Hello, I am Zhero, this is my XO Whan, and our assistants Dgu and Trey, may we come aboard? And then they were there, right in front of us in my Stateroom, with a holographic image of Titania in the center of the group. We have seen these before, but never in such great detail.
To Cat and the Crew of the Leopard and Moria, greetings! There is much to discuss, and many things we can share, we are an explorer race, when we found what you call Titania we were as shocked as you, never in nature does this occur, and we have been searching for the answer ever since.
1k years and you don’t know what you are dealing with? Aren’t you like Interstellar travelers? How do you not know? Oh we know what they are, we just don’t know who, or why they would go to such links to protect,… I have said too much, I need to consult with my Superiors, we will contact you in one Earth cycle, and then they were gone.
What in Mars Gates was that? We have almost no info to go on except for the one thing nagging at me. Seamus, what do you think they meant when they said protect? protect who? from what? “I don’t rightly know Cat, but it appears they have almost no defensive capabilities, I estimate 5 minutes tops to blow them from the sky” No Seamus, not yet, we need to do this right, keep your boys ready and those plans of yours at hand, we may need em.
Funeral for a traitor
“Cat we just had an unplanned egress at airlock 4, one soul out, presumed lost” Get on it Now!
What the hell just happened? I thought as I ran to the airlock, then I saw Seamus, ashen faced, as if he had been spaced. Seamus, what happened? He held up 2 S4 shaped charges, “Cat I know you were smitten by the lass, but she were a spy and saboteur, my boy Calvin found her planting these in the reactor room, Woulda destroyed the ship for certain.” You spaced Angelique? With no evidence that she did this? But I knew better, we have plenty of video and telemetry, and why would Seamus lie about such a thing? Jealousy? hardly, he made the right move, but damned if I wasn’t fooled by the lady, probably CCP, now I have no Disc partner, they really do hate me.
Truth be told
They arrived on time in the stateroom, only Zhero and his XO this time which was fine with me, it gets cramped in here. Time to explain Cat, you see, the Titania are located in the Oort cloud at very specific points, and have a type of variable gravity, which is constantly changing, your own ships have compensated for this according to our data. Great, they are scanning us. We also know that they are not solid Titanium, they merely mimic the element.
As time progressed, we noted a lack of disturbed orbits around each anomaly and realized that they were keeping the Oort objects from crashing into the Solar System. Granted, a few get through every cycle but it appears to be a robust defence, Humans need this Cat, there are abundant riches in the cloud, and we will point them out to you, but under no circumstances are you to attempt to mine the Anomalies, or suffer the penalties, oh no! Not from us, from them.
The devil you know
The Tuyani, true to their word, showed us some valuable rocks that Seamus lassoed and sent homeward, so the Boys were happy, then the fun began, if you want to call it that. It seems as though the CCP were headed toward an Anomaly themselves, and the Tuyani had no defences, WTF? Zhero, what are you doing with no defence? We were hoping you could help Cat, the CCP is moving on several Anomalies, with hopes of taking them. They will be sadly mistaken, but this will shake up the Cloud in unknown ways, we need to stop it, now.
To be continued
Aaand my formatting didn’t take, Damn you WordPress!
I had assumed the free-flow of words was meant as an extra challenge to the reader! 🙂
Takes a little effort, but it’s clear enough who’s saying what.
To be continued…
Adventures…..in…..space! Thanks for these Yusef.
Now Yus has to figure out how to work Miss Piggy into the story.
a fat chick? Tres isn’t in the story,
Even Yusef’s biggest super heavy yet, could not get Tres’s 5 fat chicks into orbit.
Needz moar thrust, Cap’n, we’re giving it all it’s got!
Even Elon’s advanced fusion drives can;t lift em all!
Tres has got to help lighten the load and get adventurous and seek out Space Fat Chicks.
thanks for the story
Oort Cloud and Space MILFS, baby!
Y’all find any spice out there?
Not yet, I’ll see what happens next,
i never thought to kill off a character, it turns out to be fun! adds an element to the Tale,
How can you have a proper space novela without killing off characters?
I had this fucked up nightmare a while ago. I just decided to take a nap because I had to push some updates to prod at 8pm. So I lay down at 4pm and then about 5:30pm, my wife woke me up and was saying ‘hey, wake up, are you OK?’. Apparently I was screaming ‘Help me, help me and some other sort of unintelligible horrified stuff’. A moment later I remembered the nightmare. It was just all fucked up you know, but the gist of it was I for some reason had to enter this abandoned building and was just trying to find my way back out when I opened this door to another room and there was this dark demonic entity in there who started to attack me and I couldn’t get away from it. Jeebus *shudder*, I haven’t had a nightmare like that in as long as I can remember. I scared my wife half to death. This is what working at night does to your brain.
