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- ZARDOZ NOT SURE HE UNDERSTANDS THIS, BUT IS MOST LIKELY DISPLEASED WITH NEW LIFE BEING CREATED.
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From the Tijuana article:
So far this year, there have been more than 1,025 victims, according to the Baja California Attorney General’s Office, many of them believed to be connected in some way to the neighborhood drug trade.
I saw the headline, thought, “Drug related right?”, and I was not disappointed.
That article is messed up. It made me think of Razorfist’s rant about the border wall. It is shame what is happening there.
Just think, we could stop all of this now by ending the drug war.
Yep. Pointing that one out gets me strange looks from social conservative types followed by, “but when kids are involved” that then is followed by blank stares when I say, “it is illegal for kids to buy drugs, or even cigarettes now so what is your point? Stop the killing”
What is meant by “ending the drug war”?
Seems too optimistic. I mean, the cartels aren’t just going to decide, “Welp, drugs are legal now, intimidation and violence just don’t work anymore.” I want drugs to be fully legalized, but I don’t think legalization is going to be some panacea.
If anything, the promised peace of legalization will be thrown in our faces anytime cartel-related violence comes up: “See! You said this wouldn’t happen anymore!”
You’re going to have to legalize it all to see an effect, and most, the vast majority of people, won’t be ok with that.
That, and the cartels will just go to human trafficking as another form of smuggleable contraband.
They already have. It is more profitable than drugs.
1. Most people that want drugs want mj or coke or heroin. Legalize that and a huge chunk of their business goes away.
2. Legalize prostitution too.
See how little power the cartels have when they’re left with extortion and designer drugs or Medicare fraud.
Millions of people who buy individual health insurance policies and get no financial help from the Affordable Care Act are bracing for another year of double-digit premium increases, and their frustration is boiling over.
Some are expecting premiums for 2018 to rival a mortgage payment.
But, but, it was called the Affordable Care Act?! How can this happen?
That’s not the worst part. The worst part is that you cannot actually use it except for catastrophic situations because the co-pays and deductibles are so high. It’s completely worthless for the middle and upper middle class, we aren’t paying for healthcare, we’re paying for other people’s healthcare. This was done intentionally to usher in the idea of single payer. And it worked, the sheep are running to the slaughter house.
You know I’m being sarcastic?
Of course.
The good news is that AP is actually reporting bad news about Obamacare. I would have never thought to see that ever.
If people such as Thornton drop out, they not only gamble with their own health. Their departure also means the group left behind gets costlier to cover as healthier customers bail out. That’s counter to the whole idea of insurance, which involves pooling risk.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
Fuck you, Associated Press. The Democrats were told it was going to be this way and they screamed racism and evil Republicans want to throw Gandma off a cliff, then had an impromptu parade around the capitol with Nancy Pelosi waving the big gavel around like Mjolnir.
He also claimed that Britain has NO legal duty to hand over a “divorce bill” to the EU – but admitted we could carry on paying money to Brussels permanently.
If the UK doesn’t hand over a “divorce bill” and leave anyway, what’s the EU going to do about it? Invade?
Zarrdoz, you got me with #5. It took me a little bit to figure out I was reading pidgin. Good one big guy!
First!
In our hearts.
I’m drinking No Boats on Sunday cider. It’s pretty good.
High West’s Rendezvous Rye with a Boulevard Brewing’s Wheat back
Love that rye so very much.
It really is amazing, isn’t it? Yummy
Espolon, lime and soda.
Smirnoff, grapefruit juice, Perrier lime on ice.
Nice. That sounds good.
Is that you I hear in my kitchen egould?
*sips Smirnoff and grapefruit juice*
I am glad you brought Perrier
Brooklyn Brewery’s, “K is for Kriek.”
It’ll be neat to see how it compares to a Lindemanns’s Kriek or a Rodenbach.
Mortals make beer. God makes Rodenbach.
Could not agree more. My favorite Belgian (including Trappists) brewery. And that should take nothing away from the sublime character of a Westmalle Tripel or St. Bernardus 12 (since I can’t get Westvleteren).
This beer, OTOH, is brett heavy, and that really detracts from what should have been a flavorful, medium-heavy body brew. Too bad.
The first time I had a Rodenbach Grand Cru (in Antwerp, which certainly helped with the ambience) was like a religious experience.
As someone who’s had both the Westveleteren and the St. Bernadus. If you go to Belgium, get the Westveleteren, otherwise, the St. Bernadus is comparable… and actually able to be bought for under $30 a bottle.
I’ve had both. I’ll second Nephilium’s opinion.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I haven’t had anything by Rodenbach.
Doesn’t ring any bells – but I’ll look for them next time I make it back to Total Wine.
I’ve seen their products in beer stores in NH and MA, I just haven’t tried any.
They make sours. I’ve had their standard and their Grand Cru. If you like sours and raspberries, try them. If you don’t, try to find a sample in a bar, and back it up with something you like.
I don’t like raspberries, but I will probably just go get a bottle of their stuff. I doubt there are any bars near me that carry their stuff.
“I don’t like raspberries” Then you’re just wrong. WRONG.
Sorry. As someone who drink’s Redd’s, I have no room to criticize.
Berries (straw, rasp, & blue) and cherries are awesome, though. And you’re a bad person for not liking them.
G&T, made with Fentiman’s Tonic Water and Gin Mare with lemon over ice. My wife has joined me. She’s a bit fragile after last night’s celebration — killed most of a bottle of Prosecco and overslept four hours this morning. ?
It’s a holiday weekend. Good for you.
My GF is the same way if I over do it with the Old Raj/Junipero and (sad-to-admit) diet HEB tonics.
I really like Q brand’s tonic, for those not on monumental carb restrictions. Fentiman’s makes great stuff too.
As good as Prosecco and Moscato are, the hangovers are ouch. Then again, so are Sauternes, and damned if I’m going to stop drinking those.
Fever Tree is worth a look, too. Along with Fentiman’s, it’s my go-to.
Zardoz, if it pleases you, I would be honored if I could provide tonight’s musical selection. It is about someone you may know.
Clap For the Wolfman
No Werewolf https://youtu.be/YpKx1tQ6VG0
That was very cool. never heard of them. Checking out more now.
Modern band from LA with a very 60’s surf/psyche/Byrds sound. Glad you dug it.
That was cool, but it is hard to beat a Werewolfe with a Chinese menu in his hand.
