by RC Dean and Derpetologist
After noting the enthusiasm with which the Glibertariat greets happy hour, I thought a weekly cocktail thread would be worth a go.  This week:  RC Deanâs Own Margarita.
I hadnât been a particular enthusiast of margaritas until moving to the Sonoran Desert.  With all kinds of agave type plants (including century plants which actually produce a nectar when they bloom which is made into candy), it was hard to avoid, though.  Iâve always found the classic recipes with simple syrup, Roseâs, and even Grand Mariner or Cointreau to be a little on the sweet side, so a few years ago I devoted the summer (and a goodly portion of my liver) to coming up with a recipe that was a little more tequila-tastic and a little less sweet.
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RC Deanâs Own MargaritaÂ
4 oz silver tequila (Casa Noble)
1+ oz Salerno Blood Orange Liqueur
ž oz lime juice
½ oz agave nectar
We use Casa Noble because Mrs. Dean had a bit of a bad reaction to some other brands.  Casa Noble is organic, which may (or may not!) have something to do with her tolerance for it.  Regardless, because the tequila is foregrounded, a few extra bucks for better tequila is well-spent.
The Salerno is an ingredient you probably donât have in your liquor cabinet.  Too bad.  It’s essential for this recipe and I like it as an orange liqueur mixer for any recipe.  It is lighter and maybe crisper?  Anyhow, itâs a good addition to your cocktail toolkit.
Iâve gone to agave nectar over simple syrup for everything.  I just like it better; I substitute at a ratio of about 2/3 nectar to 1 simple syrup.  If you get a darker nectar for this recipe, it adds a richer flavor.
A friend of mine works a variation of this, with orange substituted for some of the lime juice.  Iâm not sure of the proportions, but whatever.  Youâll probably tweak the proportions on this one anyway.
Derpetologist’s Spot the Not: Famous wrong predictions
1. This “telephone” has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.
2. Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
3. Electricity is merely a scientific curiosity; it has no practical applications.
4. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
5. Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
6. The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
7. I do not believe the introduction of motor-cars will ever affect the riding of horses.
8. Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
Belly up to the bar and enjoy!
I’m going to go with #8. I recognize a lot of those.
I’m hitting a White Russian and listening to Nick Drake.
Why do you feel the need to beat on a Russian. Oh well, when in Rome…
Hit’s green martian and listens to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5-gja10qkw
Hit’s?? Really??
You rashers like doing this to me, don’t you?
Do I drink them in the listed order?
You’re an AnCap, you drink them in whatever spontaneous order you want!
Actually, I don’t necessarily take it as a given (like my fellow ancaps do) that spontaneous order will arise from freedom. Right is right, regardless of the outcome.
What arises is the order.
Tautologically, yes.
Logically taut.
How deep does the nesting go?
It’s infinitely recursive.
Just far enough so that you can’rt see the reply button.
Really? Who doesn’t love a good horizontal scroll bar?
Are you offering the world order?
Right is right, regardless of the outcome.
Ah! A fellow Stoic! Welcome, brother!
Thanks. I lurked on TSTSNBN for years. Trying to contribute more here, but I have a life. Just kidding, commentariat đ
Life? Describe this thing you have, plz? I am unaware of it…
A lIfe? Oh, sorry. I meant a file. Like they have on all of us. /tinfoil hat
If you drink 4 oz of tequila first, the order of the others does not matter.
Since I’m going into work now…
*Pours tall glass of room temperature lime juice*
Stooooopid mortal, true domineering species ensure their buzz lasts at least halfway through their shift
And then replenishes during lunch?
LZRD!
My first sighting here. Did I not read enough threads to document his migration?
Nice to see the reptilians found us. The trilateral commission tell you?
PAR-TAY
Butter.
Too early in the year for margaritas here…but I can always use this in June.
The not is….#4?
*returns to bourbon*
Which bourbon? When I was out visiting SugarFree, I discovered Willett, which was damn tasty.
I think this is a sneaky relabeling of something on the order of Larceny. But I am getting too drunk to figure it out.
If you can still drive, we have some Gentleman Jack that needs killing.
A pity, NEIN, ICH KANN NICHT FAHREN!
#4 was the ceo of IBM I believe.
Margaritas on the rocks, not frozen margaritas.
On the rocks?
CRAP! Ruined the joke
SP just made us margaritas. No sweetener beyond the triple sec. We want sour to be the leading flavor.
No, we don’t. We want it to be balanced.
Burned, OMWC!
I’ve also been degloved.
Go on…
AMEN!
I will go with #4, and cheaper tequila. Espolon has been my favorite for cheaper but good by my standards. I will try the recipe. Thanks.
Not sure, but #2 definitely isn’t Yellin.
It was said shortly before the 1929 crash. Which is why people remember it.
I’m going with #5. Was there ever a time when people didn’t think everything had military value?
No, I’m pretty sure some putz said it. I have heard that one before. It was pre-WWI
Ferdinand Foch, French General.
Jameson on the rocks tonight.
#3?
Not in coffee?
Maybe in about 12-13 hours…
“Can I Irish that coffee up fer ya?”
Racist Coffee?
*slow clap*
I have Bushmills and Tullamore Dew on my shelf for Irish whiskies. *takes swig*
When I want an irish whisky, it’s got to be Tullamore Dew.
Black Bush and Jameson 12 year really ought to be in your armory.
#6 is the not. *takes another swig*
@Derpetologist: Admit it, that list is just copied from Bernie Sanders’ campaign website.
9. nobody needs 20 choices of deodorants.
I have a special STN just for Bernie. Shall I post it?
Oh, and 8
#5, my species developed plasma rifles before powered flight. Hence early aircraft were treated like sporting clays
Setting your shit on fire and launching it from a crossbow doesn’t make it a “plasma rifle”.
The lack of rifling being a key problem.
Do I have to keep my shirt on?
SHOW YOUR…oh. Well, go ahead.
Having worked on next week’s installment, I realized I left out the how-to:
Add all ingredients and ice to cocktail shaker. Shake, and strain over rocks. I don’t do salt, but hey, it’s a free country. Salt your rim if you want.
These euphemisms, i tell ya.
Yeah, that one wasn’t even subtle or anything…
There’s a chapter title in a Haruki Murakami novel called something like “He licked her salty dog”
I was at first scandalized, but on figuring out what a “salty dog” was I was hooked. I usually switch to greyhounds after the first two though.
I call bullshit.
It seemed jarringly risque without context.
Obligatory… “Honey let me be your salty dog!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4-XuhXonxM
I can’t tell you how much I love that kind of music. It might make my foreskin grow back.
Yeah, I get too lazy to salt the glass, too. Either way, it’s my default drink.
Muddle your mint.
