Greetings all. I,er, was indisposed yesterday, but the lawyer says it is unlikely to cause any further inconveniences in my life. Thanks to Mexican Sharpshooter for covering for me. I hope everyone else is having a great Friday. It is the beginning of my wife’s birthday weekend, so I expect to be primary care-giver for most of the weekend. I also have to arrange for birthday stuff. Joke’s on her, though, I travel for work next week.
You know, after reading this article, I don’t think the Broward County Sheriff is the worst sheriff in Florida’s history. Leading a lynch mob that killed one man, and then personally assassinating two more is fucking atrocious. Atrocious in a different way is the political theater of pardoning four dead men — although since the WaPo called out the new governor’s predecessor for not doing so, I guess I understand the motivation. I noticed that none of these actions paid surviving family members any sort of wrongful death or wrongful imprisonment settlement.
Florida Man who murdered a guy over handicapped parking space is appealing his pre-trial release condition that he avoid the 100 witnesses in the case. He says he can’t do it because they’re everywhere. I’m sure some sex offenders could show him an underpass that he can live under until the trial.
Ocasio-Cortez mocked Joe Lieberman after he said he hopes she isn’t the future of the Democratic Party. I’m sure Joe will get his good buddy McCain to haunt her.
I assume this Florida Couple were listening to the Beatles only minutes before their arrest. Also, Florida people need to stop being such prudes about things. Some dude from Minnesota just wanted to watch the sunset and rub one out — arrested. This couple just wanted to bang on a car hood — arrested. Let’s just go after the people who try to eat tourists, leave the freaks alone.
I’m always impressed by how much the guitar sounds like a sax on this one.
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Fabulous Friday brings you T&A to get the weekend cookin’!
http://archive.is/4sbDP
3 is THICC.
Agreed. But 22 > 3 > 49 for me.
I got stuck scrolling back and forth from 5 – 7. Yummy.
That’s quite the trifecta. Also, I don’t go to the gym enough.
“Mmmmm you’re hair smells like… collectivism”
*your – although, I have no idea if Joe would be thinking of the correct spelling while he was exhaling cheap gin and beef jerky vapors into that poor girls ear canal.
*girl’s. Shit.
That’s two high crimes for you.
-Grammar Nazis
IMPEACH!
Ted S is on the case!
I don’t mind it. Yeah, it’s pointless political theater, but it’s always nice when the government actually says “We fucked up”. And it’s cathartic for the family.
Palpable desperation
The president of the United States has many faults, but let’s not ignore this one: He cannot write sentences. If a tree falls in a forrest and no one is there to hear it … wait: Pretty much all of you noticed that mistake, right? Yet Wednesday morning, the president did not; he released a tweet referring to “forrest fires” twice, as if these fires were set by Mr. Gump. Trump’s serial misuse of public language is one of many shortcomings that betray his lack of fitness for the presidency.
Trump’s writing suggests not just inadequate manners or polish—not all of us need be dainty—but inadequate thought. Nearly every time he puts thumb to keypad, he exposes that he has never progressed beyond the mentality of the precollegiate, trash-talking teen.
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One must not automatically equate sloppy spelling with sloppy thinking. Quite a few admired writers are not great spellers before editing. The problem here is that he neither checked the tidiness of this message before it went out to the public, nor asked anyone else to take that step, about an issue as dire as an interruption of governmental services (Governmental Services?). Such negligence is of a piece with Trump’s general disregard of norms, details, and accuracy.
They’ve got him now. Failure to proofread is officially a High Crime.
I think Neontaster is right. Trump does this stuff on purpose. Whenever he makes a typo like that it’s the number one thing everyone’s talking about, and they ignore the substance of whatever it was.
No funding for the wall, no funding for a Presidential Edit Fairy. Sad!
They’ve got him now. Failure to proofread is officially a High Crime.
Trump was elected to lead, not to read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMsXWRWbOk
Please, Trump’s phone autocorrects forest to Forrest because he sends so many texts about how great Nathan Bedford Forrest is.
Nathan Bedford Forrest repudiated his racist ways near the end of his life. Trump should quote from Forrest’s last speech to troll the rubes.
He’s violating norms! Why, he hasn’t even launched an unauthorized war yet!
FRIDAY NIGHT!
NOT FRIDAY NIGHT
if three of those FOUR SAMBUCAS are for me, then let’s party.
I don’t know what a Sambuca is but I’m pretty sure the lady in question doesn’t need one
Sambuca.
Anise flavored, syrupy sweet.
Her friend with the little tongue waggle is a bit of allright.
Intrigued!
as well you should be
I’m really enjoying the cracks opening up in the Dem coalition that’s been in lock-step my entire life. More smug hipster comments, gurl!
Two of the men would eventually be shot dead by the segregationist sheriff of Lake County and his angry mob, and the other two wrongfully convicted of crimes on little evidence. The case of the Groveland Four, as they became known, inspired a Pulitzer-winning book and has been considered for decades one of Florida’s most grave injustices and the epitome of failed rule of law in the Jim Crow south.
They were just believing all women.
