FRIEND: What are you doing for Valentine’s Day?
ME: https://t.co/my6uRxs5p8— The Mall Krampus (@cakotz) February 13, 2021
Happy Valentine’s Day to the three who never fail to make me smile. Your dazzling light makes everything brighter. pic.twitter.com/fMcdwf2j20
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 14, 2021
Republican version:
This is a real tweet from an adult male politician https://t.co/ZiWHnk359p
— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) February 14, 2021
"Adult male politician" is underestimating the problem. The guy is the incumbent Attorney General of Indiana. https://t.co/qzJFHCrBYG
— Alex Hazanov. (@alexhazanov) February 14, 2021
SCIENCE!
happy valentine’s day from my favourite Russian Arctic scientific research institute:
“Love is… being inseparable, like a pair of sensors on a thermobalance mast.” pic.twitter.com/5utff4UCci
— Polina Ivanova (@polinaivanovva) February 14, 2021
“Love is — introducing him to your family” pic.twitter.com/ep5cP0FGcg
— Polina Ivanova (@polinaivanovva) February 14, 2021
SARCASM!
For Valentine's Day, I'd like to share this series of beautiful Soviet propaganda posters about a Russo-Chinese interracial same-sex couple, relaying the story of their love, from the first steel-mill selfie together to raising an orchard and a wonderful family.#LoveIsLove pic.twitter.com/1X7mjakbsK
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) February 14, 2021
debbie
That third tweet is from the IN AG. Clearly bottom of the barrel.
LurkerNoLonger
That Indiana AG tweet takes pandering to a new low. Also it’s gross.
TaMara (HFG)
Ruckus
@debbie:
As in the decayed worms under the bottom of the barrel. The barrel full of manure is less cringe worthy.
TaMara (HFG)
NASA had a fun day with all the NASA twitter accounts coming up with different valentines
https://twitter.com/search?q=nasa%20valentine&src=typed_query
And you could design your own and send it:
https://mars.nasa.gov/free-holiday-ecard/love-valentine/
Mary G
It was a while ago, but seeing Joe Biden out on the lawn looking at her hearts and drinking coffee with Jill and the dogs cosplaying The Fonz was adorable.
Hearts & pups
The Fonz
Mike in NC
Obamas are a fine looking family, unlike the trailer trash of Mar-a-lardovitaville.
dmsilev
@TaMara (HFG): Only a few days until Perseverance (perhaps inevitably, Percy for short) arrives at Mars. Early Thursday morning, a repeat of the ‘seven minutes of terror’ as it enters Mars atmosphere and (hopefully) lands safely.
WaterGirl
@Mary G: I fixed your links so they wouldn’t mess up the margins on phones.
dmsilev
@Mary G:
Even though what you meant was clear, I couldn’t resist. The mental image is just too amusing.
geg6
Got the best V-Day present ever, my new great nephew, Ronan Charles. My older niece and her hubby are over the moon. It remains to be seen how his 18 mo old sister feels about the situation.
We had a lovely dinner of steaks with shallot/multi-colored peppercorns/butter sauce and shrimp with garlic/herbs/butter sauce, wild rice and roasted asparagus with lemon zest. Dreaming Tree Pinot noir pairs perfectly. Perfect Valentine’s Day.
Ken
@dmsilev: Should be OK as long as they avoid Opportunity’s domain.
dexwood
@TaMara (HFG): Worse than a tan suit. Graffiti at the White House. Impeach!
WaterGirl
@geg6: So happy for you!
dmsilev
@Ken: Could be a problem. Jezero Crater isn’t all that far from Opportunity’s current location. A couple thousand or so km I think.
OldDave
@Ken: Unlike poor Spirit ….
Brachiator
@dmsilev:
Already some great video from the Chinese probe which recently entered Mars orbit.
Major Major Major Major
Heh, I do love those old accidentally-gay communist ones.
Mike in NC
@Mary G: Could anybody ever imagine Trump wearing jeans and a leather jacket? Fat Bastard hid his lard ass in very baggy blue suits.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
Happiest congratulations on the new great-nephew! That’s lovely news.
karen marie
Sounds lovely! Has anyone met a Yuzu in real life?
NotMax
Large pot of a favorite winter time preparation, curried eggplant, merrily simmering on the stove top. Extra cooking time needed because put in some stewing beef for this batch, so added some sliced baby carrots this time to mellow the acidity of the tomato sauce as it thickens. More often make it meatless and ladle it over a bowl of rice as a meal; it works either way.
SiubhanDuinne
@karen marie:
I, for one, have never seen capybaras with lovelier, softer, brighter skin.
Benw
@geg6: cool cool
debbie
@geg6:
Congratulations!
