Saturday Morning Coffee Break

(H/T Hrothgar)

Good morning Morons.

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Why Cobs and sailors love a filthy unwashed coffee mug.

Sailors call their unwashed coffee mugs "seasoned." (Photo via NavyHistory.org)
Athletes on a hot streak or headed to the playoffs in a given sport oftentimes opt out of shaving for fear of interrupting a routine that may throw a wrench into success. Such superstitions, however, are not limited to the participants of any particular sport.
Sailors, for example, but more specifically those those who have achieved the rank of chief, have one superstition that extends into the unsanitary. They never clean their coffee mugs.
The first time I learned of this I was 23 and working in an office in Washington. The director, a Navy veteran whose cubicle I shared, had a note stuck to his mug that read, “Don’t wash me.”
When I inquired, he informed me that it was something he picked up as a sailor. He’d done this with his black coffee for so long, in fact, that he’d simply grown to enjoy the taste of the weeks, months, or years old residue.
“It adds a lot of flavor,” he said.

Rules? Opine, bloviate and be kind to one another. Oh and have a great weekend.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:00 AM

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1 All gone

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 08:01 AM (Cxk7w)

2 Coffee time... top 5?

Posted by: NALNAMSAM- not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at June 12, 2021 08:02 AM (+ldAm)

3 Dutifully called as always.
But do have a blueberry bagel for break time

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 08:02 AM (Cxk7w)

4 Good morning MisHum! Unwashed coffee mug? Uh..nope.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 12, 2021 08:03 AM (nxdel)

5 hot coffee.. Minnetonka morning !!!

Posted by: Qmark at June 12, 2021 08:03 AM (WxtNE)

6 Any truth to the thing that says drinking hot stuff when it's hot keeps you cooler?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 12, 2021 08:03 AM (uwc6D)

7 Nothing like a seasoned coffee cup... had one that I carried from deployment to deployment. Still have it but the missus makes me hid it for fear something may creep out of it.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM- not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at June 12, 2021 08:04 AM (+ldAm)

8 Coffee Nood given below...

Posted by: NALNAMSAM- not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at June 12, 2021 08:05 AM (+ldAm)

9 Never was one for the unwashed coffee cup. Definitely seen it though.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 12, 2021 08:06 AM (EQXmg)

10 Rinse the mug after use and invert it. NEVER wash it.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 12, 2021 08:07 AM (AL0d+)

11 Willowed

Before I got the new bike, the neighbors always knew when the scooter was warming up and I always had to keep the RPM low until I got out of the neighborhood.

*

Sure, but that doesn't really translate to a driver in a modern car with sound dampening designed specifically to reduce noise levels in the name of luxury.

Again, I have no problem with them. I'm part of it, with motorcycles and multiple muscle cars. With that perspective comes the acceptance that cool sounding exhaust is more about attracting like minded people to your vehicles than any hope of making a person who is passing on a double yellow because they don't see you suddenly hear you coming.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 12, 2021 08:07 AM (IqdBK)

12 When Biden goes overseas I bet the Secret Service gets really worried. He might try to take off his "If Found, Please Return To American Embassy" bracelet and then where would we be?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:07 AM (VPogc)

13 Making a cup of Kensington Ethiopian Guji.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 12, 2021 08:08 AM (y7DUB)

14 Had a co-worker years ago that said that coffee when it's hot makes you cooler, sorry to say physics says it doesn't.

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 08:08 AM (Cxk7w)

15 I have a classic diner coffee mug. It's heavy and keeps the coffee hot. Wash it? Why?

Posted by: dantesed at June 12, 2021 08:08 AM (88xKn)

16 Bike ride today is a good suggestion

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 08:09 AM (Cxk7w)

17 Photo via NavyHistory.org

That's definitely a deployment cup. Likely belongs to some PO working the night crew. You know, that guy that grades the VIDS/MAF paperwork.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 12, 2021 08:10 AM (AL0d+)

18 It's going to be close to 90 here and humid.

I'm spending the day in the pool.

Posted by: Ladyl at June 12, 2021 08:11 AM (+4oV5)

19 This morning is nice and cool. Really, a gorgeous morning. Dogs enjoyed even the fake once around the neighborhood walk we took. Hope it holds them until midday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:11 AM (VPogc)

20 Old guy I used to work with had a seasoned coffee mug. Nasty looking thing. We had to clean out our cubes one day and take everything home for a couple days while some cleaning was being done.

His wife washed the mug in the dishwasher. He was not pleased.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2021 08:11 AM (3H9h1)

21 It's going to be close to 90 here and humid.

I'm spending the day in the pool.
Posted by: Ladyl at June 12, 2021 08:11 AM (+4oV5)

You may need to change your nick to -

Prunella!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2021 08:12 AM (dWwl8)

22 i used to almost always prefer iced coffee. And iced latte was my go to. i am hot blooded so it is normal for me. But I am learning to love coffee for its own sake. I can see why people are so into it. But do be honest, I still can't give up iced tea. If it came down to only one, well, I won't say the way it wold go.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 08:12 AM (gJfTA)

23 Good morning, MisHum, good morning, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 12, 2021 08:12 AM (hcbRf)

24 Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 12, 2021 08:07 AM (IqdBK)

I hear you. The addition of high intensity driving lamps is a big plus. And, you always have to ride like the cagers are out to kill you.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 12, 2021 08:13 AM (AL0d+)

25 This morning's "Week In Pictures" is outstanding. I particularly like the comparison of Kamala to Jack Nicholson as "The Joker", in Who Wore It Better?

https://tinyurl.com/ymz8sj8s

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:14 AM (VPogc)

26 I hear you. The addition of high intensity driving lamps is a big plus.
And, you always have to ride like the cagers are out to kill you.
I always rode as though I was invisible.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 12, 2021 08:15 AM (HaL55)

27 Mass shooting in downtown Austin last night. 13 injured. No deaths reported so far.

Assuming initial reports hold up, it will be a local news story.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2021 08:16 AM (U7wke)

28
I, too, love iced tea as any good Texas boy should.

It's been interesting seeing restaurants of the type with no "history" of iced tea. Say, like sushi places adapt and start serving iced tea.

The Iced Tea must flow!*

*Rejected catchphrase for "DUNE".

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2021 08:16 AM (dWwl8)

29
It's going to be close to 90 here and humid.
Ditto. And then some.

I'm spending the day in the pool.
Good idea.

Posted by: weew, livin' free in Florida at June 12, 2021 08:17 AM (+m+uH)

30 I drank hot coffee and tea all summer those years I was in Israel a lot. It was the norm

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 12, 2021 08:18 AM (GPwVZ)

31 Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:14 AM (VPogc)

I LOL'd at the Jeff Foxworthy meme.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 12, 2021 08:19 AM (AL0d+)

32 Think imma drop a little turd here for ya!

Posted by: Cofefe Civit Kitteh at June 12, 2021 08:20 AM (n/szn)

33 A new martial art based on deception.

https://bit.ly/2ROM94H

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 12, 2021 08:20 AM (d9FiS)

34 The coffee residue acts as an insulator...keeps the coffee hot longer.

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2021 08:21 AM (AwYPR)

35 I rinse, but rarely wash mugs. Rinse, dry them in the dish drainer, ready for use the next morning. But if someone washes my mugs, I'm not going to suffer psychic trauma or anything. Life's too short, and it's shorter when you're jumping up someone's dickhole because they washed your mug. I firmly believe that's one of the reasons why some of my chiefs (chieves?), who were 32 or so, had all the youthful vigor of the Cryptkeeper after drinking from a false Grail.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 12, 2021 08:21 AM (ghoDT)

36 When it starts getting warm I use any residual coffee in the pot to make "iced coffee " and leave it in the fridge.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * seven times down, eight times up at June 12, 2021 08:21 AM (sgK7E)

37 Supposed to be first 100 degree day tomorrow, might happen today. 98 every day next week. My new swamp cooler is working great though.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 12, 2021 08:22 AM (uwc6D)

38
27 Mass shooting in downtown Austin last night. 13 injured. No deaths reported so far.

Assuming initial reports hold up, it will be a local news story.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2021 08:16 AM (U7wke)

"Police chief said the suspect may be a Black man with a 'skinny' build and locs-style hair."

Gee that really narrows it down.

Posted by: weew, livin' free in Florida at June 12, 2021 08:22 AM (+m+uH)

39 Wash or Don't Wash your coffee mugs it's up to you.

But you will wash your ass at least once a day.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 12, 2021 08:22 AM (R/m4+)

40 "Police chief said the suspect may be a Black man with a 'skinny' build and locs-style hair."

--

Was he turning his life around?

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 12, 2021 08:23 AM (O+I8R)

41 *willowed...as a substantial number of my posts are:

332 Hey, JT! Wishing you a great weekend.
Posted by: creeper at June 12, 2021 08:21 AM (XxJt1)

Posted by: creeper at June 12, 2021 08:23 AM (XxJt1)

42 Name your poison.

https://bit.ly/3pJ6qoM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 12, 2021 08:24 AM (d9FiS)

43 Was he turning his life around?
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 12, 2021 08:23 AM (O+I8R)

As far as we know he hasn't been shot yet so he's probably only considering it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2021 08:24 AM (U7wke)

44 "Police chief said the suspect may be a Black man with a 'skinny' build and locs-style hair."

He was on his way to choir practice.

Posted by: dantesed at June 12, 2021 08:25 AM (88xKn)

45 Don't clean out your bowl or change the bong water for the same reason as Navy Coffee Guy.

Posted by: Stoner at June 12, 2021 08:26 AM (cCxiu)

46 I don't let detergent touch the insides of my beer glasses but coffee mugs get washed like everything else.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 12, 2021 08:26 AM (y7DUB)

47 One can wash coffee cups?

Wash or Don't Wash your coffee mugs it's up to you.

But you will wash your ass at least once a day.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Redd Foxx has an old bit on this. "Don't forget. Wash your ass!"

https://youtu.be/uldt6Y-CE3s?t=109

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 08:27 AM (Rvt88)

48 Traveling to DFW today. I-35 is awesome. Just awesome.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 12, 2021 08:28 AM (I1+K1)

49 A new martial art based on deception.

Would love to have a five minute sparring session with Dr. Death. Full contact of course

Posted by: Sock Monkey * seven times down, eight times up at June 12, 2021 08:28 AM (sgK7E)

50 I know most Brits don't wash their mugs either. Maybe it's a holdover tradition from the British navy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 08:29 AM (6FeV1)

51
Now that summer's here.

You don't have the right to -

bring your unwashed ass onto an elevator.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2021 08:29 AM (dWwl8)

52 hear you. The addition of high intensity driving lamps is a big plus. And, you always have to ride like the cagers are out to kill you.

