Wednesday, May 11, 2011

What would you like to talk about?

Open thread time. Maybe a theme will emerge, probably not:)

34 comments:

  1. I just Want to Apologize for being away from the Blogs for awhile. I Guess I don't Owe anyone an Apology, yet it always Feels Strange when I come back and discover how very far behind I am and that I just can't Read Everything.

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  2. The warmer weather is starting to set in Z. I think it's time for another thread on beers.

    Really like New Belgium's Mighty Arrow and their Ranger IPA.

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  3. Hooray; beers!
    You got Lienenkugel's in
    Mpls? Microbreweries, gotta be thousands. Last week I tried Blond Moment and River Rat Red. Saw a
    skeleton head spigot that
    said it was Irish Death.
    The barmaid said they were
    out. Probably just as well, sounds a bit toxic.

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  4. Leinenkugel's? LOL uh yeah we got that.

    The biggest micro here in the cities is probably Surly in Brooklyn Center.

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  5. Soap, I worked at TCAAP
    1966-70. Apparently the
    de-mil and cleanup is done.
    Now, they are building a
    $1 billion Ramsey Couty
    Stadium for the Vikings.
    WTF-a new Bloomington?

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  6. Indeed the Republicans in the state house of MN found it their moral obligation to get that Vikings stadium deal done. I mean we've got a $6 Billion gap to fill dontcha know.

    #notmyrepublicans

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  7. I don't drink beer...but I'm all for warm weather! I sure hope it's finally here and this isn't a damn tease by Mother Nature! If it is, I think we should go rough her up.

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  8. If you curse her she will usually get the message.

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  9. ..open thread..
    Z-man, I recall you like
    seeing cougars around NYC.
    We had one at the grocery store
    yesterday.

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  10. I was thinking of another kind of Cougar.

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  11. T'other kind of cougars are all over the grocery store. We don't waste tranquilizer darts on them.
    Over at Hanford Site, which is crawling with
    nuclear scientists, a sort of odd bunch, they cater to them with interesting brews
    ..and some fine pizza.
    ..yeah, they got cougars too.

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  12. Jenny Craig came out on top in a new Consumer Reports study of the most effective weight-loss programs. Weight Watchers which imo is overrated and gets all the press came in at #3. I was talking about this this morning and the woman goes but Weight Watchers is more realistic meaning I guess the average person doesn't want to sacrifice too much and it takes the pain and suffering out of traditional dieting but I say Jenny Craig is more realistic. The regimen, have a protein bar or shake for breakfast and then for lunch and a good regular meal later in the day. I said somewhere that the philosophy of dieting is to find the proper balance between starvation and nutrition. Sounds controversial (OMG what he said!) but those two protein bars or shakes give you the minimally required nutrition but the amount is small enough to get the whole fat-burning process kicking into high gear. What do we hear from WW? Kinda you can nosh all day and something about points. Just my opinion.

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  13. Blogger had problems this morning, Maintenance. Let's try it again.

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  14. Problems? Blogger was an outright fuckery* this morning.


    *http://www.speakjamaican.com/glossary/#f

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  15. Get the ball rolling. Ever work with someone who is kinda on the slow side by which I mean showing a mild form of some learning disability but then later on they have flashes of clarity, you get the sense they know what it's all about. Are they faking? do they fancy themselves amateur investigators of something like oh I don't know mysterious substances in the workplace? When you work with a slow individual they might be up to something. Youssef the autistic carriage-rounder-upper might be a terrorist. Then you got your hypochondriacs at work, they have some doctor's app't every week, real Munchhausers. This is wrong with them, that is wrong with them. Their stomach, their heart and you begin asking yourself why they're never collapsed on the floor. In fact they're perfectly alert to every little mistake you make. Sorry I got alot of miscellaneous shit in my notes I don't know what to do with. I have to vent.

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  16. Sorry the stuff got erased. I don't know how but if you and BB want to discuss the lager go right on ahead.

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  17. Regarding the questionably half retarded people, Orwell said it best:

    Ignorance is strength.

