Last weekend I penned an article on the Cracker Barrel saga, effectively hand waiving the whole thing. I am happy to admit I might be wrong from time to time, and in light of this development below…(TW Outkick)
You played it down the middle, and that’s fine.
But re-wording the back of the peg game, so idiots don’t get offended when they inevitably suck at it? Come on. Sucking at the peg game is as American as apple pie. It’s a rite of passage. It’s tradition. That game made us all stronger as kids growing up. And it challenges us still to this day.
It created a generation – maybe two – of deep thinkers. Of innovators. Of problem-solvers. And yeah, it called us “just plain dumb” when we left too many tees on the board. And that’s because we WERE just plain dumb!
They messed with the peg board game? Fuck em.
¡enlaces!
Do I really want to trust the Coast Guard on this one? Did they weigh upon seizure and upon storage?
Mexico’s economy is doing what every other country in the world seems to be doing: stagnating.
A prominent Mexican not tied to the cartels?
This sounds like a big conspiracy to me, wouldn’t a normal news outfit notice a giant school for Latin American assassins without the obvious AI comics?
I’m sure we would all flee to Argentina if we could. Some of us don’t speak Spanish though, you know? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You laugh, but 90% of the membership of this site dances exactly like this.
They really tee’d you off, eh MS?
But yes — don’t mess with the classics. Knowing you should be able to do better is the whole point / fun of that game.
Afternoon, all you happy people.
In the 70’s/80’s they used to have “hillbilly” spelling on their menus. One special was something like, “Declare how you want your aigs and loosen your belt”. As kids we thought that was great. Then at some point they changed that.
I also remember getting an off-color “Hillbilly Laugh Book” at the store.
They really tee’d you off, eh MS?
I just don’t want to feel left out.
The really tough goal with the peg game is to leave exactly six pegs with no further jumps possible.
Well, you’re on another List for admitting that out loud.
We thank you.
Sheldon’s peg game activities are the least of his reasons for being on The List.
CB took a shot at change and shanked it.
I blame the trans activists. With the explosion of chicks with dicks it is inevitable that pegging would be forced to adapt.
Who needs an ersatz dick when there are so many real ones available?
“You laugh, but 90% of the membership of this site dances exactly like this.”
I still pogo like it’s 1987.
not like this
I am the 10%.
You laugh, but 90% of the membership of this site dances exactly like this.
I was at a Swing dance earlier this year where the DJ played a Counting Crows song. Not that song, a different one.
I tapped out and left the dance.
I’m admittedly fond of that song.
And I think you dramatically overestimate the quality of my dancing, MS… (or am I in the 10 percent that doesn’t even dance that well?) Slight swaying completely out of time with any sense of rhythm or beat is the best you can hope for.
I don’t know why (maybe a mix CD back in the day?) But after that song, I always want to listen to this…
At my first job some of us had what could loosely be called a band, and we played that song, so I’ll always remember it that way.
*presses play*
Jesus I hate it even more now than I did back then.
Awful.
Rhy, it’s even worse than that for us hetero men. That guy tagged Jennifer Aniston.
I saw the Counting Crows at a club in SF about the size of my living room a couple years before that album came out. I thought they were pretty good.
I trust them more than I would have the last 4 years when they presumably had to send everything to the White House for disposal.
(That actually makes me wonder.. there’s some actual medicinal use for these drugs, right? Are they put into that system or just destroyed? If destroyed — wouldn’t it be better to weigh them at sea and then just dump them overboard? Or are we too worried about coked up rape dolphins off of the Keys that way? Obviously, it wouldn’t change SEA SMITH’s performance one way or another… but Flipper getting hot and bothered might cause some interesting family vacations….)
Id be more worried about cocaine orcas, personally.
Someone post the trailer to the 1970’s classic, Orca
You have only to ask.
Best coke I ever had supposedly fell off the back of a CG ship.
Pharma grade cocaine is used when your eyes seal themselves shut, and it will be sprayed on to relax the muscles.
/former account manager of pharma distribution.
//legitimately.
The Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton offloaded the combined 76,140 pounds (34,500 kilograms) of drugs at Port Everglades, Florida, on Monday, including about 61,740 pounds (28,000 kilograms) of cocaine and about 14,400 pounds (6,500 kilograms) of marijuana seized by multiple Coast Guard vessels.