I think it goes something like, “She said it. I believe it. That settles it.”
choose to be a victim..
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/01/07/on-being-a-woman-in-america-while-trying-to-avoid-being-assaulted/
I make fake phone calls while I walk to a party in the Mission, listening to old voicemails I’ve saved, the voices of people I love piping again like songs. The doorbell rings after sundown; I’m home alone, so I pretend I’m not there. I get catcalled; I glare, but I don’t say anything. I’m traveling, and I realize I forgot to lock my hotel-room door while I was gone for a few hours. I check the closets, the shower, to make sure no one’s in there, waiting. I see three people walking toward me. It’s dark, and I think they’re all men, so I tense up. I get out my phone. When I realize one’s a woman, I relax, slipping the phone into my bag. I make so many more fake phone calls than real ones. I’m exhausted. I’m in a rage. While walking, I accidentally make eye contact, and I tell myself, Look stern. Look frightening. Don’t look so fucking afraid.
1. get a gun
2. learn how to use it
3. get a carry permit
4. carry it
5. train more
Seek professional help?
I agree. She needs help. Or a one-way plane ticket to one of the many countries where she probably thinks women have it so much better.
“Lately, I’ve come to suspect that maybe a lot of people, especially men, still have no idea what it’s like to be a woman in America going about her life while trying, and at times failing, not to be assaulted.”
When asking a woman out is rape, every contact with men is at least assault.
Hell, ignoring a woman is rape. It’s impossible to not constantly be raping.
ABR: Always Be Raping
she’s in the Mission District so i assume these are leftists gropraping her with their catcalls.
Or Latino immigrants. Wait – scratch that.
i actually have no clue. just saw it’s the Mission and assumed Bay Area progville.
It was a long-time immigrant area before the hipsters moved in and exclaimed how “authentic” the graffiti/murals and shit were.
The heart of the Mission District — around the 24th and Mission BART station — is street person central in San Francisco. Just about everyone feels at risk for being assaulted as they walk through there. There’s really no reason to ever go there, though, unless you live there or friends insist on going there for food or drinks. Easy answer, don’t live there, and seek any of the other dozens of SF neighborhood for nightlife if you are that anxious.
Walking through a bad area while on your phone will increase your chances of getting mugged. I don’t know what she thinks pretending to be on the phone will accomplish.
It doesn’t accomplish anything because she’s most likely making all of that shit up.
A tip: When in the Mission District, check out Paprika.
http://www.paprikasf.com/
I don’t remember the last time I was in hotel where the doors didn’t automatically lock.
yeah, I noticed that too. I call bullshit unless she’s staying in some cheap-ass motels, where being mistaken for a hooker is probably a bigger problem than someone hiding in her shower.
She looks like she will eat your soul.
She also has a reading list for you.
Yeah, she looks stable.
holy shit! vampire?
her writing will be known as “obvious foreshadowing” and “a bit ‘on the nose’” by future serial killer researchers:
A powerful, darkly glittering novel about violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young Korean American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea.
Look, I used to listen to Bauhaus and wear a lot of black and I still have a weak spot for goth girls (goth like we did it, not how the Hot Topic kids fucked it up) but generally speaking people who look like her are not well-adjusted. And those kind of people either lie to themselves and others about their lives, or they’re absolutely pants at recognizing and engaging with reality as we know it.
“While walking, I accidentally make eye contact, and I tell myself, Look stern. Look frightening. Don’t look so fucking afraid.”
I take it this is a woman I’m not supposed to say “Smile!” to.
I wonder what that hyperventilating idiot McWhorter (who wrote that Atlantic piece about Trump’s sloppy tweets being irrefutable evidence of his unfitness for the Presidency) had to say about Gulag Barbie’s “who dis” drollery?
“A trendy, timely witticism reminiscent of wholesome goodnatured teasing between well-adjusted professionals.”
I’ll bet he spellchecked the shit out of his article before he published it, though.
That was him? Pity. I usually expect better from him.
Same
Donald Trump is an extraordinary event that’s revealed a lot about individuals and institutions. Predominantly disappointing stuff.
Ditto. I really enjoy listening to him. This piece is a disappointment.
Who’s missing?
“Jack the Snipper,” the city man arrested this week on a felony indecent exposure charge, has agreed to remain in jail and not seek a pre-trial release, a prosecutor said.
Later in the article:
Gelinas earned the nickname “Jack the Snipper” when he emerged as the main suspect in a series of break-ins at the University of New Hampshire in the early 2000s.
The burglar targeted young women in their sleep and snipped off their undergarments before fleeing. Gelinas pleaded guilty to a single count of attempted burglary and was paroled in 2012 after serving eight years in prison.
“Jack the Snipper” isn’t a mohel?
I believe you’re thinking of “Jacob the Snipper.”
Not it. Hmmm… who do we know in NH?
Uhh…..
umm….
Were these young women thicc?
I’m traveling, and I realize I forgot to lock my hotel-room door while I was gone for a few hours. I check the closets, the shower, to make sure no one’s in there, waiting.
