Baby Bella
Belly and I have always played throw and return, and sheās finally starting Ā to return things I throw: rope, baseballs, etc. And this is good for her as I have almost no yard for her to play in. We walk every day, and the dog park is down the street, so thereās that. When Belly was about 3 months old, I bought her a toy which she immediately lost, and 7 months later, today, I found SQUEAKY TOY!
We have spent the entire afternoon playing and throwing SQT around and B is having a blast.
SQT is a fluorescent, orange rubber bone-shaped thing that squeaks. Yummy!
I have read that the reason dogs love SQTs is because they love to hear their prey scream. Sounds about right for Bella. And so delicious, I can only wonder what cats think about it; after all, they are the gangsters of Pet World.
Cats: yes, I have one. Eighteen years old and still kicks Bellaās ass. A real nice kitty.
My son actually found her on a rainy night, and I said, āIf she lives, keep her,ā thinking this poor thing wouldnāt make the night. Happily, I was wrong. Kittah is tiny but real tough. Full grown only about 6 lb–truly a runt like my Bella, and a fucking trooper. Been through 3 dogs and handled them all. Go Kittah!
Maybe this should be Tales of the Kittah
Cats are Canaries in Coalmines
Pets are opportunistic,
Dogs are free Security
Like people,
Pets are not Children
Most are just as stupid
And must be Guided
God Bless the Doggies and Kittahs.
Iām a Sucker
Ā Ā Ā +Ā Ā Ā 
Ā Ā Ā =Ā Ā Ā 
I woke up about 5 minutes ago and found that all my Beltloops are missing on my shorts, well I have 1 dangling off the side, go Puppy!
STEVE SMITH APPRECIATE PREPARED HIKERS
APPRECIATE PREPARED HIKERSDOG WALKERSSTEVE SMITH NOT TOO CONCERNED WHY YOU IN WOODS.
RAPE INEVITABLE.
Aww, cute.
What kind of contributor are you, anyway?
No alt-text? Damn you to hell!
How odd. And now they’re there.
“Damn you to elysium, man!”
Elysium looked like a pretty cool place, I’ll take it(and my Dog)
It sure beats Hades.
Reminds me of the Twilight Zone of the old guy and his dog out for a walk in the woods.
That’s me, followed by STEVE SMITH
I know this is off-topic, but the morning thread is probably dead:
What in the actual fuck?!
https://nypost.com/2017/12/01/judge-bars-starbucks-from-closing-77-failing-teavana-stores/
Welch, in a 55-page order, found that the very profitable Starbucks could absorb the financial hit ā estimated by Starbucks to be $15 million over five months ā better than Simon could. The mall operator did not provide an estimate of how much the closings of the Teavana stores would hurt them.
Since when was it a judge’s job to determine winners and losers? I know for a fact that in one of the Simon malls discussed, the Teavana store is within 20 feet of a Starbucks, that sells Teavana teas.
I fucking hate Progs.
Also, cats are murder machines. They’re awesome.
A welcome addition to a pest free home,
“Since when was it a judgeās job to determine winners and losers?”
Since FYTW peasant. Back to tax slavery with you!
What do the terms of the contract say?
I don’t know the specific terms, but…
“Welch (the judge) admitted that āno court has ever entered preliminary or permanent injunctive relief to specifically enforce a continuous operations covenant against a non-anchor tenantā ā but she did so anyway.”
Retailers will just go all Irsay on the malls.
It sounds like those stores are leased. I’m not sure what the problem is here. Obviously they can’t be forced to actually operate the stores but they have to keep paying their rent, right?
I’d assume the contract has terms for breaking the lease. What are those terms?
Look at you wanting “details”.
Obviously they canāt be forced to actually operate the stores
That seems to be exactly what they were ordered to do. The plaintiff doesn’t just want the rent money, in fact that seems secondary to the complaint. The plaintiff wants the stores to stay open to discourage other tenants from leaving.
