IFLA: The “Stronk, Like Bull” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of May 5

I’ll keep this brief so you can get back to your holiday drinking.

The new feature in the sky (and lasting until September) is Saturn going into retrograde motion.  This makes Saturn difficult to read confidently, as it now causes both beginnings and very, very bad endings.  It also take part in our first alignment:  Mars-Sol-Saturn (retrograde) = a war breaks out this week.  Sorry about that.  The second one is much better, we get the Earth aligning with the moon and the sun which signals general benevolence.  It’s not ideal, being the sort that leads to a new moon, but I’ll take it.  Indeed, this particular new moon shows higher than usual potential for auspicious beginnings, so if you were going to start a business or ask out that hottie, this is as good a time as can be reasonably expected.

Staying on the subject of Saturn (retrograde) it’s still loafing around in Capricorn.  Now Capricorn is the sign of wisdom, tempermentality, and fine leather goods.  For the past far too many weeks, Saturn has been inhibiting our thinking, making it more ponderous than it should be.  Now that it has gone retrograde, we should experience extremes of judgment, both flashes of insight and extremely stupid decisions.  Good luck telling the difference.  With the new moon in Taurus there is great potential — the new moon is the seed, a thing unrealized, the sign of beginning.  But the beginning of what exactly?  Unfortunately in this case, the facing sign is “the hidden threat.”  Find it, catch it, kill it.  Too bad about that whole Saturn retrograde in Capricorn when it comes to correctly identifying what the threat is.  Whether it’s spring or because Venus and Mercury are in the sign of the Goat, you will feel… inclinations this week.

Taurus:  5 of Swords – Degradation, destruction, infamy, reversal, dishonor, loss

Gemini:  10 of Coins – Gain, riches, archives, family home, extraction

Cancer:  2 of Wands, reversed – Surprise, wonder, emotion, fear

Leo:  The Chariot – Succor, providence, war, triumph, presumption, vengeance

Virgo:  5 of Cups, reversed – News, alliances, affinity, ancestry, false projects

Libra:  Ace of Swords, reversed – Triumph, excess in everything, extremes of love and hate… but all of these things are disastrous.

Scorpio:  8 of Wands, reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, stings of conscience

Sagittarius:  Page of Wands – Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman

Capricorn:  4 of Coins – Gifts, legacy, clinging to what one has, defense of resources

Aquarius:  Judgment, reversed – Weakness, simplicity, a reward denied

Pisces:  6 of cups – Memories, the past, current enjoyment from earlier seeds

Aries:  Temperance – Economy, frugality, management, accommodation

 

Comments

231 responses to “IFLA: The “Stronk, Like Bull” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of May 5”

  1. Hyperion

    #CapricornsRpeopleToo

    The resistance shall continue!

    1. Not Adahn

      …until after September at least.

  2. DEG

    Indeed, this particular new moon shows higher than usual potential for auspicious beginnings, so if you were going to start a business or ask out that hottie, this is as good a time as can be reasonably expected.

    and:

    Unfortunately in this case, the facing sign is “the hidden threat.” Find it, catch it, kill it.

    Interesting combination.

  3. BakedPenguin

    Leo: The Chariot – Succor, providence, war, triumph, presumption, vengeance

    Hmm. Mixed bag, but I like it.

  4. Spudalicious

    “Libra: Ace of Swords, reversed – Triumph, excess in everything, extremes of love and hate… but all of these things are disastrous.”

    “There is chaos on heaven and earth, and the situation is excellent.”

  5. Not Adahn

    You notice how I didn’t make any “predictions” involving puking, headaches, or sensitivity to light and noise? That’s how you can tell you’re dealing with a professional.

    1. Spudalicious

      That would have been way too easy.

    2. Sean

      Sounds legit.

    3. Nephilium

      What about those of us who don’t get hangovers? I’ve had one in my life.

      1. Suthenboy

        So…you do get them.

  6. Nephilium

    Decided to bring the girlfriend home something for Cinco. The brewery is doing Churros with chocolate and caramel. They should survive the bike ride home.

    1. AlmightyJB

      Yummy

      1. Nephilium

        I bring them home, and she starts into them. Then complains that the box got a bit crushed.

        /can’t win.

        1. J. Frank Parnell

          So… you crushed her box?

