Deti writes
Those Yiayia commercials make me laugh every time. Announcer asks cute girl or pussyboy guy what they’re doing, lets them get part of a sentence out, then essentially interrupts them with “shut up bitch, let’s hear what Yiayia has to say”. Yiayia then drops a truth bomb, leaving our modern day liberal progressive speechless….
Funny as hell. I know it’s supposed to be “oh hahaha look at the throwback judgmental old biddy, so behind the times, so ancient, so irrelevant”. But people know it’s true, down deep, and they love someone who is blunt and direct.
And that’s why it works.
Sure, there is an element of in women wanting to be told what is right and what is wrong by a strong hand; be it a man or yiayia (Greek for Grandmother). The women in the commercials have their “submission bone” tickled for a second. In the olden days, it would have been tickled for more than a second.
So, yes, women do know what is right and wrong. But, to compete with other women, to go the fun path, to blah-blah they just do what they feel.
What I would really like to see is commercials where the women are in some unhappy situation (e.g. pumped and dumped, 35 and with no prospects) with Yiayia providing some commentary
Yiayia would not approve
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What I would really like to see is commercials where the women are in some unhappy situation … with Yiayia providing some commentary.
Good luck with that one. For Yiayia’s commentary to have any value (it’s a commercial remember), she would have to be selling self-control and the pain of delayed gratification – forgoing something now in exchange for something greater later.
That is exactly the opposite of what commercial’s sell now – “don’t think” and “instant gratification” (do it now). Those commercials have trained several generations of children about how to behave better than any Sunday School ever did. Train up a child in the way he should go and he will not depart from it works for lessons learned anywhere (in front of the television), not just lessons learned from Sunday School.
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Well, one can always wish…
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‘The women in the commercials have their “submission bone” tickled for a second. In the olden days, it would have been tickled for more than a second.’
I do enjoy when these broads at least for a few seconds wonder why they are single and they also put out they are not submissive in any way. It’s almost like they know but can’t articulate it in a way a full blown sexist misogynist can.
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I like older yiayia’s accent better, but somewhat younger yiayia has a better chance of actually getting some licks in with the rug beater.
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O/T: Breaking: The Ton and Colonel Mike Joining Trump Cabinet.
Rumors of Appalachian Whiskey Still discovered on South Lawn Rejected by Press Secretary: “Acosta, you wouldn’t know the difference between ‘shine and Hi-C if your mommie served you with a sippie cup.”
“‘Surplus’ F-22 mysteriously appears at Dulles, hangared at Hawthorne FBO.
Good times!
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Taleb evidently speaks about 10 languages, some of them ancient — when he’s not speaking in mathematical notation. He is also a treasure for his simple humanism, advancing village culture values while inhabiting the belly of the beast (Big Finance):
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‘What I would really like to see is commercials where the women are in some unhappy situation (e.g. pumped and dumped, 35 and with no prospects) with Yiayia providing some commentary’
They’re trying to sell something…not depress people.
Unless it is a commercial for anti-depression meds, perhaps.
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I’m down to 20 grams/carbs per day, except when I’m not, so I appreciate the many, beautiful Renaissance paintings of proper (and aspirational) food, in this thread. Protein is winning. The USG/USDA told us all to eat low-fat, high-carb diets beginning late ’70s.
Now everyone is fat (40% of white women and 45% of black women are morbidly obese), T2 diabetes has exploded, there’s no reduction in heart disease, and, I predict, we’ll shortly document the causal relatiionship between sugar consumption and Alzheimers.
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For the mature man, P.D. Mangan offers science-derived but nonconformist direction on diet and fasting, exercise (composite heavy lifts, duh, and walk around a few days a week), and general longevity. Though I do mow or sail or fish without a shirt sometimes, I don’t look this good.
He and I are the same age. I’d say he’s most interesting for tying his research to his own personal experimentation. Notably, he’s not injecting and lifting 20 hours a week. Try one- two hours of the right workouts coupled with the right diet. There might be someone else here who gets value from his work, and I hope so.
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This monster is an othorpaedist who lost his license because he told patients to stop eating AMA-approved garbage. He’s only 52, but he can still dunk. If you’re interested in a protein lifestyle, he’s a good starting point.
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Something Ame said on the last post about Mike’s family stuck at the airport.
Keep in mind they are delayed but they are safe in a large public building with food, water, heat, security.
Ames said
“coupled with the fact that women need male assurance and reassurance, it gets confusing. how does a man know which one a woman is acting on? is she being manipulative and bitchy or is she sincerely needing help?
and at some point in our lives, most every woman finds herself in a situation where there’s no one to call, and she has to just figure it out and endure it.”
This happens more and more. SIW who have no man in their lives. Or married men, wife goggles smashed who want the bitch to suffer, just the man on the street ignoring a damsel in distress (you do cpr on her, I aint getting charged).
ALL women, ALL, are rapidly using up mens good will and tolerence.