Mike G
@geg6:
Spice up any comment with quotation marks:
“Congrats” on your baby
Congrats on “your” baby
Congrats on your “baby”
Gin & Tonic
@karen marie: No, but I have shoes made from capybara skin.
Fair Economist
Hot tubbing with snacks!
cain
@Mike in NC:
hey now – Lardo is an excellent dining experience here in Portland!
Lyrebird
@karen marie: Trader Joe’s has a nice yuzu sauce, tart and spicy, makes a good marinade. Have never held a fresh one.
Lyrebird
@Ruckus:
Thanks for the warning! I won’t expand the photo. Instead, people might want to enjoy this link from Slava Malamud’s feed about a wedding of two Ken dolls.
randy khan
No Valentine’s tweeting for me, but we made a nice dinner and got out the good china and silverware. So not so bad. But next year we’re going out.
citizen dave
As a Hoosier, guess it’s time to change the sign one day after doing it for the impeachment votes to ” Zero Days Since an Indiana Republican has Embarrassed Our State ” WTAF?
Ksmiami
@karen marie: I had to do a stand in pastry chef role and made the required Yuzu curd on the fly- u can buy Yuzu bottled juice it’s fragrant and lemony
Tata
Tomorrow is my birthday, traditionally celebrated as Chocolate On Sale Day. Bonbon appetit!
Ken
@karen marie: @Lyrebird: Google says fresh yuzu cannot be imported into the United States because they can carry diseases that might spread to US citrus.
I was wondering if those capybara were pets, livestock, or zoo animals.
Ken
@citizen dave: Did you even bother leaving space for two digits?
SiubhanDuinne
@Tata:
Cool, Canadian Flag Day too! Happy birthday, enjoy the chocolates.
laura
@karen marie: our farmer’s market has all manner of citrus fruit right now and there’s a specialty citrus juice, fresh fruit and even kafir lime leaves. I’ve never seen fresh yuzu-though I’d consider a yuzu hot tub soak with capybaras, especially in light of the hair and skin benefits.
Yutsano
@karen marie:
They will show up in Japanese grocery stores in Seattle, but they’re seasonal. They’re illegal to import so I wonder where they get theirs.
Delk
Another fucking storm warning. 8-12 inches expected. -20 degree temperature.
Cook County
sigh
MagdaInBlack
@Delk: Yeah, I’m pretty “excited” about that myself, altho they say mostly along the lake. I’m nw Cook County
Pete Downunder
26 here today, but that’s C, about 79 F. We’re feeling very environmentally virtuous as solar panels are being installed on our roof. Fixing some slightly dodgy track work on our G Scale garden railroad. Hope everyone had a pleasant Valentines Day.
Emma
Who said it, Ovid or Dwight Schrute?
Yutsano
@Pete Downunder: There’s a massive storm pretty much hitting the entire US. It’s dropping to below -20ºF in places as far south as Texas. We’re basically getting hit by winter all at once.
karen marie
@SiubhanDuinne: Ha!
karen marie
@Ksmiami: I will have to look for the juice. My next trip to the big Asian grocery store, I’ll look to see if they have the fruit.
karen marie
@Ken: Too bad! I guess I won’t find it in my local big Asian grocery then. Sad!
@Yutsano: That’s interesting. I’m surprised it isn’t grown here. What’s Japan got that we haven’t got?
Apparently not much. These kids are growing Yuzu in New Jersey, of all places!
zhena gogolia
@Yutsano:
I have to go to bed, but surely you’re not saying it’s going to be below minus 20 degrees in Texas?
Delk
@Yutsano: it’s been snowing here for the last two weeks. Plus the gas company has spent the last year modernizing their pipes and last week was my street’s turn. So, in addition to snow, there are 4 foot by 2 foot ditches in the sidewalk in front of every house.
Skepticat
Only a few of us are on the cay, and everyone else is married, so I scrubbed the island library floor (first time since Dorian; it was vile) on my hands and knees. Later, when I was replying to an email and saying I didn’t celebrate, autocorrupt changed that to the very appropriate “celibate.” This is not a complaint!
Eric S.
@Delk: For the record and what it’s worth, the gas company has been upgrading the pipes for over a decade and has at least another decade to go.
opiejeanne
@Ken: Yuzu is grown in California, and I’ve seen it a couple of times at our grocery store just outside Seattle. Not recently, not since the store changed ownership.
opiejeanne
@Yutsano: I took a yardstick and measured the snow this afternoon. It was a foot deep and it continued to snow the rest of the day. It never rose above 32f.
Pete Downunder
@Yutsano: Sounds horrible. I grew up in NYC and will be happy never to see another flake of snow. Our climate here is sort of San Diego but more humid
oatler.
