Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

A consequence of cucumbers

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

Let’s finish the job.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Come on, man.

It’s a new day. Light all those Biden polls of young people on fire and throw away the ashes.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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Is This You?

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Lots of requests yesterday for a daytime threads where we don’t talk about you know who or you know what.  Does sharing a bit of humor about it = talking about it?

Like this.  Is this you?

Some kind of flower as the featured image will be my symbol for less stressful fare.

Edit: You might want to check out the new addition to the sidebar:  No Cabin Fever For Us!

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  5. 5.

    NotMax

    That “Combat Boredom” link goes off site and to someone’s Facebook page?

    Was gonna drop this in a general morning thread (and still might). Not coming to Prime until the beginning of May, however the trailer carries potential for it being a romp.

    @Baud

    “Bread bags!”
    – Joni Ernst

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    @NotMax:

    That “Combat Boredom” link goes off site and to someone’s Facebook page?

    It does.  The page belongs to a jackal who is already collecting some fun opportunities, so I figured that would be kosher.  Anyone else want to weigh in on that?

    I tried pulling the information into WordPress, and that was a no go.

    edit: Or maybe an external resources page, with links to stuff like that might be better?

  7. 7.

    Geminid

    Kind of a humorous anecdote, in the do not trust voice to text messaging category. Last month I made a plan with a lady over in Waynesboro to repair the top of her chimney when the weather warmed up. A few brick faces near the top had popped off during freezes, and from the ground I could tell by the algae near the top that the chimney cap was leaking. But then she texted again, alarmed that more brick pieces were falling out and I agreed to come over and at least tarp the chimney as there was rain coming and then a freeze. So I got a tarp on the chimney top and sent a photo. She was relieved, and tried to ask me to send her an invoice, but it came out, “Please forward your ass so I can compensate you.” I told her I had to keep my ass with me, but we’d figure out payment.

  8. 8.

    germy

    Crazy how many comedians are suddenly okay revealing they have wealthy parents with isolated summer homes in the woods

    — Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) March 21, 2020

    COMEDIANS IN 2019: “I’m a truth-telling loner who rebels against the system”

    COMEDIANS IN 2020: “I’m hiding out in the mansion my dad got from his tech company when he became chief financial officer”

    — Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) March 21, 2020

  9. 9.

    danielx

    I’ve needed a haircut for two weeks and I’m shit out of luck, styling places closed. I’d grow it out and have a pony tail again as in the days of my misspent youth, except IMHO there are few things that look as ridiculous as a balding man with a pony tail.

  17. 17.

    GaryK

    I am no longer able to get to Twitter in any of my browsers. It never finishes loading. This is probably a good thing, right?

  18. 18.

    p.a.

    Pretty well stocked except for hand sanitizer (2.5 spray bottles of 2oz Mrs Meyers) when I found some spray fiberoptic cleaner in my basement (down cellar for fellow New Englanders).  Ingredients: Isohexane (petroleum based- not helpful), ethanol, isopropanol, CO2, n-hexane, in that order.  Are the alcohols > 60%???  Don’t know.  Obviously not designed for topical use, but we didn’t need protective gear either.  File under ‘last resort’??

     

    p.s. A coworker got out of a Mass DUI (would have been #3) when his lawyer proved he had been cleaning fibers all day at work and claimed his system had absorbed the cleaner and the test was invalid.  Bad result for society (he was a recidivist alcoholic) but one hell of a lawyer.

  19. 19.

    joel hanes

    @danielx:

    I’m about one day away from taking a handmirror into the bathroom and using the Walz clippers to cut my hair all off short again, like it was in the Army, except that these days I’m really bald, like Colonel Klink.   But I’m not going anywhere, so why would I need a taper?

    BUT:  I’ve dropped a check for the cost of two haircuts in an envelope, and I’m sending it to my barbershop.

  21. 21.

    Splitting Image

    Listening to the Beatles Red and Blue while I pretend to work from home, and queuing up some movies for this evening. Trying to decide whether to binge on Peter Falk’s Columbo or David Suchet’s Poirot. Also have the Jeremy Brett Holmes series and a Benedict Cumberbatch radio series called Cabin Pressure ready to go.