“You are safe. The coffee shop is right there. What do you want me to do, the runways are closed. Find a corner to curl up and read a book for twelve hours and shut up.”
She opens her mouth again, get up and walk away.
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I take magnesium every day along with zinc, fish oils and vitamin D. I believe those are the main ones a man needs.
Of course eating steak helps too.
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By contrast when the kids were 3 and 5, for three years Mrs lived by herself all week in Algonquin Park. Log house wood heat. Town of 1500 was a half hour away. Power went down weekly in storms often for a day or more.
I was working 12 hour shfts managing the ramp at Pearson in Toronto, three hours away in good weather. I went home weekends. Often in winter I didnt make it home for weeks.
And late 90s there was not the texting like there is now.
Sunday was “bye honey, I will call you wednesday and friday when I am on my way.”
But the kids grew up on the lake, playing in the woods, in nature.
Stranded at an airport……please bitch.
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““You are safe. The coffee shop is right there. What do you want me to do, the runways are closed. Find a corner to curl up and read a book for twelve hours and shut up.”<— This
Might help to think of people in a worse position rather than concentrating on your own problems. The folks working overtime trying to help solve the problem and getting yelled at by the masses, the folks with young tired crying infants, the people who need to be somewhere fast because a loved on is very ill or something…. are all having a much worse day.
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Thus ends BV’s self-indulgent Saturday. BV out. /EOM
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95% percent of the time this is all the wimminz really want when things haven’t gone perfectly for them.
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Yaiyai’s best advice…ignored
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Earl
And men are more and more replacing “there, there” with
“AHAHAHAhahahahahaha”
Figure it out yourself cause you dont need no man.
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Her dispute with Pakman started when Siskind tweeted last week that white males were “not where our party is at” when it comes to recent successful Democratic candidates.
Democrats have “some unpacking to do” when it comes to the “internalized sexism and racism” in the party and “why we presume white male [sic] is safe,” she wrote, referring to the national popularity of failed Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke.
Pakman responded on Twitter that “pre-emptively dismissing a candidate based on their race and gender” did not seem “progressive” to him: “I feel like there’s as [sic] word to describe that.”
When Siskind retorted that “[s]ecure men are always at the fore-front of diversity,” Pakman said he agreed. But that view is “the exact opposite” of Siskind’s previous statement prejudging white male candidates, he argued.
“She exhibits personal prejudice in her comment, but proposes a way of selecting candidates that is sexist and racist,” he told a skeptical Twitter user.
Two days after their Twitter encounter, Pakman told his followers that Siskind had then “called Boston College demanding they not have me back as adjunct faculty.”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/high-profile-feminist-tried-to-get-college-to-dump-professor-for-criticizing-her-he-says/
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in re: Pakman/Siskind:
We are inches from these Marxists imposing academic notions of bad speech on society generally, vitiating the 1st Amendment. The same loathing that we are accustomed to wrt the 2nd A. is now aimed at critical speech.
Sounds extreme, but academic notions of “sexual assault” (“he asked me out for a date, and I was terrified that’s assault”) are already penetrating civic relations.
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‘Figure it out yourself cause you dont need no man.’
I suppose wine, cats, and anti-depressant meds were a good trade off.
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” Try one- two hours of the right workouts coupled with the right diet. There might be someone else here who gets value from his work, and I hope so.”
BV, I’ll check out this guy’s stuff, but since I’m a lazy clam at the moment (and in general), could you give me the short skinny on fasting? Does he recommend it for days, or is it the 12-14 hour version (overnight, late breakfast)? Need to get in shape if I want to be a TRB…
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TRB= Trail running bitch.
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Intermittent fasting = consuming calories during a 6-8-10 hour window only. I fast for 18 hours. So I eat during a six hour window. If one also eliminates or restrict consumption of sugars, one will be in ketosis within 72 hours. In ketosis, while restricting alcohol, I lose up to a pound a day, while eating to satiety (no calorie counting). In my case it means learning to like going to bed a llittle hungry, and having black coffee or black coffee with stevia in the a.m. (I’ll drink unsweetened coffee during the ‘fast’) when I wake up a little hungry.
I have never had trouble exercising on an empty stomach, but a trail running bitch whose butt is so hard you can bounce dimes off of it may find it unpleasant. I deal with food cravings by drinking coffee or cold water, and I deal with carb cravings by ignoring them and emptying the house of Triscuits.
When I am on this regime, while exercising, my mental acuity goes through the roof as does my mood.
On one level this is just adopting a wrestler’s lifestyle. So it’s not so crazy, except as a society we have been sold bullshit about breakfast and carbs and snacking being super-duper important.
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A lot of people will fast for 3-5 days. I’ve done that but I didn’t see any benefit, and I didn’t like obsessing about the process. Danger: Don’t be a food weirdo.
