I stand by my observation of last week- people are transitioning into the “jesus christ, enough already!” mode and getting surly. And delightfully, there’s even signs that they are skeptical of news coverage and experts. Some of the links may bear this out. Here in the PHX area, a lot of restaurants are restricted to carry out, schools are closed, but life basically is going on just fine. We just hope Governor Dougie doesn’t suddenly develop California Envy and shut everything down because we had one already-sick guy die.
Birthdays today include a Founding Father; a modest exhibitionist; a guy who had his follies; the face that launched a thousand tits; and finally, Spudalicious’s fantasy woman.
On to news.
Slate’s version of Florida Man.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the future of the Democratic Party!
Women and minorities particularly hurt.
Really, why even try? We’re doomed and that’s that.
If memory serves, he tried cutting off entrants from China in January and you screamed RACISM. Huh.
Meaningless and futile gesture, but obviously Trump’s fault.
Old Guy Music is a lady I was lucky enough to meet a few times and who was friends with my parents. In a just universe, she’d be as famous as Ella or Sarah or Billie.
Team Free Shit says: “Not enough free shit, no dice.”
Kinda funny.
The Reps did a pretty good job of setting up the Dems to seem like the strict parent that says no. It’s not good economics but in the current situation it’s good politics.
‘It’s not good economics but in the current situation it’s good politics.’
You just described the likely cause of the fall of Western Civilization in one sentence. Well done.
“Good politics”
Contradiction in terms
It’s just a contraction of “what is good for politicians“.
Florida’s sea levels are currently rising one inch every three years and could rise 15 to 20 inches in Miami Beach and the Keys by 2050.
*Takes a step backwards* FTFY.
This is the most serious news of the day, except for the death of “The Gambler”. Where are all the young folks gonna go when they take their Spring Break from the their computer learning stuff.
On a more serious note, all those home study college degrees won’t be able to find a job ’cause Trump has shut down the world. The young will be able to party forever or until the beach disappears in 2050.
Annette and Frankie live! Forever!
Öar i ett hav
Skibe uden Sejl
I met Kenny Rogers once, very briefly. 1989, I had just gotten off active Army duty (the first time) and moved to Colorado, which was still South Wyoming in those days. I was working selling guns in a sporting-goods outlet in Aurora Mall while I looked for a real job.
One day I was on my lunch break, out just walking up and down the mall. I see this white-haired guy with a beard walking towards me and thought he looked familiar. As he passed me he smiled at me and said “Hey, how you doing?” I said “Fine, thanks, how’s it going?” “Good!” he replied, and walked on. As he passed, I realized, “Wow, that was Kenny Rogers!”
My boss at the time was a Kenny Rogers fan. He was telling a bunch of us that Rogers was known for doing that; when he played a show in a town he would rent a car, drive to a big mall or other public venue, and just walk around shaking hands, signing autographs and just chatting with folks. He liked people.
It’s neat when one of these celebrity types acknowledges the folks that actually made them rich and famous.
That’s a nice story.
Huh, water rising in just one location. That’s really special.
Florida is sinking.
*I* know that, but does the Slate guy? And if he does, it’s still poorly written.
There are too many people there. If it wasn’t attached to GA and AL it would tip over.
East Guam.
Everything in that article is wrong.
Florida has been surprisingly proactive about the Covid-19 epidemic, with the Governor buying more testing kits than all other states combined. Florida was at the front of locking things down, despite not being at the front of the epidemic.
And behind the scenes, DeSantis went to Trump about locking down interstate travel, likely because he saw the clown show in NYC and knew that all those New Yorkers would be heading his way, bringing a wave of infection with them.
That said…. we are doomed. This is a retirement state, particularly here in the south. Lots of elderly. The death toll here should be particularly high, no matter what steps we take.
Best thing for it really.
What’s worse from Slate’s perspective is that if they have a bunch of old northern liberal retirees die off from Covfefe-19, Florida might go from being a swing state to a red state.
“North Korea fires projectiles into sea for third time in a month”
It’s interesting how real problems will make you not give a damn about the small stuff. Sorry Kim, we don’t give a shit.
Two images in my head: Kim Jong Un barfing or whacking off into the Sea of Japan.
Now there’s a mental image I would have cheerfully gone the rest of my life without.
Once again Japan is the victim of a white wave of destruction.
Was it the last North Korean with Wuhan virus?
Trump’s Embrace of Unproven Drugs to Treat Coronavirus Defies Science
Man, they really are terrified by any positive news, aren’t they? Finding a cure under Trump before the election would be the worst possible outcome for these people.
Of course it would. Wuhan is their last great hope to destroy the president.
I explained this to my mom yesterday. She is a deplorable and had not yet realized it.
^this^
Kungflu is the new Mueller, the new impeachment, the new Russia. It’s all they have and they’re going to ride that horse until it drops dead of exhaustion!
The antimalarials have an established track record of relative safety so give them a try for fuck’s sake. From whatI’ve seen they have a lot of promise and the NYT and any who are downplaying that can go to hell.
But then Trump might get re-elected!
/NYT
And you know damn well that if the drugs work, it will be NYT and NBC and etc. staffers first in line because they are “essentials.”
What’s the cure for stupidity? Another election? hahaha.
DO SOMETHING 1!!111!
Unless it might work…
CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
Mar 20
Trump peddles unsubstantiated hope in dark times
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1240957288267100162?s=20
I had to click to make sure that wasn’t a parody. Shameless.
With their fancy journalism degrees you’d think they’d know what “unsubstantiated” means.
We have a number of 20 something people at work and they mock CNN. I don’t know what they think of Trump, but they do think the media is ridiculous in its coverage.
Not like that where I work. As soon as CNN or NYT cranks out another Trump hit piece, they don’t wait a second to start running around with their hair on fire ‘Do you know what Trump just did!?’. They totally eat that shit up.
Yeah, I have that experience too. And they are married to the meme of the day. Don’t dare contradict it, or offer another interpretation.
What is even more bizarre, they don’t notice when the meme of the day is 180 degrees opposed to the meme of the day from last Wednesday.
Motivated reasoning is scary. Even the educated and intelligent are susceptible to it.
I really like that term, cyto.
I think you’ve touched on something at the heart of the Prog philosophy that begets the “Secular State UBER ALLES!” mentality, but it’s too much to explore in a comment. (No, I’m not giving myself more homework.)
