HI, SHIP!
SEA SMITH JOIN WEEKEND FUN. HE WANT DO LINKS LIKE GIANT STONE HEAD AND COUSIN STEVE SMITH! ENJOY LINKS, GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS:
- SEA SMITH EXPECT MANY PUN WHEN READ ARTICLE. “Security at the train station in the town of Dang Dong, on the Chinese border where Kim is expected arrive by train, has also been stepped up.”
- THIS NO SEA SMITH FAULT. ALSO, HOPE NO MINNESODA GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS WERE ON SHIP.
- DICK BRUS DEPOSIT INSTRUMENT? SOUND LIKE JOB FOR SEA SMITH! WAIT, THIS JUST SILLY SHIP THING.
COME ON IN, WATER FINE!
FREE CASCADIA!!!
Dang, Dong.
Minnesota people would have their own boats
Fuckin’ A.
SOUND GOOD SEA SMITH! MAYBE VISIT MINNESOTA.
Time to close down the St Lawrence Seaway.
Land of 10,000 lakes. Lots of opportunity there. And they talk funny.
SEA SMITH MAKE THEM WALK FUNNY TOO
*drops gloves*
Fuck you Spud! We talk normal ya know!
Sorry, I didn’t understand that. Can you repeat what you said in American?
Of course!
*punches Spud in the face*
/ Minnesota Nice
Spud yawns, sips his drink, because he lives in the manliest of time zones.
You live in GMT? All of Man is there.
Ooh, I love mashed potatoes!
Not so fast there, Uncle Ben.
Racist?
Are mashed potatoes a dish you can find there ?
Only if you consider parboiled rice a race.
Made them last night. According to Youtube “You’ve been making them wrong!” Hey Youtube Fucko, hope you die in the adpocalypse.
Normal? Why would you want to be normal?
Hear about that cruise?
Ya. Heck of a deal.
Yesterday I trained jiu-jitsu for 8 hours and today I took the little one swimming and sanded a bunch of cedar beams. I gather that the world is collapsing or something, but I don’t understand why you care.
SEA SMITH ONLY CARE IF LAND HOOMANS GO ON WATER LESS. SEA SMITH THINK GOOD YOU HAVE SMALL LAND HOOMANS LEARN SWIM – SWIM IS BEST THING KNOW!
“Well, it was surprising that we just crashed into the dock, dontchaknow ? But it seemed lovely otherwise. They should have more hotdish, I think.”
I was thinking of the Minnesoda Vikings’ Love Boat.
It was “tore a hole in the hull”. Read more carefully next time.
MikeS’s head pops up at the mention of hotdish and rushes to save all the distressed Minnesota folks
Did someone say hotdish?
@Brianne “You got blacker roots than Kunta Kinte”
-Jeffrey Ross
“On February 20, 2019, Dick Brus, Directorate for Maritime Affairs of the Netherlands, met IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim at IMO Headquarters, London, to deposit the instrument of acceptance.”
AND BY DEPOSIT THE INSTRUMENT OF ACCEPTANCE, MEAN…
THAT WHAT SEA SMITH THINK…BUT JUST PAPER THING. SILLY LAND HOOMANS.
Anybody watching the AAF games this weekend? Thoughts about the league as a whole so far? I think if they can get decent oline/QB play they have a chance to make some noise.
Haven’t watched a game, so I really don’t have an opinion. It’s a development league for the NFL, but then again, so is college football.
NCAA is just the farm teams for the NFL/NBA
The AAF has been smart so far to admit that they’re developmental and not a competitor. Trying to get the product to a level where the NFL feels like they have to bite and buy the league for themselves.
I’m digging it so far. Season ticket holder for the San Diego Fleet.
I appreciate that the league isn’t going for gimmicks like hawt cheerleaders or drama and fisticuffs.
Just good football. Keep it coming.
Nice! I’m in VA and we dont have a team but I root for San Antonio as a former Texan.
How are the tickets? Curious if you think that they are a good deal for the cost?
Yeah, they were a bargain. Got cheap ass seats for $75 per SEASON. Mainly I wanted to show support.
The Fleet play in the old Chargers stadium, so I can’t complain about quality.
The Mr Splosives and I like to perambulate through the stadium and sit at club level bars, so the tickets are just an “in” to the stadium.
Kickoff is in one hour, and we’re debating lazing at home or going.
A couple of months ago we went to the Holiday Bowl in that stadium to see our beloved Big Ten West Champs Northwestern Wildcats throttle Pac12 South Champs Utah on New Year’s Eve. Really loved the big indoor bar on the Club Level, with its big comfy couches, especially as it was raining in San Diego that night.
Having your tix for there sounds fun. Are they also pricing the liquor fairly reasonably?
I didn’t know this existed but now I am interested. Is there anywhere I can watch online?
You can watch the games live on the AAF app or on CBS, Bleacher Report Life, and NFL Network.
The AAF didn’t make payroll on time for the player’s first paycheck. Not a promising start.
I saw that. They got a big cash infusion from an NHL owner, apparently.
It’s not NFL quality football but the games are fast (35 sec playclock with no tv timeouts), they don’t screw around with catch rule minutiae, QB’s are fair game to hit, and they throw fewer flags than the average NfL game. It’s not perfect but I think (hope) there is something here!
“I thought it was crazy,” said Jones. “My daughter was screaming that we were going to die.”
The mating call of millennials.
Were they watch the 2016 election onboard?
And reading about Net Neutrality.
Or global climate change.
“My daughter was screaming that we were going to die.”
And causing her to drop her Subway sandwich
I made a meme of ISIS throwing a gay guy off a roof and he’s clutching his subway sammich. Wish I could find it.
Needs more “I want to die”. What I dislike the most about my cohorts is how often they utter that phrase.
They could have been screaming in jubilation and excitement rather than fear for all we know
In my day the mating calls were “I’m drunk” for the woman and “I’m rich” for the man.
I think they still are, just in less clear language.
The wind has arrived; if I don’t get called out (Volunteer Fire Company) tonight for downed wires, I’ll be amazed.
