Litre sent up a flare in the back channels this morning saying he wouldn’t be available for tonight’s open thread, because he was “away”, which I’m just going to interpret as “smashed out of my mind on good red wine and firing flares at opposing lesser footy fans”, because that’s how I like to imagine Western Canadian “away.”
I stepped in because it turns out I will likely not be going “away” tonight. It may be time to pour one out for my beloved 2011, (although I bought it in August of 2010), six-speed Subaru Outback. I was out and about yesterday, running the Saturday errands and whatnot, when the symbol for “overheating engine” popped up. Not being mechanically inclined more than to know that this wasn’t good, I consulted the internet and owner’s manual and was directed to check the engine coolant levels. There was some left in the reserve, but not much. So I swiped my daughter’s car, (technically mine), and went off to the store whereupon I procured engine coolant. I even went so far as to write down what Subaru suggested, (other than ‘bring it to a dealership and let us do it’), and made sure I got the right one. Brought it back, poured it in, and figured I was good to go.
Today I drove to the bank and grocery store, probably four miles round-trip, noticed that the AC was rather warm, and then the red light came back on. Coasted into the driveway, (try that in an automatic), and popped the hood. The radiator was whistling and coolant was bubbling. Again, not a mechanic but also know that is very far from good.
We live within walking distance of a mechanic’s shop, (also a liquor store; I leave it to you to decide which is more important), and tomorrow I’ll be calling them to bring the car in. My fear is that we’ve entered the ‘declining returns’ phase of a car’s life. In the last year or so I’ve had to replace some rotting pipe underneath, get a new battery, and replace the muffler. I haven’t had a car payment in 8 years, and I do not miss them. I also, however, do not want to pay hundreds of dollars, (Or more! Who knows why my car is seemingly intent on boiling itself!), every few months just to get the car back on the road until the next problem.
I’ve had the car 12 years, and it’s closing in on 230,000 miles. I’d hoped to get 300,000 but that may not be in the cards. It’s also a 6-speed, and those are being phased out. Apparently you can no longer get an Outback, (and I am sold on Outbacks after this one), with a standard transmission. My position is that using an automatic isn’t so much driving as it is aiming, and I will sorely miss driving stick, (make bad jokes here), if it comes to that.
Hope your Sunday was better. Clearly my car issues are the worst thing that happened in America over the last few days.
Are there sports on TV tonight? You bet!
7:00 PM Dodgers vs Braves. ESPN
8:10 PM Stanley Cup Finals. ABC. Will tonight be the night we get to boo Gary Bettman? Fingers crossed!
Your local options may vary.
Have at it, folks.
Wow, It’s just things, but I am not as okay with this car break in as I thought. No rational reason, but not okay.
I’ve had my car pilfered. It’s disconcerting. Probably worse with the breaking of window you had.
Thank you. I’m a humanist and against hurting people in general, but I really do want to inflict some pain on whoever did this. Or at the very least make them feel as shitty as I do. Not really okay at all.
LOL
Look at the dude on the far right
Hahahaha!
Democracy is the best form of government we’ve come up with so far, but it is far from perfect, and we’ve seen some clear flaws in the US version thereof. I do wonder…how much would anti-abortion activists be willing to pay to keep abortion out of their state? If we gave them a choice between paying $100/year in say, enforcement tax, and letting abortion be legal, how much do you think public opinion would swing? What if it was $1000/year? What’s the price?
You drive a hard bargain so I’ll give you forty bucks a fetus but not a penny more. And if I see any flippers you’ll be hearing from me about a refund.
For work I drive between Italy and Germany a lot so I am rental car experienced. I drove Mercedes, BMW, Alfa Romeo, Volvo, you name it. At very high autobahn speeds for 6-12 hours per TDY trip. After that analysis I brought a VW Golf 6 speed 2 liter turbo diesel. Had it for over 10 years now, I like it a lot gets great mileage too.
Rentals are a great way to test drive a bunch of cars, appreciate the analysis!
Rental cars during European vacations are basically the only time I drive stick shift. Suck it, clutch!
