But! We have ways of making the day a little better.
Alright, a week and a half post-op, and Spud finds himself sprawled on the patio couch for the first time in a bit, spilling his drink between his tits. It was spasm city last night, followed by eight hours of sleep. The bend has been turned.
Links, anyone?
I’ve said it since the first time the Proud Boys arrived on scene in Portland. They couldn’t organize a picnic.
But I thought we had all the answers to everything?!?
Why not just a bowl of coke in the break room with a bunch of tiny spoons?
“If you create computers smarter than humans, then what’s left for humans?”
He couldn’t figure out why a hotdog was $50.
All right, a bag of ice is calling my name. Peace out, Glibbies.
[taps microphone, yells into it] IS THIS THING ON???
Slow weekend here. Catching up on some TV backlog.
I was cooking a batch of chile verde and arroz amarillo, which will soon be consumed and washed down with a glass of carmenere.
Jealous.
I got replacement grills – plain cast iron, for my CharGriller – on the gas side. The ceramic coated work well enough over charcoal but the rapid thermal effects over the gas burners had cracked the ceramic and then they had rusted. So yesterday was seasoning time and then today, I roasted the chiles, onion and tomatillos and then seared the pork (strips that I then cut into cubes).
Sounds good, I’ll be over soon.
I’m still recovering from seeing Steel Panther on AGT.
wut?
Here you go.
https://youtu.be/gHfSRef0Scs
Sorry. Roadtripping. Just got to the Big Texan steak house with Spaniard. Getting my namesake steak.
I tried, unsuccessfully, to eat the 72oz steak back in the day. Got everything down but probably the last 4-6oz of steak before the timer went off. I don’t think I ate red meat for a month after that.
I literally don’t know what to believe in that “Proud Boys” article. It all sounds like BS to me.
It should. Redlands is near me so I read the whole article. The first thing I noticed is one of the profiled mothers is a self described Marxist. Yes, these are the average everyday people we all know and love.
They also referenced a school board takeover in Temecula. That’s where I live. I voted in that election. This area leans right but is definitely divided. Our school had been pretty normal before covid-19. They actually did a good job reopening as early and as expansively as state law allowed. Then CRT came. There was a minor movement to put it in our school system. All the normies said hell no. The election put in people who campaigned on hell no. The student walk out amounted to about 20% of the senior class.
I admire the media for still trying to make the OK gesture a “white power hand sign” after all these years.
Ladies and gentlemen…
Alright, a week and a half post-op, and Spud finds himself sprawled on the patio couch for the first time in a bit, spilling his drink between his tits. It was spasm city last night, followed by eight hours of sleep. The bend has been turned.
Sounds like you;re doing a little better than my brother, who had a knee replacement a couple of months ago. It sounds like his is coming around, though.
I tend to push the envelope, with the obligatory price paying.
Yes, he is
Ugh, last time I had out patient surgery, I fell twice and got covid.
I don’t think the healing magic worked after that. My back is just as f’ed.
At least you didn’t get pregnant.
I’m just in from chopping down some more taller than knee high grass. My “yard” looks like it needs to be raked and baled. It has been a wet spring, and grass waits for no man.
A riding mower will give you the edge on the grass.
Just sayin’
If you have munny to burn, a walk behind brush hog will take down grass, brush, saplings, whatever trash wood is laying on the ground… just beware rocks. They’re a killer.
Maybe Tates has one you can rent, if you’re interested.
We haven’t had any rain to speak of since the snow left in mid-April. We went from winter straight to July. May was like July, June is light August. Garden loves it as long as the irrigation is running. The weeds are really looking happy.
Having a really really good memory is not necessarily the same as being “intelligent”.
I think it’s a testament to their overestimation of their skills that they think they’re even on the verge of replicating the brain of a housecat just because they’ve managed to silicon how to paraphrase Wikipedia.
*to teach silicon…
https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/steven-schwartz-admits-he-used-chatgpt-to-file-bogus-court-doc/
Having played with ChatGPT it sounds authoritative even when it’s wrong.
How very human.
Just like the C Suite and politicians.
