A few months ago, it wasn’t easy for our friend Brett. Due in no small part to the most outrageous of outrages, sparking an outrage amongst those most eager to be outraged. Even people that were only coincidentally named Brett were affected by the outrage.
Now Kavanagh, a salesman, says he has to change his whole pitch following the Supreme Court nominee’s scandal.
‘The first thing I say is my name is Brett Kavanagh. And literally the first reactions is “Wait, what did you just say.” I have to stop and explain it’s been a crazy couple of weeks,’ he said.
Some people are dumb…
This is my review of Boulevard Saison Brett
Brett doesn’t have to be bad, and nobody should ever put you down just because you are named Brett…or are a cokehead. There a many famous Bretts out there, and the list get even bigger when you remove a T. Which means there is nothing to be ashamed of. Especially since so many of them are athletes, country singers, and 80’s hair metal icons. Plus, the one at the top is known for sending pictures of his junk to this chick.
Lets be real though, the name reference has absolutely nothing to do with Brett. Sorry brah. It has more to do with this.
Which is a a difficult type of yeast to work with, given it is a “wild” strain and you don’t really know what you will wind up with.
- Brettanomyces (aka “Brett”): A strain of yeast, not a bacteria, that Dawson refers to as “the wunderkind of the wild beer world.” It serves the same function as saccharomyces does: fermenting beer. But Brett works more slowly, meaning a beer that could have fermented within days or weeks with saccharomyces will take weeks, months or even years to display its full character when Brett is used. Dawson rephrases a quote from the late beer author Michael Jackson: “Saccharomyces is like a dog and Brett is like a cat. It’s a little less predictable. It’s going to do its own thing; it’s not going to come when you call it and sit when you say sit. If you can respect its individuality and suggest rather than dictate what it does in your fermentation, it can reward the brewer and the drinker.” There are different strains of Brett, each of which produces its own flavors ranging from tropical pineapple and fruity peach to the intense flavors described as sweaty horse blanket, dirt, earth and barnyard. TL;DR:Brett is the microbe responsible for funk.
So what was the result? In this case it was actually pretty special. So much so that I bought it a second time…
…which is truly saying something because I had to get these things at Whole Foods, and find inventive ways to justify why I am giving Jeff Bezos $15 for a single bottle of beer. Its that good. Get it before it’s gone. Boulevard Saison Brett: 4.2/5.
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258 responses to “In defense of Brett”
Even people that were only coincidentally named Brett were affected by the outrage.
Flashback to Office Space.
+1 Why should I change? He’s the one that sucks.
+2
It WAS a perfectly good name, until that no-talent assclown had to come along and ruin it.
Hey, Tundra – been listening to Candy Apple Grey. Damn, I love that album.
Ahh, fuck.
It’s a great record. I enjoy them more as I get older, too.
Make sure you dig some Zen Arcade, too!
Yes. It is an amazing album. But then again, I think every Husker Du album is amazing. Probably because they are the archetype for every musical notion i’ve had since first hearing them in 1983.
Even then no one knew what to do with them. Too punk for pop, too pop for punk. Achingly good lyrics.
A special band.
Totally agree. No idea why they didn’t make it higher.
I don’t think they were destined for that. Hart and Mould were going to murder each other before that happened. They made a half dozen beautiful albums and moved on.
Mould is playing here at the end of March. I’m planning to go if I’m in town.
You’re probably right about Mould & Hart. Still, it’s a shame.
Also, the “ahh, fuck” comment was because I meant to send the previous comment to the end of the post. Fortunately, you and egould can – and do – scroll. My appreciation.
Hope the Bob M concert is awesome.
Tundra – Zen Arcade is cool, but I don’t think it matches CAG, even with the extra album. Still, Turn On The News will always be a favorite of mine.
egould – yeah, I don’t think there’s much I’ve written since hearing them that hasn’t been influenced by them.
Eh, fuck…
That is a fantastic album. It’s one of my favorites. I don’t know who hurt Grant Hart but he was unbelievably elegant in telling him to fuck off.
+1 Chafed
BP, around the time of the most recent cleansing I made a comment about something you posted that, I think, you took as me calling you a racist. I wasn’t. I was (poorly) pointing out that people were a little sensitive since FOS got the banhammer.
Yeah, I meant to talk to you about that. I got the point. If I remarked defensively, (I don’t remember that), all apologies. I need to learn some defensive skills. And if not, I need to learn to suck it up and deal. (pun intended)
No blood, no foul, Chafed.
Then all is well.
Indeed.
You’re making me sorry
Sorry, somehow
But I’m not sorry…
The phone is ringing and the clock says four A.M.
If it’s your friends, well I don’t want to hear from them
Please leave your number and a message at the tone
Or you can just go on and leave me alone
There’s no need to talk to you, well to know what’s on your mind
There’s no need to see you either, no, I’m just being kind
You want me to beg forgiveness, tender an apology
It’s not my fault and you’re not getting one from me
Going out each day to score, she was no whore but for me
Celebrating every day the way she thought it should be
And I don’t know what to do Now that pink has turned to blue
Jeebus, what a great band.
I’ve moved on to another of Grant’s bands, Nova Mob.
Little Miss Information
Sound familiar?
I’ve spent 17$ for a Belgian, once. It’s insane, but every one should at least once
I spent more than that for Westvleteren beer. It was worth it, but I doubt I’d do it again.
Same here. I hope to make it to the monastery next year, and I’m hoping they’ll be selling that day.
So did I, but she wasn’t that great.
I’m glad you caught that?
Too aged?
You know, I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a Belgian joke.
French, German, Dutch, Polish, Italian, sure. But
nothing about Belgium or Belgians. They must have
some, but I assume they’re internal Flemish/Walloon
based, rather than Belgian as a whole.
The problem is people tend to waffle about those jokes.
