Welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. Let’s get started.
**looks around for Wiserbud** I didn’t know the David Lee Roth version was a cover. Acktually, this is a cover, too, of two songs but arranged together for the first time.
Now for the hunks.
I think this is Luke Evans.
He posts on Instagram
a lot of poses
and yeah, he plays for the other team.
Last, but not least, Steve Backshall.
Thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the linky love every week, and y’all have a good day.
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These days, don’t they ALL play for the other team?
Regardless of whether they do or not GloboHomo will do their best to convince you they do
The deep freeze of Texas has fallen off the news I’m exposed to TiFW. What’s your perspective on things?
Home/Community/State
This was linked at AoS recently
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-groups-and-persons-mentioned-in-times-shadow-campaign-article/
I didn’t read it word by word but just skimmed through the groups and people listed. It always strikes me that we don’t have the multitudes of advocacy groups for conservative ideas that the commies have. And the so called conservative groups are pushing lefty ideas anyway.
Sad
I laugh every time Ace calls Cuomo “Governor Party Tits”
wakey wakey
I finally finished “Sense and Sensibility” (oof, what a slog) and am now reading “The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity” for Lent. Much more interesting read and quite a change, to go from Regency proper manners and quiet pining to Madonna and Beyonce and WAP.
Sense and Sensibility is really only for hardcore Austen fans. I love it, of course.
Compared with the frigid windy day we had yesterday our current sunny 30 degree day is a rather splendid one to say fuck off MJ
Which model of those headphones do you have Carin? I looked them up and they seem like a toy I’d purchase for either me or Paula. Do they have occasional sales?
Checks map. Where the fuck am I?
I’m asking because last night Paula asked me if I had given any thought to her birthday present (which is 6 weeks away). That tells me she knows exactly what she’d like to be “surprised” with on her birthday.
Having a Biden moment?
From the WSJ Markets newsletter
” Money managers are lobbying to scrap a Trump-era rule that makes it difficult for 401(k) plans to invest in socially focused funds.
The Labor Department rule, announced in October, imposed restrictions on what can and can’t be offered as company 401(k) funds. One result is that plans can’t use funds with nonfinancial goals as default investments for employees.
That means 401(k) overseers and managers need to show that environmental, social and governance strategies can boost financial returns—a challenge for the nascent industry. ESG-focused funds are a growing profit center for asset managers.”
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So if you feel good about not making as much profit as you potentially could have in a different fund that’s OK. When employees realize they’ve been shafted who will they sue?
I’ve never seen them on sale. I have the cheaper version, and they work fine. I have no idea what the more expensive ones do – lol, but I assume they’re better? They are nice because you can listen, but still hear the world around you. Which is good for running, or if you’re doing stuff around the house and need to hear shit too.
How is everybody’s vulva today?
Being obnoxious to underlings is a dem staple. WTFC?
We need to be focused on FIFTEEN THOUSAND dead.
The sex scandal is to move the spotlight off FIFTEEN THOUSAND dead. Dead from decisions made by Cuomo.
This comment is by a youngish woman:
“That’s why I signed up for Planet Fitness, because as a nightshifter I really love going to the gym at 0100. Like it’s my favorite time. And then the pandemic hit and now Texas has rescinded the mask mandate so I guess I’ll be working out at home for a while longer. ☹️☹️”
People have gone insane. They really have. The fear has gotten so deep inside them.
Yeah, Raycon advertises a sale so often I’m sure that anyone who pays full price is marked as a sucker. I might get her a set if she doesn’t put more hints out there in the next week or two.
It’s a mystery religion, Car in. It has rituals of preparation and cleansing, cult leaders, and faith-signalling attire.
The predictions of Armageddon if the masks come off reminds me of the predictions of the Wild West times we were told would descend upon Maine before LePage signed constitutional carry into law several years ago.
*whispers “they didn’t come and it’s been years”
The Isaac Arthur podcast debuts every Thursday and sometimes has Raycon as a sponsor with a discount code, usually 10-20%.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
Wild West gun violence and super-spreader fatalities are at the top of the list, right below right-wing white supremacy terrorism.
Yesterday, I was at the store – and I finally decided I’d had enough. I’m not wearing that fucking mask anymore. It will be on my face as I walk through the door (i’m not having conversations with the greeters every time) , then off it comes. Yes, I have to wear it for work – but honestly we’re not following any of the rules in that regard. I want a mask that says “theater” on it. I told Lucky (the owner – he owns like 9 in total) that the other main/similar restaurant in town when full capacity last weekend. He wants to do it too.
Sense and sensibility is the only one I never read.
I liked the movie, though. So weird the first time I watched it and realized Hans freaking Gruber had range.
2 days until new chevelle.
