*WARNING! THIS IS A SOCCER FREE ZONE!!!*
Grumble, grumble.
Rain, snow, and now the annual inversion layer have arrived. Life living in a bowl.
Let’s brighten things up with, the Links!
I’m going to miss this silly bitch when he’s getting railed in prison.
Talk about getting into character.
Just when we thought Covid was bad.
Dumb celebrities being sued by even dumber investors.
I think America needs a new hat.
Okay, enough of that silliness. It’s well past cocktail hour.
Ozzy’s new album absolutely rocks.
NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan says that the rise in respiratory viruses is the reason as to why the city’s health office is recommending, not only the use of masks, but also vaccinations and boosters.
Go fuck yourself.
Excellent.
New twist. I like it.
Ozzy’s still alive?
He has Parkinson’s, but he’s quit drinking and looks great.
…and looks great
[slides glasses down nose, stares at Spud with mix of curiosity and indifference]
You’re just as old as the rest of us, motherfucker.
Looking good is extremely realtive.
You tell him, Tundra!
Keith Richards looks pretty good for someone who should’ve been dead a couple of decades ago. I think I can manage to look better than this when I’m 73; of course I won’t have the burden of fame and fortune that he does. I also never abused myself like he did.
The biggest problem with some of these dudes is they can’t figure out it’s long past time to stop trying to look young.
GAH!
Dude looks like lady.
There’s still time!
I know I’m going to die one day, I see no need to speed up the date.
Last night was a small team holiday dinner. Boss is local. Boss-boss was in town from Texas; I had not met him before. Fucker is younger than my boss, who is younger than me. Boss-boss was surprised at my age.
I’ve still got it. 🫰🏻
You got laid?
No, but I met another coworker for the first time whom I would. If he was willing. And not shacked up with a gal and a newborn.
Yeah boy!
If I look that good at his age, I will be thankful.
And fuck you.
Well…that would be a not small miracle.
😜
You already look older than him.
Get offa my lawn!
Just pinch-hitting for OMWC.
While respiratory viruses are spreading at high levels in NYC, there are common-sense ways to protect yourself and your loved ones this holiday season: vaccination, boosters, wearing a mask indoors or among crowds and staying home if you don’t feel well,” Vasan said in a tweet.
You forgot prayer and ritual sacrifice.
ritual sacrifice
Mauna Loa is accepting volunteers. Are there any virgins in the area?
Here?! How many do you need….
Just do a little recruiting at Young Americans for Liberty?
You know that’s a hookup spot, don’t you?
The junior Libertarian Party set? Hooking up with what?
Wood knot.
“Wear a high-quality mask, such as a KN95 or KF94 or an N95 respirator, for additional protection,” city health officials say.
Something like this
You can’t be too cautious.
Didn’t even the N95 perform poorly…
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2022/12/04/not-even-n95-masks-work-to-stop-covid
It did it’s job as advertised, but the virus load was so high, there was still a shitload getting through the mask.
Actually, it still applies.
This never happens to solar panel installers. The toxic masculinity of fossil fuels strikes again.
Just think. People spent time on this: https://pin.it/1SMlCnq
Abuelo didn’t care to give unique names to his sons, he named all three of them after himself. Uncle George, uncle George and uncle George. Holiday get-togethers were a hoot.
George Foreman I-V.
Primo, Secondo, Tres.
There, named them quick as 1,2,3.
I take it you haven’t watched (or read) Stardust.
Someone stole a joke from The Big Night? Really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQQhoYLsoHI
Wait, is there a food movie that Neph hasn’t seen?
Your grandfather was George Foreman?
George the first was born in 1953. I always thought Pops should have sued Foreman for copyright infringement.
There was a tradition in my family (I’ve killed it by not having kids) of having the eldest son have the name of their grandfather, and the middle name of their father. Due to this, I was receiving AARP mailings since I was a teenager (and my grandfather had passed).
“Hi, I’m Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl!”
How does that differ from black people taking two (or three) names and violently mashing them together to come up with something “unique”?
It doesn’t.
No more of a time suck than cross-stitch. :-p
I don’t pretend my cross stitch is Deep Intellectual Thinking™ that may well become a white paper in some “academic” intersectionality journal. Also, kill whitey.
