That’s right, bitches. Taters.
So The Powers That Be are apparently all job slaves. You would think that when you spend the week slaving for The Man, that the easiest links to post would be Saturday night, when they’re not answering to their Overlords.
Guess what? I was completely wrong. By 4PM Manly Time, they’re all drunk as a skunk. I mean, we’re talking face down in a puddle of puke, don’t even know they’re face down drunk. I guess that’s what they have to do to face another week of slow death in the salt mines.
So. Because I have no life, and I’m not being put down by The Man, I’ve offered to step in to take over Saturday night links. The poor bastards need a little relief. But if you think I’m going to be throwing down links like the last go ’round, you are sorely mistaken. I shot my wad, blew my load, spewed forth the best I had. So lower your expectations, get ready to snark, and chill with a little Saturday song.
Thanks, Spud! Happy Saturday!
Goddamn your nimble 9 year old finger agility.
Oh, wait, I can use that…
My pleasure!
We need to teach you how to use the “excerpt” function.
Look, good help is hard to find.
In fact, ANY help is hard to find in Trump’s America’s tight labor market.
There’s an excerpt function? Sweet.
You need to check my drafts and quit stealing my links.
Can this be any more incestuous? Really ?
Well, much of my family is from West Virginia, so….
Life is old there, older than the trees.
But at least it’s younger than the mountains.
And it’s growin’ like the breeze.
Cunt Tree Rhoads
There are already semen trees.
What do people in W. Va do for halloween?
Pump-kin!
Dunno. Have we reached Peak Incest yet?
Not according to Pornhub
Tonight’s Google porn search selected.
Do you need me to repeat the story about my sister trying to tell me to make a baby again?
I kinda do.
Alright. At my nephew’s 11th birthday party, the boys had gone off playing with friends, and it was me, my sister, my BIL, and the girlfriend down in their basement bar drinking (the girlfriend was just sitting). My sister (the pediatric nurse) decided to tell me that I needed to make a baby with the girlfriend (who’s in her early 40’s), so she could be an aunt. After pointing out the advanced age (for spawning) of the girlfriend and myself, my sister said it would be fine, and she’d help. From her (and the BIL), I guess she gave the same speech to his older brother as well.
I have no idea where the baby crazy came from. She’s had three kids. one when she was 15, the other two later in life. Regardless, I’m well aware that I probably shouldn’t spawn, and the girlfriend’s idea of discipline is to give the kids whatever they want… which would end poorly.
No, copy pasta what you typed last time. It was better.
That would require effort.
Pics?
Of me? No one wants that.
Never mind…..it was a poorly timed joke. I blame Tres.
Put one up of Sheridan. No one will know.
Not of Sinclair?
Shit. Go for G’kar and let’s see what happens
“The Powers That Be are apparently all job slaves”
Chained to my job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBn5aIfZElE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0sKalTgzPs
The original Obi Wan-Vader duel, reimagined. It’s action packed, but not bloodlessly choreographed like the prequels.
Terrible.
“Turble.”
I didn’t want to go full Caliendo. That’s blackface and not acceptable in current year.
So, what’s your verdict on Obi Wan vs Maul from Rebels?
Bad animation, plot contrivances and action that doesn’t serve the story. That was around the time I quit watching Rebels.
Huh, I loved every part of it, from their characterization, to how quickly it ended, it being a more Samurai-style duel than wuxia of the prequels, to characterization of Maul as fixated vs Obi-Wan who grew and left his past behind, to fixing The Chosen One silliness in the best way possible.
It felt, to me, like so much fan fiction. Nerds have been salivating over this years, if only to try and reconcile the prequels. But it served no purpose to the overall story. What does it matter? What dramatic element was missing from the original story that this changed? It only exists because the prequels were a thing. It doesn’t inform the character arcs. I’m not saying that is necessarily bad, but it is meaningless because the orig trig is a thing and exists and doesn’t need this to be a good story, so in the end it is meaningless. It doesn’t change motivations or context, it just lets fans imagine connections that don’t really exist. It’s visual masturbation. Which is fine, but not what I enjoy.
Ah, that is true. It was there because Clone Wars was a thing, and they wanted to close the character conflict from it. Since I was a huge fan of CW, without expecting to be one (it made me appreciate prequels a bit more, and got me hyped for SW until TLJ, with a small assist from Rogue One, killed it off), I bought into it.
If by Clone Wars you mean the animated series, I never got into that. I might be a guy who owns a full scale R2-D2, but that doesn’t I’ll just eat up what ever they put out. I didn’t care for the animation style of Clone Wars and I found the existence in and of it’s self to be an insult. Think of it, Lucas, who supposedly had the entire series planed out, needed to fill it in the details with an entire series? That’s either bad writing or a cynical cash grab, neither of which are an enticing entry point for a show.
Also, I’m a strong believer that a movie should stand on it’s own, sure you can do world building around it, but you shouldn’t need to read the supplemental material to understand the movie.
That was my reaction, too – “What, more prequels? Sod that!”
Then I started watching while playing games and…well, they got me. It modified my stance on prequels from “yeah, they are terrible” to “well, if you put in 50 hours of supplementary material, the third one works a lot better”, which, to be clear, is still not praise for it.
Mostly I took it as its own thing, and it worked for me in that respect. And yes, animation style is iffy, if I were more visual thinker I’d have given up before starting.
Silly Chinese no nothing of real hardship.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/11/aoc-dont-let-rich-capitalists-deny-iced-coffee-deserve/
That writer was a lot more measured than I would have been.
She made a comment about only taxing about 10 people.
Combined, the 10 richest Americans have enough wealth to fund the government for a few months. Then whatcha gonna do?
Tax the next ten richest Americans.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
The plan’s failure will be blamed on bad luck, wreckers, and Kulaks.
Don’t forget the hoarders!
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Well that was weird.
Don’t you mean, “Weird that was”?
Or it could be even people who are economic illiterates with bad character can be elected to an overpaid position fucking over the American people, most of whom who have better character than the assholes stealing from them. AOC was more useful to society as a waitress.
Any politician would be more useful to society in any other profession than politician.
It’s amazing the scams incarcerated criminals pull off. Good thing the state flushed all that taxpayer money down the toilet on tech that doesn’t work.
https://taskandpurpose.com/south-carolina-sextortion
*raises finger*
WTF are they doing with cell phones in the first place?
“Come on, you can fit one more of these up there!”
“Wait a second, not an iPhone XS, I didn’t sign up for that!”
The article seems to be implying that the prisoners are allowed to have cell-phones which can’t connect to the outside. Which seems stupid. Or, they’re stealing phones from the staff, but they didn’t say that.
Who writes these things?!
Cell phones that can’t connect to the outside? /Kif sigh
If only it would be easier to smuggle in a SIM card then a whole cell phone.
And for those who care, I’m at home now. Total distance biked today was ~24 miles. Three breweries visited, and one local dive bar. The dive bar was the only place where someone tried to give me shit about the cycling gear, and he appeared disappointed when I rolled with it, and made more fun of myself.
Aaaaaaaand this is why I avoid going into dive bars (well, any bars, most of the time). ’Cause you never know, y’know?
