BEST SWEATER!
STEVE SMITH HAPPY. HIM HAVE GOOD CHRISTMASTIME. HIM FIND CAMPERS ACTING OUT “THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS”. THAT MEAN STEVE SMITH GET RAPE DRUMMERS, PIPERS, LORDS, MAIDS, BIRDS AND A TREE. HIM HAVE NO USE GOLDEN RINGS.THEN HIM LISTEN FAVORITE ALBUM:
HAVE A HOLLY RAPEY CHRISTMAS. IT BEST TIME OF YEAR!
NOW STEVE SMITH RELAX WITH FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE. HIM GIVE LINKS. GOOD LINKS. AND ADVICE. FROM STEVE SMITH!
- POLAND PEOPLE TELL EU “YOU BE QUIET. NO TELL US HOW RUN COUNTRY!” WHAT NEXT? PLEXIT?
- COUSIN SEA SMITH….THIS YOU DO?
- STEVE SMITH THINK THIS BIT EXTREME. YOU JUST GIVE 1 STAR RATING.
NOW STEVE SMITH GIVE THE BEST ADVICE. BETTER THAN OLD HOOMAN.
Q: My kindergartner arrived home with a princess birthday party invite. We’re new in town, and she’s going to a small private school, so I thought this was a perfect chance to meet new parents.
My husband dropped us off at a very expensive home, where there were coolers full of beer, champagne and wine. It was a Sunday and not even noon. I don’t drink, generally, and definitely not with strangers, or around my 5-year-old, or on Sundays OR mornings — never mind a Sunday morning with my child and a bunch of strangers.
I was confused, for starters, but as I spent the next two hours wandering the party, literally EVERYONE was drinking beer and asking why I wasn’t. They didn’t even have cake or open the presents. I left at the designated party end time, right before the “beer chugging championship” began in the kitchen.
Is this normal for wealthy families? Not only am I scared to bring my daughter to another party, I’m concerned that when it’s her turn for a birthday party, we’ll be the “weird” ones who actually play kids’ games and serve cake. I’ve sacrificed to put her in a nice private school, and now fear I’ve doomed her to be the poor kid.
A: STEVE SMITH THINK YOU BIT UPTIGHT. HIM HAVE ANSWER FOR THAT. HIM LOOSEN YOU UP, WITH RAPE. THEN YOU WANT DRINK WITH NEIGHBORS! IF STEVE SMITH HAD PINECONE FOR EVERY TIME HIM HEAR “Oh God…how can I forget this horrible day!” HIM WOULD BE BANK OF CASCADIA. SO DRINK, LOSE FEAR. LOSE BAD MEMORY. BREAK CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE OVER NEIGHBOR HEAD AND SMILE. BE TOAST OF NEIGHBORHOOD.
ALSO, GIVE CHILD UP FOR ADOPTION. YOU GOING RAISE HEADCASE.
FREE CASCADIA!
FREE CASCADIA!!! And Spud slides it in first.
Phrasing?
Slip it in https://youtu.be/fZojwrBh5GI
Or you can always just Slide It In
Or Ram it Down
https://youtu.be/mtu20Ejv3SI
Phew….I was afraid you were gonna play something gay
“How
The Golden GirlsJudas Priest turned a generation of American boys gay”Only manly music for me.
https://youtu.be/1bShqsm4RFc
It’s amazing there is anyone who didn’t know….
PS. I was a fan long before I “knew”
Once I saw the album titled “Point of Entry”, I started piecing it together. Speaking of, this is one of my Priest favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuuHfMx3CQ
“I was a fan long before I “knew””
Same here. Huge fan. Just going through the playlist it seems so obvious in retrospect:) lol.
I don’t think my male cohorts ever got it. If they did, they weren’t talking about it.
Halford’s voice is incomparable.
I would try King Diamond, but that’s too forced.
Went to that concert probably ’81? Heading Out to the Highway was opening tune. Glenn and K.K. where raised up from under the stage jamming on their guitars and Rob came out on the motorcycle. It was a badass concert.
‘Screaming for Vengeance’ is probably my favorite if only for the most amazing scream ever.
https://youtu.be/KDveDuHo3qo
Damn it.
I have no idea what you people are talking about.
or around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox4QWkijsK8
Not an expert here, but sliding seems a bit gentle for STEVE.
ORLY ?
That letter can’t be real.
I know . . .who throws a kids party in the morning . . .on a Sunday . . .and why wouldn’t you be drinking?
Seriously, no mention of clowns or balloon animals.
If you’re drinking on a Sunday morning at a kid’s party, there better be a bounce house.
And jalapeno poppers wrapped in bacon.
Just saying.
Was that not a given?
*Barf*
If you’re drinking on a Sunday morning at a kid’s party, there better be a bounce house.If you’re at a kid’s party on a Sunday morning, there better be a beer, boobs, and booze.
…and a pool…
None of them are. This one is especially ridiculous.
I have no idea how to interpret that Poland story except that if Brussels is against it….
Same
It’s all a bit surreal. We seem have the choice between nationalist populist and globalist technocrats happening across the entire west. It’s better than ten years ago when it seemed to be all technocrats, so I’ll cheer on Trump and Johnson and Bolsonaro and Orban, but even as I cheer them I know they’ll turn hard against liberty if they ever get the upper hand over the technocracy.
Truth
Maybe Poland has minor court judges who think they can dictate national immigration policy or any other thing that suits them. Or is that just us?
If I didn’t drink around my kid, I’d never see her.
…or my wife.
Not you… me. *sigh*
It was funnier the first way.
??
Yea. Wait…hey!
Now there’s a reason to quit drinking!
Drink enough and you can see her twice.
or not at all
Shabadabadia.
Nice
Think I may have found my new favorite Japanese band.
that is kinda fucking awesome.
Thumbs up!
Now perhaps you can explain Seikima-II to me.
They popped up on my playlist and I was like I already lived through KISS here…
In an interest twist of fate, that is blocked in my country.
LOL! KISS copyright claim?
