VICTORY!
STEVE SMITH HAVE ENJOYABLE WEEKEND WITH HIKERS. BY ENJOYABLE, MEAN RAPE FILLED. THEM SEEK SHELTER IN STEVE SMITH CAVE, WHEN SNOWSTORM COME. MAKE EASY FOR STEVE SMITH! WINTER HAS BEEN VERY, VERY GOOD STEVE SMITH.
NOW STEVE SMITH RELAX WITH LINKS. LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE:
- MAYBE COUSIN SEA SMITH GO MAKE SURE PEACE GO HERE.
- CRAZY PEOPLE IN UK FIGHT WITH SELVES. STEVE SMITH WORRY THIS THING HAPPEN WHEN CASCADIA BE FREE.
- SPEAK OF CRAZY PEOPLE…YOU NO LIKE MUSIC, NO LISTEN. NO TELL “SHOOT ON SIGHT“.
GO WORK ON DIPLOMAT THINGS!
FREE CASCADIA!
Free Caucasia!
Nice autocorrect from Cascadia.
Hey Spud. I just made a batch of raspberry mead. I put all the raspberries in a large nylon bag (brew-in-bag bag). It made life some much easier when I racked it to secondary.
Awesome, thank you. My buckets are on the way.
I switched to grain bags for the mash in after my first batch of beer and life became much easier.
Reported.
Bastard.
Well played Q. Well played.
There’s a Caucasia? Bet the national anthem sucks.
And no one has any rhythm.
I like it a lot, actually. Very dramatic.
I’m back from CO!
Is there anyone left in the Daytona 500?
Were there a lot of crashes? Because that’s the only reason to watch.
It seems like every car has sustained some damage.
They’re now red flagged on the track ahead of a green-white-checker
Looks like 18 cars on the track for the red flag
Wow! Did you see that?!? They made a left turn!
Drive Faster!
https://media.giphy.com/media/Vr9KXaqXsm4w0/giphy.gif
*snicker*
When are you moving here?
As soon as 1) I get my condo payout supposedly next year, and 2) I can negotiate my contract to 100% off site (I already have a colleague who did this after about 5 years on site)
Looking at Georgetown/Silver Plume. Something about the ratty appearance of Silver Plume appeals to me.
“Is there anyone left in the Daytona 500?”
I realize that everyone in Indiana and North Carolina watch racin, but I didn’t know that anyone anywhere else watches it.
Also, my dog has always been a good pill-taker (he’s a pug – he’ll put anything in his mouth), but now he doesn’t want to eat his antibiotic drenched in sour cream. I have to hold his jaw, the little fucker, so he won’t spit out the pill.
Any advice?
Stuff it in a piece of cheese.
No need to insult the lady. She’s just asking for advice.
Okay, I lol’d.
Hide it in a small piece of hotdog
They make these things called pill pockets which we use for dog meds. Those help.
Greenies pill pockets. My dog gets a pill after she eats. When she finishes eating she goes and sits by cabinet with the greenies.
Yeah, another vote for pill pockets.
Try the other end ?
Peanut butter
You still might need to hold his mouth shut so he doesn’t chew on it.
No dog worth his salt would chew on cheese, hotdog or peanut butter.
Yep. Make it just big enough to hide the pill and the most it’ll get is one chew while it’s getting inhaled.
A marshmallow.
My final fight moment with my dog for his antibiotics this past January was escalation WAY beyond anything below. No hotdogs. No cheese. No surprise pills down the throat. This paranoid asshole wouldn’t fall for anything.
At the tail end of the ten day series, we ended up prying open his mouth, flicking the capsule down his throat as far as we could with a pill gun or by hand, then following up with a stream of water from a syringe, both before and after we clamped his jaw shut for five minutes trying to get him to swallow.
At the end, the final two capsules, we were getting about half a capsule’s worth of antibiotic into him. He’d hold on to as much as he could to spit out.
God damn old dogs and their stubborn ways. The actual antibiotics, when exposed to moisture and air, smell HORRIBLE.
I give one of my shelties a pill for arthritis twice a day. Now we just open her mouth and drop the pill in the back. She swallows the pill every time.
Sounds like feeding pills to a cat.
Not enough human blood involved.
+1 swaddling towel
Well, it is under 50lbs.
All of the above are good options. You can also try hot dog or hamburger buns.
I use Imperial Cold Pack Cheddar Cheese. Peel some off the top (it’s crumbly when cold, so I let it warm up) and stuff the pill(s) into small amounts of that which I form with my fingers. My dog can’t resist — in fact, if she had opposable thumbs I’m pretty sure she’d slaughter me without mercy or feeling to get some of that sweet, sweet cold pack cheese food.
I gotta admit it’s damn tasty.
http://www.kraftcanada.com/products/00068100895056
Dunno if they have it (or its equivalent) in the ‘States.
