Happy New Year’s Eve, Glibertariat. I’m making barbecue because we don’t have anything truly great around here. Sonny’s is serviceable, but no Killen’s. Chef Steps brisket, 2 racks of baby back ribs, sausage, and fixins. We’re having some friends with kids over and my family. There should be lots of eating, shrieking, and probably some crying.
John Kelly provides one final service as Chief of Staff, waving red meat in front of the news mags on the border wall so that Trump can talk tough about it some more.
The Woodstock 50th Anniversary concert should be about the smuggest event of 2019.
Guatamalan family sues Universal Orlando after man ignores English warning sign, dies. I was frankly shocked to find out they didn’t have signs in Spanish, German, and Japanese.
Why does the NIH have armed agents?
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235 responses to “New Years Eve Afternoon Links”
Why does the NIH have armed agents?
Because FYTW.
Now bend over and cough.
In anticipation of forced vaccinations
And first! :woohoo:
*sarcastic clap*
After last post I got a pot roast for dinner, at Wal-Mart
First
Or not
Happy New Year, YUFUS!
#TallCans
You tootres, cracking it open now!
Duh, guarding the Zombie Virus labs
Amazing babes to help you ring in the New Year!
http://archive.vn/Ji3EQ
Take your pick.
48.
2 is ready to give a beej.
8 is the “spot the sociopath” pick
32 is the most OMG would
73 is the above, but for doggy
84 is the pose and costume combo winner, even if her booty is too small for me
Help me out, Glibs – I’m making final donations, where should I give and why?
I’m already giving to the FIRE.
I’m inclined towards Mercy Corps, mostly out of momentum (I’ve given to them before).
(and, yes, I’ll be sending money here).
IJ does good work.
Ah, yes, thanks for the reminder.
Oh, Why…IJ litigates to secure economic liberty, school choice, private property rights, freedom of speech, and other vital individual liberties and to restore constitutional limits on the power of government..at least that is what they claim on AmazonSmile, where they get my money.
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
RMEF is a good organization and the habitat work they do helps multiple species and not just elk. They also organize a series of wounded warrior and gold star family hunts that cost the selected people nothing.
It is a good group that puts the money at their mission and not overhead.
Thanks, that’s a good “why”.
Feel free to donate to me.
you’re missing the “why”
It’s self-evident.
“First-class Shitlord” is just a description, not a justification, albeit something to aspire to.
Beer doesn’t not drink itself.
Not as if I’m going to drink it.
Wine, on the other hand….
Because I could use the money?
Because FYTW?
I think “FYTW” only applies if you’re an agent of the State.
In addition to FIRE and IJ, I’d also say Flex Your Rights does some good work as well.
Oh, and for the why, Flex Your Rights is all about how to protect your rights in the case of encounters with police officers.
Thanks, I’ll take a look, don’t know them.
How do they handle treating multiple gunshot wounds?
Well, that’s looking to be their new project.
Ha! The last guy in the DHS checkpoints video. Awesome.
St. Jude’s.
They let you in the building?
Entertaining the troops, as it were.
He drives the ambulance.
I’d prefer something a bit smaller. They have assets of $4.6 billion and had $1.7 billion in revenue with an excess of ~ $500 million last year.
But they use it efficiently and well. That’s the reason we’re donors.
I’m with slum. I like giving to smaller orgs, and local where possible. Our donations this year:
IJ
United Way (work obligation)
Local Alzheimer’s/neuroscience research/education
Local pit bull rescue (also Amazon Smile)
My hospital foundation (semi-work obligation)
I’m blanking on the last one
Oh yeah. Local wildlife rescue.
Has anyone heard anything good or bad about The Doe Fund?
It’s housing, drug rehab, and job training for former inmates and homeless people, and the program rules require forswearing of welfare (except Medicaid). They’ve given classes on job interviews, money management, and other skills that the recipients typically don’t have. They’re considered graduated from the program when they are working a full-time job and paying all of their own bills.
