McCain at his best.
It’s Saturday, I’ve had lunch and a beer, and now I’m parked in the man cave watching the Mountain West Championship. So here’s a few links of apathy.
Now if we could just do this with lawyers and lawmakers.
How long before manbearpig becomes reality?
This is my kind of jurist.
“be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet”
I find it ironic that the French put more effort into protesting than they do working.
Not wanting to harsh anyone’s mellow, we’ll take it easy tonight.
Bring it, down….
Howdy from Kitopia!
Howdy, Yusef!
I’m working on a new project, kite related, but almost an Art installation, an article is forthcoming
Speaking of art… someone ate the banana.
I thought you were speaking of art? But the link speaks only of pretense.
I guess they weren’t monkeying around
This all has to be one big put on.
No, don’t you remember the Banksy auto-shredder?
Yep, and it ended up increasing the value of the ‘art’, I don’t for a second believe that 2 different people paid 120,000 for the first bananas and then this guy just ate the third on nis own, it was all planned as a performance piece, to do exactly what it has, get peoples attention and now the tweed jacketed types can have lectures in art history class about what is the ‘true value of art’ . Does this guy owe the gallery 120 K or a banana and some duct tape? Navels will be gazed.
The “buyer” never expected to take possession of the banana — IT’S A GODDAMNED BANANA! It would be like claiming to buy a living Mayfly.
“Art” as in the commercial art industry is purely social. The buyer made a gamble and it paid off for him.
Fuck the French.
“The piece created a stir earlier in the week when a French collector purchased it for $120,000.”
Why? They traded $120,000 of fiat currency for “junk”. I say, let them buy even more.
Greetings from 35000 feet over St Louis. I’m flying because I was too lazy to walk.
Sorry you’re flying to Baltimore for not good things.
Mutual, dude, mutual.
Stay safe.
Sorry guys.
Hello to everybody from Alexandria. The desk clerk was all happy about how warm it is. I was freezing. I have some wine and will crash early.
At least I am not in Baltimore. Sorry OMWC.
I’m so sorry for you both.
I’m not sure what’s going on, and I don’t require an explanation; just wanted you you to know I wish you the best.
Alzheimers. In my case, my mom. For Spud, his wife. Flew back here to put Mom into full time care.
I knew the first part, but not why you were going to Baltimore. I’m really sorry you need to do that.
So your sister is taking over?
Memory care facility. She’s now gotten past the point where we can take care of her. The facility is right around the corner from my sister’s place.
That’s what I figured. Tell here hi from me.
I hope it goes well and mom is not too distressed.
She was, unfortunately, beyond distressed. In tears the entire time. I know I shouldn’t feel like a heel but I do.
Sometimes doing good is tough. Its the best thing for your Mom and certainly the right thing for SP and you. In addition your sister is nearby and capable of making the family decisions. Its hard but our own kids will have to make those same decisions one day and I think we agree that they should make them and not carry any guilt. My heart goes out to you nonetheless.
I’m so sorry for you guys, best wishes to you and your families.
My dad worked in Bmore for 35 years and never once took us to Bmore ( lived near D.C.) Sorry hun
Rats on the Westside
GF made this for dinner
https://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article/5183
The house smells heavenly. Time to go pour a glass of wine and have dinner.
?
Yummy.
Yes, yes it is. Can recommend.
Also jealous
The Daily Star is hilarious.
“Artificial intelligence will be used to wage war on monkeys as their rampages wreak havoc on humans.”
“Jairo Velasquez Vasquez “Popeye’, a member of the Medellin Cartel, said that Escobar was obsessed with virgins. He reportedly said: “The only perversion that I knew he had was his fascination in getting a heterosexual girl to lose her virginity with a experienced lesbian.”
“Dr Laurence Howe said: “Our findings suggest that alcohol behaviour directly influences mate selection.””
2 year old survives fall from truck on I -95, that’s Bullhead lines
a heterosexual girl to lose her virginity with a experienced lesbian
Uhhhh….
24-3 Boise and the 4th quarter still to go.
Make that 31-3 with the fourth quarter still to go.
Hawaii must be gasping from the altitude. They are getting thrashed.
Speaking of thrashings, Montana dished one out this afternoon.
They played hard at the beginning. Big plays just took it out of them.
Is that even a thing? How is that even picked up on the radar?
Also, re: the models pictured – Would not, even with someone else’s cunte.
It’s Business Insider – business news for ‘tards.
Gannett layed off a bunch when billboards started using computer generated sign material. Times, always a-changin’
How long before manbearpig becomes reality?
Was that you in the first comment?
“None of us who are worried about the integrity of this country, it’s intelligence judgments, and the rule of law should hesitate to say that’s not okay. Even if people are going to say, ‘Oh, you’re a partisan pundit.’ Rod Rosenstein has called me a ‘partisan pundit.’ I don’t care. We can’t be cowed or numbed into silence,” Comey said, referring to the deputy attorney general who wrote a memo cited in his firing.
Why am I reminded of crocodile tears?
So brave, much resist!
Gawd I would love to see him do the perp walk. Sadly, it’s not going to happen.
Fake news outta china – anything re: organs with them is just to cover up the inevitable harvesting of Uighurs and HK students.
I wouldn’t believe China if they told me the sun rises in the east.
That’s Japan’s field of expertise, really.
Right?
Comey reminds me of my old nemesis from the plastic bag factory. That guy bragged to me about his high IQ and said the world would chew me up and spit me out. Then he got sad when I refused to sit next to him in meetings.
I have more respect for the crud behind my refrigerator.
Ew, clean your kitchen.
I don’t even have a kitchen! I have to share it with 100 other people!
Just had a hearty dinner. Chicken piccata, fresh pasta cooked in the sauce, bourbon carrots flambé.
Now I am on the shitter Trump style reading…the links!
Overshare.
“Then he got sad when I refused to sit next to him in meetings”
Sometimes a man just gets lucky. Grade school revisited. “I saved you a seat”
I got here by reading one of Spud’s links, so I say it’s on topic.
Binge drinking could be in your DNA as scientists find ‘booze gene’
Well, I now have an excuse why I drink so much. Thanks a lot, Mom and Dad!
