Last year for Memorial Day I had a special theme of the worst war movies to date. I still think this is an appropriate device to complete my weekly contribution but since it was already done, I’ll make a piece more appropriate for Veteran’s Day. Because either way everyone will be thanking me for my service when I go to Lowe’s to check out the sweet deals on appliances!
This is my review of Meridian Hive Blackberry Mead:
In 1982, a Vietnam Veteran went to visit a battle buddy in Hope, WA and to his dismay learned his friend died of cancer due to exposure from Agent Orange. Minding his own business, he encountered a local police officer who offers to give him a ride out of town. Unfortunately, the man decided to go back towards town.
The police officer, who did not want to have a mullet-wearing vagrant wandering through his small town, unlawfully detains the Veteran on a trumped weapons charge and resisting arrest. He had a small knife on hand for hunting.
“You’d think for $500 Cold Steel could at least buff out the Made in China stamp”
While in jail, detention officers were unaware the Veteran was suffering from PTSD, and their treatment of the Veteran triggered him to relive his experiences at a Vietnamese POW camp. The Veteran escaped his detainers, and a county wide manhunt involving the National Guard, ensued in the mountains to find the man unfairly detained by the police.
Somehow, he obtained an M60 and an absurd amount of 7.62 ammunition and began his assault on the town. Even after his former commanding officer attempted to reason with him, the Veteran killed everyone in the town. Especially the cop that arrested him. They deserved their fate by violating the wrong man’s God-given rights.
Okay fine this is just the plot to First Blood. But meanwhile in Belgium…
A well-trained sniper from the Belgian army, Jurgen Conings, who has combat experience in several war zones including Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, disappeared on Monday. Having reportedly left life-threatening notes to several top officials, the 46-year-old man is believed to have taken several anti-tank missiles, a submachine gun and a handgun with an ability to pierce bulletproof vests from his unit’s ammunition depot. He himself is believed to be wearing the vest.
Conings is now a “terrorist suspect,” according to Belgian media. The federal prosecutor’s office has been investigating him for “attempted murder and illegal possession of weapons in a terrorist context,” the VRT broadcaster reported. Authorities also believe the suspect has not been “acting on impulse,” but is rather well-prepared.
Throughout the week, some 400 Belgian troops, from both the army and the police, have been rigorously searching the Hoge Kempen National Park in the Belgian province of Limburg. Helicopters, armored cars and trucks were deployed for the manhunt, while hundreds searched the nature reserve meter by meter equipped with thermal cameras. Forces from Germany and the Netherlands have been mobilized, as the area where Conings is believed to be hiding borders these countries. Dutch special units are also on standby on their side of the border in case the man tries to cross.
They think Americans propagate needless violence against their government? True. I’m insulted nobody around here is up to something like this…yet.
This is sort of like mead. I had mead once in college and it reminded me of a ridiculously sweet wine. I had an unpleasant headache afterwards but that might have more to do with my drinking the entire 750mL bottle…along with several others that I had not accounted for that night. This is something like that, but a bit more tart from the berries, but its also carbonated. So once again, I have nothing for Ted.
Not beer means it get no rating but it wasn’t bad.
I’ve been to lake Mead.
Kinnath’s mead is the best and he shares it with his Glib friends at Honey Harvest
So I have heard. I hope to make it up some day but Sep is a bit busy around these parts.
Sounds like some Belgians are a mite bit tired of their government.
Unless they’re one of the leaders of Iran.
terrorists, like Jürgen Conings,
Has he done anything yet other than allegedly leave some sharply worded letters and taken materiel?
Well, his actions left them terrified.
“attempted murder and illegal possession of weapons in a terrorist context,”
I think the question is whether or not he has actually attempted to murder someone or if this is pre-crime. Sounds like the latter to me.
He should run for office. They could call him the “Maverick candidate.”
Egad. That sounds revolting.
“Mead in Austin.”
Mead comes in as many different flavors and varieties as wine does. From bone dry to sickly sweet; still to carbonated.
Interestingly enough, the local beer bar’s glass of the month is for a cocktail made with Barr Hill Gin, which is distilled from fermented honey.
Unfortunately, the morning trip to the farmer’s market couldn’t happen, as it was cancelled due to inclement weather. In beer news, the county just south of where I am is spinning up a brewery passport starting on Tuesday. It’ll be a tough one to complete, you have to visit all of the breweries in the county twice before the end of August.
Of course, there’s only eight breweries in the county (and one of them is part of a winery/meadery), and four of them are within a couple miles of each other.
