No thanks, one glass is plenty.
Back in the day, OMWC and I were known in the fine wine world. Not in a positive way, but still. I used to attend formal, sit down tastings a couple of times a month. After many years of this, I got bored and realized that I was drinking wine I would happily enjoy all evening, as opposed to ten wines I get to experience for a few minutes each.
Fast forward a couple of decades, and I’ve been requested to put on a formal tasting for the neighbors and their friends tonight. Explaining that “no, the party starts AFTER the tasting, we don’t need food on the table until later” has been a difficult concept to get across. Either way, I will be drinking wine.
Links?
Worst D-Day re-enactment ever.
My guess is this ends with auto erotic asphyxiation.
Is there anything Musk can’t do? My guess is there’s a lot of malicious compliance going on at Twitter right now.
Unlike the WNBA, this is a sport.
There are layers here that make me smdh.
Okay, time for some sophisticated sipping. Enjoy your favorite tipple.
Local wine club provided this Spanish white
https://www.jennyandfrancois.com/wines-2/spain/fermina/#2
We’ll see if it goes with the salmon niçois salad I’m making.
Neil Diamond or GTFO
How about Mine Behind the Wine?
Just for KK
I’m partial to Laura Nyro.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zNKPSPmvVTs
I’ll GTFO, thanks.
*grabs coat*
😱
I prefer watermelon wine.
RE: Slap fighting.
I had no idea that existed, went and watched some videos online and I have to say: that is one of the stupidest things I think I’ve ever seen. I tend to think that pugilistic sport is pretty stupid in general but this is beyond ridiculous.
A slap fighting league is more ridiculous than Spuds soon to be announced fart lighting league.
Oh I’m in.
That’s going to be illuminating.
Light it UP!
I like the European version where hot young ladies are basically spanking each other.
Spudz salacious Silicone Saturday slootz.
https://archive.ph/64uCf/3a305fb62bd10d78406ca0825a0ef45fe8da4ae7.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/WtDeA/5ec7f864aafa0f99d24ef6b03c03aedad49d2612.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/J6aTT/600435fbad579589fd33e05b6cc42a26f3d3c2c0.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/i7spu/c64d76a0bd0cfaee7db356cb0f5918e67f4038f9.webp
NSFW.
Hello!
Why are that crypto guy and his girlfriend 14?
Why does he look just like Trostsky? And his name is really Bankman?
“And his name is really Bankman?”
Yes, and here is his chauffeur, Mr. Driver.
Because he’s a thief, just like Trotsky.
The more I read about it, the more it turns out that the well connected regulators and their friends are scumbag fraudsters. These all happen to be important Democrats who must have had good intentions of course.
Biggest donor to Dems not named Soros.
They must be so proud.
If that was the real Jesus every comment he made would be “omg wtf” or “I can’t even”.
I’m home, ready, and rested. So I’ll be kicking off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Discussion room at 20:00 Eastern.
For those of you who’ve had the Coof, specifically an Omicron variant, did you lose your sense of smell?
The Spousal Unit and I have both come down with an Omi variant, and five days in, our symptoms are mostly resolving but we’ve lost our sense of smell (but not our sense of taste! — weird…).
Just curious. Online articles seem to claim that most folks get their smeller back within about a month.
I don’t know which variant I had, but I did lose my sense of smell (and taste). It came back in about a week.
almost Shirley not Omicron for me as it as July of 2021. I never got tested, so I assume it was coof-revDELTA based entirely on having lost my sense of smell on the 2nd/3rd day. It returned within a few days, maybe 4 or 5? I did not lose any taste – helps that I never had any I suppose – either. I’m surprised at within a month though – like I said, it was only a couple of days for me.
Don’t call me surely
Same, last Xmas. Nose-free for a week or two.
Or it was just the flu or something else, I dunno.
Whatever it was, there were no symptoms below the nasal cavities.
I barely knew I had it. If I had the same symptoms there years ago I would have gone in to work without thinking about it. That said, my sense of smell isn’t that good to begin with, so there isn’t much to lose.
My wife lost her sense of smell, but it came back.
I think there is some real brain damage that happens though.
Er, based on your wife’s behaviour since then? ;-)
*steps out of splash-damage range from Lack*
Correct.
