And don’t get me started on WebDom.
Yep, here we are. In a brief period of sobriety, I need to get these done. Let’s take a look, shall we?
“Seriously, this would be an awesome career move for you.”
He’s no Gorsuch, but I do like me some Sammy Alito.
I have been witnessing this very thing in my community. And now all the prices are going up.
This seems a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
“Boy Scouts pitch LGBTQ tent…” read the headline.
Okay, I’m out. Have great evening!
One more brick in the wall.
https://twitter.com/DougAMacgregor/status/1685336092059357185
Buried lede – what the fuck are any US troops doing in Ukraine?
I thought it was “advisors” or some such BS.
Are we officially at war with Russia, then? This seems like something worth knowing.
“Boy Scouts pitch LGBTQ tent…”
But who’s catching?
Yes yes…we are aware of what a burden we all are over here.
Anyway…Zoom link of doom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
I thought it was getting kind of warmish; 97 degrees, 14% humidity
I broke down and fired up the A/C.
Dr. JP has lost his chill.
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1685107742644826112
More of this please.
It’s better if read in his ultra polite crisp Canadian accent.
“Fuck right off, eh!”
When the sun turns the corner and starts beating on the back side of the shack it gets rather warm.
75-year trend continues. Film at 11!
People with financial acumen try to cut costs?
Stop the effing presses!
It seems like every week there is another breathless article about how everyone is moving south and west.
No way!
I think the pace is accelerating.
My enthusiasm for Alito is tempered by his ghost gun bullshit.
My son has been practicing accordion for the last three hours with someone he’s interested in.
I’m happy for him, but three hours of accordion is starting to get to me.
Definition of perfect pitch: Slinging a banjo into a dumpster from twenty yards and it lands right on the accordion.
Sounds Musical.
Is he at least playing some Weird Al?
American music
Last night, XX was upset about her friend group ghosting her. You know, when you get 3 girls together, one of them’s gonna get dumped eventually. Well, XX was the chosen one.
Anyway, she was on about her life, where she was going—or not—what she was going to do with her life—or not—what she wanted to be when she grew up—or not—the rights that are getting taken away from her (I think she meant abortion, but even if not, she’s not wrong) … In a dead-end job only because she’s working full-time hours for part-time status and bennies (which is to say, none), not knowing where she’s going … She’s barely 20. I tell her you all think she’s cool, and that she’s so much farther along than her college peers, but that doesn’t help.
I didn’t tell her most every thinking person has the same existential crisis. I didn’t tell her things may never get better. I didn’t tell her she’s fated to be a common man like the rest of us. We live for the hope of something better. I didn’t tell her her dad and I have pretty much lost ours. She’s already lost hers.
Fanfare is a beautiful, moving piece of art.
Where else but here can you get ZZ Top, Aaron Copeland, and STEVE SMITH? Nowhere, that’s where.
It’s far from too late for her. If she’s being short-changed at her current job, as much as she may like it, she can shop around for something better. If she thinks she might like to do something completely different but isn’t sure what, she can take a class or two – almost certainly online, if she’d prefer – at a community college or any educational institution that caters to working adults instead of perpetual adolescent thumb-suckers. Even if it’s just getting core requirements out of the way, it would be a start.
Figuring out what you want to do with your working life is quite possibly one of the hardest things a person finds themselves asked to do. Ask me how I know this.
Also, tell her to get her ass here to the site. We would do well to get more young persons around, and we could start counting ages in XXs instead of Evans. 😄
We’re not changing pur units of measurement.
Gee, it’s not as if I’m suggesting we use that stupid metric system.
Are we going to measure the next asteroid in XXs or Evans?
Why would you use a measure of time for an asteroid?
I thought bananas were fine. We dont need to change that.
We could use both units for greater precision – for example, 2 Evans and an XX.
I thought 1 Evan = 33.
1 XX = 20.
Exactly. 2Evans + 1XX = 86.
/Looks in the mirror
Does that make Evan Jesus?
He’s a landscaper now?
*Narrows gaze*
Just because we use other units of age measurement than you, it doesn’t mean we don’t love you! 😘
*blushes, flips lashes all cutesy*
She’s not fated to be anything. She sounds like she’s got her shit together pretty good for 20. Tell that a random internet guy from NoDak who knows that Steely Dan and Rush suck thinks she’s got a lot going for her and to hang in there. And don’t forget to tell her I’m also a great Firster.
