Welcome to another edition of “Not Adahn Gets Drunk at the Keyboard.” This will be the first in a series of rye reviews, primarily because I like the spirit and my LLS has and entire wall dedicated to this once side-eyed drink. Rye whiskey has always been probably the best value in the brown liquor market, with prices being cheap and the quality almost never dropping below “drinkable.” Now with it becoming popular, the magic of the market has resulted in ryes selling for Scotch prices (looking at you, Whistle Pig) which is something I just have a psychological block against paying. So I’m not going to. Fortunately, I can fill out a number of these while spending less than $40 a bottle. I’m limiting myself to four at a time due to palate fatigue. As is typical for my tasting protocol, I’ve got distilled water to open up the high-proof offerings, as well as taste modifiers of bread, butter, cheese, chocolate and salted almonds.
Old Overholt Straight Rye Whiskey– Nose is sweet, spicy, a bit cardboardy. It anesthetizes fairly quickly, so I’ll take it away from my nose for a bit before drinking. Taste is mild, woody, gentle, dangerously drinkable. And this was sub-$20. God bless rye whiskey!
Jim Beam Rye – I’m rather looking forward to this one. I was very fond of the old yellow labelled version, as it was the first whiskey that I thought tasted good at body temperature poured out of a steel flask at a football game. I haven’t tried this new green labelled “pre-prohibition style” whatever that’s supposed to mean. The nose is much drier than the earlier one. You can smell the barrels, but other than that, it fairly clean. Oh that’s nice. It’s sharper, very much in the Beam idiom of sweet carmel and a big hit of char extracts. Now that I think about it, those are probably carcinogenic AF. I need to dig out some carbotrap tubes and run this on the GC-MS at work to see exactly how bad this is for you. I still like it. I will admit that there may be some emotional attachment to the brand going on, as it played a notable role in my college years. My fraternity brothers have long been excellent bullshitters, with stories being so good that they became believed and passed down as fact to the next class. One of these stories was of “Brother Beam.” Proof that Jim Beam was a member of our house was demonstrated by the color of the bottle labels (black, white, yellow) and the fact that if you were lying on the floor paralyzed by alcohol and saw a Jim Beam bottle lying near you, the ribbon and wax seal logo kinda sorta looked like our badge. I typically dilute anything over 80 proof, though I don’t think this needs it. I’ll do so anyway for consistency’s sake. A few drops does increase the spice to sweet ratio, and oddly enough makes it a little astringent. I don’t think I like it any better that way. A little fat on the tongue (from a really good cheddar in this case) also tones down the sweetness.
Bulleit Rye – The Elon Musk of the spirit world, this rye thinks it’s better than everyone else having a cork rather than a screw cap. Well lah-dee-dah Mr. Fancy-pants. I keed. I’ve also never had this one, though I do like their “Bourbon.” I may have poured the two previous glasses a little too full, there are numb regions on my tongue I’ll need to taste around. OK, I don’t know if it’s me or it, but this thing has very little smell. It’s the whiskey, because it sure has a flavor. And that flavor is impressive. I”m not quite certain where to begin since it caught me completely by surprise. Let’s have another taste and I’ll try to pay closer attention. Ok, I’m not even sure this is rye. There are tremendous herbal flavors, green fruits, if it wasn’t for the primal flavor you could believe this was a white wine. But you know, still tasting like whiskey. Yeah, I’m tempted to disqualify this from the rankings for being out of genre, but holy hell this is an impressive spirit. How strong is this… 90 proof? Ok, a few mLs of water it is. Very interesting – adding water increased the nose. I’m getting… chocolate? Yeah, chocolate, and burnt oil, concord grapes and citrus peel. This smells really good. The flavor unfortunately, instead of being transformed the way most whiskeys are, was merely diluted. Still, if you wanted to spend time in a bar just smelling your drink, get this and dribble a little water into it. Can Mormons do that? I’m pretty sure Baptists can’t since their rules are only elaborations of the first rule which is to Have No Fun that is not The Lord. Yeah, I should have a bottle of this in the house at all times.
Rittenhouse Rye Bottled-In-Bond – I adore old cookbooks. I have in my possession a 1940 booklet of an advertisement purporting to be a reference manual put out by the National Distillers Products Corporation which goes into great length about how “Bottled-in-bond” is the assurance of the highest quality American whiskey. In fact, on page 6 is notes that “Such whiskey meets all the standards for medicinal whiskey as set forth in the United Stated Pharmacopoeia.” Relevant to this particular post, it also calls Old Overholt the “greatest of all Pennsylvania ryes.” It further notes that “The Scotch always omit the ‘e’ used in the American spelling of ‘whiskey’.” Obviously, such a handbook is to be taken quite seriously, so I look forward to this rye which is produced under regulations which are “the most stringent in the world.” If you’ve paid attention to the pictures, you noticed that this one was darker in color, which makes sense as it was diluted less than the others prior to bottling (oh, for those of you without access to The Host’s Handbook, bottled-in-bond whiskey is always 100 proof). Before I smell this one, I’ll need to wash the 80-year-old-book smell from many hands. Having done so, the aroma of this whiskey is more on the bass side of bourbon, with blackberries mixed in with caramel and maple. The first sip, neat: yummy. Compact, warming, a little sharp, a little… dare I say medicinal? With cheese: rounder, less distinctive. Now, taking it to ~80 proof with distilled water: It’s like an entire circus of charred-cask clowns has gone berserk in my mouth. Holy fuck, there’s “opening up” and then there’s “a porcupine on acid looking at a Klein bottle made of Mobius strips.” The transformation is total and absolute. With respect to the National Distillers Products Corporation, this Pennsylvania rye kicks the everloving shit out of Old Overholt. It is with a heavy heart that I must concede that the U.S. Government has had a hand in producing something great here. I would turn in my Libertarian card, but I never got one.
I titled this a ranking, so I guess I have to pick a winner:
Honorable Mention: Bulleit Rye – This is fantastic stuff, but too atypical to continue on to to the next round. I’m still drinking the fuck out of it.
Best Value Whiskey: Old Overholt – this is a legitimately good whiskey, and it’s cheaper than Jack.
Winner of Round 1: Rittenhouse Rye Bottled-In-Bond. This shakes my confidence in FedGov turning everything it touches into crap. That’s how good this is.
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563 responses to “A Ranking of Ryes, Round 1”
I agree with your summation.
Of those 4 , Rittenhouse wins.
It was a revelation. I think I’m going to learn a lot doing this series.
A lot about how much abuse your liver can take? 😉
Nah, college educated me on that.
You are doing the Lord’s work. Keep it up.
*makes note to buy a bottle of Rittenhousen*
Just brought a bottle back with me from my trip (since it’s ostensibly sold here, but I can never find it on the shelf), as well as a bottle of the New Holland Beer Aged Bourbon (and assorted beers). The young woman checking us out at the store asked where we were from after asking where we were from, and responded with, “Cleveland? Isn’t that dangerous? Like aren’t there a bunch of rappers from there?” This was in New Jersey, right across the border from Philadelphia…
Please tell me you didn’t exit your car in Camden.
Camden? Nope. Total Wine in Cherry Hill.
The nice part of Camden 😛
I stumbled into it via you all here and then Bulleit rye. Haven’t tried Overholt or JB, but Rittenhouse is in the cupboard.
Overholt is great for the $$. Can and would recommend for an inexpensive bottle.
Once again, the avatar pic sets off that sort of comment perfectly.
Neat, I can’t wait to try something other than Bulleit.
I don’t think I’ll have time to do another this weekend, but maybe the next.
I’d love to try the Rittenhouse. Unfortunately, brown liquor turns me into a raging, bi-polar prick. Had to swear it off.
You mean you’re not naturally that way? :-p
Nah, I don’t get the high energy, extroverted euphoria most bipolar people I know seem to get. I’m either my borderline emotionless, even-keeled self or in a depressive state to one degree or another.
