EMT 03/29/20

First day of spring yard work yesterday. I love doing that sort of stuff. Nothing like being able to visually see evidence of your hard work.

If only that paid like my real work.

Posted by: krakatoa at 06:00 AM

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1 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:01 AM (ZCEU2)

2 Good Morning Morons today is Sunday, March 29, 2020. On this date in 1806 construction was authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. The road ran westerly from Cumberland, MD to Vandalia, IL. Like most of the projects in the early 1800s it did not benefit the Southern States at all.

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:01 AM (mpXpK)

3 Good morning, again.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 29, 2020 06:01 AM (Dhht7)

4 Fox's 'this day in history'.

https://tinyurl.com/ws64ndk

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:01 AM (mpXpK)

5 Cuomo threatening to sue over Rhode Island harassing New Yorkers fleeing the KoronaKrap to Rhode Island.

https://tinyurl.com/tame26b

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:02 AM (mpXpK)

6 RIP Tom Coburn from prostate cancer. This is a disease that is easily preventable if you get checked periodically after you turn 40. So morons take heed.

https://tinyurl.com/toag546

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:02 AM (mpXpK)

7 Heard lawn mowers the other day and thought that can't be necessary yet can it? Out yesterday and saw yep it is.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:02 AM (ZCEU2)

8 americanthinker.com/coronavirus apocalypse now
https://tinyurl.com/rnytexx
Day 18 of the apocalypse

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:02 AM (ZCEU2)

9 President Trump on Saturday night said the administration would not be issuing a quarantine on New York, parts of New Jersey and some of Connecticut as part of the efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

However, later the CDC did issue a travel advisory.

https://tinyurl.com/st93qhe

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:02 AM (mpXpK)

10 Some companies are looking to deduct any gov stimulus money from the paychecks of their workers.

https://tinyurl.com/rb9ch99

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:03 AM (mpXpK)

11 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2020 06:03 AM (arJlL)

12 A cat in Belgium has tested positive for the KoronaKrap

https://tinyurl.com/td6uh8n

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:03 AM (mpXpK)

13 Another blue State Democrat uses the KoronaKrap to attack Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/ve2r3d4

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:03 AM (mpXpK)

14 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 06:04 AM (O4024)

15 Blue State governors, Mayors, and other political AHs had begun using the KoronaKrap to ban the sale or transport of guns. Trump just put a stop to that mierda. They are using the KoronaKrap as an excuse for all kinds of their socialist wish list crap they have always wanted but have been unable to get and they are doing it by executive fiat.

https://tinyurl.com/rcse922

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:04 AM (mpXpK)

16 And here we have a Democrap from a supposed red State (MS) who doesn't like making gun dealers 'essential'. Let's face, vote Democrap and lose your second amendment rights.

https://tinyurl.com/ql76dun

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:04 AM (mpXpK)

17 A cat in Belgium has tested positive for the KoronaKrap

A beatnik ?

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2020 06:04 AM (arJlL)

18 Mass shooting avoided in a Tulsa, OK shopping center. It was stopped by a man with concealed carry permit.

https://tinyurl.com/vg6bbjx

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:04 AM (mpXpK)

19
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 29, 2020 06:04 AM (aUm7V)

20 Restaurant association say 11% of restaurants could close their doors for good. Well since 90 to 95 percent of new restaurants go out of business when there was no KoronaKrap I guess that is possible.

https://tinyurl.com/w28ekg2

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

21 How are you doing, Vic?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at March 29, 2020 06:05 AM (OuZMr)

22 US KoronaKrap numbers as of yesterday's last update

total cases 124,665

Deaths 2191

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

23 Skip-

Pa's gotta have a Forestry Dep't and they gotta have a website !

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2020 06:05 AM (arJlL)

24 RAMIREZ (repeat)

https://tinyurl.com/wvfjjkm

And that's it for today.

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

25
First day of spring yard work yesterday. I love doing that sort of
stuff. Nothing like being able to visually see evidence of your hard
work.

If only that paid like my real work.

Posted by: krakatoa at 06:00 AM

My days of yard work are pretty much over.

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:06 AM (mpXpK)

26 As said Leftists have a new play in the playbook, I have been convinced this is all just fear mongering to advance their agenda.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:07 AM (ZCEU2)

27 Morning all.

I've seen many YouTubers say 'That which cannot be named'
instead of using covid/WuFlu/ChinaVirus or any other name lest they be demonetized.

WTF is up with the YT SpeechNazis?

Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at March 29, 2020 06:08 AM (d6mdH)

28 21
How are you doing, Vic?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at March 29, 2020 06:05 AM (OuZMr)

Doing OK, thanks

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:08 AM (mpXpK)

29 Jim Gaffigan on weddings. Hilarious:

https://youtu.be/C7fZBoNjqqY

Posted by: logprof at March 29, 2020 06:09 AM (oZuI0)

30 Hope cat story is a one in a million, heard on radio people were abandoning pets to shelters thinking a pet could give the the dreaded Wuhan virus.
Cat looks like my Cinnamon except missing the light tan spot on her forehead.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:10 AM (ZCEU2)

31 6 RIP Tom Coburn from prostate cancer. This is a disease that is easily preventable if you get checked periodically after you turn 40. So morons take heed.

https://tinyurl.com/toag546
Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:02 AM (mpXpK)

Those free gas station attendant prostate checks are a scam do not fall for them more than 3 to 5 times.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 29, 2020 06:11 AM (JFO2v)

32 I got 2 hours of sleep. A thunderstorm woke me up and that was that.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2020 06:11 AM (TdMsT)

33 Hey demi-troll:

https://youtu.be/H-HUqss4Ekg

Yummy all around.

Posted by: logprof at March 29, 2020 06:12 AM (oZuI0)

34 Harris County

Infection 213
Deaths 1

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 29, 2020 06:14 AM (JFO2v)

35 Hope cat story is a one in a million, heard on radio people were abandoning pets to shelters thinking a pet could give the the dreaded Wuhan virus.
Cat looks like my Cinnamon except missing the light tan spot on her forehead.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:10 AM (ZCEU2)

I think that was stock photo of a generic cat. I can't imagine pets, especially cats, as carriers to people. It's not like they'd go to cat school and catch it from other cats.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 29, 2020 06:18 AM (zqs/f)

36 30
Hope cat story is a one in a million, heard on radio people were
abandoning pets to shelters thinking a pet could give the the dreaded
Wuhan virus.

Cat looks like my Cinnamon except missing the light tan spot on her forehead.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:10 AM (ZCEU2)

My cats are all on permanent " quarantine" in the house. It is a proven fact that here in SC if you let your cats run in and out it will not be long before you have a flea infestation that is almost impossible to get rid of.

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:19 AM (mpXpK)

37 Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) called for Mississippi to do something similar to the lockdown that South Korea did for gun shops and a lot of other places, not the necessary businesses that we need to have open.

Dems prove over and over that you will be left unarmed and defenceless when the shit hits the fan.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 29, 2020 06:20 AM (JFO2v)

38 22 US KoronaKrap numbers as of yesterday's last update

total cases 124,665

Deaths 2191
Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

Flu Deaths in March

1850

Average per week last 6 years

153

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 29, 2020 06:23 AM (JFO2v)

39 Are all of these politicians who are calling for fun shops to close also the ones calling to release prisoners due to COVID?

'Cuz that's a great big "Nope" from me...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at March 29, 2020 06:24 AM (OuZMr)

40 Have not had a lick of sleep all night. Laid in bed and no joy on snoozing. Supposed to be at work in a few hours. Don't think that will happen.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2020 06:24 AM (lY631)

41 Well Morons, links are up (did not oversleep today), my morning meds are taken and breakfast has been consumed. Time to hit the rocking chair and brown. The radio here in the living room is about to switch to church services anyway. So be good.

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:24 AM (mpXpK)

42 Vic I was working county city, had to walk very close to a cat on house step every day for weeks. All of a sudden we had fleas and was a bitch to get rid of them. I am sure that interaction was the source.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:24 AM (ZCEU2)

43 Gun, not fun.

Although fun works, too!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at March 29, 2020 06:25 AM (OuZMr)

44 I work for a Tier 1 auto manufacturer, so I was laid off 3/19 and will return when Ford, GM. Fiat Chrysler, and the unions say it's OK.

My company is paying all its employees 100% base salary for the pay period 3/22 - 4/4, so I have another paycheck in the interim. Plus, they are covering our insurance premiums up to 2 months after the layoff, after which COBRA coverage would take effect.

I'm thankful and fortunate, as I know many others who don't get the same luxury. BTW, our company's corporate HQ is in.....Canada.

Posted by: Fortcoins at March 29, 2020 06:26 AM (JbL9Q)

45 Pot shops essential
Gun shops not.

Got to keep the proles unarmed and tanked on the Borloi.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2020 06:26 AM (lY631)

46 42
Vic I was working county city, had to walk very close to a cat on house
step every day for weeks. All of a sudden we had fleas and was a bitch
to get rid of them. I am sure that interaction was the source.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:24 AM (ZCEU2)

Fleas will jump on your pants legs and hop off in the house every time you walk through a mess of them.

Now off to the rocking chair.

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:27 AM (mpXpK)

47 iRacing from Texas on Fox and FS1 at noon CDT

O'Reilly Auto Parts 125
Sunday, March 29, 2020 - Texas Motor Speedway
1:00pm/et
Laps: 125
TV: Fox, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports App

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 29, 2020 06:27 AM (JFO2v)

48 Have not had a lick of sleep all night. Laid in bed and no joy on snoozing. Supposed to be at work in a few hours. Don't think that will happen.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Something on your mind bothering you ?

Hope you can relax and catch some zzzzzz's.

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2020 06:28 AM (arJlL)

49 Restaurant association say 11% of restaurants could
close their doors for good. Well since 90 to 95 percent of new
restaurants go out of business when there was no KoronaKrap I guess that
is possible.

https://tinyurl.com/w28ekg2

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

I can believe the 11% number; it may even be higher in certain places. What wasn't mentioned, though, were the restaurants that were in the pre-opening stages, like buildout or hiring staff or the like. How many of them will never open?

Posted by: Vendette at March 29, 2020 06:28 AM (nRNOc)

50 Here in my area of Western NYS gun stores are running low on ammo.
ROCHESTER N.Y. (WHEC) Coronavirus closures are bringing overwhelming demand for ammo at some local gun shops.....

Our beloved Gov. Cumo should get right on this and ban the sale...he has declared gun stores not essential..

Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 06:29 AM (VW+Vt)

51 41 Well Morons, links are up (did not oversleep today), my morning meds are taken and breakfast has been consumed. Time to hit the rocking chair and brown. The radio here in the living room is about to switch to church services anyway. So be good.
Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:24 AM (mpXpK)

thanks Vic
rock on!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 29, 2020 06:29 AM (JFO2v)

52 Nothing bothering me, well not more than the usual. Nor dread of the 'wonderful' shoppers of Wally World. Just can not sleep.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2020 06:30 AM (lY631)

53 South Carolina reports that only 18% of available ventilators are actually in use at this time.

IOW, 92% of ventilator capacity is currently idle.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 06:30 AM (O4024)

54 92% should have been 82%.

F'n math.

How does i work?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 06:31 AM (O4024)

55 South Caroline should rent 30% of them to New York.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2020 06:31 AM (lY631)

56 The media does not want to talk about the math of the Diamond Princess

3711 on ship. 630 tested positive for WuHan Flu. Only 8 died.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2020 06:33 AM (lY631)

57 Still almost 2 dozen states with only single digit fatalities, a few with 0

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:34 AM (ZCEU2)

58 The MFM does not do math, that's beyond their pay grade.

Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 06:36 AM (VW+Vt)

59 "South Caroline should rent 30% of them to New York."

That would make sense, wouldn't it.

On the other hand, once we ramp up production, what will the life span of a ventilator in storage be?

As demand slows back to normal, where and how will States effectively store, control and account for tens of thousands of these devices that are no longer needed on a regular basis?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 06:36 AM (O4024)

60 WI reporting just over 1000 cases. A little more than 1/2 of those in Milwaukee county. I think it's up to 17 deaths.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 06:38 AM (Z/jzm)

61 Is flour sold out everywhere or only in the Pacific Northwest?

Who is hoarding flour?

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 06:38 AM (fg6n8)

62 "3711 on ship. 630 tested positive for WuHan Flu. Only 8 died."

And still, no piles of urban homeless bodies stacking under urban overpasses.

In thee meanwhile, a retirement home in Maryland reported 60-something caesura, with I believe 11 of them hospitalized.

This won't end well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 06:38 AM (O4024)

63 Flour is hard to find here, too.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 06:39 AM (Z/jzm)

64 All that TP being horded, sales for paper products will drop like a rock, and more layoffs.

Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 06:39 AM (VW+Vt)

65 If it bleeds, it leads.
American news is selling stories of celebrities catching the corona virus and of big city residents fleeing to the hinterlands, spreading disease, and hoarding food. As gout was once "the disease of kings" and AIDS was the "gay disease", now covid19 is being reported as a blue county plague. If they don't like the China virus designation, they shouldn't be pushing for a change to the high-falutin', globe-trottin', city-slicker virus.

AtC posted about a reporter waiting for the disease to go widespread and hit Trumpland, at which time all his duped would abandon him. I don't think he realizes how much blame will be directed at the original sources, and presumed redistributors, of this illness.

Posted by: Downcast at March 29, 2020 06:43 AM (xgpfE)

66 I can hardly find active yeast as well. Are crackheads suddenly baking all across the nation?

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 06:43 AM (fg6n8)

67 Texas

25,260 Test
2,052 Cases
27 Deaths

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 29, 2020 06:46 AM (JFO2v)

68 Well just logged in to report I am not showing up plus used some of my protected time off so I still get money for today and avoid collecting an absence point.

They now have COVID-19 as an option. I chose to stay away from that excuse.

