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Posted by ZARDOZ | Feb 16, 2019 | Daily Links | 450
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ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
[caption id="attachment_37174" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Disclaimer: Not affiliated, this is a joke, don't sue me.[/caption] SP and I took a break…
One Sunday, I took it upon myself to create a set of links I believe were worthy of discussion amongst…
Point Blank is the best Boorman movie
fight me.
Squeal like pig Hyperbole!
+1 dueling banjos.
OK…
I am just here to shitestir.
He got a real pretty mouth ain’t he?
Exorcist II was the worst.
Did you see Exorcist III? Everything after the first was terrible.
I actually liked III. No comparison to I, but I found Brad Dourif and the storyline to be sufficiently creepy.
I also liked it. It was much better than II.
Wait….there was an Exorcist 3?!
There was, I read the book long before seeing the sad version of the movie.
…and there was a 3rd book?!
I didn’t know there was a 2nd book.
My childhood was strange. In general I wasn’t allowed to see R rated movies, but my parents learned when I was young that they couldn’t keep up with my reading load. So, in my pre-teens I was reading books all the way up to Stephen King.
#metoo. I read all my mom’s Stephen King and Dean Koontz handmedowns when I was little.
Rhywun: A story I’ve heard several times was that my dad was upset about what I was reading. My mom’s response was, “Are you going to keep up with his reading?”
I’m just annoyed that I wasn’t introduced to Heinlein until after High School.
Yeah, my oldest daughter was into our King and Koontz books pretty early on.
-1 dad
No problem for me + the later stepdad didn’t pay the slightest attention to me.
It seems this site has a lot of early readers, and book readers in general, likely far more than the general population on average. We all know high intelligence leads to questioning authority and dogma which naturally leads many to libertarianism. I wonder if early reading also correlates to a libertarian future?
I will say that I taught my son to read by the time he was 3, and at 16 he’s the President of his school’s entrepreneurs club, he’s way into libertarianism, and as a result wants to major in Economics in college. I do worry that some of his teachers are getting him conflicted on climate change and he is surrounded by Californians and their love of all things Left. So hopefully he goes to college well east of the Rockies.
C. Anacraon:
If it helps your research, I taught myself to read at the age of 3, and I’m in the 99% percentile on the IQ side.
There’s a reason I argue against IQ being used as a point of reference. Looking at my life, I’m able to make due, but if IQ was that important, I should be doing better.
I hear Boston University has a Economics program.
Just steer him right and it doesn’t matter where he goes to college.
So, in my pre-teens I was reading books all the way up to Stephen King.
*nods in knowing agreement*
Middle school/Jr high was a bunch of King, Crichton, Clancy, and the like.
I suspect this is why there was no attempt to monitor my reading.
Yeap
https://youtu.be/sYKctJdbpG4
The Repossessed. First she took your soul. Now she takes your Escalade.
ALOL
Hell In the Pacific… How the hell do you go from Deliverance to Zardoz?
Hell in the Pacific was cool for the fact that the two actors, portraying combat troops from their respective countries, actually had been combat troops from their respective countries.
+1 Listen, I am an F.
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You went and ruined everything, MikeS!
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Looks like Jussie Smollett’s goose is cooked. TW: ZeroHedge.
Talk about giving someone enough rope to hang themselves.
I’d post that GIF of thunderous applause, but I’m not a Glib Shitlord and don’t have special access to the goodies. Hey ZARDOZ, we all know you’ve got an “in” with the GlibLords — help a brutal out, wouldya?
SO LET IT BE REQUESTED, SO LET IT BE DONE:
P.S. YOU ARE NOT “BRUTAL” – YOU ARE ONE OF THE CHOSEN ONES!
That lady with the buck teeth in this gif always seems a bit too happy. I’m guessing Ecstasy.
Oh, Hells yeah!
+1. Though that joke was INXS.
And apparently you just had to let him know.
You’re one of my kind.
How about me? I’m working on getting elegantly wasted.
my kind
Spanking it to death?
There’s a devil inside you for saying that.
Every single one of us….
Ugh I’ve given up telling everyone that INXS didn’t suck before that fucking album.
I’ll be interested to see how far the mea culpas go. Probably not very far at all. For most of the worst offenders they’ll probably just express anger or disappointment with their buddy, but double down on the truth behind the outrage over the attack.
Some will no doubt admit that they were wrong…. but I wonder if any at all will be reflective enough to realize that they were part of a racist mob looking to demonize others based on their gender, race and political affiliation. I sincerely doubt it. I doubt they’ll even be able to recognize that the people who were doubting the story didn’t do so because they were racists, but because the story was seriously henke from the jump.
It had such a fake ring to it. I doubt any white supremacist type has ever said “MAGA country” out loud before that moment. And a little white cord noose? And a tiny bottle of bleach?
It had the sound of someone who had never met black people trying to say he was accosted by some black guys: “The black men approached me and grabbed their crotches, saying ‘Hey, you white cracker fellow! We Negroes are the best and we are going to get your honky butt!'”
But if you live in a world where white men (particularly republicans) are super-racist and spend all of their time thinking about how to assault black people, then the fake version sounds super-real to you. Because you are a racist, which means you have a very distorted world view.
And yes, I’m talking about you, AOC. And Kamala Harris. And Corey Booker. And Savannah Guthrie.
They’ll be no mea culpas. They just won’t talk about it and no one will call them out. If they say anything it will be well this COULD have happened in Trump’s America.
That is pretty much what has happened in the Catholic High School Boys case. They just filed it under “truthiness” and moved on.
Or they’ll bust out the old “the national conversation about race is important, not this one event”.
Just like they stuck to the narrative that campus rape is rampant even after the UVA “Jackie” story was exposed as a total fabrication.
This one, though… I dunno. I’m sensing something different this time. A lot of people are getting sick and tired of this shit & don’t seem to be afraid to say so.
I don’t know. I’m hate reading Slate right now and the few lefties showing their faces are claiming that everyone was really skeptical from the start.
Also, this one made me laugh:
So they’re going to go the lone whacko route. And pretend that this shit isn’t part of a long and increasingly tiresome trend.
And it’ll fucking work.
If they didn’t learn to give it a bit of time and not jump to conclusions with the Covington bunch they never will. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for people to acknowledge their mistake if I was you.
What’s frustrating to me is that a lot of Lefties will look at you like you’re insane if you express any skepticism at all with what is published on CNN, NYT, etc.
There are too many incidents where they’ve rushed a story out the door or gotten the facts wrong, and in 100% of cases, the error makes Trump, his associates, or his supporters look bad.
At this point, I’d say you’re a little nutty if you DO believe what those outlets publish without questioning it at all.
Smollet should’ve said this MAGA attack happened 30 years ago at a party somewhere and they even rode a train on him.
No one would lie about something like that!
