I can’t believe it’s already November. The snow is falling, the rivers are icing over, the trees are bare. We have an election coming up this week where my vote against a $250 million school bond issue will be on the vastly losing side. Pumpkins and skulls have been replaced by pilgrims and Santas. And the presidential campaigns are swinging into Full Stupidity.
Birthdays today are few but good. A guy the Indians could have used; a guy I will always think of as Wladislaw; the definitive Sherlock Holmes; a loser; a strong candidate for dumbest US senator; someone who used to be funny; and a guy who used to be good.
News!
Check your menstrual privilege.
Sexist vs. homophobe deathmatch.
Think of what that’s doing to your intestines.
Old Guy Music today can be blamed on Tundra, who sent me down a rabbit hole yesterday. Or turtle hole. Whatever.
Comments
443 responses to “Sunday Morning Standard Time Links”
Where’s my fainting couch? – the price we must pay for 8 hour work days and weekends
Check your menstrual privilege i am amazed ypi have toilet paper in schools in the US. None of that in 90s Romania
I’m surprised the administration spends money on supplies like that. Typically they don’t pay for things the school needs so they can fund themselves and then cry poverty to the taxpayers with the excuse of “Look at everything we can’t afford to buy”
I have an alibi. – Are parking meeters white privilege? I say yes
“Just settling old scores”
+ Paul Newman
Think of what that’s doing to your intestines.
The entire WaPo site? 😉
I chuckled.
More deep thought. – I say they should come togheter to hate libertarians
You have to win and gain some power to be hated. We will never have that.
Also finally the links are at the right time
Don’t get used to it. In a short while we go back to whatever time.
Is that paper real?
Yee, Haw
These are the people driving politics today. We are truly fucked.
Yee Haw? This calls for that clip of Shep Smith saying politics is weird…and creepy.
Well, Beto IS a solid loser, so there’s that.
I though that changing my winter tires before the weather gets bad would mean no waitint times. I was wrong
Jesus, if the talk inside a major league clubhouse has become so vanilla that Trump’s brainfarts are too much for one its players then I weep for America and the MLB. Grow some fucking balls.
Is that Randy Watson? Because if so, you win Avatar Change of the Month!
“Sexual Chocolate!!!”
Joe the Policeman? From the ‘What’s Going Down’ episode of That’s My Mama?
“That boy is good!”
“….good and awful.”
Q Continuum, Count Potato
They can post the picture, but they can’t make it for ya!
Post mortem
The proximate cause of O’Rourke’s fall was not in the unorthodox things he did. His meandering, solo road trip through the Southwest, the livestreaming of his dentist visit, even the infamous “born to be in it” Vanity Fair cover — which he later said he regretted — all happened before O’Rourke cratered.
Story Continued Below
Rather, it was everything he didn’t do — rendering him an object lesson in the familiar limits of charisma, the liability of high expectations and the importance of organization.
Or, as O’Rourke might say, of having one’s “shit” together.
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Embracing tearful supporters, O’Rourke described his campaign as a “transcendent” experience. “As tough as this day is,” he reassured one man, “there’s just something beautiful that’s going to stay with me, some kind of optimism I have about where the country’s going because of all the people I’ve met.”
If he couldn’t answer why that wasn’t enough, it was because what O’Rourke cherished about running for office — the crowds, the road, the exchange of ideas, even as his crowds thinned — rarely is.
Incompetent buffoon, or starry-eyed dreamer?
I bet he would have won in Canadia / troll
Why not both?
To regurgitate something I posted a couple days ago…because it’s still funny…
In memoriam:
https://i0.wp.com/www.bookwormroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Beto-spoof-of-Vanity-Fair-cover.jpg?fit=848%2C879
I know that to the coasties El Paso could be nothing but a fly-over cow-town – but I wonder how many hours away from El Paso he had to be driven for that shot of open desert road?
Not that far, but who knows where that pic was taken.
Apropos of nothing, when I was stationed at Ft. Bliss, there were often day we were prohibited from taking PT out of doors because the smoke from the never-ending tire fire in Ciudad Juarez was blowing our way.
“Ft. Bliss” someone was feeling really ironic when they named that place.
And how! That’s why they called it Fort Sensible.
LOL
*jumps up on counter and flails arms around*
There is rarely any difference.
Robby here and I obviously grew up in different times and different “El Pasos”. When he started promising full-on gun confiscation I wondered how he could have believed that would work? My only guess is that his silver spoon upbringing kept him out of touch from how most people in his home town view the world.
I was just thinking about how heavily impacted a Pol’s psyche must be by constantly attending events where people cheer for you and cry and tell you how awesome you are.
People can give the Don all the shit they want about getting booed in public places, at least he has the balls to go knowing he’s going to be booed. I also wonder if it’s more healthy for him (and us) to experience that.
I think that is why Obama was so dangerous. The cult of personality that sprang up around him, what with CNN having a child chorus sing hosannas and movies made about him and his wife’s first date, the swelling of the head just went cray-cray. Hydrocephalic, even.
CNN having a child chorus sing hosannas
The Mmm Mmm Mmm Barark Hussien Obama thing? That was some teacher in NJ, not CNN, and I’d wager that at the time the video was used far more often by the Fox news, Glen Beck, Brietbart crowd to show how scary the indoctrination of our yutes is than it appeared on CNN as praise for Obama.
I remember Rush going particularly batty over that.
Yes.
Where Beta really screwed up is when he said ‘Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15s’. If he would have just said ‘Hell yes, we’re going to take your guns’, then he would be our next president, because all Americans agree with that statement and 97% of scientists say the science is settled.
Yeah, it’s pretty obvious that’s what he tanked on. You’re supposed to hem and haw about the matter like the rest of them do, not just blurt out full-on totalitarian fantasies.
Narcissist.
“We just weren’t ready for him. Woe is us.”
I think this is the first time i see glins and hat and hair mentioned in a random tween on the net. Who is this? I am unaware of twitter accounts of commenters
https://mobile.twitter.com/Bugs_Meany/status/1190741121548378118
That is absolutely wonderful, better than fiction.
*gliba not glins
Glibs goddamnit stupid phone
“Operator error”
PEBCAP?
I’m going to have to defend Pie. Phone interfaces are terrible, especially for typing.
I imagine it’s a huge pain in the ass with those long fingernails.
That’s true, which is why I use mine for Grandpa-photo-bragging, texts and actual phone calls, and not much else.
The Hat is named Scavino?
Although not having to reset every fucking clock is nice, I do find changing time zones instead to be more disruptive, at least for a few days or weeks until I get mentally adjusted.
Does anyone know what happened to beloved commenter Number 6?
No but have been wandering
Perhaps he followed the bouncing ball.
Dammit!
Rover got him?
He escaped The Village?
I seem to remember seeing something about he, Vyrus(butchered the spelling, y’all know who I mean), and John Titor spending most of their time on Discord or some other gaming and gun forums, but don’t quote me on that.
Yeah, he’s mostly on the glibs discord server these days.
Can confirm. I hung out over there for a while, but I can’t be bothered to keep up with a live scrolling conversation like that.
Same.
Same…….I had 1999-2000 chat room flashbacks
Twitter and FB are difficult enough to keep up with. Also, Discord’s layout is … discordant.
For instance, there are different topic chatrooms and I have to scroll every time to change and it’s just too much effort to keel up.
Heck, I have enough trouble keeping up with the conversations here. I will say, though, that I love Monocle, especially with Firefox on my laptop.
#metoo
I wish I had Monocle for my iPad, and for the Brave browser.
