This year, plenty more ideas came to mind at Glib HQ for libertarian costumes. Because if you can’t go around town without insulting somebody, you may as well insult everybody.
This is my review of Leinenkugel’s Harvest Patch Shandy.
We’ll put these in no particular order…
10. Undead David Koch.
For this one, a Dracula costume will probably work. It’ll probably be expensive buying everyone off in the neighborhood.
9. The Hat & The Hair
This is a good couples costume idea, but if you’re going to do it, take it to the next level. A modified Lidsville costume should prove useful in creeping everyone out. A standard Cousin It will suffice for the hair, and should prove confusing to everyone under 25.
8A. Hong Kong Protestor
8B. Slutty Hong Kong Protestor
Party like its 1989…
7. Steve Bannon
Trump’s former campaign chairman, or a homeless man? I don’t know, does it really matter if you can tell the difference?
6. Log Cabin Republican
Because one of you needs an excuse to walk around shirtless in a pair of jorts.
5. Hillary Clinton
Okay, this might just be a Chulthu mask and a Mu-mu but be honest, have you ever seen Chulthu and Hillary in the same room? I contend this is not a coincidence!
4. John Bolton’s mustache
Find one of these old man disguises and run around convincing everyone of all the countries we need to bomb.
3. The tooth fairy
Because why not?
2. Justin Trudeau
Is it donning brown-face if you are simply portraying the infamous, serial brown-face Justin Trudeau? If that isn’t meta enough, if one accuses you of being racist, inform them you are 1/1024th Indian—as in not Native American!
1. Slutty Greta
Did you know the age of consent in Sweden is 15? We were going to go with Pope Greta the Rheeeeeeeee, but decided if you have the hips and the blank face to pull this one off…
Leinenkugel for whatever reason thinks it can pull off this whole “Shandy” thing. It most certainly does not pull off a “pumpkin shandy” in any sense. It smells like vanilla, and is far too sweet to be called beer. It does not give me any reason to change my opinion of their shandy line, which remains: whoever thought of this deserves to be shot. Leinenkugel’s Harvest Shandy: 1.9/5
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376 responses to “This years suggestions for the sharply dressed orphan.”
see–when you scroll down w/o looking, and it lands juuuust right…and then, AAAHHH!
You know what I’m talking about.
Yes. Yes, I do.
Eye bleach please.
Can’t unring that bell….
Well, not without a Rx.
For Halloween I am dressing as ‘grumpy old man’. Oh, wait, that is every day.
I am at the end of a dead end road. Maybe a dozen people live within several miles. We don’t get trick or treaters.
Long driveways and no sidewalks, none here either.
As I said in another thread recently, I’ve got a 1000-foot driveway uphill at the end of a dead-end street. Nobody visits us, either.
No one likes me either. OTOH no one has the arm to throw trash in my yard.
We have a very similar situation with a last driveway on a dead end private road. No trick or treaters ever, though the street down below the cliff we live on is packed with side by side houses, many of which fully decorate, have haunted houses, and/or give out jumbo-size Snickers. Halloween is the one night of the year it would be nice to have neighbors and thus kids coming to our door. That regret passes quickly by the next morning every time, though. Privacy cannot be overrated.
Apartment building. None here either.
Slutty Vesper Fairchild
https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2019/10/05/rachel-maddow-goes-hollywood-recurring-role-batwoman/
Dunphy’s dressing as slutty Morgan Fairchild.
“What sets Batwoman apart from other superhero shows is that Batwoman is a lesbian. And her character is played by an openly out lesbian actress, Ruby Rose.”
Everybody is special, and thus no one is.
ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz
Exactly. The virtue signaling is tired.
Please pass me the eyebleach
You’re not going to be the one shirtless in a pair of jorts?
That’s me, Ted…Geez, give a dude some credit!
I have a plethora of costumes (don’t ask…).
One I haven’t worn in a while is a fuschia dress dripping in beads and gold sequins. It’s a Mideast “bridal” gown I found online for about a hundo.
I wore it to Halloween at work a few years ago, and the CEO happened to be wearing a Saudi headdress and suit, so he wanted to pose in a bunch of pics with me.
It was a bit odd for me, but then I had the CEO’s ear for the rest of my time there.
His ear? I mean…better to hear you, I suppose….
The costume sounds practically decadent.
Was he wearing brownface?
Are you suggesting she worked for Trudeau the Lesser?
Naw, she said it was Hallowe’en, not a random Tuesday.
Ha!
That sounds super-problematic. Well, unless he’s Saudi, I guess.
Then, it’s only problematic…
/ducks, runs
Kulchurul propreeeeeation!
That gown is somebody’s culture, NOT a costume!
We’re not sure if we’re gonna get a lot of trick or treats. 2 miles to get out of our housing development full of Ex-Californians and Teslas.
H.R. Pufnstuf > Lidsville.
Fight me.
Hell, naw! Your argument is sound.
First love was Jack Wild. ***SIGH!!!***
“Wildy”
/heee!
I’m not going down the Jack Wild rabbit hole again this weekend. It was fun, though. I think I’ll stick to David Cassidy, Partridge Family, 1910 Fruitgum Company, and any other bubblegum from Buddha Records.
