Long gas lines. Runaway inflation. The never ending Israeli-Arab conflict. UFO invasion. Joe Biden insults the Coast Guard. None of this matters.
This is my review of Destihl Brewery Wessenheimer:
What really matters, is what touches every one of us personally. Which means what matters is who invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
Not this guy.
An upcoming biopic about the life of Richard Montañez, the janitor formerly working for Frito Lay and supposed inventor of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, is currently in preproduction according to IMDB. The movie appears to be the standard hero’s journey but this one is true, and not just made up. It is even directed by Eva Longoria, who should not be confused with Evan Longoria, who currently plays 3B for the San Fransisco Giants.
Montañez has turned his life story into a lucrative speaking career. Even headlining seminars at Harvard and USC for a princely fee of $10,000-$50,000. The problem is according to Frito Lay he didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
“None of our records show that Richard was involved in any capacity in the Flamin’ Hot test market,” Frito-Lay wrote in a statement to The Times, in response to questions about an internal investigation whose existence has not been previously disclosed. “We have interviewed multiple personnel who were involved in the test market, and all of them indicate that Richard was not involved in any capacity in the test market.
Frito Lay of course did absolutely nothing to stop this guy from 
taking credit for the worlds most perfect cure for the munchies until Lynne Greenfield, the actual inventor of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos caught wind of it and asked them what was going on.
The filmmaker’s response to all of this is perfect: Its true enough. In the end, the only thing to do is continue questioning what is real, because nothing we see is real anymore.
Also respect the grift.
This is a beer local to Swiss, as I found out recently. I found it locally in a mask free liquor store. As in they had a sign telling people to NOT put a mask on as it makes it impossible to identify the person robbing them. Its a standard, unfiltered Hefeweizen with a neutral finish and a delightful pun for a name. Overall its a pretty solid offering. Destihl Brewery Wessenheimer: 3.1/5
“Long gas lines. Runaway inflation. The never ending Israeli-Arab conflict. UFO invasion. Joe Biden insults the Coast Guard. ”
So did Jimmy Carter dis the Coast Guard too? Because otherwise this is feeling really familiar.
Do we have any canals to give back? Don’t suppose we’ll get deregulation of some major industries in exchange, though. Maybe the Russians can invade Afghanistan once we finally pack up.
The attempted gaslighting and erasure of the past has failed so it was deemed to reboot disk 1975 and attempt to rewrite the code in real-time
So I guess we’re pulling out of Afghanistan to allow the Russians to invade it again?
Slight glitch on the Matrix as it will be China this time.
Well, that’s a relief. If China gets bogged down and stripped of men and treasure for a while, maybe it will slow their world domination mission a tad.
They’ve got an overabundance of men to spare.
True. It might even out the male:female ratio.
I wouldn’t be surprised if China did something specifically to thin its single man overload problem. Cull the herd.
I wouldn’t be surprised if China is already doing it. The Uighurs were a test run.
Well at least this time our troops will be hanging out in a country with edible food and they can drink at a local club and chase the local girls.
Narrator: General Order #1 will never be repealed.
Carter *was* in the Navy, wasn’t he?
Nuclear engineer as he constantly told us while doing his best to eliminate its use in the US.
So he scored slightly high enough on ASVABS to not be a chef.
Rewatched Under Siege last night. I forgot how bad it is in the details.
The Transformer movie was a pure propaganda piece. Beginning scene was filmed at Holloman AFB (they digitally removed my radar…bastards) and was essentially a recruitment add for the Air Force.
Tyrese Gibson is a cool dude, bought out the one decent bar for the night and invited as many airmen that wanted to come and have a good time..
Don’t care. Tommy Lee Jones.
When I drink canned coffee, I stare out into the sky and hold the can in front of me.
If those bananas were a bologna sandwich on white that’d be the bagged lunch I initially took the picture to be.
If the guy has built a lucrative speaking career out of claiming to do things he never actually did, he is qualified to run for political office.
He can add in some sniper fire, rusty razors in a rain barrel, and inventing the Internet for good measure.
