you to the same login screen, but you can (hopefully) hit the extra option below the login button and get sent to the Forum.
Trying all the links people are trying, with no luck, I end up back at the main site,
Typing this into the address bar manually worked for me (clicking the link doesn’t work)
https://glibertarians.us/community
And also add the final “/” to the end of what you posted.
Ah, that worked for me.
Thanks, all
This worked for me also.
That doesn’t work for me, sadly.
Macbook running OS X El Capitan in Firefox
Totally weird.
Sorry for the trouble. I have limited testing humans and none of them had an issue. (Of course.)
I did manually type it in, I keep getting looped back to the main site home screen
THIS main site, or the front of the Forum site?
Yusef: see Sensei’s corollary to rhywun’s post. I had the same problem you have but adding the / at the end fixed it and got me in.
Corrupted by exposure to Bad Orange Tyrant
The US Secret Service has been planning to bring back to the White House a group of agents that previously worked with President-elect Joe Biden when he was vice president to fill out his security detail, a law enforcement source confirmed to CNN.
It’s not uncommon for the presidential detail to change agents who are familiar with the new president, the source said, but these moves, which have been in place for several weeks, come at a time of considerable political tension as President Donald Trump continues to falsely claim that his second term is being stolen while Biden prepares to take office.
The staffing changes, first reported by The Washington Post, also come amid concern from Biden allies about the political loyalty of some current agents to Trump, two people familiar with the situation told the newspaper. Some presidential detail members even encouraged other agents not to wear face masks this year, the Post reported, out of loyalty to the President, who didn’t like the way they looked.
Trump’s guys are going to smother him as he’s taking his nap. Because that makes Trump President.
Or maybe they’ll crack jokes about Joe’s baggy Depends.
This is literally a huge pile of nothing. Trump has been planning his transition out of office (just in case) since the summer. The idea that Trump would somehow be offended by the transition that he planned is asinine. The fact that Biden was planning on cleaning house was well known in June and probably before. This isn’t just the secret service, but all of the people who work closely with the President.
Lefties predict contentious transition of power, surprised by bog-standard transition of power. Do they have the power to be right about anything? Any single thing, ever?
Literally everyone in the executive branch is deep in transition territory right now. All the bureaucrats & Trump political appointees are working cooperatively and collegially on it. This whole “contest the results” thing is just red meat for the low-infos.
Get this—I hear Trump’s gonna hide the keys when he walks out of the White House for the last time. He’ll chuck ’em into the rose bushes. Biden will be on his hands and knees scrabbling around in the dirt looking for them. CLASSIC.
CNN just can’t resist saying Trump claims “falsely” about the stolen election. It would be so easy to write straight news, but they have to OMB editorialize every story.
I’m still chuckling at the polar bear from this morning. It’s like looking in the mirror after I crawl out of bed.
..or me, about three hours from now.
Ha too true
Thanks for everything, SP!
2020 24 hours to go
I wanna be sedated.
Plenty to do while I’m stuck at home
Happy New Year!
Thank you, SP and other Powers that Be!
Glibs is a lifeline for those stupid enough to have voluntarily moved to Commifornia in the last 3 years.
Profuse thanks, SP! I will peruse the new features soon.
In other news, Tom T. (Mr. GT) is home! : D
Oh yay!!!!!! I’m not so sad now! Such great news!
YAY!
HUZZAH!
Good to hear 🙂
Woohoo! A great reason to celebrate!
Congratulations! That’s really good to hear!
Excellent news!
Yea!!!!
Booyah!
My best friend in college had a weird dislike of New Year’s Eve as a celebration. “So we’re throwing a party because the world didn’t end?”
Um… yeah?! Seems more necessary than ever.
Just donated.
Thanks for maintaining this little slice of libertarian paradise, SP!
Oh, and FUCK 2020 (“If it ain’t out of keeping with the season and all…”).
“Oh, and FUCK 2020 (“If it ain’t out of keeping with the season and all…”).”
With All My Heart, Fuck Thee!
Cheers!
Well, looks like the new year will be starting off right.
After being out of work for about 6 months, I’ve finally landed a new job that (a) pays more and (b) should be much more in line with what I really enjoy doing.
So, WOO! And Happy New Year to everyone here!
Congratulations! That’s fantastic news!
Very Cool!
Excellent! Congrats on both counts.
You got an onlyfans?
Congratulations!
Sweet!
I landed the same job at slightly more pay and way more work.
Better than being unemployed, that’s for damn sure.
Great news!
Congrats!
Congrats
w00t!
This is literally a huge pile of nothing. Trump has been planning his transition out of office (just in case) since the summer. The idea that Trump would somehow be offended by the transition that he planned is asinine. The fact that Biden was planning on cleaning house was well known in June and probably before. This isn’t just the secret service, but all of the people who work closely with the President.
Seriously. If re-jiggering the Presidential Secret Service detail isn’t part of a completely normal and orderly “transition” what is?
Anything to howl and fling shit about. They’re going to miss President Cartoon Villain when he’s gone.
They’re going to lose massive amounts of market share
miss President Cartoon Villainwhen he’s gone.FTFY.
After being out of work for about 6 months, I’ve finally landed a new job that (a) pays more and (b) should be much more in line with what I really enjoy doing.
Eeeexxxxcelllent, Smithers.
Get this—I hear Trump’s gonna hide the keys when he walks out of the White House for the last time. He’ll chuck ’em into the rose bushes. Biden will be on his hands and knees scrabbling around in the dirt looking for them. CLASSIC.
Put peanut butter on all the drawer pulls in the Oval Office.
Jam gum in the locks
Pull the “w” keys off all the keyboards.
Oh, wait—Clintons did that already.
Hide puddin’ cups everywhere.
A precarious empty beer can tower in every closet.
Anti seize. Way better than penut butter.
hide sardines and eggs in the curtain rods
Sign an executive order to fill the bedrooms with piss-hookers.
They’ll pry all the
WB keys off of all of the keyboards.(lest anyone claim that a lack of civility belongs to any particular team)
Leave the first case of a lifetime supply of Aricept™ in the Oval Office, with a card that reads “Congratulations to the incoming pre-Harris Administration!”
Vaseline on the door handles
Spill milk under the fridge.
Bucket full of water atop every slightly ajar door.
Regarding an earlier conversation about accents, here is the Northern Georgia drawl in all its splendor.
https://youtu.be/k3NLm37ywC8
My Ma loved when Daunte Culpeper played for the Vikings, just so she could say “Dawn-tay Cooooooolpeppuh”. It struck her as a real southern drawl-worthy name (she was from Cleveland)
Gilbert Fontaine De la Tour D’Haute Rive
One point I forgot to mention in that discussion – movies set in New Orleans are the worst. They always have actors using stock southern accents when in fact most New Orleans natives (the white ones, anyway) typically sound almost like New Yorkers. That kind of blew my mind when I first started going to New Orleans.
