DO NOT LET YOUR NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY END AS BADLY AS THE ETERNALS’ PARTY DID.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. IT APPEARS THAT THE BRUTALS AND THE CHOSEN ONES BOTH ARE CELEBRATING THE TERMINATION OF THE CURRENT YEAR. ZARDOZ WILL PROVIDE YOU THIS SPACE TO POST YOUR COMMENTS, THOUGHTS, OBSERVATIONS AND, LATER ON, DRUNKEN RAMBLINGS.
GO FORTH AND POST!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Happy New Year, Glibs!
AND ESPECIALLY ZARDOZ
You too! And a hearty Fuck off!!!!!
Thanks! I don’t usually make resolutions, but I resolve to fuck off even more than usual in 2019.
That’s the way!
Welcome and HNY
I’m not sure I could fuck off more without going comatose.
Hey you! LTNS. Happy New Year to you too!
Shouldn’t you be getting drunk or something?
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, you far right extremists of various types.
I didn’t leave the Right, the Right left me, HNY!!
Happy New Year
And Ted porks a link.
Happy New Year
ABBA? Srsly?
Right? Theres something wrong with that guy.
No; frivolously.
And is it not appropriate for the new year?
Abba is never appropriate.
No, its not. Your wrong.
?
Happy New Year.
If you’re under 70 then no.
You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, twenty-nineteen.
It’s not even in black & white…
I have these guys’ first studio album playing very loudly.
Well if you’re going to listen to Southwestern German music you might as well go all out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvpHwoQfqk&list=RDEMAxfk_sjpu9D4rIOmVwM1vA&start_radio=1
This group has been popular for years.
A bunch of cute, scantily-clad German lasses with ample bosoms singing American country music and bouncing up and down on stage? Popular?
Who’d’a thunk it?!? ;-)
They should be wearing Dirndls.
On a serious note, thanks. They are good, and good looking.
How come every time I hear Cotton Eyed Joe it’s being played by Europeans?
That’s not The Scorpions.
Um Gottes willen.
The Germans are really into “the old west” and have “western parks” that they dress up and can rent “six shooters” and related stuff. Back in the 1970-80’s time period they’d be all over Arizona. Sometimes big tourist sites like San Xavier del Bac, the South Rim, or Tombstone were so full of them that it was hard to believe that we won WWII.
Glad you enjoy the vids. They are easy on the eyes and not bad on the ears for beirgarten singers.
I’ve lived among them, I know what a curious Volk they can be at times.
So… what you two are saying is that I did everything wrong while I was at Oktoberfest this last fall?
#cathynewmanquestions
I lived south of Munich for three years and loved it. I recommend going to small city spring and fall fests. Lots of beautiful women and great lessor known bier. I still look for Reutberg biers. Cloistered nuns having been supporting themselves since the 14th century brewing it.
So, if you tell someone to fuck off, aren’t you fucking off yourself? Except you can’t notice you are in fact, fucking off, it’s like the Heisenburg of insults
So if Tupla sock one tells Tulpa sock two to fuck of………?
Schrodingers Tulpa?
Happy New Year you magnificent bastards. Thanks for putting up with the likes of me.
“you magnificent bastard”
I’m an orphan now but I knew my father so take that back. Happy New Year to you Nep!
Anyone who can quote Babylon 5 is alright with me.
Thank you Mike S and OMWC for the restaurant recommendations. I will let you know where we end up.
Have fun!
First beer opened…. Ahhhh
I wish you all the Best Year Ever in 2019.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/national/lifestyle/2018/12/31/1_4235657.html
Daily Fail rains in on the phone: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6536285/amp/Dry-January-waste-efforts-focused-alcoholics-addiction-expert-says.html
I don’t go to their houses and knock the anonymous transients’ cocks out of their mouths. Why do they gotta piss on my drunk parade?
“rain in on the parade”. Goddamn autocorrect.
The word in the first paragraph, right after the first comma…. could you tell me what it is?
I don’t have my glasses on.
Insomniac when sober, eh?
It’s the Cal score.
LOL right
Average drinking is a 6 pack over 4 times a week put the frequency of being drunk is less than 4 times a month? BS. And the dropped numbers aren’t that much either.
But not put
PER MONTH!? Per weekend, maybe.
Ummm… Elizabeth Warren is live streaming herself cooking dinner and drinking beer on instagram right now.
I’d hate watch it, but this is exactly the type of thing that I’m trying to do less of in 2019.
Cooking and drinking beer?
Actually, yes. I’m trying to limit it to 3 days a week.
But tonight, I’m cooking and drinking beer, and most notably, I’m not live streaming it.
I was cooking (lunches for the week… Beef Burgundy) and I was drinking beer.
In fact, I still am drinking beer.
I sure as fuck would not live stream any of it.
It just reeks of desperation.
“Look at me! I’m one of you normals! I’m doing normal people things, but over the internet so I don’t actually have to interact with you normals!”
Sounds like someone is running for…oh wait she is.
Is she enjoying the beer?
You couldn’t pay me to find out.
I am curious if she sourced her own maize and bison.
There’s no way. If she enjoyed anything other than moral superiority the jig would be up.
Oh my God.
So many comedic possibilities.
Didn’t Karla Marx stream herself cooking mac and cheese? Out of a box. This is going to become a common thing, isn’t it?
