As was mentioned yesterday, unicorn.
I’m working a nice little beer buzz here, so without further ado, the links!
This is my shocked face. The law of supply and demand still rules. Ad for the states that tax the bejeebus out of weed, it’s still cheaper to buy it on a street corner.
Yeah, but we can totes affect the global climate.
You helped create this mess, you fuck stick.
No ABC, America is just not ready to elect a mendacious cunte as President.
The Crimson Tide is taking it on the chin this year.
Nah, just joshin’. I wouldn’t subject you guys to the Bay City Rollers…twice.
In an article published Saturday morning titled “Is Kamala Harris proof that America isn’t ready for a woman of color as president?” the news network theorizes that racism and misogyny might be fueling opposition to Harris.
ABC News can go fuck themselves.
OFFS.
Have they noticed the front-runners are two ancient white folks?
Maybe it’s the Democrats who aren’t ready.
Excellent point.
Or maybe she’s just a terrible candidate.
Yeah, maybe.
You just triggered some Progressive snowflakes.
Appropriate music choice?
And Im the only one noticing a new thread?
Yes I am, cause tOSU is +42 over Rutgers.
Seemed appropriate for a Saturday Glibs post.
I just saw it. Tall cans of Natty Bro, brah!
Hey, it’s all I can do to navigate the site at 3.3 mph on the treadmill. Typing is almost an exercise (see what I did there?) in futility.
While I’m here (and before I spatchcod my yardbird), Saturday Night.
What bird is in your yard?
He’s unique. Most Daytonians just have a stoop goose.
Sounds kinda…nasty. Could be the good or bad kind.
Could be the good AND bad kind.
Hawt?
Mmmm….I’ll allow it.
“yardbird” refers to chicken, since poor people had them living around the house.
Duh.
/sksksk /and I oop
Wait… there’s a neighbor around the corner from me that has some chickens in their yard (probably violating some local law). What does that mean?
Preppers.
Cockfight ring?
What you did there was noticed.
By the way, I use “cod” for my 1420 knight, but I use “yard” (as in yardarm) for my 1780 pirate.
So, funny you should say that.
Is spatchcocking the same as butterflying?
Spatchcocking is cutting out the backbone of the bird, and opening the whole bird out. Provides more even thickness, and easier cooking. Butterflying is (to my understanding), cutting mostly through a cut of meat (such as a port chop, flank steak, chicken breast, etc.) in order to either even it out, or to stuff it.
Gotcha, I guess I’ve been using the term butterfly wrong. My family spatchcocks turkeys, but we’ve always called it butterflying. I’d never heard the word spatchcock until you guys started talking about it here.
Another term similar to “butterfly” is the French paillard, using force to pound a piece of meat (usually something like a chicken breast) into a relatively uniform thickness so that all of it cooks at the same time to the same degree of done-ness. You can use anything heavy to do the pounding — I use a kitchen mallet now, but have often used an empty wine bottle in the past.
“I use a kitchen mallet now, but have often used an empty wine bottle in the past.”
So…you used to bumfight turkeys?!
Are we just letting this go?
It’s too much of a “gimme” — no challenge, really . . .
If I wanted a challenge, I’d just live.
Eh, whenever I explain spatchcocking to someone I refer to it as “basically butterflying a whole fowl.” It’s the same concept.
It’s a similar thought. Spatchcocking is removing the backbone and cooking the bird lying flat on the opened abdominal cavity.
That ain’t Stevie Ray, this is Stevie Ray:
Stevie Ray
YES
I see you’ve played knifey-spoony before.
Too easy. My original choice was Cold Shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQbB8d54hwY
I love that song.
That’s a good choice.
THICC?
She’s so fucking annoying I couldn’t watch the video.
“She’s so fucking annoying”
Come on, dude, she’s a woman be fair…
https://youtu.be/3woPVQExDsQ
More Stevie Ray:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H9P4F5Uk
One more? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t54xyIcgbks
Sure.
I had that album.
That’s a chick who likes to party.
Spicy poke and a local beer for lunch here. I am just chillin’ and will go for an ocean swim in a bit. With the 20+ waves along the north and west sides of Oahu my local beach will be a mill pond. I’ll swim out a couple of hundred meters and then just parallel the shore for about a half mile. Reverse course to the start point and return home for rum drinks.
I hate your life.
I like that photo of you and the rest of your station that you used for the featured image.
It was “dress up day”.
Soon after, they broke out and sang Y-M-C-A.
Notice there was no scientist in the Village People? Too gay.
Wallace Carothers and Alan Turing may like a word.
Oh wait….they ended their lives with cyanide. Only 1 was ghey.
I knew they were Glibs but not the Midwest boys. Must be coasters but the Coasters
not the Coasters
Just saw the Coasters back in April. One surviving member is still with them.
When gentlemen dressed like gentlemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRfRITVdz4k
Here’s what they look like now.
Times, a-changin’ for everyone, I guess
Did he walk on stage cool and slow and call the audience “Daddy-o”?
I know what’s coming: The Night Shift.
“I’m an idea man, Chuck”
I get ideas, sometimes I get so many ideas that I can’t even fight them off!
Feed tuna mayonnaise.
Edible paper, bruh.
Picking up wontons and boba for the missus. Gonna do a steak on the stovetop for dinner with baked potatah.
Not sure what cut you have, but Im a fan of this-
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/pan-seared-rib-eye-recipe-2131274
Tenderloin medallion.
https://youtu.be/JeD0qPn_iLg
Hello Glibs After Dark! Today was a 100% fantastic amazing day. https://ibb.co/4fvPrpx
P.S. we’re not pointing at my tits (yet)
And why not? Hmph.
What did you name the right one?
Sock Monkey Hat
+100
That your crush?
Just about to ask that.
Yep
Woohoo, good for you girl!
Excellent Good luck.
Would.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
ROFLMAO!!!
Hey! KK saw him first!
Go you!
C’mon, girlfriend! Dish! ::leans forward onto elbows, resting chin on hands::
Good.
I extended an invite for drinks at my hotel’s bar. When they dropped me off, it sounded promising that they would come later. (they = the crush & the fixer he’s working with at the airport)
Please keep us posted, either here or on the midnight post. (We are having a midnight post, aren’t we? I gots a bottle o’ wine chillin’ for it!)
Noice!! Will update as warranted. If I don’t fall asleep. I’m pooped.
Caffeinate! Caffeinate!
Ummm, barely.
How you feelin’? All better, I hope?
Me? Yeah.
Mom, on the other hand….
/long-term care time
I hear ya. BT,DT.
Does he have a pleasant staff?
Hahaha… I wish I knew 😉
YAY KK!!! Charm his pants off, girl!
Cute AF!
I don’t know where to drop this…but here. Good for you!
He and his Boston fixer will be here in 45 mins for dranks!! Y’all can’t allow me to get plastered!
Ooh! He’s got a doggie?
