I have lots going on this coming week – bad; moving parents from house the family has been in since 1971, into semi-independent living (a fancy apartment for olds). good; going to Board Game Geek Con. (BGG CON). I will hopefully be darting out one mid-day so that sloopy can shake his head at me in sadness – then we can have lunch and a beer.
In the meantime, I’ll just leave these for you until next week…
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Swiss! Enjoy BGGCon. I’m heading to PAX Unplugged in a couple of weeks.
Neeeerds!
Except, how do I know what Pax Unplugged is?! FUCK!
At any rate, enjoy, both of you. Any chance for a quick overview article?
Norm…
Gods damn LMGTFY changing their gods damned interface…
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=pax+unplugged&pp=1
To murder the joke:
I call you and Swiss nerds.
Then I admit I know what Pax Unplugged is.
Thus also identifying myself as a nerd. And using FUCK as a punchline as I realize I’m hoisted by my own petard.
The incongruity between pomposity of the yell and the accidental self-awareness of the followup is intended to provide an amused reaction in a reader.
I grokked ya.
Huh… I didn’t see you in one of your <a href="webdiplomacy.net/index.php?"Web Diplomacy games, so I thought you may be unaware.
For reference, I’m a bit annoyed that PAX unplugged had a part blocked out for a Diplomacy tournament, with a max player count of 7.
*sigh*
http://webdiplomacy.net/index.php?
Whether or not I’m in the Philly area that weekend depends on how things go with my back.
Understood. If your back is doing better, let me know, and I can bring some of those Cleveland Christmas ales for you to try.
Thanks. I’ll let you know if I’m down. I can scrounge up some booze to bring down if I am.
Second?
Sounds like a bunch of us are dealing with moving parents into homes or 24 hour in home care.
Society hasn’t quite adjusted but there are nascent support structures forming for sharing the burden.
yep. #metoo
I’m guessing there is a reason the vultures, oops, I mean my kids are hovering around and being nice for a change.
I think I have convinced my Mom to sell their rental home.
It is next door to them and the current losers are leaving at end of November.
They dont need the burden of dealing with it anymore.
First loser.
Wheeee!!
—> lowers standards to the point where they’re already met.
Wait, are you sure you’re not progressive?
This was probably rhetorical. In your comment on the last thread:
Is there a Kelley Blue Book for used firearms?
Yes there is. A coworker of mine has a subscription. He’s shown me some of their entries. Their breakdowns are broad and don’t cover all variants, but they are useful and close to what I’ve seen at auctions.
Sorry to hear that Swiss. I had to do that with my mother eight years ago.
My parents have just realized (mainly my mom) that it’s time to sell the house they’ve had for 41 years, and get something that’s one story and smaller. What they’re looking for is very different. My dad wants an American Legion nearby, my mom wants no such thing nearby.
I was stunned and amazed at how much stuff my parents were able to cram into that house in 40 years. Depression babies. After I gave away and sold as much stuff as I could, and my sisters filled two storage lockers in her new location, I still had 27,000lbs hauled to the dumps. I’ve never seen a 24′ truck low ride like that.
My dad wants an American Legion nearby, my mom wants no such thing nearby.
lol
I got ten bucks I know who wins.
If you’re not betting on my mom, you’re going to lose. Recently, both of them went to Hawaii. This happened because at one point during their dating/marriage, my dad promised to take my mom. Last year, my mom (who’s an avid senior softball player) found out there was a senior’s softball tournament in Hawaii. She told my dad, “So, me and the girls are going to Hawaii for a tournament. You can come with us if you want, and then I won’t tell them about your promise.”
Dad was always bigger and quicker with the hand, but if you ever pissed mom off, you could be a dead man.
Of course I am betting on mom. We all have mothers and know how that one goes.
She might. Smaller house, husband knocking around getting in her way …
Then she’ll just come up with more projects around the house for him to do…
My grandmother had my aunt and uncle move in with her this year so she can stay in my step grandfather’s family home (he passed away the year his first true grandchild was born, only met the two of us step grandchildren). She really doesn’t like the changes necessary for them to live there, but otherwise would have to live in an assisted living facility (she’s 89, just had heart valve replacement, and shouldn’t be left alone). She is so self centered that she thinks she is doing my aunt and uncle a favor. And realistically, my aunt is the only one of 5 children capable of dealing with caretaking for her. My mom and her oldest sister are not in good enough shape to do it, their brothers both would not leave their careers to do it (and in the younger one’s case, it’s his wife that would end up doing it, and she said no), so it falls to the one that can telework.
Soooo… as far as nautilus, etc being garbage – I enjoy using the standard elliptical machine as part of my daily workout (I like running outside when the weather is nice, but I’m not a big treadmill fan, and the elliptical is a lot easier on my knees). The calorie counter (given my weight) tells me that I’m burning between 400 and 800 calories per workout.
I assume that there is some benefit there- albeit perhaps less than I’d like – but is that incorrect?
I do need to add some more free exercises – jump rope, squats/lunges will probably be the easiest for me to integrate.
Sir Fish, I wanted to share your review of Marathon Family with discord glibs, but couldn’t find it. Was it pulled by you or YouTube, or am I just blind?
I pulled it because I kept getting hot with copyright strikes on it. Might be on my bitchute channel – I can check later this week when I have a better connection – or upload it there if it’s not already posted.
I guess it depends on what your objectives are. If you’re just trying to burn X number of calories, it doesn’t really matter how you do it. In that case, I’m a fan of splitting wood, yard work, stuff like that, because you’re also doing something useful. Otherwise, all things being equal, swimming is probably the best general training you can do, especially if you’ve got knee issues. The nice thing about it is that you can tailor it to the level of intensity that you want and you’re unlikely to injure yourself unless you do something really, really strange. Because it’s a full-body exercise you’re going to get calorie-burning results that are at least as good as the elliptical if not better. The main downside of course is that you have to find a pool, change, swim, change, and leave, so there’s a higher barrier to entry.
I’m always going to recommend weights to everyone because no matter what kind of shape you’re in or what injuries you’re dealing with there’s likely at least one “big” or compound lift you can do, and the benefits are too good to pass up. In general, strength training (which is an almost uselessly broad category) is phenomenal for you from a health perspective whether you’re talking about bodyweight exercises or weights. The big thing, though, is finding something you like. Using an elliptical is always going to be better than the best free weight routine that you never do because you don’t like it.
Th knock isn’t against cardio machines. It is the lifting machines that guide the motion/stabilize the weight. With free weights the act of stabilizing the bar and guiding it through the correct movement gives an advantage in muscle building.
What Jarflax said.
I’m in a similar boat with my grandmother right now. She can’t live at her house alone any longer. Just going to take time to convince her to sell and move into the kind of housing you’re talking about. Lots of it down here.
Any siblings to help?
Died years ago, and my grandfather died in 2013. My uncle is a 58 year old teenager, so it’s pretty much down to me and my mom to convince her.
My grandmother had to be argued with to move in with one of my uncles. She was there for ~10 years, there was quite a bit of entertainment at one family gathering when she was pounding drinks and started bitching about all of us.
My parents had a rough time with my grandparents.
I expect my siblings and I will have a rough time with our parents.
Sorry.
No cat butt?
That cattle ass is pretty good thogh
It’s the Cadillac of cattle asses.
It is a Swiss Brown.
How now?
Ja.
Swiss Servator on November 17, 2019 at 6:25 pm
It is a Swiss Brown.
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Jarflax
Jarflax on November 17, 2019 at 6:40 pm
How now?