His brother was already giving him shit for trash talking me as well. Especially since I moved over a seat so the asshole could sit down. And really, if I can’t make fun of myself in cycling gear, I have no right to make fun of anyone else.
Although it was very entertaining the one time a women at a brewery spent the entire time walking past me looking at my junk… with the girlfriend next to me. I almost asked the girlfriend to walk over to her later and point out that it’s all padding.
Aaaaaaaand this is why I avoid going into dive bars
in a west end town?
I think you are more into road riding than off road, but I just found this site and love it. I’ve done some bike packing in the past including a ride from Amsterdam to Dubrovnik, but have been out of it for a while cause of kids. I have plans to do the Great Divide route in 10 years time. This summer I’m going to do the SF Peninsula traverse. There are a couple breweries too along the little bit of road section.
https://bikepacking.com/
Yeah, no mountain biking for me yet. I’ve got a hybrid and a road bike. I’m really hoping to do the GAP in the next couple of years. However, it’s looking like if I do, I’ll be doing it alone.
That looks fun too. It’s on the other site I’ve been digging recently. I’m in the market for a mountain bike to get back into it. I love anything on a ?.
https://www.mtbproject.com/trail/7015081/great-allegheny-passage-gap
I have a friend who did it with his dad a couple years back, they had a great time. Did you see the rails to trails project announced a full cross country route? And it’s over 50% completed already.
Ohh, no, I heard about that a few years back but haven’t checked it out recently. Once the kids get a bit older that kind of stuff is going back on the to do list. I’ll have to check that out again.
Here you go. Looks like Wyoming is the big gap at the present. I have a goal now if I’m able to retire at an age where I can still be active.
Yup, I’m hoping I’ll still be able to do stuff like that in another decade or so. Looks like they may just have that thing completed by then.
US 90 along the gulf coast would make a pretty good ride as well.
My Harley’s in the shop. Wrecked it running from the cops after kicking the shit out of some asshole at a bar.
The 80 year olds I was talking to thought I meant a motorcycle, even as I sat there with cycling gear and panniers. I had to point out it was a muscle powered bicycle.
“You mean to say that you rode 24 miles? On a bicycle!? Are you pulling our legs?”
I’ve had far too many conversations with people who think a 10 mile ride is long.
That’s nothing. I’ve had conversations with people who think walking ten blocks is too far. I just can’t even.
I think my longest bike ride about the same, 24m total one day in Germany. Of course, I was 17 years old. But yeah, bike riding isn’t necessarily tiring at all unless you want it to be.
If you’re doing a long ride (longer then 30) and you’re not prepared for it. It’ll hurt you. My longest ride so far was just over 75 miles, and my legs were cramping up near the end badly. I still hope to get a century ride in one of these years.
My longest, when I was young and could do it, was around 17 miles one way so that was say…. 35 miles. It was all flat as a pancake, took me all day but I dont remember getting tired. I took my time and didn’t strain myself. A mile goes by pretty fast on a bike.
Longest ride I did was 50 miles to the coast in the morning, clam chowder lunch, refill water, and go back that afternoon. I rode my bike everywhere then but not at that distance. I was sore for a couple days.
Gustave: My first long ride was ~65 miles round trip. Most of my rides were through the local parks, with good tree coverage. This ride was along the lake shore, which had almost no coverage. I went cross town, met up with a friend of mine (and his family) for lunch. His wife noticed that I was starting to get sunburned, but I waved it off. By the time I got home, I had second degree sunburn on my arms (below the jersey sleeves), my face (where there wasn’t a sunglass line or helmet strap line), and on the front of my thighs (below the shorts). I didn’t wear a cap at the time, so I also had patterned sunburn on my head. I looked like a cut-rate Darth Maul. The worst was that night going to bed I mentioned to the girlfriend about how I could feel the heat radiating off the sunburn. She asked to feel it, grabbed an arm, and twisted.
I’m surprised that the neighbors didn’t call in a domestic violence charge with the scream I let out.
An older brother used to think that trick was “funny”.
Good god. Luckily most of the ride was shady/cloudy & decent weather. The other advantage was the highway was getting repaved with pilot car sections. Really cut down on the amount of traffic. I forgot about the leg chafing. That was part of the post ride pain.
Thinking back now it was stupid, crazy, and suicidal. Still glad I did it once.
I rode about 55 km with 1000 meters of climbing today. I prefer measuring things in the metric system because the numbers are bigger.
That deserves some elaboration.
I concur.
Was the beer good?
It was. I’ve been to all of the breweries before. But I was really impressed with the Kolsch and Schwarzbier that Hansa had. Terrestrial had a good Rauchbier, and I’ve got a growler of Platform beer in the fridge now. The dive bar had Columbus IPA and an unknown Cigar City tap (the handle said Hecho A Mano, but the beer was not a wild, and tasted like the standard Jai Alai).
Excellent.
I need to take the girlfriend to the dive bar now (it’s less then two miles from our house). Just for the fact it’s nearly pitch black inside the bar, I had a random person walk up to me and think they knew me (while I was wearing my ridiculous cycling gear). But, two 23 oz craft pours and a 1/3 pound burger came in at ~$20.
It’s interesting to me what people consider a “dive bar”. Maybe yours really is, but two things that I would not expect to see at a dive bar is a food menu (other than pickled eggs and frozen pizza) and craft beer on tap.
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I was thinking the World has changed if dive bars have craft, and good craft at that, on tap.
The dives around here have started putting a craft beer menu together. When there’s a half dozen breweries around, it’s hard not to have their stuff on tap. Hell, you can’t go anywhere around here without at least a Great Lakes Brewing handle (usually Dortmunder, but some will have two, the other a seasonal). And food menus are part of the dive bar culture here. If you have to go somewhere else for food, they’ve lost you as a customer.
I saw this start happening maybe 15-ish years ago. For some reason small, quiet neighborhood bars started being referred to by college kids as “dive bars”.
My local dive has craft beer and an extensive sandwich menu on a blackboard. Order your beer, then order your sandwich. They make the sandwich right in front of you. They have good sandwiches.
Fair enough. NYC dive bars don’t have any of that, because you can just walk two doors down and find it.
Also, it’s not really a dive bar if it doesn’t smell like a locker room inside.
Alright, here are the Yelp pages (neither of the places have their own website) for two of the ones I’ve gone to:
Post and Beam – known for burgers
Pounders – known for wings
To me dive bars have fizzy yellow lager on tap. But not BMC. That is too high end.
There was a place on State St in Madison that had the foulest beer on tap. We went for pool and darts.
Or a place in Louisville whose house Bourbon was “Kentucky Gentleman”. That shit made Beam seem like Pappy.
If the place doesn’t have pool tables and reek of stale beer and cig smoke, and your feet don’t stick to the carpet it is not a dive bar.
westernsloper: Post and Beam doesn’t have a pool table (no room for it), but everything else is true in both places. I was one of two people drinking a tap beer at the bar tonight, and I’m usually the only one looking over the craft list at Pounders (which has led to some great fun, like when they were selling Rubeus at $3 a can).
And smoking in bars has been outlawed in Ohio for several years now.