Is filling up the passport a personal goal or is there some sort of reward or recognition for doing it?
Either way, it’s a good excuse.
I would do it, with my can of dinner and a bunch of lies!
Here’s one of my favorites by those guys. It’s a nasty one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFK75GyCWHs
Bad assed! Thanks.
There’s a reward (and a personal goal), you get a “free” glass for completing it, they’re planning on doing a beer fest for those who have completed it, and you get entered into a drawing to get to participate in a collaboration brew with some of the breweries.
Besides, it’s a good excuse to go support locally owned businesses that haven’t had the easiest past year.
I have a friend that makes meads. His are generally dry and not too sweet. He had a batch that didn’t turn out correctly recently, so he’s coming over and we’re going to distill it. I have no idea what moonshine from mead will taste like, but I’ll know in about 8 hours or so.
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There’s now at least two distilleries I know of that make spirits out of honey: Barr Hill (linked above), and Wiggle in PA. I’m sure there’s more out there as well.
From the linx,
The Jack Bruce car is a Ferrari. You can see the prancing horse badge. Besides, Citroens are generally really funky looking.
Hayek should name her kitty Tacks.
In Ca, it’s legal to own mags higher than 10 rounds, but not to transfer, purchase or import them. If you have one, it better have become yours in the early nineties. The only way to buy a rifle with more than ten rounds is with a fixed magazine. Lever actions with small calibers and long barrels, basically.
It’s supposed to be hard to pass legislation in the US. They have to fight it out and convince the other side. There have been other systems where this is not required and there’s a huge trail of bodies and suffering as a result.
And, it seems odd that three really old people are willing to drag some shit out trying to weasel even more free money out of something that has long since ceased affecting anyone but the grievance mongers. Unless, of course, they know it ain’t gonna matter to them and it’s only going to their heirs. In that case, keep fighting until long after I’m gone. My great grandchildren can party with all that dough, unless inflation turns it all into a decent lunch for four.
Oh, and I’m partial to Del Shannon’s Runaway, but I saw this version live in the late seventies, so it’s what I think of for Runaway songs.
The only way to buy a rifle with more than ten rounds is with a fixed magazine.
Huh. No Ishapore 2a/2a1 rifles in California.
I think you could probably buy that in 12 rd form here. It’s specifically detachable magazines. They have changed the damn law a bunch recently, so I can’t be sure without digging around on calguns.
The Ishapore 2a/2a1 rifles have 12 round detachable box magazines. The wiki article says some have ten round magazines, but I think that is wrong. I think they all had 12 round magazines.
Sorry, it says they are loaded via “charger clips,” which I interpreted as a fixed magazine. If the mag is detachable, we can’t buy the 12 rd version.
Those extra two rounds are super scary and likely to result in further bloodshed, right?
They’re like covid curfews, when the virus suddenly comes out in force at 10:01 PM.
I know. I’m waiting for my 2A1 to jump out of the closet and go on a killing rampage since it has those extra two rounds.
It hasn’t yet. I suspect it is defective.
Lee-Enfields after the introduction of the SMLE were loaded with chargers. The Lee-Metford was developed before the invention of stripper clips. Lee-Metfords and early Lee-Enfields were loaded singly through the receiver.
Lee-Metfords and Lee-Enfields always had detachable box magazines. The “Lee” is James Paris Lee, the inventor of the detachable box magazine.
When the Brits first introduced the Lee-Metford, they issued spare magazines with the rifle. They dropped the spare magazines for a) cost cutting and b) it wasn’t really necessary given their doctrine around use the of the rifle. The magazine would be chained to the rifle so that the soldier wouldn’t lose it. That practice would continue until the introduction of the SMLE.
It makes me feel happy, in a weird way, that the concept of Corporal Schmuckatelli and Private Snuffy Smith are timeless and universal across all armies.
Also, the magazines are individually fitted to the rifle and aren’t really interchangeable. The spare magazine was issued in case of damage.
Also, the magazines are individually fitted to the rifle and aren’t really interchangeable. The spare magazine was issued in case of damage.
No.
Caveat: The locking ribs are different between SMLE/No. 1 and No.4/No. 5 magazines. Those won’t interchange. The magazine parts won’t interchange as they have different springs.
No.4/No.5 magazines should interchange, SMLE magazines of the same type should interchange, MLM MkII/MLM MkII*/MLE magazines should interchange, MLM Mk I/MLM Mk I* should interchange, early carbine magazines should interchange.
This is basically what I remember from Skennerton: Magazines of the same type interchange. No hand fitting required.