Either that or a Cajun accent, when the Cajuns are mostly from elsewhere in Louisiana.
A Confederacy of Dunces.
That is such a great book.
I love how they now have a statue of Ignatius P. Reilly in the French Quarter.
Agreed. I just re-read it, and it still satisfies.
Such a shame that the planned movie, directed by John Waters, never got underway. I’m not at all sure it could have been pulled off, but still…
I hadn’t known about the statue in NO. that’s very cool.
Yes, the New Orleans accent is totally different from everything else in Louisiana, and very New York-ish. But somethings just can’t be explained. I dated a white girl from NO who also had some black-speak, she would say “let me axe you a question”. l made fun of her and she struggled to say “ask”.
While watching The First 48 I noticed one of the detectives in NO sounded very Massachusetts/Maine/Rhode Island, so I Googled it up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_English
By the time ya get to South Georgia/Florida Panhandle, the accent has morphed into this – https://youtu.be/lyfxgL4AFWg
Feels like I’m back in Escambia County?
What now?
A bill tucked into the large spending legislation President Donald Trump signed into law on Sunday will require that portable fuel containers, including plastic gas cans, include “flame mitigation devices” to help prevent explosions from igniting inside them.
The “Portable Fuel Container Safety Act of 2020” establishes “performance standards to protect against portable fuel container explosions near open flames or other ignition sources” and directs the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to “promulgate a final rule to require flame mitigation devices in portable fuel containers” within the next two and a half years.
A report issued by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to accompany the original version of the proposed legislation in 2019 cited the findings of a 2013 NBC News investigation of portable plastic gasoline containers.
The NBC News investigation found that under certain conditions, the containers were susceptible to explosions that could cause severe burns.
The new law comes after a long battle to force the container industry to add such devices to plastic gas cans and other fuel containers. During the past several decades, more than 80 lawsuits filed on behalf of plaintiffs have alleged that portable gas cans had exploded and caused serious burns, some of them fatal.
“Under certain conditions”
They have already made gas cans so you can’t put gas in, or get it out, without spilling gas everywhere. Maybe they should try eliminating all the regulations put in place since 1967.
Because a stock modern gas can isn’t ridiculous enough with the anti-drip crap.
Just a vent,
We beat the Jerries with Jerry cans, so they should be good enough for the not-greatest generations to use.
To be fair, those old metal ones were rather messy. On the other hand, spilling petroleum products onto one’s BDUs meant that Army had to foot the bill for a new set. There may have been a little motivated ham-handedness going on.
Run out of Donkey Dicks for them?!
require flame mitigation devices in portable fuel containers
Be interesting to see the ownership of the device companies and accompanying consulting/lobbying parasites. I’m sure there’s no relation to any current or former politicians.
The safety trigger is obnoxious on the ones I have.
Fucking fuck.
*orders a bunch of surplus 20-L jerry cans*
Sigh… this is the Florida in which I grew up and I miss it.
https://youtu.be/7RMRMf_-j0s
People who can cross their legs like that geezer in the middle are weird.
Starting at 8pm Eastern I will host a Glibertarian New Year’s Eve
I love you folks, but if I attended this particular online Glibfest on this particular night, the spousal unit would chop me into little pieces and scatter them throughout the river valley for the wild beasts.
Ah the good old days…..
Cool, Thanks Tulip!
I haven’t been able to make them but gonna try!
Thanks, Tulip! Happy New Year!
SO i just found out that our “health emergency” will be extended another 60 days.
SO i will be working from home unit, March 1st, minimum…..
On daily mail, they are beginning to notice that people aren’t clamoring for the vaccine.
anybody go look at the comments for the TOS? Sad.
May all of 2021 be better, but i am not planning on it.
If the lockdowns ever end, it won’t be before every single human is vaccinated. Foochy keeps upping the number, I think he was at 90% last I saw.
We ain’t getting to 90% vaccinated without jackbooted thugs going door to door holding people down.
The lockdowns end when the people ordering them get tossed out of office, or start running into unfortunate woodchipping episodes …
Two weeks = sixty days
General contractor math.
Two weeks
SP, I finally made it in, as you may have noticed, cool place,
Happy new year Glibs! I’ve got 2 giant lasagnas in the oven and a game night planned, so I might not be on here much. Thanks everyone for being one of the consistent bright spots in these crazy times.
Best euphemisms yet.
Oh crap! I just noticed,
Man, now I want some lasagna.
Gluten-free lasagna isn’t quite the same, for the record. Though it’s not bad.
Gluten-free lasagna sounds to me like a bowl of spaghetti sauce and melted cheese. Kinda like gluten-free deep dish pizza
The Jovial noodles are decent, but not quite like the real thing – they break apart too easily (for obvious reasons – no gluten, no “stretch”)
Throw some sausage in there, top with more cheese and broil until the top cheese is all bubbly and browned and I’ll eat it and ask for more.
Didn’t say it wouldn’t be tasty.
What pasta brand do you use? I’ve been very happy with Jovial, although I’ve not done lasagna (cheese is a problem for me, especially in lasagna quantities).
Hah, ships passing in the night.
I think we settled on Jovial for the lasagna noodles from an America’s Test Kitchen review (their GF cookbooks are good).
Where’s a good brewery in Muskegon? I might go down there tomorrow, Lunch is a plus,
@ Surly
No clue, never been to Muskegon.
Seems to me that an eggplant bolognese would be the proper substitute.
Thanks SP.
When you login and the dashboard sends you back to the login page, there is a drop down menu on the top bar that says “Forum Dashboard”. Click on that and one of the options is Visit Forum.
SP, I suggested a category, tell me if it worked please,
Indeed.
Just in time for the new year – I have finished re-ripping all my CDs to FLAC. /nerd
Although I just remembered there may be a pile of miscellaneous CDs that I couldn’t fit into the nylon cases…
If I did that, I think it would take a year.
A year from now, a year will have passed whether you rip the CDs or not.
I think it might be more cost effective to just get a streaming service. I thought about re-ripping the two tubs of CD’s in the basement at a higher bit rate now that digital storage is so much cheaper. Then I thought about it and decided it wasn’t worth my time. My ears don’t care, and the high quality stream/download is good enough.
yeah, just a couple hundred; using XLD, the drive pops open when it’s done and auto-rips when a disc is inserted, so I just did it in the background while working.
I did the same a few years ago. I had ripped them to variable bit rate MP3 years ago when storage was dear.
Got to do it all over again when storage is cheap.
