It’s a standard issue March here in Manly Time. Cool nights, days are starting to warm, everything is coming into bloom, and my face is killing me from pollen. As beautiful is spring is here, it’s physically painful. Zyrtec is a wonder drug.
Links?
Oh hey, look who’s at the top of the list.
If you have ever seen two male hummingbirds go at it, you already knew this.
I’m guessing it’s already been shipped to Japan.
Okay, that’s it for me. Gotta prune the roses. Peace out, Glibbies.
Meanwhile in the valley of sickness that produces the majority of grass seed…
But the Willamatte drainage is pretty.
EXTREME WEATHER!
Stay safe. 😰
As we all know, the king of Limeyland is one of the good ones. He believes in global warming.
Or more likely she was just making shit up. If it was “real” evidence it would absolutely be used to invalidate the law.
Japanese name for Kit-Kats: kitto kato (キットカット). This name closely resembles the phrase kitto katsutoo (きっと勝つとぉ), meaning ‘you shall surely win’.
Ive been using Nord for a VPN. Its time to renew.
Before I give them money, any thoughts on a more superior VPN or if Nord is adequate/inadequate ?
I’ve generally not felt the need to bother. Another one to consider would be ProtonVPN.
I use Proton. It was good enough for SP, so it’s good enough to me.
second for proton. I have used them for several years. They were (still are for the moment?) headquartered in Switzerland, but the Swiss – DAMN YOU SERVATOR! – passed intrusive anti privacy rules. So Proton up and moved their base of operations to avoid it and maintain their privacy/anonymity principles; That to me is worth using them over other VPNs.
They do not have a warrant canary because Swiss law requires that users be notified of requests and be able to contest them, so it’s not necessary. Whether that holds as they
move their core servers, I don’t know and haven’t heard any update.
3rd for Proton. I’ve had only a half a dozen issues (couldn’t find a connection) in the last 5 years.
I’m finding more and more sites that refuse to work with my VPN. Both my credit card websites and my Health Saving Account. Don’t you tkink those sites should care the most about online security?
There’s nothing wrong with Nord as far as I know. I use Express VPN FWIW.
MLB on Fox…
Because… why? Make baseball American again.
I suspect it’s not a new thing. Danny Gladden, one of our heroes from the ’87 world series, has been the color commentator for Twins radio for many years now, and he occasionally refers to the Giants as the Gigantes. He grew up in Cupertino, CA. I’m guessing it’s been a thing there for a long time.
It’s obnoxious pandering. Grinds my gears.
Oh, yeah, it’s absolutely pandering and annoying. I was just pointing out that I don’t think it’s a new thing they just invented for pandering purposes.
I heard in the “Agricultural Minute” radio propaganda that there were only 22,000 acres of canola planted in the U.S. in 2024.
80% of it must be planted in Latah and NezPerce county.
Crap is poison. My wife gets blisters on her eyes from the crap. And it’s before it flowers. Whatever hormone it releases when it bolts slays her, and two of my neighbors.
STEVE SMITH FAVORITE PLANT CANOLA. STEVE SMITH COUSIN IN CANUKISTAN CALL IT BY REAL NAME.
The land of rape and honey.
obligatory
In the mid 1990’s I was at work playing a Ministry cassette, when they were popular. One of my interns said “you know they’re heroin addicts, right?”
Turns out he was right.
Just like U2 and Tom Petty.
lol no shit
In the early 2000’s one of my co-workers boyfriends called and said he had Gibby Hayes and Al Jourgensen in his car as he was a driver for Austin City Limits, I said to ask him if anyone doesn’t have a needle in their arm. Joke was on me, they ended up at a crack house allegedly.
Why are you hitting pollens with your face? Stop that this instant.
City of Nampa has decided to shorten irrigation season on the front end, early May is go time. A month late. They also increased the fee by twenty dollars to ~$150. Bless their hearts.
Showing my east coast bias I’d never heard of Nampa despite the large population.
It’s also Japanese and here is why I did a double take when I read it:
noun
1. seducer, smooth talker, ladies’ man, playboy, playgirl
noun, suru verb
2. picking up women, hitting on women (usually written in kana, colloquial) (usu. written as ナンパ) (see also: 逆ナン)
I had grandparents there. Or Caldwell. I forget which.
Total easterner but I did toddle in Boise a bit.
Sensei, now that’s funny. My late grandmother, former treasurer for the local WCTU, would be scandalized.
My Grandma on my Mom’s side would like a drink or two, but emphasized moderation. I can still hear her say, “Now I dont belong to the WCTU or anything, but…..”
