Sunday Morning Pre-Hanukkah Links

by | Nov 21, 2021 | Daily Links | 189 comments

 

Hanukkah is early this year, what with the lunar vs. solar calendar. Winter isn’t, though, at least not around here. We’ve had a few decent snowstorms, ice in the mornings, and chilly nights. Our dear friend, the delightful Tulip, will be joining us later this week for the festivities. Much spiked cider, some refreshing local wines, a misshapen dreidel, and we’re ready to go. She’ll meet our snowflakes, both literal and figurative, and try her best (RIGHT???) not to cause us to lose our staff. The amusement factor will be worth it.

In any case, SP and I are going to have a fun day today tasting Georgian wine and food. Not Atlanta, Tbilisi. So you kids behave yourselves after we’re out of here.

Birthdays today include a proto civil libertarian; a guy who took Chief Brody’s suggestion seriously; a guy who was not an artist; a Nobelist who could not possibly win it if he were around today; a hawk among the sparrows; the connection between the Rams and The Outer Limits; a fascinating guy who was actually married more times than I was; the greatest politician/entertainer ever, whose example should inspire contemporary government sorts; a guy who should have taken that inspiration; a guy who made me like the way I look; a woman who is deeply weird and deeply talented; a guy who makes you beg for more Joe Buck; and a guy who inspired trains and subways all over England.

Let’s do Links.

 

Nice if true. But likely not true.

 

It’s a pity the taxpayers are on the hook rather than the goon murderous cops. But that’s how it always is.

 

FUCK THAT SHIT!

 

Tilting at windmills.

 

Don’t let the door hit your wrinkled old ass on the way out.

 

Holy shit, when you think the Fooch has hit rock bottom, he says, “Hold mah hypodermic!”

 

Seriously, this can’t be parodied.”Justice-involved people.” JHTFC.

 

Nor can this. “We’re taking firm action by restricting parking!”

 

Old Guy Music features a Birthday Boy showing off the tone that launched a thousand boppers. Fuck, the Hawk was amazing.

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189 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh

  2. Sean

    Baby covid “vaccines”.

    [Redacted]

  3. The Late P Brooks

    You can’t fool me, there ain’t no Sanity Clause.

    • Tres Cool

      LIkely one of my favorite Marx Bros. bits.

    • Cy Esquire

      Oh there is. We refer to it often as the 2nd amendment.

      • Gender Traitor

        [golf clap]

  4. The Late P Brooks

    She’ll meet our snowflakes, both literal and figurative, and try her best (RIGHT???) not to cause us to lose our staff. The amusement factor will be worth it.

    Whatever you do, don’t tell them 2+2=4, in all cases, always and everywhere.

  5. Not Adahn

    My best friend won’t come to visit me until her first child (who is currently less than two) is vaccinated. I didn’t begin to contradict her because she’s his parent and I’m not.

    Principles are hard.

    • anti pro state

      In most cases, principles are non-existant or incoherent. My wife’s best friend won’t let my wife come visit her newborn because I am not vaccinated, even though my wife is. Also, the new mother is an elementary school teacher who has been working up until leave, so tons of direct exposure to, gasp, unvaccinated kids.

  6. Tulip

    The shop owners on having parking restricted: “stop helping”

    • Fourscore

      You are not allowed to ransack my store because you are illegally parked and put down that gun

      /school marm voice

      • Annoyed Nomad

        Sign in window: “Looters must have validated parking”

    • Tulip

      And now it’s harder for actual customers.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    “Hopefully within a reasonably short period of time, likely the beginning of next year in 2022, in the first quarter of 2022, it will be available to them,” the White House coronavirus adviser told Insider.

    And, hopefully, you will die an agonizing meaningless death in a botched street crime.

    • westernsloper

      Nice.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Nice. Only a true artist could make me look at Kamala and smile.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Jack Krieger
      @JackKrieger20
      ·
      17m
      Replying to
      @BarrettWilson6
      The images repeat to create the mosaic. If you look closely you can see the same men used multiple times across the pic of vp

      I’m too lazy to fact check this but even if it’s true it still doesn’t excuse the behavior.