Maybe they’re too much of a ghentleman to act like antwerp.
Really? I always thought they were a very low country
I’d like to continue this pun thread but I can get any more ideas to sprout.
*narrows gaze*
How is it that the low countries didn’t join the French or German confederations?
My vague recollection is that Britain pushed for an independent Netherlands in 1815 because it wanted to ensure France had no access to the ports from which it could, theoretically, launch an invasion of Britain. Once Belgium became independent, France & Prussia saw Belgium as something of a buffer state.
The Netherlands had fought for 60-80 years to be free of Spain…they sure as @#$% were not going to be absorbed by some weirdo foreigners…especially their mortal enemies the French…Germans…ha!
After those rotten @#$% “Belgians” revolted, there was talk for a bit about them being absorbed into France – but they decided to remain freer and richer than France.
Tune in next week where I do that…again.
What was her name?
Mmmm, Belgians…
If any of you is ever in RVA, try Mekong. Delicious Vietnamese food and a fantastic selection of Belgian beer.
I endorse this…uh, endorsement. Tremendous beer selection at Mekong, and the same guy also has The Answer brewpub right next door
Ooh she gave me Mekong Whiskey
Ooh she gave me Hong Kong Flu
Ooh she gave me Mekong Whiskey
Put me on a breeze to Katmandu
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/35/101/
Sam Adams Winter Ale is my McRib: gobble until it’s gone. NewWife buys every case she sees in town.
Shiner is my go-to burger beer, and I drink lots of porters / stouts, so Winter is no surprise: kind of in the middle for taste, acid, and texture.
I see references to the McRib fairly often. I dont get it. Has anyone actually tried to eat one of those things? They are completely disgusting.
A certain blonde from Missouri was addicted to them once upon a time; the rewards for keeping her happy were considerable. Never ate one, but I’m sure my investment in them is forgiven.
Fake news.
Once a year, a McRib is absolutely what’s necessary. It’s like a cheap microwaved hot dog with bright yellow mustard. When that craving hits, get yo fix, cuz there ain’t no substitute.
I am also not the best judge of these things. The McDs breakfast burrito I got at O’Hare was one of the most profoundly satisfying things I have ever consumed.
Evan, if we hang out sometime soon remind me to not let you choose where we go to eat.
About like Braunschweiger. I get a craving about once a year. I’ve
got 8 oz of pre-sliced in the fridge, but that’s about twice what I
want, so I’m trying to see if I can get someone else to come
over for a sandwich. As you might imagine, “want a liver
sausage sandwich?” isn’t exactly the most enthralling invitation.
Spread on bread. Fry in a pan.
I cannot tell you how many times my mom made that for breakfast.
Miracle whip and cheddar cheese on toast.
A tomato if you’re feeling adventurous.
I don’t generally like liver, so I’m not sure
if frying it would work for me, since that
would intensify the smell.
Miracle Whip? What kind of monster are you?
I like liverwurst/Braunschweiger.
I had one when they first came out many years ago. Didn’t surprise me they soon disappeared from the menu. It did surprise me that someone thought it was a good idea to bring it back.
The McRib appears on the menu whenever the Purchsaing Department tells the Marketing Department, “We can buy a zillion pounds of pork right now, for pennies on the dollar.”
The McRib appears on the menu whenever the Purchsaing Department tells the Marketing Department, “We can buy a zillion pounds of
porkrejected lard and offal right now, for pennies on the dollar.”FTFY
So out of curiousity I just looked up the ingredients to the McRib. They are as follows : Ingredients: Pork, Water, Salt, Dextrose, Rosemary Extract. .
Now, I know what they define as “pork” can be fairly lenient, but seriously, how do you make something that awful from that ingredient list?
Also, to continue to bash the McRib . . . the cheap “pork patty sandwich” we had in high school was much better. That’s right McDonalds is lost out in flavor to a school lunch.
All that said, a road trip isn’t a road trip without the regret of McDonalds at some point along the way.
Fake news.
Truths: Best school lunches were the chicken patty and the steak nuggets.
The worst was pizza Thursday, which was a cardboard sleeve, yet everyone else loved it.
Zebra cakes were a plus. We had pouches of milk, for reasons that I in no way understand, and after putting the straw in I would use it as a ‘tank’ to attack my fellow schoolmates at the table.
Oh, no way. The best was a tie between the knock-off Elio’s pizza and the knock-off Steak-umm sub. The latter wins if you put a mixture of mayo and ketchup on it.
I don’t even know what you are talking about. This adds credulity to my belief that I am correct and that you are not.
We also could by popcorn on Thursdays for a quarter. If your bag had a frog stamped on the bottom, you got to choose a prize from their plastic cubby.
The ’90s were fucking amazing.
The best school lunch was Montgomery In pulled pork sandwiches for $3 each, with their chips for $5. My high school was in Montgomery, OH, so we got that goodness once a month.
I read an article a couple years back that said there was something like 71 ingredients in a McRib.
wonder if I can find that…
Best school lunch? Uncrustable grilled cheese, chef boy r dee ravioli, and fries.
They also had a pretty good cold cut sandwich line and they ordered in pizza from local joints on Fridays.
A McScrapple sandwich would be amazing. If only.
I’m torn, because I love Scrapple, but I’m afraid to see what McDonald’s would do to it. I will say that the brief window during which they sold Filet o’ Fish sandwiches with Old Bay on them was great.
Mmm… scrapple.
I, like Naptown Bill, would hate to see what McDonald’s would do with it.
NE McDonald’s allegedly serve lobster rolls seasonally.
Where lobster = something vaguely aquatic scooped out of a body of water.
/vegetarian so what do I know
I can’t tell you the last time I had fast food.
*prolonged applause*
Bravo, Mexi! Nicely done.
