Yes, the ‘vid is back, and everyone except our fearless leaders and the media are ignoring it. I choose to ignore it also.
This is better.
I give you the “[REDACTED] Estate at Glibs Gulch”. The Glib community in Alfred NY has increased by one on a part time basis. Guest rooms are available.
Links?
The WHO goes apeshit over the Monkeyvid.
I’m pretty sure this is known as July?
“The President had Cream of Wheat with butter and brown sugar for breakfast. He licked the bowl clean.”
This is for OMWC. One of the greatest movies ever made.
I really don’t have a problem with this.
On a sad note: Many of you know about my dear wife’s Early Onset Alzheimer’s. Last Sunday evening, she finally, stubbornly, let herself go. She was ever her father’s daughter. Her long suffering is finally at an end, which is a good thing.
Hug your loved ones often.
Deepest sympathy, Spud! Went through it for years with my mother, and no matter the circumstances, it’s hard. ::hug::
P.S.
NOW you tell us, after I made nonrefundable hotel reservations!
Will you be present next weekend?
Yes. I just closed yesterday, and the two guestrooms are already taken!
I hope they don’t steal your kidneys.
After the weekend, livers will probably be more in demand.
Condolences, Spud.
Spud, so sorry to hear about your wife, doubly sad to know she had the ‘A’. It’s a heart breaker for the entire family.
OTOH, I’m not sure Alfred is big enough for you and the OMWC. Oh well, I’m sure you’ll have good security with the increase in neighborhood patrols.
I never expected Glibs’ Gulch to materialize near my childhood stomping grounds but am pleased. It’s such a lovely area – too bad about that state government.
Extra points for having a metal roof on the new hacienda.
Very sorry Spud.
Christ, I’m older than Robert Shaw was when he died.
My condolences on your loss.
Seconded.
Thirded.
Fourthed.
Fifthed
Sixthed. May she rest in peace.
Sorry Spud. My condolences.
Same.
Mine too. Sorry Spud.
Terrible way to go, my condolences.
Sorry Spud. It’s awful she had Alzheimers but it’s a blessing it’s over.
Scruffy anecdote: Went to help dad because a shelf toppled in his garage. Somehow the builders managed to miss almost every stud when they nailed it in years ago.
It’s 98 degrees and 84 year old dad is out there carrying his catheter and bag around working on this project. He’s driving the skid steer and refusing to quit even though he’s still recovering from bladder cancer surgery.
I had to leave because he wasn’t going to stop until I did and I was afraid he would fall out.
Tell me about it. In addition to everything else falling apart in the house, I found a leak that’s going to require calling a plumber. Dad’s trying to do everything he can to ameliorate the situation, broken hip and all.
At least the realtor indicated on the listing that we have a problem with the well, so the water being shut off for the first showing for the other realtors won’t be an issue.
Spud, my most sincere sympathies to you. May the good times always be foremost in your memories of her.
So sorry to hear this Spud.
More than 16,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported across more than 70 countries so far this year, and the number of confirmed infections rose 77% from late June through early July, according to WHO data. Men who have sex with men are currently at highest risk of infection.
Five deaths from the virus have been reported in Africa this year. No deaths have been reported outside Africa so far.
16K cases, out of a population of 7+ billion. 5 deaths, all in some (no doubt) sub-Saharan shithole. Truly a harbinger of doom.
Hopefully the WHO can power to the bottom of this.
Since Fauci handled AIDS so well I’m sure he’ll get right on it.
🧐
https://youtu.be/_eAVSqKZ5ng
yestergay LOL
“Avoid glory holes for two weeks to flatten the curve!”
Forgetting Sarah Marshal is on. I love Russell Brand. He hasn’t changed a bit.
‘E got sober!
10/15
Not bad for guessing around half.
12/15
13/15.
We have wood storks here. They look nothing like the white stork. That thing looks much more like the cranes we have.
And on “guess which finch”… I guessed wrong.
I also got 13/15, but guessed correctly on 2. Missed 2.
14/15, but I am, in the best emulation of Peter Hathaway Capstick, a “professional small boy.”
That’s where I was at but there were a couple I didn’t know but by a process of elimination I got 14. Can’t remember the one I missed though.
12/15
“Almost a genius”
Story of My Life.
Story of my life.
You booked yourself in at the YWCA as a back scrubber?
The lyrics there say “why WCA” – never noticed that in the last 30 years or so.