I’ve had some blackberry wine which was good. I wouldn’t mind trying a blackberry mead.
?Please never change, Mexi.
How could I?
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/cellular-microscopic/does-body-really-replace-seven-years.htm
Wait a decade?
I have scars that are 50 years old. Did my body replicate scar tissue?
The answer.
Touchè
There was a Ray Bradbury short story that dealt with that as a married couple had reached their 7th wedding anniversary. The discussion was about if they were still the same people that they had married all those years ago.
https://twitter.com/i/topics/news/e1783090513?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email
OH. MY. GOD. The Babylon Bee needs more money; I have to go donate right now.
Holy shit, they are doing God’s work with satire.
They should get the Mark Twain Award, the Jonathan Swift Cup, and the Alexander Pope Chalice.
The images are frequently just as good as the accompanying articles. I know we have Bee lurkers, so I’ll just doff my cap and say “thank you.”
Not loading for me; Trump ads on gas pumps?
The podcast generally leaves me cold though.
Oh noes. Looks like Twitter is requiring logging in to view their content.
I used to be able to just look at any linked tweet. No way am I signing up for Twitter.
I don’t know which one Ozy wanted to share; they are all so good.
https://babylonbee.com/
This would be my pick.
I like this
https://babylonbee.com/news/conquered-american-working-in-chinese-slave-camp-in-year-2030-just-glad-us-military-was-inclusive
Trump ads on gas pumps are awesome. I look forward to a self-afflicted TDS progtard freaking out and spraying gasoline all over the screen. Combustion, explosion, Darwin award nomination, etc.
Sorry, me no linky well.
Here’s the headline: “John Cena Apologizes To China By Body-Slamming A Uighur Muslim”
That should pretty much cover it.
I guess there are a few workarounds, e.g., bookmarking, or directly from the Bee site.
Why would anyone link to (or look at) Twitter when there’s a website?
For Twitter generally, not Bee.
I’m still having a hard time comprehending why anyone would link to or look at Twitter AT ALL.
Because some people in whom one might be interested disseminate notices through that medium. (Am not on it myself, and unlikely to join.)
I just got an email from the daughter of one of my longest old army buds. Her Dad got seriously ill on Tuesday, moved to hospice today. John is 91, I met him in 1962 in France. John was the guy that motivated me to start night classes at the U of Md. Because of his motivation I became the first in my family to get a degree in 1978.
I reconnected with John about 15 years ago and talked to him as recently as last week.
Our families were very close in France, John and I were in the same unit, though at different locations. I will miss him…
Condolences, Fourscore.
Sorry.
Sorry, sir. But also happy for you that you got to know him and have that relationship.
In Dave Grossman’s “On Killing” he talks about the close relationships that come out of combat and how almost every combat vet he talked to said that other than wife and kids, the intimacy of having been through that cauldron together is like nothing else.
First Asian vacation there were several of us junior officers that were as close as brothers . We had two missions, the stated one plus foil the CO by our working together to stay ahead of of him. We reunited after the internet became a thing. Second trip everyone worked in different places and different jobs so I didn’t know many and none well.
Thanks for the kind words, my friends,
Sorry to hear that.
Sorry, Fourscore. He sounds like a cool guy.
Sorry to hear that 4×20.
Me too, sorry for your loss.
Sorry to see that, Fourscore. It’s never easy to lose a brother.
Sorry to hear, Fourscore.
So sorry, Fourscore. That’s rough.
I can’t compare, but two of my classmates have recently died (I graduated with 14 other people), so … I guess I’m approaching the age I need to start looking at the obits.
I look mostly for peers’ parents, parents’ peers, and former teachers.
Sorry 🙁
At the Best Dam Car show and BBQ competition in Boulder NV. Not a dam mask anywhere…I’ve stepped into 2019. It feels and looks great!
Glad to hear it. I’m really hoping to not even need to bring a mask in September.
Urthona, answering your question from the dead thread about the LBJ-Kennedy picture in the hotel.
Of course I’m speculating, but I’m just telling you that I was standing there and looked at the picture, which had LBJ getting into the motorcade behind Kennedy… and the photograph captured this instant where LBJ is looking at Kennedy, who has his back turned, SS guys are all bustling around, and the first thought that jumped into my head was, “Holy shit. LBJ was in on it.”
I don’t know how else I can explain it… actually, check that. Let me try this.
Have you ever seen that picture of a young Sophia Loren sitting at a table with Jayne Mansfield and some other folks – and Mansfield is, ahem, practically spilling out onto the table? And the photographer captures one of the most famous “side eyes” ever?