I drink because I want to, not because IFLS.
Try drinking alcohol without science! Ain’t happening denier!!!
There are worse inheritances.
Yeah, I forgot to put the ?????? after the exclamation point.
Well, my dad was a drunk so maybe there’s something to it.
My parents are the only people in my family that aren’t drunks.
” I now have an excuse why I drink so much. Thanks a lot, Mom and Dad!”
Sometimes a man just gets lucky…
If you can read this thank your parents
One of the great public service announcements of all time
classic
Irish hardest hit?
For people who are sick of Christmas music
As soon as I saw the title I closed it. Never heard the song before, but it has to be terrible.
For people who are sick of Christmas music
Ditto. Te;dS slipping.
Perhaps I should have linked to this instead?
Dear gawd man, have you no shame?
He Got No Shame
Shame on you!
Mike, meanwhile, is livin’ in shame
Ted, why you gotta bring me down?
At least you’re alive
Quit bringing me down, Bruce.
It’s a shame
That was actually good, Hype.
Hyperbole didn’t link to this? That’s sacrilege!
You think thats’ bad click on this.
That’s the kind of garbage we know and love.
And now for something completely different
OK guys, you know the drill. Let me know your favorites or feel free to write your own.
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National Debt Re-branded as Trans-Surplus
ACLU Defends Right of SPLC to List ACLU as Hate Group
Hallmark Channel Writers Tired of Christmas Movies
UK Begins Operation Right, Stop That
Ghost of Nixon Dumbs Things Down Again
Sanders Suffers Heart Attack in Deodorant Aisle
Romance Novels Slammed For Unrealistic Portrayal of Men
Biden Unsure What Era Slang to Use
Experts Unsure Why Hillary Clinton Bought Mirror, Spindles
Antifa March Routed by Unleashed Chihuahua
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UK Begins Operation Right, Stop That
I think I can speak for all the Monty Python fans when I say this one could be very fun.
The UK is beyond parody. Remember their police wearing high heels? Cacciatore Farms remembers…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5002328/amp/Officers-parade-costumes-paint-nails.html
They also had a gay pride police car: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4634436/Gay-pride-police-car-set-debut-weekend.html
Chesterton wrote a novel called The Flying Inn about a dystopian Britain ruled by a coalition of Muslims and socialists, as if such a preposterous thing could ever happen…
Bought and added to my growing list of unread Kindle books. I’ve always wanted to read more Chesterton than Father Brown, and this one sounds fun. Thanks, Derp! And it’s only 99 cents!
Be careful about reading books I like- you might end up like me.
The Iron Dream – the tale of young Adolf Hitler moving to the US to be a sci-fi writer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Dream
I remember that one.
1914 (!)
Wish-listed. Never read anything by him.
Eddy would be very happy about this news.
+1 Notorious GKC
+1
Just Sayin’Tulsi Gabbard ApologistHeh, true dat.
Monty Python were prophets.
Sanders article. That gets my vote.
Knights of Columbus Leader Crowned King of England after Pulling Sword from COSTCO Parking Lot
I like it!
Haha. Very good.
King Ralph?
Needs more accidental electrocution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqhZiDux9y8
So Hillary = 2 Evil Queens? Sounds about right.
Belt and suspenders approach.
I honestly forgot the mirror was from Snow White. I thought both items were from Sleeping Beauty.
I wasn’t really paying attention to those movies when I was a kid, except the cool dragon fighting scene.
Yeah, I liked that one because it relied on the audience knowing a not-completely-obvious reference.
You’ll never be a Family Guy writer with that attitude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cULqP9hXqzs
Needs to be a colon in #4.
look : Fat. Derp doesn’t tell you how to do your horoscope things.
You know Derp had his own tag before I did? And he still won’t submit these as a post.
Eh, I put enough stuff on here already. Why be greedy? Besides, I only post on the weekends.
How about this: whoever likes it can take it to the powers that be and they can decide whether to make it a post.
That’s actually an interesting epistemological disconnect.
Compiling previously commented content into a standalone post is probably a no-go, regardless of how many baggies fall out of one’s ass.
I think your write-ups would be great, quick-read posts. Some good chuckles followed by an open post.
OK, I’ll think about it.
[returns to studying hieroglyphics in case of mummy attack]
Seriously though, hieroglyphics are way easier than I expected. There are only 1,000 unique symbols and most of them are self-explanatory. Impress your friends in museums by translating inscriptions.
Well, first you need friends…
You’re the coolest Ubernerd I “know”. Keep it up.
I’m an… UberNerd?!
Yay!
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!
For the record; I genuinely mean that as a compliment. You put a lot of very cool stuff up here.
In headlinese, colons are used for quotes. I looked up a bunch of “Operation Desert Storm” newspapers and didn’t see any colons.
It’s what we call verisimilitude in show biz…
Star Trek disagrees, therefore you’re wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation:_Annihilate!
I mean, how can you live without a colon?
Dilbert did that joke years ago:
https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-06-08
Do that one! Do that one!
Speaking of sloth…
Is it a German sloth?
Florida Sloth.
+1 on the music link – forgot how much I like that song
Hey glibs and (mythical) glibettes! Got back a bit ago from our road trip to have Thanksgiving in Montana with Mom.
Caught the winter storm in northern Utah on the 27th. This was I-15 in Idaho taken thru the windshield of the Jeep. I’m just glad that they kept the road open. Hint for the Utah folks: just because the sign says “Speed Limit 80” doesn’t mean you have to go that fast.
Was looking forward to visiting with The Spud but will have to try again next time.
One more photo before I go back to lurking. The Clark Fork River froze overnight on Saturday. Temps got as low as 8F at Monida Pass and didn’t get above freezing until we were in eastern Washington on Monday.
Sorry, Hobbit. I was looking forward to that. Glad you had a good trip.
I’ve done the Spokane to Idaho Falls drive a few times. I like that stretch of I-15 from Butte to Idaho Falls because there is so little traffic.
How did you get to eastern Wa if going to MT?
