It’s a rainy day and I’m sitting here with my iPad, alternating between watching YouTube travel videos and reading travel books. About two hours ago, a “breaking news alert” came in from the local rag, telling me that the asshole that runs a local pizza place is going to defiantly open up in a few days. I simply noted the name of the restaurant and tucked it into my titanium grudge carrier, since I knew I would never darken the door of that establishment for the rest of my life.
No less than two hours later, another “breaking news” alert from the local rag, Pizza Stop Owner Backs Down After Visit from Code Enforcement Officer. Here’s the good part:
Pittsford’s compliance officer informed Staffieri that consequences of violating the New York’s PAUSE order could include a cease and desist order from the town, a do not occupy order from the town or even the loss of the restaurant’s county health department permit. The substance of the visit was confirmed by Staffieri and Smith.
Staffieri’s response was to back down.
“I can’t take that chance,” he said. “I can’t have the guys here be out of work.”
“Smith” is Bill Smith, the town supervisor, an old-school New York Republican and a competent public servant. He probably called the code enforcement officer the minute the story hit, if the code enforcement officer’s phone wasn’t already ringing off the hook.
This guy sells fucking pizza. It’s the ultimate delivery and takeout food. New York PAUSE allows his restaurant to continue delivery and takeout. He acknowledges that his “guys” are working, because I’ll bet that he’s doing pretty good business. But he couldn’t be satisfied with that — he probably saw a dozen protesters on Facebook and his neurons fired in a way that made him fart out some words on Twitter about his precious freedoms.
Since my grudge carrier is like the Hotel California — after you check in, you can never leave — I’m still not going to buy pizza at his place. But it’s good to see that our local authorities aren’t fucking around.
Catherine D.
Excellent! Another nice feature of the PAUSE order is that we can request an absentee ballot for the June primary by checking the temporary illness box. A tiny step towards vote by mail in NY!
rikyrah
Good for you. Remember that business ??
A Ghost to Most
It’s not like there aren’t good pizzarias almost everywhere in WNY. I hope you aren’t the only one shunning him.
WaterGirl
mistermix up top:
Love that. Not a grudge holder myself, but that is a phrase worthy of admiration.
pika
What staggers me is his claim that “no one is worried” about lots of people in Wegmans: lots of people are worried, including the folks who work there.
Brachiator
Here’s the thing. This guy is lucky that he is still able to run his business. So, I wonder if his dumbass plan was just to open up like in the old, pre-pandemic days? Because he is in a position where he could actually, you know, consult with officials and determine what he might need to do to re-open his business safely when the time comes, or even, gasp, be in a position to help advise so that other restaurants which are totally shut down, can re-open most efficiently.
Instead he chose to walk the path of the ignorant, unthinking MAGA asswipe. And got his ass kicked for his trouble.
ETA: somewhere out there, a libertarian is putting together a blog about how in a free society, local health departments and compliance officers are shunned in the land of Randian supermen and McArdle uber-dames.
Nicole
I’m glad they’re not fucking around, either. Cuomo’s briefings are starting to sound fairly… optimistic about opening, but he’s stressed it’s going to be veeerrrrrrry slow, and everything will be watched closely for the slightest sign of Covid-19 uptick, and things will be opening farther away from the downstate first, and done in such a way that idiots here in NYC don’t go racing upstate to go DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING (Cuomo brought up, three days in a row, a Queens couple that drove to Albany for Thai food). The plan to reopen sounds well thought out, and reasonably solid and I really don’t want Freedumb Fighters fucking this up. Especially over something like goddamn pizza, which is one of the foods that travels for delivery quite well.
We got a gift delivery this week, sent from Harry & David’s, which, of course, includes pears. I don’t like pears. It’s a texture thing, don’t anyone @ me; I just don’t like them. But I’m turning into such a Covid-19 basket case that I’m eating the goddamn pears so they don’t go to waste. And as pears go, they’re excellent, even a pear-hater such as myself can discern these are fine pears. But I still don’t like pears.
The chocolate and caramel popcorn that also came in the gift basket, however, was aces.
(As I got to the end of the first pear, and the dog kept following me, I finally googled, “Can dogs eat pears” and the first hit was “Can dogs eat pears” and the second was “Can dogs eat pears UK” and I wondered what was so different about British dogs. Or British pears.)