How is the cow?
“Sir, the lacteal fluid extracted from the female of the bovine species is highly prolific to the nTH degree.”
Cop tries Dunphy defense in civil case, fails
Well at least he didn’t get an automatic pass and a bonus punch on his perp death card.
I’m surprised court denied immunity.
Fuck Dunphy.
Hopefully officer Belue will be reduced to living under a bridge and eating ketchup soup. Prison would be better but good luck with that.
Unfortunately, courts and prison officials tend to be very compassionate towards murderous cops. They’ll often let cops serve their time in a special unit for ex-cops or in the county jail.
I’ve never heard of some skinny civilian with no gang affiliations being given that kind of wonderful treatment, even though they’re certain to be beaten up and raped in prison. Fucked up.
The eye-opener for me was Afghanistan. Like the US, everyone – I mean EVERYONE – has guns in their compounds. Mil guys all want to do door-kicks at 3-5 am and are surprised when the Afghans start shooting back. Inevitably, we always wind up with some innocent 15 year-old boy dead, who was the “pride” of his village, learning english, etc. My boss finally declared no more kicking of doors. We would (instead) surround the place in exactly the same manner as we would have to kick the door, but instead we would go get some village elders, then stand there with them while they knocked, and explained that we had the place surrounded, we weren’t leaving, and we had some concerns, etc.
It finally clicked for me that there was absolutely ZERO reason to be doing this in the United States over DRUGSZZ!!1!! Only nine-black-robed morons with no common-sense could possibly not see the outcome of kicking doors in while people are sleeping and have the right to own guns. It is one of the worst decisions ever made, and that’s saying something for those idiots.
Good answer, OZY. A lot of folks keep guns handy when they sleep, more so now that robberies are common and robbers more brazen.
Sorry about your parents. Enjoy the convention.
As my brother summarized regarding Dad’s trip down Alzheimer’s Lane, when they get crabby or frustrating, that’s not your mom or dad or spouse talking—that’s the disease talking.
Therapeutic thinking.
This is true. My grandmother is going through this. My mom gets upset with my grandmother, which, of course, makes things worse (anger associated with dementia, I guess). I’ve tried to convince my mom that it’s not my grandmother’s “fault”, so there’s no sense in getting upset with her, but to no avail. I guess it’s tough seeing your parent go through this.
I probably say, “dude, she has Alzheimer’s” to myself several times a day.
^This. Filters go away. My divorced mom’s long-held bitterness toward my dad came to be directed at all men. Mr. GT & BIL hardest hit.
Sad. It happens though.
Some get more paranoid. Some get blessedly simpler and happy like Downs Syndrome folks.
We owe them to take care of them as best we can.
Mr. GT was cool. Lots of experience dealing with addicts in withdrawal. Mom was easy in comparison.
It isn’t even “the filters” going away… the brain completely changes – so personality changes in what can be fundamental ways.
My grandfather changed from one of the most generous, community minded people you’ll ever encounter into a bitter and angry old man who was almost impossible to be around over a very short period.
A lot of it was that he couldn’t remember what was going on, so everything frustrated him. But there were also fundamental personality shifts. A lot stayed the same, but a lot changed. Enough difference that it seemed like a different person, but enough the same that it was painfully the same person.
Watching one of the smartest people I’ve ever met become an angry old man who left his breakfast on his shirt all day was really tough. But at least he was still in there, and on good days he could still have a nice visit.
My ex’s grandfather was completely gone from Alzheimer’s. Nobody in there at all. But his body was perfectly healthy. So he was a very large, very strong 80 something year old man who looked like he could chop a cord of wood this afternoon, but was just a blank slate. He’d sit there like a manikin most of the time, but when it came time to get changed or eat or take medicine, sometime’s he’d become terrified and violent. Poor guy had no idea where he was or what was happening. They had to sedate him a large chunk of the time, because he was so big that he could accidentally hurt the staff at the hospital he was at. That one was really hard because he was so healthy looking – you’d have said he looked to be about 60 and in great shape. Should have been out playing golf with the guys, not sitting in a hospital ward with a bunch of crazy folk.
I’ve mentioned these before but I can’t stop preaching because I haven’t seen these get much attention outside people I know.
Fidget blankets, even in early stages of dementia, are very soothing. They are lap sized quilts made of different textures and colors, festooned with ribbons, zippers, baubles—keeps the figity hands occupied.
You can dream up any theme and find it online or make your own. I got an Army themed one for Dad. He loves it.
Here’s a random sampling:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/576220033/dementia-alzheimers-fidget-blanket-mens?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_b-accessories-other&utm_custom1=0574d9ab-028a-4551-8cf4-65e72f4be3fd&utm_content=go_304498955_22746095795_78727326635_pla-62390521681_m__576220033&gclid=CjwKCAiA_MPuBRB5EiwAHTTvMcoYFdcIHFbo7YSAwzojflM85Cj6fcmJj1joyxMLFpgUl_L9aJoiSBoCylkQAvD_BwE
Like a baby’s quiet book. https://youtu.be/Zc0AyT7aLbA
Back from deer hunting.
Sightings: 3
Shots: 1
Hits: 0
I leave them to you, STEVE SMITH.
Best sighting was driving home: a doe running across an open field 25 yards from the road. Dammit.
“Nothing has bagged more deer than the Ford Windstar.”
~ Squadronmate’s sarcastic quip, after guy was recounting unsuccessful hunting trip and then finding out his wife hit a doe with the minivan while he was away hunting
LOL!
Reminds me of this bit from Ron White.
“If you ever miss one it’s because the bullet’s moving to fast. Slow that bullet down to 55 mph, put some headlights and a horn on it, the deer will actually jump in front of the bullet.”
The next city over from mine. If they’re tearing up your yard/garden (as they have mine), you can apply for a nuisance permit to kill them. But then it needs to be approved by your neighbors (with a minimum of 5 contiguous acres, in an area with quarter acre lots). And you have to have an archery permit.
Yes, please come to our house. It’s rare to open the front door and not find a big buck, a doe and a couple little ones grazing in our small ornamental front lawn, leaving holes and hoof marks.
Once this year’s rains in NorCal finally start they’ll probably find food elsewhere, but it would be nice to salvage our garden before then. They’re quite brazen, smirking and walking right past me while I am sitting on the porch, as if they own the place.
The only good part comes when a big buck turns his head and I reflexively say, “The Hartford”.
I’ve gotten skunked pheasant hunting with pheasants flying in front of the car on our way to the field.
After a couple of hours of walking behind my dog without a trace of a bird, I’ve unloaded because we’re 100 ft from the truck and he wheels, takes 5 steps and freezes and I’m like, oh you must be shitting me. phwap-phwap-phwap Dammit!
Been there, done that.
I will start using a cane when I’m 60 regardless of my health. So many injuries could be prevented if old people would just use a damn cane.
I had a grandma who fell multiple times with various injuries as a result.
Me: Grandma, please use a cane.
Her: Canes are for old people.
Me: Grandma, A, I’m calling you grandma. B, you’re 82. Just use a damn cane!
One of the last times I was with her, we went on a trip to Solvang, which is a town in California that was founded by Danish people. There are some cool buildings, museums, and such.
So we’re sitting a cafe, her and some of my relatives.
Her: Hey Derpy, wanna cookie?
Me: No thanks, trying to keep my weight down.
Her: Sandwich?
Me: Nah.
Her: Coffee?
Me: I’m good.
Her: [very softly] shot of bourbon?
