Chapter 3 of The Slight Edge is entitled “Is Time On Your Side?” As you might have guessed, it is a function of how you use your time. Olson starts by making the point will power is unlikely to get you to your destination. “Will power for most people is vastly overrated. For most people, will power ends up looking and feeling like some sort of grim self-tyranny, and involves creating an elaborate, artificial reward and punishment system.” I think that is about right for most people.
The most powerful force you have to make the changes you want is time. There are no instant results. Your life does not get the same payoff as the climactic end of a two-hour movie. Time is your greatest ally or greatest foe. Per Olson, “If I stay on this road long enough, I’ll get the results I seek. It is not a question of your mood or your feelings. And it is not a question of will power. It’s a question of simply knowing.”
“The right choices you make today, compounded over time, will take you higher and higher up the success curve of this real-time movie called ‘your life.’ The wrong choices you make today, compounded over time, will absolutely, positively and inevitably take you down and out.” You always have a choice of what to do and what not to do. Your choices, for good or ill, will compound over time.
Olson ends the chapter using the metaphor of flywheel starting at a standing still, slowly being moved into action, imperceptibly picking up speed over time, until it is moving at great speed under its own momentum. I can’t do it justice so read the book. I will vouch for the metaphor in another context. When I got serious about marketing my law firm it required me to produce a ton of content for my firm’s website. Writing books for the general public, long articles on our practice areas, and shooting tons of video does not happened overnight. But I started down the path and kept adding to it bit by bit. Initially, I didn’t notice any results. Then I started noticing some results though I didn’t think the effort was worth the results, then it took on a life of its own. Even when there have been lapses in content production, everything I did before kept working for me. At worst, the marketing flywheel lost a little momentum, but it stayed in motion. It also allowed me to get back into it and make it spin faster.
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Whether Newsom likes it or not, the pandemic is coming to an end in California. I went to Trader Joe’s this week and noticed a pleasant change. Their sign out front used to say masks are required in the store. It changed to say masks are no longer required for fully vaccinated people and (my words) they are leaving to customers to act appropriately. I’d say they are finished enforcing the mask mandate.
I love John McWhorter. TW: Nick Gillespie.
Weekly cuteness is the SP and OMWC story.
Good news: I’m not going blind. The blindness in my left eye is improving, just a retinal vein occlusion. Not retinal/optic nerve/brain cancer. I hope to regain vision in a few months. The doctor shot an anti-coagulant/anti-inflammatory dose into my eyeball. It was gross. I’ll need a shot a month apparently.
Didn’t run alot this week. Ran 9 miles this morning in the rain, and climbed a million stairs. Ate low carb/keto though. Except today which is gonna involve rice.
Oh, that’s wonderful news about your eye! What a relief that must be!
I know nothing about that eye condition, but I hope vigorous exercise isn’t risky until it clears up.
Yay for the good news!
That’s good news about your eye.
Glad to hear it’s treatable.
*Cringe on the needle though*
Yeah. Goddamn.
Oi.
The fuck?
Sorry, E, that’s scary as shit. Happy to hear you are on the right side of things.
Yeah. Woke up on Sunday morning three weeks ago and my left eye was blind. I was hoping it would improve. Then we went on vacation. Finally decided to see an opthamologist this week.
Damn. Well, keep us in the loop.
My husband had something similar several years ago. Had to get the ol’ needle in the eye several times. For him, they used a chemical that’s often employed in cancer treatments because it shrinks up blood vessels (which starves a tumor) and thus helps with the fluid buildup behind the retina.
The only problem is that occasionally the needle is formed with a flaw: a little barb on it that makes it a harpoon so that when it’s pulled out it is very unpleasant and painful. My hubs started insisting they view the damn needle under a magnifying glass before poking it in.
May you have better luck with your treatment! Glad it’s nothing permanent ?
What Tundra said. I’m glad you will make a full recovery.
Jeez Dude, glad you are improving
E, I hope that therapy works out for you. Interesting thing about the eyes is that drug therapies need to be directly applied to eye in terms of drops or injections. I worked on a med device for injections into the retina, which is in the back of the eye. It was a fish-hook with a short needle at the end. Really intimating in that it device would go around the eye…
Get vision soon!
Thanks for adding to my already existing fear of needles.
Neph, Fear is never boring…Legend has it that Black Beard had syphilis and was so desperate for a cure that he was administered liquid mercury into his urethra using a rather large gauge needle about the bore size of a straw. Liquid mercury is rather viscous and somewhat toxic. I bet the next couple days were pretty interesting for him.
Nope. Don’t need to read about old timey sounding methods.
The one benefit of the fear of needles is I don’t have a lot of regrettable tattoos.
The worst part about getting a hypo in the eye?
You can’t close your eyes to keep from looking.
They put some drops in first that make everything look kinda paisley-ish. The needles are not that big of a deal. I once had a drill put on my eyeball. That hurt pretty bad. Left a huge tapered hole and it healed completely by the next morning. Sucks having broken windows to your soul.
I’ve not had the drill yet. Despite always wearing eye pro I’ve had slag stuck to my eyes three times. Twice I’ve gone to the emergency room to get it removed. One time it came off waiting for them. The other time the doc couldn’t get it out but it came off on the drive home. I can’t imagine how much crap ode have if I didn’t wear safety glasses.
Man, I got a chunk of something in my right eye while riding my bike one night. When I got where I was going, I had blood dripping out. At the next place it was worse. Then, I went to a hospital. They couldn’t get it out and sent me to county USC hospital. On a Saturday night in the eighties. There was so much carnage in the waiting room, I felt bad about being there. One lady had a steak knife sticking out of her eye and it would wiggle when she moved her head around. Another guy had both his legs blown off by a shotgun. Fucking crazy!
They poked and prodded for about an hour and told me to come back the next day. Instead, I went to my local sawbones. No way in hell I was going back to that hell hole. My doc had three nurses hold me down. I told him he didn’t need to as I’d already had needles, pressurized water and air jammed in it. He said, ” no, this is going to hurt!”
He brought out a stainless steel tool that looked like a hammer driven impact driver. It was a drill. He installed a bit with an allen wrench. Apparently, it was set to only spin a set amount of revolutions. When that thing went off, it felt like they held my eye still and wound the rest of me around it until I sprang back. Fucking hurt bad! It left an eighth inch diameter countersunk hole on my eye. Completely healed by the next day. Amazing.
The reason was I let too much time elapse with the object in my eye. Go straight in if you have something in your eye. Even overnight can allow rust. Then, you get the drill. You know the drill!
Oh my.
Okay, that just produced a full-body physical cringe…
Man! That some scary shit. The going blind part. Needles in the eye is just another day. I had that three or four times. Safety glasses don’t fit very well on skinny people’s faces. I’m furious that I need readers now. Loss of all sight would really be a drag.
Reading these replies, my testicles have fully withdrawn into my body. And I will never be able to sleep again.
Yeah, so much this.
Yikes! That sounds scary.
Sorry to hear that.
Hope you are better soon.
Late to the party, but great news about your eyesight!
That’s one of the reasons I like measurable results (be it distance, speed, resistance, weight, etc.) it allows you to at least have an idea of progress and improvement over time. No new lows the past week, but the average weight was still down for the week. With the restrictions ending, the spin classes no longer book up a week in advance, so it allows for quicker adjustments in the routine for days when rain blows in.
Hopefully no rain next Sunday, and I can get in a 30-40 mile ride to build back up to the metric century range.
Time is your greatest ally or greatest foe.
A variation of this comes up often in “The Barbell Prescription.” Basically, you’re training for your biggest fight, that against the depredations of time.
Today is a wasted day. Other than finishing booking accommodations for my road trip for Freedom Fest, I have done nothing. I need to get at least something done before I head out to the weekly local liberty meet-up.
Weight is down. 264.4 lbs at 25.9% bodyfat. I think I will miss the late June goal of being below 260 lbs. Well, I’ll get close.
Progress on my lifts has slowed or stalled. The trainer I work with advised a deload week and a new program. We’ll talk about a new program later this week. I grew to like the belt squats in the last program. Unfortunately, a slight butt-wink came back, so the trainer insisted I lower the weights and work on form to get rid of it.
Music choice is good.
The day is far from over.
