Welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
Current earworm, sort of A-ha meets Michael Jackson.
Let’s see some hunks.
Nice eyes.
Same model.
Fake redhead for Carin.
No one’s had to wear a tie for a while.
Emergency Chris. Chris Pratt, Chris Pine, Chris Evans on standby.
Last, but not least.
Thank you for your attention, thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the linky love every week, and y’all have a good day.
127 Comments
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Good morning Hump Day Hostages
I have a habit of watching the local news for weather and local stories. As I watched this morning and saw the scolding tone of the stories about people who are actually opening their shops and those who merely desire them to be opened and their fawning admiration for people doing modified activities for the “New Normal” I was genuinely creeped out. The story that put me over the edge was the announcement by MOFGA that their annual fair would be a virtual event. It’s held at the END OF SEPTEMBER.
That story combined with the older guy (mid to late 70’s) who works one day a week for half the year wearing a red hat designed to look like a Trump hat with “Dump Trump” on it just cemented the notion that the ongoing quarantine is just a political operation at this point
MOFGA = maine organic farmers and gardeners association
They have a huge fair in Unity last week of September every year. Huge. Given the clientele it’s a lefty paradise. Lots of trust funders walking around with white people dread locks and debating the best way to make nut milk. All their exhibitors for any and all causes are uniformly left wing. Bernie bro heaven. My dream would to have a group of people enter the fair undercover and later assemble while taking off jackets to reveal Trump shirts with someone filming from a distance. It would be amusing to see how much “Peace and Love, man!” would be extended
I like the Chrises.
🎶 It’s Raining (Gay) Men…….. 🎶
Remember what Roamy has to go through to find HHD. Lots of gay.
It’s supposed to be baseball season. Maybe there are some hunks there.
Yeah, I appreciate Roamy falling on that sword for us gals! 😊
A Twitch channel for…chickens.
Seriously, it’s just live cam footage from someone’s chicken coop. As in actual chickens.
Sadly, this strikes me as fine viewing this morning.
Real Chickens of Coop County
wakey wakey
The Weekend’s voice is just amazing. His genre isn’t really my thing, but his voice. I remember seeing him perform live on one of the awards shows, and he probably has perfect pitch. So dead on every note.
Biggest scam in global history:
In one particularly incomprehensible act, the government of India, a poor country of 1.3 billion people, locked down its people. As Quartz India reported on April 22, “Coronavirus has killed only around 700 Indians … a small number still compared to the 450,000 TB and 10,000-odd malaria deaths recorded every year.”
From here: https://amgreatness.com/2020/05/05/the-worldwide-lockdown-may-be-the-greatest-mistake-in-history/
Is this the real life?
no.
It’s the nightmare I keep coming back to when I think I’m waking up.
I was kind of depressed yesterday talking to a very good friend. I was shitblown that she and her family are all hyped up on “staying home” and “keeping their distance” even from her kids. WTF? She’s not a stupid person. But, evidently, not a deep thinker. Maybe too much news?
She was kind of aghast that I go to Walmart, Target, Costco, Publix three times a week without masks or gloves. I told her I had a dental appointment yesterday and she was shocked.
She lives on the other side of Florida.
I would go places but nothing is open. You have to wait in line to get into Home Depot and I’m not doing that bullshit.
I asked her when she thinks the “stay home” should end.
She said I don’t know.
OFFS
Saturday the line was 45 min long. Fuck that shit.
Home Depot wait line is about 5-10 minutes. My husband has done it a few times because he has projects to do because he’s not sitting around watching TV. Besides working out, he’s getting shit done since this MoFo Bullshit has shut his business down.
Started a little garden too.
He doesn’t go on a Saturday. Every day is the same for him.
I will say that the Catholic Church is an effing shitball of dumpster fire stupidity.
This Pope is a POS and if he’s an emissary of God I’m out. I’ll sit at a beach and pray before I follow any of his bullshit advice.
What we did wrong and by we I mean Trump, was get into something without an endgame. A metric by which we say, it’s done this is the threshold where we open up the country completely.
Just like wars, we should have learned to have a redline and once we hit that, it’s over. It needed to be said over and over and over again so everyone would at least have heard it once.