RIP Warren. At least we still have Lou Reed.
Pentagram on my hand
Cool. Thanx.
Jeepers. That got me going down the Warren rabbit hole and re-watching his last appearance on Letterman. Wow.
*Wipes single stoic tear
-1 “tactical error in not going to a physician for twenty years.”
He had a few great one liners in that interview.
He did. Is (was.) there a better lyricist in rock?
Although, how the fuck do you get mesothelioma, and not work in the asbestos industry? Smoking, with asbestos as a component of the filters?
Who even knows what that dude smoked and or what through.
The WWII Liberty Ship construction was nearly asd bad as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawks_Nest_Tunnel_disaster only the deaths came much, much slower.
Ballsy name for a band in this day and age.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN MUSICAL ONE. ZARDOZ KNOWS NOT OF BRUTALS’ MUSICAL PREFERENCES. ZARDOZ WILL ACCEPT ANY HIS CHOSEN ONES DEEM GOOD.
Zardoz should be careful what he asks for…
Run away. Do not click.
Oh fuck! Thankfully I figured out what it was before she “sang” anything
I offer to Zardoz; Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever playing the great song “French Press” live on KEXP. https://youtu.be/phn7S0PYehQ
I’m gonna throw out a very cool and bluesy (and old) song from the Stones that I bet many people haven’t heard before.
Really? standard AOR song ’round these parts
Yeah. I “discovered” it on my own when I got the entire Stones catalog (digitally) from a guy at work years ago.
I should have known that the only people who haven’t heard it are the ones who live around here. The radio stations around here leave much to be desired.
That’s true of radio stations everywhere. Also, In reflection I was a being bit of a dick, what’s novel to you may be novel to many people, just cause I happen to be familiar with it doesn’t mean others are, as much as some people disparage social media, I have learnt of more diverse shit than I would have without it. and if experiencing new and exciting things isn’t a universal good than I don’t know what is. Ephemeral life and whatnot, etc.etc.
Yeah, I’ve known all the words for about 40 years.
It’s Mick and Keith trying to be Jimmy Reed so it’s great stuff.
It’s in regular rotation on Underground Garage.
For other Stones things (and thank you for the link! I’d never heard this before, and wouldn’t have guessed Mick at first listen.)
Anyway, run, don’t walk, to find “A Belgian Affair,” a sorta-official boot of their performances post-Exile and Some Girls. Fantastic from start to finish. Decent youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT4Ykmm0778
As good as Stop Making Sense and The Fillmore Concerts in my personal live concert list.
How about “Africa” from Toto?
That was great.
Shangri La’s “Great Big Kiss”. https://youtu.be/01YePzk29Mc
I’m kinda getting obsessed with this group right now. There is something trashy, and very punk rock about them. Even for a “girl group” they are subversive. Plus, alot of songs have sound effects and are melodramatic. It’s the “B-picture” of rock n roll.
They’re one of the main influences on my favorite genre, 70s NYC punk. NY Dolls, Ramones, Blondie, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers all owe a lot to the Shangri-Las. Hometown group for Queens. I bet Trump can name all their hits.
Johnny Thunders “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory”. https://youtu.be/TknY89kECq0
It’s raining in Long Beach.
Johnny doing “Great Big Kiss”
This is the part where usually Eddie and I would post Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn music all night. *glumly kicks can*
I’ve no interest in having kids, but if I did, I’d want to have them with a woman like Serena Williams.
I don’t get the Serena hate. Unlike her sister, I find her absolutely gorgeous, and I don’t normally dig black chicks.
Trying to think of a better lady tennis player and failing too. Martina? Monica before the stabbing?
Bobby Riggs?
+1 feeling a slight sting, the day of the match.
I dunno but I’m digging the rise of other players in the US Open with her out.
On the men’s side it’s still Rafa and Roger and some other people who don’t matter. Yawn.
Monster Energy Girl Mariel Lane is smoking hot
Alright, just did an image search. Can’t say you’re wrong.
Guy who still has a job thanks to Jeff Bezos buying the garbage he works for, bitches about what a terrible human being Jeff Bezos is for being such a dirty capitalist! Let me just say, as someone who has worked at an Amazon warehouse for over two years now, I’ve no real complaints about the working conditions.
Citation needed
What does that even mean?
He’s being an evil oppressive capitalist shitlord, and not paying his employees a fair wage! (As defined by this guy)
The lunatic ravings at WaPo are just a cover, I guess.
Zardoz has taken over. It’s a coup.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN POLI-SCI ONE. ZARDOZ HAS LIFTED YOU FROM BRUTALITY. HE HAS GIVEN YOU THE GIFT OF THE
GUNLINK. IS THIS NOT ENOUGH?BRUTALS GROW RESTLESS, NEEDZ MOAR ALCOHOL AND EDIT FEATURE.
Hey man, I don’t wanna get cleansed just for an edit button! Alcohol is on us… of course, Zardoz does deliver grain….hmmm.
Zardoz Brutal Bitter?
Cleansing Kolsch?
Enforcer English Ale?
ZARDOZ EYE PEE EEEEEEHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
SILENCE! THE HOP IS EVIL. ZARDOZ GIVES YOU THE GIFT OF AMERICAN ADJUNCT LAGER FROM ST. LOUIS TO DRINK.
ZARODZ SUNDAY EVENING LINKS
Who’s ZARODZ?
SFurrr, I mean ZARDOZ needs a new editor? And what is this, brutal, you been eating from the bush of good and evil, or what?When is the Z for Zardoz t-shirt going to be available? I love that image.
As soon as the movie enters the public domain? So never?
Alternatives?
The cartoony one from the front page of Glibs is the one I need.
I wonder what kind of sacrifices Zardoz likes
Charlotte Rampling.
Was it her who said something like, “All the most interesting people smoke,” during an interview? She’s a tad old for me these days, but damn she was a minx in the day.
Become homeless, problem solved.
This is all the fault of Trump, who is personally sabotaging Obamacare.
Yeah, because it was really great before Trump came along.
Oh, it was. It was perfect, and it was going to get better, and Trump’s destroying it.
These are actually things my liberal friends kept telling me before I got rid of Facebook in favor of my own sanity.
Right, and that’s the reason Democrats are ready to run on it. Oh wait, they just blamed the GOP, who didn’t give it even one vote, for not fixing it, then abandoned it for a pipe dream of single payer. Single payer is not happening because we cannot afford it. The Democrats know this as well but their idiot voters might run to the polls to vote for it.