I’m calling a lid.
Wasted Days?
Not just wasted days
It wasn’t really wasted
Dammit! time!
Really?
I do NOT hate the Eagles despite the sentiment expressed in that one movie. In fact, have some more!
blackjack:
Counter point.
In fact, have some more!
Fuck that, Tom Waits must be the anti-Dylan. Everyone covers his songs but they never improve on the original.
Didn’t realize I’d offend a Waits fan. Try this one. The highway is my legacy!
Didn’t realize I’d offend a Waits fan
It’s not your fault, most people are ignorant of the genius that is Mr. Waits. And honestly the Eagles aren’t “that” bad, it’s just that that particular cover is where they really missed the mark.
Weight is down ?
So true. I’ve been stuck in a mental low spot since the layoffs at work, mainly because there doesn’t seem to be an overarching plan for how the company will course-correct and become a healthy business again. I’m going to try to look at it again for little improvements, not a dramatic swing. (Still, some encouraging words from the CEO would not have gone amiss, but some people really have no Emotional Intelligence at all.)
And as for getting in shape, I will do the small things and not beat myself up for not running a marathon through willpower.
I’m in somewhat of the same mental place. I’m looking at other opportunities, not so much to jump but as a distraction and refocus to try avoiding treading water. Done that too many times. Even make work projects and organizing long put off stuff to get ready for when the lull ends.
H, Here is some really bad advice for your job..Quit! Start your own consulting company, that works for your current company and it’s competitors. Doing the work you want to do (not really, but you can talk yourself into it)
You seem to live your job..you might as well get paid for the hours you work. You have the right amount of experience (20+ yrs) and if you are good enough, the people you worked for will hire you and the people that worked for you will work for you at your company!
A real female led defense contractor company. That is America, today! Go for it…
I have indeed toyed with the notion but not looked into the logistics seriously.
I could probably snag quite a few of my current coworkers…
Do it. Seriously.
I would never advocate something I have not done myself. It can’t be that hard if I can do it. 17 yrs and counting… Best part, no required attendance at company birthday parties…I just send my guys a check on their birthdays so they can take their family or friends out…without me.
Chafed!
Excellent subject. I’m so goddamn good at will power and deprivation it’s scary. But it’s a total loser. Eventually you gotta go back to the real world grind. I’ve been working to implement a more consistent approach to everything, work, body, home, etc.
Weekly cuteness murdered me. Thanks.
Probably my fave Cream song. Thanks, again.
Have a great week GlibFitters. Remember, even if you fucked up this week, you are one meal away from back on track.
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GlibFit.
https://thechive.com/2021/06/12/oh-my-gosh-please-tell-us-she-needs-a-spotter-video/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ELbZVunfA
Also Glibfit.
Top quality pussy at 31s.
She reminds me of that Russian chick whose story made the links back in May. Killed her husband with her buttocks.
Authorities ruled the cause of death as assphyxiation.
Can we get a narrowed gaze over here?
He met his end at her end.
The Chive kindly includes a link to her instagram page.
Looks like a butt wink or two during the squats.
“Aware that I’m not the only woman with big breasts, I invited some large-chested friends for brunch: Julia Angelo, 22 (size 36D), and sisters Rebecca, 21 (34D), and Leah Feinberg, 24 (34D, and formerly a size E to F).”
https://theweeklings.com/chloe-pantazi/2014/02/21/a-little-complaint-about-big-breasts/
Who is this girl and where does she live?!
Disturbing lack of photos.
The lack of photos in the article was a bitter disappointment.
JHTFC, I read the first sentence and I felt the loss of at least a year due to brain fog.
“Hi, my name is humble brag, why can’t people leave me alone? I will keep talking about my boobs, and not understand why people treat me superfically!”
Hi Big Chafed, Thanks for another edition and greetings from NOCal. I hope this is the last Rona edition! We did a perfect group hike today. 8 miles, 1100 foot elevation. Weather was 60-70 breezy/cool; dogs well behaved.
G-fit update: Sleep was very good. Food was very protein and lower carb levels. Hike mileage was up to 46 miles. Wim Hoff/meditative “ancient man” techniques; Did a couple times. Weight down 2# at 172.
Goals: Meeting goal weight range max (175-170). Still not dead from Covid…
My wife went down to 1/24hr fast (Mon) this week…to see if she could stay within her goal range (137-132).
Relative to your discussion of Chapter 3: self-control, discipline, time and ultimately a change in attitude After our exceptional hike today, I asked “what about next Sunday, I know this great trail”. Silence and those least fit said they were not interested in doing a hike for Father’s Day. They were more interested in taking it easy, maybe breakfast in bed and going to brunch or something. I have to admit that a couple years ago that might have been me, but over the years what was relaxing/enjoyable to me has changed. Having a day without a hike sucks but not hiking on Father’s day would be a travesty. OH well…to each his own.
In the words of Foochi “I am Hiking!”
De todos modos, ¡tenga una gran semana y sáltese una comida o tres!
I just bogied the first hole and parred the next 9, that’s Glibfit, and Hella fun, now for Pie baking,
I birdied the first two today. Got another birdie at 15. Unfortunately, the rest of the round wasn’t that great.
I made a breakthrough as far as timing goes, so my shots are far more consistent, and Boomers,
Pie hardest hit
LOL Blueberry, not Vampire,
My laptop has been running more and more slowly and shittily – esp after the last Win10 patches.
Are there any free (or cheap) and safe(!) utilities i can get to clean stuff up? Supposedly i have the win defragger working at night but you wouldn’t know it based on operation – this is worse than when I used to install/Uninstaller dozens of games – these days just downloading pics and vids and barely ever running software other than basic office stuff, Firefox (possible culprit) and VLC.
If you look at task manager, do you see any processes eating up a larger then normal amount of CPU/RAM utilization?
It’s my observation that the things that worked to clean up/speed up old versions of Windows don’t have much effect on Windows 10. Unless your hard disk drive is very full and you’ve been churning files it’s unlikely that fragmentation is a problem.
As you’ve noticed Firefox is a pig. I still install it on my computers but occasionally I conclude “FU Mozilla!” and install Pale Moon:
https://www.palemoon.org/
Which started out as Firefox fork. It has kept a lot of old-style Firefox stuff and is smaller and more responsive than Firefox. If you think FF is the problem I suggest you try it.
It took me a little while to get used to the Brave browser, but now that I have, there’s no going back. Much more responsive the Firefox, and handles logins/passwords quite elegantly.
I used to use SeaMonkey because it seemed to be the only browser that properly handled wiki-mark-up language.
I’d like to get in on this, as my computer has been running like shit too for the last 6 months. I can’t even play basic games on Steam anymore. It’s only 5 years old.
/points upthread
What are you considering a “basic game”, and what video card are you running with?
Golf With Your Friends would be one. I can’t even get thru the beginning cutscene in Skyrim anymore to give you an idea. Even Baldur’s Gate 2 is having problem and lagging.
Antimalware service executable seems to always be in the top when not running Google.
Intel HD Graphics 4600.
Then again, someone, whom I wont name, maybe puked on my keyboard like 2 years ago, a little. It’s just weird because the lagging part only showed up like a few months ago, which is why I think the culprit is some windows 10 BS.
I probably will need to get a new computer, but just in case if you know about a magic bullet.
Thanks a lot!
What’s the actual service name? And does it spike when you start up the games?
Integrated video card?
Most likely the issue is driver/update related. What’s the CPU/RAM utilization hitting with the antimalware? if you kill that application, do the games make it through the videos?
I’ve had Windows updates fuck up my work pc. Rolling them back fixed it.
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Service. Rolling at around 150mb of memory. About 5% of memory is my guess. What I don’t trust is that it won’t let me shut down the damn thing.
It’s a laptop, so I guess the card is integrated?
The windows update or a game I downloaded to play with the kids might be the culprit. I just don’t know when to go back on windows update. Maybe before COVID lol.
See if your antivirus is slowing things down. I use Kaspersky specifically because it doesn’t drag all the resources down like some antivirus programs that are worse than the disease.
I’m using Avast on this machine – Kaspersky was on my last machine
Still using the Avast settings that someone (you?) suggested a couple years ago.
