You’re Itching For One

…they think the only cities in the US are LA or NYC (honorable mention, Chicago), most cop shows take place in those cities.

Of the American cop (or coppish) shows I watch with any regularity, only about half fit that.
LA/NYC:
Brooklyn 99, Castle, NCIS: LA
DC based, but travel:
Bones, NCIS
Sacramento based but travels state wide:
The Mentalist
I occasionally watch the new 5-0 of its on at something else I’ve watched and can’t be bothered to change
Maybe British FTA TV buyers filter out a lot of the clones, or maybe I just haven’t been grabbed by any of the other LANY shows.

Speaking of crime and drama:

Over the weekend a couple of readers alerted me to a video that was doing the rounds on Twitter of what looked like a couple of diminutive British police officers patrolling downtown Mogadishu. Inevitably for that part of the world, a bunch of hooded thugs gave the two – a man and a woman – a good thrashing. I later learned that the incident happened in London… Oddly, forty-three hours of diversity training followed by a week-long seminar on unconscious racial biases didn’t adequately prepare these two officers for encountering actual diversity and vibrancy on the streets…
The police have spent years elevating themselves to special status whereby only they can have weapons, only they can protect you, only they can do X, Y, and Z and ordinary people “must not take the law into their hands” but instead wait for Plod to show up three days later. Yet here they are whining that they don’t want to come to work if the public won’t join them in hand-to-hand combat with a bunch of feral thugs the very same police forces won’t let us criticise.

Tim Newman on the ongoing decline of British policing.
See also Natalie Solent, here.

…a town with a decent climate, fine Tex-Mex cuisine and multiple metric butt-loads of outdoor stuff to do within a two-hour radius–(a little longer for better skiing)…
So basically Jackson, Tennessee, but with a AA ball team with a cooler name…

Doc Martin was filmed in Des Moines, Iowa for the tax breaks.

Jackson, Tennessee has a AA baseball team: The Jackson Generals.

I believe Farnsworth references the AAA, not AA, Albuquerque Isotopes. Cooler is a bit problematic, in a baseball sense anyway.

but Albuquerque has The Isotopes
Yeah, but what’s their half-life?

Some people have a rather strange approach to impending family gatherings. As if the people who’ve travelled to be with them should be treated with almost a default contempt, and as if the whole thing were just a vehicle for their own adolescent hectoring.

Seems just a little sad.

In her case, it might just be lots of drugs, insanity, and/or an IQ slightly lower than a pickle.
And it’s practically an annual Twitter ritual – people declaring their plans to turn up for dinner and then promptly start arguments about politics, especially with any known or suspected conservatives, thereby revealing their own staggering brilliance.
Ms Berg is supposedly a grown woman and yet, like so many of her peers, her attitude seems juvenile. Apparently, before attending a Thanksgiving family meal, you should psyche yourself up to argue about intersectional politics and then school relatives in the latest woke pieties. Because, goddammit, they all need correcting by someone who imagines herself much smarter than they are.
It’s as if these vain, unpleasant people never get over their first year of university, when they felt a need to inform their relatives that they now, quite suddenly, know absolutely everything. If nothing else, it seems rather at odds with the spirit of the holiday.

but with a moral code based primarily on feminine principles.
Oh goody, there’s going to be a cat fight.

Nothing says baseball like a small, yappy Mexican dog.
True, though they’ll take a bite out of the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, but would be battered by the Montgomery Biscuits.

Gaah! You’ve found the motherload of cringe.
You can’t say I didn’t warn you…

Abandon all hope Ye who enter here.
These “Good Men” are somewhat reminiscent of Fred Saberhagen’s Goodlife.

David until you get the pickled egg situation sorted out I’d like to suggest a ballsy alternative:

The humble prairie oyster.

Ideal for dipping.
In Camel Hump Fat. Or frying in CHF. Then sprinkled with some bacon bits and served over arugula. With a ranch dressing. Or so I’ve heard…
I never cease to be amazed at what these ninnies find to take the vapors over.
As I (sort of) said on the other thread, we reward them for getting the vapors. The louder and more obstinate that they are, the more we concede. Ostensibly to shut them up, but it really doesn’t work that way. It really shouldn’t be much of a surprise. Except maybe to the “grownups in the room”.

Can’t speak for anyone else;
She went to Jared.

As if the people who’ve travelled to be with them should be treated with almost a default contempt, and as if the whole thing were just a vehicle for their own adolescent hectoring.
The DPRK News Service Responds…

“Re-becoming human”
In a saner world, these malevolent little clowns would be chased out of town with nail guns.

Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Yanks! 🦃

From Farnsworth’s link:
…it is essential that we focus on changing the voice of The Patriarchy that is whispering in our sons’ ears…
Here is what we need to encourage:
Empathy
Caring
Consensus
Dreaming
Openness
Sense of Community
Nurturing
Equality
Appreciation of Beauty
Importance of Self-Expression
Living Sustainably
Caring for Mother Earth
Respect for Women
A Strong Sense of Self Worth
And of course we still expect them to be the ones who collect our garbage, mine our resources, log our forests, build our roads and bridges, drive our long haul trucks, fight our wars, extract our oil, fix our sewers etc. All for the privilege of experiencing a 300% to 400% greater likelihood than the matriarchy of being killed, or maimed on the job.

@ R.Sherman
Kipling, my mother’s favourite author.
“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”
I can’t tell you how often those words fell from my mother’s lips.
They informed my being.

It’s as if these vain, unpleasant people never get over their first year of university, when they felt a need to inform their relatives that they now, quite suddenly, know absolutely everything.
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1065072417112911872
Heh

Reminds me of my misspent youth as an evangelical Christian, and the youth groups I went to that told us how to talk to our non-Christian friends and relatives about Jesus. Evangelical lefties are just as annoying and self-righteous as teenage born-agains, and if anything, less likely to be embarrassed about it.

For a nice break from our home grown socialists trying to ruin the meal, Thanksgiving dinner with North Koreans*.
*(It wasn’t real socialism…)

#spaceshipthings
https://twitter.com/egeusz/status/1065353068454260737