JapKiss?
TOM★CAT? It’s costumes of Kiss without the face makeup.
https://youtu.be/FoNw72d8_Dc
I. LOVE. THAT.
I know that there are people more thoughtful and knowledgeable about religion than me here. So, I want to ask a question. I was raised Catholic. But, I consider myself more Protestant. Whatever. But there’s something that bothers me in the whole Christian faith. Jesus, as both man and God, is supposed to be the one truly sinless person. The one man who truly deserved happiness and glory. The problem is, he died a miserable, awful, painful, hellish death. Because the rest of us suck and are terrible people. So, my question is, how dare we accept salvation? It’s an act of incomparable injustice. It’s spitting in the face of the one truly good man who didn’t deserve it and, yeah, the son of God. Sure, He did it. So, not accepting salvation is an even bigger sin. But, shit, how do you reconcile yourself to accepting something you don’t deserve given to you at the expense of excruciating, hellish pain from the one person who didn’t deserve it?
My question is the other side of that coin.
We’re in a lot more agreement than you suggest.
Same question, phrased oppositely.
Me: Why was Jesus’s sacrifice necessary?
You: If it was, why do we deserve what he did?
Standard Protestant answer: It was necessary because we are incapable of deserving salvation and God is merciful and gave us a gift of unearned grace.
Standard Catholic answer: It was necessary because Adam and Eve opened the door to sin and we are born with the taint of that sin. Christ died to offer us a path to redemption.
(I am not really hitting the distinction, but they view human insufficiency in the face of judgment differently, with Protestants traditionally being much more pessimistic.
But I don’t think any of that fits with Mormon theology. If you believe that everyone starts out headed for a heaven it gets harder to justify the sacrifice. I mean, a perfect man deciding to give his life to spare millions from torment and death makes sense. It’s a good trade. Giving his life to offer people who are guaranteed to be pretty well off an even more awesome time seems like less of a good trade. I am probably missing something in the Mormon teachings. I don’t know them nearly as well as I know Calvin and Aquinas et al.
Yeah, I can see how that could be coloring my reasoning; however, that goes heavy on the grace, but not heavy enough on the justice.
Well, the Christianity I am familiar with would say justice for humans equals damnation. Grace is all there is for mankind, so yeah justice doesn’t enter into it.
Yes, and to me, that is not just at all.
But what is the alternative? If you reject the gift you disrespect the sacrifice. The only other alternative is to come join me in agnosticism, or the angrier folk in atheism. I don’t recommend that course. I’m pretyy convinced my life would have followed better paths if I had been a believer.
Well, that’s part of why I stay in the church, because I do think it has helped me make better choices than I might have otherwise. It has kept things from me that would have been harmful to me (that is, I’m naive about a lot of ugly things and they repulse me when I find out about them, so my naivete is a guard).
I also think it has helped in some peripheral way to keep my mental health from going completely offline.
For instance, say I were not a teetotaler for religious reasons. Say I could tolerate the taste and smell (which honestly I don’t think I could anyway). If I drank, my mind would have cracked long ago. I’d either be dead or in the gutter.
I have a crisis of faith going, yes. I believe in a doctrine most Christians do not accept as Christian, yes. I am a member of a church that has always done shady things, yes. I accept that.
But I believe I am a better person for it.
Yep, that is what I was getting at. It’s very hard to get faith back when you have rejected it, and whether or not any particular religion is ‘true’ belonging to something that gives you the grounding and support and hell, the shaming, toward doing things that are wise and productive is good thing.
and thanks for the copy edit on the quote.
Just remember that faith and religion are two different things. Faith is in you, religion is a faith vehicle created by man, and therefore is flawed.
What Spuds says. I remind my wife of this regularly.
Moje: I’ve found this book to be very helpful in thinking about Christ’s sacrifice in an alternative way.
Thanks!
I have an answer for myself. Whether I want to accept that answer, I don’t know. Crisis of faith is a very old habit now.
Jesus, etc. https://youtu.be/v4_O4Sj-XTs
Infielder?
How do you accept something you don’t deserve? Ask a socialist, they have a lot of experience at this.
Well, yeah. But, I’m not. And I don’t want to be one.. And, honestly, I wouldn’t want to worship a God who thought I shouldn’t be bothered by this.
A freely given gift is not loot.
Who set up the rules? Who says that you don’t deserve it?
Along a similar line,
I’ve never killed. Never robbed. Always respected Mom and Dad.
I’ve remained faithful to the same woman for 47 years.
So, why am I doomed to Hell?
Do I have to say it? FYTW
Just my off-the-cuff answer since I’m not inclined to do a bunch of research and I’m certainly no theologian;
The fact that you don’t deserve it is kind of the point. If a man were capable of deserving it it would make Christ’s sacrifice unnecessary, but as you pointed out “the rest of us suck and are terrible people.”
God’s justice, being immutable, must be answered. Jesus was that answer. Being a debtor to God and Christ is a constant theme in both the new and Old Testament.
One of my favorite quotes, which I can’t find now, goes something like this ‘What makes Christianity unique among the world’s religions is that all others are about man’s efforts to reconciled himself to God, Christianity is rather about God reconciling Himself to us.’
And to clarify further, when viewing it from that perspective, atonement has nothing to do with us being made ‘good enough’ for God but rather God removing the need for us to be ‘good enough’ as Christ was the propitiation for our sins.
The real question is, why does God allow pineapple on pizza?
Because it tastes good?
/runs, ducks, hides, and shivers in fear
i mean, I’m just saying that there’s no better way to have an avocado garnished deep dish pizza.
I had deep dish two nights in a row. It was delicious.
There’s always self-flagellation . jj, don’t do that. Really.
How are these questions not answered by your church? My church went on about that almost every Sunday.
We know the Sunday school answers.
That’s not enough of an explanation.
Because, honestly, I don’t have a church. And most churches that here me talking this don’t want me.
Fair enuff. Wasn’t trying to be a dick, just that I don’t even remember the explanations our church gave me because they were nonsensical.
