I’ve been told that cracking an egg on the edge of a bowl is the incorrect method. Flat surface. In fact I saw some video not to long ago that purports that dropping an egg from about a foot onto a flat surface results in a perfectly cracked egg. It seemed to work in the video, but I haven’t really replicated it in my home lab.
Five bucks.
Wait, was it a raffle or an auction? If it was an actual auction, that is fantastic.
This, however, really pisses me off:
She then gets to ask Peter Navarro a question, and asks what he will be doing in the next Trump Admin. He says prosecuting Fauci, to a standing ovation.
I know that is meaningless boasty BS that would never actually happen, even if trump manages to claw and scrabble his way back into the White House.
But for the love of God, Fauci was the Director of the NIAID for almost 40 years. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Dubya for his AIDS relief work. He’s the closest thing to a goddam national hero there is. Fuck Navarro, fucking asshole. And fuck the crowd that gave him a standing ‘O’.
Kind of a raffle, I guess. If you wanted to enter, you wrote your name on a bill of any denomination and dropped it in the hopper. Then they drew one bill to determine the winner. No idea how many idjits threw their money away, nor how much money was thrown into the hopper.
Nor how much Lindell made off with. Hopefully, 5 bucks signed by Karen.
Agree. And Rush f’ing Limbaugh got the medal of Freedom or whatever it was. COMPLETLELY making the medal meaningless.
Past time to retire the Medal of Freedom and come up with a new one.
Makes sense a Karen would win.
So the trump campaign has had to walk back his recent comments insulting Netanyahu and praising Hezbollah, which he apparently said in the first place because poor widdle twumpie got his feelings hurt:
Trump’s former adviser and now-presidential opponent Nikki Haley told NBC News: “He’s pissed off because Bibi praised Biden and the Biden White House for being supportive.”
I like this quote from the article:
…apologists claimed Trump was taken out of context…
Has any public figure in history been “taken out of context” more often than trump? If I didn’t know better, I might almost think trump just poops out any verbal diarrhea that comes into his head, without any thought whatsoever to the long-term (or even short-term) effects and ramifications of what he says.
I’m not sure if stock phrases got in the way of your meaning here, but I’m absolutely dead certain that the truth is just as you say with this part:
trump just poops out any verbal diarrhea that comes into his head, without any thought whatsoever to the long-term (or even short-term) effects and ramifications of what he says.
5yos are like that.
I was being sarcastic. My actual meaning was just as your truncated quote of mine reads.
D’oh! Thanks. Excessive literalism gets me again.
I twist myself up sometimes trying to be clever and end up negating my multiple negations until I can’t tell what I was trying to say and neither can anyone else.
You have to understand, the context is, his poor little fee-fees were hurt, and no one was noticing it, or paying attention to him! How can you expect him to do something other than throw an outrageous tantrum that gets everyone’s attention? /s
Kinda like the poor folks at the Onion. It’s getting very hard to write something so crazy that reality won’t top it next week before the bits even cool.
No doubt. I’ve toyed with the idea of creating a thread for posting real headlines related to trump or his trumpleshillspins that totally sound like ‘Onion’ headlines. I posted one here a couple days ago:
Lauren Boebert seen crouching and smoking in Walmart parking lot after finalizing divorce
Another one I recall from back in the dark days of the trump administration:
Money thrown into the hopper, perfect.
Dan
Do this, please. I would enjoy it!
You asked for it, you got it!
Bill, the Galactic Hero is a satiric military s-f novel by Harry Harrison. In it the eponymous Bill is a farmboy shanghaied into the Imperial Navy. At one point after a series of (mis)adventures the ship he is on is in a battle, his left arm is burned off, then minutes later he accidentally fires a shot from the main gun that destroys their attacker.
He comes to in a sickbay bed, his left arm replaced by a right arm salvaged from one of his dead shipmates. Then he learns the captain is coming.
The door crashed open and an officer poked his head in. "Stand easy, men – this is just an informal visit by the Old Man.
…
Three more officers came through the door and finally a male nurse leading a ten-year-old moron wearing a bib and a captain’s uniform."Uhh … hi ya fellows … " the captain said.
“The captain wishes to pay his respects to you all,” the first lieutenant said crisply.
"Is dat da guy in da bed … "
“And particularly wishes to pay his personal respects to the hero of the hour.”
"… Dere was sometin’ else but I forgot … "
“And he furthermore wishes to inform the valiant fighter who saved our ship that he is being raised in grade to Fuse Tender First Class, which increase in rank includes an automatic re-enlistment for seven years to be added to his original enlistment, and that upon dismissal from the hospital he is to go to the Imperial Planet of Helior, there to receive the hero’s award of the Purple Dart with Coalsack Nebula Cluster from the Emperor’s own hand.”
… I think I gotta go to da bathroom … "
“But now the exgencies of command recall him to the bridge and he wishes you all an affectionate farewell.”
Bill saluted with both arms and the troopers stood at attention until the captain and his officers had gone, then the doctor dismissed the troopers as well. “Isn’t the Old Man a little young for his post?” Bill asked.
“Not as young as some,” the doctor scratched through his hypodermic needles looking for a particularly dull one for an injection. “You have to remember that all captains have to be of the nobility and even a large nobility gets stretched damn thin over a galactic empire. We take what we can get.”
I’ve been thinking of that passage a lot the past eight years.
I loved that book and also the Stainless Steel Rat books. Harrison had a sick sense of humor that meshed well with mine.
Oh! And the Eden books (where dinosaurs evolved before humans and became the dominant civilization, with humans as a more primitive and subservient class) and the story that became Soylent Green.
Although Bill the Galactic Hero was originally a standalone novel, he later issued a whole series of them, in which he collaborated with other SF writers