Yeah, sure. When was the last time you stayed in a hotel room with a door that didn’t slam and lock behind you? You have to wedge a chair in the doorframe to run down to the ice machine.
When I realize one’s a woman, I relax, slipping the phone into my bag.
Note to self: Bring a female accomplice when gathering sex slaves.
You know what would go nice at the World Trade Center? A Saudi flag sculpture with the same words the 9-11 terrorists when they killed several thousand people at that site.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/9/saudi-arabia-flag-candy-nations-sculpture-displaye/
“The Saudi-flag candy is part of a pre-existing sculptural exhibit called “Candy Nations,” which consists of the flags of all the G-20 nations being given the same candy-sculpture treatment.”
I’m not sure why this annoys me as much as it does. But I’m certain taxpayer money was used for this stupid bullshit, so there’s that
Thanks for the mini nut punch.
I guess that’s one way to never forget.
Deputies say they saw Snoots’ butt.
Snoot’s chute?
Gonna ram it, ram it, ram it, ram it up the Snoot’s chute. Cornhole!
/Frank Zappa
Cornhole! Wristwatch!
Crisco!
I hope they got hazard pay.
It is the beginning of my wife’s birthday weekend
When did a birthday become more than just one day?
Mine usually arrives during Spring Break. I assumed everyone got a week off with coeds on their birthday.
You’re right, AOC does look like your avatar.
Gigantic teeth are not my thing, but apparently a lot of guys around here are in to it.
HuffPo has the answer…
TL;DR – Conservatives are totes neurotic and unsophisticated deploranazis conflicted about their desire to hate fuck a WOC.
IOW, standard HuffPo fare.
She doesn’t seem that, well, colorful. Shit, I turn darker than that after a month or two of summer and I’m a WASP.
Is that the donkey from the beginning of Hee-Haw?
Birthday… weekend? Is this the island of lost boys or some gay fucking shit?
AOC learns free stuff is not free
The campaign of rookie U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been fined by the state for not providing workers’ compensation coverage for a month last year.
The failure to provide the coverage to campaign staff is particularly awkward for Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic socialist who rose to stardom after unseating top Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley with a campaign theme of improving conditions for the working class.
Cuck level: Maximum.
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/01/10/gwyneth-paltrow-brings-ex-husband-children-on-honeymoon-with-new-husband/
I’m not sure which is worse. The ex-husband, who gets to see his ex on her honeymoon with another man (but at least gets a free vacation out of the deal) or the new husband.
Either way, it is pretty pathetic.
Chris Martin has a net worth of about $120 million, he can afford his own vacation.
That story does nothing to improve my impression of Chris Martin.
Coldplay sucks.
That’s all that really matters in all of this.
I am generally in agreement, but I think I have confessed my fondness for this song before. That bassline kicks ass.
I’m pretty sure he’s banging her when cuck takes the kids for ice-cream and a game of mini-put.
“Mini-put”?
Here in America, we call it either putt-putt or mini-golf.
Mini-put. Sheesh. Fucking Canadians.
We’re always playing the letters!
The Chuckening!
Lol. What did you expect from someone who helped create ‘Glee’?
Head hangs low. Presents nethers to the alpha. Feels no shame.
What if the new husband is the actually the cuck?
Uhh… hmm… actually, after I read the article I’m not certain which one is the cuck. Maybe they both are?
She’s a solid 6-7 and not a good actress. It is amazing how the world kisses her ass. I mean I’d drag her kids around for a shot, but I’m fat and old.
I envision a rousing game of “push me, pull you”.
Why is TOS interviewing this Kristol lackey?
TOS has quality trolls. From the comments:
When are they going to mention a conservative among those proglites?
That guy is waaayyyyyy too scaringly good to be satire. I don’t know what to think anymore. I still read him as satire.
Of course it’s satire. It’s just sometimes best satire is cribbing.
But to stay in character with all that material!
We all have a gift. He was just lucky enough to discover his.
I certainly haven’t.
Because he’s against Trump. And everyone knows that the one central principal of libertarianism is opposing Donald Trump. After that, we can have debates about limited government or less spending or personal liberties. None of those things will actually happen. But, we can have debates about them. After Trump is gone.
I see chemjeff is still an idiot who likes to make broad pronouncements about political viewpoints that make no logical sense
Phhft! Chemjeff! He was a cunt at Slate and everyone there hated him for being a right-wing weirdo. He goes to a quasi-libertarian site and everyone hates him because he’s a neo-liberal weirdo. He’s the proto Hihn.
Muh Paaaaaarkz
“The true issue is that people … think that they own the park,” the 55-year-old said. “They don’t own it. They’re guests in the park.”
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“They cut down Joshua trees in Joshua Tree National Park,” tweeted Bill Prady, executive producer of CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory.” “Donald Trump is literally destroying America.”
Another person wrote on Twitter that Joshua Tree was “just a minuscule example of what #GovernmentShutdown will do to U.S. precious National Parks.”
They’ll be strip mining the Smoky Mountains in a day or two. I’m currently finalizing my plans to capture Old Faithful for my geothermal-powered rollercoaster.
