Merry New Year! I am happy to report that I am about to drink my way out of 2019. This, the links, will be my last act of sobriety. I hope everyone has plans for a safe and responsible, excepting fireworks usage, New Year. May 2020 be better than 2019 in every way possible.
Australia is having a bit of a fire. I imagine poisonous fauna of every variety fleeing before the flames and alternatively lying in wait for firefighters.
I chuckled at the Washington Free Beacon’s Man of the Year.
Mobile PD shows its sensitive side.
Woman wakes up after being in coma for seven months. Disappointed to find Trump still President. Okay, I made up that last bit.
I was thinking about where I was 20 years ago on NYE (6th and Congress in Austin), and remembered that the girl I was dating at the time inexplicably loved this song. So, happy New Year.
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*pops champagne*
I suffer from premature celebration.
“Australia is having a bit of a fire.”
Usually you just have to worry about the wildlife.
It might have been the wildlife, what with the Fire Hawks and all.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
“(Editor’s note: In the interest of gender equality and inclusion, all gender-ambiguous third-person pronouns have been rendered as the feminine “she” and “her,” as in “I’m with her.”)”
LOLOL
So baffle. Such confuze.
When Google co-founders Larry Page and President Sergey Brin stepped down from their roles as CEO and president of Google holding company Alphabet earlier this month, it marked the end of an era. While it’s unclear what prompted the two to leave their formal management positions, longtime employees, many of whom also left the company this year, described to CNBC a massive cultural shift that percolated throughout 2019.
They cited changes to Google’s all-hands meetings, human resources processes and transparency from management.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai in October admitted the company’s challenge in scaling the trust of its own workforce which numbers more than 100,000 people. More recently, Lazlo Bock, former director of human resources for Google, told Bloomberg that he thinks Alphabet is “a different company than it used to be” but that “not everyone’s gotten the memo.”
The change has been noticed by some on the outside, too. “What the hell is going on over there?” tweeted Andreessen Horowitz partner Martin Casado over the summer. “The brain drain at Google right now is astonishing.”
Google declined to comment.
Let’s see. you grow your company like crazy, and all of a sudden people start looking around and noticing changes?
Unheard of.
I read that article. If you are not a far left proggie activist, it is incoherent.
They talk about Google “being the company it was” and talk about building a censored version of Google for China. That’s a direct violation of the “don’t be evil” mission statement of early google. So far, so good.
The very next example is “they gave golden parachutes to executives accused of sexual misconduct”. This is described as what an evil mega-corporation would do. Holy head-spinning moment! Suddenly firing people and failing to honor your contracts with them over things like “he said something offensive about pregnant women at work” is on the side of notbeing an evil mega-corp? What the heck?
Then they go into rant mode about not being responsive to all of the internal protests.
The people who left google in protest over what they were becoming left long before all of this “we, the woke workers, will decide who is allowed to work here and what political parties Google will support” stuff got started. They left over things like having input over products, being able to do side-projects, not being IBM, Microsoft or Apple and not doing the things they would do. Being for open and transparent operations. Being against big brother.
Now not only has Google become big brother, their workforce demands that they become even more big brother.
“2019 Man of the Year: Jeffrey Epstein’s Assassin”
Nice.
(Editor’s note: In the interest of gender equality and inclusion, all gender-ambiguous third-person pronouns have been rendered as the feminine “she” and “her,” as in “I’m with her.”)
Hah!
I’m 95% certain this is Bill McMorris’ work.
Joy.
My motivation is sapped.
Joy
Huh, I was expecting this.
That better be either Jigsaw or Apollo 100….
Don’t worry, Ted, I got your Bach.
If’n you aint the grand daddy of all liars!
Or if you prefer your joy to be a bit classier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnT7pT6zCcA
If I didn’t have actual work to do, I would have already bailed.
I did. I’m not going back for the rest of the calendar year.
Biden: we should put fossil fuel execs in prison for… something about underserved neighborhoods.
But remember, Trump’s the fascist dictator.
“particularly in those cases where there are underserved neighborhoods.”
Like…. there aren’t enough gas stations in those neighborhoods?
I imagine he’s alluding to climate change, but it’s such substance-free drivel, who knows.
‘ it’s such substance-free drivel’
From Joe Biden? The hell you say!
After rejecting malarkey, presumably leaving that for the other candidates to be candidate, he was left with only drivel.
“Underserved.” No slippery slope there. No dictatorship of the quotatariat. No possibility that this will be applied to providers of other goods and services, except government-provided ones of course.
And Biden is the “moderate”, “electable” Democrat.
Actually, that’s true. If you’re a betting man, you can still get Trump @ -110 odds for 2020.
And the Board Members too! Right Joe?
If the oil company execs went on daily rape raids in kindergartens the net impact of fossil fuels on human well being would sill be a net positive.
Including Hunter Biden?
Long-tenured Google employees also said the company culture changed as it scaled to more than 100,000 workers, many of whom are contractors instead of full-time employees.
