For those of you that followed my series on coffee and coffee related products, you’ll note there is a sizable gap. I was undergoing a home remodel and had engaged an dishonest contractor. I spent most of my time attempting to get satisfaction and destroy said business. I am happy to report nearly all the work was completed and the company is out of business. Now, time for coffee
Today friends we will be exploring vacuum brewing. Fans of Breaking Bad may remember Libertarian Gale’s coffee brewing contraption, which he claimed made the best possible cup of coffee. Walt seemed to agree. That was an overly complex representation of what is a simple brewing method. A Vacuum brewer or siphon brewer is composed of two chambers connected with a tube, covered with a filter and sealed with a gasket. Course ground coffee is placed in the upper chamber and fresh water poured into the lower chamber. The contraption is place on a heat source (burner) and as the water temperature rises, pressure forces the water into the upper chamber where it saturates the coffee grounds. Give the coffee slurry a little stir and wait one minute before removing from heat. As the lower chamber cools, a vacuum is created which draws the brewed coffee back into the lower chamber. It is a mesmerizing process as you anxiously wait for the water to boil and exhilarating to watch the coffee magically pulled back into the lower chamber. To serve, remove the top chamber and place it in its holder. The lower chamber is now just a regular pot of coffee. Put on your ‘Flo’ name tag and top off everyone’s mug. The unit I bought is made by Yama for $62, serves 8 cups and looks like meth making equipment. All but your most jaded friends will be impressed by this bad boy.
Personally I’m a function over form kind of guy and don’t give a darn how something looks if it does not work. So does it make good coffee? Absolutely. Vacuum brewing extracts coffee at a lower temperature than traditional brewing methods and is sort of like a hybrid between cold brew and drip coffee. So if you like the low acid, sweeter taste of cold brew coffee, but don’t like waiting a day or two for the process, a vacuum brewer may be the choice for you. Once you learn the process a vacuum brewer is idiot proof. Vacuum brewers don’t have many variables other than you can adjust grind and steep time, but that is it. Water temp is controlled by the atmosphere and I have no idea how this method works at different altitudes. The cup is very clean thanks to the cloth filter, which to my palate is between a metal mesh filter and paper filter for preserving origin flavor. If you like to make quick coffee with little clean up, this is definitely not the method for you, because it make a big mess every time I use the Yama. It is also the slowest brew method with the exception of cold brewing. A hack I have learned is to pre-heat the water in a kettle and then place the brewer on the stove. Another strike against the Yama is that it is big. I have to store it in a separate cabinet away from all my other brew methods because it is so tall. Despite these short falls the Yama is in regular rotation for when guest are present. It is the largest volume coffee maker I own and it never fails to grab people’s attention. The Yama is unique in aesthetics, taste and function and definitely the most impressive to behold while working.
Fresh Grounds and water
Place over medium heat
Once water reaches top chamber give a stir and wait one minute
After one minute remove from heat and wait for coffee to return to lower chamber
Serve ONLY in Glibs branded mug
Pros:
people will think you’re a mad scientist
you friends will be impressed
good coffee
Makes enough to serve multiple people or yourself multiple times
Cons:
expensive
fragile and bulky
slow to brew
clean up is difficult because of shape and number of parts.
Comments
377 responses to “This coffee sucks”
*Insert cooking meth joke*
*looks around for my ass slapping 1st gif*
*cough cough*
Kindly turn your head when you cough.
Please don’t cradle my ball’s.
Thats funny
And I thought it was just me….
Wait, how the fuck did you do that? That post was not here several post ago. You in some sort of drug cartel shit with the author? Ya’ll dealing dope, aren’t you?
Neener neener.
I know you are, but what am I? Doper!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oCXIqH3yg8M/ThMKPaCUVDI/AAAAAAAAA1A/lN7jKtVmjjU/s320/neenerneener128649266922546608.jpg
You’re on the pot! I bet you took two them pots before your shit posting! Dope fiend!
*Narrator*
“Projection is a real thing”
You got your gif!
?
Hello.
You see, I wouldn’t have known about this thread and been able to fold time, except a non-existent female glib spilled the beans, blabbed about it all over, broadcast it to the universe, and other bad stuff.
Ni hao.
And we’re off on the debates.
Missed the question, but apparently it was, ‘Is orange man bad?”
I don’t even doubt that was a real question. But it would be the most serious question they’ve been asked to this point.
NO
Biden is soooooo done. RIP
This is Warren’s nomination to lose, imo.
But Corn Pop is a bad dude!
Was.
“This is Warren’s nomination to lose, imo.”
And shortly after to lose in a landslide. I mean sure, she’s winning CA, NY, and MA. Besides that? Not much. Yeah, they hate Trump, just not that much.
I’ll wait for the morning recap. I ain’t gonna subject my mind to that kind of punishment.
I understand the reasons why a civil war is highly unlikely. But I cannot figure out how we can stay one country.
Been saying it for a long time. We’ll eventually split into at least 2 nations.
The Antichrist.
In the event of anarchy, I’ll be forming a Glib army. Bring bourbon and bacon. Firearms and ammo will be provided.
Seeing as the real division is city/suburb versus rural, I don’t see how that works in practice.
Nuts, that was for Hyp.
That’s ok. If you make it here, I’ll give you a high rank in my army.
Bring bourbon and bacon.
Sir, yes, sir!
Colonel Rhywun.
✊
We’ll need SCUBA gear to find the ordnance, right?
Raising the temperature of the water increases the vapor pressure in the lower chamber forcing the water up the siphon. In order to do that the pressure in the lower chamber needs to be higher than atmospheric pressure, so the higher you go the lower the temperature needs to be to force the water up. I’m not sure exactly how much lower the temperature would be in Denver over sea level, probably around 9 degrees farenheit since that’s the difference between water’s boiling point at that elevation. No idea how that would affect the coffee produced.