Going to try and get some sleep. Again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2020 06:47 AM (lY631)

69 I can hardly find active yeast as well. Are crackheads suddenly baking all across the nation?
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead

I think people found out you can get recipes online that let you cook food.

The internet, more then set your hair on fire stupidity!

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 06:47 AM (vd8XM)

70 All I know is, when my time comes to need one, I do not want a General Motors ventilator.

Posted by: JAS at March 29, 2020 06:47 AM (2BZBZ)

71 What other staples are hard to find? Besides ammunition and flour.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 06:48 AM (fg6n8)

72 All I know is, when my time comes to need one, I do not want a General Motors ventilator.
Posted by: JAS

They'll be a recall.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 06:48 AM (vd8XM)

73 Customer, "Why does this ventilator have air bags?"

General Motors, "Well you see... "

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2020 06:49 AM (lY631)

74 What other staples are hard to find? Besides ammunition and flour.
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead

The other day, we couldn't find eggs.
I didn't look for flour.
They did have butter available again

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 06:49 AM (vd8XM)

75 I think people found out you can get recipes online that let you cook food.

The internet, more then set your hair on fire stupidity!
Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 06:47 AM (vd8XM)

There's plenty of frozen pizzas. I would have thought that would be the first to go.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 06:50 AM (fg6n8)

76 Good morning!

I've not been sleeping well since the Wuflu, what with not working, then the threat of hubby not working, etc. But the past two nights I've slept like the dead, right through some violent thunderstorms. It's so weird to feel so rested. I truly hope all non-sleepers get some good zzzs soon.
On the flour and yeast thingy. I bake for a living, so always have access to lots of flour, sugar and yeast, etc. But basically, yes, lots of people, esp people who're laid off and bored, are trying to learn to bake their own bread. It's a good skill to learn, for sure. I think the empty shelves really scared 'em. I've been talking some through the basic bread baking process, but it's hard to do without hands-on, side by side work.

Posted by: lizabth at March 29, 2020 06:50 AM (L3Rsz)

77 GM ventilators will be like Oskar Schindler's munitions. Never quite good enough to be useful. He did make a lot of money (LOL Deutchmarks) for a while.

Posted by: JAS at March 29, 2020 06:50 AM (2BZBZ)

78
Brewer's yeast powder seems to be available.....

Amazon seems to have it. My mother used to use it all the time..Mostly for making her rolls which she sold.

Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 06:50 AM (VW+Vt)

79 "What other staples are hard to find? Besides ammunition and flour.
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead
"

100% pure aloe.

91% rubbing alcohol

Frozen entree's.

Paper products.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 06:51 AM (O4024)

80 Schindler didn;t want the Nazis to win. He was the right kind of scoundrel.

General Motors is just a bunch of scoundrels.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2020 06:51 AM (lY631)

81 Raw ingredients have been a hard to find, dairy items here seems to be ok.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:52 AM (ZCEU2)

82 I've been talking some through the basic bread baking process, but it's hard to do without hands-on, side by side work.
Posted by: lizabth

I figured some teachable home schooling in how to make cookies etc too. The problem is, the kids will find out how much better the homemade stuff can taste and not want the sliceable frozen cookie log anymore

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 06:52 AM (vd8XM)

83 Alcohol and bleach have not to be seen sice the beginning

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:53 AM (ZCEU2)

84 I bought a Big Ass bag of yeast a few years ago and transferred it to mason jars and store in freezer. It seems to be none the worse for wear after letting it thaw a few days.

If you have some yeast - even a single packet - it seems to me a covered glazed crock or pot could be used to maintain a "roll yer own" supply by addding a little flour and sugar now and then. So long as it is bubbling and doing its thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 06:54 AM (RtI0W)

85 True enough, Bruce. Esp if you use good butter in those cookies!

Posted by: lizabth at March 29, 2020 06:54 AM (L3Rsz)

86 Good Morning Horde,

Mr. Spypeach has left once again to the front lines in search of toilet paper, it's been almost two weeks and we still have not found any. We are down to are 1 ply emergency reserves.

It's supposed to be a beautiful day today, so we are hoping to get the the local nursery, praying we won't be arrested for trying to buy plants out here in communist VA. Looking forward to starting yard work and doing some new landscaping. Then steak and shrimp on the barbie later

Posted by: spypeach at March 29, 2020 06:54 AM (7R8A2)

87 Sleep well, Anna !

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2020 06:55 AM (arJlL)

88 Eggs were tough to find about a week ago, but that is better now. Stores are limiting many items. Still little to no cleaning/products. Can't find my one and only dish detergent that doesn't cause me a rash. Have about a week's worth left of that

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 06:55 AM (Z/jzm)

89 I really hate it when I do the "are" instead of "our" thing, I'm blaming it on not enough coffee.

Posted by: spypeach at March 29, 2020 06:56 AM (7R8A2)

90 In my day...In highschool the boys had to spend a day or two in the home ed room with the stoves, etc learning the basics. Of course the boys laughed at it and joked around. I think we made some cookies or something.

Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 06:57 AM (VW+Vt)

91 Common...nothing like a good sour starter. Or: one pound packet of SAF yeast from amazon plus plastic freezer bags plus freeezer and you don't have to worry about yeast for a long, long time.
How're you feeling this morning, Common?

Posted by: lizabth at March 29, 2020 06:57 AM (L3Rsz)

92 It's not the Woo-Flu.

So it's not a crisis.

https://cbsloc.al/2JlMR1c

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 06:58 AM (O4024)

93 mornin yall. Yard work wore me out yesterday so was asleep by 9:30 and slept like a log. Felt good to get a full 8 hours.

Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2020 06:58 AM (Tnijr)

94 >>It's supposed to be a beautiful day today, so we are hoping to get the the local nursery, praying we won't be arrested for trying to buy plants out here in communist VA.
Posted by: spypeach at March 29, 2020 06:54 AM (7R8A2)

Just saw an email from our local nursery. They are considered essential so are open, but urging online sales and pick up. They are even offering delivery in our zip code!

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 06:58 AM (Z/jzm)

95 Sleep sweet, Morons.

Many many visions of Nigella cooking in your heads.

Posted by: logprof at March 29, 2020 06:58 AM (oZuI0)

96 Morning Mouth Breathers

Ain't dead yet

Posted by: weirdflunky at March 29, 2020 06:58 AM (cknjq)

97 Flour is hard to find here, too

-==
Just a wild ass guess, but people under house arrest nowadays are bored so many do more baking than usual.

Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at March 29, 2020 06:59 AM (d6mdH)

98 Might be going to store soon, we can't need much but going to get a list a foot long no doubt. Wife is in panic mode if the next shoe drops on this apocalypse. I am convinced its a severity hoax that will get blow off soon enough.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:59 AM (ZCEU2)

99 All those bread machines in closets gathering dust are suddenly being put to use. That won't last.

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at March 29, 2020 06:59 AM (Vf4Y7)

100 Good Morning Horde,

Mr. Spypeach has left once again to the front lines in search of
toilet paper, it's been almost two weeks and we still have not found
any. We are down to are 1 ply emergency reserves.

It's supposed to be a beautiful day today, so we are hoping to get
the the local nursery, praying we won't be arrested for trying to buy
plants out here in communist VA. Looking forward to starting yard work
and doing some new landscaping. Then steak and shrimp on the barbie
later

Posted by: spypeach at March 29, 2020 06:54 AM (7R8A2)

Remind me where you are in VA.

Posted by: Vendette at March 29, 2020 07:00 AM (nRNOc)

101 "Just a wild ass guess, but people under house arrest nowadays are bored so many do more baking than usual."

Either that, or Joe Biden's secret paste recipe got leaked into the public domain.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 07:00 AM (O4024)

102 In my day...In highschool the boys had to spend a day or two in the home ed room with the stoves, etc learning the basics. Of course the boys laughed at it and joked around. I think we made some cookies or something.
Posted by: Colin

We didn't have that. Mom had us help in the kitchen, and since I liked to eat, I didn't have a problem with that.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:00 AM (vd8XM)

103 Remind me where you are in VA.
Posted by: Vendette at March 29, 2020 07:00 AM (nRNOc)

We are in the Spotsy area

Posted by: spypeach at March 29, 2020 07:00 AM (7R8A2)

104 83 Alcohol and bleach have not to be seen sice the beginning
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 06:53 AM (ZCEU2)

I picked up some bleach at a restaurant supply store along with a bag of active yeast and a few other things on Friday when I was in town for blood tests. Their small bags of flour were sold out. Didn't feel like I could handle a 50 pound bag.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 07:01 AM (fg6n8)

105 We are in the Spotsy area

Posted by: spypeach at March 29, 2020 07:00 AM (7R8A2)

If it gets really desperate and you're willing to drive north, I'll give you some rolls.

Posted by: Vendette at March 29, 2020 07:02 AM (nRNOc)

106 Still. Alive. Morning Glory to all.

Posted by: azalea city at March 29, 2020 07:04 AM (WX+x0)

107 A few weeks ago when this all started, I ordered another one of those containers of emergency food which last 25 years.Back ordered and of course waiting...I tried some of the first containers products and not bad in an emergency. Reminded me when in the army we once got them in the field, once, to make sure we knew how to use them and probably to use some up.

Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 07:04 AM (VW+Vt)

108 >> and since I liked to eat, I didn't have a problem with that.
Posted by: Bruce

Having married a guy who couldn't cook to save his life, I vowed to make sure our kids would learn to cook (and bake!)

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 07:04 AM (Z/jzm)

109 If it gets really desperate and you're willing to drive north, I'll give you some rolls.
Posted by: Vendette at March 29, 2020 07:02 AM (nRNOc)

Ahh, such love in this group, I'll let you know if things get desperate, we can do a drive by with the window open so you can toss the rolls in the car at a safe distance.

Posted by: spypeach at March 29, 2020 07:04 AM (7R8A2)

110 I would be surprised if Coburn, a highly respected physician, did not undergo the screening he and his doctor felt was appropriate. I know next to nothing about this subject other than once getting the enlarged prostate check that usually takes about 1 second.

But the other checks called PSA's are controversial in that they have pros and cons. Medical professionals debate when or if it appropriate and many claim it is not appropriate for certain people. I don't knowhy this is the case but it is.

As they say, ask your doctor.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:05 AM (hHxp2)

111 I tried some of the first containers products and not bad in an emergency. Reminded me when in the army we once got them in the field, once, to make sure we knew how to use them and probably to use some up.
Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 07:04 AM (VW+Vt)

I read some reviews on the packed prepper foods and one suggestion was to buy those Idahoan Instant Potato and Knox pasta meals instead. Price is around a buck fitty apiece. When I first moved out to the woods I bought $20 worth of each Just in case. Haven't touched them much.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 07:09 AM (fg6n8)

112 I would be surprised if Coburn, a highly respected
physician, did not undergo the screening he and his doctor felt was
appropriate. I know next to nothing about this subject other than once
getting the enlarged prostate check that usually takes about 1 second.

But
the other checks called PSA's are controversial in that they have pros
and cons. Medical professionals debate when or if it appropriate and
many claim it is not appropriate for certain people. I don't knowhy this
is the case but it is.

As they say, ask your doctor.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:05 AM (hHxp2)

He was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011, had surgery, and there was a recurrence in 2013. That recurrence is what he'd been dealing with ever since. Not only that, he'd previously had colon cancer and melanoma.

Posted by: Vendette at March 29, 2020 07:10 AM (nRNOc)

113 urologist's do better prostrate checks than your primary doctor. My primary doctor (she) doesn't like to do them and it shows. The urologist does it so quickly, better than having a bodybuilder lay on top of you with his d**k stuck in you, like the almost governor of Florida. If he was the bottom or top, not sure.

Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 07:10 AM (VW+Vt)

114 Having married a guy who couldn't cook to save his life, I vowed to make sure our kids would learn to cook (and bake!)
Posted by: My life is insanity

Mom was what we call a rough cook. Open the fridge, find some stuff, throw it together. It was almost always good.
I can follow recipes, and like doing plumbing or electrical around the house, I can also tell when it's beyond my skills

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:12 AM (vd8XM)

115 Lizabth: Thank you for asking. Very very much better this morning and past several days.

I prefer butter for making cookies, but it does kind of nuke the supply. So I've taken to using bacon grease for cookies. It doesn't seem to add an objectionable "bacony" flavor or anything like that. Regardless of shortening used I like to refrigerate cookie dough at least 24 hours.

This doesn't work well with small children. "We're gonna do what!?". CPS may get involved.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:12 AM (RtI0W)

116 Mr Feverhead that 50lb bag might have made you a few bucks parceling it out.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 07:14 AM (ZCEU2)

117 The ventilator deal. Had an inlaw breathlessly and a bit panic like explain that a family friend who sells them has orders they cannot fulfill. To her logic that means that the WuFlu is rampaging.
No, it means that hospital are panicking. Orders do no equate to people critically infected with the Chinese crud.
Cannot explain this, just get a look like I'm a denier. I give up.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 29, 2020 07:15 AM (C4hN7)

118 110 I would be surprised if Coburn, a highly respected physician, did not undergo the screening he and his doctor felt was appropriate. I know next to nothing about this subject other than once getting the enlarged prostate check that usually takes about 1 second.

But the other checks called PSA's are controversial in that they have pros and cons. Medical professionals debate when or if it appropriate and many claim it is not appropriate for certain people. I don't knowhy this is the case but it is.

As they say, ask your doctor.
Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:05 AM (hHxp2)

I had PSA on last test. <2. I think 5 is where they needs to grease up the finger.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 29, 2020 07:16 AM (JFO2v)

119 I haven't seen more than 10lb bags of flour in a long time. Since way before the panic buying. I used to buy 25 lb bags frequently back in my bread making days.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 07:16 AM (Z/jzm)

120
First day of spring yard work yesterday. I love doing that sort of stuff. Nothing like being able to visually see evidence of your hard work.

