smh @ Florida

i'm in florida again for the first time in years... the tap water is disgusting

sulphurous?

assphorus

i'll come fp u in person

Central florida tap water is mostly fine. You must be up north

I’m in st Pete rn and it’s not terrible at my hotel. I have been places down here where it’s... not great

Was gonna ask what part of FL you're in because in SE Florida and the Keys the water comes from the Biscayne Aquifer and tastes normal to me. Other aquifers supply other parts of the state, iow it's all water from underground but I suspect weird-tasting water is down to whatever is added to it locally.

the water's bland and unremarkable but it's hardly like water in Manila here or anything

hehe i'm in ~le hyperbougie~ south FL + it's not thaaat bad, just rhondaing. in the 10 years since i left here i've become accustomed to rocky mountain runoff water which is delicious and one of the few things i feel superior about

water's fine in Miami -- one of the safer places actually

I drink tap water

SW Florida (Ft Myers, Sanibel, Sarasota) you can taste the chlorine or whatever

I like imagining what rhondaing is, please don't tell me

RHONDA

A Florida man says a medical center is violating his father's First Amendment rights by not allowing him to bring a life-sized cardboard cutout of Donald Trump to his treatments.

Nelson Gibson of Port St. Lucie kept bringing increasingly larger images of the president to Fresenius Kidney Care for his dialysis treatments, WESH-Channel 2 reports.

He started with an 8 x 10 photo of Trump "to comfort him," the TV station reported. Then he brought a miniature cardboard cutout of Trump.

Both of those were tolerated.

Fresenius Kidney Care drew the line at the life-sized cutout, however.

Gibson's son, Eric Gibson, said his father's cutout — which the TV station described as an "emotional support" item — is no bigger than a "garbage can" and therefore shouldn't be an issue.

“What I would really like to happen is for them not to infringe upon my father’s freedom of expression and speech and allow him to bring in the life-sized cardboard cutout that takes up less service area than a garbage can?” Eric Gibson told WESH.

hilarious thing is this dumbshit bragged about his stupid news coverage in a public FB post (because these idiots never know how to work FB security settings) so I just dropped him a heartfelt greeting in the comments.

excellent transition into the babby thread.

Trump/Pence 2020: “Make America great again, no bigger than a garbage can.”

Far be it from me to encroach on Florida's God-given sovereignty by posting itt, but…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/25/florida-six-year-old-arrested-school-tantrum

a good start imho

https://weather.com/news/news/2020-04-04-florida-brush-fire-destroys-cars-at-airport

Wow!

the guv called the state "God's waiting room"

that's an old joke tho

Good morning!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/us/grim-reaper-florida-beaches-trnd/index.html

burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb

From our Orange County Economic Task Force meeting

https://i.ibb.co/wwSPRYV/FB-IMG-1590090283634.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBqY-4oDWAQ

I'm not clicking that, but holy shit, that's what happens when you pass out so hard that you don't even wake up when your giggling asshole friends are tattooing your face.

You're missing out. For real.

I have lived with people like that, but they were crustpunks, not juggalo types.

Story time?

For a brief period of about four months or so in 2013, I lived in a squat in West Oakland named Skeletor. It was mostly dudes, travelling crust punk types who were drunks or junkies or both, along with some more regular punk types down on their luck and needing a free room to crash in.

Every day of the week had a different theme, so I'd come home from my part-time job and it would be third-eye Thursday and everyone would be getting blind drunk while hallucinating on mushrooms, setting fire to each other's shit in the courtyard, throwing dog shit and beer cans at each other and calling one another nerd while listening to Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Dropdead and whatever. I bonded mostly with the quiet drunks who would get really amped when Godflesh came on and spent their days flying signs and playing chess.

One good story was the night someone brought home a bunch of condoms from a health clinic and some of the dudes, who all hated condoms, blew them into balloons and used them to play keepaway with the dogs until each condom was burst. Then they threw all the busted condoms on the street and alley in front of the house.

