Remember when Mojeaux posted this? I do. It such good, simple, straightforward advice.
I have been thinking about food quite a bit lately. My weight has been creeping back up. Part of it has been due to very odd hours and inconsistent workouts. My dear sweet chocolate lab, Moe, is twelve years old. His schedule, food, and medicine hasn’t changed. His need to get up between 2 and 4 am to poop has. Evening walks haven’t helped. It’s like having a baby in the house again. I’m too old for this shit. If any of you has a brilliant idea on how to get an old dog to sleep through the night without having to poop, then please share it in the comments. Kindly skip the snark and clever comments. I’m way too tired for it.
Anyway, in my weaker moments I wonder if some of the claims about foods having nearly magical health benefits is true. I’m not talking about the obvious, noncontroversial claims like the benefits of eating whole, unprocessed food. I’m referring to claims of foods that promote weight loss, prevent or cure cancer, and the like. Apparently, I’m not alone. The Journal of Medicinal Food is here to answer your questions. If I were a doctor or biologist this would be a good source of information. I’m not qualified to understand the papers cited.
Withania somnifera, known commonly as ashwagandha.
I have been interested in whether Ashwagandha works. It purportedly helps relieve stress, reduce cortisol levels, and increase energy levels. I looked on WebMd but all they do is state conclusions. They don’t cite to primary sources. So, thumbs down on that. Healthline is much better. They have numerous citations to what I believe are reputable scientific publications. The problem is most of these cited studies are based on small numbers of test subjects.
The more I dig into this stuff the more it reminds me of the X-Files. I want to believe. But should I?
This week’s music.
GlibFit.
https://archive.is/pwtB3
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Last weeks glibfits were so good after I looked through them on Monday AM I went upstairs after my kids went to school and gave it to the wife. Probably the best 5 minutes of her life.
That’s how you GlibFit.
3 is cute, but her boobs are too big.
Could caption several of these as ‘lick the abs, bigot’, hard pass.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/11-proven-health-benefits-of-garlic
Eat more garlic.
https://www.health.com/nutrition/asparagus-health-benefits
Eat more asparagus too. Goes well with garlic.
Tulip & I had salmon with asparagus cooked w/garlic powder last night!
With a gigantic heaping of hollandaise.
Health food. ?
I was responsible for ordering food for a seasonal work party and picked salmon with asparagus as the entry. Anyway, serving 100 beer drinking dudes asparagus is not a good idea. I think the men’s room was declared a Super-fund site….Ha!
https://nypost.com/2021/10/16/atlanta-waffle-house-waitress-allegedly-pulled-gun-on-customer/
Avoid Waffle Houses.
My initial impulse is to blame the customer. But I kind of like this guy.
I’m curious as to what kind of gun she had? Auto? Wheel? Caliber, no mention? What ammo was she going to shoot? Did she have any trouble finding what she wanted? Hand loads or store bought?
These are serious questions that need to be answered if she was serious. I’ve eaten in Waffle House but like Candy, never found it good enough to die for.
I’m waiting for him to destroy a whole town the a bow and arrow.
Wouldn’t Rambo have grabbed her arm, or stabbed her with a fork or something?
I’m hesitant to believe what the medical establishment has to say about much today. Even setting aside the covid stuff, the impact that supplements (most of which are considered bunk by the medical establishment) have had over the past 3-4 weeks on my energy level has been a night and day improvement. Heck, I’m even a reluctant believer in diffused essential oils. Not all the pseudo-astrological crap the hucksters tout, but I’ve noticed a distinct improvement in sleep (I actually have and remember dreams) when we have lavender diffusing in the bedroom.
I absolutely believe in taking daily vitamins.
Fred and Barney chuckle at their long game.
alol
Yup. Both kids and their mother have suffered bad colds the past couple weeks while I have remained uncontaminated, which is unheard of; usually, I am the one catches whatever contagion the kids bring home from the schoolhouse. I chalk it up to my daily zinc, B12, D3, and C regimen.
And why the hell couldn’t the government-health officials even suggest this during the entire covid kerfuffle?
It wouldn’t have been a panacea, but I can imagine a reasonable percentage of cases would have been less severe.
I take ’em along with a calcium and an 81 mg aspirin.
About 35 years ago, my BIL, an MD, asked if I was doing the aspirin daily. I told him no but he then recommended everyone over 50 should be on the daily 81. We were the same age, I asked if he was on it and he said no. Anyway, I took his advice. He died about 10 years ago.
I have no idea if these things work but…
I am not into multi-vitamins. They disagree with me. I think you get what you need from a good diet. I do take C because I don’t want to get Scurvy. Vitamin D is probably a good idea if you are not into sunbathing nude.
I don’t think we want to see you nude. :-p
You don’t think?
OT – Monster of Trash; I updated your exemption request from, as the inevitable has happened at my place of work and I need to fight this battle now. I’ve de-Christianized it a bit. Not really, just emphasizing more the lifestyle and adoption of the basic morality over the metaphysical and belief in specific physical instantiations of Christian religion. Probably not as effective, but more honest for my situation. Though why these jack-holes deserve honesty is a vexing question! Posted on the forum thread. Feel free to read or not; if so let me know if you consider a valid bastardization of your (excellent) work.
You’re using it as it was intended to be used, so it’s a good adaptation so long as it reflects what you believe. I’ll take a look and let you know if I have any thoughts. It may be Tuesday or so before I get a chance.
Good luck! I hope it gives you a reprieve from their bullshit.
Though why these jack-holes deserve honesty is a vexing question!
It is. The only way I have been able to rationalize it is that the honesty is for me, not for them. I’ll not compromise myself because of their insanity. Consequences be what they may.
Preach.
I think it’s entirely possible that the proper solution to a given health issue can vary greatly from one person to another. That’s why molecular medicine is so promising, and also why the “follow the science” mindset is so stupid and harmful.
Hi Chafed, Greetings from NOCAL-BEL. Good hike this morning. 5 miles with 1100 ft climb. Trails were empty since there is the threat of rain. Rain is less common here than the ‘Rona so I guess most everyone was too scared to venture out. You can’t social distance a rain drop.
I am doubtful that there are many plants that can be eaten that will provide specified pharmacological benefit. There are too many variables, from plant content to digestion/adsorption. I am in favor of avoiding foods that can cause issues like inflammation. Consistently eating foods that disagree or affect your digestive system is probably the cause of many chronic diseases. The cell lining of the intestines is only a couple of cell layers and gets replaced every 3 to 5 days.
G-fit update: Sleep was excellent. Food was protein and less fruit. Hike mileage was same 42 miles. Wim Hoff/meditative “ancient man” techniques; Did 2 times with cold swim. Weight stable 176. Re-upped at the gym. First couple of trips were not as disappointing as I thought. Was a little sore early in the week. I am planning a fast for this week to get back to goal weight range.
Goals: Outside goal weight range max (175-170)..double hell. Still not dead from Covid…MB;MC
To live better, fat adapt, skip a meal or three!
Maybe we should just do a combined response 😉
I wish I knew the stuff I know now…What is great about Glibfit is that I find myself randomly looking for info that I can use and if it works share here.
I took the dog out for a walk in the woods this morning even though it’s bow-hunting season. There was one mountain biker who crossed our path near the beginning of the walk, and very surprisingly near the end because that required the biker to take trails that would have him doubling back on his trip.
The dog, for some reason, was extremely excited by this particular biker.
I was also able to get out by myself to an old quarry trail the bikers put in a couple of years ago. Nice change of pace although it’s a very rocky trail. Had the trail all to myself, too.
Dogs are weird…my dog is very business-like on the trail and ignores most other dogs because she is working. But on rare occasions will completely go out of character and act like a dog.
What I do know, is that dogs are very sensitive to the reaction of their owner to others. You can see the owner tense up and then the dog gets excited, the owner apologizes and the dog settles down.
Chafed!
I absolutely believe that food can cure all kinds of shit. I know a gal who put her MS into remission with a carnivore diet. I have had great luck with a variety of supplements, particularly those that reduce inflammation Inflammation is pretty much the root cause of everything bad that happens to the body. No better way to control it than with food. Personally I have dumped most veggies and mostly eat meats fruits and roots.
