Like the first installment, I talk about a bunch of different things in one or two sentence snippets. First off, some music to set the mood.
- I’m continuing to listen to my biography of William Tecumseh Sherman. I feel like I have a new revelation every day about how fucked up our cultural memory of the Civil War is. For example, the guy had absolutely no love for slaves. He seemed to think it embarrassing that the abolitionists pushed “the negro issue” to the point of war. For him, slavery wasn’t the slap in the face, secession was. There seemed to be a general consensus in the mid-1850s that slavery would eventually go away if they didn’t politicize the issue.
- Yuengling is better than I remember it. It’s a good “cheap beer.”
- Baby Trshmnstr is hours or days away, and she’s already expensive. A questionable result on a sonogram resulted in 2 specialist appointments before the specialist came to the conclusion that this was all kicked off by a shoddy original sonogram. Sometimes things just work out, and you don’t need tech to monitor every little thing. We were teetering on the edge of inducing at 36 weeks because a sono tech was having a bad day.
- Just like in most other parts of life, negotiating is all about preparation. Without preparation, you’re pretty much guaranteed to be taken advantage of.
- Paying college athletes is the dumbest idea ever. I’d be cool with a small stipend increase or something, but paying them a salary will torpedo non-revenue sports, put the final nail in the coffin of the “student-athlete,” and intractably separate the blue-bloods from everybody else.
- You know what’s dumber than paying college athletes? The solution some moron on a sports board had to the issue: socializing all aspects of college so that the athletes didn’t have to pay for a night out at the movies.
- Something has changed recently in the way that California is viewed by the rest of the country. It’s one thing for people in Texas and Nebraska to see California as a completely different country. It’s another thing when the Mid-Atlantic and New England have a complete disconnect from California. I don’t think it’s quite there yet, but I’m a little surprised how much the DCers I’ve met since moving here are just as down on California as Texans are.
- I’ve tried concealed carrying my S&W M&P9 Shield, but my holster is uncomfortable. Some of it is that I need to lose some of the muffintop so it stops rubbing on the butt of the gun. Some of it is that it’s a single clip holster, so it’s constantly rotating on my belt into uncomfortable positions. Here’s the holster I got. Any suggestions?
nate squared tactical has the most confortable holster I have ever used, and I have used quite a few. They’re also rather affordable.
https://n82tactical.com/product-category/holsters/holsters-sw/holsters-sw-mp-shield-9mm/
You can also pocket carry, which I am a big fan of, if you don’t mind losing a front pocket to a gun.
Pocket carry is the answer. I went through several IWB holsters before I gave up on finding a comfortable one. Now I pocket carry and all is well.
I pocket carry a .32 when I tuck in my shirts & IWB a 9mm when I don’t. I like leather holsters because I find them more comfortable than polymer. I can’t find the exact one I use, but this is similar:
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F51c-iO3TLSL._SY400_.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTagua-PD1R-1112-Walther-Rotating-Holster%2Fdp%2FB011POYLWC&docid=xWS-khXQEjF9FM&tbnid=YVMa7tNngMMpGM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwj_4Zqh08LTAhUr5oMKHbOgCzsQMwhMKBEwEQ..i&w=345&h=400&itg=1&hl=en-us&client=safari&bih=628&biw=414&q=walther%20pps%20holster%20iwb%20thumb%20break&ved=0ahUKEwj_4Zqh08LTAhUr5oMKHbOgCzsQMwhMKBEwEQ&iact=mrc&uact=8
Ugh. It’s a thumb break leather holster, you can use your imagination.
*grumble*
The nate squared I linked has a tuckable option. Basically the clip is fixed at the base and you can bend it out and tuck your shirt in underneath it. I don’t have that one but it looked quite usable.
Neat. I don’t know about tucking around my 9 mm. It might print.
Trust me on this one: No one will notice, and those who do will not give 2 shits cause they probably have a gun in their pants too.
I frequent a little hole in the wall Chinese place around the corner. Average food, but they make the iced tea fresh and the owners are super nice people. I have been in there about 5 times. Every single time I was open carrying a full size 9mm in a big black holster. Not covered, not hiding it, completely out in the open. Same woman working the counter each time. Sat in the same place each time with the gun clearly facing out toward the counter. The woman did not notice I had a gun on me until we were leaving at the end of the fourth visit. Mind you this is for an openly carried full size gun. You think anyone is gonna care about a little fold above your waist?
Found it:
http://www.holsterhero.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/51yYmBlknDL2.jpg
32 is too small though, you should upgrade to a 380 at least.
I had the Sig P238 but it kept jamming, so I picked up the .32 beretta. I fall under “shot placement is more important than caliber” camp, so I tend to carry lower recoil firearms.
Fair enough, but carry FMJs instead of hollow points, because with a mouse gun penetration is more important than expansion.
also, I would argue it isn’t the caliber but the gun that is the problem. If you had a glock 42 or a ruger lcp it wouldn’t jam.
