DonT is off tonight. So if you’re sick of me as a sub for Sharky, too, now you get to be sick of me as a sub for DonT as well.
As has been noted occasionally around the clubhouse, I have been on the road a bit in 2025. Ok, a lot. Ok, so much so that I think I may have been away from home more than at home so far this year, and I’m tracking my days in a certain country so I don’t have to pay taxes there. :sigh:
HOWEVER, that affords me the ability to steal Litre’s bit come across new and exciting things, including snaxx!
Recently, I was in France and popped down to Orleans in the Loire Valley for a day. Sidenote: apparently it is not pronounced like New Orleans or the band Orleans nor do they like it when you call it Old Orleans. Also, no gators. But I digress.
Whilst in Orleans I picked up a bag of chips crisps thinly sliced fried potatoes that had a picture of cheese on them and some words I don’t know.
Let’s pop that into google translate, shall we (I don’t know why I didn’t think to do that before I purchased these, perhaps because I’m an idiot.
Peasant Flavor. And then you have to search to find out that Ossau Iraty is a cheese. So sundried tomatoes and cheese. If I had to guess what peasants taste like….that’s probably not what I would come up with. Does the back of the bag teach us anything else?
Just some patriotic stuff about French agriculture. Liberté,Égalité, Potaté.
Ok, let’s eat a peasant chip.
No obvious signs of entrails. Not even a light dusting.
First bite was…pretty plain. Like there’s a hint of cheese but I don’t get much sundried tomato. Maybe something resembling a tomato sauce but that might even be a reach. Google (fine wikipedia) tells me ossau iraty is a French-basque sheep’s milk cheese, and I can buy that. But this is underwhelming. It’s kinda dry, slightly cheesy, and fine. Which I guess makes it like Maurice Chevalier.
Well, as always, you never know what you’re going to get with global snaxx, but it’s always worth trying them. I shan’t be going back for more peasant flavor chips the next time I’m in France, unless they take out the pitchforks, put heads on pikes, and make these taste sweet like bloodlust, revolution, and/or cake.
Speaking of needing to put heads on pikes, let’s talk for a minute about what’s happening in our nation’s capitol and the place I call home.
First the obvious: there is no crime emergency in Washington, DC, and the deployment of the national guard and federal agents to “takeover” the city in the name of making it safer is one of the most egregious lies the lyingest President we’ve ever had has ever uttered. This is a combination of distraction from the fact the President is in the Epstein files and an intimidation tactic of the grossest order. Unfortunately, it’s working. It is fucking dispiriting knowing this is all bullshit and feeling powerless since most of the country doesn’t seem to care. Last week, I changed plans to avoid dealing with federal officers setting up checkpoints in neighborhoods I’ve safely gone out in for decades. When I went to footy practice, I drove past a fucking MRAP. This is government waste of the highest order, on top of the dehumanizing and, yes, fascist behavior we have accepted as normal in the second Trump term.
And what was the alleged precipitating event for this? A DOGE staffer nicknamed “Big Balls” got beaten up in an attempted carjacking. Or if you believe some rumors, he was soliciting a minor for sex and she beat the shit out of him. Either way, this is all Trumped up bullshit. So a healthy FUCK YOU to Donald Trump and his minions, and if any of your friends or family thinks DC is a warzone and Trump is right about this, tell them they can suck my taint.
We all may need a palate cleanser after that so….what’s happening in the wide world of sports?
What’s on tonight?
Los Búfalos contra Los Osos, 7pm DFO time on FOX (So I guess this is a preseason game open thread woot woot, go laundry!)
Mariners @ Mets, 6pm DFO time on ESPN
Mercury @ Storm, 5pm DFO time
Dream @ Valkyries, 730pm DFO time on NBAtv
There’s also MLS action but that’s not my bag so figure it out yourself.
Alright I now declare this thread open!
I think what we need to remember about federal troops patrolling various cities is that it is becoming increasingly obvious that The President of The United States of America repeatedly raped children, and that republicans are desperately trying to do anything to distract us from that.
