Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

The lights are all blinking red.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Come on, man.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

Bark louder, little dog.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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  1. 1.

    General Winfield Stuck

    I think you previously posted the cat in box photo. And I am envious of the German Shepard, sitting here sweating like a stuck pig.

  3. 3.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    These Wednesday Night Open Threads are getting to be an every night thing, huh?

  6. 6.

    Brian J

    Anyone have any idea of why I feel like I am drunk after a large meal even when I haven’t had a sip of alcohol? For the past few days, each time I’ve eaten a very large meal either for breakfast or lunch, I’ve been exhausted after wards, to the point where it feels like I am drunk. Maybe it’s a caffeine crash, but I’d like to know for sure. I haven’t had anything like turkey, which is known to make people sleepy.

  7. 7.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Meh Crystal Ball says there will be strong HealthCare bill passed before the August recess, with Public Option, mandatory coverage, and paid for with a tax on republican whoring.

  9. 9.

    Max

    @Brian J: Get your sugar checked.

    I was diagnosed with diabetes about three weeks ago and what you describe is similar to how I felt.

  10. 10.

    JK

    One of the things that pissed me off most about the media coverage of Michael Jackson’s death was the orgy of analysis devoted to his MOONWALK. Few things were more nauseating in recent wks than Brain Williams, Charlie Gibson, and Anderson Cooper pontificating with awe and reverence over MJ’s MOONWALK.

    The following set list commemorates the 40th anniversary (this week) of Neil Armstrong’s MOONWALK. This is the MOONWALK that actually matters in my opinion

    Across the Universe – The Beatles
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj-4t9drUlM
    Amazing Journey – The Who
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9U-7GdvuEc
    Child of the Moon – The Rolling Stones
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUrAZGrLM60
    Man On the Moon – REM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hKSYgOGtos
    Fly Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znjEVqSmUSE
    Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon – The Three Degrees
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFh3krPei7M

  12. 12.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Max:

    I was diagnosed with diabetes about three weeks ago and what you describe is similar to how I felt.

    I’m hanging on by my finger nails with an A1C test of 6.2 every six months for the past 18. with fasting blood sugar right around 125. Yes, Brian, I think you need to get to a doc. Maybe even an ER with that strong a reaction.

  13. 13.

    RedKitten

    Anyone have any idea of why I feel like I am drunk after a large meal even when I haven’t had a sip of alcohol? For the past few days, each time I’ve eaten a very large meal either for breakfast or lunch, I’ve been exhausted after wards, to the point where it feels like I am drunk.

    You might want to get your glucose levels checked. If you’re insulin-resistant or borderline (or full-blown) diabetic, and you eat too many carbs, you really do feel kind of weird and disoriented, and then desperate for a nap. If you have a diabetic friend, ask if he or she can come by an hour after you have one of those big meals so you can use their kit (you might want to give him/her some money for the lancets and strips that you use, as those things are freaking expensive). Test your blood one hour and two hours after eating, and see what it says. If it’s not good, go see your doc.

    Conversely, when you eat a very large meal, a lot of your blood flow travels to your digestive organs in order to process all that food, so you might have a bit of reduced blood flow elsewhere, leading to fatigue and a bit of dizziness.

    And no, I’m not a doctor. Nor have I played one on TV. But I did play it a few times as a kid, if that counts for anything.

  15. 15.

    Brian J

    @Max:

    Hmm, that’s a thought. Is that the sort of thing that can be checked in a general check up or does it require a special appointment?

  16. 16.

    harlana pepper

    I especially like the dog going Galt in the pool. It’s so appropriate. All he needs is a little drink with an umbrella and a lap-dancing Collie.

  17. 17.

    General Winfield Stuck

    . But I did play it a few times as a kid, if that counts for anything.

    Yes, I was a curious Obgyn at age 8.

  18. 18.

    mcd

    You know. The scariest thing about Area 51 is the 50 that we don’t know about.

    And this may be the greatest product sold on Amazon.com. The customer reviews are just top-notch. It’s an amazing day when you stumble on creative gold like this. Also.

  19. 19.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Laura W:

    He tells the same jokes more than once too.
    Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course.

    Attending to this blog all day every day must seem like groundhog day care hell.

  21. 21.

    geg6

    General Winfield Stuck: And I’ll bet that at age 8 you were a better OB/GYN than Coburn is to this day.

  22. 22.

