So you decided to buy a kite and have fun like Yusef, but where to start….
Let’s start with a nice little single line kite, $5 on eBay, pocket size, comes with line and handle.
Wendy’s kite:
I bought a kite reel to better run the single, it is Wendy’s kite, so I made it easy.
200 meters of low stretch line, with a brake. You can hang on to it or set a stake in the ground, and enjoy it while prepping your next kite….
Welcome to Deltas
I was short of money, what’s new, so instead of a Ferrari kite, I grabbed two cheap Delta kites for the #1 Grandson and I, set up some new lines and went out. 20+ mph winds, I set up and Bang! the thing took off like a rocket, way too fast at first, then my lessons took over and I had an exciting flight with a good landing. The thing made an awesome, spooky sound as it flew, which adds to the drama. The next day we went out in 5-10 mph winds and the delta flew just as well in light winds as heavy, a nice feature.
Equipment
The easy part, get some Mason line at the hardware store in the color of your choice, try to buy at least 200 feet, it’s cheap, this will be your kite line. I had some half-inch PVC pipe and conduit to make handles with.
Yes, that’s Paracord, good stuff for this, so I made my own, but straps and bars are an option.
A stake is important, you need to secure your control lines so your kite doesn’t take off without you, usually a line between your controls. Believe me, it’s a good thing, a tent stake from Wally World works well.
Oh yeah, the Arsenal.
1 Delta, 48″ Wingspan
2 parafoils 70″ws and 102″ws
1 single line parafoil,24″ws
5 dual Line sets@ 82 ft long
1 kite reel at 200m long
various handles and Paracord
Total cost $85 and it all fits in a $5 soft cooler from Walmart.
Great Yusef, but how do you actually do it?
YouTube. Wanna fly Deltas? Watch this video
Parafoils? 4 line or 2? Check this out.
And always look for kite festivals, usually in warm weather, but they are amazing to see.
Last, here’s one of my flights, shot with my phone strapped to my hat, no GoPro.
All of my kites are cheap Chinese knockoffs for now, but they are cheap and fly great! Give it a try!
Neat. I’ve made trash bag kites with packing tape, thin wooden rods, etc in the traditional diamond shape. Might have to try this out.
Piffle. I’ve made those kites with paper.
/Ok, Boomer
The orange kite was 22$ or so, parafoil so nothing to break
Orange kite bad!!
*polite applause*
At first I thought that concrete seam was another spar. I was confused.
OT: So who’s taking one for team at 9:00/8:00 Central?
Not me that Derps territory
Yeah, I thought it might be right up Derp’s alley.
Between that and the impeechmunt hearings, newsrooms all over the country will be swinger’s clubs by the end of the night.
I read that as impeechcunte.
Hillary didn’t win, thank god.
???
I’ll take eye bleach before I watch that.
Try the kite festival video, pretty Kites…
I’m watching the US’s last gasp at the Davis Cup. If that’s over I might flip between the Circus and hawkey.
Not volunteering, but rather than risking the livers of the Gliberati at large with a drinking game, it would be fun to have someone drunk-blog the damn thing. I’m thinking something along the lines of what this bad-attitude romance novel website does with episodes of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
I suspect MLW might have found Woke Charmed more tolerable if she’d had more to drink.
I’d like to reiterate that I am NOT volunteering, as I have to work tomorrow. Now, if there’s ever a debate on a Friday or Saturday night…
I would have to be pre-drunk before I ever watched that Bachelor/ette shit.
Ohhhhhhh Smart Bitches.
As always, I’ll make it as long as I can. What I saw of the circus hearings today were mind numbing.
Stephen Miller
Verified account @redsteeze
A good question at the debate tonight should be if Joe Biden thinks his new grandchild should have been aborted.
He’s that Jewish white supremacist right?
He and Ben Shapiro are going to found the DC Klan chapter.
It’s an easy question to field.
“It’s up to the mother”.
ThTs not going to cost him a single vote.
BTW, these were purchased before my current troubles, and they use God’s gas, so cheap thrills. I have flown exactly once in the last two weeks, but dang it was fun!
You got to destress, especially when you’re broke.
A/C Tech, Musician,. Don’t Fuck with me or I’ll cut you… /all depictions are ficticious…….-
Does this mean you’re not an AC tech? I’ve been checking the termostat based on lies!
No I’m an HVAC tech, the time traveler thing is a lie,
Still cut you..,
I just finished the prince by Machiavelli and started meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Man what a contrast, considering they’re both nominally Italian.
Is meditations as readable the Caesars commentaries, I would like to read it
I just started. Let me get through a few chapters (books) and I’ll let you know.
I thought it was a pretty easy read, though Aurelius repeats himself often.
Here is how it starts:
From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper.
From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character.
From my mother, piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further, simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich.
From my great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things a man should spend liberally.
From my governor, to be neither of the green nor of the blue party at the games in the Circus, nor a partizan either of the Parmularius or the Scutarius at the gladiators’ fights; from him too I learned endurance of labour, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people’s affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander.