I carry an LCP most of the time because it’s hot here and I don’t want to carry around a bulky rig. Never had any problems with it at all. Cheap, light, reliable.
Mr. Riven had some similar issues with his concealed carry. I think the folks over at pistol forum recommended cobbling something together with … some kind of padded shoe-insert? It reapplied the pressure and now the whole thing rides comfortably.
something like this
Speaking of, anyone appendix carry around here? I honestly don’t see the benefits of walking around with a loaded gun pointed at your testicles/femoral artery, but always like to hear others’ thoughts on the issue
I fully expect to shoot my junk clean off any day now.
To be serious, carrying that way does make me a little uneasy, especially with a striker-fired gun. The day it doesn’t make me uneasy is the day I should probably stop carrying AIWB. I am very familiar and reasonably comfortable with the way the internal safeties work in my gun (a Glock), but I think the best AIWB guns are DAO or DA/SA hammer-fired guns, as the pistol is mechanically at rest when it is in the holster and requires a long, heavy trigger press to cock and fire it.
Also, one can ride the hammer with their thumb when reholstering for an added safety measure in case a bit of shirt or something finds its way into the holster.
Said everything I was going to say. +1 guns don’t kill people
It’s how I prefer to carry. The speed, concealment, and comfort advantages are pretty huge. But yes, you have to take extra special care when reholstering.
Only skinny people can AC. I am offended by your overt fat shaming. I thought you were down with the thicc.
I’ve been using a Remora 2-in-1 IWB for the Shield with the Ulticlip upgrade and it’s working pretty well. Set it to a reasonable forward cant on the hip so that the squishy bits rest in the space for your thumb at the top of the backstrap and below the slide. Doesn’t wobble at all once the clip is set. Can always remove the clip and use as a pocket holster or in other positions that theoretically work with the non-slip material. (My housemate uses nonslip for small of the back but I don’t wear my pants high enough for that to not result in an obvious tent poking out if I’m not sitting straight backed at all times.)
Where/how you wear your pants has a dramatic effect on what kinds of concealed carry can work for you.
I carry my Shield in a Remora as well. I don’t use the one with the clip, though.
I love it. Comfortable and quick. I like being able to take it out and jamb it between the seat and center console when I’m driving.
I tried a couple kydex ones and hated them. For OWB I have a DeSantis mini scabbard. Works great.
A sponsor at a gun forum I frequent makes these by hand. Back half is made out of sharkskin so it ‘bites’ into the inside of your pocket.
http://adamsholsters.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=67
I don’t pocket carry but I have one he made for my 1911. Don’t let the backorder time scare you, he does fantastic work.
I’m continuing to listen to my biography of William Tecumseh Sherman.
I read Sherman’s autobiography. I thought it was excellent. He had a job, and he set about getting it done. And, of course, any man capable of saying (and meaning it), “If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve” is a great man.
I read Grant’s autobiography first, because I had heard many good things about it over the years, and because of Twain’s involvement. After that, I had to read Sherman’s.
I am not really a history or military history “buff”, but I highly recommend both.
I will second those recommendations.
While that holster doesn’t look bad in most other respects, I don’t like the look of that clip. I see those things break off all the time.
The best concealment holster I’ve used is from JM Custom Kydex. They’re expensive, and the wait time can be pretty long, but they’re totally worth it.
“Yuengling is better than I remember it. It’s a good “cheap beer.””
The owners support Trump which makes it literally Hitler’s beer
The Germans do make an excellent blend of hoppes, barley, and water. You might even call it…
A Fine Ol’ Solution.
…and I just realized I spelled ‘hoppes’ like the gun cleaning solvent.
I really need a new hobby.
When are we going shooting / drinking?
Any weekend you want. Indycar is this Saturday so I’ll be indisposed, but Sunday is free.
Indeed! I’m actually planning on being over at Rio Salado on Sunday morningish. After that lunch or something at the Red, White, and Brew if you’re interested. I’ll probably be the only guy on the line with a plate carrier and a SCAR so stop by and say hi if you’re up for it.
I am only about 15 minutes from Rio Salado so I very well may join you. I’ll be the fat middle aged white guy with short hair and a slight beard. I’m sure I’ll stick out like a sore thumb at the gun range.
That last part was a joke for anyone confused right now.
It’s funny because it’s true.
Damn, I forgot to put my little indycar rant in the article. Suffice it to say I can’t wait until this iteration of the series tanks and we get some technical differentiation. I highly recommend thebook Beast about the 1994 1000+HP Mercedes push rod entry in the 500.
Look we don’t get F1 in the colonies can you please not fuck this little taste of awesome up for me quite yet?
The Swiss make an excellent blend of furrowed eyebrows and squinty eyelids.
*narrows gaze*
DAMMIT YOU STOLE MY GAZE!!