So I’m cutting weight now and I’ll have a steak, or hamburger or bacon etc. usually around 2 p.m. and cook seconds if I’m still hungry. I might have some eggs or soup for supper. I like to make a light chicken soup with duck or quail eggs. Regular eggs work fine.
In terms of avoiding the carbs, wine is about 1.5 grams/unit and whiskey/vodka less.
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TL;DR version: skip breakfast, don’t snack.
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Links to essays on IF:
http://roguehealthandfitness.com/category/intermittent-fasting/
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Cill the Intolerant declares:
Listen to a man who doesn’t get sick and do as I do y’hear!? Don’t waste your money on vitamins etc. Avoid food raised on chemicals AND y’all too active to waste time
snacking between meals… right?
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I have a long comment, responding to The Liz on IF, in the spam queue.
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BV I freed it and it appears “at 7:13 pm” above.
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Suppose that I am a little fella who is a student at the University of Missouri. Big Bertha asks me out. Is this a Title IX violation?
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I agree with BV at 7:13 pm BTW. I hadn’t heard it described as “fasting”, but in effect that’s what I do. I have my last meal, a light one, at 5 or 6 pm after which I don’t eat until 8 am or 9 or 10 am next day – sometimes not until 12 noon. I start work early, and during physical work I don’t think of food. As mentioned, I don’t get sick, not even a cold. After being in contact with people I sometimes feel a cold coming on but it doesn’t take hold.
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” Big Bertha asks me out. Is this a Title IX violation?”
It depends on the size of her knockers, FB. Sometimes they are so heavy there’s nothing to wrap your laughing gear around.
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‘Is this a Title IX violation?’
Yes…because under title 9 being a man is illegal.
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Low carb? Fuck that. A gallon of sweet tea and a gallon of booze is a daily minimum
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Tircyle as a getting way car?
Love it!
We have a bunch of trikes at work. I broke three of them this week trying to do wheelies. Well two doing wheelies; one broke power sliding around a corner and into a welding machine
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That’s what you get for doing wheel stands in your workshop. (BTW have you tried doing a wheel stand on the front wheel? LOL Talk about fun (especially in a workshop 😉
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I’ve done a front wheel stand on a bike but not a trike yet. Must try it today.
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No. The physics are not right for it.
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Now if you all go out and break your necks doing front wheel stands, don’t blame me. Take your complaints to St Peter and I’ll face the penalty when my time comes.
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LOL
I broke the handle bar off two trikes trying to get the front wheel off the ground. Soemthing had to give and I guess that was the weak spot
I barrel rolled end over end on the power slide.
My business partner is pissed. He’s always pissed but next time I am building ramps
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I can do a front wheel stand on a motorcycle. One of three stunts I can pull off
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“Acosta, you wouldn’t know the difference between ‘shine and Hi-C if your mommie served you with a sippie cup.”
lol!
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I hopped on my trike approx 8:30 pm (Patriarch Time) with the intention of doing a front wheel stand but the feel was all wrong. It ain’t going to happen, not for me.
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O/T: Breaking: The Ton and Colonel Mike Joining Trump Cabinet.
Rumors of Appalachian Whiskey Still discovered on South Lawn Rejected by Press Secretary: “Acosta, you wouldn’t know the difference between ‘shine and Hi-C if your mommie served you with a sippie cup.”
“‘Surplus’ F-22 mysteriously appears at Dulles, hangared at Hawthorne FBO.
brilliant 🙂
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I can’t do the fasting thing
Makes me sick. Fallout from the days the Army gut checked you via food and sleep deprivation
Plus o never much did a diet. I always focused on training more often, longer and harder
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Trikes are terrible stunt platforms
Which is why I am determined to pull something off on a trike
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One of the United Kingdom’s former top prosecutors will not be made a Dame, becoming the first in the position not to receive the honor during their tenure or shortly after they depart.
Alison Saunders, former Director of Public Prosecutions, resigned earlier this year after it was discovered the Crown Prosecution Service withheld exculpatory evidence in multiple rape cases.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39772/uk-prosecutor-who-withheld-evidence-rape-cases-ashe-schow
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For her part, Thompson went on BBC Radio to complain about this new racial twist: “When you see that people who benefit from white privilege that are able to get both sides of the coin, it’s very troubling.”
Of course, all of this conflicts with the modern belief that anyone can identify as whatever they wish, but as we know (barring official advice from a Politically Correct Hierarchy Handbook), white people and otherwise “privileged” individuals are largely exempt from these new rules. Or, they at least need to take into account how their “intersections” come into play.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/college-student-gets-death-threats-for-pretending-to-be-black/
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F.U.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a very troubling speech yesterday to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin where she said, “Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty” and that the will of the people on issues like immigration and border security doesn’t matter.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/chancellor-merkel-says-nations-must-give-up-sovereignty-to-the-eu/
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Swedish state broadcaster SVT has come under fire for what some viewers are calling an effort to downplay the horrendous details of the murders of two Scandinavian backpackers in Morocco
On Christmas Eve, the national public broadcaster in Sweden aired a report about the barbaric killings, but chose not to focus on the actual details of the crime or the now-established links to Islamic terrorism. The SVT report made no mention of the fact that one of the young women was beheaded, said nothing about the ISIS link and simply referred to “knife damage” on the woman’s neck.