“by RC Dean and Derpetologist”
Well shit, the site is definitely ruined now.
*peruses cat-butt photos*
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I’m going with 5. Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
Also, for the diabetics and low-carbers around here, there is a sugar free margarita mix out there that ain’t half bad. Margs are back on the menu!
Well, FOCH!
There’s no carbs or sugar in vodka or many other liquors. If you have to sweeten it, you could just use stevia. I’ve done that before.
Yup! Our go-to is rum and Diet Rite cola. But we also do Moscow Mules with Diet Gosling’s ginger beer (delish!), and margaritas with the 0 calorie mix readily available at liquor stores and grocery stores, and everything else we can do with no sugar. And somehow we lose weight. đ
All alcohol is carbs to your body.
I was on a paleocaholic kick a few years ago. Tequila, lime and soda FTW.
Yeah, I did the same, except vodka or gin. Tequila is dangerous.
I used to be friends with tequila. And then one night, things got weird. Like real weird. Now when I see tequila out at a bar, or wherever, we kind of just pretend we didn’t see each other. I stick to bourbon and vodka now.
Vodka and Perrier, with a splash of cranberry and a lime right now. Cheers everybody!
I used to be friends with tequila. And then one night, things got weird. Like real weird.
That happens when you are doing it right. It took me a decade and a half to embrace the agave again.
About ten years ago, I was with my wife at a pre-wedding party held a couple nights before our niece’s wedding. The hosts were having a dressy outdoor evening barbecue on their llama ranch in the hills overlooking Santa Barbara (not kidding). I was hanging out with my then 80-year-old father-in-law (he fathered my wife very late in life) who was something of a legendary drinker. The only alcohol the hosts were serving were margaritas, which seemed to have almost no tequila. So, just hoping to catch a buzz, I started my fourth margarita of the night.
The next thing I know, it’s the following morning, and I’m waking up in the hotel bed, still in my suit and shoes. My wife is furious with me for many reasons, none of which I can confirm. Trying to escape her screaming, I go into the lobby, where I see father-in-law exiting his hotel room, still fully dressed from last night.
“Oh my,” he said. “I just woke up in my clothes. What a night that must have been.”
Since then, haven’t touched the stuff.
Unless your suit smelled of llama, I am not seeing a problem.
Only the area around the fly.
I went to bed fine (or so I thought) and woke up puking. I avoided the stuff for several years afterwards.
Sounds pretty good, especially in summer.
My diabetic native American wife uses to self medicate with tequila.
Jesus, that was something to see.
I’m calling #7 as the Not
im pretty sure everyone was like, “horses shit everywhere” and anything that replaced them would be welcome
So why haven’t we gotten rid of politicians then, smart guy?
….
i think politicians are filthy animals, but who are tolerated because they do work no other animal would do.
FTFY
That and the guns.
#4 Was Thomas Watson of IBM
#8 Is the not.
DAMN No wonder IBM doesn’t rule the world.
IBM recommended we lift and shift 18 year old hardware rather than spend money with a rival vendor for replacement hardware.
They had the contract huh? They are good at that from what I gather. Or at least used to be.
They have been anything but.
They failed to bother to ask if a box that was in a rack and powered on was in use. They unplugged it and took out the drives before someone went “where did Dev and QA go?”
They then lost the drives.
I meant they were good at getting government contracts. Not good at what they do.
At least they didn’t take Production.
If only I could spill it, I would have a $2.8 M fuck of theirs to spill.
*sets fire to IBM voodoo doll*
Tonight I’m doing what I like to call, “Pulling an Anakin.“
+1 you made me laugh.
I now hate you.
Lovies! :* :* :*
That brought back memories of the commercial “Rainier Beer” used to run in the 1980s. The beer was not good, even for 1980s standards but the commercials were comic gems.
My favorite was the one where it’s just a car downshifting as it drives through the mountains.
*RAYYYYYY-NEEEEEEER-BEEEEEEEER*
Rainer is featured heavily in Longmire where the sheriff pronounces it Rain-yay.
My favorite was chasing the “wild Rainier” bottles across the hills with the old style bottle opener. Or maybe it was the swamp with the unseen animals calling “Rainier” and “Beeeeeer” from different directions.
I enjoy Longmire even though it is filmed in NM.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
So in the H&R remnants comments there’s a poster GLEEMORE ™. I’m assuming it’s not you, at least the writing doesn’t seem like you.
Amsoc
don’t know why they’re obsessed with me. don’t care. godspeed with them.
Your billy d avatar is the greatest thing ever and i am humbled and in awe and jealous
Thanks. I love how blunt and unapologetic the message is, and how Billy Dee is the perfect man for the job!
I used to see this ad, framed, in the bar-back of an old San Francisco hipster dive called Lucky 13 — when you sat at the bar it was hard to keep from being hypnotized by it.
Billy Dee endorsing?..
“Stop! I’ve done all I can. I’m sorry I couldn’t do better, but I have my own problems.”
My first time to see you C. Welcome. I like this place better than TSTSNBN but I haven’t had much time to devote to it yet. We can write here ya’ know. I am hoping you will contribute.
As soon as the mayhem in my life calms down I will write something.
Outstanding.
Fun Fact: I made a Yuengling clone for a friend from back east who now lives here (In the land of beer and honey and more beer and mead) and I NAILED IT. Seriosuly, I have had to make it three times now.
I got the starter kit coming.
SWEET!!!!
So…when does it arrive? I assume you are driving to Littleton cause I am NOT taking my 80,000 btu burner to the PRB. OHH god…I am starting to geek out. So, what recipe is first?
LOOK, if you keep this up I may drive up there.
OK FINE send me a meeting maker and I will be there JERK!
Haha, First one might be a switchback clone.
Yuengling is good beer.
On draft it tears my guts up. But five drafts of anything will do that to me now.
You just have to get accustomed to that Skoogul water (Schuylkill), full of hearty coal runoff.
And it’s coming to the Midwest (or at least Indiana) in April!
I grew where the Yuengling flows downstream on the Schuylkill River from Pottsville.
this marg looks much better than the one we’ve been making here
The only groups that have majority approval of Trump? Republicans and whites without college degrees.
If Hillary had won, would it be, “The only groups that have majority approval of Hillary? Democrats and (got me)?”
PUBSEC Union members
Aaaaaand thats why they got their asses kicked out of the whitehouse briefings. They just cant help themselves. Bezos sure has been signaling hard. I hope it is paying off.
The left has no idea what the hell to do to address the fact that they’re falling to pieces.
They’re spending all their time handwaving and insisting that the world is ending. Because Trump! And Yokel Whitey! its literally their only sales pitch.
Phil Bump is pimping polls like they’re supposed to mean something. Its literally 3 months since the election. Trump’s got 3+ years before polling starts to matter again.