Agree. Whacked and chopped around the sadly-neglected area around the pond out in the back forty yesterday. Hard work and I hurt afterwards but 1) it's a pleasure to see the transformation and 2) no sniping from the peanut gallery while I'm doing it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 29, 2020 07:16 AM (7rVsF)

121 I had PSA on last test.
Posted by: rhennigantx

You get grease?

My doc doesn't were gloves, old school. plus has a hangnail.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:17 AM (vd8XM)

122 And here we have a Democrap from a supposed red State (MS) who doesn't like making gun dealers 'essential'. Let's face, vote Democrap and lose your second amendment rights.

-

Yes, let's have this conversation.

My position is that anything specifically mentioned by name - none of this abortion and section 8 BS - in the Constitution is essential.

Your turn. Go.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at March 29, 2020 07:18 AM (41rs/)

123 Except for BBQ I never cooked until my wife took off a couple of years ago (thanks hun, you're a peach). In all fairness she never really cooked for the last 5 years either. After she left I found out I really enjoy cooking and can be pretty good at it. I can count on two hands the number of times I've eaten fast food since she ankled.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 07:18 AM (fg6n8)

124 powerlineblog.com/1984-comes-to-britain
https://tinyurl.com/u47wbhp

Short but frightening

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 07:18 AM (ZCEU2)

125
*shoves roll of Quilted Northern though USB for spypeach*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 29, 2020 07:18 AM (7rVsF)

126 "I had PSA on last test.

I was diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 50, with a PSA level never above 3.5.

But, a family history of it, and an enlarged prostate caused my Dr to order a full biopsy.

Which caught it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 07:19 AM (O4024)

127 I used to take MREs hiking. A little heavy compared with freeze-dried, but a whole lot less expensive, and way more calories. My criteria was less than $5 a meal delivered was a good price. What I ended up with after a while was a metric crapload of the pouch entrees that I didn't particularly care for or need. Freeze-dried has convenience and weight going for it, and not much else. Damnably expensive.

The military entrees are actually pretty good, in the sense that, they don't taste TOO good. This is important, because if something tastes good it will often get eaten in a non-emergency situation. For some time I looked at an improbably large stack of boxes and wondered if I should get rid of them. Not anymore! The "Wheat Snack Bread" is a similar thing. They taste awful, so they didn't get snacked on.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:20 AM (RtI0W)

128 After she left I found out I really enjoy cooking and can be pretty good at it. I can count on two hands the number of times I've eaten fast food since she ankled.
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead

I'm amazed at anyone that can do it for a living.
I can't imagine getting the meal all prepared, dishing it up, and someone saying...I need three more of those!

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:20 AM (vd8XM)

129 116 Mr Feverhead that 50lb bag might have made you a few bucks parceling it out.
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 07:14 AM (ZCEU2)

Yeah, I considered buying it and calling friends who bake but considering I'm being a hermit during my chemo I thought it would be too much work. I have most of a 5 lb bag left.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 07:21 AM (fg6n8)

130 Wife always has flour of some kind in the refrigerator, it does get prone to picking up pests from its source. The corn meal is there too, I use it for the pizza stone so I know.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 07:21 AM (ZCEU2)

131 Maybe the most important thing I ever post here:

Drinking pomegranate juice and eating a palm sized amount of broccoli every day will do wonders for those PSA numbers.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at March 29, 2020 07:23 AM (41rs/)

132 You get grease?

My doc doesn't were gloves, old school. plus has a hangnail.
Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:17 AM

Bruce, you make me chuckle nearly every morning. Your sense of humor seems to be a morning riser. Thanks!

Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 29, 2020 07:23 AM (4wSyT)

133 Freeze dried camping food requires water which in some cases when hiking you have to carry anyway. Might as well just carry some cans of ravioli in your pack.

Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2020 07:23 AM (Tnijr)

134 Here in Springfield IL, TP seems to have made a comeback -- I went to three different stores in the last week and they all had at least some toilet paper, although it was being rationed (no more than 1 or 2 packs per customer). Cleaning wipes and spray disinfectant, however, are still impossible to find. Milk, meat, egg and bread supplies vary depending on what day you go to the store and quantities are rationed (1 or 2 per customer only). No shortage of flour, though.

Posted by: Secret Square at March 29, 2020 07:24 AM (9WuX0)

135 We buy bulk cornmeal ground to the coarsness we use for polenta. Keeping it in the freezer helps. I've never stored flour in the freezer, is that a thing?

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 07:24 AM (Z/jzm)

136 I was in the big Walmart a few days ago. Lots of 70% isopropyl. Just a couple of 91%. No hydrogen peroxide. Why so picky?

Posted by: JAS at March 29, 2020 07:25 AM (2BZBZ)

137 We've got a good sized patch of papyrus in the yard that I suppose we could harvest to make TP. Not that desperate yet though.

Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2020 07:25 AM (Tnijr)

138 "No hydrogen peroxide. Why so picky? "

My understanding was the in order for Hydrogen Peroxide to kill Wu-Flu, it had to be too strong for human skin to tolerate it.

And a strength that is not normally found in the civilian sector.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 07:27 AM (O4024)

139 When I first joined the Army the gave us C-Rats which transitioned to MREs by the time I finished Advance Individual Training. I still remember the chocolate cookies fused back to back on the wax paper. Buddy, you're eating wax paper if you want that cookie. The other thing was an entree called "Ham or Chicken Loaf" If you can't tell which animal it came from I'm not eating it.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 07:27 AM (fg6n8)

140 I've read that the homemade sanitizers should be at least 60% isopropyl . Mine says 91%

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 07:27 AM (Z/jzm)

141 Common...glad to hear you are feeling better! And bacon grease never hurt anyone..LOL!

Posted by: lizabth at March 29, 2020 07:27 AM (L3Rsz)

142 I had a funny dream this morning. I was in a lecture hall and Obama was giving a speech. I stood up and yelled "Shut up you fucking Communist." And he did. And he walked away. I expected a bullet but nope, I am still here.

Posted by: JAS at March 29, 2020 07:28 AM (2BZBZ)

143 I had read that 70% is just fine.

Posted by: JAS at March 29, 2020 07:29 AM (2BZBZ)

144 Pasta is another product that comes with its own pests. Bigger spaghetti will get these little creatures that eat down the center hollowing it out, my reason for only getting the thinnest kinds and if still there at least I can't see em'.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 07:29 AM (ZCEU2)

145 Mlii. Yes, you can freeze flour. I find that it develops lumps that can be easily broken up. If I'm using it for muffins or pancakes the lumps break down enough when stirring the ingredients, that it's not an issue. For everything else I sift the flour.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 29, 2020 07:30 AM (C4hN7)

146 It's my understanding that commercial flour has bugs (eggs) in it, no way around it.

Freezing it at time of purchase (below 0�) for about ten days seems to kill the critters, and at that point can be stored in the pantry. I still keep it sealed up to prevent it picking up off flavors. Flour tends to get better with a little bit of aging, iirc.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:30 AM (RtI0W)

147 But the other checks called PSA's are controversial in that they have pros and cons. Medical professionals debate when or if it appropriate and many claim it is not appropriate for certain people. I don't knowhy this is the case but it is.

As they say, ask your doctor.
Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:05 AM (hHxp2)

My husband had a psa test every year during his annual doctors visit, and the GP notice a small increase in PSA over several years, it was still low but increasing. He was in his mid/late 40's, no family history, but GP said he should go get it checked out. Sure enough he had prostate cancer, some places stage one and other places stage 2. He had his prostate removed and has been cancer free for about 5 years.

Posted by: spypeach at March 29, 2020 07:30 AM (7R8A2)

148 I talked to my sister yesterday.
They are in a small 2 bedroom condo in Florida for another month. They are SIP and he won't even go out golfing, which at this point they still are allowed to do.
I guess after 42 years of being married to an a-hole, she's finding out why the rest of us avoid him....plus he watches MSM 24 hours a day at ear bleed levels

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:31 AM (vd8XM)

149 JAS can I share that dream from you?

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 07:31 AM (ZCEU2)

150 I'm very pro beanie weenies. Also Vienna (rhymes with hyena) sausages and saltine crackers.

Anything good for a day of fishing generally translates well to the Burning Times.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at March 29, 2020 07:31 AM (41rs/)

151 We buy bulk cornmeal ground to the coarsness we use
for polenta. Keeping it in the freezer helps. I've never stored flour
in the freezer, is that a thing?

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 07:24 AM (Z/jzm)

I had some flour a while back that had a bug/weevil in it. I checked the internets and someone said if you freeze it even for a while, that will not happen. So I have kept flour in the freezer for a few days and then I leave it out.

My big freezer thing now is bread. It might be the type of bread I use but the stuff is great out of the freezer. Put a few slices in the toaster and it is as good as it ever was. My bread is one of those so called healthy versions, Dave's Good Seed blah blah.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:31 AM (hHxp2)

152 and that "healthy" stuff will mold on you pretty quickly. A couple of weeks and it will be a goner.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:32 AM (hHxp2)

153 139 There are companies that replicate c rations. I don't know how close they are to what we had, but, looking back, I never had a complaint with any of the varieties. Some,if given a chance, I'd trade for something else, but I would eat them with no problem. I'm sure the replicas don't have the cigarettes and worthless matches in the sundry pack.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 29, 2020 07:34 AM (C1Lsn)

154 Quint. That's funny. I just took my last 2 slices of Dave's out of the freezer and toasted it for a breakfast sandwich. Haven't had any available here in SW Oh since the panic started.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 29, 2020 07:34 AM (C4hN7)

155 No .. it was "Ham and Chicken Loaf" lol.

The "Beans In Tomato Sauce" was a winner, too. They were sort of tasty. Sort of. But, the packet had a cryptic warning that none of the other meals had - "Not For InFlight/PreFlight Use". I won't explain why, you don't want to know.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:34 AM (RtI0W)

156 Well off to my scavenger hunt, first stop donut shop to see if still open, website says it is so will see. Then grocery store so will report back as soon as I can

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 07:35 AM (ZCEU2)

157 I unfortunately have a freezer so small I couldn't even fit Jim Acosta's head in it* and it is full of pork, beef, and chicken.

* If I were inclined to do such a thing.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 07:35 AM (fg6n8)

158 I used to take MREs hiking. A little heavy compared
with freeze-dried, but a whole lot less expensive, and way more
calories. My criteria was less than $5 a meal delivered was a good
price. What I ended up with after a while was a metric crapload of the
pouch entrees that I didn't particularly care for or need. Freeze-dried
has convenience and weight going for it, and not much else. Damnably
expensive.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:20 AM (RtI0W)

From what I've seen of the Joe and Jane Averages who buy freeze-dried pouches for emergencies, they fall into four categories:
1) They buy a bucket or big box or two of the stuff, not necessarily caring what exactly is in it, and smugly sit back knowing they're "prepared";

2) They buy a bucket or big box of the stuff, try some of it, and hate it, but it's too late to send back so they're stuck with it. Or they discover the "servings" are sometimes not that big;

3) They don't realize how much water is required to reconstitute these things, especially if everything they bought is in 4-serving pouches and they're reconstituting a pouch all at once; or

4) They taste-tested individual pouches before they bought more and even though it may cost more to buy individually, they bought what they would actually eat.

Posted by: Vendette at March 29, 2020 07:35 AM (nRNOc)

159 InFlight/PreFlight Use". I won't explain why, you don't want to know.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:34 AM (RtI0W)

I swear he first lots said "or". Besides ham "and" chicken loaf is also known as factory floor sweepings.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 07:37 AM (fg6n8)

160 " I had read that 70% is just fine."

70% is fine.

BUT.... be careful with the addition of anything which will reduce that percentage, such as aloe vera for moisturizing.

The final product needs to be above 60% pure alcohol.

Which is why using the 91% to begin with is mathematically very easy.

2 parts alcohol to 1 part Aloe Vera gives you right at 60% pure alcohol for a finished product.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 07:38 AM (O4024)

161 How tough is it to make Saltines? Or that gourmet of gourmet gustatory delight - Cheese-Its? Can't be too tough can it?

On another board someone allowed they spied someones panic supplies in a neighbors garage. A huge pallet of Cheese-It crackers. Hm.

Gonna be more people die of metabolic syndrome and Diabetes than the chicom wu-flu before this is over.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:38 AM (RtI0W)

162 neverenoughcaffeine, thanks. Sifting is easy enough.

I have been freezing bread forever. Fresh baked and store bought. I admit it, I'm a bread-aholic

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 07:39 AM (Z/jzm)

163 Nurse in a Twitchy article. Safe, no meep meep
https://tinyurl.com/vhhoja8

Posted by: FrodoB, because at March 29, 2020 07:39 AM (dQF3z)

164 No .. it was "Ham and Chicken Loaf" lol.

The "Beans In Tomato Sauce" was a winner, too. They were sort of
tasty. Sort of. But, the packet had a cryptic warning that none of the
other meals had - "Not For InFlight/PreFlight Use". I won't explain why,
you don't want to know.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:34 AM (RtI0W)

dehydrated pork patty was the worst. I don't don't recall all these fancy heat tabs they have now. It was tepid canteen water and still it came off in bricks. I think the vienna sausages were ok and some liked chichen a la king. Really, they all sucked.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:39 AM (hHxp2)

165 On another board someone allowed they spied someones panic supplies in a neighbors garage. A huge pallet of Cheese-It crackers. Hm.

Maybe it's bait for vermin.
I got a recipe for that!

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:39 AM (vd8XM)

166 "Loaf" ain't groceries.