(Grandpa liked to get on a whiskey bender at times it seemed. She didnt care for men drinking spirits, but beer was OK)
One of my great grandmothers is buried in Nampa with one of her daughters. My grandfather lived with his sister there until he joined the Navy in the 30’s.
That’s actually not a bad idea.
$150 from $20, a month?
Team blue has taken over that area and Idaho Is going to get it HARD.
Remember when the ‘Republican’ governor appointed the former head of the Idaho Democrat party John Rusche to a seat in the Idaho Department of Water Resources Board?
I remember, it was in the middle of the three year period that department was denying me a drilling permit and falsifying the water table data to make it look like it was twenty or
More feet lower than it was.
Did John run cattle or farm? Did he own a well?
No he is a pervy fat fuck of a pediatrician who lived in town and shouldn’t have been appointed to anything.
Amen. I was ready to move to the Treasure Valley twenty years ago. Now I would not.
The first time we drove to Boise, the freeway speed was 70 or 75 and I saw the Making Statism Unpopular billboard by Caldwell. I instantly felt at home. And now the billboard is long gone and the valley is filled with California rinos.
The jokes write themselves….
Once Upon A Time, The Catholic Church Decided That Beavers Were Fish
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/capybara-venezuela
During Lent in Venezuela, the world’s largest rodent becomes a “fish.”
Obligatory
Capybara is fucking terrible.
Wise ones at peace with nature and each other.
🙄
I once heard at recess that beaver smells like fish. But apparently it also tastes like chicken. I don’t think that is reliable though because I overheard it while being given a swirly in the bathroom (in addition I also could not stop “hitting myself”) .
Ohio pizza finally gets some respect!
The mainly cited/quoted chain is my favorite! 😋👍🍕 (no emoji for proper square-cut ‘za 😞)
Jesus wept.
Not the Christ on a cracker I was expecting.
Axe me about Cassano’s….
Citation
I think that’s the St. Louis-style, which even the native I know doesn’t recommend.
Cassano’s is not that good. There! I said it!
That’s just nasty.
Straight to the garbage can.
I doubt you DoorDash, but currently Donato’s has a large “serious meat” for $12.99. I don’t know if you can get that in store.
When I’m home Ive been all over that.
Also Kroger has Screamin’ Sicilian frozen pizza BOGO. Which isnt bad for a frozen.
That is one of the better frozen pizzas.
Donato’s is hot garbage.
I got no problem with square or rectangular cur pizza but, fucks sake, start with a square or a rectangular pizza. Also, Donato’s peperoni sucks, maybe it’s just my local store but they are nothing but grease filled flavorless semi-meat-like-textured little cups of nastiness.
Any other analogies or metaphors you’d like to throw in?
Seems like you’re writing for TripAdvisor
Not true, he didn’t start with “If I could have given 0 stars, I would have.”
My girl’s best friend’s mom is a vegan, except for Sammy’s sausage pizza (cut in squares):
https://sammyspizzahermantown.com/
So she’s not a vegan.
She’s vegan except for Sammy’s sausage pizza! I don’t think you realize how good it is.
She is actually a lovely woman who represents for the worst of Duluth’s Worst. /public defender
/charmingly she is so fucking jaded.
This gets Ohio up to what… four regional styles? Cleveland style, Ohio Valley Style, pub cut, and Columbus style?
I think Detroit has their own brand. Just like the cheesesteak you get in Philly depends on which side of the city you’re on.
Pennsylvanians talk like fags and their shit’s retarded.
Altoona-style pizza
Tres Cool:
Yeah, Detroit style pizza is another, and Altoona-style pizza explains an old story my dad tells about my mom trying to serve him pizza with American cheese for an early date. There’s also New Haven style pizza (called apizza for raisins), Saucy goes that route, and they used to even do the New Haven clam pizza, but it has been pulled from the menu.
If “Cleveland style” is anything like what passes for pizza in Buffalo or Rochester I am afraid I will have to pass.
Really, the only thing that matters is the crust. Everything northwest of NYC is too doughy for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh hell no Tres, that’s the most ghetto 1980s grade school commodities ‘pizza’ ever.
Tres Cool recognizes that we Pennsylvanians are a conflicted bunch. Only two other states have U.S. Senators from both parties (Maine and Wisconsin). PA has been home to the RINOS my adult life (back to Sen. Scott and Gov. Bill Scranton, for instance). And it has had three (((governors))) from Philly or immediate suburbs though there are probably many of the 67 counties that done have one of (((them))) as a resident. As for talk, someone from Philly and someone from the Burgh can barely understand each other.
