As it turns out, I have never reviewed this beer—but I have made fun of Seinfeld. Why shouldn’t I do both?
This is my review of Xingu (H/T: TOK)
Few have as much credibility needed to criticize the entertainment industry quite like the guy that pretty much owned it for a decade (TW: Outkick):
They’re so dead serious! They don’t have any idea that the movie business is over. They have no idea,” the 69-year-old Seinfeld told GQ Magazine “Film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social and cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives.”
When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it,” Seinfeld continued, before adding, “We quoted lines and scenes we liked. Now we’re walking through a fire hose of water, just trying to see.”
The fabled comedian does have a point. I can’t think of any significant pop culture trends that have come from movies in recent years – hell not even lame movie lines like Scary Movie’s “Wassssupppp?!” that teenagers were doing all over America when I was growing up!
That…wasn’t really even Hollywood. That was a Bud Light commercial.
So it goes, I have to agree with Jerry. Not just because they have no new ideas, but because they’ve been trying to “improve” old ideas. Querying their AI to create something truly awful. Take this AI rendering of Seinfeld reimagined for Gen Z. It would probably go something like this:
Setting: Jerry’s studio apartment.
Kramer: “Here comes Boomer Jerry! Everyone is going Boomer all of a sudden!”
Jerry: “Stop calling me Boomer Jerry, Kramer!”
Kramer: “JERRYS A BOOMER”
*bzzzzzzzzt*
Jerry to intercom: “Yeah”
George (from intercom): “It happened again. I can’t do this anymore Jerry.”
Jerry (to intercom): “Come on up.” (Back to Kramer) “We’re not finished here.”
Kramer: “Okay Boomer” (opens door letting George in). “Buy the dip Jerry!” (Signature slide through the doorway, slams the door)
In this universe, Kramer is an openly racist cryptobro. Not against all Jews, just the ones in Israel. George is an Incel, after years of only being able to attract transwoman—still lives in Queens with his parents. Elaine is a non-binary pansexual but has an OnlyFans account with Puddy, who is a based Nigerian in this universe. She is constantly fired and rehired by J. Peterman for some reason.
I had this a few times before. I don’t know why but for whatever reason Xingu tastes like beef jerky to me. Once in college I found it and thought “this tastes like jerky.” A couple other times I thought maybe a bad batch got though QC like a Taurus revolver. Nope, it tasted like jerky. Even last November I was at a Fogo de Chaō and grabbed one from the bar while waiting for my table. It tasted like jerky but(!) I ate a ton of meat that night so I didn’t notice it at all. Weird? Yes, but I am as baffled as you since this is right in my wheelhouse and I know a lot of people seem to like this one. Xingu: 2.1/5
YOU’RE OUT OF ORDER, THEY’RE OUT OF ORDER THIS WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS OUT OF ORDER
Besides me. I’m First. Always First.
The topic is Seinfeld, not Animal House. First rules specify it must be on topic.
Yeah, he’s the first one out of The Contest.
/slams cash onto Formica
I like jerky.
I like beer
I don’t think I want my beer to taste like jerky, but I would try it.
I would guess that it’s autolysis (yeast dying and breaking down in the beer) that they want in there for some flavor. It’s also the reason that some of the old high ABV beers would taste like soy sauce.
+1 Samichlaus
Ah that’s what it is.
Haven’t seen that in a while. Not my sort of event, but the decisive nods make me giggle.
From ded thred
Almost all Western democracies have a professional civil service that does not answer to whatever political party happens to be in power
I think I liked it better when Sir Humphrey was delivering those lines.
Better that they answer to the same political party no matter who those icky voters happen to elect.
Always, always, it’s follow the money.
No matter the political party no one leaves Congress poor and the civil service folks/military leave with an early pension.
Dana Rohrabacher 30 years in Congress; left in 2019 with hardly the proverbial pot to piss in.
“A senator or representative’s retirement benefits are based on their plan, age and how long they served. No member of Congress is eligible for his or her pension unless he or she has served for at least five years. To collect their full pensions, congressmen must either be at least 62, be at least 50 with 20 years of service or have 25 years of service at any age.”
Poor Dana
Yes not poverty stricken but not multi millionaire like so many other congressmen who had insider knowledge but no ethical principles
Tragic inexplicable cruelty
She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done.
By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.
Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.
——-
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
OMFG teh heartless cruelty! The chicken farmer should have killed that dog with an axe on the spot.
How many of the people weeping bitter tears over a fucking worthless dog are perfectly content with the idea of unlimited access to abortions of convenience?
They should talk to Hayek about it.
She doesn’t even believe in animal spirits, so of course she loves animal cruelty.
Speaking of our HE. Has she been released from the hospital?
Back at home / work, but the antibiotics were doing a number on her GI system.
