{"id":6221,"date":"2026-08-03T12:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=6221"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:18:38","slug":"13-8-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/13-8-4\/","title":{"rendered":"13 (8\/3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weekend news leads me to even more, and I can&#8217;t even find the appropriate word.  &#8220;Disgust&#8221; doesn&#8217;t even fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All y&#8217;all are worthless.  You&#8217;ve created huge problems.  No, you have no idea how to fix it, and are more concerned about owning the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listening to something besides the most-deranged pipe dream is unthinkable.  And, if someone isn&#8217;t 100000000000% on board, he&#8217;s a MAGA.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Um, no.  What I think, and what I&#8217;ve written is there for the consumption.  But I&#8217;m not participating.  Or being cordial.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did have something I was going to try to sample from very, very old OD writing, but it&#8217;s proving more difficult than I&#8217;d like.  This is a Y2K survey I&#8217;d cobbled together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given that basically nobody real is reading this, I&#8217;m not going to give a clean list for copypasta.  If you happen to want to read, and want to try to take it yourself, you can do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Questions about alcohol:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Last time you were drunk:  Probably last summer after I tried to finish off a bottle.  It hit me hard.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Poison:  Kind of whatever.  Mainly gin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fave drink:  Probably G&amp;T<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Last time you were drunk on fave drink:  I don&#8217;t know.  Never?  It&#8217;s not something you drink to get drunk.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Last time drinking made you drive the porcelain Buick:  Almost twenty years ago, maybe?  I was mixing Martinis alone, but, while I had the proportions right, the entire thing  was <em>way<\/em> too big. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Last time drinking made you not make it to the porcelain Buick:  I don&#8217;t ever remember doing that.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Margaritas&#8211;frozen or on the rocks:  OTR<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Margaritas&#8211;salt oder nein:  Yes, salt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beer&#8211;Best:  I don&#8217;t know.  Proximal drinking is a thing.  Port City Brewing Co. isn&#8217;t far away.  I like their Porter, and a couple of others.  But there&#8217;s been articles lately over at <a href=\"https:\/\/numlock.news\">Numlock.news<\/a> that have me rethinking a lot about beer.  There&#8217;s not many you drink just for taste.  When they&#8217;re accompaniments for food, the beer doesn&#8217;t make it or break it.  I think the example I used was whether there was some difference between a homebrewed IPA with special hops, etc., and a Sierra Nevada.  Do you really remember the difference?  Is that hotdog at a ballgame really different because you had a Miller Lite versus a Bud Light?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beer&#8211;Worst: Similar to above answers.  Was the stuff I had in New Orleans at an Oktoberfest celebration that bad just because of the beer, or was it the strange sauteed peppers resembling something you&#8217;d find on a fajita platter?  Or was it because the beer had been brewed with New Orleans city water?<br><strong><em>**Have you consumed the following ghetto drinks:**<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MadDog 20\/20:  Yes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Boone&#8217;s Farm:  Yes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ripple:  I don&#8217;t remember.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thunderbird:  Yes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Malt Liquor:  Yes?  I still want a 40 of OE800.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Moonshine:  Yes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wine Coolers:  Blast from the past on that one&#8230;.but, yes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zima:  When they reintroduced it, yes.  The modern hard seltzers are better.<br><strong><em>**Tobacco**<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you smoke cigarettes:  Not  anymore.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brand:  N\/A<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cigars:  I haven&#8217;t had one since probably about 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brand:  I haven&#8217;t had one since probably about 2008<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Number of ashtrays in your house\/flat\/tenament\/trailer\/cardboard box\/parkbench:  This one is really a question that&#8217;s not survived the test of time.  I can&#8217;t even smoke inside where I live.  I don&#8217;t know if I can even have a cigar inside the complex.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pipe:  Have taken drags in the past, but never used one regularly.  Or even <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fave pipe tobacco:  See above.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ever chewed snuff:  No.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ever actually snuffed snuff:  No.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ever chewed Long Cut:  No.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ever chewed plug:  No.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did you puke the first time you chewed:  No.<br><strong><em>**Firearms** (Snobby brits and auzzies just skip this section&#8230;.you can&#8217;t have firearms. It&#8217;s nice living in a place with no absolute rights, huh?)<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you own any:  No.  I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;d be safe for me to use one, additionally.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s your fave in your collection:  N\/A.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you have a placard on your truck that reads &#8220;Driver carries at least $20 in ammo.&#8221;:  No, and this is another thing from the past&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Number of shotguns in your gunrack in said truck:  Zero.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you think a gun shop in the East End of Newport News is a good business opportunity:  Nah.  The number of sales would be very small, and why buy from a legit store when you can get it cheaper on the street.<br><strong><em>**Motoring**<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What hydrocarbon powered vehicles do you own:  I don&#8217;t?  I think I&#8217;m actually on the title of my wife&#8217;s car, and the insurance policy is the account I opened in whatever it was&#8230;2006?  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From whom did you buy it: We bought my wife&#8217;s car from a dealer in Tidewater.  I don&#8217;t remember which.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is it a Ford:  Nope.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If so, is it green:  N\/A<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brand of tires:  I don&#8217;t have a car.  I have no idea what&#8217;s on my wife&#8217;s.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where you normally get petrol\/gas:  Again, I don&#8217;t have a car.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stick or automatic:  No car.  But I never owned an automatic.<br><strong><em>**Sex**<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have you had sex:  I&#8217;ve been with the same woman for more than twenty years.  Yes, I think it&#8217;d be pretty safe to assume that that&#8217;s happened.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s your magic number:  Unchanged since 2006.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When was the last time you had sex:  Not sayin&#8217;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Was it good:  Not sayin&#8217;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Has it ever been good:  Yes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s the kinkiest thing you&#8217;ve ever done:  None of your business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make an inventory of your sex toys:  None of your business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Number of times a day you masturbate:  None of your business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Does this number vary with the frequency of sex:  None of your business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What does your mother know of your sex life:  Odd question given that I&#8217;ve been with the same woman for more than twenty years.  I think when she was kind of with it, she probably knew a few things, but it was never something we discussed.  Unfortunately, now, I&#8217;m not sure she even knows my wife, or my brother&#8217;s wife.<br><em><strong>**Food**<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have you ever thought about food while having sex:  I don&#8217;t think so.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have you ever used food for sex:  Not saying.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s your favorite food:  i don&#8217;t even know at this point.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you think there should be litigation against the fast food restaurants like the tobacco companies:  Haha.  This is another one of the things that really hasn&#8217;t aged well.  But, back then, they were really big on the fat-is-bad thing.  Snackwells were a big thing back then.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you eat at French Restaurants:  Not often, but I don&#8217;t eat out hardly ever.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s wrong with you:  So many things.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What did you eat last:  A protein bar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did you cook it:  Nope.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How bad is the heartburn:  The meds to fight acid are so much better these days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay.  That&#8217;s enough for today.  Early afternoon MRI.  Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend news leads me to even more, and I can&#8217;t even find the appropriate word. &#8220;Disgust&#8221; doesn&#8217;t even fit. All y&#8217;all are worthless. You&#8217;ve created huge problems. No, you have no idea how to fix it, and are more concerned about owning the other side. Listening to something besides the most-deranged pipe dream is unthinkable. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[]"},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6292,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions\/6292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}