- Um … no, that’s not standard practice that I’ve heard of. Pretty sure the FDA would sue my ass for even suggesting it.
- I’d rather see the A’s give Wakefield a NR deal than Manny
- Uh …
- No, Zukes ain’t going to Tampa
- In former Soviet
UzbekistanKyrgyzstan, city reclaims nature - My theory in life, which may not apply to baseball, is that we all make mistakes, and if we serve a penalty, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have the opportunity to do the right thing after that.
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3. I knew eric byrnes. He was a player of mine. You sir, are an Eric Byrnes.
5. Sad. I had a State Department Internship there in 1999. It was a pleasant place by FSU standards. That said, Kyrgyzstan never had much going for it, economy-wise.
And Jim has pretty high standards.
If he ever changes his handle, we’ll have all sorts of IFFSU jokes.
Don’t worry, my username is too deeply ingrained for me to ever change, I think. At least until the cops start looking for that FSU guy.
Haven’t seen you much here lately, how’s the job switch going?
IFIFFSU… I’ve tried to lurk every day for a few minutes, but it’s hard to keep up with the new FKers and their lounging ways. I dropped into a lounge to lurk the other day and was happy to see a bunch of conversation from oldskool FKers.
The new job is going well. It’s always a bit of an uphill climb anytime you switch to a new industry, but I’m picking things up pretty quickly. I really like the company and the people I work with, and the clients are all pretty entertaining, though not always excited to have someone come in and change their ways. I’m not usually one to swear, so it’s pretty funny to hear some of the things those car guys say. There really is no filter sometimes; I’ve seen guys cuss each other out while customers are within earshot. Imagine what a bit of professionalism could do to further their careers.
I’ve also met some really interesting people on planes and shuttle rides to the airport. It’s occurred to me a few times that I should keep a journal of my travels and the people I encounter. Maybe I’ll do an mk-style “traveblogue” some time in the next few months.
Being away from family during the week is not ideal, but it hasn’t been too bad so far, as I’ve been able to spend good quality time with my wife and kids on the 3ish days during which I am home each week. I find myself much more likely to help out around the house when I’m home–I want to make every moment count, making life easier for my wife, who’s got to take care of three kids and the house by herself all week. Every time I have to do something work-related while I’m at home when my kids want to play, my inner-soundtrack plays: And the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon… It’ll be nice when I move to my territory and have more time for family and FKing.
I hate that song.mostly because my dad traveled a lot and I didn’t want him to feel guilty about it. Seriously.
Kids adjust to their circumstances. You will always be dad to them, no matter what.
Kids also will eventually be resentful of something you do (or don’t do), so there’s no avoiding that.
That song epitomized my fathers’ relationship with his father. He plays it all the time.
I’ve probably listened to the Ugly Kid Joe (the band better known for *Everything About You*) version more times than the original.
That’s a FKing tragedy.
Not really. You have no idea how many times I listened to their album America’s Least Wanted.
We all got our thing…I love Spacehog’s Resident Alien but can’t ask any of my friends to like it.
It’s so funny you mention them! I just heard “In the Meantime” on the radio a few days ago after not hearing them for about 15 years. I remember rather liking it. I think I’ve got that CD somewhere.
Like I said, I really like it, but I can’t expect others to. Kind of like how I explain my love of baseball to my European friends.
Meh. Spacehog was a good enough band for 90’s mainstream. They haven’t aged all that badly.
although when I think of “In The Meantime,” I think of Helmet, who had a hit single by the same name a few years previous.
Unforunately, they tried to bring glam back too early. Everything old is new again, but only given time.
…which leads to more family…
I know how you feel.
I get really mad when mine isn’t available for something.
There is an “elcroata” on twitter already. And there is http://www.elcroata.com, which is apparently a “women’s Health Fitness†site
Is that a euphemism for spandex porn?
First I read that as a response to the father-too-busy thread.
me, too
Me three. It took me about 5 readthroughs to understand what he was saying. Now it makes perfect sense.
For me, though, any time my username isn’t available, I know that I’m already registered for that site.
I also had this experiance.
I experience it whenever I use an anonymizing username, because my references are inevitably to a particular, obscure 1980s British roleplaying book series.
Turns out that’s a pretty good way to generate unique usernames…
Mine is a reference to this
Pssht. Nerd. (Did I ever tell you how I traded my Lord of the Pit card for Attack of the Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat?)
If it’s any consolation, I always hated that card (and always loved that book)
I was in 7th grade when all my M:TG cards were stolen from my backpack. I had but one left – Lord of the Pit – which I kept at home because it was the most valuable card I owned (although I preferred the green deck with my awesome weapon, Thicket Basilisk).
Anyway, not wanting to rebuild my deck I offered up my Lord of the Pit card for trade, and netted Attack of the Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, which brought my C&H collection up to date at the time. Never regretted it.
My sister left my Game Boy with all our games on the plane when I was 8 or so, and I still kinda hold it against her. It’s rough losing something you’ve collected over a period of time like that.
Lord of the Pit is a shitty card now… not then, though.
My favorite cards from back then are the two strong basics, “Lightning Bolt” and “Counterspell,” which have both finally been reprinted and reintegrated into current sets.
I didn’t like it then. Now it looks like things are just completely nuttily overpowered.
Those are solid, as was Drain Life / Black Night. I’m surprised they reprinted them as they’ve spent years working nerfed versions into sets.
I’m kind of afraid to find out what cards look like these days. I like remembering MtG the way it was when I played it
I like blending old cards with new compliments in Legacy format.
My newest creation is merfolk self-mill (draw+discard your own cards to fill your own graveyard)+Animate Dead+huge casting cost wrong-color creatures+this guy…
Is the Laboratory Maniac a real card? That completely destroys the point of Mill decks (which I always found interesting due to how challenging they were to make, at least at the age I was when I tried to build one).
That’s just silly. Of course, if you mill your maniac…
That card is 100% real and I animate it out of the graveyard as an instant effect during my draw phase or on the stack on top of a draw card that would otherwise mill me out for the loss.
Here’s how I fill the graveyard in big chunks (as opposed to the merfolk/millikins doing it one or two cards at a time)
and as long as I have three creatures on the board, I don’t even need mana or a reanimation card in hand as long as this one’s in my graveyard.
Geez. Crazy overpowered.
Looks like the only way to beat you is to do a counter that exiles on your game-winning dude so that you deck yourself.
@ nevermoor: One way to beat it is just to win sooner.
Legacy is an extremely powerful format.
I’m just surprised because what I’d heard about that particular set is that it was less crazy overpowered than some of the other recent ones.