Oh, and Avail per Naptown Bill’s suggestion.
I’m sensing someone who had a crush on Danny Bonaduce.
Not Susan Dey?
Yes, she was hot as a partridge, and even hotter as a LA lawyer.
When I found it, I was irrationally relieved to know that I’m not the only person on Earth who remembers this one.
I still haven’t recovered from Death Metal Greta that somebody linked a few days ago. Somebody more creative than me could figure out a tasteless costume. Might involve a little girl with a braid and a Hitler mustache.
A strange fetish, but ok.
That is hilarious.
Possible alternatives?….or cultural appropriation?
Tis this a clue that there is something in the water in Florida ?
You don’t have to be from Florida to be FLORIDA MAN !
https://news.yahoo.com/delaware-man-faces-charges-attack-201606474.html
The minute I read this story I knew it was a fucking Paddy.
They ruined Boston.
Wrong–that implies Boston was good at some point.
/kidding!
Playa gets it.
Looks like we got us a coupla cuntes here.
Yes, it’s more than a feeling.
A strange fetish–not OK.
😉
Seriously. That surveillance footage is horrifying.
It looks like she went to finish bagging. Odd.
Protestant work ethic.
A buddy of mine used to throw Halloween parties every year with costumes required. He had a big place so a lot of people would show up – some obviously were “friends of friends”. One guy tried to come in wearing some vaguely ‘different’ t-shirt as a costume and my buddy – in full drag – read him the rules at the door. I went as a “foreign barbarian” – in torn jeans, long-haired wig, and bare-chested except for a bunch of animal pelts sewn/tied together as a shirt/jacket/cloak. One Japanese woman showed up in a real catwoman leather suit – won the costume competition hands down.
Well, hands might be down…
Rowr!
Cousin Itt
You know you’re buzzed when you say to yourself, “Greta, the baby-maker”, and start giggling.
Yeeeeech!
These aren’t the slutty costumes I want.
Iknowright?
I mean, me–I’m going as “slutty vagrant”
I’ve tried “slutty town drunk”. Doesn’t work.
They’re the slutty costumes you deserve.
C’mon, Mike…he’s good people.
They’re the slutty costumes
youwe deserve.Harsh. But, fair.
Yep.
That’s why they never let me do the links.
That is strangely interesting.
Seller’s Remorse
I’m thinking….Snap-on Tools. Untapped (heh) market.
Obligatory.
What were they selling?
Junk.
Mental illness ?
Eh. Technology is eventually going to advance to the point where this isn’t even a problem anymore and biological sex and gender will be akin to hair color.
Unfortunately, the Boomers will all be dead by then.
“Un-“?
You cannot deny that Boomer “Where my country gone?” apoplexy is the most hilarious thing ever:
No, but I figured, though, that you wouldn’t grant them the “un” qualifier.
Fair enough.
Ron Bailey, is that you?
I’m no cornucopian. I just have a high tolerance of ambiguity.
“I’m in communication with 19 and 20-year-olds who have had full gender reassignment surgery who wish they hadn’t, and their dysphoria hasn’t been relieved, they don’t feel better for it,” she says.
Who coulda’ seen that coming?
This whole abusive horror show will one day be viewed the same way we see the days of passing out lobotomies like confetti.
Today’s lobotomies.
That’s what I get for not reading the last sentence. Just ignore me.
I’m gonna steal that.
“detransitioning”
Word of the year?
This girl is a victim of whoever turned her into a horrible little cunt. Does that count as defending her honor?
That sums it up pretty well. She takes a lot of criticism but it it really aimed at the people pulling her strings.
Joke. And I’m off to bed. Be offended if you want.
Eh….I’ll allow it.
I feel bad for her, but then again I am not a heartless monster like the rest of you freaks.
I do feel bad for her. One day she will grow up and hopefully wake up and realize what’s been done to her. In 50 years when the sky hasn’t fallen she will either be in denial or humiliated over what she did.
Do not misconstrue that as a defense. I can feel bad for her and still be a freak.
See also: Roe from Roe v. Wade
I’m not so sure she’ll be alive in 50 years. That little girl has some serious issues and I see no signs that anyone close to her gives a shit.
cuntE
Typed like that, it looks as if it would be pronounced with an accent aigu at the end.
Kunta cuntE?
(Too soon?)
That’s it.
I’m outta here!
I’ve made that joke twice and nobody noticed.
*sniffle*
I’m sorry! I musta missed it. Stupid day job!
Every time I see that I think of Kunta Kina for some reason.
Spot on
The whiny little cunt brought her victory tour to Iowa City yesterday.
She needs to shut the fuck up and go home.
Dafuk? Is she touring the country? Somebody buy her a boat ticket back to Sweden. I’ll pitch in $50
https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2019/10/04/greta-thunberg-iowa-city-climate-change-strike-students-downtown/3856693002/
More than 3,000 people gathered in downtown Iowa City Friday to protest with the Climate Strikers and international climate activist Greta Thunberg Friday.
By the time Thunberg and the Strikers took the stage around 12:20, there were an estimated 3,000 people tightly packed against the temporary speaking platform, spilling down Dubuque Street ready to hear her speak.
