ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. FRIDAY NIGHT AGAIN, EH? FEAR NOT – ZARDOZ IS HERE TO PROVIDE ENTERTAINMENT. FIRST UP, THE CHOSEN ONES WILL ONCE AGAIN RECEIVE SUPERIOR ADVICE FROM ZARDOZ. ONCE THE BRUTAL “DEAR ABBY” HAS BEEN DISPATCHED, THE GIFT OF THE LINK WILL BE GIVEN.
Q: I am 25 and have been with my boyfriend on and off for five years. I love him very much. I often overthink things, and a constant frustration of mine is that he makes no romantic gestures at all. He drowns me in compliments and shows his love in other ways.
I always have to take the initiative and suggest he do romantic things like send me cards or flowers, take me to dinner, etc., but he only does them when I ask. It doesn’t feel like enough for me. I worry that when we get married, over time I will grow bored or no longer be attracted to him because he is so unromantic. Am I just overthinking? What should I do? — ROMANTIC ONE IN AUSTIN
A: EVIL DEMANDING BRUTAL! IF YOU REQUIRE STIMULUS OF THE CARD, FLOWER AND SUSTENANCE VARIETY TO REMAIN “ATTRACTED” TO THIS BEARER OF THE EVIL PENIS… GIVE UP NOW. CEASE ALL PENIC ACTIVITY WITH HIM, AND LET HIM FLEE FOR THE HILLS. PERHAPS HE CAN BE SALVAGED AS A GRAIN SLAVE, OR A BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR, SHOULD HE BE EMBITTERED ENOUGH.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Q: My brother is my best friend. He is also an alcoholic. It runs in our family, and he has been addicted for years. His drinking has affected me in several (minor) ways over the years, but I have always taken a hands-off approach, knowing I can’t force him to get help.
Well, his drinking is starting to affect my life in a more severe way now. I joined the local police force. I am afraid that my brother’s behavior could cost me my job if I’m seen with him while he acts out, or if I try to defend him.
I love my brother fiercely, and I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like I need to avoid him, but I love him. Please help. — CHALLENGED IN THE EAST
A: SOME BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR YOU ARE… THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THIS BROTHER-BRUTAL IS…CLEANSING. THIS WILL HAVE THE SIDE EFFECT OF BURNISHING YOUR EXTERMINATOR CRED. NOW THAT YOU HAVE JOINED THE RANKS OF KILLERS, YOU MUST SHOW YOU FIT IN.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
- ZARDOZ APPRECIATES YOUR STYLE, IF NOT YOUR INTELLIGENCE.
- UR DOIN’ IT WRONG, M8. IF THAT WAS AN ATTEMPTED CLEANSING, YOU HAVE NOTHING LEFT YOU ARE GOOD FOR EXCEPT GRAIN SLAVERY.
- ZARDOZ WOULD BE MAKING POPCORN…IF HE COULD. AND IF HE ATE. AND IF HE HAD HANDS.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Wait. Why is Swiss posting for Zardoz?
Clearly they share a computer and someone forgot to log out.
Hmm. I’d watch that show “Swiss & Zardoz: super friendship forever”
Fighting crime from an airboat?
Wasn’t that a Bruce Willis movie?
I think that was a regular boat and a horse…
Probably Burt Reynolds
I imagine Swiss firing from Zardoz’s mouth while straffing brutals.
Maybe Swiss’s password isn’t long enough, doesn’t have the correct lowercase/uppercase/numbers/non-alphanumeric character ratio, and/or hasn’t been changed in 30 days.
Nothing to see here!
Next you’re gonna tell me the Rape Fairy isn’t real either.
Don’t be silly, you have nothing to fear from your upcoming trip to cascadia.
pack painkillers and muscle relaxants.
and lube
Odds are against him having time to apply it.
Preapplication via enema is recommended for all trips into Cascadia. Remember, the sphincter you save may be your own.
Also to all and sundry. I have been in a foul mood all day and have picked fights with several of you (including UCS) today. I stand by all opinions expressed, but after a few scotches I no longer stand by my belligerent tone. Sorry all.
It’s internet bickering – not worth holding a grudge.
He is real. Don’t ask me how I know.
You had that family tradition, too? Don’t open you’re eyes or you won’t get the quarter.
Clark Kent = Superman
Swiss= Zardoz?
Ignore that man behind the curtain!!!
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
There is no free candy, kids! Run.
But girls you always have the price in your pants, so why not grab some of that sweet sweet goodness.
IRT romantic: I thought Abby did okay.
turn him loose so he can find someone who appreciates him for who he is,“
turn him loose
He’s gotta do it his way, or no way at all?
Gotta link to video bro. https://youtu.be/TnHm4ro_l8s
Plus, old timey movies and shit.
First EP leaves her account logged in, and now Switzy?
He’s gonna gaslight us and edit the post. But we know. We know.
But which is the real one?
Bigfoot is more believable than some magical mountain kingdom of liberty fiscal responsibility and skinny cows.
I know nothing!
Said in my best Sgt. Schultz voice
The victim said she was ‘utterly disgusted’ by Calder’s actions and later sent messages to a mutual friend asking for £5,000 to not go to the police.
5k for a bear down? He should have paid up. That was cheap.
Beat not bear
That fucking cop who thinks he should shun his “best friend” brother: Fuck. You.
A bit of slippage lately, probably a food coma
So Swiss needs to overhaul his trannie?
Well, his drinking is starting to affect my life in a more severe way now. I joined the local police force.
Resign.
Dear brother, you may be an alcoholic, but your brother is a cop. Which means it’s likely that you will die by cop far sooner than by alcohol. Sorry, but start avoiding your brother and never call him again, ever. If you even see him coming, run.
