Little leery of Whistlepig, although I have had it. Guy who started it ran for Congress in my district in '06. Apparently he was on The Apprentice. Got stomped in the election, but still.
Not me (or is it I?), Matt. I don't know enough about cocktails to wonder about such things. I leave it to the experts. Thank you for the emergency post. I had already gotten offline to read before your post went up. Some days, the internet is too awful to stay online.
As someone who broke down following the news online yesterday I know what you mean.
I finally had to shut it off and go sit in front of MST3K for a while. It upsets paul when I'm crying and he didn't do anything to make me angry; he gets unhappy because he prefers me when I'm being a wise cracking smart ass.
I'm an admitted news and political junkie and it is damned difficult for me to turn it off and walk away. I feel a duty to remain informed, but the past few days it's gotten to be even more than this cynical old bint can handlle.
I utterly understand all of that. We who know politics not only affects but shapes our daily lives feel we need that constant influx to stay educated. Forwarned is forewarned as it were.
I did come to realize that it is really not hard to catch up if Itake a day or week off, though I did miss the entire speaker fiasco round 15 that way and I am still bummed about missing out on that snark XD
True story: My late MIL bought lottery tickets as "gifts", and they were the sort where you choose your numbers after buying the ticket, and I guess you hand it back in at some point.
I picked 1,2,3,4,5,6. "But they'll never pick that!" she exclaimed.
Had a friend whose husband won something like fifty thousand dollars on a scratch off, and within a year, they were in debt, because he was trying to win, again. These people were poor, so fifty thousand, before taxes, sounded like a huge amount of money for them. They lost everything they bought with the money, or I should say, everything they put down payments on with the winnings.
From some Simon Whistler video, I learned that, in the UK, the government provides services to winners to help them avoid losing it all by doing shit that they don't know better than not to do. Funny things (relatively) civilized countries do for their citizens...SMDH.
I did buy one ticket on a whim. I had a couple singles in my wallet when passing the machine.
I matched 2 of the numbers also! Course, that wins you nothing.
In better news, the loan people came back and they offered us a slightly LOWER interest rate than we had already agreed to. So my credit must be fucking supurb and they do not want me shopping around I am guessing XD
I thought you got $2 for matching at least one number other than the Powerball. That's pretty much the only thing I've ever won with it, just enough to cover the cost of a ticket.
Huh. Maybe they changed it. I thought maybe it was just different rules for MegaMillions and that's what I was thinking of, but looking at the winnings chart, I see the minimum match for a non-megaball win is 3 numbers. I guess I must have matched the megaball, since matching just that gets $2.
I think with powerball you need one of them to be the power ball to basically get the cost of your ticket back.
And yeah, buying one ticket for fun when the prize gets stupid high can be a good time for some people. But my coworkers have been going on about nothing else for weeks now, and some of them sound like they were genuinely pinning their hopes on winning, which is just sad.
I think if you match 4 or something you get a meeeeleon. Or maybe it is 5. I do not usually indulge, this was the first one I bought since Christmas last year, and that was scratchers for the stockings.
Youngest won 50 bucks off a scratcher one year.Those are fun
That is sad. But Imma guess they are up to their eyeballs in debt by trying to keep up with the Joneses and live well above their means, but it is probably the fault of Those People for being takers and not theirs, or suchwhat. Am I close?
I woke up this morning to discover someone here thought I was being 'preachy' in pointing out how infinitesimal any one person's chance of winning the lottery was. When another damn math teacher runs the lottery pool where I work, it gets a little on my nerves.
I pay more for coffee every week than I do for lottery, and I drink Cumberland Farms coffee. You're right; it's a fun, cheap (if you don't go overboard) distraction. Worth 2 bucks a week.
I bought two of the stupid things shortly after the Lotto started here in Washington state. I was nineteen and had gone into a 7-11 to buy a deck of smokes and on impulse decided I'd try my luck. The clerk had already sold me the cigarettes when I asked for the lotto tickets and she suddenly made a big fuss about carding me.