It has an odd, dystopian quality to it doesn’t it? Our betters occasionally remind us via tele screen that they are just like us and to keep on voting for them so they can keep being regular joe’s looking’ out for our best interests. I’d almost they rather toss coins from their gilded carriages, it is far less disingenuous.
Politicians are always doing this weird schizophrenic dance where they’re trying to market and advertise themselves as average people just like us, but they also feel the need to remind us that they’re much smarter and more ethical than we are and in fact hold a right to rule. It’s almost as if they want to say, “I’m exactly like you, but better!”
I wish Gilbert and Sullivan were still around to parody these people…
“cooking mac and cheese? Out of a box”
So she’s Canadian?
ZARDOZ,
I received the Gift of the Gun today.
Tease. Details or may a naked Lena Dunham visit your dreams.
Chilean Mauser M1895. Manufactured by Ludwig Loewe in Berlin so it counts as an antique under Federal law. The USPS delivered it to my door.
Cool!
For a limited time only
Excellent condition. Very clean.
Thanks. I paid top dollar for it, but only because it is in the condition it is in.
Based on the inspection I gave it after I received it, I suspect the Chilean military never used it. It has been fired. I used my borescope on the rifle. There is powder gunk in the bore and evidence someone scored the lands with a cleaning rod. But, I think because the cleaning rod’s serial number matches the rifle (the Germans put serial numbers on damn near every part of every rifle they made) and there is no evidence of pitting in the bore, the Chileans never used it.
I’ll be in my bunk.
. . . may a naked Lena Dunham visit your dreams.
You really dislike DEG that much? That’s cold, d00d.
I didn’t say it as you insinuated. May a naked Elizabeth Warren visit your dreams to explain the difference. ?
I’ve done something in a previous life to receive this kind of abuse, I just know it . . .
In the interest of harmony and the fact that I am drunk, have my newest and my oldest gun.
The newest is my Tavor x95, bought earlier this year and I assume made this year. The oldest is my Lee-Metford Mk II manufactured at RSAF-Sparkbrook in 1893.
I’m thinking Sean is going to be dreaming about Hillary’s cloaca tonight…and enjoying it.
You might have me confused with SugarFree.
Eas Sean. DEG didn’t kill anyone.
Sean and I took care of this. I guess I need to post more gun porn. Hold.
More gun porn. My Schmidt-Rubins. M1889, K11, K31. The K31 needs a little work as the stock impinges on the barrel. The M1889 I now have ammunition for thanks to whoever around here (I think Animal) who told me about American Custom Ammo. I have not fired the M1889 yet.
Happy New Year, Shitlords!
Ahhh, Krug.
I was thinking about some of our legendary New Years. We actually managed to break up several friendships and marriages. Including our own (marriages).
Damn, good times.
As long as it wasn’t expensive.
New Year’s 1999 was fucking epic.
BTW, answering a question from the last thread, the Raclette is for onion soup gratinee.
Yeah, I missed the carmelized onions.
Ugh, don’t remind me of NYE 1999. Just broke up with my multimillionaire girlfriend of 6 years. I was still in school and was an intern at the power company, so I spent the evening checking items off a checklist. Sent me home at 11:45 CST as it was obvious the whole Y2K thing was nothing. Got home in time to have a glass of scotch and go to bed…
That doesn’t sound that bad
I don’t miss the drama. At all.
Happy New Year you wonderful people. Going to the neighboor’s to drink too much beer.
This is an interesting beer, which I purchased from this fine establishment.
Your rating? FYI, I’m starting my NYE down-home celebration with this old gem.
4.3.
I like Backwoods Bastard. I always think of Popcorn Sutton when I drink it.
Well, hockey will be by the pool, not in it. Jumped in, testicles tried to climb back inside my body. Probably should only swim in December AFTER we add a heater to the pool…
ZARDOZ:
My annoying neighbors with way too many children (a consequence of the evil penis shooting seed) have invited me over.
How should I handle this?
What time do the kids go to bed and is there free alcohol involved?
Unknown and probably.
You can tell us tomorrow about when you found out about the cult.
“I should have told you this when I/you moved in, but I’m not permitted to be around children.”
Shoot seed at them.
Or do an OMWC and shoot seed at their kids.
Only one of the two of us flashed his bare ass at a 10 year old girl.
Make a list. MikeS covered some of the factors.
Also, what kind of food is there? Anyone else invited, or is this a trap?
Unknown and it’s possible our other neighbor across the street was invited but unconfirmed.
Maybe they’re having a swingers party…
He should bring the keys to the Prius just in case.
Is she hot?
Take OMWC with you.
Watch Hope and Glory?
“How should I handle this?”
Tell them to fuck off.
You can thank me later.
Is the wife hot? Maybe they want their next child to be more (((diverse)))?
Go. Have fun whether or not they are swingers.
Have a THICC New Year!
http://archive.li/UOO46
1 and 2 both appear to be sturdy vessels for evil seed.
8’s thigh gap seems dubious.
7’s the realdoll
I’m not sure if you hit the Prolefeed wimminz lode or it’s strong drink, but they’re almost all looking totally fuckable.
Specially 16 and 23.
Oh Zardoz, do you feel that your existence is preferable to a Boorman LOTR? Would it have stopped Peter Jackson?
Aaaand, ya lost me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz
Boorman LOTR
Frodo and Galadriel have sex,
“I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this…”
But would his version have Tom Bombadil?
Like Jodorowsky’s psychadelic adaptation of Dune, we may never know.
(I hadn’t heard of Boorman before tonight, so I have no idea.)