Iowa. Isn’t that a farming state? You know, full of farmers…people that spend their lives watching the weather?
But now they’ve become educated enough to know that weather = climate. They gots the science now!
Iowa City — home of the University of Iowa — centered in the People’s Republic of Johnson County.
Iowa City and Johnson County are the reasons that fucknuts Dave Loebsack (D) continues to represent a big chunk of some of America’s prime farmland.
SMDH.
Maybe she’ll keep going west. Visit a needle and shit covered street in San Francisco, Then head over to China and hang around in these cities.
“Leinenkugel’s”
I would givr every Leinenkugel product ever made a straight up 0. Is a negative number possible in a rating? First time I had it, the only thing I could think of was it tastes like a low quality lager with some sweetened lemon koolaid poured in it, blech.
Wow….not the Hyp I was expecting that from.
#HeinekenDrinkersRpeople2
The resistance shall continue unabated.
I had breakfast at Früh am Dom once. I wanted some Kölsch but they hadn’t tapped the kegs yet, so I got a Radler instead. The Radler was a mix of Früh Kölsch and lemonade. I wasn’t impressed.
Counterpoint. Of course it’s been discontinued (I’ve got four of them set aside for one of my nephew’s 21st birthday).
Meanwhile, the news from Ghana.
Those are some bored people… OK, the couple seems happy. Still–her ass is rotten is the topic?
/”succulent buttocks” ftw!
Also–“Ghana get dat ASS!”
Dude just likes smacking things. What’s the problem?
I know that’s English but the words don’t make any sense in that order.
Classy
At the RenFaire. Raining. Muddy. Mr. Mojeaux not a happy camper. Waiting for the joust to start then going home.
AND I missed the belly dance show.
BUT they also have reuben dogs and I am guaranteed to stop for the magical combo of corned beef, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing.
A SANDWICH INVENTED IN THE 1920s IS NOT PERIOD!
Neither are porta-potties and decent hygiene.
I’ll take the fantasy land over the plague, thank you.
This is what happens when we teach “coding” instead of history.
Learn to live in squalor!
Wait…don’t the microchips need clean rooms, or somesuch?
Teaching cod-ing is the matriarchy at work. We need more cunte-ing!
“matriarchy”?
Does not compute
Shit. Patriarchy.
I need a drink.
Meh, history is overrated.
I don’t have periods anymore.
What about the menstrual show?
It was bloody good, if you ask me.
Only one performance a month.
You only need one when it last 5 days.
Did you switch to 4 quarters?
“I don’t have periods anymore.”
‘Sup girl?
Hey hey.
Huge joint of some farm animal or GTFO.
I, uh…..I’m, uh…….I’ll be over there. Waaaay over there.
When you’re finished.
I hate turkey.
Can be pig or cow, too.
OK, I’m just gonna head out, and…
::whistles and walks off::
Don’t think I’ll make it this year.
The Glenlivet’s ‘Capsule Collection’ Is Sort of Like Gushers, but Whisky
And you Trumpers want to tax this delicious gift. Go suck an egg!
Don’t need mods when you’re poppin’ pods, amirite??
Nice.
Have they tried trademarking “The”?
Why not just put it in a nice quality dark-chocolate bean?
Oh, yum!
Oh god, I remember the first time our German cousins visited they brought along a box of liqueur-filled chocolates. I took one not realizing they were liqueur-filled. (The surprise of the liquid was a bigger issue for me than the liqueur, even though I was only 13.)
I did love the Cognac beans. The cherry ones were just too sweet for me though.
The cherry ones were just too sweet for me though.
I trust, despite this, you kept cordial.
Slutty costumes!
Well, one technically is, anyway.
Will I spend 450 dollars on a Han Solo Frozen In Carbonite Roaster from Le Creuset?
You bet your sweet ass I will!
Those trivets have potential…
I’m a person who understands that sometimes you have to shell out for quality kitchen gear. Hell, I just treated myself to a Kitchen-Aid stand mixer a few months ago (love it, by the way).
… But the cost of Le Creuset stuff really baffled me. $200 for an enamelled cast iron skillet?? Seriously? Lodge sells them for 30 bucks. What is so substantially different about the Le Creuset model that makes people pay so much more?
The R2-D2 Mini Cocotte is “only” $30.
There is no real difference other than price. I had a Lodge version that was used and abused and it lasted 5-6 years. I got a new one only when the enamel got pitted on the bottom from my wife using the immersion blender.
So sorry about that ex-wife. I’ve finally convinced the girlfriend she doesn’t need to worry about my standard cast iron pans, but the enameled stuff needs to be treated correctly.
Do you have the fridge already?
Man accused in fatal beatings of four homeless people in New York’s Chinatown
Hey West Coast and Austin, take a page from the GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD and twice a year or so unleash one of your pyscho residents to either light some homeless on fire, or beat a few to death, this way those grubby monsters understand there is a line they can’t cross.
You know, the Alamo isn’t in Austin….
Darth Vader Dutch Oven….
Heh.
Mojo will be making her own Dutch Ovens later.
magical combo of corned beef, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing
THIS!!
