Our retarded staff continues to provide me with material. After our waitress’s insistence that she understands everything there is to know about every wine and beer on our list, she’s now confident on giving recommendations. Confidence, unfortunately, is not the same as competence. There’s a famous and probably apocryphal story about Frank Sinatra who was throwing a dinner party with a fish main course. He called his regular wine merchant, got some drone on the phone, and commanded her to send over a case of their most expensive white wine for his fish dinner. The drone said, “You got it, Mr. Sinatra, it will be delivered this afternoon!” Looked at their price list and sent over a case of Chateau D’Yquem. Unfortunately, D’Yquem is a stupendously sweet dessert wine.
Well, same. A customer wanted a recommendation for a dry white wine, and instead of the one I had shown her for that specific question, Retarded Waitress said, “I recommend the Ravat 51. It’s an absolutely delicious dry wine.” Of course, it’s the sweetest wine on our list. Customer was not happy, but drank it anyway. She was back in a couple days ago, saw me (she and I have chatted a few times, she loves wine), and related the problem. I told her that I’d comp her a glass for her next dinner and added that I was getting in a case of her (the customer) favorite white wine, one which is not generally available in this part of the state. Customer beamed. I pulled Retarded Waitress aside and asked her about this fuck-up to try to make sure she was clear about this for the future. Retarded Waitress insisted that the Ravat was dry.
“No, it’s sweet.”
“Yes, it is, but it’s dry.”
“You understand that ‘dry’ and ‘sweet’ are opposites?”
“You told me that, but it doesn’t make any sense to me.”
Birthdays today are not sweet at all, including a guy more logical than Spock; an Ur-cultural appropriator; a delightful woman who lives on in most of the folks here; a woman who inspired hundreds of sick jokes; the guy who taught Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason; one of the icons of my childhood; a guy who made Dana Carvey’s career; a piece of shit lawyer and politician, but I repeat myself; and a guy who made films almost as banal as Steven Spielberg’s.
Links do have a certain banality as well…
The lust for other people’s money is particularly ironic here.
Ho hum. Yawwwwwn. The OMWC solution is, of course, never even mentioned.
Of course he won’t come to the correct conclusion about vastly limiting the power of CPS.
It’s all bullshit, but it does make me smile.
Another one of those “Why even bother?” moments.
How about, I dunno, getting rid of government schools?
If you think Progs are irrational about Netanyahu, well, hold my Manischewitz.
And one more yawwwwwn. Disgruntled former employee is disgruntled.
How about, maybe, just move out of that cesspool?
I haven’t put up a Lee Barber song in a bit, so today seems like a good time. James McMurtry commented, “I’d kill to have a voice like his.”
Waitress: “But ALL these wines are wet! Otherwise, how could you drink them??”
You’d think that an accidental poisoning wouldn’t be out of reach for a professor of chemistry…or would that just be too obvious?
You do it Russian style. Where it’s obvious who did it, but nobody ever proves it.
Confidence, unfortunately, is not the same as competence. – see competence is not required in Romania. the waiter just get kickbacks from certain wine producers to always recommend their wine no matter the situation. also fuck Purcari.
Reporters don’t care about bias, dishonesty, or slant in News stories. They only care when the bias, dishonesty, or slant isn’t their chosen flavor.
Bias and slant are unavoidable. Anyone preening about “fairness” and “honesty” and similar derp is lying.
Ravat 51 – wait a minute you people sell hybrids in restaurants?
Yes indeed, when they’re good. This particular grape is more commonly called Vignoles, and is very popular outside of the “glamour” growing regions. Very versatile and hardy.
But sweet. Who wants sweet wines?
Germany and parts east mostly.
Tokaji Eszencia can have up to 500 g of sugar per liter. it is like slightly alcoholic honey.
It can be made into dry, off-dry, and sweet styles. I keep the sweet one on the list because capitalism.
Yeah, I think I told the story on TOS about my niece’s graduation/going away party. My sister and her husband held a large outdoor do at their house, with grilling meats and that sort of stuff. My sister offered three kinds of wine: Chardonnay, Moscato, and White Zin.
