Let’s start off with a recap. (Hat-tip: Los Doyers)
Fiction imitates life, I guess?
Fascinating but disappointing–there’s no Cleganebowl.
This link actually got sent around at my work place: the importance of estate planning, with examples.
Neverless, Arya and Sansa persisted.
Lastly, new sounds, just like the old sounds.
I’d do Danaerys.
You’d do a knot in a stump.
Only if the sun is shining on it to warm it up.
Can you hand me the bag of corn silk you’re using for that watermelon?
You like it used. Which explains your attraction to Winston’s mom.
Even after seeing this.
https://imgur.com/gallery/pWRsFyb
Who am I kidding still wood
I’m sensing a theme.
So, you’re having a nostalgia kick for a show that ended years ago.
It hasn’t ended yet, even though they left the books behind quite a while ago. We can hope that Lady Stoneheart may finally show up.
/I’ve pretty much written it off, the girlfriend is a big fan though.
Game of what now?
Game of what now?
Soft-core porn….mostly.
Several scenes from the show are available on PornHub. Those are the only parts of the show that I’ve seen.
You say that like it’s a bad thing
It is. I paid HBO to show me Danerys ride a dragon, damnit.
Why? there are hordes of artists who’ll provide that content for free.
Listen. Do I give you grief over what you do on Saturday night?
…because at the monent I’m picturing you pruning a small bush in Watchmen Underwear with Pee Wee’s Big Adventure blaring in the back on a absurdly nice DLP screen TV.
Says more about what goes on in your mind than anything else, really.
Salty there, UCS!
That was disturbingly, specific.
Says more about what goes on in your mind than anything else, really.
Meh. I’m a stable genius. Deal with it.
Mex, UCS’s joke is a plug for DeviantArt.com, on which site hundreds of images of Danerys being spit-roasted by dragons are hosted. On this same same site, he posts pictures of his worktable.
Listen Quincy. Do I give you grief over what you do on Saturday night?
…because at the moment I’m picturing you smoking a cigar, sitting on a lawn chair in your living room while wearing a bathrobe, watching two fat chicks in yoga pants feeding each other a bucket of Bojangles.
Hawt.
You’re my favourite contributor here, man. Keep up the great work.
[backs slowly out of the room]
Eh. Close enough for government work.
I really don’t get why so many people turned on this show? I still think it’s fascinating. Can’t wait to see how it unfolds.
Its easy if you never really got into it.
When Charles Dance’s character died, I realized there were literally zero people or plot lines I actually gave a damn about. So I’ll snark on it and act like that was the series finale. I don’t have anything against people who still like it.
Lost interest during season 2. I might go back some day, but it’s not must-see TV or anything.
For me, the instant travel over long distances just keeps getting used more and more as the series goes on, which just gets more ridiculous the more it’s used.
Martin added wayshrines just for the show.
It’s a show with no point. Unless the point is medieval rape. In which case one season is probably adequate.
Repent!.
LOL
LOL. They’ve been on fire lately.
That, and each one is pretty good at not overstaying its welcome.
Martini time.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/j9axonOkTzmk69lZ4pB4-A.JTOIFJmVYBK4ntNrKywM73
Cheers glibs. Both of those bottles were purchased at the same time. The gin is empty and the vermouth is almost full. ?
Also, @Rhywun…reusable martini picks…forget toothpicks.
Nice. I have a Maß of Paulaner Oktoberfest. It’s not what you get in the tents but it is good. It’s helping to ease the pain of working.
Though I got some good news: The berms at one of the ranges at my gun club have been repaired. Once work gets a little less hectic, I will take my newly acquired CZ-75 to the range.
My gf just picked this up for herself a couple weeks ago.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/zvA03qqYR6uA2OL5XQZiyw.jyJ_Y3hsjwbt8LcT4gVl7n
Shiny.
Very sharp. I need to get me a CZ
My boss shot my CZ today and fell in love with it.
I honestly don’t get the Glock hate on the guntube. He had whatever model is the .40 subcompact and there was nothing wrong with either the trigger or the sights.
I like my Sigs more than my Glocks, but I’m not selling either.
I also HIGHLY recommend CZ’s line of bolt action rifles. The 527 that I have chambered in 7.62×39 is quite possibly my favorite rifle.
https://cz-usa.com/product/cz-527-carbine-223-rem/
Nice!
I have the same bottle of vermouth – and because Negronis exist, it goes quickly. That gin is little more than I wanted to cough up last time at the liquor store, though.
I can’t believe I’m admitting this in public.
I did a blind taste test between Tanqueray and Seagram’s. I can’t tell the difference, except at the checkout counter.
More people should do that, there would be a lot of surprises, I’m betting. You done the right thing, Francisco, and you done ood.
ad a g somewhere
My go-to has always been Gordon’s – and surprisingly it gets good reviews for the price. I decided to try New Amsterdam, but the reviews are right that it’s not a “classic” gin. Unless I hear a damn good reason to blow twice as much on something like that Sapphire I’ll probably stick with Gordon’s.
Gin depends on what you do with it. There are basically “two-note” gins and “apocathery” gins. Imho, making a Bombay Tom Collins is idiotic, but making a Beefeater martini is fine if you like grapefruit. Gordons is an excellent mixing gin, as its second note is orange, and most gin cocktails are lemon and/or lime things because England.
Good points. My gin intake is (now) pretty exclusively martinis and negronis, FWIW.
Then you might like gin with martini bianco (or similar) and triple sec. It’s like a white negroni.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
That’ll twist your nuts.
10 year old Jura.
Details?
It’s not peaty. Think of it as very different to, say, a Laphroaig. I used to drink their 16yo – when I could afford it. But it seems they don’t distill that one anymore. The 10yo is the only one I’ve seen around here at all. Mild, I guess would be one way to describe it. FWIW, the Isle of Jura is adjacent to Islay.
https://jurawhisky.com/us/
How do you make your martini?
Splash of vermouth, chilled gin, & an olive stuffed with provolone.
Same, except blue cheese instead of provolone.
Cool.
I prefer the Tanqueray over the Bombay, but it’s Martini Time.