Never saw that particular brand, but yeah, we have it stateside. We call it club cheese instead of cold pack in Pennsylvania, and since KK is from around D.C. I’d imagine she’d find it by asking for that instead of cold pack.
HHmm…never seen that in the grocery. I’m a sucker for cheeses. Even the Velveeta kind.
Try this: Shullsburg Creamery – Sharp Cheddar Cold Pack Cheese Spread – 14 oz.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MT66Q3M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_mPHACbV1HPQFM
I like Lean Treats (available from your vet or possibly else where now). It’s a soft treat that can be broken in half and formed around the pill. Have the pill covered piece and two others and use the sandwich method. Give them one plain piece, the pill one, and then the final plain piece immediately after. Let them know there’s more treats and they’ll gulp the second one down trying to get the third one.
#thegangstagotabadge
Thank you fiddy cent. That is a great hashtag.
That story made my brain hurt.
Probably some kind of bad taste joke that got taken super seriously. I no longer care to find out about these things.
Actually I’m not so sure.
It’s the NY Post. Not like you can make head or tails of that article.
Check out the big brain-pan on STEVE SMITH.
STEVE SMITH BIG INTO PHRENOLOGY, AND BY PHRENOLOGY, MEAN…
STEVE SMITH MOVE ON TO MIND FUCK?
IT CALLED MIND RAPE WHEN STEVE SMITH DO IT.
Speaking on CO, I had no idea Denver airport was such a zoo at 6:30am on a Saturday. Particularly United. Thank dog for first class privilege! *adjusts monocle*
Denver Airport is what they depict in the dictionary next to the word “clusterfuck”.
Did you get the privilege in the United terminal of flying into Gate 14 and having 15 minutes to get to your connecting flight at Gate 88, a straight line mile away with no shuttle or train, just some short people mover conveyor belts, seven or eight that you have to take in succession, and are usually each blocked by some different kids soccer team? Now imagine facing that and being barely able to walk from your disability, and the rare golf carts are full because of physically able people who prefer to ride because they are overweight.
At least DIA doesn’t eat luggage like it used to
Slutty Sunday.
http://archive.li/tbARq
32.
Nice batch
11= Fast Times at Ridgemont High
A little bigger top and bottom than sweet Phoebe, but yeah, certainly had that vibe.
Oof. Phoebe Cates.
I just made a flash-bang marinated tritip in the oven. I must say, despite being over-done (Jugsy insists on WELL cooked meat), it wasnt too bad.
I grilled a tritip today. Mine was medium rare. ?
Yeah…In my own world, it would be pulled from whatever heat source once it hit 130º. Tonight I had to compromise…a lot.
That’s some serious compromise.
I’ve got a rack of ribs on the smoker and a sweet potato in the oven.
Why can’t you have your steak and eat it too? (Pull yours when it’s ready and let hers burn to her content.)
Must be tri-tip Sunday…smoking mine for quesadillas later
I realize Jugsy has her good points, but I’d pull my meat out faster than that.
Jugsy is your dog?
Dayum, Margaret. You ain’t got no chin.
Inbreeding can be a bitch.
Apparently I owe fedgov $130 ish more for my taxes. Bloodsuckers (no offense to Pie).
At least you’re not one of the dummies bitching about a lower-than-usual refund.
^^ this
I’m a little annoyed how much I owe ($2500ish), but I’d rather take an interest free loan from the fedgov than vice versa.
You don’t have a fucking penalty for owing that much?
I hope not. Probably should double check on that.
I’d be curious about this as well. In years past I’ve had tax bills of up to $5k due, but I’ve never had a penalty assessed (taxes were done by at the military law office overseas). If I recall, they mentioned that if they remained that high the IRS may require me to file quarterly. I was at $3k last year, down to $1,300 this year, and I hope that next year it will be into the double digits.
Taxes in the US are ridiculous – we don’t have a very difficult tax return anymore (used to have foreign earned income plus overseas rental property), but the standard withholding is nowhere near enough for us. I’m down to married with 0 exemptions plus an extra $150 payment every two weeks to get us to the break even point…
Did you forget to claim all your
orphansdependents?It depends on when you earned the money that caused you to owe more.
I owe mid 5 figures, and I won’t have to pay a penalty.
I did that last year, no big deal.
Yeah. If you made money in Q4, how were you supposed to know to pay more taxes in Q3?
This year the penalty is waived since people couldn’t plan. Next year Playa is correct. I always pay.
More than last year, or more than was withheld?
I have to cut a check to FedGov, but under the previous rates I would have paid $400 more than this year.
More than witheld, plus opening an ira. I typically get a smallish refund.
For various reasons, I expect to get ass raped this year.
OH?
/STEVE SMITH
With an IRS badge.