Howdy. Steely Dan was pretty good, though they should just call it Donald Fagen and friends at this point.
Aja is an awesome album. Everything before it is pretty good. Everything after it is kind of terrible.
I’m gonna puke, the Time Warp from Rocky Horror is in an AirBNB commercial
Once they started using “Lust for Life” in a commercial for cruise ships, nothing surprises me.
I was so disappointed they cut the line: “Here comes Johnny Yen again…with liquor and drugs…”
Exactly! And if I remember right, the commercial is a lot of shots of smiling kids on waterslides and shit.
Yep. Not a single one of them going through withdrawal symptoms as they try to kick heroin.
Posers
Have they no shame?
Since it’s automotive day, an old page from the past.
http://www.turbovan.net/van.html
12-second Dodge Caravan daily driver.
Probably unpopular, but I think I’m going to buy a gun. I agree with Akin-Olla than the solution to gun violence (and violence in general) is a remaking of society, not gun control, which is subject to the same unequal enforcement as any other laws. I’m especially disturbed by Red Flag laws, because we already know we can’t trust the courts to determine who is a threat. It’s just a vehicle to strip minorities of rights without real due process. I’m really happy I learned about Akin-Olla, because he publicly states my position much better than I’m able to, and maybe people will even take it more seriously coming from a Nigerian-American Socialist. I’m also just amazed that there is someone with an audience who agrees with my political position. https://twitter.com/thisisrevshow
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106821543/sisters-divided-by-chinas-civil-war-black-gun-ownership
I have just recently passed my firearms licence tests and hunting licence tests. It’s not the guns, it’s the culture. The highest gun death rates in the world are in countries with very strict gun laws. My own country of Canada has one of the highest gun ownership numbers in the world but not anywhere close to the highest gun murders.
And personally I find Nigerian-American socialists very untrustworthy. Right up there with Swedish heiresses and Cambodian “women”.
I used to skeet shoot, and have done target shooting with a number of weapons. I’ve never been afraid of guns or gun owners. I’ve always found it odd that people are focused on decreasing gun violence rather than just decreasing violence. Although I probably shouldn’t since it’s easier to pretend to solve one than the other, and people love easy solutions. We really need to decrease inequality, expose people to various types of people and cultures from a young age, and make sure we teach our kids empathy. But that’s hard and lots of people increasingly don’t want to do it because cultural backlash or whatever, but that’s the real solution and it pisses me off that it isn’t even mentioned in the national discourse. If you’re trans or whatever and you see someone like you in literature and that makes your life better than awesome, but your individual reaction isn’t the best argument for making things like that available, the best argument is integrating those things into general culture. Most mass shooters are not psychopaths, they kill because they think SOME people, not all people, are less than human, and that’s the belief we have to prevent if we’re going to prevent gun violence.
>The highest gun death rates in the world are in countries with very strict gun laws.
India and China have some of the most strict gun laws, and they both have very low rates of gun deaths. And population-wise, that’s like 1/3 of the entire world.
Having been to both those countries, and working with many of their ex-citizens, I don’t think we want to model ourselves on them. Feel free to disagree, but they’re both countries that have far fewer freedoms and are closer to authoritarianism than we are (although I would be lying if I said we weren’t on a downward Orban-type slope). There are also huge cultural differences, so it’s not really valid to attribute the difference in gun violence rates to their gun policies, and they have some really disturbing instances of non-gun violence. I don’t really want to be gang raped and have my intestines pulled out of my vagina with a pole afterwards, so let’s not hold them up as an example please?
The pipe-intestine rape is India btw, China is better at controlling the narrative, but I have no doubt they’ve done the same or worse in their Uighur “reeducation” camps.
I think it would be assumed that India was the pipe rape place. Is it any better to be murders with a knife or a club versus a gun? As you said, it’s violence in general that’s the problem, not the tool
Oh, I have zero interest in emulating just about anything from those societies. I’m just disputing the assertion that stringent gun laws correlate to any degree with rates of gun deaths.