They have not voted for it in one state that it has come up on the ballot in as far as I know. In CO it got crushed 80% to 20%. In CA once they ran the numbers and realized it would cost more than the entire current budget they stopped even talking about it. Only idiots like Sanders and Warren even bring it up because it is good talk to stick it to rich people which the drooling class loves.
These NASCAR throwback paint schemes are so sweet…too bad they’re on cars that look exactly the fuck alike
I almost went to the race today since Darlington is only about an hour and a half away but the new cars have made even Darlington a pretty boring race.
Fucking Christ, I’m stressed out enough without this goddamn hurricane which more than likely isn’t going to hit us head-on but still might and everyone freaking out.
Having to spend the weekend at a Florida Bar thing. At least I got to watch UF-Michigan yesterday with a bunch of Gator fans. We won’t talk about FSU-Bama.
Everyone here is freaking out. My mother in law just bought two generators and like 20 gallons of water. She also got me a double bag of charcoal, which was nice.
Where is “here”?
MB, SC
Monkey Balls, Seychelles?
Manhattan Beach, Shitty California.
Manitoba, Septentrional Country.
Massive Breasts, South Carolina.
Geeze you guys are juvenile.
I hope RBS does something about his gynecomastia.
You guys are dense. It’s obviously Musselburgh, Scotland. That’s why he writes with an accent.
Myrtle Beach is probably in the crosshairs more than we are in SoFla, but who knows at this point.
Rooting for the runs where it curves out to sea.
Horry county representin.
Generators are a bad idea. They gobble up gasoline (which usually cant be found in a disaster) so fast you cant believe it. I keep water (a few cases for drinking) and a water filter, propane – 7 five gallon bottles for cooking, a months worth of canned food, some first aid supplies, lots of batteries and flashlights, chainsaw with gas oil extra chain etc.
I keep that stuff year round.
Generator? no thanks.
I agree with you on gas but am a huge fan of the tri-fuel generators. I got one from Costco for $500 and hooked up an interlock on my panel (easy to do and prevents any chance of backfeeding to the grid). I just select which breakers to power; no need to fool with extension cords. If you’re lucky enough to have natural gas, you have no fuel storage concerns and it will run indefinitely.
I do not have access to natural gas so have to use propane. Used sparingly (not running constantly), a couple 20 lb propane tanks will keep my fridge/freezer/deep freeze running for a week along with other odds and ends, including the oil furnace in winter. No need to worry about finding fuel during an emergency, propane is incredibly easy to store compared with gas.
I forget, you’re in FL, right? The fucker keeps heading South, despite my best hexes to not do so.
It’s going to hit the US, it’s going to fuck up whatever it hits: I just don’t know how strong it’ll be, and how long it’ll linger.
Doesn’t look like it’ll be a fish storm at this point.
JB – if you need a place to escape to, we have plenty of room here in Tampa…
Wheeee – I got a vid.me account set up. Interesting format and setup. We’ll see if it goes anywhere. May see if I can do more to tie it into minds…still haven’t signed up for gab.
Anyhoo – right here.
Cool
From the rack behind your pic, Battle Royale and Delicatessen were both good. Only ones I recognized. I was disappointed with BR2, from what I remember – I don’t think I even finished it.
Let us know if you ever do reviews on Miike.
Also from the rack, does ‘Goodbye pork pie..’ have anything to do with Charles Mingus?
Don’t recognize the name. It’s a somewhat bizarre 1980 NZ road movie – PG but winds up with full frontal male nudity at the finale….a little weird.
Jazz bassist/pianist and band leader.
Haven’t watched BR2 – reviews were always garbage. I’ve got a couple Miike flicks, but probably won’t get to them anytime soon – looking for the more obscure flicks first.
Well, if you ever want to review Ozu, I have 2 or 3 on DVD (Inn in Tokyo, Passing Fancy, might have another). Pay shipping and the cost of a 24 oz. cider, they’re yours. They were interesting to me only because of his total rejection of ‘Hollywood’ cinematic style. Once you get past that, they’re fairly dull.
I remember liking BR2, but it’s been a long time.
Look in my eyes, what do you see?
The cult of personality
Still not President
That fucking guy taking the picture…
Totally gay
See, I could at least get the personality cult around Obama, because he’s got the race card, the vapid virtue signalling, empty slogans and a degree of charisma (if you can’t easily pick out narcissism) but the cult around Clinton is just bizarre. She’s completely devoid of charisma and can barely act like a human being.
God those guys were awesome.
Vernon Reid was a fucking beast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S4mUKbXEPU
Can I hate everyone involved in this?
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20562272/unions-refuse-hold-flag-cleveland-browns-opener
Yeah, but I hate the cops more. Bigger hypocrites.
I keep saying they shouldn’t play the national anthem before sporting events, and that having these oversized flags is repulsive — it’s the vexillary equivalent of a dick-waving contest.
But if you have to play the anthem and show a flag, invite a local high school band to play, and have them bring a couple members of the local American Legion to hold a normal-sized flag for one.
My suspicions all along.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/03/wwii-veteran-who-served-in-3-wars-soars-skies-one-last-time.html
***
A World War II veteran who served as a pilot in three wars got his wish on Saturday to take one last flight through the Kansas skies.
Sam Northway, 91, flew a WWII Army biplane around the Crossroads Hospice and Palliative Care after the staff, through its “gift for a day” program, joined the Commemorative Air Force to arrange the flight, FOX4KC reported.
“I never did want to go someplace in an airplane. I just liked to fly,” Northway told the news station.
Northway served as a Navy pilot and seaman during World War II. He recalled receiving letters from his “sweetie” then, but lost all the letters during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. He later joined the Air Force and served in the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Northway has always loved flying and is constantly fascinated with vintage aircraft, calling them “beautiful planes.” But his health has made it hard for the veteran to do a final flight, Northway’s daughter, Judy Northway, told FOX4KC.
“It means the world. The last year for him hasn’t been real great health wise. So for him to be able to do this is such a treat for him, and he deserves it greatly,” she said.
The veteran flew the plane for about 30 minutes and was overcome with emotion as the aircraft soared in the air.
“The earth looks beautiful when you’re flying over it, looking down. It doesn’t look like that when you’re on the ground looking at it,” Sam Northway said.
Northway said the flight brought back memories of serving in the Navy and Air Force.