Well, the photo I saw had the same kind of impact on me. I swear I could read LBJ’s mind in that picture: “That Irish prick…I’ll be president before the day is over.”
Another along similar lines.
Yucking it up and flirting at a funeral. Barry is sooo classy.
Love Michelle’s staring daggers. I don’t recognize the blonde.
The blonde was representing a Nordic state. Ambassador from Denmark or something.
She was the Danish Prime Minister.
“I was afraid they were going to fall out,” I think SL once said.
She thought the deck was “stacked” against her.
https://www.eonline.com/uk/news/594465/sophia-loren-finally-explains-that-infamous-pic-with-jayne-mansfield-and-her-nipples
LOL
+1 blurry pixel
I had no idea Mansfield was part asian!
Ozyg, if you haven’t read it, get a copy of James Ellroy’s American Tabloid. It is a novel covering the entirety of the Kennedy admin, from election fraud to Dallas, and it is a wild ride of conspiracy theories, collusion, violence, and naked ambition.
He pulls no punches in his fiction.
??Thanks, zwak!
Not sure how accurate this is, but: https://kfor.com/news/national/map-shows-which-counties-are-home-to-the-highest-number-of-excessive-drinkers-in-the-united-states/
Thanks for the videos, Toxeth!
De rien…
LOL at Wisconsin.
The Utah folks do all their drinking in Wendover, so that counts as Nevada.
Ah, Wendover. Near Dugway Proving Ground (aka Area 52), my old stomping ground.
Gateway to Bonneville. Where the best steak in town sucks so bad, you’d better bring your own food. The rooms are dirt cheap though.
I used to have to eat at Bonneville Brewery on occasion but at least the bartender upstairs would make me a proper gin and tonic (I paid in cash and tipped generously).
I saw a mouse running along the baseboards in the dining room on more than occasion.
And yet it beat the alternatives in Tooele.
Once, my bike broke in a way I couldn’t fix there. I had to get a ride to SLC, rent a Uhaul and drive home with it in the back. Cost me close to a grand and was crazy boring. I rebuilt my whole bike before I went the next time.
Linked in the article:
I did, and I didn’t die. Make of it as you will.
How did you get it through the triple mask?
Don’t you even promask, bruh?
https://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2013/May-June/images/Kennedy.png
Try butt chugging
I doubt the map’s accuracy. I just checked by looking at the counties with large military bases and they aren’t “Wisconsin Blue”. I LOL at Wisconsin as well.
Gives a whole new meaning to blue states.
It would have been cooler to make the heavy drinking areas look like Jane Mansfield’s nipple in that pic. The blurrier the county, the more they’ve been drinking.
The county I currently live in is rather light colored.
I am suspicious.
San Diego county representin’!
Oklahoma is quite low compared to the others, especially the others with large Indian reservations.
In Oklahoma, there are several Indian “nations” which you mainly notice by highway signs saying “you are entering the Chickasaw Nation” or something but otherwise the residents therein are just living normal modern lives.
The ones where the enlightened government has granted the land exclusively to the Indians such as in New Mexico and in parts of the Dakotas are inescapable hell-holes and hotbeds of alcoholism.
I thought alcohol laws might explain a lot of this. But… is PA really more lenient than OH? I doubt it.
PA’s booze laws are some of the worst in the country. I doubt Ohio’s are worse.
They’ve gotten better.
Ohio’s are not worse.
We can buy cold beer (in any quantity that you can afford) at gas stations, grocery stores, breweries, and anywhere else with a beer sale license. Cider and mead fall under the wine sale license. Anything over 42 proof (with the exception of beer, due to a quirk in the law) must be sold at a state liquor store. The state stores are licensed by the state, have a monopoly on liquor, and have fixed prices, but can be privately owned.
There is a minimum markup on each tier of the beer industry of 25%, so you’ll see stores advertising state minimum pricing. This does mean that a brewery that is self distributing (also legal in the state) will be able to retain more profits then if they bring in a distributor, and if you buy packaged beer at the brewery instead of in the store, the brewery gets a much larger share of the profits (since they generally will not undercut the retail channels).
With the changes post ‘vid, bars are now all able to sell to-go beer, wine, and cocktails (most were able to sell to go beer in growlers/howlers/crowlers before, but didn’t).
Any growler/howler can be filled at any location (though locations can refuse to fill one for any reason).
There was (a couple years back) a maximum 12% ABV limit on beer, but that got removed completely, leaving no limit. Back in the early 00’s, the limit was ~7%, which got raised to the 12%.
In that case I’ll go with “garbage in, garbage out”.
