You know what i love?

[Gingerbeard]

Back to the loving.
I love old western TV shows.
Rampant, unchecked misogyny in the costuming, dialog, and treatment of women. Sexual assault for dramatic purposes.
Half-hearted attempts at white hats' attempts to get people to use less demeaning racial epithets.
Manlier men than the Marlboro Men. The manly men did not smoke but the occasional cheroot. The manly men could get shot in the face but shake it off when shit got serious. Compassionate manly men that shot people every day, but never in the nuts.
Rampant, unchecked misandry over men with serious mommy issues by leather and chaps clad women in spurs. Some with whips. Hot women. You can have gutt-bugly good guys but the bad gals were always smoking hot. Momma!!! Shake those spurs!!!
I love teaching our children that solving problems by shooting them is not okay until you are an adult. Unless something old-westerny happens. Then it's okay for little Timmy to pop a cap in ol' black hat's ass, as it were.
The times when the town took care of their drunk.
When a woman shoots a man, it is because she loves him.
If a man shoots a woman, it is because she loves him.
If a woman steps in front of a bullet for a man, it is because she loves them both. She figures if dude doesn't kill other dude, he will not get hanged for murder.
No matter what happens, no matter who gets shot in the face... or nuts, whoever needs to get tossed off a cliff, never-but-never hurt the horse.
Sigh. You old people really knew what was what.

[Bluey]

I heard the Malboro Man was gay. Is that true do you know?

[Gingerbeard]

'Dad, why did you start smoking?'
'I wanted to be like the Marlboro Man, son.'
'Wasn't one or more of the Marlboro Man men gay.'
'Shut up, son. Go get me a Bartles and Jaymes.'

[Gingerbeard]

Now, some of you may think brain tapeworms are not funny if you have ever thought about brain tapeworms at all. Really, you have to take it in context and know your audience.
I am not going to single out the baconeers around here. You know who you are. Those of us who are not you know who you are by the involuntary scratching of the head area where the brain is traditionally located.
Tapeworm larvae in brain linked to underdone bacon (bbc.com)

[Mollisol]

Trichinosis was the mostly pork born illness of the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis

[Bluey]

Mohammed sorted the problems with pork killing the Muslims rather easily. That was a huge public health issue prior to The Quran.

[Mollisol]

My grandmother grew up poor on a Minnesota farm. When they butchered a hog she said, "the only thing we didn't use was the squeal.". Every part of that animal was used in some way.

[Ckbrew]

Canadian style bacon, my favorite, worms defeated.

[Gingerbeard]

Does that come in tofu flavor? Can't get no brain worms from tofu.

[Bluey]

Pork in all its wonderful varieties is a staple in my household. No issue with brain parasites either.

[Gingerbeard]

You down with rocky mountain clams?

[Gingerbeard]

...itchy... No issue with brain parasites... yet. Bluey ...something inside...
Next time your head itches, one of those transient itches that seems to move when you scratch, I want you to remember this conversation and focus on the 3% of your irrational fear that Gingerbeard might be right.
...itchy...

[Bluey]

I see what you did there Gingerbeard

[Gingerbeard]

No you don't...

[Gingerbeard]

Mollisol Tell your G they found a way to remove the squeal from a pig.

PS-92 Pig Squealer Call (haydels.com)

[Mollisol]

Thats a good one. I'll be 50 this summer. It's just amazing how differently we lived two or three generations back.

That's really not that long ago.

[Gingerbeard]

Maximize the window on whatever screen you are watching. This is way cooler and more mesmerizing than the fireplace.

Iceland volcano live: Watch as lava flows towards evacuated Grindavik town - BBC News

[Ckbrew]

I like fire

[Gingerbeard]

Fire, cool, man! Flying magma, freaking awesome, boy!!! My magma will extinguish your fire.

[ezmaarc]

A beautiful So Cal morning. Poofy clouds, 70 degrees F, birds chirping, and a good head change. Yeah baby.

[SoOrbudgal]

Ain't that the truth boy fella my area is just bursting with flowering trees & bushes weather in the 70f man it's great to be dry an warm

[ezmaarc]

Charcoal filters. I love charcoal filters!

[Gingerbeard]

I love that John Hinkley Jr. is starting his own band. Original music. Not a JFA cover band.
If you are unfamiliar with JFA, this love is lost on you. I am not familiar with their work (but appreciative of the genre) only their existence.
I am only partially familiar with Jr's work. Not his music.

[Bowhunterwoody]

His first show was supposed to be in my home town of Naugatuck CT. They shut him down.

[Gingerbeard]

As of yesterday, he found a new gig.

[Gingerbeard]

Space-X just lit up my sunset and is planning on more launches during the month. Emerging rocket technology is way cooler than eclipses. We know about eclipses. Rockets are new. They make pretty silver patterns in the sky. Eclipses just make things dark. Big whoop.

[Bluey]

Well I am seriously concerned.

My monthly subscription to "Conspiracies Weekly, Nut Jobs Unite," has a well written article that states current tin foil technology does not work on blocking 5G mobile phone signals.

I see an opportunity here to make some coin.

[Gingerbeard]

Hip-hop is responsible for the loss in efficacy of the tin-foil hat. When people started wearing their hats backwards, that's when they stopped working. 5G is a directionally sensitive technology.
-or-
Tin foil hats stopped working, for real, back in WWII when they replaced tin for aluminum. Aluminum provides zero defense against external electronic invasive brain wave interruptions, or probings, foreign or domestc.

[Bluey]

Oh, I'm all for foreign probing!

[Ckbrew]

I had another visitor last week. It was a big one.

[Bowhunterwoody]

Hey Gingerbeard. That's my cousin. I'll ask him. And Bluey, that's exactly how they catch them for transplants into other states. Rocket net launchers.

[Bluey]

Ahh, so that's what they are called.

[Gingerbeard]

They're talking about using something similar at the border.

[Going2fast]

Choot em!!

[Gingerbeard]

Does 'zombie deer disease' pose risks for humans? (bbc.com)
Person in Texas diagnosed with rare bird flu after contact with cattle (bbc.com)
Tapeworm larvae in brain linked to underdone bacon (bbc.com)

[Going2fast]

Cwd was real in my state 7 years ago. Took out 30% of the deer population. Still around but usually isolated.

[Bowhunterwoody]

Cwd hasn't made it here to CT yet. NY. Had a couple a few years back. Could be devastating tho the population.

[Gingerbeard]

What do you supposed Walt Disney would think about zombie deer? I mean, he did Fantasia, yeah?
My mom got to meet WD after winning a singing contest. Met Gayle Storm, too. Not sure about her except that she was also a singer. A picture of the three of them, with signatures, hung in Mom's childhood bedroom until the house sold. Good memory. Good story.
I just went from zombie deer to my mom. Must be good drugs.