Ya, outlawing smoking in bars has ruined the atmosphere in a proper dive bar even for non smokers. Part of the charm was going home smelling like an ashtray and smelling your clothes the next morning.
I haven’t been to a bar since I went to vaping full-time last year but I assume that’s banned too. But yeah, I was already growing tired of the scene when the smoking bans pretty much sealed the deal for me.
I guess the meaning of the term has changed. In my mind, dive bars might have a craft or two on tap, but they definitely don’t have a “craft list”. And good food is right out. Near as I can tell, “neighborhood bar” changed to “dive bar” in the last decade or two.
Although, with licensing and health department rules ever expanding, what I consider a dive bar may not even exist anymore…
Ya, outlawing smoking in bars has ruined the atmosphere in a proper dive bar even for non smokers.
The owner of the local dive also owns the cigar shop next door. But, in the Live Free or Die state, you can no longer smoke in bars except for specially licensed cigar bars. The owner of the dive hasn’t taken advantage of this law.
Way back in ’07 when NH banned smoking in bars, the owner of the dive had a little dust-up with one of the supporters of the ban. The supporter stopped by the dive because, “I heard they have great sandwiches.” The owner found out the ban supporter was there. The owner threw the ban supporter out and told him to never come back.
I love those exceptions. It tells you what they really think of the little people.
Ok. For me a proper dive has three things:
1) Regulars – People who have been going there at least once a week for more then a year
2) Cheap prices – There may be a single drink on the menu that costs over $10, but no one ever buys it unless a regular just got a raise/promotion
3) Legacy – It’s been there for at least 20 years, and shows it around the edges.
Most of the clientele are ordering shots and beers (well bourbon and BMC), and if you’re not a regular you will not get great service. You can easily meet a regular by sitting at the bar (not in a regular’s seat) and talking to your neighbors.
I don’t go to bars anymore due to no taxis/uber in these parts, but the no smoking indoors thing would piss me off. That and I got older and am not sure I could deal with a room full of drunks anymore. I prefer a room full of one drunk. Me.
^ This guy gets it.
Neph; you just described a neighborhood bar.
IMO, a dive bar is a place you don’t go to if you don’t know someone there. Don’t try and make friends. Don’t flash a lot of cash around.
Over the last decade or two, pampered college kids, tired of the dance clubs, went looking for a new kick. They “discovered” small neighborhood bars. To them, never actually being in anything but “classy” joints, these seemed like “dive” bars.
Heh OK that’s even more “dive” than I had in mind. But yeah, you’re probably right.
The Jug in Jacksonville Beach (yes, the one from the Lynyrd Skynyrd song is a real place) is a dive bar. The chances of getting drunk are only slightly better than the chances of getting into a fight with a surly redneck.
My wife just agreed with Neph’s definition of dive bar.
I take back everything I said in disagreement with you, Neph.
Also, westernsloper, I’m with you. Moving from New Orleans to NYC cured me of any desire to go to a bar. The prices in a regular bar up here are on par with NOLA strip club prices – $8 bottles of Heineken, $13 shots of Maker’s Mark…shudder.
Neph and MikeS’s wife are wrong, what Neph described is my usual hangout, and the local ‘movers and shakers’ are regulars there, lawyer/doctors/businessmen/etc. If the mayor eats dinner there, it’s not a dive bar. Of course, this may say more about my town(and mayor) than the definition of dive bars, but that’s what I got.
MikeS:
No worries. A neighborhood bar can be a dive bar. But you can also have neighborhood bars that have an average drink price of over $10. It depends on the neighborhood. But to me, the real thing is the age of the bar. A dive bar needs character, it needs to have been there for long enough to build that up. There’s places that try to fake it, and they almost always fail, because the feel istn’t there. One other thing that I left out is that if you’ve been in a dive, and tipped well, they will remember you forever. There was an almost one year gap between times going to Pounders, but the bartender remembered that I didn’t want a cinnamon and sugar rim on my glass.
@ Hyperbole; I agree 100%
@ Neph; I get what you’re saying. But I guess I’ve always used the term dive bar to describe an undesirable place; a place you wouldn’t take a lady, etc.
If you’re definition is the norm, and unless some of the older crowd says I’m wrong, I contend the definition has changed since the days when I was a new bar patron.
Kind of funny the number of comments this discussion has gotten. We’ll hit 2 million before you know it!
Back when I did the dive bar scene I never took a lady to one nor would a lady be found in those places so Mike is right. I took this chic who was stupid enough to marry me. She wised up. I think her non lady credentials were stamped due to her enjoyment of playing pool in a skirt while going commando. To be honest, that is the only thing I miss about her.
I tend to think of dive and neighborhood bars as two non-mutually-exclusive designations. In my mind, a neighborhood bar is a bar that is primarily known only to locals and has a mostly regular clientele. Most actual pubs are neighborhood bars in my mind. Quality varies, but service will tend to be better for regulars and very, very familiar, rather than formal.
Case in point: Davis’s Pub is the localest bar I know. The first, oh, ten times I went here I couldn’t find it. Now it’s a fifteen minute walk from my house. We know most of the staff by name, know if they’ve got kids, how old they are, stuff like that. One waitress is a close friend of my SIL’s family. Food is shockingly, and I mean astonishingly, good for the price, and drinks are cheap. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is getting into a fight. If one starts, it’s regulars, and they’ll take it outside on their own. There may be a doorman, but he doesn’t have to check ID because everyone knows how old everyone else is, and if someone needs to be bounced the closest regulars will probably handle it.
Dives are local, but not necessarily a part of the neighborhood as such. They tend to be more about the drinks than the food, although that’s not always the case. There are regulars, for sure, but because the emphasis is on cranking out drunk as fast as possible, you also get a lot of randos. You are more likely to get into or witness a fight here. Where a neighborhood bar is worn in, a dive is worn out. Standards are slipping here. Quality of service is random, but it pays to cozy up to the bartender. This will result in better service, but also probably near-flammable amounts of liquor in any mixed drinks. Food may or may not be good, but is going to be college cafeteria quality. Think high-end convenience store with a fryer. It’s scuzzy.
Case in point: Ebb Tide’s Yelp page, since they don’t have a website. Note most favorable reviews come from regulars; non-regulars get shit service and hate the food. More than one favorable review cites the presence of Natty Boh on tap as a selling point. The general idea is that if you go during the day it’s fine, and the later you stay the more likely it is that bad things will happen. I know a guy who tended bar here for a few months, and on the first night he was told that if he sees someone pull a knife out just call the cops and stay back. He thought the bartender who told him that was joking. He was not. In this place’s defense, I’ve been a few times and it’s as fine a place to go for beer and wings as any, really.
I like that. Very true.
As has happened before, Bill says what I am trying to say better than I could.
@MikeS: That’s a hell of a complement and I am frankly blushing.
@Bill
And I meant it. I’ve meant before to encourage you to write some articles for Glibs. Consider yourself encouraged.
IMO; You have a way of describing your opinion on things that is very engaging. When I see you post a comment that is paragraphs long, I actually settle in to enjoy the read. No TL;DR for me.
Well, I trend long-winded. I’m a little surprised nobody’s called me out for it here, honestly.
