The noun “etiquette” describes the requirements of behaviors according to conventions of society. It includes the proper conduct that is established by a community for various occasions, including ceremonies, court, formal events and everyday life. ~ Robin Bickerstaff Glover
The Australian Glib Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume. ~ Paul Theroux
Well, there is etiquette and then there are manners. Not the same thing at all.
Think of etiquette as the collection of principles for why one uses manners: courtesy, respect, kindness. If one seeks to treat others kindly and put them at ease, one will rarely go wrong in a big way, and will likely be forgiven for a lapse in manners such as using the wrong knife in a formal setting.
However, I like to think about etiquette and manners as means to control minds and hearts…no rusty tin can lids required!
At finishing school one is taught the niceties of manners, but the main emphasis is on creating an impression of oneself in the minds of others. Consider this your invitation to Glib Finishing School.
Ready?
Situation
You are invited to a dinner party. Along with the usual details, the hostess has indicated that it is not a formal affair and gives an impression that it’s really more a gathering akin to an open house with no set end time.
You promptly reply that you are delighted to be invited and will attend.
You ask the standard question all Glibs of good breeding ask: What may I bring?
The hostess replies, “Thank you for asking, but there is no need for you to bring anything.”
What do you do?
Do you:
A) Take your hostess at her word and not bring anything
B) Bring the dish known as your specialty
C) Bring flowers from the grocery store around the corner
D) Bring a small thoughtful gift
SP’s Suggestion
It depends on your relationship with the hostess.
In the long ago, olden times, one would of course bring a small thoughtful gift in spite of the request not to do so, unless the hostess was a close family member. It was considered very bad manners to arrive empty-handed. Remember hostess gifts?
However, things have changed. It is now perfectly acceptable to take your hostess at her word and bring nothing but a positive attitude and anticipation of an enjoyable event.
But, wait.
Remember that I said this is a chance to create a positive impression of oneself? If the hostess is a business acquaintance, valued member of your social network, or someone new whom you would like to cultivate, taking something that is small and useful, that creates no work for the hostess, is a good plan.
Such as:
A bottle of decent wine (no Two Buck Chuck); a pretty floral arrangement already in a vase (this can even be flowers from your garden); a small pot of herb plants or a spice blend in a pretty jar; a selection of nice cheeses or nuts.
Just be cognizant that the hostess may or may not use your offering during that event. If there is already a set menu or wines selected to go with the menu, don’t be offended that your gift isn’t put into immediate use. Remember, you are trying to create a favorable impression.
Be gracious. Once you have given a gift, what happens with it is completely up to the recipient.
What not to bring:
A dish that needs oven or refrigerator/freezer space; flowers in a plastic wrap from the grocery store; several bottles of ingredients for your specialty cocktail; a CD of your favorite “dinner music” by Kraftwerk; finger foods that need some kind of preparation beyond plating.
Pro Tip
If you know the hostess is crazy about her pet, bringing a small, token gift for the pet may win you even more points than something for the hostess herself!
N.B.
All of the preceding regarding what to bring can be disregarded if you are on a Family Rules status with the hostess. You know the level of formality likely to be involved, you know the likes and dislikes and habits of the hostess, and probably most of the other guests.
So feel free to grab that six-pack of PBR and some stale chips and generic salsa. She already knows the kind of low class person you are.
And, finally…
Don’t forget that it’s always thoughtful to send a thank you note, email, or text after the event, no matter your relationship with the hostess. If it’s like some of the previous Chez OMWC/SP parties, you might want to also include a playful, “Oops, my bad” when you text us from the county lockup.
SP, thank you for an article about etiquette and manners that was pleasant to read. If this comment does not meet your approval, it may be because I have not read your article about ” how to write an excellent thank you note.”
First!
Nicely done!
Thank you.
Home made beer, wine, mead, cordials, simple syrups, and the like have always been appreciated. All of them left behind as gifts if they’re not opened (they also make good adult gifts, as it’s not more clutter).
Hell yes!
My grandmother used to give homemade cordials as gifts. People loved it.
Hell, yeah! Go Grandma!
Homemade or homegrown is hard to beat. More personal.
“Thank you for your invitation to your wonderful dinner party! I’d love to gift you with a half ounce of my own Purple Nurple, which is a blend of some strains of Hindu Kush and Jamaican OG.”
Actually, that might be a great receiving gift.
Trick question no one ever invites Glibs to dinner parties.
Does Thanksgiving count? I don’t get invited, but I host. And the girlfriend’s family doesn’t understand when I say they (one person in their 90’s, the other traveling in from California) don’t need to bring anything. I’ve told the girlfriend, if they really feel like bringing something, a good bottle of wine or bourbon would suffice.
Instead, they bring more appetizers that wind up taking up critical fridge space.
Assign them very specific and unobtrusive things to bring. Then you can plan around it better.
I always appreciate that. Very practical.
This!
That’s a good strategy. If you can’t stop them, channel their efforts. This is how I handle my mother-in-law’s aggressive helpfulness.
My wife’s sister drives me crazy.
SIL” what can I bring?”
Me “X”
SIL “I want to bring Y.”
Me “fine”
SIL *brings Z without telling me*
My sister and niece are both good about bringing things.
Them: “What would you like us to bring?”
Me: “Either a side dish or a dessert will work, just let me know what it is so I can make sure I’m not doubling up on something.”
Them: “We’ll bring X.”
Then they actually bring X!
My parents will usually bring a liter bottle of plonk, my mom will have a glass, and it will linger in my fridge until I get sick of it taking up space. Then she’ll bring some 70’s style desserts that aren’t that good, but are a tradition in our family. She also brings a small amount. The girlfriend’s aunt has gone to the grocery store to buy a cheese or veggie platter even knowing that we were setting out a meat and cheese board or the like.
Were Jell-o and Cool Whip involved? I remember a lot of those.
Watergate salad?
People used to make dip by mixing onion soup mix with sour cream. WTF is that?
Salty pus.
Used to?
I’ve always heard it called “onion dip” or “french onion dip” when it was called anything at all.
A vehicle to add even more salt and fat to your chips.
Delicious.
The Jell-o desserts have gone to the wayside, but the container of Cool Whip has been brought several times (my niece’s boyfriend brought Reddi Whip once). As for the amount, it’s usually in an old empty Cool Whip container.
Think mini-cheesecakes on burned vanilla wafers with cherry pie filling (out of the can!) on top.
For years I made Jello salad/fruit dessert on our Canadian fishing trips. The boys loved it, otherwise their existence would have been meager and colorless. The instant pudding made with skim milk was also a big hit. Once I brought a leftover giant Costco fruitcake that we’d been gifted. There was a clamor for more in following years. A bunch of hungry fishermen are rather easy to please.