Totally fair, but I don’t think it’s an important assertion. I personally would rather be shot and quickly killed than lynched by a mob or tortured and worked to death in a government camp. There are far worse deaths than gun deaths, and if we focus on the means of the violence rather than the cause, even if we’re effective (which we won’t be) the only result will be a shift in how people die, and probably to something worse.
But then Venezuela has high rates and strict controls.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t check to make sure I was right about that. I just hoped no one was checking.
I should’ve asked earlier but what kind of gun? I favour the old styles. Big ol’ revolvers and break action shotguns. Nice 30-06 rifle with a real wood stock.
I’m most familiar with shotguns, but probably something handgun range, haven’t started researching yet really
9mm Glock 19 Gen-3 w/ 10 rd mags
The perfect pistol, and California compliant. Start your research here but you probably won’t need to go farther.
They already dented the cup!
I tried to warn you all about the dangers of Colorado winning the cup, but noooooo, no one could be bothered to call in fake bomb threats to delay the series indefinitely.
There’s a DFO Rundown podcast?
https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1541274451534389249
Wait, dammit. What am I supposed to do on Tuesday now?
[sips cup of tea]
https://twitter.com/WhalersPlates/status/1541256314885705728
Now, if only they’d said “Congrats Nordiques!”
Fuck, that would have been beautiful.
To the Twitterverse!
Though to be fair, as much as I would have liked to treat the Washington Nationals’ title as a win for the Expos, it didn’t really feel like that.
Not at all. I think that bridge always gets burnt when you move. I can’t see St. Louis fans cheering for the rams or san diegoites rooting on the chargers. Certainly not Cleveland fans pulling for Baltimore or that one guy in Atlanta who went to flames games. If the expos built a decent stadium maybe they’d have stayed but Canucks are cheap as hell
“San Diego? Chargers?!”
/femur drums begin rolling in the distance
“Fireworks in an indoor arena? What’s the worst that could happen?”
-Great White’s tour manager
The guy in charge of the Stanley Cup seems nice.
I’m going to feel bad when I murder him and hold the Cup hostage until Hartford gets the Whalers back.
Ugh, Stan Kroenke’s on the ice.
Someone do us a solid and give him a good bump.
If Arsenal fans could skate there’d be a line to do it.
Fuck eHarmony because of course the woman loses at chess. Also for the attempt at pleasing everyone by picking racially ambiguous actors, because even though it’s true that race is a social construct and not a real thing, those choices in advertising matter because it’s a social construct with real consequences for real people.
I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of racially mixed couples in advertising beginning a few years ago, and then I realized that the companies were just trying to save money by getting 2 or more groups into each commercial.
To be fair, nothing kills the mood like losing the your woman in chess. She should throw the game even if she can win. Like when they pretend they can’t open jars or carry things so you get to feel like a useful man
I think this explains a lot about why I hate dating and am not married
The great thing about winning the Cup on the road is that Bettman has to come out before a crowd that’s already ripshit about losing and even more inclined to hate his rat-faced guts.
Noap
EVEN MORE BOOOOOOOOOOOO
Appears Intergalactic Disgrace Gary Bettman is not present.
Bettman is not there. Does he have Covid? Monkeypox? Flesh-eating bacteria? Dare I dare to dream the dream?
Covid. Too bad.
Because I was rooting for flesh-eating bacteria.
Covid is correct!
Fuck your southern strategy, Bettman.
Holy shit, this 2018 Zinf is amazing, I kinda feel bad that I’m about to ruin my palette with pizza
Actually they pair well!
Just to be safe have another glass before getting into the pizza. That oughta shut those taste buds up.
Pish-posh, the pizza will only enhance your palate
I think Zin, like Zinc, helps you fight the common cold.
Not a doctor, but I’ve been to one once.
I like this theory
So here was my Korean-inspired (aka cultural appropriation, gasp!) octopus stew:
And the strawberry-rhubarb pie:
Octopus and strawberries, a natural combination
Well, they’re both in the titles of Beatles songs, so yeah!
Don’t want to see how you incorporate walrus into the menu.
Or Mrs. Rigby
Poor Eleanor.