She liked to say that candy is dandy, but sex won’t rot your teeth.
Candy is dandy but lick her is quicker.
The girlfriend’s grandmother is in her 90’s. And realized she was old a couple years back, after her first stroke (possibly at the grandfather, all the kids were adopted). The grandmother is now going on cruises and spending the girlfriend’s inheritance, which I’m on board with. She hates my nephews (who are pre-teen boys), because they’re loud and unruly, and my brother-in-law is a saint because he helped her to the car.
My grandfather fell often in his latter days before moving into a home despite using a cane. He would get pissed if you offered to help him move around or do things for him so he didn’t have to get up.
I read about a study finding that for a significant number (I don’t remember the percentage, but I remember it was pretty high) of elderly people, a broken bone is the cause of a fall not the result. The bone breaks due to weakening of the bone, causing the fall.
Hence the
importance of Glibfit
Ok Millennial,
60 is not old
60 is the new 50.
And 80 is the new dead.
Poor Fourscore.
82 isn’t old. My grand daughter in coming tonight so we can go deer hunting for a few days. Its not the calendar that makes you old but the clock does seem to make me sleepy.
***
old
/ōld/
adjective
adjective: old; comparative adjective: older; superlative adjective: oldest; suffix: -old
1.
having lived for a long time; no longer young.
***
I get the “age is just a number” philosophy, but it’s sort of like saying “weight is just a number”.
… yeah… get back to me when you can prevent aging.
“Weight is just a number” is someone whining that it is unfair that their poor life choices have made them less capable. It is a denial of responsibility.
“Age is just a number” is someone making the best of a completely inevitable aspect of life. It is a refusal to give in.
+1 Hugh Hefner
So much for Red Flag warnings, two days in a row, almost no wind, I have angered the Sky God in some way,
We had a couple of hours of pretty gusty stuff but it died down quickly.
We shall live to be taxed another day!!
I have it on good authority that Kansas girls are hot.
http://archive.li/iP8X8
Open post anarchy!
It seems so…
I’d have thought Kansas girls would be too flat for your taste.
https://archive.li/QJ66z/1aec1ef3b95530e5118f2ce450ce6662658f258d.jpg
nice!
Silos.
10. I don’t even need to know what her face looks like.
My wife went to KU. I better thoroughly comb through these to make sure she’s not one of the pics.
Congrats to you if she is.
So, what you’re saying is, is I need to find an excuse to visit Kansas?
Have you eaten KC BBQ? It really is the best, and I love the fuck out of TX BBQ.
Yes.
There is a BBQ place near me that makes a bunch of different styles of BBQ. A friend of mine that grew up near Kansas City has had their burnt ends and said good things about them.
When I was assigned to the KC area I was in heaven at the quality of the BBQ. Burnt ends, mmmm good.
INC BBQ has better pork, but KC beef BBQ is great.
NC not Inc,…..
Missouri girls are sluttier…just hope you’re not turned off by neck tattoos.
Yikes!
Trusting your folks will enjoy their new digs Swiss. My folks built a house next to me so I will be close when whatever happens. It wasn’t my idea, I left home at 18 for a reason but what do you do. Enjoy Geek Con.
OBen Bost you say?
Poo poo pee pee!!!
I use a cane when I injure my back, it helps out with the pain, and since it’s a Groovy cane, I enjoy walking with it, all pimptastic and shit
https://archive.li/VEG5G/c96867462596db9800728264017e8aeb4ab9dc23.jpg
That’s my Great great Granddad!
That’s some high quality concern trolling/projection you got there.
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/470687-conservatives-seek-to-stifle-new-alt-right-movement-seeped-in-anti-semitism
This is confusing, Fuentes is a White Racist? is this a parody of Clayton Bigsby? maybe Robert O’Rourke?
Dude sounds like a lefty to me. ??♂️
So wait…Ben Shapiro, who is Jewish and also an anti-semite from the alt-right depending on who’s writing the article, is being hassled by someone who is part of the alt-right (or the alt-alt-right) for being Jewish, and this new person, who is Hispanic, is a white supremacist, but maybe isn’t because it’s one elaborate troll job?
Do try and keep up.
Is this related to that thing where there are girls on Instagram who wear sweatshirts and say “oops” and “skeet” or something?
I think ^this^ is the salient point. It’s self-promotion.
Shapiro did not call out Fuentes by name, as he and others are worried that fighting back will elevate the fringe group and give them more attention than they deserve.
Don’t worry, Ben. The media will elevate Fuentes to the face of the Republican party. Not saying the guy is a plant, but if he were, Fuentes would be the vapid POS he is.
He’s kind of straight out of central casting, isn’t he?
I listened to Dave Smith’s interview with him and even after listening to him for an hour, not a single thing he said had any substance. He’s just a “Muh cultchur needs to be enshrined in law!” He really is the epitome/caricature of right wing authoritarianism.
They seek to what?
I’m sorry for what you’re going through, Swissy. This week I heard of an older woman who voluntarily moved herself into an assisted living facility. She calls it the hotel.
Mom is NOT on board. But she is still in rehab for all the broken bones from Fall #1.
Like a few people above, I could shout ‘NERDS’, but that would be a denial of the fact I played Federation and Empire with a few friends years ago. Also, I know the basic rules to D&D, which gives the ghost on that.
There was a time not long ago that I could’ve DM’d a D&D game without actually cracking open a book. 2nd Edition, though, they lost me with 3rd.
I’m a bit irked, I saw that the Pathfinder people released a sci-fi game called Starfinder. There was a bunch of pre-reg stuff open for PAX unplugged. I couldn’t find a single gods damned general description of the world through some Google searches. Instead I could buy they’re introduction package, or the player’s guide ($10-$15 for PDF’s). I may try for some walk on play while I’m there, but come on, make the basics easy to find.
2nd edition AD&D was great.
I used to be able to run D&D without opening the books.
Oh my god, I remember to this very day when I got my red box D&D from the hobby store next to Montgomery Ward. There was a white crayon in it for some reason, I think because one of the dice didn’t have numbers on it or something. That sticks out in my mind for some reason.
Correct. The dice were so cheap, they were stamped without color in the numbers.
Yup. I still have every die I’ve ever gotten. The d20 from the Basic set is nearly spherical now.
Green, that you had to fill in with crayons?
Hell, I’ve got some of the orange six siders that could roll for hours at this point.
My d20 was red. (and the d6 and d8). My d4, d10 and d12 from that set were green.
WTF is wrong with me that I can tell you which dice came with which set?
I don’t use them anymore. Now that I’m grown-ass man, I use https://www.amazon.com/Wiz-Dice-Masterwork-Polyhedrals-Laser-Etched/dp/B014I3ATVE?ref_=ast_sto_dp
Mine were all blue.
My first several sets (Red, Blue, Green, and Black sets) all came with dice sets. Green d20, 2 orange d6s, blue d12, and 2 blue d10s. I’ve acquired a… couple… more dice since then.
/shoves dice bag under a desk.
You didn’t have the gold (Immortals) set?
Psssht. Poseur.
NA:
I had it as well, but it didn’t come with dice.
Poser!
I have Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, and Immortals set.
I actually have two of the Basic set – an earlier edition from my older brother and the one I bought.
The Expert set is the older edition from my older brother. I never bought the newer edition. Some of older edition’s tables, thieves’ abilities were one, didn’t line up right with the newer edition books so I had to massage them for when I ran games.
I don’t have the box for the Companion set anymore.
I also have the Rules Cyclopedia.