There was also a time when these dudes had been huffing paint all day and then one of their lady friends came over and they had sex in the only common room while all of us were just watching in the courtyard. Eventually, those two had a child, he disappeared into the crack scene in SF, came back and impregnated her again, then disappeared again.

Three of about eleven people I lived with there are dead, one is addicted to crack and living on the streets, and one was in a motorcycle accident that left him permanently disabled. The rest are doing reasonably well, given the circumstances of living a rough life.

I should say, I also spent time riding freights and doing all that shit, but I'm definitely more a Vollmann type than a type to be nicknamed Horse Shit, shooting up in an alley in Sparks.

Three of about eleven people I lived with there are dead, one is addicted to crack and living on the streets, and one was in a motorcycle accident that left him permanently disabled. The rest are doing reasonably well, given the circumstances of living a rough life.

I assume 'the rest' includes you, so I'm glad you're ok.

Thanks! The past decade has been a doozy, but I'm doing reasonably well.

Thx for video, mashup of Mandy and Gummo was unexpected but inspired

He makes good videos.

Health officials in Florida have sounded the alarm over the discovery of a rare, brain-eating amoeba in the county that encompasses Tampa and several other cities.

The Florida Department of Health announced the news Friday that a person in Hillsborough County had suffered a confirmed infection of naegleria fowleri, a single-celled living amoeba that can lead to a dangerous infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/deadly-brain-eating-amoeba-confirmed-in-florida?ref=home

This bacteria pops up every few years; it's why I don't get swimming in lakes (ours are warmer, of course, and have gators).

yeah, everybody panicked about it a few years ago when it happened then. I was taught about amoeba in 7th grade and I was terrified of swimming in a lake even though I'd never done it before anyway

everybody on my timeline is wigging out saying "omg this is so 2020" when it's like, we had a case of it in 2016, we had multiple in 2013, and NOBODY I know that lives here in Orlando that is freaked out regularly swims in warm freshwater and gets it up their nose, sooooooo

Four prison guards threw a man in a shower, turned up the water to 180 degrees, and left him there for 2 hours, until he died with burns covering 90 percent of his body.

Fernandez Rundle didn't charge any of them with a crime. https://t.co/RuFbgR0oJY

But experience, amiright? https://t.co/9IGUmVNHcj

— Taniel (@Taniel) August 9, 2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/12/901756223/florida-sheriff-orders-deputies-and-staff-not-to-wear-face-masks

I've done my best to spread the story on social media to force the sheriff to take a syringeful of bleach.

Good man.

Is this even legal?

Florida prosecutors at their finest

https://reason.com/2020/09/25/florida-drops-prostitution-case-against-robert-kraft-still-pursues-charges-against-the-women-he-paid/

https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2020/11/17/florida-man-with-sovereign-citizen-views-shot-to-death-by-woman-police-say/

xp :(

Linked at the bottom of that^ Tampa Bay News page:

Up next: Man arrested after I-4 power pole is found strapped to his car roof

is "power pole" a euphemism

It was 37 when I took my son to school this morning.

40s here. It's a damp cold. I have just pushed the sleeves of my long-sleeved t-shirt (all you really need right now) up over my elbows.

Damp cool here too.

for a second I read jon's post as "i was 37 when I took my son to school this morning" and I was going to volunteer to give his kid's ride to school so I can relive my 30s

https://i.ibb.co/ysY5rHV/FB-IMG-1682124902922.jpg

Are they making a baby car?

complete piece of shit

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510

At Disney watching my brother perform and I see two numbnuts with a Punisher Mickey t shirt

are those bootlegs I hope?

Yeah Etsy bootlegs probably

Magazineboat Willy

That Magazineboat Willy shirt will be perfectly legal in 12 days! Though I'm not sure if that will be more appealing or less appealing to the type of people who would wear it