I have a recurring nightmare. I have dreams that the country is being run by a dementia patient and a hooker.
Sometimes it can take years to recover from the mental trauma that forms that kind of dream.
I hate to break it to you, Kinnath. That’s not a dream.
Waking nightmare?
I hate waking nightmares, I have them all the time, I’m insane,
You sound super stressed out 🙁
Not really. I do have occasional anxiety. But that dream was a real outlier. Crazy, no idea what the fuck that was all about.
I have noticed lately that I don’t think I’m sleeping well enough. And when I had that dream, I had of course fallen into one of those super deep sleeps that you typically get intense dreams in. I wish it would have been hookers and blow and not some shit demon monster.
I probably need to start getting more sleep, planning on mentioning that to my doctor.
Not dreaming would be a relief, but I hear it’s bad for one.
Oblig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk0mJSTatbw
*doctor writes prescription for sleep study, CPAP machine vendor alerted*
I’ll also be sure to tell my doctor if I get an erection that lasts more than 4 hours.
Remember to take some pics.
In the rare case your erection lasts more than 24 hours, call your friends and brag about it
Oh, you have no idea,
Hate to hear it brah. I know it sucks, I have night terrors, so it’s a pretty frequent occurrence with me.
I used to sit up bolt upright in the middle of the night, still sleeping, when stressed. Freaked my GF right out. I haven’t had a really bad nightmare since I left my extremely stressful job about 10 years ago.
About 2 weeks ago, I had the most incredibly realistic sex dream maybe ever. It was amazing. I’d like to have more of those.
“About 2 weeks ago, I had the most incredibly realistic sex dream maybe ever. It was amazing. I’d like to have more of those.”
They should make some sort of remote tuner where you get to select those. Having bad dream? Change the channel!
One of the many, many perks of the Culture that I wish we had.
I’m convinced that once, during a particularly stressful time, I sleep wrote a gibberish email to my entire department. I blamed it on my phone being compromised, but I never found any indication that it was, and the issue never happened again.
What was that sleep medicine that was making celebrities shitpost all over the internet?
Trumpolactin?
I’m being serious. Am I the only one who remembers that? It was a real thing, where celebrities would shitpost and instead of apologizing and groveling, they would blame it on [drug name] posting.
Ambien
“Ambien”
Thank you. I need some for an excuse for everything. OK, who are we kidding. I’m a shitpost and never apologize.
Ambien does have a lot of weird reported side effects.
Blacked-out eating is apparently common. “Who the hell ate the whole pie that was in the refrigerator?!”
Homer Simpson hardest hit.
I hear it’s that plus any milliliter or more of alcohol.
All of these tales sound like partial “seizures” in the temporal lobe.
Hear me out: everyone has a “seizure threshold” where brain electrical activity can cause a seizure. Also, seizures do NOT always mean the “crappie flop” grand mal physical convulsions that people imagine a seizure always is.
No, a seizure is unusual rhythmic (vs random looking) brain electrical activity in a part of the brain. If it’s the whole brain, then yeah you get the full body tonic-clonic no memory seizure.
But far more common is the “partial” seizure, confined to one part of the brain, like the temporal lobe, left or right.
One of the biggest triggers for seizures in the temporal lobe is sleep deprivation. “Normals” can get a temporal lobe seizure if stress and sleep deprivation are sufficiently prolonged. Deja Vu is a temporal lobe seizure, albeit a brief one.
So to recap, everyone has a seizure threshold. What makes people with epilepsy different is that ours is lower than that of normal people.
Also, hypergraphia (writing a ton non-stop) is part of temporal lobe epilepsy. So if you get an eeg, particularly if your doc is smart enough to order a “sleep deprived” eeg, you might learn some interesting things.
Like this? sheesh! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/mediaviewer/rm2007956993/
A-fucking-men.
At times in my life when I’ve been extremely stressed, I have this weird thing happen where I wake up with this unshakeable feeling like I need to do something very urgently, like a bunch of people are waiting for me to take care of something. I would often sit up and look around the room for two minutes or so, sometimes even getting up and walking around before I realize that I’m just up in the middle of the night for no reason.