Nothing more boring than babysitting downed power lines during a storm, while you wait for the power company to show up.
First page in, for mutual aid to adjoining company. I think I’ll wait.
It’s struck SW Ohio. I already heard from Jugsy, “I think something came off my garage”.
Upon inspection, it was the drip-edge.
I kinda hope it takes down any trees and stuff that plan on coming down in the next couple years. At least if the 60ft oaks decide to fall on the house, the Mrs and the baby aren’t here.
OT:
In an effort to keep my mind preoccupied on things other than the personal drama in my family, I’ve been trying to figure out whether I should replace some five-decades-old, 8ohm, 5W loudspeakers in a really groovy set of tubular speakers (genuine woodgrain! bitchin’ design!) with some modern, all-in-one, 3-way speakers meant for cars. I’ve been looking online at places like PartsExpress (curse them for not having free shipping to Canada like Digikey and Mouser do!) as well as Amazon, Aliexpress, Banggood and a few others.
Is this even worth it, or will I just be buying as many problems as I’m trying to solve? I really like the design aesthetic of these 70s-era speakers, but I’m unsure whether “upgrading” like this will do any good. The replacement loudspeakers available for cars are all 4 ohm impedance (not a deal-breaker for me but certainly a consideration), but in side-by-side sound tests with some mid-range Sony 3-way 6 ohm bookshelf speakers, the tubular 70s ones sound like crap.
Anyone here build their own speakers? Any words of wisdom?
LH is your man.
OMWC handed me a set of drawings in the mid ’90s. He said, “here, build these and then call me”. After they were built, he handed me a list of components and several websites. He said, “here, buy this stuff and then bring them over to my place with the cabinets”. Those monoliths are still rocking it as my front speakers. The only addition has been adding a digital crossover and tri-amping them.
I wouldn’t mind learning a lot more about active crossovers, that’s for sure.
Are you trying to revive the futa furry anime discussion from the other night?
I musta missed that one.
I already had an awesome set of speakers, I was really surprised at the quality increase with the digital crossovers.
Yeah, I’m still screwing up the courage to pull the trigger on Douglas Self’s The Design of Active Crossovers (2nd ed.) and just go all audio nerd. My poor spousal unit.
This is what I have.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/DCX2496–behringer-ultra-drive-pro-dcx2496?mrkgcl=28&mrkgadid=3301332675&rkg_id=0&product_id=DCX2496&campaigntype=shopping&campaign=aaShopping%20-%20SKU%20-%20Live%20Sound%20%26%20Lighting&adgroup=PA%20Systems%20%26%20Speakers%20-%20Behringer%20-%20dcx2496&placement=google&adpos=1o1&creative=280136034892&device=m&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx_7NzszV4AIVjpTtCh2b6gSuEAQYASABEgJUOvD_BwE
Yowza! LOOK AT ALL THEM BLINKENLIGHTS! ;-)
Go digital. It’s 2019 for shit’s sake. Behringer DCX2496 or one of the miniDSP units will work great.
*Lights the OMWC signal*
SEA SMITH ONLY KNOW SOUND LIKE WHALE CALL. HE THINK YOU NEED OMWC OR LORD HUMMUNGUS ANSWER QUESTION.
Keep in mind that I’m not trying to build The Mother of All Hi-Fi Speakers™ here — for one thing, my 60-year-old ears barely hear anything above about 12 KHz without really cranking the volume up. Nevertheless, I can still hear crap in the mid-range, and it irks me.
12 K? You are a young and lucky man. OTOH not hearing too much can be a blessing a lot of the time, too.
Parts express and chrutchfield should have standalone speakers that could be integrated into the original cabinet.
They do (at least, sort of). Part of me thinks that I should just get a decently-rated wide-range driver in the 6″ range and call it a day, or a 6.5″ 2- or 3-way driver and use one of those. But I’m not acoustically savvy enough to know whether just doing a blind swap is a good idea or if I’m just wasting time and money.
One thing to consider is the active speakers from Vanatoo. I have a pair of them and in all honesty, they give me 80% of what my monster state-of-the-art multiamped 5 ways do. Versatile- they’ll take an analog input, optical, or Bluetooth, and they have a remote control.
After doing a quick look at the website based on your question, I ordered a Bluetooth speaker boom box kit from parts express.
I’ve wanted to make a high powered version modern version of the 80’s boom box with a Li ion battery and they have a well equipped kit.
BTW, best sources are Parts Express and Madisound.
When are we gonna hear from Snow Smith??
When he gets rid of his mammoth case of blue balls?
SEA SMITH TELL FROZEN NORTH LAND HOOMAN – WAIT FOR LATER IN WEEK COMING UP. THERE BE ARTICLE ON SMITHS.
Winter is over. Puxatawnny Phil totally pwn’d him.
Meh. I’m ready for thunderstorm season.
If he’s local it may still be awhile. I think he has a cave and he’s snowed in.
WATER FINE!
But is it?
YES. IT FINE!
not at all
I tell ya what…
Bug-eyes won’t let it go.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff insisted Sunday he’s willing to take the Justice Department to court over Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s forthcoming final report on the Russia investigation, which sources tell Fox News is wrapping up.
The DOJ’s inspector general sharply criticized former FBI Director James Comey for publicly outlining the bureau’s case against then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016 without finding criminal wrongdoing worthy of prosecution. Against that backdrop, it appeared unlikely the DOJ would be eager to release any findings by Mueller of noncriminal misconduct — but Schiff, D-Calif., suggested he has several tools to take matters into his own hands.
“We will obviously subpoena the report,” Schiff told George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ “This Week.” “We will bring Bob Mueller in to testify before Congress; we will take it to court if necessary. And in the end, I think the department understands they’re going to have to make this public.”
Am I the only person completely unbothered by Robert Kraft’s hobbies in Florida? Dude is a widower so he isn’t hurting a spouse, “masseuse” was a willing worker who made a transaction.
What is the friggin big deal?
You are not the only one.