STEVE SMITH working for the IRS, doing “site visits”?
That’s pure Lovecraftian horror right there.
I fucked up my withholding big time (wife didn’t earn as much as expected), so we’re talking about renovating the kitchen (-1 electric stove).
Getting about a grand back. Almost half of that is my wife’s 1098-T, so hard to estimate. Not sure I could adjust the withholding to be closer than it was.
Olympic volunteers: One-time chance, or exploitation?
The billion-dollar Olympics are awash with cash. But volunteers work for free. That’s the case at next year at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, where about 80,000 volunteers will be needed. Just over 200,000 have applied with orientation and interviews for Japan residents starting this month.
…
“To me, it’s very clearly economic exploitation,” Joel Maxcy, the president of the International Association of Sports Economists and a professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, told The Associated Press.
Clearly.
HHmmm…maybe forcing them to pay will put the Olympics out of business for good. Double-edged sword.
Yeah. I have 0 interest in the Olympics and every story about them shaking down host countries and cities makes my blood boil. But this is voluntary. I don’t want to sink them by forcing these to be paid positions.
I’m torn between the market forces dictating that they don’t have to pay, and putting them out of business so they can’t boondoggle anyone else. I’m terrified of them ever coming to DC (or CO if I ever move there)
*facepalm*
So what exactly is forcing them to come work there?
One could make the argument that workers in low-wage jobs don’t have much of a choice since the alternative may be homelessness and starvation. Obviously, I don’t agree with that, but it makes more sense than saying that a volunteer position is somehow “exploiting” a person.
This is like that case where that California winery got in trouble for using unpaid volunteer labor. It was basically a “learn how to make wine” vacation activity. Most of the volunteers were wealthy, and some even flew out in private jets. But the benevolent State of California heroically shut down this exploitative activity. It was straight from the horrible days of the Robber Barons™, that’s for sure.
Call it a school, or training seminar, charge a fee, then award scholarships, or rebates, or some such.
So much exploitation that there are 2.5 applicants per position.
They hate charity and volunteering. TFW you’re on that side of an issue…
For the soccer fans: Cuneo 20, Pro Piacenza 0
Soccer and NASCAR in one thread? My neck is sprained.
Someone quick, get that man some hockey scores!
Sabres are losing but you already knew that.
I’m listening to the game.
They almost tricked me into watching them this year by being ahead for a bit. Glad i didn’t fall for it.
It was pretty sneaky of them.
Oh shit – I almost forgot!
While I was on vacation, I logged into my brother’s Ancestry account and saw he had another 1st cousin DNA match. I determined, based on shared matches, it was from his bio mother’s side of the family. So I emailed and asked if they knew about one of their aunts giving up a boy for adoption. They guy called his mother (my brother’s aunt), and she gave the name of the mother AND the father.
I had previously narrowed down my brother’s father to one of three men (all brothers). I was one of the three.
I can’t find any info on the mother at all. Ancestry has yearbooks from the high school she would have attended, from the year range she should have been there, but no dice. My brother’s Aunt also said she had passed away, but I can’t even find an obit 🙁
Oh! And my brother has a 1/2 brother via his bio mother, and we’re trying to get them in touch. He also has two 1/2 sisters from his father, but I’m not going to try to track them down, as they probably have no idea they have a brother and I won’t disrupt their family (unless they take the Ancestry DNA test, then I would feel free to get in touch).
Am I the only one with a relatively boring family?
Adoption & seeking out bio family seem pretty run-of-the-mill to me
No. I know almost nothing about mine and have never been very motivated to find out more. We’re all reserved northern European stock who don’t talk to each other.
Every time I log into there, I find out that I have another half brother or sister I’ve never met. Apparently, dad was trying to best Genghis Kahn. Not sure yet if he’ll make it, but he worked hard on it, apparently.
I had previously narrowed down my brother’s father to one of three men (all brothers). I was one of the three.
That’s pretty damn shocking!
(in all seriousness, good work!)
Oops!! LOL
Paging Jerry Springer…
I feel like it would work better as part of a telenovella.
*It was one of the three.
Nice try.
MikeS – do you ever find yourself up Cando-way?
I was just going to ask if you still needed a person on the ground here. Car troubles, snow, and bone chilling cold pulled me away from helping you.
No, I don’t ever make it to Cando. It’s out of the way enough that I’ve never had a reason to go there or even through there.
The only thing I can think of is that she went to Cando High school. Although there were a couple other high schools in Towner County over the years, it seems like that was (and is?) the main one.
What about Langdon? Looks like the father went to Catholic private school there. Would have been around 1951-1955, but not too sure. His marriage record indicates he only got to the 9th grade.
Yeah, it’s a pretty sparsely populated county, even by North Dakota standards. But if we’re talking the 50’s, there were likely more HS’s. Most of the towns likely still had their own school. The big push of consolidating schools started in the 80’s.