Posted by: klaftern at March 29, 2020 07:40 AM (RuIsu)

167 I had Vietnam C rats that I found once hunting on a military base. These things were are good 20 years old. It was some type of beef stew and it was way better than the MRE's of the 80s.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:41 AM (hHxp2)

168 There's a recipe and baking instructions on line for making authentic "army bread" aka hardtack. It's for the civil war reenactment crowd. The usual ration for a Union soldier was hardtack, bacon, coffee, and some sugar if lucky. Confederate soldiers could only dream of such luxury.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 29, 2020 07:42 AM (C1Lsn)

169 >>The final product needs to be above 60% pure alcohol.

Which is why using the 91% to begin with is mathematically very easy.

2 parts alcohol to 1 part Aloe Vera gives you right at 60% pure alcohol for a finished product.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 07:38 AM (O4024)

That's the proportion I saw. So my 91% will be good. I have to make some to replenish what we have at point of sale for customers to use.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 07:42 AM (Z/jzm)

170 So when I got to my first duty station this 8 year E4 asked me what it said on his MRE cheese. I said "Knead before opening." He says "Of course I'm going to need it before I open it. Dumb@sses!"

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 07:42 AM (fg6n8)

171 On another board someone allowed they spied someones
panic supplies in a neighbors garage. A huge pallet of Cheese-It
crackers. Hm.

Maybe it's bait for vermin.

I got a recipe for that!

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:39 AM (vd8XM)

Cheez its are pretty good. If I were in survivial mode I would a bunch of packages of hot dogs. Sure it is not fine living but you can freeze them or whatever. You can make pasta, blend them with this or that and at least you can survive on them.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:43 AM (hHxp2)

172 I would agree they sucked. But, the freeze-dried pork patty is one item with a practically unlimited shelf life.

One thing I've noticed is the modern rations sometimes don't use oils or fats that are shelf stable. Canola oil is cheap, but it quickly reverts to paint, or varnish as it oxidizes. Open a packet of cookies, and prepare to gag. They are inedible. Even commercial varieties of Peanut Butter fall prey to this.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:43 AM (RtI0W)

173 Staying at home and going to watch church being live streamed.
Sitting in pjs watching online just wont be the same as being with my friends. It will feel more like hanging out with y'all only with cleaner language.

Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2020 07:43 AM (NP5PC)

174 Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:34 AM (RtI0W)

dehydrated pork patty was the worst.

I second that! Although you could use the patty to sand the bunions off your feet.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 07:45 AM (fg6n8)

175 I'm a broken record, but I like canned green beans, peas and carrots, and similar canned vegetables for the end times. You won't be happy but you won't starve, and they're packed in water that you can also use.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at March 29, 2020 07:45 AM (41rs/)

176
I would agree they sucked. But, the freeze-dried pork patty is one item with a practically unlimited shelf life.

One thing I've noticed is the modern rations sometimes don't use
oils or fats that are shelf stable. Canola oil is cheap, but it quickly
reverts to paint, or varnish as it oxidizes. Open a packet of cookies,
and prepare to gag. They are inedible. Even commercial varieties of
Peanut Butter fall prey to this.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:43 AM (RtI0W)

that makes sense. They probably made them to last and then when the troops complained, and they did, they made new stuff. Someone mentioned the saltines. Well the cheese that came with it tasted nothing like cheese. It was probably made to last a few decades if needed.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:46 AM (hHxp2)

177 Top o the morning y'all!

It was a good day yesterday. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr and Mrs VIA here in Summerville SC. They were in the neighborhood and stopped by my job for a few minutes.

Today is the last day for a while. TPTB decided to halt all construction immediately. So it looks like I'm getting an involuntary four week vacation. Just closing out what I can, making everything safe for customers. Still have five weeks of actual work left on this project.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at March 29, 2020 07:46 AM (qeU1j)

178 Cheez its are pretty good.

Posted by: Quint

My wife likes them. I'm just thinking that a pallet load in your garage is going to attract a lot of interest from critters.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:47 AM (vd8XM)

179 Beef Stew manufacturers long ago stopped using stew meat. This is almost criminal, in my opinion.

Somewhere along the way, "Meat Glue" was discovered. So floor sweepings were pressed together into "chunks" that no amount of simmering will render into tender beef. Ever.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:47 AM (RtI0W)

180 Holy cow, I'd forgotten about the pickle loaf we used to be fed so much as a kid. I'll have to look for that, because I remember not minding when it was in my bagged lunch.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at March 29, 2020 07:49 AM (41rs/)

181 176 As far as field rations, one thing the Germans had in WW2 that was prized by American GI's was a cheese spread. The stuff came in a toothpaste tube and was reported to be very good.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 29, 2020 07:49 AM (C1Lsn)

182 Somewhere along the way, "Meat Glue" was discovered. So floor sweepings were pressed together into "chunks" that no amount of simmering will render into tender beef. Ever.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 07:47 AM (RtI0W)

Thus the invention of the McRib. I could never force myself to try one and I've eaten bugs.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 07:49 AM (fg6n8)

183 Somewhere along the way, "Meat Glue" was discovered. So floor sweepings were pressed together into "chunks" that no amount of simmering will render into tender beef. Ever.
Posted by: Common Tater

The Chinese (am I allowed to say that?) restaurant in town has gone to meat glue sliced beef and sliced pork for some of their dishes.
I quit ordering that crud

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:50 AM (vd8XM)

184 Thus the invention of the McRib. I could never force myself to try one and I've eaten bugs.
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead

I tried a McRib once when they first came out.
I did not like at all

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:51 AM (vd8XM)

185 Cheez its are pretty good.

Posted by: Quint

My wife likes them. I'm just thinking that a pallet load in your garage is going to attract a lot of interest from critters.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:47 AM (vd8XM)

yeah, I see your point.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:52 AM (hHxp2)

186 had Vietnam C rats that I found once hunting on a military base. These things were are good 20 years old. It was some type of beef stew and it was way better than the MRE's of the 80s.
Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:41 AM (hHxp2)

Back in the late 70's, I got trapped at our remote radar site during a snow storm. Poking around in the closet, I found some C-Rats that must have been saved from the Korean unpleasantness. Crackers is crackers...and each ration also came with a small pack of cigarettes. Either Lucky Strikes or Chesterfields.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at March 29, 2020 07:52 AM (qeU1j)

187 The McRib! More pressed meat than a gay dance club.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 07:52 AM (fg6n8)

188 >>Cuomo threatening to sue over Rhode Island harassing New Yorkers fleeing the KoronaKrap to Rhode Island.

Translation: Cuomo suing RI so that his rich friends/campaign donors who have vacation homes in RI can go there to get away from the icky riffraff and enjoy ocean views instead of quarantine themselves in The City.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2020 07:54 AM (bDqIh)

189 185 The best way to keep critters large and small away from Cheez its is to place a couple opened cans of potted meat around them. They wont touch the potted meat and the smell will drive them away.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 29, 2020 07:55 AM (C1Lsn)

190 Thus the invention of the McRib. I could never force myself to try one and I've eaten bugs.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead

I tried a McRib once when they first came out.

I did not like at all

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:51 AM (vd8XM)

I remember it being better. I think time does that but the last one i had was made so sloppily and they didn't even have a McRib box for it.

Sure it is part nostalgia. But I miss the McDlt. Hot MCD and cool fresh lt. And the other thing I miss is not nostalgia at all but scientific fact. The old fried cherry and apple pies were awesome. That garbage they sell now is disgusting. I bet they don't sell even 1/4 of many pies as they did in the 80s.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:55 AM (hHxp2)

191 Go ahead Fredo, sue

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 29, 2020 07:56 AM (NVYyb)

192 I saw a mcrib once and couldn't figure out why they had made the bone grooves, nor why they were darkened accordingly.

Don't misunderstand. I eat Vienna sausages and pork rinds. But the aesthetics of the sandwich puzzle me.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at March 29, 2020 07:56 AM (41rs/)

193 Back in the late 70's, I got trapped at our remote
radar site during a snow storm. Poking around in the closet, I found
some C-Rats that must have been saved from the Korean unpleasantness.
Crackers is crackers...and each ration also came with a small pack of
cigarettes. Either Lucky Strikes or Chesterfields.

Posted by: Traveling Man at March 29, 2020 07:52 AM (qeU1j)

and no warning label so safe to use

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:57 AM (hHxp2)

194 The old fried cherry and apple pies were awesome.

They were. Bite into them and burn your mouth good.
I haven't had one in probably 40 years. Someone on this site mentioned they are now baked, instead of being lovingly prepared in hot oil.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:57 AM (vd8XM)

195 The old fried cherry and apple pies were awesome.

They were. Bite into them and burn your mouth good.

I haven't had one in probably 40 years. Someone on this site
mentioned they are now baked, instead of being lovingly prepared in hot
oil.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:57 AM (vd8XM)

they are, and they suck.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 07:58 AM (hHxp2)

196 ??On another board someone allowed they spied someones panic supplies in a neighbors garage. A huge pallet of Cheese-It crackers. Hm.

Yeah, they must have kids. My son can't get enough of those.

Also: hot pockets (gag). We make homemade pizza, for which I have stocked up all the ingredients, but the kid still loves to heat up hot pockets ~ midnight to pig out.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2020 08:00 AM (bDqIh)

197 McDonald's french fries and pies were great because of the beef tallow used in the fryer. Somebody just had to bitch that their cholesterol was up 5 points.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 29, 2020 08:00 AM (C1Lsn)

198 McRib? Eh, after growing up eating spam, onions and fried potatoes cooked in a skillet once a week - McRib is a luxury.

Posted by: rammajamma at March 29, 2020 08:01 AM (SwWMX)

199 Pandemia, day 10. My wife likes to play golf but we received an email saying the governor ordered golf courses closed. Fines for the club and the member if they find you on the course. Very odd. Its a pretty solitary game, and entirely outdoors. "Public health" seems to grant some strange powers to governors, or so they think.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 29, 2020 08:01 AM (NVYyb)

200 The old fried cherry and apple pies were awesome. That garbage they sell now is disgusting

-

We talked about it a couple of weeks ago and, after a bit of research, discovered that the multibillion dollar switch to get rid of transfats and make everything taste worse potentially reduced heart disease, stroke, etc deaths by some laughably small number. Something like 100 fewer total deaths by predisposed people each year.

Yay.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at March 29, 2020 08:01 AM (41rs/)

201 Also: hot pockets (gag). We make homemade pizza, for
which I have stocked up all the ingredients, but the kid still loves to
heat up hot pockets ~ midnight to pig out.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2020 08:00 AM (bDqIh)

tell him to check out Jim Gaffigan's Hot Pockets set on youtube. It is pretty funny.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:01 AM (hHxp2)

202 The old fried cherry and apple pies were awesome.

They were. Bite into them and burn your mouth good.
I haven't had one in probably 40 years. Someone on this site mentioned they are now baked, instead of being lovingly prepared in hot oil.
Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 07:57 AM (vd8XM

I assume you're talking about those greasy looking fried pies. A lot of the mom and pop restaurants where we live, still sell them. Some local fries them up at home and brings them in. They're usually sitting in a box at the cash register counter.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at March 29, 2020 08:02 AM (qeU1j)

203 In my day...In highschool the boys had to spend a day or two in the home ed room with the stoves, etc learning the basics. Of course the boys laughed at it and joked around. I think we made some cookies or something.
Posted by: Colin

I seem to remember a quarter semester in Home Ec and a quarter semester in sewing. I think it was 8th grade. I thought it was a waste of time then. Of course, 7-8 years later I had the ability to sew stripes on my uniforms, so I guess it WAS worthwhile.

Posted by: Bill R. at March 29, 2020 08:03 AM (wzzJf)

204 tell him to check out Jim Gaffigan's Hot Pockets set on youtube. It is pretty funny.
Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:01 AM (hHxp2)

Caliente pockets!

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 29, 2020 08:03 AM (6ofTb)

205 We ordered a pizza delivered last night. The pizza place is doing a no contact delivery service.
I thought that's a little overkill as usually the driver hands me a box, and I hand him money. No actual touching takes place
What they mean is, they set my order on the porch, and then call me from the driveway that my order is there.

Seems weird. The problem is, when I ordered it online using a credit card. When it came to how much to tip the driver I went with zero. Because when we do use a credit card at a restaurant we tip in cash anyway.
The driver asked about that, so now I have to get a hold of the restaurant to charge a tip to this guy somehow.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:04 AM (vd8XM)

206 The old fried cherry and apple pies were awesome. That garbage they sell now is disgusting

-

We talked about it a couple of weeks ago and, after a bit of
research, discovered that the multibillion dollar switch to get rid of
transfats and make everything taste worse potentially reduced heart
disease, stroke, etc deaths by some laughably small number. Something
like 100 fewer total deaths by predisposed people each year.

Yay.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at March 29, 2020 08:01 AM (41rs/)

they got woke and it cost them. Bill Burr does a set on this. At some point Mcdonalds started blaming themselves. They are business and if they sell food people don't want, well that will not be good for them. I also remember the Mclean. It is not last very long because it was terrible.

I have heard most Mcds abroad, or at least a lot of them, sell the fried pies. So we invented the thing, but we can't get it.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:04 AM (hHxp2)

207 Wish I could do some yard work this weekend.

Pretty much washed out 2 days running.

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 08:04 AM (B95HO)

208 Heh, yes, Gaffigan's hot pockets bit but is funny! I always sing "Hooooooot pockets!" now instead of just saying it.

Re: fastfood pies -- check out Taco Bell "caramel apple empanadas". Think those are still deep fried? My teen with the iron stomach sometimes gets those.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2020 08:05 AM (bDqIh)

209 WP: Joe Biden is working from home like many Americans....

OK, sounds like a winner to me.../sarc

Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 08:05 AM (VW+Vt)

210 Something like 100 fewer total deaths by predisposed people each year.
Yay.
Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at March 29, 2020 08:01 AM (41rs/)

Comrade, if we can control all your lives to save just one life, it is all worth it!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:07 AM (BiNEL)

211 Also: hot pockets (gag). We make homemade pizza, for which I have stocked up all the ingredients, but the kid still loves to heat up hot pockets ~ midnight to pig out.