Brown liquor makes me hit the extremes of the emotional spectrum, so I avoid it. Hell, I’ve pretty much stopped drinking vodka as well. Not because it fucks with my head, but because I just feel like shit for a few days afterwards. Cheap beer and world-class weed for me.
Sounds about right to me. I mostly mix with rye, and like Bulleit. Rittenhouse may be better, but for mixing it’s not worth the extra coin.
I have found ryes the most improved with home barrel aging, BTW. Bulleit gets sweeter, a chocolate and cherry flavor that is not indistinct, smoother, and just “richer”.
Honestly, so far Old Overholt seems like the perfect mixing choice. Good enough to drink straight, cheap enough to give away to winos on Christmas.
Right now I have around 4 gallons of barrel aged Bulleit, so the last thing I need to buy is more rye, but I plan to try Rittenhouse with a splash of water and OO as a mixer.
These are great, BTW. Keep ‘me coming. You have a better palate by far then me, and a gift for writing.
“Right now I have around 4 gallons of barrel aged Bulleit”
Howdy, sailor.
Those 5 liter barrels, man.
It’s good to have a stockpile, but not good.
Get in line, friendo – I have actually broken bread with RC.
” cheap enough to give away to winos on Christmas.”
This one time, I saw a wino eating some grapes….I told him “Hey! You have to wait.”
/Hedberg
I have a vest. If my arms got cut off, it would be a jacket.
Rittenhouse costs more than Bulleit in your neighborhood?
You can remove those grates and clean the manifold panel, Christ man do you want ants?
That’s part of the art.
I’m relying on the heat to incinerate them and their pheromone trails.
Hell, you can’t even burn up that piece of spaghetti or that sliver of garlic and what is that…is that a tiny broccoli floret?
If my wife saw this pic she would demand to have your address and immediately be out the door on a mission of mercy cleaning.
Bulleit Rye is a delight.
It is. I think it’s much better than their bourbon.
Agreed. I prefer it over ice. Yum yum in the tum tum.
My god. Uncultured savage.
There’s no accounting for some peoples taste.
I…think I agree with you. Mebbe I am gettin’ ould…but Rye is more appealing than bourbon (do no touch me Buffalo Trace, tho’) to me lately.
Tres’s and my admiration for Agile Cyborg goes unchecked. From what Tres posted in the last thread:
I will never be able to match AC’s agility with words.
Well he is agile…..
You can answer my question from the post: what is the LDS’s position on enjoying aromas? In particular, the aroma of something you’re forbidden from ingesting.
Hmmm, good question…
None, so far as I know.
But you’re asking a girl who couldn’t get past the corn mash stage of a Scotch distillery tour (Buffalo Trace), so I wouldn’t be smelling it anyway.
Whiskey! I meant whiskey!
Buffalo Trace is bourbon
Whatever. My son and I hung out in the reception / gift shop while my husband and daughter got 3 steps farther than we did.
Jarflax is a mainsplainer.
We need to outlaw those high capacity magazine clips too.
But what about the duct tape?
“duct tape”
False advertising, banned.
Ha ha! Love it.
Well, here’s the thing. That Bulleit cut with water smelled goooooood. Not like good whiskey good, straight good. It smelled very little like it tasted. There are a significant number of spirits like that.
Truth
His tape measures ranting is my faves.
I was captivated by the “…star angel pussy farts blowing bubbles outside this fucking thing called earth, lover…”
The man created a vivid tapestry.
He dropped in a couple of days ago.
Whoops, nevermind. That was Creosote Achilles.
I heard he’s been a little tied up.
*narrows gaze*
I’m pretty sure Creosote is the one who “brings out the gimp” in that scenario. 😉
Here?
I was reading a rye review somewhere else and the Bulleit one was similar to the above, that it’s different from standard ryes to be off by itself.
And it kind of spoiled me for expecting what a rye should taste like.
Interesting since it’s the only rye I’ve ever tasted.
You have the joy of discovery to look forward to.
For the late night Glibs,
Yusef got a house! Moving in on Sunday,
Thanks to all you guys, couldn’t have escaped without you,
Good Luck, We’re all counting on you.
I didn’t fuck around, owner likes me, and we had backup, Glibstyle
Glad to hear it, Yusuf. You’ve had a tough row, and handled it with good cheer. Glad to help.
I’m so happy for you, Yusef!
Happy to help cover a fraction of next month’s water bill. Ha!
Congratulations man! What a relief for you guys.
So…I have a place to come escape the cold SW Ohio winter?
‘Grats man!
For the record; it’s not only the “late night Glibs” that care about you.
I’m not in a great mood, my day was bad, but in enumerating everything that went wrong, I was further annoyed at how petty the problems were. Individually, I think none of them would really bother me, it’s just that they all piled up on the same day.
Assholes in the left hand lane who don’t move out of the way?
Actually, traffic was the one thing that wasn’t a problem, because I was driving out of the city when everyone else was headed in (went home sick from work around morning rush hour)
Endeavor to persevere.
That doesn’t even make sense.
You’re going to need a bigger boat?
Yes it does. Declare war on the Union.
Did anyone ever have a better named group of compatriots than Lone Watie? John Jumper, Chili McIntosh, Buffalo Hump, Jim Buckmark. not a shitty moniker in the lot.
One of my absolute favorite phrases. No, I don’t have a list, but still; that’s a cool turn of phrase.
I like “I have a terrible thirst for liquids” (a line I wrote for a movie that will never get made, but it is my favorite)
well, I guess almost throwing up at work, then feeling a little better until I tried to have a small dinner only to realize it’s not sure if it wants to stay down isn’t as petty as getting stressed at looming deadlines I’m trying to meet but being sick doesn’t help, and much more than getting pissed at a video game I was hoping to calm my nerves with.
Flu?
No, just stomach bug.
It doesn’t get any better. I find myself rage-quitting way more than I used to.
I was just doing hunting challenges in Red Dead Redemption 2.
It stopped recognizing that I’d met the requirements, so I figured I’d go back to town and sell the hides, meat, etc I’d accumulated. Set the horse to autorun. Horse normally doesn’t run into other people on the road, but this time physically crashes into a pair of bounty hunters carrying a prisoner. Before I can even get back to normalm camera, I’m already getting shot. On death, you lose things like hides stacked on the horse. And I’d been at it a while.
So the horse is made by Tesla?
Well, this horse I captured in the wild, so I don’t know its provenance.
That Damn horse ran into the EXACT SAME bounty hunters AGAIN!
This time I won the gunfight and stole one of their horses.
Have you ‘rescued’ the woman being kidnapped yet?
Two different ones.
Tesla horse confirmed.
I just got rewarded for Ragequitting.
Since I killed the process during the death screen, it loaded the last autosave before that. So I still had most of my hides, and it was just after I’d shot a deer but before I’d skinned it. So I collected that one and rode back towards camp. I spied a solitary bison by the road, did a call followed by a clean kill as per the challenge, and completed the challenge, picking up an average bison hide in the bargain too.
Now it wants me to kill and skin bears.
*looks around for some of the regulars*
Wait, it wants me to kill and skin black bears.
RDR2 is Raycis!
RDR2 is one of those games where i inadvertantly became the bad guy.
I’m not very good with the PS4 controls and i may have accidentally murdered a few people.
I got ambushed by bounty hunters looking to take my prisoner (I took the bastard alive, I’m not giving him up).
Some poor schmuck rode through the middle of the gunfight and I gunned him down because bounty hunters dress like civilians and I didn’t realize he wasn’t reinforcements for the other team.
Half dozen dead over a $40 bounty. Sad.
I straight up stabed a guy in the face on accident.
Dammit. So far I’ve only found one mangy bear.
And you can’t skin Mangy bears.
I ignore tutorials so it took me a while to figure out that you have to use the correct weapon to get the perfect pelts.
Rolling block rifle is my current go-to for large game.
I can’t carry enough weapons to account for every type of animal, so I have to pick two categories.
