The FDA has just approved a new condom design.
Howdy Glibs! Weather here continues to Spring along and stupid people are still wearing masks outdoors.
Nah, there’s no hyperinflation coming. Everything is fine.
With the massive upheaval crypto is in the process of creating throughout the global monetary system, it will be interesting to see how it all shakes out. Why am I not holding out hope it will be positive change?
“Just sit right here on the shore of this uncharted desert isle abandoned cargo ship.”
Hey, Ted. S!
The Price of the Stuff That Makes Everything Is Surging
I paid a dollar more per gallon for gas than last year the other day. And I have to buy premium.
Gas started going up earlier this year, but right now it’s back around where it was for most of last year. Ranges from $2.40 to $2.65 depending on which station I use in the central VA region.
Mid grade is $3.50/g on base and running around $3.75/g off base on Oahu. The other islands prices will be higher. Premium is north of $4/g.
We pay 4.50 for premium. I have to use it, because turbo. At least I get 23mg ever since they stole my TrailblazerSS. That thing got less than ten. 55 miles per day, just for work.
#AbolishtheJonesAct
Amen. *does the dead chicken across chest*
HI is a state and thus not subject to the Jones Act…that said #AbolishTheJonesAct
HI is very much subject to the Jones Act. Two companies do almost all the west coast to HI transport of everything except crude oil. Every Japanese auto, Viet pack of noodles, and PRC stuff steams right past us to the west coast to be reloaded onto a US flagged ship from Young Bros. or Matson to sail back to here.
The US merchant marine is a moribund corpse. Get rid of the Jones Act and save HI and AK residents some real money for buying anything but local items.
I thought it only applied to territories?
Well, that’s some bullshit.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/j/jonesact.asp
*imagines Beastie Boys singing Cabotage*
The last time I had this discussion, I looked through my old receipts and found I paid $2.08 just after the election. Today when I was out all the gas stations were around $2.80.
Why am I not holding out hope it will be positive change?
Because we are on a path to violence, poverty and despair?
You may have put your finger on it.
I’m openly challenging Mojeaux to write a sex scene that uses the condom from 1800.
::checks list of books in time-period order:: Yep – 19th century not yet covered. I’ll second your challenge.
Don’t do it, Moje. It’s a trap.
Plus, any guy who’s so horny he’d demand a woman put up with that thing inside her would be a complete asshole in my book.
“Oh baby! Rip me up! Make me bleed!”
I make reference to “French letters” in my 18th Century pirate novel and allude to the fact that my hero and heroine have used them. In fact, my hero says, “I have no French letters for me to love you” or somesuch. Since she’s already pregnant (he doesn’t know that), she tells him not to worry about it.
Eliza fetching and tying off a length of sheepsgut to fuck Bob Shaftoe still makes me a little squeamish.
Yeah I’m not writing that. Is not sessy.
You don’t think that condom is sexy?
“Excuse me my dear, but I have to ask, have you had your tetanus shot?”
Love in the Time of Lockjaw
“With COVID, of course being locked in, I figured out, hey, might as well take some more classes, right? So I actually did four years of school in one (year),” Mike told FOX TV Stations. “I just did it at a much faster pace. I did my junior and senior year of high school along with my first two years of college for my associate’s degree at the same time. Using dual enrollment classes at both places also. It was kind of a, hey, if I take a few more classes I can get an associate’s degree. Why not?”
That sounds exhausting.
*cracks beer*
Time to fire up the grill. Got some chops marinating in some SPG.
SPG?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RvrJT3-VIJ4
GGS is good for chops also…but hard to ever go wrong with SPG.
Though PSP is a good mix too
How do you marinate chops in a self-propelled gun?
You use the “other white gun!” It’s what’s for dinner!
Checks out.
Its not that unusual. I doubled up on classes to pass the time working on my masters during my second tour in Iraq. Once your off duty the only thing to do is lift weights, read, and play XBox. Good way to pass the time.
Grill time for me too. Time for tacos.
“I had no idea it was the biggest mistake of my life,” Aisha told the newspaper.
I wrecken you better find a new employer.
Leo Sayer looks like he’s about to make Asian eyes. Time to cancel him.
He doesn’t make you feel like dancing?
Been there bro. There is a reason ships have women’s names.
On a serious note. Holy shit, that poor guy had to put up with some shit.
My Spidey-sense would’ve been on HIGH ALERT CONDITION RED the moment this occurred: “Aisha, as chief mate, the ship’s second-in-command, signed the letter designating himself as the legal guardian of the vessel on the advice of the captain.”