This one could be about sandwich guy
used to be a director of a big factory. I had a luxury car with a chauffeur and I had my coffee made by a young, hot secretary. On my wall, I had two pictures: one of Husák (Czechoslovak president) and one of Gina Lollobrigida. One day, they told me to unhook the whore’s picture down. I unhooked Husák.
After that, I was a director of a small company. I had an ordinary car and drove it myself. I had my coffee made by an old, ugly secretary. One day, they asked me why I hadn’t contributed 100 Kčs (Czechoslovak koruna) for the funeral of the recently deceased member of the Central Committee. I told them that for 100 Kčs, I would have buried the whole Committee myself.
After that, I worked as a supervisor. I made my own coffee and used public transport. One day, they asked me why I hadn’t come to the last Party meeting. I told them if I had known it was the last one, I would’ve brought champagne.
After that, I became an ordinary worker. I brought my coffee from home in a thermo bottle and used a bicycle. One day they told me to put the bicycle aside, because a Soviet delegation will be passing through the street. I told them I wasn’t afraid, since my bicycle was locked and insured.
I have been in jail for six years now…
Are the Chiefs the bag under them that’s dripping something foul smelling out of it?
120 Minutes playlist project status:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp15C-CU5fY
Holy shit that picture is disturbing.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/17/being-short-is-a-curse-the-men-paying-thousands-to-get-their-legs-broken-and-lengthened
I had a friend in college who had congenital issues that required him to have his arms and legs repeatedly broken and lengthened, (they had a fancier word for the surgery, of course, but that’s what it was), and every year he’d show up with a different arm and leg in a halo cast.
Seeing what that poor bastard went through, and why, (and with a smile on his face), and then seeing what these idiots are doing just because they’re short enrages me.
Yeah, the lead singer from Weezer had to go through something similar with one of his legs (was shorter than the other) and it sounded…unfun. To go through this for vanity is insane. Although I think about a shortening operation every time I’m on a plane.
I think about getting my penis shortened every time yet another massive erection drains all the blood from my body and causes me to collapse before satisfying another in the long list of maidens who can’t get enough if it.
It’s an unfortunate byproduct of being a congenital liar.
Same brother
Nowadays they can get growth hormone prescribed during puberty if it looks like they’re going to be short and their parents agree. Although maybe that’s considered ‘gender affirming care’ now so who knows. Fun fact: The most common gender affirming treatment is cis men getting breast reductions
lol that’s silly
/adjusts bra straps
That’s funny, I actually cut a chunk off my bra straps today and sewed the ends together. My over the shoulder device could no longer support the boulders. Something something holder! But that bra and I have been through some things, so I dug out a needle and thread, like a fucking lady!
Thanks for the warning.
And this is why I avoid this place like the plague in the offseason. I don’t want to discuss any of this shit, particularly with the one group of people I ostensibly like.
Considering the horse shit rolling out daily from this administration is kind of ubiquitous to our lives now, I imagine it’s kinda hard to avoid talking about it.
If we’re stuck talking about it, I prefer to focus on the fact that our president is an unrepentant pedophile.
It really is impossible to avoid. I’m settling in for the long haul with the Eastern European sanity saving dark humor mindset
A lot of Eastern Bloc jokes are easy to adapt to the current moment. Consider this joke about ZOMO (a paramilitary unit in communist Poland that brutally suppressed civil rights actions)
An ambulance arrives at hospital with members of ZOMO. After seeing them being carried into hospital one of the nurses started weeping. A doctor who had seen her crying asked:
Why are you crying? Are you really sorry for them?
How am I not to weep then there’s place for five of them and only two have arrived?
You’re free to avoid this place all the time. No one is asking otherwise.
We talk about this stuff in season, too, in case you have any plans in that direction.
These guys are fucking up my daily life to cosplay as noble brownshirts. They’re unamerican and don’t deserve peace.