Wait…I can make popcorn. I eat. I have hands. ZARDOZ speaks to me! Your will is my command!
Make sure you get some good Gifts of the Gun in return.
Oh Great Zardoz, hear my prayer!
Am I made in your image and should I want to make popcorn?
Or should I skip the popcorn and cleanse my alcoholic brother for all the barley it will save us?
You could malt the corn and brew with it. Or you can use popcorn as an adjunct in a beer.
“Bodybuilder wraps penis around rolling pin to finish tattoo body suit”
https://nypost.com/2018/12/28/bodybuilder-wraps-penis-around-rolling-pin-to-finish-tattoo-body-suit/
Kneadless Knarcissism.
He’s rolling down the wrong road.
That came across a little flat
It was hard trying to rise to the occasion.
Just doughn’t
Cut him some slack he just wasn’t bread to be that way.
I’m glad he has his priorities
straighttattooed“Walmart Santa Elwyn Crocker charged after kids are found in his yard
A Walmart Santa was busted in connection with the deaths of his two kids — who were recently discovered buried in his Georgia back yard.
The remains of Elwyn Crocker Jr., a 14-year-old who vanished two years ago, and his sister Mary, 14, who was last seen in October, were unearthed in the small farming town of Guyton last week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Deputies searching the home on a tip were led to the graves by the kids’ dad, Elwyn Crocker Sr., who turned 50 on Christmas, and until recently worked as a Santa at a store in Rincon.
His wife and the kids’ stepmother, Candice Crocker, 33, her mother, Kim Wright, 50, and Wright’s boyfriend, Anthony Prater, 55, were also collared on charges of concealing a death and child cruelty. They remain in Effingham County jail without bond.
A third child, who has special needs, was found alive in the home.”
https://nypost.com/2018/12/26/walmart-santa-elwyn-crocker-charged-after-kids-are-found-in-his-yard/
If he killed his own kids, why is the job relevant? I mean if he was killing other people’s kids and using the job as a means of trapping them, it would matter.
It’s relevant because Walmart=Deplorable
Crikey, WTF? Who the hell would hire this deranged looking fuck as a Santa? How many of the kids went screaming from the store upon first site of him?
This is a job for Zardoz.
WalMart.
If they’re in a WalMart, the other customers are far more disturbing in appearance.
Well, you do have valid points there.
Did anyone in that family make it past 17 before having children?
“Then I speed-dialed the Post with thoughts of ‘fame’ in my head and dreams of no longer being a loser 26-year-old who lives with his parents.”
It can’t be his sword, a proper weeb would know what type of samurai sword it was and not use such a broad category
This is crazy. I thought living near a coast made people geniuses.
Wait, I live in the mid-we…
Oh.
To be fair, he also lives next door to a massive power plant.
That just means he should have thought ‘electrical issue’ before ‘aliens’.
Also Japanese swords are not supposed to have pommels, especially not snakehead pommels better suited for topping walking sticks.
No no no. Clearly, the emanations from the power plant messed with his head.
Some koshiraedid have things that look like pommels, though they did not serve the same function in mounting the sword. I’ve personally seen some high-end bird’s head tachi that were given as diplomatic gifts.
https://www.japaneseswordindex.com/glossary.htm
You expect me to believe them just because they studied the subject?
But on a more serious note, look at the picture and tell me that snake head belongs there. The examples in your link fit the shape, contour and styling of the rest of the blade and scabbard.
You expect me to read the articles in the links?
but that is not a nihonto in any case, it’s a gaijintetsuto.
Needs more fedora tipping and “m’lady”.
LOL I just took a second look at the emblem on his sweater and got ZARDOZ’s comment.
The Newyorker logo?
Is that what that is? I just saw the top hat and monocle.
Yup, or From their contributer’s page
Worth reposting:
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1078696174155169793
“Bre Payton, Beloved Staff Writer At The Federalist, Has Passed Away”
http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/28/bre-payton-beloved-staff-writer-passed-away/
“Bre Payton, conservative writer, dies at 26 after sudden illness”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bre-payton-conservative-writer-and-television-guest-dies-at-26-after-sudden-illness
That’s too bad. I hadn’t read or heard of her, but those sudden deaths can be so rough for the family. I knew a kid in high school who got meningitis and was dead in about 3 days. My thoughts to the family.
https://twitter.com/masoncars74/status/1078624387190927360
OFFS, acting like a dude jacked up on steroids is hardly feminine.
Oh, that was GameStop? That somehow makes it even more amusing than the first time I watched.
I wish I was there. I would have shoved his ass right over the edge. “Dude, chill out.”
Yeah his/her/xer’s problems go way beyond gender.
I’ll repeat my troll from the earlier:
“You may be a woman, sir. But you are no lady.”
a constant frustration of mine is that he makes no romantic gestures at all. He drowns me in compliments and shows his love in other ways.
Huh. Sounds like he is making romantic gestures.
It sounds like the writer is seeking the hollywood fairytale type gestures, but has never bothered to articulate that preference, expecting him to just know.
I would guess that her real complaint is the romantic things he does are hard to post on instagram for her friends to see.
She does say she “suggests” ways to please her. He clearly doesn’t operate that way. Someone above said Abby suggested she move on. I agree. You can’t “change” people.
Having seen the easily overlooked passive agressive crap that some people regard as ‘suggestions’, I would need concrete evidence that it wasn’t just “Don’t you think those floewers look pretty”.
She should let him know how she feels by singing him a power ballad
^^ bad person ^^
This is a fucking power ballad.
either way, Why Worry
Really? None of you know what a fucking power ballad sounds like?