Rock on Neph. I love this band
As do I. Looking forward to seeing them next week. There was one time I was going to see them, when they had to cancel a show due to a death in the family. The openers still played (one of which was the Goddamn Gallows), and they came back to play a show a couple of weeks later and honored the tickets.
I’ve settled on Citadelle for my G&T gin. Just the right balance for me. When summer gets here, top shelf gin on the rocks gets into my nightcap rotation.
I realized I had some triple hot ginger beer in the fridge, and decided to look up cocktails to use it up. I came across an item called the Gin Buck. 2-3 oz. Gin, 1/2 oz. lemon juice, and top with ginger beer in a Collins glass, stirred gently with a bar spoon. I made it up with the Tanqueray Malacca (which has a strong citrus component). It’s quite tasty.
For those who care, this is the triple hot ginger beer I’m referring to. It was available at some of our local grocery stores.
I won’t click, only because when I read triple hot ginger and beer, no way that link can be better than hot ginger triplets who bring me beer. I was real tempted to make a Larry Tripplett joke, but I didn’t want to send anyone confusing signals.
Oh, do try.
I’m clicking as hard and as fast as I can but my browser still won’t go down that intertubez.
/kicks computer
This should work. If it doesn’t:
https://sodapopstop.com/shop/ginger-beers-ales/jamaicas-finest-ginger-beer-hot-hot-hot/
I got a big message talking about Christmas delivery…
UCS: That just tells me that you’re using a script blocker as well. I’m mildly entertained by web sites that don’t work well with proper browsers.
@Nephilium – Of course I’m using a script blocker. Sites have the earn the right to run scripts.
I’m just amused that they never updated the message.
UCS: How do you think I knew how you encountered that message? And as part of free comic book day I’ll be taking my nephews to the candy store they both love now.
NewWife’s backup is the mule; do “hotter” beers make better mules?
That all depends on the flavor preferences of the person who’s getting the mule. For something lighter, there’s always the Dry Ginger.
In the obliquely titled Ballad of the Snow Leopard and the Tanqueray Cowboy, has anyone any idea what the “Tanqueray” reference might mean? Rodriguez’s title has nothing to do with the lyrics in any way I’ve ever discerned.
The books are still in my “to buy” queue.
From the FEE article:
We see rulers indifferent to the filth, disease, and starvation endured by the average individual. Citizens are treated as objects put on earth to better the lives of their rulers.
Other than the filth, disease, and starvation, not much has changed, huh?
Save your money and time and read something worthwhile. The books start strong and fade fast.
The new season of Hap and Leonard was a bit Meh in my opinion but Bosch season 5? is out next week so I have that going for me. Netflix keeps pushing The Umbrella Academy so I might give it a go, although they previously pushed Z Nation so I’m wary.
There’s more Hap and Leonard?
3 seasons (if you call six episodes a season) so far, staying pretty true to the books but I think they may be mushing some stories together, although it’s been a while since I read the early books.
The Umbrella Academy is great if you’re into that sort of show.
Meaning, backstory being more interesting than the plot, the details mattering, and only working because you’re already genre savvy.
Pretty sure it’s been canceled.
Uffda, I didn’t realize that Season 3 came out almost a year ago (doesn’t even have a TV, he smugged) well at least Bubba Ho Tep is available on amazon prime. My apologies if I tricked anyone into thinking that there was a new “Hap and Leonard”, My Bad.
Burnt me right up, too. I’ve never read the books, although I’ve read some of Lansdale’s other stuff. It’s funny, because my wife grew up pretty much where it’s set, and watching the show she’d point stuff out as either being very typical east Texas or way out of character. We both saw the sandy beach in the first season and did a spit-take.
I can’t find any explanation as to why the show was canceled, but I think it had low same-day view ratings. Now, why in this day and age a fringe cable network would be concerned with that I don’t know. I’m hoping someone like Amazon or Netflix picks it up, but I’m not holding my breath.
Mmm, Bubba Hotep. tried to explain it to my 5th cousin something removed that works with me, who is 10 years young than me, he had no idea what I was talking about…
I own that movie. It’s great.
I own it as well.
I forgot to schedule a celebration of your bracket triumph. Your tiara and sash are in the mail; I drank the champagne.
And did anyone figure out who Paisley and McJerkface are ?
Ooh, that’s good news on Bosch. I think S4 was my fave; which is good b/c I thought S4 was, umm, not good.
Hmm, S3 was not good. See above re: drinking.
It’s already been renewed for a season 6 as well.
It was okay but a little predictable.
Darth Vader
Francis!
You made the list!
So I decided to take a walk today, it was warm and sunny. 13,159 steps, 5.88 miles. Well, that’s a lot for me, I’m a former couch tater. Plus I’ve drank/am drinking a lot of beer this weekend. Gotta burn it off. Beer good, belly fat bad.
Good for you! That’s a nice little walk. Once it warms up a bit more I’m looking forward to having no excuse to not ride bike and burn off some beer.
I was in the mid 70s when I was walking. I was actually sweating a little when I got back because the trip back from where I walked to was mostly uphill.
IT, I’m like in my mid 70s, yet…
It was in the mid 40s here.
*sigh*
If it’s not uphill both ways, you’re doing it wrong.
I’ve decided to do another half marathon. I need that kind of goal. I started today. Oof, I really need the exercise.
I’ve got to get at least a metric century in this year, still planning on trying to get in a full century ride at one point.
Nice! Come work with me, I get to do that many days. Though mine is in the woods. Most of the winter has been spent snowshoeing. Last couple weeks has been a bitch with the melting. Not quite enough snow everywhere for snowshoes, but deep enough in spots to post-hole regularly. Then there is the fun when the top crusts juuust enough to hold about 1/3 your body weight, then you punch through. Kinda like hyper-extending your leg every step or using a stair-stepper all day. Totes fun!
I’m not complaining though. I don’t have to deal with people much. I stay in decent shape without ‘working out’. I get to see some beautiful country, plenty of wildlife and go off the beaten path where most never venture. As with anything it has it share of shitty moments (fighting through brush, mosquito infested swamps, etc.) and it doesn’t pay all that well, but overall I enjoy it.
Busy day full of spring. Milk & Honey in hand.
