Weekend Open Thread: Revenge of the Proles Edition
Howdy folks. Busy week. We waded back into current event memes last week with a collection of Bernie at the Inauguration memes. But as Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast…”. Like a runaway train.
Before I get to the memes, we have a knife show this weekend. The Gator Cutlery Club show in Lakeland, FL.
When I first started these Open Threads, they were an effort to publicize our Events Calendar and the shows within each weekend. The memes gradually became the focus as the shows dried up. Hopefully there will be many more shows to promote in the coming months. But I will keep up the memes.
While I am doing the housekeeping…Mark R wins the Work Sharp/Kleen Canteen tumbler. And since I am not ready to give away any of the Browning Knives until I write more about them, this week’s prize is another tumbler like the last.
All the usual rules apply. Mark sits this one out for prize eligibility. For everyone else, 5 comments or replies count as entries, and if you are new to the blog, your first comment will be held in moderation until I approve it. After that, provided you have cookies on, your comments will post automatically.
Now for the memes. I am not taking an overtly political stance on this whole Reddit/Hedge Fund thing. In a nutshell, it probably isn’t good for the market on a fundamental level, but man is it hysterical to witness.
Actually, it was a tweet by Elon Musk that brought the whole situation to the fore for many people. Which has led to some weird partnerships throughout.
That one is actually my favorite meme of the week. And that is in a year of meme gold.
Twitter has been a fertile ground this week. like the above, these aren’t memes, but are pretty dang funny.
I watch my 10yo play fortnite with friends and am both amused and amazed. But it is all fun and games until someone loses 20 billion, or gains a bunch.
And finally, no one is sure where this is all going to end, but this would be alright with me.
Mark R
Cool! Thanks Clay.
Memes vs. events?. As a wise man has said on numerous occasions,”Embrace the healing power of AND!!!”
I’m encouraged a show is actually going forward! And I’m not surprised it’s Florida!
Hocky
Just to “get away for a day”, I considered buying a ticket to Lakeland and the “Gator Show”. Round-trip on ‘Pandemic Airways’ from Hagerstown is $49.95. In-flight movie is “Contagion” (Provide your own viewing device). But, I am saving my $$$ for a few customs being made for me; and, hopefully for regional knife shows in March and/or April, e.g. Shenandoah Valley Knife Club in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Snow is supposed to arrive on Sunday here in Hagerstown, 6-12 inches, through Monday. Sunny on Tuesday, so I am heading to PA with my Winchester .22 to draw a bead on that groundhog, Phil! C’mon Springtime!! Hocky
cmeat
sunday double shift in the blizzard. at least it’s the passenger side wiper blade that broke off. cleared up one equipment failure mess already this morning; job is playing 4×4 in drift snow until next outage for now. i’m going lakeside to watch 12ft waves.
not really sure what reddit/ gamestop/ hedgefund stuff actually happened. i need a cliff’s notes version to get my head wrapped around it. and while it’s entertaining it takes a back seat to… how many executive orders are we up to? half the nation shivered when the giant sockpuppet took his oath but one journalist was fired for admitting such.
knives, let’see, just combed my beard with the fork on my mam slipjoint. not only doesn’t it have a blade lock, there’s no spring- friction only. porchgeese fun for five ducks.
StuartB
I tried out snow shoes for the first time yesterday (not much need for them in LA), climbing up Mt Baldy. Meh! I guess they have a place in a snowy wilderness, but you really have to drive aways to find one of those from here. Still any day in the snow on a mountain is a win and a nice break from the last 27 days locked-up at home.
CMEAT – I was particularly pleased he used an EO to stop us calling it ‘CHINA’ flu, especially as we now have ‘UK’ and ‘South African’ mutations of the now anonymous-ovid!
Mark R.
Stuart-I’m glad someone else sees the irony of the various Covid strains having originating location names!
No snow in our part of north Texas. We hit 70 yesterday after starting in the 30’s, but the wind was something fierce. Gusts over 60! Strong enough all day that a lot of west Texas dust came to visit!
Mark R
CMEAT- here’s you go:
https://www.vulture.com/2021/01/what-happened-with-reddit-gamestop-and-amc-stocks-explained.html
cmeat
thanks mark, i was given a tutorial yesterday but my eyes glazed over and i lost conciousness. if i sat down and read all of the eo’s i’d probably be forced to take drastic measures. maybe a 2nd bowl of chili.
Hocky
. . . and the “Spanish flu of 1919” supposedly originated in America. Spain took the credit.