ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. HOPEFULLY BRUTALS HAVE BEEN DAY DRINKING OR RELAXING (OF COURSE, THIS IS AFTER PLANTING GRAIN FOR ETERNALS). TO AID HIS CHOSEN ONES, ZARDOZ PROVIDES LINKS FOR THE NIGHT.
- AND BRUTALS THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY IN AMERICA.
- ALL BRUTALS SHOULD WEEP FOR NYC.
- THIS IS NOT EXACTLY THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. NEVERTHELESS, ZARDOZ ENCOURAGES THEM ALL TO GO FORTH AND KILL.
- OOPS.
ZARDOZ LEAVES YOU WITH LINKS – ZARDOZ HAS GRAIN DELIVERIES TO MAKE – SO ENJOY LINKS, CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ WILL APPEAR TO YOU LATER.
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Well, I just paid my fucking taxes. I do not feel I am getting my money’s worth.
I owe the feds a couple of hundred bucks. You know, on top of the incredible amount of money I already gave them.
I got back a couple grand. Ah, nothing like giving the govt an interest free loan.
For the couple of years after I bought a house and the kid was born I got back several thousand dollars. I generally try to make it as close to zero as possible, and err on the side of paying off a couple hundred bucks if I do err. I’m keeping my money mine for as long as possible. It’s why I’m not filing until deadline day.
Yeah, the daughter saw the amount we got back and was all, “Let’s use that and go to Disneyland!”.
I’m gonna have to have a little talk with her.
You’d rather go to DisneySea?
Beer at Disney Sea. 8$ a bottle, but still.
First year after I bought my house, I got a refund of close to $1,000, and the girlfriend didn’t understand why I was unhappy about it. This year, I managed to balance out the refunds with the amounts I needed to pay out to get as close to net $0 as possible (it helps that my plates are due for renewal around the same time).
I make well under $15/hour, and owed the feds money.
New York is worse, since you have to fill out the PDFs by hand, and you have to fill out a separate form that duplicates the W-2. At least the 1040 you can type in the PDF.
I mailed mine in this morning. Federal and NH. Fuck.
I haven’t filed mine yet. Luckily, I made very little money last year. It is the only up side to being broke.
I filed mine this morning as well. It’s certainly more effort than it has to be.
I used to pay an accountant to do it, except that I had to fix his mistakes every year. (I have a degree in statistics)
Now I do them myself, so they’re completed properly, but the grunt work is a pain in the butt (cat, or otherwise)
Back when all my income was from overseas sources, I went to an accountant one year. I had to show the guy how to fill out the forms. He charged me $400 for me to teach him that. I have done my own taxes ever since.
lol. no shit ?
Did you point that out to him?
Surely there is more to the story ?
Nope nothing more to the story. He filed them using the in house system with their logo, so they charged me. Live and learn.
Doing them now. Should I switch from coffee to liquor for greater accuracy?
Of course!
Blood pressure, not accuracy.
Those cruise missiles aren’t cheap
Business Owners Who Got The R&D And Innovation “Survey”:
Don’t forget, UNDER PENALTY OF LAW, you must tell the US Census Bureau about your company’s R&D activities by April 19, 2017!
Yah, if my company was less than 5 years old, everything I do could be considered credited on the 941 item #11:
11 Qualified small business payroll tax credit for increasing research activities. Attach Form 8974
I filed mine early to get my refund for relocation and having a kid. My wife took an ordained clergy job a month ago, so nothing is withheld and she has to do 1040-ES (estimated taxes) on a quarterly basis. I tried to do it myself and gave up. We will get an accountant.
my fucking taxes
Calling them your taxes means they’ve got you.
“The restaurant industry is getting hard hit just like the retail sector, where consumers are pulling in their discretionary spending,”
Fuck me, cut spending.
I mean, I wondered if the employee was disciplined, when I realized he probably could’ve cremated the kid alive without being disciplined.
They wanted the corpse of Jorge Hernandez and that’s what they got. Case dismissed.
That is what I was going to say. If there were two Jorge’s, and they roasted one, just cough up the other Jorge to the family. All good.
“They want answers. They got some apologies, but that doesn’t bring back their son.”
I don’t think the phrase means what you want it to mean.
I honestly thought it was going to be they roasted someone alive.
Re restaurants closing as a leading indicator for a recession. And they want to increase min wage to $15. Good luck with that.
Then they can eat at the restaurant they work for. Ferrari should pay their janitors enough to buy a Ferrari to stimulate sales.
Don’t forget mandatory health insurance and paid maternity leave!
Saw a sign on the NYC subway yesterday detailing the large yearly increases up to $15. I can’t wait to (have to) do all my shopping in NJ.
“New York is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in. How can we make that worse?”
And since I work in NJ, it should be doable. I already buy my cigarettes there because NYC has a minimum price and most shops tack on another couple dollars on top of that. Although I don’t like the idea of lugging groceries around on the train.
What does a pack of smokes go for in NYC these days?
An arm and a lung.
And a choke hold.
Can we talk about Loosie here?
*narrows windpipe*
Someone else has seen those terrible commercials! Although, I thought it was usually a tooth or a piece of their cheek.
Still in the pack or as loosies?
The costs will take your breath away.
$10.50 minimum, up to around $12.50 at bodegas.
Funny anecdote: some college-age looking kid paid me a dollar for one cigarette the other day. It was only a few minutes later it occurred to me he was younger than most people walking around the outside of my office in Jersey City. I don’t know what the minimum age is now – maybe they bumped it up to 21 already. I got to thinking that he must have been sent to entrap me – so I got the hell out of there.
That is insane. I miss smoking. I think we are about $6 a pack here. It has been awhile since I bought them. And good call on thinking about entrapment. Who even knows these days.
And what ws said. I got a deck of Pall Malls (price, not quality) for $4 recently.
I miss smoking.
I don’t. I’m so glad I quit. The only time I even think about even remotely coming close to wanting one is when I’ve drunk a bit too much.