Why are we so stupid?
All of my neighbors are into the social distancing thing.
We get together on Fridays and they were VERY CONCERNED that we’d be worried about our 2.5 year old talking to them and mixing with them. I was more concerned he’d flick boogers on them.
We set up lawn chairs in a big ass circle and either have a drink or eat something. Our Israeli neighbor makes challa bread but puts on gloves etc to cut it up. It’s a nice gesture but we brought cupcakes for everyone that were decorated by said 2.5 year old. Anyone with a kid knows the cupcakes weren’t exactly clean but they were eaten cuz cupcakes.
They are also VERY CONCERNED that one of our neighbors bought a .22 for her 17 year old for his birthday.
I try not to judge. They’re still cool people and I enjoy their company.
Where’s our Easter egg? This is bullcrap.
Economic Impact Payment
President Donald J. Trump – check arrived yesterday – $2,400.
LOL It cracks me up. He’s making the liberal loons cash a check with his name on it.
I try not to judge. They’re still cool people and I enjoy their company.
——
And they let you hang around with them
I refuse to wait in the Home Depot line.
Lowes is a bit further away but you can walk right in.
This has become a watershed moment in our circle of friends – all lefties. The rule used to be “No politics.” And it stood for the better part of twenty years. There’s loads more to talk about, so we just avoided it.
But lately, in our Sunday Quarantinis they’ve all become fucking sheep to the slaughter, and very judgmental if anyone dares express a contrary opinion.
Last time (and it truly was for me) one of them started spouting some cockassery about how China was very helpful in communicating about the virus, and they gave the world all the information necessary to make decisions.
I walked out. The “new normal” is no Hotspur.
Good for you Hotspur.
How rational can you be if you are using actual Communist China dictatorial taking points to state your case in America?
Eff them.
I went to Home Depot last week and saw the line, and said, “Fuck this.”
Idiots.
Our Home Depot and Lowes are across the street from one another, it’s the same at both.
es. My husband has done it a few times because he has projects to do because he’s not sitting around watching TV. B
Pat let a bunch of people go at our store to make it through the pandemic, so he’s working a million hours a week. So, no projects getting done here. No major projects.
I haven’t checked what Lowe’s is like. Menard’s is in IN and that county has mandatory masks and no longer does board cutting so fuck that.
Buying lumber at Home Depot is stupid.
You have to push the lumber cart the length of the building to wait in line.
Then you have to push the cart the length of the building to get back to lumber.
I am exposed to everyone in that line, then everyone in the store.
Lowes gets all our business until this bullshit ends.
Our Home Depot has a special line for lumber and it’s got its own section at the front of the store. Weird.
My husband gets crown molding and baseboard from a smallish place that is soooo much better priced than the stuff at Home Depot. It’s great.
If it’s $2.15 at Home Depot it’s $1.65/foot at this other place. Better selection and longer boards. Fewer seams.
“earworm” is the Easter egg link, Hotspur.
The only store I’ve been in since the craziness with one way aisles and number limits has been a Walgreens and I was able to walk right in and move around the store at my pleasure (no arrows). Well, the beer store too. Same deal there. Paula has done all the grocery shopping since I’d be guaranteed to forget something on the list.
Seeing my chiropractor friend for a back crack in a little bit. He’s a big anti-vaxxer. Dying to see what his take on all this is.
Positive thoughts for your back and neck to feel like a little kid’s, supple, flexible and full mobility.
That should be good.
My guy from India said that he overall approves of the lockdown.
His rationale is that the health system, sanitary systems, and culture is not at the point where they can handle a real outbreak.
It’s pretty amazing that he works for me and we live so far apart.
Indians literally bathe in a river filled with sewage. They probably won’t even get sick.
Actually, per my cite, they aren’t getting sick, at least not from this.
MJ, your contact in India is wrong.
Anyone going along with a shutdown until “whenever the dems feel like they’ve effed the economy enough” they are part of the problem.
A more important question, HTF are we supposed to look at Abrams for 4 years as VP/P if she is chosen and Biden wins?
MJ, your contact in India is wrong.
———————–
I don’t disagree with your opinion. He also said, ‘we could lose a few hundred thousand people and no one would really notice.’
