SEA SMITH SUNDAY EVENING LINKS

SEA SMITH HERE TO GIVE LINKS. HE HEAR THAT SUNDAY NIGHT HAVE BIG HOOMAN SPORTSGAME. BUT HOPE YOU CAN LOOK AT LINKS.

“FIXER UPPER”
  1. SEA SMITH HOPE WAR NO MAKE IT TO SEA. DEPTHCHARGES GIVE SEA SMITH INDIGESTION. ALSO WONDER WHEN 4CHANTARDS MAKE MEME OFFENSIVE IN PORTUGUESE.
  2. SEA SMITH NO MORE GO ENGLISH CHANNEL. STAY AWAY FROM SILLY ISLAND. HOPE GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS STAY AWAY TOO.
  3. ISLAND SAYS “NON” – WANTS WINE AND WELFARE SENT. MAYBE SEA SMITH GO PAY VISIT. BY PAY VISIT, MEAN…YOU KNOW.
  4. MAYBE COUSIN STEVE SMITH STAY AWAY FROM BRAZIL FOR WHILE?

COME ON IN. WATER FINE!

Comments

174 responses to “SEA SMITH SUNDAY EVENING LINKS”

  1. Old Man With Candy

    ISLAND SAYS “NON”

    IS ALLERGIC TO SOAP.

  2. Spudalicious

    Brazil has become even more of a shithole.

    First!?

    1. Spudalicious

      Damn.

      1. Sean

        Beaten by the old guy…

        1. Spudalicious

          That sucks. I typed “shothole” three times which allowed his disease ridden brain beat me to the punch.

          1. Old Man With Candy

            How about “TO beat me to the punch”?

            And I come by syphilis honestly, OK?

          2. westernsloper

            How are the japs doing? Makes the house smell good no?

          3. Spudalicious

            Dee-lightful. I may have taken them too far. The syrup got to a light blond color. They are truly candied but oh so good.

          4. westernsloper

            Put a big dollop on your next grilled burger. It’s the schnizzle.

    2. Luther Baldwin

      Brazil has become even more of a shithole.

      Right? I mean without government support of the brave resistance press it’s literally hitlers down there.

      Oh… you’re probably talking about that other thing.

  3. Sean

    Where did the weekend go?
    I don’t wanna go back to work tomorrow.
    ?

      1. DEG

        Thirded.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Suckers! I’m taking tomorrow off.

          1. I’m taking Friday off to go to Annapolis. Mrs trshmnstr is running the naval academy half.

            I’m saving the rest of my PTO so that I can take the entire second half of December off.

          2. AlmightyJB

            I’m taking off early this Friday and then I don’t have to work more than 4 days a week until next year:)

          3. Threedoor

            Still recovering from surgery. Worked two days In The last two months and am losing my mind. What’s left of it.

          4. westernsloper

            Me too. I am only on day 11 though so I am still in the glad I don’t have to go to work stage. I won’t be there once my sick leave is finished. Hopefully I will be working by then. Maybe.

          5. Threedoor

            Hope your recovery goes well. I got a new ankle. I’m in the PT stage but it’s a rough one, worst out of all my other surgeries.

          6. Yusef drives a Kia

            I’m going Househunting while staying at a Resort, HA!

        2. C. Anacreon

          Everybody’s working for the weekend?

    1. Chafed

      I feel your pain.

    2. egould310

      The problem is You’re Working Too Hard https://youtu.be/IGk9q90ZcpA

      A nice example of Beatlesesque power pop.

  4. DEG

    Last week, Thornton called for a bigger focus on tackling burglaries and violent crimes rather than issues like misogyny and historical allegations against the dead.

    How long until Thornton becomes unpersoned?

  5. Tres Cool

    FIF! !

    1. AlmightyJB

      Nice:)

      1. Tres Cool

        I shoulda cut to the chase for people that dont have the time .

        1. westernsloper

          What the world needs in the crazy times is Dave Chappelle.

        2. Yusef drives a Kia

          Yes!

  6. MAYBE COUSIN STEVE SMITH STAY AWAY FROM BRAZIL FOR WHILE?

    Perhaps he can get James Stewart for his lawyer and talk about Lee Remick’s panties?