Chip Daniels
Witness the power of our armed and fully operational *cease and desist order* as it crushes your pitiful rebellion!
mrmoshpotato
@Catherine D.:
Is there a Fuck The Orange Fascist box you can also check? :)
ThresherK
The link 404ed. The paper suggested other late breaking news, and the Dem&Chronc recommended this.
I was last in Pittsford as vol for the Parks & Tours NY state org, which led 400+ of us on the Erie Canal Canalpath Trail tour in a July. Local ice cream and frozen custard purveyors see us coming and get dollar signs in their eyes, because when you’re pedaling 300+ miles in a week you can justify stopping for ice cream everywhere.
Jeffro
There’s a good piece up at NPR online, about how the ways schools are likely to operate differently this fall if they’re to open at all: How to Reopen Closed Schools
I think it’s safe to say that teacher attrition is going to be higher than usual across this summer…sigh…
I know we don’t want untrained folks teaching kids in classrooms, but whew, major career change opportunity here for folks who just got bounced from their current jobs due to the pandemic.
trollhattan
A few not-chain pizza joints have stayed open for takeout and delivery. Saturday wait time for orders for the decent place was one hour and for the good place, two hours.
IDK what fraction of their full staff remains working–they basically need the kitchen, somebody to handle orders and somebody to distribute pies, but they’re clearly selling all the pies they possibly can. What they do not have are drinks sales, which have a bigger margin than pizzas.
Gin & Tonic
From the files about the efficacy of governmental leaders lying to the public about crises, 34 years ago today reactor #4 at the Chornobyl nuclear power station exploded, arguably precipitating the collapse of the USSR.
West of the Rockies
Is the pie guy a wingnut? They do love to play the victim, even when they’re not among the casualties.
scav
oooooo-OOOO-ooo! Pittsford Plaza near TJs? I can actually add the jerk to my newly upgraded titanium grudge box.
Seriously, he’s defending behavior now by alluding to what people did a before things became an issue? “Hey! Before I had lung cancer I smoked all the time! I’m lighting a hoagie for FRREEEEEEE-dumb!”
Mike in NC
Well now, nobody but nobody carries a grudge like Fat Bastard. He’s raised it to an art form.
Gin & Tonic
@Nicole:
This just flabbergasts me. I just can’t imagine that there aren’t a plethora of Thai restaurants in Woodside or Flushing doing a very brisk takeout business.
TaMara (HFG)
We have a (red) county that is planning on defying the stay-at-home orders that are slowing being lifted, a week at a time, for each type of business. Restaurants are naturally far down the line for sit-down opening. Takeout has been available since the beginning.
This county wants to allow all businesses to decide for themselves. The Gov very politely said that the state would pull their state licenses, including liquor, if they defied the timeline.
That shut everyone up.
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
The HBO series was devastating. Wonder how much radionuclide material was redistributed by the recent forest fires there?
In other anniversary news, the 20th was ten years since Deepwater Horizon.
Happy Earth Day month, everybody.
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
“Albany Thai or No Thai!” would, in fact, fit in a bumper sticker.
trnc
We shouldn’t rule out the possibility of this being an advertising ploy to a potential libertarian customer base. If he can out-wingnut the competition, he might pick up more than enough to offset the mistermixes of the world.
Nicole
@Gin & Tonic:
There are indeed many fine Thai places in Queens, as Cuomo made sure to mention every time he related this story. You could tell he really wanted to call the Queens couple selfish dumbasses but held his tongue as they are still also his constituents.
(Coincidentally, I, in Harlem, am eating yesterday’s leftover Thai delivery as I type this comment.)
download my app in the app store mistermix
Fixed, thanks.
John Revolta
@Nicole: What? You never heard of Pears of the Realm?
dmsilev
@Brachiator:
Funny thing about McArdle, she’s now writing columns that say things like
The reason, of course, for this outburst of sanity is that the viral leopard is trying to eat her face and that of her family (in another column, she says her father has the disease). All of a sudden, libertarianism doesn’t seem quite so attractive.
Nicole
@John Revolta: I… have not. Would they change my opinion on pears? It’s a texture thing.