In this phase of my career I only visit the OR occasionally, maybe every couple of months to give advice to one of my colleagues who I’ve asked to operate on one of my kids. There’s one coming up soon and my nurse told me about the changes since I last visited. We have to wear an N95 mask and leave the room during airway management (ETT or LMA placement) and THEN wait 15 minutes for the air to circulate through the scrubbers before entering to work. Good Lord …
I had to read either Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice for high school English class. I have zero recall of either plot which I just quickly skimmed online. Which tells me I probably bullshitted my way through the exam after half-assedly reading the book.
“That means 401(k) overseers and managers need to show that environmental, social and governance strategies can boost financial returns—a challenge for the nascent industry. ESG-focused funds are a growing profit center for asset managers.”
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This is a thinly veiled lie. GNDs area of expertise is in ESG and while this gives the impression that investing in ESG can boost returns, in actuality ESGs lag the market. However, because millennials are ‘virtuous’ they often asked to be invested in ESGs regardless of the opportunity cost. This explains the a ‘growing profit center for asset managers’. They are making money, you have an inefficient portfolio.
Gell Mann Amnesia
Oh look! We’re all going to die because of Covid
There are a few of those on the other side, too. Christian funds that don’t invest in any ‘vice’ stocks or any companies that support Planned Parenthood and so on. They lag the market too, generally, but I get why people do these, what with Eternal Salvation and all.
Millennials are atheists at best, antitheists at worst, and have no eternity to look forward to. Signalling “virtue” with an investment portfolio in light of what ought to be a nihilistic worldview is textbook insanity, right up there with ‘ethical veganism’.
Huh, Matt Walsh and I are syncing.
https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=matt+walsh
This podcast mentions the nursing home deaths vs sexual inappropriateness.
Oh and he rips Brennan.
Interesting. In my econ class we’re looking at trade and the professor is showing a graph…MI has lost 60% of it’s auto manufacturing jobs since 1990.
I wonder what the margin of cheat was in 2020. 500K votes?
“He sounds like a 19 year old girl in a gender studies class.”
For Michigan alone? Nowhere near that big, but it didn’t need to be. I’d guess 200k.
NAFTA and the UAW malfeasance were the deathknell. Did he also track the population loss? Detroit alone went from 2.5M to <700k.
Probably Pride and Prejudice. No teacher would make someone read the other.
Car in, you ever read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? I loved that book so much.
The movie, too. Probably the single best example of an instance where I didn’t care that the movie deviated so much from the source material.
I did, of course. I’ve read almost everything related to anything Austen wrote.
That’s a long list. The austen universe has to rival the MCU, and for similar reasons, namely the hordes of superfans.
I never read Sense and Sensibility and Sea Serpents. I wonder if it would be any good.
I’m still surprised that movie got made. The Venn diagram of people who like Jane Austen and zombie movies can’t possibly overlap that much.
Well, I did drop off following it all a few years back, so maybe I should amend that statement. lol When they first started doing all the JA stuff, I was in heaven. Not just horror stuff, but they did alternate versions, after the end of the novel books too. One was rather porny. I don’t believe I finished that one.
I really wish didn’t run off CoAlex.
I don’t get why devaluing currency boosts exports. I just can’t seem to think it through.
Today it’s 1:10. Tomorrow it’s 1:20. Why does that make the goods cheaper to import?
I got a set of the DAK’s I had before (they are cheap, only $45, and sound great, good for a second set). I was looking into the bone conducting brand, and saw some cheap knockoffs. They appear to be heavier, or not as cool looking, so I’m ordering the Car in ones on her recommendation.
If they sound like crap, I’ll poop on her deck during Lapeerpalooza 3: Fuck Gretchen version
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I couldn’t make it through that one, IIRC. Maybe I’m thinking of another similar. This is along the lines of Abraham Lincoln Vampire killer right?
CoAlex is welcome back anytime. I’ll even take a break from here, if that’s the issue.
Wasn’t someone commenting on this yesterday? I was SHOCKED when I heard about the conclusions:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9319795/Ford-SUV-transporting-25-illegal-immigrants-crashed-gravel-truck-killing-13.html
Abraham Lincoln Vampire killer
I never finished watching that. It was a while ago but the word that comes to mind when I think of the movie is “ponderous”.
Coalex will come back when/if he’s ready. I’m pretty sure he knew it was him just mentally not being in a good place – lots of pressure, etc.
Ponderous, not pound your ass.
That was the pegging discussion from Tuesday
I was under the impression that CoLex started a new job that wasn’t necessarily consistent with having an online alter ego.
I thought it was hilarious, jimbro
If we want CoAlex back we need to up our pegging discussion
No, there was a mild dust up/political disagreement and Coalex kinda … well, that’s where FPOS comes from.