“It’s okay, kid, just sign the letter.” I’ve been in similar situations before, where “all I had to do” was sign something on behalf of someone else and Everything Would Be Alright. Thankfully, I never took the bait.
That’s a horrible story.
If he went on a killing spree of the people responsible, I’d vote to acquit.
^^THIS.
Ditto.
Also, Egypt is asshoe.
In spades.
Nobody stops to ask, why are there so many people paying more than 10k a year in state taxes to blue states and almost nobody paying that to red states? It’s somehow Trump’s fault.
and even after that, the whole focus is on how much money the state brings in. No thought to whether it’s spent wisely or why they need so much in the first place. I’ve never seen a low tax state with roads as messed up as ours, and schools as messed up as ours. Two things most people will grant as government functions.
Or police.
Even if I granted that more money in the hands of the state or the feds is better than less money, I’m not quite making the connection that more money being spent by state or federal officials is a good thing. I mean, if the matter were purely zero-sum and government either had a hundred thousand dollars more to spend or it didn’t, with no effect on the private sector, it’s still not obvious to me that a hundred thousand dollars more being spent by the state braintrust redounds to the benefit of society at large. I think we’d be better off if they were incinerating piles of tax dollars rather than spending it.
I think it’s the opposite. Money spent by government is removed from the free market. In private hands, it buys stuff we want at fair and negotiated prices. Very little of the money spent by government is at a reasonable price and for things we want. That means that all the money taken by taxes prevents us from getting things we want and foists a bunch of crap we don’t want on us at way too high of a price. Coming and going, they get us.
New York spends more than double on everything as Florida – a state with more people.
I’ve never been to Florida but I seriously question whether the roads and the schools are twice as better in New York.
I honestly don’t know what it’s going to take for people to realize they are just pissing all that money away into the thieving hands of public sector unions.
That’s because Prop 13 won’t let them raise our taxes enough to pay for good schools and roads.
Also we can’t cut the budget at all or we won’t have firefighters to fight the constant fires.
I don’t know how much I paid the state this year since I haven’t filed my return yet. I am pissed off not even knowing. Fuck them.
Hawaii is a small state with great weather and our roads are terrible. Transportation and civil engineers attribute it to paying too much for stopgap repairs instead of marginally more expensive true repairs. The other factor is that the numbers of autos has doubled since 2000 (it is claimed) to 490,000.
We get hit with the SALT because our taxes are high, even on the residents. I am fine with it since why should a low gov cost state subsidize our feckless politicians? Our stupid $2.5B to go 20 miles rail project was scheduled to be done by Jan 1, 2021. It is now up to $12.6B and be completed by 2030. Nobody knows the final cost or date. Little mentioned is we don’t generate enough power to support it and the rest of Oahu’s demands, or that it will have an estimated operating deficit of $100M/yr. Why should WY or UT pay for this? There is no good reason. Keep the SALT.
Spud!
Glad to hear things are getting springy there! We had a no-shit hot day today.
Finally.
I’m really interested in the crypto saga. The fact that the powers are freaking out so hard suggests that there is something there.
Sundresses are coming out. The face diapers somewhat dull the effect.
True, but there was a shit ton of social stuff in the neighborhood today. I like it!
48 degrees, sunny and gorgeous here in the Sustina Valley today, and not a face diaper in sight.
You know what goes good with Spuds?
Something salty.
Solid. Thanks, Mr. Sloper!
Nice tribute to Michael Collins: https://www.universetoday.com/151017/put-lucky-on-my-tombstone-apollo-11-astronaut-michael-collins-dies-at-90/
Buzz Aldrin had a very kind oped in the WSJ honoring Collins.
Leo Sayers has had some great songs. Makes me feel kinda weird that I was only introduced to a lot of great singers via The Muppet Show on DVD – guess it’s a factor of time frame and not being in the US during the 80s/90s/etc other than for brief periods with limited exposure.
Party of the little man.
When the little man makes over ~120K a year.
Trump actually made good on one of their perennial campaign lies, and they’ll never forgive him for it.
Trump got Pfizer to perpetually sell vaccines and I am not sure I will forgive him for that so we have that also.
Meh, he played the hand he was dealt. It was obvious he wasn’t really on board the covid train, but he did what he could given that there was no escaping it. If the ‘vid was all it was made out to be, then he did a great job. It turns out it was just a scam to steal the election from him, but there really wasn’t any way around that at the time.
I am not sure I am buying that. We have an institutional bureaucracy that wants to be more powerful than the president of the united states and that is fucked. Trump knew it was horse shit and there were/are treatments for The “Vid” and the vaccines never should have been “operation warp speeded” because of those treatments. If there was a time to grow a pair and double down it was then and he didn’t. He made some drug companies very rich(er) with our money. Fuck him. Did you hear you now need a booster for the “vaccine”?
