TGIF! It’s playoff season! Well, not today, but starting tomorrow anyway. Why yes, the hardwood footy play-ins are not playoff games you rube. Please ignore them and wait for the actual playoffs tomorrow.
Survival – Personal Edition
What low-rent, over-lookable advice can I deliver today? Oh, here’s one. Now that the pandemic is over, everyone gets the wonderful joy of going back to work. For some of you sad sacks, that also means a return of business travel. And some of that travel has you on the way to one of your customers in a totally sad sack and dull town. Here’s some tips to find some entertainment. (Non-sex division)
- Ask the locals for recommendations. Start with the front desk at your hotel. Normally I would refer you to the concierge or porter, but this is a dull town for a reason and they don’t have those. Let them know you want a taste of the “local flavoUr” but not their spouse specifically, unless they’re into that. At any rate, try to find at least one locally cherished restaurant, meal, bar, or other tourist attraction that the town is proud of.
- This is optional, but also fun. In a dull town, you might be remembered for your antics. As such, give yourself an alias. You could be the Bill Brasky of this town, albeit under a different alias. Doing this will hopefully help the more inhibited of you to let your hair down and have some real fun in town.
- And yes, that means get out of your comfort zone. Do things you normally don’t do. Using your alias should help and also knowing you’re never coming back to this dull town again.
- Still bored? Break a deck of cards and play solitaire with yourself.
Finally, most of this advice should be avoided if you’re spending time with business associates. Then just skip to the cards and play some poker.
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Survival – Species Edition
Time to put the sexy in Friday!
Enjoy the weekend, folks! Alright, now let’s get to the comments!
Who’s still out there? I’m still here (listening to Elvis Presley’s debut album).
The Umayyad mosque in Damascus. This was damaged a couple years later in the civil war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/apr/25/syria-umayyad-mosque-destroyed-pictures
I had an amazing parsley omelette in the Aleppo souk
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/26/syria-heritage-in-ruins-before-and-after-pictures
All gone
Wow, I was an ignorant college kid, had no idea the Limelight was basically open on sufferance when I was there. Was well after the trials had started, and convictions had already happened, but a couple years before they were permanently shut down. Then it became a trendy gym for a while. Gross.
I guess it’s a chinese restaurant now? I’m okay with that I guess. No wonder kids today are so dumb, they don’t have anywhere to go and be dumb in a contained (nawt safe, just contained) setting
What the hell are you talking about?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limelight
Went there when I went to NYU, 99-03
One day I’ll tell you about the Tompkins Square Riots.
Best purse attachment flashlight, but nawt best overall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg6wkxTpSFg
This is my favorite flashlight:
This is my second-favorite flashlight:
Are the squares on that mat centimeters? If not please include banana for scale
That’s an American mat.
Same mat, flip side
https://ibb.co/wLTXyNM
Look too small to be inches, but it’s possible men have given me a warped sense of size over the years
Each line is a half-inch. Both sides.
Thank you, exactly what I wanted to know. So 1.257 cm 😋
This mine
Excellent but nawt my favorite
I have a few flashlights I really like, my sentimental favorite is still one of my maglites, although multiple others have surpassed in terms of functionality and not sure which of those is my favorite
Maglites are obsolete now as optimal illumination devices, but you can still crack somebody’s skull with one of those.
Oh yeah, gotta use the cop hold for maximal force is you’re wielding one of the D-battery models.
Hence me saying sentimental fav
I use a headlamp most of the time now for it’s hands free functionality.
Kel Lite. The proper flashlight for when you need a flashlight to knock a motherfucker out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kclrRTgXfrY
For the past few months I’ve been thinking I want another tattoo. Maybe it’s weird but I’ve been thinking of inner leg or outer hip, somewhere people I’m not intimate with are unlikely to see it. I guess most of my tats are kind of like that nowadays, since I mostly cover up because of the daystar. I myself forget about the one behind my ear
My only one with text and it’s spelled correctly
Man, I need to moisturize
Gonzo!!!
Damn skippy
As long as I’m sharing, here’s the other leg
And somehow I have no idea what this one is. Alas.
HR Giger, Birth Machine
Swiss biomechanical artist
Did the design for Alien
He also designed the VIP room at the Limelight, which, humorously enough, was also where they had the goth night at about a third of the cost of the front door
Ah, a great answer whenever the relatives ask about your future children.
“oh, junior here? He was fired into my vagina from a gun. No, not a real gun, that probably would kill me, but have you ever heard of metaphors?”
I get that you like Ouzo, but what’s the G stand for?
When people who have no idea ask what that is I’m gonna tell them it’s my custom ouzo brand now. Thank you!
I don’t like tattoos. But only for myself. For everybody else if you want one, get one. And then show it off. No reason to cover up if that’s your choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLdz6zfJMDI
I know a kid who could have used a fizzy lifting drink
DFO is my favorite website, but I’m killing it tonight over in the comments section of the Wall Street Journal.
