Mrs Whiggins

Not going with a 'whataboutism', but for a real case of not being transparent, talk to Paul Kruse of Bluebell. That, IMO, was a true case of being willfully negligent and deceptive, not the Twitter TOS.

And the wing is by your window? You get to spend the next 14 hours looking at that tape job and seeing how it holds up! Shouldn't be nerve wracking at all....

I see your point, and with many spouses that arrow might find its mark, but with Ted I'm not so sure. From my own perspective, Ted being the child of an immigrant and (as far as I can tell) raised somewhat as a singleton (not sure how much his half-siblings were around) has this air of wanting to belong. He tries very hard. He was and is smart, and he checked all the boxes--being trotted around as a hs Constitutional scholar and patted on the head by adults, went Ivy League and all that, but... however much his father told him that 'God destined him for greatness', however much he has strolled the halls of the impressive marble and wood, he cannot quite shake that aura of not having that 'it' factor. His unlikability is well known but it seems to have made him revert to the know-it-all sarcastic I'm rubber you're glue type of immature attitude that is rather off-putting and reeks of bitterness and fifth grade. But that facade--I mean, look at the outings: the trip to the border (see me in my Orviswear and BP vest as I scan the Rio Grande for ebuhdoers), stumping for Kelly Loeffler in Georgia (playing the populist in starched jeans and plaid shirt that had Dan Patrick drooling over the suede leather jacket combo) and finally: appearing at every Texas sporting event garbed in whatever jersey is team appropriate. *It's what one does when trying hard to be 'one of us' no matter who the 'us' is. And that is the barb that I speculate would hit the hardest: being not even a T-shirt fan who is, at least, loyal to whichever team they claim, but a cosplay dress-up poser who is as shallow as they come. Still on the outside, looking in, among the crowd but never asked to join the after party. The senator who shoots hoops but has no game. *this isn't meant to throw shade at first gen immigrants nor is it an apology for Cruz, more of a personal observation to perhaps what makes him tick. Or it could be completely shit. Other people come from various similar situations and are not sanctimonious reprobates.

We made our aged recipe back in October except going forward we have decided to drop the Jamaican rum and go back to our preferred rum, Chairman's Reserve. So I am making another batch this week for us to drink around the New Year. We still have a quart of the original that we're holding back for Christmas.

That is a lot of "unlesses" and "ors" my friend. I suspect that each in their own way they are leading desperate lives and hoping for the best outcome they can imagine. Judging by some of the fan club assertions, some of the more optimistic and slightly less desperate of them can imagine quite wildly.

No, don't you get it? Elon is a victim, a victim I tell you. Or he will tell you if ever stops talking about whatever blathering nonsense he is spouting. You should be ashamed for even thinking that Elon had every advantage known to a young white person born in South Africa in the 1970s. What if one of his father's planes had crashed? What if the family yacht was swamped by a large wave? That mine was a literal millstone around his neck and leaving SA in order to avoid military service meant that he had to live in Canada of all places in order to eventually become an American. I mean, come on, Canada? All those nice people who say nice things and export that niceness in the personages of Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling? It was all too too much. The oppression of living in the land of curling and ice hockey and poutine until he could finally immigrate across the border to Pennsylvania. A true migrant's journey of unfathomable heartache and misery in order to place his life in the hands of Penn's faculty with their crunchy tweeds and habit of clearing their throats every third word for emphasis and sobriety. Such persecution he has faced, such villainous treachery he has overcome, and all for humanity.

Can we have @Brisketexan goes to Florida? According to the wisdom of TexAgs folks, she should never have been working outside the home. Which, as women know, is how one (perhaps not in Ms. Cruz's case) ends up with no current employment skills when the mister decides to trade for a younger version and is frankly irrelevant to the situation but TexAgs are pretty consistent that it must be the mother's fault at each and every turn. Setting that aside, I recall when Kelly Anne Conway and her spouse were front and center on social media when their daughter was having problems. It is not an easy thing to be a parent and children are not objects to be cast aside when they don't perform like the wind-up toys some parents imagine them to be. Those words are not so much for Ms. Cruz, but Ted. Young people know bullshit when they see it, and it hurts to live a lie. Some teens develop a shell to protect themselves, but others have no such innate mechanism to do so. I hope she is given the opportunity to be heard, to be helped, and to heal. Edit: Js1 beat me to the punch.

Most grocery stores have a service desk and that is often where bottle deposits are refunded. We occasionally buy a local bottled milk for one of my kiddos and it has a two dollar and change refund if I bring the bottle back to the desk at our store. When we lived up north, we used to buy cases of beer from various breweries and keep a box or two in the kitchen to fill up because they all had returnable bottles.