Soft-core porn….mostly.
ORLY?
Homemade enchiladas and a bottle of chimay blue.
750 ml, not the little one.
The only way to go.
Unless you don’t have a chalice, then picking up the gift pack with the chalice and one of each of the Chimay’s can be worth it.
Good point.
I drank it from my chalice, of course.
I wish I would have made homemade tacos instead of the shitty Taco Bell tacos we picked up. Blech, fucking nasty shit, won’t be getting more of that.
Have you not had Taco Bell before? It’s great food after drinking for ~10 hours, but not really good any other time.
I’ve never actually had Taco Bell – and I think I’ll let it stay that way.
Just like…well, pretty much everything, it’s not near as bad as the haters say it is.
Well, I mean it isn’t as bad as Taco John’s.
Fair.
Taco Johns has Mexican tater tots though. Tots de papas as it were. Where as Taco Bell has $1 breakfast tacos if you don’t mind spending a buck for a flour tortilla with an odor of eggs. They all have their place.
I like their bean burritos. Fight me.
Throw the walker to the side.
My standard order in my teen years was three tacos with hot sauce, and two mild bean burritos. no onions. Washed down with Henry Weinhard’s. I recently replicated that order in a smaller quantity, minus the beer and “other substances”. Somehow, it just wasn’t the same…
I like their bean burritos. Fight me.
…okay. 8oz gloves or 12?
Enchoritio with mild red, a Bellburger and pintos with cheese.
Oh, not available?
Then no Taco Bell for me.
Tasty stuff.
I dont know which you are refering to, but yes.
Yes to both.
I learned more today about the Game of Thrones than altogether in the last 8 years. The estate planning review was particularly interesting to me. Seems like I have touched most bases other than keeping up with the laws. I’m assuming (hoping) that the laws haven’t changed too much over the past 3-4 years. ‘Course I’m sure the government is listening to the sounds on any change jingling in old guys’ pockets, to insure they get their ‘fair share’.
Thanks, Riven, good article for us deplorables.
I’ve never seen it
Me either. But unless you include movies from Amazon or Netflix I’ve watched with the wife, I haven’t watched 2 hours of TV in the past 5 years.
I wonder at the seemingly (to me anyway) oversized attention payed to shows like this. I mean, HBO reaches about 36% of Americans, which, granted, is a shit ton of people. But that doesn’t mean all of them watch this show. I get that a hell of a lot of people watch it, but at least twice as many Americans don’t.
I mean, this isn’t “Who Shot JR”.
Get off my lawn.
Who’s JR?
Major Tony Nelson.
Yes, Master.
Mary Martin’s son
I’ll watch GoT as soon as GRRM publishes The Winds of Winter.
Not going to wait for GRRM to finish up the series first?
OT, every so often I watch videos analyzing speedruns, and it’s amazing the insane lengths these people go to to shave frames off their times.
Any mention of ‘speedrun’ in a game’s description or reviews is an instant Ignore for me. Games with timers can go to hell.
I don’t like to play that way either. It just boggles me the dedication and techniques employed.
My first “you are taking this way too seriously,” moment came when I found about World of Warcraft players using simulators to min/max.
They were running simulations… of a virtual world game.
I can get the appeal of trying to find out the ‘right’ answer even to a useless question in a fictional environment.
?
I can recall downloading and using rogue dps spreadsheets.
Have you seen Man vs Snake. Not a speed run, an endurance run.
Yeah, decent documentary although I think I preferred the King of Kong or Atari: Game Over as video game documentaries.
I love that movie. The villain *plot twist* is Canadian!
saw your kind remarks yesterday; NewWife and I find you excellent company
Glad to hear I wasn’t that terrible of a bore. 🙂
I play Go over the internet, and every game is timed. 🙂
SMH…I thought you were talking about drag racing until I saw the replies.
Why would a drag race measure their time in ‘frames’?
Okay, okay, I can’t really blame you for missing a detail, I’m guilty of the same at times.
Hey! What did you do with the real UCS?!
I added a social interaction expansion module on the upgraded midplane.
So far, it’s working well.
That’s what I thought. I’m scared.
Drag queens are intersectional and thus framed incorrectly by the cis-hetero patriarchy.
Yeah! That’s what I was thinking!
So, GOT…
One thing I’m a bit amazed at is the complete lack of interest both in world and among readers about the pragmatics of the show’s theology.
You’ve got the Seven, who seem to be completely fictional.
You’ve got the Old Gods, who seem to actually exist, but don’t seem to be overly concerned with people.
You’ve got the Red God, who’s priests can literally bring people back from the dead.
How is this even a contest when it comes to evangelizin’ time?
And since there does actually seem to be a legitimate god, doesn’t that settle ideas about morality pretty much forever?
I’ve never read the books, but based on the show I’d think the Red God issue is a.) it’s kind of evil, and b.) it may not be a case of an actual god so much as really powerful magic.
Never seen it so I have nothing of substance to add. Good thing that has never stopped me from commenting before.
Happens a lot around here.
I watched the first season and had no idea what was going on. That was it.
Alex Jones explains A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjhgu3s7ef0
“IT’S TURNING Yara Greyjoy, Oberyn Martell and Loras Tyrell GAY!”
Who?
mexican sharpshooter on April 13, 2019 at 6:26 pm
Listen Quincy. Do I give you grief over what you do on Saturday night?
…because at the moment I’m picturing you smoking a cigar, sitting on a lawn chair in your living room while wearing a bathrobe, watching two fat chicks in yoga pants feeding each other a bucket of Bojangles.
STOP LOOKING IN MY WINDOWS!
That’s better than looking through my window. I’m drinking beer and watching this.
Several more Glibs not posting because they are also watching that same thing. No names but you know who they are…
Hi.
I am Tres.
I see that you are currently in a rusted Airstream with a bucket of Earthquake on ice. While Jugsy is counting out a sweaty wad of crinckled $1 bills while you’re holding some yokel at gunpoint to make sure he paid the agreed price on the meth you cooked in the kitchenette.
You are on a roll tonight. Peyote?
On the menu tonight: South Indian-style chickpea and pea curry with basmati pullao, Gloria Ferrer Brut, and some dessert SP will create.