I lol’d
His overall thought is that because the country is developing (meaning fragile) they need to be cautious.
My thought was that fragility should necessitate taking risk. In those situations huge innovations tend to happen.
A more important question, HTF are we supposed to look at Abrams for 4 years as VP/P if she is chosen and Biden wins?
———————
I couldn’t sleep last night, thinking about various things, and it occurred to me that if she’s nominated (she won’t be) that we’ll be told that she’s beautiful.
It’s just one more thing that will produce cognitive dissonance.
India has nowhere to go but up. Unless they have huge amounts of internal travel, they won’t be at risk to any plague.
Even the Black Plague wasn’t actually all that dangerous by itself. Most of the deaths came from a misunderstanding of how it was passing from person to person, and some atrocious personal hygiene practices from some of the heretic groups that were popular at the time.
My thought was that fragility should necessitate taking risk. In those situations huge innovations tend to happen.
—–
Agree.
I couldn’t sleep last night, thinking about various things, and it occurred to me that if she’s nominated (she won’t be) that we’ll be told that she’s beautiful.
It’s just one more thing that will produce cognitive dissonance.
——-
Exactly.
Although I expected you to say:
1/10 would smash
What percentage of people who died from Corona Virus will vote Democrat this year?
Yes.
Abrams would 10/10 smash anyone she sits on.
Lowes and Home Depot, here on my side of the river have been hopping for weeks now. I’ve noticed no line except to check out with your stuffs.
Grocery stores have a line, on occasion, only because they’re doing the counting and wiping down carts as they let you in. Which is stupid on really sunny days where those carts were cooking in the sun for however long before being brought in.
I haven’t ever seen a line at Walmart. They have it taped off for one, but I’ve not seen one. They have team members at the door to wipe down carts and to count, but the last few times I was there, those standing there were doing neither. They’re back to being packed.
Since we ‘officially’ reopened on Monday, the grocery stores had a lot more cars in the parking lot too. Forgot to check if Supercuts had any business.
Did a quick drive around after mailing some offering envelopes. No lines at Lowe’s here, and the parking lot was pretty full. Little Caesar’s in Granger (IN) was open, and I saw kids playing at a public park unmasked.
Chiropractor, predictably, thinks it’s all bullshit. He does a lot of TCM and acupuncture stuff and feels like he’s been treating respiratory illnesses that may have been the’Rona since December.
He told me a few jokes and the one I hadn’t heard yet was good.
Zev: Want to hear a joke is coronavirus?
Jim: Sure
-pause-
Zev: You probably won’t get it
Heh.
The bowling alley I drove past (now closed for 2 months that are normally decent for bowling here because the holidays are past and the weather still sucks) had a nice flashing sign:
“WELCOME TO MICHIGAN
GRETCHEN WHITMER GOVERNOR
WHERE POLITICS CONTROLS OUR WELL-BEING!”
I need to go there after they open and spend some money.
Rush’s theory for why the pols and media are downplaying or ignoring hydroxychloroquine is because there is no money to be made from it’s use.
I think that is a small part of it, because I haven’t heard anyone from Big Pharma poo poo it. I think the bigger reason is that if word gets out that it is working, which it is, the virus can be controlled and the lockdowns can be lifted….which those pols and media do not want happening.
I heard him say that too. Very believable
OOps. I think I just got someone unfriended. lol
Big long heated debated (over covid of course). These libs sure are used to just bomb throwing and not being called on their bs. Little fucking snowflakes.
They didn’t start the virus thing, but goddam if the politicians didn’t immediately seize an opportunity.
What a bunch of assholes.
What did you say? Please use a weird swear phrase in the explanation. For example, calling someone a fuckhole would be nice.
And can you set the stage a bit. Maybe start it out like a Dicken’s novel?
It was a dark and stormy night. Then this liberal bitch went on this rant about everything being Trump’s fault and concluded that the proof was the “GOP sponsored genocide”.
I asked her what exactly the GOP sponsored Genocide was , and she then called me a Karen.
I laughed and laughed at her lying dog-faced pony soldier face and then the unfriending occurred.
I am obviously the protagonist in this story. I have no idea what the theme is – possibly that all liberals are stupid?