Was surprised to see the low numbers in much of the south too. Not among the southerners I know. How much was self-reported? /two Baptists at a liquor store
PS. de rigueur: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_6_hXjOBAMI
Define excessive.
Slightly more than me.
What a difference two weeks makes…I wasn’t the only unmasked person at the grocery store. Yay.
We were still outnumbered, but a huge improvement.
Quick grocery store run I did, masking of patrons was about 50%, staff was still fully masked. I’ve also noticed that the unmasked appear more likely to greet other unmasked people. While the masked people still appear to be recoiling from any human interaction (other then staff). I’m looking forward to see the mix at the rib cook out on Monday.
I’ve noticed that the unmasked are much kinder and easy with the “please”s and “thank you”s and “excuse me”s.
Well of course, we are made of finer clay after all. 🙂
A cashier we see frequently there commented it was nice to see our smiling faces.
Just returned from the supermarket and the signs by the cashier that I always ignore now say that you don’t “need” a mask if you’re pricked. I’m not even sure what the “law” is here any more but you can bet every single person in there was muzzled up.
Went out today *gasp*. Walmart and Home Depot. The only masks were on employees and half the ones I saw had them down under their chins.
Stupid masker pissants, don’t they know what science is?
My employer (California) sent an email late Friday that we would stop wearing masks on June 15 and that we are all expected to work in the buildings by June 21.
I think they figured out that the “WFH” was a racket for many people.
Let’s just say that if I had made the “Reduction in Force” lists, the names thereon would have been a different set than the ones who actually got Riffed.
I’ve worked far harder from home during the last six months than during the last several years in the office at my previous stint with the same company and same manager. *shrug*
If people are slacking it’s because they don’t have anything to do and their managers aren’t doing their job.
Same. I’m doing some work today that I didn’t want to finish yesterday. It probably depends on the industry. Most of my work is auditing so they don’t really care when its done, they just want it done,
But they’ll raise hell if I’m not present during meetings.
Due to unsolicited messages on LinkedIn for similar work, I also entertained the idea of moonlighting for another company. WFH would enable that for me, and I doubt I am the inly one that considered or is actually doing it.
I didn’t of course but I thought about it.
That would be my thought on WFH. What would stop a person from having multiple jobs? As long as you can maintain output, you could have two or three full time jobs.
I can’t believe this hasn’t occurred to me.
TBF one job is enough lately.
Yup. Seems to me that evaluating people’s individual productivity would tell the tale of who is OK or better off working from home and who’s better at the buildings.
I have one highly effective direct report who’s doing a lot of work with our Colorado office, so she’s teleworking with them all day whether from her home or her office, so I see no reason for her to have to commute every day for that. I’m going to support her if she appeals for an exemption from driving in every day.
You are a great boss.
I know, right? I really ought to be working towards moving into management, but that would mean working with the fuckheads who are there now. Not sure I could maintain the poker face dealing with them. Bad enough answering to them, imagine having to discuss tactics with them all day.
Our policy has crystallized. It’s exactly the same as before DOOMTERROR. Managers can dish out infrequent or short-term WFH by request. Long-term has to go through HR. ?
Babylon Bee:
https://babylonbee.com/news/state-that-just-voted-to-reduce-penalties-for-pedophiles-not-sure-why-god-keeps-lighting-them-on-fire
We laugh, but…
Another home run.
Please tell me this part isn’t accurate.
https://www.eqca.org/newsom-signs-sb145/
Rumor has it, after signing the easy the pedo bill, he said, ” just kidding!”
Ah. Well, I’m not a so-con so I don’t have a problem with the law as described in the article. It is obviously targeting consensual sex twixt youngsters. I don’t think I consider consensual sex between a 27-year-old and a 17-year-old to be pedophilia. 14 and 24? Well… I’m not sure. That’s what the judge is for.
The Bee is being a little click-baity here.
Yeah, I think consensual sex should be legal above maybe 16. There’s a huge amount of injustice meted out in the name of all of this. The registration requirement is absolute bullshit. Crime+conviction should equal sentence which can be completed and then moved on from. California loves to create bullshit crimes to keep punishing people for decades after they should have finished a normal sentence.
The sex registries are straight up unconstitutional. Once you are off parole or probation, the constitution never gives the government the power of government to require citizens to keep them informed of their whereabouts.
Its a scam where the Lefties dont want to give sex criminals life sentences but dont want their kids seduced by adult men and have to have abortions monthly.
Age of majority should be a set age and applies to everything. Sex, contracts, driving, military service, drinking, smoking… after debate, if that age is 18, so be it. If its 16 so be it.
