Let us see here…I have a couple of vanilla links and a couple of caramel ones….Huh, seem to be a bit bland today. Hopefully they will provide enough amusement for your afternoon.
- Think of it as evolution in action.
- Continuing my (and the British press too) Gibraltar links.
- No, no,no,no and no.
- Apparently lots of people want to go look at the Bean.
- Meow!
- And for snarks sake – look at these and come up with your best insults! [Hint: British women]
OK, please try to look at least one link before starting the usual avalanche of other links, OT fun, puns and the like.
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300 responses to “Thursday Afternoon Links”
I looked at the links.
I did not click.
Ha! How Faustian of you.
I’m waiting for one last pic during the selfie fall
Crapgame: So- make a deal.
Big Joe: What kinda deal?
Crapgame: A DEAL deal. Maybe the guy’s a Republican.
Don Rickles’ best role.
*Mistah Rickles, he daid.
David Axelrod, asshole
LBJ was president during Rickles life.
Yeah, I mentioned LBJ.
Why the hell would anyone ever pick up a dog by its ears?? Jeez, even for a politician he was a monster.
Yes, but what does the tweet have to do with that?
RIP ya hockey puck.
Don Rickles, 1926-2017
He’s zinging Lou Reed in heaven right now.
Don Tickles was savage. One of the best.
Rickles, too
Er, LOU REED ISN’T DEAD.
He’s dead inside
Aren’t we all?
Yes. Except, Nico from the Velvet Underground. I think she’s literally dead.
Damn. That guy was great. Whenever he showed up things got real funny – and real offensive – the way I like my comedy.
Wish I could find the link…saw Him rip into a heckler at one of his shows. What kind of dumbass shows up to a Don Fucking Rickles show to heckle him? it was so bad the guy was crying when he left.
Lou Reed is clairvoyant?
“The most beautiful women one meets are those encountered immediately after leaving England.
–Trevanian, The Loo Sanction
Sequel to The Eiger Sanction, made into a movie with Eastwood and shamelessly ripped off (at least twice in part) by Archer.
Talking with my brother after his first deployment:
“So, the chicks in Norway, pretty good, yeah?”
“Hell yeah. It’s ridiculous how gorgeous they are.”
“Really, it’s just bizarre.”
“Well, I mean, the Vikings didn’t kidnap ugly girls, right?”
*pause*
“I guess that explains British chicks, doesn’t it?”
That makes so much sense.
I didn’t know absolutely fabulous was back on the air.
The tranny in yellow wore it best?
My theory is that British food and British women were two of the biggest factors motivating the men of a relatively small island nation to conquer and colonize so much of the known world.
Personally, I think the best insult we can come up with is just….British women.
Obviously, the Kentucky Derby is the preferred horsey set crowd.
A whole lot of thicc and a little bit of dick (in the yellow).
Errr there were like 2 or 3 in the whole bunch who were kinda sorta ok. The rest of them, …
*shudder* I’d rather be gay*
Note to Jesse and the rest, not shuddering at the thought of being gay, shuddering at the thought of seeing those women naked
“For instance, for a senator to tell a reporter that the president of the United States is giving her “constant anxiety dreams” that wake her in the middle of the night to think, “Oh my God, I’ve got to f——-g order those cookies. I’m terrible! I didn’t respond properly!” about a conversation with a Girl Scout is just bizarre.”
SHE’S PERFECT.
And those eyes….
I don’t really go in for the sexist take on articles, but I think a male candidate who used salty language that regularly would get different treatment. Or a Republican woman.
…or a certain presidential candidate
If the NY gubenatorial race is between Trump Jr. and Chelsea Clinton, it’s over for humanity, isn’t it?
It’s the political equivalent of U20 matches.
The best players have all peaked and wont be heard of again after another 2-3 years?
It’s like Alien versus Predator. No matter who wins, we lose.
Hillary: It’s still my turn!
