Say what you will about a “dry heat”, it was only 90 here in the sauna of Florida, but I sweated through my clothes twice in 4 hours while working on that fucking Expedition. To the point that I could not have got my clothes any more wet by jumping in the pool, and they literally dripped as I removed them.
Well, it looks like the latest real estate Yellow Panic is over. Now we drive down the value and buy it back cheap, right?
Florida town engages in what is clearly cruel and unusual behavior. Having lived through hours of this song on loop, I can confirm that it is torture.
PETA to Florida Man, please be more humane culling iguanas than we are to dogs.
Warty Hugeman thinks these guys should probably squat more, and stop trying to be the biggest guy in the gym, because Warty already has that on lockdown.
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it was 100 in Denver, whiny ass Bitches
I had a nice cold rain that soaked me clean through on my way home.
So you’re saying you’re all wet…
Heat is supposed to be over a hundred this weekend. Kayak camp is this weekend but lots of people, including me, are dropping out because of the heat. A day on the water with a heat index expected to be over 110, followed by a night in a tent — too old for that shiznat.
Similar – head index ~ 105 with the humidity on Saturday & friends having a cook-out / birthday celebration. Sorely tempted to skip it, but these are old friends we haven’t seen in quite a while.
Same here in SW Ohio over the next couple days. 90s temp, with relative stupidity in the 80-90% range
“Relative stupidity in the 80-90% range”
That is GOLD
As is “head index.”
Cincinnati or Dayton?
It was mid to upper 90s here today and so humid that the windows were fogged up. I stayed inside the entire day. Screw that!
At 29% humidity? Try 98 and 60% humidity and see if that adjusts your attitude.
64 and sunny. Feels great.
The forecast is for rising temps and rising dew points (over 70 degrees today).
One acre of lawn that hasn’t been mowed since before vacation.
One riding lawnmower that won’t start.
Thus, the future looks like push mowing the lawn in pieces over the next several days.
That’s what your orphans are for.
Yeah, well, I have a 5K on Saturday – forecast is 81 degrees and 80% humidity at the start. If you never hear from me again, it’s because I died trying to beat my personal worst.
City hopes ‘Baby Shark’ song will drive homeless away
It’ll drive everyone away.
Florida town engages in what is clearly cruel and unusual behavior.
They should have asked me for music selections.
It’s West Palm Beach, not East Berlin.
Don’t you have to post some fatty Brit pix?
/sarc
FWC wants people to humanely kill the invasive green iguanas, but PETA says try to regulate them first, then kill, but do so to ‘avoid prolonged suffering.
I take it we won’t be killing them the way PETA kills animals.
Stealing ones that are kept as pets and then killing them?
The Chinese backing out of our real estate market is going to hit California hard.
Good. California real estate is overvalued anyway.
Maybe some of the recently-former ex Californians will return.
Maybe I can afford to stay there again, maybe , live.
somewhere
Is your McGriddle missing something?
McDonald’s Restaurants Testing Blueberry McGriddles
“The flavors from the real blueberries balanced with the sweet taste of maple, reminds me of the blueberry pancakes my mother used to make for us growing up. Imagine that combined with your choice of sizzling breakfast sausage or thick cut bacon nestled under a creamy slice of American cheese and fluffy egg. It’s everything you love about breakfast in one sandwich.”
Cool link bro.
You want blueberries and a link?
https://news.mcdonalds.com/news-releases/news-release-details/mcdonalds-restaurants-testing-blueberry-mcgriddlesr-breakfast
The one and only time I ate a McGriddle, I am pretty sure it gave me a case of 24-hour diabetes.
Not surprising, the regular McGriddles have 45g of carbs, that’s more than a Coke:
https://fastfoodnutrition.org/mcdonalds/bacon-egg-cheese-mcgriddles
The blueberry ones are probably sweeter.
“breakfast sausage or thick cut bacon nestled under a creamy slice of American cheese and fluffy egg”
Yeah, just shove some frozen blueberries into that and instant health food.
No, the carbs from the blueberries and pancakes are what make it unhealthy. Egg, sausage and cheese alone is Keto friendly and will lead to weight loss and lower serum cholesterol.
PETA to Florida Man, please be more humane culling iguanas than we are to dogs.-
When I did the python hunts the required course covered how to humanely kill pythons. I don’t think it is unreasonable for FWC to post how to kill iguanas.
Presumably, barbecue is the correct way, right?
That’s after the harvest.
^This. The sad fact is that there are animals that we deem as nuisances and kill. Let us do so in as reasonably a humane fashion as we can, realizing that not everyone has access to a big bottle of Euthanasol.
guillotine
Pan fry them to death, serve with a side of black beans beans and a cold beer.
Turn me over, I’m well done on this side!
At least he could see the lighter side of being, uh, slowly burned to death.
I chose him for my confirmation name (Catholic) as a backhanded fuck you to my school and parents. Yes I was a bitter child with a sense of humor
Be heading is not human for reptiles because they’re still conscious. Blunt force trauma to the head is more effective and humane.
So… Whacking Day?
My kind of wonderful, that’s what you are.
Euphemism?
Missing a Simpsons reference is why the dog didn’t like you.
Let’s be fair- she didn’t like Gojira, either.
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men.
Back when the area around my neighborhood was a fox fur farm, they used to euthanize them with by injecting Epsom salts. Horrifying death.
Oh wow, that sounds genuinely horrifying.
“anal electrocution”
That is how the cattle industry collects bull semen.
Collecting turkey semen is completely manual. Turkey milker must be a demoralizing job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroejaculation
“what did you do at work today, honey?”
“jerked my turkey for 8 hours straight”
And a constant reminder of how small your hands are.
