Somehow I missed this one, so we get to have a “gun thread”.
This is my review of O’Hara’s Nitro Irish Red:
Oooooooooorah
Its finally over. The US Military finally retired the M1911 A-1 in a headline from 1986 (TW: Yahoo). While there might be a few holdouts among the the guys with the cool beards that don’t technically exist, the last unit that still fielded them in significant numbers was the US Marine Expeditionary Unity (SOC Capable). Naturally, the Marines are the last to give them up. They switched to the M18 like everyone else in a rare situation where they didn’t spend taxpayer money for the sake of spending it. Austerity! Hopefully, those new wizbang Sigs don’t go off on their own.
The fun part was they actually had Colt make them a special run of the pistols that for whatever reason was not 100% compatible with the Series 70 or Series 80 1911. The rail was reinforced for example, so they needed new holsters since the geometry was ever so slightly different than a standard railed 1911. I personally never handled or fired one…I already have my own 1911 and for the most part you see one you see them all.
This really is an end of an era. A single pistol fielded since WWI has a cultural impact seen in the oddest of places. Not just Boomer nostalgia, odd places like Disney movies featuring talking cars.
But as long as it goes bang, it will never die.
Leave it to the Irish to charge beer with nitrogen and completely change how we all enjoy beer. O’Hara’s is a craft brewer I came across when I visited Ireland with my wife a few years ago. I find it locally from time to time but Ireland is EU so their bottles are 500mL. Which makes it a bit of scam for those of us used to drinking in pints. Which is damn near everyone—including the Irish. Its a well made Marzen style ale with the same type of creamy finish that Guinness has sung drunken lullabies all the way to the bank. Its delightful. O’Hara’s Nitro Irish Red: 3.9/5
I can’t remember which movie it was where part of Jerry O’Connell playing himself got called The Fat Kid From Stand By Me. So here he talks about in an interview.
Speaking of 1911s… I need another.
Also, speaking of antiquated beauty, I want this. Not sure what I’d do with it, other than hang it on my wall, but I love those old roundy round cars of the fifties.
If it runs, those things are a blast. All engine and wheels.
That looks like fun
For some reason “US Marine Expeditionary Unity” made me think of Farscape. It sounds like a religious military unit.
The Marines are a religious military unit.
Touché
If Claudia Black is in it, I’ll join.
From the ded thred. How the fuck does a previously passed law overrule a newly passed law? Unless it’s the state constitution, the newly passed law would amend previous law, even if not intended. Oh right, arrive at the conclusion first and work backwards.
Two batches of strawberry jam, one regular and one rhubarb, are done. That’s it for the year, season is already over.
Now to play in the yard locating the distribution box for the septic.
Now I feel the need to put a box or two of .45acp downrange.
The beer sounds delightful. I’ll be on the lookout.
Never enough
United Auto Workers (UAW) union President Shawn Fain on Friday harshly criticized the U.S. Energy Department plan to lend $9.2 billion to a joint venture of Ford Motor and South Korea’s SK On to build three U.S. battery plants.
Fain called the loan a massive “giveaway” with “no consideration for wages, working conditions, union rights or retirement security” that would help create low-paying jobs adding, “Why is Joe Biden’s administration facilitating this corporate greed with taxpayer money?”
Nationalize the kkkorporationz! Power to the Workers’ Committees!
If it helps crush this destructive march to electric cars I am all for it. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The UAW in May said it was not yet endorsing Biden for reelection, citing his electric vehicle policies.
“Not only is the federal government not using its power to turn the tide – they’re actively funding the race to the bottom with billions in public money,” the UAW said on Friday.
The UAW and Senator Bernie Sanders in April criticized a General Motors/LG Energy Solution joint venture battery plant for paying workers much less than GM assembly plant employees even though it benefits from hefty U.S. government tax credits.
The starting salary for workers at a Warren, Ohio, JV Ultium Cells plant is $16.50 an hour, which rises to $20 an hour after seven years. Union workers at a nearby Ohio GM assembly plant that closed in 2019 made at least $32 an hour.
What do those “workers” actually do? That is irrelevant.
Needz moar $50/hr minimum wage.
“This pays less than the place that had to close”. Huh, wonder why that other place isn’t open anymore?
Late stage capitalism. Duh.
I blame Trump.
I thought the subsidy was to build the damn thing, not fund operations.
I’m sure that’s how it was sold. How it actually works is probably different.
What’s the difference? Money is fungible and you’d be financing anything of this magnitude anyway. It starts to look a lot like an operating cost that way.
“billions in public money.”. Yeah,I’m opposed to that too, but reasons are different than UAW’s.