Sigh. One of those moved into the apartment below me recently. I deliberately chose to live on the top floor for some peace and quiet but I wasn’t counting on what must be an obese child thundering around the place on a non-stop sugar high for hours on end below me being able to cause the walls to shake.
Living on the top floor is only half of the protection plan. Also, live in a community where everyone is older than dirt. Literally everyone here is 20+ years older than us. We get referred to as ‘those kids’.
Happy New Year’s, Glibs! May your 2019 be happy, healthy and profitable.
HNY Animal.
Happy New Year!
Back atcha. Pleasure meeting you and the Missus this year.
Happy New Year’s to you too!
I replenished my Reeses Pieces supply, shrimp and sparkling wine in the fridge.
OK, but no dunking.
Little breezy but decided to still smoke the tri-tip. Next up 7-layer bean dip, stuffed jalapenos wrapped in bacon and maybe some wings…
Nice. It’s been a while since I’ve cooked a tri-tip.
I used to get them at Costco until I noticed “BLADE TENDERIZED” in tiny little print on the label.
Blade tenderized for anything other than cube steak is insane.
They do it to their USDA Choice NY Strip steak too.
Kill me now.
I’m surprised they don’t do it to USDA Prime cuts.
They shouldn’t even feel the need to do so. It’s a waste.
From your link below, it looks like that guy noticed it at Costco too.
I started looking at the labels after I noticed, and I have only seen in on the tri-tip and NY strips. They do it to both the roast and the steaks for tri-tip, but only the steaks for NY Strip loin. The whole roast appears to be fine. I haven’t seen the label on any of the prime (blue tray) meats.
https://www.reddit.com/r/steak/comments/68igjb/does_your_costco_mechanically_tenderize_prime/
Oh my lord. But it is Canada.
I do my own blade tenderization if required. Got a nifty little tool to do the job, and it’s easy to sterilize.
“Blade tenderized for anything other than cube steak is insane.”
Agreed. I wouldn’t buy any steaks marked as such.
Brief explanation for those of us ignorant of such things?
http://completecarnivore.com/beware-blade-tenderized-steaks/
From a food safety standpoint, you have to treat blade tenderized meat as though it were ground beef instead of a whole muscle cut. That means not cooking it bloody rare, which I generally like.
Blade tenderizing uses a machine with dozens of flat needles to sever muscle fibers (fascicles) on some of the tougher cuts of meat. It tenderizes the meat and makes it easier to chew, but the act of puncturing it with needles spreads potential surface contamination to the interior of the steak.
So I assume Niskanen will be endorsing Lizzie Warren for president? And Cato…
Welch has Betomania though…
Lizzie Warren took an axe . . .
It’s going to be epic. White Squaw is going to start out trying to preemptively out commie everyone else. And then Karla Marx is going to jump in and call her a puppet capitalist and lay out what it takes to be a real commie. Then Bernie is going to get all jealous and throw his commie certs in the ring. Then we get the BETA version of commie.
Whycome no snarky nickname for the old straight white male? Just like a shitlord to pick on women/minorities and give the patriarchy a pass.
Fine, Grandpa Gulag.
+1 angry commie
No one needs 1500+ calories per day!
Or a comb.
That’s pretty good.
Bernie’s Bae. That’s all the nickname he gets, because no one even knows what that means.
It’s hard to improve on just “Bernie”. “The Russian Honeymooner”?
I was mistaken – “Grandpa Gulag” is aces.
I expect him to totally use that during the debates.
*finger wagging in air, thick NE accent*’You’re not even real socialists!. I honeymooned in Soviet Russia! You’ve never even been to the Soviet Union! You, the chicken legged Mexican! You call yourself a socialist! Hah! I never saw a Bolshevik broad with chicken legs like that!’ You’ll never grub for roots and work the salt mines during hard times with those chicken legs!.
That is _not_ a NE accent. That’s still his awful Brooklyn accent.