I particularly focus my ire on people like Savannah Guthrie, because she sat there after having viewed the video of the fake Vietnam Vet Indian Elder incident and pressed the poor kid to apologize – and then carried the hoaxer’s water for him during the follow-on interview, saying, “I don’t think you’ve ever claimed to be a Vietnam Veteran” – all the while knowing full well that he claimed it on his own facebook page, among other places.
That sort of behavior goes way beyond “biased reporting”. It it sticking a toe pretty far into “blood libel” style propaganda. Particularly when you follow it up with a story with as much questionable content as the Smollette assault. And they were so quick to generalize (in both cases), saying MAGA is a racist symbol, repeatedly and without harboring debate.
(I will also note that they not only ignored the dozens of actual assaults on Trump supporters in restaurants and other public places, they also severely downplayed the attempted assassination of the Senate Republicans.)
Of all the TV reporter / personalities, she’s the one I despise the most. She’s been playing this game for years, and she’s very good at it. She tries to come across as this nice, innocent reporter just asking fair questions, but she always has an agenda. Her very lopsided questioning just seems to be par for the course.
It’s hard to believe anyone took this seriously after the “You will die black fag” note.
I still find his story believable. *Give me some slack for the poor quality*
Pretty brutal.
CNN finally running a story about the hoax. Very tepid in reporting that it might be a hoax….. and then proceed to have 80% of the article cut and paste from prior articles defending Smollette and talking about how awful people are who don’t believe him.
blighted_non_millenial:
From the last thread. If you’re a cyclist (or live anywhere there’s an MS bike ride), there’s Team Left Hand for the MS bike rides. The CFO and several staff members show up for all the rides, and supply beer for the training rides (and the after party). I rode with them a couple years back for the Buckeye Breakaway (and if I can get some training rides in this year, may ride with them again this year).
Illinois factory gunman killed five victims after being fired
“Martin had bought the gun he used, a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson handgun with a laser sight, in 2014 before authorities realized he had a prior felony conviction, Ziman said.”
The left has found their next target…. Laser sights.
Odd that their next target wouldn’t be incompetent authorities and crappy processes, policies and procedures, given the info available.
“They’re our jackbooted thugs”.
Despite his criminal history, the weapon was lawfully sold to Martin
No, he purchased it illegally, dumbass. What did he write down on the 4473 questions? I bet the reporters will never dig that fall because they’re pig ignorant of the existing firearms laws in this country.
And why the fuck, knowing that he was a felon in possession, would they merely send a letter requesting his to relinquish his illegal firearms?
Well, one must be polite, after all.
I can see it now, future Democrat confiscations. “Dear “insert gender neutral pronoun”, it has come to our knowledge that you possession fully Semi-Automatic assault rifle. Please turn it in to your nearest law enforcement officer.
What do you expect? Were they supposed to go out and take it from him? That dude was dangerous. And I bet that there was no evidence he had any dogs to kill.
Yeah, that clause in the Constitution about 4473 really counts,
WTF?
ZardoZ was horrible, but what a fun movie…..
Fucking nuts
I still haven’t watched it.
You need to, just for context,
Horrible movie, that’s why it’s fun
I recommend a lot of alcohol or other drugs of your choice to watch it.
Twist my arm:)
/twists AlmightJB’s arm while pouring him a bourbon
I’d join you guys in more booze, but I already had beer, and I want to up early tomorrow for some shooting. I’m out. Have a good night everyone!
^THIS^
What Yusef said…for context. I recommend having much alcohol at hand.
…
Please don’t hurt me ZARDOZ!
I’m not afraid of ZardoZ
It’s worth seeing but I’ll give you a spoiler: it’s probably not the movie you think it is based on most common memes and clips.
Oh, and floating head with underpants on his head and drawn on mustache narrating at the start of the film is not an edit, that’s really part of the movie.
OT: I had good beer tonight.
Still in the process.
Excellent snowshoeing today. Cold as nuts outside. Hopefully entertaining a nice young lady in a bit.
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Disbelief at the snowshoeing, the cold or the young lady?
I don’t know what inspired Swiss’s post, but “excellent snowshoeing” does it for me. Just say no to snow.
And yet today was The Quad. It was the most brutal conditions in a long time, but still quite fun if properly prepared.
So yeah, I did. little snowshoeing today, too.
Awesome. I want to get into snowshoeing but I dont know anything about it. Can you point me to avoid rundown on gear and such?
If you can, rent or borrow some gear. Depending on where you are, there may be meetups where you can go with experienced people who will be happy to provide some tips.
In general, snowshoeing even on a groomed trail is a lot more effort than one would think, which means in addition to everything else, you need to layer up so you can remove layers when you’re moving and put them back on when you’re resting.
The best way to snowshoe is to wait until summer and go hiking.
Or get some skinny skis. Snowshoes are for old farts.
I like to hike in the summer, but to me snow is for getting on something and sliding down a hill on it, be it a sled, skis or a snowboard.
Silicone Saturday rolls on.
http://archive.is/vDl0h
WWZdS?
Now hit my maternal copulation music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAQhSRLQnM
…that didn’t come out exactly as I hoped…
That’s a good song.
Is that how you are entertaining the nice young lady?
I like my media gray out because all I have to do is skip a thread here if I feel my blood pressure rising. Gun grabbers frothing again? Hardly registers. Some TDS Hollywood idiot staged a hate crime? Funny, not all consuming.
The Daily news cycle is where the legacy media still has their tightest grip. I don’t want that den of vipers controlling what I think and when.
Don’t worry Trashy, I’ll work diligently to provide you with the news you need to know.
https://www.askmen.com/sex/sex_tips/dirty-emojis-and-how-to-use-them.html
There really oughta be a “I’ll be in my bunk” emoji, y’know?
I thought the OK symbol was a Nazi gang sign?
Bad linky
Never ends, does it? I just view it as entertainment and I can’t believe people do otherwise.
My son just sent me a pic of him shooting an M1 somewhere in CO.
I’m feeling OK about things.
Blammo.
Gotta meet up sometime when you’re out here.
Will there be guns?
I saw an M1 last Saturday at the gun store. They wanted $1250. I was like you gotta be kidding me.
I’m coming down with a cold or flu. Crap! I don’t need this.
Is it scratchy throat or chills? I prefer the flu because it doesn’t linger for a month like a cold does.
Tea. Lemon in it.
Chicken soup – with lemon. Listen to your Greek Grandmother!
Black tea, honey, lemon, and whiskey/whisky/Water of Life.
Get well soon!
The girlfriend caught something a month ago, and is still coughing all the time. It’s gotten to the point that I’m making her hot toddies just so I can get some sleep.
Sorry. I hope she gets over it soon.
She’s more annoyed that I caught a cough for a day, and then I was over it.
Has she been to the doctor? Last time I had a cough that lingered for weeks, it was pneumonia.