It’s the chicks. They have been hammering the human trafficking thing like crazy.
If the girls were held against their wills, I say crucify the fucker, but otherwise it’s just a business deal.
Amen, brother!
If the girls were held against there wills.
1. Charging them is evil
2. but not as evil as setting up cameras for months to bust Johns instead of going in and rescuing them
But they probably were not actually held against their will. The ‘coercion’ (in the US, there is skeevy crap that happens in eastern Europe and in Asia) that gets talked about so much usually boils down to the girls not having a lot of options to make the kind of money they make hooking. In other words the same ‘coercion’ that makes all of us go to work.
Did ya ever notice? Its always the old ugly women that seem to be worried about sex trafficking
Andy Rooney voice
Penis. Triggers some people.
ZARDOZ-like people.
Dammit
THIS SEA SMITH LINKS NOT ZARDOZ!
What happens when ZARDOZ discovers the amount of penis the SMITHS are slinging? Does ZARDOZ get RAPED? Do SMITHS get CLEANSED? Does the typesetter run out of caps?
I think ZARDOZ end up in the middle of a SMITH FAMILY circle jerk.
Irresistible rape meets immovable anus.
ZARDOZ is cool with it as long as the seed release doesn’t create new life.
No seed creating more brutals.
As others say, if it’s consensual then it’s just a business deal.
I’m not bothered by it. I’ve never believed that sex qua “the act” is, in and of itself, something incredibly special. Like all human interactions, it can become damn near transcendent with the right person, but there are a lot of lonely people out there that just want some physical intimacy and may, in fact, have given up on anything more being available for them. I don’t see why we should block them.
What is the friggin big deal?
SOMETHING SOMETHING PENIC ERECTION SOMETHING SOMETHING SEED OF LIFE
/ZARDOZ
Is there some sort of morals clause associated with owning an NFL franchise, i.e. could he be forced to sell the team if he’s convicted of something?
I remember Marge Schott had to divest a baseball team a while back because of intemperate remarks. And didn’t some old guy had to sell his NBA team because he said bad things?
Vice cops are about the most evil people on earth.
Add that he’s a Friend of Trump.
So much for my lazy snowed-n Sunday.
As I mentioned this morning, we got our Sabbath-enabled stove/range delivered yesterday. It’s been sitting in the middle of the kitchen awaiting the arrival of the gas guy to make the gas connection tomorrow morning. At about 4;30 I just happen to notice the thing’s electric outlet (the ovens are electric). Is that really a 110 outlet? Yep. Seems the new stuff is 120v 15A. We got a good old 220V 50A plug in the wall. Damn. Hop in the little Fiesta ST and head to the hardware store in the snow strom for the stuff for a 110 outlet. Winter hours! They closed at 4:00! Drive home and try to park the little Ford in what’s about a foot of snow. Stuck! Blizzaks don’t help much when you have no ground clearance and the tires aren’t touching the ground. It’s now high centered on the snow. At least it’ s close enough to the curb.
Grrrr. I’ve got some 14 ga wire and the box is easy to get at from the basement so I can at least run the wire tonight and get a breaker in the morning. Hopefully, I can get it done before the gas guy gets here.
You want to keep the 220V? If not you can turn it into 120V without fishing new line assuming it is in good condition.
Sorry about the rest of the adventure.
As you noted you will need a new breaker of course.
The line is like 6 ga or something – hard to connect to a 15A plug.
Not sure having such an overbuild line is a good idea. Fishing the new wire was not a big deal -not usually the case.
For sure!
Like you I’m shocked that your combo range only needs 120V.
Yeah.. The top burners are gas and ovens electric. I’ve installed ovens before and they’ve always been 220. Seems real strange
Neat thing is I was shocked at the main service when I took the cover off – it’s a work of art inside. Whoever re-wired this place really took pride in his work.
1800W seems awfully low for cooking.
Yeah, I put in new all gas range. Naturally it also needs AC. However, in my ancient house the range and the microwave shared the same circuit.
The old one had no problem with this, but the new one drew enough current that about every 10th time you used the oven and the microwave at the same time it would trip the breaker.
That made for a fun all day weekend project of running a dedicated 20A line. And in my case the 120V ran the control circuits and oven ignition. What drew the full rated 15A requirement was igniting the gas oven.
The Umbrella Academy may be the finest comic book video performance yet made. I just finished episode 8, and I got the same “I can’t believe they just did that” feeling that I got when I read the Red Wedding.
There is one gripe I have about it: the show is obviously set in 1991, but they keep pretending (via dates shown onscreen) that it’s set present-day. Hint: if you’re pretending it’s 2019, have at least one cellphone somewhere in the goddamn show.
We watched it this week and I did like it. I had the same gripe about the anachronistic issues.
Well, with my rotator cuffs out of commission the last couple of years, I’m deconditioned, but now that one shoulder’s fixed, I gotta ramp back up on the DIY. First thing I need to do is clear out the front gutter over the porch and here I am dreading carting my ladder around.
Of course, it’s freezing outside and gonna be for a couple more weeks, so I can leave that to a warmer day, right?
Wrap the kids in pillows and toss them up there to clean the gutters! Kids are resistant to breakage anyway.
Yes, wait a couple days at least… High of 41 Tuesday — put Mr. Mo or the kids to work!
Well, it’s either that or cleaning, which I avoid like the plague.
Don’t you have more important things to do, like focus on your book?
Um…my book. Yeah, about that…
I know how you feel. My house was spotless when I was writing my dissertation. I couldn’t be expected to write when the floors were dirty…
BINGO!!!!
That’s a definite “yes”.
I’m at that point in life where my time/physical health is more valuable than my money, so I generally hire people to do the dirty work.
Cooking is therapy though, so I’ll spend hours in the kitchen for that stuff.
To each his own.
I like doing that stuff. Keeps me active and relatively strong. As long as I have steel-toed boots and good leather gloves, I feel kind of invincible.