At any rate, I haven’t written in years, but maybe it’s time to get back on the horse…
When they ban blow in the bathrooms is when I call it quits.
I love those exceptions. It tells you what they really think of the little people.
That exception took several years to make its way into law, but yeah.
A bunch of immigrants (legal ones) were going to open up a hookah bar in Nashua, NH right before the 2007 ban. They had spend five or six figures getting the space ready to open, and in the days before they were going to open, the legislature took up the ’07 smoking ban bill. They lobbied pretty hard against the bill, or at least for some sort of exemption for them. Nope, so sorry. Fuck you for wanting to open a business here and spending a lot of money.
The bar died when the bill passed.
Hookah is still fine here. There’s a least a dozen within two blocks of me.
“two 23 oz craft pours”
Because they were running a prime number special?
Nah, I think it’s a liquor law thing here. Tall beers are 23 ounces at most places. I just learned a new liquor law today at Platform, if the taps aren’t labeled for the beer that’s being poured, you can get fined. So most of the beers on their menu has a number after it to correspond to the tap the beer is on.
Fun fact – I won’t turn the volume on my radio to a prime number, it bothers me for reasons.
By 4PM Manly Time, they’re all drunk as a skunk.
That’s late.
Finally, Arizona Bruce Lee wannabe’s will be able to repeatedly hit themselves in the face, ribs, and groin.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/arizona-governor-signs-bill-legalizing-nunchucks
Hwaaa, waaaa, swish, THUNK, ooooooooohhhh
That fact that boys survive to reach 15 should be proof than nunchaku are ineffective weapons.
It’s not that they survive, but that they have kids later.
Guns N’ Roses is suing a Colorado brewery for its “Guns ‘N’ Rosé” ale, claiming it infringes on the legendary rock band’s trademark and suggests the group is somehow connected to the product.
So much for my dream of brewing Captain and Tennale
There’s a lot of these lawsuits, and this is one that I think will go against the brewery. The label that Oskar Blues went with makes it look quite a bit like the band may be involved.
Can’t wait to try their fAtXL Super-Thick Stout.
Soon I’m going to leave on a road trip. I don’t want to publicly post exact dates I’ll be away from my house, but it’ll be late May into June.
Anyone want to meet if I have the time as I pass through your area?
I’m going through central PA to Cincinnati, then passing through Bowling Green to see the Corvette Museum on my way to Nashville. After Nashville is Gatlinburg, then Asheville. Then I visit some relatives in North Carolina, with some time on the Outer Banks afterwards. After the Outer Banks, I head to the Philly area with a stopover to tour Dogfish Head (err… I guess now Sam Adams).
I’ve been talking with some of the Ohio Glibs about meeting in Columbus as I pass through. My time in Cincinnati is for visiting some friends that I haven’t seen in a long time, but I thought Columbus would be a good meeting point. My time in the Philly area might be short.
You can send me a message at my poorly chosen semi-throwaway e-mail (dgroves140 AT gmail DOT com) if you’re interested in meeting up and we aren’t already talking.
BREAKING: Creative Artists Agency agent David Bugliari to start cheating on his wife.
“Our reproductive rights are being erased.
Until women have legal control over our own bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy.
JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back.
I’m calling for a #SexStrike. Pass it on.”
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1127040792281767936
The whole #SexStrike is moronic. A bunch of women who would never sleep with me are now not going to sleep with me? Not to mention I wouldn’t fuck any of them even with your dick because I wouldn’t want to spend that much time around them.
Useful idiots and virtue signalers do moronic things. News at 11.
*Hint to Alyssa: I am happily married. I was going to turn you down anyway.
I can hardly wait until RealDolls cross the uncanny valley. It’ll definitely be a popcorn moment for me.
That was weird. I just posted a sexbot & popcorn comment and it didn’t take.
Oh-oh. SP’s installed an AI content sieve. We’re doomed.
Completely rational, and sure to be effective.
Let me know when men get Wallet autonomy back too.
Alright, so she’s being deliberately vague but she’s obviously talking about abortion. Here’s the thing. I’m pro-choice, but I don’t see a problem with imposing limits on when and how abortions can be performed, with exceptions for medical necessity for the health of the mother. And unless you believe that right up until the birth certificate is signed abortion for any reason is fine and dandy, then you believe that, at some point, that fetus in the womb is in fact a living person with at least some rights of his or her own. This has absolutely nothing to do with reproductive rights. You can try to get pregnant, you can carry a baby to term, you can have an abortion up until a certain stage of fetal development, you can use birth control, you can abstain from vaginal intercourse…I’m not seeing where reproductive rights are at stake. I am seeing where people are either don’t understand the law, or are responding to dog whistles, or are being deliberately obtuse. Not sure where Alyssa stands there, but based on her statement that a woman who has a miscarriage can be put in prison in Georgia, I’m going to assume she’s not a clear-headed, well-informed party in this discussion.
It’s not supposed to be a discussion. That’s the point. If you want a discussion you need another topic. Abortion is closed for discussion as far as they are concerned. When the whole abortion after delivery arguements were made a month or so ago, I wanted to make a bumper sticker…..”Fuck it. Kill all babies. Vote Democrat!”
I can’t believe someone was dumb enough to marry her. Reap the whirlwind dude.
Poophole loophole?
Two songs better than what Spud linked
I would have picked this.
And this was in the sidebar.
“The trans model formerly known as Jorey Brewis indicted on charges related to stealing from Portland Women’s March previously served prison time for robbery. There, she cut out her testicles & later sued the state hospital for housing her in the male ward.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1126995416958943232
“In another development, a Marion County judge soon will hear conflicting evidence about the quality of care provided for Brewis, as well as dueling views about hospital monitoring of the patient, who bitterly complains about near-constant surveillance.
This story, drawing on hospital records and interviews with Brewis, retraces her harrowing path to the state hospital. It also looks at the crux of the legal controversy.
In 2007, Jorey Brewis, as he was known at the time, was locked up in a state prison, serving time for robbery.
Racked by discomfort with his male body, a condition known as gender identity disorder, Brewis made repeated attempts to kill himself.
The rare condition went untreated behind bars, and Brewis castrated himself in his cell. In 2007, he used nail clippers to cut out his testicles, records show.”
http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/transgender-patient-alleges-discrimination-at-oregon-state-hospital/
Talk about nuts.
Nail clippers?
Good God. That’s commitment.
Yeah. That’s walking the walk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjrBjdb2T8
That would be why he’s now committed to the state mental hospital. But he’s totally capable of making his own decisions and filing legal challenges.
Nüsse?
Ok, so I don’t claim to know whether or not gender dysphoria or whatever should be consider a mental illness or a condition which is cured by transition treatment and surgery. I suspect it’s the kind of thing where there are some people who are totally fine but deeply feel that they were born with the wrong bits, and there are some people who are profoundly damaged and this is one of the ways in which that damage manifests. If you remove your testicles with nail clippers, you’re in the latter category, without question.
I’m reminded of the loons who cut off an arm or a leg because they think it’s wrong to have one. I’m not sure what the difference is supposed to be, but I don’t see anyone demanding to celebrate that (yet).