This was my motivation.
My musician husband can instantly tell a compressed music file from the full CD wav file.
Since I usually listen in the car, I can’t tell, but I have a weird tendency to lament the loss I of data of any kind, I’m in full support of his keeping the original CDs.
That said, he’s probably going to rip them all this year for portability.
My musician husband can instantly tell a compressed music file from the full CD wav file.
Since I usually listen in the car, I can’t tell, but I have a weird tendency to lament the loss I of data of any kind, I’m in full support of his keeping the original CDs.
That said, he’s probably going to rip them all this year for portability. If he can be arsed to do the work, which is debatable.
https://imgur.com/gallery/3E8mtgV
And You Too!
Cheers!
I’d recognize you anywhere, Nick
It’s the beard, right?
I really need to dig into my box set. I saw a bunch of episodes on teevee while I was unemployed this year but not the whole run.
I have seen one half of an episode of this program. It seemed okay. Everyone at my workplace tells me I am this guy.
Parks & Rec? Greatest sitcom ever. INCLUDIN SEASON ONE YOU HEATHENS.
However, the image in inaccurate. Ron Swanson never gets drunk. I mean, he’s incapable of it.
I shall check it out. I also do not get drunk as I am a seasoned veteran. Or at least project the sense that I am not drunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvO13r56XvA
A lot of us are that guy.
PS. My take as a complete newbie to the show this year: it’s like The Office (same creator, I think) with more interesting characters and better writing.
Must be a bad emergency to divert to….Chad.
https://www.flightradar24.com/AFR736
An abundance of caution is quite common these days, as it should be.
My favorite is, “dirty sock smell”. A regular occurrence.
It must have been a “get on the ground ASAP” type of emergency. If they could continue flying, I’m guessing they would have opted for Lagos or Abuja. They weren’t far into flight – they could have turned back to Brazzaville.
The altitude graph shows a FAST descent. Something to do with cabin pressure, possibly.
KK have you seen Allec Ibay? I learned a lot about flight ops, and usually with poor results, check it out, instructive,
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRGxJkqoOgI3htdVuK5F3A
Thanks!! I’ll check it out! I usually watch blancolirio for air disaster analysis. I love hearing different opinions!
Something to do with cabin pressure, possibly
Also, quite common. I don’t fly much, but I’m sure it’s no fun to have masks drop. They looked to be too far away from their origin for an air turn back.
There’s a Virgin Airlines joke to be made here.
Gonna do just finger foods tonight. Some sushi, crab ragoons, bacon wrapped chicken bites…maybe some stuffed jalapenos.
That sounds good to me; light on the sushi though. Two each is enough for us these days. We’ve usually gone out for Friday night dinner, but this year it has been mostly delivery. We decided to do delivery tonight, and tomorrow for the first New Year’s Day I can remember, we’ll be eating… leftovers. 2021….
We’re having French onion soup (OMWC’s vegetarian version is THE BEST I’ve ever had, and I am a FOS snob), home grown arugula salad, apple/pear/cranberry crisp, some good grower Champagne, and a great Cornas.
But I’m starting with a Moscow Mule right now.
MMMMM Onion Soup…..
I did food prep and dishwashing at a YMCA summer camp starting at age 14. Mike, the head cook, made the best French Onion Soup I have ever tasted. Unfortunately, as I was the food prep dude, I was the one slicing 50 lbs of onions using the meat slicer (hah! you have to be 18 to run a meat slicer in most kitchens now). I wised up the second week and wore swim goggles.
I just made a French Dip sandwich using leftover Christmas prime rib. Topped with some aged cheddar and a smear of horseradish with a side of au jus for dippin’. Normally that would be too many carbs, but it is the last day of a crappy year, so I am letting loose.
Enormous honkin’ shrimp ring, many dipping sauces (mostly homemade), freshly-made whole-grain baguette, stupid amounts of 8th Generation Integrity Frizzante bubbly, smoked oysters, charcuterie with dried figs and port wine, and possibly whole-grain spaghettini mixed with angel hair pasta tossed with butter, olive oil, fresh minced garlic, Marash chiles (better than the usual Italian ones, trust me) and freshly diced tomatoes. Oh yeah, there’s also leftover stir-fry orange turkey from yesterday to heat up.
And then we’re going to sleep the sleep of the dead until mid-morning tomorrow, or the pup wakes us up, whichever comes first.
(Experience says the pup.)
In Harper’s Ferry for New Years. Thought it might be a little bit different thing to do. And I have never been but have wanted to visit. Weather is supposed to suck tomorrow so maybe I’ll have to come back in the spring. Went to sandwich/bar place. They said some BS about putting on your mask when the server was at the table (yeah right…definitely not happening as she walks by to check on us while eating). It was not enforced, I suspect because the server was never “at” the table (physical distancing and all). Tables were all on the deck, all well spaced, and some were convid pods (it was drizzly so the tent thing is fair for that but I suspect that is not the primary purpose…) We were under the awning and there were plastic barriers. Food was ok, nothing special. Got a good beer though. Antietam 1605 Irish Red. Yum. Gf wants to go to the John Brown wax museum tomorrow bc of course. Anyway 2020 was fun, but meh. Happy New Year to you all.
The Appalachian Trail runs through town. If you head north it crosses the river and follows the canal tow path for several miles before heading up. It is a nice stroll.
Heading south it heads up into the hills pretty rapidly and follows the main ridge (and state line). More work but still fun.
Poll: what shall I drink tonight
-Caucasian
-Aviation
-G&T (no limes, unfortunately – best I could do is a squirt of lemon juice)
-Eggnog with bourbon, Tennessee Honey, and/or rye
-Bourbon/rye/Tennessee Honey & cola
All of them, and in that order.
I like your thinking
Skip the cola. Too much sugar. Even diet cola.
HE Beat me to it,
Also V&T, but those aren’t my favorite.
Man, I wish I had some bloody mary fixins for tomorrow
Per your post upthread about neighbor flaking on going out.
My only other single friend at least gave me the courtesy of being straight up abut not going out tonight; settled in, just wants to eat and watch TV, which, as a single guy pushing forty I completely understand.
Point being; you aren’t the only one spending New Years alone this year. Thank you Totalitarian nanny-state for robbing me of so much joy this year.
/Raises glass of Porter
Come Zoom with us, You certainly won’t alone, or bored..
Seconded
lol, believe it or not I’ve made it through 2020 with no idea how to Zoom! Anyway, I really appreciate the offer but no way this introvert can meet people for the first time on a video call. I will however be sitting back and enjoying the comments 🙂
I do hope you guys have a great time!
*also I meant for that comment to be encouraging t KK and it came off glum which wasn’t my intention*
You don’t have tot talk, or even say hi. I’m tellin ya.