I’d pity them (the media) if they weren’t going out of their way to find new ways to disgust me every day.
Theyâre spending all their time handwaving and insisting that the world is ending. Because Trump! And Yokel Whitey! its literally their only sales pitch.
“What I want to know, is – how old are you, usually, when it all hits you?”
I just went and read the KDW piece that cited that Tom Wolfe story. apropos.
*national review makes my browser lock up. hate that.
I imagine all the democrat donors who blew millions and millions on these asshats in 2016 are now being asked to pony up double… because, uh, now its serious, you see…. because….
and those donors are looking at them and wondering – “but what are you planning to *do*? More pussy-hats? congressional SIT-INS?a Talkathon?…. what are your *ideas*??
and they just go, “we’re working on those”.
“Who is the new DNC fundraiser in chief? Oh, the black muslim guy. and what’s your latest issue that you’ve made a stand over? Oh, denying working families school-choice. You know, call me back in a few months.””
Oh goodness my sides.
They’ve grown so soft in the last eight years they have no idea how to run a campaign on anything other than, “Look at our unique and special and historic candidate!” They pay no attention to policies except those that appease the most proggy of their base.
History says they should look to regain at least one house of Congress in the midterms. If they don’t get their shit together soon, they might actually lose seats in the 2018 races. That is nuts.
Identity politics, climate change, pro-illegal-immigrants…
shit they could have had “Anti-War” as a consolation prize, but NOPE they pretty much scratched that off the list by endorsing Hillary, the hawkiest of the entire spectrum of candidates. Plus there’s no ‘war’ to oppose – just obama’s leftover various clusterfucks which no one in the media feels comfortable talking about, because pointing fingers would require explaining what the US interests are.
opposing school choice was their latest and greatest idea. Its like Trump is just playing out lines of rope for them, and they’re leading themselves to the gallows.
Its like Trump is just playing out lines of rope for them, and theyâre leading themselves to the gallows.
The fact that no one in the mainstream media has caught on this is… telling. To say the least.
Today I had lunch with a group of people that I used to regularly dine with a couple times a week after a 6 week reprieve. The TDS was dialed up to 11 and it was both tiresome and boring as fuck. One of the guys isn’t particularly political, but just won’t shut the fuck up with the outrage because he can’t stand bullies/narcissists. I ducked out early, and will check back in a few months.
Because having a narcissist and a bully in the White House is a new thing.
You already know that the last narcissist put a pseudo intellectual sheen on, therefore more acceptable.
Hamm’s
Jaeger
Use the Hamm’s as a pacer, so you don’t drink too much Jaeger. Sip the Jaeger, don’t just shoot it.
I have a couple of good beers first. After that, it’s just a wast of money.
I didn’t know Hamm’s was still in business. ” Hamm’s the clrar refresher, Hamm’s the sonethinh or other”
*wanders off humming tune that may or may not be Hamm’s jingle
Those typos aren’t even words, yet I swear autospell put them in
I am not from Minnesota. I’ve never heard that song. Except when my buddy from Minnesota is at the bar with me when I order a Hamm’s. Then he feels obligated to sing it to me. But if I’ve already had a reasonable (to soon?) amount of good beer, and I’m on my shit-beer and Jaeger portion of the night, I like getting Hamm’s just so they keep it alive (and available, locally).
Plust it’s 16 oz for 2 bucks.
Emmerson,
” I like getting Hammâs just so they keep it alive (and available, locally). ” I think there is treatment available for sadism…
Drinking Hamm’s ?
*Homer Simpson explaining voice* It’s pronounced “minnie soda”
More like minnesohhhhhhhhda.
“From the Land of Sky Blue Waters…Hamm’s the beer refreshing…”
*remembers headaches and shits from Hamm’s*
EFF YOU, CARTOON HAMM’S BEAR!!!
From the lands of sky-blue waters (wa-ters!)
Comes the brand that’s best of brewing.
Hamms’ the beer refreshing, Hamms’!
From the Land of Sky Blue Waters
From the land of pines, lofty balsams
Comes the beer refreshing
Hamm’s, the Beer Refreshing
And I’ll guess #6 as the not. Thinkin persians and egyptians were probably willin to get all up in that shit millinea ago.
A bunch of Lord Chesterfield while doing work here. I know how to do a Friday night.
Here, tits. http://i.imgur.com/GoJSEjP.jpg
Who is tits, and why would she want to see that girl’s breasts?
Good grief. 8:15, a little buzz and you people toss the NSFW rule right out the window.
Who would have guessed Warty is a lightweight?
Still, nice tits.
Nice? Those are borderline perfect. I would have to weigh and measure each to be sure though.
^what westernsloper said^
Links to NSFW are fine, embedded images/GIFS…you get cat-butted.
cat-butted.
smells like the beginning of a new fresh nomenclature.
Or cat-but. I can’t tell yet.
May the Lord Bless you and keep you, Warty.
Oh shit, Casa Noble’s reposado is my jam, but I’m generally unwilling to pony up for it.
It was the first tequila I tried that was legitimately a sipping tequila. It’s tasty room temperature and sipped like a fine wine.
*WARNING* Jesse is fine with tequila, and many other alcohols. However, give him enough Demon Rum….you are on your own, pally. đ
DO ANY OF YOU PEOPLE WORK?
As little as possible. I’m usually off on Friday nights though.
I’m getting paid right now. Eventually I’ll get to work.
I work normal working hours. It’s almost 9:30 at night here, and tomorrow is saturday.
Which raises another question. Why aren’t you performing a mating ritual?
You’re a government-sector worker, which means you work 10:30 to 2:30, with a three-hour lunch break and get 12 weeks vacation a year. And the rest of us pay for that shit.
Yes
THE SWISS HAVE HAD ME ENACT THEIR LABOR ENOUGH, THIS WEEK. *Now is the time on Glibertarians when we
dancedrink.* Or at least when I do…*pictures Switzy as a cross between Mike Myers and Steve Jobs, reaches for more alcohol*
Spot the Not: None of them. I assure everyone that all of those were uttered numerous times by many people.
God dambit. I think you are right. Given that one has no sourcing, I’ll stick with #6 though.
One of them was definitely written by me.
They were all written by you. It’s your post. Geesh
*polite applause*
#7 is the “not.” The car was immediately popular as a replacement, I believe.
I’m with you. Also the language of the quote doesn’t quite ring true.
“Get a horse!”
I just remembered that I had a dream about Fist using some sort of voodoo or like clever manipulation (probably of time and space) to get all those first posts. I’m dreaming about you people.
I’ve never even cared about or paid much attention to that ‘first’ ‘game.’ Maybe I need a
newhobby. Spending too much time on these forums.What?! Spending too much time on these here forums?! INCONCEIVABLE!