Langdon is closer. Not close, but closer. I could maybe find a reason to head that way. The problem is that were I to go there, it would likely be a weekend and nothing would be open…
Email me what kind of documents you’d like me to search for. Maybe we get lucky and the library in Grand Forks has a copy.
I know quite a bit about the father from his obit and various public records, so it’s info on the mother I’m really after. I have her name, but nothing else (yet). I get the feeling that the only reason she was in Grand Forks was to give birth. I have no idea if she met the father in Langdon or Sarles or somewhere else. I definitely don’t want you to go out of your way and drive to the asscrack of nowhere. Let’s wait and see what kind of info I can get from my brother’s Aunt.
10-4. Let me know.
CRAZY PEOPLE IN UK FIGHT WITH SELVES. STEVE SMITH WORRY THIS THING HAPPEN WHEN CASCADIA BE FREE.
I mean, it’s Daily Fail so could be BS but if not – holy shit, that’s what a real Red Wave is gonna look like.
That article made my brain hurt even more than the article about Fitty. It sounds like the party decides who runs, rather than the voters? Bless their hearts.
I keep telling you people, primaries (open in particular but closed where all you do is declare party affiliation) are a ludicrously democratic and open way to select your representatives, and most other “first world” countries use party machinery to select representatives. It’s just a matter of whether it’s the local party, the central or some combination of the two that determines it.
The article didn’t get into why they are breaking up. Is their left going full-commie like ours?
The Democrats have jettisoned most of their moderates. In 2020, white men will be getting purged out.
Yes. And they’re not even calling it ‘democratic socialist’, iirc.
Yup.
Prediction: top two will be Bernie and Grabby Joe at the time of the DNC
No way, Booker still has my money, even though Kamala is getting a media push.
Kamala’s “tough on crime” past will come back to haunt her, is my prediction. Booker is a possibility, but he really stepped in it with Smollett (although that will be forgotten in a week or so). He has plenty more opportunities to show how much of a dingbat he is.
Booker just needs to learn to shut up. He knows how to make a moderate statement, but then he elaborates and derp follows. I think he loves hearing himself talk to much to not do that.
Is Beto going to run? I think he’s got a shot. Young, tall, and pretty (so they say, I don’t see it), just like the liberal girls like them.
+ Chris Matthews
He can skateboard, CHECKMATE DONNY TWO SCOOPS!
Also a white dude
Maybe Colin will run?
Nuh uh! He’s hispanic! And not an icky white hispanic like George Zimmerman!
/prog
Yes, after a decade and a half or so of Blair’s Third Way and shellacking in two elections, their Old Left rose up, signed up a bunch of new members and got a vintage Old Left guy in place. And this is not the Working Class, Jobs and Patriotism Left, even, it’s “Yankee out, Israel out, Marx in” one.
Whether it’s also because a lot of the moderates have Jewish connections, and Labour party base is more…ethnic…is a question I can’t really answer, only insinuate. But their current leader did participate in a Hamas ceremony, no matter how he tried to weasel out of it.
I was thinking they might throw in Joe Biden, but after watching Styx’s take on it as well as having further thoughts, that would kill any chances for the Dems to win in 2020.
Yeah, they want more than anything to beat Trump. But can they stay focused enough in the primary to send someone who can win the general. Or will they be distracted by shiny things.
The thing is, we won’t get the most delicious combination of tickets because no one (of any stature) will primary Trump:
Niki Haley vs. Old White Man (Joe or Bernie)
The identity hustler heads would EXPLODE
I think they will sidestep the problem by declaring Haley isn’t really a POC because she plays for Team Red.
Yeah, not even a woman either.
Good luck Florida man.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/new-yorkers-fleeing-to-florida-need-to-leave-their-terrible-blue-state-policies-behind-as-well
“need to leave their terrible blue state policies behind as well”
Yeah, right, because that always happens. And by always, I mean never. One of these days, they’ll find that there’s nowhere else to go that they haven’t already ruined. Then they’ll have some self reflection, right?
That would require the ability to reflect.
Again, I say it will be their kids that turn Florida blue. It happens anywhere there’s a large concentration of folks. Texas is toast, too.
I saw what you did.
Hahaha I didn’t even do that! Pure accident.
I’m not so sure. There was a demographic analysis of the Cruz-O’Rourke election that showed California transplants were 14 percentage points (net) for Cruz. He may have lost the election but for those transplants.
Same thought in my head. We take it as a given that they import their Team Blue votes, but not sure if that’s true in aggregate.
Down here in SoFla it certainly is true.