I have no doubt these words will help her.
You wouldn’t want her to know you are a proven liar when passing those words along, so I’d leave out the part about being a great Firster.
Tell her from somebody who pissed away his 20s, and all of the opportunities that entails, self-cast in the role of the stereotypical doomer, and having subsequently failed to achieve anything worthwhile for lack of having taken a risk on hope, that if she thinks life sucks now, looking back at 20 from middle age with nothing to show for it but regrets and a wasted life sucks a lot more. (With apologies to Toxteth for another adventure in wild sentence diagramming). There’s plenty of time to be a depressed, miserable old fuck once you’ve earned it. And rehearsing for it when you still have your whole life ahead of you doesn’t even make it easier when you get there.
Preach
Pissing away your 20’s is child’s play, I’m pissing away my fifties and looking forward to pissing away my sixties. After that I’m gonna get a real job.
LOL
Sounds about right.
I tell her you all think she’s cool, and that she’s so much farther along than her college peers, but that doesn’t help.
We are nobodies to her.
It takes time to build up wealth/status/etc. from nothing. I had some of the same thoughts in my early 20s, but then I made myself so busy with stuff to do to improve myself that I stopped thinking those thoughts.
Nothing to do with the content (Sorry, Spudsy!) but every time I clink on a link to an NBC-related site, they gently chastise me for using an ad blocker. I’m only too happy to click through the scold box on “Continue without supporting.” 😁
Amid the hundreds of tents erected for the Boy Scouts of America’s National Jamboree, one especially stands out — decorated with a canopy of LGBTQ Pride flags and a string of multicolored lights, its tables covered with bowls of rainbow bracelets, pronoun stickers and diversity patches.
“This is my entire world,” said 18-year-old River Capell, a scout volunteer from Northern Virginia who describes themselves as nonbinary and pansexual. Since the jamboree began last week, Capell has had plenty of company under the huge canvas. “There’s been days where there’s 2,000 kids in this tent alone. And that is just, like, absurd.”
Do you have do demonstrate your tuck technique to the troop to get a merit badge?
That’s…sad
This is a depressing development.
When I was a Boy Scout, it was: How do you shit in the woods? How do you start a fire? How do you stay alive and help others in an emergency?
Now it’s narcissistic sexual preferences and other assorted bullshit. Fuck the BSA for allowing this.
Wait until the new batch of gays are found to be molesting the young scouts.
Something something any organization not explicitly conservative something
I’m happy for him, but three hours of accordion is starting to get to me.
It could be worse. At least it’s not bagpipes.
The main reason that Scotland should be nuked.
Fuck those things.
Dude, that’s … bagpipes.
Accordions have bellows, too, but … German. Not Scottish.
I literally can not even with you right now.
+1 milliards. Fine choice.
One of my mom’s favorite songs of all time.
Why is there is a pipe and drum band in that video (and one of the other videos for this song, there are three)?
Bon Scott, after his family moved from Scotland to Perth, Western Australia, played in a pipe and drum band. The Young brothers (there are three or four, can’t remember how many off the top of my head, one of the other ones was AC/DC’s producer) are also Scottish born.
The pipe and drum band is a shout-out to their Scottish roots.
Oops… looked it up. There are seven Young brothers.
one of the other ones was AC/DC’s producer
George, he was also an Easybeat. He had Friday on his mind.
🤘🤘
A more believable take, IMHO:
So, TRUMPenyahu.
Got it.
l remember being blown away by the sheer scale and swagger of the 2013 event. The lack of LGBTQ inclusion programming did not occur to me, perhaps a sign of my naiveté or internalized homophobia.
Or maybe, just maybe, in that simpler time, people were appreciated more for what they did than what they were.
I MUST BE CELEBRATED EVERYWHERE.
JFC how tiresome.
its deep-set cultural anxiety over the more nationalist and religious direction Israel is now heading.
I thought religious nationalism was the whole point of the nation of Israel. Did I miss something?