If you didn’t cut up a live octopus into the broth it’s not authentic and therefore probably not appropriation
That’s a relief!
Reason number 14,621 why I love this site: many if not most of us are people of considerable means and could drive the pimp ass rides but you all think the same way that I do. A vehicle is a conveyance device period. Not to mention drawing attention to yourself in LA is not a great decision.
I like the low profile.
A car has one job, I see no reason to pay extra for it to do other non-essential jobs. Besides, I spend my extra on totally gratuitous luxury travel.
You made the right choice.
You say that like, when my mid-life crisis hits, I am not going to spend a stupid amount of money to get one of these and paint it royal purple.
Excellent choice. I love muscle cars but if it’s just one I want an enormous Cadillac.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/1978-cadillac-eldorado-biarritz/
Why do you assume that?
Because I drive a 98 Accord?
Like that somehow proves your point???
Anyway, hells yeah, much better uses of hard-earned scratch than an overpriced penis substitute.
Yeah, you don’t want to overspend on a penis substitute. A discount one will work just fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4
*toes garage under nearby rug*
Totally!
[looks around nervously] – Balls
The funny thing is that, in LA, my car doesn’t really stand out.
In line with others, ordered a pizza. Papa Johns as a good pizza would have been $60 with fees and such
If I may inquire about toppings?
extra cheese, salami, onions, roasted garlic, mushrooms
Fuck me that sounds righteous.
For me, onions are the most indispensable pizza topping. And about a year or two ago I discovered I preferred salami to pepperoni. The rest is just universally YUM
Solid.
Just started watching The Oroville, and am enjoying
Tangentially, did you win most improved player?
One more week in the season, if I don’t play I win cuz getting second last week gave me a big enough lead. Probably still going to try and play though, although it’ll be from the airport before my flight to Mexico City.
And most improved is probably a lock, although I think Kate could theoretically still win.
Yea! I quite liked it. A nice bit of work from an obvious trek fan. Probably his dream. It gets comfortable with itself after a season if I remember
It actually got me into watching the trek series. Series’? Seems backward but I had to see what he was so enamoured with.
The most expensive part/repair I’ve had on my car was replacing the gas tank, which was totally unnecessary. After replacing a fuel pump, the check engine light kept coming on and gas would slosh out if I had a full tank. This is usually because the fuel filler hose is degraded, and I told the guy at the shop as much when I brought it in. Of course the dude didn’t pay any attention, possibly because I’m a middle aged woman, or maybe because the shop is in Atherton and most of the clients are fucking billionaires, but they said they checked it and that wasn’t it, it was the gas tank. When I called a few days later to check on progress, I talked to a different guy who said it would be a couple more days because when they took the tank off they discovered the fuel filler hose was totally rotted and they had to order a new one….never going back there, and even though this was a few years ago I’m kind of tempted to go write the negative online review I didn’t bother with at the time
This Greatest Order Of All Time is nonsense. Everyone knows the *real* GOOAT is when you and your coworker are expensing dinner and you go to White Castle and tell them to give you one of every single thing on the menu.
Oh no I think you misunderstood: that’s the greatest (pejorative) odor of all time.
One of my favorite New York City moments was taking youngest right to Manhattan the first time. We had an incredible Sicilian pizza and wandered all around Times Square then we stopped and got a sack of White Castle with some onion rings and destroyed the entire thing. Youngest right still says that’s one of her most memorable moments of NYC.
Oh well la-dee-dah, didn’t know I was in the company of so many Standard Transmission-heads. How are you supposed to hold a cigarette in one hand, cell phone in the other, and still be able to drive if you also have to shift gears every five feet?
Easy peasy. I don’t smoke, but I could add a drink on the hand holding the dart.
In high school I had a VW squareback 4-speed stick. Steer, shift, bong hit, and beer? No problem.
Why do you call beer “cell phone”?
1996 Ford Explorer XLT w/ Cologne V6 engine 2WD
375,000+ miles still purrs like a kitten and passes smog checks with ease. Never missed a filter or fluid change.