Graham Neray is CEO of a New York start-up called Oso. He told CNBC that longtime Googlers who interviewed for roles at Oso said the company had become “too big” and bureaucratic to make a difference for workers. Major organizational changes and uncertainty in some divisions like the Google Cloud Platform were also mentioned by candidates, he said.
Bureaucracy was the reason for a former engineering director who left the company in August after seven years. This engineer, who asked to remain anonymous because he’s not authorized to talk about his time there, said upper management began placing extra emphasis on head count in recent years. Because of that, the company has become reluctant to eliminate weaker team members, which affected his and others’ organizations, he said.
You don’t say. Next, I suppose you’ll tell me there are people more concerned with building and defending bureaucratic fiefdoms than creating quality products.
OFFS. They own you for life?
It depends on the terms of the NDA he signed when he joined Google.
Clawbacks and vesting baby!
I was at work 20 years ago twiddling my thumbs while awaiting the dreaded Y2K. Thousand dollar a day bonus for Sat & Sun, with an add’ll thousand for working the full weekend. Sent home early Sunday, easiest $3k I ever made. God bless America and overblown panics!
Were you Y2K OK?
Of course, the government flunkies all defend themselves over the moral panic they created.
I saw some nonsense article defending the largely press-driven freakout by saying it proved to be a good practice run for large scale emergency events that followed like 9/11. I’m still recovering from the near blindness-inducing case of eye-roll.
I was on an airplane.
A high school classmate worked in IT in a local FSB (KGB) office 20 years ago. He told me that they had manually changed the date in their system to an earlier one to avoid worrying about Y2K during the New Year holidays.
Kick that can down the road, eh?
They observed that Y2K was a non-event around the world. Less to worry about when they eventually synced the clock.
My Dad’s cousin was a Y2K true believer. He had a collection of Mustangs that he sold off so he could stockpile supplies. I was just wowed by that whole situation.
But horses are useful after the apocalypse!
Y2K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMp3eBE_8A
This was my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhF7dQl4Ico
Man, I forgot about that one.
That wasn’t the day Net Neutrality was repealed?
My parents live in a small town with few restaurants. The lady that owned one of them sold the restaurant and bought sacks full of coffee as trade goods for the Y2K apocalypse.
Seems like trading restaurant food would be more valuable.
Axl Rose was actually in good shape at one point.
Why oh why did I not think about the traffic before embarking upon errands that could be done tomorrow? Because I was only going to Office Depot and then the kids sent me on a wild goose chase, that’s why and now I’m pissy.
I donno.
Did you catch the wild goose?
Caught something but it wasn’t what was supposed to have been caught and required extraneous resources to do it.
That made me remember this.
There’s also this more recent comment.
You actually might not be able to do some of those errands tomorrow. My donut store is closed, so I had to stock up today.
I remember one New Year’s Day, I just wanted food, but everything was closed.
Consider this a reminder to plan ahead. I’m going to make a run to the store later.
XY wanted to return something to Home Depot, but that required an ID so I had to do it. NOW he finds out he can’t spend his gift card without me present to show my fucking ID nor can he spend it online.
XX couldn’t find what she wanted at a reasonable price at Office Depot so we went to Walmart. There’s a whole long involved backstory to that.
Now I’m stuck at CVS picking up rxs.
I’m done with CVS. DONE. They fuck things up EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
I had an emergency script called in for Xofluza. They were out of stock, but texted me anyway that it was ready. I go to pick it up, and they tell me that they won’t have it in stock for 3 days, and I have to wait. This medication has to be taken within 48 hours of getting the flu.
I ask them to transfer to another store that has it in stock. They say “which one?” WTF? You mean I have to call all of the stores myself, wait in the phone maze for 20 minutes, and ask the pharmacist to go check inventory? Assholes.
I found a store that had it. I told them to transfer it. They did not.
I had my doctor call it in to Walgreens instead. The end.
Yes, they’ve been pretty bad lately. They say it’s their computer system.
Oh, (un)funny story:
Sitting there in the drive-thru and the woman (about my age) is trying to find my pickup. She says, “It’ll take me a while. Our computer system is down and I have to dig through a bunch to find it.”
Me: “Um…I thought they were alphabetical.”
Her: “Not anymore. Now they’re filed by number and if our computers are down…”
Me: “Yeah, that’s why you need systems that still work when the electricity goes out.”
Her: “Oh, that won’t happen. We have generators.”
Me: “That wasn’t my point.”
Her: *confused look*
I bet she can’t figure out what to do when the escalator stops working.
Crimony. I hope you check a pill identifier before taking any.
*escalator stops working*
Mitch Hedberg: We apologize for the convenience.
Preach.
Sadly, our insurance company (Aetna) got bought by CVS and therefore we are stuck with them.
This cannot be said too many times.
I’ve been pretty happy with Rite Aid overall, but they always seem to be out of my pain meds, despite me coming in with the exact same prescription every month for the last eight years. Effing ‘opioid crisis’ — which has almost nothing to do with people on legitimate prescriptions for cancer pain — yet we still have to suffer because of it.