The problem is most of these cited studies are based on small numbers of test subjects.
I don’t really care. Most of these plants, etc are quite inexpensive. Do your own research because you are the only test subject that matters!
Regarding poor Moe – what time(s) do you feed him? Perhaps if you fed him earlier and got him out for a walk before bed you could get that 2am poop done with? Also, if you are only feeding him once a day, try splitting it into two meals.
Good luck. I have a 14yo and an 11yo. Love them but they are starting to present more challenges.
Much better week this week. Lifting was solid, sleep was much, much better and I’m hitting my protein goals. Did about 30 miles of hiking this week, including a 5.2 mile, 1100 foot elevation gain in the mountains yesterday. Can’t beat it.
Have a great week GlibFitters!
Thanks Tundra. He gets breakfast and dinner. I usually go out with him around 8 pm. 9 times out of 10 he makes a nice, solid poop. And then I get the gentleman’s bark between 2 and 4 because nature has once again called him.
What are you feeding him? Senior formula?
No. Blue Buffalo chicken and rice.
Quite true with regards to exercise and dietetics.
I took up barefoot-style running in 2015 (I run in a modified pair of Xero sandals) and just about everyone I know told me I was crazy. Most of them were just arguing by assertion (“Your feet need support! Because they just do!”) whereas a select few cited studies about the efficacy of various running shoes. They work great for me; I’m running farther, faster, and more comfortably than I ever have since I took up running in 2009. I don’t care if a study (hypothetically) found that 99% of people who run in minimalist shoes destroy their ankles in a month. That doesn’t obviate the good results that I’ve had from running this way.
People hear about a study that says that a majority of A is B, then assume that all A is invariably B. Not to mention that most people get their “science” from journalists, who greatly misunderstand and distort what the study actually says.
But we evolved wearing Nikes.
I like how during these hiking/racing events the contestants often drop out with foot problems when a few hundred years ago there were Incas doing similar feats with very basic footwear.
Haha, yep. When people tell me “you can’t run in those things”, I ask how it was possible that humans ran for, well, our entire history up until the ’70s when special running shoes were invented. They never have an answer and always circle back to the argument by assertion of “you need real running shoes”.
It’s all Bill Bowerman’s fault. Both the shoes and jogging.
Tulip is headed back to DC. I’m here til Saturday morning. If anyone wants to stop by or stay a night or two, feel free!! I have good food and good shootin
Chafed, Sorry to hear about your dog issues. Are the movements, normal consistency or loose. If normal, maybe you can modify the timing and amount of food (skip a meal) and break the new schedule.
I agree w/looking into adjusting the feeding schedule and maybe diet.
Thanks IRBE. See immediately above. 2 meals per day and solid poops.
Diet and supplements absolutely work. I did some diet regimen in the beginning of 2020 to help my metabolism. I had been relatively sore due to my physically demanding job (mechanic) combined with my age (49 at the time) on a constant basis. I thought this was just a fact of life getting older. My chronic soreness was completely gone by week 2 of a 4 week regimen. After the 4 weeks was done, I went back to eating whatever I wanted, but have tended to tone down on the crap (added sugar) significantly and tend to eat cleaner than before the regimen. I also began taking some supplements, I take a men’s multi-vitamin, glucosamine and boron (someone here recommended that one – thanks!). Now, no matter how much I beat myself up at work, my constant joint pain is non-existent for the last year and a half. I feel better now at 50 than 40 felt.
Yeah, boron’s really helped me in the last six weeks or so since I started taking it. Began noticing the difference around the 14-21 day period. Took a bottle to a cousin over Canadian Thanksgiving weekend and just said “Try this.” Hoping it works as well for him as it has for me.
Questions for both you guys re: boron. Is it calcium fructoborate that you are taking and how many mg is it?
The brand I’m using formulates the boron as boron citrate (3mg).
I ask because this NIH (I know) article has good things to say about boron as calcium fructoborate. I wonder how important the source is…
Well, if you are getting good results from boron citrate, then I guess it likely doesn’t mater. Thanks for the link, I have been tossing around the idea of supplements but have been unsure what to take. Boron sounds interesting for it’s apparent anti-inflammatory properties. As I often have shoulder and foot pain, this intrigues me.
This NIH article
I should elaborate slightly: the amount of boron citrate delivered per capsule is more than 3mg, but it chemically equates to 3mg of elemental boron. The 3mg amount comes from various studies which used a variety of doses, and which found via meta-analysis that anything above about 3mg of elemental per day didn’t seem to have any additional marginal benefits.
” A “boosts testosterone” claim is based on a USDA study of boron-deprived postmenopausal women in which boron supplements increased testosterone levels. Serum testosterone levels in deficient postmenopausal women, however, are more than 10 times lower than those found in normal men and in strength athletes. There are no studies to suggest that boron supplementation alone will augment testosterone production or promote muscle growth in healthy men. In fact, a number of studies have shown no effect of boron supplements on serum testosterone in either men or women consuming a typical diet. Studies among bodybuilders have yielded similar “noneffects” of boron supplements on measures of lean body mass, body fat, and strength.”
These guys are pretty good, for trying to sell you the stuff. They’re not out there misleading people- assuming you bother to read it all.
Thanks to whomever turned me on to Boron. It absolutely seems to help my joints.
I take plenty of supplements and am quite comfortable doing so. The fact that the Establishment thinks they are horseshit actually motivates me to look harder at them.
D3/K2, C, Zinc, Quercitin/Bromelain, Boron, Creatine, THC/CBD (occasionally) and a low proof multi. I stopped taking fish pills and started eating sardines, mackerel and salmon instead.
You’re welcome. ;-)
L-glutamine (for the guts, and also a post-workout DOMS attenuator), creatine, Vitamin D, boron, male 50+ multi.
L-arginine if I really need a nitric oxide stim pre-workout.
81mg acetylsalicylic acid tab for clotting problems in my brainstem (no, I’m not kidding, and allow me to introduce you to my neurologist and his multi-year workup of MRIs on the dead areas of the white matter of my brainstem). Probably explains why I’m so makjgdfydegflkierhjyv axxZXc ahge4u79ortgv
. . . I’m fine. I’m fine.
I take liquid fish oil or cod liver oil almost every day and give it to the wife and kids as well. It looks like there is some good strong evidence for brain and heart health from it, and for sure it helps with skin, nails and hair. I prefer the liquid stuff to the gel pills as those give fishy burps for me, Carlson’s has been by far the best brand I have found, the lemon one my kids actually like to take. I’ve been taking some of that ashwaganda stuff recently. From my minimal personal observations it does seem to have a bit of calming effect. I’ve been pretty successful at reducing my booze intake to 2-5 beers a night with almost no hard booze in the past eight months. My smoking mixure has been reduced to 3-5 per week. Feeling pretty good despite a pretty high stress life. Don’t let the bastards get you down.
Cod liver oil.
It’s not about me, but I’m gonna make it about me.
But I have been thinking about this all week. The thing is that Adele had a body type that is not really frequently represented in the world of megacelebrity that she occupies. And partly for that reason, I think it is OK to be disappointed that Adele lost a ton of weight.
Losing weight during a pandemic that is killing fat people is some how problematic.
That is a sad and pathetic person. It (not assuming sex) needs help. My impression of Adele is that she is not stunning woman, but with a bit of good cosmetics, she can be rather fetching. Lose a few pounds, even more so. She did well. Fuck this moron.
Once upon a time, Adele would be held up as a example of how one can improves one’s health if they put their mind to it. Now she’s shamed for not staying fat. Insane.
Here’s my hopefully helpful suggestion.
Our bodies have a rhythm and time that changes as we age. It sucks. I find myself adjusting to my new program. You don’t need (or want) the details. Food passes differently now, and more than a few variables can affect it. *drinks*
What if you delay the meals you feed him by a couple of hours? You may not be able to because of work or other things, but it’s a thought. I literally do this for myself.
If it’s become a habit for the doggy, you’ll know because he won’t be able to go immediately.