Kill all the white man, and don’t call me white.
Ok, Shaniqua.
I have a vague recollection – I don’t THINK I dreamed it – from some time during my Adventures in Half-Hearted Attempts at School Desegregation of encountering a young lady named Cheutonya (or some similar spelling pronounced that oh so very unfortunate way.)
To be sure®, many years later when I was substitute teaching (possibly in a fairly rural district?) I met a little white boy named Armps. I asked one of the regular teachers about it, and she just shrugged.
Eh, she has a point. I remember an Eran (aaron) from school, have met a Thyme (tim), and so on. It’s a great way to not get hired (I have passed over weird spellings in applications before.)
I have a very traditional name spelled traditionally (although my maiden name [French] is often misread and mispronounced). I have often wondered why some of these people don’t change their names when they grow up.
Tangentially, I had a friend, blonde, blue-eyed Anglo-Saxon as they come, with a traditional name spelled traditionally, who married a Hispanic man and took his name. She found her call-backs on resumes with her maiden name were markedly higher than ones with her married name.
My brother changed his name from something traditional but that a) was ugly and b) didn’t suit him and c) he hated, to something … weird. I’m not sure that suits him, either, but that’s his business.
My ex-wife had a very normal, traditional Okie last name: Jackson. But when she remarried, she hyphenated her last name, as new husband was Chinese and she didn’t want to be a Seinfeld character: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChxJIcBwfFc
You were married to Sheila Jackson-Lee?
Heh.
Them’s fightin’ words!
Weird names have been going on since Adam named the animals. I mean, Almanzo Wilder. Really?
I was almost named after my grandfather and uncle: Reginald Heber [III]. Which was better than my maternal grandfather, Arless Bates C_____.
Grandfather AND uncle?
RH and RH Jr, I would’ve been the third.
Never hired a person with 2 apostrophes in their first name
/Racist
I had great grandparents named Tyrol, Ilo, and Antonette. Going through my genealogy exposes many other weird names. Weird names were always a thing. I think the weird spellings of common names happen more often now than in the past, but I have no evidence to support that statement.
What a freakin’ clown show the Biden admin is. It is that way deliberately as a finger in your eye. Horrah for every idiot that voted Biden because ‘I like Trumps policies but I just hate the guy’.
Beaten up by cartoon characters. I wouldn’t tell anyone.
Oh Noes, the triplest most dangerouser than ever! Put your obidience masks back on!
I didn’t pay attention to that nonsense the first time around and I won’t this time either.
Does the Canuck get a Darwin Award? He should.
Everything socialists touch turns to shit. Imagine that. By the way, Cuban cigars have been shit since the Castronistas took over. They have been terrible for decades.
It killed the rum too.
LOL, silly glibs. The Eloi do not go to prison.
The “G” is capitalized.
But yeah.
They just get put on a spit?
These links are a little starchy.
You’ve definitely got the eye.
Be careful, or I’ll make sure you get mashed.
” So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o’clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn’t go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head ’round the door, and mentions there’s a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So – we go. And – it’s closed. So there’s me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they’ve got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopowner and his son… that’s a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show.”
Spud wants some relief from dreariness – how about a little Mencken? It opens:
“The first sound in the mornings was the clumping of the mill-girls’ clogs down the cobbled street. Earlier than that, I suppose, there were factory whistles which I was never awake to hear.
There were generally four of us in the bedroom, and a beastly place it was, with that defiled impermanent look of rooms that are not serving their rightful purpose. Years earlier the house had been an ordinary dwelling-house, and when the Brookers had taken it and fitted it out as a tripe-shop and lodging-house, they had inherited some of the more useless pieces of furniture and had never had the energy to remove them. We were therefore sleeping in what was still recognisably a drawing-room. Hanging from the ceiling there was a heavy glass chandelier on which the dust was so thick that it was like fur. And covering most of one wall there was a huge hideous piece of junk, something between a sideboard and a hall-stand, with lots of carving and little drawers and strips of looking-glass, and there was a once-gaudy carpet ringed by the slop-pails of years, and two gilt chairs with burst seats, and one of those old-fashioned horsehair armchairs which you slide off when you try to sit on them. The room had been turned into a bedroom by thrusting four squalid beds in among this other wreckage.”
