>>103959
Power is out, propose diverting to cascadia grill in Olympia

>>104078
Cant make it to Olympia tonight man, shit came up...
How about Sunday? My schedule should be clear all day.

Just checked the thread, after I got to McNamaras late, and waited for you here, sorry again man.

>>104080
>>104079
Sunday's gonna be tough. If you drop me an email with your cell, I can let you know.

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! 1Pm at Perihelion Brewery in Seattle. Plotting, carousing, and telling lies. BE THERE!!

I had a shot of Jameson Irish Whiskey after dinner, last night.

Anyone tried Welsh whisky?
Such as Penderyn single malt Welsh whisky?

Lots of water. I've been puking my guts up since last night, needs water. And a little of Carnation Breakfast Essentials since anything solid hurts at the moment.

>>104182
Bummer!

Eddie Hall (born 15 January 1988) is an English professional strongman competitor, notable for having won on multiple occasions both the UK's Strongest Man, and England's Strongest Man titles. He has also competed at the World's Strongest Man and is the current world record holder in the deadlift with straps.
Height: 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in), Weight: 174.5 kg (385 lb; 27.48 st).
In Competition:

Bench Press – 300 kg (661 lb)
Deadlift with straps – 463kg (1020.74 lb) – World record
Long Bar Deadlift with straps – 465 kg (1026 lb)

Gym Lifts (all Raw):

Squat – 405 kg (891 lb)
Bench Press – 300 kg (661 lb)
Log Press – 211 kg (465 lb) strict press. – British record, done at Britain's Strongest Man 2015.
Axle Press – 200 kg (440 lb) strict press.
Leg Press – 1000 kg (2,200 lb) for 10 reps.

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  EDDIE - Strongman Trailer https://youtu.be/FIy0IzXYYn8
Truck mechanic, husband and father of two, Eddie Hall wants to be the World’s Strongest Man. This feature documentary vividly illustrates the sacrifices that this extremely driven man must make to chase his dream. He will stop at nothing. He trains, eats, sleeps and breathes strongman, competing all over the world and breaking records. He faces not only gargantuan competitors, but his own inner demons as he strives to leave behind the scars of his teenage years.

This film gets under the skin of a man totally dedicated to becoming the greatest and offers an engrossing snapshot of an unforgettable character, Eddie - Strongman.

Featuring appearances from Arnold Schwarzenegger and multiple World’s Strongest Man winners Bill Kazmeier, Geoff Capes, Brian Shaw and Zydrunas Savickas.

  Eddie Hall does new Deadlift World Record 463KG - 1020lbs https://youtu.be/x5-mfOXF0i0

  New World Record Deadlift 1155 pounds World's Strongest Man
Published on Mar 1, 2014 https://youtu.be/SBFTB7Xjk3U
A new world record has been set for the deadlift at the 2014 Arnold Strongman by Zydrunas Savickas at 1155 pounds.

>>104165
Not to detract from this dude's accomplishment but there's a huge difference between deadlifting tires and deadlifting plates as seen: >>104164

I'm not impressive in the slightest but I can rack pull (more or less a tire deadlift) something life 150% of my actual deadlift.

I just found out my fucking $300 boots were delivered to the wrong address. I know who has them, I just don't want to talk to that cunt.


FUCK
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>>104145
That...the way you say it...sounds like you fucked up and didn't update a shipping address somewhere you've ordered from before...not a post office mistake.

>>104146

Nope.

They never had my address before a week ago when I ordered from an actual brick and mortar store. The correct address is on the receipt.

>>104148
And... I guess I should add that they've never shipped anything to me before. It's always been walk into store, find boots, pay cash, walk out. The only thing that made this time special is they discontinued the model I wear, and didn't have the replacement in my size.

Figured out what happened.

Counter dick said they would come via postal service, when in reality they were shipping via UPS.

I gave a P.O. box number, UPS went WTF m8, then saw my name and town and said "I KNOW WHERE THAT GUY LIVES" and sent them to my old address.

It's a god damn wonder I even have them now.

  The Money Song - Monty Python's The Flying Circus https://youtu.be/sor9GzivGbk

Who cares? It's going to be a failed state in a few generations.

Only question is how long it will take the world to forget Britain ever existed.

