Finding is job is hard enough. Why do they have to be like this?
This is my review of Beer Tree Brew Flannel Lined Everything:
They say you should put a few of your interests on your resume. The person hiring you might happen to be a human being, with similar interests. As a result you may get hired in spite of not being the most qualified because you happen to have similar interests. The guy that’s actually qualified might not fit in. Sucks but them’s the breaks.
This guy can’t stop thinking about it for hours and decided to post about it on TwiX? A truly well-adjusted fellow. This why I don’t list “Libertarian Beer Blogger” as an outside interest.
More to the point, why wouldn’t olive oils be an interest to someone? Never mind looking at it from the standpoint of a foodie sipping the stuff to find the tiny variances of flavor profiles of olive strains across different parts of the olive producing world…Yes these people exist. There are also Reddit communities debating the merits of Olive Oil Maxxing (TW: Reddit). The health benefits of olive oil are well documented, up to an including libido and overall sexual vitality—assuming of course you are well-adjusted enough for sex. Clearly, this hiring manager doesn’t apply.
You know who never needs adjusting? People that wear flannel. No not really. When I saw it, I decided to try to hold out for a potential lumbersexual adjacent story to come up. After all, it was December when I found it. People are obsessed with trees during December, almost as much as they are obsessed with anythign Xmas related. So I bought it, because St. Bernadus was not yet on sale. Is this St. Bernadus? Hell no. Is it not telling that I chose to write about lumbersexuals? Maybe consider why…. Its okay, but on a level I’m not going to trash it. Beer Tree Brew Flannel Lined Everything: 2.8/5 6.3% abv.
You know who never needs adjusting? People that wear flannel.
Huh. I sometimes wear flannel. Counterexample or example?
Its okay, but on a level I’m not going to trash it. Beer Tree Brew Flannel Lined Everything: 2.8/5 6.3% abv
If I stumble on this beer, I’ll give it a try. Spiced winter ales are hit or miss for me.
Same. Hit or miss.
why wouldn’t olive oils be an interest
absolutely
Sam Adams fucked up the Winter Ale last year, and it’s not on the shelves here at all this time.
I’m more the Islay man, but the Balvenie is working while we wait out the ice
I had Olive Oyl down as an 8 and a girl I’d like to have dinner with and more… Good resume…
“She’s a new hire, why do you ask?”
Too thin for Tres.
I’d split her in two like a piece of dry hickory.
I used to have a policy of not working for a company that has an HR department, but that’s pretty much impossible these days.
You could always try to find an employer that uses the services of a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) instead of in-house HR, but based on my own experiences with ours, I can’t wholeheartedly (or even halfheartedly) recommend it… 😖
“I think of an HR department, and take away reason and accountability..”
Whatever happened to just plain Personnel? HR is that with a mission statement?
Wait, you talk about beer?
On occasion. I typically discuss short sighted HR practices.
You did an article on…olive oil? And there’s nothing wrong with flannel. Nothing.
This article was clearly on short-sighted HR practices.
A technical article on the growing, processing, and production of olive oil would be interesting.
I don’t know enough to write that article…
…olive oil?
Yes. Are you even olive oil maxxing, bruh?
I think our HR person is a she. Or possibly gay given another post about being hit on by men in the gym.
Or today both are possible of course…
It’s amazing how overwhelming female HR departments are.
If male usually non white.
Maybe he presses his own olive oil and sells it? i think HR jerk missed an opportunity to be curious and learn something.
How many curious people end up with careers in HR?
Bi or otherwise curious?
Intellectually.
That’s verboten.
Meh. I wouldn’t put it on a resume, but would likely bring it up during an interview. I mean, who thinks me putting “Large amounts of beer/cocktail knowledge and history” would help me get an IT job?
Now a bartending job…
As commodity or ingredient? Bankers shouldn’t consume or consider the olive?
What about a baby oil enthusiast?
I never get invited to parties.
Not even those kinds of parties.
Old joke punch line
“You shoulda seen the guy last week with the chicken”
My dad told me about that guy, he worked at the prison farm too.
Finally antisemitism the NYT can get behind calling out.
Paywall
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/us/bovino-jewish-prosecutor-minnesota.html
“The New York Times is said to be a reliable source of journalism, people with knowledge of the thinking of smug asshole elites said.”
The New York Times is a reliable source of journalism, she asserted without evidence.
Some of the more Bluesky/progressive minds that I’m seeing in feeds are remarking that it appears on the left Zionist is replacing Racist as the go to insult for wrong-think.
