Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 5:17:46 PM

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And what is St. Patty's day without some traditional Irish music, the kind played in Boston when I was growing up?

Jukebox

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 5:20:56 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 3/17/2020 5:25:17 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 5:26:08 PM

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Syrah 3/17/2020 5:48:41 PM

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Home alone for St. Patrick’s Day. 

Corned beef brisket cooking in the stove top.

Corona Beer for drinking.

doppelganglander 3/17/2020 5:55:12 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 5:

I made corned beef and cabbage a few days ago and have been eating leftovers. I want to save some for corned beef hash and colcannon.

Syrah 3/17/2020 5:57:03 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 5:

Cruiscin Lan

Syrah 3/17/2020 5:58:45 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 6:

colcannon sounds interesting. I don’t think I have ever had that before. 

buzzsawmonkey 3/17/2020 5:58:57 PM

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Given that the Irish were considered Freckled Enwords for much of the 19th century, and that the stereotypes of the Irish being stupid, muscular, and combative persisted well into the 20th century, I've been musing over the notion that St. Patrick's Day parades were, 150-odd years ago, the social equivalent of today's "gay-pride parades."  

I'm not sure I like the idea, but I'm thinking of the social standing of the Irish in the 19th century and the current social standing of the gay-pride crowd.

I'd love for someone to explain why I am wrong.

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 5:59:40 PM

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In #3 buzzsawmonkey said: Finnegan's Wake

3 quarks for master Mark!

Syrah 3/17/2020 6:04:50 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 9:

(slides a beer down the bar top to Buzz). 

buzzsawmonkey 3/17/2020 6:05:52 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 3/17/2020 6:07:13 PM

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Syrah 3/17/2020 6:11:43 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 12:

that is a fun song. 

doppelganglander 3/17/2020 6:16:42 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 8:

Neither have I. It's nothing but cabbage and mashed potatoes, though you could get pretty fancy, like this: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/colcannon

doppelganglander 3/17/2020 6:19:51 PM

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My contribution to the St. Patrick's Day entertainment.

Real Housewives of South Boston

Syrah 3/17/2020 6:20:11 PM

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Side thought, sliding through my beer besotted brain...

Do you all remover how we joked amongst ourselves about how the flood of zombie books and movies a few years back was a subconscious preparation for some kind of global fast moving plague?

wasn't there even a cdc plague simulation on a zombie plague out break?

Syrah 3/17/2020 6:23:11 PM

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doppelganglander 3/17/2020 6:23:19 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 16:

I should probably note that it's extremely vulgar but hilarious.

doppelganglander 3/17/2020 6:24:57 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 17:

I don't know, but driving around Atlanta on Sunday was eerily like The Walking Dead. Traffic was very light today - I got home in under 5 minutes, when it's normally 10.

Syrah 3/17/2020 6:33:11 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 20:

It is like driving around town at midnight here until about 11 am. Then for the next eight hours, it is like driving around on a weekend day. 

Costco was nutzso this morning. That was weird. I was just going to shop at the nearby sporting goods store. I wasn’t going to go in Costco. 

Why are people buying so much bottled water? 

Why are they behaving like the taps are going to be turned off?

I can get the TP Panic a little bit. It really sucks to run out.

but the bottled water thing is beyond reasonable. 

doppelganglander 3/17/2020 6:34:48 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 21:

I told my daughter the story of how Johnny Carson created a run on toilet paper in the '70s. I think some of this panic buying is ancestral memory of that incident.

midwestgak 3/17/2020 6:39:52 PM

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In #21 Syrah said: but the bottled water thing is beyond reasonable. 

Back in the day, the idea of buying water in stores was considered absurd. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 6:40:19 PM

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In #16 doppelganglander said: Real Housewives of South Boston

We know where youah packie [liquor store, as in package store] is, we've been goin' theah since we were 9

Syrah 3/17/2020 6:41:15 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 22:

There was a story recently about people in Venezuela running out of toilet paper. Recent meaning sometime in the last several years. 

That was followed by the Presidential candidacy of Bernie Sanders, well remembered for having championed the Hugo Chavez regime in Venezuela and for having extolled the virtues of food lines.

What was an impossibility, began to look possible.  

Syrah 3/17/2020 6:42:51 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 23:

there was “distilled” water, for putting in car batteries, and that was about it. I remember. 

midwestgak 3/17/2020 6:44:08 PM

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In #26 Syrah said: there was “distilled” water, for putting in car batteries

And steam irons.

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 6:45:32 PM

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In #16 doppelganglander said: Real Housewives of South Boston

Remember, I grew up in Bahstahn. I remember the riots about busing black kids into Southie schools.

(Me, I grew up in Mattapan. Once, wall-to-wall Jews, but by the time my father passed away, he was probably the only white in a very large neighborhood.)

Syrah 3/17/2020 6:45:32 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 27:

and then there was polyester....

steam irons have almost become an anachronism. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 6:46:32 PM

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In #25 Syrah said: There was a story recently about people in Venezuela running out of toilet paper. Recent meaning sometime in the last several years.  That was followed by the Presidential candidacy of Bernie Sanders, well remembered for having championed the Hugo Chavez regime in Venezuela and for having extolled the virtues of food lines. What was an impossibility, began to look possible.  

Bernie says if you like your toilet paper, you can keep your toilet paper.