The whole thing is available here.
Marcus Aurelius is famous for the clarity, economy and simplicity of his writing
Very cool thanks!
Check out Epictetus’ Enchiridion, too. The man could say more in a few words than, IMHO, most modern philosophers.
Hello Yusef,
Good on the kites, your in prov gopro works well too. Enjoyed the flight with you.
Where are you now? CA or AZ? Take care, pardner
Cali now for Wendy’s medical needs then hopefully back to AZ, it’s a logistical nightmare, but I got backup,
Now go fly a kite… Next spring
Oh great and all-knowing glibertariat:
Is there an easy way of cleaning off potatoes? I’ve got a bag full of these stupid golf ball sized things, fresh out of the ground and covered in dirt. If I peeled them there’d be nothing left, but the idea of scrubbing each one with a scouring pad makes my core laziness rebel against my culinary desire to put these in a stew with some sirloin, bacon, shiitakes and carrots.
I use a long handle scrub brush. Easy.
Wash ’em, scrub with a brush, I like a fingernail one. Steamed or just cooked microwave style, skins will be loose or eat the skins. I have about two bushels home grown in the coolest place in the house but not really cool enough. We’ll have enough for seed next spring.
Reds, russets and fingerlings, fingerlings are the best tasting but also the smallest.
I would just soak them for a while, with some stirring. Better yet, simmer them for a few minutes if that works in your recipe.
FYI:
Dr. Potato agrees with both you and Florida Man.
Dishwasher
Throw them into a plastic milk crate and blast them with a garden hose.
I sort of do that initially but use a wheelbarrow. Use the garden hose in the wheelbarrow, rock the wheelbarrow a few times, gently dump them in the grass to dry them out. They store better if they haven’t been washed though.
Works for dirty children, too.
I don’t know if I should try that, my kid’s black. Optics?
Don’t do it near cameras or neighbors.
Golf ball size?
User the ball scrubber on the ninth tee at your local course.
If they’re fresh out of the ground, the skin is very tender, don’t scrub them. Soak them in some cold water for a few minutes and then wash them off with your hands under running water.
The deal with your and Fourscore’s advice is it involves work. I knew how to wash potatoes that involved work.
So you want somebody else to enact your labor?
Duh?
Rhetorical question.
Why are they only now being harvested?
Fuck if I know.
Oh, I thought you’d grown them in your garden or something.
Nope. I’m subscribed to a pseudo-CSA. Sometimes the offerings are really good. Sometimes questionable. But the seasonal nature (which can seem random from a dietary perspective) encourages me to try new things. I had to move to NY before I cooked collard greens. And fennel is really good. Fiddleheads suck however.
“Fiddleheads suck however.”
Shut your dirty whore mouth!
They taste like “generic green vegetable with additional gritty mouthfeel” plus you have to do extra prep to keep from getting poisoned.
Or maybe I live too far east.
One of my great childhood memories was the annual Xmas package from my grandmother in Maine to our family in NM that included several cans of fiddleheads.
YOU EAT THOSE?!?!?!?!?!
Love ’em. Trim them, blanch them, saute them in olive oil with a little salt.
What is a fiddlehead?
#metoo
A delicacy not unlike asparagus spears.
I find it hard to find just about anything that I don’t like. I used to hate brussels sprouts but then I had them as an adult prepared deliciously. I guess eggplant is still off the menu but I haven’t tried it in probably 60 years.
The only way I eat eggplant is as ratatouille.
Eggplant
Dip in a egg batter
Deep fry
Scrape off the batter
Throw the egg plant away, enjoy the batter
I grow a lot of eggplant, some Asian people like it, some (most) Minnesodans won’t eat it
Eggplant parm is pretty bitchin.
Not to mention baba ghanoush
New shoots of a fiddlehead fern.
https://images.app.goo.gl/feHitJXjXzKCkxGFA
I love eggplant. Now I’m gonna make make eggplant parmesan just because.
And yes, ratatouille is a close second.
Mmmm. I’ll keep an eye out.
Asparagus is better.
I’m Charlie Brown with kites.
Fucking trees.
Thanks, Yusef. I’ll give it another shot.
That vid with the kite festival, howTF do they keep their lines separate??
I thought they made them abrasive and cut the other lines…
Or was that the Japanese.
I wonder myself, but single lines work out ok. The duals need lots of room, they are fast and dangerous at speed
The Force.
*sigh*
I have to go into Philadelphia tomorrow for a business meeting.
I hate Philly. It’s a shithole. I haven’t been there in 10+ years.
The area I’m going to is a high crime area. Thankfully, I’m not driving.
I feel like I should take an AK with me…but I’ll settle for my usual companion – a M&P9c.
***
Sorry for the OT, Yusef, but I’m gonna be out shortly.
I’m also reminded of a windy day, a pick up truck, a parachute, a tow rope, and a brave man named Ron.