I don’t know anything about power ballads if Layla doesn’t count.
Once a girl confessed to going to see these guys and instead of running away I lived with her for the next 22 years.
That is an amazing power ballad. The Scorp’s kick ass. And yes, Layla certainly counts as a power ballad.
My contribition to the power ballad.
What’s wrong with the Scorps?
I thought it was this
Damn good (not-power) ballad
And yes, Layla certainly counts as a power ballad.
Not even close, starts out with a heavy riff and screechy vocals and get heavier from there, sans the keyboard break, Layla is pure blues-rock, you want a power ballad look to Triumph, REO Speedwagon or that sappy Nugent/night ranger mashup group.
*listens to Layla for the first time in years*
Jesus, yes. I don’t know what I was thinking. (seriously) Layla certainly is not a power ballad.
This, however, is. And it’s one of the best from one of the best.
Power Ballad.
I was just goofing around and have no right to have any opinion about power ballads whatsoever.
For me and girls, this is the answer. A couple of opinions/warnings: don’t try it without a net, you absolutely must use the D G C G C D tuning (I think that’s what it is), it’s easier on a classical, and even after all that it will still be incredibly difficult – so find some acceptable way to quit before the stupendous skiffle outro.
I think this qualifies.
That qualifies.
I”m trying to think of something you can do with a Telecaster of which I do not approve
* still thinking *
I once took a piss next the guys in Ratt at the MTV music awards.
Anyway, wouldn’t a power ballad be something from Poison, Def Leopard, or Whitesnake? Not that’s my thing.
If the video* for the song has a shot where the members of the band are all in profile but offset just enough so you can see each of them as they join in with the chorus, and at least two of them have porn staches, that’s a power ballad.
* yes official power ballads have videos, even if they were recorded before or after the music video era.
I joined the local police force. I am afraid that my brother’s behavior could cost me my job if I’m seen with him while he acts out, or if I try to defend him.
This can’t be an actual cop.
Did you know that all Muslims are terrorists?
Yep
Some people I used to work with must be bad Muslims then.
Did they try to force you to convert or pay the infidel tax?
Did they try to require you to live by the prohibitions in Sharia despite being an infidel?
Did they treat you like a second class creature?
If no to any of the above, they failed to follow scripture.
Brother is probably writing another advice columnist” “My brother’s become a cop and I’m afraid I’ll be tarred with his misdeeds when he, inevitably, shoots a dog or kills a kid playing with his water pistol.”
2018- a year in rearview, or:
What did we get stuck in our rectums last year ?
You clicked an HP link? Gross
Tall cans, stat!!!
Maybe I spend too much time on the dregs of the internet, but most of the things on that list didn’t surprise me in the slightest.
Cop gets bit on the hand….
but scroll down for even more hilarity…..
That’s beautiful. I’ll bet athletic and sweaty becomes the reason for beating/tasering/shooting a suspect.
Stimulate the evil penis that shoots seed with these fine fillies.
http://archive.li/06cGE
9, 13, 22, 45.
I wonder how many tries it took 12 to set that shot up.
The way 27’s eye is captured is rather striking.
Others really should learn that having the camera blocking their face is not a good look.
23 and 41 because I’m more intrigued by the prospect of an attainable and sincere amateur than any other type
4 was on the last list and still a favorite.
9 and 22 are the correct answers Q. I’ll give you a pass on 13 but I have to deduct points for 45.
Have to agree with you on 45. But keeping in mind Qs love of tig ol bitties it makes sense. Even if he’s still objectively wrong.
Still not tired of winning.
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2018/12/trump-formally-imposes-pay-freeze-civilian-feds-2019/153837/?oref=GovExecTCO
See…that’s how you turn the screws…partial “shutdown” and by the way…ya ain’t getting an automatic pay raise. It should be meritorious based pay but you know what…9/10th of my peers arent worth a free pay raise just because.
I am closing in on eleven years with the state and have had maybe three or four performance evaluations because my supervisors have never gotten around to it. How am I supposed to get a merit increase if no one is measuring anything?
Private sector maybe? After all the USG can’t get it right
How is the govt able to determine “meritorious based pay”? Hell, even The Soviets realized they’d need to leave one country in the world with free markets so they would be able to determine prices.
And that is such a terrible practice and is of course a feature, not a bug.
I sit all my employees down and we actually do feedback, I wish for them to improve. I dont sugar coat anything and I make sure they do their damn job. I’m alone in a sea of incompetence apparently when it comes to peers in the FedGov
The House Dems have a plan:
Although the order means that federal workers will not receive a raise in January, hope for a pay increase is not lost. Democratic lawmakers have said they plan to overrule the decision and give federal workers a 1.9 percent pay increase once they take control of the House, retroactive to the beginning 2019. The raise would need to be added to the legislation lawmakers pass to break the stalemate over spending that has resulted in a partial government shutdown.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Fed workers get that pay raise in the end.
The deficit this year is 1.8 trillion (?). Yet, they refuse to even not raise spending. And The Fed is winding down it’s balance sheet as the economy ends its expansion. 2019 could be a bloodbath. *Reading David Stockman makes you wish for a well placed meteor.
Stockman is right about plenty. The real bloodbath comes when interest rates creep up a few more percent so the federal debt can no longer be ignored.
Yup, I wrote an article about it last year.
Fed employee salary while obscene for the work many are doing is not a big driver of benefits. In as much as there are people who we’d like to retain in employment, cola adjustments aren’t a bad idea, imo.
I thought Team Red were the anti-Semites…
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39751/leftists-target-their-own-leftist-jewish-cafe-hank-berrien
I just can’t understand how so many in the Jewish community haven’t abandoned democrats, no matter how “liberal” they are in other areas
(((I))) did.
