Coffee Break [11/9/23]

Your mid morning pick me up

Fans of The Great British Bake Off will be pleased to hear that season 14 will begin airing in the UK tomorrow. It should be available on Netflix in the US within days. This year, you have the opportunity to play along. British rental agency Big House Experience is offering to pay one lucky viewer to eat and judge GBBO standards such as Victoria Sponge and Chelsea Buns. The bakes can be purchased or made from scratch. Apply by Sept 25.

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  1. Ok Boomer Wells screaming at the clouds on at Yankees Old Timers day. Usual shit about woke and Bud Light. He goes on about how young’n need to be sent a message.

    Added Wells: “I don’t care who it was, if he was in the stink hole — pardon my French, if you can say that now. I don’t know. But send that son of a gun to Triple A or Double A and send him a wake-up call.”

    It seems David forgot the time he sucked shit and lost his mind when management yanked him from the Jays rotation in 1992.

    Last 2 starts (from baseball reference)

    4 1/3 innings, 11 hits and 13 earned runs, 4 walks, 1 strike out

    4 1/3 innings, 6 hits, 6 runs (3 earned), 1 walk, 1 strike out

    Worst stretch of games for the Jays during what would be a World Series winning year. No one was sad to see Boomer sign with the Tigers next year.

      • oh yeah…..a warcrime was committed against those poor pizzas

         

        (they still tasted pretty okay tho)

        usually dominos is pretty good about making shit up to me tho

        and if they fail me……well they are on my route to work and at 6 am no one is going to see me pour sand into their fleets tanks

        🙂

  2. Uggggh, I fucking HATE guns, I HATE how we failed teenagers during the worst of the pandemic, and I motherfucking haaaaaate the NRA and ALL the goddamned fraidy-cat whitefolks, who made it so that the Brady Bill/Automatic Weapons ban was dropped, so that now *WE* have to deal with goddamned semiautomatic & automatic gunfire, on a semi-regular basis!!!!!

    This happened Friday, in my neighborhood (that poor kid, and his poor, poor family!);

    https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/victim-identified-in-fridays-fatal-uptown-shooting/

    And this happened last night, at 9-ish in the evening, thank GOD and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, that last night’s crap was only PROPERTY damage, and aside from some flying glass, no one was apparently hurt-hurt…

    But DAMN am I sick and tired of the Too-Easy access to fucking automatic weaponry!!!!!!

    It’s bullshit, and so many times lately, here in Minneapolis, we’re later learning these are basically all folks who were TEENS during the worst of the pandemic…

    Kids doing the shooting, kids doing car-thefts, kids carjacking people, and also KIDS doing the dying–and sometimes taking others out in the car accidents they cause/ taking others out *with* them💔💔💔

    It’s heartbreaking, it’s EXHAUSTING, and it’s frustrating as fuck.

    https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/minneapolis-apartment-building-badly-damaged-after-shootout/89-4f09c562-7025-496c-8251-38cdc7155c96

     

      • It’s SO frustrating, @Hannibal!

        I saw one of the shooters doing the shooting last night (not well enough to ever ID him, and he was half a block away, too), but he LOOKED like a kid–he was *maybe* in his early 20’s, MAYBE…

        His gun was a handgun, and looked like a small caliber one..  but DAMN do we have too many guns, WAY too easy for kids to get their hands on (or make!)…

        It feels like the “Bad old days”, tbh, back about 100 years ago, when you had to worry about the *other*type of gangsters (Dillinger, the Barkers–Ma & her “Boys”, Capone, et al.), having gangland shootouts, over on University in St. Paul, & the surrounding areas🙃

        I love this city, and this shit just makes me SO sad & mad!!!

         

          • No, not soul-crushing, ANGERING, my friend, SO angering!!!

            I just need to figure out *exactly WHERE* to channel the damn anger, to make some damn CHZNGE happen in this neighborhood!😉💖

            We DO have lots of really great people around the neighborhood, trying to make that change happen.

            I *formally* stopped & introduced myself to a couple of the guys I see most weekends, as I walk home from work–they’re a couple of the great guys who do Violence Interruption work here, and we talked for a WHILE last night, on the things we’re mutually seeing–them as dudes who work with the Big Kids, and me as someone working with the tiny ones💞

            There are just SO many gaps in resources right now, and sooooooo many cracks for the kids to fall through, rather than getting thd support & help they NEED in their lives, before it *does* get to be “too late” and they end up dead from stupid shit…

            And THAT is the gap I seethe NEEDS fixing–as well as that whole “gun parts are WAYtoo easy to get!” thing!

        • i want to say something helpful but everything i think of rings holier than thou in my head

          im sorry you have to deal with this shit

          …….

          i have a spare attic?

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