To think I was having trouble choosing between making fun of another “rednecks in the mist” article as interpreted by neocons or the return of sailing ships. Turns out I forgot New Zealand was still a thing.
This is my review of Almanac Brewing Hypernova Volume V:
Seriously, the Kiwis gone done lost their minds.
While I’m training myself not to click on Facebook’s comments section – and that addictive rush of outrage of reading the horrendous views of strangers – the haha emoji is unavoidable. It takes just one person to click that avatar of vitriol and the post and my newsfeed is tainted forever. Even on stories where the comments are turned off, you’ll still find that little androgynous face of scorn.
My experience of social media is now like being followed everywhere by Nelson Muntz from The Simpsons – like every earnest view I hold is a source of belittlement for the world.
In a way it has become the emoji of the moment. The emoji of Brexit, Donald Trump and the anti-vaxxers. A weapon of the trolls in the time of the culture wars.
So how did the emoji of joy become the emoji of hate?
Nobody hates you, they’re just laughing at you. As people like me, have laughed at people like you since the beginning of time. Its not hatred.
As people were given more ways to express their views on Facebook, it soon became clear that, as journalist Daniel Walters wrote, the haha emoji is “an A-hole”. Walters said, rather than laughter, the emoji had been “pressed into service for a more sinister purpose: Derisive mockery of sincere statements”.
“Make no mistake, Facebook’s laughing face emoji is laughing at you, and it’s doing so in a way far more infuriating than simply a written-out ‘ha ha’ or ‘lol’.”
The sneering contempt of Grinning Squinty was used to belittle millions around the world. A journalist writing on Medium said the emoji had even been used to discredit victims of sexual abuse in India and the #MeToo movement.
C’mon now, #metoo made a mockery of itself.
Elevating Grinning Squinty to the status of Facebook reaction has also given the “A-hole” emoji outsized power. The reactions at the bottom of the post are not weighted to represent the number of people who click on a certain reaction. A single click on Grinning Squinty and it’s anchored to a post and an ocean of hearts and likes can’t wash it away. In a global pandemic, when social media feels more toxic and divisive than ever, this has made Facebook feel even more like the home of sneering bullies.
Okay I stopped there. If I can’t finish an article, I can’t in good conscience request you do the same. Just imagine being so emotionally fragile an androgynous yellow face laughing at your self-imposed psychological maladies forces you to seek further therapy.
So this beer…this is something else. Almanac made a lactose-laced sour ale aged in oak barrels. Flavored with plums, nectarines, vanilla and pluots. I know what you’re thinking, “a pluot?” Yes, a pluot. This is the fruit from a plum tree cross pollinated with an apricot tree. Everything about this beer is what happens when man decides to pretend he is God. While the oak gives it a pleasant finish, it is a concoction so sour I was literally in tears. Mostly because I spent $7 for this one can, and its really damn sour. Some of you will like it. Almanac Brewing Hypernova Volume V: 2.1/5.
Let it warm up a bit if it’s that sour, You do know how to sour Messy,
Emojis as hate? Whatever keeps toy up at night.
21 minutes later, no replies. That’s because this is the worst attempt at a First in the history of the site.
I’m sorry you #2.?
I just don’t like sours. I don’t think warming it will improve that.
Had some amazing sours and goses (do they count as the same thing). All depends on the brewer.
Edmund’s Oast in Charleston, SC brews some excellent sours.
All of the component ingredients sound delicious. If there were a sweet version I would drink a great deal of it. I’m just not fond of sour things.
Image FTA:
Yeah, that wake behind the boat is totally motionless.
That beer… It makes no sense. How about you just make a nice brown ale and serve the fruit separately?
return of sailing ships
#axshully a proper sail sucks rather than pulls like a kite.
Unless you’re running downwind!
Whatever. That’s not THE POINT!
No love for the broad reach?
That’s just tacky, quit with the Jibe!
Just luff it alone or Swiss not be abeam-ing at us.