    Max

    Brian J – have your doc run a full blood panel. If your glucose is high (mine was 800) he will run a Ha1c. My initial a1c was 14.4. Two weeks on Metformin it’s @ 12.2 and headed down. Normal is under 6.

    I’ve had to change my diet and need to lose weight and exercise but the doctor expects it to be controlled without mess in short order.

    General – well done! Tips to share for a newbie?

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    And I’m not sure what this cat is up to:

    Obviously, he thinks he’s an All-Star. Of course that makes him no different from any other cat.

  25. 25.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    It sounds like you may be an alcoholic Brian. Do you wake up feeling like a truck ran over ya and a cat shit in your mouth?

  27. 27.

    Brian J

    Brian J – have your doc run a full blood panel. If your glucose is high (mine was 800) he will run a Ha1c. My initial a1c was 14.4. Two weeks on Metformin it’s @ 12.2 and headed down. Normal is under 6.

    I’ve had to change my diet and need to lose weight and exercise but the doctor expects it to be controlled without mess in short order.

    I’ve been meaning to get a physical/general check up for a long time now. I haven’t had one in a while, even with health insurance, primarily because I’ve been healthy. I’m never sick, and while I was getting heavier and heavier this past fall, I recently lost 35-40 pounds.

  29. 29.

    geg6

    mcd: I actually know someone who worked at Area 51. Air Force, ex-Thunderbird, and did work on drones when they were being developed. He wouldn’t talk about what went on there, but he did say he’d never seen a theory on it that was even close to correct. I don’t know if he was telling the truth, but there you go. I believe him. Which might be an even scarier thing, that we can’t imagine it. Something beyond what the UFO nutters can dream up? Must be some crazy shit.

  31. 31.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @geg6:

    And I’ll bet that at age 8 you were a better OB/GYN than Coburn is to this day.

    Well, I didn’t sterilize any 13 year old girls without their consent.

    “Dr. Tom Coburn sterilized me without my consent — verbal or written — and I know he’s stating that he got oral consent. That is not true,” Plummer said at a news conference.

    And there’s more.

    In an interview this week on the Tulsa radio station KRMG, Coburn was asked: “To your knowledge, could this situation have happened, or has happened with any other women?”

    Coburn, a physician, replied: “I’ve done this lots to women who have come in with emergency things who have asked me to sterilize them, underage. When they’ve already had three babies.”

    Underage with three babies, right. With oral consent no less. The man is a godamned lunatic, and a US Senator.

  33. 33.

    Tim F.

    @mcd:

    Thank you for pointing me to that link. My wife has a fantastic recipe for stewed rabbit with the bone on that we can hardly make anymore because the major producer in China shut down for a while. Although $38 is a bit steep, if that is farm rabbit from the States we will be placing an order soon.

  34. 34.

    demkat620

    @geg6: Or it could be nothing. Nobody ever theorizes that what actually goes on at Area 51 is nothing. ;^)

  36. 36.

    Brian J

    I’m hanging on by my finger nails with an A1C test of 6.2 every six months for the past 18. with fasting blood sugar right around 125. Yes, Brian, I think you need to get to a doc. Maybe even an ER with that strong a reaction.

    I’m actually feeling a little nerve wracked with all of this diabetes talk. It’s provoking a much stronger reaction than how tired I felt.

    It sounds like you may be an alcoholic Brian. Do you wake up feeling like a truck ran over ya and a cat shit in your mouth?

    That’s just it: I don’t drink that much any more. I didn’t have anything at all. I was wondering if it was a caffeine crash, since I usually drink two cups of coffee in the morning and then perhaps some diet soda (along with water, which I’ve started to drink more and more) every day. Today at lunch, I down two or three diet sodas, along with my two cups of coffee.

    I’d say the biggest issue when I wake up, by the way, is my very broad shoulders and back feeling like someone took a baseball bat to them. It’s probably because I toss and turn every five minutes or so, toss pillows across the room, and rip the sheets off my bed as a sleep.

  37. 37.

    JenJen

    @Laura W: @demkat620: Thanks, y’all! That line’s been in my head all day and I had to search like hell to find a clip. :-)

    Keeping with the Sotomayor topic, one of the funny comments I read somewhere tonight was, “I hear Disney is working on an animatronic Pat Buchanan for their new “Hall of Cracker Racists” attraction.” It was probably over at Media Matters; there are some surprisingly funny mofo’s up in there.

    And Laura, dahling… have you tried B&J’s Stephen Colbert Americone Dream yet? Slurp!