      • The Hyperbole

        It’s another case of where what some lefties did was bad enough but the right goes overboard and distorts and lies about what happens, so now unfortunately people have an excuse to ignore the actual bad because the lies are easily debunked.

        What Harris and her office did was fight a supreme court order to release non-violent inmates early, but not releasing early does not equal holding past release date (and they ultimately failed and the ordered decarceration began) The jail labor thing stems from her lawyers arguing that they couldn’t let some people out (again early not after erving their full time) because they were needed to work on fire fighting crews, but that was also unsuccessful (and Harris claimed, when it was reported that she had no knowledge of it, however that is possibly just her covering her ass)

      • Trigger Hippie

        Damn you for being reasonable.

        ?

  8. rhywun

    Tilting at windmills.

    Why don’t they just meekly comply? It’s the American way, if what I’m seeing not happen in our most-locked down areas is accurate.

  9. PieInTheSky

    I don’t get traffic in this city. everyone driving everywhere all the time. stay home goddamnit. How can they afford the gas?

    Just had to fill up and 6 goddamn american dollars per one goddamn american gallon. fuck sakes.

    • slumbrew

      If it makes you feel better, my brother sent a picture of his gas receipt yesterday – $5.9999 a gallon for 16 gallons.

      $1 extra a gallon for full service (self serve was backed up or something) plus another $1.50 or so per gallon because he was on a highway and FYTW.

      • Gender Traitor

        Where was this?

      • slumbrew

        NY, route 110 (not really even a highway)

      • Ghostpatzer

        NY, route 110

        Ah, memories. Our wedding reception was held at the Harbor Club in Huntington, north end of that highway.

      • slumbrew

        My hometown. I ate many an breakfast sandwich from the deli across from the Harbor Club (that’s gone now, btw)

      • cyto

        And “there are full service lanes????”

      • l0b0t

        The low octane at our local is $3.47, the diesel is $3.46… What a country.

      • Tres Cool

        In my experience (Ram2500 Cummins), diesel prices tend about a week or 10 days behind gasoline.
        Im no Krugman, but Id say it was due to demand.

      • Sean

        Ouch.

    • Rat on a train

      It is $3.09 in my area.

  10. Ghostpatzer

    ” At The Hague, Voltaire fell in love with a French Protestant refugee named Catherine Olympe Dunoyer (known as ‘Pimpette’).”

    Plying her wares in a candy-apple red El Dorado.

  11. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Sorry to go OT, but am hoping for some help. I’m stumped and DuckDuckDuck Go is turning up nothing.

    I had a partial clog in the toilet that was finally resolved yesterday after we cut out the pipe and removed a large toy that a child had dropped down an open line during the renovation. Pipe goes down from the toilet to an elbow in the basement and then out to the septic. We visually confirmed no additional obstructions in either pipe and reinstalled the toilet. Now the toilet completely clogs on the 3rd flush, every time, and I just have to wait for the water level to slowly recede over a half hour or so.

    It feels like the pipes are completely filling with water that I then have to wait to recede. How can this be happening with obstruction in the pipes? This was not happening when the pipes were partially clogged from the toy. Could it be from how the pipes were reattached after being cut?

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      How can this be happening with no obstruction in the pipes?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Your vent may be clogged, most likely a bird or birds nest, I woulr urn a snake down from the roof line to the septic, you can’t run a snake up a vent from below.

      • Cy Esquire

        That sounds non-pipe related. I’d wager you have another clog or… your septic is full of water or sediment. Have you got a lot of rain lately?

    • R.J.

      Could be. Can you check the angle of the pipes? Or are the inaccessible? The pipe may not be angled properly to run the water out anymore.

      • slumbrew

        Man, these euphemisms…

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Thanks everyone. I don’t think it’s a clogged vent or septic because this wasn’t issue until the pipes were reattached and then immediately happened. The toilet drain line connects further down to the vent, shower, and bathroom sink. The shower and bathroom sink are running fine without backing up, just the toilet.