As I handed her my driver's license I looked her in the eye and asked if she thought I was too young to buy a Lotto ticket then why in the hell did she just sell me 2 packs of cigarettes without checking?
I got in on the office pool years ago, when my former boss bought tickets. I won a little, and I lost very little, and figured it helped my daughters' college education by getting the Life Scholarship. When he retired, no one wanted to keep up the pool, so that was the end of my playing the lottery days.
I joined in once, years ago, when the grand prize was enormous, because I didn't want to be the only one in the building if the incredibly unlikely happened.
In the years since (particularly the covid years) I came to the conclusion that I wouldn't mind seeing many of my colleagues leave, so now I have no reason to play.
1492: Cristoforo Columbo and his three ships arrive at what is now San Salvador Island in The Bahamas. The natives looked at each other and said, "There goes the neighborhood." (1792 marks the first Columbus Day parade in New York City.)
1692: The Governor of Massachusetts ends the Salem Witch Trials with a sternly-worded letter.
1773: The first purpose-built insane asylum opens in America. No, it wasn't the Congress.
1799: Jeanne Labrosse becomes the first woman to parachute from a balloon. She survived.
1810: The first Oktoberfest. Prosit!
1892: The US Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by schoolchildren. Probably with the Bellamy Salute.
1915: Nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied POWs escape.
1960: N.S. Khrushchev does the shoe thing at the UN.
1973: Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Agnew as Vice President.
1998: Matthew Shepard dies five days after being lynched.
2000: The USS 'Cole' is damaged by suicide boaters. 17 dead, 30 injured.
2002: The Bali nightclub bombings kill 202 and injure 300.
2012: The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
2019: Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge becomes the first person to run a marathon in under two hours.
Tried watching that with my wife one day. We got about 15 minutes in, zero or pretty much zero dialogue so far, and she said "Okay, that's enough. Turn this shit off."
This summer, I made my own sweet vermouth.
Two years ago, I made my own bitters.
A year or two before that, I made my own whisky.
Now, if I can just grow and Maraschino-ize some cherries, and learn to make ice, I'll be off the grid.
You use that word "perfect Manhattan," I do not think it means what you think it means
DO NOT SERVE A MANHATTAN ON THE ROCKS. Please. We aren’t barbarians here.
Sez you.
Never mind..going to another thread...doh!
Whistle Pig makes very nice booze. That’s their bargain rye, and it’s pretty expensive, and delicious.
Little leery of Whistlepig, although I have had it. Guy who started it ran for Congress in my district in '06. Apparently he was on The Apprentice. Got stomped in the election, but still.
Looks like the editrix is still pissed with all of humanity.
Ta, Matthew. There's 100% rye made in NY, too. I tasted it at Greenmarket.
𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌.
Not me (or is it I?), Matt. I don't know enough about cocktails to wonder about such things. I leave it to the experts. Thank you for the emergency post. I had already gotten offline to read before your post went up. Some days, the internet is too awful to stay online.
As someone who broke down following the news online yesterday I know what you mean.
I finally had to shut it off and go sit in front of MST3K for a while. It upsets paul when I'm crying and he didn't do anything to make me angry; he gets unhappy because he prefers me when I'm being a wise cracking smart ass.
:hugs:
I always feel it seems counterintuitive to a wonk to turn the news off, but it is really necessary from time to time.
I'm an admitted news and political junkie and it is damned difficult for me to turn it off and walk away. I feel a duty to remain informed, but the past few days it's gotten to be even more than this cynical old bint can handlle.
I utterly understand all of that. We who know politics not only affects but shapes our daily lives feel we need that constant influx to stay educated. Forwarned is forewarned as it were.
I did come to realize that it is really not hard to catch up if Itake a day or week off, though I did miss the entire speaker fiasco round 15 that way and I am still bummed about missing out on that snark XD
We lost out computer hook up for nine days last year and it drove me INSANE. I felt entirely cut off and thought I was going to go nuts.