I have physician colleagues in the ER who boast that they haven’t prescribed any opiates for years, and ‘no one (I) know has prescribed them lately either’, as if they should get a medal or something. The hell with those patients who just broke their leg, who knows, they might turn into addicts after a 3-day supply of pain meds! Motrin is good enough for them, don’t they know?
So because of all this, when the pharmacy was ‘all out’ of my pain meds so delayed filling them, then I’m forced to wait for my next prescription to be filled 30 days after that — but not 30 days after my last prescription’s writing, 30 days after the last time Rite Aid was able to fill it, which is sometimes several days late. So I eventually after several months of this end up turning in my prescription and being told to come back in ten days to pick it up. And god forbid I try to switch to a different pharmacy, then I’d get on a ‘list’ that’s reminiscent of the ‘no fly list’.
The way in which the stupid “War on Drugs” has affected the treatment of pain is enraging and, as far as I’m concerned, immoral. “Better that people with legitimate pain suffer than that someone get high.” Makes me wish I believed in Hell for those that perpetuate this travesty.
“I have physician colleagues in the ER who boast that they haven’t prescribed any opiates for years, and ‘no one (I) know has prescribed them lately either’, as if they should get a medal or something. The hell with those patients who just broke their leg, who knows, they might turn into addicts after a 3-day supply of pain meds! Motrin is good enough for them, don’t they know?”
It’s retarded.
Yeah, but what the hell do you know about medicine? You’re not an expert like those elected officials….
Yeah, they run it through CURES 2 before they even check inventory, so you can’t get it anywhere else because it shows that it’s filled. Then, if you have the prescription sent elsewhere, both of them get put on hold.
The only way around it: if they’re out of stock,I tell them to nuke the prescription out of their system and CURES 2, and then have my doctor send it elsewhere.
And, even if they aren’t prescribing CII meds, they still have to do the paperwork (unless CA no longer has a “zero fill” requirement).
express scripts FTW
That is whom we used to have. We have mourned them all year and will continue to mourn them.
How can you stock up on donuts? Staleness is real.
Flour, sugar, yeast, chickens, oil, cooking fuel.
I had to do grocery shopping after work. The place was packed.
For some reason, there was utility work being done in the main road through the parking lot at the grocery store, which made it… ‘interesting’ to find a way in and out.
The local grocery store was packed at 3 PM.
I went to pick up my new glasses, but found out the hard way that the place closed at 1 PM. I was there at 1:30 PM. Oops. I guess I should have called.
The gym when I did my physical therapy work was somewhat busy.
Damn, the eyeglasses that will never be picked up — it’s always been something for you on this, hasn’t it?
When they’re open next on January 2, I’m sure the road to there will have flooded or iced over and closed, or the building will be on fire, or the area will be locked down because of an active shooter drill, or any number of possibilities.
Cheer up, I’m sure you’ll have them by February.
Heh.
I’ll have them on the 2nd.
“Kertisha was diagnosed with Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a disease where the body fights its own brain cells.”
That sounds bad.
“This year, unlike last year, Kertisha was able to celebrate the holiday season at home with her mother, her daughter, Diamonique and her son, Perez.”
I have a vague feeling these people are black.
Good thing is that the majority of the population has shown that you don’t need brain cells to live.
Also called “Biden syndrome”.
“This, the links, will be my last act of sobriety”
I don’t believe you. Unless you did the links this morning.
Stupid county court is closed today – of course nothing posted on the website and not even on the front door. What a waste of an hour. Guess I’ll drop off my CCH paperwork on Friday.
“Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn ‘HID inside a DOUBLE BASS CASE’ and hired militia dressed as musicians to smuggle him out of Japan to a Lebanese hideout to escape his £10M bail for financial crimes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7839599/Former-Nissan-chief-Carlos-Ghosn-says-fled-Lebanon-Japan.html
That’s much better than having the Saudis smuggle you out.
I feel for the bassist who opens up that case expecting to see his sweet Wen Rei or Maple Leaf Strings and gets a smelly grifter instead.
I imagine the guy paid enough to make the rental of that case worth it to the owner.
“EXCLUSIVE: New twist in Hunter Biden’s Arkansas child support suit as judge recuses himself amid legal bid to put claims about VP’s son’s Ukraine business deals at center of case
The judge in Hunter Biden’s paternity case with baby mama Lunden Roberts has recused himself from the case on Tuesday, DailyMail.com can disclose. Judge Don McSpadden announced he was recusing himself at 10.20am. It came hours after Joel Caplan filed a motion in Independence County, seeking to become a party in the case and filed a witness statement from Viktor Shokin. Shokin, an ex Ukrainian prosecutor, claimed he was fired because he led a probe into Burisma and refused to shut it down, despite pressure from VP Joe Biden. Shokin claims Joe lobbied for his dismissal in an alleged attempt to help out Hunter from any possible prosecution. Private eye Dominic Casey also wants to be added to the case and claimed on Friday he had obtained Biden’s bank account records.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7840445/Hunter-Bidens-Burisma-dealings-pulled-Arkansas-child-support-suit.html
*pops popcorn*
Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen.