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  18. We got people at work where you just hate to ask them how they are when you see them in the morning. There's always a drama. Some body part hurts or husband's eating cheeseburgers on his way out of surgery getting a lap band or daughter just tore her MCL riding a horse but the doctor isn't going to do an MRI for 6 weeks.. so much of it is complete bullshit, people trying to increase their pity factor. I wish these folks would at least pick another topic about sickness. You can't bullshit a nurse about stuff like that and basically by the time you're done I know you're a liar looking for attention.

    The thing is that 99% of the time 'how are you' is a generally meaningless phrase used as a greeting. This was really brought to light in a Bud commercial back when, this southern guy walks into a bar in Manhattan and you sorta have to know that 'how ya doin' is basically just a greeting in NYC and not exactly a question meant to be answered. So they're all sayin 'how ya doin' to each other and no one's answering, and then the southern guy walks in, they all say 'how ya doin' and he launches into a giant diatribe about how he's doin, how he's so happy to be in NYC and how everyone's so friendly and the buildings are so big and all, and all the locals are looking at each other like WTF.

    Most people say 'how are you' and they don't really want to know the answer. Especially if it means the person is going to slam you with another 15 minutes worth of drama to start your day off in a fabulously negative mood.

    I hate these people. Just suck it up and say you're pretty good already, and leave the drama at the house.

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  19. I should also add here that I'm not totally heartless and there are people that I'm sincerely interested in how they ARE doing, but these are the people who aren't going to give me a ten minute bullshit sob story every single day no matter what.

    And while I'm on the subject, let's talk about people that no matter what the situation they're still miserable. I got a coworker like this. Personally I think her issue is that she just hates being a nurse but she also has huge marital problems and all that. Every day I hear from her about how state employees haven't got a raise in 3 years and she just has to have a raise, and one day I got so frustrated I said, wtf is that 3% going to do for you? You're talking pennies here and by the time taxes come out you're bringing home less than you were before. I think the whole thing with a raise is just mental on her part. But really no matter how the day is going she's going to bitch endlessly about something. If you gave her ONE patient she'd whine that it was the heaviest one of the floor. If you put her at the desk she'll bitch that the doctors are dumping orders on her. It doesn't matter what you do or what kind of situation you put her in, she's still a fucking whining miserable bitch whose apparent mission is to make everyone within earshot just as miserable.

    My mom has a great phrase for people like this: "Geez, she could ruin a free lunch."

    And actually, this coworker has. She had the cojones one day to bitch about a lunch that was given for the nurses. Just makes you wanna slap the shit out of people.

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  20. Hey! I'm so Glad that we Finally Got Blogger Back. It Seems Like that may have been more than a 24 Hour Delay there, though Z's Comment was Rather Early this Morning.

    The Subject has Changed Considerably, though. I was Going to Respond to a Comment that BB-Idaho Made about a Cougar Near a Grocery Store in his Town.

    There were Rumors of Mountain Lions in Our Area Traveling in Prides and Taking Down Cattle, instead of Deer. Fortunately, this Turned Out to be just a Rumor. The Actual Event Took Place in Washington. Here's the Story. I Chuckled as I Read the Last Couple of Paragraphs and was Thinking, "Boy, did that Story Ever get Blown Out of Proportion."

    As to the New Subject, I'm not Bugged so much by People who are Slow, or even by People who Complain. My Pet Peeve is Control Freaks and Manipulators. You Don't Dare get to Close to One of these, cause they just Take and Take and Take and have Nothing to Give Back.

    Some Complainers may be Tiring, but I Actually get Tired at Times of People who are such "Positive Thinkers", that they don't Know how to Talk about how they Really Feel and/or Avoid Dealing with Problems.

    Go Talk to the Complainer and you may Actually Learn what it is that Every One Else Avoids Talking about.

    Orwell said, "Ignorance is Strength." That's an Interesting Statement. I Think that I would have said that "Humility is Strength." and those who Think they Know it all are not always the Ones who do.