They imported a whole lot of crappy NY/NJ cultural things. Ultra-left, extremely rude, terrible drivers, weird obsession with NY style deli sandwiches that are pretty crappy because they have way too much meat piled up, even weirder obsession with exceptionally bland black and white cookies…. NY/NJ is america’s armpit, and they have given Jock Itch to america’s wang.
We just need to up the quantities of meth and bath salts in the water so the conversion projects can keep Florida for the Floridamen.
Never heard of this band, but I like this:
Glades cover Silverchair ‘Straight Lines’ for Like A Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9axlGZ5G13o
From the sidebar of the mind-numbing Fitty Cent story:
Jussie Smollett case to reportedly go before a grand jury
Apologies if someone linked it earlier…I was WORKING!…at home.
I find the media’s referring to those two African gentlemen as “brothers” problematic.
It’s cultural appropriation for sure but could have been worse.
Speaking of Smollett. On last night’s thread KSue wrote Slate’s article explaining why it’s still Trump’s fault.
It was so good it had several of us fooled.
^ yep ^ It was great.
Dude, I honestly heard the following hottest of takes: “So he staged the whole thing? Wow. But, what does it say that if you want to convey ‘racist white man’ as a stereotype it takes a MAGA hat?”
Which means that Donald Trump is responsible for the prejudices people have about his supporters. It’s the equivalent of saying, “Yeah, but what does it say about young black men that it seemed reasonable that one might have stolen a woman’s car with her two kids inside? Sure, it turned out she drowned them in a lake, but, really, that doesn’t change the fact that young black men are violent criminals.”
I’m thinking of making my next cake be a peanut butter cake with peanut butter frosting and a chocolate drip. Should I decorate with reese’s pieces or peanut butter cup.
Both! You feeling any better?
No, definitely getting sick. I won’t make the cake until I’m better.
That sucks. Get well soon:) That cake sounds great!
Do you get tomorrow off?
Also, plenty of hot honey lemon tea.
I do have tomorrow off. Big relief. I’ve been drinking tea and taking Tylenol. Nurse Babs is on the job. My dog normally sleeps curled up at the bottom of the bed. Last night, she jumped on the bed, sniffed me up and down, then stretched out full-length and pressed up against me.
Hope you get better soon and oh boy, that cake sounds tempting and delicious already.
Chocolate sprinkles or shaved dark chocolate.
For the #AvGeeks
Saw this live as it happened a couple weeks ago, then it went viral and was on the Beeb, Sky, ITV, etc. I think there were about total go-arounds during the whole live show that day.
We had 2 planes get struck by lightning in succession during departure about 2 weeks ago. It was a crazy storm.
Did you see that Airbus is killing the A380?
Yep. I think Airbus made a miscalculation with that whole program. The trend is for fuel efficiency for the airlines, and frequency of departures for passengers. The A380 couldn’t offer that. Not to mention the expense of refitting a whole bunch of airports to accommodate it.
Bloomberg had a good article on the A380. The A380 was the biggest, bestest airplane ever . . . that was overcome by technology that enabled a future of smaller, carbon-fiber aircraft capable of flying exceptionally long distances to any conventional airport.
In retrospect, it was a terrible idea.
Airbus should have put all their marbles into the A350 – that’s a worthy competitor to the 787.
The premise on that one is stunning: big plane for a few small, busy airports in rich countries. Did it ever make any sense? Are we truly surprised?
The concept was straightforward. Increasing traffic is crushing the big airports — there are only some many landing slots available in a 24-hour day. So the “solution” was to put more people in each aircraft during each landing slot.
However, the plane was so big the airports had to be rebuilt.
However, the plane was so big that it took forever to get passengers on an off the aircraft.
However, the plane was so big that the wake turbulence was so bad that smaller aircraft had to wait longer to land or take off after an A380. So the A380 basically consume two landing slots and take off slots for every flight.
There were a few key oversights during the concept phase of that program.
I know more about the London airspace than any other because of Big Jet TV, so I’ll just speak to that – LHR and LGW are near capacity and building a 2nd runway for LGW and a 3rd for LHR will be a long hard slog, as the neighbors do not want.
I think in order to alleviate some of the pressure on LGW and LHR, STN and LTN could offer reduced landing fees for longer-haul passenger flights. But there’s probably some government regulation preventing that type of incentive.
Boeing read the market way better than Airbus did. I think Airbus wanted an aircraft bigger than the 747 and skewed their numbers to make that work.
I’m surprised about the wake turbulence. I know it is dependent upon the size of the aircraft but I also know you can design the wings to minimize it.
They had to give it a new ATC designator: Super. 10 mile separation.
about 5 total go-arounds.
Motherfucking keyboard.
P.S. if you’re into liveries, Big gJet TV will be covering the arrival of a BOAC retro 744 into LHR tomorrow (at the invitation of BA!!!).
OK. I’m driving in snow for the first time in 15 years. Anything I need to know?
Don’t overcorrect.