OT. Today Alton Brown makes a needlessly complicated margarita.
https://youtu.be/t04lV6ctqek?si=_hbuttNzJ5FMLOa3
Sensei:
Huh. I seem to recall he was one who eschewed orange liqueur in his Margaritas because he thought it didn’t add much (sorry, not going to watch a 15 minute video to see if he stayed with that). There are lots of ways to make drinks more complicated, and I am in general not a fan. The new hotness is mixing up your own saline and acid blends (usually a blend of malic and citric) to add by the dropper to your drinks. Some places are even going with centrifuges and vacuum distillation to make ingredients.
Basically makes his own orange liqueur on the cheap.
Funny as we were just talking about Cointreau.
Sensei:
Speaking of, EvilSheldon asked for non-Contreau orange liqueurs. I’ve been seeing a lot more of the Ferrand Dry Curacao showing up in articles, bars, and recipes. Personally, I’ve got Contreau, which I use sparingly, but otherwise I go with the low cost stuff.
Lumber sexual.
I resemble this statement.
https://ibb.co/mFcbTWxb
“I cut down trees, I eat my lunch
I go to the lavatory
On Wednesdays I go shopping
And have buttered scones for tea”
You betcha.
The cat’s expression says, “I have to be photographed with this guy *again*?”
Three black cats in the household. Hard to tell them apart.
Yer cat looks pissed. Quit pulling her tail!
I feed them, I clean the litter box, I’m on call to open the door.
As a cat butler I reserve the right to scoop them up from time to time. Consent is assumed.
That pussy ain’t a fan of your junk, and ain’t shy of showing her disgust.
(All cats are female. It is known.)
This one is genetically even.
My three boys scratch your face in disgust
Excellent.
Seconded
I was the first one done with my exam, turning it in 1hr 40 minutes after we started. I had 105 questions, so I took a long time per question, just under a full minute average per question. The annyoing topics were once again “Bureaucratic English” and “Hypothetical Supervison in Vague Terms”. Logic and tabular data analysis were a breeze.
Congrats?
Was it scored on-site or do you have to wait?
It will be months before scores are certified.
State efficiency just like voting.
In my line of work, we have to take qualification exams for various test methods and different pollutants (though they’re typically lumped into a group). Its done on-line, camera on with a proctor, and scored immediately upon completion.
The answer keys do not leave the office of the Testing Services Division at the Department of Civil Service. They feed all the thousands of scantron sheets through a single old PC that is isolated from being useful
Mail-in scores will need to be counted first.
What happens if someone fails?
If you score below a 70% you are ineligable to be appointed to any of the titles covered by that exam as you’re not on the list. You can try again when they give the test again in 3-5 years.
Is your eligibility for a promotion score-based?
Like, does 80% guy have a better chance than 70% guy?
It’s a government job so I assume excellence is disqualifying.
I wonder if any of our job-seeking posters dare mention “glibertarian” on their resumes? It would probably score even worse than “I march in favor of child molesters.”
Oh, Hell no.
I don’t even mention my fiction, despite that being available for sale.
That’ll get you kicked off of Twitter.
Glibertarians?
Not a chance, we abound on the X
What the fuck is wrong with people who post stories about xweexs composed of the xweex and a repetition of it. Are they paid by the pixel?
They are paid by engagement – views, likes, replies. If they can divert the origina poster’s engagement to their copy, they steal that money.
Hmm., you wouldnt be catturd would you, the resemblance is uncanny
No.
Scramble
Trump’s order directs the Interior and Transportation departments to designate within 14 days a route “suitable for conducting an INDYCAR street race and that will showcase the majesty of our capital city in celebration of the 250th anniversary of America’s independence,” the order says. The president also directs those secretaries to issue the necessary permits, approvals and authorizations to conduct the race.
The event will take place from Aug. 21 to 23, Trump said. “I love the racing. I don’t have a lot of time to watch it, but I love the racing,” the president said.
“To think, 190 miles an hour down Pennsylvania Avenue — this is going to be wild,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
Getting that put together will be interesting.
Have they opened up Pennsylvania Ave in front of the whitehouse or is that bit of security theatre still blocked off?
Still blocked off.
Just as Michael Schumacher is reportedly getting better.
Coincidence?