What’s your usual beverage of choice? I’d think a glass of wine is a safe choice, but what do I know?
LOL fixer is a term I heard Anthony Bourdain use when referring to locals he hired to help him with locations, etc.
A.B.? Sure. ”Locations.” Uh-huh.
We want all the details!
Backwoods Bastard might be my last beer of the day. The guy on the label always reminds me of Popcorn Sutton
I’m just going to keep drinking Natty Bo until I go to sleep.
Looks like a good beer and he does look like Popcorn.
I was beered out and had to switch to whiskey.
But what about Corn Pop? Corn Pop was a bad dude.
Yeah, but he looked like Esther Williams.
Well, we opened the smoked lamb and it smelled like ham, so we’re using it like ham. Don’t know how it tastes yet.
The cheese was good but not $10 to $13/lb good.
I thought it was duck?
the duck is still in the fridge. I bought duck, lamb, and cheese.
Ahh. Sandwich for the lamb is the way to go.
You didn’t buy the one thing I said was great? And you got the thing that I said was just good?
I only recall you commenting on their cheese. I bought based upon what caught my eye in the store.
Their ham is fantastic. I haven’t tried the lamb yet. What was the texture like?
The texture was not quite roast beefy (less connective tissues, etc) but had the same grain.
I am always deeply suspicious of anything boneless where the bone had to be removed from the inside of the cut.
Despite the aroma, the taste is not hammy. still good, but not raveworthy.
Let it come up to room temperature.
It’s well above room temperature right now.
You need a cheesemonger.
This is my go to https://m.facebook.com/thegrandfromage/
Years past for Thanksgiving I’ve usually put together a cheese and meat board. This year I decided to outsource it to a local company, here’s hoping I’ve made the right decision.
WE? We? We? Is there something you haven’t been telling us, USC? Something we should know?
I brought the lamb and cheese with me to visit my mother.
You’re a good son, I need one like you.
From the Obama handwringing over the mask slippage article:
‘However, Obama also warned the candidates against simply standing pat and campaigning on his accomplishments. Instead, he argued, they should try to “push past” them with new ideas. He pointed to his signature health-care law, which has been a focal point in the contest, as a prime example, calling it a “really good starter home.”‘
Yep, because being forced at the point of a gun to buy a starter home at three times more than it’s true vaule because of government manipulation is what excites a political base.
“Try to look past my magnificence.”
What mask slippage? I want to fundamentally transform the USA. What part of that didn’t they understand?
You’re not supposed to give the public specifics, just promise that any and all change is for your own good. Obama was at least savvy enough for the most part to stay vague outside of promising to make energy more expensive.
Saturday Night
No.
Here’s a quick question….thinking about this for after thanksgiving – since I almost never do much cooking for myself.
Any recipe suggestions if I want to do a pot roast in my crockpot, but this time with cauliflower, broccoli and other vegetables instead of carrots, potatoes and onions?
Obviously need them to be very large florets, etc for a 10-12 hr roast – but other than that.
I think you’ll need to add them late in the cooking or they’ll cook to nothing.
Agreed. I like to brown my cauliflower, broccoli, sprouts, and other crucifers in a skillet with olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic.
If I have diced onions, they go in. Heck, I put in dried minced onion if needed. delish. And maybe bacon bits.
Low carb paradise if you know how to caramelize plant sugars.
Bengali 5 spice (panch porn) is my fave flavor to cook with from the first moment so they get nice and fragrant in the oil and then hydrate. But it’s not for everyone.
Basically, if you are having trouble cutting anything out of your diet for health (sodium, carbs, fats—whatever your thing is) I strongly recommend getting educated about Indian spices.
God’s gift man. Middle Ages Europe got stuck on peppercorns, which do rock, but we have neglected the rest of the bounty.
What men used to risk their lives for and work on a ship for 2 years was just a half a pound of spices home to sell.
Now it’s cheap and wonderful. Open your minds and palates.
Make sure you brown it first. Add a mirepoix of onions, carrots, and celery in the beginning, with whatever liquid you want to use. Given your chosen vegetables, I wouldn’t add them until an hour before the roast is done.
May I suggest pureeing a few cans of peas and adding that to the liquid? It gives beef or lamb stew, and beef pot roast an incredibly rich flavored broth.
Those suggestions make a lot of sense – thanks.
I love potatoes…but in keeping with a desire for more meat and veg and less starch, want to try something different (and I love broccoli and cauliflower).
I like broccoli and cauliflower and cabbage but not cooked. Fresh only in a salad, other wise too mushy for me.
What Spudalicious said, and the reason for root vegetables traditionally is they can hold up to longer cook times better then the cauliflower and broccoli.
I’ll third Spud’s recommendation.
If you like stouts, add a little stout in the liquid.
Alabama’s season got worse. Tua’s out for the season with a dislocated hip.
Fractured rear socket the report I heard said. That is bad. The poor kid may be done permanently.
That could be a career ender.
Yeah, that is an injury I wouldn’t wish on anyone, especially a kid months away from a contract that would set him and his up for life.
Tragic. Bring forth the day when these guys can sell their likeness and/or go to a non-college minor league
/admits out of depth. Maybe those are bad ideas.
If he can play again, then he is going to be labeled as injury prone, which will cost him some money because he won’t be drafted as high. I wonder if he has an injury insurance policy, which some college players get to compensate for possible injuries.
What is interesting is that there are players who are injured in college but are never injured in the pros. And dropping in the draft may get him on a team better able to develop his talents so dropping in the draft may actually help him in the long term.
I don’t know if this is the kind of injury that would get you labelled as injury prone. This isn’t a weakness in a joint that gave out (assuming the report I heard is correct) This is basically the femur shattering its way out of the hip socket, breaking the pelvic bone at the rear of the hip socket. From my utterly lay understanding (please jump in if you are medically trained) this is a very catastrophic injury, that is really unlikely to heal with full strength and use of the leg.
Depends on the extent of the fracture. Guaranteed, he probably won’t be back by the beginning of next season.
It wasn’t just the hip injury. It was the ankle injury that caused him to miss a game earlier this year, And he was hurt last year as well and was taken out of the championship game because of injury. And now the hip.
Speaking of injuries, the Georgia-Auburn game was delayed when an intern for the Georgia Athletic department who was taking photos on the sideline got knocked out when she couldn’t avoid the player bearing down on her — the player tried to miss her as well. She was out for a couple of minutes and got take off on a stretcher fully strapped down.
She got popped hard.
Spud, two things:
1. You do realize the WSJ is behind a paywall?
2. The Bay City Rollers would have been a better choice
1. It wasn’t when I read the article through Drudge.
2. You are a hater with bad tastes in music.
I am a h8r.
Anyone else being driven crazy by hearing the incoming text ‘ding’ and not knowing whether it’s coming from your phone or the TV? Hey, sportscasters – mute yer damn phones.