What part of Philly, out of curiosity?
Sounds like the better part, from his description.
“High crime area” really doesn’t narrow it down.
Sure it does. He’s in the merely “high” crime area and think maybe an AK would suffice. Obviously the better part.
I go for a walk on Chestnut St. each year and don’t feel threatened at all. Of course, the guys around me are all carrying Springfields and Enfields, and swords and bayonets.
19133
Say hi to my MIL
Hola!
Enh, could be worse 🙂
Ah! Vindication!
No worries, you take care and when you’re done find that pickup truck!
I loved the fuck out of Philly.
Admittedly, I was being shown around town by the NBC weatherman, so people might have been nicer to me than usual.
However, Morimoto’s restaurant was the absolute bomb.
How much did it cost?
The dai-omakase was $190. An alcohol with each course (6?) was $45. But they did have main dishes available for under $30. Since at the time I still lived in TX, I didn’t know when/if I would be in the areas again, so I splurged. It really was spectacular and I learned some new wines that I had no idea were so good.
I see.
There were cheaper omakase While I don’t remember all of the dishes (though somewhere I do have a copy of the menu — I made the waiter write down the wines and he added the dishes as well) the dishes were heavy on the toro, uni, fois gras and wagyu I think the only dish in common with the dai- and the other omakase was the “oysters three ways.”
I feel like you and I could share a meal.
The budget is spent, it’ll have to be some place less than $10… for everyone.
Taco Bell it is. Sweet!
God, I hope that the frito chili burritos are as good as I remember them being.
NBC Weathergirl would have been a lot better. If her names was Sheena, that is.
Thanks again Yusef. You have a good life. I like reading about it.
Shirley you’re joking.,
/Stands by fire next to van with wife inside
Are we allowed to ask if it’s down by the river?
Good luck, man.
R.I.P. Chris Farley.
The joke is ever present, but no, we are safe behind locked gates
My experiences with kites as an adult always involved lots of cursing and the occasional injury after I ran into some unsuspecting beachgoer.
I find this true and scary, the lines will hurt you bad
Hang, Mr. Kite
For the benefit of Mr. Kite
Let’s go fly a kite.
This is my favorite one.
That’s the one that instantly came to mind.
Ikwyd, thanks
Been there. It will work out.
I love this one.
I checked the google to see if there’s one I like, and thanks for not playing U2.
Got this in a sidebar for the Beatles song. Used to watch the vinyl version spin way back when.
Then, I got this one. Dedicated to smokey Joe, it’s a gateway to even more harsh songs.
Skipped a decade and ended up here.
Which led to one of my faves from them.
I’m here for you, blackjack.
I still like this, though.
The only one I can get behind is “one” and I like it better when it’s a cover.
I’ve had the pleasure on seeing Warren do this a couple times. One of the times was in Jamaica on the beach. I was sitting in the second row (15 feet away) right in front of him filled with rum punch and stoned on good ol’ American weed. His solo shows are powerful. Some of my all-time favorite shows.
I love old U2.
Same.
But we were at the right age, I think.
I actually love both pre- and post- Joshua Tree U2.
I have a lot of respect for them realizing that after Joshua Tree they had pretty much capped out what they were trying to do. (unlike Aerosmith who never wrote a new song after 1974) Rattle and Hum was a failure but both Achtung Baby and Zooropa had some really good stuff.
I listened to Joshua Tree a lot, but the stuff after never really caught me. War was huge with my gang in HS, so that always works for me.
Kinda like REM. The first few were iconic given the time and place, but then, meh.
Life’s Rich Pageant is my favorite
#metoo
My first REM album – but also just one great tune after another.
Agree about Achtung Baby. It’s the best thing they did after 85 or so IMHO.
My wife is a huge U2 fan and she appreciated that they at least try to do new things. I’m not sure which was their techno album or if that’s something I made up, but she likes it for what it is.
You have excellent taste in wives.
She is cool like that. Doesn’t have to like it to appreciate it.
It might have been different, but in the late nineties, early oughts, the two rock stations in LA AND the oldies station AND the ALT station all went on a multi year binge of playing U2. It was like a focus group told them they’d get rich if every third song was from U2. Sometimes, I’d click presets and get three U2 songs simultaneously. Now, I’m pretty done with them.
I like kites. Thanks Yusef!
Thank you! I had to store all of my hobbies, so this works well, very compact, check it out!
OFFS. The panel is four women, led by Rachel Maddow. I don’t know how long I’m going to be able to make it.
Take it for team Glib,
Maddow: “bombshell testimony”.
LOL I’m not drunk enough for this.
Is it me, or does Lizzie Warren sound like Marge Simpson?
That’s not fair to Marge.
Sleepy Joe really does look sleepy.
Harris is trying to get some urban in her speech, it is almost as bad as Hillary’s blaccent. I don’t think I’ll make it 10 minutes.