She’s was extremely inarticulate, forgetful and tired for a long time. She foolishly got the jabs, I didn’t and had no similar symptoms.
I had my bout of the coof last month, but can’t help since I didn’t get those symptoms. I just had congestion – spouse and I both thought at first it was just a sinus headaches from the smoke when we were visiting Seattle, and then he had to test before going back to work and figured out we had it. Unfortunately my lingering stuff has been coughing, but that’s normal for me with any virus.
I had the same experience as Athena last month.
I lost my sense of smell for about a month and since it came back raw onions smell rotten/funny.
Raw onions do not smell good. Covid fixed you. Congratulations.
My sense of smell has been coming and going for over a year now. I am not sure if that was always the case and now I just notice because of covid hype or what. I just got over being sick but never got tested because I refuse to participate in covid theatre. I got sick, I got better.
Thanks for the replies, everyone.
Specifically, we’ve both lost our sense of smell before with other viruses, so I’m not particularly worried. And as for the overall experience, I’ve had worse colds, and much worse flus. The only strange symptom for me was a rather profound headache that was hard to get under control. Not a problem anymore, but for the first few days, quite annoying.
This. I had one about 14 years ago that put me bed for five or six days.
Whatever I had last Xmas, it did not put in me bed and I kept working every day. It was miserable – worse than a typical cold – but tolerable.
I lost my taste/smell for around 10 days.
Funny (as in terrifying) story: I have a Bobcat skidsteer. It is fueled by propane. Shortly after recovering from my fairly mild case of COVID, I was out on the Bobcat pushing snow for an hour or two one day. When I was done, I backed it in to the shop, turned it off and hopped off. I was milling about, doing whatever in the shop, and I finally realized I was hearing a quiet hissing/sizzling sound. I looked around and finally noticed the connection to the propane tank on the Bobcat was frosted over…and leaking liquid propane down into the engine compartment…inches from the muffler. I’ve hooked up propane tanks to that and numerous other machines dozens of times in my life and never had a one leak. But the one time I can’t smell anything… Crazy coincidence that thankfully didn’t involve me starting on fire.
On the plus side the dog got the runs and had an accident on the kitchen floor. It was actually fairly easy to clean up since I couldn’t smell a thing.
Jelly. Those things are expensive.
They do hold their value amazingly well. Which is why I had to buy a 1974 model. And I bet I paid more than it cost new.
Joy Reid taught me a word for that… inflation.
Recently got back from Vegas. Went w/4 friends for SEMA. We all got some sinus crap day 1 from smokey/dinghy Fremont. Mine merged into a full on sinus infection. Neti pots and honey/lemon tea have worked fantastic, but fast forward several days and wife has Covid. I had a non-covid cold in early October. She is insisting my sinus infection is Covid. I refuse to test (she has – positive) I say I had a cold a month ago and what I had when I got home was a straight up sinus infection. Never seemed to even want to infect the lungs like a year ago when she knowingly gave me Covid. I think she got Covid from her riffraff, hoodlum friends, what say you glibs?
Don’t know what variant I had, but I lost my sense of smell but not taste as well. This was about a year ago now and it’s never returned. I’m assuming that you’re a pureblood as well? I have no idea if that has anything to do with it, but the little woman (who got the clotshot and 1st booster) got it shorty after I did and both smell and taste returned for her.
I went to Danviille, IL to restock on my supply of pleasurables that are still illegal in Hoosier-land. I love how the price for good shit is still about the same as it was before the State got involved. An eighth, 3.5 grams, of good shit used to be $50 in Bloomington in my college days. Really good, rare shit would run $60. Pretty good mids for $35. Lower than that, ya get what ya pay for.
The half ounce was ~160 and $30 of gummies to $197. The govt taxes lifted the total to $250. Mother. Fuckers. Well. At least the violence is being taken out of it, not that there’s much with weed, at least when not international.
Lessons to be learned here. They won’t be.
It’s the best example of the State getting their cut. Smart pols should be using it as the selling point to decriminalize everything and show how predictably dumb the whole thing is.
Local news has been talking about oversupply issues in Michigan, where you can find an ounce for under $100.