I think Monocle works on brave. I’m somewhat sure you can download the tampermonkey extension on brave.
I managed to get Monocle installed on my pawn shop tablet so I could use it while I’m on the Play It Again Sports (used athletic equipment) treadmill, but the controls are tiny and at the bottom, and I have a hell of a time pressing the “buttons” to scroll through comments while I’m trudging along at 3.3 mph.
Eyepiece is better for tablets. It’s what I use on my phone. The installation instructions are in the sidebar of this site.
I was wrong about Brave. They’re still thinking about UserScript support, but haven’t implemented it yet. Safari does have support, though.
Thanks! I’ll try to put it on the tablet before I get on the treadmill again….which I assure all of you will happen any time now… ::rocks in rocking chair::
Aww thanks! I’m glad folks like Monocle!
MikeS, if you’re lurking around, I got almost all of the way through fixing the reply refresh issue on Eyepiece. There are just a few more small tweaks to make (the cancel reply button is broken for some reason) before its ready for prime time. It should automatically push the update when the time comes, but I’ll also announce it.
Cool! You kick ass, SUPREME OVERLORD!
Hey, trashy, is there any way to stop it from changing my settings when it auto-updates?
Not a huge deal – just unsettling when comments and mute buttons start popping in out of nowhere. 🙂
It shouldn’t be resetting when it updates. All that info is stored in cookies, so if you’re wiping out your browsing data on a regular basis, you’re gonna have a pretty inconsistent Eyepiece experience.
No, I don’t wipe Glibs cookies.
Whatever, no biggie.
If you’re not wiping cookies, there may be a bug in the retrieval algorithm, or possibly a browser specific inconsistency. I forget which browser you’re using, but I can investigate.
Safari. T’anks!
I also thought that Vyrus was one of Q’s sock puppets?
I though that 6 was one of Q’s sock puppets? Is that not true?
No he was a Limey expat computer guy who used to work in the adult video industry*, enjoyed the work of Carl Benjamin a bit too much, and was always worth reading.
*Wait a sec, now that you mention it…
“No he was a Limey expat computer guy who used to work in the adult video industry*”
Outside of the Limey expat part, doesn’t that describe most Glibs?
I do not know this in-joke.
And I didn’t believe them when they said you were the worst!
(he was around earlier in the glibbening and had an avatar that was confusingly similar to Q’s)
“had an avatar that was confusingly similar to Q’s”
Yeah, some of us are on to it. ‘Q of Many Sock Puppets and Aficionado of Titties’.
Didn’t Reason use a similar introduction when quoting one of us? I don’t even remember anymore.
The WaPo is offering 7 recipes to use up leftover chocolate chips. They live in a very different world.
Leftover… chocloate chips… I know what those words mean, but put in that order, they do not compute.
Only Seven? What is wrong with those people?
They ran out of chocolate.
Those foolish fools.
Put in hand. Shove in mouth.
“A guy the Indians could have used;” it’s pretty cool to think my grandfather used to play baseball against that guy. He was Navy during the war, served in the Pacific. He played baseball the whole time as sponsored troop entertainment.
Last night I had a dream that I got a text from a contact called Sugarfree that said something like “Fill in the blank. I feel ______ about anal.”
You sure it was from SugarFree and not HM?
I have a witty answer to that, but it would get me banned.
Was it Expressive?
Ok, I just clicked my own link. That was even below my non existent standards of good taste. Click that at your own peril if you are eating breakfast.
Deeply?
Uncomfortable?
Rendered asunder?
“STEVE SMITH “
Was there a follow-up text about camping?
Good morning, Old Man! And a good morning to the rest of you Scary Monsters!
Some truly derp-choked lynx this morning.
Old Guy Music today can be blamed on Tundra, who sent me down a rabbit hole yesterday. Or turtle hole. Whatever.
Always happy to take blame like that. I’m pleased you like them. Here’s Dave Simonett’s side project, Dead Man Winter.
Ya, that was a good link yesterday and glad to see them in the OGM selection. Thanks Tundra.
Headline:
Bodies Buried on Texas Beach Belong to Missing New Hampshire Couple, Police Say
When they find that missing couple, will they be charged with improperly disposing of human remains? Littering?
Muchly gud writing, learned they.
Why use “are” when you can use “belong to” ?
Well two of my winter tires are looking bad. Need to replace them. More expenses…
Do you drive much? Most of the time you reference taking public transportation.
I dont. But they were like 8 years old. It was age not milage
You sound like OMWC
*hearty applause*
*spit-take*
I am not sure I even need a car but it is nice to have for the times i use it. Mostly i use it to go to my mom in the suburbs and the occasional trip
Do you have Uber or Lyft there in Transylvania, or do most people transform into bats and fly where they need to go?
“two of my winter tires”
Those still exist? I remember those back when I was a little kid, but haven’t heard that term is maybe 30 years or so.
Well i dont know how you call them. There are winter summer or all season…
Another victim of global warming.
I mean, most people would be better off having 2wd and winter tires instead of thinking 4wd/awd gives them immunity.
In romania it is the law to have winter tires irrespective of 2wd 4wd
Do ya’ll put chains on your tires when there’s a big snow. I remember that from way back when also. But then they got banned for tearing up the roads.
Only in the mountains when there is a lot of snow and there are steep inclines. The roads for chains have signs on them.
What percentage of your winter has a snow pack on the road? Around here most of the roads are usually clear after a day, so we’re talking maybe 15 days of driving on significant snow throughout a winter.
Dunno really depends on the winter… 10 to 30 days I would say. But there can be random freezing rain or just ice on the road.
I’m surprised winter tires are mandatory.
why? or do you think Romanian laws have basis in reality? If so that is amusing
Not so much reality, but I didn’t realize Big Tire had such sway in Romania.
And now, we get some insight from a random drunken
assholescientistAs firefighters in California continue to confront a three-week spate of blazes that has reached across the state, attention has also turned to why this year’s wildfires have been so severe. The reason, according to scientists, is climate change.
“It’s warmer weather, more evaporation, and drier conditions. They just burn more,” says Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University.
“And we expect this trend to continue. We can’t say if it will happen every year – there are natural variations as well. But we know that when things are drier, a larger area burns.”
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As firefighters in California continue to confront a three-week spate of blazes that has reached across the state, attention has also turned to why this year’s wildfires have been so severe. The reason, according to scientists, is climate change.
“It’s warmer weather, more evaporation, and drier conditions. They just burn more,” says Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University.
“And we expect this trend to continue. We can’t say if it will happen every year – there are natural variations as well. But we know that when things are drier, a larger area burns.”
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“The only true solution is to stop burning fossil fuels, generating greenhouse gases, and warming the planet.”
Back to you, Buxom Weather Girl.
All things don’t necessarily lead back to global warming and the insane solutions that go along with it. Making it easier to clear underbrush and trim trees from the powerlines might help too.
“The reason, according to scientists, is climate change.”
Like I wasn’t expecting that?
Also, send more money so I can continue to fund my posh “green” lifestyle writing about how you should all kill yourselves to save Gaia.
Rebutted
Let’s try that again:
Rebutted
That should have been in Links yesterday. Oh wait…
Hey, re-runs can happen all year round.
“The only true solution is to stop burning fossil fuels, generating greenhouse gases, and warming the planet.”
Yeah, keep telling yourself that lie. The only true solution is for CA to top being a one political party state. You chose some owl over people and both the people and the owl got burnt, dummies.