It’s been weeks since we’ve had Indian and I’m jonesing.
Awesome, dude. Do you ever cook with paneer? I ate some paneer at an Indian buffet one time, and I seriously thought it was chicken until I went up for more and saw the label.
I’m just going to grill some brats and steam up some sauerkraut.
Yes, I make a matar paneer that’ll make you cry (in all due modesty). When I have time, I make my own paneer for it.
Needs moar garlic naan.
We had leftover pizza from the DOP Neapolitan place about five minutes from here. Onto Saturday evening whiskey and mindless television, and mindless Glibbing. Sorry for the oxymoron at the end, there.
Read that as South Indiana..I have been thinking about New Albany style pizza tonight.
Just ate some of these guys – amazeballs, for frozen.
Kebabs? Those look like knishes. Also, they look good.
I guess kebabs are their flagship product. But yeah, delicious. “Indo-Mediterranean”, they describe themselves. They actually puff up way more than the picture would indicate.
I Realized my house was reaching 80 degress inside, so I went an opened some windows and hit the switch for the fan, then returned to faffing about on the internet. I went “Why is it still 77 degrees in here?”
Last video finished playing – silence.
Went looking for the problem… I had never plugged in the fan.
Did you check the thermostat?
Yes. My furnace had been successfully turned off. The readout on that is actually where I got the data for the tenperature.
*waves hand over head*
Bus tickets for everyone.
I get the financial and logistical issues, but I am still waiting for someone to explain the “legal” issues of doing this. The article says that but doesn’t go there.
Federal law requires that the Office of Refugee Resettlement consult state and municipal governments before a population is resettled in a particular community. By the law, if the state (mostly) or local government doesn’t want to play ball, then DoS and DHHS has to look somewhere else. We have already seen this in the fact that 30 (if I remember correctly) states communicated to the federal government that they would not accept any Syrian refugees.
So we can blame/credit the government for all the diversity we have in MN? If no state will accept the refugees does that mean they are persona non grata? So, someone in high office said yes to Omar? Hmmmm
That’s an excellent question. I don’t believe such a situation has ever come up as (as far as I know) there has always been a place that has been willing to accept a certain group.
The Fed gov may be handing out incentives along with the refugees…
Kinda sorta. It works a lot like education funding. Fedgov, by law, disburses funds to state governments, who then work with one of 9 or 10 Federally-recognized private non-profit “voluntary agencies”, like Lutheran Social Services, Catholic Charities, or Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, who sponsor the refugees and take responsibility for their resettlement.
Catholic Charities
Years ago I dealt with Caritas, the Catholic charity , in assisting VN refugees. The Lutherans assisted the Hmongs in MN
That was before Trump’s America, now that we are legally allowed to shoot brown people on site, it’s not so easy.
You just have to lead them correctly.
Aaah, thanks. Yes, I remember the Syrian refugee kerfuffle.
Chicago has already declared that they’re welcome. I’m sure the rest will follow.
Gee, I wonder why.
Trump is telling them to put their money where their mouths are. I see no downside. Either they are exposed as blathering hypocrites, or the migrants get a friendly jurisdiction to start out in.
That is what I see too. The outrage at him even suggesting such a thing makes me think they are blathering hypocrites.
Another retarded thing about this whole shitshow is that even if refugees were “dumped” in a sanctuary city, it’s not as if they are going to be kept in camps behind barbed wire. There is nothing stopping them from moving to another town. In fact, after resettlement, many do. (It’s Zerohedge, so please don’t scroll down to the comments if you value your sanity.)
The AP article hits on that as well. People go where they can afford to live and find a job. That is not a big mystery.
A difference I see between the article I linked and your zerohedge is one is talking about actual refugees, and the other quotes a dude who fled a bad neighborhood in Honduras.
New batch of Skywalker OG shatter in hand. Pondering a margarita and something fluffy to watch – maybe Ready Player One. Mrs. Dean is out, so scavenging the fridge for chow.
Beautiful spring day. Life is good. May all my Glibbas have a pleasant evening.
I see you were careful to avoid the hard “tarians”.
Glibba, please!
Is that the feminine? Glibbo being the masculine?
I thought the feminine was “glibress”.
Banjos uses “Gliberinas”, right?
Stumbled upon this tonight. Had no idea Robin Williams guest starred on Whose Line is it Anyways. Hilarious.
https://youtu.be/4B0Sigcc_S4
Better link the other one repeats like 5 times.
https://youtu.be/ZHicGPV7Gcs
“A White Restaurateur Advertised ‘Clean’ Chinese Food. Chinese-Americans Had Something to Say About It.
The uproar over a Chinese-American restaurant that was opened in Manhattan by two white restaurateurs has become the latest front in the debate over cultural appropriation.
Arielle Haspel, a Manhattan nutritionist with a sleek social media presence, wanted to open the kind of Chinese restaurant, she said, where she and her food-sensitive clients could eat. One where the lo mein wouldn’t make people feel “bloated and icky” the next day, or one where the food wasn’t “too oily” or salty, as she wrote in an Instagram post a few weeks ago.
She chose a name for her new restaurant, Lucky Lee’s, that sounded stereotypically Chinese, even though she and her husband, Lee, are not Asian. She decorated the restaurant with bamboo and jade touches, and designed her logo with a chopstick-inspired font.
And then, quite predictably, she was flamed on the internet for it.
The uproar over Lucky Lee’s, which opened on Monday, has become the latest front in the debate over cultural appropriation and cultural arrogance, following controversies involving, among many others, Dolce & Gabbana and Miley Cyrus….
“Ohhhh I CANNOT with Lucky Lee’s, this new ‘clean Chinese restaurant’ that some white wellness blogger just opened in New York,” MacKenzie Fegan, a food writer, said on Twitter. “Her blog talks about how ‘Chinese food is usually doused in brown sauces’ and makes your eyes puffy. Lady, what? #luckylees””
If I had to guess, MacKenzie Fegan is whiter than a clan robe and just as racist.
Um, Klan
A Clan of clean Klans?
From her avatar pic, she looks like she has Asian ancestry. Hard to tell, and who cares, really?