  7. Gustave Lytton

    Libra: Ace of Swords, reversed – Triumph, excess in everything, extremes of love and hate… but all of these things are disastrous.

    I knew it.

  8. Hyperion

    Holy shit, where does my wife find these horrid TV choices? Is that Rod Stewart trying to sing CCR’s Rain? This guy is still alive? The last time I saw him on the TV, I’m pretty sure he was wearing an adult diaper under his polyester leisure suit from the 60s. He’s older than Mick Jagger, for crikey sake. You’ll fall off the stage and break a hip, Rod.

    1. Hyperion

      Good grief, everyone in that audience could be my mum. Wherever that is, the local hospital had better prepare for an epidemic of hip fractures.

    2. Francisco d’Anconia

      You know they had to pump a sperm whale out of his stomach, right?

      1. Spudalicious

        After he passed out on stage.

    3. BakedPenguin

      You could have at least linked the evidence.

    4. FWIW, Wikipedia says Jagger was born in July 1943 and Stewart in January 1945.

      1. Fourscore

        Kids, the lot of them

        1. Hyperion

          Is that your way of telling us to get off your lawn, Fourscore?

  9. Francisco d’Anconia

    Pisces: 6 of cups – Memories, the past, current enjoyment from earlier seeds

    Shaka, when the walls fell

    1. BakedPenguin

      Trump and Sanders at Tanagra.

      1. Rhywun

        Sanders, his eyes unable to open

  10. Spudalicious

    Well I’ll be damned. I went out to crimp off the second waterline break on my sprinklers, and either yesterday, or this morning, they came back and repaired both.

    Someone listened to their voicemail.

  11. Cy

    Libra: Ace of Swords, reversed – Triumph, excess in everything, extremes of love and hate… but all of these things are disastrous.

    Sounds like a good time to me!

  12. Rhywun

    Dammit. The rain knocked out my cable and internet and now I missed the Cal game.

    1. Spudalicious

      They lost.

      1. Rhywun

        Oh, hamburgers 🙁

  13. Taurus – Degradation, destruction, infamy, reversal, dishonor, loss

    *sigh*

    On the upside, I’m liking my story again and Miles Davis is helping immensely.

    1. Spudalicious

      Yay!

    2. KSuellington

      Right on. And, yes, that is one of the best albums ever recorded.

      1. But Enough About Me

        . . . that is one of the best albums ever recorded.

        This.

  14. Ownbestenemy

    So is, or is it not appropriating Cinco De Mayo if I drink American beer, make meat, potatoes, and eggs for breakfast.

    Or would I be appropriating if I made potatoes and chorizo and drink Mexican beer.

    These new rules have me confused

    1. Spudalicious

      I’m settling with Modelo on tap and a plate of wings.

    2. Rhywun

      Just mentioning it should send you to a camp.

      1. egould310

        Harsh!

        But then again, we must remain vigilant.

    3. Akira

      Oh shit, I forgot all about that holiday.

      I made a frittata with potatoes, onions, and bratwurst.

    4. Rebel Scum

      You probably drink green Bud light and eat cheeseburgers on St. Patty’s Day.

    1. Francisco d’Anconia

      Okay, that shit was funny!

    2. Sean

      ????

    3. Akira

      HAHA! Excellent.

    4. Hilarious! I guess those 12 years of trombone lessons finally paid off.

  15. Nephilium

    FireFox, you’re now pissing me off. After putting the fix in place yesterday, today it decided to go back and disable some of my add ons again.

    Look, I used you for the add ons, if you kill those, you’re just a memory leaking browser that I had a long affinity for.

    1. slumbrew

      I think it periodically will check the certs & disable the extensions;

      I had ‘studies’ disabled, so I didn’t pick up the hotfix until just now – turned them back on and it took ~ 20 minutes for the hotfixes to come in.

      https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/

      1. Rhywun

        What a shitshow.

        1. kinnath

          Firefox wouldn’t even open without errors today.

          So I am still stuck with Chrome.

        2. Count Potato

          As I wrote yesterday, I don’t see the point in having constantly phone home to keep checking if extensions are signed. They are authenticated on install. It’s just stupid to have an application being dependent on some website running properly.

          1. slumbrew

            It needs to check the chain of trust for revocations, which I imagine is happening here; I’m guessing they’re treating the expired cert in the same fashion as a revoked cert (they’re both invalid), but I haven’t really dug into it.