Bizarrely, the report focused almost entirely on how it is a punishable offence to share the disturbing video. Written reports on SVT’s website did mention the fact that the murders have been linked to Islamic terrorism, but that fact was nowhere to be found in its strange Christmas Eve report.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=59618
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BV – i find diets very interesting. i’m not a scientist and do not have a scientific mind … if i did, i’d probably be a nutritionist. i’ve been seeing a nutritionist for a couple months now, and i LOVE her and what i’m learning.
my aspie-girl has had full-gut issues since birth, so i’ve been researching and adapting for her … but i was also very attuned to my diet since i can remember.
i bought into the whole fat-free cult. wish i hadn’t, but i did.
anyway … i find it interesting how one-diet-does-not-fit-all, however there are principles that do fit all.
idk how much credence can be given to it, but i still find it interesting … i looked into diet by blood type once when doing research for my daughter. it gave me some ideas of foods to introduce into her diet that didn’t hurt her. the concept, though, was very interesting.
my chiropractor is vegetarian, but i need meat protein and have always known that … then found it interesting yesterday at my nutritionist’s when she told me the same.
i’m on a diet of mostly veg’s, small portions of lean protein meats/fish, fruit … and, thankfully, i can still eat butter! yay! no dairy or eggs, though … kinda miss the cream 🙂
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FB’s at 9:35 pm is important.
Under Alison Saunders, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) tried to set itself up as Police, Judge, and executioner, in rape cases and hate-crimes (i.e. “thought crimes” or crimes in the mind) in the UK. Saunders set the CPS up as the HQ of citizen-on-citizen secret informants, complete with “Aunt Jane” database. She epitomizes the typical feminist of today. It would be a waste of time for me to spell it out here when I already did so in “Feminism flouts the Separation of Powers“.
With their new-found power, women have contributed fuck all to the advance of civilization and a lot to its decline.
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i recently talked to a naturopath who was telling me about this intermittent fasting. i don’t think my body can do that yet, but i like the concept. i get tired of eating.
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We have a bunch of trikes at work. I broke three of them this week trying to do wheelies. Well two doing wheelies; one broke power sliding around a corner and into a welding machine
lolol!!!
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My business partner is pissed. He’s always pissed but next time I am building ramps
lol!
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The University of Michigan is offering its students conflicting messages on sexual consent, stating that “words or actions” can function as consent while at the same time saying one should never “assume by the way a person… acts that they want to have sex.”
The university’s administration denies that they are relaying any mixed messages, insisting the definition is clear.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-offers-students-contradictory-instructions-on-sexual-consent/
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7. In Ocasio-Cortez’s mind, those riding the Central American caravan aren’t “illegal aliens” but rather “refugees” who want to seek asylum.
6. She tried to compare the Holocaust to what’s taking place on the Southern border.
5. Apparently every member of Congress needs to pay their interns…and it must be a living wage.
Ocasio-Cortez decided to chide her colleagues for not paying their interns, which she thinks is unfair. Naturally, she had to one-up everyone else by vowing to pay her interns at least $15 an hour.
The most ironic aspect though: Democrats, the same people who supposedly fight for a fair wage, are the ones who make their interns work for free.
4. She was so broke she couldn’t afford to find a place in Washington, D.C.
3. Ocasio-Cortez claimed to be a political outsider but she cherry picked what aspects of her resume – and life – people knew about her.
The reason Ocasio-Cortez was so successful this election cycle is because she was branded as a political outsider, someone who wanted to help others and be a voice for the powerless. The problem, however, is that her background is anything but that of an outsider.
There are just a few things most people don’t know about her:
• When she was five she moved from the Bronox to Yorktown Heights, where the average household income is $141,254.
• She attended Boston University, a private college where tuition alone currently sits at $52,816 (and no, that doesn’t include room and board, books, fees, etc).
• While in college she interned for U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy and handled foreign affairs and immigration casework for his constituents.
• She campaigned for Bernie Sanders in 2016.
• After the 2016 election she drove across the country to talk to people in Flint, Michigan about the water crisis there and to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests to talk with protestors.
• She worked for the National Hispanic Institute, a nonprofit organization that fights for the civil rights of hispanics, as the Educational Director of the 2017 Northeast Collegiate World Series.
2. Ocasio-Cortez tried to compare Central Caravan riders to those of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany,
1. She violated House ethics…and she hasn’t even been sworn in yet.
Ocasio-Cortez violated House ethics when she threatened to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., simply because he shared a meme of her on Instagram
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2018/12/29/congresswomanelect-alexandria-ocasiocortezs-top-7-political-gaffes-of-2018-n2538232
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Gratuitous image
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Australians are not British Texans
Why
Gun laws.