This machine is only a little over 3 yrs old and I’d prefer it lasts at least 4 – although I seem to be seeing the beginning of graphics/screen corruption already as well.
I’ll try an alt browser next reboot. I think things slow down the most with Firefox and/or iTunes (which is a pretty massive filesystem too).
Are brave and/or pale moon pretty secure? Since last year I actually told Firefox to forget my login data every time I reboot – which makes me feel better but is also a time sink after rebooting to get to my youtube, glibs – not to mention all online store browsing.
Well, my stupid Lenovo is apparently running multiple simultaneous instances of several Lenovo utilities – major PITA.
If your laptop has an old-fashioned real-genuine hard disk drive thenreplace it with a modern solid state drive. You will see an amazing difference in performance.
Yeah, that might not be a bad investment. Presumably prices have dropped.
Yep. When I bought my new tower last year, I had them put in as much RAM as they could stuff on the motherboard and SSD drives (NVMe variant) for the O/S and scratch disks, and “only” a straight SSD for data drive.
Smokin’! Wonderfully quiet, too.
Well yeah, but the laptop drives are always slower, smaller, more expensive.
Hell, I got the machine I did because I wanted a disk burner (if necessary- good for non-region 1 dvds on the road) and a full size keyboard.
Don’t know why consumers are telling manufacturers they don’t want features like these.
I don’t think it’s consumers driving those changes. It’s commitees trying to be like apple.
Huge fan of SSD drives. I push the start button and the damn thing starts right up. Amazing!
I roasted up some veggies today.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/JJR66O8GTmWszCh26EKn0Q.SXQE25bnPY3JrZCLoJE4Yl
Health food.
Yes sir. I’m going to roast five bulbs of garlic today.
Wife is in charge of dinner and I’ve been informed it will be chicken thighs in a white wine/butter sauce with fresh herbs over lightly fried rice.
I’ll be right over.
Delightful.
Needs some broccoli up in there.
At my kids soccer practice. It’s 92, 32% humidity, not a cloud in the sky. One of the kids is wearing a mask… I feel sorry for the torture that kid will have to endure for the rest of their childhood.
There was one person in the spin class I was in on Friday who wore a mask through the entire class.
I somehow doubt they were really pushing themselves.
You know who else had to wear a mask even if it was hot out?
The Lone Ranger?
blackjack gets it.
The kids had in-school vaccination last week. 14 years and older got to make their own choices. Those that choose not to get the jab where left in class, alone for an hour. Imagine being the only kid in your class not taking it.
No social signaling or bullying will happen.
What we do to those kids is criminal.
You know who else had to wear a mask even if it was hot out?
The Lone Ranger?
Damnit!
Sorry, I was looking for Ironman, but I would have accepted the members of Kiss back in the seventies, as well.
GWAR?
Have some blues for your Sunday afternoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhCfehYJxXA
Muddy Waters once said about the British blues craze, ” These boys want to play the blues so bad, and they play the blues…so bad!” He might of not have heard this.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/oracle-engineer-helped-design-cdc-coronavirus-tracking-system-dies-covid-19-two-months-getting-vaccine/
Huh.
Did he also got to pedo Island?
My computer story:
I may have brought my laptop back to life. It locked up hard a while back. I managed to get it restarted, and the system (elementary linux) seemed to be running okay. The problem seemed to be specific to firefox, so I uninstalled that, and tried to find another browser, with no success. Yesterday, I bumbled my way into the download manager or whatever it’s called, and redownloaded and reinstalled firefox. After a period of reluctance and a restart, it came back around, complete with my vast library of bookmarks and saved passwords.
We’ll see if it continues to behave.
I’ve got a 2 year old “mini laptop” for which I dutifully created a crash recovery flash drive as recommended by the manufacturer.
When the computer refused to behave at all, I tried booting from the recovery disk. No dice.
I was going to put it on eBay for a few bucks but I can’t if it won’t boot, and I’m scared of tossing it out while it still might contain personal data. I suppose I’ll have to destroy it somehow.
Tannerite!
There’s always the classic method
https://youtu.be/N9wsjroVlu8
I’ll give you a few bucks for it (Whatever you think it’s worth, check on eBay.) and I promise I’ll wipe the drive without peeking. Seriously. You already have my access information.
I have 3 other previous laptops on hand. I was thinking about pulling the HDs for personal destruction and then dropping off the bodies with best buy for recycling, but on my models, thats not actually as easy as it looks on the tv.
Burn it.
https://www.wfmz.com/_homepage_top_stories/pennridge-high-school-crowns-same-sex-prom-royalty/article_afd85516-cbd0-11eb-bb2c-f7ce96c8fffe.html
I would have expected them to be hotter. ?
I guess high school students have moved on from electing Downs Syndrome kids.
I have problem feet for is number of reasons including past injury, genetic predisposition, being overweight, etc.
So I bought Birkenstock flip flops about half a year ago. Nothing fancy; just plastic ones but genuine Birks. They felt hard as little rocks at first, but damn if they didn’t provide my feet with exactly what they needed to get through the entire day.
(Have I mentioned that I hate it when hippies are right?)
Anyway, I wanted some Birkenstocks I could wear at work so I ordered some Mary Jane style ones for the eye watering price of $133. Wore them all day yesterday and my feet were thanking me.
My spousal unit saw that I was opening a box of Birkenstocks yesterday and said “More dyke shoes?” But he conceded that the Mary Jane style is pretty enough to qualify as lipstick lesbian footwear. ?
My wife is a sensible shoe fanatic. I never really appreciated good shoes until she showed me the light. Stick with them, your feet will love. you.
I am sitting here now wearing isotoners for house shoes. Marshmallow soles, arch supports and light as a feather. Yes, Mrs. Suthenboy chose and bought them for me. I knew there was a good reason I married her.
There is no price too steep for healthy feet.
Yup.
Well, they are precisely sized the same as the throttle pedal on a Subaru, so there’s that.
I don’t wear anything BUT Birks unless I’m out DIYing. Cured my plantar fasciitis.
I, too, hate it when the hippies are right.
When did Birkenstocks stop being hippie wear and became lesbian accessories?
I have never equated Birks with lesbianwear.
When the hippie chicks all stopped protesting and started wearing them with Pendeltons in their Subarus on the way to KD lang concerts.
Justice Blaren von Haughty Disdain
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Houston Methodist Hospital by employees who opposed a Covid-19 vaccine mandate as a condition of employment.
On Saturday, US District Court Judge Lynn Hughes ruled against Jennifer Bridges and 116 of her fellow Houston Methodist coworkers who sued to block the Covid-19 vaccination requirement. Houston Methodist Hospital moved to dismiss the case.
Bridges and her co-workers claimed the Covid-19 vaccines used in the US were “experimental and dangerous,” and that it would be “wrongful” to be terminated for refusing the get vaccinated.
The privately run Houston Methodist Hospital countered, saying not only were Bridges’ claims untrue, but that under Texas law, workers are protected from termination only if they refuse to commit a criminal act that carries criminal penalties.
Receiving a Covid-19 vaccine is not an illegal act, and it carries no criminal penalties.
The judge agreed with Houston Methodist Hospital. Hughes admonished Bridges’ analogy that her threat of termination in this case was like “forced medical experimentation during the Holocaust.”
Judge Hughes called that claim “reprehensible” and said Bridges was not being coerced.
“Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them … COVID-19,” Hughes wrote in the dismissal of the lawsuit.
“It is a choice made to keep staff, patients, and their families safer. Bridges can freely choose to accept or refuse a COVID-19 vaccine; however if she refuses she will simply need to work somewhere else.”
Freedom of association for some, FYTW for others.
21 yr old co-worker just developed ovary and liver problems after being vaccinated.
Coincidence? I say no.
No, no and no.
Watch or listen to this before it’s taken down.
The dude who helped develop the mRNA tech is part of the group. Both the lipids and the payload circulate the body (which wasn’t supposed to happen), and end up in some scary places – the ovaries and the bone marrow foe example.
This is fucked up.
Hypothetically, suppose I don’t have over 3 hours to watch the whole thing. Where does the germane part start?
Try listening at 1.5 speed. The last hour is solid, but the whole thing is worthwhile.
Did you listen/see the one with Pierre Kory?
No I didn’t. What’s do they discuss?
