I'm not an Angry Person

I'm just tired of assholes.




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Boozing Pro-Tips

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Good Day

Yesterday sucked...
Rained all day.

Today is shaping up better.

The rain slacked off enough to ride my bike to work. Got a bunch of stuff worked out and through the wheels at work.

I think I deserve a nice lunch...

Lost in Translation

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Pandering Of The Worst Kind

-or-
How fixing a 'problem' for appeasement can bite you in the ass.

Isinglass

    [ahy-zuh n-glas, -glahs, ahy-zing-]
    noun
    1. a pure, transparent or translucent form of gelatin, obtained from the  air bladders of certain fish, especially the sturgeon: used in glue and jellies and as a clarifying agent. 

 Because 'isinglass' sounds better than 'fish guts'.

So-



Guinness has folded to pressure from the vegan crowd and changed their process to make their product adhere to vegan conditions.
Specifically, taking isinglass out of the filtration process as part of the finishing of their magnificent brew.
Read here.

Really- you are changing a 256-year-old process because 1700 social justice warriors signed an on-line petition?
I wonder if they ever had a chat about or researched what happened with New Coke?
Cause that worked out so well...
Morons.

Can't wait to see how this plays out...


TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Notes From Steerage Class

So, I'm often asked why our company sends us poor fools around the world in coach class seating.

This is why.




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Better Commute Today

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ BIKE

Issues?

No. No issues.
I have a whole SUBSCRIPTION.




TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

All Statistics and Polls Are Bullshit

When are people ever going to learn that anytime someone throws a statistic at them, it's probably slanted, biased or just plain wrong.

The Climatistas and their 97% of scientists, and the GunControllers with their 40% of unregulated gun sales...
It all bullshit.
You have to dig deeper, which people just won't do, to get to the truth.

97% of the scientists that make their living off Gummint grants regarding climate alarmism are the ones in agreement- NOT 97% of all scientists.
That 40% figure,  someone pulled that one out of the aether after a very unscientific poll of uninformed people that didn't own guns.

This is why I cannot put any faith in any polls or surveys about the  slate of 2016 candidates...
It just doesn't matter until people actually are in the voting booth and are punching the chads...

So knock off quoting the latest poll from whoever thinks your candidate looks prettiest.

Serially, they all suck-
The question is, who sucks least. (Or best, IYKWIM)

TBG

Morning Hate

I hate traffic.

Enough Said

(New Version since the last one shit the bed when I hit 'Post'.)

TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

The Walk of Shame

The Walk of Shame on the morning after Halloween is the worst walk of shame ever...

Trigger Warning: Work

This is a political post. Those easily offended by insinuations of laziness or entitlements by a particular class, culture or political party should go visit Disney.com or some such other site. Kthxbai.

Ok, where was I... Oh yeah.

Why is it that the Left/Progressives/Democrats only want to talk about 'work' in only a very limited form?
To wit:
Work- The Republicans and Democrats should work together to make progress on initiatives favored by the Left.
Work- The effort performed by (usually) conservative that generates wages that are taxed in order to pay for freebies, social welfare programs, Obamaphones, and undeserved Obamacare subsidies for  entitled Leftists.
Work- the effort expended by Left - leaning politicians to develop programs to wring more and more tax dollars out of productive citizens in order to give money,  goods, services, and health/education to Illegal Immigrants, chronically unemployed, and other societal parasites.

Tell an Entitled leech that he needs to put in 20 hours of Community Service work to qualify for SNAP and you'll hear the broken falsetto voice of Maynard G Krebs - "WORK!?  Forget that. My baby - momma gets plenty on the SNAP/WIC/nameoffavoritesocialprogramhere".
FTMF

Uncle Jay vs China - Steel Cage Match

Shanghai Eats ▪ Part the Fifth

It's not Sriracha, but it's not bad...

Fruity Sauce.

All For Me?

I get a three - across all to myself on the way home...

Luxury!

Shanghai - Sights

Pudong, as viewed from atop the Peninsula Hotel on the Bund.

Orient Pearl TV Tower in Pudong.

I love sponsor parties.

Guess who they are waiting for?

Shanghai sunrise.

Shanghai Peeps Redux

Our first breakfast (unlike Second Breakfast in the players lounge, or elevenses, also at the players lounge) was taken at the diner/cafe Element Fresh at the Portman. 

I enjoyed tormenting our regular waitress Alice, who has our standard (first) breakfast order memorized... Yogurt for CJ, American breakfast (eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, toast) for Austin and I.

Bacon crispy, not the regular pork tartare. We like burnt offerings for breakfast.

Alice

Perusing the rest of the menu there I find that there are inconsistencies in the offered items.

The Tuna Salad Sandwich has, of course, tuna salad on it. The chicken and Applewood - smoked bacon sandwich? Same-same. 

I would expect the orange juice to have the juice from oranges in it.

So, when I see a sandwich called the Truck Driver... does it not stand to reason that I would inquire what KIND of truck driver they are using on this sandwich? After all, there are several grades of truck driver out there, and I want US DOT prime Trucker, not some low-grade Sino Teamster-reject.

After all... I have the same expectations regarding girl scout cookies.

Shanghai Peeps

We borrowed the Black Shirts for an appearance by Studio 188 on the Heineken Stage

Shanghai Eats ▪ Part IV

Veggie. Jerky.

Why?

Shanghai Eats ▪ Part C

#blacksoybeansmatter

Shanghai Eats ▪ Part the Second

That label could put you off soda permanantly...

Shanghai Eats ▪ Part the First

I love Chinese grocery stores...

With all the allergies and diet restrictions I'm surprised this stuff even exists.

1 Week Later - Still Jet Lagged: 2:30 AM Thoughts

It's 2:30 in the morning.
I have a meeting at 9:00a and there is no possibility of sleep on the horizon...

And what am I thinking about in the dead of the night?

That the perfect crime has probably already been committed and no one will ever know about it.
Ever.



TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Please Define 'Australian Gun Control'

From the headlines in my RSS reader:

Attention Ladies:

#Blacklabsmatter

Stand By For Content

Winding down to a close here in Shanghai now. Doubles final is underway, with the Singles match at 4:30.

I have a boatload of pix to post... I'm burning up the VPN transfer limits.
When I get a free moment I'll start getting the posts together.

TBG

Almost Finished...

An observation after nearly 2 weeks here in Shanghai....

Seriously.

Again...

我在飛往上海的今天。

TBG