Guess Exxon better open the wallet…
The best 19 beers of 2019
https://beerandbrewing.com/amp/the-best-19-beers-of-2019/
The best 19 beers is always the first 19 beers. The second 19 just get you in trouble.
Without looking, Heineken got the top 3 spots, right?
I’ll say this for the Beto cheers – I like the note at the bottom not to disrupt other candidates’ speeches.
leftover chocolate chips
“spare change”
I’m not giving them to a bum.
How I read it:
I was thinking that the jury may acquit him if she has been nagging him about finances for 42 years straight.
Like usual, an article poorly written. It read to me like she one morning got up and suddenly had an epiphany and realized her husband was a zero while he knowing he’s a degenerate bottled up 42 years worth of ‘I’m gonna cut her up if she asks me one question about my affairs’ anger.
But it’s highly possible I misread since I tend to speed read. Because ADD.
https://pabaconfest.com
???
Going here today.
So jealous.
My god. It’s beautiful!
Heaven does exist.
Looks like a crispy good time.
/slap!
The finest minds of a generation
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez encouraged toll jumping in the New York City metro system after anti-NYPD protesters swarmed a Brooklyn station and leaped over the turnstiles without paying subway fares.
“Ending mass incarceration means challenging a system that jails the poor to free the rich. Arresting people who can’t afford a $2.75 fare makes no one safer and destabilizes our community,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “New Yorkers know that, they’re not having it, and they’re standing up for each other.”
When everything is free, there is no such thing as stealing.
“Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez encouraged toll jumping in the New York City metro system after anti-NYPD protesters swarmed a Brooklyn station and leaped over the turnstiles without paying subway fares.”
Yeah, sure, Gulag Barbie, and when the there’s a horrific crash because of no funding to maintain the system, you’ll accept part of the blame for it, right? No, of course you won’t, you’ll blame it on capitalism and global warming.
Because encouraging lawlessness worked out so well last time.
Re the story of the guy who killed his wife.
I don’t get how you can be married for 42 years and the question of finances comes up? She didn’t know if he worked or noticed he had no income? Weird.
I know back in the day it wasn’t uncommon for a spouse (usually the woman who was in the kitchen….preferably bare foot and pregnant amirite boys? High five!) to not know precisely what the other earned but these days?
When a buddy of ours said he didn’t know how much his wife makes we were surprised. One of the guys refused to believe him. Lol. ‘She refuses to tell me. What can I say?” he replied.
Back in the day, the housewife frequently managed the finances and knew exactly what was earned and what was spent.
She refuses to tell me. What can I say?
“My lawyers will be in contact with your lawyers”
My wife probably doesn’t know to the dollar what I make, but she could probably get within 5 or 10k. She doesnt put together the budget, and every extra penny goes to the student loans. That said, if she asked, I would show her.
I call a sudden gambling problem.
I didn’t know how much my husband was bringing home because I didn’t want to be bothered. He does the finances because when I start feeling things are hopeless I just stop paying bills. That happened 11 years ago, and he took over.
He doesn’t know how much I make until it appears in our bank accounts because I’m self-employed and *I* don’t know what’s coming in until I get or finish a new project.
My father owned a business and so same with my mother. She didn’t know exact figures but she could ball park it since she was involved with his investments.
Same with my wife. I pay myself what I can and it’s a moving target so she can’t really say, ‘My loser husband makes x amount because he can’t go get a real stable job’.
My wife’s a lawyer and she makes between half and 2/3rds what I make as a mechanic. She lives a far more relaxed lifestyle than I.
Why would a lawyer marry someone beneath her social class?
Maybe because a dude who works with his hands and is a “manly man” and makes more than she does and is (possibly) good in bed is more attractive than whatever marrying “up” is for other women.
Yeah but can she say round the office she is not with some fancy job guy?
I have worked for myself for 16 years, so my remembery may not be fresh, but in all the offices I have worked at as either a permanent employee or a temp, I cannot remember one time a wiman went around bragging about what her husband did and how i portant he was in his world.
If anybody believes in “poor taste” anymore, when I was out in Corporate America, it would have been VERY bad taste to do that. That’s not what women talk about when they talk about their husbands.
Still work in an office full of women. Can confirm.
I will again reference a discussion from Friday night.
you people keep mentioning these mythical night links. There is just one links thread a day. The one at 3 PM
+ live-in mechanic FTW
Pretty sure Mojeaux has been spying on me.
I assume all Glibs are good at whatever they do until I start getting suspicions otherwise.
You got that backwards.
+1 lawyers are trailer trash with money
Wait, lawyers have money again? I thought there was a market glut of lawyers.
Speaking of lady lawyers, I miss EF and LH. ?
Median entry level lawyer makes $70k a year. That said, it’s bimodal. 15% make $150k+, most of the rest make $65k or less. The ones making $150k+ are making money. The rest are struggling to pay off their student loans.
All that said, I’ll amend my prior statement:
Lawyers are trailer trash, and some even have money!
I worked at a place where the Union insisted that overtime pay be in a separate paycheck (so the breadwinner could cash it at the bar without spouse knowing what the
takehome was that week.)
My wife and I pretty much never discuss money and I don’t think she has ever complained to me about it. I don’t think she has ever put gas in her own car. I take it down once a week or so and fill it up. There’s been a few times I can remember saying to her ‘don’t spend too much money with my debit card this week, the account is a little low this week, because of some expense we had’. And she’ll just say OK, and that’s it. We both just buy whatever we want and no one complains. The only time we discuss is when it’s a bigger item like furniture or a new TV, something like that.
When she wants to nag it will be over something trivial like ‘You left your clothes in the bedroom floor, or you need to take the garbage out, or you didn’t, you need to, whatever’.
SP has 100% control over our finances. And we’re far better off for that.
but who has the key to the wine cellar?
Hear hear. My wife does the bills.
Home Economics was once a high school course.
Guys took shop.
Boys and girls took both in my school.
Gross.
My school as well.
Ditto.
My kids’ middle school, home ec was required. Both my kids also took woodshop and XY took industrial tech.
I took both.
Shop is gone now (as a required course) but the Home Economics (has a fancier name) is not.
“Think of what that’s doing to your intestines.”
You mean reading WaPo?*
*Generic link to WaPo main page.
I worry more about what it’s doing to my brain.
Purity of Essence
Norwegian authorities have arrested a high-profile U.S. white supremacist scheduled to speak at an international far-right conference in Oslo and say they will seek his deportation.
Spokesman Martin Bernsen from Norway’s domestic security agency PST told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK that a U.S. citizen was arrested Saturday “on the basis of the Immigration Act section 106” including a suspicion that “he may play an obvious role in radicalization.”
This is how civilized nations deal with hate speech.
I was doing some early morning shower philosophizing about how ‘hate speech’ is intellectually downstream from ‘hate crime’ and recalling the “Weekly Reader” propaganda kids paper they gave us to read in school in the early 90s and how it presented hate crime legislation as an unalloyed good.
He got off easy
Quality internet porn?
Second attempt:
Purity of Essence
Ben Shapiro was arrested?
The comments are pure gold. Anyone who sticks up from free speech is obviously a racist.
Re Doolittle. Let’s keep in mind everyone and team who declined to go to the White House the next time a DEMOCRAT President is in power and people choose to not go.
Let’s sit back and watch the reactions.
Sorta on topic, imagine if a former white NFL player said what Earl Campbell recently spewed about the UofT needing to use black QBs in order to win.
Bonus points if said Dem is a member of a protected group.
A Boston Bruin did not go in 2012, correct?
“Americans Hate One Another. Impeachment Isn’t Helping.”