But the turmoil had an upside. Scouts within the ranks seized the moment to press for a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. A collective dubbed “Scouts for Black Lives” successfully pushed the organization to commit to a slate of projects, including a new diversity merit badge required for Eagle Scout rank. And at this year’s National Jamboree, which ends on Friday, the BSA has for the first time created community spaces for historically excluded populations.
Despite (cough, cough) this, membership has plummeted.
LOL where do I sign up?
“Scouts within the ranks seized the moment to press for a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Sure they did. That’s who was pushing for this – a bunch of 14 year old boys.
Paige Morgan is one of the volunteers at the community space for girls. The 19-year-old from Scranton, Pa., also identifies as bisexual and has been glad to see the neighboring LGBTQ community space. “I know the people that are coming through here, like trans, nonbinary youth, the queer youth, are having a great time seeing themselves represented in a space that they love so much, that is scouting,” she said.
*pelts referee with towel*
Scientology Sea Org member loses an eye and hands in a fireworks accident as a teenager. Is abandoned by the “church” and his family. Becomes a famous homeless guy in LA (“No-Hands Man”). Gets help from a group of ex-Scientologists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WjS7z3qKsk
I can’t remember which one(s) of you were on Operation Clambake back in the day, but there was a pinned post in the message boards there and this is the same guy. I very much remember that pinned post – it was one of the first things I read on OCMB.
Operation Clambake? Is that the one were they used all the new technological and computer Giggits? The ones like ultra sonic head bands, x-ray sunglasses, and rocket surfboards?
Or is it the one where Caliban hangs out with them on the beach, showing it was a Tempest in a teapot?
I was an avid reader of Clambake. Don’t recall whether I shared it here or not.
#metoo but I just lurked
But yeah I read the whole damn site and there was a lot
I couldn’t not read the whole thing.
Yeesh – a useful reminder of how evil that organization is.
alt.religion.scientology had excellent flamewars.
Late to the party from the ded thred, but I don’t generally like country music, but there are exceptions. Almost everything Johnny Cash did was excellent. Some old Hank, Waylon and Willie were pretty good. Some of the newer stuff like Turnpike Troubadours and Steve Early are pretty good. Also, nothing wrong with a little Dwight Yoakam from time to time. But generally, it’s not a genre that I’ll tune in, but if someone else is listening, I can tolerate it.
I didn’t tell her most every thinking person has the same existential crisis. I didn’t tell her things may never get better.
The current obsession with wallowing in despair is so tiresome and destructive. Tell her not to be satisfied.
Does she have hobbies? Stuff she wants to learn about? Fuck monetization, as long as you’re learning something new you’re moving forward.
Long ago I learned to separate hobbies from profession. It works for me. Some people may love making money from their passions & interests. I do not.
I like working my 9 hours and engaging with hobbies in my off time. It makes my off time for fun and meaningful, and separates it from work.
What I’m tryna say, is maybe Moj’s XX should not despair. Work is a big chunk of life, but it’s just work. After-work is where it counts.
“Our life is more than our work. Our work is more than our jobs.” – Charlie King (some commie singer/songwriter, but I like the sentiment.)
I support this.
It’s why my hobby is learning Japanese. People have suggested taking proficiency exams for it. I absolutely refuse. Those are what I’ve been required to take in different subjects for work.
We discussed hobbies. She’s had 3 that just kind of fell by the wayside and nothing else has caught her interest yet.
In her/our defense, it was very late at night and we were all tired. She had just gotten home from work. Everything looks worse under those conditions.
I was compelled to write my comment in the midst of listening to “Fanfare for the Common Man.”
*then looks at bookcases full of craft supplies and thinks about all the goodies in the basement*
current obsession
I suspect there’s always been plenty of wallowing…..somewhere in every generation. Leary is running everywhere and from everything for the Greatest; who’s more depressed than Salinger’s Caulfield or Mailer’s Salesman? HST has reactionary instincts but is drunk/stoned out of his mind, so there’s your Silent gen rep: hiding in the hills, afraid of women and children, pointing at everyone else…it’s clinical. Boomers laughed at the unending adolescence of X, and the grunge kids recorded it for all forever, but the Boomers turned shell shock into a diagnosis (not that I begrudge them) and rendered divorce a posture. I’m not sure this is a good model or list, but I see escapism as something that many Americans have been able to afford for over a century.
