Riiiiiicola!
Ear and Sinus infection made sure that I got not one whit of sleep last night – as of writing these links, it has been 29 hours and counting since I last got any sleep. That may get into the mid 30s before I can do anything about it. A bit of an excuse for links that have no theme or purpose today…
- I certainly would not do this! I love my job.
- A phoenix chicken?
- I love tabloids!
- *shakes fist toward Rome*
Imma go lie down now. Comments are yours.
You can get to sleep on Christmas.
A long winter’s nap, even.
We have some Ursines around here who can give advice on how to make that work.
Step one – eat about 500 pounds of salmon fat and brains/livers.
Only if those danged Whos will stop singing their Who-songs to keep him awake.
Coffee Badging? Enough with “the word we made up” stories.
I’m thinking some will find they are no indispensable.
At first I thought that was coffee badgering, like getting someone else to pay for and bring you a cup of coffee.
My first thought was throwing your coffee on someone.
I’m too literal.
I thought they were walking around the office with a name-badge from their favorite coffee house.
It’s been done
*Clocks in then leaves.
It’s not as cute when you say they ditched work or just left early.
Coffee badger DGAF, yo.
Winner, winner, French Catholic Coq winner!
‘it has been 29 hours and counting since I last got any sleep.’
All that extra free time, and still no theme to the links? Pfft. I won’t be renewing my subscription, that’s for sure.
You looking to get a cat butt?
The full Swiss Cow.
That’s no way to refer to Heidi.
I’m hoping he’s too stuffed up to show the butt.
Hope you feel well again soon swiss.
“New ‘coffee badging’ job trend”
Everything that happens has to have some catchy name these days. I was talking to my kid and her friend yesterday and they talked about some girl who “sleeps” which is the new way of saying she’s a ho.
“Scientists claim they’ve had a 20 minute conversation with a WHALE”
Richard Dreyfuss too busy making a sculpture out of mashed potatoes to comment.
I had a few conversation with whales when I was drinking but usually someone would save me.
Was it Tres to the rescue?
Underrated.
Hey, any port in a storm!
I love tabloids!
John McAfee did it first.
Had an inner ear infection once; every time I started to fall asleep, I’d feel like I was falling and immediately jump up wide awake.
More than 3 days without any appreciable sleep. You start seeing shit after 36 hours.
Living hell. Go to the Doc and get the good stuff. I slept about 20 hours straight once it kicked in.
Also, something about the Hunch-Cock of Notre Dame goes here.
I’m sure the Parisians would tell you to get bent for that.
Tell me about it.
At 1215 I concluded that I was no closer to sleep than I was an hour ago so I got up and read until 0115.
At 0215 I wondered if I should get up again.
At 0315 I wished that I would have gotten up an hour ago.
Finally dropped off sometime after 0430.
Insomnia sucks.
I just heard that oatmeal before bed helps you sleep. I tried last night, got about a half a night of decent sleep then I picked up where you were at 2:15.
Tylenol PM, I’m telling you.
Yeah, but you don’t drink.
There is that …
Tylenol is worse for your liver than a six-pack of beer. Ok, maybe not. But it’s not good.
Am aware. I also take ibuprofen, which I’m not supposed to do because I have a history of ulcers.
Fact is, I can either slowly kill my liver and stomach or I can be in pain every day and unable to sleep ever. To me, it’s 6/half dozen.
Yep. Choose your poison is a human condition.
Personally, I’m chancing dementia with the diphenhydramine at the moment. Now that there is nationwide-legal D9 THC edibles though, I’m going to give those a try now that I’ve been hired and won’t be facing any employment related drug screens for the foreseeable future.
I actually may try that if I can get over my religious squeamishness. After all, the difference between a tonic and a toxin/drug is the dose.
I can tell you that the 5:1 THC/CBD tincture I used to take when I lived in Nevada where cannabis is legal was the best sleep aid I’ve ever used, including all of the prescription Z-drugs. These are the ones I’m planning on ordering, as they are just about the same dosage as the tincture I was using before. I had a bias against weed not for religious reasons, but just because I hate stoner culture so much, but I can’t argue with results.