What even in the hell is that thing? That’s no coffee! You’re making some sort of dope, aren’t you!?
My gasket isn’t sealed after I drink coffee.
Jeebus dude. Reminds me of me this morning. I’m down to one blood pressure med now, thank Jeebus, but it’s the one that really works for me. Unfortunately, it’s a very strong diuretic. I need to wake up earlier, because I have my cup of coffee, some breakfast and head for work. About the time I get to work, I really have to fucking pee! This morning I got stuck in a surprise meeting when I walked in the door and when it was over, I was like ‘Oh fuck, got to pee! Now, run!’ LOL.
Wasn’t talking about pee, but, yeah, it blows that gasket, too.
If it works for you… I like cold ‘brewed’.
New Smart Doorbell Will Argue With Jehovah’s Witnesses, LDS Missionaries For You
Now do DNC canvassers
I’ll keep my DNC canvassers, I enjoy trolling them.
‘Aw gee, I think for the first time ever, I’m going to have to vote Republican. Democrats just don’t seem to care about ending the wars anymore, or about balancing the budget’
Often fun to see how they react.
I remember one time when I was living in the glorious Midwest. God’s country, all of that. I was doing some landscaping, keep in mind, I lived on 25 acres and my nearest neighbor was at least one quarter mile away. My driveway off the county road was more than 600 feet and I was around back of the house. It was Saturday and as usual, very quiet, I don’t even remember hearing one car or a tractor going by that morning. Complete silence if you don’t count the occasional critter.
All of the sudden I heard footsteps right behind me, and I stood up and turned around, shovel I was holding, now held as a weapon ready to strike. This guy, A Jehovah Witness, how the fuck he was able to sneak up on me like that, I have no idea, says ‘I just stopped by today to tell you that God loves you’. And I said ‘God must want to get you killed, you just scared the fucking shit out of me’.
“The neighbors next door asked if I saw you to tell you that they would like to learn more about your church”
Keeps beehives check
Invites Glibs to invade the neighborhood check
Sics Jehovah’s Witnesses on neighbors check
Do you burn tires and have a barking dog?
I actually have burned tires, I had 2 piles of stumps, threw a tire on each one. Shit! I had 30 feet of fire and rolling black smoke, scared that I’d be spotted. Fortunately I’m isolated enough that I got away with that. Not again.
A neighbor has the barking dog so I don’t have to feed the SOB.
Also, BB was a good series.
You’re goddamn right.
I’m almost tempted to get Netflix to see Better Call Saul and the new movie.
Better Call Saul is on AMC.
Yes, you can always cancel after one month.
That seems to make the coffee-making process more involved than it needs to be. *sips cold-brew dark roast*
I want my first cup in the morning fast and hot. Unfortunately the women in my life have all been the opposite.
When it comes to romance, don’t be in a hurry.
At a certain age there isn’t time to be wasted
https://youtu.be/Ao9SIKC48vg
And… I’m out.
I’ve been on the Aeropress this year. Works great, thanks for the article!
Razorfist has a debate livestream. I’ll let him yell at the screen so I don’t have to.
I tried it. I don’t have the constitution for that level of derp.
The Bad Brains’ prime was before my time, but goddamn, I watch this and I am filled with overwhelming nostalgia for what it was to be young, thin, and in the middle of a show that had turned absolutely chaotic.
Um…
Dude, I already ordered that! STEVE SMITH APPROVE, RAPE HIKERS IN WOODS WITH GOOD HAIR!
OH, err, never mind, marketing, I was talking about DR STEVE SMITH RAPESQUATCH SOAP!
DR STEVE SMITH RAPESQUATCH POO!
Klobuchar looks like she’s pissed she can’t slap some interns or scream at her staff.
… Huh! Reminds me of a gravity bong.
…
I must have one.
Heh heh. Infused coffee.
Liz of the Fauxhicans is a buzzword factory.
Buzzwords and corruption go together like peanut butter and jelly.
Like this
She thinks companies move to Mexico “to save a nickel.” I’m not watch that anymore.
An Indian nickel?
*flips channel*
INCOME INEQUALITY!!!11!
*flips back*
Dude, get woke. Until we are all equally poor and miserable, I mean except for Liawatha and the other royalty, we aren’t equal!
Senator Granpa, how about you sell off 3 of your properties to close the income gap?
I recall when the goal was equality under the law, as it is the only equality even plausibly attainable.
Ladies,rejoice…Mike Rowe on Tucker
KK will be in her bunk.
Sleepy Joe wants to eliminate and double the capital gains tax. 0_o
(I mean, seriously, I can’t be the only one that can see it. Dude is senile and incoherent.)
But, he’s got Corn Pop, you ain’t got no Corn Pop, orangebadman ain’t got no Corn Pop. And Corn Pop is a bad dude. And… I mean, Hunter said he was sorry and he made a mistake. That should decide the election.
Golly, Social Security and new welfare benefits are so governmagic!
And here I thought making espresso the old fashioned way in a moka pot took time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot
I have a couple of those, but I never use them.
It’s going to be fun watching Donald wipe the floor with Fauxcahontas.
Sweet baby Jesus, he’s gonna curb stomp her.
Watching the USMNT flail about ineffectually against Canada is MUCH more entertaining than the debate.
And now losing. ?
Jeebus, 1-0 Canada? SAD!
2:0.
I’m not sure if the organization even cares enough to consider replacing Berhalter. The problem is obviously more than him but that is the standard response to his reign of shittiness, n’est-ce pas?
Je ne sais. It can’t hurt. They are flailing.
Have I mentioned how much Michael Bradley sucks?
Heh I knew it was bad news when I heard he was on the roster.