Chelsea: But mom, you keep losing, you can’t win. It’s my turn!
Hillary: *shreeking* Don’t sass me, it’s still my turn! I’ll get you my pretty! *stumbles forward with arms out, cackles…*
I’ll get you my pretty!
My ears started bleeding when I tried to apply that colloquialism to Chelsea Clinton.
Pretty!? Does Hillary have another daughter I don’t know about?
It was a reference to the wicked witch in Wizard of Oz.
Sure, sure, but it made sense in that context because Toto was a looker.
Woof!
So when are we going to build the arcology?
First we need the Demolition Man future to collapse, then the race riots start again, then we get the arcology.
So are we getting a Schwarzenegger presidency or not?
Loved that book, I never understood why it didn’t get more credit in the cyberpunk crowd.
I guess it is because it wasn’t as full of the entire world sucks angst and cast government and anti tech activists and not corporations as the enemy
Obama. Still an idiot. Not gone enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAUzuElYsgE
If I could send a ‘fuck off, slaver’ back in time…
Listen, Detroit, I don’t wanna hear shit about Florida Man from you.
45-year old Janice Smith was arrested this morning by officers of the Detroit Police Department, for allegedly capturing numerous squirrels and training them to attack her former lover.
Seriously, though. You gotta see the mugshot.
HOLY FUCK! What is that? That’s not a woman baby, it’s a… I don’t know!
Her former lover is one lucky mofo that he’s only being attacked by squirrels now. Imagine having that thing on top of you! The horror! It’s real!
Someone, please give Brett L a fucked up story prize of the … ever … award. I don’t even have the faintest hope of being able to top that. That’s literally the most fucked up thing I’ve ever seen.
Wow. Talk about a nutcase.
*narrows gaze*
The ultimate example of ‘why you don’t stick it in crazy’!
That cant be said enough.
Did she look like this?
No. Flat Out No. Sweet zombie cheebus, click the link and realize that the saying is true. If you’re ever depressed, look into a mirror, and say those three little words:
“I’m somebody’s fetish.”
Actual Marvel Character.
*looks at image*
*spits coffee*
“In her residence, they found a dozen cages, holding a total of 27 squirrels. They also found two training dummies with pictures of Mr Robinson taped over their faces.”
All they’re missing for the trial is the autobiography, “Why I did it”.
SQUIRRELLZZZ!! Maybe that other site should hire her to get their squirrels under control.
Look at the date on the page.
Just sayin’
Holy crap, she looks like The Joker’s retarded cousin.
It’s a satire site, just so people are clear.
Still hilarious. 😉
I didn’t realize some police departments still dress their chiefs up like Generalissimos of some small caribbean nation.
Snopes say this story fake
The entire site is fake.
Damnit, you guys ruined my day. *pulls support for giving Brett L prize*
Always wait 24 hours.
Janice Smith’s lawyers have demanded for her to undergo a psychological evaluation
Can’t imagine why
Sweet jeebus! What kind of sick fuck would stick in that??
Think of it as evolution in action.
But she survived.
I’m sure her uterus is damaged, though.
Darwin grabbed her by the…er…uterus
Damn is it afternoon already? I haven’t done a damn thing all day.
Tesla- it’s not an investment, it’s a state of mind
“It’s nuts,” Bruce Greenwald, a professor at Columbia Business School and an expert in value investing, said of Tesla’s stock price. “Investors believe it’s going to dominate a market that no company has ever dominated before.”
But Tesla is not a stock, or a company, that is measured by the past, as Mr. Musk is well aware. He also wrote on Twitter that stock prices represent “risk-adjusted future cash flows” — and Tesla is about nothing if not a utopian future of safe, reliable, powerful, self-driving electric vehicles powered by solar-fed batteries that are easy on the environment.
In that regard, Tesla has ascended into a rarefied realm of so-called story stocks — companies that have so bewitched investors that their stock prices are impervious to any traditional valuation measures because their stories are simply too good not to be true.