I spent a good number of years working in the mall, God help me, and I got to see a little bit of the inner workings. The worst thing that can happen for a mall is to have unused space, not just because of the lack of rent but because of the appearance. The mall has to attract shoppers by making it look full of busy, awesome stores in order to attract stores. The mall is a retailer of space and the stores are the shoppers. Blank space looks bad.
And god-forbid they have to lower the rent to keep the space filled!
The rent is too damned high!
If I were Starbucks, I’d go complete SJW on them.
Start spouting nonsense like “Our homeless people need somewhere safe to exist.” Then simply unlock the space every day and let every homeless bum sleep, shit, whatever in them.
When the mall tries to close you down, get frontal and call them dirty capitalists who put profit ahead of helping people in need during the holiday season.
“Since when was it a judgeās job to determine winners and losers?”
Since We the People long ago decided to let the judiciary run the country.
“No.”
Skynet watch.
http://www.sciencealert.com/google-s-ai-built-it-s-own-ai-that-outperforms-any-made-by-humans
Razorfist is going DS9 on us,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx84P0tQ3zk
Demonflesh spawn
2 hours ago
JJ Abrams: slowly but surely making Michael Bay look like Stanley Kubrick in comparison…ļ»æ
My cats are fat and lazy, not runts.
I have several fat and lazy cats, and then there’s the Tortie Sisters. Combined weight: 11 pounds. Those two could take down an elk, easy.
And this guy has a blue check mark. He sounds like he actually belongs in a psych ward.
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/937204096226021377/
Jesus. Buddy has been hitting the Partisan Crack Pipe pretty hard. Put it away, bro.
I think that might be someone I know on FB (not really, but I have a few ‘friends’ that are pretty fucking partinsane).
I can’t find the quote, but some mid-level public employee in a deep blue state posted a long rant wishing cancer, death, etc on all Trump voters. Unsurprisingly, he still has a job.
Bucking for a raise
I work alongside state and fed employees. The state people talk all kinds of shit about Trump, but that doesn’t bother me. The fact that the leadership among the feds, a bunch of GS-15s, in a regulatory agency that’s supposed to be apolitical are so blatantly and openly partisan, really, really pisses me off. I mean, they’re talking no end of shit about a segment of the voting population that is in a very real sense paying their salaries. Salaries they earn largely by going to meetings and getting a lot of paid leave, I might add.
The taxpayers (us) are the suckers.
When you take out the voters who think this is great, the voters who don’t care, and the voters who are only upset because it’s the other party that’s getting away with it, you’re not left with enough voters to change it.
A great exposition on why democracy really isn’t that great (and yet still better than any other political system).
Relevant, if not what you had seen.
Yeah she’s probably wearing more than a lot of 3rd world laborers make in a year.
How about If I can’t even afford Ramen, I’ll get a job.
return the sharpie, get 4 packets of ramen.
Her job is holding up signs.
Wonder how much ramen she gets for that?
I want those boots. Should I make an offer in ramen?
Gee, that was convincing.
Come on man, if you’re going to do crazy at least do creative crazy. You just repeated the same ‘Republicans are traitorous mass murderers’ talking point multiple times. At least start screeching about Nazis or something.
*Throws peanuts*
“They might be dead, but they’ll still, vote democrat”
I saw that too. I laughed before I cried.
What do the aliens think of Humans? Half of them are blithering idiots, yet they survive as a species, amazing.
We think your planet is giant hot mess of entertainment, but far too reckless to allow interstellar expansion. Think FloridaMan shitting all over the galaxy in a spaceship that resembles an airboat.
OT: reportedly Andy Reid gave up play-calling today. Seems to be a good decision at this point. OTOH: it’s the Jets.
Open thread, The Dog is just a ruse to get you here,
Let us mock the champions of the Big 10 – for the second straight year the conference champion is deemed unworthy of a place in the CFP!