(Would it matter if he did, though? I’m fascinated by the character, but mostly because it doesn’t fit in Tolkien’s pretty well-established hierarchy. What he offered narratively, I can’t remember and I think was pretty insignificant. Tolkien is pretty coy, to go by what I’ve read of his correspondence on the subject. It’s like Tom was a meta connection between the stories he wrote for his children to the stories he wrote to be published, something that couldn’t be established with any satisfaction in the latter, and didn’t need establishment in the former.)
Really? The guy who produced, wrote and directed Zardoz, one of the mascots of this site, and did it while high as a kite to boot?
I’m so Tulpa I haven’t seen Zardoz.
I jave it on my Amazon watchlist, but I’m skeert.
Of hairy Sean Connery in a BDSM outfit? Me too…
Oh yes, of Sean Connery in that ridiculous getup and other weirdness.
JFC I was scrolling past too quickly and read that as “Sean Hannity”.
Soooo that’s in my head now…
Somebody has better dick jokes than Mojeaux….
As for Tom Bombadil I do recall someone at Reason (no idea who) complaining that he was an anarchistic free spirit so dumping was terrible and proof of how much Jackson sucks.
Well, fuck me, didn’t they go off to the barrows directly afterward and get in some trouble and have to be rescued by Tom half an hour later? It’s been a good couple years since I read the book, but I seem to remember that’s where Frodo got Sting. But giving all that fifteen minutes of screen time? Not a chance.
Yes.
I’m wrong about Sting. But that makes their visit to the barrows all the more inessential.
I’m wrong about Sting
Right! All the hobbits got a sword in the Barrows, but Frodo received Sting from Bilbo in Rivendell.
Happy New Year
Do any of you make New Year’s Resolutions and actually follow them.
Nope, although as I mentioned above, I resolve to fuck off in 2019 even more than in 2018.
Nope and not applicable.
Yes, but my New Year’s Resolutions are things like I will try a new restaurant each month. I keep my resolutions.
Yeah, for once I have a New Year’s resolution — I’m gonna try to get my French into serviceable enough condition to go see my cousin’s widow in Normandy and express my sincerest condolences in a language she actually feels comfortable in. April or May, mebbe . . .
What’s your resolution?
Using question marks.
That is a very good one that I should follow.
Shoot more for me. I’ve been buying guns faster than I shoot and I have quite the backlog.
Drop some weight. Two docs have told me to get my weight under control. My weight is dropping slowly.
Do a better job asking women out.
Oh…. shit… I was serious. Sometimes that happens when I’m drunk.
lurk more on Glibs. I at least have a shot. I sure as fuck ain’t losing weight!
Yes.
I do make New Year’s resolutions. I don’t follow through.
This year, my resolution is to stop comparing myself with others.
You’re never going to measure up to ZARDOZ. Let it go.
Why would you want to be like anyone else? Your most valuable asset is being unique.
Follow up question for ZARDOZ:
It’s -6F and snowing. Should I skip champagne and go straight for the Scotch?
You should do that regardless of the weather.
Yes. Save the champagne for midnight.
Depends on the champagne and the scotch.
Great Blanc de Noir and various (Cragganmore, Ardbeg, Aberlour, et. al.).
Gruet*
Amazing that good of a champagne is made in ABQ.
Scotch.
Start high ABV and work your way down.
I could have sworn that you went to college.
I bought a six pack of Pacifico and a bottle of Jose Cuervo. Dunno why I went this way, but it’s the way I went. Now I’m down to three bottles of Pacifico and most of the Jose.
Happy New Year! Slightly hungover, but not bigly. Listened to that Louis CK set this morning and holy shit did he just torch people with that. I honestly didn’t think he had it in him. *Standing Ovation*
But did you think it was funny?
He did some stuff that would’ve been hilarious if I didn’t have the preconceived idea of him as a Hollywood lefty. After I realized he had completely shed that BS Hollywood/Twitter straightjacket it was time to laugh my ass off. High quality humor to me.
アケオメ！
Following up from your post before bed. It took me about 5 minutes to figure out.
For those playing at home the answer was a play on words in Japanese – ultraman, coffee and lighter.
ウルトラマン コーヒ ライター
Urutoraman koohi raitaa
Urutora manko (o) hiraita(a)
Did you know that already or did you figure it out? It’s really old. I heard it about 25 years ago. Happy New Year! Not climbing Fuji san, but I can see it from balcony clear as day this morning.
” It took me about 5 minutes to figure out.”
*Coffee, more please.
Yes, but did you dream about it along with a hawk carrying an eggplant?
鷹がなすを運ぶ…Mmmm. Give me some time. 今朝、頭の回転が悪すぎています。
Yo, Sensei! I got a watch!
According to the serial number it was made in 1923 by Illinois.
It’s purty.
So pocket watch? Congratulations!
I have one railroad watch and one wristwatch that are Illinois.
Let’s see if this works….
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/11_16_0211_07_16.jpg
I couldn’t actually find an example of the dial on mine online. It’s got an octagonal case with all the gold worn off. The person who gave it to me said that the seller claimed it was in good working order, but it’s not. The first few days it kept time to about a minute a day, but then it went kind of nuts and ran at 4x speed for a while then stopped completely. Then started again a few hours later and is running less precisely now.
It was a bizarre, nostalgic experience to hear ticking again.
mine
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181231_210452.jpg
I like both of the pocket watches.
Ahh, “gentleman’s watch”. Likely 12 size. Nice!
