The Small Matter Of The Bar Tab (2)
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For newcomers wishing to know more about what’s been going on here for the last decade or so, and in over 2,500 posts and 80,000 comments, the reheated series is a pretty good place to start, and where you’ll find things like this, and like these. If you can, do take a moment to poke through the discussion threads too. The posts are intended as starting points, not full stops, and the comments are where much of the good stuff is waiting to be found. And do please join in.
Again, thanks for the support, the comments, and the company.
Thank you, David.
*kerching*
Bless you, madam. May your toilet paper perforations always work as intended.
Tip jar has been hit. 🙂
May you find long-forgotten gems in your list of Sky TV recordings.
By the way, this place has now had over ten million visits.

Don’t you people have anything better to do?
Don’t you people have anything better to do?
No refunds. Credit note only.
Ping
PING!
Thanks, David. I quite like this place; a little oasis of sanity where we can gawk at the bedlamites marching by.
May you wake to birdsong.
And “gawk at the bedlamites” should go in the brochure.
Ping!
Should be enough for a performance-art grade nappy or two.
May your grapes always be seedless, and your raspberries never soften to a disagreeable degree.
Thanks for the hours of smh entertainment David. Tipped!
Bless you, madam. May you never perspire more than is seemly.
Ah, thanks for Amazon link… I needed an excuse to do some shopping!
Shop like the wind.
Thanks for the game tips, David. Tip jar hit.
May you never know the sickening horror of a 9% phone battery level.
Been laughing (in disbelief) at your ‘Year Reheated’ recap. I’ve sent some British quids your way.
Been laughing (in disbelief) at your ‘Year Reheated’ recap.
Yes, when you put a year’s worth of wokeness in a pile, like a snapshot of the bedlamite demographic, it’s quite boggling.
May the Wi-Fi always reach all corners of your home.
wonderful post. great work you guys do here.
I spent over an hour trying researching how to combine all my prepaid gift card balances and send that but gave up.
So I rolled to the store and got another gift card. Incoming pleasant ping noise.
PS Shouldn’t this be under ‘Busking’ rather than ‘Basking’?
Incoming pleasant ping noise.
May your sleeve never catch on a door handle, causing you to throw coffee down a newly-painted white wall. The same stretch of wall that had already been drenched in red wine, twice, before being repainted, twice. And which is now quite possibly the most thoroughly painted four feet of wall in the neighbourhood.
Been laughing (in disbelief) at your ‘Year Reheated’ recap.
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Have hit tip jar.
May your grill pan never require more than the lightest of soaks.
Meanwhile, in the Clown Quarter:
Apparently, if you dare to acknowledge reality during a debate at USC – annual tuition north of $50,000 – then there will be a Maoist struggle session. Because everyone must pretend.
SJW controllers: Harnessing and weaponizing ego-gratification and (possibly also creating) personality disorders for over 30 years!
Suggesting one might need to lock their doors when parking south of USC is racist, ignorant and problematic…
To be fair, one might need to lock one’s doors at any compass point around the campus, though a few blocks away just north of I-10 is Koreatown, so we’ll have to use a Racial Decoder Ring on that one.
I am beginning to see one of their main malfunctions.
Just to start the day…
Australia is not real, “It’s a coverup [sic] for one of the greatest mass murders in history.”
Michael Moore hearts Marx.
https://twitter.com/awstar11/status/992834079111331840
Michael Moore hearts Marx.
Marx was also an obnoxious, dishonest, delusional hypocrite. So I suppose they would have had something in common.
If anyone has trouble with comments not appearing, email me and I’ll make an offering to the spam filter.
Suggesting one might need to lock their doors when parking south of USC is racist, ignorant and problematic, and especially troubling when brought up by someone who is white
Michael Lewis on the Columbia School of Journalism
Michael Moore hearts Marx.

Heh.
And which is now quite possibly the most thoroughly painted four feet of wall in the neighbourhood.
Perhaps you should take up being decoratively bold and fearless, and paint it black.
Better yet, assess the angle of repeatedly thrown liquids, and repeat one last time with a double quantity of black paint—the double quantity should cover any variations in angle of subsequent spills.
The trial Masters faced last spring was not implemented or overseen by campus administration. It was a peer-led effort through Masters’ fraternity,
. . . I am beginning to see one of their main malfunctions.
Yeah, I’ve never seen any point to frats either. Hipsters are bad enough individually, congealing in plural just emphasizes the debacle.
Perhaps you should take up being decoratively bold and fearless, and paint it black.
I now work on the assumption that the section of wall in question is basically cursed. Or houses some kind of gravitational anomaly.
Today’s Word Is Offensensibility.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/i-swear-make-patriarchy-uncomfortable-i-m-proud-it-ncna870736
Wouldn’t you love to see these dumb cows in a real patriarchy? Heck, I’d even spring for a get-well card after the razor-blade surgery. And what is a major news organization doing posting foolishness like this?
David, have you considered buying yourself some sippy cups?
Why Johnny doesn’t science.
re Pogonip’s link
Mona Eltahawy is a feminist writer
Who knew?
Mona Eltahawy is a feminist writer
Hence, I suppose, the severe, perhaps terminal, departure from reality.
It’s time to thank you once more for this little island of good sense from a mostly lurker. Tip jar has been hit of course.
Tip jar has been hit of course.
May your hangers never tangle.
And thanks to all who’ve chipped in so far, including those much too shy to comment. It’s what keeps this place here and is much appreciated.
Why Johnny doesn’t science.
Severe continental drift aside, though my knowledge of ornithology is limited, I’d still bet good money there are more species of perching birds in North America than, having been there, in the center of the Sahara (or Nunavut, for that matter).
The term “minestrone hoagy” comes to mind.
Switch to white wine AND paint the wall coffee-color.
Or let the stains collect and call it modern art.
the severe, perhaps terminal, departure from reality.
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/993179083478626305
Also ping.