”WELCOME TO FOREST LAWYER PODCAST, FEATURING STEVE SMITH, esq. STEVE SMITH COME ON YOU ON RUMBLE LIVESTREAM.”
”I saw what you did there Steve.” I said. “Where is everyone else?”
”CHEESE MAN AND SUGAR MAN NEED TO LOG ON,”
”Oh. Um…okay. How you doing STEVE?”
”STEVE SMITH SPEND 90’s IN SARAJEVO. RAPE FORMER YUGOS. FLASHBACKS ON DUMB WOPS TRYING TO SHOOT ME.”
“What?”
“ILLEGAL HUNTING RING THROUGHOUT CITY. HUNT STEVE SMITH.”
Right, and what were you doing there?”
“RAPE FORMER YUGOS.”
”In the 90’s weren’t they just…Yugos?”
”SAME SAME”
”I see, so what brought this on?”
”DUMB WOP LAWYER PRESS CHARGES ON STEVE SMITH. STEVE SMITH STAY AWAY FROM WOPLAND.”
”Is that like Italy?”
”SAME SAME”
”Pratibha, I think the livestream is on.” Swiss entered the livestream. “Is this thing on?”
”Yes, Mr Swiss”. We heard faintly in the background.
”Excellent, how’s the beard?” Swiss asked. His winter beard was coming in nicely.
”Most excellent, Mr. Swiss.”
“WELCOME TO FOREST LAWYER PODCAST, FEATURING STEVE SMITH, esq. STEVE SMITH COME ON YOU ON RUMBLE LIVESTREAM.”
”STEVE! Great to be here!” What do we have going on today?” Swiss asked.
”STEVE is wanted in Italy.” I said.
”WOPLAND”
”Right, that’s what I said.”
”What did you do to draw the ire of WOP authorities?” Swiss asked.
”RAPE FORMER YUGOS.”
”STEVE, when did you do that?” Swiss asked.
”Mid 90’s”. I answered.
”Back then they were just Yugos.” Swiss replied. “I would know I spent some time over there.”
”In the mid 90’s?” I asked.
”…Yes.” Swiss looked a bit uneasy. “Look this was a long time ago and um…hey! I have today’s sponsor here! Eibauer Berliner Geschichte Bock Bier! Why suffer through like an ünterschlagen when you can be a übermensch and drink a real man’s beer? Savor sweet victory of being a real man after you rigged an explosive device under Slobodan Milosevic’s car and watched it explode. Yeah, hertzlichen zum Gebertstag, you fucking asshole!” (Eibauer Berliner Geschichte Bock Bier 3.6/5)
”Whoa.”
”FOREST LAWYER PODCAST FAMILY FRIENDLY”
”I didn’t know we were backing both sides. Both sides did the hunting tourism thing to fund the war, I tried to stop it!” Swiss cracked open the entire pack of bock and began downing a can. “That fat bastard Milosevic took his other 25 year old Mercedes S-Class to work that day. Asshole. If he was gonna drive around in that ride he can at least squeeze his fat ass into a track suit and complete the look.”
”The three main found in that collection were in shipping cases, and so I pulled them so I could properly cab them. Yes, no typey on phone on phone gud. Both films were marching band. The third I haven’t watched, but nothing on the can or reel says it is aircraft-related. Enough with the P-39 lid. All you’d have to do it just hook it on a nail. I’m going to get the sticker and tape off the middle that is UK film service tags. Fucking Limeys. Of course their glue is part and parcel to their penchant for fucking sheep. You just keep processing the collection without even questioning why airplane instructional films would be in the collection. Fuckwit.” Sugarfree was on open mic.
”Open mic.” I said out loud.
”Sorry. Someone finds a weird artifact and suddenly I’m the only one that can do my job.” Sugarfree said. He cracked open a can of THC seltzer. I recognized the label as one I had last winter. He’ll feel nothing, then suddenly trip balls pissing on that tiny speck of shit stuck to the inside of the toilet.
”WELCOME TO FOREST LAWYER PODCAST, FEATURING STEVE SMITH, esq. STEVE SMITH COME ON YOU ON RUMBLE LIVESTREAM.”
”Thanks STEVE. Can you catch me up to speed?” Sugarfree asked.