We swung west on the return trip to catch some seafood then headed east to meet with Spudalicious. I like to do loop trips. After Boise we took I-84/I-80 all the way to Cheyenne, then headed south. I-80 was a mess thru Wyoming but not as bad as the first picture that I posted.
Have you driven up through Idaho on 93 & 73? It is nice route to make a loop and gets you off the interstate
We took US-93 south from Missoula to I-40. Love back country roads.
I did that stretch in subzero temperature in January 2013. Slippery but I made it.
I’m almost done with my month from hell. Week from hell upcoming but after that I’m back.
All of the local police departments have gone radio silent since they murdered the UPS driver and the innocent bystander on Thursday. Media’s gone silent too. Weird.
Maybe you’ve gone deaf?
WHAT?
https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-ak-p-moe-sba3-pistol-plum.html
Gun Glibs, yeah or nay?
That’s an interesting muzzle break. I like it.
I have that break on my AK pistol. Came with the Yugo M2 kit.
Ooh, is it a Zastava? I have one of those…until I lost it in a tragic boating accident next week.
I’m working on AR pistol #2 right now, but that caught my eye and has me intrigued. I’m a sucker for aks in plum furniture.
I have the Ruger 556 pistol. I like it.
Dunno anything about that manufacturer. It is hard to go wrong with an AK that feeds reliably and is reasonably accurate. The 7.62×39 is a very effective cartridge at close range (under ~200 yards).
If that thing feeds well and you expect to be in a firefight I would say yeah.
if you don’t expect to be in a firefight I would say spend. your money on something that eats slower and is more accurate. Putting multiple bullets through the same hole at decent ranges is pretty satisfying.
PSA makes surprisingly good cheap shit.
Fun fact: the oldest cartridge in continuous use is [drum roll]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62%C3%9754mmR
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The 7.62×54mmR is the oldest cartridge still in regular combat service with several major armed forces in the world. In 2011, the cartridge reached 120 years in service. As of December 2013 the 7.62×54mmR is mainly used in designated marksman/sniper rifles like the Dragunov sniper rifle, SV-98 and machine guns like the PKM.
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Can’t go wrong with 30 caliber…
This is the most accurate rifle I own. I put smiley faces on silhouette targets with it.
https://www.savagearms.com/content?p=firearms&a=product_summary&s=96770
It’s a joy to shoot, but variety is the spice of life. Also, if you don’t have a .17 hmr, try one.
I have the version with the thumbhole stock. They are a joy to shoot. We set up clay pigeons on a board and shoot them with AK/ARs. Then I shoot the pieces with the .17
PSA needs to get their shit together and make more 9mm uppers.
And for $700, there are a fuckton more interesting things to buy. Like this which you can then send to CGW to get tuned and chromed and run in IDPA SSP. Not that I’m planning on doing that or anything.
Can I use this?
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/oqI4N9QcR3Kck05L89mXQQ.OjbpiZTbJuyp3P9r5q63hn
You’d fit right in here. They’re all SIG fanbois.
Looks pretty cool.
Looks fucking cool, and really, that’s what matters most 🙂
You think pistol braces will remain legal though? That’s what I would worry about buying something like this.
PSA AKs had a history of bad (cast, not forged) trunnions. I have heard that the gen 3s are ok though. I dont know if anyone has torture tested them yet.
Wow, just saw this on Twitter a minute ago. Absolute Chad move (tw: slate)
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/12/dear-prudence-dad-libertarian-young-girlfriend-ugh.amp?via=Dear_Prudence&__twitter_impression=true
an ideology I find loathsome
It’s a fair cop.
Only if she’s never met a Tankie
I recognize that I’m not in charge of his life, and I just want to get through the holidays without seething.
If this idiot actually believed the first clause they might be able to achieve the second. And good on her Dad!
Yeah. Boiled down to it’s essentials, the letter is “I am actually the self-absorbed one and I want you to tell me how to sabotage my shitlord dad’s relationship so it doesn’t ruin my non-denominational winter solstice holiday period”.
Prudence’s reply was actually reasonable. Basically MYOB. If only more people did that.
STEVE SMITH needs to weigh in.
Or ZARDOZ
Yeah. What happened? The typical Slate response would have been to loudly cut their father out of their life.
I thought Prudence was a guy now?
One must not assume such things, shitlord!
Two minutes to Wopner. Guess I’ll see what beers I have in fridge.
Starting with Ayinger Brauweisse Hefeweizen.
Delish!
I have a Trader Joe’s 2019 Vintage Spiced Ale, 29 Strohs, and a Miller High Life pounder. I believe I shall start with an ice cold can of Strohs.
I’m beered out and have switched to whiskey. We’ll see how long this night lasts.
An interesting video on Japan’s legal system and why you don’t want to get wrapped up in it:
https://youtu.be/IRn4xzaugbk
A 99.98 percent conviction rate if you end up before a judge. Be careful out there you surprisingly numerous Japan living Glibs.
I barely leave my state… Seems to work out pretty good for me.
Yeah, I did a review of a couple of Pennsylvania ryes tonight. They was good.
PA wines can be very good too.
Save a place for me!
(My son is there now at Gettysburg College.)
In a lot of places, the thinking is: if he wasn’t guilty, they wouldn’t have arrested him
And then there’s the whole “the process is the punishment” thing.
“ And then there’s the whole “the process is the punishment” thing.”
There’s a guy going on in the comments over there about that. Apparently the Japanese legal system just loves confessions and they go to great lengths to get them.
People are like data: torture enough, and it will confess.
It’s pretty well known.
Although the incarceration rate is about 1/3rd lower than the US.
I’d still prefer the US system, but would like to steer clear of both!
I recall Thomas Jefferson saying good things about corporal punishment. I’d take 10 lashes over 10 years. Make Starship Troopers Great Again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKkKCbzF7ro
hawt
It sure is interesting how no men in movies have chest or back hair…
I see that movie as satire so it’s appropriate.
And yet, it seems so true.
Is it bad if I read your comments in the voice of Mr Slave?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0RAn-1nzO8
Feel free to read my comments in the voice of Eeyore, as many people have said I sound like him…
Highly inaccurate but whatever floats your boat.