“…Lucy Parsons Project, a self-described “radical black queer direction action group,”
I may have found the problem.
Is she the eye in the sky?
LOL
And I love how “gentrifier and Zionist” just rolls off the tongue with these types. Let the hate flow through you!
My business was once protested by The Alan Parsons Project.
I’m going on vacation. To all of you that are still around, I wish you an excellent weekend and I’ll be interested to see what begins on New Year’s Day!
Y’all behave yourselves, now.
Don’t tell me what to do!
Have fun, buddy.
Oh yeah; And don’t tell me what to do!
Have fun!
I wasn’t expecting Taylor Swift, or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWq2TT3ieGE or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6rJPVAsQM because I’m not into “nu metal” either.
But I was expecting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLuk2Agamk
Not that Bono isn’t a douchebag, but both the Edge and I have Korg SDD-2000, and nothing sounds quite like a variable clock digital delay.
Unless Bono converts to Capitalism, I don’t want to hear about him.
“Y’all behave yourselves, now.”
Fuck off, Tulpa!
Have a great vacay.
Happy vacation! https://youtu.be/kFQAIzg9vlM
I think I might watch Bad Times at the El Royale. Anyone see it?
I saw it in the theater. It’s a decent Noir crime type movie. Not fantastic bit definitely enjoyable.
OK 🙂
You want advice?
DON’T BREAK YOUR SPAGHETTI IN HALF.
I was watching a youtube video and someone did that. Worse, there were people in the comments defending this barbaric act.
I swear if I ever catch any of you doing that while saying ‘it makes it easier to cook’ or ‘it’s too messy to eat long’ I will poke you in the eye with a bucatini.
If you want short (er) pasta then BUY IT. Don’t take out your aggression on the spaghetti or other long pastas.
/goes back to beating orphan with slipper.
Talk about odd euphemisms.
Thirds is much nicer.
Try breaking a handful of dry spaghetti in half and you invariably break them into unequal thirds.
Handful? Straff, you’re supposed to break them in smaller batches.
He has kids.
Not handful. I meant this. *makes upside down OK gesture. Gives UnCiv a Charlie horse.
Why not? Just askin’.
Because Big Spaghetti knows better than you.
Just do as you’re told!
I was mostly kidding. It exists.
https://www.barilla.com/en-ca/products/pasta/pronto/pronto-half-cut-spaghetti
But the real reason is because it’s meant to be wrapped around your fork to get the full effect.
That’s why.
So? Tea bags weren’t meant to be used to steep the tea in.
It’s not your kitchen, iot’s not your place to tell us how to cook or eat.
Gee. It’s not like I said The Beatles are the greatest ever.
And I was joking.
Look up the word.
Jokes are supposed to be… what’s the word? Funny.
More seriously I’m in a contrarian mood, so…
Don’t tell me what to do!
Well, no one has ever accused me of being funny….sooooo…….
This is what you get.
Deal with it.
I did learn something. One guy put an orange peel in his sauce as a way to sweeten. People generally use carrots but that was interesting and will use it. Both options are better than sugar.
If you’re going to sweeten instead of cooking it long enough, use something you’d eat anyway – so carrot before orange peel.
What kind of infidel buys tea in bags!?!11!?
https://sevencups.com/learn-about-tea/brewing-tea/
FIFY
The problem with tea is it doesn’t even have coffee in it.
And the problem with coffee is that it has coffee in it.
Not true.
https://www.asahiinryo.co.jp/company/newsrelease/2018/pick_0305_2.html
And the problem with coffee is it has coffee in it. /hates tea and coffee
Food from Japan, doesn’t count.
Wait!? Am I a UCS Sock? No, I live! I’m a alive! I’m Tuvix!
*reads other peoples subjective opinion after mocking theirs and grows increasingly angry*
It’s as bad as you’d expect. I tried it once. Once.
/tosses CPRM some Chicory
Orwell wrote about this. And this time it was intended as an instruction manual.
http://www.george-orwell.org/A_Nice_Cup_of_Tea/0.html
So it doesn’t alter the taste. I want the pasta to all be cooked the same amount. If half the noodle is sticking out of the pot for a minute or two, that should cause uneven texture, no?
Clearly you’re using the wrong sized pot with insufficient water for Rufus’ tastes.
Guess I’ll stick with udon and soba.
Half length spaghetti is not for sale locally, and I’m not going to pay more than $1 per pound for pasta.
I don’t think I’ve ever cooked spaghetti. But I made tuna and linguini for Christmas Eve, and of course, I didn’t break it in half.
Here, fucking here!!!
And don’t fucking rinse it either.
Don’t tell me what to do.
Know what I do sometimes?
After I drain the pasta I throw it on the face on any of my orphans who misbehave.
You’re giving them food as a reward for poor behaviour?
Come to think of it, it’s expensive buying balm to calm the burning down.
I eat mine with a knife and fork so it doesn’t matter how long it is.
/faints.
Rufus’s friend: Who’s the Vandal?
Rufus: Some guy who likes the Rangers.
Both stare in awe as Rhywun cuts pasta.
Rufus: You done?
Rhywun: You have a spoon so I can mash it?
I only started it this year, FWIW. It’s so vastly superior to that wrapping shit I can’t even. It’s nice to get an even amount of sauce and goodies with every bite, rather than watching it all fall back onto the plate.
You fancy people and your silverware.
grabs handful of spaghetti and shoves in mouth
I’ve always thought most spaghetti dishes were sort of a composition, kind of like salade nicoise, with the various ingredients kind of presented together but intended to be eaten separately. Which kills me a little bit, because I get really annoyed when I don’t get the same proportions of all the parts in each bite. This is also why I ask for salads to be tossed with the dressing before it gets to my table; if each mouthful of salad doesn’t have the exact same amount of dressing, it puts me in a foul mood.