Seems you can sail through the narrows, so I wouldn’t worry about Swiss and the gays.
Biden’s behavior around kids is repulsive. I hope the White House Easter Egg Hunt is cancelled for his tenure.
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Silicone Saturday prefers assholes.
https://archive.md/gaXda
Didn’t know HM’s nickname was Silicone Saturday.
Flavored with plums, nectarines, vanilla and pluots.
JFC. Thanks for taking one for the team.
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CNN keeps sciencing the shit out of stuff.
https://summit.news/2021/12/17/cnn-doctor-wear-masks-at-home-and-take-tests-on-christmas-morning/
To be fair, people are catching it at home – not the office or the supermarket.
I mean if they think any of that stuff is going to help… knock yourself out and leave me alone.
That’s the crypt keeper, not a doctor.
He’s awfully old to be a resident. Couldn’t they find a real doctor?
Red Sails and Blue Diamonds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFKEiblRZ5w
And yellow moons.
Back at Gourmeltz. Starting with wings – overpriced (due to Brandon) or otherwise. Miss the good ones.
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Wings have been overpriced for years, but I’m sure Biden hasn’t helped.
What about popes’ noses?
Not cheap wings
https://www.cigarettesdealer.com/wings-cigarettes-c-41.html
Well the ones there see consistently at least double the size of the ones a lot of delivery places use.
I don’t know what I think about that. Youtube tells me this is “my mix”.
^this was supposed to be an re to 4×20
Oh noes! ☹️
OFFS.
#moveon already!
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That’s rich.
https://katu.com/news/coronavirus/governor-kate-brown-repeatedly-dodges-katus-covid-19-questions
Speaking ha ha. Poor journalists getting ignored. Welcome to the party, pal. Shame and personal honor are dead among the political elite. There are no repercussions for hypocrisy. The only thing that would restore the mantra of Caesar’s wife is to start adorning lampposts with those hypocrites. But they’ve surrounded themselves with the law and armed security to prevent that from happening or even being slightly annoyed.
*speaking of
“they’ve surrounded themselves with the law and armed security“
Bring extra mags.
Well, whatever magic Bielsa had working for Leeds seems to have disappeared.
Not watching, but I liked Arsenal better when they were sucking.
There was actually a game played in England today? I thought every last person had the coronavirus.
Arsenal-Leeds was the only EPL game played. About half the Championship and League One games were played.
There was a game in Scotland that was abandoned half-way through the second half because of fog. After the abandonment, one of the mangers was fired.
Did a little shopping around town- no mask, still got service, and I wasn’t the only one (there was one other guy).
Went to a winter “farmers’ market” (ackshually mostly crafts) just over the IN state line to hear some musician friends play, had a hell of a time finding the place, another hell of a time finding a place to park, and finally was greeted with a “Masks Required” sign. WTF, Richmond???
Still no masks up here in the valley. Went to Wasilla yesterday for groceries, saw maybe two masks, both on elderly people.
Glibtopia North, folks. Glibtopia North.
Western CO is same as far as masking goes. You left the state because you lived on the wrong side. Full sun and vit D absorption opportunity today. How is your cloud cover there in Glibtopia North?
You have a different state legislature and Governor over on the Western Slope? Anyway, we didn’t leave Colorado primarily for political reasons, but for personal ones – we just like it here better.
Cloudy and snowing here today, but if I’d wanted sunny and warm all the time, I’d live in Miami.
Still Glibtopia North.
To each their own. No, we do not have a different Gov or leg. We just ignore the ones we have. It is called noncompliance.
Otherwise known as “Irish democracy” as well.
If I had known and planned accordingly, I would live where you live dbl. That is a nice place. Alas, I didn’t.
W-sloper, does this work for you? https://www.wsj.com/articles/hawaii-no-paradise-medical-care-covid-hospitals-honolulu-certificate-of-need-general-excise-tax-11638569759?st=y4xw095d5ugvkgb&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
No Tox it doesn’t. I lapsed into before times thinking so forgive me.