I think he was just really on edge about stuff/moving/job. That he went “there” I think disturbed him and he figured he needed a break.
Pretty sure I have the general gist of it.
I don’t recall much of the movie and I may have been distracted during it but it wasn’t on my must watch again list.
He’s a smart guy and hopefully he finds his way back home
Pretty sure I have the general gist of it.
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*English MotherFucker gif, do you speak it
How does this help my currency export conundrum?
Why don’t you just listen to AOC’s nightly TikTok? I hear it’s illuminating?
Yea, she was an econ major. I’m sure she can help you out.
Think of it as a giant sale.
Nobody beats Crazy Joe’s discount prices!
Notice the camera shot focused on Uncle Joe only and forced to pan to DOCTOR Jill when she has to rescue him
When are we going to start hearing leaks from the Biden white house?
They’re just lining up their “unnamed sources” and “people with knowledge of the situation” and then the leaks will start flowing. Yep, any day now.
If you know people who think Biden is mentally normal, you should tell them they need to be evaluated for dementia, Alzheimer’s, or low IQ.
If you come here not to be offended you’ve come to the wrong place. On the other hand breaks are healthy.
Also,
I don’t think it was that he was offended. I think it was because he was upset at how upset HE got.
Well, I don’t know anything but I’d like Alex to come back home.
Alex!!! Alex!! Get your ass back here!!
He’s on my facedouche often and he messages me .
jimbro, just ordered some aftershokz. I have the Capital One shopping app, and it found a code for me, UAW598. Saved 19.98, try it!
I ordered on their site, not amazon.
And Jay, you’re not going anywhere!
they also gave me a refer a friend link, so I sent it to you. Might be worth $10
no, but I’ll take a break, if it promotes unity
after all, we’re all democrats now! If you don’t vote democrat, they’ll change it!
I doubt he’s want to come back because someone left. It wasn’t YOU. It was him.
hard to know these things, when contact just drops.
RIGHT CYN?
Cyn joined the Castenada Cult, didn’t she?
There’s not much left of it, but it’s still out there, and AZ was among the last of the cells iirc.
Listen, if Colex is coming back, this may be our last shot to talk shit about him. And if he’s not coming back, there’s even less reason not to let ‘er rip as we see fit.
*deep breath*
Okay. So.
I was getting *kind of sick* of him picking his nose and wiping boogers on the blog. When he comes back I’m giving him a scraper and a wet rag and making him clean that stalactite off over there——>
Frankly the man is disgusting.
Some people get busy and drop off … and that’s more understandable. Usually they come around less and less frequent. Cyn was different.
Much more mysterious.
Cyn wasn’t just an occasional. She was here a LOT. Then. Poof.
the chick in that Louis Prima video looks like she had enough of his shit
WRT to Luke, he is in one of my favorite underrated movies, Dracula Untold in the title role. He didn’t come across as gay at all, even pulled off paternal affection well, so he’s a decent actor. There are a couple of moments where you see the inside of his hands, and they are calloused as heck. Whether he’s on the juice or not, he was clearly putting in the work for the physique.
I still email Cyn every once in awhile. Text too,.
I’ve never gotten a response but that’s ok.
See? that’s mysterious.
Maybe I’ll send her a long email about you and vent all of my complaints.
It might be cathartic.
You could start a journal. “Are You There, Cyn? It’s Me MJ”
for a while, I was able to put hotlinks to Mewe images in posts. Sadly that appears to have gone away. guess I’ll subscribe to imageshack, to save our space.
So the 25
illegal immigrantsundocumented workers were beingsmuggledtransported to the US loaded into an SUV likesardines in a canclowns in a clown car.This is my shocked face.
Y’all know why Cyn’s gone and not coming back? lt’s because she was my Secret Santa victim one year. Same with Herr Morgenholtz, BCock, and Cathy. That’s why I quit playing. Everybody except that fuckin Hotspur quit this dump after getting my Christmas present. Fact.
https://rumble.com/vear6x-shiny-new-fridge-almost-makes-it-home-in-one-piece.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2
I wonder if they’re really going to pass amnesty. I think that will signal everything.
I hear republicans are already saying, ‘hold on there. we can’t give 30 or 40 million people citizenship. best I can do is 25M.’
What exactly did you give as a gift that sent them packing?
Framed 8 x 11 B&W nude selfie artfully shot?
hehe, IIRC a banana hammock was one of them
Why didn’t he use the strap?
CoAlex is welcome back anytime. I’ll even take a break from here, if that’s the issue.
No, u stay.
We don’t take kindly to quitters.
Why didn’t he use the strap?
The whole fucking thing was too small.
Why didn’t he use the strap?
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Idiot? Day worker hired off the street? Clearly someone without a clue how to handle appliance deliveries.