Who do? You do? To do is to be. The truth shall set you free. Free to be, you and me. To be or not to be. Doo be, doo be do. I'm am really not digging this renaissance of the dumb, modern, dark ages.

Well, no, but save the delusional, a larger audience certainly is. Why don't you save us the trouble and go back to your old avatar, you know the carrotpenis one with the potatoes. Better yet, send that pic to Elon since you two seem to share the same sense of humor.

Every day that passes reveals just how squishy Elon's ethics are. I would never trust this man, nor would I expect anyone's data to remain private should it prove convenient to him to sell it, reveal it, or use it for personal gain.

2023 is almost here! One of my resolutions for next year is to only use exclamation marks! I'm going to use the Surly platform I've been using to make this change! I never wanted to be at the forefront of exclamation mark usage but I'm going to use my punctuation for good! "If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!"..."Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?!" William Strunk and E.B. White: The Elements of Style! [sic, no exclamation point in title!]

I don't know, it was a random tweet that an account I check on retweeted and I had a wth moment because it was new to me as well. So, I looked around this morning and apparently the top left photo is from 2015 and that family asked a local photographer in Louisiana to do the shoot. It sparked a lot of backlash (I guess, I missed it), and predictably some folks must have decided (rather like the posing with weapons Christmas photos) to keep it going. I don't have Face/Meta/Pintrest etc but in some circles, I guess it's a thing now?

I didn't even know where to file this one. Have never seen this before but I am appalled. Oh, I get that some folks would think this was funny, but let's just be clear that no, it really isn't. And if the Mom was the one who organized the photo? Good grief and have some self-awareness. That little girl on the bottom right looks like she is having SO much fun there Dad. An

Apparently there is a plan to bring this one back: I would rather not drink soda if it has to be diet, but I had a friend whose mom loved this: I was surprised that you can still buy these Zubaz pants:

He misses his brother. You know him, he's the kind one:

Elon's phone talk is trending on social media right now. His fan club thinks it is a great idea. Among the counter side comments beside the ones with images of phones on fire, a pundit remarked that Musk would buy/absorb a developing phone company, push the owners out and rebrand it as his phone, which was pretty funny. And accurate.

Yes. They have a phone in one hand, a gun in the other.

I'm reposting this from the DT thread on Elon Musk because I would like to go political with it for a moment. Immamac suggested that there is not anything to think about it really, and while I agree somewhat--it's the kind of thing I would normally, on viewing, would be 'whatever, where is a book to read, Elon?' but these are unusual times and we have in our very recent history 'Q' and that proved to be a very powerful weapon of propaganda for a percentage of the population. Followers who proved quite resilient in supporting their leader around the country, swallowing lies wholesale, and getting rather violent when suggested to do so. When one thinks about ways in which to manipulate an asset (such has been the charge against Trump-that he was easily a puppet for foreign gain), gaining a hold on someone with similar delusions who also has a ready made following might prove advantageous. So I'm looking at this picture and thinking what the conspiracy type followers would start gleaning from it. Because that is what they do when they follow their leader, and Elon seems to have lost some folks who think he is nutbar but gained a few more because he is hurting the people they wish to hurt. Short answer: yes, Elon made a shitpost because he is an attention seeking emotionally disabled person, but I wouldn't be surprised if more of this started to crop up on his account. Look at the picture more closely and think about the image painted on the gun case, the actual premise of the video game the other toy gun represents, and the soda cans. Like immamac states, all plausible especially for a tech geek, but I'm going to be giving his account the side eye given some of the other actions that have been occurring over the platform. Am I now conspiracy theorying about Elon? Well, not so much that, as much as recognizing that he loves the attention and the power that his new toy has given him, and as long as there are entities willing to fund it, it may stick around as a useful tool in a different way than the other platforms could-due to its reach and its destruction of trusted news accounts worldwide.

I'm thinking if that's his bedside table he must have to go to the bathroom a lot in the middle of the night.

Do you even cult, dude? What you wrote below your sentence is all on point, but save for the visa workers, anyone who stays IMO either has compelling reasons that encumber their job search elsewhere or they are wholly bought in to what he's selling. Given Musk's behavior and methods displayed over time (prior to the twit buy), it is not my cup of tea. High risk, low reward unless one is named Musk or is able to spin off the name association into one's own start up is IMO the FAAFO that seems to lead to an Icarus level sunburn or a lot of simmering rage once the blinders are off.

What I think was cool was that you got to spend part of your workweek making an adult pacifier that changed colors.

Saw this and immediately thought of this thread: Love Ryan Reynolds. His Aviation Gin isn't too bad either.

Same with my inlaws when they were alive. It was always made in the crock pot. To @Armybrat and your missus, hope you all are recuperating and feeling better.