Damn. Bummed the janitor didn’t actually invent flaming hot cheetos because that would be cool. Respect the grift? I dunno. The beer sounds good.
Unfiltered Hefeweizen is my favorite type of beer.
Mmm…beer.
One more reason I like you.
Cheers, Chafed!
Festus hardest hit.
Wow. He gave them the full “Come on, man” treatment.
Biden sure gets nasty quickly when he feels disrespected. What a thin-skinned dog-faced pony president.
But at least he’s not literally Hitler like that orange guy was.
I’m torn if it is nastiness or just bad comedic timing and poor reads of the room.
I’d grant that possibility if it were isolated, but that seems to be the way he reacts to anyone who challenges him with a question or who doesn’t carry water for him.
He’s an entitled jerk, and now that he’s also old and cranky, he can’t or won’t cover it up.
He’s an entitled jerk
Being in congress for fifty years will do that to a person.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on this and assume he’s joking around.
I won’t. He fucked up the joke, and blamed the audience.
Seriously, no business would let him within a mile of the c suite, much less the CEO’s office.
He fucked up the joke. Not just the timing, the actual word order and usage.
C’mon man!
I finally watched that Disney-esque animated Army recruiting ad about the little girl who marched in gay pride parades and watched her 2 moms get married.
I have to agree with Ted Cruz on this one. That’s a cringe worthy way to try to attract Army recruits. Not a particularly relevant one either.
Ad:
https://youtu.be/MIYGFSONKbk
Just leaving the reserves a couple years ago this also seems come across as out of touch. This is 2021 you know. I wonder how many people currently in the Army saw that and wondered “I knew a soldier like that in basic training”
People don’t join the military because of their stance on social third rails; they join because they 1) wanna break stuff and kill people, 2) patriotically want to give something back or 3) want money for college (or some combination). OTOH, the woke BS could very easily turn off people who would otherwise want to join the military, and not because they hate gays but because they don’t want to be part of a politicized organization. It would be more accurate to call this an anti-recruitment ad.
I saw that ad and thought it was the Army’s way of saying “Don’t say we didn’t warn you”
“Don’t say we didn’t warn you”
Sally got married to a rock musician she met in California.
/next line of that song with painful attempt to rhyme
https://youtu.be/ms9pxvEbILs
https://youtu.be/QplWbNg57h4
https://youtu.be/qpmgPuidFb4
And the anthesis of wokeism
https://youtu.be/L2uPoMaCgJg
Doesn’t matter what or who you are, just how you do your job.
^^^ Geddaloadda this Nazi over here.
Actual “Nazi” in US Army service
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Larry_thorne_tombstone.jpg/1440px-Larry_thorne_tombstone.jpg
Wonder how long before there are calls to exhume his body and dump in a potters field.
For those who don’t know the joke Gustave made. Thorne was a committed anti-communist. He was a Finnish officer who was decorated for his bravery after the USSR invaded Finland. When Finland became a co-belligerent against the USSR he served in the Finnish battalion in the Waffen SS where he earned the Iron Cross. After the war he immigrated to the US and served in the US Army as an infantryman and later in the Special Forces. He died in a helicopter crash was advising an ARVN unit.
I used to deal with an outside sales dude about 15 years ago. I couldn’t stand him, but he had kind of an important job, getting us business. But he was so self-absorbed and important he would not accept input or suggestions. I found out he was an ex-army weapons specialist or something. I didn’t care to know his MOS. Also found out my boss couldn’t stand him either. I called the dude Army of One, Brain of None. Boss was amused.
Easiest way to live in Korea affordable (by way of Drum and Iraq)…..
Idiotically my preference was actually for Japan after college, but I didn’t think to talk to USN or USAF until I was already in DEP and it was too late.
I would argue the pointless forever wars turned potential quality recruits away before any of the culture war stuff. If the Army isn’t hitting its recruiting numbers from the usual places, it probably has no choice but to try to appeal to the woke mob.
Then again, we stopped trying to win wars after WW2, so why stop now?