Negative. I’ve suggested it a couple of times. She doesn’t like going to the doctor since she is on her own health insurance (which ain’t cheap).
I had a friend who did that. When he was finally forced to go to the doctor, he had lost over 20% of his lung capacity and it’s never coming back.
All right, I’ll give it another couple of days and then force her to go. Last time I forced her to go to a doctor, it turned out nothing was wrong, so it was my fault.
Feel free to blame me. She can even come online and rage at me, if she wants.
Advise her to announce that she’s “self pay” to the doc. If he/she is compassionate like my non-VA doc is, you get a discount, or at least rack rates.
Chug some cough syrup. It’s a win-win situation.
No joke. Nyquil bombs FTW.
Go get some Sudafed, the good shit you have to show ID for and also some Mucinex DM. Take them. They will help. Also what Swiss said. Hope you feel better:)
“I’m coming down with a cold or flu. Crap! I don’t need this.”
Same here. *starts woofing down mass quantities of vitamin C*
Purple Drank. No coughing and it tastes like jolly ranchers and Fago.
Spinning a story like Linda Blair’s head.
Victor Blackwell CNN
@VictorBlackwell
If #JussieSmollett orchestrated this scam and claimed he was attacked because he’s black and gay, the real tragedy will be all of the victims of REAL hate crimes whose stories won’t be believed.
Like Matthew Shepherd?
*Shepard
So it begins.
It isn’t telling enough somebody had to fabricate a hate crime to suggest…maybe…this isn’t that common a problem?
He was just doing us a public service.
There is no particular reason for posting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0QTBAWc3tM
“The fact that Jussie Smollett felt he had to stage an attack on himself in order to call attention to the rise in homophobia and attacks against people of color is a sad indictment on the division and hate that the Trump presidency has brought to this country. While Jussie may have been terribly misguided in his efforts, we should not allow this to blind ourselves to the culpability of the President in this odious rise of white nationalism and violence against historically marginalized groups. Despite the efforts of the extreme right to draw attention to this rare instance of a fake hate crime, we should not let this single unfortunate incident distract us from the growing threat of racially motivated violence, especially directed at gay and trans people.”
SMDH.
What fucktard wrote that?
I’m guessing KSue wrote that.
Ah. Well, yeah. And just to be clear, when I say “fucktard”, I mean “world class satirist”.
It’s scarily spot-on.
It really is. I just figured KSue forgot the link. Well done!
Just doing my impression of what some lefty writers are conjuring up as we speak. If my current biz fails maybe I can get a job at Slate for minimum wage.
And yes, PZ, I think your edit works better.
It was good. I fell for it. It was so close to what a lefty writer would actually say, it’s scary. You’re starting to think like them. Next thing we know, your avatar will be Chairman Mao.
I completely bought it. Don’t be surprised when Slate swipes it.
Yes, you ought to copyright that while you still can. Probably already going out to the Journo-List.
Replace “the fact” with “even if” and you can get 10,000 retweets.
I still giggle at your avatar. It looks like a truck driver at regular zoom.
MAGA Prime makes truckers of us all.
“The fact that Jussie Smollett felt he had to stage an attack on himself”
Yep, he totally HAD TO. /derp
Does ZARDOZ approve?
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/02/josh-wayner/three-of-the-best-44-magnum-revolvers-available-today/
I need a .454 or .460 before bear season
Nice thing about the .454 is it shoots the .45 Colt as well.
I stupidly turned down a Ruger .454 with 100 rounds for $700 about 8 years ago from a coworker who was moving to the lower 48.
Ah, the folly of youth.
Dammit!
How about this as a bear gun?
https://www.remington.com/other-products/v3-tac-13
I need my wrist.
That’s why my Mossberg Shockwave is a 20ga.
Use both hands. Fire from the hip or in the same position as a regular shotgun with a buttstock.
You don’t have arthritis, do you?
I have the short barrel 870 with big game slugs, but this looks more fun.
I was at the gun shop today and had to convince myself that I didn’t need a M4 M16 style colt. He wanted a bit too much for it but I always wanted one.
When I want another gun I just buy a brick instead: totally satisfying purchase, and you know you’ll shoot it some time.
A big pistol cartridge that also has a few rifle options where you can load 10 in the tube appeals to me. And swapping in some 44spl is a nice option.
AOC memes. From about the 40 second mark to the 2:15 mark. Pretty funny.
https://youtu.be/pkKyVjjDaOY
God, what a moron. She and Justin Trudeau (The Hair That Walks Like A Man™) should have babies. The resulting spawn would be epically entertaining.
Is Beto going to be our Zoolander?
Obama was your Zoolander.
But so dreamy.
The Kennedy comparisons are going to be nauseating. The liberal chicks will vote for him though. For all of their feminist talk, they will still vote for a young guy over a chick every time.
Have Olivia Chow be the surrogate for maximum stupidity in the kids.
Ooooooh, that’s a good idea!
You’re brilliant.
Has the porn industry come up with a lookalike for her yet?
When porn actors can’t bring themselves to do something that debasing, that’s what Deep Fakes are for.
Yes, horse porn has been around for decades.
Goddamn
AOC is the new blond joke.
Is it good news that this racist attack never happened or is it bad news that it never happened? I need Bag o’ Dicks Stelter to let me know what to think.
I’ll let you watch & you can report back to us.
A bad thing. We need more racists and Nazis. Demand has grossly outstripped the supply.
It’s bad because it shows how racist we are that people feel the need to stage attacks to let us know how racist we are.
Sorry, but even after drinking a lot it makes no sense to me.
One aspect of the Smolett thing that also should have drawn suspicion – how quickly TMZ picked up on all of it.
An actor? Isn’t that TMZ’s wheelhouse?
Yea. But this isn’t a relative nobody who made these claims at 2 in the morning on a Monday. It was almost 3 by the time the cops were involved. TMZ had this almost right away from the manager.
Is it grounds for divorce if your wife accepts an invitation to a bar mitzvah but sends you alone to the reception because she is playing in a tennis tournament? Asking for a friend.
It depends on the alcohol selection at the bar mitvah, and if ((you)) are chosen.
/suffered through a bar mitzvah as a goy
(((I))) am chosen. I’m also way beyond pissed off. I told wifey I had no interest in going. Taking child 2 to the ceremony was not a problem. I agreed to take her to this evening’s reception and pick up said spawn. Told wife, I don’t know these people. I’m not interested in going. Through her fantastically selective hearing, she hears, “let’s all go.” Reception started at 5:30. She called spawn 2 to tell her she will be here at 8:15.
Oh, and it’s a cash bar. I had spawn 2’s bat mitzvah reception last month. We paid for the bar. Don’t serve alcohol to guests and expect them to pay for it.
So the one I had to go to had an open bar, but it had a limited selection. They had picked up all of 24 beers for all of the people there. The staff liked me because I through down a tip for every drink (which apparently was a faux pas).