Got our assess handed to us by Iowa. Inconsistent play all year. I’m not gonna be too pissed about it. Beat Hairball and won the Big Ten. I’ll take that. The best thing the Bucks can do now is to win decisively against whomever we play on NYD. The Alabama decision will either be vindicated or it won’t.
Would be really interesting to see an OSU-Auburn matchup in the bowls
Cotton Bowl – OSU v. USC
They ought to decorate that cotton ball with miniature roses around it.
And the Jets won. Lulz.
This is well done and funny
https://youtu.be/nSuregWhlWk
That’s great:)
Awe
Some
Holy cow that’s awesome!
*full-bore Roman Triumph*
Yusef Imm gonna let you finish, but already been posted….
I don’t think I’ve ever known a household which contained a dog and a cat which was run by the dog. My dog might as well belong to the youngest cat – she scent-marks his muzzle with her head, and he just lies there and takes it like some pangalactic wuss even though he outweighs her six-to-one.
That’s been my experience as well
My recently-deceased cat (old age) would wait in ambush to wreck my pits. We’re talking about a 60-pound weight differential. His brother, who is still with us, takes a more passive approach, but there’s still no question of who ought to be afraid of whom.
Claws are the great equaliser. (Also, cats have no consciences.)
or Souls like me
Oh come now – they’re not gingers! (Except for the ones who are, I guess.)
(old age)
I love that you felt the need to clarify.
(Jet Ski Accident)
well, that’s the story i’d like to hear about.
(Hot and Sour Soup)
My cat and dog just avoid each other, although the dog can’t go upstairs if the cat is sitting on the stairs. But the cat is wary of the dog and the dog is wary of being yelled at if she goes after the cat. Or stares at him (NO KITTY!).
No dogs but I have two cats and I’ve given up trying to deal with their territorial bullshit. When they were little they would sleep together. Move to a different apartment and all of a sudden it’s nothing but hissing and spitting from the big fat one who’s terrified of the slightly less fat one. Little monsters.
We had a cat that ruled over the dog until one day the dog snuck up behind the cat and gave it a little goose – the cat was surprised and forgot it was boss and skittered away. After that, it was dĆØtente.
Some nice anti-derp: https://calwatchdog.com/2013/01/23/firefighter-one-of-nations-safest-jobs/
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The nationās astoundingly well-paid public firefighters insist that they receive their high salaries and pensions (averaging around $175,000 a year in total compensation in California, with age-50 retirements and schedules that allow them to sleep on the job and work only a few days every two weeks) because of the terrible dangers they face on the job. They do face occasional and serious dangers, but according to a new National Public Radio report, such dangers are well below those faced by most of Americaās workers.
The average death rate in 2011 was 3.5 per 100,000 workers for the average American worker. Fishermen had the most dangerous jobs with 121 deaths per 100,000, followed by loggers and pilots. Firefighters die at a rate of 2.5 per 100,000 workers, which is slightly above the rate for cashiers (1.6). Yet not many cashiers ā or loggers or fishermen or taxi drivers, for that matter ā receive ā3 percent at 50ā retirement plans courtesy of taxpayers. Police officers died at the rate of 18.6 per 100,000, which is significantly below farmers and just above construction workers, although well above the national average. About half of the police deaths are because of car accidents.
By the way, the government considers it an āon the jobā death when a firefighter or cop dies from heart attacks, cancer and other common ailments. These are referred to as presumptions. Itās a presumptuous standard, but one that unlocks myriad benefits for surviving family members.
Police and fire also argue for their millionairesā pension ā one would need several million dollars in the bank to receive a lifelong six-figure payout for employee and spouse ā based on the idea that they die shortly after retirement. Union officials repeat that falsehood, but even the union-friendly California Public Employeesā Retirement System released a presentation showing that the longest-living category of public employee is a cop followed by a firefighter. They tend to live well into their ā80s which, if you think about it, is why there are those huge unfunded pension liabilities.
