Howdy, Glibs and (mythical) Glibbettes. I hope your Monday has gone swimmingly and nobody is suffering a post-Mother’s Day hangover. I am definitely not, but damned if I feel like working. My oldest was “sick” today. His mother violated the cardinal rule — no physical symptoms, no staying home sick (I voted to send him, although he did wake up crying last night about his stomach. If he is completely faking, dude’s gonna be a great Method actor). As best we can tell he’s lactose intolerant but likes chocolate milk too much. Or else he’s got some rare disease I’m going to feel guilty about giving him shit about.
First up, I finally am starting to think the run-up in performance in mass-produced cars has gotten out of hand. Just kidding. An Opel couldn’t really go 400 MPH if you pushed it out the back of plane.
Alright, Florida Man! (And women) Caged tiger at prom causes uproar! These euphemisms are really getting out of hand. And it looks like its gonna rain all up on the taint side of Florida’s wang this week.
I wouldn’t say I gas-light my wife into thinking we’re poor, but I have suggested that maybe we don’t need new furniture as often as she would like, or that my work shoes can make it another six months. From the outside, it appears that maybe the ex-husband just lived very frugally himself. Not so frugal that he thought it was worth half the money he’d saved to stay married.
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Uh, hey Brett! *looks around nervously*
Oh, say…it appears there is a space/time anomaly in your comment!
*hearty guffaw*
We never make publishing errors here.
Well, I’ve been published here. 😉
Sick burn!
Oh my.
I thought I’d fallen asleep at my desk and I had a dream where Brett and I were alone in a big room and Brett was telling me about current events. And then Brett disappeared and everything went blank and I woke up.
…and your pillow was gone?
See, what had happened was… I got this call and then I had to show my screen, but I’ve got the links up. The Links! I didn’t want to get fired. Who wants to explain this to their wife?
Were they hoping for a free range tiger?
Christopher Columbus HS is kind of throwing stones about colonialism and captivity, aren’t they?
And the politicians throwing stones
While the kids they dance and shake their bones
+1 Grateful Dead
Caged cougars would have been better.
Holy fuck, Brandi Love is actually *younger* than me.
I came here an hour ago to make the following comment:
“Why so early? Are you driving an Opel Astra?”
That was even on subject.
I salute you!
1. DID THIS TIGER ASK TO ATTEND PROM?
Yes. I heard him ask.
Does the tiger give a fuck he’s at prom? No. They fed him his usual 10lbs of raw-meat Cosby style and let him chill.
We live in a society that has elevated victimhood to equal heroism. This leads to people being delighted with, and searching out, any ridiculous pretext to preen by being offended/outraged. You get more of what you reward and we reward outrage with attention.
That prompted was gggrrrrreat!
I’m betting there was more than one fox there! Amirite?!
It also featured a room full of burgeoning Florida Men and Women, so I’m surprised it wasn’t a cookout.
Google “Harper the Fox”. Not going to link here for reasons that will become obvious if you do the aforementioned googling.
At our prom, we had George Steele and that was it.
No, no, you start with lemur, you drop the tiger as a punchline. Goddamn journalists….
Seriously, it’s like a Monty Python sketch. I can just picture Cleese and Palin going through the list.
“We got us a lemur…”
“Yes, children will love it, it’s cute and easy-going.”
“…couple of macaws…”
“Clever little bastards, aren’t they?”
“…a fennec fox…”
“Those live in the desert, don’t? Still, I some leeway can be granted within the theme…”
“…and a tiger.”
“A what?”
“A tiger.”
“Let me get this straight – you want to bring an 800 pound killing machine into an enclosed setting filled with noise, strobing lights and hundreds of sweaty, soft, slow and distracted herd animals?”
“Yes.”
“WHY?”
“Because we couldn’t get a lion.”
Ahem. Are these lynx gonna actually stick around?
A cliff is the best thing that could to happen to an Opel.
I first read it as 400 HP and thought,” with enough nitrous anything is possible”.
A 400HP Opel would be terrifying.
A little engine work on this and you could have it. And yes, it would be terrifying.
http://www.autosavant.com/2007/04/24/the-opel-diplomat-54-coupe/
Wood.
What an interesting car! This is cool:
You’re right. With a little work you could have one hell of a sleeper!
A 327 with a powerglide is not an autobahn set-up.
That is for racing on a 1/4 mile.
Putting a better transmission would have been key.
I once rented a Saturn Aura, which was just a rebadged Opel Astra.
Was actually a pretty ‘fleet-of-foot’ vehicle.
Not 400 mph, though.
To corpse-bang the owl thread from yesterday, early one winter’s morning, still dark, Tres Sr. was driving to work in the POS Opelwagon we had (I think he won it in poker game, I dunno).
Any how, it was a dark and snowy morning, and to hear him tell the story, he saw the flurry of something white, heard a BANG!, and felt the impact. When he stopped to inspect, the Opel’s grill was destroyed, along with one entire headlight assembly. The strike-ee left a bunch of white feathers, so the assumption was always that it was a snowy owl.
Are these lynx gonna actually stick around?
I think they left when the prom ended.
Golf clap.
Colonizers! But for real the left is starting to rupture.
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/childish-gambinos-this-is-america-has-been-colonized-1825992478/amp
The original has 111m views — do they not get that anything with 100+m views will be parodied?
So, the women’s version will get 74m views?
He also berated me if I bought anything that he considered luxurious – for example a packet of cashew nuts that I like to put on our salads.-
To be fair, that is the most expensive nut. I don’t think they were living as hard scrabble as she wants to believe.
I believe that macadamia nuts are more expensive.
Well looks who knows fancy nuts. You get out of here, Richer!
I don’t know… I’ve got some nuts that I’d charge a whole lot more for you to put on your salad.
More than pine nuts?
They cost the same per pound, shelled, raw on nuts.com.
And nuts.com exists.
What? There is a site specifically dedicated to nuts? Is it a porn website?
No, the non-meaty kind:
https://nuts.com/nuts/macadamianuts/
Fun fact, the edible part of tree nuts (as opposed to the shells, etc) are called nut meats.
Wow. You were talking about actual nuts. I don’t know, that just doesn’t seem right to me
“Dese nuts!”
There, are you happy JS?
Yes. Thank you.
quick shipping and good product, too.
three coworkers and I used to crush a 5lbs bag of sunflower seeds a week
To be accurate, that is a seed, not a nut.
Pedant!
Nut meat pedant is my band name now.
I don’t believe a word of that.
Gopher Heaven has a new tenant. The little bastard was out there standing on
hismy rock, doing his Rufus impression and giving me the finger. I picked up the Smith & Wesson Model 2206 (not as much cachet as a Model 41, but it shoots good), loaded with subsonic CCI. Nearly 100 feet, freehand; I wasn’t sure I got him, but when I was out there a little later, here was blood and bits of gopher gizzard in evidence.Fucking rats. I hate ’em.
Something something stupid games stupid prizes
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nekwek/how-i-stayed-out-of-a-gang-when-my-dad-was-arrested
I’m curious what gaslighter did for a living.
Evidently he owned part of a vineyard.
He sounds more like a miser than a gaslighter, as evidenced by him continuing to wear worn-out shoes. But gaslighting is the latest fashion in victimhood.
Nothing, because he doesn’t exist.
“How stupid that all I have to do is grow two squishy lumps and suddenly I’m man’s best friend”
-Christine Heppermann,
http://archive.is/h3pA7
2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 13, 18… fuck it, orgy.
Some of those lumps look to be of a distinctly non-squishy character.
If I got implants, Q would ogle me.
Pics or it didn’t happen
It didn’t.
If you want to GoFundMe, I’ll use the money for the above stated purpose.