If you really want a story I’ll tell you about the time the girlfriend’s parents friends were upset that my parents (Catholic) didn’t show up for Shiva.
I’ll bet that went over like a lead balloon.
I spent the entire week showing up at Shiva (twice), and explaining to the people upset with me that my family was Catholic. In our culture showing up to the event without an explicit invitation is offensive as hell. ((They)) didn’t quite grasp this until I explained that in Catholicism, you go to the funeral, but never show up at the family gathering afterwords.
You were in an impossible situation. If there is a next time, tell your parents shiva is like a wake with better food but little or no alcohol.
What? Next thing you’ll say there is no funeral ham…You bastards!
Oh, I stood up for my family and made it very clear that in the Catholic faith showing up to the funeral is for everyone, but showing up to the dinner afterwards is something that you need to be explicitly invited to.
I believe I actually managed to reverse guilt ((them)) with my explanation.
You must be one persuasive SOB.
Use it as an opportunity to earn some good will points.
Gratitude has a very short half life in my home.
Fuck. I know you are right but I am seething.
Divorce means she gets half of your (((gold))).
That reminds me of the old joke: you know why divorce is so expensive? Because it’s worth it.
Woof. French Onion Soup and Caesar salad tonight. Elysium Dragon’s Tooth stout on the side. Now on to whiskey.
Alright, just need to speak up and mention that Elysium is part of AB-InBev at this point.
Unrelated, how is your home brew coming along?
Superb. My first batch is pretty darned good. I did overcarbonate a little, in that I used enough honey for a gallon of beer but only had six pints. I drank my third one today.
Cream Ale is two weeks in and the Galaxy single hop is in the closet.
I have an article in that publishes Wednesday night.
Glad to hear it. I look forward to your article, and hope you enjoy the new hobby.
I’m curious; why?
Terrible habit I have of knowing who owns which brewery.
Elysium is one that is burned into my brain because they sold out the same year AB-InBev did a commercial mocking the craft beer drinkers. Think of my as that autistic guy who can rattle off squares whenever someone mentions a number… but for beer.
No, I get that. Just curious why it would matter who owns them.
For me it’s because I try to support the independents in the brewery world. I understand the reasons for selling out, and I don’t dislike the owners (with the exceptions of people like McGee from Lagunitas) for their decisions to sell out. I prefer open knowledge and stick with those who that I know haven’t sold out.
Fair enough. And I get it. While I support local breweries as much as possible, I’m not going to not drink a certain beer just because the owner got a fat payday from one of the conglomerates. Life’s too short.
MikeS: I have never complained about someone else drinking a beer, but I believe in full knowledge. I do avoid beers that I know went the sellout route, and prefer to purchase beers from the breweries (in Ohio, they get a much larger cut of the profits that way).
No longer an independent brewer. Their beer now contains soy protein and corn syrup.
Corn syrup?!? REEEEEE!!!
Just don’t mention Demi Rose.
The fat Bristish chick?
Homemade beef stroganoff. Heavenly, aside from a couple glitches that are easily corrected for next time.
I love a good stroganoff.
My son has been on my back to make stroganoff.
First time I ever did it from scratch instead of a box. You can really taste the absence of chemicals.
I’ve only had it from a box maybe 3-4 times. When the first line of the instructions is “brown 1 pound of ground beef,” it’s not the meal for us.
*takes out 4 pounds of beef from the freezer*
I will admit I like Tuna Helper, though I haven’t had it in years.
One of my favorite dishes. Did you use ground beef or strips?
I do not like stroganoff in strips or cubes.
Speaking of beef strips, though, I do like SOS.
How do you like it?
Ground beef.
Other than burgers, I can’t make anything with ground beef without overcooking the fuck out of the beef.
That’s hamburger stroganoff, which hilariously some cooking shows were passing off as a new thing this last year. Yeah, that’s what you make when you can’t do beef stroganoff.
People may laugh, but there’s an art to this. You have to tend it, but it only takes a few minutes.
Put it in the skillet and use a fork to mash mash mash like you’re mashing potatoes. It’ll take about 5 minutes to get the bottom half brown. While it’s still red on top, salt the living hell out of it. Mash some more for about 2-3 minutes so that there’s barely any red left. Then take it off the heat and drain it.
The residual heat will cook it the rest of the way through. I find this is a relatively consistent quality to properly cooking things (especially pork): Cook it almost all the way through and then let the residual heat finish it up.
No cottage pie?
No, it’s what you do when you don’t like cubed or stripped meat.
Where the hell are all these recipes that call for ‘draining’ beef fat from? Now wonder Fatburgs are a thing with sick freaks like that out there.
Ground beef isn’t beef?
Dude, I said drain it. I didn’t say to drain it over the garbage disposal.
Ground beef is hamburger. I didn’t make the language, I just speak it.
Beef (and bacon) drippings are wonderful for cooking eggs or just spread on toast.
Where do you freaks drain it? And I’ve never been in a house with a ‘garbage disposal’ that’s to neuvo riche.
Hamburger isn’t beef?
Drain it into the empty cream of mushroom soup tin and when it cools, throw it in the garbage.
I think my butcher shop incorporates meat trimmings into their ground beef, which means that the fat content varies.
When I’m browning some beef and notice that there’s more fat than I want in the dish, I’ll pour it off into a cup and freeze it. It’s great for frying steaks, and I’ve even melted it down and put it in bread dough before.
Tin cans. Put in freezer until trash day. Throw out with trash.
*insert SAMJACKSON.GIF* ‘English Motherfucker, do you speak it!?’ Ground Beef is beef. But beef Stroganoff is made with cuts of beef, if it’s made with ground beef, it’s called hamburger Storganoff. English is a bastard language, I didn’t make the rules, but I’m a damn sure I make sure yall muthafuckers follow them!
I used to drain it into a coffee can on top of the fridge. Got tired of the stink. Freezer sounds better.
These days I soak it up in a paper towel and toss it.
But, why not leave it in the food where God intended it to be? Do you hate God?! (and your tastebuds?)
Next thing all you heathens will say is you eat a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich with the jelly on top!
Never EVER heard it called “Hamburger Stroganoff”. You sure are particular about the semantics of beef dishes.
All Recipes
Simple Recipes I’d go on, but then I’d get tagged as spam, which I guess you’d still be fine with putting in Stroganoff, NoDak!
I guess I just didn’t grow up as rich as you where we could put steak in our stroganoff. Good for you ‘sconie.
If growing up rich is mom buying the ‘expires tomorrow’ stew meat and making beef stroganoff, then I feel for you. We ate plenty of hamburger stroganoff as well.
We had lots of beef stroganoff….sometimes made with stew beef, sometimes made with ground beef.
