ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. TIME TO WRAP UP THE WEEKEND – AND GET BACK TO SNARKING AT THE BRUTALS WHO PLAGUE THE EARTH. ZARDOZ WILL ASSIST, BY PROVIDING THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND SNARK!
- A GOOD START, PARIS – BUT THE NUMBERS CLEANSED REMAINS TOO LOW. WORK ON IT.
- SOMETIMES ZARDOZ IS NOT HAPPY WHEN A PARTICULAR BRUTAL SHUFFLES OFF THEIR MORTAL COIL. THIS IS THE CASE HERE.
- THE CONTINUED DEVOLUTION OF THE BRUTAL REALM OF THE UNITED KINGDOM PLEASES ZARDOZ.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
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yeah, California surrendered on taxes, but France did not.
You know who else expressed “anarchist sentiment”?
Too many Glibertarians?
Not enough.
Burn.
Does Zardoz approve of this?
They hate the shoes! Stay away from the shoes!
Wow, that is kind of a jerk thing to say.
Have some of this cause Im gettin faded.
There can be only one.
Here’s some Scots playing a very bagpipey sounding song. Old guys, too.
https://youtu.be/0pJWv53qMKA
Here’s another Scott playing a bagpipey song.
Only Bon Scott would considering incorporating bagpipes in to a rock song. And make it work.
…and work well.
Damn straight.
After a shitty morning and early-afternoon (literally) I have salvaged the day. I have a batch of DblEagle’s eggnog aging in the fridge; a batch of westernsloper’s candied jalapenos reducing on the stove, and a batch of SP’s candied cashews cooking (baking?) in the oven. In front of me is a Glencairn of Bulleit Rye and a pint of Leinie Creamy Dark.
Life is good.
Disappointed that you haven’t made my mutton flaps. Fine. Your loss.
aka….piss-drapes ?
I knew that was coming.
Straffinrun is killing Tonga.
I admit I was sad that “mutton flap” meme didn’t migrate here from TOS.
I wasn’t around Reason long enough to have seen it. What was it? We always need “new” memes around here.
Short version: Link-Mutton flaps causing diabetes in Tonga. Comment: Does that mean Huma has diabetes? She loves eatin’ them mutton flaps.
I like fat but that sounds a little too rich.
I think I dated her once.
There’s a procedure for that now. The wonders of modern medicine.
I got 2 30-packs of Milwaukee’s Diet Beast, and I just made pressure-cooker chicken soup.
I’m not complaining.
So that beer is actually good for something? Praise ZARDOZ.
Its good for my lazy-keto approaching to holding my weight down. 3.5g-carbs/can, and a solid 4.2% ABV.
Is it really diet if you drink 30 of them?
Since it gets pissed out before you can absorb any of the calories, yes.
Ted’s opinion on beer is like OMWC’s opinion on cougars.
That’s “net” carbs, which only works if you believe that the alcohol carbs are not digested by your body as carbs.
If it isn’t true, there’s a ton of carbs in all alcoholic drinks.
But, as semi-keto myself, I buy into all of the ‘non-digested carbs’ ideas from the Atkins world, which includes excluding alcohol, glycerin, alternative sugars, fiber, etc.
Zero net carbs in most hard alcohol, BTW!
So at least 3 more beer runs tonight, eh.
Beer runs its what he gets tomorrow.
I spent today at the local game store playing board games. Nothing new to me, but got another play of Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig under my belt, and learned I was taught First Class incorrectly.
Which two? If memory serves, he commissioned Neuschwanstein, Lindenhof, and Herrenchimesee, and grew up in Hohenschwangau.
/tourist traps the lot of them.
It’s a game. The game includes tokens for Mespelbrunn, Lichtenstein, Hohenschwangau, Burg Eltz, Neuschwanstein, Hohenzollern, and Reichsburg castles.
People generally refer to them by their color.
My chicken just went went into the oven. Gotta run down to the liquor store for more vodka.
Smirnoff with fresh squeezed lemon, orange, grapefruit, mint, pineapple, cucumber juice. Topped with Perrier.
8” of snow on the ground last night and only part of it has melted away.
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale earlier, Dragon’s Milk currently, and Rye neat after a Reuben and fries.
Like me some Celebration.
Gould, you glorius bastard. That NY public radio station was nice background music yesterday.