After years of encountering Tokays in older literature, which described them in glowing terms, I tried an Ezsencia. It is my belief that those older writers were desperate for a grape soda and raved about the closest thing available in their era.
Tokaji Eszencia can have up to 500 g of sugar per liter. it is like slightly alcoholic honey.
You’re getting Kinnath excited.
After our waitress’s insistence that she understands everything there is to know about every wine and beer on our list, she’s now confident on giving recommendations
Some years back (I think after Mom died but before the wicked lockdowns), we went to a fast casual place for a holiday dinner. Dad got a Riesling and I ordered a Pinot Noir. The server mixed them up.
a veritable holocaust.
a delightful woman who lives on in most of the folks here
Happy birthday Winston’s Mom!
Maybe an electric cattle prod should be used in training employees.
Office Space should be part of the on-boarding process.
I don’t think Jackie Gleason needed Willie’s advice, as he was a hell of a pool player on his own. That said, admit it, you are selling short dogs of Ripple at the restaurant, and got caught.
“I mix champagne and ripple and call it champipple”
-Fred Sanford
👍
And one more yawwwwwn. Disgruntled former employee is disgruntled.
wasn’t there a song that went
Bari Weiss saved my life, And ifBari Weiss saved your life, Or got you back with your ex-wife, Sing Bari Weiss
sweet dessert wine
This week I partook (or took part) in a wine tasting of Riesling from a producer from Saar (which is pronounced silly with a Z instead of normally with an S)
it is the smaller and colder of the areas main Riesling regions.
Weingut Peter Lauer
1. Riesling 2025 trocken
2. Ortswein SENIOR 2025 trocken bis feinherb
3. Grosse lage kern no 9
4. Grosse Lage 2025 Kabinett Fin
5. Grosses Gewachs 2024 trocken
6. Erstes Gewachs 2025 harmonisch trocken
Overall i liked it though some are still sweet for me. But due to the 10g/l acidity it is impressive how the 44g/l of sugar wine did not seem that sweet. the Grosses Gewachs is great though it needs a few more years of age.
fun fact they sell a sparkling 1984, Brut Nature (432 months lees aging). yeasty .
https://lauer-ayl.de/en/shop/cremants-package-reserve-3-decades/
I’m a Mosel enthusiast. Yeah, the wonders of those wines is the balance between the sweetness and the acidity. When they hit it right… oh yeah.
in an embarrassing thing I did not know the romanian word ardezie is the english word slate and that caused some confusion for me.
the slopes in the Saar can be insane.
I worked as a sommelier, so being retarded is no excuse.
“It’s a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption.”
“Owens also delves into Paramount’s agreement to pay President Donald Trump $16 million to settle a lawsuit he filed against CBS over a 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, which the president claimed was misleadingly edited.”
claimed?
It was misleadingly edited, AND Trump claimed it was misleadingly edited.
So they’re technically correct, which as we all know is the best kind of correct.
Now do mandated Koran reading in many Democrat-run states, you loathsome hacks.
Meh… if the greedy oligarchs are as powerful as that clowder of repellent losers claims, I think they will weather the storm just fine.
so this is a thing that exists
https://x.com/ethantianyiqi/status/2070723737385660609
Sailor Troon!
Looks staged.
Agreed.
““An anonymous caller had contacted CPS. The caller said that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk,” Buttigieg explained.”
Hearsay isn’t evidence.
Doesn’t mean it was politically motivated. Could have been some “true crime” nut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgc9mjFlTAk
My daughter had something similar happen to her family last week. Our 9 year grandson was attending a summer camp 3 days a week. The same summer camp he has attended for the past 2 summers. My daughter got a call from CPS stating that would be paying her a visit as they had received a report that our grandson had been cut with a knife and locked out the house by his mother. The alleged incident was reported by a 8 y/o boy at the camp to a counselor. The counselor reported it to CPS without any kind of investigation or fact finding. My daughter and her husband were quite pissed and pulled our grandson out of the camp. CPS came out and did an interview and that was that. Infuriating.
The councilor was probably acting under one of those “duty to report” laws that turn those jobs into junior gestapos.