***
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
He would have been 16 at most at Pearl Harbor.
Maybe he lied about his age.
***
“I was fifteen. But nobody knew it,” he said. “I didn’t even think I knew it. I didn’t feel like 15. I felt like everybody else around me.”
Barlow found himself in the Navy after he ran away from a Brooklyn orphanage. He was down on his luck when he strolled past a Navy recruiting station one day.
“I walked in and that’s when I asked, ‘Can I join the navy?’” said Barlow.
Using his older brother’s birth certificate and paying five dollars to a skid row drunk to sign his enlistment papers as his mom, Barlow became a seaman. And though he was a mere child himself, Barlow saw plenty of adult combat.
“You’d think if a 15-year-old, you put him behind a gun — that he would get scared and run away,” he said. “Nobody ran away.”
Barlow is one of an estimated 200,000 underage men and women who ran to enlist during World War II.
***
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3850523&page=1
I think that actually happened a lot
“Barlow found himself in the Navy after he ran away from a Brooklyn orphanage”
Obviously you mammals aren’t so lax about your property these days
I think I was around 25 by the time I was able to pass for an 18-year-old.
“WWII Army biplane”
Wait, what? Was it a reconnaissance plane?
probably a Stearman trainer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing-Stearman_Model_75
You know, it’s got to suck to be the guy who spend WW2 as a desk clerk, only to have your amazing reunion with the desk you wrote supply reports on seventy years ago.
Both my grandfathers had boring stateside jobs in the military during WW2. I don’t recall them ever going to reunions, though they did have some friends who served overseas.
One was getting ready to be a naval officer when the war ended and the other wrote training manuals for the army because he had flat feet.
They were both thankful that they did not get sent to far away or into battle. The one who was in the army nearly got sent to Chongqing, but someone else got picked instead.
Fun fact: the Commemorative Air Force stated out as the Confederate Air Force. Good thing they changed their name before the current hubbub.
BTW…what’s up with ZARODZ?
Nobody notices these things, do they?
Can anyone direct me to where HM corrected ENB’s husband? Sounds entertaining.
ENB’s husband? Wha?
Robby Soave.
I’m assuming that’s some sort of inside joke I missed somehow.
I was joking more on the commenters here going off on ENB and Robby even more than the other H&R regulars. (Well, other than Shikha and Richman.)
Here it is:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/01/06/making-a-murderer-and-malheur-militia#comment_5812476
Thanks !
This is the article that sparked it.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/mr-chili-man-tear-down-that-cosby-wall
I’ll have the relevant link shortly.
I agree that they should take down that mural of Obama.
I remember the sign in Ben’s when I visited that said “Only Bill Cosby and Barack Obama eat free.” I was wondering how they had responded, if at all, to the Cosby controversy a couple of years ago. I’d appreciate them not giving in to any pressure, regardless of my opinions of the two men.
Oh, you mean that comment thread where HM so terrified ENB’s boyfriend after I think two comments that she actually stepped in herself to make a sarcastic remark? Perhaps to provide cover while he picked up what remained of his dignity and hauled ass?
yes.
there’s nothing so pathetic as a professional wordsmith – an opinion writer, no less – who tries to defend his argument in public with nothing other than, “um, like, my ideas are obvious?” and when given a logical-smackdown, just waves their hand like “Ok, whatever” and runs away.
basically, if you can’t defend your dumb shit in print, don’t try. most especially, don’t try, fail, and then run away.
I’m re-reading the thread. I love the “plus, hi, liz and robby, are we still on for friday?” that he throws in for his first comment on the thread.
now rereading – the thing i find funniest? is that the first reply he gets is from the character playing “Robby’s Hair”, who says:
I liked that one too.
$20 bucks that was SF.
*good insight. he was practicing the hair voice
I’ve been decompressing and not paying attention to politics if I can avoid it as of late, but I noticed the fucking JournoList-style coordinated push of “alt-right libertarian racism” smearpieces online. It’s fucking disgusting that Reason are eagerly participating in this.
They’re desperate to distance themselves from the alt-right, and the easiest way to do that is to smear others and offer them up as sacrifices. Standard hysteric mob situation, accuse someone else of being the witch so you show you approve of the action against them and aren’t suspected.
Which won’t work with Progressives.
Well it ‘works’ to the extent that it buys time until they come for you. But I don’t expect Reason’s ‘Libertarian Moment’ writers to have any notion of long term strategy.
They are like me at age 14, desperately trying to find a tribe to fit into. “Sorry, Son, a snazzy suit and a fancy haircut might get you in the door but the Champagne Lounge will always be off limits for the likes of you!”
Agreed. There’s a fucking purge going on from Reason to the LP to Cato.
“Best Election Eva”!
Trolls are out in full force today over there. I think Sundays have always been the worse day for the trolls though. Not sure why that is.
From a linked reddit: “If you get three libertarians to sit down in a room the only thing they’ll agree on is that there’s only one libertarian in the room.”
Alternative versions of same joke:
Put 3 [fill in the blank] in a room, and they will start 4 political parties.
It’s like the not-as-fun version of my all-time fave: “Whenever you see four Episcopalians there’s always a fifth.”
And that there is no such thing as deep dish pizza.
I’m sayin’, whale sharks aren’t whales, catfish aren’t cats. Half the term is figurative, and since it’s deep and baked in a dish…
I disagree
When’s the last time the person who said that went to Reason? Pretty sure everyone who’d eat the Reason writers alive all came here.
There are more than a few still there from what I can figure out that’d fit in here that haven’t, AFAIK. Sevo, (Pro Libertate—if he even participates anymore), sarcasmic: I’m sure you all can come up with others.
There are also a bunch of yokel-s, who could fit in, but might eat a cat-butt or three along the way. Still, I found them interesting to read there, and if John can thrive here…
Glibertarians is yokel as fuck
I didn’t. No one sent me the memo. Thanks u thick crusted pizza, one drinking assholes.
Pbr drinking…
Fucking cowards. The only way to deal with a mob coming for you is with buckshot. That way you have at least a chance of winning and if you dont you take some with you.
Fucking cowards.
I like you Suthen, you got Grit.
Next alcoholic beverage for tonight is Picaroon’s Best Bitter.
A picaroon is somebody who’s only one-trillionth black, right?
I think I have a friend who just found out he’s a picaroon thanks to Ancestry.com and spitting on a q-tip. I mean, the “picaroon” term being accurate is the question, he definitely came back with something like 1% of his genetic bits being African.