You have my word as a gentleman.
Hmmmmm….intriguing. Or you could just let yourself go and let the boobies form naturally
I’ll also accept funding for that.
Bro or Manzier?
Neither will do me any favors at my first wet t-shirt contest.
3,22,25
fuck it, orgy.
Wise choice.
First up, I finally am starting to think the run-up in performance in mass-produced cars has gotten out of hand. Just kidding. An Opel couldn’t really go 400 MPH if you pushed it out the back of plane.
One year at the Speedway, during practice, one of our guys was taking the timing and scoring transponder from the spare car back to the garage while our driver was on track. The timing loop at the Yard of Bricks picked it up and flashed a 300+ mph lap on the board.
Good times.
Moar stories!!! I’m a junkie for racing stories!
BTW, everybody start planning now, because we’re doing a glibfest at the 2019 indy 500!
I’m in for Indy 500 Glibfest. My wife too. Might even convince my brother to join this herd of cynical assholes.
How about Pike’s Peak, instead?
Is that also on Memorial Weekend???
Nope: http://ppihc.org/fans/
I just enjoy Rally insanity more.
Rally crashes are my 2nd favorite Youtubes, after Russian dashcams.
Is there a name for the groups of young dudebros that run to the scene of a rally crash, hootin & hollerin and flipping the cars back onto their wheels? They’re not safety workers – they’re just herds of young spectators that love to run to the crashes.
If they don’t have a name, I vote “Rally Ruffians”
“Rally Pit Crew”
They’re like Viking berserkers
Then can we go to a bar and watch the Coke 600? And can we wake up at the asscrack of dawn to watch Monaco?
What, together? Kinda weird, but…
All of the above!
I think it should be the 2018 Indy 500 (says the guy with two extra tickets that need sold off)
Linda Sarsour has a sad that there are Jews in Jerusalem.
“Linda Sarsour has a sad that there are Jews still alive on Planet Earth.”
FIFY.
She doesn’t even hide her antisemitism anymore. Amazing
When did she?
Let her speak. She’s her own worst enemy.
I haven’t watched any news today. The mention in that ad that not one single democrat attended the opening is the first I have heard of that. Not. One. Single. Democrat.
I was a little surprised. It looks to me that the Democrats aren’t trying to hide their antisemitism anymore. They at least used to pretend.
How many Jews will support and contribute to the Democrats in November? I just dont get it.
Far too many, including
*all the self-loathing stereotype ones
*all the ones who think the Palestinians are in the right in the conflict (far more among American Jews than you would guess!)
*all the ones who consider themselves in academia, media, entertainment or ‘urban elites’
In other words, most of them. Many of whom will still insist that Trump is anti-semitic, despite his conservative Jewish son-in-law, his converted daughter, and the fact that a majority of Israelis think Trump is a hero.
If she has called for violence against the president why has the secret service picked her up?
The first thing I thought of when I saw that tiger story was he probably pissed on some chick’s prom dress. They do that.
What about Tiger Blood?
Imma guess there would be a lot more outrage by having a caged Charlie Sheen at Prom.
More venereal disease, too.
Didn’t Kanye say he has tiger strength or something? Why does everyone use a “tiger”? What about lions? They’re pretty strong
Lions are too associated with kings, so proper republicans substitute a tiger?
Or maybe it’s insidious Chinese influence to put their favored killer cat over the one favored by Europeans?
I’d go with “male lions are lazy twats, tigers are the working men”.
“I’d go with “male lions are lazy twats, tigers are the working men”.”
Yeah, but lady tigers are hard workers.
*lions*
My housecat is male and he sure kills a lot of stuff.
Cats are good for killing mice and being ungrateful jerks
My male cat is lazy and getting old. 🙁
“male lions are lazy twats, ” No wonder we’ve always gotta be towing them.
or toeing…….
My tiger-piss-soaked garment culture is not your prom dress.
They do?
I had no idea there was precedent.
Just think of the street cred those “tiger survivors” will have.
Was David Hogg in the same state? He can add it to the list.
Tiger. Survivor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4
Tiger survivor
Apparently the wife never bothered to check the tax returns.
In the Soviet Union the only reliable way to know your spouse’s salary was to check his or her Communist Party membership card (booklet): it contained monthly party dues — a fixed share of the salary.
My wife has never seen our tax returns. I sign for her.
My dad always kept his party card locked in his office ignoring my mom’s constant demands to see it.
This is with her consent. She’s not great at saving money.
My wife isn’t interested. I try to keep her up to date, but she always just ask if she can pay her credit card or if she can buy something, which is fine I guess. I don’t mind managing the finances.
That’s about it. She asks if we can afford something, and the answer is yes/no. No followup questions. It’s fine; we live very comfortably. No need to go full MC Hammer.
It is easy because she is pretty frugal. She’ll pick up a coffee mug or something else not too expensive in the store, then put it back and say “I guess I don’t really NEED it.” I’m lucky in that way.
And to clarify, I don’t mean for this to sound sexist. If she were good at saving money and I weren’t, she would be in charge of the finances.
I didn’t even pick up my check for 20 years, Wifey took care of everything and we lacked for nothing,
She was better at it
That’s my mom. My dad would have no money if he was in charge of the finances.
Of course. He’s Florida Dad.
We would have had more 4 wheelers and boats, that’s for sure.
I make sure that mine sees exactly how much uncle fuckoff is taking from us so that she doesn’t get any ideas that any part of the government anywhere is somehow “underfunded”.
I remember working at a place (large corporation, in fact) where the unionized plant workers demanded their overtime pay be in separate paychecks so they wouldn’t have to reveal to the spouse what they actually brought home that week.
There’s a another good hit piece directed at Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, and Ben Shapiro at TOS.
Who would have thought that opposing a law mandating speech, like Jordan Peterson did, would make you an enemy of libertarians. Brave new world
To be sure.
Robby is a good kid.
Emphasis on kid.
Robby is probably the same age as me. But, he reminds me of someone straight out of high school. I bet he still uses Axe body spray
I wasn’t meaning to imply he is young… just that he is as helpless as a minor, based entirely on all the things I know he can’t do by his own admission.
all the things I know he can’t do by his own admission.-
Like bed a woman?
Oh yeah, he can’t change a tire. I forgot about that.
That was the most emasculating admission that I’ve ever heard anyone make in print. I can’t believe he actually said that out loud.
I’m sure* he can get one into bed, Florida Man. … But would he know what to do when he got her there?
“Uh, can you sign these affirmative consent forms?
*I’m not really that sure.
I’m sure Robby cries after sex. No doubt in my mind
He cries in the dark . . . all by himself.
Robby cries during sex. He/she/it that participates is the one/ones that cry after.
Robby is a nitwit. He’s half a step away from supporting “punch a Nazi might be OK to be sure”.
The backpedaling on the support for fundamental rights at TOS is obscene for a “libertarian-oriented” magazine.
“The backpedaling on the support for fundamental rights at TOS is obscene for a “libertarian-oriented” magazine.”
Yes, but I don’t think Robby is the problem there
But he did pee on the rug.
Robby isn’t the biggest problem there.
But constant “to be sure’s” undermines most of the value he does provide.
Well, then you don’t want to read “newly woke” Matt Welch. He has gotten unbelievably bad.
Welch is the Nick Gillespie of Reason at this point. Which, of course, means that Gillespie isn’t the Nick Gillespie of his own publication.
Congrats, Nick?
I haven’t ready anything there in more than a year.
I throw the print magazines and the correspondence seeking support directly into the trash.
I have shunned them.
Me too, Kinnath.
Likewise.
Well I have read a couple things linked here, but I do throw away their requests for my money unopened.
I just tossed the June mag. Inspirational!
