Will it never end?
Here we meet once again, at the end of the week. And yes, it has been another 2022 shit show. But hey, we’re all still breathing for the moment.
Links?
Why does it feel like it’s inevitable, at this point?
One more little pill and the pain will go away.
I have actually met and talked to human compost.
“Just pick the hair out of your teeth.”
Wonder what his Glibs handle is.
Round and round…
Because what else could happen, given the incompetence of our “leadership?”
I’m just hoping the DOD maintains its resistance to the insanity.
*looks at General Milley*
*sighs*
I thought Thoroughly Modern Milley was too woke to initiate violence, but then I remembered *his* ass isn’t on the line, just the young cannon fodder.
Milley Ray Cyrus.
Spud!
What’s happening in ID?
The roadkill thing is a great idea. I’m not sure why it isn’t more common. I got a turkey once and was tempted to take it.
Thanks for the Ratt! I got that record as a birthday present from my best friend (along with a pipe). The ’80s were fun.
This rolled up next.
Turn it up!
I loved them in ’84 or so. Local boys!
Ratt or Autograph?
Sorry: Ratt.
Are you still in Cali?
Yes. (“Still?”)
I thought everyone left.
Are you in SD?
I am!
Nah, still 40 million stubborn and/or masochistic types.
And me. I’m just a procrastinator. I keep meaning to leave, but…
Road kill harvesting is a thing in MN too. I think you have to get a permission slip from the DNR and you’re good. You don’t need one for poaching though, only opportunity
I had a physics professor in college who hit a pheasant on his way to teach a September class. He stopped, picked it up, and put it in his trunk. When he got home later that night he plucked it, gutted it, and baked it up.
He was out for a week with food poisoning. Brilliant physicist, not so much on the common sense.
Ruptured intestine from internal trauma, sitting in the back of a warm car all day. Yep, self inflicted.
The turkey I killed was a retard and led with his head. I probably would have been fine!
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That would have been a no brainer.
Nice.
An old buddy of mine killed a pheasant with his face. Damn thing came right up out of his ditch as he was riding his motorcycle down the highway, he didn’t have time to do anything before the bird slammed into his full-face helmet.
He had it mounted and hung it on the wall. Took great pleasure, whenever anyone asked “what did you kill that pheasant with,” in replying “Oh, that? 750 Suzuki.”
Ha! I wrote a heroine who does “gourmet roadkill and weeds”.
I dropped a deer once with my bumper. First thing my dad asked, “did you throw it in the back?”
Hey, if’n they’re gonna do a coupla thousand dollars damage to your vehicle, you might as well eat the bastards.
I got reeeeaaaal lucky and only hit its head with my bumper.
Nothing kills the Pumpkin Corolla!
I worked in DoD with a guy who related (carefully) a story of when he had to go to the middle of nowhere in the Deep South to meet up with some contractors he’d be working with.
They’d prearranged to meet at the local watering hole, but he (my colleague) got there a couple of hours late.
They asked him when he arrived what had delayed him. He answered “Ah, hell , I hit a G_d damned coon. Bastard fucked up my grill good, too!”
They laughed and shared a couple of rounds, talked about the upcoming job.
Later one of the guys took him aside and said, “Did you really run over a G_d damned n——r?!?”
Dixie is a different world.
JFC
Oh, Ohio isnt much different. I was telling one of the employees at work one night how i came home to find a “big ass coon trying to get into my trash”.
That employee, a POC pointed to another POC thats really big and says “him?”
And after that went to the Museum of Modern art in Manhattan.
Two Women Stabbed at Museum of Modern Art
But nothing to see here people – come back to the city!
the time for common sense kabar control has long since come
Seems like this sort of thing could happen anywhere, not just “the city”.
Fifty samoleans that he turns out to have been in an episode of full-blown bipolar mania.
Spudz salacious, sybaritic Silicone Saturday slootz.
https://archive.ph/Rhq4Y
Face diapers. Blech.
Three and four, shut the door.
Whoa.
This appears to be real.