/I just made all that up
So did they!
I lied. I am actually killing it in the WSJ comments, particularly in discussions about future rate changes.
I’m not in the WSJ comments, but I assume you are THAT GUY
I assume you mean the non-weirdo guy
Considering who is typically in comment sections, yes, 100%, although I suspect you are not averse to a tad bit of trolling
I never troll, Zymm. It’s beneath me.
More power to you then
The NOP and Kings are playing ball!
I humbly submit a new rule for the Association.
Before the game starts, inspect every player on every team for their nails.
Fingernails I mean.
Valencunis has deep ass lacerations on his shoulder from somebody else.
Remember a story where, it may have been Lamar Odom who said he sharpened his nails before big games.
They need to check that shit man because getting slashed by nails playing hoops fucking sucks.
Pau Gasol has scars to this fucking day.
Treat it like MMA.
Inspect the hands before the game starts.
That is all.
For now.
How are they gonna do coke in style if you make em cut off their coke nails?
You make an astute point.
Well, they won’t be lighting the beam for now.
Now for the fun part. This Sprint race is over. And in a few hours they will all be back out there to qualify for the actual race tomorrow.
For those of you who do not follow the sport, you may be asking why they had a Sprint qualifying session, then a Sprint race, and neither of them have any effect on the actual race for the weekend.
So, the alternative is three (3) practices, then one (1) qualifying session, then one (1) race. The difference is money.
https://youtu.be/79SNvZi3ltE
If you average these out it was the version I was looking for
https://youtu.be/IMX9XIs9V04
And today I learned these are different songs!
https://youtu.be/96XJl7mxDtc
Average, mean, or median?
Here’s your great-grandmother in front of some other guy’s car:
No wonder I exist!
So how ugly was my great-grandfather and how did he marry her if he didn’t even have a decent car?
Ciao Ayo. The ladies in picture 8 look like they could use a hand dealing with that snack tray. So I’m there for them.
Another strange town – where’s the action tip is the old standard parking lot recce. The good places attract cars full of people. Hopefully a few ladies in skimpy attire.
That’s a great top, on a great lady too!
That’s not your sister or anything, is it? Otherwise, uh, can you give me her number?
867-5309
If I don’t get any of this round of job interviews, think I might move back to Chicago and just fly out here every week and camp for horseback riding. Flying out weekly and parking/campsite fees net out to less than my rent if I play it right, and my rent is actually super cheap for the Bay
Pioneer woman. And thrifty to boot.
Thats could work. Do you have a place there to store the camping gear. Gear is the key to comfort you know.
I would leave my car here, so plenty of room for gear and it’s a hatchback so camping patio as well! I miss camping, so would fulfill a desire as well as being economical
Sound plan.
/ fumbles around looking for his rubber stamp
“Have you tried riding a boulder? The pioneers would ride them for miles.” -S. SquarePants, Bikini Bottom
Never trust anyone so invested in pants
F1 Sprint race from China is starting now, BTW.
Wait, is this the poison scene from The Mechanic?
Because I didn’t recognize it at all!
This is the scene from Apollo 13 where Charles Bronson says the famous movie quote “This LEM ain’t big enough for the two of us.”
Ah, close enough!
Looks like campari, which, contrary to popular belief, is nawt actually poison
I was thinking maraschino cherry juice.
Only slightly poison
Let us know if any potholes open up on the tracks, buildings or bridges collapse on the tracks, or if any non Chinese person is allowed to win.
Well, I got some bad news.
They resurfaced the track without telling F1 or any of the teams. As a result, at the track walk everyone thought it was painted. It wasn’t, technically. But the entire track surface was treated with liquid bitumen. And that’s actually pretty common.
Unfortunately, that was a year ago, and that particular treatment wears off with use, especially with track tire use. As a result, the track is quite discolored, where the race line is much lighter in color than the rest of the track. And, of course, the grip for the race cars is wildly variable.
Also, nothing on or around the track is collapsing. But there has been two fires at one corner from the cars bottomming out and deflecting sparks into the grass.
Fun!
Lastly, if anyone was actually worried, Verstappen started 4th in this sprint race and was in 1st by the 10th lap. The pole sitter (for you newbies that’s the racer that started in 1st place) he messed up in the 1st corner and is now 7th which is a very terrible result.
I thought pole sitting was one of those wacky 1920s fads
Ah, for the right price it’s still very much a thing.
I’ve been told anyway.
Tim Meadows in Mean Girls does more as a Southsider with a bat than the 2024 White Sox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1mAfCNbf4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvxwf1jxdaM
“BWAHHhh….”
People are switching to flip phones to try and combat their smart phone addictions. Meanwhile sometimes I leave my phone in the car and don’t notice until hours later.
(posted from my pkb phone)
Kosherphones are absolutely a thing. I have no idea what makes them kosher as all phones should be parve, right?
This reminds me….
I’m visiting new york again next month
I might be as well for a quick down and back for dinner.