Let’s take Topeka!
They spelled “minuscule” correctly.
“Own”? I don’t think that these people understand what a national park is.
Tommy Lee Jones hardest hit.
The banned bump stocks but they forgot to ban Jerry Miculek!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grgfKJT4Z48
6 rounds, 3 targets, .94 seconds.
As long as straight women like having sex with men, traditional masculinity isn’t going anywhere.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-wilhelm-masculinity-apa-guidelines-011119-story.html
It may change forms or go underground, but it’s not disappearing.
https://twitter.com/APA?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
I’ve been perusing the APA Twitter account.
Yeesh.
Just start the program of killing male babies already you SJW whack jobs.
AND I CRY. ESPECIALLY WHEN I HAVE TO LISTEN TO RETARDS SO DON’T TELL ME I HAVE NO EMOTIONS. I’M YELLING AREN’T I?! WELL?!?
They do seem a bit single-minded.
Note that these are psychologists. This is a good example of what they are. Many got their degrees at ‘schools’ that occupy abandoned former shopping malls. Theirs is a social science. Social science easily leads to social justice warrior.
Don’t confuse them with Psychiatrists, who went to medical school and are physicians who work with diseases of the brain.
I highly doubt the idiots here confuse the two.
I never thought they were the same.
It was just a reminder for the brilliant Glibs, I agree the great majority on here would never confuse the two.
The outside world, though, does so all the time. Even other physicians commonly make the mistake or conflate the two.
Some of us thus wage a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and ensuring those psychologist hacks don’t get undeserved credit.
Nah, chicks still dig tall men with broad shoulders or at least a “vee” shape to the upper body. Social engineering ain’t gonna change what makes the flaps start clappin.
Like the song says, “She want a thug”. I’m not in the dating pool, but a few friends my age are, and if they’re any gauge women in the 30 – 45 range, especially if they work out regularly, get psyssed when a man does stuff like throw them on to a bed or pull their hair. Like, not just getting the door; real, honest-to-God alpha male shitlordery is apparently catnip.
*slips own books behind back and smiles innocently*
I was single for a few years in my early forties. If you weren’t rocking their world, they were rocking yours. Pouring a woman a nice glass of wine and telling her to relax while you fix dinner is pretty much a guarantee of a good time. Being a Captain in the fire service who worked out 15-20 hours a week didn’t hurt either.
Yeah, I’m an old fat dude now with bad knees and a bad back.
Ocasio-Cortez mocked Joe Lieberman after he said he hopes she isn’t the future of the Democratic Party.
To borrow a comment from Henry Kissinger, can’t they both lose?
Incredible that he’s still drawing breath.
Earlier today in the AM Lynx I posted this in regards to new changes in Canada’s criminal code which give the police some pretty draconian powers in pursuing those suspected of drunk driving, even if they are in a home or a restaurant and nowhere near a vehicle.
Naturally, the cops are abusing this new power immediately.
“I haven’t been pulled over for 40 or 50 years,” explains Art Lightowler. “I was shaking.”
A stickler for rules, the 70-year-old knew he hadn’t been speeding. He wasn’t on a cellphone because he doesn’t have one. And he certainly hadn’t been drinking.
So why did the imposing 6-foot-5, 250-pound officer ask him to get out of his car?
“He thought I had dropped off an excessive amount of bottles at The Beer Store,” Lightowler explains.
…
The Peel Regional Police officer insisted he give a breath sample. And if he refused? “I could be fined $2,000 and lose my licence for a year. So I agreed.”
Lightowler passed and was sent on his way. But it took him a while to calm down. “I have semi-high blood pressure as it is and it was kinda scary.”
It was also completely legal. Welcome to the new law that came into effect Dec. 18.
Never give the King’s Men more power.
That 2 hour rule is just fucking crazy.
Coming soon to the US.
Unfortunately, that ratchet has no pawl. They’ll force us into the robot cars for our own good. The worst of it is, they’ll start with the semis first because they’re already tracked to death. Then they come for the pick-ups.
It’s hard to believe anybody could hate Joe Lieberman more than I do.
Fake news.
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1083752262361587714
I think CNN has actually surpassed MSNBC on the retardation/propaganda scale.
Straight from KUSI:
https://twitter.com/Harlan/status/1083729512918069248
I didn’t know San Diego had a Nazi TV station.
Ocasio-Cortez is absurd. Her election was absurd. It’s absurd.
She actually believes she’s the rebel upsetting the establishment with her superficial antics and retiredly illiterate socialist musings.
Hey, nice tits, tho’!
Here’s an article about the double standards that prevent women in our society from swearing in, um,….. dictionary dot com.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/policing-womens-language/?param=HP
You know, that website you visit to find out the definitions of words?
The thing that makes SJW’s so corrosive and dangerous is their complete willingness and unmitigated drive to inject politics into every damned subject on the planet.
I haven’t slept for 27 hours and am starting to feel a little cranky.
You know who else wanted to make his country pure?
https://freebeacon.com/issues/jayapal-trump-wants-to-make-america-pure/
Brita?