I’ll have to see if I can find this beer. A touch of Brett in wine can be a good thing. Too much, not so much. OMWC and I are the only people who would drink the ‘93 Jamet when we opened one.
“I believe someone hath shat in my wine. I approve.”
But to be fair, neither of us would drink the Coturri.
A lot of Brett and a Petri dish are two different things.
That beer sounds good. But my beer belly says, “No way , buddy!”
I’m back on the keto/low carb thing after a Holiday/vacation season of fuck it all.
Don’t you run every day? How can you have a beer belly?
Ever been on a military base? You’ve described nearly every SNCO in existence.
I pulled my hammy on October 1st. Didn’t run until Thanksgiving. Just did stretching and resting. I’ve run sporadically since then. Definitely not in a groove right now. I’m trying to get back in the groove. Hoping to start March with 5 days a week. It’s been a rough couple of months.
I am sorry to hear that. I hope it works out well for you and you fully recover.
Once upon a million years ago I was younger and a great runner. I had one guy my freshman year in college who could outrun me, other than that I cant think of anyone who could. I ran like a deer. Then I got old. Then I got RA. Now I cant run at all.
Sometimes I have dreams where I can still run and I just run like hell, usually in the woods. Actual dreams when I am sleeping I mean. It is pathetic. Oh well.
Running naked to get away from STEVE SMITH?
RUN ALL WANT. STEVE SMITH CATCH!
ok, slacker. Mebbe you need to work.
Lol.
Go watch a marathon some time. A wise man once wrote – “you can’t outrun your fork”. The same goes for the pint glass!
“Don’t you run every day? How can you have a beer belly?”
It obviously takes a lot of running to exercise off beer. So I mean the ratio of how much running it would take to run off a 6 pack of high carbs beer would be a lot.
Does anyone know?
The in thing around the people I know is this 10,000 steps a day thing. Some people do it. It takes a long time even if you’re walking really fast. I only know one preson who actually does it and she has to get up at 4am to do it and then walk after work also. I can’t seem to manage more than 6-8 thousand steps a day and that takes more than an hour. Yesterday for instance, 6525 steps, just over an hour, 350 calories burned. According to my app. I have to get a better app more than likely, but it’s probably not that far off.
So, let’s see, say an avg 12 oz beer has 150 calories. So 6 would have 900. I’d have to walk maybe 20,000 steps to burn that off and it would take 3-4 hours if you could keep a brisk pace the entire time.
So, by my estimates, 6 pack beer belly > exercise
I have mine set for 5,000 steps. I can only get in 10,000 if I go to the amusement park.
Maxim had the “case of beer a week” workout routine.
Daily, it started out with 60 minutes of running for the “warmup.” Then some strength-building exercises. Followed by another hour of running as a “cooldown.”
I burn over 500 calories an hour, but I’m not a little dude and I fairly cruise.
FWIW the way to make room for 150 calories of beer is to skip 150 calories of something else in the day.
Re: running off beer, I drink a lot 8-10 beers a day, the only time I had my beer belly in check I was running 3 miles every other day and a longer 6-7mile-ish run on the weekend, along with a pull-up/push-up/sit-up ladder thing on no run days. I also do physical work and avoid junk food and sweets. Now that I can no longer run I am slowly becoming a fat fuck.
Re: Steps: Do you count all your daily steps or only when you are on a ‘walk’, I get 7 or 8 thousand just working when I was tracking it I usually ended up with 12-15 with couple miles ‘walking’.
Re steps: I can get a good 500 steps just from walking around my house, up and down the stairs. I also park at the very back of parking lots when I go shopping. If I’m puttering around my garage and doing DIY, that adds up. The rest of it I get going for a walk.
There’s probably a sweet spot psychologically. I found the knowledge that I was doing 25000+ every day surprisingly depressing, and now I only use my watch for actual running.
I was much happier after I lost my fitbit.
The Roman pace, which is two steps, was about 58″, so a little under 2200 steps in a mile.
I exceed 10k steps most days – the secret:
1) have a dog
2) have no backyard
3+ walks a day = plenty of steps.
My wife broke her ankle a few weeks ago and can do little, so I’ve had some 16k+ days since then (I tend to walk to stores vs. driving)
Having a dog makes a huge difference. Well, sometimes: I have a buddy who simply refuses to walk his dog, ’cause it’s “boring.” Both he and his dog aren’t doing very well in the general fitness department these days.
I’m certain the correlation between dog ownership & longer life is due to them forcing some activity.
Even if I had a fenced yard, I’d still be walking her – maybe not at 10 pm on a February night when it’s single digits, but there’d still be walks.
Looking at my Fitbit dashboard, it’s pretty obvious when she got her knee surgery a couple weeks ago – my average steps have plunged.
The walks are also where I the vast majority of my podcast listening.
I want to walk NewWife’s cats but have been warned away. I know they would love it down under the cottonwoods by the lagoon.
I know they would love it down under the cottonwoods by the lagoon.
totes not ominous, at all.
What? You can’t bury anything below the 100 year flood line: stuff pops right up.
Ask Suthen how much concrete it takes to keep ’em down.
I’ve logged pretty much everything I’ve eaten and all my beverages since April 1st of last year, but it’s a flat text file so summing the beer consumption would be time consuming. However, I drink a bit here and there.
I typically run six days a week and bike on the seventh. My “serious” training doesn’t involve drinking, but I do participate in a few social run and drink events, e.g. the Burque Brew Tour.
No beer belly on me, but I’m still pretty young.
if you post a few lines of the log, I wouldn’t be surprised if 5 python scripts that extract the beer entries popped up in response.
Is Go acceptable? I have this open in the other window.
Go seems a little low-level for that sort of thing.
They standard library is very robust, so text parsing isn’t low-level byte fiddling. The portable binaries are very nice – I am tired of dependency hell.