Another very strange dream experience: A couple of months ago, my girlfriend’s dad was actively dying so we spent pretty much all the time we could at the hospital. I laid down in a recliner in one of those family rooms, put a COVID mask over my eyes, and popped my headphones in with Dvorak’s New World Symphony to drown out the noise of everyone else talking. I quickly drifted off to sleep. At the beginning of the second movement, I had this dream that I was standing on a mountainside looking down on the most gorgeous nature scene: Grey snow-capped mountains surrounded by lush forests, waterfalls and rivers running throughout, deer stopping on the banks to drink, flocks of birds soaring through the sky… In the dream, the beauty was more than I could comprehend, and I cried tears of joy. I woke up with actual tears in my eyes (it’s unusual because I don’t recall ever crying other than from sadness or anger).
The Devil You Know
/Ted’s
Meh,
That’s 1000% better than 97.6% of Ted’s links.
I’ve pretty much been convinced for a very long time that MikeS and Ted are indeed the same person.
Hateful.
‘They’ made me do it.
Are you drunk?
Thank you.
Which brings us to this.
Ha! Excellent follow up.
I like Todd Snider, but have only scratched the surface. His Jerry Jeff Walker tribute on SXM was very touching. I’ve been meaning to listen to more Todd, but only so may hours in the day.
He’s a bleeding heart lib but he writes a damn good song, If you haven’t yet, check out his double live album “The Storyteller” some great songs and some hilarious between song banter/stories. The one about being on the football team is great.
Will do. Speaking of bleeding-heart lefties I put up with to listen to their music, James McMurtry is very good. Very much in the same vein as Snider. But, I assume you know that already.
The devil I know.
If you’re going to steal someone’s sound why would you chose U2? Unless these guys came first, in which case they should sue U2, and then never make any music again and issue a blanket apology to everyone who had to listen to the Edge do that two note reverb/echo/whatever effect thing he beat like a dead horse for twenty plus years.
Super tolerant liberals
Jesus. It’s been forever since I looked at Rolling Stone. This is a reminder why.
The question that should be asked is why were none of his past transgressions a big deal until now…
You get a 20 year free pass if your toddler falls out a 6th story window?
Sure, as long as you write a Grammy Award winning song about it.
But don’t make a joke about a Clapton toddler falling out a whatever story window.
Call for references.
Lumberjacks don’t belong in space,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRdur8GLBM
Dude, don’t you even shitlord? How are you going to chop down the biggest tree on the forest in every new planet you discover? I mean for fun and profit.
I hire Companies to do it for me, Logs express is my go to company when I need a log on time!
Greetings, Yusuf, I am Fore from the disc world where golf is king! And I give you a high five for bringing us this tale.
As with being a Glib, if you disc, you are my friend,
Thanks!
I just want the reports of how disc golf works on exoplanets.
I did do a report recently, I’ll provide an update,
Cool.
Ahhh, now is the Thundertime, let’s hope for some big ones!
Lameala
Cool how photoshop can even edit out the largest reverse goiters.
Too bad they didn’t get an actor to play the part of the vice president.
They couldn’t find any actors that bad?
They couldn’t find any humans that bad.
Disgusting
Hilarious. She couldn’t get less serious if she tried.
Yeah, I do that every time I look up at a moon that’s at any phase other than new.
BREAKING NEWS!
Jon Gruden is no longer coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.
You are really joking, yes???
No
Please tell me it’s because of some poor play calling and not some racist #MeToo shit?
Because if not, he’ll be headcoach of the Bucs next week and they’ll win another Superbowl.
They went through all his emails and he’s — you know — a dumb jock in more ways than that. Sexist,”homophobic”, etc.
He could’ve easily weathered this storm though I think. No one gives a shit about the New York Times anymore.
He just wanted out.
He just wanted out of a 100 million dollar contract?
That contact was insane – maybe Marc came to his senses and saw a way out
Apparently. I mean the media would’ve talked about this for weeks, but would any paying football fans give a shit? Not if he didn’t suck ass as a coach.
Marc didn’t come to his senses. He has a huge man crush on Gruden.
Gruden doesn’t suck as a coach. You could blame the loos to SD on bad play calling. But last week, I sat here and watched Edwards and Waller drop passes that we right on target.
This has nothing to so with bad coaching. It’s just the further deterioration of the NFL into a woke shithole.
Ok then
He wanted out or got fired? There is probably an eight figure difference in the outcome.
No, he’s toast. He will never work in football again.
I mean, he called Goodell a faggot, FFS.
I give him points for that at least.
I heard he bad mouthed Obama – an unforgivable sin
He should have just called Goodell a fucking idiot for accuracy.
Yeah. Is that his only “homophobic” comment? cause privately using that language like we did as kids… while certainly not appropriate .,. doesn’t mean he actually hates gays. He just hates Goodell. Like a sensible dude.
Apparently he didn’t want “queers” in the NFL, either.