Gin & Tonic
@trollhattan: The redistribution of radioactive material appears not to have been an issue. The particulates from the forest fires, on the other hand, led to historic air-quality issues in Kyiv, about 90 miles south. My son lives there, and for a couple of days the AQI was more than double that of any other city in the world.
zhena gogolia
I can’t watch the Twitler briefings, but I saw on Colbert that when some reporter asked Mnuchin about big corporations getting the money the SBA was supposed to give to SMALL businesses, and asked if they were going to get it back, Twitler barged in and said, “Yes, I’ll make them give it back. Harvard is going to give it back.” Harvard did not get any PPP money. He doesn’t know his own programs, he just thought it would sound good to dump on Harvard. (Harvard is supposed to get (hasn’t yet) money from CARES for student assistance.) Colbert said, “Yeah, Harvard, when we give you that much money you’re supposed to take Jared!”
Delk
Pizza place owner in Illinois put a huge sign in his window bitching about Pritzker closing the sit down part of his restaurant and the chain yanked the franchise from him.
West of the Rockies
@Nicole:
Perhaps you should consult a pear-reviewed paper for your answer?
(Ducks and runs…)
chopper
so…you put the guy in the (pizza) pie filter.
Jeffro
@Gin & Tonic: I know, right?
In our town, the two closest Chinese places closed up almost immediately when the stay-at-home order went into effect and haven’t re-opened (although Peter Chang’s is still doing takeout).
The nearest Thai place appears to be doing quite well and thank goodness – we got dinner from there last night. 3 nights cooking, 1 night takeout is our ‘cycle’ here at home, which is about twice as often as we used to get takeout.
prostratedragon
Actually sunny here in Chicago! Some easy Sunday afternoon listening:
Adam L Silverman
Nicole
@West of the Rockies: Heh.
Calouste
@scav: Don’t see it as a grudge, see it as … a strong indication that this establishment has a non-confirming approach to health and safety regulations. If you don’t want to get sick from eating out, it’s not a place you want to try.
Nicole
@zhena gogolia: Yeah, I find I can only take Trump if it’s via an impersonation by Trevor Noah, etc. Thanks to Randy Rainbow’s ode to Cuomo, “Andy!” my 9-year-old is now hooked on all things Randy Rainbow, and while yes, he’s very funny and his parodies are clever and acerbic, I am not accustomed to seeing so many clips of Twitler speaking and I get a little twitchy.
John Revolta
@Nicole: Probably not. Probably won’t change your opinion of bad puns neither.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_of_the_realm
RedDirtGirl
LOVE the title!
HumboldtBlue
Lookit all the good boys …
Nicole
@John Revolta: Ah man, and I love good pun (and a bad one!). Went right past my head. I blame the pear.
(Seriously though, some fruit company should trademark that name, stat)
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev:
You can add McArdle to the list of names at the beginning of the joke.
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
It’s horrid when that happens, my sympathies.
When the Camp Fire hit in 2018 we had a dead air inversion that trapped the smoke in the valley for weeks, with AQI numbers so high they had to fiddle with the color schemes on the maps to accommodate them. IIRC we exceeded 500 a few times.
And the mow-and-blow guys were still out with their 2-stroke leaf blowers, there otta be a law.
JMG
@Nicole: Try cooking the pears and see how you feel. Baked pears in white wine and sugar. Pear cake. Pear tarts. The first is super easy. If you don’t like it then, OK, but it might change your opinion.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@prostratedragon:
The weather is great today. As a matter of fact, so many people came out that I had to do a lot of dodging on my walk, but it was worth it.
On another topic, the ebook of my middle-grade book FINDERS KEEPERS is on sale for $.99 until Thursday, I think. I suspect most people here who would be interested already have it, but it’s under a buck, so I thought I’d tell you.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Nicole:
I can’t watch him live at all, or even hear his voice. I’m starting to be annoyed when people retweet his stupid tweets. I just want him to shut up and go away.
trollhattan
@dmsilev:
Her Tory distant cousin Sully is presently bitching about how much money goes to CDC and how CDC is letting us ALL DIE anyway. Still not sure WTF his point is, but it doesn’t matter if you wave your arms hard enough.
Josie
@Nicole:
You can whir the pears up with some seasonings and use them for a marinade. My son has done this, but I don’t have his recipe. Google it. I think it might have been for some Asian dish.