All of those sound terrible to me.
I enjoy a quality Boston accent, though most people who try it go overboard.
Affleck & co in “The Town” and Wahlberg in “The Departed” get it right, for obvious reasons.
I had a friend from Long Island. She always seemed to be mad even when she was apparently in a very good mood. Her friend who was also from NY, called her Long Island. Only it came out like ‘Lawng Eye Len’.
My wife calls him Barney Sandler, which I think is perfect because I dislike Barney the dinosaur and Adam Sandler.
This made me Lulz last night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7h89KWOXVE
Wife and I are alone tonight for first time in 2 weeks. Plenty of food, wine, beer, spirits, all that stuff. Very quiet, perfect for a nite at home alone. Weather is nasty, rain and dreary.
I briefly mis-read that as “Wife is nasty”. Which could work.
Happy New Year!
We’re worn out from running around with her daughter for the last 2 weeks. I might still get lucky though, there’s lots of alcohol and I see she’s intent on drinking some.
Pics. Of the daughter, because I’d never be rude to you.
Nekked Lena Dunham pics when ya’ll least expect it.
Happy New Year.
Please please please say Pit Bull is going to headline Woodstock 50. I mean, he’s fucking world-wide and doesn’t seem to do much between January 2 and December 30, so his schedule should be open.
Have they changed the name to Wokefest yet and laid out the rules for the correct pronouns everyone must use? Sounds like fun.
I remember when Woodstock 94 was the nostalgic 25th anniversary. And a shit show.
Speaking of ChefSteps….
There’s a new pot roast recipe up. Strongly considering that for tonight.
https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/level-up-your-grandma-s-pot-roast
Paywall.
Dang. I forgot that they charge for most of their non-sous vide recipes.
Standard pressure cooked pot roast with a 4-6 lb chuck roast.
Brown the roast. Remove. Brown the onions. Add I packet of ranch seasoning to onions. Add cooking liquid and beef roast, and cook at 15PSI for 2 hours. Add potatoes and carrots, cook at 15PSI for 10 minutes. Add celery and leave the lid on for 10 minutes to allow carryover heat to cook celery.
The most interesting part here is the ranch seasoning and the cooking liquid. 2 quarts of beef stock, 4 packets of gelatin, and 1 tbs of steak sauce (I’m using HP brown) reduced down to 2 cups before using. It should have a nice, robust beef flavor.
Smokingmeatforum.com has a sous vide section as well.
They had some good stuff on meat slicers.
I think you might have linked it, in fact.
I presume Woodstock 50th’s theme will be “Give War a Chance” “Free Speech is racist” and “Dissent from Social Norms is Wrong”?
Checklist:
1. Onions caramelizing.
2. Pearl onions browned.
3. Mushrooms browned.
4. Carrots browned.
5. Broth simmering.
6. Red wine for Bourgignon opened.
7. Beefless tips browned.
8. Brussels sprouts trimmed and halved.
9. Balsamic reduced.
10. Raclette at the ready.
11. Rioja (Muga ’73) and Cote-Rotie (Remillier ’98) standing.
12. Salad greens washed.
13. Blueberry vareniki made.
14. Champagne (Bouchard ’11) chilling.
15. Oven preheated.
I *think* we’re just about ready…
Oh, and…
16. Celeriac remoulade marinated overnight.
I have read your checklist and I am now tired.
No one needs 16 kinds of things.
I had to look that one up because at first glance I thought it might be some sort of French surgical procedure.
What are you doing with the raclette?
Ah, I missed the carmelized onions.
Generally, I am meh about New Year’s resolutions. Sometimes yes, sometimes no, but always half-heartedly. “Yeah, I know I’m gonna bail, but here it is anyway.”
But I was on Reddit and one post said something to the effect of “If you resolve nothing else, resolve to stop comparing yourself to others.”
That, combined with our recent discussions of envy, struck a chord with me.