Vape. You can get strong nic concentrations for much cheaper than smokes. The vaping kits are pricey, but in the end it’ll be worth it.
I’m finishing off what I hope will be my last pack (evah) now.
I’m holding off to see whether my area bans it. Seems totally possible to me.
I quit 2 years ago by switching to vaping. 18mg/ml to start. I cut down to 1 cig a day and was like “why am I still smoking? I’ll try tomorrow without buying a new pack.”. That was it.
When I think about smoking now it makes me kack, and it smells like burnt cardboard, but I’m not one of those “OMG smoker, get away!” quitters. Going outside to vape alongside smokers, it doesn’t bother my addiction, but the smell is annoying as previously mentioned. Amazing. I LOVED smoking.
Oh not me. I walk by someone smoking I want to hang out and second hand that shit. I am craving one now just typing about it.
Rhywun – understood. You may be right, considering.
SQWRLZ – I currently have 12%. Shoulda gone up, especially as the battery on mine quits way too soon, and doesn’t last nearly long enough. But the flavor and smell are so much better.
Like I said, I LOVED smoking.
Quit 3 times before for like a year each starting with the antidepressants. Failed for exactly the reason you stated.
Again, it’s weird. If vape goes illegal, I may… chew? snuff? nic losenges (most likely)? gum?
My wife still craves cigs too.
BakedPenguin – Yes, 18mg/ml for full-flavor pack a day (American Spirit Gold). I got the KangerTech starter and AeroTank2. This has lasted me 2 years, but I think the battery’s dying. I leave it plugged in as much as possible.
Oh, no, Sqwrlz, nobody quits cigarette smoking by switching to vaping.
Seriously, fuck the “public health” people. The restrictions on vaping are clearly only because people enjoy it
And California just approved a 20c/gal tax increase on gasoline. I’m so sure that’s not going to affect the price of meals at restaurants (or any other thing for sale).
oh, the best part of the propaganda to sell this b.s.? they say the funds will have “strict accountability”.
over infrastructure spending!
I know people in CA are stupid, but jfc to believe that’s true? come on.
Most people don’t follow local government like we do. They also don’t care.
JFC is right. You already pay more than Hawaii and now your going have $0.20 added on? You pull the oil out of the ground and ours comes from Indonesia. Maybe you add more miles of photocell roadway.
They’re planning on spending it to build a choo-choo tunnel through a mountainous region known for it’s heavy earthquake activity. I’m sure this won’t be an expensive boondoogle, turned tragedy the first time a 7.0 hits in the middle of rush hour. Nobody could have seen that coming.
It’s worse than a area with earthquake activity, they want to put one of the longest railway tunnels on Earth across a tectonic plate boundary. The Pacific Plate moves northward at about the same rate as your fingernails grow. The plate boundary is not a fine line like a crack in a sidewalk, it is a wide area with countless faults and badly fractured rocks of crap strength. This is a horrible engineering problem that can’t be solved for any length of time even with unlimited money. I am sure that 20 cents per gallon will solve everything.
Too bad Ayn Rand isn’t around to tell us why all those people on the choo choo deserved to die in the tunnel.
My job is probably going poof when the minimum wage goes up to $15.
Ok, which is it?
Yes.
Praise Zardoz who brings the gifts of the gun, and the links.
“The hard left”. Interesting. I’ve seen “the hard right” used by American media, but usually only “the far left” to describe the polar opposite. Is that a Daily Mail thing or British thing in general?
To be fai, the French are always rioting about something.
Also remember that the last time there was a fascist dictator in Europe, the French decided to collude with him, so there could be some bad memories there.
Ive actually never seen any group called “far left” or “hard left” in US media even if they were some communist freaks like the rioters in portland or black bloc types.
in Europe, they seem to say, “Far Right” all the time, because there are official parties called “Center-Right” which are really just Leftist-light. “Far” just means “the actual”
You’ll hear it on Fox sometimes. Often it’s “far left loons”.
I like the neologism the “Ctrl-Left” as a counterpoint to the “Alt-Right.”
Takei voice – “Oh myyyy” Stealing that one and planting it like a cornerback that just returned an interception for a touchdown.
I was listening to some fashionably progressive people talk about Trump going all Michael Bay on Syria today, and it came across like a Secret Nazi comic strip–stuff tat Cortez Cortez and company might say.
The discussion was about how the Trump administration called Putin’s people before the fact to tell them that they were hitting Syria. This has been generally understood to mean that Trump didn’t want the Russians to think this was World War III starting. While they expected the Russians to condemn Trump’s attack, they wanted to let the Russians moderate their response with the knowledge that this was going to be a one-off thing–not the beginning of an ongoing engagement. In other words, they wanted to give the Russians a heads up so they wouldn’t say anything extreme in public they couldn’t walk back without embarrassing themselves.
But hipster Cortez Cortez and his friend were sure that this conversation was a sign that the whole thing was a false flag operation orchestrated by Trump and Putin to make it look like they aren’t really in bed together. In hipster doofus world, the fact that Trump hit Russia’s ally with 50 cruise missiles is only confirmation that Trump and Putin are working together. The Sarin gas attack, the missile strike, it’s all a big rouse to trick the American people into 1) thinking that the Obama Administration was doing illegal surveillance on the Trump campaign and 2) thinking that the links the Obama Administration found between Trump’s campaign and the Kremlin are a lie.
LOL
That’s some mighty fine logic there Lou.
Here you go:
What is Putin planned chemical attack to help Trump?
Are you fucking kidding me? Now these idiots sound like a bunch of 5 year olds.
From your link:
“Wouldn’t it be nice,” O’Donnell asked a nodding, smiling Rachel Maddow, “if it was just completely, totally, absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in Syria this week — so that his friend in the White House could have a big night with missiles and all the praises he’s picked up over the past 24 hours?”
The theory was impossible to rule out, O’Donnell said, because of the Trump campaign’s ties to the Russian government.”
—-Washington Post on MSNBC
I guess that’s where they got it–or maybe whomever they heard it from got it from there.
TDS lives!
These people make birthers look good.