      I went down into the basement and shook the toilet line and it’s full of water. I could hear it sloshing around. I just ran the sink and shower at full blast to see if they backed up too, but instead the toilet full of standing water water started gurgling and bubbling for maybe a minute and then suddenly drained out. The toilet appears to be flushing fine now, but that’s probably just temporary.

      The sink, shower, and vent all join up before the toilet line joins. Could it be the angle of the toilet line is now not enough for drainage from the toilet after being cut and reattached? Is that why running water sources further down the line basically sucked all of the standing water out of the toilet?

      • Sean

        Drop a m80 down the pipe. That oughta clear it up.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Let’s call that Plan E. Although I wouldn’t put it past one of the kids at this point.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Tried to reproduce and the toilet filled with standing water after several flushes that immediately drained itself out when I ran the shower and sink. I guess I’ll try making a sharper angle and see what happens. This has been helpful working through, thanks everyone.

      • westernsloper

        The toilet is not directly vented?

    • Sensei

      I’m going to echo the suggestions about the venting.

      This is also the reason I pay a plumber when I can get one. Good ones earn every cent.

  12. PieInTheSky

    It’s a pity the taxpayers are on the hook rather than the goon murderous cops. But that’s how it always is. – the taxpayers have it coming they voted the bastards. It’s libertarians who don’t deserve this, but those are few and lack the right pinions so fuck em

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Police were also forced to use water cannons to restore order. Photos showed at least one police car in flames.

    “forced”

    “order”

    Thank you for your co-operation.

    • Brawndo

      Use the water cannon on the burning police car? Naaah, let it burn, so you get a bigger budget and the newest models

  14. Tulip

    Oh, and yes, yes, I’ll behave. *pouts*

  15. PieInTheSky

    Wait bowling is still a thing? huh…

    • Nephilium

      There’s no less then four bowling alleys within 2 miles of my house.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Might as well drink Pabst if taste is no longer an issue.

      • The Hyperbole

        They just tore down the last remaining one in town here.

  16. PieInTheSky

    From Tilting at windmills.

    “”Despite more than 70% of the country being fully vaccinated, ” – it is 88% for over 18 and 85% over 12. counting under 12 is bullshit.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    “The riots and extreme violence against police officers, riot police and firefighters last night in Rotterdam are disgusting to see,” Dutch Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhaus told the wire service. “Protesting is a great right in our society, but what we saw last night is simply criminal behavior. It has nothing to do with demonstrating.”

    The panic-driven lockdowns have nothing to do with science or medicine. They are simply authoritarianism run amok.

    • ignoreLander

      Protesting is a great right in our society, but what we saw last night is simply criminal behavior. It has nothing to do with demonstrating.

      Maybe they should get a consortium of ultra-woke physicians (because we can always trust doctors!) to sign a letter saying it’s A-OK because, you know, justice.

  18. Yusef drives a Kia

    Mornin’ Glibbies, Anything blow up while I was crashed out?

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Now the toilet completely clogs on the 3rd flush, every time, and I just have to wait for the water level to slowly recede over a half hour or so.

    A venting problem, perhaps?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      ^see above, good call.

    • Tres Cool

      Its likely the thermostat.
      Duh.

      • Annoyed Nomad

        Or it’s unplugged from the electrical outlet. Maybe turn it off and on.

    • creech

      Call plumber; open favorite adult beverage.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Pour out beverage, see if it drains faster than your bank account.

  20. PieInTheSky

    Related to the music, I believe trumpet playing is fake, the sound comes from elsewhere.

    I once held a trumpet and I blew in it and it barely made any sound. Certainly not what I hear.

    • PieInTheSky

      also no one can actually play a piano that is just silly

    • Cy Esquire

      I’ve tried this with women. Results definitely varied. Usually I didn’t get the desired or expected sounds. Porn has been lying to me for years. I’d call it a conspiracy, but at this point, I just don’t care anymore.