So here seems an appropriate place that mention that one of my habits when I was younger was buying RPG books to read just for the settings/rules, even though I would never play them. Favorite game world ever is Earthdawn, with Villains and Vigilantes a close second. The Morrow Project and Twilight 2000 were also favorites of mine.
I still have shelves of books of rules and settings that I’ve never used.
I remember seeing Earthdawn but never read any of the books.
I don’t remember seeing Villians and Vigilantes.
I have a variety of RPG games, some of which I intended to use but never did.
Space 1889, Rifts, Ars Magica, Traveller are all ones I bought because they interested me but I never used.
I had some plans to run a Space 1889 game using Call of Cthulhu rules, but that never took off.
I have a lot of MERP supplements, and I ended buying a bunch of Rolemaster supplements just to figure out what it was ICE put in those MERP supplements. Sure, you don’t need Rolemaster for MERP. Uh-huh. MERP/Rolemaster saw some use.
Battletech, Mechwarrior, Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu, D&D, AD&D all saw use.
And much as I’d like to continue chatting about this stuff, I really to sign off for the night. ‘Night all!
Earthdawn intrigued me because it was a post-apocalyptic world set in a fantasy time. With a slaving society as the one telling people about how the world was going to end. The predominant race was Dwarves, and all player characters had several magical abilities. The rolling system was one where anytime you rolled the highest number on a die you could re-roll it and add it to the roll (re-rolling it again if you hit a max). This meant that a 6″ Windling (flying short characters) could kill a dragon if they rolled well enough.
They had an entire book about artifacts that were all cursed, and as you used them to become more powerful, you tied yourself to their story.
I really liked the system
I’ve actually played Villains & Vigilantes. I have little memory of it but I hung out with other dorks in the 80s so there it is.
V&V was unique in that the character was based on the player. So you had to have the GM judge what you could lift, your intellect, your charisma and the like. Then you randomly rolled powers (at least based on the rule book).
Ars Magica is one of the great disappointments in my life. It should be a great game, but every edition that gets released it fucked up in some way. I can only guess that the first guy to run it had platonically ideal players.
Perdo regnem.
I remember Montgomery Ward.
My first D&D Basic boxed I bought from Waldenbooks if I remember correctly. Later my older brother gave me his D&D and AD&D books, which included the D&D Basic and Expert set with the Erol Otis covers. I no longer have the box for the Basic set that I purchased, but I still have all those books.
Yes, the crayon was to fill in the numbers on the dice. I had that dice set for many, many years. I don’t know what happened with that set.
Nerds!
The cool kids played Champions. Didn’t need all those fancy dice just a handful of good old, normal, American 6-siders.
After hanging around like a groupie yesterday, I had the perfect opening to offer some after-hours socialization: the woman (a lesbian conservative NRA member) that was providing all the logistics for the livestream asked which hotel I was in, and when I told her, she said it has a nice bar. I said “why don’t you guys come over for a drink later, then?” To my shock they took me up on my offer. As cool as the chick was (she was a <emtrip), I was hoping crush would leave her behind. But it’s all good – the two of them met me in the hotel bar last night after dinner.
The conversation was wide-ranging, from showing pics of pets to thoughts about relationships. He will be in NYC the same weekend I’m at the TWA Hotel. He said he would work his contacts at British Airways to see if he can finagle a seat on my flight to London City next year to document my trip (that one is pretty pie-in-the-sky, IMO).
His ideas about relationships are pretty much the same as mine.
He kept touching my arm. I don’t know if that’s because he is a touchy person or if he was flirting as much as he could with another person there.
Anyway, yesterday was fucking the BOMB. Best day ever. I hope he and I can hook up in NY. It’s only 2 weeks away!
He was flirting. Go for it KK!
…and if a guy says it’s flirting, then it’s not just us chicks engaged in wishful thinking.
So glad it went so well, KK!
Also: Longest. Two. Weeks. Ever.
RIGHT???
Huzzah!
Yowza!
Well I don’t know about dude, but back in my single days touching a chick’s arm was sort of a combo of my trying to signal that I was into her and also see how she reacted, whether she was “ugh, get off me” or like “hey, if you like the arm that much wait’ll you see the rest, sailor”.
OK, so I set up a little experiment. I got there first, as I needed to eat and they were having dinner somewhere else. I sat in a booth rather than a table. He sat right next to me right away. I didn’t scooch down as much as I could have, I turned my body toward his when we were talking, and I got as close as possible without invading his space when he was showing me pics of his cat and the model Lancaster bomber he’s building from scratch.
You think I signalled him enough?
Yes. Good girl!
BTW Tulip, the sketch challenge should be up Friday.
Just personal experience, but if he’s tall he probably could miss the hints. For some reason, tall guys seem to be awful at picking up women’s clues. I’ve got a rant almost ready on the topic and someday I’ll let er rip.
He’s average…maybe 5’9″
Average where you are. 😉
Average for a limey bastard
I’m kinda tall and you’re right. I missed all the clues. Oh, maybe there wasn’t any given. Never mind.
And I stole your joke. Sorry.
I’m not tall, just average. And I never miss any clues – as long as those clues aren’t too hard to read. Buying me Tequila until I can barely walk – that’s a clue I didn’t miss. Waiting until I finish my drink and asking if we can go now – I didn’t miss that one.
Short of waving a flaming torch or a flash-bang I would probably miss it.
You would think I must be 6′ 5″; I am not. I am pretty damn clueless.
There is another possibility: there never were any clues.
So, first, sitting next to you in the booth is pretty much a lock. That’s him trying to pull snuggle-bunnies with you, for sure. Also, a grown-ass man showing you pictures of his pet cat and model airplane is basically one step away from making you the sole beneficiary of his estate. I’d say you’re in.
Did you grab his cod?
If not, then you did not signal him enough.
Truth. I didn’t gain the ability to read signals until after I was already married. I mean, there was one chick who straight up told me that if she was my girlfriend she’d listen to me talk about video games because she thought it would be really interesting. She said that with a straight face. I was pretty sure she was into me, because that’s a bold lie otherwise.
The first time Mr. GT & I got together for real – after passing like ships in the night on New Year’s Eve, then multiple extended phone calls – we were sitting & talking while his band was on a break. He noticed a small, minor burn on my hand and used that as his cheap, tawdry excuse to touch my hand. After the gig, I followed him home and he kept me. That was 24 years ago.
Cheap, tawdry excuses are the BEST excuses.
So you’re saying you’re cheap and tawdry?
I like to think of myself as reasonable and accommodating.
Dawwwwww!!!
When I say this guy’s idea of relationships matches mine, it means his prefered state is single, because relationships suck time from favorite hobbies and activities. So, I have no idea how two people who think like that are supposed to get together, but maybe we’ll figure something out.
When the favorite hobbies and activities start becoming doing couple stuff or just hanging out or doing individual stuff together?
Yeah, he was referring to his hobbies being superseded by couple stuff. Like, giving up a round of golf to go to a farmer’s market type shit.
It sneaks up on ya!
“Tuesday morning
Please be gone – I’m tired of you.
What have you got to lose?”
Here is a sacred song of good luck for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p21ZN1MTIIw
OMG LOL
Yes he wants to bang you.
Whether he has any additional aspirations for a relationship with you is unknown, but dudes don’t touch women they don’t want to touch IYKWIMAIKTYD.
^Joe Biden
How absolutely DARE you sir!
OK, point of order – that kind of deflation of interest in a man is called a boner-killer; what is the appropriately crude term for a woman’s interest being similarly shut down?
