Fun times ahead, thanks idiots.
Delta variant will cause US Covid surges, Fauci says, as poll reveals vaccine resistance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/03/fauci-delta-variant-cases-vaccines
So sad.
Sprots?
Gorging like a GOAT: Joey Chestnut sets record with 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/07/04/joey-chestnut-hot-dog-record/
Pro golfer Gene Siller killed and 2 others found dead at Georgia golf course
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/04/us/gene-siller-pro-golfer-shot-killed-georgia-golf-course/index.html
Stonks!
The stonk market is closed today.
Sentient thumb marries!
Sorry in advance.
Honey, next time close the door!
Atlanta woman wakes up to find a wild African cat on her bed
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/03/us/woman-finds-serval-in-bed-trnd/index.html
Have a great day!
Remember that jingle? Baseball hotdogs apple pie and… that was 1974, now it’s covid, incompetence, hotdogs, gun violence, stupidity. At least we still have hotdogs?
Oh but you left out the best part: apple pie and Chevrolet! Get a load of this beauty from 1974, a “sport coupe” the size of a studio apartment! (Sorry, still ignorant of how to post images)
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-american/gardena-curbside-capsule-1974-chevrolet-impala-sport-coupe/
I can embed videos, though.
Intentional omission, actually, but landau roof! Hilariously awesome!
1970s Chevrolets were fabulous. We were a Chevrolet family. I learned to drive on a 1976 Chevrolet Impala that was the size of a Manhattan 2-bedroom apartment. Parallel parking, three-point turns, I could do it all!
Did you know that one of the reasons why women in some circles got a reputation for being bad drivers (aside from the misogyny) is that the cars were huge and heavy and they didn’t have power steering. So you needed quite a bit of upper body strength to make turns, for example, and if you didn’t have much upper body strength it might take a while to maneuver your four-wheeled monster into a left turn. I only learned this quite recently.
I have inherited my brother’s car. It is named “Big Chevy” and it is a 78 hunter green caprice with a chain steering wheel. We have to decide what to do with it. I don’t have any place to put it in maryland I’d have to store it somewhere.
Can confirm Big Chevy is hard to steer!
We had a friend in the late 80s who had an early 70s Chevy, I can’t remember which make, and we used to call it The Land Yacht.
When I was in high school one of our friends had a 1970 2-door Oldsmobile that that was probably about 20 feet long and 10 feet long and got 3 miles to the gallon. A 2-door. When I didn’t have access to the Impala (that got 6 miles to the gallon) we used his.
My boyfriend, my second high school boyfriend that is, had an uncle who owned a high-end car dealership in a tony suburb. He’d call the uncle every so often and ask if he could borrow a car from the lot and inevitably it was a top-of-the-line Lincoln Continental that was tough to unload, unpopular exterior paint job, didn’t have some feature that high net worth individuals all of a sudden wanted, whatever.
During our senior year I got accepted early admission to the school I wanted to go to but the bf hadn’t made up his mind, so…this is kind of a long story, but his parents were alcoholics, the father could barely hold down a job, so the usual college tour was kind of out of the question. My parents knew his parents and it was my father who suggested that I should go look at schools with him, because who better to know what a high school senior really wants out of a college, my (boy)friend in particular. My mother was probably just glad to get me out of the house for a week. An epic road trip. We had so much fun in that Lincoln. It must have reeked by the time we returned with it. It must have been unsellable at that point; I’m surprised the uncle didn’t just give it to my bf.
Oddly enough, I’ve never told Better Half this story.
One of my first cars didn’t have power steering. It was a great workout. I had arms like Michelle Obama.
My first car didn’t have power steering, either. And yes, it was a constant workout.
Funny story… When I did driver’s ed in the 90s we had these simulators in the classroom. The films, and therefore the motions associated with the films, WERE FROM THE 1950s. Sepia toned, boat driving 50s. So the first time I got in a real car for a road experience, I almost ended up in someone’s lawn because I was going hand over hand over hand to make a right turn. The teachers were too dumb to warn us, but I did get yelled at!
@MatthewCrawley I used to drive a late 90’s Suburban that was SUPPOSED to have power steering… except that if you braked and turned the wheel at the same time, it didn’t. Backing out of parking spaces in narrow lots was always a real challenge. I had some serious arm and shoulder muscles for awhile, there!
Also, Husband had a ’78 Chevette when we first got together. Primer grey, most of the cloth (ceiling, door panels, etc. Everything except the seats) stripped out of the interior, and, naturally, no power steering. That thing was basically a matchbox car, though, so it wasn’t as big of a deal.
I’m going to assume that nobody was allowed back into the condo to remove all their shit, and instead they got to watch their whole lives get demolished. It’s one thing to have your home destroyed suddenly, like those who lived in the part that collapsed. It’s got to be particularly surreal for the others who knew exactly when their homes would be destroyed and wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.
One of the residents sued to delay the demolition because she got out but left her pet behind. She lost.
Sorry, I got that story a little wrong. The woman who sued didn’t live there but provided a support animal to an 89-year-old who did. The woman volunteered to go in and find the animal but she was assured the building had been thoroughly searched and no animals had been found. To me, that’s highly implausible, unless the building had some kind of “no pets” rule and the 89-year-old got a service animal exemption.
Yes, I’m sure that their “thorough” search consisted of walking up and down a few hallways and saying “are there any pets here?”
I read they searched the building but did not go into the units, so you are exactly correct. They knew the location of some of the pets, a dog in a crate on the 9th, the cat on the 4th, so at least those could have been saved?
I’m turning into one of those crazy animal-loving misanthropes. I’m also a die-hard Titanic obsessive but that goes back to elementary school and stumbling upon my mother’s copy of Walter Lord’s “A Night to Remember.”
These two sentiments collided like the liner itself into the iceberg when I learned a few years ago that there was a kennel aboard the Titanic. In addition, there were wealthy passengers who had small dogs with them in their staterooms. And the captain, Edward Smith, brought his Airedale along with him.
I’ve seen every Titanic movie ever made, I think, at least two dozen, including the 1943 Nazi propaganda one, and the stand-in for the Titanic was–never mind. The point is, I can’t remember dogs ever being shown or mentioned. But three survived, small dogs smuggled onto lifeboats by wealthy women who bundled them into their coats. Someone, presumably a crewman, must have gone to the kennel room and opened the cages because there are accounts from survivors of dogs running around the lifeboat deck.
I may have to make my own Titanic movie.
What is so crazy about loving animals and hating humans? People suck, animals don’t.
You’re correct, they weren’t. So yeah, whole lives up in a big explosion.
The dust hasn’t settled yet, but somebody needs to answer for this. Probably a lot of somebodies.
I suspect Gwen Stefani is a secret Republican.
I’ve been wondering that for years.
Like the whole Asian women as props thing she did during that phase of her career? Felt weird to me.
I feel like she’s one of the white woman republicans who is all “as long as it’s worse for other minorities, I’m fine with it.”
I gotta think the last place anyone would get shot in the head would be on the 10th green of a country club on July 4th.
The two dead guys in the bed of the truck are the truck owner and another guy, so a truck-jacking? Because the police are looking for a suspect and assume it isn’t the truck owner?
Southwest Missouri, which has atrociously low vaccination rates, is seeing a major surge in covid cases. To the point of sending patients across the state to St. Louis hospitals and having to scramble to get more ventilators.
IF ONLY THERE WERE A WAY TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING
And if our inept republican governor wasn’t bad enough, motherfucker signed legislation banning municipalities from enacting their own covid restrictions.