US…Mutant Ninja Turtles?
Dual loyalty comes handy. No need to worry about the losers from the USMNT. Instead I’m happy about my team that’s already qualified for the EURO 2020.
Spuds take so far: The country sucks, orange man bad, rich people are the villians, suck blue collar dick.
The wealth tax idea is like the property tax. I am pretty sure both are unconstitutional. But constitutional questions never seem to arise.
The Constitution no longer exists to these people.
The wealth tax is so fucking incredibly stupid it beggars belief they’re even taking it seriously. How long will it take to drain the entire wealth of the country? Five years? Ten?
Even with the income tax. I have tried to get leftists I know to acknowledge the following thought experiment: If you are going to tax me excessively beyond some arbitrary income cap, I am going to stop working after earning that amount because it is no longer worth it. If I am a business owner, it means closing up shop and furloughing my employees. Who exactly does that benefit? ///somethingsomethinghumannature
I’m not sure how I feel about this vape juice. On the upside it’s the first juice with coconut I’ve tried where you can actually taste the coconut. On the other hand, it has a very wet mouth feel. I think that’s due to the pineapple.
I think I’m the only open system vaping glib.
And I’m about out. I didn’t get my gif. ?
Do I blame the Russians, the Ukrainians, or the Chinese?
/sadpanda
You get butt slap gif when you deserve butt slap gif. You obviously didn’t live up to that standard.
WTF? In my house you get the butt slap for free, whether you like it or not, but we know you like it. I don’t get chicks. My wife likes to slap me on the butt and I never mind that, but if she’s not in the right mood, she pretends? to hate it?
She’s just making sure you know your place.
Yeah, I know my place. The people unit with the dick who pays all the bills and buys new shit. Am I missing something?
You’re getting it.
I think gifs (when they occur) only occur in links threads. Sorry, not an official first!
Cory Booker: “Hey, I’m available to be your running mate. Just sayin’.”
Orrin Hatch is a gem:
Retired Orrin G. Hatch
@RetiredOrrin
“Oh the Starbucks guy made the stage. That’s nice.”
https://twitter.com/RetiredOrrin/status/1184269760009330690?s=20
Oh, and his pinned tweet:
“I’ll give you my plastic straw when you pry it from my cold, never going to die hands.”
Hahahaha
This is also the guy who is going to punch the first libertarian he sees in the mouth. Yeah, sure, gramps, better have your security detail when you try that.
Hm must have missed that. Shame.
I can’t remember for sure, but I think it was Rand Paul he was going to punch in the mouth. Try that shit with me, gramps, respect for elders is off the table when you take a swing, otherwise, I’ll put myself on the line to protect you.
Rand Paul better be packing all the time from now on after an assassination attempt and a violent assault.
Hatch vs. Soave
Who would win?
Who would lose first is more apropos
Robby would thcratch his eyes out!
Aaanndd, a commercial from the Freedom From Religion Foundation by Ron Reagan. I’m about done here. I can only handle so much virtue signalling.
I remember him being on TV a lot in the 80s bashing his father.
I’m live-streaming right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA5uk7dSwJs
It’s mourning there?
for its lost innocence.
Biden is really concerned about the Kurds, everyone.
Yeah, sure he is, and his pea in the pod statist, Hillary, really cared about that poor child, she helped to make homeless and destitute in Syria. If all statists die an untimely death right now, sorry, I can’t spare a tear.
I’m sure he thinks they’re talking about cheese curds.
That would be Trudeau, eh?
“When we illegally went into Syria without authorization from Congress to overthrow Assad, I told Barrack- ‘in the future we’re going to have to come up with new excuses to justify our intervention over there’. And then, by the grace of God, our clients, ISIS started invading Iraq. I looked at Barrack and I told him- ‘muh..Kurds, that’s the ticket’.”
“Those Isis guys are bad dudes, man. I would take them out behind the woodshed. I like to.crrate connections with people, which is why I tied an onions to my belt, man. And then I’d….
Wait, Where am I? Who are you people?”
He had a girlfriend who liked them with whey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPfjIrYINiU
The Kurds are not “allies” you mendacious twat. FUUCCCCK why did I flip over.
I bet they are going to ask him ‘why are they allies?’. I mean, what’s your fav ice cream, uncle Joe? Can you still eat it without your drool bib?
This was Warren.
I thought all the questions took the form of “Given that [bad thing] is clearly caused by [traditional virtue], how will you stop orangemanbad from raping our children?”
“NATO is super important, but also make war on Turkey”
Pick one shitheads
Now Cooper is calling them allies.
I’m done.
This is complete fucking bullshit.
Mmmm, Tulsi…
Wait, didn’t Tulsi, or sugar tits, whatever, already drop out?
She’s there until the bitter happy ending.
“And she’s a Nazi”
– NYT ‘journalist’
‘Staying out of foreign entanglements is totally what Hitler would do’
I’ll like her to give me a happy ending, IYKWIMAITYD.
Booty-gag is a cunte.
Is Beto trying to out-Swallwell everyone yet?
What I like about coming here is I don’t even need to watch the debates to enjoy the lowlights. Thank you for those Glibs who endured it and shared the stupidity in properly filtered doses.
^metoo^
I’m enjoying a doc on the Bozeman trail and keeping up with the derp simultaneously.
It’s only half over. Stay tuned!
So we all realize we’re never leaving Afghanistan, right? If wokeheads are losing their shit about leaving our utterly disgraceful involvement in Syria there is no fucking way we’re ever leaving Afghanistan. Endless excuses
It’s a win win for progs. They don’t give a f*** about some ignorant goat herders or the shit- kicking deplorables’ kids who die fighting them.
I just want to remember this moment in time when Donald Trump was the last rational elected figure in this country. And there’s no way to pretend like opposing withdrawal from Syria is anything other than nonsense
It really is like they used 1984 as an instruction manual….
