STEVE SMITH WANT SPRING GET HERE, SO HIM CAN DO DIFFERENT LINKS!
STEVE SMITH NOT HAPPY – WEATHER PUT CRIMP IN NUMBER OF HIKERS AND TOURISTS. IT HARD FOR STEVE SMITH MAKE QUARTERLY RAPE NUMBERS UNLESS GET NICE SOON. ALSO, HIM SEE SOME NEWS THAT MAKE STEVE SMITH NOT HAPPY. SOME NEWS MAKE STEVE SMITH MAD. HIM SHARE WITH FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE:
- STEVE SMITH KNOW THIS MAKE GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE MAD, LIKE STEVE SMITH. STEVE SMITH ADOPT (MOSTLY) GLIBERTARIAN SLOGAN – “RAPE OFF, SLAVER”. BY RAPE OFF, MEAN RAPE SLAVER.
- THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH SAD. HIM FUNNY GUY. NOT KNOW WHAT THEY DO FOR “MINI-ME” NOW?
- STEVE SMITH SEND THIS LINK OUT AS DEDICATION TO A GLIBERTARIAN POWER THAT BE. IF STEVE SMITH EVER GET ONE, HIM SHARE.
- NOT SURE IF STEVE SMITH SHOULD BE SUSPICIOUS, OR HAPPY. MAYBE HIM BE BOTH.
STEVE SMITH REMIND FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE….WHEN TROUBLES GET TO YOU, HIT THEM ON HEAD WITH BIG ROCK!
YOU NO GO BACK ON LEGAL WEED, DUMMY!
I smoked a joint and ran 13 miles this morning, including 10 sets of hill sprints. Pot should stay legal if it’s tied to physical fitness. At least let’s not rule it out.
Or PTSD treatment – like the ecstasy treatments they’ve been experimenting on. If someone is out of the military and not trying to keep a clearance (we can talk about that in the future), there should be no issues with any legitimate medical treatment, etc.
…go on, I am listening.
*1000 yard stare*
Everyone in Minnesoda is getting high on the weather today. Sunny and in the 50’s. Fucking awesome.
My son’s tennis team had an optional practice today (they spent Tues/Wed shoveling the courts to have a place to play). I went down early to hit with him a bit. When the other young guys showed up, I was able to hit with them for a while too. My head is swelled in that I was still able to hang with them as far as strokes go. Of course, I couldn’t come close to being fast/agile enough to win any points from them. Holy shit, I forgot how much court a young 18 year-old can cover.
Finishing up a few computer chores and then on to drinking!
Heading out shortly to do a very brisk 5 miles. It’s a nice distance – guess I have too short an attention span to enjoy the long sess… Oh, look, a butterfly! [wanders off]
THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH SAD. HIM FUNNY GUY. NOT KNOW WHAT THEY DO FOR “MINI-ME” NOW?
Damn you for linking something I just linked in the soon-to-be dead thread.
And by “damn you”, I mean, well, you know.
RIP Verne.
It doesn’t seem likely to me, but I’m not ruling it out.
He’ll turn this car around if you guys in the back don’t knock it off.
CGI
You know, I would have scoffed – except what they did with Peter Cushing in “Rogue One”…. I think you might be on to something.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country no longer needed to conduct nuclear tests or intercontinental ballistic missile tests because it had completed its goal of developing the weapons, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
Muammar and Saddam: a cautionary tale.
Qaddaffi made a serious good effort under the Bush administration after the “axis of evil” speech. That was one of the best non-violent solutions we had in years – and a great model for future efforts in the region…that’s what just pisses me off so much.
It showed that you shouldn’t trust the US government because the next administration will kick you in the balls. I’ve heard theories from controlling the water supply in North Africa to Qaddaffi’s push to form a gold backed alternative to the dollar as reasons they took him out. Seems more likely it was the old “bomb an Arab” strategy to look tough.
I heard an interesting perspective from an orientation trip I had that included a lecture from a Tokyo University professor of foreign affairs. They are obviously not enamored with North Korea, but they are also worried about a reunified, nuclear-armed Korean peninsula. They see a lot of implications to the region there. I can’t recall exactly what they were, but I seem to remember something about trade and regional conflicts over who owns what land and comfort women.
I have said before that the first nuke that Kim actually launches will be aimed at Tokyo not Seoul. And a lot of South Koreans will nod in approval at that. Not a lot of love in Korea for Japan. Japan’s attempt to colonize the peninsula still bugs those hard headed stubborn Koreans.
I think it still bugs most players in the region and the Japanese know it.
And Japan has spent a lot of time since the end of WWII raising a bunch of pussified men. If I wanted to spend a weekend raping Nankin I have no idea where to go look for some Japanese buddies to go with me.
All the Japanese guys I worked with have been super nice guys, but if a war started I can’t see them being the fucking bad asses that their grandpa’s were.
I think that they know having the US stationed on a lot of their islands is keeping the Chinese, Russians and Koreans from coming around to reconcile some old grievances.
The society is highly disciplined, almost militarized, here. I could see them flipping a switch fairly quickly.