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      I would have, back in the day, Hi Ted

  7. commodious spittoon

    First weekend of November, so you know what that means: setting up the Santa tableau at the mall.

    1. People still go to the mall?

      1. Right after they watch Otto Preminger movies on their VCR machines.

        1. Soyboy

          Got ‘im

        2. Some of us have good taste in movies.

          You should watch Skidoo

          1. And if you didn’t think that Carol Channing scene was frightening enough….

          2. Soyboy

            lol, what an icon

            Admit it: You all would.

          3. Carol Channing sounded 70 even when she was in her 30s

            In that movie (The First Traveling Saleslady), she was romantically paired with a young Clint Eastwood.

          4. egould310

            I’d bang Carol Channing. Especially in that magnificent Mid Century Modern bachelor pad. Gonna have to watch that movie.

          5. Soyboy

            I wish I could do that to my bed.

      2. AlmightyJB

        Just young kids and OMWC.

          1. AlmightyJB

            She’s no Rebecca Black.

          2. But Enough About Me

            Coby Smulders (sp?). Would.

    1. I’m glad the restyled the mustang. The 1st gen of this body style (ca. 2005) was an awesome retro look. The 2nd gen (ca. 2012) was not as good looking. This 3rd gen has a bit of an Aston Martin meets Murika vibe going on. I like it!

      1. Timeloose

        I had a 2013 GT with a 6 speed or was the last of the retro style but it was a blast.

        1. Yep. I was off by a couple years on the start of the 2nd gen. The 2014 was the first year of new styling. I much prefer the earlier style (my dad has an ’05)

          This new euro style look isn’t half bad.

    2. Michael

      This is one of the saddest passages I’ve read all week:

      The Ford Mustang – and its two surviving brethren, the Chevy Camaro and the Dodge Challenger – brought such thoughts to mind.

      They, too, are living legends – and may not survive much longer.

      Not because they aren’t popular – especially the Mustang, which is selling very well. But rather because they are not politically correct. Which increasingly matters even more than whether a car actually sells.

      Forget what people want and are actually spending their hard earned money on. Let’s acquiesce to a numerically insignificant mob of self-important screeching lunatics instead.

      (I should note that my ire is in no way directed at the author of this piece, as he quite clearly shares my disdain. It’s truly a pathetic state of affairs.)

  8. My first Virginia Film Festival Review – Combat Obscura (sadly no trailer available). Would definitely be interested in hearing from CPRM or Ted or someone else – because as a “documentary” this seemed really light on narrative and structure – and impossible to even tell if it was structured chronologically or not. Some good scenes overall but not particularly informative on the whole.

    1. Chilean/Iranian flick “Oblivion Verses”. Not the kind of flick I normally watch, and all the better an experience for that – particularly at a film festival. Recommended if you like character-driven dramas, etc. (Trailer link: https://youtu.be/X1e6OaNQ-2k)

      1. Posted the trailer for “Ruben Brandt, Collector” last night. This flick is definitely original and I will definitely buy it on blu-ray when I can. Extremely imaginative and some of the action sequences are incredibly well done.

        1. l0b0t

          I enjoyed the trailer you posted earlier. I can’t wait to see this; it looks wonderful.

  9. westernsloper

    @#^$%&* Broncos

  10. dbleagle

    Anybody need zukes, tomatoes or apple bananas? I am being overwhelmed.

    Oh yeah. Go Packers go!

    1. They could use a good coach.

      1. dbleagle

        That plus building up their primarily notional defense. Hard to run to the Super Bowl relying on AR to make a last minute scoring drive week after week.

        1. It’s not as if they’re going to use the RBs to score.

  11. Gustave Lytton

    Stansfeld revealed that, under current laws, detectives have to investigate anything that was ‘perceived’ to be a hate crime.

    He added that this could lead to ‘huge injustices’.

    Yeah, just have to. No discretion at all. Oops, oh well, just doing our jobs. Airshit One continues to parody itself.

  12. Threedoor

    How does Sea Smith do his thing? I’m assuming he has a cloaca, or am I wrong?