Okay, that deserves a +1/2. Would’ve been a full point were it ‘picoroon’.
Seconded.
And pico de gallo is Spanish for one trillionth of a rooster.
Derp,
Any comments on the language used at “BBC Pidgin”?
A little background: pidgins are simplified languages that result from contact of groups that do not have a common language. Usually, the poorer/weaker group ends up learning a simplified version of the stronger group’s language.
The term pidgin itself is from the way Chinese traders pronounced the word “business”.
There are several kinds of pidgin English, including Tok Pisin (talk pidgin) in Papua New Guinea and Krio (creole) spoken in Sierra Leone.
In the past, pidgin was only spoken and standard English was used for documents. This is similar to the way people in Haiti speak creole, but read French. Lately, there has been a push to recognize the pidgins as separate languages and more people are writing in them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiizas:_di_Buk_We_Luuk_Rait_bout_Im
Thanks for the lesson.
Tok Pisin is a mash of numerous languages though. I was told it is several native languages, German, and English. I understood Nigerian pidgin much easier than pidgin in PNG. Tok Pisin is all but the national language there but outside of the bush most everyone speaks english due to the Aussie influence.
Yeah, Papua New Guinea is known for having like hundreds of languages due to their tribal societies.
It’s mainly a simplified version of English.
For example, “hair” in Tok Pisin is “gras bilong hed” (grass [that] belongs [to the] head).
There is also a creole based on German spoken in one region.
I worked in the Southern Highlands for a few years. To be honest, it was the last good job I had. It ended when the price of oil hit the shitter. In the bush they combine Tok Pisin with Huli and even some western province languages. I was told that Tok Pisin also combined German, but I am no linguist. The guys knew who knows many words for any given item. They just knew it. Some of the Hulis only spoke Huli and then it gets into weird. No discerning any of that. You have to be taught what something means in Huli. The main thing with them was to not piss them off. Fuckers will cut you up with a bush knife. We had that happen a few times. The low land guys are way more mellow and took to working on a job eagerly and learned new skills and where happy for it. Bring a bunch of Western Province boys into the Huli highlands and you get knife fights with big fucking knifes.
Don’t think it really falls under “pidgin” per se, but “Singlish” is a really interesting mish-mash of languages as well.
Featured pretty heavily in some of the movies I have from there. Not too difficult to pick up on, but it does help to recognize a few more Chinese/Malay words.
A statistics professor of mine during my undergrad years was from Singapore. He warned us that sometimes he slips into Singlish, and if he did, to let him know so that he could repeat in English. He didn’t slip into Singlish during any of the classes I attended.
Singlish is technically a “creole”, not a “pigdin”.
Is the difference French being the base language in Creole? I could google but I am lazy and I find this interesting when we have on hand linguistic experts.
That shouldn’t be it – there’s no French in Singlish at all – although they do describe it as a “creole” type language on wiki.
A creole is a “natural” language that people learn natively. A “pidgin” is more of a “code” that is not natively spoken. Has nothing to do with region.
Aaah. Ok, thanks. I associate Creole with french. The things one learns here. So at what point does a pidgin become a creole language? Any number of pidgin is spoken in many places as the natural normal language.
I think the crucial difference is that a pidgin is NOT spoken natively by anybody. But I’m no expert.
Remember that scene from Napoleon Dynamite where the goofs were being mocked by other goofs during their “Interpretive Signing” performance? It’s like that but requires two more rolls of Charmin to actually feel clean. That BBC folderal is toxic.
Heh. ??
why the week has 7 days
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But while the movement of Earth and Sun give us natural concepts like days and years and the Moon’s phases give us the month, there is no such natural reason for a seven-day week.
The number seven had a mystical significance to Babylonians. It was associated with the seven heavenly bodies; the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
For this reason, some believe, marking rituals every seventh-day became important. A seven-day week based on these same celestial bodies was adopted as far away as Japan and ancient China.
Seven is also important in Judaism, where the creation story is told over seven days. But unlike other cultures, in Hebrew the days of the week are assigned numbers not the names of gods, festivals, elements or planets – the only exception is Saturday, Yom Shabbat (יום שבת) which means Sabbath.
But the popularity of the seven-day week – and its prominence in modern calendars – can be traced to its adoption by the Romans.
They named the days of the week after the pagan gods of Rome, the Sun and the Moon.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/0/20394641
making the most of it
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
from wiki:
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American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. He made ground-breaking discoveries in the understanding of hysteresis that enabled engineers to design better electromagnetic apparatus equipment including especially electric motors for use in industry.
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Steinmetz suffered from dwarfism, hunchback, and hip dysplasia, as did his father and grandfather. Steinmetz attended Johannes Gymnasium and astonished his teachers with his proficiency in mathematics and physics.
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He changed his first name to “Charles” in order to sound more American, and chose the middle name “Proteus” after a childhood epithet given to him by classmates. Proteus was a wise hunchbacked character from the Odyssey who knew many secrets, and Steinmetz felt the name suited him.
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Despite his earlier efforts and interest in socialism, by 1922 Steinmetz concluded that socialism would never work in the United States, because the country lacked a “powerful, centralized government of competent men, remaining continuously in office”, and because “only a small percentage of Americans accept this viewpoint today”.
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Although Steinmetz loved children and family life, he knew that both his father and grandfather suffered from the same spine deformity that afflicted him. Therefore, he did not marry, for fear of passing on his deformity to any descendants.[6]
When Joseph LeRoy Hayden, a loyal and hardworking lab assistant, announced that he would marry and look for his own living quarters, Steinmetz made an unusual proposal regarding living arrangements. He proposed that Hayden’s new wife and prospective family move into a large house Steinmetz had already built with its own research lab, greenhouse, and office.
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After an uneasy start, the arrangement worked well for all parties, especially after the Haydens had three children. Steinmetz legally adopted Joseph Hayden as his son, and became the “grandfather” of the children, entertaining them with fantastic stories and spectacular scientific demonstrations. The unusual but harmonious living arrangements lasted for the rest of Steinmetz’s life
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fun fact: Mr Burns uses “Steinmetz” as an insult
“Quit cogitating, Steinmetz, and use an open-faced club… a sand wedge!”
“hysteresis” sounds like a condition prog women have
My type of shit
Nice, I can just about hear Miles calling them all Motherfuckers right behind that groove.