We were informed rather suddenly at 10:30 that we had to check out of the hotel RIGHT NOW because we had a cat. That they approved a week ago.
So we scrambled out to the new empty house, got a key pad code from the realtor, stuffed the cat and his accessories inside, and checked into another room.
Grrr. Should have claimed it was a dog all along.
Always claim a Dog, under 35 lb. and go for the Service animal, then they are free,
I traveled with both, solo.
Reason #78 to always hang out the “Do Not Disturb” sign for the entirety of one’s stay.
Right?!
Sorry, Hayeks. Maybe you can sue the pants off them or something.
Please tell us you checked into a different hotel.
Possibly runs into the problem of “Just how many hotels are there in Pahrump, anyway?” Especially ones with both a bar and restaurant attached.
Yeah, the holiday inn was booked up so we had to stick to the original Best Western.
Sigh.
It’s ok. Moving van will be here tomorrow.
Everyone at the BW is nice except the owner apparently.
But I will exact my revenge when I pug my Tesla in overnight from the vending machine outdoor electrical outlet tonight…
*insert Doctor Evil laugh gif*
Thanks Tardis. He typically gets dinner between 7 and 8. I could try giving it to him later but he is typically asleep by 8:30.
Yeah, that’s tough. I figured there would be a problem. I hate waking a sleeping doggy.
Our last pup would leave me the occasional “pond” in the middle of the kitchen when I was trying to get ready for work. Nothing like stepping in dog piss at 4AM. I was not happy.
Then my son, God bless him, took over. He would gently wake her, scoop her up and tote her down the deck stairs at about midnight.
That’s a good son.
OT – I was wrong to doubt new Dune. It was a very good watch that ended so abruptly I’ll be quite cross if the sequel doesn’t materialize. Apart from the atrocious stage presence of the kids who played Paul and Chani, and the wooden acting (yet great stunts) from Momoa, I highly recommend it. I’m unsure where claims of “being truer to the book” originated; I’m pretty sure this adaptation altered more than did Lynch’s. The scenes crafted from whole cloth did act as a convenient way to provide exposition without a voiceover. Also, the lady who played Lady Jessica looks enough like a very young Jean Tripplehorn that they should have just cast actual Jean Tripplehorn as she would be much more age appropriate as the mother of a young man.
Lynch’s was true to the look and to the vast amounts of internal monologuing.
The biggest deviation is Lynch’s decision to make the success of the Fremen being due to the Atreides having new tech. In the books, the Fremen were already equal/better than the Sardukar and adding Bene Gesserit training just made them broken-level overpowered.
Yes, the idea was that Arrakis was so harsh that even the vaunted Salusis Secondus was not as brutal. And this is what drives the Fremen to ferocity.
That was the point where my suspension of disbelief could no longer be sustained.
Why? And in which version?
I thought the kid playing Paul was like god’s gift to acting or something. I haven’t seen him but that’s what the rags say.
To me, he seemed like an ever-so-slightly-less petulant Hayden Christiansen as Anakin/Vader but he’s young and can get better. Sativa or whoever plays Chani is just there, like part of the scenery. The Thufir Hawat, Baron Harkonnen, Piter Devries, and Beast Rabban casting was so much better than I could have imagined. I still pine for Jean Tripplehorn and Bill Paxton as Lady Jessica and Duke Leto.
OK. I’ll talk to you next week.
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Everything about COVID has me wondering what other lies we’ve been fed over the years by Big Pharma and the medical industry. I’m opening my mind to the possibility that supplements, plants, herbs, microdosing, and all that other hippy shit might actually be beneficial on top of a good diet and exercise.
I spent 30 days doing a strict pescatarian diet just to see what effect it would have and my gut never felt better. When I looked at the populations that had the longest lifespans and least amount of health problems, the Japanese and Mediterranean diets were at the top of the list.
For miracle plants…I’m trying turmeric as an anti-inflammatory. Tea and whatever else I can get it in. What I don’t know is how to measure that.
Mango powder (“Amchur”) is a natural blood thinner if you need that.
And it’s a delicious meat tenderizer too!
And a great Dessert Topping!
Gotta be careful with the amount used — it’s a souring agent in most Indian cuisines for a reason.
Chafed, maybe Moe is getting older and you could consider changing the feeding/walking schedule? If everything else seems fine, then maybe he just can’t hold it as long and needs fed and walked earlier so he’s empty before bed.
Not sure here, just trying to think of anything.
Thanks Mustang.
For Turmeric, go to the closest indian or pakistani grocery store, you can buy a pound of the stuff for like 10 bucks. After that just put it in milk or your everyday cooking, the flavor isn’t super strong so should be fine in most foods that won’t be hurt by a little yellow coloring.
Under three bucks Canadian for just under a pound.
And it’s slightly cheaper in-store.
I think it has a mustard-like flavor; maybe you could mix it with ordinary mustard and use it on sandwiches?
I’ll bet the food pyramid has killed more people than ciggies.
Big Pharma needs customers, not cures.
It’s like Tundra is my soul-mate. No homo.
I’m naturally a contrarian bastard, but I think I would have been leery of the whole COVID narrative even absent that particular quirk due to a long road figuring out just how badly the ‘experts’ in the Fed fucked up nutrition and food. And how industry responded and captured large swaths of the bureaucracy and regulatory apparatus.
Of course maybe I wouldn’t have traveled that road with the contrarian bastard streak. Chicken/egg.
One just needs to look at their views on salt, eggs, wine, protein to realize they aren’t experts, they are grifters making shittons of money off of stupid politicians that think they are experts.
Now do education.
Well.. the food pyramid is the USDA. Which is basically a marketing arm for Agri-business. FDA is regulatory gate keeper and marketing arm of Pharma; real multi-tasker
Interesting about Tobacco, since the ’90s it has the highest gains in stock price of any sector. Additional regulation, litigation and taxing has helped them?? Based on that goofy logic, it might be time to go long for Petro sector..what with all the green technology…humm
All the big ‘backy companies have gone big into vaping, I believe. That’s a goldmine full of customers like me who switched from tobacco.
They were doing great before the vape…Grape Ape (where did that come from). Anyway, I suspect that most of the bad press on Petro is coming from Petro…”the call is coming from inside the house..”–Scream
Additional regulation, litigation and taxing has helped them??
Barriers to entry against challengers and the states addicted to tax revenue will now never fully ban the product.
I wouldn’t take that bet.
It would certainly make sense for them to downplay the benefits of cheap and non-patented foods. How is Pfizer supposed to make billions of dollars off of garlic caps and turmeric??
I glibfit 20 holes today, feeling pretty good, minimal back issues, good scores, then I got bored, it was only 3:30 so I went to 1st street beach and flew one of my control line kites, first time since I got here. Talk aboot an upper body workout! Seven foot kite and 20 MPH winds make for a lot of work, and a lot of fun! now it’s dinner and Tall Cans!
Don’t think I’ve glibfit 20 holes in my whole life,a nd pretty sure I’d never get bored either. 😉
My record is 68 holes in a day, Gettin’ it on!
Why Yusef, you little jackhammer, you. ;-)
Off topic: I want to apologize for Cali’s contribution to supply chain “issues” but it couldn’t be helped. Seems we outlawed ½ the trucks in the country from operating within our ports due to particulates. I guess this decision and result was years in the making (thanks Jerry)…it was just a perfect storm of stupid. Well, at least some longshoremen are gonna get some sweet 24/7 OT but those containers ain’t going anywhere once off loaded. It’s unfortunate, it just couldn’t be helped ..need more regulation.
Hey, the LED replacement kits I ordered last night just arrived…Surprise, most of the electrical stuff on the internet can’t be bought in Cali. Oh well, gotta go do some half-assed electrical work.
Time to cancel any supply source that comes through californian ports.
Onshore industry.
Too bad it’s a wall of stupid all up and down the west coast.
Maybe we should point all those ships at the Panama Canal.
40% of imports come through LA and Long Beach.
All the more reason to onshore production.
We import way too much.
What’s the correct amount?
Like government spending – less.
