*buzz buzz*. My phone rattled off the nightstand. “Scam Likely”. I set it down and went back to sleep.
*buzz buzz*. “Scam likely”. This time I got the telltale jingle that a voicemail was left. Damnit.
”Mex. Its Swiss. I have a job for you. There is a situation with one of our contractors in Belize. This guy is a real piece of work—oh hang on I have another call let me put this on hold.”
You can do that with a voicemail?
“Mr. Swiss here. Oh hey Sugarfree! Yeah. She’s doing great, she just went back to India for Diwali early this year. No, she is still not married. Yeah, of course I have time to talk. Wait what did he say? That’s ridiculous, that’s going to leave you in litigation for the next six to eight months if he does that. Here’s what you need to do. Go to the county records office and submit a request for the original contractor blueprints for the property. It’ll probably cost like $25. Yeah, I’ll Venmo that. Anyways, once you know where the service entrance is, go down to the local Graybar and pick up a pair of high voltage gloves. Sure, I’ll Venmo that too.”
What the hell is Swiss doing?
“After that, you will need something to barricade his door…yes that will work. Anyways once that part is done use the high voltage gloves and cable cutters to cut the service entrance. No do NOT just cut down the pole with the transformer, that will alert the power company. Good. Then you just need to turn off the water to the property. Good. If he wants to squat on your property, force him to live in his own filth for the next six months. Otherwise, just set fire to the house with him inside. When you are done, cut the fingers off the high voltage gloves and throw them away in separate garbage cans the next town over. Yeah, no problem.”
What?
”Mex! Sorry about that. Thanks for waiting…I forgot why I called you. Just remember to do the Oktoberfest roundup this year.”
I’d rather do this than Belize so the scoring is based on what I typically grade Festbier with one addition: import duties. Up first is from Wilcox, AZ The Brewery at Tirrito Farm.
This wasn’t bad. Malty? Yes. Good warm or cold? Cold. Skunky? Unfortunately, they did in fact simulate the skunk. Import duties? Nein! 2.8/5
Next up Is from Durango, CO Ska Brewing.
I feel bad I forgot these guy existed. This one is great! Malty? Yes. Good warm or cold? Both. Skunky? None. Import duties? Nein! 3.8/5
Next up is from München. Hacker Pscorr
Nice color, gotta love it when they give you a 1/5 liter bottle and you actually can fill up your stein. Not bad at all. Malty? Yes. Good warm or cold? Cold. Skunky? Yes, but at least its real. Import duties! Jah. 3.5/5
Here we go…from Paso Robles, CA Firestone Walker Oak Aged Lager.
Is it possible to do too much? Yes. Just stick to the script people! Seriously, this is actually really good with a nice Innus and Gunn quality to it but that isn’t really Festbier now is it? In the end as a standalone this would probably rate a solid 3.5/5 or above but as a Festbier? Stick to the script. Malty? Yes. Good warm or cold? Both. Skunky? None. Import duties? Nein! 2.2/5
Finally the classic from München. Paulaner.
They sell it in cans now…Finally! Malty? Yes. Good warm or cold? Both. Skunky? Not in das cans. Import duties! Jah. 3.9/5
I hope Herr Swiss is not practicing in Ohio, otherwise I might have a duty to report this.
Be careful, ratting him out to the bar is a cowbutt level offense.
If he wants to squat on your property, force him to live in his own filth for the next six months.
Don’t forget the rats and snakes.
Firestone is a meh brewery so Im not surprised
Its not bad actually, its just not Oktoberfest.
What I gather is that John McAfee is alive and squatting on Sugarfree’s property in Belize, but maybe I misunderstood.
Sugarfree owning a sugar plantation in Belize needs to be canon.
That is a real possibly.
I was going to post this in the last thread but it was too close to the end of the time.
For cyto and anyone else asking why or saying that cant be real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFIHp6aTuE&t=2444s. – long, but hey, what else have you got to do?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulanem
“The titular character’s name is an anagram of Manuelo, which is believed to be a reference to Immanuel, one of the biblical names for Jesus Christ.[4] The first act includes a soliloquy in which Oulanem laments mortality and the inevitable destruction of the world by God, and asks himself if he must destroy the world in turn in defiance. ”
It is real. It is destruction for the sake of destruction, misery and hopelessness for their own sake. Think about it like that and everything, no matter how looney, makes sense. They really are certifiable.
I am referring to the Marxists. I notice the new archbishop of canterbury wears the AWFL costume. Watch for the inversion of the church’s values.
Ok, hard to keep up here. I have a house full of screaming kids all talking about different things all at once and putting their hands on everything. I guess my Bug-A-Salt will be destroyed in short order.