    Also managed to get out for a walk the last few days now that the weather is decent. Greatly improving my mood.

  23. 23.

    J R in WV

    Here (guess where!) it’s been typical spring weather, chilly, exp at night, damp.

    So the moss, getting plenty of sun now before the leave are out, is really, really fluffy and intense radient green, with ferns.

    The frogs, in the tiny front door pond, are really happy, this is the first spring in several years there has been consistent water levels in their tiny reproductive puddle. Right now they’re quiet, but off and on their song is very uplifting.

    Chorus frogs, which have a all somewhat like drawing your thumbnail along a comb, and tree frogs, AKA spring peepers, tiny frogs with a high pitched repetitive call. Together it’s quiet melodic. They call for a minute or two, then fall silent briefly, then resume. So sweet!

    I have posted pics of the frogs in the old pond in the distant past, if anyone cares to look for them. So glad to have them back after the rebuild last fall during a dry spell. Hired a landscaping company, then watched carefully and the guys thought they were done pretty soon after starting to dig in the hard clay.

    I brought out a level, a tape measure, and a long pipe, and told them 18 inches in the middle, and 12 inches on either end, so they kept digging.

    ETA: Oh yes, Blue Bells in bloom in the back yard, daffodils all along the farm road up to the house, dog tooth violets up by one of the big rocks out front. And puppies happy the weather isn’t so cold, none of the current population of puppies is particularly long haired or heavy coated. Spring is great.

  24. 24.

    p.a.

    @mrmoshpotato: no NO.  Said I’m well stocked except sanitizer, and know soap is much better than sanitizer, just thought it was funny I  might have a potential sanitizer substitute on hand.  Surprised that hand and dish soap are not in short supply (around here) since soap is the go-to compared to sanitizer.

  25. 25.

    Citizen Scientist

    Regarding Doug’s thread title for the previous thread, reading a pretty good (but dense) book on the making of the London Calling album, Route 19 Revisited. It’s been particularly helpful when trying to fall asleep at night and my brain can’t let go of its anxiety or I’ve had too much twitter scrolling all day.  400+ pages and I’m barely halfway though after 7 days,  which is unusual for me; I’m a pretty fast reader.  Anyway, recommended if you’re a Clash/LC/ that period of music fan in general.

  26. 26.

    Fleeting Ex-istence

    Went out to buy gas, in case deliveries might become scarce.  I held an artfully illustrated shopping list up to the store window (3 items) and the clerk brought the items to the door but they were out of eggs.  Got the comfort food I was craving, John Belushi’s Breakfast of Champions, little chocolate donuts, and then dropped my gloves in hot soapy water when I got home.

    The beans and rice and oatmeal and pasta rations will all go down better with some chocolate.  McDonalds, IHOP, CVS, WalMart–all open.  First time out of my house in 11 days because I didn’t want the car battery to run down from disuse.

  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    @Citizen Scientist: The last two nights, I have taken to starting up a random episode of NCIS from Netflix when I go to bed.  I’ve seen all the episodes and all the voices are comforting and familiar, so I get to the point of thinking “oh, I remember this one” and then apparently I am fast asleep.

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    @trollhattan: Not quite sure why, but i feel very strongly that the phrase “Please forward your ass” totally begs to be followed by the word “pronto”.

    Please forward you ass, pronto!

  30. 30.

    Mary G

    My Instacart date finally arrived. I did better than I thought I would. No paper goods, bleach, and scored a dozen expensive organic brown eggs because I didn’t specify replacements. No flour, but butter. All the junk food I was craving, which isn’t that great, but as a compulsive eater I make myself miserable obsessing if I don’t have something around, and bananas, grapes, and blackberries for fresh fruit, which I was craving. All the cat treats!

    I gave the minimum online tip and then gave the shopper $60 cash I saved by not going out. She came back five minutes later actually in tears to make sure I could afford it. I wish I’d made it more.

  31. 31.

    p.a.