Ask about the mask recycling bin. Pick one out going in and leave it for the next mask less person on your way out.
Is that like free umbrella rentals? 😉
Can Vaccine Mandates Be Justified? A Soho Forum Debate
Ilya Somin Vs. Angela McArdle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjo68UZv56k
Why stop there? Let’s debate whether suicide booths can be mandated.
I think that is McArdle’s position effectively (as in, no, you cannot mandate things that may harm people).
I just returned from two area supermarkets (Stop & Shop, Key Foods) and a pharmacy (CVS). S&S had a giant sign out front making sure everyone knew that masks were required for entry. i was one of three unmasked person in the building (all of us, old white guys) but no one said a word about it. Key Foods had a giant new sign as well but masking was at about 30%. A crew from the firehouse was there doing their start-of-shift big shop; none of them were masked. CVS had almost 100% compliance, but, again, nobody said a word to me about donning a muzzle.
Very few people here are brainwashed into thinking masks do anything. There are a few but I assume they either have a masters degree or are transplants,
Yeah, I quit complying with signs months ago. I haven’t worn a mask unless I’m paid to except for one airline trip since early this year.
[Squeals with delight] Release date for Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands has been announced, March 2022 – https://youtu.be/uJkaaTXmBEQ
So this beer…this is something else.
What else is it?
Paper weight?
A dessert topping? A floor wax ?
Its a frogurt..
The frogurt is also cursed.
Waiting here for flat fix and tire rotation. Picked up $100.00 in spices. Snack food for the business and ate at Windy City Beefs. Chicago dog and fries. It’s a nice day out but this is why I don’t leave the house…it’s expensive out there.
I got my Kia stuck in park last night, this morning I did some google Fu and fixed the shifter button, I was worried for a bit, but she runs great again!
Good, Yusef. Not like the old days when you could drive down to the shop in 1st gear, if necessary. At least the clutch didn’t freeze
I’m putting together an early exit proposal for my bosses. I’m just about done with the corporate environment, what with the diversity crap, the. ‘Vid hysteria, and babysitting emotionally fragile “professionals”.
Better to cut a deal while I can. Before I say or do something irretrievable.
I thought it was better to be fired than resign ?
I refuse to leave or stop going to any place before I’m banned, fired, trespassed or locked out.
+1dirty dick the bosses coffee cup.
+ Stink Palm
Good to see the vid didn’t end you.
It depends. On one hand, if you are involuntarily terminated, you qualify for some unemployment assistance while you job hunt. But many potential employers ask the question, in writing “Have you ever been involuntarily terminated? If so, explain the circumstances.” Not necessary a show stopper, but you have to come up with a good way to answer.
Most places will ask why you left your previous employers anyway. You just need to phrase your answer well and it’s no biggie.
Getting fired as an attorney is…less than ideal.
RBS! Howza Carolines? (I forget which is yours.)
South. It’s basically fourth summer here right now.
Hope I die before I get old….
If you open a private practice, can you at least promise awesome commercials like Lerner and Rowe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwmW28pcB0
Josh Blue makes it a laughing matter:
https://youtu.be/nQC5nuo0DZw
My granddaughter in a small village in Alaska emailed that a lot of her fellow teachers are not renewing their contracts, some are first year but others are longer veterans. The replacement pool is apparently smaller as well, if the rumor mill is working properly. She and her husband are undecided until Jan, when they have to sign their new contracts. Looks like they will stay another year though, they have projects that they want to see more progress on.
Covid is a helluva of non-disease with so many unexpected side affects.
I think the side affects were fully expected by those who planned this. *taps tinfoil hat*
Never change BMW. Never change class action ambulance chasers!
BMW Facing $5-Million Lawsuit For Design Flaw Involving Cupholders
In an absolutely classic BMW move, it would appear that BMW put the SRS module (aka airbag control and the like controller) underneath the cupholder. Who could have conceived that something in the cupholder could leak or spill and short out a module underneath it with little or no protection against water infiltration.