The Maple syrup industry?
Ivory soap division of Proctor and Gamble ?
John Winthrop?
Rousseau?
Armen Hammer?
Armand. Yes it actually is spelled the same as the baking soda.
I probably used to know that.
His (great?)grandson of the same name is an actor who goes by Armie. My wife showed me something about the young one recently.
Nope. The Stones pin my ears back nearly as badly as AC/DC. Just sounds ugly to me.
Are you saying you like Yanni?
I like Yanni, and John Tesh……….
I think I heard you call in Delilah once.
Just for you then…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0hTtsqiFCc
I used to own a David Sanborn album for some reason. I think he played with a lot of the fusion guys I used to groove on.
No. I’m just sayin’ that AC/DC is the music of louts and lugins and that the Stones are a glorified bar band.
Nice way of saying The Beatles are superior.
I hate all you people’s music. That’s right I called you you people.
I’m so sick of the Beatles that they’ll probably running on a loop in my head when I’m strapped to a wall somewheres with no escape but sweet, sweet death. Fuck the Beatles!
^THIS!
Nope. Usually you are a man of refinement and taste but in this case I gotta respectfully disagree.
Rain.
All the Beatles ever wrote were earworms. Fortunately, My Ruin can fix it!
Dude, there is nothing wring with jangly little earworms. That said, I like your selection.
As I’ve said before, I can respect the Beatles for what they were while acknowledging that most of their songs make me want to gouge my eardrums out.
Or I could refresh the page before posting and realize that I’m repeating other people
They were a freaking boyband. They were also a bunch of commie slime. Screw the Beatles if you like them you like Stalin.
So glad I’m not the only one who hates the Beatles.
I merely dislike the Beatles.
I reserve my hate for baby boomers who won’t shut the fuck up about the Beatles.
I reserve my hate for people who want to look edgy so shit on very popular groups, it’s one thing to dislike the Beatles (I’m no big fan myself) but another to dismiss their talent and accomplishments. Now the Beach Boys, on the other hand, they suck.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
“Some dude from Minnesota just wanted to watch the sunset and rub one out — arrested.”
Back to nature, man!
So it can’t be both, then. Choices…
Elder Minnesota man knows….
“I’m always impressed by how much the guitar sounds like a sax on this one.”
I think the sax helps.
Unless it’s in a Springsteen tune, then it just cripples your eardrums and makes you want to punch Little Steven in the neck and then take a dump on the mixing board.
Beautiful.
OMG I’m dying.
Thanks, Festus!
I aim to please. *tips baseball cap back*
Not really sure why they’re reviewing a years’ old game, but this one is really good.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/11/catherine-classic-review-sheepish-remaster-8332541/
Because it’s a review of a PC Remastered release.
I never finished the PS3 version, should get back to it someday…
I picked it up on Steam on release and will get to playing it this weekend.
I’m hoping if this sells well Atlus decides to release Persona on PC.
So sous vide adventures continue. I popped in an eye of round and then googled the cooking time recommendations. 30 hours… So I now have tommorrow’s dinner plan lol.
Hah – I haven’t done one of those mega-long cooks yet.
Microwaves are a thing, you know.
But I want actual food. So the microwave is out.
You’re just not adventurous.
It’s not about adventure. It is about knowledge. Microwaves cook in the absolute worst way for meat.
The only long cook I’ve done so far was bacon, which was interesting. You still wanted to crisp it up, and it stayed moist, but not chewy. I’ve got some baby back ribs I’m going to be trying this weekend.
Make sure to cover your container, or keep an eye on the water level.
Oh! You meant THAT !
Who said that romance is dead ?
*personal note: based on the pic, I think it may be the same dude
Do you even linx, bro?
Are those the things we’re expected to read ?
Are… are they siblings?
Question for the over fifty crowd – best arcade game. I’ll say Defender. Fight me now!
Or Stargate.
Zaxxon has its place, too.
BattleZone always has a special place in my heart.
Honorable mention: Tempest
Yassss, Tempest!
Spy Hunter
The reason I claim Defender is that was virtually impossible to cheat. Asteroids was easy once you cleared the field and coasted angle-wise across the screen killing the little whatchamacallies, running up your score.
Ms. Pac Man!
Battlezone, 2nd is Gauntlet. All others are wrong
Flash version here: https://my.ign.com/atari/battlezone
Bookmarked! Awesome. I apologize for mocking your music
Just like the beer recommendations here- its not always for everyone
Yep. I liked that one but it liked my quarters better.
I’m not over fifty but I don’t care.
Spyhunter and Gauntlet are tied for best.
Pitfall and Pac-Man rate highly.
+1 warrior needs food
I never found Pac-Man all that fun, otherwise you name solid entrants
Pitfall. *takes off head-band* Rich boy, eh?
Poor kids only had 6 bits not 8?
Nope. Mostly I’d watch other people play it because I didn’t have the money. It looked cool.
I managed to beat the Atari version of Pitfall once. ONCE.