*snort* Hadn’t heard that one
It is really sad that this Warren woman got lost on her way to the PTA meeting and wandered into this campaign.
I can completely believe she’s from Oklahoma. I lived there for a couple of decades, and in general the people there are the most polite, modest, and “mind your own business” types around. But the ones that self-select into politics are insufferable. And I have fraternity brothers who are state senators and judges.
I wish I could spend fantasy dollars 5 times each like these idiots.
“Lizzie Warren took an axe, gave the country 40 whacks.
Then she saw what she had done, and gave the country 41.”
I’m done. I had a stomach bug today and watching this is not healing. If these people get control we could be Hong Kong in 4 years.
“could be Hong Kong in 4 years”
4 ever
Feel better
One way train rides to Canada?
Good debate snark.
I’m going to have to read that without beverages. That’s like drunk SF after a lobotomy.
I’ve been following him for years. You get used to it pretty quickly.
Over/under Tulsi’s gray streak is fake?
/does hair do that?
I thought you were old enough to know this. Yes.
My hair went gray all at once. ??♂️
There needs to be a name for the tendency of beards to develop those gray patches at/between the moustache line. or for the beard to go gray before the scalp hair in general.
Gilmore would know. *sighs*
Oh, my beard is still all different colors of the rainbow. I just meant the hair on my head.
Mine is transparent,
/ Was a ginget
I like it! From now on, I’m going to identify as a gingette.
I don’t know if hers is, but my wife has one similar that is.
Yes
Mrs. Hobbit has had that white streak in her hair since birth. I told her that’s where the angels kissed her just before she was born.
Our granddaughter has it as well.
I always thought it was a trope. Like when it happened to Troi when she went evil one episode.
Of course.
And would.
Mortisha? Oh, hell yeah.
Lily, dude.
Lily.
*shakes head*
Fuck off, Tulpa.
Yeah, that was kind of sad.
I can-NOT believe the shit that The Addams Family got away with on TV.
i expected this.
https://r.hswstatic.com/w_907/gif/missedinhistory-98-2014-03-127861395.jpg
If I’d just gotten one or two white streaks a la Bonnie Raitt, I wouldn’t have started coloring my hair.
#betterlivingthroughchemistry
Dammit.
You can’t tell my hair is 1/3 to 1/2 white because of my normal color (strawberry blonde). (Gingers don’t go gray; they go white.)
To me it just looks dirty.
To someone else, it looked like blonde highlights.
To my brother, it looked like something was off/not quite right and makes people stare, trying to figure out what it is.
My hair was supposed to have fallen out before going gray.
Not only do I still have my hair, but the first grays popped up in my beard.
My hair is as white as white gets. In the summer with the sun, I’m a platinum blonde.
Can I buy you a drink?
Wrong plumbing.
I just wanted to touch your hair. Don’t be so homophobic.
I would love to rock a cool white hairdo but (a) it’s dirty gray and (b) it’s even thicker than my old hair already was, which I can’t tolerate in the heat.
My beard is turning white and hair to salt & pepper according to the wife. I’d say it’s not all that, but that would be a couple orders of magnitude more than I care.
Can confirm. And when that got salted through my medium-red hair, the overall effect was to make the whole mess look faded and ghastly. I leave the coloring to a pro and pay through the nose, but that’s also my pamper session. (#scalpmassage) Just got re-redded today.
I also dye to my natural color when I can be arsed to do so. Like, I work at home in my jammies. Where do I go I need to look sharp?
I’m going to say yes it does. But…I’m betting there is more gray than she is letting on. Hair dye is a huge industry.
I refuse to dye my gray and this baffles my latina wife.
Maybe 30 seconds. I even checked out with Tulsi yammering.
I did like the sight of Bernie bouncing around raising his hand. “Choose ME!”
I just got done watching The Librarian: Quest for the Spear starring Noah Wylie. Yes it may be cheesy but it has Bob Newhart kicking ass. It is worth watching for that scene alone.
Andrew Yang finally gets a question 30 minutes in. A look of triumph on his face…
I’m a little slack jawed, and I’m not even drunk.
Bella waits for treats, happy dog!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/WcgGrbsFCSDVLiyg7
She’s a pretty brindle. Nothing better than a good dog.
1. Lazer eyes.
2. Why is she staring at the Kia wall?
2. Whatever algorithm is being used by the phone is way over-yellowing her beautiful brindle coat.
Oooh child care! That’s a pressing federal issue. ?
Our next landing will include daycare for five kids, one mine, the rest adorable stepgkids, fun ahead.,
It is if you want to rule forever:
Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man.
There’s nothing our wise and great government can’t do!
/True believer
So what about the stupid and incompetent government we’ve actually got?
Goddamnit!
I know it’s only $0.79 and I have another Korean barbecue yakisoba, but having my miserable little dinner end up on the floor doesn’t make me happy.
That sucks
Well, I’ve gotten it cleaned up, and cooked the other one.