As for Z, they don’t have enough miles on them for us to know much about them other than they’re kids.
Let’s not forget Robert Earle Keen.
It just got real dark outside. Better get my posting in before Starlink can’t find its little satellite friends.
Earlier, we saw video of that carjacked auto plunging down steps in SF. And that SF d.a. had released two of the alleged perps. How sure are we about the release? I ask because NBC nightly news ran the video tonite and neglected to mention the d.a.’s action.
I’ve seen it reported on two or three MSM outlets. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Something is fishy. Let go after a carjacking?! And there was no mention of whether they were even searching for the other three occupants witnesses said got out of the car.
My new book is up to 10,000 words. Yay me. Only 70,000 words left to write. My goal is to write at least 2,000 words per day. It’s been getting easier.
A song I like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQxH_8raCI
Also, despite my recent brush with Famous But Incompetent, I have yet to be tied to a chair in the basement of Area 51.
Just keep working on it.
While it’s nice to have a target word count, don’t hold yourself to it too strictly, as long as you’re in the ballpark, whatever wordcount completes the content is good. (I don’t know if it’s fiction or nonfiction, so I hedged my terminology.)
I picked 80k because that’s the length of a typical published novel or nonfiction book. Mine is a memoir with commentary on other topics.
I can say with confidence that I’m the only man in history who’s been in the Peace Corps, the Army, the NSA, and an insane asylum. Also I’m a failed stand-up comedian and one time I dug up a dinosaur bone in Wyoming.
One of my better comedy nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_LPLctmM-8
The audio sucks, so you’ll need to turn up the volume.
Y’all see mostly gone. Apt stuff mostly taken care of. In a very loose way. Need to get a table out and some bookshelves that I’ve never used. I could likely get $50-75 for the latter. That will not occur. Well. Might not need to.
Curious, moving out of an American apt and back into my parents’ house. It’s for the best, but another note, I AM George Costanza. A healthy dash of Kramer, as well. Odd mix, where my personality/physicality lie.
You’ve lived an exciting life, the kind that many dream of, but never pursue for various reasons. Taking some time to recuperate from adventures and wounds is healthy.
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
The key to happiness is freedom and the key to freedom is courage.
That key…I’m losing. Turning it in tomorrow and moving back with my parents. That’s demeaning in its own way. However, I need eyes on me. It’s also tremendous motivation to keep moving forward and further. No one said life is supposed to be easy and I’ve purposefully made mine hard. Just another step, really.
Onward. Upward. Always.
I know the feeling. I spent 10 months living with my parents after Peace Corps and then another 10 months while I was losing weight and waiting to ship out for the Army.
They still wanted me to come live near them last year. I was open to it, but ended up moving to Florida for a job that lasted 10 days.
¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
So it goes, sometimes.
This is for the best, and I fully accept that. There isn’t any choice. I am out of money, for all intensive porpoises. I do best when I have some eyes on me. I don’t like what that says about me, but I’ve proven it continuously. Detox was needed. That shit woke me up. Haven’t thought of a drink during nor since getting out.
That’s a big step. And I’ve been on my own since getting out. So that has been shown, at least once. Twice actually. Did six months clean on my own, with eyes on me…earlier this year.
Each step and rung matter.
During Obumbles time I remember being foo-fooed for declaring that the Dems were communists and intended to recreate the ussr here in the US. I was being over the top apparently.
I dont get foo-fooed any more.
Re: boyscouts. Demoralization requires the destruction of institutions that promote personal character. Boyscouts, organized sports, various churches, traditional family units, science in general, entertainment industry, etc., …..we could spend all day listing the ones the commies have skin suited.
Long, but very interesting and touching video.
The current craziness and COVID has made even the Amish, Mennonite and rural Christian community sit up and take notice. They are students of history.
Living Alone in Rural Appalachia
The tree climbing thing…..my brothers and I did that a lot. The winner was the one who travelled the farthest without touching the ground.
Memories, memories.
Whoa – hi Suth! How long have you been back-and-about? Have I been dense and not noticed??
How the hell are ya?
Hello KK. Back a few hours. You are not dense.
good to see you
I love the bare feet. My shoed feet would be torn to pieces.