This is peak 2019. A matter that should have been the subject of a thorough federal investigation is being hashed out in Arkansas family court.
Yeah but!
This politically weaponized Keynesianism is, by the way, probably the main reason U.S. economic growth has been good (not great) over the past two years, even though the 2017 tax cut completely failed to deliver the promised surge in private investment: federal spending has been growing at a rate not seen since the early years of the past decade.
But why does this history matter? After all, at this point unemployment rates in both the United States and Europe are near or below pre-crisis levels. Maybe there was a lot of unnecessary pain along the way, but aren’t we O.K. now?
No, we aren’t. The austerity years left many lasting scars, especially on politics.
There are multiple explanations for the populist rage that has put democracy at risk across the Western world, but the side effects of austerity rank high on the list.
In Eastern Europe, white nationalist parties came to power after center-left governments alienated the working class by letting themselves be talked or bullied into austerity policies. In Britain, support for right-wing extremists is strongest in regions hit hardest by fiscal austerity. And would we have Trump if years of wrongheaded austerity hadn’t delayed economic recovery under Barack Obama?
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Beyond that, I’d argue that austerity mania fatally damaged elite credibility. If ordinary working families no longer believe that traditional elites know what they’re doing or care about people like them, well, what happened during the austerity years suggests that they’re right. True, it’s delusional to imagine that people like Trump will serve their interests better, but it’s a lot harder to denounce a scam artist when you yourself spent years promoting destructive policies simply because they sounded serious.
In short, we’re in the mess we’re in largely because of the wrong turn policy took a decade ago.
Sure, Krugabe. It was all that austerity what dunnit.
Beat that tin drum, windup monkey!
“Beat that tin drum, windup monkey!”
Best description I’ve heard of Krugabe. Another windup monkey in the NYT disinformation machine.
“populist rage that has put democracy at risk”
Popular vote is killing democracy.
I don’t think austerity means what he thinks it means.
What fucking austerity? Government spending across the globe increases every year. And in all cases is at unheard of levels.
Oh, FFS, you drunken assholes.
What is it this time?
It’s just you of course.
Right now I am just an asshole that has yet to get drunk. Check back later.
I’m about half way there.
That’s no way to talk about your fellow Glibs!
Umm, I thought it was a compliment.
You misspelled “accurate”.
Some of us are drunk.
Some of us are assholes.
Very few of us are drunken assholes.
I think you’re Venn diagram is broked.
Some us are drunk (Glibs total pop – Mormons)
Some of us are assholes (Glibs total pop – whomever the speaker is sucking upto)
Glibs total pop is small so if us = world pop, I rule this a maybe.
I get to spend tomorrow deriving coherence functions from some acoustic measurements.
It’s a full life.
I’d likely be jealous if I understood any of that.
I don’t understand.
As long as it gives whatever audio equipment you are testing a “signature” sound.
As for me my Topping D50s DAC finally made it to the US. I have shot getting it this week or next.
I hope everyone has plans for a safe and responsible, excepting fireworks usage, New Year. May 2020 be better than 2019 in every way possible.
My plan is sleep. Hopefully the new year is better.
The devastating fires, fed by intense heat and winds, rampaged across Australia’s southeastern states of New South Wales and Victoria heading into the new year, turning coastal towns into dangerous traps and forcing residents to the oceanside.
Wasn’t IFH in Sydney? Hopefully she’s OK. According to some maps I found, there are fires burning in the Sydney area.
(Editor’s note: In the interest of gender equality and inclusion, all gender-ambiguous third-person pronouns have been rendered as the feminine “she” and “her,” as in “I’m with her.”)
Heh.
Text accompanying the photo reads, “Wanna wish everybody in 4th precinct a Merry Christmas, especially our captain. Hope you enjoy our homeless quilt! Sincerely, Panhandler patrol.”
I got nothing.
This year, unlike last year, Kertisha was able to celebrate the holiday season at home with her mother, her daughter, Diamonique and her son, Perez.
That’s good.
Dave Barry’s 2019 Year in Review
I hope everyone has a good New Year!
Thank you for that — I haven’t read one of Barry’s ‘Year in Review’ columns in ages. There were some great lines.
I was just in Sydney. Smoke covered but fine.
…does her boyfriend know?
Meanwhile the American Midwest faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis as Nebraska, Wisconsin and Minnesota struggle to absorb waves of Iowans fleeing the worsening disaster in their home state, which is overrun with Democratic presidential contenders demonstrating their likability by eating fried things on sticks. Joe Biden remains the front-runner in Iowa despite the fact that, to judge from his remarks at campaign events, he believes he is in Belgium.
So true.
“Linda Ronstadt compares Donald Trump to Hitler, claims his administration is like ‘Nazi Germany’ and says ‘Mexicans are the new Jews’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7839349/Linda-Ronstadt-claims-Trump-exactly-Hitler-Mexicans-new-Jews.html
I’m thinking Jerry Brown’s semen has worked its way to her brain.