Okay, the bow can take a wide range with a variety of ammo, but I don’t like the bow.
Then Fuck you,
Signed Game Devs.
(This is the thing I hate most, for a good period in the mid ots how to achieve the goal was left open ended, as long as you achieve it, but they’re bouncing back to ‘Do What I Tells Ya, Nerd!’)
You can switch weapons at the horse
The Going back to the horse, or worse, calling it, means I lose track of the animal anyway.
Well, this trip hasn’t gone so well for arthur. He’s misplaced his horse, got into a massive, protracted shootout with a gang of inbred hillbillies, lost his hat somewhere in the hillbillies’ cave network, lost another horse he’d found, shot one mangy bear, and got bit by a rattlesnake. Now he’s carrying the skinned snake through the bayou to Saint Denis because it’s the only thing of value he managed to catch.
Hope you’re feeling better. Rest, eat a little, rest
Move to strike UCS last comment from the record. The gentleman from NY is not recognized. *Hits self in face with gavel*
I’ll be ready by New year’s, let’s converse soon, after the holidays?
Sounds good.
I had a really rough day, but some really good results came of it.
The junior engineer who is gunning for my job looked like an incompetent, and the senior tech who is trying to displace her got some positive notice from management.
God I love working solo, I hate incompetence
It’s nice to hear about merit being rewarded.
We had an hour long meeting with the HR people because none of the candidates we are currently allowed to hire from is worth hiring, and half don’t even meet the minimum requirements to have been interviewed, but we had to anyway. We have a few options, but of course, every one takes more paperwork.
I am not going to reward someone who very well could have falsified their application paperwork just to get into the interview.
Sounds familiar. Well, except the not qualified part.
These are simple things – give us some examples of the work you’ve done with [technology X]; what is [simple concept Y]; Can you read this shell script and walk us through what it’s doing? How do you approach searching for the cause of a problem with an application?
It’s an entry level post, so we didn’t set the bar that high. The failure of candidates to meet the low bar is… impressive in of itself.
Slip some poison in their wine.
Go for the gin.
Gin should be judged by the facial expressions people make after pounding a shot. I get that one broken eyelid thingy that happens with old time dolls.
I…I know EXACTLY what you mean.
Unfortunately, so do i
I get the feeling NA really likes alcohol. Or whiskey, probably both.
I’m tempted to buy the old over holt,but well, refer to trigger hippie’s comment.
It’s a lot less expensive to review whiskey than guns. *koff*Sean*koff*
For Gawd’s sake man, clean your stove!
I like your reviews and concur. Rittenhouse is a great bang for the buck and comes out of the same rickhouse as Pikesville rye, which is one of my favorite.
I clean my stove once a month. I missed last month’s cleaning by being out of town that weekend.
Muh Glibbas, work is doing a thing where I will be not dropping in as much. Apparently I will be earning my bloated paycheck for the next while. And I thought this was America, dammit.
Jus sayin’, is all.
Go forth and lawyer like a beast!
Gotta feel sorry for lawyers that aren’t assholes during this time when the biggest asshole lawyers in the universe are plastered on our TV screens non stop.
lawyers that aren’t assholes
Interesting concept.
Elspeth (sorry she’s gone) seemed like a good one.
*blank stare, peers at IL ARDC card*
My lawyers need to have two working kidneys. *Does broken eyelid wink*
They both work AFAIK. One’s on indefinite loan is all.
Yes, it is rather working quite well. I get visitation once a month.
Nice.
Illinois can’t just call it a bar card like everyone else?
They’re trying to reduce alcoholism amoung attorneys,
But you’re OUR assholes!
Since where on the topic, an ex of mine worked as an office manager for a small local law firm and claimed that they and a healthy percentage of lawyers she encountered while working there were drunk and pilled out of their gourds half the time while working, and most of the time off hours. Experience anything similar?
*we’re
Oh I was just making a joke. Most of the lawyers I deal with are fine. Of course I am a transactional attorney not a litigator.
Every issue has a lawyer on each side. If you don’t like what a lawyer does, you mostly will like what his opponent did.
Now, judges…
Yes, but are they sauced? That’s what I want to know. The idea of a hungover or currently drunk lawyer who handles traffic cases and other minor criminal offenses giving a distracted, bleary-eyed look at a pending case doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the legal system for working class assholes like myeslf.
My wife? Yes.
She rarely goes to court, because she does appeals, but she empties bottles like she means it. I’m a lightweight by comparison.
Attorneys have a higher alcoholism rate than the general population…particularly in family law types.
Ah, should have refreshed before posting.
When I showed up for orientation at law school they had 12 kegs on ice in the hallway. My entering class was under 200.
I used to party occasionally with a family court judge and my girlfriend at the time worked for him. A normal day was two bottles of wine at lunch with his assistant, and some days it was a lot more.
Wel, I do look forward to turning a big national organization’s bloated in-house department and turning it into my bitch.
To channel ZARDOZ….Go forth…and kill!
Should have gone into public safety. The paycheck is the same regardless of workload.
When I become old and incompetent, I’ll get a certification for Industrial Hygiene and make money being voided by everyone else.
Once a Playmate, always a Playmate! Playboy models dating back to 1963 prove they’ve ‘still got it’ as they pose in a sexy spread for the magazine’s ‘equality issue’ – including 77-year-old Bill Cosby accuser Victoria Valentino
Heavens to Betsy.
Legion of Skanks has the Bill Cosby Victim’s Pageant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyIvriU93Cs&
Happened upon a bottle of Dad’s Hat, Pennsylvania Rye. I’ll have to get the Rittenhouse to determine which is the Keystone’s best.
There are a couple of different Dad’s Hat with a distinct quality difference.
What’s the backstory on “Pennsylvania Rye”?
There’s no difference between bourbon, whiskey or scotch.
In the entire history of wrongness your comment is legendary for being the most wrong thing ever said.
It’s all a marketing ploy.
God damnit!
Contrarian thunder: stolen.
Think of it as a target to aim for.
Makes you wish you had a gameshow button to press when you know the answer.
Jarflax speaks the sooth.
In exactly the same way that there’s no difference between sake and shoju.
Yes. How else would you explain why Asians all look alike?
I assume they’re all descendants from Genghis Khan. I’m pretty sure I read that somewhere.
And with Japan, obviously with a tiny island they’re all inbred, c.f. Iceland and England.
That’s a quality troll, right there.
Yeah, I’ll have to remember that one, it seems like a sure killshot.
The other one of that magnitude only works in /2, which is “If Arthas’ horse is named Invincible, how come you can totally see it?”
The difference is scotch is really good. The others are sometimes sorta OK.
Countertroll score: 4 out of 5 bridges.
Bulleit Rye and Bourbon is usually priced at about 36 bucks for a 1.75 at Costco. I always pick one or the other up. I love Costco.
…it comes in handles?
Hell, yeah. How do you think I feed the 5 liter barrels?
Not technically as it is the same shape as the 750ml, just a whole bunch bigger. Costco es mi amigo muy grande.
A lot of handles don’t have handles. It’s a reference to volume, not bottle design.
Liquor at Costco?! It pisses me off that even California has more reasonable liquor laws than New York.
Ohio is good on a lot of things but our liquor laws still suck. At least we have private liquor stores now, but you still can’t buy anything over 42 proof in the grocery unless they get a package liquor license and they basically have to set up a separate store with separate check outs inside the grocery, and prices suck. Scofflaws have been known to cross to Kentucky, which oddly has about 20 liquors stores within a block of the bridges…
For liquor laws, California is actually fairly decent for the US (aside from the outlandish fees for a full booze on premises license). I’m still surprised when I go to a state where you can’t get booze at a grocery store or worse yet have to go to a state store to buy it. Fuck that noise. If I’m gonna live with the insanity here I need my booze and weed.
We’re mid-range lunacy. All private sellers, but the owner has to live within a small radius of the store* – the end result is I can easily find the common stuff but everything costs way more than it should.