I am going to work on not comparing myself to others.
I’m much taller than you are.
Sooo you’ll get more smoke inhalation than I will, in case of a fire.
You’re in a much poorer position in the event a cracked heat-exchanger fills your crib with CO, however
Don’t you just go to sleep with CO?
Eventually. But its going to collect at a lower level, so having a pet or 2 can be handy. If you suddenly get a temple-piercing, ice-cream headache, and your dog is dead, probably a good idea to get out of the house.
And my casual occupational exposures to high concentrations taught me that….the Mother Of All Headaches
LOL and news I can use. Well done.
Did you hear the one about a Jew who walked into a bar?
A Mormon woman went right under it.
Legit LOL
It’s never a good thing to go down that path. I used to have a huge problem with doing this and all it did was make me more resentful towards others when they were successful and blinded me to my own faults and short comings.
You are who you are and you are where you are for a reason. Always count your blessings and remember the good things that you have in your life because tomorrow, it can all be gone. Always try to be a better a person than you were the previous day and it’s okay to fail. What’s not okay is to not learn from that failure.
I don’t know you personally but from what I’ve read from your posts, you’re a good person. Don’t let what others have bring you down because I bet dollars to donuts, someone out there would love to have your life.
Thank you and I return the sentiment. Your comments are always insightful and meaningful in some way.
I know that saying has probably been around a long time, but… Did you happen to read it in Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life?
That was a worthwhile book.
Did you see my response on the dead 9overnight thread?
Pandanet (IGS) and Wbaduk both also have free Android apps.
I did – thanks! I’ll have to check those out.
The envy thing bugs me.
But, what I’m going to work on is not being outraged. It’s certainly a vice that I need less of.
Yes, more chill. More Zen. Me too.
Apathy is your friend.
Also, I try remind myself every day “Be your best self.” I find it helps offset some of my baser impulses and tendencies.
Good for you, that’s a noble goal. As I delve deeper into stoicism one thing that I keep seeing that may be of use is to examine why you feel insecure in the comparison. Often we fail to examine the underlying (and often irrational/false) assumptions we make about ourselves that lead us to feel that way to begin with.
I struggle with envy too which was why the article was so rewarding to write. I’ve never been overly materialistic and always had sort of a ‘mo money, mo problems’ outlook. However, I find myself feeling very insecure as my peers get married and have kids while I coast into middle age as single as I was at 20. I rarely get overtly envious but instead turn my insecurities inward and begin to apply labels and judgements against myself that are neither accurate or helpful. I have a hard time keeping in mind that nobody (namely God) owes me a family and I’ve had a pretty damn amazing life so far. It’s helpful to reflect on the fact that I have absolutely nothing to complain about if you look at the sum total experience of the human condition.
I think I’ve mentioned this before but Tom Wolfe’s A MAN IN FULL is chock full of stoic philosophy. I believe OMWC said it was his favorite book. If you haven’t read it, I recommend you do. I suspect you’ll like it.
Added to list! Thanks!
Pfft.. You sound just like my sister.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke9iShKzZmM&t
I will add that to my perk-me-up list.
>>I am going to work on not comparing myself to others.
Since I already consider myself a demi-god, there’s no reason to compare myself to anyone. Cretins, the whole lot of humanity. 😉
You too?
I find my manifest superiority to the common ruck of mankind a constant source of comfort.
Wife asked if there was such as a thing like a rice bowl with eggs & katsu on top. Why yes there is…
Found this at the store a couple of weeks ago. Curious if it will work or just be awful.
Does it have alcohol?
Yes. Looks like a white wine base. Product of Germany.
I like that about the donburi style dishes – there’s probably a recipe for what you want already, and if not, you can easily make one up. Almost anything goes in there.
In other Asian food news, I ordered a packet of doubanjiang from Amazon; I’m going to try some more authentic mapo tofu (last time, I improvised with Hoisin sauce, and it was absolutely delicious if not exactly correct).
