After spending more than 30+ hours awake and most of it being in airport secured areas, I’m ready to burn the system to the ground. Delta has been worse than dealing with Frontier or Spirit airlines. Contemplate that on the TSA checkpoint of woe! There are just under 300 people that came across the pond to cheer for the Browns on Sunday (that’s in a couple of days, right?).
I decided to skip the Themes river cruise that went on yesterday, mainly to try to get some sleep and be able to not need to be social and in the public eye for a couple of hours. By the time this posts, I should have been subjected to the horrors of British food several times. But you lot don’t care about that, so let’s get to the links (please forgive any duplicates, I don’t exactly have the time to keep up with what’s being used by all of the other illustrious linkers here)…
How do you accuse someone of doing exactly what they said they would?
Do you mean bad games? Because that’s what you’ve been putting out for at least 15 years.
Yes, woke bullshit is still popular, right guys?
More incompetence from my new least favorite entity, they’re right below the Ravens on hatred right now.
I remember when the Democrats were against any birth control being OTC.
Which one of you was this?
Maybe people should stop claiming to be unbiased, and just admit their biases?
So is mine, but mine is being held hostage to pay your worthless ass.
A friendly reminder that we’re always looking for more content to feed the maw of the site, one way to help would be to provide books that you’ve read to whatarewereading25@proton.me for the What Are We Reading piece.
Time zone changes and all gave me some time to hunt down an appropriate cocktail for the links today, to be honest, I’ve never had one, but the flavors look on point.
Breakfast Martini
- 6 parts (1.5 oz) gin
- 2 parts (0.5 oz) orange liqueur (triple sec, Curacao, etc.)
- 3 parts (0.75 oz) lemon juice
- 1 barspoon orange marmalade
To make this, start by chilling a coupe or cocktail glass. Add the ingredients into a shaker, and shake vigorously until combined. Keep in mind with the marmalade, you need to work that shaker. Double strain (in general this will mean a hawthorn strainer and a fine mesh strainer) into the glass (this is really for clarity, if you don’t mind some floaties in your drink, you can single strain) and garnish with a lemon wheel if you so choose.
With that, I’ll be likely heading off to bed by the time these go up, so have fun in the comments.
Hope it is a good trip.
That being said:
Go Steelers!
I’ve been berating the Vikings fans around for not being able to beat the Stillers. Who would have guessed at the beginning of the season that Aaron fucking Rodgers would be the top QB in the AFC North?
Just don’t try to bring your spotted dick home. Customs doubtless won’t like that…
(And Themes River? Now I’m picturing Olde Londinium founded by the Romans because there was such a selection of interior decorating styles parading through the center of the proposed village… it was fabulous!)
Spotted Dick? Is that like Monkey Pox?
Well, you are supposed to put it in your mouth.
*insert Akinyele link here*
Isn’t that the disease that makes your dick bubble and squeak?
Better put yer toad in an ‘ole.
Q: Is British food really that bad?
A: If prepared correctly, yes.
Shamelessly and repeatedly? Or was that a rhetorical question?
Last time I was over there, my wife and I found a splendid little sausage shop right along the river about three minutes’ walk from the Tower of London.
It was the best of Thames, it was the Wurst of Thames.
Message, Shpip?
So you are saying your relished this shop?
Sounds like it cut the mustard.
It was a real banger.
I hear Rules is amazing, srsly. Welsh rabbit, mmm.
https://rules.co.uk/our-menus/
Well, there is the Munich Cricket Club right in the area. At some point, I’m going to get the currywurst, because I hate myself.
I’m assuming the new private ownership will be even more interested in squeezing blood from the turnip — so keep the sports franchises going with more in-game ads, more in-game purchases, etc… anything like Bioware will be even more “as if we were an MMO even for single player… so we can sell you more skins, meaningless horse armor, etc..” — everything I hated about Inquisition dialed up past Spinal Tap’s 11… even more than they already are.
Story? Characters? Those are for chumps.
You mean you didn’t jump at the Veilguard game?
Oh yeah… the backlash of stepping back from ramming “Doing a Barve” down your throat and whatnot… yeah — that’s going to be so much worse than cramming more bullshit in and pissing off the non-poison-frog brigade who might buy based on what you used to do.
As already stated though — I don’t think the new owners will really give much of a shit as long as they can cram in ads and in-game purchases. That’s the important part… but they might pay a little attention if it means less people are going to be using the in-game store, so I wouldn’t hold my breath on the Barving just yet there, Frog Boys.
