Apologies for the tardiness- I have now had two computers in the past three days ascend to join Jesus in Heaven. So my planned football-themed links may be a bit abbreviated.
The top news is, of course, The Juice Is Loose. Now more than ever, we need common-sense knife control laws.
Trump tweets. Everyone goes nuts. Rinse. Repeat.
I used to think that Chinese drivers were the worst. I’m starting to revisit that prejudice.
As a former semi-pro flautist and current child molester, I wonder if they’re going to try to pin this one on me.
Here’s hoping that Joe Flacco manages to exceed his passer rating from last week (an impressive 12- I didn’t know the numbers went that low).
The Juice Is Loose.
The Juice was never tight.
So my planned football-themed links may be a bit abbreviated.
Here’s another football link for you:
Heart problem for Dani Carvajal.
I was talking about FOOTBALL, not Wear Short Pants, Grab Knee, And Roll Around On The Ground.
Wear Short Pants, Grab Knee, And Roll Around On The Ground.
That describes the children who exit your van.
That’s not the knee.
It’s the heinie.
Dat link functioneert niet.
Now more than ever, we need common-sense knife control laws.
We also need common-sense envelope control.
First, second, and third, and all of them related to the links.
“The Juice is loose.”
Are we finally going to get another Naked Gun movie now?
Can they bring back Leslie Nielsen?
No. But I hear Lou Reed is available.
+1 Peter Cushing
And the not-so-subtle suggestion of laziness in Trump’s tweets is just more of the same racially coded language that the President has trafficked in since the day he announced his campaign
CNN’s free donations to his reelection are quite generous.
A good Republican President would sit back passively until the narrative of federal incompetence was set, a la New Orleans.
Chris Cillizza almost seems proud of his intellectual laziness. He has this quote in his Twitter bio “”One of the dumber and least respected of the political pundits.” — Donald Trump.”
Islamic flag notwithstanding, has to be a Charlottesville copy cat.
Does this mean I can forget attaching a Canadian flag to my backpack anymore?
Okay. Mulvaney is on FOX right now, and is being hectored about the tax proposal. Some “tax think tank” has come up with a bunch of imaginary tax cuts for income groups. Surprisingly, the richest 20% see the biggest cut. So, if these “analysts” can give us a dollar amount for how much the tax bill for some random Chester P Moneybags will be *reduced* that must mean they have a number for how much he would pay.
Where is that number? How much will be siphoned out of his pocket, compared to the tax paid by the imaginary middle class American taxpayer?
Why don’t they make that comparison, in the interest of fairness?
It’s the politics of envy. I don’t give a damn how much the rich guy saves, what does the plan do for me? If he saves a bit more percentagewise I’m not too concerned about it.
‘Why don’t they make that comparison, in the interest of fairness?’
They ain’t aiming to be fair.
The greatest North American alive is Rex Murphy:
http://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-kneeling-during-anthem-applauded-when-political-scorned-when-done-in-prayer
When Tebow kneels during the anthem people hate it because….religion. When done to make a SJW point….AWESOME!
You just kind that article because he sounds the first two paragraphs fellating a Canadian.
^So very this! And haven’t there been African-American football players who made similar expressions of Christian faith on the field with nary a peep from the press? Double standard much?
Rex’s column on Antifa was on point and pulled no punches. Newfoundland’s favourite son, to be sure, my buddy.
I find they’re more like communists with a spattering of left anarchists.
Oh, it will be said, that’s different. Their “take a knee” is political. Tebow was dragging religion onto the field. Pause awhile. In the age of fervid identity politics it takes a subtle mind to distinguish creed from cause. For many, politics has either taken the place of religion, or, at the very least, operates with the same intensity and dogmatism that used to characterize religion. Politics goes to identity the way prayer used too. Protest is just old prayer “writ new.” The fact that kneeling was the posture chosen clinches the analogy. Tebow kneeled in faith. The players kneel in protest.
There’s not an inch of difference between the two — save as Don Cherry lucidly pointed out — one bunch are heroes, and Tebow, well, he’s just an out-of-date Christian hick.
Fuckin eh.
The whole “he/she is so brave for doing what everybody else is doing” thing annoys the shit out of me.
You know who was kind of brave? Mahmoud Abdul Rauf not standing for the anthem in all white Denver in the 90s took some balls. Whatever you think of what he did, he willingly became a pariah for practicing his beliefs. He did it all by himself in a hostile environment.
Yeah, the “he’s so brave” stuff makes me chuckle. I do believe a lot of those people consider their bravery to go beyond that of those who stormed Normandy.
I read that as “semi-pro flatulist” at first
That too. Le Petomane was my idol.
I didn’t know people began to tattoo their eyes?
Jesus.
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/eyeball-tattoos-could-lead-to-blindness-and-severe-infections-doctors-warn
Dumbshit sticks a needle in his eye and goes blind.
I am having a hard time working up sympathy.
Don’t tattoo me
Finally, a tattoo on women that’s not a tramp stamp
Oh, goody. They’re going to talk about football, next. Soon, I will know what to think.
Don’t any of you people sleep?
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!?
NOT WHEN I’M ON VACATION
Plenty of time to sleep when I’m dead.
Indeed
I will soon.
https://www.leafly.com/sativa/durban-poison
I have two grams of concentrate of this awaiting me around noon. The buds from the following harvest should be ready in about three weeks.
From what I’ve looked at, the extra six weeks of growth needed before harvest makes it one of the rarest and most sought after strains in the country.
Iza happy Hippie.
Wanna send ole Archie a few seeds??
I think they are clones my man
Re the flutes.
That’s why I never leave home without my ultraviolet flashlight.
Letters to the Local Rag: Shades of Eddie Edition
I did not see that twist…
Oh, that reminds me of something I just read from Alan Korwin, speaking of driver’s manuals:
DMV is very slow to act.
Inconceivable!
I bet pulling some of their funding would speed things up.
In VA, you have no need to reveal unless asked. I often hear stories of it going both ways. Sometimes, if you volunteer, the officer couldn’t care less about the firearm but does really appreciates you volunteering, maybe even giving you a warning instead of ticket as a thank-you. Sometimes they have a complete freak-out about your legal firearm even if you volunteer. My buddy had one officer remove every single bullet and dumped them onto the ground for her “safety”.
. My buddy had one officer remove every single bullet and dumped them onto the ground for her “safety”.
Someone that afraid of guns, and the general populace ought not be given the public trust to handle firearms in a law enforcement capacity.
Agreed, this was on the interstate too. So he had to very dangerously collect his bullets afterwards while standing next to traffic shooting through at 70 mph.
What an asshole of a cop. My father typically hands his conceal carry card over with his license. He has never had a problem with it.
I may be mixing up two different stories, but I believe this was the same incident where the cop also didn’t believe his CCW was valid in Newport News (where he was stopped) because it was issued by the Virginia Beach Circuit Court. Her supervisor ended up coming out to the scene and chewed the idiot officer and let my friend go. Ironically, my buddy ended up becoming a cop himself, but one of the few decent ones (at least I like think so).
This was at least a decade ago, so I think the cops are better educated now as the CCW has skyrocketed in popularity. I’ve never been pulled since getting mine, but if/when it happens, I’ll probably just hand over my permit like your father does. It’ll come up in the system anyway when they run your license so I’m not sure of any benefit to not volunteering.
Newport News, that explains it. My interactions with them indicates that they hire from the cheapest pool of potential employees available.
Whereabouts are you? I’m up in Williamsburg, although I work in Newport News.
I’m on the other side of the state now, in the middle of nowhere south of Roanoke. I grew up in Norfolk though.
South of Roanoke, yeah that’s middle of nowhere.
Cool museum there in Newport News. I used them for some research on a Chris Craft I used to have before whats her face number one talked me into selling it.
Y’know, I’m dumber than a bag of hammers. I could have volunteered to do the college visit trip with my son to W&M and UoR but the wife and I pulled straws and she ended up with the job.
Coulda stood you a couple of beers and a pack of chips.
Mariners Museum, one of the best museums in Virginia.
6, if you ever do head down here, just let me know. I’d enjoy a meetup.
I’ll be in Williamsburg again in a couple weekends for drill – normally available after 5 PM Saturday (not sure what time I’ll get down there on Friday due to traffic and I drive back to Cville as soon as I finish on Sunday).
If #6.2 ends up at W&M I’ll definitely be down there from time to time.
I think that’s a smart move, and an issue I’ve considered, on and off, every time I see a news item about some fucked-up vehicle stop where a legal permit holder has a less than wonderful experience with a cop.
Over and above whatever your state laws are, there’s plenty of room to fuck up, even if you’re not actually carrying. Do you announce or not, when the state laws do not require you to do so, just out of courtesy/caution? I’ve asked cops in my town, and there’s no consistent answer (and seemingly no explicit policy) which makes me conclude that declaring verbally that I am carrying, in those first moments of the stop, is a risky proposition, and could sound like a threat. Giving them the information in a nonverbal and ‘official’ format seems far more prudent.
I’ve asked cops in my town, and there’s no consistent answer (and seemingly no explicit policy) which makes me conclude that declaring verbally that I am carrying, in those first moments of the stop, is a risky proposition, and could sound like a threat. Giving them the information in a nonverbal and ‘official’ format seems far more prudent.
This. My CCW permit sits right behind my driver’s license. In the event that I’m stopped (hasn’t happened yet), I’m pulling them both and handing them over.