And preachers and bureaucrats…
…and my daughter’s ex-husband…
I love the fact that it, apparently, makes shit up. It will create legal cites out of thin air, quote books that haven’t been written and so on.
Freakin’ awesome. The future awaits.
What quackery! How could taking a psychoactive drug and then talking with strangers possibly be considered “therapy?” Now here’s your SSRI prescription, we’ll see you same time next week for another group session…
Also, huge missed opportunity to have worked in a reference to ketamine as a “horse tranquilizer,” just like that nasty horse paste crazy people were taking for COVID.
Horse paste? I’m so confused. I thought I was supposed to take aquarium cleaner.
Only after you injected the bleach.
But only after you drink bleach – the order of operations is important.
Well damn.
I may or may not know a veterinarian who gets Special K quite easily.
Pat, do you follow The Wonderland Rules on Substack, by any chance?
I don’t, but I just had a look. My dad having gone on and off a handful of SSRI/SNRI medications a couple dozen times throughout his life, this line from the most recent article definitely rings true:
That’s me coming off caffeine.
LOL try coming off nicotine some time.
Soon you’ll be winding down, another week or two and the physical withdrawal will be over.
I’m still on the patch so I’m afraid I haven’t really begun to deal with that yet.
I get the jitters in the morning.
Tomorrow I step down to a lower strength patch for the next 2 weeks.
At first glance I thought that YouTube thumbnail was for The Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang. You can imagine my disappointment.
Yeah, lame, luckily I saw your comment first and didn’t click. (Actually I have no idea of the song is good, thanks for the links Tonio, high quality stuff)
Finally my work systems are down for maintenance and I’m out on reserve duty again. 2 weeks this month, hopefully nearly all of July pending final funding approval, and then about 3 more weeks in Aug before its back to the drudgery for the rest of the FY.
…for the rest of the FY
Narrator: That would be the month of September.
If you want to be pedantic….
I do already have permission from my manager to take Nov off and complete my full 29 days of E-AT for FY24….but I’m hoping it might still be possible to get ADOS (Active Duty for Operational Support – previously ADSW) orders for FY24. Got that and a couple other options pending. Even if they don’t pan out, we’re requesting funding now for FY24 so we shouldn’t have the same hassles next year that have bedeviled us the past few months.
Bwahahaha – requesting FY24 funding – NOW? Oh wait, you’re O&M not R&D, but still.
Well – telling them how many days of ADT we expect to use on a person by person basis.
I loved ADSW work. No unnecessary activities, just PT and work.
“a conservative Latino group that has drawn national media attention for protesting outside a San Diego-area YMCA that allowed a transgender woman to shower in a women’s locker room.”
Yes, those are the extremists, not the avowed Marxists…
Calvin-poker!
Just like the C Suite and politicians.
Vox and Atlantic writers. The wronger they are, they more authoritative they try to sound.
The Vox Explainer is a brilliant piece of propaganda.
I’M VOX-SPLAINING IT TO YOU!!!
STEVE SMITH VOXSPLAIN! AND BY VOXSPLAIN, MEAN RAPE!!
Vox mind-rape, STEVE just rape-rape.
Holy shit this 2nd shingles vaccine is kicking my ass. Got it yesterday morning and only had a sore arm. Now my arm is got a big welt, I’m feverish, and achy.
Pretty much normal according to guidelines, but wow. I had my sister, mother, and MIL both get shingles as adults. All had a real rough time with some scarring.
“I had my sister, mother, and MIL both get shingles as adults.”
I feel like this requires more explanation.
Hope you feel better soon.
I’m not quite lucid.
NewWife had it last month.
She’s a champ, super mature, never complains: opposites attract. But the day we couldn’t find any lidocaine in town DID get her attention.
it’s so weird how differently people react. I got mine after my husband got shingles and had a horrific time with it for 2 years, but I was fine with the vax.
I’m pretty sure I was actually immune to the American strain of chicken pox when I was a kid – I never got it, despite plenty of exposure. But unfortunately I picked up chicken pox as a student backpacking Wales – yep Chicken Pox as an adult is just as great as you’ve heard. So who knows if the shingles vax I got will even stop a resurgence of the variety of CP I carry around.