So, sometimes you had beef stroganoff, and sometimes you had hamburger strogonoff. that’s fine. I even made chicken stroganoff once. (my mom grew up the daughter of a butcher, it took her a while to realize not all meat had to be over-cooked to be safe for human consumption ((the whole cobbler’s son has no shoes thing)))
What kind of chicken stroganoff? Ground chicken stroganoff? Dark meat chicken stroganoff? Apparently it matters.
If there is a different word for ground chicken, I’ll gladly use it where appropriate.
I’m going to bed. You win.
I like SOS with ground beef, but stroganoff needs strips.
When I was wee, my grandfather would often take me for breakfast at the Officer’s Club at Homestead AFB; their SOS was magnificent and triggered my lifelong of it.
What the hell is “SOS”…?
SOS is what the AF does best. It’s really great.
Chipped Beef on Toast, aka “shit on a shingle.”
Jesus. That looks like a bad night out, the next morning.
Not very flavorful, but sticks to your ribs. Also, cheap.
*googles*
Dried beef.
Huh. I can’t believe that wasn’t part of the rotation in my house when I was a kid. We ate cheap, believe me.
Sigh… growing up on a sailboat rendered me with an insatiable love of both chipped beef (beef in a jar, so salty it must soak for a spell before use) and canned brown bread (B&M makes a decent storebought version but mom always made ’em in big batches).
Chunks of stew beef (I think chuck?) sliced into 1/4″ strips. One of my mistakes was it needed more than 15 minutes in the pressure cooker.
The boxed shit always calls for ground beef. And if you follow the instructions, you wind up with overcooked flavorless mush. Now that I know better, I can’t imagine ever using ground beef for anything other than a proper hamburger again.
Wait, there non-homemade stroganoffs?
Hamburger Helper helps your hamburger help you make a great meal.
Look at you with your Brand Name meat helper. I’m so sick of you rich bastards!
Awesome.
I made some stroganoff from scratch years and years ago. Came out awesome even though my culinary skill was maybe a 5/10 at that point in history. Stroganoff is one of the few places where I can tolerate mushrooms, also.
I *hated* mushrooms until I was around 35. Now… cooked properly, I can’t even.
Yea, when I was a little kid, I ate a can of mushroom soup and then got sick, and I couldn’t stand them for a long time. I finally got sick of avoiding them, so one night I bought a box of mushrooms, fried them in butter, and forced myself to eat every single one of them. I think most of the time, these food aversions are not as bad as we imagine them to be.
They’re still not my favorite, but I don’t have to avoid dishes at restaurants just because they contain mushrooms. Some stuffed portobellas with pizza-like toppings actually sound kind of good…
Is that a thing?
When I was a 16-year-old exchange student living in Germany, the high school principle one day invited all the sister-city kids to his house, current visitors and next year’s kraut-kids going away. Lunch was – I shit you not – a plate with a pile of mushrooms on it. I can’t imagine what possessed someone to think that was an appropriate meal for a teenager. Everyone was politely pushing and prodding them around for an hour or more.
I still don’t like mushrooms. And I’ve tried things that I disliked in the past every couple of years to make sure I still don’t like it.
I still have lots of other food phobias. Like most seafood. I don’t know if I’ll ever conquer that one.
I’ve made it a point to try things I don’t like every year. I’ve yet to find an item that actually breaks my dislike.
I have one to Give Scruffy a run for his money.
Letters to the local rag; A new light:
There is too much stupid here. I am covered in stupid.
Don’t get it in your eyes. It goes straight through to your brain.
No, we can’t and never could afford all the things AOC and these “democratic” socialists ask for. The only thing that will be “fairer” will be the state of misery, poverty, and unemployment a vast number of people will experience from those policies. AOC is no angel sent by God Himself, she is just another human being like us except with a childish idealism and a hyper-inflated sense of self-righteousness and moral superiority. Also for graduating with a degree in Economics, she doesn’t seem to even understand the basics.
The fact that a college handed her a piece of paper is a scathing endictment of the American college system.
Are we going to firebomb Germany, Italy, France, and most of England, or do we just get to sit and watch them do it to each other this time?
Forward, comrades, to progress!
“Yet most of us feel quite comfortable with public high schools, the Post Office, Medicare, Social Security, and the U.S. military. All are examples of socialism.”
Yeah I want my life to be a combination of High School, the Post Office, Medicare and the Army. They forgot the DMV
Squirting blood out of my eyes before I got to the bullet points.
I’m not saying Pinochet was a good guy, but holy shit I’d rather live under his rule than the person who wrote that letter. She would gaze upon a pyramid of human skulls and would sleep like a baby when the Party’s man assured her that all 50,000 of the skulls belonged to a capitalist wrecker who wished to overturn the People’s Revolution.
Like I’ve said in a previous thread, while I’m not saying Pinochet should have thrown people from helicopters, the more I know people like the letter writing idiot, the more I understand it.
Someone’s angling for a position at Slate.
The cost of government-run K-12 education has doubled since 1970 while results have declined or remained stagnant.
The USPS was founded when the country had wide swaths of land that was hazardous to cross. It’s an absurd anachronism in the era of UPS, FedEx, DHL, and the countless other companies that would gladly fill the void were the USPS abolished tomorrow.
Medicare and SS are barreling towards insolvency at breakneck speed.
The US military eats up a colossal portion of our budget and has committed countless human rights abuses.
Sorry, I’m just not seeing why these are examples of socialist success stories.
Harvard op-ed calling for the removal of a dean for defending Harvey Weinstein in court:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/2/13/mudannayake-ryan-remove-sullivan/
Is dain bramage a prerequisite for for Harvard admission now?
JFC. Just got a call from my brother warning me that my sisters have been trashing me on FB. I forgot my password about a half a year ago and figured that I’d just use that as the opportunity to drop that garbage all together. Evidently my nephew came out as gay at around the same time, so my sisters deduced that was the reason I left FB. They’ve been telling all my relatives that I’m some homophobe and that I hate God. Total shit show. *Steaming pissed right now*
Damn man. There’s a reason I’ve never joined Facebook. I did have some great fun my my niece went to see a Glee musical with the girlfriend and thought I would be upset when if she bought an “I kissed a girl” shirt. The niece was disappointed when she learned I would be all for her liking girls.
That’s the other wrinkle to this fucking story. My sister came out as a lesbian about 10 years ago and my conservative brothers didn’t accept her decision. I sent her a long message on FB saying that it doesn’t matter what they think and I’m glad she’s finding happiness. She goes and does this shit now? Gotta be fucking kidding me. Sorry for the swearing, but I’m still fuming.
Are we supposed to apologize for swearing? Because, fuck…I have a lot of atoning to do.
Shit Mike, watch you’re fucking mouth, would ya?
No apologies necessary. Feel free to rant and vent at me all you need/want to.
The niece has wound up being heterosexual, and I approve of the current boyfriend. She still has issues trying to realize that I’m unwoke, but don’t care about sexual preference.