I mostly agree, but I avoid the “no true Scotsman” thinking, if I can. The whole world bought into the dem’s bullshit. He valiantly resisted as much as he could. He gave them their vax. They stole it and pretend it was their idea. I don’t know what else he could have done, in the face of all that. Remember, they locked down the whole fucking world. A vax seemed the only way to get them to stop. He pulled it off. Biden would have left us waiting for 7-10 years like usual.
Ya maybe. I dunno, there were/are a lot of respectable people out there calling bullshit. I would love to have seen Trump do a white house round table like DeSantis did in FL and end the whole charade. The holes wanting to be poked in it all are huge.
I’d say that he’s a mixed bag but since all the bags are some mixture of rusty chipped razors, kitchen refuse, used hypodermics… I’m not sure where I’m going with this analogy.
Speaking of which, I think it’s useful to remember that we are an emotionally damaged society.
*dead-threading*
……….siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggggghghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…………
Annual booster shots in perpetuity
I like pork and beans.
I was hoping for Ann-Margaret.
Anyone have any movie suggestions. Preferably something that doesn’t require brain.
Woody Allen, Take The Money and Run. I really don’t like any of his other movies, but I fucking LOVE that one.
“Rancho Deluxe” available in the full run for free on YT. Young Jeff Bridges, and HDS. Plus Slim Pickens and “Pong”.
“Captain Ron” with Kurt Russell, Martin Short, and Mary Kay Place.
If you want something newer, “The Package” from Netflix is pretty funny, for crude comedy. We just got cut off (pun) from casting videos at work because somebody casted a movie with nudity in it. I told the story of The Package to some of the guys in response.
I watched Rancho Delus a couple weeks ago. Man, I am not sure if I have ever seen a movie that was more Seventies than that one.
I was pretty good, and I love Slim in it.
First saw Captain Ron a couple years back on Thanksgiving. It is now our new tradition to watch it after Thanksgiving dinner. Great comedy.
The Nice Guys is free on Hulu.
Already seen it.
The recent Jumanji movie was surprisingly fun.
I’m in the middle of something called “Bad Teacher” that’s amusing.
Anything like Bad Santa or Bad Lieutenant?
More like Bad Santa.
Seen it, it was OK.
I recently rewatched Wild Things and it was just as frigging awesome as it was when I first watched it a couple decades ago. Denise Richards in her prime was something else. If you’ve never seen Layer Cake and enjoy British crime flicks it is good and on Amazon Prime for free now.
Disco Godfather.
I have to admit to not having watched too many good movies recently. Oh, I’ve watched a lot, but most of them have been mediocre to competent at best.
Looking through the movies I blogged about in April, if you can find The Phantom Carriage, that’s definitely worth a watch.
I also watched The 9th Guest, which is Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None several years before she wrote the book.
There is a Peter O’Toole flick on Youtube called The Ruling Class you might enjoy.
Walked by a construction site today and saw this.
Did someone take Neph’s offer of hosting the Happy Hour? I was unsure of what he was talking about last night so I kept my pie hole shut, but I figure I didn’t make as big of an ass of myself last night as I should have so I should do it tonight. We zooming this evening or what?
I don’t know what you kids call zooming these days, but if it’s anything like GoTo or Teams you can count me out.
As long as they use clean needles…
Please practice audio hygiene and mute yourself.
I’d like to Zoom, but … I’ve been drinking … before breakfast. Whee!
I’ll start one. Hang on!
I’m having withdrawal at this very moment.
Caitlyn Jenner opposes boys who are trans playing sports on girls’ teams in school, says it is unfair
Caitlyn Jenner, who recently announced a California gubernatorial run, on Saturday came out against allowing transgender athletes who were born male to compete on girls’ sports teams.
. . . .
“This is a question of fairness, that’s why I oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls sports in school,” Jenner told TMZ. “It just isn’t fair, and we have to protect girls sports in our schools.”
The last time he ran for something, he got his picture on a Wheaties box.
There’s a vehicular homicide joke in this….
Like the “Homeboy Olympics,” where you have to do 100yd dash, but down a dark alley at night while carrying a big screen TV and being chased by men with guns?
An OG: an overdose of gold.
How’s he go to the bathroom with that shit?
Eh, it’s better than a milk carton.
Watching the left throw girls and women under the bus to suck up to trannie activists is one of the more surprising dramas in the current Kulturkampf.
