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Riven

Riven

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

197 Comments

  1. leon

    Afternoon Glibs!!

  2. Plisade

    22 minutes to beer:30 and a 72!

    • Hyperion

      On my 2nd 16.9 oz can… I mean PINT. Slacker!

      • Translucent Chum

        Still in my office, but cracked a fresh M-43.

      • Hyperion

        In my office as well, been here all day. And I actually am wearing pants today.

      • Translucent Chum

        My kids crack up at my zoom formal – shirt, tie, shorts, and flip flops.

      • Hyperion

        I typically don’t even put the shirt on until there’s a Zoom meeting, but today I felt extra committed and actually donned pants.

      • R C Dean

        Still in my office, but cracked a fresh M-43.

        These euphemisms!

  3. Count Potato

    “Personal trainer ‘encourages’ clients to eat takeaways and says it helps weight loss”

    Is that Brit speak for take out? Why can’t they speak English?

    • Tonio

      From the neighbourhood chip shop. Don’t forget to order the chips “madras.”

      • Count Potato

        Drenched in vodka, orange, and cranberry?

      • Pine_Tree

        Or wrapped in thin cotton plaid fabric?

      • Tonio

        Many chip shops are owned by south asians and serve curry fries (yum). “Madras” is UK “hot,” about equal to what you’d get if you ordered mildly spiced in a respectable south asian restaurant in the US.

    • Surly Knott

      Brits and Yankees, two peoples separated by a common language.

  4. The Other Kevin

    Good afternoon everyone! The end of the work week is closing fast, and it couldn’t come soon enough. Hope you all have something nice planned.

  5. SDF-7

    Not a huge King Shark fan — though as a Firestorm fan, did appreciate his interaction with Killer Frost in what’s probably the best Suicide Squad movie to date.

    Other than that — I got nothing. Y’all have a pleasant Memorial Day weekend.

    • Nephilium

      The fact that the live action Flash on the CW managed to bring both a live action Gorilla Grod and a live action King Shark is awesome. The fact that the show has gone to shite is just sad.

      • BakedPenguin

        …live action Flash on the CW

        I think I’ve isolated the problem.

  6. juris imprudent

    The Bee absolutely nails why we love the Republican Party so much.

    Republicans Counter $6 Trillion Budget Proposal With Fiscally Responsible $5.9 Trillion Budget Proposal

    • SDF-7

      If we didn’t laugh, we would weep….

  7. Tonio

    Wow, this place is dead. I hope everyone is getting their holiday weekend on, and able to enjoy it mask-free (goalies, spray painters, welders, and highwaymen excepted).

    • juris imprudent

      Scuba divers hit hardest.

      • Plisade

        Charts of Accounts revel in their liberation!

      • C. Anacreon

        Scuba divers also must be worried that if they flash the dive master the approved “I’m doing ok” signal while 80 feet down, they will be accused of making a white supremacist gesture.

    • Count Potato

      What if I’m not a goalie, but wear a goalie mask? Those promiscuous pot-smoking teenagers by the lake have it coming.

      • Tonio

        +1 young Jamie Lee Curtis

      • Nephilium

        Wrong… Franchise.

      • Tonio

        Crap. Thanks.

      • Nephilium

        Not a problem, I tried to find a clip from Duckman to add more levity to it, but too hard to find (especially since it was already a Star Trek spoof).

        But Kevin Bacon is in the first Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street gave Johnny Depp his first movie role.

      • Tonio

        Obvs, I’m not a slasher film fan. Although I do appreciate that it was one of the things that gave us the holy Steadicam.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Goalie or not, why not change your pads more than every three periods?

    • Pope Jimbo

      A combo platter of construction and an accident has turned the main interstate out of town into a shitshow.

      When I went over the bridge it was already backed way up and was creeping forward (with 20 miles to go). My prediction is a lot of kids are gonna get whacked by dads who have been pushed beyond their patience.

    • Lord Humungus

      You know who else had a place filled with the dead…

      • Count Potato

        The Filmore West?

  8. juris imprudent

    A Bee double!

    White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced today that President Biden has created an account on amateur porn site OnlyFans to share sensual photos and videos of himself eating ice cream with his admirers in the mainstream media.

    • SDF-7

      Gah! So SugarFree is now writing for them?