  13. westernsloper

    With half a billion dollars in public-sector marketing budgets coming under his discretion, the fiery former Army captain is threatening to slash ad buys with adversarial media groups, striking at the financial foundations of Brazil’s free press.

    I wish the Orange One would do that here. Pisses me off every time I hear a Gov sponsored add to brush your teeth or some such assaninity on the radio. Tax dollars should not buy advertisements.

    1. Luther Baldwin

      striking at the financial foundations of Brazil’s free press

      I didn’t read that whole piece of agitprop but yeah… this phrase is so laughable it hurts. “Government support” now equates to “free press”. You can’t parody these guys any more.

      1. To be fair….the US is really the exception worldwide when it comes to freedom of religion or freedom of the press (etc) – in terms of zero official government funding to keep them operating/afloat/etc – separate from contractual services, etc.

    2. Plinker762

      But it is for the children! !

      1. westernsloper

        Fuck the children.

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          You read my mind, word for word….

        2. Spudalicious

          *lights the OMWC signal*

    3. Threedoor

      Amen.

    4. Aren’t those mostly unpaid PSAs?

      When I was at the college radio station, I got put in charge of the PSAs, which came on small reel-to-reel tapes. Of course we all remember Vince and Larry the crash test dummies, but there was this other PSA with the tag line “Speeding gets you nowhere fast” that was so over-the-top maudlin that we all laughed at it.

      1. Tres Cool

        Crash Test Dummies ?
        Keep a lid on it, Ted.

      2. Threedoor

        So they take the place of what the market would pay? It’s loke a stealth tax on the radio station.

      3. westernsloper

        I don’t know. Are those free air time sponsored by the radio station? The usual ones I hear are “sponsored by gov agency x and some ngo (American Heart Association…etc) I have a hard time believing it costs the gov nothing. Who produces the PSA’s? Some agency doing it for the public good?

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Yes. Fuck you very much again FDR.

          1. westernsloper

            Hmmmm. From the Ad Councils ? and answer page on their website:

            Who is the Ad Council? What’s your mission?

            How do you create your ads?

            How does the Ad Council get its PSAs aired?

            Does the Ad Council utilize social media to reach audiences?

            Is the Ad Council a nonprofit? How are you funded?

            Does the Ad Council create PSAs in response to disasters or emergencies?

            What’s the history of the Ad Council?

            Where can I find information about an older Ad Council campaign?

            Who funds your PSA campaigns?

            What social issues do you address?

            How do you pick the issues to be addressed?

            How do you define public service advertising?

            What’s the difference between a commercial and a PSA?

            How do you evaluate your campaigns?

            How much donated media does the Ad Council secure each year? per campaign?
            Use of Materials and Resources

            How do I get a copy of one of your PSAs?

            How can I get a copy of one of your older, historic campaigns?

            Do you have instructional materials for use in the classroom (i.e. posters, curriculum)?

            How do I play your TV or radio PSAs?

            Can I download your TV and radio PSAs?

            I want to feature one of your PSAs in a textbook. Do I need permission?

            Can I use your website as an educational resource?

            Can I get a guest speaker from the Ad Council to present to my class?

            Can we come to your office and get an Ad Council presentation?

            I want to use your PSAs for a local cable channel or school news program at my school?

            Do you have anything for students with English as a Second Language?

            I need an idea for an upcoming event such as Earth Day or Black History Month.

            General Answers

            Q. Who is the Ad Council? What’s your mission?

            A. Simply put, we’re the largest producer of public service advertising. We represent a unique collaboration between the advertising, media, and business communities. The leading advertising agencies from throughout the country lend us their best and brightest talent to develop our campaigns pro bono and the media industry generously donates the advertising time and space to deliver our messages to the American public.

            Our mission is to identify a select number of significant public issues and stimulate action on those issues through communications programs that make a measurable difference in our society. To that end, the Ad Council marshals volunteer talent from the advertising and communications industries, the facilities of the media, and the resources of the business and non-profit communities to create awareness, foster understanding and motivate action.