Shut up hotspur. We welcome anyone back.
I can’t believe you won’t join me in talking shit about Colex. He’s not coming back. Don’t worry about a thing.
He’s a total dick and his mom is a tramp.
And he talks shit behind your backs about you guys all the time. Especially Carin’s kids. Hoo boy. I could show you some things. I won’t, because it’s wrong to repeat it. But I could.
his mom is a tramp
Hey now, that’s what I like about her.
see the story at AOS about illegals testing positive for Covid at the border, and being sent into the US anyway? No quarantine, just a recommendation.
Illegals have freedom
I saw that, not aos. But I saw it.
Shut up hotspur. We welcome anyone back.
No u.
Who the eff said anything about not welcoming someone back?
Our government is a giant shitball of incompetents, liars and fascist pricks.
I thought you were calling alex a quitter. But you were calling J (or the FPOS in the original argument) a quitter if he left.
I think we can just all agree that MJ should fuck off.
And if you’re waiting for me to say, I mean that in a nice way, you’re wrong and stupid but mostly wrong and some stupid but definitely wrong.
But I mean that in a nice way.
I gave BCock a coffee mug with some kinda hostage worthy bullshit message on it. It arrived late and broken due to USPS being mostly idiots. I gave cyn some trail mix type of stuff with cereal, and pretzels, and nuts, and shit all dosed up in powdered sugar. It’s called Oilfield White Trash and it’s a delicacy in the Permian Basin. I sent Herr something for new fathers since he was one at the time. I don’t remember now what it was. Cathy was too long ago, no recollection. But she sent me a shirt which didn’t fit cause of my FPOS condition. I guess I should’ve sent em all cock holsters.
Y’all ready for a “feel good” story? Tough shit, I’ma tell it anyway.
I’m having a pretty large sum of money refunded to my credit card from an airline because they wouldn’t let me travel last spring and I’m tired of waiting on shit to open back up. So I call my credit card company this morning to make sure they know it’s incoming and not to fuck it up. The account number is different now than it was then due to it getting hacked.
I got through to a live human being inside of 5 minutes. And she actually knew what the fuck she was doing. It was amazing. I know y’all probably think I’m making this shit up but I’m for real.
I’ll probably have to listen to shitty music for 2 hours the next time though. Karma and shit.
I guess I should’ve sent em all cock holsters.
Or a picture of your mom.
All you had to do was ask.
https://9gag.com/gag/aNYozQK
Paula had a phone fuck around with FedEx the other day. Package was addressed to our PO box rather than the street address. She called the number they gave to change the address and couldn’t get by the phone menu without being told to contact the shipper. Shipper is in Japan. Finally after a few go arounds she entered that she was the shipper on the menu and got to talk to a representative who probably resides in a former portion of the British Empire. Everything was all set within 5 minutes.
Instead of letting in all the messicans we should let in all the people in Bangalore.
Think of the long distance charges we’d save.
we haven’t had a new mare’s musing in a while. Fixt.
… we should let in all the people in Bangalore.
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Brown people who enjoy working and might even vote for a conservative
we are far too racist to let anyone in. think of the children.
Aftershokz ordered, UAW code saved a bunch, thanks Jay.
Carin ought to get a premium for the business she’s sent their way.
A couple of doctors and a couple of nurses have bought Theragun devices after Paula brought it to work when her colleagues asked her WTF the Christmas present she was raving about was.
This is a good read.
theragun, sounds like ammo would be expensive
I’d happily trade every would-be immigrant from Messico for the Biden voters.
Headline at the Populist Press(aka “The New Drudge”)
HUMAN SMUGGLING: 13 Dead, SUV Overloaded With 25 Biden Migrants, Many Children.…
Biden Migrants … BOOM!
Theragun is a massage device. Runs on the stuff that comes out of the electrical socket. She likes to tell her friends “Jimmy bought me a vibrator for Christmas”.
I’ll tell you what, that thing gets a workout.
Thank you for posting that recipe, Jay!
It’s in the high 60s here and I just spent some time on the deck, with Rush. Listened to the clip of him explaining to younger folks, what a Gorbasm was and how it came about.
My favorite Jane Austin novel is Persuasion. Pride and Prejudice comes next. Though if I had seen the movie version cast with Keira Knightly first, I would have hated it. Thar cast sucked donkey balls.. BBC movie versions are the best and stick closest to the books.
I like Sense and Sensibility but don’t care for that cast either.
Spring is truly springing. You know how I know? Heard a red-winged blackbird the other day AND my guts are reacting. Not in a good way.
The Keira knightly version is one of my favorite all time movies. Top 5. At least.
I’ve read Pride and Prejudice at least 2 times if not 3. Read Sense and Sensibility once. I like the movies. That idiot, Hugh Grant was very likable in it and conveyed a bumbling, likable fool really well.