          2. Count Potato

            “It needs to check the chain of trust for revocations”

            How necessary is that?

          3. slumbrew

            It’s important – if a cert was compromised, you want to mark it as such and get it untrusted as soon as possible – _especially_ if it’s an intermediate signing cert; otherwise the bad guys can just start signing things (like extensions) that do all any number of terrible things but would be as trusted as any other extension.

          4. Count Potato

            FF phones home anyway (eg. to check for updates) so then it could be notified if a cert was compromised, rather than assume they are bad unless told otherwise.

  16. Akira

    Dear Abby/Zardoz:

    What do you think a person’s obligations are as far as travelling for family events that they’re invited to? Suppose this is a person who has a job with a massive workload where time off is not easy to get, and this person also is not awash in cash to spend on plane tickets and hotel rooms in some of the most expensive places in the world such as California and NYC.

    Is this person being an inconsiderate dickhead if they decline to attend, or should the other family members understand that not everyone has the time and money to travel all the time?

    1. Sean

      I vote not being a dickhead. It’s your life to live how you see fit.

      Now, if they offered you a ticket, and a place to stay…

      1. Spudalicious

        At least an offer to defray the costs. But the work thing has to be taken into account as well.

    2. Fatty Bolger

      I’d say it kind of depends on the event. Your parents 50th anniversary, you should go. Your brother’s third wedding, you should be able to skip. Once in a generation family gathering, go. Once a year family gathering, skip.

      1. Francisco d’Anconia

        THIS^

        1. DEG

          Thirded

          1. Gustave Lytton

            Skipped

    3. Threedoor

      100 miles. Max.

    1. Fatty Bolger

      I don’t think that video will generate much sympathy for the driver. What the hell was the kid thinking?

      1. blackjack

        He was trying to run from a minor violation. Not smart. That’s when the murderous thug killed him in cold blood for no good reason. It’s OK, though, because the gunman was black.

        1. Cy

          They’ll trod out the tried and true “he felt in fear for his life.” We’ll disregard the pulling of a firearm and charging of the vehicle.

          They should play this video in every single high school/middle school class room. Don’t step out of line. You are target practice to the man.

    2. Ownbestenemy

      Jesus….

    3. Count Potato

      I can’t get it to play.

  17. Nephilium

    I don’t know why everyone is acting like it’s some big celebration today. Everyone know Cinco de Mayo happens at the end of May.

    /never going to get tired of this picture

    1. DEG

      Just like Oktoberfest celebrations which start in October.

  18. Trigger Hippie

    Taurus: 5 of Swords – Degradation, destruction, infamy, reversal, dishonor, loss

    So, par for the course. And here I was worried that something bad was going to happen.

  19. Threedoor

    “False projects”. Prety much everything I start since I can remember.

  20. Suthenboy

    At Suthenboy’s house today is Cinco de cut the grass day. Beautiful day for it too.

    1. Francisco d’Anconia

      It snowed here

    2. Count Potato

      Because you couldn’t hire some Mexicans?

    3. DEG

      Still too wet for that here. The grass is growing though, and I’ll need to cut it soon whether it is wet or not.

    1. Not an Economist

      That was different because of reasons.

    2. Fourscore

      She is quite unattractive as well, physically as well as mentally.

      1. Hyperion

        So, the perfect Democrat candidate?

  21. Rebel Scum

    “Weakness, simplicity, a reward denied”

    My work reseeding the lawn is not going to pay off? Meh. I guess I’ll eat another taco and keep sipping this margarita. Happy Cinco de Drink-O!

  22. slumbrew

    Does going out for French food on May 5th earn me extra shitlord status?

    1. Count Potato

      Are you going to show up on a donkey wearing a sombrero?

  23. l0b0t

    Just home from Costco. They had a dozen packs of skirt steak mislabeled at $1.99 per lb. instead of the proper $8.99 per lb.; we’re making skirt steak tonight.

    1. Count Potato

      It sounds like the Koreans installed someone on the inside.

    2. AlmightyJB

      I love skirt steak.my go to for beef tacos.

    3. OneOut

      When I was young growing up in South Central Texas grocers could hardly give away skirt steak as the food group fajitas was hardly known.

      I now groan at the meat counter when I see current prices.

      I blame it on cultural approbation.