I got Chinese food after the beerfest Saturday and it was amazing and I put the leftovers in the fridge. I went to reheat it today for lunch and in my drunken state didn’t realize I ate all the meat and left only rice. *sigh* score one for drunk me.
Look on the bright side – you were the one to eat it.
Redheads 4 Yusef.
http://archive.is/n9yvN
Women please, my daughter is older…
Why do people ruin good skin with tattoos?
I didn’t realize how many black women love Harris. On twitter they are a bunch that are excited that She went after Tulsi.
If the polls are correct there are very few of them.
Extra cheesecake to heal your broken minds from the debate.
http://archive.is/lrVqg
The Best Boobs of 2015? The best boobs are the ones you can touch.
Past my bedtime….
There’s no way, no how I’m ever watching that debate, but I declare that the winner is the first one to congratulate Sleepy Joe on his new grandchild.
@Yusef. Nice. I need to go and get a kite, think the Kids would love it. I think, though, i’ve broken every kite i’ve flown.
“Gentrification compounds racial discrimination.”
Go home, Cory. You’re drunk.
Damn gay honkies making neighborhoods less shitty.
Bed-Stuy is mixed (again) and folks more or less get along.
But the Dems advocate segregation.
What a world.
Every old is new again.
Go home, Cory.
You’re drunk.You’re a useless, pandering, race-mongering POS.Crap! My wife went to bed before me. Now I have no adult supervision.
For you.
https://archive.li/Y1zvJ/bce09abc69e335f2427d7ca99dc7d7e4c499b8fb.jpg
NSFW.
Yells at penis, “Stop it!”
All I get is a “Secure Connection Failed” message . . .
All I get is “block by work firewall” message.
So that’s what Tulsi looks like?
Klimate Krisis! Yay, the issue that is like the bottom of the barrel that nobody cares about!
Ahhhh….lights are growing dim……
Holy shit – US squeaks a out a Davis Cup victory over Italy! 4am in Madrid.
/I’m not dead yet!
You’re an inspiration, Yusuf. Looks like fun. I’ll have to look around and see what we have for a kite festival here.
Eat me.
Go on…
Finally the wife gets to say, “Make me a sammich.”
Imma snack? Is this something people say?
I’ve never heard it.
Imma get me a beer!
/liz
I’ve heard that.
From another frumpy totalitarian schoolmarm?
I’ve eaten more pussy than cervical cancer.
Too soon?
Do testicular cancer next.
You wish. Panty-Sconnie
I’ve cleaned more hatchet wounds than a blind lumberjack.
Don’t stand between a ‘sconnie and his licker?
This dude Tres did not have testicular cancer. He was a liar. He had no diseases at all. I had seen him at Free and Clear, my blood parasites group Thursdays. Then at Hope, my bimonthly sickle cell circle. And again at Seize the Day, my tuberculosis Friday night. Tres, the big tourist.
He’s everything you aren’t.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEwwc1Vovkk" title="You're every
thingwhere that I’m not.” target=”_blank”>You’re everythingwhere that I’m not.Goddammit.
Rhy wants to hold Tres’ hand while he watches the world burn. Romantic.
I just…don’t know what to say to that.
You know you like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20IyieiS-TE
Yikes! NSFW!
Bernie: “We have to bring Iran and Saudi Arabia together.” Whiskey just went through my nose.
I hate you for a lot of reasons- but that made me turn that shitshow on.
Dude, I’m about to tap out. I lost IQ points in the last hour and a half.
I want to go Full Elvis on my TV. But I dont want to buy a TV tomorrow or explain why a shotgun went off in the living room.
How we do that without a huge helping of quid pro quo?
Glass parking lot from the Red Sea to the Caspian.
Unless Bernie is the Second Coming of Christ, I don’t see it happening.
A jew who wants to help the poor. Checks out *someone with no understanding of the bible*
How many weapons can you affix to the wings?
Ooooo – race!
’bout time!
I’m tapping out. Hawkey to watch.
4 days straight of Schiff and now a marathon debate with that group. Team blue really doesn’t wanna win it looks like.
http://imgur.com/gallery/LVyCGzn
Logged into our plant work order tracking system this evening.
The guys that work for me are great.
I loled.
Love it when folks are comfortable enough with their jobs that they can joke about it.
I know that there is one log entry somewhere that has me saying, “This system is going down like a $20 whore.”
I have to avoid anything of the sort because all our systems can be seen by managers who’ve never met us, and have no sense of humor.
So we snark verbally and write sanitized notes.
Next you’ll tell me the government doesn’t have a sense of humor.
Not that we’re aware of.
You guys dont run ActivePlant®?
I could sit at my computer and see what the current pressure was on Roller #3 in our Cold Mill
My plant was built in 84. We just switched 3 years ago to plex. For the previous several decades we ran on the AS400.
If I want any info about anything, I can get into the PLCS from my office. We also have a data logging system called iba that we store data states in PLC’s in.
If any event happens, all I have to do is look at the relevant states of the data at the time in question and I can deduce much from that.