I’d have guessed Parkinson’s-related dementia.
So sad to see a once talented and beautiful person reduced to a drooling moron.
Didn’t she fuck her way to stardom? I though I remember hearing that 20+ years ago. Or am I thinking of Crystal Gale?
She was actually good and very pretty. And then brain damage apparently set in.
As did the carbs.
Fastest move from hot chick to morbid obesity since Sally Struthers.
She was fantastic in 3 genres. I’m not sure many others have managed as much.
And she was pretty darned cute.
Having the wrong politics doesn’t mean your art sucks….
And … are you listening Hollywood? … having the right politics doesn’t mean your art is any good.
She was definitely in my teenage spank bank.
A young Crystal Gale? I wish I was a record producer.
She does actually have a progressive brain disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_supranuclear_palsy
Mexicans are the new Jews
Mexican Sharpshooter is OMWC’s son!
That’s been my headcanon for a while now.
Howdy everybody! it’s going to be Sausage patties, Hash browns and Huevos rancheros for dinner, along with a waterfall of Tall Cans!
and Sparklers, from Walmart, because Sparklers, at Walmart,
Enjoy the proceedings, carry on……
I’m reading old threads and I saw something about you “losing Wendy”. I’m sorry. What happened?
+1 “Hey, Grandpa… What’s For Dinner?”
I get to spend tomorrow deriving coherence functions from some acoustic measurements.
You people and your abstruse euphemisms…
I just learned a new word.
6th and Congress
I was in a quiet Fort Worth suburb and capped off the evening with the love of my life. I hear tell she still lives in those parts.
OT: the SEC still sucks !!!!!11!
So all your ex’s live in Texas?
And- the very first NYT Pick comment:
Susan Rankin
Portland, OR2h ago
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Paul Krugman’s article is such a relief!!!! Of course austerity hurt us badly. The Tea Party response on the right dominated the airwaves; but the People on the left just stopped voting. The greed (and sleep-walking) of the elite is the worst betrayal of democracy. Causing the people to tragically throw it away. That’s what austerity has done globally.
Give it up, Susan. He’s not going to fuck you.
I want some of what she’s on.
Lobotomy?
Enh, couldn’t hurt.
Twitter, where people don’t understand satire.
I got it, fair and square
Looks like a perfect trolling opportunity to me. You should play this for all it’s worth.
Started two beers to day — a lambic and a berliner weisse — as in brewing, not drinking. That happens later.
How did you do the souring for the berliner? Sour mash or acid additions?
“The Anti-Benghazi!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1212126024575660035
What does it mean?
Ugh…..do not read the replies
Your final Titty Tuesday of 2019 is rated two nipples up.
http://archive.is/AFwyr
Yesterdays list was better.
Remove pants and prepare warboner.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jim-hanson-us-must-take-military-action-against-iran-in-response-to-attack-on-our-embassy-in-iraq
The “this couldn’t have happened unless Iran orchestrated it” narrative is as stupid as it is infuriating. Gee, I wonder what possible reason Iraqiscould.have for resenting the continued US presence and actions within their Homeland.
Pretty sure they have open source pics of a stack of the Iranian sponsored militia leaders in the group outside the embassy.
Source? I don’t doubt it but even so it’s the same ridiculous double standard that we use to justify our military aggression constantly. How much civil unrest does the CIA and DoD intentionally cause every year for Iran alone let alone other adversaries?
The point being, while I don’t want to see anyone killed I see this more as reaping what we’ve sown than a justification for further military antagonism.
These are some of the ones from my feed this morning (https://twitter.com/thestevennabil/status/1211950832645595137) and (https://twitter.com/thestevennabil/status/1211935853972357120) and https://twitter.com/ReporterIraqi/status/1212059571059134465 and https://twitter.com/MPPregent/status/1211978692257341441
And yeah..looks like US security reinforcements heading in, but from following all day at my work, I’m not too concerned on the whole. I think the news makes it look worse than it is/was (at least when I left).
Still awaiting moderation….meh
*John Bolton perks up*
But in all seriousness we should protect our embassy and leave it at that.
I’m a fan of closing any embassy that is attacked and sanctioning the country that allowed the attack until they pay reparations.
This is bizzarro world….
The left is running around criticizing Trump for not bombing the shit out of anyone in response (yet)… until something happens. Then they’ll criticize that.
Peace-loving and non-interventionist Libertarians are preemptively calling Trump a war-monger for escalating things – even though he hasn’t done anything yet. (but they were happy to call him out for “leaving” Syria)
And Bolton is back in love with Trump because he wants in on the killin’.
Republicans stand ready to defend whatever Trump does.
It is like an Escher painting, only we live there.
A Mystery
They joined the Gretel Cult?
They were put up against the wall?
https://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/218/A_Long_Slow_Comfortable_Screw_Up_Against_the_Wall37560.shtml
Put ’em on the glass!
That doesn’t really sound good. The drink, I mean.
Not at all.
Wha? Everyone loves sloes!
It can get worse, you can add the “in the dark” and “Mexican style” modifiers.