I’m younger. Golden Axe (Battlezone is close)
Defender is high up there, because of the special button layout and the skill needed to play it well. But Mr. Do and Dig-Dug is where lots of my quarters went before the fighting games came along.
/under 50
*drops gloves*
The answer is Galaga.
Although I have a Centipede game downstairs that’s pretty fun…
Tundra is correct, and we’ve hashed this out before, Galaga has been proven to be the best a few times, it’s just science.
You hipsters like it because Tony Stark called out a guy playing it. But it is actually boring and pattern driven.
Why do you hate science, Jarflax?
Cause science is sexist and racist.
You mean aspie crack?
I have an upright Ms. Pac Man in the living room I bought for my wife several years ago, therefore, Ms. Pac Man is the best!
I also have a Ms. Pac Man.
I never liked it as much as the other pattern-driven games Jarflax hates.
It is possible that my innate lack of coordination has something to do with my hate.
Both solid seconds.
No love for Q-bert?
Just for the name alone.
Asteroid and Pong.
Getting closer to the true over-50s with that answer.
I remember going to arcades in high school when the vast majority of the machines were good old non-digital pinball. With metal balls and springs and clangy lights and buzzers, and analog score counting wheels.
Whhhhhhhhzzzzzzzz-KLANK!
+1 real pinball.
Comet ftw. My first bar had a comet machine and I probably dumped a car price into it.
Gyruss.
I liked Joust. Because I was a stoned kid and riding on ostriches with lances seemed kinda fun.
Joust. WTF is wrong with you people?
Look above ^^^ there are swarmers attacking.
I was too uncoordinated to be good at joust. It was fun but I sucked.
Donkey Kong, Rampage, Paperboy, Defender and Star Wars.
Hard to pick one.
*heads over to pinball machines with five bucks in quarters*
“Own”? I don’t think that these people understand what a national park is.
National parks are land held in trust by the nation for the exclusive use of right-thinking people. You’re only welcome in “your” parks as long as your appreciation of nature and behavior conform to the views of the special interest groups who have appointed themselves the curators of nature.
Otherwise, stick to the traktur pullz, you deplorable heathen hillbilly.
And ya gots ta shit in a bag.
and pack out your soiled toilet paper
I think that’s inane. My daughter did a bunch of those hikes and the kids would hold it in for the most part. If it were me I’d walk 50 feet off the trail, heel a hole in the duff, do my biz, put some pine cones in the bag and none the wiser. That’s getting up there with stupid Earth-love.
Beer bread is in the oven.
I pity all you people who prefer to drink the stuff. The far superior usage is for bread making.
/scratches head
I like both drinking beer and eating beer bread.
And beer pie.
And Moon Pie.
Beer ice cream.
At least two local ice cream shops have partnered with local breweries to make specialty ice creams using the wort from one of their beers. They’re really good.
I saved some beer ice cream recipes from Beeradvocate magazine. I haven’t tried them, but based on other recipes from that magazine I expect those recipes will produce good ice cream.
The guy who writes the recipes published in BA has his own website as well. I’ve been happy with several of the items I’ve made from the published recipes (and it’s about the only reason I keep the old magazines around).
Bookmarked, thanks!
Beer milk. -Ted S.
larf!
I have the good taste not to drink beer.
Scotch FTW?
STFU Ted. You drink cheap domestic Riesling.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
So you ferment the grains before using them the way you eat them fresh? It’s CRAZY
You’re supposed to dry and grind the grains into flour, not use fresh.
No wonder your bread turns out like porriage.
You make porridge from dried also. So hah!
You can do that after making the beer as well. Spent grains still have value (teaser for the next Enslaving Yeast).
I was actually debating adding the detail that I used a bottle of Impending Descent. I know the dough is darker, but I don’t know what it did to the flavor of the loaf.
*blink*
Please tell me at least it wasn’t the barrel aged version?
Stouts can work, they’ll add some roast and chocolate notes. Hoppy beers I’ve learned do not work that well in beer bread, the hop notes turn into a grassy note that can be offputting.
Which is worse – beer being dumped or being baked?
Also, hops are off-putting in beer and should be minimized or eliminated to avoid tainting the flavor.
UCS: In the right beer, hops are a golden burst of sunlight and tropical fruit. I’m glad the beer went to use, although that’s not a beer I would have put into a bread.
The blasphemous beer bread turned out all right. I may have left it in slightly long, but not so much that it burnt.
I made so many variants of beer bread when I was on a quickbread kick back in the 00’s. I developed a hippie one for a nature girl I was trying to bang. It worked.
I hate all you people’s music. That’s right I called you you people.
*harrumphs*
You… you… hooligan!
Governor DeSantis has officially removed Scott Israel from office. Good riddance.
https://www.trbas.com/media/media/acrobat/2019-01/47104981161220-11140947.pdf#nt=oft12aH-1la1
Israel was re-elected in November 2016 for a four year term, so we were going to be stuck with him for a while longer.
That is a lot of recitals. I call bad drafting.
things I learned on accident today: those ‘whereas’ thingys are officially known as ‘recitals’.
