ZARDOZ FEELS A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO Y’ALL, HIS CHOSEN ONES. FINALLY, A DAY OFF. ZARDOZ HAS BEEN EXTRA BUSY HAULING GRAIN FOR THE CO-OP. WITH THE PANIC BUYING OF THE BRUTALS, BUSINESS IS GOOD – BUT TIRING. ZARDOZ APPRECIATES THE IOWA STATE LAW BRUTALS AND COUNTY LAW BRUTALS NOT GIVING OUT SO MANY TICKETS…ZARDOZ CAN REALLY FLY DOWN THE HIGHWAYS. SO, AS ZARDOZ HAS THE TIME, HE WILL GIVE THE CHOSEN ONES THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
- IF THIS IS WHAT THE BRUTALS HAVE COME UP WITH TO REPLACE THEIR SPORTS ACTIVITIES…ZARDOZ IS AMUSED.
- HOW WILL THIS BRUTAL WORK IN THE LAND OF NO ROADZ?
- AIRSTRIP ONE LAW BRUTALS BUNGLE.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
The thin, anemic website template is back. I feel like I’m at Quillette.
I can barely read it,
Howdy!
That is the usual result, after WordPress updates…well, anything.
It’s literally worse than the commie cough
the commie cough
Excellent.
“commie cough”.
Heh. Endorsed.
Think of it as being on lockdown also.
In case anyone forgets that China is asshole.
China seizes Covid-19 advantage in South China Sea
So are you saying they deserve to be cat-butted?
SEA SMITH HAVE PLANS FOR DEEP-SEA CHICOMS
I’ll ask the choppers to drop them from high enough to get them nice and deep for you
Why not? let em try, We would,
To be sure.
Isn’t this exactly what they have been doing for years?
What difference does the Commie Cough make? I get that “news” orgs love to hang everything off the current Big Thing, but “news” orgs are stupid and should be called stupid when they do stupid things.
The difference is that countries like the Philippines are locked down thanks to them – and our fleet is headed for Guam because there are sick Sailors onboard.
Hmm. Worth noting.
I am a little disappointed that we haven’t yet seen a nice little supertyphoon right down the middle of the south china sea….might just be that geographic area. I’d rather see China get hit than the Philippines and Taiwan get whupped every year.
So Zardoz is entertained that I signed up for this ride to try to maintain some sanity? I did create a team Glibertarian if anyone wants to join.
Cool.
Hell, there’s four local breweries (1 owned by AB-InBev) participating, and the swag list is pretty decent. I splurged and grabbed a jersey as well.
Tour of Flanders rides on, in virtual reality
Stupid Sexy Flanders.
Hey, doc? My eyes are up here!
Yeah, but your package is down there. Special delivery!
They will be wearing tight shorts.
That’s pretty cool. Alas, we have no bikes at our household. Well, that, and we’re in the LA area. All the southern CA participating breweries are in or close to San Diego (the ones worth patronizing, anyway.
You can just sign up for the swag. They’re also supporting indoor stationary riding for distance. I’m hoping competition gets me motivated to spend more time on the damned stationary during this (since the spin class was my motivation, and they’re closed, the weather is just starting to turn to be decent for outdoors riding).
I went to the store. Everything I wanted was on the shelf. The lockdown is not particularly effective, here, judging by the number of cars on the street and people in the store. God work, Montanans! Don’t let the bastards hold you down.
The Costco here in Idaho is stocked to the gills, people respecting social distancing and super friendly. But coming from NYC a few weeks ago, maybe it just seems everyone is friendly compared to there. I have yet to see a blow-up curse out in public yet. An armed society is a polite society maybe? Or better upbringing? Or lack of diversity? I think it’s just NYC residents are just wound so fucking tight every place else seems laid back, but it’s just normal
They just don’t know where you are from yet.
Yep. My wife says say you’re from NY State!!
I said next time someone asks say Montana…which is technically true since I lived there from 3rd grade to college. I’ll just have to stop pronouncing coffee cawfee
I went to Costco here in Canyon Country, CA. Apart from toilet paper, paper towels, and Lysol wipes (which thankfully we don’t need – very happy my wife decided to buy three bidets when we were in the Philippines last summer), the place was very well stocked.
Rite Aid today had huge gaps in every aisle – by far the biggest shortage I’ve seen in weeks.
Rite Aid, Wrong Day
Duane and Reade would like a word.
The shortages differ store to store. The only thing consistently short is flour and sugar. One place was running low on salads, I guess people want to make that TP worth it.
You know how that bag of salad goes brown and manly? That doesn’t happen with cookies.
brown and manly? These euphemisms.
Manly?
Dammit. “Manky”
I swear I try to proofread every reply before clicking ‘Post Comment’. I blame the page style bug.
The only thing my Pause & Purchase is short on right now is TP and paper towels. We have full shelves but full of single brand/sizes, whatever the warehouse can push out. The is a supply issue getting the usual variety of product into the distro centers and out to the stores.
The local Hannaford seems to have been short of TP for weeks. The’ve put limits on a bunch of things, including two one-gallon bottles of water, but as I was in the store yesterday, they were just restocking the water.
I also picked up more stuff for sandwiches, so I’ve got lunch for about another two weeks.
Costco here had both TP and paper towels yesterday. However, TP was store-brand only. Still no Charmin.
Here in NorCal East Bay, no Charmin, Northern, Cottonelle or any brand name available through any online option – Amazon, Walmart, Target, K-Mart, Home Depot, anyone. All say “unavailable for your zip code”. The only thing that seems to be available is literally called “wood pulp toilet paper”.
People can’t even buy toilet paper anywhere, yet all the TV news and social media say Trump ‘bungled’ handling the virus because he wasn’t able to snap his fingers and make millions of Covid tests and 100K ventilators appear out of thin air. And all the people online seemed convinced that he’s doing absolutely nothing right now, but also refuse to watch his daily briefings on TV, because they’ve been told “it’s all lies” and only the media’s two-minute edit of quotes out of context are what the truth is.
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I had the same experience here. They did have the one item I went there for (styptic pencil).
Vons, a local grocery store chain, was relatively well stocked. No toilet paper or paper towels. Vallarta, another local chain, had a full bottom half of an aisle of toilet paper. People were smiling as they walked in that aisle.
FDA approves first serology test for coronavirus
Seems like an after-the-fact test… yes, that cold you had last week was the commie-cough.
That is great news. Get tested, get to work. Open the f-ing schools back up.
It’s important for screening healthcare workers, so you have a team with potential immunity.
It is probably as important as the test for active infection, at this point.
Find out how many people have already had it, are immune, etc. If it turns out that a lot of people have had it and are immune, then maybe we can start tamping down the effing panic already.
The question now: how fast to ramp this thing up so we can test millions of ‘Mericans.
Should be a nice start to the national DNA database
Start? Years of 23andme and Ancestry.com took care of that already.
Indeed. More testing not only does that RC, it also gives a better idea of what the death rate really is (although I’ve heard some places are listing deaths as caused by COVID-19 even if the person had serious underlying health issues, and the virus may not have been what killed them).
maybe we can start tamping down the effing panic already.
Never gonna happen.
Ms Dinou should not have been taken to magistrates’ court and handed a criminal record
because she is clearly guilty of walking while Irish?
Black Irish?
* golf clap *
So I finally got price-gouged for some surgical masks today. I don’t think I’ll use them yet.
Please tell me you didn’t go to the Chinese 99 cent store
No, the “Deals and Discounts” across the street.
OK, yes. Except it’s run by Arabs.
Guess which language does not appear anywhere on the package.
Flemish?
Phlegm-ish
We have a site in Belgium, so my normal way of referring to something in Flemish is to call it Belch.
*sigh*
I was supposed to go to Belgium in July.
I have great doubt that’s happening now. Kind of glad we didn’t book all of the stuff yet (just the flights to and from Iceland, and the hotels there).
Bay Ridge Avenue and 5th Ave? By the Alpine? If that’s the one how’s the social distancing there? The mosque is right across the street and on Fridays it’s insanely packed on that block. Or the one on 87th and 4th?
Yes. I only saw about 3 other customers. There’s really no social distancing going on in any of the shops around here.
There is here. You can watch people tense up as you get closer to them.
I had someone get nervous because their dog ran up to me. The real lesson is keep your dog on a leash, dummy.
There’s really no social distancing going on in any of the shops around here.
The store I went to today (part of a chain) had stickers on the floor suggesting social distancing distances at all the lines. But it was not crowded enough to tell if people were paying attention to them or not.
What, it is supposed to be us red-state trash that ignores what our betters tells us. That’s what all my blue-state friends tell me!
There’s even a map that looks all sciency to back it up.
All the stores I’ve been to have those “practice social distancing – 6 feet apart” stickers on the floors. So far, I’ve only seen that happening when people are waiting in the check out line (sometimes because it’s enforced by the store).
A few places around here have added a card table between the counter and the customer, I guess it helps keep distance but only maybe 1 in 4 of the cashiers I’ve seen are wearing gloves, and they are still grabbing and scanner the thing I was just holding and taking my cash etc… I’d think they would go cards only and scan from a distance.
The Hyperbole: Several places up here have gone to credit card only. Curbside (with online/phone orders only) are also picking up steam.
I saw people wearing those today. No idea where they got them since I have never seen a surgical mask for sale in any retail outlet ever.