            Q. How do you create your ads?

            A. Ad Council campaigns are produced pro bono by the country’s leading advertising agencies, who donate their services on a volunteer basis. The people of these agencies donate their ideas, expertise, and time to help create each one of our ads. Each Ad Council campaign is sponsored by a non-profit organization or federal government agency, which provides the production and distribution costs and serves as the “issue expert.” The Ad Council works closely with the advertising agency and sponsoring organization throughout the (approximate) 9-month process to develop a campaign which involves 6 major stages: 1) research and planning; 2) strategic development; 3) creative development; 4) production; 5) distribution/media outreach; and 6) monitoring and evaluation.

            Q. How does the Ad Council get its PSAs aired?

            A. After each campaign is produced, the Ad Council distributes the PSAs to the media who donate time and space to our campaigns to ensure our messages reach across the nation. Specifically, we distribute our PSAs via a nationwide network of over 33,000 media outlets that includes TV and radio stations, print outlets (i.e. magazines, newspapers), outdoor (i.e. billboards, bus stops) and the internet (i.e. web banners). In addition, we remain on the cutting edge of current technologies, working to support our campaigns in innovative ways.

            Maintaining longstanding and strategic relationships with most of the country’s media companies enables the Ad Council to leverage top-level partnerships on behalf of its campaigns, thereby ensuring millions in donated media annually.

            In total, Ad Council campaigns receive more than $1 billion in donated media annually. Our non-profit organizations and federal government agency partners typically receive 10 times the return on their investment through donated media placements.

            Q. Does the Ad Council utilize social media to reach audiences?

            A. Yes, the Ad Council has developed online communities on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Ad Council campaigns also have a presence on these channels.

            Q. Is the Ad Council a nonprofit? How are you funded?

            A. Yes, we are a nonprofit. And like any other nonprofit, we raise funds from individuals, corporations and foundations to support our general operations.

            Each of our campaigns are sponsored by a non-profit organization or federal government agency who pay for the production and distribution costs.

            Looks to me like the non profits or gov agencies pay.

            What a bunch of shit.

          2. westernsloper

            OOOOps Obviously only the blockquoted part was supposed to be there…..ha

          3. westernsloper

            Little help over here edit fairy.

  14. But Enough About Me

    So, got back from the France/Spain trip about a week ago, and still haven’t turned around completely to re-adjust to PST. But.

    1. Versailles is my kind of town. The spousal unit and I spent a great two hours one afternoon (beautiful weather there, BTW) sitting in a outdoor café drinking rosé and people-watching on a T-intersection. Mid-sit, an older couple sit down beside us, hear us talking in English and one of them asks the other (in French, natch) “Where do you think they’re from?” I butt in and say “Vancouver, Canada” and the next thing you know we’re talking about everything you can think of for the next hour or so. The gent, who does some kind of research, told me that Versailles was his wife’s hometown and that it was so conservative that in the last national election the socialist candidate for the area didn’t get a single vote. Not even her own family or friends. That’s gotta sting.

    The guy whose place we rented on Booking.com to stay at for three nights in Versailles was a real entrepreneurial type, and lived in a close where all the neighbours seemed to be like that as well. Met one couple (and their six kids) who had just finished a three-year stint living in Virginia or Maryland or somesuch; hubby worked for NATO and was doing some kinda contract there. All the kids and their parents spoke fluent English, with scatterings of Americanisms. The kids told me that they hated coming back to France because their French teachers were very strict and never smiled or laughed. They loved their school experience Stateside. I’ve heard that from other French kids as well who came over to Canada on exchange programs.

    Also met an elderly couple on the palace grounds of Versailles who were touring around Europe with their service dog “Scout.” The lady stuck her head into one of the men’s bathrooms and filled her dog’s bowl from the tap. Nobody even blinked, unlike in North America, where such crossing-over would have been frowned upon. They’d been traveling for four months and were dreading going back to the States, ’cause they’d been enjoying the relaxed vibe of their European trip.