Practically speaking, is there really enough trans folks to take over a whole womens’ team in any high school or college in America? And, just like many 250 lb. boys are not athletically capable of being a lineman on the high school team, a good number of the trans gendered boys won’t be athletically capable of beating out girls for places on the field hockey team. Or even interested in joining a sports team.
It only takes a drop of poison to spoil a whole bowl of soup. One dude changes everything to the point that women cannot compete with any sense of fairness, whether the dude’s on their team or the other.
Even a mediocre high school boy claiming to be trans could do quite well on the girls teams and with the high stakes world of college scholarship $$$$$, it makes a difference.
Personally I think the only way out is to cancel women’s sports. Just have…sports. Men, women, trans, genderfuck twinspirit, have at it.
Might as well, if you’re gonna let dudes play in women’s sports. Same effect.
I think the bigger concern is individual sports, like track.
No. Every team is going to have match the amount of dudes on the opposition’s team. One dude can totally take a win from a team that doesn’t have any. You don’t need a whole team of them. Most men’s teams have a player or two that makes them winners. In women’s sports, that player will always be the dude.
Saturday Night Zoom of Substitution
In case your nihilism level isn’t high enough.?
good one
OFFS.
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1388623117145231367
I would eat a handful of laxatives, open the boxes, and wait….
Not even remotely a religion.
https://www.etsy.com/market/rbg_prayer_candle?ref=cq_tag_raised_image-4
“Magical, meaningful items you can’t find anywhere else.”
At least you get to burn her, like a witch.
There’s that Glib optimism! 😉
Oregon Lawmaker Who Opened State Capitol To Far-Right Protesters Faces Charges
Oregon state Rep. Mike Nearman, the Polk County Republican who allowed far-right demonstrators to breach the state Capitol in December, now faces criminal charges.
According to court records, Nearman has been charged with first-degree official misconduct, a class A misdemeanor, and second degree criminal trespass, a class C misdemeanor.
The decision to charge Nearman follows a monthslong investigation by state police that began Dec. 21. As lawmakers met in a special legislative session to take up COVID-19 relief that day, surveillance footage showed Nearman exiting the locked Capitol building into a throng of protesters who were trying to get inside the statehouse. In doing so, he appeared to purposefully grant entrance to far right groups demanding an end to ongoing restrictions related to COVID-19.
More domestic terrorism.
And no charges for the Democrat politicians at the state and local level who have been providing cover and enabling rioting for the past year. They all need a good neck stretching.
This is really rich in Oregon. Or does the local news not cover Antifa?
Threatening and attacking the public is OK, but scaring our esteemed elected leaders is insurrection and must be put down.
But it would have been A-OK if they had just set fire to a police station with people inside. ??
Antifa discovers what “crunchies” are.
https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1387985933618737152?s=21
Heheh. I like the Gina Carano tweet that was featured below that.
https://twitter.com/ginacarano/status/1387998701981929473/photo/1
“What I would have answered would have been that that a judge should not in fact be an originalist. The judge should interpret the law in the light of more general principles of right—including the natural law, and our common experience of reality. This is, in fact, what most judges do….
“…the older conception of jurisprudence, which goes back to the premodern legal systems on which modern systems are based, takes it for granted that words refer to real things in the world. Hence the word “person” should be interpreted in accord with what the reality of the person is with which we are in contact through our common experience.”
https://sancrucensis.wordpress.com/2021/05/01/the-meaning-of-words/
Watching Biden in Philly, standing in front of the Amtrak super train, talking buy American made me laugh, wondering how much of the train was made in China?
Apparently the new Prez doesn’t understand comparative advantage or forgot the 400 year old Corn Laws.
If all the foreign doctors go home our native doctors will reap a bonanza (of overtime)
Don’t get me started on overtime.
When the source of the comparative advantage is the widespread use of slave labor, I can’t really call it Free trade.
Jokes on them. Now that health care is a right, they’ll be working for free. It’s their patriotic duty.
When he says ‘Buy American’, he means buy the stuff made in China at the Walmart or on Amazon.
“Fake News: New York Times, WaPo, NBC forced to retract false claims about Giuliani”
https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/new-york-times-wapo-nbc-forced-to-retract-false-claims-about-giuliani/
But… if they have to retract every false claim they make… how are we doing to get anymore news?
They only have to retract the ones they get caught in which stay in the news more than a couple cycles, silly.
Anyone watched that Netflix film ‘Stowaway’? Wife and I just finished it.
I hate that film and I hate Netflix for making it. A pox on their house and may they all die in a fire. And to to hell.
According to this, it’s like a metaphor of the serious crisis facing our planet today, man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowaway_(2021_film)
I ain’t even clicking on that, because the person who wrote it is full of shit up to their eyeballs. It’s the most depressing pointless horseshit ever made into a film.