I think you’re behind. Read the overnight thread.
Indeed, that’s the case.
My wife always claims that I’m a little behind. Actually, she says “YOU’RE A HUGE ASS, YOU KNOW THAT!?!?” but I know what she means.
It may have been the right call to put those animals down, but it’s a bit psychopathic to view sharing about killing your dog as a way to get more votes.
I’ve unfortunately had the experience of putting down of my dogs and a goat (among other animals on the farm), and it’s not a pleasant thing to do. But for a politician to be kicking it about as a reason to vote for her… it’s disturbing.
It’s a very different experience than hunting. It’s humbling and for me at least, respectful for livestock/poultry turned to food and deeply saddening for pets. Not something to cheapen by shilling for votes.
She also seems incompetent as a dog owner. “I can’t train my dog or hire a professional trainer so let’s just take it out to the field and see what it does. Maybe she’ll get better on her own.” “Oh, I can’t keep my dog in the car because I’m too busy posing for photos. Oops, it killed a chicken. It’s dangerous! Got to put the inconvenient dog I don’t like down. Oh well!”
It was rabid!
Or shorter version: another politician is a lazy narcissistic psychopath. I’m shocked.
That too, a bad dog is a reflection of the owner.
Well, every human-owned dog is an adoptee.
That is, not genetically related, so somewhat unpredictable.
On one hand, putting down a vicious or otherwise useless dog is a part of life in rural America. On the other hand, nearly every dog in America is a pet, not a worker. I say this as a Chihuahua owner.
Cute little bastards.
They are
I had a husky that got after the neighbor’s sheep. I wouldn’t have blamed him for shooting her.
I rehomed the dog. Good dog otherwise. Just couldn’t be around livestock.
So, yeah, she had options. But ranch people see animals differently , so I get it. Still seems like a temper fit.
On Friday, reaction to news of Noem’s description of killing her dog and her goat included satire, the Barack Obama adviser turned podcaster Tommy Vietor calling the governor “Jeffrey Dahmer with veneers”, a reference to a famous serial killer and a recent scandal over Noem’s cosmetic dentistry treatment.
But most responses, particularly from dog lovers and people who hunt with dogs, simply expressed disgust.
Rick Wilson, of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, called Noem “deliberately cruel” and “trash”. Ryan Busse, the Democratic candidate for governor of Montana, said: “Anyone who has ever owned a birddog knows how disgusting, lazy and evil this is. Damn.”
Boo fucking hoo, peanut gallery. She sounds eminently qualified to be Commander-in-Chief. Maybe that’s what frightens them.
Ask Hunter about veneers. 😁 👍🪞
Ask the Secret Service about vicious dogs.
They’re on a farm in Delaware, Scranton?
A couple other times I thought maybe a bad batch got though QC like a Taurus revolver.
Heh.
The kids still quote stuff and laugh, it’s just from tik-tok videos, and they aren’t even funny things, but they laugh because it’s pop culture thing they recognize.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/watch-georgia-state-trooper-puts-nfl-pros-shame/
Nice takedown.
One of Team Blue’s dimmer bulbs says the quiet part out loud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1gYuhd-S_0
Zoo animals play musical instruments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyb77SNs7fE
For me, it was a toss-up between the elephant with the harmonica and the otters playing the keyboard.
As for Hayek’s question about why I did not try vegetable oil as a coolant for my experimental computer, mineral oil has a proven record of immersion cooling of electronics and doesn’t go rancid. Also, the cost of both oils per gallon is similar.
Elihu Thomson first used mineral oil to cool high-voltage transformers in the late 1800s. Today, theft of the oil sometimes causes transformers to overheat and explode.
Vegetable based eater oils outperform mineral oils in several respects.
I use FR3. But then again I need the high voltage and long life, and I don’t want to deal with disposal of oils considered harmful to soil and water (which mineral oil is).
https://www.cargill.com/bioindustrial/dielectric-fluids/fr3-transformer-oil?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=cargill-fr3-search-2022&utm_content=responsive-search-ad&utm_source=google_ads&campaignid=20683251331&adgroupid=157766204394&creative=677618876794&matchtype=e&network=g&device=m&keyword=natural%20ester%20fluid&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwxLKxBhA7EiwAXO0R0BY_0_EZ1aO7WWkrqYp4fk9OPA8mx-tw4aUoMjpw-fmeA2ntXDzmdRoCLDYQAvD_BwE
Afroman sings about Hunter Biden getting high:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgLD1yhxNik
That was funny, but I am also the right age for it.
Footage of yesterday’s tornados:
https://youtu.be/p1wuPBHRi4Q?si=LYZ20MhXiX2zsw4q
Yikes! Paging Mr. kinnath. Mr. kinnath to the white courtesy phone, please!
Any other Glibs from around the affected necks of the woods?