FWIW, I’ve been using Rust and nom to do some of the analysis I mention in a different comment. Not because nom is inherently better than regexes, but because I’m new to Rust and parser combinators in general are fun and nom is (IMO) very well done.
I’m told Rust has a lot to offer, but the learning curve is steep.
A large portion of the tools I’m using these days are Go (Prometheus, Telegraf, InfluxDB, etc.), so Go it is.
The last language I thoroughly learned was Ruby, and I started in 2005.
As I’ve been learning Rust I sometimes get a bit intimidated and then I have to remind myself that even though I picked up the basics of Ruby fairly quickly, it still took a while to master some aspects of it, and Ruby (especially back then, if you take ecosystem into account as well) is a much simpler language.
So yeah, I agree that the learning curve is pretty steep for Rust, but I’m having a lot of fun and I really like fun.
I’ve been learning Haskell for the last year or so – it has that fun in spades.
It wouldn’t be too hard to write something, but I’m pretty lazy. I’m not consistent with what I write down, so there will be things like (from a week ago):
as well as more structured (from today)
I actually do write a bunch of programs to analyze various data that I capture (e.g. analysis of my interval training), it’s just that the alcohol is low priority and something I’m content to eyeball.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/23/697317095/bootleg-liquor-kills-scores-in-indias-latest-mass-outbreak-of-alcohol-poisoning?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190223
Maybe properly approved booze labels are a good thing ?
Not the way the US does it.
oh, I’m not losing my religion (save my EPA notions last thread): just making a fun call-back to the dire consequences of the first shutdown
“Bootleg Liquor Kills Scores In India’s Latest Mass Outbreak Of Alcohol Poisoning”
This seems vaguely familiar. Hmm, where do I recall something like that from? Ah well, it will come to me eventually…
Yeah its my article so I will OT if I want to.
Canada released data on MJ use. All self-reported so make of that as you will.
I notice the maritime provinces have higher percentages of use. I wonder if it has to do with proximity to the US?
If it’s illegal, most people will not self report. If it’s legal, most people will not self report.
*Goverments ask me how many marijuana cigarettes I smoke a day*
’30, man… I mean one! Yeah, one… I mean never!, man. Dave’s not here, man’
I’ve been to the Maritimes. If I had to live there, I’d smoke a lot of weed, too.
Lacto >> Brett
to clarify, brett is amazing in small doses, but lacto can handle overkill.
Just the name Brett made me put 2 front doors on my house.
Saberhagen and Hull or GTFO(Sorry, Brett).
I’m wearing a Stars sweatshirt right now, but even I know his skate was in the crease.
It was, but initial control on entry into the crease was his. The rebound, even though it came back out of the crease, didn’t change possession. The league even clarifies the rule earlier in the year.
Good goal.
I’ll defer. I can skate and raised a decent defender (and Zubov devotee), but I have no authority in this sphere. Can we go back to beer, bullets, and babes ?
Can we go back to beer, bullets, and babes ?
Did we stop? 😉
Speaking of Saberhagen, I just re-upped my subscription to MLB At Bat. First spring training game is today!
Royals ?
Quite so.
This is my favorite part of the season: updating my rosters. I make scorecards in Excel and have players plugged in in a light gray that disappears when I ink in the day’s play in blue.
Spring ball is better than most of the season: kids trying to make it, old salts trying to hang on, the intrigue of trades, the evolving chemistries, the inertias of systems great and bad.
I’m fourth generation Cards; I don’t do tattoos, but I would consider a Lou Brock
I am not that into it. I like to watch them have fun while also understanding the game.
Saberhagen is the Bret(t) you think of as a Royals fan?
When thinking of first names, yes.
Brett Hull is one of my favorite hockey players of all time. Without a doubt, he had the best hair.
You may be too young to have seen his dad play in his prime.
Bobby Hull was what first enticed me to pay attention to pro sports, when I was eight years old.
They used to black out the Blackhawks home games on TV (thank you former owner and giant asshole Wirtz, what a surprise they won three Stanley Cups as soon as you were no longer involved with the team) so you had to listen to hockey on the radio! I remember having a sleepover at a friend’s house and we were supposed to be asleep, but we had a little transistor radio under the covers and heard the game when Bobby Hull scored goals number 49 and 50, back then an amazing accomplishment for a single season. I remember we were so excited. I don’t know if I have the capacity to get as excited like that about anything nowadays.
Bobby Hull’s slapshot was a thing of beauty. Woe be to the player or goalie that got in the way.
My name is Jussie Smollett.
My Name is Nobody.
Fun movie. Saw it at drive-in.
Don’t tell that to the CPD.
Oh, wait, you have celebrity clearance. Just get a check for $5,000 ready.
“My name is Jussie Smollett.”
I hate you, niggah! Here, wear this rope! MAGA! Did that sound totally believable? I want to get into acting too.
The proper way to MAGA-Nazi is “Die black fag”.
My Name Is Mud
https://youtu.be/953PkxFNiko
Speaking of Jeff Bezos
By rejecting the logic that cities should bend over backwards to welcome gentrifying, union-busting, homogenizing corporations, New Yorkers asserted a principle that has long been lacking in planning: that the public is the rightful steward of a city’s future.
Amazon’s retreat from New York represents a turning point
That may sound obvious, but it is a major turnabout from ordinary planning practice, which has tended to privilege the rights of property owners and seek little more than advice and consent from the rest of us. Public stewardship, on the other hand, is the contention that the city is a collective product of residents’ labor –in terms of the material production of streets and buildings, the cultural production of neighborhoods and common spaces, and the social reproduction of residents and workers. The city’s fate belongs with those who made it, not just those who own it.