Anyhoo. Hope your curiosity gets the better of you 😉
From one Bob to another, it’s very Glib, everyone is cool, as KK said, you don’t need video, hell, just hang out and listen, you have to speak,
Don’t have to speak,
After about 10PM, some people can’t even.
You don’t even have to turn your video on. I don’t
The Zooms are a lot of fun and you don’t even have to appear on camera if you don’t like. Please come!
lol I’ll think about it, maybe a few more drinks 😉
I am never on camera. But it is super fun to just hang out in the background and listen in and feel part of the crowd.
(Very high introvert. The exact opposite of OMWC who will chatter AND appear on camera.)
I’m going to watch the Junior Yanks playing hockey at 9:30 up to midnight. I might peek in.
For the first time in decades I’m not going to turn on whatever fakery Dick Clark or his replacement have going on.
I wish I had eggnog. But since I don’t, I’ve started with a Moscow Mule (or two).
enact labor please? what are they?
They are delicious is what they are – Vodka, lime, ginger beer, traditionally served in a copper mug. Bourbon or tequila make a fine substitute for the vodka as well.
Ginger Beer? I’m in, they actually have a few good brands in my little end of the world,
I have some ginger beer – I wonder how rye would work with that? I didn’t much care for vodka with it.
I think the Lime Ginger Combo would work with Vodka or maybe Gin, but man, thats a Sour drink,
Nah, the lime is a just a splash. It’s not a true “sour”.
A Moscow Mule with rye or bourbon is a Kentucky Mule, and they’re equally good. Also, try one with a splash of orange juice instead of lime. Different, but equally good.
Verdict: delicious.
2 oz vodka, 6 ounces ginger beer, 1/4 oz lime juice over ice.
A recipe, thanks!
What type of glass?
Collins (Since I’m assuming you also do not own the iconic copper mug, as I do not.)
TY!
Sounds good. My wife has taken a liking to gin and ginger with a squirt of bitters.
If you have the ingredients for an Aviation, you must drink at least one. I think it’s in the Constitution somewhere.
“Tourists in southwestern China’s Yunnan province were seen holding pieces of bread in their mouths to feed the seagulls.”
https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1344750180688568323
but why?
Morons?
Do they grab the seagulls for food?
Those are some trashy birds.
“but why”
Ancient Alien theorists say it is because of the memory created thousands of years ago by alien visitors…
Ancient alien theorists make everything better.
Yes. Yes they do.
Bird flu trials?
Isn’t the Chinese mouthing feral birds how 2020 went to shit? Or did the cooked-up-in-a-lab theory prevail? I assume these questions are racist, but I am not aware of an abundance of journalistic curiosity on this front in the last six or so months.
The lab theory is the racist one you’re not allowed to speculate upon.
The filthy mammal market theory is actually the MSM-approved™ thought.
Hmm. I did not know this. Thanks. Tough call: Sneaky Chinks cooking up worldwide collapse in their secretive lairs, or filthy Orientals accidentally causing ruin due to their primitive habits. I am sure the media will figure out how to blithely switch back and forth while making other people look bad.
Ordered myself some Thai. I may commence to pre-dinner cocktailing
Cheers!
As you should.
On it.
Fuzzy navel with a punch of vodka. I hope it doesn’t make me sick.
Dinner looks like something frozen. Sometimes I don’t feel like cooking. Fight me.
Stouffers Lasagna says Hi!
I’m looking at Boston Market Swedish Meatball or Beef Pot Roast. They’re not bad for frozen – about on the level of a Stouffers.
Tomorrow I’m making Beef Bourguignon – I’ll save my effort for that.
BM is always good for frozen, well chosen,
Boston Market meatloaf. It is great, and I think there is at least a little meat involved.
I’m making dinner rolls now. I last made these years ago in a multi-household family thanksgiving. Yummy, but lots of work.
Tonight I’m trying something new: I am letting my bread machine make the dough so all I have to do is shape and bake it. The machine takes care of preheating the ingredients, stirring up and kneading, letting it rise, punching down and letting it rise again etc.
I added some “wheat berries” for added texture. We shall see…
Ooh, shape them like this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QdVJ0pjJFyY
Yeah…nah.
I’m going to do the oval shapes on a baking sheet with a sharp knife cur across the top of each one.
Or maybe the 3 balls in each muffin tin approach.
Easiest dinner rolls ever
Duly noted!
Although if what I’m making works, then it’s definitely an easier option for me.
IFL rolls!
Thank you, TPTB, for this place of refuge.
Several Glibs have mentioned having a significant other who is left-leaning and how you make it work.
I have a twist on that problem: my spouse is a QAnon True Believer. He thinks the Statist elites do the satanic baby sacrificing and pedophilia crap. He thinks they somehow murdered the 41 year old GOP congressman who just got elected.
I am trying to just ignore it because it makes him sound like a total nut job. I’ve asked him how he automatically believes QAnon as fact. Just because the government includes a bunch of mendacious dickheads doesn’t make QAnon beneficent and truthful.
It’s fairly embarrassing, which I can handle, but I hope his rantings don’t cost me a job.
Yikes! no kidding,
?
Hope something opens his eyes, or mellows him out, or something
Or he turns out to be right?
“…pedophilia crap…”
I dunno. Judging from the Jeffery Epstein logbooks and the Hunter Biden notebook…
Mark Dutroux in Belgium seems to have had help with his pedophilia ring, so while Qanon’s theory seems crazy, it’s not unprecedented.
As someone who has a father whom makes Alex Jones seem moderate, I can relate.
Look at the pro’s: at least he has a healthy distrust of those in power. As Michale Malice tweeted “Pizzagate has aged much better than Russiagate” I’ve actually had some great conversations with my Dad since I ended up hanging up on him post election. (Back story: he defaulted to MAGA style conservatism during the election where I’m increasingly more and more anarchist. When I made the point that all elections carry no moral weight he responded with all the typical “warlord” straw-manning conservatives always do in regard to anarchism)
Since then he’s really becoming red-pilled on the idea that the duopoly is and has always been a sham and that it’s a fools hope to thing a Trump type figure is going to ‘fix’ the system after the Election fraud allegations wen’t predictably nowhere.
Con: I’m taking it he spouts off about this stuff at inappropriate times?? That’s a tough one. If he won’t respect the positions that puts you in I guess that’s a problem outside ideology which I am wholly unqualified to weigh in on.
He spouts it mostly online. And at home until I leave for another room or put headphones on.
But we have some common friends and they see his Facebook. I’m trying to get him off FB but to no avail.