I’ve been reading them on the throne for around 15 years now.
But this morning’s roundup was just awful – and the last straw for me. As much as the fact that they’re not spreading the message very well, it’s the sloppy and at times even mendacious writing that pisses me off. And continuing to print the likes of Chapman and Dalmia… which I have been very tolerant of until I noticed their podcast post today where they deliberately link to that garbage.
How much did the mystery donor pay for their credibility?
Correction – make you an enemy of ENB, which has very little to do with libertarians.
Who would have thought that opposing a law mandating speech, like Jordan Peterson did, would make you an enemy of libertarians.
For a long time, I’ve thought they didn’t get it. Now, I’m starting to be convinced they really are just on the other side. You aren’t going to make libertarianism popular with the social justice cadres. It isn’t that they don’t understand libertarianism or are just capitalists and don’t realize it. They really are just authoritarian socialists. They really don’t want people to be free. And, the more you buy into their horseshit about “privilege” or “intersectionality” or “identity” the more you accept the premises or collectivism in its most authoritarian variety. At this point, Ms. Nolan-Brown is either too far gone or the mask has simply slipped off. But, publishing that tripe makes your position anything but libertarian.
“Who would have thought that opposing a law mandating speech, like Jordan Peterson did, would make you an enemy of libertarians.”
No one, and it didn’t.
Sick burn, man! Sick burn.
TL;DR – Male sexuality is brutal and problematic, female sexuality is beautiful and empowering.
https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/sex-robots-realbotix.html
Well, the cleaning of the sexbot probably isn’t as gross, anyway.
Male sexuality is hairy and pudgy and ugly.
Female sexuality is airbrushed and sexy.
Male sexuality is hairy and pudgy and ugly.
Beyond pudgy actually.
Beyond pudgy
Turgid?
What’s that male sexuality called where the fat guys bend over and take selfies of their spread ass cheeks and winking butthole?
The S&W model 41.
I’d like to have one, but I’m not coughing up that kind of cash.
My father sold his for 150 bucks back in 1969. I could strangle him.
That Childish Gambino song is pretty good once you get past the preachiness of the music video
He’s a really talented guy. Hysterical on “Community”.
I never saw Community. I’ll have to watch a re-run
Community is fantastic. Highly recommend. The dean is a great parody of sjwism before it became mainstream
Dean Pelton is pretty great. The “Greendale Human Beings” mascot is PC taken to the logical, and visually terrifying, conclusion.
The first 3 seasons are really funny, so definitely watch. Lots of sly visual humor to go along with good writing, particularly for a network show.
S4-5 are hit or miss (Glover left early in S5). I’ve never seen 6, it was on Yahoo so not even sure if there are DVDs or where it can be watched.
Hulu has it, but I’ve not had to finish it
Ah. Good to know. I will check it out.
The interesting part is the many interpretations you can take away from it. That’s usually the sign of good art
I’m trying to figure out if Glover supports African Americans not being able to defend themselves against corrupt police …
That “Opel Diplomat” looks suspiciously similar to a Chevy Malibu.
GM trying to move into MB territory in Germany using their Murican iron – it didn’t work
Speaking of tiger survivors…
Hint- “Never get out of the boat, Man! Never get out of the boat!”
Tiger survivors
The CORPORATIONS ARE EEEEEVUL people at the sports forum I inhabit are going nuts over the Supreme Court decision making sports wagering nationwide more likely.
Because EEEVUUUULLL corporations like the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc., were against it?
Sports gambling may be legal soon,
Cool link, bro.
I bet he does it right the second time.
You owe me $100, Ted.
I’ll bet you Ted doesn’t pay you.
I didn’t agree to the wager.
Now Mike owes me $250.
You were right.
Ted doesn’t make good on his bets.
What a welcher.
That’s what a lot of people have been saying.
Wait, Ted is Palin’s Buttplug?
He hasn’t denied it
I thought we were all Tulpa.
Well, I’m not Tulpa.
Exactly what we all knew Tulpa would say.
This comment would have been funnier if BP’s second link were Sugar Freed, too.
Whatev, Ted
Goddammit.
I saw the news about your mom after the thread the other night died. Sorry.
Pete Rose was way ahead of his time.
♫ come on people now, smile on your brother…
Iranian Group Offers $100,000 to Blow Up New U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem
*sigh*
It’s like they’re trying to get bombed (more).
Keep poking that tiger with a stick. You aint dealing with Jimmy Carter, Clinton, Bush, Obumbles or even Reagan. Keep it up shitheads.
Nice tie-in to the Links!
That article is pretty sparse on the details, Some ‘student’ group put up some posters. How big is this group? How influential? I’m going to guess that the lack of specifics indicates its a handful of powerless idiots. The Iranian Government and leaders do/say enough worrisome stuff , elevating this kinda shit could make one look a little hysterical, and take away from the reasonable concern one might have.
Good Lord, the outcome of the Iraqi election forms and Alliance between Sadr and freaking communists. Because democracy. Totally doesn’t feel like Iraq is coming full circle to pre-invasion. Democracy is Magic.
Burried halfway down the BBC report was the following tidbit
If most of the voters says “fuck this”, does it still count as ‘democracy’?
Also, the counting isn’t done and secular/religious alliance will have to then get more partners in to govern. The secularists (communists in particular) would do well to dial their brethren in Iran and ask how such a coalition went last time.
If most of the voters says “fuck this”, it sounds exactly like California.
So yeah, nothing at all like ‘democracy’.
There’s a simple solution to this: make voting compulsory like in Australia. Ban guns and pan explosives in Iraq, like Australia. I really don’t understand why they haven’t tried what the Australians already were successful with.
We should have quorum requirements at every level of government.
If not enough people show up for the dog catcher election? No dog catcher for 4 years.
I was gonna make some crack about “not emulating Australia until kangaroo meat has been classified as halal” but, quick search says that Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate answered the question!
Thank you, Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate, for making my day just a little bit more awesome. And I’ll know not to eat beaver in front of practicing Sunnis!
Like I said the other night, that is the only kind of government you can have in that part of the world. Ousting the secular dictators there is a huge mistake.
The Air Force is finally switching to OCPs (Multicam). I am cheering. It will be nice to have a uniform that isn’t a @#$&ing joke.
Whadda ya mean, ‘uniform’?
Business suits and pajamas.
Do your maintenance techs get to wear coveralls or just the trousers/blouse combo?
They have coveralls but I rarely see them.
Maybe that’s because public transportation is bullshit that people will use only if there is no other viable option.
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/387498-mass-transit-is-collapsing-everywhere
Obligatory
Wow. Is that all?
All we have to do is redesign American cities?
Just copy Europe, that always works.
Yeah, we’ll just redo all of the existing infrastructure so public transport is viable. No big deal, right?
“Forcing more jobs downtown”
And then taxing the shit out of them. Seattle blazes the way.
FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not sure about other cities, but I know Houston’s light rail wasn’t built in a way to actually, you know, SERVE commuters that might use it. Maybe building something that people could use effectively would work…but what do I know, I’m no Top Man.
Build it, and they will come!
The sexbot entrepreneur’s motto.
Build it, take away other options, and force people to use it, and they will come!
That’s certainly true in Los Angeles. Except for the underground stuff, the rest of the light rail/subway had to be built along existing railroad easements so it’s not exactly where everyone goes. It could be worse, I suppose. I’ve taken it a few times to avoid parking at Staples center for events, but it’s useless for my husband to commute downtown since the nearest station is basically halfway there so he’d spend twice as long getting to work.
Back when I used to work downtown, it flat out wasn’t an option.
It would have taken twice as long through sketchy neighborhoods, and I still would have to drive part of the way.