Lemme guess. A Soavesque ‘both sides do it’ take.
The way I see it, one side had the audacity to not vote a certain way and the other reacted by essentially not accepting the results with obscene hysterics….and haven’t stopped.
I think it’s more like the hate flows and always flowed from one side.
+1 voting against their own interests
Remember how they hounded poor Obama, despite the dearth of evidence of wrongdoing, and the constant support they got from the all-too-willing media?
I read that article the other day and was struck by how much they still don’t understand the conservative side. They said something about progs “not accepting the election”, but they missed the main point. Conservatives hate progs on this impeachment because progs have no problem exploiting a double standard and shoving a republic-shattering story of corruption and conspiracy under the rug in order to destroy orange man bad.
There are wisps of smoke rising from just about every Trump scandal. All the wisps point back to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama doing something really shitty toward the end of Obama’s second term to undermine the transition of power if it wasn’t to Hillary.
I just hate bullies.
+1 Bucky Bailey’s Bully Buster’s ®
Hihn, is that you?
You know, when you talk about how hate flows and there is a menstruation link, you are in great danger of crossing the streams.
Beavus and Butthutt. So the media went from people be allowed to pick from Warren and Harris to Warren and Buttigieg.
Good morning Glibbies. I got an extra hour of unable-to-sleep. I swear, if it weren’t for Tylenol PM, i’d just end up taking a half doze nap for 20 minutes in my recliner around 5, 6, 7 p.m. Or a doze in my office chair around 3 p.m.
Meds to keep me awake. Meds to make me go to sleep. Has it always been this way or am I a Woman of a Certain Age?
Get off all of them. It may hurt in the interim but you’ll be better off in the long run.
/Random Drunk asshole who is not a doctor
This.
I’d give it very serious consideration.
I’m with you. Although this weather has been making sleep more but I still don’t feel rested. I’ll still want a nap later.
I find Melatonin makes me less groggy than the PM meds but I try not to take one unless I know I’m not going to fall asleep without it.
Neh. I spent my childhood and adolescent and young adulthood tired and sleepy and falling asleep during the day (not the narcolepsy type). I lost a good job (but relatively solitary and very quiet) because I couldn’t stay awake. My last year of college I worked a graveyard shift at a convenience store. I could stay awake all night, but it didn’t matter because I had never been able to stay awake all day anyway. Then I went on low-carb in my very late 20s and discovered stacking caffeine and ephedrine 3x a day.
It’s only been in the last 2 years that I needed something to make me go to sleep or I will stay up all night and sleep badly if I go to sleep at 6:00 a.m.
Get off the acetaminophen and smoke a bowl before bed. I’ll hook you up.
I find that the older I get, the more I seem to be falling into a ‘First and Second Sleep’ pattern. If you don’t know that that is, google it, it’s really interesting. Anyway, I rarely sleep an entire night through, 8 hrs straight sleep. I’ll typically go to be about 10pm. At around 2am, I’ll just wake up and then either read or surf the web for a couple of hours and then go back to sleep and sleep until about 8am. That’s almost every night these days, been that way for a couple of years.
Also, there is no sleep aid that will change this. I’ve tried melatonin, various herbal concoctions, PM with benadryl stuff, even Ambien, nothing changes the patter I’m in. Ativan works, but it’s just too addictive to play around with. I’ve just accepted it. Last night I slept the entire night, but I drank a lot of beer yesterday.
I do that quite often as well.
Oh, I know very well that’s my sleep pattern and always has been. The world doesn’t work that way. I would sleep in the very late afternoon/early evening and then around 3:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. if I could. I may indulge that once the kids are no longer deductible.
Humans always had a first and second sleep pattern before electricity could extend daytime and then rule the dawn. It is natural to sleep after finishing dinner when sun goes down, wake up a few hours later, be minimally active by firelight (reading, sexy times, etc), then go back to sleep after midnight and wake up at/after dawn. This was the norm across cultures and geography.
A while my migraine was so persistent, I kept taking an advil (as prescribed) but over a few days. It wasn’t working because there was too much of it in me. My sister said it was keeping me in a fog and actually keeping the head ache going.
So I stopped and guess what?
I forget.
But you get the gist.
ago
Trouble sleeping? You need to re-balance your chi and the feng shui may be off in your bedroom. I can solve these issues by email for a modest fee
We’re going to be moving soon and I am getting rid of furniture and other things I have had for 30 years. I’m i proving my chi and feng shui by purging/culling. I’m kind of getting rid of baggage. Declare possession bankruptcy while filing for financial bankruptcy.
The life changing magic of tidying up?
I’ve been doing this since I was a kid. I value space more than I value stuff. I love having empty cabinets and blank walls just begging for art.
Warm bath before bed, when tired during the day, take a walk, stretch, or stand for a while. You’ll be miserable for a week or so and then it will get better.
Have you tried no screen for at least one hour before bed and melatonin? I don’t have a lot of insomnia, but I am a natural night owl that has had to switch since I’ve had kids. The melatonin really seems to work. Also, edibles knock me the fuck out, but I think you don’t want to take those.
Having a no screen policy really changed my sleep habits. I was never an insomniac, but I’d stay up a couple hours later than I’d have liked, which made for a crappy next day. Now I don’t use my phone in bed and instead read on my kindle paper white (frontlit, not back-lit). I’m usually out within 30 minutes.
Today, at a local Matsuri, a community festival, I saw a guy with an actual Chomage – a first for me. The Chomage was the traditional hairstyle of the Samurai which was dropped about 140 years ago when the feudal system was replaced by the modern Japanese political structure. To create a Chomage you shave the top of your head – about the width of your hand from the front to the back – and grow the rest past shoulder length. Then you tie it all into a top-knot at the back.
The guy I saw was young and probably would have a full head of hair as his scalp was dark where it was shaved. I’ve never seen one before and doubt I will see it again.
That’s awesome! Was he in period dress as well?
That would have been extra cool but no, he was sorta an artsy-fartsy type in a t-shirt.
Yeah, I was gonna guess something “ironic” or “hipster”.
There was a kinda hipster vibe to it. But for a Japanese dude to have really long hair but shave the top off – that’s something you can’t just try out then change to something else. I really appreciated that he made the effort for his culture – even if he is representing it in a modern space.
That would have been extra cool but no, he was sorta an artsy-fartsy type in a t-shirt.
#MakeFeudalismGreatAgain
That reminds me of this comment straff made Friday night in one of a very late-night musing discussion.
‘Samurai Commuter Train’ would be a great band.
Sounds like a genre of geisha porn to me.
A guy with an actual unemployment?
LOL I got the same search result!
I remembered it from my high school French.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chonmage
Ah, yeah… Romanization strikes again.
hipster man they everywhere
Hipsters are actually copying Toshiro Mifune as a Ronin. No longer shaving the top – as he no longer deserves that privilege – but still tying it up while letting the scraggly beard thrive. When I was clued in to this I threw up a little in my mouth. XY-chromosome humans who would rank below a beta would deign to ape Yojimbo himself?
Matsuri for what? Tomorrow is my favorite holiday of the year – Monday replacement holiday, holiday. (Not joking. That’s what it is.)
Matsuri for drinking, eating, games, drinking, and.. ..drinking I guess. It’s Sunday and we (mostly) have tomorrow off. It was just a local event – because. (Japanese can be wonderfully ambiguous about the purpose for something when it’s rather obvious they just want to have a good time)
So, a man-bun? I thought those were out now.
