By special request…*cough* Yusef *cought*
This is my review of Natural Light:
A fun fact I came across in a this day in history sort of way was the federal government attempted to outlaw sliced bread during World War 2. Most of us are aware there were a number of shortages and rations on certain products in support of the war effort. Onions for example. In this case the government wanted to reduce the population’s use of wheat.
Prior to sliced bread, we of course had to slice bread ourselves. You went to a baker who sold you a loaf and you…well…more likely your wife would painstakingly slice the bread one piece at a time. Anyone that ever cut themselves tying to slice a baguette can attest this is a real pain in the ass. This was also a time when people had multiple children and your wife making a bunch of sandwiches every morning for the family actually did turn into a real chore.
Selling bread pre-sliced was indeed a big deal.
This lead to Americans eating more bread because it suddenly became a lot more convenient to do so. More bread means more wheat and by the time the US declared war there was a concern there would be a shortage of wheat. Easiest way to get Americans to eat less wheat is to let Bill Gates buy farmland make eating bread an inconvenience.
This wasn’t even the worst part. If you went to a baker for a loaf he was not allowed to sell it unless it was a day old. It turns out though there was never a shortage of wheat during the war. As it happened less than a decade after the dust bowl of the 1930’s, farmers figured out its a pretty good idea to store excess grain. Just another friendly reminder, the government is evil.
If there is anything to learn from this, is the modern conveniences we take for granted are in fact something to cherish. We can buy a watered down, piss colored, almost flavorless lager pretty much anywhere! Can you imagine having to mosey on down to the local saloon, and check your weapons at the door just to get a beer? What a freaking nightmare. I can even do so without signaling to everyone you adhere to the zeitgeist. Even hipsters won’t touch this stuff out of their misplaced sense of irony. Natural Light is a tribute to success of the modern world as delivered by the free market, but that doesn’t mean its any good. Natural Light: 1.9/5
Yea, I’m ok with cheap lagers, but if I had a choice natty and easy drinking natty ice are not on my list.
I got a few Straub, Genny cream ale, and some Busch around.
The Busch I bought because I hadn’t seen it in years. Still pretty crappy.
I’m surprised you haven’t seen it around. Busch and Busch Light are both in the top 10 for sales in the US. Busch Light is my favorite cheap lager.
I don’t go to that side of beer distributor often. Also I had just saw it on tap a a rattlesnake roundup.
At the beer fest yesterday, almost every tent had either a pils or a Mexican style lager. Lots and lots of samples were consumed. The outliers were a tent that had an ESB (that they admitted that they brought just because it was named Maxwell Murder) and several shandies. Saw a guy in a wheelchair who fucking owned the pit during the Suicide Machines (lead singer came down into the crowd to sing with him). NOFX happily announced that no one could get cancelled in Cleveland, and played Linoleum admitting they had retired the song, but it was there show and they would do what they wanted.
Thames Welsh ESB was one of my favorites.
There’s a couple breweries in my area that will occasionally brew up a mild error, a sadly dying style. I’ve brewed up one that would come in at ~3.5% ABV, and a 5 gallon batch would run under $20 for the ingredients.
Suicide Machines are great. Is NOFX still good?
Suicide Machines were playing songs from all the way back from Destruction By Definition, which was very nice to hear.
NOFX is still fun, lots of self-depreciation in their comments. Fat Mike appears to be in a better place of his self-destructive cycle.
Have you heard of Manic Hispanic? Punk cover band who twists the songs to be Hispanic themed.
Manic Hispanic is hilarious. I heard them on the radio in San Jose about 20 years ago.
Mijo goes to junior college.
Bought that exact shirt yesterday.
Good ole Claude R. Wickard. Put the guy who destroyed crops in charge of trying to increase the food supply.
Sounds like putting Che in charge of the health department.
Reducing demand for services by reducing the number of patients?
Carryover from Hayek
Its nearly every agency. They just pulled all my EOSH (our version of OSHA…don’t ask why) and I have two contractors I need to pay…
I was super bummed yesterday when the “commissioning manager” essentially fired me for 2 months except that I still get a paycheck.
Sucks.
I’m going to apply for a different job at the same company, but the Mercury location. There’s a 2 week old job listing that reads like it was written for me.
My actual direct manager and I had our mid year review last week and he got very excited upon learning about my experience and areas of expertise that he hadn’t known before.
I brought up the fact that I felt very underutilized at the company due to commissioning manager’s leadership shortcomings. I also told him that I’d heard the rumors that we engineers were going to be transferred to report directly to the project commissioning manager, and that I had had bad experiences when the project manager and functional manager were the same guy.
So he won’t be surprised to see me depart the project.