Parent-teacher conferences this afternoon at my kid’s elementary school. Last time we had one, my kid’s teacher only looked at my wife and refused to make eye contact with me. She’d answer my questions, but by addressing the answer to my wife. My kid comes in at the end of the meeting and greets us with a “Konnichiwa” while staring at her feet. “That’s so rude, Honey. Look at people when you’re talking to them.” That earned me a solid kick under the table from the wife.
That would piss me off. It’s a shame your wife doesn’t speak English. Imagine the fun of her asking questions in English and you repeating them in Japanese.
I’ve told you my friend I practice Japanese and English by me speaking Japanese and she replying in English. That has gotten us some very strange looks when we do that where other people can overhear.
It doesn’t bother me that much because I realize it’s some kind of psychological problem. The kid’s music teacher is the same way. The goofy personality quirks that abound here aren’t worth getting worked up over unless I want to be angry every single day.
That’s healthy. I’m assuming the teachers are generally trying to do right for your daughter.
From our conversations their discomfort with you doesn’t extend to your daughter.
Just from looking at her, people can’t tell she’s a half breed so that tends to tamp down on the more overt othering.
So which is it? I’ve heard both “look down when bowing, otherwise you are saying the person is going to attack you” and “Look at the person you are bowing to otherwise you are saying they’re not worth paying attention to.”
Sure. When bowing, but not when you’re having a conversation. This is Japan and not that looney peninsula across the Sea of Japan.
There’s a joke in Finland:
Q: How can you tell a Finnish person is interested in you?
A: When he talks to you, he looks at your shoes, not his.
I thought that was engineers…
Dance of love
https://wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi/wiki/Tango_in_Finland
Steaks Fried in Ale – A Recipe from The Art of Cookery
Deliciouis. I want to try their mushroom ketchup recipe.
@Spud: Remember how white I told you this place is? Well, I just saw one of the fire engines. That fucker was white as well.
Greetings, OMWC! Canucks FTW
L! How’s KC?
KC has been rather Minnesoda-like this winter, but the food and beer are still good. Hope your work travels bring you back sometime soon.
Pension reform? What kind of sorcery is this?!
5-year old sorcery based upon the date of the article. I’m too lazy to look up the outcome, but I assume our neighbors to the north did not blink.
If we are all going to die in 12 years from guzzoline and cow farts, why are people so worked up about pensions?
Yep. Knew that. Has to do with the heat.
You need to go upthread and answer BEAM’s question.
I did. You need to refresh more.
You are fucking senile. Go read comment 9.
You’re fucking senile, I have TWO responses in that comment cluster.
TWO.
There should be three.
I see two fingers. TWO FINGERS.
What I need now is someone skilled at woodworking who will swap cabinet work for drivers and crossovers.
I’d offer up my woodworking services, but I’m unfortunately far away.
He may be senile but he fucks at the other end of the senescence curve.
It also has to do with visibilty. White and yellow are actually better than red.
Look, this fucking town is as white as Los Dyers’s penis.
Congrats, as a swarthy jooh, you’re a minority.
JOOZ
It’s Arizona. Anything vehicle darker than a sandy color will be fucking miserable in the middle of summer.
…and/or deported.
Remy: Better Now?
“Grabbing wieners like I’m Kevin Spacey.”
savagery in musical form.
That was pretty dark.
Somehow I missed this Remy when it came out.
Slutty Sunday for SEA SMITH.
http://archive.li/bfG1C
8, 10, 12, 24 por favor.
Do I see SEA SMITH sneaking up on 31?
Work keeps me from…researching this, but I appreciate this very much.
Aomori.
I’m jealous. Northern Honshu and Hokkaido collectively are the third best places on Earth.
The winter is brutal here, but besides that, it’s very nice. If you ever find yourself in Nippon, hit it up during the early fall or late spring. Unless you REALLY REALLY love snow.
“Unless you REALLY REALLY love snow”
Snow and cold are my thing. Money/language/professional/personal life no object:
1. Fairbanks
2. Silverton, CO
3. Asahikawa
4. Novosibirsk
5. Yellowknife
What are the first two?
See above.
38’s thiccness ftw:
https://archive.li/bfG1C/ff3d93ba4abc8241232612ca6c58c923d5797821
What do you do when the voices in your head say that they are having a private conversation and ask for some privacy?
Take another drink.
I politely step outside for a smoke and let them finish.
Watch the ending of Fight Club?
You’re paying for the roof over their heads, so they aren’t entitled to privacy.
You are a writer are you not? I think in that case the voices are paying for the roof over your head and should be given their way.
Ha! If they actually paid their way, I wouldn’t mind, but they are heavily subsidized.
Furniture was delivered. So comfy. Time for a martini.
Cheers Glbs. https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/wRN4w1gLTK2qORcIWen4HQ.uaFc0vaUsUimne2Rl6zpl3
Are those garlic, almond, or cheese stuffed olives?
Provolone stuffed.
So cooking question, since this group seems to have at least one member that knows everything. Is there a method for cooking potatoes in a soup or stew that prevents them from turning into nasty gritty messes when the soup or stew is frozen and then reheated?
The mother in law puts a lid inside the pan (not one that sits on the top of the pan) when steaming them. The potatoes keep their shape and taste great. Try that and then adding them to the stew at the end.
They are fine when it is eaten hot, I have the timing etc for adding them to the pot pretty well mastered. It is when I freeze the leftovers and reheat them that the grittiness happens.
I’ve never found a good way. I just don’t think they freeze very well, but you might look for ideas from once a month cooking books or websites.
Same thing happens when I reheat my frozen curry. No idea how to overcome that. Maybe vacuum sealed before freezing.
Nope. The water inside the potatoes crystallizes and expands when frozen. The potatoes don’t stand a chance.
Best way is to learn to enjoy them in the mushy state. Mrs Fourscore’s advice
What kind of potatoes do you use? Something waxy does better, but still not good in my opinion.
Lately mostly Yukon Gold.
No, you can’t freeze potatoes cooked in a soup or stew because by adding water the starch is hydrolyzed.
However, can preserve soup with potatoes by canning it.