So “painted with the mudbrush” or china-eyed drunken Irish as the name implies?
If I opened a “clean” BBQ joint, saying that Southerners loaded up their meats with too much salt and fat, I’d be an asshole too.
The Tampa/ST. Pete area seems to have a number of vegan places that do just that. There is money to made catering to smug – let a thousand flowers bloom, I say.
Yeah, “clean” is something I see advertised for all different kinds of food. I don’t see the big deal.
+Panera’s advertising campaign
Those assholes.
It’s not the “clean” part but the “you’re doing it wrong” part that makes it asshole-ish.
But you knew that already.
Wait, so is HM making a case for or against clean assholes? get so confused.
I eat ass.
That’s your response to everything.
“That’s all very well and good, sir, but I still must insist you put your pants on and exit the ball pit.”
I came across a website of historical cookbooks, and one category was “Asian”. I perused a Chinese cookbook from 1909, and the intro stated, “You will be amazed when you see how clean and simple the ingredients are; you’ll swear that they were prepared by a respected Chinese chef.” Seems to suggest that there is a centuries-old perception that Chinese food is somehow unclean.
(I went to visit that website just now in hopes of providing the link to any interested Glibs, but I got a message from the host saying that the page has been suspended! Disaster!)
The whole MSG thing is bullshit too, but you can blame a Chinese guy for that.
Wacism!
I bought some Goya MSG product once and threw it out when I tasted it. That stuff has a nasty flavor. But yeah, IDGAF when the pros put it in stuff.
What was that?! This is not a chawade!
Always go with Maggi.
I see that a lot in stores but haven’t tried it.
But which Maggi?
http://eatdrinknbmerry.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-love-for-maggi-seasoning-sauce-maggi.html
MSG or “super-salt” as I refer to it. Is there any dish it can’t make better? I’m personally looking forward to MSG Carmel. It’s the next obvious step.
I don’t see how. People try to sell lower-salt, lower-fat, lower-sugar, etc. versions of food all the time. Plenty of restaurants market themselves as being healthier, farm-to-table, or whatever.
The less flavor, less flavor, less flavor varieties?
No thanks. just make the portion smaller.
Let me restate.
If I, as a New Englander, went down as a carpetbagger, and opened up a restaurant that advertised itself as “fixing” all that is “wrong” with BBQ and soul food, I’d be an asshole too.
Agreed.
Let’s not even get into the fact that about 75% of people who say they have a gluten-sensitivity are full of shit.
When I met my wife and she was all “I have a gluten allergy”, I, properly, thought “whatever, with your fake white-girl disease”.
Having seen her belly swell up and her laid-low after eating wheat, there’s clearly something going on there.
But you are correct, 75% of people (let’s be clear – women; I’ve yet to meet a man who claims to have a gluten allergy, though I’m sure they exist) are full of shit.
Only if you didn’t deliver. Are Yoo Wying?
But what if you’re a Clevelander trying to make a new BBQ style?
/will fight anyone trying to take away my Kielbasa
*drool*
So good when I was there.
It doesn’t look like Symon is telling Myron Mixon he’s doing it “wrong”.
Well, until Mixon competes on Iron Chef, that is.
Symon did for a while have the “Why?” on the menu at his burger places. It was a portabella cap on a bun, with a free side of bacon. Since he married a vegetarian, there’s been less fun at his places.
Local BBQ joint had a Protabella burger. It was so good it took half way through to realize it wasn’t a Portabella on a burger, it was just a well seasoned Portabella head in a bun. better than any ‘veggie’ burger I’ve ever had (though tbf to omwc, no I have not had the impossible burger)
When I met SP and OMWC, SP and I bonded over our love of pork products and sour cream and made OMWC pick up the tab.
Emeril Lagasse is a famous chef from Massachusetts who made up his own version of Creole, and no one in New Orleans could care less. Because it’s all “cultural appropriation” and Chinese-American food seems no different. Afaik, chow mein was invented in NYC and fortune cookies are from San Francisco. If you wanted to sell some kind of jambalaya with quahog and little crackers in it, no would give a shit as long it was good.
jambalaya with quahog and little crackers in it
Mmmmm…
Creole food is syncretic to begin with, so I suspect people are far more flexible.
That said, was Emeril’s cooking that far off the baseline of existing Creole food?
No, not really.
Plenty of famous restaurants (Anton’s, Brennan’s) made it more French, for lack of a better description.
All food is syncretic, though.
Oh, agreed all cuisines are syncretic, but Creole is so comparatively young that the roots are still obvious and it’s harder to talk about “authenticity”.
Give it another few hundred years and some things will get set in stone, no doubt.
Lucky Lee’s, that sounded stereotypically Chinese, even though she and her husband, Lee
Are they demanding that he change his name too?
LOL nice catch. So tiresome.
I can’t wait til the cultural appropriation police really crack down. Most/all of the sushi/Japanese are ran by Koreans around here.
Seems to be mostly Chinese around here. Rare is the sushi place where I hear Japanese spoken as opposed to Mandarin.
I can’t be bothered with reading what you all said, but READ WHAT I SAY! Anyone else want Tyrion to win the ‘game of thrones’ and realize centralized power doesn’t work and turn the whole world into a republic?
No.
Keep your modern politics out of mideval fantasy.
But, it’s not medieval fantasy, it’s sci-fi on a medieval planet, and republics came before medieval in our real history…
So?
So your argument has no merit, do I need to call the bailiff!?
Peasants lack that authority. To the stocks with you.
This is why I shouldn’t comment distracted.
The original review being referenced was not here, making it a very out of context reply.
I was being consistent between political infiltration by Progs and Libertarians into the escapism.
Sorry for the confusion.
And then I Screw up the link
So, you were attacking me because trolls attacked you with uselessness? Ok. No water on (or is it off) my back. I hope you cut across Wisconsin through my area on your trek, my in person humor is much more akin to yours, be fun as long as we do it over beers and not an awkward aspie meet up.
I wasn’t attacking anyone. I was failing to be funny.
That was my funny.