U.S. importers stockpile Parmigiano, Provolone as tariffs on EU cheeses loom
TRADE WAR
La dee da. ‘Murican cheeses are just as good and cheaper anyway.
Is there any reason these cheese can’t be made in the US? I know that it takes time to age it and all, but it’s just milk + bacteria.
Terroir affect everything. Beef definitely tastes different in Europe than in the US. I assume it has an impact on dairy cattle as well.
I was thinking about wine when I posted that. California has enough microclimes and terroirs to match anything in France, so I don’t see why a similar effort couldn’t be made for cheese. But maybe that’s what Big Milk wants me to think.
Why comes you hate Italy?
Depends on whether the US has signed a bilateral agreement with the EU over Protected Designation of Origin shit. It’s like winemakers referring to their sparkling wines as something other than champagne.
It looks like some types of French and Italian cheeses are, but with very specific names. Brie isn’t protected, but some subsets of brie are. Same with parmesan.
They are made in the US.
If you drive 71 between Cleveland and Columbus you’ll pass one of the dairy farms for Miceli.
It is looming.
Looming is bad, right?
I better stock up on Gruyere.
Submitted w/o comment (other than “does straffinrun-san work in marketing?):
https://mothership.sg/2019/10/news-japan-yotteba-sexy-ronald-mcdonalds/
He just went “to bed”….
Hmmm….
He’s lovin’ it
Bannon consigns ‘deep state’ lunacy to the briny deep
My God he’s right.
How bizarre.
The deep state does not require the existence of “some overarching and sinister organization”. Well, other than the DNC.
Fucking hell, Dave Smith played a clip of this CIA asshole Philip Mudd angrily declaring on CNN that the “intelligence community”, DOD, and other fedgov agencies are a “brotherhood” and that they would “stick a shank in [Rudy Giuliani’s] back” because he is “not one of them”.
These deep state sacks of shit bragging about it, but you’ll still have people denying that such a thing exists.
Time for a snack and a nap.
After that, a nack and a snap.
Flathead Vally, Montana crime update.
I like how the first call was an open-and-shut case.
I spent some time in that area. Gorgeous but there’s not much outside of low-paying service jobs.
Those are priceless.
A Glib? “8:45 a.m. A Kalispell man was sitting in a car talking to himself about taking over the world. He was also stealing WiFi.”
I’ve got an unlimited data plan – I was not stealing WIFI!
Iowa needs to get in gear. Not much better than watching TSUN lose a big game.
I have it on, too. Hoping to see Harbaugh have an aneurysm.
Iowa is trying to lose at this point.
tOSU doesnt play till 7:30, so Im really just killing time.
bah.
Odd weather phenomenon recently: For the last 48+ hours, the temp has stayed between 43-46 degrees.
We’re getting 45 by night, 75-80 by day.
That’s almost perfect. Make that daytime high 65-70 and sign me up.
That will be by end of October lasting through June.
Winter in San Diego
Hahahahaaa, good luck with that
First snow due tonight for the main part of Anchorage and then 18!!! tomorrow night in my neighborhood.
On Tuesday, we hit 91 degrees in Cleveland. Last night it dropped down into the 40’s. Went for a ride today to help two friends get a metric century in (62.1 miles/100 km), when we started it was 45, when we finished, it was 65.
We get swings like that all the time. 50 degrees in 24 hours is not uncommon at all, especially during the winter. Staying within 3 degrees for now 52+ hours straight (and the last 72+ we’ve only moved up and down about 8) is extremely uncommon.
Climate horror in action.
BUT RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES ON TUESDAY! RECORD! DO YOU UNDERSTAND WE’RE BURNING!
Gods it hurts to type in all caps for that long.
Yep. CLIMATE HORROR™ comes in all types of weather.
What’s your guilty pleasure one-hit wonder?
What’s your most hated one-hit wonder?
All answers will be complied and voted upon by the Glibertarian commenters. The winner receives an all expenses paid trip for two to the Napa Valley!
The loser has to drop acid in a home designed by SugarFree and HM.
Godspeed.
Afternoon Delight
Afternoon Delight
When can I go to Napa?
Pleasure: Electric Avenue
Hated: Brand New Key
How much acid will I have to drop?
Guilty pleasure? “Rock Me Amadeus”.
Hated? “My Sharona”.
I like both of those songs.
If your last name rhymes with Sharona, you would feel differently about it.
My last name rhymes with “shit”. I do not feel sorry for you. 😉
Lolz
You bone-a?
“Explosives” doesn’t rally rhyme with “Sharona.”
Can’t be doxxing myself
GP: My Sharona – Album Version
MH: My Sharona – Radio Raped Version.
Guilty pleasure
Most hated. (Only hit AFAIK.)
Related.
What the…
Here’s another hit by a child.
This is far worse than anything HM has posted.
Stop! It burns!
How the hell did you know that exists?
I don’t feel particularly guilty for liking this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clxtg2pFTQM
Any hated one-hit-wonders have been erased from memory.
Brings one back to Kinnath’s memory
Never heard it. After my time.
That last one got Tundra to declare it the worst song he’d ever heard. 😉
Here’s an earlier one-hit wonder for you.