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Mrs. Doubtfire 2: The Reckoning
Beard and mustache maybe a dead giveaway?
Look at you trying to assume gender you shitlord.
Just beautiful. The Trump-supporting uncle responds to being lectured at Thanksgiving:
http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/21/talk-millennial-donald-trump-thanksgiving/
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Look, Caitlin, I get it. You donāt see eye to eye with your uncle on much. Iām sorry I mentioned I voted for Trump, but do we have to do this now?
And can we please cut the crap? You and I both know that as much as you claim to dislike returning to Grand Rapids, you wanted to be here. It was just too depressing to contemplate watching Netflix alone in that dreary shoebox you rent in Red Hook. How do I know your apartment is dreary? Well, you put those ridiculously bright filters on everything on Instagram. Yes, I know what Instagram is. Iām not hopeless.
Again, I wasnāt the one starting an argument. Nothingās changed between us, okay? Remember when you were a kid and every time I saw you I told you the same stupid joke about Beethoven? I swear, you laughed at the joke all the way through high school. Then you went off to college and everything changed. No offense, but Mount Holyoke? You could have gotten your fill of womenās studies classes paying in-state tuition at Ann Arbor without graduating $150,000 in debt.
…
If Donald Trump is racist, does that mean you think your family is racist for voting for the man? Is Kanye West racist now? You think I like the fact that a rich New York jagoff with verbal diarrhea is going to be president? I just voted for the guy, I didnāt sign on the dotted line in blood. If he starts throwing people in camps, Iāll be the first guy to form a militia. But until then, I canāt be bothered to keep up with all things that are racist these days.
I remember watching cable news a few years ago, and some guy was saying that people complaining Obama golfed too much were racist. Golf is racist! If weāre going to do this, why donāt you go Wikipedia the Fugitive Slave Act and then we can put Trumpās racism in the proper political context, okay?
…
Anyway, Greg Keller and I headed down there to fix the toilet. While we spent the afternoon mopping up and drying the carpets, Greg explained to me why he couldnāt vote for Clinton. You see, when he was in the Navy he had to get a security clearance. And when he was in the Navy, he knew a guy who was court-martialed for leaving a purchase order for nuclear submarine parts on his desk when he went to lunch, instead of locking it up in a safe like he was supposed to. The guy did time. And the purchase order was only āconfidentialā information, the lowest level of classification. Hillary Clinton had top secret information in her stupid emails. Why does she get to run for president when sheās committed crimes that would put you or I in jail? Riddle me that.
…
Your great-grandfather died when you were too young to remember, but we used to sit in the deer stand together and gramps would tell me stories about what Guadalcanal was like. Gives me chills thinking about it. You know how old he was at the time? Nineteen. And now kids your age need coloring books and safe spaces and therapy dogs to cope with an election that doesnāt go your way.
Just stop it. Please donāt pretend you know more about this than the rest of us. I know youāre a budding journalist. Really canāt wait until you get the first Pulitzer for producing hot takes in a reclaimed warehouse space. Thatās right. Aside from stalking you on Instagram, I read your website. You know that one of your esteemed colleagues wrote an article for your site last week on āHow to Talk to Your TrumpāSupporting Relatives at Thanksgiving.ā You know how that makes the rest of us feel? If the countryās falling apart, maybe it has something to do with an entire generation thatās so politically correct they need written instructions on how to be nice to their own family.
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Now that is some good stuff.
Sounds like a family of assholes. I didn’t think it was, but perhaps assholery is genetic.
That was bloody excellent.
Too much ‘Old Man Yells at Cloud’ for me.
You know how that makes the rest of us feel? If the countryās falling apart, maybe it has something to do with
an entire generation thatās so politically correct they need written instructions on how to be nice to their own family.multiple generations of people supporting the two party state and being tribal assholes always demanding free shit?