FWIW, this is what I have come to but am not necessarily willing to accept because my core problem is still “An omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent god should not need an intercessor with his creations.”
In the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ took upon himself not only all the sins of the world’s people past and present and future, but also all of its hurts, its mental illnesses, its physical and emotional pains, and its circumstances.
He was in agony before he got arrested and, in my pea brain, I would think that having the distraction of physical pain might be a relief from the mental pain.
Anyway, so he finally died and was resurrected.
Okay. Now, fast forward to Judgment Day. Christ, not God the Father, is the judge.
In this manner, he is not only able to judge us for our sins (it’s easy to judge sin), but also show us mercy because because he did, in fact, walk in our shoes and thus, knows why we did what we did. Because of his time in the garden taking on all our agonies, he is the only one who can walk that mile in our shoes.
That still doesn’t amswer my question as to why the creator deity can’t mete out justice AND grant mercy in the same manner, without having an intercessor have to do it.
Wish you had been our pastor. At least I can grock what you’re saying.
Thanks.
But yes, it’s understandable to me, put that way, but it doesn’t answer the deeper question, which wdalasio asked in a different way.
This will answer those deeper questions.
Short answer, sorry if this is the ‘Sunday school answer’ is that an intercessor is necessary because it would be a contradiction if God meted out justice and gave mercy; sort of like Santa saying “You were pretty bad this year but ho, ho, ho, hears a gift anyway.”
As I said upthread, if God’s justice is eternal and immutable there must be an answer and atonement for it. God, thru Jesus (voluntary as you point out) took that upon Himself.
I believe Jesus’ prayer in the garden was asking exactly that “[God, if there is any other way of redeeming humanity, please let this cup pass from me]”
But an intercessor was the only way. There is a ton more there and I think it’s actually proof positive that free will must in fact exist but that’s a much longer discussion.
My 2 cents.
That is exactly what Santa actually does.
Which is why I think parents perpetuating the myth of Santa in their children’s minds is kinda monstrous when you deep-dive it
If people taught Krampus too, that would be solved. LOL
To me, Santa is a metaphor, a symbol. It’s okay to say, “Santa is everywhere” and “Anybody can be Santa’s helper,” because Santa is really just about selflessness, joy, and love.
So, I’m torn. I see the “magic.” I see the hope and anticipation, but…is that bad? I don’t know.
Considering my own meltdown when I found out Santa wasn’t real, and considering how I told my daughter Santa wasn’t real, I do wonder about not being up front about Santa being a symbol.
If I had kids I don’t think I’d object to some harmless anticipation of Santa’s visit but I do think I’d be careful not to perpetuate the belief, most kids are smart enough to be skeptical fairly early. But like you said I think it’s kinda cruel to set a kid up to have their heart broken and also there is nothing wrong with kids learning some gratitude for their parents efforts and sacrifices
/Stoggy old grump
Mojeaux: Perhaps this will help (truncated portion below, the full quote is much longer):
/checks to see if Hogfather is still on Amazon Prime
Loyalty is another one.
I bought into that. Brought me nothing but grief.
Everyone thinks their religion is the one true faith and everyone else’s is nonsense.
I think you are missing the nature and purpose of religion.
That’s why it’s called “faith” and we’ll get the answers when we get there.
The true path is to defend atheists when around Christians and Christians when around atheists.
As someone said here recently, I like the cut of your Glib.
^this. Only I don’t do it to be dick. I do it because agreeing with people does nothing to get you closer to truth, hearing the arguments does. (that is the theory, the fact that I am still almost perfectly poised between the chairs of belief and atheism after decades belies that theory a bit)
Oh, is that why you don’t do it? Gee, thanks.
I didn’t mean it the way it came out. I was trying to clarify me, not cast shade on you.
You weren’t wrong.
Christ, what an asshole.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/iowa-woman-ran-down-girl-because-victim-was-a-mexican-police
She’ll probably get a lighter sentence than the flag burner.
I’m guess she ‘took her jerb’?
C
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Sorry, Coheed and Cambria ain’t gonna happen
Now it has to.
https://youtu.be/n0H3RlaQVrM
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This…. this is not a word.
Our hive mind can’t even spell “cunte”.
I tried to throw in the U after the C, and you Tulpae ruined it.
You get a star. The rest of the Tulpae look like a dyslexic trying to spell “inchoate”.
Thought you were shooting for Chola. Never call a chola “chola.”
While these parents may have shown poor judgment
Well fuck you too, Judy.
No use for the golden rings, STEVE? You could neither plumb their depths nor find purchase at their rims?
So disappointed in you! You’re just not the all-purpose Rapesquatch I thought you were . . .
That party question was weird.
Maybe she went to the wrong party. The princess Barbie party was next door.
Her eyes were wide shut.
Hey, at least they weren’t having an orgy.
Well she did leave right when they started the chugging contest.
Is it really a party if there’s no orgy?
Juanita and the rest of the nannies were hosting the Princess party.
Having worked in a very affluent community, I’ve responded to a number of those type events. It’s not about the kids and many of those kids will be emulating their parents by the time they’re teenagers.
I too have spent some time around the ‘upper crust’ of society as an outsider. One is inclined to think that our betters conduct themselves in a more refined and dignified manner. My experience is that their parties are exactly like a trailer park kegger; it’s just that the booze is higher qualify and the attire and atmosphere are nicer. The behavior however, excepting maybe the brawling (but not always), are pretty much no different.
I picked up more screwed up teenagers in the rich neighborhoods than I did in the poor ones.
…but enough about your career with Uber
That would have been easier. I wouldn’t have had to deal with puke and attitude. Then again…
Yeaaaaah, I do. They sneer at Flyover, USA often enough.
Color me enlightened.
Their is absolutely nothing about money that improves morals, ethics or behavior.
*There
Someone here, long ago, said it best and I cant quote it but I will do my best.