>>104140
Oh, don't be unpleasant.

  Documentary about the British postwar economy.

  >>104142
Interesting documentary on the economy of the UK from 1960 through the 1980s.
28:44 [Margaret Thatcher] "I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't. We, who either defeated or rescued half of Europe, who kept half Europe FREE, when otherwise it would have been in chains, and look at us now." An economy wrecked by WW2 (of which the UK helped win but not by the extent that Maggie believes), stagnation, inflation, unemployment, unable to compete effectively in exports and losing all those colonies. Further burdened by the conceit that complex economies were rational things that the government could manipulate to produce record improved growth despite these facts.

Thatcher's economic legacy https://youtu.be/pgP-vYJXmbw
The Economist - Published on Apr 18, 2013
Did Margaret Thatcher's radical, widely lauded economic agenda actually spark an improvement in Britain's fortunes?

I fucking love Burnistoun.

  Best of Burnistoun - Quality Police https://youtu.be/tvxBtfBoa7g

  Best of Burnistoun - Best Friends https://youtu.be/ff5kYnYCuG8
3:55 - I hope they find a CURE for death! Yes! Cure death! Yeah, and it works for everybody, right, EXCEPT YOU!! And when your day comes, you'll be the last man dying ~AAAAGH~ and "Roll up, roll up! Come and see the last man as he dies!" I HATE YOU!!!

  Best of Burnistoun - The Burnistoun Butcher https://youtu.be/_8Kh8FLYH9k

  Burnistoun - All My Mad Uncles https://youtu.be/DZdFXcA_x0c

>>103984
If y'all like shortbread I suggest trying Walker's.

They make great cookies.

>>104076
Thanks for that. I'll give them a go next time I hit the grocery.

>>104076
Walkers Classic Shortbread Assorted Selection
This stuff's around $5 to $7 a 8.8 oz box.

  Shopping at Amazon:
Walkers Shortbread Fingers, 2-Count Cookies Packages (Count of 24) @ 1.4 oz each is 33.6 oz total $15.99 Best deal?

Walkers Shortbread Assorted, 8.8 oz. Boxes (Pack of 6) is 52.8 oz $32.77

Walkers Shortbread Fingers, 5.3-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 12) 63.6 oz $51.45

How to Make Cookies Similar to Shortbread Walkers : Cookie Delights https://youtu.be/_MOs0MxX-1M

>>104064
>I've heard the wording of Blood Meridian sometimes took you out of the story, so I never read it. So now I'm reading The Road and goddamn, I see what they mean about McCarthy's usage.

People say this all the time about Blood Meridian but it's simply not true. If you've ever read stuff from H.P Lovecraft or Ernest Hemingway then you'll have no problem reading Blood Meridian.

>>104050
>What is your guilty reading pleasure?

Edward Lee. The dude's writing is pretty much shit but he makes up for it with buckets of gore and good ole fashion Black Comedy.

If you want to check him out I would suggest reading Header first. It's a novel about skull fucking, literally.

I feel a vibe of "tryhard" in here...oh well...

Glen Cook - Black Company Series (I want the last book to come out. Shukrat needs to meet a resurrected Soulcatcher and they need to have a hot lesbo threesome with Lady...ok just extremely wishful thinking on my part...I mean who am I kidding..."A Pittiless Rain" will never come out...)

Steven Erikson - Malazan Series (I wish more books start off assuming the reader is already intimately familiar with ALL aspects of the universe in which the story takes place)

Brain McClellan - Powder Mage Series (I love how the author dismisses plot holes because "rule of cool")

J.M. McDermott - Dogsland Trilogy (Only book that ever actually brought tears to my eyes...Fucking heart wrenching...)

Matthew Sturges / Bill Willingham - House of Mystery comic series (You would have to read the comics to understand how awesome. Sucks that the ending was rushed as fuck)

I haven't read anything fiction in a very long time for the same reasons I can't really get into movies or comics anymore. But

Pretty much everyone knows Harlan Ellison for I Have No Mouth, but if you look at any of his short story anthologies or comic adaptations, he's been able to create the sense of a very cruel, unfair, and terrible world that gives a distinctly different vibe from Lovecraft's eldritch horror. Can't say I particularly care for any of his other work, and that includes his TV/movie writing and his essays. He's very much an author I believe who is best read and not seen or heard.