Yeah I’m stepping down from my temporary manager gig back into my permanent role. It’s actually more work but I cannot deal with our leadership out of LAX. Too much micromanagement and incompetent people just doesn’t make it worth thr pay bump. A pay bumb I can make up with my OT or weekend work since we are short 3 techs.
Awfully hot there. Plus the commute time never seems to be what it should.
I live in Pahrump so the commute to Mercury would actually be an improvement.
I listen to audiobooks and chill in my Tesla, so it’s all good.
It’s all relative.
The mission at LANL is similar to that which Hayek describes. We, too, would often have lean years with little or no COLA. Sometimes I would buy small parts and tools out of my own pocket just to keep moving. One particular year we got zero raises while the Lab Director got a $3M bonus (and bailed shortly thereafter) and the FedGov put up a $25M, 1MW solar facility. (For comparison, the average wind generator costs about $2M and produces 2MW (when the wind is blowing.)
DOE makes the DOD look like a well-oiled machine.
Its nearly every agency. They just pulled all my EOSH (our version of OSHA…don’t ask why) and I have two contractors I need to pay…
Austerity!
Nothing left to cut!
(Scribbles blank check to Ukraine)
FAA got 5 billion for infrastructure and instead of ensuring existing infrastructure is funded they cut us so they can build new towers
Maintenance versus new build funds. I’m always amused at the contortions federal agencies go through in order to shift projects into one category or the other.
Yep. I can’t even get a contractor out to service a manlift to our tallest radar tower cause some senator secured funds to build a brand new tower at an airport that serves maybe 40 flights a day versus Vegas that is handling 60/hr
Hand-cutting* bread always makes me think of Pip’s elder sister in the beginning of Great Expectations, wherein pins habitually migrate into his slices.
*I like the artisanal loaves, so manually it goes. Cutco (I know, I know) makes a decent sturdy full-tang bread knife.
It reminds me of living in Europe where people mostly cut their own darn bread, and they liked it.
But to be fair, squishy bread seems to be an American thing. I wouldn’t even try to cut a loaf of Wonder bread.
Gummy bread, my grandmother called it.
That hard eurobread just carves up the roof of the mouth and makes eating it an unpleasant experience.
Beneficial to the jaws?
OT (Last time I’ll spam this. There is an entry in the Forum, also):
Any Glibs who will be in or near Albuquerque on the 13th of August and would like to attend my 50th anniversary party please send me an email at jemezhobbit at the protonmail and I’ll get you an invitation.
Not spam. Won’t make it but congratulations to you and Mrs Hobbit!
What’d you do to Yusef to deserve this? Blech.
Absolutely nothing
Oh c’mon. This must be some sort of penance.
Nope, nothing at all.
We’re the kind of family that doesn’t buy flour… We buy wheat by the bucket from a co-op, grind, etc. The one we buy from is over on the other side of Atlanta, but Mrs. Tree used to be the local coordinator, so every quarter she’d collect the order and it would go in, and a 52′ trailer would pull up in our yard and deliver pallets with 50# bags of sugar, 5gal buckets of wheat, and similar things for beans, corn, honey, etc.
So all the offspring grew up with just homemade bread (used the heck out of a few Zojirushi machines), hand-sliced. They actually think sliced white bread is a little weird.
Article? I’d be very interested to learn about the pro/cons and best practices when working from wheat berries.
Hmmm. Maybe – I have 3-4 hypothetical articles stirring around non-commitedly in my head already – and it’d really have to come from Mrs. Tree, as she’s the one who really knows. Once you have the gear and have decided to do it (a little effort), there aren’t really any cons except that your brain is used to a certain kind of sandwich bread and this is “rougher”.
In the meantime, have a look at the breadbeckers.com site. Lots of starter info is there, and (probably more helpfully) one of them could probably hook you up with the co-op contact in your area. They could give you a very good download. Basics like which wheat for which application (red and white show up differently in the bread), which recipes work with which machine, etc.
🎶 Bless the Earl of Sandwich / He was such a clever get 🃏 🥪
OMG.
For reasons unknown, the “Waiting in the Bushes of Love” song came into my brain.
I then was compelled to look it up, and to my joy, I found the “extended version.”
https://youtu.be/RySHDUU2juM
Ha! I didn’t know those guys did music, too. Funny stuff.
“Waiting in the Bushes of Love”
Time to schedule a wax.
I miss the 80s.
That’s where you should be “Sowing the Seeds of Love”.
I have a son in law who drinks only Natty Light. His father does the same.
I’m hoping to foster some better taste in beer in them both. It’s a work in progress.
Natty Light is shitty beer, but it’s consistently shitty, a true testament to superior industrialized beer manufacturing.
“consistency CAN be an indicator of quality, even if its poor quality”. -some PhD I used to work with
Nephilium?