*

It doesn't get much more Federal Government than requiring that all vehicles have daytime running lights because they were so effective in making motorists notice oncoming motorcycles.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 12, 2021 08:29 AM (IqdBK)

53 I always rinse my mug but never seem to clean the actual carafe from my Krups machine.

So I'm probably getting that residue goodness from somewhere.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 12, 2021 08:29 AM (vuisn)

54 Traveling to DFW today. I-35 is awesome. Just awesome.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 12, 2021 08:28 AM (I1+K1)

Either you're southbound and, therefore, not going through the construction at Waco or you forgot the sarcasm font.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2021 08:29 AM (U7wke)

55 A new martial art based on deception....
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 12, 2021 08:20 AM (d9FiS)

That's already a thing. It's called "concealed carry"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 08:30 AM (6FeV1)

56 Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 08:27 AM (Rvt8

Ha! Obligatory response:

https://tinyurl.com/mm289d7d

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 12, 2021 08:30 AM (AL0d+)

57 I am so stupid
decided to take zinc today before breakfast - gassy stomach cramps ugh

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 12, 2021 08:31 AM (oEn12)

58 That's science!

https://bit.ly/3grs1O9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 12, 2021 08:31 AM (d9FiS)

59 I don't drink coffee but "iced coffee" sounds (and looks, in a glass with ice cubes) so good.

Posted by: JuJuBee at June 12, 2021 08:32 AM (mNhhD)

60 My wife's good friend from high school was visiting us from California this past week, and she was a revelation. Long-time Democrat and very happy with Biden. She retired at age 60 and lives quite well off her public employee pension. Boredom finally caused her to get divorced, so now she lives with her cats. She mentioned any number of times she couldn't believe how hard everyone in the east works. Finally, my wife couldn;t take the veiled criticism any longer and said "well, we have to work hard to pay for do-nothing teachers. It's expensive paying our costs and theirs, too"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:32 AM (VPogc)

61 the arguments still go on about cast iron.Some say never allow soap to touch them. Others say that their restaurant requires it and they use soap every time. I wish I knew the answer to be honest. i have used cast iron skillets for 30 years and still I don't know the ruled per se. Some how i get by.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 08:32 AM (gJfTA)

62 I35 sucks donkey balls. Horrific road.

Posted by: Me Aspirin Factory at June 12, 2021 08:32 AM (ISm4Q)

63 Traveling to DFW today. I-35 is awesome. Just awesome.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 12, 2021 08:28 AM (I1+K1)

One thing LBJ IIRc did correctly.

Build all these nice, smooth, big, fat, and sassy highways through Texas,( and elsewhere.)

I guess Lady Bird's program has gone away. They used to seed the roadside and such with wild flowers for an explosion of blue bonnet loveliness once you hit Texas.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2021 08:33 AM (dWwl8)

64 I've been doing pour over and French press lately. Bolder and richer, yes, but I actually enjoy the process of making it. Seems more proactive than my old drip maker (which I still have).

Posted by: Blutarski at June 12, 2021 08:33 AM (LBRls)

65 Mine's an Ember, a high-tech cup with something in its base that takes a charge via its pad, which is plugged in.

Hot coffee put into it activates something, and somehow the cup does a thermodynamic heat-transfer thing whereby it takes the heat from the too-hot-to-drink-yet coffee and retains that to then keep the coffee at perfect drinking temperature for a very long time.

You have a phone app to set the desired temp.

And I haven't washed it ever. Four years. Just wipe with soapy dishrag once in while, otherwise just a wipe with a damp one.

No part-cup going cold on you. How till the last drop.

It was a Christmas gift from my daughter.

Posted by: Monsieur Gaga at June 12, 2021 08:33 AM (4ZE6o)

66 "Locs-style'?

Is saying dredlocks if you're not black now officially wayciss, or did this guy just have really shitty dreds?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 08:34 AM (6FeV1)

67 One thing I don't use in coffee pot or travel mug is soap, had soap residue one to many times. Rinse with water and wipe out is it.

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 08:34 AM (Cxk7w)

68 Good morning horde, I usually comment on the Book Thread only ... decided to pop in and say Hi! Not washing your coffee mug - does not compute for me. Quint, being from Carolina I love my iced tea even more than my coffee (and that's a lot.)

Posted by: CarolinaGirl at June 12, 2021 08:35 AM (Kh9rg)

69 We make cold brew coffee in the summer and keep it in the fridge. But I always have a hot cup or three in the morning.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 12, 2021 08:36 AM (AL0d+)

70 Some scientists study coffee, not bogus climate theories. I am not sure if coffee research is useful to most people, however, judging by the two examples of coffee-science papers below:

Kinetics of coffee infusion: a comparative study on the extraction kinetics of mineral ions and caffeine from several types of medium roasted coffees

https://tinyurl.com/3supsj6n

Reproducibility of the determination of caffeine in coffee by micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography

https://tinyurl.com/yp5f6vax

Posted by: Gref at June 12, 2021 08:36 AM (AMIL/)

71 Some how i get by.
Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 08:32 AM (gJfTA)

I've used my grandma's old skillet for years. It was *her* grandma's old skillet for years to. She did, and I do, always wash it with soap. If soap can wash it off, then it wasn't actually seasoning, just crud.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 08:36 AM (6FeV1)

72 62 I35 sucks donkey balls. Horrific road.
Posted by: Me Aspirin Factory at June 12, 2021 08:32 AM (ISm4Q)

It always has and probably always will. Don't get me started on the signage. I got lost twice the last time. Researching some other route from here to the TXMoMe.

Posted by: creeper at June 12, 2021 08:36 AM (XxJt1)

73 I add soap to my coffee instead of cream.

So, I take care of drinking and washing at the same time!

Try it! It's a great Life Hack!*

*Don't try it!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2021 08:37 AM (dWwl8)

74 Unwashed coffee cups and cigarettes (EMT). Interesting conversations this morning!

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 12, 2021 08:37 AM (O+I8R)

75 I-35 and I-45 are the reasons Southwest airlines was born.

Posted by: creeper at June 12, 2021 08:37 AM (XxJt1)

76 I know most Brits don't wash their mugs either

TBH there are a lot of things the Brits don't wash.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2021 08:37 AM (3H9h1)

77 Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:32 AM (VPogc)

oof! that had to be uncomfortable. And it had to feel good. Looking back at my parents and the life I grew up in, it amazes me that adult friend fight over politics and other things. Maybe I lived a sequestered life in some way, but then again, it was a different time. I recall when some guy from Church invited me to watch the NHLwith his buddy.

These two went off on 2a. I chimed in pro 2a but also to calm things down. I had never seen that before. I thought friends were friends. Looking back, that guy never asked me to hang out again. I was the peace maker, I think he was ashamed. I would have been ashamed too. You don't hang out with buddies who later call you this and that. A lesson learned that night.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 08:38 AM (gJfTA)

78 Still have my old green machine shop cofveve mug that lived in my top box for decades. Always kept it clean. Enough.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 12, 2021 08:38 AM (HaL55)

79 Boris Johnson is a hot mess. He always looks like he's been tossed in a blender.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 12, 2021 08:38 AM (O+I8R)

80 59 I don't drink coffee but "iced coffee" sounds (and looks, in a glass with ice cubes) so good.
Posted by: JuJuBee at June 12, 2021 08:32 AM (mNhhD)

It is...

Posted by: Nova local at June 12, 2021 08:38 AM (b1h2x)

81 Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2021 08:33 AM (dWwl

377/281 between Cresson and Georgetown/Round Rock is beautiful this time of the year

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 12, 2021 08:39 AM (AL0d+)

82 I've been doing pour over and French press lately. Bolder and richer, yes, but I actually enjoy the process of making it. Seems more proactive than my old drip maker (which I still have).
Posted by: Blutarski at June 12, 2021 08:33 AM (LBRls)

Same here. Use a stainless steel pour over filter and drink it black and unsweetened like my dad used to. Wonder if he'd like these beans.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 12, 2021 08:39 AM (y7DUB)

83 Holy cow! Those Ember mugs are a hundred bucks a throw.

Posted by: creeper at June 12, 2021 08:39 AM (XxJt1)

84 I guess Lady Bird's program has gone away. They used to seed the roadside and such with wild flowers for an explosion of blue bonnet loveliness once you hit Texas.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2021 08:33 AM (dWwl

1. It's not bluebonnet season. That's late March/April timeframe.
2. Lots of places have the wildflowers. Indian paintbrush and all that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2021 08:39 AM (U7wke)

85 Boris Johnson is a hot mess. He always looks like he's been tossed in a blender.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 12, 2021 08:38 AM (O+I8R)

I pity his wife who has to sleep with that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 12, 2021 08:39 AM (GPwVZ)

86 he's been tossed in a blender.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 12, 2021 08:38 AM (O+I8R)

He's a fucking phoney. Pseudo-bohemian. "Look at me, I'm an eccentric genius! Waaaaa!'

He's an upper class twit of the year, and nothing more.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 08:40 AM (6FeV1)

87 I wash my coffee mug once each decade. Whether it needs it or not. Rinse once in a while when I think of it. Guest coffee mugs do get washed as many of them are shy, shrinking violets.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at June 12, 2021 08:41 AM (FtJ1S)

88 NGU, I just skimmed a DM article on her very recently that showcased her past association with satanic rituals. Complete with photos!

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 12, 2021 08:41 AM (O+I8R)

89 FM1283 from San Antonio to Bandera is breathtaking in the spring for wildflowers.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 12, 2021 08:41 AM (ISm4Q)

90 Are tastes inherited?

I love iced coffee and my mother once remarked, "Your grandfather liked it, and that way, too."
Never knew. She's said that about several things.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 12, 2021 08:41 AM (vuisn)

91 Remember when we thought GWB was a regular guy? LOL @ us.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 12, 2021 08:42 AM (y7DUB)

92 He's a fucking phoney. Pseudo-bohemian. "Look at me, I'm an eccentric genius! Waaaaa!'

--

He is a complete 180 on what I thought he was at the onset.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 12, 2021 08:42 AM (O+I8R)

93 Well Quint, we might have got off on the wrong foot. She doesn't like dogs, believe it or not, and mine are high energy (even the old one). But I worked hard to get past the early unpleasantness. Then she started in on the work theme. She clearly wanted to be home, with her cats and her MSDNC. And now we are both happier!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:42 AM (VPogc)

94 For those who love iced coffee, but don't wanna pay ridiculous prices for premade stuff or take hours making it themselves...