Nope. I never use default ringtone/notifications on my phone. I prefer to know when it’s my phone giving me a notification.
Yeah, mine are mostly defaults (except my ringtone is “Old Phone”). I’m thinking that needs to change.
All right I’ve changed a few of them. Gonna take a while for my brain to catch up, though.
I use the digital phone sound from Stryker’s car-phone in UFO (also Austin Powers’ Shagmobile) for my smart-phone’s ringtone. The spousal unit hates it, everyone else wonders what the Hell it is, and no-one else uses it, so it’s perfect.
I might steal that.
Mostly I leave my phone in silent mode though.
That’s been my ringtone for a couple of years. Excellent.
My ringtone is Funky Fanfare – I never confuse it with anyone else’s phone.
My phone used to be a ding, until it went off one time and I didn’t realize I was getting a call. So I changed to “ring ring, pick up your phone”. 🙂
Finally figured out how to update my ringtone on my current phone – so now I hear “No step on snek”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7x2gLs1u2Js
When I upgraded my phone a couple times back, I noticed that none of the Android stock alarms would even come close to waking me up. So I hooked up my old phone, and grabbed some off of it, and some louder ones. I’ve got a Navy Buzzer as the must wake up one.
I had a cow-orker who set the ring tone for his wife to a mewling kitten.
She absolutely hated it.
Once standing in line at a hardware store checkout, another customer’s phone rang with a full-grown cat’s meow. He claimed it had once rung with that tone while he was in a Chinese restaurant.
Years ago, I was transferring back to Atlanta after an ill advised transfer to Florida. Back and forth travel, separation, the whole nine yards. I turned my phone on after I landed on a return trip. While we were all clogged up in the aisle of of the plane. My wife called. My $3.29 ringtone was Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. The looks I got were priceless. I’m a horrible person. Truly.
Also, I made the ringtone on her phone , “When I think of you, I touch myself.” Yes, I’m really that awful.
Just for when you call, or for every call?
Just for when you call, or for every call?
There’s a man who’s confident in his own sexual prowess.
I’m pretty sure it was just my ringtone, just like my ringtone was personalized. She was not amused.
I avoid that by forgetting to charge my phone so it’s dead about half the time I’m at home.
The tinnitus is in my left ear is strong tonight. Over the last several months I’ve learned to live with it but goddamn, I’m going to need a lot of booze and smoke to mute it this round. Expect any and all comments from me to slowly deteriorate into an incoherent mess over the next few hours…it’s going to be fun!
Q: Do you take lots of aspirin, Tylenol, and/or ibuprofen?
Aspirin and Ibuprofen mess with my stomach so I’m forced to take acetaminophen when I’m in pain. I don’t like to, but I get migraines that last as a dull ache for several days after the worst passes. I’m just getting over one and have eaten a lot of Tylenol since Thursday. I take it that that may be intensifying the effect? Too much caffeine seems to do that as well.
Not caffeine. Tinnitus is a side effect of those meds, yes. I notice it most with aspirin, but since I have a peptic ulcer, I can’t take aspirin or ibuprofen. Tylenol does the same, but not with the same severity. I take 4 Tylenol PM every night to put me to sleep. I don’t have any pain to kill.
Your poor liver.
You don’t say that to the imbibers of alcohol around here. /pout
4 Tylenol a day may actually be worse , and drinkers tend to be more aware of the risk. But fair enough. Everyone! We’re killing our livers.
Tea is supposed to be really good for your liver. I drink it daily to combat the alcohol damage. It has shown in studies to be very effective in that regard. My guess is it would counter the Tylenol damage as well.
Same regimen my Mom used to fall asleep.
She died of liver cancer. :-(
I suppose I can just eat straight Benadryl then.
No with the caffeine? Huh, maybe the increased heart rate I get after just makes me think it’s worse. I’m not sure what brought on the tinnitus in the first place but it just appeared out of the blue during the early Spring and has yet to completely go away. Some days I barely notice it, other days it’s all I can focus on. Today is the latter.
Caffeine doesn’t affect me the way it does a lot of people. I have ADHD and it just serves to calm and focus me. Same with my kids. I pass caffeine pills out like candy around here.
Miracle compound.
Well, I’ll be horn-swoggled!
I had a roomie in college for whom caffeine had precisely the same effect. (Full disclosure: he also used to roll out of bed every morning around 5:30 and pump iron for about 45 minutes before showering and going for breakfast — that boy had a shit-ton of energy he needed to burn…). He’d drink a HUUUUUGE cup of espresso just before bed to help him sleep.
It was the damndest thing. And then he became a no-shit Baptist missionary in Brazil.
I’m overly sensitive to caffeine. Anything more than about ten or twelve ounces of coffee in the morning and I’m bouncing off the walls. Caffeine after lunch and I won’t sleep worth a damn. Which is odd seeing as how I did a boatload of meth and coke as a young man and I could still manage to catch a small handful of hours of sleep most nights. Funny how your body changes with age.
My kids’ drug dealer encourages this because she doesn’t have to up their meds.
I just don’t want them drinking a bunch of pop with sugar/aspartame in it. My daughter packs on weight like crazy and my son’s teeth will rot.
And we don’t drink coffee.
My dad used to drink a 2-liter bottle of Coke before bed every night.
Oh, I wasn’t judging you or anything, just making idle conversation.
Not even sure if that was what you were getting at. I don’t freaking know, I’ve been having a difficult time understanding what people’s points are this weekend, probably from the migraine. It’s frustrating.
I’m trying to commiserate with you, insofar as I can since I’m not the one who drinks 2 liters of Coke before bed every night. ?
I’m sorry about your migraine. I’ve only ever had one, which lasted for 9 days and got me a spinal tap and 2 nights in the hospital because they nicked my spine and drew blood.
My daughter has migraines all the time and we still can’t chase down the cause. (Among other things.) We are starting to suspect she has fibro.
Well… caffeine,may not be a great idea for migraine sufferer.
*sigh*
I’m doing the best I can.
LOL, I swear to God I am not trying to pick on you or criticize. I just don’t like spatchccoking, have a friend who just had a liver transplant, and read that Migraine article this week. I really do like you!
I thought caffeine was recommended for headaches and migraines. Excedrin headache contains caffeine, and Cafergo (not sure of spelling) was what I was prescribed for migraines years ago.
Tulip: Depends on the headaches, I know back when I got migraines more frequently (thankfully have only had one in the past couple of years), caffeine, light (especially blinking/florescent), and noise (especially high pitched) made them worse.
I think that is actually the problem. The article seems to indicate that over long term caffeine use you develop a dependency and a tolerance the tolerance causes the beneficial effects to weaken, and the dependency causes delay of the fix to act as a trigger for the headaches.
The body is complicated, unintended consequences…
Jarflax: It doesn’t help that one of the most common signs of caffeine withdrawal is a headache.