I.e.
I spent a great deal of my time today looking at relevant data like motor current, brake state, motor frequency, motor command direction, motor speed log, and the like in order to figure out why we ate the teeth of the input spiral bevel pinion gear of the following gearbox.
http://imgur.com/gallery/aiwJXMK
By analyzing all that data, I have put together a pretty clear picture of what happened and why and have a plan moving forward to correct the cause of the failure.
Watching Jane Fonda in Klute talking about being a prostitute. Sounds like it’s the same on the debate.
Yet another movie where Donald Sutherland got shafted come Oscars time.
It’s all about the principle.
https://mobile.twitter.com/womensmarch/status/1197237386046050304
So unionized Latinas still only make $.69 compared to ??? I must have missed all those Latina pay scales in union contracts that pay only 70% of what everyone else is making.
If forced to venture a guess, I’d assume that statistic takes for granted the word of workers who make a sizable portion of their income from off-the-books labor. And if that’s indeed the case, the lack of taxes withdrawn probably balances out the difference in take home wages.
Or just using wages for demographics as a whole, rather than like for like comparison of wages for the same job/experience/location/etc.
Probably so, but I was trying to be generous. 😉
Excuse me, we’re talking about LATINAS here, not you’re already multiple times debunked nonsense. kthxbai!
“your” ugh I’m drunk-ish
Debunking the bedunked debunking.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1197270562403278848
I had his list of murders in mind and it was all domestic shit or drug deals gone bad, or “unknown”. Not a single proven “hate crime” in the bunch.
I have an ULTRA_WOKE cousin who is a poet / activist / resistor / ANTIFA supporting smug asshole. His smug / concerned face is so good you just want to punch him whenever you see his picture. Anyways, all of his “family” photos were him, his daughter, his agnostic minister wife, and their black, transgendered, “handicapped” roommate. According to him, the trans roommate lost their apartment immediately after Trump was elected and before he took office, because TRUMP! So the trans person moved in with them so my cousin could up his activist cred (he leads protests damn near every weekend for something).
Sometime last winter the trans roommate got their own place, and was found dead inside the new apartment less than a month later. Immediately my cousin, his friends, and their activist blog started calling it a hate crime and murder and blaming the cops for not investigating. They even got the local paper to call it a suspicious death and possible hate crime. About a week later, the police ruled it a suicide.
Even after this, they kept up the narrative of trans hate crimes and used this person to push their agenda. Even though the person wasn’t murdered, it was society’s fault because of trans hate. It was disgusting reading the condolences and comments from this person’s “friends” on her Facebook page. All the posts were the same – a loving, caring person who showed up to all the protests and meetings and had all the right views. I didn’t know this person, but felt bad for her knowing that these were her supposed friends who used her tragic death to push their political agenda.
Given their astronomically high suicide rates, my first thought reading your post was that said trans roommate killed themselves. This has been a glaring issue that the “activists” ignore, and rather than get people the help that might keep them alive, do shit like this.
Ugh what a shitshow.
All my old friends are now caught up in this shit. I mentioned here before a friend of 30+ years, nicest guy on earth, who recently expressed his desire to murder the president. And my other best friend of 25+ years who agreed.
I have literally no friends any more.
Lopsided anarchy is better than full-time statism, I guess.
You’d be wrong there, commode.
You’ve got us.
(insert guy shrugging shoulders emoji)
Aw you guise
How the fuck does that work? Isn’t that just a government ordained officiant? I mean, you can’t minister with out something to minister, right?
Dunno. Ask the Unitarian Universalists. They seem to have that down pretty well.
Do Unitarians even still exist? That was the fad of the Deists, who did have something to minister, are they now agnostic? I must admit, this a sect I have not come across in travels.
As far as I can tell at a distance, UU worships at the altar of politics and sjw.
She’s an Episcopalian youth minister. I don’t know her, but I’ve seen posts from her friends referring to her as their favorite Agnostic Minister. All of her religious posts are about saving the environment and every social justice cause you can think up, because that is the teaching of Jesus. My atheist cousin (her husband) used to work at the church as an activities coordinator or something until he landed a HS English teaching job. His job at the church organized food drives and such, but it seemed most of his time was spent organizing protests.
They fell in love when they organized a group to go to Standing Rock from Arkansas. They no shit drove a pickup and trailer loaded with firewood from Arkansas to Standing Rock in their caravan. They also used a bunch of money they raised to buy and bring solar panels so the people who were going to stay the whole winter could “harvest light”…in North Dakota…in the winter! About two months later when the cleanup started I seen said solar panels in one of the bulldozed piles of rubbish. According to my cousin, Chase Iron Eyes is the civil rights leader of our time.
Me and my family used to get lots of laughter / looks of disgust when reading all my cousin’s crazy posts. His posts used to seem funny but not any more. Had to block him on Facebook and stop reading his super crazy Twitter acct.