Um…is that available retail?
From home IL is easiest but from work MI is far more convenient. It’s still annoying to have to add a 3 hour chunk of time to re-up, but goddammit it is at least a step in the right direction.
I would like…more information…
According to several of the dispensary websites, yes.
“Well. At least the violence is being taken out of it”
Besides the taxation of course…
Now you see the violence inherent in the system!
Oh shush, you know what I meant!
I like having relationships with my dealers. St. Reuben in B-town was the best. Right by the police station. Putting himself through school and taking care of his mom and younger brother, slanging snow on the side.
Proper.
Anyways. I still have learned reactions to the Underworld, like learned responses to not say or hide certain things, etc. They stay with you. Or they have stayed with me, at least. My dad still thinks anything that feels good is addictive and will make people useless addicts. He drinks about a pint of Southern Comfort a night, every night, and has for however long.
Sigh. Ingrainment (?) is real.
Im sorry your father has such poor taste in booze.
100 proof. Straight up. I…have yet to figure out why that is.
He should try it neat. Ice really kills the flavor.
All of our (Western NY) dispensaries are on Native Reservation land and fully owned and operated by the tribes. All sales are cash only and tax free.
Hi Spud!
Wine is the only thing that gives me an icepick-through-the-head hangover. Coming from an Italian family, this has been a real challenge. Grappa? No problem. Zinfandel? Ded.
Oh well.
Back in the day, OMWC and I were known in the fine wine world.
Was one of your handles “The Wine Commonsewer”?
I have a buddy that pronounces it; connosaurus. I’ve never corrected him because it’s too awesome.
Please tell me you have it on video.
Hmmm…I probably could if I tried. It’s actually funny how often he says it…well, and how he says it.
I may need to take a trip to NoDak.
What do you mean may? It’s nearly imperative.
I remember that guy from TOS. Maybe early here?
Is that Italian of French wines? I have found when I drink CA or TX wines, I get headaches that challenge a good blow headache, but I don’t get headaches when drinking Euro wines. It has been suggested this is due to purity laws.
The only time Yellowstone seems woke is when the hot Indian lady is preaching from her high horse. But then it’s understandable why Indians might be I little salty. It did portray violence against Indian women as something done by white guys, while I suspect the violence is coming from inside the Rez.
Nah, I would totally purposefully go somewhere that if caught would certainly be convicted by the jury…
The crypto exchange kids look like they were made up.
Its my birfday.
My girlfriend is cooking rib eyes and shrimp.
Life is good.
Happy birthday, nick.
You deserve it, brother!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, whippersnapper!
52. Don’t know ’bout whipper or snapper.
But I’m still hustlin’. Still kickin’ ass.
Get off my lawn with you young hooligan!
Also, Happy Birthday!
Well, you have 3 months and 11 days on me.
Happy birfday.
Happy birfday, friend! Surf and turf and clam! Great bday!
O.M.G.
THAT was good food!
Rib eyes fried in cast iron (butter basted), shrimp scampi, roasted/smothered Brussel sprouts, and smothered mushrooms, followed by a nice Peanut Gigolo wine.
I could get used to meals like that.
Pinot Grigio with red meat?
I’d go with a Garnacha or a Monastrell.
Pinot Grigio with Shrimp Scampi
Happy, Happy Birthday, Nick. Funny how some things work out accidentally. Hello to your friend!
Happy Birthday PON!
Happy barfday!!!!
🎁🎂🎈🎇🎉😃
Funny thing. I am sitting at the local brewery, and a Trans came in and was in line in front of me for a beer. “They” were taller than me and wearing the requisite mask, along with a vintage ansomble. It is band night, so not too surprising. But when ” they” ordered I realized that it was really just an ugly woman.
Imagine that.
“EXCUSE ME, IT’S MA’AM!”
That’s a classic.
Was sitting behind a couple at the ballpark. The dude was slightly built, had lots of tattoos, had a James Bond haircut. I dropped my ticket and I tapped him on the shoulder and said, “Sir, you could hand me my ticket? I’m sorry, and thank you.”
“I’M NOT A SIR! I’M A MA’AM!”
Oh. My bad.
Thing is, I really don’t think she was trying to be a dude. I think she was just butch.