I’ve taken it once to avoid parking at the Colusseum, and once with each of my kids so that they could ride on a train. That’s it.
The fetish to have a municipality operate and own a mass transit system is completely misguided. Want to guess how many of the cities listed that article have privatized or public-private partnership mass transit? When there are conditions where there aren’t heavy-handed regulations serving as an obstacle to rail development, and the private sector is given most of the controls, creative and appropriate mass transit apparatus flourish. Best of all, if there is a malinvestment, the municipality doesn’t have to cover the losses. The operator goes out of business or is acquired. The simplicity of this concept is mind-boggling, yet it’s not considered general wisdom.
But then someone might make evil profits!
The opposite of LOVE is backwards LOVE, which is EVOL. Profits are not love, therefore profits are EVOL. EVOL sounds exactly like EVIL. Therefore profits are EVIL. QED
Or because any actually useful public transit isn’t built due to existing interests.
You think Vegas would lose money if their monorail was extended to the airport?
It chafed my ass when I went there and discovered it doesn’t, because Vancouver built a rail line connecting airport to downtown core, and it was done on budget (despite union whining that it wasn’t) as a public-private deal, was integrated into the existing transit system despite being operated by a private company, and has saved tons of people tons of money and time while maintaining profitability.
I spent 2 years in Tanzania. Despite being one of the poorest countries in the world (it’s slightly ahead of Afghanistan), public transportation is cheap and plentiful, though not exactly safe or comfortable.
I lived about 15 miles away from the nearest decent town. Once a week, I paid about 2 dollars round trip to go into town for internet, mail, etc. I rode in a minibus with 30 to 50 other people; if you don’t get on early, you stand the whole way. Hitch-hiking is a common practice and is safe. I know a guy who hitch-hiked from Dar es Salaam to Bukoba on Lake Victoria.
There is a national railroad passenger company that links Dar es Salaam to Lusaka. It is uncomfortable and has a poor safety record.
There is a huge tax on imported cars.
Bottom line, ride sharing is not a new idea and it works better than trying to centrally plan things.
But Derpy, minibusses are noisy and unsafe and pollutey and full of scary poors. And anyway, mini buses are really hard to regulate . Trains are zero emission modes and very nostalgic. So let’s just do choo choo trains.
The best thing was there were no fixed schedules or stops- the driver leaves when the bus is full. You can go anywhere at the last minute, no big deal. Or get dropped off anywhere.
Yeah, sometimes you might have to wait 30 min or so, but who cares? No one wears watches over there or cares what time it is. Being late is not a problem ever.
Chest hurts just thinking about that. I get anxious if I’m not 5 minutes early, much less late.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-different-cultures-understand-time-2014-5
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Multi-active peoples are not very interested in schedules or punctuality. They pretend to observe them, especially if a linear-active partner or colleague insists on it, but they consider the present reality to be more important than appointments. In their ordering of things, priority is given to the relative thrill or significance of each meeting.
Spaniards, Italians and Arabs will ignore the passing of time if it means that conversations will be left unfinished. For them, completing a human transaction is the best way they can invest their time. For an Italian, time considerations will usually be subjected to human feelings. “Why are you so angry because I came at 9:30?” he asks his German colleague. “Because it says 9:00 in my diary,” says the German. “Then why don’t you write 9:30 and then we’ll both be happy?” is a logical Italian response.
…
Both the linear-active northerner and the multi-active Latin think that they manage time in the best way possible. In some Eastern cultures, however, the adaptation of humans to time is seen as a viable alternative. In these cultures, time is viewed neither as linear nor event-relationship related, but as cyclic. Each day the sun rises and sets, the seasons follow one another, the heavenly bodies revolve around us, people grow old and die, but their children reconstitute the process. We know this cycle has gone on for 100,000 years and more. Cyclical time is not a scarce commodity. There seems always to be an unlimited supply of it just around the next bend. As they say in the East, when God made time, He made plenty of it.
It’s not surprising, then, that business decisions are arrived at in a different way from in the West. Westerners often expect an Asian to make a quick decision or to treat a current deal on its present merits, irrespective of what has happened in the past. Asians cannot do this.
***
That’s a lot a pretty words to say “they’ve got nowhere to be”.
Highly-valued time is a by-product of industrial societies.
The less industry, the less value there is on schedules, punctuality, etc.
Mueller, you got some ‘splainin to do…
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch
Doubleplus awesome for Hillary’s involvement the one thing in the story that’s even more fucked up that what the FBI was (illegally) up to.
“The FBI rewarded Deripaska for his help. In fall 2009, according to U.S. entry records, Deripaska visited Washington on a rare law enforcement parole visa. And since 2011, he has been granted entry at least eight times on a diplomatic passport, even though he doesn’t work for the Russian Foreign Ministry.”
Hmmmm…
I wonder who was issuing those bullshit visas to an “enemy”?
Emphasis 2009
Oh I know. I remember Rice giving a similar visa waiver to the woman who tried to set Trump Jr up with the tower meeting.
Or at least Rice was one of two people with the authority to issue it.
So the FBI extorted a foreign national to fund a black op in another sovereign country. Yup, we’re the good guys.
And a black op that would have gotten an American home if Hillary hadn’t stymied it.
So Team Nevertrump has a choice here: call out Mueller for running a black op with a Russian oligarch (that Trump sanctioned, by the way) or go after Hillary for turning her back on an American the FBI has managed to secure the freedom of through “back-channeling” with a new “ally” after the “reset”.
It’s fucking hilarious.
I doubt anyone will hold his feet to the fire in any meaningful way. Ethics are for little people and people who aren’t pursuing Trump.
Well, at least they had the competence to get Robert Levinson home safe.
The fuckers couldn’t even manage to get their spook home with 25 million of the oligarch’s money.
I don’t think you can call them “spooks” and more.
Is it not the preferred nomenclature, dude?
To be fair, I don’t think they can even fuck up an op and get an operative captured for under $50 mil, so…
CPRM, is this you?
A guy edits two Last Jedi scenes to make them way better (Poe-Hux idiotic talk at the beginning and Luke asking “Where’s Han”).
Unintentionally proving that the movie was terrible on purpose, because there’s no way Johnson didn’t see the exact same thing in the raw material, and yet he chose to ignore it and go retard.
Huh, dicked up the link somehow.
I watched that movie on a plane recently; it’s a bunch of tripe, they managed to make it even crappier than the preceding episode. Southpark already did the Lucas/Spielberg raping but so there isn’t even any good satire to spin from it. the original movies were good but at least they were fun. Between the atrocious story telling, bad script, bad acting and poor directing there wasn’t one thing I found likable in the film. I wish they’d have just left the franchise alone after episode 6.
If they did, we’d lose Thrawn Trilogy, KotOR and Clone Wars and that would have been terrible.
Between the atrocious story telling, bad script, bad acting and poor directing there wasn’t one thing I found likable in the film.
If those were the only problems with TLJ, it’d settle in prequels bracket and franchise could move on from there. I have no idea what they do after the deliberate damage inflicted on it, beyond “pretend what we saw isn’t what really happened.”
“pretend what we saw isn’t what really happened”
Been doing that ever since the fourth Indiana Jones installment stole some of my childhood away.
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Coor’s Light 40oz, ice cold in a paper sack.
HEY YUFUS!
I was going for Cobras when I saw Waldos, very limited run, so I bought it, 11.3 % Whoo Hoo!
Sup Tres!
Great victory for states rights today at the Supreme Court. Legalized sports betting will go to any state that wants it. The NFL is already planning on how to get their cut via an “integrity fee” taken out of bets.
NFL? Integrity? Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
“Just give us our ten percent and we will make sure the product is real.”
My father sold his for 150 bucks back in 1969. I could strangle him.