And to the dismay of short-sellers, who believe they have ample rational reasons to bet against such stocks, their share prices can stay in the stratosphere for years, even decades.
“Well, sure I’m sure. You can’t lose.”
safe, reliable, powerful, self-driving electric vehicles powered by solar-fed batteries that are easy on the environment.
At the moment, Tesla is literally none of those things. Well, maybe powerful.
It’s like the dot-com era all over again.
It’s EXACTLY dot.com. The same language I saw then and I see with Tesla.
It’s like a cult. We know someone who owns one and it’s like they sent him to indoctrination camp.
Ivy League graduate to boot. We just sit their listening to his nonsense in disbelief.
But whaddya gonna do? I mean, we’re the idiots and peasants who are on the wrong side of history, amirite?
Is Bruce Greenwald what you get when you cross Glenn Greenwald and Bruce Greenwood?
I’d buy puts if they weren’t so fucking overpriced like the stock.
Those two girls on the ground taking the selfie, followed by those horrifying plastic surgery accidents…I think I got boner whiplash.
Pretty sure the one in canary yellow isn’t an actual woman.
Well, if it is a woman, then someone serious beat her with the ugly stick.
Daily Mail did quite the hack job there. Aintree has a lot of nouveau riche and wannabe nouveau riche, low rent “Real Housewives of Transylvania” types.
Most of those women are WAGs, mothers of WAGs or soccer players and the like, and in a few cases, the offspring of soccer players. Imagine a whole stratum of society populated with rust belt families who all just won $20 million in Powerball. I know it sounds nasty, and crass, but that’s how it is.
Just like everywhere, most British women are average, and a bit plumper than the average American woman. Brits tend to be a bit more tolerant of the zaftig ladies.
The one in yellow is Dee Snider’s younger brother.
Did that photographer just take pics of ugly people, or is the entire country like that?
There are soccer WAGS and uggos. Not a lot of mid-level talent.
There’s Elizabeth Hurley and a generous 1% of the rest of the population. It’s all ugly faces and big naturals after that
Mm….Liz in Bedazzled. *drool*
Dudley Moore is spinning in his grave.
“It’s all ugly faces and big naturals after that”
Huh. And here I had always heard they were unattractive.
London has lots of very good looking women. Problem is, most of them ain’t natives.
If Jimi was still playin’ axe, he’d have to update American Woman with a few additional verses too.
??? That was The Guess Who, not Jimi.
There was another guy who did a remake of that, but it wasn’t Hendrix, Hendrix was long dead. It was Lenny Kravitz.
Lenny Kravitz.
WHO?!!
(((Lenny Kravitz)))
No. (((Lenny Kravitz.
And Ziggy Marley did a version, as well.
Something, something about all looking alike, shitlord.
Oops… something about pots and kettles.
uh…. i’d split the difference and say, “most”.
Its the diet. and the heavy-drinking. and the fact that girls really don’t do sports (or gyms) over there the way they do here.
Don’t forget the smoking.
I like ’em. They look seedy and fun. Annoying as shit when sober, I bet.
“They look seedy”
Yeah, but for those pics, you need to enter your credit card information
They all look like dressed up American trailer trash.
One of the prettiest women I ever met was English: red hair, textbook peaches & cream complexion.
NSFW! Any nation that produces Keeley Hazell or Kelly Brook can’t be all bad.
And Liz Hurley and Kate Beckinsale
And Kate and Pippa Middleton
Those pictures from the bridge made me want to vomit.
The pictures of the British women did make me vomit
I thought this was a “spot the not” sort of thing, pick out the men in drag?
I lost count.
The answer is yes.
Though our current president pretty clearly tore down the cussing barrier in his campaign last year,
Is that true?
Did Trump curse/use profanity in his campaign?