Bitches
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My diet is mostmostkly shit I have killed, sweet tea and sangria
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Ton and BV – wanted to thank you for your advice on bourbon for my neighbor. i was able to ask him what he likes … and found out his wife’s drug-of-choice, and so knew exactly what to get them. it was perfect. when we took them their gifts, with candy added in, i gave him a couple hugs and wished him Merry Christmas. i know two gifts under their tree can’t bring back their son, but i think it touched him that i went to the effort to find out what he likes first – which y’all recommended i do. so … thank you 🙂
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What? A bored Ton is a juvenile, destructive and semi dangerous Ton
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It’s fucking weird to agree with someone written in New fucking York
https://nypost.com/2018/12/29/the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-reason-the-military-wants-to-stay-in-syria/amp/
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“I will fight for us, all of us. It is a big charge and a big responsibility for our generation.”
— Sage Grace Dolan-Sandrino, an 18-year-old transgender woman and a student at Bard College in New York
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/us/women-2018-biggest-stories-me-too.html
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A gas station owner in Arkansas was trying to increase his sales, so he put up a sign that read:
*** “FREE SEX w/fill-up … just guess the right number between 1 & 10.” ***
Soon a local redneck pulled in, filled his tank, and asked for his FREE SEX.
The owner told him to pick a number from 1 to 10. If he guessed correctly, he would get his FREE SEX.
The redneck guessed ‘8’. The proprietor said, “You were close. The number was ‘7’. Sorry, but no FREE SEX this time.”
A week later, the same redneck, along w/his brother, Bubba, pulled in for another fill-up. Again he asked for his FREE SEX.
The proprietor again gave him the same story, and asked him to guess the correct number.
The redneck guessed ‘2’ this time.
The proprietor said, “Sorry, it was ‘3’. You were close, but no FREE SEX this time.”
As they were driving away, the redneck said to his brother, “I think that game is rigged, and he doesn’t really give away FREE SEX.”
Bubba replied, “No. it ain’t, Billy Ray. It ain’t rigged. My wife won twice last week.”
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/378878.php
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Ames
Agree with BV. I have never eaten breakfast. Lunch is first meal of the day. Protien, veggies, fruit, juice. Then supper is usual meat potatoes salad. Occassionally cereal at 10 bedtime.
Adjust for what I am doing.
E.g today did squat except hour with ponies and two hour walk w dog. So had two begals at 1200 and three sausages and a salad at 6. Thats it.
But on a farm day its easily six dggs, four sammaches, litre of juice.
Weight stays between 170-185. Never broke 200 ever at 6-1.
Test is I can still bench my weight and do a 30 min 5 k. As long as I do those twice a week I am good.
Occassional ginger ale and beer but not alot of other sweets.
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also use the three step rule. Prep is only three steps from ground to fork.
E.g. grain to flour to bread, egg to frypan, meat to fry to stew.
Only “packaged” food is what comes in a bag e.g. coffee beans or a carton like milk or juice.
If you only buy what you can see is food its easy to cut out chemicals.
And no soy or corn syrup.
A treat we get shreddies or cheerios for bedtime snack.
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Here is Liz letting off steam after thinking of Gillibrand
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wise advice, Horseman. i’ve never been a big eater. now i’m eating a very specific diet w/very specific supplements to heal different organs in my body nutritionally, so the times and amt and specific foods i eat – all real foods, natural, organic, etc – are important. someday i’ll have more flexibility again 😉
my Oldest is a lot like me and has to remind herself to eat. Aspie Girl is usually trying to find foods that help stop her from feeling bad – almost always has a gut thing somewhere going on. i’m going to take her to this nutritionist, too, after the first of the year. she’s had so many gut issues all her life, and i’ve been researching and trying different things. it gets rough sometimes. i’m hoping this nutritionist can find some of her root issues, which we’ve been searching for since birth, and help heal all that. it’s amazing what this nutritionist does. i wish i understood science better to understand it all … but, i don’t. so it’s just that she’s doing all this science stuff to help my body stuff 🙂 🙂 🙂
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along those lines … one of the hugely frustrating things about having a kid in special ed in the public school system was her diet because they always, ALWAYS, watched what she ate, and every ARD meeting (special ed meetings w/staff, teachers, parents) they brought up her diet. every.single.one. and i knew that if i did not send a certain variety of foods to school in her lunchbox there was a good chance of them reporting me to someone somewhere, so i always sent the right foods whether i knew she would/could eat them or not. was a total waste, but it kept me from being reported.
public school = gov’t school … means they only go by gov’t diet standards (which are totally unhealthy) … but if you don’t follow the gov’t rules, they’ll report you to another division of gov’t.