The Masters will start very early tomorrow with threesomes: https://www.cbssports.com/golf/news/2019-masters-schedule-coverage-early-sunday-start-time-with-cbs-broadcasting-round-4-live-on-tv/
My weather sucked today (car shopping in the rain) because Lachowsky’s weather sucked yesterday; therefore Augusta will suck tomorrow.
I suddenly occurs to me, are there much in the way of Georgia Glibs?
Tomorrow could be an epic final round for the Masters.
*plans nap*
Hater.
Hader hater.
pile at the front with huge potential for a playoff
I want Fowler in the club and hate-watch DJ
Little Rickie Fowler is this generations Phil Mickelson.
I’m a believer in redemption. I want to see a Tiger stomp on the rest of the field.
Tiger is on balance good for the game: I suspect there would be much less interest at every level without him.
Tiger never did anything to me, but I must say I’m bitter about redemption: I’ve fairly behaved and feel like folks who fix their fuckups get more accolades that the rest of us. I LOVE consequences: they make markets and a lot of other things work.
The prodigal son get’s the fatted calf…
* side-eyes for Ted *
That’s why I’ve decided to fuck up later in life. Assholes be calling it a mid-life crisis and shit.
F. Molinari is in some kind of groove. I saw his brother, Eduardo, win the 2005 Amateur at Merion. He was accurate as hell, too.
Masters officials can’t be real happy at the low scoring through 3 rounds. It is time to make all pro courses at little tougher – too many guys can drive into the trees and still be putting for birdies. Bunkers are hardly a problem any longer. Fairways too wide and rough too short. Nine irons for second shots on Par 5s? Give me a break.
The trees are somewhat punitive, but the rough needs to get much uglier.
A lot of this could be fixed with the ball: simply de-tune it until the big bows are barely driving 300. Or put a reasonable limit on driver heads.
If Francesco or Webb can pull it out I bank so go Dago,*Cabbage Patch* go Hick *Mowin’ the lawn*. Here we go Dago, here we go Hick, *Twerks*
Tomorrow could be good for the Columbus Blue Jackets as well. I wasn’t expecting to find them up 2-0 against the Lightning after getting into the playoffs on a wild card.
Preds tied my Stars.
As a good Memphian, this Nashville success is especially enraging.
Good game (Preds fan), but the refs sucked. Glad that Janmark made it back onto the ice after I saw him get creamed right in front of me. I thought he would be done for the season.
And Maamfis hasn’t been great since NBF lived there.
“Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of radio and television variety and comedy programs. Her key attribute was tremendous versatility and an uncommon stylistic range from melancholy ballad to uptempo swinging jazz and rock and roll.”
Trade offs.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/forcing-a-smile-at-work-linked-to-drinking-report
I’ll take “No Shit?” for $500, Alex.
Does pancreatic cancer affect shit?
Can we extend that to IT support people?
I have to force an upbeat voice when I answer customer phone calls, which I fucking hate doing. It definitely makes me feel like boozing it up after work.
Fortunately, I’m changing positions soon, and not only will I not have to answer customer phone calls in my new role, but I’ll get a $4 per hour pay increase and switch to my preferred hours (second shift)! I know I’ve mentioned this like three times already, but y’all have no idea how goddamn happy I am about this.
You won’t get any more congratulations out of me for multiple mentions though.
Akira, trust me, I have an idea about how happy you are shifting to another role. I hope you continue to be happy after taking it, and that it works out for you.
/no sarcasm.
I hate phone work and keep a punch list to remind myself to take a breath, sit up straight, and smile because it really changes me; I’m sure it can be “heard” over the phone.
I don’t know if the callers could hear my posture when I worked helpdesk, most were just happy that I didn’t have an indian accent. (The company had managed to hire the dumbest people on the subcontinent because they were cheaper per hour, but their efficacy was virtually nil)
I need my target like your clients need you: somehow I’ve got to coherently get just enough across to capture the attention of powerful people and get the wheel rolling; the technocrat in me hates social stuff and “relationships” . . . . I just want to make sure you know I have the best product and am the guy who will listen and learn what you do and what you need. To the extent that business is too important to be left to business majors, I guess it’s up to me to master the soft skills so that the nerds who rely on me don’t starve. I really hate dealing with architects: they have the most inflated egos of any profession I’ve dealt with.
I’ll just put this here, with the caveat that I don’t like country music. But I get paid.
No arrests?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47912145
Guy picks an unoriginal name for his project, get annoyed when a porn game steals his search result priority.
(Note, I have nothing against Tim, but find this funny)
stopped reading there. I have seen no evidence to support that claim.
If you stop there, you miss the actual point of the article. Just throw quotes around it and keep going.
I, mostly, enjoy Tim’s work but have to confess to getting the giggles over this situation – he has been pimping Subverse to the ends of the Earth in his recent videos.
Ah, but you miss the part where I didn’t have to expend the effort. Saturdays are my long days, back off!
Usually I watch these videos not because they are funny, but because the pacing keeps my brain engaged, but this kind of actually does hit on why I don’t give a fuck about Rick and Morty.
The MIB was pretty good. One of those is enough, though. Picking out plot holes gets a little boring after a while.
Yeah, it’s like doing pop-culture cocaine. Like I said, mostly the points aren’t good and the ‘plot holes’ aren’t, they’re just another way a situation could be handled in hind-sight, but I linked this one because it is pretty much how I feel about Rick and Morty.
Farts ARE funny. I don’t care much for the cynicism, but, I do enjoy the show.
Reason no. 10^1million th reason why I would never be picked for a jury.
“What part of ‘shall not infringe’ do you not understand?”
Crap, forgot the link
Link
“Why you’re dropping letters and whole words?”
I got a letter back in January stating that I had been selected to serve on a jury should the need arise. I guess the need never arose, because I never got another communication from them. Too damn bad – I was planning on nullifying it if it were a drug possession charge or some other victimless crime.
The only time I got a jury summons, which I was actually interested in serving to ‘be a part of the solution’, my college prof wouldn’t excuse me from class (even though that’s illegal) but when there were campus protests against the new elected (R) governor, she was going to cancel class…
My husband just got a jury summons. He plans to wear a MAGA hat to it and see how it goes.
PLEASE buy him this to wear!
lol that would be epic.
perhaps…
But no one would get the reference and he’d be picked for the jury!