I forget Mustang, are you in the ROK?
It is always sort of crazy that the tiny farming village my wife grew up in has a small military post in the town’s only roundabout. A bunch of sandbags and some poor slob who is doing his two years of compulsory service manning it.
The ROK Marines we trained with in Team Spirit were tough as nails. I can seem them doing well in any conflict.
I was in Korea for a year working with their various branches and am now in Japan doing the same thing. They both have a pretty gaping flaw in their structures, which is that they will absolutely not do anything until they receive permission from higher up. Whereas we expect our NCOs to be pretty well autonomous, they have no such tactic. They could be ordered to stand on a hilltop and that’s exactly what they’d do. Our personnel would stand on the hilltop and begin fortifying it and planning to go after the next hilltop.
But your observation about their toughness is exactly right. They still have a military mindset and aren’t as risk averse as we are these days. Then again, I watched three Japanese workers stand on the runway as my plane departed, bowing to the plane in 65+ mph winds and rain, and they didn’t move until the plane left the taxiway. There’s toughness in the region, for sure.
I actually took a Japanese C-130 from Kuwait to Basrah, Iraq. The irony made me smile…(my Dad was in the Navy….in 1945…on an escort carrier…in the Pacific).
Swiss I took a Japanese C-130 from Kuwait to BIAP. I was holy shit, I hope there is no Divine Wind tonight. Warped minds think alike.
It’s crazy how close North Korea is to Japan geographically. Niigata to the North Korean coast wouldn’t fit many US states between them. I think a lot of Japanese elites would rather have a highly dysfunctional state that close than a somewhat functional one. Less of a threat over time.
A functional one with a reasonably competent military that doesn’t have the same constitutional restrictions as the Japanese self defense force.
This might be the case where a US presence in the region could reduce the likelihood of physical conflict, at least between those two states.
I hate the idea of world policeman, but it has been effective in the DMZ. Also, a lot of cash being made having the US military there and here. Reminds me Okinawa. If the US actually tried to pull out, the locals would be screaming, “Muh economy!”
Judging by the development of South Korea’s navy over the last decade – Aegis destroyers, LPHs etc – they’re not that worried about Fatso any more. Which no doubt makes certain neighbours very thoughtful indeed.
The Okinawans have gotten really good at extracting money from us whenever there’s an incident. You’re exactly right.
Sure, but aren’t there a lot of South Koreans who don’t want to take on the economic burden of the North?
^THIS^THIS^THIS
In a just world, Hilary’s campaign for president would have been sunk by the Libya issue alone. When Crazy Mo saw what we did to Saddam he gave up all his efforts to get WMD’s and publicly renounced them.
Then we fuck him up. Teaching every other tin pot with WMD’s that giving them up is not the answer.
In a just world, Trump gets crushed in the ’20 primary by someone who really means “no we will not fucking police the world anymore”.
Okay, now you’re just talking crazy.
*red flags juris as freaking nuts, readies lithium dart*
Sooooo…lost motivation for the double-feature dvd review (Japanese wrestling/sea-food themed). Think I’ll segue right into my mini-set of non-western westerns this week. I think I may be able to spin a glibs article on the libertarian themes consistent in westerns (US or otherwise) – but may take a while.
Oh yeah…in addition to the Diversity and Comics and Nerkish channels, I’ve found some good vids following “No. 1 Marmaduke Fan” – some really interesting art theory discussions – esp for feminist art, etc. and Ethan Van Sciver’s art channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp8nOGQKLpFhtoIOOUVK40g). Fun stuff.
Did STEVE SMITH just use the same North Korea story posted in the morning links?
ANARCHY!
CHAOS!
DOGS AND CATS RAPING EACH OTHER!
Good news can get posted twice. Only so many no knock raid gone wrong articles I can read in a day.
‘Tis true. Just ribbing the overlords.
Hold on, I thought the space lizards were the overlords. Doesn’t that make the folks you’re talking about some kind of demilords?
I suppose so, but who can actually keep track of the bureaucrats around here? Sheesh.
Yes you Brutals must answer to Zardoz lest they get cleansed, and you must listen to STEVE SMITH lest you be raped…or just because.
But you always listen to Your Future Reptilian Overlords because we have skin-suited your leaders.
I do know you were dickering with ZARDOZ to end up subcontracting some work for you… I am not sure where STEVE SMITH would fit in. By fit in, mean…
I initially read that as “tribbing the overlords.”
The joke thread is dead I think, but I wanted to post this ad for Minnesoda Lutheran Airlines here.
I got shivers listening to that accent. There were so many old timers in my hometown who sounded exactly like this. It is like comfort food for my ears.
We’re having Tater Tot Casserole for Dinner! should go perfect with Cobra Malt Likka!
/broke as fuck
Uffda. What the fuck is a casserole? That doesn’t sound good at all.
You know what you should do if you have tater tots? You should make hotdish with it.
you know what? you’re right, Hot Dish it is!
but it still has the same ingredients, and looks the same, what happened? I’m no where near Minnesoda?