Ok lefty media, now do homeopathy.
Well, they do advocate for homeopathic fascism on a daily basis.
I wish it was just homeopathic.
Dude, why you gotta go after the gayz during an emergency?
RACISTS!
They just casually dismiss studies done by the Chinese, Koreans, and French as “unscientific”?
So we’ll shut down our economy for a month so some white Anglo-Saxon men can confirm.
Yes, while people continue to croak unnecessarily.
Necessity is in the eye of the beholder.
If I or a family member was sick with this thing, i would be very insistent on getting this treatment. If that failed, I’d tell my family doctor I was headed off on a trip to Tamil Nadu next week.
For Dems & MSM, “Something something omelette, something something eggs.”
Am I the only one who remembers Trump calling for ‘right to try’ mediation for people without much hope and the left immediately throwing a hissy about it? Those people are 100% anti-liberty.
I wonder.
I suspect that if he had taken the opposite tack, they would have screamed about the right to try. I think they just pick “orange man bad” from the drop-down menu every time.
I don’t remember what anti-malarial I used to be on back in the day but that stuff made for some really freaky dreams. Acid trip level dreams. Good stuff! It also increased sensitivity to the sun so you got sunburned really easy which was kind of PIA.
Likely mefloquine. We had a choice in country of either the daily pills (no crazy dreams) or the mefloquine (take less often, but crazy dreams). I opted out of the crazy dreams, but a bunch of guys loved it specifically for that side-effect.
He knew when to fold ’em.
Yes he did
You just linked to your own link and duped me into commenting on the link to your link.
The last time I asked for a hat-tip, I got cat-butted.
How did that feel?
Not as bad as clicking on HM links.
Technically, a cat-but is a type of link.
Kenny Rogers Jackass because why not:
https://youtu.be/VV6In1K8zKk
Kenny Rogers Jackass is too damn funny. That skit is probably the most quoted of any movie/TV show by me and a few of my 30-something buds.
“You got eggnog in my goat milk!”
“I was raised on the dairy, bitch.”
Kenny Rogers sucks. Corny beyond belief.
He may have become a parody of himself, but “Islands in the Stream” is a great song.
Thank you Bee Gees
lol no
I can’t believe you did that to me – way too early for Rosie!
Rosie’s pissed, just as she gets ready for her SS, Trump screws her out of it.
I have an aunt with the same first name. Upon middle age and a second marriage to an overly accommodating rich guy, she has begun to enjoy several bottles of wine each night and gained lots of weight everywhere, including her formerly svelte face, as a result.
I don’t know what part of my psyche makes this classic pop into my head when she visits, but it’s trying to get me in trouble.
I think of poor Spud waking up to that and… I laugh hysterically.
My wife’s still in the “everybody just stay at home for a couple weeks and then all will be well” mentality. We’ll see if that attitude continues next week.
Nobody should catch covid 19 for a couple weeks so that we can all catch it in a couple weeks.
Basically. My libertarian influence hasn’t fully implanted in her (unlike my genetic influence).
She’s inundated by panicked mommies on social media, so it’s not hard to understand how she got worked up by it.
Facebook + raging hormones. Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.
^So much this.
Sunshine and mental sunshine are great disinfectants but seems to be shortage of both right now.
^^^^That
We’re on the verge of allergy season here, and I mentioned “OK, so in a few weeks when everyone’s hay fever kicks in, is there going to be a fresh round of pants-shitting since people will be walking around coughing & sneezing due to pollen?”
RE-EMERGENCE! GET BACK IN THE HOUSE!
Exactly.
Our allergy season hit hard a couple weeks ago. Kiddo was dealing with a cold all last week, and I wasn’t 100% either. Got some pretty nasty glares from people whenever she coughed.
Yes, so much this. We can’t ever go back to normal, just listen to
Cuomomafioso Hitler.My wife is a tower of cognitive dissonance. On one hand, she is screaming at the family about how everyone will die and our only hope is to hide in our house. Followed immediately by “I am going to the Korean market to shop. Need anything?” In her brain, the Korean market is totes safe any time of the day. She only goes to the regular super market at midnight because she is sure that will be a safe time.
The list goes on and on.
I am utterly baffled at why an otherwise very bright woman (except for marrying me) is so unhinged by this.
Where is the Korean market?
She goes to one in Columbia Heights. South of 649 on Central.
Dong Yang’s is the place she goes. She and her friends love the deli. This used to be at a different place and was much rattier. When they moved, they upgraded so it isn’t the typical asian market that Hyperion talked about.
The one I visit with my wife is Seoul Foods up in Friendly Fridley. Mostly because there is an Ax-Man next door. So I can putter around there while she shops. Then I only have to go over when she is ready to leave and haul out the 50lb sacks of rice.
It is a euphemism. Ted Kim lives just down the street.
Better Ted K, than Ted S.
We love the local Korean markets, but their level of sanitation is not on the level with other Supermakets and being in there is like you’re in Asia for real, very narrow aisles and people running into each other like caged chickens. I won’t be going in there for a while.
I’ll bet she watches Korean tv news too. Just as ducked up as American news.
War is the health of the state and news outlets.
Yes. Yes she does. And she’s from Daegu (where the big outbreak happened).
And as usual for Koreans, she spends a lot of time crowing about how much better their response has been than China or Italy.
We’re just hanging out here at home. People are out walking around and grilling stuff on their decks. I go out to get supplies, wife won’t go anywhere. She had a cold and cough and was terrified, but now she’s already better, so either it wasn’t yellow flu or it was mild. I don’t have any cold/flu like symptoms myself.
“everybody just stay at home for a couple weeks and then all will be well”
The problem with that is, the politicians are not going to let go of this crisis very easily. They’re loving this way too much. Even if there are no more cases at all, they will still insist that we cannot ever go back to normal, because they have to save us, from something.
The other problem….
it takes two weeks for the disease to incubate and develop. And two weeks to be cleared.
And we are nowhere near the peak, even in Cali and NY. Most of the country doesn’t even have any yet. We probably have at least a month to go before the peak… then another several weeks after that to avoid a rebound boom.
I don’t know how long we can survive on lockdown… but this has a months feel to it. Which is pretty sketchy.
I’m hoping that at some point, people realize the cure is worse than the disease.