Dr. Kory is with theFront Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance
They have been kicking ass with off the shelf, off-patent drugs. Like Ivermectin.
It’s been yanked from YT (of course), but it’s still on Spotify.
Being a lawyer, you should be in a good place to sue the shit out of some pharmaceutical companies on this one. That is my take away. Ya sure they were granted immunity by the feds, but that should not be covered by hiding the fact that there were treatments for the vid but they hid it so the taxpayers could then pay for vaccines for everybody. This shit is criminal.
What. The. Fuck. I am only 20 minutes into it.
I am at about an hour 30 into this now and they just said what I am most pissed off about all this and it happened to the grandmother of a kid I work with. She caught the vid. Blood O2 at around 70. A grandkid took her to the hospital and they tested her and said, yep, you have covid go home. No treatment, no nothing. She is now back at the same hospital and will probably die. These motherfuckers will not treat people because they have all sold into the vaccine and not treating the sickness.
Exactly. You can destroy it early with cheap, safe drugs. But no, treating super sick people, in hospital, with Remdesivir at $3K a pop is superior.
Woodchippers aren’t enough.
* deletes comment explaining how people dealt with evil people in certain places I may have or not been.
I have a Twitter friend who’s pounding the “it messes up your girl’s plumbing” drum. I believe it.
You’ll have to work for it, but here you go.
It’s ridiculously long, but there is a ton of info.
Tl;dr: Please wait.
Almost-18yo XX has decided to get it. We aren’t going to give permission while she’s still a minor, but she apparently knew that because she didn’t ask us to go with her. She’ll get it as soon as she turns 18. Good thing she doesn’t plan to have kids.
No.
Here’s a simple graph for her.
The price of expecting your kid to take the reins when they’re 18 (and we’ve been preparing her) means they make decisions you don’t like. I can show her the evidence, but ultmately, the decision’s hers.
Of course it is. But she is being bombarded with shit information.
She can afford to wait and see.
Counterpoint – database contains information on unverified reports of adverse events (illnesses, health problems and/or symptoms) following immunization with US-licensed vaccines. Reports are accepted from anyone
Bolding my own.
She doesn’t care about the information. She wants to work without a mask. No, I don’t expect her to stand up to Walmart nor do I expect her to lie. She wants her life back and she thinks that’s the most efficient way to do it.
There is nothing wrong with lying to tyrants.
Hyp, get the fucking shot if you want to. About 5 minutes of research on VAERS will show you that it captures a tiny portion of issues. Most docs/people won’t go through the bullshit necessary to report.
Here’s more from the UK.
Vaccines aren’t supposed to do this.
The part that gets me is that we aren’t talking about polio here, or rubella (with the damage to fetuses that it brings) or smallpox.
We are talking about taking vaccines of unknown effectiveness and unknown risks to prevent a disease that has an extremely low risk of killing you.
Why is COVID considered uniquely terrible among viruses?
At the beginning of the lockdowns, I searched for the mortality rates for smallpox and got irritated comparing it to the ‘vid.
I survived going to Toronto back during SARS-1, I’m fairly certain I’ll survive this one.
A man who was a healthy 72-year-old in our town died of mad cow disease 2 months after the vaccine.
TX employment law acknowledges employees can quit a job at any time and for any or no reason, and that, with limited exceptions, such as your employer can’t fire you for refusing to commit a crime, employers have the same rights to choose not to employ someone for any or no reason.
I was asked what were my feelings about such laws when I applied for a job here, and I said, “Sounds pretty libertarian to me. I’m all for it.”
Two years later, I exercised my rights as an employee and quit that job.
Shorter: an employer who demanded I get vaccinated would be within their rights, as would I when I told them hell no and found a better job.
Can they exclude the uncircumcised, blacks, fatsos, women who have had abortions…? Or is covid the only criteria for which we can exercise freedom of association?
21 yr old co-worker just developed ovary and liver problems after being vaccinated.
Coincidence? I say no.
*grinds teeth*
Watching the first half hour of McWhorter
1) Systemic racism is the big lie
2) Her mother is/was the definition of a racist.
3) the reparations for slavery were in the 1860’s and 70’s. The 60’s and 70’s could be considered reparations for the Jim Crow era, but an abject failure, not the least is that you can’t fix racism by instituting racist policies
4) he is far too generous of the motivations of those pushing this racist dreck. It’s not some psychic hole in their family history or past wrongs, it’s about power and wealth and envy and greed, timeless deadly sins that affect all people. This is is just a current incarnation.
I think his generosity strengthens his argument. Rather than attack the people, he attacks the argument. It creates a space for someone holding those misbegotten views to reconsider them.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/11/14/raccoons-drunk-on-crab-apples/
Poor raccoons get a bad rap with everyone rabies-shaming them even though they were just drunk. Is that more example of racism? I’m losing track.
I came across a flock of blackbirds once in the woods. They were flopping around on the ground under an elderberry and unable to fly. I had a suspicion so I picked one up and whew!, its breath was like a back alley drunk’s breath.
Mulberries will ferment on the tree. Birds get shit faced.
And then shit purple everywhere around the house.
/still plans to harvest the mulberry tree in the yard
I didn’t know if birds could get drunk.
We gotta keep hate birds away from brewskies; that could end rather badly.
I believe any animal can imbibe, it may have a different effect, but even monkeys have been smart enough to let fruit ferment to eat later.
I always enjoyed the videos of animals in Africa trekking miles to reach certain fruit trees and deliberately getting sloshed.
https://youtu.be/obTfkAQ6pfw
Holy fuck yes, the cobra chickens are bad enough sober. I nearly had to pepper-spray one of those fuckers the other day…
+1 Dr. Moreau
Does pepper spray affect birds? I thought capsaicin was a mammals-only thing.
Good luck with that plan Nephilium. I have dozens of mulberries around the house in the woods. I never get a single berry. All of the squirrels and birds keep a close eye on them and they know when the berries are ripe before I do.
Same is true of my figs. There is a bear that comes out of the national forest and goes down the bayou every year. He knows every fig tree at every house for five miles around. I go out early in the morning on ripe fig day and for the last 5 years all I have found were bear tracks. No figs.
We’ve had some decent harvests in years past. It really comes down to storms and when the berries are ripe here (mulberries are ripe when the fall off the branch with a touch). It’s too high for the deer to eat them all, and the birds just eat a bit.
This. Our fig tree looks like Mutual of Omaha’s Natural kingdom when they get ripe. My previous cat (RIP) used to wait under the tree for one brave bird to venture low enough and then bring it’s carcass in the house for us. It’s a free for all when they ripen. Animal crack, basically. We might get a third of the figs and have to shake the tree to get rid of the squirrels, birds and beatles first.
Paul or Ringo?
Whichever one is translucent green and flies. Not the walrus, obviously.
Nugent approves.
So Mark David Chapman did you a favor?
Imagine there’s no Beatles. It’s easy fi you can. Imagine Jody Foster loves you. Not gonna happen even if you try.
We were always able to eat our fill from my Grandmother’s mulberry tree.
This year is the first that I’ve gotten any wild strawberries. I credit the pup chasing off the competition.
I came across a flock of blackbirds once in the woods.
Did you run so far away?
When I was a kid some birds got drunk on berries that grew near our house. They started smashing into the windows. It was like a Hitchcock movie.
Would that explain the Young deer Gamboling on the city streets right now? they are stupid, but maybe Blackberries?
Nope. Just rats with hooves.
not even a 55mph run in front of you thing, more like suanter out into traffic that’s going 25, we are like, would you just cross the street and GTFO?
Big Rats with hooves, agreed,
I’ve had a deer run along side me when I was biking once. It was surprisingly terrifying, since if it decided to turn, I would be eating pavement.
For hate birds, don’t slow down, they learn and no enough to move if a car isn’t slowing down. If you slow down, so do the hate birds.
I do not ride after dark in deer country. The suicidal fucks will jump right in front of you and just stop, as if they’re waiting to get hit. Just ain’t worth it. Get a room and wait until tomorrow,
Yep. Deer are asshoe. I’ve had several friends who had to call in insurance claims because a deer took out their rear quarter panel on their car. One of them got injured and wound up getting MRSA while in the hospital.