” We’ve always been at was with East Asia” is well within sight
For no good reason, that just reminded me of my favorite bad-attitude button from the early ’80s (before I became enlightened…or was I, in my own way?) It said “U.S. out of North America.”
Someone will die if we leave.
Close to twice as long now as the Soviets were there.
Nice coffee article, btw, Florida Man! I might get one just for the novelty and try it out.
“Fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here.” – Sleepy Joe
Where have I heard that before?
#MakeBOOSHGreatAgain
Russia has invaded? WOLVERINES! Oh wait it’s Beto…
Now he is playing buzzword-bingo.
Steyer is still around?
Anal warts don’t don’t go away on their own.
If we can set that vacuum brewing contraption up the night before and have it start brewing automatically at a predetermined time in the morning – say, right around the time I’m waking up – we’ve got a deal. It is my deeply-cherished belief that the timer on an automatic drip coffeemaker is the greatest invention known to mankind.
We get fancy-schmancy gourmet coffee beans from a buddy who buys them from all over and roasts them himself. We grind the beans right before we set up the next morning’s brew. My alarm clock and the timer on the coffee maker go off at the same time. Are we not getting the full advantage of our high-end beans using our Cuisinart dripper? Mebbe. But there’s hot coffee waiting for me when the snooze alarm finally rouses me out of bed. And I fuck up the stuff with creamer and sweetener anyway.
THIS^^^
OFFS. I’m not sure my liver can make it through this.
Mr. Tump?
Russians attacking our democracy? That’s quite a trick given that they would have to create one for us before they destroy it.
I command the tide to recede!
Have YOU ever been to the DMZ, Yang?
Thanks for the coffee piece, fellow Florida Man. I’ll experiment with that one of these and see how that goes.
Also mostly on topic, the RNC and Trump Campaign claim they’ve combined to raise over $125MM in the last 3 months. For some historical perspective, during the same time in 2011, Obama “only” hauled in $70MM. We know after this last election that $$ =/= wins, but holy shit, that’s a LOT of cake for the Repubs and Trump. The article I read claims:
It’s not a great proxy, but I conducted a little thought experiment this past weekend at an event I was at. It goes like this: How many Trump voters from 2016 do you think Trump has lost? My answer would be likely zero. I seriously doubt anyone who voted for him in 2016 has jumped ship. Next Question: how many more people who explicitly voted for someone other than Trump are likely to pull the lever for him? Everyone I polled who was a GayJay and even some who stayed home, said that what they had seen would make them pull the lever for Trump.
I think it’s going to be an absolute blowout.
Damn, the USMNT is a fucking joke. Also, for a Presidential candidate, Gabbard is a smoke show. Also, Klobuchar is a less charismatic Hillary. Hard to believe, but true.
The Pentagon DOES have a contingency plan for every country on the planet, including Canuckistan. . .
I want to read the Monaco plan.
Or ??
Shhhh!!! Don’t tell Pie!
Clearly what we need is to attempt to enforce a ‘No-fly zone’ in airspace that Russia is currently using. That definitely won’t end in disaster. Someone call in Herself as the voice of reason.
Beto just basically said we’ll have the cops kill gun owners.
Status Quo!
Backup paper ballots in every state is exactly how the elections are conducted in Russia. Paper ballots are not a panacea, but it’s definitely superior to the ways the votes are counted in many U.S. states.
Moms that demand action
*Unzips*
don’t need lessons from you on courage
Someone is sassy.
The History of the Second Amendment
That is pretty good. Funny, too. The peace pipe/”Forty dollars” scene was a treasure.
hmmm. I am conflicted. I strongly believe everyone should ignore Anderson Cooper at all times. At the same time I do not want to hear these people keep talking and he is trying to cut them off in his oh so inept way.
Democrats are not serious about winning an election. They’re just throwing out the most leftist shit they think they might get away with, one day, to test the waters.
Yup. So stupid.
Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin should be moderating their own debate.
Beto is on that mission, I think. Someone at the DNC has promised him a cabinet post or some other plum position, in return for his testing the waters.
Elizabeth Warren is actually Dana Carvey stuck in Church Lady mode.
Opinions?
Dana Carvey never did a red-face character
Progs are the modern day church ladies with more statist authoritarian, I’ve been saying this for years, and they keep proving me more right every day.
LOLOLOLOL I have personally hugged more Mothers of dead babies.
She’s also arrested more mothers than anyone else on the stage.
That’s what I’m talking about.
Young black men (mostly killed by other young black men) and dead cops. Horizontal Harris is certainly trying to walk a fine line.
expodentchally
“It moved expodentially!”
Good one, Joe. Take that gun from Corn-pop.
Tunes in, sees Buttibutt make Beto cry.
Beta cries for Buttplug, epic, winning!
Buttifruiy grew a pair tonight.
I’m sure he’ll apologize by tomorrow and show respect for the Chicoms.
Well, if you put all the Pharma companies out of business Medicare for all gets cheaper.
Capitalism run amok!
OMFG
OK, limited decrim but with gummint drug sites. Yeah, no.
Government so small, it’s going down your bathtub drain, we got the socialism fix all dialed in! Worked everywhere else!
And I’m out. These people are insane authoritarians that are not even pretending to consider the limits of their desired authority outlined in the document they will be sworn to uphold should they win the office of president. I have noticed this among the local Dems running for State office as well. They cannot be allowed to win. Straight red ticket it is for me in the upcoming State election and in 2020.
It’s like this. People ask me how I can think the GOP is so good. It’s simple, I’m not a fan, they’re just better by being not so awful.
Exactly. I don’t want any dog shit on my porch, but if I have to have it, I want the lesser amount. And yes, the GOP is the lesser amount for me. By a smidgeon, granted, but still.