I fucking love the Bug-A-Salt. Have you put Kosher salt (larger grains) in it? Regular table salt will kill a fly, but Kosher salt will leave nothing but an indistinct yellow splatter. It’s also much more effective against the bees and wasps that occasionally find their way inside.
I have not tried it yet but plan to. Yes, it is cool as hell. The boys are desperately looking for flies to kill and I have had to refill it twice already.
Also, dont kill bees.
Ha I was expecting you to use it on the boys.
The kosher salt however does not have +1 damage against the Joos.
“Have you put Kosher salt (larger grains) in it?”
-1 scorpion
Head shaven high, my thinning hair still works on top to give that “viking” look. Plan on drawing some family runes on the side of my head.
Mrs OBE is going as my shield madien. She said she’d cut the ball off any man who touched her tit.
Rock that shit!
Cheers and have a great time.
She needs a string of severed penises for a necklace.
She’d do it
Make them dildos and people might think she is in the WNBA.
Now I assume she looks like Xena.
Mrs. OBE only has one tit?
After OBE had a few goes at ’em, yeah.
Hungry, like the wolf, is our self-named ‘n revamped-Lit song, who has no other resemblance to that track.
Shout out to Neph who traveled half way across the world to watch the Browns lose. That’s heart right there.
Wait, what?
The FBI announced Friday that it had severed ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights watchdog group, after a push from MAGA allies on social media.
Elon Musk called the group — a liberal-leaning organization that has for years tracked hate groups and provided law enforcement with information about them — “an evil organization that spreads hate propaganda relentlessly” and accused it of “incitement to murder Charlie Kirk” in a series of Thursday social media posts.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X. “Their so-called ‘hate map’ has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence. That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership.
What would the FBI be doing with SPLC other than providing them with “bomb” making materials and fake intel about right wing extremist targets?
“liberal-leaning”
*snort*
Long ago abandoned civil rights… Yeah, if by long ago you mean the second it was founded by that despicable grifter Dees.
Serious answer: relied on their list of hate groups. Of course, that list is incredibly overboard and suspect.
Conservative allies of President Donald Trump — including Musk and Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet — had previously called on the administration to disaffiliate from the SPLC, citing its “Hate Map” — a 25-year-old interactive initiative that displays organizations classified by the SPLC as hate groups.
The map still lists conservative group Turning Point USA, which Kirk co-founded, under the designation “Antigovernment General.” Per the SPLC’s website, the organization defines anti-government groups as “part of the antidemocratic hard-right movement.”
“For decades, we have shared data and analysis with the public to protect civil rights and hold extremists accountable,” the SPLC said in a statement. “We remain committed to exposing hate and extremism as we work to equip communities with knowledge and defend the rights and safety of marginalized people.”
I guess the Republican Party is an anti-government hate group.
“exposing hate”
I hate those commie grifters so I guess you can add me to the list.
“marginalized people”
Oh, fuck off. Read the room, guys. Nobody’s buying that tedious crap anymore.
Marginalized meaning awarded special legal protections, subsidized in every way imaginable, protected from consequences of irresponsibility and crime, and made the subject of secular blasphemy laws prohibiting any criticism?
Somebody’s got some ‘splainin’ to do
Federal judge Waverly Crenshaw Junior of the Middle District of Tennessee says he believes the United States Justice Department’s prosecution against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant defendant, may have been ‘vindictive’, writing on Friday that, “The government had a significant stake in retaliating against Abrego’s success.”
Vindictive prosecutions are verboten? Somebody should have notified the J6 prosecutors.
Abrego’s success?
In what? Human smuggling? Domestic violence? Gang tattoo acquisition?
Wife beating
I have the same question. Maybe it’s pro Hamas rioting.
Whatever do you mean we can’t use this corporate law in criminal prosecutions?
OT re hydrogen fuel cell vehicles from the dead thread – I think they are a good idea on paper. They are certainly less complicated than a gas engine, but currently/ironically, the hydrogen being used to power them is being produced as a byproduct of fracking other petroleum products from oil. So you still aren’t getting your hydrogen without petroleum refineries, although it does increase the efficiency of every barrel of oil refined since it was formerly ‘waste’ product that was burned off.
People desperately want to believe in magic. That makes things easier for grifters.
Fuel cells work great for manned spacecraft since they deliver energy and water otherwise the best way to handle hydrogen is to combine it with carbon.
If your process requires government subsidies, it’s a waste of resources.
The infrastructure to support them doesn’t make sense, even theoretically.
Hydrogen fuel cells work just fine, provided you have a NASA level budget.