Yeah, the whining about Millennials and the “y’all motherfuckers need Jesus” bit that isn’t relevant to anything whatsoever doesn’t cement me on that guy’s side. His points on Clinton are fine though, they’re just bogged down by his general attitude as a whole.
You only say that because you live in a shitty Millennial apartment.
Ha, what a great response. Loved it.
The less say the UN has about anything, the better.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/03/politics/us-global-compact-migration/index.html
I’ll start taking the UN seriously the day they hold a conference in Duluth or Grand Forks.
Even better, one of the places that people tend to be pretty energized about emigrating from (i.e. any Central American slum).
Help do it from Mexico City, it is a capital with a large population. Why not let the U.N. Envoys party there?
1/2 mile from the tourist trap I found a secluded beach and promptly went body-surfing in human feces. Logs. That’s not even close to the worst story from Puerto Vallarta that I could share.
Whoa! What did we do to warrant such an unprovoked attack?
Minnesoda is a wonderful place (and I’m putting GF in Minnesoda because it is close enough). You know why? Because we don’t let fucking UN conferences take place here.
“following the Obama Administration’s decision to join the UN’s New York Declaration on Migration,”
I don’t remember that being reported
The US has been a part of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants since it was formed last year.
The nerve of some people, upending literal
decadesyearsmonths of tradition!My cat is awesome. That’s all.
Without any evidence, I will agree that your cat is awesome because I believe that prit-near every cat is awesome (especially mine).
Also true. Cats rock the world.
I might be getting drunk. It’s been a long weekend with little “downtime”
My mom rescued our first 2 cats from a box on the side of the road when they were kittens. They both lived to be 17 or 18. One of them liked to perch on the front tire of our van to be close to the warm engine when it was cold out. My dad was backing up one day and the cat didn’t move in time. She was missing for a few days but returned with a paralyzed tail. That cat was very chill.
We had another runt kitten who was fearless. One day, he returned with a mangled hind leg and had to get it amputated. A few months later, he disappeared.
Our first dog came from the pound. She was sick at first, but became healthy after being fed our left-over vitamin-fortified cereal.
Over the years, we had a rotating menagerie which included ducks, hermit crabs, iguanas, parakeets, and hamsters. My brother, sister, and I all had various pets. Aside from our house smelling like a barn, it was a happy, chaotic childhood.
LOVE!!!!
You’ll probably never come back and see this reply to a dead thread, but that is awesome, and now I love ya even more, Dr Derp.
Critters aren’t that smart, but they also can’t consciously sin. So we have to care for them and love them.
Thanks for the pup post, Yusef!
Thanks for posting it. Squeaky toy is no more, but She’s got some new ROPE! that is entertaining.
My dog just does stuff like this
One of our pupās favorite sleeping positions, too.
My previous ones never stayed like that for long, but this guy just loves it.
They also have some OCD about the path they take while scouting our property. they’re wearing a path into the grass.
My dadās dogs did that. Our dog has a specific route, but itās more about clearing the invaders in the central area first, then checking the perimeter.
They have a very direct path out to this group of rocks that lets them look into the woods for intruders. It’s pretty funny to watch them work.
That’s a Dog right there!
Now that’s diversity outreach!
That cat is like WTF dude
Nah, I see a little push-back.
As an aside, I’d like to point out that if you’re going to do doggy style, do it correctly:
“Suggest it is appropriate for handlers to attempt to calm”
Now hiring: Assistant for Harvey Weinstein
In some central European countries, there was a belief that infertility could be cured by beating a couple with a stick that had been previously used to separate mating dogs.
I wonder how rigorous the clinical trials were.
Any port in a Storm
OK, HM. Two can play at this game:
http://www.healthystrokes.com/
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Although about 90 percent of males masturbate by hand, about 5-10 percent masturbate by lying face down and thrusting the penis into or against the bed, pillow, or something else. Although masturbation is normal, healthy, and fun, prone masturbation causes severe sexual dysfunction in most males who practice it. This web site describes prone masturbation and the problems of its practitioners and offers case studies and approaches to becoming cured.