*unless they pay a tribute to the State which is how Total Wine got a store on Long Island
California has very good liquor laws. Pretty much every grocery store and pharmacy sells beer, wine and liquor. No stupid restrictions on promotions. There’s one silly thing: all alcohol has to transported in the trunk of a car–when I prefer to keep it inside the cabin. They also charge an (exorbitant) sales tax on alcohol unlike in Massachusetts.
You only have to trunk it if it’s an open container. If it’s sealed it can go inside the car.
Speaking of which, open container laws are stupid and I routinely flount them. If I’m passenger on a long ride I’m having a few road sodas.
Doesn’t count in Ubers. I love drinking beer in an Uber.
Which oughta make clear how useful the law is, in the first place. Somehow less dangerous when you’ve paid the driver?
Really? It’s not illegal in an Uber? I’ve drank road sodas discreetly before in them, but last year after a super bowl party the dude saw me getting in with a drink and made me pound it before we left.
Yeah, if the driver and car are hired, you can chug all night.
For
Good to know. Apparently, I was given incorrect information.
Enacting my own labor I see that it isn’t illegal in a taxi or a limo in CA and that likely extends to ride shares as well. Lyft does have a no booze policy, but Uber leaves it to the driver.
https://jdlaw.law/blog/ridesharing-and-open-container-laws/
New Orleans FTW! Every person in the car except the driver may have an open container. Also, drive-through daiquiri stores and go-cups at every single bar.
Isn’t it a requirement there that every occupant has an open container of booze?
The Costco in Oceanside has an attached Costco Liquor. It’s the same price as my local liquor jobber but my local place has a loyalty card that gives me decent discounts.
Labor still has 40 seats and Conservatives only have 35, so i don’t know why everyone was so excited about.
But Secret Nazi President has got 2 seats already.
I don’t even follow cricket.
The Tory chinaman is about to bowl a googly to get the dismissal caught by silly mid wicket
Those are those spinning things they sell at gas stations, yes?
At least in the UK they give the commies the Red Color, unlike in the US where we let them hide under blue.
What’s up with the Welshies culturally appropriating Scottish colth?
The Welsh just wish they could fuck sheep as well as the Scots
I thought the Welsh wore pants because goats are deef?
‘Plaid’ means ‘party’ 😛
I was wondering if I was giving away too much by knowing what Cymru meant.
It can still swing through the night(day?). I think a lot of that data is still determined by where the votes are coming from.
I gave Hyperion some pushback recently, insisting that the Brexit movement was essentially neutralized and Britian was the leader among the West in the dive into an authoritarian shithole. I’d love to be proven wrong.
Well, it’s certainly not looking that way right at the moment, is it?
No, it isn’t. Good. I just hope they actually go through with it after the gain the power to do so.
There’s over 500 seats left to declare. They’re running off exit polls.
The urban areas lead Labour just like ours lean Dem, and they tend to report earlier than small town and rural areas.
Also it would be cool if we had localist parties showing up in congress. Stuff like the Democratic Unionits and Simm Flynn
Planning on running with a G after your name?
And the conservatives take the lead!
…although I assume every single party there other than UKIP and Brexit will join with Labour.
Brits don’t declare the results until each vote is counted in each seat which results in taking a long time to declare 650 seats.
This is as opposed to US and Canada where the results are announced as soon the polling stations declare the results and the media will declare a winner (usually) before all votes are counted.
sometimes they announce the results early
I assume this is a holdover from the days before WWI when elections took place over several weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election
The Alliance Party colors are Yellow and Black. Clearly they are Ancaps.
As of this minute, Labour has lost 12, Conservates up 9, SNP up 3…out of 136. Labour is dead.
We’re just letting them get a head start.
*****
SNP polls pretty well there. Who will Baked Penguing join with in coalition though?
Whoops…out of 150 called, Conservatives up 10, Labour down 13, SNP up 3.
Er…151, CON up 11, LAB down 15, SNP up 4.
Maybe that anti-semitism isn’t working out so well for them.
Don’t look again but Labor is down 15
Whom are we rooting for again?
The slightly less shitty and corrupt ones.
I am rooting for the Yorkists. The Lanccastrians have gotten away with their slanders for too long!
Monster raving loonys all the way
I was rooting for Harold Godwinson.
There’s a lot to pick. I think though that if the Alliance Party doesn’t do well they will be relegated this season.
Simmian Flynagin sounds like an interesting party though. You can root for them.
The Starks, even though they suck at politics.
RUSSIANS AND TRUMP STOLE THE ELECTION!!!!!
MUH DEMOKRASEE!!!!
Evan
@EvanCooney0717
2020: Brexit and Trump re-elected
2022: United States and Britain sign a free trade agreement
2024: U.K. becomes 51st state
2028: The United States of the Anglo Republic annexes Canada, Trump proclaimed emperor
We need a new state like we need a bullet in the head.
I want 7.7 billion states
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Let 7.7 billion nations bloom!
I get the nukes!
we all get nukes.
I want a suitcase that powers my house for the next 50 years.
+1 smallest minority
2030: The Empire invades Australia, depleted Uranium causes mutations and 12 foot diameter Huntsman Spiders with Funnelweb Venom and the ability to glide across the oceans on giant silken cables evolve.
2031: ….
2021: EvenCooney admitted to psych ward.
UK has 650 parlimentary seats. Clearly they are not as good as the US who can rule over 5x as many people with only 100 less congressional seats.
200 less, the 650 seats are all in the Commons.
Thanks NA. I will look for the old overshoot.
Considering I’ve got ads for it dating back to pre-WWII, it can at least claim that it’s legitimately an “old” brand.
Tomás
@tomasmoroc
The Boris Tsunami has wiped out all Corbyn-based life forms.
#UKElection #SkyNews
With a third of the results in…Labour getting skulled. Conservatives up big, SNP up some. Others down a bit.
Hmmm…. Maybe the moderate left will learn not to run far left candidates because they’re extremely unpopular.
Just kidding, it was the Russians.
That is hilariously delusional.
Written by Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS.
I’ve been skimming the IG report and my opinion of Steele and Simpson…. It is not very good.
Why does it seem unlikely that the KGB Colonel is helping right wing populists win elections?
Guardian appears to be desperate for money based on the begging for donations popups. Hopefully they’ll be gone soon.
OT, re my article this afternoon: There was not a single comment on the music links. They werent very inspired choices, but I at least expected criticism.
On topic: rye good.
I almost never listen to music links. Habit borne from surreptitiously glibbing in public.
I think my last booze post got maybe 8 on topic comments. NA got far more and deservedly so. Sometimes you hit, and sometimes . . . .
Your article was on cocktails. That would involve Glibs enacting their own labor.
I love Yes.
I loathe “Centerfield”.
There you go.
Thanks. Reasonable, especially the first bit.
There’s no difference between Yes, ELP or Genesis
“There’s no difference between Yes, ELP or Genesis”
I know its your shtick but how can one man be soooooooo wrong?
There it is, back where it belongs.
FOUL: Intentional Wrogning. 15 yard penalty. Retry First down.
In a roundabout way, from the beginning, you are in a land of confusion.
They all had the same drummer.
Yes
I like the Sagamore.
Sagamore
I have a feeling those are over my $40 cutoff.
On deck: Redemption, Knob Creek, Sazerac, Few.
$56 if I remember last time I bought a bottle.
My money’s on Knob Creek.
Few is quite good!
Sazerac is quite good for the money.
The hotel is quite nice as well. One of wifey’s professional orgs holds its annual conference there so we always get a lodge in the off-season. The place is really, really, really nice and in October, absolutely devoid of other guests.
Hmmm. I have been underwhelmed by Lake George. It seems like a ludicrously cliche tourist trap. OTOH, that would be a decent home base to go after some high peaks.
It very much is a “ludicrously cliche tourist trap” but in the off-season, it’s empty (even the local McDonalds closes for the season), with only a few businesses open that cater primarily to the locals (great little diners, sporting goods stores, etc.).