To me the real issue with all of this is that it has become a political discussion, when it should properly be something engineer types fiddle with until someone has a eureka moment and suddenly a thing that was dismissed as impossible becomes a matter of course, and some other thing gets forgotten about as simply not workable. Instead we get one side trying to mandate that we give up a working, well developed technology and jump on board technologies that simply don’t work in their current form. And the other side, in reaction, declaring that none of them will ever work. I strongly suspect that the petroleum fueled ICE will cease to be the bedrock of transportation within a century because some other technology that may not even be dreamed up yet replaces it. The only way I see that not happening is if the idiotic governmental push to adopt specific, not at all mature, replacements chokes off genuine experimentation.
How are they less complicated than a regular ice car?
The fuel storage is more complicated and the engine is the same.
OT re hydrogen fuel cell vehicles from the dead thread – I think they are a good idea on paper.
I think hydrogen fuel cell technology could work for a stationary power source, but I am extremely skeptical about its efficiency for vehicles. I’d be happy to be proven wrong by privately funded alchemists.
Diwali (Deepavali) was fun in Singapore. Indians (mostly Tamil) Are maybe ~20% of the population, third largest after Malay and Chinese (Han). I remember it being very colorful and, as with everything in that island nation, delicious. Crazy to think about time. Can’t believe I was a year into my contract there *a decade* ago, now.
Busch hit a leadoff homer for the Cubs against the MLB-best Brewers! *That* game… uh… no longer recognizable.
Experiencing Diwali sounds more fun than experiencing Dirlewanger
“Boomer” = “I’m a millennial dipshit that thinks the world started when I was born”
Boomers are far more entitled and worthless than Millennials.
Tough call. In my experience, Boomers had a better work ethic.
Just wait until enough of them die off and millennials will look at things like, say, replacing a car battery as an impossible task.
It’s fun playing with broad strokes; here’s my version:
the top 20% of ever generation is pretty much like any other; the other 80% are shite.
I know a lot of elite Millennials well because I worked with them in my son’s programs; they’ve got their physics and calculus down, married well, make their house payments, and you’d be glad to have them cover you when it went down. They’re better at group work and easier going than my cohort….probably not quite as tough. I can name 100 Millennials who would be better at being Secretary of War, White House chief of staff, or Vice President than who we have right now.
-Pareto apologist
What Don says. The primary past time for every generation since the dawn of time is bitching about the generations before them and the generations that follow them.
Don may be a bit generous with his 20% number. I think it is closer to half of that.
“Millennial” bothers me. Not just cuz I fundamentally disagree with what “most Millennials ‘think’,” but cuz I fundamentally can’t escape *being* one, especially w regard to pop culture, growing up in the 90s. Turned 13 in 2000. Fuck.
‘My’ Generation is embarrassing. Its cover version of the same Who song -done in Millennial style- would be a gluttony of cringe. But goshdarnnit! They mean ever so well! *hoarks out Tibetan orphan’s remains, surreptitiously served to me by Richard Gere*
‘Ceviche,’ my ass.
There’s a book called “The Nineties” by Chuck Klosterman where he details the socio-cultural change that was the end of the ’90s. For those of us who grew up in that era, entertainment consisted of whatever you could find on some kind of broadcast media, products available were what you could get in stores, or find in a catalog. Gratifications were rarely instant. All of that (and other things) changed with the new millennium, so much that we have more in common with someone who grew up in the ’60s or even ’30s than someone who came of age in the 2000s or later.
Agreed. Easy delineation point: 9/11. Those born after it never experienced the world ‘properly.’ Rather, they grew up in the nascent smart phone revolution, never needing to wait or wonder for immediate gratification.
Especially if you add Big Things, like the end of the Soviets /Cold War, the rate of internet and market growth, and Team Red actually being able to stop Clinton from really *doing* too much, it really was an astonishing decade. With regards to the shit we had access to, and the still-extant idea of having some liberty and privacy, it’s in the running for Best Ever.
Cuz, I’m like, not totally biased *at all.* Like, sure, whatever.
Gen X, caught between our hippy/yuppy parents and the smart phone.
More horror stories
A distressing but compelling read, her book contains 60 interviews with survivors, witnesses and former employees. Melissa Price was introduced to Al-Fayed in 1986. The 16-year-old student was offered a job as a private antiques buyer. She was later sexually assaulted at Al-Fayed’s Saint-Tropez residence. Eventually, Price told her father, Charles H. Price II, then the US ambassador to Britain. He advised his daughter to keep schtum. He did, however, privately share details of her traumatic attack with several prominent politicians, including US President Ronald Reagan and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Assuming the stories are true (especially this one), how does this guy not end up dead in an alley, no matter how rich he is?
In my experience, Boomers had a better work ethic.
And an understanding of thrift and saving (which is largely why they are now so despised).
I had an interesting exchange on Substack with people who are seriously pissed their Boomer parents aren’t preserving their inheritance by living in penury.
What was their reasoning?