*angrily wipes freshly painted line off the wall, storms off*
My complaint about Yeungling is that it’s front end flavor makes you expect a little bite on the back end that doesn’t happen. So it’s just a bit of a pasty malt taste. I’m not saying it’s bad beer or anything, but I don’t think it’s better than regular Budweiser.
That’s my take, too. I don’t care for it, but I won’t pour it out. I think it’s marginally less good than Sam Adams Boston Lager, which itself is a pale imitation of a good English brown ale. I think the target audience is folks who are gonna drink a lot of it, nice and cold, and are looking for something a little more distinctive than an American adjunct lager.
Boston Lager is not a pale imitation of a good Englaish brown.
Its a halfway decent imitation of a Vienna lager.
Dammit, English…. I want a Miskatonic “Angry Mob“.
I think I tried a stout by them before any ales (at least recently). Not bad.
Stock up on noisemakers to celebrate the baby’s birth…
“There seemed to be a general consensus in the mid-1850s that slavery would eventually go away if they didn’t politicize the issue.”
That was the “moderate” position – the problem isn’t slavery but the politicization of the issue. I think James G. Randall and the “blundering generation” school of historians also taught this.
The “moderates” were in between the “extremists on both sides” who supported or opposed slavery, while accusing the other side of conspiring to undermine the Republic with their position. (I obviously am not into this sort of moral equivalence, but that’s how the “moderates” saw it).
Lincoln claimed there was a conspiracy to spread slavery, and to him and other Republicans, blocking this conspiracy was the central issue in politics. To slavers like Jeff Davis, protecting slavery against the attacks of Northern anti-slavers was the central issue in politics.
Many of the professional soldiers seem to have had an inclination toward the “moderate” position.
As someone once said, Lincoln was right to say that the slavers were deviating from the Founders’ vision, which was hostile to slavery even when they couldn’t think of a way to get rid of it altogether.
If this is the case, then for devotees of the country’s founding principles, it was the pro-slavers who were the aggressors and the people trying to at least contain slavery were the conservatives.
I think most moderates wished it would just go away, but the lengthy arguments over the slave/free status of westward expansion seem to indicate the South wanted more slavery.
Slavery was a fundamental violation of natural rights and the South had no intention of giving it up. I am not friendly towards any of the modern attempts to rehabilitate the South’s image under the guise of states’ rights. It stains any argument for limiting the role and scope of the Federal government in its more modern incarnation.
Here, here. No man can own another man.
Jesse hardest hit?
Pocket carry is the answer
I wear Levis about 99% of the time, so that wouldn’t work for me. Plus, what about weight? When I do wear something baggier like Carharts, the goddam cellphone bumping against my leg as I walk is annoying enough.
*academic, since I don’t feel any great need to lug a gat around with me everywhere.
If you get a proper pocket holster and your pants aren’t too loose and aren’t too tight the gun shouldn’t bounce around at all. And I pocket carry in levi’s all the time so that isn’t an issue.
As far as not needing a gun, you never need a gun…. until you do.
seconded. I pocket carry in jeans no problem. Get something like the LCP mentioned above and you literally will not even notice you have a gun on you. It barely weighs more than my edc knife.
Guns: lighter than policemen.
No kidding. I don’t think anyone would complain about carrying an extra 3/4 lb around with them all day. Definitely don’t want to carry an extra 300 lbs around.
Safer and less infringing as well.
JM Custom Kydex is what I prefer for appendix carry. I haven’t used any of his 3-4 o’clock IWB holsters. But yeah, a foam wedge or heel support wedge on the body side of the holster helps with comfort and grip tuck.
http://www.jmcustomkydex.com/
I’m pretty sure that you guys have heard of Australian comedian, Jim Jeffreries. Anyway, I was in a car with a friend of mine when I visited DC and he had his stand up playing through his iPhone on the car speakers. One of his bits was him ranting against our 2nd Amendment and our lack of love for gun control and wondered why we “love” our guns so much. He made so many fallacious statements that I didn’t now where to start. But here’s a Vox Article that sums up his bullshit views on gun control:
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11911948/australian-comedian-us-gun-laws
If you can stomach the excerpts from the above article, here’s the full stand up about gun control.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4g8777
That level of stupid burned. But if he doesn’t like our laws he doesn’t have to live here.
I get pretty peeved when I hear native born Americans bitch about the 2nd Amendment but when I see foreigners who come and live here bitch about it, the Kill Bill sirens goes off in my head. If you hate guns that much, fuck off and go back to where ever you came from.
Pretty much. Also given that these celebrities appreciate higher levels of security and a faster response time than the rest of us hoi polloi it comes off a bit hypocritical.
Could you imagine if Americans got on TV and were like “These fucking Aussies eat kangaroos! What the fuck is wrong with them?! Why don’t they own more guns? Everything down there is trying to kill them!” No, you couldn’t, because Australia is so unimportant we could give a fuck less what they do on their little penal colony gone wild. Here’s the truth: If people give so much of a fuck about what you’re doing that they’re taking the time to critique you, it means you’re actually important to them and your opinion matters, which is why you never hear about Americans caring what happens in Australia.