Scotland is going to be solid yellow. They should leave and put the Stuarts back on the throne.
The rest of the UK would not miss 6 million dole bludgers hanging off their wallets.
Bring back the empire, form them up into the Highland regiments again and send them to India.
Nah, send them to Hong Kong.
Comment of the day, right here. Teach those pussies in Edinburgh that freedom damn well means something.
They’ll forget it in the morning though.
On the one hand, YKINMKBYKIOK
On the other, what a waste of cocobolo.
Just made my 4th purchase from them. A 300BLK upper kit. So excited to shoot it suppressed.
They won’t sell complete lowers to NY. I haz a sad.
I’ve got a cocobolo duck call. Love it.
Hey! I have an H&R 12″ .22 with LR and magnum cylinders, or at least I did before the boating accident.
Nate Silver
Verified account @NateSilver538
There are about a billion complications, and every election has its host of one-off contingencies. But there is reasonably robust evidence that, over the long run, parties & candidates that are perceived as more “extreme” tend to fare worse electorally, other things held equal.
We’re not extreme! Braindead socialism isn’t extreme!
It’s tautological, Nate. You get a lot of votes, you’re not extreme.
And I thought I was overpaid.
My daughter needed her dress pants hemmed before her choir concert tomorrow.
I got out the sewing machine and just kept going: hemmed her dress pants, fixed the stuff sack for my ground blind, got about 1/4 the way through repairing my boat’s mooring cover before I got frustrated (need a heavier-dutier sewing machine).
I do the sewing in my family.
Damn it I want a raise!
*takes a sip of Templeton Rye in honor of this post*
Real men hem by hand.
Have done that before. I’ll take the machine every time.
need a heavier-dutier sewing machine
Santa lurks on Glibs?
Good Lord! That stove… my wife literally takes ours apart for cleaning every time I cook. She would faint if I showed her that picture.
I’m making an effort to learn the whiskies. I have a bottle of Jameson’s IPA I sip occasionally. Much better after a minute with some ice. I just bought my brother bottle of Ardbeg 10-Year-Old for Christmas. Hope to try a sip. Now 8 have to try rye.
I like the Ardbeg.
Glenfiddich, the older the better, generally.
Also noted the picture is titled “eat a significantly larger number of dicks Google.”
A pretty good chunk of American rye whiskies are distilled at one plant in Larenceburg, Indiana using a mashbill of 95% rye and 5% malted barley, and bottled at 90 proof. Most are midpriced brands like Bulleitt, Templeton’s (which faced a class action lawsuit for a bullshit marketing story), Dickel, and Angel’s Envy. Which isn’t to say that sourced whiskey is rubbish — far from it — MGP make a solid product. It’s even used in high end brands like High West, though they do considerable extra aging and blending before their product goes out the door.
FWIW, my go-to ryes are Knob Creek and Sazerac.
Woot! Those two are in the next round!
Knob Creek Cask Strength and Pikesville here. I have higher budgetary limits, but there’s no Whistlepig in my cabinet.
Sadly, I finished off this one a while ago. I got it at a bargain at $90. The last bottle I saw on a store shelf was north of $130.
Whistlepig Old World
I just saw Whistlepig 10 on the shelf for $60.
That’s pretty good. I think it’s more than $70 at my local store. It’s not that great though, really. I’d prefer a bottle of Eagle Rare at $30. The Old World is excellent, but it’s just overpriced.
I agree. I passed on it. I did just bite the bullet and buy a couple of bottles of Elijah Craig 18 yo. Verdict? I like the cask strength better at half the price.
“lijah Craig 18 yo. Verdict”
That sounds pretty good. I’d like to try it.
Is it the same mash bill? I thought MGP changes it depending on the contract customer?
LOLOLOLOL!!!
Corbyn won his seat by something like 26,000 votes
304 of 650 decided…. CON up 26, LAB down 32, SNP up 6
It seems that Labour suffered particularly heavy losses in constituencies with under 25% graduates, faring rather better in those with more than that.
Ok…. That sounds like Irony.
Is that Irony?
No. It sounds like disdain.
But like… Labour. Working Man.
No, it’s the same effect here where the Dems are more or less openly styling themselves as the party of overeducated eggheads.
Adlai Stevenson has a happy.
I do find it interesting that the first Labour cabinet back in 1924 was filled when labourers who didn’t go to Oxbridge. Things have changed.
I’m watching the BBC coverage and the Labour politicians talking makes me want to start singing The International and organizing the firing squads. They go up against the wall before the hardcorest monarchist and filthiest plutocrat.
Seriously, they are all blathering about what The Party has to do without a single reference to the…you know…membership of the party. Let alone the actual working class.
Which is still arguably better than a LibDem thot, who may as well have been talking about animals when expressing concern about poor people who voted Tory. They need feeding, care and love, but human they will never be. “Paternalism” at least implies a possibility of people growing up. This was straight up animal husbandry.
Ian Murray, who again may end up the only Labour MP in Scotland, has told Jeremy Corbyn to consider resignation, saying Labour lost the election because it had ignored the voters “and delivered the most rightwing Conservative prime minister this country has ever seen”.
Looser blaiming his party leadership… That sounds nice.
I dropped by the liquor store on my way home and found this gem to celebrate with. Excellent taste, no aftertaste, paired nicely with salty snacks and did not ruin desert after. 8/10 at least, would drink at room temperature again.
According to Discord’s Resident Englishman, it’s a well-known, large London brewery that still supplies some of the old pubs using horse-drawn wagons, a kind of approach to tradition I appreciate.
Oh, that looks good. My local store just got in this seasons bottles of Goose Island special brews. I have to pick up some of those for the holiday.
I finished my bottle of Goose Island Mon Cheri tonight. Not a fan of fruit in beer, but the cherry nicely balanced what would otherwise be an overblown Imperial Stout.
I was 51.5 years old when I found out that DRAFT horses pulled the DRAFThouses’ wagons.
*headdesk*
I don’t think that is actually the etymology though. Draw, draft, dray and draught, are all the same root meaning to pull.
yuppers
not the horses’ fault that one draws a beer
I believe that is the term for serving an olde schoole cask conditioned beer.
That’ll teach me not to do research for something other than a book. Or think about it for more than 0.05 seconds.
Just don’t *headdesk* again. That’s what killed Chris Farley.
How did Northern Ireland vote? I was there two months ago and they were extremely worried about UK getting out of EU because most trade in that area is cross-border with Ireland. Ireland can’t make a separate trade deal with No. Ireland, so there was a lot of talk about No. Ireland will vote to leave the UK and join Ireland. {Demographic trends are going that way too, with Catholics soon to outnumber Protestants in No. Irish cities.}
Not everything is coming in but it seems to be along the lines same lines of the 2017 election. The Unionists did loose a seat to the Aliance Party though
And now it looks like Sinn Fein won a seat from the unionists. Still a few seats to see though.
According to BBC, nationalist parties of assorted stripes (and the Greens) decided to not run against each other in order to stick it to the Unionist parties. Which, fucking hell, is literally how Bosnian war started.
Yeah SDLP just took one from the Democratic Unionists.
I’m hoping that some of the good that comes with Brexit will be the first British colony finally going back to Ireland.
Wales isn’t going to Ireland.
Normans Invaded Ireland before they subjugated Wales.
But they lost it again. Once Wales was incorporated, it stayed.
So your saying the Irish need to free wales first.
Wales voted for Brexit. We goat owners know what the fuck is going down!
And if you’re talking about Northern Ireland, it would be better if Ireland were freed from the EU rather than Ulster being trapped within it.
Too bad Ireland seems to be all in on Europe.
I heard the LibDems are the Remainer party, but what else are they about?
I’m shit at drinks, and generally stick to single malt scotch on anything harder than a basic beer, but you made a good case for Federally Governmented rye, and I’ll have to check it out soon!
“and generally stick to single malt scotch”
Nothing wrong with that. I prefer Bourbon and Rye myself. Although I seldom drink it, mostly drink beer.