The fur industry also used anal electrocution. They are complete scum.
Don’t want to damage the fur.
I grew up around a lot of mink farmers. Anal electrocution was how they did it and it led to no end of giggling in Junior High.
I’m not sure I’d call any of them scum. I don’t see much of a difference between raising animals for food or for fur.
At least the captive bolt gun use to put down cattle is an attempt to reduce cruelty. It’s not the end to which their carcasses are put, it’s the deliberate cruelty.
Yeah, that can’t be good for your soul.
Breaking the necks of the ducks I failed to kill cleanly made me feel like shit.
The very first antelope I ever got, I gut-shot. He was still struggling when I got up to him. It almost made me weep.
I had a cousin who worked in a turkey processing plant up near Detroit Lakes, MN about 30 years ago. His job was to wring the turkeys’ necks. He said he only lasted two weeks, adding that he got pretty good at it.
Wabbit screams are heart wrenching. But when he gets fried up and served it lessens the pain.
*heart clogs from cholesterol
“kill iguanas”
Yummy tree chicken.
OMG, the last H&H episode…
Special shoutout to Sugar-free for the “your brother’s penis” line. A friend who was learning Arabic in hopes of a State Dept career told me that “your sister’s [vagina]” is a colloquial taunt in Arabic.
[Insert Ilhan Omar joke here]
I found that “[go] fuck your mother” and “fuck yourself” got the point across in Egyptian Arabic.
‘Your mother’s pussy’ was also an acceptable insult.
OMG, the last H&H episode…
Indeed. It was like a shotgun blast, it hit everyone. It was great.
[bows, picks up thrown flowers]
Yeah, I’m late to the party, but made sure to read the story before hopping ? to the comments here.
Good stuff SF.
Sorry, but being lectured to about the dangers of trying to build muscle by someone named Kale doesn’t do much to discourage me. Now, an article by Porterhouse…
“T-bone” or “Pork chop” also acceptable.
I will accept no less than Rare Ribeye.
Kamala Harris’s Record Proves Her Allegiance To Politics Over Principles
In 2014, the Supreme Court ordered California to launch a new parole program. According to the court, California’s prison conditions were so bad they were considered unconstitutional as “cruel and unusual punishment.”
However, Harris fought to keep these prisoners in place. Her office said prisoners couldn’t be released as it would deplete the pool for prison labor. Harris denies knowing that this was the position her office was taking, but not being able to control the department she manages also speaks to her character and leadership skills.
In 2014, Harris was against releasing American citizens back into society on a parole plan. Now, in 2019, Harris wants to release non-American citizens who illegally crossed the U.S. border. When California’s prison conditions were so terrible they were considered unconstitutional, Harris didn’t budge on leaving Americans incarcerated. But on releasing illegal immigrants into the interior of the United States despite their lack of legal legitimacy in being there, Harris advocates for those policies.
Harris is not a principled politician. She does not take a position and attempt to apply that outlook fairly to every decision she makes. Instead, Harris makes the decision that will bolster her political image and gain support in the far-left Democratic base.
She has a principle, accruing power.
By Chrissy Clark
WOULD.
A Democrat ticket with Kamala Harris on it would be the singular thing that would get me to vote for Trump next year.
They have demonstrated that they will run the anointed candidate even if that candidate is hugely dislikable to the general public, and particularly so to moderates and independents. Then they spend the next four years lecturing the public about how they (the public) made the “wrong” electoral choice.
My wife, anointed with a bit of TDS, agrees with me on how terrible Harris is. She’ll be staying home if Harris is on the ticket.
Meh, wasting your time. Just sit home and watch the Orangebadman landslide victory from the comfort of your own home.
Orangeman has already won in a landslide, just before largest inaugural ever !
The classiest, big-league inauguration in history. Betsy Ross Flags for everyone!
I remember someone here saying they are getting one of those flags tattooed on their penis. That sounds painful to me, I guess I’m getting mine on my ass.
Tramp-stamp is the way to go.
So every time you sit down you’re sitting on the Betsy Ross flag?
Fuckin’ Commie.
She’s been rising in the polls, so you may want to start stocking up on alcohol, just in case.
Whatever decision the dems makex it’s going to be a disaster for them. What are they going to do this time? Russian redux? I don’t think so.
Something really weird about that byline picture. Clearly she is putting her hand on something but it’s been edit out, the outfit is peculiar as well.
“she is putting her hand on something but it’s been edit out”
She *is* a star at tugjobs.com.
It looks like she’s drunk and holding on to the wall for support.
That seems to be a particularly good picture, but not bad. https://twitter.com/chrissyclark_/media
Would.
Wait… what? That’s a Golden Retriever, you dog molester!
It’s almost like she’s a politician or something.
The “Black” Lady running for President pictures with her parents.
Gilmored it.
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/indiawest.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/4/ab/4aba26a8-a643-11e6-8d08-0f3833fd87ea/5822be39265e2.image.jpg?resize=945%2C630
Tundra, thanks for the Speed Queen recommendation. I found a reconditioned model for 20% of list price. It only has three modes, but damned if it didn’t get my clothes dry in 25 minutes.
They are great washers and dryers. They use actual water to wash clothes as opposed to “misting” them in an effort to conserve water.
My new house came with a washer so I’m using that until it dies. It did manage to get the blood out of short that I wiped on them when I cut my hands attaching the exhaust duct. I forgot how sharp that stuff can be. I was a few beers deep, which probably didn’t help.
Excellent! As I said, they make them the old fashioned way.
And you can fix them!!