That sounds like a hell of a party.
Seems like the CG cutters should be the ones smashing into other vessels but it always is a USN destroyer making the news
Funny how a massive bubble caused by printing and injecting money and screwing up global supply chains might need a recession / depression to clean things up.
I mean… no one saw anything like this coming… No siree, Bob!
Viva Senor Chainsaw!
I think most of us don’t expect his reforms to last and that’s why we haven’t been learning Spanish.
As for Bolsonaro… any place that got him away from that power-mad judge would have been a good idea. Too bad for him.
The cocaine I can see, but why does anyone try to smuggle marijuana into the country anymore? It’s de facto (or de jure) legal in about half the states, and cheap.
I guess there’s still a market to fill.
But maybe the demand from red states is enough to justify it?
Smuggling marijuana to avoid the taxes?
The cartels smuggle anything they can make money on. Coke, grass, generic medications, avocados, home appliances, anything.
They’d probably have better margins going from rec states to non-rec states.
Don’t be silly, Rec states are expensive compared to traditional production sources.
Force if habit
Many of the state that legalized weed, like cali, fucked up in the taxation dept. So there has been a huge amount of room for extra-legal pot.
It has historical precedence. Who would have thought to look at her house?
https://nypost.com/2025/08/26/world-news/dutch-painting-looted-by-top-nazi-official-discovered-in-argentinian-real-estate-listing/
Today, the country is led by President Nayib Bukele. In 2023, he opened CECOT, a widely condemned mega-prison.
Widely condemned by whom? Is there a large pro-gangbanger contingent out there, or is it just the usual gaggle of swarthy anti-American radicals?
By all the right-thinking people, duh.
So Google is telling me to buy an iPhone. We shall see how they follow through on this.
Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
TW – TopMen
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/
Come to the dark side.
You have cookies?.
I’m probably going to go back to the dark side next time. Don’t know why I left – something different to play with, maybe.
If you’re sideloading anyway, just a hop-skip-and-a-jump over to graphene or lineageos. Of course, if you always need the latest and the greatest, de-googling might be a challenge. I’ll sit over here in the corner with my 2020 vintage ‘smaht’ phone…
Bigger issue is Android TV. The random Chinese boxes are chock full of spyware and at best made like crap.
I use two Nvidia Shield TVs and they are basically several OS revisions behind Google because they got fed up with Google destroying the UI and shoving all the tracking into the devices.
That’s not going to work forever as eventual Google will not support those older revisions and it won’t support Widevine anymore.
Sensei:
I just dealt with Alphabets shitty support and upgrade paths with my Chromecasts (first and second gen). They’re both well out of support, but worked fine until software updates (to integrate them with Google Home) borked them to the point that they’ll randomly show offline, can’t have any settings changed, and the like.
The official recommendation from Google was to factory reset them (even though that’s bricked that model after their updates) and if they die, buy a new one (the new ones all have voice activation and other features I don’t want). We really only used it for the non-smart TV in the basement, so it’s an annoyance rather than a big issue. But can one tech company just fucking leave well enough alone and stop making their products worse?
Bigger issue is Android TV.
Yep, really don’t mess with OS on TVs I guess. WiFi blocked at the router, don’t plug in a hard line. Have my PC set up with a display connection to the TV and it handles all the networking and playback. Treat the TV as a not so fancy display.
No Neph, they have to make their operating systems several gigs for no reason and keep changing things for job security.
Roku did that. I lost my homebrew podcast app. I know it is weird to listen to podcasts on a TV, it just worked when I was housecleaning.
My current phone is iJunk, and never again for that crap.
Coming soon to the UK – the defenestration of Reform, before they can actually win an election.
Not a lot of reporting for a while on AfD, come to think of it…
I’d expect Reform to be charged with hate speech for being anti-immigrant under the new Online Safety Act and tucked safely away, yes. That’s if they think Farage will actually try to live up to any of his rhetoric (maybe I’m conflating him with other Brit pols… but I swear when he got some votes he did diddly over squat with them….)