That is fine. You can seem extra sophisticated to anyone who might drop by. While all the other unwashed heathens out there are eating casserole (if that really is even a thing) while you will be fine dining on hot dish.
If you want to be extra debonair, make sure to say “uffda, that smells good” as you take the lid off. Don’t worry about being accused of cultural appropriation.
Because Minnesoda doesn’t have a culture?
…and can I get a side of lutefisk and lefse?
NO ONE GETS A “SIDE” of LUTEFISK!!!
Lutefisk is always the top draw of any dinner menu.
I played a Lute once, but I got Better….
Not when the smelt are running
There are local signs up around my house about a smelt fry next weekend. It is a fund raiser for some dogooder group. I’m pretty sure my wife and I will attend.
It will be OK, but a real Norwegian smelt fry is awesome. A genuine one should be outdoors, with lots of beer and a bonfire. And it should also be pot luck with about a dozen different hot dishes.
Remembering the women I saw in Oslo, I would imagine that a Norwegian fish fry would be loaded with Hot Dishes.
There are areas of Chicagoland that come to a halt when the smelts is runnin’… I am not sure who swarms the Lake more, the fish or the fishermen…
LOL
A friend’s gramma used to get super worked up about the whole sin/tresspass issue. I almost snorted coffee out my nose when I heard that.
I grew up with tresspasses and casseroles in Iowa.
I don’t care how sincere your conversion would be or how much you begged Jesus for forgiveness and mercy, your soul is doomed for hell.
*sharpens holy sword, ready to go to war*
Apparently we switched from trespasses to sins just a few years ago. I still catch myself saying “trespasses”.
I didn’t even know there were versions that don’t use the word “trespass”.
/lazy Catholic
It was “trespass” for me, but then I grew up Catholic, so the matter was probably decided in Rome.
My parents’ Bible (pre-Vatican II, I think), had the book Canticle of Canticles (nowadays Song of Songs for Catholics and Song of Solomon for you wacky Protestants).
Jeebus that was funny. I recognize the phrases from my Wisconsin parents. I have have Wisconsin cousins who I rarely saw as a kid but once when I was in Green Bay on business my mom told me call a cousin who lived there. I hadn’t spoken with this woman for a quarter of a century and when she picked up the phone I thought I fell into the movie “Fargo”.
I’m Lutheran. My family is from Norway via Minnesota. None of us sound fucking retarded.
That’s funny, the first time I talked with you, I wondered about that.
Jordan Peterson on Bill Maher. The chick that chimes in with, “We’re all neurotic!” puts a look on Jordan’s face this is priceless. You can tell he’s thinking, “No, not all of us.”
Are you sure? The whole thrust of Jungian psychology is the belief that we are all neurotic until we achieve individuation. That is, “neurosis”, as defined by Jung was a state of dissonance between the both the personal and collective unconscious and the greater self of the psyche.
Perhaps it was more of a “look at the blind squirrel finding a nut!”
Also, Alex Wagner can get it anytime she wants.
Just saying.
The personality trait “neuroticism” and the way she used it colloquially are probably not the same. She threw it out there like we all treat our kids without consistent boundaries. My read on her at least.
Neuroticism, as defined by Big 5 theory is not the same as Jung’s theory of neurosis either.
That’s not how I interpreted it. I took it as saying the default in the world is neurosis, which makes raising sane, healthy kids difficult. Particularly if the parents themselves haven’t achieved individuation. And Jung agreed, in Man and His Symbols, he wrote “It is one of the curses of modern man that many people suffer from this divided personality. It is by no means a pathological symptom; it is a normal fact that can be observed at any time and anywhere. It is not merely the neurotic whose right hand does not know what the left is doing. This predicament is a symptom of a general unconsciousness that is the undeniable common inheritance of all mankind.”
In the same book, he also claimed “Our world is, so to speak, dissociated like a neurotic, with the Iron Curtain making a symbolic line of division,” which is one of my favorite Jung quotes.
Damn, HM. I’m getting a full lesson for free. Seriously, thanks. What cracked me up is that she thinks it’s harder to raise her kids because Trump! as if parents in the past had it easier. Has she reconciled her shadow self? I have no idea, but certainly not all parents find the Orange man in the White House to be a hinderance to raising their kids with authority. I probably should have left the Jungian part out, but then I wouldn’t have gotten my free lesson!
Yeah, that was a stupid throwaway line. Plenty of kids learned about oral sex and what the definition of “is” is during the 90s. But I think the difference in our interpretations is that you see Wagner’s comment as a direct response to Peterson’s and Maher’s comments about parental authority, and I saw it as agreement with it but adding that the whole endeavor of raising psychologically healthy children is difficult, particularly if parents have psychological baggage themselves. Hell, I see it first-hand in the raging dumpster fire that is my wife’s family.
It’s the first I’d seen of her and being on Maher’s panel raises my spidey sense. I assume that most if not all his guests are there for political point scoring and so I’m not going to give them the most generous interpretation. She really did undermine her point, if she really did have one, with that throw away line.
Sorry to hear about the wife’s family. I bet they laugh about the dysfunction and think it’s what makes them unique.