Nice dodge,
The amount that happens when there isn’t trade killing regulations.
They should get their fair share, and nothing more.
Lol. Bernie approves.
I’d be happy with outlawing half of the OTR drivers. Fuckers are out of control with shitty driving these days. Maybe some good flayings in the median would improve their driving?
First thing I thought of when the ports admin was saying they were going to 24hr ops, but didn’t have a timeframe and up to individual terminal operators what they were going to do. There was zero holistic plan for improving flow but somehow it should all be resolved by 2H 2022. Sure…
I watch those fail wreck videos since all the trucks have those cameras and post…I gotta say that people do really stoopid stuff around trucks, like multiple brake checks and hiding in blinds. Maybe loco driving is contagious.
This regulation was a known issue. Some of the big players made contingencies and are running through Mexico and Canada, with others going east. It is increased costs and timing for the mitigations. We will see it at the pump soon as “inflation”.
I think by 2H22, there will less reporting about it, because it is normal.
Florida is making a big play for main POE and it might work considering CA has so much in the way of regulation. If a container ship has to sit for a couple of weeks waiting to offload, might as well spend the time at sea and make use of the canal, or change it up and head around the cape. I wouldn’t be surprised if TX is making the same play.
Having lived in California from ’76 to ’16, I can safely say that Jerry Brown is one of the biggest pieces of shit alive.
May that fucker rot in a nice coal smoke, waterless hell.
You… you do know where you are, right?
Thanks for the shoutout, Chafed! I have that as a ginormous poster in my office (in different colors because yellow).
My new place has a walking trail in my back yard. I will make use of it. I don’t like exercising. I like HAVING EXERCISED.
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My glib for this week has all been moving related!
Bonus points for preventing my husband from killing anyone in the past 48 hours.
“Just go have a gummy and take a nap, dear. I’ll handle this.”
Could also prop him up at the bunny ranch for a couple of hours
Errr…Chicken Ranch ot Sheri’s.
https://ibb.co/6PVWqkq
That’s just brilliant.
In the lowest level of Cité Europe (a HUUUUGE shopping mall in Calais, France, just across the Channel from the UK), there’s an amazing booze store that has automated dispensers of this week’s wine specials by-the-glass plus a full-on bar, all at prices that are jaw-droppingly low (and a fave of all the Brits who go there on the ferry from Portsmouth).
The Spousal Unit (SU) likes to shop all of the clothes stores in that mall, and everytime we go there she just parks me at the booze store and tells me she’ll see me in a few hours. Works out great for both of us. Er, if I remember correctly.
Why the Hell can’t we do that in malls in North America?
The automated dispensers for one…
From a civilized land where politicians say they can’t do things like lockdowns because it’s not authorized under the law
https://youtu.be/JNLW5vgKNw8
https://youtu.be/b2d51KU2DgI
I recall a beer commercial (I think Bud Lite) where there was a “secret” bar inside of the circular clothing rack inside the ladies department in a department store. Seems like a winning idea to me.
Took ownership of a tiki bar. Don’t need a tiki bar but a client of my wife’s had recently lost her husband so she is downsizing. So we said sure. Found out her late husband was special forces, airborne, master parachuter and a wine lover. Probably 500 bottles of wine stored in their house.
But I’ll take the tiki bar
Sweet!
Pics when you get it set up?
Sure! This woman is so damn sweet too.
Trader OBE or OBE the Beachcomber?
OBE Buffet,
Just strumming my 6-string on my front porch swing
All these Tourists, covered with oil,
It’s a toss up between that and Toes in the Sand. Both excellent drinking songs along the beaches
Just be careful with “Why Don’t We Get Drunk”. The bartender in the bar I had in Cali would refuse it on the jukebox because she said it should be titled “Why don’t we tear up this bar.”
Ha! Only time we got the bar up in arms was when they pissed us young Airmen off and we put in 50 dollars and put 99 Red Ballons on for all 50 dollars.
Change it to “99 Luftballons” and I could listen to it all night. ??♂️
Son Of A Preacher Man always got the eject button at the NOLA bar. I love Dusty Springfield, but that Tarantino movie had every single group that contained at least one female playing that song. After the fourteenth or fifteenth time it gets old fast.
As long as the video of Nena was accompanying the song, you coulda turned the volume off and I’d still watch it all night. ;-)
A newer version is interesting, too.
She re-did all her (German) hits at that time and they’re all really good. She is a talented chick.
Pics or it didna happen
So…like a backyard Tiki Bar not a bar bar…otherwise I would quite my job right now
No, I get it- still want pics. Maybe staged with a couple tiki drinks & a pupu platter
On it for next week
Yas
Join the GlibZoom from OwnBestEn’myville
So my son called today, and asked if i would come Home, all expenses paid, and offered me a gig as his “business” Counsel, I am leary of the whole idea, but I may lose my house up here within the next month, so maybe it’s a good idea to take up his offer,
One door closes and another one opens.
In DoomPorn Inc. News.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fauci-tees-unvaccinated-blame-campaign-over-potential-fifth-wave-covid
Just saw a video of a cop doing his last radio call after getting canned cause he is unclean. I’m sure I will have some letters from subordinates in the coming months. Who knows, might have one myself.
Now to the good news. Niece isn’t rabid about covid apparently and will attend the baby shower in Nov. Kids have yet to ask again about getting the shot. Wear their masks but in such a way they are even more useless. More of my wife’s customers are back to handshakes and hugs. The bar we went to last night only plays covid theater from front door to the bar…so 3 feet.
Up here the theatre is gone, those mask do, otherwise we are free do what we want, I do like it up here, I hope I can stay,
masks too,
Lucky bastard! We get vax passports in one week!!!!
Quack.
I got a gut feeling that we will have more waves but we are getting very close to Love, which is the seventh wave; according to Sting…So we got that going for us too.
Let’s say it all together now. The pandemic has been over and we are in endemic country now. Enjoy the waves by getting healthy. Sleep well, eat well, exercise well, get some sun.
Such misinformation! Burn the witch!
Does he weigh the same as a duck?
I’m tempted to write up an article of our experiences traveling the country and how very different various regions are acting.
So many areas are operating as normal. So many areas are still completely fucked up with covid regulations. My sense was that you could take a look at a county by county electoral map and know exactly how seriously they’re taking covid right now.
It’s been entirely political for over a year now. I think most Americans sense that even as they pretend otherwise.
Everyone knows that the masks are just a version of the “In This House We Beleive…” signs.
I am seeing more and more people skip the mask, and just go about their business. I think people are just avoiding the mask necessary businesses or just not worrying about it altogether. When I don’t wear one, people don’t blink or look twice. And OR is supposed to be a mask outdoors state right now. I drove past a kids soccer match and all the parents and kids were unmasked.
Also, saw a bit of graffiti around town today: “Mask These Nutz Kate Brown.”
I’m still one of the few maskless customers in supermarkets here. Yet no one bats an eye. And more and more workers have said fuck it.
It’s like we’re reaching some equilibrium where maskers gonna mask regardless, but they’ve lost the will to shame the rest of us. This is just my corner of NYC, of course – it could be entirely different a couple miles away.
I haven’t worn a mask except on an airplane since May.
Confirmation bias or anecdote?
Just heard on my wife’s family call – a 41 year old friend of one of the participants was married to a “Trumper”. No one in that family was vaccinated. The 41 year old wife suddenly died of congestive heart failure. They did the usual test afterwards, found she tested positive for COVID.
Everyone on the call immediately dogpile on the husband, blaming him for her “dying from COVID”. Called him “stupid”, “those people will never learn” (from a group of people who would take extreme umbrage if one were to refer to any of them as “those people”.)
I thought about playing Devil’s Advocate, or maybe asking about the ethnicity of the wife given the higher than average rate of heart disease among Black individuals, or inquiring if the wife had shown any symptoms of COVID before suddenly dying.
Decided to bail out of the call instead.
Ghouls gonna ghoul. That’s disgusting.
You have far more self-control than I do.
