Yep. The missus and I are still in The Gulch. We’ve been working dinner service for a couple of nights, and I’m ready to go back to being retired. On the plus side, the new bar is now in place and much more user friendly.
Links?
England continues it’s descent into insanity.
Canadian gypsies are the worst.
Lyndsey and John look down with approval, while wildly rubbing their war boners together.
Quit promoting commie Popes and boinking the alter boys.
Redfield was a Trump appointee. He wasn’t in any of the incriminating e-mail chains.
Bourbon virus?!? NOOO!!! NOOO!!! Oh, Bourbon County, Kansas.
Okay, that’s it for me. Time to go hawk some more booze and tell the wife she needs to wipe a couple of tables. Peace out, Glibbies.
That’s a handsome bar (although it’d pull it together better if the mirror also had a dark finish).
Thanks for the links, Spud.
(And I enjoyed the song, even if it’s not my normal thing)
I’m not sure about the gray haired umpalumpa behind it though.
Looks shady
That’s just hurtful. He’s not _that_ grey.
It’s like looking in a (different) mirror.
Don’t trust that dude.
The bar kind of ties the room together.
The popcorn on the floor makes a serious ambiance, lacking in lesser places.
I don’t trust myself.
Somehow I still end up giving people the benefit of the doubt.
Two days ago neighbors dog bit me.
He called the cops, on me. Had to preempt me with a false report and have me trespassed. SMH.
Makes me look good.
There ought to be a law…
By some accounts. Legit LOL.
The Catholic church of my youth is Pentecostal now. 😱
My wife is at Mass as I type this.
There has been a resurgence of interest in younger generations in RCC, but the middle has indeed declined.
In my opinion has nothing to do with the current commie pope and more the general rise of secularism.
Less buggery.
More snake bites.
Hear hear!
*Shakes rattlesnake rattle
Nor the scandals, but neither helps.
But yeah I believe the fastest growing religion is “none”. Unless you count “climate” or “DEI” or “‘the science'”.
Unless you count “climate” or “DEI” or “‘the science’”.
“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
(Not us, of course)
And that’s in a solidly middle-class mostly Italian-ethnic suburb. I haven’t been in the neighborhood in 40 years, though.
Yeah, I’ve been hearing that for many years… and I think there might be something to it for a lot of people… just people who aren’t me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rhy, belief in free will.
See you don’t behave in the god of the Calvinists.
“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
Holds true for God believers too. Slavery, killing infidels, burning heretics, compassionately opening one’s borders to a billion new immigrants.
I sure do.
But the things I believe in are so self-evidently obvious that I have to wonder what the hell is wrong with people who don’t.
🤨
A link to a Rush song?
Yeah you’re going to hell.
That’s just mean.
See you don’t behave in the god of the Calvinists.
Every sect has its own version of God.
Snakes on a praying
a lot of people… just people who aren’t me.
I think people attracted to this site and libertarianism in general are just a bit different in that regard.
I don’t mean that in a way to pat ourselves on the back. I just think that if you like this philosophy, you understand the responsibility of being in charge of yourself
I submit the enduring unpopularity of our opinions as proof of that.
+ I am comfortable with people who are religious, as long they don’t try to assume power over me.
Yeah, we are weird.
Disbelief in the greatness of Rush though… I have a hard time tolerating that heresy.
I’m not saying that religion is the answer, but the decline of Christianity was a big element of the rise of fascism and communism. Fascism itself inherited Europe’s anti-Semitism, but none of the restraining power that Christianity offered. So you could kill a subhuman Jew without having to worry about any punishment. And as hated as Jews were, they still had a role to play in Christianity.
Nothing grinds my gears more than hearing people talk about the supposed evils perpetrated from religion while so many themselves follow what could fairly be called secular religious dogma.
There’s few wars fought over truly just religion. And don’t get me started on the morons who act like The Crusades were some great historical evil and an example of Christian extremism…
More self-loathing from “the West”. Any more of that and we’re going to self-loathe ourself into extinction.
The CC of my hometown (and host of my Boy Scout Troop) is a Mission CC, so it gets every potato eater in the county showing up, thus packed for all masses.
I suppose I’m lucky in that regard – my lack of belief in God has always been downstream of my lack of belief, in general.
A few different cultural events, and I easily could have ended up some miserable commie smoothbrain.
The lack of churching in this state is a huge part of the cultural problem here.
Cheebus Fucking Christ.
I never could even wrap my head around the excuses made for Saturday evening Mass as a substitute for Sunday service.
lol Never even thought of it or was even aware there that such a “substitute” existed and there was something to argue about it.