Umm, I’m going to say no. I never once have heard the guy use profanity. Not saying that he hasn’t, but I think the author is making an accusation there that is totally … well, she pulled it out of her arse.
It feels like he did.
Also feels like he’s worse than Hitler.
Obviously. I mean, Hitler never used profanities, right? I’d bet you can’t find a single example of Hitler saying the word “pussy”.
We can soon fix that!
*furiously runs up media studio and loads bunker footage from “Downfall”*
Mexican Ass Sex and Weed are are bread and butter issues. He said that.
‘are our’
Nazis like pussy.
See cats really are evil. They never pass up a chance to become Nazis.
Well, if Hitler ALSO grabbed pussies, then I guess the only way to figure out which one was worse between him and Trump, is the ultimate, eons-old conundrum…
What’s worse, a vegetarian or a guy who eats his steak well-done with ketchup?
There was a clip in one of that Hillary commercial of the poor, poor chillllllllrun watching Trump on TV where he yells “Tell them to go fuck themselves!” but I don’t know if that was from his campaign or from something else.
•Apparently lots of people want to go look at the Bean.
It was my understanding that you could not drink alcohol at any strip-club that also let you look at the bean in Illinois. Has that changed?
What Axelrod neglected to mention in his tweet is that Rickles would have made a better President than Axelrod’s boss, as well.
Two things about the British chicks, one I’m glad my ancestors fled that country, two, WTF is that funnel in the champagne? You’re drinking from the bottle so…I don’t get it.
There’s a special way to drink it. I’ll show you sometime.
Are…are you trying to pick me up?
We’ll butt chug, and then see what happens from there.
I’m guessing we won’t be in the mood.
I off handedly used the term butt chug at work and received some pretty strange looks. I forget the real world is not like this little cosmos.
Cosmos? From what I hear, it’s all yokels here.
Probably keeps the neck from getting wedge in her bad dentistry.
Clever.
Clearly you’re not the kind of class ho that drinks an entire bottle of wine WITH a ridiculous gadget.
I’m sure I’ve mentioned my peccadillo of drinking drinks out of the proper glass, which is the jelly jar.
No wonder you changed your handle to Florida Hipster.
I have a strong respect for the drinking arts and craft cocktails.
And Pinterest?
*bookmark*
Oh I’m sure you’re the type of fancy guy who drinks from the jelly jar with your pinky sticking out.
And there’s a little umbrella sticking out of the jelly jar. With a floral pattern on it.
“Jelly Jar” == euphemism for a certain 55 gallon drum?
little umbrella sticking
Be somebody…
Corn squeezins should be drunk from a mason jar… or a milk jug.
Last night I broke the seal on a
Jim Beam decanter that looks like Elvis
I soaked the label off a Flintstones Jelly bean jar
I cleared us off a space on the one little table that you left us
And pulled me up a big ole piece floor
I pulled the head off Elvis, filled Fred up to his pelvis
Yabba Dabba Doo, the King is gone
And so are you
For some reason, I initially thought that was a parody of this poem.
Apparently lots of people want to go look at the Bean.
Can we look at Freebie, too?
More fake news!
Haha! You can’t fool me – Somalia doesn’t have any roads!
They just blew up the only road!
You maniacs!!!
Theoretical question:
If one were to put booze in an Orange Julius, what kind of booze should it be?
tequila or rum…maybe a Tahitian liqueur if you wanted to break into my house and get at the back right of our liquor cabinet before you go.
Don’t make it gay, Jesse.
Can’t help myself. Rum has been discussed.
Ruman Orangus Julius
Use vodka and it would be a Trump Russian.
Rum IMO is the happiest compliment w/ fruit
Sometimes people put rum in a glass of fruit and call it the national drink.
Yeah, I’m going with strawberry Julius and dark rum floater. Rinse, repeat. Spring Break technically starts tomorrow, but I’m starting early.
but I’m starting early
paint me surprised
He’s actually working on next year’s spring break.