ETA: Like you, I really don’t like the texture of pears, but this was quite good, if I remember correctly.
mrmoshpotato
@Delk: What pizza chain?
mrmoshpotato
@prostratedragon:
Woah! Woah! Whisper. The clouds will hear you.
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman: Wait…wouldn’t they have individually negotiated with the bar’s owner and pre-selected the level of tainted alcohol they were willing to ingest as well as the corresponding price (the more tainted the alcohol, the lower the price?), signed all the relevant paperwork (with witnesses), and then sat down to enjoy a drink…and THEN die?
I always forget how air quote “libertarianism” is supposed to work in the real world…and then I remember it’s the same as magic but better.
Delk
@mrmoshpotato: Rosati’s
Shana
@Gin & Tonic: Me too. If Chicago could support at least two Chinatowns in the 1980s then the greater NYC area must have multiples of that with several areas for each particular country’s cuisine.
Cameron
@Mike in NC: My eyes are shot. I thought you wrote “He’s raised it to an ant farm.” Of course, that makes as much sense as anything else he does.
mrmoshpotato
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I have to wait for Seth Meyers’ A Closer Look segments to get captioned, so I can mute it when needed (and of course put my hand in front of his stupid pumpkin face.)
mrmoshpotato
@Shana: Hell, still kinda have two. There’re quite a few Asian restaurants together around Argyle.
WaterGirl
@Delk: Good for them! They have pretty good pizza, too.
Jeffro
Btw did anyone else read David Frum’s Why Mitch McConnell Wants States to Go Bankrupt ?
It is really fascinating – you’ll never look at Mitch (or any other red-state Senator) the same way again.
BGinCHI
I’m glad to see someone else taking their grudges seriously.
What else is portable, never expires, and offers so much free pleasure?
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I had to quit watching the nightly shows because it got to be all Trump, all the time, and I just couldn’t bear it.
Delk
@mrmoshpotato: 7 Thai restaurants within walking distance of my place.
MagdaInBlack
@HumboldtBlue:
Even the cat! Impressive
Jager
My sis who lives in Bismarck, ND, said the State patrol did a sweep of small-town bars last weekend in her county, busted 7 of them. One bar owner told a cop, “they’re just waiting for their take-out pizzas.” The cop side-eyed him, went back to the kitchen, and checked. “Really? your oven isn’t on.” He wrote the guy up as the locals slipped out to their cars.
Ruckus
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I also can not watch or listen, I actually like the things in my house that show color pictures. And I’m pretty sure that if shit for brains was shown/heard on them, physical damage would result. Massive damage. Now for twitter, the first thing I did with my account was block one shit for brains. I never see any of his tweets or any retweets. Posted videos of his assholyness I do see however. I may run out of antacids soon. At least I don’t have to hear them.
I really don’t understand the need to see/hear his dumb ass. Are people expecting him to all of a sudden grow a brain? 73 yrs and all he’s done is get stupider.
Fair Economist
@Nicole:
Might not address your texture issue, but my father was a HUGE fan of Harry & David pears. And they shipped them significantly under-ripe. You can eat them, but they are far from optimal. They had to ripen at room temp for some time (days? a week or two? Dunno, my dad took care of that.) They’re generally best when they have one little bad spot you need to cut off. I assume their practices haven’t changed much.
The window for a good pear is unfortunately very short. Supermarket pears are even more under-ripe and frequently go straight from hard to rotten without ever passing through “ripe”. I rarely get them even though I’m crazy about pears.
Kent
Teacher here. I kind of doubt it, at least in places like here in the Pacific Northwest where teaching jobs are hard to find. There may be retirement-age teachers who will walk away and just retire rather than eeking out a few more years due to inertia and the desire to pump the pension up a bit more. But I don’t see any young or mid-career teachers walking away from secure jobs with medical benefits. Especially into the teeth of 20% unemployment. Most will just suck it up and do what they can to stay safe. You have a lot more autonomy as a teacher than in a lot of jobs in terms of how you arrange and run your classroom. The typical jobs that mid-career teachers often go into, like real estate or private tutoring and test/prep are going to be deader than dead.
Betty
@Nicole: I with you in the pears. Yes, it is the texture
My brother loved then so It’s not genetic, I guess.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: I haven’t watched the nightly news in years.
mrmoshpotato
@Fair Economist:
Quotable.
Catherine D.
@Shana:
Wah! Now I’m flashing back to the August Moon on 26th St.