      • Tonio

        He says no. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he has not a few fans there.

    • The Other Kevin

      It does involve Biden, Psaki, amateur porn, and licking.

      • Count Potato

        I’m glad I already finished dinner.

      • slumbrew

        * checks time *

        Wait, where are you? Are you in The Villages?

      • Count Potato

        I was up very early.

      • Chafed

        Del Boca Vista

  9. The Other Kevin

    One of those blogger/writer guys says he ate better when he ate takeout all the time. It wasn’t fast food, it was actual restaurant food. The portions were controlled, and he didn’t go grocery shopping so there wasn’t other food for him to snack on.

    • Ted S.

      Sounds to me like making shit up.

      • C. Anacreon

        The bitch set him up.

  10. Count Potato

    “Senate Republicans tanked the House-passed bill that would create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol attack.

    Democrats were unable to override a Republican filibuster placed on the bill during a Friday vote of 54 to 35, with 60 votes needed.

    Republican Sens. Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman and Ben Sasse voted alongside 48 Democrats. All except Portman had voted for the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump, which was over his role in inciting the January 6 insurrection.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9630163/Senate-Republicans-KILL-bill-create-Capitol-riot-commission.html

    Wouldn’t a commission expose some facts? The truth can’t be worse for Republicans than the narrative.

    • Sean

      Wouldn’t a commission expose some facts? The truth can’t be worse for Republicans thanhelp shape the narrative.

      FTFY.

      • DEG

        Yeah. Consider who would run it.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      That’s one of the arguments that Cassidy made, but either way the Republicans would be screwed. The media will only cover what they want to cover.

    • R C Dean

      Wouldn’t a commission expose some facts?

      I do like me some deadpan humor.

      • Count Potato

        Even if they were completely partisan, they are also incompetent enough to expose things inadvertently. There is just too much to hide.

      • commodious spittoon

        motherofgod.gif

      • Hyperion

        That looks nummy to me. I have to try it!

    • Old Man With Candy

      Grilled peaches and gorgonzola dolce. Then after baking, top with arugula. Seriously excellent.

      • commodious spittoon

        That does sound good.

    • db

      I love the peaches and piggies pizza from Vocelli. It’s actually quite good as toppings go. Their crust is OK for delivery.

  11. Pope Jimbo

    We should invite her to the next Minnesoda Glibs meetup. The story is about a neighborhood crazy lady who bugs the shit our of her neighbors being in trouble for violating her terms of probation.

    The saga is latest in a series of drama on East Street where Christensen has been menacing those on the 5200 block since the early 2010s. Christensen once mocked a recovering alcoholic who lived across the street by racing a remote-controlled toy car in front of their house and yelling “Drunk driver, drunk driver,” as the family held a birthday party for their son.

    Reading the story, the woman seems like an absolutely horrible person, but I’m not sure about how they convicted her of some of these things. A judge ordered that she be banned from video taping her neighbors. Even though she did it all from her own yard. Not sure how that passed muster.

    • Pope Jimbo

      And to prove that the biggest monster in the story is the real estate agent:

      “My buyers actually liked the house and really liked the location, but we had an encounter with the neighbor which completely convinced the buyers that they wouldn’t make an offer on the house,” one real estate agent said, according to charges.

      I love the fact that the agent is pissed because they won’t be getting a commission. No compunction at all about selling a house located next to a crazy loon to someone at all.

    • Hyperion

      “She slapped her butt in front of him as he drove away”

      I find her interesting. Has anyone sent her a Glib invite yet?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’m sure Tundra has been hiding out in the bushes behind her house. I guess he needs to escalate to the next level and leave her some mash notes composed of letters cut out of magazines.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      A judge ordered that she be banned from video taping her neighbors. Even though she did it all from her own yard. Not sure how that passed muster.

      Is it legal to video people on private property against their wishes? I’d think at some point it crosses into into harassment or even stalking.

    • slumbrew

      As I’m reading this, all I can think is “if this were a dude, punches would have been traded long ago”.

  12. DEG

    In fact, I encourage my clients to have them – occasionally.

    “The takeaway note is that you can eat what you like within reason and still get toned.

    “Moderation is key. If you crack open the Pringles and can’t stop then I suggest you find ways to keep yourself from binging.

    OK – her advice isn’t insane as I thought it would be from the headline.