Tories now have Tony Blair’s former seat
The Labour candidate, Anna Turley, has been the constituency’s MP since 2015 and has previously been critical of Jeremy Corbyn, quitting his shadow cabinet in 2016 and saying he was “completely out of touch with reality”.
The sucky thing for the Labor Party is that it seems like all their non-socialist reps are getting trounced.
Same things happen in the US as the most heavily Democrat areas are the most leftist so electoral defeats result in the leftist core remaining hence the lack of a “libertarian moment”.
People are ignoring the real winner in the UK election, Nigel Farage. He should be PM, I’d vote for him.
OT: I get why NFL fans outside of KC could already hate Patrick Mahomes. Not because I think he deserves it, but because sports media are the ultimate prisoners of the moment. Lamar Jackson being the latest example. The gushing over them is kinda over the top for the last two years. But that’s what people want, and that’s what keeps the lights on. It’s the Howard Stern Effect: Even when you’re sick of the guy, you keep talking about them. Case in point here. But it just makes me giggle knowing they will be spraying their shorts over somebody else next year.
Mahomes sucks. Just accept it. He has at best 2 more years in the NFL.
Lamar Jackson is also, like every rushing QB ever, to be soon on the sideline. Let’s face it, if the best rushing QB ever in history, Michael Vick could not do it, no one is going to.
‘Mahomes sucks. Just accept it. He has at best 2 more years in the NFL.’
Hehehehe…I needed a chuckle. Love ya, man!
There’s some serious trolling going on in this post.
Rushing QBs have a limited shelf life.
See, also, Cam Newton.
Though both Mahomes & Jackson can sling it, so we’ll see.
Rushing QBs have a limited shelf life.
, RG III, Colin Kaepernick, Johnny Manziel, Tim Tebow, Michael Vick…
Fran Tarkenton, Steve Young, Roger “The Dodger” Staubach, Randall Cunningham…
Those (except for who you talk to perhaps Cunningham) are labeled as scrambling quarterbacks, sure they’ll run, but only if there they made a full read of the field and no one is open. Where as a rushing QB will have designed runs, and in passing situations take off at the first chance. Rodgers, Favre, Cullpepper and McNab have all been running threats, but they were passers first as well. (Cullpepper and McNab shoulda protected those knees)
Mahomes isn’t a rushing quarterback. If I had to take a guess as to his career projectory, I’d say he’ll be a quarterback similar to Ben Roethlisberger. Hopefully less rapey and won’t hold the ball too damn long.
That’s always a good goal.
Top ten in passing yards, touchdowns, and a couple Super Bowl victories sans rape allegations? I’ll take it.
Mahomes is a good egg.
Dayton Moore has always been keen on having nice kids on his team.
Andy … not so much, but the temperament of the two sports are wildly different.
So Mahomes seems like a breath of fresh air.
Mahomes will do well as long as he can do what he wants. Against an elite D, he cannot even see a pass rush coming from behind him. Don’t take my word, just watch the last SB.
I mean AFC title game, durrr….
Robert Colvile
Verified account @rcolvile
Corbyn’s speech is astonishing. We were incredibly popular and our policies were incredibly popular but I will stay around to work out just exactly why the public didn’t agree
Did he just say that what is important to ‘everyone’ is social justice and socialism? Did I just hear that?
Lib Dem leader Jo Swallow looses her seat to SNP
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
“Jo Swallow”
LOL!
Err i guess her name is Swinson.
Not anymore.
I once knew a secular party girl with a Muslin mother a Pasty white father named Anida Cox.
*Pasty*
He was really, really white. 😉
He claimed the government would focus on, among other things, the NHS. And he repeated some regularly debunked claims:
Yes, we will recruit 50,000 more nurses and 6,000 more GPs and we will build 40 new hospitals across the country.
Guardian re Borris. The Guardian is so good they can fact check the future.
The Guardian is one of the few members of the so called ‘media’ to prove themselves dumber than CNN.
“we will recruit 50,000 more nurses and 6,000 more GPs”
Where? How? When?
Bring back National Service, award “Doctor” and “nurse” qualifications to anyone passing the shake and bake courses.
*checks out muhpeachment farce*
“Our children are going to ask us why we failed to protect our democracy.”
“You rely on attacking the process when you’re trying to defend the indefensible.”
Blecht.
Which one was from Amash?
‘Our democracy’. It’s a Republic, you dummies.
It’s polling very badly, even with very left leaning pollsters. They done fucked up, lol.
How in the hell am I supposed to not hate these people? I really believe that hatred is counter productive, but the left is bent on defining blatant evil as virtue and vice versa.
They’ve turned it into the By Any Ways and Means Committee.
The left are the mortal enemies of libertarians. I’ll just leave it at that.
I think you’re right. The hoped for libertarianish leftism is not happening despite Weed, Mexicans, Ass-Sex and neoliberalism.
The 120-year delusion that the left doesn’t really hate libertarianism but only hates socons, rednecks, racists and warmongers has been proven wrong time and time again.
What about the 1,000,000 year old delusion that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’?
Hmm, but isn’t that basically the same thing? I Hate socons and racists so therefore everyone who hates them is my ally?
Good news, I think the US Pharmacopia is a private standards organization closer in scope to something like UL. So the gov’t doesn’t set the standards, the industry decides what the standards will be.
I don’t even know that that is. But I definitely know what the FDA is. An organization who protects the best interests of the pharm company who pays the biggest graft into their paws. Fucking assholes.
In his article he’s crediting the gov’t for possibly helping the bottled-in-bond for being good, but I think it’s actually US Pharmacopia being confused for gov’t. US Pharmacopia sounds more like the Libertarian ideal of industries setting/abiding by their standards.
“Bottled-In-Bond” was Federally defined term. USP equivalence was just a coincidence, I’m sure.
well. I’m heading to the Gym. Will see what it’s like when i get bak.
Damn, Labour just got their asses whooped.
I’d O.D. on EU schadenfreud if I spoke the language.
Yeah. I love it. Nigel Farage, the real winner, behind the scenes.
Meh, Tories are more spineless than Republicans. Brexit still won’t happen.
A lot of remainers got tossed TFO. They might actually get it.
Watch what Farage does, he’s the guy with the intact balls who’s directing this thing.
And at least 7 more 2A sanctuaries in VA tonight. Fauquier hasn’t voted yet.
But, does that really mean they’ll protect 2A rights, or are they still going to let the Fedgov dictate that to them?
City Air will make us…you know me.
Why not? Because Fauquier That’s Why?
So it looks like Wednesday will be impeachment day.
Will the Republican Senate vote for political suicide by convicting?
Are you serious?
Well I’m pretty skeptical. If the GOP wanted to turf Trump they would have Nixoned him already. And lack of specific charges is not a sign of strength.
No one, not one single person on this Earth, thinks that the Senate is going to remove Trump.
Hey I’m a pessimist, can’t you tell? 😉
^this^
“Will the Republican Senate vote for political suicide by convicting?”
Umm, when I said are you serious, that is what I was talking about.
Which chamber gets to impeach justices?
It’s the same process as a presidential impeachment – If the House votes to impeach, the Senate conducts a trial.
Is that stated anywhere? Has it ever been done? I honestly don’t know, and don’t care enough to look it up.
Constitution?
Samuel Chase was impeached but not removed in 1804.
Fine, did the work myself.
No. Graham and McConnell will stifle any testimony implicating them in the cash for political favors with foreign nations system that has been in place for decades and move for a vote as quickly as possible. Probably before Spring. After that the nation can enjoy being inundated with political ads and pundits playing the “Who was more corrupt?” game up to and after the election.
Lindsey Graham?! But he’s such a nice boy, so cordial with women folk. Acting all gentlemanly like he has no interest in them besides being friends.
Confirmed.Bachelor.
So Canada’s Tories lost Scheer. Where’s our “electable” Conservative?