I see Black, Blue and Pink masks, where’d they get them?
It’s running at about 50% usage around here. And I was having the same question.
Used to be at the Walmarts and similar here, mainly for allergy sufferers.
Did not know that. All the Wmart employees had snazzy cloth masks. I assumed someone made them or Wmart issued them. I have no problem with that policy.
They’ve been sold out for two months, and not apparently restocked.
My Chinese suppliers are including packs of masks with every shipment.
I did a mandatory personal protective equipment training this morning. We didn’t even have enough equipment to practice. All the mask are hidden away and we only get one to re-use until it’s damaged. I’m not real excited about that.
I got a box (10-ct) of N95s from when Jugsy had the flu last year. I should put em on ebay.
I don’t think eBay will let you.
Joking.
I’m serious.
Shirley?
Not me, no masks here.
Tell us, O Great Grain Hauling Stone Head, are the Iowa brutals in their fields, replenishing their grain stocks?
This is a question which occurred to me earlier.
I don’t know about Iowa, but I’ve seen the winter wheat coming up here nicely. One up said to a mild winter / warm spring.
said? “side” – I must need a drink
I am not sure how I feel about that so long as they stay there.
I do feel sorry for the children.
Good point. Kids seem to ride this out no problemo though. Although living under al Shabaab is probably no picnic on a good day.
Is it wrong that in my head I hear al Shabaab like El Kabong?
Would
^
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She dinou nuthin
I would do something
The Tour of Flanders, scheduled for Sunday but cancelled due to government panic over a coronavirus, will be replaced by a short virtual race, Belgian television Sporza announced on Thursday.
Fixed it for you.
The health ministry and prime minister’s office have allocated about $11 million for coronavirus preparation, Ahmed said. Expenses are high – all medical equipment is imported and coronavirus tests are sent to Kenya for processing.
I thought Somalia didn’t have a government.
coronavirus tests are sent to Kenya for processing
This has to be a joke, right?
I wouldn’t think so. Kenya is right next door to Somalia and has much better infrastructure. (They have roads)
Lot’s of leftover British Colonial stuff. And actual British involvement.
I wonder if the leftover British Colonial places are more free than present day Britain
Ones still under colonial control or those that left?
Hoor!
“Somali doctor, veteran of many battles, girds for war with coronavirus”
I realize my (our) problems are trivial compared to what this guy sees/does every day. None the less, neither he nor us should be facing the problems we’re encountering.
Since Glibs seems to have come down with something, go ahead and hit that Wubonic Plague theme music.
[somber golf clap]
70.6 months average duration. People are you crazy?
Auto Loan Interest Rates See a Slight Lift in March, According to Edmunds
I’d take a 10 year 0% loan if it also came with a 10 year cover every damn thing warranty.
It goes well with my 40-year mortgage.
Soon they’ll be having people pay for things with consoles…
ahem…
consoles….
Most people can’t afford the optioned out Bimmer without a six year loan.
An assembly worker on our production line back in ’97 managed to spend $50K on a Honda Accord by financing it out god knows how many years.
I have a customer that bought a 2009 Nissan Maxima the he just paid of last June. He said he paid something like 60k for it with financing. He also said he learned his lesson and is making payments into a savings account for his next car while planning to drive the Maxima into the ground.
Plus they just rolled the underwater loan on their trade in into the loan on that optioned out new BMW.
I’ve seen family members do things like that. I thought I taught them better but I guess not.
I don’t think it is BMWs…truck sales for everyone except for Ford somehow actually grew in Q1.
You’re probably right, trucks are the in thing now.
Dealer keeps trying to get me to trade mine in for a new one.
No.
I starting to think that I have the virus. I barely did anything all day. I just moved a bunch of stuff to set up a little kitchen in my room. I didn’t even set it up. And I feel totally wiped out.
Is your ass sore?
No, just exhausted. Also wearing a mask from a cut-up sheet is very uncomfortable.
Dude, do you need some masks?
I have a few nuisance dust masks, but unless I could get the N95, I think the homemade ones works as well as surgical masks. Or as badly, depending on how you look at it.
I’ve got a pack of ten I can part with. Nothing special but better than without.
scruffynerfherder@hideaddress.net
Thanks, I do appreciate it. Keep them to protect yourself. If I already have it, almost anything will keep me from spreading it from what I read. The N95/99 are to keep people from catching it.
Really? I hear they’re terribly comfortable
Try these masks on
Mask that I might consider.
Did you hear back from your doc? Tested?
I did this video chat with my doc, who was very quick to agree I should have a test, but nothing is available until Monday morning. So I’m going Monday morning.
Are you serious? Where are you?
Mapwise I’m in a pretty infected area, so I wasn’t surprised. Apparently, much of the U.S. has a waiting time for tests, unless you are in the hospital.
You might call your local health dept and see if they can bump you up given your caretaker situation.
Thanks, I’ll try.
According to my doc, even if I test negative, I should still act like I have it for the next two weeks. Apparently, there are false negatives….
Here they are doing drive through testing 5 days a week with a Doctors recommendation. And in the two counties I spend most time in in my area have 15 confirmed cases.
Yeah, these tests are so precious that they have to be exceedingly picky about who gets one – which explains why 80+% are returning negative.
Even if you have it, here’s hoping it’s little more discomforting for you than a typical flu.
Regardless, sending you positive vibes.
It could be influenza as well. My SiL got a flu shot and still managed to come down with one of the strains that was in this year’s shot just a few weeks ago.
Be well and I’ll be thinking of you.
You may want to get tested for “ennui”.
I took that test, but I just couldn’t make it to the end.
*le sigh*
That was the apathy test.
Hopefully not, influenza A&B are still out there. Of course those should be taken seriously too.
Honestly, I have no idea how I could have even caught a cold. I’ve been so careful. That’s what is so perplexing.
Sorry buddy. It sucks when you do everything right and still take it in the shorts.
Sicc?
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
locked in our house, unable to go out and go to work, or have a good time, now we ride our virtual bikes
In Flanders fields.
:opera clap:
*joins in*
Bravo! Where’s that Gif?
Some people have all the luck. I doubt OMWC and SP will screw up this badly.
Minnesoda man re-united with his stolen bike after six years
Warranty re-started? Already cashed the insurance check?
Dude they moved to Dis on Styx, the bike has melted.
If only. Those two didn’t steal my bike to keep it (or even to sell it). They stole it just so I couldn’t have it anymore. Don’t try to understand the logic, there isn’t any. They stole it because it warms their greedy libertarian hearts to think of me trudging about town.
Look at the health benefits as you are trudging around town. Some people don’t even have a town to trudge around in. Did you ever think about them? No, I’ll bet never and then to put the blame of 2 really nice people is all most unforgivable. Mrs Jimbo is totally exonerated ’cause she sent a package of fantastic food.
You are easily bought off Fourscore. A cheap bike from OMWC and SP and you take their side. A few home made Korean mandu and you and Mrs. FourScore are in the bag for my wife.
Is his name Pee Wee?
Much brave.
I decided to start spreading awareness among the workers in the building. I had meetings in the common areas and dozens of workers joined us to talk about their concerns. People were afraid. We went to the general manager’s office to demand that the building be closed down so it could be sanitized. We also said we wanted to be paid during the duration of that time. Another demand of ours was that people who can’t go to work because of underlying health conditions be paid. Why do they have to risk catching the virus to put food on the table? This company makes trillions of dollars. Still, our demands and concerns are falling on deaf ears. It’s crazy. They don’t care if we fall sick. Amazon thinks we are expendable.
Because Amazon was so unresponsive, I and other employees who felt the same way decided to stage a walkout and alert the media to what’s going on. On Tuesday, about 50-60 workers joined us in our walkout. A number of them spoke to the press. It was beautiful, but unfortunately I believe it cost me my job.
Blah blah blah hey, everybody, I’m a hero!
No you’re not. You’re a garden variety douchebag labor agitator. Fuck off. Go start your own business, and pay your employees whatever you think is fair.
He’s owed food on his table.
Give him some Soylent Green.
And a table to put it on. And a house to keep the table in. And…
Hopefully when these wobblies get it going there will be a flood of hiring strike-breakers. It would put a lot of people back to work, and also make sure the strikers are practicing social distancing
Why do they have to risk catching the virus to put food on the table? This company makes trillions of dollars.
What about those people who commute? They are way more likely to die in a car accident on the way to work than of CV. why should they risk death to put food on the table? Everyone should be able to work from home!
Would it be OK to point and laugh if this chucklehead gets the virus and needs to be hospitalized only to have the medical staff walk out (in a beautiful way of course) because no one should have to risk disease in order to put food on the table?
We’ve had a few people show up absent when the learned they were going to be working a COVID Unit.
We fired them.
Excellent.
I get that people on the front lines might be exposing themselves to extra risk, but what the Hell did they go into health care for if not to take those risks sometimes? It’s like those idiots who complain that they joined the Armed Forces of country (X) to get skills and a job, not to deploy!
LOL. I was in boot camp when we started bombing Libya in ’86. There were a lot of guys who figured out for the first time that joining the Marines might involve some activities that were completely glossed over by your recruiter.
FTA, man or FTM.
Aaaand you got canned for violating the social distancing policy. Good work.
spreading awareness
That word, I do not think it means what you think it does.