Oh, I’m all for a long, slow comfortable screw up against the wall, but the drink recipe sounds awful.
Those are additional modifiers to the drink recipe. I learned it as a joke recipe for bartenders, and adding dark rum and tequila make it a long comfortable screw up against the wall Mexican style in the dark.
Ha!
can you add Kahlua to make it anal?
I think that would be Creme de Cacao.
A long, slow screw up against the wall, Mexican anal style, in the dark?
While smoking weed.
That would definitely help make it long, slow and comfortable.
So I think we can all settle on a “long, slow, comfortable screw, up against the wall, Mexican anal style in the dark, while smoking weed”.
Holy shit.
‘I think it’s an infatuation with the end of the world and an infatuation with power, and they’re using it to try to make money off of people’s beliefs. ”
Really? Well, that’s never happened before.
That doesn’t sound at all like the climate change industry.
Yeah, not at all.
“Florida man blows hand off after lighting firework in truck
The lighter torch was blown apart, the windows and windshield of the car destroyed — and its interior covered in blood.”
https://nypost.com/2019/12/31/florida-man-blows-hand-off-after-lighting-firework-in-truck/
During my “past life” with the previous husband, the eventually-Rev. GT, he did his “clinical pastoral education” (essentially a chaplaincy internship) at the local hospital and drew overnight ER on-call duty on July 4th. He approached a young man holding something absorbent against his nose. Turned out the young man and his buddies had been sticking lit ladyfinger firecrackers in their noses (presumably not lit end first ) and trying to blow the firecrackers out of said noses before the firecrackers went off. Apparently someone had a wee bit of nasal congestion.
It was truly a pastoral moment, guiding someone to reflect upon his bone-headedness. And this wasn’t even in Florida.
Reviewing my 2019 reading log and I only have 7 hours to read 24 more books if I want to hit my goal. Also didn’t read a single 5 star book this year, maybe I’m grading to tough.
Maybe if you read more you’d know the difference between “too” and “to”.
/just messing with you Happy New Year!
Happy new year doc. Best wishes for 2020. We will have to do another meet up, I missed the last one.
I did too, missed the last one (and any others that were held)
I doubt it (slow learner/alcohol soaked brain), Happy New Year two you!
Maybe he is saying that some tough set the curve!
Remember next year’s theme, folks:
20/20: It’s looking better!
Uhg…not looking forward to all the 20/20 political references to come.
20-20, give them both barrels.
Mad/Dog 2020
I tried MD 20/20 once. It was… interesting.
Does it live up to the hype?
It tastes like shit and will get you drunk. Is that the question?
What Hyperion said.
You’ll be fucking fat girls in no time!
Last time I heard any industry press on it, they were marketing it to the early 20’s female crowd with sweeter and fruitier flavors. I somehow doubt that worked out well for them.
well, it’s no Wild Irish Rose, but…
I washed a bottle of NoDoz down with a quart of MD Grape on a bet. I do not recommend this.
Did it stay down?
For a while.
I did my grocery shopping yesterday and stopped by the booze store for a restock today. Time to hunker down, drink, and eat unhealthy things.
“Time to hunker down, drink, and eat unhealthy things.”
‘Murica!
A recent review of the current state of The Patriarchy.
So, yesterday, we drove up to one of our local liquor stores. We’re sitting there in the parking lot and I asked the wife ‘You going in?’. She said ‘No, I’m good’. I said ‘You need anything’? She said ‘No, I’m good’. So I went in and bought enough beer to get shitface for 2 days. On my way out, with my box of beer, I meet my wife at the door. She says ‘Oh, I forgot, I want something!. I said ‘OK, let me take this beer to the car and I’ll come back’. I get to the car. Guess what, the doors are locked and she has the key. So I put my box of beer on top of the SUV. OK, it’s all good. I go back to the store and walk in, just in time to pay for the 3 bottles of wine and bottle of champagne she forgot she needed. There seemed to be some joke going on I wasn’t in on. I said ‘You know where the beer is?’. She says ‘Oh, I have the keys!’.
After I find out that the guys in the store, they’re funny guys, assumed that I ‘forgot’ her wine again. Of course she went along with this, because the patriarchy you know.
I assumed that your beer was going to get stolen.
My money was on “Driving away with it still on the roof”
That’s the worst case scenario. Nobody gets to enjoy the beer.
Except the dog?
It’s pretty hard to not see a box of beer on top of your car, but that would have been pretty funny, I’ll admit.
^
Not in that neighborhood. Most people there drive cars that I can’t afford to pay for a house at that price. But most places near here, no I wouldn’t have done that.
Me too!
I’ve been binging on some Letterkenny today. Michelle Mylett is so hot it’s stupid:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MichelleMylett/
She has some nice legs.
Can confirm.
She is pretty. Never seen the show. Don’t think it’s on my TV.
Hulu there good buddy.
It’s on Hulu.
Well, after watching uh, several Kuma cooking videos, YouTube now thinks I want to watch the chests of headless Japanese chicks cook. I can’t say the algorithm is wrong this time.