The BBC Persuasion is excellent. The tension…my goodness.
Although all the BBC Austin movies are excellent.
Have not read the Zombie version.
dammit, forgot that I left the corned beef in water, instead of swapping it out for the 2nd one.
point cut corned beef was 3.99 a pound, got 2.
Flat cut brisket was 1.99 a pound, got a big one, gonna cure my own for a taste test of corned beefs.
“We’ve secretly switched Jay’s corned beef with a waterlogged Des Moines phone book. Let’s see if he can taste the difference!”
silly jimbro, it will fall apart on the PBC when I hang it on hooks
Good quote from the Anti-Mary book, “Demons are forever unhappy…because they want God’s creation to be different than it is, and they will never succeed in changing it to their liking.” You see some of these leftist women screaming profanities, and it’s not a big leap to think they are possessed by demons.
Our government is a giant shitball of incompetents, liars and fascist pricks.
Not gonna argue. Very frustrating day today, and that bonus leave to help your kids with school is another tool in the belt for them. I swear, some of these people work harder to get out of doing work than if they just knuckled down and did their damn job.
Some little shit graffitied the big rock in my front yard, the one by the stream. I suggested a game cam to Mr. RFH; he’s hoping it’s just a one-off prank.
I hadn’t checked in a while, but it looks like Catholic Answers Forums were dropped back in December. I guess they were worried about losing hosting and the cost/benefit analysis for keeping them going went negative.
From a WSJ article about the drive to unionize Amazon:
“The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union filed in November to represent more than 5,000 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer. Democrats badly want a victory against the retail and tech giant.
“It will be a shot heard around the world,” tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose staff supplied pizzas to warehouse organizers last month. Earlier he said that “Mr. [CEO Jeff ] Bezos, the wealthiest person in America, must not interfere in this election.”
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Amazon can’t catch a break from the left or the right. They’re cancelling conservatives and progressives want them to share the wealth. I don’t have much sympathy for them. My business with Amazon has nosedived since the Parler debacle. Walmart, eBay and individual companies are seeing the benefit. It takes a few more clicks but it’s not like I’m suffering.
I bought an off-brand gun from amazon. WOrks great and cost a fraction of your gun Jimbro. I love that thing.
I, too, love everything Austen, but the two big hollywood versions aren’t my favorite. There is a new version of Emma and I just adored it. It had a quirk to it that I liked.
Plus – when they try to hire Hollywood beauties to some of these roles, they don’t fit. I hated Gwynth Paltrow and didn’t care for the Keira version either.
I liked the BBC mini-series for Pride and Prejudice, mainly because of Colin Firth. I thought Hugh Grant would have made a better Willoughby in S&S, but then I just see Hugh Grant, not the part he’s trying to play.
I also watched “Gunga Din”, before they erase that one from history for the actors in brownface. Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Victor McLaglen.
I can’t stand Gweneth Paltrow. She was supposed to be so great in “Shakespeare in Love”, ugh.
Yeah, Theragun is a pricey device. I had never heard of them before we were discussing gifts for each other. Now that it’s arrived I’ve seen countless knock off versions on Amazon and elsewhere. She’s definitely getting a lot of use out of it. Shoulder, calf, quad and bicep all come to mind.
I remember seeing Gunga Din in the theater as a kid and thinking it was a good way to spend an afternoon.
I agree with both Carin and Lumps about CoAl. I have to watch Austen without Dan. I watched Bridgerton by myself. Read all the books
Does finger/ eye thing with Roamy. I hate that Hollywood nepotistic princess.
I don’t get why devaluing currency boosts exports. I just can’t seem to think it through.
Today it’s 1:10. Tomorrow it’s 1:20. Why does that make the goods cheaper to import?
If the exchange rate is 1 dollar for 100 yen, and you can buy a good either for a dollar domestically, or for 100 yen overseas (ignoring any costs for shipping, etc.), then shifting the exchange rate to 1:200 means that effectively you lower the price of the foreign good by half (since you can still buy it for 100 yen, but you can now get twice the yen for your same dollar).
Oh Coalex. Pay no attention to lumpy. She had a stroke recently.
(man, lauraw – apparently your Pre-CoALex return “venting” should have happened yesterday)
BTW, Imma gonna need a white board explanation of that.
Hey look it’s Alex! YAAAAAAAAY
(IMGUR VIDEO)
Look Lumpy, Alex is back!
(IMGUR VIDEO)
Alex, welcome back to this shithole!
Our motto: We do shitholes right!
There’s an exceedingly filthy “your mom” joke to be made.
But no sir, I won’t make it.
Shakespeare in Love was trash and Paltrow winning the Oscar for it HAD to be a payback from Weinstein for a nice casting couch performance. She was awful in it.