There were a few people wearing masks in the grocery store. I *might have* snickered discreetly.
I’m not an alarmist and I wore an N95 when I went to the grocery store on Sunday morning. The odds of contracting it on any one visit are low but why take the chance if you already have them on hand?
I am all for mask wearing and think it should probably be a standard thing here during flu season. It might catch on after this freakout.
I also like the supermarkets sanitizing carts. People be nasty, yo.
Yeah, a lot of cleaning going on that should have been done all along- that checkout belt, the PIN pads, door handles, banning reusable bags, etc.
When I was a cashier it was standard practice to wash down the belt and other surfaces any time your line was empty. This was a big chain in the 90s.
Yup, and we had regular cleaning schedules for just about everything else.
I think many people are going to keep these habits even after this eventually blows over
Yep. To be fair, I noticed things like Lysol wipe dispensers at the entrances to most grocery stores in the area going back at least 4 or 5 years.
Granted, now they’re handing them out as you get your shopping cart, and they’re uch more diligent in keeping areas cleaned/sanitized.
Sure the cart handle is pristine. But then you go in the store and touch things on the shelves that a dozen people before you have handled.
Kinda pointless.
I am skeptical of that too. Just go home and wash your hands.
Gloves, bro.
Or, don’t touch your face until you can wash your hands. Which is crazy hard.
Even if you are wearing gloves, you shouldn’t be touching your face, because gloves on your hands don’t protect your face.
I’ve just been touching other peoples’ faces instead.
and B.P. doxxes himself as Joe Biden.
But gloves are an excellent reminder not to touch your face. I wear them for that more than any protection they might offer.
I’ve also upped my appreciation for automatic doors.
Merchandise gets moved frequently.
Cart handles get new germs and crud accumulated every day.
Most of the people at the stores for the last twenty years are drogging the carts from the front rather than pushing from behind.
I once had a bagger girl set my grocery’s in the child seat area of my cart. I said, “no no no, I have had a kid and I know what comes out of them, don’t put my food there.”
I wouldn’t worry so much about the kids. It’s the purses, which often sit on the floors in public restrooms.
I wouldn’t object, much.
But an N95 to go grocery shopping is probably overkill. Surgical masks (if enough people wear them) give a facsimile of herd immunity.
The mask thing makes me finally understand Wilt’s abandoning granny shots from the free throw line.
I see my wife wear her mask to the store and I just can’t bring myself to be that nerdy.
Why? The masks are mostly for your benefit. Really.
I snickered at first, but of course they could have some pretty serious pre-existing conditions that will make The Virus potentially life threatening.
Uffda. We need a wall to keep the NoDaks out.
Apparently violating all their constitutional rights and arresting them for just being an asshole isn’t working very well.
How long before the first person gets shot by a cop who later says that the “perp” coughed on him and that made the cop fear for his life?
I’ll give it a week.
Also look for increased demand for (and police union whining about shortages of) the spit/bite prevention masks used on some prisoners and mental patients.
Reminds me of those cage like masks to protect orderlies of sanitariums back in 19th century England.
So he’ll get the Hate Crime amplification to his Terrorism charges?
Yeah, the guy probably had a wallet that sad “Bad MoFo” on it. A complete criminal:
1) Did not take corona virus seriously enough
2) Said stupid things about minorities
3) Threatened cop (I’m sure in a super serious Preet type way)
That spree makes Natural Born Killers seem like a Sunday School session.
Thot Thursday brings fine fillies with all the right junk in all the right places.
http://archive.is/h4z98
I’d be interested in hearing 4’s opinions about the geopolitical situation of Central Asia. 29 is mildly suggestive.
I think she said something about the Caucasus mounds but there was something in my eye. 29 needs to share with 30.
#1 looks like Salma Hayek. A google image search says she is really this instagram model.
I think they should all come over to my place for quarantine.
So the new online pickup:
“I’ve got a vital sourdough starter, a room full of TP, a stock of flour and sugar, and an alcohol stockpile.”
I should have read all the new messages before I sent that message off to a good looking redhead on OKCupid. I would have had a better opening line.
Did anybody else watch the video in the Mail article about the dude dressed as a bush sneaking out of his house in the UK and think of JD?
I have a feeling he’s better at the Art of Not Being Seen
See you virtually insisted on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-M2hs3sXGo
Heh. I just snicker at the idea of JD dressing as bush. Oh, you mean a bush like a shrub?
Never mind.
Price gouging is bad, bad, bad. So why are college administrators not being shamed for not refunding room and board fees to students who were told to leave?
Full Disclosure: My youngest got the boot from The U of M’s dorm this spring, so I have a dog in this fight.
We are supposedly getting some room & board money back from Coastal Carolina.
My son’s college gave us a partial refund on room and board. I didn’t bother to see how the pro-rating precisely worked out, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Same here – my son’s college (small, private) was late to the game in closing and hid behind refund guidelines.
I’m preparing to have a similar discussion with the HOA at our Chicago place. The closed every amenity, but didn’t furlough/lay-off/fire staff. Subsidizing staff isn’t my problem.
college administrators
My kid’s beef is his school went pass/fail while he was crushing this semester.
Did they go entirely pass/fail? Every other school I’ve seen (which is several dozen at this point) has had an opt-in system for students so those who had good grades could keep them.
^^^This. Opt-in for #2 son, who needs to keep a 3.25 GPA for scholarship purposes (in no danger ATTM, crosses fingers).
Some universities are even letting students choose pass/fail after seeing their final grades, which seems a little excessive. The best argument I have heard for doing that is that a lot of faculty are so slow in grading that students don’t really know how they are doing until the end. Which is a fair criticism. At my school, students have to declare before the last week of “classes”, so I am pushing faculty to keep up with grading.
Yeah, that’s what we did. And, they’re allowing students to exceed the total number of pass/fail (here its Credit/No Credit) hours they can accumulate in their degree program.
I don’t really know the details. I got a short text; if he could have opted out, he would have said so . . . or maybe never even brought it up.
Mijo only needs to stay in the top 40% to keep his scholarship; he’s right at 20%; with only one more semester after this to post, I suppose it would be pretty hard for him to blow it at this point.
I have a lazy approach to a lot of things: it’s his problem, not mine; it’s something I can’t change. So I got sloppy even with whatever details I got. There’s this intellectual blindspot I have for rapper names, the price of tea in Paris. But Lee-Enfield was chambered in .303, something I’ll probably mutter on my deathbed.
go figure
He had an A rolling in both Admin and Economics, but he was probably going to take a B in Family Law (is doesn’t remotely motivate him).
If they refuse to let you use the room and board package, I see no grounds for them not refunding the fee pro rata.
That is the fig leaf they are hiding behind. THE U of M has a ton of foreign students so they didn’t just shut things down. They really, really, really, really, really implied that you should leave.
The reason they are only refunding 25% instead of 50% is because they have to keep those dorms and dining halls technically open for the students who have nowhere else to go. And all the staff that go along with that.
I see today the Board of Regents is now going to weigh in on this. My guess is that they will give out the whole 50% refund and then just soak the taxpayers for the additional costs during the next legislative session.
The reason they are only refunding 25% instead of 50% is because they have to keep those dorms and dining halls technically open for the students who have nowhere else to go.
So they have to spread fixed costs over fewer residents? Not my problem.
Hotels and hospitals don’t get to charge more when they have fewer people staying there, and certainly don’t get to charge people who aren’t staying there at all.
Why not find savings by firing the entire diversity and inclusion apparatus?
Hahaha!
Heh. I wonder how many people are discovering just how non-essential groups like that are now.
Well, UoM is asshole.
Always has been, and likely always will be.
My school is giving a partial housing refund to anyone who moves out by April 6. We have encouraged students to go home but about 20% are still living in housing, including nearly all of our international students. They are still negotiating refunds of meal plans. Since we use a third party (Chartwells) to run the food service, it’s a bit more complicated.
Yeah, the college my son was at wasn’t going to refund. The backlash was immediate and angry.
They changed their mind.
Luckily as an international student, he hadn’t paid for the second half when everything shut down.
I hope the U doesn’t fuck this up.
I’m stunned they have handled this so poorly.
It isn’t like the U can’t go to the Legislature and talk about how economically crushed they are because of the virus and end up getting so much money that they can endow another 14 administrative positions devoted to diversity and equity.
No one gives a shit that that money will be take right out of our tax paying pockets.
Well, Igive a shit.
Besides, Walz has whipped out the tit for everyone else, I can’t believe he’s leave the U hanging.
Did anybody else watch the video in the Mail article about the dude dressed as a bush sneaking out of his house in the UK and think of JD?
Did it end like this?
*sighs, smacks head: scroll down!*
More like this, I think
I love Slim Pickens. I also un-apologetically love 1941. There is some phenomenal miniature effects work in that movie.
Plus, Dianne Kay from “Eight is Enough.” Mmm.
In this picture, we cannot see Mrs. B.J. Smegma of 13 the Cresent, Belmont
Ew.