@PT-
You’ve got that right to a certain extent. However, I didn’t build that deck to win often, but to occasionally win in a weird and spectacular way.
Of course, animating an Eldrazi from the graveyard on turn 4 will grab the early win now and again, too.
Uh, Counterspell hasn’t been reprinted since 7th edition, which was roughly a decade ago.
Right now 1UU will get you a (slight) upgrade on Counterspell, but the only available stuff for 2 mana is much worse.
I could’a swore they reprinted that…
…and after looking through the stack of cards I thought it was in, I realize it was
but still, there’s no reason they shouldn’t reprint Counterspell… other than it would be slightly overpowered for draft formats.
The original Counterspell enabled the existence of Draw-Go decks (essentially, do nothing but counter everything the opponent plays and draw cards), which were highly successful but incredibly unpopular.
It’s never going to be reprinted. Overpowered is not a problem on its own; overpowered + un-fun is very much a problem.
@ nevermoor: I’m not sure what you’re referring to. The Phantasm? It’s not particularly strong. The combo is, as GS indicates, very much a “Johnny” combo; it has little application for tournament formats, so it’s not “overpowered” in any objective sense.
I was referring to the difference in quality between, say, Eldrazi and the older magic cards I grew up with (Fallen Empires and forward, so post Mox).
I found this particular set to be gimmicky but not worthwhile (the two sided cards just don’t change much), unlike the leveling cards that came before them.
Well, yeah… Fallen Empires was comically underpowered, except for three cards.
I think power creep has definitely occurred in recent years, but there’s no way I’d ever want to go back to the power levels of sets from before about the year 2000.
I haven’t played enough new cards to know, but they all just feel so gimmicky now. I’m glad that color-protection is a thing of the past (and yes blue spell-control decks were annoying) but the thing I liked about Magic that other games didn’t have was that the cards were mostly generally applicable (no specific-card actions like in the Star Wars game).
I feel like they’ve lost some of that with some of the newer decks, which appear to be designed on the “we need a new mechanic so we can sell cards” path.
I played the Star Wars CCG
That’s a worthy trade
2. Other washed up guys that I would prefer over Manny:
Rickey
Canseco
Jamie Moyer
Frank Thomas
Pete Rose
Mike Tyson
Buzz Aldrin
Rod Blagojevich
The Blago bobblehead would be pretty rad.
It would have to be pocket which bobbled open and closed for the acceptance of bribes.
As would watching his hairpiece fly off when he ran the bases.
Id rather have Manny than Canseco.
In terms of actual production? Sure, but in terms of entertainment value, Canseco wins.
Canseco just annoys me.
I’m past that point now. I find him amusing, but I can understand why you would feel that way.
Maybe neither of you remember him playing?
Because Jose was teh awesome.
Oh no, I do. The Bash Brothers we so much fun. I have never cared about baseball as much as I did in the years 87-92ish.
This is pretty much the only appropriate response to the fox news attacks of the Muppets:
Hee. I’m normally not a big Miss Piggy fan, but that was cute.
Bloom, missed you yesterday. Really wanted to ask you to Reconnoiter the Rims with me.
U. Phe. Mism.
I’m so dead.
Yeah, you FKers are gonna hafta wait for the next Deadwood installment til this weekend. I can only watch Deadwood and write on it on the weekend…
Doo your Deadwood recaps have the words motherfu**er and c**t in them at least 47 times a post?
you can say both motherfucker and cunt here, you motherfucking cunt.
San
Franciscota RosaCSockspuckppert!Ack!
Get some rest, buddy
View from my new office (not new job — agency moved to new building further along the Emb’o):
I’m getting the “image appears as flat one-pixel high line” problem here (IE on Windows).
Has that fixed it?
Yes.
So, nm, maybe the image html should set only one of width and height (and I’d advocate width, which is generally the constraint).
(TWSS)
Yeah. I’ll take out the height default.
And it’s out.
Weighed myself this morning, and I now officially weigh less than 1/8 ton(ne). 10 more pounds and I’ve caught up with Homer Simpson.
18 down, 64 to go.
awesome!
I don’t wanna weigh myself. I”m probalby going the other direction.
Thanks, and go As.
I have to admit I haven’t had to do anything particularly hard. I’ve just cut most of the flour and sugar out. And when I do indulge, I indulge in smaller quantities and/or healthier ways (Who-nu cookies rather than a whole pint of Ben & Jerry’s, for example.)
Oh yeah… and brown rice four or five nights a week.
On the meat tip… I’ve actually increased my meat intake slightly. I would be happy going vegetarian, but my wife would kill me and eat me, so keeping dead animals in the house is insurance for my own health and wellbeing.
Yeah, I just eat like crap mostly.
Thanks, and go As.
which is not smart for an athlete like yourself.
Make a couple of minor changes that you hardly even notice, and you’ll have more energy during games.
…and I just checked.
197.
:|
Thanks, and go As.
No FKing way…
Tweek that diet just a little (you’ll hardly notice) and soon enough you’ll be playing at 175 and your knees and ankles will not only thank you, but still be there and functional for future seasons.
I played last wiffle season at 270 and my pushoff foot still hasn’t recovered. If we play this year (lots of regulars still on the DL) I don’t know if my FK’d up right foot will allow me to pitch or run at anything greater than 80%.
Seriously. One Nine Seven.
and i’m 5’6
(baby got back)
Thanks, and go As.
Yeah… I was 197 in like freshman year of high school.
I haven’t been 197 since 5th grade.
I’m catching up to you.
Other way around I think. :(
Thanks, and go As.
Two trains leave, one from Chicago and the other from New York…
I need to work on this too. 205 has been way too much to haul on hiking trips into the mountains. 165-170 is probably sustainable and I want to be there by May. I was an even 1/10 ton this morning.
Yeah. The actual number doesn’t concern me too much, I’m just thinking that around the 170ish range would be ideal. I have always weighed more than I look like I should, I guess, cuz my legs are kinda muscular or somethin.
now I just have a FKing gut too, and I hate it.
Thanks, and go As.
It’s not your job to be a stick figure. And if you didn’t value your athletic side so much, I wouldn’t even bug you about it.
I wouldn’t want to be a stick figure.
I’d be OK with Diego Forlan’s build though.
Thanks, and go As.
Gene Kelly
I’m not wearing the sailor outfit though.
Thanks, and go As.
/callista
or that one.
Thanks, and go As.
That is one gay blade.
What’s up with the corset cleavage waist?
I hadn’t seen my mother for quite a while. When I visited her last year she took one look at my gut and said “THAT’S THE BEER, ISN’T IT?!” That is certainly a part of it; banning In-N-Out for the next few months and substituting a salad will help too.