Colonel: Marine, what is that button on your body armor?
Private Joker: A peace symbol, sir.
Colonel: Where’d you get it?
Private Joker: I don’t remember, sir.
Colonel: What is that you’ve got written on your helmet?
Private Joker: “Born to Kill”, sir.
Colonel: You write “Born to Kill” on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What’s that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?
Private Joker: No, sir.
Colonel: You’d better get your head and your ass wired together, or I will take a giant shit on you.
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Colonel: Now answer my question or you’ll be standing tall before the man.
Private Joker: I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.
Colonel: The what?
Private Joker: The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.
Colonel: Whose side are you on, son?
Private Joker: Our side, sir.
Colonel: Don’t you love your country?
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Colonel: Then how about getting with the program? Why don’t you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Colonel: Son, all I’ve ever asked of my marines is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out. It’s a hardball world, son. We’ve gotta keep our heads until this peace craze blows over.
Private Joker: Aye-aye, sir.
RIP.
“What kind of a name is Yossarian?”
So at what point does shit get real.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/04/20/far-left-protesters-target-nra-lobbyists-home/
I mean, they can try, but I’m not sure they’ll like the results.
Let’s see them try that in fly over country.
“I wouldn’t do that unless we were protesting someone who I believe is a truly indefensible human being.”
Sounds better in the original German.
Well, my guess is they’re trying to provoke a confrontation so they can get news camera to cover an NRA lobbyist being arrested for shooting an anti-gun protester. They’re probably looking for a martyr. This is stupid, of course, because a.) most people don’t condone the practice of taking political protest to a person’s home, and so they’ll probably have at least some sympathy for the lobbyist, and b.) lobbyists are often lawyers, or at least have connections to lawyers, and they’re going to be very aware of the PR ramifications of a confrontation, so they’re going to call the local police, and if that fails they’ll get an injunction against the protesters or something like that.
Not to mention, if they were to actually shoot someone, you can be damn sure that person probably will have deserved it.
Compare this with their reaction to the Bundys at Malheur.
It is important to see what isn’t written in this story about Minnesoda snowbirds.
The story is full of lamentations from local busy bodies about the fact that census forms aren’t forwarded and snow birds might not get counted and we will lose one of our 8 congressional seats.
What isn’t mentioned is how many Minnesodans have established permanent residences in southern states like Florida that have no income taxes. Maybe being a high tax state that is known for going after snow birds aggressively might have led to a lot of citizens moving to other states?
Send the forms to Slab City, they do have mail service, Some are sure to get them
The story says census forms can’t be forwarded by the USPS. And I think that the number of citizens we lose because of our high taxes
dwarfs little peoples the number of citizens who won’t be counted because of mail logistics.I tend to think they should do apportionment based on how many people vote. People who can’t be bothered to vote don’t get representation, and the children don’t either.
That seems kind of messed up. What if I don’t vote because I don’t like my options? I still shouldn’t be represented? Not that I am anyways, but what if I decide I do like an option but didn’t previously? Now they have to reapportion the number of representatives, or am I shit out of luck until the next election cycle?
Turn in a blank ballot. Apportionment still works and I my wet dream would be a race where “unmarked” handily beats both candidates. Think of the pundits trying to spin that one.
Of course, the reality would be that that race where “unmarked” won would end up in a Gore-Bush tie breaker situation and we’d all have to watch lawyers from the two big parties argue that each blank ballot should count for their side.
Maybe just have them check your name off and then walk out instead of voting.
Seems like it’s awfully close to compulsory voting, but that’s more of a feeling than actual rationality.
Write somebody in. At least show up. Personally, I think people should have to pass an aptitude test before they’re allowed to vote.
Land requirements!
I could be convinced to meet certain requirements in order to vote,I’m just not sure what they are. Haven’t put a lot of thought into it. If you are receiving welfare of some kind, you don’t get a vote? It still seems like there’s a lot of implications there. I am uneasy with taking away a tool for citizens (only real requirement) to control the government (even if it doesn’t mean THAT much). If someone can decide who gets to vote, what’s to stop them from adding additional requirements?
I was mostly joking. The ancient Greeks had a tough time figuring out how to keep democracy from devolving into mob rule. Decentralization seems to me the only effective way to check the abuse. At least then you live next to the asshole abusing you rather than having a cesspool 1000s of miles away financially raping you. How far can a pitchfork waving mob march without a supply line?
Decentralization is definitely key.
We could always reduce the power of government back to constitutional levels.
Nah, that’s crazy talk.
GTFO here with that nonsense.
You know who else tried a parchment barrier?
Um, no, actually.
I have friends that migrate to Florida for 6 months and a day, for the no income tax benefits. They are very scrupulous about insuring they stay the minimum time and can prove it with receipts, etc. OTOH they won’t get a break for homesteading here.
There are some really stupid states and regulations. We had contractors at my last duty station who were already paying taxes in VA, and then they were directed to give additional training/courses in CA at the navy bases there. They basically had to come back for a week or so every 4 weeks (or something like that) otherwise CA would try and get them for taxes at the end of the year – even though they were VA residents and already paying sales tax on their entire time in CA – absolutely nuts.