ZARDOZ CAN REALLY FLY DOWN THE HIGHWAYS
Speaking of the highways, there has been pleasantly less traffic on my commute. That said there still manages to be non-drivers, such as people that can’t decide how fast they want to go and/or assholes that insist on tailgating even though I am traveling at, say, a sufficient clip and casually passing people who are in the right lane. I see no reason to get over if that is the case. Guy got behind me this morning dangerously close. He had plenty of time to go around as he was approaching me and I do not cave to bullies. So I canceled my cruise-control and coasted. He still didn’t get over so I floored it and got some distance on him. He caught up, tailgated again for a few seconds, violently pointed at me and the over to the right lane (I saw this in the mirror) and then went around with his window down yelling something that I obviously could not hear at seventyfi – uh – at speed on the highway. So I *waved*… Fucking cunte.
I was rear ended (oh my!) last week. Dude that hit me said “your brake lights are out”. We both checked on the spot and they weren’t(right side blinker didn’t work though). He of course didn’t have insurance but luckily there didn’t appear to be a lot of damage. Even in light traffic peeps need to pay attention.
I’m digging Zardoz’s sartorial pinache.
ALL HAIL ZARDOZ’S HAT!
Trump would have faced a similar reaction, had he continued with the “don’t panic” approach. The desire to panic is too strong around the world.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bolsonaros-casual-stance-on-coronavirus-meets-resistance-in-brazil-11585846012?mod=hp_listb_pos1
And in the same article.
Another argument that the WSJ isn’t much better than the rest of the media desperately wishing the pandemic to last a long time.
Mr. Trump’s contention that chloroquine, an antimalarial drug, is effective against it
Did he actually say that? Or did he say something more along the lines of it shows promise?
I’m sure it was, “shows promise, and seems to be effective in some cases”
I ‘Member
Yeah, but it isn’t PROVEN!
All Trump has is anecdotal evidence that it has worked over and over again. But there were no double blind tests. There haven’t been enough large scale tests to verify that it works for everyone.
* Think of the shit show if chloroquine only worked for white men.
“Health professionals say”
Ah yes, the fallacious “appeal to authority”
Human “rights” activists.
As we battle COVID-19, we’re also having to battle for our Second Amendment rights at a time when no one should be required to worry about it. While many people are clamoring for guns right about now, anti-gunners are trying to shut down the only avenue for firearms for millions of people. They want to see all the gun stores closed, effectively banning large segments of the population from having guns.
Perhaps more insidious than this, though, is how some in the media try to reframe these people are “human rights advocates.”
“Human rights defenders on Tuesday demanded that the Trump administration reverse its decision to designate gun stores as “essential businesses” during the coronavirus pandemic and warned that increased gun violence during the national public health crisis will only add to the strain on overwhelmed health systems.”
Well, if that’s not a blatant lie, I don’t know what is.
Of course, this is at Common Dreams, which describes itself as a progressive media outlet, but it also claims:
“Common Dreams works diligently to uncover and publish honest, independent news and information that you can rely on. Every day.”
As a new proud gun owner I’m going to refer myself as a Human Life Defender
I have a 1911-shaped hole in my collection. The Tisas 1911A1 clone looks too good to be true at $400.
Tisas makes good stuff; in fact Turkish arms manufacturing in general is, IMO, a hidden gem.
Further:
http://eaacorp.com/guns/handguns/mc1911c-commander9mm-442
Damn! That gun’s almost as sexy as your typical links, Q!
http://eaacorp.com/guns/handguns/mc1911matchelite-483
I figure my first one HAS to be in .45, or JMB will smite me.
Although I could get TWO of the Tisas for that…
Tangfolio does make serious competition guns though.
What kind of gun did you lose in that accident?
Calling gun grabbers human rights defenders…I mean, fuck…that’s some nonsense. How do you defend your fundamental right to life other than a gun?
A sharp stick of the proper Leper Length.
My sister tells me, with a smirk, and an exaggerated “I can’t believe you’re so stupid you don’t know this” tone, that, and I quote,
“Free market solutions aren’t working in healthcare.”
‘What free market solutions?”, I ask.
Again, her face lights up with an “oh I’ve got you now,” and the mocking tone and smirk intensify.
“In America! They can’t get ventilators and people are dying in droves!”
That seems like a weird thing to take pleasure in saying. I must be so stupid not to realise that my feeble understanding of economics is utterly flawed and that I must have been hoodwinked by a vast conspiracy not to realise that you poor Americans are “dying in droves” because “free markets” can’t produce ventilators. You know what can give people all the ventilators they need? Central planning! You guys must all be loopy in the head or something not to realise this. My sister really set me straight!
She’s right, we have over 400 million dead in just the last 3 weeks, and absolutely none of them had any prior health issues that mainly contributed to their demise.
The glee of progressives is a bigger illness than the ‘rona.
So tragically true. No cure on the horizon either.
What’s our prognosis, doc?
Nausea and rage, mostly.
Gradual economic and social decline, until the country decompensates and collapses. A brief period of intense internecine violence will likely ensue, followed by something very different than what we have now.
The good news: when America collapses, we take the rest of the globe down with us.
Man… I like it here, all we need now is an EMP,
Eh, you’ll be fine.
Once you get that shotgun, anyway.
Did someone say EMP?
You’re unbelievable.
Christ man, I just started drinking. I’m not quite ready for all that yet.
As I like to say, Detroit is the model. So it’s probably the prognosis.
Nah. I suspect there’ll be plenty of areas in the States that decide, “fuck it, we’ll go our own way” and do fine. Most of those areas are populated with very independent, and well armed, regular folks.
Hopefully we’ll have moved out of the People’s Republic of Kalifornia before the collapse.
Spain, Italy, and China really dodged that bullet by going full government healthcare.
And their statistics can be trusted.
(Not to imply that US statistics are all that trustworthy either.)
The following is probably a waste of time because (a) people don’t want to be convinced, (b) lies, damn lies, and statistics, (c) they’re snapshots with no context. But rough back-of-the-envelope, deaths as percentage of total population:
United States: 0.0015%
UK: 0.004%
Italy: 0.023%
I was going to laugh, then I noticed it was you JD, aren’t you stuck on Airstrip One?
She’s a Loony…
One in a million girl?
Talk to ya later, Ted.
You guys are just white punks on dope.
Wait, we’ve got a free market in healthcare here in America?
For clarification, what’s a drove? Is it a British thing like a stone?
in Droves? never heard of it? A Drover is a wagon driver in the Olden times
Even if we had, the feds took it upon themselves to stockpile hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment, which it… didn’t bother restocking after the last pandemic. So you have businesses stocking what the need for business as normal with the understanding that abnormal conditions will allow them to call on the national stockpile… which they can’t do, because the feds failed. And now businesses are retooling in droves to make up the shortage of supplies, again, thanks to the feds.
How is this the failure of free market capitalism, again?
Past tense of a golfing term. The player (the driver) drives the ball, All of his droves were long, accurate, well, except for a couple
They can’t get ventilators
Not true. I haven’t even heard that NYC has run out of ventilators yet.
and people are dying in droves!
Not true.
“Free market solutions aren’t working in healthcare. . . . in America”
Also not true: that American healthcare isn’t free market.
Ah, fuckit. You know what I mean.
Yep.
Not only that, we’ve seen a lot of private companies reacting much more dynamically than government, converting manufacturing lines to produce health care products, etc., and where they’ve been slow, it’s due entirely to government red tape and BS regulations.
The real shortage appears to be in respiratory therapists and there’s an impending shortage of medical oxygen rigs.
Incidentally, we just got involved in our first COVID construction project where they’re converting about 6000 sqft of warehouse space into a MASH type setup full of cots.
Local rag is also saying sedation and other drugs for use with the ventilators too.
Is she aware NYC is not America?
Well there’s NYC, LA, and farmland in the US to the average Brit. In fairness, to most Americans, there’s London, Scotland (which is a city of course), and the Hot Fuzz town in England.
Sandford, Gloucestershire
Oh, and Belmont, Lancashire, where B.J. Smegma lived.
And Notlob.
Wait, this isn’t true?
I thought that Scotland was the size of Houston, and Wales was the size of Providence.
Hmm, I wonder if the FDA places any obstacles before those making medical devices. Nah, probably not. Market failure.
Have her look again at the death rate from COVID-19 between the US and UK.
It’s not even coronavirus that’s killing them; the instant a person comes into a doctor’s office coughing or sneezing, they’re dragged to the town square where the local children take turns beating them to death while the populace howls in delight. Then we have a blood-covered orgy.
It’s the capitalist way.
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but
YOUR.
SISTER.
IS.
A.
FUCKING.
IGNORAMUS.
AND.
IDIOT.
and as a “polite” Canadian, I hereby give you permission to show her my response. There is no such thing as a “free market healthcare system” anywhere on Earth, and if she had any education and/or intellectual curiosity at all, she would know that. Governments EVERYWHERE ON THE PLANET routinely fuck with their health care systems for political reasons. The United States just does it less than most other places, but Obamacare’s helping them to catch up to such beacons of care as the UK.
Or would she prefer her system (the NHS)? Every time I’ve been in the UK, I’ve made sure I have extensive private medical insurance to cover myself, because the NHS services are little better than death factories as far as I can tell.
I am making a double batch of candied Japs. It smells great in here but my nose is running and I sneezed a few times. Worth it!
LACIST!!!!!
Ummmm…I know about Pearl Harbor and all but cannibalism isn’t moral or a good revenge.
Watch that sneezing.. the neighbors might call the cops
My neighbors can’t hear me sneeze, nor would they probably care.
my nose is running and I sneezed a few times
Been nice knowing you, sloper.
I wish.