Don’t break if you slide – just lift off the gas
If you slide, apply more throttle, keep the front wheels pointed in the direction you want to go and laugh maniacally. Works even better four wheel drive is engaged.
The maniacal laugh is key.
Go slow, leave plenty of distance, turn into the slide. Watch out for idiots.
Slow way down and give a bigger gap to the car in front of you.
It takes 4 times as a long to stop. Braking is harder than driving in snow.
Make sure your tires have plenty of tread.
I have almost new KO2s. I’m good there.
The best off road /snow tire I’ve ever had.
And chains…. I have a 4 wheel drive with mud and snow tires. The manual says only put them on the rear tires. Does that sound right?
Are you driving in the mountains? Chains seem overkill, otherwise.
Yes. Going to Mammoth for a week. They’ve gotten over 20 feet of snow on the mountain in February alone, and it’s snowing there tonight.
It’s 6 hours away, so if I leave at 10am tomorrow morning, everything should be cleared and plowed by the time I get there.
A couple years ago, I saw a live shot of Jim Cantore at the top of Gunbarrell at Heavenly, and the riders were saying “wooooooooooo!” as they disappeared over the rim. It was sheer joy. Made me want to check out the Sierras, but the snow is so hit or miss. Twenty feet or no feet.
When Mammoth is good, it’s really good. I’m staying about 50 feet from the lift, so I might get the first tracks on Ricochet.
It’s also cool because it’s an active volcano, and sometimes, the sulphur jets are going. Google “Long Valley Caldera” if you’re interested.
Good lord, man, we were there for the 25-29th, in between the storms and there were still walls of snow in town. it’s gotta be completely insane now.
I’ve never driven with chains. Unless your in the hills you should be gtg.
I’ve run chains on all four wheels. There may be clearance issues with chains on the front wheels of some vehicles. Loose chains can tear off brake lines.
They biggest mistake people make is going too fast. If you have a chance and no ones behind you, test your braking before you get to an intersection so you know your not going to slide through it or rear end someone. That will give you some confidence on what you need to do speed wise and stopping distance wise..
Yes.
KO2s have mountain snowflakes (along with the lesser snow designator that CalTrans still uses) so you can run those in 4WD unless chains in place of chains unless chains are required for all vehicles.
I usually put chains on the rear tires (for a RWD truck in 4WD) but some believe the chains should go on the front for steering and traction, along with more of the vehicle weight. Going downhill, chains in the front seems to make things better. Raging snowstorm and mountain passes, I’d put chains on all four wheels. And go home.
Yeah, I’m good for C1-C2. C3 means I’m going home.
What is the designator for CalTrans? M&S?
One of them, apparently
“MS, M/S, M+S or the words MUD AND SNOW”
http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist3/departments/mtce/tireschains.htm
I’m kind of surprised at that. M+S is just an all season tire. I’m not sure I’d feel comfortable with some of those treads where chains are required (r2).
I’m comfortable with the KO2s, and my car probably has all sorts of stability control that I don’t even know about.
They are good for at least this much snow
Perfect. That’s way overkill for me.
Yeah, I wouldn’t worry either. The mountain snowflake (which KO2s also have) is the one to look for.
Pray.
Also, get a manual transmission.
My wife says I can’t buy a new car by tomorrow morning.
That’s unreasonable, is what it is.
Be careful! I’m sure you’ll be fine.
Give yourself plenty of time.
Follow the “egg and tomato” principle that is taught to ambulance drivers transporting a patient. Turn like there’s an egg on the hood that you don’t want to fall off. Brake and accelerate like there’s a tomato between your foot and the pedal that you don’t want to squish.
^^This is the answer^^
Or follow the “rock glass three-quarters full of whiskey” principle and drive so it doesn’t spill.
In that case, get a new wife too. Cash for Clunkers?
You’re day drinking, aren’t you.
Going into the office at noon. Gotta keep myself busy while the laundry is going.
Sorry I’m wrong.
I’m sorry you’re wrong, too. *Eye’s Bottle of Dewars on Shelf*
Rent?
This
Manuals are good because you can start in second gear and step on the clutch if the drive wheels loose traction, but I have never had trouble driving an auto in snow.
I like them because I rarely had to brake.
I don’t have any problems in an auto, but I would prefer to downshift over brake.
Call Uber ?
How much is a 300 mile ride to the Eastern Sierras?
Pop in some Foghat and gun the fucker.
+10 setting the mood with Foghat.
Lol.
So fricking jealous, tomorrow is the ideal day to go up there. I’ve never skied Mammoth cause Tahoe is just a few hours away, but the forecast is looking clear for the Sierras and there has been so much snow up there. This weekend evidently was a shitshow trying to get to Tahoe. This week is ideal to go up.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/highway-50-shut-down-sierra-presidents-day-13623367.php
The Cal score. For heavan’s sake man make sure you have a way of getting the Cal score.