Don’t any of you people sleep?
What else am I supposed to do in this big lonely empty bed?
*makes big-eyed sad face*
Please tell me you don’t own rabbit slippers.
Duck slippers.
RABBIT SLIPPERS!
Godzilla slippers http://www.bunnyslippers.com/shop/Godzilla-Feet-Slippers.html
Wait… is that some STEVE SMITH slippers on that page?
I guess, if Steve Smith painted his toenails yellow. But that Steve Smith is a slippery bastard, never know what he’s going to do next.
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS KNOW WHAT GOING TO DO NEXT… RAPE.
Letters to the Local Rag: Deep Thoughts Edition
‘Huh? In every picture, Adam and Eve have belly buttons.’
This guy just answered an age old question.
Are any of these things actually happening with greater frequency or severity than they have in the past? Or is the media just reporting it that way to imply that it’s Trump’s fault for badmouthing the Paris Agreement?
Gaia is a vicious, vengeful bitch. How dare America thwart her priests?
Probably not, but there’s more people in the way.
Please tell me you don’t own rabbit slippers.
I tried that, but the rabbits start to smell bad after a few days.
Rage inducing paragraphs of the week
Who cares if the self-employed are getting royally screwed?
“The vast majority of ACA enrollees ” see that there. That is what we can call a switch. So most ACA enrollees get subsidized. Most people aren’t on ACA though. What about people on private insurance?
If you’re buying privately, you’re on an ACA plan or you’re getting fined by the IRS.
I pay about $18K a year in premiums for a family of 5 right now, I expect that to pop up to $22K or more next year. Just so I can get maternity coverage, drug treatment coverage, psychiatric coverage, and a bunch of other stuff I neither need nor want.
Hmm I guess I didn’t understand that. Well another but if dishonesty is that while 85% may qualify for subsidies, it doesn’t say how much. Those subsides are for some people. And just ignores the other people, who get no aid, because they are rich. Even if that is 85% of people in the United States getting subsides, the richest 15% aren’t millionaires.
For reference, the income threshold for a family of 5 when subsidies kick in was about $110K this year. When I ran the estimators and adjusted my income to $105K the subsidies totaled up to about $5K. When I set my income to $110K, there was zero subsidy.
Exactly. 85% sounds like a lot, but while 5000 off of 22k is better than nothing, it doesn’t help with the other 17k to pay.
I’m in the top 15% and I don’t feel rich. I mean, I was able to buy some beer last night and I own a cart that still runs. I mean all of that without government assistance. Does that count as rich?
‘car’, seems like a cart sometimes though.
Reading the VA Pilot is guaranteed to induce rage.
Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Fires. Earthquakes. Floods. What’s next, locusts and boils? Where’s Moses when we need him?
Don’t we have a volcano on deck, someplace? Indonesia, maybe?
*gazes hopefully in direction of Yellowstone caldera*
I think there’s one on Bali that may be erupting, and there was one in Vanuatu too recently.
The one in Italy is rumbling, or so says The Sun. That’s a science journal, right?
Something to think about the next time a panhandler hits you up for money
Back when I was a teller, I would occasionally see large amounts of money like that. I don’t know how stupid you have to be to think that that is enough money to be worth being in the run for the rest of your life.
It’s a bad movie plot come to life.
Maybe the teller in this case just REEEEALLY wasn’t in the mood to fill out that daggone Currency Transaction Report!
Ugh I hated those. And then there was that other report that you were supposed to file if you ever saw something suspicious, but not illegal or regulated. Just something that ‘made you feel’ off. But you weren’t allowed to tell anyone you had filled it out. Just throw me in communist China already.
Yup – the Suspicious Activity Report. I have to go through an online training class on that Bank Secrecy Act crap every year even though I’m just the admin assistant to the head honchos of a credit union and only set foot in a branch as a CU member. All the requirements essentially make employees of financial institutions into slaves for the feds, forced to invade the privacy of our members.
Yup. At Wells Fargo I remember it being called the ‘unusual activity report’
This is what I think about.
Bill Foster: Let’s see your car registration as a matter of fact let’s see your car.
Seedy Guy in Park: All right forget it ok just forget it, that’s a hell of a way to treat a vet man.
Bill Foster: You’re an animal doctor.
Seedy Guy in Park: No a vet, a veteran, I was in Nam man.
Bill Foster: What were you a little drummer boy, you must’ve been 10 years old.
Seedy Guy in Park: I meant the gulf, I meant to say the Gulf. Jesus, come on all I’m asking for is a little change I haven’t eaten in 3 days
[has sandwich in hand]
Seedy Guy in Park: well I mean except for this, ahh Fuck it come on man just give me money, Just give me some money
+1 too late for breakfast
The vast majority of ACA enrollees – about 84 percent nationally – qualify for a premium subsidy, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. In Virginia, 83 percent qualify for a tax credit or a subsidy.
Think of all the money we’ll save when we shift everybody on Medicaid to the ACA plans!
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/01/europe/catalonia-spain-independence-referendum-vote/index.html
Jesus Spain. Do you want a civil war? Because that’s how you get a civil war.
But maybe this time Republican Spain will win…
Can’t be any worse managed than what Madrid has been doing.
The next couple Els Clàssics ought to be interesting.
‘The Juice Is Loose’
I don’t necessarily have a problem with that.
I think(purely speculative, obviously) his decision to engage in armed robbery wasn’t necessarily premeditated. It clocks out more along the lines of an impulsive action by an unhinged, over-privileged athlete unaccustomed to the far more Spartan lifestyle awaiting him.
Granted, I believe he probably should have been convicted of murder years before this particular event transpired, but* any actions in the past, including those responsible for the acquisition of his memorabilia by way of civil court(Christ, I’m stretching here. I’m positive this a ridiculously shitty argument but I’m too hungover and in need of coffee to offer up anything better) in the first place shouldn’t factor into the sentencing.
From what I’ve gathered, scumbag that he is, he was also a model prisoner and has served the time required by law.
Oh, shir!
*but
Point of contention between a friend and I.
Comma before or after but*.
*shit
Goddammit.
What the hell is going on around here?
Sunday morning is never pretty.
I don’t have a problem with that either. He’s an old man and he stayed out of trouble in prison-they release far greater risks to society on a regular basis.
Yeah, I think any chance of O.J. violating the law, much less the NAP, is pretty damn slim at this stage of his life.
I just hope he does the honorable thing and shuffles off into the sunset. But I have have this weird feeling he’s going to be sucked into the BLM/Antifa movement. Whether he wants to be or not. My money is on not, but it may be out of his hands in a few months.
Just a gut feeling. No empirical evidence to back this up.
I don’t see the man who said (paraphrased)”I’m not black, I’m OJ” in response to a reporter asking him about standing up for civil rights joining up with BLM/antifa.
Good old OJ, he’s my favorite living double murderer.
What he said. I’m blacker than OJ.
The only time Sarah Silverman made me laugh out loud was when some TMZ paparrazo asked her what she thought about OJ getting convicted of robbery and she shrugged and said it was like Pacino getting the oscar for Scent of a Woman.
Ha! I’m not a big Sarah Silverman fan myself but I thought Jesus is Magic was pretty good.
Or Scorsese for that hot mess The Departed.
But Trump didn’t pardon him, obviously because OJ is black.
From what I’ve gathered, scumbag that he is, he was also a model prisoner and has served the time required by law.
I agree. set him loose.
Looks like the Spaniards are putting the wood to the Catalan separatists who want to hold a peaceful referendum.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/crunch-time-catalonia-holds-independence-vote-043806211.html
Damn, missed that higher up in the thread. My bad.
Seriously starting to wonder if there’s going to be a civil war in Spain
Catalonia clearly wants independence, and Spain knows that their economy would end up making Greece’s look good if Catalonia leaves.
This is why I should refresh after walking away for 20 minutes.
At least all three of you had different articles.
Interesting situation. I think Madrid fucked this one up pretty badly. Had they just treated it as a cute bit of theater, the question of constitutionality would be more compelling. By going in and beating up old ladies, they probably just converted a lot of people to independence.
Yup. I was more lenient to the argument, “you have to follow the given exit procedure”, but when this is how you respond, well why would you act differently when the ‘procedure’ is followed.
With our luck though, these serious separatists will form an alliance with Islamic terrorists, and then the US will ‘have’ to intervene…
You couldn’t come up with a better recipe for a violent revolt. If people aren’t allowed to speak their mind peacefully there is invariably trouble and it doesn’t help that Spain has a large number of chronically unemployed young men.
Madrid has a number of problems – they only just managed to get ETA to stand down and de-escalate the Basque separatists. They have the Galicians, they’ve got into discussions with granting the Canary Islands a certain level of autonomy as a sop to the Canarian Statute of Autonomy, and then you have Ceuta, Spain’s very own version of Gibraltar, but a Gibraltar that wants self government. Most regions of Spain have active, vocal and militant separatist movements.
So, the message that these separatists get should ideally discourage all the others.
People forget that Spain was historically a divided peninsula. It’s only been one for 600(+- a few) years. To Americans that seems like a short time, but in areas that have string historical ties, that’s not too long ago.
Consider how many centuries various Euro central governments/kingdoms ruthlessly oppressed their “minority” cultures, languages, and such (Catalonia, the Basque region, and Wales come to mind) and yet the languages and cultures still refuse to die.
My understanding is the pro-exit Catalonian politicians engaged in bit of political shenanigans in getting the vote on the ballot. Got an errand to run so I can’t look that up.