All of this and politicized militaries do not have an auspicious history of advancing the cause of liberty.
Why is it that anytime populist mobs turn violent, the first place they always go is “Kill the Jews?”
Because as a whole, Jewish people do better than average at succeeding in their chosen endeavors, which is often accompanied by material success.
Shorter: envy
Yup. I’ll doing something else would require original thought. That’s beyond the capabilities of these losers.
The answer is because she loves us all very, very much.
https://pagesix.com/2021/05/22/elizabeth-hurley-explains-why-she-prances-around-in-bikinis/
I thought she was asking me out.
I’d say because she’s proud of her breast implants, which are a part of her that’s not 55 years old. But overall she does look incredible for her age. Check out a tv rerun from the 60s some time to see what people in their 50s used to look like (e.g. Irene Ryan, Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies, was 59 in real life when the show began production).
Man, I had no idea Evan Longoria was still in the Show.
Me neither, I had to edit it from formerly of the Tampastan Devil Rays.
LOL because of course they did.
That right there is a winning ticket.
Doomsday oracles
When the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its new mask guidance last week, it didn’t include guidance to vaccinated parents who have unvaccinated children, leaving many parents confused about what to do.
The new guidance says people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 may go without masks in most circumstances and don’t have to keep their distance from others. But everyone who is not vaccinated should continue wearing a mask as usual — and that means everyone under the age of 12, the only group not eligible now for any of the vaccines in use in the United States.
So, should vaccinated parents and older siblings continue to wear masks because of younger family members? Are young children now less safe in public spaces?
“It’s a dilemma. I have two little children, ages 1 and 3, who can’t yet be vaccinated,” CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen told CNN. “I understand how parents are feeling.”
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Whether parents keep their masks on or not, children under the age of 12 should continue to mask up in public places, Dr. Yvonne Maldonado wrote in an article Wednesday, particularly when social distancing isn’t possible. Maldonado is chair of the Committee on Infectious Diseases for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Why?
SCIENCE!
Every one of those blithering idiots should be dragged into the street and stoned to death by a mob.
Dying last words as the fearmongers see their grasps on the fear they gave birth to move on I suspect.
“It’s a dilemma.”
Really? In math a dilemma is when a problem has two apparent solutions and it’s difficult to know which one is the correct one (the lemma).
In this case there is only one apparent solution: don’t vaccinate the kiddos, and let them go out maskless and play with other massless children.
What are you, an anarchist?
Massless children? Are they made of photons?
You might be onto something…
If you loved your children, you’d sneak home some vax and jab them yourself.
Still, the AAP said, “there is an urgent need to collect more data on longer-term impacts of the pandemic on children, including ways the virus may harm the long-term physical health of infected children, as well as its emotional and mental health effects.”
And even if they don’t show any symptoms, children can carry the virus in their respiratory tract — their throats and noses — for weeks, silently spreading it to others, a study last year showed.
As for the long-term physical health of vaccinated children, as well as its emotional and mental health effects, we’ll never know if we don’t shoot them up with it.
Children are SILENT KILLERS!
“for weeks, silently spreading it to others” Weeks? They will be carrying a viable load for weeks? Am I missing something here? I thought the window for contagious was 72-hours or thereabouts.
I’m glad scientific understanding has advanced so far in a year.
Even the CDC says 10-days for mild symptoms for infectious. Up to 20 if you are deathly ill from it or immune-compromised. AAP is just looking for some of that sweet sweet insurance monies and government cheese.
Heh.
/juvenile humor mode
You humor is tough to swallow.
She has shown she knows how to handle a sticky situation though.
I went the grocery store unmasked, first time in over a year. The store had replaced the Mask Required sign with Mask Recommended. Masked/Unmasked was roughly a 40/60t. Noticed lots of kids waiting for their vaccinations at the jab site CVS setup in the front of the store. One poor kid was wearing a mask, face shield and rubber gloves, his father was similarly outfitted. Felt sorry for the poor guy.
Maybe the kid has a compromised immune system, but then again, I wouldn’t be jabbing with an untested and understudied ‘vaccine’ if that were the case.