I may have that on 45 in a box somewhere.
My mom had this one on 45.
Aaaagh! I almost chose that one!
You are a rare talent, Ted’s.
I like Jacques Brel songs, so I blame Rod McKuen for turning this into the abomination it is,
Maybe a touch guilty for this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeg1txDv8w
A little from Column A, some from Column B.
The Models.
As the one Troo it’s no surprised I’m the one who chose the most libertarian of songs.
Good one.
Poking around and listened to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJckGsR-T0
Funny, the memories some of those old tunes bring up.
Not remotely guilty about loving this.
*boogies*
This, however, is really bad.
*barfs*
Hey! Thanks for the Tubthumping link!
*cranks up the volume*
Loved, and of a generation (the last good one)
I worked in a restaurant when this song was popular, and all the dumb employees would love when this song played. This was pre mass shootings, so I didn’t know that was an option, but if I did…well…you know…a mass shooting would have occurred.
“What’s your guilty pleasure one-hit wonder?”
Too many too count. Also too many to count.
‘Night, y’all. Becak back here @ 11 pm Central, for my weirdness.
OK, extra helpings of it.
I love each and every one of you, so, don’t let me down. Or, else, I probably won’t love you so
longmuch.Sleep tight.
Wait what? Sweden.
“The age of consent rises to 18 when the victim “” is offspring to the perpetrator or in the perpetrator’s care or in a similar relationship to the perpetrator“.
Exhausted (but very happy) cat needs a glucose drip after mating with at least five females in single night after staff let him out of his cage at a pet hotel when they went home
Alpha af
Hilarious!!
“Staff also put one song on a loop before turning out the lights”
I would have guessed Barry White to inspire the cat.
This is exactly what I was thinking.
Kinda describes my behavior immediately after I divorced ex Mrs Tres.
Money quote:
I am tired AF. You miscreants kept me up late last night.
Nap time!
Nope, you kept us up. Yet here we are carrying on through the fatigue and hangovers, and not complaining.
/hangover shamed ….
Have some Plastic Bertrand.
Just cause.
From the same era. The Records performing the great “Starry Eyes”.
https://youtu.be/8TUepa0yfyw
Many Les Pauls, too.
Greta:
https://i.imgur.com/3dr3TLd.jpg
Haha nice. Is that a reference to the Lions of Liberty podcast doing a parody of the Spongebob Squarepants theme song about Greta Thunburg?
As an aside: Fuck people who make their kids miserable by telling them that [political issue] is going to destroy their lives. It particularly applies to “progressives” telling their daughters that Donald Trump is going to chain females to the kitchen sink or that the world is going to self-immolate in 10 years because he won… But if there’s some libertarian parent out there telling their kids that they need to come to this Ron Paul rally or else the Federal Reserve will ruin the country, fuck that too (even if you’re right on the issue).
Kids being kids is one of the most sacred things ever. They’re supposed to be riding bikes, climbing trees, and playing with Legos. Don’t poison it with fucking politics.
Aren’t there some rogue guns in Indiana that are bored of Chicago and just itching to stir up more trouble? What if they hijack a storage container bound for HK?
That is not going to end well. It is sickening really.
Worse still that photo someone posted earlier of the HK protesters waving the stars and stripes next to commie ratfuckers waving commie flags in Portland really pissed me off.
As I said yesterday the morons here may eventually get what they want and when they do they are really not going to like it.
Managed to get excused from jury duty on Monday. Should I feel bad? I sat for a stint just ten months ago. I don’t mind it, civic duty and all, but be reasonable.
… Actual footage??
LOL (((God))) bless Larry David.
Nah, I don’t think you need to feel bad, especially since you’ve done your bit within the last year. I mean, maybe if you told a whopper of a lie to get out, but if you’re just busy or indispensable at work, no big.
Don’t look at it, Marion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvuN_WvF1to
for context
The Infantile Lefitist Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVKmROpJ2g
That video needs a better narrator. He sounds like he’s making ransom demands.
The joust sucked.
No, I don’t want to see quintain. I don’t want to see your pansy excuses for striking with the metal lance that doesn’t explode. No I don’t want to see choreographed falling-off-of-the-horse.
Hrmph.
/curmudgeon
Maybe this will help?
http://www.free80sarcade.com/joust.php
That website looks like it’s from the 80s.
I think that’s the point.
Well, I guess I know what I will be doing for the next few
hoursyears.It’s been nice knowing you all.
Went to the butchers to buy some more jowl bacon, and they had pre-cooked meatballs available. I bought a couple to try and they are amazing. I have no idea what’s in them other than meat and deliciousness.
For lunch, I had a duck burger with bacon, egg, and fried jalapenos. So, so good.
Nice. I got a frozen duck one time and drunkenly threw together an approximation of Alton Brown’s duck recipe. Came out pretty damn good if I remember right (and I probably don’t due to the massive amounts of booze).
I should try my hand at some Peking duck one of these days.
Punkin’ Chunkin’ Lives!!! Now, just hoping someone will televise it. It had become my favorite Thanksgiving evening tradition, but under the circumstances, I wouldn’t be surprised if Science Channel won’t touch it,
?????