”STEVE SMITH is wanted in Italy after raping tourists in response to being targeted in most dangerous game style trophy hunt in what is now Former Yugoslavia.” I explained.
”Okay.” Sugarfree seemed undisturbed. “They’re just WOPs and Yugos?”
”FORMER YUGOS.”
”There appears to be a possibility Swiss might have been involved backing both sides of the war that may or may not have funded a hunting party that attacked STEVE SMITH. Both were there at the same time.” I explained. “To his credit he tried to stop the hunts by attempting to assassinate Slobodan Milosevic. Do I have that right?”
”That’s some made for TV shit, right there.” Sugarfree said. He leaned back in his chair and put his feet up on the desk. “Continue.”
”I had that son of a bitch where I wanted him.” Swiss shouted. He pressed a red button on his desk. “Prathiba, bring me more of today’s sponsor.”
”Yes Mr. Swiss.”
It takes a lot of dynamite to blow up a Mercedes Benz.
The older i get the more i side with Slobodan Milosevic on the war.
There were no good guys, but establishing Kosovo as an independent nation was stupid.
Its assholes the whole way down.
You mean ‘the more you know about what was actually going on’.
Everything was so deliberately muddled and obscured for a reason.
See the movie ‘Savior’.
It is going to happen again, Europe-wide this time. I dont know if it can be avoided at this point.
The best that can be hoped for is the gibbetting of everyone who has facilitated the current muslim invasion.
Suthen, my brother from another mother gets it.
Gadflies, dilettantes, swindlers and flimflam artists
Presidents, politicians, diplomats and scientists descended on Brazil this week to open the international climate summit known as COP30.
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Two years ago, as another round of climate talks began, I described those Trump campaign proposals as plans to “kill us all even faster.” Amazingly, that might have been an understatement, because for the Trump administration’s strategy for American energy dominance to succeed, global moves away from fossil fuels must be kneecapped. Rather than merely ignoring the rest of the world’s efforts to forestall rising temperatures as we make polluters great again at home, what little progress other countries have made must also be rolled back.
Accordingly, U.S. diplomats have begun impeding multilateral efforts to address climate issues. Last month, the United States tanked an International Maritime Organization deal that would have required global shipping vessels to reduce their emissions or be forced to pay a fee. The treaty was all but done when the Trump administration swooped in, threatening economic sanctions against countries that agreed to the pact as well as pledging to turn away their ships from American ports.
Needs more exploding Mercedes.
I’m stealing that.
That was particularly good. Reminds me of Heinlein’s description of some of the political grifters on Venus in Between Planets.
Blah blah bbubba blah blah blah
From what I am hearing the whole thing is turning out to be exactly the clusterfuck you would expect from a collection of grifters.
Go fuck yourself Hayes.
Also mountebanks.
I’ve never heard that word in my life. THANK YOU!!! 😍😍😍
This surprises me.
We all have gaps in our knowledge/education.
I just wasn’t expecting that one is all.
I was given this as a graduation present. I didn’t realize it was so old.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2472840.Mrs_Byrne_s_Dictionary_of_Unusual_Obscure_and_Preposterous_Words
1960 doesn’t seem that old.
“…was as old as it is.”
And their favorite dessert.
Symbology
Experts say New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s selection of Lina Khan, the former Federal Trade Commission chair, for his transition team acts as a warning to private equity firms in the state that have raised rents and monopolized local healthcare industries.
Throughout the US, private equity has increasingly monopolized industries through the practice of “roll ups,” acquiring many small local firms and rolling them into one larger firm, giving them power to simultaneously raise prices and lower quality.
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Serving as FTC chair under Biden, Khan was among the first to aggressively go after this practice on the national level, said Martin Kenney, distinguished professor at the department of human ecology at the University of California, Davis and author of Private Equity and the Demise of the Local.
She’ll scold and shame them.
I remember those movies from the ’70s and ’80s about evil landlords turning rats and vermin loose in their buildings to drive the tenants out.
”The three main found in that collection were in shipping cases, and so I pulled them so I could properly cab them. Yes, no typey on phone on phone gud. Both films were marching band. The third I haven’t watched, but nothing on the can or reel says it is aircraft-related. Enough with the P-39 lid. All you’d have to do it just hook it on a nail. I’m going to get the sticker and tape off the middle that is UK film service tags. Fucking Limeys. Of course their glue is part and parcel to their penchant for fucking sheep. You just keep processing the collection without even questioning why airplane instructional films would be in the collection. Fuckwit.” Sugarfree was on open mic.