All hail Zardoz, or something.
Whatever.
Carry on.
I did laugh….
/Carry out…….
Coronavirus is now the third-leading cause of death in the US according to Dr Maria Danilychev.
Third? And Dr. Maria… would like to book an appointment… if she didn’t practice hospice medicine.
Except it’s a lie. It’s PROJECTED to be the third biggest killer on an annual basis, but with about 5k dead right now in the US from COVID, it’s not even fucking CLOSE to being as bad as cancer or heart disease – which each kill in the hundreds of thousand of Americans annually.
There has been a VERY recent spike in daily COVID deaths, but unless and until it stays at that number for the next… 250 days in a row, this is pure clickbait horseshit intended to scare because they don’t have the numbers they need.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us
And how will it stack up against >250K medical error deaths?
Yeah, that drives me up the fucking wall. Radley Balko tweeted about the US hitting a “grim milestone” with 1K COVID-19 deaths in a single day! Never mind that he gives no context, doesn’t break down the deaths based on comorbidity, doesn’t make reference to what the highest daily death toll is in a typical flu season…
Fuck, I hate the glee with which some of these assholes are taking in spreading bad news.
In Balko’s case, I’m guessing he thinks he’s correcting the Trumpers who think COVID-19 is no big deal, and that it should be taken seriously.
Well, apart from a tiny fringe group, most of us ARE taking it seriously. We just want to check the data, have some context, not hyperventilate, and do some cost to benefit analysis with respect to some obviously unconstitutional draconian policies.
the highest daily death toll is in a typical flu season
2017-2018 was our worst recent flu season, with an estimated death toll of 80,000. I want to say at its peak the toll was around 5,000/week, but I can’t find anything to support that on a quick search. Its possible we topped 1,000 a day for that season.
I suspect in a typical flu season with a total of, call it 40,000 deaths, the highest daily death toll is around 600. Total swag number.
Yeah, I figured the highest day in a typical flu season was very similar (600 – 800).
It’s still awful, of course. But, it’s not “dogs and cats living together – mass hysteria” stuff.
Thanks.
During the two worst weeks of the 2017-18 flu season the flue (pneumonia and influenza) mortality was 7000 per week. In other words, 1000 deaths per day.
Seriously, though, what is”getting back to normal” going to look like? Cases begin to drop.
Politicians want to ease up restrictions but are afraid of moving too early if there are more cases.
Other politicians see that they have a huge bargaining chip. They can trade congressional votes and pork with other politicians, and they can act like benevolent Santa Claus handing out treats for us voters.
But will the people manage a popular rejection of “news” or just keep suckling at the teat of ignorance?
Everybody is going to want a taste before this is over.
I fear that RC Dean is close with his guess of how this will play out.
The lefties have succeeded all too well at severing our link to Western Civilization.
I think Trump and his band of idiots will start rolling out waves of go-back-to work orders toward the end of the month.
They know this can’t (and shouldn’t) keep going.
I Trust Jared™
If they don’t get shit rolling, Trump will lose.
Problem is state governors have a bigger say on this SIP shit.
I”m favorably impressed that ten TeamRed governors are holding out.
My own governor (places hand over heart) numbers not amongst those.
Of course. So it’s 100% on them at that point.
If they truly believe this is Armageddon, they should dig their heels in. They’ll be on record, the feds will be out of it and history will judge.
They will cave.
The other problem is you have a statist piece of shit like Fauci saying nothing should go back to normal until there are zero new cases. That fucktard is going to slowly get pushed aside by a person who understands science.
He said that?!
I know that’s how it’s going to play out, but… dayum.
Not back to normal until zero? So never then…
That’s what concerns me as well. Our cower in place order just got extended until at least May 1st now.
So what are the Christmas/Easter Catholics going to do?
* types out some line from the KJV *
* deletes line from the KJV *
* opens diet beer *
Catholics man. We didn’t read the King James bible.
/lifts a pint at Don
ye musteth readeth the thingeth as twas spoketh in the original tongueth !!
Perhaps. But, there enough voices out there who aren’t “crazy libertarians” like us who are questioning these policies, questioning the data, etc. People like John P.A. Ioannids of Stanford, Dr. David Katz,
I think the post hoc analysis of this is going to be very, very interesting.
I saw a tweet from a Michael Rose with this:
“Back in 2009 at the beginning of the Swine Flu panic, “experts” and the WHO with their models were predicting upwards of 50K deaths in the UK with 3K as the best case scenario.
Actual Deaths: 241
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jul/16/swine-flu-cases-rise-britain”
It’s this type of analysis I hope happens, and that people spread this information around. Social Media actually helps a bit in this regard.
I started a Word doc where I’m collecting links of articles, studies, and posts from reputable sources looking at the pandemic from an objective view, avoiding hysterics and panic.
I haven’t had a chance to read each and every link yet. But, the ones I have are giving me hope there’s some professional sanity out there.
There’s a lot of people who seem to be arguing that the moral of “The Boy who Cried Wolf” is that the townspeople have blood on their hands for not believing the poor boy who got eaten by the wolf.
It’s about 50/50 here, some are scared, some call Bullshit and are worried about the economy than CV,
everyone practices Social distancing, but know one is ignorantly hiding I’m aware of,
I’m really worried that it could get ugly. I can see them try to keep the clamps on and some people deciding to say fuck it and opening up anyhow. Then the govt is gonna step on their face big time.
What will make it extra nasty is that the shootout will be at the local crafts store
Who wants to be the governor who caves in the face of pressure from nice old ladies?
Hobby Lobby tried to reopen here in Ohio, and got yelled at by the AG, and folded. I’ve had enough beer that the rage is now just down to a simmering boil now.
I heard just a bit of DeWine’s talk today, and he said stores need to limit how many people are inside. I’m picturing lines to get food, which shouldn’t sit well with most people.
But it will, as long as it SAVES ONE LIFE!
It’s been happening in NH. Trader Joe’s has restricted the number of people in the stores for a little while now. Another chain, Market Basket, started today. I don’t know when the others will fall in line or have the government force them to.
I listened to too much of it. I’m sure my blood pressure wasn’t helped by that.
As I said earlier to someone- you’re about to see lines for food. You’re already being told to stay at home. The National Guard is in Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati to “look for buildings suitable for hospitals”, which is really “get used to seeing troops on the street”.
According to a press release, the National Guard will help determine the infrastructure required to meet Ohio’s increased need for medical facilities. In partnership with the Ohio Department of Health, Ohio Emergency Management Agency and the Ohio Department of Administrative Services, the Ohio National Guard will assess potential sites for alternate medical facilities.
Its to get people used to a New Way of Life!
/deletes rant
Next election cycle for governor will be depressing.
hah! You think there will be elections, comrade?
Haven’t we always done that? Occupancy limits per fire code, load bearing in building codes, and such? I realize outside of some dance clubs they were never really enforced. But whats the difference between the fire marshal limiting you to 100 people or the health department limiting you to 20? (Yes, yes it’s 80 I mean from a boot on face standpoint.)
Is anyone here arguing that those limits are unconstitutional? I think the issue with those limits is that they will create a great deal of inconvenience and inefficiency because the stores are designed with higher through put in mind. The forced closures are the constitutional issue, this is just another stupid regulation that will screw up our lives.
I have an issue with the Health Dept. having those kinds of powers.
Same.
And the Fire Marshal and building codes inspectors?
So you are arguing that since building inspectors and fire marshals have authoritarian powers over the masses we should not care that it is expanded. Hell of an argument you got there.
Fine. Its a ‘public safety’ issue. I see your point.
But in the current climate we have Health Dept. employees saying they’re going to “audit” businesses to see if they’re in compliance, actively. With law enforcement at their side.
You dont really get that from fire marshalls when a club is over capacity. Until it burns down and people are kiled.
Actually I’m just asking where you draw the line, maybe everyone is full an-cap and if a business want’s to block off all exits save one choke point and remove all fire alarms that’s fine. People should check all that before they decide to patronize any given establishment or not. Caveat emptor or what ever the proper Latin phrase for ‘it ain’t up to me to make sure you’re safe in my establishment” is.
People are gonna start cracking the week after Easter.
We’re already at a bridge too far, but most people are making an effort to not snap just yet.
Democrats controlling both houses of Congress and the White House.
Where’s my trigger warning?
*wraps head in burlap sack*
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/coronavirus-live-news-updates.html
“The Trump administration is expected to announce that all Americans should wear cloth masks or other face coverings if they go out in public amid new concerns that the virus is being spread by infected people with no symptoms. Global infections exceeded one million.”
I wish I did that on Friday.
He’s only doing that so his buddy Mr. MyPillow Guy can sell all his masks at an obscene profit!!!!
Maybe they can send a mask with my trumpbucks.
I’m all in!
Is Trump going to mail me a sewing machine so I can make some?
I set up a little kitchen on a card table in my room. It’s a Coleman propane stove, and an old microwave. I think it’s from the 80’s. It has a mechanical timer. I tried it, and it seems like it works. So I’m thinking I now have kung flu and testicular cancer.
You need Ventilation in a big way, that Stove puts out a lot of CO, at least cook near an open window,
or CV won’t be what get’s you….
And Change your Filter!
upgrade to a programmable thermostat !
Don’t forget to check it though.
It’s near a window.
CO has a mol/weight of 28.01 and ambient air is generally 28.84. Open it wide.