Wasn’t me. There was an entertaining conversation I had with someone at the beerfest yesterday who wasn’t aware that breweries need to constantly update their recipes to deal with changes in grain and hops as they’re agricultural products. Being able to consistently produce a beer that tastes the same is a challenge and a skill.
Just another friendly reminder, the government is evil.
Word.
Re Bill Gates buying farmland, I have no idea what is going on there. My hunches are he is in the know that people are figuring out the best way to produce optimal food for humans is to graze cattle on farmland/grassland and not grow dumb ass corn so a corn farmer can get rich collecting your tax dollars to ruin the engine of your car. He will be growing super corn to really ruin your car.
Natty light is ok if you are broke and 20. It is horrible piss unless you are broke and 20. I am neither broke or 20 so I don’t drink piss.
Whatever it is, he plans to make money doing it. Not necessarily evil.
Not necessarily evil.
Given his vax pushing evil shit he has done in past years I am not buying that. The man is fucked and I do not trust anything he does as not having evil intentions.
^^^
If anyone is a global fascism supporter, it’s that evil fucker.
Yeah, I suppose he’ll need a place to rexycle the “garbage parts” of people he turned into soylent green.
Only if the government pays him in grant money. Kind of like killing kids in Africa because who needs kids in Africa. A nuisance at best in this overpopulated world.
As for cheap (I think some of you guys use the term lawnmower beer) swill(ing) beer, I have been buying Rolling Rock.
It seems like it used to have some sort of hipster cachet, but now (here and in Montana, anyway) it’s just cheap. I bet there’s a lot of it in the river floaters’ coolers.
It was a proto-hipster beer back in the 90’s, as it was the general cheap swill of choice in the ska/punk scene, right up there with Red Stripe stubbies.
It was the go-to cheap beer in the industrial/dance scene, too, at least in western NY. Sometimes I would splurge for a Michelob, or a Molson if I was feeling really spendy.
I liked it well enough when it came from Latrobe.
I don’t drink much beer, but Pacifico is my old safe and reliable. Avoid Josephbrau Hefeweizen unless you dig cloves.
(JosephSbrau)
“From the glass lines tanks of ole Latrobe.”
+33
Really Toxeth? I like their hefeweisen.
I thought you relocated to Idahovile?
Boise is great for one thing….gas stations have growler fill stations
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Nice going, Hayek.
Now this is in my head
Ice cold kegged Natty light, when it’s 100 degrees outside, is glorious.
According to the weather doods it is going to be 103 today. No way I would drink Natty light. I will stick to tequila lime and soda while pool side grilling.
We bought kegs of natty light in college. $45 a keg and sold at every gas station. My friend had a town house that shared a communual lot where bands would just come up and set up a stage for impromptu music on nice nights. It was easy to get everyone to pitch in a few dollars for another keg and we’d go through 3 or 4 in a night for the larger parties.
Not my scene now, but those were fun times.
On a blisteringly hot day, I’ll take hipster juice over that recycled piss.
I thought you relocated to Idahovile?
I did. I’m outside Pocatello, now.
PSA: Decades channel is now playing a Remington Steele marathon.
::lights Mojeaux signal::🔥
Ooooh, Bryce!
Hmph, I don’t get that channel.
I haven’t even heard of that channel.
Me neither until one of you lot mentioned it the other day.
Apparently it’s another one of those oldies channels like MeTV or Cozi. I should be getting it since it has an affiliate here.
Pacifico is my old safe and reliable
Pacifico is muy bueno.
I am more of a Tecate guy, but Mexican beer in the summer is muy bueno y muy fresco!
Do any of y’all use a “minimalist” wallet? I mean the ones that are two sheets of carbon or metal with elastic between – usually front-pocket I guess. Thinking about it. Pros and cons?
I have this one: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N9OPF3Q
Love it. Six years on, still in great shape.
I have this one, which has the advantage of being available.
I have that brand too. I still keep it in my back pocket out of habit.
I think I stopped that when I moved to the big city – either Buffalo or San Francisco, I forget which one.
I have a front pocket wallet. I don’t know if it’s a minimalist one, technically, but it’s this one https://saddlebackleather.com/leather-wallet-slim-bifold
I had trouble with some of the more minimal (non-folding) ones. After a while, the corners of my cards got chewed up
Go ultra-minimalist. Just use a rubber band from a bunch of asparagus or other veggie. Inexpensive and you can always replace it for essentially no cost.
I’m a fan of these money clips. It can hold a large number of bills/cards.
Neph gets it.
Yes. I use the Secrid wallets in my front pocket. Has a full metal box around the credit cards and a nifty “flip” lever to push out cards. Had for over ten years now I think and no issues. I will never go back to a bigger wallet or keeping in in my back pocket.