I’m not watching no damfool Democrats make damfools out of themselves while talking to damfool tv talking heads. Tomorrow is soon enough to learn what damfool lies they are telling.
Dabgummit, tell’em straight, Earl!
Everything I need to know will be summed up here and by Remy. And I don’t even have to spike my blood pressure by watching those fucksticks regurgitate the worst policy ideas ever presented in this hemisphere.
“the worst policy ideas ever presented in this hemisphere”
That’s the new dem woke platform! Get woke!
Unless you’re talking about your brain hemispheres, pretty sure we seen these ideas before.
Hence “regurgitated”
Sorry. I’m only strafing today and not looking at the target.
Man, George Takei is looking much younger, did he get a facelift?
The daily facials are starting to have an effect
What you did there, it was noticed.
Yeah, I gagged a little, too.
Oh lord, I can read the Jacket’s Beto Most Libertarian Candidate Ever piece already.
Are they still saying that?
Also is Lizzie Warren proof of the Libertarian Moment?
Seriuos question, has that been written yet?
“Sure he wants to jail and/or kill gun owners but he’s super cool with those hip millennials who, I assure you, are totes libertarians”
He rides a skateboard! And by “rides”, I mean he slowly wobbles around in parking lots for the benefit of photographers.
“Senator Harris, are you in favor of sending [people] to jail?”
Like there’s a chance in hell she’s going to say “no”.
Jail executives for making pain relief medicine.
We’re taking down the Sackers!
Well, if all pleasures are evil, then it must follow, as the night the day, that lack of pain is likewise evil.
Polonius probably would have said that if he’d had the chance.
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7575261/Jeremy-Renners-ex-girlfriend-claims-admitted-doing-drugs-X-rated-Snapchat-account.html"Jeremy Renner's ex-girlfriends accuse him of taking cocaine and having threesomes while his six-year-old daughter was in the house – and bombarding them with 'd**k pics' from his secret Snapchat
Now, three other women have come forward – claiming in bombshell new court filings that Renner left baggies of drugs around the house, engaged in sex parties and set up a Snapchat account so he could send and receive X-rated photos.
Two ex-girlfriends submitted copies of text messages and wrote affidavits claiming Renner constantly sent them ‘d**k pics’ and nude photos on Snapchat and even dressed one of them in a gown embroidered with his six-year-old’s name.
Ex-girlfriend Carmen Orford said she saw him leave lines of cocaine on a bathroom counter within Ava’s reach and left her unsupervised for hours. </blockquote
Legend
Can Danny Masterson have his job back now?
I found the Scientologist!
Aren’t they all?
Was that wrong? Was he not supposed to do that?
Note to cancer patients: Be prepared for massive pain, for the rest of your life. Brought to you by the assholes of the Democratic Party.
“The Righteous Gemstones” is an excellent program, one even you evil Christians would like.
I tried Glibs, I really tried. I almost made it two hours, but I’m out. This debate was a rehash of the last debate and the one before that, with extra virtue signalling.
Enjoy the brain damage. I don’t know how you guys do it.
It’s been a curse since Nixon debated McGovern in 1972.
Except that debate didn’t happen. We can really blame Ford and Carter for making debates common.
Not sure when party primary debates became common though?
Then what the hell did I watch? It was the time that Nixon had really bad makeup.
Nixon/Kennedy, ’60.
No, this was early ’70s. I wasn’t born until ’63. Nixon’s makeup gave him a red complexion.
We didn’t have color TV yet then, so I wouldn’t have noticed.
That was Nixon-Kennedy. How old are you?
Wikipedia says 7-10,000 years
Must have been watching a repeat.
And Jarflax is a dick.
I thought that was Nixon/JFK.
Before my time, though.
People who listened to the debate thought Nixon won, and people who watched Nixon with his flop sweat thought JFK won.
Thank you for you service.
https://youtu.be/0tcDzpxW-p0
#metoo
I can’t take any more of them. If anything, they’re getting worse.
Why isn’t Joe plagiarizing Jeremy Corbyn speeches? It might actually appeal to the Democrat base…
Explaining to the American people why they should stay in the EU would confuse the 4% of Dem voters who know we aren’t currently in the EU.
They would be so ecstatic over the kill all (((THEM))) rhetoric they wouldn’t notice the EU slip up.
Unrelated side note: Erin Burnett looks hot, but I’m sure a half-hour in the makeup room helps.
Absolutely would.
She’s a nice looking lady.
I’ve been an Erin Burnett fan for years.
Listening to this debate made me think about when I was a kid. We were far from rich. My friends’ families were upper middle class and they always had nice homes, nice cars, nice vacations etc. We had jack squat. I never wanted what they had. I certainly wanted nice stuff like they had, but I never wanted their stuff. Is that the difference between desire and envy?
Pretty functional definition/distinction in my mind.
I’m not trying to portray myself as some king of saint, but I never had the feeling of, “I want that guy’s stuff.” Wondering where that emotion comes from.
That probably explains a lot about many of us. I think a certain amount of belief in private property is intuitive. Some people as young children have no problem with yours/mine……others cannot stand to think someone else has something they don’t
Same here. I live a good life. But when I was poor, I lived a good life too.
Can’t both of you understand that what you are describing is white privilege! You always knew you could get your own stuff because you were white and had that ability. That ability to work hard, plan ahead with your white brain, and save money is all whites only! If you weren’t racists you would understand the POCs don’t have those abilities!
I think its upbringing. One point I was supposed to get a new backpack for school. My mom knew I wanted it but couldnt afford it. She put it on layaway to get it for me. I was young and didnt understand and made some asshole comment that mom is poor blah blah. My brother immediately educated me verbally and physically.