I mean, he’s probably a jerk but the NFL got a queer anyway so BFD.
who
Chuckie.
John was a grad student during my UT years; I never heard of him.
But everyone knew Cindy
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6AXusmCYAAqhJs?format=jpg&name=small
Holy shit. A couple lines in some emails 10 years ago. Not even an NFL employee at the time.
The NFL is beyond repair. Fuck them.
*shrug* I’m having a hard time getting worked up about it. Does anybody think the NFL isn’t woke at this point? As soon as it broke, I knew he was gonna be fired. It’s probably information somebody in the org has had for a long time and they chose the right time to publicize it to give cover to firing the guy.
yeah. I mean that was a horrible loss over the weekend.
I will miss his big white honky lips.
I think you are Silly People,
Enjoy!
Holy shit! https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter
The left are a bunch of depraved degenerates. Prove me wrong.
Steve is all right. He gave me a beer once.
paywall
And a sophisticated one, at that.
Yeah, you can’t even ctrl-A ctrl-C as the page is loading to get the text.
oh wait, yes you actually can. huh
OMG. I didn’t know that worked. Thanks db!
All the best porn is.
Not possible. This never actually happens.
From the couple of paragraphs I was able to read before the paywall hit, he was trying to bring up what happened, right after the school board had stated outright that there had never been such an incident, after they knew that a student had been charged with forcible sodomy weeks earlier allegedly for doing that to his daughter.
Then, another person at the meeting tried to contradict him and he lost his temper, then got his ass beat and arrested, and never got to tell the real story at the meeting.
Sounds like a coverup, but a particularly inept one, to me. Maybe there’s more info further down in the article.
In any case, it’s evil that the school board would cover it up and knowingly prevent him from talking.
I was being facetious but yes.
I mean the funniest part of the “it never happens” argument is we only have a window of a few years in a few places.
This is evil.
PSICA
I can’t figure out what that means.
Public school.is child abuse
ah. no argument here.
Juvenile records are sealed, but Scott’s attorney, Elizabeth Lancaster told The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio, related to an incident that day at that school.
A shooting offense
Get this:
This guy went way beyond the level of forgiveness that most people could offer.
I suspect this is how the Catholic Church was able for so many decades to cover up their abuses. I happen to know that in my parish growing up, one family was cajoled, coerced, and finally convinced to keep it secret in the best interests of the community.
I hesitate to call people evil, but damn…if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…
and fucks like a duck…
Trans rights activists want to give male sex offenders access to female inmates. They’re offering up confined victims to convicted victimizers because to do otherwise would raise questions they’d rather not consider. Of course they don’t care if your precious teenage daughter is raped in the school bathroom.
This is so dumb and does not make me laugh.
This gives you more: https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-girls-in-bathroom/98901433/
I had a conversation with a trans gender bathroom activist a year or two ago about such a situation. Her comment was that girls have showered for years, without complaint, with lesbians who looked at their naked bodies with lust, and boys had showered with gay guys who had done the same. (Yeah, but we once beat up a guy – presumably gay – who used to walk around in the gym showers and ‘check you out.” ) I guess her point was that Americans had never objected to being seen naked by same gender folks as long as their sexual impulses were kept under control, and that therefore straight guys should be allowed to take showers with straight girls as long as they didn’t touch them. I don’t think the guys would mind.
That is the aggressive retardation that insists it’s okay for a man to beat the shit out of women as long as he identified as female six seconds before the fight.
I’ll take my chances with a rapist gay dude making the rounds in the locker room. I don’t want my nieces taking theirs with a rapist straight dude who pretends to be, maybe even imagines himself to be, a woman.
See autogynephilia.
Was Buffalo Billism considered?
Um… glosses over the fact that a man in a dress is not, actually, a woman.
So hurtful
What is it?
Your social norms are bougie. After the revolution, we won’t even be sexually aroused by genitalia.
That is fucking enraging. The left is actually losing their minds. A raped 15 year old girl is apparently just collateral damage.
This made me laugh. So dumb.
That has to be one of the dumbest fucking things I’ve ever seen. And that’s saying a lot.
They need jobs or owners, Dog behaviour……
You mad.
So dumb. And yet I was laughing.
That is a good test for finding people who takes themselves too seriously.
That dude who was ready to throw down is clearly an asshole
Yes. I could see myself giving an eye roll or a flipping a little birdie if they caught me in a bad mood, but the stare down and door opening was WAY over the top. He’ll likely end up in jail or the hospital before he’s 30.
Eye roll would be my bad-mood limit
Mine would be *in 80’s high school girl’s voice*: “Reeeeal Machure!”
How dare you make a light hearted joke?