Really sorry, Spud. I’m glad she is at peace.
Ditto on the condolences. I helped Dad take care of Mom and her dementia. She had an ill temper before the diagnosis, and the dementia made it much worse.
My dad also. I am glad the suffering is over. And i give my condolences.
I have been through this in the family as well. My prayers are with you. It is really hard watching a lifetime come undone. I cannot imagine having it be my wife.
So sorry to hear, Spud.
Is that one of Hunter’s paintings?
the two guestrooms are already taken!
Ukrainian refugees, I hope. Young, blonde, athletic (female!) Ukrainian refugees.
Naw, he’s got twelve Ghanans and fourteen colombian day laborers.
I have made it back home. Thus, the Zoom/Happy Hour/Story time will be kicked off at 20:00 Eastern.
Sorry, Spud.
the ‘vid is back, and everyone except our fearless leaders and the media are ignoring it. I choose to ignore it also.
They’re desperately trying to pretend it isn’t just background noise, at this point.
It would be funny if their tantrums weren’t so destructive.
Condolences, Spud. That’s a tough thing to live with.
So sorry Spud. It is the cruelest disease.
Just got back from meeting my new “friends” or helpers or whatever. It’s almost goofy how much the two museum directors love/adore me. I am “kin,” according to them. They are older and both have kids and nothing has been anywhere near across the line. They’re just so nice! I’m not used to it. It’s a fun, Small Town flavor of Midwest Nice.
If they’re playing me then they are damn good at it. I deserve to get Took. Probability of that happening now? Not zero, but frantically, escapingly vanishing in likelihood.
Time to chill out with a bowl and some Me Time. That is difficult living (for the moment) with my parents, but they’re shockingly cool with everything. Wish I had a lady around to celebrate this odd entry into US adulthood and getting my toes into a career that I actually give a shit about. I cared about teaching the kids and do it well, but that’s done. Time for something new. Here it is!
Winston’s Mom is available.
Is that the new name for pot?
I’m sorry that your Lady is no longer with us, Spud.
I wish peace and solace upon you and yours. I trust the happiest memories you have will burn brightest.
Sorry for your loss, Spud.
Deepest condolences, Spud.
I echo the group Spud. I am sorry for your loss. May you both find some peace now.
This place is collecting too many widowers.
ourtime.com
Farmers Only?
Gluten-free and vegan, yahhh. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ktTfFveufMs
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAf4eIj448
https://www.pewpewtactical.com/what-happened-walther-p99/
I still want a compact.
Have you tried the ppq? Its a great pistol, and the pps m2 is very similar but compact and nice. I own and carry both
I’ve got a m1. It’s a nice pistol.
“Consumers should be outraged,” said David Michaels, the former U.S. assistant secretary of labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, with whom Reuters shared the findings of its reporting.
“They should know that these cars are being built, at least in part, by workers who are children and need to be in school rather than risking life and limb because their families are desperate for income,” he added.
At a time of U.S. labor shortages and supply chain disruptions, labor experts told Reuters there are heightened risks that children, especially undocumented migrants, could end up in workplaces that are hazardous and illegal for minors.
“Labor experts” aka union shills.
They should be in school learning proper make up techniques and what shoes to wear with a cocktail dress.
At the rate they’re destroying the economy, all of the kids are going to be laboring just so we can eat.
Condolences, Spud.
Condolences and best wishes, Spud.
Second the hugs.
Major bummer Spud.
https://i.imgur.com/RHrCy4b.mp4
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/8vLug/a798461e716a268b7b265ec0bde3299af0a2541a.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/6qrsS/fa00bd494805c48032799a2e1e4900f924be547a.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/d1NB5/df4f8c5c77e91e7d5acd0f34afc5271c2afed144.webp
NSFW.
Hello
Wut?
Am I really the only person who finds “Bummer – hey look at these chicks!” gross?
You’re right. Apologies.
I’m mostly amused that people think I need help discovering young women to ogle on the internet. Finding them all on my lonesome ain’t that difficult.
Damn. There’s an annoying chaplain who’s path I cross periodically who speaks to members lost in the organization as “the Grim Reaper has been again in our ranks” – which is part of why I find him annoying, but I’m actually kinda feelin’ it right now.
My condolences Spud, piled atop all the others.
How long do you trust cold cuts from the deli? One week? Two? Three? More?
Less than one week. Unless you Foodsaver them or something.