EU Commission HQ shuts down air conditioning for lower staffers, but keeps it on for most commissioners
‘It’s like feudalism,’ commission staffer tells Politico, referring to how the upper floors occupied by commissioners – the EU executive – kept their air conditioning
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/eu-commission-hq-shuts-down-air-conditioning-for-lower-staffers-but-keeps-it-on-for-most-commissioners/3979743
Some unelected apparatchiks are more equal than others.
“Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to never accept the US Supreme Court’s ruling allowing President Trump’s administration to strip deportation protection for Haitian and Syrian migrants.
“To have people who frankly taught the world about freedom have their own freedom put into jeopardy by the actions of a Supreme Court and federal administration — it is not only cruel, it’s not something we will ever accept,” Hizzoner said in a video statement after Thursday’s bombshell 6-3 ruling.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/26/us-news/mamdani-bucks-scotus-ruling-on-deportation-protection-for-haitians-syrians/
Deport him to Uganda.
What part of “temporary” don’t these people don’t understand?
The status should be reviewed every 30 days, if not more often.
Somalians built Minnesoda and Haitians taught the world about freedom.
I had no idea
Cry harder, bully.
I’m looking forward to a US Marshals Service SOG team dragging Mamdani out of his office in handcuffs.
But then, I’ve always been accused of having an active fantasy life.
Is it wrong to hope that he resists arrest, gets clubbed, tazed and wrapped, and carried to the car still screaming and blubbering?
Will they paw through his wife’s underwear drawer?
This mornings random Youtube. In case you wondered what a PITA it is to butcher a very expensive tuna.
Why Does She Break Down a 166 kg Tuna by Hand? — Tsukiji’s “Tuna Princess”
EXCL: The Green Party is considering giving ‘all workers who menstruate’ an additional 36 days’ paid leave a year, The Spectator can reveal.
Under the proposals, businesses would be forced to allow staff to take three days off every month during menstruation.
Employees would not have to present a doctor’s note, and the time off would not be recorded as sickness absence or deducted from annual leave.
The plan is laid out in a motion for Green Party Conference. The motion – which specifically refers to ‘workers who menstruate’ rather than ‘women’ – has been submitted by a male party member.
It could become official party policy in October this year.
https://x.com/hoffman_noa/status/2070493395596767512
Do the rest of us get a raise to cover the fact that we’re now doing much more of the work?
don’t be sexist now
Or just identify as a woman and claim the 36 days. What are they gonna do, say no?
Does covering the work actually outweigh not having to deal with the stress?
The people affected by this rule aren’t doing any work anyway, so nothing would change.
I am
womanmenstruating person, hear me whine. 🙄My bleeding hemorrhoids identify as endometrial tissue sloughing out of a vagina. Am I eligible?
Then I wouldn’t hire women.
And get sued into the next millennium.
daily ray of dog
https://youtube.com/shorts/LfluJ71FK-U?si=TcRMuUHBMcTE1I3X
“Page Six is told that Stevie Nicks and Tim McGraw are set to perform at what some insiders are calling Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s “Wedding-palooza” at Madison Square Garden. The bride’s first ever Billboard hit, when she was just 16 years, was called “Tim McGraw.”
Swift, who is renowned for giving fans “Easter egg” clues ahead of her album releases, dropped a major hint when she wore a shirt reading “Stevie Knicks” to Game 4 of the NBA Finals on June 10 at MSG.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/06/27/entertainment/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelces-nuptials-bigger-than-the-met-gala/
Stevie Nicks voice was shot 15 years ago.
The whole thing is so grotesque. It’s bad enough when politicians ruin people’s day but a fucking celebrity wedding?