    2. Normandy, where my family comes from, rocked as usual. About half a kilometre from my cousin’s farmhouse near Alençon is a huge, mostly outdoor antiques place that used to be an enclosed model farm in the mid-to-late 1800s, run by a gent who spent a dozen years in Manhattan before coming back to France, and speaks English with a strong Brooklyn-ish accent. Awesome. The antiques at this place are normally movable only with a 5-ton truck and a crane. Attached is an old chateau house where weddings are held (in fact, my cousin’s daughter got married there in August ’15 — wedding lasted three days! [took the spousal unit and I a week to recover from that]) as well as a great little resto/bar that oozes ambience and has wild statuary inside (everything from ancient European stuff to statues of Marilyn Monroe).

    3. The SNCF (French national train system), which normally does a competent job of shuttling us to-and-fro when we’re not renting a car, managed to shit the bed big-time trying to get us from Alençon to Barcelona for the Spanish portion of the journey. Utter incompetence combined with the stereotypical disdain of the French for, y’know, customer service (or even bothering to tell us what the Hell was going on when trains were cancelled, re-routed, stopped early and left us stranded in Montpelier, etc.). One young French lad, backpack strapped on, summed it up beautifully when he stepped onto the fifth substitute train that we had to switch to and muttered in English “fuck SNCF.” I looked at him and said, “Oui, je sais.”

    4. Barcelona rocks. You think NYC never sleeps? Puh-LEEZE. The Barcelonians think nothing of phoning their friends up at midnight to go for a snack or some wine and tapas. Loved that place. My only regret is that I can’t hop a direct flight from Van to there. Found a tapas joint a block from our hostal that had cheap Catalonian rosé and was crammed with people from everywhere except Barcelona (the joke is that nobody who lives in Barca is actually from there). Fell in hopeless old-guy lust with a fetching young redhead from Russia who was there with her Scottish boyfriend. Her English was better than mine. Also met a group of Texans from the DFW area who knew how to party. The tapas joint’s called Ciudad Condal, in the Eixample area of Barca. Cheap, cheerful, noisy as Hell and highly recommended. Made me feel like I was twenty again.

    5. There’s a lot of tension between Barca and the remainder of Spain, and head offices are fleeing Barca for Valencia. We had several conversations with folks from Barca as well as others from Madrid, who opened up to us because of Canada’s tensions with the Quebecois and Western Canada (they felt we could be sympatico, I guess). Lots of glum folks there, but life goes on, and they’re still enjoying themselves otherwise.

    6. The bus tour portion of the trip was okay (we went with Trafalgar, which is a good company), and our tour guide worked her little heart out, but bus touring just isn’t for us. Helped with the language barriers, but we found the herding around to be a bit restrictive. We always wanted to stay some place a bit longer and explore more. Mebbe we’ll feel different in a decade or so. Mebbe I should get more serious about learning some of the target language for wherever we’re going, too. Star Trek’s “universal translator” can’t come fast enough.

    1. Luther Baldwin

      it was so conservative that in the last national election the socialist candidate for the area didn’t get a single vote

      Of course not – it’s full of royals.

    2. DEG

      Sounds like a good trip.

    3. Luther Baldwin

      head offices are fleeing Barca for Valencia

      Which is itself an autonomous region speaking in fact the same language as Catalonia but of course they call it something else. Those offices might find themselves in Madrid some day.

      1. But Enough About Me

        Yeah, possibly. Valencia was my second-favourite city in Spain, with Seville & Granada close behind sharing third place.

        Madrid was dead last in every category I could think of. It’s a government town, there’s no getting around it. The monuments are great but the life seems almost “hollow” compared to other places we went.

        1. Luther Baldwin

          I have only visited Tarragona (near Barcelona). Loved it. We spent most of a month in a nearby resort town but I was much more interested in the few trips we took to the “big city”.

          1. But Enough About Me

            I envy you — there are direct flights from NYC to Barca. Cheap, too.

          2. Luther Baldwin

            I should mention this was 30 years ago. Tarragona really did seem like a big city to me after having grown up in a (larger) dying rust-belt town.