Watching CBC go hard after him after he lost on the charges of…it wasn’t even blasphemy…it was just “holding bad beliefs” makes me scared that they are preparing a Basic Becky to take over Tories. One is already lining to replace PM Zoolander.
On the flipside, the Biggest Becky continues to be so:
Jody Wilson-Raybould is refusing to move out of her entire ministerial office suite
Basic Becky? Freeland?
Yup. She’s old enough to be a Karen, but nope, Basic Becky as it gets. And now she’s a Deputy PM because Vagina.
It really annoys me because pluralism is dead in the West. You are only allowed to have an opinion on the percentage of income tax and no other issue. If you don’t agree with gay marriage or abortion on demand, you are evil and must be shunned, even if you do not want any action on them. Your very belief is unclean and you must be removed from society.
History of Byzantium podcast put my mind to it, probably by accident. During the first 200 years or so covered, Monophysites were a huge issue in the Empire, to the point of near civil war, massive riots, lives lost, imperial policy hobbled and external enemies ignored or not vigorously opposed due to it. At some point, he was talking about legitimacy and pointed out that these days, if you don’t believe in Jesus alone, let alone in him having two natures, that’s no obstacle to the legitimacy. Or, say, David Cameron ostensibly sticking a part of his anatomy into a pig. Even if evidence cropped up after the election, would he lose legitimacy? But what if evidence came up he, say, used a Racial Word? Would it be gone then? Are we really so different from people who feared being wrong on Jesus’s nature would bring forth the wrath of God?
No we are not. I would even question if we were ever plural or if “pluralism” was just another form of narrow accepted opinions.
No, it was there. It was a delusion, of course, but a delusion shared widely enough can become a reality.
Mackenzie KIng should rot in hell for his creation of the CBC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation#History
Spry and Plaunt were socialists so the CBC has always been socialist propaganda.
Is King the one who spent WWII getting strategic advice from his talking dog?
I’m trying to catch up with you all. It’s been a hell of a busy week.
NA, great review. I’ve been making old fashioned’s with rye lately.
Dads Hat is a great bourbon with a horrible name. It reminds me of a sweat ringed ball cap my day still wears.
All this talk of UK elections makes me confused as I didn’t know Secret Nazi President was running. I had to look that one up.
That brings to mind an episode of 30 Rock, wherein Liz Lemon reveals that the shade of brown she uses to color her hair is called “Grandfather’s Shoe”.
All of you Tokyo based Glib, I will be in the area in late January. My plans are still in flux however.
I owe you some drinks. Let me know.
Will do. I’ll be in the region for a few days and have a Tokyo layover for a night or two possibly.
I’ll be in Tokyo this winter, but in mid February.
Jelly of you both. No Tokyo this winter.
Greetings from Red Deer, Alberta,CANADA.
I’m polishing off a bottle of JP Wiser rye. It’s Canadian.
It’s snowing all week. And cold as fuck.
Everybody has been pretty nice.
Did I mention it’s cold?
Alberta is a great place to visit, with friendly people and a good number of very attractive women.
December makes it NOT worth, regardless. WHY, man?!
$$$$
When you gonna spread that wealth you stole from the Canucks, wrecker?!
I didn’t steal money from them. I’m actually trying to give them money.
Well, you don’t have the power to tax, so of course you didn’t steal. That doesn’t mean you didn’t wreck them. Capitalist shill!
You’re doing it wrong.
I love Alberta. The nice people at the airport make me want to fly there regularly just to be greeted by them.
http://archive.li/FHh5a
NSFW.
Oof. One of your better choices.
Yowza. Q bringing out the big guns tonight.
https://www.aier.org/article/europes-green-deal-flirts-with-central-planning-disaster/
EU engaging in central planning? Unpossible!
Almost like globalism is only exacerbating the flaws of the nation state rather than curing them.
How dare you!!?
Are you Time’s person of the year?
Well, I was a few years ago.
We reported earlier that the SNP had won Kirkcaldy (see 4.11am). The candidate there, Neale Hanvey, was actually sacked last week for posting antisemitic material online.
The persons responsible have been sacked.
You know which other Scot was an anti-Semite?
all of them?
Were they true Scotmen though?
The One True Scotsman.
Racist.
Would you rather I went with The One scotsman?
Much better.
Montgomery Scott? I never saw him with a jew (that jewish Vulcan doesn’t count)
Scot Hitler?
https://66.media.tumblr.com/e52b27f8e04bf67c491b44e24c737a28/tumblr_n0w1yhSBKg1qcgzbvo10_r2_250.gifv
BoJo has his majority now…
Woooo – it’s happening!
LOL
To Be Fair, over there I’m told is where Chomskey took his Libertarian label from, so not anything we would like if it won anything.
I was at a Christmas party last weekend and had more than one Bulleit Old Fashioned. Pretty solid.
How many times do I have to explain it!? Old Fashions are made with brandy!
yes and Socialism is the best political ideology.
So, you’re a NAZI, I’m pretty sure that’s what the NAZIs said.
Just go down to the local Supper Club and order an old fashion, and see what they serve you!
It even infects Supper Clubs on the border.
The bartender in LaCrescent tried to make me one with brandy. Thank God my sharp eye and quick reflexes saved the day.
Hey Tundra, just wondering if you got my email about a possible meet up next week.
Got it. Just replied.
To be honest; I’ve never had a brandy old fashioned, or any other kind. My stomach gave up on liquor long before I wanted it to. It is hearty for the beer, but vodka and gin (in mixed drinks only now) are the only liquors my stomach doesn’t immediately vomit back up after years of straight drinking.
Based on the disgusting video you shared before, it was not even the brandy that was most offensive but the sprite. ANyhoo should I ever visit the US I crossed out Wisconsin as a state I want to be in
So you don’t like drinking and cheese. Got it. Truthfully the only other thing we have here is the Packers.
And the mosquitoes. Don’t forget the mosquitoes.
Excellent article. FWIW, I’ve had all four and I agree with NA. Well, I probably would have been harder on the Beam. Not a fan.
I look forward to the rest of the series!
Also, do we get a rye themed hororscope?
I too like Rittenhouse rye although I did not have much rye in my life.
Good rainy morning glibs. It is cold and wet and very dark outside but I am working from home so don’t much care.
It’s been gray and rainy here too.
Given I usually leave for work at 6 30, I like it in summer when there is a bit of light at that hour. In December it is not even getting light, it’s night.
That’s Why It’s Called an “Assault” Rifle!
And, why YOU SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO OWN ONE.Rest in peace, victims of latest wingnut. And rest in peace, future victims of wingnuts still allowed to purchase legally and own SEMI-AUTOMATIC AR-15s that hold 100-ROUND DRUM MAGS.To all talking about how an armed movie patron could’ve stopped the shooter: BULLSHIT. No gun owner in his right mind would ever, EVER fire blind in a darkened room filled with tear gas and terrified people running for cover.And if you would, you’re no different than the shooter, himself. Just dumber and more dangerous. *Remember, kids: Your life doesn’t mean shit in a nation that lobbies against common sense in favor of the freedoms of gun-toting paranoiacs.
Discuss
*smooches*
“Thanks to his hate-filled rhetoric, his relentless incitement of violence, and his refusal to acknowledge the surge in white nationalist terrorism, the president poses a clear and present danger to the people, and especially the minorities, of the United States.”
https://theintercept.com/2019/08/04/el-paso-dayton-mass-shootings-donald-trump/
“SEMI-AUTOMATIC”
That doesn’t mean what you think it means.
“Your life doesn’t mean shit in a nation that lobbies against common sense in favor of the freedoms of gun-toting paranoiacs.”
Freedom is overrated I want security!!!
You’ll get neither, and like it!
No gun owner in his right mind would ever, EVER fire blind in a darkened room filled with tear gas and terrified people running for cover.
So someone that’s never been to Basic Training.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to huff tear gas, but it like pepper spray, should be experienced at least once. It sucks but it really won’t stop you from doing what you need to do if you want to do it. Surprise and panic are as much a part of the reaction as the actual chemicals.