That was what I was afraid of. Oh well.
Isn’t that kind of the point?
http://tennesseestar.com/2019/02/21/commentary-radically-transforming-the-nation-our-politicized-schools-of-education/
I am glad I never heard of any of those names in the top 10 authors list until now. Teachers at least had me read “unwoke” content like To Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey, pretty much most of Shakespeare’s plays, and A Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich.
From the previous thread, “Then I became involved with a beautiful woman who believed that the value of Truth was in its utility, and had extremely persuasive arguments for that point of view (and by very persuasive arguments I mean “but dat ass doe.”)” After giving it deep thought, I’ve concluded that ass is in fact the basis of all philosophy:
Heraclitus – You can’t eat the same ass twice.
Plato – All asses are mere reflections of a perfect ass.
Aristotle – Ass exists because it has the qualities of ass.
Confucius – I say, “Don’t be an ass.”
Upanishads – The power is in your ass.
Augustine – Ass is by the grace of god.
Aquinas – Christ, what an ass!
Luther – I have reasons why I’m tired of your ass.
Mill – Ass is good because it makes me happy.
Kierkegaard – I have faith that ass is good.
Descartes – I fart, therefore I have an ass.
Hume – Ass exists because I can’t stop thinking about ass.
Kant – Ass is my experience with ass.
Locke – You own your own ass, and the fruits of its labor.
Schopenhauer – If you have the will, you will get some ass.
Nietzsche – Stop at nothing to get ass!
Hegel – Ass is opposed by an opposite ass, resulting in another ass:
Marx – Everyone deserves ass.
Thoreau – I’m not paying for your ass.
Freud – Tell me about your mother’s ass.
Newton – An ass on the couch stays at rest.
Boole – There are 10 kinds of ass, male and female.
Godel – Any formal collection of ass will be incomplete.
Santayana – Those who cannot remember the ass are doomed to repeat it.
Hayek – Fear not too little ass, but too much of it.
Heidegger – The “being” of my “ass” is thinking about my “ass”.
Baudrillard – The appearance of “Ass” [is] a generation [origin] without “reality”.
Derrida – This is the “real” meaning of pulling out things of my ass.
Foucault – There are subjugated “asses”.
Beauvoir – Ass is a construction of the patriarchy.
Lane – We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white asses.
Rothbard – Leave my ass alone.
LOL
And not a single thing about Demi Rose…
?
thicc?
http://www.gotceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/photos/demi-rose/in-black-bikini-on-photoshoot-in-ibiza/Demi-Rose-in-Black-Bikini-on-Photoshoot-in-Ibiza–04-662×995.jpg
A Demi Rose a day keeps the sticcness away?
Nice. Rand: My ass is not for sale.
But she’ll let a hot guy like Howard Roark rape it.
Let rape? Bobby Knight logic.
And Ayn Rand logic. Dominique Francon seemed perfectly happy to have Roark rape her.
Rand: “IF it was rape, it was rape by engraved invitation.”
Oh crap, how did I forget to add Ayn Rand?
*applause*
“Freud – Tell me about your mother’s ass.” So many good ones (nice work!), but I LOL’d at this.
For tactical AR-15 exercises, the single best upgrade you can make to your rifle is an ambi safety.
Fight me.
Are you planning to get shot in your right hand?
You can put it back on safe with your right hand as you lower the rifle while you extricate from the trigger guard.
I was skeptical until a guy at the range today showed me.
Now I’m a believer.
I’m not an AR guy, but I fastidiously do everything with a rifle shouldered, eying downrange through the sights, pretty much regardless of firearm, so I wouldn’t even drop it from my shoulder before thumbing off.
To me it’s just discipline: I am always thinking about my shot and staying as ready as possible at all times; I started this with rimfire bolts to become as fast and as effective as possible and just never unlearned the habit. Am I crazy?
“Am I crazy?”
Yes but not for that reason. If you’re staying in a ready position, then you’re 100% right. I’m thinking mostly of exercise-type work in which you’re raising and lowering repeatedly for the muscle memory.
However, your belief that SEC girls are #1 is insane when *clearly* Pac-12 girls are the hottest. I’ll grant that SEC is a close second, but I shan’t cede more ground than that.
Pac-12 and SEC both have their appeal, but the SEC girls are better during the seduction stage. Southern flirtatiousness is charming and funny, Valley girl or AZ State girl… I’ll pass on that conversation.
My grading is probably slanted; I favorably rate a girl by her
a/ shrimp and grits
b/ ability to back a horse trailer
c/ urge to max out tax-sheltered investments
d/ speed stuffing magazines
e/ reticence to adjust furniture layouts
f/ smoothness in following an underarm turn
g/ credibility whilst pretending my mother is reasonable
Reasonable men might have other needs.
yeah, that was a softball of a question
I suddenly like your idea of exercise-type work; I’ve probably spent too much time shooting prone.
As to women, follow your bliss, but don’t fuck with these bitches.
Championship in 2 weeks.
https://www.wvgazettemail.com/outdoors/portable-range-allows-wvu-to-host-ncaa-national-rifle-tournament/article_c6a70520-9bdf-5eec-8c9b-e1a8e5f805a8.html
“To me it’s just discipline: I am always thinking about my shot and staying as ready as possible at all times;” I do the same. It’s best to be consistent.
a safety helps tactically?
how ’bout fluting the mag well ? everything else is just about feel or preference, but faster easier swaps never hurt
To that end, extended mag and bolt release levers are really helpful too.
But I dig the ambi safety. Ordered one tonight.
As a lefty, I can’t argue with this.
^^^^
I thought all leftys hated ARs?
Before deflectors became a standard feature, you would be right.
I do collect eastern bloc guns, so there’s that…
I’d go with optics. Ambi-safety not even on my extensive list of wants.
Huh.
I would have gone with buy an AK.
^^ Russian Bot
Plum is sexy.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/vYoYXS_sSWi_wQpuZM9Aug.yPrH4bO1Rs0eMMgXeVub9L
That’s pretty sweet, what model?