I know that word from that lady that got arrested for making the canoes!
That’s actually rather impressive!
(Right now I’m thinking of you as I built a new AMD Ryzen 2700X build that’s giving me fits and wishing I’d stuck with Intel…)
Huh. All of the Ryzens that we have here work great (we have some VR setups to entertain other potential customers)
I’m a week into the build. My guess is that it is either the motherboard or maybe the memory. Long shot guess is the power supply.
I’ve been messing with the BIOS for a week. Next up is switching memory which I really don’t want to do as the PC I’ll be swapping it from is my everyday main rig and it’s working perfectly.
Under load it works great – but right off idle it will lock up and sleep mode is touchy. If you Google Ryzen and idle issues you can get all kinds of hits – some insane and some on point. My power supply is high end, but about 7 years old. Worked a treat in the old PC I retired. Some claim that older non Haswell PS don’t do well with lightly loaded 12V rails.
I hate throwing parts at what I suspect is a motherboard issue…
I would like to thank the Glibertariate for keeping me sane, and I learned a lot from Y’alluns, Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boom
Yusef, Happy New Year to you too! I hope the new year is good to you.
You too DEG, nice place to be with people like you around,
Thank you!
Happy New Year!
Good on ya straff!
Happy New Year Yusef!
Happy New Year’s, Yusef!
Happy New Year!
My internet is out. Anybody got the score of the Stanford game?
Trump 1
Syria 0
If you still need to know: Stanford 14, Pittsburgh 13 (final)
Yes. Your tuition was wasted.
Leland Stanford Jr University?
Should be extra spaces before the Jr University.
The Pac 12 is doing pretty well – except Arizona State of course.
No Arizona schools in the Pac-8. It’s been downhill ever since.
Happy calendar disposal day!
Today, I procrastinated my way to a better solution of something I will do two days from now.
My wife bought my a single vineyard Syrah from the Okanagan Valley back in October, and I just cracked it.
Damn. The Okanagan usually has trouble making decent reds (‘cept in the extreme southern part of the valley), lack of heat units mostly to blame. But this one’s eminently quaffable.
Later, we’re sinking a bottle of bubbly to toast the New Year.
I was gonna try to go to my cousin’s funeral in Normandy on Saturday, but every flight from Vancouver’s really expensive and almost stupidly long, and I have to be back in YVR by the 8th. Seriously? I have to do a layover at O’Hare before I can fly to Paris? Weird.
Happy New Year, all. If you’re all very, very lucky, I may just refrain from writing anything at all to be published on Glibertarians.com.
HNY I’ll be looking for that article……….
What would WAC Bennett say? I mean besides laughing at Gary Johnson and Bill Weld…
Happy New Year!
Sorry about your cousin.
Thanks. My cuz lived a life that you could make a damn good Hollywood flick out of, assuming Bogey would still be alive to play the lead.
And I should look as good at eighty as he did a week before he died at 94 (the last pics I have of him, posted by the Normandy cousins on Facebook).
I’ve had some epic ancestors. By comparison, I’m meaningless and boring as Hell. Sobering thoughts.
Where in Normandy? My name is from Lozon in Normandy
A place called Alençon, and a couple of communes within a few kilometres of the city (Hauterive and Radon, to be more precise). Lozon’s a couple of hours northwest of Alençon — damn close to Brittany, actually. If it’s anything like the rest of Brittany, it’s probably a really nice town.
This guy (who sometimes contributes to Liberty magazine) includes some fond memories of Brittany in his memoirs.
One of my gr-grandpas came from Brittany. Still have some distant cousins there.
I’ve had some epic ancestors. By comparison, I’m meaningless and boring as Hell. Sobering thoughts.
Same here. And relatives too, not just ancestors.
I hope you consider your short term desire to save money versus your life time desire to honor your cousin whom you so obviously love.
You can make up the money but not the cousin.
GO!
The issue isn’t the money — it’s the timing; I’m bookended by two impossible-to-move dates. If I go, I’m unlikely to get back in time for the second of them. That’ll create problems with the living, I’m afraid . . .
TMI: I made us a nice little dinner with filets topped with garlic herb butter and sides. My gf is already asleep (*cough* drunken sleepy on the couch). She told me to wake her up before midnight to drink champagne and get naked. Getting older isn’t all that bad…
?
Your GF loves the gift of the elixir, doesn’t she. She’s a keeper.
Irish heritage. ??? ?
“Exxxxxxxxcellent, Smithers!”
That sounds like more fun than I’m going to have but I’m in a wine + beef bourguignon coma for the moment so that helps.
How’s the installer?
Instapot
My wife won one at some luncheon about a month ago. We’ve cooked some good meals with it. Seems like we can retire the slow cooker as this will do that plus the pressure cooking.
So far so good. Did one pressure cook Saturday & the slow cook today. Both efforts could use some tweaking but came out delicious already. I suppose I could follow recipes a little more closely but what fun is that.
Pfft! Recipes! Just cook.
Porn for Monks
And porn for me.
Tri-Tip is done and sliced. Ready for the sandwich platter. Has the texture of a brisket so perfect in my opinion for sandwiches.
Gonna play some board games and drink, not in that order.
We’ve had unexpected ‘snow’ here in the Vegas Valley now twice. It’s cold and the booze and friends IYKWIM will keep us warm through the night.
Happy New Years!