You can’t be too prepared.
why exactly would someone who lives on the beach all year long think “spring break” requires special attention?
i mean, if you need an excuse for a weeklong bender, you have my moral-support. but i’ve attended some actual ‘spring breaks’, and they were actually pretty awful if you weren’t barely 21. Mardi Gras was at least classier in that it had some theoretical cultural basis.
ok, and maybe some other spring breaks have some ‘culture’
Kids. It’s their spring break.
We’re going out to Palm Desert for a week. There’s a bar at the pool, and in the lobby, and at the sushi counter, and about 5 other places.
It’s rude to walk past a bar and not drink anything.
Then I’m the most polite person I know.
Mardi Gras was at least classier in that it had some theoretical cultural basis.
And hopefully more boobs.
Well now I have to go get about 6 and experiment. And then drink the failures so my kids don’t drink them by mistake. And then drink the successes because they taste good.
Always drink the better first…it won’t matter after you’re blitzed.
bacon-magic laying some Biblical truths on us.
And it was so.
I hate the first round of sake, after the first…BANZAIIIII!
That was the way in college – six pack of Heineken (hey, man, it was 1996 – that WAS good beer back then!) and a twelve pack of the Beast.
It really is weird to remember that it wasn’t all that long ago that you could only buy like, 6 different kinds of beer.
You diss Heineken?! Don’t let Hyperion see this!
Hey, I see that.
It’s spring break. There’s plenty of room for mistakes.
I bet robby could write 1000 words on this subject
•The first one looks like she’s done that before
•2nd – cosmetic surgery is not your friend
•3rd – Yes, I’d watch and/or participate in dat sammich
•4th Hell to the motherf’in no
•5th – and this little piggy said wee wee wee all da way home
• 6 & 7 – What you thought you were taking home at the bar & what you woke up to the next day respectively
•8,9,10 – Gah!
•11- I thought she had a comedy central show to run ito the ground
•12 dem knees doe
That’s enough for today
You already ran off to the restroom to rub one out, didn’t you?
I have a desk and my own office for privacy. *rub a dub dub* looks at the left of your avatar pic *ruuuuuuub*
Hey Playa, I like your beard… but enough about your wife!
ito is into…(edit fairy heed my call) *bangs wand into face
*bangs wand into face
You’re not being all that stealthy at the office if you’re hitting your dick on your forehead.
He’s just trying to impress us with either his flexibility or his penis size.
yes
To be fair, if my dick was made of bacon, I’d…
Hold on guys, I think I’ve got some stuff I need to figure out.
*sizzles*
It’s not gay if there’s bacon involved
Oh man, that’s a relief. After the last guy who told me that never called, I assumed he was just tricking me into having sex with him. I feel better now.
I quickly scrolled through. Looked like about 30% would and the rest no way.
I have to say, the blonde in #3 looks like she wants to get frisky with her friend, which makes the picture that much better.
Ron Paul: “Zero Chance” Assad Behind Chemical Weapons Attack In Syria; Likely A False Flag
“Dad, shut-up, I got this”
– Rand Paul
So, Ron’s channelling me then.
Yea something doesnt smell right there.
Assad wants to commit suicide?
It’s awfully difficult for ISIS to defeat the Great Satan if the Great Satan restricts his interactons to dropping bombs on heads.
You want a fight with the Great Satan, you need Satan to be wearing boots, on the ground, somewhere near Dabiq.
And for snarks sake – look at these and come up with your best insults! [Hint: British women]
It’s not the fashion that’s daring, it’s the women inside them.
Right up your alley, eh?
Are you serious? Are you serious?
That is a really seedy looking alley. One I’d be afraid to walk up.
OK, I’ve seen about a dozen posts about equal pay and that 70 cents on the dollar bullshit in the last few days.