All the better, especially if it becomes a national case, and there is Mr. Splosives in the Jury box wearing USA hat and a kilt..NOW THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN!
Now it’s getting interesting.
Ooh, we hadn’t even considered the kilt! Excellent suggestion. Who’s to say it’s not appropriate? Are you judging his ethnicity and the validity of his lived experience?
Sounds like he’s going through a lot of oppression.
‘Elp! ‘Elp! I’m being repressed! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
stupid mud farmers and their anorco syndicalism.
Just the hat and nothing else?
That would probably result in a more intrusive scanning than he’d like.
New meaning to “hung jury”?
Ooof – nasty crosscheck to the head in the Bruins game; Kadri is sure to catch a suspension for that. Idiot.
Schneikies. He didn’t think anyone would notice???
At LEAST 3 games. What an asshole.
Between 5 and 10 games. That’s what they say on TV. In the playoffs a year ago he did something similar (probably less nasty) and got a three-game suspension.
I really enjoy SketchUp.
Oh, that’s um, boring. I at least made scale models of Voltron, Optimus Prime and Megatron before I used scetchup for anything useful.
Way to flaunt your artistic privilege!
It’s spelled ‘autistic’!
In fairness, my homebody life makes UCS seem flamboyant.
If I weren’t a drunk hermit fiction writer UCS would be…wait, isn’t that what UCS is? We’re all Tulpa.
Fiction about drunk hermits? A drunk who writes fiction about hermits?
What ever I’m paid for, or are you paid for it? I’m you, and you are me and we are the same? I know nothing!
Welp, twenty minutes trying to make a simple plan view page in LayOut and I’m out of love with SketchUp.
Should have started out with a Trans Former
Oh my God it’s like trying to edit photos in MS Paint. This is awful.
I’m really appreciating how brilliant Revit is and how frankly incomprehensible it is that SketchUp even bothers trying to horn in on authentic CAD stuff. In Revit you generate views based off elevation levels you set up when you start a project, or you add them later. And those end up representing both architecturally relevant data as well as convenient locations for generating construction documents. So for a very simple project like what I’m putting together, I’d just drop a level for my top of slab, which would serve as my foundation plan view, another for my floor plan, and another for the roof framing plan. And Revit produces seamless 2D views from the 3D model you assemble using those levels as boundary conditions for all the architectural elements you throw at it.
With SketchUp, I can make pretty models, but generating sections from them seems like complete nonsense. It’s not a fair comparison in any way, but god damn do I feel spoiled by Revit. YOU DRAG AND DROP VIEWS ONTO A PAGE AND START DIMENSIONING AND ANNOTATING FROM THERE. With LayOut, I had to go back into SketchUp to generate the section to update the model in LayOut to get it to give me a proper plan view.
Well, yeah, sketch-up isn’t so much as CAD software as it a 3-D rendering software where they can get people to make 3-D models for Google Earth for free.
And that’s fine, but I’m wondering why they bothered with LayOut. It’s billed as presentation-worthy production software, but it’s so jank.
Pat Morita was never afraid to use the N-Word.
That was in my YT as well, the CIA is on to us!
Checks intersectional hierarchy* Head explodes*
Straf, you of all people should know that Japanese count as white in intersectionality and should be treated as just as evil.
– Emphasis on family? Check.
– Emphasis on education? Check.
– High-achieving? Check.
Shitlord status confirmed.
Me of all people wouldn’t know. Haven’t been to the US since 2006.
“This post is dumb and full of …”
Clicked on “Read More” before it could finish. So what it is?
cum is the only way that sentence could logically end, right?
It’s current year, so it could also be “dumb”.
Honestly thought the point of this was that you shouldn’t punch a Nazi. Or maybe it isn’t snarky. Who knows?
https://twitter.com/LeighStewy/status/1117190326169559042
Oh, I woulda thought it was a reference to this shitty video
Not a bad song. But you’re racist. He looks nothing like Maxine Waters or James Brown. Doesn’t really matter to me.
Richard Spencer supports a single option health care system and a Universal Basic Income. So I guess he is a Nazi, just like everybody on the left that supports the same shit.
And Planned Parenthood…
On topic!
https://archive.li/3CLmI/356844b9547d879d5e8a0ee7c579871c56b61878.jpg
https://archive.li/id1wq/d07c0795666bede84a0ab4a9ba4862c62564e372.jpg
NSFW, and the one above.
Stay on target!
https://reason.com/2019/04/12/steve-bannons-economic-nationalism-is-th/
Nick Gillespie sez: open borders Uber alles!
the socialist magazine Jacobin… a belief in open borders
LOL. I was born in the Soviet Union. I know what an exit visa is.
Huh it’s almost like the globalist support for “free-trade” and “open borders” is purely self-serving!
So what if these globalists think that the way to keep open borders is mass censorship and authoritarian political systems? And a planned economy? And the warfare state?
Not to mention that I’m not sure a planned economy could be considered “free-trade” and “open borders”. And neither does authoritarianism have a “free-trade” and “open borders” history.
Speaking of open borders in seems interesting that the liberals of old were big believers in the indoctrinating power of public schools. These schools would turn the rednecks, Catholics, immigrants and all other minorities into good little liberals. That worked out well!
Not sure what any of your points are. Progressivism will win in the US and (as it largely already has) in Canada. It’s inevitable. As is the heat death of the universe. We’re fortunate we existed in this particular moment because it’s going to go to shit, just like everything else. Entropy always increases. Chaos, misery and death always wins in the end. We gives a flying fuck what erstwhile “libertarians” say about shit, they’re on a quest for power just like everyone else.
Who gives*
Look at Debbie Downer here.
Well open borders in the past were either predicated on state-run indoctrination centers forcing these immigrants to assimilate into holding “proper values” which in the end did not lead to very libertarian values being indoctrinated or some sort of End-of-History belief that everyone will accept “liberalism” forever.
Since:
does that mean that the “end-of-history” is not happening?
THERE ARE NO LIBERTARIAN VALUES THAT HOLD FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME
Liberty is an aberration; the truth of the matter is that Hobbs was right. Life is nasty, brutish and short. If it isn’t, you’re a lucky exception. Stop asking stupid rhetorical questions. You already know the answer. The Herd hates liberty and you’re at its mercy. FULL STOP.