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1672662959481577472
Supposedly Belarus mediated a kind of peace, and Shoigu and Gerasimov are resigning in exchange for Wagner stopping.
Ive honestly not paid attention to the minutiae of all of this, so what does this ultimately mean? Wagner will now get to plow full steam ahead, scorched earth style to try win their war? If so, I can’t see this resulting in anything good with our warloving idiot in chief and his merry band of NATO crooks
Putin’s undoubtedly shaking in his boots about Ukraine getting a handful of F-16s!
Wagner group would be crazy to agree to that… You have to know the upper echelons would be gunning for you.
I hope their CEO ‘s mansion/yacht does have any windows.
I don’t trust any of the reporting. Russia is a closed, totalitarian society. We will learn the truth over time.
I do like an Irish Red. Nitro? Sure, why not?
Sounds right up my alley, but haven’t seen this one around
Are there any effective vaccines against anything? Or are they all just a scam?
The ones with decades long track records work. The newer ones, not so much.
polio
small pox
Not nearly as good as it’s commonly believed. OPV provides better protection, but also leads to vaccine derived polio and other side effects. IPV had less side effects but less robust protection.
Heh. Never knew about that Pixar license plate. Cool.
Per the comments on the article, it’s a valid MI license plate number. I looked it up using the O’Reilly’s app I have for commercial accts and sure enough it comes up as registered to a 2020 Chevy Equinox. The commenters are speculating it belongs to Bruce Cambell who is from MI and voiced that character.
Even better!
That would be fantastic.
Leave it to the Irish to charge beer with nitrogen and completely change how we all enjoy beer. O’Hara’s is a craft brewer I came across when I visited Ireland with my wife a few years ago. I find it locally from time to time but Ireland is EU so their bottles are 500mL. Which makes it a bit of scam for those of us used to drinking in pints. Which is damn near everyone—including the Irish. Its a well made Marzen style ale with the same type of creamy finish that Guinness has sung drunken lullabies all the way to the bank. Its delightful. O’Hara’s Nitro Irish Red: 3.9/5
Yummy.
I might have had some Carlow stuff when I was Ireland. I don’t remember now.
The first gun I ever bought was a 1911. High capacity Para Ordnance P14-45. Currently planning to put a suppressor on it, because subsonic.
A friend of mine had one of those. For unrelated reasons, he wore a lot of Hawaiian shirts.
Magnum PI fan?
He is actually but that’s not why.
A Para P14-45 was actually his CCW. The Hawaiian shirts were the only thing he could get away with concealing a double stack 1911.
Ah the annual tribute to the state to use public roads first needs me to get emissions testing. So yesterday I got my oil changed, and immediately I got a check engine light on the way home.
Sure enough, its the CAT converter. Looks like I will need to do the old trick where I disconnect my battery to reset the computer before I get there.
I once disassembled the dash and removed the check engine bulb on an old truck. It worked, surprisingly.
Nice
That will reset the readiness monitors as well, so it still won’t pass. You want to disconnect the battery to clear the code. Make sure you have about 1/2 tank of gas. Then drive it like you stole it for 15 minutes or so (mid-range to redline – the more often the better), that will heat the catalytic converters up so they’ll work better. Then drive it like a little old lady for another 15 minutes. This time do about a 50/50 mix of driving on city/highway, don’t exceed 65mph on the highway. This will reset all your readiness monitors that your inspector wants passed for emissions and your catalytic converters will probably pass from heating them up so thoroughly on the first part of your run. I do this for a living and I rarely replace my customers cats unless they want me to or they plug up.
There was a good episode of Triggernometry providing background on what’s going on with Russia, Wagner, and Ukraine.
It’s an hour long.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YCW8pqoysd4
Can you just sum it up in a tweet?
*raises hand
Indeed. Lazy bum here.
No.
https://www.dw.com/en/live-updates-wagner-halts-moscow-advance-after-mediation-by-belarus/a-66018647
Konstantin Kisin says now way can Putin NOT now punish Prigozhin for the “mutiny”.
Also told that many of Wagner mercenaries were prisoners who got released in exchange for serving with Wagner and that they are fiercely loyal to Prigozhin.
He’ll be winning battles for a bit right up until such time as he has a whoopsie out of a tenth story St. Petersburg window.
Fascinating
It’s a pretty good YouTube show. They interviewed The Critical Drinker about a year ago. It was a very good discussion.
During the ’91 Gulf War my battalion set up a prisoner collection site in Kuwait. This group of Marine Reservist MPs brings in several hundred prisoners. While there, they quietly ask for .45 ammo. They had 1911s but had yet to find ammo since being deployed. Couldn’t help with the .45 but gave them all the AK47s and Russian pistols with ammo they could carry.