EXCLUSIVE: Baggies of crystal meth, empty Corona bottles and soiled bedding: These are the sordid images of the raucous hotel party that sent Florida Dem Andrew Gillum to rehab and left male escort hospitalized
That’s not raucous.
Soiled bedding. Nice.
All hotel beds look like a Jackson Pollock painting under a blacklight.
*hurk, hurk, hurk*
Are those Santorum stains?
[thunderous applause]
Being a sheltered heterosexual I have never seen one in the wild.
For a guy who always wears impeccable suits in public, and as a local I’ve been watching his rise since the early aughts, he sure has shitty taste in beer and street drugs.
“EXCLUSIVE: Baggies of crystal meth, empty CORONA bottles and soiled bedding..”
Patient Zero ?
And men.
she’d be as famous as Ella or Sarah or Billie.
For a large portion of the population she is.
Looked at my news feed this morning. I didn’t think it could get more pessimistic, but holy hell.
Nothing yet on how social distancing is bringing us together?
Apparently no one has informed the neighborhood children about social distancing.
What a dumb term. You need to be swapping fluids with someone in order to be “social” with them? What is wrong with “Don’t stand so close to meisting”?
“Sting” is the part that jumped out at me
I knew this was coming.
https://wjla.com/news/local/teens-cough-on-produce-social-media
So they have no actual evidence that it happened, from what I read.
Reminds me of rainbow parties.
Probably the same kid who was licking the ice cream.
When you allow people to sell beer in the supermarkets butt-chugging in the aisles is inevitable
I decided to put a sports bra on when I was fresh from the shower. HAD MY WORKOUT!
Pics or not real.
Front closure FTW.
What are you – some fancy woman who works out of the house?
Just the dumb ol’ secretary.
On a sports bra?
Yup. I have three. Best designs have a flap of fabric that goes between skin & zipper. I wore ’em to my spin class….back when I could go to spin class. ***sobs***
I can still ride around the neighborhood on my bike. Nyah, nyah…
Theoretically I could as well, but it’s 29 degrees outside right now.
6F this morning but alas, tomorrow brings the change, the snow will disappear and may even hear, in the distance, sounds of kids playing outside.
Wifey had me bring this into the bedroom since all her classes are canceled
Not a Peloton?
One of the local spin studios is trying to keep themselves going by selling virtual classes and delivering stationary bikes.
Look at Richie Rich here!
Actually, she’s using the free trial of the Peloton app.
rollers or GTFO
/hXc
Neat coat rack. Used treadmills always come with a disclaimer.
Like new !
Rarely used ! As in once only!
Lol! I certainly fall into that camp. Ive maybe used the treadmill 10x in the last year, and the spin bike 2x.
Wife is a fitness trainer, so she uses the shit out of them. We actually own a spare treadmill for parts. Granted, the pair cost us $75, so it’s not like we invested a ton of cash in the proposition.
When i got rid of my treadmill it had almost 3,000 miles on it.
Of course, I was mentally ill then and thought running was a good thing.
I’ve had 4 treadmills. Wore the first one out. Second was free, had the rollers on it and had to walk to turn the flywheel, gave that away. # 3 became a coat rack quickly. #4 is in the garage and getting a lot of use now that its a little warmer. About 20 miles a week walking. This one is a deluxe model, free when the first owner died with the warranty brand new.
Sure it was the wifey.
Why do I suspect this isn’t a far more accurate pic? (PNSFW)
(Trashy’s wife seeing the new bike for herself) (NSFW)
You put on a bra when you’re not going out? Woman, what madness is this?!
I knew I could count on you!
I hope none of you ladies wear the medieval torture device known as a ‘minimizer’. I work with a woman who wears one every day, and she has permanent strap marks on her shoulders from the wretched thing.
LOL. My semi-dyslexia (and failure to look at the avatar) made me think that this was a Tundra comment. I was going to say something snotty about admission being the first step (even though that would definitely be a case of someone in a glass fishhouse throwing frozen minnows).
According to the CDC, normal flu puts between 390,000 and 710,000 people in the hospital. Does this overwhelm the system?
My understanding is that 710k does, but 390k doesn’t.
I imagine it would. THD has been here for months now and we are not seeing hospitalizations in big numbers. Sure the number of confirmed cases goes up when they start actually testing people, but I would think we would have seen a spike in hospitalizations already if indeed it was coming. I could be wrong. The one confirmed case in a neighboring county is a dude who is self isolating in his house now.
In NC we had only 4 people hospitalized for the whole state.
My hospital was in good shape last weekend. the ED is a little less full as people Are being a bit more discerning as they don’t want to catch the corona
Oops only 4 hospitalized as of yesterday
Kenny Rogers died of Corona!
I’m not lucky enough to get WFH or a paid two week vacation, but for the next two weeks we only have to come in for 20hrs a week with 20hrs paid leave a week for the next two weeks. And while we’re there we don’t really have to do much. Spent a whole shift reading the cards from a game of trivial pursuit.
I’m going stir crazy from being in my house.
When it warms up a bit, I’m going to go out and put air in my tires. Then maybe spend my tax refund on plastic crack.
What I’m trying to say is I’d rather have some reason to not be at home all the time.
Where would you normally go?
Take a walk around the neighborhood. A lot of folks are home and doing yardwork. I’ve met some neighbors and had nice convos from a safe distance. Chicks doing gardening UCS, think about it.
It’s only 32 degrees F in Dayton. I doubt it’s any warmer where UCS is, so not a lot of gardening going on.
Eek, that’s too cold for me to ride, even with cold weather gear.
Ha! Warm enough in south-central PA for the weeds to have leaped into action. Just pulled a bunch around my blueberry plants.
It was 80 here yesterday. In the 50s today.
It was 9 degrees here this morning, ain’t no one out gardening. And I think latitudinally he’s farther north than me.
I believe he’s not even at Milwaukee latitudes.
I’m a cartoonist not a cartographer!
Oops, sorry. was eighties in RVA yesterday. Our first warm day.
Twas very nice (even with the on and off drizzle) . I took the afternoon off and spent it outside doing yard work.
Oh, it was in the 60’s yesterday here. And raining.
Here is 23 quality degrees and sunny but snow is coming next week and all the plants have started strong. everything will be fucked. stupid snow 🙁
Chicks doing gardening UCS, think about it.