Totally on-topic; Interesting story on synthetic alcohol and hangover cures:
Enjoy Alcohol, Without the Hangover
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/illinois-governor-signs-bill-allowing-noncitizens-become-police/
Hooboy. That’s got clusterfuck written all over it.
That’s got political shock troops written all over it.
You can shoot armed invaders.
How does one even come up with this idea?-/
Wat. Dropped my phone on the keyboard and somehow it hit Post.
I was wondering if the Left gets together for drinks after work to come up with ever more radically crazy illegal stuff to piss off the wingnuts.
Grateful immigrants who are living at the edges of the law make for loyal political enforcers.
I see this no other way because I am certain that is how the Dem politicians see it. It’s fucking Chicago for fuck’s sake.
And they’ll probably do it for peanuts.
So, a new batch of Ukrainian SS?
They fast-tracked that Somalian “cop” in Minneapolis in the name of diversity (he didn’t have to complete the usual cop training or testing.
His Minnesotan partner answered a call from an Australian woman reporting an assault taking place in the alley behind her fiancés apartment. She goes up to the Minnesota cop/driver to say what happened, Somali cop shoots her dead, with his gun right across the face of his partner.
Not a US citizen. But, hey, DEI.
I want this to be true.
https://twitter.com/PaulHook_em/status/1685165278945001472
Heh.
Institutionalized bigotry
“Drag is definitionally political and artistic speech,” said Diana Bourgeois, president of the Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana, an organization that puts on drag reading events and one of the plaintiffs. “The court’s order today protects our right to be commentators and artists and to create a safe, joyful and welcoming environment through our expression.”
Now do Klan robes and Wehrmacht uniforms.
Keep including kids in your little freak fest and it won’t matter what any judge says.
And that’s before parents learn that the craze of performing for kids was led by hard-core Marxists intent on destroying the family (their words).
Why is a sovereign court concerned with what the state of Montana has to say about it?
I feel the sudden need to test this theory.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1685075895814635520
Too soon-
Intentionally provocative dress and behavior is by definition protected speech? Now do Klan robes, et c.
Eh, MAGA hats are a better test case, even though I don’t consider such things provocative.
Please be cooler air on the other side of this storm. Amen.
The only people telling Philips to run are the ones who will make bank.
It’s an insult to light weights, really.
Based
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1685437921032019968
@TacosTriggers1
You take it up the a$$ with those fees
Eh, MAGA hats are a better test case, even though I don’t consider such things provocative.
Fine. Stove pipe hats, knee breeches, buckskin with fringe, Betsy Ross flags, whatever.
I would love to see a self-inflicted legal precedent established by these shit flinging howler monkeys which recognizes explicitly a First Amendment right to theatrically antagonize and bait political opponents.
You dont get out much lately, do you? Leftists pushing demoralization are the only people that have rights.
You try it and see what happens. The leftist goons will beat you, the DA will cut them loose and charge you and the courts will go right along with it.
Yep.
https://www.opb.org/article/2023/07/21/proud-boy-tusitala-tiny-toese-sentenced-8-years-prison-violence-portland-rallies/
The thing about howler monkeys is because they have a low-calorie diet, they avoid fighting and make loud noises instead.
You dont get out much lately, do you?
Ummm… nope.
What is this “out” you speak of?
So I finally get out of Iowa tomorrow morning after a hellish week. Expecting a week off (Ive been gone for 3- 2 were in Cali) today I learn that Im dispatched to Virginia Monday morning.
Ya know, the money is great, but……
/rant off
I hope the money is great. 👍
I don’t like travel anymore. That routine would not be pleasing to me.
today I learn that Im dispatched to Virginia Monday morning.
Ya know, the money is great, but……
Are you installing equipment, or doing smokestack sniff tests, or something else?
“compliance emissions evaluation”
Im the guy that measures what comes out of your smokestack (emission point) into the air to satisfy the requirements of whatever enforcement agency you fall under.
Sounds ghey.
Henheheheh!
He said “coming out of your smokestack..”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mDqsgbtpDLk
Well…my gf has informed me that we live with a ghost cat. I have no idea what to do with that.
This is one of the more diffuclt pun setups. So I’ll say put out a bowl of pink fanta.
Your spelling error disqualifies you. Thank you for trying.
.|.. ..|.