The MPs were deployed without ammo?
Can you just sum it up in a tweet?
We’re doomed.
Doom!
DOOM!
DOOM!
OT: On Maj Toure’s arrest. The LP of DE tweeted out some case information.
Another tweet on Toure.
The Black Guns Matter guy is hardly off topic
I did a little digging on the case numbers. The second tweet says Maj should be eligible for ARD (Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition). My understanding is ARD is only for first time offenders, so he is not eligible here. He’s already been through ARD. That’s the related docket number in the docket for the firearms arrest.
The counterfeiting charge is normally a misdemeanor of the first degree, but can be a felony in some cases. Assume it was a misdemeanor (not mentioned in the second tweet’s docket screencaptures). In PA, a misdemeanor of the first degree is punishable by a fine and/or a prison sentence of not more than five years. A conviction for a misdemeanor of the first degree makes you ineligible for a PA carry permit. So Maj is not eligible for a permit. I think he gets fucked if this goes to trial. Maybe he can make a Second Amendment case of it.
PA law on the counterfeiting charge
PA law classifying crimes and their penalties.
PA carry license law. See (e)(1)(viii).
Heading out shortly to put another box downrange using my not-truly-authentic 9MM 1911.
The drag queen of handguns.
Proof that the 80s was both the best and worst decade.
Europe – The Final Countdown (Official Video)
Popped up on a playlist. It has over 1.1bn views. WTF? Also with the arrangement, hair and choreography it is perfect 80s stage and video.
The synth is campy as fuck but I’ve heard worse-not a bad song all in all.
I don’t disagree, but the view count takes me back.
Mind you Take on me was in the same randomly selected playlist. 1.7bn.
That song was massive, and everywhere that year (86?).
It got so bad it became a joke – some kid on the soccer team had it cued up on a boombox and pranked us with it a couple times.
I did and do prefer Two Minutes to Midnight for my fave doomsday song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihbRtLrK36Y
Wait, that’s a song about leaving Earth behind? I managed to misremember the hell out of that song’s gist.
Still, Two Minutes To Midnight is a great song.
Yeah, I just had no idea it was that massive.
I imagine it was the global following that pushed it that far on YouTube.
Yup.
Also Rumors by Timex Social Club. LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1986
Pretty sure the views are because it’s used as a meme for gamers.
Legit LOL
C8 driver (NY Plate naturally) who doesn’t understand how to amateur race and mostly gets wiped by a BRZ. Perhaps he just needed more anime waifus.
https://youtu.be/gn4w8DlPBx0
We did the stock car experience at Pocono. It was a blast.
You can tell the guys who have 3-5 track days under their belt vs the complete novices. The ‘vette is obviously the latter.
But I gotta tell you, the guys with a modicum of experience are typically the scariest to instruct, since their confidence often exceeds their ability.
doesn’t understand how to amateur race and mostly gets wiped by a BRZ.
Only knows how to fast in a straight line. He should take up drag racing.
*That BRZ sounds horrible
maybe I should have watched to the end but I couldn’t stand listening to the obnoxious twerp in the Subaru. You’re not exactly Jim Clark, sonny.
He’s just pissed at the jackass. He’s paying money and blood sweat and tears and dealing with a jackass.
I’ll let him slide.
And yes not a great sounding motor.
Why is dude’s rear view mirror blacked out?
/asked out of ignorance
It’s not, its the cameras mounting angle, must be on top of the camera throwing off the reflection you can see the back seat at times.
Second ‘camera’ should be ‘helmet.’
Low-level bureaucrat can’t fly her freak flag, so she stamps her little foot and moves on to a new job.
Many stunning, such brave.
That article is way way way way way way too long.
I recall about 1991 my unit replaced most M1911s (I believe we dropped from 10 to 2) with M9s. Only the CO could opt for the M1911.
Weird day. I was out running errands and on the way to my first stop I passed a car accident that had happened only a few minutes before – cops, one car t-boned the other pretty bad, responders were all still there. A bit later, heading for lunch, there was a second car accident on another street. One car smashed and the other went through a fence and overturned. Cops and fire truck etc were all still there, too. I rarely see one wreck aftermath, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen two pretty bad ones in the space of 2 hours.
He’s just pissed at the jackass. He’s paying money and blood sweat and tears and dealing with a jackass.
Easier said than done, but let him go, and go back to working on your lines and braking points. Or stay on his ass and use him to work out ways to adjust your line to get by a slower car in the corners.