Benadryl makes me groggy and twitchy. I feel tired as heck but wake up every 30-60 minutes. Then I’m a zombie until noon.
20 MG’s of Melatonin. Repeat after four hours.
Drachinifel.
It is really too bad that I enjoy and find his DryDock informative… but at night, I’m out like a light trying to listen to one. Soothing British tones or something.
Two separate problems:
Aging drops melatonin levels dramatically. The elderly are notorious for for sleeping short durations a night and catnapping during the day because of this.
A brain that won’t shut off.
Sedatives are useless for both issues.
Supplement with melatonin for the first problem.
Supplement with L-Dopa (precursor to dopamine) or St John’s Wort (increases serotonin levels without being an SSRI) or both. Over the counter, no doctors, no medical records.
For general relaxation, try Kava Kava, Passion Flower, and/or Valerian. Kava Kava has a bad name because some nitwit destroyed her liver by taken about 10 times the recommended dose every day.
Be very careful with St. John’s Wort if you’re taking any anti-depressants or mood stabilizers. I got myself in pretty bad trouble with it and nortriptyline, which I’d been prescribed as a migraine preventative, not an anti-depressant. Made some expensive bad decisions, managed to avoid the really expensive & life altering ones. Still, blew through most of the inheritance I was supposed to retire on. Short cycle (under 12 hour) manic depression was a big clue something wasn’t right.
Be very careful with St. John’s Wort if you’re taking any anti-depressants or mood stabilizers.
Correct. As in don’t do it. Stay away from the scripts.
“Parenting advice YouTuber Ruby Franke is seen for first time in months as she pleads guilty to six felony child abuse charges”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12878199/Ruby-Franke-pleads-guilty-child-abuse-five-months-malnourished-children-Utah-home-business-partner.html
That must have been some advice.
I sure hope nobody listened.
Do as I say, not as I do?
Well for heavens’ sakes – you don’t do that with your own children, that’s what you have orphans for!
And do they come back to the office at 5 to badge out?
That’s called beer badging.
Smokey and the Bandit‘s Trans Am unavailable for comment.
The infamous THUNDER CHICKEN of the late seventies.
“US doctors are wrongly slicing off bits of babies’ TONGUES ‘to make breastfeeding easier’ and leaving them with life-long deformities, investigation finds
Known as ‘tongue tie surgery’, the involves using a laser to burn off excess skin under the tongue or the webbing that connects the lips and cheeks.
It is supposed to be used on babies with a genuine defect that prevents them from feeding properly but medical professionals have become increasingly liberal with prescribing it, despite around 60 percent of infants getting better without surgery.
The rate of surgeries performed ballooned by 800 percent between 1997 and 2012 from around 1,280 procedures to more than 12,000, with doctors and breastfeeding consultants are raking in millions of dollars annually.
In some cases, the procedure causes severe lasting pain in infants as well as difficulty eating, resulting in malnourishment that can require them to be hooked up to feeding tubes.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12877307/Doctors-slicing-babies-TONGUES-make-breastfeeding-easier.html
First, do no harm. Unless there is money in it.
Don’t the docs have enough to do just identifying the gender of newborns?
Would this be a good place to bring up circumcision and deep dish pizza, or nah?
Also- “quiet quitting” as they describe it isn’t quitting. It’s being a goddam worthless malingering asshole.
There is an entire worthless ass generation out there (with notable exceptions) that expect to be paid handsomely for showing up, if and when they feel like it. I know exactly what I would do with every employee with the stones to “protest” in person work.
On days like today I feel like some catastrophic attempt at communism is inevitable in the next twenty years. The vast majority of people under thirty are no connection between productivity and wages….they think they are being paid for their time.
/Shakes fist harder at cloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAlQf4WdiE
Say what you will of the mass production industrial style of education, it gets kids habituated to showing up on time and getting the required stuff done.
… while being indoctrinated with Communist ideology so they will ditch the showing up and and working hard, any way they can …
So all in all, it’s appropriate preparation for the job market.
‘A phoenix chicken?’
The whole thing is a travesty, so why not?