Lime jello with mandarin orange slices inside. Damn I miss my grandma…
She also made the best bean soup, and krumkake, and homemade lefse, and… pretty much everything she made was the best.
Oh man, I never got any of that stuff. My Grandmother was Italian, so we had stuff she grew up with. It was amazing, but I feel like I missed out on a lot of the MInne/Scandi treats.
Mandarin orange slices, orange jello, cottage cheese and cool whip. Lots better than it sounds.
@Tulip: I’ve had that one. It is quite good. The cottage cheese plays well off the sweetness of the other ingredients.
I would be all over that. I love cottage cheese but I always make it into something savory.
Heh, I was once specifically asked to bring jello with fruit in it because the magistrate’s grandchildren would be there and she thought they would like it. They did like it. I’m from Minn, I know my jello salad.
A good Jello salad is second in importance only to hotdish.
Plonk makes great wine vinegar.
I’ve contemplated picking up a vinegar with a mother in it and making some vinegar of my own, but homebrewing (and wine making and mead making) and acetobacters are a dangerous combo.
I finally said fuck it and created a Sign Up Genius. It worked amazingly well.
if they really feel like bringing something, a good bottle of wine or bourbon would suffice.
We host Thanksgiving. Every year, my parents bring me a much enjoyed bottle of Wild Turkey. I always tell them not to bring anything but a pumpkin pie, but they still like to bring something extra. I think they get a kick out of the name. My wife gets a bottle of gin.
We have dinner parties about once a month. The only people who would attend are Glibs. ?
Ah, I see. You wrote this out of self preservation.
Kidding, this is great. I always write thank you notes. If someone went to the trouble to make me dinner, the least I can do is sit down and write a few lines. I once tried to explain this to a grad school colleague (his advisor had had a bunch of us over – I sent a thank you and he didn’t. Said advisor told him he was rude not to do so -foreign student, so advisor thought he was giving good advice.) My colleague was incensed. This was a stupid tradition, he said thank you while he was there. I was never able to make him understand.
Exactly this. You would be invited back! (As if there was any doubt.)
What about the twins playing handsaws or some such weirdness from a while back. Are they lurkers?
Shorter lesson:
“Don’t be George Constanza.”
+1 Marble Rye
Thank you. ?
I can’t recall ever going to a dinner party. Is that unusual?
So you get blackout drunk at every dinner party you attend.
*sigh*
The stories i can tell…up to certain point.
Us low class folk call them potlucks.
Now everything makes sense.
We don’t do potlucks. We always have a plan.
In fact, just today we came up with one for when SugarFree and many other Founders are gathering at our place later this month in honor of my grandfather’s 113th birthday!
Wow!
Well, you know, he was dead 4 days short of his 85th. But it coincides with the date. Like, if he hadn’t died.
But he did. And I will never forgive him.
Sorry, although on the upside he won’t die from hearing a SugarFree story.
113?
*respect* Ali G style
Potlucks have plans. If you have attribute A, you bring a side, Attribute B you bring dessert.
Are you my long-lost sister?
I grew up Lutheran.
Thank you!
I agree a nice bottle of wine is nearly always welcome. Flowers for the teetotalers are a nice idea. I have to say thank you notes are classy. I have a rather large extended family and only one set of cousins sent graduation announcements. I wrote a nice card and sent a check. I received a thank you note very promptly. The next two of their kids got very nice graduation presents from me because of their stellar etiquette/manners.
Bath salts?
Baby gators.
Grow your own holster leather. Brilliant.
Bath salts, AND baby gators. If we’re gonna party, let’s party.
Sounds like a good way to get your face chewed off and not necessarily by a gator.
Herpes, always bring herpes.
I have friends that don’t drink and he has celiac disease and is a diabetic. I bring them flowers from my yard.
A nice macaroni hot dish is always appreciated but be sure to tape your name on the bottom so it can be returned to the proper owner.
MN guy
So is this your random extra large CorningWare casserole dish I got instead of the smaller one I brought?
I like to buy the casserole dishes at garage sales when I see them. That way if you don’t get yours back I can ask about the size, round/square and pretend like its yours
No, you could say /rural guy or even /small town guy.
We moved before I got my pie carrier back from a party in Texas. Never have found one as nice.
Booze/drugs is always the answer for anybody who would be willing to invite me to anything.
Though it’s nice to know what the Normals expect/accept so thank you.
Yeah, that’s my circle of friends. Though with a heavier accent on the booze these days. Any drugs that show up after the one or two who are parents take their kids home are a welcome bonus.
Family affairs have dried up for me since the parents are gone and the rest of us live all over the place.
Awwww. We’d adopt you.
Our last dinner party, Grand Moff and Kibby brought special treats for Wonder Dog, and Los Doyers brought a lovely container of premium weed.
Now that’s my kind of party invitee.
You know this is a public post, right?
So… uhhh… no on the weed, eh?
Ix nay on the eed-way.
I think he means Doyers brought some high class plants for the yard, being AZ and all.
I agree. It’s what I meant, as well. We have only the very best – the very highest class – of weeds in my yard. Would love to share them. Everyone knows they’re great west valley weeds.
Well, it would be ungracious of us to turn you down, no? We’re nothing if not gracious!
One man’s weed is another man’s native flora.
So Grand Moff and Kibby are still together? I remember setting up a date long ago on TOS but never heard much more of it after that.
Awesome article and I’m looking forward to a whole series! No pressure! Seriously though, I always think of etiquette as something most people just kind of know, but there always seem to be one or two things that people, including myself, miss. Like you say, though, the key is behaving kindly and trying to put the other person at ease, and the rest tends to fall in to place.
I was always raised to bring something any time I’m invited to someone’s home unless the occasion is professional or to do a favor of some kind. Even in the latter case, it’s nice to be the guy who brings a case of water or a suitcase of beer when you’re helping somebody move or paint or something. In my family, the default is always a six-pack or two of beer or a bottle or two of wine because typically the person doing the dinner has a specific menu planned. In my wife’s family, which is much bigger and also much more casual, it’s usually a potluck affair, with the main courses being done by the host and the various sides being done by the guests. In any case, everyone notices who shows up empty-handed. You don’t want to be that guy.
You passed the test. Email me for deets!
Including etiquette and manners for formal events?
golf etiquette
play promptly
be quiet
don’t touch that ball; you know that ain’t your damned ball
^^This^^ etiquette I can get behind.
My grandfather always put it, “Take your time, but don’t waste time.”
Fix your divots
Don’t run on the green
Don’t stand in the line of another players ball.
I can hear my dad yelling at me in my head.