The Juice Is Loose.
I wonder if he has wised up and settled down enough in old age to not get himself arrested again?
Last night I watched the Evel Kneivel Documentary. I would go rip around on my mini bike and jump stuff after watching Evel to his thing. He inspired many a minibike crash alll across the country in the 70’s. Good times. There is a lot in that movie that I did not know. I wish I had 1/8 of the ability to BS like that guy had. What a shister and salesman. I also did not know he was from Butte MT.
Since I screwed up before, I’ll add something new:
Barcelona asked the Spanish Football Federation to postpone their match today due to the referendum. Not happening
And to make it even more fun, their opponents (Las Palmas) will be playing with Spanish flag patches on their uniforms.
Link for the Spanish flag patch pic: https://twitter.com/UDLP_Oficial/status/914430897587392512
I’m glad someone’s got perspective on this issue.
As a former semi-pro flautist and current child molester, I wonder if they’re going to try to pin this one on me.
Still waiting for a summer camp joke…
All the requirements essentially make employees of financial institutions into slaves for the feds, forced to invade the privacy of our members.
SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING
I miss the good old days of snitches get stitches.
Well, I had the standard noob homebrewer panic of “no bubbles, no foam1!1!11!!!!” this morning. Of course, my kitchen ambient temperature is 60*, so that may have something to do with it.
*lugs the carboy down to the nice, warm basement*
It’s one of the disappointments of living the DPRCT, and presumably Nuevo Airstrip One in general – winter brewing is an ongoing fight with maintaining a reasonable ambient temperature, while not pissing the family off with the smell of happy yeast. When I used to brew, fall evenings were often dominated by attempts to position active musts in appropriate locations.
Did you get your kit online or did you go to a local shop to get it? I noticed somebody opened up a home brew shop in my podunk town. I haven’t been in there yet. I have been meaning to get into the homebrew scene for years but have never got around to it.
Cultivating a relationship with the local store is gonna be useful in a couple of ways. I benefitted from this a number of years ago when I started out using a mail-order kit (back before this innertube thing). Utter failure. Went to the local homebrew store and the the guy said – those kits are OK, but you won’t get anywhere with the yeast they sent – try this – and he sold me what I seem to remember was a champagne yeast, for the lager I was brewing.
Things like water chemistry can affect your brewing success – and I’ve done nothing in homebrewing for years – but I got lots of advice from that local store keeper. Maybe homebrew websites have enough subscribers now to entirely replace the wisdom of a local store owner, but maybe not.
I bought the kit from morebeer.com. I got the yeast from a local shop yesterday.
I’m not super happy with the kit that I bought. The core equipment is fine, but the kit was missing some easy-to-include pieces of equipment that aren’t exactly obvious to somebody who had never done this before. I have a hydrometer, but no sample tube or wine thief. There were no grain bags in the kit. It would’ve been nice if they included a funnel (my kitchen funnels evidently got lost in the move). All in all, about $10 worth of stuff that would’ve kept me from having to run out to the store 3x yesterday.
run out to the store 3x yesterday
So it is pretty much like any plumbing project one might undertake.
Plumbing, electrical, automotive….
Thanks for the info.
What is this carboy of which you speak?
*glances into spare room where 16 plastic gallon water jugs are filled with muscadine wine fitted with balloons over the mouths*
Oh, one other thing – if you’re brewing beer, and you had the choice between making x gallons and 2x gallons, greed is good. I always found that stabilizing and maintaining the temperature of a larger batch is far easier.
Some of my worst winemaking attempts were experienced trying to ferment half-gallon batches.
RDWHAHB.
Sorry to hear that the kit didn’t include the sample tube and funnel. It looks like MoreBeer changed what they included, my starter pack had both included, as well as a couple of grain/hop bags (the reusable kind that now sit on the rack, because they’re a PITA to clean). I’m making a nice nut brown ale today, really simple recipe which basically means I sit and wait for long periods of time.
It has changed again since I bought the kit (2 or 3 years ago). It now includes everything that is necessary to brew. Reflecting on brewing day, it was fairly simple. It will be simpler the next go around. The only thing that was a bit of a pain is cooling the wort, so I may invest in a wort chiller in the future. Today I spent $5 to get 5 grain/hops bags for next time around. Chopping one bag into pieces worked, but it would be easier if I could prep everything before even getting the water started instead of sharing bags. Mise en place seems to work well for brewing.
I want to do as close to a full-boil method as possible next time. Having 2g of wort at the end was a bit disappointing, and it was annoying to have to maintain temperatures of two pots (wort and sterile water), and I didn’t even have enough when i added the sterile water. I’d rather end up with 4g of wort and top of with 1g of cold water.
I’m still cleaning some of that liquid malt extract off of various things. I’m guessing it’s probably better than the powdered stuff for some reason, but I’ll be happy to just dump some powder into the pot next time.
LME (liquid malt extract) and DME (dried malt extract) are equivalent. Both are just processed sugars concentrated down to specific levels. DME usually keeps better (as long as no moisture gets near it at all). Be aware that DME is about the same consistency as powdered sugar, so that will dust things near where you pour it out as well. LME (at least the canisters I used to use) has the advantage that you can just dump it in, then use the hot water to rinse out the canister, and you’re done.
If you measured your water before and after, you now have your boil off rate, which is a very nice piece of data to have. I’d also suggest you look at picking up a bucket to ferment in as they’re a lot easier to clean then the carboys. And for the carboys, I would highly recommend carboy caps with blow off tubes over any airlock.
Girls with big tits are the opposite of Literally Hitler™.
http://archive.is/cA5GT
5, 11 and most especially 19. Yowza.
Are 4 and 31 the same girl?
No matter – 4, 29, 31 and 39.
#27 is a repeat, and I’m picking her again. Also #12, she has that girl next door look
#2 will boil your bunny. I also wouldn’t put it past #36
4,13, 36
Don’t say I didn’t warn you
All I can do is remind you all that this is me.
Nice jumpsuit.
I gotta watch that movie again. Yet another one that could never be made today.
Funny. I’ve never seen that.
*Makes note to look for The Kentucky Fried Movie on Netflix
*Makes note to get Netflix
I think the whole movie is on youtube, actually.
It’s worth watching, because IIRC, this was made in the Carter years. The first skit talks about alternative energy.
Oh it is. Thanks #6.
And finally, I know where I got the “This is not a chawwade” from …
Christ! Did a cow shit in here?
A couple of interesting points about KFM.
Made in the 70’s and already had Detroit nailed as a place to avoid
Appallingly insensitive to minority groups in general
Seemingly willing to skewer what would now be seen as ‘protected groups’
Pretty much wrote most of the Roger Moore-era James Bond movies
Oh, how hollywood has fallen ….
7 and 10
I’m not feeling all that well today. I’ll take two of #41 and see you in the morning.
Another Amish knife attack in Marseille. The attacker was heard screaming something about a snackbar. So we can expect the attacker’s motive will forever be inexplicable.
Could be a very dedicated false flag operation (considering the perpetrator was gunned down).
The attacker was heard screaming something about a snackbar.
Did he happen to say hello in Hawaiian right before?
I think the bearded one was imploring people to go to the snackbar
Allez Snackbar
*EDIT FAIRY BLESSES YOU*
*hangs head in shame*
Truck carrying Hindu flag plows into crowd in Edmonton
Um, to the Staff: Is there any reason that you’re aware of that prohibits a link to leafly.com?
Over the last day or so I’ve attempted to post a link to their website 3 or 4 times and the comment has been rejected. Not sure why.
drugs aren’t family-friendly, man. choose life.
To be sure drugs aren’t family friendly….
What if one has no family yet is generally friendly?
Not saying that’s me of course. I’m a moody, unstable prick. 😉
Anywho, fuck the link. Riven! Durban Poison is heading my way soon! It’s one of the rarest, most sought after strains on the continent. Iza a happy Hippie!
Congrats! I’ve heard tell of that strain and it’s all been good.
As for where your comments went, for some reason they were relegated to the cornfield (aka the spam folder). I’m not sure why, but I fixed those specific glitches. I don’t know if it’s because it’s a leafly “product” link or what, but I’ll keep an eye out.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for fixing the glitch.
We fixed the glitch.
Would.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/teacher-arrested-inappropriate-relationship-student-article-1.3461173
I’m a big believer in not sticking it in crazy, and any teacher that had sex with a student is probably high on the wrong end of the hot/crazy scale.
In all these “female high school teacher fucks student”-stories (and crusty seems to find them all)… the chicks are invariably, objectively, pretty hot.
which makes me slightly bitter about my own, ugly, ex-hippy HS teachers; but also curious as to why they’d be attracted to under-developed 16yr old guys to begin with. you could say its no different than male attractions to teens: “youth is sexy”; but i’m not sure that’s entirely it. all the girls i knew in hs and college tended to confess guilty-attraction to *older* men – not sure why women in their 20s-30s would suddenly get steamy for the same pimply, awkward kids they’d been rejecting only a few years earlier.
My instinct tells me its some power-thing; which isn’t saying much, everything is ‘some power thing’ on some level (h/t marx, foucault)… but i think its something specific to do with the fact that its unusual for a young, unmarried woman to be in a position of authority over teen males. more than that, i’d need to consult a prison psychiatrist.
True. Though a lot of these stories, the teacher is married.