If you have a Keurig and normally use the largest cup setting, for iced coffee, use your same kcup at the smallest cup setting. Add your white liquid and sweetner while it's hot, and then add your filtered water ice cubes (yes, if I used filtered Brita water in Keurig, I'm not ruining my coffee with tap water ice cubes).

It's wonderful and done in 2 minutes - I'm partial to Caribou's Caribou Blend kcups, but any work...

Posted by: Nova local at June 12, 2021 08:42 AM (b1h2x)

95 Antonio Banderas is breathtaking in the spring.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 12, 2021 08:43 AM (vuisn)

96 I've been doing pour over and French press lately. Bolder and richer,
yes, but I actually enjoy the process of making it. Seems more
proactive than my old drip maker (which I still have).
I still have a cheap little plastic press that Frangelico gave away in a Christmas gift set a few years ago. Been wondering if I could open a K pod of Peet's into it and make it that way. It's only big enough for one cup.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 12, 2021 08:43 AM (HaL55)

97 85 Boris Johnson is a hot mess. He always looks like he's been tossed in a blender.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 12, 2021 08:38 AM (O+I8R)

I pity his wife who has to sleep with that
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 12, 2021 08:39 AM (GPwVZ)

Betcha he's a freak!

Screams out passionate, ancient Greek verse at climax...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 12, 2021 08:43 AM (BgMrQ)

98 90 Are tastes inherited?

I love iced coffee and my mother once remarked, "Your grandfather liked it, and that way, too."
Never knew. She's said that about several things.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 12, 2021 08:41 AM (vuisn)

Maybe it might be one of those "skips a generation" thing, because I always liked the same food as my grandparents, but not so much my parents.... Weird, that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 08:43 AM (6FeV1)

99 1. It's not bluebonnet season. That's late March/April timeframe.
2. Lots of places have the wildflowers. Indian paintbrush and all that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2021 08:39 AM (U7wke)

Yeah, bluebonnet season is over. But, as you state there are other wildflowers.

I just haven't seen the numbers that we used to see for the last few years. They seeded along the highways to have blossoms all summer long. It was nice.

I expected a big explosion of them this year cuz of all the rain. But, nope.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2021 08:43 AM (dWwl8)

100 95 Antonio Banderas is breathtaking in the spring.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 12, 2021 08:43 AM (vuisn)

----------

He is Zorro. He fight for de peeple.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 12, 2021 08:44 AM (fLVm1)

101 As long as there is no milk or cream added, sure why not?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 08:45 AM (OJoDh)

102 He is a complete 180 on what I thought he was at the onset.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 12, 2021 08:42 AM (O+I8R)

I had some hopes for him too, because he was willing to stand up to (and defeat) the insane barbarians who dismantled Nyuu Laybuh and replaced it with Euro-Maoism.

But he's just a rent seeking charlatan after all, like all the "Conservatives" here in the colonies.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 08:46 AM (6FeV1)

103 Boris has that look on purpose, to be more one of the plebes. If you go back to his Oxford days he was quite prim and proper. Which in todays Britain is a negative. So he took on the persona of the buffoon for political reasons. And it obviously worked.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 08:47 AM (OJoDh)

104 He is Zorro. He fight for de peeple.
Posted by: Cicero

There is no Zorro other than Guy Williams. Fight me.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 08:47 AM (Rvt88)

105 Today is tree injection day. We are fighting the dastardly ash boring beetle, and most of our largest trees are ash trees. I really need to move.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:47 AM (VPogc)

106 I know most Brits don't wash their mugs either
TBH there are a lot of things the Brits don't wash.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2021 08:37 AM (3H9h1)

Merci!

Posted by: The French, Who Smell at June 12, 2021 08:48 AM (R/m4+)

107 From Week in Pictures
Attention Biden Voters - Please put back your sign back up in your yard so illegals know where to stop for food and shelter
Thank You

My thinking every day for years as I pass their Leftist signal sign

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 08:48 AM (Cxk7w)

108 Cast iron - of course you use soap, but NEVER use a brillo pad or anything abrasive.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2021 08:48 AM (q3gwH)

109 I'm guessing 6th Street in Austin has changed from when I used to travel there. Hippies and cowboys and not a lot of tension in the air. I wonder what genre the shooter was representing. LMAO.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 12, 2021 08:48 AM (xEIoY)

110
There is no Zorro other than Guy Williams. Fight me.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 08:47 AM (Rvt8

George Hamilton in Zorro, The Gay Blade??

Posted by: weew, livin' free in Florida at June 12, 2021 08:49 AM (+m+uH)

111 Today is tree injection day. We are fighting the dastardly ash boring beetle, and most of our largest trees are ash trees. I really need to move.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:47 AM (VPogc)

---------

Look at it this way. Once they have their certificates they can travel again.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 12, 2021 08:49 AM (fLVm1)

112 I've been using my Aeropress to make coffee of late. It gives me one cup of strong, very good coffee at a time.

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at June 12, 2021 08:49 AM (cSyAR)

113 There is no Zorro other than Guy Williams. Fight me.
You mean Dr. John Robinson of the Jupiter 2 crew?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 12, 2021 08:49 AM (HaL55)

114 Are tastes inherited?

*

I've always figured they'd have to be, for pretty much the same reason some people think that anise (iirc) tastes like soap.

I figure licorice is the same way. People have the receptors or they don't.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 12, 2021 08:50 AM (IqdBK)

115 Wildflowers - it may have been the rain and cloud that diminished them. They need a lot of sun to bloom well.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2021 08:50 AM (q3gwH)

116 108 Cast iron - of course you use soap, but NEVER use a brillo pad or anything abrasive.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2021 08:48 AM (q3gwH)

I did use a steel wool pad on my cast iron. Once. Scorched the seasoning on, because i put the stove on high to pre-heat it for something, then got distracted and walked away... obliterated the seasoning on it...

Couple years later, though, and it's built right back up again, almost better than it was before. There was an annoying little bump or two that's gone now, too...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 08:51 AM (6FeV1)

117 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 12, 2021 08:49 AM (fLVm1)

================
I lol'd

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:51 AM (VPogc)

118 There is no Zorro other than Guy Williams. Fight me.
You mean Dr. John Robinson of the Jupiter 2 crew?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy

Yep. June Lockhart - two hubbas. She is still with us btw.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 08:51 AM (Rvt88)

119 Yep. June Lockhart - two hubbas. She is still with us btw.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 08:51 AM (Rvt8

She was in something else I used to watch... this is going to bother me now....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 08:53 AM (6FeV1)

120 Was she the mom on leave it to beaver?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 08:53 AM (6FeV1)

121 "Black coffee" like the Chief said. If you put cream and/or sugar in it, you better wash it or it will turn into a science experiment. Also, back in my day no Chief worth his salt would fag up his coffee like that.

Posted by: Darren Kent Lee at June 12, 2021 08:53 AM (B+6+J)

122 I dont use soap when I was my cast iron. Scrub it, rinse, dry, oil.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 08:53 AM (OJoDh)

123 Yep. June Lockhart - two hubbas. She is still with us btw.
That's great. She had a cameo in the movie remake that was pretty funny. Gary Oldman did the best Dr. Smith.

I'd also like to thank Angela Cartwright for getting me through puberty.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 12, 2021 08:54 AM (HaL55)

124 There's a single red poppy in my neighbor's yard/field. It apparently was swept through various drainage ditches and ended up where it sits. They don't occur naturally here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2021 08:54 AM (3H9h1)

125 She was in something else I used to watch... this is going to bother me now....
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Lassie?

A Christmas Carol (193

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 08:54 AM (Rvt88)

126 I've always figured they'd have to be, for pretty much the same reason some people think that anise (iirc) tastes like soap.

Cilantro - soap. Anise - just disgusting.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2021 08:55 AM (U7wke)

127 In 1st grade use to put a big Z on every paper I had to put in in class

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 08:55 AM (Cxk7w)

128 Are tastes inherited?

Lord, I hope not. My dad used to eat brains and eggs.

Posted by: Blutarski at June 12, 2021 08:55 AM (LBRls)

129 Washington politicos are upset that wealthy peoples tax data was released, when they should be upset that falsely imprisoned political prisoners are not being released.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:56 AM (VPogc)

130 Lord, I hope not. My dad used to eat brains and eggs.
Posted by: Blutarski at June 12, 2021 08:55 AM (LBRls)

Just because you're undead doesn't mean you can stop worrying about cholesterol!!!!

- the FDA

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 08:56 AM (6FeV1)

131 I'd also like to thank Angela Cartwright for getting me through puberty.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy

I had a um, happy place in my um, heart for her sister even more - Veronica. She was one of the kids in Hitchcock's The Birds - and a zillion other films.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 08:56 AM (Rvt88)

132 The worst thing for bluebonnets is a wet Spring before the next years bloom. Grass gets tall and folks want to mow their rights of way - you pretty much have to let bluebonnets sit until mid June so they seed properly. You can tell the natives in this part of Texas, we don't mind a little shagginess in the bar ditch for Memorial Day.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 12, 2021 08:57 AM (xEIoY)

133 126 I've always figured they'd have to be, for pretty much the same reason some people think that anise (iirc) tastes like soap.

Cilantro - soap. Anise - just disgusting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2021 08:55 AM (U7wke)

Cilantro - gets a bad rap - it's pretty awesome
Anise - gets a worse rap b/c folks don't understand "balance" in cooking - done right, anise delivers a lot to food in a good way - done wrong, it is pretty lousy...

Posted by: Nova local at June 12, 2021 08:58 AM (b1h2x)

134 There's a single red poppy in my neighbor's yard/field. It apparently was swept through various drainage ditches and ended up where it sits. They don't occur naturally here.