Those are good. Fix your ball mark (and a second one as well) is an honored tradition.
Time-motion stuff:
a/ Have your glove on with ball-tee in hand ready to go before it’s your turn to tee off.
b/ If you putt gloveless (I do), have the glove pulled and pocketed before you reach the green (I do).
c/ Always be sizing up your next shot: you should have as much of your pre-shot routine or putt assessment done before it’s your turn such as is reasonable.
d/ Leave room for the other cart (I hate the things; game was meant to be walked) to go if they have the shortest drive.
e/ If you’re not driving the cart, just jump in after your approach shot and re-holster your iron when you go for your putter.
f/ Card scores on the next tee during the usual lag between drags, not on the green where it necessarily adds delay.
Memphis is a serious golf town, happily; we almost always finish in four hours.
So the kids partying on the green behind my house at 2 am are an anomaly? They are not quiet and I suspect balls are being touched.
What? Nobody will “touch this?”
I’m still astonished you live on a golf course.
Oh, Tundra, you have no idea. It’s an amusement all day every day. And a zillion times at night!
Please tell me it’s like Caddyshack!
Only if the Bushwood pool ISN’T involved.
Do you wanna be replaced by carts?!
Not even with a regulation 2.3 meter flag stick.
I was taught to drop the cart keys in dad’s opponent’s backswing.
That always got me an extra caddy tip at the end of the round.
Fuck that etiquette/manners shit.
A bottle of wine always works. If nothing else, I have something to drink.
People have always seemed hesitant to bring us (you and me) wine. They’re afraid of being mocked. They are right.
I’ve never mocked people for the beer selections they bring over (unless they were brought over in jest, like one friend who brought a sixer of Cave Creek Chili beer). I thank them for the thought, then try to push as much of it as I can on guests who may like it, only to eventually use it as rehydration on the weekends after drinking good beer.
/thinks back to the 12 pack of Molson Golden that was in my fridge for a while.
I will mock Zima but that’s about it.
*sigh*
The girlfriend kept wanted to buy a 6 pack of Zima during the latest resurgence. I pointed out her large amount of random meads and ciders in the basement, and suggested she just let some Sprite get flat, and pour a half shot of vodka into it if she wanted to remember what Zima tasted like.
Lol. Yeah, that would be a good approximation.
Spud and I have a certain reputation that we need to live down to. Otherwise it would be like going to see Don Rickles and he doesn’t insult you.
I’m a different person now. I love everybody.
You’re still the lying sack of shit you’ve always been.
Hey! He’s a firefighter! We are all awesome!
You are awesome. Spud is a sack of shit, in shape, aroma, and general intelligence. His mom confided in me once that when he was a baby, they used to press down the soft spot on his head to see how long it took to spring back. The day it didn’t, they decided that they’d had enough of that game.
Who did you steal that from? It certainly wasn’t original though.
Your mom.
I dealt with one of the girlfriend’s friends who tasted my homebrew saison (a relatively well appreciated example of the style), and proclaimed, “This is good! Like Bud and Miller mixed together.”
It took another guest (a friend’s girlfriend) to point out the errors of his proclamation, although I think the sudden silence in the room did that as well.
We had a friend in Texas bring us wine to a house concert….
Last time I went to a house concert, the rules specified no red wine. The host had white carpet…
LOL
We have house concerts a couple times a year. We care much more about the music than the carpet.
I just thought he was brave to host with white carpet.
I remodeled with tile and water proof engineered wood. We host too often for carpet.
I won’t mock anything. If someone takes the time they get my respect.
Even if I hate it.
Yep. That’s just good MN manners.
“you might want to also include a playful, “Oops, my bad” when you text us from the county lockup”
I can’t stand text. Either call me on the phone, email, or regular mail. I’m not typing without a keyboard.
Don’t call me, bro. I never have the ringer on and you will languish in jail.
I like text so I can refer back.
“Did they say dinner was a 6 or 7?”
Check the text.
Now I hate people announcing shit on Facebook. I don’t have it and never will. If you want me at your event, send a proper invitation.
Yeah, dropping FB is probably the reason I don’t get invited to anything any more. Well, an additional reason.
Pants are not optional on arrival. You can lose them later, but please read the room.
I know the right time when pants come off. I mean, come on.
Well, you’re the one saying he’s not getting invitations. Just a tip.
I’m not quite sure, but, that might be a consideration for adding to any current/future dating profiles.
Not as sure about that 2nd sentence, though.
I’ve never been on Facebook.
Second.
What kind of freak wants a phone call? Few reasons to ever call instead of text.
Anyone who sends a “call me” text though, now that is someone to block from your life.
/puts Certified Public Asshat on the good list
Because I can answer a phone call?
I will sit and wait for the phone to stop ringing so I can text back and find out what they wanted.
I’m I supposed to bring stuff in addition to the lube and sex toys?
Always embrace what separates us civilized people of taste and refinement from the unwashed and unredeemed rabble.
For example: This young lady doesn’t even have the courtesy to turn her hideous nose ring up before snapping a poorly framed selfie. Quite boorish.
https://archive.li/7pwvk/40e6ad78543422827fd9d475b7f1d0dd24a54fc2
This mademoiselle has the poor etiquette of wearing two different bracelets on her right wrist. Surely in need of finishing school.
https://archive.li/5LplV/1c028eae178be9c2b99a54acbfc52b3c3b9020c8
The second one wins because, while she appears to have only one nostril, at least she doesn’t have anything hanging out of it.
Damn. I don’t even see her tits anymore. Just the uni-nostril.
https://youtu.be/qy_mIEnnlF4?t=12
Yeah, what the hell is that?!
Photoshop?
One need hardly spend a second thought to realize this young woman is of low station.
https://archive.li/i1hqA/a0ce92e44ff8b8fe64353255414edf5ec7250f54
Finally, it’s quite rude to conceal your eyes during a photograph. What is she hiding?
https://archive.li/rmzv8/166bab9882e4910663d3475e5e91029232420538
Now here we have a young lady of high breeding and good manners.
https://archive.li/MdNJ0/6552c6ded5a0c789a73dcd7ebd9a5eaee1c5e97c
No nose ring, trailer park tattoos, a single bracelet, nice framing and she has removed her sunglasses. A true lady.
What about the mismatched bikini?
Only a problem after Labor Day.
That looks more like a wrist band.
So, the husband in a couple we’re friends with is an alcoholic, which obviously makes bringing a bottle of wine a non-starter although his wife drinks and he doesn’t seem bothered by people drinking around him. In that case, we’ll do stuff like bring a bottle of wine for his wife and a couple of decent cigars for him, or we’ll bring ice and chips if it’s a warm-weather affair, or like cookies or pie if it’s indoors.