It’s cold in the West right now, at least for us, I’m bringing in my Ficus trees tonight
I’ve forgotten what it’s like to celebrate New Year’s at midnight. The toddler and infant have sucked the life out of us. Bed time at 9 tonight happy new year!
HNY to all! This is an amazing community and I’m glad I made my way here.
Just got in from a sail and enjoying a German Dunkelweisse and later I’ll grill a lamb steak. I made some tzatziki yesterday and will have some tonight. Salad from the garden with less tomatoes than usual, but production drops in winter. Just a Oregon Pinot Noir with dinner. Later Hine cognac.
Illegal fireworks started at noon. It sounds like freedom to me. Keep it up. Later at midnight the neighborhood will sound like the first day of the Somme. Hopefully there will not be more than one scared dog from the neighborhood in my pool this year.
Dunkelweiß ist gut.
Thanks for your company on another trip around the sun. I look forward to the next.
E very day alive is a good day, HNY Kinnath
I am stuffed. I feel like I have the entire Bering sea in my belly.
Time for whiskey in the recliner and binging on season one of The Orville.
Happy New Year all.
Been trying to relax while up visiting the wife’s parents for the holidays, without success. Currently sitting in another room while they watch another Hallmark holiday movie. You’d think they could come up with a different plot for one of these. That’s not why I can’t relax though, it’s because of work. Bah. Been trying to take a break from politics as well, which is why I haven’t been here. Not like I don’t love y’all, mind you.
My sister got married the other day. Second marriage. I give it 3 years, and I’m probably being optimistic.
Oh wait, Hallmark movie’s over, I think they’re watching Have Gun Will Travel or one of those old black and white western TV shows now.
Seriously, thanks for being there for my myriad rants and self hatred. This is about the only place I feel like I can be myself, where I don’t really have to hold anything back and know I won’t be judged (at least publicly) for it. I’ve been interneting since first signing onto a local BBS with a 1200 baud Hayes modem in 1988, and this is the best community I’ve been a part of. I really mean that.
Here’s to another year.
Happy New Year!
My sister got married the other day. Second marriage. I give it 3 years, and I’m probably being optimistic.
Sounds like my older brother..
A break from politics is always called for.
You keep disappearing like this, can’t promise we’ll still be here waiting for you.
Anime nerd. I’d offer to wedgie you, but apparently that makes me the asshole now.
Happy New Years anyway.
Happy New Year, JB!
Is the new husband less of a dickhead?
He has a job. That’s an improvement.
I’m getting my Orthodox stories confused because I have a few in my wife’s family.
I thought husband #1 was a lawyer of some sort who had connections that could adversely affect the divorce.
Happy New Year, JB. I don’t worry about people who tell me they’re stressed out. I’m worried when they stop telling me they’re stressed out.
YUFUS!
If you have a honeywell gas valve on your water heater, and it gives you a 5-flash fault, just light the burner and short the pilot lead to the burner lead, then reset.
(I learned it from you)
Happy 2019
HNY Tres, it’s 99% common sense,
1% shitty electronics,
Tall cans in 2019!
After yesterday’s beer article, I was walking around the liquor store saying “I am gruit”. But I totally failed to find a gruit that looked appealing. Drank some Lithuanian beer instead at a BYOB Indian restaurant. The combination has produced a rather gassy New Year’s eve.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/12224/40815/
Damn. I was at my usual go-to (which is in MA because of NH’s stupid booze laws) for unusual beers recently to pick up some Samichlaus. They didn’t have that beer. Sad.
Now I’m disappointed I didn’t use that line in the write-up somewhere. I’ve tried a couple, and I much prefer hops.
Resolutions:
Lose more weight
Read more books
Have more sex
Get my life together
The classiv lose weight, feel great, masturbate, resolution.
I’m going with
Lose more books
Read more sex
Have more weight
should be easy.
Have books, lose sex, read weight.
In 1998, I made a resolution not to make any more resolutions. I’ve stuck to it since then.
I was just being a shitheel 4th grader and writing a snarky answer to the “What’s Your Resolution” writing assignment… But if I wanted to make a serious case for eliminating the NYR, I would say that it just gives people an excuse to postpone positive changes until the end of the year (by which time they might lose motivation or get sidetracked).
Just make them fun things. This year my resolution is to try a new meet up group every month. I refuse to do things that encourage beating myself up for failing.
To be a bigger dick than I was last year. Fun and easy.
Oh and drink better.
Easy for you!/
Easy for you
I’d turn around for that.
Pay down debt.
The more books you read, the less sex you will have. Just sayin.
Chicks dont dig nerds. At least not at first.
Make money, fuck bitches.
You must be single.
Police: Man fires shots at Taco Bell employees for forgetting his sauce
The future Libertarians want…
We just need common-sense Oklahoman control.
That’s what every chick from Oklahoma says.
Am I the only person here who’s both a non-Mormon and a non-smoker?
I fit that category
#metoo
I’ve never been a Mormon, but I’m a vaping ex-smoker.
Does vaping count as “not smoking”? I would think so but HR certainly seems to think otherwise.
Hit & Run, Human Resources, what?
Hit & Run would be “HyR”.
Or derpdeederp these days.
Hell, my company is doing a nicotine test this year for everyone. If you fail, you get the tobacco user surcharge added to your health insurance. So if you use nicotine gum, patches, or vape you get charged the same as a smoker.
I get a non-smoker credit on medical and dental insurance but they don’t test you for it. Not yet anyways.
Way to encourage people to quit. F’in evil.
It’s all about control.