I was kind of inferring their take from the plot summary, maybe I jumped to conclusions about what Wikipedia thought.
But it sounds like the kind of movie I’d only watch if I’d been kidnapped, bound, and set in front of the TV without a means of escape…though I’d be incentivized to find one.
It was a very slow motion remake of a short story remake of the 1954 short story “The Cold Equations”. Took a great story and fubared it.
Pro tip – trying to turn a short story into a full length film without adding much new plot makes for a plodding film. This could have been an hour long film and been vastly improved.
That’s exactly how I felt having watched Les Miserables at a high end theatre in london. It was just a glorification of misery, wall to wall. Singing the misery did little to hide it. Fucking waste of hundreds of dollars in admission fees. Call me un-cultured all you want, that play sucked balls. And I saw the best version one could see of it.
Watch the Shirley Temple Stowaway instead.
Cultural appropriation!
It was an interesting premise. I watched the first few minutes and found it boring. I assume it went woke with some sort of ‘subtle’ race metaphor horseshite.
*knocks on zoom door* Hello?
Well, there’s a bunch of us in there…
SP’s link?
See #18 above here….new link
don’t use nephs link look for SP’s link upthread
Use SP’s link above
Use Sp’s link above.
Today I heard someone using the first of the below talking points –
“92% of all women killed with guns in high-income countries in 2015 were from the US.”
“While the deadly intersection of guns and intimate partner violence affects all women, it has a disproportionate impact on Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Hispanic women.”
“While intimate partner violence involving guns presents a bleak problem, research shows that the following federal and state policies and practices that disrupt abusers’ access to guns can save lives.
1. Strengthening state laws prohibiting domestic abusers from possessing guns and requiring abusers to relinquish guns they already have.
2. Focusing on implementation and enforcement of existing state firearm relinquishment laws by state and local courts and law enforcement agencies.
3. Strengthening the federal background check system to keep guns out of dangerous hands by closing deadly loopholes and addressing deficiencies….
“4. Requiring dealers to notify state or local law enforcement when a domestic abuser or convicted stalker attempts to buy a gun and fails a background check.
“5. Funding comprehensive research on the nexus of guns and intimate partner violence.”
https://everytownresearch.org/report/guns-and-violence-against-women-americas-uniquely-lethal-intimate-partner-violence-problem/
I love the dodges of “With guns” and “high-income countries”
That immediately tells me that if you just go with women killed in either of those conditions, they still failed to get a condemnation of the US.
Now how many women defended themselves with guns?
“We dropped ‘low-income’ countries from our stats to get the results we wanted.”
Or, they could have defined “Low Income” as any place where the median household income is lower than the US. There are very, very few countries above us there.
Now you have me wondering if anyone bothers to account for the relative cost of living when comparing median household income across countries. I’m not going to think too hard about it right now, though. Might make my brain hurt at this hour.
Some do. The effect makes Europe and Blue states look like even worse places to live.
Years ago, I dreamed of traveling to Europe, but I’ve pretty much lost all desire to do so. (With apologies to our European Glibs.)
I took two trips to the UK – in 2011 and 2012. Highlights included seeing a flock of sheep from a train window and failing to get a photograph in time, getting lost for two hours in Nottingham trying to get from the car rental agency to my hotel because “Only the airport location has satnav” (Their words) Finding roundabouts that had to be controlled by red lights because even they couldn’t make them work. Visiting the headquarters of Games Workshop. Having to repeatly ask the hotel clerk to try my card again for forty minutes while I was on the phone with the card rep because the company kept thinking I was trying to defraud myself. And spotting an eatery in Heatherow just called ‘Eat’.
Was the visit to Games Workshop HQ at least enjoyable and drama-free?
And was the food at “Eat” any good?
Saw a bunch of masterfully painted plastic crack, had lunch at a warhammer-themed pub, and didn’t have to interact with anyone but the publican (since I did have to order and pay)
No.
They had a monopoly over the travellers inside the security cordon, and they knew it. It was the sort of sandwiches you might find in a vending machine at airport prices.
Sounds like your idea of Heaven.
I’ve long thought it terribly unfair that publicans always seem to get lumped in with sinners.
The term you’re looking for is purchasing power parity.
Thank you – that’s just the thing! And the alliteration just makes it that much better.
An org with “research” in its name calls for funding research. Much brave.
Do they really want to drag race into it?
“How can we slice the data so it shows the victims are all minority women and the perps are all white guys?”
Ding ding ding!