I was confused for a second.
You meant a quitter alcoholic.
Alcohol is always a good gift for the active alcoholic.
Now you understand my confusion. When he said “which obviously makes bringing a bottle of wine a non-starter”, I was expecting a complaint about how expensive it is to gift him a case.
Or ABV too low.
Damn your nimble fingers.
Maybe wine has an insufficient alcohol content.
Paused, at least.
In happier etiquette news, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has found that shouting “Fuck You!” to a police officer is protected speech, and qualified immunity does not apply (when you break off a traffic stop, and arrest the person who shouted at you).
Let me know when it protects you from the truncheon.
Thanks for the article. I’m not the most socially graceful person by nature and I tend to be very literal. It’s actually difficult to figure out what to do when people say things other than what they really mean or expect (like “don’t bring anything”). I don’t require rules per se, but it’s extremely beneficial to know what other people do and what other people think in these types of social situations.
/tosses Neil an acetylsalicylic acid capsule
Vodka already did the trick.
A true Glib.
So you are a very socially graceful person, however there are a few people even more socially graceful than you?
Not quite, but I can understand the confusion. I apologize for my lack of clarity. I only meant to imply that there exist some non-empty set of people P such that people in group P are more socially graceful than I am. We haven’t even defined the phrase “very socially graceful”.
And I was being a smart-ass. 🙂
I was just trying to raise my pedantry game to keep up. I wasn’t sure if that would come off snarky or if was clear that I was playing along. Set P is rather large.
Wait…so I’m the one who got fooled here.
Oh yeah? Well, fuck you Tulpa!
You are most welcome. Even Dinosaurs want to be invited back.
D) Bring a
small thoughtful giftlarge bottle of boozeI bought a bottle of kefir because of your C-diff exchange. It’s sour cream. Why the fancy name? You got me to drink a glass of sour cream. Are you proud of yourself? I’m not a bright person, so it’s not that big of an achievement.
Kefir should be effervescent.
Are you sure you didn’t actually buy sour cream?
I can’t overstate the importance of the microbes in kefir. Sour Cream is generally a single microbe.
Pasted from wikipedia: “Probiotic bacteria found in kefir products include: Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium bifidum, Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus, Lactobacillus helveticus, Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens, Lactococcus lactis, and Leuconostoc species.[11][15][19] Lactobacilli in kefir may exist in concentrations varying from approximately 1 million to 1 billion colony-forming units per milliliter, and are the bacteria responsible for the synthesis of the polysaccharide kefiran.[4]
In addition to bacteria, kefir often contains strains of yeast that can metabolize lactose, such as Kluyveromyces marxianus, Kluyveromyces lactis, and Saccharomyces fragilis, as well as strains of yeast that do not metabolize lactose, including Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Torulaspora delbrueckii, and Kazachstania unispora.[11] ”
And, I NEVER drink it unflavored. It’s just not palatable, especially goat kefir. You can really taste the goat.
What brand do you buy? I know it said kefir, but it definitely wasn’t effervescent.
Lifeway: http://lifewaykefir.com
If you’re concerned about the carbs from sweetening…. all it takes is a very small glass each morning. You’ll notice a difference in about a week or so.
I’ll usually pour a cup when I wake up, and let it come up to room temperature for as long as possible before I drink it. If you leave the bottle out of the fridge, it should start to bulge from fermentation.
What kind of difference?
I used to have to be careful what I ate. Korean taco night? Trouble the next day. Half of a large pizza? Dog farts for the next 3 days.
Now, I can pretty much eat whatever without any consequences.
Also, I have a mild yeast allergy, and the symptoms are pretty much gone.
I’m sold.
That’s the brand I bought. Maybe because I drank it cold. I let it come to room temp tomorrow.
Did you get “Plain”?
That’s what I imaging that toilet wine tastes like.
I got “original”, which is sour cream flavored.
OK. I think I see the problem.
I like blueberry, but there are plenty of options that aren’t “original”.
I’ll finish this bottle then try blueberry
I’d throw it away, but then again, I don’t have the self-discipline that you do.
I never had bubbly kefir either.
Ewe!
How’s the C diff going?
No symptoms, but we’re taking it pretty seriously. She’s on one pill every six hours, and we’re eating probiotic everything.
Tonight, I cooked filets with Korean pickled vegetables. I usually wrap the filets in bacon, but I left it out this time in case there’s a possibility that the sodium nitrite in bacon is in high enough concentrations to interfere with probiotic bacteria replication.
I know it’s VERY persistent, but I’m optimistic.
I hope it works out.
Thanks, man.
Sauerkraut.
Need an article on driving etiquette. Use your God damn turn signals!
Also, turn your signal off. I can’t tell you have many times i’ve almost pulled out and decided I better wait and they zoom past.
I had a guy in a POS pickup use hand signals on Saturday. I was on my bike and recognized it but took me a second. The lack of any working signal lights including brake lights made it clear.
Or manners. Such as, “don’t drive around the neighborhood for hours on end with your stupid exploding muffler that you think is impressing everyone”.
And “impatiently tailgating me on a two lane road with large amounts of traffic in both directions gets you nothing more than a chance at higher insurance premiums”
Bikers say “loud pipes save lives, otoh christ my fucking ears.
Don’t get blackout hammered and go the wrong way down the interstate on ramp.
Wait, is that wrong?
Why? So people can speed up and take my spot?
Don’t fucking tailgate, retards. You won’t get there any faster and I have no interest in dying at your retarded hands.
Flash your lights behind me = 5 MPH decrease in cruise control.
Flash me again and it’s another 5MPH.
This isn’t the fucking Autobahn and excuse the hell out of me from keeping you from breaking the law.
The left lane is so you can go faster than the people in the right lane; not so you can have your own lane to go the same speed.
Move the fuck over.
This
That was my thought as well.
Manners: the acts that we do to other humans to respect their individuality. Holding the door for people. Closing your mouth when you eat. Saying “please” and “thank you”
Morals: a bit more strict. The acts that we do to other humans to better society. Don’t defraud people. Don’t kill people. Don’t fuck your sister.
Laws: the things that society cannot accept. Murder. Theft. Fraud.
What about mores?
Those are based on society. You can view them as collectivized morals.
Further, perhaps the significant difference between social conservatives and libertarians is that the former want their mores laws.
That’s the difference between progressives and libertarians, too.
Yes, in regards to “social” policies — especially in their “whatever is permitted is mandatory” tendencies. I never thought of their socialist economic polices that way because mores are a social construct, and armed robbery is unethical regardless of whether society agrees it isn’t.
Of course, progressives are terrible Marxists because they are obsessed with identity politics.