Syrah 3/17/2020 6:48:10 PM

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doppelganglander 3/17/2020 6:48:32 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 24:

Real Housewives of South Boston St. Patrick's Day

"I keep takin' them pills every day and I'm still not pregnant!"

Syrah 3/17/2020 6:49:16 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 30:

toilet paper has a very questionable reuse and recycle value. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 6:50:25 PM

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In #33 Syrah said: toilet paper has a very questionable reuse and recycle value. 

That's my point. That's exactly what we get from socialism.....

JCM 3/17/2020 6:51:12 PM

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doppelganglander 3/17/2020 6:51:51 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 28:

I know, so you get it. I've never been to Boston and I still think it's hilarious. They should do an episode about Tom Brady's departure, but I don't think they're making new ones.

Syrah 3/17/2020 6:51:55 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 34:

Bernie has managed to live a very comfortable life with out ever having been productive.

Syrah 3/17/2020 6:53:06 PM

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Reply to JCM in 35:

the acoustic deadening properties would be notable. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 6:58:34 PM

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In #36 doppelganglander said: I know, so you get it. I've never been to Boston and I still think it's hilarious.

Thea's white trash everyweah.

buzzsawmonkey 3/17/2020 7:00:28 PM

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Reply to JCM in 35:

Wipeout

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 7:00:42 PM

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In #37 Syrah said: Bernie has managed to live a very comfortable life with out ever having been productive.

I read he got thrown out of a commune because he wouldn't pull his weight.

SO he found that you can get a lot of money in government without doing much.

He loves socialist systems because well connected slackers make money and the people who do work are screwed. 

I think there is a special place in Hell for people like that. 

Syrah 3/17/2020 7:06:03 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 41:

i wonder if when young Bernie read the part that said “Some pigs are more equal” he had an a sudden epiphany about how the system could be gamed?

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 7:07:32 PM

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Syrah 3/17/2020 7:08:12 PM

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Tonight’s movie: World War Z”

from the box cover, it’s about buying toilet paper at a crowded Costco.

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 7:09:37 PM

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In #42 Syrah said: i wonder if when young Bernie read the part that said “Some pigs are more equal” he had an a sudden epiphany about how the system could be gamed?

Animal House is not a book about a model government. But maybe He just doesn't have the energy of a true revolutionary. I doubt he'd actually shoot someone, unlike Castro, Stalin, Che, etc. 

Syrah 3/17/2020 7:13:42 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 45:

animal farm may not have been about a model government, but for a time, the pigs lived very well. 

That seems to be the essence of socialism. For a short period of time, up to 70 plus years in the Soviet Union, the pigs lived very well, except for the ones that were scrubbed out of the photos.

Syrah 3/17/2020 7:28:40 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 45:

i would add, cautiously, that one of the more interesting conversations I have had with people on the left, is that it is relatively easy to die for what you believe in, but what really makes a huge difference, is being willing to kill for what you believe in.

i am relatively reassured that most of the leftist I have interacted with on this line get real squeamish on the topic. Only a very few respond frighteningly. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 7:32:45 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 45: ANIMAL FARM. I know, I;ll be sent to the knackers now

Syrah 3/17/2020 7:40:37 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 48:

(slides a beer down the bar top to Kosh)

autocorrect is amazing technology, but it will always suck  

Kosh's Shadow 3/17/2020 7:42:10 PM

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In #49 Syrah said: autocorrect is amazing technology, but it will always suck  

Baron Otto Korrekt

Syrah 3/17/2020 8:23:09 PM

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File under “its all fun and games until it is not.”

https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/zombie/index.htm

Syrah 3/17/2020 9:08:24 PM

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For what it is worth

and with the caveat that I am one of those weird people that has the ability to not panic when everyone around me is freaking out, I am panicked, in my weird way.  

The virus does not worry me as much as the National panic.

things are getting very strange.

It is important that we keep our cool.

Be the calm person in the room.

People will look to you for leadership.

urge caution and deliberate decision making.

There is not much more than we can do.

being the example of calm and deliberate slow action will help others to keep their cool and behave reasonably.

Be the stone that people perceive to be immovable.

Be the firemen that seems to be aware and incharge, even if you have doubts and worries.

Make decisions. Do so with confidence. Know that it matters less if you are right than that you were decisive..

in four weeks time, this will all have seemed to be a ridiculous overreact. 

Between now and then. Be the one that your family, friends and neighbors can rely on for calm and clarity. 

Syrah 3/17/2020 9:56:00 PM

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Here is a fun discussion. 

What is your superpower?

mine is that I don’t panic. The house could be burning down around me, I might be frightened, but I won’t look or be panicked.

that calm and deliberate inner voice in my head will guide me and I will not, do not panic. 

Fortunately, I have not had to use this super power very often. Just a hand full of times in my short life time. No one remembers afterwards. No one thinks it is heroic or important months down the line.  No one will even remember. 

But keeping a clear head in a crisis is really helpful.

What is your super power?

what can you contribute to the tribe?

it is not always about being “the fireman”.

it could be something like being the bookkeeper. Keeping track of things. Managing the numbers and calculations, which I am terrible at. 

Some people are good with rules and systems.

some know how to build.

others know how to dissemble.

others are good at predictions  

some are good at other things that are very important but not much thought of.

some remember everything.

others learn very quickly.

some are good scholars or puzzle solvers.

What is your super power?