The sole focus on guns makes me suspect that they care much more about guns than about domestic violence. But I’m jaded and cynical. Anecdotally, the only person I’ve ever known who was murdered (a high school guy friend) was stabbed with a “miniature sword” by another guy who was living with him as a caretaker. It struck me as a particularly agonizing way to go.
“Everytown reaearch” says to me that they’re a branch of “Everytown USA” an anti-gun organization from Nanny Bloomers.
That is precisely who they are.
Shockingly, their research confirms their agenda.
They are who we thought they were.
“deadly loopholes” = the law still allows for legal ownership of firearms and we don’t like that
“And loopholes look like nooses! RAAAAAAAAY-CYYYYYYYST! I’m triggered! Wait – “triggered” is a trigger word!” ::Prog head explodes::
I peaked over the neighbor’s yard, they’re always so lit up and all, turns out it’s nothing but strung up lights and all
Lit up you say.
https://youtu.be/cABZfkRcQ6A
Demons and Roos live on FS2 for any footy fans out there.
Playing in Tasmania. ?
That’s been a fairly long-term deal for the NM. It’s money not covid.
Yeah, I’ve seen a bunch of matches played there over the years.
Is Victoria still locked up?
I wanna see Melbourne teams at the G. Been too long.
Got my bluetooth earpro (3M Worktunes) today. Can’t believe I waited so long to pick one up. Makes yard and garage work much better.
Have you tried any phone calls with them on?
No, haven’t done that yet.
Unlike Saturday morning, when it was in the upper 30s until mid-morning, I know it’s going to be warm enough Sunday morning to go out on my back porch as soon as I get up. With that in mind, I’m going to bed so I don’t sleep through it.
Good night, Glibiana!
Good night, Lady GT!
I suppose everybody who’s anybody is on the Zoom. I’m just too danged tired, and already in bed, so have fun, y’all!
Time for some Tom Woods and Mark Steyn (yes I realize how very different they are).
Night, kids!
Night Hayek.
G’night Eagle
After flopping around in the bed unable to sleep since 9:30 I gave up trying and thought I would come see what y’all are gabbing about.
*sigh*
Alas it appears all are snug in your beds. Maybe I will go flop around in the bed some more.
Insomnia six, even if it’s just one night.
I think I’ll take a diphenhydramine.
Good luck sleeping.
Far right extremist dog whistle!!!11122
I hope you found a sleeping solution. I had a rough night recently after a long day of hard work which was weird. Nothing gets me to sleep like workin’ hard.
Every night seems to be the same, in bed and asleep at 10 PM, up every hour or so to take a whiz. Now 3 AM, up for the 4th time, stay up for an hour or so, retreat to the recliner and fall back asleep for a couple hours.
I get a serious ache in the hip but it dissipates when I sit up. I can only sleep in bed on my back with my pillows under my knees and only for a couple hours at a time. Hopefully soon I’ll be able to turn on a side. I get enough sleep, with naps during the day but it still isn’t the same as a 7-8-9 hour night.
So I’m here alone, I know that UCS is here in spirit but still…
I am back, still no sleep but had to sneak around the house very quietly. Wife slept like a stone all night and I didn’t want to wake her.
Our usual time is 7 to bed sleep for a couple of hours at a time and up by 3. Same troubles here but at least I can sleep on a side with a pillow between my knees.
It sounds like you are recovering. I am so glad to hear that.
Mornin’ Suthen, in spite of my complaints things are getting better. I’m ready to move into the recliner with a blanket. Try for a couple hours. See you later.
If it gives you a better quality of sleep then that’s a win.
Good morning, gentlemen. I’ve been awake for over an hour now and don’t see myself falling asleep anytime soon. Don’t really have much to say other than I hope both of you are doing as well as you can be. Especially 4×20.
I’m afraid I was sleeping on the job.
Hop you did manage to get some more rest.
suh’ fam
what’s goody yo
Good morning, homey! It’s FINALLY warm enough to be out here at Tranquility Base this early. Listening to lotsa “smale foweles maken melodye” and to the choral music show on the satellite radio (the “comfort from above.”) Sippin’ iced mocha latte from my Dragons mug. How are you and Jusgy?
Those small birds you like listening to have been targetting my car for use as a toilet 🙁
My sympathies. Years ago, I used to park on the side of the driveway right under our now-gone tulip poplar. One Saturday morning I went out to leave on an errand, and it looked as if there had been a bird frat party right above my car.
Things are good- before I ship her out again in the morning.
I agree that its nice to not have to scrape frost this time of year.
…or run the a/c during the day, and the boiler at night
She has to leave again already? 🙁 Poor gal didn’t even get the whole weekend at home!
She got what she needed….
x2 hubba
Morning
whaddup
A little something to provide your Recommended Daily Allowance of cute.