*Looks in fridge*
*Looks in booze cupboard*
Cuba Libre or Jim Beam neat? Decisions decisions…
Beam neat. My fave.
Cheers!
I know Beam is plebeian for bourbon snobs, but I like it, it does the job, and I can buy enough of it to last me a month for 25 bucks at Walmart while I’m getting my tires rotated.
Both. Hit it, m8.
When you reach a fork in the road, take it!
If I’m mixing, I actually like Beam more than most stuff. Sipping, it does kind of suck though.
Beam is top notch. I like a little kick with my booze. I appreciate the finer (smoother) crafted bourbons, but when I want a drink, I like a little punch in the gut. Beam delivers.
Far be it from me to insult Mr. Beam tonight. I already defended Hamm’s. I think.
I wish you well in you future Beam drinking endeavors.
People who buy Jim Beam deserve to drink it.
Not that the folks at Beam just make rubbish. Basil Hayden’s is nice for the novice bourbon sipper, and Knob Creek, Booker’s and Baker’s are all pretty good.
When you drive your car, the tires rotate all by themselves. No need to pay Walmart to do it.
That actually sounded like something Bender would say.
1. The avatar pre-conditions you to read all my comments in Bender’s voice.
2. The character of bender is loosely based on my life.
Shut up, baby, I know it.
Shit. Can you interpret my avatar for me?
E.B.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-jOEAufDQ4
Thanks man. Appreciate the effort. And approve of the video.
Anarchy in the LQ
wait. Denver. Did you mean to point me to this?
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5530924/?reload=true
because that is what I got when I googled “Anarchy in the LQ”.
And, although I’m too drunk to read it seriously now, it looks kinda cool.
I did not, Emerson. I cant reply directly, until these bugs are fixed by our wonderful and gracious new hosts (PBUT), but this should stack well.
Lots of big words in that link, but it does look interesting. Read it when I’m sober(ish).
Anarchy sign+liquid and my peer group calling liquor store the LQ+ maybe a pun at SP= Anarchy in the LQ
Try and stack it again: SP=Sex Pistols
Bet it ends up right where it should be….
I figured he meant Anarchy in the Latin Quarter.
I like cheaper bourbon. Fighting Cock and Old GrandDad 114 are the ones I have open right now.
Jack and (Mexican) Coke is a fave at Casa Dean.
I will only make Cuba Libres with fresh limes and Mexican glass bottle real sugar Coke. The rum I’m not very picky about. White rum from anywhere in the Caribbean works. I’ll splash out for decent rum to sip on, but not to mix.
If Mexican Coke is not available buy kosher Coke. It is also made with real sugar.
If Mexican Coke isn’t available, then you’re probably buying baby laxative and baking soda.
Drinking and digging some tunes right now. I checked in on the Reason site this afternoon and watched a bunch of folks in the comments defend a off duty cop try to detain a 13 year old kid for being a smart ass.
8. Louis Pasteurâs theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
Nevermind that shit, here comes Mongo!
I finished the second half of a bottle of St. Bernardus Abt 12. I started the bottle last night. I followed it up with a Lancaster Milk Stout.
Time to go back to work.
DEG is a pilot, btw.
Listening to Tom Woods. He asks a great question: Whoever leaked Trump’s phone calls must be part of a tiny group within the intelligence community. Has that ever happened to a president before?
I don’t listen to him nearly as much as I should.
Whenever I do though, I’m thinking : “Got Dam. He is the libertarian I should aspire to be”.
His podcast get as deep into an issue as is possible in 30~40 minutes. Gives me just enough to decide if I want to look further into the issue. Plus he’s just a nice guy.
He is and he knows just the people if you want to sort out your e-mail problems!
Lol. He’s got 5 daughters and 2 wives (I’m kidding!) to feed.
Man, even as a joke, I feel bad about that. His wife sounds wonderful.
“Nice Guy”.
That is totally true. But it leaves out so much.
He says stuff that would make me seem like a total psycho (or just my normal, curmudgeonly swearing asshole self), in a totally normal calm self-explanatory way. It’s kind of like magic really.
I was hoping this sort of thing would happen in case H.R. Cunt won. So it’s almost the same thing.
Just started on the vodka sodas, don’t have the taste for beer tonite for some reason. I have been enjoying Papa Dobles recently. A shot of dark rum, a tablespoon of grapefruit juice (fresh preferred) a tablespoon of lime juice and one healthy dash of maraschino liqueur. Shaken with ice and served up. That is the drink that Hemingway supposedly had made up in a thermos for his daily walk home from the La Floridita. If you don’t have maraschino liqueur in your cabinet I highly recommend it. It really works well with a dash or two in a manhattan and is nice to balance the over fruitiness in drinks that can get too sweet. Luxardo is the most common brand.
Stormy Weather is my drink this evening while I am having some excellent Poke for dinner. Using a local Hawaiian black rum along with extra strong ginger beer.
Looks interesting. I like rum cocktails, have to give that one a go.
*writes down, half a grapefruit, fill with rum, splash with maraschino liqueur*
Brunch this summer menu note taking.
I watched Papa on Netflix I think it was. Maybe Amazon, it doesn’t matter. I was let down they implied he was a communist sympathizer and running guns to them. I am ignorant to the truth of that claim.
Ha! Nice.
I have never heard anything about Papa being a commie, but he was kind of all over the place in regards to politics. I have such a love for The Sun Also Rises and especially The Old Man and the Sea. I have read my young boys that book a few times (adapting it on the fly for them).
The man knew how to write and drink that’s for sure.
For Whom the Bell Tolls was maybe the first book I ever read where the protag thought how I thought, felt what I felt, and did what I wanted to do (at the time). Still remains a favorite of mine to this day. Shame the dude never got over his demons.
Damn. That sounds good.
Hello, friends. I’m on a 4 day pass. Spent the last 2 days at Lake Tahoe. I won 39 cents at the casino, rode on a big paddleboat, and heard a surprisingly funny story about a man who was forced to amputate his toes with a kitchen knife.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Team Red radio while on the road. Quite derpful, let me tell ya.
The first discussion was about crime. There were basically 2 schools of thought among the callers: more prisoners, harsher punishments. One guy wanted to have an express lane for executions- 2 weeks was enough due process for him. Not a single word about legalizing drugs.
The next one was about traffic cameras. There’s a stretch of highway near San Fran with a lot of accidents. The proposed solution is to install cameras that give tickets to anyone going more than 10 mph over the limit. It was pretty funny to see all these authoritarians suddenly flip when it came to laws they wanted to break.