There’s no activist elective amputee bloc, so you see no push to normalize it. But transexuality is the new hotness, I guess because it pushes the right political buttons vis a vis gender, and it’s a simultaneous cause celebre and a national crisis.
Science by way of social opportunism, hooray!
“gender dysphoria or whatever should be consider a mental illness or a condition which is cured by transition treatment and surgery”
It’s both. Epilepsy is a mental illness but that doesn’t mean seizures aren’t real.
I don’t know if this person was truly transgender, but she obviously had other serious problems.
Maybe mental illness is the wrong term. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder. Maybe all mental illnesses are neurological disorders on some level, but, and correct me if I’m wrong, no amount of psychotherapy will cure epilepsy. I only personally know one transgender person, and when he was a she she was a normal high school kid. Awkward, but no issues that would stand out. I was close with her sister, and apparently she was seeing a therapist off and on, but wasn’t on any medication for anything or considered at risk for anything. Then after college she transitioned over to he, surgery and all, and was totally fine. Happier, definitely, and everyone kind of agreed that she made a better man than she did a woman. So, in that case, it was a person who I think clearly, for whatever reason, felt like swapping bits was the way to go, and it seems that was right on.
I meant wrong term as in I wasn’t expressing myself clearly by using it, btw.
Well, yes. Just like there are some people who actually have an allergy to gluten, the fact that the non-assholes of society cater to their actual needs with gluten-free food etc. attracts a cadre of assholes who crave the special feeling they get when people have to adjust their routines for them.
I think you are right. At least that’s my understanding of the situation.
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/mmiw-chief-commissioner-recommends-automatic-first-degree-murder-charges-for-killings-of-indigenous-women
“2SLGBTQQIA”
WTF?
I do find it amusing that “two-spirit” has advanced to the top of the stack.
wtf is “two-spirit”?
Trans, but with buckskin and feathers.
From wikipedia:
So yeah, another box to put people in, brought to you by the people who label their enemies as “divisive”.
Alrighty then. Who knew.
To be fair, we do also have a special word for black gays:
Eddie Murphy.
2 = first? I has confused.
They put two-spirits up front because Indians are the most important.
Oh come on.
My thoughts exactly.
I wasn’t aware that that flavor of crazy was a big thing with indians.
You haven’t seen a lot of Indian activists then.
No, I haven’t. They were the pioneers in victimology. They have been at it for over a hundred years before the proggies caught on so I guess it makes sense. I just never thought about it before.
That’s always been a problem with “social justice”. Yes wrongs have been done but the economic and political system created by those racists is okay for some reason. Oh and what incentive do these activists have to support laissez-fair economics? The only reason the Dissenting Protestants support Laissez-faire economics in the 19th Century was because it personally benefitted them.
They do claim a history of some sort of “third gender” ceremonies. I don’t know anything about it, if it’s real, who practiced it, how extensive it was, if it’s being grossly exaggerated for political purposes, or what.
The second to last one there.
Also, another example of all Indian Nations being a monolith when convenient.
No shit. No one killed or enslaved more injuns than the injuns did.
Hey! Just like Muslims. Although, I suppose I can’t really expect folk who don’t grok the Sunni – Shia divide to appreciate the fact that it is primarily the Deobandi and Wahhabi flavors that are causing trouble (I could be way off base, but I’ve never heard of any Sufi suicide bombers).
Dude, the Deobandi are Sufi.
Ouch! Serves me right for trying to be smartypants. Thanks for the correction, HM.
. . . if it’s being grossly exaggerated for political purposes . . .
Damn near everything related to the indigenous in Canada is grossly exaggerated for political purposes, unless it has to do with an indie misbehaving, in which case the average commenter/MSM employee can’t run away from the story fast enough.
I wonder how long until Mr. Paisana loses his law license for pointing out a simple demographically verifiable fact.
They’re starting to push that stuff here in Alaska without mentioning that majority of women and girls abused/raped /murdered are fellow natives. Which, if you look at demographics, makes sense.
Alaska
I just got your handle. I am slow.
Eh… it’s not super obvious unless in context. Yours made me think of a play on words on a North Sloper, but once you mentioned CO it made much more sense.
For Spud’s heroic efforts, he deserves some titties.
https://thechive.com/2019/05/11/cleavage-saturday-is-a-real-treat-31-photos/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffraikes/2019/05/06/the-power-of-equity/#3a8dd87f2d43
“There’s a big, important conversation happening in our country right now”
No. No there’s not. There are a bunch of little Maoists running around trying to tear down objective reality and replace it with the Glorious Revolution.
I don’t think the Glorious Revolution was all that bad for Britain.
Unless you were Irish or Catholic that is.
Apparently fake news, made-up conspiracy theories, religious bigotry and foreign intervention was okay then but not now for some reason. Hmmm…
Oops no link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Fright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popish_Plot
Also gave a pension to a perjurer whose lies caused the execution of at least 22 innocent people.
Have you seen the place lately?
A lot of time has passed between the Glorious Revolution and now.
They have had another somewhat quiet, soft one recently.
My wife and I are trying to decide what if any movie or movie-like thing to watch tonight. We’re both white. Do they mean that?
Because she’s watching Chambers and I’m probably going to split my time between Hunt a Killer and cleaning the kitchen until we decide on something. I’m leaning towards Chernobyl, and she’s leaning towards Arctic.
Rest easy, Jeff Raikes.
Props for not marrying outside your box. Because that conversation could get really problematic.
I noticed sometime near the end of O’bumbles tenure that almost all of the lefty websites stopped allowing comments. I guess you can just be told you are completely full of shit so many times before you get tired of it.
Yep. It was when the 2016 Pres election was getting into full swing. I think many news outlets didn’t want people bashing Herself in the comments of every article they wrote about her.
A lot of it was the “Bernie Bros” questioning the legitimacy of the primary. Can’t tolerate any dissent from inside the party and all.
I’m going to be in Vancouver, BC for work starting tomorrow until Friday. Any recommendations for food, drink, fun? I like steak, booze, punk rock. Any Glibs want to meet up? Email my handle at the Google email place.
Single trip there so take it with a grain of salt. We had lunch at The Keg downtown. Chain steakhouse, but good especially the lobster. Grenville Island has a bunch of eating and drinking places. Can’t help with the punk but can always visit Perry Mason’s gravestone.
Ahem. Granville Island. Fun, but can be pricey. Good atmosphere though. The Keg is a chain and is decent but not truly a cut above. There are some quirky places to eat, such as Peaceful Garden (amazing Chinese food, and all the noodle dishes are made with from-scratch noodles). If you can eat with someone else and share dishes, that’s usually better.
If you’re on an expense account, there are restos downtown that can definitely turn your crank and upset your company accountants. Yelp and/or Tripadvisor actually do a decent job of hooking you up with the good stuff. Be prepared to pay, though — a local joke is that it costs 20 bucks to cross the street in Van.
Oh, and there’s over 770 sushi restos in the Lower Mainland. If you like sushi, you should be fine here.
And if you need to eat well and cheaply, Japanese noodle shops are the way to go here, as well as most “ethnic” food (as is usually the case).
Arigato!
Hy’s Steakhouse on Hornsby. Seriously old-school.
Yes. Thank you. This is the spot.