      • slumbrew

        Pie, you need better tonguing technique to get the sounds you wanted.

        Cy, same for you.

      • Tulip

        Lol

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Check the bee cartridges. You may need fresh bees to make the buzzing sound.

  21. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    My dad is sitting on the ground in Madrid, with a “paperwork” (i.e. mechanical) issue with the flight. Just as we hung up our call, they were talking about de-boarding the plane.

    On the one hand, I may get to stay here a little longer. On the other hand, I may have to spend Thanksgiving down here. This was supposed to be my last Thanksgiving with my neighbor. She and I have had Thanksgiving together for many years running. It will break my heart if I have to miss it.

    • Tres Cool

      Do you have a pr0nhub channel ? Id like to subscribe.

  22. Rat on a train

    RIP Steve Smith

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Could it be from how the pipes were reattached after being cut?

    Or, as R J suggested, you may have lost the proper grade for flow during the repair. A low spot in the pipe could be causing a backup.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      You only need 1/8″ per foot, a lot of times an extra strap near the elbow wil fix that,

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I think so. It’s a 90 degree elbow so the horizontal toilet drain pipe running almost level before it joins up with the shower and sink. Maybe it was borderline before and the cut/reattachment lost another couple degrees.

  24. PieInTheSky

    アランこたつを片付けないで欲しい Great Pyrenees グレートピレニーズ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnOwqwOYqFM

    i dont know why youtube recommends this or why people use real letter and squiggly lines at the same time . Also it does not seem to be porn.

    • Q Continuum

      How did you get a camera inside straff’s house?

    • Not Adahn

      I thought you weren’t supposed to be barefoot on tatami.

      • Sensei

        No, that’s OK as well a socks. But you aren’t supposed to use the same house slippers you use in the rest of the house on the tatami.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    I see in the sidebar of the googlenooz the august mandarins at the NYT have another scaremongering article about how proliferation of teh Ghost Gunz is driving a massive crime wave. Anyone can buy one (no questions asked!), and they are infinitely more deadly than regular guns, you know. Because NO SERIAL NUMBER.

    • rhywun

      Just ban them. It works for viruses, right? Or it would, if we didn’t fail our leaders.

  26. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “State Board Drops ‘Sex Offender’”
    OK, rapist it is then. Seriously though, some of the laws should probably be revisited and dropped but that’s a bit much. If you rename it the new name acquires the same stigma.

    • Rat on a train

      undocumented sex partner?

      • Tres Cool

        +1 “surprise sex”

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        +2 Stealth bomber

    • Fourscore

      I read that as Skate Board, obviously too much Fox Trial news for me.

    • Urthona

      Most “sexual offenders” are for things like urinating outdoors or sexting and are way overly punished w/ permanent stigma.

      So good .

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It looks like the laws, penalties, and restrictions remain the same without any meaningful changes that I can see. Some people do deserve to be labeled with the term in my opinion but I’d argue it should be reserved for the most serious offenses and the replacement, “adults who commit sexual offenses,” isn’t really stigma removing for those people convicted of the kinds of offenses you point out.

      • Urthona

        I would just call rapists and molesters that. I think the term sex offender is designed to group people in with serious offenders.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That sounds pretty reasonable actually.

  27. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    We saw a deer on our walk this morning. I’m so glad I got the Sporn harness for her when I first got here. While she was caterwauling at the deer and waking up the whole neighborhood, she was not pulling my arm off.

    The deer, BTW, could not have given less of a shit about us.

    • Brawndo

      We had a family vacation in the Poconos this year near Lake Harmony (i think that was the name) and we would see lots of deer and they’d let us come within 5 feet without even turning their heads. My 9 mo old son was very happy.

      • Sean

        So, you’re the reason deer have covid.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Grieving takes many forms

    Dozens of looters descended on a Nordstrom store and stole merchandise Saturday night in a raid that was over within a minute, police in Walnut Creek, California said.

    Approximately 80 people rushed into the store in the city’s Broadway Plaza, a spokesperson for the Walnut Creek Police Department told NBC News.