Glad to help.
To go further down the boring rabbithole that is legal drafting, they are explanatory not really binding and are kind of useless.
I think I knew that, I just never really paid attention.
Question for the over fifty crowd – best arcade game. I’ll say Defender. Fight me now!
Pinball or GTFO.
I got pretty damn good on those clanky old pinball machines in college.
Oh, lookit “Mr Deaf, Dumb, and Blind” over there.
But which machine, my favorite
Pinball was great before they got electronic. You used to be able to push that table like a Pimp before it would tilt. That’s probably half the reason that they were banned for so many years. That and the gambling.
I own one of the electronic ones. The tilt mechanism may be fucked with to improve the pushin’
I’m aware. I used to know a guy that knew a guy…
“The bigger the cushion, The better the pushin’….”
Simple, beautiful and addictive. There will never be another Tetris.
I shoot pool, but for some reason Phoenix is intriguing.
Not over fifty but approaching.
GALAGA.
That was a great game to play high. This one is good also after a J.
I know where to put the cork.
I’m not gonna take it
HEY YUFUS!
Sup tres!
Moving sucks, and it’s gonna rain…..
The Climate Terrorists have struck here…3-5″ of snow tomorrow
Not gonna rain! Tall cans! Literally.
efinitely with the tall cans!!!!!!
“Was that wrong? Was I not not supposed to do that? ?”
For $800. Times must be tough.
Bridgeport Connecticut, Garland, Texas. wait… What?
Ok I had never watched UHF and because of the comments the other day I am drinking and watching it now. The teaching poodles how to fly bit has me laughing so hard I am about to pee myself. So thanks.
Nature’s Suction Cups!
Conan the Librarian!
Gandhi II!
That is one of the most insane movies ever, there’s a reason it’s a cult classic.
Spatula World !
LOL.
Conan the Librarian.
Local TV had a new panic story about the FedGov shutdown. Apparently security certificates at USG websites are expiring so you information isn’t safe. Why, somebody could spoof and nasa.gov and steal your banking information!
If you are dumb enough to give your info to someone because they claim to be the Feds you deserve everything that happens to you.
Don’t you feel unsafer? Wouldn’t it be great if the shutdown got lost in the news cycle and they forget to reopen the government?
Can we do a news media shutdown? I feel like 21 days without those schmucks would open a few eyes.
Yep. There’s the world they paint and the world you see with your own two eyes when you go outside.
Just replace the cat burglar stuff with the security certificate expiration:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KojYatpLPSE
Whichever one of you misanthropes introduced me to The Dead South, I sincerely appreciate it.
Also, this comment amused me and Spawn 2 thoroughly:
lol.
I think that’d be the Suthen man.
Yep, I think he was the first to link them. He got me onto them too.
Question, if enough homeless people pissed on the Washington monument would it corrode and fall over?
Cause that would be cool to see……
I like the cunt of yer jibe, Good Sir!
So, you like how I turn downwind? Cool!
Upwind, downwind, it matters not! We’re all friends here, Matey!
Captain Festus, of the Raging Queen!!!!
~S~!
Man the poop-deck! Rudders abaft! Full sails ahoy!
Batten down the keelhaul! Kill the women and children first!
In honor of the feature image for this post: It’s Friday night. You just got paid!
My payday isn’t friday.
Mine is only occasionally on Friday. No luck today!
Payday makes no difference in how I feel. Not one iota. I’m not 16 years old.
No. You are married.
Good point. I forgot that my wife buys me real beer instead of happoshu (beer like stuff) on payday. So that’s something.
Speaking of beer, I won a raffle basket of alcohol containing about 40 different types of alcoholic drinks from around the world.
One of those is a bottle of Mura sake (also says Junmai Ginjo). Is that any good?
Also from that side of the world: Chamisul Soju, KA LA VAN Whiskey, and ginebra san miguel gin.
Most of the liquors are well known to me (Patron, Stoli’s, Jaeger, Appleton) but I’m interested to try these new ones. Not bad for a $2 buy-in.
Let me retract that. Looks like MuraMura Sake is bottled in Oregon.
Is it from Akita in Japan? Does it say Hana 花邑 or just Mura? I like dry sake personally. Drink it and let us know!
Just Mura and looks like a sweeter sake. I’ve already started in on the others but will definitely give this one a try another night.
If you can get your hands on one of these small square wooden boxes, you can drink it this way. I love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9yDzMBOAmI
That’s interesting, I’ll keep my eyes out.
Or a federal employee who’s living paycheck to paycheck?
+78%
5/4.
Hey, fuck you. I took my paycheck and bought a nice bottle of scotch.
(jk I don’t get paid till next week. I bought a cheap bottle of scotch. It is… not good.)
If you need some tips, Paste Magazine has started reviewing bottom shelf booze. So far, they’ve done bourbon and gin. They’re setting a price limit of $15 for the tastings…
Sweet. Bookmarked.
Interesting, even if their definition of “bottom-shelf” is slightly higher than I would place it.
I thought you were going to go with this this timeless classic.
It sounds as fresh as the day it came out.