Simplest explanation for people like that is they truly believe that you have a near 100% chance of dying if you catch it.
In the hospital when my husband’s extremely skilled cardiac surgeon came to see us about a week after the surgery itself, he extended his bare hand to me for a handshake.
I took my cue from him and decided that was good enough “science” for me.
First bare handshake I’ve had since my father’s funeral last July.
It was about 70/30 no mask here this week at the grocery store and walgreens.
From the replies in the Lewinsky tweet.
I immediately thought of you, Mojeaux
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E16nmiJXIAIEtp0?format=jpg&name=medium
LOLOLOL I saw that earlier and thought of you!
I looked at my LinkedIn account now that various freshly purged employees (we had a layoff) are trying to connect with me.
LinkedIn encouraged me to “add your pronouns so others know how to address you.”
That’s a negative, Ghostrider.
I’ve noticed that LinkedIn has ramped up the annoying salesman model with multiple emails per day. Give it a rest. If I’m not buying what you’re selling, frequency isn’t going to change that.
My former employer was bought out by a much larger firm and they had a linkedin policy on how to format and what to comment on. That, along with getting in trouble for having a pull from the keg at 2p when i’d been in the office at 6a, was the push I needed to leave. Nuts to all that corporate bullshit. I understand why the do it, but I don’t have to be part of it.
They told you what to do and not do on LinkedIn?
Dealbreaker.
It goes without saying not to trash talk the company or post something proprietary, but what you’re describing seems to go way beyond that.
It was ridiculous. The whole ethos changed into something corporate and strait laced. Which is fine for a lot of people but not my speed. Leave me the hell alone and let me do my work.
“Facepalm” / “headdesk”! (See a.m. links if necessary.)
Sorry to read about your trials at work.
No sympathy sought or required, but thanks for the offer.
I’m not actually complaining; my life is pretty good, all things considered.
If forced, I’m taking the Cerebus approach: Most Holy/Most Holy.
It is too fucking hot today. Turned around at one mile out of caution. Since I had nearly melted by the time I got back to my door, it was prudent.
Need more hydration…
It feels like my shirt has doubled its weight from absorbed sweat.
Yeah, I’m real sluggish in this weather. And I haven’t even stepped outside. Nor do I want to.
I just want to go take another nap.
After tomorrow’s thunderstorms, monday should be cooler.
One thing I make sure to plan on my longer rides are places that I know I can refill my water bottles. I usually carry two, one with plain water, the other with water spiked with Nuun. One thing that caused issues last year with planning was the parks turning off the damned water fountains.
It’s an unusually cold week in my neck of the woods.
I’m not sure if I’d rather have oppressive heat or just require a light jacket.
Scratch that—I’ll take the Jacket Required weather.
Isn’t “jacket required” for you still short-sleeve weather for me?
What is it? 70?
It was in the high 40s this morning, but it’s up to 59 now.
The main thing is that it is sunny today, so it will feel warm regardless of actual temperature.
It’s all about the solar loading down here.
I’m taking my first real vacation in 18 months next week. I cannot wait to not think about work and do whatever the hell suits my fancy.
“whatever the hell suits my fancy”
That’s an unusual name. Is she European or something?
Fancy was sold out as a child bride…this is known.
She said “here’s your one chance Fancy dont let me down”
I don’t think “bride” was what she was sold as.
Keeping to our Family Friendly rating ?
I invited an ex to meet me down there. So, yeah, bad life choices.
My last real vacation, the year started with a ‘1’
103 AD?
I have never had a vacation where I wasn’t being constantly pestered from work. My favorite was at my last Megacorp when I took a week off between Christmas and New Year’s; just before leaving, HR dropped on me a requirement to have full written evaluations, goals, and objectives for all my reports before year end. I spent the entire week writing that useless bullshit.
……it didn’t include guidance to vaccinated parents who have unvaccinated children, leaving many parents confused about what to do.
Lock them in the shed or sell them to traffickers. It is the only way to be safe.
It must be doing wonders for small children’s confidence watching how terrified of them their parents are.