The worst part is he gets so mad that he’s all ready to pick a fight with me just because I happen to be here. Lockdown make it worse because the internet is ALL the interaction that people are allowed to do.
Sigh. I guess it’s not strictly necessary to respect one’s spouse as long as I’m polite about it.
In fairness to him, see what happens when lock downs end. Actual human interaction may change him.
Here’s hoping.
Meanwhile I’ve innocently asked him some musician related question that has led him down a much happier rabbit hole for the time being.
If he can find/create a good band post-lockdown, he will be right as rain.
Start getting him into serious INFOSEC practice. It’ll give him something to spend his energy on, with the side benefit that your credit card hashes will be less likely to be passed around a Moldovan high school…
@hayeksplosives, you’re my soul sister. Hubby is an anon true-believer, and I’m not sure even seeing Grandpa Badfinger’s inauguration will convince him otherwise. I’m only grateful that he’s extremely sensitive to my position at a pretty liberal news org, and keeps a very low profile online. We’ve had a few fights over the whole phenomenon, but in truth, he puts up with the fact that I’m drinking too much because I believe we’re witnessing the end of a constitutional republic, and I put up with the fact that he thinks we’re living in a movie and adrenochrome is a thing. Honestly, he’s happier and less depressed than I am, so…. who’s to say who’s right? In the end, we both agree that we desperately need to get the fuck out of VA, and I only pray that he isn’t too upset when it turns out there aren’t any real patriots in the government. Bad people will do horrible things and nothing will happen to them.
Thot Thursday is the greatest gift of all.
https://archive.li/jXPzg
Yes. Yes it is.
#14 for the quantity. #28 for the “mortals would have a shot at sullying her” fresh look.
Hanging out in our hotel room in San Diego, waiting for the New Year.
Happy New Year, Glibs!
Happy New Year!!
Have fun! Greetings from San Diego North!
If you find some good places secretly defying the forced closures, do tell 🙂
I was gonna ask you! Lol
Happy New Year!
How did you get a hotel room? I thought Newsom decreed they are only for essential workers or some similar bullshit.
Ah, just got up from a nap, cracking a beer.
Over the last few years I’ve grown to not really care about New Year’s. Middle aged man and all. This year, I do care. I want to be awake and aware enough by midnight to SEE 2020 end. After 12:01, I no longer care.
Anyway, thanks to SP and the rest of TPTB for keeping the lights on, even if you don’t like me. I can deal. 😉
If not for the transition in January I wouldn’t put it past the lockdown deadenders to try to delay 2021 until
Covid is overfurther notice.Hello. Happy New Year to all the Glibs and their loved ones.
The back came of of my Samsung S6 phone. It appears to use and adhesive not snaps or screws. Any insights? Guess what I was doing when I dropped it.
Hoo boy, you did not just lay down that challenge.
There’s only one thing Sandi does in every city.
Challenge accepted!
Pitching woo?
WE ARE NOT WORTHY! WE ARE NOT WORTHY!
SHWING!
Party on scruffy! Party on rebel!
New Year’s Resolution: become marginally conversational in Russian.
I bought Pimsleur tapes that I plan on listening to during my commute.
What are yours?
Get. The. Fuck. Out. Of. Here. (here=DC)
I’m going to borrow that and just change DC to Balmer.
Still eight minutes of 2020 left.
I’m half expecting the Covid shit gets scuttled in Biden’s first month and half expecting they ramp it up because FYTW. Not to be confused with Fuck You It’s January!.
Ah, well. Happy New Year’s!
To become marginally conversational with real people. Convid has set me back. Keeps me in my safe space.
Zdrasvstvuy!
Mine is to cut out sugar to the extent practicable (e.g. coffee doesn’t count).
Stretch goal is to cut out nicotine. Probably not happening but there it is.
Coffee doesn’t have sugar.
Why Russian, do you have a Ruski friend or planning on visiting? Tell us the truth, have you been colluding with Putin? I used the Pimsleur tapes to get a basic knowledge of Portuguese before I went to Brazil. They are pretty good for some basics.
I resolve to smoke more pipe tobacco (and use less roll shag tobacco). I’d also like to deadlift 350 lbs and bench 200 lbs for five reps. I’m currently at 240 and 140 so it is a doable goal. Finally write an article for Glibs.
Поздравляю Тебя с Новым Годом!
я люблю большие сиськи
That may be more appropriate for Q.
I gotta quit jacking my dog off.
Awesome!
I can relate.
Some peeps in this joint are way too drunk and loud for it being so early.
Where I am staying, not Glibs, which is the best chatroom ever.
I left, again,
Out here there is no way to miss the turning of the year. The fireworks are a low simmer now and when the sun sets will throw a few more bubbles in the sauce. Come 9:45 it will sound like Baghdad during “March Madness 2008” and by 11:45 sound like the pre-assault arty firing for the Somme in 1916. By 12:30 it will back off to the pre-assault firing at Okinawa and by 2:00 return to Baghdad.
I just hope that the Trades keep up to keep the smoke moving and that no dogs end up crazed and in my pool. I will be mixing holiday traditions tomorrow. I will have poke (local) and blackeyes with greens (southern way). Right now I have a mojito and will be finishing off the last of the aged nog after sunset. “Das Boot” and “The Cruel Sea” for watching.
Has anybody seen “Greyhound” and what are their thoughts? Is it worth a gander or just another POS naval drama with the XO being a gender-non conforming, black, muslim lesbian type of film?
For some reason people in my neighborhood did fireworks on Christmas. Around midnight. Not familiar with that tradition.
I’ve only had one lonely firework about an hour ago. There were more like Wednesday night.
It is curious.
I expect it to pick up later.
“March Madness 2008”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDvbTrE8VBo
I thought Greyhound was decent. It did a good job of showing the relentless tension, although the action is paced to suit a modern Hollywood audience, so it loses something there compared to Das Boot or The Enemy Below.
I had to suspend my disbelief that the U Boat commanders would have taken the risks they do in the movie… engaging an escort on the surface, really? Sorry if that’s a spoiler. But it’s enjoyable.
What are yours?
Relocate. Be more productive.
Find a nice girl (but not too nice).
“Relocate”
Where?
I hope this is nothing more than the usual Persian preening.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/30/hassan-rouhani-iran-president-issues-donald-trump-/
Because if it is not, then even the pre-Harris Administration will need to go after the Persians and that won’t be good.
Lefties would cheer if the Donald met with an untimely end. Of that I am certain.
Put a kink in all the rugs in the White House.
Oh, wait. Wrong thread.
They’d have to be idiots to think that precedent would never burn them, too. Oh, wait …
Good luck.
Aside from a few hiccups with staff having a little too much fun now and then(human, after all) the Secret Service is one of the few competent entities remaining in the Federal Government.