I lived in my house in Texas for (mumbly mumble) years and had a St. Augustine front yard that I tamed, kept well groomed and weed free. One spring this beautiful red spider lilly sprouted up. I have no idea where it came from. My oldest boy and his family live there now, and he says they show up in various places throughout the yard every spring.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 12, 2021 08:58 AM (AL0d+)

135 I use an insulated travel mug at home. I rinse it between cups, wash it with soap now and then, and when the stains get too gross, let it sit overnight with a Polident tablet.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 12, 2021 08:59 AM (nfrXX)

136 Cilantro - soap. Anise - just disgusting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Cilantro - gets a bad rap - it's pretty awesome
Anise - gets a worse rap b/c folks don't understand "balance" in cooking - done right, anise delivers a lot to food in a good way - done wrong, it is pretty lousy...
Posted by: Nova local

I love Cilantro but detest anise. Will NOT put it into my pizzelles or biscotti. Yuck!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 09:00 AM (Rvt88)

137 Quint, the seasoning in the pan makes it mostly no stick - my steel bread pans get that way too.

Cast iron is really forgiving, when it gets crusty you can scrub it, you can wash it, but if the seasoning is just right you can just wipe it out. If you want to make a hobby out of maintaining a season in the pan, you will get a wonderful seasoning. If you don't the pan will still cook

If you stew tomatoes in it you can maybe strip the seasoning off too, and if you leave a pan full of water it can rust a bit. Just scrub it out and cook bacon in it.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 12, 2021 09:00 AM (ySM85)

138 My oldest boy and his family live there now, and he says they show up in various places throughout the yard every spring.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 12, 2021 08:58 AM (AL0d+)

Bonus flowers are the best.

Not as pretty as a lily, but one year we had two cornstalks sprout up in the middle of our yard... we let them go just for grits and shins. Got two little mutant stunted ears off them. Heh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:00 AM (6FeV1)

139 I've always figured they'd have to be, for pretty much the same reason some people think that anise (iirc) tastes like soap.

Cilantro - soap. Anise - just disgusting.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2021 08:55 AM (U7wke)

cilantro = soap for 1/3 of Americans
Anise = gross for 2/3 of Americans
in other countries, from Italy, France, Lebanon,Syria, etc it is beloved. Americans can grow to like it, but it is not in our nature. Even as a kid I didn't like black liquorice.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 09:01 AM (gJfTA)

140 There's a single red poppy in my neighbor's yard/field. It apparently was swept through various drainage ditches and ended up where it sits. They don't occur naturally here.

I read that as a "single red PUPPY"

Thank God I read it wrong

Posted by: JoeF. at June 12, 2021 09:01 AM (mR6Gs)

141 I read that as a "single red PUPPY"

Thank God I read it wrong
Posted by: JoeF. at June 12, 2021 09:01 AM (mR6Gs)

Just a soggy, bewildered puppy hanging out in your yard...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:02 AM (6FeV1)

142 My little town is now, officially, among the Kool Kidz!
An actual, "Hate Crime tm".
Someone pulled down a rainbow flag on campus and burned it.
My question is, If you can burn American flags and it's free speech, why is it a hate crime to burn a meaningless symbol of gay ascendancy?

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at June 12, 2021 09:02 AM (FtJ1S)

143 142 My little town is now, officially, among the Kool Kidz!
An actual, "Hate Crime tm".
Someone pulled down a rainbow flag on campus and burned it.
My question is, If you can burn American flags and it's free speech, why is it a hate crime to burn a meaningless symbol of gay ascendancy?
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at June 12, 2021 09:02 AM (FtJ1S)

Maybe it was one of the UltraWoke who only like the new flag (i call it Gay South Africa) and find the old one offensive and non-inclusive?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:03 AM (6FeV1)

144 . . . why is it a hate crime to burn a meaningless symbol of gay ascendancy?
Posted by: Winston

I read that as 'ass send dinsea'.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 09:03 AM (Rvt88)

145 My question is, If you can burn American flags and it's free speech, why is it a hate crime to burn a meaningless symbol of gay ascendancy?

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at June 12, 2021 09:02 AM (FtJ1S)

You know, a question's not really a question if you already know the answer.

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2021 09:04 AM (AwYPR)

146 I like anise. But then I like aguardiente, which is the nastiest white rum with the flavor hidden by anise.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 12, 2021 09:04 AM (ySM85)

147 Angela Cartwright isn't a name I recognize, but I recognize her now from tv reruns when I was a kid. Amazingly, wiki says she has been married to the same guy for 47 years. Doesn't she know the rules in Hollywood?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 09:04 AM (VPogc)

148 We had a coffee pot at a USCG SAR station I was at, that received the dregs of all other pots. This skanky, stanky, nasty, burnt pot cooked 24/7 as we added to it all day and night. God help the poor mess cook who mistakenly washed it! The engineering CWO, who drank from it would tear him a new one.

Posted by: Paul at June 12, 2021 09:06 AM (MQ78v)

149 Maynard Krebs > Krebs cycle

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sweat more in training, bleed less in battle at June 12, 2021 09:07 AM (sgK7E)

150 He is Zorro. He fight for de peeple.
Posted by: Cicero

Zorro means fox in Spanish but Banderas is a guy so it doesn't make any sense.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 12, 2021 09:07 AM (d9FiS)

151 Someone pulled down a rainbow flag on campus and burned it.

Betcha lunch that if/when they find the actor, it'll be somebody with multiple piercings and fluorescent hair. Xhe will claim that xhe was just trying to "start a needed conversation" and that will be the last you hear about it.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 12, 2021 09:08 AM (nfrXX)

152 If you stew tomatoes in it you can maybe strip the
seasoning off too, and if you leave a pan full of water it can rust a
bit. Just scrub it out and cook bacon in it.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 12, 2021 09:00 AM (ySM85)

I have some really old ones,like 50 or 60 years old. I will use the SOS pad from time to time I am not claiming to be the expert, it is just what I do. There is a point when the buildup it too much. Again, I know pro chefs that always wash their cast iron with soap and water.
But also there are many that would never do such a thing as it would be terrible. I honestly don't know the answer full stop . you would think after al these years i would have one, I guess i can say you are likely not going to ruin a legit seasoning by cleaning a pan of crud. Also, many say you can cook tomatoes in a well seasoned pan. In the end, don't go by me, do your own research and experiments.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 09:08 AM (gJfTA)

153 Ever tried that malty nutritional yeast powder they have in vegetarian restaurants?
I always imagined that's what Vegemite would taste like.

And it does. Except like x1000.
But I'm the only Seppo who likes it.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 12, 2021 09:08 AM (vuisn)

154 Cilantro - gets a bad rap - it's pretty awesome
Anise - gets a worse rap b/c folks don't understand "balance" in cooking - done right, anise delivers a lot to food in a good way - done wrong, it is pretty lousy...
Posted by: Nova local at June 12, 2021 08:58 AM (b1h2x)

I don't have an issue with cilantro but my wife does. I think it's genetic. I can't eat cheese. Just tastes like spoiled milk to me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2021 09:08 AM (U7wke)

155 The media is out of control. They are a brainwashing vehicle for the Marxists. While I don't watch it, occasionally I see clips on the internet and I physically feel my stomach turn. It has become criminal, it must be somehow. One of my daughters and her family believe it all and have walked away from anyone in the family that follows the "Trump Cult" because they are totalitarians and evil. How do we put an end to this?

Posted by: Stellastwocents at June 12, 2021 09:08 AM (cRbt7)

156 Angela Cartwright > Adam Cartwright

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 12, 2021 09:09 AM (d9FiS)

157 You know, that stupid "new gay flag" thing has got me thinking... One of the core tenets of Hipster-ism is that you keep coming up with newer, sillier shit that is "cool", so that you can say you're up with the trends and everyone else is lame. It's a thing that's always been with humanity (speech, fashion, architecture, etc.), but Hipsters really ramped it up to 11.5 with the ridiculous lengths they were willing to go to to be ahead of everyone else.

That same, *exact* same, mechanism is at play with the sexual perversion crowd. They keep making up new words, new categories, new flags... just to see who's keeping up and who's just a Filthy Casual.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:09 AM (6FeV1)

158 Im old enough to remember when Trumps taxes were leaked and everyone in DC cheered. Leaking rich peoples taxes is no longer cool huh?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 09:09 AM (OJoDh)

159 Smoked Rainblow Flag is the best. Mmmm.

Posted by: klaftern at June 12, 2021 09:10 AM (r4sI4)

160 Cilantro takes like gasoline

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 09:10 AM (Cxk7w)

161 Wait there is a new gay flag? Lol.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 09:10 AM (OJoDh)

162 I have a cast iron pan used only for cornbread...not washed...stored in the cabinet in a brown paper bag.

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2021 09:11 AM (AwYPR)

163 Zorrx.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:11 AM (6FeV1)

164 The miscreant who burned that flag has been caught. No id on him as yet. He set it on fire and uploaded the video. The local paper has yet to run a story about it. I won't dignify that lame ass paper as fish wrap because the exposing fish to it would make the fish retarded.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at June 12, 2021 09:11 AM (FtJ1S)

165 Cilantro takes like gasoline
Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 09:10 AM (Cxk7w)

yes, but if you eat a gallon of it it will last you the rest of your life!

Posted by: Kindltot at June 12, 2021 09:13 AM (ySM85)

166 Cilantro takes like gasoline

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 09:10 AM (Cxk7w)

Yep...or some kind of solvent.

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2021 09:13 AM (AwYPR)

167 161 Wait there is a new gay flag? Lol.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 09:10 AM (OJoDh)

It's like a rainbow South Africa flag... Like they want Gay Apartheid or something...

I thought it was a channer prank, but i've seen it now on multiple houses with the old "Normal Boring Rainbow" flag right next to it, and those culty mantra "Gooble Gobble One Of Us" signs.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:13 AM (6FeV1)

168 Smoked Rainblow Flag is the best. Mmmm.
Posted by: klaftern

Taste the Rainbow!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 12, 2021 09:13 AM (d9FiS)

169 To me it looks more like a Intersectionality Flag

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 09:13 AM (Cxk7w)

170 I like anise. But then I like aguardiente, which is the nastiest white rum with the flavor hidden by anise.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 12, 2021 09:04 AM (ySM85)

it is decent stuff, from Columbia as I recall. I remember some gringo who tried to make a brand making aguardiente with hot spices. To be honest it was ok at best and I was trying to be nice to the guy. Turns out he was one of those guys. He would bs you about where it was made etc. in the end, it was just like a thousand other products in the late 2000s, some guy with an idea, and sourcing the booze from someone else.

But spicy aguardiente is way worse than the regular stuff.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 09:13 AM (gJfTA)

171 Wait there is a new gay flag?

In my day, their flag was a red ribbon tied around their shlongs

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 12, 2021 09:14 AM (GPwVZ)

172 I am only speculating but surely there must be $75M in the Porkulus bill for LGBTQXYZ123 causes. I mean if the Stimulus bill sent money to Pakistan for trannie causes youd think a Porkulus would send money to those causes here.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 09:14 AM (OJoDh)

173 171 Wait there is a new gay flag?