Damn, Mo. I hope to hell you’re wrong about the daughter. I know a couple non drug using people who get cluster headaches and they swear that the best thing for them is to take a psychedelic mushroom cap. Maybe about half a gram’s worth. You’re not trying to trip on them or anything so anything more would be too much. I don’t know how old the kiddo is but if all else fails to stop them it might be worth considering as long as she’s at least a teenager and you can have supervision of the situation.
I got migraines (and twice yearly ear infections) until I got my wisdom teeth out. So, go see an oral surgeon. It made a huge difference in terms of quality of life.
I tend to forget the persistent 16 mhz frequency constantly screaming at me, smoke more Ganja, IMO
Working on it, brother!
If you can hear 16mHz, OR 16MHz, you have lots of money coming your way.
Relevant
Just had to Van Gogh there, didn’t you?
I thought I went with Kirk Douglas. 😉
Was he not playing Van Gogh? The ginger hair, beard, insanity, razor, anguished off camera scream? If not, it’s an uncanny mirror scenario.
Maybe I should have used the /sarcasm tag in addition to the smiley. Yes, it’s Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh in Lust for Life.
Besides, the gh in “Van Gogh” is pronounced more or less like a guttural H (technically, a voiceless velar fricative), so your pun doesn’t work.
/pedantic bastardry
No worries, I’m dense as a brick this evening. I even fucked up the pun by adding the Van. Off to a rough start.
I got no winded just now trying to put up a kite or two, Bummer, but We have some Sour Apple Four Loko and a spaghetti dinner coming up, life could be worse,
14% ABV, whew..
How ya doing, Yusef?
We are alright, kind of stuck in Cali for a bit, but safe. I’m talking to a Glib currently about some choices I may have. As long as the money doesn’t run out,
Good to hear you are alright and safe. Best wishes. I hope you all get through these times.
Thanks, we still have quite a climb out of this hole, but again, We ain’t dead yet…
Cheers to all Y’uns!
Want to buy a bookstore in San Diego? Mysterious Galaxy is losing its lease and needs a buyer to continue. 🙂
“It’s a trap!”
/Admiral Ackbar
Good to hear you have some choices. Seriously.
Spud, went to the locker today and tragedy struck. Broken ’01 Tunnel.
Grabbed another one to go with a ’99 Jasmin and a Cedric Bouchard for Thanksgiving. No dessert wine located yet… there’s gotta be Banyuls or a Muscat de Beaumes de Venise somewhere in Phoenix.
There were, but it got left in an unrefrigerated truck on August 19th and …
Oof. The Tunnel is sublime. I think I have three left. As for stickies, I still have a few Sauternes. The youngest is two half bottles of ’88 Y’Quem.
I hear Humboldt Fog, figs, and honey crying out to sacrifice themselves with d’Yquem.
A-firm.
Replacement
Hmmmm. Mebbe . . .
How I imagine BEAM
*relives good college memories *
Of course, we always took the bag out of the box and played slapbag.
It is not “boxed wine”!
It’s “Cardbordeaux.” (And I had a couple of really good ones in Italy last month . . . )
Yeah, I know boxed wine is more popular in Europe than the US. I wish the liquor stores here would stock more box versions of the moderately-priced magnums.
Had a Gewürztraminer (of all things) out of a box in Italy (I think Florence, or mebbe Venice, can’t remember too well). It was surprisingly good, and it was a local wine, too. I didn’t even know they grew that grape in Italy.
What I liked in France was the locals would go down to the wine shop to fill their litre johns every week.
I don’t think I want to drink wine out of a john….
Spud: a sight that warmed the cockles of my heart —
Spousal unit and I were traveling to a small town called Nyons in the north of Provence (it bills itself as “the olive capitol of France”). The local wine co-op had a filling station inside that had a passel of no-shit gasoline pumps that dispensed the local producers’ products, with labels such as “vin ordinaire,” “vin rosé,” “vin blanc” and so forth. People would come in with 20-litre carboys, fill ’em up, and leave the co-op whistling. Blew my mind.
It was also the town where, on market day, I started making small talk with one stall owner who asked where I was from. When I said “Edmonton, Alberta” he got a stunned look on his face and then blurted out “Go Oilers!” Turns out, a few years previously, he was surfing his SatTV one night when he was bored, found Hockey Night in Canada and ended up getting hooked on it. I ultimately provided him with a bunch of swag from the Oilers’ pro shop and sent it all to him. (This was before the ubiquity of the ‘Net — late 90s, if memory serves . . . ).
That’s awesome! I gave a winemaker OMWC and I know a sweatshirt from the fire department I worked for. He got interviewed on some travel show a number of years ago, and when he turned around and walked away, he was wearing the sweatshirt.
I wonder how this Schmidt-Rubin got into the country without a billboard import mark.
Tonight’s feel good story.
Fireman Rescues Black Labrador Dog From Icy Montana Lake
http://flip.it/8yvNGJ
Hope that they find doggo number 2 ok, and that the owner learns how to keep his dogs safe!! If they can’t be disciplined not to jump out on the lake, keep them on a leash for their own sakes.
Good outcome for the lab though
My thoughts too. Ir’s like there should be some kind of test for owning a dog.
The other day on a bike ride I stopped to talk to a couple of guys that were sighting-in their guns (hunting season next week). This guy’s dog attacked me and took hold of my leg. Luckly just my pant leg. He puled it off and it ran off down the gulch. He at least had the good manners to be embarassed. Last i say hem he was unnning down the gulch calling for his dog. Which just kept running.,
Jeesh, people control your dogs.
Good thing an LEO wasn’t first man on the spot. Good for the dog, good for the owner and a fireman that should be treated like a hero
Good for the passerby who made the call too!
Being the dark, demented Glib that I am, that story immediately made me think of this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HAa5vsbVsa4
Instant Pot says the Kashmiri Rogan Josh has reached pressure.
Time to relax and await the delicious outcome while I watch Baylor V Oklahoma.
Go Bears!!
How about Kashmiri Rogen Seth?
No love for Kashmiri Rogan Joe
That would probably involve spices not currently in my kitchen…
Err…don’t think I wanna know…
Regarding the game, bet you are feeling pretty good right now.
Hmm, wonder if the original stories were BS or something else? Original reports said 20+ teams to watch Kapernick, but only 8 were there.
Little buzzed with Powers Irish Whiskey then Tullamore Dew when the Powers ran out.
Kaepernick refused to sign the standard waiver and presented a list of demands, including changing the location at the last minute. The nfl agreed to most of the demands but insisted on the standard waiver and the planned location so Kaepernick did not come to the work out, and held his own.
Fuck that cunte.
I think this pretty clearly shows he knows he isn’t good enough to ever start again, and that he will make more money as a grievance posterboy than he could as a backup. So he sabotaged any chance a team would sign him, and did it in a way that they will be refusing to sign him for his attitude which he can spin as somethingism rather than his lack of skill.