These are human men, not robots, the lure of Colombian hookers is just too much. They can’t be faulted for that.
Many Colombian women are gifted. My SIL is Colombian. Why she settled for my brother, I’ll never know.
Well then maybe they should do some election fraud investigatin’!
Unfortunately, not their department. Think the Praetorian Guard with no political political power.
Heh.
Now I’m going to go get the papers, get the papers.
Flapdoodle.
Same crap comes out of NK every other week.
I took a shit in Tehran once.
That must have been awhile ago. The farthest I have been into Iran is literally one boot length. In 2003 at the Kanhiquin border crossing we met with the Iranian border guards. The border was clearly marked with a black and green painted line. The leader took a definite step into Iraq when shaking my hand in greeting with a smirk on his face. When I greeted his deputy I took a clear step into Iran and looked right back at him. The meeting went okay but it was clear he was unhappy to lose face in front of his people.
Nice.
“Iran’s Rouhani issues Trump death threat”
Better calm down a little there, raghead. Remember that boatloads of cash is heading your way soon from the Biden admin.
Where?
Eastern Idaho. Somewhere outside either Pocatello or Idaho Falls.
Once upon a time, I might have said western slope Colorado, but not anymore.
WFH? Manistee is a nice town, Amazon prime location, 45 minutes to O’Hare if you fly, still very small compared to where I’m from
Lefties would cheer if the Donald met with an untimely end. Of that I am certain.
Imagine their paroxysms of joy if he had succumbed to the plague.
I must admit, I’d giggle myself into a ball of goo if Joe were to stroke out before completing his inauguration. Well, maybe not. We’d have civil war for sure.
Why would that cause civil war? Not like many people think he’s gonna be in office very long …
Maybe I misunderstood the protocol, but if he dies before actually being sworn in as President, I read that Kamala does not get the job by default. Is that wrong?
I see with some hope that Riverside County (to my north) health officials have stated that they’re not fining restaurants or forcing them to close.
The restaurants on the main drag there got together and decided they can’t stay closed without losing their businesses anyway, so they banded together in defiance.
I am going to check it out this weekend. Temecula isn’t that far.
So is there a chat or Zoom going on? If so, it might get better attendance with a link and searchable words like “chat” or “Zoom”.
Zoom! Chat!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88239942385?pwd=U0tCNEtLekU5cnY3bnp3ayt3bDlSUT09
Oh, that’s not Neph’s usual perma-link?
No idea – Tulip is hosting
No, It’s a one time link
Thank you Tulip (and Neph) for hosting these shindigs! Like the forum chat, not my cup of tea, but still very much appreciative of you two putting these on.
Thanks – I wasn’t trying to be a smartass, I literally couldn’t find it.
After my TV dinner, I have decided to mix up my favorite drink – I happen to have all the ingredients!
Get thee to zoom!
cool. I’ve always wanted to try one. Please join us and show it off
Show off your beverage, Miss I Don’t Show Myself 😛
🙂
Got em!
I showed off my wine. Not my fault you weren’t there. A few weeks ago I even showed up on screen (with a kitty face)
LOL.
I was just on with a kitty mask. Where are you?
Can confirm
Worst New Year’s Eve, ever. A perfect ending to the shittiest year ever.
Starting having an allergy attack this morning around 10am. Sneezing my head off, itchy water eyes. No allergy meds in the house. So my wife said come on let’s go get you something for that, before you get really sick. In all my great wisdom I declined and it continued to get worse until I felt like my brain was swollen up and a bad headache. I get really bad allergy attacks like that sometimes. Wife took me to the store about 7pm to get some benadryl. Took a couple of those and now 2 hours later I sort of almost feel human, just a little drowsy. Having a beer now, probably not many though taking meds and sleepy already. Bummer.
Awww. Feel better.
Thanks!
Sorry Hype. Feel better.
Shit man, sorry!
Best wishes, man. I have allergy issues, but just bad enough to get only a taste of what you went through today. Pulling for you to get a quick reprieve.
I am fighting one of animals laws…this fire pit cannot just be smokey in one direction.
Im off to work, kids. No fireworks, please.
I’ll say that in my 4+ decades on this mortal coil, I dont recall a year as distasteful as 2020. Im happy to see it go.
I think Ive been here since the Great Exodus from TOS, or at least the initial first few weeks. Im happy to see the site go from a pile of thrown-together, poorly-organized, group of assholes, misanthropes, and ne’er do wells into a much more efficient, well-run, pile of the same lot.
/stands, salutes SP and the Board of Directors
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
#TresOut
“Im off to work, kids. No fireworks, please.”
At least not inside, right?
Being in NYC 2001 stands out for me. I know more people killed by terrorists than I do COVID.
But it’s a bit like comparing Stalin and Mao.
The Russian spy cat in his best gray suit for NYE.
https://imgur.com/gd6Plqu
Sweet cat. How is your other pussy?
Feeling large and uncomfortable. May not make it to midnight. I’m out of photos approved for public release but I can do a rerun:
https://imgur.com/6Kg4lP5
NSFW.
One more rerun for good measure.
https://imgur.com/DtYzbBu
NSFW.
I wasn’t fishing for the photo. I believe she is due soon. Here’s hoping you both make it through in one piece.
My other New Year’s resolution: staying away from the business end during the birth.
I don’t need that kind of trauma *shiver*.
I was there for the birth of both my kids. My wife and I decided there was no reason for me to be at the business end. Everything I needed to do for her was from the waist up.
During the birth of our first, a nurse thought she would be helpful by bringing over a mirror so my wife could see. Before I could say a word, my wife shouted at the nurse to get that thing out of here.
I’d love to join the zoom but there’s no microphone or camera on this machine. I’m guessing it’s something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDaKrUIUhxc&ab_channel=whatthe
I don’t have a cam or a mic. I still participate via text.
Not my thing, but you can use a phone or tablet. Just download the app.
I’m too busy playing Cyberpunk to participate, but I give my best.
I may have mentioned a while back about the nutjob who tried to murder my friend by driving over him and crashed into my friend’s house?
At his competency hearing, he claimed an angel and demon were talking to him. The angel is named Psychotica. The demon, who told him to drive over my friend, is named Jeff.
Is your friend okay? I don’t recall this story.
He was unharmed. Rolled over the hood. The magazine of his glock got ejected into the rubble, so he was defenseless for a bit. But the cops were on the way and got there quick.
Good to hear.
Um…WOW. That’s a lucky ‘rolled over.’ I’m sure it left a mark but that’s a helluva victory still.