The fact there’s no wifi or electric displays was a big draw. I shot the breeze with the guy at the place where I bought it and they make a killing from people who can’t fix modern stuff and give up and trade them in. Apparently on the new fancy appliances the warranty doesn’t cover the touchscreen bullshit.
My last set was Bosch. Super nice…for awhile. I heard the bearings making noise in the washer, so I figured I’d take it apart and change them. Nope. The fucking bearings were part of a sealed unit that included the ENTIRE FUCKING DRUM ASSEMBLY!! Needless to say, the part was as expensive as a new one.
My wersher is a Samsung and I have all paperwork for it if anything happens. if it turns out to be sealed unit like yours, then it’s Tannerite time.
As I said, they make them the old fashioned way.
They earn them?
I loved “Paper Chase”.
I have become a big fan of Samsung front-loaders. They get clothes clean and my clothes last longer than with an auger (top-loading) washer. While it does use liquid water instead of mist bullshit, I have found that I always have to put it on extra rinse to get the clothes properly clean. Goddam eco-nuts.
*thinks about leaving well enough alone*
*decides to rant instead*
There are only so many fucking times we can legislate insanity into our appliances and have the industry come to the rescue. Toilets aren’t gonna get all that much more efficient than they are now, washers and dryers are pretty well maxed out barring some new technology, dishwashers are at their limits. We’re seeing the cracks in the facade, namely in reduced quality of results, but the legislators want to keep pushing, pushing, pushing. It already takes us 2 trips through the washer and 90 minutes to dry out most of our clothes. How much more high efficiency can we go?
Bahhh. Just move to the desert like me. Clothes air dry while you move from the washer to the dryer.
The low flow toilets and showerheads UNEXPECTEDLY are causing issues with sewers because the slope of sewers were designed for X water flow and now it’s .5X flow. Not that any dumbfuck who voted for these stupid appliances has ever seen a sewer or lift station or understands that the cost to produce a gallon of water is almost zero in most places. The first gallon, however, is very expensive to make.
Haven’t you heard, Trashy? We’re not supposed to use dryers as that make Mother Gaia cry. We are supposed to hang our laundry out on a backyard clothesline just like my grandmother used to do. And nobody wants to talk about the inevitable waste of water when laundry has to be redone because a bird poops on it while its drying.
When you dry towels on the line, they are effectively turned into sandpaper, which is great for exfoliating the skin.
Also helps if you don’t use “softener.” That stuff is bullshit. It reduces the moisture absorbency of fabric; not something you want for towels, socks, etc.
Swore off softeners, dryer sheets, soap with fragrance years ago.
My wife insists on using that garbage. She also puts that jet dry crap in the dishwasher.
I switched to the fragrance free stuff years ago. I do still use dryer sheets on non-towels because of static cling.
Save all the water you want in your house: it takes so many gallons to float the turds away underground.
“I have become a big fan of Samsung front-loaders.”
I love those. As soon as wifey and I have bought our new home, that is one of the first things I will invest in. I hope they don’t explode.
I’ve had two. First one gave approximately six years good service and conveyed with the house when I sold it. AFAIK, it’s still going strong.
Second one I bought about a year ago when I bought the new house and it’s been fine.
Good to hear, I have a Samsung front loader the people who sold me the house left behind. I’ve used it once but on clothes that weren’t egregiously dirty.
I rarely use the “heavy-duty” setting on mine and I generate a lot of dirty, muddy and sometimes bloody clothing.
We recently went back to the top loader, one without an agitator. Works great.
We love your Samsung front loaders. I also like the top mini unit that allows you to wash just one or two things.
And bless the free market. Obama changed the regs on dishwashers, which is why modern dishwashers are so bad at getting dishes dry. So what do manufacturers do? They add an “extended dry” feature as an option.
“our”. I hate auto correct.
Oh, look at Mr. Fancy Top Mini-Unit Guy. I’m buying at least a grade down from you – white enamel with control wheel, buttons and LED (non-touch) display.
The wife gets the cleaning appliances she desires.
^^This^^
For the cleaning portion of dishwashers, this is on order
https://www.pgpro.com/brands/cascade-professional/cascade-fryer-boil-out/
I’m sure you’re right, but I just don’t see how that would work
[golf clap]
My 22yo Maytag washer died a few months ago. Cost to repair was as high as buying new. So we replaced the washer and drier with new LG appliances.
The washer takes 82 minutes for a “deep wash with extra rinse cycle”. This is something the maytag did in about 25 minutes.
The drier leaves everything damp. If you attempt to run the drier a second time, the sensor decides the load is dry and stops the drier within about a minute.
Fuck all the new enviro-friendly horseshit in the new machines.
I usually pay the laundromat across the street to do it for me but when I do it myself on the machines in my apartment building, those are like old-school commercial beasts. I have to be careful not to over-dry my clothes.
Because tenants always complain to the management that they are getting ripped off by the shared dryers, so management sets the dryers on eleven to shut them up. Then someone melts her bra or panties in the dryer and the thing gets dialed back to “damp.”
Meh. I don’t care how long it takes. I do maybe 4-5 loads a week. It’s not like your cheap apartment laundry rooms where you got people waiting.
Never, never again will I share a washer with others or use a washer that *&^%$#@! hippies have used to wash cloth diapers.
RE: Dryer. I find that for cotton loads I have to let it finish on “auto,” clean the lint trap, and restart to get everything properly dry.
“Timed Dry” setting is your friend.
Don’t keep us in suspense, Brett!
Did you successfully bring the Expedition back to life?
Expedition
not a truck
/ some official opinion
Hmmm. I think that one could actually swallow a sheet of plywood.
Nope. The Excursion could but not the Expedition.