No German would interrupt his ultimate driving experience with disgusting American popular drinks? And I don’t imagine Germans drive around with open containers of beer.
That certainly used to be the case. Mind you having multiple ashtrays and smoking while driving wasn’t a distraction…
Spoiler, but that’s actually a plot point in the Glenn Ford movie Fate is the Hunter.
New TCM Remembers as of today. I wonder if they roll over deaths in weeks 51-52 into the next year’s. Also noted that they still say “actress / comedienne”.
It depends on how important the person who dies is. When Peter O’Toole and Joan Fontaine died near the end of the year several years back, the piece was re-edited.
And they finished it up pretty recently to include Lina Wertmüller, Michael Nesmith, and Cara Williams
Great cars before they inflicted iDrive, and eliminated blinkers.
Loved them until they computerized the cars.
Believe it or not, they actually do have blinkers.
On a blinker-fluid subscription plan, maybe.
I miss the E30…
I had an E30 and E36.
Aw, gettin’ verklempt… I think we would still have the E30 at least for Sundays if it hadn’t overheated. (Melted the computer? I wasn’t there…)
Just got back from Winter Steel. Managed sub 4 second times consistantly. (That’s not bad.)
Didn’t mange to give away all of my brownies because people left before the work was done and I only started giving them away when everything was wrapping up.
Looking at the TV schedule…
“Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl”
AYFKM?
Sounds more like a bong than a bowl.
Bureaucrats SCIENCE!
*taps tinfoil hat*
Er, this? https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1471986453823459330
The Press Finally Publishes the Obvious
Breakthrough COVID-19 cases—that is, infections in people who have been vaccinated—”greatly enhance immune response to variants of the virus,” a new study has found.
The study, conducted by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University, found that a breakthrough infection “generates a robust immune response against the delta variant,” according to a summary of the findings. Researchers also believe that the immune responses from breakthrough infections caused by other variants, such as Omicron, will be similar.
The study discovered that antibodies in blood samples of those who experienced breakthrough cases were as much as 1,000 percent more effective than those generated two weeks after the second dose of a Pfizer vaccine.
“These vaccines are very effective against severe disease. Our study suggests that individuals who are vaccinated and then exposed to a breakthrough infection have super immunity,” Tafesse added in a statement.
The findings could show “an eventual end game” for the pandemic, added Marcel Curlin, a co-author of the study and associate professor of infectious diseases at the school. “It doesn’t mean we’re at the end of the pandemic, but it points to where we’re likely to land: Once you’re vaccinated and then exposed to the virus, you’re probably going to be reasonably well-protected from future variants.”
Science-tastic!
Now do “zOMGicron doesn’t seem to be killing anybody so whyTF is everywhere locking down again?”
ESPN story on Ohio labeling a high school as fraudulent. Apparently, it is being described as some sort of scheme for athletes to play high school sports (which they appear to have not been very good at, either). This happened because apparently there is a class of schools in Ohio that are non-chartered and non-tax supported so they don’t fall under the supervision of the Ohio Department of Education. Can anyone guess what the Ohio Department of Education recommends going forward?
https://www.espn.com/high-school/football/story/_/id/32894888/hs-program-featured-espn-investigated-deemed-scam-ohio-board-education
ESPN story on Ohio labeling a high school as fraudulent.
“High school” is no way to describe tOSU.
The Dangerous Rise Of Men Who Won’t Date ‘Woke’ Women
I love when one of you adds a headline and it looks like satire but it’s the actual headline.
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I’m not sure what Dr. JP is on about lately. More emotional than Jack Paar (rather endearing). Nice hands.
My hands are pissing me off. No matter the amount of lotion applied I get first knuckle bleeding cracks. Never had these when I lived in FL!
Doesn’t prevent them, but I’ve found New Skin very helpful in healing those cracks.
O’Keefes.
Soft strong gloves, I’m tired of beating my hands to death.
Derma-bond (aka Super glue)