🎶 I’m walkin’ on eggshells, ooh ooh! Don’t it feel good?! 🎶
Less flippantly… I’m sickened at how this stuff eliminates civility.
I can’t say “sir” or “ma’am” anymore. I can say, what, “you”?
The NYC subway announcers don’t say “ladies and gentlemen” anymore. They say, “hello everyone”.
A lot of people say
“What’s that? It’s Pat.”
I think now is the time to break the news to you all that Bro’ was wrong about the Great Firster. He was brainwashed by a cult that doesn’t understand firsting. Truth be told, I am the Great Firster.
He’s been MIA for a while, no?
He has. I was hoping that would be some bait he couldn’t resist.
He got COVID. Hope he’s alright.
Not the first to get it though
It does actually occasionally kill people.
Oh. I get it now. 😏
Pretty sue Swiss will happily let that one go.
That’s what has me worried.
Yes, I am worried.
I think there’s a few other Hawkwind fans on here, right?
Bad news, Nik Turner just passed away.
I saw him on this tour a few years back (not this show, though) and it was a great show.
Now he can jam with Lemmy.
Yup, although not since college.
I think there’s a few other Hawkwind fans on here, right?
Right.
Sorry to hear that, but he had a good goddamned run.
My favorite.
“No thanks, one glass is plenty.”
Pfft. It’s not even half full.
Yeah, I’m the designated driver
Nevada sees another miraculous come from behind win for team blue…..
I want a negroni but there is a pre-mixed Manhattan waiting for me in the fridge. As soon as I finish this diet fruit punch vodka….
These days i do boulevardiers more than negronis, but I’ve also become addicted to the ‘man about town’ a boulevardier done with cynar instead of campari. Delightful change of pace
I tried a boulevardier last week – because I didn’t have any gin – and I found the whiskey (OK, it was rye) – too overpowering.
Really? Which whiskey? I use sazerac rye or high west double rye, campari, and punt e mes vermouth. 1.5:1:1.
I do 1:1:1. Wild Turkey rye and Martini & Rossi vermouth – FWIW I don’t have a lot of options thanks to NY liquor laws keeping liquor stores tiny.
Wild Turkey rye is the problem. Its ok on its own i suppose but not a great cocktail ryw.
I usually buy Bulleit – maybe I was feeling sticker shock at the liquor store that day, as so often recently – and it did seem smoother when I made a boulevardier with it once.
I saw 1.75L Bulleit on sale in my local a few weeks ago. The sale price was around $10 more than the regular price was a year ago. Thanks Brandon!
Gay
/takes sip of Rye
Go back and forth between negroni’s and boulevardiers, I’ll have to look for Cynar, I don’t think I’ve seen it locally, may have to order it.
Its a sicilian amaro. Richer darker and more vegetal compared to campari being brighter and more citrusy.
Looks like I’ll have to order it, the liquor stores around here suck, I should contact my state reps and demand they do something about this booze desert.
I don’t know what state you’re in, but they can’t suck as much as the ones in NY.
There is a law here where the liquor store owner must live within a certain distance of the operation. Less choice and higher prices FTW!
Cynar is too low of an ABV to be liquor store required here in Ohio. It’s low enough that it would be with the vermouth.
Here, if it ain’t beer, you have to go to a liquor store.
I’m in Ohio where all the coolest Glibs (and Tres) live.
Yum. Will have to try that.
I had a kickass boulevardière on Thursday – “all” they had for rye was Whistle Pig. It was delightful.
Torontos are good too:
https://www.seriouseats.com/toronto-cocktail-recipe
Just last night I had a Camp Old Fashioned from one of my favorite cocktail bars. The girlfriend was jealous that it came with a roasted marshmallow as a garnish. It’s a cocktail bar I highly recommend, and I have yet to be disappointed in anything they’ve served me.
Weird. I can see how thats good but i dont really understand choosing fernet branca and then adding simple syrup. Just choose any amaro other than the most bitter amaro on the planet
I’m one of those people who actually likes Fernet Branca. I used this to my advantage when buying a shot for a friend’s stepson’s 21st. I at least backed it up with a gimlet.