Ha! good call.
It’s funny how other Western countries bitch and moan about America’s backwardness and arrogance, but yet love our fucking pop culture.
It’s pure jealousy on their part, plain and simple.
That’s what made me hate John Oliver from the get-go.
I think he’s the typical lefty who thinks guns can’t help defend us because they’re all locked up in a safe while the ammo is locked up in a different safe across the house. Since that’s the stupid shit THEY recommend we do. His whole bit about how a gun would not have helped in his home invasion because he was naked and in bed….ummm… I have a gun in my nightstand dude. I’m pretty sure a whole lot of people on this board do to.
Back in grad school I had this same argument with a lefty friend while hanging out in my apartment. He tried to prove his point by saying “Look right now. Right this second, if someone kicked in the door how fast could you get to a gun? I mean you’ve gotta run to your closet and unlock your safe and all that shit so how fast could you really get to a gun? Not fast enough!”
I responded by pulling a gun out of my pocket. “I dunno man. That seemed pretty fast”
My stepdad keeps his gun underneath his night stand and also if someone does try to break in the alarm will go off giving him ample time to grab his guns.
Same. I keep weapons strategically near me when I am at home.
Yeah, his horseshit on gun control makes me regret liking Legit so much. But then, if you choose your entertainers based on politics, you’re left with, like… Adam Baldwin?
Vince Vaughn? Drew Carey?
Mel Gibson?Michael Caine?
The issue with these sorts is that they aren’t arguing from good faith, are ignorant about guns and the laws, and will not debate someone who is actually knowledgeable about guns.
That is unfortunately true. I take the good with the bad, ignore the stupid, focus in the positive. Although there is always southpark. They are reliably libertarian and hilarious, at least for me.
Doug Stanhope. Surely you people know the only libertarian comedian in the world!
He’s good if you’re a normie but if you’re a glib everything he says comes off as blatantly obvious.
I was a t Best Coast concert when they came to Chicago, and the lead singer started going on and on about Bernie Sanders. It’s like, “Shut the fuck up and sing.” After that tirade, I lost interest in their music which sucks because I like them a lot.
I saw the Dead Kennedys right after they kicked Jello Biafra out.
That was great for me, because instead of 30-minute political harangues, I heard their music.
they’ve been all politicky and insufferable since forever
Tom Selleck, Kurt Russel, and Clint Eastwood. You could do worse.
In a way, I like my comedians to be pretty glib and uninformed on political questions. I don’t want them to treat things, even my hobby horses, with too much earnestness. I have lecturers and authors I follow who give me earnest dialogue. I just want my comedians to be funny, and if they get political, not to be sanctimonious. Jefferies strays over that line, but I chalk that up to his being kind of a dopey person. Which is funny in the right context, not so much when he tries sounding off on something he knows virtually nothing about.
‘fraid not. Name does not ring a bell.
In Britain they had a deadly attack where a Muslim man drove a truck into a bunch of people. Therefore, logically we should ban all
Muslimstrucks.Seriously, the arguments they make for gun bans could so, so easily be used for a Muslim ban. Orlando Night Club, Paris, San Bernidino, Westminster, ISIS in general. Yet calling to ban guns means your moral and righteous and good, while calling to ban even restrict immigration for Muslims, not even ban it outright, makes you Hitler.
Not calling for banning Muslims or anything, but seriously progs, would it hurt to actually think about the issues instead of going off the feelz?
There were like, what, ten people killed in Port Arthur? Though to be fair about it, given the marginal population of Australia, that might have been significant to them.
1-20k, but what does that have to do with Australia?
The other one
Remind me to stay away from places named port arthur.
Might I then recommend a visit to New Port Arthur? Or should this go down in the reading list discussion?
Hard to believe that Japan’s neighbors still harbor ill will towards them.
I know right? It’s like they dropped an atom bomb on them or something.
Too soon?
uh like 40 people or something died. It was kind of a big deal.
Eh, that’s within an order of magnitude. Not really significant enough to upend laws.
35. It was the biggest for a long time. Although if you can explain how a criminal act somehow justifies the removal of rights from everyone under any context I will be extremely impressed.
I drove by Pulse yesterday. Not to downplay that tragedy, but I noticed that they named the part of town it’s in the ‘SoDo’ district. I immediately thought of South Park.
Sherman was such an interesting character in our nation’s short but storied history. His Auto-Bio is sitting on my shelf waiting for me to get through the umpteenth number of books I got before I purchased it. I may have a slight book addiction.
I may have a slight book addiction.
Is it as bad as Chelsea Clinton’s?
No. But I don’t buy books to social signal either. Anyone who is reading that many books at one time is not reading them for pleasure or knowledge. I read one book at a time, maybe two if they are fic and nonfic, but five is just some Kim family bluster.
barf
People lie about what they read almost as often as about who they’ve slept with.