Dicken’s Cider
If we were doing genocide, there’d be a much higher body count, and we wouldn’t have started in nursing homes.
LOL
Over coffee this morning I made some remark about someone being a dick head. Then HotBride said, “Why are all derogatory remarks related to genitals, or sex?”
Then I said, “cocksucker.” And she said,”Douche bag.” Then it went from there:
Me: Ball buster
Hotbride: Pussy
Asshole
Fucktard
Jackass
Cunt (that was Hotbride)
Dickbutt
Fuckface
We were laughing our asses off thinking up more words.
Saying them out loud to each other was definitely Fourth Grade, and we were rolling around laughing.
American slang is sex because of the taboo. I’m told German slang is mostly defecation because they like that sort of thing.
One time in our early years we were on a road trip, and she used the word boobs. I told her I didn’t like that word. And she asked what I preferred. I said, ‘breasts.”
She said, “How about bosom?”
Then we started…
Tits
Jugs
Cans
Funbags
Sweater puppies
Hooters
Knockers
Rack
LOL We were laughing our asses off that there were so many names.
Yeah, fourth grade.
Ah shit, I love it when Car in goes anti-Karen on Karen bishes. While I can’t guarantee I’ll be on doucheface, you can tag team me in if things get fun.
One of Paula’s favorites is cuntbag
My wife likes to call me Bitch Breath. I don’t know why but it sounds good coming from her.
I’ve never heard of “GOP sponsored genocide.”
Is this something we do? I didn’t get the memo just like I didn’t get the check.
I wonder if Carin’s stupid “friend” got a check?
What if we had a genocide and nobody came?
Oh hey, local morning radio show had on the guy who did the documentary, ‘Created Equal’, on Justice Thomas. PBS will be airing it on May 18, 9 pm CST. MARK YOUR CALENDARS or check out the times in your region to see if they’re different.
Weird how they’re playing it while sorta karma is happening to Biden. Sorta.
We’re pretty efficient and we have all the guns so the FunGenocide would be over by now.
And I’d be wearing Charles’ Blow’s skin as a pair of assless chaps.
Those GOP Fuckers! I swear if they had a genocide and didn’t invite me I’m gonna be soooooo pissed.
Giant asian hornets? I see that, and raise you a praying mantis:
a bit graphic
Eating a hornet’s face is all delicious and savory, until the hornet’s screams alert his fellow murderous swarm.
I like praying mantis, they seem sincere. AND they eat murder hornets faces.
I’m loving the Meme with the fat sheriff from the SWAT situation in Odessa. The police show names are very HS and HB. 4th grade, but funny. H2 cereal names. Starsky & Hutt. And Magnum BMI are two of my favs. I have no link fu.
Sound on Mare,
https://tinyurl.com/y88rsqwv
hahahahahaah
The internet is awesome and stupid.
https://tinyurl.com/aahhhwooooo
Praying mantises are very pious and also ambush predators, but mostly ambush predators.
Hotspur, that was a drinking game we had in college, to name something then go around the room saying as many euphemisms as possible, and if you couldn’t think of one, you had to drink.
Throwing up, barfing, puking, driving the porcelain bus, calling Ralph, spitting in Technicolor, etc.
The beaver book video from last night’s ONT is hilarious.
I know no one gives a shit, but Elon Musk named his baby X Æ A-12. That’s right up there with Abcde and Le (dash) a.
Throwing up, barfing, puking, driving the porcelain bus, calling Ralph, spitting in Technicolor, etc.
LOLOL
Selling Buicks
Weirdos pronouncing the name out say his name is “Kyle”
Blowing chunks.
We aren’t birders, but we have an old version of Roger Tory Peterson and we write in the margins when we see something new. We were able to make two more notations into our bird book today. Bobolink, and Veery.
Tried to get a 4-pack of TP. It got substituted…with a 20-pack! Pricier, but I feel like I just won the damn lottery…
Lauraw, our hawks have had their babies. We don’t know how many, yet. We can hear them in the AM and the momma is no longer on the nest. I don’t think Bitter Lake has a camera, but Bosque Del Apache does.
Oooo, nice score, BroTim.