Taste them and find out.
Yup, if they smell and taste good they are good. I find deli Turkey really only lasts about 3 days. Sliced ham keeps about a week or more.
And roast beef is in between the two.
I’ve been buying the pre-sealed Boar’s Head packages – it’s not as good as fresh-sliced but it keeps longer and I never have to toss it.
The only meat I go to the counter to buy is liverwurst. Otherwise I get the sealed pre-cut stuff.
I was thinking today… it’s cheaper (somewhat) at the counter, though.
But holy fuck my receipts… I’m seeing at least 25% inflation at the supermarket since a year ago, I don’t care what they’re reporting on tee-vee.
The Bosslady asked me to pick up a dozen eggs and a case of Coca-Cola, since she was running out of both. I went to Wal*Mart (there’s one nearby, it’s the cheapest, and I can deal with People of Wal*Mart early in the morning when most of them are still in bed). Was just under ten bucks a year ago. Almost sixteen dollars now.
Good thing that inflation is just transitory, or something.
I am so sorry for your loss, Spud. My father passed from that awful disease two years ago. It was so sad watching it.
So sorry Spud
Thank you everybody. This is a special place. I look forward to meeting some of you next weekend.
Really sorry for your loss Spud. My beloved grandma eventually died of that, but I can only imagine how tough that would be with a wife that was still young.
My mother is now a confirmed COVIDiot.
She emailed me to say that she and her idiot (in general) husband are back to wearing masks, even though they are in the Canadian outback and avoiding people. They are so afraid of the disease, even as I was pointing out to them that I have had it, and even with MS it wasn’t that bad. She is 78, but her health is quite good, while her husband has the diet of a 12yo boy, and only eats the most basic meat and potatoes.
Sorry, Zwak.
My parent are true believers, as well. It’s such a shame they are wasting so much of their (diminishing) life.
I have never been close to my mother, but she was a very sharp woman, who did instill in me a deep respect for women and people in general. She is from the Berkeley hills and has uncles who are hardcore scientists, among other family members who are college professors. It is shocking to see someone so bright be overcome by what is at heart a religious fervor.
My mother was raised Catholic. Once she dropped the church she picked up a new religion.
Definitely a downgrade.
My mom floated in and out of Catholicism as it suited her. Sharp AF but I’m sort of glad she didn’t live to see the shit sandwich the world has turned into.
Many of my friends are not giving up their beliefs, they have have a lot of emotion invested.
There seemed to be more people at the supermarket masked up today than the past several weeks. 🙁
I haven’t noticed a change.
Can you imagine the soggy wore-out things people are wearing now? Ugh.
Yup, here too. People masked even outside in the heat. Usually it’s the Indians and Chinese around here who mask more frequently, but it was a mix tonight.
The various east Asians around here are 100% guaranteed masked. About half of them did it during flu season before the plague. I don’t see a lot of Indians since I stopped going to my office in Jersey.
Ugh *shudder* just recalled an “all-hands” meeting this week where the CIO said he looks forward to seeing us “in person” next time.
Fortunately I think my boss is as reluctant as I am to waste his time traveling to the office.
4 U Spud.
https://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/523241/jewish/A-Woman-of-Valor.htm
Beautiful. Thanks, Q.
Isn’t first cousin still illegal?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19291609/love-cousin-sex-family/
Not in most countries, but it’s heavily stigmatized in the west because generations of cousin-marrying lead to inbreeding problems amongst the royalty.
About half the states, it’s legal.
Statistically speaking, it’s not a big deal.
It’s only a big deal over generations, but because we saw it happen here in the west it’s considered kind of a big deal here.
Yes.
Damn Spud.
wut
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/young-people-addicted-getting-high-27557466
I’m calling bullshit. This is as real as rainbow parties and butt chugging.
So much for night golf, God decide to light us up in a big way and when the sky opened up we ran to our vehicles, it got dangerous quickly.
Now Im stuck in my van outside of Sisters housr watching the rain
Yippee?
Condolences, Spud. I’m very sorry to hear that.
My condolences Spud.
I’m trying to figure out who greenlit a Resident Evil show that is a woke angsty teenage girl drama. Like 80% of the fans are white males. Like, this was maybe the most suicidally stupid wokifaction of a property I’ve seen.
Critical Drinker agrees.
I liked a couple of the movies, accepting them for the trash they are. But yeah, everything does have to be woke angsty teenage girl drama now. Thankfully, it’s all on “steams” so it doesn’t infect my cable tv.