Farage seems pretty squishy. The kind of guy who enjoys giving speeches as the opposition, has no interest in winning and actually leading.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the UK descends into civil war.
That was Elon’s take on the guy.
He might be squishy, with no real ability to run things, but he has fired up a dead nation, twice now.
That, my friend, is worth a hell of a lot in real time.
lol Same playbook as here.
The left really, really wants to destroy everything. I don’t think it is going to end well for them.
Just say no
Tamika Howard, who lost two siblings to gun violence was among those speaking Tuesday morning.
“Sending the troops into our communities will not provide healing or for our pain,” Howard said. “It will escalate fear. It will retraumatize families and definitely push our young people further away the goals and accomplishments that we have yet to reach.”
Instead of troops, she wants to see more federal funding to help prevent gun violence.
Of course she does. Those community activists have bills to pay.
“More federal funding”. Of course. I wonder how much of the federal funding they got in the past was diverted to programs for immigrants?
When she asks for federal funding why do I hear feed me Seymour?
Years of experience and observation, I expect.
Well, well, her 501c3 has no 990s on file, and has supposedly been around 10 years. I wonder if you make a donation, that gives you standing to file a complaint with the IRS?
Instead of troops, she wants to see more federal funding to help prevent gun violence.
Counterpoint
Probably a lie, but even if true – what level of crime is acceptable?
Ten minutes ago every leftist outfit was decrying the horrific levels of crime unique to America.
Err, federally funded troops patrolling your streets is federal funding to help prevent gun violence.
Yeah, but that might accomplish a stated goal. We can’t have that.
I wonder if they bothered interviewing any non “activists”. You know, average fucks from the hood who never seem to make the esteemed pages of these journals.
For those with an interest in history a long bit on the history of the full service gasoline protection racket.
TLDR – one colorful character selling cheap gas managed to get every other service station to force full service on NJ.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2025/08/26/why-nj-pump-gas-bergen-county-man-price-wars/85665027007/
‘quirky, yet beloved state law…”
It’s neither.
It beloved by I’d estimate well over 50% of the female residents of the state.
I’m almost surprised it is that low of a percentage of women that want someone to jam their nozzle in and pump.
At least they aren’t asking for pre-bitten cucumbers.
Oregon’s better but still crappy when it comes to fuel.
I’ve had one of those retards leave the cap off. I’m glad it had a chain on it. Probably lost 5-10 gallons.
Whoosh
A haboob is a dust storm pushed by the wind produced by a weather front or thunderstorm and typically occurs in flat, arid areas. Heavy rain and wind followed Monday’s haboob, delaying flights at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and causing some damage to a terminal roof.
Impressive pics. Did Casa Sharpshooter survive?
Yes, we call them dust storms.
Class it up a bit, make it sound scary. Use it to keep people away.
Not a moment’s rest
Supporters of President Donald Trump are outraged by his announcement that 600,000 Chinese students will be allowed into the United States to study.
Trump made the comments at the White House on Monday as trade talks with China continue, saying it was “very important” to allow Chinese students into the country.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, was among the critics of the plan, saying the U.S. “should not let in” students who may be loyal to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
You’d think his arms would get tired from stirring the pot.
I don’t get this one.
“Keep your enemies closer” is all I’ve got… it sure as heckfire isn’t the way I’d spin this dial…. or someone just got his ear at the right time and he’s looking to make some stupid AI deal or Intel chip thing… who knows.
I can only keep reminding myself that he’s still a lot better than the shit sandwich we would have had and that no politician that actually agreed with me across the board would ever get elected (or probably want to get elected)… so take the stupid crap with the good. Yay.
My only guess is that he just brain farted out a number. We may not get a lot more than we already have, just they won’t be deported.
Some asshat is behind me in the school pickup line, blasting music I can hear over my own music. I need to ID this parent so I never talk to them about anything, ever.
Give the man a steak so we can have exactly 57 Chinese students admitted.
Maybe they don’t get to “report” home.
I’d be OK with that.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday: “The president’s point of view is that what would happen if you didn’t have those 600,000 students is that you’d empty them from the top. All the students would go up to better schools, and the bottom 15 percent of universities and colleges would go out of business in America. So his view is he’s taking a rational economic view, which is classic Donald Trump.”