“Shocking moment five people hanging out of SUV are CRUSHED during ‘street takeover’ after car rolls over in front of screaming onlookers: Female driver is arrested and released on bond”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12877443/colorado-springs-car-street-takeover-crushed-passengers-video.html
You’ve come along way, baby.
🙄
Donuts in a SUV. Smart.
Leftists’ Civil War fantasy movie trailer reviewed by right-wing civil war fantasy author.
If Hollywood actually made one of Schlichter’s books into a movie, I’d pay for it.
Only because he referred to CA as ‘The formerly Golden State’ am I interjecting here that we should start referring to CA as ‘The Golden Showers State’.
I don’t think Golden Showers are the the problem, so much as Golden Shitting Tables (and all the best are German!)
“furious Jeffrey Toobining”
Damn funny.
The only time I went to the ER in this country as a patient was when I had an ear infection. Some antibiotic drops were prescribed. They helped.
Using powerful metal detectors, archaeologists sweep a steep grassy hill on the hunt for ancient swords and further evidence of a key battle between the Romans and a local tribe.
I’ll bet that place is summit special.
Follow-up
A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order barring removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.
A group called Defend Arlington, affiliated with a group called Save Southern Heritage Florida, filed a lawsuit Sunday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, seeking the restraining order. A hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday.
Work to remove the memorial had begun Monday before the restraining order was issued, but the memorial remains in place on cemetery grounds.
What is the end game? If the Confederacy is memory holed, what will the social justice vanguard have to congratulate themselves for? Will that whole War Between the States thing just disappear in a puff of smoke?
The end game of massive, deliberate de-reconciliation is Civil War II. It’s not the one they want (which is a short-sighted modern proggie “stick-it-to-the-MAGA-Southerners” slap in the face). But it is the one they (we all) are going to get.
“Actually my real name is Clemens.”
Sensible chuckle
Ricola tastes worse than horehound candy and that’s saying something.
“A self-identified psychopath who switched careers from being a Wall Street accountant earning six figures to working as a professional escort and stripper said she earns $34,000 a week during the holiday season.
Mia Lee, 35, said that her peak season is normally the first two weeks of December, when wealthy men looking for a “professional girlfriend” are willing to fork over as much as $3,000 for just two hours of her time.”
https://nypost.com/2023/12/18/business/stripper-and-escort-rakes-in-34k-per-week-catering-to-wall-street/
I wonder what kind of kickbacks the NY Post gets for running these? Every week there is a story about how some sex worker makes so much money.
I was expecting a much more attractive woman.
I want a discount!
Perhaps she can pass as an actual girlfriend and not a hired escort?
Worth it’s weight in gold.
It’s like a fancy bottle of wine, the more you pay, the better you think it is.
Yellow fever fetishists…
I’m not sure that (her own) sweat is the main reason an escort should be showering a lot.
The vast majority of people under thirty are no connection between productivity and wages….they think they are being paid for their time.
“Employers” exist solely for the purpose of handing out paychecks.
I’m not sure that (her own) sweat is the main reason an escort should be showering a lot.
She’d be better off buying a pressure washer. And bleach by the barrel.
A 38-year-old whale named Twain ‘spoke’ with the researchers from the SETI Institute and UC Davis by responding to a pre-recorded ‘contact call’.
This marks the first communication between humans and whales in their own language, according to the team.
When I was a kid living near the Gulf of Mexico, I fished nearly every day during the summer. When I was twelve, a friendly bottlenose dolphin would visit the end of dock where I was wetting a line on a frequent basis. Even though every fish within a quarter-mile made itself scarce when the dolphin came around, it was hard to stay mad at him. I’d wave at him, he’d turn sideways in the water to have a look at me, etc.
I don’t know if we were friends, so to speak, or if you could call what we had “conversations.” We just clicked.
I had a yearling doe that appreciated my handouts, I got her to put her head into the corn bucket and let me scratch her ears. She couldn’t verbalize but would run to see me. I have it on video. I thought she had forgotten or got killed but the following year she resumed our friendship. She probably got killed, walking up to a hunter in the woods.
More than likely, got caught in a trap and couldn’t chew her leg off in time. (Unless such traps are no longer used in Minnesoda).