5.45×39
Yeah, it’s a century build…but it’s been flawless…exceptional even. Kvar plum furniture.
I don’t own own an AK but have shot them a couple if times and really loved them. Was very accurate offhand at distance, even the first time picking up.
Strikefire II red dot?
Dood, FDR was so the man and people called him a socialist but he was the man and totes saved Amerikkka even though it was so racist and it’s so racist still but maybe it can be like totes less racist and sooper awesome with like public works n shit! Gimme one more toke, but then I’m done cause I have to get up early for Sociology in the morning.
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-socialism-20190213-story.html
Maybe people called it socialist because it WAS socialist?
Tonight I realized how much our 3 year old is like our Australian Shepherd. For example when we boarded our Aussie she figured out how to escape a pen by stacking dog beds to climb out. Our Aussie also eats her own shit. My daughter showed me tonight that she can write her name forwards and backwards. She also drinks the bath water while taking a bath. Amazing how they can do something so brilliant followed by something so stupid.
And for some reason that came in as a reply again. Going back to Chrome, Firefox sucks.
Ro-Tel and Velveeta queso.
Fight me.
Got no issues with that.
As long as the Rotel is spicy, then we’re in agreement.
Otherwise, you are objectively wrong.
I married my wife for her queso (among other things). Turned out to be rotel and Velveeta.
“I married my wife for her queso”
Go on…
I would, but the story is a bit cheesy.
She melted your heart?
I make her cheddar clothes and then I monterrey jack it.
That’s the best way to avoid an unplanned 3rd kid. Ask me how I know.
You brie you.
this is the limit of the maturity of married life with NewWife.
We have no plans to mature whatsoever.
That was corny
That was cute.
Taco Bell has the best queso.
*blocked*
Believe it or not, the best fish taco place in my area uses this:
https://www.amazon.com/Taco-Bell-374231-Chipotle-Sauce/dp/B0057AAJYU/
Wait you are a surfer, were headed up to Mammoth recently, and are a fish taco fan? Did you play World of Warcraft by any chance? (lol sorry I used to play with a dude who worked in a small brewery in Mammoth, was a surfer, and obsessed with fish tacos.)
Yes, yes, yes. No video games. I play Mario Kart with the kids, that’s it.
Is there another way?
Just add a small can of chopped hatch peppers.
I went with these instead:
https://www.instacart.com/smart-final/products/2490143-montecito-nacho-silced-jalapenos-32-fl-oz
Shouldn’t queso be made with cheese?
And you have forced me to agree with you! Velveeta is an abomination before the God of Cheese. American cheese is fake cheese to begin with and velveeta is bad even for american cheese. It is margarine cheese.
Playa probably thinks Pringles are potato chips.
I don’t eat potato chips, or pretty much any fried carbohydrates.
It’s like I don’t even know you.
Trader Joe’s have discontinued their parsnip chips. ?
If you don’t use American cheese or Velveeta in queso, what are you using? Something in the neighborhood of colby jack, maybe with a mild cheddar? Then some cream, or maybe a whole milk, over a low flame until you get the right consistency? Congratulations. You’ve just made American cheese.
Congratulations. You’ve just made American cheese.
except without cornoil.
Not all American cheese has corn oil, only the really cheap crappy stuff.
If I’m going that route, I add a little bit of Sodium Citrate too.
You’re basically deconstructing into process cheese anyway, so this saves some work.
100%. Queso is about texture, and Velveeta melts to the perfect consistency.
Add a little milk or cream and butter. Then it’s perfect.
Wasn’t this from the Book of Revelations?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6739349/GREEN-snow-falling-polluted-Russian-towns-sparks-widespread-environmental-protests.html
It’s totally safe, nothing to worry about. Go about your business.
https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0802-freakish-green-snow-in-the-urals-and-its-not-eco-snow/
So they built a retention system, which they then pump out when it gets full… And this accident is just because the pumped out crap ‘accidentally’ ended up on the surface, instead of where it was meant to go (in the water table I presume). And I am supposed to let the heirs of communism direct me in environmental undertakings?
On the menu for dinner: Hot and sour soup, then mu shu vegetables. Yes, cultural appropriation.
Wait you aren’t Jewish?
And it isn’t a holiday?
We had General Tso’s for dinner.
Are you going to whirl in some egg?
Stir gently, not whirl. That way, you get more of a ribbon effect.
Jerk pork. Awesome.
Beef strogranoff again – да!
It isn’t Christmas.
Not on the menu tonight:
Whatever that circle jerk is on TV.
Overheard something along these lines a moment ago:
” . . . thank the producers for respecting African aristocracy . . . .” or some such
confirming my notion that most of my neighbors are evil bastards who would rejoice in a dictator so long as it was their dictator.
I am overhearing it from the living room because the wife is watching. When she was out of the room I did turn the volume down.
Thoughts, prayers, etc.
Ditto. Shocker, I know, but it’s another episode of collective fart-huffing. I don’t know why I’m still surprised at just how disconnected Hollywood is from the rest of the country.
I hope they’re fighting the power and/or smashing the system.
They were all very brave. My eyes rolled so hard I’m currently looking at the inside of my scalp.
PS. Perusing the winner’s list. Disgusted with the fact that it’s all Oscar-bait. Maybe it’s still different with the foreign films; I dunno.
Brie Larson looked surprisingly good on TV.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6741025/Brie-Larson-makes-family-affair-brings-little-sister-Milaine-Desaulniers-Academy-Awards.html
If her friend she and her friend were in street clothes and the friend had a better hair do, I think the friend would look better.
Jaws is a terrible movie.
if only Steely Dan had written the theme music
Best Steely Dan song.
Fight me.
That’s not a bad choice, I would probably go with Kid Charlemagne.
Lol.
How about something else?
I could noodle along with that album five nights a week if I had nothing better to do
I love it. And it’s not even my kind of music.
Makes me want to smoke cigs and drink rye all night.
drink Scotch whiskey all night long ?
And die behind the wheel!