~S~
Small Cans and a Fever!
My 24 oz Milwaukee’s Beast Diet are back to 10/$10
Tall Cans!
HEY YUFUS!
I have an old microwave. I looked and it had a manufacture date on it. Sept. 1988. I may have cancer but I’m sure the ambient microwaves kill any viruses.
Well, at least now they have a treatment for babies.
rF is non-ionizing.
Nonionizing radiation can be bad.
Unionizing radiation is worse.
SEIU wants in on that action.
Does that mean decionizing is better?
I like onions.
Dad, is that you? (he also has a microwave from 1988)
Are you up in the woods? Try building a still.
For those who haven’t seen, I’ll be hosting a Glibs Virtual Happy Hour (link there to save) tomorrow, starting at 19:00 Eastern. Feel free to join, or not… I’m not your supervisor. Neither food nor alcohol will be provided, but the latter is highly encouraged.
Cool. I’ll try and make it for at least part of the hour.
Thanks!
Hour? Are you not familiar with the concept that Happy Hour continues for much longer than an hour? I don’t expect this one to end before 00:00 Eastern, but will probably not go as early as the last one (sorry guys and gals, I do need some sleep).
7 to midnight? I can go for that. Just make sure you keep the meeting open when you leave.
Some reporter just asked Mnuchin “Nancy Pelosi wants to setup a committee to distribute the relief funds…do you think that’s necessary?”
I wouldn’t trust Pelosi to distribute my cats breakfast properly
Nothing promotes efficiency like another committee.
Oh I’m
Picking out a thermos for you
Not an ordinary thermos for you
But the extra best thermos you can buy
With vinyls and stripes and a cup built right in
I’m picking out a thermos for you
And maybe a barometer too
And what else can I buy
So on me you’ll rely
A rear end thermeter too
*remembers morning links and clinches*
Look at my butthole!
LOOK AT IT!!!
Great song from a great movie.
It has been stuck in my goddamn head all day.
Just needed to type it out to release it.
“Hey do we got any credit cards back there?”
Credit card!! Ola!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xcpm-2RHHgQ
This ordeal makes me want to acquire gold. This paper money is a joke.
Cough cough.
But a non COVID cough, just a notification cough.
Except that the coin and bullion shops where you could sell it to pay current bills are closed by order of Government.
Be careful. Physical gold is highly manipulated.
Gold mining stocks are safer right now.
Isn’t Schiff Gold still trust worthy? He also recommends wearable gold that’s of high carat content (?), if you’re into that.
Just don’t OG
+1 Eve Plumb
Buy a warehouse full of rubbing alcohol and sell it a hefty markup when the next big one hits. Then again, they throw people in jail now for showing financial initiative so scratch what I said.
I guess our two days of spring are over. It looks like it is going to snow. Oh well, at least the beer on the porch will be cold again.
My alcohol reinforcements arrived today.
I’m good for another couple weeks in the lamest apocalypse ever.
Thanks for the Ren and Stimpy link.
It’s unfortunate that I can’t whip out a bong in front of my kids.
Garage? Back porch?
Glad to help. ?
https://twitter.com/theGirlMob/status/1245446374969217027
LOL
Effing moulding. Did the small pieces and 6 of them are a hairs width too wide. Recut all of them because they’re too short to trim off.
I am not a finish carpenter.
Lol.
Been there, done that. I love finish work, but the learning curve is surprisingly steep. I have a really nice miter saw, which makes the removal of BCHs to RCHs easier to achieve. Also, measuring the angles is critical. I promise you most of your angles aren’t 90 degrees. Buy a good protractor (need not be digital).
If you are doing more, I could dig up some good resources for you.
Luckily it’ll all be painted and isn’t stained or natural wood. Spackle and caulk hide close enough and its base moulding so as long as it’s pretty good, no one will notice.
I promise you most of your angles aren’t 90 degrees
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*doesn’t apply to outside corners,
“AIRSTRIP ONE LAW BRUTALS BUNGLE.”
A Bungle in the Jungle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJhAyg2LTEk
I’m a tiger when I want love…
Good song.
Sununu holds twitter chat
Gov. Chris Sununu said liquor stores will soon offer curbside pickup, he’s considering a New England-wide model that could reopen golf courses to the public and public schools could remain shut down for the rest of the school year.
Those were among the highlights for Sununu’s first, organized social media conversation about New Hampshire fallout from COVID-19 on Twitter Thursday afternoon.
During an hour-long video exchange, Sununu answered a variety of questions, such as the availability of personal protective equipment, the possible end date for the stay-at-home order and whether New Hampshire can expect to remain one of the states with the lowest infection rate from novel coronavirus.
“We are probably a few weeks away, end of April, early May is when we are likely to see our surge in some way. Hopefully it won’t be as bad as they are seeing in the rest of the country,” Sununu said, answering someone identified as “Island King 63.”
Wait, a few days ago the surge was only two weeks away. Now, today, three to four weeks away? FUCK YOU!
He also talks about reopening golf courses, but only if the other New England states agree to a plan. FUCK YOU! Just reopen the state asshole.
If others do it they can all try to displace the blame if things go south, although they probably won’t.
“Hey, I’m not the only one that thought this would work.”
The president is now asking all Americans to wear fabric masks in public.
All of the bandanas and baclavas I have would make me look like more of a nut job.
I have a sewing machine, but the only fabric I have is Nylon Kite material,
Well, alrighty then.
Seamless Neck Gaiter Shield Scarf Bandana Face Mask Seamless UV Protection for Motorcycle Cycling Riding Running Headbands https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QFMS579/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_wyMHEbRJEX5EX
I have one of these.
https://www.maddogcycles.com/product/coldavenger-coldavenger-classic-lower-cut-regular-200-gram-classic-22863.htm
Mine are for the cold, I would melt wearing them now,
All of the bandanas and baclavas I have would make me look like more of a nut job.
I see what you did there honey.
Keep making fun of me I’m a member of hummus.
*ahem*
http://instagram.com/p/dqZFvgP1C2/
alternatively: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/99/c0/17/99c0171b2d0a790f71d926e2cf901b72–gangster-girl-raiders-baby.jpg
I thought that only applies to the uggos?
IKR. It’s would be a crime to cover my pretty face.
Sure, why the hell not?
In responding to the effects of the virus, throughout Europe, the guiding principle has been the same: everything possible should be done to avoid mass unemployment.
In theory, at least, the same principle could have been applied here. A few weeks ago, when a big stimulus bill was being debated, some economists on both sides of the political divide called for the federal government to pay firms to keep employees on their payrolls even if they weren’t working. In a policy brief published in March, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, two liberal-leaning economists at the University of California, Berkeley, argued that the federal government needed to “act as a payer of last resort so that hibernating businesses can keep paying their workers (instead of laying them off).” Four days later, Glenn Hubbard, who served as the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in the George W. Bush Administration, and Michael Strain, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, put forward a coronavirus plan focussed on “allowing workers to continue being paid by their employers during the coronavirus crisis.”
Under the Saez and Zucman proposal, any employer adversely affected by the virus shutdowns would tally its total monthly running costs, including things like rent and interest payments as well as wages, and the Internal Revenue Service would issue a payment to cover them. This is similar to the British scheme, which is being run through H.M. Revenue and Customs, the British equivalent of the I.R.S. The Hubbard and Strain proposal is restricted to small and medium-sized firms, and it would operate largely through the commercial-banking system. Firms would take out bank loans to cover their running costs for the duration of the crisis, and, as long as they didn’t lay off any of their workers, the federal government would repay the entire loans.
Sounds legit.
Fine. As long the govt cuts 99% of it’s bullshit spending
Good thing we had a mild winter, and were able to plant those money trees early. When can I start harvesting?
Right after you Fuck Off!
Howdy!
Hey, we are all Tulpa! Against all odds, I am still gainfully employed but at home, so will be fucking off whenever I get a break. Otherwise, I will continue to lurk and be amazed by this motley collection of misfits. Until we all die from
Net NeutralityGlobal WarmingClimate ChangeWoo Hoo FluIn responding to the effects of the virus, throughout Europe, the guiding principle has been the same: everything possible should be done to avoid mass unemployment.
Funny, they’ve been shutting down their economies.
Like maybe not closing all the places people work at?
You do this kind of thing in Excel and it’s called a “circular reference” and the whole thing grinds to a halt. Wonder if there’s a lesson in that?
Also-
” Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, two liberal-leaning economists at the University of California, Berkeley”
*guffaws, slaps knee*
Do they want to workers to own the means of production? Then they’re filthy liberals who will get the bullet too.
The president is now asking all Americans to wear fabric masks in public.
Trump’s America!
Antifa rejoices!
Red MAGA fabric masks now available at finer online stores everywhere.
I like mine
Sounds like he was afraid of getting a citation? Success will not be tolerated.
Dirty Tacos and Tequila
I confirmed my preferred ffl is still doing transfers. Let the drunken Gunbroker bidding begin this evening!
You know any decent AR parts suppliers that aren’t ten days out for shipping? I might be dead in ten days!
Primary arms?
Bookmarked thanks!!!
I have a C&R, so anything C&R can come directly to me.
Also, antiques under Federal law don’t require an FFL at all, or even import paperwork. I have two rifles that are antiques under Federal law that came to me from outside the country without any paperwork.