The rain is going Apeshit right now, they called for 1 to 3 inches tonight, Imma go for at least 3, quite the display,
https://archive.is/7NZhK/5995421ed4c4f18d208857983af5af0f7d466448.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/zdUD8/c44e6bf56e0a183a381ab62d5b0027c7428b8e37.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/eNTif/0e9d308520b1da457032b0283bc5ec9b144a4edc.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/to9rX/bb6b5ae5a5be19e6fdf34d4a085ae788c12c6726.jpg
NSFW.
even
can’t
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By noon tomorrow I will be shed of these ulcers. Sadly, tomorrow is Tuesday and Tuesdays have never really been kind to me, so I’m thinking I should have chosen a Thursday. Thursdays are nice.
Go get well, Mo! Imma dust off my praying ability and say one for you.
Thank you! I am terribly excited to get these things gone.
Something something never got the hang of Thursdays.
I appreciate Thursdays for their almost-over-with-ness.
Good luck and speedy healing, Mojeaux
Good luck to you and may it all go well!
Godspeed. Wish I could get rid of the things giving me ulcers, but that damn commandment forbids it.
W00t!
I hope things go well.
Huzzah!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
I’ll be thinking of you this morning!
That call against the Red Sox was utter bullshit. They want this to go 5 games.
Woot! Sox win! On to the ALCS.
I was really not expecting that.
Yes! Go White Sox!!!!
We could see some hot Sox on Sox action.
Wait a minute… is baseball about to get interesting?
Probably not
Oh. Didn’t know the White Sox were in it. Go Sox’x
Every action the government takes can be explained to children by telling them the story of the old lady who swallowed a fly.
I don’t know why you would say that.
Who’s with me? Time to go post libertarian and win. Once you give up that pesky “Don’t use violence against peaceful people” thingy, a bunch of new opportunities arise.
Tempting… but no.
The GOP has a lock on the graceful loser ticket, so what we Libertarians need to do to differentiate ourselves is be a much less compelling knockoff Democrat party. We’ll exploit the vacuum created by the left-of-center and extremely-left-of-center duopoly by being more left-of-center than the left-of-center party but marginally less left-of-center extreme party, and we’ll rake in maybe four or even six percent of the vote.
Freedom is a shitty message. Revealed preference: people don’t like it.
I don’t care if they like it. I’m going to make it more painful for them to try and deny it to me rather than just leaving me alone.
Paul Harrell got a haircut and pulled an old footlocker out of the attic in place of his usual hunting jacket.
So this morning I made my pour over coffee at 95 instead of the usual 90 C and it does seem a slightly more intense taste I will do 95 for a few days see if I should switch
Good morning glibs.
Morning, Pie.
I mean, if you say so. I just got home from the office.
I mean it is dark outside but morning dark not evening dark.
My current grind (a “house dark”) is pretty intense already so I think I’ll wait until I have weaker one to up my regular temp.
Mornin’.
I always use light roast Kenyan or Ethiopian coffee and I read online when I googled that lighter roasts can use a higher temp
Lighter roast, hotter water, would be my suggestion. I’m working a medium roast Peruvian that is excellent. Unfortunately, when it’s gone, it’s gone. No more where it came from.
I just wait until the water boils. You guys are awfully accurate.
Heathen.
Unless you have done a legit blind taste test, I’m not buying that it makes a big difference. My buddies and I do blind beer testing every Saturday night. It’s amazing how far off we are in terms of what we thought we liked and what the test reveals.
Fair enough. It would be interesting. Not sure how to put together a test of coffee brewed at different temps, though.
You’d have to get someone to make 4 or 5 different styles for you and then run the test a few times on different days I suppose. Then again, if you think you like it the way you are making it now, then that’s the way you like it.
The Technivorm delivers 205 degree water.
The results are in. Same grind, same amount of water, same pouring technique, 200F instead of 175F.
Vast improvement.
Excellent!
The First That Will Change Everything feeds on my very being. It takes from me, so that it may give to the world when the time comes. All the energy I would dedicate to Firsts are being sucked in, day by day, so that you, the Glibertariat, may experience the euphoria of utopia. The time inches ever closer. I am in pain. So much pain. But from my being, my very essence, will come the force that will…change everything.
Message for you.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShitPostHOF/status/1444019202755530759
Savage.
You can speak to the Great Firster who has blessed me with this gift. You denialist homo.
Good Lord! That’s still up?
Seen in the wild, while browsing Indeed
No mention of measles, mumps, rubella, polio, diphtheria? Why not?
It’s almost as if it’s a political or virtue signaling thing rather than a health thing…
I kind of want to design fancy collars very much in the cat/dog style with tags that say Vaccinated on one side and “against rabies” on the other.