Posted by: Lizzy

I got them for a fishing trip with the guys at a house on the lake. We figured a quick hot breakfast while we were getting the coffee and cooler ready.
The breakfast ones were weird. We tried the lunch/dinner ones too. Never bought them again

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:07 AM (vd8XM)

212 We stopped at a Hardee's for lunch yesterday. The sourdough burger is still pretty darned good. Better than that McD's shit, anyway.

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 08:08 AM (B95HO)

213 Beautiful sunrise this morning. I'm loving the early spring.

Last night I watched "Red Dawn" (the one and only, there is no other) and one thing that made me laugh was how long it took the locals to get organized and resist.

Fast-forward to the present day. Northern Michigan hosts an annual set of military exercises and NATO partners participate. They had to spend *weeks* saturating local media so that the locals wouldn't open fire on the visiting allies from Poland, etc. while they jaunted around town.

Those Cuban paratroopers would have been mowed down on the DZ.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:08 AM (cfSRQ)

214 This will be a tough financial week for most people. First of the month. What happens to those who do not pay mortgage?

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:08 AM (tjqz9)

215 Wish I could do some yard work this weekend.
Pretty much washed out 2 days running.
Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 08:04 AM (B95HO)

Glad I did a quick lawnmower pass in the front yard Friday afternoon. Turned out it was longer than I had thought.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:08 AM (BiNEL)

216 Morning all..

For something completely different.

Sicilian twins play Coldplay on their violins.

https://tinyurl.com/vcsvddu

Posted by: Tami at March 29, 2020 08:09 AM (cF8AT)

217 >>We tried the lunch/dinner ones too. Never bought them again

It's the sauce, I think? Or maybe that they cover the outside in garlic salt to hide the cardboard-y dough's lack of flavor? The stink up the house.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2020 08:10 AM (bDqIh)

218 Seems weird. The problem is, when I ordered it
online using a credit card. When it came to how much to tip the driver I
went with zero. Because when we do use a credit card at a restaurant we
tip in cash anyway.

The driver asked about that, so now I have to get a hold of the restaurant to charge a tip to this guy somehow.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:04 AM (vd8XM)
---
I set the tip out on the porch in a plastic bag, secured by a rock before they arrive. I like it more than the awkward greeting so I think this is the rule for me from now on.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:10 AM (cfSRQ)

219 213. Red Dawn is great. Commies stopped any resistance by getting the gun registry at the local gun shop. They were all arrested and put into that camp.

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:11 AM (tjqz9)

220 The governor's first wife's boyfriend/girlfriend was her golf coach?

Posted by: klaftern at March 29, 2020 08:11 AM (RuIsu)

221 214 This will be a tough financial week for most people. First of the month. What happens to those who do not pay mortgage?
Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:08 AM (tjqz9)

The lockdown governors love it. This is an opportunity to them, when constituents NEED Uncle Sugar.

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 08:11 AM (B95HO)

222 I set the tip out on the porch in a plastic bag, secured by a rock before they arrive. I like it more than the awkward greeting so I think this is the rule for me from now on.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed

What I should have done. I told him to come to the door and I'd hand him the tip.
He's not allowed to do that. I should have looked out to see if he was driving in a quarantine outfit

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:12 AM (vd8XM)

223
Heh, yes, Gaffigan's hot pockets bit but is funny! I always sing "Hooooooot pockets!" now instead of just saying it.

Re: fastfood pies -- check out Taco Bell "caramel apple empanadas".
Think those are still deep fried? My teen with the iron stomach
sometimes gets those.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2020 08:05 AM (bDqIh)

I think Popeye's is fried as well. For some reason it is not the same. People hate it when something is taken away form them for no good reason. There was something about those pies. Yest they were lava hot but they were good. Now you can't even get a sundae with nuts at Mcdonalds. It is subtraction by subtraction. The lawyers and PR types tell them what to stop making and they do. We all accept it these days because of course we do.

My least favorite term is "you can't do that in 20--". That means something different to me than it does to some others I think.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:12 AM (hHxp2)

224 Glad I did a quick lawnmower pass in the front yard Friday afternoon. Turned out it was longer than I had thought.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:08 AM (BiNEL)

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My mower just got back from its annual tune-up. Looking at the grass, not a moment too soon!

Of course I need a few days of dry weather before I can take it in the back yard...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:12 AM (cfSRQ)

225 Good to see the insects coming back. They eat the virus i believe, along with humidity and sunlight

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:13 AM (tjqz9)

226 Posted by: Tami at March 29, 2020 08:09 AM (cF8AT)

Thanks
forwarded to my son for my grandsons to look at!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:13 AM (BiNEL)

227 I read a speech given some years ago by a cardiologist.

Basically, heart disease sucks. It's hereditary to some degree. If you're prone to it, runs in the family, it doesn't matter much what you do. Or don't do. Smoking is not healthy, but it is those with heart disease that are most at risk.

I would think shareholders would have somewhat of a ... beef.. with McDonalds. Their french fries are almost inedible now. How do ya fvck up a spud? There was no reason for this. At the time I recall mumblings about offending Hindus.

WTF is a Hindu eating at McDs in the first place was never explained. Further, who cares what they think, when you get right down to it. I think it was a matter of cheaping out. Fryer oil is expensive.

Same thing with the delivery Pizza. Disgusting anymore, never very good - though it was tasty. Now all of it tastes like ass, and is damnably expensive. Amazing, maybe there will be a renaissance in home cooking.

I wish there was some way to save the mom and pop restaurants, and kill off the corporate chains? I mean, all things being equal. They suck.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 08:14 AM (RtI0W)

228 Glad I did a quick lawnmower pass in the front yard Friday afternoon. Turned out it was longer than I had thought.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:08 AM (BiNEL)

I cut the grass last Saturday afternoon and it's in need of another shave already. Jumping.

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 08:14 AM (B95HO)

229 Could you imagine if this virus spread in america in early december. Cold and dark at 4pm. No walking outside

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:14 AM (tjqz9)

230 Red Dawn is great. Commies stopped any resistance
by getting the gun registry at the local gun shop. They were all
arrested and put into that camp.

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:11 AM (tjqz9)

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I thought that part was dumb. I got the point, but when literal commies are raining down on you and you've got guns, what are you freaking waiting for?

And this is supposed to be out west, and presumably there are lots of military veterans around. The teacher even notes that the paratroopers are way off course, implying that there's a base somewhere not that far away.

The film is fun, I take it for what it is and it's definitely a product of the 80s, but it does have some issues.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:15 AM (cfSRQ)

231 The urologist does it so quickly, better than having a bodybuilder lay on top of you with his d**k stuck in you, like the almost governor of Florida. If he was the bottom or top, not sure.
Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 07:10 AM

Colin, I'll take your word on it.

Posted by: clutch at March 29, 2020 08:15 AM (9UmRs)

232 Cuomo threatening to sue over Rhode Island harassing New Yorkers fleeing the KoronaKrap to Rhode Island.

https://tinyurl.com/tame26b
Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2020 06:02 AM (mpXpK)

He should sue. Get as much PR as he can every day. On the hour national news updates.

And remind everybody in the country that the Impeach Trump fiasco was purely a NY / Cali op which drowned out news in the early days of this disease taking over NYC.... Which is probably why NY did the impeach thing in the first place.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 29, 2020 08:16 AM (1g7ch)

233 Here's a very sensible aticle from AT avout The Virus That Ate the World:

https://tinyurl.com/qv7hcdk

Posted by: Caliban at March 29, 2020 08:16 AM (QE8X6)

234 Morning all.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2020 08:16 AM (qr+6s)

235 Morning, all. Someone let ace know that the Reno 911 episode in the sidebar was new in April 2009.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 29, 2020 08:16 AM (DTX3h)

236 My least favorite term is "you can't do that in 20--". That means something different to me than it does to some others I think.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:12 AM (hHxp2)

Comrade Quint, lawyers, regulations and the threat of financial ruin by government bureaucrats controlling essentially infinite prosecutorial resources are powerful motivators to shape your daily behavior!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:16 AM (BiNEL)

237 221. So much easy to govern when nobody can assemble and protest etc.. keeps the masses down for now. Another month of lockdown in the cities will start riots

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:17 AM (tjqz9)

238 >>For some reason it is not the same. People hate it when something is taken away form them for no good reason. There was something about those pies.

Yup. Also silly when you consider how many calories/sugar is in one of those Starbucks sundae-like drinks - the Frappaachino (or whatever). So a little fried pie is a sin, but as syrupy near-ice cream sundae masquerading as a coffee is totally cool. Sure. *obscene hand gesture*

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2020 08:17 AM (bDqIh)

239 Gaffigan's Easter bit is also good. In our house if someone says something doesn't make sense, someone else always answers with, "don't worry, there's a bunny."

https://preview.tinyurl.com/utrsx66

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 29, 2020 08:17 AM (6ofTb)

240 Same thing with the delivery Pizza. Disgusting
anymore, never very good - though it was tasty. Now all of it tastes
like ass, and is damnably expensive. Amazing, maybe there will be a
renaissance in home cooking.

I wish there was some way to save the mom and pop restaurants, and
kill off the corporate chains? I mean, all things being equal. They
suck.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 08:14 AM (RtI0W)

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The original Dominos ("30 minutes or free!") was indistinguishable from the cardboard. The newer version is decent. YMMV.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:17 AM (cfSRQ)

241 Could you imagine if this virus spread in america in early december.

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I bet it started here then. When the medical history is written I bet we find lots of early cases went undiagnosed in NYC Chinatown enclaves.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 29, 2020 08:17 AM (NVYyb)

242 "Good to see the insects coming back. "

not so is here?

Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2020 08:18 AM (Tnijr)

243 Yup. Also silly when you consider how many
calories/sugar is in one of those Starbucks sundae-like drinks - the
Frappaachino (or whatever). So a little fried pie is a sin, but as
syrupy near-ice cream sundae masquerading as a coffee is totally cool.
Sure. *obscene hand gesture*

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2020 08:17 AM (bDqIh)

heh, We think the same on this one. I have always said SBUX is a sugar pusher first and caffeine second. It is a great one two punch but the sugar is the one seed.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:19 AM (hHxp2)

244
Now you can't even get a sundae with nuts at Mcdonalds. It is subtraction by subtraction. The lawyers and PR types tell them what to stop making and they do. We all accept it these days because of course we do.

Anything good gets hoovered up by some soulless conglomerate that always does the same thing: betray founding principles, cut costs, remove what made the brand distinctive, suck the life out of it and go bankrupt.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 29, 2020 08:19 AM (7rVsF)

245 Good morning!

Spent yesterday afternoon doing field day around the upstairs area, and then went to the store to get cleaner for the shower glass.

WTAF?! Where the seafood case had previously been empty, there was fresh salmon, grouper, shrimp and some trout! Gonna be grilling today!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 29, 2020 08:19 AM (Xesvh)

246 Re: Red Dawn

Notice that the commies didn't air drop in to "Roadhouse".

That would have been a good movie.

Posted by: klaftern at March 29, 2020 08:19 AM (RuIsu)

247 O also: the overloaded donut trend, such as those at Voodoo Donuts. OK. it's more "cool" than a McD's pie, but don't tell me it's not twice as bad for my health.

https://www.voodoodoughnut.com/

*It's like the cognitive dissonance of: cigarettes are bad, pot is totally cool. Just admit that smoking is OK when it's your leaf of choice.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2020 08:20 AM (bDqIh)

248 I wish there was some way to save the mom and pop
restaurants, and kill off the corporate chains? I mean, all things being
equal. They suck.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 29, 2020 08:14 AM (RtI0W)

---
I should add that we prefer the local joints to the chains, so that's where our money goes for the most part.

We ordered in last week and will probably do so again just to help keep the places afloat. On the plus side, when I called my order in they had to put me on hold because so many calls were coming in. So that's a good thing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:20 AM (cfSRQ)

249 Sadly, Cities will be on fire if they keep the lockdown going past April. I can see the young people in my area getting restless already.

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:21 AM (tjqz9)

250 Anything good gets hoovered up by some soulless conglomerate that always does the same thing: betray founding principles, cut costs, remove what made the brand distinctive, suck the life out of it and go bankrupt.
--------

True. Lots of examples of this.

Posted by: Walt Disney at March 29, 2020 08:21 AM (NVYyb)

251
So what are the chances that NYC and its resident Gothamites will come out of this saying, "After this harrowing experience maybe we should show some humility and gratitude to the rest of the country"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 29, 2020 08:21 AM (7rVsF)

252 I bet it started here then. When the medical history is written I bet we find lots of early cases went undiagnosed in NYC Chinatown enclaves.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 29, 2020 08:17 AM (NVYyb)

Anecdotally, I think here, and personally, I have heard a lot of people (including myself) that had something in the late December to early February time-frame that laid them pretty low.

But we will never ever get statistics from any Chinatown in the USA.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:22 AM (BiNEL)

253 Fox just showed a picture of their next guest, retired SEAL Jocko Willink. That guy looks like somebody who has a Mosler safe with a couple souvenir human heads in it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 29, 2020 08:22 AM (C1Lsn)

254 The original Dominos ("30 minutes or free!") was indistinguishable from the cardboard. The newer version is decent. YMMV.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:17 AM (cfSRQ)

I recall it the other way around but to be fair, I don't have any way of going back. It probably was terrible but we were young and hungry. The company Dominos is killing really, or they were. But when I have there pizza I never plan to get it again. I probably have DPZ one or twice a year.