Umm…. OK.
The Bock Bier looks good.
Try not to drink all four whilst writing. The typos the day after…
Luuuuuuuuudesss……..
“No, I wish I had ludes! 🤫”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiojTnJHU8A
“People on ludes should not drive”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gGJbs6PqGs
I would like to point out that the “Welcome to Cleveland” gag in this morning’s TWIP is old. I mean, ancient. So old that it might have been used on the Wright Brothers.
I think I remember reading about it in the Weekly Reader.
I remember the “Weekly Reader” from elementary school. Thinking back, it was relentlessly slobbering the government dick in a non-partisan fashion.
+ Big Blue Marble
Is that the one with the Bat Alien Boy on the cover…?
That would be the Weekly World News
USMNT v. Paraguay on TNT at 5:00.
Do not speak ill of Bat Boy
Just noticed 5 mins ago
United States mutant ninja turtle?
apparently Romania just lost to the USA in rugby which is fucking lame as you people don’t even play rugby.
We don’t even play gridiron anymore, either.
Pray Swiss does not stumble across this comment. Cats will be butted. 😀
“Mountebanks”
“I have never heard that word in my life”
The more important or prominent something is in a culture the more words we have for it…eskimos and snow, we all know that one. I looked up synonyms of ‘mountebank’ and the list is not only funny but well over 100 words. I skimmed the list and did not see the one my grandfather used:
“He is a fast-talker”
There used to be a guy that drove a tan Yugo hatch back in my hometown into the early 2000s. It smoked like a stroke and got passed by fat chicks on scooters.
I always wondered who he was. I bet he was a college prof having bought a communist car.
Fat chicks on scooters you say?
Go on….
One of them was my sisters friend. She had a no name scooter and a blue geo metro. When she got out of the metro it sat level. Wheezed when she breathed. Don’t know what came of her.
When you were behind her in traffic on her scooter you could only see the taillight and the rear tire, it looked like they had grown out of her ass.
I knew a “large lady” that drove a GEO storm.
No idea how she crammed herself into that thing.
Two stroke.
The professional mechanic that ran the garage at a state institution I worked for drove a yugo. I asked him why…”I can fix it with a screwdriver, one wrench and about 20 bucks. It’s a car…A to B thing. Fancy cars are a waste of money.”
Ok, fair enough.
I’m guessing he was friends with the other weirdo in town that drove the tan Renault Le-Car. Which also smoked like a two stroke. It likely was retired when it finally rusted apart.
When I hear ‘yugo’ I think of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_M48
and the post Bosnia war dumping of tens of millions of rounds of 8×57 on the market. I made a sizable purchase at $1.80 for a bandoleer of 70 rounds.
Much fun was had.
A friend in high school had a fiat spyder. One afternoon, we were cruising through town, he opened the door to spit, and both hinges immediately separated from the body. We tossed the door in the back seat. I think he drove it that way for at least a month.
‘fiat’…….
When even the English make jokes about your cars……that is worse than the English making fun of your cooking.
Not “backseat” cause it was a 2-seater. But crammed in the space between…you get it.
A friend of a relative had a Yugo back in, I think, the 90s.
He said the joke, “Yugo: You go 5 miles an hour”, was an accurate description of the car.
“How do you get a Yugo to go 60 mph ?”
“Put in on a tow truck”
Why does a Yugo have a rear window defroster?
To keep your hands warm while you push it.
A guy walks into a parts store and says, “I’d like a gas cap for a Yugo.”
Parts guy thinks for a second and says, “Sounds like a fair trade to me.”
You don’t see Rodney King Hyundais anymore.
But you still see OJ Bronco’s!
Fun fact: a young black guy who works in my office drives a white Bronco. I find it amusing, but don’t dare say anything to him. He’s so young it’s possible he doesn’t get the connection. Or maybe he does know the connection and would be offended if I joked about it. (He’s cool, but I don’t want to push my luck.)
I’ve had more than a few Yugos.