I began to understand the sacrafices my family makes to try and provide just that little bit extra for my backpack that I wanted from that day forward.
I had a very similar situation when I was little and I had whined about some Xmas present I didn’t like and two of my older brothers set me straight.
When I was a punk from about 10-12, I hung around with a crew of kids, most of us were latchkey, on welfare, and we all resented “rich” people. And we went through a phase of minor vandalism. The funny thing is that where we all lived – the neighborhoods would most charitably be described as “blue collar.” Over near the housing projects where I lived was even “bluer collar.” We didn’t have much and there were some hungry stretches now and again.
At any rate, as my mother and father both separately climbed the economic ladder as I grew up, it’s almost like I magically acquired respect for other people’s property. As we started to acquire property, I no longer envied others. I might have liked what others had, but I had zero resentment over it, whether they were douchebags, acquired it with drug money, or were lucky. All of my anger and resentment just evaporated.
Ditto. My soon to be BIL is filthy stinkin’ rich. Like actually rich, and old money, too. When I go to his farm (they raise race horses) I always think wistful thoughts about how nice it would be to have a bunch of acres and a nice new house and not have to worry about money. I never think he’s an asshole for having those things, and I don’t want him to not have those things, I’d just like to have them as well.
What if Iago had been whispering in your ear, “He only has that because he took it from you”? Nobody was pumping that poison into my (your?) ear, so I’m thinking we were lucky.
It’s funny, because my grandfather’s generation was absolutely loaded. Old money in Birmingham. He was sort of the black sheep of the family and moved away, cutting himself off from the rest of the family. So there are pictures of him riding the pony he got for his birthday in ’36. Meanwhile, his kids are living in Bowie, Maryland eating plain Cheerios and wearing hand-me-downs because he didn’t like the B’ham social scene, allegedly.
Chris Rock said it best. “Shaq is rich, the guy who signs his paycheck is wealthy.”
Yeah, this is a guy who drinks Miller Lite and drives a nice pickup. He comes from a local family that’s been around so long places are named after them. It’s not like when a wide receiver gets a contract and buys seventeen pairs of the same Jordans; this is more like people who’ve never not had wealth and who know how to manage it.
I know a few wealthy farmers that drive old pickup trucks. You don’t make money by spending it.
Doctors warn women not to use toothpaste to ‘tighten their vaginas’
Wait for it…
Anyone have a moist washcloth?
Twitter’s on the case.
If I do, you won’t want it. At least, I don’t think you will…
Try aloe vera, but, make sure you don’t get any with lidocane, because you…. What??
Gabbard wins the Drudge poll…again. of course probably for her looks
She’s a puppet for the Russian government.
So most popular Democrat among people who would never vote for a Democrat. Might not be a winning niche.
She’ll be the LP’s pick once Bill Weld finally goes away
Weld is already gone.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/welds-underwhelming-foreign-policy-alternative/
Lol, yet that, according to the LP chair, is not a position that precludes him from being a good nominee for the LP
If Tulsi is the LP nominee (which isn’t going to happen) the reality is that she would be no more embarrassing than the last three presidential nominees even if she were pimping Medicare for all.
This is why we should all like Putin. He is no worse than Stalin or Lenin.
Can’t tell if serious…
Yep, just swapping some of the bad policy positions for good ones and vice versa. This ensuring the LP status quo continues
But would she strip down to a thong at the convention?
And they let her take on Warren. Surprisingly.
So USC students want to cancel John Wayne. George Lucas went to USC and was inspired by John Wayne movies. Should he be cancelled too?
Just to be on the safe side, yeah, better cancel him, too.
Yes.
Star Wars includes a scene inspired by the Searchers…starring John Wayne. Better cancel all Star Wars movies and Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford too.
George Lucas produced the worse movie series since Godfather III came out and Mario Puzzo had to go into hiding.
Sure cancel George Lucas. And Luke Moonwalker and Darth Paul and Princess Lisa and the rest of them
Coppola, Spielberg and Scorcese know Lucas. Cancel them all!
The decision tree is simple:
Socialist? Yes then continue, No then cancel
White? Yes then cancel, No then continue
Male? Yes then cancel, No then continue
Cis? Yes then cancel, No then continue
New Culture achieved.
“White? Yes then cancel, No then continue”
The funny thing about upsy downsy land is that after that is implemented the only ones left not in chains will be white people. Oh, and Fauxcahantas, the whitest white person that ever said ‘How’.
Thanks, FM!
I dig this series, as I definitely dig coffee. It definitely looks cool as hell, but…
If you like to make quick coffee with little clean up, this is definitely not the method for you, because it make a big mess every time I use the Yama.
My damn Aeropress just continues to make good coffee and no mess. I just replaced the plunger and it’s like brand new!
I’m seriously considering buying an Aeropress for my office. My only concern that is I am the manager and it fill further cement my status as a white collar fancy pants nancy boy from homo town.
This is probably the manliest aeropress out there
Holy shit. Beta actually made a good point, and then went on a Trump rant.
“Fun” facts about Tencent founder and CEO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Huateng#Politics
How prestigious is it to be a member of the Nation People’s Congress?
Better that being a Uighur
Pretty sure you don’t get to be a CEO without being a Party member.
Is that truly the case? I wouldn’t be surprised if that is in fact true.
Well, I can’t verify it, but I’ve read it from several China-watchers I trust.
I know that most large companies particularly if they have anything even vaguely to do with a strategic asset have PLA officers on their boards or in their management. As you get above a certain size in most sectors in China the line between public and private becomes very blurry.
Kinda undermines the notion that we are trading with Chinese people rather then enriching the regime.
Also no wonder why the vaunted “political liberalization” has not happened if all the rich are either part of the regime or afraid of being arrested if they oppose it even secretly.