  38. 38.

    Brian J

    Brian – go. I was healthy. Until I wasn’t.

    I’m definitely going to talk to my mom later tonight about this. She’s a nurse.

    Thanks for your help.

  39. 39.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Brian J:

    I’m actually feeling a little nerve wracked with all of this diabetes talk. It’s provoking a much stronger reaction than how tired I felt.

    Shouldn’t feel nerve wracked. It can be controlled if that’s the problem. And It’s a very common malady.

  40. 40.

    geg6

    General Winfield Stuck: I know! He’s a complete psychopath. The shit he spouts about women and reproductive rights is the kind of invective you only hear on a stroll through the solitary confinement pod of a maximum security prison dressed in a bikini.

  41. 41.

    linda

    has that ever been explained — why cats looove to squeeze into those small boxes/bags/drawers.

    these photos always crack me up… american pets do have the life. certainly the ones here..

  42. 42.

    Brian J

    Shouldn’t feel nerve wracked. It can be controlled if that’s the problem. And It’s a very common malady.

    Don’t ask me why, but certain things shake me to my core. When we’d talk about HIV/AIDS in middle and high school, I’d start to sweat and pant, so much so that a few times, I think I had to leave the room.

  44. 44.

    JK

    Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) impersonates a Republican when discussing Obama

    “Barack Obama is very unpopular,” said Boren, who represents Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District. “He got 34 percent of the vote statewide, and less in our district. If he were to run for re-election today, I bet it would be even worse.”

    Boren points out that he does support some of Obama’s initiatives, like the economic stimulus package. He has voted for Obama-supported bills 81 percent of the time, according to a recent Congressional Quarterly study. But despite this, he said the president is too liberal. “It would be a lot nicer if we had someone who was in the middle,” he said. “Bill Clinton won our district. A lot of people don’t remember that, but he, in 1996, carried this district. I think if you have someone who governs from the middle, who’s pragmatic, who works with both parties. President Obama talks a lot about bipartisanship. If you look at some of the legislation, he may have one or two Republicans.”

    h/t http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0709/Boren_goes_nuclear_on_Obama.html?showall

  45. 45.

    Roger Moore

    @mcd:

    And this may be the greatest product sold on Amazon.com. The customer reviews are just top-notch. It’s an amazing day when you stumble on creative gold like this. Also.

    Wow. Just wow. Those reviews are just full of win.

  47. 47.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Don’t ask me why, but certain things shake me to my core

    I get that way about Clowns, specially evil ones/

  48. 48.

    RedKitten

    I’d say the biggest issue when I wake up, by the way, is my very broad shoulders and back feeling like someone took a baseball bat to them. It’s probably because I toss and turn every five minutes or so, toss pillows across the room, and rip the sheets off my bed as a sleep.

    Well, studies have shown that sleep deprivation IS associated with diabetes and glucose intolerance. If nothing else, it’s worth working on the sleep problem because of all of the other crap that sleep deprivation does to you. If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of mattress and pillows do you use?

  50. 50.

    Violet

    @Brian J:

    I’d say the biggest issue when I wake up, by the way, is my very broad shoulders and back feeling like someone took a baseball bat to them. It’s probably because I toss and turn every five minutes or so, toss pillows across the room, and rip the sheets off my bed as a sleep.

    Have you ever been checked for sleep issues? A lot of health problems come on as a result of lack of sleep. Even if you think you’re sleeping well, many times you aren’t. A close friend was diagnosed with restless leg syndrome. I know, all the late night comedians think it’s a joke. It isn’t. It’s real and completely messes with your sleep and thus your life. That level of tossing and turning and ripping sheets off the bed (do you have to sleep with the sheets untucked and your feet free?), is not atypical for RLS.

    Not saying you have RLS. You might have a different sleep issue, or no sleep issues at all. But health problems do often follow sleep problems. Might be another thing to chat with the doctor about if you are going anyway.

    Let me know if you want to chat more about RLS. I’ve got plenty of info and experience with that, via my friend’s experience.

  51. 51.

    RedKitten

    Don’t ask me why, but certain things shake me to my core

    I get that way about Clowns, specially evil ones/

    Balloons. Not so much the balloons themselves, but if someone is blowing up a balloon and it is getting too strained and looks like it might pop, I start getting really freaked out, almost to the point of tears. I hate those ads for car dealerships when they’re celebrating a birthday and they show a graphic of a balloon being blown up until it pops.