I think I was just shy. Like if I was a tiny person and moved the front seats way up, it might. I can’t remember now, but it definitely got 6 sheets of plywood to my hose from Home Depot.
I have a Tahoe and I have to leave the hatch partially open.
I mean, it’s an SUV, right?
Canyonero
I believe it’s built on the same frame as the F150.
I used the F-150 videos to do all the work. Its just a different body on the same parts. As far as I’m concerned, if I have to pay truck prices for tires, and it has all truck parts, its a truck.
Oh yeah. I’ll just leave off the 9 page manifesto about the geniuses at Ford putting hex key bolts on the rear calipers to save 1″ of brake line. But yeah. New suspension, new brake pads and rotors. It was like driving a new car. Maybe Florida Man will even let me get 400 or so miles of wear in on the brakes before making me really punch them.
Nice job! Poor Brooks is still dealing with Ford engineering.
Most humane way to kill Iguanas?
https://www.airgundepot.com
Head shots. Get the 177…lighter bullet slows down faster so less likely to hurt someone or get you in trouble. You don’t want any collateral damage but it is still easily enough energy to bag Iquanas out to 50 yards.
And make sure you have some of this on hand
https://www.stubbsbbq.com
I just finished a bottle of their hickory bourbon sauce – too sweet for me. I see the original is far less sweet, maybe I’ll try that.
I think the iguanas know I mean them harm. Every time I visit the in laws in South Florida, no iguanas. If my wife goes by herself there are always iguanas on the patio.
It is funny how animals do that.
Set up a blind and bait them with romaine lettuce.
Keeping with Ayn Random Variation’s request, Ass Glibs rejoice!
http://archive.is/tsu5I
For the gin drinkers. I had Roku gin last night and proclaim it good. Good enough to drink neat.
https://www.masterofmalt.com/gin/roku/roku-gin/
Ah, Mother Genever.
“Drunk for a penny, dead drunk tuppence, straw free.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/17/trump-attacks-squad-scared-politics
“pit Muslims and Jews against one another”
I don’t think they need any help from Trump for that one.
I had to read it twice to figure out which side they were talking about.
“What distinguishes them [the Squad] as much as who they are is what they have done”
Behave like a bunch of retarded twats?
Have any of them written a piece of legislation? Or done anything except tweet and showboat?
Well, one of them came up with the New Green Deal, which no sane person supports, and another one said ‘Impeach that motherfucker’. So there’s that.
It’s sort of funny, because I was at our airport yesterday and I was thinking about the New Green Deal. Replace air flight with high speed rail. OK, I’m just looking at the number of travelers. Really? At my sleepy little BWI? What the fuck are you going to do? How many high speed rails are you going to build from East Coast USA to London? Give me some fucking numbers, twats. You aren’t serious.
As Homer Simpson said, ” Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians.”
“the initial steps towards a war with Iran. And in statehouses around the country, Republicans are working to guarantee white minority rule into perpetuity”
I know no one has a memory greater than 3 weeks in this country, but I vaguely remember when anti-war folk were called white supremacists because they opposed a war in Syria.
I know it’s “fun” to snark on The Guardian’s idiocy but I almost feel sorry for them now.
Well, no, but I’m not going to waste any more brain cells clicking over there either.
They seek to sow distrust among the vulnerable and the marginalized, to divide working-class people of color and working-class white people
That’s some mighty fine progjection.
That has to be five times today I have seen the exact same argument, using the same words almost verbatim from leftwing shitweasels.
Tim Pool has an interesting take on that incident.
Speaking of iguanas what happened to Mr. lizard?
*picks teeth*
No idea…
Euthanized.
Humanely, we hope.
Some guy in a yellow shirt stoned him to death.
“Some guy in a yellow shirt stoned him to death.”
With paint cans, right?
Yeah, dude was awesome. Never broke character.
Hope he’s doing well wherever he is.
He’s in The Village, now known as Number Six. He knew too much.
The villages? Keep it wrapped, Mr L.
Well I hope he’s on the same farm my parents took my childhood pet dog to. They don’t allow visitors so he won’t be bothered there.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/16/squad-america-trump-diversity
Wait, we libertarians want to build a more equitable and just world.
But because you’re not in favor of communism, and therefore a racist, that doesn’t count.
Nothing to other the Deep State, the globalists, the race mongers or other entrenched interests.
*offer*
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/14/rep_ayanna_pressley_we_dont_need_any_more_brown_faces_that_dont_want_to_be_a_brown_voice.html
“You niggas better damned well stay on the plantation!”
Amazing. She probably boosted black Trump voters by 10%
Animals found today in and around the city in which I live, according to the police department’s Facebook page:
1. A pig, found near a school. Apparently a pet, because it’s friendly.
2. A coyote, found in a park. They’re skittish and don’t like humans, but will eat your baby if you give them a chance.
Somehow no gators today.
“2. A coyote, found in a park. They’re skittish and don’t like humans, but will eat your baby if you give them a chance.”
Stop othering the coyotes. Only the Dingo will eat your baby.
This spring there were two cougar sightings in my town.
Every Friday at the local dive bar.
I damn near hit a juvenile moose yesterday pulling on to my street after work.
I’d rather see a cougar than a moose
I know you’re joking, but the big cats scare the hell out of me. Bears, at least here, are fairly indifferent to people and rarely attack and moose are flat out stupid and if you leave them alone, they return the courtesy. But cougars or mountain lions or whatever will silently stalk people and go for it. Hell naw.
I wasn’t really joking. If you see a cougar chances are it’s not stalking you, and will leave. Moose, from what I heard aren’t scared of shit.
I figured you were just talking about desperate 40-something ladies.