Then on the other hand, you have the somewhat raccoon-looking poet Edgar Allen Poe, who everybody thinks drank himself to death, but in reality likely died of rabies.
Rabies? I haven’t heard that one. He certainly died under suspicious circumstances. Another mystery that will never be solved.
The most powerful force you have to make the changes you want is time. There are no instant results.
Yep. The one constant in life is time. I made it four days of intermittent fasting last week. 17 hours four days in a row. I don’t know if I lost weight because I did not weigh myself, but I honestly did feel better. It was kind of weird.
That’s great! This week try for 5 days this week. Then in a couple weeks, do a 24hr fast. Weigh yourself before 24 hr and after 24 hrs fast. Hopefully, the weight loss will be reinforcing…Rinse and repeat. Refeed with good quality protein and fat.
I can do 5 days no prob I think. I got a bit hangry around 10 AM a few times but that was probably justified given what was going on. On day four I had some homemade ramen for lunch with a lot of Sriracha. Trying to not make it gross but, just let me say it cleansed me.
How to Condescend to Minority Patients Who Aren’t Keen on Getting the Covid Vaccine
White Doctors’ Burden
(Source: March 2021 publication by the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease https://www.aasld.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/AASLD-COVID19-VaccineCounseling-March2021.pdf
From that starting point, would a response of “What the fuck does that have to do with [insert reason the patient made the appointment]?” more easily lead to follow up questions?
Shorter: an employer who demanded I get vaccinated would be within their rights, as would I when I told them hell no and found a better job.
I agree.
I just wonder how consistently that judge applies her ‘libertarian” principles.
Short lesson. Freedom always comes with a price. Take the vaccine for freedom to do what you did before Rona and risk your health. Refuse the vaccine and lose your job but keep your self-respect and health. Humm…
Or, lie as necessary about having been vaccinated.
These people do not deserve your honesty.
And if they demand proof of vaccination, tell them that asking that is a HIPPA violation of medical privacy. If they press the issue, insist they put their demand in writing, and that you will be sending your attorney a copy of that demand that you waive your rights to medical privacy as a condition of employment.
I’ve been vaccinated, I just ain’t telling you for what.
Freedom also comes with a price for those who try to abuse it. Like the cider brewery and tap house I visited today, where the person working the counter insisted I wear a mask as a condition of being granted the privilege of purchasing a cider from her, inside their empty air conditioned building. And then I would have to promptly exit the air conditioning in 95F heat to drink said cider under a tent outside, with the two customers who had agreed to these conditions of doing bidness.
I’m thinking this business is going to be an ex-business soon. They’ll certainly never see my face again.
I’m the only one at work who isn’t vaxxed. Some of them scammed to the front of the line to get it early. I’m more scared about the shot than I am the virus. Just want to be left alone, on this one issue, this time. Eventually, I’ll get hit with a demand. I can’t even imagine being a kid in school trying to hold out against these horrible people. (shudders to think!)
Regarding eyes: I am glad to hear you are improving egould310. Eyes are as close to indispensable as any body part can be.
I used to go shoot my pistols in an abandoned army camp. People would throw out all kinds of trash there so there were plenty of fun targets. Cans, bottles, appliances…just about any kind of household trash you can think of.
One day I found a refrigerator. After perforating the doors I opened them and set up plastic bottles full of water in the freezer section. After a couple of shots I discovered what happens when you toss a projectile into a 90 degree corner. Fortunately I was using low target loads and some of my own casts made with crappy alloy. The bullet shattered into small bits but came back and hit me in the face like a shotgun. No broken skin, no blood but….something was in my eye. I got in the car and looked in the rearview. A small spirally looking sliver of lead was stuck in my cornea.
Well, just shit. I didnt want to pull it out because I might have lost all my aqueous humor. Off to the emergency room driving one-eyed.
I found it impossible to keep my eye open while the doc came at me with tweezers. My eye simply would not do what I told it to do. The nurse couldn’t hold it open. I finally had to do it myself.
Fortunately I recovered quickly but I sure would like to avoid that experience again.
Yup. I’ve been hit with enough spall (not to mention blowing up a gun or two) that shooting a gun without eye protection is just unthinkable.
It wasn’t the first time I have been hit but the first time I was hit in the eye. I said it was a small piece but for the eye, not so small.
I have to say I have never blown a gun up. My father has. He committed a reloading mortal sin. He stopped in the middle of a batch and didnt get back to it for a few months. He left the powder in the hopper. By then he had forgotten the load and what powder he was using so he took a guess.
It is a good thing his 1911 had rubber grips. If they had been wooden his hand would have been skewered.
It was common for Civil War soldiers to get a piece of percussion cap in their eye after firing their rifles.
The judge also recently denied the plaintiffs’ request for a temporary restraining order to block Houston Methodist from suspending employees who refused to get vaccinated.
“The public’s interest in having a hospital capable of caring for patients during a pandemic far outweighs protecting the vaccination preferences of 116 employees,” the judge wrote.
“The plaintiffs are not just jeopardizing their own health; they are jeopardizing the health of doctors, nurses, support staff, patients and their families.”
Libertarian as fuck, she is.
If they can tell you what you cant put in your body, why cant they tell you what you must put in it?
I’m thinking that ruling ought to be overturned on appeal.
What is the point in having laws or rights when we have public interest?
Sure, but imagine the public’s interest if an appellate court was specifically asked if this judge’s ruling would set a precedent that gay employees could also be required to disclose their confidential medical records to ensure that they aren’t HIV+ and thus “jeopardizing the health of doctors, nurses, support staff, patients and their families”?
This judge is basically echoing the legal arguments used to violate medical confidentiality when AIDS first started killing droves of people.
i ran into a buddy yesterday who works for a big VC specializing in med-tech. He was expecting his company to require it and was trying to decide where to go after he resigned.
As it turns out, not only are they not requiring it, management was told to stay out of it. Shocking, really, but apparently their general council decided that going after a bunch of wealthy, experienced people was probably a bad plan.
Anecdote, but interesting.
Perhaps, or perhaps they need to stay in operation and cant do that if half of their employees are out because they are growing third arms, eyes or puking themselves to death.
Sorry to hear about the eye problems, Egould, as life throws us these curve balls it can be pretty scary. Good that recovery is in sight. All of you that had those accidents and recovered as fortunate indeed. I’ve have some too but with youth, luck and a decent haircut most have been overcome.
I continue to recover and getting around is easier. Things that you can’t imagine are impediments, I’m learning to put some weight on my right leg and that’s going well. Simple things like standing up and washing my hands instead of sitting in the wheel chair are baby steps, my goal now is to stand up long enough to brush my teeth. I’ll have the walker with me in case I need it.
I caught a cold about 4-5 days ago but it is winding down, it wasn’t serious, runny nose, sneezing, a cough (almost gone now) but uncomfortable and inconvenient. Still hoarse but able to talk now. Not being very mobile for 3 months and my legs are stiff, bending over is hard, like putting on socks or shoes. A video of me trying to put on socks would be funny, I can’t quite get the sock over my right foot toes so I try and try and then it’s four toes and if I really stretch and get the little piggie inside the sock I’m home free. I have a tool that makes putting on socks easier but the ladies know a man’s mind set, we don’t need help or advice.
I have a great fear of doing something that would cause a set back so I may not be as adventurous as I could be. Still, I’m optimistic and waiting on the word from the doc, I need to be outside doing stuff. One thing that has happened is the batteries are dead in my trucks and lawn tractor from not being used for several months, a couple needed replacing any way and friends have put the charger on them and got them running.
Happy to read the Adventures of the Glib Gang everyday and keep up with the news of like minded boys and girls.
Go get ’em, Fourscore.
Glad the cold was nothing. FWIW, this year has been weird as hell, allergy wise. No rain doesn’t help.
“Good that recovery is in sight.”
I see what you did there.
Glad to hear you are improving Fourscore, even it if it a slow slog.
I trust it will all get better and you will be back in shape in no time 4. Glad you are doing well!
❤️❤️❤️
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Keep at at it, I hope you are 100% soon.
Careful cranking the hog.
It’s good to hear you are keeping at it.
As it turns out, not only are they not requiring it, management was told to stay out of it. Shocking, really, but apparently their general council decided that going after a bunch of wealthy, experienced people was probably a bad plan.