Yes, most of the Hy’s in Canada are gone now, I think. It’s the faded-glory dive-bar of steakhouses. Back in the day it was the real three-martini power-lunch joint, where you gave your accountant a heart attack at the bill you turned in on your expense account. You may be forgiven if you expect to see Dean Martin stroll in through the front door.
I am Dean Martin.
“You’re nobody, ’til someBODY loves you . . .”
Damn, I didn’t know there was posting from the afterlife. I hope it’s going well for you.
As long as the Golddiggers are around, Dino’ll be alright.
https://reason.com/2019/05/06/government-control-turns-schools-into-partisan-battlegrounds/
Diverse yet people should be brought together and be harmonious? Isn’t that a bit contradictory?
Anyway if you ever read up on the 19th Century you will find that the public school debate has always been a partisan and culture war battle. Always.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_normale_supérieure_(Paris)
Nothing partisan or culture war there!
Normal Schools existed during my Mom’s childhood all across Western Canada, and yeah, you got a degree in something else first and then went to the Normal School (usually for a year) to learn the art of teaching.
Now we have Education Faculties at all our major Unis, and we turn out dunces to teach our children how to be dunces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba_Schools_Question
Yes, but the Education library was the best place to study due to the highest concentration of women. So it isn’t total waste.
But they were all idiots.
E pluribus, unum is our country’s motto, and if you don’t like it, GET THE FUCK OUT!
LBJ says different…
MikeS on May 11, 2019 at 7:54 pm
My wife just agreed with Neph’s definition of dive bar.
I take back everything I said in disagreement with you, Neph.
We now know who wears the pants in that household.
I do! When I finish with her laundry
Oh, and MikeS? Tell your wife she’s wonderfully intelligent and that I owe her a drink.
Ha! She got a good giggle out of that. Thanks, Neph.
No worries.
/raises pint glass towards MikeS
Ha!
My Grandpa was one of those sexist Republicans of decades past. I live in his house. So sexist that there is a piece of decor here that says: “I’m the boss in this house. And I have my wife’s permission to say so.”
You dive when you hear gunshots.
So I went to my beer jobber this evening to load up on Worldwide Stout and 120 Minute IPA. The owner was rather cross about the Sam Adams deal but he did have this yummy but very strong DFH Higher Math – “A golden ale brewed with chocolate and sour cherry juice”. It’s good but at 17% ABV it is packing a wallop.
Did they have the Raison D’extra?
I didn’t see it. To be fair, I was too entranced by “sour cherry juice” to look that closely. I’ll swing by tomorrow and see; we do have a lot of skirt steak to plough through.
Also, the Higher Math followed by a Worldwide Stout has me quite tipsy.
Just saw it on the shelves near me, it’s also at the ~$25 a four pack price.
RAGE!!!!! Up here the 120 and the Worldwide are $10.99 per bottle, $39.99 the four pack.
Will the name IPA have to be purged due its colonialist, racist and white supremacist history?
I’d rather they just purged the damn beer. I used to like a decent English Bitter until a thousand IPAs bloomed across North America and ruined anything like Bitters forever.
BEAM, I like you man. But you try to take my IPA’s away, there may be a war.
We could take away 75% of the IPA’s out there, and there would still be plenty of variety for everyone.
Speaking of IPAs; I got an Alaskan Brewing sampler and had their Icy Bay IPA. Not bad.
The amount of variety out there now is amazing. Through the three breweries I went to, one had a single IPA (most were German traditional beers), one had only guest IPA’s (they had run out of their own), and the third had a full selection (including multiple hard seltzers, ciders, and sours).
I’m in a churlish mood right now because I went to one of my favourite (private) booze stores today looking for a decent Belgian or even a Negra Modelo, and there was NOTHING BUT FUCKING IPAs EVERYWHERE. Yeah, I get it, they’re popular. They couldn’t even scare up a sixer of Negra from the back stockroom.
Then talk to the owners of the stores you go to. The variety is out there, and it’s massive. IPA’s aren’t even the big thing any more, it’s all session style beers (sours, lagers, or pales).
Even my local gas station has a wide variety of local craft beers in cans or bottles in the walk-in fridge. Most of these are not IPAs.
Probably wouldn’t help, since the “wholesaler” is the true controller of what we get to drink in B.C., and the wholesaler is the government. You drink what they provide, Comrade.
I’m looking forward to going back to Edmonton — there’s a beer store there that carries over 800 lines, including enough Belgians to make a grown man weep with joy.
Sorry BEAM, I didn’t realize you were up in Canada. At least you may get access to Dieu du Ciel and Unibroue. I’ll think of you as I drink all of the beers that I have easy access to in an attempt to make you feel better.
it’s all session style beers (sours, lagers, or pales)
If this is both true and this trend makes it across the Pacific then my prayers will have been answered.
Not sure which god was listening and what/who is going to be sacrificed…
Puh-LEEEEZE take them!
Prevent pregnancy through abstinence says Hollywood SJW feminist.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/11/alyssa-milano-sex-strike-unintentionally-owns/
Her new look seems to be a cross between school marm and syncronized swimmer.
It’s really too bad that she’s certifiable.
It’s a damn shame.
So many years wasted, lusting after a crazy person. It’s like I’ve accomplished nothing with my life!
Eye bleach.
Straff just lit the Tres signal.
John will be in his bunk.
Related: Star Wars Fans Implement Sex Strike Until Disney Disavows ‘The Last Jedi’
Oh wow. Also related: Alyssa Milano Calls For Strike On Starring In Any Noteworthy Film Projects
Man, she’s serious.
https://reason.com/podcast/what-will-post-prohibition-drug-culture-look-like/
I mean if we ignore the opoid crisis, watermelons, the anti-smoking laws, the straw bans, the anti sugar fat and salt campaigns and the panic about obiesty fakenews and hate speech we are in a post-prohibition.
Also how does Gillespie explain Bill C-75?
Don’t forget the new war on alcohol.
It is almost like pot legalization is about people not being afraid of it anymore rather than a belief that the government shouldn’t be involved with our personal lives. For people who support “progress” they sure have an overidealized take on the 1960s.
Yeah, I don’t want my freedom to drink being conditional on some stupid study.
Just overheard this from a talking head on the Tee Vee: “Trump lost more money than anyone in America from 1985 to 1994 and didn’t pay any taxes…” *Raises finger* Nevermind.
2 stories I read today were straight out of Hat and The Hair. One, Kim Jong Un had a basketball exchange program as a proposal at the last summit, second Trump is obsessed with carpet.
Well it looks like one women’s sport decided it still wants to exist. At least for now.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/11/male-powerlifter-stripped-titles-womens-championships/
“Thread. I’ve written a lot recently about how certain segments of the media tend to downplay, excuse, or ignore blatant anti-Semitism depending on the source of the Jew-hatred. Unfortunately, several major media outlets decided to prove my point again over the last few days.”
https://twitter.com/AG_Conservative/status/1127209278010527744
“Due to space requirements, we can only focus on the negative aspects of Republican candidates in articles announcing their candidacy.”
sin,
Mainstream media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Buttigieg
Dad of you know who…
“Illinois might start charging $1,000 per year to own an electric vehicle: ‘It’s outrageous’
A proposed hike in Illinois’ annual registration fee for electric vehicles, from $17.50 to $1,000, is being called unfair by current EV owners, and a sales disincentive by manufacturers — just as the new technology is beginning to gain broader traction.