Do you cut your chocolate bars too?
Heathen.
If it was meant to be shorter, they would have made it shorter. Only a Shitlord breaks his pasta in half.
So you’re saying we should be breaking it in half?
Oh, wait, uh…
I have to for the instant pot and I’m not forking out extra cash or time to find short fucking spaghetti.
DON’T BREAK YOUR SPAGHETTI IN HALF.
The spaghetti we had on Wednesday had 3-foot long strands in some places. There was no halving of the spaghetti, except when served to the toddler.
You can avoid this problem entirely by using fresh pasta.
Now you’ve got me wondering how clean the rollers for the pasta mill are.
My main problem with fresh pasta is that I drop it in the water and it’s done already. After spending all that time mixing the egg in the flour well, I don’t get to sit down before I have to drain it and mix with the sauce.
Why is that a problem?
You guys are waaaayyyy too complicated.
You need to spend time with kids from Africa.
Idk. I like the fact that I can go from flour and eggs to cooked pasta in 20 minutes using the stand mixer and the roller/cutter attachments.
I like that you can go from a box to cooked pasta in 10 minutes.
Or refrigerated pasta to cooked in 2 minutes.
y’all suck!
9 minutes al dente
Pasta is useless. If I had my druthers I’d never use it. Potato is the superior carb vector.
Good Bread > Good Rice > Pasta > Potato > Bad Rice > Bad Bread> Candy
SPAGHETTI is a hostile act. Fuck it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
So wait you are going all Italiapurist and the issue you choose to fight over is breaking the spaghetti in half? You realize this is only an issue with dried pasta right? and any TRUE ITALIAN ™ regards dried pasta as an abomination anyway. It’s like you are arguing over the correct way to prepare Chef Boyardee.
Direct from the can so you get the iron aftertaste.
Rufus has trolled us perfectly. I will not be outdone. *Retreats to DC think tank.
Next up Straffin on the proper way to mix soysauce into rice.
Ha. I remember one of the Chinese guys we hung out with during my bank days HATED that.
The Japanese Samurai Illuminati would instantly be at his door, demanding he commit seppuku.
It’s like saying, ‘The Beatles’ are the greatest ever to this group.
” TRUE ITALIAN ™ regards dried pasta as an abomination anyway. ”
THAT’S A LIE!
Says the canuck sockpuppet
Rrrrrracist!
Canucks are to bland to have their own race.
Ok I was wrong. You do have a race. It is a jogging race held in France.
I read that in the tone and intonation of Maury Povich
I just ate, and I’m not even hungry and don’t want spaghetti either, but I’m going to the kitchen right now and making some just so I can break it in half, because that’s the right and only non-gay way to do it.
Godspeed, Hyperion.
What a cunt.
1$ worth of beer, worldwide.
cancels trip with NewWife to Norway until her cousins fix that shit
I would like to know why such variances.
She gets “free” health-care and college for that beer tax. Duh.
So….you’re connecting welfare to the price of beer?
I wish to learn more.
I bet you can get a short dog of Night Train Express pretty cheap almost anywhere.
+1 Rosie In A Skirt
I thought the Czech Republic would be cheaper and Australia more expensive.
I thought that in Australia the beer flows freely from the kitchen faucet.
“Fosters, Australian for PBR!” – I read that on a sign that the Indy 500 a few years ago
I’m pretty sure the urinals at Coors Field drain to the brewery.
*sigh*
Even though I generally avoid BMC (and the breweries owned by BMC), I’ve got to respect their brewing ability. It’s damned hard to make a consistent beer with no flaws (and nothing to hide any flaws that do come up) over and over. FFS, I read a story a couple years back that the guy in charge of Blue Moon (owned by Coors) lost a 100 barrel batch of specialty beer. That’s the amount some breweries will make in a year.
Truthfully, I have no complaints with coors. I grew up on it and Henry weinherds and remember when both were regional beers. I just like jerking the Coors chain every once in a while.
Not while I was there. Beer in pubs was expensive. Really expensive. Even bottled beer bought in stores to take back to the US with me was expensive. Wine bottles in stores weren’t too bad as I recall.
5 of the top ten are the Nordic countries.
Meaningless without accounting for wages.
sigh
* puts away purchasing parity lecture note-cards *
The major factor in cost of beer is taxes. Nordic countries tax the shit out alcohol. Iceland only legalized beer sometime in the 1990’s I beleive.
Yep. They jacked the taxes up on beer, so the market came up with happoshu (a beer like substitute) that got around the regs. At first they were terrible, but about 3 years ago they became passable. So of course now the govt is eyieing a new tax on happoshu. Assholes.
US$3 for a can of beer & $10 for a fifth of decent whisky. Upside down world.
Do they take into account whether or not the beer is drinkable?
“Toxco Beer – now with only half the lethal quantity of used battery acid per bottle.”
I’m talking Bud Light, and shit. Stroh’s, Stella Artois, etc.
Look, you’re talking to the guy who has found one and only one beer that was drinkable… and they don’t make it anymore!
I’m not a picky beer drinker, I’d drink any of those in a heartbeat.
Lol!
One American dollar buys you 18.7 ounces of Strohs. Seeing as you can earn easily upwards of 6 or 7 American dollars an hour one can earn a weeks worth of Stroh with less than half a days labor. Truly we live in remarkable times.
Hail ZARDOZ!