Ella in New Mexico
The idiot mayor of Grants New Mexico is planning on defying the Governor’s state-wide Stay at Home orders and swing wide the doors of all the currently non-essential businesses in his bumpin’ little po-dunk town that is an oasis of Redneck Dumbfucks with a Constitutional Sheriff who proudly proclaimed he won’t do a damn thing to stop him and a bunch of ranchers and retired miners chomping at the bit to “open up our economy cuz ‘Merica is a Capitalist societee”.
Meanwhile, he’s in a now “cool “spot that’s dead center of the adjoining counties that are being bombarded by massive outbreaks of COVID in the Navajo nation and surrounding communities. Nearby Acoma pueblo’s tribal leader is begging Michelle Lujan Grisham to stop him from unleashing a disease caused annihilation of his people.
The State Police vow to shut the whole thing down and folks face $5000 fines for not doing it, so I’m looking forward to how this whole thing goes down.
Grants, is a gateway town for folks en route to camp up in the remote locations of nearby national forests, and it depends financially every summer on those of us needing to make last minute stops for stuff we forgot or a quick lunch on the way. Looks like we’re gonna have to plan ahead a bit better from now on and boycott his shit town.
narya
@Nicole: Poach them: white wine, cinnamon stick, a couple of peppercorns, a vanilla bean (or just some vanilla), until you can slide a knife in easily. Then make a tart (some frangipane filling), making sure to dry the pears before you put them on top. Cooks Illustrated had a pretty good recipe; it ended up being responsible for me going to pastry school. Poaching addresses some (but not all) of the texture issues. I always wanted to try making sorbet out of the poaching liquid and some pear scraps.
Sister Golden Bear
Here in CA, the Lake Tahoe authorities are threatening $1,000 fines for anyone found there on non-essential travel. A week or two ago, the Santa Cruz cops issued similar fines to a half-dozen teens who travelled down there and were hanging out together.
Locally, even though state/county parks and beaches have been closed, people have still be parking nearby and going in anyway in all-too-high numbers, despite repeated warnings not do so. So San Mateo County is cracking down and now we’re only allowed to recreate within a five-mile radius of home.
Personally sucks for me, because the open space areas are just outside that radius, and I had enjoyed going out for a drive in the hills, with maybe a stop or two to stretch my legs when I could find a turnout on the side of the road that didn’t have anyone else around.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: By “nightly shows” I meant Colbert, Corden, etc. I haven’t watched the nightly news shows or the Sunday shows in decades.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Jeffro:
I read that article. It was good to know that someone was thinking about possible arrangements. I’m not knowledgeable enough to know what finances and staff would support.
Gin & Tonic
@trollhattan: Kyiv was at 499 a couple of days ago.
Central Planning
@scav:
Yeah, that one. Apparently he has one or two other locations. I’ve never been, and I never will now.
Also, I heard his brother owns the Joe’s Brooklyn Pizzas in the Rochester area, and the brother is an asshole. Why doesn’t that really surprise me?
rikyrah
@Nicole:
Make pear preserves?
I don’t like pears naturally. But,.cook them down with some butter and sugar….
Taste pretty good on biscuits or toast
rikyrah
@Jeffro:
I did read it. Very interesting.
CaseyL
@Nicole: I’m the same: Love the taste, don’t care for the mealy texture. The firm brown pears (Bosc) are pretty crisp and I like those.
Nicole
@Fair Economist: Oh yeah, your dad was right- these are good pears; just because I don’t like them doesn’t mean I don’t recognize a good one when I eat it. We followed directions and gave them a couple of days to ripen. There were 5; we’ve managed 2 of them and I’m sure we’ll eat the remaining 3 tomorrow before they get too soft.
There were two apples in the package, too, which I imagine we’ll eat after the pears. Sigh. I am, at the moment, eating Nestlé cookie dough right out of the plastic tub, because that’s the kind of classy girl I am.
Central Planning
@Nicole:
So… how far away do you live from Rochester?
Steeplejack
I ventured out into the coronasphere yesterday evening. Picked up my friend at Trader Joe’s, and on the way home we stopped at the substandard Safeway (Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, VA) to pick up a few things while waiting for takeout pizzas to be done at the Lost Dog Café. I noticed a big change at Safeway since the last time I was there (about two weeks ago): more masked employees (all or almost all of them) and more masked customers (almost all of them). And the customers were positively jumpy in their desire to maintain social distance. People are taking the situation more seriously, apparently.