  52. 52.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Brian J: Same here. I can’t count the number of times I swore off giving the old guys blowjobs in the mall bathroom.

  53. 53.

    Brian J

    By the way, has anyone been watching “Hung” on HBO? I’ve only seen one full episode and will watch the second episode later tonight, but it’s pretty amusing and has several themes, like isolation and financial despair in a dying city, that seem particularly relevant.

  54. 54.

    asiangrrlMN

    @JenJen: You and me both, sister. I have only seen snippets and listened to a bit today, but when Sessions and Graham both started into her, I almost lost it. She sat there so calmly taking her notes (in her bright-colored jackets. Loved that touch), whereas I would have been tempted to say, “Look, you motherfuckers. You don’t get it. I’m a damn good judge. Just because you don’t fucking like the way I look–that’s your fucking problem. What a bunch of cry-babies.” Then I would have flipped them the bird to finish off my complete meltdown. The posturing done yesterday was ridiculous and insulting.

    I gotta say, these open threads with pet pictures are my favorite posts at BJ. I just love them.

  56. 56.

    geg6

    Tapper made “Worst Persons.”. Can’t blame KO for going there. It’s fucking Tapper. Isn’t he a gossip columnist or something?

  57. 57.

    Laura W

    @Brian J:

    By the way, has anyone been watching “Hung” on HBO?

    God has given us a dark wine so potent that,
    drinking it, we leave the two worlds.

    God has put into the form of hashish a power
    to deliver the taster from self-consciousness.

    God has made sleep so
    that it erases every thought.

    God made Majnun love Layla so much that
    just her dog would cause confusion in him.

    There are thousands of wines
    that can take over our minds.

    Don’t think all ecstacies
    are the same!

    Jesus was lost in his love for God.
    His donkey was drunk with barley.

    Drink from the presence of saints,
    not from those other jars.

    Every object, every being,
    is a jar full of delight.

    Be a conoisseur,
    and taste with caution.

    Any wine will get you high.
    Judge like a king, and choose the purest,

    the ones unadulterated with fear,
    or some urgency about “what’s needed.”

    Drink the wine that moves you
    as a camel moves when it’s been untied,

    and is just ambling about.

    ~Mathnawi IV, 2683-96
    The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks

    *****
    Sorry, what, Brian?

  59. 59.

    JenJen

    @asiangrrlMN: Amazing that they were pondering her “temperament” while she sat there showing far more dignity and grace than they were. I just adore this woman, I really do. And I would give ANYTHING to see what she was scribbling on that yellow legal pad while those sanctimonious backwater Senatorial jackoffs were lecturing her. (Hmmm… idea!!)

    I realize our gracious host, John, can’t understand why anyone is watching these hearings, but he’s really missing out. It’s been fascinating, watching these GOP Senators pander to and prove their idiotic, xenophobic, sexist bona fides to what’s left of their base. I’ve never seen anything like it. There have been times during the hearings that I’ve actually been shocked at their tone, and that has surprised me.

    By the way, this is the best political cartoon I’ve seen on Sotomayor yet:

    http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/pccartoons/permalink.asp?artist=davies&date=090713

  60. 60.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @slag:

    Thanks for posting that. the “Say Heh” kid was my childhood baseball idle. I would pester anybody and everybody to take me to old Crosley Field when the Giants were in town to play the Reds. And would plant myself right behind the backstop for the entire game. The several Home Runs he hit that I saw, are etched into my memories with crystal clarity.

  61. 61.

    Lesley

    I love how a dog can take over the whole couch. There is no room for anyone or anything else on that sofa.

  62. 62.

    steve s

    And I would give ANYTHING to see what she was scribbling on that yellow legal pad while those sanctimonious backwater Senatorial jackoffs were lecturing her.

    “Must….control….Fist….of…Death…..”

  63. 63.

    Johnny B. Guud

    It’s amazing. I was just channel surfing, landed on CNN for the first time in a while and Larry King’s topic tonight?

    Michael Jackson, of course.

    Good grief…

  64. 64.