Most of my “reading” is in the form of audiobooks during my commute. Most of that is from Black Library. (They sell DRM-free mp3s that I can just drop in and listen to without additional hassles)
My question is, do more people lie about what they have read, or what they haven’t read?
“Why yes, I have read 1984. Excellent book, very insightful. What’s it about? Um…Big Brother is watching you? The NSA? A Brave New World?”
“Have I read Fifty Shades of Gray? What, no, of course not, don’t be absurd, I haven’t read that story about that studly sex muffin Christian Gray spanking me, I mean Anastasia Steele…I’m sorry, what were we talking about again?”
I tried to read 1984. I got to the part where Julia showed up.
Had to read it in highschool. It’s a decent read, but rather over-hyped. I honestly think it’s greatest value is providing a common reference point for people talking about a surveillance state, government propoganda, etc.. I didn’t care about the characters, and the “story” was more concerned about how bad an evil* big government is rather than, you know, an actual story.
*As opposed to a glorious and righteous socialist state like what Orwell wanted. It still amazes me the man was so easily able to see the dangers of big governments, but thought the problem was that we had the wrong people stomping their boots on our necks.
Have you read Homage to Catalonia. It’s the point where he becomes disillusioned with the Soviet project and his other works just make more sense in its context.
Orwell was a classic worshiper of Democracy, the God that failed. It’s pretty easy to recognize his pseudo-religious faith in consensus and democratic socialism resulting in the true socialist state.
Homage to Catalonia? Um…of course. Yes. That book is…on my reading list. Absolutely.
It seemed like a real enough story to me.
Winston and Julia were not really models of virtue, it’s just that the state was more evil than they were and of course it corrupted them.
If the central point of your book is about arbitrary state power, rather than Mr. Darcy looking for a wife or whatever, then of course there’s a risk of the characters’ personal story looking like an Ayn Rand style cartoony thing, but I think Winston and Julia are decently developed as characters.
Lol. It’s underrated. I burned through a lot of Orwell when I still read frequently and that was the standout read for me. I’ve lent it to a few friends since then (it apparently ruined a friend of mine’s perfect trip to Spain when her husband borrowed it and then actually had things he wanted to do there instead of waiting while she shopped).
I preferred Brave New World for my dystopian fiction, though I did enjoy 1984 as well. I think they work quite well together.
Fusionist, I think I was a bit unclear. Let me see if I can explain my view on it better.Yes, Winston and Julia were no model of virtue. I’m fine with that. I like a good virtuous character, but I also like a good not quite so virtuous one. My problem wasn’t that they weren’t good people; it’s that I didn’t care about them. I didn’t care what happened to them. Maybe it’s because it’s a dystopian book and with the foregone conclusion things will suck it’s harder to form the connection, but if halfway through the book both had been randomly struck by lightning I wouldn’t have cared.
For the story, yes, there is one, and it is functional, but it was pretty clear that the book wasn’t made for the story. The sole purpose of the book’s story was to showcase the dystopian world. And yes, the world sucks, it sucks hard, and like I said I think it is a very useful common frame of reference on big government gone wild, but I didn’t feel the plot itself was all that engaging.
Again, I liked the book, I just heard so much about it and so many references and such that I over-hyped it. I don’t think it’s amazing, but it is still good.
I fuck books.
Checkmate, atheists.
Is it hard on the bindings?
You said hard on. heh heh heh
Bragging about a reading list is stupid. It just means you have a lot of stuff that you want to check out eventually, not that you’ve actually read a lot. I have a stupidly large reading list, but I’m still struggling to find time to get even part of the way through. Actually, I think as time goes on it’s getting bigger, but that’s because I’m adding new books to the list faster than I’m reading them.
My reading list is yuuuge.
It’s like bragging about your netflix queue.
no doubt every book on that list has been focus grouped for appropriate social singal
I’m not impressed by someone’s reading to do list nut more by books I’ve read list
but that Chelsea
….she sooooo woke !!!
You’re telling me down the front of your sweats hooked over the waistband isn’t the going fashion?
Depends on how much you love your balls.
I’d prefer someone else do it for me.
Mexican carry? Cultural appropriation!
//rubs chin. I’ll allow it.
I know next to nothing about Jeremy Corbyn, but he makes Jim Hacker looks like a genius.
Without opening the link I’m guessing he put his foot in his mouth? Did he just fuck over labor for another generation?
The interviewer directly asks him about what he’d do in the event of a nuclear attack on Britain (i.e. what orders he’d give the captains in charge of Britain’s nuclear weapons) and his answer is ‘to follow his orders’. Corbyn just keeps regurgitating hippie idiocy about how he wants a ‘nuclear free world’. Yes Corbyn, I know you have your childish fantasies, but we are talking about reality here. Every time the interviewer tries to steer him into actually answering the question he just keeps talking about disarmament or complaining about Trump’s policies towards Iran or Korea.
What do we do, Guv’nah?!
Okay men, follow my orders!