Deacon Blues? Deacon Blues?
That’s a great album.
I’ll fight you.
This is better.
Fagen on his own dont count.
Bullshit. Fagen on his own is better.
When I total up sax and drumming, Aja
but I’m a guitarist, and Josie seems more original than any of the other guitar work
Ricki is cool
Needs MOAR Skunk Baxter.
*Drops gloves*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfQTY_K-_o
Hey Nineteen.
Of course, the lyrics are just an excuse to play, but I must say that’s the strongest music to weakest lyrics ratio in the Fagen pantheon.
Conversely, the best lyrics with the weakest lyrics is New Frontier.
You’re not mad about Brubeck?
I can listen to that but playing in 5/4 makes my head hurt.
Take Five is great, but it’s hardly the only jazz in five.
I like this one, too.
I find piano tunes are really hard to play on guitar ( goofy keys like F and chords that are easy on a keyboard but a bunch of work; Carol King is weird that way too, but I’m sure if I had the sheets it’s not bad at all, who knows)
but Deacon Blues just falls in place, and jumping between chording along and little single note fills is effortless . . . the song just fits my nerves like pretty much no other piano tune
Ya’ll just walked right past this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9QVNbUPzgM
You are all wrong
I’ve always been very fond of this one.
Those are both great.
Wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKAC7t0P65o
You need to watch the next two before you pass judgement.
at least it cut out all the talk of erections from the novel.
*whisper* I have never seen Jaws. *whisper*
You don’t drink either, so…
You should, it’s a great movie. And a great book.
How can all of you be so wrong? Steely Dan has many great tunes, but this is objectively their best one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fkP8P21OjI
You’re can’t pick a song that’s one of their greatest hits, you gotta go with an obscure song to show how cool, edgy, and better than regular people you are.
He’s right, that’s what I did….
Here’s another proving that I’m even coolerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy2G6TlRMUQ
Both of your picks are on the greatest hits CD. Also your Bad Sneakers link is broked.
Yeah, I’ve never seen the greatest hits cd. I just like the early stuff that doesn’t get much airtime. In my mind, I’m cool for that reason. Don’t much matter who agrees.
I don’t make the rules. If the track is on the GH it ain’t cool and edgy. It’s science or sommat.
any world
Wait, Steely Dan has GREATEST hits? sounds like I could sue for false advertisement. Find me a TV lawyer STAT!
This guy gets it. If only for Skunk Baxter’s work on that track.
Skunk Baxter the missile defense expert?
Jaws would have to be a lot better than it is to even reach the level of “a terrible movie.” It is the Joe Besser of big fish films.
Did you even watch Big Fish?
That movie made me bawl.
I’ve been working on a story based on stories my dad told for years, after he died it became too depressing to actually work on, I hope to someday be able to write, if not for fame and fortune at least for the generations that never heard the stories from him.
OMWC is the 1970’s japanese amplifier of film critics.
Punkin pie night, Glibbies!
LDS Thanksgiving already ?
The week’s breakfasts for the kids.
With whipped cream?
Is it really pumpkin pie without it?
I don’t love them THAT much.
Lol
Word.
Because the loudest and therefore media attention whores are the ones who grew up on Modern Family
Magnetic flux compression. As fun as it sounds..
http://now.northropgrumman.com/powerful-magnetic-energy-blows-up-a-lab/
Holy cow.
Interesting and relevant to my line of work.
Not for my job, but my job isn’t as fun as yours:)
Good thing they weren’t using it to power a Delorean.
Wyoming.
https://apnews.com/76e7c9eb60f14db98c855ef680d43adb
Here’s a novel idea. School year runs March through whenever the snows make the roads “impassable”.
(I call bullshit. Where exactly are the parents living? Don’t go to the store for months on end?)
Went in to the local REI. What a joke. You’d think a purported outdoor store would have baselayers in stock. Nope. Limited selection and limited sizing, mostly smalls. Icing on the cake is the men’s and women’s clothing sections have zero clear signage to differentiate them. I’m just going to speculate why that is.
Baselayers are racist.
That’s what it’s all about
They cater to the skinny jeans crowd not surprised by the sizing.
Didn’t used to be like that. Even for the skinny jeans crowd, the selection was limited.
REI in the 1970’s and early 80’s was awesome. Great climbing and outdoors gear at good prices and the annual rebate. But they encountered the same question that Patagucci did and answered it in the same way. Both are nominally for climbers and outdoors folks but their real target demographic is people with money who want to signal while in the city.
That’s a good read. Unfortunately they seem to have moved far beyond the nominal part. Oh well, walked out with my wallet unused.
https://nypost.com/2018/03/02/rei-drops-key-supplier-of-outdoor-gear-because-it-also-makes-guns/
I try to help them as little as possible
They’ve spammed my mailbox ever since then. I don’t think it has worked well for them.
I can’t go for that.
No can do.
Man, feeling my age 🙂
Hey kiddo, we should just be happy to be here!
Here’s another for you.
Ha ha! This song was playing on the speakers at the gas station when I was filling up earlier and some homeless dude close to me was singing along loudly and dancing.
And while reading the posts and clinking on your link, I happen to be listening to this sweet H&O cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Oc1UE7SS4
We saw Hall and Oates in concert last summer, with opening band Train.
It was a helluva show.
It’s easy to poke fun at Hall and Oates but they really did come up with a lot of catchy tunes, which were fun to hear again after thirty years.
The whole stadium (yes, they filled Oakland Coliseum Arena, where the Golden State Warriors play) was up and dancing the whole night long.
I enjoy Daryl Hall’s home studio show. It’s kind of a blend of a jam session and a talk show.
“Live from Daryl’s House”
Worth googling
I love it. The Cee Lo episode is one of my faves.
Mostly because of this!
As a young metal head I dismissed Hall and Oates as just another cheesy pop band, but as I got older I started liking more and more of their songs. I would definitely go see them live.
To hayeksplosives, Daryl’s House is great. He’s got a top notch band. I just found out about it a few years ago when watching Grace Potter videos and she was on there. I love how Daryl’s morphed into Jeff Lebowski.