    4. Yusef drives a Kia

      #2 did you pass by Lozon? it’s my ancestral home

      1. But Enough About Me

        Didn’t get to Brittany this time (it’s normally on our itinerary). Closest we got was Caen. The one free day we had (no family obligations) we went to Chateau de Breuil for bottles of their awesome Calvados. Yes, I’ll drive 90 minutes in each direction for that stuff, and then hump it around southwest Europe for several weeks in my luggage before flying back to Canada, it’s that good. Pure serendipity: it was a Sunday, and we stumbled upon a little resto with a charming terrace in the countryside just after we exited de Breuil, and had a fabulous luncheon there. The kind of place evoked by the book A Year In Provence. France is crammed with ’em, thankfully — you just have to get off the main roads and/or autoroutes. Better than 95% of the stuff you can get in Paris, with less attitude, and cheaper, too.

    5. Raphael

      Having some paella and Spanish Sangria in Barcelona was probably one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. Glad you got to enjoy Barca too. Toledo is in a more arid part of Spain, but damn reading your comment made me want to consider a revisit. Iberian ham was godly if I remember it correctly.

      1. Raphael

        Made me want to consider a revisit to Spain in general*

      2. But Enough About Me

        We stuffed ourselves on Iberian ham. There was a vac-packed leg joint of it in one Spanish supermarket we went into that I gave serious thought to bringing it home. Sadly, I’m sure it would’ve been seized by Canada Border Services (and ended up being used in one of their staff parties, no doubt).

        The paella, on the other hand, was surprisingly disappointing, but we’re spoiled — five minutes’ walk from our house is a French-style, five-star bistro that does a Spanish paella that’s damn near transcendental, so the poor folks in Barca were already fighting an uphill battle on that front. I did discover that they also do paella with noodles instead of rice in some areas of Spain, which makes sense…

        1. Raphael

          Very nice and excellent! Glad you got to engorge on that glorious ham.

    6. commodious spittoon

      unlike in North America, where such crossing-over would have been frowned upon

      Until the frowners are put to death for transphobia.

    7. grrizzly

      Nice writeup. In the last 12 months, I happened to visit Barcelona three times. I’ve got to love the city. Restaurants are great. The locals dine so late, so if you go at 730 or 8 pm you can often get a table without a reservation. Interesting, the only time a waiter herself noticed that wine had gone bad by looking at the cork and replaced the bottle without asking happened in Barcelona.

      1. Timeloose

        I drank a lot of Spanish riojas while in Barcelona.

        I also found a great gin bar that had a Manchester music theme. I was very happy that night.

        1. Timeloose

          We found a Tapas bar near our hotel that was out of the tourist areas and started our night there 3days in a row.

          1. But Enough About Me

            Amazingly, the tapas place (Ciudad Condal) we found was in the tourist zone (albeit on the northwestern edge of it) but was nevertheless awesome. Half a block away was another place we tried that was totally meh. I don’t get it, but lots of things are a mystery to me.

            And yeah, we kept going back to Ciudad Condal until we left the city a few days later. The entertainment was free, after all . . .

        2. grrizzly

          In Barcelona we discovered Priorat, a quality wine region in Catalonia.

          1. But Enough About Me

            Yes! My liver was in serious jeopardy the entire time we were there.

            I sent my bro a picture of a one-litre softpac of Spanish Rioja that we could buy in a local convenience store for €0.99 (about $1.50 CDN). His reply was basically unprintable, even in this wretched hive of scum and villainy. Heh. (He still accepted the bottle of Calvados I brought back for him, though . . .).

    8. Mojeaux

      This is beautiful. Thank you.

      1. But Enough About Me

        My pleasure. Seriously.

        If I ever win the lottery, y’all are invited to Barcelona for the first trans-national Glibs tapas party. I know just the place.

        1. Tulip

          Your writing makes me want to go there.

          1. But Enough About Me

            You won’t regret it.

          2. Threedoor

            Ditto.

  15. Dafuq am I watching on NBC right now? Numerology?

    1. Tres Cool

      You have the lottery channel on.

    2. Chafed

      I had the same reaction. Even for a pregame segment it was terrible.

    3. slumbrew

      I was cringing while watching that.

  16. Nephilium

    OT: But funny none the less. Blame Canada for the lack of a Mountie on this year’s release of Founder’s Canadian Breakfast Stout. He didn’t just fall off the horse.

    1. Threedoor

      Screw them.