I can’t even.
Yep, I’m taking that article as complete confirmation of my theory. This was about keeping himself in the public eye and looking for a grievance to be outraged about. The last thing that joke wants is to play again.
Is there a team looking to pull a Major League plan? They could sign Kaepernick…
He’s such a ridiculous stereotype of “woke” that I would normally say it’s an act but man he’s been keeping it up for years now.
He’s doing it for 2 reasons
Dayum! I didn’t know that’s what’s behind all this.
So…..Cunte Kinte?
Amirite?
You’re not wrong.
You’re awesome!
; )
Wait…is….is that…Mojeaux’s “urban romance novel”?
To be followed up by the interracial themed sequel: Kike Cunte Kinte
Every fucking week – a USC player tossed on a ridiculous targeting call. Didn’t wait 5 minutes this week.
Shrimp alfredo is on the menu tonight. And beer
Why can’t we be more like Sweden?
“When I asked him how best to protect my family in the future, he told me the best solution was “not living in Malmö: Things have escalated to a point where we can’t manage the situation.”
https://quillette.com/2019/11/15/abandoning-malmo-to-its-criminals/
Too bad there isn’t a religion of peace the Swedes could import to solve this problem.
Vell, Ole, ya know it vas da Svedes dat inwented day dynamite stuff
Depressing but not surprising
FWIW, my neighborhood in Brooklyn is a Middle Eastern hot-spot, with the epicenter about 1 block from me and extending a few blocks in every direction.
It’s reasonably quiet and very safe (by NYC standards) here. No gangs that I am aware of; no bombs.
Whatever they’re doing in Sweden, they’re not doing it right.
Multi-culturalism. They don’t assimilate and slowly take over.
Yeah, I think that is our advantage.
Note that this is layered over earlier waves of Chinese, Hispanics, Italians, and Norwegians (!). A slowly rising number of yuppies too.
In short, the US has lot longer experience with this sort of thing.
It wasn’t until I lived in the Netherlands for a couple years that I really understood how good the United States was at assimilating immigrants. This, despite decades of attempts by the left to move away from the melting pot ideal, is still one of the many things that we do vastly better than Europe.
That’s because we have all of the cool shit.
America bitches!!!
They hate us cause they ain’t us!
The Swedes’ problem is simple — they don’t believe that their culture is inherently superior to the culture of their “invaders,” so they have no will to intervene, punish, or simply say “enough is enough!” and back it up with the use of intelligently-targeted force.
In short, they’re screwed, and it’s their own fault.
The Swedes’ problem is that they let the socialist get control. Which isn’t really different from your point.
Not all Swedes. This chick is tired of the lies.
https://youtu.be/oZCCXZz5Esw
some music to set the mood:
Russian Army Barbie Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7FIpqPvL7E
Jacobin was even crazier than usual today.
Michael Bloomberg? Now They’re Just Fucking with Us
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/michael-bloomberg-2020-presidential-election-democratic-party-nomination
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The Republican Party is arguably the most extreme right-wing political formation anywhere in the developed world. Mixing together a noxious cocktail of plutocrats, religious fanatics, and white nationalists, the party and its leadership openly associate themselves with the most malevolent of America’s robber barons and, since 2016, have been proudly fronted by one. As the current state of play makes clear, what’s ultimately at stake in the Democratic presidential race is whether the force standing opposed to conservative plunder is going to represent its genuine antithesis or just the somewhat kinder wing of American plutocracy.
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[Kif sigh]
I’m going to need more beer if I keep watching this crap:
Gender transgression | Carly Mitchell | TEDxJacksonHole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMrCYPCsLUk
Then don’t keep watching that crap.
I’m watching This Gun for Hire instead.
^promote this man
Baylor is thumping Oklahoma.
Huzzah!
*hates*
Although my nephew does go to Baylor. He is the retard of his generation tho. Not his fault, born with ripped lungs, oxygen privation and all that.
In the background, I have PBS on just due to boredom with NCAA football now.
Ian Bremmer is on, interviewing Andrew Yang. I feel like I need a hot-round to the back of my skull.
Am I wrong?
Hate me if you want, but when Yang laughs, it sounds like George Takei.
They all laugh alike.
Yang is George Takei isn’t he? I assumed he just used some secret Gaysian youth formula?
Has anyone seen Mike S? Or did he succumb to a couple of beers and a Flexeril?
You know the deal….IV ringer’s, then push some bicarb, atropine, and some lidocaine if they a-fib.
Fluttery heart and shortness of breath on the way should make them rethink their choices.
You’re a Glib, who cares? Glibs don’t care about people Do want you want.
Mike? Mike? MIKE? MIKE???
He’s alive. and playing Diplomacy
You tell that bastard that some people here almost, kinda, care about him. But I’m not one of them.
It means a lot to to me that you want me to know that people other than you kinda care about me.
I have no problem with other people enacting my labor.
Fuck you, Tulpae
Fuck him then. No one cares.
That’s not very diplomatic of you.
Not caring. See, no diplomacy here.
I played the board game version of Diplomacy during the joint meetings of the Young Republican and Young Democrats clubs in high school.
I was the GOP club president and had noticed that several friendships crossed party lines, and that both clubs were echo chambers. So I proposed joint meetings and it became great fun.
Topical debates under Roberts Rules, then some grilling outside, frisbees and bocce, and Diplomacy.
So I proposed joint meetings and it became great fun.
Go on….
Sorry to disappoint—we were all nerds.
Straightlaced af.
Now I like you more.
/TurboNerd
Since you’re rolling in the bux from weapons sales, I’ll be at the King’s Feast at TRF on Black Friday.
Pure as the wind driven snow, we are.
I’m as pure as the driven slush.
—Tallulah Bankhead
NERD!
😉
Damn it I am now hooked on Web diplomacy and have been trying to join a 5min gunboat all evening. The game kept failing to start with only 6/7 filled. I walked away for a minute and came back and they filled to 7 before I could join.
/evil laugh
/tents fingers
Excellent.
I played a bunch of games against bots, they owned me over and over.
That’s because the bots work together against the humans.
It sure seems that way.
Damn… it has been a while since I’ve played on there. I didn’t even know they had created bots for Diplomacy. Have you read through this yet? There’s a lot of resources there that can help.
Funny quote from the blurb about Richard Sharp’s book on Diplomacy:
Ok, I am now more confused than ever, although I now understand a few things that happened in bot games, I think. it is not possible to switch adjacent units? but it is possible to do a 3 way switch? so the army in province A and the fleet in province B can not each move into the other’s province, that is read as two failed attacks, but if it is army in A fleet in B and army in C I could move the fleet to A, the A army to C and the C army to B?