Whatever you are, big money magnifies that. If you are an unhappy person, you will be unhappier. If you are a happy person, happier. The same for moral, immoral, lush, dopehead, good parent, bad parent, etc.
Now me – money is power in that it gives you options but most people will use big money to take the same options they chose before the big money.
I work under the assumption that money doesn’t solve anything; it just makes surviving easier, and maybe climb a couple of rungs up on Maslow’s scale.
However, I did, in fact, think that the monied behaved far more circumspectly.
I’m inclined to agree with all of that. I don’t think money is necessarily corrupting in and of itself, just like I don’t think there is any inherent virtue to poverty.
Oops……meant to conclude that with;
“Power on the other hand…..”
“Money doesn’t make you happy, it just makes it easier” – don’t know where I heard it, but there’s a touch of truth there. I would argue it compliments your point.
Stereotypes are never always right and never always wrong. (I love the fact that that construction makes sense in English. We have an awesome language) I’ve known very wealthy folks who were the sort of people I aspire to be. Disciplined, kind, wise, hardworking, just all around good people. I’ve also known wealthy people (one from law school springs to mind) who were entitled lazy, contemptuous of others, and deceitful.
I think all three of you make very valid points. Your personality is the biggest determinant of how your life is going to go, regardless of the level of prosperity.
Mojeaux – they do not. In many cases less so.
Bob – Bingo. Money is inanimate. Money cant buy character, that has to come from inside the person. It is the person that has agency and the choices they make depend heavily on their character.
banginglc1 – “I have been rich, I have been poor. Rich is better.” – Bertrand Russel (?)
Yes, as I said, money give you more options. Unfortunately most people are already choosing the same options they would had they more options. Money makes it easier.
More for Mojeaux – I went to an Xmas party at the in-laws once. We played some silly gift giving game where you gave a gift to a random person. I got a movie.
The one rich uncle there asked me if he could switch gifts with me. I said no, let me take the thing home and watch it and then I will just give it to you. You keep your gift and after I have seen it. you can have the movie too.
Guess what….the fucker waited until I wasn’t looking and stole the movie. Get that? A multi-millionaire committed petty larceny against his own family in order to watch a movie he was going to get anyway at a later date. I have never spoken to him in the 30 years since, not because I am mad about the movie but because I found out everything I needed to know about the guy’s character. I don’t want to have anything to do with people like that and anyone that asks me about him I will not hesitate to warn them….when that guy walks in the room put your hand on your wallet and whatever you do, do not go into business with him. He aint no good.
That story kinda blows my mind.
Just… WHY?!
Some people get rich because they are smart, personable, honest, and hard working. Some get because they are the opposite.
“Just… WHY?!”
Because in a sociopath’s mind they are the only real person on earth. Everyone else are just objects that they use and manipulate to get what they want. They have no morals whatsoever. You are either of use to them as a means to their end or you simply don’t exist. He wanted the movie. He took it. There is no why beyond what he wanted.
This is why you see the murder of petty theft victims. Best example I can think of: Thug holds a guy at gun point and forces him to withdraw money from an atm, then tries to kill him so there will be no witness (actual case here locally). How much money can you get from an atm? A few hundred bucks maximum, right? Thug, without hesitation, was willing to take another person’s life over that just so there would be no witness to identify him for what was at that time not even a felony theft money wise. The threatening with a gun part was, but not the theft itself.
The thug tied a man up and threw him in a lake like he was an object because he got what he wanted, weekend beer money, and had no more use for the guy.
They look like people, sound ike people, but they are not. They only pretend to be people to move among us but in fact they lack any and all what makes us human: empathy. They do what they do because they can. Dont try to overthink it. You cant relate to them because you are not like them. In religious terms you could say they have no soul.
*watch politicians give speeches. They mouth the words but they are watching the audience like a hawk because 1) They have no empathy and thus cant predict how people will react to what they say and 2) They will later amend their words and positions if they gauge that people will act more favorably to the new words. They are simply manipulating people to get what they want (power) and they are fast learners and do it really well. After they get what they want the voters can live, die, fuck off…they don’t care. They are through with them at that point.
To kinda misquote Robert Caro: Power (and money) doesn’t corrupt so much as it reveals.
. . . in a sociopath’s mind they are the only real person on earth.
^^THIS, in spades. They’re kinda like instantiated solipsists. I’m certain my father was a sociopath (they’re also generally quite charming), and I’m beginning to realize that my eldest brother may be one as well (he spent a lot of time with Dad when he was young and impressionable). All the behavioural stuff scans almost perfectly for both of ’em. Best thing you can do with a person like that is avoid their blast radius if you can.
I grew up with a sociopath/narcissist grandmother.
I can recognize it in women, easily. No problem. There’s always one in every office.
With men, it’s harder for me to do.
I’ve met a couple of them, both men, both very charming. Confused the fuck out of me after I figured it out.
We went to one like that. Lotta booze and a huge play room to keep the monsters busy. It was weird, but a nice break from the usual bounce house at the park thing.
At the Oakland airport, sippin a Elysian Space Dust. I’m officially shutting it down till January 6, 2020.
Gonna take nice long jogs and play guitar till my fingers bleed.
*raises glass full of vodka and a splash of mixer*
Cheers!
You have a fun way of jogging if it makes your fingers bleed.
Have you ever played guitar while you’re jogging? I can see the potential for injury.
There used to be a guy in Venice did it everyday, all day on roller blades with a pignose strapped to his shoulder. He got pretty famous for it.
Harry Perry is an asshole.
That’s a prerequisite for hanging out on the boardwalk all day, everyday.
Yeah, but you’re not bouncing up and down as you play. I applaud e just for the attempt.
That’s what she said…
Do they still have that bar half way up the control tower? It was still there last time I was thru (probably 1999 or so)
So, I went out and spec’d/purchased the new Win10 machine, to be delivered in the New Year. $3,855.90 (just over $2,900 USD at today’s exchange rate). Good God.
Mind you, the last time I spent that kind of money on a high-end machine, it lasted me for nine years without problems UNTIL THOSE F*CKERS AT MICROSOFT DROPPED SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS 7.
