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Open Thread, Sunday 17 February 2013
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Oh, for the good ol’ days! Happy Sunday all.
Many questions answered if you look around and see that you are at a morgue.
Tasteless photo of the day. As seen on the FB.
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g414/texan59/65968_599615666719955_1852649468_n.jpg
You sure that isn’t a picture of the children rescued by the gov’t assault at Waco?
Could be.
I heard they were having the wake at Pollo Loco. Charbroiled chicken for everybody!
He’ll be here all week folks!
The Next Big Thing. Polyamory. You can’t make this stuff up.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/340865/push-normalize-polyamory-begins-wesley-j-smith
But…but… why did they have a problem with Romney being a Mormon?
BTW, I thought polyamory meant you have more than one gun collection.
That’s poly-ARMORY! Since I have a hard enough time keeping Mrs. Tex happy, I for one am choosing not to follow the crowd on this one.
Hmm, so your wife said one gun collection is enough?
I keed, I keed!
If you think that’s bad, you ought to be around when I discuss the purchase of a nice, shiny new motorcycle. The proverbial turd in the punch bowl there I tell ya!
We settled the motorcycle question very early on (during our honeymoon). We wiped out on some gravel, destroyed the rental bike and I got my first stitches.
I still have illusions of my younger days when I was actually rather proficient. Not so sure now, but in my head…………..
Conan has a pretty good schtick with that dog. He’s hilarious.
On Friday’s OT, Bob asked the question, in ref to a comment thread about some saints: “I remember hearing somewhere that back in the middle ages, the peasants really only worked about half of the days in the year because there were so many saints’ days when everyone took the day off. Is that bunk? An urban legend? Has anyone else ever heard this?”
I don’t have an answer, because I haven’t heard that before, but it’s certainly true that for over a thousand years every day of the calendar has been occupied by a changing array of saints’ feast days. It’s my understanding, however, that the custom in most of the towns of Catholic Europe in the past, just as it is in the devout ones in corners of modern Europe (like Spain, for example), is to celebrate the handful of principal feasts (called Holy Days of Obligation) along with the one feast day for their town’s patron saint, usually the one the town was named after. This left them with about the same number of days off that we have now. Maybe fewer.
An excellent book on the subject of the many myths about the Middle Ages is “Those Terrible Middle Ages!” by Regine Pernoud, a curator and archivist at the French National Archives. I have an English translation of it, and it’s amazingly good. One of her main points throughout her work is that the widespread notion of the plight of women in medieval Europe is largely false. She says at the end of her chapter, Women Without Souls, that “in point of fact, women have much to do [today] to recover the [favorable] place that was theirs in the time of Queen Eleanor and Queen Blanche…”
(Eleanor of Aquitaine image from the LifeIsSweet16Blog)
I’m afraid that the viciousness and hatred of the Protestant/Catholic schism (on both sides) in England has left us with a lot of historical discontinuities in our perceptions of the Middle Ages, so we all must dig deep to get at the truth, as we can, I guess.
Saw the most ironic ad while I was watching SNL with one of the kids the other day. Just after Seth Meyers got done doing his incredibly bigoted news skit where he always openly mocks gun owners as stupid and backward, conservatives as ignorant and people from Alabama as retarded, they played the “Assume” public service ad, where they tell us to help stomp out bigotry. The ad points out how evil it is to “assume” bad things about someone you don’t really know because they are not like you. Do you watch TV, Seth? Ever see that ad? How about paying attention to your network’s own propaganda, huh? What a dickhead.
Have you ever done something SOOO stupid that you thought that you’d never forgive yourself for doing it? Well, now you can forgive yourself. You aren’t THIS stupid:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mvxkq4RL8U?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360%5D
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7g96bLbg2k?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360%5D
or try that one. no sign in required.
Epic fail!
He needs more work before he can play Vegas. A pro would have picked up where he left off.
I think he’s brain dead. He just doesn’t know it. Makes this guy look like smart:
Chumley, Plumley, whatever his name is!!
Holy Hot Lead!
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/02/17/SNL-Controversial-DJesus-Uncrossed-Violent-Bloody-Skit
Son #2 broke open his Russian MRE today. Kind of an amazing spread:
The glass is some kind of instant fruit drink with little bits of dried bread in it. At first we thought it was dehydrated “bread beer.” Here is the buckwheat porridge with beef broth. Weird, but tasty and very filling:
Here’s a bigger photo:
http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z419/gruntofmontecristo/MRE1_zps322c3acd.jpg
One of the tins on the right is Spam. How did they get that idea? Maybe this is their “Hawaiian MRE?”
We also got into the dark chocolate, which was amazingly good. I have to say that the Russian military chocolate is on par with some of the best Swiss, Italian or American(like Godiva) chocolate. That was a surprise. Oh, and get this. They have a tin of “Bacon Salty,” whatever that is. Leave it to the russians to figure out a way to put bacon in an MRE. That’s genius. We try that one tomorrow.
Great.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/02/robert-farago/breaking-colorado-approves-hb-1224-banning-high-capacity-magazines/
Kinda puts those NWO-Capitol-in-Denver rumors in a new light, huh. . .