    They said that one employee was pepper sprayed, and two others were punched and kicked. All three sustained minor injuries, and were treated and released at the scene, they added.

    ——-

    Three people have been arrested in connection with the incident so far, police said. Two were arrested immediately for robbery, conspiracy, burglary and possession of stolen property. One of those two had a firearm and is facing a weapons charge, police added. A third person was found not long after the incident and is also facing charges.

    Walnut Creek Police also confirmed that the incident was not linked to a series of protests that have taken place across the country over the non-guilty verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.

    It was the racism what made them do it.

    • rhywun

      80 people?!

      JFC. It’s almost like this shit is being encouraged.

      • prolefeed

        The cause is that store owners shooting looters is outlawed. Turns out taking away your right to armed self defense of person and property has consequences.

    • Grumbletarian

      Store management should be issued chainsaws to carry on site.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Kkkapitalist profiteers

    Although global demand for electricity has bounced back to pre-pandemic levels, global oil production has not — not by a long shot. In the United States, oil production remains 12% lower than in February 2020, right before the impact of the pandemic ripped through oil markets. That’s the equivalent of pulling the U.S.’s entire production in the Gulf of Mexico out of the global economy. And oil and gas production levels have remained low even as the world suffers from an extreme energy crunch and skyrocketing fuel prices.

    And whose fault is it? Depending on who you ask, the answer is either Vladmir Putin and a geopolitical power play on the part of Russia, Joe Biden and his dastardly plan to do away with fossil fuels and suck U.S. coffers dry in the process, or OPEC+ and their stingy refusal to respond to the energy crisis unfolding in Europe, Asia, and (to a lesser extent) the United States. Now, President Joe Biden is pointing the finger at another culprit: the conniving and greedy domestic oil and gas industry. This week the U.S. president asked federal regulators to open an investigation into the U.S. oil and gas industry to determine whether companies are engaging in “illegal conduct” by profiting off of consumers’ pain, citing “mounting evidence of anti-consumer behavior by oil and gas companies.”

    “The bottom line is this: gasoline prices at the pump remain high, even though oil and gas companies’ costs are declining,” President Biden wrote this week in a letter to FTC chair Lina Khan. “The Federal Trade Commission has authority to consider whether illegal conduct is costing families at the pump. I believe you should do so immediately.”

    \We need price controls.

    And rationing, so people only get their fare share.

    • rhywun

      “mounting evidence”

      I’m sure they’ll let us know what that evidence is as soon as they finish conjuring it up.

      • Fourscore

        Lack of Climate Control causing nasty ol’ storms in the gulf brought about by white supremacy is all the evidence I need.

      • Tres Cool

        An angle I didnt immediately consider:

        “Actually, gas wasn’t what they were rationing at all. The main purpose of the restrictions on gas purchasing was to conserve tires. Japanese armies in the Far East had cut the U.S. off from its chief supply of rubber.”

      • Fourscore

        During WW2 my dad got a 5 gallon ration a week. He rode the street car to/from work and saved the gas for the week end.

        He found 3 new tires on the ‘open market’, hid them in the basement, installed them one at a time, rubbed dirt of them to make them look used. There were lots of Karens back in the war years. Rationing/prohibition brings out the best and the worst of people.

      • rhywun

        For a short time in 1943, rations were reduced further and all pleasure driving was outlawed.

        Joe just got a boner.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        So, you are saying he is Blue Pilled?

    • cyto

      For those who were not around for Carter, they are angling for a “windfall profits tax”.

      The outrage was that in a time of rising oil prices, the price of oil might go up while a ship was en route filled with oil. They said the excess profit was ill-gotten gains and slapped big excise taxes on it.

      One of the more profound failures to understand market forces in all of history.

  30. Q Continuum

    q-ette enjoys watching something called “Cocomelons” on Netflix (??).