If there is only one story I had to choose that is my favorite, it is Delusion for a Dragon Slayer. I've posted it here before. Unfortunately, I think perhaps it's best that Ellison remains overlooked by increasingly progressive audiences, because I don't have faith that they can grasp the general message behind it. The protagonist's alter ego and his setting are an easy target to get distracted with.

For nonfic essays and/or autobios, I like to read a lot of stuff by veterans, but Andre Dubus is someone I learned about in an old issue of Reader's Digest (a sanitized rehash of 'Digging', from Meditations from a Moveable Chair) around the time early on in life when I realized I just didn't like John Updike's stuff. His son wrote the source material for House of Sand and Fog.

https://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm/book_number/156/page_number/1/meditations-from-a-movable-chair#excerpt

  >>104083
I love Harlan Ellison's stuff. The dude is totaly fucking nuts but that's what makes him such a good writer. You have to be a litte crazy to write the kinda stories he does.

Did you ever here his Gopher story?

Once upon a time the head publisher at Signet books pissed off Harlan Ellison so much that he sent the guy 213 bricks and a dead gopher through the mail.

>>104069
see i only read the novels. I didnt read any Robots short story collections.

Missed this in JD's second post.
>What is your guilty reading pleasure?
No real author per se, but modern vampire fiction. I think vampires in general are the old school zombie, a general bugbear with any sort of power or flaw and anti-hero to outright villanous tendencies to add some kind of dramatic flair to what amounts to otherwise stale and contrived plotlines.

But fuck me if I don't eat that kind of shit up when I'm bored or sick and just looking for books to pound through mindlessly.

Young adult military fiction also. Shit like All you need is Kill, Soldier X, The Ender's Shadow series.

I also forgot, a tossup for favorite book/author combination, could probably replace E. M. Nathanson, The Phantom Warriors series by Gary A. Linderer, about Recondos and LRRPs in Vietnam. Battlefield Memoir's of many different guys, and Linderer himself was an LRRP with the 101st.

Lo que hizo la cogida que acaba de puta dice de mí, usted persona que no habla español? I’ll have you know I graduated least crazy in the Florida House of Representatives, and I’ve been involved in several meetings of the Commerce Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, and I have over 300 confirmed angry staredowns with Charlie Crist. Let us dispel the notion that I did not graduate least crazy in the Florida House of Representatives, and I’ve been involved in several meetings of the Commerce Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, and I have over 300 confirmed angry staredowns with Charlie Crist. Your hands are tiny.

>>104000
>active criminals
Can former criminals own guns? There is an ungodly number of felonies on the books that have nothing to do with the use or threat of force and should not bar one from the means of self-preservation.

>>104056
Yes, depending on the state, felons can have their rights restored after a set amount of time.

I work with this one guy who's 2 years away from being able to get his rights restored. He said first thing he's going to do is buy a shotgun for hunting and self defense, that he's spent the last 5 years worried about being able to defend himself and his loved ones.

That's when I educated him on the legality of felons owning black powder weapons in Florida and steered him toward a Remington 1858 reproduction and quick change cylinders, telling him to practice swapping them out in a hurry. He now keeps it on his nightstand with a couple of cylinders loaded.

Good guy, just made a few mistakes.

>>104057
God damn! Could you fucking imagine?
"STOP OR I'LL SHOOT!"
>BOOM! click. BOOM!
>Vision in tight hallway immediately obscured. Smoke detectors going off.
>Trauma surgeon WTFing at Bumfuck County General.
>New funny Florida Man headline.

>>104040
theres alot I could reply to in this post but the Fuck You was sarcasm :]
I actually appreciate you're long winded replies and pictures you seem to post in every, well post.
even if I may not agree.

Here's my gun control "compromise" from a blank-slate country.

1. Treat all firearms as if they are loaded.
2. Never point the firearm at anything you are not willing to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
4. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.

Done. That wasn't too bad.

>but muh childrefeelincrimunalrs warglbl blarglblbl
Don't like it? Get the fuck out, then.

>okay though seriously that won't fly
Not one inch.

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