I’m always careful to use incognito mode or delete those from my history.
Is the headless video a particularly Japanese thing? They tend to wind up in my playlist as covers of J-Pop.
I’m assuming yes? Along with blurring faces of strangers in public videos or the surgical masks.
Japan has some odd privacy laws of which I don’t have great familiarity. So the blurring of faces in public I understand.
The thing I find odd, but I’m sure I shouldn’t, is some female of unknown age, in a sailor school uniform, shown neck down rocking out and playing along with some well known J-Pop or anisong.
Reddit to the rescue
https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/8fqv02/how_come_so_many_japanese_musicians_online_wear/
More fucked up, but not unsurprising after reading.
出る釘は打たれる
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
そうですね。
So I am surprisingly not drunk although it is an hour after the random new year thing. Happy new year and all that. Let this new year be a libertarian year.
this was not bad as a new years wine
https://www.vivino.com/us-antinori-cabernet-sauvignon/w/1250083?year=2008
I misspent some of my time on Atlas Peak as a yute.
I just watched an interview with Mike Pompeo. Iran better watch it’s shit.
good, some bullies need a punch in the face,
In news that is fitting for today, vegans and vegetarians may get worse hangovers (it’s a super serial study guys, 13 social drinkers were included).
Tonight the goal is to make Irish coffees. It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it.
I I am part of a Facebook Tesla enthusiasts group.
a guy put up a playful post showing 2 AR-15s in his “frunk” (the empty front space where the engine would typically be in an ICE car) and asked “what do you all put in your frunk?” As a conversation starter.
The situation escalated quickly.. it became clear that the tree hugging liberal Tesla owners were horrified to think that they had anything in common with liberty lovers not on the left.
I had downed a couple of screwdrivers and jumped right in.
It has been hilarious. I have made several new FB friends and we all know we will be soon banned from the page, so I invited them to this place. Hopefully they will lurk, like, and join.
My bad: it wasn’t AR 15s. (Need glasses).
It was:
I miss none of the hyper-partisanship poo-flinging on FB. I can only assume it’s gotten worse in the 4 years since I vacated.
Infinitely worse.
There truly is no such thing as peak derp.
I’m sure. I just sent 5 minutes reading the replies to Trumps dumb tweet about Anti-Bengazi. Asserting facts without evidence and being insanely unselfaware seems to be all the rage these days.
https://babylonbee.com/news/experts-warn-global-outrage-levels-will-reach-point-of-no-return-in-2020
Once again, doing better reporting than the news.
Ahh the Barret, reminds me of the Urban Ops Sniper days, one shot, one kill
I love this country.
Not bad.
Those are vastly cooler than an AR.
Serious firepower + master level trolling = Glib material
*clears throat*
fuck off, Tulpa.
Fuck Off, Tulpa.
FUCK OFF, Tulpa!
Tulpa, fuck off.
Hey Tulpa, why don’t you go outside and play fuck off.
Okay, I’m ready for them.
Atta boy
/waves at the new Tulpa
I tend to avoid the how do I store my pistol in the car threads on the Tesla forums.
However, I generally respond whenever subsidies come up and ask why low income people have to subsidize my $50k automobile and charging situation.
Fucking crickets usually.
It’s ‘the poors’ way of helping to save the planet! I’m sure they rest easy with a little less on their plate knowing that t’s for the greater good.
Heh… what does that group think of Thomas Massie’s Telsa with the “I Love Coal” license plate.
Currently, workin’ on gettin’ crunk.
#BoomBoom
Got the rest of my Snow cone, and a Truckload of Tall Cans!
Merry New Year Tres!
HEY YUFUS!
Right back @ ya
I misspelled that, a Tresload of Tall Cans!
Random thought: Has Donation Not Taxation been around lately? I was still 50/50 on whether the dude was legit (and obviously kinda aspie) or a schtick-troll waiting to reveal himself. He had an Addiction Myth vibe IMO.
He camped on a comment of mine a few days ago.
I decided not to engage. I honestly think somewhere on the spectrum.
He golf clapped a comment of mine in a dead thread last week.
He was way too one track for my tastes and so I harassed him endlessly,
/I’m a Pick,
You may be many things Yusef but I don’t think anybody here would list ‘prick’ on your top 100 attributes
I woad think he meant Pict.
That was supposed to be Dick, not Prick, I am a Dick, oh yes….
He said “Pick”. I think it means that Yusef picks his nose.
Dear new people Hayek brought over:
“Fuck off, Tulpa” is our way of saying “Welcome! Come in! Have a beer! Put your feet up!”
Fuck off Mo,
Merry New year!
You just ruined the whole thing. You are the wurst.
Liver, or Brat?
/Love them both…
Weiß.
Definitely Brats.
Her Royal Highness Queen The Wurst
What about Sir Digby of Gliberia? He’s part of the royal inner circle.
Well of course but he has not been dubbed the worst. If I am the worst then I will be queen.
it’s 4:41, like waves, crashing on the beach,
So are the Days of Our Lives…..