Oooh! OT ‘What’s up in Ev-Land’ actually *is* on-topic! *swish* I haven’t even thought of putting personal interests on a resume. Uh. Huh. Sure, if it’s an ice-breaker *in* an interview, or something, yeah. Uh. I’d still go with “cooking” rather than olive oil. In an interview I *have* said I’m a big baseball fan, “Go Cubbies,” but I doubt I would were I in (proper?) SEC Alabama over whatever over anyone else. Meh. People either don’t have any interests cuz they’re boring people, or are ‘afraid’ to say their ‘for’ anything at all.
At this point, it seems people only like what they’re told to. But that’s kinda always been true. Whoever, Johnny Carson or such would lend credence to shit. (I’d trust Carson, honestly. (I’d have to real reason *not* to, I suppose.))
Cuz the weather, re-scheduled interview is on Monday at 8am with the sex crimes /child abuse division for the Indy Metro PD. I don’t really ever know how to answer the “So tell me about yourself” question. (I do just fine. It’s a long answer, with much purposefully left out.) But ya gotta add some character to it, same as the Olive Oilstress up there is trying to uselessly add her multi-ethic diversity, but still affluent and With It street cred bullshit.
That nearby Allied Solutions that’s interested came a-knockin’ and my Voca Rehab dude wanted to make sure he had the resume I wanted to send. I don’t like him being an intermediary, but this spot wasn’t openly advertising. Does help to know people. And he’s free, so why not add him to my search party?
Nearby Post Office started looking and that’s on the docket, as well. But fuck. Interview Mon morning with Lt. Morris. That’ll be interesting.
A purely middling, functional beer score. For purely middling, functional outerwear. I don’t wear anything but single-color clothes, no text, letters or pictures. I rarely understand why people want their clothes to be decorative. (Mine fit and that’s not unflattering. *brushes off smug for 15 min*)
Why make it easier for others (perhaps police!) to find you in a crowd or line-up? The gift of anonymity lives on in the streets. (This is one of three reasons why I don’t have any ink, though that likely makes me stand out *more* among my generation, these days.) Well. Only one thing to do. *starts up loud sander* Some kids need abraizin’!
Other than the Golden Era, which cartoon decade is the most influential?
https://x.com/oldtoons_/status/2016985239495790610
80s without Gummi Bears and Duck Tales?!
Get out of here.
I’ll go with Discord.
MLP FIM was on point.
The DCAU, started with Batman: The Animated Season. Continued all the way until the end of Justice League Unlimited.
Kevin Conroy is my Batman, Mark Hamill is my Joker.
The best Batman.
Pretty much all the Bruce Timm shows were excellent.
Uh. Good Simpsons was 90s. (Started as shorts in the 80s, but please.) X-Men, and also a bunch of really shitty Captain Planet bullshit. We had a lot more primo stuff, but I’ll miss out on a few.
Let’s be generous, the first 9 seasons of Simpsons were a pinnacle of humor combined with actual, consistent characters.
For the 80s you had Transformers, He-Man, and GI Joe for the guys. Smurfs, She-Ra, and Jem for the girls. The Simpsons started the whole “push the envelope grown up humor” that led to Family Guy and Archer.
Animaniacs and Batman
Boom. I was too young for Dexter’s Lab, but hear good things. Oddly about Powerpuff Girls, as well. Ren & Stimpy; Spaceghost; The Tick; King of the Hill.
The 90s were the peak decade, though every decade (not incorrectly) says this. Slow internet, but it was there and it was before TV fully DIEd. You could still be/ I was a latchkey kid with no way to track me, and my parents really didn’t care where I was. (As long as I came back.)
The improvements of tech were there, but without their omnipresence.
Nobody wants to give Slowpoke Rodriguez any love?
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fb6wmugyxd5331.jpg%3Fwidth%3D960%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dd4ab935071e1b9655665e212e6f5cab474ec635b
I never really understood the animas the Politically Correct and their spawn have/had for Speedy & Co. I always found it funny.
Correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is Speedy was popular in Mexico because of his opponent El Gato, which I always assumed was a stand-in for the gringos.
60s, had Bullwinkle and other assorted amazing cartoons, which mixed on air with Three Stooges and Warner Brothers. Also had Johnny Quest.
Michael Schumacher is reportedly getting better.
Seriously?
He’ll be ready by August Im sure.
Michael Schumacher no longer bedridden in stunning update — 12 years after F1 legend’s horrific ski accident
That’d be 12 years I’d *really* hope my brain turned the Memory switch off for. (Turn it on for his daughters wedding, I s’pose. Hrm. Wouldn’t shock me for that to have been a bit of a trigger for recovery. How the brain works with emotions and placebos is fascinating. Good thoughts certainly have an effect.