<blockquote?“Challenges”…Skimming the article — it sounds like the biggest problem is that it is just barely ship-shape.
Sigh. Stupid wrong-key-press-lack-of-proofreading. Ah well.. y’all get the point.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to slash more US agencies on the back of the federal shutdown that began this week, ahead of a meeting on Thursday with Russ Vought, his budget director who has long championed shrinking the government.
Shrink the government? That’s insanity. Invoke the 25th Amendment!
The ratchet only goes one way!
I haven’t flown international — but honestly, Delta usually is tolerable for me (probably biased because the few times I do fly are in or out of ATL… and gasp.. shock… Delta is the main option there). United and American (are they even still around?) were worse when I had to use them.
Same. Delta has been solid for us.
One thing I admired about London was their pub names’ collective sense of humor.
You expect every British pub to have a name like The Fox and Firkin or the Badger’s Arms or whatever.
But just across from Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square is a pub called the Admiralty. Near the monument to the Great Fire of London is The Hydrant. And a short walk from The Tower is The Hung Drawn and Quartered (damned good fish n’ chips there).
Which is why I was puzzled when I went to Hyde Park and visited the Diana Memorial Fountain. I looked far and wide, and couldn’t find a bar called The Seatbelt.
I expect “The Handy Lass”, personally… but probably grew up with too much Python, Benny Hill, Blackadder and the like.
One person traveling in the large group (who we met and commiserated with at Hopkins) said he was upset that there wasn’t a Benny Hill museum in London.
We had Scotch Eggs at the Hung Drawn and Quarter as a mid day snack. The girlfriend went to a museum, I was going to go to the record stores, but walked past a pub (the East Indian Arms) that was associated with the Oldest Brewery in England, so I had to stop for a pint, which turned into three after a local I was chatting with bought me one.
Someone bought you a beer on Mincing Lane, huh?
Mad Scientist:
I didn’t even make it to Mincing Lane. Besides, they had Spitfire Lager on tap and cask. I stuck with tap this time, but had a cask Fullers ESB earlier in the day.
How was the Spitfire?
Mad Scientist:
It was a proper lager. ~4% ABV, light flavored, and inoffensive.
The locals have an irrational hatred of IPAs that I’ve only ever encountered in comments on sites like this.
Mmmmmm, scotch eggs.
Best ones I ever had were at the Lafayette Brewing Company in Lafayette, Indiana. Also the source of some truly excellent fried dill pickles, and the first beer I ever drank that I legitimately enjoyed.
Evil Sheldon:
So far, hands down, the best Scotch Eggs I’ve ever had were from Market Garden brewery in Cleveland. Yolks still runny, served with a mustard aioli. I don’t think I’ve ever gone with anything else if I’m there around brunch.
The ones here were good, with some of the most beautifully orange yolks I’ve seen in eggs, but served with HP Brown sauce, and cooked through.
Cooked through is the correct way to cook eggs. Runny yolks are vomitous.
Kebab and Calculator (fictional, from first season of The Young Ones):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leicester-vehicle-photography/6980170033/in/photostream/
Gah! One of the foods I just despise… never acquired the zest for it.
I would just like to say fuck the autopian. What a bunch of useless ignorant retards.
“Penske is hiring pit crew members”
ps- those NASCAR fuckers look like they’re killing snakes out there. “Tightly choreographed” indeed.
Dude… context is nice.
context is nice.
I clicked on Sensei’s link in dead thread, which led to that Penske thing. I knew better, but I had to look.
Will not provide link.
Victim of the shutdown
An Alaskan climbing influencer has died after falling from El Capitan, a famous vertical rock formation in California’s Yosemite National Park.
Balin Miller, 23, was live-streamed on TikTok ascending and subsequently falling from the monolith on Wednesday.
In an emotional social media post confirming her son’s death, his mother Jeanine Girard-Moorman said: “My heart is shattered in a million pieces. I don’t know how I will get through this. I love him so much. I want to wake up from this horrible nightmare.”
Details of what caused the incident are not clear, but Miller’s brother Dylan told AFP he was lead rope soloing – a technique that enables climbing alone while still protected by a rope – on a 2,400ft (730m) route named Sea of Dreams.
His blood is on Trump’s hands.
Quick, go hang another anti-Trump flag from El Capitan.