Yeah, I totally agree. It’s not that increased trade hasn’t benefited Chinese people outside of the regime, but the government is integrated so tightly into Chinese society that you can’t really deal with the one without dealing with the other. And the thing is that the government itself creates businesses and holding companies and so forth that behave as regular corporations, only they’re backed by the government and support its strategic concerns. At one point the PLA was the largest industrial employer in China, because the army literally owned all of the factories, and you could enlist and basically just work a drill press for your whole stint.
The NPC is the national legislature of the PRC. If you are a member, you are the top of the party elite.
I don’t know about “prestigious” because the whole house is just a rubber stamp for Xi. They don’t really get to enact any policy. They really are almost ceremonial in function. They’re just there to dress the place up and “represent the people!!” by passing whatever legislation Xi tells them to. And I think the Chinese have a sense of that – they’re kind of a monarchy culture, when you get right down to it. It went Mao, to Deng, to Xi, more or less.
And just for something to ponder, consider that Britain still has royalty. Yes, they’re ceremonial, but King and Queen by bloodline??!? I mean, WTF Britain? But there it is. And a lot of other countries run that way, too.
They only meet 2 times a year.
Harris talking about justice. Dear Jeebus, you sociopathic bitch. Also STFU when people reply to your BS. Even if it’s Warren. Common f’n courtesy.
She’s pure evil. I hope this campaign tanks her political prospects from here on out.
CDC gives vaping-related lung illnesses a name: EVALI
Oh no.
I see they’re still obfuscating. Well done, CDC, well done.
I came up with a name: YICEMA
You Idiots Can Eat My Ass
Paging HM.
CEMA: John CEMA.
What the hell does vaping have to do with bioterror or infectious diseases?
Re: the Yama.
That looks fascinating, and I could see myself buying one and using it like once a month, mostly to show to a friend or my kid or something. The big mess and long brew time aspect is a barrier to entry for me. That’s the main reason I rarely use my Bialetti, that and I’ve got to be in the mood for the flavor it produces.
Cory Booker: “I wanna start the Department of Abortions!”
Is that a real quote?
I’ve been having trouble discerning between parody and reality since 2016
Ah no. He essentially said as much, but less bluntly.
TGA – it was something like “Department of Reproductive Health.”
Why does reproductive health always seem to mean terminating the reproductive functioning?
#MakeForcedSterilzationGreatAgain
ASK FREDO…
Wasn’t he the one that said, “I want women to control their bodies”? Whoever that was, thank you.
Bootyjudge: “I’m bring back FDR’s courtpackin’!”
No, I’m gonna make the SC even bigger than you! — Beto!
I had to turn the debate off early.
Tulsi had really poor delivery. She really needs to work on her speaking and practice basic one-liners that create emotion in the audience. It was too much cringe for me to bear.
sad-face-emoji
No one wants a monologue from the stripper.
Pfft you don’t know me.
I’ll have you know I was listening intently to a lovely young lady about her courses in her art degree program. She even made the sparkly, glittery, top she is wearing. Well, *was* wearing. Obvi I declined her invitation for a private dance, but I felt pride knowing the 2 or 3 bucks I coughed up while she was on stage truly helped her achieve her dreams.
You sir, are doing God’s work in the toughest neighborhoods.
Aw… I wonder what Joe is up to.
https://aier.org/article/government-is-the-real-victim-of-billionaire-greed/
Can’t tell if serious…
Yang went after Bernie for wanting millions of more people working for the government. Just give them money and let them choose! Sorry, but getting taxed to pay for that grand a month is working for the state.
See this is why you go expat someplace with achievable naturalization 🙂
And I just came from the bank to payoff the last installment of my Japanese tax bill. 🙁
Hey, nice work on that Lebron one in last post. Was out doing yard work and making dinner and just saw it now. Hits just the right notes and might have to steal it.
Speaking of China is it possible to start a legal business without at least tacit acceptance by the party?
What do you mean by tacit acceptance? Can you open up a food stall in a market without the local party reps endorsing you? Probably, assuming you’ve filled out the right paperwork and all that crap. As I understand it, at lower levels, i.e. lower market cap, you’re dealing with the more conventional graft you see in a lot of places, like maybe you’ve got to grease the right palms to pass an inspection, or maybe you’ve got to hire the local party rep’s nephew for the summer. At higher levels, it’s more like you’re borrowing money from the bank, which is government-run, so your business plan has to meet party approval. Or you’re starting an IT services business and hire PLA IT security experts to make sure you’re in compliance with various regulations.
I suppose I mean that do you need formal paperwork to start a business or do you need the local party officials to agree to look the other way with or without bribery and/or graft?
And if your successful, maybe some local Chinese will decide to take it. Good luck with the courts. If you fight it, or they thing you will, enjoy suddenly getting fucked with by various facets of the governments.
Many abolitionists were part of the slave trade. Many in the allies were vocally sympathetic to the Nazis. Their motives were primarily economic. When the rubber met the road they went for the dollar over principle. I hear a lot of people screeching about Nazis yet they have nothing to say about present day China which is no different. Fuck Lebron and the NBA.
I wouldn’t touch China under any circumstances.
I’m working on a series of articles from my ~20 months in China setting up a US subsidiary there. It was not an easy process, but it can be done. We did. I’ll ty to answer questions like those in there.
I am very pleased to see a number of formerly unpublished glibs submitting. I suppose I should get off of my ass and contribute as well.
Getting the wife out was very good but we stayed out too long and her foot started swelling again. She needed it for sanity’s sake even if her foot disagrees. While we were chatting with her friends I had the occasion to tell this story. Her buddies mentioned our local elections (everyone we supported and voted for won except the prospective governor who is now in a run-off) and one expressed some sympathy for socialist policies.