Additionally, kids under that age should never be subject to adult crimes or punishments. This would prevent 2+ kids having sex from being convicted adult sex offenders.
At the Best Dam Car show and BBQ competition in Boulder NV. Not a dam mask anywhere…I’ve stepped into 2019. It feels and looks
Exxxxxxcellent.
Relevant.
How Civilization Was Built on Getting “Drunk”
There’s all sorts of research showing that agriculture started as a way to make sure that people could have enough beer to drink.
The discovery of beer is one of those things that really makes me wonder how it was invented. It’s not like wine, cider, or mead, which are all pretty simple. Juice (or add water), and let sit. You’ll get alcohol. Beer requires making malted grains, then using them to convert starch into sugar, and then letting it ferment (similar to sake, which uses a fungus to break down the rice starches into sugars).
I often wondered how many raw lobsters were eaten before someone said “hey- lets boil this thing”.
Probably a wicked amount, ova dere!
Weren’t the first brewers monks? I have convinced myself God gave it to them. Not that I drink much beer anymore but love it on occasion. Seems some whining asshole drank all my tequila last night so I had to go to town this morning. I used the lack of tequila to get some ribs, burgers, chicken thighs and some Heb’s. Ribs are in the smoker.
First brewers were long before monks were a thing. The Code of Hammurabi (earliest written laws) referenced beer, and there’s some references to beer being used as payment to the slaves used to build the Egyptian pyramids.
Dicks out for Hammurabi!
A bit of a departure from the usual dislike of the death penalty here.
Hearing that, the middle east said, ” Hold my short beer!”
THIS^^^^ is why I keep coming back.
And that’s for ‘sloper and Nephi
Pretty harsh for a short pint IMO.
I made a beer run today, and amongst a couple of new to me Ohio beers (a raspberry wheat and a hazelnut milk stout), I managed to find a rare and hard to find saison:
Fantome Blanchot!
First time I’ve seen a Fantome beer on the shelf in years. It’s currently chilling and I hope to drink it tomorrow night with a bonfire burning in the backyard.
Don’t you live in the city? I thought bonfires were frowned upon in residential communities.
Not since the middle of last year.
I live in the suburbs, specifically a blue collar community that had a large amount of auto workers living in it. Pretty much every house here has a bar in the basement and a fire ring in the back yard, Neighbors will regularly have parties going until the wee hours of the morning, and the cops have not been called in the years I’ve lived here. If it’s after 02:00, and you need to work the next day, a polite request to keep it down a bit will usually be respected. A request before that will usually be met with even louder music and revelry up until 02:00.
To give you an idea, there’s a bar around the corner from my house that opens at 07:00 Monday through Friday. This would give the third shift workers a place to stop for a pint on the way home.
Are there any auto workers left?
One plant is still running on a part time basis, one of the old plants just got sold to a developer (expected to still be industrial). There’s also a heavy Teamsters presence as well, both the UAW and Teamsters have union halls within a couple miles of my house.
Culturally, there’s a large amount of eastern European immigrants and communities here as well. That brings a certain disrespect for the authorities, dislike of socialism, and delicious unhealthy food.
Once upon a time, Dayton had 5 Delphi (formerly Delco) plants until the union(s) ruined them. Annual testing on their coal boilers was worth around $150K for my company annually. Now, they’re all shuttered and/or dozed over.
My dad worked as a supervisor at the Euclid GM plant (later becoming Inland IIRC), he got laid off shortly before there was a strike that caused the location to be shut down permanently. Then you’ve got the steel plants up here, and the auto plants here on the near West side. FFS, there are streets named Chevrolet Blvd., Henry Ford Blvd., and several others. The still working auto plant still has a sign up on the parking lot that says: “Foreign made cars must park in the back”.
Oh, I used to test for LTV Steel (sold to Arcelor, now Cleveland-Cliffs) and the Ford plant.
Isnt fantome notoriously hit or miss?
I’ve always enjoyed everything I’ve managed to get from them, and from the beer geek communities they used to be very highly regarded (to the point of being trade bait). The brewery is notoriously secret about the ingredients used, and I believe they still do open/wild fermentation for all of their beers.
All this booze talk just reminded me I bought a little yesterday and now I’m thirsty.
Perfect time for a little drinky while finishing my final decisions before I start my new gig next week.
Congrats! I obviously missed it. What’s the new gig?
Onlyfans model. Duh.
I thought that was for people who can’t afford air conditioning?
Hawt.
Yes. Do tell.