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UNLESS you got Dr’s orders … which i did occasionally over the years for things that were not standard. i was able to do that b/c her docs knew me well and knew that i knew what i was doing as her mother and knew that i knew best what was best for my child. i never took that respect for granted.
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love the horses, ranch, farm life … wish i could have given that to Aspie Girl. she would have thrived in that. sigh. we can only do what we can do with what we’ve got 🙂
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For anyone wanting one last dash of Christmas, you might watch this. Works best if you have some decent speakers hooked up to your computer. Some Yiayias in here giving commentary, but mostly through the sung word. This is John MacArthur’s church – a stone’s throw away from our house. This is not our home church, but I know the assistant choir director (the nephew of the guy directing here) and we go on special occasions. They have an excellent music program.
https://www.gracechurch.org/music/posts/1558
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Australians are not British Texans
Why
Gun laws.
Bitches
Don’t you call me a bitch you fucking egg.
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LOL 😉
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‘German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a very troubling speech yesterday to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin where she said, “Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty” and that the will of the people on issues like immigration and border security doesn’t matter.’
Troubling….she just finally revealed the truth of the matter. It’s not like they were hiding it.
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A globohomo said something about globohomo-ism.
‘This is troubling’
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Despite this social deconstruction, men who identify as women are still biologically male; transgender and non-binary individuals who menstruate are still biologically female; and regardless of thought or perception, nothing will change the immutable biological characteristics of those born with XX or XY chromosomes.
Although the mainstreaming of these flagrantly anti-scientific ideas may seem quite extreme, we must accept the possibility that this is only the beginning of a long-term campaign to dismantle reality as we know it, the consequences of which could be dire.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39775/camp-how-deconstruction-sex-related-biology-could-frank-camp
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If “normal” critics like something, best to avoid it
TOMATOMETER
94%
AUDIENCE SCORE
26%
Critic Consensus: Carried by Jodie Whittaker’s boundless energy and charm, Doctor Who’s latest regeneration manages to feel fresh well into the show’s 55-year tenure.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/doctor_who/s11
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‘On November 30, students at Princeton University celebrated the third annual Menstruation Celebration. The event, coordinated by Princeton Students for Gender Equality and Princeton Students for Reproductive Justice, “aims to destigmatize conversation about periods,” according to Marissa Michaels of The Daily Princetonian.’
Don’t they spend like 100 grand a year to go there? So much for Ivy League Education.
[Yes. Best and brightest they are they claim]
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Here is Liz welcoming the new day
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“Gun laws”
True. I think that they’re looking to ban civilians having 50 cal in the UK. Not heard whether they’ve done it yet
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I know why
Not sure why fmr Sen. McCaskill keeps going on TV to call me a “thing” and “shiny object,” but it’s pretty disappointing.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 29, 2018
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I hope AOC never stops talking. She’s proof women can be comedians.
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Now that’s a happy cat (that is probably is after food)
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Be curious to see how that plays out boss
A lot of your big bore shotguns you folks still use are over .5
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Mean while……. the tyrannical right keeps oppressing people by extending them the right to bare arms
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-guns/brazils-president-elect-plans-decree-allowing-wider-gun-ownership-idUSKCN1OS0HN
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Besides urging parents that toy guns are not really acceptable gifts—for Christmas or any other time—the town decided to sponsor a “buyback” for all toy guns, from squirt guns and up. Children and parents were invited to swap the offensive toys for something “less dangerous.”
“We don’t want the kids playing with guns,” Hempstead Village Trustee LaMont Jackson told WABC-TV.
https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2018/12/28/toy-guns-are-target-for-gun-control/
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People go to jail in olde Angleterre for being snarky on Facebook. And the citizens put up with it. I doubt anyone’s going to get busy because the chin-strokers outlaw .50s.
P.S. My absolute favorite gun is my .50 cal Thompson Center black powder with a Leupold scope. All-in price was around $250 IIRC. I just love that cloud of smoke with each report.
If I had to rank sensory perceptions in life, and I’m about to, they might go:
a. ‘female scent’ (you figure it out)
b. steak au poivre, made with bourbon or rye instead of cognac
c. fresh cut hay, so rich you can smell it driving down the road at 60
d. avgas, preferably after I haven’t spill half a gallon on my fabric wing
e. an oily Henry Clay Breva Conserva, 50% consumed
f. fresh 100% cotton sheets, the old kind without the chemicals that make them “no-iron”, and pajamas (again, the kind that wrinkle)
g. black powder, post-ignition
h. good black coffee (not convenience store swill)
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I’ll agree with the smell of fresh cut hay
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‘Now that’s a happy cat (that is probably is after food)’
Wanting and getting food is the only time cats bother to care about humans.
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If them yankees re payimg cash for toy guns I would cash in the kids guns and buy them a real one.
Never have bought any of my youngins a toy gun. Just waited until they were 4 and put a real gun in their hands
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Sunday Wrestling Porn I. I know there is one guy who is interested, so that’s my excuse.