This is reportedly a real trend with boomers. They’d rather spend what they have than leave it for their children. There’s probably a mix to where you can still enjoy what’s left of your life and leave something for your kids.
Especially when many of them spent their entire adult lives voting for policies that would fuck their kids and their garndkids over later on.
I criticize boomers mainly for that. They are the ones who brought about the policies that are killing this country. But few want to own it. They’d rather bleed the country dry before kicking the bucket.
This. They can rot in hell for that and that alone as far as I am concerned.
To steel-man it, their reasoning was that parents have a moral obligation to provide for their children, including whatever sacrifices are necessary.
My response was that, sure, for their minor children, but if their adult children want lives of luxury, they should earn in themselves, and if their parents want to go spend the money they earned on cruises or whatnot, their children should be happy they are enjoying their twilight years.
This was not well-received. The stink of envy and entitlement was heavy in the air.
I totally agree.
I’ve seen the opposite thought in action (think vultures circling) and it’s not pretty.
@RC Dean Wow! That’s incredible. I completely agree with you.
My dad has 800+ acres of farm ground, couple of million in investments and has subsidized his wife’s grandkids, braces, flying lessons, horses, motocross, college, two meals at his house for the last 20 years, built her daughter a house.
Dosent know my kids birthdays, never calls them.
Is in The process of born g down everything he owns, selling it all and scrapping all his projects and tools.
He’s told me on more than one occasion “you’ll never get a fucking dime of mine.”
Boomers at large seem to be the most narcissistic generation.
Hmm, the Boomer’s parents understood thrift. The Boomers kind of invented the consumer debt fueled keeping up with the Joneses concept. At the risk of offending my fellow Ge Xers, there are no adult generations left that have a traditional work ethic and sense of responsibility. The Generation now approaching adulthood may save us all, there is some evidence that they are turning back to old concepts in disgust at what the Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z have saddled them with.
Flying blind
The Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren has called on the Trump administration to release the jobs report and upcoming inflation data despite the shutdown. “The jobs data scheduled to come out this Friday has undoubtedly been collected and the President must release it,” she said. “Without it, the Federal Reserve will not have the full picture it needs to make decisions this month about interest rates that will impact every family across the country.
“Donald Trump has the power to make sure the federal government can continue producing and releasing this critical information on Friday and beyond during his shutdown.”
How will businesses and consumers know what to do?
Smoke signals.
Err, Lizzie, the Fed produces its own economic data, you know. I can’t imagine they are stupid enough to rely on the jobs report, in particular, or the “official” inflation data.
As if she would trust any numbers put out by her mortal enemy.
No shit ray of sunshine
After he was charged with a felony at age 19, Matthews couldn’t find a job in the corporate world, so he decided to carve his own path, he says.
“Once they see a felony behind a person they don’t even care about what credentials you got. You’re just not accepted in that society,” Matthews says.
Now, Matthews, 32, currently owns five companies, most notably his successful Houston, Texas food truck, Goodies Soul Kitchen.
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He started his first company “due to the simple fact that I couldn’t get a job with my college degree,” he says.
Today, his businesses collectively bring in over $1 million in net revenue annually.
He started with a cleaning service and rolled his money over into other things.
Work ethic, FTW!
Smart guy. Glad he got out of the crab bucket. Good ray o’ sunshine.
Cookie cutter rules often end up excluding a lot of talented people who could contribute.
Good for him.
I’m utterly unsurprised a German brewery brewed the best beer.
I, on the other hand, am shocked that an industry crippled by overregulation would produce anything of value.
Compound interest, how does it work?
Yet another college-credentialed chick who’s learning that making minimum payments on a loan doesn’t get the balance paid down.
Oh boy another influencer with a car studio
Wait, I have to pay principal and interest for my loan balance to decrease! That’s absurd!
/lady in the video
She’s right on one point; student loans should be illegal.
Only those who can afford to go to college should go. And that would drive the cost down.
Yet another college-credentialed chick who’s learning that making minimum payments on a loan doesn’t get the balance paid down.
I think she could make a compelling case for deserving a refund. She obviously did not learn anything in college.
Inaccuracies
Skylar Weiland did everything right: Graduated with honors, completed internships and networked extensively. Yet the Northern Illinois University economics graduate spent months unemployed, applying to as many as 50 jobs per day before landing a job outside his field.
“It’s exhausting and it’s dehumanizing and it’s been a nightmare, to be honest,” Weiland said. “My entire life, I’ve been told you’ve got to graduate high school, then you graduate college, then you’ll get a job. It feels like all my hard work was for nothing. I feel almost like I was lied to.”
You fucked up. You trusted us.
Learn to mop floors.
My Boomer in laws still don’t understand the reasons we hope our kids never go to university