Well…. oddly enough, I’m not precisely sure what I’ll be doing. Short version is this: I got introduced to a very, very wealthy man (previously sold a company for $1.7 Bn) two Friday night ago and over the course of a long evening of talking, he asked me “what number” it would take to get me to leave my current job… I gave him the number, he laughed, and now I work for him. He owns 4 or 5 different tech companies involved in international finance, B2B stuff, B2C, etc. and he said for now I just need to stay near him and learn. He’ll “find” where I go down the road.
So…I guess I’ll figure it out as I go along.
But it won’t be deciding who gets pandemic bucks any more.
So, Hank Scorpio?
And the guy’s name happens to be…..Epstein.
He is – perhaps unsurprisingly – one of (((them))). A great dude.
Although I need a ruling from OMWC on whether I can say (((them))) or (((us))) since my 23 and Me says I’m about 6%.
Also, with my 6% and a daughter who is making her mikvah shortly, does that get me in the (((club)))? Or am I just a shabbos goi with pretensions?
and a daughter who is making her mikvah shortly
Your daughter’s menstruating and needs to be made ritually clean?
And here I thought your specialties were just the apostrophe and obscure music.
You’re right!
Wow. I had no idea of any of that.
Being one of the (((them))) sounds exhausting.
blackjack – I just want you to know that I saw what you did there and laughed and groaned. Well-played, sir.
Where else can one come to a site to have someone mention my daughter’s menstruation and then get a musical link like that?
(I was a big Supertramp fan at one time, as well.)
I’m not sure how that will do for Glibs family friendly rating.
I have a lot of obscure knowledge from having done a lot of reading and having a good memory.
I figured you meant to use a word other than “mikvah” (BTW I learned as an avid Scrabble player) and tried to make a joke about it.
LOL
Fuck yeah.
Good luck, Ozy! Couldn’t have happened to a better dude.
Thanks, Tundra. Like everyone else, just a squirrel tryna find a nut.
It isn’t ZyraTalk, right?
I don’t think so, but since I have no idea what that is, it could be.
They’re cool. My little brother had a similar story when they hired him over coffee. He since moved on to property management.
A number of tech start-ups moved into town over the past few years, I interviewed with Oscar about a year ago, but since I showed up wearing a suit for the interview I wouldn’t fit in.
Funny, the guy told me his only work dress code is a collared shirt… for Zoom calls. We work out of his guest house on his rather palatial estate. (17K sq. ft house, no bullshit).
So far in my two trips there my principle duties have been (1) rolling around with one of his English bulldogs who loves me (probably because of the similar build and jawline), and teaching his 10 y.o. son how to juggle while dad was on a business call.
I could get used to this.
Good work if you can get it.
Can’t wait to have dinner with you and the missus!
Ditto. Late July should give us enough time to get settled in. We close on July 1 and take possession on July 8.
That is great. Have fun on the new job venture!
That sounds awesome!
Or this is some convoluted “grooming” exercise.
Either way, congrats and/or watch out for your cornhole, bud.
(But, seriously, congrats, sounds like a cool opportunity)
Thanks, SB. I had resolved myself to life as an ALJ and then adding my reserve retirement to the mix in 8 years when it kicks in, but this just dropped in my lap. So now I’m back as being part of a startup working for a guy I really, really like. The friend of mine who introduced us also works there and I think the company we belong to has 8 employees, so it’s back to “true startup” mode again.
I’m into it. From what I understand so far, the company really does offer a great value proposition to its clients and the owner speaks that language. He really seems to believe in win-win and he’s made a fortune in the past, lost it, and made it again, so he’s not hung up on the benjamins. It’s a consequence of what he wants to do, not the driving force from what I can tell.
That really sounds like a great situation – albeit one where you’ll need to watch your work-life balance; it’ll be all too easy to spend way too much time working.
Yeah. I’ve had some struggles in that area in the past, so your comment is well-taken.
I was CF’s GC from the start and that was an all-consuming position – and not in a good way.
From what I can see so far, the owner has suffered from that in the past and appears to be a recovering workaholic, as well. We’ve even had some discussions on that subject, so…
It at least bodes well that we’ve talked about it.
Didn’t mean to make light. Recent death in my family of a late octogenarian too.
Nice.
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Maybe I won’t worry about cutting the grass. Or painting.
Solar storms are back, threatening life as we know it on Earth
At least we sure had a real good time!
So…the apocalypse is back on?
Bring bacon and bourbon.
It sure would be funny if all the hand wringing over “climate change” was negated by a massive solar blast. Mankind might even deserve such a fate, the way we’ve conducted things lately.