Who are these fucking companies? Why aren’t people naming names? It must be everywhere, right? I mean, for the averages to be that different, every company in America must have a written policy that calls for paying women less, right?
Every female senator tweeted about it. Why aren’t they naming names?
As far as I can tell, the only person who actually pays women less than men is Elizabeth Warren.
Once again:
Say this is true, and women get paid 70 cents for every dollar a man is paid. I own a business. As an evil capitalist, I like making money. If I could get away with paying a female workforce 70 cents on the dollar, I’m hiring nothing but women.
Plus, since you’re an evil capitalist (white and male is implied), think of all the sexual harassment you could commit!
Not only that, all the competitors of these underpaying companies would like to know too. Be able to hire employees at 5-25% percentage points under par and the new employees would still see a pay raise? Win-win.
Oh Jesus, I hadn’t heard that news on Lizzy Warren. This is what happens when you place yourself on a news blackout, you don’t get the good stuff either.
Fauxcahontas no like squaws.
So once again, projection?
“Hey, if everyone only pays them 70 cents for every dollar a man makes, I’m getting screwed if I don’t do it too!”
BTW, If Lizzy Warren makes a statement on her office’s pay gap, you will hear one of the first logical, well-reasoned arguments ever to come out of her mouth.
Either that or she’ll fire all her senior male staff and grovel for forgiveness. Either will entertain me, really.
This gets repeated over and over on the news, and then they complain about fake news. I can’t tell if they are mendacious or they just don’t have a clue.
her staff has decoded the modern left’s twitter-mode
– express ridiculous enthusiasm for petty, trivial things
– slather profanity in places it actually serves no purpose at all, other than to draw attention to itself (see: everything is ________ ‘af’)
– confess flaws and beg for forgiveness
iow, be *authentic*, yo. KIDS LOVE THAT AUTHENTICITY STUFF
“Why are politicians so phony? Could it possibly be that most of them are borderline sociopaths who are trying to act like normal human beings?”
Lizards wearing human skin.
If Gillibrand were authentic she would still be a supporter of the 2nd Amendment. Of course, she only voted that way because she was representing a bunch of un-woke clingers in upstate New York.
THAT SESH WAS EPIC.
Thank you for that photo montage of drunken brits gussied-up like they’re at a guido-prom-night.
American need a reminder sometimes that Brits aren’t universally as classy as the voiceover on luxury-car commercials might have you think.
American need a reminder sometimes that Brits aren’t universally as classy as the voiceover on luxury-car commercials might have you think.
Oh god no.
I think the correct term would be “cum on their shoes and let the flies finish the job”.
John Oliver is the classiest idiot I know
He’s a middle class yabbo.
Yeah it’s particularly funny to me when people talk about how intelligent he sounds. Oliver has the English equivalent of a mild Boston accent or a thin southern drawl.
Has anyone ever called him out for daring Trump to run yet? Did he issue some kind of mea culpa?
OK, nailed it.
Britain’s “Bensonhurst, NY” demos.
British classiness.
I was expecting the nostalgic reboot
What’s the most noticeable things about that commercial?
NO SEATBELTS!
Barbarians!
Watching videos of soccer hooligans cured me of that misperception.
MILWALL!!!!
It’s funny – I don’t even like soccer, but I find the subject of hooliganism to be endlessly fascinating and bizarre.
Aussie woman gives birth to 40 lb baby
The Aussies better be making a bigger safety net.
“Crickey, it’s like throwing a hot dog down a hallway, now”
-Proud father
Now? Did you see the pic? I don’t know how he even got it in there.
Why would anyone try?
Throw some flour on it, look for the wet spot.
I’d like to thank you for saving me money because I’m not going to buy food because I’m never going to be able to eat again.
Won’t work. A beast that size sweats a lot. The wet spot you’re seeking could easily turn out to be a hairy armpit.
Damn, and the mom weighed 600lbs. I guess alcohol solves a lot of problems, only to create new ones.