Nutritious Masculinity
young derpy admires his hero;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfUkwCvXHEo
Anybody have an experience with Duolingo? Years ago when I looked at it they didn’t do Japanese. For the hell of it I checked a few days ago and they added it.
I did an anonymous placement test and out of about 50 questions found at least two maybe three translations I disagreed with. My understanding is the program uses some kind of crowd sourcing for it’s translation.
Anybody have any additional information?
Use this instead: listen, read the translation, then recite
https://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/lbc-topics/48/106
I’m an intermediate speaker and actively taking classes. So I’m interested in something for reinforcement particularly on written Japanese.
I watch a fair amount of YouTube so my conversational Japanese is significantly better than my written. That’s the problem for an English speaker with language that uses pictograms with multiple meanings and pronunciations…
Maybe below your level, but NHK’s easy Japanese news?
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/
We actually use that in class! It’s a very useful site for content.
Also I subscribe to this site:
https://www.satorireader.com/
Which is awesome as it does exactly what you suggested. But I’m always looking for something new and reasonably priced!
My advice then is to focus on translating newspaper headlines, as they contain important and high-frequency words. Consider also reading famous Japanese quotes and translating them.
がんばろう
Or find a copy of the Book of 5 Rings and try translating in back into Japanese. See how close you can get.
F’ing real Japanese headlines are chock a block with minimal to no particles (grammar markers) and bizarre kanji readings for proper names and places.
But point taken…. Maybe with GL’s point above I’ll pay more attention to NHK’s easy news.
you wa stop being lazy ga yo
gamashite
Dunno, but one of the other students uses it at home. Seems to like it when she’s mentioned it, but neither of us are probably at the point to distinguish an incorrect translation.
Thanks!
It was a multiple correct answer issue. When you deal with time based questions adding “ha” to the time is optional unless that’s the focus.
“ima ha nanji?” Now, right this second, what time is it?
“ima nanji?” What time is it?
But both can readily be translated to “what time is it” in English. Duolingo wanted the “ha” which I would argue was actually less correct.
Completely unrelated, I had a momentary pondering while driving today about how strange it is to sing along to Japanese pop songs on Dec 7. Will my grandkids being singing along to some Arabic songs in 60 years? (well, aside from some sort of collapse of Europe and the west)
Yup. I’ve often had the same thoughts.
Although unlike our culturally sensitive escapades in the ME we came and told the Japanese their “god” was no longer a god and tough shit otherwise.
Fun fact: when Truman threatened Japan with the bomb, there was a press conference about it in Japan. The Japanese prime minister when asked about it said “mokusatsu”.
That can be translated as “no comment”. The literal meaning is “kill [with] silence”. The alternate translation is “it’s so stupid I am ignoring it”.
Guess what translation Truman got. And that’s why we dropped 2.
黙殺 もくさつ
Kanji:CommonReading:Common
Jim Breen’s JMDict
ignoring, disregarding, taking no notice of, refusing to comment on, turning a deaf ear to
Common Noun
Never knew that! Mind it only uses the characters for silence and kill. Similar to me saying you have a “big head” in English to mean conceited. It has nothing to do with the size of your head.
Growing up in NM I’ve had the bi-lingual experience going on.
However, it’s not all great. I still don’t know the days of the week but I can say chinga tu madre just fine.
At my aunt’s yard sale I had an opportunity to practice simple Spanish.
Buyer: Quanto este?
Me: Quattro.
Buyer: Por dos?
Me: Por uno!
Anything beyond that was referred to my aunt.
Are you sure you weren’t practicing Italian?
When I was stationed in the Azores I took Portuguese language classes. I do not speak Spanish but my exposure to the language completely screwed up my ability to learn Portuguese. Let’s see if I can render the one phrase that I learned:
Sim, não temos ananas, não temos ananas hoje.
“yes we have no bananas”?!
That’s what you learned?!
You might as well have learned John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt in Portu-Greek…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKFsmZhQWtg
Yup. Still makes me laugh. I wrote it on the whiteboard before class one day.
Sim, você tá certo. Mas, no Brasil as pessoas se falam abacaxi em vez de ananás.
Hobbit speaks Italian, artist’s depiction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6dFEtb06nw
Saudi shooter held mass shooting video party.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/12/07/saudi-shooter-held-mass-shooting-dinner-party-plus-online-rant-pointing-terrorism/
That’s our friends the Saudis .
I don’t even expect so much as a sternly-worded letter asking The Kingdom™ to kindly stop sending their armed forces over here to shoot us up.
Hell, I’d bet the odds are better than 50% we were paying for his room. board and training…
No way there isn’t some quid pro quo, now that Trump is president.
Better make sure Sloopy can’t find any sharp objects…
Yeah, I would not want to be in his house right now.
O-H…
I-O!
Lol
Oh crap. Someone please check on him.
As a Wisconsin student who expected a repeat of our first match up this season, I’m trying really hard not to be smug right now, not out of any real concern for good sportsmanship but more because I don’t want to get ahead of myself.
My baseline dislike of tOSU is making that really hard, though. Really hard.
Incoming cat butt^
Joe Walsh explaining Life’s Been Good: Pretty entertaining.
Ugh. Gilmored it. No…yeah? Is that the right term? It’s been a while.
That was fun. thx
Wisconsin is taking it to Ohio State.
Two halves. Two!!!!
Found another Ayinger. Urweisse Dark Weizen.
This is quite lovely.
lolwtf
Rittenhouse Rye is pretty effing amazing.
That’s a nice, inexpensive rye. Look for Larceny bourbon in the same price range.
It’s not just “nice.” There are lots of nice inexpensive ryes — that’s kind of the nature of rye whiskey. This one (are there multiples? This was the Bottled-in-bond version) was vastly more interesting than any of the others I’ve tasted. And it had more to say than Scotch whiskys quadruple its price.
Yes! And when you consider the price point, it’s an exceptional value.
George Dickel and Old Overholt are two more very good and very cheap ryes.
I’m only a few years into my rye journey, but I’ve yet to have a bad, cheap rye. The few I haven’t cared for have been middle shelf whiskeys; Sazerac, Jack Daniels, and Crown Royal come to mind.
