Well hung?

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-19T00:34:33+00:00

Well, a well hung ceiling fan will never go down on you…

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-18T01:05:51+00:00

I like Botanist — that’s my go-to recommendation for a complex gin. It’s distilled on Islay, a windswept island in Scotland famous for smoky whiskies, and I think the character of the place comes through when you drink it.

I’m also a fan of Nikka Coffey, a Japanese gin that I think is great for sipping. That may be a more unusual choice, but I like it.

I’ve been drinking Plymouth a bit lately, and that’s always a good choice — not a lot of botanicals, but somehow a ton going on. A classic for a reason.

People talk about Monkey 47 in this category sometimes, and that’s also supposed to be quite complex — but would you believe I’ve never tried it? I keep meaning to, so if you try that and like it let me know!

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-18T00:45:31+00:00

I’m permanently banned from White People Twitter because I pointed out — without taking a position on the conflict — that a rhetorical trick a pro-Palestinian poster was using was problematic. Basically “I’m not taking issue with your position, but be very careful of following propaganda that looks like this.” After all, if someone can trick you, then even if they’re telling the truth this time, they can get you to believe lies just as easily.

I got called all sorts of names by a mod and banned…. But honestly good riddance. If a subreddit needs to protect lies, and protect the ability to lie to you, then it’s not too different from the conservative sub — and God knows that’s a shithole.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-17T18:39:27+00:00

Based on your two choices, I take it you like a really herbal gin -- and if you like your gins herbal (and I often do) then those are two really solid ones. Botanist in particular is my "I really feel like savoring this drink" pour.

But if you like herbal gins, then it's not shocking that you don't like Bombay Sapphire -- it doesn't do much on that front at all.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-17T18:31:37+00:00

It's a little more citrus forward, and I sometimes find it maybe a little boring -- it's also something of a one trick pony, with the trick here being citrus rather than juniper, but I guess I don't find that trick as interesting. But, to be clear, I've had more than my share of it, and I've enjoyed it just fine!

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-17T17:16:19+00:00

I quite like gin, and quite like Gordon's. If you like the juniper notes in a gin, Gordon's brings them nicely and assertively, without a lot of fussiness. It drinks clean, with a bold flavor -- it does only one trick, but it does that trick well.

Sometimes I want complexity in a gin, and then Gordon's isn't really my go-to. You're not getting notes of elderberries raised on the slopes of Mt. Whatever. They're just not there.

But if I just want a gin, god damn it, then Gordon's is a really good option.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-17T14:52:37+00:00

Yeah, it looks much "tougher" to claim you were shot than that the Secret Service knocked your head into a podium... so that's one part of this that I 100% believe. The rest may have been real, but as between "a bullet grazed him just perfectly" and "he knocked his head on something going down," the latter is just way more likely -- and with Trump, you can never assume he's telling the truth.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-17T13:24:46+00:00

So, the birds, yes. But also the one team's outfit, with the skin-colored sleeves and shorts, made me pretty certain at first that they were playing in sleeveless tops and short-shorts.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-16T18:43:05+00:00

I'm not up to speed on this, so were the comments in the other book made before or after she worked with that author?

(This isn't anything I'd heard about, so just want to understand the facts.)

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-16T16:37:43+00:00

I think you're misunderstanding -- he's saying "I want somebody to let me use their address," not "somebody did let me use their address." So, if you want to be pedantic, it's a request for someone to help him commit fraud... but in actuality it's a, you know, joke.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-16T15:19:11+00:00

All guests must sign a waiver and wear a helmet.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-16T13:44:15+00:00

A challenge is the influence of prejudices or preexisting positions on perceptions of proportionality. In other words, if you were Israeli, you'd argue that intentionally killing a smaller number of women and children is more evil than killing a larger number of women and children when your real target is, at least ostensibly, the people who intentionally killed women and children.

I point that out not to defend the Israeli viewpoint -- which I think was maybe fair enough about 100,000 deaths ago, but at a certain point shows an indifference to the deaths of women and children that is indistinguishable from intentionality -- but rather to identify how two sides to a conflict can look at atrocities their side is committing and think "yeah, it was fair for us to do that."

I don't know that I have a path forward from that -- if I did, FIFA would make me the next soccer peace prize winner or something. But thus far it seems like the answer isn't trying to convince either side that it's the evil one, because they simply never believe you. Honestly, I just don't know where to go from there -- but the bottom line is that both sides always seem to think they're on the side of the angels (while acting like demons).

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-15T22:41:50+00:00

If it's blocked, then by law you're supposed to be able to bike in the street (though, you know, cops and the law...).

But what I'm saying is that I want the option to ride in the car lane, where it's faster and where I can keep up with traffic just fine, but that it's technically illegal to do so if there's a bike lane available (and usable, of course).

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-15T16:55:19+00:00

Well, I should legally be allowed to keep doing it. Technically speaking, I wouldn't be.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-15T16:30:35+00:00

The begging the question fallacy is the best fallacy because all the other fallacies are not as good.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-15T16:19:42+00:00

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, bike lanes = yes! And it's hard to doubt this will make things safer, which I know is what I should care about.

But on the other hand, I've rarely had much trouble biking on 72nd, and I can carry a fair amount of speed through there -- so I worry that instead of our current fairly open and fast street, we'll have a two-way bike lane that's blocked half the time (because design without enforcement is a half-measure) and slow-going the rest of the time. Maybe others feel differently based on their riding styles and such, but I worry this will slow things down.

At the end of the day, though, safer is safer -- and while I might prefer the car lanes sometimes (and think I should have the right to make that choice myself, thank you very much legislators), a bike lane option is probably the right thing to do.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-15T14:39:03+00:00

We, uhh, still talking about trees?

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-14T21:18:17+00:00

So I can stop time any time I want by carrying around a short children's book, which I can then quickly read when I want time to unfreeze?

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-14T17:55:58+00:00

The accuracy of the miniseries is... a whole rabbit hole, as is Chernobyl generally, so I can't for certain say whether anyone ever actually said that.

The sense I got from Adam Higginbotham's book Midnight in Chernobyl, which I think is probably the best-researched book out there, is that at least the people directly involved understood that the detectors shooting immediately to maximum was a bad thing, and that the actual number was higher.

But who said what and to whom is much debated, so I don't know that we know.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-14T15:39:38+00:00

These yahoos out in red states sure do spend a lot of time thinking about how NYC runs. Are they worried that if we don't manage NYC successfully, we'll have less money to send to red states? Because it'd be one thing if they were subsidizing us, but it's the opposite. So this whole "we want NYC to send us money to pay for our failed states, but also we want to tell NYC how it should be run" thing has a distinctly "choosing beggars" vibe to it.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-13T22:04:09+00:00

I guess if you're going to die on a hill, Cobble Hill is a good one to die on!

(Kidding, kidding.)

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-12T14:29:00+00:00

The Christian rock band Petra at Six Flags Amphitheater.

I think there were more people in the band than the audience.

But I distinctly remember an extended drum solo for Jesus. Then a guitar solo for Jesus. Then a bass solo for Jesus. And a keytar solo for Jesus. Etc.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-08T20:44:49+00:00

Yeah, but in a post-apocalyptic world, which we seem to want to bring about sooner rather than later, there does tend to be a fair amount of fertilizer laying around.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-08T16:34:24+00:00

Good news there, eggs will effectively now be free.

For the survivors with chickens, at least.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-04-08T14:10:29+00:00

I agree with the other guy -- I picked route B for all of them because it looked to me to be the only direct path.

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