So. 938 miles in the car today. Spawn 1 is a huge Hardcore History fan, but hadn’t yet listened to The Destroyer of Worlds.
So we did. First off, it’s excellent. At almost 6 hours long, it’s a commitment, but completely worth it.
One small part struck me as hilarious, though. He was talking about the Kennedy/Nixon election and how Khrushchev was extremely involved in trying to sway the election to Kennedy.
We just laughed and laughed.
Khrushchev is laughing in his grave, now. He swore this nation would be poisoned from the inside. It has been.
938 miles in the car today
Lol over the last year I drove about 1700 miles…
You use “been to the moon and back” units in vampireland?
No I occasionally translate for you because I know Americans suck at maths
Yes. So badly that we brought about the atomic age.
Well it all started when some dolt tried to divide by 0
There is only one math.
Go easy on him, Romanians suck at grammars.
Calculus, geometry, algebra, linear algebra, number theory, set theory…
All math.
Still just one math, the rules are the same in all. It would be like saying NFLs because there are 32 teams.
The rules are not all the same. Regardless they are all part of mathematics not mathematic
900 miles was like eight weeks of driving to work (back when I had a job)
Well, that’s not too bad. I’m not sure I could do 1200 in a day like I used to be able to.
That’s twenty hours of driving at 60mph with no stops.
Press X to doubt.
60? That’s an urban speed limit. Get out into the country and you get faster than that no problem. You can get 1200 miles in 16 hours or less.
Find me a 1,200 mile stretch of highway with no turns or stops that wouldn’t require a piss break in 16-20hrs.
You don’t need all of those conditions.
Up and down the middle of the country you’ve got posted limits of 75+, where 80+ is standard behaviour. A few minutes to empty the bladder and get back on the road doesn’t substantially impact the overall miles covered. And no, those speeds do not require a perfectly straight road. Just no sharp turns.
It’s not fun, but it can be done.
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You done?
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He’s not white-knighting. He’s giving you straight-up information.
Ever driven from Omaha to Evanston on I-80? It’s a freaking race track if you hit the traffic just right.
However, there IS a lot of traffic on I-80 nowadays, so things might have changed in the last few years.
I can and have done, as have other members of my family, a straight shot from Kansas City to Salt Lake in approximately 16-18 hours.
Well, okay, since you asked.
It is 1247.5 miles from my home in the KCMO metro area to Twin Falls, Idaho, a distance I made in under 20 hours, mostly on I-80.
With potty breaks.
I did 1,800 miles in 20 hrs (I let my brother drive for like a half hour while closed my eyes, but he only had his licence for like a month at that point, so that was enough of that)
Yeah, it’s not the most difficult thing in the world to do.
Loud music and Mountain Dew helps.
Somehow, I can’t imagine you, your planned routes and driving gloves setting a Cannonball Run record.
Why did you link to WaPo’s front page?
because I’m ready for
beddocumentary. I swear it was a link to their story about the guys that broke the Cannonball Run record.I thought his goal was to meander around the Great Lakes, not get somewhere fast.
My road trips are there to see the ground in between stops, not just getting to point B. So I try to keep the driving hours to about 6 hours a day. It’s a leasure trip, not a race.
I’ve driven over 1,200 miles by myself in under 24 hours, from western Wisconsin to Helena, MT. That included about a 4 hour break to sleep and get some breakfast. I was averaging over 90 through most of Montana and about 80 through most of North Dakota.
I once did Colorado Springs to Tallahassee, FL in 24 hours non-stop. It would likely have been quicker but we were stymied by our encounter with Hurricane Andrew in Mississippi and Alabama.
138 miles translates to too many hours behind the wheel. I hope you rotated drivers.
400-500 miles is my daily limit (including coffee/potty stops). Finally got 70MPH on one interstate and 65MPH on non limited access highways in certain rural areas.
The most I’ve done in one day is about 900 miles. That was… rough. The car radio had a tape deck.
Manhattans are made with rye. Fight me.
If you’re poor.
Apparently, we drink different ryes.
A good rye is a helluva value in my book.
I remember you are not very young. Are you in good shape? Do you have fighting experience? I wanna know what I am getting into
I’m a grumpy old fuck with bad knees. But I taught martial arts for ten year. Roll the dice.
Dude.
Americans.
Guns.
You’re going to have to define “fight” a little more finely.
The words. You stole them. From my fingertips.
I like Pie way too much to shoot him. I’d just destroy his knees and then buy him a drink to dull the pain.
I think you need an oak stake to do any damage.
Good point. And garlic.
No. Of course they are.
^^This guy gets it.^^
Way to assume he’s a bottom, shitlord.
Who would fight you over that 100% correct statement?
That’s like arguing over “martinis are made with gin”.
Apples to oranges.
Gin and vodka have no relation.
Whisky writ large and rye whisky have plenty in common. A good manhattan can be prepared with many sorts of whisky- not the least of which is rye whisky.
Fuckity duck fucker fuck. Tried to draw my cup of coffee and after half an hour wrestling with it, all I’m left with is a heap of graphite scribbled puke. Not getting better at the mother fucking hobby. At least it’s almost drinking time.
Music comes naturally for me. I can’t draw shit.
Some bad
Some good
Like the rooster
Hobbies are cock
Evidently I can draw shit. At least you’re good at music.
If you’re not good at the hobby, that means it’s time to go pro.
Yes.
Snatch?
Yeah, I haven’t worked out a voice yet, but I wanted to see how it looked.
I like it.
I LOL’ed. I wonder if you could work in Trump and Boris having a conversion down the road.
I LOVE this, CPRM. I was hoping BoJo would make an appearance. I don’t really care for his hair’s voice; doesn’t seem posh enough – I imagine it sounding more like Rees-Mogg or Sir Humphrey Appleby.
:Kisses fingers thingy:
Screw it. I threw out the challenge, so I show my crappy work.
https://imgur.com/a/bY4IpWz
Someday I’ll get around to this place
http://maukameadows.com/
Hawaii never had much of a draw for me.
30 day challenge?
If you tape a banana to the drawing and fling some shit on it, I’ll give you $10,000 for it.
Sold.
https://i.imgflip.com/3jbq7u.jpg
Perfect!
I’ve made some progress.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/V6iUQkP7QFSkuCkXiIPJiQ.Ep0FX3orA5q0KkFgP-uHOA
And yet again, the coupling of your comment with your avatar is pure perfection.
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Poor Straffy never took Drafting in high school. I can see where you went wrong but the good news is that you are going right in other areas. Endeavor to persevere!
Shades of 2016 schadenfreude.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PH8_-Ncrjak
(ri)1 is the best
whiskeydistilled spiritalcoholic beverage that I’ve ever had. I got a bottle years ago (back when $50 for a fifth felt like a huge expense). I looked for a bottle recently, but my regular liquor store didn’t have it. I even called every liquor store I was willing to drive to, and none of them had it either. May have to make a trip down to Kentucky sometime to find it among their vastly superior selection of booze.https://www.wfmz.com/news/lonesome-duck-dating-ad-seeks-match-for-man-s-grieving/article_d66c3cab-8296-53c3-a19b-8097c8c954c2.html
Weird or sappy?
Awwwwwww! : (
: Fondles nearly forty year-old boutonnierre still intact in its plastic tomb : “There’s someone for everyone, that’s what Gamma said…”
Dude! You’re gonna make me cry!
http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2019/12/12/news/influential-irish-american-congressman-write-to-british-political-leaders-urging-them-to-ensure-peace-in-ireland-is-not-unde-1788255/
Foreign election interference? Impeachment!!!!!!!
I would have liked to have seen that King guy from Mass tarred and feathered. Christ, what a cunte.
Welcome to another edition of “Not Adahn Gets Drunk at the Keyboard.”
People post here when sober?
/shuffles feet
OK… OK…. I’ll admit it. Sometimes it is me posting when sober.