It was always Sunday morning in my household. Some barely remembered Sunday school, too.
Jews… Day ends at sundown. Hence the Sabbath.
But yeah, I get your point you gotta pick one day as your holy day.
JFC I’m all wore out from packing. I should just pay somebody to do this shit.
Need another Cromwell to sort this shit out.
And for some enterprising Americans to run them ARs
Did anyone else just hear Rory Connelly doing ‘A Nation Once Again’?
Let Italy have it back. They can have Gaul, err France, too.
I found out today that Wegmans around the country sell Buffalo Bills gear.
Huh. I’ll have to check on our next visit here in Mass
Krogers should sell Bengals gear nationwide.
If we were going to go down that dark path, then Giant Eagles would need to have Stillers gear (at least up until they were bought by Kroger).
I think we need more corporate rivalries that are openly acknowledged. WWE style shit. Sports would play into that nicely.
They already rule us.
Relevant
lol Really? I would just assume they sold the local Team.
Yeah they sell it hear in Ithaca too even though Buffalo is hours away and not exactly local. But it’s really kind of the no-man’s land here. Not NYC, not Buffalo. Finger Lakes, sort of? We don’t have any local TV stations. I guess we’re in the Syracuse market but I’ve never been there nor had a reason to go there except for the fact I would have to go there to get a REAL ID. 😡
Do you just get the skin dress, or does it come with the python and mini-14 too?
I dunno what those refer to but I just suffered horrible ‘zubaz’ memories from my years of living in Buffalo.
What in God’s name are you discussing?
I think he’s saying he fucked rat’s mom and he has a 14 inch Firsticle.
Feast your eyes.
The Bills really do seem to have the ugliest apparel in all of sports. The Bungles and Browns are both pretty high too.
People on this planet wear that in public? Or is it what you get in jail?
Local Walmart sold Ok State cowboys gear for a while because their buyer can’t tell the difference between OK and OR.
I know some are big fans of The Critical Drinker here, but I’ve always leaned towards Gary/Nerdrotic. As obnoxious as something such as Friday Night Tights can get with everyone yelling over one another, I don’t know. He’s got the sort of retarded humor I have and seems kind of genuine. He tries to paint that picture.
Chrisse Mayre was one of the 12 or whatever fucking co-hosts of FNT. Was. She got involved in the retarded drama with The Quartering striking down some other channel. Kino Casino boys who seemed kind of cringy from any clips I saw. Not the point. Quartering is a giant douchebag (which didn’t surprise me) who let them talking shit about him (and admittedly his wife and their relationship) who apparently has connections to someone at Youtube. Apparently his rep which they appoint to big channels as I understand it as a mere pleb. They banned a few of their secondary channels with bogus strikes and there was a big fight on it, though I don’t think he’s ever admitted to doing it.
The Quartering had a ‘friend’ in Melanie Mac who was affiliated with FNT and Chrissie. She got involved because she refused to throw Quartering under the bus and supported him. Chrissie had Melanie on her livestream that no one normally watches anyway, and the super chats were all angling for her to go after her despite them being friends. Stream had nothing to do with that controversy, but this blew up into a huge mess for her as she didn’t ever address any of that internet chatter and claimed to not know about it while some other Youtuber was trying to join and private messaging Chrissie.
So Mayre told some dumb lies to justify it all. But the option is basically throw her friend under the bus for something she undoubtedly couldn’t give two fucks about. I genuinely don’t think she had her on to feed off the controversy, but who the fuck cares if she did?
The audience members got up in arms and Gary acted like a bitch putting Chrissie in a “timeout” that was obviously going to be permanent. Officially Chrissie now says she’s off the show.
So it kind of goes against the whole “anti-cancel culture” and pro free speech elements of what FNT claims to support. Though they can hide behind their general opposition to striking down other channels. No one accuses Chrissie of having any part in that. Just not going after Melanie Mac who herself had no actual role in it and just failed to condemn The Quartering as a witch herself.
It’s all rather stupid. But yea FNT caved to the mob and ditched a co-host who wasn’t all that important over a dumb controversy that had their corner of the internet up in arms. Hasn’t hurt the show any, but it still rubs me the wrong way for obvious reasons. Not the least of which it kind of shows how fake these Youtubers are pretending to be actual ‘friends’ with co-hosts. It’s not as bad as like Howie Stern’s fall to whatever the fuck he is now (an old yenta basically, which he used to mock).
Most of the mouth breathers won’t care and will just keep watching. Most people don’t have principles or real devotion to shit.