    She must take after Dad because I too enjoy cocomelons.

    https://archive.md/QvvTx

    Slutty Sunday.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      God have mercy on your soul. Cocomelon is a gateway drug to Blippi

  31. Trigger Hippie

    ‘…the greatest politician/entertainer ever, whose example should inspire contemporary government sorts’

    LMFAO

  32. ignoreLander

    Texas Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson says she will retire before the 2022 midterms ending a career in Congress that lasted almost 30 years.

    This isn’t even close to how this country’s federal government was intended to run.

    • rhywun

      Meh. If that was the case, they would have put term limits in the big C.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    More:

    Backing up President Biden’s claims, Bloomberg released a report this week that oil and gas explorers in the United States may point to politics as the reason that they are holding back on upping production to ease oil prices, but the real reason is much simpler: they are making money hand over fist. According to figures from Deloitte LLP, U.S. oil companies are making more money now than at any other point in the entire history of the nation’s shale revolution. “And this may just be the beginning,” Bloomberg Markets wrote. “Free cash flow, the key metric watched by investors, probably will increase by 38% next year, presuming oil prices remain elevated.”

    The American Petroleum Institute has fired back at President Biden in the wake of his plea to the FTC, saying that the move is merely a “distraction from the fundamental shift that is taking place and the ill-advised government decisions that are exacerbating this challenging situation.” A representative of API went on to criticize Biden’s allocation of his time and energy to fight with the domestic oil and gas industry and OPEC+, saying that his attentions would be better spent “encouraging the safe and responsible development of American-made oil and natural gas.”

    Considering Biden not-so-secretly wants to “wean” America off it’s insane self destructive addiction to fossil fuels, Big Oil is just trying to help. Or maybe they are making a rational decision based on expectations of future costs.

    • rhywun

      If there’s one thing BigGov hates, it’s people other than BigGov “making money hand over fist”.

  34. Q Continuum

    “Police open fire on anti-lockdown protesters in The Netherlands”

    Missing from article: live or non-lethal ammo? That seems like a pretty important distinction.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Texas Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson says she will retire before the 2022 midterms ending a career in Congress that lasted almost 30 years.

    That poor lady, her heart must be breaking. What will she do now? No useful skills, not a penny in her pocket…

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Its likely the thermostat.
    Duh.

    I banged on it with my shoe, but it didn’t seem to help.

  37. Q Continuum

    “change terms like “defendant,” “convict,” and “felon” to “justice-involved people.””

    The logical end of post-modernism. For people who have so thoroughly drank the kool-aid they now believe their own bullshit about objective reality being an illusion that can be changed through terminology.

    • rhywun

      Orwell is spinning in his grave.

      “Guys, I wrote a whole book about this stuff.”

    • ignoreLander

      I’ll treat this the same way I treat pronouns. I totally respect and celebrate anyone’s right to call himself whatever he pleases. And he can even politely ask others to do the same. At which time I’ll politely refuse and just say, “No, I’ll use proper language thanks”.

      I will never in my life refer to a singular person with the plural pronoun they, and it doesn’t matter what force of coercion you bring down on my head.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        I generally treat the Trans this way: If you present as a man, legitimately, I will treat you as such. Same for women, if you can pass then I will treat you as such. And if you present as an asshole, I will treat you as such.

    • creech

      Do they also apply that to “pigs,” and “gestapo? “

  38. Brawndo

    In the English language, the adjective precedes the noun. The phrase “sex offender” isn’t constructed to insult sex offenders (though that is a nice benefit), it simply follows basic English. It makes me laugh when people try to say “people of color” isn’t offensive but “colored people” is. Spanish isn’t an option because they have GENDERED NOUNS (gasp!!). Maybe we’ll just all have to start speaking Chinese.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Maybe we’ll just all have to start speaking Chinese.

    We’re well on our way to sub-literate grunting and chirping.

    • Tres Cool

      Which is why Im not on Twitter or any other social media platform.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    “change terms like “defendant,” “convict,” and “felon” to “justice-involved people.””

    We’re all just victims of circumstance, really. Judging one another is immoral and, more importantly, NOT FAIR!