Miles was never all that crazy about the ‘jazzed up r+b/soul-jazz’. he was too highbrow to roll with guys this funky. he tried a few times (‘On the Corner’, ‘live at the filmore’;) but he was generally too cerebral and surrounded himself with ‘real jazz’ (read: not r+b) people.
Freddy hubbard was also on the ‘real jazz’ tip, but dabbled w/ the deep-dark-nasty funky stuff. e.g. things like this
here a very good keys player takes a Miles composition and slicks it up soul-jazz style on a Mk1 Rhodes
Miles was never all that crazy about the ‘jazzed up r+b/soul-jazz’
Hence him calling them motherfuckers* ,whether he was crazy about it or not those cats were taking what he fed them and making their own thang. Funky as they wanna be, but on the Davis hook, no doubt.
*based on his Autobiography he called everyone a motherfucker, here In think he meant it.
yes, i read the dictated-autobiography “Miles” book when i was in college.
(not ‘for’ college, just something i read for amusement while in school)
At the time I joked with people how he used “motherfucker” like other people said, “uhm”.
I later read 2 or 3 other books about him/which referenced his persona in detail. He was an unpleasant person by every possible measure. he grew up pretty rich in the st louis suburbs, and went to very good private schools, and later attended Julliard… but he spent his whole life trying to endear himself to crooks, criminals, pimps, pushers, and boxers. and he never stopped trying to learn how to box even tho he was a 100lb heroin addict and chainsmoker. and the only people he got to spar with were his wives.
* i have always been a fan of his music, and if i had to choose between Coltrane and Miles for ‘who was the better/more important figure’, i’d choose miles every time.
‘trane inspired “shredders” and the out-jazz/free-jazz people and the whole avante garde aspect of later-jazz.
Miles was sort of more like an “anti-bebop”. He basically reminded everyone that the point is to communicate “feeling”. If you can’t express an emotion with 20 notes, then you should just use 1 more-carefully played one.
He basically did the jazz version of Guru’s “its mostly the voice“. that if you don’t have personality, then its not worth playing the phrase. You need to have good tone, and you have to listen and only play what’s absolutely necessary. don’t bother ripping unless you can play tasteful short chops.
but he spent his whole life trying to endear himself to crooks, criminals, pimps, pushers, and boxers.
So a ‘true’ libertarian then? well if you add in Mexicans, that is,
anyway, the whole soul-jazz stuff has always been my shit because i love the blues, and i love great drummers. Throw in a little melody, a hammond organ, and a sax player? whammo = you’re good.
Time for a dessert beer.
Ha! I read that as “desert beer” and Keystone Light came to mind. Disregard me, I’m faced.
Try Shiner’s birthday cake stout if you can find it. I think you’d like it.
And if you want to try more blueberry stuff, I liked Wild Blue Blueberry from Flying Dog.
I don’t think any Shiner’s makes its way up here. If I see it either here or on a trip to PA, I’ll pick it up. Thanks!
I think I’ve had the Wild Blue Blueberry. I’ve had several Flying Dog beers. They make good stuff.
That time North Korea shot down a US spy plane, killing 31.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_EC-121_shootdown_incident
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The 1969 EC-121 shootdown incident occurred on April 15, 1969[Note 1] when a United States Navy Lockheed EC-121M Warning Star of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One (VQ-1) on a reconnaissance mission was shot down by North Korean MiG-21 aircraft over the Sea of Japan. The plane crashed 90 nautical miles (167 km) off the North Korean coast and all 31 Americans (30 sailors and 1 Marine) on board were killed, which constitutes the largest single loss of U.S. aircrew during the Cold War era.[1]
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The Nixon administration did not retaliate against North Korea apart from staging a naval demonstration in the Sea of Japan a few days later, which was quickly removed. It resumed the reconnaissance flights within a week to demonstrate that it would not be intimidated by the action while at the same time avoiding a confrontation.[2]
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Coming almost immediately after the USS PUEBLO incident and considering the later DMZ Axe Murders (which lead to Operation Paul Bunyan) I’d say we’ve been incredibly patient with the regime all things considered.
Particularly when you take their additional attacks on S. Korea into account – such as the assassination attempt raid on the Blue House, and much more recently sinking the CHEONAN and shelling Y P Do.
Forgot to note that if you take the USO DMZ tour (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED), the bus ride takes you right by the plaque for the axe murder incident – you can see it, but they don’t let you disembark.
Here’s an article from the author of Black Hawk Down on the situation:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-worst-problem-on-earth/528717/
Short version: we have 4 options
1. invasion
2. limited strikes
3. assassination
4. do nothing
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In David Halberstam’s book The Coldest Winter, he described the memories of Herbert “Pappy” Miller, a sergeant with the First Cavalry Division, after a battle with North Korean troops near the village of Taejon in 1950:
No matter how well you fought, there were always more. Always. They would slip behind you, cut off your avenue of retreat, and then they would hit you on the flanks. They were superb at that, Miller thought. The first wave or two would come at you with rifles, and right behind them were soldiers without rifles ready to pick up the weapons of those who had fallen and keep coming. Against an army with that many men, everyone, he thought, needed an automatic weapon.
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I read that the reason the armistice negotiations dragged on so long was because a lot of the commy POWs did not want to go back.
Never get involved in land wars in Asia
Have you read TR Fehrenbach’s This Kind of War?
Time for me to dust off Allan Millett’s books and push my way through them.
from War Is Boring
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Fehrenbach argues: Accept the fact that the public will not accept limited wars of choice and an army of citizen-soldiers at the same time. An army of drafted soldiers will not believe in the war, and thus make poor soldiers.
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good point
I’ve said before that Mattis should start carrying the swagger stick from the Axe Murders incident.
Here it is:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/01/06/making-a-murderer-and-malheur-militia#comment_5812476
I had never actually read through that before. I like how ENB tries to defend Dipshit by saying, “He doesn’t really mean it.” I hope she held his hair back as he sobbed and puked after the vicious bullying he received.
Heh! HM swung through on a ship’s cable , corsair style and cut his genitals off in one fell swoop. Poor Euron.
North Korea-
It is incomprehensible to me how anybody can characterize the DPRK as an “existential” threat to us. If they somehow landed a tactical nuke on American soil, or on an American protectorate, the damage would be like a minor case of the sniffles compared to the lethality of the (no doubt conventional) response. A DPRK strike would probably cause less damage than Hurricane Harvey.