Vagina drier?
I’ll allow it.
Also, you’re not wrong.
A small part of me was hoping I would meet him and say “meh”, but the opposite happened. Fuckin hell.
Take the shots life offers you. You’ll miss some of them but I find I regret the ones I didn’t take, and my memories of the ones that I took and missed aren’t nearly as unpleasant.
He’s totally into you. Good luck!
Yay!
I’m sorry I failed to text you – it was a last-minute call and I ended up having to stay overnight because I couldn’t get a late flight home. 🙁
Don’t worry about it. I’m glad you got to go and meet him. Squee!
This is good news.
Clip of him talking about me on today’s show after I had left
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AkpKpawI-TW6O1RQSdPpTHPXZNBebGkM/view?usp=sharing
Fucking hell wrong clip
This is the real clip
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AOS-cgyOhSQP3VvbieQxoPL51IvuXZsm/view?usp=sharing
“swinging” by?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I was only there for a quick up and back, as if I were dropping in at someone’s house, is what I guess. I don’t believe in Freudian crap LOL)
Freud had much less predictive power than astrology.
So you are saying freudian predictions have an inverse correlation with reality? Hmm, a predictive technique that is less accurate than absolute randomness would seem to have potential as the basis for an accurate predictor. Interesting.
The subject’s understanding of a symbolic system is positively correlated with its predictive ability. After I learned about Freud’s schema, I had absolutely perfect dreams under that interpretation reflecting my actual life.
Oh, that Brit accent!!! ::swoons::
Bah. Cockney is so very non-U.
Can’t help it. First love.***SIGH!!!***
He’s magnetic, I tell yas! The accent is a nice plus!
Ooh, you’re famous!
Something about an attractive man saying your name…
BTW, he and this chick had the most hilarious chemistry. I want you to picture a butch lesbian with a HEAVY Boston accent. Like, Southie to the core.
She would yell at him “Ya stupid fuckin asshole, ya limey Brit bastahd!”
OMG I was dying
I’m kind of hoping the chick is perceptive enough to tell him on the ride back to his Air BnB, “Ya fuckin stupid cunt, she was all ovah ya!”
Hooray!
Sorry to be so fuckin chatty cathy with thtis, but another thing that sticks out in my memory:
He said “Well, you have my email address, don’t you?” Of course I don’t, jeezus.
So he hands me his card, asks me to email him my UK itinerary, then throws a sticker with his logo on it on the table and says “body of Christ”, so I put it on my tongue. LOL
E-mail him on Tuesday. And congrats.
Oh dude, I totes already emailed him. Reason being, he has downtime tonight as he cut his show slightly short and he’ll be busy when he gets back
Still. Congrats girl.
Is it bad to point and laugh at Lena Dunham? Because she kinda looks like the crazy cat lady from the Simpsons now:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4VQUFcnuSV/?utm_source=ig_embed
evolution of crazy cat lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q60wHn1-rgE
She’s the one who molested her infant sister, right?
Molest is such an ugly word….
But yes.
Yeah. She had a show on HBO about a bunch of thots living in NYC being kind of worthless that people who used to watch Sex and the City liked. She might have done some bad standup in a leather costume, but I could be mixing her up with some other talentless hack.
The leather wearing hack was Amy Schumer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eDxjxVl8S0
Not Margaret Cho?
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.DFrjSuyBlqz5AkM0HNvP1AHaEL%26pid%3DApi&f=1
Margaret Cho has worn leather, but she’s not a joke thief.
It’s shame she sort of burned out. She was a lot funnier than Chelsea Handler or Sarah Silverman.
Yeah, I’ve seen her act once or twice and she was pretty funny.
Damn, it was Sandro Oh in Hard Candy.
(Best, most upsetting movie I’ve ever watched).
I always mix up those two.
Only one of them was in Ghostbusters, I think.
You’re thinking of Melissa McCarthy.
People who liked Bridesmaids see her as the female Chris Farley.
They’re very much of a kind, although I think Cho does the bit marginally better.
Step 1: Get a hotter girlfriend.
Step 2: Profit!
https://www.askmen.com/sex/erection.html
Love is in the air tonight.
Apparently with the right lube and a cock ring we could all be in the air tonight.
I just scanned it but it looks like they left out stopping any blood pressure meds you might be taking. Sure you might stroke out but it just might be worth it.
Okay, first – KK, good luck, hope your romance works out. It’s always tricky trying to figure out where someone else ‘is’.
But next, I gotta say: my new bass is great. I’d never bought such a high-end instrument, and it’s awesome. Even with my lazy playing habits, and sloppy chops, I can follow along with quite a few songs from my youth. Probably gonna push me to play more, which isn’t bad.
In case you hadn’t heard about it, back when Obama was harassing Gibson (was it Gibson? The one who wasn’t donating to him) customs seized a shitton of high-end guitars ad they are now being used by the Anchorage public schools.
No I hadn’t heard. And that seems like the kid of shitty thing he’d do. No one needs a high end instrument until they’ve worked hard on it and proven themselves. I waited ~35 years. Damn, I despise that guy.
Same thing happened to Paul Reed Smith guitars. They had a couple hundred held up for several years.
Imma go buy a Les Paul tommorow. Assuming it’s not a fake and not beat to shit.
Hope it’s great. Also, buy a back brace -great guitars, but they also seem to be endorsed by the orthopedic surgeons of America. (jk)
But yeah, if it’s the guitar for you, you’ll know it. I can’t believe the tone on my bass, and I’m usually too clueless to pick up on things like that. If you can play that guitar and just hear clarity and brilliance, yeah man, pick it up.
What kind of bass didja get? (If you’ve mentioned before, I’ve forgotten.)
Fender Elite Precision 3-tone Sunburst.
Imma go play some more. (Squee!)
Noice P-bass! A song just for you!
60 Mins is doing a bit on red flag laws. So far they are totes needed.
So the Trump doctrine then:
“Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
Yep. Whats his face was totally dismayed that some CO Sheriffs refuse to enforce it.
Whats his face failed to mention that as a Trump doctrine. I wonder why?
We used to call people who did this “coward” or “slimebag”.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/1196196345532551170
I might get a copy myself, I just love works of political fiction.
Got Douglas Murray’s “The Madness of Crowds” for my birthday. Think I’ll read that instead.
Happy B’day Straff!
Text me so we can figure out the venue for Friday
Will do. Wife took the day off so that we could celebrate by doing stuff that one of wants to do. Guess which one.
Let me guess – “one of us” = “we” in penis-deficient logic
King for a day?
You’d give it all away?
Obligatory.
Damn it, Ted’S.
In fairness, I actually *like* that song.
I was just filling the gap.
Terrible, and therefore perfect.
Also filling in a gap
“Primary Colors” was at least marketed as fiction.
Or American Wife.
…is that a pamphlet?
Srsly, put some effort into it. If a limey welfare recipient can crank out doorstops for bux, you can too.
Pierre Delecto thought he was anonymous too.
It doesn’t take a lot to connect the dots.
That was a Jason Bourne alias on an un-circulated passport right?
I suppose Mitt Romney has fantasized about being Jason Bourne. I suspect he would have had more fun in France as a CIA agent than a Mormon missionary.
Fun fact: the CIA is crawling with Mormons. They usually speak foreign languages and have clean backgrounds.
Why do you think Utah went so heavily for Evan McMuffin?
relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWN7POyT1wk
“Sources familiar with Trump’s thinking say….”