What’s this we shit, Kemosabe? I don’t deserve such a fate.
It was a lapse in judgment. But, the solar blast might get us all.
Yeah, they’re notoriously indiscriminate.
I am not sure I would use the word ‘conducting’. We seem to be drowning in an ocean of stupid.
A solar blast or SMOD might be an improvement.
Might? In order of preference:
1. SMOD,
2. Solar Flare
3. Cthuhlu
Don’t forget the old reliable of massive rift vulcanism. It worked for the Permian Mass Extinction and contributed to several others. Can anybody say “Deccan Traps” vulcanism?
At least with Cthulhu there is a small chance he might use you as one of his acolytes or something.
Or he might eat you first.
You takes your chances.
Flathead County, Montana crime update.
That’s what I’m talking about!
From the next entry- which Glib is this ?
9:21 p.m. A caller sick of the “nonsense going on downtown” wanted their complaint noted.
Well, there’s things going on.
Yes there are.
That version certainly belongs in the hall of lame.
I know.
LOL.
Time to go buy some steaks.
Not a bad plan at all.
And a way to recognize the sacrifices of all those who fell in battle to preserve our way of life so that we can go buy steak when we please.
God bless ‘Murica.
Sounds good. Had leftover steak and mashed taters for breakfast. Brewhouse fish and chips for lunch. Firing up the charcoal for some smoked porked chops for dinner. Also, grilled zucchini and ‘nanners (meh, son likes ’em).
Speaking of photos… there was one of Anthony Weiner doing some sort of mea culpa press conference event, and Mrs Weiner is standing behind him, looking for all the world like she’s trying to decide which ear she’ll put the bullet behind.
1967. Watch Mick roll his eyes when they make him sing, “let’s spend some TIME together” Fucking hilarious. He throws out few night togethers in there too.
Nice, Ozy!
Thanks, Brooksy! (I was soooo tempted to reply in a new line to honor thee, good sirrah.)
Thanks, Brooksy! (I was soooo tempted to reply in a new line to honor thee, good sirrah.)
Better yet, squirrels to the rescue!!
Admittedly, due to my work schedule I go to bed early (like soon). But has Brett been around ?
Florida Man Dumps Loader Bucket Full Of Dirt On Girlfriend’s Car… With Her Inside
Turns out some of OMWC’s folks nearly ended up being my neighbors.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yiddish_Policemen%27s_Union
OK, added to the reading list.
RIP Capt. Stubing
Again with the negative waves, Moriarty!
In which Capt. Stubing looks a little too excited by Ginger Rogers
He’s dead! California is free(r)! Crap, wrong Gavin.
Nope, but Garcetti’s going to try and curry favor with the Indians, so we got that.
Radio Free CA and esp. Adam Carolla help me stay sane.
Hmm. I might need this.
Nice. Very nice.
I always have about a dozen or so new ones I am lusting after. Not long ago Elmer Keith’s Winchester mod. 70 went up for sale for a mere 7K. That probably would not have been a wise expenditure.
I can’t bring myself to buy purty guns because I see guns about the same as I see hammers: useful tools for a very specific purpose.
My guns are all about utility, though I admire collectors and their collections.
That’s a beautiful piece, though.
I can’t keep up with the ones I have now. I cant justify spending the money on more. But still….
https://www.uberti-usa.com/1885-courteney-stalking-rifle
If I weren’t married I would probably be weak and cave in. Buying guns is worse than being a drug or gambling addict.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caMHdcRNEkc
Some parts may have been delivered here recently. Some assembly required.
It’s always n+1. Never quite enough. ?
Sounds like most cyclists.
/looks at savings goal for another new bicycle
At one point a Winchester engineer adapted three pre-64 Model 70s to fire the .22 LR round. They were interesting pieces. Main reason I know about this is because my best friend from school owns one of them, and it’s a supremely accurate piece, as I guess you’d expect from a gun hand-made by a Winchester engineer.
Yes, yes you do. That is purty.
That is nice.
I’ve bid on a few auctions of his. Lost them all. He was quick to respond to questions.
Suck it, Pep.
Oh. That happened.
Who’s running Chelsea these days?
https://twitter.com/right_populist/status/1398373262103621632
LOLOLOLOL
I take back every bad thing I’ve ever said about twitter. All of it.
He is not wrong.
Having to do a bit of DIY for XY. Except for reasons, I can no longer climb a ladder. I am incredibly frustrated right now. I will have to instruct XY how to do this step by step and I teach no better than I can currently climb a ladder.
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