Depending when in the month my Mondays and Wednesday evenings may be available, Tuesday/Thursday/Friday I work. Saturday nights are also doable, with Senorita Weaselo in tow (she works Saturdays and I drive her.)
I should make an app where an online religieaux of your choice will bless your phone for you. Halalphones, Jainphones, Hindu vegetarian phones, you name it!
When I think of 2Pack, blaxabbath, BugEyedBoo or the other Army guys, this is how I picture them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlr6m2AWskg
Pretty much. Banking is not safe around us.
Found a funny:
Men will fight for six and a half minutes in an alleyway rather than try on their drifter friend’s sunglasses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrktxWUgcyA
Wait, what’s your husband’s name?
Get high and watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L7LNY5UBzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7h4OtFDnYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quCPNcXQkCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D53M1vVF2N4
I watched this, because I am high, and I like trains. My question is- weren’t people tagging in 1989? There was no graffiti on any of those cars.
Maybe they had already come out with those killjoy anti-graffiti cars by then?
In Tehachapi Pass they will shoot a tagger in a New York minute.
Bakersfield and Mojave are the two ends of this pass.
I thinking I might have to sue the Chicago Bulls for copyright infringement of That’s My Raiders!
So this is how I find out they’re losing
YOOOOO
I want to go to the beach so bad.
Sexy dog scene!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4tU3ZRFoUI
Speaking of sexy dogs!
That’s quite a feast in picture 8!
Food looks good too.
Man, to be judged in the harshest manner by two beauties like that. At the same time, no less.
They were quite forgiving after seeing the breakfast spread.
Yeah. The view isn’t half bad either
Sexy Friday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6e1yj-UlXs
How much scotch tape you reckon they had to use on that?
None. The R-1830 is the most produced aviation engine in history. So rugged and reliable you could set your watch to it.
Don’t be silly. It’s all ball bearings nowadays.
This week’s redhead seems like a real sweetie. I’d overlook her lack of a soul.
I have gone out of my comfort zone in lovely, flat, weird-ass Ohio. Yes, I ate chicken fingers for dinner. But I tried a place I knew NOTHING about, and trusted the insane line being a good sign.
Indeed, Raising Canes was quite good. Is this an Ohio specialty?
Fucking hate driving here, though. Google maps keeps dumping me onto these stupid rural non-freeway roads.
Holy shit, there’s 50 of them in Ohio. It started in Louisiana, but I’ve never seen one here on the wrong side of the Mississippi.
Louisiana? They didn’t even use seasoning salt on the fries (which were still good but that hardly belies a Cajun origin story).
In short, Ohio is a land of fat contrasts.
Zaxby’s has jumped the Miss’sip, though. The little map by my local has em in TX and UT now, should get to the Pacific soon enough.
I long for the return of Rax. We already got plenty of chicken options in these parts.
What the heck is that? Sounds Mormon.
Rax roast beef! Originally from Ohio too.
It was probably possum
Well then I love possum
No you don’t, that is some greasy shit. This was even nastier than bear, and bear is nasty.
I’ve eaten groundhog. Not craving for more.
People think badger badger mushroom is a meme but it’s actually a recipe
I think there are three Rax’s in Ohio, and that’s it. IMO it wasn’t any better or worse than Arby’s.
Just read that Bojangles is opening 30 locations in California in 2025.
I’ll give that a day in court.
Bo’ berry biscuit!
I got a raw chicken sandwich there once. They don’t
get a second chance, I can hold a fucking grudge!
You order an extra tub of dip and dip the fries in the sauce.Raisin’ Cane’s is pretty good. They don’t mess around – they have chicken tenders, buns to turn the tenders into sandwiches, cole slaw, fries, garlic bread (?), and drinks. And that’s it.
We have Raising Cane’s in LA.
Well, we don’t get anything nice up my way. Not even an In and Out. Disgraceful.
I just read the other day In and Out is expanding to Washington. Hold on, they’s comin’!
Yep. Got one right down the street from work in the Chargers Commons new development.
It’s just fried chicken, right? We have Popeyes, KFC, and most importantly local hero Ezell’s.
Yeah, they’re only chicken strips, fries and Texas toast. I haven’t tried them yet but a lot of my employees have. The toast is kind of their thing.
The toast is good.
There’s one in Palm Springs.
There’s one in the lawlessness heathen wasteland of New York! I need to go.
/Sorry, there are three, plus two in Brooklyn and one in Flushing.
That’s funny, “Raising Canes” would also have been a good title for this film.
Like, if it were told from Rachelle’s point of view.
Wait, what’s the Hippo doing in Ohio, and has there been a Redshirt sighting?
#8: What Rikki’s mornings would be like if he had infinity money.
Woah, hey, get out of my infinity money fantasy. Really ruining the mood here.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/trump-hush-money-trial/trump-files-emergency-appeal-to-move-trial-109436574?id=108402689
Trump’s attorneys discussing trial strategy (artist’s conception):
And possibly change his diaper or underroos