Other than the Golden Era, which cartoon decade is the most influential?
It was all downhill after Tex Avery.
Bob Melendez,
Termite Terrace overall, the best cartoons ever
Schumacher’s kid will be driving in IndyCar, for Rahal. Maybe Michael is coming back to talk him out of it.
And suggest he take up skiing?
Sonny Bono approves.
From the ded thred:
I say we start storming university classrooms. That’s their temple.
More from the ded thred:
My HS was immediately adjacent to a public park. They couldn’t have designed a better place for HS kids to smoke all kinds of things. Cigarettes, weed, pole….
Back in the late 70s, early 80s we had designated smoking areas outside of school. Kids would smoke before school, and head out during lunch to hang out and smoke.
I never understood how the weed smokers got away with it. It isnt like the smell is subtle, despite being way less stinky than today’s stuff
Same with cigarette smoke. Lots of perfume.
Gustave Lytton:
Patchouli is not perfume.
I wouldn’t second in HR’s general direction. That’s how little I think of HR.
Who the fuck are they to tell me to keep my hands out of my pants at work? How am I supposed to First under those conditions?
I mean, I can do it. I have done it. But it takes a lot more mental energy to make it happen when I could just be Firsting left and right.
It’s been since 2002 since I’ve had a regular job.
I dont count the army as a regular job because it was the isle of misfit toys running the show and you couldn’t quit.
I don’t think I’d survive a week in anyplace with an HR.
From the ded thred, part trois….
Might as well pipe your social media straight to the Ministry Of Political Compliance. There’s no way a state sponsored social media platform in that political shithole known as Europe could go off the rails.
Amazing that they think “almost total control” just isnt good enough.
I’m more amazed Normies think it’s OK and will ‘work.’ I have zero faith in Europe. Bro’s taking his family to England in May. Sigh. With their leanings, I’m sure they’ll be accepted right in for a protest.
SiL is a boiled-in AWFL and has brought in the family. Well, she isn’t too bright, it could be her conforming to him. Sad.
Re the earlier discussion about the 20 something mentally disabled woman and the underage boy and the Uno reversi card being played on statutory rape:
I wrote a paper as an undergrad back in 1984 that featured a case out of DC involving an almost 18 year old young lady and her 13 year old lover.
The father of the girl was a prominent attorney and when he found out he went to his friends in the DR’S office. They prosecuted the boy to the fullest extent of the law. Statutory rape, corrupting the morals of a minor, etc.
IIR, the prosecuted him as an adult. Not sure, but I think the relationship started when he was 12. She was a couple months shy of 18 when they were found out.
So yeah, depending on prosecutor roulette, they could easily flip this around on the kid.
A decade ago or so we discussed a case out of Milwaukee where a 13 year old girl was charged as an adult for corrupting the morals of a minor (herself) by taking nekkid selfie. She was both an adult and a minor in the same transaction.
There is no limit to the idiocy and evil people can do when given enough power and discretion.
Men must heel. Start with ’em young, I s’pose is their internal, cottage cheese ‘consistency.’
What a mess.
I think I got a final interview once because of a personal interest mentioned during an interview.
I was asked about a lesson I learned from something in my personal life.
I mentioned that I learned that patience can lead to a better product from making BBQ. If you try to rush it the product will not be as good as taking your time to do it right.
I got the job and found out that patience or doing It right was not as important as fast.
I got an interview once because I have Starr Companies on my resume, and the guy hated the Yankees, who has Starr as their uniform patch sponsor..
+1 Hank, don’t call me Maurice, Greenberg.
Hank’s a real boss.
You work at my company too?
Makes sense
I still can’t tell what type of beer that is.
Around here, they’re called Christmas ales, mainly because of Great Lakes Christmas Ale’s giant impact on the local scene. Generally a brown/red/porter base spiced with honey, ginger, cinnamon, and clove at a minimum. Nearly every Cleveland area brewery does at least one take on it during the holidays, with several releasing batches in July for Christmas in July.
Thanks for the explanation. I tried stouts and porters thanks to what I learned here. I really like them. But I don’t picture myself liking them with any of that stuff in them.
Chafed:
Not a problem at all. The base beers can be more varied, and there’s quite a few Belgian dark strong bases (including a local one called Pimp My Sleigh). They caused problems when they first started dropping here, because it became the standard seasonal for Great Lakes, and was 7.5% ABV. It’s popular enough that the people who go Bud/Miller/Coors or would stick with a Dort Lager would drink them at the same rate.