I thought they were the Muslims that came across the Mediterranean from North Africa and boned all the Sicilican chicks?
boned all the Sicilican chicks?-
Can you blame them?
Hey, if you’re into hairy, ill-tempered chicks, who am I to judge?
I like a solid 30 percent chance I’ll be stabbed in my sleep after sex.
So that’s amore
Great. Now I want pizza pie.
That’s the Moops
Thanks for that. I hadn’t seen that one in a while.
Mores: Don’t fuck Winston’s Mom.
Or at least don’t brag about it…
I would say don’t fuck your sister is morals, fraud and murder are ethics, and law is arbitrary. But I’m not, because then I’d end up arguing philosophy with a bunch of libertarians.
Good call
I cannot say that this is a perfect definition. However, it was good enough for a 25-year-old hobbit to make peace with the world 40 years ago.
We have guests coming this weekend. We have an understanding that we bring gifts of booze, music, and or both. All of our Christmas or birthday presents are very personal and typically hand made.
This weekend there will be whiskey of some high quality from one guest and another that will likely bring records or MP3’s that he picked just for the occasion.
When we last visited I brought a 50’s vintage ashtray with a lite in the base that I payed 10$ for on Craigslist. I spent another 10$ and sweat equity to clean, paint and polish it. My guest is a smoker with a love of 50-60’s electronics. He uses it every day.
Good gift giving, in any form, and reciprocal appreciation makes good friendships great.
Two years ago, I made my niece a bottle of ginger simple syrup as a gift. I think it lasted three months. Last year, I made her and my sister three different types of simple syrup: a ginger one, a rosemary one, and a vanilla demerara one. Smaller sized bottles, and I don’t think they lasted a month.
Finding a simple gift that means a ton to the recipient is work but not always costly.
I found a 5$ pencil sharpener for an artist friend of mine once that was for draftsmen. I thought of it once he complained that he spends a ton of time hand sharpening his pencils because they don’t get a long enough exposed lead. He was extremely happy not specifically because I solved a problem, but because I listened to him and remembered the problem.
You have a talent for it – I’m jealous.
Although I did come across a weird old shotgun sight that I gave to a gun-nut buddy of mine. He thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I have made mistakes just as much. I tend to forget them after learning what and why It was wrong.
I would love that. Great for drinks.
Exactly the reason they were gifted. Both my sister and niece have worked as bartenders, and like craft cocktails. At some point, I need to start considering the flavors I’ll give them this year. I’m thinking star anise for one at a minimum.
You can come over anytime.
There’s nothing like the feeling when you find a perfect gift. The kind of thing a person would buy for themselves if they knew it existed.
If it were really a friend, it would be WAV or FLAC, not MP3.
Damned work laptop. I didn’t turn off IM, and one of my coworkers just pinged me asking about a change request that was passed over to them three months ago.
“Send me an e-mail, I’ve been up for more than 18 hours now, and I’m just up now trying to reset my internal clock.”
What are the etiquette rules to be ignored? Fork placement? Elbows? Hats?
Pants. They are for cowards and incels.
Again, pants are NOT optional upon arrival.
So do you provide hangers, or does everyone just pile them on a chair or something?
But once you’re in the door…
Is it a 30 minute rule, like posting booby links?
So… did you put that in your online profile? 🙂
I’ll bring it up if someone contacts me. I don’t want to be too restrictive in the profile.
Wait, I have to have actual pants on when I ring the doorbell? Does laying in the back seat of the car count? What about, they’re on the bed at home because I forgot to put them on?
There’s isn’t nearly enough information in your post.
I’m trying to think if any party we had at your house ended with people still wearing pants.
I can’t recall that ever happening.
Lack of bathing, farting, telling it like it is, and bringing mad dog 20/20.
Ever since first hearing London Homesick Blues, I’ve wondered… are Mad Dog margaritas palatable?
Given that I invented a drink that uses “Florida orange wine” as a mixer for vodka, I feel the need to find this out. But maybe not tonight.
Wait, wrong Jerry Jeff Walker song.
Don’t be slagging on Jerry Jeff!
JJW born Oneonta, NY
* giggles * right up there with other famous Texan John Wayne
I’M FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK!
#metoo
Don’t forget Guy Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SXlSjco8J4
Guy Clark, great American, born Monahans, TX (where we surf without water)
I love love love Guy Clark. I used to be in a band that…wait, doxxing myself.
Does that carol make you want to try figgy pudding? For you, not to give in to the extortion of carolers refusing to leave unless they get some.
I usually bring high end chocolates. The kind that come just four to a box. It’s small, it requires no work on the part of the host, and it doesn’t (and because only four, won’t be) need to be opened while you are there.
Perfect
This whole thread is very helpful.
Thanks, SP!
And Tulip.
*puts pants back on*
Tulip’s pants back on?
Tundra and Tulip wear the same sized pants?
I’m so confused now.
I can clear this up. They’re communal pants. HTH.
There was a lot of booze….
Can I tell you a romantic story
About the one-eyed lady in France
I guess the king decreed that all the various princes
Should try to get inside her pants
In years gone by we would have fairly frequent supper parties, usually 8-12 people. Some would ask what they could bring and my wife was a little offended. She felt
that the spread she put out would be more than adequate and it always was. Several courses, like 6-7, with sizeable leftovers that she would try to send home with the guests. The guests were very good and long time friends so they may sort of defer but Mrs Fourscore would be adamant.
After the party she would ask me “Was this good?” or “Did you have the baked corn?” My answer would always be ‘No, there was just too much food, too many things to eat and I couldn’t get to it all”. She didn’t want it to appear that we were poor or that she didn’t know how to cook.
Now we just go to a restaurant for those occasions and tell people to order what they want. No leftovers, no work, no hassle.
I enjoy cooking, and since the girlfriend’s tastes are much less adventurous then mine, it’s rare that I get to experiment. Parties are when I get the chance to really test out a new dish, and see how it works out. Many guests have learned that when I give a warning that something is spicy, I’m not joking, nor exaggerating. When I knew there would be vegetarians (or even vegans) coming over, I would indicate which dishes met their dietary choices, and made sure there would at least be one dish they could eat.
Until I read your post, I thought that one of the etiquette rules was not to use guests as guinea pigs for a culinary experiment.
You will always have that person who hast to bring their signature dish.
Mary’s famous potato salad doesn’t go with the Italian feast you are preparing. Mary doesn’t care because someone was kind once and said it was the best so she makes it every time there is a party.
Martha and (glasses wearing) Snoop Dogg. This is truly the best timeline.
Yes!