I’m hoping for five years from this one. And the old one’s gonna get scrubbed after I move everything off of it and turn into a general-purpose Win10 machine for the household (“yes, nephew, you can download that crappy ZIPfile filled with buggy software and several viruses on the household machine . . . “).
I’m using a Samsung lap top that I bought nine years ago. Still cooking along. I held off for quite a while before upgrading to Windows 10, but so far, so good. I do hate it when it updates because I usually have to reboot a couple of times to get it working correctly, but that’s been about it.
The descktop I use for audio recording said Win10 was not compatible. It’s an old computer I essentially only turn on to record. I’m thinking of just putting Ubuntu or Mint on it and going from there. (Reaper, my recording software is compatible with Linux OS’s)
I bought a nice one last year. It’s an HP, but the lard is dramatically reduced from previous models. It’s a convertible, so it has a touch screen which I use mostly for scrolling by swipe, an ssd drive, so booting takes about 1 second, backlit keys, etc.etc. I’ve never had one this nice and I’ll never go backwards again. It ran me about 700.00, but I got it
cheap. I think it’s usually around a grand. Win 10 doesn’t bother me at all.
Don’t be a tease, what’d you buy?
Spec’d (roughly) as follows (optimized within reason for PhotoShop CC 2020):
CPU: Intel Core i9 9900KS 4.0GHz 16.0MB
Motherboard: MSI MEG Z390 “Godlike”
RAM: TridentZ D4 3200M – 32 GByte
Boot disk: Western Digital Black SN750 NVMe SSD 500 GByte
Scratch disk: Western Digital Black SN750 NVMe SSD 1 Terabyte
Storage disk: Samsung 860 EVO SATA3 SSD 1 Terabyte
Graphics card: EVGA GeForce GTX1660 Ti SC Ultra
Power Supply: Corsair RM850i Silent 850W 80+ ATX
. . . and various bits ‘n bobs to complete the system.
Five years. I just want it to last five years.
Duuuuuude
Not bad. Not at all bad.
Thanks, mang.
I’ve got my components to upgrade my machine and pass down the old bits in another case to the nephews. But, I’m not sure when I’m going to get the time to build it out and burned in before Christmas.
/Thanks stupid 60 hour maintenance window.
Done with work for the year*. Hallej-fucking-lujah.
* I’m done with the office. I’m not done with work, but such is the job.
I have to show up for five days over the next two weeks. Can’t sneeze at five days off paid, but I’m dreading drumming up enough to do. Everyone else just took vacation days.
I’m going to try to write a Dynamo script.
Neat
Yeah, I’m stuck at the office too. Boss is gone for two weeks so I can finally get some much needed work done without being interrupted for something stupid every 5 f’ng minutes. I’ll take some long weekends Q1.
Gotta work mon, tue and then thur and fri next week and then I get 9 days off in a row. Only have to use three VC days to get it. Whoo-Hoo!
VC days
*triggered*
I’m sitting in the car waiting for Mrs. McGinty to come out of the store and a trike-motorcycle just rode by with George Michael blaring.
That’s not common where you live?
It’s not common for anyone to play George Micheals in a way others can hear, unless they’re 12 year old girls.
I heard Human League blasting out of a car a couple months ago. Made me smile.
Toto – Africa. 6am middle aged man windows down VW Jetta parking at the train station one summer.
Laughed my ass off.
were you feeling fascination ?
Once I was riding my bike and Skynyrd’s “Cry for the Bad Man” was playing. I pulled up next to some kid in a VW GTI. He was like 20-ish. He hears it and rolls down his window. After a good long while, he motions me to turn it down. Thinking he was bothered by it or wanting directions, I did. He says ” That’s the greatest song I’ve ever heard, right on, man!” Then the light changed.
For reference.
I’m not hip to the local motorcycle scene but I would think some type of classic rock would have been more appropriate. Or Christmas music.
Father Figure?
Careless Whisper.
Sure it wasn’t Godsmack? Lol.
I meant Seether
https://youtu.be/zALiyJ02k_Y
Thanks for that.
I’ll say it was Seether so the guy can keep his rep.
Megadeth may have done a remake.
You never heard Fred Durst’s arrangement of Faith?
I like his version. Not a big Limp Bizkit fan either.
That happened to me last Christmas.
Yeah, but what happened the very next year?
I died from AIDS.
That was awful.
But I laughed.
Tangentially related: The first time I saw Wham! I knew George Michael was gay and was like, “Whatevs, I like the songs.” Fast forward many years to when Chely Wright (country singer whose music I liked) came out and I was like, “Whoa, what?” and felt kind of betrayed because she had all these love songs to DUDES. Her ENTIRE oeuvre was love songs about DUDES. So it was kind of a smack in the face.
There’s a reason nobody cares who k.d. lang sleeps with and that’s because she DOES NOT sing love songs to DUDES.
So Chely Wright bemoans that country fans “turned against her,” and here I am feeling kind of guilty because whatever, like I care who she likes, but I still FEEL like I got conned. I talked to super-proggy friend of mine about it and she said, “I felt that way when George Michael came out.”
Well, then.
Chely Wright’s (full disclosure, I have her first 6 albums) career was already well past struggling when she came out. Album #4 was her big breakout and #5 didn’t live up to it. Then she tried to do the post 9/11 patriotic thing. Then coupled with the shifting sands of the music industry.
She can blame her lesbianism for rejection, but that’s not why she tanked.
Oh. Interesting.
It’s kind of like the Dixie Chicks. Yeah, lots of talk about their comments but they were already moving to more of a pop sound and weren’t getting the air play they used nor were they charting singles.
You know, I wasn’t really mad about what they said. I just rolled my eyes and thought, “Congrats. You just killed your career.”
Me too.
(Except for thinking they were already committing career suicide)
But but but! It was country music radio conspiracy to blacklist them! Not their shitting on their fan base.