Rightey O’ Guv! What are your orders?
Just follow my orders.
Ah.. Alroight then, mate.. what.. ARE.. your orders?
My orders are to follow them.
Roight.. ohkay anyone else got a plan?
Nice. I surprised the party hasn’t booted him yet. When they get creamed in the special election maybe that will be the wakeup they need.
Um, no. In democracies it’s really, really easy to stand up for the interests of the many. We have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc. specificially to protect the few from the many, since people don’t try to silence unpopular beliefs. A strong leadership stands up to the many and says, “Screw you guys, these people have rights too, even if you don’t like them.” A weak leadership is doing the mob’s work for them.
And SF’ed the link. Let’s try again.
I pocket carry in levi’s all the time so that isn’t an issue.
I’m really not trying to argue, but- I see no way in Hell a pistol in the pocket of my 501s would not be plainly obvious the casual observer.
I mentioned this upthread, but you are seriously overrating the observational skills of the rest of the world.
Absolutely true. Most people aren’t looking at you, and if they do, they aren’t looking at your waist area.
Some people are meat gazers… *cough*Brooks.
Speaking of Australia- aside from their dopey gun laws- the very same Australiaphile progressives who heckle Trump and his radical protectionism and anti-immigrant eviltry are apparently completely unaware of just how rabidly anti-immigrant and protectionist the Aussies are.
I have been to Australia and I have been casual friends with a few in my life. You don’t know what racism is until you ask your average Aussie what he thinks of the Aborigines. Holy shit I had to burn my clothes when I got home from all the hate they had soaked up.
It’s the same with Europeans. Listening to them talk, you would think that the Klan runs this country but have you ever been to an European soccer game? Some of the shit they say would make 60’s George Wallace blush.
Look, I backpacked around Europe for two weeks on a Eurail pass when I was in college, so I think I may know a little more about what an Idyllic place Europe is than you do.
I spent a summer doing the same so my Euro knowledge is yuuuuge.
I learned that in 1976 there was no longer a HOTEL del Torro at which to rendezvous with your friends though.
It’s not quite so bad in England (though there are incidents), but holy shit in some countries, especially Spain, there is just an absurd amount of racism. Bananas being thrown on the field, monkey chants, racist banners, the works.
A society with a pretty constant history of a minority black population has its racial issues front and center, makes it easier to point out. Europeans, however, having an overwhelmingly homogeneous societies for most of their histories, are able to hide their racial issues a lot better.
The worst conversation on race I ever had was with two Swedes in Stockholm about how ‘black genetics’ were the cause of American crime rates.
Several years ago, Radio Sweden’s English program had a report on some Jamaican dancehall singers coming to perform and how the music is known for its homophobic lyrics.
Listening to Sweden’s gays tie themselves into pretzel-like knots trying to excuse homophobia coming from non-whites was interesting.
I always though the white Australia policy was a good idea, although they’ve been slowly ratcheting it back to ease the demand for labor.
The Frenchies hate the Ay-rabs with the fire of 1000 burning suns. Even before I spoke the language I could pick up the word “Arab” in heated discussions literally everywhere.
Democrats new game-plan to demonstrate their connection to the common-
manperson* = Cursei foresee 2020 Campaign Slogans = “Yes We Can, Bitches”
They might as well cut out all pretense and go with “Fuck you, that’s why!”
Poop.
So there’s hope for “fuck you, cut spending” after all?
Yes. It’s an idea whose time has fucking finally come.
“Chelsea Clinton believes she knows the way forward for the American people.
But Rand Paul knows what the American people truly want…”
*Cue Rand turning to camera, smiling warmingly.
“Fuck you, cut spending!”
“On November 3, go to the polls and tell those Washington pricks what you really want.”
The ads write themselves.
“go to the polls and tell those Washington pricks what you really want.”
Worked for Trump
The thing i find so silly about the piece/the self-conscious addition of gratuitous swearing (see: Kristen Gillibrand’s recent interview, or DNC Chair Perez’ latest “republicans don’t give a shit about people” line)…
…is the Dems and Media both seem to want to spread the notion that the reason for their recent failures were entirely about “HOW” the message was being pushed, not what the message was. (or the lack of any real message). They want to pretend their problem is one of “style”. “We’re too nice!! They go low, we go high!”
No, seriously. Regularly calling all of your opponents “rapist hitlers” was being *too highbrow*
They also think that the press relentllessy attacked Hillary because she’s a woman.
They can convince themselves of any reality.
Last year over the summer we built a hair and nail salon in a trendy little commercial plaza adjacent to the university. The security guy for the commercial lots open carried and patrolled all the time. It was funny to watch students go wide-eyed and nudge each other when he passed by.
They’re serving korean rice bowls at the cafeteria today. The guy asked me if i wanted the spicy or not spicy sauce. I said not spicy. I am now at my desk eating it. If this is the not spicy sauce then the spicy sauce must be made from lava and demon testicles cause this is kicking my fucking ass right now.