On a side note, they mentioned that in some countries like Taiwan, traffic tickets are kept low- max is there $25 or so. So, people speed, the govt gets money, and uses it to build mass transit, which cuts down on the traffic and accidents. The wasn’t the plan, but it worked out nicely.
I propose something else: sell permits to speed. You want to drive fast? Pay in advance and off you go.
I propose something else: sell permits to speed. You want to drive fast? Pay in advance and off you go.
Like a carbon tax for speeders.
What is the not already?
I drive like an old man, but fuck speed limits. Unless it’s a private road, then the owner can set whatever policy they want. There should be exactly one driving offense on public roads: reckless endangerment. Everything else is punishing hypothetical outcomes rather than actual behavior.
+1 That.
I drive like an old lady myself now. Not holding up traffic slow, but I got the speeding thing out of my system in my youth. The fact myself and my friends survived it is kind of a miracle. I agree with you though. Unless you are endangering others, have at it. It is a money making scam for the state.
There are positives and negatives to both. A speed limit, like all bright line rules, provides clarity and predictability. On the other hand, it is inflexible and cannot account for every scenario. In a word, it can be arbitrary.
As late as the 1990s, Montana adhered to the “reasonable and prudent” standard. While flexible, what was “reasonable and prudent” varied with the fact finder, and such variance, itself, can be arbitrary.
The law, it seems, cannot overcome arbitrariness, no matter how it’s arranged.
I lived in Montana at the time and reasonable and prudent was for daylight on Interstates and rural highways. At night and smaller windy roads there was a posted limit- and of course in towns. During the Carter BS rules they basically kept it. If you busted it was a $20 or 25 tickets for “wasting resources” and so points to your license or to your insurance company.
Dang it. “so points” = “no points”
I think i knew a guy who did that. “Bob Nitray”.. or something like that. A photographer who raised sled dogs. He walked the brooks range from Alaska to the middle of canada, covering a former trapper route. Just to show it could still be done. no modern equipment; just a gun, a tarp, some wool clothes. He fell in some water, and his foot froze, and he later had to chop off the toes. I thought it was pliers, or wire cutters tho, can’t remember. Nice guy. His dog (which went with him) was super cool. Huge, silent, and basically ready to kill anyone who looked like a threat.
This guy’s name was Captain Dick. He was a retired sea captain who got a job as the caretaker for a rich lady’s vacation mansion. He got really bored a lot, so he would row across Lake Tahoe to the next town and see how much whiskey he could drink. Then when he could barely stand up, he would row back. Well, one time, there was a terrible winter storm his boat capsized. He got all went, but managed to right the boat and kept rowing. He had a bottle of whiskey with him and used that to keep warm. When he got back, he saw his toes were black, and since there wasn’t a doctor around, he cut ’em off with a kitchen knife. He kept them in a box and showed the guests who came to the mansion. I like to imagine he said “yarrrr, here be my toes.”
I suspect if Captain Dick were real and actually drunk and wet and exposed on lake tahoe during a winter storm he’d probably have died of hypothermia long before his toes decided there was a problem, but its still a good story.
Did find this =
Another source adds detail to his toe-jam
The “spent a few days in bed'” helps make it more plausible
(tho not completely so – for your extremities to get gangrene they’d have to stay frozen for some considerable time – days – enough for the blood vessels to expand and crack and all the tissue to basically become pulp)
I submit to the authority of ‘drunken legend’, however.
God, you must be fun at parties.
STOP RUINING STORIES, GILMORE!
A buddy tells a story of his early days in the Navy edition of boot camp. It’s too long to type on a phone but the gist is this.
3 buddies with 4 day passes and 6 dollars between them back in the 60s. A trip to the hardware store for .22 rounds,as much jug wine as they could buy. Into a small casino to try and scam drinks led to the last dime going into a slot machine which turned into 2 dollars. 2 dollars at the bkackjack table led to a couple of hundred by guys who had never played casino blackjack and on to the dice table. The god of broke service men smiled again and the dice tables led to compped rooms and three whores. After a weekend beyound there wildest dreams hey were as broke entering camp as they were leaving.
Triple Moscow Mule and most IOC a bottle of chea Spanish wine. Now Fat Tire or back to mules.
Alright, Derp, which is it?
When I first submitted the STNs to the mods, I put in a little puzzle at the end so I wouldn’t have to show up and reveal it myself. But since I’m here, might as well reveal the Not.
It’s #3. Congrats to Old Man and Trails.
“I do not believe the introduction of motor cars will ever affect the riding of horses; the prophecies that have been made are likely to be falsified as have those made when the railways were introduced.”
Scott-Montagu
Technically he’s correct. We still ride horse the same way, just not as much.
Does cow girl count?
Not if you’re Saddlebacking.
#3 was me.
I’m still not sold on this electricity fad.
Stop resisting!
Ohm.
I fucking hate AK, suited or not.
Sure, why would you want the options when it’s a no brainer folding an off suit 4 8?
Why are you wearing a suit in Arkansas?
I think “AK” is Alaska.
No, it’s Avtomat Kalashnikova
Ok, why is Waren wearing a suit in Alaska?
On drugs?
https://youtu.be/D26UIWLakb0
It’s cold?
Wrong. The answer is “Hitler”. The answer is always Hitler.
That was a test of “em” vs “i”.
Two extra fucking characters I had to type, and whose going to reimburse me for that? Nobody, that’s who! Once again, the small poster gets screwed by laws meant to protect big-commeting from competition.
I know it’s of absolutely no mathematical relevance, but when I played poker I saw AK get broken off in a lot of asses, especially against weak pairs. I think a lot of people (on the advice of the books) way overplay it.
Seems like it’s similar to splitting twos in BJ. A defensive play that can pay off. But yeah, if you miss on the flop with AK, you’re sitting there with your ass hanging out and everybody knows it.
This has to be an euphamism.
I have friends who are still pissed at me over a pair of 4’s from a game ten years ago.
Ashton Kutcher is a total ass, especially in a suit.
And I go all-in with Qs and get called by a guy holding AK and he hits his A on the flop and I’m done. See if it was the other way around I would have not hit anything. AK works for other people all the fucking time and for me so rarely I view it with extreme suspicion.
Adventures in protectionism
Heard an interesting report on NPR. So in Argentina, a woman was elected president based on a platform of bringing jobs back. She enacted many laws requiring many products to be made in Argentina, including cell phones. Since Tierra del Fuego had voted heavily for her, the new cell phone factory was built there. Unfortunately, Tierra del Fuego is the most remote places on earth. It cost 20x as much to build a cell phone there compared to Mexico and the final price of the cell phones was twice as much as before. While this was going on, cell phone smuggling became a lucrative trade, because people wanted the latest cell phones. Eventually, the company went bankrupt and the campaign ended.