You had him at gardening gloves!
Heading out now. Going to get some gas, flirt with the pretty woman who runs the station, deposit my paycheck at my credit union and then finally get some groceries. A week straight of take out and delivery is wrecking my gut.
plastic crack
I’m pretty sure RealDolls are made of realistic silicone these days.
warhammer minis are made of plastic.
Don’t forget your Inflatin’ Gloves
My crowning intellectual achievement is whipping the ass of a Hardvard grad at Trivial Pursuit: Genus Edition.
Three quarters of the way through the game he looked at me and asked where I went to college. I told him that I had five Fs my Senior year of high school, was strung out on meth, and barely graduated. He didn’t know what to make of that.
*Hardvard*
Jesus…
Still can’t spell to save my life though…ha!
I thought you did that intentionally, FWIW
What got me was the “Genus Edition”. All science questions focused on taxonomy?
People always think that is a spelling error but it isn’t. Genus = general, as in general knowledge.
Also
“a class of things that have common characteristics and that can be divided into subordinate kinds.”
6 pie slices could be the subordinate kinds
You’re Will Hunting?!
You would not last a day in University Challange
How about the next two weeks though?
Two weeks.
Two weeks since you looked at me
The chinese chicken part was the only thing I remembered from that song, fitting.
I viseted my mom and her sister who lives next door refuses to cone to her house anymore due to the plague, although i have no contact to it and have been working from home for 2 weeks. I sort of feel bad but as things are going i don’t know if a lockdown is comming and wanted to visit mom before it, given i have no symptoms and no contsct with someone who has. I was at the store a few times last week though
Say hi to your mom for me.
Sorry. And her sister.
That’s not Winston you’re replying to.
Don’t Romanians have a certain way to visit, like in the middle of night way?
I’m looking forward to grocery shopping this morning. Really.
Good luck.
Adam Corolla and Norm MacDonald discuss Kenny Rogers’ surprisingly dark lyrics:
https://youtu.be/bHNhmwmNsPc
“He killed strange Gooks!”
What an asshole.
Why single out athletes? If a computer science student is on scholarship and writes an app that earns some cash, is their scholarship going to be treated as taxable income?
If a theater student is on scholarship and lands a big part, is the scholarship taxable?
This has long been a major complaint of mine…we don’t treat athletes like regular students, in many ways they are treated far worse.
In grad school I received a stipend and a scholarship.
The stipend was taxable, the scholarship not.
In athletics they call that stipend “impermissible benefits”.
My question is, why do scholarships get special treatment as untaxed income?
How many schools chuck their admission requirements out the door to allow barely literate computer science majors into the university?
Do they also get their own gym/computer lab and private tutors free of charge? What about their own dining hall/catering with better food?
And let’s face it, the jersey chasers look like Budweiser Calendar girls. The code-chasers…not so much.
I had no idea Bach and Mussorgsky shared a birthday. Awesome!
For those into a particular niche, I *highly* recommend Calvin Hampton’s performance of his own transcription of Pictures at an Exhibition. Available here
They also have many of the E. Power Biggs recordings that never officially made it to CD.
Unpopular opinion: I don’t like Billie Holliday’s voice.
I have no idea how Billie Holliday sounds like
Amazingly, there are no Youtube videos of her to look up to hear what she sounds like
LOL we linked the same one.
I did not say I want to know
That’s why I didn’t say anything snarky. ? My fam doesn’t pay attention to what I SAY, just what they THINK I said or WANTED me to have said.
Also second does sound better
My fam doesn’t pay attention to what I SAY, just what they THINK I said or WANTED me to have said.
Good God. Are you my doppelgänger?
Billie Holiday v Etta James.
No contest.
Cover from a surprising source (if you didn’t know better.)
THAT is gorgeous.
This cover is better than hers, though.
Also, I actually didn’t care for her much until she started doing those psoriasis commercials because wow, that’s rough. Also Alison Krauss when she admitted in an interview how bad her acne is/was and how much makeup she has to wear to cover them.
Noice! Positively lush arrangement!
Bonus track: My fave from Cyndi’s album of covers. (Warning: May stir up dust. Does for me.)
I was amazed to learn that her character from the 80’s was just that… a character. I mean, I knew that she was hamming it up with the accent and the jokes, but I had no clue that it was 100% a calculated put-on.
Despite Time After Time being about as good a song as it gets, I still dismissed her as an overall artist. Then I saw a couple of “serious” interviews after the fact where she wasn’t playing a character, and she’s super smart and you start seeing the artist behind the art.
Fast forward to her second career and …. what the hell? She can sing anything? She’s got this huge voice?
It was really surprising, even though I suppose it shouldn’t have been.
Yep. She’s got serious pipes, but I didn’t know that her entire 80s thing was a whole character. I thought it was her playing up a gimmick. More like Boy George than Pee Wee Herman.
Somewhat reminiscent of Billie, but possibly more palatable – and I thought you’d appreciate the title. ; )
Have I told you today how much I ❤️ you?
Her, Amy Winehouse, Adele, and Rumer.
And then of course Grand Empress Karen “the money’s in the basement” Carpenter.
<3 U 2! Check out link below.
Have I told you today how much I ❤️ you?
Yes
What the? Is this… I mean. That’s can’t be real. Mojo must have the fever!
Silicone Saturday celebrates the birthday of its patron saint, Russ Meyer!
http://archive.li/T0kJy
19 i guess
Leave it to Pie to choose the only girl in the bunch with below a D cup.
Without even looking I’ll say 19.
I see the China Uncensored guy is calling it the CCP coronavirus now:
https://youtu.be/YH1dDBKbKUg
I like it, puts the blame where it belongs.
Don’t trust China
neither the stripper not the country
Moje got me to DDGing for chirps, and I stumbled across this timeless but timely tune.
This robotic mouth chants algorithmically generated prayers:
https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1241031749880156161
The C.R.A.P. framework for dealing with workplace bullshit.
https://twitter.com/Toffeemen68/status/1227724017517223936
I like it. In my department, we peddle bullshit in gross. All attempts to ratchet down the bullshit are met with resistance from up the chain. Very frustrating until you realize that you’re giving your employer exactly what they want.
I like that the C.R.A.P. flows downhill.