The vax stuff has finally given lefties a moral permission slip to say the quiet part out loud; that they want their political opposition to die. The rhetoric is terrifying and could so easily become Tutsi vs. Hutu. They don’t care if she died of COVID or not; her real crime was being married to a “Trumper”. Her filth by association was reason enough for her to die.
Actually, the outrage was against the HUSBAND.
Just got into it with the Spousal Unit, fonally let her have it with both barrels: “If anyone on that call had said something sexist, racist, or transphobic, there would have been outrage. But one of the last bastions of ‘acceptable’ bigotry in America is politicism – vilifying individuals whose highest value is individual freedom.”
Aaaand, now we’re … taking a wee bit of a break from each other. Because saying their brand of bigotry is unacceptable is a hard epiphany for people who think they are the epitome of morality.
But I’m done pretending that is OK.
I bet you could, by asking a few well placed questions, get one of them to admit that they think she deserved to die regardless of the cause.
^^ this.
We’re in a post-character, post-integrity era right now. You could confront them on their hatefulness and they would have no basis for feeling shame. The demoralization phase is complete. Destabilization is happening now. Chaos comes next.
“You could confront them on their hatefulness and they would have no basis for feeling shame”
Yep. Talked to a lefty “friend” a couple of days ago and got him to admit that he’d be happy if a million Trump voters died of Kung Flu. No longer planning on talking to him ever again.
I wouldn’t be surprised if these half-baked vaccines cause a lot more deaths than that.
You can probably dial up a “positive” for nearly everybody by now.
But let’s not have that interfere with today’s Two-Minutes Hate.
People in my family did that too. A family friend decided to celebrate Thanksgiving despite the apocalyptic predictions of Dr. Anthony “Truth Science” Fauci, and their 91-year old grandmother died shortly after with the official cause of death being COVID. Not to be crass, but do we really have to search for a cause if a 91-year old died? And they’re SO sure it was COVID and only COVID that killed her. They were almost gleeful about this and excitedly told me about it, as though this vindicates the whole government COVID narrative.
If that constitutes evidence in favor of the COVID narrative, shouldn’t it work the other way too? Shouldn’t I be able to tell them how i’ve been living my life completely as normal and even going to *gasp* GATHERINGS without dying of COVID? Shouldn’t my anecdotes serve as counter-evidence?
I’ve never been an anti-Big Pharma guy; in fact I’ve often ridiculed people who like to trash pharmaceutical companies. After all, breakthrough therapies for cancer and other horrific ailments come from Big Pharma. However, I’m so disgusted with the corruption surrounding the vaxx that I’m beginning to rethink everything. You know what Malice says, take the red pill but don’t swallow the whole bottle. I’m not about to start saying that cancer should be treated with healing crystals, but I’m going to be *much* more skeptical about information coming from the health-industrial complex. That includes giving more credence to effectiveness of supplements and alternative therapies.
Either was their goal or they overplayed their hand. I’m on the fence on which one it is.
For good measure:
https://i.imgflip.com/5qscmo.jpg
Oh, damn…that’s a great idea for an actual garden gnome.
“cancer should be treated with healing crystals”
What color? Can this be used as a preventive? Like a vaccine?
Purple, but only rectally.
Cancer vaccines are in development now…some cause it, others prevent it but most don’t probably do anything. It like Woody Hayes theory on passing. 3 things can happen and 2 of them are bad.
Finally done with my cooking for the day.
I gotta drawer full of meat for the week. ?
You deserve an award for beat euphemism of the weekend.
D00d, I’m pretty sure I already knew what was in your drawers. ;-)
The guy who made a Let’s go Brandon rap…catchy and funny. Rap is the new punks
My t shirt should be here tomorrow.
So the shirt on the front should say “Let’s Go Brandon” on the back “You know what they sayin'”
Huh, the Let’s go Brandon thing is a thing in Canada too and the fedgov up there isn’t very happy with it:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/FE07B112-E1B7-416F-84B7-C3DDDEBE7351.jpeg
Best mishearing of a chant ever…
That’s funny as Hell. I wonder how they’d react to “Let’s go, Justin”?
That smacks of desperation.
We’re rapidly approaching the territory where Americans who are opposed to the foolish leadership will be forced to talk about them in the way that Chinese used Winnie the Pooh as a surrogate.
Or the number 535 as a surrogate for June 4, 1989.
The 106 Incident.
LOL I hope that’s real.
“immediate dismissal”
I guess it struck a nerve.
I hope you got to see some of the Azarenka-Badosa match.
Mostly skipped it. Was watching some Columbo and football, and cooking.
Not terribly interested in the men’s final either… the only thing about either of them that comes to mind is isn’t Georgian the one who’s in trouble for allegedly beating his gal-pal?
Wasn’t it Zverev?
Both of them.
Similar incident with both IIRC.
I can’t find any reference to what I thought I remember reading so either I was drunk or it’s been memory-holed.
I knew you were classy AF
It was one of the ones with the delightfully slimy Jack Cassidy – I couldn’t resist.
Yeah, he really did “oily” like no other actor, didn’t he?
Cassidy is great in The Eiger Sanction.
And a generation earlier, Jack Carson was pretty darn good at playing oily in movies like Mildred Pierce.
I recently noticed him on an episode of Bewitched where he had his paws all over Samantha/Serena in a manner that could definitely not be aired on network television today.
Jack Cassidy had a gift, for sure. I started watching the entire Columbo series beginning to end, but got sidetracked by Morse. As soon as I finish that up, back to Columbo.
If you like Inspector Morse, check out The Sweeney. Same actor, John Thaw, but playing a 70’s Flying Squad heavy. Lots of brawls, shootouts, car chases with classic Brit iron, incomprehensible Cockney slang, and fashion choices that are by turns awesome and horrible…
I’ve seen that in my “suggested” list and have considered it. I am also waiting for the next season of Endeavor. It could be out, haven’t looked while watching Morse. And then there’s Inspector Lewis to get back into, only seen a season or two of that…
I had thought I’d cancel my BritBox subscription after finishing Morse, but it doesn’t look like that (or watching Columbo) will happen anytime soon.
The Sweeney is awesome. I would also put in a plug for Dempsey & Makepeace; similar milieu, but it’s about an NYPD detective who, in the course of investigating, runs afoul of corrupt cops and pols. His boss ships him off on an exchange assignment with Scotland Yard and he is paired with aristocratic lady policeman Makepeace. Then the fun begins. He’s a fish out of water in world he never made.
Crazy tournament on the men’s side at least, with the top 20+ players all either crippled out of it, or with their minds elsewhere when it mattered. I’m liking the lack of predictability lately.
Allons-y Brandon!
I’ve started carrying the little Post-It pads in my car and am going to put a sticker with “FJB” on the gas pump whenever I fill up.
/Domestic terrorist
I like that idea!
“What are you in for?”
“Littering.”
…and they all moved away from me on the bench…
Free James Brown?
“Let’s Go Brandon”
(Was James Brown captive?)
Only once or twice.
James Brown is dead.
Just how much coke did you snort in your youth?
Just his fair share.
We are in an epic battle with youngest teen. House OBE is once again steeped in teenaged hormones, coupled with motherly hormones coupled with step-dad ‘should I get involved’….
Igh
I suggest the Gom Jabbar.
Is that the one where Worf ends up in the mud bath?
LOL.
(For those who don’t remember, that’s not as interesting as it sounds.)
No, it’s the one where they introduce Jonathan Winters as Big Baby, because they realize a coke-addled schizophrenic can’t carry a show more than 3 seasons.
I always thought every 15 year old should be hung up on a hook in a closet and get let out on their 18th birthday. It’s been a long time for me but it still gives me the agitation, thinking about it. One more kid and I’d have been an alcoholic
Nature has a way of revenge, my daughter had 3 teen age girls at home at the same time.
Paraphrased St. Heinlein:
“Teen-aged girls should be locked up in the woodshed and teen-aged boys should be stuffed into a barrel and fed through the bung until they are 18”
Also, Twain:
“When I was 17 I thought my father the biggest fool who ever walked the earth. When I was 21 I could not believe the amount of knowledge the man had gained in 4 short years.”