In my day, their flag was a red ribbon tied around their shlongs
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 12, 2021 09:14 AM (GPwVZ)

"I don't know where ye been, me boyo, but i see ye've won an honorable mention!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:14 AM (6FeV1)

174 Wait there is a new gay flag? Lol.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

New improved gay flag now with even more perverts!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 12, 2021 09:15 AM (d9FiS)

175 I am surprised the networks don't show "Cruising" 24/7.

The horror, the horror.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 12, 2021 09:16 AM (R/m4+)

176 How long until plain old monogamous gays and lesbians are considered Reactionary Wreckers?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:16 AM (6FeV1)

177 So on LinkedIn all the companies that changed their logo to have a rainbow are doing it wrong?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 09:16 AM (OJoDh)

178 HooWee! Bannon is on fire and PISSED over Garland threatening the AZ audit. He just told him to get the 3:10 to Yuma and try to stop it. This will be an interesting show.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at June 12, 2021 09:17 AM (cRbt7)

179 Making sure there is no cheating threatens our democracy or something.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 09:18 AM (OJoDh)

180 It's inappropriate to make dad jokes if you're not a dad.
It's a faux pa.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 12, 2021 09:18 AM (vuisn)

181 That meme: Truth.

Mr Flyover went shopping for supplies for today's big project: we're moving the workshop from the barn to the garage. It's an extra deep garage, so the truck (and my lil' toyota) will still fit. Putting in cooling and heating. A station for my wood carving, too.

While he's gone, coffee and the SMCB. I did already put clothes in the washer and make the bed, so I'm not totally lazy. Just partly.

Posted by: Flyover at June 12, 2021 09:18 AM (Rbu5d)

182 AP wins Pulitzer for its photography.

https://bit.ly/3wih8oH

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 12, 2021 09:18 AM (d9FiS)

183 In my day, their flag was a red ribbon tied around their shlongs
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Blue ribbons were reserved for the 1st place Scotsman finisher.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 09:18 AM (Rvt88)

184 Warai-otoko - does is scare you we think alike?

LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 09:20 AM (Rvt88)

185 I'm hoping AOP's digs in AZ are OK.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2021 09:20 AM (FSAZ3)

186 184 Warai-otoko - does is scare you we think alike?

LOL
Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 09:20 AM (Rvt8

Hordeminde is a beautiful thing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:20 AM (6FeV1)

187 Pelosi: 'No Action' Needs To Be Taken Against Ilhan Omar After Equating Israel And Hamas

-
Just a little high spirited shenanigans.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 12, 2021 09:20 AM (d9FiS)

188 How long until plain old monogamous gays and lesbians are considered Reactionary Wreckers?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:16 AM (6FeV1)

remember transvestites? They were a thing a couple of decades ago. Now, I guess, they don't exist. For the longest time I didn't know what trans meant. I heard of someone getting a sex change, but didn't clue in no the word trans.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 09:20 AM (gJfTA)

189 Lad, I don't know where ya been...

Posted by: klaftern at June 12, 2021 09:21 AM (r4sI4)

190 The miscreant who burned that flag has been caught. No id on him as yet. He set it on fire and uploaded the video. The local paper has yet to run a story about it. I won't dignify that lame ass paper as fish wrap because the exposing fish to it would make the fish retarded.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote

Wondering if he's familiar with the Adolfo Martinez case in Iowa?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sweat more in training, bleed less in battle at June 12, 2021 09:21 AM (sgK7E)

191 Adolfo Martinez case in Iowa?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sweat more in training, bleed less in battle at June 12, 2021 09:21 AM (sgK7E)

Don't make me have to search for it...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:22 AM (6FeV1)

192 22...we drink tea with supper, iced sun tea in the summer, hot in the winter.
The Mr is from the South, so he corrupted my Northern preference for hot tea with milk into any tea sweetened. We use stevia (because of my keto), and I like it.

Posted by: Flyover at June 12, 2021 09:23 AM (Rbu5d)

193 can you hang the Rainbow flag wrongly? i still see people and companies of goodwill hanging Old Glory wrongly. I used to tell them about it to help them, not to shame them. But these days I am a bit over it. I don't want to come off as a Karen even though I am helping them out if they are a business.

To be honest, I have to admit most wont know either way, so in some ways, no harm no foul. To me it matters, but then again, a lot that matters to me seems ancient.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 09:24 AM (gJfTA)

194 Here is a sobering fact. Last year the Fed increased the money supply by $4 trillion. In the entire decade of the 90s the money supply was less than $4T.

So only the 2020 increase was bigger than all the money that circulated in the US in the 90s.

But dont worry there is no inflation. Swearsies.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 09:25 AM (OJoDh)

195 One thing that's always bugged me... OK, fine, you can't be arrested for burning a flag, because it's free speech, and it's not a crime to speak against the government, blah blah, fine, whatever.

But it's still arson! It's still taking someone else's property and destroying it! Even if it's your own flag you bought and paid for, it's still lighting a fire in the middle of the road which is highly illegal for multiple reasons!

So we're allowed a free pass on all Crime as-such just as long as we're slagging off Uncle Sam in the process? Is that the operative case law here?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:25 AM (6FeV1)

196 . v. . into any tea sweetened. We use stevia (because of my keto), and I like it.
Posted by: Flyover

My wife always asks for unsweetened tea when we eat out. I swear the looks the servers give me are like "Sir, would you like to be seated at another table (with normal diners)?"

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 09:26 AM (Rvt88)

197 Don't make me have to search for it...
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Burned a gay pride flag from a church pastored by a gay gentleman in Ames Iowa in 2016. Sentenced to 16 years in prison because hate crime.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sweat more in training, bleed less in battle at June 12, 2021 09:26 AM (sgK7E)

198 2019

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sweat more in training, bleed less in battle at June 12, 2021 09:26 AM (sgK7E)

199 28...catchphrase for "DUNE".
Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2021 08:16 AM (dWwl

The french guy's Dune (too lazy to lookup his name) was going to be the last in-the-theatremovie I was going to go see. Then the fauci-flu. [grumble]

Posted by: Flyover at June 12, 2021 09:27 AM (Rbu5d)

200 New from Ronco! Kill it with fire!

https://bit.ly/2U30Rpq

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 12, 2021 09:27 AM (d9FiS)

201 I thought we were talking about coffe mugs? We once washed out a mug that belonged to a retired Navy Chief working in our office. Found staples and a paper clip stuck in the crud in the bottom of the mug. We saved him a trip to the ER!

He still got mad at us fer doin it!

Posted by: David Franklin at June 12, 2021 09:27 AM (iljIx)

202 Found staples and a paper clip stuck in the crud in the bottom of the mug. We saved him a trip to the ER!

He still got mad at us fer doin it!
Posted by: David Franklin at June 12, 2021 09:27 AM (iljIx)

"I carried that staple all the way through Grenada and back, you asshole!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:28 AM (6FeV1)

203 How come Hispanics can still be named Adolfo?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 09:28 AM (OJoDh)

204 40...Was he turning his life around?
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 12, 2021 08:23 AM (O+I8R)

Was going to work for Dr Zarkhova's team after he got his PhD in Math and Solar Physics.

Posted by: Flyover at June 12, 2021 09:29 AM (Rbu5d)

205 A lot of people in VA and TX drink unsweet Iced Tea. I am not saying those are the only places in the South were it is common but in my experience, yes. I don't get why someone would want to drink an equivalent of a coke, but not drink a coke. Sure I like sweet from time to time, but never with tea. At most, I can go for an Arnold Palmer. But even that drink is specifically made with lemonade and Unsweet tea.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 09:30 AM (gJfTA)

206 So, by the New Woke Times' own editorial position, the Flag of the United States of America is an explicit symbol of White America.

Does not that mean that burning the Flag of the United States of America is now legally a Hate Crime?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:30 AM (6FeV1)

207 My wife always asks for unsweetened tea when we eat out. I swear the looks the servers give me are like "Sir, would you like to be seated at another table (with normal diners)?"
I grok you. Now that I found my sun tea maker, I'll start making it again now that the summer sun is on the back porch of stately Casa Backwardio. Making sun tea got me into unsweetened tea. It's a crapshoot in a restaurant as to whether it'll be good or not. Prolly depends on how well they clean the bit giraffe that holds it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 12, 2021 09:30 AM (HaL55)

208 Crap. S/B "big giraffe."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 12, 2021 09:31 AM (HaL55)

209 Trump said that if Biden and the Democrats won the election, there would be a world wide depression, worse than the 30's. He's been right about everything else.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at June 12, 2021 09:31 AM (cRbt7)

210 Found staples and a paper clip stuck in the crud in the bottom of the mug. We saved him a trip to the ER!

Posted by: David Franklin

This is some no shit. There I was, in the breakroom when suddenly the Chief's mug appeared to be needing washed . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 09:31 AM (Rvt88)

211 209 Trump said that if Biden and the Democrats won the election, there would be a world wide depression, worse than the 30's. He's been right about everything else.
Posted by: Stellastwocents at June 12, 2021 09:31 AM (cRbt7)

I defy anyone to make a coherent case that what is happening is an "unintended consequence".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:32 AM (6FeV1)

212 Crap. S/B "big giraffe."
Posted by: BackwardsBoy

I knew what you meant. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2021 09:33 AM (Rvt88)

213 195
Warai-otoko
I don't know where that gay flag was burned but it wasn't on campus or in a street. Probably the guy's burn pit.
That's a thing out here.
Now, charge him with theft, okay. Maybe vandalism but that kind of falls apart after the Seattle/Portland riots.
Sorry, mostly peaceful protests.
The guy in Iowa that is ridiculous and stupid.
Alinsky Rule #4.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at June 12, 2021 09:33 AM (FtJ1S)

214 61...Some how i get by.
Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 08:32 AM (gJfTA)

Very hot water and a scraper only if needed is what I do. Usually only drain the fat and wipe out. Seems to work for me.

Posted by: Flyover at June 12, 2021 09:34 AM (Rbu5d)

215 Does not that mean that burning the Flag of the United States of America is now legally a Hate Crime?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Hating America is on the can do list. Hating one of the progtard tribes is on the can't do list. What I'm wondering, if I buy my own pride flag, instead of stealing it, and burn it publicly , is that freedom of expression?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sweat more in training, bleed less in battle at June 12, 2021 09:36 AM (sgK7E)

216 61...Some how i get by.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 08:32 AM (gJfTA)

Very hot water and a scraper only if needed is what I do. Usually only drain the fat and wipe out. Seems to work for me.