The government would have to bail those schools out. Let China subsidize our worst schools.
My car has been towed and I await an estimate.
I predict its death, but I await hope it resembles its Wolverine-driver and lives on. We shall see. I hope to be surprised, but anticipate the predictable.
This will be fun. Find Evan a car!
AMC Pacer Wagon! https://www.ebay.com/itm/267378958990
He needs something to pick up the wimminz.
https://share.google/images/7khBN6awy2eCyA45V
True. Let me see if I can find something suitable…
YES!
A Fiero – based Ferrari replica. Looks good from ten feet…
https://ebay.us/m/Cpc0pu
My grandparents had one. Brown, naturally.
My uncle worked for AMC. We could get them at cost.
After three Ambassadors he bought a Cadillac….
this is his speed https://barnfinds.com/lithium-ion-upgrade-1976-citicar/
Ford Transit Connect!
https://ebay.us/m/vS4lVX
Wow, a Ford Model A Speedster for under $13K:
https://ebay.us/m/mCOJH7
Ooo, a 1948 Plymouth Deluxe Coupe! Original and lovingly cared for. Has a towel over the driver’s seat, that must have been where Grandpa noisily expired. Only $12K.
https://ebay.us/m/yTDbH0
Re: Cracker Barrel peg board game — The pride our society dives into Orwellian reality isn’t shocking. Boiling the frog slowly.
VOLDEMORT! Yeah, those syllables don’t hurt, either.
The bad thing about being fisked is when they pick apart what I ALREADY SAID and restate it. Like, are you arguing to argue?
Lady, you should learn how to read before you try to write.
Morbidly curious: was this on X, FB, or your blog? (Or some other platform I’m unaware of?)
Fun aside: “Let Down” by Radiohead has found Billboard success after its 1997 release on the band’s ‘OK Computer’ album. (My favorite album of my favorite band.)
It’s the prettiest song I can think of, and I have, indeed, thought about it. (No sarc.) So happy I saw them in London on the In Rainbows tour. Pissed I couldn’t see the second show the next day. (Hey! I had an exam to take in-person in Germany the next day! (I did well-ish!))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVgHPSyEIqk&ab_channel=Radiohead-Topic
SpaceX giving it another college try. I’m not feeling a scrub with this one. Liftoff just around 7:30ET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpmTivdrQiQ
OOOF – weather only 45% favorable. Maybe it will be another scrub.
Thanks for the heads up!
Ordered a larger monitor at work. Barely fits and the pixel count is no bigger than my existing smaller one. Wtf is wrong with end user IT?
Where would you like me to start?
At the beginning
“I’m sure we would all flee to Argentina if we could.”
Are you calling us Nazis?
On a long enough time scale we’re all Nazis, muchacho.
I posted this in one of my Youtube articles a while back – this one literally made me dizzy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BMNEomqFGc
My daughter got me addicted to watching cat grooming videos:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nBs9jnrUR1A
Husband just sent me this from FB. ☠️☠️☠️
Perfect!
🤣😂
The only thing I miss about being kicked off of FB so far is marketplace.
They killed Craigslist and I have cars to sell.
Marketplace ain’t about selling shit. It’s a psychological test to see how far you’ll go for gas money before you set your house on fire.
*whistles, stamps feet*
https://www.thedrive.com/news/porsche-is-now-considering-fake-gear-shifts-in-its-evs-after-earlier-opposition
🏳️🌈
So, like the buttons on an elevator to pick the floor, they do nothing?
In my experience, elevator buttons work, but the buttons on the “Walk/Don’t Walk” signals at crosswalks do nothing.
Around here crosswalk buttons add a pedrestrion only allways red to the light cycle, so they do something.
(and you missed the joke part of my previous comment)
Make it the shape of a green dildo.
No, don’t the WNBA will deman licensing fees.
From the comments:
“ Maybe they could pipe in the sound of something more relevant to the Porsche EV. Anyone know what sound depreciation makes?”
They already pipe in fake sounds in their EVs. May as well go all in.
Also “Turbo” is now top spec across their whole line. Doesn’t matter if it EV or ICE, there is a turbo model.
🙄
It’s supercharged!