Also I find it odd, that this is dropped from rape culture discussion. Now I believe that in most of these cases the sex was consensual even if legally the boys couldn’t give consent. But if we are going to play by she rules, then they need to own up to the fact that this is far more common than they want to admit.
Oh, that’s gotta sting. “My wife cheated on me with a virgin”
Well, could even be revenge. It is a bit disappointing when the body you thought you married starts to change a bit.
A foolhardy or honest man (but I repeat myself) could easily make the accidental observation that “Yes, maybe your ass does look fat in that dress” and she’s off to the races.
In this case it’s a young, unmarried woman, but other recent stories include young married women. There was one, about 2 weeks ago that the Daily Mail covered.
Three pictures, one with her husband where she was young and pretty fit, one with a couple of pupils, where she was a bit THICCer, and the booking picture which was only a head-shot, but she was looking somewhat porcine.
So, I think it may well be a position of authority issue, but I think there’s a a bit of “The bloom is off the rose” to it in some cases too.
yeah, that makes sense too. but still weird for a 26yr old
It also seems way more common now.
There are also feminists like Germain Greer who advocate having sex with boys.
I wonder if part of it is a lame attempt to re-live HS themselves.
I know back in the day, some of the girls status was dependent on what guy they were with in HS, at least in their empty heads.
Were the fucking her too?
Just their sons.
Where were these teachers when I was in school?
Dammit.
Anyone else notice all of these female teachers boinking their students appear to be white?
RACIST!
Go Catalonia go!
RIP Monty Hall
96 is a hell of a run, especially for a Canuck.
He is going to get the prize behind the big door #3 in the sky.
If my stats class taught me anything, it is that he should switch the doors after the first reveal.
BAYES!!!!
The cartoons draw themselves, don’t they.
In tribute
Antifa is doing their part! Are you?
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9873
I’m still giggling like a schoolgirl at that Antifa Anthem by Dr. Randomercam.
HA! Nice.
The art form of stuff going into other stuff?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/30/maggie-gyllenhaal-pornography-is-art-form
I totally didn’t see that coming.
That’s pretty much the Hollywood version of IANAL (which I always pronounce “I, Anal”) – so I’ll give her a pass on that one.
I generally like her so, sure. I only skimmed the article and that line stuck out.
I’m at risk of re-evaluating Gyllenhaal’s stature as a social commentator, unless that interview was heavily re-edited after she gave it.
you get 36 for spiking the ball.
TW: The opposite of the chive links.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/4564824/five-women-reveal-how-they-learned-to-love-their-imperfections-as-survey-uncovers-body-confidence-crisis/
The link is not promising ….
… and the article delivers.
You’re a bigot if you can’t put 200,000 years of evolutionary biology behind you apparently.
Would you have sex with a pre-op transsexual? No? Bigot. I rest my case.
Shut up, Justin. Or is it Riley now?
I just had breakfast here! What are you trying to do to us!?
Trump- making Beelzebub look like a model citizen
Amid Trump’s nuclear brinksmanship and social-media provocation toward North Korea, amid the swollen gorges of water streaming through Puerto Rico, amid the craven and indefensible attempts to gut health care, amid the slower-moving crises of voting access, economic inequality, and climate change—amid all these things, Trump yet again found a novel way to diminish the nation he purportedly leads. He has authored danger in more ways than there are novel ways to denounce it. This is his singular genius. When this moment has elapsed, when some inevitably unsatisfactory punctuation has concluded the Trump era, we will be left with an infinitude of questions. But Trump, we will assuredly understand, is a small man with a fetish for the symbols of democracy and a bottomless hostility for the actual practice of it.
Methinks this writer does not think highly of the man.
Well, do you support Hitler? Do you?
The Norks would totes be making nice if it wasn’t for Trumpenstein. They’re a peaceable people when they aren’t axe murdering tree cutters.
Like all criticisms of the man that is completely lacking substance.
I just heard a commenter on TV claim that he called football players SOBs while he referred to the neo-nazis in charlottesville as very fine people. Lying motherfucker lies. Keep it up shitheads. I look forward to you getting your sorry asses handed to you in 2020. Stir up Antifa, that will help.
Who could have ever seen this coming?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-homeowners-leaving-illinois-20170919-story.html
I personally know 4 families who have left Venezuela North for exactly this reason.
I just say some fuckwit pinko on teevee the other day claiming that people dont run away from high taxes and lowering taxes does not stimulate business. In fact, according to him higher taxes stimulate the economy.
Leftism = denial of reality with a heavy dose of boot-on-the-necksim.
What kind of person is attracted to that?
That’s pretty amusing given the commercials I see all the time claiming that “taxes are going down in NYS – a great place to do business!”
Nobody seems to be being taken in by that. There’s a limit to just how far you can use propaganda, when the bread lines are getting longer.
No, because you have to go to Albany hat in hand and bend the knee to get “favors”. These thieving scum are the fucking definition of double-think. They know goddamn well taxes are too high but they don’t give a shit.
Brookings Institution demographer William Frey said that when people move, it’s usually for employment, and not necessarily because of taxes. Most of the people moving are in their 20s and 30s, are establishing themselves in careers, and are relocating for job opportunities. (Emphasis mine.)
Maybe there’s a connection there, eh?
Kevin Williamson on the ruling class and waste.
You mean the wrong kind of off-brand Kardashian, compared to our former FLOTUS?
“Our elected officials ought to be paid reasonably well (and they are) and they ought to have the resources needed to do their work in the most effective manner (which they mostly do). But they also ought to keep in mind that every stick of furniture in their offices, every gallon of avgas they burn, every kilowatt-hour of electricity keeping the lights on in Washington, and every dollar they spend is ours, not theirs, and held in trust. All that private-jet travel may be nickels and dimes in the greater scheme of things, but we might be more confident trusting these men with the big things if they showed a little more prudence with the little ones.”
I think there are legitimate reasons why a senior government official might be justified in taking charter aircraft, but I think it should always be subject to strict *but impartial* scrutiny, regardless of the party running the show.
My firm has, on occasion, had need of getting me to a few places at very short notice, at great speed, and sometimes, a charter really is the only way to do it. But I don’t get to make that call, even if the costs are directly tied to my discretionary budget.
In the government’s case, isn’t the GAO somewhat involved in this? Some gray eminence whose job it (currently is) to oversee this specific kind of discretionary spending?
I am with OMWC in saying it is a good thing Price got himself shit canned over all that but it would be better to just close the whole department. The thing that gets me though is I have been bitching about this for 30 years but it only gets the spotlight when evil R’s are in power. Sebelius tells Bloomberg she had to fly economy. Bullshit she flew economy. You are telling me the HHS secretary went through TSA cattle lines with the rest of us as she was flying around the country at break neck speed to sell the failure known as Obamacare? My ass. She may have only flown one charter flight, (which I don’t believe either) but I bet the rest was military or gov owned/leased planes. I am not buying it. There are flagrant abuses of government travel in every administration. One of the perks of having an R in the White House is the asshole journalists actual report on it.
“Honest? Honest as the day is long.”
Given Trump’s goofy fixation on private jets as a symbol of luxury, it should come as no surprise that an astonishing number of his cabinet members are ensnared in scandals involving air travel, whether on private or civilian planes: Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is in the mix, too, though for slightly different reasons.
They’re just throwing whatever they can find at the wall to see what sticks.
“Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is in the mix, too, though for slightly different reasons.”
Like, because she pays for her own shit fair rather than sticking it to the tax payer like these other retards.
Retard is right. Their boss is a guy who isnt taking a taxpayer funded salary. What were they thinking?
Fails to file required travel reimbursements?
‘a trivial distinction!’
Wasn’t Price essentially forced to resign though? They should give Trump credit for discouraging taxpayer funded ostentatiousness.
But John Travolta having his own airport and 747 is totes OK. M’kay
707 and he’s donated it to a museum.
Stop ruining my narrative!
P.S. Thank you for correcting me.
Not to worry, he still has several smaller corporate style jets.
PLUTOCRAT!
And I believe he’s qualified on the 747 via Qantas.
All of this focus on travel and not one question about why cabinet secretaries should even be on the road in the first place. I can see visiting subordinate agencies to see what’s going on and if they’re doing their jobs but this speeches to conferences is bullshit. Take an axe to the whole rot.
How else are they going to get a vacation at an Aspen resort if they didn’t give speeches? Like I said above, I have been bitching about this for 30 years. It burns me. I am with you. There is no reason for most Cabinet secretaries to ever leave DC.
OT:
Obamacare fucking sucks. I had a brief period of non-coverage because I switched jobs, and I went the entire month of September with no coverage (my new insurance officially kicks in today). I was trying to avoid the penalt- oh, excuse me, the TAX – so I went to the “marketplace” to look for insurance. The cheapest plan it gave me was $195 a fucking month.
Here’s the point I’m trying to make: Democrats assured everyone that their “experts” had taken every single factor into consideration and that this program was going to work great. They said this would be the end of health insurance worries for everyone. They said only those evil rich people would end up paying more. They said they had all the right incentives in place for individuals, employers, and insurers. In short, they promised a silver bullet. Yet, here we are in 2017 – and the Republicans haven’t touched the thing as of yet – but it seems like everyone is still having trouble paying for health insurance.
Yet, free market people are always in the hot seat when it comes to healthcare. Why are Democrats not being taken to task for this mess?