Coolant system replaced at 150K and 300K, transmission rebuilt at 200K, driver’s seat rebuilt and reupholstered at 250K, all “soft” items replaced numerous times at specified intervals.
Only weakness: has gone through 5 fuel pumps and 6 window motors.
Insurance is cheap because it is statistically more likely to kill someone than maim them; insurance companies prefer a dead body over a lingerer for accounting purposes. I offered to install daggers and impact-detonated explosive charges on my front bumper to increase my discount but they wouldn’t go for it.
LESSON: replace your entire coolant system now, it’s much cheaper in the long run. Always perform routine maintenance, especially on filters and fluids. Also try to be a former nuclear submarine engine room crewman and this shit is like religion. Easy too.
I’ve ridden in that and she’s a sweet purring ride indeed.
Impressive. 375,000 miles is awesome.
Unfortunately, the days of the cars you can keep forever are gone. Everything new is disposable and with all the tech on it, it’s not maintainable.
The only vehicles they’re still making that could theoretically last a while are pickup trucks. And that’s only if you get a simple one with no high-end tech toys.
I’m curious to see how many miles the newer electric cars go before they stop kickin’. I hope it’s a lot.
My worry is that the electric cars will follow computer technology in the speed at which they become obsolete/unsupported.
At least the batteries seem to be better now. I’ve known a couple people with older (but not that old!) hybrids that experienced battery failures that basically bricked the entire car. It’s thousands to do a replacement
From what I’ve read you have to buy a new battery at 100,000 miles, and that battery is $10,000, which means you may as well buy a new car every 100,000 miles, which sort of eliminates any environmental benefit to buying an electric car.
BFC will no doubt know if this is true or just a rumor spread by Big Oil, which I am not ruling out.
I would no shit have to have my house rewired to handle an electric car, or bring in a new line for an outlet in the driveway. Or have a garage built, which we keep saying we’re going to do someday, (after the kitchen, of course), and put an outlet out there.
Those repairs are probably going to be cheaper than rewiring the house and/or building a garage, so I’ve got that going for me. Which is nice.
Got lucky with the Civic hybrid, there was a recall notice about the batteries, it’s a 2009, and they replaced them and that fucker is golden to this day. TAJ drove us to San Diego and back for less than half a tank of gas.
“The Center Does Not Hold?” [muffled laughter]
-B. Laimbeer, Detroit
An you can barely get any new car with a stick these days. Autos are much better than they were though, and stick shifts make it hard to eat and drink and smoke while driving.
Hard but not impossible. I consider it a true mark of an expert driver when you can steer with your knee or gut while shifting gears and drinking a beverage.
The Good Mrs. Reefer was steering with her knee while flossing her teeth, going ~80 mph down I-55 when she had a Illinois State Trooper suddenly pull up beside her. Apparently, he stared her down while she put both hands on the wheel, slowed down, and smiled embarrassedly. He just shook his head and floored it past her.
Nice thing about having tits, you can stick a drink in your cleavage and drink hands free, so if you wanted you could steer, shift, drink, and play pokemon GO all at the same time.
brrrr. (although that might be nice on a hot day)
But when I do that I end up drinking a bunch of chest hairs
That’s tough. 2011 isn’t old and Subaru makes a quality vehicle but 230,000 miles is a good chunk of work. 370k Km. She doesn’t owe you much at that point. I’ve got a 2011 (bought last year) a little under 120,000 miles. You must commute to work?
I’m an attorney, and pre-Covid drove all over the state to different offices and courthouses. $20K+ miles a year. Post-Covid it’s been more like 5-8K.
You’re right, this car owes me nothing. Still would hate to see it go. Hoping it’s something relatively easy, like a thermostat that needs replacing, but I’m hoping that based on a ’74 Nova I had about 30 years ago, so that’s probably not likely.
A lawyer in a Subaru? Now I’ve heard everything. Next thing I’ll see David Suzuki in a hummer full of plastic grocery bags.
Oh that is tasty. If any of y’all ever visit Sonoma, this winery is totally worth a visit: https://taddeiwines.com/
My sister-in-law works at Gunlach Bunchu in Sonoma, if you’re ever out there.