Liar’s Bench Rye Whiskey from Bear Wallow Distillery . . . .not worth the price. . . at all. Drinkable, but, just not worth it.
I bought a bottle of Talisker 10 year last night and took it over to my buddies house last night and left it there. I’m really hoping he saves it for when I come over in subsequent visits.
Dat liquor? It gone.
Yeah. You leave a bottle of Talisker 10 at my house, it’s mine.
I’ll just be honest . . .if you leave a bottle of bellows at my house. .. it’s mine.
Oh I left it intentionally…..I’m just hoping he’s gracious enough to save some for me later. That being said it doesn’t matter, he’s a good friend who helps me out all the time so definitely no hurt feelers if he drinks it.
You leave a bottle at my house, I’m drinking it.
However, I bet Sloopy still has a half-full handle of Jim Beam I left at his place 5 years ago. Because he’s *that guy*.
Leave a bottle at my house and I’d call you up to remind you to come back and get it. You wouldn’t have to worry though, it would still be intact regardless of how long you left it.
I don’t miss the hangovers
Someday, I got to make it to the honey harvest. My wife is dragging me to a week in Quad Cities Iowa for her stupid friends wedding in May. I’m dragging her ass to a honey harvest. Plus, she is terrified of bees.
Maybe I’ll fly solo on that operation.
A week? For a wedding?? Is it a Hindu wedding?
I went to a shooting fair out in Corona with my buddy. We rode our bikes. With about a mile to go, we see a sign that reads ” warning high concentration of bees, keep your windows rolled up.” Didn’t get stung, so there’s that.
Not A Hindu wedding. But it’s Memorial Day, so we get days off. A long weekend; lots of free hotel nights, and a general affinity for dumpy Midwestern towns we haven’t been to before. Might visit some friends in Chicago, too.
You can catch some Midwest League Single A ball.
@GT: That was literally the first thing I googled when my wife fave me the itinerary.
Misunderstood some times
I’m not on the other side
I really don’t care what others do
The gulf is not so wide
This game of us and them
The struggle for power and fame
I hate the partisan distraction
I hate the teams and game
Love whom you like
Pray however you will
Earn and build and husband
Eat and drink your fill
Your tongue, your church
Be very different from me
Go your own way in peace
Live long and be free
Merry Christmas, ye ferking bastards * burps, falls down *
Cheers!
Barkeep! Get this man a drink!
And a Merry to ya, sir. Have another round!
Is anyone here a fan of the Eels? I never listened to them much, but I’ve been on a kick lately.
I dabble. Never really got deep, but I like what I hear on WFMU/KCRW/KEXP. What are you listening to?
I have like 5 albums on my ipod, I just have had them on repeat on and off for the last few months. Favorite songs would include “trouble With dreams” and “Somebody love’s you” but I’m enjoying most of the repertoire that I have.
I’ll take some time to listen over the Holidays. Thanks for the reminder to listen to more music.
You mean like some novocaine ?
Yes.
Unagi-don breakfast?
S*T*A*M*I*N*A
Is that octopus bacon?
Freshwater eel.
When we go out for sushi, I order unagi for dessert. Hot eel and a sweet teriyaki sauce does it for me.
It’s called “The Winston Mom” here.
Hmm. I’m going to need to add the teriyaki sauce the next time I see her.
If it smells like fish, its a dish!
I’m the guy who speaks Japanese and doesn’t like sushi.
I don’t mind fish, just not a fan of the texture of raw fish.
I mind fish . . .raw or cooked. . . .unless it’s in stick form and drenched in tartar sauce,, then it’s ok.
I can do salmon and tuna. anything softer or slimier than that and I’m out. Sea urchin was in my top 5 nastiest things I ever put in my mouth.
I’ve never tried uni (sea urchin) and have zero desire.
It’s very polarizing. People either seem to love it or hate it.
You’re missing out. Aburi sake with mayo and cheese. I’ll eat 5 or 6 plates at Kaiten sushi.
https://sobubu.exblog.jp/14600839/
For banginglc1.
(At Chez GT, this is Tuesday.)
And that’s why we have kanji folks. I read that first and was thinking – yes I’d need to be drunk to eat sushi.
酒 – “sake”alcohol
鮭 – “sake” salmon
Supposedly, they call it “sha-ke” at sushi restaurants to avoid confusion.
banginglc1must be a gay fish
So he’s a puffer fish?
My sushi eating is like my Japanese. Training wheels for both. I like cooked fish far better than raw. I’ve eaten fugu once. Not a fan.
I like aburi sake* flamed to just about fully cooked, but purists would shake their head.
*the sushi places around here just call it seared salmon nigiri
*Since Rhywun isn’t around*
Nigiri, please.
Quoi?
Ah!
I am now hungry for sushi.
I’ve never had eel. Looks good.
I like eels,
Except as meals.
And the way they feels.
For realz?
e.e.cummings?
Without looking it up, I think it’s Ogden Nash.
Oh yeah. Makes sense.
11th grade English class.
He’s probably banned from Lyft with that name.
Te;dS deals.
Glib meet-up location has been changed.
Fuck.
It’s back on! Some candy ass DQ employee posted that sign without permission from the owner:
WE LOVE YOU INDY
Dairy Queen: another Texas thing . . . from Illinois.
Minneapolis would like a word…
Well shit, my bad. Started in IL, currently headquartered in MPLS (has been as long as I could remember)
Stealing your meme. I take what I want.
Prolly meth. Extra fast food all night.
Fake news. Nobody eats after doing meth.
Also: nobody goes to DQ.
Except to buy and sell meth.
CHECK OUT THE NARC OVER HERE
You can call me Norbert.
The small town a few miles to the west of us put in a DQ. At dinner time, that place is packed.
I like chocolate-dipped cones.
Butterscotch.
When I was growing up and we were headed to the cabin in Idaho from California in the summer, dad always stopped in McDermitt. This is a teeny town on the Nevada/Oregon border next to a dirt poor Paiute reservation in the desert. There was a small hamburger stand and we always stopped to pick up a chocolate dipped cone. DQ was good, these were better.