Dig your new avatar. Believe it or not, I always associated your screen name with one of my favorite childhood shows and wondered if that was done on purpose.
Sadly, no.
Borderlands 3 is available as a Fitgirl repack if anyone wants to try it.
“Americans Hate One Another. Impeachment Isn’t Helping.”
Americans do not, in any substantive, meaningful way, “hate one another”.
Retards who spend their days obsessing about zero-sum politics are petty mean-spirited hateful little bitches.
They need to get off-line and go out and meet people in the real world occasionally.
Hate draws clicks.
RE: Atlantic’s tautological article.
Another rehash of “those worthless bumpkins can’t possibly agree with us because they’re too stupid and subhuman.”
“Americans with a more conservative, or “fixed,” orientation value obedience in their children and strength in their leaders. They often fear the world around them, and prize stability and tradition over experimentation and change. By comparison, Americans with a more liberal, or “fluid,” worldview strive to raise independent, curious children and see empathy and tolerance as the most noble qualities a leader can embody. They believe in questioning authority and abhor performative shows of toughness.”
Un-selfaware writer is un-selfaware.
“raise independent, curious children and see empathy and tolerance as the most noble qualities a leader can embody. They believe in questioning authority and abhor performative shows of toughness.”
Cites facts not-in-fucking-evidence. Aren’t these the same children having toddler-like meltdowns any time they are confronted with an idea that challenges their orthodoxy?
The quote is not entirely wrong, it’s just that they don’t ascribe to liberalism. Progressives are just as authoritative and knee-jerk reactionary to socially unapproved thought as the far right ever was, they just changed the parameters.
The veracity of the statement definitely depends on the meaning of words. It’s classic newspeak. They are tolerant only of the things which are collectively approved by their peer group. The evidence seems to indicate that tolerance in a broad sense is despised.
Dunno, let’s ask Marianne Williamson.
+ Antifa.
“They believe in questioning authority ”
Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! (deep breath) Ha ha ha ha! No.. Stop… Please…. hahaha…
‘Questioning authority’ to them is ‘question the authority of the people I disagree with’. BIG difference.
Theirs is less about questioning authority in search of truth and more about bullying someone into thinking like them. Diversity and tolerance with us or bust!
I grew up as a Unitarian, a group who was always espousing this “question authority” line. My “red pill/blue pill” moment came when I questioned their authority.
Until you question theirs.
That’s a really horrible take. She doesn’t seem to grasp THAT’S why people are divided.
This ‘conservatism = fear’ and ‘liberals = reason’ is no longer tenable; if it ever was. It completely (and willfully I think) ignores the fact maybe – just maybe – smart, forward looking people with ‘fluid worldviews’ voted for Trump.
Instead, they’ve created this really bizarre and dangerous world where troglodytes voted for Trump and the enlightened not. Gee, who are the ones living in fear I ask?
What I’ve been roling around lately is that American Conservatism is unique in that part of of what’s being conserved is classical liberalism. In Europe Conservatism is about a return to old hierarchies and institutions. In the states it is partially and imperfectly clinging to Jeffersonianism. Progs don’t get that because the only version of history they believe in was invented by Howard Zinn.
^^^So much this.
Also, the “logic” in the article is an appeal to authority that boils down to “what I (lefty writer) think = good, what the deplorables think = bad”. Then write a bunch of pseudo-intellectual, purple gibberish to support said a priori conclusion.
“I’ll patronize them into goodthink!!”
I dunno what a “fluid worldview” is, but it sounds an awful lot like the postmodern rejection of truth. Fuck that noise.
Too bad that progressives are way farther away from liberalism than conservatives.
So, does one start with Tradition, then move to Liberty, tuen Commerce, then Freedom?
Or, does one skip straight from Tradition to Commerce, then Freedom?
“the San Francisco-based company is expanding manual screening of “high risk” reservations”
What’s that process going to look like?
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/11/03/airbnb-bans-party-houses-listings-murders/
How is it possible something bad happened in SanFran? Don’t they have common sense ‘everything’ control? I know, it was global warming, wasn’t it?
Or the Patriarchy
THE PEOPLE DEMAND AIRBNB ORGIES!
The class-action lawsuits write themselves.
I need to get wifey to drive me to get more beer. I don’t like driving the next day after drinking a lot. I’m going to keep it no more than 6 today, gotta drive to the city to see clients tomorrow, blech.
I’ve sometimes wondered if a post-night-of-drinking DUI is a risk I take on Sunday mornings. Luckily the po-po aren’t on the prowl at that time for that particular form of extortion.
“if a post-night-of-drinking DUI is a risk I take on Sunday mornings”
It most definitely is. Look at it this way. If you drink 10 beers, 10 hours after you drank the first one, there could be some alcohol still in your system, depending on a lot of things. I can just tell by the way I feel. The way I feel right now, I’m not hungover or anything, but I feel a little spacey, you know that feeling? Then I’m not driving, it’s not worth the risk.
^
Yesterday was my first day off in twelve days so Friday night I got three sheets to the wind. I didn’t leave the house until around 2pm.
I’ve had a couple rough mornings where, having pushed a bike out of the garage, started it, then straddled it, that I shut it off and said, ‘nope’.
According to research from two scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, Americans’ assumptions about their political opponents’ bad faith is rooted in something deeper than partisan affiliation. People on opposite sides of the political spectrum actually have non-overlapping worldviews, which makes it hard for them to see anything legitimate in their political opponents’ views. The archetypes Hetherington and Weiler draw in their 2018 book, Prius or Pickup?, are intuitively recognizable: Americans with a more conservative, or “fixed,” orientation value obedience in their children and strength in their leaders. They often fear the world around them, and prize stability and tradition over experimentation and change. By comparison, Americans with a more liberal, or “fluid,” worldview strive to raise independent, curious children and see empathy and tolerance as the most noble qualities a leader can embody. They believe in questioning authority and abhor performative shows of toughness.
Complete and utter bullshit. Talk about risible self delusion.
“Question Authority”“Experts Say”
It’s funny how they just spell out their stereotyped prejudices and call it research.
This might be of interest. As if my misanthropy needed more fuel.
“a strong candidate for dumbest US senator”
That’s a mighty long list. Too many contenders. How about top 100 presently serving now list? A list without Warren and Kloubachar ?
Trebek would be laughed off the podium if he presented that as a question
Au Contraire my friend. Hirono is a non sentient life form. Representative Hank Johnson looks at her and thinks “What a Moron.”
Add in her racism and sexism and she has the trifecta.
Warren and Kloubacher possess moronic ideas but can still pour piss out of a boot.
I’ve sometimes wondered if a post-night-of-drinking DUI is a risk I take on Sunday mornings. Luckily the po-po aren’t on the prowl at that time for that particular form of extortion.
One of my Limey co-workers, back in the day, told me the Bobbies in London used to do Sunday morning breathalyzer stops.
Reason # 2857382848382 Great Britain ain’t so great.
That’s pathetic.
same in Romania. If you gonna drink and drive do not do it saturday night
Fun story: One of my best friends, i college was stopped and breathalyzed twice failed and got away both times. He was not in any way impaired but above the legal limit. Once they stopped another car with a very belligerent individual that was quite drunk – my friend name was written down as a witness to the fact that the other guy was drunk and he did not get a DUI. The second time was before high speed interned was widely available and he agreed to get the cop some dvds with some pirated tv show or other and he let him off without issue. My friend met with the cop two days later to give the dvds.
I don’t think I have the kind of cash of the proper type of orifices to bribe a cop out of a DUI here.