Ask for Abby, tell them I sent you.
Oh, that is well past Sonoma. I was actually quite disappointed at the tasting options in Sonoma itself; everything was very pricey.
Yeah, they should bring back the Sonoma. That was a good little truck.
My car is also a 2011, although far fewer miles since it spent the first 6 years of its life being owned by my father, who mostly only drove to the store occasionally to get milk. It’s a good little car, but it’s a Mazda 2 and Mazda stopped selling them in the US in 2014 and only ever sold about 50k of them here, so it’s hard to find any parts that are model-specific. I’m not looking forward to the time when it starts getting unreliable.
At least windows aren’t model-specific, so the guy who just replaced my car window that got busted out was able to find a used window in the area that fits my car. It wasn’t that expensive so I’m thinking it might not be worth filing a claim with my auto insurance.
I’ve owned two cars in my life: a 1994 that I bought used and drove into the ground, and a 2003 that I’m still driving.
I’m gonna keep mine until it stops running, hopefully many many years from now
Mazda makes a good vehicle. I was surprised to read about how they sell far fewer cars in the US compared to Canada, relatively. 300,000 vs 60,000 per year. How do they function as a company?
I really don’t know why they don’t do well in the US. They did hit record sales numbers in the US during the pandemic though, so maybe they’re picking up in popularity here. I think part of it is the Miata getting branded as a “girl car” in the 1980s maybe? And maybe the typical car consumer here is too dumb to notice some of the really innovative stuff they’ve done, like the RX8’s Wankel engine.
And they don’t sell trucks so that takes out a big piece of the market. Strange, still.
If they’re Dodges, you’ve unlocked an AL BUNDY FOUR TOUCHDOWNS IN ONE GAME Award.
Nope. First one was a Saturn. Second one I treated myself to a BMW Z4 convertible, which is now in that weird place where some people think it’s a fancy car and others think it’s an old piece of shit.
I had a Z4! I actually liked it but I agree that it’s in a weird spot. I think BMW fanboys didn’t like it because it wasn’t a “true” BMW, but it drove great and was a lot of fun.
Beats me, it’s the only BMW I ever drove. I never saw myself as a “BMW guy,” it was just that I was looking for a convertible with an automatic transmission (yes, yes, I know) and that was the best option at the time.
It’s been pretty good to me. The roof (the 2003 still had the softtop) isn’t working right now and I’ve been too lazy to have it fixed, but I need to do that before my next road trip.
I don’t have much of a commute, so it only has ~ 80,000 miles
That’s awesome! I’ve had several BMWs, but I don’t consider myself a BMW guy. Those people are annoying.
The beautiful thing about living in LA is that you don’t need to worry about the roof much. I always used to park it with the roof down. I never left anything inside, so I wasn’t worried about anyone stealing it or breaking into it.
The biggest worry was bird poop.
Yeah, the birds were the main reason I always put the top back up when I parked. That and the seats were black and would get scorching hot in the sun.
The first car I ever bought on my own was a Saturn.
I got close to 200K miles on it before having to give it up. Not only was the engine done for but the interior was falling apart.
The alternator on mine kept dying. When I bought my new car, it died again, incurred a bunch of parking tickets, got towed and impounded, and I (correctly, I think) calculated that I wasn’t going to do better than they would by auctioning it off.
My first car was a 1964 Corvair Monza. It was easily the coolest car I’ve ever owned. Engine in the trunk!
Oh, I totally remember the episode where his car odometer passed 999,999 and reset to 0!
I like to think I’m driving my last car ever. It’s a 2012 Kia Forte Koup. Jet black. I call it the Batmobile. It just recently hit 80K on the odometer.
I’ve probably owned 12 cars and besides my Civic hybrid this is easily the simplest car to own and maintain ever.
As a former cab driver – in a previous life – I talked about owning a Checker cab because that bastard was one mean motherfucking rolling piece of Detroit steel. 7,000 pounds empty with the pop up seats facing backwards in the back of the cab. I drove one for years. Cab #56 by its call letters that thing was awesome.