Do I have a point here? Not much of one. Just e-drama at the end of the day.
Also, Chrissie Mayr: would?
Always had a thing for red heads, but the horse mouth breaks it for me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/146jvmu/im_50_all_celebrity_news_looks_like_this/
Youtubers might make good money, but I refuse to call them celebrities or think of them like that. It’s some asshole in his bedroom with a camera on him. Not that celebrities or celebrity are anything to aspire to in the first place.
Besides, we all watch some shit on Youtube at this point. Plenty of people on here do follow that sphere. Just curious if anyone else had a take.
Interpersonal conflict gets views and everyone’s expendable.
I have no idea what any of that is all about. I don’t “follow” any “channels”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One douchebag got a couple of other (much funnier) douchebags banned from YouTube. A female douchebag hired to flash cleavage on a panel of swinging dick douchebags got fired by the head douchebag for standing up for the other female douchebag that stood up for the douchebag that got the other two douchebags banned.
That’s it in a nutshell.
Thankfully, I only watch South Main Auto and I Do Cars, and I don’t see them getting dramatical any time soon. They tend to only stick to the subject at hand.
I do love Eric O.
He knows his shit and isn’t afraid to teach others tricks of the trade. I’ve learned a lot from watching his channel, aside from just how hacky other shops can really be. Watching him has also helped me become more professional in my trade, which is, unfortunately, not what all mechanics are/aspire to be. I used to have an aversion to wiring diagrams that both that channel and another mechanic helped me overcome. When the other mechanic passed in 2023, I had to throw the crutches away and walk on my own in that regard, since I leaned heavily on him with second guessing myself and realized I did know this shit, I just didn’t trust myself.
My eyes glazed over halfway through. Sorry, bro.
I’m going to start calling white dudes my brother from another European mother. See if I can’t make it stick.
Tell everyone you are from county Mayo, nothing to the white of you!
“tell everyone you are from county Mayo”
That’s hilarious as I just watched this a couple of hours ago: https://youtu.be/idxjc-4TIA8?si=0JmUOtL5dy5dWn5X&t=1165
We used to have Gypsies that would rove through Houston upscale retail shops during Christmas shopping season. I worked in a small antique pavilion at the time and we had 3 shops under our one storefront. They tried to weaponise their cleavage to distract the male retail employees, unfortunately for them, their weren’t many hetero males in an antique pavilion and since I’m turned off by hairy arms, I was also immune to their charms.
Oxford Union debate over Islam in the West. It’s a lot of the same old, but the part the link will send you to is pretty entertaining and clever. Did more to make the point than any argument could.
Fucking Bessent is apparently going to try to prop up the yen. Let it slide and I’ll buy even more goods in JPY.
Talked about that the other day.
OT you may be the only one that gets this.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNightJukebox
Current J Pop transformed into yesterday.
We’re like a man with a broken leg trying to hold up a cripple. We’re both going to eat the pavement soon enough.
Google is scratching the bottom of the barrel to find practical applications for AI.
The missing balusters on the left side of the staircase is a code infraction and a safety issue, If you need a reputable carpenter I can give you a couple of references.
I don’t like you.
lol I didn’t even catch that.
I did sense a rather worn vibe. 🥴
I just hit a wall trying to play a fucking Nintendo game. It requires a Ubisoft account. I was able to bypass that bullshit on Switch I but apparently it is impossible to do so on Switch II.
The whole point of a console is not having to deal with that bullshit.
It’s Saturday night and I have no patience to deal with this shit so I am going to pour another drink and flip the TV back to Columbo and seethe another day.
Which Columbo? I’m about to dive in an episode. Last week was L.A. district attorney coming to his neighbor’s aid when he accidentally killed his wife in return for the neighbor not tattling on the D.A. when he killed his wife and blamed both deaths on a serial cat burglar.
Consoles are dying and they are doing it to themselves.
What game?
Nintendo is the only one I can even get buying. There are few good console exclusives on PS and X-box. Nintendo has by far the weakest hardware, but fills two niches. One, it’s portable and you can take it anywhere. Two, and most importantly, they have IP that they have managed to milk for nearly the entirety of my life. Mario, Zelda, Pokeman’s and such. All exclusives obviously.
For all the dumb shit Nintendo does, just locking and keeping IP on their console is going to be what keeps them chugging alone no matter what else they do.
I don’t know what the fuck Sony and Microsoft are going to do when they seem determined to piss off the few fans they have left.
I literally only bought Switch II for Pokeman. I have the updated Zelda BoTW, but haven’t even touched it. Not much of a gamer. Hands are too busy Firstin’.