If cities are products of collective labor, then gentrification, in geographer Ipsita Chatterjee’s phrase, is “the theft of space from labor and its conversion into spaces of profit”. Anti-gentrification movements like the one that scared away Amazon can be understood as part of the long legacy of working class struggle against the alienation of labor by capital. In the classic cases, workers have revolted against bosses for stealing the surplus value they created; here, residents are rising up against developers and politicians for alienating people from the spaces they have built.
Samuel Stein is a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the author of the forthcoming Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate
Power to the people, Comrade. (Other people’s) Property is Theft!
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Eat shit, commie. Shove that “mob rule” bullshit up your ass.
People are happiest when their neighborhood is shitty and run-down, infested with crime and dilapidated.
Please don’t take that from us! Slums represent our best character.
Funny thing is, unless someone’s faced with eviction (the numbers of which are always wildly overstated) i think the average resident likes to have their neighborhood get better, and really doesn’t have a lot of collective love for the colorful local bums who sleep on their front porch, or the noisy domestic violence family across the street, or any of the other 98% of their neighbors. And if they own property, they absolutely love the area to gentrify, as their real estate value skyrockets. The only ones really against it are the gauze-dress wearing ladies with grey pigtails who know two or three other ‘woke’ people from the evening class at the community center, who agree they all are superior among all others for living in a neighborhood like this, and it doesn’t hurt that the rent isn’t bad. So let’s keep the improvements away!
Oh, large numbers of the “underclass” are against gentrification too, thanks to decades of government propaganda (and dollars) convincing them they have no chance to better themselves so why bother.
Look, NYC did not become one of the great cities and financial centers on the planet through capitalism, it did so by being woke. And by returning to it’s woke roots, it shall become great again. /who’s the fucking idiot who thinks like this?
Commie derp hurts my brain. I got a cramp trying to understand it.
When I read stuff like that I think Escape From New York should be treated as an instruction manual.
In a just world, Stein would be expelled immediately for academic fraud.
“By rejecting the logic that cities should bend over backwards
to welcome […] corporations, …”
To be fair, in nwtopia, the reaction of the government to
Amazon’s intent to put an office in our jurisdiction would
be “ok… so… why are you talking to us?”
My name is Jussie Smollett.
We’re all Jussie Smollet, now.
*goes back to tying hangman’s noose*
Knot I….,
You have to hand it to Jenn Sterger – she parlayed fake tiddys into an entire career.
Not exactly revolutionary, so did Katy Perry.
And Pamela Anderson
Sterger was hyper-specific, though:
“fake uns in the stands at football games, as a fan” => “getting paid to be on the sidelines at football games”
I’m good with that. They are very nice.
I had to google this person.
There is a picture of her wearing a Cubs hat. This passes the sniff test.
I just had a long internal monologue that was wondering about people actively whoring themselves out. I sadly assume that anyone who is attractive for a living has a permanent, them-shaped indent on multiple casting couches. Demi Rose is blowing lots of people to get the publicity in the Daily Fail that she does.
And then I was thinking about why it doesn’t bother me. People pimping their arms to try to get to MLB are doing the exact same thing. But people being people, we mentally put sex and sports into different boxes. Both individuals are using their genetic gifts. Why do I feel (not act or legislate) differently about the two?
Best immediate answer: Lots of DNA telling my brain that girls with more sexual partners are less likely to be bearing my offspring. This sexual reality bleeds into my thinking of someone selling themselves as physical beauty versus a person selling themselves as a curveball or a jump shot.
In my head, I think that justifies why I view them as being different. It also could be jealousy. I’ll have to ruminate further on the matter.
^^That does not mean that I will be in my bunk. But I might. I am very stoned.
It’s the patriarchy, man.
Sometimes I think Will Wilkinson is actually a satirical character along the lines of Titania McGrath rather than an actual person.
If only the children understood how impoverished they will be with that kind of government wealth destruction. Don’t be so eager to enslave yourself to the government kids.
Many years ago I enjoyed reading his work. More recently, not at all.
I’m not losing my religion (save my EPA notions last thread)
Leaving aside the angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin arguments, the biggest marginal gains from EPA regulations have probably been achieved (auto emissions are, what, 2% of what they were in 1967?). It’s time for them to declare victory and go into suspended animation.
auto emissions are, what, 2% of what they were in 1967?
that’s fair
In many areas, the EPA has achieved all of the “easy” victories (aided very heavily by technological innovation; an EPA in the USSR could not have done half of what its American counterpart had by 1989) and is now staring down the long tail of the law of diminishing returns. But they cannot stop at “good enough”, their bureaucratic imperative demands that they push always forward. We are now at the point where compact cars* and especially compact trucks are going extinct due to the EPA’s regulatory churn. The very sorts of cars that we should in theory be encouraging people to drive!
* = Today’s “compact” cars have the footprint of yesterday’s mid-size cars. They may look small, but that’s because all the other cars have gotten much bigger, too.
I should probably note that modern sub-compacts do exist. But they’re way more expensive than one would think given their size (granted, making a smaller car safe is actually more challenging; much of the safety in modern cars comes from having room to absorb the energy of an impact, not to mention the benefit of having more momentum in a collision). They can only sell in the U.S. to a market segment that can afford them, which makes them paradoxically not economical for most people.
EPA like every bureaucracy expands its mandate in order to grow and thrive. In some cases, even where the EPA’s role is to enforce specific regulations according to a particular agreement, such as the Chesapeake Bay Agreement, the EPA will push the goal posts back as they get closer so that the job is never really done.
And Pamela Anderson
No way!
They sure flop around like naturals.
Ah, but they flop as one. They show no independent jiggling.
I believe she started natural, then had various adjustments over the years.
*does some “research”*…
I _think_ they were real in the very beginning, but I’m no expert.
I _think_ they were real in the very beginning, but I’m no expert.
This is why we need the EPA, women born with implants is obviously a result of Pollution.