      1. Fatty Bolger

        I remember when you could get brisket and chicken wings for next to nothing, too.

        1. OneOut

          That’s a truism.

          Brisket and wings were sold for the cost of packaging and transportation.

          Damn cultural appropriators.

          I demand an end to the cultural appropriation of my childhood food groups.

          1. cyto

            It is amazing, but wings are now more expensive than legs – and sometimes more expensive than breast.

            Supply and demand…. how’s that work again?

  24. CPRM

    It’s a beautiful day. I should do something productive. But nah.

    1. Hyperion

      It is here, if you’re a duck. Pouring down rain by the buckets full.

  25. Does the Firefox add-on bug prevent you from downloading add-ons, too?

    Fuckers can’t fix this?

    1. Hyperion

      Stop using Firefox. It drives my crazy because it updates every fucking time you open it. I just use Chrome.

      1. AlmightyJB

        I just started using Brave on my Android. So far, so good. Wife downloaded it to her iPhone. She can use but can’t change default from Safari. That’s interesting to me considering all the money Microsoft was fined over IE.

  26. Hyperion

    Haven’t seen any Glibfit articles lately. I’ve had been stuck at 172 lbs. for about a month now. Was, until this morning I finally weighed in at 170 lbs. It’s only 2 lbs, but that’s 60 lbs. total weight loss from a year ago. And most of the loss has been since the first of the year. I’m only 5’8″, so 230 was really obese. I did 5.4 miles this morning walk/jog/run, 70 minutes. Yeah, probably still a little slow, but I’m getting there. Also have reduced my lower back discomfort over the last few days after talking to someone I know who has been running for years. Turns out someone here who said I might be impacting a little on my heels, may have been right. No lower back pain at all right now after at least 1.5 miles running of the 5.4 total. I want to add weights, but for now, the aerobic/weight loss/heart health side of things have been most important to me after having heart problems because of my long term fat couch tater lifestyle. It must be working because I’m completely symptom free now. EKG was normal. Haven’t done another stress test, but likely I can pass that with no problems. Party on Glibfit!

    1. Akira

      Awesome job, Hyp! Physical fitness is one of the most rewarding things you can do for yourself.

      I’ll probably go out for a run today. It’s 66°, a little breezy, and not a cloud in sight. PERFECT.

      I just have to wait for my bowels to empty so that I can go all 5 miles without having to make a pit stop. Sometimes there’s no bathroom out there, and nervously dooking in the forest while frantically looking out for witnesses is no fun (hey, I do what I have to do!!)

      1. Hyperion

        “and nervously dooking in the forest while frantically looking out for witnesses is no fun”

        LOL. Because that’s actually happened to me, more than once. Yeah, I’m a lot more careful about trying to eliminate before running these days.

    2. DEG

      Congratulations!

      1. Hyperion

        Thanks! Like Akira said, it’s most rewarding when you start getting physically fit. I think it was the Bible where I read this quote ‘The life is in the blood’. It’s true, you have to get it moving. I’m driving my wife a little crazy because of my much higher energy. I just have to get her up and moving also. She did injure her knee about a year ago and we’re still working on getting that back to normal.

        1. DEG

          You’re welcome! Sorry about your wife’s knee. Hopefully it gets back to normal soon.

          1. Hyperion

            Thanks, DEG. She’s going to see her ortho doc in Brazil next week. I’m shipping her off down there in a few days. I guess they have a new treatment that’s supposed to be far superior to the cortisone/coricosteroid shots she’s been getting here to treat it. They don’t have to contend with the FDA down there, so sometimes they’ll get new treatments before they’ll get approved here.

          2. DEG

            Fuck the FDA.

          3. Hyperion

            A flaming one with electoshock built in, amirite?

          4. Gustave Lytton

            I believe that is the approved FDA treatment.

    3. deadhead

      Congratulations. I ran my first mile (although I did quite a bit of hiking before that) on July 22nd 2009. I was 46.

      I only ran because a friend was having a two mile fun run and I wanted to run a little at home before attempting that. I found out that I liked running, but it was sufficiently taxing that I’d count down the driveways while running around the block (3/4 of a mile for one loop), knowing that there were five driveways after my house where I’d be running (slightly) uphill, then I’d turn and run downhill.

      Now I’m 56 and run a lot longer and a lot faster.