Oh, if you have a note from a doctor that you’re doing a smoking cessation program, then you can test positive for some number of months without the surcharge. They also make you have all covered people take the test. It’s still a terrible idea.
“No, I refuse to be drug tested. Just charge me.”
You just need to hit on some of the HR girls. That will get you an in.
Dude, the HR chick at my work is super hot. Her last name is of Greek origin, and she has that gorgeous olive skin and straight black hair. She’s thicc as fuck and looks damn fine in a skirt and panty hose.
I’m gonna go aggressively flirt with the HR lady – what could possibly go wrong?
Fun fact: The last HR person was a guy, and he got fired for carrying on several affairs with female employees.
A straight guy in HR?
Sounds totally worth it:)
Nope. Well, except for June through September when I’ve been known to enjoy a few cigars during the week.
Non-Mormon and Non-smoker. I drink.
I’ve never been a Mormon, and haven’t smoked cigarettes in quite a while.
Nope. I’m a Quaker who only smokes crack.
So that’s why there was so much rock in Philly.
Joan Jett did the best she could.
WMMR
I’m a Methanite.
It really makes you wake up and think.
You should start smoking Ted. Nothing pairs better with a glass of milk than a camel light.
Well, I’m smoking hot, but not a cigarette smoker.
Every once in a while I pull a book off the shelf or some article of clothing out of the closet that’s still infused with the lovely aroma of ashtray after I quit a few months ago. Yum!
Hawt.
The couple sessions of jury duty this month, one of the others called up was a guy named Chris Carter, and I kept wanting to thank him for X-Files, but he looked like the might stab a guy. He looked real mean, like the bootlegger from that episode of Seinfeld.
There is also the guy from Throbbing Gristle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Carter_(British_musician)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fih-xzWGKPA
Also this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cris_Carter
This guy, he wasn’t pretty like you or I, he was upsetting, a real villain. You remember those no-eye aliens from X-Files? Well, he wasn’t like that, but he was pretty ugly.
I went to high school for awhile with a guy named chris carter.
Last I heard he was doing 30 years in the pen for manufacturing meth and possessions of firearms.
#freechris
The guy was an entrepreneur whose endeavors were thwarted by unjust laws.
Just flipped over to ABC for a second and holy hell do I feel old. Not one second of any of that is for me.
I feel like that about most pop culture.
NBC: Damn, Carson Daly got fat.
And he’s still not funny.
Nothing like fucking over losers, eh?
Lol.
Wow. That’s some chutzpah.
“If you have recently purchased meth in any area of Louisiana it may be contaminated with the Zika Virus.”
WTF??
If you’re lucky.
That is professional level trolling.
I gotta say, spending some time shopping online for women’s lingerie just to fool the google ad algorithms was a great decision. I just have to click on the ads a few times a day to keep the ads rolling but it definitely enhances my browsing experience.
Let them eat..uh…
There’s a simple solution to all of Venezuela’s problems. They just need to elect a strong man to appropriate all of the countries wealth and redistribute it to the poor. Oh wait…
I suppose Chavez, Maduro, and assorted cronies were poor at some point.
See it worked out for them. At least for a while.
I think the Ceaușescu solution might be appropriate here.
Mussolini.
Qaddaffi.
Idi Amin
Watch the film ‘Last King of Scotland’ if you haven’t seen it.
I’ll look for it, thanks!
You thought you liked battle royale multiplayer? Witness the new hotness: Actual pilot plays air traffic controller in Flight Sim X.
Other than the occasional bourbon rocks here and there, this is really the only day of the year I break into my liquor supply. I usually just drink beer. I’ve had quite the assortment tonight. Very nice:)
My liquor supply is a bottle of vodka.
Actually, I haven’t had vodka tonight. I’ve had rum, gin, bourbon, Aperol, vermouth, and 3 kinds of sparkling wines but no vodka. It’s out, but unopened.
Enjoy tomorrow morning. Spent the morning here cleaning my fish tank. Not recommended with a hangover.
I’ll be sleeping tomorrow morning:) I’m not doing shots. I’ll be fine.
And milk, Sally
With my bacon for sure.
Happy New Year Glibs. I don’t post much since I am usually too late, but spend plenty of time lurking. Glad to see most of my favorite commentors from TSTSNBN moved here. I think the next year will have plenty of good stuff up to read. I wish you all the best.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year. I don’t get, however, how you can be “too late” to post. Can’t you just post on the one that is up?
By the time I usually can get around to reading the posts, most people have moved on to the next article. I don’t want to corpse f*¢& the threads like someone else from a bygone era.
Eh, just post in the top post about whatever past post.
Yes, for tulpa and other lurkers- comment away even when it’s “dead”. Never know when someone is suffering from insomnia or otherwise might be around. Or on the other side of the world.
There’s usually someone around. Normal people like Pie, Mustang and Rapha are here and the weirdos that don’t ever sleep are here, too. The only time it’s completely dead is around 4~9pm for me.
I appreciate the sentiment. I will keep it in mind, but try not to be obnoxious.
I’m sort of a night owl, so often find myself here at 1pm EST or later in dead threads. I still seem to find people around most of the time. Just try posting when the mood hits you, you’ll figure it out.
And a few of us west coasters post fairly late at night.
I am in the EST zone and work off shifts. My job is either work with pretty much no break or there is nothing to do. So my ability to read and post is sporadic at best.
Drop in when you can. No one is taking attendance.
It’s snowing here in southern NH. Fuck.