I _think_ they were real in the very beginning, but I’m no expert.
Everything I know about Pamela Anderson, I learned from watching Baywatch commercials.
I’m definitely not obsessed with her. I don’t particularly go for the FLBP models.
I’m much more attracted to athletic girls; if there were a catalog from which to order female companions, I’d go straight to the “blonde Czech tennis player” section.
Passing along an earworm.
Good gawd, why would you do that to us? Some thing are made to be forgotten.
Misery loves company.
I guess you’ll have to add Mojeaux to the “links I won’t click on” list.
They may look small, but that’s because all the other cars have gotten much bigger, too.
My full sized 1984 four wheel drive Chevy pickup truck (8 ft bed, two door cab) looks about like a goddam Tonka toy next to some of the new trucks around town.
Pickups are so much heavier than they were. My 1969 C10 was barely 3,400 pounds. 5,000 is common now; pickups are better than they’ve ever been.
I was looking at getting a new truck (new to me at least). I couldn’t get one from about post 2010 or so because they were too tall for my garage door. And I’m sorry, I bought a house with a large garage so that I’d never have to scrape frost off again. So anything that doesn’t fit isn’t an option. I ended up with a 2006 F-150. It has about 3 inches of clearance.
My Tahoe barely fits in the garage depthwise.
I had a 1950’s ranch house, but I don’t know what the purpose of the garage could have been back then. There was so little room front to back that I had to get out and push my BMW Z3 to make it fit (without driving into a wall).
pickups are better than they’ve ever been.
I want simple and reliable and torque (and no, not a fucking diesel. I hate diesels). Fuck the bells and whistles.
If I want luxury, I’ll buy another Jaguar.
Generally agreed. There are few substitutes for displacement and stroke. Chevy rates conservatively, but I’m right at 400 lb ft on my daily driver.
Please explain ft lb, to a non-engineer. ?
A 2 lb wrench level flat to the earth (3 oclock) with a 4 pound weight hanging from its far end would exert 8 lb ft of torque CCW about the bolt it was exercising.
1 ft lb per cubic inch at 3,600RPM has been typical these last two decades for most normally aspirated gasoline car engines, a bit more for OHC.
Ford doesn’t, but mine is 470 ft lb. It’s actually quite a good puller, despite being a six.
I forgot. Did you get the EcoBoost or one of other V6 engines options? I think they have two non-EB ones now?
3.5 EcoBoost with the 10 speed. It’s really nice, super fast and ridiculously comfortable. Recently towed a 28 foot trailer and it was terrific.
I just have my doubts about the longevity of the tech. I almost pulled the trigger on the V8 with the six, but since it’s a company vehicle, I figured I won’t have it long enough for massive failures.
The Spyrals have a new album out.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5ky77iNxXhtBCRavkUzRGq?si=6UvPb5ObRHycPyHUz4AGDA
Garage-y psyche rock. Sometimes a little bluesy. Sometimes a little Stooge-y. And a tinge of early Pink Floyd.
Nice! Saved for later enjoyment.
I think you were gone, but I linked GBV’s groovy new double album. Like a lot of their stuff, not every song is epic, but there a few that could make your playlist! A couple sound very Who-like.
Ive heard a few songs played on WFMU. I want to listen to new music this weekend. Thanks for the heads up. Just what my earholes needed.
I need to be better about mixing in the new. Spotify is good enough to put together a weekly new release playlist, I gotta get more in the habit of exploring it.
Check out the It’s a Jangle Out There website. Josh posts his weekly playlist, and it looks like he’s archiving his radio shows there now. Worth popping in just to try out a fee new bands.
https://jangleoutthere.wordpress.com/
I’ll just assume you aren’t Rick rolling us back into Sneaky Snake.
I pinky swear.
Cool, check out The Urges if you aren’t already aware of them, similar sound.
Nice. Thanks for the suggestion. And may I suggest Los Tones, and their number one hit Psychotropic? https://open.spotify.com/track/37IQuAhOL7uGLcvWQO1nep?si=HsLAvKu5TTuVdXcWmeDJTw
Chasing this rabbit led me to Psychotropic Swamp
Please explain ft lb, to a non-engineer
Torque is a measure of turning force at the crankshaft (I am not an engineer, either), rather than a measurement of energy produced, like horsepower. Torque is measured in pounds of force exerted on a lever one foot long from the center of the crank (I’m pretty sure how that’s how it goes. I don’t design them, I just screw them in and out like light bulbs.
As the old guys used to say (young ones probably still do) “Horsepower sells motors. Torque wins races.”
Someone parse this for me:
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2019/02/22/nc-court-cites-gerrymandering-voids-amendments-including-voter-id/2956429002/
Judge strikes down constitutional amendment approved by voters because the state assembly was elected by gerrymandered districts and thus doesn’t represent the people.
Autoplay can eat a bag of dicks.
I’m assuming it won’t affect them at all if the government is currently frozen because racism? Or is it just certain amendments that some judge didn’t like.
Yeah I’m confused. And that’s quite a reach (and a tad ironic) for the judiciary to just declare a separate branch void because it doesn’t represent the people.
So all laws passed by that legislature are invalid too then right?
“Horsepower sells motors. Torque wins races.”
Maybe that’s a drag-racing phrase? It doesn’t convey a deep understanding of the subject.
Our explanations of torque agree. Horsepower just says that at some torque left and RPM, so much work can be done.
Torque curves are somewhat flat; notice I referenced 3,600RPM earlier: in the middle, not after drop-off, good enough for estimates. At, say, 5252RPM, it might be a bit more for small engines with small strokes, maybe 1.2 lb*fl per cubic inch.
So a 350 in^3 engine with a 3.5″ stroke is going to punch out about 350 lb*ft. At 5,252RPM, that 350 lb*ft gives 350HP; at 4,400RPM around 300HP, at 6,000 RPM maybe 375HP.