That’s a tragic tale.
I have to say that he kicks himself every time it comes up.
That’s gonna get a ratio (aka: dumbest Tweet ever Tweetered)
Me going in: “God dammit, Kristen, stop exaggerating!”
Me after reading: “I stand humbled and corrected.”
Like, who would even say something like that? That guy is a MONSTER.
He takes his Life Lightly talking like that, I’m in Cali and even I know TEXAS RULES over NYC for BBQ, I like KC style myself….
Look, it’s plausible a person may have their taste receptors wired oddly, or just be born without them, or prefers suffering to pleasure in all things.
The “ratio” part is what took it over the top.
WTF even is NYC BBQ? Some sort of hipster mashup of various styles? Like pulled pork with molasses-based sauce on a slice of white bread, with a side of Stilton mac n cheese?
I would guess that theres a molecular gastronomy component to it.
Well, first you take toast, and then you put avocado on it.
Damn you. I now know what a ratio means in relation to Tweets. I could have happily gone the rest of my life never knowing it.
Guy got appropriately roasted though.
LOL
I’m waiting for this one to get to the same level of ratio’d.
Just like I wouldn’t take barbecue advice from the clown you linked, I wouldn’t take dog-rearing advice from PETA.
Bella isn’t cage trained, but She has a nest/den She goes to earth in and She’s very Safe, Happy dogs need a Den
Exactly. Like, I don’t really care if you do or don’t crate train your dog. They will find their designated “safe space” if you don’t set one up for them, but don’t sit there and tell me that PETA really has any individual animal’s best interests at heart. As far as I’m concerned, they’d probably rather euthanize an animal than see it crate trained.
I set up beds and toys and Food in a few places around the house so She can Hide in several spaces, Her favorite is my bed of course 🙂
Of course! That’s Briz’s favorite spot, as well. That or Mr. Riven’s dirty clothes pile. What a strange creature. … Briz, I mean, not Mr. Riven xD
She Loves My Dirty Clothes pile, Lol
the slime-hund, when he feels necessary, crams his ass UNDER my bed.
There’s a Penn and Teller where they went into PETA’s animal euthanasia budget. Their stance is that owning pets is cruel, so they just kill them all instead. Seriously.
Oh, I believe you. I’ve seen that one, too–and a lot of other Bullshit episodes. Love that show, in general.
Hate PETA, though. They’re awful
There was a news story in Virginia a few years ago about a PETA mass grave. They just dumped corpses in the woods, on public property IIRC.
Yep, I remember that one.
They prefaced the bit about PETA’s budget with a quote from Newkirk about euthanizing pets.
Oh jeeze…someone doesn’t know what crating is. I should “well, actually” him.
I’m only going to encourage you. I replied to him because I just couldn’t stand it.
“dog-rearing advice from PETA”
Kill it?
You could almost be their new spokesman. I think you’re supposed to be holding a dead puppy when you say it, though.
Not my kind of back yard BBQ, not at all….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzHCd2X1GaM
Saw a Telsa Mobile Service van today. It was Ford Transit.
HAHAHA! and Fuck You!
/Welcome!
Now that’s awesome
Tesla doesn’t make a van, so it would be hard for them to use one of their own vehicles for this. Fords get delivered to the dealerships on a Volvo semi. Same thing.
Rain on parades much?
I usually pour buckets of orphan tears on parades.
One of the most frustrating things about Uber Eats is watching your driver get lost. My driver is currently immobile on the Beltway. WTF is she doing on the Beltway? And why hasn’t she moved in 5 minutes? I hope she didn’t crash.
That would be horrible. Your burrito would get cold.
Well if it was from Chipotle, it started out cold.
But isn’t delivery Great? in the last week We had Jack in the Box, Honey baked Ham and Baskin Robbins Delivered, Cheap and fast, Sorry you’re stuck in traffic (at least your driver)
Ubereats says they’re in St Louis, but doesn’t actually have delivery in the St Louis suburb I’m stuck in.
Door Dash?
Hmm.. appears they are available. Might have to think about that. Pickings were slim when I was doing my planning so I Fedexed a box of boilable/microwaveable meal components. Precooked rice surprisingly isn’t that bad.
An entire shelf of my cabinet is Uncle Bens 90 second rice. Just in case.
Worst Experience so far has been door dash, grub Hub or Uber eats FTW
Still better than having a pizza delivered, and it’s been 30 minutes since you called and you’ve got no idea whether the driver’s lost or they just lost your order in the system.
Does Uber Eats have a “fuck it, never mind” button ?
On the Dominos app, you can see the name of the driver and when they left the store with your pizza. I’m done with José. Fucking done. Anytime he delivers, it’s late and cold.
Fucking José!
Does the app let you rate the driver? I would think that would make it actually useful.
I’ve called the manager directly. They don’t send him to my house anymore.
Good on you. I wonder if they fired the guy or decided that it was more efficient to keep a list of addresses that have blocked him.
For whatever reason, the Domino’s near us has been profoundly shit each and every time we’ve ever ordered from them. For about three years we’d give them an annual shot. Couldn’t do a thin crust light cheese (wife’s a weirdo) without scorching the crust. Couldn’t get a pizza to our house (four miles down the road) within an hour. Haven’t ordered from them in, oh, three years, even after their little ad campaign about realizing they suck and trying to fix it.
On the other hand, our usual Papa John’s driver is a friend of the family who grew up with my mother-in-law, so that shit always shows up right on time.
My Ubereats driver last week apparently didn’t realize pizza boxes should be kept in the upright & locked position. He was super nice, so I didn’t give him a bad rating. I didn’t tip him, either.
Tonight’s driver eventually got here. She appears to have done a u-turn in the middle of the Beltway, according to the GPS.
Points for determination (tonight’s driver)?
Last time we ordered a pizza my wife *pre-paid* the tip. And of course the pizza was 20 minutes late getting to us. Both of us were already pissed so I decided it was probably not the optimal time to mansplain the concept of tipping. Aren’t you all proud of me? It took me approximately 20 years to learn that remarkable level of restraint.
I LOVE pre-paid tips. It’s literally a bribe, and I’ve had great success with it!
I personally don’t trust “randomly assigned pizza driver who probably won’t last more than 8 weeks” to get the nuance of this, but to each their own.
Would they even know about the prepaid tip?
From the sidebar of the ex-husband gaslighting story: Brazilian off-duty cop shoots would-be robber who is trying to rob families gathered in front of a school for a Mother’s Day celebration
auto-play video warning.
It looks like a legitimate good shoot to me.
Drake would tell you to put a TW on that.
Oh yeah. I’m reading the morning links now and see this was already posted.
And the discussion. Sorry.
Is that considered bad form? I’ve seen stuff repeated between the AM and PM links “not infrequently” and it often generates a different discussion with a different group of people. My impression is there’s a fair number of people who only read one or the other.
I say stand your ground.
I was more ribbing Drake than anything.
“Drake’s not here, man.”
I’m not apologizing about posting something that was already posted in the morning links. Judging by the discussion this morning, I should have warned about the content. That’s what I’m apologizing for.
I misunderstood.
Wait until three or four more people post it.
I forgive you either way!
I posted the Budd Dwyer video someplace once. Needless to say, people weren’t particularly happy.
*cue Filter*
Her first shot was a little iffy. At least from the angle of the video. Her background could have been clear, but it didn’t look like it from the video.
Oh, yeah, I see now. I missed that.
But yeah, did you see how his legs didn’t work? That’s what you get, motherfucker.
“He was then taken to the hospital where he later died.”
I like reading news stories with a happy ending for a change.
That was totally a good shoot. Although I’d need to see her re-enact it in the nude before I officially cleared her.