    Snow flurry currently in RI, not sticking, change to rain overnight (unless forecast has changed).  Tulip leaves up, horseradish leaves up, thyme greening, rosemary didn’t survive winter- best case I had a planting survive 3 winters.  The flowers that sound like a dinosaur coelophysis? coryopsis? ragged but ok (perennials that bloom a long time)

  35. 35.

    Ten Bears

    ‘Bout fifty years ago there was a book out – quite popular, movie, stage – where one of the central characters was obsessed with washing his hands. Fish oil, I think it was. Kinda’ cuckoo.

  38. 38.

    Citizen Scientist

    @WaterGirl: that’s great! I usually just put on BBC world news or PBS (call the midwife marathon yesterday), turn the volume down low and drift off. ?

  41. 41.

    FelonyGovt

    If you’re looking for TV fare, Netflix has a series now called “Self Made” about Madame C.J. Walker, about the first self-made female millionaire in the US (she developed a line of hair care products for black women). It stars Octavia Spencer, also has Blair Underwood, Tiffany Haddish, and Garrett Morris. Well done and kind of a feel-good show.

  44. 44.

    germy

    How many republicans does it take to change a lightbulb?

    None. Trump just says it’s fixed and the rest of them sit in the dark and applaud.

  45. 45.

    Mary G

    This is a long Twitter thread of almost cartoony birds. I wonder if they’re all real. Maybe Albatrossity or Betty C. can chime in.

    Briefly: Great birds I had ready to go for the “Bird Me!” Thread.

    Northern Bald Ibis! pic.twitter.com/2ye2HQpLpm
    — Do not Thump the Book of G’Nome (@NomeDaBarbarian) March 22, 2020

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    Need to truck the landlady to the post office sometime today as her auto is still in the shop. She gets all her mail at a P.O. box, for reasons I’ve never quite been clear on. While waiting for her (it’s never less than a minimum of 15 minutes for her to do this) may pop into the crappy supermarket in the same complex just to scope out the inner landscape. Only thing could do with are onions, but the ones they offer in the best of times require extensive picking through to score one or two which aren’t yet squishy and/or moldy (and always, always astonishingly expensive), so not holding out much in the way of hopeful anticipation.

  56. 56.

    LuciaMia

    okay revealing they have wealthy parents with isolated summer homes in the woods

    Its ‘The Decameron’ all over again.

  61. 61.

    jeffreyw

    @WaterGirl: Mrs J fires up Lawn Order for the same effect, tho as of late she’s doing audio books.  I’m all in for the audio books to sleep to.  Bonus is that you can listen to them over and over, sleep being an effective neuralizer.  I need a certain sort of voice, I do searches “for your next great listen!” by filtering for my favorite narrators.

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:  Just added that to the A Gaggle of Off-Site Resources page that’s under the new heading No Cabin Fever For Us! are in the sidebar.

    If anybody tries the escape room, please let me know if it’s any good.

  63. 63.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    I couldn’t come up with a dumber web application process if I tried (trying to do the SBA loan form).

  67. 67.

    WaterGirl

    @jeffreyw: I am SO picky about voices on books on tape.

    I used to listen to them more, and there was one guy I loved, who did the Craig Johnson Longmire books.  I think his last name might have started with a G.

    Would love to know who your favorite narrators are.

  69. 69.

    SWMBO

    The first entry under No Cabin Fever has a Facebook entry but it doesn’t take you there to see the comments.

  70. 70.

    WaterGirl

    @SWMBO: When I click on A Gaggle of Off-Site Resources, I see the facebook entry, and if I click on the Facebook f icon in the upper right hand corner of the image, i go right to the Facebook page with the comments.

    Does this not work for you?

  72. 72.

    WaterGirl

    @Mary G:  Response from Albatrossity:

    Yep, that’s a real bird. Unfortunately they are critically endangered, so I’ve never seen one. Pretty zany critters, for sure!
  73. 73.

    stinger

    To answer the questions in the OP, 1) Yes, sharing humor on the topic is talking about the topic — but humor is good! and 2) Yes, it’s me! Unpacking the groceries — the clerk touched all these items — and the bags they are in! I can set the cans and jars aside for 72 hours, but not the frozen/refrigerated items! What if someone sneezed in the produce aisle — the plastic berry containers have holes in them! And so on.

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