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Wow. The candied cashews are excellent. I also threw a few hazelnuts in the mix. Also excellent. Highly recommend.
Ya, I made one of SP’s nut recipes. Pecans? I don’t remember, but I need to do it again they were awesome. Thanks for the reminder.
I’m sure pecans would work very well, too.
Your candied japs are nearly done. I’m going to try them right away on some chicken tenders we have in the oven. Can’t wait. They smell delicious!
Well shit. Wasn’t watching close enough at the end. Walked into the kitchen to a burning sugar smell. Removed it from the heat and stirred it up. It is caramelized, liquid turned amber…we’ll see how it sets up. I’m expecting it to turn into a solid mass of caramel and jalapenos. I hope that doesn’t happen.
Add liquid they will be fine. Maybe. I had half a jar I needed to get rid of so added it to my weekend batch of chili. I like to keep a crock of chili going on the weekend for snacking when it is cold out.
^This^ I did the same thing. I added water and cooked it out of the hard stage.
I think I went too far past that and into the burned stage. It has the smell of being burned. I’m letting it cool so I can taste it and see if it’s going on the chicken or in the garbage can.
BRUTAL COACH CLEANSED BY TEAM. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED.
Damn. They finally pulled the plug!
Relevant
13 seasons and canned before the season is over. Damn.
They lost to Arizona AT HOME, for fuck’s sake.
Arizona was obviously the superior team.
I’m no football expert, but from what I saw and read, it sounded like his recent play calling was very suspect. Not sure about today.
Three rushes for Jones in the second half, I believe.
And it’s not just recent. Fans have been complaining for years about the underutilization of the running game. And the lack of a TE.
Somebody posted a graphic after last week showing that maybe 10% of Rodgers’ passes were in the middle of the field. Everything else was near the sidelines.
Losing to the Cardinals at home was historic. The last time was in 1949 to the Chicago Cardinals.
I do not mourn the firing but I think the issue is larger than that. I heard on a sane sports show “If Rogers had accepted a Brady sized contract it would have freed up $8M a year to get some talent around him.” There is wisdom in that comment.
Yeah, Roger’s contract is prohibitive of paying talent around him. Favre restructured his deals a few times to free up cap room. But still, retaining Cobb and letting Jordy walk? That was stupid, and even if they couldn’t trade Matthews, after their starting MLB went down they should have moved matthews to the middle and let Fakerel and Gilbert develop at OLB.
Re: Brady vs. Rodgers Contract
Rodgers doesn’t have a wife making much more than is possible in the NFL.
Not to say I’m defending him, but we all know these decisions don’t happen in a vacuum.
Also, it isn’t any one thing with Packers, but I think McCarthy’s stubborn belief that his system doesn’t need to evolve is what got him.
Finally, the ‘historic’ loss at home to the Cardinals trope is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the Cards. It’s about losing at home to a huge underdog when all you have for the season is wins at home. Record prior to Sunday: Home 4-0-1 Away: 0-6
@ dbleagle: not calling you out, I’ve seen it all over.
That’s kinda the point.
You’re messing with my trolling, Tulpa.
He he he
Also, when the AZ Cardinals are obviously the superior team, you might wan to question some of your decisions.
Yeah I figured they would wait until the season was over. Must’ve lost the team pretty badly. Dang.
Good news for Bears fans after a shitty day when, for the second time this season, they lost a very winnable game in OT to a very mediocre opponent.
McCarthy would never have come up with the play that sent that game to OT.
I always love it when smarmy French leftists (whatever he is called in France, Macron is a leftist) run into the logical conclusions of their bullshit ideas.
Reminds me of Brett Weinstein. You flirt with leftist bullshit, don’t be shocked when it turns on you.
Also, we need common sense knife control in London, asap!
They have it…. if you use the knife in self defense.
30 year old chick kills 20 year old male over a pair of shoes? We need to know a lot more about “her”.
It’s the only pair he bought for her?
Are you saying that you wouldn’t be surprised if it was actually a fighting-age Syrian refugee who got all stabby?
Some areas of England are pretty bad all on their own. They dont need to import stabby people. I worked with a guy…I cant remember what the others called him but he was from somewhere near Birmingham. The other Englishmen wouldn’t speak to the guy or have anything to do with him. He lifted his shirt once to show me that he was covered in scars from knife fighting.
“This is what growing up in ______ is like.”