I’ve never been a “car guy” but if given the chance that would be my dream car. Paint it black, extra chrome and it’s worth the shit gasoline mileage.
7,000 LBs? That’s a load. Take it to the demo derby. I’m driving a full size sedan and it’s only 4,000.
It’s one bad motor scooter.
This is exactly the model that I drove…
My dream car is a Peele P50. I love tiny cars and it’s the tiniest!
Well that’s not suspicious at all!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/us/ghislaine-maxwell-on-suicide-watch/index.html
I get it, but what’s the theory here?
That Maxwell is totally about to “name names,” and so The Establishment is planting the seeds for her murder to be branded a suicide?
That only makes sense if Maxwell has a line of communication to the public, e.g. her lawyer.
If that’s the case, then said lawyer should be loudly announcing right now “Ms. Maxwell is prepared to name names.”
If that happens, and she still “commits suicide,” then I’ll be on board with the suspicions. But otherwise, Occam’s Razor applies. She’s facing a long time in prison and a lifetime as a pariah, after living the good life in high society. Entirely plausible that she would be suicidal.
Edited: Sorry, should have read the link first. Her lawyer is refuting the suicide reports, but is NOT saying she’s negotiating a deal. So the most likely explanation here is that the state is just putting her on suicide watch to punish her, not to set up some murder.
Shit, does this count as a political opinion? Damn you!
The lawyer should say that if anything happens to her, a list of all the names she knows will be released immediately. There are multiple copies of the list.
What, is this a PI novel? She just wants to be in the news.
It’s ok, Bill Barr doesn’t run the Bureau of Prisons anymore.
It’s a new thread, and I have made much progress to rectify my earlier lack of drinking, so let me assure you all that I will only be boring you with food and drink opinions in this thread rather than political ones.
Probably.
I mean, I have been drinking, so further rants are not out of the question.
But what are y’all eating/drinking tonight?
Vanilla Malt because it’s hot and my fat stomach is the boss.
About to open a bottle of wine. I picked up my club shipment from Taddei earlier this week and it’s been a shitty day dealing with the car break in so I’m going for the good stuff.
Diet Coke and later, Le Crouix.
pFriem pils
Taking the dog for a walk, then probably a couple of Lagunitas Lil’ Sumpin’ Sumpin’
I’ve liked everything I’ve tried from them
When I did Dry January I tried their IPNA and it was horrid. I have heard that their non-alcoholic hop water is the better way to go.
But everything they put booze into has been very good.
True to form I ordered a pizzAndrea from Buono’s. In a strange bit of symmetry it’s the exact pie we had the day after the ex passed away so it made sense to have it again the day after the memorial service.
Currently drinking La Crema pinot noir and it’s very delicious.
One of the reasons I didn’t get into pinot for a long while is that it’s tough to find decent options at reasonable prices. La Crema is pretty solid.
Eating pizza because of the last post and drinking cheap rye and beer.
Actual rye, or the Canadian we-refer-to-all-whisky-as-rye thing? I had a bit of culture shock when I would order a rye and 7 up (yes, yes, I know — I was young) and would be told “we don’t have rye”
I drink Alberta Premium. 100% rye whisky. It’s weird though, yeah, that you can call anything rye whisky as long as it has one rye grain in it.
It’s changed here in the U.S. of course — these days pretty much every bar has an actual rye stocked (and here it actually has to have 51% rye).
Nuts that you have a more stringent standard for Canadian whisky than Canada does. Not quite bourbon rules but still something.
They didn’t even have crown royal? I thought was a border-crosser. Like Canadian club, cause I saw it in Mad Men.
Probably >50% of places had it, but not all. Bear in mind that I was a law student and was frequenting the cheapest establishments I could find….
There was no way I wasn’t going to order pizza after reading the responses.
It was a great idea.
After all that talk of good pizza joints I ordered dominos. I got good expensive pizza last week and after a fifth of rye tonight I can’t tell the difference.
We went to our local tonight as well.
Nothing exciting. We’ll be having a vegetable-heavy dinner and then maybe some jynnan tonnix.