The is the optimistic, glass half full attitude that makes this site so special
Work 3 more minutes and you can fill the glass to the rim
Speaking of pricey beer…
Anyone know if This suspiciously named brew is any good?
Why would you ask for opinions on this? You know as plainly as you know the sun will rise in the east that your taste in beer differ from everyone else’s as much as tastes can possibly differ.
Because I’m trying to find another drinkable beer since I ran out of Scratch 328!
So far it’s only been that Boysenberry Gose that was drinkable, so I figured I’d ruminate on other goses, and listen to people who somehow don’t get how fowl hops tastes debate the matter@!
I haven’t tried it, but it looks interesting. Have you tried any other gose, lambic, shandies, or lambics?
*sigh*
One of those lambics should be radler.
/wanders off to get another beer.
I like your style.
I just came back from the store. In the “Available beers” I had macrobrews, IPAs and extra-hoppy IPAs.
Maybe a few ales, but nothing that fell into the categories listed.
You could always join the next BIF. I’m fairly certain we can find someone who can find non-hoppy beers to send to you.
MY main reason I don’t is that I’d end up randomly inflicting on someone beverages I’d never drink.
So out of politeness, I don’t.
That’s fair. Although there’s several beers I’ve sent that are not my preferred beers (but are in the taste profile of the person I’m sending it to).
New JErsey Experiences mysterious spate of boat accidents
The link goes to this: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/15/former-nyc-police-commissioner-njs-high-capacity-magazine-ban-endangers-officers/.
Ugh. Feel like Alice when sites link to their own articles.
“Kerik said, “NJ Governor @GovMurphy is endangering the life of every off duty NJ cop! Gang bangers, drug thugs and really bad guys don’t give a damn about magazine capacity… So he takes the good guy’s ammunition, and the bad guys are loaded for bear!”
I think I found the problem, again.
And you’re supposed to TW anything Brietbart, UCS
Don’t tell me what to do.
Sometimes they actually happen.
We are all bad guys now.
“according to Reason” as if they are to be trusted.
It reinforces my biases, so I’m going to overlook the source.
I’m shocked. Also, Bernie Kerik can go take a long walk off a short pier. As a Maryland resident who isn’t a cop and has to buy mags out of state to get around our own stupid 10 round ban, I’m just crushed that off-duty cops can’t legally own 10+ round mags. I mean, the rest of us can make do with 10 rounds of whatever but what right-thinking individual would hamstring a police officer with a mag cap?! After all, half the fuckers can’t hit the broad side of a barn, apparently.
Marcy Playground are remembered mostly as one hist wonders for ‘Sex and Candy’, but they had other good songs. I listen to this one a lot on Saturdays. And then their is the whole song about doing heroin and watching Star Blazers.
My friends band did a gig where they played nothing but Marcy PLayground’s first album . . . a different version of that band played Weezer’s entire Pinkerton album for Halloween one years and the blue album the next.
Wait, didn’t Pinkerton come out like last year?
/old
I like Marcy Playground. Here is two of my favorites.
But, can you spell Blood in Alphabet Soup?
You know who else did a ton of smack and and sang about it ?
Stevie Ray Vaughn?
Lou Reed, since you had to spoil it.
Jane’s Addiction and Nothing’s Shocking are two of the most amazing albums of all time.
True
And Ritual makes three.
I had dinner with Jane in October and she’s doing great.
What did she say?
Leonard Nimoy?
Mick and Keef?
BONUS smack-track
some of the most magnificent wordplay in all of music.
For shit’s sake. None of you came up with this: https://youtu.be/6xcwt9mSbYE
Tres even gave you the answer. If you are talking about heroin then the answer is always Lou Reed.
They also teach us about history.
That gave my ear cancer.
You’ll be hearing from my counsel.
You better hurry. My life is falling to pieces.
Nicely done. But in the vein of heroin songs, I wasexpecting this
For the people involved, Velvet Revolver was a big let down.
Smack talk good and depressing.
Best song about heroin? Written by Trent Reznor, sung by Johnny Cash. That man had a golden voice.
CPRM is correct.
I heard the man play Sam Stone live at the Ryman a few weeks ago.
You did? Damn. That is awesome. I saw him once…about 20 years ago, now. Need to see him again.
Agreed on Hurt w/ Cash.
The poignancy added by the scenes of younger Cash elevates the material beyond just an addiction song. It’s transformed into a song about an entire life of regrets.
Another drippy smack song.
Mike’s after complimenting CPRM for his excellent suggestion you could have burnished your rock cred with this
https://youtu.be/p1Y9oOusoQs
In that vein, have you met my girl?
(Not really my girl)
Dude….that made my ass hurt.
from their About Us: When they were young, Chris and John Trogner were always inventing some new way to entertain themselves – like building skate board ramps, dabbling in car top surfing, or creating a homemade cannon…..
and redundantly notating umlauts? Maybe sonny even refers to himself as Chris Tröegner Jr the Second ?
How come nobody linked the best heroin song? King Heroin by the Godfather of Soul!
Cause they’re racist?
And with all these songs about heroin that go back 30, 40, 50 years…..suddenly we’re in an ‘opiate crisis’?
I’m sorry, but when the WOD lost out on “crack” and “heterosexual HIV” as a public health problem, now we need legislation to stop opiates because WHITE people like Heath Ledger and Phillip Seymour Hoffman are dead from ODs.
They can all have turns at suckin’ my dick.
Butch Walker is of course the best musician in music every.
JS Bach you cretin
Bach never gave me a Mixtape.
I mean, Butch wrote the best country song that isn’t country.
Or this
More lovefest with Race Cars and Goth Rock
both kinds of music:
country!
and western!
But what do you do when everyone is writing songs with synthesizers?