“if it was just completely, totally, absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in Syria this week”
Well, it is impossible to believe that if you have at least one functioning brain cell.
These people make birthers look good.
Meet the new mouth-breathing morons of America.
The theory was impossible to rule out, O’Donnell said, because of the Trump campaign’s ties to the Russian government.”
This… I…. I want to go eat a grenade and pick my teath with the pin after realizing that people take her seriously.
Wouldn’t it be nice. BTW, Ken, thanks for the shout out.
And I really need to look into what Secret Nazi President is doing.
And I really need to look into what Secret Nazi President is doing.
Yes, please do, I look forward to the next installment.
I was thinking moreNik Kershaw
Haven’t heard that one in a looong time.
The comments.
Frightening.
It’s like looking into Cthulhu’s eye.
Just for the record, I disagree with what Trump did for strategic reasons, but for goodness’ sake. Every time I’m ready to condemn something Trump does, an army of idiot progressives pops up to make my condemnation look as dumb as they are by association.
That’s one of the coolest things about the Secret Nazi President strip. Poe’s law: it’s hard to parody TDS because the reality is even odder than the most extreme parody, but Secret Nazi President somehow takes advantage of that. Parodies are funny because they take the truth and make it look ridiculous. Secret Nazi President takes the ridiculous truth and makes it funnier because it’s true.
This reminds of the old SNL sketch where Reagan would go around swapping between acting like an idiot too dumb to tie his shoes, then turning around and plotting CIA coups.
Have a Beer? No..
“Sleep well sweet angel, let no fears of ghouls disturb thy rest, for above thy shrouded form lies a torpedo, ready to make minced meat of anyone who attempts to convey you to the pickling vat”
Appropriate
That could ruin someone’s day who is just trying to make a buck. Is stealing bodies against the NAP? I mean, they are dead.
Well if you steal them from a necrophiliac who paid good money for them and are still utilizing them then I would call it a violation.
Well, ya, I get that. Then you are stealing property.
I think it would depend on the wills the people had before they died.
But if their will was carried out, and then they were buried, they become just another thing buried. I am only seeing trespassing in the cemetery here as a violation.
(I was kidding with the question, but now I am wondering. I am also half crocked)
I agree on the trespass, although I’m curious as to how much cemeteries would have to go to higher levels of security if we went full AnCap, or if more people would go for cremation.
(Right there with you on the half crocked state)
I have standing orders with my family to either huck me in a dumpster, or send me off to be cut up by doctors in training. Just so they can say, “How the hell did this guy live that long?”
I’ve got a similar thing going. As I see it, according to most major religions, there are three possible scenarios about what happens after I die, and in none of them would I give a shit.
Scenario #1: I die and go to heaven. I have infinite bliss, and I can totally shred on the harp. I’m happy as can be. Why should I care about my old meatsuit?
Scenario #2: I die and go to hell. Demons in red silk outfits stick redhot pitchforks up my ass. So the Demon lords of hell have stuck half a Home Depot up my ass, including a rather nice shed on my left buttock to house the lawnmower that shaves my asshair. At that point I have more pressing concerns that what happens to my corporeal body.
Scenario #3: I die, and just go back to the oblivion that existed I was born. I cease to be. Since I no longer exist, I don’t care.
I’d like my organs sold so that my estate can have some assets, and the useless parts of my body can be cremated and dumped in the woods I like to hike. Unfortunately the state won’t let even a decedent’s estate sell the organs, and the land I hike on is state forest, so I probably can’t legally dump my ashes there.
I agree 100% that a person, or a persons estate should be able to sell their organs. It might help the donor rolls. Lot’s of people make money on organ transplant, as well they should, just not the dude donating the organ.
Is there a statute of limitations on that, because we don’t really have a problem with scientists and historians digging up people that have been dead for thousands of years.
There ya go. Archeologists are just highly educated grave robbers.
I would file body snatching as a practice that on it’s surface, doesn’t violate the NAP, but in actual practice, that goes out the window. At least, in the way it was practiced in the 19th century. It really doesn’t take much for some body snatchers to figure out there was a much easier way to produce dead bodies than trying to dig a big hole in the middle of the night. Just kill someone yourself, then sell the corpse to a doc. Burke and Hare being the most notorious examples.
nb – a “torpedo” back then is what we now call a mine.
Based on these responses, I think I’m definitely getting me one of those exploding coffins.
“Eddie’s coffins – where it’s not just the prices that will blow you away!”
zTHE restaurant industry has always been one of turmoil.
Should we mandate that once a restaurant is open it should always remain so ?
Also the Zardoz shtick has grown old just like a restaurant who’s once creative chef has moved to greener pastures while the name above the door hasn’t changed.
Your concern has been noted and given all the weight it is due.
Meow.
I for one welcome our rocky overlord.
“AND BRUTALS THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY IN AMERICA.”
Well, they learned nothing. I’m shocked. Looks like Le Pen is going to win.
So the “Far”-Right are the peaceful ones.
Pretty much
https://youtu.be/GIJs_Gd1mGY
“Is your memory shorter than your body”
*snap*
Ben Shapiro frustrates me to no end. I’d expect Kristol to make stupid arguments, but Ben really should know better.
Kristol saying idiotic crap is a given.
Well, once the left find out that Lauren Southern and a bunch of libertarians don’t like it, they’re going to love it. They just cannot help themselves.
Lauren Southern is right and hot.
Holy shitboobs can we get a thicc thursday on her!?
Definate would
Lauren Southern is hot, but I don’t know about thick.
Yep. And as you mentioned above, usually right.
She’s sort of a medium. Not thin or thicc, but she’s cute.
Hey, I already posted this video!
*narrows gaze*
Oh and I agree. Lauren Southern is pretty hot.
I have to wonder if there wasn’t a restaurant bubble starting to form in the first place with the increase in the number of people going to culinary schools and wanting to start their own restaurants. You also have all of these gastropubs popping up everywhere making their own crafts and kicked up bar food.
Burger joints are all the rage now up here.