      1. Hyperion

        Awesome, congrats! Get off my… Oh wait, I’m 59, you get to tell me that…

        1. deadhead

          59? No, you get to tell me that.

          1. Hyperion

            Uhh, get off my lawn.

    4. Don Escaped Texas

      solid work !

  27. Spudalicious

    I’m curious, has anyone tried making a Mule with tequila? I was going to call it a Tijuana Donkey.

    1. Hyperion

      Look, you really should not be giving mules tequila. It’s animal abuse! And trying to make it after getting it drunk!? Sick-O perv! Also, ‘Tijuana Donkey’? Cultural appropriation! Guilty, guilty! Sinner! Burn this witch!

    2. Ownbestenemy

      Throw in a banana and you have yourself a regular Saturday night

    3. DEG

      I had a Moscow Mule for the first time around Christmas. I liked it. I couldn’t imagine it with tequila.

  28. Count Potato

    “Why are boringly straight women claiming to be lesbians?

    Miley Cyrus deciding she’s ‘queer’ is as convincing as me deciding my dog is a goldfish

    Hearing straight, woke young women who have had a drunken fumble with another woman at a party describe themselves as ‘lesbian’ or ‘gender queer’ insults me. Their motivation may be a desire to get themselves on one of the many lists of top 100 in the LGBTQQIA+ world, or perhaps because they will appear more interesting. What I do know is that such women almost always end up married to men and having kids, and living a conventional life. Occasionally they will dye their fringe orange, put on a slogan T-shirt, and join a rainbow coalition march in Brighton. But what they won’t do is suffer for their sexuality.

    Then there is the latest craze of men deciding they are lesbians, because they claim to be women, such as Alex Drummond, who has retained not only his bushy beard but also his meat and two veg.

    Real lesbians commit to the role. There is no running back into the arms of Nigel for us. If the fake lesbians want an authentic experience, perhaps they could persuade their parents to reject them, or have their female friends shy away from a hug as though they are being perved upon?

    It is no fun being beaten up in the street for being lesbian or gay. But it is an amazing feeling to know that you have fought for the liberation of younger lesbians who, in the main, won’t ever face the horrors that my friends and I did when we came out. It is an insult to have all and sundry on a list that used to be about same-sex attracted people who formed an alliance in order to fight prejudice and bigotry. To all you attention-seeking narcissists desperate to be included: you are all special, but you are very probably as straight as a die. Get over it.”

    https://archive.is/vqBqU

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/why-are-boringly-straight-women-claiming-to-be-lesbians/

    1. Count Potato

      “our good pal julie “straight people choose to be straight” bindel back at it again completely erasing the concept of bisexual people and being mad that gay & lesbians don’t have it as hard as they used to.”

      https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1124851412737900545

      https://twitter.com/notCursedE/status/1124595896656834560

      1. commodious spittoon

        I wonder whether non-activist gays who just want to be gay and don’t want to be defined as gay, at least/especially not the way activists define it, miss the closet or the taboo. You’re accepted now. Nobody but a dwindling few retrograde conservatives have a bad word to say about you, and even conservatives don’t hate you for being a faggot the way it used to be, they just don’t want religious people compelled to serve as your wedding officiants. Straight is still the vanilla of sexual orientations, but gay is like a Neapolitan or whatever, it’s not vanilla but it’s not much more exciting.

          1. Sealtest New York Vanilla was a staple in our freezer when I was a kid in Illinois. Delicious with a strong vanilla flavor. I haven’t seen it in years, but I moved to California in 1985, so it may have just been a regional thing.

          2. Discontinued in the 1990s when the company was bought 0it by Kraft.

          3. Gustave Lytton

            I miss Dutch Girl.

          4. So does OMWC….

          5. Count Potato

            A store called Waldbaum’s made the New Yorkest vanilla ice cream.

          6. Oh goodness, I remember Waldbaum’s, although our family shopped at the Grand Union.

            The local Waldbaum’s was in a plaza that also had a Caldor, if you remember them.

          7. OneOut

            Blue Bell is the Beatles ice cream in the hold wide world.

            Fight me.

            Truthfully if made me put away my homemade ice cream maker decades ago even though the ice cream maker also made cherished childhood memories of we grandkids having to take turns sitting on the bucket full of ice while mammaw turned the crank.

            Good times.

        1. Akira

          Straight is still the vanilla of sexual orientations, but gay is like a Neapolitan or whatever, it’s not vanilla but it’s not much more exciting.