“President Wild Card”
Sounds like they’ve found a replacement option for gropey joe
Biden wants Saudi Arabia to bail his ass out on oil prices, but Biden is finalizing the Iran deal and Saudi Arabia is pissed.
Not to mention, Saudi Arabia didn’t oppose the Russian “kinetic action” in Ukraine.
And their opportunity to turn the screws like they haven’t been able to for 45 years.
Make Biden publicly kiss the King’s ass, after sufficient groveling, and take the praise for solving the gas shortage.
https://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/db21be2/2147483647/resize/300x%3E/quality/85/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usnews.com%2Fdbimages%2Fmaster%2F10457%2FFE_DA_090409publicopinion.jpg
It’s an interesting mix of not the usual suspects nations that aren’t officially condemning: Saudi, India, Brazil, and…Israel…who’s condemning but doing it softly. Plenty of others too.
Yes. I get the impression the Saudis want this resolved and for the EU/US to not try to drag it out. They like living as much as anyone else.
Yep. Almost as if they’re not really enthused about Team USA and waiting to see what the options are.
Looks like no one is sure who’s top dog anymore.
O the radio today I heard, “the US is ONE of the most powerful nations…”
Israel has had reasonably good relations with both Russia and Ukraine, and PM Bennett seems to be offering himself as a mediator. Acting like the US and EU are toward Russia wouldn’t help in that regard.
No. I can’t stomach one second of that person talking.
I know some people who moved to Lander. They seem to like it there.
There are a couple of big fat freshly killed raccoons on the way to town, if anybody’s interested.
Axially, my sister in law’s brother was at one time a licensed falconer. I don’t know who is the permitting agency; Dept of Interior? Anyway she says her mother (I only met her once or twice, but she did not strike me as the sort of person who would veer off the road to gather road kill) kept a “kit” in the trunk of her car: apron, gloves, tongs, some sort of presumably air tight container, whatever, and would do exactly that. If she saw a dead raccoon, or groundhog, or any dead critter not bigger than a breadbox on the side of the road, she’d snag it and bring it home to be hand fed to the hawk. If the species of the bird was revealed I cannot recall it.
Interesting.
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Carry on carrioning…
Love is coming, love is coming to us all.
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*wonders what raccoon tastes like*
It’s . . . not great, to say the least.
Though my memories are from long ago and quite dimmed with age.
Pretty gamey and greasy
And bear is spongey and kind of sweet. Bleach…
Wild boar is just fine though
That was supposed to be Blech…
Wild boar is very good in goulash or something like it.
Pappardelle al Cinghiale
Wild boar sausage is quite good.
Bear tasted like low-grade beef in Tallinn. I had to talk to a waitress to be reassured it was indeed bear.
It’s a Saturday, and I’m free. So here’s the link to the Zoom/Happy Hour/Beer geekery. Agenda will be forthcoming I’m sure. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern, as is standard.
I assumed the “inevitable” link would be to a story speculating about large numbers of civilians suffering from a mysterious respiratory affliction downwind of some Russian encampment.
Please God no.
What do you expect on a ration of borscht?
Pills, you say?
Thought it’d be this:
https://youtu.be/N74LbdS1DwQ
Little Yella Pils
It was an Oskarblues tap house that the vid killed here. It is a Chinese restaurant now.
Oskar Blues just sold out to Monster brands (of all things). Good for them getting the cash though.
We just lost a local Thirsty Dog, but the main brewery is still going.
Doc writes out a prescription for a big bag on M&Ms. Take ’em as necessary, you’ll feel better.
They’ll melt your mind, not in your hands!
Speaking of that article, I’ve heard of the daily aspirin for the heart or whatever, but I’ve never heard of daily pills to “prevent” pain that you’re not actually in.
WTF?
Just in case. When I came from the hospital I was prescribed 2 Tylenols X twice a day. After a few days I was wondering why, the pain wasn’t unbearable so I stopped. That was almost a year ago. Discomfort is not Tylenol country.