Or “streams”, even.
Maybe MLW will favor us with episode reviews.
It’s about not letting white men have anything of their own.
Did oysters for dinner tonight.
https://youtu.be/KgRTUBDvnJ0
Virtual hug for Spud. Sorry about all of it, but I’m glad she finally isn’t suffering.
Don’t you answer your phone?
Did you call me?
Did you check your phone?
Yes
I have to go bed now.
Pussy.
He was on the phone with the person who called him first.
I’m wide awake and I don’t want to be dammit.
But I did find out while browsing my junk emails that my urologist now has Vasectomy Fridays.
Just got home from my HS reunion. Even though none of my closest friends attended (two out of three are well out-of-state) I had a great time! I even got in the “Soul Train” line and didn’t get laughed out of the room! (Probably because my classmates are very kind – much kinder than they were when we were in high school.)
Now I need to wind down before I’ll be ready to go to bed.
I graduated a year late because I spent what would have been 11th grade in Germany so I barely knew the class I graduated with. I’m sure there’s some mixing decades later but… I didn’t really make any close friends in HS.
It helped that I took along my sophomore, junior, and senior yearbooks, plus a couple from elementary school – sixth and eighth grade. There were a fair number of my grade school classmates there, and we had a blast looking through those.
Heh I did not keep any of those yearbooks but I sure would love to pore through them now.
It’s weird because I kind of enjoyed HS but I was a bit of a shit back then and I had a zillion hang-ups so I’m not particularly interested in reliving any of it.
Sorry for your loss, Spud.
JFC. Sequence of commercials during sportsball halftime:
1. Fight disinformation! Some totalitarian outfit is aiming this message at the TikTok set.
2. We love our transgender child. OK, then.
3. Smokey Bear. I’m sorry – it’s fucking Smokey THE Bear. Stop that shit.
They dropped the THE?
They’re trying to gaslight the country into believing it was always “Smokey Bear”.
Be’s just been “Smokey Bear” ever since be transitioned. Please stop deadnaming ber.
Lol
It’s always been Smokey Bear, the “the” was added for the song.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/story-smokey-bear
An Ohio State University stole it from him.
There’s a lot of theft going around among Ohio state universities. Some upstart outfit in FL stole and rearranged the name of my alma mater. 😒
Indeed, why is Miami, FL called that anyway? I know there were Miami Indians in Ohio, did they get exported all the way to Florida?
Yes, off the top of my head, I believe they were relocated to FL.
Morning, Glibs.
Morning. Supposed to stain a railing today but there’s just enough of a chance of rain later today before I could finish it that I’m feeling a bit apprehensive about giving it a go. On radar check for the next few hours.
*sips coffee*
Good morning, U and TH! Sunrise here at Tranq Base. I was up rather late winding down from my HS reunion, but I woke up at my usual weekday time – even earlier as a matter of fact, but I forced myself to stay in bed until 6:00. I’m officially on vacation, so I can take a nap any time I want to all week!
Well…except Friday, when I’ll be driving.
Morning GT. Not yet sunrise here. Just stepped out for a smoke and saw a small pack of raccoons scurrying around the walnut tree outside my apartment building. Did the tck, tck, tck, cat call noise at them, they all froze then bolted away into the darkness as fast as overweight, dumpster diving city raccoons can manage. Got a chuckle out of that. Went back in to try to catch the weather on the local news but instead got the official WH report/spin on how we may not be in a recession and how inflation may not be such a bad thing. Had another chuckle.
…HS reunions sound like Hell on Earth to me. Hope you had a good time.
We’re plagued by raccoons because we put a little cat food out for a few outdoor cats in the neighborhood. TT’s gone after a couple raccoons with his BB gun, but may upgrade to .22 Short soon.
I had much more fun at the reunion than I expected! None of my closest friends were there, but I took along three years’ worth of HS yearbooks plus a couple from elementary school (6th and 8th grade,) and had a great time yakking with a lot of my grade school classmates (and a fair number of HS classmates I hadn’t known well at the time.)
Glad you had a good time. Enjoy your vacation.
Thanks! Doing exactly that.
I’ve been up since sometime yesterday. Don’t know how it happened, I just didn’t go to sleep.
Goodness gracious! Dare I ask what you’ve been doing all this time?
Playing video games.
I knew it!
What video game were you playing?