So, what’s the deal with “patriotic” car commercials now? Jeep, Chevy, Ram…
Trump effect?
Pandering to the blue collar base.
Some nerd in Palo Alto isnt buying a RAM 2500 with a Cummins.
Have they ever not been patriotic?
I enjoyed this dig about Stellantis and irs location.
The Dutch auto conglomerate will clarify that its cars are assembled, not ‘built,’ in U.S. factories
Are the 3/4 and 1 tons still made in Mexico?
The committee found the Florida Democrat used her family’s businesses to channel $5 million in emergency COVID-19 funds into her 2021 special election campaign to replace the late former Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings.
Considering that her predecessor was so crooked that he was impeached as a federal judge and convicted by the Senate (before being elected to Congress in a “designated darkie district” so gerrymandered that it was just two pockets of black neighborhoods in south Florida), I’d say she was just carrying on the local tradition.
Let’s take a look at her wiki:
Cherfilus-McCormick was born in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, to parents from Haiti and raised in the borough of Queens.
In January 2025, the state of Florida filed a $5 million lawsuit against Cherfilus-McCormick’s South Florida-based Trinity Health Care Services business for knowingly accepting overpayments of invoices for work that was not actually performed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
That explains it. She’s not smart enough to even be a decent grifter.
Her predecessor was appointed by Jimmy Carter. That should say enough.
“In 1977, Hastings became a judge of the circuit court of Broward County, Florida. On August 28, 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated Hastings to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 31, 1979, and received his commission on November 2, 1979. Hastings was the first black federal judge in the history of the state of Florida. His service was terminated on October 20, 1989, due to impeachment and conviction.
That district must love thieves.
Sounds like the No Kings protests were very successful. The Trump team is now on notice that old people, furries, transgender BDSM’ers and brain damaged commies don’t like them. It’s the dawn of a new era.
Sounds like the making of a Blue Wave. Unless Iran surrenders and Trump can broker a deal to end Ukraine-Russia conflict.
I bet your Rino friends are beside themselves with glee at continuing to lose without principles.
Mom, SiL (and her bestie) went to one in Noblesville. Mom’s sign:
“I want my country like my tea — without ICE” all in caps. I doubt she made it. Our family loves iced tea and she’s much, much more clever than that. I also imagine I’d have seen that process, but easy enough to keep secrets from me, here.
SiL’s: “now is the time to USE YOUR VOICE” and a smaller “NO KINGS!” in her other hand.
SiL’s bestie: “PROTEST is PATRIOTIC”
That friend is the absolute worst. The spitting image of AWFL. She runs her own tiny business, based on Plus-Size fashion and feminist chic. I was good friends with her my-age brother. Played hockey with him.
I take the mass hysteria over ICE the same way as the mass hysteria over “gender expression”.
It will run its course eventually but until then it’s completely useless to try to have a meaningful conversation with the Left over either topic.
my country
That part is laughable. Their whole premise is allowing anyone who want to possess it into this country without limit.
It’s past time to label the quislings supporting foreign invaders as the traitors they are. They are forfeiting their right to citizenship and life by their own actions.
Gas is $3.44 in Podunkville today but diesel was less than $5.
Locals making maple syrup but not a threat to Richard’s neighbors. Cleaning bee boxes, another month and the bees will be arriving.
No protestors, snow is gone, lakes still covered with ice, unsafe for fishing now.
I haven’t bought diesel for my worktruck since Salt Lake City.
It was $4.80 there.
It’s $5.30ish here now.
It only takes me 150 gallons to get mostly full.
Sounds like happy hour at R.J.’s house!
*Drum and cymbal
I filled a work truck (GMC 2500 Duramax) Wednesday.
Was over $200
What is a kidnappers favorite style of shoe?
White vans.
The high today was only 73 here. WTF is this kibble? I don’t live in the tropics to be treated this way.
*slaps dbeagle with a palm frond*
Finished my shift and off until next Sat, with my own errands and adventures throughout the week. *stretches out* Cubs game encore started at 10, makin’ this a pretty sweet transition to chill time.
I am gonna have to make a decision to work a shift a week in Meijer (proper) while I’m working that contract, just to keep that bridge intact. That way, I can just up it to more shifts rather than be rehired again. This is countered by my desire to use post-contract time to again look for meaningful long-term work. Kinda like I don’t want to have a cozy landing so I’m full-time looking for work again.
I could also take fewer shifts post-contract to allow more time to work-search than my 4x/week schedule ‘now.’