Penguins! ??
I always thought of the poor dears as one of Nature’s Mistakes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hxtvrdP8an0
A penguin with a penguin backpack.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jSRfIMjvtFk
Trash pandas and cats.
There’s a raccoon that comes around and gets into the cat food we put out for the neighborhood outdoor kitties. I wish Tom T would get out his as-yet-never-fired BB gun and pepper that shithead’s ass. One evening recently, I threatened to go after the ‘coon with the weed-whacker. >:-(
We don’t have a raccoon problem, but we do have a Nutria living in some nearby area, and often sitting bucktoothed in the middle of my yard at night. So, I purchased a .22 air rifle (BSA, as I am a bit of an Anglophile) to ward off the bugger. And this allowed me to set up a shooting range in the basement. Of course, it is Olympic air gun length, 10 froggy yards.
A “nutria” sounds like a dietary supplement or an artificial sweetener.
Call it a coypu instead.
Rodent of Unusual Size.
Good luck! Nutria kept getting into a buddy’s yard (after a developer kindly infilled a number of houses nearby). He ended up with two or three dead ones and two separate trips to the vet for his dogs for cuts.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/05/01/philly-truce-app-gun-violence-philadelphia-prevention/
Two men create app seeking some sweet tax payer cash.
“I wanna kill that mofo, but I think I’ll download this app to my phone instead,” said no gangbanger ever.
An app that blows up your opponent?
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/05/spacex-returns-4-astronauts-to-earth-in-a-rare-overnight-splashdown.html
Uh oh. I wonder if Old Man has finally hit bottom in SP’s absence.
Or else she’s finally returned home, and…
Never mind.
Is that the sound of a tin can lid being sharpened on a curb?
https://www.memphisflyer.com/gun-crime-rises-30-percent
“MPD said 357 guns were reported stolen from cars in the first quarter compared to 164 in the same period last year. The commission said if such gun thefts continue at the same pace, about 1,500 guns will be stolen from cars this year. ”
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That’s it? It’s up like 95% here.
357/164 is more than a 95% increase.
I was going by the headline in the URL. ?♂️
“Crimes involving guns” which in my head I equated with “shootings” in NYC. Maybe apples and oranges.
Ah.
To be fair, government statistics can be massaged any way you want, as we’ve seen over the past year with the coronavirus bullshit.
Good thing y’all have the SAFE act.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6366dxFf-Os
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One more song:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DPgWNuUkuA8
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https://mobile.twitter.com/EdwinVcity/status/1388367200512262146
On point.
Stumbled across this episode of Rick and Morty last night and found it quite amusing – but then again, I’m a known traitor to my gender.
Please note the quick image that must surely be an homage to Zardoz. (I missed what came before this, so can’t say if it was referenced specifically.)
Since there doesn’t seem to be an AM Links thread today, for your grilling needs
Um Gottes willen…
But possibly genius.
In the absence of mourning lynx for those of us who speak ENGLISH ::stares pointedly up at Ted’S:: I’ll take the not-inconsiderable risk of posing a provocative question: What drives you up the wall most about women?
I’ll mention something one of my sisters does – she lets on as if everything is fine until her problem has become an urgent crisis requiring immediate assistance. Perhaps that’s atypical – many women seem to prefer to bitch about their problems even if they don’t want suggestions as to solutions. I’ve fallen into the trap of actually proposing remedies – “Well, why don’t you [fill in what I consider a sensible course of action]?”
Well, since a woman asked it…
As Kipling said, The Female of the Species is More Deadly than the Male. I mean, 1. Holy shit can women be vicious, and, correlated, 2. my god are women paranoid. Dudes, as is often remarked for good and ill, will have a blowup, and then go on with life. Or, if things are really bad, will just not talk to each other for years.
So, what drives me up the wall is the whiplash between the two.
Maybe women are paranoid because, whether they care to admit it or not, they know how vicious we can be? 😉
Oh, I fully understand that, but as I said, it’s the whiplash between the two. On Friday I came home mid-afternoon and found my wife on the couch balling her eyes out, along with screaming “she lied to me!” And an hour later after a quick meeting on the zooms with her boss and the person in question, all was sorted out.
No lying, just my wife falling into that paranoia.
Forgot to add, but apparently, her boss does this also. Retreats into the well of “everyone’s out to get me.” And as I am now privileged(?) to hear the zooming, I get to listen to grown-ass women falling into crying jags in work meetings! I mean, WTF?
Oh, dear Lord! Is this an all-female organization? If not, I pity the guys who have to subject themselves to it.
I dunno about generally, but my wife’s play by play of me eating breakfast, with disgusted sounds interspersed, is driving me up the wall.