Which I would rather see than all of the above.
Who said I wasn’t…
Moose are very dumb and can’t see well at all. But they will loose their mind if they feel threatened.
If you see a cougar he is not going to eat you. If he was going to eat you, you wouldn’t see him.
Exactly.
juvenile moose
Was he making fart jokes and giggling anytime anyone said “unit”?
Nothing is a bigger pain in the ass than a pet pig.
DO NOT DIS ARNOLD.
Somehow no gators today.
As evidenced by the fact that the friendly pig was found alive.
It’s all meth gators ? nowadays.
Well, it looks like the latest real estate Yellow Panic is over. Now we drive down the value and buy it back cheap, right?
Given the values in that article, the average real estate purchase price dropped from $450K to $425K, so it’s not exactly gone cheap.
That’s cause the Russians are buying it all to prop up Trumputin
I imagine the iguanas eat a lot of insects. If that’s the case, why would I want to kill them?
They eat lots of plants and have basically no predators. They destroy gardens/house plants and poop everywhere. Imagine a plague of homeless vegans. Basically the worst parts of the Bible.
So rape and chopping the body up?
STEVE SMITH CULL INVASIVE POPULATION ALL THE TIME, AND BY CULL, MEAN……
Oh, then off with their heads.
Not that I care about the plants – I don’t garden and I miss the not-having-a-lawn rocky yard of Arizona, but the hell with stepping in lizard poop all the time, and if they don’t help with my enormous bug problem in the yard, then they are of no use to me.
Yeah, they also like to roost on roofs and shit over the edge. Wingless pigeons.
Speaking of culling nuisance animals, the city of Denver recently culled about 1,500 geese, which have turned areas of certain parks in the city into moonscapes. Naturally, there were protests…
https://coloradosun.com/2019/07/14/wildlife-denver-geese-parks-animal-cruelty-opinion/
The city tried to put a smiley face on the situation by saying they were going to feed the culled birds to the homeless. What caught my attention is that, according to the article above, the city spent $150K on its effort. By my math, that’s over $90 per goose. I’ve never field-dressed a goose to feed to the homeless, but that seems awfully high.
Could have paid the homeless to kill the geese
Someone had to wet their beak.
*fiercely narrows gaze *
“The protesters quickly dispersed, however, when two geese appeared and began hissing and biting.”
a)They want to feed Canadian geese to the homeless? Isn’t that a crime against humanity? I’ve never tried it, but I’ve been told they taste awful.
b)Someone in the article claims “the geese are so sweet”. This is obviously a person who was never attacked by a flock of aggressive geese while trying to feed them as a child, unlike me.
Depends on their food source. I do a goose pastrami that is awesome. I’ve also braised legs and thighs carnitas style that made excellent tacos.
Even better, the someone in the article who thinks geese are sweet is the five-year-old daughter of one of the authors of the article. So this idiot is cutting his little girl loose to cuddle with geese in the park.
I came into a stock of sausage made out of Canadian geese recently, and it was pretty good. Although I suspect with the right seasoning one could make sausage out of a cinder block and it would be okay.
They should try lobster:
They are pretty fowl.
At that price, I wouldn’t hunt geese. And a frozen goose at the grocery store will cost less than half of that.
We could easily cull a couple hundred deer in our neighborhood. They’re like vermin.
It’s 4 bells, time for a little car porn. I think this one will appeal to a lot of you, even Brooksie.
I give you the 1960 MG MGA
I’m a little surprised at the number, but it’s still a couple days out.
A dead sexy car for some lucky person.
The Brits sure made an awful lot of beautiful cars. And then they put Lucas electrics in them.
The car industry in the UK is a fascinating story. And yes, for a bunch of uptight twits, they could absolutely run with the Italians in design.
I learned quickly with mine that any electrical gremlins are almost certainly a ground problem. I cleaned and greased all the ground points and also ended up grounding the tail lights to the body and suddenly everything worked!
I’m still trying to work out the logistics for buying that Spitfire. Every person I know except you tells me this car is a terrible idea, so I absolutely know I should do it.
It fucking drives me crazy. It’s not a goddamn daily driver. They are so simple and so cheap to own. Every single time I take it out, people stop to ask about it. And they are crazy fun to drive.
They are the perfect inexpensive vintage car.
I just have to work out where I’m going to park it. I’m already storing a car on someone else’s property. I need to make the RX-8 in my driveway go away first.
Did you show mama the right drive RX-7?
No, if I had done that I definitely wouldn’t have room for a Spitfire.
I see no oil on the underside. How can that be a proper British car?
/should have never sold my ’58 MGA Coupe
That’s a nice one.
I read that as “1960 MG MAGA”
Someone might buy it and trick it out in MAGA-red. *shudder*
Damn.
I agree! I especially like the rear on mine…. https://imgur.com/a/XYpAicm
Trump tweets: Calculated or spontaneous?
Calculated to me.
https://www.axios.com/podcast-trump-tweets-racism-fc4043b0-3a18-4160-b0b1-bd455fcf78d4.html
They’re calculated. And the effect is phenomenal. Go ahead and think this guy is clueless. Like I posted here before, there is a documentary on this guy on Youtube that will give you a clue. No, he’s not an intellectual, it doesn’t matter, this is politics, not science.
Go ahead and think this guy is clueless.
I keep telling people that nobody, but nobody, who survives and thrives in commercial real estate, especially in NYC, can be stupid. Add to that, since he got into politics, just about everybody who has gone against him has left the arena with a sore ass.
He’s not snooty intellectual booksmart like that dreamy Obama, but people underestimate him at their peril. Don’t get distracted by the persona, look at the results.