    • C. Anacreon

      That being said, Pringles are pretty easy to binge on. Whoever figured out that shape which perfectly fits on your tongue was a genius.

  13. DEG

    NASCAR not woke

    AMMO, Inc. (Nasdaq: POWW) (“AMMO” or the “Company”), a premier American ammunition and munition components manufacturer and technology leader, is pleased to announce it has partnered with Richard Childress Racing (“RCR”) to sponsor the Our Motorsports No. 23 Chevrolet driven this weekend by Ty Dillon in the NASCAR Xfinity Series (“NXS”) race to be held at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

    • juris imprudent

      RCBS or MEC should be jumping in front of Dillon Precision to sponsor Ty.

    • R C Dean

      Looking forward to how they wrap the car.

  14. Nephilium

    For those looking for something to do next week in the CLE/Pittsburgh area:

    Mask Burning Party! at Paladin brewing out in Youngstown

    For those looking for something to do tonight, here’s the link for the Zoom/Happy Hour/Weekend planning which will be kicked off at 20:00 Eastern.

    • DEG

      I like that Mask Burning Party.

      I’m not sure if I’ll join the Zoom tonight. Definitely not tomorrow night as I’ll be out. Thanks for running them.

    • rhywun

      I am returning to the office next week which means more muzzling up than I have done in the last year.

      Sorry if I don’t feel like celebrating.

      • KSuellington

        Are they gonna actually make you muzzle up in the office? No wiggle room on that?

      • rhywun

        Everywhere except at my desk – which is a gift I wasn’t expecting.

      • westernsloper

        So they don’t follow the “new science”.

      • Gender Traitor

        Is it anything like Common Core Math?

    • Ted S.

      Our local Hannaford supermarket switched to “mask optional if you’re fully vaccinated”. Nice to see how many people have ditched the masks.

  15. Hyperion

    “Meanwhile, back in a simpler time.”

    Man, she was pretty hot, look at them curves and pretty too. I never paid any attention…

    • Fourscore

      I was late to the party, about 1980 or so. My older brother was out “Walking after Midnight” much earlier and raved so much I had get on the band wagon, fell in love with the memory but still…

    • Fourscore

      And thanks, Riven, Old Guys’ Music, lyrics to be understood and a message that lives on in memories

  16. Hyperion

    “It was the colonists’ experience with unjust searches and seizures, like Gage’s gun hunt, that led to the inclusion of the Fourth Amendment in the Constitution.”

    So, the British Crown didn’t differ much from more recent totalitarian regimes with the exact same tactics? Huh, and the newest ones call themselves progressive.

  17. Shpip

    Hey Glibs! You have some BidenBucks burning a hole in your pocket, and some mechanical ability?

    Well, some really cool potential resto-mods are yours for the taking.

    • Hyperion

      Can I mount some ghost machine guns on that?

    • EvilSheldon

      Please, please, someone buy that -17 and get it flying…

    • tripacer

      The FBO down the ramp from where I work was restoring Paul Allen’s ME262 when he died, and no one was really sure what to do with it. They just rolled it from one hangar to the other earlier this week and I managed to get some pictures. Apparently they are pulling the wings and sticking it in a conex to ship back. It’s a shame too, I believe it was nearly in flying condition… and with the original engines.

      • SandMan

        That would have been cool, where is it going back to?

      • tripacer

        I think back to his Airplane and Armor Museum. I really hope to see it fly some day. I don’t know if it’s true, but a few mechanics have told me that the original engines had an 80 hour time between overhaul, and they had no plans to replace them with a modern engine that would fit in the nacelles. Of course I don’t see any reason to believe anything a mechanic says… ever.

      • SandMan

        I seem to recall reading it was just 30 hrs of flight time between engine overhaul when the plane was just entering service (1944?)..

      • Count Potato

        They should sell it to Blue Öyster Cult.

  18. Hyperion

    “Just a matter of time before there are only 3 companies left in the world.”

    I’m thinking there is actually room for 4 if they are the right type of woke Marxist company.

  19. Pope Jimbo

    Won’t someone think of the children govt bureaucrats?

    Minnesoda’s Dept of Revenue overvalued the value of the property Enbridge ran their pipeline through. Courts have ruled, appeals have been denied, local govts owe Enbridge a $30M refund. The local govts have already spent that money and are small and poor and don’t know how they will ever pay it back.