          Perhaps that explains some of this upsurge in attention to transgenderism, genderfluidity, etc.

          1. Tonio

            Well-put, Akira.

          2. Rhywun

            “Look at me!”

            Yes, I’m sensing that myself. Plus, it’s easier to go back than to remove that stupid tatt or wait for your hair to grow out.

            Also… older generations who demand “respect” because they claim to have paved the way for the young… FFS shut up already. It’s unseemly.

        2. Tonio

          I wonder whether non-activist gays who just want to be gay and don’t want to be defined as gay, at least/especially not the way activists define it, miss the closet or the taboo.

          I’ve never heard anyone say they miss that. I’m just glad to be able to live my life without hiding who I am.

          1. straffinrun

            For some reason, your perfectly reasonable attitude isn’t acceptable to some gay people. Makes you think that some people just need the drama in their lives.

        3. Apparently even if you’re gay, that kinda of thinking will get you unpersoned.

          https://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/74

          Gord got me into this guy’s podcasts. Good discussions (he had one with KDW last year, and there are a lot of other good ones – watching his appearance on Joe Rogan from a couple years ago right now).

    2. Fatty Bolger

      But what they won’t do is suffer for their sexuality.

      And neither will most lesbians. Which is why these people feel free to do it as a lark.

      1. Tonio

        Think of all the lesbians suffering through Lesbian Bed Death, two spinsters sharing a loveless bed with their cats.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          It’s not suffering if your libido is already zero.

          1. commodious spittoon

            Well why do you think it’s libido and not libidten?

    3. Not Adahn

      “Why are boringly straight women claiming to be lesbians?

      To ask is to answer.

    4. Count Potato

      I failed to quote the best part:

      “I recall one such moment. I had met my lezzer friend Bridget in a pub after work, and we were deep in conversation when the inevitable happened. ‘What are two beautiful ladies doing in here on their own?’ slurred Barry, pint in hand and attempting to sit beside us. I pointed out we were not ‘on our own’ on account that we were together, and politely asked him to leave us alone. Soon, we went from ‘beautiful ladies’ to ‘carpet-munching ugly dykes’. I pointed out that if he was the alternative, did he blame us? Every woman in that bar burst out laughing, with several telling me how they wished they could give up men and live happily ever after. One asked me: ‘Are you a lesbian because you never found the right man?’ I replied that if finding the right man was a prerequisite of heterosexuality, we would soon be extinct.”

      (things that happened) (this)

      1. commodious spittoon

        “…And the whole pub stood up and clapped for us as Barry was escorted outside by the 250lb musclebound bouncer, Veronica. Then we went back to my apartment for steamy lesbo sex.”

        Wasn’t Barry also the name of Lena Dunham’s fictitious Republican rapist?

        1. Suthenboy

          Now that you mention it I believe it was. Dude gets around…

      2. straffinrun

        You might not find the right man, but she miraculously found the right caricature.

      3. Pecan Sandy

        Isn’t this the first episode of Bottom?

    1. Hyperion

      Why he hate flower pots? They dindunuthin!

  29. Spudalicious

    Eight pints of raspberry mead are now comfortably resting in the closet, awaiting the heat of summer.

  30. Not Adahn

    Just got back from watching Endgame and don’t really get the hate. It seems like a perfectly appropriate wrapup for the experiment that was the MCU.

    Of course, there are a lot of hates that I don’t understand, like Glock triggers, mayonnaise, thin crust pizza. Though I do understand the backalsh against IPAs

    1. Pecan Sandy

      People love complaining about stuff. Most of the folks I talk to that saw end game loved it. I liked it, just not as much as infinity war. Good close out for this iteration of the mcu.

      I’m totally with you on the IPA backlash. People don’t know how to make beer so they just shove a bunch of hops in there. That’s most IPAs except for a scant few.

    2. CPRM

      I didn’t realize there was hate. Meh, I had a couple things I didn’t like, but overall a nice wrap-up before they ruin the MCU.

      1. straffinrun

        Right? I thought I was being unique by disliking it. Well, I’ll show them. Now I love it.

    3. Spudalicious

      Trigger safeties < any 1911 trigger.

  31. Ownbestenemy

    Trailer update. Framed the bathing tub and working on making sure my wife can wash up 120lb dogs. Shelf building next, then plumbing.