He has not yet cracked the unified Deep State which opposes him (and I doubt he will), but in purely political fights and negotiations, he’s more effective than people give him credit for.
Obama is just a huckster that knows how to give the impression of being intellectual booksmart. He is an empty suit with an empty head.
Yes, I keep hearing how dumb Trump is, yet he keeps winning. I think it is an act. Hell, I do it to some extent. I learned a long time ago that if I relaxed and spoke with the thick southern accent I grew up with people would underestimate me and start talking. I would learn all kinds of things about them before I decided what I would let them know about me.
I think he’s either a master manipulator or he has such people working for him. He has been incredibly successful at getting people to just fall in love with him and become incapable of expressing even the slightest criticism.
One time at a family gathering, this woman said “Oh my god, when Obama would speak he would just take me awaaaaaaaaaay!!” and clutched her chest and threw her head back. It sounds like some silly ditzy moment, but this person gets one vote just like you and I. It was a disturbing sight.
Seeing people develop this religious adoration of that fucking Chicago smooth-talker was a major factor that drove me into the Hoppean position that democracy is actually a very bad thing.
And that, is why we’re not a democracy.
“He has not yet cracked the unified Deep State”
Here’s what I don’t get: they are part of the Executive Branch. Why doesn’t he just clean house?
It really isn’t that easy. Civil service protections are real.
I believe the anti-spoils system laws prevent the President from cleaning house among the rank and file, at least not without cause. The only bureaus who serve at his pleasure are the org heads.
Government union cut some sweetheart contract deals with Democrat administrations and now it’s pretty much impossible to fire someone once they’re off probation.
Optics. He needs to win a second term. Once he has done that I expect him to be more of a cutthroat, assuming he is serious about draining the swamp. Time will tell.
Like I said on the dead thread, Trump knows his best bet for 2020 is a race of him against Gulag Barbie (even though she’s not the actual candidate). There’s no way that turns out anything but a win for him. And going into last weekend, Gulag Barbie had set herself up for a massive takedown. Her and her “squad” had set themselves up against the Speaker, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. With his tweet, Trump basically force the Dems to line up behind her and stopped her from being squashed like a bug. And that’s what he should want. He should want Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be the person giving the keynote speech at the Democratic convention. He should want Ilhan Omar to be the person giving the introduction to the nominee. He should want them to be the face of the Democratic party going into November 2020.
Yes, and it is brilliant.
Did you know that we can no longer report on history because of the Nazis?
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/453381-dc-news-outlet-pulls-feature-crediting-nazi-rocket-scientist-for-apollo-11
Yeah, sure, we have to erase history, because it failed to prove that communism works.
Bingo. Also National Socialism and International Socialism are twin sisters.
Just wait until they find out about the history of Volkswagen.
Aerodynamics were basically invented by the Nazis. I guess efficient vehicles are racist.
Rockets are fascist
In college my assigned reading list included an article from some academic, up-its-own-ass journal about the patriarchal underpinnings of the military-industrial complex that leaned heavily on the shape of missiles being penis-esque. It was not a joke.
OMG, I remember that. Suspect she now has tenure.
Way back in college, a chick I was talking to asserted that missiles and rockets were shaped like dicks because they were designed by men. I asked her, given the constraints of moving payloads at supersonic speeds through the atmosphere while maintaining stability, what other shape they should be. To my surprise, she actually said, “Yeah, hmm. I guess that makes sense.”
Why, Big Boy makes an excellent rocket shape.
I never did like James Harden.
Tom Lehrer hit hardest.
MGAs are definitely purty, but I can live a long happy life without one.
Now we drive down the value and buy it back cheap, right?
Our house was built in 2007 -2008. I estimate the owners took a 40% loss when they sold it to us. I know that we couldn’t afford to pay what it cost to buy the land and build this house (the builder told us those numbers – yikes).
In the six years since we bought it, its gone up in value probably 15 – 20% (not including whatever value redoing the kitchen may have added). So, a little more than the Official Inflation Rate.
That’s fine, consider you’ve also got six years of use out of it. It’s not like you can live in a bond fund.
The city will be ordering candles for light within five years.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-becomes-first-U-S-city-to-ban-natural-14102242.php?t=ea39d0f200&f?
They’ve officially crossed over into malicious behavior now.
Their behavior has always been saturated with malice.
^^^^
I’m sure they’ll ban candles less than 5 years from now.
“The ordinance allocates $273,341 per year for a two-year staff position in the Building and Safety Division within the city’s Department of Planning and Development. The employee will be responsible for implementing the ban.”
I want to be paid half a million dollars to spend 2 years adding a couple lines to the building code. Where do I apply?
“Where do I apply?”
Sorry. You’re not a transgender, disabled, otherkin of color.
I identify as a left-handed, lesbian, midget, albino eskimo.
Burn it down
“It’s not radical, it’s necessary.”
No, it’s retarded.
I need to go buy a power steering pressure hose for the
ExplorerTar Baby. Apparently, the seals are designed to self-destruct like Peter Graves’ tape recorder when you take the line off the pump. I grow weary of this project. I have other things I’d rather be working on.New homeowner rant:
None of my goddamn lights are the same. There’s a Sugar Free-esqe mix of small lamp sized bulbs, decorative kitchen lights, office style long tube lights, bizarre bathroom lights that won’t take a normal bulb, the kind that have the prongs that you insert and twist to install and then finally some fucked up style of lights in the cans in the living room. Nothing takes a regular goddamn lightbulb.
Bulbs.com is your friend
I recommend you tear it all down and start over. Much easier.
Tear down is too much work. User kerosene first.