Posted by: Flyover at June 12, 2021 09:34 AM (Rbu5d)

good idea.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 09:36 AM (gJfTA)

217 Good morning y'all!

Posted by: tbodie at June 12, 2021 09:37 AM (VzbI8)

218 Anybody know if those little portable swamp coolers for $89 are worth it? Being retired, inflation eating away at the budget, I am thinking I could save some money with one of those. Can't afford to waste $89 on stupid.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at June 12, 2021 09:37 AM (cRbt7)

219 Hating America is on the can do list. Hating one of the progtard tribes is on the can't do list. What I'm wondering, if I buy my own pride flag, instead of stealing it, and burn it publicly , is that freedom of expression?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sweat more in training, bleed less in battle at June 12, 2021 09:36 AM (sgK7E)

Nope. Hate speech.

Clever, if also stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 12, 2021 09:37 AM (csEWM)

220 "I am surprised the networks don't show "Cruising" 24/7."

I remember I got stuck watching that for some reason a few years after it came out. I thought I'd be uncomfortable watching it instead I had to control my laughter at how over the top Pacino was and the complete lack of a cohesive story and ending. It was comically bad.

Posted by: lowandslow at June 12, 2021 09:38 AM (4thlk)

221 64...I've been doing pour over and French press lately. ...
Posted by: Blutarski at June 12, 2021 08:33 AM (LBRls)
I usually do FP, it"s about the right volume for me.

I bought some brand-new glass percolators at a yard sale years ago, still in their boxes. Large, and two medium sized. I broke the glass stem on one of the medium ones, so I use that for making tea at supper time. But I really like the taste of perc coffee. I inherited my mom's electric one, and the coffee it makesis SO good.

Posted by: Flyover at June 12, 2021 09:39 AM (Rbu5d)

222 When Boris Johnson wakes up, he is horrified to see his pillow head has perfectly coiffed hair. Grumbling, he restores his hair to its nominal configuration.

*BTW, who the hell names their kid "Boris"?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 12, 2021 09:39 AM (WFMLs)

223 Anybody know if those little portable swamp coolers for $89 are worth it? Being retired, inflation eating away at the budget, I am thinking I could save some money with one of those. Can't afford to waste $89 on stupid.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at June 12, 2021 09:37 AM (cRbt7)

Depends on the humidity in your area.

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2021 09:39 AM (AwYPR)

224 I'm expressing by fierce burning devotion to the LGBT.. i mean, 2SLGB... I mean. . X... R... 4... Z... ?

Dammit, i just wanted to burn some shit! Where's the liquor store!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:40 AM (6FeV1)

225 *BTW, who the hell names their kid "Boris"?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 12, 2021 09:39 AM (WFMLs)

A bunch of Johnsons.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:40 AM (6FeV1)

226 Florida, hot, humid and expensive in the summer months.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at June 12, 2021 09:40 AM (cRbt7)

227 I can't imagine a swamp cooler working in Florida. They need dry weather (low humidity) to work.

Posted by: CA Token at June 12, 2021 09:42 AM (+8LG8)

228 @194 Here is a sobering fact. Last year the Fed increased the money supply by
$4 trillion. In the entire decade of the 90s the money supply was less
than $4T.

=============

I thought that might be BS, so I looked it up. Sure enough, that's a fact. Wow.

https://tinyurl.com/pczc455j

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 09:42 AM (VPogc)

229 Florida, hot, humid and expensive in the summer months.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at June 12, 2021 09:40 AM (cRbt7)

Doubtful...they work best in areas w/low humidity.

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2021 09:42 AM (AwYPR)

230 Clever, if also stupid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Rhetorical question. There is no freedom of expression in post-America. Also there was a reason my mother prayed harder for me then my other three siblings combined.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sweat more in training, bleed less in battle at June 12, 2021 09:42 AM (sgK7E)

231 HooWee! Bannon is on fire and PISSED over Garland threatening the AZ audit. He just told him to get the 3:10 to Yuma and try to stop it. This will be an interesting show.
Posted by: Stellastwocents at June 12, 2021 09:17 AM (cRbt7)

Those 20 Republicunts who confirmed that traitor all need to be voted out.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 12, 2021 09:44 AM (y7DUB)

232 Those 20 Republicunts who confirmed that traitor all need to be ~~voted out.~~
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 12, 2021 09:44 AM (y7DUB)

*types* *deletes*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:44 AM (6FeV1)

233 I'm done with people saying it's too hot, period. Especially people in the south. They do not understand. And don't come back with that "but the humidity" stuff. Cold weather is death, you're in it long enough, real midwest sub-zero, breath ice sickle, freeze your socks walking to school winter stuff, your body is just surviving. Heat, warmth, is life, it energizes me.

I love the weather in the south. The humidity feels awesome. I like going for a jog and coming back drenched. I just do. I don't know if you have be from a cold place and come here to appreciate it. I absolutely love it.

Running track as a kid the cold would spike my asthma and held me back against everyone else. I started running for practice as a school kid in Feb. cold but the first time I ran on a warm a.m. practice I felt like friggin superman.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 12, 2021 09:44 AM (RlhGd)

234 105 Today is tree injection day. We are fighting the dastardly ash boring beetle, and most of our largest trees are ash trees. I really need to move.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 08:47 AM (VPogc)

Good luck!
All our large ash trees are dead, they were dead when we bought the (neglected)property.

We have found young ashes growing, though. So far a couple/three of white and green.some are yearlings, some look about 4-5 years old.

Hope your trees make it!

Posted by: Flyover at June 12, 2021 09:47 AM (Rbu5d)

235 Posted by: banana Dream at June 12, 2021 09:44 AM (RlhGd)

People haven't been moving North for several decades.

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2021 09:47 AM (AwYPR)

236 Banana dream, you're like my wife - she says Louisiana is her briar patch, she would never want to live any further North than that

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2021 09:47 AM (q3gwH)

237 *types* *deletes*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:44 AM (6FeV1)

To paraphrase Augustus McCrae, they're the type of pieces of shit that are easy to hang.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 12, 2021 09:47 AM (y7DUB)

238 153 Ever tried that malty nutritional yeast powder they have in vegetarian restaurants?
I always imagined that's what Vegemite would taste like.

And it does. Except like x1000.
But I'm the only Seppo who likes it.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 12, 2021 09:08 AM (vuisn)

I have nutritional yeast on my shelf - life saver for dairy allergy folks. I can make a "not chemically frankensteined" very good "alfredo" sauce with it...

Posted by: Nova local at June 12, 2021 09:47 AM (b1h2x)

239 The market started off the week in a dither over inflation, but interest rate sensitive tech stocks (they need lots and lots of low cost money to keep growing) finished off the week doing very well. To me, that says the predominant worry should be a flat economy. But, maybe we should embrace the power of "And".

What Carter did to America can be done again.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 09:48 AM (VPogc)

240 197 glad to know a Ghey flag worth more than a million dollar store that got razed to the ground

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 09:48 AM (Cxk7w)

241 Had a warrant officer in the Nav who got mad when someone rinsed out all the mugs in the mess. The lowly seaman hadn't been told not to.

it was me

Posted by: doomed at June 12, 2021 09:48 AM (UEq34)

242 What Carter did to America can be done again.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 09:48 AM (VPogc)

Nuts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 12, 2021 09:48 AM (6FeV1)

243 Ghey flags have feelings you know, buildings don't.

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 09:49 AM (Cxk7w)

244 114...people think that anise (iirc) tastes like soap.
....
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 12, 2021 08:50 AM (IqdBK)

That's cilantro. (Spit)

Posted by: Flyover at June 12, 2021 09:49 AM (Rbu5d)

245 Wait there is a new gay flag? Lol.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

*

It has a brown stripe.

I'm not joking.

They put a stripe representing feces on their flag.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 12, 2021 09:49 AM (IqdBK)

246 We are Texans and always will be. It goes back generations. But I recall when my mom and me went back to Texas and we were boiling. The sun was legit closer than it is in other places. The heat is simply different.

I recall the golf off season being in the Summer. That was a hint there. When your Summer becomes your Winter, you know it is freaking hot.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 09:49 AM (gJfTA)

247 We run coffee cups and everything else through a commercial quality dishwasher using phosphate laced detergent and a 180 degree final rinse.

Because I've seen things in my life.

Some things you can control and others not. Take advantage of the things you can.

Posted by: jwest at June 12, 2021 09:50 AM (/BlEx)

248 It has a brown stripe.

I'm not joking.

They put a stripe representing feces on their flag.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 12, 2021 09:49 AM (IqdBK)

Skid mark.

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2021 09:50 AM (AwYPR)

249 245 Wait there is a new gay flag? Lol.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

It has a brown stripe.

I'm not joking.

They put a stripe representing feces on their flag.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 12, 2021 09:49 AM (IqdBK)

Fecalphobe.

Posted by: GLAAD PR Flack at June 12, 2021 09:50 AM (PiwSw)

250 They put a stripe representing feces on their flag.

That's disgusting. Next thing you know, some imbecile will create an emoji of a pile of steaming...oh wait.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 12, 2021 09:51 AM (HaL55)

251 I'm hoping AOP's digs in AZ are OK.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2021 09:20 AM (FSAZ3)

I expect it's OK. If there had been some sort of wreck there, I would have heard about it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2021 09:51 AM (p6BDY)

252 233

The humidity stuff absolutely matters to me. It has become somewhat of a cliche but it makes a huge difference in comfort level. I live in a pretty dry climate and even if it is 75-80 degrees outside Inkeep the windows open and it is pleasant inside. When I lived in the SE, the a/c was on 24-7 in the summer since it always so damn sticky.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 12, 2021 09:52 AM (OJoDh)

253 If you burn your own rainbow flag on your own property you can't be charged with a crime, BUT any Corp will fire you instantly and all the leftist vigilantes will be given your name and address while the police promise to look away and not stop them. So that's how message control works.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2021 09:53 AM (q3gwH)

254 Bartender, I'd like a Molotow Cocktail.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 12, 2021 09:53 AM (rB4m/)

255 205 A lot of people in VA and TX drink unsweet Iced Tea. I am not saying those are the only places in the South were it is common but in my experience, yes. I don't get why someone would want to drink an equivalent of a coke, but not drink a coke. Sure I like sweet from time to time, but never with tea. At most, I can go for an Arnold Palmer. But even that drink is specifically made with lemonade and Unsweet tea.
Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 09:30 AM (gJfTA)

A lot of people in VA and TX grew up in the North...my kids made amazing money at a VA craft sale selling "Northern sweet" cold brew iced tea for $2/cup...It was just my green/white tea bags cold brewed overnight with a homemade simple syrup, but made at about 1/3 the sweetness of southern sweet tea (which is how I like my sweet tea - I like a "little" sweetener with my iced tea, not a little iced tea with my sweetener). When I'm in the mood to order in restaurants (which is very rare), I just ask for 1/2 sweet and 1/2 unsweet, and it's usually close enough...