See, I actually don’t think I drink a whole lot. I may have one or two after a soccer game, but that’s 2x a week at most.
Aside from that it’s usually just one or two cocktails and that’s about it.
(tailgates are different)
Thanks, and go As.
What happens at the tailgate
stays atgoes on the tailgate.sage
Thanks, and go As.
Burritos were my kryptonite. There’s a B+-y place right across the street that I’ve learned to walk by.
If you go riceless, burritos are less not-ok.
yeah, white rice is pretty much like flour.
Yeah, but at this place they’d then be C-.
I’d rather have something else.
by May is a pretty radical shift.
Then again, you’ll feel it on the trail even if you only lose 5-15 lbs, so it’s worth it even in moderation.
so, 220lb, not 205, right?
I was about 90 kg this morning, want to reduce to 75-77 kg.
does. not. compute.
And I know you guys have your “short ton”. You are still wrong.
Fking math major.
Wow, what an interesting diet.
It’s much less a diet than it is cutting a bunch of shit out and being slightly healthier with the staples.
I’m thinking that I’m going to eventually plateau somewhere, and then it’ll be time to change things up a little more. I’m not in any hurry, though.
I meant you are doing the same thing I’ve been doing for ten months.
Yeah, but you’re doing it more meticulously and badassically…
I haven’t soaked a single bean yet; Neither have I eaten spinach out of the bag as a snack.
Spinach is so so tasty! Had some tonight…
I have been shocked to find out that I dont mind raw spinach that much. No admittedly in my fat-assedness I usually have a bit of Feta and some oil on it, but it goes in the veggie column! I don’t get to mark many things over in that part of the book.
Now if it is cooked it better have about a pound of cheese on it.
I like to chop it up into strips, put a wee bit of sweet chili sauce on it, then lay down a bed of brown rice on top, then meat & veggies or a mutant English-style “curry”. I hardly notice the spinach and it adds lots of nutrition and fiber.
I love that idea, and will be stealing it and calling it my own.
Steamed with apple cider vinegar tastes good to me (and, of course, is a ton healthier)
Or just lemon juice. And Olive oil. And garlic. And pancetta.
More effort, less healthy, would definitely taste better.
Ate it tonight with olive oil and balsamic.
I like rice wine vinigar
I LOVE rice wine vinegar. On anything.
STOP PUTTING RICE WINE VINIGAR ON ME BLOOM
nom nom nom nom nom nom nom
Orach FTW
I love spinach, but mangold (chard?) is much better still
oooo, and, of course, mustard greens. But then again, we’re rehashing covered ground…
Growing up on hippy food (well, yuppie food cuz it was Marin), I endorse all cooking greens… kale, mustard greens, chard, spinach, collard greens, bok choy. Delicious!
agrd. Greens are delicious. Old Southern people agree with your yuppie ass, too.
Yep. Collard greens are awesome if done well.
and taste like shit if not.
you’re thinking of
chitlinschilluns.fixed your typo there
Jonathan Swift Premium Brown & Serve
Old Southern people would boil the asscrap out of the greens until they were toothless bitter mush.
My grandmother boiled all her greens with bicarbonate of soda to keep them green. Disgusting, mushy but green.
Christ, what Na HCO3.
we have today’s winner!
just like how they raised their kids.
chard is pretty much on your plate every day if you live in Dalmatia. Or at least it used to be. There is hardly an easier vegetable to grow
There is an Italian variety known as Erbette chard that is just so delicious and tender. Like something between chard and spinach.
As I first read this I thought to myself “if you are already losing weight and eating better do you really need to get Staples?”
took 3 readings to get it wasn’t that type of them…
I know a few people who’ve had that done, and I would never join their ranks, even if I was so fat I had to wash myself with a rag on a stick.
Mrs. Aces talked about going that route at one point. I was scared enough I was able to steer her clear just by giving her my second hand fear…
I gained 7 pounds in Chicago. Last week I lost two of them. So easy to put them on, so hard to take them off.
especially on the road with new and different places to eat…
How much is that in “stone”?
I’m a pretty skinny guy, so I don’t typically worry about my weight. However, this makes it hard to eat healthy foods, since I can basically eat whatever junk I want and not get fat. I am worried about eating like shit and having a heart attack at 40 or something.
On the other hand, I just went to the doctor and it turns out I’ve gained 30 pounds in the last ten years. That’s not too surprising; I was untenably skinny in college. However, if I gain 30 pounds in the next ten years, I’ll be a fat FKer. So now I’m looking to maintain weight and eat healthy, two things I have never worried about before.
One of my tricks is to eat a healthy snack when I feel nippish. So just now, when I wanted a cookie, I ate a banana. Unfortunately, the way this usually works is that after eating the banana I feel so good about being good that I reward myself with a cookie. Now I’ve eaten both a banana and a cookie, which is worse from a strict calorie-intake perspective.
Bananas are good but they aren’t that filling. Try some peanut butter with the produce. I eat about 2 tablespoons of peanut butter with a banana and it usually holds me over for a couple hours.
I don’t really think anyone will confuse eating peanut-butter with a spoon for a healthy meal. Now, tasty, yes…
That’s my go-to 10 am snack–banana with peanut butter. yum.
I’ve always been jealous of people who can do that. There’s someone in my office who eats ~2x what I do and weighs essentially nothing. If I stood in the same room as that diet I’d gain 50 pounds.
yeah that would be me. Ive also lost weight recently.
…but there’s so many OTHER reasons to loathe you!
I’ll still add it to the list!
Not that unusual for someone in his early- or mid-20s. Just wait a few years…
Naw. My genes won’t allow it. Plus I actually eat pretty healthy. Almost no processed food.
Mine didn’t allow it either.
You’ll turn 30 one day, too.
Thanks, and go As.
lies. Ill never die… uh i mean… turn thirty.
I always thought that too.
Thanks, and go As.
Whereas I thought I’d be dead by 21 and the last decade plus has been a nice freeroll.
I was ridiculously skinny in high school (like 6’0″, 135) and I’m still pretty thin now, but there’s a little belly there. You’ll eventually have one too.
Right. I was smaller than even the proverbial 98-pound weakling when I went to college. Clearly that wasn’t sustainable but 30 pounds snuck up on me quickly.
I am six pounds overweight
What, over the ideal adonis-mass-index?
Heh. My “fight weight”.
Which is OK. I’m
1.80m5’10” – 5’11” and have been between70 and 75 kg155 and 165 lb all my adult life.72160 with body fat percentage of under 11 is ideal for competition. I’m at 165 now. But, it’s winter and it’s cold, so it’s not all bad.I really want to say I hate you here. But I love you so much that I can’t even form the words…
Maybe if you figured out a way to say I hate you in metric.