Of course since it was from NPR, the tale was bookended with “and this is what that awful Trump is planning to do!”
Well. Optimistically you could say NPR is learning how taxation distorts markets?
HAHAHA just kidding. Either Trump is an idiot savant good president, or we are probably fucked no matter what happens.
Oh, so now NPR worries about protectionism and artificially increasing the costs of inputs. ‘Cause TRUMP!
This is the worst dating site ever.
Hey Sexy.
I understand that Warty puts out.
Oh yeah. He’ll put you out of the dungeon when you’re turned out.
I’m not falling for that again.
Warty definitely puts it out.
It’s like Christian Mingle. Without the women or Christianity. So like Grindr. Only without any attractive people.
I laughed at this. TY.
STEVE SMITH NOT GO ON DATES, ONLY HIKES. IF THEY GO ON SECOND HIKE, COULD BE A KEEPER.
Oh boy. She must really be thirsty.
Cumpires are real.
what is the magic-sauce-code-incantation for embedding images? or do you need full Wizard-status (moderator)
All you have to do is rejiggerize the HTML stickys. So type (!?$ a=datax10?!), But replace all the “(“‘s with burritos.
I missed last night’s post because it was game night, but damn, HM. Damn, was that some good stuff. I’d buy you a beer, but, you know, other coast. Also, cheap bastard.
i’ll have to say. This is most scandalous thing I’ve ever seen HM post. I might need a faintin couch.
I don’t know, some of those twerking videos were pretty out there…..
Weep not, for the gentleman, M.N. “Vidjayan Mash” Vidjayan, who was basically something of an Indian Bernie Sanders for his time, favouring centralised government and planned economies.
According to Teh Almighty Wikipaedia: “His last words were ‘for hearing, we need a language'”
Have another one, on me.
Spot the Not: Bernie Sanders
1. We have to re-invent socialism. It canât be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.
2. I will tell the billionaire class: you can’t have it all while kids in this country go hungry.
3. I will…ban semi-automatic assault weapons which are designed strictly for killing human beings…
4. You don’t need a PhD in economics to understand that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Mexico making 25 cents an hour.
5. When I talk about democratic socialism, I’m talking about Social Security.
6. We need to reverse the massive transfer of wealth from working families to the top 1 percent and put millions of Americans back to work.
7. Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.
8. Finland is no utopia.
9. The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.
10. You’ve got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.
I’ll go with 8
Don’t tell a Finn that.
Say what you want about Finns but they have a word that fits many of our esteemed colleagues, including myself.
“Karlsarikannit” which means “drinking home alone in your underwear with no intention of going out.” This explains a lot about my maternal grandfather and certain aunts and uncles.
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Seconded. He talked about Denmark and Sweden, but i don’t recall him saying shit about Finland.
The answer is: Bernie Sanders. He has to be made up. Nobody that stupid could live as long as he supposedly has.
If he didn’t exist we would have to invent him.
I predict Sanders will be the next DNC chairman.
3. Somebody else said that.
High West Double Rye
#4. I don’t think Sanders is a nationalist. He probably believes that socialism will save the world, not just America.
Yep, has to be number 4. Because he’s happy when everyone’s poor and no one has any money, as long as everyone’s equal. It would have been more like him to say that American billionaires should be forced to work for 25c an hour, and all the rest of their money taken to pay for free college for all.
About that Number 3.
Semi-Automatic assault rifles are for killing Commies, which don’t count as human beings.
I’m guessing 3. 8 is tempting but going with 3.
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1 is the not. Hugo Chavez said that.
Oh come on. Surely Bernie said that as well. He is the pasty white wrinkled disheveled Hugo Chavez.
Most Alabama story ever
If this isn’t a country music song yet, it will be soon.
“You can’t tell me what to do, Daddy!”
“Why is that asshole in my lane? I bet he swerves first.”
“Daddy take the wheel”?
Very good
I lectured at University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical School not long ago. No one to make fun of there. Amazingly smart group.
Oh, sorry, broke the mood. Rebel hicks, y’all!
Oh, sorry, broke the mood. Rebel hicks, yâall!
Indeed, compounded with all the mythical rocket surgeons allegedly running around there somewhere. Me, I think it’s hokum and nonsense, a fairy tale designed to instill false hope in the moonshine swillin’ folk.
Another famous wrong prediction:
When Page, Plant and Bonham formed the band “The New Yardbirds”, the consensus was that it would go over like a lead balloon. A prediction which I’ve always heard attributed to Kieth Moon. And a prediction which gave the new band its name.
Who knew there was that much money in stealing black blues classics and lettJohn Bonham beat the shit out of the drums?
For you people.
Hey man! Just wanted to follow up with you re: GBV. I’ve spent some good amount of time listening to and exploring GBV since you mentioned they were your favorites. I was never really into them, but I am really starting to dig it. You’re right, Pollard and co. can write some catchy fucking songs. Thanks for the suggestion.
If anyone wants to have 2+ hours of jangly noisy guitar-based rock n roll (including a track by Guided By Voices), follow my Spotify playlist Jangle Noise: https://open.spotify.com/user/egould310/playlist/20QahoaMym4xptW1UNzNpk
Robert Pollard is the greatest songwriter to ever walk the skin of the earth.
I’ve liked what I’ve heard of GBV, but their discography is so large I haven’t spent the time to sift through it.
These albums in any order: Propellor, Alien Lanes, Bee Thousand, Under the Bushes Under the Stars, Selective Service
Sippin some store bought ‘Moonshine’, Midnight Moon or something. And vaping Ripe Vapes VCT (vanilla caramel tobacco).
This vape is fantastic, the moonshine is meh.
Damn, I really want to taste some homemade corn liquor.
Proper, well-made moonshine is going to be the same as proper, well-made vodka.
In other words, 70% ethanol, 20% water and nothing else.
The homemade stuff isn’t likely to be that pure.
The new moonshine fad is curious to me. During a recent visit to Nashville we stopped in at a chicken joint and ordered “flights” of moonshine. They had various flavored moonshines – apple pie was delicious. Surprisingly, it was the women who were most excited by the moonshine. But like all flavored liquors, not my cup of tea. Give me a well-aged whiskey or rum any day.
The best way to cover up bad booze is sweet flavors. Apple and cinnamon do it exceptionally well.
The other jar is Old Smokey Moonshine pumpkin pie. It’s very good
In other words, 70% ethanol, 20% water and nothing else.
What’s the other 10%?
Methanol, as it should be. Blindingly good.
My first batch was excellent. Last batch was weird. I think I didn’t filter it enough. It did make several people crazy, but nobody went blind. May have to make up another, but it’s a hassle. Still have some homemade “bourbon”. At cask strength. Maybe I’ll share at Glibfest.