Posted by: Nova local at June 12, 2021 09:53 AM (b1h2x)

256 Warai-O, you misspelled *defenestrates*

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 12, 2021 09:54 AM (WFMLs)

257 Wondering about the heraldic symbolism of putting shit onto your flag intentionally.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 12, 2021 09:55 AM (csEWM)

258 Astoundingly, Canada just rolled over on the XL pipeline mess. Instead of raising holy hell, they've just let it happen. Green religion tops self-interest, I guess. Whodathunkit?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 09:55 AM (VPogc)

259 If you haven't seen > $7 at Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Flaglink Progress Pride Flag
https://tinyurl.com/tpfv4bak

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 09:55 AM (Cxk7w)

260 glad to know a Ghey flag worth more than a million dollar store that got razed to the ground
Posted by: Skip

I also wonder what the reaction would be if it was an Antifa flag or the Revolutionary Communist Party flag? I consider thise two groups closely related if not actually linked.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sweat more in training, bleed less in battle at June 12, 2021 09:57 AM (sgK7E)

261 >>> Astoundingly, Canada just rolled over on the XL pipeline mess. Instead of raising holy hell, they've just let it happen.

Canada will produce the oil. They will likely build a pipeline to Vancouver and ship it to Asia.

Posted by: fluffy at June 12, 2021 09:57 AM (UnQlg)

262 Astoundingly, Canada just rolled over on the XL pipeline mess. Instead of raising holy hell, they've just let it happen. Green religion tops self-interest, I guess. Whodathunkit?

They are returning to the previous plan - pipe the oil to the left coast and sell it to China. Dittos with what Michigan is doing to the half-century old pipeline from Canada. Shut it down, isolate the former United States from Canada.

Cut off the former United States completely. The Left is engaging in wholesale War with your death the prize. And we sit around here joking around.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2021 09:58 AM (+LCoQ)

263 >>> people think that anise (iirc) tastes like soap.
....
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 12, 2021 08:50 AM (IqdBK)

That's cilantro. (Spit)
Posted by: Flyover at June 12, 2021 09:49 AM (Rbu5d)

My wife is one of the cilantro soap people. I wonder if there are other things like that. I know some people can't stand anise-flavored things like black licorice. Maybe it tastes like codliver oil to them.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 12, 2021 09:59 AM (RlhGd)

264 Posted by: Nova local at June 12, 2021 09:53 AM (b1h2x)

I hear ya, very enterprising there. I will always support that for sure. But to be clear. I have been around a while. And i am saying there is a traditional group of legit Virginians and legit Texans who have always preferred unsweet tea.

In fact. if you look deep into it, the Southern = sweet tea thing is a bit complicated. I lived all over the South. I recall in NC when we could only get sweet tea or sweater tea. But the Texas and VA thing rings true, and it is not about the millions of yanks that moved their from worse states. There is more to it than that.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 09:59 AM (gJfTA)

265 It comforting knowing if my murderer is a communist or a socialist or just your everyday murderer.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 12, 2021 10:00 AM (rB4m/)

266 Canada will produce the oil. They will likely build a pipeline to Vancouver and ship it to Asia.

Piping it over a mountain range isn't Green - but, China.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2021 10:00 AM (+LCoQ)

267 Here is a list of a lot of LGBTQ+ flags. From a San Fran TV station site. Holy Cow, how can the non-heteros keep up with this stuff? Everybody wants to be special.

https://tinyurl.com/vn28d39x

Posted by: Gref at June 12, 2021 10:01 AM (AMIL/)

268 And i am saying there is a traditional group of legit Virginians and legit Texans who have always preferred unsweet tea.

What kind of low life sweetens their tea?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2021 10:01 AM (+LCoQ)

269 Seni-serious: do perverts pledge allegiance to the homo flag? I imagine not but if you tried burning one in front of them, you'd suddenly be like Lot surrounded by vicious sodomites.

Posted by: doomed at June 12, 2021 10:02 AM (UEq34)

270 I love the weather in the south. The humidity feels
awesome. I like going for a jog and coming back drenched. I just do. I
don't know if you have be from a cold place and come here to appreciate
it. I absolutely love it.

Running track as a kid the cold would spike my asthma and held me
back against everyone else. I started running for practice as a school
kid in Feb. cold but the first time I ran on a warm a.m. practice I felt
like friggin superman.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 12, 2021 09:44 AM (RlhGd)

I like it too, especially with a nice breeze. The humidity reminds me of my childhood summers, when we used to sit on my grandmother's porch and play rummy 500. Nobody had A/C back then.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess - #SuperStraight at June 12, 2021 10:03 AM (Mzdiz)

271 "The Left is engaging in wholesale War with your death the prize. And we sit around here joking around."

What do want us to do, make a pipeline by ourselves in the cover of night?

Posted by: lowandslow at June 12, 2021 10:03 AM (4thlk)

272 Green religion tops self-interest, I guess. Whodathunkit?

The Green Religion is subservient to Asia.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2021 10:03 AM (+LCoQ)

273 Holy Cow, how can the non-heteros keep up with this stuff? Everybody wants to be special.

Schlichter does a good job of ridiculing this in his Kelly Turnbull books.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sweat more in training, bleed less in battle at June 12, 2021 10:04 AM (sgK7E)

274 Astoundingly, Canada just rolled over on the XL pipeline mess. Instead of raising holy hell, they've just let it happen. Green religion tops self-interest, I guess. Whodathunkit?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 09:55 AM (VPogc)

Not surprising. Lots of greentards here, too, and our politicians are worthless pussies, damned near all of them.

Taking the long view, the resource stays in the ground, and the next time demand is high, it will be worth more. So, there's that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2021 10:04 AM (p6BDY)

275 That reminds me, I was going to buy some craft cilantro-lime bar soap for my wife for her birthday as a useful gag-gift.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 12, 2021 10:05 AM (RlhGd)

276 What do want us to do, make a pipeline by ourselves in the cover of night?

Since we certainly are not going to fight back, and no one is going to rescue us, it may just be more realistic to enjoy what little time we have left.

I just placed an order for nice thick Prime Rib Eye steaks.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 12, 2021 10:05 AM (+LCoQ)

277 Local rag covers last nights mass
Shooting on 6th street with statements from Adler and other communists councilwoman. Not one says anything about catching the shooter or the limited police presence due to their BLM,defund bs.

One guess as to what they all talk about and immediately blame .

Posted by: LASue at June 12, 2021 10:05 AM (Ed8Zd)

278 I did see in looking up link agreement on this Intersectionality Flag isn't finished.

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 10:06 AM (Cxk7w)

279 >>>Here is a list of a lot of LGBTQ+ flags.

We live in stupid times.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess - #SuperStraight at June 12, 2021 10:06 AM (Mzdiz)

280 AOP, I didn't know if the fires were near you.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2021 10:07 AM (FSAZ3)

281 Canada will produce the oil. They will likely build a pipeline to Vancouver and ship it to Asia.
Posted by: fluffy at June 12, 2021 09:57 AM (UnQlg)

Doubtful. The tree huggers and wagon burners are united to stop any expansion of west-bound pipelines, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2021 10:07 AM (p6BDY)

282 Running track as a kid the cold would spike my asthma and held me back against everyone else. I started running for practice as a school kid in Feb. cold but the first time I ran on a warm a.m. practice I felt like friggin superman.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 12, 2021 09:44 AM (RlhGd)

Similar issue with altitude. I was stationed in Arizona and the post is at 5,000 feet. Took me 6 months to get acclimated so I wasn't dying after a two mile run.
Took a TDY to DC. Went running. It was like drinking oxygen.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 12, 2021 10:07 AM (axyOa)

283 233...Cold weather is death, you're in it long enough, real midwest sub-zero, breath ice sickle, freeze your socks walking to school winter stuff, your body is just surviving. Heat, warmth, is life,...
-banana dream

That's why the solar minimum should be taken very seriously. Cold is no joke.

The greenies want glaciers? They're going to get some. And they willfreeze -to death - because they have not prepared for it.

Posted by: Flyover at June 12, 2021 10:09 AM (Rbu5d)

284 If we had a free press, this would be big news. A video of Fauci's buddy Peter Daszak talking about the private bioweapons program he and Fauci were running over in Wuhan, in cooperation with the CCP.
https://tinyurl.com/xv3t9j85

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 10:10 AM (VPogc)

285 Neither my wife or I can stand sweet tea, it has to be UNsweet. It's the same thing as people who drink coffee black and those who load it up with sugar.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 12, 2021 10:10 AM (q3gwH)

286 Coffee is an oil. Soap breaks down oil. Never wash anything associated with coffee making with soap.

Posted by: B Moe at June 12, 2021 10:12 AM (0fbbp)

287 enjoy what little time we have left.

God has never promised us the morrow on this fallen world. Going to enjoy my time today by expending some of my range ammo inventory.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sweat more in training, bleed less in battle at June 12, 2021 10:12 AM (sgK7E)

288 I'm drinking my coffee with Cinnamon Toast Crunch creamer. Molon labe.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess - #SuperStraight at June 12, 2021 10:12 AM (Mzdiz)

289 Doubtful. The tree huggers and wagon burners are united to stop any expansion of west-bound pipelines, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2021 10:07 AM (p6BDY)

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Not to mention that would be one hellacious engineering project. I took the train from Jasper to Vancouver, which presumably is built on the easiest path through the mountains. Incredible ride, but building a pipeline through that tremendously rugged land strikes (the ignorant) me as a very tall order.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 10:13 AM (VPogc)

290 258 Astoundingly, Canada just rolled over on the XL pipeline mess. Instead of raising holy hell, they've just let it happen. Green religion tops self-interest, I guess. Whodathunkit?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 09:55 AM (VPogc)

I'm glad Stumblin' Joe intends to make the USA tops in green energy! Just think how many millions of acres of solar cells we will sell to places with many, long, sunlit days per year: Europe north of Spain, Russia, Canada, all of the equatorial rainforest and/or seasonal monsoon countries, Iceland, and too many others to list! /sarc/

Posted by: Gref at June 12, 2021 10:14 AM (AMIL/)

291 The absolute worst ass-chewing I ever got in my military career was when I was the mess crank for the Chief's Mess on board my ship and I washed (literally scrubbed) all of the coffee mugs.