I do love a good bacon cheeseburger with mustard, mayo, and pickles and assorted other ingredients depending on mood.
There’s something going on. In my work neighborhood, which is a revived industrial waterfront wasteland, there are few dining options. They started a food truck operation outside my building a couple years ago but they’re all quite expensive. And there are no fast-food restaurants in easy walking distance, apart from a couple “fast casual” chains at the outer limits of a convenient walk (i.e. closer to downtown). It’s weird because there are thousands of people working here and surely not everybody wants to spend 10 to 12 bucks on lunch every day but everything new that opens up is some fancy “health” or “organic” crap.
Jesus. No one in NY has heard of sliders? I thought they started there.
I blame the Wookiee.
Well, I exaggerate. Several of the food trucks have fancy sliders, meat pies, pizzas, etc. It’s all expensive though. Sometimes I just would just like to shovel in some cheap fast food.
Oh, okay then. I’m surprised the NYC food commisar hasn’t shut them down yet.
Are they ‘artisinal’ or just overpriced?
A little of both. It’s NJ BTW – that’s the problem. If I worked in NYC like I did before my job got priced out of Manhattan I could find cheap food everywhere.
Also, Krautrock. (okay, not what that term means)
Here, have some real Krautrock.
I see that and I raise you.
Nice
I make a sandwich and brown bag it. (Well, technically I have a cooler.)
Been doing that for years, do yourself a favor and get a 16oz thermos, watch for sales and you can get the good* soups for less than a buck a can if you buy 10 or more. Hot stew beats sandwich every time (although my fat ass usually makes both.)
*the condensed soups are always a buck a can or less around here but aren’t as hearty as the ready to serve ones.
Nope, started in Wichita, KS. I should read me own links.
Fuck, that sounds like an insanely lucrative opportunity, if it weren’t in NYC, where the cops shut you down because [reasons].
President Trump donates his first-quarter salary to the National Park Service, which will use the money to maintain the battlefields is supervises
“Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said that the money would be put toward the maintenance of historic battlefields.”
And to create a few new ones.
I just got off the phone with Netflix support. Over 2 hours with me needing to keep correcting the Tier 1 agent with what the problem is. After talking to a supervisor, he understood the issue, and said they would have to escalate it with their internal dev team. I’m now drinking a double old fashioned, with the last Bulleit (standard) bourbon in the house.
Netflix is going down the road of many successful companies. Taking what isn’t broken and breaking it. This retarded thumbs up/thumbs down system to replace the 1-5 ranking. Who thought that was a good idea?
Socrates was a gym bro:
“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
The un-swoll life is not worth worth living.
“Do you even philosophize?”
You can’t squat in the same river twice.
I bet he put creatine in that hemlock. He was that hardcore.
It wasn’t hemlock, he was drinking Fight Milk to make weight.
made with real crowtein!
Somebody posted a link to some videos by Infinite Elgintensity the other day. I spent a good bit of the day watching videos from that guy. Great!
I’m lifting – a vodka cocktail.
Ugh there is a pair of 30-something amateur gym rats in the next cube-quad over – you know, office types. That is all. They. Talk. About. If I have to hear about their lunch routines one more fucking time I am going to go postal.
Ask them what the best exercise is. Patiently listen and take notes. Then do the same thing the next day and the day and keep doing that until they stop answering.
I call this technique Groundhog Day. It never fails.
Yeah, but I’m not an asshole.
But…you’re here.
Denial is an ugly thing, my friend.
Your logic is impeccable.
Just hand them a can of wet-wipes and when they question you, arch one eyebrow.
Victor Davis Hanson had a piece in “What If? 2” about Socrates dying at Delium (in real life he survived) and how it would have affected the course of history.
Went out for drinks with my brother last night. I asked him, “If you could give a serial killer a pill that would remove any desire to kill would you still put him in jail or execute him or would you just let him go? What if the pill also ‘cured’ him of all his criminal tendencies?”. He said he’d still lock him up or execute him. I don’t really know the answer, and it’s navel gazing a bit, but any thoughts?
Star Trek neatly sidestepped this question by killing him off – is that an option?
Too bad they couldn’t sidestep it with the Prime Directive.
Assuming the pill is proven to work and he only needs to take it once, I’m fine with it. Forcing someone to take a personality altering pill strikes me as far less cruel than imprisoning someone. Cheaper too.
The goal of punishment in general is to alter behavior, so I don’t see what the difference is between trying to do that through years of imprisonment vs forced medication.
I think prison should be reserved for rapists and murderers. For everybody else, I think Singaporean corporal punishment system would work as well or better. I think it’s a happy medium between the slap on the wrist and Sharia amputation. And of course, there should be way fewer laws.
I hoped you enjoyed your stay in Derpy’s Philosophical Sandbox. The exit to reality is on your left.
I think we *already* have pills that, after only one dose, will stop the taker from committing crimes again.
Something similar to the world of Starship Troopers? Where punishment had to be cruel and unusual:
Someone hasn’t read their Foucault
Closest I got was “Foucalt’s Pendulum”. Gave me a headache.
both Umberto Eco and Michel F. produce headaches; the latter is worth reading for a few very interesting ideas, the former is more someone you just name-drop to show off your high-tolerance for ponderous literary-exercises
Foucalt’s Pendulum actually had a somewhat interesting ending. But fuck if I’m reading that ponderous tome again.
Eco is best in short doses.Get How to Travel with a Salmom and Misreadings -you can skip the highbrow shit and just read the straight-up satire.Thus, at cocktail parties, you can name drop Eco as someone you have read.
Maybe it’s lost in translation. Eco’s sentence structure is fucked or maybe I should make up some sort of malady so that I can get government weed and go back to his door-stop tomes.
The Name of the Rose was a actually a pretty decent murder mystery story. A bit overly complicated, but hey, tell me who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep before casting aspersions.
I read it pretty slowly over the course of like 6 months.
By the time i got to the end, i’d forgotten what the beginning was even *like*.