I’m about six months into my rye journey and I have you to find a cheap rye. Bulleit might as well be “bottom shelf” around here.
Get some Old Overholt. It was <$20 here. And completely yummy.
Bulleit is wonderful but so atypical, I'm not sure I'd call it rye, even though that 's the grain bill.
It’s the only rye I’ve ever tasted. I can’t afford anything else.
Bulleit isn’t the cheapest rye around… unless you live in a Rye Desert! You should get your local politicos right on that problem! Although Moobs probably wants to ban rye, since the poors like it.
That makes me sad for you (honestly). There’s so many good ryes out there for very affordable prices. You need to head out to the ‘burbs on a liquor run.
Also, I’m not skeered of shipping booze halfway across the country. I’ve done it before. Say the word.
Yes, I would probably have to travel far to find a decent selection – given the shitty liquor laws here which all but prohibit it.
Tonight I tasted Old Overholt and Rittenhouse back-to-back. They’re not even vaguely comparable. But yes, for the price, Old Overholt is fantastic. It’s just that it’s (Old O, that is) delicious. I’ve been accused of navel-gazing, but Old Overholt doesn’t make you think in the way Rittenhouse does.
I don’t have a very refined palate, so I can’t argue with your reviews. I have a bottle of all the above, but I tend to only taste one per night, and often with a beer back. I need to have a little taste test of my own and try to really discern the difference between them all.
Dickel, Bulleit, Templeton, and several other mid-price ryes are all distilled at one place in Lawrenceburg, Indiana by Midwest Grain Products, using a mashbill of 95% rye and bottled at 90 proof. The only difference is the label on the outside of the bottle (and the price).
That’s not to say that MGP rye is rubbish, it’s not.
Several other whiskey makers, notably High West, use MGP rye, but then utilize additional aging and/or blending to enhance the product.
It’s not quite that simple. It’s not like MGP has one batch of rye that is sold to all of them. They all buy different vintages and do their own filtering, blending and bottling. Otherwise Dickel would taste the same as Bulleit, which it does not.
High West Rendezvous Rye is fucking amazing. I don’t care who distills it.
Templeton is noteworthy for falsely claiming on it’s bottles that they make their own rye from an old family recipe. They may have backed off on that in the last couple years, but I still have no desire to buy a bottle.
When your pocket is collapsing, GTFO.
On the way home after crushin’ it in Alaska.
Would the Peloton girl.
after crushin’ it in Alaska.
You have a lot more brothers now huh?
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!
Sloth, indeed… I went out to a family-run Italian place for a friend’s birthday. Ate a salad, chicken parmigiana, rigatoni with vodka sauce, and finished up with a cannoli and espresso, all of which was fucking awesome. I was in such a food coma that before driving home, I had to take a nap at my friend’s house when I dropped him off.
Bee Tee Dubs: Ozy won the last debate.
The beat goes on.
I demand a recount! Russian collusion! Voter suppression!
Go full Stacey Abrams.
Look, Fat. You can’t really have thought that good honest upstanding Glibs were going to vote for a line cutting Tulpae.
You’ll be happy to know that the NYT has given Katie Hill an opinion piece in the Sunday section.
Katie Hill: It’s Not Over After All I overcame the desperation I felt after stepping down from Congress, and I’m still in the fight.
What will she opine on? How to scam a House seat with rampant vote fraud then lose it to scandal in under a year?
something… something… Republicans’ fault.
It truly was an amazing self destruction, however. I find it rather humorous she thinks she still has a place at the table.
“What will she opine on?”
I’m envisioning something to compete with Savage Love but more personal and explicit.
So happy for you Katie.
Now don’t you have some sofas to clean?
With her snatch?
Many people have nightmares in which they’re naked in public, trapped and trying to escape.
Nah. Those are called wetmares.
Ask a Mortician
https://youtu.be/_p7HWFu8RP4
I never comment on, and I seldom watch or pay attention to, college football, HOWEVER, I have to say that among the most obnoxious, self-referential, unaware, human douchebags on Planet Earth are college football fans. Sorry, Kids. Please don’t ask me to explain why because people here will wind up crying. Suffice it to say that it has something to do with my hatred for anything that the NCAA touches, but especially their 501c status while they use the cover of universities to run the minor leagues for the NFL and NBA.
…and more and more the NHL.
True, but at least the NHL has its own minor leagues, as well. I’m not against college being an incidental place where student-athletes might show sufficient skill to make it to “the show.” And by the way, this isn’t personal to THE Ohio State, nor THE U, nor any of those other
pro teamscolleges with the giant asshat fans who take themselves too seriously. I hate them all equally.At least the AHL (and others) are a thing.
OK, OK, NHL fans! ? Point taken, and you are correct.
I acknowledge that those other sports have some elements of what I hate. For example, I went to one of those big-time NHL pipeline colleges at a time when every single guy on the team with only 2 exceptions had been drafted by an NHL team. I knew a bunch of guys on those teams – but it didn’t even begin to approach what I saw when I spent the summer at UGA about 24 months after Herschel Walker left. By sheer coincidence, McWhorter Hall was being remodeled and the dorm we were stuck in was where they stuck the football team that summer of ’86.
By the way, none of this should be meant to say I don’t like the players or blame them. Quite the opposite. I just would like to say us all stop living the lie that is the NCAA and the whole system. It insults my intelligence and results in what is tantamount to random enforcement against the players. The NCAA’s policing efforts look a lot like the War on Drugs in a town where the police chief is on the take and so is everybody else in positions of authority, including the judge, the bailiff, the mayor, the sheriff, and clerk.
As a resident of a state in which College ball took the place of sports leagues that start with a “N,” please allow me to invite you to take a long walk off a short pier.
I grew up in a region where college sports was not a thing. At all.
Thus I don’t get the appeal. Thank goodness it’s easy to scroll past it all 🙂
Ya know, Minnesota college hockey is a beautiful thing. Same for the northern tier of states. I can’t quite exempt them, but I know that it’s not quite the same thing as football in Florida, for example. I really do despise the NCAA and the whole fugazi nature of what they do and everything that’s around it being jammed into the education system. It’s just fucked through and through. But I know – SPORTSBALL TEAM, BABYYYYYY!!!!!