Posted by: Bert G at June 12, 2021 10:15 AM (sAW0o)

292 Doubtful. The tree huggers and wagon burners are united to stop any expansion of west-bound pipelines, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2021 10:07 AM (p6BDY)

and lets be honest here. Though Canada loves them some Dems, they are never going to vote against their own products. I am sure they do send the pipeline elswhere or use product in another way. No one way is Canada going to go against their own product. And if they did, that wold be a legit shame. only America is so rich as to shit on it's own people and products.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 10:15 AM (gJfTA)

293 AOP, I didn't know if the fires were near you.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 12, 2021 10:07 AM (FSAZ3)

Oh, there are wildfires in Arizona? Our Moron friend there will be busy.

Looked at the map. Nearest large fire is in the Pinal Mountains, near Globe and Superior. Over 30 miles away from my place. But I was out 4-wheeling in some of that country this winter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2021 10:16 AM (p6BDY)

294 I'm drinking my coffee with Cinnamon Toast Crunch creamer. Molon labe.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess - #SuperStraight at June 12, 2021 10:12 AM (Mzdiz)

I'm drinking coffee with the dog.
You win.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 12, 2021 10:16 AM (axyOa)

295 105 Today is tree injection day. We are fighting the dastardly ash boring beetle, and most of our largest trees are ash trees. I really need to move.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

yeah, our guy should com around soon - we need to clear off the twigs/ branches hubby piled under it a few weeks ago

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 12, 2021 10:16 AM (oEn12)

296 That reminds me, I was going to buy some craft cilantro-lime bar soap for my wife for her birthday as a useful gag-gift.

There's "Big Ass Bar Of Soap" you can buy, made in the same factory as was for the US military. Impressive.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 12, 2021 10:16 AM (XVgpK)

297 I used to work for a bunch of submariners. They had those heavy ceramic wardroom mugs, and no, don't you dare wash them.

They said worst case if you ran out of coffee, you just put hot water in the cup, and you had coffee.

Posted by: blaster at June 12, 2021 10:18 AM (Yoq4u)

298 My husband, the old preacher, hates it when someone washes his coffee mug. So he hides it in dark crevice in the kitchen where I can easily ignore it and not accidentally wash it. I don't get it but, whatever. It makes him happy.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at June 12, 2021 10:18 AM (iNCpG)

299 make the bed
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What does that even mean??...

Posted by: lin-duh at June 12, 2021 10:18 AM (UUBmN)

300 258 Astoundingly, Canada just rolled over on the XL pipeline mess.
Instead of raising holy hell, they've just let it happen. Green religion
tops self-interest, I guess. Whodathunkit?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 09:55 AM (VPogc)

they hated them some Bush, remember Soft wood lumber? They really hated them some Trump. You make a good point, they should be raising holy hell. At least give the people in this country on your side a bit of bluster. Why give up so easily after so many have fought for so long against the professional left?

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 10:18 AM (gJfTA)

301 Not to mention that would be one hellacious engineering project. I took the train from Jasper to Vancouver, which presumably is built on the easiest path through the mountains. Incredible ride, but building a pipeline through that tremendously rugged land strikes (the ignorant) me as a very tall order.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 10:13 AM (VPogc)

There already is a pipeline through there. Not quite such a task as building a road or rail line. Grades and curves don't matter as much.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2021 10:19 AM (p6BDY)

302 KT's nood.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 12, 2021 10:19 AM (ju2Fy)

303 The absolute worst ass-chewing I ever got in my military career was when I was the mess crank for the Chief's Mess on board my ship and I washed (literally scrubbed) all of the coffee mugs.
Posted by: Bert G at June 12, 2021 10:15 AM (sAW0o)

My ol man's only surface cruise was in '36 aboard the old Lexington. He went to subs after that. He keep his coffee cup from that cruise. He had it all his life. It was a basic white cup but well seasoned.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 12, 2021 10:19 AM (axyOa)

304 Windows 10 insists on sending me WaPo news alerts. Every time I go to try to turn that shit off, I get a "compatibility problem", referring not to me personally (which is what I first thought the Redmond folks were saying) but instead to my Windows install.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 10:20 AM (VPogc)

305 Slept in this am. Woke up at 8:30. Before coffee was even ready the door bell rings. Was the guy to do an estimate for replacement gutters. He was supposed to come this afternoon but he was "in the neighborhood."

Posted by: Infidel at June 12, 2021 10:20 AM (E0OEG)

306 Yeah here it is - "Duke Cannon supply co."

"Big Ass Brick of Soap" Smells Like Naval Supremacy."

Duke Cannon doesn't dine with vegans, and he could give a damn about your new selfie stick.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 12, 2021 10:20 AM (XVgpK)

307 There already is a pipeline through there. Not quite
such a task as building a road or rail line. Grades and curves don't
matter as much.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2021 10:19 AM (p6BDY)

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wow. Tough country to build in.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 10:21 AM (VPogc)

308 Those 20 Republicunts who confirmed that traitor all need to be voted out.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 12, 2021 09:44 AM (y7DUB)

One of them was McConnell, and he encouraged the rest to do so.

So VOTE HARDER bishes.

Posted by: blaster at June 12, 2021 10:21 AM (Yoq4u)

309 they hated them some Bush, remember Soft wood lumber? They really hated them some Trump. You make a good point, they should be raising holy hell. At least give the people in this country on your side a bit of bluster. Why give up so easily after so many have fought for so long against the professional left?
Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 10:18 AM (gJfTA)

Too many of our politicians are the professional Left, that's why. People I know in the industry are basically resigned to seeing a decade of stagnation.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2021 10:22 AM (p6BDY)

310 The Navy Unwashed coffee mug really is a superstition, and one I can attest to.

My cup on my Destroyer went unwashed all through the run up to Desert Storm... got a new 'Kid' in my division transferred in while we were out... who was tasked with cleaning my office... he, not knowing, washed my cup.

My subordinates jokingly told me, while at my 6 PM turnover meeting, acting like it was a HUGE deal, as a joke on the newbie. Laughs all around...

The next day, during an Underway Replenishment, our ship lost all electric power, and ran into the USS Kansas City, trashing our Sonar Dome, which meant we could not go over 20 Knots for the duration of Storm.

This is how people end of doing Superstitions, even though they don't REALLY believe.... out of a 'but, what if'...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 12, 2021 10:22 AM (oHd/0)

311 so all liquorice based liquors are called amari of amaros. The key word there is "bitter". Just like many in the South can't stand unsweet tea, most Americans don't exactly go crazy when someone describes a drink as "bitter".

It is funny, because in so many countries, these liquors are popular. They taste like liquorice if you are lucky. The strongest versions then add in fresh squeezed cilantro.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 10:22 AM (gJfTA)

312 ok, I made that last part up.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 10:23 AM (gJfTA)

313 Windows 10 insists on sending me WaPo news alerts. Every time I go to try to turn that shit off, I get a "compatibility problem", referring not to me personally (which is what I first thought the Redmond folks were saying) but instead to my Windows install.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 10:20 AM (VPogc)

Somebody here told us of a way to shut that off, yesterday. I didn't pay attention, since I don't run Win10.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2021 10:24 AM (p6BDY)

314 trollololol

Putin says Trump is an 'extraordinary' and 'talented individual' who is an outsider to the US political establishment, unlike 'career man' Biden

https://tinyurl.com/6k9d65c

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 12, 2021 10:28 AM (oEn12)

315 313 Windows 10 insists on sending me WaPo news alerts. Every time I go to try to turn that shit off, I get a "compatibility problem", referring not to me personally (which is what I first thought the Redmond folks were saying) but instead to my Windows install.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 12, 2021 10:20 AM (VPogc)

Somebody here told us of a way to shut that off, yesterday. I didn't pay attention, since I don't run Win10.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Right click the bar at the bottom of the screen. You'll see a check on 'Show ***', and just un check it. I found it earlier this morning while looking for a way to shut it off. It was annoying me.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 12, 2021 10:43 AM (8Sqzu)

316 I learned to drink coffee continuously in the Marines.
My Gunny had this coffee mug he carried everywhere, rugged it survive several deployments and two tours in Vietnam as an Infantry Marine and Plt Sgt
You could almost make coffee in it by just pouring in hot water!
Me? I had this old plastic Michelob mug, I got it at the PX at Camp Geiger during ITR and carried it for four years everywhere.
My wife finally threw it out when I wasn't looking LOL long after I got out.
I do the same now unless the wife washes it all I do is rinse it out.

Semper Coffee!

Posted by: obsidian at June 12, 2021 10:44 AM (7+yqP)

317 A new sailor had just joined the ship, and was assigned to be a mess steward supporting the chief's mess. On one of the first couple of days there he notices the filthy coffee mugs and washes them all. They were p--------------d!!The sailor didn't get in any trouble over it, he had no idea about the tradition. But they did reassign him to the general mess.

Posted by: you're in hell the world ended at June 12, 2021 11:00 AM (r8L0P)

318 My father would not even drink coffee from a cup that wasn't white on the inside and I have inherited that trait. Probably racism. Anyway, clean coffee maker and cups is a must. Sailors have been at sea too long. LOL

Posted by: leber at June 12, 2021 11:03 AM (BWpOj)

319 148 We had a coffee pot at a USCG SAR station I was at, that received the dregs of all other pots. This skanky, stanky, nasty, burnt pot cooked 24/7 as we added to it all day and night. God help the poor mess cook who mistakenly washed it! The engineering CWO, who drank from it would tear him a new one.
Posted by: Paul at June 12, 2021 09:06 AM (MQ78v)

What a great story!

Posted by: m at June 12, 2021 11:13 AM (RYc1G)

320 LOL! So true.
We were on WestPac and washed the Chief's mug for him.
Fireworks ensued.

Posted by: Cluebat at June 12, 2021 12:59 PM (xpbzs)

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