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  21. Previously left note about a local mountain line that
    was hanging around a grocery store
    ..knowing Z-man's interest in pumas in the Hudson
    Valley. Also lost forever
    in cyber space was Soap's
    enjoyable observation, "Oh
    THAT kind of cougar."

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  22. Sat I once worked in civil service, a public library and despite automatic raises (yes automatic even for the sucky) most workers would complain and it was usually in the we need bigger raises category. So would you rather work in a supermarket or a Wendy's? The thing about Wendy's is they all look like they hired the first two generations of some vast Peruvian clan, probably half of them are named Rosa, short squat Cabbage Patch women who wrap your burgers but that's another subject. My fave greeting is not how are you but are you alright? (or a'ight? in the 'hood). I mean let's just say I'm not a'ight, I have physical and spiritual problems. My left nut hurts and I'm existentially depressed well unless you have a degree or some kind of expertise in this area shut the fuck up!!

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  23. Interesting Cougar Story, BB. I'm Thinking, though, that the Mountain Lion/Cougar is not Really such an Endangered Species anymore and that Perhaps the Time is not Far Off in which a Limited Number of Tags should be Given to the Hunters.

    The Only Cats that get Shot Around here, though, are the Ones that have Stopped Hunting Deer and are Going After Pets instead. That is what we call a Problem Cat. Usually, they do Prefer the Deer. The Ones that go After Pets are either Inexperienced Hunters or too Old and Feeble to Take Down a Deer. Problem Cats do get Shot, but Most of them Pretty much Leave us Humans alone.

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  24. Bobcats which are only twice the size of a house cat are capable of killing deer in winter but that's usually when food is scarce. Saw a bobcat in Brewster once right off of Rte. 22 just south of the junction with Rte. 6. I was trout fishing the East Branch Croton River and he was on the other side of the bank. First you're like what is that large cat doing down by the water?

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  25. Oh..THOSE kind of bobcats. I thought you meant a tractor of sorts.

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  26. We've had a few problems with coyotes here in Westchester and the advice the professionals gave out is if you see one and he approaches you scream at the top of your lungs (among other things). My friend as usual had it right, it's the pussification of America.

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  27. Well what are you supposed to do, wrestle it to the ground? Yelling will probably scare it away. Isn't that what they say to do with bears?

    I mean, honestly, what else are you supposed to do?

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  28. Grizzlies, wolves, coyotes,
    cougars, lynx etc, pretty
    shy around people. Pitbulls scare the heck out of me, though.

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  29. I am against all kinds of killings and so on but I have to admit that I have yet to shed a tear when I see someone's put a bullet in a roaming pit.

    We get them a lot around here and they really are scary, especially when you know they're just roaming and not owned and therefore probably hungry.

    Seems like we're not the only ones that feel that way, because an untagged or otherwise unowned-appearing (and sometimes even a tagged owned-appearing one that's roaming) pit will probably find a bullet or a bumper, and then a buzzard, before long.

    I'm like you, BB.. we have plenty of wildlife and I have never had an issue with any of them (though to be honest I have only ever seen one bear in the wild). A pit is a completely different issue.

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  30. Hey, my brother in law is going on and on about the Rapture coming on the 21st (I think it's just an excuse for him to keep on drinking since The End is just a few days away) and that guy on Family Radio is going on and on about the Rapture coming on the 21st... now, it cannot POSSIBLY come on the 21st because I have to be in Dallas on the 25th but that's another story.. the question does arise for me though: do Catholics get raptured?

    You're the one to ask. Lemme know.

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  31. I'll check back on the
    22nd...that prognosticator
    is pretty experienced, having previously picked
    Sept 1994. Party on....

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  32. I think what my friend meant about the coyotes is there's a difference between screaming and making alot of noise to scare the critter away. Some guy on the street with his murse (male purse, remember them?) is screaming at the top of his lungs...actually probably would scare the critter away.

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  33. "It's a European Shoulder Bag!!"

    "Right."

    LOLOLOL

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  34. I saw a guy with one yesterday.

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