To be clear, the problem wasn’t with methanol, but the fusel oils in that batch were more like motor oil. It had a distinct flavor that nobody would intentionally buy.
Dude, people purposely buy maddog 20/20 and boones farm. On purpose.
Dude, people purposely buy maddog 20/20 and boones farm. On purpose.
People over 18 do this?
Well, probably not. But somebody buys the crap, no matter how much it tastes like 2 parts ass and 3 parts sewer water.
Maybe Iâll share at Glibfest.
Hold the fucking phone. Glibfest needs to be a reality.
As long as it is within easy striking distance of me…
Sez the guy who’s worked with Artillery
Have you lost your head? You shot Sandahl Bergman with one of your kids. In the thick of night. I don’t think you have any fingers to point here.
Homemade corn liquor isnt really very good, most of it anyway. It has a strong yeasty smell and taste. If you get some filter it a couple of times with activated charcoal. Or you could just get some from the liquor store:
http://www.theliquorbarn.com/everclear-grain-alcohol-190-proof-750ml/
That’s gin yew wine moonshine corn liquor. The real stuff. *the term moonshine comes from the discoloration that ethylene glycol adds to the product from a jack-leg operation that uses an old car radiator as a condenser for the still. Fortunately Everclear doesnt have any of that unearthly glow to it.
High quality Vodka is better. Or, buy the cheap stuff and filter it through activated charcoal.
All this talk of mixers in this thread, tsk tsk. Mixers became popular during prohibition because the gawd awful bathtub gin and corn moonshine were so awful no one could drink it straight. Prior to that they drank high quality stuff unmixed. We have high quality stuff once again but the mixers are still here. Man up like your grandfathers and drink straight from a shot glass.
I’ve had Everclear in high school. That was a while ago.
I guess I’m enamored with the idea of tasting the non taxed stuff made in a copper still in the woods…just because
“I’ve had Everclear in high school” -groupie slut
“Jungle Juice” in a giant plastic garbage container. I couldn’t take the smell of Hawaiian Punch for months.
Been there. That night earned me 48 hours in the clink. It was a year after high
school though.
A fresh spot the not: too much free time
1. This mailman spent 33 years building a castle from rocks he picked up on his route.
2. This janitor wrote a fully-illustrated 15,000 page novel.
3. This janitor spent 14 years building a throne room out of used furniture, cardboard, and tin foil.
4. This mailman made over 300 copies of famous paintings with pictures he cut out of junk mail.
Gonna guess #2 because all the others seem vaguely like headlines I’ve read in the last couple years.
It’s not #2. That was Henry Darger.
Guy spent his whole life making a gigantic comic book with illustrations and cutouts from magazines. It wasn’t discovered until after his death.
You beat me to that. and i think #1 is the guy who built the watts sculpture.
I’ll go with #3
Oh and anyone who hasn’t seen the documentary about Henry Darger OMG you have to see it its fantastic
I saw it at the American Museum of Folk Art in the late 90s. They had these gigantic pages laid out end to end. Displays dozens of feet long
I think I will pass. Thanks though.
I should add that there are lots of pics of naked little girls in it
He wasn’t a ped or a chomo, though, right? I think he was like a kid inside or something.
The film provided some commentary from psychologists and “experts” since no one really seemed to know anything about the guy and he lived such a private life… but the movie leaned in the direction of him being mildly retarded and retaining a very juvenile perspective, identifying with pre-adolescent kids.
or he could have just been a freak.
Oh right, the girls had dicks. I forgot about that.
Or some of them did. All of them were girls, but some girls had dicks.
the explanation linked to above is, “I don’t think he actually knew the real difference between boys and girls”
All of them were girls, but some girls had dicks.
But were the dicks feminine?
I should add that there are lots of pics of naked little girls in it
What the huh? Now I wonder how I am coming across in this here area of the internets.
# 1 is Ferdinand Cheval. I remember one of my friends showing me a picture of his castle from her trip to France. It’s like a touristy thing now.
I will go with #3. Because it sounds so boring and stupid
Nope. It’s called the Throne of the Third Heaven and it’s freakishly awesome.
Nice. So its gotta be 4
winner!
TEAM WIN
Just peeked in at the teevee. Fox News. I dont see a single sensible person, not even anyone saying something sensible by accident.
The self-styled elite are slipping from power and seem to be in panic mode. Tough shit motherfuckers. It is long overdue. The Trump camp, or at least those that want to see the elite deposed are doing their share of babbling as well.
Without rational voices things could turn bad. I am strongly suspicious that the elite would unhesitantly light the fire if nothing else works for them. They would rather be the king of ashes thank lose power. This would not play out well for anyone. The possibility suddenly seems real to me and I am not even drunk.
An eventuality which might explain Trump’s promises to increase defense spending. As the biggest source of pork, it probably would pay to slop those hogs even as he denies other hogs their fodder.
I’d be happy if even a few of the hogs were cut off. Something I’ve never seen any president do regardless of flavor.
I think all the rational people in the MSM have died or retired.
Drinking Hoosier Plague Tonic: Jack Daniel’s and elderberry juice.
hmmm … never even tasted elderberry juice. Appreciate the regionality twist though.
Watching netflix documentary. Chick’s name is “Liondyke”. Wasn’t this covered earlier?
Ok, CC is spelling it “Luijendijk”. But it sure sounds like “lion dyke” to me. Guess it could be “lyin’ dyke”.
As long as it’s not elderberry wine.
So the movie about the Holodomor is getting bad reviews. Is it just me, or do all anti-communist movies get panned?
Red Dawn got a similar treatment.
They’re just not doing it right!
The second version of Red Dawn earned the awful reviews. The true version did very well when it came out. I was stationed at Ft Lewis and the theater was packed in Tacoma even weeks later. Who could forget “Avenge me boys! Avenge me!”
The link retraces the filming locations 31 years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1BtVM66b4
WOLVERINES
Yeah, the original did well. It was the 80’s. There was still a USSR that we could point to and say: “see? That’s where this idiocy ends! Shut up, you stupid Commie!”
Now, it’s “This time we’ll do it right!”
We can always point to California and Illinois and say the same thing.
Except you can leave CA and IL. Many people do.
Not to get into a late night drunken rant, but here’s my late night drunken rant:
The falling of the Iron Curtain was the best thing that ever happened to the people living under the tyrannical Soviet system.
But, paradoxically, it was bad for freedom. True freedom: Davey Croket not EU negative rights bullshit. We had an enemy, an enemy of world striding importance equal to our own. Yes, today one can point to China or North Korea to point out the problems with communism. But, Russia! White! European! Birthed of the same revolutionary mother as Western Democracy! Ahh, here is our brother, our twin who took a different path!