No word on whether or not any of them have been turned freaking gay but they are loose in the streets!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-police-arrest-covid-19-1.5505349
Why would we put our ventilators in a pile?
To get a reaction?
Wisconsin cooking show.
DAMNIT! He threw in shit at the end before I finished watching it.
I’m dyin’.
+1 cutting board.
Did you just doxx yourself?
My work never gets that many views.
That was ? !!!
Awesome.
Damn. That reminds me of certain uncles and cousins. Bravo!
Blah blah blah orange man bad blah blah blah orange man racist blah blah
https://outline.com/WgwXc3
Now do Chocolate Jesus.
“have a government staffed by qualified civil servants”
Civil servants are so selfless. They never think about protecting themselves. They are always thinking about what is best for us. And Donald Trump is not what is best for us.
The Independence of the administrative deepstate is anathema to the republic.
Also now do just about every nation in Western Europe, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. There’s not really anything unique about how Trump’s been handling this other than he’s more aggressive about taking the media to task which is per for the course for him.
God damn but “You’re a bad reporter” was funny.
Someone needs a clean pair of shorts.
Many food delivery services going cash free – I am predicting cries of racism within 24 hours.
Can’t happen here, we are remarkably free of darkies.
I’ve got some stories waiting for the next time we see you guys – spouse took us to some “interesting seafood shops” in Chicago. Divorce papers weren’t filed, but close.
And the brownies are the delivery guys?
It gets SP jealous.
It was only two months ago that NYC was going to require businesses to accept cash, on the grounds that minorities and illegal immigrants couldn’t get access to banking.
One of the problems, or benefits, (depending on perspective) of living in the relative boonies is there is no food delivery available. Hence frozen pizzas. Now I wish I had replaced the toaster oven. Maybe next week. Now that I think about it, probably pointless. I doubt there are any frozen pizzas left in the county.
NYC is turning into mediocre 90s movie
Haha, can’t fool ol’ Fourscore, that’s the Bee, isn’t it? Had me going though
We need a wall! And Snake Plisskin!
JIMINY CRICKET! That article has me all scared. Here in The Rockaways, the only signs of the whole fooferall are the forced closings/quarantines (that aren’t being obeyed very well), and the shocking number of idiots in masks. Heading to Brooklyn later today, we’ll see how it goes.
Actually, men are hardest hit.
Lol
Kenny Rogers didn’t kill himself.
He had dirt on Hillary!!!!
He should have knew when to hold ’em.
He picked a fine time to leave us.
A drug addicted, alcoholic porn star. Can you get any more cliched?
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a31808584/seth-gamble-porn-star-sober-interview/
The ultimate cliche in that business is either suicide or a fatal overdose so good for him I guess.
You know how people were joking about how if Trump single-handedly found a cure for cancer, the media would find a way to make it a bad thing….
Yeah about that “joke”…
I just talked to a relative on the phone. She is convinced by cnn/nbc etc that the chloroquine drug is a canard pushed by Trump, who she pointed out is no scientist.
*facepalm*
Because journalists are scientists.
TDS is one hell of a drug.
At this point she’s being willfully ignorant, send her a link to one of the studies. They’re easy to find now and they show the efficacy of the drug, both alone and in combination with others.
We have to be careful! After the studies are concluded, the FDA could approve these treatments in as little as 20 years. Anything else is anarchy!
Good god, I feel broken. The instacart gig, that used to be me being paid to read books and occasionally help a shut in with their shopping, has become a non stop parade of hauling case upon case of bottled water to cars, while fighting my way through aisle after aisle of an asylum.
Shelves bare, meat and bread are gone today. No soap or paper products.
Latest madness is a directive from our less than benevolent overlords that carts have to somehow be kept six feet apart from each other. Lines to the cashier are already stretching across the store. How is a grocery store supposed to enforce this?
I do, however, believe that Winnie the Flu is worse than being let on. It apparently causes a decrease in brain function, making people literally retarded. If you have an IQ below room temperature, please self quarantine for a decade or two.
Alright. People need food and supplies. Back to the grind.
Sorry to hear this – a tough way to make a living.
I do, however, believe that Winnie the Flu is worse than being let on. It apparently causes a decrease in brain function, making people literally retarded.
These sorts of panics make me get my yokel on. Maybe if these convenient people had to bother to bear responsibility for where their supplies came from, they’d panic less. When the city pipes everything in and pipes everything out, and there’s no more thought to it, it’s no wonder that people are panic buying bottled water and toilet paper.
Me? I’m good until the power goes out. Then I’ll start to panic.
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to the rest of you crazed lunatics, pissing on the smoldering ashes of the Social Contract!
The sun is out, the birds are singing and there are no NG soldiers on the streets (yet).
I find it disgusting, but not surprising, that the lefty media wants piles of dead bodies everywhere, just to be able to screech at the man in the big chair. They are sick fucks.
I miss the NHL. Of course there are plenty of other entertainment options, but I want hockey, dammit!
Excellent Old Guy music today. She is better than Billie.
I hope you all have a wonderful day!
I dunno about “better,” but certainly “different and on a par with.” Her style, to me, hews closer to Sarah while still being distinctive.
Ethel had a little club in Annapolis that I would go to a lot- Charlie Byrd was basically the house guitarist.
She’s very precise. I like that.
The club sounds cool – Charlie could play a little bit.
How is it that all of these athletes who feel fine are being tested positive? I was told I can’t be tested unless I have the 3 symptoms and can touch my nose while standing on one foot while reciting the alphabet backwards.
And why isn’t anyone talking about this possible tupac cure? Seems like that should be the leading story in a world where news shows reported on news.
““I couldn’t believe that they were talking about lowest income people getting $600 and somebody making $75,000 getting twice as much as that, $1,200,” she said. “Those numbers don’t make any sense.””
Git Gud at paying taxes if you want big rebates.
Yeah. “It don’t make no sense that that dude making 3 times what I make is paying 8 times more taxes than I do”
We will decide what is ok for people to hear.
Calls are increasing for cable networks to stop airing President Donald Trump’s press conferences live as critics believe Trump is turning White House news briefings into virtual campaign rallies that can “get people killed” with lies about the Coronavirus crisis. The pressure only increased after Trump’s Friday briefing.
The Atlantic’s James Fallows believes the attention-starved Trump is turning the press conferences into “virtual campaign” rallies and Trump would actually lose interest in showing up if the media did not cover the briefings live.