  41. Not Adahn

    The fact that Pabst Blue Ribbon isn’t the official beer of the Professional Bull Riders Association never made a lick of sense to me.

    • PieInTheSky

      It smells like bovine piss and those people get enough of that?

      • The Hyperbole

        If you can drink it for eight straight seconds you win.

  42. PieInTheSky

    I am drinking the American Dream

    • PieInTheSky

      25 lei is a bit much though

  43. The Late P Brooks

    If there’s one thing BigGov hates, it’s people other than BigGov “making money hand over fist”.

    Nice business you got here. It’d be a shame if something was to happen to it. You need insurance. We’re here to sell you a policy.

    • PieInTheSky

      Wasnt an arricle a while back why so many streight men are having gay sex…

      • Not Adahn

        Wasnt an arricle a while back

        Well ,with pirates I imagine it was them making do with what they had.

    • Sean

      Yeah, but it you choose carefully, you can double your wardrobe options.

  44. Not Adahn

    Someone needs to go on that article about zoos covaxing their animals and go on a long unhinged tirade about how racist zoos are using vaccines that could be saving African lives on their animals and this shows how much Black Lives Matter to them.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      God no, it’d be like the 4Chan OK hand sign troll that’s now taken seriously. These folks don’t get parody.

    • Not Adahn

      No Japanese subway rider has ever died from butt cancer, it is true.

  45. Not Adahn

    Whatever happened with that truth in labelling case re: vegan mayonnaise?

    I ask because at the store I saw “Buffalo style cauliflower wings.”

    They can say “cauliflower wings” but not “Buffalo cauliflower wings?”

  46. Nephilium

    Looks like I probably do have the ‘vid. Woke up this morning, and my sense of smell and taste are gone. It’s fucking creepy.

    I’ll be getting tested for confirmation tomorrow.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Shit. Last night’s Zoom is a super spreader event.

      /jk, get better soon, dude.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      RIP neph. ?

      In seriousness, take care of yourself and get as much sun as you can tolerate.

      • Nephilium

        It’s November. In Ohio. There is not much sun to begin with.

        The part that’s entertaining to me is that I’ve been getting better over the past couple of days. I’ve threatened the girlfriend I’ll use this time to finally clear out all the cider she’s had stashed in the basement that won’t keep that long.

        Is this when I’m supposed to be in the hospital begging for a vaccination?

    • The Hyperbole

      It was nice knowing you.

      • The Hyperbole

        Oh, and If none of your family wants it can I have your brewing equipment?

      • Nephilium

        My brother in law mentioned wanting to get into brewing once, so I offered him my old immersion chiller when I got a new one. He took it… and I don’t think he’s done anything with it in years.

        I really need to do a full breakdown, cleaning, and rebuild of the kegs I’ve got though.

    • kinnath

      quinine, zinc, vitamins C and D

      ASAP

      • Nephilium

        At this point, I’m a bit run down, mild congestion, runny nose, and a moderate cough. I have been taking daily vitamin D pills for a while now. When I first came down with this (Tuesday afternoon/evening) I was tired as hell. Called off work Wednesday, and tried to sleep most of the day.

    • Plinker762

      I didn’t survive my CCPV attack 🙁

    • Q Continuum

      Beer will fix it.

      • Nephilium

        I have beer… but I have the feeling it will taste of nothing. I’ve been testing… bourbon had a very mild aroma, gin smelled of nothing, Altoids tasted of cardboard with a touch of peppermint. I’m guessing I’ll still be able to get burning heat from hot peppers, but that’s a chemical reaction and not a flavor.

    • ignoreLander

      That interior. Holy crap that’s sweet.

    • rhywun

      That car is aggressively ugly – esp. the interior. Gah.

      • ignoreLander

        De gustibus non disputandum est

      • PieInTheSky

        that is a roundabout way to tell someone their taste is shit

      • ignoreLander

        You’re on a roll this morning — anything else I can say for you to argue with?

    • The Last American Hero

      I had one. Royal POS. Zero, and I mean “holy shit how can we get up to freeway speed in the first mile” pickup.