Maybe I should submit something to this here rag, instead of writing runnon paragrahs in the comments.
We still have Cuba 90 miles offshore as a testament to the success of communism. I say, let people visit Cuba, but on the way back, the in-flight movie points out, “Hey, that busboy you slipped a dollar to as a tip, yeah, he’s a 1%er by Cuban standards.”
Hell, there’s a whole argument to be made about how the show Dallas helped end Communism. Basically the commies thought Dallas was a good western show about that evil capitalist J.R. Ewing oppressing the poor. And instead the proles watched it and went, “WTF? in America, the poor people live in trailers bigger than our apartments, and drive around in pick up trucks, while it’s a 5 year wait to get a damned Yugo.”
BTW. That reminds me of an old Russian joke. A guy goes into buy a car, he’s saved up the money, but the dealer tells him that, due to production issues, it will probably take 5 years before he can actually get a car. The guy asks if it will show up in the morning or the afternoon. The dealer asks, “What does it matter? It’s five years from now.” And the guy replies, “Well, that’s the same day they’re delivering my TV in the morning.”
Badda-Bump*smash*
Also that chick you boned? Cuba is well known for it’s sex tourism. you should probably get yourself checked. If you didn’t wrap it, you’re lucky if you don’t have an STD right about now.
Sir Norman Wisdom, insanely popular in Albania
It’s Kulaking in dramatic moments.
I googled “Holodomor movie” and at the bottom of the first page of results was a website not only denying that Holodomor had occurred, but that the Holocaust had occurred.
Sigh.
More about Holodomor.
There are very few here who lived through it (it was 84 years ago) but there are a very few. All of the stories I heard were second hand, and it didn’t at all minimise the horror at listening to the descriptions of mass starvation that the people and survivors endured.
Forgive me if I don’t make any jokes about it. It’s not wise to do so here, as well, unless you really want a punch in the face by some Nationalist type.
My faith in man’s inhumanity towards man means I have zero doubts both happened. I was disappointed denial was so popular. And I was disappointed how people were demanding impossible amounts of proof to disprove their preconceptions — although I guess I shouldn’t have been.
Somehow, I SugarFree’d the link. User FAIL!
The book “Bloodlands” by Timothy Snyder covers that period very well. The book also covers Poland, the Baltic States etc and how the entire area was screwed by Stalin, then Hitler, then an encore performance by Stalin. One fascinating portion was how the Germans tried to turn mass killing into a clinical operation with minimal one on one personal engagement and the Soviets went the other way. Stalin’s killers kept killing as quickly as they could because they knew they would likely turn up on a list one day. Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin, the most prolific Soviet executioner used a German Walther because of the reliability to fire hundreds of times a night.
Working through the next to the last of the umeshu brought back from my last trip to Japan. Next one is umeshu aged in toasted Yamazaki casks.
Passed ICND1 today. Work is pretty much paying all of it so I think I’m going to go down the cert road for a while and see where it leads.
Homemade umeshu? See those jars in the local izakaya and always imagine it’s some kind of pickled testicle juice.
Commercial. Seems easy to make though, according to the recipes I’ve read. A bit difficult to find actual ume fruit here.
Congrats
Thanks!
Passed ICND1 today
Is that Japanese for a kidney stone?
Hah! No, entry Cisco networking cert. Gotta start somewhere I guess. I’ve been doing some of that and related stuff for years but never buckled down to get paper for the I Love Me wall.
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can only reply with monocle off.
Don’t you be bringing any damn squirrels here!
*runs off with peanuts*
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Ok, I will be digging into that tomorrow.
So Agile finally showed up?
Check your time zone privilege, jerks
I’m in your time zone, I think (PST?). You just have to start day drinking and stop leaving the house.
Case race with the afternoon links. Really gets the night started.
Dude. CO is mountain time zone. MOUNTAIN
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On Trump’s travel ban: 16 countries ban Israeli citizens from entry. Anybody remember lefties protesting that?
I guess the US is the only country that isn’t allowed to have a border or control of who comes in.
And eight of those, including two of our good allies, will bar other nationals who have Isreali stamps in their passports.
It would be great if Trump decided to cancel the travel ban if those countries cancelled their travel bans. That’s called a “deal”, I think. I hear they happen a lot in business.
Once upon a time I had two passports – a dip for normal travel, and a tourist for travel between Egypt and Israel.
#8.
“Thanks, jungle. Eat a buffet of dicks” – Sterling Archer
file under: handful of extremists
My kingdom for a drone!
I guess I’m hopelessly bigoted, cruel, and evil but I wonder why exactly there wasn’t a hog pen near the prison they could have rolled his carcass into.
Student protesters at San Francisco State are obstructing access to on-campus ATMs until their school ends its relations with Wells Fargo, a company supporting the Dakota Access Pipeline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJlHH-lo_38
#2 is the not. *takes another swig*
This new update has some bugs but some good features too:
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mine won’t work on my mac or pc.
That’s some high quality derp there, Lou.
Some punk standing betwix me and my hooker money? I think not.
I think that’s what the scuffle/cop intervention midway through the clip was probably about. I think Well’s Fargo should buy up some of these snowflakes’ outstanding student loans just for karmic shits and giggles.
+1 good plan
Behold: a real life lefty cocktail party, featuring Katie Couric and transgender student Gavin Grimm.
We should stop using that term. It normalizes mental illness. The article should read:
“Mentally ill person and transgender student Gavin Grimm.”
Goddamnit. You get the joke, right? I’m replacing “Katie Couric” with “mentally ill person”, not calling Gavin mentally ill.
I get it Bender DenverJ. Cheers *tips bottle*
I don’t know if Katie Couric is mentally ill. She just might be a totally sane lying cunt.
It is a mistake to think that progs must be evil or stupid. Sure, some of them are evil or stupid. However, people like Katie Couric and Bernie Sanders? Whatever else you might think about them, they definitely are not evil geniuses.
On both counts.
Yes. Evil and stupid.
(There it was again, two extratanious characters. To what end? HTML has failed me for years, faithfully, why do I need to type extra characters?)
I propose 3 genders:
male
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PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khc01hV982M
Eastern Kentucky University gave out âVagina Warrior Awardsâ last week, honoring four women on campus for their feminist work.
The Vagina Warrior awards were originally conceived by Eve Ensler, author of the Vagina Monologues, in the late â90s as a way of recognizing activists who work toward ending violence against women and girls.
I didnt even read your post, let alone click the link. Rather, I instantly seized upon “vagina warrior”, and decided, you know, that’s the job for me.
Sorry, not woke enough. None of those awards were given to men who want to be called Lorreta.
A copy of a Republican proposal to repeal Obamacare was leaked to Politico.
reposted this to the morning lynx.