Same here. I was 130 pounds in college, and I’m 5’9″ (just for reference, Donnie Murphy is also 5’9″, and weighs 200 pounds).
But half of that was that I literally could not find anything I considered edible at the dining hall a third of the times I went there. I don’t even want to think about how many “meals” I had that consisted of a hot dog and soda.
Now I’m just trying to avoid the temptation to eat Five Guys like three times a week.
You didn’t look much more than 130 when I saw you at ** Day that one time.
Thanks, and go As.
Where people under 19 can only stay with permission for 30 days.
I try to be an understanding and tolerant person, but I can’t help but literally hate cloistered gated community whiteys. I want to oppress them and torture them and redistribute their wealth and force them to be street hobo pariahs for the rest of their lives.
Holy shitbiscuits, somebody customized their Coco bobblehead with an afro!
That’s awesome.
I had a feeling I knew who it was doing that, and I was right.
OMG that is so cool.
I have that Indians bobblehead (though Mrs. N would NEVER let me paint it)
Neat.
5. Bishkek my ass. Those photos are from New Orleans.
Hey! When are people going to post photos from Fanfest? I saw Yon’s photos already (thanks for that), but some tailgate shots would be good too — it’s always fun to put some FKing faces on some FKing names.
Yes.
Yon’s gonna do a FK(stop) post later today when he has time.
The correction at the end is great (tagline!), but I like the end better:
I would love to see a Shining wedding.
seems made for Bloom.
[beams proudly]
Yay!
A proud Bloom is a happy Bloom.
Paging Corey. Corey to the Yahoo inbox please.
I presume this means you’re still on. Heard anything from Andy?
I was planning on it. Just texted sslinger.
Cool.
BA’AL DAMMIT THERE’S NOT EVEN A STARBUCCIO’S WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF HERE.
Gonna hafta go out and take the F to the FB for a Peet’s.
You’d make all that effort and not go to Blue Bottle? You’re a stronger man than I am.
1. I’m not a drip man (mostly b/c of poor impulse control)
2. I am a hardcore Peet’s loyalist
1. You’re not into individual drips, or just not into brewed coffee in general? Because Blue Bottle’s espresso drinks are also quite good.
2. I also like Peet’s, whereas I find Starbucks close to undrinkable.
One drinks Starbucks not for the taste, but for the effect.
Geez. That really surprises me.
Also, too: BB’s espresso drinks are >> Peet’s (and I’m a Peet’s fan too)
Eh, ok, there’s one at Levi’s Plaza. Google and Starbucks website were … confusing.
I agree. Also starbucks sucks.
Starbucks is meh, but far superior to most of the “mom-and-pop” coffee shops/regional chains they displaced.
If by that you mean dunkin donuts? yes. If by that you mean its better than Four Barrel Ritual Stumptown or Blue Bottle, you are sadly mistaken.
Starbucks hasn’t replaced any of those. They’re all thriving.
youre right.
{rolls eyes}
Those guys are all post-Starbuccio’s chains. They wouldn’t exist without the market Starbuccio’s created. I don’t know of any post-S boutique coffee joints that have actually been put out of business.
Also, DD isn’t half bad for drip — McD’s is better (and quite decent), but either suffices for, say, a cross-country 3-am eye-opener.
Also, not sure exactly how many DD franchises that have gone under b/c of S.
No, I’m talking about the Royal Grounds-type places with zero barista training/skilz, months-old beans from black market suppliers, and a dozen years of grime on their tables. And the lousy regional chains like Caribou.
blah blah blah fine thats a valid position.
God but Caribou is awful.
I cannot believe they get people to drink that.
ANd what mb said.
But I prefer the places DFA said
yeah hes right.
I rarely drink hot coffee, so I can’t judge, but Caribou has fantastic cold-process iced coffee. Now that I’m going home to Minnesota more often, I lof the Caribou stand next to the baggage claim at the smaller terminal at Mpls-Saint Paul.
That could well be. Their plain hot drinks just taste bad to me, and any of their hot menu drinks have about 10x too much sugar.
Plus it’s coffee made by Minnesotans! How can any of you hate on it?!!
I did get an iced tea of some kind once, and it had far too much sugar.
I’m skeptical of the idea that Starbucks created the market for BB, Ritual, Four Barrell, Stumptown and the like. We’re talking about SF and Portland. We would have gotten around to fetishizing coffee eventually.
Agreed though that Starbucks has generally been a force for good for coffee consumers, even if I think their product is generally mediocre and insanely overpriced.
Its called a cup o keno, and you’ll never believe how much it costs!
dangit. it’s on the tip of my tongue…
Stumptown rules.
Meh. I’ve had mixed success brewing their blends at home and with what I get in various coffee shops around Portland.
Current favorite is Nossa Familia. They sell at the farmers market by us.
I wanna say Berkeley has three Starbucks, and in addition to those, has a FKton of those local Coffee spots. Totally agree, that outside of Meditteraneum, they were mostly krap.
My friend Jerry’s a manager at Peet’s on Bush + Van Ness
That’s my home-ish Peet’s (we live further down on Bush). Was just there last night with JP.
Nice. I like how you take the boy out to calm him down for bed.
I’m pretty sure Jerry mostly works mornings. He’s about 40… used to be a regular in my poker game… good solid cat…
This reminds me of a story.
I was once walking along Center Street in Berkeley talking with a friend about various forms of snobbery: music, art, wine, etc. Anyone can become a snob about anything. If you ever go apple picking in New England, you will find that in only takes an hour to become a total apple snob.
So it was that my friend mentioned that he never understood the Peet’s vs. Starbucks coffee snobbery. Unless one takes the time to learn and care about the difference in taste, he reasoned, one will never notice and thus one will never care. “Ultimately,” he said, “coffee is coffee.” This comment was overheard by a nearby coed who invited herself, rather rudely, into our conversation, to snip “…and fair business practices are fair business practices!”
Now, perhaps there is some kind of injustice behind the various coffee-growing schema. I don’t know, and frankly, don’t really care since I don’t consume coffee. The absolute last thing I wanted at that moment was to be lectured by a stranger because of an offhand comment in a tangentially related conversation. So I quickly crossed the street.
I don’t think my story had a point.
I worked as a waiter in a dumpy old place where a fellow waiter took the order (“A Latte machiatto, a cappuccino and a double espresso”) from three ladies who must have thought they were somewhere else, compassionately nodded and then shouted to the kitchen: “Three coffees!”
Over the course of the next week, elcroata and Chef Gordon Ramsay turned that dumpy old place into a restaurant you may have heard of.