Or maybe just my name on the front and COVID Vaccine current. Property of US Govt on back.
Don’t forget the expiration date!
Or varicella! Natural immunity thru exposure to chicken pox isn’t valid!
I really love the last line that reasonable accommodations will be considered. Let me try a similar line
“Whites only. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race or any other protected characteristic.”
Totes ok, right?
Statist brains asplode…
I should be asleep because I have to get up in 4 hours but this garbage hotel room is garbage. I’d like to thank in person the asshole who thought a flashing smoke detector right above the bed was a great idea. Low end business hotels have ceased to be enjoyable. The trend was happening before covid, but it’s really gone in the shitter now.
Walked by the breakfast nook and there’s signs about wearing gloves to serve your own food from the buffet. ?♂️
I leave a roll of black electrical tape in each of my suitcases so I don’t have to remember to pack them. The purpose is to place them over all LEDs on detectors and whatnot.
Also a clothespin for the inevitable gap between curtains.
It’s on the ceiling, so not accesible.
I hate hate hate that stupid gap. And I hate put a clip on it too. Do better curtain industry!
Mayb if you can stand the feeling of something on your face all night, a sleep mask? I hated them at first but eventually got used to a CPAP so now a breathable eye mask is no problem.
Diphenhydramine does wonders also.
I feel for you though. Sometimes a hotel room just isn’t conducive to sleep, yet we’re often there to do business the next day, bright eyed and bushy-tailed.
If you have a cell phone and a comfy sleep headphones headband, a good book on sleep timer or a rainstorm all night can help too.
My new job is supposed to be 50% travel for the first 6 months so I’m dusting off all my tricks.
Be careful carrying stuff like that, you may be singled out as a domestic terrorist.
That reminds me of the time that I got stopped going through security at Austin Straubel (Green Bay) airport because something on the x-ray looked like a block of plastic explosive to the guard.
It was cheese.
A block of cheese that I had purchased in the cheese shop not 100 yards from the security checkpoint.
morons.
Welcome to the East Bloc, comrade. You should be thankful for what you’ve got.
Question for the Glibs who were adults during the Carter administration: was it the same as now, back then? Worse? Better?
We did, as a nation, swing back better. I just want some hope to cling to.
Worse now than then. It was pretty shitty with stagflation, the “misery index”, a person obviously not us for the job as POTUS (like today), and remains of disco carried on. But we still had the buzz from the Bicentennial and pride in America for 200 years, most people thought things would get better even if they weren’t sure just how; and the arts were not dominated by “wokeitude” and recycling of earlier movies etc. We were in the Cold War and the USSR looked pretty scary, but we were not dependent on them economically. Plus as bad as a president Carter was (and he was terrible) he did deregulate the beer, rail and airline industries which would improve life until IPA’s became overhopped, and because of standards of passenger service one wished they were getting on Greyhound instead of most US airlines.
Today the crazy left ideas of student radicals are discussed as serious policy options, the corpse of Marxism has broken free of the grave because of the “western” left across the world, the idea of personal autonomy is regarded as evil by many, too many people find freedom as scary and want mommy and daddy government to “protect me and hurt them”.
But on the positive side of the ledger- information travels much more easily now, Eastern Europe is free, the specter of nuclear war involving the US is lower than then, the private space industry is taking baby steps, life for teh gays and women is much less restrained by law and cultural norms, and disco remains moribund outside of YT.
Good god, I’m glad someone else recognizes this. It’s like making chili with an absurd amount of heat that overpowers every other flavor, then someone else tries to add even more heat, and pretty soon chili just burns your mouth off and tastes of literally nothing else.
That sums it up well
I absolutely love hops, but what has happened to IPAs in the US is a tragedy. It’s exactly like you say–make the hot sauce as hot as you can as a competition, not to make a flavorful and enjoyable product.
Wasn’t it Reagan that de-regulated phone services and broke up Ma Bell ?
I think it happened during his term but the groundwork was laid earlier.
No, the court case started in the mid 70’s. AT&T was quite happy at the end to dump the albatross Bell operating companies (local telephone service) so they could make bank in the lucrative computer equipment, information services, and long distance. Didn’t quite work out the way they thought it would.
If you read “Raven Rock,” there is some interesting information in there that supports the argument that the US gov blocked and slow played the breakup because of the very secret emergency ground-based communications systems that were built to survive a nuclear war, and surreptitiously funded and disguised as civilian comms. Breaking up that monopoly would have made it vastly more difficult to maintain the secrecy of those systems. It wasn’t until satellite comms became robust enough to abandon the hard wires in most places that the breakup was allowed to proceed, according to the author.