So the torque is kind of a statement of state: this valve efficiency, this crank length, this displacement; it moves around, but, where power is really needed, it’s pretty flat.
Horsepower just goes up and up for the same engine as RPM increases: you are delivering more buckets of the same torque more frequently, that’s all. At some point the pumping losses of a given design (valve, cam, valves, intake, exhaust layouts) start to skyrocket: the engine is creating incrementally more pneumatic friction plumping the air with an incremental stroke (RPM) than gross power . . . so the horsepower stalls out.
Horsepower is just the speed-rated output of torque. Not sure if old guys really understand that.
https://news.pickuptrucks.com/2011/04/how-we-dyno-tested-fords-3-5-liter-ecoboost-v6-and-5-0-liter-v8-engines.html
Here’s Tundra’s engine. I’ll type up some observations while you chew on the charts.
See how flat the torque curve is? Basically it’s 320 lb*ft from 2,000 to 5,000 RPM; the rest of the curve isn’t meaningful.
3.5L is about 210 in^3, so I’m going to guess over 30″ of boost (checksinterwebs and it says 16PSI . . . I’m so good at this!). Okay, air is 15PSI, figure 80% volumetric efficiency = 12PSI; add another 16 = 28/12 = 200+% to my 1 lb*ft rule. So by turbocharging they’ve lifted the 200 inch engine from 200 lb*ft to 320 . . . way cool.
Now spin it. Torque * RPM / 5252 = horsepower. Fun trick: at 5,252RPM, the torque charts out at 300 lb*ft (that is on the original spec sheet written in pencil in a drawer from ten years ago somewhere, I promise you: not an accident). Now look at the HP curve at 5,252 at TA DA: 300 HP. 300 times 5252 divided by 5252 is still 300…ain’t that cool?
The rest of the curve is interpreted thusly: RPM fraction of 5200 x 300 = HP. Exception: falls apart above 5,500 like I warned you it would.
I’m glad I haven’t been drinking!
Thanks, Don. That’s really interesting.
So by turbocharging they’ve lifted the 200 inch engine from 200 lb*ft to 320 . . . way cool.
Wait – I was told there is no replacement for displacement!
Pressure matters
I was told there is no replacement for displacement!
Yeah, I lied; another old guys’ expression.
For a given cube, pressure and speed are the variables. If you add 12PSI of boost, you basically double the air being pumped, so you double the virtual displacement. Good news: they didn’t go from 200 to 400, so we know they de-tuned somewhere to take the stress off.
Forgive the over-simplification: these are all back-of-the-envelope numbers that are only generally useful. A hundred things can be played with: cam profile, valve size, combustion chamber layout. But you’ll never be 30% with my figures.
I can’t agree more than with the diminishing returns comment earlier; it works for power density as well. It is hard to imagine that fuel atomization, spark distribution, or valving are going to get much better. OHC saves some friction and mass, but the edge is nigh:
I think about a molecule of air posed at the grille, draw into the intake, only to stall and nearly stop and spin and backwash, then dive through a valve thrust open a sliver of a second, chasing a piston to its bottom of stroke then reversing and banging into its neighbors getting hotter and tighter and then bang all this petrochem ignites and its temp skyrockets, neighbors run away chasing the piston down again, then all flung up and out as another valve opens for another tiny fraction of a section. This drama never appreciably changes until a significantly different tech arises; we’ve been doing it this way for over a century!
Different tech
I argued for turbine-generator-battery on OTR trucks 25 years ago.
One more reason (drink) to love John Stossel.
https://youtu.be/lXGgI2E5JUw
Any researcher that refuses to share raw data and methods used to come to a conclusion that can have policy implications (as most do) should be automagically ignored. When I was taking Econ/PoliSci back in the day, I had to justify everything to my profs, or face the consequences (failing grades were just the start; you could end up with a rep that would make it impossible for you to get TA assignments, study grants, etc.).
I hope universities still require that sort of rigor. As pointed out in the video, the press does not. It’s really pathetic.
It was such a known requirement that most of us had all that info locked and loaded, ready to produce on demand. Some profs went further and insisted on one or more appendices to any research paper that revealed all that data/methodology as a matter of course. Attempting to hide stuff was just not on.
I’m gobsmacked that it seems to be almost matter-of-course nowadays.
Maybe that’s a drag-racing phrase? It doesn’t convey a deep understanding of the subject.
I’d say it’s shorthand for “driveability”- a broad torque curve will get you off the corner better than nominal peak horsepower. It’s not something worth getting too deeply into.
There are plenty of variables to add to the confusion. I’d still rather have a 302 than a 502, and a light car to put it in.
Dude, just rev it and drop the hammer.
*pours rice into tank*
It’s not something worth getting too deeply into.
Respectfully (see above) it’s a matte of whether you want to understand how things work; it’s easy: I figured it out when I was 12.
Frankly, emissions systems are more impactful on the performance and reliability of vehicles these days, particularly for diesels.
I swore a fatwa against Ford over the 6.0L’s I bought back in 2008. If I ever meet an engineer that worked on those, I might sucker punch them.
Gotta be better than the spark-plug-launching V-10.
Looked at those, but wasn’t in the market to buy yet.
Still paying for rocker arms, EGR Deletes, turbos, and radiators on those $&-__”*@@@!! Fords.
The 5.4 V8 has done the same.
Getting rid of the 7.3PS was a travesty.
Ford has to start making Better Pickups https://open.spotify.com/track/6dbyEp5LMiIVlZ623qWrgv?si=OxtisOuWROu2w3wovP04Cw
Saison Brett is currently chilling in the freezer. Local co-op had it for $13.
I’ll have to give it a shot. Saisons are so hit in miss for me. I seem to either love them or hate them.