Lost Dog has closed their sit-down service, obviously, but they seem like they might be doing okay with takeout orders. Dunno for sure. On the way out I noticed that the hole-in-the-wall Thai place next door, Thai Noy, was doing good (takeout) business. I had never noticed it before, but I looked it up when I got home, and it looks promising: 4.5 rating and good reviews on Google Maps, nice menu. I’ll have to give them a go.
Zelma
@Jeffro:
Thanks for referring me to the Frum article. The rich are really horrible people. And McConnell and the Republicans are their shills. Frum has come a long way.
Nicole
I love all the pear cooking tips from everyone, by the way- were I less lazy, I might try some, but more likely I’ll just eat the remaining pear(s) and whine about the texture.
I found out that dogs can have pears, in small amounts, and I was amused that it took my pooch a few minutes of sniffing before she decided to try a nibble. SHE UNDERSTANDS.
trnc
@Adam L Silverman: Best anti-joke I’ve seen in a long time.
kevin
@download my app in the app store mistermix:
when you said local rag it could only be the brighton-pittsford post . . . and instead you wrote up a take on a story about a pizza place in pittsford plaza in the d&c . . . so when do we get the local rag story write up?? and why does anyone go to pittsford plaza to get pizza?? what kind of place do you live in, anyway??
Kattails
@Fair Economist: OK pears: I was told by a grower that the way to tell a ripe pear is to gently press just at the stem area, NOT the body. If that gives to pressure, the pear is ripe. IF the body of the pear is soft, it’s already starting to go by. I’ve found this to be pretty infallible.
Comice are fabulous if you can find them, not gritty, just smooth, sweet and incredibly juicy.
Brachiator
@Adam L Silverman:
There’s also a libertarian outside explaining how important it is to be free to take risks.
James E Powell
@Jeffro:
No, the always perfectly operating market forces would have closed down any bar that served tainted drinks, so they would assume that since it was open, this one did not.
HumboldtBlue
@MagdaInBlack:
That’s the best part!
raven
Hopper, Apocalypse.
Jeffro
@Kent: Interesting. There’s a teacher shortage most everywhere else in the country, and here it sure sounds (anecdotally for now) like a lot of folks are willing to walk away if schools re-open and they have to deal with anything more than ten kids in a room, potentially asymptomatic Covid-19 carriers, or anything close to previous expectations.
We’ll see.
Jeffro
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Kind of wild, all the possibilities.
Half-sized classes coming into school every other day…it could work.
It’ll take a brave school division that can keep going even as school A is shutting down for sterilizing one day, school B the next, etc. A lot of suburban parents are going to make a lot of teachers’ and school admins’ lives hell, that’s for sure…
Jeffro
@rikyrah:
@Zelma:
thanks! I haven’t had my jaw drop in a while about anything in politics, but the (right-wing donor class) thought that “eh, my money’s wasted by giving to a Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois…so I’ll shore up Mitch in Kentucky and Hawley in Missouri instead” is kind of mind-blowing.
As opposed to, you know, the Illinois Republican party changing and adapting its views in order to better represent its constituents and therefore win elections.
Unbelievable.
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: I am not a teacher, or a parent, but I would imagine that a whole lot of people who never home-schooled their kids before will think about doing that next year, as we see how all of this plays out.
Doctors: First do no harm.
Parents: Keep your kids safe.
WaterGirl
@Jeffro:
Four years ago, sure.
Now? If only.
Uncle Cosmo
@BGinCHI: Irish Alzheimer’s: When you forget everything but your grudges.
Ken
@Calouste: Yeah, that’s how I read it too. “You don’t want the health inspector to actually look inside your refrigerator this time, do you?”
brantl
The guy that played Meriadoc Brandybuck in The Lord of the Rings, in the scene with the leader of the ringwraiths, when he overcomes his paralyzing fear and stabs the ringwraith in the back of the knee, driving him on to his friend’s sword.
CapnMubbers
@trollhattan: and while I was sleeping in my car in Chico, wearing N-95 masks day and night, I saw people removing masks to smoke a cigarette.
Those masks were black on the outside at the end of the day, and the next one the same next morning.