Thank you for the thoughtful answer, Dbleagle.
“the idea of personal autonomy is regarded as evil by many, too many people find freedom as scary and want mommy and daddy government to “protect me and hurt them”.”
I have to believe that the pendulum will swing back—it’s our only hope. But with public education and journalism being what they are right now, I’m not sure brains are growing the neural pathways needed to process reality.
There is a certain amount of ugliness in the possibility of some poorly articulated backlash when that pendulum swings back. Human nature being what it is, some of those who are ideologicaly in favor of freedom have some pretty big blind spots when it comes to their own (our own?) prejudices and assumptions. I don’t believe that describes us Glibs in any massively significant way, although we too are only human, but it is worth thinking about. There will be a return to factions, too (not that it’s ever an extreme one way or the other) should the common adversaries no longer be perceived pose such an existential threat.
Perhaps there will be a return to school board meetings like that scene from Field of Dreams? Vintage “so-con”. I really don’t know how representative that is of those days.
pendulum swings back
It seems to me that overtime this happens, another chunk of personal freedom is sliced out of the middle class. The ratchet just keeps on clicking.
…every time…
Yeah, I still remember when my Dad told me, when I was in elementary school, that the pendulum swings. In the 40+ years since, I’ve observed it never fully swings back to the right.
I was a kid during those years, so the things that affect me now didnt resonate back then. But I do remember Tres Sr. constantly bitching about prices of goods and services. And Mama Tres cursing under her breath at the grocery over food prices.
How YOU doin’ ?
A little of both, mostly better. Cost of healthcare was still reasonable, so less fear of unemployment. It was possible to discuss issues in a somewhat civil manner. Punk on the rise, disco on the decline. On the downside, stagflation and gas rationing. I’ll never forget running out of gas coming back from Atlantic City and pushing my friend’s car 2 miles up the Turnpike to get our 2 gallon allotment at the next rest stop. You were allowed to purchase fuel on alternate days based on your license plate (odd/even). Fun times.
FTFY.
I don’t know if the windows you can’t open is an American innovation or worldwide now, but it’s an abomination.
Good morning!
Good morning., limey! Cheers and all that rot.
Toodle pip!
Here goes Matthew McConaughey making me like him. On Joe Rogan talking about being a Christian in Hollywood.
https://www.prageru.com/video/matthew-mcconaughey-calls-out-hollywoods-condescending-far-left
I care less about the religiosity and more about him standing up as a free man. He seems a cool guy to play some eight-ball with.
Good one. I did not know McConaughey was an apostate. Good on him.
This is developing well, Yusef. Something put me in mind of Freecloud from the non-canon* Patrick Stewart vehicle that is Star Trek: Picard. I sort of liked the idea to include such a place in the Star Trek universe. I was surprised the ship didn’t have an ad blocker installed.
I’m not a huge fan of that part. I’d be interested to read about a fictional “libertarian” planet written from a sympathetic point of view.
*IMO
Sounds like “You serve, you vote”. Not a new concept and one that I haven’t much argument with so long as the servers have autonomy to not vote at all.
Would you like to know more?
The Donovan series by W. Michael Gear has a bit of that, It’s only a colony/expedition/outpost that gets abandoned and organize themselves in a fairly libertarian manner but it’s not a planet wide advanced society with cities, industries and such, so small scale.
He’s the guy that writes the books with his wife about placebo Native American culture. Fuck him.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/10/11/wawa-self-checkout-kiosks-61-stores/
How’s that fight for $15 working out for ya?
Looks like the long lines at the drive-thru and every employee is South Asian. “You go to work! Support the Family!” All the white kids are diddling their phones.
As much as that makes me laugh, the end result will be UBI and higher payroll taxes to pay for it. Fuck that.
Yeah, we used to put people out of work to find something better. Too often they just sit around now.
With no daddy around, and mommy telling them they’re so special and entitled, that’s what they are enabled to do. Gimme. Gimme. Gimme.
https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/29/squid-game-what-is-the-korean-drama-series-set-to-become-netflix-s-biggest-show-ever
I was told yesterday that this is just see tv. Glibs opinion?
I’ve watched 3 or 4 episodes, I will most likely finish the series but I could also see myself never getting back around to it, so… It’s okay-ish, nothing compelling that you’ll be excited for the next episode but if you have an hour to kill and nothing better to do, go for it. If you haven’t already seen it Midnight Mass is a better Netflix show IMHO.
Looked incredibly silly to me but what the hell would I know?