Just returned from a 6.5-mile hike in the mountains. 2100ft elevation gain.
My hunting Buddy Junior and I were checking out my Xbow about an hour ago, and couldn’t dry fire it, so we took a target into my kitchen, removed the points and loaded a bolt. I missed and blew a hole through both windows, never even heard the glass break, we serached for the bolt, or evidence of a strike, my shot went right between the homes across the street, Yikes!
Good Lord, d00d. Do I have to figure out a way to get across the Canada/U.S. border and enforce some adult supervision on you?
I broke the cardinal rule, I’m sorry, but you sould see the holes. perfect,
That’s what private browsing is for.
You could just post a pic or two.
and, Yes, you do,
I know you know this, and I know that you just got reminded, but Rule #4 exists for a good reason…
I’m glad your ND didn’t hurt anybody.
No kidding. SMFH
Yesterday was a sail and today was a hike after the Packers game. Now I will cool off in the pool with a drink.
I wanted to tell you I really enjoyed your article on the sailing race a couple of weeks ago. My Dad used to race as crew on a boat–on a lake in central PA, not Hawaii. I’m not sure, but he may have learned to sail in Hawaii, while he was based there in the Navy.
Hating you just a little bit right now.
Whomever pointed me at Vivaldi, thank you very much…and sorry I can’t remember who it was. I am really liking it . The stackable tabs thing is awesome. I’ve just barely scratched the surface with customizations, but so far I’m loving it.
Vivaldi, 254 variations of the the same thing,
/I like him
I think I’m the designated Vivaldi fanboy ’round these parts. So…hey, glad you like it!
I got multiple suggestions -and tried them all- but settled on Vivaldi. Thanks for the suggestion! I really like it.
Yup, been using it exclusively for a couple years. Added features are actually things I like to see (sync across devices, for example), and not bloatware.
Both stacking tabs and my preferred layout (all tabs listed as left sidebar) really make it nearly perfect for my browsing style.
Well, my primary hobby just announced that proof of vaccination or a negative covid test will be required to attend gatherings.
I guess I need a new hobby.
Juggalos are all on on the vaccine?
A brewing club is mandating vaccines? This makes me very sad.
Brewing is a hobby within a hobby.
Fortunately, I now have valuable skills for the zombie apocalypse.
I bought a bunch of good brewing yeast for trade goods, it also makes beer, also ten lb. of Hops, and ten lb. of barley,
/Dark Times
It’s growing
https://www.nanog.org/stories/vaccination-requirements-for-nanog-83/
These dumbfuck Roperites really think that having established this precedent, it will be limited to covid vaccination not any other vaccinations or any other medical condition or finally any rando criteria. At the very least, having established this for covid vaccination, it’s going to have to include boosters.
My city has been pushing the flu shot non-stop for a couple weeks, on TV almost at every commercial break. In fact, the vid propaganda has mostly stopped.
We’re getting the vid sob stories here. “if only he had gotten the shot, I would’ve had another hug from him”
I expect that the flu will be the next thing.
Today’s beef stew came out so good that for the first time ever, I feel the need to write down exactly how I accomplished it for next time.
“My son, my son . . . “
A major problem is I don’t measure things like “salt” or “mustard” or “wine” that are probably the biggest factors in why it turned out so good. There are some techniques I should remember for next time, though.
Mustard?
Yeah, somewhere I got the idea to squirt some dijon mustard in there. I like it.
Recipe?
Glib post?
*searching for a good stew recipe*
If I can execute it again just right, yeah, sure!
I love me some beef stew and just cooked some yesterday. I really like it with a bottle of beer added in the beginning instead of water. Frozen green peas just as it comes out the oven make a nice addition as well. Do you use Better than Bullion? It’s a beef or chicken stock paste. Much better than the dry cubes in my opinion. One splash of wine vinegar as it cools is a nice addition as well.
Nah, I use canned beef stock. No water this time, just the stock, some Worcestershire, and a splash of *checks label* cab sauv that’s probably aged out of drinking by now. OK, some water from the can of corn that was a new ingredient this time.
I don’t use the oven, either.
I think I just lucked into getting the mix of flavors right. I usually put too much of something in that wrecks it.
I like the oven cause I can put it on real low in the morning, say 225 and just let it slow cook for hours without thinking about it. Porcelain enameled Dutch oven is my preferred vessel. If I have the time I brown the beef first in the same Dutch oven on the stovetop, then add the mirepoix, spices and whatever stock mix I’m using.
Yeah, I cut the beef chunks properly and browned them this time – sometimes I skip those steps.
A lot of my cooking involves looking for shortcuts and learning the hard way that sometimes there are no shortcuts.
Nice!
I planned a beef stew for this week. I made some broth out of a bigass beef bone (looked like a leg joint) and onion tops – I save those for the stockpot since the majority of the onion flavor is concentrated there. I also threw a couple dried shiitake mushrooms in the pot to hopefully add an umami flavor. We’ll see how it comes out.
On another note, I attempted to make a Gambian stew called domoda out of stew beef, a spoonful of peanut butter, sweet potatoes, tomato paste, beef broth, hot peppers, garlic, and some whole peanuts tossed in towards the end. It was absolutely awesome served with some rice, and all those ingredients seem pretty healthy. It will definitely be in my regular meal rotation.
GlibFit.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Each one was great.
Phenomenal.
Give them a break, they can’t afford the doordash fee
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden were caught violating Washington, D.C.’s indoor mask mandate by walking through a high-end Georgetown restaurant without masks on Saturday.
The maskless Bidens were recorded leaving Fiola Mare while flanked by masked Secret Service agents.
The two dined at the Michelin-starred Italian seafood restaurant on the Potomac River after attending a service at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown, according to The Daily Mail.
Washington, D.C’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser reinstated an indoor mask mandate in July amid the surge of the delta variant. The Bidens also violated Fiola Mare’s mask policy, which mirrors the city’s.
“Per CDC guidance and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s executive order, all individuals over age 2 are required to wear a mask indoors, regardless of vaccination status. Masks must be always worn while in our restaurants, except while eating and drinking. Thank you for understanding,” the restaurant’s website says.
The germy
servantspalace guards were masked, and that’s what matters.We can’t expect the King and Queen to follow rules meant for the serfs now can we?
See above about shame being dead. There’s not even a trace of embarrassment at being caught in hypocrisy.
all individuals over age 2
Christ.
..where he took communion, no doubt.
I love him still pretending to be Catholic, and the Church letting him get away with it.
The Catholic Church has a long history of letting high-profile “adherents” get away with it. It’s the latest in-your-face example of the biggest problem with organized religion; when their is a hierarchy, office politics becomes more important than faith.
Yeah, and there are few things I hate more than office politics.
https://trinity.org/2021/10/celebrate-indigenous-peoples-day/
Good lord. Where’s my shocked face at? Celebrating a secular holiday. Of course. Lots of refugee crap too.
Wow. I don’t know what to say to any of that, except they seem to have shifted to worshipping a, uh, different set of folks.
Establishments that fail to enforce Bowser’s executive order face potential warnings, fines and the revocation of licenses, though the order also notes: “The enforcement provisions of this Order shall not be applied to persons in the federal government or legislative branch of the District government while those persons are on duty.”
“Fuck You, That’s Why,” they explained.
I wonder if there is some kind of legal or constitutional reason for that exception. Nevertheless, when Biden and other Dems are pushing masks, he should wear the mask, just like he expects the peasants to do
“Food is the most abused anxiety drug.”
*Looks at big belly and tree trunk thighs…sighs…closes jalapeno potato chip bag*
Alcohol might be a close second.
*Looks at big belly and tree trunk thighs…sighs…refills vodka and diet lemonade*
I hear ya, bro.
Conversation at my last check-up:
“How is your weight doing?”
“I’m dieting like a madman and can’t seem to lose a pound”
Seriously, I’m at about 1500 kcal per day and <50g carbs.
Still too short for my weight.
I have successfully almost (almost successfully?) given up potato chips – a huge milestone for me. Baby steps.
I ate a bag last week but that was the only one in several months.