If I should ever meet you and the old man I’d be more than happy to bring you what my hopelessly unrefined ass considers a good wine I randomly bought about seven years ago:
http://www.weareitaly.net/en/product/Salice-Salentino/puglia/salice-salentino-doc.html
That’s about as fancy as I get and it doesn’t exactly break your wallet. And don’t worry, I’ll probably be too stoned to notice if you drink the wine or not. 😉
In spite of being in California, I’m rooting for Toronto.
Steve Kerr is such a sanctimonious cunt.
My apologies. This is is a politeness post.
Steve Kerr has a lot of room for improvement.
I don’t care about basketball at all, learned today that Golden State can be eliminated tonight. And I have the game on.
Me neither but that does hold some appeal. *flips over*
You know… *nit pick coming*… if arenas wanted everybody to be standing the whole game, they’d build separate standing sections, like soccer arenas do. Maybe the people behind you idiots don’t appreciate you blocking their view?
More than Popovich?
Thanks, SP, for trying to class up this joint.
Dinner with SP?
https://images.app.goo.gl/8a9MxMqzCpgfAxUD8
I was expecting this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLhWVLiF68
MIkey, your Lotus is still available.
She’s a beauty.
Well, you COULD have had lunch with SP if you knew how technology works. *sigh*
I’m so sick of these constant bear attacks!
We need common sense bear control
Let the bears pay the bear tax!
Tonio hardest hit
Oh, I bet he’s firmly in control of the bear chained up in his basement.
I gotta turn the “safe search” on in my search engine. I went looking for a funny gif to link to and…did you know “gay bear hentai porn” is a thing? And by bear, I mean the Yogi type.
Rule 34 strikes again.
I was looking for something more family friendly, like this bear sneak attack.
It’s clearly a little boy, but that’s OK now.
OT: This is how you income-inequality.
Sucker!
the South still sucks
Someone should have stayed in Texas ?
Richard Florida cleans cat litterboxes with his tongue.
Tough shit.
I wonder if those income figures are adjusted for cost of living. Because it would be kind of disingenuous if not.
And, MSN seems to be implying that only increased taxation can make an economy stronger. And, that doesn’t sound like MSN at all…
/color me shocked
Perhaps Microsoft should ask their shareholders to vote to hand the company over to either the US government or the governments of respective countries they are operating in, so that the government(s) can use the revenue to strengthen the economy (in the case of the US) from the Trump disaster to equal that of the Golden Age of Obama and its ‘fun employment.’ And whatever happened to the most important driver of the US economy being the multiplier effect of government entitlement checks?
they’re not
the point is made by relative fraction
Still meaningless without knowing what the cost of living is. I command well over the “national average” simply by living in “the Northeast” but you wouldn’t know it if you saw where I live.
One would only know it by the cleaner, yet not spotless, cleanliness of a ‘not a queer gay’ that you glib gays are.Where us we straight single glibs would just walk around a broken glass for like a year before we even thought about using a broom.
I don’t think anyone’s going to mistake my abode for “clean, yet not spotless”. The one thing I cannot abide is clutter. But cleanliness, enh – that is more aspiration than reality.
There are things on my toilet seat older than some voters. I don’t care…
The title instantly made me think “All mink and no manners.”
Followed by sliding into Rewind.
Well, Phoenix.
Batman’s cock.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/09/20/17/507591DE00000578-6189835-image-a-2_1537461285704.jpg
Probably NSFW.
To those who heeded my call for support of wife’s Twitch channel: Thank you so very much. I know who two of you are, but I didn’t know (for sure) who the others were.
If you are stumped by my statement, I went begging here last night, and this morning, for anyone willing to use their Amazon Prime-Twitch Prime free sub on her channel. If you are interested, and want more info, you can ask here or email me on protonmail.com (Sir.Digby.71).
Her page is http://www.twitch.tv/pepperannespice
That makes money? Haz sad at years crafting video…………………
Yes, and, much like the RB suggestion, I almost recommend you using twitch for another H&H viewing platform.
Almost, since it really is more about live-streaming. So, if you can broadcast as you animate, et al, give it a whirl.
/yes, it’s not done live, as it’s an awful strain on animators’ wrists.
I didn’t sign up yet, but I’m going to. Thanks for the reminder.
On topic – a good bottle of wine is always in good taste. For those souls who can’t deal with the grape, some minor sweets are a fine choice (there’s a kick-ass macaron place right down the street – those things are crack).
“Our macaroons are made with finest ingredients: Madagascar vanilla, Caribbean coconut, and Detroit crack cocaine”
I couldn’t resist that, slum. I agree with you on a finely crafted macaroon. I agree with those macaroons you find in the pull-top cans in the grocery stores, so I may not be the supportive voice you want.
Is it bad manners for me to hope Golden State wins this game just so I can watch them lose on the finals on their home court?
Kawhi turning it on. 12 minutes of lunchtime left. No OT please.
Looking forward to seeing them win a final game in Oakland.
Impressive win for them. Fun series from now on.
This has been a much better series than the last two that seemed like the Dubs versus LeBron. The first two Finals with the Dubs and Cavs were good basketball and the third was a disappointment. Draymond getting suspended for a critical game was weak and obviously I didn’t like game 7 of that. I hope this one goes 7. Tough break without KD.
Gosh darnit. I’ve been trying to make this short film for a damn decade, keeps getting held up because I can’t get a fuckin actress! Latest one offered the role declined. How did they ever make Girls Gone Wild!?
K. Leonard’s wallet is the one that says “BadMuthaFucka” on it.
But he also has several others with Bucks logos on them…
Curry pickpocketed that wallet. Great game. Can’t wait for game 6. Go Dubs.
https://archive.li/OAsEk/7cc2f7d787c18d5bbcd13eec660e67ccc3ea900f.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/MiQvQ/5582f82d6f52457a562ddc7fbe0e4036e25fa173.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/f66lf/07df7721f47a7b194a30f4fc39ed9c5e7c9d5afd.jpg
Can’t decide if want show bobs
Mask face
Eric Stoltz has a sad. And, so do I.
Skinny Amy Schumer
I can’t not see that now. Thanks, jerk.
I was thinking she lost some weight.
You did?
Summer reading lists have come out for the Spawn. Let’s see… all the recommended books in the “realistic fiction” category are:
— Iraqi girl
— Muslim Indian-born girl during a terrorist attack
– latina girl in Harlem with anger issues
– japanese girl in Hawaii, sibling death
– marvin’s brother shot by police
– Korean-american girl watches a lot of kdrama
– Boy goes to Iran to meet grandparents meets a guy who “changes his life” (either he’s gay or ISIS, hard to tell from the summary)
– Boy tracks down his troubled foster brother
– girl’s quiet neighborhood goes beserk when their water’s cut off (looks more dystopian than realistic, but ok)
– girl falls in love with transgender
– world-famous internet personality (girl) in high school has troubled romance
– fanfic of Pride and Prejudice with an Afro-Latina Lizzy and “gentrification” in Brooklyn
yeah, pretty clear why teenage boys aren’t reading YA. good lord.