You gotta drive in it?
Well I never.
Shocker
Dropping off. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year DEG!
Why you little… Where’s your mother?
This kid is ahead of his time. There’s virtually no risk there because he’s 12. But the potential pay off is priceless. Damnit, why didn’t I think of that?
Sooooo, that’s ok on YouTube just don’t say anything anti-left or you’ll get banned. Nice.
Here’s a Japanese guy asking politely if he can touch their tits. 3 out of 47 is pretty good all things considered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SOb7nngH6c
So is that a thing for teenage girls to go around dressed the same? Or was that some kind of festival?
Pretty sure that’s Halloween, or I’m not paying enough attention when I’m in Shibuya.
Cool Halloween:)
He did all the hard, now everyone knows who to look for.
You have 30 seconds.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/12/31/new-years-eve-first-impressions-come-fast/
Bullshit. I can tell from a glance.
/has no friends
High balls. Made with Dewar’s White label last night. Cheap whiskey, but tastes fine. Is it a waste to use good whiskey in a high ball?
If you enjoy it, that all that counts.
I’m not against spending more, just wondering if it’s worth the price.
I usually don’t use my high end stuff for mixed drinks but if that’s all you have I say what the hell.
Never. The good stuff is for neat or on rocks. Never for mix.
There’s gotta be a point where better whiskey makes a high ball taste better, but it’s not a waste. I’m thinking something just above Jack or Jim but still relatively cheap.
There’s plenty of room there. I’d go with Buffalo Trace. Or even Eagle Rare. Lots of other $30-40 bourbons.
Bulleit Rye is my go-to whiskey (they also make a bourbon). I find it good enough to drink straight but cheap enough to mix in cocktails.
For mixing, I REALLY enjoy Wild Turkey 101; $30 for a liter (Rockaway Beach, NYC) and assertive enough to not be overpowered by mixers. Also, Hyperion is correct about Buffalo Trace and it is quite nice served neat.
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!!!
Happy New Year:)
Happy New Year. Get out on that floor.
Have already been a few times! Mr Splosives won’t, so I’ve been dancing with the chicks in couples or in the bulk group dance.
Fun stuff.
Was just in Escondido yesterday. Much beer.
Next time maybe we can meet up!!
Happy new year HS.
THX, Mr Chafed.
Hope you don’t party til you chafe. (the struggle is real)
Weber Haus Cachaca from Rio Grande do Sul last night. High quality stuff. I’m relegated to drinking beer tonight. SIL and me drank almost that entire bottle last night. I was epic buzzed last night. I just cannot do epic buzzed 2 nights in a row anymore. But I can still taste that, yummy!
Just busted out the Hennessy. Recent experience (including last night) dictates that one glass is enough.
Meanwhile, on Reddit, somebody broke his dick.
Sounds like someone needs to take care of his gf for a while. No cowgirl though! Lol.
That’s one dangerous woman. Shouldn’t she come with some sort of warning label?
One of the commenters speculated he fapped too hard. An unfortunate misfap. *dying LOL*
LOL, just reading his account of it makes it seem like a parody. ‘Hey, I broke my dick! That’s not funny!’. The hell it isn’t.
Ah Reddit, never change.
I have been watching this dumpster fire since the guy first posted.
I’m pretty sure you’re the one who turned me on to Things I Learned From My Patients. I’d say you have a keen eye for dumpster fires.
LOL hard pass
It’s worth a look. I laughed out loud at the first 10 or 20 pages. And it certainly gave me a new appreciation for ER staff.
Uffda. One of the last medical’s I went on was a guy who broke his dick. I’m drunk, so I’ll tell the whole story later. Suffice to say that the poor bastard was in massive pain and the walls in the house looked like Helter Skelter. Sometimes it’s good to be in charge. I didn’t have to look at it.
Welp, I was way wrong about the rain stopping the neighborhood fireworks. Holy shit.
Prolly helps to be 49 degrees instead of 9.
I’ve only heard a few attempted fireworks here. It’s been a freaking monsoon all day. There was just a few…
Tons of fireworks here on ny section of the Gulf Coast.
They are just now begining to slow down.
We have some beauriful displays bwtqeen cities up and down the coast.
I have a few rockets left over from 4th of July. Jr. And are going to go shoot them in aboit 18 minutes.
Being the country bumpkin that I am, there are no neighbors to complain.
If you wanna be free, buy property in the country and then spend as much time as you can there. It’s the best we can do in this statist society we live in.
“If you wanna be free, buy property in the country and then spend as much time as you can there. It’s the best we can do in this statist society we live in.”
Yup. 25 – 30 years ago I lived on a piece of land in AZ. 4 neighbors on the street and a couple hundred meters to any other structures. I always did my run with a rifle at port arms – partly to give my arms something more to do, partly because of wildlife and feral dog packs. It was never a problem – any other people living out there would just wave as they drove by – like they would for anybody else.
I wonder if it’s still that way.
Amish are attracting new recruits
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190101/p2g/00m/0dm/001000c#cxrecs_s
Kamijihadi.
https://youtu.be/7CgAMosTMnI
Every now and then a meme crosses the facebook world that is worthy of posting to glibs.
Wall https://imgur.com/gallery/rZ9Bi6l
Amen, and happy new years my glib brethren. Yall are great.
Good ideas, Ron. And look, Trump has come closer to doing any of that than any president ever, by far, it’s not even close. Hopefully, your son keeps having the type of influence on him that totally breaks our media’s blackened hearts.