I can find the bulbs, but there’s no consistency and it drives me crazy. Pick a standard and stick with it.
Ok, Bernie 😉
… dang
Harsh
Pick a standard and stick with it.
They had one. It came in 25, 40, 60 75, and 100W and cost $0.35. The fucking assholes in Congress decreed that people must be protected from cheap lighting and banned them.
It was the singular moment that Hobbit became an anarchist.
I’d love to let you have your heat lamps, no matter how much I hate them.
If you want ugly brown light and lots of heat, that’s your business.
Wait until you see what I left in the crawlspace.
I’ll be down there this fall to shut off a few outdoor spigots and I’m not looking forward to seeing your presents.
Some say at 3AM you can hear the faint sound of a Subaru horn coming from the crawl space. But when you open it up… Nothing is there.
Just the sleeves torn off a flannel shirt…
Trump’s America dude.
Osti, at least he’s not Legault.
Watch yourself. Those bathroom lights get hot enough to cause instant burns.
Ugh I have that above my kitchen sink. I didn’t even know those bulbs existed until I had to go to a hardware store to replace it. Finally the fucker just stopped working and I do without.
these LED replacements were one of the better purchases I made. The stock halogen bulbs that came with my vent hood would just roast you while standing over the stove.
I’ll wait until fall when it gets dark out agin to deal with it. It’s in the hallway, so it’s not a big deal. But still…
I replaced the evil monstrosities in my garage known as fluorescent lights with two disc LEDs. They make better colored light, a hell of a lot more of it and use almost no. electricity. When it was time to replace the one in the laundry room I did the same thing. When the one over the sink goes out I will do the same again.
I highly recommend.
https://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/flush-mount-ceiling-light/9-square-led-downlight-18w-flush-mount-ceiling-light-1680-lumens-dimmable-4000k/5741/12944/
The “4000K” in the link is your clue about the better colored light. Daylight is 5000K (Kelvins), traditional incandescent 3200-3400K, fluoro (all types) clocks in at an anemic 2800K. Light temperature used to be a huge thing back in the day when you had “daylight-balanced” (5000K) vs “indoor” (incan-balanced ~3300K) film.
Now clean the emulsion off those glass plates and get a new batch of collodion started.
Yep. Just installed a couple of 2,000 lumen, 3000K colour temperature disc lights in the entryway of our house as well as the entrance to the laundry room. Great lights, and getting stupid cheap as well. Make sure you get high-CRI ones for your living areas if you can (they’re more spendy but worth it).
Superbrite rules! I did my old house with nothing but
Sounds like the previous owners had a good lighting design aesthetic. That comes at a price.
Suspect it’s more the variety of bases, rather than envelopes.
Post pix of the “fucked up style of lights in the cans in the living room” and I’ll try to help you out.
/former theatre photo video etc lighting pro
The dual-pin twisty bulbs can be defeated by using this adapter. Voila! Now you can use standard “Edison”-base screw-in bulbs.
I’m glad that they now have those 120V PAR halogen lamps in Edison (medium screw) base. Those twin-pin twist-locks are a PITA to install.
In a study result that is not really surprising, it has been found that hearing human voices will change the behavior of wild animals, inducing heightened awareness and caution. Some of their experiments were kind of funny, though:
I don’t blame the animals. The study authors also realized that perhaps pundit voices were not the most neutral and tried again with something less threatening:
They were reading SugarFree’s poetry.
Even Vogons cringe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#Political_stance_and_editorial_opinion
The Guardian was skinsuited long ago. So long that no one remembers the old one…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/17/pesticide-industry-health-planet-mps-ffcc-report-farmers
Radical transformation…
The mass starvation we were supposed to all die from 50 years ago didn’t come true so they are gonna try to make it happen. That is exactly what they are trying to do.
Borlaug was a damned hero.
is, dead people can heroes, he’s one of mine
+1 Georgia Guidestones
Appreciate MLW doing the yeoman’s work with the Yang Gang. Still haven’t read much more on him since the original Joe Rogan podcast.
That said….(not officially), but do you think it would ever be possible to implement a BuSab (Herbert version) in our current format government? Given that Congress has essentially given up legislating….it seems like the kind of thing you’d want to do with an informal employee organization with players in each Dept/Agency – the kind of guys dropping off papers/coffee/etc – and surreptitiously removing documents (pending regulations, etc) from desks, erasing shared documents, “reply all” to media organizations, etc…
Can we do it?
Why would the Deep State want to give themselves less power and money?
Ok…so an unofficial, quasi private organization of anonymous libertarians.
Not that there’s anything wrong with MGAs, but here’s a counter to Tundras classic car prOn.
As usual the villan is a pearl-clutching “think of the children” busybody.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/29001/1971-cadillac-towed-away-after-spending-25-years-parked-in-brooklyn-neighborhood
RIP old car.
*pours out a quart of Castrol*
Whose Cadillac?
Say what?
Damn shame.
I’m not really “into” cars, but one strong opinion I have is that new cars look freakin’ stupid compared to old cars. They used to have style and flair; now they just look like identical shapeless blobs. A 2019 Honda Civic looks exactly the same as a 2019 Cadillac to me.
Thank Congress.
“they will become mindless specters, stripped of will and soul”
I’d love to look ? out into my driveway and see a 69 TA convertible, but frankly I ❤️ ❤️❤️ my GTI.
I’d certainly drive the VW more if I was lucky enough to own both.
Tonio: I want that car there – the big one, the convertible (late sixties Pontiac LeMans ragtop).
Millenial Commie-Punk: Why???
Tonio: Because the back seat is big enough to ****.
Have you looked the the Pontiac Grandvilles of the early 70s?