They are white supremacists who don’t get mental images of all these girls in cute Ts and short shorts? Which is what I just did.
Is that enough to ease the boredom of 200 pages of derp? I’ll take your word for it. Because I was rolling my eyes just looking at the list…
Hell, with those images, in ma brain, I could have read Mein Kompf at that age and had hardness to spare.
Girl falls in love with tranny is a long way to go for teen lesbians fantasy.
I don’t remember any such thing growing up; I just read random SF paperbacks I found at the local public library or my mom’s Stephen King books after she was done with them.
Future humans will look back on government school as the biggest human’s rights violation since slavery.
Seriously, I had a good public school education but that was back in the day.
Even in 7th grade I recognized that the “Civics/ Social Studies “ book was Marxist shit.
It all comes down to the parents. Raise your child up in the way that he should go, and he shall not depart from it forever.
Or let the state do it, and he won’t depart from their version.
Your call, parents
Let us assume that the three categories of metrics by which the results of “K-12 public education” should be judged are money spent per full time equivalent (FTE) student (less is better), how much the children learn (more is better), and safety (death, injury, theft) both on campus and on those off-campus occasions when the students are in theory under school supervision (less death, injury, and theft the better). Based on current and recent State of the Schools reports from government superintendents of schools to government school boards, emphasizing these three appears to be a radical notion. The reality, the fact, is: on average, non-charter private and non-charter parochial schools in the United States outperform non-charter government-run schools in all three. The evidence about charter schools is mixed. A combined about 1/5 of full time equivalent (FTE) students in government-run K-12 schools are either not in households or in the about ¼ of households at or below the poverty line. That leaves about 4/5 of FTEs. There are at least five reasons that “federal spending on K-12 public education” for those about 4/5 should be $0: (1) moral (having a 3rd party, even government, to use force or threat of force to do mugging and/or a protection racket when it is not a ‘necessary evil’ situation); (2) ‘paid for’ does not contribute to deficits and debts; (3) requiring the beneficiaries of a government-run program to either pay for the program themselves or find others who will voluntarily pay is a decentralized incentive-driven approach to greatly reduce waste, fraud, corruption, and abuse; (4) please give the actual numbers of the Article, Section, Subsection or Paragraph, and Clause of the Constitution of the United States of America under which the federal government may tax and/or borrow to pay for “federal spending on K-12 public education.” Hint: the justification is not in the text but by Implied Powers Doctrine and/or Living Breathing Constitution Doctrine, both of which are unconstitutional; and (5) if the government-run option stops being free to the parents and/or guardians, then this will incentivize them to consider transferring the children to cheaper, safer, better educating schools.
I imagine this being some kind of game show skit on
SNLthe comedy show of your choosing.Unrelated to anything.
Terrible and hilarious.
Also it is related to something: my presence in Dugway Proving Ground
You’re there because the operator didn’t connect to the local sheriff?
It’s because I’m not named billy bob, jimmy john, or jimmy Joan.
Meh, it’s late night, time for some making stupid mistakes. I AM JIMMY JOHN JOHNSON!
Ms. ‘Splosives has pledged herself to our new alien overlords, obs.
Well, I’ve been in the tunnel under Granite Peak. It changes you, man.
And I’m here to stir shit up. It’s about to get loud tomorrow.
leaked work footage
This. Came here for this.
“We have no right to intrude on our neighbours’ peace and quiet by being noisy. It is downright bad manners.” – A to Z of Manners and Etiquette, 2006 edition, School of Manners & Common Sense
Wait….you can’t get her for your film? What’d you do, C?
She moved to Montana or something, her sister married, then divorced, then remarried, then divorced the Sharif. People be nuts.
FOR the nuts, it sounds like.
Well, I’d offer to help, but….yeah.
I make all my actresses submit a wt T-shirt photo, haven’t gotten that from you yet…But, um, my film stuff is totally different from the link we are here discussing…
Oh, yeah–nice dissolve, btw.
And, you’ll get my t-shirt pic soon enough. I mean, I won’t be in the pic, but that’s not even mentioned in your casting call.
Er, I don’t know to what you are speaking…
Ah, they finally played Taps.
I can’t sleep until they do.
But, you just got here…
I miss reveille, retreat, and taps. It’s like martial calls to prayer.
I’ve never been fortunate enough to get back from the work site by 5 pm
Dabney Coleman!
IIRC, I saw that in the theater. Twice.
::sigh::
I remember when I was a kid there used to be a commercial for some powdered laundry detergent called “Breeze” which came with a free towel inside. Which was ridiculous, because the cheapshit towel took up half the box and was probably worth less than a cup of the detergent. But the commercials were hosted by two country music singers, Porter Waggoner and Dolly Parton, who I’d never heard of at the time (this was long before Dolly became a big name). I don’t know why that 9-5 song made me remember that.
Perhaps I’ll look for it on YouTube.
Found it!
Not before my time, per se, but I don’t remember it.
That wasn’t hard to find.
1972! Dolly’s practically a little girl.
Damn your nimble fingers!
1972?! I was 3 years old. That looks like the 50’s or something.
The concept there is… ridiculous.
Yes, ridiculous, can you just imagine? Coming home after a long day of work and wanting to wash a load of laundry, and your significant other bought a box of detergent, and you try to shake out some, but all that comes out is the ugliest 10-thread goddamned ‘bath towel’ you ever saw in your life. You might just lose it. Or, if you were calmer, you’d say, “dear, next time, buy towels in the linens department, and just buy detergent with nothing but detergent inside. I think we can afford to buy them separately.”
That’s poetry, CA. I can almost see it as a concept-album name.
Also, why am I suddenly thinking of Schooner Tuna?
Sir Digby, about your handle: What does Arab, Islam, or Middle East have to do with Mitchell and Webb? Or does that refer to something else?
It has to do with FUCK YOU!
Interesting choice of words, considering this is “SP’s Guide to Insufferable Politeness.”
But, perfectly in step with our general grousing in these here parts/
I’ll field this one: It’s a spur-of-the-moment thing, stemming from a few weeks back. Heroic answered someone’s question about how to tell if someone is a genuine ??? (I can’t be arsed to do a search) with a very glib (DRINK!) answer like, “I think it’s followed by Peace Be Upon Him (PBUH).”