    The real bad guy in the story is the Dept of Revenue who valuated the land for the local govts. Turns out they were wrong, wrong, wrong. Now the small counties and townships are squealing to be bailed out by the state. I doubt that will happen because a) all the power is in the metro area and b) no way the progressives are going to cough up money to make a pipeline company whole.

    With interest, Kyle Holmes, the Carlton County Assessor, said Thursday their expected bill including 2012 is $3.1 million (including the state’s portion). That’s worth about 10 percent of the county’s annual levy. He said he didn’t know how much just the 2012 portion of the county’s bill was worth. It was reduced by a lower amount than other years, but has also collected more interest.

    “By mid-July we’re going to owe money,” Holmes said.

    Holmes said the county has already had to pay refunds or other costs in eight similar tax utility cases worth about $1 million over the last few years and said the Enbridge bill would make their reserves perilously low.

    Hmmmm…. You’ve overcharged at least 8 other groups and had to kick back refunds. Maybe you should have cut spending years ago?

    • R C Dean

      I run into a similar situation from time to time. My universal response is:

      “We’re only asking for the money that we overpaid you back. If you spent it on something, that’s a you problem. Fuck you, pay me.*”

      So these counties and townships may have to issue bonds to raise what they owe? Boo. Fucking. Hoo.

      *Alright, I don’t actually say this part out loud.

  20. slumbrew

    Wife and I are meeting friends and – drumroll, please – eating inside a restaurant tonight.

    She’s unclenching, slowly. TBF, pandemics have to be worst-case for germaphobes.

    Baby steps…

    • Drake

      I would think that it was like heaven for them. Used to work with a guy who was always doing something weird to avoid touching doors after washing his hands.

      • BakedPenguin

        Why not just keep the last paper towel and use it on the handle?

      • Drake

        Those air-dryers fucked up his life.

      • C. Anacreon

        But they “prevent chapping”!

      • Ted S.

        Is that assless chapping?

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        I cannot lie — I would love a Dyson Airblade™ hand dryer in each of my bathrooms, plus the kitchen. Those things are teh awse.

    • Endless Mike

      These anecdotes are amazing to read for me – I haven’t worn a mask in a business in my hometown throughout the entire last year – the bars and restaurants chose to go back to their normal business hours as soon as Gianforte won the (MT Governor) election.

      It’s crazy to me to think that people in other parts of the country still can’t go out and are still wearing the masks everywhere.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Like watching China on tv in February 2020.

      • slumbrew

        There hasn’t been an outdoor mask mandate for weeks now (not like I followed it before) – tons of people still wearing masks outside.

        Deepest blue Mass, yo. They all fucking love science.

      • R C Dean

        They all fucking love science virtue signalling.

      • Endless Mike

        We’re down to a handful – although they are still making the kids fucking wear them in the schools. But school’s out for summer, so…

    • DEG

      I’ve been socializing in person for months.

    • Count Potato

      LOL

  21. commodious spittoon

    Made crab cakes earlier and scoffed at the sodium-free seasoning the recipe calls for. Typical health consciousness hypersensitivity, it’s not enough that the recipe is low-carb or paleo or fat-free or whatever, you also have to use 2% milk, certified gluten-free vinegar, free-range chicken eggs, and of course low-sodium seasoning.

    Didn’t think to check how loaded with salt canned crab meat is. Oops.

    • juris imprudent

      certified gluten-free vinegar

      BWAHAhahahahahahaha – what fucking idjit is paying for that? Want to know what kosher vinegar is – pay the rabbi and voila! This vinegar is made from gluten-free grapes!!!

    • DEG

      “Hug me I’m Vaccinated”?1?!?

      WTF?!?!?!

      I stopped there. It’ll be like face diapers.

      • slumbrew

        “Blow me, I’m Vaccinated”.

        Maybe if that catches on…

  22. Gustave Lytton

    Chevron is running commercials on Fox News about how they’re reducing their carbon footprint.

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s an odd way of saying they’re producing less gas.

    • rhywun

      I have never seen so many tedious virtue-signaling commercials before current year. Every other commercial is woke in some way now.

      • db

        I haven’t watched TV in so long, I kind of forget what commercials are like.