I seem to recall a correlation between diabetic mothers (gestational diabetes included) and large birth weight, but this seems pretty extreme.
Huh….my wife’s second pregnancy, she had gestational diabetes but our daughter was one of the smallest babies I’ve ever seen other than those super-preemies that spend the first month of their lives in the NICU. Much smaller than her older brother, when my wife DIDN’T have gestational diabetes.
It goes both ways. Small for gestational age and large for gestational age babies get blood glucose monitoring for the first 24 hours.
http://www.startribune.com/girl-found-living-with-monkeys-in-indian-forest/418520693/
She will be sent to a home for juveniles until she is identified, Singh said.
They should have left her with the monkeys.
That sounds racist.
Don’t read the comments.
That’s like saying, “Don’t think of a ________”
Once you’ve said it, now we have to do it. and i am very very disappointed, because i was expecting some racist shit.
instead its a bunch of weirdos
“monkey traditions”??? OMG, these people!
“See, hairless one, what we do is, we take a crap, then we take the crap in our hands…and throw it. Go on, try it.”
Oh come on. Admit that you would love to be able to do that sometimes and claim it is a cultural tradition. “It’s my cultural heritage, don’t oppress me.”
So, remember that CBC article about ‘rent control leading to rental issues’ from CBC I posted yesterday?
Being oh-so-objective, they posted an in-house counterpoint analysis: Soaring rents may expose flaws in longtime economic theory
Comments are delicious as usual.
CBC sniffing its own farts about how ‘objective’ they are is always hilarious, not to mention others complimenting them as well. I remember when people were praising their response to the Parliament Hill shooting as being so rational and collected.
This was after Peter Mansbridge was calling it ‘Canada’s 9/11’…
Ah, the CBC, home of the intersectional crazy-pants doctrine that every right-thinking person in the GTA holds dear. Say what you will about Jian, he used to have interesting guests on his show. Tom Power is a power-bottom and that terrible, smug whale that filled in before he was anointed should be shot, shoveled and smacked over the head when she inevitably rises from the grave, Evil Dead -style!
There are right-thinking people in Grand Theft Auto?
The min wage only makes sense in a world where literally nothing else changes
In other words it doesnt make sense
Twitter sues US over demand for records on anti-Trump account
What was special about this account?
Or is this like the fake news thing of going after a cat scratch website
data from hot markets around the world shows that taking the lid off rents leads to a flood of income to speculators who have invested in rental properties, but shows little sign of keeping rents affordable.
“Six weeks have passed since the minimum wage rose, and we can now see all the doom and gloom projections about lost jobs and higher prices were complete and utter nonsense.”
You mean, “people who built and own properties that were underperforming for decades, and now desperately cash in before the next left-wing idiot comes along and re-applies that same policy”?
its not ‘speculation’ unless you suffer under the capricious whim of politicians. if they just kept their fucking paws out of the market, it wouldn’t be so dangerously-speculative.
Why all dem restaurants closin’?
http://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/the-mysterious-end-of-mccormicks-in-seattle-plus-13-more-restaurant-and-bar-closures/
All I know is, Trump’s been in office for just two months and now we have these closings. I don’t remember this happening before!
it seems like the theme of her coverage of the restaurant biz in the area is, “See! We’re doing great despite the higher MW”
but its worth considering that something like 1 out of 10 restaurants that open make money. Comparing openings to closings isn’t really a fair analysis; it should probably look at the total # in each neighborhood, and their respective prices.
The comments are a shit show. They’re mostly blaming high rents, or lousy greedy management and not the minimum wage.
I wonder why the rents are so high?
It might be hard to blame the minimum wage. Restaurant business is traditionally tough. Raise the cost of labor by 30% and it just gets a lot tougher. Can you attribute a closing directly to the minimum wage? It’s probably easier to attribute it to other factors than it was the minimum wage. Even if the restaurateur simply says “my input revenue was lower than my output revenue” there are a lot of people that could analyze until the cows come home and cleverly never mention the minimum wage.