I looked it up and Albuquerque still has five or so Dairy Queens.
I remember going to a DQ when I was a teenager. I think we’d just rented a movie film at Hastings.
Here in NYC, Dairy Queen has fantastic fried cheese curds.
We had an A&W Root Beer stand in our town. Moj mentioned nostalgia yesterday. Welp, that memory triggered some.
Not good ones, I presume?
Great memories. After tubing down the crick in our cutoffs, we’d get a float. Different than I remember, though.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vic-and-becky/7960419514
There’s still an A&W in my town (Troy, Ohio) and as I understand it, one of the last ones left.
If you ever find yourselves in Venice, Florida, stop at one of the TWO locations of Frosted Mug. A local root-beer stand and hot dog/burger joint. They make their own root-beer at each location and it is really, really good.
Xmas music
https://youtu.be/AFtA7IHZgzw
I’ll see you and raise you this.
ya’all niggas got no soul.
This is the only Kurtis Blow song you need to know.
That makes Will Smith’s rap look smoove.
X-mas music.
I don’t remember who linked this (SORRY! I’VE SLEPT SINCE THEN!), but I haven’t stopped listening to it.
Oh. I cant. Even.
That’s great. I love the stand up bass.
Catchy Xmas song with a really good female upright bass player. My younger nieces and nephew love this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx8GWRlteh8
My kid sang that at his school x-mas show last year. He still breaks out in it once and awhile. Cool song.
Nice. Guess who I went and seen a couple weeks ago? I’ll give you a hint: she’s a blonde haired female blues singer from Kansas City.
It was a very good show. I’d like to see her do a solo show some time.
Right on. She got jacked at the show I saw. It was half mixed for the headliner dude and she only got an hour. I still need to see her do a full set. Still, she shined. The Troubador is kinda gritty, soundwise.
She was the headliner at one of my favorite venues in Madison so I got to see a full show and the sound was really good. At times I thought the songs were a little too “busy”. I’d like to see her do a show with just her playing guitar and singing.
Thanks for the recommendation. I was hemming and hawing about going, but after your reviews I decided to go and glad I did.
I can’t stop listening to Lake Street Dive’s Good Kisser since I first heard it a few days ago.
Jay-sus, what a great song.
Shitty video, but try this-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QS86Cz5Tck
Yep! LOVE Brian Setzer.
This version is marginally better- Brian Setzer Nutcracker Suite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_7AvrTnMpY
Meditations on a Huron Carol by the True North Brass. Haunting, especially the “wolf howl in the distance” using brass instruments near the end. Generally a very quiet piece, might have to turn it up a bit . . .
Shivers. Just…shivers. OMG.
Here’s a change of pace for you: Let’s Go Get A Real Tree!
Here this is what realtree brings to mind.
Maybe the most upliftingx-mas song ever?
Because Naked Raygun is an awesome band, and because this is a cool song. https://youtu.be/D53C9tbO3ZQ
And they make it seem suspect, too.
The original version.
I love you. ?
I think you turned me on to either SomaFM or WFMU.
It works both ways. #FullHomo
WFMU
#FullHomo
I just realized I haven’t listened to SLF in a million years. They were a very big influence on young punker egould. This shit is gonna be my soundtrack for getting back to Seattle…eventually.
Dont discount that Cleveland Sound, Mr L Coast.
Studio version.
Shit bro. I was born in Cleveland. Been listening to That Cleveland sound fo evah. Here’s more https://youtu.be/eyv3VuMRTaU
Old school cleveland https://youtu.be/NNTSk8EsoAM
Ooo I like Raspberries – didn’t know they were from Cleveland.
I forgot I, er, someone, made those STEVE SMITH album covers. Made me smile after this hectic day.
No wonder those albums didn’t have legs! (too far?)
You heartless monster! Its like you pulled the rug out from under him with that comment!
Wow.
Hey, I wore that exact same STEVE SMITH sweatshirt to the Glibs meet-up with Pope, Tundra, and Leap at the Wheel Wednesday night. I guess I have great STEVE SMITH taste.
It was nice to finally meet some Glibs. All three were very cool guys.
Hey lady, poor people get drunk before noon on Sundays too! Classist bitch!
Watching a mother wipe down her teenage son with wet wipes. Straightens his clip on tie and fixes his rumpled collar. Why does he do this to her? He’s such a mess.
Japanese porn is so fucking weird.
Train platform.
Pornier.
Not wrong.
I started to snicker, but then realized my son is a teenager and is a complete mess and I had to teach him how to tie a double windsor.
The kid’s expression is resigned? Clueless? Vapid? Tough to say.
4-in hand FTW
I had to re-check that I hadn’t taught him a four-in-hand, but no. It was a full Windsor. My husband had always tied half Windsors (which I did not know) and I could never figure out why the knot was so tiny and the tie was so long. I offered to teach him a full Windsor but he got touchy about it and turned to YouTube.
Half windsors are what my dad taught me, so that’s what I always do.
The only time I saw my dad wear a tie was in wedding photos.
Double Windsor, ftw. If you can’t tie one of those, you shouldn’t be handling sharp objects, or driving heavy machinery.
4 in hand… yadda yadda yadda Winston’s Mom.
I never learned how to tie a tie. I just make others enact my labor and then just loosen it and take it off while leaving it tied. I’ll leave it like that for decades. I don’t wear ties often.
Just do what Trump does.
My hair won’t tie anything for me, it won’t even talk to me.
Strap on, er, I mean clip-on?
Job interview is the only time I’ll wear a tie. What is it with suits and ties. Should have been 86’d decades ago. F’ng pomps and dandies.
Agreed. No idea we cling to ties, yet top hats and bowlers have become relics. I don’t get fashion.
yet top hats and bowlers have become relics
? ?
Good day, sir!
Not to mention ascots and belt onions.