  23. Count Potato

    “BIDEN: “If we do not do something about Alzheimer’s in America, every single solitary hospital bed that exists in America… Every single one will be occupied in the next 15 years by an Alzheimer’s patient.””

    https://twitter.com/KamVTV/status/1398109860357672962

    • Ownbestenemy

      Wont matter world is ending in…checks latest notes…10 years anyway.

      • Sensei

        Good point. I’m sure that most of them will already have drowned when floods occur from climate “change”.

    • R C Dean

      You mean, our Labor and Delivery, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric, and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit beds will fill up with Alzheimer’s patients?

    • Fourscore

      No one showed up for the Alzheimer Family Reunion

    • Sensei

      Awesome – so I’m guessing the first thing he will do is prohibit requiring a Certificate of Need so as to help let markets fix this right?

    • Drake

      I thought the vaccines would fix this problem.

    • invisible finger

      I can’t take him seriously unless he offs himself.

    • C. Anacreon

      Why would they need to be in hospital beds? Their condition is rarely acute. Most dementia sufferers can do just fine in memory care nursing homes.

      • R C Dean

        Excellent point. Alzheimers alone doesn’t really wind up in an inpatient bed (we do have a unit which takes them as temporary behavioral health patients to stabilize them). We have far more Alzheimers sufferers in our hospice program than anywhere else.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Crap. How did this end up here?

      • Fourscore

        At least he wasn’t using one of the scarce hospital beds

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Where’s the “without evidence” disclaimer?

    • BakedPenguin

      They convicted the main guy (bacera? Bacena?) of murder 1 today.

      • BakedPenguin

        Bahena Rivera.

    • BakedPenguin

      But good for your daughter.

  24. kinnath

    Gutsy move.

    Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, acting as governor on Thursday in Gov. Brad Little’s absence, issued an executive order banning the mask mandates that remain based on the COVID-19 pandemic.

    McGeachin announced the order on social media Thursday morning.

    “Today, as acting governor of the state of Idaho, I signed an executive order to protect the rights and liberties of individuals and businesses by prohibiting the state and its political subdivisions — including public schools — from imposing mask mandates in our state,” McGeachin wrote.

    Marissa Morrison, a spokesperson for Little, told the Idaho Statesman that the governor “has been out of state this week collaborating with other Republican governors.” The Associated Press reported that Little is in Nashville, Tennessee, at a Republican Governors Association conference.

    • kinnath

      McGeachin last week announced a gubernatorial campaign. Though Little has not yet announced whether he intends to run for reelection, if he does, this will mark just the second time in state history that a sitting lieutenant governor has challenged the incumbent governor of the same party.

      Dave Adler, an Idaho Falls-based political analyst, said the executive order was “a shot across the bow” at Little.

      #2 telling #1 to get the fuck out of the way.

      • DEG

        She’s been butting heads with him ever since the Covid stupidity started. He’s quite into the Covid Cult. She is not.

      • B.P.

        “#2 telling #1 to get the fuck out of the way”

        Urethrapooping

        /Sugarfree

  25. Pope Jimbo

    How come progressives are so good at antagonizing me even when we agree on stuff?

    Story is about how cool and good progressives in Minnesoda are because they have joined Buy Nothing groups. I love the idea of re-using stuff and not just tossing stuff. I list lots of things on Craigslist for free just so it finds a new home. But I do it without needing to turn it into some self-masturbatory thing where I proclaim how noble I am.

    On the surface, a Buy Nothing group may seem like a combination of garage sale, Nextdoor neighborhood page and Goodwill store. But it doesn’t take long to discover that “buying nothing” goes deeper, turning faceless newsfeed names into real-life neighbors.

    “Items and skills that are passed between people are tokens of relationships,” says Rebecca Rockefeller, the movement’s co-founder along with Liesl Clark. “If all you come in to do is get rid of stuff, you’re suddenly put into relationships with your neighbors and start feeling like you have meaning within your community.”

    Spare me. I want to get rid of stuff.

    • Q Continuum

      Progs are hollow inside and are constantly trying to fill it with self-congratulatory validation prostitution. They can’t take a shit without turning it into a “justice movement”.

      • R C Dean

        Me, tomorrow morning:

        “Man, that justice movement was a double-flusher! Ima leave the door closed for a while.”