That sounds like a long story that people would fundamentally be interested in hearing. (Just talking about as a story. I’m not suggesting that you should explain all the details as I’m sure it’s very long, you’re likely not in the mood, and it might not be your business/place to share such. Just saying that WOW…there’s gotta be a helluva background behind that one.)
Jeff’s a nasty one, I’m amazed all he said was to run the guy down.
That story is new to me. I’m sorry your friend went through that.
FWIW, in my criminal defense days I represented more than a few people who claimed to have audio and/or visual hallucinations. It didn’t take me long to discern which were real and which were fake. The shrinks were even better at it.
JTFC.
I vaguely remember that story.
Jeff is asshoe.
This has been an odd year for me. I don’t remember the beginning of it, probably stretching six weeks or so. But then I went back to Korea in late Feb and gave it my best shot! That school sucked but things mostly went along…mostly. Traumatic brain injuries tend to not be fun and mine was flaring up, with hallucinations being common and life being difficult to navigate. The hallucinations weren’t the fun sort, but at least they had stopped being the existentially terrifying ones that I used to have. Little steps.
Then work fell apart because I fell apart. I’ve been back in the States since May, trying to put everything together. Hopefully things are actually moving the direction that I want them to. They are, but at my altitude it’s hard to predict whether or not I will hit my intended target. With everything but the crucial, read: most important, step of getting the paperwork finalized, my next day of work is to be March 2. Let’s work and hope and everything falls into place as I wish.
This year sucked. I hope that I can focus on the good things that came out of it. I’m still breathing. That’s a start.
This place is my happiest place online, and with my changing meat space environments, that means it’s my favorite place on all of earth. Y’all are my folk and I’m here reading everything you guys write and talk about every day.
Thank all of you, and TPTB especially. Thanks guys. You’re the best!
Good to hear from you, Evan. I worry when you don’t check in. Hope next year is a good one for you.
Yeah; your TBI year sounds worse.
I am starting to really hate the people who designed the Switch. Controller battery died in the middle of a damn boss fight. (luckily it is a turn-based game). I can’t play while charging the controller unless I give up the comfortable big screen and use the stupid built-in screen in the uncomfortable “mobile device” form factor. Just give me a charging port on the controller handle so I don’t have to interrupt my game to recharge batteries.
I’ll have to see if there’s an aftermarket accessory that does that. It’ll probably cost more than the console.
There is one, there’s even an official one. Of course, that’s not the one included with the console, so you have to buy an accessory for what should be base functionality.
Tardis has the best ceiling fan ever!
Tardis’ Wife: SMDH
Happy New Years to all of the Glibs. Love this place and hope it never goes away. Coming to you live from Sallisaw, OK, where you’d think it was 2019 up in this bitch. Unless you’re in a big chain store, no one is bothering with masks, even the store employees. There might not be anything to do here, but being able to buy beer from a woman whose smile I could see makes up for it. Here’s hoping for either an end to the madness or the sweet meteor of death for 2021 for all of us!
I’d prefer an end to the madness but I’ll take what I can get.
Happy New Year to you & yours, LG! Less than an hour to go in this gawdawful year!
Ooh, and my boss gave me a totally unexpected raise. The upcoming donation to the Glibs server fund will come from an organization that would be appalled to support such subversive activities.
Happy New Year, Gribs!
Thanks Straffinrun-san. Tell us what the future holds.
Straff’s gone native.
Thanks for the parking lot post earlier today.
**This was in response to Chafed about criminal defense and knowing when people were faking audio/visual hallucinations. I just had a quick reply and then it turned into something longer so I thought I’d add it as a full comment. **
Aha! Another newfound ability of mine! How can anyone tell if I’m faking them or not, when even *I* have trouble telling the difference between reality and fiction?!?!
**I would totally use that if needed. But only after my first option, which is my memory. I can say all sorts of memory-related shit and have it all backed up. Currently I only have tiny tiny background-jingle noises that occasionally happen. I’m not even sure if they’re real or not. The volume is so low that it’s just like any other noise that you’re not even sure if you’re really hearing and you sort of squint your ear to focus in on it.
However, I do have small auditory effects when I get good and high. They are subtle and are usually based on that fiction/reality blurred line, but the fascinating thing to me is that I actually find them fascinating. I am used to them, both through this injury and my extensive experience with drugs. If I gave it to a newbie they would shit themselves. However, I wouldn’t want to get rid of them. Here’s a chance to truly correctly use a word a hate: they’re *unique.* My own little world that no one else has been too. A little place in your brain that almost no one else has, where your brain just fabricates reality in front of you. And you didn’t tell it to!
People a while ago were talking about the movie Joker. I watched that on the plane from Korea. About three months after The Incident. I did my best and mostly succeeded not scaring the shit out of everyone with my crying and state. He NAILS being in a place where your life is a struggle to find reality when your brain is always trying to trick you into not knowing what’s real or not. It’s literally maddening. That is now one of those Million Dollar Baby movies. Fantastic, but I’ll never watch it again.
But I’m not in that place anymore., so that’s a fantastic sendoff to this year. Thank you everyone for everything!
Onwards. Upwards. Always.
I saw a bumper sticker once that said: If not for the flashbacks, I wouldn’t remember anything at all!
The text was written on top of a Vietnam Service ribbon. Some gallows humor that seems to jive with your situation.
Be well, Evan. Another day closer to victory!
Best of 2021 to you, Evan.
Been reading The Wind in the Willows. Hell of a kids’ book. About the author’s nemesis:
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At the Bank of England, Cunliffe personally wrote one of the first office dress codes for women and noted that he was “pained by some of the costumes he encountered” in the hallways. His policy was conservative: “During the summer, white blouses are allowed but they must be absolutely white without coloured pattern or design upon them”.
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Throughout his tenure, as both a Director and a Governor of the Bank of England, he had a reputation not just for abrasiveness, but as a bully.[11] Cunliffe’s manner was so arrogant and abrasive that, whilst Governor of the Bank of England, he had a strained relationship with two of the three Chancellors of the Exchequer with whom he worked
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Cunliffe’s arrogance did not only create tensions between the Bank of England and the Treasury, but also created animosity within the Bank of England itself. In the autumn of 1916, his colleagues within the Court of Directors were surreptitiously planning to force him out of the Bank’s Governorship, but all the talk did not translate into effective action. [13] The following November, however, the directors were organised effectively enough to ensure the election of Brien Cokayne as Governor and Montagu Norman as Deputy Governor. His dismissal “was a decision that Cunliffe found impossible to accept, mounting a vain campaign over the rest of 1917 to persuade bankers, press and senior figures at the Treasury to try to get Bonar Law to apply pressure on the Court to reverse its vote”. This futile last stand [14] achieved nothing beyond Cunliffe’s own humiliation.[15]
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Good.