As the stomach churns…
Well…nuts. Can’t find my pliers. Can’t open my bottle of Cinnamon Whiskey Tango from Big Slide. Guess I’ll have to work through a few smaller bottles (starting with my “aged” Troegs Mad Elf).
You meant “can’t find that one particular pair of channel locks that would be optimum for this job and that I have sterilized, yes?” Because otherwise that would imply you only have one set of pliers, and that’s simply not possible.
^^This^^
I’m more wondering why you need pliers to open a bottle. Is this some sabre champagne bottle show off thing?
One massive cork.
Are we not doing phrasing?
Corked and caged? Remove cage by twisting, take a dishtowel and put it over the cork. Grip the dishtowel against the bottle with your offhand (leaving some slack in the top), and twist the cork with your dominant hand. Assuming sufficient carbonation levels, the cork should release itself once you get it started. The dishtowel is there to contain the cork (and avoid breaking lamps, light bulbs, or denting ceilings).
One addition. Twist the bottle, not the cork.
No cage, but this cork is really stuck in there (That’s what she said).
maybe later.
Molars work well too.
If it never needs to be resealed, knife + corkscrew will work
Real men don’t own Pliers, whatever those inferior things might be…
Dikes
Linemans
Channel locks
Crescent Brand adjustable wrenches
Ridgid Pipe wrenchs
Needlenose
Spend a few dollars for God sake,
crescent wrenches aren’t pliers
neither are dikes
water pump pliers are my favorite, because of the name
although I’ve used needle nose more than anything because I used to fix and build music electronics
Really? Like what?
Way back in the early-mid 80s I was hobby building modular electronic music modules. Analog circuitry was fun, op-amps are doG’s gift. to electronics, DIP packages and lead/tin solder made it all do-able, even for a liberal arts major 🙂
Those days, sadly, are long gone.
Wrench stuff with teeth. Hammer stuff with dick.
Anything that says Knipex on the side is good.
I have more than one pair, but still can’t recall where I last left them. Haven’t bought enough pliers or clamps to build an AR yet.
My contribution-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfWu76kyFmw
Or try the John Belushi Method
Pliers and clamps arent that important. You’ll need an armorer’s wrench, a brass/delrin hammer, vice blocks, a torque wrench, and (most importantly) a good quality set of roll pin punches.
Oh Fuck Off Tulpa!
Merry New Year!
Troegs Mad Elf is good beer.
So, what about aerial fireworks in a 20 knot wind? I can aim them into the wind so they go off over my house, only 3, too dangerous?
I live in the desert, it is legal
I believe the correct method is to aim them over dry brush, refineries, chem plants and gas stations.
^^^ This is the correct answer.
There is no such thing as brush here, only heat death, except for now, it’s too cold!
How cool is your landlord?
in Vegas and he is cool, and it’s way cool in BhC, I got them at Walmart ffs, Cali can Fuck Right Off!
OK, have fun as long as you don’t lose your home.
This is Arizona, your a heathen if you don’t light shit up tonight,
Sparklers test confirmed, neon Sparklers…
Motorcyclist Who Identifies As Bicyclist Sets Cycling World Record
Ok, I don’t care who you are…. that’s funny stuff, right there. If you cain’t laugh at that, you’d better get out of here. /identifiesAsLarryTheCableGuy
LOL! That is great.
City of Albuquerque promises swift, serious consequences for anyone caught firing off a gun for New Years.
That is a common event down here in South Florida where a large chunk of the population is from central or South America, Cuba or other Caribbean locations. Apparently they all like to shoot guns in the air, even though the US is known for its “gun culture” and we don’t do that.
They have been warning people all day that Miami-Dade police are using bullet-tracking technology to trace where gunshots are fired. And that “what goes up, must come down…. sometimes with lethal results”.
That’s what cancelled HWNDU Season 2.
From Japan Times
It’s certainly true they are down at least one that we know about…
This could be a growth industry for them. Just contact California… they are seriously low on prison space.
Just don’t take in any asylum seekers and make “tut,tut” sounds about how unwelcoming the US is.
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00449/japan-accepts-far-fewer-refugees-than-g7-peers.html
“I will not bandy words a drunkard” – Mattie Ross
Just finished off Ribeyes and bakers. Yum
Nice. I’m about to throw some king crab into the oven. The sides will be drawn butter and champagne.
I just ate the last of the beef wellington I burned for Christmas Supper.
I also overcooked the ham for Christmas lunch
/not such a great cooking year
T Minus 20 minutes until the Final Episode* of The Hat and The Hair
*of 2019
Heading out to dinner with the wife – if I’m not back on here before midnight, Happy New Year to one and all!
(except all the new Tulpae – they can fuck right off)
PC!
Seems like a nice place. Happy New Year!
Happy NYE all!
So it’s my mom’s birthday and we are having cake and ice cream. I am blurgh. Yugggg.
Happy birfday to Mo’s mom.
My mom’s birfday as yesterday.
as S/B was
She gave birth to me at 7:09 pm as a 17 year old.
It was a hell of a journey for her.