“Also, as a practical matter, if the briefings were no longer covered live, Trump would lose interest in attending himself,” Fallows argues. “Then the scientists could come back on stage—and eventually they could be covered live again.”
I have watched a number of these briefings. Both Trump and Pence go out of their way to ensure the “scientists” (and I use the term loosely related to Fauci), can talk. In fact, the press often chastises them when they defer to the scientists to answer a question (“don’t you know?- you’re the VP”). As many here have commented, the press is downright hostile and generally ask gotcha or unrelated questions.
I’ll take things that only happen when Rs are in power for $500, Alex
Just more evidence that much of the press is more concerned about wounding Trump than they are about relaying information. They’re scum.
I’m done with the corporate press.
We’ve had a lot of those press conferences on in my house. What lies is he telling? The only lies are from the press.
If anything, Trump should stop the live press conferences and just do livestreams via YouTube with questions from viewers.
“….stop airing President Donald Trump’s press conferences live…”
We insist on being able to take Trump’s statements out of context and editing them.
https://www.boredpanda.com/cat-shaming/
Bad kitties.
#32 – ROFL
#10 looks just like one of ours. Same attitude, too.
I don’t know why it’s catching me so abrasively today, but the “mommy and daddy” shit on those signs are raising my hackles.
My cat acts like #34
Invoking cats and 34 on the internet?! What sickness you have brought into being!
Did there. Seen.
A lot of that stuff is just a normal day at the Spartacus household. Except for mice and rats. Our cats are indoors-only so they have to wait for lizards to get inside.
The guns make you do it.
One way in which the coronavirus will lead to more deaths: It is leading to a rush to buy guns, which will lead to more murders, suicides and accidents: https://t.co/cxPcvjk6X0
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) March 16, 2020
Guns kill – it is known.
Even if that were true, which it’s not, we didn’t start the fire.
A lot of grabbers are buying their first guns who have zero training, no impulse control, and mental health problems. It wouldn’t be too shocking if these folks start mishandling their new acquisitions.
Grabbers project their own irresponsibility, emotional incontinence and impulse control problems on everyone.
Hopefully all of those first time buyers with “mental health issues” don’t realize they have to lie to pass the process in buying a gun. First, because if they really have issues which would lead to them acting irrationally with a gun they are better off without it. But secondly, if their condition doesn’t really warrant them being unarmed I hope this experience wakes them up about the depth and breadth of gun control laws in the US – and hopefully they will act on that in the future.
The pride of Yamhill County. *sigh*
You dingleberries cant have my guns. Fuck off.
This is beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2crExMmiDdc
Connie Chung’s Secret Committee of Twelve is behind all of this!
Still would
Maury Povich… Russian influence confirmed.
How about the Fed matches unemployment benefits to anyone who first filed this week, which is when they started shutting businesses down. They can pay for that with a special tax on journalists and politicians. We’ll call it the Asshole Tax.
No no, you have to make it an acronym. The Americans Suspending Service Healthcare and Other Longstanding Employment Tax.
Nice:)
Can anyone explain why Gillum hasn’t been arrested and charged with multiple felonies?
Because there’s multiple felonies in those pics.
Demfluenza.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Because he has a “D” after his name. He’s one of the right Top Men. (Innuendo intentional.)
Most of what went down there shouldn’t be any of the legal system’s business but I see your point.
All of the illegal stuff was owned by the hooker who OD.
They executed a guy who was the driver, waiting in the car, for all the illegal stuff his ‘associates’ did. Lock Gollum up and throw away the key.
“Can anyone explain why Gillum hasn’t been arrested and charged with multiple felonies?”
Because he was elected to public office once. When that happens, the person transitions from serf to royalty. So instead of prison, you go to a posh resort to ‘rehabilitate’.
Geez, I thought everyone knows this.
I’m doing a module of my online course, making a run to Home Deport, stocking up on wine and beer, planting 3 trees in the yard, apparently not getting a haircut, and going for a hike up a big hill in the state park. And not watching any news – my pulmonary system has been stress-tested enough this week.
What kind of trees?
Hopefully not maples. Damn socialists!
Birch. Two white in the front bed to replace the bunch that died last year and grey birch in the side yard. I also have another apple tree coming next month for the back bed.
Harsh but fair.
https://twitter.com/MelsLien/status/1241127536119230465
I’ve only flown Southwest recently, so meh.
I find Southwest to have reasonable prices, and their rewards program is good. Just flew roundtrip from OH > FL for ~$160
I try to use them as often as possible. Excellent service and pricing. Stews are always happy and friendly.
I don’t travel nearly as often for work as I used to, so Delta’s program is meaningless to me.
Ditto. I am exclusive to southwest whenever possible. The fact that they occasionally send drink tickets to me for no apparent reason is enough to keep me. Add on the free bags and the competitive prices, and the other airlines have to do a lot to steal my business from SW
Two free bags!
Lots of flights between MSP and DEN, too.
Have we declared War on Covid19 yet?
Why? You want it to be around forever?
/it likely will be
Yeap, like every other war on x, it’s a really just a war on civil liberties and taxpayers.
When you realize that the last time the US declared war was in 1941 that puts a different light on it.
Under Coronavirus, Public Sex Has Become a Dangerous Act of Resistance
Remember kids, the world is good.
*tears up*
The positives will outweigh the negatives!
“Consisting of real-life siblings Shane, 33, and Melody, 18, and their mutual girlfriend Sissi, also 18”
wut
These pervs are ruining my porn. ‘You got your incest in my porn! You got your porn in my incest!’ Fucking *generation you hate*
I know!
*Bookmarked* The links in that article can keep a person busy for hours.
I fully endorse this method of prevention.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/mum-drinks-semen-protect-herself-21718662
Looks like Octomom trying to look like Angelina Jolie. *ALARM NOISE*
I think we’re supposed to guess what she has in that ice cube tray.
Nobody needs more than 19 Covid.
Some good news from several days back Poll: As Coronavirus Spreads, Fewer Americans See Pandemic As A Real Threat. I have a feeling that percentage has dropped further.
/TW: NPR
I’m going to venture forth again.
If I see any moron wearing a mask, especially a mask that won’t actually help, I hope I have the willpower not to slap the shit out of them.
Funny. I always had you pegged as a mild-mannered and always unruffled sort.