Thanks, and go As.
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This is kinda interesting
On one hand, you have the case that she wants to run for office and she should be able to do so regardless of her (in)ability to speak English fluently.
On the other hand, that could turn into a massive issue when it comes to legal documents, meetings held in English, etc.
Thanks, and go As.
That’s definitely an interesting one.
My first thought is that the voters should get to decide who they want (and challenges speaking English are a perfectly valid reason to vote for someone else). That said, we do have and enforce various objective criteria for elected officials (age, residency, signature counts, etc) so my first thought is overbroad in that direction.
Still, though, this idea that you have to prove you are good enough (with no clear standard) to a judge has to be wrong.
Fortunately for W, there was no such standard for being elected President.
I dunno. I can see both arguments, but to me it just boils down to the fact that this city council isn’t operating in a vacuum, and plenty of communication outside the community would be required. In that case, the lack of being able to speak English would be a significant barrier.
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if the object of democracy is to represent the people, looking at the spanish-speaking numbers in the article, i can see the purpose of a primarily spanish-speaking rep. are dual-language meetings or documentation problems that can’t be resolved? i mean, look at the united nations.
Yes, which is why the other city officials that are Hispanic are legitimately bilingual. This lady didn’t even do an interview with CNN in English.
The UN is a completely different animal. The entire basis of it is multiple countries working together.
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i guess i’m saying if she communicates with her constituents successfully, that’s the real goal. meeting that goal to the point that she’s elected, the problem of how she communicates with her colleagues is pretty solvable, even if it requires a staffer to whisper in her ear.
Is that the real goal, or is the real goal passing on the needs/wants of the constituents to the rest of the city council, or further than that to state legislature?
She herself said that she would rate 5/10 in english fluency. She wouldn’t require a staffer to whisper in her ear, she would require a translator.
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I think this assumes that meetings for public bodies actually matter. Guess what. They don’t. Everyone has already made up their mind on an issue. Meetings are proforma bullshit.
I think the question is how much we trust voters to decide for themselves.
And the answer is not 100%. But it seems to me it should be more than the way the standard is applied here.
maybe you just hit on my personal cognitive dissonance with how politics really are. i always think politicians need to find out what i think in order to represent that thought. i forget the way it really works is to get my thought represented i’m supposed to find and back someone who already thinks most like what i do. in the second case, a voter is reading the rep, the rep never needs to read the voter even if it might behoove them, and yeah, the main dialog happens between reps. but in my dream world, the more direct communication happens between the constituents and the rep, and then the communication between reps is a problem for government to facilitate.
basically this
Pardon the descent into legalese, but this seems like the very epitome of a political question. A judge is going to tell people “Yeah, so that person there– I’m not allowing you to vote for them”?
Really?
Frankly, I don’t care if Donald Duck wins the damn election. If he does, he’s the councilman. If he can’t do the job (whether it’s because he speaks only Spanish or because he’s not real), fine, people get a shitty councilman. That’s what they wanted, so let them have it. If it really doesn’t work, they’ll figure it out and vote Donald out of office.
You beautiful people are busy bees on Mondays. I’m envious and repulsed at the same time. Mondays are my Saturdays. I run errands and finish it off with a slice of NY style pizza and a couple of pints of Arrogant Bastard at my favorite pizza shop.
1816 down,6466 to go.Funny and half-true.
I did walk four miles today. That’s got to serve as a bit of mitigation.
Mondays are my sundays.
This is awesome. To protest a horrible bill in the VA statehouse which would require women to have an ultrasound done before being allowed to seek an abortion, a State Senator attached an amendment requiring men to get a rectal exam before receiving a prescription for erectile dysfunction meds.
It sure is
How in the world…?
How does the bill (not the amendment) make any sort of logical sense? It absolutely baffles me.
WOOK AT DA WIDDLE FETUS! IT’S GOT A WIDDLE SPINE! HOW CAN YOU KILL IT YOU HEARTLESS BITCH?
Seems perfectly logical to me.
I mean, I get that “aww, so cute….cancel my appointment next week, doc” is why they did it, but from ANY objective point of view, isn’t it obvious that this is wildly wrong?
Also, I think I just answered my own question.
Not to mention that this is coming from the small government party, but eh, that ship sailed long ago.
But if you feel that a fetus is a person, then it’s relatively easily preventable murder.
this. at least its logical. the rest of thier shit like the anti gay stuff is just absurd.
This is true.
Right.
Abortion-rights people *really* need to wrap their heads around the fact that pro-lifers believe that *abortion is murder*. Full stop. Unless you can convince the other side that a fetus is not a person, nothing else really matters.
I do understand that, and for that reason I think pro-life/pro-choice is the hardest of the politicized social conflicts.
You’ll be able to guess which side I come out on, and I think no matter what you believe the extremist shit that abortion docs have to deal with is beyond the pale, but I have a lot of respect for the Catholic Church’s consistency on right-to-life issues.
Agreed.
However, rather than convince pro-lifers that a fetus is not a person, can’t we convince the pro-lifers to become pro-murder instead?
I once had a friend tell me he was pro-abortion and pro-death penalty, because he just didn’t place a very high value on human life. Hard to argue with that.
Don’t want to test how much value he places on yours?
Hmmm.
I think you may be on to something.
See! I don’t just spout this shit for shock value… at least not anymore!
Small government, big social intervention!
Apparently the Let’s-Make-Sure-They-Ultrasound-Everybody-By-Checking-Up-on-Doctors-No-Pun-Intended Agency (LMSTUEBCUDNPIA for short) is not part of the 40% of government that will be cut the instant Newt is elected.
When one considers any extra barrier to be one extra chance for God’s will to prevail, then every such bill is a victory.
Yeah, it seems like the thought process was “add more obstacles and hoops to jump through in order to deter more women from following through with it.”
Well, there’s also the “intentionally attempt to give women PTSD so that anyone who talks to them about it will realize how awful it is” part.
As bad as the one is, the other is frankly obscene.
Seriously. I’m half surprised they didn’t include a clause stating that the woman must name the baby before she seeks to abort it.
Pretty much exactly the thought process. Because yaaaaay extra, unnecessary costly procedures!
The goal is to make it impossible for a woman to have an abortion in a timely fashion and get her past the point where an abortion is available in particular county or state. Or to freak her the fuck out. Because, y’know, we need to be shown the pretty picture and be given a description of what’s hangin’ out in our uterus because us poor wimmenz don’t know that THAR BE BABIEZ IN THERE, we’re not smart enough to know that.