Zoom raid!!!! Go!
Leeeeerooooyyyy Jenkiiiiiinsssss!
Happy New Year!
You too!
Every song is better in Irish – Despacito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ7Idz7BciA
I’ve linked to it before, but for my money this is more appropriate for tonight than “Auld Lang Syne.”
This year cannot end soon enough. I picked up dinner for kid 2 and me from our favorite burrito joint. It’s in a gas station oddly enough.
I parked and put my mask on to go in. In the Before Times, putting on a mask to enter a gas station would be an invitation for the cops or hot lead. During Covidmania not wearing a mask in the gas station is the problem. I’ve had enough.
Interesting point.
I know the murder rate is up around 45% in my city (*shrugs from our “leaders”*), but I haven’t heard anything about the robbery rate.
My mom pissed me off. She totally pulled a bait and switch, bragging about how she was the only one in her congregation that was attending church unmasked… and then I got out here to find out that was the only place she ‘rebelled’ and that was only after her reverend specifically encouraged her to. I showed her how it was done.
Stay strong @chafed, every smaller/independent joint I’ve visited has been part of the resistance. We’ll get through all this somehow.
Thanks LG. There is a significant amount of resistance in my neck of the woods. If my governor gets recalled then I think it will turn some heads.
My home town has a new mask mandate. I wore it going to the dr today which was a waste of time as she wouldn’t come near me to look at the injury I went to the clinic to be seen for. Last time those fuckers get any money from
Me.
Speaking truth and repping Sowell
Dude that’s nearly 2 hours long. Point us to the payoff.
First 5ish minutes is good. Spots of conspiracy throughout aren’t worth seeking out.
Plus it’s some rando I don’t know. Kids these days.
Well, he started going off the deep end after a few minutes. He has gotten a touch conspiratorial…
Fireworks go boom! Just out back having a smoke, but at least I could hear that and lots of people cheering. [Some] People hopefully still have a bit of fight left. Hope Big Things were happening and fun adventures to continue into the night…
Three hours to go and fireworks have already been set off for a while.
We finally got a bunch at exactly midnight. But way less than usual.
Same here.
Hopefully that’s because they’re saving their ammo for when they really need it.
Happy New Year!
The worst is yet to come, ha!
Love ya!
Andy Ngo will solve this case before the cops do.
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/12/group-vandalizes-multiple-businesses-in-downtown-portland-police-say.html
Huh. Here’s a clue.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1344787061807722496
Well I had a happy new year.
Good night y’all. I’m out.
I’m hoping/expecting this year will put me in a place where I can start to send some bux toward this site. As soon as my project-based gig gets me ahead of dipping into my savings for three consecutive months I’ll be there.
Overall we (me and my family) are financially secure through property investments in my wife’s name but anything I send in here would have to be from my personal pocket.
In this situation I have been trying to contribute through written articles as I have more time than money as things stand.
I feel your pain Tejicano. My income was cut in half this year. 2021 looks more promising so let’s hope it is a better year for all of us.
I spent 2019 trying to build up a business, barely breaking even for the year, but coming on strong in December 2019 with projects scheduled to be making even more than I ever had before – which all evaporated with COVID. Potential seems to have rebounded in 2020, didn’t even break even but potential is about where I was a year ago.
I’m getting to old for this.
I understand.
https://youtu.be/Q37xJtuQ24w
https://archive.li/emSjP/1205a343d90205f733cf1a708a06ea2ad52f0091.jpg
NSFW.
C’mon Q. Give me something strong to start the new year.
Still
eightfive minutes of 2020 left.I’m half expecting the Covid shit gets scuttled in Biden’s first month and half expecting they ramp it up because FYTW. Not to be confused with Fuck You It’s January!.
Ah, well. Happy New Year’s!
In torn about the mask thing. It is a powerful symbol of the government’s desire to muzzle, dehumanize, and control us.
But it’s not JUST the mask; it’s the idea that any executive, including unelected bureaucrats, can invoke “emergency powers” in case of anything they deem to be an emergency, for as long as they like.
That’s what gets lost in the “do masks work?” debate.
Frankly, I don’t care if the masks work. The government can’t make me do it.
Similarly, Whether the vaccine does or doesn’t work, the government cannot make me get it.
To me the mask thing is a minor nuisance and it’s the lockdowns that are pure evil.
The lockdowns are the PTB butt-raping the economy. The masks are them wiping their cocks in our faces after.
Then there’s the thought that the masks would at least presage reopening. lulzno
Well Happy New Year I suppose…
I drank some wine alone and went to bet at 11 last night. SO yeah paartyy
Happy New Year. Just need to drag AK and HI in.
Happy New Year, Gustave!
The west coast hasn’t fallen into the ocean just yet.
SMOD/Harris 2024
Hawaii has joined 2021. Huge fireworks displays all over the neighborhood and no dogs in the pool. Not a bad start tp 2021.
Where are all the morning Glibs? Bunch of slackers.
Throwing salt around the property in preparation for the snow storm that’s just starting to hit, making coffee.
Morning.
OK! OK! I’m up! I’m up! Cut me some slack – 2020 saved all its bad shit for me until the last week. At least it ended well.
So glad to hear that Tom T is okay!
Thanks, Fes. He’s up tapping away at his own computer. He might have slept in later, but the cats were chasing each other around, and it’s hard to sleep during a stampede.
Kitty stampede is the second best stampede. Puppers for the win.
You know that bunch of degenerates is either terribly hung over or still drunk.
Happy new year.
I’m somehow both.
Jeez, misthreaded my first comment of 2021. That’s bad juju…
It’s Current Year. Now we simply call it JuJu.
Fuck it. I’m taking today off. They can bitch and moan at my shiny mooning bum.
I’ll forgo the overtime just this once.
suh’ fam
Happy 2021
Happy New Year, Tres! Hope you didn’t have to be out in the ugly.
I drove home in it. The truck was encased in a sheet of ice, but other than that everything seemed ok. The roads are just wet.
Yesterday on the news, that dopey cunte Kirstie Zontini decided to clarify “freezing rain” for her viewership. She no-shit said, “its like regular rain but it freezes”.
Still would, tho.
Baby Head! Happy fucking New Year! 🙂
right back @ ya, Canuckian
(how did I acquire that name, anyhow ?)
We were drinking heavily on a Zoom and I remarked that you had the head of a baby to much jocularity. It was the little tuft of hair on top that sealed the deal. I love you, Tres even if you have a baby head!
So I still have to wear a mask, engage in pointless virus theater and all my favorite small businesses are still permanently closed?
You know, if I didn’t know better, I’d start to suspect that all the misery inflicted on us wasn’t actually all the year 2020’s fault.