He wears monochrome Hawaiian shirts. Obvious psychopath.
The shirts are clearly labelled.
Some people had masks in the grocery store yesterday. I also saw people wearing those clear plastic gloves like deli people wear, not the latex/nitril type.
A mask or any kind of covering cuts down on transmission from them, more than protects themselves. Why would you slap them?
‘Cause!
I’ve actually considered it, not to protect myself, but to reduce the risk of transmitting it. Since the symptoms show up 3 days or so after infection and they may never show up at all or so mildly to as not even register, I figured the most logical thing is to act as though I already have it and do what I can to prevent myself being a vector.
In another week, when we still don’t have some massive death count, it will drop even further.
Go figure.
ORANGE MAN KILLED US ALL FOR THE 12,000th TIME!!!11!!!11111!
Stupid Republicans, believe everything they see on Fox. : Turns on CNN
Almost sounds like a bias to pants-shitters in the Democratic ranks – not that I would say such a thing.
Don’t worry, as soon as a Dem is back in the Whitehouse, it will magically transition from major threat to no threat at all.
So, I guess restaurants are supposed to close tomorrow night? My diner was closed this morning — not even doing takeout. And I wanted a bacon and egg on a bagel.
Of course, no bagels are to be had, nor bacon. They did have a package of Taylor ham which I’ve heard good things about, so I bought it. I guess the good thing about everything being cancelled is that I don’t have to worry about being hungover, so I can do a another rye writeup tonight.
You have to fry it just to the point where it starts to carmalize on both sides.
I will keep that in mind. Now to get some bagels or rolls…
Taylor ham is good stuff. Score the rounds From the outer edge toward the center. Make 4 Cuts radially Half way to the center. They should look Like iron crosses.
Fry on both sides until brown and crispy. Like making fried bologna. cook, cut up then mix with raw eggs, then cook the eggs and eat. You can also top on eggs after they are cooked.
Ideally put in a hoagie roll with hot sauce.
If you don’t score them before frying they bulge in the middle due to steam and under cook the middle.
If there are eight slices in this little package, they must be pretty thin. Does it liberate enough fat on its own to fry, or do I need to add any ?
I would add a little oil or butter in case.
https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/taylor-ham-egg-and-cheese/
Availability is an odd thing.
The grocery bakery had no hoagies, but did have ciabatta and bagels.
Breakfast tomorrow!
In another week, when we still don’t have some massive death count, it will drop even further. This whole thing is going to start to burn itself out. NYC may have a little longer to go.
I’m becoming more concerned with a run on banks with each passing day. Trying to figure out what’s the best way to prepare for that.
Run to the bank?
My CU closed its lobbies. Gas up before you get in line at the drive-thru.
Enough to get by for needs for 1-2 weeks perhaps. Concerted run would probably trigger a banking holiday like was done in the 30’s until things calmed down.
Central Bank run?
If people are truly stupid enough to “get their money” out of the bank, then we are beyond fucked, and overall as a society deserve exactly what we get.
One bennie of the lockdown; I’ve been getting some work done on my first foray into fantasy writing. It’s going to either be a long short story or a short novella, titled Season of Ice. I’m about 14,000 words in so far.
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Oh, I wanted to tell you. On Goodreads (I’m a librarian), I made you a series page.
Oh, wow! Thanks so much! Is there any way to update you as we release more work?
Yes, it can be done, but by the author or not, I don’t know because I’ve always been a librarian.
What’s the procedure to get series pages updated normally?
I THINK you have to ask a librarian if you aren’t one. So if you aren’t one, ask me.
Otherwise, after the book is added, you click on the series name (the grayed-out underneath the book title). It will take you to the series page. In the upper right hand corner of the series page header, there is EDIT. That will take you to the series edit page. Scroll down. You will see a button that says ADD BOOKS. And then do that.
I’m not one, and I don’t have an edit button.
Shadowrealm is missing from the Tarnished Sterling series page.
I’m looking at your list of works.
Shadowboy
Shadowdemon
Shadowrealm (#4)
Lucid Blue
Beyond the Edge of the Map
Gruefield 18
The Cure
Tell me which titles are in what series and in what order.
The only thing that needs to be changed is adding Shadowrealm to the end of Tarnished Sterling. It should be book 4. The others arecorrectly classified.
Also, tell me if you want (Tarnished Sterling #x) behind your titles or the (Tarnished Sterling #4) removed from Shadowrealm.
I’d rather have it removed from Shadowrealm.
Done, and your series page is now correct. https://www.goodreads.com/series/141796-tarnished-sterling
Thank you.
🙂
See Animal’s series page. If you are logged in, but don’t see an EDIT button in the upper right hand corner, you will have to ask a librarian.
Wife’s Prayer For Her Husband To Stop Watching Sports All The Time Results In Global Pandemic
HA!
“All Gilmore Girls and no sports makes Bill a dull boy”
Holy shit, that’s awesome.
Gilmore Girls
you were warned about SMU chicks
Minnesota was off but will get stomped by Penn State next weekend
Suck it, you h8ters!
And back on conference calls for work.
Learning that the reason we have to manually configure thousands of phones is so reporting and other features will still work.
/rage building.
time to negotiate a huge raise
or take the weekend off, whichever makes more sense
Still working… but now they’re talking about halting the process for the weekend to start back up Monday.
Which seems like a terrible idea to me, as we’ll also be busy doing support for all the open sites on Monday.
The wife and I will be BBQ ing and day drinking margaritas this afternoon.
FTW. I just wish it was a few degrees warmer.
Same here. I am gonna fire up the smoker for the pork loin. Maybr some apple slaw and baked beans.
Ribs and chicken leg/thigh combo. Wife made her two tone potato salad with capers green olives, pickles and parsley.
We’re going to do food and drink. Yesterday I would have fired the grill, but I was working until around 8pm. Today is about 25 degrees cooler, so all the action will be indoors.
Just got another text message from my union. They have, apparently, negotiated a 10% raise for all Pause & Purchase employees through the end of May, any sick days through the end of May are pad and do not count against accrued sick days, management is required to approve flex-time for those of us with kids home from school, and any absences due to Covid-19 will not result in any write-ups/suspensions/terminations.
Andrew Cuomo giving a press conference – very clear, rationale, and essentially saying the same things Trump messaged from the beginning (even using the term flu). Good for him.