Not spicy in Asian-speak is pretty damn spicy for American tastes.
If you want real spicy go to a Thai restaurant and tell them you want it Thai spicy. Or, as the waitress once confirmed with me, “Not white people spicy”. Holy flaming shit. Which is both a reaction and your experience in the bathroom later.
yeah my hetero life mate likes hers thai spicy which always surprises the waitresses when she actually eats it. Those damn minorities and their capsaicin tolerance.
Minority capsaicin tolerance? What bullshit racism is this? I’m pasty white and have a tolerance that allows me to cook with ghost chilis, and enjoy the delicious hot sauces made of them.
Unless I’m eating out, it’s rare I get to indulge though.
One would hope you’re not indulging in ghost chilies while eating out, Mr. Nephilium.
There’s a couple of places here that offer food with ghost chilies, the most recent one I was at was the B-Spot.
There was a taco place we would go to at times that had a ghost chili hot sauce on the menu, and yes, I would get that on my tacos. They have since replaced it with a Carolina Reaper hot sauce, which I tried. I made it through one and a half tacos, before the burn built up too much.
Since then, they’ve stopped serving the Reaper hot sauce on the tacos, and now only serve it on the side. So I’m guessing there were some people who went above their heat level too many times.
pretty sure that’s not what he was referring to…
(sigh)
Bad day at work, causing me to miss obvious joke. I’ll hang my head in shame.
I was at was the
BG-Spot.He likes his clams spicy….
I just got sympathy firecrotch from reading that.
There is a local chain that has levels of Thai hot. When I was regularly eating spicy food, I found Thai hot x5 spicy but delicious. I only ordered Thai hot x6 once, and that was the night the only liquids available were beer and water. That burning didn’t abate for a long time.
Korean food tends not to be that spicy except for dakgalbi 닭갈비. We had a running problem that I’d go out with a Canadian friend for lunch and the not spicy dakgalbi was too spicy for him and the spicy one wasn’t spicy enough for me, so I might be the wrong person to ask, but Korean food gets nowhere near Thai food when it comes to hot. Ordered moderately hot at a Thai restaurant the other day and was crying the whole time. Got the receipt and it said EXTRA HOT across the top of the order. Sigh.
Extra hot.
We got a Korean place here down the road, and their Spicy Pork is a lot hotter than their Spicy Chicken.
I like it hot, and that dish actually makes sweat run off my head.
You chose…poorly. Who picks not spicy anyway?
Flaming ass pain the next day will build character.
Many years ago a co worker ordered me a demon fart or a demon shit I cant remember which one. Basically it was whiskey and Tabasco sauce. That was the first time something tasted the same going out as it did coming in.
You need to learn to wipe properly for those mornings. The trick is to dab, rather than swipe.
lol
a man of true experience.
as a younger man I was once quite proud of my ability to eat raw green chili alongside of my Mexican brothers from a different mother.
now my young wife can put me to shame. not only is it hot going down but it isnt fun the next morning
I had a classmate in college who was from Cambodia. When he cooked for us and I commented on how spicy the food was, he pointed out that this was mild.
“This is the amount of spice we use to get children used to chilies” is an unpleasant conversation to have.
I was planning a happy hour with some colleagues many years ago, and this guy says “I want to go to _____ bar because they have this really obscure Chinese beer called Yuengling”.
Yes.
(that anecdote also reminded me of the time some colleagues and I were at a Thai restaurant, and this dude asked for chopsticks with his meal, so he could “be authentic”)
this dude asked for chopsticks with his meal, so he could “be authentic
Oh god. I was at a Thai place with a former coworker and his Koren wife and they were PISSED that we weren’t given chopsticks because they assumed that white people (mind you we’re with a Korean woman as well) wouldn’t know how to use them. The guy made a huge stink about it while I tried to shut him up and explain that he’s an idiot and I’ve never had the heart to go back.
Do the thai not use chopsticks? asking seriously. never heard one way or the other.
I have always liked chopsticks, and would use them all the time if they were provided to me. they just make eating most things more fun. and they make it “OK” to pick up your rice-bowl and just shovel stuff into your face. I always think its funny when people try and eat rice with chopsticks but do it as though its supposed to be as clinical and prim as if it were with a fork.
It’s not really common, though I have heard in they’re used occasionally with Chinese-influenced dishes.
Spoon and fork generally.
fuck that, i just pick up the bowl
I was mocked frequently for eating rice with chopsticks instead of a spoon in Korea. The Koreans frequently move rice onto their broad flat spoons with the chopsticks and then dip that in doenjang-jjigae 된장찌개, a beanpaste stew, which is delicious, but is obviously unwieldy with chopsticks.
I don’t think that’s a thing in Thailand, either. They also don’t slurp their noodles, a la Japanese.
I had some people over my house one time, and one of the girlfriend’s friends was trying my homebrewed Saison. He said, “This is good, like really good, like Bud and Miller mixed together.”