Is she live-streaming it? 😀
I imagine a plastic trash can to eat breakfast in would be quieter than the old school metal one. Something to think about.
*flashes back to sounds of our old dog greedily gnarfing down dinner out of a metal food bowl*
Thanks for that! Seriously, I’m smiling remembering that dog’s food fixation.
What a wonderful word! 🙂
We have video of our recently passed dog slamming his foot into his bowl to let us know feeding time was approaching.
My favorite dog memory, (ok not favorite but still) was my golden staring at me with drool running out of his mouth when I ate popcorn. He really liked popcorn. He would catch it in his mouth when you threw it to him and the drool would fly. It was disgusting and hilarious.
Yup! The one and only dog my cat-loving family had when I was growing up would do that too. I believe he would have caught and swallowed anything you’d toss at him.
Duplicity. By this I mean you’re with 2 other people, all getting along, the 3rd person leaves, then immediately the second person starts complaining about the 3rd. It happens with men as well, but more so with women.
Yup. Always makes me wonder what that person would be saying about me as soon as I walked away.
Granted, my (male) boss sometimes vents to me about colleagues, but that’s because he knows I know how to keep my mouth shut. I couldn’t do my job if I couldn’t keep confidences. The only folks who know how much everyone in our org earns are the CEO, CFO (my boss,) and me. I’ve built up 21 years’ worth of trust and don’t intend to blow it.
Yeah. My workplace is disproportionately female, and the women do that in spades. It didn’t help that this week, in the group of three women that work nearest to me, each of them was off one day.
I am eternally grateful to have my own office – necessary since I took over processing our internal payroll. And the guy in the office across the hall is my oft-praised Reliable Co-Worker, who’s a sweetheart. The only thing that bugs me about him is that he usually has a nicer manicure than I do. 😀
I’ve taken to eating my lunch later and later to try to have the break room to myself, but it seems some of the other chicks who work onsite are likewise putting off their lunch until around 2:00. Luckily, I’ve not heard TOO much back-biting, although one gal is convinced her counterpart who works from home is not pulling her weight (which may well be true.)
We don’t really have a break room any more, since our HR blankety-blank is a Branch Covidian.
We used to have an HR blankety-blank! She would have been the last person I went to with a personal problem. She got so bad the CEO finally “induced” her to “retire,” and we went to a third-party Professional Employer Org (which is also how I ended up working on staff payroll.)
Oh, lordy! I’m glad she left before this whole fiasco – she’d have been a nightmare! As it was, she was the self-appointed Sandal Police, taking people to task if their footwear showed too much toe or (perish the thought!) flipped or flopped.
Her “Rules for the Refrigerator” are still posted in the breakroom. I wonder if anyone would notice if those went away…
When my office opens (or more accurately – since it is already open – when they force everyone to commute back to it), there will be no break-rooms. And there will be waiting lines at the elevators and the bathrooms.
I can’t wait. ?
What I would like an answer to is… if it’s so dangerous to stand inside the completely debunked six-foot cloud of terror that surrounds everyone, how the fuck is it safe to even enter the building? Explain to me how this all isn’t complete bullshit.
I…can’t.
https://fee.org/articles/today-is-the-1-year-anniversary-of-the-worst-pandemic-headline-of-2020/
It’s not for lack of trying.
Breaking news: Insurrection! Apparently the Proud Boys have found their way to Manchester.
If the hooligans don’t like the Glazers, why don’t they just break a few windows?
*snort*
The talking heads on NBC Sports are going apeshit. “OMG! HOW DID THEY LET THIS HAPPEN?!”
3 killed, 1 injured in shooting at Oneida Casino
I’m guessing this story from over by Green Bay will mean stupid shit at my place of work an hour away.
You are going to get a TSA level groping when you go to work tonight.
I’m off tonight, so that’ll have wait till monday. I’ll have to get my jollys some other way tonight.
What’s the Aaron Rodgers connection?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scottmorefield/2021/05/01/this-data-on-masked-vs-unmasked-schools-will-have-the-mask-cult-seething-n2588826
Check out the second picture in this story.
Gotdamn that had to hurt.
Owwwww!!! 🙁
I’m starting to get the impression that some Europeans are more done with putting up with COVID crap than supposedly-freedom-loving Americans.
Ya, we suck.
I think the Euros will riot at the drop of a hat for any reason, or no reason at all.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210501-scuffles-in-paris-different-demands-on-display-at-may-day-rallies-across-france
Their covid restrictions were, and sometimes still are, far more ironfisted than here, as well.
Protest sign: “Speak out against this sort of thing!”