Leon, I lol’d.
I think I’m shadowbanned on yooboob. I made some WuFlu comments and I could see them and the channel owner could respond, but he said they weren’t visible on the video page.
Dissent will not be visible.
(((squishy hugs Alex)))
My haircut is currently trending into Pete Rose aquavelva territory. Welcome back, CoAl.
There aren’t enough white guys in this basketball game.
We need reparations
Basketball is 5X more racist than Dr. Seuss.
I’m not wearing that fucking mask anymore.
Wearing one is to help others feel more comfortable, car in.
So I’ve been told by a conformist guided by fear (to do with not wanting to stir the waters.)
Watching Trans infiltrate Chick basketball. Hockey is pretty Rayciss
Thanks to Joe Biden’s executive order, I am required to wear a mask at work, and the new rules are that bandannas, gaiters, and face shields are insufficient. Old, still holding rule is that if I get caught not wearing a mask, not only do I face disciplinary action, but any task I’m on gets halted, and they have to go through the approval process again. I’m on four tasks, so all four would be cancelled. The Project That Must Not Be Named has been pleading with us to not get them cancelled, that they can’t afford another schedule hit without missing launch. I feel like a damn coward and an idiot. Two of the high muckety-muck managers got covid.
On the other hand, if I had a school-age child, I could get 20 hours pay a week to school/take care of them and not work. This is stupid.
If the exchange rate is 1 dollar for 100 yen, and you can buy a good either for a dollar domestically, or for 100 yen overseas (ignoring any costs for shipping, etc.), then shifting the exchange rate to 1:200 means that effectively you lower the price of the foreign good by half (since you can still buy it for 100 yen, but you can now get twice the yen for your same dollar)
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Got it. Thank you.
So today I can exchange my dollars for yen and buy one Yamaha receiver. Tomorrow I exchange the same dollar into yen and can buy two because the yen is devalued relative to the dollar.
It’s funny that you think the dollar is doing well.
It’s mostly that so many other currencies are even worse, and that OPEC still prices in $US.
Today you buy one Yamaha receiver.
Tomorrow you get half a counterfeit Big Mac.
Hey Jimbro, I saw where they had to have a helicopter rescue a climber off Precipice Trail. That’s a tough trail in nice summer weather.
RFH, college is no longer school age?
Mindhunters and Nightstalker on Netflix. I’m reading TrueCrime again. Giving myself serious nightmares. There is evil amongst us. 45 tried to warn us. Tried to expose the demons. I’m all Toby Keith. 🎶I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then🎶
Osita, probably not when she’s 500 miles away.
Re : The Amazing Miss Cyn – she swore me to secrecy, so I didn’t tell youse guys this – Cyn and Chumpo eloped to the Galapagos and are currently breeding a genetically modified superhuman line of bus drivers.
I break out the green hair every once in a while as an homage.
I miss Cyn.
And one more thing –
FOMJ
J’ames no hiding for you…
I know where you live
😃
I took a break from a bunch of stuff a year or two ago.
Had a bunch of shit land on my plate including 5 fucking deaths of family and close friends.
The crucible of life that helps re-re-refine you as a hostage.
Now that I’m done with 12 hours of driving today, I can resume my one true passion in life: commenting here.
I like Jane Eyre better than anything I’ve read by Jane Austen.
There, I said it.
I screwed up today. Hit send on an e-mail I should have deleted. I’m pretty sure I pissed most of my management off. I’ve got too much work. They keep selling and I can’t train people or get enough people internal worth a damn to get all the work done. I’m tired, over worked and stressed out. They can’t do the work without me. No one else has the know how so my job isn’t in danger. I just hate it when I’m not smart enough to work through issues better. Now I’m blaming myself for the way I handled it. I’m sure I’ll be ruminating over it for the next couple weeks.
Comment by Jimbro on March 3, 2021 6:04 am
The deep freeze of Texas has fallen off the news I’m exposed to TiFW. What’s your perspective on things?
Home/Community/State
Well, it’s Texas, so it was 70° today. And, being Texans, everything is pretty much back to normal. Plumbers are overworked, but everyone’s electricity is up and running, and now we are looking forward to disposing our masks – at least those of us over a certain age. Our grown children are still running scared, but – “grown” – so they are on their own.
Hubby had his retirement luncheon today.
Thermadin,
What is it that you do, exactly?
Why can’t you get help to do it?
Not enough talented people, or not enough money to get enough talented people?
I only ask because I’ve been able to do all kinds of stuff that I’m neither trained for or talented enough to do, if given enough incentive.
For instance, maintain the world wide VTAM config of a fortune 100 company with no training in VTAM.