The sources then drove their water-fueled cars across the border to hang out with their Canadian girlfriends and hunt snipes.
I’ve been getting youtube ads for Bernie Sanders
Ha!
Yeah, sure. I’m going to vote for the guy who got kicked off a hippy commune for being too lazy.
I’m seeing Tom Steyer adds all the time now on TV.
My favorite one has him railing against corporations and billionaires. Ah, Tom? Didn’t you become a billionaire from a corporation?
Most of his videos have ratings and comments disabled. Now why might that be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWRvTgd11iw
I have more respect for the crud behind my refrigerator.
I just saw an ad for Richard Jewel. I wonder if Clint Eastwood points out all the bad actors in that shit show of a public hanging were at the heart of RUSSIAN COLLUZION!!
Going to the range today was a blast. We shot a .22, a variety of 9mms, and a .45. We went back to my sister’s place after for “brunch” (this was around 3pm). Unfortunately, I’m a ridiculous lightweight, so two mimosas and a hot toddy later I was completely useless. We’re back home now, and I still need to bake for a work pot luck tomorrow. I might get a little work done on the 3D printer, but not as much as I hoped.
So I’m hearing that a [Long Island] tea party is in order…
Was it a real hot whiskey or just boozy coffee/tea?
I did not prepare the hot toddy, but I believe it was hot water, brandy, lime, honey, and cloves.
Wunderbar!
Sweet, what’d you think? This was your first time shooting, right?
Yes, first time shooting. It was a lot of fun. After starting with the .22, the 9mm was a bit of a jolt, but once I got used to it I really enjoyed it. They had a lot of Halloween-themed targets, like ghosts and zombies and Frankenstein. My accuracy was not great, but better than I had expected, and that’s what practice is for.
Congrats! I started on a 9mm about a year ago and I got hooked immediately. I love the ritual of safety procedures and the meditative state that comes from aiming & shooting. I liken it to Japanese tea ceremony, only with killing machines.
^Truth. I don ‘t know how to format to accurately convey how much truth that is.
Thanks! I think I started to get into that zone towards the end. I’m definitely looking forward to going back.
After my first match this really good shooter asked me “so, where were your feet on the third target?” And I realized that my last memory was of the sight picture almost being complete. And at that point I had no memories until the “If finished, unload and shoe clear” command.
Were you shooting mainly pistols? The common thing is to start people off on a .22 rifle like a Ruger 10/22. 22 is a nice light round to start with and a rifle can be easier for new shooters to manage. Maybe counter-intuitively, I found I was more accurate with pistols than rifles, maybe because the shorter range is more forgiving.
Mostly pistols, one revolver. My BILs showed us some rifles during the pre-range lesson, but we didn’t take them with us.
Any of the games that involve shooting a pistol accurately and fast are transcendent The ones that involve other firearms I’m just dipping my toes into, but they have promise. I’ll know more next week.
I am on a drug, it’s called Charlie Sheen, It’s not available because if you try it you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.
So now you have tiger blood?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg
The run I was on makes Jagger and Richards look like droopy eyed armless children. That’s how I party.
https://imgur.com/a/whqTAet
Winning!
It’s a drug that causes you to tell everyone how wild and crazy you are?
That’s called Czech Brothers.
*Festrunk Brothers
Sigh, fucked up the reference. I hate myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUCywwNza3M
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBebtcx-Y0
Damn, dude. Didn’t you just start smoking weed again a few weeks ago? Pump the breaks a bit. 😉
I have to be up at 5:30. I’m flat sober.
Heh, amateur. ;p
No contest. I did enjoy a nice cigar earlier.
Hot damn “reverse sear” is still the bomb. And somehow I managed it without setting the smoke detector off this time.
What were you cooking?
Filet mignon – only because it’s like half the price it was last year (or maybe it was a couple years ago?). Anyway I saw it at the store this morning and said what the hell.
Yeah. I really should have sprung for the “vent to outside” option on my cooktop. The fucker told me it wasn’t necessary (and since it involved him foregoing some money from me, I believed him).
^This, a real hood is an amazing addition.
Some day…
I sear my tenderloin outside on a portable stove and finish it in the oven. Reverse searing yields the same results.
Listening to some Foreigner and it feels like the first time, even though I’ve heard it a hundred times.
I saw them at the Budokan 40 years ago. I have had Long, Long Way from Home in heavy rotation on my music selections for quite a while.
It’s not Foreigner, but close enough
https://www.kcur.org/post/41-kansas-city-residents-failing-show-municipal-court-leaders-seek-build-trust#stream/0
The city is concerned that 41% of people don’t bother showing up for the death by a thousand cuts that is municipal court. Why, they ask?
“Is it a lack of access or is it a lack of trust or is it fear of what could happen in that court system?” Pfannenstiel said.
No, yes, yes.
What’s kinda surprising, but shouldn’t be, is that the municipal court handles 200k to 250k cases a year. In a city of about half a million people. Granted, that case load includes people outside the city proper being charged with something in the city and there’s plenty of repeat offenders, but that’s quite the case load for a middling sized city. Or it should be. Makes you wonder why they bother to have that many laws on the books to violate if they can’t enforce a good deal even after people don’t show for court.
‘Municipal Court handles more than 200,000 cases and generates about $15 million each year, “which does sound like a lot,” Pfannenstiel said, “however our operating budget is over $19 million.”‘
Ah, there it is. Outreach to confused or scared residents has fuck all to do with it, they just want their cut, dammit.
How many cases are for missed appearances?
Not sure how that works. In most instances if you miss a court date for something minor they just issue a bench warrant and pick you up whenever you get stopped next. Could be a few days, could be a few years. I have no idea if they classify that as a new case or not.
Oh, how I laughed:
Putin is not amused by ‘Saudi remix’ of Russian anthem. Well, they tried…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpc1TnZVnDo
LOL!!
Hunchback kings are a sign the line has run its course.
Heh I noticed that. Or he’s just really old.
What’s up with those dull-ass bayonets? They don’t even have points.
Are you saying that bayonets are pointless in the modern era?
‘Who needs a knife in a nuke fight? All you gotta do is push a button.”
“The enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B203twyaMfM
LOL… I noticed only because I was in the 7th ID (Light) The Bayonet Division and every single ceremony or formation above Battery level was done with fixed bayonets. It was always a treat to keep an eye out for those poor schlubs who locked their knees and passed out while holding their extremely sharp knife on a heavy stick.
That’s the dangly crap on the helmet is for, right? To entangle the bayonet and keep it from causing too much damage?
I was too, under the later active duty HQ for NG separate brigades iteration of 7ID. None of the bayonet stuff, other than the hourglass patch on k-pots.
Ugh… those mop-tops. My unit was airmobile so we had to remove the mop-tops before approaching the helicopter. Many of us kept 2nd helmet setups for helicopter days. My main was waist length and more of a ghillie hat. I was under constant threat of having it trimmed by Top, but got away with putting it up into a fabulous bun for quite a spell.
Somebody help me. What did actually happen? I can’t tell spoof from reality anymore.
No idea. I WANT TO BELIEVE!
http://cdn1.teennudegirls.com/9e/d/9ed1007e1.jpg
NSFW.
Looks like Debbie Gibson.
http://blackbirddance.com/images/e0ed2a49e1eb44cc17ccab7733a81531.jpg
NSFW.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/611ng3-uVFL._SX466_.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/JOsRN/6f5e174bd027253a3499631ec4c0992a6802f236.jpg
NSFW.
teennudegirls
Like I want to get on a list.