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When was prone masturbation first documented?
The ancient Romans had a word for it. They referred to male masturbation by different words depending on how it was done. The word for the prone masturbation method was trudo, which literally means “I thrust.” No doubt this stemmed from the open way in which masturbation and other bodily functions were carried out in ancient Rome.
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Too weird? OK.
[backs away slowly]
Trudeau?
Hmmm.
about 5-10 percent masturbate by lying face down and thrusting the penis into or against the bed, pillow, or something else.
I knew a guy who said he did that.
Me too. Sounds terrible, and is bad for your junk I guess.
Is this the peak of all derp from Politico writers? Article: Chelsea Clinton should run for Tom Cotton’s seat in Arkansas if Rex Tillerson is replaced
Couldn’t the poor bastard that wrote that do something else with his life? Like cutting?
Isn’t writing for Politico the step *after* cutting?
Them terlits aint gonna clean themselves, Son. Put some pepper on it!
The clintons are no longer popular in Arkansas. There may be people who fondly remember Bill, but hillary is universally hated here. She’s hated enoigh that no Clinton or clinton progeny will ever be elected here.
Some people long for royalty. They just want to be ruled.
Hillary 2.0, but this time without the common man’s touch.
via jordan peterson:
an essay which seems to basically say, “Right wingers flop when we foul them, and so end up getting good-calls from the referees (the public), which is unfair”.
to wit:
if you go into the article expecting to find any actual relevance to either Spencer or racism, you will be disappointed; the subject is the girl @ that canadian school who was told that JP was too-problematic to expose to students. why bring up White Nationalism? why not, really.
IFP. Intellect-free press?
worse, i think that “I” is an L.
London, Ontario. i believe i drove through it once when i was 16
Bad news from Canton for the brewing world.
that is terrible.
Yeah… the opening up a home brew supply store while dodging the full breweries does not bode well. Now that the news is out there, I’m willing to wager that his home brew store suffers a steep decline in business.
https://news.vice.com/article/one-of-the-worlds-biggest-extinction-crises-is-being-caused-by-cats
So it turns out all those stories about people causing mass extinctions are a bit overblown. The problem is we bring our furry friends along with us.
Looks like not even Australia is tough enough for cats.
Well, you could argue humans occupy a place in the chain of responsibility.
Nope. Turns out rats are responsible for even more extinctions. https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2004/09/rats-and-extinctions.html
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I meant specifically in the first post: most feral cats in Australia are there because people cast their own into the wild where they bred.
I am really tired of blame-shaming humans for the endangerment of Panda bears. Those suckers are meant to die out. They are picky eaters, picky maters, and have almost no instinct for self-preservation.
Let ’em go.
Yep, I’ve seen arguments that pandas are a bit more more randy outside of captivity.
Then I look up prison rape statics and I am reminded that people, and hate birds the birds that have will fuck whoever whenever.
Somewhat related, this is why the US should sign the Paris Climate Accords: http://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/42213491
here kitteh kitteh
I’m sure a Fluffy holocaust in favor of… whatever “natives” there are is going to go down well.
He keeps using this word “conservative.” I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
I’m going to write a ken-long post, is there going to be afternoon links, or am I good to post it here, you think?
Eh, I say put it here, and if the PM thread shows up at 4pm, repost.
We don’t have 4pm posts very often on a Sunday. 6pm, yes (Central, or “God’s Time”)
Yeah, I was waiting until 4 pm, and then realized you guys all live in flyover. š
Looks like it will be a bit earlier today.
Sundays roll how they roll! We adapt and overcome.
Is it about beastiality? If it is, post it here, it not just don’t post it.
Sorry, I can’t cater to your tastes JB, maybe SugarFree can help you out?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure my distaste for Rand Paul.