    • Tundra

      Makes me want to go impulse buying at Costco.

    • Ted S.

      Tell them the government should buy nothing, too.

  26. Lord Humungus

    Last week we had a nice little vacation in Asheville.

    Notes: EF was packing a swimsuit for the hot tub. I picked it up and threw it back in the dresser. “It’s a private hot tub at the place we’re renting. You won’t need a swimsuit.” Some peeps are apparently prudes at heart 😉

    An Audi A3 Quattro can knock off 36mpg on the flats of Ohio, something like 32mpg in the mountains. Impressed considering the performance doesn’t lag that far behind the departed (sold) Mustang.

    Speaking of the Mustang – I bought it with 26k miles, almost not quite years ago, for $16k+ change. At 38K miles the The Porsche/Audi dealership gave us $14k in trade and is currently selling it for $19.1K. WTF?

    Mountains were awesome, as was our VRBO, but the driver there – 12 hours! – was too long for these old bones. We did a bunch of thrift and antique shopping, ate out a lot, and also just enjoyed some drunken nights.

    • DEG

      Asheville was nice to visit. I liked the beer bus tour I went on.

      It’s good you had a good time.

    • Lord Humungus

      Mustang sold not quite three years ago.

    • LJW

      Bought my 2018 Honda Accord for 26k brand new. Traded it in with 13k miles for $21k they have it listed for $26.5k…

    • Gustave Lytton

      The car lots around here look like they’re going out of business. I think I saw more trucks with dealer livery than ones for sale.

      • Sensei

        Chalk that up to the supply chain issues.

        It’s made values in the used market skyrocket.

    • Sensei

      Didn’t realize you sold the Mustang. Enjoy the new ride!

      Hopefully it’s got some warranty as I’m not a fan of VW reliability. Good designs from a use perspective, just built like all the new German stuff to be difficult to service.

      Makes one yearn for the MB124 platform.

      • Lord Humungus

        Yeah I.m kind of cringing at a VW product – it seems you either get a good one or a lemon. But EF needed something that wasn’t a crossover, had AWD, and had a little snob appeal. Audi it was.

      • Sensei

        Does it have an oil dipstick?

        And miraculously if yes and torque converter automatic does the transmission have one as well?

        I’d like to thank BMW for making this popular.

      • LJW

        We have a 2020 Atlas 20k miles. Been in the shop 4 times already, 3 of the 4 for repairs that would have been over $1000 if it wasn’t still under warranty. We’re trying to get them to buy it back. Stay away from VW.

      • Sensei

        I spent an hour drilling pop rivets out of my A4’s driver door to replace my window glass regulator and decided it was the last new German car I planned to buy.

    • Ted S.

      I’m lucky I was able to get my new (to me) car when I did. $19K for a 2017 Chevy Equinox.

    • Count Potato

      “Speaking of the Mustang – I bought it with 26k miles, almost not quite years ago, for $16k+ change. At 38K miles the The Porsche/Audi dealership gave us $14k in trade ”

      That’s awesome.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      WTF?

      Used car market is fucked up.

      New Chrysler Pacific Hybrid with most the bells and whistles: listed at $43,000 after tax credit.

      Used 2020 at the same dealer with practically the same bells and whistles and 33k miles: listed at $42,990 (no tax credit)

      • KSuellington

        That was one of the reasons I bought a 21 Tacoma before the end of the last year. Those trucks do really hold their retail value a lot, but it was ridiculous (although not quite what you just wrote). But why would I spend 4–6k less on a vehicle that is 2-3 years used and has a bunch of miles on it? There were absolutely no even slight deals on a lightly used one.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        We bought our Jeep with 0% financing and were able to roll a bunch of higher interest loan into it. Couldn’t turn that down.

    • Sean

      I had a 2016 A3. I liked it. Launched nicely off the line.

      The GTI is more fun though.

      I do miss quattro in the snow.

      • westernsloper

        Quattro in the snow? How in the hell did you talk the girlfriend into that?

    • ElspethFlashman

      Yes, I am a prude at times. What was I thinking? that there was no privacy from the fence – perhaps. Or that a small barrier might add to the excitement of the hot tub – yes, perhaps.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      He should be defenestrated right into a woodchipper.

      Hi, Preet!