But then, I’m “A very good driver”, if you know what I’m sayin’…
I was a Honeywell guy in a company transitioning to IBM. I was doing sys-gens every weekend for a bunch of 3725s, routing and path tables. They always worked. It took me two years to get them to send me to VTAM class. I could have taught it…
Ridicule;
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/03/03/government-media-ridicule-124/
Chris, I work at a DOE national lab doing research. I’m currently working on high temperature electrolyzers(they run at 750°C or 1400°F) . They are a mix of ceramic and metal and finicky as hell. The metal needs special coatings, the ceramics are both structural and electrical. You’re pushing the limits of many of the material and it’s as much black art as science. I need materials engineers and good techs. If I hire someone who knows the technical it’ll take them a year to understand how to do anything in our bureaucratic lab. It’s also getting the techs trained and finding good ones that will learn on their own. We have plenty of money, it just finding the good people.
I’m typically a “driver” too and know exactly what you are saying. Most of the things I know are from me figuring out how to make it work. I have a rep as some who gets stuff done. However right now I have to be the driver and figure out the tech problems and design the next iteration and deal with the marketing people trying to sell more programs. 20 years ago we had a team of 25 doing this work. I’m one of the few left doing the work, most everyone else has moved on to other things or left.
Therm,
If it is not tmi, until recently I lived at the front gate of NREL and knew several people who worked there in solar and fluid. Are you working for them?
I close on my house tomorrow, it has been postponed several times this week. I have my fingers crossed this is it!
Today’s Babylon Bee link is for Carin.
https://babylonbee.com/news/family-somehow-has-27-mobile-devices-but-only-1-charger
I should add the money in this field had been drying for years and 2 years ago was almost gone. I’ve been doing work in other areas for the last 8 years. This is just starting up again and I’m having to rebuild. Replacing 20 year old equipment, find new suppliers since the old ones have gone out of business and rebuild test equipment.
Vmax,
No not them, but similar I work for PNNL. A number of the DOE program managers for this program work there at NREL.
Congratulation’s on the house. I can’t imagine the zoo it has to be hunting for a house right now.
Jam, you made me LOL with the bus driver line and the green hair. Thank you.
Sobek, I also prefer Jane Eyre. Favorite movie version is the one with Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles.
Thermadin, good luck. I understand the black art part.
Therm,
Washington State. There are 6 or 8 states on my never in a million years list and that is one of them. I have visited and it is delightful but politically, nope. Colorado was bad enough, unless you pay a crap ton of Benjamin’s then, well… money talks! My last rating was an ET 4 but I have progressed 2 levels above that to Sr Designer (Civil) I am the same in Survey, Architectural and Mechanical.
I was very fortunate on the house. I payed the least of anyone in the neighborhood and it appraised for more than I offered. Of all the comparables it had no upgrades but I am handy and have many plans to upgrade it.
Vmax,
We’re government contractors not a GOGO. The area I’m in is quite republican, but your right the state is heading the same direction as California. It’s a real shame since the weather is real nice, I like my house and I have a great golf course and good friends here. However I’ll need to retire somewhere else. However I’m payed quite well and I’ll have a 30 years on my pension by the time I’m retired. So I’m staying for the time being.
My nephew is hilarious
VMax, wow. That was something else.
I told my sister my thoughts on Jane Eyre and she scrunched up her face. Fair enough. She’s still my favorite sister.
The very last line makes me think of Fauci.
Darren evaluated Rodney’s progress.
Still looking for my Scottish brunette with rectangular glasses telling me to tongue brush
I liked Jane Eyre a lot too. My husband just finished it. He’s reading all the classics.
Sobek…great skit.
Unfortunately 100% true.
Finally got around to reading that long article Hotspur linked yesterday and agree it was well worth the time to read it
https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/the-increasingly-secret-history-of-the-racist-democrats-and-how-senile-boomer-biden-heralds-the-end/
Learned a new word: desuetude
https://www.yourdictionary.com/desuetude
Doubt I’ll be using it and if it took 56 years for me to finally read it in a sentence I doubt I’ll recognize it in the unlikely event I encounter it again.
I ought to tackle Jane Eyre again. Unfortunately rereading the classics gets sidelined by zombie adventure time.
“Starbucks, Target Among Companies to Keep Mask Mandate in Texas”
Hopefully the declining profits from Texans saying FU influences their decision making as time goes by
Aside from both having the name “Jane” (one in the author’s name, and the other in the title of a book) – and writing w/in 50 years of each other, there really is no reason for the books/authors to be compared. Austen has much more HUMOR in her writing and certainly wrote/published more. Aside from Eyre – people don’t really read any of her other books.
I love Jane Eyre and read it before I read any Austen books. And I’ve re-read it many times (and seen every movie version). But it’s HEAVY. The Gothic influences make her and her sister’s major novels a tad dark.