Ear bleach.
Muy Bueno! My brother bought that album when we were kids and we listened the shit outta it!
Early ZZ is awesome.
Friday night, don’t drag your feet…
Just got paid, Friday night
Slumbrew beat you to it.
Conversation with my Associate GC today:
AGC: The state surveyor insists that we have service agreements with our hospice because it has a separate license.
RC: That’s stupid. Its just a department of the hospital, not a separate organization. You can’t contract with yourself.
AGC: That’s pretty much what I said. She insisted she couldn’t renew our license until we had them.
RC: I’m probably going to have to go to confession for this.
AGC: *puzzled look*
RC: “Father, forgive me for I have sinned. I contracted with myself last week.”
AGC: *rolls eyes*
But the progressive Left assures me that healthcare is completely unregulated!
Not only that, different surveyor, different interpretation of ‘regulations’.
It’s why hospital leadership always totally freak out whenever surveyors are expected.
For many years, the biggest thing surveyors worried about was whether you were daily monitoring and recording the temperature of the fridge in the staff break room (not making that up!)
That’s how I contracted autism.
I thought it was how you got hair palms?
hairy palms.
I spel gud.
Harry? I went to school with that guy, very strange………
Fun fact- when I worked at the steel mill, I had to give environmental training to new employees. If they managed to sit through 3 hours of me talking about air, water, and solid waste (with an occasional bonus class on radiation safety), they got a neat certificate, suitable for framing.
As I was going through the attendees list so our clerk could make the certificates, one guy’s name was…..Richard Rash.
Ouch Dick! That hurts……..
So you drafted a service agreement that said the hospice will obey the directives of the duly appointed leadership of the hospital and called it a day?
Government requiring you to break principles of law is delightful isn’t it?
This gave me a smile.
Perfect.
Should read “ideals” for the wham.
It’s always in the last place you look .
I totally didn’t see that coming!
Florida Woman hides crack pipe in nature’s pocket — not newsworthy. They had to come up with a new angle to run a 5 paragraph story.
Well, I neglected to add the breaking chicken poop story.
How the pipe got there wasn’t disclosed.
orly
What day is it? Its https://youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0
White boy day?
I can’t watch that movie anymore, but I do love that scene.
You monster. That reminded me of this .
Modern journalism is about reading through salacious Reddit threads and reprinting things that 14 year olds write during slumber parties.
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a25799596/how-threesomes-change-your-relationship/
Journalism is a jobs program for the kids too busy passing notes in class to actually learn anything.
I laughed, god help me, I laughed so hard. (Be sure you turn the sound on.)
We’re both going to hell.
from the comments
OMG!!! I have tears. ?
I like the way the article on Gulag Barbie uses ‘socialist leaning’ to describe her policies. Bullshit. She is a straight up fucking commie shitweasel.
She plays a Commie for her adoring public but in the mean streets of the Bronx she’s… Yeah she’s just a Commie.
What’s the term, like, “Versace Commie,” but with some other designer brand of something. Handbags, maybe? I forget. But that’s what she is: designer brand commie.
Neiman Marxist?
Ooooooh. Marcus/Marxist. Even better!
I like this one.
She’s a Godsend who’ll push the Democratic Party so far to the left that no one outside of San Francisco or Manhattan will want to vote for them.
She the figurehead on the prow of the Titanic and Beto is holding her up screeching “I’m, like, THE KING OF THE WORLD! , or something.”
Beto/AOC porno upcoming.
Downside? She’ll be nailing him with a strap on.
A big, black, strapping strap-on!
If there was ever a moment for a modern day president to deliver his SOTU via written correspondence, this would be it. Alas he is a media whore so we know it won’t happen.
To Congress: Im not holding the government hostage, your are Congress…Do your job. Love me 😉
That would have the nutcases insane.
The typo is intentional given recent use of forrest
Do U like Me? Answer Yes, No, Maybe
Just because SS Dad (the best kind of dad) asked about Sake. This is a cool video on the history behind “Mokkiri”. This style needs to be done with whiskey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ktFuoYVP88
I see above Tundra and DEG thanking me for introducing them to The Dead South. I am not sure how I came across them. I’ll take credit but it is possible someone else here put me onto them. I cant remember. I like those guys. If you like them these might do it for you too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9jwGansp1E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ89zwJev2k
That was lovely.
I got something in my eye listening to that.
“Your last war will come but I cannot follow you down
These days I’m saving my strength for running.”
Beautiful.
That first link is worth watching even with the sound off just to see her play.
I particularly like the second song. It hits home. I have had people tell me ‘thank you for your service’ a time or two. Don’t. If I had it to do over again I would not.
I am saving my strength for running.
It must be my heritage but fiddles and banjos seem to take up a much larger part of my listening experience the older that I get. Can’t stamp out a dead-tree Scot.
Personal fav.
Agreed.
And thanks for the great music
Hey! i never got your email. What’s your address? I’m gonna send you one to respond to.
ahbt71 gee mail.
Yours don’t bounce, wonder who’s getting them?
Thanks!