Look, if you mention your sexually confused and curious niece, you know where this is going. We shouldn’t even have to ask.
She wouldn’t sleep with you if you were the last man on earth.
That’s irrelevant. She still can’t escape my male gaze.
Way to assume it’s gender, shitlord!
“She wouldn’t sleep with you if you were the last man on earth.”
The classic retort to that: “If I was the last man on Earth, you wouldn’t even be allowed in the line.”
Feel free to gaze at her.
Me, her boyfriend, and her father will be there waiting to talk to you afterwards.
Really sorry to hear that. I guess people who live like their phone it surgically attached because they have to stay in touch with everything on their FB account have a list of actions which have one and only one possible explanation. I have a sister like that and we have grown further apart because she lives on that plane if existence.
Did you really know at the time everyone was joining what a shitshow it was going to turn into? That’s impressive.
How can you the gays, your a Glib?
Wow, how can you tell, we are Glibs
Just text them “this is why women shouldn’t be allowed to vote” and block their numbers.
And no contact with you about it?
I must have a unicorn family. We’ve had our spats over the years but it’s always been a frontal assault. And we’re a hell of a good time when we get together. Just ask us.
None. I’m done with them both. Assholes. My wife, who is the epitome of the polite-to-all-relatives Japanese person, thinks they are insane, so I’ve got that going for me.
Your wife probably thinks all gaijin are insane.
Huh. I have a neice that came out 20 years ago. As long as she’s happy, I’m thrilled. I have strong suspicions that my 27 y/o son is gay. A true Constitutional Conservative is the most tolerant person you’ll meet, but closed minded proggies will never understand that.
Sorry to hear that, dude. At least you have an ocean between you.
The guitar playing one?
Yep. Not once have I heard mention of a girlfriend and he goes into the city one or two evenings a week.
Well, that settles it.
Wait, am I your nephew?
Huh? OMWC wasn’t doing a euphemism?
LOL
My mom once gave me a “so is there… anyone special?” during a college visit back home. I knew she was fishing for it but no way was I going to spill the beans.
I was, in fact, going through a breakup at the time….
I remember, I was maybe 20 or so, my dad made a joke about me dating some girl and my mom said something like ‘I don’t think he’s worried about that kind of thing.’ And this was a straight guys parents talking just because I wasn’t dating.
Hey, it’s his life. If I’m right, it’s his choice to tell me, or not.
I’m in my mid-30’s and have a friend that the rest of us are 100% sure is gay but never bring it up. Well, except for the time one friend got drunk and straight up asked him and he got really mad. The guy who asked him has a brother who is gay and the guy doesn’t care either way about his brother’s sexuality.
I hope the guy finds peace with whatever his orientation is.
Freshman year of high school, one of our friends came out as gay. He actually seemed a little disappointed that we didn’t care at all and continued hanging out with him as normal.
I’ve mentioned this before, but that was just not done in my time and place (Rochester, late 80s). That changed very quickly, though – quicker than I ever expected. I could see it in progress during my senior year.
It’s wild. If we didn’t like you for being gay, then you wouldn’t be at bachelor parties, guy weekends (gayyyyyy), or beers afterwork.
We really don’t care. All we’re going to do is make Grindr jokes instead of Tinder jokes that we do for the straight guys.
I’ve got a younger sister, and a pile of cousins. Watching people back off from me and my sister when we were talking at a local bar because they were afraid of bloodshed entertained me. I also got to watch my niece get pissed when she found out her mother had used pot in her youth.
Am I so far gone that I don’t get this at all? Like, why would she be pissed?
She was pissed because her mom had yelled at her for using pot a couple years back.
I tried to diffuse it by pointing out that her mom cared less about her using pot then her getting arrested for having pot in her possession.
Whenever you get back into your account, let them know that as a libertarian you stand for three things. Mexicans, weed, and ass sex.
That sucks dude, I’d be pissed too.
That’s messed up and sorry they’re giving you shit especially after reading your follow-up comment too. What a bunch of assholes.
What? I’m not sure what one has to do with the other.
And that really sucks, man. Hopefully a couple phone calls can clear it all up.
They’re left wing Christians. I don’t get it either.
“They’ve been telling all my relatives that I’m some homophobe and that I hate God.”
“. My sister came out as a lesbian about 10 years ago and my conservative brothers didn’t accept her decision. I sent her a long message on FB saying that it doesn’t matter what they think and I’m glad she’s finding happiness.”
Wait so…..your lesbian sister is accusing you of being both a homophobe and a Godless heathen?
-1 Methodists.
+1 Johnny Cash ‘and the guy in the rear, was a Methodist’
“-1 Methodists.”
Oh yup. Love my Nana and my cousins on that side to death, but they truly seem to believe that Hillary Clinton was a present from above, not a curse from below.
That’s F’ed up.
I’m contemplating getting off of Facebook for just this reason.
I’m on Facebook but don’t post anything. I’m only there to keep in touch with my huge family.
My liberal sister-in-law had a very obviously gay brother. When he finally came out to his liberal family they were shocked. My conservative/libertarian family was like ‘you couldn’t tell?’
But yeah, it sucks when people read intent into actions that was never there. Had something similar when I turned 30 and sent a message to my siblings that was meant to say ‘I’m taking care of our crippled dad, so you don’t feel the burden, so go and live up to your potential.’ That my siblings took as ‘fuck you for not doing what I’m doing!’
Mind reading is the worst. At least make the mistake and give me good intentions. I just took a shower and am enjoying a beer at 12:30 pm. Feeling much better.
” ‘I’m taking care of our crippled dad, so you don’t feel the burden, so go and live up to your potential.’ That my siblings took as ‘fuck you for not doing what I’m doing!’
Guilt causes people to lash out.
Or an autist’s understanding of the world clashing with FB post culture.
Yeah of all the things I don’t miss about Facebook, the vaguebooking is up there on the list.
“Feeling blessed today, because today I learned who my true friends are.”
Vaguebooking.
Perfect term for it. I have a number of FB “friends” who post mysterious shit they are dying to be publicly asked about. I never take the bsit.
“They’ve been telling all my relatives that I’m some homophobe and that I hate God.”
They know you’re on Glibs, don’t they? Homophobe, hates God… did they forget Islamaphobe, closet Trumpist, and Russian stooge?
The Buffalo Bust.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/16/believe-not-amazon-pullout-wasnt-even-worst-economic-news-ny-dems-week/
I would have gone with Buffalo Boondoggle.
This has been a slow-motion train-wreck for years and years. Whatever happened this week is just an asterisk. Though it never hurts to be reminded what a fucking fraud Cuomo is.
‘Green Jobs’ in a nutshell.
I can’t stand posting from a phone, my Son needs to leave, that’s the nice way of putting it
Yeah, it’s a pain.
I post 99% from my phone.