Glasses and other objects are mysteriously being pushed off tables and counters?
I have no idea. I’m in uncharted waters here.
Invite these three over. Mystery solved.
Ghostly voms on the pillow?
lol
Unwanted “outputs” in surprising locations?
Ghost Cat
Starring Ellen (Elliot) Page!
Ghost Breasts
She’s Canadian. Theyre not actual people anyhow.
Catsper the friendly ghost cat?
Excellent song choice.
U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips confirmed on Friday he is being urged to consider running for president in the 2024 Democratic primary.
Who?
Demo Rep from Minnesoda. Old Money from Phillips Vodka, my current favorite tipple. I don’t care for his politics, but his company makes mixable vodka at reasonable prices.
If only Special K (Amy Klobuchar) https://www.congress.gov/member/amy-klobuchar/K000367 would run too…
She did last time.
cops are useless
Reuters and ACLU tag-teaming to cry “racism”?
Yeah, pass.
“…Then they came for my mixable vodka at a reasonable price. And there was no one left to speak for it.”
Re: twitter’s new sign. Zero chance any sign company doesn’t know or file the proper paperwork.
Good to see you Suthen. Picked up some dried beans at the grocery store that happened to come from LA and was thinking about you and ObjFranklin.
Somebody died from kratom use after years of using shitty product. Her family sued and they were awarded a ridiculous $11 million in damages. Give it a little more time, and there will probably be a law banning kratom named after her.
This shit grinds my gears. The media covers these stories in hushed tones and calls for regulation and bans of a product that is almost entirely harmless over one death. Millions are given out in damages to a willing customer.
You know what? Fuck you kid.
You can’t get the media to cover deaths from the covid vaccine which was mandated for millions upon millions and which they’ve lied to people about its side-effects. More people drown in bathtubs every year than die from kratom use.
I am a user, and I just can’t wait until the stuff is regulated more strictly and outright banned. I’m shocked it hasn’t happened already, though some states and local governments have gone and done it.
I am going to put in writing that if I ever die from kratom use, none of my bitch ass family can sue on my behalf. It was my fucking choice and no one else is responsible unless they sold me something that didn’t work as advertised or contained something I was unaware of.
Fuck the lawyers, fuck that judge, and honestly, fuck her kids.
Ham and cheese do not belong on a club sandwich.
Wut?
You can’t have a club sandwich without it.
Turkey sandwich + ham sandwich = club sandwich
Turkey sandwich + ham sandwich + roast beef sandwich = Dagwood sandwich
obligatory Mitch Hedberg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyFvGL3Z5F8
It’s kar-mel, not care-a-mel.
Kah-Ram-All
Carmel is a town by the sea.
Is there anybody out there?
Anyone out there?
I had a late-ass game tonight and it’s fucking impossible to wind down.
Try Firsting. It will wind you up more, like you have never been wound up before, but it will be worth it.
It may be time.
What’s kratom and why do you use it?
It comes from a leaf in SE Asia, usually in powder form. In small doses it gives an energy boost, in higher doses it acts as sedative/puts you to sleep. It’s consumed in a number of ways, usually a “tea” though. It’s drank like coffee in some countries while banned in others because drug war bullshit.
You Google it, and you’ll instantly see bullshit comparing it to heroin. I aint doing heroin here. It doesn’t impair judgement or motor skills. It can, if you aren’t used to it and take too much, create a high/euphoric feeling.
At my tolerance, it basically gives you a slight relaxation. Kind of like drinking tea, actually. It’s something I can drink at work or all day. No crashing or hangovers or any of that bullshit.
It’s usually sold at kava bars (kava being another form of tea) as elixir. They exist in a bit of a legal gray area because it’s something the FDA would never sign off on, but they haven’t really had a good reason to ban it outright.
It also helps with pain among other things.
Hah! I was just gonna say it sounds like kava
I’ve used that in the past and it’s legit
Kava is like drinking cough syrup to me. Both in taste and effects.
Kratom if you do too much early on will create a more euphoric high. With tolerance, it’s like an energy drink in low doses and higher ones it’s like taking sleeping pills. Odd how that works. At kava bars it’s often called “elixir” for reasons I’m unfamiliar with.