Normalize the behavior in babes so that they will ostersize the new crop of “boomers” when they grow up.
Tinfoil hat me says people in power executed a multi-pronged attack on the American people: economic, cultural, class warfare over the past year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyDQGLzV7Pg
I spent an hour watching/listening to that. I don’t feel it was a wasted hour.
Getting here late. Had to trudge out to the shed to retrieve the snow shovel that I had put away for the season (hah!) and then shovel the deck and the walk. Wet, heavy stuff, but not very deep.
Last Monday it was in the 80’s
Where is “here” because it’s early and mid 80s here. (lower humidity than I expected though, merely 40%)
Central MT. Some of the passes got 2′.
SW CO?
Its ZH so grain, salt.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/caught-red-handed-cdc-changes-test-thresholds-virtually-eliminate-new-covid-cases-among
Interesting though regarding how the CDC is going about it though.
Let me guess: it’s all the fault of the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!!
I heard of this a few weeks ago from a guest on Pete Q’s podcast. It’s legit and they provide a link in your link. fucking criminal what has been done/being done.
Checked the CDC web site the other day to see how many children are dieing of the ‘vid.
They have a chart showing (by age) total deaths and deaths by the ‘vid. For every age 20 and below the number of deaths from the ‘rona was a single digit. Deaths from other causes were multiple digits.
Worrying about children and the plague is insane.
Adam Walsh hysteria, 2.0.
Same for many diseases that we now have vaccines for
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/articlepdf/209448/joc70121_2155_2163.pdf
Mumps killed 50 in its peak year and rubella killed 24 for its peak, pre vaccine.
Huh, it’s almost like the Gov likes pushing mass vaccination programs. I wonder why they would do that?
Don’t even think about registering for a college class without being current!
https://health.uoregon.edu/immunization-requirements
All are required at UO except influenza and tuberculosis (and BCG is not often administered in the US.
“Often seen on college campuses”
Nationwide (cases/deaths)
Diphtheria 0/0
Measles 55/0
Mumps 6584/0
Tetanus 41/4 (and is not really a contagious disease except in limited circumstances)
Rubella 12/0
Pertussis 15632/27
Dude, my shot record is as thick as my skull. I just always assumed the deaths were in the millions for all the diseases they make us get vaccines for. I appreciate the numbers/links you drop.
A local winery is advertising a food truck that will be serving “lobster rolls” today.
Food truck lobster sounds about as safe as gas station sushi.
Gas station truck lobster sushi?
It’ll pair nicely with catfish sashimi.
Is it real lobster or imitation?
Real.
We have these here in Vegas
https://roaminghunger.com/cousins-maine-lobster-las-vegas/
Never had the desire to try.
“Trust us. It’s a nationwide phenomenon for a reason.”
Doesnt explain why I’ve never heard of them. But I suppose I have now.
They were on an episode of Shark Tank.
I have had food truck sushi and it was damn good. Safe is subjective term. Is the place filthy? Don’t eat there. Then again I have eaten at some sketchy food stands here and there.
Best grilled chicken skewer I ever had was from a very sketchy street stand in Bangkok, where the grill was behind an apparently glass front window that was so smeared and greasy it was opaque.
Then again, it could have been snake meat, there was a bit of a language barrier. Whatever, we could see him take the skewer right off the grill and hand it to us, the fire should have killed off any pathogens. And none of us ever got sick. The skewers each cost about twenty cents, and even at that price you could tell they were laughing at us because they’d so price gouged us compared to the cost for a local.
I also loved the Bangkok street vendors who would chop a fresh pineapple into cubes in front of you, then give you the cubes in a plastic baggie with a toothpick to spear them. Juiciest and best tasting pineapple ever.
I got a bag of red chicken curry off some dude with what passed as a sidewalk stand in Pattaya. Holy sweet jebus, back at the condo I was renting I had to make three pots of rice to finish that without scorching my entrails. That was over two days if my memory is correct. No way I could have eaten it all in one sitting without choking out. When I was leaving I would buy the bags of curried whatever it was at the convenience store across the street from my hotel in Bangkok when I was getting morning beers. Those were not near as hot as the Pattaya dudes. Thailand has great street food.