Roses are red
Violets are purple
Sugar is sweet
And so is maple surple
Yutsano
@zhena gogolia: I worded that inartfully. It’s going to be up to -20ºF with cold going as far south as Texas. Actually there will be snow in Louisiana! How often does that happen?
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: I was in NOLA in January, 2010, and it was below freezing the whole time.
John Revolta
@oatler.: My Daddy was a pistol; I’m a son-of-a-gun
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: You travel with your weather?
Soprano2
It’s zero here right now, with a low of -2 tonight and -8 tomorrow night. Oh, and several inches of snow too. SWMO.
Comrade Colette
Our next-door neighbors have a yuzu tree, so we can have as many as we want when they’re in season. I didn’t realize that was anything special.
I made chipotle mac and cheese and got a foot rub for V-Day. Is that TMI?
HumboldtBlue
Here’s one of those things that makes you stay a-laugh.
Martin
@Ken: There is some yuzu grown here in socal. They’re a bit expensive – maybe $30 for a 1 gal starter tree. If you frequent asian markets, you won’t have much trouble finding them. It’s possible that getting them out of CA would be challenging given the import restrictions and the difficulty of proving they were locally grown.
Martin
It’s currently -17 in the northwest Texas panhandle. All 11 people there are quite cold.
HumboldtBlue
HumboldtBlue
Maybe if I post highlights of the Lakers getting beat commenting will work.
Ta-da!
Burnspbesq
Hey Albany,
‘Your weather stumbled into Austin, obviously drunk off its ass. Please come get it.
Burnspbesq
@John Revolta:
I’m imagining Trump singing the chorus.
HumboldtBlue
@Burnspbesq:
Here’s San Antonio.
Haha, suckers.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: Yeeeeeehuh?
rikyrah
It’s 2 degrees here.
Winds chill, -16.
For those not used to this weather:
1. Stay inside
2. Keep the heat up
3. Layers, even in the house
4. Don’t drive- your state probably doesn’t have the equipment or supplies to deal with these elements
5. If you must go out respect the elements. You must drive differently
6. Make sure that your cellphone is completely charged
7. When you drive, you have to warm up the car. 15-20 minutes, minimum, BEFORE you start driving.
8. Clothing for outside- layers and layers. Anything exposed can freeze in just a few minutes.
9. Best bet- STAY INSIDE.
CarolDuhart2
If you do have to go out-go out only for necessary stuff like food-and get everything you can carry in one trip.
Plastic on windows can be quite useful.
Soup and stew and hot stuff makes outdoor things help keep you warm.
Call your neighbors who are isolating or shut in.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Gives new meaning to “workers of the world, unite!”
NobodySpecial
Not really, unless you have ice on your front window and no scraper? 4-5 minutes to allow the oil to circulate and then drive because the motor will work harder and reach a higher temp while in gear versus idle. Doesn’t take more than 5-10 minutes of normal (for icy conditions) driving to get the temps up to liveable.
But, yeah, if you have no or little experience with snow, just stay off the roads. When my brother moved down to San Antonio, they got a quarter inch of snow and the cops pulled him over because of the “unsafe” conditions. In my neck of Northern Illinois, a quarter of an inch is an annoyance.
Zinsky
My sweetie and I made a Valentine-shaped pizza and then watched a live streaming Valentines Day concert by Davina and the Vagabonds, a raucous local Twin Cities New Orleans-style band. Here is a taste:
https://youtu.be/UCfDJCF_O98
(We had a hot time even though it was -20 below zero outside!)
SiubhanDuinne
@oatler.:
?
snoey
@NobodySpecial:
Drive a few blocks at 10-20 or so before hitting the highway. All the moving parts, not just the engine, need a bit to get unfrozen.
Way back when I was hitching during some sleet in Oklahoma. Salesman in a big old bench seat sedan pulls over.
“You from up north?”
“Yup.”
Slides over
“You drive”
satby
@snoey: ??
weather report changed overnight from 1-4 inches of snow to 6-8 inches by Thursday here (northern IN). We’re already at the expected high today of 15°, it’s going to get colder. We already have close to a foot on the ground, it’s snowed pretty much every day for two weeks.
WaterGirl
We were -20 wind chill at midnight, now we are up to a balmy -18.
So very tired of the zero degree weather for the last 10 days, at least.
Another Scott
Dead thread yet? Good.
My earliest memory of capybaras is of seeing some TV show about the Amazon and piranhas and one segment was of a pack of capybaras crossing a river that had the nasty fishies in it. It didn’t go well for the furry fellows. :-(
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: I could have gone all
dayweekmonthyearlifetime without having that image in my head.