They should be able to deduct any taxes paid to CA from any taxes paid to VA…?
It was something legal – I think because Lockheed has major offices in CA and VA – that said if they worked over a certain number of days/month or year in CA, they had to pay CA income tax as well – even if they weren’t residents. Definitely a CA-specific law.
The California State “Fuck You! Pay Us!” Law of 2007
I found 3 bottles of Colonel E H Taylor small batch bourbon in the liquor store today. I bought all 3. I haven’t seen it in stock for months.
Today was a good day, despite having to drive into NJ for an appointment.
I can find the small batch with no problem. It’s the Barrel Proof I’m jonesing for.
Even the small batch is hard to find here in PA. I’ve never seen the barrel proof.
I saw several bottles of the small batch last few days. It’s good, I would definitely recommend it.
In that same price range, search out the Elijah Craig Barrel Proof. Or at a cheaper price, the McKenna 10 year old Bottled in Bond. Neither one will steer you wrong.
*looks down at coffee stout, feels…inadequate*
Nah. Different strokes for different folks. I can’t handle the volume of a lot of beer anymore. I do have a few local barrel aged stouts on hand.
These t-shirts made me laugh:
Laphroaig medical info
Darth Laphroaig?
I saw those, great stuff, like Hot dish, or a Casserole with pineapple
Do you have no culture at all out there?
Everyone knows that pineapple goes in the lime green jello salad.
We but buy Whole Pineapples(ever see one?) and cube them, chill/freeze and dip in cool whip, or cream chease etc.
Keep the Lutefisk,….
I think I’m going to be sick.
The bottle of small batch I have is actually better than the bottle of single barrel I have. Go figure. My find today was a bottle of 18 year old Chivas for $65. Damn, this stuff is amaze ballz smooth.
Best liquor find I had lately is 3 bottles of Whistlepig 12 year old rye for $86 each. At our super duper store I was at today I saw it for $129 a bottle. Yeah, just fuck no, it’s really good, but not that good, I won’t be opening my remaining 2 bottles any time soon.
Yep, I’m going back over there tomorrow and buying 2 more bottles of this 18 yo Chivas.
If there is one advantage of state run liquor stores, they cannot charge more than suggested retail. Whistle Pig is $80. Nothing better than a glass of Whistle Pig after an afternoon of shooting Whistle Pigs.
Here’s what’s annoying AF about the Starbucks incident: You get one video (cut up video) showing someone being allegedly racist, and it represents ALL Starbucks. If I put up a video of a black guy being an asshole, would that represent all black people? Of course not and it shouldn’t. The MSM and social media keep putting up anecdotal evidence and treating it like it’s statistically significant. Then we find out later that the original story wasn’t even as cut and dry as we were told. It’s pathetic.
That’s basically the case for every incident ever shown by the media and/or that causes outrage.
I read one of the first postings of that, forget where now, but there was a guy commenting who claims he was there. According to him, the one guy was indeed a member and had scanned in. But his 2 ‘friends’ tried to sneak past with expired guest passes, and that was what caused the entire incident. All I know is that the media are pure scum and should not be trusted.
Try theknifemedia.com. It’s about the most unbiased outlet I’ve seen.
Very, very interesting. As someone who is interested in discourse analysis, I appreciate their methodology section, though I would like to know more about it. I’d also like to know more about the bona fides of the analysts. Nevertheless, it is something I shall be following quite closely.
Thanks!
I follow them on Twitter and YouTube.
Thanks. Hadn’t seen them before. Bookmaked
I wonder how the tips are going at all the coffee houses after the Starbucks incident?
Personally, I’ve upped my tipping a bit because I realized that I have been taking the Caribou folks a bit for granted. I know myself too. At some point in the near future I will be an asshole in some Bou and I hope the employees remember I’m a pretty solid tipper and cut me some slack.
Caribou folks?
You’re not an asshole everywhere already?
Turn in your Glibs card.
Bring me an ashtray and I’ll give you a tip, hon.
JK but TBH I don’t do coffee shops any more.
Tipping comes up around here pretty often and it seems like there are some low tippers around. I’m just going to say that as someone who used to work in the restaurant biz you remember the percentage, not the amount, so if you go to a bar, get two beers, and leave a $5 tip (assuming we’re talking about like a $15 tab) a few times in a row, they’re going to remember you as the 30% tipper and the quality of service you get is going to improve in lots of little ways. On the service side, it’s a big moral boost when someone tips more than the standard, regardless of how much money it is, and on the customer side, it’s a low-cost way to look both big-time and generous.
Everywhere I go I over-tip, assuming the service was at least decent, and in every place I’m a regular I get nothing but smiles and good service. It’s good to be known as a nice guy that throws money around because the people most in control of the quality of your experience are going to think of you as someone they want to do nice things for.
I always tip well at sit-down restaurants and especially bars (free drinks!).
I absolutely refuse to tip anyone who isn’t actually serving me over a period of time.