Q on a Saturday night.
They mostly come at [all times, always], mostly.
When the tiddies are taken from you and you feel lost.
This video contains content from NBC Universal, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Wait, found it. Why’d NBC kill that one particular upload?
Titty City!
http://imgs2cdn.adultempire.com/products/55/1611655h.jpg
NSFW.
I’d like to point out in reference to Q’s link that I69 is real and is the NAFTA highway. It was signed into law by Bill Clinton. It mostly follows the former US 59.
It does not go to “Titty City” as advertised in the video.
Sorry I’m not trying to snarky or confrontational but have read quite a few libertarian writers (like Rothbard in that 1965 article I have posted before) complaining about how terrible and self-defeating the “long run pessimism” of conservatives is. I do find it an interesting discussion and how it plays out in modern libertarian takes on current issues (i.e. immigration in this case).
I get what point you’re trying to make and there’s no need to apologize. Optimism and pessimism (I can’t believe I’m going to say this) are constructs. People are products of the environment from which they evolved. Misery, death and despair are written into our DNA. Even more fundamental than that is fear. People are afraid of everything all the time. That’s why they want a strong Mommy and Daddy State to make the monsters go away.
Liberty requires courage, self-confidence and self-reliance. None of those are evolutionary advantages. Groupthink, hate and dependence are advantageous. Hence: liberty is a maladaptation. Doesn’t matter that it’s moral and compassionate. Long term we’re fucked. Then again, the human race is doomed long term anyway so I guess that’s comforting right?
Mankind has managed to bend the curve quite a bit already. Ah fuck it, pour another drink.
If you don’t have a cross to bear, you’ll find a cross to burn.
There is also the fact that I have read quite a few Victorian liberals. There were convinced that victory was at hand and their ideology would never ever be challenged. Quite a few optimistic libertarians (cough *Gillespie and Welch*) remind me of those types.
Where’s Hyperbole? HEY HYPERBOLE, THIS IS WHAT I MEANT ABOUT SHIT GOING TO POT. You think it matters if the SPLC gets hit by the same legal theory that obtains whenever a conservative outfit gets sued, but libertarians differ on the substance of the law? Well, celebrate your purity in statist hell, we’re all going there anyway.
Converting this trailer is really fun but some hard work. YouTube is awesome and people freely sharing their DIY projects and knowhow is awesome.
Found a whole series of someone converting their trailer for camping but has everything I am doing for sog grooming.
Panelling is starting to go up and we finished about half. Fresh/grey water tanks ordered, tub to wash dogs in is ordered.
I am hoping to build a battery box tomorrow but will see.
So why a trailer (that still has to be pulled) over something like a Sprinter or similar?
There still glibs about at this time of night/day? If I’m gonna be peeking in on a Saturday, someone is gonna have to humor me.
Random thought that keeps popping in my head: Willie Wanker and the Jergens Factory.
Are you doing parody porn “writing”, now? I know Japan is supposed to be expensive and all, but, maybe you could just sell you skivvies in a vending machine?
Everything I write comes out as parody of the serious man living in my head.
#rentcontrol
No, no we don’t. You don’t get to enact our humor, shitlord!
No, YOU enact—I consume it. Like a boss.
/like a shit-boss, Rickey!
And anyway, I can’t top straffin’s comment.
I don’t see it as meant to be topped, so much as “bottomed”…
And if murder is wrong wouldn’t it follow that a pimp can shave his stable?
https://mobile.twitter.com/jolsson94/status/1116601216845279233
They are a really special breed of stupid. It would seem ol’ Ben fancies himself a master of logic. I suppose he just turns it offfor twatting.
Plus, I happen to prefer the shaved look….
Oh…THAT!
Just don’t use Gillette.
Well…using up the last cartridges. Then, no more. At least unless they reverse course.
But, who am I kidding?
So, are there any non-US/US ex-pat glibs? I am aware of Oz-based posters at TOS, but can’t remember if they followed.
Canuckis aren’t counted, because “America’s Hat”. No Maori? No Bangladeshis? Azerbaijanis?
Pie is the only one I am aware of.
See, I was thinking he was State-side. Guess I picked the wrong night to stop sniffing glue.
And the ex-pat Nippon contingent. Invisible Furry Hand has stopped by from time to time.
IFH is the Aussie I’ prob thinking of.
I’m*
IRRC, Raven Nation is Ozzie. And his (AFL) team just lost again.
To a rushed goal 30 seconds from yime
Hmmm…the more you know.
Just wondering if our ragtag fugitive fleet has any true “international” appeal.
RN – sorry, man. They did actually put up a good fight against the Suns. I thought the Blues had them in the 3Q, so I stopped listening (Internet radio), and when I went back…
I don’t recall Raven’s team. Carlton?!
My team (Collingwood) is not being broadcast in the US this week.
I guess I do recall.
Rhywun – Demons managed a win this week, although I’m skeptical about them doing much else this season.
I won’t give spoilers for how the Magpies wound up, but if you can, watch the match.
Can’t watch. It was slim pickins for taping this week. *checks* Looks like I got the Carlton game ? … and Richmond.
Next week looks better. Still no Collingwood ?
Oh, and just in case I’m misleading anyone, I live in the US, and am a US citizen (naturalized)
Misleading? More like, we caught you! 😉
RN – my fault, not yours. I believe you mentioned that previously, and I forgot. I blame booze. (takes another drink). It’s booze! (takes another drink).
Rhywun – BBC America has a bunch of Star Trek series ripe for tapin’, but you have to clean out your DVR, bro. (takes another drink).
Number 6 was around for a while.
Not sure if Injun was.
Seems like Injun was…
Anyway, good to know we’re shitlording across cultures.
Mast!?
Last – goddammit!
If you you go for straff’s idea a few posts up, “mast” kinda works
Ugh… home from work and forgot to get whiskey last night. Store doesn’t open for hours so I’m blending the remnants of my Teeling’s, High West Double Rye, and Wild Turkey 101 to get my 8+ count pour. It’s a surprisingly smooth combo.