I might have to try it. I have a jar of it in my fridge from making a soup, but haven’t really figured out how to use it up yet, or the bottle of shaoxing.
Back from my road trip from Austin to San Diego and back, in time for some belated Christmas naughty pics (poss NSFW):
https://thesexier.com/hot-babes-celebrating-christmas-just-like-gift-37-pics/
10 is the thicc picc
15L is quite nice if you’re into blonds with buns
18 is my OMG would
37 is best gift wrap
San Diego was ridiculously cold this weekend.
Compared to the places in NM we traveled thru, with subfreezing temps at nite, SD was a balmy paradise. But, yeah, unseasonably cold for SD. And Phoenix. And Austin. And everywhere else we went.
Cause Climate Change TM.
Just because you deniers can’t tell the difference between weather and climate. It’s easy, it’s colder, so that’s just weather.
But if it is a string of 101 degree F days in August in Tejas, instead of the usual 100 F, climate change!
We went to Legoland/Animal Park this weekend. The kids insisted on swimming at the hotel. 48 degrees and windy at sunset. They didn’t seem to notice.
WHY NO PICS OF STEVE SMITH IN BANANA HAMMOCK?
This one is your fault, but you asked, dude:
https://memegenerator.net/instance/80799067/fat-guy-with-guns-permit-to-carry
It’s beautiful
http://www.relatably.com/m/img/amazed-face-meme/its-beautiful-thumb.jpg
Happy new year glibs. The fireworks are heard but not seen round these parts and I am almost drunk
Now time to do something about that “almost.”
We’re talking “Romanian drunk”. As in, “man, I’m hurting today – I was almost Romanian drunk last night”.
I thought that’s when you’re drunk from other people’s blood alcohol.
Just finished a bottle of il poggione brunello di montalcino 2008 i hage to think what is next
“i hage to think what is next”
That gives us a clue.
Phone typo is a great clue
Well, you did manage to spell a wine I can’t pronounce, so I give you that.
how do you know he spelled it correctly?
I saw this thread the other day: Postings after 4+ bottles drunk alone and it made me feel simultaneously better about my drinking and worse about my palate.
Nice pull.
Happy New Year!
Who cares about fireworks, we want to see the vampire pics.
Happy New Year, Pie!
Happy New Year, Pie.
Happy New Year to all the Glibs!
Happy New Year Pie!
“Almost”?
I shouldn’t talk. I’m only one sheet to the wind.
Miss Congo’s hair catches fire .
No mention if it killed her HIV or not.
/HEY-OHHHH
I wonder if Trump is going to fire some illegal orphans into space on giant bottle rockets?
In case watching the ball in NYC gets boring: These are the craziest things dropping this New Year’s Eve
They didn’t even mention the keg drop.
They drop a big fiberglass potato here. No, we’ve never bothered going to see it.
A few days ago I asked Mrs Fourscore if she had taken her IRA for this year. In a look of panic she said “No”. I reminded her of the penalty, 50 % tax. This morning I drove 15 miles through a blizzard (not true, snow was over) but the roads were still being plowed from the overnight 6 inch snow. Good thing, bank was closing at 2 PM. She then set up her account so the draw down is automatic into a savings account. What would she do without me?
Can’t you take your RMD online?
Yeah, if I had a computer.
In the event some are not available later I want to wish each and everyone of y’all a Happy and Prosperous New Year. If 2019 is no worse than this one we’ll be OK. I’m happy to have my Glib friends, it gives me another reason to get up in the morning.
Back at you, Fourscore! I hope 2019 is good to you and your family, with much happiness and health.
Thanks for reminding me. Need to start planning that next year.
You’re that old?
May-December marriage.
Left work at 2PM – drove to bar and had two beers. Came home and then ran two miles. WTF was I thinking?
You’ll have to start drinking all over again now.
I’m stocked up for that… Gin, Tonic, Merlot, a little whiskey, and a bottle of bubbly.