It’s a good thing we libertarians aren’t blinded by that kind of TEAM mentality like Team Red and Team Blue, eh?
Especially when it involves a home sweep of the Gophers by the
SiouxHawks.Minnesota actually HAS a N- team. Multiple of them.
Now many national pro leagues have 50 teams? None of them. Hell, most of them don’t even have 30 teams. But residents of these non-national pro sports teams states like sports and rooting for “their” guys as much as any other hominid.
Dude, it’s Little League. Unless you have a kid out there, watching that shit is pointless.
I would have thought you would understand (((tribe)))alism.
Our old friend John had a memorable comment once about how sports are a form of “benign tribalism”. That’s exactly how I view team sports, with a big helping of “background noise” thrown in. The seriousness and money involved kind of blows my mind.
Baseball, hockey, and soccer seem to do well with professional minor leagues that operate in most states.
Not sure why football and basketball need to operate differently.
The NFL because players are disposable and get hurt constantly so having them do their minor league time without contracts is a big financial gain because when the hot prospect blows his hip or knee he takes the loss not the team.
What do you object to? The fact that the top teams are all full of kids that have no business attending a University? The repeated winking at really vile criminal behavior by those kids? The constant refrain of “My Team doesn’t cheat, but all the other teams do”, when it is fairly obvious that teams in the payoff hunt are all paying players in some way or another? The degree to which grown human beings allow their happiness to depend on the outcome of a game between college age kids? Or just the fanaticism and obsessive hatred of the rival team that seems to rise to the level of a psychosis?
I don’t get any of this shit either. My brain is just not wired for sports. I just can’t make myself excited over a competition between two other people. If it’s your kid’s soccer game or something, I get that, because of course you want your kid to win. But just two people I’ve never met and never will meet? It just doesn’t click for me.
The closest I could ever get to watching other people compete is if it were done to improve my own skill at it (e.g. chess or weightlifting).
Yes.
LOL.
Me too!
Yes.
Let me say this about that- I possess an internal disconnect. No matter what tOSU does tonight- it wont affect my tomorrow (outside of staying up too late, drinking too many beers, and chugging pickle juice before church) cause I wanted to be entertained. Same with watching the Bengals tomorrow afternoon. I want to see them win, but if they lose? Doesnt ruin my Monday.
Sports is just entertainment.
I think that makes you not a fan. Or at least that is what I am told (ok, that may be because I laugh at all of it and honestly haven’t really cared about a game since the Bengals lost to Montana the second time).
Tomorrow would have been fine for me had OSU lost. We’d have been a lock for a playoff spot in Atlanta. Now I have to worry and wait to see if we get the 1 seed.
I’m proud of my secondary education. The entrance exam was a bitch. *Puts on school colors face paint*
https://www.totally80spizza.com/
Check out the phone number.
Jenny!
+1
867-5309
That is totally awesome.
867-5309 vs Awoo 56709… fight!
54 40 or fight?
Eh?
+1 Bob and Doug MacKenzie
aroo kakoo kakoo kakoooooo
https://youtu.be/I0JVRcJLea8
There’s still a 2nd half, and its just a 2-score game right now. Let the record show Im still going with tOSU +3
See, this is why I tried to avoid getting smug. Whatever bad things I have to say about Ohio State, their football team lacking talent is not one of them.
Gilbert Gottfried:
How do you know you’re at a gay picnic?
The hotdogs all taste like shit.
That’s GOT to be stolen from the old Naval Academy joke that has been around a LOOONNNNGG time.
“How do you know your roommate at the Academy is gay?”
“If his dick tastes like shit.”
Okay, there it is, I said it, I’m sorry all of the guys and gals who went to Canoe U! Semper Fi, shipmates!
And then the hillbilly daughter says as she’s going down, “Dad! your dick tastes like shit!” He says, “dont blame me, your brother wanted to borrow the truck!”
Gilbert Gottfried: “and we call ourselves The Aristocrats!“
Stanhope’s was my favorite. Sarah Silverman’s was pretty good. Jon Stewart proved himself to be the prick I always assumed he was. The whole “movie” is great…everyone should see it.
I love Doug Stanhope. Saw him live a few years back in KC as a gift from the wife, who introduced me to him. Turns out he lives down in Bisby and I guess on his podcast he’s said if people come down there to ring him up and he’ll come grab a meal with you. Me and a buddy may do a motorcycle trip down there and try to meet him for a steak or something. My wife says his book about his mother’s assisted suicide is hysterical. She laughed out loud a LOT while reading it.
Imagine what a gay vegan picnic would be like
Do I have to?
NO, instead you can imagine Hillary 69ing Rosie O’Donnell.
*closes eyes*
So, I’m at this gay vegan picnic…
Putting the V in View.
…*after* each of them downing an entire bottle of laxatives.
That’s in bad taste.
Let’s kick things up a notch (derp-wise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm6LCUFwgPk
Also: Boobies.
http://archive.is/6v4jd
Flight doesn’t leave until midnight.
Fortunately I’m rockin’ here:
http://www.silvergulch.com
Freak 20 foot snowstorm hits, closes airport till Spring.
I’d be ok with that.
Half this trip was trying to set up business strictly so I could open an office and move here.
We’ll see if it pans out.
Alaska has many advantages over Colorado. The selection of breasts is not generally viewed as one of them.
I could go for a reindeer dog about now.
It’s hard to tell underneath the heavy coats.
Checks B1G Championship score online, WI 21 OSU 17.
Huh, might be interesting.
Turns on TV, Wisconsin misses field goal.
I’m casually following the stats on ESPN. It’s not on TV for obvious reasons. ESPN had a win probability of 56% for OSU when Wisconsin was up 21-14. I is confuzzled.
I’ve noticed sports statisticians aren’t always great with percentages. The new ‘Next Gen’ stats they use they’ll say a pass that is completed above 70% of the time in the NFL had a 20% chance of being a completion.
Still. Looks like they will turn out correct on that one.
It’s about relative (between the teams) ability to generate offense versus stopping offense.