This is true. Spent time in Europe and 3 or 4 times I got fucked with by young British losers looking for a fight. One time I was just reading a book at a coffee shop and some Brit flicked me in the ear for no reason. I turn around and see 3 of them giggling like school girls. Not worth it, I told myself and walked out. They need gun culture to civilize them.
Sounds like a bunch of droogs.
I had a similar experience in talking to skin head soccer fans in Italy! Guy said he would cut me with a bix cutter if I wasn’t a Napoli fan and I (very) quickly got off the train a few stops early.
It’s almost as if there are violent people who will use whatever they have to hand even if it is classified as verboten by their social betters!
*box cutter*
Don’t mess with “blokes”.
@OMWC. She wasn’t nuts, she was Sicilian. There’s a difference. She put on the cancer fundraiser we cooked at.
Wait, There’s a difference?
Depends on if the money actually went to cancer.
Maybe they weren’t fighting cancer, perhaps they were causing it.
Very straight up. This gal was also a 5th degree black belt in a system where that actually meant something. In all honesty, she was just too damned nice for me to be in a long term relationship. I prefer someone with a little edge to their personality, just not cut your dick off while you’re sleeping edge. That was the Truckee chick.
Truckee would torture the bunny before boiling it.
That was a fun event. We did food for like 100 people and manage to impress the Italian guy at the next station.
Don’t make fun of those Italians. You might offend Rufus.
And Tundra. If he drops his gloves, you are screwed.
There are Italians in Minnesota?
Just a few super-cool ones.
*looks around*
There are cool people in Minnesoda?
Cold people, sure.
*cooly drops gloves*
Cool it dude.
Stay frosty
Yes, but most of us are from somewhere else.
A nice quote from the Paris article:
““Macron has a problem on his hands. Everyone’s fed up. He’s got to listen more,” said Amaya Fuster, eyeing graffiti daubed on a Printemps department store window that read: “There’s enough money in the coffers of businessmen. Share the riches!””
They really are fucked, aren’t they?
The wrong people are paying for big government. It really sucks having to pay your nanny a living wage.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20181129/france-holds-on-to-crown-as-europes-most-taxed-country
I guess they have legitimate cause to be pissed.
Too bad the commies have already hijacked the protests, thus ensuring nothing will change.
Maybe I was unclear. The nanny I meant was “the nanny state.” Certainly the burden is unfair. It’s hubris to think you can tax the right people more and not end up ensnaring the poor and middle class in the process. The best you’ll ever get is being left alone.
I guess all of western europe is about to go full commie.
I dont get it. It’s right there an inch from their nose and they cant see it. They cant figure it out. What happened to all of the high praise and adulation for Chavez? The country has turned into hell on earth. They have no food. They have no medicine. They have no toilet paper. Desperados run roughshod over the entire country. Yet, Chavez’s daughter is one of, if not the richest people in the world. Now the euroweenies want to go down that road?
Fuck.
What happened to all of the high praise and adulation for Chavez?
That wasn’t real socialism.
Sadly, this^^^
The Enlightenment was a mistake. /Western Europe
“There’s enough money in the coffers of businessmen. Share the riches!”
Sure. Go ahead and do that. And I’m positive that after the ‘fair distribution’ of the riches has taken place and inflation gets even worse and the current government collapses those who accrue money and those seeking power in the aftermath totally won’t find each other again like it has in every fucking nation state that’s ever existed. Prog harder.
That Mail article about the dead shoeless dude says the same thing fifty times. That is the first time I have ever read one of their articles. I just go there for the pictures.
I thought something was going on with my phone. Wow. That is terrible writing.
A 30-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 20-year-old man was found stabbed to death in the street in a row over an expensive pair of shoes.
A US trend moves over to the UK.
One of the most high-profile tragedies involving Air Jordan sneakers was the 1989 death of ninth-grader Michael Eugene Thomas, who at 15 years old was murdered for the footwear that he had for only two weeks. James David Martin, 17, strangled him for the $115.50 pair of shoes.
Never understood the shoe culture. There are people whose lives are ruined (and in some cases ended) by fights over the latest pair of shoes. Is it status? Is it an addiction? I’m honestly baffled.
“Don’t care.”
/Michael Jordan and Phil Knight
It’s how you can show status without having any real money. When I lived in a Mexican neighborhood in Denver, it was interesting to see how they’d have these amazing cars parked in front of shit hole apartments or houses. Similar phenomena in crappy white neighborhoods.