Those coffee badgers are doing it wrong. The thing to do is to get two jobs in the same building. Leave a cup of hot coffee at the desk at one job while you are at the other. “Jaime must be around. The coffee is hot.” These kids have no initiative.
“A phoenix chicken?”
I gotta say, it’s a nice cock.
FIRST OUT
WITH YOUR COCK OUT
Critical Drinker with a nice homage to Lord of the Rings. I remember the first time I saw a preview for those movies in a movie theater lobby. Within 10 seconds I could tell what it was and that it looked awesome. The new Mrs. TOK had no idea what it was. But we both loved those movies, and to this day I’ll still watch every time they’re on. Hard to believe they’re 20 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQF4-wEbD6I
We dragged our feet about seeing the first one, mainly since we rarely go to movies. Finally saw #1 late in its run – maybe even after it had already won its Oscar. From then on we were hooked. Bought the theatrical release VHS as soon as it was released, then the director’s cut as soon as IT was released. Saw each subsequent film pretty much as soon as it came out and repeated ourselves with the video purchases. Then when we got a DVD player we bought the DVDs. (I think we then gave the VHS tapes to my sister.) And then when we got a Blu-Ray player we got the Blu-Rays. And even now, we’re at least tempted to tune in when they show up on cable.
We like those movies.
#metoo
Roomie and I agreed at the time I first watched his Director’s Cut DVD that there wasn’t a wasted second.
Okay maybe the last ten minutes or so but you get the idea.
I’ll be the asshole then, I guess. I saw the first LOTR at a midnight showing on new year’s eve. I cursed the friends who brought me to the theater and told them I’d rather have watched Dick Clark watch that mirror ball drop in Time’s Square. Actual footage of me leaving the theater.
I’ll join in. LOTR is what Faulker wrote about with “a sound and a fury, signifying nothing”.
These were movies that, with great editing, could be cut down to decent ten minute long movies. Maybe fifteen. Maybe.
“Elon Musk Moves to #1 on Joe Biden’s Enemies List”
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2023/12/18/joe-bidens-enemies-list-n4924827
Scroll down to the laundry list of investigations.
Every time I hear talk about Biden not being in charge, I see something like this and it seems like just the kind of vindictive, asshole thing he’d do.
If he was a buddy of Biden’s, he wouldn’t be under investigation. But I think just being a general enemy of the left and with the way the left operates, it doesn’t really take any personal direction from Biden. Purchasing Twitter was the straw that broke the camel’s back. He’s an enemy of good think and the full weight of the federal bureaucracy can be used against him.
I’d think Musk is aware enough to know this would happen.
Every time I hear talk about Biden not being in charge, I see something like this and it seems like just the kind of vindictive, asshole thing he’d do.
I refuse to cut that bastard any slack. He’s right where he always wanted to be, doing everything he always wanted to do. He’s not a puppet, he’s a partner. And they say Trump is an Enemy of the People.
Maybe, possibly, his handlers let/encourage him to do things like this to keep him distracted and happy.
“Here, Joe, you potato headed cunt, fuck off and go play with your toys.”
Something like that.
Mean and vindictive, such rare traits in a politician.
Iceland 🌋!
Alert! Alert!
Rewind ~1.5 hours
Fuck…got all wound up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg
22:17 by the clock on the webcam (it’s a little hard to see – lower right corner)
If only Christianity had a symbol or icon (if you will) symbolizing eternal life after death and spiritual rebirth.
Sigh… if only….
The ichthys is just a truncated infinity symbol, change my mind.
“A phoenix chicken?
That shackle is certainly well secured.
If they’re able to pull that off without anyone noticing, it’s evidence that either their job is superfluous, or the office is.
Most of you probably know that Mrs. Animal runs a small publishing company, and pubs lots of kids books. She saw this on one of her industry interwebz groups and thought all you reprobates would get a kick out of this example of careless title selection in a children’s book.
Hookers and Blow.
John McAfee was unavailable for comment.
Available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. May have to recommend it to one of my SILs for her grandkids.
Available on Amazon. Also opens the door to a whole bunch of suggested children’s books with racy titles.