You post here, so…
*Another* list. FIFY.
*ding ding ding*
CORRECT!
Pffft. They’re from the Jeffrey Epstein collection. There’s nothing to worry about.
Dammit. It sucked me in.
https://youtu.be/FMvppuS_ehg
Protesters are getting Medieval on that ass:
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-china-50452277
Probably already shared but it’s news to me!
It sure will be a shame when the PLA comes in force and massacres them.
It’s a little heartening, even if the result is inevitable, that the current show of force by the PLA is HK based troops in skivvies armed with brooms and cleaning up.
You know, In principle I’m not a fan of international pressure being the determining factor with a nation’s internal conflicts, but I hope to god that matters enough to the ChiComs to stave that off. Of course, not doing that might inspire an internal uprising if there’s enough muted support for such a thing. Or at least make the people brazen enough to start questioning a few things at home. I don’t know, the whole thing’s a mess. I’m obviously rooting for Hong Kong’s autonomy but I’m not optimistic about things ended well for them as well.
Very likely to be false flag. Armed infiltrators have been noted weeks ago. Most probably contractors arranged by the PRC/PLA.
Expect more to come. This will be getting hot.
You think? Not saying you’re wrong but I could easily see some people embroiled in this shit for months finally losing their cool.
There are a number of signs indicating training/, leadership from outside forces (think “other countries in the region”) which would be doing their best to keep a lid on the craziness. The only side which would want an escalation now – before the PLA has introduced lethal force – would be the PRC.
I haven’t given the situation an in depth look but that wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest, nor would it if this was an organic show of frustration. The cynic in me makes me think you’re probably right.
The only reason this isn’t over is the optics are way different than 1989.
Yeah, I was typing out something touching on that when you posted.
“Petrol bomb” isn’t as cool as “Molotov cocktail.”
The rocks being hurled via makeshift catapults are what balances that out.
OT: Got a passive-aggressive lecture from our manager last week grilling people for calling off work too much. Results? Two people (who sit next to me) came in sick as hell and eventually had to leave early or miss work. Now I come down with bronchitis. My whole damn body feels like I just ran 20 miles, and my skin is on fire although I’m freezing, if that makes any sense.
For a while HR played that game to the point of ridiculousness. Like emailing your sick days before you even came back. I joked with a buddy that I should send a picture of a waste basket with puke at the bottom next time.
I like the “no questions asked” approach. Puts an end to playing sick on the phone. Or so I’ve heard.
We have “unlimited time off” – partly a move so the company can stop keeping a couple million of accrued time-off on the book.
It’s “unlimited” in the sense that your manager has to be cool with it and you need VP approval if you want to take more than 4-weeks off in a row or 6 weeks off in total.
In practice, everyone has too much work to do and can’t take 6 weeks off every year – I think I did it once.
Mostly it comes in handy for taking a day or two off on either-side of the “normal” vacations – e.g., Christmas always becomes a week off, head off for Thanksgiving on Tuesday, etc.
I’ve never taken all my vacation days. Even when management started “encouraging” it.
We accrue a certain number of hours of Vacation per pay period based on seniority and (for hourly employees) how many hours’ worth of pay you got that pay period. My boss, the CFO, finally talked the CEO out of persisting with the year-end limited carry-over crap (slightly better than use-it-or-lose-it, but still a PITA.) Now we can accrue up to an available balance of 240 hours. (That would be a years’ worth for those with the highest seniority.) If your balance hits 240, you just stop accruing until you use some vacation to lower the balance.
We got like 5 days of carry over recently – until then I’ve only known use-it-or-lose-it.
Wait until the boss finds out that 40% of sick days are on Monday and Friday.
https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-04-17
I remember years ago some garbage like “you can’t take a sick day around a weekend or holiday or vacation”. Assholes.
Oh, you can’t be sick at those times when you’re exposed to travel and hand shakes and hugs from other travelers? Ya know, how people get sick??
Idiots.
I had an asshole battalion chief that would call you at home if you called in sick, just to make sure you were home and sick. On the flip side, it pissed me off when guys came to work sick to save their sick leave. When you’re in the same building for 24-48 hours, chances are, you’re going to infect someone. On top of that, your abilities are compromised and other people have to pick up your slack on calls.
Yea. The company needs to strike a balance between reducing absenteeism and hounding everyone to come in whether they’re spreading germs or not.
I know if I’m as lethargic tomorrow as I am now, I’m not gonna be worth a shit at my job anyway.
Figure 1: Adam Schiff, completely sane man
https://i.imgflip.com/2do02b.jpg
[Muttley laugh]
This man has the (mis?)fortune of looking like Schiff.
This whole clip is totally worth it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rOvXtVNpU2k
Spot the Not: Adam Schiff
1. Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.
2. America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
3. Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.
4. An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
5. Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.
6. Everybody must help improve the world. That includes us in America.
Eeny meeny…. #1
#4. Nobody is that pompous.
#3. I don’t believe he believes that at all.
Number 5.
Also, that man should get Red Flagged ASAP
6 is the not. Inspirobot helped me write that.
No winners, choose the form of the Destructor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYgCo1vj00Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9_DOrSsdlA
Mmmm chikin
Are the Village People still alive? Chik-fil-A should hire them to do a commercial.
So many heads would explode.
I dunno – maybe it’s like Menudo with a constantly refreshed cast?
Oh gawd!
Menudo. The first boy band of my era.
I have always hated boy bands.
If you’re not a musician, but a ticket like everyone else
I think you’ll like this boy band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oliCVn7Ic68
Dudette, what? The Jackson 5 and the Osmonds don’t count?
-1 Monkees
Huh, they found 15 kilos of coke off of Flagler County beaches. Goes well with the 80’s music upthread.
It’s been a while since I’ve watched some truly painful derp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJWGBC9u8mg
warning: contains moron with man-bun
Hmmm…I, too am trying to move my mother into a long-care facility. Like, this coming weekend, if I can get everything taken care of by then.
To that end, let me say:
* Swiss Man–my empathy for you, and all others dealing with this.
* Because I’m running around like the proverbial headless chicken, I won’t be working on a late-nite glib post for the 23rd. Depending on how things go (if/when move happens, dealing with her financial and property issues, etc), I may be on hiatus for a while. I will most definitely lurk, and, at least, commit drive-by postings.
And yes; apart for any assistance that my wife (who appears to be catching a cold) can provide, I am doing this solo (no siblings, and one aunt who is burned out after 3 years of putting out these mom “fires”).
Oh, and props to the Lady of the Launch (Hayekspolsives), for the fidget blanket shout-out. Sounds like a possible future purchase.
You’re most welcome!
I hemmed and hawed a bit about getting one for Dad when he was still quite coherent. I feared he might think it insulting.
I bit the bullet and got him a custom Army themed one, complete with 2 embroidered bronze stars to commentate his real ones.
He loved it from the beginning. Insisted that my brother get a personalized tag made for it so he wouldn’t lose it.
Get the blanket.
I had to look that up. Sounds like an awesome thing for someone at that point.
10-4, M’Lady.
Hope all goes as smoothly as such things can. We’ll miss you, but understand completely.
Thank you kindly!
Same. Take care of yourself and the family! Will miss your weekend addition and presence, but will snark and post cheesy music in whatever is left out that evening.
https://youtu.be/3_TvpBwSZDM
Take care family Sir D and we will hold a place at the bar for you here.
Appreciate that, Sir!
/imagine a 48 year old JROTC Cadet SSG giving you a salute.