Ripping Obamacare is never OT. And yes, it does suck. It’s sucks donkey dick. I would argue that they have been taken to task electorally; they are in a weaker position in terms of pure number than they have been in decades. They will never be taken to task by the media since the media are part of them, and they’ll never be taken to task by Republicans because most of them either fundamentally agree with Obamacare or are just plain cowardly.
Because intentions and stated goals are all that matter, not actual outcomes and certainly not the methods.
Is this the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States? Robert Dallek, the presidential historian, and the author of the new book, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, seems to think so. Runners up in that ignominious category, he told me, were Ulysses S. Grant, who presided over the widespread financial collusion that came to be known as the Whiskey Ring scandal, and Warren G. Harding, whose administration was marred by bribery over oil reserves, in what came to be known as the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Dionne, The Washington Post columnist, isn’t surprised by the incompetence or corruption of the Trump administration, pointing to the president’s refusal to genuinely cede control of his golf resorts or hotels, which have predictably come to function as cesspools of influence peddling.
“When, philosophically, you don’t have a lot of respect for government as an institution,” Dionne says, you aren’t likely to show a lot of “respect or deference” for the rules and norms that limit the power of the presidency. So we are stuck with Trump and his hapless thieves, chased by inspector generals as if this were all some screwball comedy of the 1950s.
Speaking of politics-as-holy-war…
These Trumpistas are the very personification of evil. What sort of depraved fool cannot see that?
He wants more Trump? This is how he gets more Trump.
They are certainly working their hardest to get me to break my vow that I would never vote for him ever. I suppose schadenfreude is as good of a reason as any.
Probably far better than “It’s her turn” or “because vagina”.
‘pointing to the president’s refusal to genuinely cede control of his golf resorts or hotels, which have predictably come to function as cesspools of influence peddling.’
I’ve been thinking lately about the scandals. There is a part of me that is annoyed with the left for harping on them. But I try to figure out why. I mean I don’t like corruption, and I want people to hammer any politician for it. But this quote was enlightening to me. It’s the fact that I know that they don’t actually care about it. If they did then the left wouldn’t lament Hillary’s loss. The sad story is that both parties put up corrupt individuals candidates. But it gets my goat that the left refuses to acknowledge that.
“STFU and do what your betters tell you.” The distillation of every WaPo article ever.
Aww man, that got my blood boiling. “You don’t respect government, therefore you are morally suspect” is amongst the worst non-sequiturs I’ve ever read.
Yes, Trump is just horrible. Hillary should be president instead because it can’t be said that she’s guilty of anything that can be called influence peddling, right guys?
This opinion piece from the Chronicle of Higher Ed actually argues that diversity isnt the point of Affirmative Action because now AA arguments are being used to let in people with WrongThink viewpoints like icky libertarians. I shit you not:
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Academic-Ethics-Is/241249?cid=trend_right_a#comments-anchor
Obviously. LOL
“Individuals do not choose their race, though we might hope they choose their political views, yet the post-Bakke consensus in higher education about diversity is now being exploited on behalf of a chosen political ideology. And while libertarians are about 1 percent of the electorate (and thus are dramatically overrepresented in legal academia where they account for between 5 and 15 percent of the faculty at most major law schools), social conservatives of the Ted Cruz stripe are, indeed, underrepresented in the professoriate.
The correct rejoinder, obviously, is that Ted Cruz’s worldview (with its denial of climate change and its fictions about Obamacare) involves a panoply of falsehoods that a scholarly community should not welcome. But perhaps that misses the force of the objection?
Conservative appeals to “diversity” should be understood in the spirit of the 19th-century arguments of John Stuart Mill in On Liberty, which, in turn, were indebted to the views of Wilhelm von Humboldt, who shaped the modern idea of a research university in Germany two centuries ago. In the view of Mill and Humboldt, even false views can be a stimulus to nondogmatic belief in the truth, since they force us to articulate and understand our reasons for holding our beliefs.”
Assuming other views must be false doesn’t seem very scholarly.
“And while libertarians are about 1 percent of the electorate”
What? Who wrote that? I mean, sure libertarians are a small minority, but it’s closer to 15%.
great minds, etc.
Capital L libertarians maybe.
I assumed the thinking was that libertarians always vote for libertarians, when the truth is they mostly vote for Republicans or don’t vote at all.
Here’s an exercise…replace all the political terms with “Jews”.
Brian Leiter is vile human being, despite being usually good on academic freedom.
“Individuals do not choose their race, though we might hope they choose their political view”
I’ve thought about this argument before. It is obviously bullshit. It’s the idea that this form of discrimination is ok because people can choose their ideologies. It totally good counter to freedom of conscience. Private institutions can do what they want, but for public institutions…
Citation needed. I would think libertarians are more in the 5-15% area. I would also argue that there are many more libertarian leaning people out there who haven’t been exposed to libertarianism and would likely embrace it if they knew what it was.
It’s people like the author of that article that remind me of why I’m happy to no longer be a part of academe. Those peoples’ worldview is so myopic it’s unbelievable.
Yes, it’s that. They live in a bubble which they’ve intentionally purged of everyone with dissenting viewpoints, such as conservatives and libertarians, then declare that those people don’t exist outside of a fringe 1%. The 1% they have yet to discover and purge. This is where they get bullshit like 97% agree with us!
At the risk of going Hihn, the authors are conflating Libertarian election results with libertarian beliefs. Are they that fucking stupid to try and use that as a yardstick? What’s the percentage of leftwing nutjobs in academia versus overall election results or the general population? Yeah, STFU.
Yes, I suppose you’re right again. OK, well I’d be happy to play their game:
Yep, libertarians are grossly over-represented in academia. We shall immediately start to fire them and make the numbers match “the electorate.” OK, that’s done. That was tough, but necessary work. Next, let’s compare the number of lefty professors to Jill Stein’s election numbers…
Exactly.
‘Oh whoops. No doesn’t work that way for us. Please wait. Moving goalposts again.’
If there are any libertarians among faculty in academia, they’re keeping their mouth shut about it, lest they be driven out by the outrage mob. Seriously.
It’s not just academia, unfortunately. My wife is a taking a calligraphy class, not part of any school or college and she’s complained about others, not the teacher, needing to interject their politics and views into a calligraphy class.
*shrugs*
Or, people who aren’t Progressives just don’t feel the need to emblazon every single political and religious view they hold on their sleeves.
That too.
So academia is openly and actively creating a communist bubble using tax dollars. For years I have said that the so-called elite class needs to go. These people are next.
The funny thing is that when America goes full Khmer Rouge, those same academics are near the front of the line at the quarry.
I think it was Sevo that posted this on TOS yesterday. Nice speech given to Oxford students.
https://youtu.be/BtWrljX9HRA
Higher Ed is working overtime to become utterly irrelevant.
I’m looking forward to the day when universities (as we know them) are relics of the past. I think at this point, they’re basically coasting on respect and prestige that were built up in previous generations, and they’ll soon deplete those reserves if they don’t change course.
These institutions are laughably outdated, yet our government seems intent on keeping them alive through subsidies and occupational licensing requirements that make it necessary for people to get an expensive piece of paper from one of these places.
We live in the Internet age. You can learn anything you want online, whether it’s independently or as part of an online study program. Sure, most of the hands-on occupations (surgery, auto mechanics, etc.) will require that you do some physical work under the tutelage of a professional, but even in those cases, a lot of the “book learnin” can be done online.
Get rid of subsidies for colleges, government involvement in student loans, and occupational licensing, and I bet we would soon transition into a lean, efficient higher education system. Such a system would provide focused career education without the insane costs, political indoctrination, and other problems that arise from treating college like summer camp for adults.
I think that’s the way we’re headed. I predict there will be a few traditional campuses left where the leisure class can send their kids, but normies will learn 95% of what they need to know online. Even ignoring the indoctrination angle, physical campuses don’t really serve any function except to prolong adolescence and delay productive work. Because of all the rent-seeking and absurdity, it’s also become prohibitively expensive. Were I to have a child that wanted to pursue higher ed, I’d say to go to Community College for the first 2 years while either working or interning, transfer to whatever state U happens to be close by for the last two years while continuing to work, then graduate. If you want to do more than that, you’re funding it yourself.
I also think it’s a bad thing to pressure kids to go to college immediately after high school if they’re not sure what they want to do. Most kids at that age aren’t dead-set on a certain career, so why is it such a terrible thing if they go work in a factory or something while they make up their minds? Heck, doing some kind of full-time, unskilled work would teach them some hard but valuable lessons about the realities of the job market. It would also give them a chance to save up money for their tuition instead of just taking out loans.
Most kids at that age aren’t dead-set on a certain career, so why is it such a terrible thing if they go work in a factory or something while they make up their minds?
Unfortunately, the true choice for most kids isn’t between working in a factory or going to college. It’s living in mommy and daddy’s basement “taking a year off” or going to college. If parents were actually parenting, their kids would major in something useful in college.
/rant on
People can’t be absentee parents for the first 15 years of the kid’s life and then blame society or colleges or whatever else for the fact that their kid is directionless when they graduate high school. Many parents dump their kids into public school and wonder why their kids aren’t making adult decisions when they graduate. Hint, hint… it’s because you didn’t parent them, and when you finally did try to parent them, you lacked any de facto authority because your kids found authority elsewhere many years ago.