Support is confusing me as well. if my supporting army is attacked, it stops supporting, and becomes a hold (this part I understand) and if I order Army A to support hold Army B and Army C to support hold Army A, and Army A is attacked, it holds with 2 strength, but Army B is on its own. (this part I understand) BUT
If I order Army A to support hold Army B, and order Army B to move (say to disrupt a support on an enemy), and Army B’s move fails, and Army B is also attacked, does the support hold from Army A kick in? or did I break it when I told Army B to move?
Great questions.
?
Ok… Support can be disrupted either by an attack by another unit, or the supported army not doing what is being supported. You’ve ordered Army A to support Army B, Army B is then ordered to move. Support from Army A is now broken, and will not come back as Army B is moving (even if the move fails, it doesn’t become a hold). Bounces (failed moves) are not the same as a hold order.
Units can only trade places through the use of convoys (which would require a lot of fleets and two different paths). And since you can’t dislodge your own units, you can’t use support to get around that.
From the guide you linked:
Three or more units may always change places on a rotating basis, however (the ‘Merry-go-round’). This is a very important rule, easily forgotten.
What’s that mean? I took it to mean you could do a 3 way switch.
Three units can’t trade places. Instead, each is moving into a newly exited territory. There’s an explicit rule that units can only trade places through the use of convoys. Since three units aren’t trading places, it’s legal. So yes, you can move three units around in a circle, although it’s rarely advantageous to do so.
Diplomacy is one of the rare games where rule lawyering isn’t considered a flaw, but is to be expected. As an example:
The advantage’s I can see would be, getting a fleet moved from a sc to a nc, or getting a fleet into a province that previously held an army (or vice versa)
NC?
There’s nowhere you can move a fleet from a South Coast to a North Coast in a single move. Bulgaria requires a stop in Constantinople, St. Petersburg requires a long sail around, and Spain requires a stop in the Mid-Atlantic Ocean/Portugal. Unless you’re talking about situations with multiple fleets.
Yeah say fleet nc bul, fleet con, fleet aeg, round robin, con -aeg, aeg to sc bul, nc bul to con. Not sure how often it would matter but it’s there.
I hope we can keep a Glibs WebDip game(s) going. This is fun.
I’m your huckelberry
I was thisclose to separating the wife’s dog’s head from his body today. He pissed through the dog bed, which is annoying, but part of having an old dog. Then, he gets mad at me for trying to clean up his piss soaked bed because he doesn’t like the smell of the cleaner and prefers to lay in his own waste. To express his displeasure, he walks right over to my shoes and pisses on them. Between the toddler and the dog, I’ve cleaned up 5 puddles in 24 hours.
Except for the fact that I didn’t want yet another mess to clean up, I would’ve been heading for the axe.
We found out that one of our former cats had a thyroid problem when he walked up on my wife’s chest in the middle of the night and let it flow. I was in trouble for the hysterical laughter.
Yeah, I’m thinkin’ it’s time to schedule a vet appointment for your dog — they don’t really have the same kind of emotions that we do at some critical points, so it’s unlikely that he/she is pissed off at you (no pun intended). There’s probably a pharmaceutical that can help your pup with uncontrolled urination.
Suddenly I feel much better about my life.
A therapist quit his job and opened up a septic tank business. He was tired of putting up with other people’s shit.
Rimshot
My cat almost completely ruined my basement.
I could never kill that little retard though.
Our food was apparently spayed too early, leading to incontinence while she slept.
She was curled up on my feet on my MIL’s suede ottoman – since it’s body temp, it takes a little while to realize your leg is soaked in dog urine.
Fortunately, one little estrogen pill for her every 4 days totally took care of the issue.
“our food”? WTF?
“our hound”.
So,…not Korean?
Hiyoooooooooooooo!
srumbrew-san
She’s far too cute to eat
Today was a lousy day. Went to the GT Football game, which was historically awful (our first home shut-out loss since 1957, and our worst since 1903). I got sunburned in the first half, then froze in the second half.
Tomorrow should be better. I’m going shooting for the first time, and then I’m going to try and set up the cheap 3D printer I just bought.
Also our first ever Saturday loss to VT in Atlanta.
Yeah, I’m very ready for this season to be over.
“I’m going shooting for the first time…”
YES!
*makes crazy eyes* I like guns!
I’m super excited! It’s going to be me, two of my sisters, and our husbands. I’m totally new, and Mr. Cannoli hasn’t been shooting since summer camp when he was 10, so my BILs are going to teach us.
Just keep your booger picker off the trigger until you are actually ready to shoot.
*ahem*
“booger hook off the bang switch”
I’m more interested in the 3D printer.
My plans tomorrow are much more mundane. Go out for exercise and breakfast, and replace the faucet in the basement bathroom. Maybe test out some recipes to see if I have them right for Thanksgiving.
I got this one when it was on sale a few weeks ago.
Don’t listen to him! Shooting!
Can’t we have both?
Looks interesting, what are you planning on printing first? I’m not sure how many OOP board games I would need to reproduce before it would be worth it for me though. Especially now that Container got reprinted.
Probably some super simple test pieces to start, then I’d like to make something like this as a Christmas present for a friend of mine. I also want to make Susan’s Horn to cosplay with, but I haven’t found any models online, and I would need to majorly up my CAD game to create my own.
“dice tower”
Super kewl.
So there’s a couple of games I’ve blinged out with inserts. One of which is Castles of Burgundy. Even though it isn’t needed, it comes with four dice towers (one for each player).
If you don’t print a penis first you wasted your money. Also works as a christmas gift or even a tree ornament.
As soon as you’re able to 3D print something besides a plastic trinket, we’ll have a new government agency in charge of stopping you from printing it.
I just went Wednesday night. Half price happy hour at the range. Was a good time. Took my 1911, Storm, and PPK.
I have my first multi-gun practice tomorrow. Just taking the shottie and a handgun. I’ll probably wind up getting a PC9 to add to the stable, if only because the people that will put a Tier 5 on an AR9 are pissing me off at the moment.
My only pistol carbine is a .45 Uzi. I have been drooling over those CZ Scorpions though.
I first read that as RPK
Just finished season 2 of Suburra. Doesn’t get a whole lot of love here but I enjoyed the heck out of it. And what’s up with all of those actresses that are simultaneously ugly and smoking hot?
Spot the Not: Deval Patrick
1. For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I’m going to tell you what I believe.
2. We all know that people can never been secretly vegan, gay, or liberal.
3. We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.
4. I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.
5. I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.
6. I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.
Yay, Zero part deux.
I vote 5.
This entire list makes me want to gargle Red Fuming Nitric Acid.
1) I’m glad you’re back, haven’t seen you in a while
2) I didn’t know you were one of the glibs who knew the difference between red and white fuming nitric.
That’s TULPA!
Of course he’s Tulpa. Water is wet too.
Metal rocket geek from long, long ago. Got into a lot of trouble with LEOs back in the day, doing stuff like that.
I was absent for 25 days from late September to middish October, traveling through Italy and the Dalmatian Coast. Had a blast, but all good things must come to an end. And, for the record, Montenegro (Crna Gora) rocked.