The Seattle City Council is in the middle of deciding whether to pass a new law that would adjust its prior PayUp bill that went into effect in 2022.
The PayUp law enforced a minimum wage for gig workers, which includes delivery drivers for local restaurants and platforms like Uber Eats and DoorDash. Under PayUp, delivery drivers made $26 per hour before accounting for mileage and tips.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/20-minimum-wage-backfires-as-restaurants-see-orders-plummet/ar-AA1nJDFP
Beene said Seattle and other major cities are struggling to figure out how to pass minimum wages that fit the financial needs of employees while not harming the local economy.
“The real minimum wage is always zero”
Thomas Sowell
“We just need a bigger hammer to pound this round peg into this square hole!”
“How do you make shit more expensive without the people noticing shit is more expensive?” is the conundrum Democrats cannot figure out.
Make your employer subsidize McDonald’s and send the consumer a bill once yearly for the outstanding Big Mac balance.
“continue reading on the app”
LOL F U
Getting around pay walls is easy: just hit ctrl+a and ctrl+c real fast and paste it into Notepad. That’s not 31337 Hax0R1ng, but it works.
[hangs up payphone and adjusts black trench coat]
My phone doesn’t have that key
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E07/646328
ha I almost said that
Reload the page and screen grab real fast then.
Or, just move on with your life.
Yes. If I’m interested I may try (x)ft.io
If that doesn’t work I generally go back to pr0n.
If your phone browser has a reading mode, that works about 2/3 of the time. Brave has a most effective reading mode. Turn it on, see the whole article.
Professor at Emory doesn’t know about Shut the Fuck Up Friday:
https://twitter.com/HeidiBachram/status/1784149052310860262
This is truly the outcome I want – an Electoral tie and the decision goes to the House, where every retard in America screams about the popular vote – the popular vote!!!!
Great. An endless procession of lying and half truths ads await us suffering Pennsylvanians. Biden still leads, barely, in polls with RFK included. Dems control most of PA state offices so I wouldn’t be at all surprised that RFK’s petitions are tossed out.
Yep, we may be the literal keystone to the whole election. It will be stupefying.
Now it’s official: two of Burnley, Luton, and Forest will be relegated.
The Newcastle/S.U. match was bananas. Almost made up for Liverpool shitting another bed.
Two other great games this weekend: QPR beat Leeds 4-0 last night to guarantee survival.
Then one of those lower division games: Sutton United had to win and hope Colchester lost along with a 4-goal swing. Colchester drew so it didn’t matter, but Sutton drew 4-4 They’d averaged 1.2 goals/game up until that point.
And, apparently, the Man Utd goalkeeper will be trying out for a boxing career.
Not kickboxing like Eric Cantona?
Nope: https://youtu.be/7w_Uhn_IkhQ?si=l5fv2aur2aFf8rz9&t=545
Wow, thanks for reviewing that one. I never experienced a meaty flavor from it, but now I probably will now that you put that in my head. I always liked that for a dark beer, it didn’t have a bitter aftertaste.
It probably is just me.
Do you think cilantro tastes like soap, too?
I think it smells like scotch tape.
Scotch tape has a smell?
Dittomaster ink?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/mediaviewer/rm652985345
No, I rather like it. I put it in salsa, rice, salads, etc.
I’m growing some for the missus but Teds’ is right
Muy metálica, pero me encanta.
Last 2 Jews in Afghanistan argue with each other:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4fx6BjWEqk
Reminds me of a language in South America that has only 2 native speakers left. Linguists have been trying to record it before it goes extinct, but since the 2 speakers don’t like each other, the researchers have no conversations to study.
***
Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velazquez are the only two people in the world who still speak Ayapaneco. This centuries-old language of Mexico is in danger of becoming extinct, and yet, the two aren’t talking.
***
https://www.npr.org/2011/04/14/135402002/dying-language-speakers-wont-talk-to-each-other
Maybe they’re doing it just to annoy the linguists.
How cunning!
oopsy
***
In 2010 a story started circulating that the last two speakers of the Ayapaneco language were enemies and no longer talked to each other.[2] The story was incorrect, and while it was quickly corrected it came to circulate widely.[5]
Daniel Suslak, an assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana University, is one of the linguists working to prepare the first dictionary of the language.[2][6][7][8] Since 2012, the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI, also known as the National Indigenous Languages Institute) has been supporting the Ayapa community’s efforts at revitalising their language.[2] In 2013 Vodafone launched an advertisement campaign in which they claimed to have helped the community revitalize the language, proposing an erroneous story of enmity between Don Manuel and Don Isidro.
***
‘Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velazquez are the only two people in the world who still speak Ayapaneco. This centuries-old language of Mexico is in danger of becoming extinct, and yet, the two aren’t talking.’