Aphrodisiac.
pomps and dandies
You can shoot and sharpen an ax and still be the shit for dinner
Oh yeeeeeesssssss…. *fans self*
Clothes make the man.
https://gregwohead.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/bundy313.jpg
but, whatever you do, don’t get dressed in Powerpoint
Go on.
I’m very glad that my last job interviews were all phone only. I didn’t even have to wear pants.
I have not met any of my supervisors in person, and have no idea what any of them look like (with the exception of the small thumbnail pictures some of them have linked in Office).
I had remote bosses for a while. It was nice. We’re casual unless the big brass are visiting so I feel fortunate.
When I go into the office I’m in a strange place. Technically, I need to follow the dress codes of two companies (the one I work for, and the one I support and work at). This defaults to business casual at least, so polo shirts and jeans.
Single and double Windsors — had to learn to tie ’em both when I was thirteen. Air Cadets was kinda strict about that stuff. ’Specially those fargin’ dee-sip Corporals.
I was pretty drunk and just on the up-swing of a mushroom high when I went through the ceremony. The nice Italian janitor helped me with my tie. It was a double windsor.
Mom’s live for that shit.
#notallmoms
Hey straff- thanks again for bringing me to vulfpeck. I’d like to think that you’re why they think they have an audience in Japan:
https://youtu.be/6HUkbf44iAA
That is odd. Good song, but gotta say I like the Brother’s voice better.
Thumbs down. Sounds like a gelded Prince tune. Like Michael Jackson. Boo!
Sounds like BBMak.
And fuck all the people who think a 3 hour 45 minute break in maintenance is worth anything. If I can fall asleep, I won’t be waking up in time to rejoin the bridge.
Ugh. Alzheimer’s and stomach flu. Catch you later Glibbies, it’s going to be a long night.
Oh, no! Good luck, Spud.
Sympathies man.
Sorry Spud.
Ow. What do you do when your significant other starts exhibiting symptoms? Honest question because mine has been repeating herself a lot more lately and just this week I had to stop her from putting a stainless steel bowl in the microwave oven. Scary shit. I’m used to drunken shennanagins not debilitating, fatal illnesses. God speed to you for being such a stand-up guy but we are poor and at the behest of Government health care.
Yikes! So sorry to hear about Spud’s current troubles AND your potential ones. Are you in a position to get her to a doctor if you can talk her into going? Found this at the Alzheimer Association’s website. May be other helpful info there too. Best wishes!
I haven’t watched Collider Movie Talk in years. I watched it from it’s inception on AMC’s youtube, when John Campea convinced his bosses to let him do a show, followed it over to Collider, but gave up when the Schmo’s came on and started fanboying over everything. This is the era that inspired Nerd Crew, today I clicked on a Collider video for the first time in years, and fuck it’s bad. One of the guys says episode 9 is ‘the most Starwarsy movie ever’, fuck sake.
I hate them all; creatures! https://youtu.be/kqldX0lo1I0
That’s some old school punk. I like it.
What year was that song from?
Looks like 1981. They seem to know how to play their instruments.
Joey Shithead is a watermelon politician now https://youtu.be/F5mrhIDPwKg 1981 indeed…
In fact, nearly ALL of the punks that I used to know are hard-left.
It’s not just punks.
Hi everyone. I’m off for the rest of the year, so I’ll be posting more often. I was hoping to have a beer but the mrs and I have some kind of intestinal virus.
I finally submitted another article. Part one is done and part 2 is almost finished.
It’s a seasonal period piece about my adventures in Christmas tree selling.
“Pensive” STEVE guts me. Thinking of campers past, present and future.
Penis Steve guts you? Makes sense.
That brings back memories….
For you https://youtu.be/Oztkl0GKTng
This Glenfarclas is pretty nice.
Swiss is STEVE SMITH
That chick in “The Crying Game” has a penis.
And in the Sixth Sense, that guy was Bruce Willis the whole time.
I’ve finally figured why I hate Xmas so much. It’s the one time of year wherein you metaphorically let someone else clip your fingernails.
I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. It can drag on when you’re a “church person”.
You guys are awesome.
That is all.
Good night.
Nope. Where else in the world wide web would (Alliteration! Chicks dig it!) I find myself conversing with Mormon pornographers, kind jail guards, honest lawyers and working government officials? The Glibertariat and the founders are the best! I think my heart just grew three sizes… Call 911!
I’ve been a lifelong nonbeliever (I want to avoid many things associated with the term “atheist”) but something occurred to me the other day: You can make all the arguments you want for the existence of a supreme being, and that’s not even the part I find hard to believe. The part I find hard to believe is all the other stuff that supposedly follows from that.
Given that a supreme being exists, why does it then follow that humans have immortal souls and that they are judged by this supreme being upon death and sent to a good place or a bad place depending on how well they adhered to the rules that were laid out in a holy book (one of them) by the supreme being? Why is it not a possibility that the supreme being brought the universe into existence but isn’t gravely concerned with what human beings are doing?
I should clarify that I don’t think it’s foolish to be religious. Religion and nonreligion deal with big questions for which I honestly don’t have a solid answer. I’m just a bit buzzed, talkative, and wanting to bounce this thought off of someone else rather than just muttering it to myself as I do the dishes.
It could be as simple as dropping a stone to the ground or watching a beloved relative wither and die. It might be as profound as watching a child’s birth. We are all here for a limited time so let’s not crowd the bus too closely and get on with the journey as best we can. When I was a little shaver I refused to participate in the Xmas pageant not because I was an atheist (because I was and still remain so) but more-so that my drunken mother didn’t put any effort into my shepherd’s costume. Fucked if I was gonna strut the stage with a pink bath towel on my head! It got attention, most of it negative and for whatever reason a Glib was born.
Night one of maintenance complete. And I get to do this again tomorrow morning…
Sounds like dollars. Weekend dollars.
Wifey and the kids just left for Florida. I’m home alone until the 28th. Sucks…
You’ve got us!
::thinks about this::
Ummm….sorry…
Random thought for the morning – The Wackiest Ship In The Army is a far better movie than it should be; greater than the sum of its component parts, as it were.