The world is an existential threat. A rusty nail is an existential threat. They throw that term around to justify slaughtering innocent people.
Trump to end DACA?
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/03/trump-dreamers-immigration-daca-immigrants-242301
I don’t get it. If it’s so controversial to ditch it, why did it take Obama to shove it through in the first place…?
Because Congress wouldn’t pass it when he was President? I actually think congress should do something here and give the so called “Dreamers” a path to citizenship if they are not MS-13 or some other hoodlum. How Obama did it was way outside of constitutional action though.
I tentatively agree depending on the details.
I can hear the faintest rheeeeeee from here and I’m five hundred miles from the border. If I had a heart it would have warm cockles.
Speaking of the Rolling Stones, you know you always have the Lord by your side.
sounds like a graham parsons song
A notebook? Come on people.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/03/mom-pulls-gun-during-walmart-back-to-school-scuffle.html
I didn’t know they even had schools in Michigan.
Always shocked when during a chimp-out on Hard-Core Pawn someone doesn’t pull a gat and start firing wildly.
This watch is worth 500 bucks! Gimme my money, bitch…or I aint leavin
The tell is when they get hustled out the door and the remote mike drops out of their shirt. That’s some yummy “reality”.
I love Les, but his kids are shits
Louis Winthorpe III: Fifty bucks? No, no, no. This is a Rouchefoucauld. The thinnest water-resistant watch in the world. Singularly unique, sculptured in design, hand-crafted in Switzerland, and water resistant to three atmospheres. This is *the* sports watch of the ’80s. Six thousand, nine hundred and fifty five dollars retail!
Pawnbroker: You got a receipt?
Louis Winthorpe III: Look, it tells time simultaneously in Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Rome, and Gstaad.
Pawnbroker: In Philadelphia, it’s worth 50 bucks.
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5 of those 6 cities are in the same time zone…
For anyone who didn’t know, the pawnbroker in that scene was B.B. King.
Great movie.
That was Bo Diddley. I agree, great movie.
lol yes it was bo
“in philly, its fiddy bucks“
“That watch is so hot, it’s smokin’!
Bo is also featured in the video for “Bad to the Bone” by George Thorogood.
If it was a Trapper Keeper, I can see it.
“Trapper-Keeper Is One!”
Now all I can think about is that South Park episode.
I’ve never been able to think of anything else since that.
i don’t know why this made me laugh, but it did.
for some reason, school supplies in the 1980s were a big thing.
Trapper Keeper is what all the rich kids had.
*grumble*
Guess that’s why I don’t know what that is. Either that or because I’m older than dirt.
It was the luxe notebook for us eighties kids – binder, folders, like a whole system. I actually bought one with my meager allowance one year.
Yep. Trapper Keepers were more than a status symbol. They were that, but they were actually functional as well.
i can’t even remember *what it was*, but only that it was a thing that kids bragged about in junior high
it was like the Ocean Pacific t-shirt of school supplies. no one understood why it was socially valuable, but it was
i myself did all my schoolwork in blank ‘mead’ notebooks all through college. i never had a computer or word-processor until the late 1990s. when i was in school i typed papers up in the computer center. i am still sort of ashamed of the fact that my handwriting has collapsed to a chicken-scratch, because for half of my life, i did everything by pen, and it was pretty darn elegant. now i can’t even sign my name in a way that isn’t a spastic scrawl.
This is exactly the model of Trapper Keeper I had.
I’d do anything to have it once again. Except search on ebay for it.
The seventies font kills me.
it needs a flat-top and hi-tops to go with. and neon shorts.
Reebok Pumps all day, every day.
boooooo. I will always be dedicated to the gen1 jordans
i still think they’re dope and would gladly drop $100 for a pair
NERD ALERT1!!!
Jonah Goldberg makes a lot good points in this:
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Fighting Nazis is a good thing, but fighting Nazis doesn’t necessarily make you or your cause good. By my lights this is simply an obvious fact.
The greatest Nazi-killer of the 20th century was Josef Stalin. He also killed millions of his own people and terrorized, oppressed, enslaved or brutalized tens of millions more.
Nazism was evil. Soviet Communism was evil. It’s fine to believe that Nazism was more evil than Communism. That doesn’t make Communism good.
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Most tribal hatreds are between very similar groups. The European wars of religion were between peoples who often shared the same language and culture but differed on the correct way to practice the Christian faith. The Sunni-Shia split in the Muslim world is the source of great animosity between very similar peoples.
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Because antifa suddenly has the (alt-)right enemies, they must be the good guys. They’re not. And that’s why this debate is so toxically stupid. Fine, antifa isn’t as bad as the KKK. Who cares? Since when is being less bad than the Klan a major moral accomplishment?
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http://nypost.com/2017/08/17/fighting-nazis-doesnt-make-antifa-the-good-guys/
Antifa and the alt-right are just the political version of the Bloods and the Crips.
Old news, but worth saying.
Flip sides of the same coin
Antifa and their allies probably outnumber the Alt-Right by two or three decimal places. I don’t like Nazis, the KKK or Outlaw Biker Gangs for that matter but that doesn’t fill me with an urge to get my bike lock and bear spray out of storage. Even when I was younger and more rambunctious the only reason I could find for splitting heads was strictly personal and had nothing to with somebody wearing a t-shirt with a slogan that irked me.
Me too.
Except the Crips don’t run around calling anybody who’s not a Crip a Blood.
“It’s fine to believe that Nazism was more evil than Communism.”
Well, actually it isn’t, since it’s not true.
I wish people could say this more simply.
Most of the wars of the 20th century weren’t between the extreme right and extreme right,but between flavors of the left.
Communism vs. fascism, were both ‘left’, as far as i’m concerned. the wars between the right and left happened in the 18th and 19th centuries. the ones in the 20th century were between which aspects of the left would have the most power.
You’re correct. Fascism was really a hybrid ideology of socialism and nationalism as was of course National Socialism. Mussolini was a lifelong socialist as was his father. The first fascist all came from Socialism. Since the left control the media and acedemia, they can call Nazis and Fascist right-wing just like they can call statists liberals.
American leftists have been calling Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and even moderate Democrats Nazis for decades. And after all that crying of wolf, they have succeeded in neutering words like Nazi and fascist.
You’d think they’d learn something from that.