The 2011 version is good. Except Mr Rochester is a bit too good looking.
LOL, I’ve seen all but the second versions presented.
No I think I’ve seen the second too.
Guess I’ll start working on a post.
Yea, stop fucking off MJ.
I blew up in the office yesterday Thermadin, so i pissed off mgmt too.
Every other comment on here directs MJ to Fuck off. And now you’re telling him to quit Fucking off? Make up your Fucking mind.
Also, I don’t know why my phone insists on capitalizing Fuck.
I was a Honeywell guy in a company transitioning to IBM.
Chrisp, I worked with a Bull mainframe, which is downstream from Honeywell, IIRC. We transitioned to .Net cobol on a server, so everything is in Visual Studio now. Much nicer than COBOL debuggers on a mainframe (read: notepad and text files)
Much nicer than COBOL debuggers on a mainframe (read: notepad and text files)
Try coding java and python like that some time. It’s a laugh a minute.
I’d go without a mask, as I’m not scared AT ALL but I don’t feel like dealing with Karen all day long.
oh god yes, leon. That’s what production debugging is like.
I begged for a dev environment for 4 years for that project. Finally got it and my tools approved. Project cancelled the following month.
Ooh, does this mean I get to post like 200 times about music?
*cracks knuckles*
we have dev and staging (user acceptance). We can’t use them, because none of the developers can comprehend data state and restore points, so I do all my development locally. Have a big ole SQL server instance on a 1 TB SSD on a laptop that runs faster than the production server.
so music is what you’re calling it now. Ok then.
I just like posted code talk to make everyone go glassy eyed in here.
I don’t get to write code anymore. If development is happening on my current project, I’m unaware of it. I’m so out of practice that I bombed a HackerRank screener for a second interview last time I made the attempt. I’ve been forced into the role of elasticsearch SME, a role I have been saying we needed to hire someone to fill for… has to be 8 years. I emphatically said I did not want the job, but we needed someone in it.
If I fail the certification exam, I’m retiring.
I wouldn’t pass a screening interview like that, don’t have the background. What I have is the ability to find the place where the error is, and track down what is causing it. I’m useful to my company, probably wouldn’t immediately present as useful to another company, which is why I don’t look for a new job.
I’m terrified of the interview, youngsters have a lot of code ability, but hardly any real world experience with systems of computers.
Roamy, I totally understand why you need to wear a mask and I’m not saying that people should risk their jobs. Play along. I have to wear a face diaper at work.
I understand too, roamy. I have to wear one when I’m not at my desk.
But where I’m not forced, I will not comply.
I’m terrified of the interview, youngsters have a lot of code ability, but hardly any real world experience with systems of computers.
I don’t fear the interview, I’m amiable and able to put on the mask of “fun coworker who seems smart enough to be here” easily enough, but I’ve lost all patience for toy problems that would be full-sprint programming efforts being presented as 6 of 9 things to do in a 3 hour test that only a recently-graduated autist can do. That’s not what most days on any coding project look like, it’s just a shitty test of whether someone can do the job, but it’s all they have.
The mask wearing is performance theater. My mask is on and off countless times a day in the office and when I’m talking and it moves up to get near my eyes I constantly readjust it. When I put my glasses down off my head I slip the mask down lower so they don’t fog up. My “disposable” mask is a week or two old because the ones they have for us are uncomfortable and I rely on the ones at the grocery store.
In the operating room it’s a fresh mask for each case and I’d tape the upper part of my mask to keep my glasses from fogging up.
To clarify, I don’t believe it’s a good test of whether one can do the job of writing code to solve real problems in a consistent fashion. By and large, tests like these are disguised IQ tests or tests of whether you’ve solved a particular edge-case combinatorics problem before.
oh goody, meeting about the blowup yesterday. time to find out how wrong I am, and how shitty my attitude is, expecting others to do their job and not liking when they don’t follow established policies, no matter how simple.
Some hippy friend of mine just posted a meme “In a world full of Kardashians but a Janis” with picture of Joplin.
You mean, abuse alcohol and drugs and kill yourself by 27?
I didn’t comment.
Mama Cass said it best when she said *choking sound, choking on a sandwich
things you would like to see
https://www.dailywire.com/news/jen-psaki-says-shed-be-happy-to-take-on-kayleigh-mcenany-on-fox-news
In an informal assessment of rock-related addictions, poon is the hands-down winner.
Drugs? Alcohol? Ham sammies? Early death or desetude.
Somehow they thought it was better to say she died choking on a ham sammich than drugs?
Pretty sure it was sorta “poon” that killed the singer of INXS.
New poorly written post
his belt just wasn’t long enough Car in. If he was a FPOS, he would have had a longer belt.
FPOS saves lives.