In fairness the Gettysburg Address was quite short. Ken’s stuff would have John Galt looking at his watch and making the “wrap it up” gesture.
Lincoln spoke after an oration by one of the country’s pre-eminent speakers of the day, who had rambled on for an hour and a half (per the museum at Gettysburg, and IIRC).
I won the chili cookoff (Hot Category) today at church! So I have to live with the hideous traveling trophy consisting of a ceramic piggy bank of a fat Mexican dude with a giant mustache. My name is now written across his backside in gold paint pen, following those who have held the trophy aloft in triumph ahead of me.
Last year my husband won, so now I have that stupid trophy in my house for the second year in a row.
You going to share the recipe?
Have it bronzed.
You’ll have to resist the temptation to make delicious chili for next year then.
They don’t like her chili, and are punishing her by making her keep that trophy.
You could be on to something…but the emptyness of the crockpot testifies otherwise.
Fortunately, we have the rest on the stovetop in the GIANT stockpot, so that will be baggied up for frozen leftovers for the cold Minnesota winter.
Did you bring some for the whole class?
Maybe I could freeze dry some for the survivalists out there…
In lieu of the recipe, how about a fight over the proper ingredients in chili?
Chili should have beans, at least 3 kinds of meat, tomatoes, and masa. If you disagree, you’re stupid.
*cracks beer*
What’s masa?
Nixtamalized corn flour.
Raw tortillas, in other words.
Wassa massa witchoo?
Beans don’t belong in chili. They are a side dish like cornbread.
Here we go!!!
I already gave up on Hills I’m willing to die on. We’ve already got someone not understanding the exception that proves the rule. Next there will probably a horde of nice folks arguing that noodles are an integral ingredient of chilli.
I never put starch into the chili itself, but I often serve my east asian flavored chili next to Basmati rice.
I put black beans, pinto beans, and string fucking beans in my chili.
I put in lima beans. And pancake syrup.
Hey, I understand. They don’t just hand out those “Worse Than Hitler” trophies.
Pancake syrup—is joke?
Beans are used if, and only if, you can’t afford enough meat to make a proper chili.
Mr Hayek is a strict no-beans guy. He also uses steak, brisket, and/or chuck for the meat, instead of ground beef. Mine is more economical, and I happen to like it. That’s really my approach: I make what I want to eat, even though it’s not Tex-Mex. I was just surprised that other folk liked it enough to vote for it.
No beans.
I use a #10 can of DARK red kidney beans, 5 lbs onions (yellow ~crying while thinking about cutting~), 6 lbs ground beef, red wine, lotsa bird chili peppers (some call them tree chilis) from the local Indian grocer, and then I indian spice the crap out of it. Green chili chutney, bengali 5 spice, fenugreek leaves galore, and the very hard-to-find unless you have a local Indian grocer, Curry leaves. Curry leaves have nothing to do with curry powder; they are a laurel-like green leaf that has no equivalent of substitute. You have to pull em off the branches, put them in the blender and frappe, but man are they unforgettably tasty. Oh, I also add pickled green peppercorns (also from Indian grocer), cardamom seeds, etc etc.
Very eastern. Couldn’t believe the Scandahoovians around here voted for it!
Oh, and a # 10 can of tomato sauce. It’s a big stockpot…
Garlic (slices! I love the way they look and feel) and probably some other stuff I am forgetting. I have never written it down or measured other than the bulk #10 can of beans, #10 can tomato sauce, 6 lb beef, 5 lb onion. The rest I make up as I go.
Thanks for sharing:) sounds awesome
You betcha!
Come again! (I don’t have an Indian catchphrase aside from Apu…)
This comment deserves its own post.
Brilliant Playa, you mention everything but chiles.