And, when you see that level of snarky craftsmanship…I mean, am I going to NOT put that on my handle?
Thank you.
No problem whatsoever.
If you are interested (and, even if you aren’t), I like to mix things up from time to time with the ol’ Glibs identity. Of course, everyone gets used to a certain name, and a new one is either hackneyed, confusing, or, just gets old. So, I try to use variations on SD. It’s almost a 2nd name for me.
3rd, if I count my Twitch handle.
I bring a bottle of wine as a standard thing not that I go to that many dinner parties
Good morning glibs!
But, I have it on good authority your kind does not drink…wine.
Dammit, I can’t find a link for Homer’s, “Correction: Free blood!” scene.
But, it applies here.
Also, Good Morning, Pie.
A typical day in The Life of Pie.
We’ll be in Wausau and Eagle River/Rhinelander/Three Lakes in 2.5 weeks with a rental car if that’s anywhere near you.
I’m east of Wausau. CPRM AT MYSELF dot COM
You’re lighting the nostalgia signal
/Hey, maybe the spelling champ needs a new role
Nice. That bit at the end with the letter-FX and the synth notes is a gas.
It’s one of the TV things I remember from childhood (well, both of those points).
I may have actually incorporated those in a dream at some point in my youth. Not exactly sure.
It’s one of those things I remember but only 38 years later after someone points it out. Totally of its time.
OK, this had me laughing. Excellent find.
/Look who I’m talking to…’good find’
Good morning, Pie. Any big or unusual plans for today?
Guten Morgen.
Good morning, Pie! We’d drink that wine.
rain rain rain goddamn rain… And it is supposed to be 33 degrees later this week so the fucking humidity will be a bitch. While I know June is the wettest month in Romania, enough already. Stupid rain. Spoiled the cherries.
Hell, you might as well be in North Texas, at this point. Although, no cherries outside grocery stores (that I’ve seen).
NYC was rain all day and heavy fog, plus more rain. But warm enough I have the windows open and fans blowing clouds into my apartment.
Getting hot-boxed by Nature. Rhy, you livin’ the life!
It’s 100 frigging degrees here at 10pm. We dont have AC because we live on a hill top that typically has nice breezes, and it almost always gets cool in California after dark due the low humidity, and this only happens 3 or 4 nights a year. But it’s brutal here tonight.
Don’t anyone poke your head in later as I will be sleeping buck naked in a puddle of sweat on top of the covers (wife is out of town) and I don’t think you’ll be able to shake that view from your brain for awhile. Consider this my gift to good manners.
Doc, you had me at “puddle of sweat”.
Sending you good vibes of Texas air conditioned comfort.
Where I grew up we had hard winters and beautiful summers and only the well-off had AC. But there were always 2 or 3 miserable nights of ungodly heat and humidity. Now I live in an area with not-as-brutal winters and much more brutal summers so AC is mandatory. It’s good to have it available even if I don’t need it for 7 or 8 months of the year.
Even here by the beach it is still cooking. It only gets this hot here at night maybe once every two or three years. It’s nice to have after so much rain. But just because I know it’s not gonna last. Fog will be back here soon.
May Gray and June Gloom.
California ?
San Diego gets that June cloud cover. But after that you have sun the rest of the year. That place has some of the best weather on the planet. The fall and winter there are damn nice.
I am digging it , that is for sure.
Fresh oranges from the yard daily, one more month til the apples are ready.
Paradise on earth
Nice, glad the move is treating you well. California is indeed an absolute paradise, it’s really a shame what has happened to it politics wise.
WTF it’s 64 here.
It’s 80 degrees still on Ocean Beach at almost 11pm. That’s bizarre that MB is that cool right now.
You really should go out on the sand and do a remake of “Beach Blanket Bingo”.
When are you going to have the chance again?
At least the NBA tv signal is still passing through your land. This has been a great series.
We’re down to 95F at the moment, and only going to hit 111F for the next 3 days. It’s a dry heat! (9% RH)
Good lord. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that. It was in the 30’s the other day which was rare for here.
94% presently.
Oh, we had a really glorious morning, here. I have no idea what the humidity was, but it was downright cool and pleasant when I got home.
Of course, we had an awful storm Sunday that tore the shit out of a bunch of trees in the neighborhood, among other pleasantries around the Metroplex.
I have the temp and humidity both on my computer desktop – in some ways the humidity is more important in predicting how much the weather will suck that day.
105 here today. The office AC went out. Thank doG I wasn’t in a suit today.
Chafed………rrrrowrrr!
We only hit 107. We shall remember this fondly when it hits 111 tomorrow.
Sounds like a good reason for night time skinny dipping.
Girl I’ve had a crush on since second grade replied to my call for an actress, lets see how this goes after I fucked it up last time…I’m sure the answer is sexual harassment…
Isn’t it always??
/fingers crossed
Yeah, last time I talked to her in person GWB was president. Than I sent some stupid messages then she got married, and now divorced, and now according to FB ‘in a relationship’ I get so fuckin confused.
Billy was confused, too.
What’s the call for? Have you reached out to WebDom?
She has played coy, by giving me absolutely no way to contact her, girls playing hard to get and all.
WebDom is an aspiring actress? I thought she is a web developer.
Why not both??
That’s some good policing, Officer That’s Why.
It’s interesting how the potential civil rights cases show up regularly in libertarian and conservative sites. Progressive sites seem uninterested if it isn’t a big story. I have no idea why the modern left lost interest in civil rights.
Oh, I’m sure there are plenty on the right that would see that and think the cop was absolutely aces. And, leftists who would agree with us, but for identity politicking reasons. And, they wouldn’t give a tinker’s damn about the guy after making a broader point.
Also, how are you today? I mean, beyond no suit.
I’m good SD. Hope you weren’t hit by the blackouts in your area.
Nah…more Dallas-proper. I’m further North. But, we had plenty of tree limbs and halves around the neighborhood.
I don’t think one side is all good and the other all bad. Over the last decade or so I’ve noticed this role reversal. It’s baffling, at least to me.
I have seen it, too. I think many conservatives have had eyes opened, with the sheer number of videos out there. Why the Left has crapped out (where they have) is the bigger mystery to me.
I have come to be big believer in the uselessness of the old “left-center-right” spectrum.
I believe more in a simple Totalitarian vs Freedom-Loving spectrum.
Team Red vs Team Blue are driving as hard as they can towards Totalitarianism. Which team temporarily has power is as trivial as Who Won the Super Bowl this year.
Also, fuck off,slavers
“…CD of your favorite “dinner music” by Kraftwerk”. That got a laugh out of me.
Also. My wife is a fervent adherent of (D) regardless of situation.
*notes that Rufus’ wife loves the D*