Thinking bigly, I should suck up the 6-8 Sat or Sun shifts while I’m doing the contract. That’d make incoming $ the smoothest. It’d also be a busy schedule I don’t want and I want to avoid anything that… entrenches me further into the grocery swirl.
re square /rectangle pizza: Every piece of pizza has its own end-crust, right? If not… why should there ever be ‘slices’ that don’t have crust?
*frowny face*
because the slices without crust are the best slices. The crust is the delivery system. The higher the toppings to crust ratio, the better.
The crust is the fucking *handle.* It’s what makes pizza a hand-food.
I betcha eat yours with a knife and fork, just like your Snickers. Costanza would be proud, if he could feel pride.
The Mental Floss site used to have the “George Costanza Candy Quiz” which has unwrapped candy bars you needed to ID by shape and design. Each is unique.
I haven’t found that page in a number of years.
That doesn’t make any sense. I posited that crust-free pizza is the best pizza and you reply that the crust is the handle. So, I don’t like pizza with a handle, but I use a knife and fork to eat Snickers. If I’m so picky as to eat snickers with fork and knife, why would I prefer my pizza without a handle?
I haven’t had a Snickers in a long while, but the only way to eat them is frozen. I’m not talking about the Snickers ice cream bars (which are awesome), I mean put your snickers bar in the freezer. It’s great.
(You actually eat your candy bars like Costanza? Hrm.)
More power to ya. We exist in different ways. I don’t wash my hands! (Visible dirt required.)
(you fail at reading comprehension? hrm)
okay, just to be clear, that probably looks dick-ish, not how I meant it, Evan! The imprtant thing here is have you ever tried a frozen snickers bar?
I really don’t care for chocolate. It’s not ‘bad,’ but it’s never something I purchase for myself.
Frozen girl scout mint cookies in the freezer now, though. I believe you. Frozen food adds a level of speed I don’t care for. It’s got a time limit on it! No chance for me to slowly nibble, enjoy.
Oooh. Fun truth, separating me further from others: I eat popcorn one at a time. I bite the popped parts off before I’m left with the center puff. I have a finger /mouth thing. They kinda always have to be *doing* something.
So just cook up the toppings separately?
There shouldn’t. And that is why the pretenders to the throne are just that – pretenders. Not pizza.
*brow further furrows*
Pizza is handfood. It’s why Chicago style is a nice casserole. You and NoDak are talking about fancified crackers.
Square cut gives the best of both worlds. Topping only and topping with attached breadstick.
And zero eating either by hand.
Living the dream
https://adpizza.com/
I hafta agree with Gustave, here. Apparently the man understands pizza
But you have to eat them in two different ways. Or ya give the orphan island slices to those you like least. Which in your case, seems to be yourself.
This largely goes to ‘pizza as hand food.’ Deep dish not being pizza is a common topic here. Same concept, just the other side of the coin. (Let’s not bring up pineapple. I’ve not tried it on pizza.)
I had hoped this would promote thoughts on my ‘maintain bridges’ with Meijer’ quandary, but that ain’t always how she goes.
It do goes like that.
“And zero eating either by hand.” Huh. You eat the attached bread sticks with a knife n fork? Chopsticks?
(Am I so out of touch with humanity and their food? No. It’s the children who are wrong.)
Uh, no you don’t. Eat the crustless by hand, with a crust by hand. Dunk crust after rest is eaten in ranch or marinara and finish.
Didn’t you have sheet pizza in school or cafeteria at some point?
https://youtu.be/OWJGkD88yjE
Pizza Thursdays at Hebron elem was like that and was inedible. But the pizza you’re eating isn’t. I like thin crust just fine. I just want there to be an end of the sauce and cheese+ so I have something to hold. I’m not sure why this is so complicated. The three slices in the middle of the adpizza.com pics seem remarkably topped to where my eye goes beyond using my hands to eat it. In which instance, I’d happily find a way, but those three wouldn’t feel like pizza.
I’ve never understood people who dip pizza (or anything) in ranch. Useless dressing. Esp w wings? I don’t get it, but wings are incredibly overrated. I don’t mind the mess, ribs are fantastic. I just don’t get the excitement people have for ’em. *shrug*
The lunch by the slice are conventional cut. Regular pies are square cut (on a round or oval pizza). Easy enough to pick up. Like a canapé.
Möbius band-shaped pizza, with hexagonal slices.
Happy Sunday, funday.
🤪☕️🐸
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCdwKhTtNNw
🎶🎶
Oh dear, NHK is doing a piece on the “Our King, Not Yours” rallies, and they had the “hey hey, ho ho” chant, as well as a soundbite from a Vietnam veteran.
Don’t throw me in the briar patch, IRGC!