At some level, parents have stopped being the voice of reason when kids are deciding what to do after high school. Paying sticker at an elite private school to get an african flute history degree? Flat insane! Majoring in something that doesn’t appreciably change their job prospects? Crazy! Fucking around for 6 years at a 4-year school, blowing mommy and daddy’s money on kegs of beer and abortions? Absolutely nuts! Setting expectations is part of parenting. Extinguishing financial support for bad decisions and a bad lifestyle is part of parenting. Telling your kids “no” when they want to do something stupid is part of parenting.
/end rant
If parents were actually parenting, their kids would major in something useful in college.
Or have a plan for establishing their own adult lives once they graduate.
(Changed the paragraph, but forgot to adjust this sentence to reflect)
From comments:
“There is another group that was enslaved for thousands of years, beaten and robbed wherever they moved to, even subjected to industrial scale mass slaughter.
But they bounced back stronger than ever, to take leadership positions in business, law, media, finance, etc.. Affirmative action didn’t do that for them, culture did.”
And the reply:
“Are we really back to this old argument? “The Jews did it, if you cant, then it must be your own fault, you must be defective”. Is this what passes for an argument in your circles?”
Ummmm… you didn’t address or refute the original commenters point buddy. Is that what passes for an argument in your circles?
The comments overall gave me cancer.
Actually, he/she did. To compare the situation of Jews with, say, African Americans is a false analogy. While it was mostly true that Jews were ” beaten and robbed wherever they moved to” in Europe, until 1948, they had to move across an entire ocean to eventually “to take leadership positions in business, law, media, finance, etc..”. You don’t still find many Jews in “leadership positions” in Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, etc., no? Likewise, upon arrival here, Jews didn’t have to worry about being lynched if they dated a shiksa. (At least from their neighbors, their mothers is a different story.) If African Americans moved en masse to a country that had little to no history of anti-Black prejudice, I dunno…Mongolia?, and still saw no social mobility, then the analogy would be sound.
If he/she had said that, I’d call it an argument. I think you’re reading the commenters mind a little here.
George Barris, American hero.
Groovy, baby, yeah!
That’s pretty sweet in it’s own corny way
Shagtastic!
That is awesome. Thanks!
Oh god here come Liverpool. I haven’t decided whether the shine’s worn off of Klopp or the owners just don’t give a shit and won’t make with the money already. I’m leaning towards the latter. Klopp can only work with what he’s got.
You guys are welcome to Ancelotti. Help yourselves.
*wikipedias*
That is an impressive list of teams that I dislike.
I dunno what Bayern’s problem is (I haven’t watched them this year because I just assume they win everything – oops). Aging roster? Or another classic case of “locker room drama”? Money is not the problem, I surmise.
Ancelotti really, really lost the locker room at Bayern; the veteran players there weren’t buying his “catering to the older guys, but hold no one accountable” approach.
Basically, if a guy hired for his man management loses the players, you pretty much have to fire him.
A lot of it is Klopp. His tactics look awesome when Liverpool’s opponents attack aggressively, but the team is just bad when they have to play in possession and break down a packed defense. They don’t combine well in attack, and they don’t know how to defend the space behind their center backs.
I missed the game, but it looks like once again it was a matter of LFC not converting their chances. I think that’ll eventually sort itself out. The defense is a whole different issue that I don’t think buying van Dijk would solve. I’m no tactics expert but it certainly seems LFC’s proclivity to throw basically everyone save for the two CBs and Henderson forward means that when they lose the ball, their defense is extremely vulnerable.
There’s another uncomfortable truth here, which is that wages/payroll generally determine where you finish in the table. LFC are now comfortably 5th in wages, and the team directly behind them, Spurs, have an absurd amount of young talent such that they’re likely to outperform their wages for the near future. Further, the two Manchester teams now bring in much more revenue than LFC, as do Arsenal and Chelsea. So while most of the fan-base has delusions of LFC competing for the title on an annual basis, the more likely case is a fight for fourth with the occasional title challenge when the stars align.
“According to an article in The Claremont Independent, the whole thing started when a group of Latino students spray painted “White Girl, take off your hoops!” on a dormitory wall that’s devoted to free speech. Then, after one white girl said she was confused by the message, one of the spray-painters – a resident assistant named Alegria Martinez — felt the need to fire off a school-wide email expressing her disgust.
““[T]he art was created by myself and a few other WOC [women of color] after being tired and annoyed with the reoccuring [sic] theme of white women appropriating styles … that belong to the black and brown folks who created the culture,” Martinez wrote.
Martinez explained that “[t]he black and brown bodies who typically wear hooped earrings, (and other accessories like winged eyeliner, gold name plate necklaces, etc) are typically viewed as ghetto, and are not taken seriously by others in their daily lives,” and that she sees “winged eyeliner, lined lips, and big hoop earrings … as symbols [and] as an everyday act of resistance, especially here at the Claremont Colleges.””
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445611/campus-email-white-girls-stop-wearing-hoop-earrings-cultural-appropriation
White Girl: Stop appropriating my culture – give me back the iphone 8plus, spray paints, everything you own in your closet that isn’t cotton, wool or hemp, all the cosmetics yo ugly ass is wearing and the construction materials used to build the dorm you’re in. You’re welcome.
Sometimes I think the left it winning. They’re creating an entire generation of people who will will be unemployable for life. So they all wind up on government assistance and then they vote, for Democrats to get more free shit. We’re doomed.
Have hope. A very vocal minority does not equal winning. The vast majority of Americans dont buy that shit and pay little attention to it despite what the media would have you believe.
None of those people will last a day in a workplace outside of their academic bubble.
Case for Right to be Forgotten ramps up.
I’m fairly certain that for every shrieking moonbat living off their daddy’s trust fund, there are about 9 other students out there busting their asses off waiting tables to pay the rent. The waiters/waitresses , busboys, and barbacks don’t make headlines, they just do their jobs and study to pass their classes.
I’d like think that we could get rid of the moonbat intellectuals and keep the workers, but Pol Pot showed what happens when you go down that path.
Mocking and derision is pretty effective. Yeah, rounding up people no matter how toxic they are is a slippery slope straight into the pits of hell. We dont want to go there.
Sometimes I think the left it winning. They’re creating an entire generation of people who will will be unemployable for life. So they all wind up on government assistance and then they vote, for Democrats to get more free shit. We’re doomed.
Yes. We are doomed. Eventually the creeping totalitarian state will take over and the transformation will be complete. However, that doesn’t mean that everybody is lost. There are plenty of hard working young folks out there who see the leftist shit for what it is. That’s the part that gives me hope that there will be enough people around to shoot back when Big Brother comes for the last ounce of liberty.
Racist fucks.
Alegria? Did they name her after the country or the allergy medication?
Spanish for joy/happiness
*Sends Ms Martinez an Instagram pic*
Is my Prince Albert OK?
As long as the TSA agents or local cops don’t tug on your Prince Albert, you should be OK. I wouldn’t have gone with a Prince Albert myself, because *ow*. But what you do what you want to do with your dick.
I was just making a joke and I have a fear of needles. Seeing one close to the little fella would most likely make me faint. Or more likely, reflexively punch the needle holder in the face.
I posted this the other nite, but it is relevant here. I went to my son’s Catholic pre school “Family Fiesta” on Friday eve and it would have given these kinds of ejits conniptions. At the front desk to check in we were all handed fake mustaches and maracas and the two Asian women in charge had sombreros on. There was also copious booze, like all events there. Glad that in 2017 San Francisco this could still happen. The SJWs haven’t completely taken over, even here.
I saw that. That is good. Some day they might figure out that it is cultural appropriation that has made America such a cool place to live. Nowhere else like it on the mixing pot level. I have chunk of pork in the smoker/roaster right now to make some culturally appropriated Carnitas.
Go forth and appropriate!
I culturally appropriate in my kitchen without discrimination. In a given week, I might cook matzo ball soup, lentil curry, stracotto with polenta, gyudon, blackened fish and collard greens, and barbacoa tacos. I’m very proud of the fact that if someone found my grocery store receipt on the ground, the items listed would give them no clue whatsoever as to the nationality of the purchaser.
“Black and brown bodies”
The true racist inevitably outs herself.
They dehumanize everyone else, why not themselves also?
Exactly. The term “body” was used in a particular sense by some researchers to highlight the dehumanization of marginalized groups, and then idiots took a hold of the term and used it to achieve the exact opposite effect for purposes of perpetual aggrievement.
“Like God raising Adam from the dust, I created Callum from paint and clay: In the image of an east London hipster I created him, to wait outside the girl’s toilets at raves and spoon me through my MDMA-induced night terrors. And as my artistic skills are as good as my taste in men, luckily painter Mary Stephenson was on hand to help.
London-based Stephenson crafts life-size boyfriends out of paint, clay and paper and photographs herself with them in elaborately staged tableaux. All of her props playfully approximate some aspect of millennial life, whether it’s an empty Corona bottle or a Supreme tee. As Stephenson poses with her boyfriends (they’re intentionally nameless) in scenes no less staged than the average Facebook profile photo, she interrogates our contemporary cultural obsession with romantic love—at all costs.”
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/wje8e5/mary-stephenson-my-man-imaginary-boyfriend-clay
At least she’s not procreating.
“After being single for about a year”
A whole year? You should definitely slit your wrists old maid. No one will ever love you. Are these fabrications anatomically correct?
And when she tires of these nameless paramours, she cuts off their heads and puts the grisly remains on a window ledge – facing into her home.
The Juice Is Loose.
It’s about time. I’ve beginning to worry that the real killer(s) would get away with the murders. Will OJ go back out looking for them again?