Eh, Croatia was cool, too.
Congrats, with this comment, you have entered the Hall of Immortals, just as:
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You have nothing to apologize for, keep ’em coming. I admit I torture some of my prog family with what you post. They haz a sad.
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In the words of my favorite killer robot- I have detailed files.
Fuck off, Tulpa!
My bad.
Thought you meant this.
I gotta go with 5.
This is the guy who kept his BIL off the sex offender registry until he racked up additional victims, right?
#2
Yeah that’s the guy.
I can’t imagine any half serious candidate saying any of this.
So I say that this is a transcendental Spot the Not, for in reality, Deval Patrick is Not a Candidate
If you mean the totally righteous dude who bad orange man accused of that, then yes. CNN just said so.
Also #2. Unless he kan’t grammar gud.
I concur on #2, but apparently I kan’t grammar gud either, because I read that at least three times before I noticed.
Actually, same victim both times – his wife. One or both of them are crazy.
2 is the Not. Inspirobot helped me write that one. I didn’t notice the “been” typo until I hit reply.
prize for the winners: music for drinking bourbon alone in a dark room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw041_naWFg
prize for the losers: when you’re overqualified for your job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UYgORr5Qhg
I kind of knew what was coming, and still laughed my ass off.
We gotta tell straffinrun to lay off the uppers when he’s playing for kids.
Yeah that’s never not going to be hilarious.
On the TV at the gym today, the news gal was gushing about how people had their eyes glued to CNN’s coverage of the very, very important Schiff hearing.
CNN has been funnier than Comedy Central for about 3 years now.
Comedy News Network, amirite?
pick your punchline:
Clown News Network
Commy News Network
Cretin News Network
Claptrap News Network
Crappy News Network
Clinton News Network
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
You have my seal and walrus of approval.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/038/540/d8d.jpg
I think I may have just found the textbook butterface.
https://archive.li/eX3Zx/b1f10b960735a4b1722109ffc42c00519b862da1.jpg
NSFW.
Still would with extreme prejudice.
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=M8XaGxvuFOU
Commodious squawk if you’re around.
Seconded!
I switched over to National Propaganda Radio during a car dealership commercial (why are dealership commercials sooooooooo bad. How in the hell does that sell cars?). This old fart was interviewing a dude from knowyourmeme.com He, ((the interviewer) a spokeshole for NPR and the Demo-donkey party) was SUPER concerned that people might actually believe that Epstein didn’t kill himself. I thought it was hilarious.
Have a listen if you want: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/780067957/epsteins-death-becomes-a-meme
I heard some woke comedy while listening to NPRavda today. It sucked hard. Every punchline was basically “white males sure suck, don’t they?”
Lilly Singh is the absolute zero of unfunny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-hleIyuxFE
Good question. All the local ones around here look like SNL doing guido parodies. The weird thing is I’m not sure if it’s intentional or not.
It must work or they would stop. It doesn’t work for ME though.
I think it’s a little of both. There’s a cluster of them in my Brooklyn neighborhood, plus a bunch in Queens and Long Island. The Manhattan dealers try to class it up but you can tell. It’s like one old Italian family owns all of them.
At one rime car commercials were great. This is the first of a series. Plus, a commercial for Battleship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVkTBLwzhyE
I prefer Winnebago Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56u-bZwexyU
Have you seen the documentary about that commercial?
My heart grew 3 sizes from reading that*.
Thank you.
*zero times anything is still zero
The interviewer was half Jewish?
SIMON: Yeah. You know, for years, the National Enquirer was very popular, but people understood it was fiction.
A bit of an own goal there. Too bad, I liked listening to Scott Simon back when I listened to NPR regularly.
And just to pile on…
If Epstein didn’t want people saying this about him, he should have killed himself while he had the chance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_McCunn
Speaking of cannabis stocks/ETFs, I was actually thinking about looking into these after the news of them crashing.
Perhaps it’s possible some of the current or up-coming cannabis stocks will see success?
I still think it may be too early, and a market where late-comers may succeed where the early movers failed.
I’ve got some money stashed in VICEX. Unfortunately, it’s been underperforming this year.
Added to my watchlist, but I prefer ETFs over mutual funds. Unless I’m doing it wrong? Mutual funds tend to come with more transaction costs and this is not the type of investment I think I would buy and hold for 20+ years.
You can’t spell “underperforming” without “derp”!
At least they quoted the, you know
I read in a D’souza book that Obama’s dad honestly argued for 100% tax rates when he was some Kenyan official. A man should not be judged by his father, but the apple does not fall far from the tree.
I have to give Obama’s dad credit for somehow managing to sire children after having his legs amputated from a car accident. That guy must have been smooth as a snake’s hips.
Greatest Orator of All Time.
(I couldn’t stand that worship of someone who was a such a terrible speaker even with a teleprompter, and without one, he was laughably bad)
That always puzzled me. He was obviously bad. Stop saying he’s great.
And umm without the umm TOTUS, he umm was really umm bad, ok?
B-b-but…articulate!
here ya go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poz6W0znOfk
I found it ironic that the”great orator” would stumble though anything that didn’t include a teleprompter yet “moron” GWB usually did well speaking extemporaneously (but was awkward with prepared remarks)
GWB at the WTC wreckage just a day or two later, with megaphone in hand.
First responders: we can’t hear you!
GWB: Well I can hear YOU. And the whole world is gonna hear from ALL of us soon.
He’s still a useful idiot, but I own his Sept 20 speech to Congress on VHS. The pure CSPAN deal.
Last great moment of American unity I recall.
Sadly a moment of unity that ended with one of the most idiotic foreign adventures to date. ?
Sadly true.
And a good reminder to keep reason and lessons of history front and center.
……Drink?
“Something, something foreign entanglements” comes to mind.
It gave us the Patriot Act, which was worse.
https://youtu.be/zi2SNFnfMjk
Thank you.
(Still tears up)
One of my most vivid memories (aside from watching the 2nd plane hit from a block away) is the disgraceful shitshow of the media spinning W’s hot-take from that kindergarten book reading that played all day that week.
I’d rather crack open a beer with W.
Which is why he beat Gore and Kerry.
And a bit of a jape, as W is another teetotaler.
1992 GWB: Stay away from my wife, you sonofabitch!!!
1980’s W would have happily shotgunned a couple beers and finished off with a line or two.
“Corpse-man” for the win!
All the marines I work with snicker at that all the time
“We can’t be arrogant about it.”
Except you and every other Prog in existence just can’t help themselves, can they?
Some backstory on Smudge the Cat, the infamous meme cat (sitting a table cat, yelling at cat, no like vegetables cat)
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/mbmb3b/meet-smudge-the-cat-confused-hero-in-the-table-cat-meme
First I saw it was this morning, and we already have Vice explainers. Granted, I don’t follow “memes” so maybe I’m just slow on the uptake.