Thrilled to be back, now 60% finished with the week. I reckon a nap will happen soon. Two very, *very* disabled people, separately, were being helped around the store as an exercise. One kept repeating “Yeah!” and repeating random words her handler had said or asked. Another interesting bit was a Mennonite (or similarly dressed) coming out of the store when I was smoking in my car during lunch. By herself, she got into a car and drove off. Hrm.
Hope to take a swift nap before a productive eve. I hope to again be one with the napsters and their on-0ff switches, cuz yesterday a rare, rare nap turned quite fruitful. Fantastic eve with Ez.
I’m all about the 20 minute nap. Makes a difference without leaving you fuzzy.
Who can nap for such a short time? It takes more than 20 minutes to fall asleep, and more than two hours to wake back up.
I wish I could set myself on a timer.
If I’m tired enough for a nap, I’ll be out quickly and keeping it 20-30 minutes avoids that slow restart.
I set a timer and start my white noise app – I could sleep longer, it’s just a bad idea.
Sorry Slumbrew, but none of that makes sense. I could be tired enough to retire for the night and still take forever to fall asleep. Trying it in the middle of the day? Even more difficult.
I find the length of nap depends on how I position myself. Sitting in my chair, 5-10 minutes. Lying on my back, 20-30 minutes. Curled up, with a blanket thrown over me, 1-2 hours.
Plan accordingly!
No naps. Made cake pops and attempted Christmas chocolates with the daughter. We have lessons learned for Thanksgiving.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG_3179-scaled.jpeg
They look good.
I put too much icing in the cake pops. Much less is still effective. Too much and they barely stay on the stick while you roll in chocolate.
Made it to the distillery for their Christmas bourbon release. Samples were had, a new (to me) cocktail was consumed, and I came home with several lonely bottles of whiskey that needed a warm home for the holidays. One was an amazing rye that was aged in black cherry wood barrels and finished in a barrel that was used to age honey and infuse it with hibiscus.
I seek the collective technical expertise of the Glibertariat: We recently made some changes to our Spectrum cable/internet services and got a new router as a part of the process. While my laptop connected to our WiFi afterward with no problem, I discovered I couldn’t connect my Nook e-reader to it. I’d had this now-discontinued model of Nook for seven years, so I thought it might not have the latest and greatest WiFi security and/or configuration. I just got a new, later model of Nook delivered today, and I STILL can’t connect it to the WiFi despite finding our network and carefully entering the password.
Any ideas what may be preventing the Nook from connecting to our network? (And DON’T suggest I trash the Nook and get a Kindle. 😒)
You need a proper book. Sp(rectum) is in the pocket of Big Paper.
Maybe the Nook needs 2.4ghz but the new router only has 5ghz enabled by default?
That is a common problem
Actually, no – you said it found the WiFi, so that’s not it.
Try setting simplier wifi password to see if the Nook has some weird length or complexity issue?
My thought too, but in this day and age that’s nasty.
It is possible the router is set only to wideband , but that’s a dick move on Spectrum’s part.
https://help.barnesandnoble.com/hc/en-us/articles/5380931633051-Wi-Fi-Connectivity-Troubleshooting
Ignore the restarting or changing your router suggestions.
Try the other ones like deleting the access point and trying again.
Are you broadcasting the SSID?
Figured it out (or remembered it??). It would not connect to networks that don’t broadcast their SSID, even if you enter it in manually. Don’t remember if I had this problem before or not, but just flipped on broadcast for a minute and we’re fine now.
I can see our network in the list of nearby wifi connections available. The first time I tried, I was able to enter the password, and on subsequent tries if I told the Nook to “forget” our wifi, it could still find it afterward and would let me enter the password. It just won’t complete the connection.
That’s probably not it.
You could try opening up more WiFi bands on your router, but that can slow the faster ones.
Maybe some others here will have some more thoughts. My Tesla refused to play nice with my WiFi until I opened some bands for it, but that 8 years ago. Modern stuff shouldn’t, but who knows.
This was a surprise:
https://x.com/beeclops2/status/1988815710387405238
lol They showed that between the 2 mini-episodes this week.
*blinks*
*checks date*
For a brief moment in time, punctuated by fear and confusion, I thought it was Wednesday.
Sugarfree does that to me too