Poor criterion but hey you do you, I’ll stick with Bach
I just got an old album copy of Andres Segovia playing Bach.’s Chanconne. It is awesome. Here is one of the tracks.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ceFGWjYXF8
That does not rock at all. Not what so ever.
It indeed does not rock, nor does it roll.
Time for a late night this closes my time with the fam post.
SoCon Dad believes (in earnest):
1) McCain and HW Bush died via lethal injection because the deep state offered them that as the alternative to being exposed.
2) Trump is a super Christian that has serious and thoughtful prayer meetings with Franklin Graham every week.
3) Obama and Hillary are about to be indited any day now, Trump.has them right wear they want them.
4) 9/11 was an inside job
5) The world is secretly run by the Rothchilds/Bilderburgers
6) the world is secretly run by ‘Nephilim’ which are biblical Giants from the book of Genesis that are now interdimentional demons/super humans/ lizard men/ whatever fits the conspiracy theopry narrative.
I guess he figures if you aspouse all conspiracy theories simultaneously you’ll eventually get to say ‘I told you so.’
Where does Rand Paul fit in this?
Somewhere between lizard men and ……?
Is your dad pro or con Aqua Buddha?
Inconsequencial…..who can worry about Aqua Buddha when Hillary is running a satanic pedo ring out of a DC suburb Pizza shop….
/Also something he believes
See, this is where he jumps the shark. We all know Bill runs the pedo ring.
He’s not only the President, he’s also a client
Too busy using the ring to run it…..’getting high on his own supply’ as it were
Have you linked the A Path to Wellness chapters to him? Sounds like a new fan to me.
I read the list, I don’t see where he’s wrong.
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter…..and my dad DEFINITELY does.
Since apes first looked down on the savanna and inferred that the worn lines in the grass today would be where the yummy antelope would pass tomorrow, the ability of hominids to find patterns and predict relationships has grown without comparison in the natural world
to the point that they compulsively find patterns even where none exist.
According to my research at family reunions, homo hillbillius is the most apt of the primates in this wise.
Nephilium is a beer making, beer slurpin’ giant that runs the world? Good work, if you can get it.
Not a giant, I’m just an average 5′ 10″.
I didn’t know I ran the world though, I should look into that.
You should at least get some royalties. Just sayin’.
I’ve met those kind of people. Corruption doesn’t need conspiracies to ruin a country. It doesn’t have a true leader calling the shots. It doesn’t have a stated and nefarious intent. Corruption is much worse than that. It’s a mixture of compromise and justifications. We wish it was one bad guy we could excise if only we could expose him. Sorry, but that isn’t true.
I may use this verbatim when I can’t take anymore. I 100% agree. My dad isn’t stupid but he has a need to beleive that there is always some nefarious boogeman working behind the scenes and in hindsight always has. I’m sure there are some psychological reasons I don’t understand…..
There is a nefarious boogieman behind the scenes and has been for over a century. The 20th century followed their program to a T.
I just learned something new today.
Even The Fabians justify what they are doing. Personally, I believe the one virtue that would improve the world more than anything would be humility. Accepting that no person knows exactly what is right for another person. I don’t know what the price of bread should be. I don’t know what the priorities of another human should be. I don’t know what would make you happy. Yet, when I advocate for self ownership, I’m the selfish bastard.
It’s almost as though Aquinas was smart or something with all his crazy talk about pride and envy.
Srsly. My limited exposure to Aquinas is what cured me of my irrational hatred of Christianity. Not a believer, but I recognize what a caricature I had of it in my mind.
Well, hopefully the fact that some one such as I can be True Believer and also continue your Harvey Weinstein story should tell you that all you know is that you know nothing.
That was fun. I’ve been uninspired lately. Where’s muh muse?
There are still a few chapters left to A Path to Wellness, like you I’m waiting on a muse.
“…and for the abolition of hereditary peerages in 1917.”
Well, yeah. They wanted to see a centralized monarchy form of gov’t stripped, and replaced with a centralized gov’t that would get all their buddies rich. Big difference.
SoCon Dad is wrong in that McCain and HW Bush actually died from reptilian neurotoxin created by an unnamed US paramilitary agency as a defense against the lizard people in case they decide to exterminate humanity. The real McCain was replaced by a lizard man during Vietnam, and the real GHWB was replaced during WWII. This is actually why 9/11 was an inside job, because GWB is a human-lizard hybrid who was unwillingly instructed using his lizard bio-implant to start the wars in the middle east to search for the nephilim hideouts somewhere underground in east asia. Trump, as the last fully human in power, is obviously a super Christian given that the nephilim are trying to kill him by using Obama and Hillary to get him impeached and removed from office. Hillary is a lizard-nephilim hybrid, which was made in a secret Rothchild breeding laboratory extended from Nazi genetic experiments in the 1840s.
Dad?….you’re Trshmster?
He reads World Net Daily?
So, your dad watches Alex Jones and finds weird websites designed in bad colors?
IDK what it is about conspiracy theorists, but i have an extremely left-wing cousin who I’m pretty sure believes all of the above.
Random thought as I catch up on my to-do list for the holiday break:
@OMWC: A while ago you mentioned that you especially like pinotage. I’ve started to get into wine and bought a bottle, and that stuff was the best wine I’ve ever tasted. Even my wife, who is strictly a Miller Lite and boxed chardonnay on ice kinda girl had a glass and was like, “Oh my god, that’s really, really good!” It’s ruined other wine for me. Now I’ll drink something that I’ve really liked and all I can taste is how much it doesn’t taste like a pinotage. So, thanks for the tip!
Stock up, if South Africa goes through with land grabs it will get pricey, like as in traditional Tokay pricey.