I spent about 48 hours online after we were hooked back up to get caught back up.
I could not do 9 days myself XD 2 or 3 tops. Once a whole week but that was because I was in a coma, so I did not have a lot of choice that time.
Yeah. I am losing my snark more often and for longer times.
I'm not rich. Oh well.
I just heard someone in California won the big bucks in the Powerball. Le sigh. Guess I'll be working for the foreseeable future.
You are rich in spirit and in experience ^.^
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Nice one.
Oh, good, someone got lucky and won the powerball, now my colleagues can stop talking about it incessantly.
Collectively they've spent more than a thousand dollars on tickets in the last month.
True story: My late MIL bought lottery tickets as "gifts", and they were the sort where you choose your numbers after buying the ticket, and I guess you hand it back in at some point.
I picked 1,2,3,4,5,6. "But they'll never pick that!" she exclaimed.
Had a friend whose husband won something like fifty thousand dollars on a scratch off, and within a year, they were in debt, because he was trying to win, again. These people were poor, so fifty thousand, before taxes, sounded like a huge amount of money for them. They lost everything they bought with the money, or I should say, everything they put down payments on with the winnings.
From some Simon Whistler video, I learned that, in the UK, the government provides services to winners to help them avoid losing it all by doing shit that they don't know better than not to do. Funny things (relatively) civilized countries do for their citizens...SMDH.
50k is a huge sum to me also XD
I did buy one ticket on a whim. I had a couple singles in my wallet when passing the machine.
I matched 2 of the numbers also! Course, that wins you nothing.
In better news, the loan people came back and they offered us a slightly LOWER interest rate than we had already agreed to. So my credit must be fucking supurb and they do not want me shopping around I am guessing XD
I thought you got $2 for matching at least one number other than the Powerball. That's pretty much the only thing I've ever won with it, just enough to cover the cost of a ticket.
I do not think so, cause I matched 2 and get zip XD
Huh. Maybe they changed it. I thought maybe it was just different rules for MegaMillions and that's what I was thinking of, but looking at the winnings chart, I see the minimum match for a non-megaball win is 3 numbers. I guess I must have matched the megaball, since matching just that gets $2.
Nice news on the loan.
I think with powerball you need one of them to be the power ball to basically get the cost of your ticket back.
And yeah, buying one ticket for fun when the prize gets stupid high can be a good time for some people. But my coworkers have been going on about nothing else for weeks now, and some of them sound like they were genuinely pinning their hopes on winning, which is just sad.
I think if you match 4 or something you get a meeeeleon. Or maybe it is 5. I do not usually indulge, this was the first one I bought since Christmas last year, and that was scratchers for the stockings.
Youngest won 50 bucks off a scratcher one year.Those are fun
That is sad. But Imma guess they are up to their eyeballs in debt by trying to keep up with the Joneses and live well above their means, but it is probably the fault of Those People for being takers and not theirs, or suchwhat. Am I close?
Matching everything but the powerball (so, five) is a million, IIRC. I forget what any of the other combinations get you.
I'm not greedy. I will take a measly million bucks. I don't need to win the whole thing.
For at least one of them, yes. The others, I'm not sure, I think they're just people with unrealistic expectations.
I'm sure mine have spent hundreds, but telework means I didn't have to hear about it. The lottery is not your retirement plan, guys.
fools
They can always be proud of helping the winner pay 0.004% of the taxes on that payout.
oh okay
I woke up this morning to discover someone here thought I was being 'preachy' in pointing out how infinitesimal any one person's chance of winning the lottery was. When another damn math teacher runs the lottery pool where I work, it gets a little on my nerves.
We had a math teacher running the football pool.
We had an ag teacher who was lucky in the lottery, so we always had him buy our tickets. That luck did not extend to the group.
TBH if I knew maths well I'd run the footballpool.
20% right off the top
The lottery is a tax on people who don't understand math.
It can be fun too, so long as you don't get tooooo into it. Then it becomes a problem
Was fun to imagine out what I would do with that money
The Jen Report Brought To You By Jen has a nice ring to it, dunnit?