Yep. Like IWC I never understood the status thing. I dress to be invisible. I dont want people’s attention. More times than not getting a lot of attention doesnt turn out well.
In crappy white neighborhoods status is judged by how many “parts cars” we have on blocks in the front yard.
I helped the wood guy unload his truck today and I now have a cord of wood sitting in the yard but I was too lazy to stack it in the shed and now it is *%$#) snowing on it. I hate winter.
*Draws shade so westernsloper cant see the unstacked cord through the window getting rained on*
That is very irresponsible. You should be ashamed. Grow up dude and get your chores done.
I am ashamed because I drank beer and watched football instead of chores. If I lived in FL these things would not be a problem because I would not need fire wood.
How else are you gonna fire your meth-stove out in the swamp ?
If it makes you feel better, I took a good chunk out of my knuckle last week splitting some oak with an axe. In Central FL. Because my family wanted a fire and we had some old wood left over from the hurricane of ’17. I mean, it was a splitting axe with a big-ass head on it, but no match for even year old live oak. Not that I have the right setup either. Trying to split it on the ground is a fool’s game that always ends up with this fool bloody.
Trying to calm myself. I’m somebody who doesn’t get angry often, but when I do I go from being ambivalent to a white hot rage. Probably doesn’t help I’ve been drinking for almost 8hrs. Today was supposed to be a day off to relax…
Get angry more often. You’ll learn how to handle it better.
Usually, I don’t have anything to be angry about. I don’t really now either, just too much introspection today I think.
Too much introspection?
Welcome to being human. Cut yourself a little slack.
Anger isn’t wrong. Just an emotion. I’m not saying to throw that plate of spaghetti at the wall, but letting people know that something they did pissed you off is fine.
Yeah, that’s all fine, but when it’s yourself that pisses you off, kind of a different deal. I don’t want to get all whiney and emo. But, I’m on a med that helps me even out my emotions, which was pivitol to making things work when I had to take care of my dad, but it also makes me more risk averse. I think that now that my dad isn’t around I might be better off without this drug, but I know if I weren’t on it I wouldn’t be as ‘happy’, but I’d probably be more successful. It’s all a big headfuck. But now I’m drunk and all is cool again.
Total guess, but I think you’d be better off without the drug if it’s screwing with your ability to succeed. Go down swinging is my attitude.
Yeah, except, there is a high risk of suicide just from stopping the drug, not to mention how shitty my downs where before. And being that this is almost 15yrs since I was off the drug and felt like a failure at 20 becuase I hadn’t yet made enough money to save my family, there might be some lower lows there than before. The upside off the drug was that 15 years ago I could bullshit into some deals, and then cower in darkness sobbing, but be more successful, I don’t even know what my own thoughts are anymore.
OK, I’m tapping out because I don’t want to fuck things up with my armchair psychology. God speed, bud.
I hope you’re OK.
Yeah, I’m ok, just not in a the usual jovial mood.
At least tell the story
Well it all starts 35 years ago…
This right here.
And?
I learned a long time ago that getting angry is not conducive to making good decisions. I also learned that a lot of things that made me angry were smoke in the wind. That shit passed and had no lasting consequences on my life, but some of the decisions I made while angry did.
Well, the anger has passed. That which burns hottest burns shortest.
Blade Runner?
Suthenboy, just saw your comment about native Americans and their alcohol. The ancient Peruvians made something using corn, it’s called chicha which involves masticating corn and then spitting it into a pot. This uses the enzymes present in saliva to convert the starches to sugar. Of the batches that Dogfish Head released, they did boil the wort and use their own yeast culture, but it would have traditionally been naturally fermented with wild yeasts.
I am familiar with chicha. Someone once shitted me into drinking some before they told me what it was. I was in the middle of nowhere Bolivia and some drunk Chalita stumbled up to me with a tray of shot glasses full of that puke. The other dude there with me told me I had to drink for the pachi-mama (mother earth) or the injuns would be insulted. So, I slugged one down. Then he told me what it was. Goooooood times.
DEG set me straight on that. I thought the alcohol that injuns made all started post-columbian. I dont know where I got that silly idea, probably some bullshit my 4th grade history teacher told me.
Guaro is chewed cane. Fine by me. It’s been…. more than 20 years, but I loved it.