Same here. There’s a large bottle of St. Bernardus chilling as a backup.
Excellent!
This one has a bit of funk to it. Which is on style (for the broad conventions of the style). It holds up alright for a long period of time as well; however, sit on it too long, and the Brett will overcarb the beer to almost gusher levels.
Of course, I’ve also got several bombers of home made Saison Brett sitting in the basement as well.
I’m doing my part
http://local12.com/news/local/ohio-ranked-14-most-sinful-state-in-country-1-for-excesses-vices
Science!
PS. Coffee? GTFO.
That has to be the dumbest study I’ve ever seen.
After some digging, they use the SPLC as a data point. Some other grievance and pearl clutching activist groups made the source list, too. This is utter bullshit.
First place in “Excesses and Vice” is nothing to sneeze at but 29th in “Anger and Hatred”? 45th in “Greed”? C’mon Ohio we can do better than that.
Texas beat us in lust. I’m so ashamed. It’s not like I don’t put forth a lot of effort in that area.
To be fair, you have seen Texas coeds, right?
+ cowgirl
Anger & Hatred (Tennessee is #1)
born divided and dividing more every day
5th overall between this and bronze for lust
the 3.5’s intake manifold air pressure to build to the desired level (48 inches, according to published output data compared with about 37 inches measured on the early rolling starts) until around 2,500 rpm.
Three bar (plus)? Yikes. Obviously not sustained operating boost, but I am skeptical about the longevity of that motor if you towed long distances with it.
They’ve been torture testing these things for ten years. I’m waaaaay more worried about the transmission.
3bar can be handled with glue, but, yes: it predicts huge MEP, which we knew that already because they’re getting 1.5HP per cube. As always, the question is whether you have the bearings you need for the load you’re generating, the eternal question; their estimates, prototyping, and testing say everything is fine, but we’ll see.
FWIW, there’s always nerves about deployment of new tech, and people want to stick with what they know (old tech). But the OEM don’t sell the old tech: they’re always cost-reducing the thing you knew; the old thing is seldom still around. In my warranty years I was quite unpopular for plotting out the steady decay in durability for a standard component (AC compressor) over the years as they cheapened it repeatedly. So the risk to jump to new stuff is never as bad as it might seem because standing pat isn’t always safe, either.
Amazon just delivered Jim Beam, Stoli, wine, kale, collards, onions, tomatoes, lemon, milk, cream, 1lb pork belly, 3.5 lb pork shoulder. At a very reasonable price. In just about 2 hours. I didn’t have to put on clothes or nothing. Or leave my apartment.
I’m in love with the USA
I’m in love with the Modern World
https://open.spotify.com/track/6H974VJTHS0FJwn6cuawKr?si=geRKJ9cbSti8lu2HtRT1QQ
I’m in love with the Stop N Shop. I’ve got my radio on.
I had an idea for a chain of private, super-clean, luxurious for-profit bathrooms along interstate freeway exits called Stop ‘n’ Plop.
Never got to the pro forma phase, though.
I would definitely pay, though, for a really nice bathroom every 100 miles or so on a long drive. Especially if you had the cost-effective Stop ‘n’ Plop unlimited use daily, weekly or monthly card with you (may cost more west of the Rockies).
If any of you decide to go forward with this idea, it’s yours, perhaps just toss me a couple of shares at your IPO.
it’s a matte of whether you want to understand how things work; it’s easy
It’s not a matter of not understanding how things work, it’s not wanting to get drawn into a big discussion about it. I defer to your engineering knowledge (simple truth).
I have spent plenty of time around turbos. More air = more power = more excitement. Until it blows up.
*see above, re: reliability
The only nostalgia I had for cassette tapes was when they went the way of the dodo. How fondly do I remember all the F-bombs when I popped the cassette and there was still two feet of tape in the rollers?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/23/cassette-tape-music-revival-retro-chic-rewind
I’ve made it a goal in life to stay far, far away from people whose brains work like this.
One of irregular updates on the Fort William Football Club, members of the Highland League. After today’s game their record is:
Played: 25
Won: 0
Draw: 2
Lost 23
Goals for: 16, Goals against: 176; goal difference: -160
Total Points: -7 (they were docked 9 points for fielding an ineligible player).
But, just a reminder, they do have one of the most scenic home fields in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_William_F.C.#/media/File:Clagganpark.jpg
I love watching the lower(ish) leagues – outside of watching a handful of favorite teams, nothing beats the first couple rounds of the FA Cup for me. That’s about as low as it gets on American TV.
This is an odd beer. You definitely get the Brett on the nose. When you drink it, it promises to have more body than it delivers. It finishes dry and quick with some bitterness in the aftertaste. This beer is very reminiscent of my first marriage.
Interesting. Thanks for trying it!
Saison’s are just not my cup of tea. If you’re someone who does like them, I can see why you would want to drink this.
The house smells like chicken soup. We’re headed into four days of rain/snow, and it seemed appropriate. My first batch of raspberry mead is also now resting comfortably in it’s bucket.
I have no idea how she survives all of these stories.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/amy-klobuchar-tried-to-torpedo-staffs-future-job-opportunities-report
Pussy pass.
It’s not unlimited, however.
I’m betting all these negative stories are coming from Biden’s camp.
I was going to respond that these stories are irrelevant and she will be judged on her policies and legislative record, then I remembered that the average voter is a maroon, so yeah these things will matter.
average voter is a maroon
Two Corinthians!
You can keep your doctor!
Mission Accomplished!
I did not have sex with that woman!
No new taxes!
White Propaganda!
There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe!
I have lusted in my heart!
I am not a crook!
Smokin’ in the boys room
Not only that, the kids wear what they want. No wonder they turn to gangs and crime.
After seeing the pics of a toilet ripped off the floor, maybe they took it a bit too far