I’d be more concerned if it were in a land locked state. I eat food cart seafood in Mexico all the time,
We have freezers and everything here in the landlocked areas so I am not too concerned about that.
Well, crap. Our clothes washing machine has finally bitten the dust.
It has sounded like a jet engine preparing for liftoff for the past few weeks (likely the bearings) and today it breathed its last and comes up “FAULT.”
We had already ordered a new one with haul away and install service, but it’s not until June 12.
Looks like several trips to the laundromat are in my future. I hate laundromats. Thanks goodness for smart phones.
Funny, the heater on my dryer just went out. Seems to be that kind of a day.
You have my sympathy!
Maybe you can hang clothes to dry for a while. I have no idea if it’s practical to replace a dryer’s heating element.
This house has a few appliances that I’d like to replace. We figured we’d do it one by one, and the washing machine topped the list. Next up is the dishwasher (fairly old and loud, and not very effective). Followed by a new cook top, and then the fridge.
It would be nice to have the clothes dryer match the replacement washing machine, but that is a superficial thing and can wait.
I have no grief with the oven. It can stay.
I dread having to replace any of my large appliances. There is a door right next to them, but it’s too narrow for any of them. They’d all have to be dragged out/in the front door at the far end of the house – after getting every single one of my things out of the way.
I’ll be having Home Depot’s finest Hispanic immigrants do the installation and haul-away.
I worked hard getting a real degree in college so I don’t have to do this crap myself now that I’m middle aged.
I have no idea if it’s practical to replace a dryer’s heating element.
Funnily enough, we have an article about that on Glibs.
Oh I was wrong. It’s about fixing a blower pulley on a dryer. Replacing a heating element should be trivial on most dryers. It’s often accessible via a panel in the back.
Much easier to live without a dryer than a washer! I already do, usually.
My water-heater is back to being manic-depressive, and of course it happens when Jugsy is here for the weekend with tons of laundry.
I have yet to read 1 positive thing about the shitty Rockwell gas valve.
Your smart phone can do laundry?
No but it can help me pretend I’m not in a laundromat.
I do my best reading in the laundromat.
The first time I worked in Japan, part of the Sunday morning routine was going a couple of blocks to do laundry at the “Happy Fun Laundry” place. We saved money by buying “Happy Fun Laundry” prepaid cards. The machines were one-stoppers – you needed no detergent, softener or anything. Just toss in dirty clothes, swipe your Happy Fun Laundry card, go outside for a smoke, and in about forty minutes you could go back in and extract your clean, dry clothes from the same machine.
I love Japan.
I’m surprised that the combo unite never caught on in the US
Obviously a conspiracy on the part of Big Appliance,
They clearly don’t want us having Happy Fun laundry.
LG has 2 models of their all in one. One with a regular sized tub and one smaller. Both are ventless and 110. Saves space and money.
Merde. Any laundry delivery services there?
No idea. I don’t like the idea of someone else doing my laundry though. That’s just… weird to me.
Laundromat it is! I did order one of those $25 push/pull agitators from Amazon so I can do a small load in the tub in a pinch.
Push-pull thingy:
https://www.amazon.com/EasyGoProducts-Hand-Powered-Clothes-Washing/dp/B00YQCOCAM/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=manual+clothes+washer&qid=1621710341&sprefix=manual+clothes+&sr=8-5
“It was a small load, honey. So I just did it by hand.”
ROFL.
Nice call-back.
Some dry cleaners will do your regular laundry, sometimes with same day service.
And watch the Home Depot installers. Mine didn’t know what they were doing and brought the wrong electrical cord for the dryer.
Yeah, back in Minnesota the installers for my new oven+range were baffled by the wiring that my house had coming up from the floor. They had expected an outlet the could plug into.
After they yapped amongst themselves for a while and then pantomimed that they couldn’t cope with it, I shooed them away and did it properly myself.