Maybe he can read a poll. Or maybe they’re starting to look at more than one model.
It’s beyond a critical mistake if the dems and the media keep intentionally trying to panic people for political reasons. Besides being disgusting, it will not result in any good for anyone, no matter what your politics are.
Speaking of women and minorities being hardest hurt.
No one ever thinks of the true victims.
Those with defective pancreases?
Especially SugarFree!
Powerline’s Week in Pictures is pretty good. Even if it is full of lies (unless you mean RAPE when you say social distancing).
The Ron Burgundy one is great!
I cracked up at the men losing a $1 one:)
That was the one I tried linking to originally as well. I’d give anything if someone in Congress actually tried to add that as an amendment to the current bail out bill.
Dylan is my hero.
Nice! Some good ones in there.
Your link?
Uffda. It was the one JB liked ($1)
One silver lining of the virus fear mongering could be that even Trump haters might start seeing the MSM as bad actors.
MSN
@MSN
21h
Drug touted by Trump to possibly treat virus can kill in just 2 grams
https://twitter.com/MSN/status/1241053472910274562?s=20
Nah, haters gonna hate, but it might convince some normals who barely paid attention to the news in the past, other than glancing at CNN in the break room or bar.
Not to mention that you have several prominent Democrats rallying behind the President during a crisis, while CNN is using the situation as just another opportunity to politically assassinate him. People see that.
I have no idea what the dosage was, but I was on that stuff for 6 months with no side effects. I’d say it’s safer than untreated Wuhan virus and runaway government.
500 mg per week for adults as a preventative, from 500mg to 1g per day for active malaria.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/chloroquine-oral-route/proper-use/drg-20062834
Lots of highly effective drugs can kill you with two grams’ dose. That number doesn’t mean a damn thing without context.
Odds that the author gets fired?
From Bloomberg for a TDS hit?
Turn to Sean Penn for guidance.
“Drug touted by Trump to possibly treat virus can kill in just 2 grams”
Maybe you aren’t supposed to take 2 grams? Most medicines could kill you if you take enough. That is just the media going beyond their current level of stupidity.
Vitamins can kill you if you take enough.
Had to run out to restock the cheap box wine supply. Lots of folks with snowmobiles loaded up headed up to the fresh stuff. Don’t these people know we have a global pandemic? I really need a snowmobile.
My sled is in the back of my truck right now
Jealous. Damn things are too expensive these days. Maybe in a year or two. I mean if I am not dead of course.
Think of how cheap they will be. You can probably pick one up for the price of helping dig out the mass grave on the edge of town. After a day or so of digging, they just let you have the sled of one of the guys who died.
If net neutrality didn’t kill you, do you honestly think some virus will?
But net neutrality did kill me.
Ajit Pai literally killed the internet. True fact. There is no internet any more because of him. You can google that shit.
Well, Nevada closed the Weed stores, the World has come to and end,
We need to move to a 100% black market economy.
The End of Things
You can still order online. I thought they backed off of that.
Also…Mayor Goodman says go suck an egg and YOU enforce your business shutdown.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/city-attorney-says-las-vegas-will-not-prosecute-business-shutdown-violators-921398/
I don’t understand how we still have state owned liquor stores. Hopefully this will be the final death blow to this model.
I keep scrubbing, but I can’t get this one hand clean.
https://i.imgur.com/xZX16yB_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
So much for Tiger Wood’s second act as a hand model.
Ok… step one… go find a partner. A diverse partner of appropriately diverse race, gender identity and sexual orientation. Next…..
New York women are coronavirus crushing on Andrew Cuomo: ‘Is he single?’
White women are the devil.
Spank me, Andy!
That is far worse than anything HM has ever posted. You might as well be Nikki.
A county near me just closed… Playgrounds. We have 4 deaths in the entire state.
Fundamentally, the problem is they don’t know how many cases they actually have so they’re assuming the worst case scenario.
The government royally fucked up getting testing going and this is where we are.
Even so, cases doesn’t equal deaths. I suspect this is going to roll out each time our betters at the CDC determine a resurgance or bad flu season. The timeline is set.
I agree. Normal is forever changed now.
Amazon gives away two free months of Kindle Unlimited
Amazon just can’t help itself!
I hate Kindle Unlimited. Not because it is a bad product, but because I’m such a slow reader. I can’t stop thinking about how I might be better off just buying the damn books. Instead I try to read faster (I blame being surrounded by cheap Norwegians as a kid) so I get more “value”. Then I get frustrated because I can’t speed up that much and when I do, my comprehension goes to shit and I’m always going back a few pages to figure out what I missed.
KU is the dyslexic debbil!
Your local library likely has an agreement with Amazon that allows you to check out digital books on your kindle. My library uses the Overdrive app.
Works great in my house because we are 5 (plus a sister in law). So everyone has a kindle since they are so cheap, and then they can check out books and not read them digitally, instead of checking them out and not reading the physical books.
Joe Biden just announced he beat Corona with a just a rusty chain.
One of the things that slipped through in that whole story was the “put the razor in a rain bucket to get it rusty” bit. Why in the world would you want your razor to be rusty? You want your edged weapon sharp…. you know, so it cuts things. Yet you are going to rust it such that it won’t really cut? And it won’t fold and unfold?
That makes absolutely no sense.
A rusty razor would be hell to shave with…. but if we got in a knife fight, I’ll take the freshly sharpened and carefully oiled razor and you can have the rusty one from the rain barrel.
On the links: I know some believe he is too mechanical, but for me, Bach is still the best composer ever (but that’s probably because I’m still a novice player and dreaming of a day when each hand works separately). I also think that ‘mechanical’ reputation is a bit unfair given things like this. Even things as simple as Prelude 1 from Well-Tempered Clavier are beautiful in their simplicity, bringing to mind the mathematical definition of “elegance:” a proof marked by either its novelty and/or efficiency, frequently both.
Check out the recording by Biggs of the 4 ‘great’ tocattas and fugues played on the 4 antiphonal organs of Freiburg Cathedral. If you have the system, the SACD surround version is flat out amazing. The F Major has become my favorite organ work.
I try to find Bach music made with original baroque era instruments.
https://youtu.be/pzlw6fUux4o
I love his 3 and 4 harpsichord stuff too.