Of course, you want modern stuff that needs a FFL01, yeah, you need a local FFL.
The Navy announced it has relieved the captain who sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Capt. Brett Crozier, who commands the Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier with a crew of nearly 5,000, was relieved of his command on Thursday, but he will keep his rank and remain in the Navy.
Crozier raised the alarm earlier this week, sending a strongly-worded letter to Navy leadership that detailed his concerns about the spread of the virus on the ship. The letter leaked to the press and generated a series of headlines.
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The ship, which was operating in the Pacific, pulled into port in Guam last week several days after multiple sailors tested positive for the virus. By Wednesday, there were 93 positive test results and more than 1,000 people were taken off the carrier and placed into isolation in Guam. In total, 2,700 people are expected to disembark the ship this week, with a smaller crew remaining to maintain the carrier.
How many of those 93 positive people were incapacitated? How many were asymptomatic?
Military secret, I guess.
As the CCP clap their hands with Glee!
Gree!
“There’s another, entirely logical explanation for why stores have run out of toilet paper — one that has gone oddly overlooked in the vast majority of media coverage. It has nothing to do with psychology and everything to do with supply chains. It helps to explain why stores are still having trouble keeping it in stock, weeks after they started limiting how many a customer could purchase.
In short, the toilet paper industry is split into two, largely separate markets: commercial and consumer. The pandemic has shifted the lion’s share of demand to the latter. People actually do need to buy significantly more toilet paper during the pandemic — not because they’re making more trips to the bathroom, but because they’re making more of them at home. With some 75% of the U.S. population under stay-at-home orders, Americans are no longer using the restrooms at their workplace, in schools, at restaurants, at hotels, or in airports.”
https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0
One of the local restaurants here is delivering TP with food orders. They also are selling the supplies they get from their suppliers, like flour, etc. Normally I wouldn’t go to a restaurant that hands out TP with the meal, but now it seems like a good idea.
The market. She provides.
Except the TP hoarding started well before the shutdowns began. I was thinking that at least the stalls at work are still stocked, until they started working us from home. And you don’t think the commercial providers wouldn’t shift sales over to fulfill consumer demand, if for no other reason than commercial clients are cutting back?
Maybe he addresses those points in the article, but no, nobody loads up on pallets of paper or gets in fistfights with other idiots just because they can’t crap at work. This was imbecilic herd-driven hoarding.
Holy double negatives, Batman.
I’ve been trying to be productive and I’m working from home. But the company I’m auditing is not responding with my document requests. It’s ground to a halt. This is fucking stupid.
Just poured a vodka and Emergen-C. I’m done for the day. Hell, I’m done for the week. All my upcoming audits have been put on hold. I’m done for the month at this point. Fuck me.
? Sorry E.
Thanks. Cheers!
What do you wanna bet she poisoned her husband and concocted this story.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arizona-woman-fish-tank-cleaner-trump-democrat
I bet the chloroquine fell out of her ass before she gave it to him.
What you did there. It was perceived.
Oops, forgot the link
Haha
Finicky cat update:
My cat has been on a hunger strike for around three days, refusing to eat anything I put in front of her while begging for food.
So I finally tried Fancy Feast just now and she scarfed up most of a can.
I hope it doesn’t come up onto the carpet.
Rhywun’s cat
LOL indeed
Everyone just wants to scarf down junk food sometimes.
If it turns out that is the only thing she’ll eat, I’m not going to object.
If that doesn’t work, get some nutritional goo called Licks and smear it on her nose or paws. Not eating is terrible for their livers somehow. I forget how many days without eating constitutes an emergency; I think it might be as little as one.
Come on the carpet?
So I guess you’ve been to those parties too.
Have you tried lasagna?
Would somebody just disappear this guy?
president’s delay in taking the virus seriously has had “catastrophic consequences”
Democrats, the media and many of my Facebook friends keep saying this, yet I have yet to see any evidence that anything was not taken seriously nor were there delays in action, and there hasn’t been catastrophic results in this country yet, at least in terms of death rates.
Say something often enough, though, and the willing completely believe it and bleat it forward until it’s their version of truth.
Fun game: ask anyone saying something like this what they would have done differently than the administration, and say that “taking it more seriously earlier” or “not thinking it was a hoax” are not tangible things, they must actually suggest a different action and then compare to the actual response of the feds.
Or compare it to the actual response of any Democrat in Congress before it became politically expedient to overreact.
In theory it is a good idea to review what happened in order to be better prepared for next time. But with Schiff involved we can be sure he’s only interested in how to create the next impeachment hearing.
They’re already planning on losing in November, so, sure, tee up more impeachment hearings. It’s all they’ve got.
Yeah, I remember how the media and every other politician, D and R alike, was really concerned about coronavirus when it was a Chinese problem.
Snark aside, I also remember when Trump was being called a racist for instituting restrictions on Chinese visitors.
Golly, he wasn’t as responsive as you liked while you were pointlessly dragging him for fake news peeing on Russian hookers? Gee willikers, that must have been tough on you.
SHaving some nutritional yeast on hand is always good to get cats to eat. Just put a pinch on the food. It’s also delicious on many human foods
https://twitter.com/STU_ACTOR/status/1244998561873477634
LOL
Kek
Interloper! Upstart!
One day after her employer was kicked out of the rotation to cover daily press briefings by President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force, OAN correspondent Chanel Rion was back in the briefing room at press secretary Stephanie Grisham’s request — putting her at odds with the rest of the White House press corps.
Rion also attended Tuesday and Wednesday’s briefings at Grisham’s invitation, standing in the back of the room in violation of new rules put in place by the White House Correspondents’ Association.
Those rules were designed to limit the number of journalists in the crowded space and allow for social distancing in line with guidelines from public health officials, the association says.
But their enforcement is placing OAN — an upstart cable outlet that takes a markedly pro-Trump line and whose reporters often lob friendly questions at administration officials — in direct conflict with other news organizations.
“You’re not allowed to sit with the cool kids in this lunchroom. Who do you think you are, bitch?”
Fuck ’em
I LOVE watching the legacy press get their panties in a bundle. They are the second-most pathetic group of people in the country (after Congress).
Trump’s letter to Schumer
https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1245836495702933504?s=20
Classic
I’m disappointed it didn’t include the use of the term “doo-doo head”
Dear Moobs, (that means man boobs in case you have caught Biden’s Dementia Democratia)
You are a slimy, corrupt liar and should feel bad about yourself. Please join my friend Augusto for a special helicopter tour this Friday April 3, 2020. Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and the ‘squad’ are also invited.
Love Dapper Donnie Trump
ALOL
“alternative” is mis-spelled in the last sentence
Im skeptical.
Never mind. I just learned a new word.
(I already made that comment. No idea where it went.)
I wish they’d use full justification. Left looks so ragged.
Rion’s attendance sets off a possible clash with the WHCA, which isn’t backing down amid criticism from some conservatives who accuse the association of bias for allegedly singling out a conservative news outlet.
“In order to comply with the social distancing guidelines, and to take steps to ensure the health and safety of the press corps and White House staff, there is no room for reporters who do not have an assigned seat today, or on any given day, to be standing in the briefing room,” WHCA President Jonathan Karl said in a statement, calling the decision entirely related to public health. “If somebody is to be a guest of the White House, they should be sitting in the seats to the side which are set aside for White House staff.”
So
incredibly
tedious.
I can’t imagine having to work with that load of self-important douchebags on a daily basis. I might kill myself.
Fine, the seats available to WHCA just went down by one. Wanna try that again?
My neighbors appear to be cranking up the outdoor karaoke.
It’s gonna be a long night.
Live in L.A.? Turn em in and get your reward!
The best karaoke song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxO_U3utvWw
Gee, I hope there’s not more than 10 of them so the Gestapo don’t show up and haul them off to the camps.
Wow, I would not be happy. You have any war movies you can crank up to 11?
Play some Black Metal on 10.
Oops.
Also, it helps if you have 100+ watt guitar or bass amplifiers to focus attention.
So, if anyone’s interested. Here’s a Q&A with the Ohio Craft Brewers Association and the impact the shutdown has had.
Quick hits:
Nationally, 30% of breweries have halted production
Yes Breweries will close: We don’t know the definitive answer to this, but it seems a genuine likelihood that businesses of many types, including breweries, may not survive this pandemic.
Want to help CLE Service Industry people: Saucy Brew Works and CodeRed launched Cleveland Tips, a website that allows people to send money to service industry staff in Northeast Ohio: https://clevelandtips.com/. Similar programs have been started by other regional breweries.
I bought a growler of Founder’s Underground Mountain Brown and a bunch of carry out bar food from our local bar and grill.
Did the do a refill, or was it a new growler?
This is the brewers association, so they’re focused on the breweries. I can get beer delivery from Fat Head’s now, which is a plus. I also read that Ohio is now allowing breweries to package beer that was brewed at another location, which should help avoid some spoilage from beers sitting in tanks for over six weeks.
They did a refill.
Good deal. Only one local bar is even willing to refill growlers, the county board of health asked breweries to only fill new growlers. No refills.
The one that is willing to refill is offering $5 growlers of Yuengling though.
The one that is willing to refill is offering $5 growlers of Yuengling though.
Not a bad deal.
I got some prime rib and a 16 oz crowler from a local brewpub. Yummy.