The implication is that the data from the season remains a better indicator of what the team can/will do than what has happened in the game so far. Think of it this way: if we don’t like the model/projection, the only other model reduces to whichever team is ahead has a 100% chance of winning.
So if the season says OSU is 13 points better than Wisc (and it does), then a linear model (which is conservative in this regard), says OSU outscores them 6.5 points in the second half. So, as long as OSU goes into the half no more than 6 down, the project remains that they will win.
Did realize the spread was 16. It was only the second quarter when Wisconsin was up 21-14. You have to factor in what was happening in the game more and more as it gets later. 16 points is a lot, ,but as they say, it’s why they play the game.
*Didn’t realize.
16 points is a lot
Of course, the spread is just the range it takes to level the number of bettors on both sides of the action so that bookmakers don’t lose money. They couldn’t care less about the relative ability of the teams. The way I would think about 16 is that it took about three free (extra?) points to draw people who believed OSU would win into putting down money that they wouldn’t cover.
Regression is a funny thing. Tonight the edge came out right on the curve: 13. It helps that 13 is likely combination of scores in American football. No matter what really happened, it’s just a model.
Yep! You picked a less than excellent time to tune in.
Nice links, Spuddo. is perfect. And the rest of you suck at posting music links.
Obviously you haven’t gotten around to mine, yet.
You did let me down, Bruce.
I…I…it’s hard for me to…
Bite me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJV2pWFyfn4&list=RDpJV2pWFyfn4&start_radio=1
Old guy stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz2CAtExXgQ&list=RDpJV2pWFyfn4&index=2
Suthen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9ZubobGMLs
The best band out of Flint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D295vdVGJu4
The best band to play in Jemez Springs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn-ZNVM0PIM
A drunkard’s dream
Best one so far.
Needs more hiar.
https://youtu.be/-UX_kuVbiqk
Oscar, my cat, has decided that Straffinrun’s challenge is not challenging enough. He (after ignoring my painting for weeks) has decided to start jumping on what I’m painting and trying to steal brushes. Or, attack my hands as I paint. He is such a shithead.
Uh, you wanna trade distractions? How about a wife yelling every five minutes from the next room, “Why did you [insert any human activity]?!”
Now I view this as you and your wifu.
is a wifu a wireless body pillow?
I miss him. Thanks for bringing me down. Just like MikeS.
Hey, we gotta make you feel small, your neighbors sure won’t.
Xmas music
https://youtu.be/iODk2dKQXFE
I don’t like Xmas songs, except this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WsbOLin8qc
The first in the series
https://youtu.be/Oxzg_iM-T4E
I did cadence in basic to that song. It was dope.
Fun fact: Charles Schultz, creator of Snoopy and Charlie Brown was a soldier in WW2.
He got skipped ahead in school and had few friends. In real life life, he proposed marriage to a redhead girl, but she married a fireman instead.
His mom died shortly after he left for the Army. He said that happiness is coming home from school and smelling the dinner your mom was cooking.
Once, his sergeant ordered him to throw a grenade in a bunker. Just as he was about to throw the grenade, he saw dog run in the bunker, so he didn’t throw.
That dog was the inspiration for Snoopy.
When he became famous and proposed his Xmas special, the network suits wanted to scrub all the Bible references. Chuck stood firm. Today, the Charlie Brown Xmas special is the most viewed cartoon of all time.
Eat it, losers.
The last one in the series doesn’t quite hold up to the previous
https://youtu.be/6pLdaDzV8Ts
Even when I was little – like, late 70s – I was surprised how churchy it is. Haven’t watched it in decades; it must really stick out now.
Don’t like Christmas Songs? I wouldn’t touch you with a 39.5′ poll!
Fine, I like this one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnIFTtW1pko
claymation for the win!
Fun fact: the singer was one Thurl Ravenscroft, who also provided all the voices in the singing busts area of Disney World’s Haunted Mansion attraction. These days, if you look at the pipe organ in the queue, the name plate is “Ravenscroft” in his memory.
That being said, Mr. Ravenscroft is best known for a two-word catchphrase that he voiced for years: Theeeeeey’re GrrrrrEEEEEAAAAT!
And Ohio say’s, ‘hold my beer”.
27-0 in the second half. Ugly.
Learned the background of Daruma yesterday. Those little bastards are everywhere. Look at them a bit differently from now on.
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/2017/11/dark-history-daruma-doll/
I’ll stick to maneki neko then.
student of queer studies speaks out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpLptLbRUlg
[anguished Zoidberg groan]
It really is too bad that they turned the subject into such a shitshow. Nothing wrong with learning the history of gay rights. A lot wrong with how they are doing it now.
Starting with the word “queer”.
I’ve said it a few times – “queer” == “gay + lefty politics”. Avoid like the plague.
“It taught me how to be an individual” …by grouping people into categories…
How can we make sense of the world if we think of everyone as individuals instead of stereotypes? That totally ruins our social planning.
The key is to be in as many categories as possible. Then you become your own category which makes you an individual. Simple math.
In raising my niece I told her that, as a girl, she didn’t have to like girl things, if she liked boy things that was ok, and preferred by me because girl’s like stupid stuff; the stupidity of the modern world has thus convinced her that since she doesn’t exclusively like girl stuff (She likes comics and dancing, OMG one of those things isn’t girly!) she must be trans, and that she should get hormone injections. This is a retarded world.
I hope you or someone else is in a position to talk her out of that.
She hasn’t brought it up with me, but yes I’ve been told she has talked about, unfortunately it’s my fake SoCon mom who has said she talked to her about it, so I’m guessing she just fueled the fire. No doubt I may have to step in to stop the mess.
Amen
Impressive
Maybe that made the rounds in which case forgive me or whatever.
Forgiven!
I figured you and the other gear heads would be up on such shenanigans.
I’ll take it.
Fuck am I sick of Ohio state.
It’s not OSU’s fault UWM fails…IT’s TRUMP’S FAULT!11!!!
It inspired a Tumputin tweet.
Lol
::looks around::
::faps wildly::
Fuck you, Wisconsin. Lolololilolololol
Oh yeah? Well, where did Alan Amiche go to school?! Huh?!