Oh yeah. Guaro. There’s a reason you don’t drink it anymore.
Was the media’s rhetoric against 43 similar to Trump? Was Bush called biggoted, sexist, islamophobic, narcissistic, on a regular basis? I didn’t start paying attention to politics until 2013 but I imagine the media is just as hostile to Trump as it was to Bush. What things is Trump criticized for that Bush was not and what was Bush criticized for that Trump is not?
Bush was Hitler before it was cool.
Nah. The real vitriol started with Clinton and has just gotten worse with each administration.
Jefferson and Adams is where it started and never ended
+1 video when Reason wasn’t nuts.
Adams really shit the bed…I mean, the first American love story, a patriot for all, and then the Party set in and power overcame. Fuck politics.
No one has called Trump a “war criminal”. Yet.
People have suggested that using tear gas against the refugees along the Mexican border is close.
They usually claim that when Obama did it, that was different.
You actually get an acknowledgement that Obama did something bad? I can’t get anyone to move past the “that’s just whataboutism” excuse.
Yes
Let’s see; he was a cowboy (as in reckless, shoot first, etc), moron, drawn as a monkey in many poli’toons (which is totes OK since he is white), elitist, draft dodger, and war criminal.
Those are the main ones that come to mind. I’m sure there’s a few I am forgetting.
43 was a fighter pilot, how was he a draft dodger?
That was 41.
43 was a pilot in Tex ANG.
Oh, yeah 43 was when Dan Rather lost his career with fake fake documents. Forgive me, I was thinking of the father of the bride. I’ve been drinking.
Because rather than volunteer as a grunt, he volunteered to be in the National Guard where he flew an airplane that liked to kill their pilots.
Despite volunteering for Vietnam — the airplane he was qualified for wasn’t in use in Vietnam at the time, 43 was a total draft dodger.
43 was ANG. At the time that guaranteed no time in Vietnam.
Ahem. Less likely
https://www.ang.af.mil/Portals/77/documents/history/references/AFD-091124-037.pdf?ver=2016-09-20-085100-920
CPRM is right. You are thinking of Bush The Younger.
Vacuous Insight asked about 43.
No, I guess we’re wrong, the youngin was actually asking about the younger, given the totality of the circs this weekend, my thoughts were as well on the elder.
Bush was a draft dodger for joining the ANG, Trump was a draft dodger because he got five deferments.
Bush didn’t get anywhere near the amount of “Racist!” that Trump does. Some, but not as much.
The media is way more hostile to Trump than it was to Bush. With Bush it was mostly monkey memes and other efforts to make fun of him being stupid. There was some of that other stuff but dialed up to maybe 7 as opposed to 11.
But at least Dana Carvey was funny as Bush. Alec Baldwin is less funny as Trump than my cartoons that use Trump’s own words.
Just to be clear I was referring to Bush Jr. i.e. 43.
I don’t really remember how the media treated Bush Sr. as I was in college at the time and completely apolitical.
Yeah, I just jumped to the elder, given the news of the day, and that I’m drunk, I was wrong, sorry.
Never apologize.
Fuck you!
Workin’ on it.
I’ve been working on it for 9hrs. It’s kind of sad at this point my posts aren’t all “asjdhsadufthusadgsadgf”
I don’t think it’s sad at all.
(Lives -and drinks- near one of the few non-Wisconsin towns on the top 10 drunkest cities list)
They painted Bush (at the time just Bush, not Sr or HW) as an out of touch Republican (the supermarket scanner thing) and co-guilty for the Reagan years. Then there was Quayle.
Given how correct spelling has crashed and burned, is it any wonder Quayle got “potato” wrong? And, as I recall, the word was misspelled on the cue card he was looking at, therefore the best of us would probably have announced that the kid’s spelling was incorrect. Quayle probably was just as intelligent as Algore and Uncle Joe but Cheney’s IQ was likely higher than the three of them put together.
Potatoe but also the Murphy Brown thing
Quayle thought the word given was “potatoes” rather than “potato”, and he was telling the kid to add -e-s. But all you ever heard from the networks back then was that the stupidest VP of all time was even too stupid to spell potato.
The teacher got the word wrong, but nobody ever mentions that.
Now that It’s been pointed out that you’re talking about Bush the younger, yes, if 9/11 hadn’t happened, I think we would have reached this same political climate via the media then. He was being burned in effigy.