The room fell silent as my friends all turned and looked at him.
Is she allowed in your place again?
It was a he… and yes, though I’m certain he won’t say anything like that again.
If you’re referring to the girlfriend, she has a set of keys, so it would be a bit of a hassle to change the locks.
Oops. Yeah, I figured the GF would still be allowed, since having slightly clueless friends isn’t usually a deal breaker.
But was he on point?
Athletes should absolutely be paid. It doesn’t have to come directly from the university, just let kids sell their image and name. Autograph sessions, local commercials, etc. Sell jerseys with their name on it, let the school take a cut and send the rest to the kid.
The idea that the bluebloods will get all the good recruits doesn’t make any sense, because they already get all of the good recruits. In fact, it will probably help middling schools in big conferences who have ton of booster cash floating around, but no tradition to lure recruits away from Alabama and OSU.
I just can’t fathom the idea that a kid shouldn’t be able to sell his own likeness.
Lets face it Major College Football is not an amateur sport and has not been for several decades, it is high time for the big football conferences to tell the NCAA to take a flying leap, reorganize their Football teams as wholly owned for profit enties owned by the college and move forward as a feeder league to the NFL, then the rest of college Football can go forward as amatures with players who are almost never going to sniff the pro ranks and largely ignored like most other college sports.
It doesn’t have to come directly from the university, just let kids sell their image and name. Autograph sessions, local commercials, etc. Sell jerseys with their name on it, let the school take a cut and send the rest to the kid.
That’s the part I left out. All individual likeness rights should be retained. I could go either way on the likeness within the team (EA Sports, etc).
JM Custom Kydex is my go-to for concealment holsters. I carry at around the 10:30 position (lefty), so I use the AIWB holster, but I’ve heard good things about his behind-the-hip holsters as well.
Pistol-forum.com has a pretty good signal-to-noise ratio when it comes to concealment holster advice.
Sorry; noob double-post.
I use a Crossbreed IWB for my M&P Shield. Seems to work no matter what I’m wearing.
+1 for crossbreed
Wright Leather Works makes great holsters.
https://www.wrightleatherworks.com/
I’ve got the Predator OWB, and it’s the best holster I’ve had. No break-in required, it just works.
Since I haven’t seen it posted yet:
Jonathan Demme, 1944-2017
Let’s celebrate his life with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Yabut – who are we gonna get the liver from? I hear Jonathan Demme’s is available…
It’s what he would have wanted.
I feel like a nice chianti would be wasted on me. Can we just do a cheaper, “only alright” chianti instead?
[Breaks out the box of Riunite for Riven]
Riunite on ice, Riunite so nice
As long as I don’t have to drink it from a shoe, I’m in.
Ann Coulter cancels Berkeley event amid protests, says decision ‘a dark day for free speech in America’
Can we call a woman a cuck? Is pussy still the standard? God I’m so confused.
What the fuck for?
Yale students stage hunger strike for some reason. Well, eight of them, anyway. Only it’s not a hunger strike, but a relay fast. Seriously!
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am having a great day.
hunger strikes never made sense to me. “Oh no, my mortal enemies are starving! HOW CAN I GO ON?!”
It’s, in theory, supposed to make captors look back because the people are implying they’re rather starve to death than continue their current existence. Of course, Western protest culture is full of morons that don’t understand the contextual justification of the concept.
They seemed really keen on the Gitmo prisoners and their periodic hunger strikes, right up until about eight years and a couple months ago.
I had a YOOG bowl of mussels from Legal Seafood.
(Carrabbas’s mussels are WAY better)
Legal Seafood is probably the most overrated national chain out there not to mention being one of the biggest rent seekers. They actualy used to run radio ads bragging about the fact that they basically wrote the government regulations on seafood freshness
I am a lover of Carrabbas fried squid appetizers with their Mariana sauce.
Their Mariana is second only to my wifes garden fresh variety.
Yuengling!!!
I picked up a beer from Tucson. Dragoon Brewery’s Stonghold Session Ale. Its prwtty good but I couldn’t put my finger on what it reminded me of. Yuengling. It reminds me of Yeungling.
HOLSTERS – Too Lazy;Didn’t Read Comments
For the expensive end, go with a High Noon Holsters horsehide Tail Gunner. Thin leather, tough, and it stabilizes really well with the one loop/clip. Figure $160 or so. It can hold a 1911 Commander all day without a problem, so your lighter and thinner Shield should be okay.
On a less-expensive kick ($80-90), a Comp-Tac MTAC or Infidel “ultra max” holster. The old Infidel and the MTAC work great with a G26, so the Shield should be G-T-G. The secret here is that the holster is Kydex with a leather backing against your side that keeps it from sliding around, and keeps you from getting plastic bits jammed against your flesh.
I have years of time with the HNH Tailgunner and the MTAC carrying at 4 O’Clock with a FBI cant. I have a little less time carrying in the Infidel.