We just assumed it was a chestbursting alien and that Ellen Ripley would be along at any moment to fix the situation, HOW WOULD WE EVER KNOW OTHERWISE, WE JUST KNOW BABIES COME FROM STORKS.
…Actually, if I were an OBGYN, I would totally wear a Sigourney Weaver mask.
…God, no one would ever hire me to be around people.
In a world of logic, it makes no sense. Unless, y’know, you hate women.
And there’s an obscenely large amount of that around, isn’t there?
I know I do.
Wait, no. I FKing love women.
Thanks, and go As.
Not if you love fetuses. I think they are wrong. But if you believe it truly is killing people its hard to argue against an any means necissary approach.
or, we can relax our taboos on murder.
Frankly, I think it’s FKing hypocritical for anybody other than a hardcore vegan to be pro-life.
I think even that’s hypocritical. Why’s it okay to kill the plants? The vegan’s “it’s okay to kill plants, but not animals” line is as arbitrary as mine, just a lot more sanctimonious.
The only way to survive without killing things is by photosynthesis (well, unless you live near a deep sea vent, but we’ll skip that possibility, I think). And we ain’t figured that one out yet. So… until then, eat what you want, I’ll eat what I want, and that’s that.
Now where’d I set my fetus burger down?
Did you order the breaded placenta rings?
And the human ikura roll.
Is that like the bukkake natto?
Better than the bukkake Ratto!
Ah, yes, the human ikura rolls.
It has been argued to me that one can consume placenta and still be considered vegan (something about renewable human bits being different, don’t ask me to explain. Same thing for, um., swallowing).
Wait…wouldn’t placenta and semen fall under the same rules that prohibit vegans from eating milk, eggs, and cheese?
Not if their production is not considered exploitative.
So if it’s placenta from a stripper, it’s ok if she’s unionized?
SAG of AFTRA?
So…bull spunk, if someone were to harvest it and sell it, would be okay? Assuming the bulls enjoyed it.
Honestly, (moral) veganism makes less sense to me than vegetarianism*. As I understand it, the additional items that vegans cut out are not living things in the non-microbial sense (e.g. milk, unfertilized eggs, honey), so if the crux of your veganism is an anti-animal killing thing, what’s the issue with eating their by-products? If it’s an anti-exploitation and omg-look-at-the-huge-milk-farms-with-poor-conditions thing, why wouldn’t they just avoid mass-produced products and buy those items from farmer’s markets or something? I just don’t understand the reasoning behind it all.
*And I don’t think (moral) vegetarianism makes much sense in the first place. I guess it’s some sort of vague attempt to look at the gradient of consciousness in living beings and choose a cut-off where consciousness is limited enough in the consumee as to be ok to eat, but it certainly does seem all kinds of arbitrary.
Well, I can only speak for me, but I’m a vegan because of the anti-exploitation reasons you mentioned. (I would suspect many vegans are the same.) Factory farming is absolutely horrifying in the way it treats animals. McDonalds pushes its dollar menu, and people love getting a great, easy deal. But all the pennies that get shaved off those prices are at the cost of the brutal lives of these animals.
And as to your comment on avoiding mass-produced products, it’s just not all that easy. Is it really possible to know where the items at farmers markets come from? Do you just take the farmers word? Short of visiting all of the farms, how do you know? Honestly, if an animal was raised happily and was killed quickly and humanely, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. And I’m a realist. I know people love their meat. I guess I just wish meat wasn’t such a staple for the majority of the population. There are plenty of things that can be eaten that are delicious and provide ample protein, and I wish meat was a more “special” thing. Meaning you wouldn’t feel like it “wasn’t a meal without meat.” If people ate meat just one meal a day, or even better, just a few nights a week, I would find that wonderful. I also wish that more people would be willing to pay a higher premium for meat that is more humanely raised. To those of you who do that, I thank you.
And let me just say, I’m not perfect. I’m not trying to be holier-than-thou. I just try really, really hard to live my life as vegan as I can, because I believe very strongly in it. The biggest struggle has been what to feed my dogs. I’ve done tons of research on it and it’s hard to know where to come down. Right now I’m mixing mostly vegan dog food with a bit of meat food as it’s the best I can do right now and my girls seem to be thriving on it. But my goal for 2012 is to buy an animal from my friend’s 4H auction and use that to mix with their food. At least that way I will be able to track down how it was raised, and find out how/where it will be killed.
OK, rant over.
As one of those completely-impractical-but-wouldn’t-it-be-great schemes, I’d like people to have to slaughter their own meat.
Its not that hard.
But yeah what batgirl said. I haven’t eaten meat in 20 some odd years, but I still do dairy. I don’t moralize about it, its just not my thing.
I am more the, my mom doesn’t eat it, so I grew up with a small amount of meat in my diet and when I was 19 I read Diet for a new america and went all the way.
PS I AM NOT A HIPPIE
Heh.
Not hard, no, just a dose of realism to connect people to what they’re eating.
That said, gutting rabbits is one of the most disgustingly smelly things I’ve ever done.
Hey, ptbnl, did you see Shirley Maclaine is going to be on Downton S3?! Can’t wait to see her lock horns with the Dowager Countess.
I’m two weeks behind, BTW. Are you up to speed?
I did see that. They’ve mentioned her character before (when Lady Grantham was pregnant), and she and the Dowager must have previous.
I’m up to date – caught up with the episodes I’d missed while traveling on the PBS website. The 2nd season is annoying me a bit though.
Are you also in favor of making people thresh their own wheat?
There’s a reason we have mass-production for this sort of thing. It’s better and cheaper. I don’t need to know how to slaughter an animal any more than I need to know how to repair clockwork.
(And I say this as someone who has, in fact, slaughtered an animal, and with chipped rocks and glass shards, at that [it was for a biological anthropology class]. My reaction to it was less disgust than irritation that I could not seem to get the pieces to slice off correctly.)
I would like that too. But I would settle for everyone sitting down to a couple of Mercy for Animals videos before heading out to the grocery store.
I participated a few times in goat slaughter. It’s not easy, but the meat sure does taste good.
I killed a few chickens in Guatemala for cooking. With a dull knife. Not a fun experience, but delicious.
You’re the most reasonable easy-going vegan I’ve ever chomped charred meat products in front of!
What about fish?
Thanks, and go As.
Oh gosh, from what I’ve read, in many cases farmed fish have it even worse from a living conditions standpoint.
…
okay.
Thanks, and go As.
yeah I definitely have cut out farmed fish from my diet due to the environmental implications.
the only fish I eat is sushi. I assume it’s OK.
if it’s not, well.. it tastes fine.
Thanks, and go As.