Or is Don Amiche the one that went to Wisconsin? Maybe both did. Not like I give a damn. UNLV!!
Ameche, you heretic.
I guess UW-M. He won the heisman didn’t he? The year before our third (of 7) Heisman winners. And the year before our second (of 8 so far) national championships.
Yeah, well, UNLV ended the career of John Robinson! He had to go back to coaching HS! Top that, tough guy!
Sorry I wasn’t able to comment earlier. I was busy panicking. Then gloating.
I take it O-H-I-O won.
So, is the football shit over with yet?
No, Sunday didn’t even start.
Why God invented hibernation.
Because college football sucks? Where can I buy your biology book? This is an idea I can get behind (like a lady – Ladies Man)
Because things suck–football, cold weather, people’s music choices…
But, I did pick up Civ 6 for the ps4 tonight. So, I got that going for me.
Which is nice.
It had damn well better be! That “buy 2, get 1 free” isn’t gonna pay for itself.
Well, partially, I guess.
Hyperion (NOT Hyperbole) was gracious enough to gift me CIV 6. And while I’m grateful for his generosity, after playing I feel it’s the worst iteration since Civ 3. but, that’s just me.
Sloop–you gonna be back in the Metroplex any time soon? If so, any meet-ups?
Christmas at the Straffs
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/02/The-Smoke-Breathing-Godzilla-Christmas-Tree/
That is awesome!
Seconded.
Does it play BOC on a loop?
If not, it should.
Hell yes it should.
Bad news for any carolers who may stop by (does this still happen?)
Heh.
Needs moar buckets of the Colonel’s special XMAS recipe chicken.
https://6a80bd42a7f5acd90a3d0f4d6169c73e.cdnext.stream.ne.jp/191031/img/index/kv.png
You know why it comes in bucket, right?
Because a trough is so off-putting?
Personally, I say it should be sold in an oil can-shaped container.
Acceptable answer?
Original answer is: so you have something to puke in when you’re done. My answer: so you have something to wear on your head in shame when done.
Memories of seeing those buckets in barracks. No puke, but the grease smell was a bit much
Eh…I was being intentionally obtuse, so I could showcase my brilliant sense of humor you all love and have come to enjoy.
/Now you need a bucket
You got “acceptable”. Don’t make me regret it.
C’mon, scro: it’s all good!
What did you say?
https://imgur.com/gallery/rKADEpa
* yawn, stretch*
Good evening, all!
I have been away all week and have awakened in my own bed.
I hope my Glibbies are having as good a day as possible
Apart from the lack of a nap (jealous…), not too shabby.
With all the money hotels say they sink into bedding, it’s always “your” bed that’s best.
I’d be willing to give other beds a try.
Honestly, this old beast is killing me. I think a new mattress is what I will splurge on for Christmas.
Is Simmons BeautyRest still good??
::checks label::
Umm…yeah! It’s reeeal comfy. Very roomy.
The avatar makes the comment.
It really does!
He just needs a white panel van to complete the look
😉
Sir Digby last seen riding around with OMWC
“Bratman and Robbin”
^This
I’m sick of waking up in more pain than when I went to sleep.
We have a high end comfy bed but it doesn’t make any difference to me. I could sleep on a foamie. I miss my waterbed.
I’m pretty much the same, except I can’t sleep on the floor anymore. Overly soft mattresses are close.
My wife bought some synthetic material sheets that she’s in love with. I can’t stand the stuff. Too much stretchy and snags. I’d be happy with cotton but the new stuff wrinkles too quickly.
We have goose down quilts that shove into a cotton sleeve. Damned if i don’t get my foot caught in the opening at least once a night. I’ve got jimmy-legs.
Maybe if you stamp your feet some more.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/12/07/greta-thunberg-says-shes-be-striking-for-over-a-year-and-still-basically-nothing-has-happened/
https://youtu.be/Ye7FKc1JQe4 I used to mock my girls when they didn’t get their way with “Pout! Pout! Stick your lip out!”
Being the poster child for international communism is so exhausting.
Borrowed a library book called “Blood of the Celts”. Fairly dry dissertation about the Celtic infiltration of Europe. The next day my Youtube channel blows up with Celtic themed videos.
::looks out Festus’ window::
Say, is that a Books By Google van outside?
How you doin’ mang?!
Pretty fair. Threw the auger belt on the snowblower and fucked a shear pin but aside from that, not too bad. How’s things with Mom?
Bad. And, likely to get worse.
Sorry. They never forget who is supposed to be in charge, do they?
Yeah, while forgetting their health and the way their decisions affect others.
I didn’t have to deal. Mom took on a much younger man for her second Husband. She nearly ended him. I always said that she was too mean to die and that she’d bury us all.
Scary, yet quite erotic-sounding
You are seriously disturbed
Hey!! I qualified it…. 🙁
*tosses library card into trashcan*
Don’t worry–they know where you live already.
*tosses overdue notice in trashcan too*
Oh, you probably mean big G.
Gentrification!
Funny thing is I think I already read this book five years ago.
I hate when that happens.
32 years ago, from Fox’s first season
https://youtu.be/jwoCmnGkB1o
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Prison_(TV_series)
And not the worst show from that either.
The algorithm sends the same videos to the Glibs. Funny that. I watched that same one not a week ago.
The husband of the star, from wiki
Personal life Edit
Karnes and his wife, actress Julia Campbell, have two children. He is a libertarian and has spoken before the Cato Institute.[2]
Hmmmm….
Fox, Cato, (algor)ithim….this is one helluva conspiracy theory.
I’m not saying it’s Glibertarians… but it’s Glibertarians!
Huh I thought I watched FOX from the beginning and I don’t remember that.
Too busy watching Beans?
https://youtu.be/LDWT70OKDyI
Heh No
I remember Wendy Jo Sperber – geez, she only made it to 47.
Yeah; very sad.
Speaking of YouTube recs, I have a new cooking channel but I can’t tell you a single recipe from any of the videos
https://youtu.be/29xU6ql6CyQ
Thought you might have gone with Piper. https://youtu.be/Bcu7NOlw_oQ
Arggg, that accent!
Accent-a-goo…