Legit. Pretty badass.
A Florida high school principal said he regrets using live animals including a caged tiger as part of a jungle-themed prom.
That seems a bit extravagant.
Did they play “Welcome to the Jungle”?
IDK if they played anything from the “Oldies” section.
We had to pay for our (juniors and seniors) prom. Who paid?
Lunchroom today had two tv’s on- one with Fox News and one with CNN. FNC was flipping between images of Israeli pols & guests, scenes of the embassy, and the Pali protesters with the headline of something like ‘US opens embassy in Jerusalem’. CNN had continuous loop of Palis rioting with headline of ‘Dozens dead in protests; Palestinians claim xx dead in worst day of violence since 2014 Gaza war’.
So telling.
Of course they did. Should have gone with Bungle in the Jungle though. “Mindless Teenagers”. Burn!
Guess I thought I was P Brooks for a minute.
There can be only one!
Oh yeah.. better choice.
Sick burn brah
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44115267
“A sign invites anyone to “unlock and load” a replica high-powered, semi-automatic rifle known as an AR-15.”
Unfortunately, the display contains a replica of the M-16, so…. they fucked up
If everyone in Chicago carried around an AR, their murder rate would drop like an Opel falling from a plane.
So did anyone take the fake rifles and not bring them back or could you not even rent the so easy to rent rifle?
They rented them, beat the shit out of them and left them abandoned in a really sketchy part of town.
So Ebikes in SF?
The Commons, what could go wrong?
Or eBikes in MPLS or anywhere else.
What is “Tragedy of the Commons, Alex.”
It must be all those NRA members in Chicago.
https://heyjackass.com/category/2018-stats/
I lived in Chicago for 3 years. The week I left, both the convenience stores on my block got robbed and the corner across the street from an elementary school was tagged by the Latin Kings.
I applied to the Chicago police and got invited to sit for the exam. I wanted to be a homicide detective. Protecting people’s lives and property is a legitimate function of the govt.
Before the test, I got a job offer to be a process engineer at a plastic bag factory in TX, so I took that.
Protecting people’s lives and property is a legitimate function of the govt.
As a skeptical minarchist I agree with this statement but it bears no resemblance to modern policing. As an institution they exist to protect themselves first and to protect government interests/property second. I’d say it stops there, especially with the Chicago PD.
One of my cousins is with the LAPD. He’s a decent guy, so I thought I could do likewise.
As you say, Chicago’s finest do not have a sterling reputation. I would not want to be on a vice squad.
There was a NATO summit in Chicago in 2012. The subway cars were crowded with police. Most of them looked like Golden Corral patrons taken at random. It did not bolster my respect of the police.
I know individual officers who are decent people. I definitely wouldn’t want their jobs. That being said I’m careful to frame policing as an institutional problem rather than just collectivize and hate on cops in general. The first approach I find to be helpful and facilitate *sometimes* productive conversation. The second just alienates you. I think Ihad this conversation with Number 6 a while back….cops are just people who are self-interested like the rest of us. The problem is they wield a staggering amount of state backed power to effect that self-interest. Power is the issue, fire every last cop and hire new ones and we’d be having the same problems within a few years. Demonizing them can be just as disingenuous as lionizing them.
I asked my cop cousin about the Philando Castile shooting, and he reluctantly admitted that the cop who shot him was in the wrong.
“If you’re the police, who will police the police?”
“I dunno. Coast Guard?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk4yyqXi8Xc
Remember when The Simpsons was hilarious and insightful?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
If those were Lorcins and Hi-Points it’d make a lot more sense.
Weapons of war. Hmmm. Right next to that display is a newspaper box. Bet their propaganda has led to more deaths than any rifle.
Why can’t they make cheap helicopters? Or do I need to pick up a popular mechanics mag.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/14/flying-taxis-may-coming-sooner-think/
Setting aside they’re complex, production intensive, and low volume…
1) The FAA
2) Product liability
Oh great
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-44070470?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=facebook&ns_campaign=bbcnews
I need some of those suits.
Re: PETA discussion upthread
PETA showed up at Toledo Bend once during a bass tournament. To protest the horror that is bass fishing they went out on the lake and tried to disrupt the fishermen. I think one of them got shot trying to assault a fisherman and two boats were sunk by shotgun.
They left.
PETA is evil.
You may have seen this already. It always makes me smile.
Ugh. https://www.google.co.jp/amp/people.com/food/toronto-chef-deer-leg-vegan-protestors-antler-restaurant/amp/
Beautiful
Seconded.
Yes, I did. I love it
and two boats were sunk by shotgun
So in other words, best bass tournament ever?
Yeah. I would definitely watch that!
Coming to Louisiana to harass hunters or fishermen is probably the dumbest thing a person could do.
I cannot imagine that ending well. My father-in-law lives in Huxley. We go out to visit every year and spend half the time on the reservoir.
Re: the hacking discussion this morning – the technical term is “social engineering” for most of what Mitnick got charged with. Harder today with caller ID, but still plenty of folks out there who’ll fall for it. 2600 [hz] was also the frequency from the Cap’n Crunch whistle that you could blow into an old payphone to give the tone giving you a free call IIRC.
Thanks, Fish.
Still doesn’t seem like ‘hacking’, but I’ll go with it.
Social engineering or pretexting accounts for the majority of data breeches. The human is the weakest link.
PEBCAK
Yeap. These annual reports on who’s doing what and how are actually pretty interesting.
http://www.verizonenterprise.com/verizon-insights-lab/dbir/
My first job was info security (hated it).
But most hacking is social. Learning and scanning for vulnerabilities can be helpful, but it’s much easier just to learn the name of the secretary’s cat.
Tribalism in action. Bonus marshmallow torture.
https://fee.org/articles/the-secret-to-teaching-children-self-control-is-letting-them-see-it-in-others/
Huh, in Louisiana florists have to be licensed…interesting site.
Yeah, that’s a great site. I go there often.
Same here. I love that the acronym is FEE.
I usually browse there once a week, but the articles are lightweight. I’d prefer more substantive data from a site with that stated purpose.
Suthen, finally got all the way through the Bret Weinstein talk. He dissects the French, uh, Evergreen revolution in great detail and then at the end claims that a new type of thinking is necessary. Neither progressive nor libertarian ideas will solve the problems we’re facing today. It’s stunning that such a smart person who just went through the hell of progressive mania can say something that ridiculous.
The guy is an evolutionary biologist. This is probably new territory for him. Everything he describes we have seen before over and over. It manifests each time as a horse of a different color but the end result/goal is the same: Russia, china, cuba, venezuela, cambodia, vietnam, the eastern block, etc.
Weinstein could spend some quality time with our friend Eric Hoffer.
New territory, sure. But why the hell is he bringing up libertarianism at the end of a lecture detailing progressivism run amok? Pathetic attempt to keep his street cred. Robbie would be proud of that to-be-sure signaling.
The man’s a center-leftist who likely sees libertarian radicalism as being just as dangerous as progressive radicalism. Maybe he’ll come around one day.
If your exposure to libertarianism is Reason (which is for most people) where you’re smeared and labelled as using “shock tactics” and feigning being a victim wouldn’t you be turned off from being associated with them? I don’t blame him
I saw that article and it wasn’t good. I don’t know what they’re thinking over there.
They’re “woketarians” now.
I think y’all should go back and listen to the last five minutes again. He said he gets along really well with us, that we agree on the goals just not necessarily on what path to take but that is not something we cant overcome and be allies
I didn’t hear him knock libertarians at all. I just see the guy as naive. If he hung around here a few days he would no longer be a ‘left libertarian’.