FWIW, the Local Butcher Shop is making dog food now, and you can read about their sources. At some point, yes, you still basically have to take their word about it.
I’m very interested. Thank you for the info! I knew they sell bones for dogs, because my dad wanted to get them bones for Christmas, but for some reason he ended up not doing it.
What would be great is if it allowed them to use some of the parts of the animal that people don’t like eating. My dogs will eat anything, so they’d be glad to take the less appetizing parts. Heck, my dog ate a banana peel this afternoon.
The meat industry has repeatedly demonstrated that no such thing exists.
My dog eats buffalo organ meat and Turkey necks in addition to his veggies.
I am opposed to the unnecessarily cruel shaving of pennies. I predict that penny fur will be a delicacy within 10 years!
I see your reasoning, and I can understand, but it just doesn’t resonate to me. As I see it, plants are as horribly mistreated as animals. It’s not as visceral an image, but the lack of concern for the object is similar. But you gotta eat something, right?
You do have a point in that you can verify that plants weren’t mistreated much easier than you can animals (in that you can grow your own garden and such). There are animals and animal by-products that are raised well and treated with respect though. Knowing with 100% certainty that you are buying those products is a challenge (and is definitely easier in a small town), but you can do it. However, if the exploitation thing is very important to you, and meat is less important to you than the effort it would take to find good sources(and you can accept plant mistreatment), then being a vegan would make sense for you.
I didn’t say all veganism doesn’t make sense to me (so I hope I didn’t offend you), just the type that believes eating animals is morally wrong at face value. I know some vegans who are vegans due to dietary issues (can’t handle meat very well) and some who fit the criteria above, and that’s all fine to me.
But people are going to do what they want and what feels right to them, not what makes sense to me. This is just my own personal thoughts. I’m not going to try and get people to change their dietary habits or anything.
There is also a lot of people that take the we waste too much/use to much energy/water/pesticides producing meat so we shouldn’t eat it folks. Thats quite logical.
Environmental issues are definitely a good reason to go veg(etari)an, but you run the risk of…moral hazard? I hate that expression. But I know a lot of vegetarians/pescatarians who think that by disavowing meat, they’ve fulfilled their obligation to protecting the environment and need not do more. Swearing off meat entirely makes it easier to be environmentally responsible, but it doesn’t make you so in and of itself. If you’re eating California rice, your impact is far worse than somebody eating local grass-fed t-bone.
In general, I think labeling yourself detracts from the ethos that should be the main point, and lends itself to the sanctimony that often gets veggies in trouble. I’m not saying that anybody here is like that, of course. But it’s undeniable that there’s no black-and-white solution to eating sustainably. I think that declaring oneself a vegetarian can be a shortcut at times, one that keeps people from really thinking about the consequences of their decisions.
I heart grass fed ribeyes its true.
This doesn’t distinguish meat from other forms of agriculture. All food in this country is massively subsidized relative to its true Pigouvian cost.
Compliant Pigouvian?
I just want to clarify here, so you think that plants are sentient beings?
Because I don’t, so it’s a pretty easy line to draw.
I think they have a certain aggregate sentience…
like, on acid, one can have a few primitive words with a plant, but a whole conversation with a field of plants.
Fortunately one generally isn’t inclined to eat much of anything while on acid.
heh…
Of course, the answer is for humans to evolve beyond the need for organic and/or even remotely-possibly-in-wildest-dreams-sentient food.
So … eat
RepublicansSlegna fans?I don’t know how anyone could possibly know or assume that all animals are “sentient.” I mean, the only way we know humans are is that we actually experience it ourselves!
In any case, though, the point is not that you cannot draw a line– there are plenty of links in the proverbial Great Chain of Being where arbitrary line-drawing can be done more or less effectively.
The point is that wherever you do it, it’s arbitrary. Okay, so eating most animals causes them to feel pain– does that make snakes and eagles into sadists? If not, why does it do so for humans? It can’t be because we’re omnivores; lots of animals are omnivores. There’s no logic to veganism– it’s essentially a religious position, which is fine, I guess, but I’m not interested in the religion.
Ugh, I’ve heard this “snakes and eagles…” argument several times over the past few days in different settings and it holds zero water for me. The difference is that snakes and eagles do not keep the animals they kill in inhumane living conditions for months and sometimes years prior to killing them.
Living in the fucking sand sounds pretty inhumane to me…
#thar
(I’m trolling, btw)
Fine, snakes and eagles aren’t bad enough for you? There’s a certain species of wasp which injects its eggs into a caterpillar. All of them hatch and grow by feeding on its innards. One of the larvae sticks around and turns the caterpillar into a zombie bodyguard. The rest go into a cocoon state and later emerge as new parasitic wasps.
There is no way to describe this behavior other than “palpably evil.” But it’s completely, 100% natural. Nature is far more morally fucked up than anything humans have ever come up with. Morality is a social, intraspecies phenomenon that has no cross-species allegory.
Welp. That explain’s iglew’s behavior.
Now, there is that book idea I’ve been waiting for
Great points. I mostly never buy meat anywhere but in the Bio-shops and my local butcher’s. A chicken costs around $10 in those, whereas you can buy it for $2 in the supermarket. Now, how can anyone imagine that both the farmer and the supermarket (and anyone else in the production chain) can make a profit selling a normal chicken for $2 beats me.
Here in America, I think they make most of the profit by getting the government to pay them not to produce chickens that only cost $1.50!
In futile stimulative USA, I think they make most of the profit by getting the chickens to pay them not to produce government
asvd
I don’t know, but the cheap availability of poultry protein has likely done wonders for society-wide nutrition.
Body-builders?
The gradient of consciousness between animals and plants doesn’t really feel all that hard to discern to me. You can argue a bit about mollusks and bugs or whatever, but for the most part it’s pretty clear. So if not doing wrong by another consciousness is your thing, that seems pretty internally consistent to me. I’m not a vegetarian, though.
Well said, you meat-eating FKer.
I disagree, but it’s all about how you view consciousness. Personally, I don’t believe consciousness to be tied to external characteristics we can easily identify (like movement), so the consciousness line of reasoning really isn’t consistent to me.
OK, you’re getting pretty deep here.
I guess all I would say is that there is an external characteristic with animals that can be easily identified: visible and auditory signs of an animal in pain and terror. We know this exists. So to say “well, plants might be feeling the same thing, so let’s just continue to subject animals to these conditions”…what does that even mean?
Okay, now I’m getting even deeper into this shit, but I have another devils’ advocate-style point to bring up…
I don’t think that it’s a universal reaction to recoil in horror at the signs of an animal in pain and terror.
