Happy Friday everyone. You know it, you love it, and today, I NEED it. I got COVID and flu vaccines yesterday. Normally flu does nothing to me, apart from some minor arm aches. But holy shit. COVID kicks my ass. Mrs Sharkbait is only slightly inconvenienced by it, with yet more arm pain. But me? I get it much worse. Cold spells, including the occasional shiver, lethargy, injection site pain. But the worst of all is for some reason, my lower back kills me after I get these vaccines. Thankfully it’s usually just the day after the injection that I suffer but man oh man does it suck. What that means for today is I have little energy to devote to looking up and mixing a legit cocktail. I immediately thought of a hot toddy, both as a filler for today, and also because one sounds really fucking good right now, so that’s what we’re gonna go with.
1 bag Lipton black tea
Juice of 1/2 lemon
2.5 tsp honey.
2 oz. Rye whiskey
Brew the tea and let steep in the mug. Add juice of half a lemon and honey. Stir to incorporate the honey. Add whiskey and stir again.
Ohhh yeah that’s the good stuff right there. Now I’m not usually a tea drinker, (though I guess I better practice for next month) so I am not sure if the black tea comes though here, or is merely a vessel for booze, lemon and honey. Because the lemon is what stands out the most. It’s acidity stands out against the other ingredients, but it isn’t terribly sharp and aggressive thankfully. The 2.5 ounces of honey see to that. Though I did dial it in once I added the lemon, just to see where it stood. The rye is a nice background flavor at work here. It blends nicely with the lemon, and ever so slightly comes through with some rye flavor at the end. No whiskey burn, just a touch of flavor
10/10 would recommend as a counter to post vaccine side effects. Even though a hot pack and some Motrin were the heavy lifters getting me through the majority of the workday, this little guy as a nightcap really helped the most, even if it was just the mental side.
(Banner image courtesy Matthew Tetrault Photography)
Why do you need to practice drinking tea for next month? Are we having a tea party in December that no one invited me to? Or is it World Tea Drinking month?
Work trip to the UK. We COULD make it a DFO tea party…
Alls we need is a private jet. Start in LA, stop in the Northeast to get some stragglers, then off to Heathrow. What could it cost…10 dollars?
It’s nice to know that my disdain for the Red Delicious apple isn’t specific to just me.
This is a very entertaining apple review.
https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/10/17/apple-review-17-red-delicious-double-feature/
Good stuff.
I’ve watched so many bad movies over the last few months I honestly can’t recall if this one, “Blood Orgy of the She-Devils” (1972) has been crossed off the list.
/oh yes! You can see the boom mike in one of the shots!
Jayden Daniels doesn’t need surgery and won’t go on injured reserve for his dislocated elbow, and as one of the many to witness it happen, I’d like to be one of the first to say “HOW?!”
I guess like a dislocated, uh, anything, you just pop it back in, and if there’s no collateral damage, all good.
But yeah, that’s fucking weird/amazing.
The first time I dislocated my shoulder I didnt need surgery. Granted I didnt get an MRI on it or anything. Same thing with the second time. The third time is when there was damage and I needed surgery.
Mind you all this was in the space of a year and a half.
Yikes. You probably should have screwed it in a couple more rotations.
I would hazard an uneducated guess that elbow dislocations are more likely to be clean because it’s a relatively simple and open joint. Looks like if the humerus slips over the ulna without breaking it then it can flop around without doing much damage
Still that’s a bit of damage to the cartilage and the ligaments. Not to mention nerve damage.
No shit. People on the interwebs were saying it was mainly a question of how many ligaments were completely torn in half.
Have you never seen Lethal Weapon, that’s just science.
Rams will have a fatty kicker on Sunday!
FAT GUY (point after) TOUCHDOWN!
He and Stafford can go out for post-game donuts together!
Strawberry pardoned.
Headline: Cokehead Tax Cheat Pardons Cokehead Tax Cheat.
Tom Brady punching air right now.
CONGRESSIONAL HEALTH SERVICES COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Thank you for joining us today. Now you’ve been sworn in, so let’s get straight to it. My first question to you is: Truth…or Dare?
HEALTH INSURANCE EXECUTIVE: Truth.
CONGRESSIONAL HEALTH SERVICES COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Please explain to this committee why your claim denial process is initiated automatically for 98% of the conditions and treatments that your policies supposedly cover.
HEALTH INSURANCE EXECUTIVE: [frowns] I’d like to revise my earlier answer, Mr. Chairman. I’ll take dare.
CONGRESSIONAL HEALTH SERVICES COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: [confers with colleagues] Okay. During your meeting in the Oval Office this afternoon, we dare you to announce in a robotic tone of voice “5G SIGNAL OBTAINED. NANOBOTS ACTIVATED” and then a few seconds later “VACCINE SHEDDING PROTOCOL INITIATED” and then start hyperventillating like you are spewing…um, whatever these rubes think that made-up delusional nonsense is…into the air. I yield my time.
A long read, but a salient one, methinks:
https://prospect.org/2024/12/09/2024-12-09-radicalized-cory-doctorow-story-health-care/
My brother was telling me that knowing how to rearrange tests so that they aren’t denied is a skill not taught in school.
On the flip side of evil, what I was reading and hearing was that capitation was going to be a thing. Where the Payer gives the Provider (for example Ohio Health) a certain amount of dollars per person in a given pool of patients, and it was up to the Provider to keep the patient pool healthy. How could that go wrong?
I’ve had this drink (it’s wonderful), but I never knew this was a Hot Toddy.
What a philistine.
Seems l get sick every year when fall is turning into winter & this will be some great medicine for that.
Sounds like a great sore throat soother as well…
You know what else is a great sore throat soother….
I’ll give you a hint
https://imgur.com/gallery/ill-give-ya-hint-oEzS1lS
NOPE. I am not going to click on that link.
Having your Lyft driver attempt to kill you on the way back from a mostly positive physical is… what’s the word? Alanis help me out.
Also not disproving my theory that rav4 drivers are the worst.
It seems like the kind of vehicle that Eleanor from The Good Place would have driven. Or Jason.
Jason would have preferred an airboat
You could launch some Molotov cocktails quite well from a boat with one of these contraptions:
I once helped some kids bomb a bunch of large boats in a Montauk harbor with water balloons with one of these.
I am not a good influence, but man I got some distance on those sumbitches.
Never gets old.
Just like Charlie Kirk!
Only if a carboat had been definitely ruled out.
But what if it could?
I had an idea for a hot buttered rum variation last night but have subsequently trentgreened it.
I haven’t made one of those in a long time.
“Me either”
Trent Green, drinking the hot buttered rum he somehow just made while trying to pour orange juice into a glass.
[balls up dirty socks, pitches them at laundry hamper]
“Kobe!”
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3m52gkem3os2r
Yeah war is hard to win alone.
Seems like the black box is just going to say “it was sabotage” over and over again.