Secrid mini wallet genuine black leather with RFID protection / with one click all cards slide out gradually https://a.co/d/5EDZXNO
When I started having back problems the doc told me to switch to a front pocket wallet, but I really didn’t like it. It made me feel like that weird kid who eats paste. I went back to one of these https://www.amazon.com/Cowhide-Leather-European-Hipster-Bifold/ and am quite happy. The real problem is too many men Costanza it, carrying around everything stuffed into it.
I have this one, 6 years and still in great shape.
Yeesh, don’t any of you have a trusted orphan to carry your money and credit cards when you are out and about? Do you think DOCTOR Jill’s husband or Megan Markle’s consort carry a wallet?
Does Not Compute.
They move around a lot if you carry it in your back pocket. I use this one, its made of a rip stop material and the layout is pretty clever.
https://www.all-ett.com/collections/rfid-wallets
Those remind me of the Velcro “sports” wallets from the 80’s.
Yes, except has RFID protection, no velcro and I can carry 12 cards, some cash and a challenge coin. All while keeping it around 1/4” in thickness.
This discussion made me realize I’ve been carrying the same wallet since before Mrs. Animal and I got married. Quite a while before.
We had our thirtieth anniversary in May. I may be pushing forty years on this wallet.
I told my wife what the exact wallet I wanted for Father’s Day was. I got something “similar”. LOL
I hate tri-fold wallets. Yes, it holds 17 cards, but it stacks them too much.
On the plus side, I will not be putting it in my back pocket…ever. Fortunately I wear pants with cargo pockets most of the time. For other occasions I will transfer what I need to a 4 card deal.
I have this one.
I prefer leather ones. This one is made in WY and the leather is breaking in nicely.
I’m a fan of Coors either Banquet or Light for easy drinking American lager.
And frankly, I’ll take Natty Light over 99% of your shitty IPAs, Stouts, Sours or assorted other pretentious beers that I’m convinced people pretend to like because they think it makes them look unique and sophisticated.
/salty today for some reason
/looks at the Schnitz Classic Kolsch I’m currently drinking
Drink what you enjoy.
I will occasionally drink a Banquet when others are drinking it and I like it. It is the hell and gone from being Natty light though. Not a fan of most IPA’s but some stouts are very good. I have had maybe four beers in the past year so not a great beer reference.
Hmm. Haven’t had the yellow can in a while.
Top notch journalisming
Two people from California’s Central Coast died Wednesday when their 2015 Tesla crashed into a tractor-trailer on the Florida interstate, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
According to the outlet, Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said that the Tesla crashed “for unknown reasons” when it mysteriously drifted into the Paynes Prairie Rest Area and hit the back of a parked freightliner carrying Walmart products. The vehicle was being driven by a 66-year-old woman; a 67-year-old man was in the passenger seat.
According to FHP representatives investigating the crash, it’s still unclear whether the vehicle was on autopilot, how fast it was going or if drugs or alcohol were involved. Tesla crashes aren’t a rare occurrence, which is exactly why billionaire Elon Musk’s company is now involved in an investigation spearheaded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The Verge says that the NHTSA is examining this incident and another fatal crash that reportedly took place in San Diego June 7 when an inebriated driver’s 2018 Model 3 went airborne, hitting and killing a woman.
The car left the highway,entered a rest area, and hit a parked truck. JACKPOT!
“Tesla crashes aren’t a rare occurrence”- SRSLY? Now do Fords.
Or drunk killing someone is car manufacturer’s fault.
And frankly, I’ll take Natty Light over 99% of your shitty IPAs, Stouts, Sours or assorted other pretentious beers
METOO
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Some videos from the pit yesterday. That’s the lead singer of the Bronx in the center of the circle in one and my new personal hero in the other.
Great fun. Thanks Neph.
It was a great crowd, a good show, and exactly what I fucking needed. The girlfriend is now happy with going to punk shows and likes that all of us strange looking people are generally nice and welcoming.
Very nice. I live vicariously through you now.
I’ve never had Natural Light, but I think I’ll just stick with Coors Light for post-hockey or ridiculously hot days.
TMIT(retarded)E
Malice’s fake tweet gets fact-checked.
For real.
LOL. “A fake tweet that was purportedly posted by former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been confusing people online”
Some people are easily confused. Also, what’s the going rate for fact-checkers? Could be an interesting gig when I “retire”.
HA!
God, I love the NY Post.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/hells-kitchen-gay-club-hit-with-discrimination-allegations-suit/
Gay racist entrepreneurs are a thing now? Also, I learned a new vocabulary word.
Pikus was also hostile to the club’s popular Latin nights, telling Sharp, “Make sure your Latin nights are the good kind of Latins, not Blatinos,” using slang for someone of mixed race, according to court papers.
Sounds like a lovers’ snit.
All the rest of that is probably BS.
confusing people online
That’s like clubbing baby seals in a bath tub.