I just needed the grunt work really.
I was helping a friend install his new range, I asked if he got a new cord or if we needed to take the one off his old range. He held up a new one, I couldn’t see the plug so asked if he got the right one (four or three prong) to check he decided to plug it in.
^ This is how Hype lost his only friend. But at least he has a new range!
He was okay, he just fused the terminals together and burnt a hole in the linoleum. This is the same guy who was running one of two remote controlled overhead cranes at the steel mill and couldn’t figure out why the one he was looking at wasn’t responding, meanwhile the one behind him was doing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to all the shit he was ramming it into.
Damn!
He must be hoot when he cleans gunz.
Me too. That’s why I pay them to wash my clothes for me. I haven’t lost too many items over the years.
Yeah, but that’s customary in your land.
Yeah. But I could use the washers and dryers in the basement – and have done so many times – but usually I’m too lazy.
I’d love to have my own… in fact that is on the nice-to-have list when I move next.
If, hypothetically, someone falsely claimed to be the inventor of a Cheetohs flavor, would that person be a cheetah?
Conniving Cheeto Cheating Cheetah
Let’s see what’s in the Daily Mail…royal family…depressing stuff…depressing stuff…oh, there’s this:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9608005/Virgin-Galactic-rocket-ship-ascends-New-Mexico.html
Oh yeah. The billionaire-funded space tourism race is on!
I’m delighted the billionaires are doing it. They seem much better at it than NASA.
rocket ship VSS Unity becomes first to reach orbit from New Mexico base
Except that it was a suborbital flight that didnt even cross the Karman line. (But did cross the 50 mi NASA space line)
Front and back yard weed-whacked (new batteries for the whacker really helped!), front walk swept, commando raid on Kroger (maskless!) for a break to cool off – and of course I bought three times as many things as I intended to buy when I went in. Bathroom rugs given a cursory vacuuming and tossed in the wash. (And now I’m paranoid for the health of my washing machine. Thanks a bunch, folks!)
Now the dilemma: tackle cleaning the rest of the bathroom? Or nap?
I know the cats would vote nap. Do I follow the advice of the cats? I’m sure they only have my best interests at heart.
Nap!
?sleepy kitty, purr, yada
Yeah, I’m gonna call this for nap with 75% of the vote in. (Two cats and a husband.) As soon as I finish this here open-faced peanut butter sammich.
Oh dear, that’ll take forever as it gets stuck to the roof of the mouth with every bite.
Xt’s nxt thxt bxd.
::takes large swig of Bai Boost Buka Black Raspberry, whatever that is::
It’s not that bad.
on another topic, if you sent me anything between the warning and my test email, I didn’t get it.
If you didn’t send anything, ignore the previous sentence.
Re-sent a couple messages to be on the safe side.
…and I’m off to take my nap, if the cats have left me any room on the bed.
Night.
Hope you had a nice nap. Today, I took the first nap I’ve had since the before times. Went to the little city to visit a tiny museum, then wandered around for a bit. We had a nice lunch at a Scottish pub, went home and I promptly passed out. Carb crash for the win.
You went to the grocery store commando?
Hawt.
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My dad is the former CMO of Frito-Lay (retired now) and I’ve been fielding calls, texts, and emails all week from media members trying to track him down and verify the story of the janitor who invented Flaming Hot Cheetohs.
Oof.
Cheif Medical Officer?
Chief Munchies Officer
Marketing
My thoughts and prayers are with you.
He should make up a tale about the flamin hot Cheetos having been invented by someone more “intersectional” than the Latino janitor, and just sit back to watch the SJWs duke it out on social media.
Dang, it sounds like an air battle is about to take place out here.
There is a wildfire across the highway from my neighborhood, and they’re sending planes and helicopters to fight it. They fly in nice and low over the east side of the highway (where I live) to prepare for dumping fire retardant or water on the west side.
It is loud but kind of cool to see and hear. Hopefully the fire will be contained to the orchards and not hit any residences.
Tried those Cheetos once. That is all.
So nice it burns twice?
