Tech Support tells me that the login issues are not the only ones he’s finding, but as he has an actual (well-) paying job, for some reason he’s putting that first instead of my problems. Go figure.
Please be patient.
Author: Kim du Toit
Morality Tale
…and it is a tale:
“You now have the freedom to do whatever you want,” Williams told The Post about her revelation. “If you want to sleep with two men on the same day, you can. If you want to have a tryst in the middle of the day, you’re free. The only person who can judge you is yourself. And if you’re fine with it, screw everyone else.”
Apparently, her lust knew no bounds — she says she bonked eight men in that first year after her divorce. Hence the “tale” bit.
I hate to break it to her, but eight men in a year is actually quite a low number for a late-40s divorcee, even a fairly plain-looking one like her. I personally know one woman who bonked about three or four men a month after hers, and she did it for well over three years before finding a guy she wanted to stay with. (I would have been one of them — I always had the hots for her — but I was living in another state far away at the time, and she told me her story after she’d moved in with The Guy.)
Frankly, I think I think our slut-wannabe New Yorker is telling a tale — the rule of thumb for most women who divulge their “number” nowadays is to take what she says, and double it — triple it if she’s a barhopping party girl.
So… sixteen in a year? Not bad. Otherwise, meh.
Misfire
If ever there was a corporate decision that made no sense, it was FN Herstal/Browning’s to discontinue the manufacture of the much-loved Browning P-35 High Power.
Need less to say, that “gap” in the market was quickly filled by Springfield, with its SA-35:
…and more recently, from EAA/Girsan (Turkey), with its MC P35:
Okay, both clones are apparently made to FN specs, but both SA and EAA claim to have “cleaned up” the design, using modern tooling, steel and manufacturing methods. We’ll see over the next few years if this is in fact true.
Here are the principle differences between the two. The SA-35 is more faithful to the original P35’s appearance, but does not come with the annoying magazine disconnect safety (which prevents the pistol from firing unless a magazine is inserted). The MC P35 has a ambidextrous safety (which will endear it to left-hand shooters) but does feature said annoying magazine disconnect safety. The SA-35 has a white dot front sight, while the MC P35 has the traditional HP’s white line front sight.
The SA-35 runs about $650 street, and the MC P35 about $525 street.
Now for the fun part. When FN saw the response from gun owners to the new suppliers’ models, they said “Oops” (or however they say it in Belgianese) and re-released the P35, albeit uglier and at the typical FN/Browning premium price ($700 over the Springfield):
Me, IF I were in the market for a new High Power to replace the one I lost in that terrible canoeing accident on the Brazos, I’d get the Springfield SA-35 in a heartbeat. Hell, I might get one anyway, just for spite.
Britishland…
A new national gun surrender will allow people to anonymously hand in weapons and ammunition including heirlooms, shotguns and antique revolvers, as well as illegal stun guns and gas-firing blank pistols bought overseas.
“They can do that anonymously and there will be an amnesty for them in order to transport that weapon or be in possession of that weapon at the point they surrender it.
“No-one needs to be concerned about walking into a station or contacting their local force.
“We don’t need to know your name, we don’t need to know how you came into possession of it, all we need you to do is give us the gun.”
Makes me sick. Fucking totalitarian assholes.
Monday Funnies
Yeah, it’s Monday:
So on we go, trying to make sense of it all… through philosophy:
And speaking of grannies, here are a few recent pics of Jane Seymour (71):
And if she can do it, so can you.
Classic Beauty: Suzanne Pleshette
I’ve loved this extraordinary woman since I was a 6-year-old boy, when I tagged along with my parents to see Roman Holiday (a.k.a. Lovers Must Learn ), coming soon to TCM. OMG that face, that laugh, and that voice…
Not to mention her other attributes:
Here’s a political joke:
If I’d ever woken up next to her, you’d have had to pull me out of bed at gunpoint — with no guarantee of my compliance, either.