.
I haven’t done much running after beers in a while……seems miserable. Me in my 20’s used to “run off” a hangover…….Me at almost 40 struggles to make it from the bed to the couch. I get far less practice these days.
I run after Beer every day, run down to the store, run in, run home, a nice work out
When I was in college I was known occasionally to have a beer or two and a cigarette WHILE running. It’s amazing what you can do in your 20s that are just no longer possible in your 40s…
Back when I was about 22, I decided to quit smoking and get healthier. But I took up jogging before I quit smoking. For a brief period, my morning routine was to put on my jogging clothes, smoke a cigarette while I stretched and warmed up, then start running.
Yea, I could only go about three blocks. Now I do 5 miles a few times a week.
Reminds me of the smokers after a PT test. I swear their lung capacity for running was increased by the cigarettes.
It must have been the 2 beers that clouded your judgement.
Not sure if this made the rounds.
Ottawa don’t like kids.
Is it wrong to hand out free candy? Asking for a friend. And by friend I mean OMWC.
Is that OMWC’s Canadian commie cousin?
So, Ottawa has no orphans? No wonder the glibs are few and far between.
I have a feeling that 2019 is going to be filled with even more derp than 2018. But 2020 is going to be the holy reckoning of all DERP. Will America go full on DERP? Will Trump make a second run? Will Hillary run again? Or Lizzie “Two-Tongue” Warren get the nom? Stay tuned to DERP-TV to find out!
Speaking of Canadians, why do we allow them on Glibs? Have you ever met a Canadian that wasn’t a full on commie? Purity of Essence!
I listened to a little more than half of The Coddling of the American Mindon my drive home today. It’s good. There are a couple spots where he does some equivocation between the right and left that I don’t necessarily think is accurate but over all I think its a good, important book for understanding the phenomina that lead to the SJW movement. Namely three false truths:
1. The Untruth of Fragility: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker
2. The Untruth of Emotional Reasoning: Always Trust Your Feelings
3. The Untruth of Us Versus Them: Life Is a Battled Between Good People and Evil People
Funny! I just got my copy minutes ago in the mail. It’s mom’s belated Christmas gift, so I won’t be reading it for awhile.
TW: Huffington
I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America.
A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney
A story with everything! Lesbians! The exploitation of the worker! Drugs! Dick Cheney! Russians!
Ima file that last under “shit that never happened”.
here did the other post go? The search article by MS?
mexicansharpshooter may have been drinking this afternoon and pushed publish instead of save draft. Just a hypothesis. 😉
Happy New year SP!
Happy New Year, Yusef! I hope 2019 treats you and the missus a bit better than 2018 did!
Things are about to take a nasty dip, but hey, increased motivation
Sorry. I hope you pull through and things get better.
Never surrender,
Thanks
It was a pretty compelling piece right up till the wrapup. Then it kinda fell apart.
LOL, right? That’s how I knew it wasn’t supposed to be up yet.
Ohhh now I get it, he was still writing, lol
MBGA?
https://news.yahoo.com/brazils-bolsonaro-follows-gun-anti-marxist-vows-193827024.html
I love the use of the term “far-right” and characterizing Brazil’s prior leadership as “center-left”. LOL. Hard Latin American Marxism is “center-left”. Our media is a joke.
Considering Brazil’s past wouldn’t “far-right” involve a military junta?
Also reminds me of how “far-right” has come to mean in Europe “anti-immigrant” or in Richard Spencer’s case white supremacy.
“He and members of his incoming government, notably his new foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, use the word “Marxist” to refer to the Workers Party and other left-wing groups.”
You know, because no one knew this before now.
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen the US media (sans Fox News) use the term “far Left” or “extreme Left”.
It’s almost like they don’t want you to know that there are many Alex Jones equivalents on the Left.