The red dye color they chose is off-putting to me.
On the other hand, I love to put regular Cheetos on top of the cafeteria chili at work. Yum!
I’ve never had a good experience with chili from a cafeteria or food court, but I s’pose standards for the stuff in your neck of the woods is quite high.
I love them. I rarely give in to the urge to purchase them, and then a dude at work showed up with some of these. I am a fan.
Used to eat those a lot back in the Lower Rainland™ years. Got out of the habit when we moved back to Edmonton — good thing, too, ’cause both my waist and butthole suffered from overindulging in those.
“Disney’s premise has always been to provide an escape for middle Americans, but its executives seem to harbor growing contempt for the very people who visit their amusement parks, watch their films, and buy their merchandise. Once known as the “Happiest Place on Earth,” Disney has now committed to becoming the “wokest place on Earth”—whatever the cost.”
https://www.city-journal.org/racial-politics-at-disney
We have always been big fans of all things Disney. But in recent decades the quality of the parks has decreased while the price increased. For Covid they stopped some hotel amenities and kept the prices high. They are fools to think the loudmouths on Twitter are the ones spending thousands on a vacation at their parks.
I think it’s passed beyond that stage. The loudmouths, or at least those who believe similarly and are sympathetic, are running the show at Disney and other companies now. They don’t care because a) everyone else is doing it b) most people ignore it and still buy the product, either because it doesn’t matter or A and there’s no real choice.
Steak prices are up. ?
I did score a great looking tri-tip. 2.4 lbs.
Market by me is trying to sell the packaged corn beef for 7/lb. You can f’ right off with that price lol.
I can get a whole brisket for 4/lb and corn it myself.
Around Edmonton, beef might as well be made out of platinum, even the ground stuff. We normally eat pork or chicken, the prices of which haven’t gone absolutely effin’ insane (yet).
Also, the local farm selling the meat took down their mask signs. ?
Yes, there was some gun play today too.
Pew, pew, pew.
You mean $, $, $, don’t you?
Lookit Mr. Privilege over here.
Some of the 9mm we were shooting was from the Obama ammo shortage years.
Mexi – your themed “beer reviews” are among my favorite regulars on here… Well, along with Joemala… and the H&H… And our beloved cryptids.
Seriously, I dig these. And I don’t even drink beer.
I must second that I was shocked to hear Evan Longoria is still in the bigs.
Someone above said they were wearing their tinfoil hat IRT what’s been done to Americans. That’s not tinfoil hat territory; it’s history.
In the last 4-6 years we have witnessed the intentional and accelerating destruction of all that made America exceptional. Period.
That’s because it’s all just microwaved Marxism – all of it. BLM, AntiFa, the Democratic Party, when you drill down on everything they say, it’s all just a cover for Marxism. All of it.
Marxism is the most evil idea ever conceived because it’s nothing more than Envy dressed up as economics. It not only gives license to the worst instincts in Man, it makes them an obligation and dresses itself up as Morality. And it attracts/selects for the worst of the Envious to scream the loudest.
Trying not to hate Marxists is my biggest spiritual challenge.
You are 100% correct on the Marxism. The leaders of these movements know this, and they have no intention of being anything but grifters who preside over the whole mess. They’ll have their dachas, and the peasants will have nothing.
But those leaders need followers. What I can’t figure out is whether the large numbers of people voting for “democratic socialism” and the Greater Good for our Collective Community know they are implementing Marxism or if they are just willfully ignorant.
In other words, is there hope of persuading the bleeding heart rank and file or should we just gird up for battle?
Thanks Ozy!
So I got an update to Windows 10 and it updated the logon screen picture to a bunch of houses with steep thatched roofs. I said to myself, that looks a lot like Shirakawago in Gifu prefecture in Japan. It can’t be… but it was. It’s not a normal tourist destination, but it was one of my favorite places that I visited in Japan. Probably because I prefer country to city.
http://ml.shirakawa-go.org/en/
Gifu is a really interesting prefecture. It’s got skiing and is also noted for cattle and pottery as well. The beef there is wonderful.