Yes. There’s a certain table I prefer at my family’s favorite restaurant that’s in a back corner. I like it because my kids can get a little louder and a little more energetic without bothering other guests since its isolated. I also like having my back against a wall with a full view of the restaurant.
The server is always quick to seat us there, even if the section is closed, because I tip them very well.
A true Spartan would dump his kid in the forest at dinner time. You’re making them soft!
It’s why I’m only a Semi-Spartan.
My 3 old daughter hand fed a 600lb bull today and helped me slit a rat’s throat if either helps me regain some street cred.
Rat = the last server who did not seat the Spartan family at the proper table.
https://youtu.be/MrQwN8JorDk?t=65
It went like this
https://youtu.be/MrQwN8JorDk?t=65
Same here Bill. Wife has been going to the same place once a week for 12 years. We always over tip and not just for the service. Waiting tables is no easy job and doing it standing on your feet all night. We also chit-chat and give them birthday presents and the like. Usually movie tickets or cards for other restaurants.
We get excellent service. I have even had to go to the staff and ask them to tone down the wife’s drinks a bit so I dont have to carry her out.
The last time I went to a restaurant I was paying for, the service was slow, and the waitress gave me the wrong check. Fuck if I’m over-tipping for *that*.
(It was in a hotel, and there weren’t other restaurants nearby, so they had a captive audience.
That’s understandable. I’ll cut a server some slack if they’re obviously trying but shit’s just going sideways on them, but I don’t have a lot of patience for people who waste my time and expect me to pay them for the privilege.
Then there was the server who couldn’t tell the difference between my dad’s Riesling and my Pinot Noir….
White….red, eh…
My wife and I patronize a certain (non-chain) restaurant about twice a month. I can’t recall ever going in there and seeing the same hostess or server twice. I tip 20% or more, and service is always good, but I don’t think any of them “know me.” Maybe it would be different in smaller places where the owner is always there and makes an attempt to learn who the regulars are.
Starbucks orientation plan on May 29 leaked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpIyfx5qBJw
A Barista’s Tale.
Pardon me if someone has already shared this, but check out this Trevor Moore song about bullies.
I want to have this man’s babies.
What’s wrong with her face?
Guessing you didn’t watch the whole thing then.
She’s wearing makeup because she identifies as a wolf. The point of the video is that bullies are necessary in order to call out idiots who identify as animals, have waifu pillows, etc. Pretty much encourages bullies not to be bullied by SJWs.
I enjoyed it.
So you’re saying I should throw away my Ron Paul dakikamura?
Ewwww. But no, you keep it. I will just make fun of you for it and not fear being called a bully.
Problem solved!
Wife was just watching something on Hallmark. In one scene the protagonist was talking with her boyfriend about bullies. She posed the question “And what do we do with bullies?” Boyfriend answers “We leave them to the therapists”.
I almost shit myself.
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS HAPPY WHEN PEOPLE LEFT TO THE RAPIST!
Alright, I lol’d.
Be happicious.
The Entire BBC sound effects library, free to download, oh yes
http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
Wild! I woulda killed for something like this back in my Uni days…
That’s awesome!
Careful where you play that “dog giving a Nazi salute” sound effect.
*jails JFP*
Call me retarded but where is the actual download?
Nevermind, the index finally loaded. What a shitty interface.
Hello fart sound effect!
things I learned today
-although the whale shark is the largest fish in the sea, its throat is the size of quarter
-manta rays like doing loopdy loops
-a group of jellyfish is called a smack
-Comey insisted on getting 2 scoops of ice cream when he ate with Trump
-Comey’s height is often reported as 6ft8, but he’s really 5ft20
OK, I made that one up- did you laugh?
I listened to his interview on NPR and he did come off well. Get this- he thinks it’s possible the Russians have embarrassing info on Trump. That better be some humdinger because it has to compete with dozens of other embarrassing things people know about already.
and now a story
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A bird once set out to cross a windy sea with its three fledglings. The sea was so wide and the wind so strong, the father bird was forced to carry his young, one by one, in his strong claws.
When he was half-way across with the first fledgling, the wind turned to a gale, and he said, “My child, look how I am struggling and risking my life in your behalf. When you are grown up, will you do as much for me and provide for my old age?” The fledgling replied, “Only bring me to safety, and when you are old I shall do everything you ask of me.” Whereat the father bird dropped his child into the sea and it drowned, and he said, “So shall it be done to such a liar as you.”
Then the father bird returned to shore, set forth with his second fledgling, asked the same question, and receiving the same answer, drowned the second child with the cry, “You, too, are a liar!”
Finally he set out with the third fledgling, and when he asked the same question, the third and last fledgling replied, “My dear father it is true you are struggling mightily and risking your life in my behalf, and I shall be wrong not to repay you when you are old, but I cannot bind myself. This though I can promise: when I am grown up and have children of my own, I shall do as much for them as you have done for me.” Whereupon the father bird said, “Well spoken, my child, and wisely; your life I will spare and I will carry you to shore in safety.”
This Story Is From The Memoirs Of Glikl Of Hamlin, c1690
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I heard the above story on an NPR show about laws and customs regarding the care of the elderly.