his exceptional, turn-key, equestrian estate is comprised of 106.8± deeded acres 15 miles from Casper, Wyoming on a scenic plateau offering breathtaking panoramic views of surrounding mountains and lush creek valleys below. The custom 6,810 sq ft western contemporary mountain lodge, completed in 2017, showcases rugged elegance with wood and stone exteriors, 3-car oversized garage, and a geothermal system. Inside, the 5-bedroom, 6-bath home features a dramatic great room with vaulted timber ceilings and a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, a gourmet kitchen with a massive butcherblock island and professional appliances, a luxurious master suite with private stone fireplace, plus a finished basement with family room and guest quarters. The 15,360 sq ft insulated 8-stall equestrian barn has heated tack and vet rooms, automatic waterers, an indoor arena, and a comfortable 1 BD/1 BA apartment. Additional improvements include a 2,480 sq ft pull-through shop, a 120×200 outdoor arena, and four paddocks with loafing sheds. Pride of ownership is obvious in the level of care and maintenance on the property. The thoughtfulness, detail, and finishes that went into designing and constructing the buildings perfectly balances luxury, comfort, and functionality making this a very special buying opportunity
Price: $3,575,000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJUL21QF4gU
How about, maybe, just move out of that cesspool?
The Austin Stock Exchange has a nice ring to it.
Silicone Saturday’s mounds of monumental mammaries resolutely refuses anything but Arizona-dry reds.
https://archive.is/8v05Y
If she smokes, she pokes; if it’s dry red, she’ll be in your bed.
Kia does this in their “sporty EV”. I knew that Porsche decided to copy it, but didn’t realize it was an option. A $1k option…
We Drive Porsche’s Fake-Shifting 2027 Taycan
Still less dumb than an EV Ferrari.
That’s retarded.
Thumbsucker in The Atlantic.
Higher Ed Is Very SorryUniversities are studying how they lost the public’s trust.
It’s a complete and utter fucking mystery.
Thanks for the warning. I think I won’t click on that.
“(On average, Americans are paying less for college than they were a decade ago.)”
doubt
“Whenever anyone ever asks her what she does for a living, she lies and says: “Influencer”.”
I cannot think of a bigger red flag than this sentence.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/our-sex-life-incredible-im-37291612
It’s ok, from the article it’s pretty obvious that she is just a good old fashioned honest whore not an influencer.
Wherein we learn that, incredibly, there is room to the left of the communist mayor of NYC.
I love the word “reform” in there. The official position of the organization that he and his disciples represent is the elimination of all law enforcement.
A small plane slammed into the tallest skyscraper in China’s capital. Hours later, it was like nothing had happened.
You have to respect the CCP.
You have to respect the CCP, or else.
Tom Friedman just got a chubby.
Words fail me with this stuff.
Australia PM stuns with ‘horrific’ viral comment in parliament: ‘WTF did I just watch?’
We know damn well this is all prepared by his staff and I have no idea where they are pulling it from or who is pulling the strings. Because we also know it’s bullshit.
““With some of these algorithms coming through, we’re seeing increased presentations in our hospitals of young women who have been choked, strangled. We see anal tearing growing at an extraordinary, horrific rate because what too many young men are seeing online is normalizing behavior that is anything but.”
LOLOL
“Misogyny is at the core of all violence against women and girls.”
Anything that happens to a black person is racist.
Stories like this make it so easy, almost obligatory, to be black-pilled.
Humans keep repeating the same errors and think of themselves as the genuine good guys in their story. Leaving aside the question of whether this particular guy is a malevolent weasel or genuinely believes the words that are coming out of his inferior parietal lobule, plenty of people do believe. I don’t know how people can’t see what they are doing and how it relates to the most evil movements in human history (or maybe I’m the blind one, but obviously I don’t think so); it is definitely a black pill moment to realize it is so and, seemingly, will always be so.
Is it really a black pill if it’s just the way it is for humans stuck with evolutionary social structures that don’t scale up so well?
Your expectations for humans are too high. You wouldn’t get mad at a chimpanzee failing to derive the Pythagorean theorem.
I don’t consider it black pilled to recognize that just because there is a minority of individual humans that seem capable of higher reasoning and thought it doesn’t scale to the species. We have defective wiring in our brains that, when expressed in large numbers, leads to these outcomes; expecting that to go away without massive changes to our physiology is actually the irrational stance.
Another way to look at it: I have every right to notice and form an opinion on how fucking stupid humans are, but I have no right to levy expectations on the world. Who the hell am I?
NB: these are the coping mechanisms I’ve come up with for myself because I struggle with all the same shit you’re saying in your post. It’s helped me to be a bit more content while watching dumbass humans doing dumbass human shit.
I thought your coping mechanism was looking at large tits.