It’s really one flavor of authoritarianism vs another. The left/right paradigm is horseshit, cosmos/yokels notwithstanding.
yeah sorry, i screwed that up i meant
but it seems you got my point
i don’t agree the left/right paradigm is horseshit. it does more or less accurately posit some different ideas on a spectrum.
but i think once that binary spectrum was created, it created a huge intellectual crutch for idiots to describe every disagreement as “left vs right”…. when in fact most times the ideas were clustered in one narrow area of the spectrum, and didn’t really have anything to do with any “Hobbes/Rousseau” conflict at all.
Yes, and if the Holocaust had not taken place, the progs would probably be lionizing Hitler and Mussolini today as socialist heros. But since it did, they associate them with their political enemies. Just as they associate the old terrorist arm of the racist Democrat party the KKK with the GOP.
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In monasteries, the basic structure of the diet was laid down by the Rule of Saint Benedict in the 7th century and tightened by Pope Benedict XII in 1336, but (as mentioned above) monks were adept at “working around” these rules. Wine was restricted to about 10 imperial fluid ounces (280 mL; 9.6 US fl oz) per day, but there was no corresponding limit on beer, and, at Westminster Abbey, each monk was given an allowance of 1 imperial gallon (4.5 L; 1.2 US gal) of beer per day.[14] Meat of “four-footed animals” was prohibited altogether, year-round, for everyone but the very weak and the sick. This was circumvented in part by declaring that offal, and various processed foods such as bacon, were not meat.
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unlimited beer and bacon? hell yeah
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The overall caloric intake is subject to some debate. One typical estimate is that an adult peasant male needed 2,900 calories (12,000 kJ) per day, and an adult female needed 2,150 calories (9,000 kJ).[20] Both lower and higher estimates have been proposed. Those engaged in particularly heavy physical labor, as well as sailors and soldiers, may have consumed 3,500 calories (15,000 kJ) or more per day. Intakes of aristocrats may have reached 4,000 to 5,000 calories (17,000 to 21,000 kJ) per day.[21] Monks consumed 6,000 calories (25,000 kJ) per day on “normal” days, and 4,500 calories (19,000 kJ) per day when fasting. As a consequence of these excesses, obesity was common among upper classes.[22] Monks especially frequently suffered from obesity-related (in some cases) conditions such as arthritis.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_cuisine
gilmore’d
I larfed.
https://pics.me.me/antifa-came-out-with-a-new-tank-class-low-speed-20560550.png
I really don’t want to know what’s going on in the gunt area there.
I thought we were fighting AntiFat.
You guys joke, but I think that is an antifa ninja turtle ready to roll into action.
ditto
https://i.imgflip.com/1u3u8k.jpg
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I am a 22yr old lesbian from Indianapolis. My favorite thing to do is masturbation. (early internet chat rooms were FULL of HOT Horny lesbians looking for cock, the internet is so much more boring now)
UCLA MAKES 34 point comeback to win over A&M!!!! AMAAAAAZING
I see things like this, and it helps me understand how the national debt got to where it is.
http://www.teapartynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screenshot-2016-01-28-10.29.56.png
Off by a factor of a million.
That has to be satire or something.
Math was never the Italian’s strong suit anyway.
Andalusians hardest hit?
nice side-by-side
Dave Sirota is an idiot and a disgrace. I’m sure he posts often on Twitter.
Sirota’s article was penned a while ago though. How was he supposed to peer into the future to see Venezuela’s economic model was untenable?
Well it was an economic miracle to lead the country with the largest oil reserves in the world into abject poverty. I mean could you do that?
I”ll just leave this here.
I think I might be the only VR Glib here, but have to comment now. I had a few people ask me about VR pr0n, which I still have not experienced. I’ll just leave this. Get yourself a headset and play Lone Echo. That shit IS visual pr0n, you’ll get it. You will no longer wonder about what VR pr0n will be like, you’ll completely get it.
Grab a drink, relax, and enjoy a master doing his thing.
John Lee Hooker putting on a blues guitar clinic
what’s funny is that the guitar style of the hookers and the muddy waters and the other blues progenitors were mostly really just “rhythm chops”. Things you did with high-action, one position playing. the idea of blues lead playing is mostly the product of the “kings” (bb, albert, freddie). what the early guys did was mostly just mild variations of rhythm and picking. it wasn’t until the kings that the blues went crazy.
I was hoping you’d check in on this. Knowing nothing about guitar playing, pretty much anything looks impressive to me. Well, I mean I can see/hear that JLH isn’t a guitar god, but he still makes it sound much better than I could.
Like this little bit of awesomeness
single line guitar playing was defined by jazz guys until the 1960s
basically, charlie christian, django reinhardt, and herb ellis/charlie byrd
but then the blues players showed up. and it became less about imitating horns, and more about imitating the human voice.
* or really, a counterpoint to the voice. the guitar isnt playing the melody, its dancing around it
AND THEN WE FAST FORWARDED 20 YEARS AND THE BEST SHIT EVER HAPPENED
sorry. i’m on an idris muhammed kick. but G.Benson and G.Washington are both lead line players here.
This is one of my all time favorite blues. His rhythm is amazing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M
I’ve seen RL play live a few times. Jon Spenser dragged him out in the mid 90s. He’s a beast and revitalized the whole punk blues thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CEWyHC-iAk
monsters aint in it
Yes, good stuff. I had a couple band mates in the last 90’s that loved Jon Spencer. I regret not going to a show with them that had RL on it. I’m sure you’ve seen the Alan Lomax doc. Just some unbelievable good music. The Dave Stewart bit with RL was pretty funny too.
my brain is seriously still adjusting itself from the monumental rockitude of the shit Jspenser and RL burnside did in the 1990s.
i think i basically said, there’s no point trying to be danker than this
so i decided to play with electronic intruments
For a long time I really avoided electronic music, because I played an acoustic instrument, but living with a friend in the NL that really loved it cured me of that. It really is a whole nother level of fun sounds.
my idea of creative music is somewhere between fripp and aphex twin
Man dead after running into the flames at Burning Man festival
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/03/man-dead-after-running-into-flames-at-burning-man-festival.html
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The man who ran into Burning Man festival’s signature burning of a towering effigy has died, a sheriff in Nevada announced Sunday.
Burning Man organizers said Aaron Joel Mitchell, 41, an attendee of the counter-culture festival, ran into the blaze at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said the man ran through a human chain of security officers.
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The festival culminates with the burning of a towering 40-foot effigy made of wood. Attendees have tried to run into the flames as a symbol of rebirth.
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[head desk]