I do agree that parts of it were very interesting – and i don’t dislike his books so much as find myself beaten over the head by them. He’s a very smart guy who can’t stop reminding you of it. He keeps forgetting whether he’s a philosophy professor or a novelist, or whether the book is supposed to be a work of art or a didactic exercise.
I do sometimes like that sort of thing, but as Hyperb said, smaller doses.
Well, people want and demand justice for themselves and/or their loved ones. The reason people allow the government to facilitate justice for them is that they expect justice will be done. If that does not happen then people will do it themselves. Government facilitated justice is as much about preventing vigilante and pitchfork justice as it is about actual punishment.
In other words, If someone harms my children they will be punished one way or another. How does society prefer that punishment be metted out?
They might take some years off the sentence to reflect the fact that specific deterrence has been achieved, but there’s still the matter of deterring others and imposing a degree of retribution.
IIRC, the Irish had a system where the main goal was to make the victim’s family ‘whole’ again through financial restitution. The avoided the problem of rich people murdering enemies and just paying the fine by having a sliding scale.
Sounds like the Anglo-Saxon Weregeld.
Did you see the Tom Woods Show episode where he covered that? It’s called “Anarchism in Ireland”; you can find it on YouTube.
If there was a pill that eliminated the desire to kill and also criminal tendencies, we would ask be forced to take it.
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The industry employs about 14 million Americans, and racks up $710 million in annual sales, about 4 percent of US gross domestic product.
From the restaurant link. Those numbers don’t seem to be right. Something tells me the reporter is a bit math deficient.
Yeah, I just assumed they meant “billion”.
The reporter went to “Hamburger High” mid-70’s.
Couldn’t make the cut for Hamburger University?
That was supposed to be the joke and you made me meta-it.
Sorry.
*hangs head in shame and shuffles back to deep flyer*
Front page story on Slate – Jared Kushner doesn’t wear belts. I shit you not. They have photos and everything. Of course my response was (((suspenders))).
How does the jew gold not pull his pants down? What sorcery is this?
He knows a guy. (((tailor))).
Suspenders are way more comfortable than a belt.
And some of you might be asking how you concealed carry if you have no belt on… Well, get one of those “belly band” holsters and put it on just below your waistline so that it kind of looks like the gun is just jammed down your pants. I’ve been doing this for a few months now; it’s much better than having the gun pressed against your body by the belt.
So they’re remaking It. Yes, the killer clown movie. As if anyone could top Tim Curry.
This got me interested in researching killer clowns. It turns out there are real ones. Way before Gacy even.
I read these things and wonder why anyone bothers to write fiction. Do mimes count as clowns? I think so. Mimes are just clowns who think their shit doesn’t stink.
Professional clowns are not amused:
I’ve never been afraid of clowns, even when I was wee. They are an irritant. Annoying. Go away you stupid clown!
Court jesters were the bomb. Who else gets to tell King Lear that he’s full of shit?
A cartoon parrot?
I’ve never been afraid of clowns
After last year, that’s more than most America can say.
After last year? I’m still red-band (the heaviest weave) mopping up tears and nobody thought to turn the water off at the source. Good heavens, even a centrist alcoholic like me can’t drink that many tears.
Dude, if your profession has a special word for “fear of it” – take note.
Why was *It* so popular? Stephen King tapped into the fears of his audience.
There was a pre-existing fear of clowns.
Seriously, if you want to scare someone, what do you do? Put on a costume to disguise your facial features, so you look unnatural and inhuman and (also important) hard to identify.
Sound familiar?
It goes back way farther than that. Most tribal warrior societies did all kinds of things to look more fearsome.
Gacy said that sharp-painted mouth frightened the chilluns and that’s why he done it. I’ve never seen a children’s clown with that fashion since.
Obligatory
Mimes should be put into that invisible box until they run out of oxygen and expire.
I think politicians should be required to be mimes. We won’t have to hear their boring speeches and it would be way funnier watching them try to shit on each other via charades.
Hang them upside down in a pit, with a sign saying, “Learn the words.”
Personally, I find those cymbal banging monkeys more terrifying. Can you cite a single wholesome scene where a cymbal banging monkey toy was good?
OK fine some crazy dude in a clown suit with a kitchen knife is trying to kill me, how is that any different from some strange dude in a mask trying to kill me?
I’m going to stay the hell away from HM and slutty blonde women. Nothing personal HM, I’ve just seen too many horror movies, and know who’s going to die first.
Has Drumpfh been impeached yet?
I mean, uggg. I can’t even.
Hitler, ya know?
Someone was telling me he and his whole crew should be arraigned on RICO charges.
Same person also told me nuclear war is imminent.
Well, he did take military action without getting congressional approval. Of course, another president did that too, can’t think of his name though.
Hmm nope no way. Only him
Look, murder droning people is totally NOT the same as killing people, and so cannot be considered war. And Obama went to Harvard. Did you know that? Trump doesn’t even read books!
ZARDOZ wanna drop any Springfield Saints or M1A SOCOM CQB’s on his brutals?
Why, why, why did I read this?
lol Rodgers is a girl
Because you wanted a reason to drink more?
You read it because you were try-curious?
Good vid from an anti-feminist. Not the most exciting thing, but if you like critical thinking…
I want to lick her toes and demand a sammich. Is that so wrong?
A ham sammich perhaps?
Damnit, SF’d the link. Again, ham sammich!
Ten-pound ham, boned.
Three hams
I like Karen. She’s out there unpacking the gibberish third wave feminists are flinging around. Also, if women have made gains in the battle for equality, shouldn’t the courts have reduced fathers’ financial burden in child support cases?
And shouldn’t alimony be abolished, too? It’s not Victorian England anymore.
It all goes back to my belief that marriage should just be a private contract between individuals that clearly lists the financial obligations or entitlements in the event that the marriage is dissolved.
OT: Just curious if there are any other board gamers here. If so, there’s a decent site here if you like CGE games, abstracts, and some classic Feld games.
What? Ha ha ha! No one so nerdy would hang out here.
Also I never played this. Ever.
I figured there may be some other geeks here. And I got my start playing this back when I was a teenager.