I’m pleading ignorance. I thought if you got chicken pox then you wouldn’t get shingles. Is that wrong?
The opposite.
Same virus. Childhood chicken pox –> dormant virus –> shingles as an adult.
That’s what I thought. Pretty sure I never had the chicken pox.
Ugh. Thank you. I guess I need the vaccine.
Painkillers are on me!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
attn: Spud & Timeloose sound like they could use a Painkiller or two
Hope we can keep the discussion frivolous this evening
Frivolous! Frivolous!
Now there’s a mental image I would have cheerfully gone the rest of my life without.
Ecquis erit Zoom?
Helllooooo
^^^
Oh. Duhrr.
Imma be in Zoomtown after I finish a quick grocery run.
I’ll be in Funkytown.
Towelie Plays “Funkytown” at the Secret Government Base
Have some fun with your Zooming
Original Funkytown!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhzy7JaU2Zc
Zoom will be a horse*? They go the house?
*equu– something something
Inorite? I was waiting for Harry Potter to show up and whip it out.
Vegas’ pre-game production has to be the stupidest horseshit in all pro hockey.
In the last thread, there was some talk about Trump not backing away from the VAX and lockdowns, indeed, embracing them. This, here in our Glibertopia, was looked as in horror.
But, how are the looked at now, let alone in ’24, among the gen pop? I have the feeling that the two things are looked on with great acceptance, in most aspects.
https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/views-on-the-pandemic
Outside the groups who were directly hurt by the whole thing, it is still looked on favorably. We are the outliers here. Sadly.
Yeah, you can’t say anything much about the world at large based on opinions here.
Yup. That’s why I moved- most people really like it when Daddy government gives them rules to follow.
Yeah, the whole “Spank me harder, Daddy, I’ve been so bad” thing never jiggled my handle.
As long as I’m Daddy, it works for me.
🙊
As my wife would say, gross.
The question, then, is what is the overlap between that 48% of voters and Trump’s base of support, both within the Republican party and among flippable indies in swing states? It doesn’t do much good to get the neurotic hausfrau vote in Wisconsin in your column if it comes at the expense of losing, say, Texas or Florida. Who can you afford to alienate?
The question is, is this the issue that’s going to get normies to vote in 2024? I don’t think so either way.
Well, RFK is polling at, what, 20%? Last election was about abortion, not covid, and Trump is one of the three most trusted people in the state, I do believe. So, who the F knows at this point. Will the left go full shenanigans? Will Biden ghost the election in some way? Can Twitter make that much difference?
Anyone who says they know is a truthy as an AI hooker.
country, not state.
le sigh
Supposedly 10% or so of Trump’s votes in ’16 came from Obama voters. Figure that one out.
That’s as of last month?!
We are so fucked.
Now you’re catching on!
I think Whitmer was re-elected: it doesn’t prove anything, but a chance for working-class sensibilities to second-guess themselves and swing back to the center was lost.
We are so fucked.
Yes, that’s the simple answer: the road from Wilson to FDR to centralization and big government and dependency is paved and six lanes now, a core feature of America running from coast to coast and through every city and suburb. This is a bad dream from which we will never wake.
Trump, Cuomo, CoVid are just symptoms…or residues if you prefer. Biden, Harris, Newsom are as normal as a rainy April morning. No one believes in liberty. We are all French now.
That means we can day drink at least, right?
You mean you’re not day drinking?
Why do I need to identify as French to day drink?
Meh, most have never believed in it. It’s just too easy for them to vote now…definitely agree with the we’re so fucked sentiment though but we’ve always been.
Unless the individual survey items are posted it doesn’t mean much-too easy to mischaracterize.
DeSantis’s response was perfect for a Glib perspective. He’s the first politician I’ve heard actually point out that the covid lockdowns played a major role in the inflation that everyone hates now.
The poll numbers don’t shock me. People, especially at this stage, don’t admit they’re wrong. It doesn’t matter how many disastrous consequences there are to the policies they supported they will only dig in deeper.