Huh. I’ve yet to have a bottle of Pinotage that I enjoyed. Glad it worked for you.
Delighted you liked it. Don’t listen to Spud, he drinks Rombauer Chardonnay.
Bought the Fallout 4 Season Pass onsale for $16, I’m really liking Far Harbor, like a detective RPG, fun. I just need some time to actually play it.
Can I recommend being not a fully actualized human, and getting to commit loads of hours at this horseshit pastime because you have the time to spare? I can’t promise it won’t be murderously frustrating, but you’ll be… occupied.
Commodius is revealed as a Synth.
I like to remind myself, when these instances of coincidence start to border on suspicious synchronicity, that there’s plenty of instances of entirely unrelated happenstance that we don’t recognize, because why would you, and so the fact that occasionally such coincidences eventuate is no more remarkable than that they didn’t eventuate at that particular moment, and to be terribly surprised that someone else had just posted something about FO4 when you did is no more remarkable than if he’d posted something about cheesy cauliflower.
I posted almost 20 minutes before you did. Real coincidence head scratchers are when for the past 20 years I’ve ‘felt’ every time one woman came into the room. But, reality has married her off to someone else.
I swear, I didn’t post in response to you. I’ve been playing all day. But now I’m curious about you re: your love
Meh, she’s married with kids, if she got divorced she’d be my exception to my not dating single moms. But I don’t wish that upon her. The fact that every girl in school new how I felt about her kind of tainted my results for dating in JR High/HS. I swear when I go to Wal-Mart and she is there without me knowing I still get that same feeling before I see her that lets me know she’s there. But, it wasn’t to be I guess.
I’m obsessed with a woman who hasn’t got kids. She reps abortion clinics, fucks sake. I don’t know what to make of it. I’m still attached.
If this were an MRA site and I was an MRA, I could really put some fuel on a fire. But, life happens. Deal with it.
Oh, I’m as close to a ‘manchild’ as the news could find, but I still find my time for games deminishingly small, mostly because my night time is reserved for for drinking. If I gamed that whole time I’d never sleep.
“Bought the Fallout 4 Season Pass onsale for $16”
Well worth it, you should easily get 100+ hours out of that.
Fucking FO4. I wander through the latter half of the game basically immune to death, on account of power armor and a gatling laser, essentially infinite fusion cores, and then I get cut to ribbons by a couple laser turrets in a setpiece encounter, wiping out forty-five minutes of playtime. I’m so pissed I’m going to frown at this for a couple days rather than go repeat the encounter.
Still haven’t picked it up, I was so pissed at the FO3 ending that I couldn’t reward Bethesda again. FO 2 is better than FO 1 is better than FO:NV is better then FO:Tactics is better than Wasteland 2 is better than Wasteland is better than FO:3.
Fuck anyone who thinks that a “But thou must!” quest is a proper ending to a story.
Couldn’t get into the isometric graphics of the first two.
I got butchered by the “Wait, when did I last save?” problem.
Get off my damn lawn! I played them when the facial tech in certain conversations was the height of graphics.
/goes and pours a bourbon
You must have chose poorly.
Fusion Core? What’s that?
/PCMR Mod user
Fusion cores are so bountiful I finished my first playthrough with 70
I tend to meander about the hinterland looking at every shiny thing that catches my eye. The thought of power armor time being limited made me go “I wonder how fast that will be modded out”.
UCS, I really hope your spring trip alotts you some time in central Wisconsin, I think we’d get on swimingly in person.
I saw him first!
We’re still on for lunch, right UCS?
You want to meet somewhere in Wisconsin or eastern Minni? We could do a three way! Alright I gotta be up and at work in 6hrs. Glib long and prosper.
Last I knew.
Well with SP and OMWC leaving Milwaukee, I have fewer stops on my time in the area. May 30 I arrive in Superior WI, June 5 I check out of Milwaukee.
I believe either the 1st or the 2nd I was supposed to meet MikeS and Pope Jimbo at the Hardware store/diner, and was going to overnight in the twin cities area june 2nd to 3rd.
I’ve been thinking, you are going to be so close; do you want to come just a bit farther west and step foot in North Dakota? I can recommend a few places. Maybe show you around if it works out.
My overnight from June 1 to 2 is actually Fargo.
Avoid the woodchippers! And the used car lots.
Sage advice.
Meanwhile in science:
Uranus was slammed by an object twice the size of Earth
SPACE SMITH?
I was sure the link was to Pornhub.
Reassuring to know that not all idiot reporters are American.
http://f24.my/4CLX
Uh, that’s not how degrees work.
It’s not? Serious question, how should it have been reported.
Also, you’re late. Where have you been all night?
While it’s true that an absolute temperature of 16 C = 61 F, the article is trying to report on a relative temperature difference. The difference between freezing and boiling in Celsius is 100 degrees; that difference in Fahrenheit is 180 degrees.
So they should have multiplied 16 x 1.8 to get 29 degrees F as relative increase.
The number in the article doesn’t pass the giggle test. If summer temps were coming in at 60 degrees F higher than usual in a place that is routinely over 100 degrees F in summer, we’d have ourselves some baked Aussies.
The actual formula for absolute temperature conversions involves both subtraction (or addition, depending on which way you’re going) and multiplication/division because the Y intercept for Fahrenheit is -32, not 0.
That makes sense. My rough math was they were claiming common summer temps were about 60F but were now 120. That seemed fishy.
I was on earlier (made a comment upthread) but then went to bed around 10:30 PST after watching some Netflix with the hubby. We needed some time to recuperate after partying it up Friday night/Saturday morning.
All is forgiven. Glad you had fun with hubs.