My ruses have gotten increasingly ridiculous. I’m probably going to have to give it up next year.
OMG Fidelity is using Icicle Works in their commercials. I’m in the Fidelity demographic all of a sudden!
They’ll be in a LifeAlert™ commercial before we know it.
Too old for Snapchat, too young for LifeAlert.
Sigh, yep.
#MeToo
痔が痛い！奥さん、助けてくれ!
I don’t know what that was…but it appears multiple laws and taboos were broken…all at once.
Tentacle porn?
wut
It was the bombs. It had to be.
Is this part II ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrBVMV-eToM&ut=
?
I chose not to post that one because I have class.
What…did…I…just…see?
I’d suggest you just don’t dwell on that… Serenity now, serenity now!
I think those need a gravure idol chaser. Maybe two.
I blame Straff for my inebriation.
Some times there is only way to get serenity.
https://youtu.be/6ssoBUb2cJk
Trump’s quietly raising a lizard army. And no one even sees it coming!
Orange is the new gator
So, with the DNC admitting they are free to rig the primaries any way they see fit, how does that affect the 2020 circus? Will this be totally memory-holed? Will they actually have a real election (ha!)?
First you figure out who checks the most boxes. And then you use some alternative, non-patriarchy math to mix that with wokeness and you get the winner. There’s no time for no election non-sense! Trump is still in the Whitehouse. No one even knows if we can survive another day of this!
As stated earlier, seems like they’re pushing Kamala.
Horizontal Harris 2020!
Trump is going to have fun with that.
That could hurt him with women if he goes too hard on that.
And does he want men thinking about her sexually?
I think a lot of women would resent that Kamala! slept her way to the top.
Could be
I don’t resent any woman who’s slept her way up, but I do give her the side-eye and immediately discount her accomplishments.
I think he can call her on it, I’m saying if he harps on it too much, I could see that pissing some women off. Remember most people don’t care that she threw a bunch of people in prison for trivial reasons.
So mark you down for a “No” vote?
Yeah, it’s a no for me.
How can they go with anything but an undocumented, black, tranny, obese Muslim female?
Do they believe in intersectionality or not,
Or a half eaten yogurt tube.
https://youtu.be/rUdxCj7IKCY
He does quality work. I believe he does them by himself. Impressive.
Yeah, media’s all in on Kamala.
She’s going to turn out to be way too abrasive to be on a national stage. She can get away with that in the SanFran bubble, but I’ll bet the devil horns and claws would come out early on in national debates and that will be the end of her.
How often do the supposed front runners a year and a half out from the general turn out to actually be the nominee?
Depends on whether the DNC’s gonna rig the selection again.
Hillary had all the big donors in her pocket in 2015~16. Now all the big money is confused on who to support. Makes it harder to blatantly rig it like last time.
I’m wondering how many young people became cynics after the media fix for Hillary and the DNC power play last election? Are they going to be as gung ho for that sort of media/DNC fix again? I know the cult members will, I’m talking yutes in general.
Private organization. They can set whatever rules they want.
Yep. And with their ‘democratic’ socialism, the democratic part will be optional.
the word man in the saying ‘one man one vote’ is not synecdoche, it is literal
Then they can’t use the electoral rolls for primaries.
Please let Hillary run. Please let Hillary run. Please let Hillary run.
She’s going to. If they have to drag her corpse across that finish line with one shoe off, so be it.
From your lips to the DNC’s ears.
YouTube hitler died yesterday
Heil
Someone needs to make on in his honor. Anywhoo, here’s some Juicy Honey for your palate cleansing.
Panchinko game?
Yep. It’s a blast. A giant phallus pops up when you’re close to winning. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nzNfbChfq6g
https://youtu.be/Yc4zArTFYJo
Another
https://youtu.be/H_L6c79zc8U
Oh shit when I saw that here yesterday I didn’t realize that’s who it was.
Thanks Minnesota.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/17/ilhan-omar-cair-fundraise/
Am I late?
A little but I’ll bring you up to speed. Tonight we learned Straffinrun likes softcore scat porn, Tulip is fine with Kamala Harris sleeping her way to the top, and Playa Manhattan needs driving lessons.
A very nice summation. What we still don’t know is whether or not Q got laid last night. He posted titty pics, but other that that he had nothing to say.
You’re right. I completely forgot. The silence is deafening.
A gentleman never tells.
Good thing I’m not a gentleman.
It was a good night, I’ll say.
If anyone should post pics it’s you.
Kansas girl, 34DD. 5’5″, 135ish. Black bra and panties. No pics, next time I’ll plan ahead.
I’m tired, so headed to bed but onward toward tomorrow!
And it’s snowing.
Uh huh.