Seriously, those things are killer. Once a month for me because I’ve seen a few people who’ve just given up those things and lost weight.
potato chips and french fries are my kryptonite
Spud and the Count hardest bit.
Shit I love potatoes in any form.
But yeah, with the amount of potato chips I used to eat, cutting that out should have some mild benefit.
America sucks and China rules!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16449181/chinas-real-life-squid-game-organs/
No idea what a “squid game” is and anyway I don’t believe anything The Sun has to say.
I keep hearing references, and I think it’s some TV show I don’t watch.
Yeah, those ladies never live in your neighborhood.
Serious journalisming, for serious persons
The science is clear: Vaccines are a safe and effective way to prevent serious illness, hospitalization and death from the coronavirus, and vaccine mandates are an effective tool in promoting widespread vaccinations.
Still, the battle to inoculate the nation against the coronavirus has reached a fever pitch in recent months. President Biden has focused on getting as many Americans as possible vaccinated against the coronavirus, most notably rolling out wide-reaching vaccine mandates for government employees and for businesses with more than 100 workers.
But Republicans have grown increasingly hostile to the notion of mandatory vaccines — despite vaccine mandates existing in the background in parts of the United States since the 19th century — and have parlayed the fight against COVID-19 into a political battle, with vaccine mandates as the latest frontier in the great American defense of freedom and liberty.
You can guess where it goes from here.
Spoiler alert: it’s post hoc, all the way down.
The entire blurb you quoted reads like some cut’n’paste they have assigned to a macro key. I swear I’ve seen it word for word dozens of times.
Journlist.
Cabalist.
I am sure there is a new list.
You shouldn’t oppose a tyrant if he’s forcing you to eat broccoli.
+1 Obama
So it’s a therapeutic. If that’s the case, where’s the justification for forcing anyone to get it? Exercise is an effective way to reduce obesity-related health problems, so can I force people under penalty of law to go jogging every morning? Why not?
All my siblings have big ol’ guts and myriad nagging health issues. All sorts of crap dredged out of the sea diet, daily cycling and a fuggit attitude to relieve stress. It’s a small control group, but, well, fuggit. Seems to work.
I used to go to a place to get a couple drinks, and the bartender there was this exotic, curly-haired cutie with a birthmark across her face. I think her name was Michelle, or Courtney. I was infatuated, and I’d go every week.
Well, the covid thing happened, and I quit going for a good long time. I started going back a couple months ago. But Michelle or Courtney wasn’t around anymore. I kept going, hoping maybe she’d be there, but knowing in my heart she was gone forever. Moved on to something better, I hoped.
The usual place was packed full tonight. Game’s on. I went to another place I know, somewhere I hadn’t been in years. It’s a little out of the way and a little hoity-toity, but they don’t do sports bar shit, so I figured I’d check it out. And who’s there but Michelle! Or Courtney! serving behind the bar. We reconnected for a bit and she drew me a decent IPA.
Then I got bit up by a fucking mosquito that got indoors. Like seriously, four or five times. And the dude to my right kept staring over me at something, I’m not sure what, but it was super distracting. Fuck that place, I’m going back to my old haunt.
Whatever you do, don’t hit on her or ask her out.
I wasn’t ever serious in the first place. She is a looker, and God I have a thing for girls with weird faces. Dobby from Peep Show is my favorite. Mel from FotC. This bartender is beautiful in her own right but has this skintone crease across her face, like she has heterochromia but it’s across the bridge of her nose.
Rubbed a few out with her in mind, eh? Hell, I’ve done two since reading your description.
hahahaha.
I like you, straff
Who wouldn’t??>/a>
Dude, that guy actually looks a bit like you.
Long walk home?
My goodness she’s cute. And damn sexy in that scene
Dude, you have excellent taste in the ladies! Those are two of my favorites to see on the screen.
Last!
Wassup, DJ?
Hey Strafin! Hows tricks?
Keep pushing that rock uphill, letting it go when I near the top and watching it flatten all the people behind me.
Sysiphus, who get’s out of the way! I like it straff!
Laster!
Lastist?
Lastsisistic!
Update, son wants to pay my way to move back to Cali, he wants to “hire” me, as a councellor. I think he wants Dad close by, he has no one else, so if he wants to take care of me like he says, I’ll go home, it’s warm there. And I might lose my little place up here, a wrecked back equals no money,
Completely uninspired so here’s a stupid, fucking cup for today’s try.
https://ibb.co/8KsQ8Hq
Well done Sir! the texture makes the drawing,
Ho. Lee. Crap. I thought it was a photograph.
Well done!!
?
What youtube/books are you utilizing in your venture? Teen#2 is interested in learning more about art. Funny how when he gets a girlfriend that is an artist, his interests follow.
Just basic tutorials on shading, pencil types, grips etc. See if I can remember the names.
Here’s one. Terrible title, but very interesting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6vapw6n6FyU
Hey OBE, I was thinking about this for a second today, cause I drove past an art store. And art stores always either offer art classes or know people who do. Check it out, I bet you will find what you are looking for.
I’m seriously pissed, I worked all year to build a new home, and my back collapsed, I can’t work, and can barely walk.
I have always taken care of myself, and now I’m having a hard time just doing dishes, etc. What happened to Bob the Man?
Back injuries suck man. I’m really sorry that happened.
I work through pain, but this is really bad pain, Docs are working it, but it will be months before I get surgery so, owwie!
You and me, too. Lower back here. Trying that large rubber roller you put on the floor and roll facing the ceiling. Seems to help.
Joint pain is a new thing for me lately. So many ideas here but where to begin.
Plus some residual pain in my special area that was operated on last year.
But the most noteworthy thing is that I wake up from sleep or naps in more pain rather than less pain. WTF is up with that.
Body contracts in sleep, waking and stretching hurts Bad! something like that?
Like, sore all over and can barely walk. Ten minutes later I’m fine.
But It’s like I don’t want to sleep any more.
Last night I had this weird nerve thing shoot very slowly from my shoulder to down there.
But I’m not sure if it actually happened or I dreamed it.
Were your sheets sticky?
Sadly, no.
A truly fucked up back,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/KojQo76HFDwTjjZD9
Happens to everyone who doesn’t Die Before Their Time (TM)
I figure the constant pain is a reminder that I am not dead yet.
Good luck.
Heh, well said, I ain’t done yet….
Hang in there dude!!!
Prayers uploading….
I run like Robert Duvall heading for the Taco Bell restroom.
I just found my pictures from my first trip to England.
Wonder if the same card has the second trip too…
Yup. I got shots of the Hudson from the window of the last Amtrak I’ve ever taken. So this card has two trips to England and a SAFE act protest march on it so far.
Retroactive travelogue from pre-glibs days?
For your pooch, is a dog door an option?
We’ve got one and it is a godsend. Needs a fenced backyard, of course. Although our last dog before the Dean Beasts had her back legs go out (cancer of some kind) and couldn’t use it any more. I would carry her outside several times a day there at the end. All 70 pounds of her.
I’m going to have to complain to the management at this hotel- this room is real dusty all of a sudden.
Sorry RC. I have bad dreams about something similar here. Have been down that road with several cats and it was awful.
Unfortunately a doggie door is not a viable option. Moe will not poop in our yard until he is ready to explode. It is literally his last option. I suspect this comes from whoever house broke him. He let’s out one sharp bark to announce his need to go. He will wait a bit. If he doesn’t here me moving about then another follows and so on.
I was in the northern reaches of Vermont for most of the last week for a memorial service, so GlibFit was lacking, save for hiking Stowe Pinnacle on Thursday (which Fitbit says was 125 floors worth of climbing) and rowing for 45 minutes today.
Tomorrow is a new day…
Also, I should stop buying Boxergrail rye – it just evaporates in this house. So good.
I just bought a pair of Jabra Elite 85t based on your recommendation. I’m looking forward to trying them at the gym later this week. We’ll see if heavy metal is better for my workouts than the horrible music they play.
Death to all but metal. https://youtu.be/yfB7vF7nCdA
Still really pleased with them, I’ll be curious if they stay secure when benching.