Oh yeah, I totally know that ancient language… what? Talk to someone else? uh… I’m busy that day.
But yeah, sometimes things are meant to die.
Interesting times at the TOK house this weekend. Our youngest (19) has announce she’s marrying her boyfriend who’s in the Navy, and moving with him to Seattle. The wedding is at the courthouse Monday at 2pm. Still in a lot of shock.
Wedding march
Seriously, my condolences.
Nah, do the Imperial March from Star Wars.
My other choice was this.
A very young Tres got married and we didn’t let family know for a couple of months.
Boy were they surprised.
“They make wedding dresses in that size?”
*Golf clap
Ex- Mrs Cool was likely a Size 6 or 8. Got smaller once she started boxing.
I didn’t see the light until after we split up.
Good luck to the couple. Don’t rent out her bedroom just yet. When my daughter got married and came back from the honeymoon her in-laws had sold her husband’s bedroom furniture and repainted it.
It was a doomed marriage and 30 years later it was over.
Repainted the bedroom…
Hemingwavian extremely short stories sold here.
“It was a doomed marriage and 30 years later it was over.”
The long perspective of Fourscore . . . .
After about 4 jobs, lasting a couple months or less in the first year and half it was easy for an outsider to recognize the problem. After 30 years my daughter’s husband had never worked one place long enough to ear a vacation, usually that’s a year. The last several years of the marriage he didn’t work, no one was interested in hiring an incompetent liar. He had a few spells of multi year sabbaticals in the middle.
Good luck to them.
My siblings got married to their first spouses at 18 and both marriages were kind of a disaster (and didn’t even take 30 years to end)… no one could convince them not to do it. I hope your daughter has better results. Let her know that having a kid won’t solve any problems and she is always welcome back if need be.
Good advice…and then get out of the way. The road may have a few bumps in it.
Some African beers that could be reviewed here: Castle Milk Sout, Kilimanjaro, Safari, Serengeti, Ndovu, and Tusker.
Tusker is the only one I’ve been able to find in the US.
Serengeti beer commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JySxFzOLCRU
The slogan was: raha kamili hudumu zaidi
complete joy [always] lasts more
Interesting times at the TOK house this weekend. Our youngest (19) has announce she’s marrying her boyfriend who’s in the Navy, and moving with him to Seattle. The wedding is at the courthouse Monday at 2pm. Still in a lot of shock.
Eek.
Sometimes marriages like this work out better than anybody expects. Here’s hoping.
I know a few that did. Hopes all we got right now.
Obligatory, with best wishes!
He may have been the first, but ELH did it better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1lQOnqIECI
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According to the latest numbers released by the Pentagon, 21,290 of the 689,060 active married military personnel divorced during the last fiscal year. That’s a divorce rate of between 3-3.1 percent.
Hidden in those numbers is the revelation that female troops are divorcing at a higher rate than their male counterparts. For example, the divorce rate among women in the U.S. Army is 275 percent higher than men.
***
If her husband to be gets lots of shore duty, that reduces the risk.
He’s a hull technician, so assigned to work in a ship yard. They do get housing and moving assistance, and she will have insurance so there’s that.
Pig race at NJ state fair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmgpCD9JA2E
Christ Christie nowhere to be seen…
/Ed McMahon on
Hey oh!!
/Ed McMahon off
No there’s a joke!
Now
Daily Ray:
Orphaned foal gets foster mother. Starts with a tragedy (the foster is available for a reason), but ends well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktIYrZn7Y9k&t=438s
Unexpectedly
A law calling for a $20 minimum wage has led to brutal backlash as customers opt out of ordering delivery in Seattle, Washington.
The Seattle City Council is in the middle of deciding whether to pass a new law that would adjust its prior PayUp bill that went into effect in 2022.
The PayUp law enforced a minimum wage for gig workers, which includes delivery drivers for local restaurants and platforms like Uber Eats and DoorDash. Under PayUp, delivery drivers made $26 per hour before accounting for mileage and tips.
Under the new proposal, gig workers were provided a minimum wage of $19.97, which is Seattle’s minimum wage, plus a per-mile minimum payment of $0.35. However, this rule has many worried gig workers would go without a living wage.
“At the end of the day, this proposal is to return this industry to sub-minimum wages, which is why we oppose it,” Danielle Alvarado, the executive director of Working Washington, told local station Fox 13.
The PayUp bill led to extra customer fees on app deliveries, which fostered a significant reduction in customer demand. But it was also said to protect delivery drivers, who are forced to spend their own money on extra costs like gas and vehicle maintenance.
You can’t eat good intentions?
Seattle shithead politicians know what they are doing. This is about removing convenience options they hate. It has nothing to do with helping drivers.
The beer is visually delicious, but wouldn’t want to drink jerky.
Yeah I’m not sold either 🤢