Well… that too…
defective wiring
I’m not sure it’s defective wiring. The wiring is probably, in a way, a victim of it’s own success and now finds itself in an environment it never evolved to handle. I’m just not patient or long lived enough to see whether evolutionary pressures will function well enough to eventually breed it out of us.
I thought your coping mechanism was looking at large tits.
See, this right here is an example of how wrong humans can be. Large posteriors. Let’s get it right people or we’ll never survive as a species.
Without looking into it very carefully I am going to guess that the real motivation is censorship and propaganda just like in Britain.
Today I weighed in a a new personal lightest*. I suppose that’s good. The trend line is still in the right direction. I just have to fight off the disappointment at the time it’s taking to hit the next milestone (where I start seeing weights in the 270s. I’m still in the 280s)
*within the span of my current weight loss efforts.
Congrats. I need to get back to the low-carb lifestyle. I understand the reward of seeing your work pay off.
In local shitty news.
The next day, Sept. 30, Battiloro went live on YouTube and discussed the case, after touting the broadcast to his 40,000 TikTok followers. Detectives arrested and charged him with two counts of murder two days later. Authorities said he had deliberately struck the girls…
Family and friends of the victims later said Battiloro had been stalking Maria for months, even parking in front of her house for lengthy periods of time, and that her mother had reported him to police multiple times.
Teen charged with homicide in crash that killed 2 Cranford girls will be tried as an adult
It’s not mentioned here, but I’m pretty sure I remember reading the kid was related to either local cops or politicians and that’s why nothing was done about the stalking.
WTF?
Please tell me NJ has the death penalty.
Nope.
Also interesting is that the article doesn’t seem to include a mug shot of the defendant.
KK Alert:
A dude used “cromulent” in a sentence in this article:
https://www.theautopian.com/i-drove-a-boring-car-4000-mostly-trouble-free-miles-to-alaska-and-the-experience-changed-me/
I won a free beer at Music Bingo last night at the bar.
This might be the highlight of my weekend.
music bingo?
You have a bingo card with songs instead of numbers. The DJ plays about a minute of the songs without identifying them. You try to figure out the song and check them off.
I won the round with Georgia on a Fast Train.
“A Minnesota school board member is facing backlash after suggesting that dogs should be allowed to relieve themselves in Christian cemeteries, writing in a social media post that people should “leave indigenous land sacred and piss on the White corpses” instead…
Allen is facing federal felony charges in connection with the Jan. 18 invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul where she was part of an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest where she and others stormed the church during services.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/27/us-news/minnesota-school-board-member-chauntyll-allen-calls-for-dogs-to-urinate-on-white-corpses/
She should get scalped.
Of course she is.
This is the hard-hitting journalism we’ve come to expect from the DailyMail.
https://archive.is/aTjCm
“Kieran says he is not a ‘f**k boy’ and has only slept with two women in the last seven months – and fewer than 100 in 20 years”
I guess my definition of promiscuity is a little skewed if it boils down to “< triple digits".
Who paid to get his business advertised in this article?
Guessing he did.
Use Grokipedia instead.
https://www.thefp.com/p/larry-sanger-wikipedia-co-founder-banned
It’s way better.
Is it? I haven’t tried it.
Light years better. Unbiased, thorough with much better sourcing. Just go compare the two sites’ articles on “Antifa” and you’ll never go to wikipedia again.
All of my wikipedia usage is for factual information – stats, TV summaries, etc. – nothing political.
I’ll check it out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Election fraud never happens.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15933411/new-york-school-board-election-clerk-tearing-ballots-rigging.html
Pratt won the election by a narrow margin with just 81 more votes. However, he led in absentee ballots with 87 percent and only came in third on machine voting results, with 27 percent, The Post said.
Hmmm, where have we recently seen something like this on a larger scale, with the same name even?
Anyone who advocates for unlimited absentee, mail-in voting, and making it trivially easy to vote/register is, knowingly or unknowingly, advocating for cheating. I’m just not clear on the proportion of knowing, even if with tacit/with plausible deniability, vs unknowing, imaging themselves, as very wise man once typed on this very site, as the good guys and heroes of their own story.