You gotta have your priorities straight.
ditto
We used to play “identify make and model” as kids in the 70s/80s (my oldest brother – whose condition includes an encyclopedic obsession with cars – always won). I can’t imagine even trying today. They all look alike to me too.
Couple more resort property pics:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/kPm-GrT8Tmaekn2b233Ipw.sEyaHBy8vIPwMj_pcresDl
Wandered around Bedford today, found some Corelle Crazy daisy pieces at a collectible store. ?
Visited Fort Bedford museum, did a historical resort tour, etc.
Went to 3 local gun stores looking for something interesting, to no avail.
Did some wine ? tasting…yummy.
Great day ????
Sounds like it! Great pics, too!
Excellent!
Glad you are enjoying Bedford! Let me know if you ever decide to come back, I’ll make time to meet up.
“The Apollo program was designed by men, for men. If we do not acknowledge the gender bias of the early space program, it becomes difficult to move past it.”
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1151494027809886213
Because of all those female test pilots?
I love how for all the blabbering about the glories of the post-WWII Liberal World Order they then turn around go on tirades about said Order was run by privileged white men. Convenient that…
At first I took this for meaningless blather until I translated it to English and realized they’re calling for quotas or some such.
Quotas = direct attack on meritocracy
The long march through the institutions means rendering them neutered.
Savage. Randy Savage.
@_hublette
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Replying to @nytimes
Look someone had to make the sandwiches, while others had to make history without bleeding all over the station. Jeez.
PBS (I know) had a pretty good series on the lead up to the moon landing and they interviewed the really good looking woman in the control room. She admitted that she was basically a prop for good HR but she made it clear that she pulled her weight with everyone else.
“move past it.”
Fuck off
Trump tweets and people go crazy. Ilhan Omar proposes this and crickets.
Also BDS is just like the Boston Tea Party.
I’d be happy to divest ourselves of any stake we have in Palestine. Bunch of corrupt thieves is all they are.
Drinking a smoked manhattan ?
I’m in heaven.
How long was it in the smoker? What wood? Stick burner, charcoal, or electric?
Apparently, the resort grows their own corn ? and partners with Wigle, who makes their bourbon using the local grown corn.
There is a cold smoker at the bar used to infuse the bourbon. They torch it up and infuse it to order.
The bartender said she uses applewood, but any standard wood could be used.
I was being a dick. I assumed they used an infuser.
/shrug
I’m drunk and happy. Plus she was cute and nice to talk to.
Try harder?
?
Oh, you definitely don’t know me. That troll was an 11 for me.
“Gun owners in Needles, California have to drive 140 miles EACH WAY to legally buy ammunition because of a dumb law that makes it illegal for CA residents to purchase ammo out of state and bring it back home. How’s that common sense, @GavinNewsom?”
https://twitter.com/CamEdwards/status/1151292283792367617
https://bearingarms.com/cam-e/2019/07/16/driving-140-miles-to-buy-ammo-isnt-common-sense/
Completely unenforceable.
Until they set up road-blocks.
Do they still have “Ag” inspection stations?
They do, and when they bother to staff them, they waive through 99% of the traffic.
Your plates are those of a registered gun owner. Maybe we should stop you.
Ha! Registering was your first mistake.
And your felony count continues to grow.
Never follow the law.
I was stopped at one on the I-10 border on AZ about 2 years ago. Regardless of whatever legitimate purpose they might serve, the staff did not inspire confidence.
Irelevant. The goal is to turn otherwise lawabiing people into crimminals.
Who thought it was about common sense?
Dumbasses?
“Who thought it was about common sense?”
People who know as much about common sense as they know about firearms.
“Trump’s racist tweets were written in the White House, which slaves helped build”
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1150910929380491264
WTF?
Stand back, they’re going to do news.
Not every twitter critter is dull and unfunny
Roger C
Replying to @washingtonpost
And this tweet was written at WaPo, where journalism died…
Fine. Let Trump move his administration to Mar-a-Lago.
So who is the red heading libertarian commenting on that? Damn.
Also scrolling down on that. “Race card has been declined, do you have another form of argument?”. Lol.
No kidding.
She’s a big Rand fan apparently.
Florida is taking heat from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for encouraging homeowners to kill iguanas on their property “whenever possible” without instructions on how to do it humanely.
You’re listening to the wrong PETA. Listen to People Eating Tasty Animals.
Actually that’s a fairly sane response for PETA.
Yeah, but is it necessary? Do people really need to be told how to research humanely killing the things? Or do they want to grab attention?
Oh it’s the later. I’m just surprised they didn’t call for the culling of Florida Men.
Russian steel cased 9mm $0.13/rd free shipping
https://www.targetsportsusa.com/tul-ammo-9mm-luger-ammo-115-gr-fmj-100-rds-steel-case-ta919100-p-4080.aspx
I’m just not a fan of steel cased ammo. And I don’t know which was is dirtier, Tul ammo, or PMC. But with the quantity you’re shooting, that’s the best course of action.
Steel cased ammo is for my Mosins and nothing else.
The CZ ate the steel cased Winchester with no problem, but that stuff was $0.17/rd.
Aluminum cased Federal is $0.15/rd and all of my 9s run in it without a hitch. And it’s vastly cleaner than CCI.
I feed my commie guns steel cases. They love it.
Until they find an inexpensive steel alloy that self-lubricates like brass, I’m not interested. I tried some steel-cased ammo, lured by the slightly cheaper price (about $0.02 CDN / round). It was gross.
To clarify — $0.02/rnd less than comparable brass. I wish I could find 9mm for $0.02/rnd.
I wish I could find .22 for $0.02/rnd…like when I was a kid.