    SixStringFanatic

    In case you weren’t watching Keith Olbermann tonight, it seems the other shoe has dropped for Maj. Stefan Cook, only it wasn’t a shoe anyone was expecting….
    From Dailykos diarist sierrak9s:

    “As it turns out, Maj. Cook was a reservist, employed in civilian life by a DOD contractor, Simtech, Inc. We are all aware that his military command has revoked his deployment orders, telling him that he’s not wanted anymore. But that’s not all. Today (or yesterday, it’s hard to tell on the Freeper and WingNutDaily sites), Maj. Cook was informed that the DOD has also advised Simtech that he is no longer welcome at the DOD facility where Simtech was performing services, and as a result, Simtech doesn’t have a job for Maj. Cook anymore.”

    The entire diary entry quoted can be found here.
    One word of caution. This may not yet have been confirmed by an non-wingnut organizations.

  67. 67.

    harlana pepper

    @steve s: un-fucking-believable re: repubes masturbating the “wise latina” thing; rachel maddow beating up paddy buke now, he will guest tomorrow nite, should be juicy

  68. 68.

    Cat Lady

    @Brian J:

    I haven’t seen it, but heard an interview on NPR last week with the producer/writers IIRC. They were very thoughtful and insightful, and have a lot to say in that show. They described choosing the actor in a casting call, who actually is hung. That was part of the audition. It got my attention! Too bad I don’t have HBO.

  70. 70.

    SixStringFanatic

    I give the fuck up.
    Somewhere in a Dailykos diary is the story of Maj. Cook losing his civilian job, but since the edit box keeps eating my fucking link faster than K Lo can go through a case of Twinkies, you’ll just have to find the fucking thing on your own.
    Sorry.

    EDIT: Go to dailykos, look at the Recommended Diarys list box, 5th one down.

  72. 72.

    slag

    @General Winfield Stuck: @Litlebritdifrnt: It is fairly awesome. The best part is that they’re two historic figures just sitting there like a couple of folks. Willie Mays is the quintessential rambly old dude, and Obama is the young whipper snapper working hard not to be awkward while trying to chat it up with the rambly old dude.

  73. 73.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    Now we’re saving lives on BJ. Brian J, my dad just got diagnosed with type 2 and some weight loss and adjustment in his diet has taken care of it. So don’t worry too much, just make sure you get it tested.

    That cat in a box could be my cat, except I know her favorite box has no lid. She has the exact colors.

    And in honor of our Friday Night dinner club, I’m trying to track down a recipe I just watched a chef make for Chilled Melon Soup with Champagne. It looked amazing and I was disappointed they didn’t include a recipe. The rest of the menu is set, but we’ll need wine (or beer Tim F.) suggestions.

  74. 74.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @slag:

    When he says “I was so proud” it about made me lose it. Then when POTUS said “it was because of people like you” I definitely lost it.

  77. 77.

    Anne Laurie

    Oh, and I’m another one who can’t stand clowns—especially the evil kind.

    Oh, yeah! Lindsey Graham, Tom Coburn, Glenn Beck — *shudders*

  80. 80.

    2th&nayle

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    sitting here sweating like a stuck pig.

    Mixed Metaphor Alert: Where I come from, one sweats like a pig/hog. One bleeds like a stuck pig/hog. Big difference! When given the option, always opt for the sweating! s/

  82. 82.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @2th&nayle:

    Where I come from, one sweats like a pig/hog.

    Actually, pigs don’t sweat at all, except in the land of southern colloquialisms. Where I grew up/

  83. 83.

    asiangrrlMN

    @JenJen: Did you hear the part when she said, “Now, if I were to bring a gun in here and shoot you…” That was right before the jackass did the Ricky Ricardo imitation. I thought that was classic.

    @slag: Thanks for the video, man. I was tearing up, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.

    @JMN Is Now asiangrrlMN’s Official Stalker: Great. Now I’m thinking about rodeo clowns.

    @Tattoosydney: True dat, fake hubby. True dat. Except Ronald McDonald because he has the special sauce and all.

    @harlana pepper: Buchanan is gonna be on Rachel tomorrow? Looks like an episode I won’t be watching. Unless y’all tell me that she ripped him a new one.

  85. 85.

    WereBear

    @JenJen: Did you hear the part when she said, “Now, if I were to bring a gun in here and shoot you…” That was right before the jackass did the Ricky Ricardo imitation. I thought that was classic.
    Per asiangrrImn

    That cracked me up. Classy way to get the point across.

    Yup, killer video. And I don’t even like baseball.

    But I still haven’t cried like I did on election night. And it wasn’t even over seeing our new President. I broke down when McCain gave his concession speech, because that was when I knew it had really happened.

    And yes, there was Irish whiskey involved. I was quite the optimist that night.