Hooker pics > 100s of millions in foundation donations.
Vote to have a significant portion of their income taken to pay for my retirement and healthcare?
-a group of jellyfish is called aSmack That
Fuck that guy.
Spikes in violent crime? What, like assaults on Doritos? The only violent crime that had anything to do with pot is because of the black market. This guy really needs a fuckin’ with a sharp stick wrapped in barbed wire.
Yeah, it’s hard to commit any sort of crime when you have a case of the giggles.
I heard that one guy a few connections removed from my smoking friends back in the day would get a little punchy when he got high, but the rumor was that he was smoking greens, not just weed, and the PCP was a factor. Literally every other person I’ve ever known or seen under the influence of the ganj has ranged from very calm to giggly to sleepy. Every now and again someone would get paranoid, and that would manifest as that person saying, “Hey, man, um…dude, do I look high? I look high right now, don’t I? I think [person X] knows I’m high but they’re just not saying anything because they want to like, spring it on me. Shit.”
Also, that paranoia wouldn’t be nearly as bad if you didn’t have to worry about a cop cracking you in the head. The only reason I ever got paranoid was out of fear of getting busted.
Yeah, I’ve enjoyed the odd smoke as a pseudo-responsible adult at barbecues and so forth and haven’t been the least bit paranoid. It’s definitely the stress of sneaking a joint and hoping a cop isn’t going to bust you.
Obviously a Trump supporter. CNN has lost the pot heads. Not that the serious ones ever tuned away from Cartoon Network to watch CNN.
These Asia-Pacific countries are turning on facial recognition technology
“China has even rolled out facial recognition technology for its public toilets, as part of a nationwide campaign to improve the quality of public conveniences.”
This is why we all need a Mission Impossible mask carving machine.
Frankly, they got a billion people who all look the same – if their algorithms even send the tickets to the right cities by the end of the decade, I’ll be amazed.
We were all thinking this. Somebody had to say it.
The Good LT just found our voice for us.
Hickenlooper has to be the dumbest person in politics, and that’s sayin’ a lot.
We have a complete blackout on news from Libya, dont we? I wonder why. Where is that shitweasel Obama these days anyway? For a while he couldn’t shut up, now not so much. He belongs in prison. I wish that there is a non-zero chance of that happening.
R.I.P. Mr. Troyer.
I don’t know what to make of that article. Hickenlooper is a typical Dem who loves himself some big government and the thugs that come with it, but I am not sure the CNN quotes really capture what he said. He is, was, and always be a fuck stick but he has been pretty solid on MJ legalization. I think it more points to how fucked up CNN is. That was my take away, but I am trying to recover from a glorious afternoon nap with tequila so I may not understand shit right now.
Any rum recommendations at ~$40? Looking to get a bottle as a gift but I’m not a big rum drinker.
Ron Zacapa 23 Centenario Rum
$35 at Totalwine
Thanks for the tip, I’ll look for it at ABC. Unfortunately VA is still in the dark ages for liquor.
Second the Ron Zacapa. My SIL’s boyfriend is a rum guy and he swears by it.
I like captain Morgan’s spiced. YMMV
It’s been about a decade but I used to drink quite of bit Captain’s and coke. Good stuff.
I have gifted Kraken before. It is a decent rum imho. But then again I think Appleton is a decent rum. Actually I will drink anything without a Bacardi label. Actually I will also drink Bacardi, who am I kidding. As to price, just get them a couple dozen mini bottles. Make it a basket. Throw a coconut or Pineapple in the middle and tell them to wear it all as a hat after drinking.
I’ll keep my out for Kraken too.
I would enjoy the basket of mini bottles but would be wasted on my BIL. Rum is his favorite but he rarely indulges over one drink. I have no idea how he ended up with my sister who drinks like a fish.
I would second the Kraken. It is tasty.
*paging jesse.in.mb., Jesse to the red courtesy phone please*
I shall call him mini-me….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNNj3vKVpHQ
Serious question for Yufus. Where do the residents of the slabs get their water?
Ugh. Yusef. I’m drunk
You say that as if it were a bad thing.
Too late. That one might stick.
My take is they haul it. Tanks in the back of pick up trucks. It happens here to.
No well?
Some places wells are too expensive to drill and or not happening at all. Here those places are up in the hills/mtns off the grid.
Slab city is below sea level in a brackish sump.
They get their water from the store.
Wrong, they are about 75 feet above and there is a sproing, Maybe If the Overlords post my article I could show you
and or too.
They used to get it from a Muni tap in Niland, but other than a Spring, They have to bring it in…
So this morning I’m awakened by excruciating lower leg cramps. It felt like Satan was trying to turn my feet backwards. Anyhow, Wifey gets up to grab a heating pad and some juice for me. Both of the cats and the dog were waiting at the bedroom door and they rushed in and started licking my toes. How the fuck did they know?
They didn’t. You just need to wash your feet better.
#metoo
Though mine was that calf cramp that strikes in the middle of the night once or twice a year – yours sounds like something worse.
My cats might lift their heads for a second and then go back to sleep, if anything.