If you’re interested, you can hit me up on either site with the same handle as I use here.
Damn, I SF’ed the link. The real one should be here. You can play that online at WebDiplomacy.com.
You’ve seen myabandonware.com, right? I’ve mentioned this before, but I love the 1994-5 V4V games that apparently, not enough people cared about. Hexagonal board, square counters, but on a computer. Kind of like this, but a bit more tactically focused.
I think one of the reasons they may have failed is because they picked the wrong battles to write about. Market Garden was a failed operation, and it’s tough to get around that. Utah Beach is a slog, and not that interesting. Velike Luki (my fave) is interesting, but had a small impact overall.
You’d need to download a DOS box to play it, but IMO, it’s worth it.
I remember browsing through an abandonware site several years back. For me it was more of a trip down memory lane, and grabbing software that I already had.
SF’ed the link
What’s a board? You mean like a 2×4?
You need friends for those pursuits.
If you could make a decent Crokinole board you could make a good profit selling them.
My Grandpa used to play a game wherein you threw a knife at the other boy’s instep. Insanalot, they called it. No, it had a name and was a real thing but I’m too drunk to remember.
Mumblety-peg
Beat me to it. Grandpa had balls. Cast iron balls forged in the fires of Hell.
But, we’re talking about games. Games are on a LED display, or a VR headset. How are these ‘board’ games made? Are there some eye of newt and drunken aunt involved? I don’t get it.
Mumbledipeg! Imagine eight year olds standing foot to foot and chucking knives. He who flinches loses.
I was hoping it wasn’t eye of newt, doesn’t sound tastsy. *approaches drunken aunty thiccness, tushy sqeeze!*
It involves people getting together, sometimes in meatspace, to waste time learning about things such as relational value.
That’s horrible. I’m glad these atrocities are over now.
Yeah. Now all the sociopaths just stay in their basements as was Jehovah’s will.
I’ve never played this, nor the online version.
The only cosmic encounter I want involves mind-blowing orgasms.
Was it Gojira that posted about Mansions of Madness 2? I got v1 @ GenCon and it is pretty fun.
I think I was owed some molded plastic Cthuloid game pieces, but wutevs.
I also think I was owed some pieces from Golem Arcana, but seeing as I needed BLEEDING EDGE BLUETOOTH to even play, I didn’t bother.
Bah, I backed Golem Arcana, and got a couple of plays out of it, and now it’s dead. I generally avoid the co-op games, and go for heavy economic games (if I can find other players willing to play them).
A friend of mine was also incensed about Golem Arcana. It’s dead? Can we still play it now that we have the tech? (I haven’t Googled, relying on you)
Very late response to the thread, but yes, you can still play it. Hare-Brained Schemes haven’t taken the servers offline yet, and I believe they released the source for the app into the wild as well.
Sorry, my Cthulhu game was “The Doom That Came To Atlantic City”.
I play Go, but very badly.
ZARDOZ is apparently dead, because my previous comment is awaiting moderation due to my faux pas with 2 lynx in it.
Where I’m from, I usually comment with multilynx, imgs and blink tags, but I’ll Amish it down for y’all.
I
Am
Kidding
Don’t catbutt me bro!
But Squirrels!
If you mean srvr sqwrlz like >elsewhere<, then yes this site is much better.
I feel more secure being under the watchful eyes of the moderators.
But your posting name is about squirrels. Do you think we want those fuzzy tailed rats around here? Squirrels is bad, mmkay?
Ego persona non grata?
You’re welcome!
Why not?
Oh for heaven’s sake…
I bow to Heroic and flourish my hand, thusly.
OK, that catbutting I can appreciate.
BTW, your link a while ago to Cesar Guarde sent me down an all weekend rabbit hole.
It’s like TVTropes, do you really wanna click that link? Yah, you do…
Game of Seinfeld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=864gdSC9KOA
Reminds me of The Wire with a laugh track. Some NSFW language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIi0dzmvpE
Ukraine is weak!
I was just thinking, isn’t it a sort of dream come true for the NSA once all the BRUTALS have gathered in the same place?
International snooping.
So pissed I missed Kreator and Obituary at the Vogue in Indy tonight.
Need to be more proactive and just get tickets when they come online. I’m too frugal.
Obituary is playing here soon. If Kreator is with them, I’ll have to go. They were one of my favorites in high school when Extreme Aggression came out. They always want to have shows I want to see on weeknights around here though. Fucking Mon-Wed too. BS.
Aw, damn. Looked it up and the closest they’re coming to here is Philly. Fuck that.
OK, So I’d like to ask some of our resident Thiccknowledgist experts what they think about This AD being banned in Britain.
Eugh.
Article about the banning
Must’ve been a good session last night; only links I’m getting this morning are sausage.
Demand your money back!
Cancel my subscription!
Have you had breakfast yet?
Just finished, and I didn’t even get sausage links. I had patties.
“For a site called “Glibertarians”…”
Jake Tapper posts on twitter about the protests against Maduro’s government in Venezuela. The replies are, um… interesting, and totally expected.
My favorite;
Shameful how that capitalist Maduro blames capitalists for the problems in Venezuela, isn’t it?
I too long for a society built upon the solid foundations of unicorns and fairy dust. Alternately, apparently socialism is a society consisting of a single human being.
How is it “capitalist” if the government confiscates and destroys the capital? And since anybody who makes a profit is thrown in jail, how exactly is it “profit-driven”? Also, isn’t “state-run capitalism” better known as fascism? How can you have left-wing fascism when leftists swear up and down that fascism is a product of the right?
Profit is driven straight into the graveyard and Venezuela’s capital is Caracas. Sheesh..
Yikes!
I like this exchange:
See if we just raise the minimum wage enough, all problems will be solved.
It’s like they don’t realize that wage growth and high tax rates are exclusive things. They don’t see that the economy is all about trade-offs
“So how about we raise wages so they can? And that would take care of the debt.”
Oh my fucking god, they really do believe that wage mandates are the economic version of a perpetual motion machine.
Demand your money back!
CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION!
Dammit Brooks you are supposed to late, not early.
I had a dream last night that I was waiting for the weight bench, which Warty was using. He was wearing a contraption on both sides of his body so he could do flys with three dumbells for each arm.
I officially declare this comment frightening.
Will my dad be arrested?
Rand Paul laments the stupidity of the McCains of the world.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/04/08/rand_paul_the_stupidity_of_the_mccains_of_the_world_hinders_solution_in_syria.html
I think we all lament that somebody as stupid as McCain could be elected to the US Senate.
How do these fuckers sleep at night? All of a sudden it’s a moral outrage that we’re dropping bombs in Syria?
Where the fuck have these assholes been the past 8 years?
As pointed out elsewhere, all that matters are intentions. Obama’s dronings and bombings were backed by the full faith and credit of progressive intent. Donald Trump’s dronings and bombings are solely done out of spite and malice. As a corollary to this theorem, the importance of second-order effects (like the collapse of states and the spread of violence) is also directly proportional to the goodness of intentions.
Just in case it’s not clear, that was sarcasm on my part.
“Where the fuck have these assholes been the past 8 years?”
There’s a clue in that sentence. I’ll throw in another clue word: heads
Oh, now tim kaine and Bernie are up next on meet the Press to talk about Syria. This should be fun.
Oh, now the word unilateral, after an 8 year hiatus, is back.
No Sunday Morning links ? OK.
The Top 30 World’s Most Beautiful Women (#6 Will Release Your Brunch)
http://www.buzznet.com/2017/03/top-30-worlds-most-beautiful-women-of-2017/
Umm… I don’t even….
Dude……It’s Sunday. Not nice.
Michelle Obama? LOLOLOLOL
When I saw #6, I literally laughed out loud, very loud. I was roaring with laughter.
Ok, where’s the links? Who’s hungover this time? Ok, we make own links!
Breaking news, the Democrats have finally found their new savior.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
I’m not saying it’s Hillary…BUT IT’S HILLARY!
I’m not saying I’d feel better if it were an alien, but I’d feel better if it were an alien.
Jesus. What a smug, self-righteous, preening bint. Deflection and refusing to take blame for things that are clearly your fault just screams ‘leader’. I don’t know why so many people didn’t vote for you.
I think there were some people who voted against her because they were misogynistic. Of course about the same amount voted for her because of their misandry. But she got a lot of votes solely because of her gender. Far more than people who vote for Donald Trump because his gender.
Slate = the sound of the establishment left scraping the bottom of the barrel and moaning despondently
The fact that so many of them are more than willing to trot out this 2 time loser once again, does not look good for Democrats going forward.
They are just upset: It should have been Hillary who got to bomb Syria.
that is a pretty accurate summary of the theme of their gripes.
-Liberals demand airstrikes and see absence of them as proof of Putin-control of Trump
-Liberals get airstrikes and see them as proof of Putin-control of Trump
-Liberals insist that everything would be perfect if Hillary were doing the exact same thing
Morning Would:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4395304/Elizabeth-Hurley-51-flaunts-youthful-physique.html
Stephanopopalis is a smarmy little douchebag.
And now, out comes Tom Friedman, to explain it all.
Friedman… nuff said.
Where the fuck have these assholes been the past 8 years?
They had their heads up their asses. It’s assholes, all the way down.
The left totally ignored this:
http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2017/01/05/bombs-dropped-in-2016/
But now Trump is a “dictator”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDUDWQydu4
Jedediah Bila is like being in last aisle at Home Depot.
“Chick Sells Her Virginity For $2.5 Million”
Warning: Annoying Auto-Play
http://www.barstoolsports.com/newyork/chick-sells-her-virginity-for-2-5-million/
“Lars Maischak is employed as a lecturer at Fresno State,” a school spokesperson said. “Statements made on his personal social media accounts are his alone and are not endorsed by or reflect the position of the University.”
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04/08/liberal-prof-says-trump-must-hang-republicans-be-summarily-executed-to-save-american-democracy/
But wearing the wrong Halloween costume can get someone fired?
So, once we’ve killed everyone we disagree with and silenced everyone else, to ‘save democracy’, what happens next? Wouldn’t any reasonable person expect that it will look nothing like Democracy?
“Wouldn’t any reasonable person…”
I see where you went awry.
His history lectures would be fun to attend high.
U.S. Navy strike group to move toward Korean peninsula: U.S. official
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-navy-korea-idUSKBN17A0V5
Maybe they’re trying to incite Kim into blowing himself up?
McCain is gonna need moar Viagra.
That is his Viagra.
“Get out the KY, Cindy, we just bombed the shit out of Syria!”
CindyLindseyLindsey is there to help.
ZARDOZ NO BRING LINKS. BRUTALS GROWING RESTLESS.
Right, which one of you assholes shot Arthur and made him fall out the giant floating head?
Was the floating head caught between the moon and New York City?
Aside: Steam has everything Paradox Games on sale this weekend, so if you’re missing any Europa Unversalis IV DLC or Crusader Kings II DLC (except for the newest EUIV expansion) it’s on sale.
Only 2 games I see there that I want are POE and Tyranny, and I already have both of them.
Religion of peace holds peaceful Palm Sunday event
Alex Jones remixed:
http://hobocarl.tumblr.com/post/159343736355/1997alexjones-america-first
You meat eaters are murdering the planet!”
Logic seems a little confusing to me, though. Eating meat = CO2 emissions = global warming = dead planet. Now, I’m no horticulturalist, but isn’t warmth and CO2 what plants crave (at least until Brawndo is invented?)
Mrs Hyperion: Here’s your bacon.
Hyperion: *enthusiastically helps kill planet*
Wang Fung there looks like he’s suffering from over production of estrogen. Gross.
“We could have fixed Flint’s water problems for what we spent bombing Syria.”
Does that include “regime change”?
I think we should relocate the FDA to Syria, and then bomb it.
I think that is what the person is suggesting.