I am in the market for a high-powered blender. Been comparing various price points and brands. I have one scoped out that I think I’ll get, but I would love to hear what you all have. So as to get unbiased recs, I’m not saying what one I’m considering.
Ready. Set. Go!
TIA
We have the ninja with the top motor, but it doesn’t get a ton of use as a blender. I get the sense that it wouldn’t do well in comparison to a vitamix for daily use.
Thanks! Yes, it would get heavy daily use.
I have a Ninja and it is powerful enough, but it is not able to handle hot liquids according to the manual, and since I bought the damn thing for soup making I feel a bit cheated.
Oh, that would suck.
Vitamix all the way. They are worth the price. I actually got one this weekend for making a new Sesame Sauce, because the Ninja was not cutting it.
I bought my wife the Vitamix Professional Series 750, I think the Christmas before last. It’s awesome. Very well made.
After I toss our Ninja I will check that out.
Just looked. Plastic jars. No thanks, not for that price.
It’s built solid and has a cleaning mode. Never has to go in dishwasher.
That is sure a huge plus!
Suthen doesn’t have a dishwasher to put it in anyways.
Holy God, you remembered that about me? It’s been….years since I told my dishwasher story….hasnt it?
It stuck with me for some reason.
Probably because you had similar experience. Throw that fucker in the dumpster and build shelves. Wash dishes the way God intended – with your hands.
Seems nearly impossible to find high-powered with good ratings and a glass jar. *sigh*
Lexan, it holds up fine
I bought a Ninja last year and while it is powerful enough for what I want, it can’t handle hot liquids. This kind of annoys me since I mostly use my blender in soup making, and waiting an hour or more for a base to cool so I can blend it because my expensive blender was designed to be unable to handle heat…
Ouch.
The Ninja is fantastic when it is new. They only last three years tops. It is all plastic and the gear on the bottom of the jar is connected to the blade inside by a plastic spindle. The spindle wears out. The jar is plastic and square so the flat sides crack after a while. Aside from the designed to fail aspect while it is new/ relatively new it works really, really well.
If I could go back in time I would buy a dozen of the old heavy glass, lasts forever, made in America Hamilton Beach.
SP – Just asked the wife. That’s what I get for getting old. Our Ninja is not three years old. It’s ten.
Ha! Thanks, Mrs Suthen.
Yeah, I had one of those old HBs with the heavy glass container. I really liked that too.
I have one, but the glass is round. Evidently you want square, according to Alton Brown.
We may have an old Osterizer. I’m not certain if my sister disposed of it when she cleaned the junk Mom hoarded out of the kitchen after Mom died. (Seriously, there was a lot of junk that was too dirty to be cleaned properly.)
I have an Osterizer old enough to have a glass jar. It just doesn’t have the power to make super smooth sauces. It does OK for some frozen cocktails, though, and a passable job on stuff like crepe batter.
The Ninja is great for that. It has three sets of blades on a tower about six inches tall. It does blend very smooth.
Warning: It is almost impossible to wash the blades without cutting yourself. The blades are sharp. With a glove hold the tower firmly on a flat surface and use a long handled brush to clean it.
I think that would be asking for trouble in my kitchen, so thanks for that warning!
Our low-rent heavy-as-a-cinder-block Waring with glass jar is more than sturdy enough to grind out Painkillers every summer, which turns out to be the only thing I actually need a blender for.
recipe
Do you like getting caught in the rain too?
In the British Virgin Islands? Oh yes, yes I did.
Well, that just looks delicious.
You are so kind SP.
Or a lush.
By no means mutually exclusive!
My Painkiller just vodka with whatever I feel like adding to it. *shrug*
Stoli lime vodka & tonic is my official drink of 2018.
Oops, make that Absolut lime & tonic.
I’ve become a fan of New Amsterdam – best in its price class IMHO.
I’ll keep an eye out for it!
I have the Preet-O-Matic 5000.
I am not a fan of single-purpose kitchen appliances.
My online research tells me that I will be buying a Waring. What price range are you looking for SP?
Waring…heavy glass jars start at 50 bucks and go to 350 bucks. Hmmmmm. The top of the line $350 model has a 3.5hp motor and doubles as an outboard motor for my boat. Cool. I might have to choke and get that. We do need a new blender.
I’ll take a look. Thanks!
More concerned with the function. I don’t think I want to go too crazy high-end like Mr Moneybags AlmightyJB, but I’m actually looking at its little brother
I like the large capacity jar, the self-cleaning, the 7 year warranty. Made in Cleveland, OH.
Winner of America’s Test Kitchen review.
I have a Vitamix and a Blendtec. Both are acceptable, Lexan containers and decent motors. The Blendtec is shorter and fits under the kitchen cabinet better. The Vitamix is simpler and holds a little more. I haven’t had to fix either. I know the Blendtec has been used 1600 times so far (digital counter).
Blendtec has been used 1600 times so far (digital counter).
That’s built in? Pretty cool.
Total blade revolutions or GTFO.
It also says this:
https://youtu.be/05a9llSLKHU?t=70
Thanks, Scruffy! It will live on my island, so I’m not too worried about size.
I’ll take a look at the Blendtec.
Vitamix Professional Series 200. Loud as hell, but solid. Use it a ton.
Thanks, Tundra!
It really does a job on pineapple. You’ll love it!
Borrow OMWC’s labware catalog. It’ll cost $7k, but it will liquify a pig heart.
I seriously looked at his lab mixer when I was replacing mine a few months ago. The main problem was the cost of those attachments and already owning all the attachments from my old professional KitchenAid that I would no longer be able to use.
We have a BlendTech total blender
Review: It blends things very well, and very loudly.
Absolutely beats the box store model we used to have.
Could probably make a smoothie out of rocks with it.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Pdyqvr0wHo/UUkTev72LPI/AAAAAAAAF2k/xGJRfgmamAk/s1600/Joey+Fisher+Topless+Super+Big+Boobs+Nuts+Photoshoot+the-gutter-uncensor.blogspot.com+024.jpg
http://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/17-lovely-thursday.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b8/52/23/b85223c8341023c177006831cce2562d.jpg
https://78.media.tumblr.com/3cd5c86439869ae6cfcb56acd5b69938/tumblr_oqi1s4cuLF1vxgql2o1_400.jpg
https://thelaughterward.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Top-heavy-Tuesday-1-1.gif
http://media11.break.com/dnet/media/2014/2/5/437da13b-cc1f-4e24-a135-f5fc78fbab5a_560x315.jpg
Looks SFW…
It absolutely is, if you work at Nuts magazine.
I’m super-relieved that wasn’t another picture of crushed balls.
Your expectations have been successfully managed.
Fellow Glibs…
I didn’t think it existed, but I think I’ve found it.
Peak Derp.
That’s somehow not satire.
His profile doesn’t suggest he’d last long in an actual communist country.
Communism is everyone starving to death in the streets while party leadership isable to go to nice restaurants and nothing fucking else.
Such as “food” or “service”.
I think this has excellent meme potential.
Communism is women having large, voluptuous breasts, tight round derriers, a willing attitude, and nothing fucking else.
Love his- (wait… checks bio… OK whew) his professional bathroom mirror selfie.
What do you suppose would be going through his mind while he stands naked on the edge of the pit and watches stone faced men load their rifles?
Jesus, bro. Bleak. But accurate.
Yeah. I am imagining another man standing to the side with a shovel for poop cleanup after the fact. Just scoop it over the edge because they will be shitting themselves before being knocked back into the pit. Also, a bulldozer idling in the background.
Yes, it is bleak but accurate.That is the world of horror these fools naively want.
B-b-but the intentions! The intentions, Suthen!
“This has to be a mistake!”
“I’m proud to be the next bug sacrificed on the windshield of the glorious revolution!”