Told this to XX last night and after I finished explaining, she said something interesting. She and people her age, have far fewer “third places.” Third places? Somewhere to go to socialize. Home, 1st place. Work, 2nd place. Bar/bookstore/mom’n’pop hobby stores/social space, 3rd place. So she didn’t think about the inflation, but she IS resentful of losing “third spaces.”
That is because those stupid fucks got bought off with government money and loved their work from home policies.
They can’t see beyond their noses and perceive what’s coming, the end of the free money train.
Spudz Salacious Silicone Saturday Slootz.
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NSFW.
https://archive.is/66eIr/218bfb7157bf4bd8877eb266132d3fbf2145d4cc.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.is/VdwbV/b3e84a795073dd494270d43de40981b98ed3c693.jpg
NSFW.
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NSFW.
https://archive.is/ey631/962a46000d7bff1315961adf80541e8ce057a15d.webp
NSFW.
Love being in Vegas and not a Knights fan. It’s almost akin to 4chan level retard when people ask why you aren’t a Knights fan.
Tell them you are and will always be a Whalers fan.
At my buddy’s last weekend and he was showing off his Stiga Hockey set with his custom painted Quebec Nordiques players (circa 1984).
He’s working on a set of Whalers for the other side now.
My ex…God rest her soul…threw out all my jerseys..Original Nordiques, a Hansen jersey, all my jerseys from my youth. Her cheating on me didn’t cut me as deep as that moment.
https://tenor.com/view/pour-one-out-for-the-homies-olde-english800-pour-gif-17132958
I’d play that.
Hockey news:
Watch the third period of the Panthers/Knights game. It’s been great so far!
Also, TOK’s team is playing for the championship tomorrow in MN. 2pm, CT. It is being streamed on LiveBarn:
https://www.livebarn.com/en/venue
He’s playing at the NSC Super Rink in Blaine, MN.
Have a great night, y’all!
Thank you!
The wife is making egg salad.
gross.
After that, is she going to make chicken salad?
Ei see what you did there…
Can anyone explain to me when Pride Month became not just a thing, but some sacred event that must be taken seriously? I understand the why. Just not the mechanics.
No
Even DoD has pride month. Just saying that you don’t care who somebody bumps uglies with is now hate.
When the T’s muscled in.
Nobody gave a shit about “Pride” when it was just G’s and L’s.
Sounds right.
The G’s and L’s aren’t mental.
I mean, the real answer there is money. Ungodly amounts of money being spent to peddle this shit.
But I think the answer you’re really looking for is: when Pride became overtaken by it being about “tolerance and love”. And thereby became not something about a group of people, but ‘celebrating Good Things’. And everybody wants to celebrate Good Things, right? How can anyone be against Puppies, and Rainbow, and Unicorns and Love?
With all the money involved I kinda doubt this rhetorical transition was natural (I’ve seen that ‘climate change’ to ‘climate emergency’ was deliberate and top-down ordered), but maybe they’d get there anyway since the QWERTY coalition has gotten to unwieldy .
Money, the grift is real.
We can help the PTB by winning this contest. $20K for winning. Group submissions are permitted.
https://www.aier.org/article/the-constitution-is-dead-were-giving-away-20000-to-create-a-new-one/
“This piece of paper will do nothing. Acquire guns. Good luck.”
No piece of paper will stop those who believe the ends justify the means.
Interesting tread, though like Athena, I’m skeptical. Cultural value of freedom and government restraint is perhaps a precursor to a good constitution rather than flowing in anyway the other direction.
Humanity doesn’t need a constitution because humanity doesn’t have a govt. He should take a long look in the mirror for even suggesting that.
Broken. Have fun with the rest of it, dear friends.
Festus we aren’t getting into wellness check territory with you are we?
Ran into a philosophy professor last night which is beyond blackpilled. I think ZeroHedge broke him.
It was exhausting.
The ZeroHedge comment section where all news is bad news, even the good news.
We’re doomed.
WEE’RRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDD!
(((DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM)))
Good Morning Glibberlandia!
*waves*
Morning time!
https://youtu.be/V2yy141q8HQ
🎵🎵
I miss the ‘90s.
Ayup.
I like eels,
Except as meals.
And the way they feels.
I hate it when they fill my hovercraft.