Yum. I haven’t had prime rib for a while now. I think I recall someone from here smoking one last year?
Sampled this Stout while I was waiting for my Growler to be filled. Was pretty good.
https://untappd.com/b/new-holland-brewing-dragon-s-milk-reserve-orange-chocolate/1443735
That looks delicious.
It’s a good one. I’ve had quite a few of their reserve variants.
Yeah some of the bars around here have started virtual tip jars online. I’m just taking care of my peeps when I pick-up my carry out orders.
Yeah. I’ve been tipping when just buying take out beer.
I’ve been tipping for any takeout.
Footdraggers
Banks are warning that a $350 billion lending program for struggling small businesses won’t be ready when it launches Friday because the Trump administration has failed to provide them with the necessary guidelines and has set requirements for the loans that are unworkable.
The lenders complain that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin boxed them in with an unrealistic deadline and that the ground rules they’ve been given for the program, which is intended to deliver rapid aid to a huge number of ailing businesses, could delay the assistance for weeks or longer.
The banks, which will be responsible for processing loan applications and doling out money, are expecting millions of applications from businesses. Some fear a disaster that could dwarf the failed kickoff of the Obamacare enrollment web site in 2013.
“Banks are ready and willing to lend, but they need clear rules of the road and a streamlined process to be able to get funding into the hands of small business owners in the coming days,” said Greg Baer, president and CEO of the Bank Policy Institute, which represents the nation’s biggest lenders.
The tensions illustrate the difficulties in store for distributing the record $2 trillion in aid that Congress made available last week in a sweeping economic rescue package. The potential failure to deliver small business aid as promised — one of the first big rollouts from the legislation — could deal a major blow to public confidence as a crippling recession looms.
Just pluck those loans out of the magic hat. Why are you trying to make it seem difficult?
My paperwork was ready today but the bank just announced they will not accept paper and will require filling it out online.
Should be an interesting process.
By interesting, I mean long and tedious .
Same problem here in Canada.
Turns out, it’s hard to make a government bureaucracy turn on a dime.
Who woulda thunk it?
You would the guidelines would already be spelled out somewhere in that doorstopper Congress dumped on Donald’s desk.
Remember the Alamo
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-city-fine-people-who-dont-cover-faces-outside-coronavirus
To be fair, there are certain people who should cover up their faces as a matter of principle.
Hey!
Do you represent that?
“Some expressed concern that people may not be able to afford such fines during the pandemic. “I’d rather bury them in debt than bury them in a coffin,” Councilman George Altgelt responded”
Fuck off George.
Jeezus. I can’t say the same for George.
Hi Glibs!
Enjoying the usual funny and smart commentary. Alas, I’ve actually been busy working at home since March 14th. Gotta get back to work now.
But, I’ll try and frequent the site more going forward. I missed a lot of good stuff on the site.
Hope you’re all staying safe and healthy!
You’re still working?
Sucker…
Some of us have had our work get more heavy recently. I’m finally getting a chance to catch up on some older change requests.
About that free money-
Yet banks not only have operational and technical questions about how the program will work but also bigger concerns about the degree to which they’ll be responsible for verifying borrower information — and then held liable if things go wrong. The industry was subject to billions of dollars of fines and lawsuits after the 2008 financial crisis and doesn’t want to repeat the experience.
Excuses, excuses.
I’m in prison. I can’t get anyone to show me a property now because of this lockdown bullshit.
I’m so pissed I am driving my poor wife crazy. Anyone here know enough about property law to advise me how I can get out of this lease after the fact? This was the worse timing. I can’t move because of this bullshit, and my lease is up, so if I don’t sign another lease, I have nowhere to go.
If it wasn’t for my wife, I’d just move out with no prospects. I can sleep in the SUV for a while.
That’s an interesting conundrum.
Sorry man.
It sucks. She’s trying to calm me down, using the reason that we’ll just have a bigger down payment in a year. If I still have a job, you know and money is still worth anything. But I don’t want to be here, I want outdoor space. Is this my first world problem?
See if a weekly rate at a decent hotel/motel is cheaper than staying at your current place.
Of course, the closer proximity might make the wife murder you in the next few months. So it’s probably a wash.
Are hotels essential now? I haven’t even checked.
Shit, neither have I.
Can you find a month to month?
That’s an option. Check on furnished apartments for commercial accounts. They’re almost always a monthly contract.
Yeah, we could do that. But it’s expensive. I had this all timed, this sucks.
It would be another apartment or condo. Which we don’t want. So nothing would change. We want to buy a single family home with some property. But now no one will show us one we cant to look at and we only have until June 1 when our lease ends.
Where are you? Our neighbors just sold their house and the one diagonally across the street is in contract as well.
Has your landlord asked you to move? I can’t speak to your State laws, but generally speaking when a lease ends you just go month to month by default. Does your lease say something different?
I’ve done that before, but they’re assholes here. There’s no month to month. Not sure if it’s even legal, but it’s what they do.
Oh, they wouldn’t ask us to move. If we don’t tell them ‘we’re moving’, the lease will just continue for another year. They won’t offer month to month.
Sorry.
Dreams crushed for another year. But at least we don’t have the Ebola yet.
I think Jarflax is a real estate lawyer.
In Ohio. Real Estate laws (and honestly most laws) are State specific. That isn’t just a standard lawyer disclaimer, the laws vary a LOT and good advice here might be a disaster elsewhere.
Can you negotiate with the property manager for a month to month? Tell them you are out of work due to the plague.
I don’t think it’s possible. To be honest, talking to other people, there aren’t many decent communities around here who offer that. It’s a one year lease, period.
I can’t get anyone to show me a property now because of this lockdown bullshit.
Really? Our realtor is chugging along like theres no issue. They’re coming Monday to take pictures and a 3d scan of the place so that people can do virtual tours if they don’t want to look in person.
If you haven’t done it already, try calling the listing agents for the houses you’re looking at. I’m guessing they’d be more receptive to unlocking the door for you.
You’re in VA right? That’s weird.
I’ll keep trying though. Maybe I’m just too freaking out right now.
Given the profile of houses you’re looking for, I’d be shocked if you don’t find anybody willing to let you look. Hell, if you want an acre in the “rural crescent” here in prince william County, we’ll gladly let you take a look at our place. ?
You guys are on lock down?
We’re looking Carrol County, Frederick County MD mostly. VA is WAY too over priced. And PA, the taxes are out of the question.
VA is WAY too over priced.
We’re really hoping it stays that way for another month.
To my flyover sensibilities, our house is worth about $200k, maybe closer to $180k. We’re going to list at $455k, and a lot of people we talked to believe we’ll get every penny of it.
That’s not out of our budget. It’s at the very top. I mean we’re looking 400K as our budget. But I’d have to compare it to what I can get in Carrol County, MD for the same price. And my office is in Balmer. You know what I’m saying.
(don’t look at the plumbing! ;))
It’s a Glib owned home. So I just assume that beer comes out of the cold water faucets?
The good news is that he would know who to curse when he sees some of the hack job stuff I did. ?
Seriously though, the house is substantially less of a mold factory and fire hazard than when we bought it. We haven’t had to paint over anything sketchy (unlike the previous owner) except for some rust on the fireplace. The rest, we fixed the right way.
I hope you don’t have to deal with an FHA loan from the buyer. The 2nd to last home I sold, OMG! Those guys are ridiculous.
Just talked to my sister in Indiana and they’re on the lockdown too. Her and her husband are both retired and they have a nice property they own, so good for them.
I can’t move because of this bullshit, and my lease is up, so if I don’t sign another lease, I have nowhere to go.
Just stay where you are for another 90 days. They can’t put you on the street, there’s a moratorium on evictions, right?
That’s not the problem. If we don’t tell them we aren’t signing another lease by June 1, it will just automatically renew. So it’s risky. We can’t know if we can look at any properties and get the loan approved by June 1 the way things are. Sure they can’t kick us out, but then we’ll have a renewed lease we’re liable for.
You ever watch Pacific Heights:)
No.
LOL
https://babylonbee.com/news/problem-solved-new-york-bans-coronavirus
Coronavirus Free Zone signs would have been good too.
The corona virus hates poor people.
If we don’t tell them we aren’t signing another lease by June 1, it will just automatically renew.
That sounds absurd. But how would I know what’s standard procedure in Maryland(?)?
Maryland is absurd by default. But yeah, what they are saying might not even be legal, not sure yet.
The terms of the lease would ideally (in libertopia) govern, and unless something in State law conflicts, they would govern here. Does your lease say it auto renews for a year?
Yep, if I don’t tell them I am leaving in writing, it will auto-renew. Typically not a problem. But in this clusterfuck, I am worried.
We’ve gots da coronal birus all over our neighbahood. *shelters/cowers/hunkers/shucksnjives in place*
Flo and Eddie have the answer!
Oriental Negroes?
Bat Soup with collard greens?
Talk to them and try to negotiate a month to month option starting 6/1/20. There are external economic and logistical circumstances that both you and your landlord are dealing with. There’s got to be some flexibility. And initiate that conversation with your landlord tomorrow.
We’re dealing with (((them))), the asshole ones.
Warty link: can we survive the Blitzkrieg?
Note: not Metallica, it’s one of the bands they covered. Also, I used to have that on vinyl – sucks for me, as that’s probably worth $500 today, and I probably sold it for five bucks.