“the proper type of orifices”
Not having those comes with many competitive disadvantages.
I was listening to a libertarian podcast the other day, can’t remember which, where they talked about how in most states and almost all police departments, sex with someone placed under arrest is neither illegal nor against department policy.
Where is #metoo and feminist outrage regarding lopsided power dynamic on this one?
Something something “they weren’t saying no, so it couldn’t possibly be coercive”
/stirring shit
always have a prostitute in the trunk of your car, just in case
*writes this sage advice down
When they’re dead they’re just hookers.
dead hooker in the trunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlWpx55Mo5s
You bastard.
I’m assuming you’ve drilled breathing holes in the trunk to keep them alive, yes? If not, I think you’ve doxxed yourself as the guy at the end of this clip:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s8m_bULIWsw
Once, I got pulled over in my ’67 Chevelle, back in 1991 or so. I was drinking 7-11 coffee and it came in a red/white cup that was about the size of a budwieser. The cop saw it was coffee, but he persisted anyway. I had been completely sober for almost 10 years at the time. He asked me when was the last time I had a drink, so I told him “Feb. 12th, 1982.” He thought I was being a smart ass, so he got me out of the car, searched it against my will and made me do a field breathalizer. I blew a 0.0. He had a supervisor come and make the call as to whether he could hassle me any further and finally let me go. Good times.
A few years ago the Missouri legislature decided to keep the practice legal, but effectively banned DUI checkpoints by defunding the program. Score one for probable cause, I guess.
Slutty Sunday celebrates the only good part of DST: when it ends.
http://archive.li/NCYmL
Truth
“Present the truth in a way that the American people can understand it.”
How do we get through to those thickheaded hicks? How do we make them realize everything they believe is wrong?
*Yes, Meet the Press is on. A few minutes ago, Chuckie seemed to suggest Congress has the power to unilaterally exclude Public Enemy Number One from the ballot next November.
Chuckie seemed to suggest Congress has the power to unilaterally exclude Public Enemy Number One from the ballot next November.
Damn, that is a new one. I say go for it. Let’s get this slow slide over and jump right on the totalitarian train.
John “integrity of the Court” Roberts can cast the deciding vote that Congress must pre-approve all Presidential candidates from now on.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLl0HTuVEAAxUVg.jpg
Ugh. Payback.
Eewww… Is Shifty trying get a peek down the blouse of Alexandra’s mom?
I dunno how you weirdos can sit through that shit.
To further expand on my burning hatred of DST:
It’s such a perfect microcosm of an utterly useless government program that large majorities hate, yet refuses to die. I get that many people prefer having more daylight in the afternoon rather than morning, it’s not the relative distribution of daylight that people hate, it’s the act of changing the clocks. I couldn’t care less one way or the other, just pick one and stick to it. Not only is there absolutely *no* measurable benefit to changing the clocks, there is a lot of measurable detriment in terms of lost productivity, fucked up circadian rhythms and even health problems.
Yet we continue to be stuck with it and it’s such a stupid, petty inconvenience. I can practically hear a bureaucrat laughing and calling me a peasant every time I adjust the damn clock.
Most people here want to go to DST year round which I hate. Get rid of it. I doesn’t need to be light out at 10pm.
The idea that employers and employees can negotiate work hours in respect to daylight without government management is a great example to show kids the failicy of central authority.
That’s my personal feeling as well, but I’d even accept permanent DST if it meant we didn’t have to fuck around with the clocks anymore.
Let’s change it to DJT time year round.
MAKE TIME GREAT AGAIN!!!
I’d prefer more daylight after dinner than before I get out of bed. And I work the early shift.
Me. I want permaDST.
#metoo
Sunset before 5pm blows.
obviously you’re not a golfer.
I’m drinking by then.
Well, well, well, it looks like pineapple pizza may not be the most divisive subject known to glibs!
With that in mind, forget about pineapple pizza and/or deep dish.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/taiwan-bubble-tea-pizza-intl-hnk/index.html
How many here have kids who would be standing at the bus stop in the pitch black if we got rid of it? I would. (I know, school times should adjust, but when have you ever known schools to do something so sane?)
Here in California, eliminating DST was put on the ballot as a proposition last year and won resoundingly. But in order to get rid of it, it has to go to the Cal legislature, get passed, get signed by Governor Greaseball, then send to the US Congress for approval, get signed and then signed by El Trumpo.
doesn’t need to be light out at 10pm.
Better than sunrise at 4:30 AM.
Go to norther Norway and you can have both in summer
Sort of related brainification since we’ve been talking about changing clocks and sleep cycles.
My intuition tells me the healthiest sleep patterns would be proportional to daylight. So in winter you’d sleep around 10 hours a night at mid lattitudes and 4-6 in the summer. Id be curious to see this hypothesis tested.
See upthread and first and second sleep.
I ain’t no farmer.
I’ve had a couple rough mornings where, having pushed a bike out of the garage, started it, then straddled it, that I shut it off and said, ‘nope’.
Get a BMW.
That tells me I’d likely be dead within a month of owning it.
Since I got sucked into the site:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/delorean-dmc-12-hovercraft/
I can tell you that that bike can’t be built for 12k even discounting all the labor and with wholesale pricing on the parts. Custom bikes are a labor of love and a quick way to avoid earning money. The exception is if you are a TV star with crappy style. Those guys get rich.
Hah! My 1st ever bike, in 1987
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1972-harley-davidson-aermarcchi-sx350-sprint/
I have the bones of one in my shed. Motor was sold to a dirttrack guy. This one is the twin cradle frame version, though. The dual sport version.
I still have a scar on my knee from the 1st time I dropped it.
Ha! Picture this: Chubby girl in a dress and good Sunday shoes riding a motorcycle. Drops it. Sees a dude.
“Excuse me, sir, could you please pick up my motorcycle for me?”
Chubby girl.
Dress.
Motorcycle.
/I’m sold.
I also once got roundly berated by a gang-type dude with his woman on the back. Ape hangers, tats, everything.
Sitting at a stoplight. They roll up beside me. I swear the guy turned into my dad. “You shouldn’t be out riding, dressed like that, young lady!”
Shorts, blouse, Keds.
He ranted for as long as the light was red. I meekly said, “Yes, sir,” before he roared away.
Was it the immodesty, or the risk of road rash from improper protective equipment he was complaining about?
Lack of protective gear.
My plan has always been to just not crash. Works out most of the time. Hard to predict what’s gonna get squashed in a wreck anyway. Helmets don’t help for internal injuries and boots wont keep you leg if you get t-boned. Really, evasive tactics are the only thing that’s sure to prevent injury. If you’re racing, it’s a whole ‘nother animal. You’re planning to likely crash and you’re most apt to go sliding. Leathers will keep your skin where it belongs.
On the street, skill is what keeps you safe. There’s always freak stuff that can’t be prevented, but it’s very rare. Just because it’s technically the other guy’s fault doesn’t mean a rider couldn’t have prevented it somehow. I want to learn as much as I can about avoiding it and do that.
Gospel truth, right there.
Once in Romancelandia people were screaming about rape culture and “just teach boys not to rape. A woman shouldn’t have to alter her behavior because a men should not rape.”
I said I was taught in karate to “don’t be stupid.” There are things I can do to ensure my own safety.
Got screamed at for being a rape apologist and victim blaming.
I said, “Okay, look. If you’re on a motorcycle and you’re splitting lanes, there is a chance some asshole cage driver is going to mess with you. Now, cage drivers think they’re being cute and funny when they mess with motorcycles on purpose when what they’re really being is murderous. So you can 1) not split lanes, 2) do so with extreme caution and take your chances that somebody’s going to mess with you, or 3) give no fucks and plow on through.”