    2. westernsloper

      And they went with a horse? Should have gone with a hockey puck or a tray of poutine.

  17. Tres Cool

    Go ahead and hit that ish….HIT IT HARD !

  18. Tulip

    The dog seems to be feeling much better, but she is farting. I need a gas mask.

  19. commodious spittoon

    Stabbed my fucking hand because the knives in this house are insufficiently sharp. Which I’ve complained about before, my fear of cutting myself, but I never considered the stabbing potential of an insufficiently serrated knife skipping off the produce and plunging its relatively saber-like tip into my palm.

    1. Tulip

      Ow. Are you ok? Get cut resistant gloves.

      1. Tundra

        After you get knife sharpener.

      2. commodious spittoon

        I’m fine. It just made me stop and think that my anxiety about being cut is stupid in the extreme. And the worst part is, these aren’t my knives. They’re like a set of prop knives you’d buy to show a house, but made from actual steel, but it’s okay, they’re unsharpened. Except for the tip. The tip is quite sharp, especially when accelerated over the surface of an onion that the blade didn’t quite snag into.

        1. Tulip

          Are you at a time share?

          1. commodious spittoon

            Roommate’s knives. My knife was in the dishwasher, Yes, it gets dumber the further you drill down.

          2. Spudalicious

            I keep my knives razor sharp. Yes I have liquid skin and bandaids in my knife drawer.

          3. slumbrew

            You… you put your knives in the dishwasher?

          4. Heroic Mulatto

            He deserves everything he got.

          5. Spudalicious

            How else do you expect him to keep them dull?

          6. commodious spittoon

            I did say.

        2. Tacit Rainbow

          When I lived nearby, I used to cook on-site at my in-laws, my mother’s place, and my brother’s place. I always brought my own knives.

          My in-laws have criminally blunt prep knives. Given my father-in-law’s mechanical chops and OCD, it is really weird.

          1. slumbrew

            I now schlep my sharpener with me when we drive to see family, since their knives are always terrible (yes, yes, you whetstone people are better than I, but that sharpener produces razor edges).

            I wish I had it when we went to Hawaii in July – the AirBnB knives where so ridiculously dull they were dangerous. They were solid Globals, just had never been sharpened.

          2. Luther Baldwin

            I need a sharpener but that seems like overkill for the one nice chef’s knife I have.

          3. But Enough About Me

            It’s not.

          4. What you really need is one of these.

          5. slumbrew

            It should last for years, plus you’ll become everyone’s favorite dinner guest if you bring it with you.

            I used it tonight on 5 of our knives (two 8″ chef’s, a 6″ chef’s & a pair of paring knives).

            That said, Wirecutter has a mechanical one they recommend – $44.

          6. Heroic Mulatto

            138 dollars for something that is going to tear the ass out of your knives? No thanks.

            You can get a good Japanese whetstone for 20 bucks.

          7. slumbrew

            You do need to read the instructions – the left-hand wheels _will_ rip up your blades if you don’t know what you’re doing; it’s designed for major reshaping. I’ve used them just once or twice.

            The middle and right-hand wheels will see most of the action.

            Yes, someone who knows how to properly use a whetstone can likely do a better job, but the electric sharpener does what it does well.

          8. l0b0t

            I’m still using the older, 2-wheeled model and I absolutely love it. They are quite durable; I bought mine for $50 at the Sears & Roebuck back in 1992 and it still works very well.

          9. slumbrew

            That particular model is set for 15˚ edges, which is what the Asian knives use vs. the 20˚ Western knives usually use. Those left-hand wheels are really meant for reshaping Western knives to a 15˚ edge. I used it on my Wustof but I was a little apprehensive about making such a change (it’s been fine/great – super sharp).

    2. Raphael

      Ouch, hope the wound heals quickly.

    3. mikey

      Best knife sharpener I’ve found.
      https://m.wikihow.com/Sharpen-a-Knife-with-a-Coffee-Mug

      No foolin’

      1. But Enough About Me

        Well, mugs are ceramic, after all.

      2. egould310

        It works. Thanks for posting.