US citizens are being unlawfully detained but yeah both sides.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/us-citizen-detained-by-ice-was-held-without-water-for-24-hours-she-says/3762874
I popped into a couple antique/second-hand shops on my walk, and while it was mostly junk (apparently furniture from the 90s is hitting hard right now) there was an old full cabinet Victrola that was worth ogling.
Another thing I’ve learned walking around is that a lot of my favorite shops and restaurants have been replaced with dispensaries and barbershops for some reason. Apparently this is the place to be if you need some sinsemilla and a shave
The wind up kind with the horn?
No horn, and I don’t think it was wind up, although it might have been (or the crank might have been missing) I think it was this model
Ooh, that’s cool. I love the record shelves. That’s not great for modern albums, but 78’s were so thick it probably didn’t hurt them.
If it wasn’t gigantic and heavy and $650 and I didn’t already have a modern record player that doesn’t rip up my records I totally would have considered it!
That’s beautiful!
Erin isn’t likely to be a big deal, other than causing some nasty riptides and a few drownings. That orange X following it up, though…that’s probably going to spell the end of the career of whatever hapless chump that is currently running the National Weather Service.
Whoops! Here’s what I meant to post.
I’m sure Don T has not only updated, but highlighted his enemies list.
Well, that whole sequence was stupid.
(USA, 2016-present)
So mid season form?
Checkpoints? Sweet mother of god. No one thinks it’s actually going that bad and then one day you’re Sonny Corleone.
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I watched some early episodes, those actors got a lot better as the series went on, they were stiffer than Duke’s wooden board in the very first episode.
Buffalo QB White Mike?
Did you yell all everyone in the store about using beef tallow? CUCK.
This Caleb kid might be good.
The Aussies have a weird thing with chicken and their snaxx. I also had these, and they were also delicious:
I’m also bringing home chicken salt, which is excellent on chips/fries.
This is *almost* true
It’s not like OSHA holds any sway in volcano lairs.
Minions have their own union.
“union” lol
Just like the NFL players.
Or public employees. Or any American union member.
I hate my union. At a very low level, I am grateful for it in spite of the fact that it’s all amateurs negotiating against mostly their management equals. But the statewide union is a corrupt and ineffectual cesspool and the national organization is so captured that it is for all practical purposes anti-labor. I mean, Jesus Fucking Christ, what goddamn joke of a labor organization would be against universal healthcare? Well, mine, and almost all the others. Unions at that level are controls on labor, and the Democrats happen to get to collect from them like the mafia carving up territories.
That’s one of my favorite line reads ever on Futurama.
Oh, like OSHA exists now!
♪ ♫ ♪ a little voice inside my head said, “go get fucked, you can always get fucked” ♪ ♫ ♪
Huh. I clicked on that figuring it was a version of The Punisher’s skull logo.
Didn’t know there were Dead-head branded dumpsters out there.
It’s unsurprising. There have always been smooth-brained morons who completely missed the message of the music the professed to enjoy.
And far be it from me to judge, considering I spent many years thinking Morrisey’s completely earnest anti-immigrant diatribes were actually clever satire.
They completely missed the message of Jesus too, but they think they’re Christians.
“You’re practicing your faith wrong.”
An argument that has always worked throughout history, particularly when made by outsiders.
They are practicing their faith wrong. Jesus told them to love one another. Repeatedly. They ain’t.
And while I am no longer a practicing Catholic, I was raised in it. I’m hardly an outsider.
Unfortunately I don’t think many people have followed the bits about love and mercy and forgiveness since about 33 AD
Yup, sometimes I kinda wish I still believed in all that stuff, because then I could believe that after I died I would get to see all the false profits (sic) who preached the complete heresy that is “prosperity gospel” scream in eternal torment while burning in the Lake of Fire.
Almost every Dead fan I know is Republican and a fucking dumbass.
really prefer hot boxing in a tesla when it involves a melting battery
Better not let her highness know about these…
“Honey Soy Chicken”
What Ted Cruz told his wife when she told him to stand up to Trump for calling her ugly.