//on second thought, you may not want to picture that
Sorry, Gustave–I missed this. Thank you much, and, I do hope to be around, and get back to something resembling normal soon.
Time will tell.
Sorry SD. Let me know if you need advice on the legal end.
I will probably take you up on that. Had my brain on overdrive as I was trying to sleep, and I did have some questions, but can’t think of them (I did finally go to sleep).
I will reach out to you via email, when I get to a good spot, and can remember what the questions were, specifically.
Thank you for all your help, my man.
Damn!
https://youtu.be/L8HMPMYL19E
U2 operations on USS Ranger.
Man, that Bono has a helluva wingspan.
I will follow this with an admission that I couldn’t come up with an obvious riff on U2.
One man lands on a carrier deck
On #3 he arrest
One man he juices the throttle
Flies off with balls of steel
In 1955, President Eisenhower promised the Soviets there would be no more US military flyovers of the USSR.
He kept that promise by turning over the U2 program to the CIA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM
I did just get some interestingly good news when I came into work: all identifying males (c’mon, it’s a police dept. in Texas; we dont’ yet have any gender identity issues) can now sport facial hair beyond a mustache.
I was rockin’ a slight chin beard in the summer, and, while no one said anything, I did the
dumbright thing, asked if it was OK, as we’re kinda thin on written policies (don’t ask). Was told no, and had to lose it.Well, it looks like I’ll be experimenting with bearding once again, TYVM.
Oh dear. Let us non existent lady Glibs render judgment.
Also let us know in advance if it’s preparation for a visit of celibacy, as the intent will be reflected in the scoring.
A vow of celibacy, that should read.
Grumble grumble autocorrect grumble
Ah, well, in that case….
Yeah, I, ummm…. I don’t recall saying anything to it, but…well, maybe a bit of fuzz will do me some good.
Well, I didn’t take a vow…
Very few do, my friend.
Me without beards are…I don’t like them! So there!
Cops wanna be military SO BAD.
Many do, but I work with many who aren’t all that keen–lots of older officer.
The facial hair thing appears to be going over quite well with officers, including higher-ups.
What a great Formula 1 Brasil today. I always tape it and watch Sunday nite. I would have liked to see Albon get on the podium. The Brazilian Grand Prix is usually one of the best of the races. If any one of youse has never seen the doc Senna, I would highly recommend, even if you don’t follow racing at all. Ayrton Senna is worshipped as a god there.
Finally got my civ 5 to work, so I’ve been playing it for, looks at clock, 11hrs! Holy fuck balls!
Damn! I remember playing one of them back about 5 or so years ago. Quite the time sink, and a helluva lot of fun.
Yeah, it’s been years since I played it. Played with the kids today, and then I was hooked and when they left started a solo game, and I oop, there went time.
Yeah, that sounds right. If you happen to have a particularly rousing play-through, share it here, or, email me. I love hearing about how various play-throughs go.
The one I was just playing, I defeated 4 city-states and two cpu countries to fulfill my my manifest destiny and control my entire continent. When I saved I was in the process of conquering the other continent on the map, starting with those damn Mongorians!
Ugh…”The Horde”.
Not even classy enough to be “The Whored”
Just Asked Jeeves for the Bears final, HAHA!
Diggy—Good luck and don’t forget to take care of yourself too.
Seems lately, many of the Glibertariat are having some rough bumps through life lately.
Yeah…end of the year “fun” for 2019.
2020 will be terrific.
In hindsight.
2020. Well, we have:
1) the first BobCostas-free olympics in decades.
2)dem primary shitshow
3)!presidential election shitshow
4) leap year!
5) ???
I just realized that I left out “Hopefully”.
I was, umm, distracted.
The 64 & 68 Summer Olympics were moved to the fall because of the local climate. I blame modern A/c for this desire to hold them in the dead of summer. If you have to relocate the marathon because of expected weather, maybe you’re picking the wrong time of year or the wrong location. Fuck Gov. Iformedmyownpartyandthenfuckedthemover. Also fuck the IOC for the staggered Olympics.
Also, thank you much, and plenty of prayers and well-wishing for you and clan Mojeaux.
Olympic rant commencing
Has the International Olympic Committee arrived at a clear consensus regarding gender separated sports and how athletes view gender?
Caster Semenya’s case gets bandied about for sympathy. But she is one of those rare examples of true Intersex persons. She’s got XX chromosome but downstairs she’s got a little column A, s little column B. And she’s a bit heavy on testosterone.
But if we go by gender identification as meaning your mood today, how is that fair?
I also dont think being eligible For participating is the same as having a right.
In sports, if you’re good, the teams will pay you and pa Y off your debts
QFT
Trying new drinks. Amaretto high ball-? Sake ginger ale?
Kalua highball ?
Banana beer ?
Yeeeeeeah….not so much.
Back in the day, when I wanted a sissy drink, my go-to combos of choice were a shot of amaretto in a glass of Sprite or 7-Up OR a shot of Kahlua in a glass of milk. What all is in your highballs?
….and Happy Birthday! I won’t link the adorable little birthday song I did before, since it sounds as if you’ve been imbibing a tiny bit. You’re welcome.
Thank you. I’m a whiskey rocks guy, but when it’s all you can drink I feel obliged to expand my horizons. Big five-fucking-OH. Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtvmTu4zAMg
Ooh! A BIG milestone birthday! And all-you-can-drink! Expand those horizons, but at least semi-responsibly, of course! Got pickle juice around for tomorrow?
…and your musical link segued into this! A fave – thanks!
I also think of this song from the summer of ’86.
Noice! And mellow!
It’s an ’80s digital dance party!
Alright, I’ll dox myself. Evidently I look like an Auschwitz guard to my kid.
Oops.
https://imgur.com/a/Z9ax5ND
Awww, that’s not so bad! At a glance, the message looks like “Harpy Birthday,” which is what I should be hearing soon.
Have another
Thought it was funny that our gold fish got in the action. When is yours, GT? The 20th?
No…a little sooner than that.
Well damn! Close enough to right now. Crack one open and Kompai! Happy Birthday!
Thanks! : )
Morning, GT. I don’t use carbonated beverages much anymore. Maybe an occasional Gin and tonic.
Morning, TARDy! I honestly can’t remember the last time I had distilled spirits. Mr. GT has been sober for 41 years (since long before my time, and I haven’t yet driven him back to it) so we don’t keep it around. We only go to bars to hear friends’ bands, and he’ll have either an NA if they have a decent one (O’Doul’s is usually the best he can hope for) or Diet Coke. Most often, we go to a favorite local winery where we once played and several friends still do, so wine has become my usual go-to.
Make ya feel like a little girl all over again. *Giggles, spins bottle*
I don’t remember ever finding myself in a game of Spin the Bottle, but there WAS that one night in college – I think it was during the summer I spent living just off campus between junior & senior year – that we played strip poker…
That seems tame nowadays.
Pics or not real….
Sadly (or fortunately, depending on your POV) this was before the age of ubiquitous digital photography, so unless you wanted to entertain the film processing folks at the local drug store…
Ok, Boomer. J/K.
/Hobbles away… slowly.
***SIGH!!!*** Yeah, late Boomer, graduating early/mid ’80s after the Bulge Boomers had filled all the jobs and the US (seemingly) hadn’t yet recovered from the Carter recession.
As is typical for me, I’m late for all the good times.
/Late Boomer
I read that as ‘late bloomer’.
/distracted and tired.
‘late bloomer’.
That too. 5 foot even at 16.