Happy New Year! At the wife’s aunts house. Got the Phiippino extended family thing going. Good food. There’s lots of loud fireworks going off. Still about 4 and a half hours to go. Thanks for helping me stay sane?
It’s what we do.
/Certain levels of sane not approved. Check with your gov’t approved doctor.
Peace out, Glibbies. See you in the new year.
Did ya’ll know what happened in 2018? The GOP lost control of the House to Democrats, despite the fact that democrats have went completely INSANE. You know, I’m not talking some mild form of crazy here, I’m talking full on clinical level insanity. WTF is wrong with people? Does any of the ideas democrats have sound cool to you? That’s because you are FUCKED in the head.
Don’t you even sloganeer, bruh? #FightFor15!
Bold prediction for 2019…
Economy crashes as the fed raises interest rates. Socialists gain rhetorical power as the country stinks into recession. 2020 we get president socialisto muy grande because the economy is fucked and the American people blame it on capatilism.
Seriously, the fed rates are rising (as they should be) and a hard market correction is coming.
This correction will probably usher in president Bernie (or someone of his ilk) with a blue house and Senate.
Get ready for Obamacare for the entire economy. I’m buying bullets in preparation.
Damn you for being so honest.
Couldn’t you wait until tomottow to at least let us cebrate one more New Years Eve .?
No way they nominate a white male septuagenarian.
Hopefully SCOTUS will wake up and curtail Madame President Harris and co.’s worst impulses.
Butbutbut… IT’S HER TURN, DAMMIT!
I agree. My initial reaction to Trump winning in 2106 was to a peel of laughter thinking about the coming proggy wailing but was quickly ended with the sobering thought that ‘the backlash is going to be Obama to the tenth power.’ I expect the DNC to be unabashedly socialist and advocating for the state owning the means of production within a decade, which of course will drag the Overton window hopelessly left with it.
*2106?…..checks out
/sips coffee
Once the mask is off and the claws are out I wonder how far enough of America is ready for everything the blue crowd have in mind. If some form of Ocasio-Cortez – not her but something similar which could be packaged in time for 2020 – made it to the white house I wonder how much of America is ready to go all the way with them. I suspect (hope?) a significant number won’t go along all the way.
I worry more about them setting up an exclusionary society more than I do a reign of terror. Confiscate guns and property, you have a revolt on your hands. Institutionalize deplatforming the evil white men, excluding them from the economy and polite society, make the people hopelessly dependent on government handouts….death by 1000 cuts rather than one big one.
Not time yet here on west coast, but I’m deep in my cups and most people are in wrong time zones so Happy New Year to all of you!
I’m already over 2019.
Enjoy!
Agreed. It’s 2 hours in to 2019 and I’m gonna say it’s just the worst.
(or not – g’night, glibs – prove me wrong)
Your avatar is Brock Samson. If you still have that it can’t be the worst.
Happy New Year to y’all on the left coast!
Happy 2019 to all you incorrigibles! Fireworks and gunfire died down. Sounds like heaven.
My hair hurts.
You stole that one from me, Old Man! *kaffs uncontrollably and raises and raises a withered fist*
Happy New Year and best to all! Let’s make this year less terrible than the last! Less sudden death, more pokin’ and lot’s more drinkin’!
W00t!
I can get behind that.
As my husband’s drunk mother would say “HARPY NOYARS!”
And as all fellow Glibs would exclaim, let’s all get behind some Hayek!
Actually, I would prefer a sudden death as long as it’s a ways down the road from where I am now. I’ve seen slow, painful deaths. Make mine quick and unforeseen.
As the old joke goes, I wish I could die peacefully in my sleep like Grandpa… and not screaming like the passengers in his car.
I have watched/am watching a number of close family die from Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s. If that becomes my path I have decided the point where, and how, I will take the off-ramp. Nothing too soon and an easy clean up for whoever has to deal with my corpse.
I know a lot of people think this kind of talk is too dark and morose. I got used to the very real idea of my own death when I was 17 so it isn’t something that bothers me.
I read an account of an old codger living out in the woods in NW Montana. When he started to ail he cleaned up and sealed his cabin, went out, dug his own grave, laid down and mostly buried himself before offing himself with his revolver.
as macabe as that is there is an undeniable logic to it. Why die slowly and painfully so you can be found as a rotting corpse for someone else to have to deal with. It was a pretty considerate thing to do really.
Happy, belated New Years everyone. Just finished an 8 hour shift at union mandated Holiday Double Overtime rates. I have a new cow-orker, a twentysomething fellow who is with us until he establishes NYC residency and goes off to FDNY like everyone else in his family. He’s a nice kid but he asked if I was “one of those craft-beer fags” during a group discussion of potables. He copped to drinking nothing but Jameson and Bud Heavy and seems to think all ‘craft-beers’ are sickly sweet stouts. I tried for a bit to reach the heathen (even directing him here for the beer articles) but he wouldn’t hear anything of the benefits of the cornucopia available to the modern drinker so his soul remains lost. Now I just want to goad him into using his beloved beer funnel to slam a few Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPAs. Harumph I say!
‘Tis okay. When I was his age I was a rye snob and only drank Gibson’s Finest direct from the the neck. He’ll learn.
I think we all knew his soul was lost when you pointed out he wanted to be a government-sector worker.
No morning links? 2019 blows!
I was wondering if anybody else would be asking that question.
^^ I’m going back to bed.