The one that really fell of for me was Pizza Hut. When we were kids, that was good pizza, particularly the pan pizza. Sure some of it was nostalgia and going to those huts, eating the pizza, the salad bar, and just having fun. But now Pizza Hut mostly makes stunt pizzas and doesn't even make claims about quality.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:23 AM (hHxp2)

255 So what are the chances that NYC and its resident Gothamites will come out of this saying, "After this harrowing experience maybe we should show some humility and gratitude to the rest of the country"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 29, 2020 08:21 AM (7rVsF)

Thanks Hadrian, I needed a good laugh this morning!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:23 AM (BiNEL)

256 I'm impressed the young people haven't already started demanding more of a social life. Must be driving them nuts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 29, 2020 08:23 AM (NVYyb)

257 Thanks
forwarded to my son for my grandsons to look at!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:13 AM (BiNEL)

You're welcome!

Posted by: Tami at March 29, 2020 08:23 AM (cF8AT)

258 The scene in Red Dawn where Swayze can't shoot the traitor and Howell just blows him away was probably designed to show how good and evil develop in war - I just thought C Thomas Howell should have been the leader of the Wolverines..

Posted by: rammajamma at March 29, 2020 08:23 AM (y1gYQ)

259 241. True my friend.

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:23 AM (tjqz9)

260 214 This will be a tough financial week for most people. First of the month. What happens to those who do not pay mortgage?
___________________

Some of the banks are sending out e-mails saying that they will work with you if you can't make a mortgage payment or a car payment or whatever, due to China virus layoffs. I've gotten a couple of those in the past few weeks.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 29, 2020 08:24 AM (k4dH2)

261 buongiorna orda

virus stats from PA

tested 25,254
positive 2751
hospitalized 314
dead 34

it's around 10-11% for each - around 10% tested (because they have symptoms) are positive, 11% of positive get hospitalized, 10% of the hospitalized die

from pa doh site

Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 29, 2020 08:24 AM (G546f)

262 Speaking of prostate exams, go to Y0uTube and search for "prostate exam" and "movie Road Trip". Of course, that isn't really a standard diagnostic prostate exam.

Posted by: fenderbender at March 29, 2020 08:24 AM (r72iY)

263 Anecdotally, I think here, and personally, I have heard a lot of people (including myself) that had something in the late December to early February time-frame that laid them pretty low.

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Yep.

Super contagious that tore through a major Chinese international trade city in November.

Super contagious and reached the US two weeks ago.

They can't both be true.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at March 29, 2020 08:25 AM (41rs/)

264 Red Dawn was a big deal back in the day. Sure it was absurd, but so what about that? The Left hated it with a burning passion and that was a good reason to like it.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:25 AM (hHxp2)

265 I heard it was planes from Iran right before the travel ban, going into LaGuardia. Probably Italy also. Travel ban saved america

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:25 AM (tjqz9)

266 Re: Red Dawn

Notice that the commies didn't air drop in to "Roadhouse".

That would have been a good movie.

Posted by: klaftern at March 29, 2020 08:19 AM (RuIsu)

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LOL.

A couple of other plot holes that bothered me.

1. The horses. Where's the stable? What do they eat? Do they have to sneak back down to the farm to get them before a raid?

2. The girls. I get that there's initial awkwardness, but please. A bunch of teenagers out in the woods alone. I'm not saying wanton lasciviousness, but there would be at least some sort of relationship.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:25 AM (cfSRQ)

267 245 WTAF?! Where the seafood case had previously been empty, there was fresh salmon, grouper, shrimp and some trout! Gonna be grilling today!
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 29, 2020 08:19 AM (Xesvh)

Yep. I even grabbed up some eggs and bread yesterday, which were hard to get just a couple of days prior. Still signs out telling people to not be assholes. i.e. limiting purchases.

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 08:25 AM (B95HO)

268
Traditional Latin Mass streamed from Christ the King Catholic Church in Sarasota, FL at 7:30 CDT.

http://LiveMass.net

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 29, 2020 08:26 AM (7rVsF)

269 262. I thought it was Hershey Highway

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:26 AM (tjqz9)

270 I bet it started here then. When the medical history
is written I bet we find lots of early cases went undiagnosed in NYC
Chinatown enclaves.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 29, 2020 08:17 AM (NVYyb)

And most NY people are carrying around their cotton bags for grocerys. Another Cuomo demand, no more plastic, just dirty cotton shopping bags or paper (which is safer) And the "made in China" bags aren't that washable.

Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 08:27 AM (VW+Vt)

271 Looks like PDTS had a conversation with Fredo Sr. and read him the riot act. The CDC is going to issue a 'strong travel advisory' for NYC and the surrounding area. Whatever that means.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 29, 2020 08:27 AM (Xesvh)

272 We've discovered that pizza hut is okay if you give them instructions to go easy on the butter / oil. Otherwise our local place will give you a box that is nearly dripping.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at March 29, 2020 08:27 AM (41rs/)

273 An easy and quick antibody test is shortly to be released.

If you have the antibodies, that means you survived C19 Wuhan Attack Virus and can go back to living a normal life. You are immune and cannot pass the disease to others.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 29, 2020 08:27 AM (NVYyb)

274 As a type of palate-cleanser, there is a young woman in Yorkshire trying to set up a light-hearted history channel on YouTube.
Please look for "Catherine Warr - Yorkshire's Hidden History" and give her a few views.
I mean, while we're all on quarantine, we need something to brighten up our days, right?

Posted by: setnaffa at March 29, 2020 08:27 AM (c4NCi)

275 So I take it the "I LOVE NY" meme is right out then?

Posted by: Case at March 29, 2020 08:27 AM (U5lak)

276 *It's like the cognitive dissonance of: cigarettes are bad, pot is totally cool. Just admit that smoking is OK when it's your leaf of choice.
Posted by: Lizzy

Maybe a campaign that says. "My body, my choice"?

Hmmm, seems like I've heard that somewhere before...

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:27 AM (vd8XM)

277 Anecdotally, I think here, and personally, I have heard a lot of people
(including myself) that had something in the late December to early
February time-frame that laid them pretty low.

I work with a guy who in late December/early January was sick as hell. His doctor told him it was the flu. He was at home sick for a week and even when he came back he was still fighting it and it took him a long time to get rid of the cough. Looking back at it I wonder

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 29, 2020 08:28 AM (4mKR9)

278 1. Wall off NYC
2. Catapult in dead animals
3. Profit!!!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 29, 2020 08:28 AM (NWiLs)

279 Another day to live through. Better get started.

First, I will clear a path from the heaps of bodies left at the front door. All night the vampires were banging, banging, banging to try and get in.

I can't afford the luxury of anger. Anger can make me vulnerable. It can destroy my reason and reason's the only advantage I have over them.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 29, 2020 08:29 AM (Z+IKu)

280 @241
More than likely this thing has been kicking around NYC as early as November and any cases that presented themselves were simply diagnosed as being flu related.

Even now, most Covid diagnoses are simply done via physical examination and elimination tests as there are not enough tests to test everyone.

Everyone and their mother who has a sniffle is now demanding to be tested for covid.

The effects of this disaster are going to be with us a very long time.

Posted by: Digging Deeper at March 29, 2020 08:29 AM (ycdBu)

281 I just paid rent, had to use property managements portal. Charged $25 for the transaction, the fuckers.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 29, 2020 08:29 AM (8JqLB)

282 I can't afford the luxury of anger. Anger can make me vulnerable. It can destroy my reason and reason's the only advantage I have over them.

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 29, 2020 08:29 AM (Z+IKu)

Anger can be very useful, if channeled properly and kept cold.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 29, 2020 08:30 AM (NWiLs)

283 I recall it the other way around but to be fair, I
don't have any way of going back. It probably was terrible but we were
young and hungry. The company Dominos is killing really, or they were.
But when I have there pizza I never plan to get it again. I probably
have DPZ one or twice a year.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:23 AM (hHxp2)

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Living in a college town, we have a number of local joints that seem to be defying that trend. When they close, it's usually because the owner died or retired and no one wanted to take over.

There's also some variability even in chains. There's a particular Biggby coffee show we patronize because they know how to make the specialty drink my wife craves. Other locations botch it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:30 AM (cfSRQ)

284 279. I heard Sam and Dean Winchester refused to go to New York

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:31 AM (tjqz9)

285 I work with a guy who in late December/early January
was sick as hell. His doctor told him it was the flu. He was at home
sick for a week and even when he came back he was still fighting it and
it took him a long time to get rid of the cough. Looking back at it I
wonder

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 29, 2020 08:28 AM (4mKR9)

My neighbors were like that.

Posted by: Vendette at March 29, 2020 08:31 AM (nRNOc)

286 The flu and bronchitis can both be very rough. Back in the 70's I had the flu, and remember hardly able to get out of bed and was sick for about 2 weeks. Went to the doctor, but he couldn't do much for me.

Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2020 08:32 AM (VW+Vt)

287 Re: "Red Dawn." Documentary on John Milius reveals that he was tolerated as a talented eccentric in Hollywood but after "Red Dawn" much of the industry was utterly appalled.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 08:32 AM (H8QX8)

288 60 degrees here yesterday, so my wife and I went for a walk with about half of our neighbors by the lake.

The Horror!!

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:32 AM (vd8XM)

289 281. Call somebody on that fee. Banks are waiving all types of fees right now. That is bull sh

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:33 AM (tjqz9)

290 Yep. I even grabbed up some eggs and bread
yesterday, which were hard to get just a couple of days prior. Still
signs out telling people to not be assholes. i.e. limiting purchases.

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 08:25 AM (B95HO)

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I'm told our store had toilet paper AND paper towels. We didn't need any, but good that they're restocking.

They closed the pre-cooked portion of the store though, so that may help the local eateries.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:33 AM (cfSRQ)

291 281 $25 sounds pretty extreme. I can see a buck or two, but I think I would call them Monday. Question their patriotism for punishing a person trying best to avoid spreading the plague.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 29, 2020 08:33 AM (C1Lsn)

292 288 60 degrees here yesterday, so my wife and I went for a walk with about half of our neighbors by the lake.

The Horror!!
Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:32 AM (vd8XM)

*points*
*Donald Sutherland Body Snatchers scream*

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 29, 2020 08:33 AM (NWiLs)

293 284 279. I heard Sam and Dean Winchester refused to go to New York
Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:31 AM (tjqz9)

Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 29, 2020 08:34 AM (G546f)

294 281 I just paid rent, had to use property managements portal. Charged $25 for the transaction, the fuckers.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 29, 2020 08:29 AM (8JqLB)

That's outrageous.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 08:34 AM (H8QX8)

295 I think Trump! should do an EO that no "news" station can do news about the WooHoo flu for more than 10 minutes an hour.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:35 AM (vd8XM)

296 Re: "Red Dawn." Documentary on John Milius reveals
that he was tolerated as a talented eccentric in Hollywood but after
"Red Dawn" much of the industry was utterly appalled.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 08:32 AM (H8QX

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Hollywood has definitely shifted from "I don't care the politics, make me money," to "It's other peoples' money, so I'm going SJW."

I just can't see the SJW Marvel selling well overseas.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:35 AM (cfSRQ)

297 Todays recipe is how to make Chlorine Bleach from 73% pool shock. http://tinyurl.com/makechlorine

Posted by: Julia Child at March 29, 2020 08:35 AM (h+jmX)

298 281 I just paid rent, had to use property managements portal. Charged $25 for the transaction, the fuckers.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 29, 2020 08:29 AM (8JqLB)

Digital highway robbery.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 29, 2020 08:35 AM (NWiLs)

299 If you had the flu back in December, it was probably the flu. It's reassuring to think that you had it, you're fine, and now your immune. But it was probably a regular seasonal flu. Most of us were not on the cutting edge of wuflu, we just had a regular, garden variety, but still fatal for some, flu.

Posted by: CN at March 29, 2020 08:36 AM (ONvIw)

300 An easy and quick antibody test is shortly to be released.

Let me guess, its really a Trojan Horse DNA sample that will go on permanent file with the Government.

And it will be required to get out of "Lock Down"

Unless you are an illegal alien, in which like most cases you are absolved from participating (except for receiving Stimulous, then you can come for multiple helpings)

Posted by: 🐧 at March 29, 2020 08:36 AM (uYQjf)

301 291 281 $25 sounds pretty extreme. I can see a buck or two, but I think I would call them Monday. Question their patriotism for punishing a person trying best to avoid spreading the plague.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 29, 2020 08:33 AM (C1Lsn)

Call it "cyber-gouging."

Posted by: Shadout Mapes, now with more sanitizing power at March 29, 2020 08:36 AM (PiwSw)

302 I wonder if Cuomo and the infantacide Democrats of New York, are still proud of lighting up the Empire State Building, over the passing of extreme baby killing. Karma is a bitch

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:36 AM (tjqz9)

303 heh this would be me:

"New Yorker Tries to Recreate "Italy Magic" By Singing Out Window - But is Told to "Shut The F**k Up"

Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2020 08:36 AM (Tnijr)

304 I just paid rent, had to use property managements portal. Charged $25 for the transaction, the fuckers.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 29, 2020 08:29 AM (8JqLB)

Sounds like you rent from Ticketmaster

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:37 AM (vd8XM)

305 246 Re: Red Dawn

Notice that the commies didn't air drop in to "Roadhouse".

That would have been a good movie.
Posted by: klaftern

Heh! Drunk, well armed, mostly criminal, rednecks is not the place to invade.

Posted by: Puddleglum, W Penn expat at March 29, 2020 08:37 AM (6wrct)

306 60 degrees here yesterday, so my wife and I went for a walk with about half of our neighbors by the lake.

The Horror!!

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:32 AM (vd8XM)

*points*

*Donald Sutherland Body Snatchers scream*

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 29, 2020 08:33 AM (NWiLs)

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Lots of people out and about in our neighborhood. Given the weather (50 degrees, overcast, damp), you wouldn't expect people to be out and about but there they were, walking, pushing strollers, kids playing outside.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:37 AM (cfSRQ)

307 303 LMAO

freaked, would you be the singer or the critic?

Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 29, 2020 08:38 AM (G546f)

308 293 284 279. I heard Sam and Dean Winchester refused to go to New York
Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:31 AM (tjqz9)

Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 29, 2020 08:34 AM (G546f)

Probably wise. And I don't see how Cuomo can defend that his rich NYC donors can spit on the shelter in place order he and Wilhelm dumped on the less affluent.

Posted by: CN at March 29, 2020 08:38 AM (ONvIw)

309 Grocery store is almost back to normal today. Fair amount of paper products .Donut shop wasn't open so suspect its been closed all week, can't be good news for a 3 store chain.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 08:38 AM (ZCEU2)

310 The commies didn't jump in to "Breakfast Club" either.

Posted by: klaftern at March 29, 2020 08:39 AM (RuIsu)

311 309 Grocery store is almost back to normal today. Fair amount of paper products .Donut shop wasn't open so suspect its been closed all week, can't be good news for a 3 store chain.
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 08:38 AM (ZCEU2)

Dammit, now I want a donut. And I haven't had a cheat day in months.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 29, 2020 08:39 AM (NWiLs)

312 Heh! Drunk, well armed, mostly criminal, rednecks is not the place to invade.

Posted by: Puddleglum, W Penn expat at March 29, 2020 08:37 AM (6wrct)

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Like that line from Casablanca:

"There are some sections of New York, major, that I don't advise you to invade."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:39 AM (cfSRQ)

313 Cuomo is not going to be on television bitching all day is he?

Posted by: Case at March 29, 2020 08:39 AM (U5lak)

314 Oh, yeah. Still have a double chocolate donut left from yesterday. Score.

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 08:39 AM (B95HO)

315 281 I just paid rent, had to use property managements portal. Charged $25 for the transaction, the fuckers.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 29, 2020 08:29 AM (8JqLB)

Did you pay via credit card? Some places (including my own apartment complex, the state government, Bud's Guns, etc.) charge the ~3% that the credit card companies charge *them* and pass that along to you. This is why I pay my rent by having my credit union cut and mail checks to the landlord through their web interface.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 29, 2020 08:39 AM (DTX3h)

316 Lots of people out and about in our neighborhood. Given the weather (50 degrees, overcast, damp), you wouldn't expect people to be out and about but there they were, walking, pushing strollers, kids playing outside.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:37 AM (cfSRQ)

Probably tired of being cooped up.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 29, 2020 08:39 AM (NWiLs)

317 Lots of people out and about in our neighborhood. Given the weather (50 degrees, overcast, damp), you wouldn't expect people to be out and about but there they were, walking, pushing strollers, kids playing outside.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed

Same here. A lot of families walking this past week, dressed for our goofy weather. Kids on bikes with other kids also.
I think parents are in the "go outside and play" mode

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (vd8XM)

318 A lot of people have undiagnosed GERD and acid reflux symptons, which seem like the flu etc..

Posted by: Jonah at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (tjqz9)

319
Let me guess, its really a Trojan Horse DNA sample that will go on permanent file with the Government.

just like the NSA started the "selfie" craze to fill up their facial recognition databases...

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (CeiD8)

320
If you had the flu back in December, it was probably the flu. It's
reassuring to think that you had it, you're fine, and now your immune.
But it was probably a regular seasonal flu. Most of us were not on the
cutting edge of wuflu, we just had a regular, garden variety, but still
fatal for some, flu.

Posted by: CN at March 29, 2020 08:36 AM (ONvIw)

I know I caught something in late Jan/early Feb. that lasted a good long time. It seemed like a combo cold/flu/chest congestion and possible infection. No fever and not much time spent on the head but this was different.

I have had one flu shot in my life since the military decades ago and I don't think I have even had the flu. I don't know what all this means but something floored me early this year like nothing ever before.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (hHxp2)

321 Bruce if you didn't read it take a look at the Powerline llink I did above, England is using drones to spot people out of houses.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (ZCEU2)

322 "freaked, would you be the singer or the critic?

Depends on my BAC at the time.

Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (Tnijr)

323 313: Of course he is. How dare you refuse rich virus refugees from NYC.

Posted by: CN at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (ONvIw)

324 264 Red Dawn was a big deal back in the day. Sure it was absurd, but so what about that? The Left hated it with a burning passion and that was a good reason to like it.
Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:25 AM (hHxp2)

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Disagree. It was not absurd at the time. Several Central American countries had essentially joined up with the Cubans, Soviets; Jamaica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, for example. Cuban military had developed into Soviet proxies in Angola, Mozambique, and other hot spots far from home. So, not absurd. A possibility. That's what made the movie fun.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (EZebt)

325 @Bollocks_Dogz

A new trend is spreading on social media among Italians

-- Under the slogan "We will save ourselves", Italians burn the flag of the EU while playing the Italian national anthem

https://tinyurl.com/yx3et6re

Posted by: Tami at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (cF8AT)

326 Going to my gun range in Texas this afternoon, to get a friend who bought a house and wants to buy a gun acquainted with various semi-auto types. He has no idea what exactly he wants or needs. I told him there ain't many good guns available now, but I'll help him learn what's what - safety options, size, weight, etc. Then he and I can start looking around locally and on the web. Range website says it is open - it's Texas, yay!

Posted by: Gref at March 29, 2020 08:41 AM (AMIL/)

327 even = ever

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:41 AM (hHxp2)

328 We should crowdsource "Red Midnight," a movie about a ChiCom landing near a roadhouse. Sort of a cross between "Shawn of the Dead" and "Dusk Till Dawn."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:41 AM (cfSRQ)

329 They said next month it will be set up to use the walmart service which i'm sure will be a couple bucks. But in the meantime they made a fortune, there are 59 buildings and my building has 24 apts.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 29, 2020 08:41 AM (8JqLB)

330 And had choice of tp and passed it up,must still have 30 some rolls and thought others might need it more.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 08:42 AM (ZCEU2)

331 If coronovirus were to invade a Supernatural ep, I'd expect Dean to freak out thinking he has it, Sam to hide that he actually has symptoms, and Castiel to keep working obliviously until he suddenly passes out.

Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 29, 2020 08:42 AM (G546f)

332 313 Cuomo is not going to be on television bitching all day is he?
Posted by: Case at March 29, 2020 08:39 AM (U5lak)

No. He's planning on taking an hour off for lunch.

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 08:42 AM (B95HO)

333 lot of people have undiagnosed GERD and acid reflux symptons, which seem like the flu etc..
Posted by: Jonah

And the eating habits of those that cannot cook are not helping their GERD and AR

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:43 AM (vd8XM)

334 Time to cook the sausage and waffles. See ya on the book thread.

Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2020 08:43 AM (Tnijr)

335 Bruce if you didn't read it take a look at the Powerline llink I did above, England is using drones to spot people out of houses.
Posted by: Skip

Oh geez, that's all I need.

Get out the 12 gauge!

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:43 AM (vd8XM)

336 Bruce if you didn't read it take a look at the Powerline llink I did above, England is using drones to spot people out of houses.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (ZCEU2)

Good thing they disarmed the citizens...

Oh wait

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:44 AM (BiNEL)

337 The commies didn't jump in to "Breakfast Club" either.

Posted by: klaftern at March 29, 2020 08:39 AM (RuIsu)

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Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)

338 320: Many strains of flus can feel different from others, some are stronger, some weaker. A lot of people here were getting verified Influenza B and were pretty sick. And it can lead to all the symptoms people associate with wuflu: pneumonia, kidney failure, myocarditis, sepsis. So, we are essentially being hit twice this year, flu and the bat fever.

Posted by: CN at March 29, 2020 08:44 AM (ONvIw)

339 Disagree. It was not absurd at the time. Several
Central American countries had essentially joined up with the Cubans,
Soviets; Jamaica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, for example. Cuban military
had developed into Soviet proxies in Angola, Mozambique, and other hot
spots far from home. So, not absurd. A possibility. That's what made the
movie fun.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (EZebt)

I loved the movie and was just the right age. I will just say it was not too deep on the technical details. I mean, the first scene was a town in Colorado invaded by paratroopers from Russia/Cuba and no one having a clue who they were. I am sure there was a backstory and I recall their being one, but still.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:45 AM (hHxp2)

340 Well, Miranda Lambert checked in to let us all know she's doing okay except for her anxiety. I don't know what pisses me off more. That they think we care or Fox thought this was actually news.

https://tinyurl.com/v32ubb6

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 29, 2020 08:45 AM (dUJdY)

341 Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)

The Wizard of Oz !

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 08:45 AM (B95HO)

342 This is Robert Morgan. If somebody can hear me, answer me. For God's sake, ANSWER ME.

This is KOKW calling. KOKW calling! Answer me!

Posted by: Robert Morgan at March 29, 2020 08:46 AM (Z+IKu)

343 329 After this mess is over, I think a lot of tenants should visit their office and pay in person. In cash. You know, the old "pissed off person at the DMV paying in pennies".

Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 29, 2020 08:46 AM (C1Lsn)

344 341 Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)

Hello Dolly and anything with Streisand

Posted by: CN at March 29, 2020 08:46 AM (ONvIw)

345 Posted by: Jewells45 at March 29, 2020 08:45 AM (dUJdY)

Who is Miranda Labert?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:46 AM (BiNEL)

346 The Wizard of Oz !

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 08:45 AM (B95HO)

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Ordinary People

Kramer vs Kramer

American Beauty

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:46 AM (cfSRQ)

347 341 Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)

*looks around for TJM* Prometheus? *shifty eyes*

Posted by: Shadout Mapes, now with more sanitizing power at March 29, 2020 08:47 AM (PiwSw)

348 Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)

West Side Story.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:47 AM (hHxp2)

349 337 The commies didn't jump in to "Breakfast Club" either.

Posted by: klaftern at March 29, 2020 08:39 AM (RuIsu)

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Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

The Big Chill; except I'd be rooting for the Cubans.

Posted by: Puddleglum, W Penn expat at March 29, 2020 08:48 AM (6wrct)

350 The Wizard of Oz !
Posted by: jsg

Oh, nos vamos a ver al mago

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:48 AM (vd8XM)

351
West Side Story.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:47 AM (hHxp2)

That movie needed the 101st

Posted by: CN at March 29, 2020 08:48 AM (ONvIw)

352 Bruce if you didn't read it take a look at the Powerline llink I did above, England is using drones to spot people out of houses.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (ZCEU2)

We have a fourth amendment right to armed drones to shoot their drones down. Battle of Suburban Drones!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 29, 2020 08:48 AM (NVYyb)

353 The Big Chill; except I'd be rooting for the Cubans.

Posted by: Puddleglum, W Penn expat at March 29, 2020 08:48 AM (6wrct)

On Golden Pond

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:48 AM (hHxp2)

354 346 347 348 The Sound of Music.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 29, 2020 08:49 AM (C1Lsn)

355 Disagree. It was not absurd at the time. Several
Central American countries had essentially joined up with the Cubans,
Soviets; Jamaica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, for example. Cuban military
had developed into Soviet proxies in Angola, Mozambique, and other hot
spots far from home. So, not absurd. A possibility. That's what made the
movie fun.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2020 08:40 AM (EZebt)

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The scenario at the start wasn't actually awful.

There are just some silly plot points, the biggest of which is that *given all of the above* the locals wouldn't have reacted a little more aggressively.

I think they were trying to give the whole "It could happen here before you know it" kind of thing.

And of course at that time, Hollywood was slobbering over the Soviets, so Milius had to be banished.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:49 AM (cfSRQ)

356 Hrothgar.. she's a country singer.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 29, 2020 08:49 AM (dUJdY)

357 Still think a Ma Deuce on back of truck would be handy, can use it for anti-aircraft weapon.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 08:49 AM (ZCEU2)

358 325 "Ci salviamo da soli" is the slogan

Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 29, 2020 08:49 AM (G546f)

359 Who is Miranda Labert?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:46 AM (BiNEL)

Miranda Lambert is a country singer. A few years ago her husband, another country singer named Blake Shelton, became a judge on one of those music talent shows on NBC and divorced her because he had taken up with another one of the judges, a pop singer named Gwen Stefani.

Posted by: Vendette at March 29, 2020 08:50 AM (nRNOc)

360 Okay, time to do some things.

I finished off the stuff list yesterday.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2020 08:50 AM (vd8XM)

361 Blueberry pancakes and sausages tomorrow, can't wait.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 08:51 AM (ZCEU2)

362 I think this virus hit even earlier than December. Mr.L was down for a week with a flu like thing back in October, after we returned from Boston. Had a cough for six weeks. The DIL and grandson were sick for weeks.

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at March 29, 2020 08:51 AM (Vf4Y7)

363 We have a fourth amendment right to armed drones to shoot their drones down. Battle of Suburban Drones!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 29, 2020 08:48 AM (NVYyb)

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Future Gub Thread topic: "What type of shotgun/ammo combo is best for downing drones?"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:51 AM (cfSRQ)

364 Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)
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Any Jane Austen movie.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 29, 2020 08:52 AM (Dc2NZ)

365 364 Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)

Bambi.

Posted by: Shadout Mapes, now with more sanitizing power at March 29, 2020 08:53 AM (PiwSw)

366 88 Can't find my one and only dish detergent that doesn't cause me a rash.

mlii, what kind do you like? I've been using Dawn Pure Essentials lemon--I don't have a rash problem, so I don't know how it is with that, but I have a scent problem, and this doesn't smell like a chemical factory like the others.

Posted by: April at March 29, 2020 08:53 AM (OX9vb)

367 Are you sure that Belgian feline is not a Hep Kat?

Posted by: saf at March 29, 2020 08:54 AM (5IHGB)

368 Excellent scary "virus" movie is a "Pontypool." Independent film about zombie outbreak in a small Canadian town. First symptom is a breakdown in language coherence. Terrific claustrophobic mood.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 08:54 AM (H8QX8)

369 ---
Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)
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The Care Bears movie.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 29, 2020 08:54 AM (Dc2NZ)

370 Jewells and Vendette

I should have used the /s.