Ok, boomer
Just kidding! If you’re not active on twitter then you’ll typically be days or weeks behind the internet popular culture. As trash and time-wasting as twitter is, there is a lot of laughs to be had there.
It’s possible you just happen to have a life.
Not really. I do utterly fucking loathe Twitter, though.
Cal’s quarterback has returned after being injured for 5 weeks. Finally.
Also, USC is a dirty, dirty team.
I first read that as “UCS” and thought to myself
“I doubt he would submit to soiling his driving gloves”
6 minutes left in the 1st quarter, and USC already has an unsportsmanlike and a targeting call.
Bucket list
-run with the bulls
-dive in a shark cage
-write a book
-build a boat and sail around the world
-dig up dinosaur bones
Been there, done that list
-walk on Great Wall of China
-ride a camel around the Pyramids
-ride an elephant
-climb Mt Kilimanjaro
-learn several foreign languages
-join the Army
“-join the army”
In the words of a SWCC guy I once knew:
“I was in the Army for four years before this. The Army believes you need to practice being miserable. Nobody needs to practice being miserable.”
“Nobody needs to practice being miserable.”
Eh, people who’ve never faced any hardship are going to have a rough time when trouble comes their way.
Audie Murphy, Dieter Dengler, Douglas Bader…they all had to eat foot-long shit sandwiches.
Bader was a real baller. He lost both his legs in a flying stunt before the war. When the blitz started, they let him fly again. He got shot down and was a POW for 4 years.
It’s fun to think about how these guys would react to trigger warnings.
Trigger warnings like make sure you know what you’re aiming at before pulling the trigger? Those?
That’s probably how they’d respond.
Blue haired, nose-ringed feminist: Someone made fun of me on Twitter. I have PTSD now!
Murphy: Lady, lemme tell ya something…
Audie Murphy was hard but I would pair him up with Robert Frederick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Frederick
(My V-42 is in a drawer in my night stand.)
Yeah a DSC with cluster qualifies you as hard lol.
Epic. As a mustachioed soldier, it’s always nice to see someone with a lip caterpillar/3rd eyebrow besides General Halftrack from Beetle Bailey.
I can’t remember the names, but there have been a few dozen guys with the “perfect attendance award” – combat infantry badge from WW2, Korea, and Vietnam.
When I attended schooling at the USAJFKSWCS there were a few truths pounded into our heads:
“There is a thin line between hard and stupid. Don’t step over it.”
“Don’t get caught.”
“If you aren’t cheating you aren’t trying.”
“On the battlefield second place is usually first coffin.”
“The green beret is worn by this nation’s finest fighters, and Girl Scouts.”
“You might be the world’s most professional warrior, but you will still die from a lucky shot by an amateur. Don’t get cocky.”
“The SF tab can protect you from being shot, but only under the tab.”
“If you don’t think the government will sell you out if they think they need to- you haven’t listened to a fucking word in this course.”
Well, I’ve been on the Great Wall of China and have ridden an elephant, so I’ve got that going for me.
Which is nice.
So, now for Mrs. O’Reilly…
SF’ed.
Fuuuuuuuck….
https://youtu.be/-EbhdS6QVVY?t=101
Good job. Never stop exploring.
::ponders spelunking joke::
I have the Great Wall and foreign languages covered. No particular interest in the rest except maybe writing a book.
Worked a morning shift, tweeted a Dick pic, took a nephew to the comic book store, watched a movie with a niece and said nephew and put them to bed while they watched Spider-Man Far From Home; having some beer. How’d the rest of you fuck spend your day since 4am this morning?
I don’t want to say too much right now, but our life just took a very nasty turn. We could sure use some prayers and good vibes right now.
And yes, I’m sitting here on Glibs typing this. I’m in an ER waiting room. Not much else to do.
Prayers are inbound.
You have mine.
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Offered, and continuing
I’m so sorry Mojeaux. Wishing the best for you and yours.
Positive vibes. Yufes gets it.
Sorry to hear. My best wishes for you.
Best wishes, and hopefully everything ends as well as it possibly can.
Deal. Take care and best wishes.
We are here if you need us. Don’t be scared or ashamed to reach out.
I am sending positive vibes.
I’m sorry Mojeaux. Sending good vibes
Ugh. Was out walking the dog.
Best of my thoughts heading your way.
Ugh. Good luck.
Great moments in toxic masculinity:
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Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844[1] – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey, Sailing Alone Around the World, which became an international best-seller. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray.
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Despite being an experienced mariner, Slocum never learned to swim[21] and considered learning to swim to be useless.
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Epic.
A lot of sailors back then did not learn to swim, sometimes deliberately. You go overboard in open water in the pre helicopter days and you either found something to float on, got a rope thrown by an alert shipmate, or you drowned. Knowing how to swim just made the drowning more drawn out.
Until recently, most people lacked a safe place to swim.
This guy learned that the hard way:
UK man, 32, nearly died after parasite crawled up penis, laid eggs as he swam in lake on Africa trip
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/man-parasite-laid-eggs-lake-africa
I got malaria when I lived in Africa. It sucked, but I got better. Shoulda tried the Humphrey Bogart prophylaxis.
Shtupping Katherine Hepburn?
Probably good for a placebo, but being half drunk on gin all the time was probably the main factor.
Gin contains chemicals similar to quinine, which was the old school malaria drug.
You probably knew that already.
I want to make a trip to Hawaii in the spring. It’s the only state I haven’t been to yet.
I took mefloquine (1 pill/week) as a prophylaxis when I was there. Some people get crazy dreams and get switched to doxycycline (1 pill/day).
When I suspected I had malaria, I took my temperature and it was 104. Shit. I wrapped myself in a wet sheet and took the malarone emergency anti-malaria pills, which made me shit my guts out for 2 days.
Before we left Peace Corps training, they gave us a book called Where There is no Doctor. It came in handy.
Yes, the Peace Corps. Fighting fire with marshmallows since 1961.
You drink gin with tonic, tonic is soda infused with quinine.
This is why I love this place. I say something wrong, and I get the straight dope.
I’m going to start saying things wrong on purpose just to learn more.
Correct Jarflax. Don’t forget the lime slice as well. The vitamin C will prevent scurvy. A G&T is my version of a health drink.
But if you know it’s wrong, you must know what is right, therefore you can’t learn anything.
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Well if you decide to visit America’s Polynesian outpost let me know. I know just the place to get you your first rum drink.
All the rum I’ve had before is counterfeit?! Damn it!
I’ve had some wild hooch before. The Swahili word for booze is pombe and most tribes have their own brew. I drank some stuff called mbege at a wedding feast- it was made from millet and bananas.
In east Africa, when you spill your drink, they say it’s because the ancestors are thirsty. It’s like pouring one out for your homies, I guess.
anayeishi kwa panga, atakufa kwa panga
he who lives by the sword, dies by the sword