“the pizza market was saturated” is another way of saying “we were losing money”
“The owners wanted out” is another way of saying “this shit is tougher than ever and our margins are shrinking”
The “closed with no explanation” is often another way of saying “losing money”.
Hard to believe. I mean when your profit margin on a hamburger is 50 cents and your employee cost just jumped 15%, where does the money come from? Corporate fat-cats, obviously! These people…
So inflated rents are a problem, but not inflated wages.
I’m franking surprised a steak place could survive in Seattle at all.
relevant.
I dunno, sounds like the customers were the douchebags in this scenario:
In August, the diner came under fire from customers for sending a free meal to the Grand Rapids Police Department, which then posted a thank-you message on Facebook.
It drew angry comments from some customers, who accused the diner of shifting away from its proletariat roots by supporting a “nearly all-white police force in this era of police violence.”
Bartertown responded with a Facebook post saying its community model required an inclusive approach.
“At Bartertown we aim to break down barriers, to invite EVERYONE to the same table regardless of their socio economic status, beliefs, race or gender. From the penniless folks we engage with on the streets to the wealthy and everyone in between of all genders and races, we do not show prejudice,” part of the message read.
In an ironic development, they then proceeded to burn the restaurant down and send all of the staff off for re-education.
The Grand Rapids Police Department spokesman informed the News Day Press that while they would normally have assisted the staff of the restaurant, they were not prepared to cross a duly convened union picket line.
You need to “take the lid” off other things besides the rents. You need to “take the lid” off building permits, etc.
I truly wish that could have been my life. I love monkeys much more than people who are cruel and have evil hearts. These precious monkeys took her in and raised her up according to their traditions. I think she will regret being “rescued.”
This is Walt Disney’s true legacy. Idiots.
Bears are cuddly and would never consider you a two-legged food source. Not at all.
This has to be a joke, right? Of course, it’s Florida.
Queue the “black guy/sex” jokesThis has to be a joke, right?
What are child-support laws in Florida like?
That didn’t even occur to me.
What did occur to me: maybe this story is a lot of bullshit.
I’m going with bullshit on this one.
But cautiously.
Great minds think alike.
I think the true story goes like this: 16 young ladies get knocked up during wild ‘innocent pool party’, blame the first 15 year old black kid they see.
What is Batboy’s expert medical opinion on this?
Who’s Batboy? We don’t need his opinion, because that entire site is parody. It’s the same site with crazy squirrel overlord lady.
because that entire site is parody
Pretty sure thrakkorzog got that. Hence his reference to Batboy of Weekly World News fame
Same website as squirrel girl above.
Not sure which one of posted that first. Both are marked 5:12pm.
Yes. The whole site is a joke.
Charley Hoffman is playing out of his mind right now.
Legendary pot grower Johnny Boone, leader of Kentucky’s ‘Cornbread Mafia,’ back in US
Fuck a you whaaarrreees and fuck a you dolpheeeens!
The entire site is fake.
you round eye no fun
Their FAQ section’s first Q made me laugh surprisingly hard =
Even the comments? Because to come up with that takes time, creativity and effort. I’m impressed with their dedication.
i think the comments are just the flies they attract to their disinfo-bug-zapper
Lovely comments.
You’re not Woke enough, Rufus! We on the West coast have been sniffing our own farts for so long that we’re immune to regular, Canadian Smug. It takes a special sorta derp to raise our dander.
Ah.
/Makes naif hop.
EARTH TO COLLIDE WITH NIBIRU ON OCTOBER 17, 2017!
Counting the seconds, eating my new version of the Advent calendar chocolate, day by day.
Dylan’s Thesis Disproved = You DO need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
That old froggy-voiced troubador is actually playing in my small city this summer. It’s a 6000 seat arena. WTF?