I can see him driving the freeways in a white Ford SUV, pulling people over and making them try on the glove.
That glove was a golf glove, hence his tireless search through every course in Florida for the real killer.
Take the best known song from the only Norwegian pop act most Americans can name, give it a treatment by one of the better blues acts out there, and you get this.
Fun! I’d lose the trumpet solo, though.
Maybe replace it with a kazoo
As Ringo Starr might say, “It’s been done”.
Great tune. I think that the older I get, the more I appreciate The Beatles. Not sure why. Maybe just nostalgia.
Wow, you can put a gun to my head and ask me to name a Norwegian pop group and I’d blank.
ABBA is Norwegian? Maybe Bjork? They’re from that arctic circle that produces hot dish.
Swedish and Icelandic, respectively.
One of the members of ABBA (Anni-Frid, if memory serves) was born in Narvik, Norway. I think she was a Lebensborn.
Zeromancer, Apoptygma Berzerk, Icon of Coil… I dunno about “pop”, though.
Pride and Fall… I define “pop” as most anything with a catchy melody myself. Not necessarily “popular”.
Who was it here that pushed out Vulfpeck? They’re like a cold I can’t shake. Single from the next album.
Mumrunner from Finland. Guitar based rock with shoegaze/noise elements. Nice garmonies and vocals. https://youtu.be/GM6wSNhjNKk
More Finns; with 6 guitarists! Teksti TV 666
https://youtu.be/csNdSmYCrfk
Very motorik
I like
*Raises hand* Yep. Good stuff.
I have never seen anyone play pancakes before.
If you like that stuff you should also check out BBNG (bad bad not good)
they’re similar background (all music school kids), and they’re both probably somewhere on the modern “jam band” spectrum (but on the cooler, jazz-funk end), but BBNG is definitely more ‘jazz’, and tends to lean more towards 90s hiphop influences than 70s pop-funk/soul
(they did a whole record w/ ghostface killer, and their first album was mostly jazz covers of 90s hiphop tunes)
i like both a lot; i tend to prefer BBNG’s sound. this is their 3rd record
I dig BBNG. I’ll be seeing them for the first time at ACL festival this year.
I’m in the top 15% and I don’t feel rich. I mean, I was able to buy some beer last night and I own a cart that still runs. I mean all of that without government assistance. Does that count as rich?
You’re obviously not being taxed enough.
“Pumpkin Spice Lattes fund ‘white supremacy’ in Trump White House, according to feminist group”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pumpkin-spice-lattes-fund-white-supremacy-in-trump-white-house-according-to-feminist-group/article/2634193
“The Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins”
This article examines the symbolic whiteness associated with pumpkins in the contemporary United States. Starbucks’ pumpkin spice latte, a widely circulated essay in McSweeney’s on “Decorative Gourd Season,” pumpkins in aspirational lifestyle magazines, and the reality television show Punkin Chunkin provide entry points into whiteness–pumpkin connections. Such analysis illuminates how class, gender, place, and especially race are employed in popular media and marketing of food and flavor; it suggests complicated interplay among food, leisure, labor, nostalgia, and race. Pumpkins in popular culture also reveal contemporary racial and class coding of rural versus urban places. Accumulation of critical, relational, and contextual analyses, including things seemingly as innocuous as pumpkins, points the way to a food studies of humanities and geography. When considered vis-à-vis violence and activism that incorporated pumpkins, these analyses point toward the perils of equating pumpkins and whiteness.”
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2373566X.2015.1099421
Now, I’m not a “Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies”, but I’m pretty sure pumpkins are fucking orange.
The whiteness of pumpkins? Apparently this person has never been to Africa.
Pumpkins appear to have originated in the new world and were cultivated by the Native Americans. So they aren’t a white thing, more of a Native American (Asian emigrants) thing. Does that still make them racist?
Source: http://www.allaboutpumpkins.com/history.html
“These early Native Americans roasted pumpkin strips over campfires and used them as a food source, long before the arrival of European explorers. Pumpkins helped The Native Americans make it through long cold winters. They used the sweet flesh in numerous ways: roasted, baked, parched, boiled and dried. They ate pumpkin seeds and also used them as a medicine. The blossoms were added to stews. Dried pumpkin could be stored and ground into flour.”
There are places in Africa the size of Texas where the locals live almost exclusively on pumpkin. Give ’em seed corn and they will just eat it and plant pumpkins again.
*Elephants love pumpkin. Imagine a ten foot tall animal going through your pumpkins popping pumpkins in its mouth like snacks one after another. The Africans have hell keeping them out of the pumpkin patches.
It sounds like they should get some big rifles and live on elephant.
They’re a lighter orange on the outside and the seeds are white. Anyway, orange is the new white! Look at your orange Trumpalo hero, you Nazi!
I thought orange was the new black.
White (pumpkin) Supremacist!
NAZI PUMPKINS!
The Great Pumpkin does vaguely resemble Grand Kyklops or however that goes.
Therefore, peanuts are racist. George Washington Carver was the white people of black people.
Jesus Fucking Christ…
See, you just don’t get academic humor.
I find it hilarious when people say ‘that’s some white people shit!’ in the most verbose way possible.
White people seem to ask, “Are you OK?” before laughing. Revoke my white card.
My Pumpking beers are going to taste so much better now.
Taste the Whitebow!
“Warriors say no need to protest during anthem”
Methinks *someone* in the NBA or Golden State organisations can read a balance sheet.
Didn’t the commissioner say he was going to require NBA players to stand during the anthem?
I think it is already in the rules
[t]he black and brown bodies who typically wear…
Who is “objectifying” these people, again?
Epic day planned. Brunch at Painters Tape in Gardena. Then gonna go brewery hopping back to LBC. Cosmic Brewing, Monkish, Phantom Carriage, Smog City, Timeless Pints.
Brunch, brews, football on tv’s, hanging out with the wife, the weather is mild/overcast/Fall-like. Perfect.
When I get home, dinner is ready to be re-heated. Both guitars are re-strung and tuned. Gonna be epic!
Sounds perfect. Have a great day!
“UVA security report shows panic’s effects (in this case, from Rolling Stone article)–>then dramatic decline once panic period passed.”
https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/914157960984752128
The Tweet shows a chart.
Obviously because victims were demoralized because they knew they wouldn’t be believed.
“During the questioning, she admitted she made the story up. She wanted to get away from her daughters, hoped to scare them into moving to Florida,” said the prosecutor at the arraignment. “She said she was not intending to call the police, but when they showed up, she continued the story because she was embarrassed.”
http://www.wlwt.com/article/why-did-a-butler-county-woman-fake-her-kidnapping/12662452
So proto-Florida Woman?
Hell, my mom taught us well. A wooden spoon upside the head does wonders for concentration.
More racism and identity politics from Democratic poll pundits:
trad’y?
traditionally?
It’s Trad, Dad!
Cue frenzied leftist masturbation.
*Grunt, Florida, Ahhhh!*
A series of three articles in the Atlantic (which were very good), articles in the NYT, and now Esquire:
“Occidental Justice: The Disastrous Fallout When Drunk Sex Meets Academic Bureaucracy
A drunk freshman boy met a drunk freshman girl in this dorm at Occidental College. When their sexual encounter collided with a panicked and pressured academic bureaucracy, it quickly became a disaster.”
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a33751/occidental-justice-case/
Patriarchy, right. Man hating feminazis in positions of power is as good of a reason to never vote democrat as any.
“Jane, meanwhile, remains at Occidental, though the Los Angeles Times reported last spring that she had taken some time off and was in therapy for what her lawyer characterized as post-traumatic stress disorder. She’ll likely be there still this fall, when a few hundred lucky teenagers, the Occidental class of 2019, arrive on campus, the years in front of them filled with nothing but possibility.”
The administrative response to what should have been a learning experience created her PTSD.
Also – maybe co-ed dorms not such a great idea?
I can’t fathom wanting your school administrators involved in your early awkward sexual encounters. How mortifying.
Sex robots are literally Hitler.
https://twitter.com/Maggie_McNeill/status/913899302040231936
Unlike imaginary clay boyfriends?
Well. Here are my thoughts about Catlalonia. As you know, Quebec has a separatist ‘pulse’. And if the Catalonians use the same excuses and rhetoric (and from what I gather they do having spoken to Spanish friends and reading about it) Quebec does, I’m not sympathetic.
Not to go all ‘bad ass centralized’ but these movements are pointless. The fact is such peoples and cultures thrive within the context of the larger nation. Ie the economic wealth and national security a nation-state may provide. Now, sure, some places give more than they take to a central government (and I think Catalonia may be one of those. In Italy it’s clear the separatist North creates pretty much the bulk of Italy’s economic power) but Quebec isn’t. Quebec, for all intents and purposes, is classified as a ‘have-not’ province. It’s very bad at maximizing its human resources potential (low productivity, high taxes, high high school drop out rates etc.) putting it on level with American southern states criticized for various metrics used to measure a jurisdiction.
Quebec needs to stop acting like it wants to be independent but doesn’t want to pay the rent if they want to be taken seriously. Catalonia is pretty autonomous and wealthy. Sounds like they’re doing alright.
I remember a nationalist saying Ottawa oppresses Quebec. It’s nonsense. Quebec control almost everything it needs and even maintains a legal system separate from the continent – Civil Code. We have access to everything we need on the continent and no one stops us from getting it – plus we have two/three cars per household!
If this is oppression, sign me up.