‘Influencers’. I hate that word. In the contemporary sense I cannot think of anything more vapid.
“Maker”
Guy who is a hobby woodworker and makes a well crafted, but non innovative chest of drawers is a Maker.
If he puts it on a YouTube channel he is “Creator” now too.
Video star? 15-minute-famer? Internet celebrity?
I prefer Influenza.
So I’m sure y’all are familiar with the English lion, what with their presence on various coats of arms and all.
But how about the other cats?
The Bee is lurking again.
https://babylonbee.com/news/chimps-honor-jane-goodall-with-21-poo-salute
Vought, a powerful figure in the administration, is a conservative ideologue who contributed to the rightwing “Project 2025” manifesto for Republican control of the White House, which Trump distanced himself from during last year’s election campaign but is now embracing.
But is now embracing, because they’re going to continue to hang it around his neck no matter what, so why bother to deny it?
Also two different groups can’t desire the same things.
I badly need drunken raucous company tonight after the day I’ve had. Also need advice on which soda/liquor combo is best.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09#success
Also I hope Nephilium has his do not disturb turned on – his Zoom sign in alerts will be pinging in the middle of the night
I haven’t really been able to speak since wednesday.
That bad? I just got this crap. Not looking forward to it.
On the Fed workers….shut up and learn to code.
On the shooting: we had a nearly identical one here a few decades ago. Every year we would have a few hunting ‘accidents’. When the “I thought he was a squirrel” shooting happened the DA said there will be no more ‘accidents’ in the parish. From now on they will all be treated as deliberate and taken to trial. Suddenly the 3-5 per year went to zero per year. Imagine that.
On the shutdown, I heard a commentator on the teevee accuse Schumer of secretly being on board with MAGA because he gave Trump the shutdown knowing full well what Trump was going to do. Sounds legit.
They’re back
Statues depicting President Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have made their return to the National Mall after being taken down.
The statues, which had a plaque between them that read “In Honor of Friendship Month,” were spotted on the mall in late September but were later removed. Their presence has come amid swirling controversy around Trump’s relationship with Epstein.
“We celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his ‘closest friend,’ Jeffrey Epstein,” the plaque read.
I thought it was supposed to be Trump and Musk. I can’t keep up.
Who made it? Who put it there (twice)? These are questions likely to remain forever unanswered.
Are they claiming that the Saudis are more retrograde than Orange?? I can’t even.
Has EA released a decent game since Archon?
Yes.
OK, Pinball Construction Set was fun too.
😃
Dead Space was solid, Bioware was good up until DA:2/ME3, and Apex Legends was fun for a bit.
Of course Neph is out of the country the weekend my wife skates in Cleveland. Oh well, I’m not going to be there either.
Well, depending on where she’s staying, I can at least provide some suggestions for places for her to go.
She going up against the Burning River girls? I used to know some players on that from the punk scene.
How do I find OMWC’s shakshuka recipe from 2017?
Have you tried saying “Hey OMWC, where do you keep your 2017 shakshuka recipe”?
I tried that. My wife looked at me like “WTF are you talking about?”
https://www.glibertarians2017.link/2017/09/12/jewsday-tuesday-shakshuka-rattle-and-roll/
Thank you, Sensei.
Shakshuka breakfast tomorrow! with the last of the garden tomatoes and peppers from our CSA farmer and crusty sourdough from the local bakery.
You can avoid the horrors of British food by patronizing the Indian places.
The “horrors” of Britihs cuisine are all overblown and horribly inaccurate. It gained a stigma during the rationing era that is no longer appropriate.
Really? Then you haven’t tried British mutton.
Ben Stein (yes, the “Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?” and game show host) used to write a column for the American Spectator. He once claimed that the best city for restaurants was not Paris or Rome, but London.
And yes, UK cuisine has come a long way since their cooking methods were basically “put it in the boiling water, wait a bit, then take it out.”
If there was a single chain that I’d recommend, it’s this one. They do two simple things exceptionally well.
Now, out in the sticks, your best bet is still the local curry shop.
When a man is tired of London food, he is tired of food.
Hashtag new profile pic & name
Welcome, Tulpa!
🥸
I ❤️ it.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312373976.html
Bye bye Venezuelans.
It is October 3 and NOT ONE of you motherfuckers reminded me to put my Halloween dress on.
It’s October?
Crap.
What? OUR labor was necessary?
I think not!