I feel bad for the people jumping in to sell it because it’s a market the government will sink its teeth into at some point. How deep they’ll bite is the only question. Right now, in most places teenagers can go and drink the stuff unregulated.
I’ve only used Kava tincture, not the tea.
While we are chatting here, I’m wondering why I haven’t explored these options for just this very situation!
If a dude wanted to try kratom, where would you send him?
I’d just look up kava bars near you if you just want to try some drinks. Smoke shops often times sell it.
I buy powder online or in a smoke shop in a pinch. Use a portable blender with water and some flavoring packets. It’s surprisingly effective. Bad drinks can be like mud, but the blender does the trick and the powder almost completely masks the taste of it.
I recently bought online from these guys and I’m enjoying the product.
Haha! Banned in Denver!
Probably cutting into the weed market.
Thanks, Bro. Interesting stuff
If anything demonstrates the absurdity of the drug war and the push to legalize weed being co-opted by the left, it’s that one. I didn’t realize you were in Denver proper.
Weed was legalized inn 2014 there. Kratom was banned in 2017.
Make it make sense in a way that doesn’t involve cronyism.
I’m not. I’m in an exurb. It just made me laugh.
There are a bunch of options. Gonna dig into this a little. Thanks again.
More people died from weed use in the state of Florida alone last year (not even counting synthetics) than seem to have died from kratom nationwide.
“Make it make sense in a way that doesn’t involve cronyism.”
Impossible.
Thanks for the link Bro-this bunch actually has credit card processing. I’ve been buying Kratom at a local vape shop and the potency just isn’t quite where I want it to be.
I didn’t know you were into ass-games.
Good Lord…..0420 on a Sunday just to catch a flight home after a shitty week.
C’est la vie.
TALL SABBATH CANS!
/see ya in Dayton
Good morning Glibs!
Get up and get funky. 😋🌞
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA
🎶🎶
Nice codpiece
It’s almost chilly.
I just ran around the house and threw every window wide open like a little kid on Christmas.
Good morning, Sean, homey (hope it’s a smooth flight! I’ll try to wave as you come in for your landing!) Stinky, rhy, cyto, 4(20), and NA!
Peaceful and pleasant at Tranq Base – no construction yet this morning at the just-sold property diagonally behind, though it’s coming right along. New siding and windows on the little apartment house at the back of the lot. Hope they’ve been able to firmly reinforce the reportedly saggy floors upstairs. 😳
Neighbors’ friendly cat just came around to check for food, get a quick scritch, and inspect the garage. Apparently it passed muster.
So…. all that talk about the Boy Scouts jamboree made me think…..
My kids all just got back from a week away at church camp. You know the one thing that I am glad that none of the leaders at camp for my middle school and high school kids talked about?
What kind of sex they are into.
Like, really glad. I really can’t think of any reason for any adult to make any pronouncements to my kids about what kind of sex they are into. Doubly so if they are supervising my kids at a camp away from their parents.
I’m kinda shocked that anyone would take the opposite stance.
“A scout volunteer from Northern Virginia who describes themselves as nonbinary and pansexual.”
No…
We saw what happened to Marina and she didn’t even have go off to summer camp.
When I think about it we had a couple girls in high school that left early, got married. Some kind of drifted away from the old gang, some drifted back in and the past was ignored. In today’s world of birth control availability it’s hard to understand the uproar about abortion. It would seem to me that the need for abortion would and should be rare.
I’m glad I’m old
Blah.
Colonoscopy prep day. No breakfast for me. I really like breakfast. And I’m having to miss the second day of a 2-day match.
These matches make me look like I’m actually decent. A pretty good showing yesterday, beat several people that usually beat me, won my class, beat every other iron sight shooter. Fortunately in October, I’ll be going to Iron Sight Nationals to get a healthy reality check.
I did have one moment of shooting brilliance that I will treasure – there was a stretch of nine shots (one steel, four paper targets) that sounded like I was practicing splits — no transition time between targets. And they all landed.
Deepest sympathy for your necessary prep day, especially since it’s making you miss an event I know you enjoy. Hope the procedure finds nothing amiss.
Re: BSA
I don’t remember “swagger” being a Boy Scout virtue, though humility isn’t explicitly called out anywhere.
I can only assume that “morally straight” has been struck from the Scout Oath.