      • juris imprudent

        How is it Preet hasn’t been recycled like every other piece of shit from the Obama admin?

    • creech

      “Only Biden has the scientific knowledge and courage to expose Fauci the Fraud, who was foisted on the American people by Donald Trump.”

      • KSuellington

        Heheh. I won’t be surprised if it is framed like that. I’ll even take that if it gets rid of the slimy fucker.

  27. DEG

    Sununu extends state of emergency for only 14 days, not the 21 days like he has in the past.

    “Granite Staters have managed through this pandemic incredibly well, and as a result of their hard work, New Hampshire has no commercial restrictions in place, no statewide mask mandate, and is open for business,” said Gov. Sununu. “Today’s action to renew the State of Emergency allows the legislature to take up our various critical emergency orders that have brought flexibility to manage through this pandemic, and I call on the House and Senate to move swiftly in this charge so that we can move out of a State of Emergency as quickly as possible.”

    • creech

      NH had been on my summer vacation list. I was looking forward to that train ride through Crawford Notch. I wonder how many other tourists have now crossed NH off their lists?

      • DEG

        NH is the least restrictive New England state at this time. Sununu has been pushing NH as a vacation destination this summer.

    • BakedPenguin

      Would a law against having multiple familial generations enter politics be constitutional?

      • R C Dean

        I am unaware of any Constitutionally guaranteed right to run for office.

        Well, explicitly guaranteed in the “official” Constitution. I’m sure a penumbra or emanation can be found.

      • juris imprudent

        The problem is people – they like them some pseudo-aristocratic blood. The argument is – why should those people vote?

      • Gender Traitor

        Downside (at least as far as I’m concerned): We’d lose Rand.

      • juris imprudent

        Credit to him – he did not run for Daddy’s seat, or even in the same damn state.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I like how his dad calls him Randy.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      In this southern place in which I live in this shit is so over it isn’t even noticeable anymore. Hopefully your gov will lose his authority boner soon.

  28. Lord Humungus

    Our next door neighbors – who were retired – moved out. And a new couple with a toddler moved in. Needless to say the noise level has increased quite a bit.

    That, and with the power company chopping away at the trees on the back of the property line, my house doesn’t feel as private as it used to. Time to build a fence.

    • Fourscore

      Cost of lumber and all…

    • Fourscore

      My nearest neighbor is getting a portable saw mill, came by a couple days ago to tell me. I told him we can’t hear anyway so no problem with us. The neighbors are good, younger but don’t bother anyone. He only plans to saw his own stuff, maybe a little for others.

      • R C Dean

        That could be a nice earner for him, especially if you have good hardwoods in the area. Milling oak, cherry, walnut, etc. for furniture ought to pay decent.

      • Fourscore

        A little oak and birch, mostly pine. He said he couldn’t find a used mill, he called a couple older guys but they weren’t in the market to sell. Probably the price of lumber has encouraged them to stick around a while.

  29. westernsloper

    Although it is often sneered at as “fringe,” standing up for gun privacy against the government is an American tradition that stretches all the way back to the beginning of the Revolution.

    You’re goddamned right it is tradition! Not that I own any guns. But you know for you other people it is tradition.

    • Chafed

      ?

  30. Gender Traitor

    Only travel plans THIS weekend are up the street to our neighborhood jewelry store tomorrow morning, where apparently I get to pick my present from TT for our 25th wedding anniversary – early, because he’s NEVER been able to wait until the actual day of the occasion to give me my gift! 😀

    • Nephilium

      I’m hoping to check out a Farmer’s Market in a suburb a bit south of me tomorrow, a bike ride up for Brunch Sunday morning, and a trip to a rib cook out on Monday.

      • Gender Traitor

        We’re going to miss the first Farmers’ Market of the season a couple of blocks from our house – THAT’S the weekend we’re going up to Maumee Bay State Park to stay in the lodge for a slightly-belated anniversary getaway!

    • Fourscore

      Congrats on a milestone, GT. Go for the gold at the store, skip this silver nonsense.

  31. Chafed

    I just gave blood and was told not to drink for 24 hours. I thought it was 4 hours. I didn’t intend to start the weekend sober.

    • Gender Traitor

      I’m sure they said “2 to 4 hours,” so you should be fine. 😉

    • commodious spittoon

      It’s 24 hours later somewhere.