This guy is head coach of the #2 team in the country. He may look 32 but he’s 49. Olympic Gold Medalist. Got the Iowegian accent, ja. He’s still on the mat every day. Dad was a drunk so he doesn’t drink. One family, one wife, one home, one university. His assistant is his brother (bronze medalist) and they do throw each other through walls, they say.
Wrestling coaches don’t/shouldn’t use anodyne coach-speak. Brands doesn’t. He savages his star freshman here (Warner) for being a pussy and “rolling around.” They’ll be in the wrestling room Jan. 1 and it won’t be pretty.
https://www.hawkcentral.com/videos/sports/college/iowa/wrestling/2018/12/30/iowa-wrestling-coach-tom-brands-recaps-day-one-midlands/2443816002/
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I bought Son #1 a Daisy (Red Ryder) bb gun. I’ll not go into it. But when I was his age, we walked down normal streets with bb guns and shot at squirrels, and people thought that it was funny. So I’d send him out and say, “Murder some squirrels.” I was out of touch with the zeitgeist.
This was when I lived on the J.S. Mosby Highway, Upperville, VA. Deputy sheriff came to the house and asked to interview my 9 year-old boy. No, that wasn’t going to, and didn’t, happen. Had a doozy of a fight with my wife that day, though.
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Sunday Wrestling Porn II.
This lunatic (Troy Steiner) is the coach restarting the Fresno State wrestling program. If you’re an analytical sort you’ll say that his eyes are 20 years older than the rest of his features, body fat, musculature, etc. — indicating that, like his coach Gable, he is still on the mat seven days a week in combat with adolescents. (He’s 46.)
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Well, that wasn’t very ladylike
TRANSGENDER WOMAN THREATENS TO ‘TAKE IT OUTSIDE’ WHEN GAMESTOP EMPLOYEE USES THE WORD ‘SIR’
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/29/new-mexico-transgender-sir-gamestop/
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Elsewhere
https://going-postal.com/2018/12/the-disappearance-of-the-lady-be-good/
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One wonders what is wrong with these people…
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Second amendment pr0n
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Combat life, yo!
Longevity is part of why I recommend the ground life to heavy lifting life of power lifting
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so that’s my excuse.
……..
Men don’t need excuses
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‘Well, that wasn’t very ladylike’
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So when it is an it, what manner of manners should one use?
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First, asked how it would like to be addressed. Take your cue from its answer.
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a week or two ago at my local whole foods … told the guy at the meat counter what i wanted, he verified, i responded, “Yes, Sir.” then looked again and wondered if it was a he or she. couldn’t figure ‘Pat’ out … just left it at sir and went about my business.
for the love of all that’s holy, parents, raise your kids to be what God created them to be – male or female … masculine or feminine. do not leave people having to guess the gender of your kid!
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There is a new post
https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2018/12/31/what-they-say-what-they-do/
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First, asked how it would like to be addressed.
That can be awkward
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When things don’t go our way, we have to do fundamentals, very very solid and specific fundamentals.”
my girls would get tired of me going back to the simply basics, esp my Aspie-Girl for whom i have to do that a lot, so i’ve told them over and over that in sports, even prof sports, the coaches always say, “We need to go back to the basics.”
life truths from the beginning of time.
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sensory smells off the top of my head in no particular order . . .
newborn babies 🙂
the freshness of life after a rain
rain
my Husband
fresh baked bread
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Fuck these fucks who want to live outside the mainstream then have folks cater to them
And I am a fella living a fair bit outside the mainstream
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Nothing matters more then the fundamentals. An elite level shooter is someone who performs the fundamentals at an elite level…. no zen bullshitt. It’s all just sight alignment, sight picture, trigger squeeze and breathing. Nothing fancy
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That can be awkward.
Maybe yesterday. Today it is becoming commonplace to ask “what are your pronouns?”. or “what pronouns do you prefer?”.
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Maybe yesterday. Today it is becoming commonplace to ask “what are your pronouns?”. or “what pronouns do you prefer?”.
These weirdos should get to choose from exactly three gender choices: sir, ma’am or pervert…pick one
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Richard, in my little texas town, i can’t imagine asking ‘what is your pronoun?’
i’m guessing that california is a whole different progressive ballgame.
just read where colorado is the new california since so many have moved from cali to co.
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Ame, Texas seems to have to pronoun conflict bullshit down pat: Tex, Mex or Wrex. Jeez, the dripheads from Californicate are jamming up all the roads and Starbucks here in Denver. We need a Wall between Colorado and Utah, about 5 billion ought to cover it.
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Larry – yeah, Texas and Mexico are overlapped a lot. we’re part of a large school district that covers lots of towns, and they made several of the schools spanish-speaking-only. so teachers who only spoke english lost their jobs.