“It’s outrageous,” said Nicoletta Skarlatos, 56, of Chicago, who bought a Tesla Model S five years ago. “I thought Illinois was progressive and would want to encourage EV ownership.”
Aimed at raising money to make overdue road improvements across Illinois, the proposed legislation would also more than double the state’s gas tax to 44 cents a gallon and raise the registration fee for standard vehicles to $148, from $98, among other elements.
But the kicker is a nearly 60-fold increase in the electric vehicle registration fee — one that is sure to cause sticker shock across a nascent segment of the auto industry, which has depended on government incentives to entice early adopters.
Hybrids and plug-in electric hybrids, which both use gas to supplement electric power, are not included in the $1,000 fee proposal.
The justification for the dramatic hike? Electric vehicles don’t provide the state with any gas tax revenue.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-electric-vehicle-fee-illinois-20190509-story.html
Snort. Hahaha.
I snorted.
It’d be funnier if the money would actually go to road maintenance instead of pensions, inept public transit and bike lanes. But it still warms the heart to see this.
I’m giggling like a drunken school girl.
TBF, you always are.
Well…not always…
I think I see the problem…
The incentive just isn’t big enough?
So what they keep talking about doing in Ohio to make up for the loss of gas tax revenue from fuel efficient cars is to put a gps on every car and tax you by mileage.
Same here. Whining about losing money from gas revenue but spending money by the bucketloads to develop a privacy destroying tracking system that assuredly won’t be used to track people. Until it is.
I think I’d be okay with with paying a registration based on vehicle weight x miles driven every 3 years. There’s cases to be made for people who live in one state and commute to another, but unless it’s an NJ -> NY thing, it would probably even out. I’m sure there’s a downside that I’m not thinking of. Mostly due to wine consumption tonight.
Active GPS tracking can fuck right off, though.
Yea, that’s fucking dumb.
Even if government-mandated vehicle monitoring were acceptable, why would you want a GPS in every car? Wouldn’t it be much cheaper and easier to have some kind of odometer that couldn’t be reset? Oh that’s right, it’s about totalitarian control schemes, not actually aligning taxation with usage of public services.
A car on a dynamo doesn’t use public roads, so for the welfare of the state they need to track where those odometer readings come from.
Without being pedantic, I’d call it a user fee instead of a tax. Don’t drive that much? Don’t pay that much. Drive 25k miles a year? Then you pay for it when buying gas or re-registering. A tax, to me, is something like property tax that funds services that you may or may not use like police or the library.
Not to get all John, but I think the reason self-driving cars won’t happen is not a tech issue but the DUI industry and too many podunk towns have too much vested in traffic and dui fines. There’s an article to be made from that I should probably work on.
Are you saying a car can’t get dunk?! I’ll show you!! *sconnie*
Fills up w/E85.
This is why we’ll all end up with DoT GPS monitors like truckers – so electric car drivers can pay their “fair share.” At least when that happens gas taxes will go away.
Too slow as usual.
It will also be convenient for cops to track what everyone is up to.
gas taxes will go away
Hahahahaha (breath) Hahahahahahehehehe (breath) Hahahahehehahahe
Well, gasoline taxes may go away but gas (CO2) taxes will be halved from whatever they are now to double that.
And this right here is why I am adamantly opposed to ‘self-driving cars’.
Share the pain.
“Also a big part of the reason GOP men want to ban abortion is because they hate the idea of women having non-married, non-procreative sex! ”
https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/1127226679171125248
Sure, Jan.
What if you also hate men doing those things?
So now they are insisting we don’t stick it in crazy? Gee, thanks.
As someone who’s anti-abortion, I’ve got to say I’m still a big fan of non-married, non-procreative sex.
Unpossible
Tomorrow is [REDACTED] BBQ with some [REDACTED] Salad and UNCLASSIFIED cheese potatoes. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
I want to apologize to gay voters for implying that they are lining up behind Buttigieg.
“A chance to for gay boys and men to see a bit of themselves in the trigger finger behind…” Wow…
Watching the first episode of Chernobyl. I noticed that the wiki article on the series refers to Ukraine SSR and Soviet Ukraine, but not USSR, Soviet Union, or Russia.
Wife is omging at every revelation of stupidity. No iodine pills in hospitals? Not informing responding firefighters? I kinda got a little heated. That’s communism. They don’t give a shit if they kill a couple million people. They aren’t going to think twice for a handful.
I assume Bernie and AOC will be fapping to this show?
“In Soviet Union no Iodine pills, but many pills for I Oww Die.”
There were people looking at all the glowing colors through the crack in the containment building from a vantage point not far away. It was like a tourist attraction. Of course, they all died a few weeks later.
Son are announce marriage girl friend NOT Chinese mother are devastate
You no engrish no more?
Ancestory are shame humiliate
Yeah, fuck gingers.
Well, if you insist.
HAHAHA, I made a funny!
That is pretty good, but the guy would still get crucified.
It’s hard to argue with him here
*Caveat* The idiots going full racist in the comments are NOT me endorsed.
YouTube had this on the sidebar and I said, “Hell yes”
Saw this at the bar earlier. Laughed out loud. I couldn’t possibly explain why to the bartender.
I feel like I need to write up an article now about the differences between bar styles. Considering how many comments a stray thought got, we could hit 2 million the day after that.
Knowing the commentariat, you’d find an audience in that.
Serious, satire, or completely rambling aphasia.
Look up-thread. The audience has already proven it’s hunger.
I’m more liable to fall asleep due to the hour, I don’t think I can sift through a few hundred comments.
So, I got you with the train museum, right, you’re coming my way on your trip?
Reminds me; UCS, there’s a great RR museum in Duluth
But Green Bay’s is The NATIONAL Railroad Museum, actually a thing some senator or congress critter spent time writing laws and grants for. Fuck this world.
Neph, I think you would love it where I live. I’m not exaggerating when I say there are probably close to 100 bars and bar / restaurants within a 5 mile radius of my house in La Crosse, WI. There’s at least 30 within a 15 minute walk.
Hell, there are 5 in my town of 500…*tries doing math, gets confused*…that’s like 5 bars for 500 people…
No fire marshall?
Crazy enough, in the 90s we had a guy named Bill who was our Fire Marshall.
I think half the unincorporated towns in Wisconsin with a name are just a bar and church and maybe a volunteer fire department building for people to hang out in a garage and drink beer.
There’s over 30 breweries within 10 miles of my house. The dive bars (look upthread for that argument) have turned towards craft beer. And I’ve got a three tap system in my basement. it’ll be a hard sell to make me move, but you put up a good effort. 🙂
Do it. It is a great topic. Like I said, I don’t do bars anymore but I did enjoy them. I think though, my favorite bars were in third world shitholes. A bar on stilts in the Biafra region on the Cameroon/Nigerian border was especially memorable. Dude had a generator and a chest freezer that almost froze and kept Star Beer ice cold. Star is a horrible beer but the best you can get there so it was a great beer at the time when we hadn’t had a beer for a few months. The owner went out of his way to try to decorate and make it not look like a stilt house in a swamp. Friendly people who were glad to see paying customers who weren’t criminals or pirates.