Perspective.
Most of the wealth of. Louisiana has moved south. Catahoula Parish once had a population of around 30K, now it is down to 10K. As you might guess, that suits me just fine.
Now all the steel is gone and replaced with… nothing. Yay!
Meth. You forgot meth.
“Ozzy’s new album absolutely rocks.”
I’ve been pleasantly surprised.
*hits play
🤘🏻
Better than a cat butt. 🙂
Vibin’ Cat rulez!
🤘🏻😺🤘🏻
“I think America needs a new hat.”
Isn’t this the correct thing? Unless you just mean he shouldn’t even need a doctor’s note?
Why should the government prevent him from ending his own life?
Why should we be paying for the government to help him end his life?
Depending on which Prog you ask the human population should be reduced by anywhere from half to 9/10.
They cut his benefits, and are now offering to kill him on the taxpayers dime. And everyone said Sarah Palin’s “death panels” were the ravings of a lunatic.
She wasn’t sophisticated like they are..
Neph’s auto-Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83933925474?pwd=OXNqb3RKNjZLeTdwaUtRQ1JSMm5UZz09
Thanks KK! I’m back home with strange tales to tell, including a grocery store handing out free food.
*taps foot impatiently* And where is mine?!
In the Cleveland area, I presume.
If I could get pierogi and Lydia’s butterhorns, I will start driving RIGHT NOW.
There’s fresh stollen on the counter here. Pour your own booze though.
If you really want some, we can try to stop back tomorrow morning. I have the feeling that they’ll have corrected the error from Buy 2 Get 2 Free (no limit, buy 1 at regular price) or be out of the product.
Look fat, you might want to boat west to Mexico first.
Oh go fuck yourself, Ben Rhoades.
I hate everyone involved in this shitshow from Obama to Trump to the parade of monsters in charge in Cuba.
It’s all so tiresomely predictable.
Tiresomely predictable indeed. Yet people never learn.
Herd animals run in herds.
Cuba’s condition is our fault. Those darn free marketer’s ruin everything.
Following Benny boy’s logic, In order for communism to work properly it is imperative that trade happen with its capitalist neighbor.
Also, disregard the fact that every other country on earth can freely trade with Cuba.
Rocket science indeed.
Who’s gonna roll my cigars?!?
Tampa Cubans got you covered, fam. You can even tour the factory if you like.
The best cigars come from the DR anyway.
Although I don’t smoke cigars anymore (since 2008) – I agree. Their quality had increased over the years, and they are the best now.
I heard stories that the good Cuban cigar makers fled to the DR.
And brought their tobacco seeds with them.
Trvth.
Castro confiscated the tobacco farms, leading to a diaspora. Kinda like what happened when the Venezuelan government expropriated the oil drilling equipment.
This is a pretty good article on what happened after that. Cuba’s loss was a gain for the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Ecuador… even Cameroon.
Interestingly, the DR has a lot of premium cigar companies, but the country that it shares an island with does not. Wonder why that is?
The Clintons.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Nicaragua.
After the penicillin, though.
You wouldn’t be trying to sell ol’ Earl Dominicans in a Cuban wrapper now would you?
RJ, obviously I know Matt’s liquor was seized. The issue was whether he would have restocked or whatever else….
All I know is I am hosting a birthday sleepover and the house in total pandemonium. I have been trying to follow the story from afar.
I did not know that CJ Stroud was from my hometown.
Not good news on the kitty situation.
Looks to be renal failure. Will try to make him as comfortable as possible for as long as he seems to be happy.
Thanks for the well wishes the other day.
Oh, I am so sorry. I love teh kittehs.
Very sorry to hear that.
So sorry to hear. Pull out that tuna steak for the kittah
Damn, so sorry.
I’m sorry.
My girl has had kidney issues for two years. I’m shocked she’s still here. How far along is the boy?
Does the vet want to to put him on special food? Or are you past that?
TBD. Likely yes.