I pay more for coffee every week than I do for lottery, and I drink Cumberland Farms coffee. You're right; it's a fun, cheap (if you don't go overboard) distraction. Worth 2 bucks a week.
My mom used to Play The Numbers. Is a neighborhood thing.
She'd play our house number every week. And then she went this is dumb I never win, and missed a few weeks, and damn if the number did not come up XD
The last word there is superfluous. Just sayin'.
Right? First rule of gambling is the house always wins.
Offer not valid for PAB run casinos.
Yeah, and I'm no house.
I bought two of the stupid things shortly after the Lotto started here in Washington state. I was nineteen and had gone into a 7-11 to buy a deck of smokes and on impulse decided I'd try my luck. The clerk had already sold me the cigarettes when I asked for the lotto tickets and she suddenly made a big fuss about carding me.
As I handed her my driver's license I looked her in the eye and asked if she thought I was too young to buy a Lotto ticket then why in the hell did she just sell me 2 packs of cigarettes without checking?
I got in on the office pool years ago, when my former boss bought tickets. I won a little, and I lost very little, and figured it helped my daughters' college education by getting the Life Scholarship. When he retired, no one wanted to keep up the pool, so that was the end of my playing the lottery days.
I joined in once, years ago, when the grand prize was enormous, because I didn't want to be the only one in the building if the incredibly unlikely happened.
In the years since (particularly the covid years) I came to the conclusion that I wouldn't mind seeing many of my colleagues leave, so now I have no reason to play.
You better avoid volunteering for any Hunger Games, then.
"Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
-- Nurse Edith Cavell (1865-1915), the night before her execution
Today . . . in HISTORY!
(tatty fanfare)
1492: Cristoforo Columbo and his three ships arrive at what is now San Salvador Island in The Bahamas. The natives looked at each other and said, "There goes the neighborhood." (1792 marks the first Columbus Day parade in New York City.)
1692: The Governor of Massachusetts ends the Salem Witch Trials with a sternly-worded letter.
1773: The first purpose-built insane asylum opens in America. No, it wasn't the Congress.
1799: Jeanne Labrosse becomes the first woman to parachute from a balloon. She survived.
1810: The first Oktoberfest. Prosit!
1892: The US Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by schoolchildren. Probably with the Bellamy Salute.
1915: Nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied POWs escape.
1960: N.S. Khrushchev does the shoe thing at the UN.
1973: Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Agnew as Vice President.
1998: Matthew Shepard dies five days after being lynched.
2000: The USS 'Cole' is damaged by suicide boaters. 17 dead, 30 injured.
2002: The Bali nightclub bombings kill 202 and injure 300.
2012: The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
2019: Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge becomes the first person to run a marathon in under two hours.
Most of Oktoberfest (all but the last few days) takes place in September.
And it was over 100 degrees for most of the month, here, so not very festive.
Unless it was the Burning Man Festival.
So the Capitol building was the second? Hunh. You learn something new every day.
Wonkette: Come for the dick jokes, stay for the knowledge.
Just a reminder. Pabs's color has a name. It's called Burnt Umbrage.
I'll bet that's not on the Pantone chart.
Nostrildumbass (DJTJr) keeps white powder in his.
I'm watching "The Good The Bad, And The Ugly" again. My favourite movie. Tuco is sleeping through it.
Tried watching that with my wife one day. We got about 15 minutes in, zero or pretty much zero dialogue so far, and she said "Okay, that's enough. Turn this shit off."
Maybe I built it up too much.
And yes, we are still married.
Some people don't even have taste in their mouths.
But I'm sure she is a wonderful person.
Really? I thought I was watching that when I was watching the bullshit going on in the House of Reps.
That's dumb and dumber.
More like dumber and most dumberest.
Was that the prequel? They made too many (more than zero) so I sometimes loose track of which is which.
I lost track because frankly the topic of dumbness is not always funny to me.