Unfortunately, a lot of places have started doing a cinnamon/brown sugar rim to glasses for them unless you manage to stop them.
Warty Hugeman, in the flesh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ewhh6qM94
6’8, 400 lbs
No mention of the DoomCock.
OK, a freshly shaved STEVE SMITH then.
Scrawny North Koreans can be surprisingly strong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_vqafl4WPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwLBmMitF4A
+ Uncle Pecos
(not positive thats a Tex Avery)
Of all the words I thought I would read today, lumbersexual isn’t one of them.
I’ll never look at a plank of wood the same again.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_V6y1ZCg_8
First word I think of when I hear Ron Swanson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp4RmP1T8ZQ
Egregious overreach
Beyond more sweeping workplace raids, enforcement against employers can also take the form of I-9 audits, which focus on verifying employees’ authorization to work in the U.S.
Since the start of Trump’s second term, attorneys have pointed to an uptick in instances of ICE physically showing up to a place of business to initiate an I-9 audit. ICE has the authority to do this — but it marks a shift from prior enforcement, when audits more often began through writing like mailed notices.
David Jones, a regional managing partner at labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips in Memphis, said he’s also seen immigration agents approach these audits with the same approach as recent raids.
“ICE is still showing up in their full tactical gear without identifying themselves necessarily, just to do things like serve a notice of inspection,” Jones said. Employers have three days to respond to an I-9 audit, but agents behaving aggressively might make some businesses think they need to act more immediately.
Changing tactics from the previous administration is the object of the exercise.
“We thought existing law was going to be ignored forever.”
Enforcement is good. The currently chosen methods of enforcement are sometimes more harmful than helpful.
Where was this stalwart defender of liberty and common sense when the TSA was groping a teen girl and saying “we don’t live in a make sense world”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67IPfQCNapI
Meanwhile, in topsy-turvy land:
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In the past, the administrative state was a powerful force for good in Americans’ lives. To defeat Trumpism, it needs to become one again.
***
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/make-bureaucracy-great-again
I’m trying to find the CA article where the author worked as a bureaucrat because it required no thought but only strict adherence to a complicated set of rules.
I guess she was a fan of the Simon Says game.
You can’t deport this or that person because they were going through the “process”! They continue to screech this bullshit. Showing up at the border and “asking” for “asylum” after crossing the border of multiple other countries to get here is utter nonsense. Only predominantly white countries would even be expected to entertain this nonsense. These people are full of shit. They aren’t fleeing any specific threats against them in most cases. Just the general shithole countries they were born in.
CNN printed this shit on the 5 year old and his father who were detained and taken to Texas without batting an eye:
You assholes are quoting a family member who is admitting they abused asylum laws and are in fact just economic migrants. As nearly every mother fucker who showed up at the border and asked for asylum has been.
It’s a violation of international law. It’s a violation of US immigration law. It’s all being abused and these people are pawns who are coached on what to say. Not that it would have taken much because Biden was just going to let them in no matter what.
December 2024. That’s when they showed up at the border. Imagine that.
I really wish the US adopted an “ass, gas, or grass, nobody rides for free” policy when it comes to immigration. Pay the admission fee, here’s your ticket, stay out of trouble, good luck.
There was an old USMC recruiting poster that said something like “we don’t promise you a rose garden”.
Put that on Lady Liberty’s tablet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2FPbfbv8TY
Hollywood neo-Nazis make more sense than today’s Team Red.
Saw some video of Kaepernick that I think was taken fairly recently once again talking about a comeback to an adoring crowd.
He was doing that cringy Hillary thing where he was trying to talk black and it was kind of embarrassing honestly.
Imagine someone is banging on your door in the middle of the night. You go and check. The other person says “please help me, someone’s trying to kill me.” You’d probably take them in and call the cops. Once the cops show up, and there is no immediate danger, you’d probably send the visitor on their way.
How is it any different with asylum seekers?
It’s interesting that the people who made this movie worked so diligently to show the US flag near neo-Nazis and their iconography.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OuhJ0koab8
There are many stories of schools banning the US flag: https://www.newsweek.com/student-american-flag-banned-school-potential-distract-1822267
Actual neo-Nazis hate the US flag. They see it as a white flag of surrender to the Zionist Occupational Government. It distinguishes them from the KKK, who prefer the US flag and the Stars and Bars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z75DN5r_6H4
This happened a few miles from where I lived in Florida:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-0gT476nes