At some point, somebody is going to get into a courtroom and blow the maskers’ and vaxxers’ “evidence” out of the water as hearsay and supposition based on completely unsubstantiated computer models.
That will be a great day.
Hang in there, Fourscore. Keep swinging.
hawt
There is nothing wrong with lying to tyrants.
It’s a moral imperative.
In honor of Sir Rupert writing The Sun down:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15252247/our-perfect-marriage-ruined-trans-porn-phone/
Something tells me that your marriage wasn’t perfect to start with…
Something tells me that the ‘Dear whoever’ letters are as real as the Penthouse letters. I never thought it would happen to me…
It sounds made up to me.
I don’t know where to start with that one.
I’d start with, “Keep your dick–beaters (or your twat-twiddlers, I guess) off of your partner’s phone. This is only one reason among many.”
Dumping him for that would be homophobic, biphobic AND transphobic.
Which are illegal in the UK, according to the Mercyside constabulary.
I am sticking by my method of beating over 100 deg heat which is sitting in cool water while meats are in the smoker.
It’s about 90 out here. Gravity and beer are keeping me on the couch.
Ned Beatty, 1937-2021
Started his career getting raped in Deliverance, earned an Oscar nomination for Network, and did much, much more.
🙁
RIP
He was Dean Martin in Back to School.
Good enough for me. RIP.
Hell yes.
My sister met him once at the dump.
What, no love for the Big Easy?
I picked a couple of things I figured everybody would recognize.
Left off Otisburg. For shame!
RIP, Clyde Torkel.
Glad to hear that Glib health seems to be on the mend. Chafed, I promise to get more into your posts when a half-mile walk no longer tires me out.
If DEG is still around, he night want to hear Karlyn Borysenko talk with Ben Richards of the NHLP Mises caucus. Anyone else, too.
Note: 75 min vid. ^^
Ooh, a 75-minute video….
On libertarian party infighting, no less!
I think Family Guy covered that already.
Sorry, the cripple fight was South Park.
TIMMEH!
Well, here’s 10 hours of nothing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOlh-g2dxrI
Thanks.
I just got back from a weekly local liberty meet-up. There was someone there, who shall go nameless, that knows a little of what is going on. It sounds like a shit show.
I won’t watch the video tonight as I’m heading to bed soon. I’ll watch it soon.
Here is hoping that is some time soon BP.
Tundra (and anyone else) – Styx talks about the myocarditis cases among vaccine recipients.
I might be paranoid, but it seems like there are efforts to dissuade people from taking the Johnson and Johnson more-or-less-tradiomal vaccine and to steer them toward the mRNA ones instead.
There was no I’m letting them inject foreign dna strands into my body, so I opted for J&J while it’s still available.
Now I read that the EU is temporarily banning J&J vaccine because J&J had to throw out a batch in Maryland in an abundance of caution.
Why do “scientists” and governments want us to take the mRNA version?
Oh, btw, a third of the deaths from the Indian variant in the UK have been in fully vaccinated people.
The risk/reward math on the vaccines is looking worse all the time.
My speculation is that the vaccines are causing positive tests from a testing protocol that is overly sensitive. So we’re back to the “dying with COVID vs dying from COVID discussion.”
Remember these vaccines were _not_ gauged against positive test results but actual symptoms of illness. I’m not convinced the vaccines are dangerous. However, I’m not fully convinced they’re not either.
My guess is that 20 years from now the medical community is going to look back at this as a very large panic driven mistake. And unfortunately I”m now fully vaccinated as I just realistically had no other logistical choice. So I still have the fingers crossed that this shakes out okay. Though “hope isn’t a strategy.”
Don’t watch the video Tundra linked. Or do. But then again, from what I gather you are a young fella so you will probably be fine. Maybe. I hope so.
Will be 50 in two months
The New Soviet Man vaccine?
I son’t think the J&J is actually a traditional vaccine.
CDC is apparently convening an emergency meeting to discuss the kids getting fucked up.
Why the fuck can’t people wait to jab the kids?!?
They just had to “revise” the expiration dates of a bunch of J&J doses here. Otherwise they’d have to throw them all away. Wasn’t that an episode of the Simpsons?
[clicks on link to see how long he talks about it….]
Meh. I take the “VAX causes [horrible thing]” exactly as seriously as “COVID causes [Suzuki syndrome, long-hauler, etc.]”
Which is to say:
JOURNALISMISTS ARE NOT ANY MORE HONEST JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE ON YOUR SIDE!
I can appreciate that, but the video I linked above includes the dude that helped develop the mRNA tech. He’s not a journalist.
Also, I don’t have a side. I have two kids and I am trying to learn just what the fuck is going on.
Yeah, the point is, there’s a lot of questions about what the vax will do. It’s pretty clear that, for most people, the vid will do very little. Cost/benefit says don’t get jabbed. Pretty simple. The hard part is standing up the “IFLS” bullies and their lies.
The incessant ads that insist it’s safe now make me suspicious. How the fuck can you tell me a weird drug that didn’t exist a year ago doesn’t have long-term side effect?
They claim that it’s our choice whether to get the jab or not. Then, they lament that “only” 66% have “chosen” to get it. At some point, everyone who wants to will have gotten it. Hesitancy means we don’t want what you’re selling.
https://twitter.com/westernsloper/status/1400758180943179781
Point of order:
It was Kawasaki syndrome not Suzuki.
I saw Suzuki Syndrome open for Rush at Budokan back in ’89.
So ‘ding ring ring’
Not ‘ring ding ding,’
ok.
https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2021/02/05/19/37/covid-19-as-a-possible-cause-of-myocarditis-and-pericarditis
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/04/27/are-rare-cases-of-myocarditis-linked-to-pfizer-moderna-covid-19-vaccines/?sh=46b5ac027442
I don’t know if they’re ‘on my side’
https://raypeatforum.com/community/threads/covid-19-rna-based-vaccines-and-the-risk-of-prion-disease.39953/
Now do side effects and efficacy for existing vaccines. It’s not 0 and 100%, respectively.
Not sure what your point is. I agree the vast majority of vax are good. I got the MMR, smallpox, polio, etc. vax’s. Risk/reward ratio seems pretty good with all.
The COVID one appears to be problematic. Do you disagree?
I think it’s getting more attention than other vaccines, and people are evaluating the side effects with their own filter of what they think vaccines are.
Most of diseases we regular vaccinate against were far less prevalent prevaccine than are commonly thought. Then there’s the efficacy and side effects. Polio is a good one. IPV is less effective but because polio is rare in developed countries, it’s good enough. OPV, which is still used through much of the world, causes paralytic polio in 1 of ~2.5million (so about 1000 children in the past ten years). Another 750 cases of paralytic polio on top from circulating vaccine derived polio virus, is as the name suggests, originates from polio vaccine mutation in people.
I think diseases should be judged on their ability to kill you, and any treatments should be measured against that metric. If vaccines are (partially) causing the problem, that needs to be factored in, whether it’s a polio or COVID vax.
COVID, for the vast majority of people, has little chance of killing/maiming you. If you are obese, and/or have a compromised immune system, and/or are old (70+), your risk/reward ratio is very different than a healthy 15-25-35-45 year old. That’s all I’m saying.
Peace out my Friends, I’m pissed off,
Get some sleep, work week starts tomorrow.
it’s 730, I need to sync my files, not sleep,
I get up at 5:00. 7:30 is my “put the dog to bed, take a shower, etc.” time.
I used to get up around 7:00, now I get up around nine.
Heh, without listening, well played Mr. Brownstone,
So, I was with Lily all day, she got no more than three hours of napping and more than two hours at the dog park over the course of today.
AND SHE’S ASLEEP TEN HOURS BEFORE I HAVE TO WAKE UP FOR WORK!!!!!
Winning!
Went to a winery today. Had a bit of trouble finding one that didn’t require reservations. Some people are still stuck on stupid. We finally found one. Masks weren’t required as long as you identified as vaccinated.
This morning I tried watching some sailing on tv and right away they launched into some social justice BS. Guess what, CBS, sailing is pretty much a rich man’s sport. And that’s ok.
After missing several days, I just spent another hour on the treadmill…with a break halfway through to attend to the obligatory Sunday laundry.