Miranda Lambert did "Gunpowder and Lead" so she is probably the perfect AoS country singer!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 29, 2020 08:54 AM (BiNEL)

371 And of course at that time, Hollywood was slobbering over the Soviets, so Milius had to be banished.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:49 AM (cfSRQ)

I heard John Goodman's character in The Big Lebowski was based on Milius. OF course that was liberal Hollyweird making fun I think Milius made some great stuff. Just looking him up now and there was some great stuff.

Uncommon Valor and Lone Wolf McQuade? Crap, Chuck Norris owes that guy a career for Lone Wolf McQuade alone.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:55 AM (hHxp2)

372 "Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author"

Any movie with Matt Damon and they kill him.

Posted by: Ripley at March 29, 2020 08:55 AM (XBPlw)

373 Any Jane Austen movie.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 29, 2020 08:52 AM (Dc2NZ)

Hell yeah, Darcy needed help tracking down Lydia and Wickham!

Posted by: CN at March 29, 2020 08:56 AM (ONvIw)

374 I'm still laughing at the mental image of Dalton snatching all the commies' throats out.

The Notebook.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at March 29, 2020 08:56 AM (rWZ8Y)

375 Hell yeah, Darcy needed help tracking down Lydia and Wickham!
Posted by: CN at March 29, 2020 08:56 AM (ONvIw)

Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 29, 2020 08:56 AM (G546f)

376 364 Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)

Citizen Kane. *sees TJM and runs away*

Posted by: Shadout Mapes, now with more sanitizing power at March 29, 2020 08:57 AM (PiwSw)

377 I heard John Goodman's character in The Big Lebowski
was based on Milius. OF course that was liberal Hollyweird making fun I
think Milius made some great stuff. Just looking him up now and there
was some great stuff.

Uncommon Valor and Lone Wolf McQuade? Crap, Chuck Norris owes that guy a career for Lone Wolf McQuade alone.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 08:55 AM (hHxp2)

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Milius (in)famously carried a gun, I believe a .44 magnum.

It says something that he got blackballed and Polanski got lionized.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:57 AM (cfSRQ)

378 374 I'm still laughing at the mental image of Dalton snatching all the commies' throats out.

As Jeff Healy plays guitar.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 29, 2020 08:57 AM (NWiLs)

379 Actually shouldn't take much to down a drone, hitting it is the hard part, anything that does hit it will do damage. Birdshot and a 12ga for close certainly.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 08:57 AM (ZCEU2)

380 It says something that he got blackballed and Polanski got lionized.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 29, 2020 08:57 AM (cfSRQ)

You don't say.

Posted by: W. Allen at March 29, 2020 08:58 AM (BiNEL)

381 The Way We Were

Posted by: dagny at March 29, 2020 08:58 AM (nRWPy)

382 "377 I heard John Goodman's character in The Big Lebowski
was based on Milius."

That character was an idiot and ruined the movie for me.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 08:59 AM (H8QX8)

383 372 "Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

My Dinner With Andre

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 29, 2020 08:59 AM (NWiLs)

384 364 Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

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Gone With The Wind

Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 29, 2020 08:59 AM (G546f)

385 >>366 88 Can't find my one and only dish detergent that doesn't cause me a rash.

mlii, what kind do you like? I've been using Dawn Pure Essentials lemon--I don't have a rash problem, so I don't know how it is with that, but I have a scent problem, and this doesn't smell like a chemical factory like the others.
Posted by: April at March 29, 2020 08:53 AM (OX9vb)

Ivory. Not the kind infused with lavendar

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 08:59 AM (Z/jzm)

386 The Big Chill

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 29, 2020 08:59 AM (NWiLs)

387 Cuban paratroopers?
Bad News Bears, until the end they beat their baseball team

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 09:00 AM (ZCEU2)

388 Gone With The Wind
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 29, 2020 08:59 AM (G546f)

"Atlanta's burning Scarlett!"

In come the paratroopers to save the city

Posted by: CN at March 29, 2020 09:00 AM (ONvIw)

389 86 Good Morning Horde,

Mr. Spypeach has left once again to the front lines in search of toilet paper, it's been almost two weeks and we still have not found any. We are down to are 1 ply emergency reserves.

It's supposed to be a beautiful day today, so we are hoping to get the the local nursery, praying we won't be arrested for trying to buy plants out here in communist VA. Looking forward to starting yard work and doing some new landscaping. Then steak and shrimp on the barbie later
Posted by: spypeach at March 29, 2020 06:54 AM (7R8A2)

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Well, it's more 1-ply, but if you have a Sam's Club membership, they've got 36 rolls of Scott's available online.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 29, 2020 09:00 AM (CAJOC)

390 I shouldn't say he was "based on Milius". It was Hollyweird making an inside joke at him.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 09:00 AM (hHxp2)

391 I paid to see the new Emma via amazon last night.

Good, but actually not as good as the Paltrow Emma. Mr. Knightly wasn't hot.

Posted by: dagny at March 29, 2020 09:00 AM (nRWPy)

392 A Bridge Too Far. It couldn't have hurt.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 09:01 AM (hHxp2)

393 381 The Way We Were
Posted by: dagny at March 29, 2020 08:58 AM (nRWPy)

They'd only help with Streisand's pro-commie leafletting

Posted by: CN at March 29, 2020 09:01 AM (ONvIw)

394 Dad locks son and friends out of the house after they return from Spring break.

Good for Dad....grandparents live in the house.

https://tinyurl.com/r3bdj2j

Posted by: Tami at March 29, 2020 09:02 AM (cF8AT)

395 393 381 The Way We Were
Posted by: dagny at March 29, 2020 08:58 AM (nRWPy)

They romanticized Socialism and turned Redford's character into a shallow sell-out.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 09:03 AM (H8QX8)

396 Book nood is up, not my job to notify but letting it known

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 09:03 AM (ZCEU2)

397 I remember a movie reviewer way back when who said, "Seeing Red was the opposite of seeing Red Dawn". That was pretty clever.

Posted by: Quint at March 29, 2020 09:03 AM (hHxp2)

398 Reds.

Posted by: getting the banned back together again at March 29, 2020 09:04 AM (nyI2m)

399 A new trend is spreading on social media among Italians

-- Under the slogan "We will save ourselves", Italians burn the flag of the EU while playing the Italian national anthem
________________

Gee, it would be just too, too bad if globalism were to be one of the China virus' biggest casualties.

Saw earlier that France had stopped a shipment of medical supplies to the U.K. because it wanted to use them for its own population. So much for "unity" and the "we're all in this together" bullshit. When the shit hits the fan, the "world community" will be the first to shiv you in the back.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 29, 2020 09:04 AM (k4dH2)

400 Yeah willowed, but Sleepless in Seattle could do with some Cuban Paras.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 29, 2020 09:04 AM (fg6n8)

401 Said good amount of all paper products today at the store.
Lots of people with masks on too.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 09:04 AM (ZCEU2)

402 Good, but actually not as good as the Paltrow Emma.
Posted by: dagny at March 29, 2020 09:00 AM (nRWPy)

That was good. I've always thought she was a good actress.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 29, 2020 09:04 AM (H8QX8)

403 2083 strains have been sequenced.

Posted by: it begins... at March 29, 2020 09:05 AM (lBCgE)

404 >>Good, but actually not as good as the Paltrow Emma. Mr. Knightly wasn't hot.

Yeah, noticed that in the trailer - he's weird-looking. Also seems to young?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2020 09:06 AM (bDqIh)

405 Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 08:59 AM (Z/jzm)

I don't buy Ivory or Dawn anymore, because fuck Proctor & Gamble. I switched to Palmolive Pure & Clear.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 29, 2020 09:06 AM (6ofTb)

406 So 1917 is being advertised as available on PPV this weekend.

Worth the watch ?

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 09:06 AM (B95HO)

407 383 372 "Maybe we should make a list of movies improved by the sudden arrival of Cuban paratroopers.

My Dinner With Andre
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 29, 2020 08:59 AM (NWiLs)
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Yes. Would watch.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 29, 2020 09:07 AM (Dc2NZ)

408 Yeah, noticed that in the trailer - he's weird-looking. Also seems to young?

Yep, too young, not hot. Not a commanding presence.

Great scenery and sets tho.

Posted by: dagny at March 29, 2020 09:08 AM (nRWPy)

409 Oh, and no chemistry between Emma and Knightly.

Posted by: dagny at March 29, 2020 09:09 AM (nRWPy)

410 >>They romanticized Socialism and turned Redford's character into a shallow sell-out.

Redford likes to play SDS/Weatherman-type characters - Sneakers, Lions for Lambs, The Company You Keep.

Ick.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2020 09:10 AM (bDqIh)

411 Powerline - Orangeman while giving the Kennedy center a plane full of cash has also named Jon Voight and Mike Huckabee and 8 others to its directors.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 09:10 AM (ZCEU2)

412 >>I don't buy Ivory or Dawn anymore, because fuck Proctor & Gamble. I switched to Palmolive Pure & Clear.
Posted by: Jordan61

I hear ya, but it's the only one i can tolerate without breaking out in a rash. I gave up on trying others a while ago because i was giving it to friends who didn't have issues, too often!
Maybe palmolive pure and clear would be ok. I will try that if i cant find ivory next time i'm out

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 29, 2020 09:11 AM (Z/jzm)

413 So, is this the open thread for folks who don't read no stinking books?

Posted by: jwest at March 29, 2020 09:11 AM (mrrpT)

414 1917 Yes, the spectacle of the horror is worth it, if anything still the scope really I think would be more but good story and visual.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 09:12 AM (ZCEU2)

415 I haven't had a new book in weeks, almost hit buy on a Amazon book but didn't this past week.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 09:13 AM (ZCEU2)

416 Fading quickly, still open but not for long maybe.
Willowed threads do die quickly here.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 09:18 AM (ZCEU2)

417 Just reading about the WaPo poll showing Trump gaining and now in a statistical tie with Biden and Trump way ahead on how he's handling WuFlu.

Then someone looked into the methodology on the survey and found this: The caller always asked for the youngest male or female in the household.

Just wow. Bias much? So much for random sampling.

Posted by: WisRich at March 29, 2020 09:19 AM (OAlmw)

418 417
Then someone looked into the methodology on the survey and found this: The caller always asked for the youngest male or female in the household.

Just wow. Bias much? So much for random sampling.
Posted by: WisRich at March 29, 2020 09:19 AM (OAlmw)

Will make November's ass kicking that much more enjoyable.

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 09:21 AM (B95HO)

419 Thanks Skip for the 1917 answer will give it a whirl today.

Posted by: jsg at March 29, 2020 09:22 AM (B95HO)

420 Saw it at Target on DVD also

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 09:27 AM (ZCEU2)

421 The one thing in 1917 while the battlefield shows all the true horror it doesn't seem to extend far, though not sure seems a swath of ground the battle consumed would be 20 miles wide easily out to artillery range. Maybe this is before that occured I am not sure. The other day I came across a WWI picture coffee table size book I had for 40 years, I should take a look at it.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2020 09:32 AM (ZCEU2)

422 301 291 281 $25 sounds pretty extreme. I can see a buck or two, but I think I would call them Monday. Question their patriotism for punishing a person trying best to avoid spreading the plague.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 29, 2020 08:33 AM (C1Lsn)

Call it "cyber-gouging."
Posted by: Shadout Mapes, now with more sanitizing power at March 29, 2020 08:36 AM (PiwSw)

Son and his girl dropped by yesterday evening. He lives about an hour away, out in farm country. Seems early on there was a run on paper products and baby formula at his local Walmart. A few days later, stuff was being resold on Facebook at triple price. Enablers!

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 29, 2020 09:35 AM (di1hb)

423 Kung Flu Freakout has not slowed down Biden one bit. He is still having campaign rallies. The ten person limit has had no measurable impact. And as before the press doesn't run articles on them because it is just the same old sad doddering fool babbling on about hogsheads to the mile and onions on belts.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 29, 2020 10:31 AM (1g7ch)

424 Pizza Hut changed their crust a year or two ago. The pan style used to be carmelized and crunchy on the bottom, yeah it was a little oily but it was tasty. Now you have to pay $1 extra for pan style crust and it's nothing like it used to be, soft and flavorless. I suppose marketing told them oil = bad. Bah humbug

Posted by: Bigsmith at March 29, 2020 10:55 AM (G/mW5)

425 Posted by: Bigsmith at March 29, 2020 10:55 AM (G/mW5)
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I've got a recipe for Pizza Hut with the oily bottom that I got from a former employee years ago (my kids loved it.)
If you want I'll go find it for you. It's the real deal.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 29, 2020 11:00 AM (sGotD)

426 Posted by: IrishEi at March 29, 2020 11:00 AM (sGotD)

Appreciate the offer, but pizza is strictly a convenience food for me, I don't do it from scratch.

Posted by: Bigsmith at March 29, 2020 11:09 AM (G/mW5)

427 I would really enjoy the Pizza Hut oily crust recipe. Pizza Hut is my favorite pizza.

I live in Michigan and I get the impression that our governor is really trying to up her national exposure by this corona Chinese flu. Most of our cases are in Detroit, and involve diabetics. It's getting really irritating. She is slightly less irritating than Cuomo-but it's a close second.

Posted by: Chillin the most at March 29, 2020 11:15 AM (lonOK)

428 "What's the capital of Texas?"

Posted by: pawn at March 29, 2020 11:19 AM (Hq+qX)

429 I live in Michigan and I get the impression that our governor is really trying to up her national exposure by this corona Chinese flu.

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was that her on Meet the Press? Whitmer?
She seemed way too happy for the pandemic topic tbh

Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 29, 2020 11:48 AM (G546f)

430 Test.

Posted by: RickZ at March 29, 2020 12:40 PM (Y8PSl)

431 tablet sign in

Posted by: andycanuck at March 29, 2020 02:41 PM (TQ/zJ)

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