Tales of Woe from Slate: Home-Based Care Isnāt Babysitting
While it might be great to have someone with a degree watch your kids, a degree, or more than 16 hours of training should not be required to watch someone else’s kids. I’m sure Slate would love to mandate more training (which would screw over everyone involved by pricing most suppliers and consumers out of the market). Also, if you are paying your baby sitter 35k/yr you’re doing it wrong.
Ah yes, the long history of racism in childcare. Don’t forget to throw in the canard about mothers being expected to do it for free
There it is! It is almost like she was getting room and board for her and her children for free in return, but no, that can’t be- I’m sure dad just threw them out on the street.
Are you saying they’re doing a shitty job, or what? I’m not getting the angle here.
Huh, it is almost like she got to multitask her homelife and her job and that likely contributes heavily to the low wages in the sector.
Well shit lady. I think we found the source of the low wages!
Worst businesswoman ever? I’m not saying there isn’t a place for graduated rates and such, but maybe she’d make more being a bit more aggressive in her pricing scheme? Either way she could be making about $24/hr from the subsidies (6 kids). Thats almost 50k/yr, nothing to sneeze at.
Okay then.
This is the problem everyone has, the whole world even.
I get the feeling that this is a mostly properly operating market, despite the state subsidies. Workers and suppliers seem to recoup costs and are paid at or above the level their talents would dictate. Consumers are able to buy the product at the prevailing prices, everyone wins. Naturally Slate thinks this means everything is messed up and we need serious reform efforts to ‘fix’ it all. You get the feeling they would want universal 0-18 education paid by taxpayers with pensions and degree requirements for all. If that ends up removing employment opportunities from low-educated or minority women, so be it… they deserve it!
I get the feeling that this is a mostly properly operating market, despite the state subsidies. Workers and suppliers seem to recoup costs and are paid at or above the level their talents would dictate. Consumers are able to buy the product at the prevailing prices, everyone wins.
^Yep. Since I work from home with the kids, I need to hire an all-day sitter whenever I go out of town on business while my wife’s at her job. I pay $200 per day in cash, twice the local going rate, and have my choice of reliable and great sitters.
I could get away with less, but prefer to provide incentive for them to go above and beyond, as well as always being available when needed.
That’s pretty much how I ended up with a second cat. Wife came home with a kitten she found that could comfortably fit in one hand. I thought he was way too young to survive without his mom, so I told her to try to save the little guy. 3 years later he’s 16 lbs of FYTW.
Aww. I love fat cats.
Then you’d love mine. 27lbs of fightin’ fury. (He’s pictured in my avatar – post shave)
What a sweetie. Normal cats don’t give a fuck. Fat cats don’t give 2 sparkly fucks. They rock.
From (far) above:
Your great-grandfather died when you were too young to remember, but we used to sit in the deer stand together and gramps would tell me stories about what Guadalcanal was like. Gives me chills thinking about it. You know how old he was at the time? Nineteen. And now kids your age need coloring books and safe spaces and therapy dogs to cope with an election that doesnāt go your way.
Awesome.
Meh. Who raised these kids to think they need coloring books etc?
Yep – they didn’t give themselves participation trophies.
I just had a rear tire blowout. In the parking lot of Costco.
Talk about convenient!
Perhaps a little too convenient.
I thought of that. But, with a 4 hour wait, I don’t think they were trying to drum up business on this particular day.
My Dad bought Costco tires once and kept having to go back for their awesome warranty and impeccable customer service. Fuck that. I bought off-brands and they have served me well.
Although Chelsea typically bats away questions about launching a campaign, in a March interview with Variety she caveated, āIf someone steps down or something changes, Iāll then ask and answer those questions at that time.ā Clearly, sheās waiting for someone to step down.
“It would need to be handed to me on a silver platter, like everything else I have ever gotten.”
“Look, I’m a Clinton. I shouldn’t have to actually work for it. Just give it to me and I might only eat one of your children.”
I just had a rear tire blowout. In the parking lot of Costco.
Did you run to the door in a serpentine pattern?
Serpentine!