That still counts, doesn’t it?
Sure, why not?
Hell yes it does!
Good job!
Actually it counts as 2, you’re good for tomorrow already
I’m open to movie suggestions.
I think I’ve seen every tech noir now.
How about something with hot chicks and robots?
Here.
Wait, what?
It has got chicks and robots. That was the criteria.
Technically correct.
Funny, I don’t remember a robot.
Although I think it had a gay black dude with a spear…
Wormser builds one. Yeah the jocks trash their robot when the jocks trash their house.
Well played Tundra.
Heavy Metal.
Seen it a long time ago.
How about the 1975 version of The Stepford Wives? Katherine Ross, Paula Prentiss, and Tina Louise are hot.
Katharine Ross was a total smokeshow. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a great movie too.
Just finished “First Love”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Love_(2019_film)
Hilariously violent action drama. Drugs. Cussing. Guns. Swords. In Japanese.
Swords. In Japanese. was an art rock project featuring members of opening hours subject to change at short notice, and And! And?, which released three extended plays and one single between ’78 and ’81. Due to a misprint on the first pressing of Leopoldo</em (1978), the band has (erroneously) been credited as "Words in Japanese", which eventually became the title of a solo project of the project's erstwhile saxophonist, Zeit Fruhn.
I don’t have Words in Japanese, so how about a word in Spanish?
Between the lines of
Dammit! age?
I’m clicking submit and post too soon together.
It’s not a tech noir, but there’s a hot chick in Niagara: Marilyn Monroe.
Oh, I’ve seen it recently.
Hint: Jean Peters is 1000x hotter than MM
Barb Wire?
https://archive.li/yEr8m/79c84587d849c72725635e59eee71368e459d0c0.jpg
NSFW.
Chorizo con Heuvos y Queso, Muy Sabor!
IIt’s what’s for dinner
/Tapatio!
Guess what, CBS, sailing is pretty much a rich man’s sport. And that’s ok.
Why are there no beaners out there?
Too slow. They need pangas to sneak past the border. Plenty of room for all your cousins and cheap enough to leave behind when you beach it and let everyone scramble away.
We* need** more equity*** in sailing to decolonize**** the sport*****
*no-one
**purple monkey dishwasher
***put people on boats based on arbitrary criteria
****kill whitey
*****pastime
I am sure this has been covered….”If you attack Tony Fauci you are attacking science” – Fauci talking about himself as if he is science in the third person.
When I heard that I felt a disturbance in the force As if millions of faces were suddenly palmed.
None of the shitbirds giving direction on the cooties or the vaccines have told the truth yet, I dont know why anyone would expect them to start now.
Science tells me to question everything these fucks are saying.
Supposed to be a reply to Tundra in his search for legit info on the subject.
It was Kawasaki syndrome not Suzuki.
Road rash does not discriminate.
I knew a guy who went to work overseas and left the love of his life. He started eating the local food and developed a bad case of gas. It was weird though and when he relieved himself the release was, “Hoooondaaaaa”. He went to the doctor and the Doc told him his condition was not uncommon. When one is away from those he loves the fart goes Honda.
Oh, brother. *rolls eyes*
Technically, shouldn’t you only be rolling one eye, since you’re blind in the other?
/ducking
Why I aughtta’…
Glad your eyes are good. And wtf, that is a great joke!
Well, at least he met the nicest people.
Who thought you could get good Chorizo in Manistee? but we can, and do, a taste of my Homelands, Yum!
I thought they are herbivores, no?
Chorizo is seasoned shredded Pork, perfect with eggs and Cheese, Tortillas optoinal
Tortillas, salsa and papas are not optional.
He’s making a joke about manatees.
Just took an ambien and I am off to bed. Good night to all.
Goodnight zzzzzz
Good night 🙂
CNN is sexist?
https://nypost.com/2021/06/11/cnn-favors-liberal-men-by-keeping-jeffrey-toobin-chris-cuomo-critics/
Spent the afternoon drinking in a brewery that had a sign saying that if you voluntarily showed your VAX card you didn’t need a mask. I never put one on in the first place, never showed anyone proof of VAX, and enjoyed seeing the girl behind the stick wear one of the bead masks pulled under her nose. Drank sours, after a pint of porter, watched idiots sitting down with full masks while people came and went with no mask.
Brought the wife a devils stout brownie. All is well.
That sounds Tasty, What Sours did you drink?
Cranberry. It was good enough that my drinking partner switched over after an Irish red.
I was out running some errands this afternoon. Haircut – two out of the five patrons wearing masks. Fresh Market – maybe one or two people out of 20+ wearing masks. Sadly, my favorite little Thai place is still posted. Still, people are rapidly dispensing with the bullshit. It almost gives me hope.
Oregon is still suposed to be masked, unless the business feels like carding you. Shitty, but I do see more and more people maskless.
I decided no, I am not doing it anymore. If someone wants to tell me to mask up, I will politely say I am vaccinated, and if they demand more then I leave. It’s working so far.
People were already dumping masks here two months ago; now no one outside of a few has them.
On week 3 or 4 now of biking 15-20 miles every day. I think I’ve got it down as habit now and will continue. I think I’ve lost an inch or two off my waistline. I’ve been watching my diet too but not as strict, especially on the weekends.
Work is opening back up and allowing those vaccinated to have not restrictions while the non-vaxed have to wear a scarlet letter. Supposedly vax status will not be verified*, so some of us will have some decisions to make.
*Unless if this is some kind of trap.
I continue to not understand the logic of this.
The pricked supposedly won’t catch it so what are they afraid of?
Holy shit dude, you must have quads like telephone poles.
My brother invited me on a bike ride and ended up dragging me 22 miles at a speed higher than what I’m used to. Before that, I had only gone about 9 miles at a leisurely pace. I came home, ate a colossal meal, took a 3-hour nap, and my legs were sore the rest of the day. Good time, though. I think he zoomed along because he’s lighter than me and has a lightweight bike. I have a “cruiser” step-through bike (a Sun Streamway) and I’m also much heavier than him, so I was definitely getting more of a workout.
A God Damned mouse just ran across my floor, my cat? Sleeping, as usual, Fat Cat,
Garfield?
They’re not all good mousers. Some of them just want to eat lasagna.
Now she is up, like what I miss?
Black Lives Matter ad:
Black people were NOTHING before we got here.
STFU.
Checked email, flash sale from Bone Frog, 1000rds/ $365. Already sold out but a decent price these days. Probably could have doubled it and still sell out.
Of Tula steel cased .223
now its raining hardcore, right through my kitchen window, yikes!
Raining hard in Seattle. Loving it.
Glad the eyes worked out Brother,
Ditto!
Levin is on a rant roll tonight.
Was at the Asian market this afternoon. Chinese college girl ahead of me had a Trump figure charm on the keys hanging out of her pocket.
I was in Eugene yesterday. Mask central, but no one said anything to me being maskless in the Freddys on west 11th.
Was in the Springtuckey one last night. Same, even though we were the only ones without masks. MoC was up to four others without masks and two others pulled down! LGS was completely maskless, but they’ve been that way for months or maybe all along.
I just my heart broken again, it rivals losing Wendy, I’ll get over it I suppose,
Had my
So e talking head on the teevee talking about Missouri’s 42% vax rate (apparently you have to show us or something) and the almost 100% maskless rate and things not squaring up. Then the editorial dude came on and said he just didn’t know what would happen if cases started going up (more) since he didn’t think any municipality in Missouri had the guts to reimpose restrictions.
I am so proud of us.
I assume neither raised acquired immunity in order to square the circle.
Natch.
According to them, Missourians seem quite skeptical of the vax and more than willing to take risks with their health.
I said it above, but the COVID vax seems to have an outsized risk/reward ratio.
I don’t have a problem with the standard MMR/polio/smallpox, etc. vaxxes.
Bingo.
I think the analysis is population dependent. If you are 70 or older it appears worth the risk. Same thing if you have a pertinent comorbidity. If you are young and healthy, it is pointless and in some cases dangerous. I encouraged my over 80 year old parents to get it and discouraged my teenage daughters. I’m in my mid 50s and in good health. I’m trying to figure out if it is worth it for me.