IIRC, the event hasn’t been held for a couple of years after a Science Channel producer got hit in the head & critically injured (but survived.) Of course, she sued, but I believe the lawsuit was eventually thrown out.
Got hit in the head how? Was she downrange while they were shooting?
Nope – machine malfunction:
Ouch. I can see why she might be a bit upset about that.
Yeah, but…at that sort of event, you have to expect that things can go extremely wrong. Can’t really tell from the news reports whether the case was just dismissed or if it was settled.
Having much experience with things that can go wrong I am often accused of being overly cautious. My normal reply is to show my scars, of which I have many.
With things that go bang or whooooshhhh or have lots of moving parts I stand clear. As a matter of fact earlier I looked up the punkin’ chunkin’ videos and watched the world record chunker, the 10″ pneumatic gun. As the guy was loading it and then closing the hatch on the breech it crossed my mind that that is not a very strong arrangement. A chain is as strong as it’s weakest link. The 1/4″ steel plate and bolted closure are useless as the weakest link are the hinge pins. It immediately popped in my head “Don’t stand in line with that”.
Relevant
Yeah, while all the sissyboys hide up in the booth.
Is that where they build trebuchets and launch them?
Yup – “The devices used include slingshots, catapults, centrifugals, trebuchets, and pneumatic cannons.” (From Wiki article)
Thats hawt
We’re actually considering going if I can get off work the following Monday.
Siege weapons…busted pumpkins…im assuming libations…what’s not to like!
I prefer the piano trebuchet guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rn8jBzsg9U
That was awesome! The nighttime launch that popped up next was even more spectacular.
One month from today is my last day of work at this job and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
I’m drinking Ayinger Oktober Fest-Marzen. I’d wager it’s 1 billion times better than Leinie Pumkinspice schwill.
Sounds very good. And it reminds me that I have a bottle of this in the beer fridge. Going to go fetch it post haste.
Ooooh….I almost bought that one when I bought the Ayinger. Definitely pick up some if you see it, it’s worth the price
Liquid Bliss Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter for me.
And listening to the theme song of my childhood hero:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bTpp8PQSog
No gadgets, no superpowers- just a smart guy who can fight.
Did you wail and gnash your teeth at the fourth installment? Of all the ridiculous, unnecessary sequels; that one is at the top of the list.
/I loved Indiana as a kid too
The movie was so-so*, but it was neat to seem him reprise a role from 25 years prior.
*I give it points for having different villains, aliens, and a nuke.
I had been out of the US for 2 years prior when it was released, and it was one of the movies on my list. The other was Terminator Salvation, which sucked.
I never saw Terminator Salvation. I detested Crystal Skull…..I’ve done my best to forget it exists.
The only sequel that left me deeply disappointed was the 3rd Austin Powers movie. The 2nd had a moon base, so I judged that more leniently.
See, I can forgive a shitty comedy sequel. Was Anchorman 2 nearly as funny as the original? Not a chance, but I chuckled and had fun.
(this excludes Dumb & Dumber 2 which approaches Crystal Skull levels of god-awful)
I take exception to diminishing my childhood favorites
(fuck you George Lucas)
And he knows how to use a bullwhip! Very cool.
Funny, cue’d up after was one of my all time favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tjdswqGGVg
That sounds so decadent. And sooooo good.
Congrats on leaving a job you hate.
Yep, it’s a GOOD feeling to almost be done.
I just need to make it 30 days without telling anyone to fuck off.
/fingers crossed
It’s not that hard. Just remind yourself that you can tell them to fuck off on day 31.
It’s not that hard. Just remind yourself that you can tell them ALL to fuck off on day 31.
Yep. The problem is the gloves are coming off on both sides. I am in a unique position in that I offer something that they need but resent having to do. (I know that’s really vague but I don’t wanna get into specifics). They are going to ask me to do a shitty job and pencil whip what they need before I leave and I’m not built that way. It has a potential to get ugly.
Anything lined up?
Yep, new job is all set. Just running out the clock…..I’m a tax feeder so it wasn’t like it was hard to make the move…..really more of a transfer
Nice
Gonna roast a 4 lb chicken this afternoon, let it cool on the counter while I go watch tOSU game. Then sauté the giblets in butter and grapeseed oil with onions and mushrooms. And sauteed broccoli rabe with garlic.
Drinking bourbon with a splash of cranberry juice and Perrier. Wife and I binge watching season 6 of Deep Space Nine. Good day.
Sounds like a plan!
All I got is a lousy acorn squash. That I am about to halve, scoop, treat with Kerrygold, sugar, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon and pass to the instant pot for a bit.
Paired with whatever the cave man chose to bring home today.
Ive got some chicken breasts destined for the grill…but not sure what else to make. Weather is awesome in the Vegas Valley and we kicked the kids out for the day
I bought a pair of beef pot pies at our local meat market/deli. They’re friggin’ awesome and Saturday is my day off.
Went to RenFest. A good time was not had.
I just enjoyed a nap.
Next up: Taking XX last-minute bra shopping for homecoming tonight, then doing her hair, IF she manages to get the kitchen clean, which she has had all day to do.
This parenting gig is a bit more challenging than I realized.