Then someone else said, “You’re assuming all drivers are assholes.”
To my surprise, one of the people screaming loudest at me said, “To be fair, I live in Boston. We are assholes and someone would do that.”
The point was taken and the discussion settled down.
It took me about 5 minutes into driving a motorcycle for the first time to grok what “defensive driving” REALLY means.
That is fugly.
In the photo illustrating that Atlantic excretion, there is a guy holding little signs which say,
“Show us no one is above the law”
How is whining about an attempt to determine whether or not the then-Vice-President was using his position to get his son into influential positions a demonstration of your commitment to the uniform application of the law?
I’m sure that guy was up in arms when Lois Learner simultaneously absolved herself of wrong doing while she plead the 5th.
He wants Hillary to go to prison?
Nice. Just like Real Socialism, Obamacare has never been fully and effectively implemented.
Good one, Chuckie.
“Where do you find these weirdos who aren’t frothing at the mouth about getting Trump out of office?”
In a few hours the Chiefs will be 1-4 at home and still in first place. God, the AFC West is a dumpster fire.
God, the AFC West is a dumpster fire
You speak truth.
KC vs Vikings
SD vs Packers
Looks like it’s about to get worse.
“Chiefs will be 1-4 at home and still in first place”
That will probably end a shot while after the Raiders actually get to play a few home games. /wishful thinking
You may find this interesting Hyp. The last switchover from baseball to football field in the US just happened in Oakland a couple weeks back. Good article about the guy that managed it.
https://www.sfgate.com/athletics/article/clay-wood-athletics-raiders-coliseum-14680965.php
I really like the move to LV, I think bowl cut boy got it right with that one. That stadium was a freaking quagmire every time it rained. Also, Oakland, just get the hell out of there while the getting is still good.
I don’t like it personally, as I wanted them to stay in Oakland, but the whole situation there is untenable. But Bowl Cut Boy made the right decision for him and the team. When you have stupid politicians falling over to buy you a new stadium you take it. I think it is despicable cronyism, but the voters of Nevada will probably go right along with it and not throw the bums out of office. The Raiders will never play another home game again though after this season. That place is gonna be at least fifty percent opposing fans for most games there.
Yankee Stadium continues to flip between baseball and soccer for the foreseeable future*. I think the pitcher’s mound is outside the soccer field so they just cover it up, though.
*For some strange reason they’re having a hard time finding a suitable place in the city to build a stadium.
Yeah, the article is wrong in that sense. Most stadiums are multi-purpose in that concerts often play there and then some one off events. The SF Giants stadium just hosted the World Cup rugby sevens I believe a few months back. And motocross events still use the Oakland Coliseum every year.
I’m curious to see if the Raiders will even have a true home field advantage once they move to a tourism city like Vegas. Or will be just be something to do to kill an early afternoon for out of towners ?
When I lived there, almost 20 years ago, everyone was already a fan of other teams. Lots of Packer fans and Cardinal fans. Cheering for UNLV didn’t even seem like a big priority for most of the populace.
They won’t. It will be a bunch of opposing fans and a fair number of comped tickets from casinos. The first Vegas stripper to change her stage name to Autumn Wind will reap some serious cash though.
Fixing code in production
https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1190906457954365440
Never used Smalltalk, eh?
Trump is SATAN
Hawthorne is appropriate Halloween reading, and especially this year: American society is living through its Goodman Brown moment, a moment when many of the norms we have been taught to admire have been revealed as a shell game for suckers. As Trumpism took hold in the nation in 2015, it was regarded as a kind of temporary madness. But time has revealed that this vulgar spirit is no aberration. It was there all along; the goodly veneer was the lie.
——-
This is the point. These are not victims crazed by “polarization” or “partisanship” or “gridlock” but cool-headed political actors who see the chance to win long-sought goals—dictatorial power in the White House, partisan control of the federal bench, an end to legal abortion and the re-subordination of women, destruction of the government’s regulatory apparatus, an end to voting rights that might threaten minority-party control, a return to pre-civil-rights racial norms. The historical moment finds them on a mountaintop; all the kingdoms they have sought are laid out before them, and a voice says, “All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.”
One by one, they have bent the knee.
This episode, as all things must, will someday end. It may even do so without the erection of a full-blown autocracy on the grave of the American republic. Trumpism may be rejected in a fair national vote, and Trump may in fact leave office. A semblance of rule of law may be preserved.
What then? Like young Goodman Brown, can Americans unsee the lawless bacchanal of the past three years? Can they pretend it did not happen, and that the fellow citizens who so readily discarded law and honesty never did so?
Seek professional help, Epps.
“All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.”
JHC! Literally and figuratively.
“an Americans unsee the lawless bacchanal of the past three years?”
Citations, please? No, we aren’t getting any because you’re completely full of shit.
I’ve seen plenty of lawlessness from the federal government over the last 3 years. And the 30 or so before that since I’ve been aware. And, with some reading, I notice it for hundreds of years before that. Oh, was that not what the author was talking about?
Fuck off, Tulpa!
Football food today: Green chili smothered chicken burritos, Nachos, Lettuce wraps of sausagey goodness, and to end the day a coma inducing pasta but switching out the tuna for crawfish tails. I plan on adding a half cap of crab boil a la Suthen.
That sounds delicious; thanks for sharing. I will be trying that pasta recipe soon but likely subbing shrimp for the mudbugs. Baby back ribs were on sale, so we are doing one rack with a Chinese sauce, one with a FL/GA vinegar BBQ sauce, and another with a Carolina mustard based BBQ sauce.
Now I also wish I had ribs.
Just got a full rack last night from Uncle Andre’s BBQ. My kid’s half my size, but he eats ever more into the rack and now he’s getting to almost half. Imma have to start ordering him his own plate just so I can eat mine in peace.
I’ll be getting ready for church and then at church for the second half.
I’d be amazed if that place has not descended into a den of iniquity by now.
One person can only do so much and I try.
Yes to all but the seafood. Outside of shrimp, I don’t dig on seafood. I’m eating light today, myself. Yesterday I an entire rack of ribs before noon, had beer battered chicken tenders, veggies and mashed potatoes in the early afternoon, ate too much Halloween candy, then ate chilli for dinner and about a quart of ice cream and two beers before bed. Add a small plate eggs and coffee this morning and my guts are a still-brewing biohazard.
Man, chili sounds good. I haven’t made any in a while. Now that the weather is getting cooler, sounds really good.
Yeah , the weather is perfect for it here as well. If it wasn’t Sunday, and if I hadn’t already tore my stomach up yesterday, I’d be tempted to drive a few miles South for at least a quart of this:
https://www.joeskc.com/products/red-pig-chili
I’m going to make a gallon container of my fresh salsa. Not sure what they wife is going to cook today, I know it will be good no matter what it is.
USGP today. Maybe it won’t be boring. Maybe Hamilton will get put on his lid in turn one.
Verstappen has been by far my favorite driver over the last couple years, but the last few races he hasn’t been doing so well. His teammate, Albon, has been a good addition. I’d also like to see someone besides Hamilton win this one.
death flashed before my eyes
https://twitter.com/PatrickZircher/status/1190438563638325248
That guy had a boner!
Must Love Dogs.
Wow
Man, chili sounds good. I haven’t made any in a while. Now that the weather is getting cooler, sounds really good.