I don’t recognize that author’s name as one of TOS’ contributors.
“All I want for Christmas is….”
They knew what they were doing.
Eagles haven’t won in Seattle for 15 years. Does that pathetic streak end tonite or does the ghost of the loss to the woeful Jets come home to haunt the Birds? Playoffs and seeding on the line.
Trump’s coffee table book is called Our Journey Together. It’s an entertaining read.
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Trump announces coffee-table book: ‘Every caption is mine, some in my own handwriting’
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A photo book is a departure from recent post-presidential literary efforts. President Obama’s first book after leaving office in 2017 was the 2020 memoir “A Promised Land.” In 2010, President Bush published his memoir “Decision Points.” President Clinton, who left the White House in 2001, published the autobiography “My Life” in 2004.
They were all lengthy and substantive, though the two Democrats (Clinton, 786 pages; Obama, 1,008 pages) decisively outweighed Bush (486 pages). The page count on “Our Journey Together” was not available, but Trump promised that “[e]very photograph has been handpicked by me and every caption is mine, some in my own handwriting.”
The Washington Examiner, the first outlet to report on the book, reproduced a few of its photos and captions, which signify a departure in tone as well as substance from predecessors’ books.
“Attempting to listen to Crazy Nancy Pelosi in the Oval Office — such natural disagreement,” runs the line beneath a photo of the House Speaker, Vice President Mike Pence and Trump. Another, referring to the killing of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, claims, “We destroyed ISIS under my watch. Now terrorists are back in the Middle East.”
Neither of these captions appear to be handwritten.
Trump’s book retails for $79.95, or $229.95 for an autographed copy. It’s available for pre-order at 45books.com and will start shipping in mid-December.
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-11-19/donald-trump-picture-book-our-journey-together
Sounds much more affordable than his NFT trading cards and more entertaining too.
But do the legs fold out so that the book turns into a coffee table?
Obama the biggest blowhard – imagine my surprise. Can you imagine suffering through a thousand pages of that sanctimonious twaddle?
Number one rule to being a Firster. Don’t be a cunt. No one likes a cunt.
Mind your own fucking business, people. It’s not that hard.
You should try heeding your own rules.
That would be a first.
For a guy who doesn’t care for cunts, you sure do know how to act like one.
Lol, there’s the Bro charm.
He seems like the kind of guy who makes liberal use of the block button on places like Twatter. Not saying he uses that particular platform.
If he can’t get you blocked, he’ll just call for you to be banned.
The Bro has never called for anyone anywhere to be banned. I’ve sure as shit never acted like a little lap dog yapping at their heels every chance I got like he does. Or Ted S, for that matter, though I think he just thinks he’s talking general shit.
I’ve no dog in the fight. Truth be told though, I personally enjoy your abrasive style even when you run afoul of comity or good taste. Keeps the place lively.
Q: you see two tampons walking down the street – which one do you greet first?
A: neither, they’re both stuck up cunts.
Well. Today’s Group went fairly well and work was what it is.
That’s a victory of sorts. I suppose I’ll take it.
I was actually thinking of you recently as I was toiling away at my local part time gig. Glad to hear you’re doing well.
“Well” is prefaced w a sincere “better than it was and could be.”
That ain’t nuttin’. Smiley faces in headlights. (Otherwise, starts/continues a spiral (further) into despair.)
I get it. Don’t discount the value of “good enough” though. I’ve been learning to embrace that myself here lately.
Mrs Prole: * ridicules all those book banning Republicans *
Me: Points out books aren’t being “banned”, but rather age inappropriate books containing graphic pornographic depictions are being removed from elementary school libraries – and sold on Thriftbooks or whatnot. And that the FBI is trying to prosecute some of these parents for speaking up at school board meetings.
Mrs. Prole: “I can’t believe any of that is going on. I haven’t heard of it!”
Me: “You have heard about it. Not from your media bubble, of course. From me. Right now.”
Mrs. Prole: “That’s ridiculous. Nobody would do that. Who would do something that crazy?”
Me: “I’m guessing the people you just voted for, for our local school board.”
And then hilarity ensued.