That’s a good point about 9/11. He won over quite a few people due to his response to that. (I think he is a genuinely decent man, and that showed when he spoke about it) On the flip side, I think others were too worried about the possible blow-back of insulting the war-time CinC to really let him have it with both barrels.
Bush was in office less than year when 9/11 happened, Comedy Central already had a show making fun of him, he was being burned in effigy, then 9/11 happened and it was all renaming french fries and shit.
And even in the immediate aftermath, there were some trying anything they could to score political points against him. Remember how horrible it was that he finished reading the book to that elementary class after the first plane hit? And him staying in the air (and not telling anyone where he was at) in AF1 until they knew what was happening was also used against him by some.
It was pretty pathetic, but almost quaint now looking back on it.
Yeah, at least then they were linking to real things, now it’s all a Russia Fever dream, and any other critique of Trump is seen as acceptance.
My first thought when he comes up. Shit, that was endlessly dissected.
Ugh. So, I went looking for a reminder of the name of the book he was reading (The Pet Goat) and was also reminded that Michael Moore used that moment in Fahrenheit 9/11 to “prove” that Bush was indecisive. I guess he should have invaded Afghanistan immediately?
Fahrenheit 9/11 was what my friend had me watch on election day in ot 4 that made me finally vote Bush. Being a filmmaker myself and noticing every trick he used convinced me, then I came home and watched Penn and Teller’s BS as a pallet cleanser to try and wash away my sins.
Yes, it was similar. But now it’s dialed to 11 (more?).
Also, back in the old days there were mainstream publications that would occasionally publish something going against the narrative. I remember in 2002 or 2003 I read an article in the Atlantic Monthly that argued that President Bush was an effective manager. Back then I didn’t follow politics much, so it was a revelation to me. Bush wasn’t a complete retard like all right-thinking people around me thought? Wow!
Bush literally dragged a black man behind his pickup truck by vetoing a hate crimes law. Nevermind that in the case that inspired the legislation two of the men got the death penalty and one got life, which actually means something in Texas.
Shit, that is like the Mathew Sheppard beatification that is still going on, despite the fact that drug dealing figured heavily in his death.
I’m a wee bit grumpy. 3 cups of coffee, 2 cups of jello, 2 gingers beers(quite good actually) are all I’ve had today. That, and 2 liters of super colon-blow. I’m looking forward to 2 more liters of that concoction before I get my anal probing. Fuck it, gonna sneak a vodka out of the bar. What liquid could be clearer than vodka?
Silver Tequila. It will also help with the colon blow if mixed with chicken stock and a room temperature raw egg.
Fresh out of silver. I only have a bottle Reposado. My dear wife did made me fresh turkey stock from the smoked T-Day turkey though. Unfortunately I’m too bloated to drink it now.
I was supposed to be anally probed so I read up on it. 1 in 1000 patients die during that procedure. I thought that is not very good odds. I cancelled the procedure.
Cite?
https://www.gutsense.org/colonoscopy/is-colonoscopy-worth-the-risk.html
Is there a comment on that, or are you Winstoning?
Medical error is the 3rd leading cause of death. 400k die per year in the US. I would think most of these occur during invasive procedures. If someone dies during a planned surgery, is it always medical error? Can they say you died of natural causes during surgery?
As Rhywun once said to me:
Meeeow.
Yeah, how data is categorized should be a big deal, but it’s not. My dad had MS and died from a UTI, but because he smoked I’m sure that was also counted as a smoking death.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2821994/
There is a bunch of it out there, mostly conflicting so you have to read between the lines. My biggest take away was the doc who said “Yeah I have killed two but in both cases they were already completely rotten inside. There wasn’t anything that could be done.”
I just thought the numbers they were calling ‘not a big risk’ were in fact, a big risk.
I will go see them if I start shitting blood.
One of those is a published study on NIH. The other one is…. I don’t even know what the fuck that is, but it appears to cater to retards.
If that’s conflicting information to you…. I don’t even know what to tell you.
Wait, is shitting blood bad?…Asking for a friend.
It’s not as bad as crying blood. Does that help?
You can make money off of that.
If you happen to be a statue of the Virgin Mary, sure. Otherwise, it will be a tough slog.
If you are shutting red blood you’re ok, its probably hemorrhoids. Black blood clots, make an appointment.
Dad had colon cancer. They started in on me when I turned 40. I celebrated when they finally told me I had a four year reprieve.