      The sideways radio always cracked up my friends.

    • Not Adahn

      The seller notes that the headliner is missing, and the aftermarket phone holder and cupholders are not included in the sale.

      wait.. if he’s using a phone holder… he’s currently driving that thing?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Sheesh, just leave that old cup holder: where else will you put it?

  47. kinnath

    Time to start the beer

    • PieInTheSky

      beer o’clock was hours ago

      • kinnath

        Halfway through the mash.

        Time to start heating the sparge water.

  48. Trigger Hippie

    https://youtu.be/yeQJkDEmahI

    I’ve always liked Reactistan.

    I’m no longer a religious man at this point in my life but I appreciate the idea of people giving thanks to their higher power for providing the ability to survive and prosper.

    • Ozymandias

      Thanks, TH. I recognize the Pashtun. I love it. Despite the press and everything said about them, I still love the Afghan people.
      They live short, hard lives – and generally live with gratitude – which is hard to imagine given their circumstances.
      It’s a lesson I try to remember.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘Pashtun’

        I wasn’t entirely clear what region the people on this channel were from. I assumed they were from Eastern Pakistan/North Western India.

      • Ozymandias

        It’s a mix from that area. It’s been awhile, but I suspect the old man is a Pashtun; the two younger guys are probably from the FATA, perhaps even Pakistan proper. The two women I believe are Indian. Central Asia has a wide array of interesting folks and cultures. It was, after all, for centuries the heart of the silk road, right through Torkham Gate.
        I always found it interesting that there are a large number of blue-eyed Pashtuns. A tribesman was quick to point out to me that Alexander the Great and his army had left a legacy in more than one way… memories are long in the tribal areas.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Is this when I’m supposed to be in the hospital begging for a vaccination?

    Alert the media, first.

    • Trigger Hippie

      :Central Asia has a wide array of interesting folks and cultures. It was, after all, for centuries the heart of the silk road, right through Torkham Gate.’

      One of the reasons I’ve always found the term “Asians” misleading, if not right out bullshit.

      Asians encompasses dozens if not hundreds of different ethnic groups… Asian…da fuk does that even mean?

    • Trigger Hippie

      Heh.

      For Ozy.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    I’m a bit run down, mild congestion, runny nose, and a moderate cough.

    In the past, on the rare occasions I caught a cold or whatever, I have found the Alka Seltzer flu version to be a highly effective decongestant.

    • PieInTheSky

      looking at the video I am going to answer myself hell no. Courgette like all squash is disgusting

    • slumbrew

      Sweet. Paul Newman had a Volvo wagon q-ship he used to tear around Connecticut in. An excellent choice.

    • Not Adahn

      Lamb chops are definitely a frill or two above steak.

  51. KSuellington

    “We are taking action by restricting parking.”

    These fuckers can’t be parodied. Several times a month I’m working at a 240 unit building about ten blocks away from those stores that is in the Tenderloin. In all it’s wisdom, the city has made the former parking into a bike lane in front of this building that has a constant stream of residents and their many kids, deliveries and workers. As a result I have to park in front of the massive open air drug market across the street. With decriminalizion of hard drugs, you can openly sell, buy and use right in the open. Last week I watched someone overdose (he lived after they Narcan’d him) and the week before some chick was about to snort a line of something off my truck hood before she noticed me in the driver’s seat eating lunch and demurely refrained. It’s a total free for all where you will constantly see bizarre and terrible behavior. Don’t try to illegally park though, as that is strictly enforced. A month back the construction manager got his truck towed within half an hour of parking illegally.

  52. l0b0t

    Largely not my style but a great conversion nonetheless. A Vanhool Prevost with a roof deck. I would want a roof deck.

    https://youtu.be/4wCB2GJgfrc

    • l0b0t

      Also, I don’t like the host’s presentation, but every once in a while, we are treated to a mirror glimpse of the ginger beauty behind the camera. Additionally, love the tub/shower.

    • The Hyperbole

      I would want a roof deck.

      Where else are you going to keep your Koreans?