I mean, I’m socialized enough to help the animal or put it out of its’ misery, but primally, an animal in pain and terror is going to make me hungry and horny.
Same here. I’m very much of a speciesist: I like and dislike species. If I dislike a species, I enjoy seeing it offed.
Loathing is not an invalid emotion.
I think it’s short-sighted to claim that certain beings don’t feel pain because they don’t have the external characteristics humans recognize as communicating pain (e.g. eyes to get wide in terror, mouths to yell, etc.). I don’t like subjecting anything to the kind of conditions you’re thinking of. It makes less sense to me to say “it’s ok to subject this type of being to terrible conditions but not that one.”
I have a more far-reaching view of consciousness than most people (veg[atari]an or otherwise), I’m just not as anti-death. I don’t see a distinct and non-arbitrary place to draw that “it’s ok to eat this” line, so I choose not to draw one at all. I certainly make exceptions to that (e.g. humans, endangered animals), but that’s on a species-by-species basis.
No, because I believe in human exceptionalism.
I had to look that one up.
I think I might be against human exceptionalism in the abstract, but good luck doing anything about it in the here & now.
funny, I just made it up on the spot as an analog to American Exceptionalism.
Except for the most part, GOP and the pro-life movement have allowed the inclusion of rape/incest/health of the mother clauses into anti-abortion legislation. If it’s REALLY about the fetuses, then that wouldn’t matter, it’d be murder regardless of the woman’s situation.
Now, however, if it’s not about the fetuses but controlling women’s bodies and punishing Those Damn Women for having sex…
HOW DARE YOU HAVE SEX!
The internet was out. :(
NEXT TIME CALL ME
oh, shit, wait.
Thanks, and go As.
Hah!
TEH INTERNET IS GAY? DOES
ITS MOTHERAL GORE KNOW?Next time, on Maury…
The internet needs more vibrating attachments before we can start calling it gay.
However, I did just check out the specs of a homemade electromagnetic self-bondage chair with computer-motor-controlled components. Crazy shit…
THE INTERNET IS MICHAEL WESTEN.
I would be careful about going down that road. 1) because lots of pro-lifers do not like those clauses, so it doesn’t prove much and 2) because acknowledging (even in a way I find insufficient) that there are two lives at stake shouldn’t be evidence of bad faith.
Thats mostly tactical though because they recognize that the SC and voters wouldn’t allow it without exceptions.
Its a combination of both fetus love and opression of women.
Except putting their tactics over their beliefs? Pssshh.
(That’s what I enjoy about the occasional legislation without exceptions, watching it get SHOT DOWN HARD)
If you could only stop 80% of the Rawandan Genocide would you? Its the same argument. Again I think their wrong, but they are logical on this point.
We don’t do “anything necessary” to stop homicide in the real world…
True but that doesn’t stop the argument that decreasing murder is always good.
“Some people need killin'”
Thanks, and go As.
So apparently sometimes government-mandated healthcare is a good thing?
Those Republicans… if you’re a zygote in the womb before you’re born or a brain-dead vegetable on a respirator at the end of your life, they have got you covered. Anywhere in between, and you are on your own.
I hadn’t noticed any mention of this but looking up the case docs, the Braden malpractice case was settled before trial.
I’ve never seen that settlement form before.
LB bait
Damn. You beat me to it.
Also…
I could have sworn there were some where the face was even more obscured than these.
Dammit, Saint, Shane Mack is not all that and a bag of chips!
Hopefully that would include some Willie McGee cards.
I am totally getting this card.
It’ll live next to my Puffer/Bong card.
c’mere squirrel! [happily chases after squirrel]
Oh well, it was a nice thought anyway.
Failure Court
Lew’s always courted failure in Oakland.
I’d say Lew is a failure bigamist.
I still think they should move the Raiders into SC and the A’s into SF (at least temporarily while the rebuild the Coli). It’s a super accessible location.
How the mighty have fallen.
Zito and Wells are starting to age out of their catstro-tracts.
The misunderstanding of back-loaded contracts in these kinds of pieces drives me nuts.
#babygotbackloaded
Sure, but there’s no argument for either of them as #1 any more because they’ve already caused so much pain.
why isn’t Evan Longoria on that list. Its got to be one of the top ten worst contracts
Nyjer Morgan on ice
Letter of note: To my old master
That’s awesome.
That’ll be the best thing I read today.
BACK WAGES MOTHER FUCKER… we should make that dude an organizer… hes got that shit down.
I have my first bike!
Of course, I took a wrong turn driving it home, and ended on a freeway for a short stint. But, after that I drove through a huge city park Stuttgart has (definitely a city highlight), where everything was covered with fresh snow and almost nobody else was around. It was awesome.
Nice and practical.
So you went from not being able to ride to riding on the freeway in 48 hours? I’d better hurry up and register ecfacts.com
I was on a freeway for something like 2 minutes, Didn’t really feel very comfortable, as I still don’t really control the direction 100%. OTOH, I can go really fast
Sure, but this is a thing now and you’re just going to have to accept that the Flintstones give their children El Croata vitamins.
My first bike was from Sears. It was painted in a rainbow from end to end and had a banana seat with a rainbow and maybe a smiley face sun on it. I wish I had a photo of it.
I lof you.
hand me down. the answer to “My first [anything]” is hand me down.
I thought you would get something more agressive.
Yeah, I almost did. Mrs. EC has an old bike, so I got this one, which she will use when I’m not at home and then inherit when I get a better idea what kinds of bikes there are, what they are good for and what I have fun with
How do they choose cheerleaders for Pro Bowl? is there a voting system?
I bet they just have auditions. Cheerleaders are generally unpaid/compensated for expenses, so I don’t see why they’d particularly care who they wound up with in the SB.
Cheerleaders on that level are unpaid? Really? Wow.
Yep, it’s just self-promotion (and there are plenty of attractive women in NFL cities who are willing to spend a couple hours a week scantily-clad to get on national TV).
Yup, they get to have a licensed uni that they can trot out to bars and hope to make money somehow.
trot is right… anyone else get the image of war-painted clydesdales when you hear the term cheerleader?
At least the Jaguars cheerleaders get a nominal sum (~$50/game) plus occasional appearance fees, but yeah it’s hardly a living wage. I think the main benefit is increased modeling / dance company opportunities via networking and (plenty of) exposure.
and bringing, then signing, team pictures at bars and selling them to drunken louts.
Nice!
I don’t get Independents as seen by Republicans or Democrats.
Yeah, I think they were going for independents being seen as oddballs (by democrats) and oddballs/potentially dangerous (by republicans). It seems like a bit of a stretch.
Independents/Independents is amusingly spot on though.
funny. Not true either
But funny.