Praying for him.
Of course he’s a 10/10, right? Why the fuck don’t our pals live to 50?
He’s a good guy and only 10 years old.
Thanks and thanks to everyone else as well.
Awww. Sorry dude.
Aw 🙁
Sorry for the Kitteh, he will let you know when it is time to for him to go.
So sorry to hear. I know you’ll do what’s best for him, difficult though it always is.
Draw some portraits of him, you’ll be glad you did later.
Sorry 🙁
Poor kitteh.
Sorry Sensei.
Sorry.
Well, shit. Sorry for neko. 😿
Sorry Sensei. I’ve been down that road twice. It’s no good for anyone.
I am sorry Sensei. Never good news.
There’s a guy in Dallas that’s a Cuban, some sort of maverick. He’d play ball with the new arrivals
On the mark.
Heard he was a jerk with a dirk.
I would shed not a single tear if Steph Curry suffered a career ending injury.
Me neither,
Who?
Soc–
*poof*
Damn.
Regarding this batch of Taibbi leaks – there’s no direct evidence so far that the agencies ordered that specific story to be suppressed. But they met with the intelligence agencies before, during, and after the entire fiasco. We already know Facebook received advanced warnings about the story coming out, it’s almost guaranteed Twitter did, as well, if it isn’t confirmed.
We have government agencies reporting posts. That is a pretty clear violation of the first amendment to me.
But the end of this story is going to be and nothing else happened…
Don’t you meant the First amendment?
😎
Yesterday I had a colonoscopy. Just as I was fading into unconsciousness, the anesthesiologist leaned down an whispered, “The Great Firster thanks you for being his First.”
So I got that going for me. Which is nice.
Is it coincidence I’m reading this while watching Caddyshack?
You are worse than the Willow reboot.
You are worse than The Rings Of Power!
But is he worst than the 1st and 4-6th Star Trek movies?
I like IV.
I’ll give you I, V, and VI.
Especially V… holy fuck.
It was a bad movie but one line saved it for me, “Why would G-d need a starship?” I’m a simple man.
Do you need your pain?
You are worse than The Rings Of Power!
That’s just hurtful.
Presidents have been impeached for less.
Not that there aren’t more treasonous actions to impeach the current occupant for.
Maybe. It’s still early days It’s very likely there is still a large volume of records to review.
Drip, deny, debunk denial…be patient, the Snowden/Project Veritas method of information release takes a while.
https://babylonbee.com/news/following-sinemas-exit-romney-announces-intention-to-remain-in-democrat-party
Hah!
Mornin.
Good morning, Sean!
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/12/lincoln-tunnel-toll-booths-close-forever-on-sunday.html
They took our jobs!
I would pay to leave NJ or NY. Like a ransom. My last trip to NJ was for my divorce, ’cause it was worth it. In the words of MLK, “Free at last…”
https://nypost.com/2022/12/10/moscow-idaho-cops-give-warning-as-killer-remains-at-large/
😳
https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-animal-shelter-offers-150-to-fosters-in-effort-to-stop-canine-flu-outbreak
Why don’t they just put masks on the dogs?
https://ktla.com/news/california/man-zip-tied-set-on-fire-during-carjacking-in-california-sheriff-says/
They set him on fire. O.o
Just kids having fun…
JFC.
He won’t make that mistake again.
https://youtu.be/gZnIi1MbqnI
🎶🎶
https://youtu.be/UmQuNoqhJjY
🎶🎶
⛄🎄
https://youtu.be/vbdm60hA2Qg
One more, with hot chicks.
Where is everyone?
I’m here! Just poured my first chai latte. ::raises mug::
Good Morning Sean:
I’m here, but not for long.
Wife cousin is visiting from Texas, going to look at her acreage today.
Too early for a euphemism
Heck, after some of the discussions of family events….
I think there is a non-zero chance her cousin is maybe her half brother.
So she’s Tres’s kind of gal?
https://nationaltoday.com/birthday/nikki-sixx/
Happy birthday Nikki.
*tumbleweeds*
Good Morning, Sean and GT.
It’s a Sunday and another day off! What’s not to like!
Good morning, 4(20)!