Ok. I’ve bee playing Fallout 4 all day. But I came up with brilliant idea! A ‘Let’s Play’ video where The Hat The Hair and Donald play Fallout 4. I could do all kinds of fun things with that. But I don’t know how many people would get it.
Late? Well, there are tests you can take for this sort of thing…
Or, just play the ‘wait-and-see’ game.
😉
I’m about to watch Batshit Valley.
Has anyone seen it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=63&v=s7ZFxdicRgA
The Documentary Now! El Chingon was hilarious.
He really is clueless.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bill-de-blasio-calls-amazons-new-york-pullout-an-abuse-of-corporate-power
“Rather than blame members of his own party, de Blasio, who is weighing a 2020 run….”
Yes, please.
This whole affair has really taken stupid to new heights.
Yup, and I don’t think we’re done. This is exposing an important rift in the party. Leaving aside the ridiculous tax credits, this is about who runs the company. The declared and undeclared socialists really believe it should be the government. The rest don’t. I have no idea which side will come out on top of Team Blue.
They said they wanted a partnership, but the minute there were criticisms, they walked away. What does that say to working people that a company would leave them high and dry simply because some people raised criticisms?
If you’re getting punched on the first date, maybe getting hitched isn’t a wise move?
That’s perfect.
You know who else’s government formed a “partnership” with business?
The mafia?
Oh, FFS-you stick with him, so that your love, and a marriage, will fix his thinking*.
*Or, drinking. Whatever works
Now let’s see the gun grabbers lay into law enforcement. Yeah, right.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cops-knew-illinois-gunman-who-murdered-5-illegally-owned-gun
Whelp, background checks don’t work. Guess we’ll just have to confiscate all of ’em.
Of course, Rhy has THE correct answer.
Why, it’s almost as if politicos know their legislation isn’t magical at all, but, a ploy to make rubes feel like thy’re accomplishing something while they get used to the idea of “All to the State”.
Sadly, this is an excellent prediction.
Failure of the state is only due to its limited power
Damn straight.
I heard someone talk about Ben Shapiro’s “magical belief” in the free market. Yeah, as opposed to your magical belief in the right strongman to run government? If you can only find them and get them elected…damn rubes, not knowing what’s in their best interests!
And the kulaks, hoarders, and wreckers.
Well, it would depend on intersectionality, wouldn’t it?
Yeah, the magical thinking that only government should have the guns. But, then there is the magical thinking that when agents of the State fuck up, it’s an aberration, and/or, a racial-only issue that can just be cleared up by a little more training.
Well, looks like Iran everyone off. Again.
Spiffy.
Pshaw. Pshaw I say.
I was at a family dinner with a large mixed family that is not mine and now I smell like beef bourguignon.
And the mom invited a cute single woman to the dinner and let me know it.
So, they were hosting non-family members to help facilitate a possible romantic connection?
Doesn’t sound bad. I somewhat wish I had a situation like that back when I was single. And, made up some bb, to boot. But, life unfolded the way it did, and, no complaints.
/Iran? I mean, I guess it’s somewhat correct…they run off plenty of people.
They invite everyone and there’s a constant rotation of non-family members that changes based on people’s schedule. I mentioned to the mom the other week that if she knows any single women to keep me in mind and she made sure that I showed up this week.
Worst case scenario is that I have some damn good leftovers.
Excellent point.
Dating in my mid-30’s is like living in Hellworld. But I’ll take it when looking back at how I got here.
*checks 401k and chuckles never married-ishly*
See, I read 61North’s comment to mean that his mom came out as a lesbian. 😐
Hello!?
Don’t yell at me, bud! I’m busy thinking I was the last one around here.
You fully relocated, yet, Yu? Or, at all?
Soon, as in April, we ended up with a few problems that put us behind.
Eeesh…sorry to hear that.
Ah Well, I endeavour to persist
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/17/us-woman-hoda-muthana-deeply-regrets-joining-isis-and-wants-return-home
Well, tough titties. Enjoy prison in Syria.
She wants to go home? To the family that was so restrictive? Sounds like she needs that kind of thing…
Yeah, prison would probably suit her.
Could the gov’t make an argument that by moving to ISIS-held areas that she effectively renounced citizenship? I’m clearly not a lawyer, but there’s probably precedence for something like this. Although the guy who defected to North Korea are still citizens after 60+ years.
Maybe get her on tax evasion or something?
If Bowie Bergdahl wasn’t enough, then I doubt that would be enough by itself to renounce citizenship.
Not sure how UCMJ would play into that.
This sounds quite likely.
If she wants out-great. I would think the best thing for all of us in the US is to wash our hands of her. But, of course, that would mean revoking her citizenship. Or, something that is effectively the same.
-What Gustave wrote
I hear Germany is taking Refugees from that part of the world.