The story: A friend of mine used to work in trucking. The company specialized in livestock…chickens, sheep, cows and hogs each having it’s own specialized type of trailer. With the sheep you could not get the sheep onto the trailer except by one technique. The sheep were put in a pen which funneled them into a small door in the trailer. One of the workers would then get in the pen, get down on all fours and crawl around a bit, then he would crawl into the funnel opening in the trailer. The sheep would follow. The trailer had four levels and the worker would have to crawl up and around all four levels until he got to the end of the top layer. At that point there was a small hatch in the roof that he could escape through. By that time all of the sheep would have gone into the trailer and the bottom door was shut.
Off to the slaughter house they went.
You could have heard a pin drop when I finished. After a few seconds the proggie started some garbledy garble bullshit about the evils of factory farming. It’s true, you can take them to Siberia and show them the gulags and mass graves yet they still wont believe it.
When I was in the Army we were in a guerrilla exercise and we received three live sheep in the middle of the night from a “resistance” farm. They did not want to walk into the mountains with us. By chance one of my sergeants walked by with a chemlight we were removing. The sheep started following it. They followed that chemlight all the way up into the mountains to our base camp without issue.
One of our guerrillas was a local chef. We had some great lamb stew thanks to her.
I’ve heard of Judas goats, but never Judas goat pantomimers.
Oh, and: “Yes but this time will be different.”
Hope your wife gets better, man.
Anderson Cooper: This is the part of the debate where we’re going to let the candidates say the most insane idea that pops into their head.
Beto: Donde esta il biblioteca
*Audience applauds*
Booker: I will jail every woman in America who does not attain an abortion by the age of 35
*Audience applauds*
Biden: Let me tell you, if I shat my pants right now it still be better than orange man bad
*Audience applauds*
Cooper: And vice president Biden, just to follow up, did you in fact shit your pants?
Biden: Well…
Warren: He did. I can smell it
*Audience laughs*
Cooper: Congresswoman Gabbard, your turn
Gabbard: I don’t want to just bring our troops home from Syria, I want to bring them home from Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya…
*Audience boos*
Cooper: Congresswoman…congresswoman, I’m sure Putin is very impressed, but let’s not be so ridiculous
*Audience cheers*
Even Tulsi was all-in on the “Kurds are our allies” crap. Don’t be snookered, people!
Oh, I know. Much like she got attacked for thinking Ukraine gate made no sense, she’s learned her lesson.
The “Judge Napolitano Effect”: if you can’t beat the insanity, just pretend like it’s legitimate
This was the flag of our Kurdish allies until 1995:
Still seems crummy to leave ’em to be slaughtered, but I don’t know enough about the situation and that makes me angry, and when I’m angry I say WITHDRAW.
Their flag matters not. What matters is that they’re a convenient excuse to justify our continued involvement in regime change
This is Glibertarians TGA. You are supposed to parody. We can get word for word quotes anywhere.
I could not force myself to listen to the Dems bleating among themselves. This StL and DC game has been entertaining since I turned it on in the 6th (home early from work).
STL had a hell of a season without any OPS. I carded around 140 of their games and well understood that it was a question of when they would lose out, not if. But when you’re a fourth generation fan, the season is never over: the maturation of the players, a certain life cycle, comes and goes. You know who is hurt, whose mother was in the hospital, whose family is stuck in Venezuela, who was a coach in AA.
It’s a weird family and starts all over in just four months!
FUCK THE NATS
This.
Going out with an old flame for a couple drinks, and it gets to be the time of dawdling after the bill’s been paid and the waitress has asked again whether we wouldn’t like another round after all, and I start thinking… is my friend hoping I ask her to come around when we leave? And then I wonder: am I going to give her the satisfaction of shooting me down? So we both went home unsatisfied. Love is a battlefield, but this is a cold war, tuts.
Nice post FM! A bit more complicated than I could do, but still a neat setup. I have a similar glass kettle but not Yama brand. Must be OEM’d for a number of places from the same factory.
Gonna need a bigger wall
https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2019/10/us-officials-say-british-family-illegally-crossed-border-from-canada-on-purpose.html
It’s going to be awesome when we find out the plot twist was they they were trying to sneak cross the border because the NHS denied to approve a common medical procedure for their child.
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Oppressed Chinese Citizens Apologize To NBA Players For Disrupting Their Difficult Week
FTA:Oppressed Chinese citizens admitted that their constant fear of being punished by their corrupt Communist government is nothing compared with the concerns of tweeting a couple things that might get some backlash, or losing a percentage of your profits because you spoke up against totalitarianism. From protesters in the semi-autonomous Hong Kong to the underground church in China, Chinese people from all walks of life offered their deepest apologies for being insensitive to the struggles of being a rich basketball player.
“It was wrong of us to minimize the hurt and pain felt by LeBron James, whose net worth is around half a billion dollars,” said the representative. “In fact, I would go so far as to say—”
Unfortunately, his communication with us was cut off as he was apprehended by Hong Kong police.
Ouch, that leaves a mark.
LeBron James is asshole.
Coming in the Fall, 2003
LeBron James is
ASSHOLE
“Donald Trump, don’t trust China. China is LeBron James”
“LeBron James” is now a synonym for “asshole”
Babylon Bee is really punching down here. Why else make this an issue about LeBron James, a black man just voicing his opinion, and China, a country full of minorities?
Nightmares, cs??
I just think Chinese people should get to have their say, and it’s pretty fucked up of Daryl Morey to deny them their basic speech rights on Twitter. He should have gotten in touch with the Chinese government so he knew what Chinese people think about Hong Kong.
“A bunch of LeBron James, that lot. Typical rich assholes who think they’re better than the rest.”
Make sure your nutsack protector is in place. Ozy delivery government sized procedural nutpunches up next.