Left always means centrists or moderates. Right always means far and extremists. This is how you can know that left is good and right is bad. It’s sort of odd because when I was a kid growing up watching the news, the left were always people like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and FARC guerillas. I never saw the left played as the good guys. When did things get so turned around?
I’m drinking Nillionaire. It’s not as good as I remember it.
Happy New Year!
“Oh, three is plenty early to beat the rush. Most people aren’t off work yet, I’ll be in and out.” WRONG WRONG WRONG.
I had to go back for ranch dressing, it’s a Mad house out there
I stopped in at the grocery store this morning after the gym. A bit busier than normal, but not too bad.
I’ve been home drinking the rest of the day.
There wasn’t a single parking spot at Ralphs. I circled for a few minutes, and then went to another store.
Wm was fine at noon, but going back at 2? No carts to be found,
Yeah, I get off work at 2:30 and it was nuts.
And some cunt was putting an entire week’s worth of groceries through the self-checkout.
Watching the new years eve show from Germany with the wife. Shockingly bad lip syncing (and accordion syncing) by random European lounge singers, and they actually had a guy “playing” a trombone dressed up like an indian princess. Pretty sure the song didn’t even have a trombone in it. But dear god, I love the Schlager…
In a bit we’ll be retiring to the pool to watch the hockey game projected on the side of the house. Gotta love living in Florida – spending new years floating in the pool, drinking boat drinks, watching hockey…
I haven’t tried my projector outside.
Do you have an outdoor screen?
Nope, but I do have a solid white painted wall. Works well enough as long as it is dark out. Not sure how the hockey will do, but we’ll find out…
Ok, have it set up now and it works well for the hockey. My projector is one of the $50 Amazon Prime Day deals, but it is giving a decent picture with a 12’ diagonal size. Projected on a cinder block wall that is painted white.
Ok, they just hit a new high on the Silvester Show – a rockabilly band lip syncing a version of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way while a congo line snakes through the crowd…
I at least I have the hockey covered…. How do you access this show from Germany??
In years past we had a VPN that you could just pick which country you wanted to appear from. Used this for BBC (UK), RTE (Ireland), and Das Erste (Germany). This year we are just using the Erste app, which doesn’t appear to have any geo locks on it.
OK I found the Silvester Show – more a slideshow than a stream. And… it’s almost over. 🙁
Anyway my cable only offers Deutsche Welle which is literally nothing but news and travel shows. Boring. Cheese like this is what I really want to watch.
And if it is anything like the NHK my cable company picks up it is their worldwide service and mostly in English. Or worse when the interviews are dubbed over.
It better not be considering how much they charge extra for it (I don’t subscribe, so I don’t know).
Yeah, same there is part time world service and another ridiculously expensive Japanese language service that is mostly documentaries and the like.
I want the fluff too!
Yeah, it went that way for us as well. First couple of hours was a clean stream with absolutely no buffering. Then it went slideshow.
Woodstock 50 pro tip. Don’t bang anybody.
Are they going to cancel if it’s overwhelmingly white and no one has learned the proper pronouns?
I’m not responsible for what I do after 8 beers.
Raining buckets here – I guess that means no illegal neighborhood fireworks 🙁
Gustave Lytton on December 31, 2018 at 5:52 pm
“Reminds me of the smokers after a PT test. I swear their lung capacity for running was increased by the cigarettes.”
18-22 year old me would walk to the starting line smoking a menthol, having just did the sit-up and push-up portion, and knock out a 10 minute 2-mile.
Now, Im sore just from trying to reach and rub the spots on me that are sore.
Happy New Year to the Glibs on the west side of the international date line, and Happy New Year’s Eve to the rest of ya.
I’m in a moose lodge in Escondido listening to a country band watching my elders line dance. How did I get here? Lol.
Pretty charming, really. I was the youngest person here until a lady from Paradise, California whose home and moose lodge had burned down came in with her lovely 30 something daughter with whom she’s moved in since the fires.
They are our table partners and are great.
Here’s to 2019!!!