Someone let HM know:
http://68.media.tumblr.com/b2a9c5a9ef77c7b15d2e03fc7d335c93/tumblr_ojah7lMqlQ1qlmdtco1_500.jpg
Via instapundit =
probably the most accurate read of the news-themes of the past week
World begs US to use Military force so they can bitch about it later
That’s hilarious.
Cancel my subscription! To the resurrection…
Send my credentials! To the house of detention…
Because being a violent authoritarian asshole is “anti-fascist”:
https://leftist-daily-reminders.tumblr.com/post/159264173773/kropotkindersurprise-march-25-2017-philly
“seize the means of production, expand democracy”
Which of these things is not like the other?
from that link =
1 – who the hell is “corey robin”?
2 – is this just one big exercise in projection?
forget ‘projection’ – how about a gigantic straw man?.
Basically,
– handwave aside any and all of the things actual conservatives or libertarians actually say = reinterpret what they do as simply reinforcing a de-facto oppressive status-quo
– meanwhile, take everything the left has always claimed to support… and take that for granted, while ignoring everything the left has actually *done* (which is largely to replace their claimed oppressive capitalist status quo with far far far more oppressive totalitarian socialist regimes)
etc.
Ah, but that’s avoided by the winning argument that any negative or oppressive system created by socialists is not ‘real socialism’. Socialism can only produce happy joy-joy outcomes, so they can’t be held responsible for their failings.
The left then gets upset when you point out they’re just masturbatory utopians as a result.
It seems like its become an accepted rhetorical method by lefties (or maybe just everyone) to do this straw-man judo-move…
Person A = “I argue for X”
Lefty Person B = “ahh, but what you’re really saying is Y, and [inserts refutation of Y]”
Person B = “No, I argue for X”
Lefty Person B = “We have already shown you do not”
its just a more-elaborate + stubborn form of straw-manning, which simply refuses to acknowledge what anyone else says on its own terms. Its like the way politicians “answer the question they wish they had been asked”
Hack left-wing political theorist, the quote’s probably from this gem.
“Look at this mean picture someone drew on the internet! Therefore, I’m being threatened and get to beat the shit out of random people unrelated to it I demonized!”
That Darn Trump!
In letting American automakers be apathetic about efficiency, not only is Trump is missing out on market share, he’s making Americans pay more for their transportation, not less. There are two ways Americans will pay more with Trump’s decision. First, Americans are losing out on thousands of dollars in personal savings. Had we stuck with the standards, Americans would’ve saved nearly $5,000 in fuel purchases (and over $8,000 if fuel prices increase). It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to realize that fewer trips to the gas pump are good for the pocketbook.
Leaving aside the dubious accuracy of that “Americans would have saved $________” claim, I cannot help but notice the resolute determination of these people to ignore the up front costs of all this magical fuel-saving technology. People are (all) not dumb. Not everybody is willing to spend ten dollars to “save” two.
“First, Americans are losing out on thousands of dollars in personal savings. Had we stuck with the standards, Americans would’ve saved nearly $5,000 in fuel purchases (and over $8,000 if fuel prices increase). It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to realize that fewer trips to the gas pump are good for the pocketbook.”
Yes, because there’s no way that anyone can do anything if it is not forced by government. I guess it takes a brain surgeon to figure that out.
Also, I wonder how willing this guy would be to launch a mileage tax and take away any of those personal savings? I’m gonna guess 100% willing.
“President Donald Trump is missing a major market opportunity in loosening fuel economy standards”
How can the free market work if you don’t tell everybody what to do?
Also, tax breaks = subsidies!
The combustion engine has become vastly more efficient, faster, because of the demands of the market.
As always, the assumption here is that if government doesn’t force something, it simply doesn’t happen.
Shorter = he is a professional PR man for left-wing climate-doom-mongers, and “MOAR SPENDING” economists like Sachs… whose entire career has been built around justifying massive international economic intervention with zero results (and, as many argue, counter-purposive results).
these sorts of people are basically the source of everything wrong w/ the world, imo. they’re the polished professional-class that provides academic fodder for the “Neoliberal Consensus”, and spends their lives being stoked by huge bureaucracies that benefit from their “More spending” mantras.
Its a vicious cycle of stupidity and self-dealing. You sometimes look at their arguments and go, “isn’t all he’s saying that we need to spend a lot more to save a little”?? and wonder if its you who’s crazy. But that’s just how this keynesian stuff becomes ‘common sense’.
they just repeat it over and over and insist that (in this case) “our bullshit climate models prove – nay DEMAND – that we must triple down on our bullshit economic models!!”
Bah! s’posed to be: “People are not (all) dumb.”
Man, I went out this morning and grabbed a ((doughnut)) sandwich, and got my first ride of the year in (just a quick 10.5 miles), and there’s still no links? Fine, I’ll provide my own links, with blackjack and hookers.
For those times you’re only allowed <a href="http://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/meet-the-mega-mule/"one drink.
And I Gilmored the link… Sigh. One drink.
That recipe is dumb though. You don’t need a Moscow Mule mixer, just ginger beer.
I blame hipsters.
He who drinks fastest wins!!
If you can last 13 more minutes, you’ll git yer links…
Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em.
1 – i like the concept of “jew-donut”, but it needs 3 ((()))
2 – if the link is still clickable, i feel like it hasn’t risen to the level of being properly “me’d”
I was going to go for a ride today, but just ate some leftover pizza which required opening a beer, so the ride is out, and the day set on its inevitable path.
Hmmm….
At the risk of pointing out that the media might have a slight anti-Trump bias, I think I’ve seen this story before. The story is about how a Democrat is threatening to win a special election in a solidly GOP district because Trump is so hated.
The reason I say that I think I have seen this before is because we basically had the same sort of reporting about a special state election last Feb. All about how things will be different this time because people hate Trump and realize how important it is to vote for an adult.
The results in Minnesoda? The GOP candidate won by 6 points. I’m guessing something similar to that in GA. However the plucky upstart has already collected $8M in donations from Dems nationwide.
But he’s ahead in the polls (against 11 different Republicans)!
LINKS UP!