Sure, after surgery. Same here. I’m somewhat anti-meds so I’ll bear mild pain – which I still get down there once in a while – cuz I don’t wanna become dependent on that shit.
But I can’t believe 1 in 3 Americans need pain relief every day. That’s bananas.
Since Ray Stevens was brought up this morning, this is relevant.
With inflation being what it is, will 50 Cent now be known as 99 Cent?
He’d need a new name every week.
Tree fitty.
The road kill story got me wondering about CO. According to an old CPR story you can claim road kill here but you need a permit from CPW. I couldn’t find anywhere on their site that said how to get a permit. I am sure if said permit does exist CPW is going to charge you for it. This state does not miss an opportunity to steal your money.
AZ permits claiming roadkill as long as you report it to the G&F.
This state, like every other state since we crawled out of the ocean, does not miss an opportunity to steal your money.
Fixed it.
I saw my first IRL porcupine today while walking with the pack. I would not have seen it had Ollie not attacked it.
Lily was uninterested. I <3 her.
Ollie's owner is panicky and useless.
Some dogs never learn, after a close encounter with a porky. I’ve pulled quills from the same dog a couple of times.
Get your dogs porcupine trained. You won’t regret it.
She chases birds, chipmunks and squirrels — they bolt.
She does NOT chase rabbits — they freeze.
Where I hunt, I didn’t bother with snake training, but I definitely had him porcupine trained. That’s a lot of potential pain for everybody involved, if he runs into one.
Armadillos will run about 15 feet, then forget what they’re running from and start looking for something to eat. Like teenagers.
My FIL’s terrier would go nuts over the ‘Dillo’s, running headlong through fences after the damn things. Never caught one, but by god did Rigby try.
Armadillos have another defense mechanism: when startled, they’ll jump a couple of feet straight into the air, like some armored Bouncing Betty. Works pretty well on a coyote, I guess, but the tactic is useless against a semi on the highway.
My buddy John discovered this one night when we were
campingdrinking outdoors to excess in a nearby national forest. We were each about a dozen beers in when an armadillo wandered into our campsite. With a bravado borne of ignorance, John uttered the words of soon-to-be-hospitalized rednecks everywhere (“hold my beer and watch this”), and crept up behind the beast, bent over at the waist, ready to grab it for some goddamn reason or another. When I realized what was happening, I tried to say “Hey dude, you don’t want to d…” only to be grabbed by the arm by our other buddy Jack, who was making frantic shushing motions to me.Sure enough, John managed to grab the critter for a microsecond, whereupon it did its thing bounding straight up about two feet, where it met John’s face with sufficient force to knock him straight on his inebriated ass. His bloodied nose and split lip were a source of mirth for Jack, and (after application of cold compresses and several shots of Evan Williams), for John as well.
John still has the scar on his lip to this day.
How quickly things return to norm.
And how quickly they can change once the specialists experience that “1% terror” that more seasoned observers/participants of war talk about.
The sham shield protects against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Spending 6 months overseas versus southern GA or KS sounds like a good deal to young Soldiers.
Among more experienced military leaders there is no appetite for fighting Russia. Among the old timers it’s a big “Hellll no!” about fighting Russia. I am seeing no enthusiasm for war among those I work with.
My time was after the Berlin Wall fell, but I had lots of NCOs who had been on speed bump duty in Germany. They imparted a certain happiness that we weren’t in that same posture.
I used to get some razzing for doing correspondence courses on soviet doctrine and arms. Besides a course was a course regardless of content, then we spent the next 10+ years fighting enemies that had been trained by the Soviets and using soviet/Russia arms.
I bet there’s some frustrated poor sap trying to dust off Reforger plans and translate those into modern force structures.
The problem with dusting off the Reforger plans is that the infrastructure and bases no longer exist, or if the base does, it is not under US control. The POMCUS sites are no more. The agreements for moving from the ports are expired and there is no core of experienced NCOs who know how to deal the D-Bahn standards. A single brigade a few years back took over 30 days to get from the port to Poland, and people were bragging instead of hanging their heads in shame.