Amen to that.
Moj…wife and I are attending Vegas’ Ren Faire in a week. We plan on being drunk
That seems like a good way to do it.
Sorry you had no joy. I’ve never been to one of those, and don’t intend to try one now.
Mrs.T took our XY to his SAT test today.
Question: If my kid has great report cards, but bombs the SAT, can I sue the shit out of the county school system?
Well, it was raining and muddy. Having to watch every step makes things more difficult to enjoy.
Just shave her like Susan Powter.
OMG I REMEMBER HER!!!
Tried her diet program. Gained weight almost as fast as I do when I’m sucking down pink lemonade like it’s water.
“Miley Cyrus flashes her abs in a cropped jumper while grocery shopping in LA after BLASTING ‘slut-shamers’ for labelling her a ‘w****’ following Cody Simpson kiss”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7541045/Miley-Cyrus-flashes-abs-cropped-jumper-shopping-LA-BLASTING-slut-shamers.html
I can’t guess what that word is.
Whore?
Wench?
and I oop!
I didn’t think that was a swear word, which is probably why I couldn’t think of it.
Woman?
ha!
white?
You shut your whore mouth!
“‘It’s way too terrifying’: Joker viewers around the world WALK OUT of movie theaters and urge cinemas to BAN the ultra-violent film saying it glamorizes gun crime and deals with mental health issues in a ‘triggering’ way”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7540901/Joker-viewers-globe-WALK-movie-theatres.html
It was like two people on Twitter.
I’m sure there are mental heath issues to deal with, they are just independent of the movie.
I usually read the plot summary on wikipedia instead of going to see movies. It’s cheaper, takes much less time, and I don’t have to put up with annoying people.
It’s interesting they tried to give the Joker a more realistic back story, although I wonder how an insane person could recruit followers and maintain an organization.
Look at the USG.
We get it. You can ease off on the fake moral panic, Warner Bros.
I honestly don’t think it’s Warner. I think there are legitimately enough people in the bluecheck community that think the “incel uprising” is an actual thing
Oh I don’t really think so either. It’s more comforting than the real moral panic that seems more likely. That’s the scariest thing about all of this.
When I used to care about movies, I made an effort to view the one that reportedly had half the audience walked out in Cannes.
Look back over the best/worst songs conversation. Think about the incredibly rich body of artistic work America has produced in the last 100 years. The music, the movies, visual arts, plays, and the list of fantastic artists is endless.
Now list all of the music, movies, other visual arts and great artists produced by the commies in those same 100 years.
I find it more than a little puzzling that our community of artists, journalists, studiers and practitioners of humanities are overwhelmingly left leaning. Useful idiocy at its worst. If they have their way they will all end up in the dirt and their arts dead.
No, you see, THIS time they won’t be the first against the wall. Surely this revolution will recognize their genius.
+1 Night of the Murdered Poets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets
Have these shits not seen A Clockwork Orange?
AOC has a new fireside chat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npVXKoAuk9U
It’s about what you’d expect.
Ugggghhhhh…..I really hate that she’s hot. Some here might not think so but I can’t deny it….
then she opens her mouth.
“A just society regards housing as a right, not a privilege.”
Fuck. Off. Slaver.
No amount of looks can compensate for that much stupidity.
My favorite part was Mr Face Tattoos complaining about not being able to find a job.
I see that in WV all the time. Can’t find a job but plenty of money for shitty tat’s with no thought to how they might limit job opportunities.
I grew up in WV. In my home county, a company tried to open an insulation factory, and there was a fierce backlash from the NIMBY crowd. God forbid there was somewhere to work in that county besides fast food, strip clubs and convenience stores.
I read Hillbilly Elegy a while back and found myself nodding on every other page. Yep, been there, done that, seen that.
Blood comes out of my eyes when I see the enviros and native orgs, who depend on poor natives for their existence, oppose any development in the broke dick parts of this state. God forbid someone have a job even during an exploratory phase of a development.
Hillbilly Elegy helped me contextualize where I’ve lived for five years. I’m not going to lie though, I have more contempt than pity for the culture here than I did when I moved here.
That being said I’ve known some very nice, decent people here
also I agree about AOC and the stupidity……unlike some other Glibs I don’t think she’s horse faced though…….she’s a physical specimen which makes he addled socialist brain all the more tragic.
Not the non-English speaker touting equal conditions for everyone? The guy is in his late 40’s to mid 50’s and believes in that fairly tale bullshit? No idea what country he is from but it doesn’t much matter. All of Latin America is collectivist as hell. It would be rich if he were a refugee from Venezuela.
Fuckin commie morons.
She’s off her nut if she thinks that is what America wants.
I’m not going to watch that; how does it differ from her last “new deal”?
Considering that the green new deal is exactly the kind of fantasy dreamed up by a 8 year old child with zero grasp of physics, economics or human nature, yes, her just society is the same nonsense.
Anyone who voted for that silly cow should be ashamed. Anyone that buys into the green new deal should have their voting rights taken away. They are too fucking ignorant to breath on their own.
And sadly, that’s a larger portion of the population than any of us would like to admit. I’ve come to believe in the last few years that voting is a joke and in no way morally legitimate.