#METOO
Bella on the River, 65 degrees, nice days,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/266R1wufzpyW9G2u6
55 F here, very sunny, not even a slight breeze. Feels like 70, wonderful fall day.
It very still here, hoping for a light breeze to fly my Delta kite. Saturday was epic in 20 knot winds, very fast flying
Yesterday here, was exactly like today. A nice break after the monsoons. It was 78 one evening and very humid and then came the blustery evening and the next day it has transformed into this type weather, I’ll take it.
Would love to see the happy puppy, but gettin’ a 401 error.
Try again now
Or this,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JieEREpLGB47Vqb87
Still nope.
Fucking Google, so advanced ……
Huh, I see it. Looks like Bella has filled out a little.
Wifey on her phone and so I can’t get her to do a beer run, yet. But, I had a 40 oz can of Carlsberg stashed, ha! *pours up a glass*
I just found an unopened beer in my chair, to the fridge with it!
LOL, you sound like me. I can remember more than a couple of times when in the morning, my wife finds 3 opened partially full beers sitting around, and I’ll be like ‘Don’t pout that out, it’s still good!’. She’ll ask me ‘Why did you open 3 beers and didn’t finish them?’, and I’ll reply ‘I don’t know what happened, I was drinking a beer and it just disappeared, so I had to get another one!’.
Yep,
That is fugly.
What did you used to ride? One of those Kawasaki 250cc imitation Harley Fergusons, wasn’t it?
My first real bike was a 1979 Kawasaki kz 650 with a kick start. My second was a Yamaha Virago 920. I forgot what year.
Mine didn’t have a faring. I was so broke I had to ask someone for a ride to the Kawasaki shop way far away to buy a clutch cable when mine broke. I was the badass of the apartment complex when I sat out there fixing it while the dudes played basketball.
This is an 82, but I think mine was about that year. Her name was Delilah.
My first bike was a black version of this one.
My kid wants a motorcycle. She can’t even drive yet. We just haven’t had the time or brain space to teach her. We also can’t afford the insurance. Anyway, I wouldn’t mind, but she wants a rice burner and that ain’t happening. If I did let her have one, it’d be one of those 250cc Honda Harley knock-offs, yes. Not something she can take on the freeway.
Buell Blast. It’s a 500, but slow as Joe Biden. It was designed to be a good learning bike with low damage levels if dropped. It’ll go on the freeway, but nobody would want to ride one up there. They pop up on C/L for cheap sometimes.
That’s interesting, thanks. She’s a lot taller than I am so she could handle the extra inches. I thought Buell only made expensive bikes.
Unrelated: I rode a Triumph once. Damn near killed myself. I thought, “Well. I’ve drive in England and did okay. How hard could this be?”
Um …
I was the badass of the apartment complex when I sat out there fixing it while the dudes played basketball.
Nice.
I like cafe racers. Too chicken to ride one, now. I built one a few years ago, and it just sat around, so I sold it.
I had a neighbor once who had a Ninja 1500. He was going to let me drive it and ride pillion because I’m too short (that was the way he let his girlfriend drive), but I was a bit too chubby to fit into the seat and reach over the gas tank.
The thing that amuses me is when I see guys with a rice burner that’s about 300cc because they couldn’t afford a bigger bike. They sound like lawnmowers and make me point and laugh Nelson style. I’d rather have no bike than that bike.
Ride pillion to put his feet down at stoplights*
A rich friend of mine bought not one, but two, Honda CBR-1000/SP2s. Basically, SuperBikes with lights. We took them for a spin and all I can say is that I cannot believe that we now have 400 lb bikes with 200 hp. I had an FZ1 that was 385 lb with 153hp and a vintage CBR-954 with the Coors Light-can color scheme. Man, that was some fun riding in SoCal. I’m about to sell the HD to get back on sport bikes. There’s nothing like them… okay, let me modify that: I ride motorcycles to make up for the fact that I gave up flying helicopters. It’s as close as you can get to that same feeling on the ground.
With those, I don’t like the high center of gravity. It really does scare me.
I cant do the lean forward on to the wrists and then tilt the neck up to see. It’s great in a twisty assed canyon, But I can’t take 10 minutes of riding that way anywhere else. I want my feet about directly under me and my back vertical with my arms close to straight. Pretty much a basic FXR or Sportster. I can pour power and handling into them at my discretion, and keep up with most sport bikes anyway.
I never had any problem beating a rice burner with either of my bikes.
I rode my lil GS-R from Cincinnati to Chicago once.
Once. I walked like John Wayne for a couple days after.
After that, it was the VTX.
Know what I really hate? Semis. Really really really hate semis.
On a 325 lb bike, especially.
Hell, I tend to date women larger than that.
I have managed to draft before. That’s not so bad.
Yeah, but you generally get close enough behind them that they cant see you.
I hate interstates. I’ve ridden all over the western half without ever getting on a highway I’ll go miles out of my way to stay on country roads. Just ain’t no fun slicing and dicing it up with trucks on a boring assed “get there quick” superslab. Sometimes, I get in a time jam or go somewhere that requires it and it always sucks. Going to Yuma, there no way, except for the freeway. At least without doubling the miles and still having a big chunk of freeway mileage.
“Really really really hate semis.”
I stay as far way from them as I can in traffic. I typically good with just staying in the right lane or the middle lane and just cruising along, but if one of them gets too close to me, I’ll just run away from them, whatever it takes.
I had a Honda CRX (the little zoomy hatchbacks).
I was on a very long stretch of highway where the regular-route truckers were known to mess with people for the sport of it and had killed one or two.
I stayed as far away from them as possible.
One day, I got penned in by 3 of them, one in front, one behind, one next to me, and they paced me, then started closing in on me, then started speeding up.
I was terrified. I do not remember if one of them gave me a tiny gap to slip through or if I passed on the shoulder, but I was then and am still pretty sure they were going to kill me by accident or otherwise.
The only thing I had going for me was a manual transmission in a car that could hit 150, which I had done many times.
I got away but I will never forget how terrified I was.
I rode Delilah home from work at midnight in the snow once, but I will tell you this: I would rather ride on snow than gravel. Gravel made me nervous as hell.
I’m not a fan of bikes, I like 4 wheels under my ass. I lost several friends and a half brother to bikes, I’ll just pass.
This is what the cool kids are up to, nowadays
That kid is amazing.
Then, there’s the cool kids.
If you’ve ever driven on the beltway here, 695, you’ve seen this. During rush hour, you get a bunch of guys on those really fast bikes doing well over 100 MPH cutting in and out of traffic. It’s like some sort of adrenaline rush thing. One time I saw one of them had had a crash and there was little pieces of the bike down the side of the road for about a half mile or more. I seriously doubt the rider survived that.
Depends on what he was wearing, but those guys almost never “dress for the slide.”
They’re always wearing helmets and a suit for riding, but still, I don’t see how someone survives a crash at that speed, the bike sure didn’t, the biggest piece of debris I saw was a mangled wheel with no tire anyway near it.
A firefighter/EMT friend called them “donorcycles.”
My buddy the state trooper used to point at them as they went by and say, “Look! Organ donors!”
Just listening to the same old thing.
Then, there’s the cool kids.
Youtube wants age verification. Fuck that.
If they’re nekkid, they better be female.
Just a bunch of guys stuning on Harley’s. They put a bunch of “lifestyle” crap in this one, anyway. They were cooler when they just rode around being nutcases. Pitbulls and lowriders with quasi-rap music is goofy.
It’s Albert Collins day in my headphones today.
I saw him at Antone’s in the eighties . . . quite fun.