It’s easier to poke fun at Train.
It’s tough to write one good pop song. Hall and Oates had a dozen great ones. It’s underapprecaited. Pop ain’t easy.
Unless you’re that guy that raped Shakira, he seemed really successful.
Que?
Second that, C. Shakira was raped? She looks like she might be able to kick an ass or two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5fxlqltJw
Me neither.
Separated the 13 year old spawns to their own rooms. Peace in the Southwest once again…
Repost because somehow I managed to post this as a reply.
Tonight I realized how much our 3 year old is like our Australian Shepherd. For example when we boarded our Aussie she figured out how to escape a pen by stacking dog beds to climb out. Our Aussie also eats her own shit. My daughter showed me tonight that she can write her name forwards and backwards. She also drinks the bath water while taking a bath. Amazing how they can do something so brilliant followed by something so stupid.
Ha!
“ Amazing how they can do something so brilliant followed by something so stupid.”
This often occurs to me now that I manage a team of brilliant physicists and engineers.
Hell, I come up with some spectacular fails myself alarmingly often.
One time I was at a concert and bought the T-shirt on the way out. I remarked to a friend, “Huh, I wonder why there’s a pink smudge on it.”
The band? The Legendary Pink Dots.
Dogs are perpetual toddlers.
You’re not supposed to drink bath water?
Dogs and toddlers run on pretty much the same circuitry, as far as I can tell.
One more before I bail out.
I hope y’all have a great night!
Well, one plus one.
Damn.
Love Sylvester.
Is it wrong that I always get a chuckle out of the “midget standing tall” line in Stand!
Been reading a few Don Winslow novels with “war on drugs” story lines. If half of what he puts in his novels are based on facts, the amount of corruption associated with the War has totally ruined our justice system, fucked up foreign policy, co-opted the politicians, and shown any “investigative” impulses from the journalist class to be non-existent. I don’t know how anyone could read one of his novels and not come out completely cynical towards both the Left and Right.
Easily obtained, easy to plant on suspects and difficult from them to disprove. Illegal drugs are the perfect way for govt to flex it’s power.
FFS. At least 50 Microsoft employees have demanded the company back out of a deal with the US military to provide augmented reality technology. 50 isn’t that many.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47339774
I can’t take this action seriously without the contributions of a few wise pre-teens.
50 people just made HR’s job of finding who to terminate a little easier.
What we’ve learned tonight:
Glibbies love them some Steely Dan. All you Tulpa haters can fuck off.
Something I learned on Saturday night. Met a friend for drinks and he’s a big Trump guy, but has some libertarian leanings. I into’d him to glibs a few weeks ago and asked him what he thought. He said it was interesting, but he’d never join in commenting because everything seems to be an inside joke. I probably shouldn’t have responded with “STEVE SMITH NEVER JOKE INSIDE”. *True story apart from my response
Hey we didn’t put in a decade or more of work into this for nothing.
I spent very little time on TOS, and that was several years ago. Tell him the secret is to jump in, call everyone Tulpa and tell a couple of dick jokes.
We need an article explaining all the inside jokes for the lurkers.
There was something like that for TOS at one time. Don’t remember the URL.
The jokes I get…I chuckle at. Those I dont I just move on. I guess I dont need to be in the know to fit in.
What inside jokes? *looks awkwardly at Winton’s mom*
https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/elegantly-scant-ss11
Well, they’re no Supertramp but what’s not to love?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CVOc-SM8kHc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387_Ysc8imU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=USxvJFfKXrE
Back from a weekend of racing. Yesterday a pod of whales sauntered pass us at close range. We even have one youth turn on their side to eyeball our boat as it went past. Today Sea Smith must have been in the area because another pod sped pass and when the cleared us they started jumping like minnow with a bass after them. Except it was HUGE minnows jumping.
Both days were impressive but Sea Smith scared those fellow mammals something fierce.
Humpback?
I saw an abandoned juvenile calf in the channel off of Lahaina.
I know it’s nature and all, but I still felt bad for the calf. Mom went looking for some strange.
Poor whale. I’d feel sorry for it as well.
How was the skiing up there? I’m jealous, I haven’t been able to get to the mountains this winter.
I took the snowboard out of the bag, only to realize it was my brother’s. He’s 3 inches taller, so the stance was a little off. And…. there was some dried blood on the board… not a good sign. First run, my boot ripped right out of the binding. That’s when I decided to take up skiing again.
First time in 23 years, but it’s like riding a bike. Tuesday and Friday were the best days I’ve ever had on the slopes. Wednesday… some blood vessels froze in my face. Next time, I’ll bring a face mask that fits me.
Nice, I have only ever skied, although I’ve been tempted many times to board. At this point I am too comfortable with the skis. Being up on the steep side of a mountain with good, deep snow is a thing of tremendous beauty.
My ass still hurts from the last time I tried snowboarding. Not my thing, to say the least.
‘Captain, there be whales!’
This time of year is mainly humpbacks. To really see them play you need to be crossing the channels between the islands. One time we had two straight forward and then jump to either side soaking the boat. I was steering at the time and was holding on tight saying “WTF?!” They showed no animosity and just wanted to play with the little mammals for a bit.
Whales used to have legs, and evolution took them away, they are real victims!
By the way, the two articles you wrote on sailing and climbing were awesome. I don’t know if I commented on them, but they were a highlight.
https://external-preview.redd.it/1rzgZOjqLmDQli0IkthyUYJ370IOP0c1aHi1HGWIqzE.jpg?auto=webp&s=3a81e8d3c4d9fa3943e2acf50d651eb893aa4533
que?
He’s asking for thoughts on his newest singles ad.
It’s good that it’s all HO scale.
/I got nuttin’
https://archive.li/aMKqm/0941aca102946642d9679340c6632f52acbe75fd.jpg
NSFW.
Have you tried seeing a therapist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbyUEe2Junk
I was thinking more this, but with porno music and she get nekid. But you do you.
I’m not crazy