    Our new kitten is a riot. Now she likes to sit on our shoulder like a parrot.

  87. 87.

    2th&nayle

    @General Winfield Stuck: Well then General, being from the land of southern colloquialisms, you would be aware of the impossibility of ‘sweating like a stuck pig’, wouldn’t you? And yes, I’m aware that pigs don’t sweat, that’s why they enjoy wallowing in the mud. It cools them off. I suppose there’s no allowing for what might become a southern colloquialism. Can you tell me what,”tighter than Dick’s hatband” actually means? I’ve heard it said all my life, but I still don’t know what the phrase means. Thx!

  88. 88.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @2th&nayle:

    ”tighter than Dicks hatband”

    Never heard of that one, must be Texan.

    And the beauty of colloquialisms is they don’t have to make a lick of sense. See. it’s impossible for sense to be licked.

  90. 90.

    2th&nayle

    @General Winfield Stuck: That’s a good and correct guess! But just to be clear, I’m not from Texas, (not that’s there anything wrong with that) but my grandparents lived in East Texas and I stayed with them quite a bit.

  93. 93.

    Common Sense

    My all time favorite southern colloquialism is “bless your heart.” It’s basically saying, “you’re a moron,” so it’s more of a euphemism I suppose. It’s still hilarious.

  94. 94.

    R-Jud

    Some of you fear clowns and balloons and diseases. I fear baked beans.

    This kid, when I was in Catholic school, would hock them up at lunch with his mouth and make them come out his nose as a trick, and ever since then I get the willies just seeing cans of them. Unfortunately my husband likes them about as much as the rest of his misguided countrymen (beans on toast? on baked potatoes? with breakfast? wtf?). I won’t clean the pans he cooks them in, and won’t store anything I like to eat in the same cabinet with them.

    In non-crazy news, I harvested nearly three pounds of raspberries this morning. I’ll freeze some for baking and smoothies, and I may have a go at making jam. Does anyone else have ideas what you can do with that much fruit? There are about as many unripe berries left on the canes so I reckon there’ll be another three pounds to handle in a few days. In another few weeks I’ll be up to my neck in blackberries.

    I am also awash in peas, but they aren’t quite ready yet. Some of them are reserved for the Bean’s first meal.

  95. 95.

    2th&nayle

    @Common Sense: Actually ‘bless your heart” doesn’t always mean ‘you’re a moron’, sometimes it’s used as a term of true sympathy. But you’re right, the phrase usually infers, “You’re a moron and you can’t hep bein’ so fucked up, the way you are.” Goes hand in hand with “Well, Lord love ya!”

  97. 97.

    Indylib

    @Tattoosydney:
    You posted this back awhile ago in another thread. I tried them and my husband now asks for them at least once a week. if you have anymore that good don’t hesitate to post them.

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    2th&nayle

    @R-Jud: I’ve heard of that before. I think it’s called thermolegumophobia. Very rare, almost unheard of.

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    CynDee

    In looking over the pet photos again, I thank God there’s SOMEBODY doing the important work.

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    Molly

    @Common Sense:

    My all time favorite southern colloquialism is “bless your heart.”

    There are different version of this…

    The proper way to pull this off is “Well, bless your heart, honey,” said with wide, innocent eyes and a completely overdone inflection of concern.

    It can also be used in conjunction with an insult, such as “Bless his heart, he can’t help that his momma gave him the stupid gene.”

    “Bless your heart,” while placing a hand on someone’s arm translates to either “I genuinely mean this,” or “I am deliberately being as sarcastic as possible whilst feigning concern in order to amuse those around me.”

    “Well, bless his little heart, that’s a shame,” is dripping with schadenfreude. Soaked in it.

    You also have to watch the eyes and tone. When it is said with wide, innocent eyes and with the inflection of “Well, bless your heart, honey.”

    It’s all about the context. My Southern grandmother used the phrase like some people use “dude.” An art form for Southern women. I use it too.

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    sab

    The critter in the purple wading pool is a girl, not a guy. We took her luminous pink collar off so it wouldn’t get wet. She’s a sweety, but she weighs 120 pounds, the police canine unit has tried to recruit her, and she used to hold golden retriever puppies underwater with her big paw until they were rescued, because the pool was hers. She happily raised a black lab/mix rescue puppy as if she was its mother from the date of its arrival. The puppy now looks like the lab on the couch. My guess is that she would lo, although Lily smaller than her head.

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