So, perhaps a religion skinsuited by a secular movement then. Like I said, I have never encountered one in reality, but I know Unitarianism was a thing among 19th Century Deists, as a way to unify with theists. Thomas Jefferson’s Presidential pastor was a Unitarian, if I remember correctly.
Pud, sorry you have stupid fuckin hippies in your family. I bet even Winston could beat them a theology debate, the sad soles.
CPRM, that whole family is a bunch of disfunctional assholes. They are from Appleton, after all.
Fuck the valley! And the Fox Valley…
Going Tone Lōc on trans women?
You must be sure that girl is pure for the Funky Cold Medina
..aint no plans with a man
This is the 80s and Im down with the ladies
un-woke Loc wouldnt make it in 2019
I met Ton Loc at Fatburger on the Strip in Vegas.
You break it down?
He asked CPRM why he was so fly.
Chunky Cold Purina
Okay, I made it through the whole thing and now I know why Donny is walking around with a smile on his face. What a shit show. You fuckers owe me a bottle of bourbon for putting myself through the whole thing.
I didn’t put you through anything.
Making someone watch that at gunpoint would be a good argument for gun control.
What time are you showing up to pick it up?
I was watching it from CBSnews…..I need Ringer’s, lidocaine, and xanax.
IV.
I probably caught five or six minutes total and it was enough to convince me that these people are in an alternate universe where they think they have a chance. It’s unreal how out of touch they are.
Where’s my damn Trudeau avatars file?! I’m over the Randy Watson gif…dammit.
Fuck it, I can’t find the damn thing. Instead, here’s a one night only, heavily filtered picture of me from a few years ago after I got blitzed off some weed from the Emerald Triangle.
You’re Thanos?
Sorry. Too skinny, Earthly, and white.
WHITE.
-1 Infinity Gauntlet
Huh, No idea when I repeated/uppercased the white part.
Really, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be,
Yeah, OK, whitey.
You’re a race warrior. We get it.
Race warrior or case warrior?
https://media1.tenor.com/images/ac1d624688b49cfa45524f2dfabe4e28/tenor.gif?itemid=4629822
Chapelle is the best.
Silly glibs, kites are for kids!
And the nanny you wanna fuck.
I was gonna make a Trix joke but you just decided to go somewhere else; OK sksksks
Newly birthdayed straffin-ojisan maintaining his personal space on the train?
She was chick spreading. It’s even worse than man spreading, because it’s sexy.
Indubidably
https://youtu.be/86TpCwZ4FvY
That is a different society. There are major metro areas here where hitting that woman with a newspaper would have turned into a beating or worse.
And major metro areas where it would have turned into circle jerk as well.
Pretty sure there’s a JAV version of that on one of the Pornhub sites.
As long it’s lesbian, or on a real drunk night Futinari…
Remember when GQ was about men’s clothing and stuff? I wish it would go back to that.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/11/20/gq-correspondent-sees-evidence-of-russian-trolls-pushing-that-hunter-biden-story/
She’s either a lunatic, or she’s an actual Russian spy trying to deflect from her job, because no way a sane person looks at ANGLED QUOTATION MARKS and their first thought is “the person writing that is a Russian troll/bot/spy/whatever.
Well:
What’s that stupid troll joke from like a decade ago; Obvious Russian Troll is Obvious?
What’s even spookier is, if you reverse «Russian quotes» you get (an alternate version of) »German quotes«!!! You know who else did spooky shit?
Pops Ghostly?
I don’t remember I was to young
Dude, please don’t take this link as an insult, I’m more than confident that you’re a more intelligent human being than I. But, since your native language isn’t English, and English wording is extremely fucking weird, it’s understandable that you keep misusing the word “to” when you should use “too” instead in certain context:
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/to-too/
Again, please don’t take offense to this. Especially since I’m more than sure I just butchered the English language grammatically.
Off course you did.
*wink*
My older brother was diagnosed as having mild dyslexia. That dude reads three times as much as I do but can’t write a coherent sentence to save his life. It’s fucking weird to watch him try to write. I sometimes think I’m afflicted with the same shit, but not as severe.
I don’t take offense. I know the difference between to and too. It is just when I type fast I don’t care to review what I write. Its mostly a typo.
Were Not werthy?
Its twue!
Gotcha, sorry.
Trigger Hippie is The Night Shift’s Ted’S.
Yep. And like most overnight shift workers, I only enforce the rules twenty percent of the time because most of the rules are bullshit precautionary principle, litigious nonsense.
When nobody’s looking…
I almost want to get on Twitter.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/11/20/team-trump-puts-partisanship-aside-with-tweet-of-congratulations-for-joe-biden/
Does that account actually have anything to do with Orange?
It has a blue check mark so maybe. What I know for sure is he/she/they/it/xe know how to troll.
MEANWHILE! In the Hat and Hair Universe.
This was supposed to be there.