    I have been chronology logging our build in hopes to having some time present an article here on our adventure starting this business but between my job and getting this started, time is limited.

    1. Akira

      If it’s OK to roll back the Second Amendment because of “gun deaths”, what exactly is the complaint if someone proposes a Muslim registry because of terrorism? I mean, 9/11 killed more people than all American mass shootings combined, so what’s the problem?

      Constitutional rights are not contingent on public safety statistics.

      1. straffinrun

        You could take it further. How many deaths are a consequence of envy and vengeance?

        1. something something never letting a crisis go to waste

    2. Gustave Lytton

      Don’t read the comments. Frightened poorly educated little children.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Huh, I missed that part of the first aid class.

      1. They are literally “those that would trade liberty for security will receive neither”.

        It is somewhat refreshingly honest though in that at least one of those comments has moved on from “Rethuglikkkans only care about 2A!” to “Rethuglikkkans only care about 1A and 2A!”

        Watching the Bill of Rights fall like dominoes is rather amazing.

      2. Plinker762

        Too late 🙁

    3. The replies are cancerous.

      1. straffinrun

        All the best decisions are made by grief stricken parents.

    4. LJW

      I need eye bleach after reading the comments. The extensive lack of basic understanding of the Constitution is mind boggling.

      1. Feature, not bug of the “education system”.

        1. Speaking of: I would never even consider being a public school teacher, but if I were, probably the first thing I would teach would be “If you get viscerally angry about hearing an opposing viewpoint/argument, you are functioning at the level of a 4 year-old. You are not using the superior reasoning and mental faculties that are your birthright.”

          Then I would bombard them with counterpoints to every prog indoctrination point they’ve been force-fed.

          1. Plinker762

            I’m not sure having a visceral reaction to hearing morons argue for the reduction of individual rights is wrong. The superior part is maintaining one’s composure.

    5. LJW

      “The Second Amendment is only a limitation on the federal government. States may regulate their militias however they wish – including limiting firearms to those who are on duty police or national guard personnel.”

      1. “The Eighth Amendment is only a limitation on the Federal Government. States can draw and quarter you, burn you alive, feed you lions or whatever else they like.”

        1. to lions*… though the other might be equally bad

        2. Along those lines, let’s go with this thought experiment:

          Let’s say an individual convicted of murder gets 25 to life. He serves 30ish years and is released. He immediately goes out and slaughters an elementary schooler with a machete. Clearly, we need common sense Cruel and Unusual Punishment control because if we had flayed this guy alive in the public square, he wouldn’t have been able to kill that poor kid.

          1. OJ obviously did it. Clearly, we need common sense Innocent Until Proven Guilty control to make sure it never happens again.

          2. People sometimes hide stolen property in their homes. Clearly we need common sense Unreasonable Search and Seizure control to stop this madness.

          3. I’d make a glib 1A comparison, but it’d be meaningless since all that shit is already happening under the auspices of “hate speech”.

      2. LJW

        To clarify that’s a quote from the tweets. Not me saying that.

        1. I’m tracking.

      3. The 2A doesn’t mention the federal government. 1A does, but that’s been incorporated to include the states.

        1. straffinrun

          Wait, aren’t state rights people racist?

  32. Sean

    Stupid USPS. Left a package on my porch in the pouring rain. No knock, no ring the doorbell, no protection from the rain. Assholes.
    ?

    1. Count Potato

      They are like ninjas.

    2. CPRM

      USPS delivery on a Sunday?

      1. Not Adahn

        Yup. They seem to deliver packages (but not mail) then.

      2. Sean

        Amazon packages. Yes, on Sundays

      3. Spudalicious

        Contract with Amazon.

    3. straffinrun

      Was it A cake?

      1. CPRM

        A gay nazi cake that identified as a pie.

  33. Count Potato

    “Today is Karl Marx’s birthday. He is chiefly famous for complaining to Engels in 1867 that he had a huge boil on his penis, and for respectfully addressing Engels’ hedgehog as ‘Right Honourable Hedgehog’.”

    https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1125053920148172801

    1. “The bourgeoisie…,draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls… {It has]..rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.”

      Only a special kind of idiot could draw this (correct) conclusion and then somehow assign a negative value to it.

      1. straffinrun

        Gene is a national treasure.