Yeah, Catalonia has it fairly good now but memories are long and Spanish control freaks spent hundreds of years suppressing their language/culture. I don’t anything similar happened in Quebec.
I don’t believe this will be any more successful than the Quebec movement, though. Spain will never allow it, as we are already seeing.
Well, Quebec was ‘sorta’ suppressed under the English elites (although England didn’t attempt to assimilate Quebec as they did other places) but that’s looonng gone. For them to still harp on that is just opportunism. And a case can be made the Catholic Church held even more influence over them.
In Montreal, the ‘captains of industry’ were originally English-Scots. They’re the ones that set up the financial district concentrated on St. James st. (our Wall st. or Bay st. – now it’s just another street since the MSE was closed and everything went to the TSX) and large corporations while French-Canadians were mostly focused on SMEs and under the sway of the Catholic Church.
When the Italians came, they were the biggest catalyst to what became the ‘Quiet Revolution’ in the 1960s. Italian immigrants were discriminated against by the French so they ended up setting up their own parochial schools copying the Irish and Jews – which meant we began to teach English because that was the language of business. Within one generation, Italians had climbed over the social ladder and above the ‘native Quebecois’. So when they ‘woke up’ it led to the a fervent nationalist movement (as we saw during the October Crisis) and demands to fight for the Quebec national identity. In the 1970s, they turned their ire on the Italians trying to force them into French language instruction. Italians rioted in the streets during the St. Leonard Riots. These were the parents and grand parents of my generation who were subjected to being physically pulled out of class by the government demanding we go back to the French system; the very government who discriminated against Italians. So, in true wop fashion, we told them to fuck off. And won.
To this day Law Bill 101 discriminates against French-Quebecers, but I have the choice (as other Anglo ethnicities like the Greeks, Portuguese, Jews, Irish etc.) as to which language my daughter goes to school because of the St. Leonard riots. My French friends always buzz whenever I tell them this story because it’s NOT taught in the propagandized (where is history is concerned) French system.
So as you can see, lotsa versions to ‘oppression’.
I should add, Quebec then, to make up for lost time, began a process of ‘Frenchization’. This is the discriminatory practice where all jobs were given to Quebecers before anyone. Call it the ‘anti-diversity’ program. My father in law was directly hurt by it and what this did was force ‘ethnics’ into business because they had no hope of becoming Police Chief or head of some Quebec agency. The euphemism for this is Quebec Inc. It’s getting better now as the reality of the economic environment is hitting Quebec in the face but not without much moaning and groaning among nationalists in the papers who display a world view that would not be tolerated, ironically, anywhere on the continent. It’s flat out prejudiced thinking. How ingrained is it? The head the CAQ party (a business friendly party) Francois Legault (who sometimes makes a lot of sense on business) railed on Twitter about Lowe’s buying out Ro-Na a ‘chez nous’ company. The Montreal Canadiens maintain this practice as they will not hire a coach who can’t speak French. Try and pull that in the NBA, NFL and MLB.
And that’s why we’re not friends of Quebec separatism.
Good Lord!: https://twitter.com/dfriedman33/status/914538181005135875
These are people peacefully participating in the civic process – these jackasses don’t respond like this with Antifa (I did see the short clip of cops beating on a few Spanish rioters, but this is ridiculous).
Yes. Let America be more like Europe.
(I can’t believe I didn’t scroll down ONE entry to see AlmightyJB make the same point, 30 minutes ago)
Lol. Great minds and all that.
Jesus Christ.
We need to be more like Europe. So was this whole multiculturalism thing just an excuse to deploy the military as police?
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/30/watch-denmark-deploying-military-secure-borders/
The basic purpose of the entire ‘multicultural’ thing is to assemble a more compliant public in order to usher in a new era of TOP socialist elites to rule over the newly compliant sheeples. Despite a little sarcasm there, this is basically it. The exact same reason Democrats want increased immigration. The new immigrants are much more likely to vote for more big government.
Diversity is the heart of multiculturalism. Diversity is intended to destroy competence, to replace the principle of a meritocracy with bullshit. Incompetents (demoralized idiots) cant defend themselves because they cant solve problems. They are easily yoked.
It’s worth noting that diversity is another one of those words that have been polluted and remolded by the left. Diversity in the sense of colorblind acceptance of all people isn’t what’s on the table anymore.
LETELU: Looks exotic, thinks exactly like us.
The Democrats have got their eyes on the prize; that’s for sure. And I bet as soon as they have enough illegals in the country to keep them in power, they’ll crack the fuck down on immigration. Remember, this is the party that wants every single thing you do logged and monitored by the government. There’s no way in hell that they are actually in favor of human beings (and anything they’re carrying) coming across the border with no restrictions.
reminder
Canada permitted Quebec to have TWO peaceful referendums.
“The performer distributes a flute-like musical instrument made of PVC pipe or bamboo to students during a music lesson, and the allegation is that he contaminated some of these instruments with semen,”
Semen is a contaminant? Toxic Masculinity at it’s worst.
I wonder how they found this out? Did he admit this, or was it one of those deals were there found out he was on a pedo list and let their nasty imaginations run rampent?
There are groups of pervs online who like to take pictures of themselves rubbing their dicks on clothing and then juxtaposing it with a picture of a female wearing the dishonored garment. Some varieties show a guy “contaminating” food or drinks and a picture of a woman consuming them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone rubbed their junk all over a handful of PVC flutes and then posted it next to a picture of people in that music lesson playing similar-looking instruments.
That’s just sad
Posting again as a signal boost. As the weather turns, it appears that we have enough beer geeks on this site to do a beer exchange. I was thinking about doing a BIF (Beer It Forward), in which participant’s names and address are printed out. Then the shipper selects someone on the list, crosses off the name and address and ships beer to them. The originator’s name and address are separate, as they will be the last person to get beer shipped to them. To start off with, I was leaning towards a 72 oz minimum shipment. Obviously, go for local breweries with small distribution footprints to avoid shipping something that someone could pick up at the store.
DEG and Tundra have expressed interest, so feel free to speak up, and we can start planning this thing.
I don’t drink beer, so you can count me out.
Are you a shill for Big Logistics?
How much does it cost to ship 72oz? USPS flat rate doesn’t include beverages does it?
Might be better to suggest breweries in your local area first to see if they’re available in the other person’s area or not.
Never ship alcohol through USPS. You’ll be violating a federal law unless you have a permit. From my trading days, expect it to cost about $15-$20 to ship. Obviously, cans will be cheaper (and easier to pack).
With mailing as well vs normal commercial shipping – doesn’t that depend on how well the beer travels? Looking at UPS distribution centers, etc – there’s a LOT of moving and shaking…
Once the beer is in a bottle/can, it’s pretty stable as long as you avoid large temperature swings, temps below ~40, temps above ~80, and sunlight. You’ll want to chill the beers down when they’re delivered anyways, which will also help drop out any sediment that got mixed back into the beer.
Related: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40577923
Words of warning to all. Most of this is for wine and spirits, but may apply to beer.
No alcohol shipments of any kind via USPS, as has been noted.
In the case of wines and spirits, many states do not permit any shipments into state, PA being possibly the most draconian, closely followed by VA.
Shipments by individuals are not exempt from PA and VA regulations.
Be careful out there, people.
I know I have a hard time getting wine shipped to me.
I’d be interested. With the caveat that I’d first need more info on the shipping issues being noted.
Also; Living in boonies like I do, I don’t have a lot of local options. How long I could last before running out of unique beers to ship may be an issue for me.
I was planning on it being a one and done type thing, not an ongoing thing. As for shipping tips, here’s a decent guide.
Ahh, gotcha. Count me in.
Another update from the ground in PR – turn on cc. https://youtu.be/5Uc1pPsKt_s
Your car still starting?
Yeah, no issues at the moment.
Sounds like the battery did it then. Good deal.
That is heartbreaking. I had heard that the aid was sitting in ports but it had sounded like that was a logistics thing due to roads being wiped out. Sounds like it’s due more to incompetence and negligence. That is infuriating.
Too much crying and too much complaining about Cuba and Venezuela not being allowed in.
I am a bit skeptical on that call.
I don’t know. Not sure what other media sources are available there – Shortwave radio pickup? She says towards the beginning that the military needs to handle all the distro because the locals aren’t doing it.
Me too. I’d like to see more verification than an asserted voice on the radio in NYC.
I forgot Detroit even had a football team.
They haven’t been the same since they lost Alan Alda.
I find it interesting that Ford is prominent sponsor of the Cowboys. What a fuck you to the Ford family.
LT- have you put a volt meter across the battery posts with the engine running (~1800 rpm or more) to check charging voltage?
No, I need to build up my toolset a little more. As I mentioned yesterday, I did wind up getting a brand new battery, so I think that’ll work till I take it in for the 65,000 check-up. I’m not as mechanically inclined as I’d like at this point in my life – and “modern” cars are even more intimidating.
A good multimeter (Fluke) is worth it’s wait in gold for the homeowner.
Just the fact that you can locate the battery, much less change it, puts you light years ahead of many people.
Now, how are you with tire changing…?
A good multimeter (Fluke) is worth it’s wait in gold for the homeowner.
Hell, I have a couple of $5.- Harbor Freight multimeters. I cut the probes off and replaced them with alligator clips on one of them. Handy little fuckers, and you don’t get so pissed when you crush one with the floor jack.
*whistles nonchalantly, looks innocent*
*Charging voltage should be around 14.5v, by the way.