Eleanor Rigby works pretty well as thrash metal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9XNoU3tHqU
????
That’s just way too much treble.
“At the first of seven Toronto shows by disgraced comic Louis C.K., the mostly white, male audience ate up jokes about sexual misconduct, Asians, gays and Justin Trudeau.”
https://twitter.com/nowtoronto/status/1179837528188301314
OFFS!
It took seven shows to accommodate all the racist white males in Toronto? I’m impressed.
Breaking: Louis CK mans up and makes comedy offensive again. Finds audience.
“I’m Not Saying Minimalism Is Homophobic, But
Yes, minimalist interior design is probably super beneficial for your mental health, but what of my tchotchkes! My knickknacks! My things!
The minimalist agenda strikes again.
Speaking to Forbes (or really, its barely-policed contributor network, a veritable Wild West of questionably-sourced takes), a bunch of interior design experts and health professionals weighed in over the weekend on the wellness benefits of living in a minimalist home. Unnecessary furniture is inhibiting, they say, while clutter can prove too stimulating. “Living in a place with high or low visual complexity is stressful,” advised Sally Augustin, a practicing design psychologist and American Psychological Association Fellow. Their insights mirror a lot of the pro-minimalism propaganda we’ve suffered over the better part of the last decade—the efficiency-oriented, borderline Randian philosophy that connects utility with moral goodness and asks us to cast aside anything or anyone that’s not clearly, immediately useful.
Now [hitches thumbs in the suspenders I’m not wearing], I might not be one of your big city practicing design psychologist and American Psychological Association Fellows, but I take issue with this here wellness advice. For all the ways that my cluttered room, filled with its ever increasing number of tchotchkes and knickknacks, stresses me the hell out when I’m trying to be functional (Did I leave my keys on top of my functional Tarot decks or my decorative Tarot decks? Why do I keep tripping on this pile of orange blocks I put in the corner purely because they look cute? Is this the pink satin dress I keep around because it fits me or the one that’s too small that I only keep in my closet for the Puce Moment fantasy when I flip through the hangers?), but…it’s camp! And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
In case you completely blacked out during the endless “What is camp?” discourse pegged to the 2019 Met Gala earlier this year, camp is a queer aesthetic sensibility that finds humor and beauty in places where the straight world would tell us there is none. Many turn to Susan Sontag to properly define camp, but I think The Simpsons does a way better job than ol’ Mrs. Notes ever did. In the 1997 episode “Homer’s Phobia,” a local gay shopkeeper voiced by John Waters tells the cartoon family’s bald-headed patriarch that camp is a way of finding humor and appreciation in “the tragically ludicrous” and “the ludicrously tragic.” Tag yourself, I’m tragically ludicrous.
I don’t keep that giant wall display of a woman wearing lots of makeup that just says “MAKEUP” in large, lipstick-scrawled letters because it’s good for my mental health. I keep it because it’s a big picture of a woman wearing makeup and that says makeup. I don’t think I can explain that any clearer—in fact, it might be detrimental to mine own mental health to do that, so I’ll just wrap this all up by saying that minimalism might be homophobic (not to mention racist and classist)? Discuss.”
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gyzwbw/im-not-saying-minimalism-is-homophobic-but
I quoted the whole stupid thing so you don’t have to click on that.
These people have way too much time on their hands.
I have relatives whose houses are just “aisles and piles”. I prefer a living space where every horizontal surface is not covered in stuff. I also prefer a fridge that isn’t so full that it takes me 5 minutes to find anything.
Less is more- mainly more time.
obligatory: a place for my stuff by Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
I have an idea. I will decorate my house the way I want and the chittering, jabbering idiot and all of the experts can piss off.
I like this idea.
I’m going to take a wild guess that every person that writer knows lives in house packed with crap.
“I don’t know anyone who
voted for Nixonappreciates neatness!”Absolutly Fabulous had some thoughts on minimalist interior design.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhYi229qPXQ
I’d like to see these designers call for a minimalist government.
“Understand that Trump is engaged in deliberate, atrocious, targeted antisemitism towards Chairman Schiff.
Then ask yourself why no one cares to denounce it – esp when his accusation of it towards others drove full news cycles earlier this year.”
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1180476191951802369
“To be clear: More than 200 House Democrats have signed onto an impeachment inquiry and yet the president chose to target only three of them by name, two of whom are Jewish: Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler, chairs of the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees. The third target was — surprise! — a woman of color, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Shamefully, he attacked all of them as “savages.”
How is such rhetoric not racist?”
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/04/trump-anti-semitic-impeachment/
Because it has nothing to do with race?
DNC staffers make fun of Jerry Nadler’s weight in leaked emails
https://nypost.com/2016/08/24/dnc-staffers-make-fun-of-jerry-nadlers-weight-in-leaked-emails/
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The 5’4” Nadler once tipped the scales at 338 pounds, but underwent stomach surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in 2002. He dropped weight immediately, changed his diet and said he took the drastic measure to extend his life.
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Good god, what useless fat fuck. I’m the same height, and even after a year of gluttony only managed to get to 207.
It’s a complete mystery.
Pssst… new thread!!