This is excellent and should be celebrated.
(opens beer)
Then throw it on the banner
I don’t have the authoritah. (which is good for the site)
I’m actually kinda surprised Tinyhands Pedo hasn’t done anything in Chicago when Whites(ox) have been regularly getting murdered here
At least if we end up with “Big Balls” flavored potatoe snaxx after they award him a medal (they want to give him the same award Rosa Parks got ffs) it’ll be in English so we can all avoid it.
Too bad we can’t transport them all back in time 20 years to the time I was trying to find parking in Adams Morgan and a bunch of dumb kids having a fistfight in the middle of the street decided to continue the fistfight on the hood of my car while I continued driving around looking for parking. Although even then it would be a stretch to call the area anything more than mildly sketchy to the east. Lots of areas were rapidly gentrifying right about then.
We’re still dealing with the Orange faced Rapist shit here in LA too.
Just more fucking bullshit they’re feeding to their minions about out of control “crime.”
Stay the fuck out of our cities you fucking fascists.
Yeah, but crime is a problem in Los Angeles. Trump isn’s the solution, but the last five years of lying about how it doesn’t exist as stores resort to putting up vehicle barriers to prevent smash and grabs is worse than doing nothing.
It also gives corporations license to push out local retailers and businesses in the name of public safety, close down stores whose employees happen to want to exercise their rights, exacerbate gentrification into an even further enshittification of southern California into a dystopia of empty towers and half-empty five over one condo and storefront boxes while all the industries that actual create things leave. The exact same thing is happening in Portland, in my goddamn fucking neighborhood, as is happening in my brother’s West Hollywood neighborhood.
Whenever I see people act like nothing is happening, it makes me furious because it also makes me have to find common cause with the motherfucking conservatives and other right-wingers, which goes against every atom of my being and every second of my five decades on this planet, but they are the only other people who actually want to deal with reality.
Nobody is saying it doesn’t exist. They’re saying it’s not caused by Mexicans looking for work at the Home Depot.
Crime in LA is at it’s lowest in decades. It’s just that the local news leads with it.
Give the local news a car chase, a house fire, a flash mob robbery and a bear story and it’s a perfect broadcast.
I’ve lived here for 33 years. There’s some experience.
I would politely beg to differ. It depends on which neighborhoods you frequent.
DTLA is a disaster. More than one co-worker has been physically attacked by homeless people. Copper and metal theft is rampant. Company vehicles get stolen or broken into for catalytic converters at least twice a month.
For years, the police hasn’t done anything because of policies coming from City Hall. It has gotten to the point that police have told us they won’t respond in the moment things are happening. They will show up after the thieves leave and write a report.
This is not sustainable.
The police have always been like that, they have no duty to intervene and they actively won’t. There was a DC Court of appeals ruling on it in 1981
Yeah, I’m sure it’s policies from City Hall that keep the police from doing anything and not that police in general try to get through the day doing as little as possible.
“It’s the most dangerous job. We never know if we’ll go home that night”
Sorry, didn’t realize you were a
commercial fisherman,logger,roofer,construction laborer,pilot,iron worker,delivery driver, etc., etc.**all jobs that, per someone who’s about to get fired at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, have a higher fatality rate than police officers, who are the most coddled group of do-nothing motherfuckers not actually serving in Congress.
This tune captures my sentiments in a fair and eloquent manner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxaSqKelRro&list=RDIxaSqKelRro&start_radio=1&pp=ygUQbndhIGYgdGhlIHBvbGljZaAHAQ%3D%3D
So the hurricane absorbs all the impact from the Epstein files while Trump remains unblemished until one day when the hurricane blows out the full impact of the Epstein files will be released on Trump all at once, killing him? Or how does this work exactly?
America definitely needs to step up it’s snack game. I had these at the footy last night and they were excellent.