Gosh darn, I have internet problems for a couple of days and you bastards go and ban someone without putting me on the tribunal!? And did no one wonder if I was dead?! I could have been…working internet and beer, all is good with the world. What was the score or the Cal game?
Cal 184 / Wisc -69
Fucking Badgers. Good thing I’m a UNLV Alum.
Badgers?
That’s the west Indonesia supplemental college, the fighting gangrene infection
You were gone?
Welcome back, was worried about my fellow priest.
I was not defrocked. Nor was I frocked, I guess…
They didn’t do any frocking in the old days either, no worries.
Is Catholic trademarked? Can we usurp it from by calling ourselves Universal Catholics? (one of my favorite forms of humor is redundancy ((like one of my favorite jokes I ever wrote, a character saying he had a ‘terrible thirst for liquids’)), Catholic means Universal, or so I was told)
I do not believe the Roman Catholic Church has actually trademarked it yet. This might actually work.
I think starting off with ‘no sex before marriage’ thing might be a turn off for some, so can we do a tierd marriage system? You can be ‘unioned’ if you haven’t followed all the rules, but only ‘married’ if you followed all the rules (or paid the extortion)?
I don’t know about those “exortions” my man. I think we should call them “indulgences” or “donations” instead.
I didn’t think you were dead, just figured you were judging someone for your overblown perception of their personal sins.
Like draining hamburger…
Or calling it beef stroganoff when you used ground beef.
That I was. But I never hold it against anyone. My fucked up morality is my problem. I never want it to carry the weight of law.
And i am now having to admit I still had a small grudge about how you lectured me on this site for working with (actually being the boss of) a guy I had a fling with years ago before we even worked for the same company.
Honestly don’t know why it bothered me so much that you got on my case. Maybe I am over sensitive to judgments especially in my love life.
BTW, Mr Splosives and I had a fantastic 12th Valentines Day together.
I never meant that in a condescending way, I was trying to grasp the situation, and watch out for you. No judgment intended on my part. I’m always that ‘are you sure you wanna do this?’ guy.
Peace.
Well, I never. *Clutches pearl necklace*
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-16-evo-japan-pulls-plug-on-dead-or-alive-6-stream-issues-apology-for-sexual-content
OFFS
Here’s another one where you can use the same response.
https://twitter.com/4danlopez/status/1096984266368602117
Double down! That always works.
This one deserves much mocking.
Jussie really should have listened to the LDS.
Nice. This works, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-JsvJ6QWEA
Yeah, but Karma bit Munson hard.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fg3qj5I-28A
Why again, aren’t the Japanese procreating?
A clip from the stream over here, enjoy my fellow Glibs. The glorious evolution of video game jiggle physics™.
https://www.twitch.tv/evo/clip/VastProudMomSmoocherZ?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time
I have no idea what most/ all of that is, but I support this wholeheartedly:
had Japanese gravure idols Yuka Kuramochi and Saki Yoshida draw attention to their breasts on-stage, spank each other and even bounce their breasts around
Gustave is here!
Yum yum. And I don’t have to look up her blood type to figure out if she’s attractive.
Bachelor cooking tonight:
A jar of Ragu or w/e was on sale at the store
Onion
Carrot
Garlic
Tomato
2 lbs ground beef
Olive Oil
In one pan, brown the ground beef until browned
In large saucepan, sauté garlic, mined onions, then chopped up carrots and then the dice the tomato and add it on in. Let saute for a few minutes.
Add browned beef, after draining the fat, to the large saucepan and then dump in the Ragu and let simmer for 4 hours.
I’m available to cater your monocle-festooned parties, btw.
But where does this garnish go?
about 6 glass tupperware containers and then into the freezer when they cool down. not sure what i’ll use as the base. maybe some squash noodles or just straight up.
You better explain exactly what you drain the burger into before CPRM loses his marbles…again.
If you’re making Hamburger Helper with 80/20 hamburger because that’s all you can afford? Drain it. Otherwise face the anal oil slick that comes with the morning. Been there, done that. Pooping a stream of grease is not pleasant.
That’s pretty much what ended the short career of Ruffles WOW potato chips fried in that fat the human body couldn’t absob, if I recall correctly.
Olestra?
Yup, that was the name!
Ask OMWC about his experiment of eating beets with Olestra chips. He was quite proud of himself.
Hamburger Helper helps you vomit up a great meal.
One of life’s lessons that took me forever to learn is that hamburger with less than 20% fat is garbage – you might as well just throw it out. It’s like eating ground up cardboard.
Bonus is that you save money by eating burger with more flavor. Yes, you’re going to drain the melted fat but what’s left tastes a lot better than that “lean” crap.
Not all hamburger is the same. The gb in my freezer that was raised by a friend is probably 90/10. Best I’ve ever eaten and because of provenance, I can eat it medium rare. I’ve yet to have a restaurant burger that I think tastes better.
Fair enough. I’m talking about supermarket beef.
Commercial I go with 85/15.
What cut is it from? (commercial hamburger usually comes in ground beef (any cut) ground round, ground chuck, and ground sirloin) Depending on where the burger comes from can change the taste. As well as feed source, preparation…
When you buy half a steer, half of the final product is hamburger. Everything leftover after the steaks and roasts are removed becomes hamburger.
My friend buys the steer in March and spends six months finishing them on pasture grass and grain. The end result is grass fed flavor with grain fed texture.
I, along with most of my family, find steer too lean. But that is one thing I’ve found questionable when we’ve gotten locally butchered meat, that they don’t really ask what cuts you prefer in your hamburger, nor do they label them as such, as you say you get X-amounts of cuts and the rest is burger, without knowing the mixture.You’d think you’d get more info on something like that, not less. I mean I bet the local butcher could tell me the cow’s name, but I’d never know what the makeup of the hamburger was.
So Sloppy Joe’s, or in a bowl?
While this isn’t Playa-level cuisine it works as single guy food. I can do, and regularly used to make much better meals.
What I find mystifying is the amount single women my age and younger who are proud about their inability to cook. It’s a basic skill and nobody is expecting you to be Martha Stewart or whatever, but proud ignorance isn’t not attractive.
I blame my poor grammar on wine. And Trump. And Russia.
wine doesn’t pay as well as Trump and Russia though.Me to.They’re proud of it because they’ve used tricknology to get yet another guy to cook for them.
Do yourself a favor then and don’t watch “America’s Worst Cook” cuz it’s a parade of exactly that.
I can’t watch it. It’s a 30 minute kitchen gadget commercial where the actor burns water.
I agree. And it’s not from a “women should do the cooking” standpoint; I love cooking and would probably end up doing most of it if I had a woman live with me. But you’re inevitably going to have nights where the good cook spouse is busy and needs the partner to cook a meal. And it makes for a disharmonious household if one spouse is completely incapable of turning groceries into food.
And you’re correct that it doesn’t have to be extraordinarily complicated. Just learn how to fry up a couple pork chops, properly prepare a bag of frozen vegetables, and bake potatoes. Nobody’s asking you to make galantine of turkey every night.