They heard you walking across the raw chicken, duh!
Just ran 5 miles in 35:04. Racing for the first time at that distance in two weeks, but it might be my favourite already – been a lot of fun figuring it out. (Every distance is its own puzzle, and experience at similar ones – 5K & 10K in this case – is only a starting point.)
That’s a blistering time. I’ve been trying to up my game a bit, but I don’t think I could do 5 miles in less than 38 even on my best day, and lately it’s been significantly longer than that. Are you employing any particular strategy for the run (or the training)?
Nice work. Physical activity is something I avoided today.
7 minute miles. Pretty good depending on age and length of training. Man, I hate getting old. High school days and that would be cake. No way today. Congrats.
Just turned 38, so slightly geezerish for the distance. In this race last year, 35:04 was about 95th percentile overall and 90th M35-39.
The best approach for me seems to be a middle float – target avg pace (about lactate threshold) for the first third/two-fifths; a slightly slower middle third/fifth for “active recovery”; and then as strong a finish as I can manage. 3:07 tonight for the last half mile, which meant I had too much left in the tank. Oh well – still two weeks to keep learning.
You’re exactly my age, but in better shape, unless we’re in a pool.
I’ve gone through a few phases where I got really into running. It’s addicting, but in a good way. Once I got into it, I couldn’t find enough hills.
The feeling I get after I’ve run enough to be truly exhausted is thing that I chase the most. If I go more than a week or so without that feeling I start to get grumpy. It’s a strange thing to observe in myself.
Part of it was the view. I used to run Strawberry Canyon above Berkeley. A quick elevation change, and you’re on top of the world.
I ran 10k a couple times a week until I was that age. Not at your time, though. Switched to cycling to save my knees. Once you reach 40 or so, you gotta be a little careful about pushing it.
I completely changed my mechanics early last season, and it made a massive difference in reducing wear & tear.
When I decided to get serious about this shit, I actually took another crack at tris first – but then I remembered that I hate swimming, especially in open water. And I discovered that I actually really liked distance running, which hadn’t been the case in my misspent youth.
You run, I’ll swim. And we will both call it a win.
Find a Chicago-area Glib who likes to fold themselves into an aero tuck for 25 miles, and we can do a tri relay team…
Spent my early 20s doing triathlons. Very different animal. The calf muscle is fried after the bike and that makes a 10k, or whatever distance you have, utter hell.
Damn. I’m pretty curious about how other people approach long distance running. I mostly do it for the exercise benefits, so I design my run to spend as much time red-lining my heart-rate as I can. I’ll have to try something like the active recovery to see how well I can do with it.
I’ve been running pretty regularly for a few years (sadly not as consistently as I would like the past two or so) but 8 mins avg over long distances seems to be about the best I’m ever going to do. I’ve pushed close to 7:30, but those were times when I was super consistent and had the time and energy to dedicate to it.
Maybe try to figure out your (approximate) lactate threshold? That will help you to strategise for hard training sessions. (And it’s essential for maximising your potential in a lot of race distances.)
Shit, that is really good time!
I #$%&ing hated running…but that was the Army way, and also the only way to catch the SOB with the ball and then tackle them and start up a ruck…
BTW Pope Jimbo. I think it’s a big mistake to call modern Japanese “pussies”. They are taking a bitter pill that their fathers and grandfathers didn’t: No lifetime employment, no respect, but with all the old responsibilities and the new ones. It’s a different stress, but I’m pretty sure they could slip into soldier mode really easily. They don’t have a “why” right now, but once they do, the “how” will be a snap for them.
BRING IT
Nah. I don’t like fighting maniacal racists. You can win, but it ain’t fun.
I’m reading from the bottom up. I actually had no idea what you were talking about.
You must be fun to watch putting together IKEA furniture.
Liquid nails. Thank me later.
Yeah…I remember my Dad grousing in the early 1980s about the Japanese free-riding off of our defense. I laughed, then asked him what he was doing last time the Japanese had lots of ships and planes and guns (hint: he was on the CVE, USS Bedoing Straits).
As polite as they are outside of war, the pendulum swings just as far the other way when the gloves are off.
Pope Jimbo mentioned a “none of the above” option for voting. That has been a hope of mine. Probably it was Brewster’s Millions, but I have long thought that would be a very good change to see to our elections. For any office there would be the candidates and “none of the above”. If NOTA gets fiddy plus one, then the election is held again and the candidates that just lost cannot run in the next election. They have to wait at least one cycle.
OverLords, did you get my Slab Submission? I’m drunk so i thought it would be a good time to rant, and people are asking questions the article would answer, Just Say’n
I believe it has been received, but I will check in with the editorial staff tomorrow for you. There is quite a lot in the editing queue at present. (It’s always feast or famine here at GlibHQ).
Donald Trump Diet Coke ad (warning, it may spoil a joke from Hat and The Hair Episode 3)
Nice.
But in how many of those aerial combat wins was his opponent a beagle flying a doghouse?
Wake up you lazy bastards! I’ve been up since 3am and have nothing to do for the next few hours.
Morning.