I started a new Fallout 4 run just for the fun of it. It’s been a while and I don’t remember what mods I have installed.
Love that game.
Currently level 201. Still haven’t blown up the Institute.
Build more settlements!
Mornin y’all.
Good morning, Sean! What’s going on the grill today?
Today is a double strip day. 😃
You’re going to eat a steak while your GF gets nekkid? Cool.
Dinner and a show!
Morning.
Morning.
Seems new York is glibifying, as soon as I leave. I see how it is.
Hey, I’ve been here the whole time.
Good morning, Lack! You can always come back to visit the Glibber pockets of NY. (I think we have a ways to go before we conquer the entire Empire State.)
Morning GT.
If I visit NY again it will likely be to see family. I often hear others here complaining of their covidiot family, so I am grateful my whole (immediate) family has had sense throughout this all.
Mornin’ UCS, TH, and GT,
I always enjoy meeting my classmates again, most often it’s at a funeral now. Even the funerals are getting less frequent though. We will have a sort of reunion at HH for the few local ’55ers.
It’s less “Did you know what he/she did?” and more “It’s really good to see you again” Every Good bye may actually be meaningful.
Good morning, 4(20)! One thing that I think is helping all my classmates enjoy reunions more is reaching the age where we don’t feel the need to impress anyone with how well we’ve done in life. We no longer give a shit about that. 🙂
Seems like that started around the 25th. No one cares about how someone’s kids are doing, certainly don’t care about grandchildren. You’re right, the competition is over, the Homecoming Queen got fat like the rest of us.
*clears throat*
Mornin 4×20!
Good morning, sir.
https://youtu.be/JhqyZeUlE8U
It’s like that.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/07/23/sesame-place-racism-protest-character-ignores-black-girls/
Woke Sesame can suck it.
*Points and laughs*
*Points and laughs*
^
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everyone should know by now not to apologize, if you do it is because you are self-flagellating, and deserve it.
[drugs fall out of Big Bird’s cloaca]
This is an ongoing story. Keep your drugs to yourself, hippie.
😉
OFFS.
The country is broken. Maybe we can turn it off and then on again.
Great advice. Sorry for your loss and suffering, Spud.
Indeed. Good morning, TARDy.
Mornin’ Glibred. Just having another quiet Sunday at the office. I may leave early to get 12 Lbs of St. Louis ribs and some pork loin smoking. I was supposed to do it yesterday, but some dummy forgot to get them out of the deep freezer.
One slight downside to hanging out at Tranq Base – I think my futon out here may be just on the edge of wireless range for my laptop. I keep losing my internet connection and having to run the troubleshooting routine. I think it’s either that or my wireless adapter is just glitchy and keeps having to be reset. But I am not deterred – only the weather will drive me inside before noon!
Wi-fi range extenders are cheap.
Hmmm…..might just have to mosey up to see the good folks at Digital Cowboy!
https://mobile.twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1551047531030790144?cxt=HHwWgICyzd_gtoYrAAAA
A simpler time.
My daughter was here for a few days, she was explaining to her daughter about a load of kids in the back of the El Camino and head 25 miles to watch the fireworks .
It truly was a better and simpler time, just remind the kiddos to keep arms and legs inside the bed and don’t throw anything out and no obscene gestures to the other drivers.
When we were young, dad built a sorta picnic table into the back of his pickup with a cap. We drove from NJ to Disney with us kids in the back “play area.”
Smart man.
Just checked the weather forecast for today, it is the exact opposite of the typical weather pattern here. *presses X*
Still in a heatwave here. Deck jungle plants not happy.
Likewise locally re: the heatwave. Already decided to skip the early afternoon baseball game – 90s in the stands is brutal.
The “relief” (not really) that was scheduled for today has been moved to tomorrow. 🙄
Having a great time in ME. Not at all impressed with the state itself. A few hours in 95 degree heat with no shade am no breeze and my shooting game goes to absolute shit. Had more mikes on one stage than all of the last two seasons combined. The Atlas team is quite good. No competitor has dared dispute my calls, though this last day hasn’t started yet.
The ADKs are vastly more beautiful than here. I can’t decide if the people are neighborly or nosey.
Good morning, NA! “More mikes on one stage” means something entirely different to me than it apparently does to you. What does that mean in a shooting context?
Didja bring yer pup?
Sorry for your loss, Spud. It helps, maybe, to remember all the good times.