I was in a bar in a dumpy port city in the Horn of Africa and all I was surprised that the women there were really friendly and outgoing. Well, another white dude was good enough to tell me that they were hookers. Definitely blow to the ego.
No, not that kind of blow.
Did you arrive there in a turnip truck? 🙂
I was young and dumb. What can I say.
They are not all hookers, but if they go home with you they expect to be paid. I spent a fair amount of time in Lagos and Douala coming and going from job sites. Some very friendly, very pretty girls in all the bars.
Very friendly for sure. I’m not sure where the line blurs between hooker and bar girl, but you’re right that if I went back to my room with one, then there was cash to be exchanged.
I’m off to a bar now where there is definitely none of that going on. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France#History
From the good old days before the politicization of sport.
Random anecdote: I used to work in a cubicle next to a loud sales guy who frequently cold-called places and asked to speak to the “Powers To Be”.
“Is this the person to whom I am speaking?”
+1 ringy-dingy
Just hand the phone to any white person nearby.
Last one.
https://mobile.twitter.com/liangweihan4/status/1057092681560719363
I don’t even get that one. You have outfoxed me for once. That’s just gibberish…
I just enjoy imagining Twitter’s censors trying to figure out what to do with that account.
Oh my, I’m full of myself!
And all this time I thought he was full of some other guy
You know summer is approaching in NYC when it’s Saturday night and every young male in the region is calling with their song – motorized seduction of all forms, with the response of car alarms in their wake.
Mr. Rubb then elaborated that he wound not, in fact, get off my lawn.
Good night you glorious bastards. It brings me a small amount of joy to know that there’s at least one place that I feel I belong.
https://youtu.be/X5h02ZmeB5c
Of all nights this is the one yall choose to make more boring here than at the bar?! Hurrumph!
I’ve got $50 in my pocket in per diem that’s begging to spent at the bar.
What’s that get you these days, a beer an friendly touch on the knee? Inflation is killin hookin.
Not much more. I’m out in the Aleutians for work, so I think a can of domestic is $6.50 or something. I just order and pay and don’t worry about the price since there’s no point in it.
I brought my own booze with me, but it’s kind of rude to not make an appearance. Local dynamics are funny like that. Nobody likes the outsider who doesn’t mingle.
Not much more. I’m out in the Aleutians for work, so I think a can of domestic is $6.50 or something. I just order and pay and don’t worry about the price since there’s no point in it.
I brought my own booze with me, but it’s kind of rude to not make an appearance. Local dynamics are funny like that. Nobody likes the outsider who doesn’t mingle.
Arctic Squirrels
https://d1baseball.com/roundup/d1-digest-hogs-go-wild-yet-again-to-highlight-action/
Fuck aluminium bats!
Porn for someone, no doubt. I watched it for the plot.
If not for the shitty camera work I would have said *raises hand*, but I just can’t.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8quhZLHVg4Perhaps you’re like highbrow or some shit.
Fuck me.
I’m not a fuckin snob. Just particular.
This is an awesome video too, really.
I dig those videos.
What, you mean this isn’t how it’s done??
https://media.giphy.com/media/EjSdgzfwABHoI/giphy.gif
https://media.giphy.com/media/YiIGgI3QblMwU/giphy.gif
This woman is your grandaughter. Feel old yet?
Much better
*wishes I still had the link to a .gif of ASCII rendered porn to link to Q to grumble about the old days*
Can’t figure out which is sexier, women how are proud of their big titties or women who are ashamed of them.
But I’m sure you will “ponder” it for a while
The books clutched to the chest were a dead-giveaway to unseen glories if my high school experience was any indication. Of course I was holding my books in front of my crotch for most of those formative years so it’s a push.
‘sup Straff? Still hanging out?
Hey, T. Vaguely still here. Nursing a hangover.
What a coincidence. I’m trying to prevent one.
Good for you. I’ve had a stomach bug since I got back from Fiji/Australia and haven’t been able to drink that much. Can I die now please?
You’re back, eh? Send me message if you wanna tip a few. Busy time, but can squeeze a night out some day.
Sounds good. Just let me heal up from this stomach issue (or die) and I will contact you.
Day 1 of May Grand Sumo!
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2019/05/09/sumo/sumo-attracts-famous-politicians-seeking-public-affection-attention/#.XNeyCYplChA
If Trump takes a rikishi falling off and rolling over him, I’ll pull the 2020 lever for him right now.
I’m not a sports fan at all, but honestly, sumo is pretty awesome. I’ve been interested in it ever since I watched Chiyonofuji’s 53-match winning streak on YouTube.
Chiyonofuji is my fitness role model.
Bookmarked for later. Thank you.
Don’t watch much anymore. Loved sumo back in the days of Akebono, Musashinaru, Takanohana.
Someone get me a scorecard. I can’t keep track anymore.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/05/11/and-now-alyssa-milano-is-getting-hammered-from-a-third-angle-for-her-sexstrike-tweet/
Be careful. Giving a fcuk is the first symptom.
I used to frequent a dive bar. Combination Biker/Peeler joint. The draft was foul, the strippers always had a marked physical flaw and they had nothing on the menu except a chili pot that was replenished rather than remade or hot dogs in a warmer. Had a shit-load of fun there in my early twenties but when the vikings decided to duke it out you had to get out of the way, fast. Used to snort coke with the dancin’ girls upstairs. Place burned down about 15 years ago.
Heh. I used to go into some of those places when I lived in the midwest. Bunch of stupid rednecks ready to fight anything that breathes. Now, in my hood, I just have to put up with the aging hipsters who are all smug but look like they haven’t showered or changed their clothes in a year or so. Apparently, they can afford to drive a Prius and shop at Wholefoods every day, but can’t afford running water in their house.
https://youtu.be/D_DMpCvNe8E
The article about Elon Musk working over 80 hours per week was written with a degree of incredulity. As if it is a fairly preposterous claim.
When I was working for a startup that built from literally 2 employees to a billion dollar public company in a decade, we all worked over 80 hours per week. At the start, I was working 60 hours per week in my “real” job and another 40 hours per week at the startup – going on 3 hours sleep per night.
This is not that unusual, not in startups, not in sole proprietorships, not with consulting… Any time your are working for yourself or building something, 40 hours is just not going to cut it.
I’m sure all of the IT folks here know what I mean. 60 hours isn’t at all unusual for top flight IT people.
It was a weird choice for an article like that….. or maybe a reporter just doesn’t know this. But I would have been shocked to learn that the guy who has Tesla, SpaceX, Solar City, The Boring Company and who knows what else on his plate was working anything other than 12-18 hours per day, 7 days per week.
Well, I certainly know what you are talking about and I’ve put in plenty of 80+ hours a week. I just don’t do it anymore. One problem is, and there have been plenty of studies that prove this, a human is only at their peak for a few hours a day. After about 6 hours, all of us start a rapid decline in productivity. Now, my typical week is about 35-40 hours.