“If only this was communism and not state capitalism, this wouldn’t be happening”
I LOL’d.
Me too.
“I told them to take a strong line against rightist deviations, but noooo…
Should be me giving the ‘Fire’ order!”
Replying to @evan_welch
I have a friend who defected from Czechoslovakia in the 80s. She told me about waiting in line for hours to buy 1 loaf of stale bread (they were only allowed 1 loaf) Gosh, too bad she didn’t know about those communist restaurants, that would have saved her hours in bread lines.
I love that reply
I saw that one too. I am encouraged by the degree to which he was savaged in the replies.
His anarcho-communist buddies are all concerned that he got noticed outside of his immediate echo chamber.
Communism is being able to post stupid shit on social media and not getting called out on it, and nothing fucking else.
Uhhhhm….are there barriers now? I live in the deep south and I see mixed couples in restaurants all of the time. Full service, full menu.
What the hell is this guy talking about?
I dunno. Reservations are a class barrier?
Another awesome reply:
Communism is everyone
being able to go to nice restaurantswithno class, race or gender barriers andnothingfucking else.(dear moderators: you can delete the pending version of this)
Kevin Williamson noted the prevalence of “Study Proves”-journalism (epitomized by Vox) not long ago,
Welch mentioned it, noting that its been a crap cliche forever
It combines a bunch of my pet-peeves into a combination-peeve. The key component of which is the utter credulity and stupidity with which journalists pass on ‘research’ which correlates any 2 random things, and pretends they have some cause-effect relationship
If there is any subject where i get especially irritated by this… its with the subject of “Sexual Assault” and/or “hate crimes”.
They are more or less the same, in essence, because the problem with both is that they’re not really specific things. A ‘sexual assult’ can be a joke-photo like Al Franken, or it can be gang-rape. A “Hate Crime” can be making fun of a woman in a headscarf, or it can be dragging a black guy to death on a chain behind your truck.
Making matters worse is that data on them, aside from being vague, has a huge lag between ‘claims’ and then confirmation of whether said thing actually happened, or is dismissed. “Hate crimes” actually don’t exist until someone has been convicted in a court. the action – the crime – is all that’s actually being reported. Whether its a “hate crime” or not is a subjective decisiopn made by a prosecutor and then a jury.
Well: Merry Fucking Christmas, Me = the Daily Beast serves me up a concentrated dose: “Study Finds: Hate Crimes Spiked After Trump’s Anti-Muslim Tweets”
Of course, the journalist doesn’t link to the study.
I dig it up myself
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3149103
The thing i immediately find myself skeptical about (the whole thing, really) is this idea of “Weekly hate crime data” tracked by FBI
Given that charges of hate-crimes are only brought by prosecutors well after the event occurs… how the hell can the FBI report them anytime near when the actual event occurs? They hardly bring charges within a week. And “reports” have nothing to do with substantiated events.
Regardless of that…. here’s something that jumped out at me:
“” Because the FBI only publishes hate crime data for the previous year in November, we only have information until December 31, 2016, i.e. the first few weeks after Trump’s election””
Somehow this caveat seems to have been omitted by the stalwart reporters @ The Daily Beast
As you point out, they need to define “attacks” and “hate crimes.” I’d suspect that study conflates rudeness and various douchebaggery with crimes and,besides, correlational studies are shit. An obvious counfounder would be his tweets occurred shortly after the San Bernardino attack, maybe the crimes, whatever those were, increased because of that.
No: law requires there to be a specific crime, and only some can have “hate crime” added as aggravating circumstance
the vast majority of incidents fall into 3 categories
https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2016/tables/table-2
Vandalism, simple assault, and (the most vague one) “Intimidation”. the latter from what i can tell is a creation under the Civil Rights Act, and has its own requirements, but definitely requires threats of violence
the data they publish is released a year+ after the fact, so their “weekly” cuts are just filtering out data by week, and then trying to correlate them to (@#(*$)@( trump tweets.
Its an inane, insane exercise.
The biggest flaw imo is basically this idea that somehow *CANDIDATE* trump was a prime-mover in the lives of hate-criminals. they have basically zero data from when he was actually president. How many “anti-muslim” tweets did he have as a candidate?
its like correlating Episodes of Game of Thrones with rape data, and pretending its significant.
Ah, I see, that study was behind a paywall for me-their conclusions do sound like they’re built on a shaky foundation.
Whoops, actually they didn’t like my VPN.
Ahh… more than 2 links
Neighbors are out in force chanting with their Palestinian flags and such. Nothing angry – if anything it looks exactly the same as when Egypt (and it’s mostly Egyptians around here) qualified for the World Cup – flags flying outside their cars and shit. I’m no expert in all this but it’s all a little baffling to me.
Functionally, they’re celebrating the death of their comrades.
Because that’s all they have. Palestinians don’t make anything, they don’t improve anything, they have no intention of improving anything. They die, they kill, and they revel in it.
I think it’s an over generalization to lump all Palestinians in that category
It is.
But it certainly characterizes a lot of them.
I used to feel bad for them. But after multiple intifadas and a continual desire for the death of Israelis, I got over it.
To be fair, I still feel bad for their youth who are being brainwashed into their death cult.
“Go be a martyr!”
“Go be a stage prop for our corrupt leaders! “
I have heard from ones that come here that when they are accepted to come here there is great camaraderie with the other people in the waiting rooms at the US embassy…with Jews who have also gotten visas to come here. They congratulate each other and talk about where in the US they are going and what they are going to be doing. Suddenly they are all americans and about to live the dream.
The ones who come here aren’t like the ones who stay there to revel in the bloody shirt.
I’m cranky tonight. Got a case of the shits from lunch.
I should never be President. I’d nuke the Middle East during a bad bout of diarrhea, just because.
I’m not even going to try to pretend I understand it. They’re good neighbors, it’s safe around here, etc. but they’re “alien” in some ways.
I’ll say this: I doubt there’ll be a riot in Dearborn over this, which can not be said in Europe or most of the Middle East.
They won’t riot in the country whose policy they are opposing. Because they have too much to lose here in terms of political and economic well being.
That’s a beautiful thing that often gets overlooked in this country
Yeah, I don’t think I would consider living in a majority Middle East neighborhood in Europe. And even here it’s only like a 5-block radius and it’s not “overwhelming” as in “ghetto”. There a mix of everything. Even wypipo yuppies like me.
Bingo. Too much to lose. That is what makes us different.
Horror! My Micro drone got up into the main wind and, …. it’s Gone
I just bought new batts, 150$ oop
Uh ohs. I didn’t know that was a thing that could happen.
Bought the grandson a pair of them last Xmas. we were playing with them in the yard and oops. One got out of site at about 60 feet and fell in some thick woods. Dammit. These were only about 40 bucks each.
I had it for 5 years, fun machine, but I have the Big Brother,Yum, Big quad
I also fly 3D R/C planes, which are a completely different animal, YMMV
Oh, and thanks to all of you who have casually mentioned DuckDuckGo as a browser. Tried a couple others and settled on this one.
“” DuckDuckGo as a browser””
Wha? I thought it was a search engine. They have a browser?
I use Opera fwiw (its Chrome based) and i loves it. It has everything i liked about ffx in past, but many benefits of chrome, plus some of its own quirks that are cool / helpful
e.g. proprietary integrated ad+script-blocking, free integrated VPN 4 torrenting, compatible w/ chrome-add-ins plus its own, 1 key search-engine – (alt-spacebar brings up configurable floating searchbox)… lots of little things, like the way it keeps pages ‘where you were reading them last’ when you close and reopen them, etc.
I use /Chrome, The rest is fluff IMO
It is. I just downloaded the app yesterday. Haven’t tried it on my desktop yet.