I was there before, during, and after the wall fell. That few days as the wall fell were way too exciting. We were getting ready to move to our war positions, completely uploaded, because no one knew if the wall was for real or a USSR deception. Luckily, they stood us down. I PCS’ed from Germany about six months later. And in that interval, they busted a DDR spy just outside my base.
Article!
I was in a Reforger battalion 50 years ago, we sent 1 company to Germany every year.
We used to call it Going Overseas. Length of tour was predetermined.
Happy weekend. Love music and booze
Happy for you, brother.
Moved my little girl for the third fucking time since the school year started.
Girls should not be allowed to live together.
OBE, you missed a comma
Two commas.
+1 Oxford
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/face-masks/pps-students-walk-out-over-optional-masking/283-d701392c-8fc7-42e1-ad63-208b657d85dd
Go find a cave and live alone for the rest of your life.
Idiots
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A broken generation(s).
Unstated is that walking out of class, without consequences, has become normalized.
The rest of the school should walk out and start homeschooling. Clearly the kids who left today are going to need the teachers’ full attention to avoid drowning in the water fountain.
“We Are Dozens!”
Out of how many school kids in Portland? Could you make a larger mountain out of the molehill?
I was sitting at the bar one day when the beer salesman brought in some Oskar Blues stuff for the owner to sample, including Little Yella Pils.
I said, “Those guys must be Rolling Stones fans.”
He had no idea what I was talking about.
Generations, and their shared knowledge, do indeed exist.
Came across a garage band playing 19th Nervous Breakdown a few Saturday arvos ago. They were tight!
Was it as good as this?
Tough to beat that one. Much less screaming though.
Please tell me there’s a Canadian lesbian brewery making “Jagged Little Pils.”
Here you go: It’s not Canadian, though.
Has this one made the rounds yet?
A camel escaped from a petting zoo and killed two people in Tennessee Thursday, authorities said.
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The camel attacked a sheriff’s office vehicle as authorities tried to render aid to the victims. For the safety of all on the scene, officers had to euthanize the camel.
Hard core.
“Hey Joe Camel, Where you goin’ with that gun in yo hand?
This is why the Saudis don’t fear us.
Saudis don’t fear the Camel?
Don’t Fear the
CamelReaperhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF7mP2LASCo
Only camel toes.
Only camel toes the lion.
But does Kamala toe the lion?
They should have went around the corner and hid in the hotel.
I thought that was the entrance to the pisser,
For the safety of all on the scene, officers had to euthanize the camel.
Also how many chances are they going to get to shoot a camel. Any old cop can shoot a dog, but you’re not getting too many chances to bag a camel.
“Look at the schmuck on that camel!”
true fact: Obion is the shitty little town my sister lives in, eponymous to that county to which we moved around Watergate
We lived up the road at Union City where my father had been transferred because of the massive tire plant that had been built there. That instant tripling of the tax base created an oasis of education and opportunity. The plant closed some years back, and the county has become something even worse than it was before.
Onto the whisky tasting contest…25 bucks for 5 shots? Who give a damn who wins
Thank you for your sacrifice
Is Iran really firing missiles at our consulate? They’ve really managed to wreck the whole world to that degree in just one fucking year? It’s hard to tell because every media outlet has proven to be such lying liars lately.
At this point, I’d trust the Mossad over any news outlet.
Happy couple
https://pasteboard.co/44oCAIxg3An5.jpg
That chick could do better.
She knows
Great shot – though I’m expecting glasses of whisky in your hand
She absolutely could.
🙂
Huh.
That’s interesting, given the happy horseshit everyone was claiming over the last year where “everyone is jabbed so no biggie”. I guess now it’s safe to reveal the truth.
Jussie Smollett’s lawyers request protective custody for actor in jail
Ugh… White supremacy made him do it, why is this a thing?
I’m more worried for the other inmates.
Gather billable hours while ye may.
Well I’m bombed and got 0 out 5 of the whiskey tasting
*high five*
You guessed none of them were whiskey?