Color me shocked (actually I was a little shocked after it looked good for GOP Laxalt on Election Day, +4%)
Looks like I picked the wrong lifetime to quit sniffing glue.
I wonder if they’re fortifying the House, too.
I am fearful the Dems will fortify the remaining House races. I just checked RCP and the Dems could pick up a couple more seats. More Nancy would be a disaster.
Wow, that is a sudden change too- things were going mostly to republicans out of what was left, for a long time. Like I said, their printers must have needed ink and their orders have finally been printed up. Given that a lot of the seats left are in AZ, NM and CA, we might have Nancy round 2.
What possessed half the country to vote for Dems this round?
This shouldn’t be possible. Look, JI is is right, that there isn’t fraud everywhere, but there is definitely the appearance of fraud in all these races that don’t get nay counting accomplished for days, and suddenly it is all Dem ballots.
They’re going to have 51 senate seats now, guess my prediction was wrong of 51 republican seats, I didn’t count on the fraud.
The comeback kids! How do they do it folks!
They do it because every morning they enjoy a delicious bowl of Cheaties! The breakfast of election champions. Now fortified with vitamin D!
Slow and stealthy wins the race?
‘Morning folks- looking at election results makes me gladder than ever to be out of New York.
All hail Desantis.
What happens in Alaska? Is there a runoff for the representative seat? Things may be that close int he house.
No, they use ranked choice voting, which some people here think is wicked because it produced a result they didn’t like somewhere.
So specifically under Alaska rules, what happens next?
They should take whichever candidate finished last and see who they ranked #2, and then do another round of that until there are only two candidates left or somebody has a majority. I have no idea why it’s taking so long in Alaska.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole, read up on Ireland’s electoral system, which involved ranked choice voting, multiple-member districts, *and* proportionately redistributing votes in excess of the electoral threshold.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/democrats-retain-control-senate-nevada-victory/
*wipes hands*
I’m out. Someone let me know when it’s go time.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/11/temple-university-students-robbed-at-gunpoint-during-home-invasion.html
Philly is a shithole.
https://nationaltoday.com/national-hug-musician-day/
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gas-stations-haiti-reopen-1st-time-months-93171903
Wow.
Morning Glibs.
Good Morning Sean.
(and rest of the early birds)
I hope its a great day for everyone, its difficult to under stand this election cycle.
*waves*
Good morning, Sean, ‘bodru, and Lack! (And maybe Dr. Otto still?) Sunday morning is my time for listening to old, old music and trying to forget about the current world. ::fires up Vox Choral on the SiriusXM classical channel::
Enjoy the choral music on Tranquility Base!
Almost certainly no more Tranq Base this season! 😞 I used the last good weather day Thursday, after cleaning gutters, to put the futon away for the winter and sweep the fallen leaves and pine needles off the patio. Not a moment too soon – it rained all day Friday, and all those leaves and needles would have been washed across the patio and begun their biodegradation into dirt. Then yesterday it snowed, and it’s currently 32 degrees.
So I’m inside on my rocking chair, which makes Little Black Cat happy, as it keeps my lap accessible.
Mornin’! Old music is good.
Good morning, ‘patzie! (And Shiny and homey!)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jealous-ex-shoots-off-his-wife-s-new-boyfriend-s-penis-with-handgun-in-rage/ar-AA13Zv1m
Wut?
It’s all fun and games until somebody shoots a penis off.
wife leaves him and he shoots the guy?
All too common a story. The wife is the one who did you wrong… I never understood it. I guess violence against men is just not socially acceptable.
I always have thought it weird too.
Maybe a combination of “my woman is my property” and “no way could my ego bear that she chose to leave me; he stole her!”
Disclaimer: I taught my stepsons the phrase “Bitches ain’t shit” while I was warning them not to fall for the “helpless” innocent act that women use to control men emotionally, and also never to believe them when they claimed to be on birth control.
I’ve been around bitches enough to know their tactics.
What a dick.
I like that the shooter had been drinking beforehand.
With his new girlfriend.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS* !
*after I have breakfast with Tres Ver. 2.0
Mornin’, Tres! Tall Sabbath Covfefe!
Tall Sabbath Covfefe is the name of my bluegrass band.