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I was trying to watch the Bears-Vikings game downtown. (I have no TV at home, but I like football.) It’s the kind of place where if you drop your pool cue on the floor you have to pay the house $1.00. My friend (da Bears!) who works at the packing plant, was very drunk and the woman who claims to be a prison guard with claimed super duper death moves on demand (Vikes, oh ja) were yelling at each other and threatenng violence. I was sitting between them.
This is a problem I never had to solve at the Hay-Adams or PJ Clarke’s.
“There’s too much yelling here, chill!” I said very loudly. Jesse the kindly bartender, whose probably gay, nodded. Female says, “I work in a prison, STFU.” Jesse retreats.
Then Mitch, who is 30 years younger and five inches taller and 50 pounds heavier, said, “Stop picking on her.”
Mitch has been looking for a fight with me for three years, because I laughed at him a couple of times.
I picked up my beer and moved away. Probably a beta move. I don’t want my children to remember me as a guy who shot someone twice his size in the face in a bar. I have never clocked a female. Life presents dilemmas.
My friend left, forgetting his ratty Olds. Walks home, I guess. Temp 3F. Tough death-dealing girl left, but not with her husband, because she came alone.
A barmaid brought me some chicken and green beens from home and didn’t even ask me to return the tupperware container.
C.S. Lewis suggests, in “The Great Divorce”, that this is not an earthly vale, but Hell. One wonders.
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PJ Clarke’s is a saloon on the upper east side of NYC, 3rd and 55th. Fancy. Great omelettes and burgers. My ex- was a coat check girl there when we were poor and first-married. She made $1-200 a night checking coats. I recommend the joint.
Bartenders are off-duty NYC cops. They’re not gay.
The magic words are “I’m from out of town.” A guy can stand quietly and have his Templeton rye. No one yells at each other. I just look at the cop over the horde and noise, raise my eyebrows, and I am refilled.
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The Hay-Adams is a hotel fronting the White House. My ex- and I have tea there, when I’m in town. The last time I had dinner there, Bill Clinton appeared. Everyone felt extremely validated.
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I picked up my beer and moved away. Probably a beta move. I don’t want my children to remember me as a guy who shot someone twice his size in the face in a bar. I have never clocked a female. Life presents dilemmas.
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Anyplace that expects you to ask about pronouns before you address someone should be destroyed.
The people impaled
The livestock slaughtered
The buildings and crops burned
The water and soil poisioned
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“Anyplace that expects you to ask about pronouns before you address someone should be destroyed.
The people impaled
The livestock slaughtered
The buildings and crops burned
The water and soil poisioned”
Completely agree in spirit, but if any of the animals looked healthy and worth it I’d drive them back to my place. Same with the women, who could learn and live, or not..
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“Nothing matters more then the fundamentals. An elite level shooter is someone who performs the fundamentals at an elite level…. no zen bullshitt. It’s all just sight alignment, sight picture, trigger squeeze and breathing. Nothing fancy’
Same with horses. So many times the princesses come and I am so good. Yeah in a round pen on a dead broke horse. Its the saddle or the equipment or the horse. Bullshit. You have a seat or you don’t. Horses know instantly what you are about.
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One day a bunch of them were on about how good they were. Also being all snooty about a new draft cross that came in who was pushy. “He is so bad mannered, unrideable.”
No he just doesnt give in to weaklings. He sees you coming.
I was in a pissy mood and had been working with Rogan for all of three days. We understood each other.
So as they were in the barn tacking up four or five princess horses I went to bring Rogan in for the night. He was way in the top field. It was hot. I was tired.
Fuck it. Clipped the lead on one side of his halter, looped it and tied it to the other side.
Led him to the fence and got on bareback. He danced a bit.
Roge I am here, wise the fuck up.
He settled.
So we come down the hill at a nice trot right up into the barn stopping about a foot from the first princess horse. Eeeek!
“Whenever you ladies are done, Roge would like his dinner in the last stall.”
Silence.
Cross ties unclipped.
Five horses shuffle over, princesses wide eyed.
Rogan sensed it an never seen a horse walk slower or prouder into his stall.
Rode him right in.
Turned him loose.
Thank you ladies.
Next day my lady boss started taking a strip off me.
I was tired. And walked away.
My real boss, her husband came by later.
Smiling grabbed my shoulder and said “please dont do that again, she doesnt like it.”
Walked away chuckling.
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Ame said: Richard, in my little texas town, i can’t imagine asking ‘what is your pronoun?
Remember that the focus of that discussion was about an intersex person (or hermaphrodite), where the displayed sex / gender of the person is not obvious.
FB asked: So when it is an it, what manner of manners should one use?
My response pertained specifically to that situation. I don’t recommend going around asking just anybody what pronouns they prefer.
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Completely agree in spirit, but if any of the animals looked healthy and worth it I’d drive them back to my place. Same with the women, who could learn and live, or not..
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Ahhh didn’t know you were one of those new age progressive headhunters
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Happy New Year from Texas, Y’all!!!
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