Steel Panther on the Carolla podcast doing “Lick It Up” had me laughing hysterically.
Ah, here we are
https://youtu.be/RB-wqONX-KA
I hadn’t heard that before. Just found it. That was good.
Thx for these glibfits. Easy to forget about health and stay in a rut.
I appreciate it Straffinrun-san. It’s gratifying to know it helps in some small way.
Do look forward to the review. I went with the Jabra 45 because I need it most for phone calls and work picked up the tab.
Also got a pair of Isotunes Pro 2.0 to use in noisy environments. Jury is still out on whether they’re better or worse than full muffs.
Lats!
MikeS here is what you get when you cross Ozzy with an orchestra.
https://youtu.be/8IuErTGkJIc
I’m trying to figure out if the effort of freehanding hazard stripes are worth the effort.
https://www.deviantart.com/rm-4sun/art/Pauldron-Test-895213714
I always sketched the lines in pencil then filled in with paint. Then I discovered these – https://www.amazon.com/GSI-Creos-Gundam-Marker-Markers/dp/B0009AFN4Y
Makes it easy peasy.
I ordered a 4k TV from Walmart around noon on Sunday. It was delivered for free around 8pm the same day. That’s quite impressive. Maybe I should ditch Amazon Prime and rely on Walmart+ instead since I get the latter for free.
That is good. I ordered some freaking ibuprofen from WalMart one evening last month and it was on my front porch when I got home from work the next day. They jump right on getting stuff out, that’s for sure.
Morning, ladies* and gentleglibs.
*I am told there are no ladies here.
Morning.
*waves*
Well I have two X chromosomes but I can’t really claim to be a lady so………
Morning! /Not a lady. Also not Vince Neil.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/protestors-demand-full-investigation-into-fanta-bility-e2-80-99s-shooting-death-want-sharon-hill-officers-fired/ar-AAPDA1D
Fired? How about in jail?
Maybe they’re more realistic than me.
If the reason for starting to shoot in the first place stands as reasonable there will be zero sanction.
https://news.yahoo.com/riders-watched-woman-raped-septa-153600568.html
Horrible.
What the hell…?
No one tried to intervene until the cops showed up???
God, what are we to do between now and Armageddon??
People have had their nuts cut out. Plenty of people whipped out their phones and filmed I’ll bet.
That’s what makes it even worse. People are just weak and evil.
Hopefully he’s tossing some salad in jail.
I can see how it’d be intimidating, the guy is psycho enough to rape right out in public after all, but you gotta do something in that situation unless you’re in a wheelchair or something.
Yeah, but I could see someone getting arrested for kicking him in the head, because they did something too.
“Plenty of people whipped out their phones and filmed I’ll bet.”
See also: World Star Hiphop
https://news.yahoo.com/bodycam-footage-violent-burglar-arrested-170200729.html
British “Cops” is lame.
On the other hand, they actually investigated a burglary AND identified and caught the perpetrator. NYPD would just want to come in and search the house for drugs.
Which they would then “confiscate”.
And “destroy”.
Apparently WordPress ate my post.
I have unfortunately woken up at 3 am in po-dunk town.
I am champing at the bit to get Monday underway but nothing is going to happen until 8 am. Need to pick up rental car from Enterprise from hubby, put Tesla on the only Ev charger in town (at a Chevy dealer), coordinate with the moving truck driver, and basically move on with life.
I can’t sleep but I can’t proceed for at least 5 hours….
“put Tesla on the only Ev charger in town (at a Chevy dealer)”
Lol.
I know, I know. Electrician is already scheduled to install a Tesla charger into the garage later this week.
The rental car will be gas.
220, 221…w/e it takes
Aussie police checking a guy’s coffee cup to make sure it’s permissible for him to be walking around without a mask (you’re allowed to pull it down or remove it to eat or drink I reckon):
https://youtu.be/vZhamWU1sV8
Fucking pigs man…just following orders…
“I’ll be praying for you all”. You’re a better man than I am, mate.
I’d be praying a 10 billion joule bolt of lightning hit their precinct house and burned it to the ground.
Let’s see.
Considering that the Atlantic Ocean contains 310 million billion cubic meters of water (310e15 liters), and it takes 4.18 joules (1 calorie) to raise 1 liter of water one degree, then your 10 billion joules seems modest. However, directed at a place as you propose, it would be devastating.
(BTW, this is why I am not concerned about global warming. Earth’s water is a heck of a heat sink. )
Look at you, being all sexy with the math and science first thing in the morning.?
suh’ fam
whats goody
Yo, top o’ the mornin’ to ya.
Long night @ work…..cold beer @ 0630h tastes so good.
No beer here, pot of Covfefe to start the day. It’s all good
I just had to click.
South Korean presidential debate hits rock bottom as Yoon Seok-youl probed over anal acupuncturist and Rasputin-like preacher
Try chugging a beer every time you see “anal acupuncturist” in that article.
I’ve had acupuncture done by this guy. The only needle ‘south of the equator’ was generally stuck in my foot (something to do with the Qi energy flow).
Maybe he wasnt doing it right?
Do you any good?
Yes/No. I believe that if Id followed orders to “dont lift anything heavy, dont stress the joint (shoulder). etc” I may have seen some benefit. But in the environmental business, heavy-ish things need moved, ladders and scaffolds need climbed… So most likely any of the work Dr. Chen did to me on Saturday was un-done when I went to work on Monday. I did notice that during treatment, after he loaded my shoulders and neck up with needles, my entire body would pour sweat. Initially I thought it was just psychosomatic since I hate needles, but after the 2nd time I asked and he said “very good sign- needles releasing energy.” I do believe that there is something to it. I told my “normal” doc about it, and he was all on-board, thinking its a way to get the body to heal itself. He told me, “now, are those needles going to stop cancer or a hot appendix? No, but it has a place.”
OMG, that is priceless.
Give that headline writer a raise. “Probed” indeed.
“Yoon is already under scrutiny after viewers of a television debate noticed he had inscribed the Chinese character Wang (meaning ‘King’) on the palm of his hand”
What a dick.
Wang, probed, anal acupuncture…..the whole article is a laugh-a-minute romp through Korean politics.
Unlicensed anal acupuncturist.
With the proper credential, he’d be A-OK.
And the A stands for….
Institute for Justice doing more good work.
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2021/10/new-jersey-farm-fighting-huge-fines-deserves-its-day-in-court-opinion.html
“The Institute for Justice is representing a family farm in southern New Jersey that is challenging a U.S. Department of Labor system under which agency judges sided with agency prosecutors and ordered the farm to pay over half a million dollars to the agency, mostly because of a paperwork violation.”
“The Marinos heard horror stories about other farms’ difficulties with the department but decided to join the program rather than see crops waste away in the fields.”
Unfortunately even if the IJ manages to bail these guys out, they have already been punished. And the bureaucrats who perpetrated this will suffer no consequences and go on to find more victims.
The process is the punishment.
The unelected faceless bureaucrats are the tyrants.
Flathead Valley. MT Crime Update.
2:15 a.m. A man who reported his truck had been stolen at 2 a.m. realized later that his truck was at the bar he’d been at before getting a ride home.
Who of us hasnt made the same mistake ?
It only took him 15 minutes to realize that mistake? Must not have been too drunk.
Maybe the person that drove him home told him.
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-public-schools-loses-more-than-140-bus-routes
Vaxx mandates strike again.
Good. Time to get this nonsense over with.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/17/tsa-should-use-dog-teams-to-make-up-for-low-vax-rate-schumer/
“Now if the agency plans now with contingencies, including the deployment of the canine dog teams, wherever the vaccine rates are impacting staffing and security, travel headaches can be avoided”
You know who else deployed dogs to keep people in line?
C. Montgomery Burns?
Do the dogs shoot bees out of their mouth?
I know TSA workers tend not to be very bright but at least they can speak a few words of English.
Do they employ dogs with some kind of super-intelligence we don’t know about…? Or do they just point their noses to move the lines along.
Cesar Millan ?
#fail
The judges would have also accepted The Blue Falcon.
/meant as a reply to Ghostie
heh….comment 69