    4. Gustave Lytton

      I stabbed myself the other day for the first time in the kitchen. Found a knife shop that does a good job of sharpening knives and they’re wickedly sharp now, more than I’m used to. Managed to cut the outside of a fingernail one time.

      1. Luther Baldwin

        How much to sharpen one knife?

        1. Gustave Lytton

          $3.50 & up, depending on the length/serration.

          1. Luther Baldwin

            Oh. That’s cheaper than I imagined. Might look into that.

          2. Yusef drives a Kia

            Whetstone and Diamond Hone, and years of practice

          3. slumbrew

            years of practice

            Yep, that’s a key bit.

  20. slumbrew

    Watching the 4th Christmas ad.

    MOTHERFUCKERS, IT IS NOVEMBER FOURTH.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      Thanks for the rye recommendations (again) in the thread yesterday. Did what I should done before and wrote them down for later. Now I just need to remember my note when I’m in the store.

      1. slumbrew

        Glad I could help – I love the spiciness of rye and tend to proselytize.

        1. Akira

          #MeToo

          This rye called (ri)^1 is the smoothest liquor I’ve ever had. It’ll cost you, but a bottle is well worth it. Hell, I’ve been doing so much overtime at work I might as well spend some of that money and treat myself…

  21. Spudalicious

    This is the knife sharpener I own.

    https://www.edgeproinc.com/Apex-Model-Edge-Pro-System-c3/?_vsrefdom=adwords&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm_6Ugqi83gIVlaDsCh0deAfqEAAYASAAEgIvTvD_BwE

    I run my knives through it once a year. The rest of the time I just use the ceramic rod that comes with the kit.

    1. Luther Baldwin

      Looks like some sort of astronomical instrument.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s a piece of steel ffs, use a stone or a Ceramic rod, jeez it’s not hard, a couple of swipes once a week and your Gold…

        1. Spudalicious

          Yep. That’s why I just use the sharpener once a year.

        2. Luther Baldwin

          I was making a joke. No need for the hostility.

          1. Yusef drives a Kia

            Not hostility, reason, try it Sissy,
            /JK Enjoy!

          2. Yusef drives a Kia

            Hostility, says the one with the Alec Avatar, HA HA!

          3. Luther Baldwin

            It’s all good, prick 🙂

    2. slumbrew

      The lady who runs a local knife sharpening service uses one of those. Takes her a while and she’s expensive, but it’s a good result.

  22. Count Potato

    “Chelsea Handler goes topless in her underwear as she encourages fans to get out and vote”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6352353/Chelsea-Handler-goes-topless-panties-encourages-fans-vote.html

    How is that supposed to work?

    1. Spudalicious

      Coupla cocktails and would.

      1. slumbrew

        She’s already had more than a couple, I’m sure.

        (Still, yeah, she looks pretty good for an elderly lady).

    2. Luther Baldwin

      All these Democrat females getting naked is to protest objectifying their bodies. Or… something. Enh, I don’t get it either.

    3. Chafed

      She’s 43!?! She’s had a lot more to drink than I thought.

  23. Count Potato

    It feels way later than it is.

    1. slumbrew

      Funny, that.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      true, Bed time then Driving, PC! Glibs!

      1. slumbrew

        Safe travels, Yusef, and happy hunting.

  24. slumbrew

    This is one of those nights where I’m really missing having some sort of back yard for the dog to go do her thing.

    *so tired, more football to watch*

    1. Chafed

      Where do you live now?

  25. Beautiful babes beckoning you to bed.

    http://archive.is/Y2Aud

    Let’s appreciate these ladies making such uncomfortable poses for our benefit.

    1. Chafed

      29 likes to eat in bed. I like that.

  26. CPRM

    Don’t any of you have jobs?

    1. Trials and Trippelations

      Yes. Working now

  27. Sean

    Well, apparently I’m gonna get a S&W shorty forty.
    Thank you bourbon (and gunbroker).

    1. westernsloper

      Cool. Did you not know until this morning? Years ago I woke up after a night of drinking and ebaying to find out I was the proud owner of 4 door full bed 1997 F350 with a 7″ lift. Truck was bigger than my apt.

      1. Sean

        I feel asleep before the auction ended.

        Lol @ the truck. Did you keep it?