Exactly. If I were very elderly and living with a major health condition, I’d get it. My mother is pushing 70 and has kidney failure – she got it and I’m glad for it.
My main concern is with the long-term effects (e.g. 10 or 20 years out, about which we do not and cannot know anything about). And I’m nowhere near the demographic groups that have any kind of serious consequences from the ‘Vid, so it just doesn’t make sense to me to get it. Also, I was exposed for an entire weekend to a confirmed Covid-positive person in the most intimate circumstances possible (wink wink) so I’m not sure how I would not have natural immunity already.
As an aside: I know I have an antisocial streak and a generally contrarian nature. When I see everyone else doing something, I immediately don’t do that and question the wisdom of that thing. And I know I make emotional and irrational decisions sometimes… But having said all that, I think my reasons for not getting the Covid vaccine are perfectly rational, and I absolutely hate that any questioning of the vaccine is written off as “anti-vaxxer” craziness.
I agree the anti-vaxxer stuff is infuriating.
Well it is the Show Me State.
Nor the natural drop in corona virus infections summer months. IFLS!
“Scientistic” is one of my favorite F.A. Hayekisms.
For those of you who have not yet experienced the joy of reading Hayek’s Nobel Prize Lecture, “The Pretense of Knowledge”, here it is.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hayek/lecture/
Essentially he’s thanking the committee for the honor while simultaneously throwing shade at the very idea that economic “science” should be classed alongside the physical sciences.
While biology and chemistry are certainly physical sciences, epidemiology and public health policy (like economics) are complex systems depending on the behavior of many individuals.
Hayek might as well have been watching the Covid-19 response in a crystal ball when he wrote:
I’m guessing that all the geriatrics in nursing homes and ambulatory 65+ folks got their inoculations. Others are taking either a “wait and see” or a “Hellz to the no” attitude, having weighed their risks vs benefits.
As it should be with a sober, informed populace.
Just got a discounted version of the ‘Pro’ version of the editing software I’ve used for over a decade. I never say a need to pay the $500 for the ‘Pro’ version before, but the upgrade was on sale for $99, so what the hell. So far it’s running like dog shit, taking MINUTES to even navigate Windows folders to even get to import videos. And none of the windows are dockable!? They have been for 15 years in the cheap version! WTF!?
That shochu did a number on me this morning. Ugh.
Gesundheit.
I always thought it was SoJew, maybe it isn’t as wasist as I thought.
Luckily, I had the good grace to bow out early, so I’m fine.
We know. We laughed.
https://archive.li/nO7r4/f52d43f1683805e45c01d819a6ffb7986331b194.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/aRYrL/0c9000292027ac744c3517b9050cc4dc3e107fdd.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/UjR4i/6156ebda9e23562592e10ae4da19d89f03c06931.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/V6s1k/14c7e5fd7fee706db44c2f4ab08342a7f391b124.webp
NSFW.
Where’s my GlibFit After Dark?
https://archive.li/TZnwQ/9b82272e87c11a50e068f51ecb581275c68e271d.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/kX51f/e110eb40425f00f0cc02eea6bb2950440cbca81a.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/jjYRQ/e754731c2ba5d07be1fbf2d5006f1347ac098865.jpg
NSFW.
Ba-da-bing! That hits the spot. Though the hardware south of the border makes me nervous.
Hey y’all. I suspect I’m the only one still up.
But, today’s Glibfit, my gawd I am sore. I started putting a shelf together for wifey yesterday. The shipping weight is 175 lbs. I struggled to get this in here. I was thinking to pull out the handcart but I didn’t.
But man, this thing is heavy. It’s like IKEA but way more quality. It has all these cams and dows. Anyway, I’m not in the shape I should be and I am sooo fucking sore today. I took a muscle relaxer and drank a bunch today and I am still sore, lol.
Not quite the last one up, but I can see why you think you would be.
I can’t remember my I Fucking Love Astronomy prediction from last week (and won’t be arsed to look it up), but if it had
— shop botched routine tire replacement on Track Day car
— whee! Big check! Investment bank won’t let me in the building to deposit it, because coof fears.
— good friend passes away from recurrence of cancer
well, they got it right.
https://www.kcra.com/article/ohio-restaurant-cicada-pizza/36710773
Fuck these people.
I would like to state for the record that I have never done business with this establishment, nor do I have any plans to do so.
What they DO put on is bad enough. (Cabbage?? On pizza??? RUFKM????)
Yeah…Im not sure who they are either. Nor do I plan to fuck w/ that.
Seems like an attempt to be a snotty, trendy, Oregon District place.
https://www.iampizzabandit.com/
I think its a food truck thing, but 25$ for a cheese pizza, fuck that! even if it is an 18″ pie.
I think I meant “18-inch Pie” once when Craigslist still had personals ads.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/biden-insults-queen-elizabeth-awkward-exchange-reporters-reminded-mother-video/
Fuck that guy.
Shame there wasnt a push-up challenge to Her Royal Highness.
How is that in anyway an insult?
Also, since when did we give a shit about insulting royalty, Fuck royalty.
I think they do refer to her as “Queen Mum” after all.
No. She is the reigning Queen. Queen Mother refers to the previous consort that survives her Husband, the King’s death.
Of course you would know. You people still have a monarch on your money.
Whaddup, canuckian
Because she just celebrated her sixty-fifth 30th birthday.
Even if favorably comparing someone to an older person is some how taboo, Biden’s mother died when she was younger than Queenie is now, so unless he’s comparing her to his mother’s corpse he’s acshually complimenting her by these rules.
No, he’s just being an inarticulate, bumbling fool once again. She’s got nearly twenty years on him and still comes out ahead.
^ This.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fbtBKfM7yY4
Fuck off.
suh’ fam ?
whaddup doh
Feeling a bit surly. Time to make the doughnuts.
Good morning, homey & Sean!
(Mmmmm! Doughnuts!) ::Homer drool::
Surly doughnuts… No holes?
“The Zen philosopher Basho once wrote, “a flute with no holes is not a flute; a donut with no holes is a danish.”
“Banana Tree!”
Reference, for the young ones.
https://cdn-0.therandomvibez.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Garfield-Monday-Memes.jpg
This cat gets it.
Sunday is my double-plus good Monday and I’m feeling it now.
Morning, glibs.
suh’ cuh
Good morning, U!
Finally! A Glibs-relevant story! Florida Man® and drugs in the butt.
Naples man calls 911 about McDonald’s order & says he has cocaine ‘in his butt’
“Dong, where is my automobile?”
Also acceptable: “Dude, where’s my car ?”
Relevant:
Chinese trampolinist Dong Dong bounces to record fourth Olympics
Oops! Wrong link, buddy!
Thanks, home-team.
Whoops. It was, to say the least, a long night.
Fixed link.
I’m sure Ms. Gilbert has no connection to the mayor, or has dirt on her, or is involved with her, or generously contributed to her campaign or anything to receive this appointment.
First-ever ‘chief heat officer’ has ambitious plans
(Lights the Tulip and KK signal)
So, I did a thing. I had a bunch of leftover Béarnaise so I took a pouch of instant mashed potatoes (Idahoan Baby Reds), which the packet says to rehydrate with 2 cups water but I used about 1 3/4 cups of heavy cream. Cooled taters, mixed them with Béarnaise/shredded cheese/chopped green onion, scooped small portions of them onto a wax paper lined sheet pan, froze them, then breaded and fried them. Bloody delicious!
Sounds yummy!
Good morning, l0!
Yum! You missed the Kirkland bacon crumbles, though.
Damn it! Yes I did. Thanks man, that will be a welcome addition next time.
Likely gov’t grant recipients trying to emulate Mix-a-Lot:
Scientists celebrate Inverte-Butt-Fest, a photographic homage to spineless backsides
Fun fact- I was once “biblically knowledgeable” with a woman that had inverted nipples. Remind me to share it on a ZoomCall some night.
I’ve lived that. Didn’t bother me overmuch.
The nipple part, I mean.
Someone in my development had a fancy printed sign on their lawn congratulating their kid (I assume) on graduating pre-school.
*facepalm*
Xe managed to eat the correct colors of crayons and most of the paste?
Nope, that would mean xe took xir mask off, or something.
Heh.
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed plague of bunions in medieval Britain
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/uoc-ffp060821.php