At 14 million per year, that’s a lot of blown colons!
First garden hose prep I was an angry man. First time I’ve felt hostile towards a plastic jug.
Booze helps. I’m usually toasty by the time I’m done with my Mt. Vesuvius imitation. Fuck the instructions.
As long as I don’t get dehydrated, I figure I’m good. Man did I get the shivers though.
Nurse Ratchet is giving me the evil-eye though.
Wife and I learned a brandy chaser killed that awful aftertaste – and the doc was impressed with our approach.
I have been cleansing as well today.
Did it (hypothetically) taste worse than a lesbian pissing party after a visit to a German asparagus festival?
Now I’m hungry for asparagus.
Got my first health check here when I was in my early 30’s. I went to the hospital and they sat me down in a waiting room with a bunch of Japanese geezers. Some dude in a lab coat called groups of 6 guys at a time and escorted us down to the parking lot. I had no idea what they were saying so, you know, when in Rome and all. There’s a large van parked in the lot and had a bunch of Kanji on it I couldn’t read. The lab guy yelled something at us and all the geezers stripped down to their undies. OK. I followed suit. The door to the van opens and the first geezer goes in. I’m standing in my undies in this parking lot and the van starts shaking back and forth for about 5 minutes. Finally, the door opens and the geezer steps out and his mouth is caked with some white goop. He looked a bit woozy. Next guy, then the next guy. All the same scene. My turn came and I had some weird ideas about what the hell was happening in that van. Ah, the memories of my first barium check.
I saw that on pornhub. Now I know what you look like.
I have no idea what that is all about, nor do I want to.
Never had one to check for polyps? You swill this white concoction (barium) and then lay down on a three dimensional rotating table. The thing swivels around you are expected to hold these bizarre poses while the machine veiws the barium sloshing around your innards. If you had taken pics, it certainly would look like I was making some 1920’s gay porn.
I think you were (perhaps unwillingly) making a gay porn. Did they at least pixilate your bits?
Here is what the van looks like.
And the table.
Is there some reason that isn’t done in an office?
First, that’s a motorhome, not a van, second, that’s a gagged woman on that table, doesn’t do much to dispel the idea it was porn.
Probably price. They can drive around and do group health checks in multiple cities.
Sounds annoying.
Ugh. I’d rather have another barium check than listen to that girl say another word.
#STRAFFTOO
They told you it was barium, eh?
“The door to the van opens and the first geezer goes in. I’m standing in my undies in this parking lot and the van starts shaking back and forth for about 5 minutes. Finally, the door opens and the geezer steps out and his mouth is caked with some white goop.”
I honestly laughed out loud at that. I haven’t been feeling very well for a few days and I think that is the first good laugh which has come out of me. Sounds like a paragraph from a SF article. Thanks for that.
Tarrega’s Capricio Aribe Neither the music nor the woman is as attractive as the Ana Vudovic / Albinez post I set up a few days ago, but still pretty.
Dammit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewd-i23Xb3k
That thing on her head makes her forehead look bigger, perhaps the director should have explained that.
Your link might need a shot.
I prefer my latinas with timbales .
straffinrun wrote in the dead thread: “TBH, I’m not all that interested in making my own alcohol, but I’d love to read a glib’s take on the history of alcohol production. “
What do you want to know. I can work something up.
Things like the Whiskey tax rebellion and Moonshine runners during prohibition are interesting to me.
This is a good read.
https://www.amazon.com/History-World-6-Glasses/dp/0802715524
Did you see that History Channel show narrated by Mike Rowe? Something about how beer built the modern world. It was really good. Just can’t remember the name right now…
How Booze Built America
Ah, that works too.
I hope it was “How Beer Built the Modern World”.
Haha. That would have been funny.
It was a documentary, when the History Channel did history.
“How Beer Built my Bookshelves, and Injured me in the Process”
Since I just made faux lemonade with (keto friendly!) stevia, have some sugar .
Sugar Cult!
Oleander was a great band.
Steelers just coughed up a serious fur ball.
After the first 2 penalties, what are they going to do?
The most egregious was the missed false start that resulted in a touchdown. That said, there’s been a lot of teams that have overcome bad officiating over the years. The Steelers laid down in the second half.
11hrs, 26 beers and a lot of loneliness, time for some sleep.
Sleep well sweet prince