Lol
Fuck all yall! I’m better than you! I watched the original Tales From The Crypt movie today! Meh, this sleep shit gets in the way of my Glibbing, but my body freaks out if I don’t do it.
I was first exposed to Tales From The Crypt in the early 90’s. Because of that, I eagerly awaited the release of this flick:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j0rOl2IDVf8
To be honest, it kinda sucked. I ended up being a much bigger fan of the soundtrack.
More train fun from the same Twitterer
https://twitter.com/kami_heiwa/status/1175406635486826496?s=21
I think this explains it without a need for translation
https://twitter.com/kami_heiwa/status/1175406981340782594?s=21
Is this guy deranged or is there some cultural quirk I’m missing?
He dropped his phone in the shitter
Some Ivory tower thinking I can support.
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/quotation-of-the-day-on-diversity-statements/
I love providing women of color with emotional support with my ivory tower. /diversity statement
The things I do to satisfy my Christmas nostalgia boner. One of them is to put up with a scratchy track recorded off scratchy vinyl. The other is being unable to find a certain song that is unfortunately named (same name as a well-known hymn and it is most definitely NOT the well-known hymn). And my brother went to bed without sending me the track and my OCD is really having a bad time right now. However, the scratchy one is scratchy enough I may need to buy the who,e fucking collection (again) just to get these two tracks.
https://christmaslpstocd.com/Item/MagicOfChristmas-P3S5806
I have all these tracks but 2 (if you consider that the one is fucked up).
Unfortunately named: “In Dulci Jubilo” (St Thomas Choir)
Scratchy track: “O Tannenbaum/Jingle Bells” (James Last)
I want them. I NEED them!
The only tune/version of this tune I insist on listening to on Christmas Day:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pg7HvF3a_Iw
Based on what I’ve heard about last night’s Dem debate/shitshow, the SMOD might not be entirely unwelcome.
I eagerly await the Glibnation’s hot take.
And good morning, your traitorness.
Good morning, TARDy! Since it’s been quiet in here, I’ve continued to peck away at the acrostic. Now, I’m taking it as a personal challenge.
*grumble* I woke up when I was supposed to be getting on the road, and didn’t manage to grab something to have for lunch, meaning I have to leave my parking spot (and lose it) midday sometime.
This day started great. /sarc
Any place close enough to deliver without charging an arm+leg? We have a Jimmy John’s that’s technically too far to deliver if you order online but WILL deliver to us if we phone in an order. Depends on how much your parking space is worth to you, I guess.
We’re getting Jimmy John’s delivered to our monthly Sunshine and Butterflies meeting today. It’s not much to look forward to, but at least it’s something.
I’m not even sure if I know the address of my office building.
And I’m generally wary of food delivery in general.
*looks at sentence construction*
*chugs more caffiene*
Why not use Uber Eats or something?
Because I don’t trust them to get it right.
I must admit, I had to cheat a couple times.
*Flashes “L” sign on forehead.*
I heard nothing I am waiting for the linx to get edumacated of the various Serious Issues of Great Importance talked about.
Bet you can guess what happened. Base human emotions don’t change much despite geography or time.
Good morning
Good morning , Sean. Any chance you use your time machine to alter the course of the comet Borisov? I’d do it, but my ride is still in the shop . Please make it a direct hit on the Yellowstone Caldera if you can.
Maybe after I’m done making this oscillating reverberator unit.
The outburst is forecasted to reach its climax around 11:50 p.m. Thursday according to the American Meteor Society
Time your fapp accordingly.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/boy-suspected-of-using-remote-control-car-to-smuggle-drugs/article_d9c72412-243d-5dfc-baa9-66680ec01a77.html
55 lbs of meth? Yowza.
“$106,000 worth of methamphetamine across the border“
So, like one really rich guy that is jonesing or a 100 scumbags splitting a dose?
‘California authorities have arrested a 16-year-old boy suspected of using a remote-controlled car to transport $106,000 worth of methamphetamine across the border.’
Let’s see…last I bothered to check, which was over a decade ago, an eight ball of meth went for around $300. Doing the math on that brings it to $2,112,000.
Now of course you get a discount from buying in bulk, and since it’s fresh from the border and not traveling far that reduces transportation costs, but $106,000 is still way too low. $1.06 million, I’d believe, maybe even half that, but not $106,000.
Look, the price of meth could have dropped… by an order of magnitude… maybe…
Very possible. Luckily, I’ve managed to cut off all people in my life who could have given me the skinny on that.
Coke prices have dropped in half since the early 80’s.
https://media.giphy.com/media/d2YVk2ZRuQuqvVlu/giphy.gif
I was thinking the $106,000 was a single load, not the whole 55 pounds. That’s some great journalisming, though.
That would make a helluva lot more sense to me, but like you said, the wording makes that unclear.
Re: potatoes. Dirt is nature’s vaccine. Only an anti-vaxxer would clean their potatoes.
How many people handled the potato before you got it? How many of those people washed their hands after going to the bathroom? I wash all of my veggies.