Definitely not must see, but we enjoyed it. The dubbing is pretty bad, but we’ve been enjoying several badly dubbed foreign shows lately. It’s comedic in a way. Nice little twist at the end. I will give the second season a go.
Some parts are good. Some parts are….why? Section about the doctor makes no sense.
They just did MXC, only with Koreans this time.
Only watched the first episode and reminded me of Battle Royale.
Which like MXC, starred Beat Takeshi
Watch The Good, The Bad, and The Weird instead.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/world/bosnian-builds-rotating-house-to-give-wife-better-views/video_39edb138-4395-52e7-985b-4fe30d581828.html
Too fast.
Video loads but doesn’t play. Just how fast are we talking?
Good morning, Sean 🙂
Looks like you could easily walk along with it so 2mph maybe.
*barfs out the winder*
Mornin’ limey and the rest of y’all.
2nd try on the video: https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/10/11/rotating-house-bosnia-herzegovina-lon-orig-tp.cnn-business
/Eww….CNN…
Too fast for a good drinking binge, IMO.
Mornin’ Glibs! Remember how I bitched four days ago about the price of gas jumping 80 cents/gallon just before the long weekend? Yesterday it fell back to where it has been for months. Stay home, stay safe, stay alone. Unbelievable. They aren’t even trying, anymore. Good on the airline hoi-polloi for fighting the good one. We need much more of this.
Mornin’!
Price of gas: good
Airlines: good
Keep smiling!
Unhappy about being right all of the time. Smiles and chuckles are few and far between but thanks for the well-wish!
Good morning, Fes, ‘patzie, et al! I continue to be glad I’ve not had to travel by commercial airline since 1983. I’ve been up in my BIL’s small plane enjoying the scenery of far western NY state, but otherwise I’ve kept my feet (and/or tires) on the ground.
1983? Wow, and I thought I was an infrequent flyer. I’ve flown once since 1999, to attend a funeral in FL 3 years ago. I do not expect to fly again.
It is time. Ulcers, begone!
Onward! Here’s hoping that there are no more ulcers in your future.
::salutes:: We’re all pulling for you!
Ive been up all night cooking anything that wont move, out of boredom. (The Dozer is safe)
2 more beers and I may deliver some food to your hood, if I can keep 1 eye shut.
Cut away the evil! And enjoy your drugs!
I just made some dope curry shrimp that has a bit of heat, that Id love to share with your newly re-lined gastro….something.
Best wishes.
You know things are bad when you view a hospital stay as a vacation.
Put some NFL on, ask for more juice with your versed/fentanyl, and you can watch football and literally shit the bed.
No shame in shitting a hospital bed, that’s what we pay them for.
Good luck, Mojo!
Good luck. Let us know how it goes.
Ooh! My version of prayer is sent to you, Mojo! Beat this thing and then write a sexy story about the experience, even if you were pretending to be asleep at the time! Doctor Buck entered the room and the the tiny Fillapina nurse felt an electric shock pulse through her loins as he ran his strong finger up her spine. Don’t worry about that silly Mormon, she’s dead to the world. We can take our time. Dr. Buck playfully flicked Isabelle’s shirt buttons open, one by one. His hands were so strong and he stood at least a foot taller than her. She dropped the tray from her hands and furtively checked the door. Soon you will belong to me “Doctor”. Soon.
Well, now you’ve already written it so I don’t have to!
I look forward to Festus’ submission to ‘Men writing women badly’.
High praise!
Sorry, got carried away.
Festus, that is disturbingly good. Might be a good career path…
Thanks! I don’t write but I’ve read literally thousands of books. I just haven’t a fresh idea to work from. Plus, I haven’t studied for forty years.
Morning, Glibs.
Mornin’, UCS. How are things in the Capitol District?
Blah.
I found the spare key to my trash can so I was able to put it to the curb.
I’m low on caffiene.
I don’t want to go to work.
I’ve got paperwork to file, but don’t know who it goes to.
Mornin’, UCS. What Ghost said.
New hire #3 showed up for her 2nd day. That’s always a good sign.
🙂
So today is “coffee-machine” day?
These euphemisms are getting too obscure.
Man, that’s a low bar.
It’s been three weeks since we approved the promotions to our department. They just got their offers yesterday. ?
You haven’t scared her away yet? Sounds like a keeper.
SMOD is on the way! Sneak preview:
https://nypost.com/2021/10/11/sleeping-canadian-woman-has-close-call-with-meteorite/
“”We called the Canyon project to see if they were doing any blasting and they weren’t, but they did say they had seen a bright light in the sky that had exploded and caused some booms,” Hamilton told the outlet.”
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…there’s a joke here, I just know it.