Weird times make for weird pants leg tingles.
Lauraw, this month’s Missouri Conservationist has a bobolink pictured in it. I didn’t think they stayed around MO for long but apparently some do.
oh…..and, I just found a tick crawling up my leg.
Hide yo matches, hide yo gas-o-line, THIS F*CKERS GOING DOWN!!!
GAHH!
When I spot a weird bird they’re usually gone by the time I find a bird book
Oso, our hawk chirren are now two years old. Loved how they’d call for mom/dad to come feed them that first year…or when they’d play with each other in the air…soaring, diving, at each other.
We get Baltimore Orioles up at the farm, which is two hours north of here. Never seen them here.
Mr. B. says we have eagles in the back pasture.
Bobolinks are crazy looking. Impossible to confuse with anything else.
The Veery was a bit more of a challenge, but this guy wasn’t shy at all. We got to study him twice.
I win tonight. My favorite Chinese place opened back up, and I’m enjoying some Hunan Chicken. mmmmm
Orioles are cool. I think I spot more nests than birds.
Their nests hang from a branch.
not good. no fortune in the fortune cookie
I’ll probably catch the Rona
Oriole nests are cool
Beasn, a few years ago we were able to watch daddy hawk conducting flying school. So very cool. Mama hawk dive bombed me for paying too much attention to the nest. She dive bombed the coyote that came out of the arroyo first. Mama doesn’t like me.
Before we had smart phones, one of my fav memories was a road runner and a hawk fighting for territory at a local park. Hawk won.
Local shelters are taking temps. Checking sobriety. We had a month of no grifters working the intersections. They’re baaackk.
A welcome return to normalcy, then.
You know its spring when the grifters return to the intersection. You can probably safely plant now.
huh, grifters in the intersection means no more freeze. Good to know.
My birder brother-in-law once saw 71 different birds on a walk of less than a mile.
^^^not the zoo, here near my house. I can’t tell all the little brown jobs apart.
Roamy, we have awesome birding opportunities in NM. Dan is cheap. Have I mentioned before how tight Dan is? Bitter Lake is free. Bosque Del Apache is paid. Our trip to the Bosque…Bald Eagles, Cranes, Mountain Lions, and fucking Canadians.
Homeless people tend to stay home in the winter.
If you read the Peterson book and how he hits the identifiers, you develop his way of looking for special identifiers. I usually try to flash-freeze into memory the rough size of the bird, shape of the beak, color of the chest, color of the back, and where any stripes or spots are located. Plus anything exceptional like a long or forked tail. I literally say it out loud while viewing them, which makes it easier to recall later.
The veery was “chestnut brown, lighter grey breast and a little lightness around the eye. Bigger than a sparrow but smaller than a Robin.” I couldn’t see the shape of the beak. That plus habitat and behavior gets you a good way toward the ID if it’s not a really hard one.
My BIL can tell the different sparrows apart by their songs. I recognize mourning dove and Carolina wren songs with confidence, but that’s about it.
He once told me a certain bird “sounds like a robin with a cold”, wtf.
Rainy days too.
Robin with a cold is probably a Catbird.
Hah! Roamy, we were talking today about the time years ago that I heard a catbird (a type of mockingbird) trying to imitate a bluejay and it was the most dismal sick-sounding bluejay ever. And bluejays sound like a rusty clothesline pulley at their absolute best.
Red-winged blackbirds are probably our favorite because they are a better harbinger of Spring than Robins. If you have them near you, you must know their long reedy trilling.
I can tell a sparrow from a crow.
So there.
A friend was so happy about the great blue heron in her backyard, and she took some beautiful pictures. Then she realized the heron was eating all of the goldfish in her decorative pond. Profanity ensued.
Yah they do that
TuCa on the Tex judge sentencing the salon owner.
Pretty good…
https://tinyurl.com/ybd72alw
Tiny Tyrants…
Roamy,
Anitas sister and her hubby have a Koi pond in the back yard, realized they were losing fish to the herons(in Portland).
Hubby put up a couple wires crossed over the pond hooked to a fence-charger.
They got a great picture of a Heron after he had had the shit zapped out of him. It was very cool…
Declining efficiency remains problematic.