  34. “Triumph, excess in everything, extremes of love and hate… but all of these things are disastrous.”

    How long is this valid?

    1. Not Adahn

      I haven’t really collected the data to give you a Cpk. So, a week-ish.

  35. Gustave Lytton

    Beautiful day of chainsawing and no blood despite fucking up the notch on one of the trees, followed by spreading some bark dust. Chicken going the grill soon. Lime and tonic because the wifey wants to pickup ice cream after dinner.

    1. Lucky you. I had a cold and spent much of the weekend lying in bed. Thank god for my tablet.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Ugh, that sucks. Hopefully you’re on the upswing now?

      2. DEG

        Get well soon!

      3. Rhywun

        You don’t want to go outside anyway.

        1. I would have liked the energy to watch a movie off the DVR in one sitting. And not waking up at 1:30 AM and tossing and turning the rest of the night.

          1. straffinrun

            You were tossing all night?

          2. Not Adahn

            Supposedly it happens when you get older.

            also, I liked that hangtag with the bike all blinged out saying Rock! Rock!

            *throws devil horns*

          3. straffinrun

            I toss a lot less now than in my teens.

          4. Spudalicious

            When you get older? I haven’t been able to toss all night since I was a teenager.

          5. straffinrun

            Too slow. Akanbe

      4. Count Potato

        Get well soon!

  36. Count Potato

    ““Just build your own”

    A comprehensive list of services that Gab has been banned from for defending the fundamental human right to speak freely on the internet and having a TOS that is identical to Twitter’s circa 2007-2015.”

    https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1124892644813885440

    1. Rhywun

      xkcd completely missing the point… The government is knee-deep in this, asshole.

      1. I guess he won’t complain when he inevitably is guilt of wrongthink and his ISP cuts him out.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Especially when it’s at the behest of a government official using their office to demand enforcement.

      2. Count Potato

        Fuck that guy.

        https://xkcd.com/1756/

        1. Christ what an asshole!

          1. “If you get viscerally angry about hearing an opposing viewpoint/argument, you are functioning at the level of a 4 year-old. You are not using the superior reasoning and mental faculties that are your birthright.”

          2. Rhywun

            Nah, just a loser.

        2. Suthenboy

          Arrow is pointing the wrong direction

        3. The Bearded Hobbit

          I’m reminded of this

    2. Raven Nation

      There was some news story in New Zealand in the last month or so, which included Gab on a list of “hate outlets” or some such. IOW, not that it hosted such speech but that it was entirely a tool of such speech.

  37. See Double You

    This Cinco de Mayo we had snow. Sucked the weekend right out.

    1. Hyperion

      That sucks dude. When I was walking/running this morning, it was 73F, near 100% humidity, because it was raining. Despite wearing my rain gear this morn, my t-shirt had a lot of sweat spots all over it when I got home.

      1. Spudalicious

        Right now it’s 78* with 21% humidity, and a clear blue sky.

        1. Tres Cool

          Its like its your own private Idaho…

          1. Spudalicious

            I’ve used that as my handle before. I like the irony of using it as a Conservatarian, while also knowing what the meaning of the song is.

  38. Don Escaped Texas

    Who’s deep in the spleen of Texas this week I can buy a drink?

    The rich pleasure of leaving Texas will again be my privilege soon, but that requires returning, even if only for a strafing run through DFW, AUS, and SAT.
    Gifts, legacy, clinging to what one has, defense of resources
    Si / ja: new golf clubs por mijo, mucho cerveza, und im NeuBraunFels, gut Pistolenhandwerk.

    1. OneOut

      No takers huh Don ?

      I guess that should tell you something.

      Please tell the commentariat what bastion of freedom State you currently inhabit that is so much better than the state of Texas.

      Texas has only several thousand people a year moving here for different freedoms and I’m curious where you know the secret best State to live in is ?

    1. straffinrun

      Beer loving rapist vs zombie. I’m torn.

      1. Combine forces!

  39. Tres Cool

    Cheap-beer buzzed after grilling some NY strips; with creamed spinach (Paula Deen’s recipe) and (for Jugsy) mac y queso
    So hit some motherfkin’ GRILL MUSIC

    1. Gustave Lytton

      I love creamed spinach.

    2. OneOut

      Paula Deems recipient ?

      You racists shitllord you.

      ( was it good ?)