Just guessed “Old Crow” for all five?
Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer – Old Crow Medicine Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49OKm7UPkXI
Mrs. Hobbit was driving to go shopping at the little town where Mom used to live and she came upon a deer that had been hit that was laying in the road. It had been hit in the back or hindquarters and couldn’t move its back legs. Being the kind person that she is, she directed traffic around the deer until someone helped her drag it off of the road. They were discussing how to put it down and *everybody* standing around offered his or her handgun*. The wife told me that she was hesitant to shoot it with her .357 because it blow the head clean off. They finally called the town marshal and he put it down. Everyone was laughing after the cop left because he had an “itty, bitty handgun” (probably a .22 or .25) but it did the trick with minimal mess.
She had first dibs on the carcass (which would have been fresh meat because the animal hadn’t sat in the sun for a while, bloating). I didn’t have any of my butchering knives and tools so we passed. The guy who helped her drag it off the road wound up with it which was very cool because he was a retired dude living on Social Security and bucks for meat were few and far between.
*I just thought it was funny because in rural Montana *everyone* is armed.
Old Guy Problems Episode #33 I get awakened from my sweet drunken slumber by a phone call. Nobody ever calls me unless it is a work emergency. It’s a lab tech wanting to know which day I took my sample. It’s Saturday morning. Now I’ve got the brain roiling. Fuck.
Sample? Sperm? Fecal? There has to be some others.
Poo. Who the fuck calls on a weekend? Especially anything medically related?
That is pretty shitty of him,
/ducks thrown beer can!
I hope he didn’t use a stool pigeon.
Man, ure the worst.
Keepin’ Your Poop in a Jar – Hayseed Dixie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8sgbPYaAnQ
One First to rule them all, One First to find them, One First to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Feck that hairspray nonsense! https://youtu.be/iW1jxJ6ISks It’s like Tool and Sabbath had a misshappened baby.
https://youtu.be/eovMuxGqyGQ These guys are like Zep, the Doors and Nugent had a strange menage a trois –
Hairspray hurricane.
“The aroma of sizzling meat in melted butter wafts from a cast iron pan while—a young TH sat at a restaurant in the Ozarks called The Roadkill Cafe during a family vacation…I can’t verify if it was actually roadkill. Probably not. I do remember a ten year old, precious me pretending to excuse myself to the bathroom then storming into the kitchen demanding to know where our food was seventy-five minutes after we placed our order.
Got my ass whipped pretty hard for that stunt. Funny thing is, my folks bought me a gift shop t-shirt from the joint to commemorate the occasion.
If only
https://babylonbee.com/news/surprise-thomas-massie-sneaks-defund-federal-government-into-omnibus-bill-on-page-2641
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Your titty posts lack diversity. I’m starting to suspect that you don’t appreciate strong WOC’s. Of course the one non-white you post is of a submissive Asian.
Here you go.
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NSFW.
I’m not interested in your tokenism.
Or women apparently.
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Nice!
Is the zoom over already? Weak sauce.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Good morning, homey! Sorry I didn’t reply to your text yesterday. We were getting ready for our benefit gig.
Oh, it was nothing special. Although I like it when they’re over- Dozer puts dents in that futon from looking out the window. I lay it flat and have those 2 heifers lay on it.
Its like a steam-roller.
It was barely 20º on my way home, but Fried Eggs says we’re having a better week. You can open up Tranquility Base.
Can’t wait! So far, looks as if the temp is peaking Thursday, then cooling back down a little for the weekend, but if I can find a lull in the rain Saturday, I can wheel that futon mattress from the front of the garage, around the side, and wrastle it onto the frame on the back patio. Time for my happy place!
In other too-local news, I forgot about DST, so most of the clocks in the house are wrong. And now I have to coax my whiz-bang radio-controlled alarm clock to sync up with the Atomic Clock in Ft. Collins, CO. The instructions say it can take three to five nights. ?
I changed everything last night, except for one clock in Dad’s bedroom, since Dad goes to bed early.