And what I don’t get is people who don’t know how to sew. What do you do if a button falls off???
Throw it away? Wear it without the button?
Mom taught me how to do laundry and sew a button, dad taught me how to rewire a lamp and change the oil in the car. Basic skills that can be built on throughout life.
Through a big chunk of my high school years my dad was in charge of a major rebuild of the church we went to. So a lot of my weekends were spent hanging doors, plastering walls, putting down floor tile, etc.
I learned that most construction tasks require a little reading, the right tools, and about 20 minutes of trial and error.
Since then I’ve done just about any kind of plumbing, tile work, dry wall, carpentry, put up cinder block, etc.
Glue and Velcro™
My eyesight is too shitty to sew. I just go ala Jimmy Open Fly Snuka.
Just think of it as inadvertently self identifying as someone to run away from.
Yep.
Jose and STEVE SMITH working together?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jose-canseco-bigfoot-hunt_us_5c6463e9e4b0018ed01b2d75?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_content=buffere2174&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
When Canseco was with the A’s, he lived in the area I covered as a paramedic. Gawd that guy was a flaming asshole. One of the guys on another shift regaled us with the story of his girlfriend calling 911 for something, something, anxiety, something. She answered the door at their mansion naked, wrapped in a bedspread.
I don’t remember what car he had bought, but he jacked it all up with crappy customization. Yeah, he was in the news for getting pulled over for driving like a dick more than once.
The (classic) Simpsons episode “Homer at the Bat” includes many pro baseball players, including Canseco. In the audio commentary, the staff mentioned that every player was friendly, cooperative, and excited to be on the show except for Canseco.
Wiki sez:
I’m more surprised when a sports star isn’t a flaming asshole.
Yeah, this. One exception was Dave Henderson. He had a special needs son and every time we interacted with him, he was a real person.
Ricky Watters studied at the martial arts school I trained and taught at. One day he and his wife and young son were eating lunch up front. They were very pleasant. His kid was wearing fire engine sneakers. I said “I’ll be right back”. I ran over to the firehouse and pulled a bunch of stuff we would give away to kids and went back to the school. Watters obviously thought I wanted something from him and wouldn’t give me the time of day. Given the situation, I wrote him off as just another prima donna.
Rikky Watters…now I’m nostalgic.
https://www.aier.org/article/liberty-and-search-meaning
Jeff Tucker makes the case that the belief that a free society is hollow and meaningless might be the most effective attack on it. I think he might be correct since this would explain why modern technology has not lead to the libertarian moment, the rise of identity politics and the statism of the bohemians and intellectuals for example.
Winston, thank you for posting that. I have tried several times to articulate something about SJWs trying to find meaning in their lives, but it will require more thought.
There are fundamental differences between the classical liberal mentality and the collectivists and this is one of them. The argument’s weakness, of course, is that someone else’s need for meaning is not a reason for me to sacrifice my own liberty. Of course, that isnt really what the critics of liberalism are after. Not at all. They aren’t offering meaning to anyone, they are just trying to force everyone to sacrifice their liberty.
https://abc7news.com/amp/police-new-evidence-shifted-the-trajectory-of-jussie-smollett-investigation-2-brothers-cooperating/5141900/?__twitter_impression=true
Smollett issues denial that he staged a hoax attack on himself.
So he’s saying that is possible that his personal trainer is correctly accusing Jussie of complicity?
I dunno but I’m glad they inserted the completely irrelevant hot-take from the man who shares the name of Bad Orange Man.
I’m starting to regret I ever started a conversation about beef.
You know who else…
Clara Peller?
Or Walter Mondale?
Stormy Daniels?
Spartacus?
Grandson of a butcher, went without internet for 2 days and am drunk, of course I’m going to start a fight over beef.
Is there a fight? I guess I missed it.
Anyways, the ground beef I have on hand is “what’s leftover” after all the prime cuts have been removed and packaged. Because it’s all ground together, the flavor, texture and fat content is very consistent. I eat some pretty darned good burgers when we go out, but it’s the way the burger is cooked and the other add ons more than it is the flavor of the burger itself.
Is “draining ground beef” going to become one of those things like abortion, circumcision, or whether or not deep dish is pizza?
2300 hours, Glibbies. Spud is out.
To be Super Cereal here for a second. 99% of what I say here in the comments is said in jest. And when I do post some cereal things I never mean it in a condescending tone. Even though I might have certain moral standards for myself, I don’t care if others follow them. I guess that’s what brings me to a place like this. When it comes to other people I mostly just want to help them make sure the choices they are making are the best choices they can make. I’ll go ahead and say this is a response to Hyek Splosives misreading of my earlier comments, but it goes for any one else. If I make a serious reply it’s never in judgement of your actions, but my own response as ‘the responsible drunk’.
Listening to local news (here in Los Angeles) and they’re actually admitting that Illinois enforcement screwed up and the law didn’t work. Usually they kind of sweep that under the rug to keep propping up the “WE NEED MOAR LAWSSS” train, but at least this one, maybe because it’s coming so hard on the heels of the shooting, is actually being noticed.
I know I’m setting the bar really low, but at least it’s something, for this stupidly blue state.
Shooter was black which also mucks up the narrative.
I’m shocked. Was there any banter afterwards about how another law would help?
No law regulating legal ownership would have prevented it = just have to move on to banning firearms entirely.
/prog logic
Oh lord, am I becoming a fan of country music because of my job!? I feel dirty and ashamed. Pallet cleanser.
Nothing wrong with a little George Jones
Well not much, there are some stinkers
https://youtu.be/1DvludsYC_A
That’s almost cheesy enough to be good, like Barroom Buddies.
And here I thought you were linking to the Ballroom Blitz!
https://youtu.be/ewFBuYHldeY
A great hit amongst my peers circa 1976. Good one, doc!
I am still stuck on this pair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tjrxCRcf8E
Bluegrass > Country…by a mile.
Oh yeah. That’s the music of my people even though we’re not that big on ancestry identity. 7/8 of my forebears have a Scottish surname.
You ain’t lyin’.
For the oldsters that have been married for awhile https://youtu.be/p1S5pAF1YYA
Switching it up – Wild Turkey 101 (8 second pour) + big splash of black cherry juice, shaken with ice, strained into pint glass then filled with Manhattan Special Black Cherry Soda. Waste not, want not – ice from shaker gets quick rinse then into water pipe; OG Sour while everyone sleeps. Binge watching old seasons of Big Brother… WTF is wrong with me?
I posit Peter Capaldi is the absolute best Doctor since Tom Baker (the Omnidoctor, against whom all others are judged). Being saddled with lousy companions (Sassy but streetwise black girl stereotype and doughy, sycophantic majordomo) and what is, so far, the worst writing of the entire series is making me sad.